, GRAND FORKS is situated in the center of Grand Forks valley, tha premier, fruit growing district of Southern British Columbia. Mining and lumbering are also important industries in districts contiguous to thn oity. :,'.'.- / Kettle Valley Orchardist THF, *\\]\\ is tl,e favorite newa- M.U.U QUI* paper 0f the citizens of the district. It is read by more people in the city and valley than any other paper because it is fearless, reliable, clean, bright and entertaining. It is always independent but never neutral. TWENTIETH YEAR—No 27 GRAND FORKS B. 0., FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1921 "Tell nie wbst you Know la true: I csn guess ss well ss you." $1.00 PER YEAR TRUSTEES ELECT Iv First Meeting Taken Up With Listening to Corn- tee's Review of Work Done The fint meeting of tbe newly- elected trustees of tbe Qrand Forks irrigation district was held in the eity bail Monday evening, Trustees Glwpell, Laws, Mann, Markell and McCallum being present. Most of the evening was consumed in listen, ing to a review of the work already done by the irrigation oommittee. The appointment of W. Groves as consulting engineer was confirmed. He ia to receive a salary of 126 per day when engaged in work on tbe eystem. . ... J. A. MoGolfum wae appointed chairman bt the trustees, and aa it WM decided to engage an outside secretary Mr. Pennoyer was elected to that position pro tern. The trustees decided to request the govern ment for a small advance of money for preliminary expenses of tbe district. STANDING OF PUPILS The following is the standing of the pupils of the Grand Forka public -fthoo^- ta order of merit, a***ter. uiiedbji tests held ia March and AjtmU Senior Fourth Class—Elsie Liddicoat, Alberta McLeod, Kathleen Mul ford, James Clark ajid Edward Grey equal, Ruth Larama, Nellie Young, Gwendolyn Richards Ida Catiniff, Jack Ryan, Edna Lusooinbe, "Lizzie Otterbine, Gwendolyn Grey, Gladys Armson, Jennie Allan, Doris Steeves, Nellie Allen, Vibeit Hillier, Lewis Waldron,Emor-on Reid, Louise Hark-, ness, James Otterbiue, Ruth Hesse, Hasel Waldron, Clarence Mason, Howard Boyce, Jack Weir, AI phone Galipeau, Marion Scott, Lizzie Gordon* Hilda Smith, Mary McDonald and Kenneth Murray equal, Herbert Clark Herbert Heaven, James Pell, Agnes Cook, Helen Crause. - Junior Fourth—Isabella** Innis, Gordon McCallum, Edith Clay, Mar garet' Ross, Hazel Nystrom, Edna Reid, Blanche Ellis. Vera Bickerton, WallaceHuffman,Flora Richards,Ger trade Cook, Wiamfred Savage, Elton Woodland, Janet Bonthron, Dorothy McLauchlin, Lome Murray, Ernest Hadden, William Foote, Thomas Klter, Jeanetta Kidd, Arthur Hesse, Leslie Earner, John Stafford, George Manson, Earl Fitzpatrick, Stuart Hoes, Louis O' Keefe, Francis Gordon Olaf Hellmen, Wesley Clark, Vera Lyden, Henry Reid, Erroa Lang, Panline Mohler, Rupert Sullivan, Ken netli Massie, Fred Galipeau, Harry Oooper, Aba-la Svetlisheff, Jim Strut ael, Ruth Helmer. Senior Third A—Faye Walker, James Innis, Gordon Clark, Marion SKie, Paul Kingston, Elleh Mc- eraon, Florence Pyrah, Lydia Co larch, Dorothy Grey, Alice George, John Graham, Dorothy Mudie, Gene ■Wove Harkness. Peter Padgett and Harry Acres equal, Jack Crause, Vivian MoLeod, Albert Cutarch, Marjorie Cook, Allah Podovinnekoff, Edgar Galipeau. „ ..-; Senior Third B -Helen Mills.Chu* ence Trnax, Edith Matthews, Edith Buret.?, Bertha Mulford, Annie Bowen, Arthur Bickerton, Blanche Mason, Joe LyJen and Ltwrence O'Connor equal, Joe Simmons, Fran cis Larama, Edna Hardy, Grace Glaspell, Marion Kerby, Peter San tano, Theresa Hellmen. Dorothy Heaven, Francis Otterbine, Darwin Ahern, Alice 8*ott, Mildred Premier- gait, Aubrey Dinsmore. John/ Santano, Jessie Downey, Polly Svetlisheff Margaret Luscombe, Jack Strutzel, Pauline Baker, Eugene Fitzpntrick, Donald McKinnon, Jessie Allan*, An tone DeWilde, George Hadden. Junior Third A—Edmund Crosby, Parma Cooper,Thelma Hansen,Jessie Rees, Martha Otterbine,Bruce Brown Alei McDougail, Ruth Pyrah, Walton Vant, Pearl Riley, Arthur Lind, Glen Murray, Herbert Ommanney, Harvey Weber, Winnifred Smith,' Wilhelmina DeWilde, Ruby Savage, Walter Manson, Ruth Savage, Irene Jeffery, Dewey Logan.Jobn Kingston George Francis.Linden Benson,Willie Henniger, Ethel May.., Helen Nys trom, Olga Johnson, Mary Acres, Edna Wiseman, Dorothy Kidd, Eric Clark, Clarence Fowler, Helen McKinnon, Arthur Morrison, Byron Weir, Daniel McDougall.Lloyd Hum phreys,Agnes McKenzie,Jigi Morelli, Riibert Helmer, William Eureby. Junior Third B—Jean Donaldson, Arta Montgomery, Oscar Hellmen, Laird McCallum, Bruce McLaren, Georgina Gray, Eileen Weber.James Hardy, Amy Kuftinoff, Edward Cook, Alice Dacre, Fred McKie, Francis O'Keefe, Louise McPherson, Dorothy Jones, Gordon Massie, Grace Brau, Mike Morelli, Harry Nucich, Alice DePorter, Peggy Mudie, Berneta Ahern, Fiiner Scott, James Miller, Elizabeth Mooyboer, Fredessa Lyden, Lillian Dunn, Carol Carver, Lillian Pell, Eugene McDougail, Walter Ronald, Jean Clark, Roy Walker, Jennie Rossi, Childo Pisacreta, Ian Clark, Charlie Robertson, Senior Second—Hulon Hansen, Albert Kinnie, Frances Newman, Betty MoCallum, Charlotte Acres. Lily McDonald, Gladys Pearson, Selma Laing, Norman Cooke.Delbert Kirkpatrick, Leo Gowans, Fred Mason, Bob Foote, Ruth Webster, Patsy Cook, Florence Brau, Violet Logan, Nellie Berry, Elaine Burr, Arvid An' derson, Jobn Kleman, Carl Hansen, Owen Clay, Helmer Lind, Mary Kingston, Augustus. Borelli, Helen Morgan, Roy McDonald,Roy Cooper, Edith Patterson, Bruco Smith, Bev erly Benson, Euphy McCallum, Lee Morelli, Nathan Clark, Anna McKin« non. "1TTrTT{TVf|-f^ Junior Second—Fred Smith, Jean Love, Raymond Dinsmore, Margaret Kleman. Marie Kidd, Marvin Bailey,' Catherine Gowans, Evelyn Innes, Boy Carver, Jean Gray, Norma Sutherland, Catherine Henniger, Ernest Hutton, Louis Santano, Laura Glan- ville, El vera Colarch, Lewis Brew, Ernest Danlelaon,Lydia Mudie,Harry Andersou, Harold Helmer, Violet* McDougail, Evelina Rossi, Gladys Smith, Colin Graham, Edna Wenzel, Mildred Patterson, Donald Ross (unranked), Ralph Smythe. First Reader—Stephen Kleman, John-Knight, Helen Newman, Rosamond Buchan, Zelma Larama, Harold Jackson, Elsie Egg, Wilhelmina Weber, Bruce McDonald, Adeline Hanna, Elsie Scott, Clarence Hardy, Sereta Hutton, Madeline McDougail, Rina Rossi, Rosie Borelli, Mary Kuftinoff, Vilmer Holm. Ellen Hansen, Marjorie Otterbine, Jack Acres, Vernon Riley, Charles Campbell, Edward Pelter, Margaret Kingston, Ernest Crosby, Abel Sharon, Charles Harkness, Edmond Miller, Clarence Henderson, Louise Dompier; unranked, Melvin Glaspell, Will Dons- kin, Earl Bickerton, Joe Nuoich, Helen Beran, Second Primei —Billy Messie, Ber* nice Donaldson, Winnifred Truax and Margaret MoCallum equal, Chester Bonthron,. Effie Donaldson and Ruth Boyce equal, Fred Podovinnekoff, Elsie Ogloff, Peter Jmayoff Peter Vatkin, George Kuzin, Jessie Sweezey, Mildred Smith, Hazel Ma. son, Daisy Malm, Mary Pisacreta, Ronald McKinnon, Ernest Fitzpatrick Carl Bran. ' First Primer—Evelyn Cooper, Bessie Berry, Tommie Mudie, Clayton Patterson, Harold Montgomery.Ethel Banks, Roy Clarke, Gordon Wilkins, Mowat Gowans, Esterina Rossi, Laura Maurelli, Tony Santano, Jack Love, Albeit DePorter, John Berry, Mary McKinnon, George O'Keefe, Billie Crause,Lizzie Podovinjnekoff.Clnrence McDougail, George Steele, ' Kick Pisacreta, Joe: Lyden,«George Savage. Gordon Hansen, Florence McDougail Dorothy Liddicoa), Hillis Wright, Harold Bailey, James Allan, Charlie Egg, Helen Pell, Marguerite McDougail, Mary Kleman, Minnie Mc- Niven, Angelo Colarch, Agnes Shuri- nack, Andy Pisacreta,Harry Murray, John McDonald, Fred Wenzel, Mildred Anderson, Eleanor. Lindley, Crawford McLennan,Laura Sweezey, Peter DeWilde, James Robertson, Maisie Henderson, Marjorie Clay, Windsor Miller, Christine Brew, Ralph Carver. * Receiving Class—Winnifred Light- foot, Walter Shertobetoff, Willie Pen dergast, Louise Singer, May Jones, Irene Bickerton, Annie Eloeoff, Agnes POWDER FOR PROSPECTORS fykes, in the Philadeljihia ledger. SPROUTING Ahern, Jewel Baker, Joe Knight, Jack Mulford, Bruce MoLeod, Elsie Withers, Catherine Davis, Eyrtle Kidd, Edith Gray, Willie Gowans, Roderick Kavanagh, Polly Vatkins, Lola Ogiloff, Isabel Crause, Pete Singer, John Elosoff, Victor Rolls, Winnifred O'Keefe, Eugene Dompier, Erina Borelli, Elsie Kuftinoff, June Choo, Lem Wong. Name Reoeiver for The Forest Mills Vancouver, May 4. —G. F. Gyles, Vanoouver manager of Price,Water- house & Co., has been appointed receiver of tbe Forest Mills of British Columbia, Limited. Tbe latter, incorporated in 1912 with a capital ot 1500,000, is owoerof extensive timber limits insoulbeistern British Columbia and sawmills at Taft and Three Rivers, on the main line of the Canadibn Prcific railway near Revelstoke and at Nelson. None of these mills hive been operated for some years, bflt tbe company is op erating a mill at Cascade on the Kettle river. Beceiversbip proceedings are at the suit of Sir Edward Lionel Fletcher, of London, holder of Btock in the company in tbe amounts of £91 666 prior lien debeulures; £21,- 475, 5 per oent debentures, and £2629, 6 per cent income debentures. A trust deed and mortgage won exeouted by tbe company in November, 1912, to the Trustees, Executors and Securities Insurance Oorporn- tion,securing 17,575,074 debentures. The plaintiff alleged on affidavit tbat he had .been informed by W A. Anstie, managiag director of the company, that tto interest had been paid on tbe debentures since tbe date of tbeif issue. , In the fall of 1920 the company entered into s contract witb E. L. Steeves to purchase 10,000,000 feet of loge. The situation now is tbat 171,659 due rhe contractor on March 1 is now in arrears, and that the balanc , 123,039, becomes payable io June next. Tbe snbeoatraotors are demanding payment and are th rea telling to tie op the logs with liens if their claims are not satisfied The continual supply of logs is essential if the mill's operations are not to be interrupted. On behalf of Sir Lionel was contended before Mr. Juotice Morrison, who made tbe receivership order, that the realizable assets of the company comprise sawn lumber and this could only be sold at the present time at sacrifice prices. Because of the mortgage and trust deed the company bas found great difficulty in borrowing from tbe banks. The court authorized tbe receiver to borrow $100,000, whicb is to be used in liquidating the demands of the logging contractor. Sir Lionel Fletcher offered to arrange tbe loan of tbis sum as an advance to the receiver. When the ordar was made this morning counsel announced to his lordehip tbat payment of the debenture stock would not be accelerated, and tbat the appointment of a receiver was solely ior the purpose of reorganizing tbe company. Sir Lionel Fletcher was represented by A. H. Douglas, and Messrs J. S. W Pugh, J. A. Clark and E W. Singer appeared for interested bondholders 9,178 SETTLERS r VIA C.P. FLEET {English Settlers Brought $175* 006 Here to Buy Land Despite the strengthening ef it* strictioni against fresh immigration into thia country, and the continual tion of the ruling that all new sst* tiers must show $250 in cash and their railway fare to their desttuM tion before being admitted late the Doaa-taion, these naw settlers eon thins to ^rrive in large and iiicrsew ing Mmbars. i During tha montha of Jan February and March no less 9,187 new colonists entered St. J< m the Canadian Paciflo i alone, being 1,450 in January, in February and 6,492 In These numbers wonld hava siderably larger, so f men aver, if the $250 requh had been dropped to the former rate, as it was recently would be done. In fact, i officials state that many hawked tending Immigrants cancelled theto bookings opon learning that the high rate was to, be malBtatasd, In detail, the Canadian Pacific records for the three months ara a$ follows: . During January, five ef tha pany's steamers arrived at St. JoL N.B.. with a total passenger list 8,865, of which 1,450 were new solo ists for Canada and 1.80T for ' United States. In February, six steamers arrived with a total of 6,022 passengers, ol which 2,046 were now colonists foi Canada and 1,480 for the United States. ,. Nina steamers arrived in'Maiolfc bringing 0,851 passengers: 6,W4 baa ing new colonists for this counted and 509 for the United States. m As to the type of colonists of these incoming vessels, the eaae oi the "MInnedosa"—the last to tftiftX in March—might ba cited as fitrij representative. f She brought sixty-five together with their wives, children and $175,000 to invest Canadian lands. These new st were personally conducted ti western destination by A. M. a of the C.P.R. Colonisation and velopme.it f Department. Moat these were for tha district aw Lloydminster, a flourishing tow ths Alberta-Saskatchewan Dotnu There were also 40 domestics V for Regina and forty for Toronto. From which it will bo seen this country ls procuring a share of the sort of nawcoDUt neat requires. * Included in tbe estimates passed at the last session of the provincial legislature was tbe gym of $10,000 to provide assistance ret6 tbe "bona fide mineral prospector" iu tbe pur chase of 'he powder needed for the initial development of mineal claims staked io tbe province. Hon. William Sloan, minister of mines, bas bnd undei consideration regulations to govern tbe disbursement of tbis aid. He has approved a set of rules whicb, taken as a whole, sbould assure the equitable administration of tbe fund. The procedure laid down iu tbis connection is very simple. Applicants have to comply with a few clearly explained conditions to obtain a rebate on tbe powder they use in tbe opening up of their properties "of 25 per cent of tbe legitimate cost of sucb powder." The rules referred to may be summarized as follows: Tbat applicants prove to tbe satisfaction of a mining recorder or a resident mining engineer that they are "bona fidv mineral prospectors." That grants will be made oo a basis of not moro than ten cases of powder to eacb applicant in one year. That an additional amount may be allowed to a prospector in one year "uuder exceptional circumstances," and on the written recommendation of a resident engineer of the department of mines. That applicants shall sign decla'r* ations, upon forms supplied by the department of mines, settibg forth the legal description of the ground on wbich powder has been used aod the number of cases of explosives actually used in prospecting such ground. That applications sball be signed iu tbe presence of and witnessed by oue of the following persons, viz: A mining recorder, a deput/ mining recorder, a justice of the peace, or a resident engineer of tbe department of mines. Upon receipt of suoh a declaration, with invoice of tbe powder purchased, a subsidy will be paid to the extent of 25 per cent f tbe re (ail cost of tbe powder. Special fitteution is called to thu terms of tbe last clause. It means that if powder is bought in centers where it is comparatively cheap, the rebate or subsidy will be based on sucb cost. Should it be purchased, however, at interior points at a higher price the percentage will be figured on tbe higher cost. Tbis is of more advantage to prospectors than a straight rebate per case. Recent Discoveries Lend Color to the Theory That the Prehistoric Briton Was Civilized Lend a helping hand whenever you can and a dollar occasionally. THE WEATHER Tbe following is the minimum and maximum temperature for each day during the past week, as recorded by tbe government thermometer on E. F. Laws' ranch: Max. Min April 28—Friday 53 35 30—Saturday:..... 57 29 May 1- Sunday 70 41 2—Monday 58 43 3—Tuesday 61 30 4—Wednesday.. 64 31 5- Thursday 62 39 Inches Rainfall 22 T. A. Taggart, the newly appoint- ed sheriff for this district, assumed the duties of his office last Monday, The Kettle river is rising, and sawlogs for the Forest mill ut Cascade aro now plentiful in the stream. The orchards are not yot in bloom, but a few more warm days will bring out the flowers. The printers in the Okanagan are on a strike, and somo of the papers of the district did not issue this week. Others only printed half or quarter sheets. Of recent years anthropologists and antiquarians bave been turning tbeir attention more and more to the theory that Great Britain was inhabited by a race of superior intelligence aod civilization long be- fore tbe Beltic period, whicb preceded tbe Roman occupation. Here and tbere remains are occasionally dug up wbicb lend color to this assumption. Writing in the London Daily Mail on tbis subject, Lovat Fraser says: It is beginning dimly to be perceived that there must have been some sort of primitive but ordered civilization in England,and no doubt in Scotland also, long before tbe Celts came and developed their rather barbarous Druidism. I was first attracted to tbis question,about which 1 had not then speculated or read a word, wbile passing over Salisbury Fain on the road from Stonehenge to Mere. On tbe high ground near the road tbere is a great "camp" a mile round, known as Yarnbury Castle. Its immense earth worke aod deep trenches would make even Hinden- burg stare. It is a place which compels thought, and one asks whether sucb a powerful position could have been planned and constructed by tbe people found in Britain by Julius Caesar. Tbere are many such "camps," of course, aud I bave known them since childhood, bat I fell into the easy fashion of regarding (hem as local tribal strongholds. Some were afterwards occupied by Romans and Danes, and even bear tbeir names, yet they must be far more ancient than tbe recorded invasions. In a book called tbe Green Roads of England, R. Hippisley Cot expounds what seems to me a true explanation. Mr. Cox's book was published on the eve of tbe great war and, like so much else, has been obscured by that tremendous cataclysm. Mr. Cox considers tbat lbe hill forts were built so long ago as tbe stone age, and tbe green roads over wbich you may still walk linked tbem all up in one' marvellous defensive system. Tbe men wbo made them were skilled astronomers and tbey must have had big brains. They controlled England as surely aa it is controlled today, aod tbe invadersof the bronze age wbo overwhelmed them "destroyed a civilization more fully developed than their own." I know tbere has been mucb patient research into human origins in theBe islands, but marvel tbat ihere is not more. So mucb remains dark and unexplained. Standing at sunset on tbe Wbile Horse b. low the fort called Uflingtoti Castle.it seemed to me that tin mysleiious smooth little valley wbicb leads up to the Horse must have been scooped out by human hands, lf Rider Haggard had found such a strauge spot in Africa he would have wiitten a novel about it. Why is no fulher attempt made to solve the mystery of Silbury Hill, near Avebury, the greatest artificial height in Europe, past which hun» {Continued on Page i.) THE SUN, GRAND FORKS, B; C. tyxt (gran.!. Jfarka ^utt AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER G. A. EVANS. EDITOR AHD PUBLISHER SUBSCRIPTION RATES—PAYABLE IN ADVANCE One Year (in Canada and Great Britain) $1.00 One Year (in the United States) 1.50 Address- * " **——••--•cations to Tub Grand Fohks Sun, PUONBIOIR GlWNU Fouks, B. C. OFFICE: COLUMBIA AVENUE AND LAKE STREET. FRIDAY, MAY 0, 1921 The statement made by C. E. Barnes, president of the British Columbia Fruit Growers' association, in his address in this city last week, that prairie jobbers charged 20 per cent commission for handling British Columbia fruit, furnishes a good text for a Bolshevikist sermon. The orchardist pays $100 or $200 per acre for his land; pays for the clearing and breaking of the same; buys trees at a high price and plants an orchard. Then for seven or eigjit years he sprays, prunes and cultivates the orchard without any returns whatever. When the trees commence to bear this work must be continued, with the added labor of thinning, picking and packing. He has, besides, to pay for the boxes and the transportation charges of the fruit to market. His share of the gross receipts for the product is four- fifths. The jobber's total capital investment in the business is a $40 or $50 typewriter; he has no work to do; takes no risk of loss of crop, and his share of the transaction is one- fifth of the receipts. Besides supplying material for a sermon, the facts above enumerated also furnish a convincing argument in favor of the formation by the British Columbia fruit growers of a province-wide selling 4'ency* the top wages all through the war period, and in the majority of cases the money was squandered. If he is now out of work and in want it is largely his own fault. It is no exaggeration to say that he made more net profits than the everage business man. If a business man were to spend his money as fast as he takes it in he could not continue in business more than a month or two. After the crash there would no sympathy for him. Neither should there be for the man who has had a chance to provide for a rainy day but failed to do so. The government is not the ward of every spendthrift who may be in hard luck. And the taxpayers have all they can'do to pay the legitimate expenses of government without keeping prodigals- in idleness whenever they run out of cash. The system discourages thrift and industry and puts a premium on hoboism. For the returned soldier who is out of work and in need of assistance we have every sympathy, and believe that it is the duty of the thc federal and provincial governments to see that he or his family does not suffer, because when the empire hung in the balance he was doing his duty at the front and had no opportunity to provide for the future for himself and for his family. For I'he stay-at-home workman now out of employmentand clamoring for government aid, we confess that our compassionate feeling is not so deep rooted. He received The Grain Growers Guide last week reported that the United Farmers of Alberta had organized a new local union at "Sunshine Valley." Surcely, this cawn't mean Grand Forks, as our new slogan is absolutely original and has, we understand, been copyrighted and patented. There are only thirty eight post- offices in Canada with "Sun" as the first syllable, but our old friend "Sol" must be severely taxed to serve them all without partiality. Prices for nearly all kinds of goods are still too high, and- there appears to be evidences that the wholesalers and manufacturers have not entirely forgotten their profiteering meth ods. There is also room for a considerable drop in retail prices. At the present rate of production, the cost of living in this country, for both single and married persons, should be at least 25 per cent lower than it is now. The pooling of all the Canadian railways into one huge system would, we fear, result in the creation of a monopoly from which the people would be the greatest suffers. It is preferable that the governments of the coun try should continue to lose on their railway ventures until the territory along tbeir lines develops sufficiently to make them profitable, than to plunge the roads into a combination from which they could not be extricated, and thus stifle all transportation competition. You can't square your circle nor make your credit except when you don't need credit. Locomotive Cookery A young woman was visiting some locomotive works and was much interested in. wbat she saw and apparently got some extraordinary information. '■What is tbat thing over there?" she asked of the young man from the office who was showing her about. "That's a locomotive boiler," he replied. "And what do they boil locomotives for?" "To make the locomotive tender." said the young man. DR: COHEN. OWNBR Out-of-Town People Ask Your Friends About Noyatfiesia < The Proven Painless Method Teeth are Extracted or Treated Without Pain \*\ Y««- Quality IO lear Guaranteed Cnnadian Bond-, snd Canadian Money Accepted at Full Value Rooms 205 6 7 8 9-10 11-12, 2nd Floor, -Jinnies.-.. Bldg., Over Owl Drag Wall and Riverside SPOKANE, WASH. ;H»-tW-A.HU6UEHIH,WOTEAL.| .JOTR^ p.SANDVFIino»iKtAu.o-v.-i| jg-^tWE lORwnjRcAsif « .^J^ j BASIL KING, BOSTON^ SOME PROMINENT MEMBERS gf THE CANADIAN AUTHORS'ASSOCIATION. Although only a short time ln existence, the Canadian Authors' Association has already proved itself a very active organization, and has done substantial work for the benefit of the Canadian Author and Canadian literature. The Association grew out of a recent Convention held in Montreal, which was attended by over one hundred Canadian writers, many of whom have attained international fame—such as Basil King, Stephen Leacock, Arthur Stringer, Frank L. Packard, Bliss Carmtfn Archibald MacMechan, Robert Stead, Madge Macbeth, etc. It has received the cordial support of many who could not personally be present, auch as, Ralph Connor. L. M. Mont- Somery, Nellie McClunjj, Jurifi? Jmily Murphy (Janey Canuck), Har- rey O'Higirins, Isabel Ecclcstone -MacKay, and a host of others whose same* aie household words in Can adian magazines. Librarians were there, such as Dr. George H. Locke, W. S. Wallace and Hector Garneau —also many of the Toronto publishers. A -considerable number of French-Canadian Authors were pres- tsnt, including M. Louvigny de Mon- Uigny, and Madame Hupruenin, whose •writings published under the pen- name of Madeleine are exceedingly l*topular with the French-Canadian j-wpulation. The remarkable interest taken in 'this Association is no doubt due to lthe growing spirit of national pride, which has evidenced itself so strongly in Canadian life, while a special treason for the Association could be l.ound in the Copyright Bill before i:he Canadian Parliament, which appeared to endanger the rights of Authors as they had never been endangered before. A Committee was appointed to study and take action on this Bill, and within a fortnight a report wai issued which undoubtedly has carried considerable weight with the Government. Other Committees have since been appointed to promote a number of practical schemes, with the object of increasing the percentage of book-readers in Canada and of enlarging the interest in Canadian literature. Thus, for instance, the publishers have agreed to cooperate with the authors in organizing a Canadian Book Week for next November when the attention of the bookloving public will be concentrated on works by Canadian Authors. This is a month in which a great many people get books to send overseas as Christmas presents, and it is planned also to encourage people in the West to send books by Western Authors to friends in thai East, and people in the East to sena books by Eastern Authors to friends! in the West Ths Association anticipates that if the book-reading and book-buying*] public is increased in thiB country,! the Canadian author will ho longer, be tempted to desert his native country for the more populous centers of New York or London, but will find a sufficiently appreciative public at home. Already conditions in thia respect are improving, and several) Authors such as Arthur Stringer have come back from ths United States to live in Canada. A nation without a literature is as hopeless all a man without a country, and the object of the Canadian Authors' Association to promote a distinctive Canadian literature is truly national in its scope. J THE HIGWAY OF knowledge is for those folks who have a clear vision. If your eye cameras no longer easily adjust the foci; if the outer transparency of the eye called to cornea is improperly convexed so that it does not constantly reflect the light; or jf the muscles of your iris-dia- phram do not instantly respond to change of light you need the attention of our skilled optometrist. Those wishing neat sign painting to ornament tbeir husioeas places sbould call on W. P. O'Connor, a returned soldier. ' Job Printing at Tbe Sun office at practically the same prices ae before the big war. GBAND FORKS Transfer Company DAVIS 8 HANSBN, Prop. City Baft&afte and General Transfer ', Goal, Wood and for Sale Ice J. C. TAYLOR Jeweller and Optician Bridge Street Grand Forka C.V. Meggitt Beat Estate and Insurance ' ORCHARDS, FARM LANDS AND CITY PROPERTY Ezoellent facilities for telling your far_ni We hare agenta at all Coatt and Prairie Polnta WR CARRY AUTOMORILR IN8URANCB. DBALRR IN POLB& POSTS AND TIBS, AND FARM PRODUCE Reliable information regarding thia dlatrct cheerfully furnl-hed. We solicit your Inquiries. Office at R. t, Petrle'i Store Phone 64 AUTO LIVERY Z: Modern Rigs and Good Horses at All Hours at the Model Livery Bam ML H. Barn, Prop. Phone 68 Second Street E. C. HENNIGER Grain, Hay Flour and Feed Lime and Salt Cement 4 and Plaster Poultry Supplies Grand Forks,B.C. CITY CARTAGE CO. GEREML TUNSFEI BUSINESS AND DIALER IN WOOD COAL m ICE Orrici I f. Downey's agar Store PETERSEN I PETERSEN, Proprietors Yale Barber Shop Razor Honing a Specialty '""if A, Z. PARE, Proprietor Yale Hotel, First 8tb-.it Home Is No Further Away Than the Nearest Telephone The man who is frequently on the road realizes the value of the telephone. "Weighed against the comfort and help, the assurance from home that all's well gives me," says one, "the small sum of the joll charge doesn't count at all." The telephone highway is always the shortest way home. BRITISH COLUMBIA TELEPHONE COMPANY THE WHITE IS KING Of all present-day Sewing Machines. Why buy* a machine at which you hava to sit in an awkward position, when you may just as well have one with which it is a pleasure to sew? The White Rotary Sit-Strate is just the machine you want. Sold on easy monthly payments by* * cTVliller CS. Gardner t Complete Home Furnishers J THE SUN, GRAND FORKS, B. C. \ Pool Canadian Railroads Into One Big System LORD SHAUGHNESSY'S PRACTICAL REMEDY FOR GRAVE PROBLEM-OPERATION BY C.P.R. UNDER CONTRACT—DEFICITS OVERCOME BY ECONOMIES Lord Shaughnessy has prepared * and firm to the public hia personal riew of the railway problem in Canada, prefacing hia atatement with the following letter addressed to the Prime Mlniater: Montreal, April 6th, 1921. De»r*Mr. Meighen,—National railway affairs are, I am sure, to you a source of constant anxiety. To my mind the railway question, involving, as it does such an enormous draft on the annual revenue of the country with no prospect of any im - provement in the near future, is the most momentous problem before our country at this time. I fur very much that the Grand Trunk transaction will prove disappointing and expensive, and if it- were my case I would go a long way to secure the consent of the Grand Trunk shareholders to the «!bro*ra tion of the statutory contract. % I am enclosing a memorandum giving in rough outline my opinion as to the only process through* which the atmosphere can be cleared. Some people, whether they believe it or pot. will find in my suggestions a selfish desire on the part of the Canadian Pacific to control the rail- way situation. The Canadian Pacific bogey has served its turn on every occasion in the past. thirty-five years, when schemes were being pro moted with disregard of the cost to tha country. The Canadian Pacific has no fish to fry, and I am not aure that my plan would be viewed with favor by the executive, the directors or the shareholders. Everybody connected * witli the company would prefer to see ita status undisturbed, but it is impossible to accept with equanimity a situation which makes a demand on the public treasury of about 9200,000 per day, without any com pensating advantage, if there be any possibility of improving it. My memorandum, as you will observe, merely brings up to date on' very much the .Same lines a similar paper that I prepared about the end of 1917 and sent to Sir Robert Bor den. He feared, I imagine, that as my plan would apparently create a Canadian Pacific monopoly in transportation it would not be acceptable to the country. Even if there were foundation for that theory at 'the time,' the current Of events since 1017 may have resulted in a decided . change of sentiment. I am submitting the momorand'in * to you with the best intentions in the world for such consideration as yo*i may think it deserves. Yours very truly, (Sgd.) BHAUGHNESSy. Bt. Hon. Arthur Meighea,.p.C. ■■• Premier, Ottawa, Ont. ONE NATIONAL SYSTEM Lord Shaughnessy'-? Plan for - "• Canadian Railways In 19171 prepared a memorandum analyzing the railway situation in Canada as it then existed and suggesting a plan of dealing with it, Which I read to our directors and subsequently forwarded to Sir Rob- Wt Borden for the consideration of -himself and'his Cabinet. Evidently my views did not appeal to the •Government nor to the advisers from whom the Government at that time received its inspiration on railway affairs. Meantime, conditions have sub; stantially changed. Capital expenditures of considerable amount that might have bcen avoided have been incurred, and the deficits resulting from the operation of the weaker lines have increased by leaps and bounds, so that the sug- Jestions contained in the memoran- um of 1917 would not now be available. .. It was not my purpose then, nor is it now, to discuss the railway policy of successive Governments, federal and provincial, during thc past thirty-five years. In most cases the legislation defining the policy received the approval of the electorate at the polls, and therefore if serious and expensive blunders were made we should be prepared to pocket our chagrin and foot the bills with equanimity. We have, however, the obligation to try to discover and develop plans that msy serve to relieve the Canadian people from some part of the dis tresslng and dangerous financial results now in evidence and which threaten the future. Canada nas now about 40,000 miles of railway lines. Of the lines included in this- mileage approximately 37 per cent, earn annually sufficient money to pay all Interest charges and to give a return on the share capital; 54 per cent, tail to earn enough to pay their work Ing expenses and are consequently operated at a loss; and 9 per cent. earn interest on some of their major securities but have nothin? to apply as dividend on. the share capital. Grand Trunk System. Included iii the last mentioned is the Grand Trunk Railway System.- wbich is international in character, owning or controlling important railways in the United States with termini at Chicago, Portland and elsewhere. Serving consider able portions of the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec; the Grand Trunk System enjoys a substantial volume of Canadian traffic, but its international business yields the greater part «f its gross revenue. Relieved of the handicap thaKwas imposed by the Grand Trunk Pacific the parent company should, in normal times, be in a position to pay the annual interest on most of its securities that take precedence of the common stock, but a return on the common stock would appear to be exceedingly remote ih any circumstances. This railway system is, however, of national importance, and it would be unfortunate from our Canadian standpoint if, hampered by the methods and ambitions of previous managements, the company should be kept in a state of embarrassment and should be prevented from carrying out plans for increased efficiency and economy. It would be still more unfortunate if by any process the Grand Trunk should be placed in a position that would have the effect of destroying, either on sentimental . grounds or others, the movement through Canada of international traffic to and from its feeders in United States territory. Even at this advanced stage it would be wise for the Dominion Government to drop all measures looking to the acquisition or control of the Grand Trunk, to relieve that company of all obligations In connection with the Grand Trunk Pacific and to grant easy terms covering a period of years for. the repayment of any amounts advanced by the ..Government to the Grand Trunk or secured on the credit of the Government in the ast two years. The Transcontinental Line. The National. Transcontinental- Grand Trunk Pacific scheme of a line .from Moncton to Prince Rupert was a deploiable blunder in its inception .and execution. Doubtless the Grand Trunk objected to the line from Cochrane east and mly yielded under pressure, but •*• eastern and western termini of the line having been once determined, thc ' Government was, 1 know, guided by the advice and wishes of the Grand Trunk man- -rnment of that day in fixing the ocation and standard of construction.' It was pointed out that four- tenths grades and light curvature iToyld make for economical operation, because of the ' increased weight of .the trnin that could be hauled over the line by a single engine. The theory was all right, but the basic essential was ignored. The.traffic was not available and would. not be available for a long period of time to furnish loads for these heavy trains, and therefore the 'advantages could not be utilized unless the practice were pursued of holding traffic until a sufficient amount was accumulated, with the consequent delay and expense and the dissatisfaction of patrons. A railway quite sufficient for' any traffic likely to develop for many years could have been built in less than half the time and at a saving of 50 per cent, to 60 per cent, in cost, and as business increased a*§ revenue improved the requisite cnanges to meet new demands could be carried out, as in thp case of the Canadian Pacific. Recognizing the National Transcontinental portion of the route as a national incubus the Borden Government soon after coming into power relieved the Grand Trunk Company from financial responsibility with reference to it, and the burden fell an the country. Grand Trunk Pacific. The extravagantly constructed Grand Trunk Pacific with its terminal at Prince Rupert proved a most disappointing enterprise, because over most of the route there was no traffic to yield revenue suf. ficient to meet the interest charges on its mandatory securities, or, in' deed, to cover the cost ef maintenance and operation, meantime these interest charges, as well as any operating deficits, had to be met at regularly recurring neriods, and the Grand Trunk Company could not have shouldered the burden without incurring financial disaster. It was apparent that in the circumstances it would be necessary for the Dominion Government to give relief even to the extent of taking over the Grand Trunk- Pa- cific. This was finally determined upon, but coupled with it was the decision of the Dominion Government to acquire the Grand Trunk Railway System as well. Clearly this was a mistake, as all the ad vantages that would result to the Grand Trunk Pacific and other portions of the Canadian National Railways could have been secured by a traffic agreement. By its Grand Trunk policy the Government is unnecessarily adding to its burdens, and the Grand Trunk System, as I have stated before, would now and hereafter be a much greater asset to Canada if privately owned and operated than it can possibly be if merged into the National System. While the transfer of the Grand Trunk Pacific to the Government of Canada and the consequent relief of the Grand Trunk Railway Company would appear to be a jui handled transaction, it is not witi out its justification, because when the Dominion Government was framing its policy with reference to the route and character of the line the objections .and, indeed, dangers of the policy were frequently pointed out to the Government by those who had the requisite knowledge of the country and the technical experience to entitle their opinion and advice to more consideration than they received. The Government cannot escape its share of the blame. » The Canadian Northern. ' The Canadian Northern System was by over-expansion made a hopeless business proposition. Without wishing to criticize the policv pursued by the company it is evident that the future of the property was founded on the assumption tn»t the prosperity and expansion which Canada enjoyed for a period pf eight or ten years would continue indefinitely, and the mileage pf the system-was increased year by year until the annual interest charges of the company reached a sum out of all proportion to pres ent or prospective revenue. Had tlie promoters confined themselves to the territory between Lake Superior and Edmonton their venture would have been of advantage to the country and profitable to themselves, but their exploits east of Port Arthur and west of Edmonton were untimely and disastrous. It became clear that the company must collapse unless kept alive by very large grants from the public treasury. For this there eould be np justification, and the only other alternatives for the Government were to permit default and liquidation 'or to take the property over under the terms of the Act of 1914. The Dominion Government, having become a partner in the enterprise by accepting 40 per cent, of the share capital at a cost to the country of $57,000,000 in subsidies and guarantees, and being guarantor of the company's securities to a large amount, default and a receivership would have had their disadvantages. While it is probable that in the circumstances the country's interests were best served by the acquisition of the property, it strikes one that the legislation relating to the transaction would have been the subject of less criticism had provision bcen made for the payment of a very substantial honorarium to the men who had devoted nearly twenty years of their lives to the establishment and development of the enterprise instead of the creation of a tribunal to determine the value of something that in the minds of the large section of tho public was valueless. With the ownership or control of the Intercolonial, National Transcontinental, Canadian Northern, and Grand Trunk Pacific lines vested in the Dominion Government, the Canadian people are now the proprietors of about 17,000 miles of railway, SJr!- JL C8P'tal investment of say $850,000,000, and an annual interest charge of something like $34,000,000. In the annual interest charges nothing ls-mcluded for the Interdolohial and Prince Edward Island Railways, because these have been with us for so long a period as unproductive and expensive property, nor for the National Transcontinental absorbed in the Consolidated Fund. There is no rolling stock equipment nor are there terminal yards, freight facilities, repair shops or other requirements commensurate with a system of this magnitude, and the cost of providing them will be very great indeed. Operating Revenues. According to the brief return submitted to Parliament a few days ago, the operating revenue of the Canadian National Railways, including the Grand Trunk Pacific, for the year 1920, was as follows: From pas- S^o^'oJ?.23''^8'884; ■>■«"» fteteht( $90,982,832. The train mileage re- ?iuired to earn thiB money was as ollows: Passenger trains, 13,822,587 miles; freight trains, 24,485,286 miles. In the same period Canadian Pacific earned from passengers $49,- 125,738; and from carriage of freight, $145,303,399; with' passenger train mileage 20,538,038, and freight train mileage 26,281,627. It will be gathered from these figures that the train mileage on the Canadian National System is out of all proportion to the revenue, taking the Canadian Pacific as a standard. Were it possible to effect a reduction in train mileage on the National System to make the ratio of train miles to earnings same as that on the Canadian Pacific, the saving in transportation alone would represent upwards of $22,000,000 per annum. This, however, is out of tne question because, while there might be a substantial shrinkage of train mileage without serious public inconvenience, the great mileage of the National System to be served and the limited traffic available prevent a proper relation between traffic and train miles. It is to be observed, however, that the Canadian Pacific handled traffic representing revenue 71 per cent, in excess of the Canadian National, with an additional cost of transportation of only 13 per cent. This is accounted for to some extent by the greater expense per train mile for transport on the National System. In this unit of operating expenses there would have been a saving of about $6,500,000 if the Canadian Pacific basis had been reached. Maintenance Costs. Maintenance of way and structures cost the Canadian National about $43,000,000 for 17,000 miles of railway, or an average of $2,520 per mile. On the same account the Canadian Pacific expended $32,574,000 6n 13,402 miles of railway, an aver age of about $2,430 per miles. Doubtless considerable expenses was^ involved in bringing to a higher standard main lines of the National System that had been permitted to run down, but so large a percentage of the system consists of unimportant branches with light traffic where maintenance charges should be comparatively low that the average for the whole system would appear to be rather excessive. If it be assumed that destroyed and obsolete cars and locomotives were replaced in accordance with the Canadian Pacific practice, the expenditure for maintenance of equipment was not excessive based on the Canadian Pacific average cost in the same year per locomotive and per car. Taking into account the extent of the System, the traffic and general expense of the Canadian National Railways are not excessive. If the very large annual deficit resulting from the operation of these lines is to be reduced it must come either from a substantial increase in revenue from traffic or a shrinkage in the cost of operating. If immigration and settlement are not restricted by legislation or other conditions, there will in the ordinary course of events be a continuing growth of traffic, but at best this growth is apt to be slow and quite insufficient to make any important impression on the annual results for some years to come. Meanwhile the Canadian people will be compelled, year after year to raise, by taxation, sufficient money to meet the appalling annual deficits, unless by some process the cost of the maintenance and operation of the National Lines can be brought to much lower figures. This, however, would not appear to be practicable, as the National System engaged in competition for traffic with another very . strong railway company would be at serious disadvantage unless in train service, equipment and in other respects it offered the public facilities approaching those obtainable elsewhere. • Reduction of Rates. I have made no reference to the economies that will result from a revision of the schedule of wages and working conditions, which are on a fictitious basis and must be amended, because concurrent with this will be a .reduction in the rates for the carriage of commodities that are essential if the country's basic industries are to be stimulated or indeed kept alive. The situation is a serious one and almost hopeless unless some plan can be devised that will promptly and effectively bring to this National Railway System additional financial strength and sustenance. With but ono set of shareholders, the Canadian Pacific Railway Company is really two separate entities. The shareholders have their railways constituting the Canadian system of oVer 14,000 miles, with Lake, River and Pacific Coast Steamship Lines, express and other accessories whose income is included in last year's total of $216,000,000, and the net revenue of $33,000,000. And then they have their other assets that are dealt with in a separate account, consisting of their ownership in railway companies in the United States that are under separate management but that interchange traffic with the Company at the frontier, the^ ocean steamship lines, lands still owned and payments accruing on lands already sold, mining and other interests, in all representing a substantial sum from which revenue is derived to supplement the distribution to the shareholders from the proceeds of the railway operations. If by some-arrangement with the Company these assets could be segregated and the railway property added to the Government System that I have just described, the System would comprise 31,000 miles of railway with a considerable amount of parallel lines unimportant or useless.- , - j. Price to be Paid C. P. R. The consideration to be given the shareholders of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company in exchange for the properties above defined would, I imagine, be in the nature of an undertaking by the Government of Canada to pay to the shareholders in perpetuity a fixed annual dividend on the share capital, to be supplemented by a further payment when the whole property was yielding a specified return. The extraneous assets of the Canadian Pacific would be transferred 0 and administered by Trustees or by a subsidiary Company with another Board of Directors, so that the Directors of the Railway Company would bo interested only in the administration of the trust placed in their hands by the people of Canada. There would be no motive for selfishness, if such a thing were possible in the circumstances. The income on their shares being fixed and unchangeable, excepting as above provided, the Canadian Pacific shareholders could receive no advantage from preferential treatment given*to nny particular portion of the Railway System. The Directorate would have every incentive for wise, prudent and business-like administration. Of course there are many details that would have to be worked out, but it is not necessary to refer to them here. Now, having brought these pro perties together, we are faced with the most serious problem of all, namely, that of administration and operation. Political management would be impossible, because among other reasons policy and management must have the elements of con- tnuity and could not be changed with each change of Government without ruinous results. While I have great regard for the opinion of my friends, Sir Henry Drayton and Mr. Ac- worth, I do not agree that their plan of management would eliminate the danger of political interference, because it could be changed at any session of Parliament. My suggestion would be that if an agreement with the Canadian Pacific Railway Company on the lines that I have indicated were found feasible, that Company would be used under the terms of a contract approaching perpetuity in its duration to administer and operate the whole property for account of the Canadian people. I mention the Canadian Pacific be- . cause the magnitude, scope and variety of its operations compel a comprehensive organization, and this could be supplemented by judicious selections from the staffs of the other companies to meet the demands of the larger work. Savings to be Effected. On the returns for the year 1920, the gross earnings of the combined system would be $342,283,000 and the operating expenses $345,973,000, a deficit in operation of approximately $3,700,000. The annual fixed charges of the whole system, including the dividend on Canadian Pacific Preference Stock, would be $47,490,000, or a total deficit of about $51,190,000. Essential expenditures on capital account from time to time will tend to swell these charges, but by the addition of the Canadian Pacific with its ample rolling stock equipment, its splendid terminals and other facilities, in the use of which the whole system would participate, important expenditures which could not be avoided in other circumstances would be rendered unnecessary. To this amount of $51,190,000 per annum, of course it would be necessary to add the guaranteed dividend on Canadian Pacific common stock hereafter to be determined, but if we set aside an estimated amount for that purpose the total deficit, including everything, would be approximately $80,000,000. In the light of these figures present conditions would not be improved, but then we must take into account the saving that would result from the consolidation by the elimination of unnecessary train service and of duplicate work at important terminals and at other points; the restriction of maintenance work on unnecessary duplicate lines; the decrease in general as well as traffic and agency expenditures; the common use of cars and locomotives, reducing to a minimum capital expenditures on that account with greater economy in the maintenance of equipment and the stoppage of outlay in many other directions. 1 In 1920 the operating cost of the combined system was about 101 per cent, of the gross earnings. The Canadian Pacific cost was 84.7 per cent, of its gross earnings. If the average for the combined system could be brought to the Canadian Pacific level it would represent a saving in the cost of operating of about $56,000.- 000 per annum. There would still be a deficit of $24,000,000 per annum, but for a number of reasons 1920 was an expensive year and I see no reason why the operating ratio should not be brought as low as 80 per cent, at most, which would reduce the total deficit to eleven or twelve million dollars. To catch up with this a growing volume of traffic would have to be relied upon, but with immigration settlement and development this should come in gradual stages, and the saving to the country in the meantime would be very large. In connection with these transportation matters there are sure to be miscalculations and disappointments, but the consolidation that I have outlined above would appear to be the most logical and economical policy. Besides the National Railways, Canada would then have an International group consisting of the Grand Trunk, Canada Southern, Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo, and Pere Marquette Railways of 4,600 miles, and other lines of local or provincial character. These latter lines may well be left to work out their own salvation, and if they require aid, the provinces, having been relieved of their major liabilities under their guarantees, can well afford to give it, I am not giving expression to these views as chairman, director or shareholder of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, and it i.s quite possible that neither my felluv-di- rectors not "the sharchoiders would be in accord. The Canadian Pacific, with its low capitalization and capacity for securing and handling a vast volume of traffic, should as time passes yield a larger return to its owners than at any time in the past. Indeed, about this there is little room for doubt, but with a satisfactory annual dividend guaranteed in perpetuity by the Canadian Government thc shareholders could probably be induced to forego their speculative benefits, as their shares would then have the security and stability of Government bonds. It is my sole purpose to assist if I can in the solution of what is beyond doubt the most serious and menacing problem that faces our country, and to frankly outline the policy that I would adopt and carry nto effect if the responsibility were upon me to act as the representative and trustee of thc Canadian people in safeguarding .the present and future railway transportation interests of the Dominion, and in endeavoring to stop, or at any rate minimize the vast demands on the treasury and the credit of the country that arc. pretty sure to be made yearly if the present policy is continued. The people of British Columbia call the eity "Rupert" and let it go at that. But names and slogans are not without their value. The Albertan suggests that the board of trade just bold open its competition for the time being. We h _ve lived for several years without any well defined slogan and we can keep on living until we bit upon a good one. In tbe meantime tbe colums of Tbe Albertan are open to suggestion". Any genius wbo bits upon tbe right name should come right along with bis discovery. Tlie New Law Will Eliminate Bootlegging Victoria, May 2 —At least $.-500,000 a year will be saved iu the selling of liquoj and possibilities of bootlegging will be reduced almost to zero, according to plana formulated by tbe liquor board bere. Tbe elimination of the bootlegger ,8 to be achieved by tbe stamping of all liquor tbat comes into tbe province, it is planned. Every liquor buyer in British Columbia will be numbered, just like a motor car. Tbis number will most likely con • sist of the first letter of his name and after tbat a series of figures. Tbese numbers will all be registered at the bead oflice of tbe liquo r board. The liquor sold to any person will bave to be stamped by the govern* ment witb tbe number of tbat per son. All liquor entering the province in any otber way will have to be stamped by tbe government with that person's number. Any parson caught witb a bottle no t bearing bis own numher will be asked to explain, as it will almost be direct evidence tbat tbe person who bought the liquor from the govern- lutut in tbe first place bad disposed of it to some one else for h .me consideration or otber. The person to whom the liquor was sold in the first place can be locuted just as easily as the owner of a motor car wbo exceeds tbe speed limit. SLOGANS Speaking of slogans, which is of more or less interest to the people of tyis community, the Calgary Albertan says: If slogan builders were as numerous as slogan builder critics, we should by this time have the very best slogan for pur city that there is or could be. That the slogan selected by tbe board of trade does not answer, is quite evident* But unfortunately no person who criticizes, not even the newspapers, supplement the criticisms with any suggestions. A slogan must be short, snappy, descriptive and dignified. It should not be longer than tbree or four words. It should be full of tbe epirit of the city, dscriptive of location, if possible, or tbe leading industries, or the ideals or characteristics ofthe people, without anything cheap or slangy about it. The ambitious town of Bassano had a unique and catcby slogan, which was descriptiye and full of life, but with a lack of dignity. • Tben there are certain impressions from which we must keep away. For instance, "Calgary, the City of Sunshine," is a very excellent slogan in some ways, but immediately some person will raise the point tbat sucb a slogan will draw attention to and exaggerate our dry years, which would never do. The man or woman or combina tion or men or women who can hit upon a slogan whicb answers all the requirement will do very well. Tbe G-iand Trunk Pacific gave e prize for the best name for tbe Pa cific terminus of tbat railway and for its pains got tbe name "Prince Rupert," whicb is neither euphoni ous, descriptive nor with chi Okanagan Vegetables Are Being Destroyed Vernon, May 2.—Onions aod potatoes by tbe ton are being hauled ti tbe nuisance ground because theae are no buyers. Tbere is no demand for these vegetables in any market. li wae suggested some lime ago tbat a campaign to inqteaee coo- sumpti m of onions should be undertaken, but the statistics show that people will only eat so many onions, campaign or no campaign, so tbe idea was abandoned. Prairie markets have been well supplied and many warehouses there are overstocked. Some growers bave held on think* ing that tbey would be able to realize something from tbeir onion crops, but are now giving up all hope. Chinese truck growers are begging shippers to market tbeir potatoes for whatever cau be got, but tbere ie 00 demand. PriceB for spuds run from $12 to fid a ton. Padlock Safety Paper,for bankebecks, kept in Htouk Sun Job Department. private by The INCUBATORS BROODERS Selectyour Poultry Supplies from the largest and most complete stock in B. C. Everything for the Poul- tryman. Wire, Fencing and Netting for poultry, farm and berries. B. C. AgnilH for Buckeye, Jubilee, Reliable, Prairie State and Electric Incubators and Brooders. CATALOGUES FREE A. I. JOHNSON & CO., 814 Cambie St. Vancouver THE SUN. GRAND FORKS, B. C. News of the City One of the members of tbe Norrb Fork colony of fanatical Doukhobors attempted to parade through tbe city on Sunday morning dressed in nothing but his whiskers and the Qrand Vorks valley slogan. It is said tbat he strutted down Winnipeg avenue as proudly aB if he bad been robed in regal raiment. Wben he got near tbe mounted police baracks he was nabbed and bustled to the jail. Tuesday afternoon some of his North Fork companions indulged in a sympathy demonstration. A Douk woman who claimed to be tbe "martyr's" mother haunted the jail and refused lo leave it. Wednesday evening the police was instructed to remove tbe woman to the colony. By a misinterpretation of instructions, it is said, both tbe woman and her "son" were taken to the colony. Thus ended a disgraceful incident without any punishment to fit the crimi. A eepetition of it may lead tbe citizens to take the law in tbeir own hands. C. A. Carlson, Section foreman at Greenwood on tbe C.P.R., and his assistant, 0. Scholberg, arrived at the Grand Forks hospital on Wedn nesday, suffering from painful flesh wonnds on tbeir legs, arms and faces, the result of a mysterions ex plosion in tbe section tool house at Greenwood Wednesday morning. When Mr. Carlson opened the door of tbe tool bouse to get his speeder tbere was a terrific explosion, whicb could hardly have been the result of gasoline, as a conflagration did not follow, but tbere is a bole in the after Wagner had been held up for everything he had. The hold ups made tbeir escape. It is said that they are known to Wagner, and tbat be bas sworn vengeance. John Simpson on Saturday sold bis orchard, consisting of twenty" seven acres and adjoining the western boundary of the city limits, on the old Newby farm, to his niece, Miss Jessie Stuart. The orchard con- tafns 900 bearing fruit trees and ie a valuable property. The consideration has not been made publio. Mr. Simpson lefl on Tuesday for Toronto, and after a short visit there he will go to New York. Geo. C. Egg and Capt. S. A. H. Brew went over to Hock Creek on Wednesday (o look over some farm lands in that district. The captain, it is said, is desirous of relocatin g there. The work of shipping machinery and material from the Granby dtnel- ter was finished Saturday night. The only men at* tbe works now are tbe watchmen. The fishing season opened on May 1, but there are still as good fish in the Kettle river ss in tbe larder of the average Grand Forks citizen. Indications for a big fruit crop in this valley were never better than rhey are this spring. New Partnership Formed Mr. Ernest Harrison has entered into a business partnership with Mr. Donald McCallum, and "the insur- June V»«d *h6rUy thereafter the ance and real estate business con r80e **'• Degin* ducted here by the latter for many At the greatest brilliancy observ» floor of ibe shed where the explosion) years will in future be carried on able from the earth the comet will Summer has arrived at last. A mosquito called at our office today. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Davis will leave for Toronto on Monday. For Sale—A small house in Park. Apply Geo. Armson, repairer. City shoe Meteoric Shower When The Comet Cometh Berkeley, Cal., May 2.—For a month tbis summer tbe earth will engage in a race with the periodic comet Pons-Winneck and will endeavor, throngh its astral influences, to "trip up" its gaseous rival, according to a report made public today by the observatory of the University of California. Tbe earth will not get into the race nntil the comet has a lead of between 12,000,000 and 20,000,000 miles, but then it will "pnt everyihing it has" into its test with tbe comet. Tbe earth influenoe will pull the comet away from its course somewhat, but it will continue to plunge along the cosmic speedway at an una diminished pace. On June 27 it flips its tail so bard against the earth that tbe impaot will cause a meteoric shower. The comet, wbich at la-t calcula*. tions was in the constellation Her» cules or approximately 37,000,000 miles from the earth, is due to make a flying visit to the constellations Lyra, Cygnus and Pisces before approaching the earth. Its nearest approach will be 12,000,000 miles on HOW YOU CAN TELL GENUINE ASPIRIN Only Tablets with "Bayer Croas" are Aspirin—No others I There Is only one Aspirin, that marked with the "Bayer Cross"—all otter tablets are only acid imitations. Genuine "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" have been prescribed by physicians for nineteen years and proved safe by mil- lions for Pain, Headache, Neuralgia, Colds, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Neuritis, Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets—also larger "Bayer" packages, can be had at any drug store. Hade in Canada. 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Far up the Nile I have watched and been fascinated by tbe excavators at their work. But here, in our midst, tbe baffling mystery of Silbury still awaits enlightening research. RIDE A BICYCLE Cyoling is easy when you ride the high-grade Bioyoles I sell—tbe wheels lhat run smoothly year after year. Let me explain to you my easy sale plan on terms. First-Claw. Repair Work done in Blacksmithing, Braiing, Aluminum Soldering, Oxy-Aoetylene Welding, Woodwork, Etc Je Re MOOYBOER <&andWhks,b7c! Open Saturday Evenings 111110 o'Clocb occurred. An investigation of the cause of the a cident may be held. J. Wagner, of Midway, was shot in tbe neck eatly Sunday morning by some Americans near Ferry, Wash. The wound is not serious and Joe will recover. The affair is said to have been a mix-up of boot- loggers. The shooting occurred) patrons. under tbe new firm name of McCallum & Harrison. Mr. McCallum bas been engaged in tbe Bame line of business in Grand Korks for tbe past twenty years, and Mr. Harrison bss had a wide experience in financial and public service affairs. The new firm will continue tbe aim of the office in the past to render the best possible service to its be of the eighth or ninth magnitude. Nothing greater tban the sixth magnitude can be observed by the naked eye, eo the world at large will see nothing of the visit until tail-flipping episode on June 27. The comet will do no great damage and the meteoric shower, it ie expected, will prove to be a harmless and inspiring spectacle. Canada's Farthest West ^ Clayaquot Sound, one of the delightful spots of the West Coast, Vancouver Island. It seems hardly possible in these days of quick and easy travel, of competitive transportation, that there should be a coast on Vancouver Island, with a seaboard of over 460 miles that is practically unknown. And this in a temperate country between the latitude of 45 deg. and 66 des;. I The Canadian Pacific ls the only line to send boats to ply up and down this coast and they only call at the different ports every ten days or so. Otherwise these pioneer settlers have no connection with the outside world unless It be at the end of the Alberni Canal which is so far the only point where the Island railway meets the west coast. The west coast is more temperate than the east; the average tempera- ture tot January last year up Quat sino Sound was 86 dec. Fahr. foi August and 68 deg. Fahr. for Janu- The two industries that keep the West coast alive at all are fishing and logging, and all the big salmon- canning companies of British Columbia have stations here. The first port of call is Port Renfrew, at the mouth of the San Juan River, and here the Defiance Packing Co. of Vancouver put up 2,000 cases of salmon a day in the season. Then up coast, past the Carmanah Light to Clo-oose, a great city with a population of about sixty whites and forty Indians, where the Nitinat Cannery turned out over 65,000 cases ta 1917. Away back Inland from these ports towers the great line of mountains that stretch the whole length of the island, and just here form the watershed of those three wide rivers, the San Juan, the Sarita and the Nitinat. There are those who say—but whisper it low—that a band of elk, known to few and seen by fewer, still have their range on the slopes of this watershed, and yet another band in the far northern east corner of the island between the head of Kyuquot Sound and the south-east arm of Quatsino, round about the headwaters of the Nimp- kish. ^tmESm************-*-*.*-.*-—-— Fortunately, however, they are protected for some years to come. At Banfield, there is the Dominio Goverpment Life Saving Station and the Imperial Government Cable Station; ft is the landing point for cables from Australia and New Zealand, the nearest forwarding point being Fanning Island, 4,600 miles away. A staff of thirty-five officials here. Uchucklesit is a bigger settlement, about one hundred whites and seventy-five Orientals and Indians. Here the Wallace Fisheries have a large plant with two lines of machinery for canning salmon and two for herrings so that they can turn out in all about 4,000 cases a day. Away up the Alberni Canal, somo twenty miles inland lies Port Alberni, a town which has long since cried "Ichabod" and gone to sleep. Here the Cross-island railway has its terminus for the present, although the extension to Sproat Lake and Great Central Lake will soon be ready. Out into Barclay Sound again, through the islands of the "Broken Group"' to Sechart, Toquart and so to Ucluelet, where the Wallace Fisheries buy a lot of their fish. A happy little settlement here with several well-established homesteads, that lt has taken half a life-time to clear, and all the more loved for that. It is here that a certain Scotchman has a garden renowned as being the first—if not still the only— rhododendron nursery in the North- American Continent. Years before the war he sent to Berlin for seeds, and then sat back to wait the seven years it takes for a rhododendron seed to come to flower-bearing age. Since then he has crossed and intercrossed until the resulting nursery Is worth many thousands of dollars. Out into the open Pacific again, then turning north eaBt through Broken Channel we come to Tofino where the Columbia Fisheries operate and the Clayoquot Sound Canning Co. do a big business Here Is a regular Indian fishing village ani through the whols of the long summer the sea for miles aronnd is dotted with the small fasolins beets of the Indian fishing fleet In 'the Clayoquot district, M.000 acres of agricultural land have been surveyed by the government, bnt se far only 4,000 have bem pre-empted. The land is good ln patches but tw clearing is very heavy and there u much cedar-swamn. It is, llw nss- dents say, one of the nbeopeet places in the world to live in. as nature provides most of the larder. Trout and Silverchar In the streams and lakes inland, salmon, pilchard, herring, rock-cod, halibut skil, bass, etc., and every sort oi shell-fish on the coast. Geese, grouse, duck, ptarmigan, snipe, quail, sandhill-crane, plover, rail and even swan if yeu are anything of a shot. For heavier meat there la alwaya the ubiquitous black-tailed deer, varied by bear-steak; and fer trapping, wolf, cougaf, wolverine, lynt coon, beaver, fox, otter, mink ana marten. There are enough wild benr fruits to provide jam aU the yea* round, so all the old-timer buys from the store is his sack of -flour, sugar and tea. Between the Islands Vargas and Meares, past one of the most beautiful stretches of sandy beach on the Pacific Coast (quite unknown). At Clayoquot where the Union Flsh- erics Co. are putting up a cold storage plant for a million fish, past Christie's there is a Roman Catholle school for Indian children. At Ahousat there ls another H» Indian settlement and it ls the custom of the Indians to migrate with their entire families every year to Rivers Inlet on the mainland for tha salmon fishing. They are landed from the shin fata their dug-outs with their children, their dogs and all the junk appertaining thereto, stoves, stove-pipes, old hats, oilcloth, teapots, dried skint and weapons of war.—H. G.-W. * KMJ-MU S. T. HULL Established 1910 RealEgtate and Insurance Resident Agent Grand Forki Towniite Oomp Urn! ompany, limited Parma Orchards City Property Agenti at' Nelion, Calgary, Wlhnlpcg and otlier Prairie polnti. Vancouver Agents: PKNDEK INVESTMENTS B ATTKNBUHY LANDS LTD. Batab.l-hed.nl910.weare ln a (Million to lurnl-h reliable Information concerning thli dlltrlot. Write lor Iree literature. PICTURES AND PICTURE FRAMIN8 Furniture Made to Order. Also Repairing of all Kinds. Upholstering Neatly Don R. G. McCOTCBBON WINNING AVIWI THE HUB—Bring your boot and shoe repairs to my shop for neat and prompt work. Look for the big boot.-GEO. ABMSON Synopsis of I Land Act Amendments INSURANCE 40c per $100 SELLING—4-room house, 3 lots, for $6501 central. The Fruit Lands Exchange J. C. KNIGHT, MANAGER Barlee'a Former Office Counter CheckBooks We have secured the agency for Grand Forks of a large Western Publishing House which manufactures a superior grade of Counter Check Books—carbon back and carbon leaf styles. Prices Are Right Encourage Western enterprises and keep Western money in the West. Any Quantity from 100 up to 2500 books. The Sun Job Department Our Hobby Minimum price reduced te IT an a WO an ear*. Pre-emption no ot Int. Records will be granted ww Ing aamr Und soluble for agricultural r end which le non-timber I Partnership prs-esaptta but parties of not. more Usui four i ■sr&t's. ni.ii.eair tal is Good Printing # » rpIIE value ot well- printed* neat appearing stationery as a meansof getting and holding desirable business has been amply demonstrated. Consult us before going elsewhere. Wedding invitations Ball programs Busineqp cards Visiting cards ShV ing tags Letterheads Statements Noteheads Pamphlets Price lists Envelopes Billheads Circulars Dodgers Posters Menus And commercial and society printing of every description. Let us quote you our prices. New Type Latest Style] Faces THE SUN Columbia Avenue and Lake Street TELEPHONE R101 tbea re-*** and make liiipujwmau le vale* etttt per more, Inohrftas <£sr- Ing end cultivation of »t leasts i timer* reoelvlag Crown Ona*. - Where pre-emptor la oeeapauoa eel taa* tban I years, aad has made **re- partteaeu Implements, be Btf-r.%0- cauee at UM-—•*"**- — *3***— rr?1 wr granted Intci -„- nti . Meet i as without i be Issued. „ __. ___ eaat makes Improvements te extern 1100 Par aenum and resorts taste a Failure to make lisssm iiemls ^^^^ ' operate as ler- : be obtained tn or record Same win felture. Title oannot ___., Ism than _> years, and Iraproveroeets at 110.00 per aero. Including ** tmtsttt and cultivated, et at least S roars ara n Pre-emptor hoMtng arow* grant mar record another pre-iisgllnn. tt ho requires land In conjunction wlih his (arm, without actual oocapetlon, provided statutory Impru rem ants made and reeldeaoe maintained aa Crowa ■ranted land. *s Unsurvopsd areas, not exceeding SO dU-fiog'Vasree tm%*XU^ _ *_****_■ arant acres, msy be it _ . title to bo obtained attar lUMMaf rat dentlal and Improvement conditions. Wer graslng and Indastrtat — O-fflssillng aaed br one person"or uuiusaar." Mill, factory or todaatrlaTsltea on timber land not sxooodlag to ******* mar M purohased; oondlttons bt pa/meat of stampaao, Natural hay aisaliss bgr existing roads mar I eondlUonaTuBco oonstrec to tbem7Bebate_of one-! prloe. Is made. PM-KHPTOM* JMI ACT. Tb«. ttRANTS tag wttb _ ttae within of a dec for title B for ror one _ _. person, aa foneertp, am alter the eoaolwtee ef the praesat This prtvflegs is sew madsrS- traacUve. No foes due or j Taxatf are . Provlstoa ■cor^after janoW. fltt! roaoftOod Ita ave so-ifs.' Istoa far return of ********* tm- 4. UfA 1S£5? tmfm\\\wm\m,r*J^ t, lilt, on eooount or persona^ fate or taxes oa soldiers' pri naiiflens. Interest en agreements < town ar eltr lots hsM br Allied -Pones, or depot * direct or IndMot, rea list-net* to Man* «, I sua-puHCHASKRa or crown LANDS* Crown Crown its to panto t Lands, i urs who purchase. Involving forfc. Ailment of conditions of interest and taxsa. Where sab-p era do not data whole of orl eel, purchase price due and I bo distributed pn whole area. Aim made br May i,TlftS. QRAZlNO, Act, »10, for -"j-taAJufiifitVj* Graslng ____ development i video for graslng districts and ad-alfilstrn-lon under Conualaslo Annual graslng permits taoodto onnumbers ranged; priority ftr established owners. Mode-own form Associations for rai ment. Free, et partiaar I for settlers. to ten bead. NEW HARNESS SHOP I have opened a new harness, shop and am prepared to make harness to order and do all kinds of repair work. Shop equipped with modern machinery. All work guaranteed: C. Ae Crawford Neur TeUphan* Oftee