Provincial Librarv Published in the Interests of Mount Pleasant and Vicinity T. J. Keqrney J M. Mclntyre Funeral Director T. J. Kearney & Co. Funeral Directors and Bmbalmers. At your service day and night. Moderate charges- 802 Broadway.West Pbone: Fair. 1098 * iOLUME VII. VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, V FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1916. 5 Cents Per Copy. No. 44 The secretaries of all Clubs and Associations (whether social, religious ; or political) as well us private individuals, are invited to send in any items of general interest each week for publication in these columns. Copy may be sent by mail or phoned in, and should reach this office not later than Thursday noon to ensure publication. A reception- was tendered by the people of St. Paul's Presbyterian church to their new pastor, 'Rev. R. G. McBeth and Mrs. McBeth Thursday evening of this week. A very large number were present aud. an. enjoyable time was spent, The regular meeting of the Ward V. branch of the Woman's Forum was held on Wednesday \ afternoon. There was a very good attendance to hear Dr. Belle Wilson's address on "Child Life in the public schools." Next month; it is. expected Mrs. Irene Moody, school trustee, will address the -���������meeting. The annual spring concert of the choir of Mt. Pleasant Presbyterian ehiu'blv will be. held on the 'levelling-of March 17th; (St: Patrick's Day) in the church, under the direction of L. R. Bridgman;; ���������conductor. A choice musical program --will be rendered by the choir, assisted by Miss Gladys "-^ochran''e.-'"'''-L.l\:GTM:'';::'''1('6'o'ntra.lto);, Mr. Harold Nelson Shaw, B. A., reader, and the male quartette of. the 72nd Highlanders* Overseas Battalion. A good time is promised to all who attend. The Babies' Branch of the Woman's Auxiliary held their annual meeting at St. Michael's church yesterday afternoon, and in the evening a missionary play was given by the junior branch. Wrs. William Brown, a former resident of Prince Edward Island, passed away at her home. 223 13th avenue east on Tuesday of this week. Interment was made iii Mountain View cemetery. ��������� ' On Wednesday evening last the friends of Mr. and Mrs. C. Sttnvart met at the Mt. Pleasant Methodist church at a farewell tea and reception in their honor. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart have gone to reside 'in Toronto. On Tuesday morning at the ���������juncture of -Kingsway and. llth aivenue an automobile collided with a wagon- belonging to the Star Laundry, "causing the death of. a valuable' horse and considerable damage to the wagon. The driver of the wagon, however, escaped unhurt. Mr. Andrew Johnstone, second sou of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Johnstone, 2735 Sophia street, leaves tomorrow (Saturday) for I Kingston, Ontario, where he has enlisted with the Queen's College Heavy Artillery division for |i overseas service. Mr. Johnstone has been connected with the Union Steamship Co. for a long "fcimeXiTavin-g risen from midship-- uian to captain in the employ of that company. His brother. D. M. Johnstone, is serving in the lGtl.1 battalion Cnnadian Scottish, having gone over with 'the First Contingent. In honor of Miss Lillian Stuart, who is to enter Royal Columbian hospital for training in a few weeks, a number ol: her young -friends gathered at the home of her parents, Mr. and .Mrs. S. A. Stuart. 90 L 8th avenue west, on Friday evening, for a party. The occasion also marked M iss Stuart's birthday. Music, games and dancing helped to pass a merry evening. The prizes for the evening were won by Mrs. Elmer and M.r. Herbert ~Fec. Late in the evening supper was served from a table decorated with carnations and daffodils. The guests included Mr. and Mrs. Elmer, Misses Beulah Stuart. Rena Wade,'Mary Fairey, Winnie Crumb, Lou Elmer, Minnie Stuart, Cassic Nadeau and Messrs. Russell Hawk. Jack Es- selmont. George Kent, Hitley Verge, Laurier Sehennett and Herbert Fee. Beginning Sunday next, March 12,--In.the Mount Pleasant Hall, corner, 8th. avenue and Ontario street, evangelistic services will be conducted each evening except. Friday and Saturday. Sunday nights at 7.30;: week nights t'itS o'clock. Mr. D. Burden and Mr. W. W. Reid will address the meetings. "Popular Perversions of the Scriptures" is the subject to be dealt with at the Bible Class on Sunday afternoon at 2.30. Miss Olive Beaton, the popular organist, has returned to her home on Ontario street after a lengthy stay at Quesnel in the Cariboo. J The Connaught Chapter of the Daughters of the Empire meet this afternoon at the home of Mrs. Gartshore, 126 12th avenue west. The results of the tests for February have been announced at the Mount Pleasant school. The coveted placeoof class,leader has been won by the following pupils in the 'senior classes: John Mitchell, Mr. McKee's class; Jean Bowser, Miss Dewis' class; Mabel Stewart, Miss Fred- erickson's class. The highest percentage of attendance was made in Div. V., 94.12 per cent. The regular monthly consecration meeting of the senior Mt. Pleasant Presbyterian C. E. was held on Monday evening. Mr. G. C. Richmond and Miss M. Walton were in charge of the meeting. Under the direction of Prof. Ainsley, a concert will be held on March 28 at the South Hill Baptist church, South Vancouver, in aid of the church fund. A social was held last night at the home of Mrs. Dorr, 231 65th avenue east, under the auspices of the Fraser River: branch of the Red Cross. Rev. R. G. McBeth took up his duties on Sunday as pastor of St. Paul's Presbyterian church, preaching both moring and evening. In the morning he spoke on the necessity of a definite purpose in life, and in the evening on the subject of unity of thought aiid purpose for the maintenance of God's house. A bright little, whist drive and dance under the auspices of the Alexandra Review No. 7 of the Women's Benefit Association of the Maccabees was held on Wednesday evening in the K. P. Hall. The committee in charge of arrangements consisted of lady commander, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Cameron, Mrs. Colville, Mrs. Tubman, Mrs. Morrison. Mrs. Leslie, Mrs. Negrean, Mrs. .Del/.ell, Mrs. Shick, Mrs. Foot ������������������nd Mrs-. Tailing. A delightful musical program was provided by- Miss Winnifred Layley, Mr. Hough, Mr. J. AV. McLeod, Mr. Edward Crane and the. Misses Crane. " The ladies' first prize went to Mrs. Ellison, while Mr. Cameron captured the gentleman's first. Miss Brown won the consolation prize. An unusually large crowd was in attendance. B. C. CONSUMERS' LEAGUE HOLDS ANNUAL RALLY In Wesley church last night the work of the B. C. Consumers' League since its inception, a year and. a half ago, came up for a thorough review and criticism at the annual rally. The membership is now over 8,500, all of-these* members being pledged to give preference when purchasing goods (price and quality being equal) first, to the products of British Columbia; second, to those of Canada; third, to those of the British Empire. On the platform with Mrs. J. C. Kemp, the president of the league, were Mrs. Ralph Smith and Mayor McBeath. Mr. J. A., Cunningham, president of the Manufacturers' Association, also spoke at some length on the lack of support given to the League. "If we aire to fill up our vacant houses we must take advantage-bf the^-f__������id'ti������a'Cttiri-ng>' possibilities of the province and also support our industries," he said in conclusion. The report of Mrs. Kemp was a lengthy one and filled with interest. It recommended that the government stamp the origin of all imported goods on the packages, an-d also called attention to the enviable opportunity British Columbia has to take advantage of its future, just as other countries, states and provinces have done. The evening closed with a short musical program, after which refreshments were, served, composed entirely of British Columbia products. ��������� . - ' The Pythian Sisters held their regular social and dance on Tuesdays vening-inXhe-K.-JX-Hall." Special Lenten services were held at 8 o'clock on Wednesday evening at St. Michael's church. Throughout Lent there will be a service for the children each Friday evening at 7.15. Messrs. Wood & Son are making extensive alterations to the interior of their shoe store on Main, street with a .view to increasing the display space for their spring stocks. Under the auspices of the Women's Guild of Mt. Pleas- and Presbyterian church, a daffodil lea was held at the home of Mrs. W. II. "Mason. 106 Sth ave. east, yesterday afternoon. Mrs. J. J. G. Thompson and Mrs. Mason were hostesses, and Mrs. Reid, Mrs. .McMillan ancl Mrs. Milton poured tea, the table being decorated with daffodils in a large silver bowl. Sirs. AV. H. Sleeves was in charge of the dining room and Mrs. Robertson was treasurer. Mrs. Murray, Mrs. Neill and Mrs. Munro assisted. A musical program was rendered by the following: Miss McKnight, Miss Ethel Riches. Miss Ruth Mitchell, Miss Duthie. Mrs. Cunningham. Miss Margaret- Ross, Miss Craigen, Miss Maye and Miss Burnett. The young* ladies of the Florence Nightingale Surgical Club held an "at home" last night at the residence of Mrs. C. Tcr- nau, 335 13th ave. west. An excellent musical program was pre- vided. At the services in the Mt. Pleasant Methodist church last Sunday the 72ud Highlanders male quartette sang several selections . Over 40 new names were added to the church membership, among them belli;.; six of the boys at the front. On March l!>i!i the third memorial tabid will be vniveiled. the service psr- i a king of a patriotic nature. Smith, Geo. Adams and H. Hoy, of, New Westminster; Dr. W. H. B...Anderson,. JI.X[XDeVine,-E. W. Welsh, F. L. Endlong, J.P. Nightingale and R. IT. Maeauley, of Vancouver, and a large number3 of delegates from every part of tlie province. Mayor McBeath is personally extending a hearty welcome on behalf of the city of Vancouver to the officers and delegates of the Grand Lodge. ouurmao Rev. J. Richmond Craig, of the Westminster Presbyterian church, who is at present on a short holiday on Vancouver Island for the benefit of his health will return next week. The brewery license granted by the last year's board, aud which caused so much discussion during the year, was cancelled yesterday by the license com-, missioners on the advice of the municipal solicitor. Many requests for new sidewalks were received by the board of works on Saturday, but in every case they were refused on account of scarcity of funds. The heavy rains this week have caused much flooding in some districts of this municipality. On Manitoba street and Sixty-fifth avenue a wash-out occurred which broke a water main, causing a flood on the River road. '.<[, Several men have been oUt both day and night trying- to keep the culverts open and the water, moving. A delightful house party was given at Mr. C. Wilson's, Bodwell road, on Friday evening last, at which a number of young people from Mt. Pleasant,and vicinity were present. The evening was spent in old-fashioned games and dances. Early on Friday morning last the vacant dwelling owned by Allan McLean, at 57020th aye; east, was partially destroyed. by a fire which was evidently c&usV ed by the owner haying overheated the kitchen stove hi an attempt to dry the house but. Further reductions of the municipal staff are proposed by Reeve Winram which, if agreed to by the council, will let out Engineer Bennett, Building Superintendent Hubbard, Mr. T. H. Jacques, ledger clerk, and three police constables, two of whom have already left. With previous reductions and cuts in salaries it is estimated that the reeve's proposals ;will effect a saving of $12,000 a year. Mr. Albert Gittihgs, 4721 Gladstone street, organist, and choirmaster of St. Thomas church has been successful in gaining L. (Associate of Trinity College the professional diploma A.T.C. of Music) London, England, at the recent examination held at the college. Mr. Gittings.is believed to be the first in Vancou- vou to gain this distinction. A Whist drive in aid of the Victorian Order of Nurses- has been, arranged ..for St. Patrick's night, March. 17, at tbe home of Mrs. Fred L. Macpherson, Salsbury drive. " The big blow on Sunday evening gave the fire department a busy time, four fires occurring within two hours. They were not of a very serious nature, however, tliX "d a ni age hr - e a chX n'stan ee "be-- ing slight. The first; alarm came from the Beath block, a large structure at the corner of. 24th and Main. Three others followed in quick succession from No. 90, Fortieth avenue, 2Sth and Windsor, and 39th and Victoria Drive, all dwelling houses. The Rainbow Circle of King's Daughters will meet this Friday afternoon at 2.30 at the home of Mrs. D. IT. Robinson, 22:37 Victoria Drive. The regular business meeting will be followed by an. address by Mrs. Hector McPherson. A fire occurred at 3327 Parker street on Saturday evening last completely destroying a frame bungalow owned and oc- cTipicd bX MT\~~J^m^ The fire, started from an, overheated range. The loss is partially covered by insurance. The following new names have been added 1:6 the active service honor roll of the Britannia high school: Leslie Tavlor Mac Donald. The 23rd regular session of the Ancient Order of Urn ted Workmen opened in the K. <>f P. hall. Mt. Pleasant on Thursday, the !)th inst. The .following officers were present: Mayor Alex. Stewart. Fred'��������� Dawy, J. T. Mcllwaine. C. T. Wrigleworth. Wm. Scowcroft, Capt. J. 1). Warren. Thos. Cashmore. Of Victoria: Dr. I-I. H. King and W. II. Wilson, of Ladner: Dr. D. E. Wolf- A memorial service will be held in the Jubilee Methodist ehurch next Sunday evening as an expression of regret at the passing away of .Mrs. .John Murray, of McKay. AVest Burnaby. wife of ex-Councillor Murrav. New m'ambers will be welcomed 1o tire Edmonds Sewing Circle which works in connection with the Voluntary.Aid of the St. John's Ambulance Association, meeting every Thursday afternoon -.between 2.30 and 4.30 in the Moreton Hall. During the six months from the end of June, when the circle was formed, the .sum of $118.45 was collected in fees and donations and handed to headquarters in return for which materials were supplied. The following list of, articles have been, made 157 hospital garments, shirts and pyjamas. Iti towels. 260 bandages. . Doifhld Alex. Black, Lyman Mr. G. H.'W. Hubbard, son of | MacDonald. Alfred ; Somerlon. Building Superintendent Hub-; Norton Hopkins. In last Sat- ba.rd of South Vancouver, andjurday's game. Brilannia vs. King for same time employed, by the j George, the former won by a municipal council as instrument j score- of 23-14. The game was man on sewer work, lias joined! a '.rood one and in ihe first half the Kingston University Heavy: Britannia obtained the lead, but Artillery and will leave Van-iat half-lime the score was 0-9. eouver on Saturday. Building j The second half B. II. S. did Superintendent Hubbard has'miieh better in spite of their in- four brothers now serving at. fhcj iVriorily in weight, and still hold front and one brother was killed; their place at the top of the while fighting with the IGfh bat-j league. talion last, veari ' i i In the monthly exams, held in the Seymour schol, James Waters ranked first and Elen Ward second in Div. I: Gladys McQuillan., ranked first and Ruth Prentice second in Div. II. The gi'rjs have organized a baseball club with Mariorie Mills as captain and Gertrude Williamson as vice-captain. As soon as the ''rounds are fixed they will begin practicing. As they nearly succeeded in winiiiir_>'' the cup last year they intend to go after it with renewed vigor this season. James Waters is captain of .j;the- bovs" team. The claim of Mrs. Emma Gold, I mother'of ex-Reeve Gold of So.: Vancouver, for damages alleged; to have been done to her pro-; perty on Main street by regrad- ing. has been' considered by thci finance committee and referred! to the municipal solicitor. Councillor Russell, chairman of the board of works, declared that the claim wu.s1 outlawed by lapse of...lime/as the work was completed over :i year ago. except for a \ii\\:> refilling, which, he said, was done hist year at the special request of Reeve Gold. THE WESTERN CALL Friday, March 10, 1916j (? A Philosopher's View of the War All great wars are truly fated. It is ol little importance what immediate set of causes occasioned them. Had Germany's conscious intentions been .��������� never so kind and her official morals never so exemplary, the mere fact of her gaslike expansion within a world packed with aggressive traditions, whose equilibrium depended' on opposition instead of collaboration, would sooner or later have caused conflict whieh in turn would inevitably have expanded into a world war, because in this age of universal interdependence any serious shock' to one larger part of the whole must needs upset the whole. Germany's ambitions were no more the primum mov- ens of this catastrophe than were Bonaparte's dreams of world power the first cause of that of a century ago. "Second Act in Drama History will probably consider this conflagration as the' second chief act of that great drama of which the French Revolution was the first. The latter inaugurated the emancipation of all nations, notwithstanding the fact that at first it brought op- presion and even slavery to many of them; this war, horrible| though it be, means the prelude to a still more wide-reaching emancipation. And the latter's process has already begun; even now the ideals we fight for are shaping the world. Whoever may be eventually the master be tween the Vistula and the Bug, free shall Poland become; Aus tria, once the stronghold of reaction, is developing, for fear of losing her Slav subjects, a capacity for ruling on liberal lines, which may become an example to all States inhabited by diverse races. Russia has started full speed on a process of entire renewal, the ultimate result of which none can as yet foretell. No Reason for Pessimism There is ho reason, therefore, for pessimism, in spite of the hideousness of the present situation. War cannot be other than hideous, if conducted on such a gigantic scale and with such in- tensity of passion as now happens ; if the best intellects seem blinded and the best hearts crippled by hate, the condition of the majority must be appalling. But, as I explained before, these facts, however distressing they be, mean very little, since men are not themselves during fever; and most of. the horrors will be entirely forgotten afterward, just as most healthy persons, after having safely got over a. dangerous disease, think little of the sufferings they have gone through. Let us never forget that this war means a constitutional crisis, and judge it accordingly. Only then shall we be able to understand its phases. PROVINCE OP B. C. IN SOUND CONDITION Buy Vancouver Real Estate at these Prices -NEVER AGAIN= SUCH SACRIFICES VMFS Fourth Avenue Carline���������33 feet near Trutch St., formerly held at $4,500, for $1,600, on terms. Kitsilano���������Two 33 ft. lots, cleared, on llth Avenue, for merly held at $1,200 each, for $350 each. Strathcona Heights���������50 ft. lot, magnificent view, on 25th Avenue, held at $2,200, for $750, on terms. Burnaby���������Fine high lot, near 17th Avenue and Laurel St., assessed at $300, for $90;00. Point Grey���������33 ft. lot on the hill near ,22nd and Dunbar St., a great buy at $350. Fkirview���������50 ft. lot on llth Ave., near Pine Street. Cost owner $3,300. Sell for $900. Point Grey���������33 ft. on 18th Ave. near Highbury Street, on top of the hill, for $300. Point Grey���������70 by 122 ft. on 21st Ave., near Crown St., for $300. South Vancouver���������A few Lots on 66th and 67th Avenue for $70.00 each. Burnaby���������122 by 122 ft., near corner River Ave. and Gilley Avenue on the hill, fine view, southern exposure, for --^$22o:00.T^^--^"^-"^^i--1-i" -���������������������������-���������-������-��������� ACREAGE Burnaby���������2.35 acres, on Bumble Boad, on the sunny southern slope. Dirt cheap at $1,150. On terms. Lulu Island���������4 acres at Garden City, cleared, richest of soil. Cost owner $320 per acre 8 years ago. Sell the 4 acres for $700.00. Langley���������5 Acres near Milner Station, has all been under cultivation. Cost $300 per acre. The whole for $650. Gibson's Landing���������10 Acres on the Government Road, 3 miles from the Landing. Good land. Creek running through, all for $350.00. Burnaby���������4.24 Acres, with long frontage on the B. C E. R. near Jubilee Station. A grand property with, a . great future, improved. $35,000 was one time refused for this same property. Can be bought today for $6,500. Coquitlam���������20 Acres of the very best soil, 21-2 miles north of Coquitlam City, half mile from school, light clearing. Owner paid over $500 per acre as a subdi vision proposition. Sell to-day for $100 per acre on terms. Burnaby���������1 3-4 acres at Central Park, very cheap at $1,500. HOUSES Point Grey���������On Wilson Road carline, neat little 3-room cottage, on lot 33.7 by 298.9 feet deep, all improved, chicken house and runs. Formerly held at $3,300. Today for $1,350. Fairview���������Quebec St., 5 room modern cottage, fireplace, built in buffet, pannelled walls, etc., for $1,500 on terms. Kitsilano���������6-room modern house on lot 66 by 132 feet, with fireplace, hardwood floors, furnace, bath and toilet separate, former value was $6,000. Sell for $3,150. Fairview���������8 rooms, hardwood floors, hot water heat, all fully modern, lot 50 ft. by 120, on 12th Avenue, near Granville St. Owner paid $9,000. Sell for $6,000. Fairview���������7 rooms, hot water heat, hardwood floors, fireplace, full 50 ft. lo,t, on 10th Ave., the best part,' a $9,000 home for $5,500, including a $3,400 7 1-2 per cent, mortgage. Fairview���������8 rooms and one'on the 3rd floor, hot water heat, garage, nice grounds, on llth Ave., near Yukon Street. Formerly held at $10,000. Sell now for $6,000 on terms. ALLAN BROS. 510 Pender St. West Phone Sey. 2873 Real Estate, Insurance and Mining 'WINTER IN VANCOUVER' The results obtained from the issue of the pamphlet "Winter in Vancouver," which was largely circulated throughout the prairies earlier in the year by the city publicity department, are stated to be very satisfactory so far. Many inquiries for further information as to business, living and other conditions have been received at the office, and a number of people who formerly went east for their annual vacation have this year come to Vancouver, while in many cases the visitors have taken advantage of their stay here to seek additional information at the city office. In one instance a gentleman from Saskatchewan brought in a gypsum proposition and was put in touch with the mineralogical department. He was on the lookout for wood pulp from British Columbia to work with his mineral deposit, the combination being used for the manufacture of a description of. structural building boards. Tilefish catches continue to increase. During January 398,- 000 pounds of . the fish were landed at New, York, an increase of 135 per cent, over December. Eight vessels have been chart-' ered for a new steamship service between Puget Sound ports on the Pacific Coast of the United States and Vladivostok. It is expected that the new service will help relieve the congestion of freight at Puget Sound. Bergen, one of the most important seaports in Norway, was visited by the most destructive fire in its history on Jan. 15. Estimates of the damage run all the way from $11,000,000 to $27,000,- 000. Practically the whole of the retail business fell a prey to the flames. In all 369 buildings were destroyed and 3,000 persons made homeless. A new method of using coal in competition with oil fuel has been tried in Vancouver. Those conducting the experiments say that crushed coal can be supplied to steam producing furnaces by the same method in use for oil. The new process is particularly interesting to British Columbia, as it is proposed to apply it for smelting in the big mining plants there. It is said that seven tons of copper ore can be smelted with one ton of coal by the new process, whereas formerly the ratio was one ton of coal to one ton of ore. China has opened a new commercial port, Pukow, to foreign trade. It is on the shores of the Yangtze River in the. Province of Kiangsu, directly opposite the city of Nanking, and 205 miles from Shanghai. It is expected that Pukow will attract a considerable volume of trade from fertile districts of the interior. Unfortunately the place is not adapted for residence in its present condition, as it is swampy. Representatives of foreign firms doing business through the new port will probably reside in Nanking until Pukow is rendered more habitable by the filling in of the swampy tracts. Those Dear Girls Alice���������I take half, an hour's beauty sleep every afternoon. Marie���������You should make it much longer, dear. Both of the House members who spoke at Victoria on Friday in the presentation of the address in reply to the speech from the throne gave glowing descriptions of the resources of this province, and produced figures to show that, notwithstanding the times, the prospects of British Columbia are better than might be expected. Mr. Praser, Cariboo, seconded the motion to present the address, and dealt principally with the development and prospects of the interior. "Not since 1895 has Cariboo had the honor of having a representative take part in the moving of the address in reply to the King's speech," commented Mr. -Fraser, in rising to second Mr. Thomson's motion. Mr. Fraser dealt at some length with the condition of the timber busi- nes in the province, showing that the value of the timber production in 1915 was an increase over 1914. The new policy of the government not to lease or sell outright timber lands but merely to license individuals or firms to cut timber on certain areas, was proving a wise piece of legislation, he said. The timber department had fulfilled its duties and was showing good results from a far sighted policy. Contains One-Third of Land The land policy of the government, though greatly criticized, did not deserve that criticism, he contended. Cariboo, for example containing as it does about 32 per cent, of the land of the province, attracted a good deal of attention from prospective land holders when the Grand Trunk Pacific was built. Why should men who invested money in British Columbia lands be considered as persons who by foul means had acquired something which they had no business to own, he asked. Thousands of people in Vancouver and Victoria had bought lands in the Cariboo and when the P. G. E. provided a means of transportation for Cariboo grain, vegetables and hay, land there could be made use of. "The government's surveying policy had been the means of eliminatng many complaints," contended Mr. Fraser, "as it meant that no longer would buyers and sellers as well as pre-emptors have to deal with unsurveyed lands. In 1905 the-government spent- a little over $7,000 on surveying. In 1915-16 it spent $100,000. "Agriculture will be the most important industry of this province," .went on the speaker, "and as Cariboo had a vast amount of fertile land it will take a very prominent place among the producing sections." He gave figures to show that the value of the 1915 production was above that of 1914 whereas the value of. the imported agricultural produce Avas a good deal less in 1915 than in 1914. Have You a House to Rent? We are having numerous enquiries for six and seven room modern houses in the West End and Kitsilano. Our Rental Department is.at your service. List your houses with us. North West Trust Company, Limited 509 RICHARDS STREET. St PHONE, SEY. 7467 The Latest. Occupation "Where were you born?" "Cairo, Illinois." "What is your occupation?' "I'm a Russian dancer." Quite Willing . Her Father���������"The fact is I cannot give my daughter a dowry just at present." Suitor��������� "That's all right, sir. I can love her for herself alone in the meantime." Splendid Bargain Will exchange 500 yards of first-line British trenches, strictly fresh, just captured, for 2 quarts of milk and 5 pounds of butter. Address W. Hohenzol- lern's Military Agency, Ypres, Belgium. Sovereign Radiators Artistic in design. Perfect in finish. .. Made in Canada. Taylor-Forbes Co. LIMITED Vancouver, B. C. ESTABLISHED 1886 Ceperley, Rounsefell & Co. limited INVESTMENTS and INSURANCE Government, Municipal and Corporation Bonds (Canadian), ������ * yielding from 5 per cent, to 7 per cent. Bents and Mortgage Interests collected. Investments made on First Mortgage and Estates managed under personal supervision. Insurance���������Fire, Life, Accident, Marine, Automobile, Employers ' Liability. Molson's Bank Building 543 Hastings St. West Phone Seymour 8171 STOREY & CAMPBELL 518-520 BEATTY ST. VANCOUVER, B.C. MANUFACTURERS OF Light and Heavy Harness, Mexican Saddles, Closed Uppers, Leggings, etc. A large stock of Trunks and Valises always on hand. BUGGIES, WAGONS, Etc Leather ot all kinds. Horse Clothing. We are the largest manufacturers and importers of Leather Goods in B. C. WHOLESALE ANP RETAIL Britain Holds the Front Poor. Eosy visions rise before the eyes of German editors as they contemplated that vast tract of territory from Bagdad to the North Sea which has come under continuous Teutonic control by the recent victories over Serbia. Now we are assured Germany can get from Turkey all the food she wants. The Fremdenblatt says: .__.it3ut_-.there_is._mpre,J|te������^his.__r^. possibility of the transit of the products of-our highly developed war- industry will enable Turkey in an increased degree to strike a blow at the heart of England's world supremacy���������against Egypt. Thus the exchange of goods between the members of the new quadruple alliance���������will acquire decisive importance for the result of the world-war." While this may be made to sound well in theory, says the Essen organ of the Krupps, it is doubtful whether it is easy in practise. The hard-headed Bheinische Westplialische Zeitung then proceeds to remark: "Whoever knows that the sea freight to Buenos Aires from Buhrort on the Bhine is less than the railroad freight rate from Buhort to Berlin will shake his head when he hears that masses of goods are to be thrown to and fro by rail from Asia Minor to Hamburg. The idea that the'Bill kan and Bagdad railroads can in any way support the burden of our economic life is a fantasy. The German Empire is not situated on the Dardanelles or on the Persian Gulf, but on the North Sea, and it will only be free if the North Sea-is free. "It is not intrinsically and extrin- sically possible for us to answer today the question of how far British sea domination can be broken. That can only appear in the course of the war, but we are firmly convinced that our leading men will recognize what is attainable and what is not. "But the German people must not be deceived by European and Asiatic fantasies into overlooking the fact that our door to the world turns on hinges which are also attached to Great Britain. " A Warning to American Journalists '' American journals may be roughly arranged in three classes with regard to their attitude toward the war; those which-, are frankly, not to say virulently, hostile to the Allies; those which try to be neutral, with an eye to tbe racial character of their local environment; and those which are moderately and rationally sympathetic with the allies cause," says the Toronto Globe. "Many of those in the latter class seem to have fallen into the not very surprising habit' of making superficial comments on the progress of the war, as if its course and outcome could be determined without taking account of many features of the situation that do not lie on the surface. The inexcusableness of such criticism"-is apparent," because at- the outbreak of the conflict the most competent authority on the point, Lord Kitchener, publicly stated that the real beginning of the war was then more than half a year away, and the end of it at least three years. It has now been a year and a half in progress, and to all appearances it will be over within the three-year limit specified by Lord Kitchener. "Some of the journals referred to speak as if the Central Powers were winning important and progress-making victories. The truth is quite otherwise. In the real sense of the term "battle" there has been only one great battle in this war; the one in which the French army, with the aid of a few thousand British, drove the German army back from. Paris at the Marne in a continuous fight of six days, without the protection of entrenchments. Countries have been overrun by the Germans, and some of them arc still occupied by the foe, but their final status has yet to be determined, and the chances, even when viewed superficially, are strongly in favor of their restoration to their own people as the result of a final victory by the allies. Critics of the war should never forget that, while Germany had several millions of troops ready to march through Belgium into France, Great Britain had less than a quarter of a million, whereas she has now three millions ready for the front, and. a fourth million in training. Kussia would never have been forced back from Galicia but for a scarcity of munitions, and her latest intimation to the world is that an ample supply of these js now absolutely provided for. A few weeks may, and a few months must, make a great change in the land situation, to say nothing of the sea blackade. " Heard in the Audience' She���������Who wrote that Schubert serenade? He���������I don't know. (Passed by the Board of Censors) Friday, March 10, 1916. THE WESTERN GALL 3 The Horrors of Gas A place of horror whieh one /ould think Dante had imagined, fhe air is heavy���������stifling; two or Ihree little night lamps, which |ook as if they were afraid of jiving too much light, hardly nerce the hot, smoky, darkness Jvhich smells of fever and sweat. Jusy people are whispering an- ciously. But you hear, more |fchan all, agonized gaspings. These ;aspings escape from a number )f little beds drawn up close together on which are distinguished human forms, above all, chests, chests that are heaving too strongly, too rapidly, and that 'raise the sheets as if the hour [of the death rattle had already come. It is one of our hospitals on the battle line, improvised as well as was possible on the i morrow of one of the most infernal of German abominations; all these children of France, who look as if they are at the last gasp, were so terribly injured that it was impossible to carry them further away. This great hall, with its crumbling walls, was yesterday a storehouse of hogsheads of champagne, these little beds I ���������some fifty in number ��������� were I put together in feverish haste, (made of branches that still keep their bark, and look like rustic garden furniture. But why this heat, which the stoves send forth and which makes breathing almost impossible? The reason is that it cannot be too hot for asphyxiated lungs. And this darkness, why this darkness wbich gives an air of the inferno to this place of martyrdom,, and which must so hinder the gentle, white- clad nurses ? It is because the barbarians are there in their burrows, quite close to this village, whose houses and church tower they have more than once amused themselves-by pounding with their shells, and if, with their ever-watchful field glasses, they saw in this sad, November twilight the lights appearing in the windows of a long hall, they would instantly scent a field hospital and shells would rain on the humble sick beds; we have learned how they love to sprinkle grape-shot on hospitals, Red Cross convoys, churches! So that one can hardly see here through a sort of mist, spread by water boiling in heaters. Every moment nurses bring huge, black, air balloons, and those who are struggling in agony stretch out their poor WHY ENPURE THE CRUEL TORTURE OF TOOTHACHE- WHY GO ALONG FROM PAY TO DAY WITH UNSIGHTLY, DECAYING TEETH WHICH ARE A MENACE TO YOUR OWN HEALTH--AN OFFENCE TO YOUR FRIENDSVL If the dread of pain or your inability to meet the exorbitant price* charged hy other dentist* has hitherto prevented yon having yonr teeth attended to, listen to my message. DENTISTRY AS I PRACTICE IT IS ABSOLUTELY DEVOID OP PJUN Be the operation simple or complex, it makes absolutely no difference to me. ORALTHESIA, THE SIMPLE, SAFE AND HARMLESS REMEDY WHICH I USE THROUGHOUT MY PRACTICE, HAS ABSOLUTELY DRIVEN PAIN FROM THE DENTAL CHAIR. So sure am I of Oralthesia and its certain results, I say to all my patients: "IP IT HURTS, DON'T PAY ME" And in comparison to the high prices charged by others in my profession MY prices are, in keeping with the HIGH quality of my work and the materials which I use, exceedingly low. CALL AT MY OFFICES TODAY FOR A FREE EXAMINATION Dr. T. Glendon Moody Vancouver's "Pioneer Dentist Dawson Block Cor. Hastings and Main Sts. Phone Seymour 1566 Vancouver's Painless Dentist hands to beg for them; it is oxygen which makes them breathe better and suffer less. Many of them have these black air balloons " resting on their panting chests, and in their mouths they greedily hold the tubes through which %the saving gas escapes; you would say that they were great children with milk bottles; this throws a' sort of grotesque buffoonery over these scenes of horror. Asphyxiation has different effects on different constitutions which require different forms of. treatment. Some of the men, almost ..naked on their beds, are covered with blisters or smeared all over with tincture of iodine. There are others���������these, alas, are the most seriously injured���������who are all swollen, chests, arms and faces, and who look like India rubber dolls blown up. India rubber dolls, children with nursing bottles! Although these are the only true images it seems almost sacrilegious to employ them when anguish weighs upon your heart and you long to weep, to weep for pity and to weep for wrath! Yet let these comparisons, brutal as they are, engrave themselves deep in our memories by their very strangeness, so that they may the longer nourish indignant hatred and the thirst of holy retribution! For there is a man who spent years in preparing all this for us, and this man continues to live. He lives,' and as remorse is without doubt unknown to his vulture soul he does not even suffer, unless it be from fury at having failed in his attempt. Before unchaining death upon the world he had coldly made his combinations, foreseeing everything. "If, however," he said to himself, "my rhinoceroslike rushes and my huge apparatus of murder should in the,impossible case hurl themselves against a too magnificent resistance, then, perhaps, I should dare, relying on the poltroonery of the neutrals; I should dare, perhaps to affront all the laws of civilization and to employ other means. In any case, let us prepare." The great rush, in fact, did fail, and timidity at the beginning, fearful, in spite of all, of the whole world's disgust, he tried asphyxiation, after having justified himself, of course, by his habitual lies, accusing France of having made the beginning. As he cynically hoped, there was, unfortunately, no general revolt of the human conscience. No more than over the earlier crimes���������organized looting, destruction of cathedrals, violations, massacres of children and of women���������did the neutrals intervene. It veritably seems as if the destructive, fierce, and deathlike glance of his Gorgon, or Medusa, head had frozen them where they stood, and at the hour at which I write the last one Gorgonized by this monstrous glance is the poor King of Greece 'inconsistent and maladroit, who is trembling on the verge of the precipice of the gravest crimes. That there may be neutrals from terror one' can understand; but that nations with high qualities should remain Germanophile, by what tricks have they been blinded, by what slanders or by what bribes? Our dear soldiers with burned lungs, gasping on their little -rustic beds, are very grateful when, following the doctor, you come close to them, and they raise their gentle eyes to you when you take them by the hand. Here is one swelled like a balloon, unrecognizable, doubtless, for those who had only seen him before this frightful swelling began, and, if you touch even as lightly as possible his poor, distended cheeks, you feel under your fingers the vibration of the gases which have filtered in between skin and flesh. "Good; he is better since this corning," says the doctor, and he continues in a low voice, for the nurse: "I begin to think, Madame, we shall save this one also; but you must not leave him for a moment." Oh, needless advice, for she has not the slightest intention of leaving him, this white-clad nurse, under whose eyes there are already dark shadows, caused by eight-and-forty hours of. truceless watching. Not one of them will be left, no; to be certain of that one has only to look at all these young doctors, all these orderlies, a little worn out, it is true, but so attentive and courageous that they do not lost sight of one of them. And, thank God, they will save almost all of them! (Of 600 asphyxiated that night more than 500 are out of danger). As soon as they can be moved they will be taken away from this hell of. the battle front, where the Kaiser's shrapnels fall so willingly, even on the dying; they will be laid more comfortably in quiet hospitals where they will still suffer much, indeed, for a week, a fortnight,, a month, but which they will presently leaye, more cautious, more prudent, and eager to return to the fight. ���������It may be said that the trick of asphyxiatiation has failed like that of the great, savage rushes; it has not brought the result which the Gorgon's head expected. And yet with what skillful calculations it has been tried on each occasion, always at the most favorable moments! We know that the Germans, masters of spying and ceaselessly informed of everything, never fail to choose for their attacks of whatever kind the, days of relieving f;uf������rd, the ho'.-rs when newcomers, facing them, are still in the disorder of their arrival. So the evening when this last crime was committed six hundred of our men had just taken their advance positions after a long and tiring march; all at once, in the midst of a salvo of shrapnel which aroused them from their first sleep, they made out here and there little sounds of whistling, as if front treacherous steam sirens, and the death gas was pouring around them, spreading its thick, gloomy, gray clouds.- At the same time, in the midst of this fog, their lights waned to dim, small points. Bewildered, then, already suffocating, they thought, too late, of the masks which had been given them and which, besides, they did not greatly believe in; they put them on "too VP^kwardly;~some of them even, by an irresistible instinct of self preservation, when they felt the burning of their lungs, yielded to the desire to run, and these were the most terribly injured because cf the excess of chlorine inhaled in the deep breaths of running. But the next time they will not be caught, neither these men, nor any of our soldiers; with masks hermetically sealed they will stand immovable around heaps of fagots prepared beforehand, the sudden flames of which neutralize the poisons in the air, and there will be no result beyond an hour of discomfort, painful to pass through but almost always without fatal consequences. It is true that in the accursed caverns which are their laboratories the intellectuals of Germany, convinced now that the neutrals will accept everything, are working hard to find new and worse poisons for us; but until they have found them the Gorgon's head will have lost this trick as, beyond contest, it has lost'i so many others. We, alas! have not been able to find means to repay them with sufficient cruelty; to defend .ourselves we have, therefore, only the protective mask, which is being improved, it is true, day by day; and, after all, in the eyes of the neutrals���������if they still have eyes Next Telephone Directory Closes MARCH 15th Is Your Name Listed There? The telephone directory of a big city is relied upon as the most dependable compilation of personal information. Is your name in the directory? The May issue closes on March 15th. Corrections, alterations, or additions must be made by that date to ensure insertion. Advertising forms will close about the first of April. If you are thinking about putting in a telephone, do it now. British Columbia Telephone Company, Limited Vancouver Engineering Works, Ltd. ENGINEERS, MACHINISTS IRON & STEEL FOUNDERS 519 Sixth Ave. West. yancouver, B.C. J to see���������it is, perhaps, nobler to employ no other means. At the same time, how different would our position be if we did asphyxiate them, these plunderers and assassins who have attacked and invaded us, and who, despairing of piercing our lines, try to sufficate us in our own homes, in our dear land of France, as one might suffocate rabbits in their burrows or rats in their holes. The tongues of men have not forecast these transcendent ignominies, which would rend the hearts of the basest cannibals; therefore, we have-no -words -to ^name -them. Our poor, asphyxiated soldiers, gasping on their narrow cots, how willingly I would have shown them to all, to their fathers, to their sons, to their brothers, to raise to paroxysm their holy indignation and thirst for vengeance; yes, I would show them everywhere, and let their death rattle be heard, even to the impassive neutrals, to convince of their folly or their crime so many obstinate pacifists, to spread broadcast the alarm against the great barbarism which has broken forth over Europe!���������Translated from the French of Pierre Loti. WHY PISTOLEWUS ARE TAKEN OVER Cylindrical barrels for packing Spanish grapes were tested during the last season and were favorably reported on both in England and the United States. They were invented by a resident of the Spanish port of Almeria, fwun which huge exports of grapes are made every year. Regular steamship service is to be established between .Japan and the islands of the Caroline group, which formerly belonged to the Germans, and were seized by the Japanese early in the war. A monthly service will be maintained from Yokohama to Truk Island, from which point two subsidiary lines will be operated. Britain's government has commandeered or is about to commandeer old country and Canadian distilleries. The liquid contents of these distilleries, especially in the Highlands of Scotland and the north of Ireland, were idealized in poetry and song. Millions of gallons of grain alcohol are to be drained ffom the vats of poetry and romance and alienated from the manufacture of jags to the manufacture of cordite. _ Cordite is the great British propellant. The chief ingredient of cordite is acetone. Alcohol distilled from wood produces acetate of lime. And acetate of lime is the immediate basis of acetone. Time and seasons reduce the supply of wood available for distillation. Wood must be seasoned before it can be profitably distilled. It is only when the frost is in the swamps that wood can be hauled cheaply, in fact, 'hauled at all. Britain's supply of cordite is limited by delay required in the process of seasoning and hauling wood. The first alternative to an insufficient supply of wood alcohol was a supply of alcohol dislilled from molasses. A decision to commandeer the distilleries represents Britain's final method of ensuring an adequate output, of cordite. "Willie brewed a peck a' maut" for convivial purposes. .John Bull has commandeered the "maut" for war purposes. Britain must have sufficient cordite to propel shells at the enemy, if liberty is to be saved. Britain will have a propellant for every shell if the distilleries of the British Empire have to pour every gallon of grain alcohol into the production of cordite.���������Toronto Telegram "There's some good stuff in that young brother of yours, Ethel." "I should say there is! He's just finished eating that two-pound box of chocolates you bought me." THE WESTERN CALL Friday, March 10, 1916. THE WESTERN CALL PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY By the McComiells, Publishers, Limited Head Office: 203 Kingsway, Vancouver, B. Ci Telephone: Fairmont 1140 Subscription: One Dollar a Year in Advance. 31.50 Outside- Canada. Evan W. Sexsmith, Editor K. H. STEVENS' RESOLUTION 'What is undoubtedly the largest issue which the Canadian public will have to decide for many years to come is the Prohibition measure, the debate on whieh opened in the House of Commons during this week by 11. H. Stevens, member for Vancouver. In reviewing Mr. Stevens' argument on behalf of Dominion wide prohibition, Ave are forced to admit that the local member handled a delicate situation creditably. He did not deal with the moral side of the measure, but based his entire address on the economic and social aspect of it. Not luitil Mr. Stevens laid before the house indisputable figures showing the rapid strides prohibition has -.made in Canada during the past few years, did we realize the extent of territory now under a "dry" law throughout the Dominion. Working independently, but always with the same object in view, the municipalities in the vai'ious provinces of Canada have for several years past been'-gradually making inroads into the trenches of, the liquor interests until today, even before a Dom- ion^wide prohibition measure was evenv mooted, Canada and Canadians were on the high road to success over the drinking evil. Mr. Stevens, in his forceful ad dress, showed-that from the At lahtic to the Pacific prohibition has made and is making rapid progress, gathering in momentum i bf public favor, as each hour slips by. Even Quebec, which previously had contributed a majority that caused the defeat of the Dominion plebiscite takeb several years ago, was today one- third "dry." Only 20 per cent. of the province of New Brunswick is under a "wet" law, while Ontario is easily two-thirds "dry." Alberta is all dry, while yi Saskatchewan there is a government dispensary ��������� system. and Manitoba is voting on prohibition this coming week. British Columbia will also vote on the question at the time of the provincial- general electiohsX Mr; Stevens has been criticized by members'on both sides of the house foi* bringing down bis prohibition resolution. That can quite well be' imagined. The liquor interests are not friendless in tlie House of Commons. It was not a party question which the member for- Vancouver endeavored to bring before the House, but one which he con- ��������� seientiously thought to be for the welfare of "the whole Dominion.' particularly during these Iroubletl times. . Mr. Stevens has the courage ol: his conviction.'-, and while his critics will soon be forgotten, the fearlessness whieh the. Vancouver member showed on Monday last will live in the 'minds of. his constituents for a long time. TRENCH WARFARE A Boston .journalist recently remarked that trench Avarfare is "the epoch of cpAvard armies," because "as a mass organization tbey Avere never so cowardly as they are today." In confirmation of this statement lie denounces as contemptible tin- fact that millions of men are at .present facing each, other and apparently making no advance. These remarks are not intended to- cast umbrage' on the courage of tlie individual soldier. To question individual A-alor Avould .-be practically establish ing an untruth. In all history there have not been more feats of heroism than are being recorded today. We, as Canadians, are proud of our brave men Avho are Avinning for our Dominion an honorable place among the nations of the Avorld. We are proud of our British ancestry and of our share in the greatest and most glorious empire that has ever existed. Nor do the remarks implicate the allies. They had nothing to do Avith deciding the methods of Avarfare being employed. They have had to cope Avith the ingenuities of an enemy Avho do not know the meaning of courage and honor in its highest sense. Mechanical' preponderance is not a hcav idea Avith the Germans, however. Napoleon depended on the preponderance of artillery. And Avhat he practised in au honorable manner has been carried to such extremes that gigantic armies are locked in a campaign which carries warfare underground. While all Avar is barbarous, this Avar is more barbarous by reason of the fact that it'has been forced on the allies by a military . bully who serves his oavii end Avith instruments Avhich might have been forged by the devil, so fool they are. And the allies haA'e to meet the Prussians Avith their oavii Aveapons, so far as it can be done honorably. Preponderance of material is the method in vogue today, and years of secret and careful preparation along these lines have revolutionized Avarfare. The Allies are engaged in contending Avith conditions Avith a vieAV to a min- inium loss of their men, and their spirit is that of courage, not cowardice. Speaking of the difference between trench Avar and field operations, General yon'Kluck recently declared': "This is a sort of siege Avar on a more extended front and of unlimited duration, and this is always much more wearing than operations on the inarch, for in the latter there are skirmishes and battles on particular days. In .between are long intervals when, though the troops must be on the march, yet they enjoy certain rest and recovery; but in the trenches constant activity is demanded. There are the grades���������the first on the front, the second for support, and the third in the rear. The first line must be constantly on guard, even though the enemy appear inactive, for one never knoAvs whaflie^iiiay do" riext." The" least inattention may bring death to a soldier and his comrades. Even though the official report says 'quiet prevails on the front' it ...must not be supposed that now the troops are really having a rest. By no means. In former Avars, moreover, Arbiter campaigns Avere unknown. But our troops have gone through all the hardships of one winter in the trenches, and now stand before a second. As to the continuous strain on the men, the present war makes for greater demands than former wars, aud as the troops haj-e held out in the most wonderful manner it is proof that, physically, mankind is more capable of exposure, and so there can be no talk of a relaxing civilization." This Avar, Avhich involves greater hardships and dangers and stolid endurance on the part of the allies cannot be said to be "an .epoch of coAvard. armies." Great courage'is necessary to face sueh conditions as naturallAarise from a new" and terrifying method of warfare. FICTITIOUS CUSTOMS ENTRIES For several .months past there have been import shipments of goods coming to Vancouver on Avhich. it is said, the customs department has been collecting [duty only on the prices marked oh the certified invoices. In many instances these goods have been bought outside Canada at a sacrifice price less than one-half the regular market value. We knoAV very Avell that, even if we could, buy an automobile for $100 in the States, Ave could not get it past the Canadian customs Avithout paying duty on its regular catalog price. We admit this to be a fair proceeding. Why is it fair, then, to admit a bill of dry goods, boots and shoes, or other commodities that are Avorth $1,000 at the regular market value, by a payment of duty on one-half that sum or less, merely because some shreAvd Vancouver buyer has happened to strike a bargain or two in his particular line. Such a proceeding is manifestly unfair to the country at large, in that it robs us of thousands of dollar's of additional revenue yearly; it also discriminates unjustly against any competitors Avho may. prefer to buy their goods in Canada. We believe the hiAV gives tbe customs department the right not only to appraise all goods passing entry at their honest market value, but also to levy duty on previous shipments dis- covered to haA'e been passed lit a fictitious value. We hope, therefore, that the department Avill use the greatest care in preventing such an unjust discrimination against the honest ������������������'merchants' of our city. A BUSINESS CLUB FOR MOUNT PLEASANT The suggestion has been made that the merchants and business people generally of Mount Pleasant community meet once a week at lunch at a local cafe and talk over matters of mutual interest, with, perhaps, a fifteen minute talk on some topic of general interest each Aveek by some one acquainted with the needs of the community. We presume 'it might be called the Mount Pleasant Business Club, although there need be no fee attached to membership in it, each member merely paying his indi\ridual expense. We have no hesitation in endorsing this idea as Ave feel it Avould do much towards a more general acquaintance and mutual helpfulness among the members of Avhat is generally conceded to ���������be the most prosperous community in Greater Vancouver. In the meantime Ave Avill . Avelcbme any suggestions as to the best method of organizing and conducting such a club. PUBLIC HEALTH The Dominion parliament has been considering a proposal to establish a department of Public Health. It is a good suggestion, and it must be acted upon in time. There are difficulties in the Avay'of establishing such a Department because of the numerous and varied ideas about the treatment of the sick in the safeguarding of the well that are held in this country, as in most others. This is an age of general reading and little thinking, and as a result nearly cA'erybody has an inoXidual com-ietion on eArery subject lending itself to differences of opinion, from religion down. It Avill be a task to establish a department of Health that Avill not be regarded hy' a surprisingly large number of people, as an intolerable menace to their bodies and souls. The extent to Avhich opinion' differs on the question of vaccination is simply astonishing in face of the aA'ailable cA-idence confirming beyond debate the efficacy of this means of preventing the spread of contagious diseases. But similar differences of. opinion are held in regard to nearly cvevy operation Avithin tlie scope of-medical science. The situation leads to great evils and enriches-the ' quacks and fakirs, but it obtains. People insist on the same liberty in dealing Avith their bodies and the bodies of their children that they possess in dealing Avith their souls. Medical inspection of the schools is a modern necessity in the interests of suffering,, neglected childhood. The establishment of a Department of Public Health by the state is also needed. Few countries . in the past have been so neglected as Canada in this respecU���������Montreal Daily Mail. Bryan has made a lot of noise, but Avhen a decisive vote is taken in the United States he seems to get it in the neck. ������ s * France has adopted a general tax on Avar profits. No man should object to share with his country the profits which come to him through his country's wars. * =������ <* Men may plead religious convictions in order to avoid military service against Germany. But surely not those of the Christian religion. Last year Canada lost about half a million a week, or over $24,000,000 in all, by fires. An educational campaign is urgently needed. =* ������ # The fire department of Vancouver has arranged to contribute $289.50 per month to the Canadian Patriotic Fund���������an excellent example, by the Avay, to our other public bodies. If the' city prosecutor and the license inspector have their way, another menace to public morals Avill soon be a thing of the past. Magistrate Shaw inflicted a fine of $25 recently for allowing a slot machine to be operated in a eity store. The machine had been tampered Avith so that the person playing'would not knoAV Avhat he Avould receive on the next nickel. It is the intention of the authorities to put a stop to the operation of these'machines throughout the city, and this action cannot be too strongly commended, especially at such a time as this, Avhen retrenchment is the watchword of every loyal citizen. PUBLIC SENTIMENT IN UNITED STATES The concensus of public opinion in the eastern States in regard to the attitude of that country on Gerniany's subinariiie threat, as announced by President Wilson, ��������� may be inferred from the following comments of the most influential press in that section of the- country: From the Wall Street Journal For the state department to back down uoav on the question of. merchantmen 'armed for defense and the right of American citizens to traA-el upon them Avould be a surrender so humiliating ��������� Care of the Nails The finger nails form an important link in the beauty of the hands. Few people give their nails the attention they should have. The way to start out with the nails is to give them a treatment at a good manicure parlor. After the manicure has trained them in the way they should go it will be comparatively easy to keep them attractive. If they are inclined. to erack easily a nightly application of ordinary vaseline will be found very beneficial. A good nail file and a pair of cuticle scissors should be always at hand. Occasionally a nail rouge and polishing wax may be applied and the nails given a thorough polishing. Before doing this it is well to use hand pumice on the nails and to soak them for a time in warm soapy water. Hangnails should always be cut off clean with a pair of. cuticle scissors���������never pulled off.. Care of the Hair The hair, while it should be kept clean, should not be washed too often���������never oftener than once a month, except under exceptional circumstances.' If this is not often enough to keep the scalp from becoming itchy, it is best to have a scalp treatment at a reliable hair dresser's. The life of the hair depends on the proper distribution of natural oil at the roots. This is accomplished by hand massage of the ^scalpj.which^should be done^for. a fern, minutes every night. Dry. brushing with a good bristle brush will also do much to accomplish the same result. For excessively oily hair a sun bath is unexcelled* The hair*should be loose and flowing. Sunlight tends to dry the superfluous oil. The cause of the dry hair falling out is that it splits at the ends and stops growing, thus losing its vitality. Dilute lemon water used after washing and rinsing the rair will do much to preserve its natural color, especially in the case of blondes. It is quite harmless and will not act as a . bleacher. Two fresh eggs broken over the head and rubbed briskly into the scalp make a splendid shampoo. The rubbing process should last for at least ten minutes. This will lend a natural gloss to the hair. For dandruff try a mixture of five ounces of bayrum, one ounce of, tincture of cantharides and one ounce of olive oil, rubbed into the scalp at bedtime. When the hair shows a tendency to become gray, the use of sulphur and iron in the dietary, and a scalp massage occasionally with the yolk of an egg should do much to ward off the trouble, as these mineral substances will nourish the roots of the hair and will tend to restore its color. Patent hair tonics and dyes, however, are usually a good thing to avoid; but there are some tonics containing a good proportion of quinine or tincture of cantharides that are good, both in cases of oily scalp and where the hair is dry and brittle. To apply tonic to the hair, drop it with a dropper along the lines of the part and rub the scalp with a massage movement. Shampoos or treatments, especially where water is applied to the hair, should not be indulged in too frequently. Dry brushing, and especially dry combing, will do more than anything else to improve the condition of the scalp and hair, though occasionally a very little olive oil .or vaseline may be used in the hand massage of the scalp. The use of peroxide, however, while it may bleach the hair, tends to make it dry, lifeless and unsightly. The use of an ointment consisting of fifteen grams of precipitated sulphur and fifty grams of vaseline will do much to relieve excessive oiliness of the scalp. A resolution calling on the government to enact a-bill at the present sitting of the legislature admitting the women of British Columbia to the franchise on equal terms with men was unanimously carried at a mass-meeting held at the Labor Temple last week under the auspices of the B. C. Suffrage League. Mrs. R. Smith, Miss Eileen Tutty and Mr. J. S. Cowper were the speakers, and all agreed that the present was an opportune time to re- neAV their demands on the govern- The resolution will be presentment. ed to the ministers by a delegation from the various equal suffrage societies which will be to Victoria during this week. Miss Gutteridge presided over the meeting, at which musical and literary items were provided by Mrs. Rissel Burnett, Miss Eva May, Miss Ethel Burnett and Miss Helen Badgley. Mr. Cowper pointed out that with over 27 per cent, of the population of Vancouver foreign born, and thousands of our men leaving for the front, it becomes a matter of political precaution to admit all British-born women to the franchise. COURSE OF LECTURES TO BE ESTABLISHED As a means of bringing a larger proportion of the citizens of Vancouver into closer connection with the various, scientific, literary and artistic movements which are fostered in the city by different organizations, steps were taken at a meeting held last Friday afternoon in the British Columbia University buildings on Willow street, and attended by officers and members lbf seyeral such societies, to inaugurate a lyceum or course of lectures which would attract the general public to an active interest. ,For some time it has been felt by those interested in the societies of the city dealing withln- tellectual matters that, although there were lectures held from time to time on different subjects, such lectures were not at-/ tracting as many people as they should, and that, a large proportion of the citizens were taking no part in these activities. It was decided at the meeting that Dr. Wesbrook, president of the University, should be asked to aet as chairman or convenor of the movement until the organization is completed. He was sent for, and after further consultation, consented to assist in this way until an organiation could be formed and elect its own officers. He will have associated with him a committee of seven or more, which is not yet appointed, and which will draft a constitution to be submitted, to a larger representative gathering, or to those who declare themselves desirous of membership in the new institution or lyceum. It is not intended that this proposed lyceum shall conflict with the work of any of the existing societies, or interfere with their work, or exercise control over them, but it is hoped that the different societies will co-operate with each other in the establishment, of a general course of lectures on literary, scientific, artistic, social and economic subjects. Austria is to resume exploitation of tin mines on her territory, working of which was discontinued before, the war owing to small profits. It is estimated that the three principal mines in Bohemia alone, if actively worked, can furnish three-fourths of. the country's requirements. Little tin has been mined in Austria heretofore, only about 1 per cent, of the country's needs having been obtained from Austrian mines. Now is the Time To Buy Your Printing Supplies The time to put your best foot forward is when your competitors are showing signs of weakness. Strong impressive printing is more valuable to-day than ever, because business men are on the alert to detect the slightest indication of unfavorable conditions, and for this very reason every suggestion of strength and progress is doubly effective. y Your Printing should bring this to your customers' attention not only in connection with your office stationery. he\ with all printed matter and advertising. WE PRINT CATALOGUES MAGAZINES BOOKLETS FOLDERS COMMERCIAL STATIONERY Carswells, Printers, Ltd. PRINTERS & PUBLISHERS PHONE FAIR. 1140 203 KINGSWAY Friday, March 10,, 1916. TEE WESTERN CALL !C My Australian Diary (Continued from last week) December 2i.���������My first Sun- tday in Australia . I think it [.scarcely likely that any stranger jin this country could fail to be [/impressed with the genuine, re- ] freshing hospitality of its people. Never have I seen more ranxiety shown to make the ! stranger perfectly at home and Ur sliov-- him the sights of the ���������ionni.ry, to entertain him going and coming. Already I have more pleasant acquaintances than I have known in four years in Vancouver. They are more than mere acquaintances��������� they are real friends. Let me illustrate. When I went to the Civic Club to interview the gentleman I came here to meet, he made me acquainted with some of his business friends, one of whom, a men's furnisher, or mercer, as he is called here, asked - me where I was staying. When I told him v I had my quarters at the hotel, he said: "Well, you must see something of. home life in Sydney. My wife and the girls will be delighted to- have you with us. You must come out tomorrow (Sunday) anyway. And then, let me see, next Thursday is Christmas. We will expect you from Wednesday to Monday at least. Nobody in Sydney will dp any business with you in the holidays." You see, Christmas is THE holiday of the year to Australians, as it occurs in their midsummer. Everyone takes from three days to three weeks, too, to spend it. Sydney is a surprisingly large city���������over 750,000���������and laid out on a generous scale, allowing the best districts for residential purposes. Most business men live miles away from the heart of town. Sydney is a city of suburbs. Its excellent tram system and suburban steam railways are equalled only by its system of steam ferries, which are the finest in this part of the world and the equal in efficiency of those of cither New York or San Fran cisco. Many parts of Sydney remind one of the pictures of old London or Paris. Its streets are not wide. Often they are too narrow to admit of a.double track tram line. In such cases the cars go in one direction only, in a belt line! fashion. It is nothing extraordinary to see people walking down the middle of the streets as they do in Spanish American cities. Even if you see* them going to a ball or the theatre in evening dress, you will frequently see them walking out in the street. That often seems the only logical place to walk. ' The sidewalks are nearly al ways sheltered from the heat of the sun by canopies built; out from the stores or offices. These are very convenient also when it rains. The business men are of a different type from those you meet in northern cities. They take life more leisurely, and there is a happy absence of that feverish haste to outdo the other fellow which we of the north are so familiar with. Yet, though he works only from 9.30 to 4.00, the Australian business man seems to accomplish just as much in his day as we do in ours. He believes in a holiday for everybody when a holiday comes, and that is one reason why, when the stores close in the evening most of the cafes and restaurants close also. A traveller arrived at the Met- ropole the other day from Chicago. He came down to breakfast at 7.30, as he wanted to get an early start for the day's, business. But no cheerful breakfast room greeted him. Only the hall porter and the clerk were there to give him welcome. In disgust he started o.ut to get his breakfast at a cafe. But they were no better than the hotelsT��������� nothing, doing till 8.30. You see they do not believe in making slaves of their help in Australia. Many a housekeeper has learned that to her cost. Many a housewife is today doing her own HANBURY'S For WOOP & COAl- Phone: Bayview ^0764077. Phones: North Van. 323 and X03. \ Seymour 336. WALLACE SHIPYARDS, LTD. ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS Steel and Wooden Vessels Built, Docked, Painted and Repaired. North Vancouver, B. C. "Pride of the West" ====== BRAND��������������������������� OVERALLS, SHIRTS, PANTS and MACKINAW CLOTHING MANUFACTURED IN VANCOUVER MACKAY SMITH, BLAIR & CO., LTD. "Buy Goods Made at Home, and get both the Goods and the Money. work because she cannot get girls * to stay in the evening. This is the land where the labor party rules���������and rules with a strong hand. December 23.-t-Had my fi-rst dip in the surf today. Sydney is famous for its sea bathing, having six excellent ocean* beaches of which Coogee and Manly are the most noted. The water from the Pacific is clear, pure and warm, the sand of the whitest, and though sharks abound they never come within the- breakers. The beach at Coogee, where I am spending Christmas is fairly alive with bathers from morning till night, and a watch tower on the rocks nearby is equipped with a warning bell to tell us when sharks are nearing the outer breakers. There is always a heavy surf breaking, and it is such fun to dive under the first line of these breakers and come in with the second ones. Even the smallest children will . go out this wayj as there is practically no undertow; and the waves will often bring you clear in to the edge of the beach. Sharks are plentiful in the South Pacific^ ocean, but there is a more deadly breed of shark found in Sydney^s inner harbor and up the Paramatta river. In the early days they used to take unruly convicts out to a little island in the harbor and leave them there on short rations un- till they became manageable. None of them were hardy enough to attempt to v swim to land, as the sharks would certainly have eaten them. Today no one can swim with the least safety.in any part of the inrter harbor, or even go about in any frail boat or canoe as he would be in danger- of these marine tigers almost anywhere; Only yesterday a lad had his leg bitten off near little Manly, and died at the hospital. A shark of the shovel-nosed variety, measuring fourteen and a half feet in length was, caught last week near the same spot where the boy was attacked. Snakes abound in Australia, some few kinds being very venomous. Today on our way to the ostrich farm at the South Heads we saw a kind of adder. At this ostrich farm we saw about a hundred fine South African birds in the various stages of moulting. The ostrich business seems to be a paying industry as they charge five dollars a plume. You get them curled and shaped and _ dyed_ tpv any/������_hade_ dej3ii^d.__ Made our first acquaintance with the Australian theatre tonight, when we. went to hear "Sweet County Kerry," an Irish melodrama, which w.as well presented by a California company. The aiMience sings the National Anthem before the performance instead of after. The exits are called "escape doors." The candy boys are calling "lollies." We realize in many such ways that we are in a land of different customs and strange names, and must accommodate ourselves to new circumstances. The theatres are not at all creditable for a city of the size of Sydney. Besides a regular theatre for stock company plays, there is a vaudeville house, an opera house, and Her Majesty's Theatre, the one where the expensive shows are produced. Prices are higher than in America and the attractions away below the average. This is accounted for by the long distance a troupe has to travel to reach Australia, and by the fact that only four cities of any size are here to reward the theatrical company that does brave the distance and the expense of the trip. Australia has only some six millions of -people in all her im mense territory ��������� a country about as large as the settled part of Canada. Yet nearly one and a half millions of these people live^ In her largest cities, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. This does not make it an ideal country for theatrical troupes. Visited the "White City "this afternoon. This is a sort of Australian .Coney Island managed by an- American firm, and comprises the usual class of. popular amusements, such as "shooting the chutes," " ferris wheel;'' '' crystal maze," *' scenic railway,'' "dancing pavilion," "trip to Lilliput," etc. There was one game called "Sock der Kaiser" that was well worth the entire price of admission. The idea was to hit the wooden effigies of the Kaiser, Crown Prince, Emperor of Austria, Sultan of Turkey, etc., with a baseball as they popped up from behind a screen. If you hit the Kaiser you won a box of cigars. Everybody was having a' throw at him. This "White City" is certainly a gold mine. The traveller from America has a shock awaiting him when he pays his first visit to a soda fountain. Why they do not make better ice-creamN or learn more about the right way to serve it in the many dainty dishes we are so accustomed to, is a mystery. The climate is hot enough, for it is 101 degrees in the shade today. The milk and cream are of as good quality as in most cities. The taste of the gen1 eral public, however, especially of the masculine element; has never been educated along the line of sweets or "lollies," as they call them. They regard this habit as suitable for women ^and children only, and you will rarely see a man in any of these parlors. Besides, they close at six in the evening just the hour when our northern thirst begins to waken. The quality of the candies is even poorer than that of the ice-cream, so we have to reconcile ourselves ��������� to lemon squash at the bar until we get back to New Zealand.���������E.W.S. (To be continued) In Lodgings Evidently "Do you have hot and cold water in your room?" "No, cold and semi-cold." v Dorothy's Peril One day, when Dorothy's mother was reading to the little maid she came to the word "gravitation." She explained its meaning, but thought the child would forget it. Consequently she was much surprised when, a few days later, Dorothy came running in, crying: "Oh, mother! it's such a good thing for me there's a law of gravitation; if there wasn't I' dhave surely tumbled head over heels into Heaven just now!" Ottawa, Canada PRINGLE ft OUTHEIE Barristers and Solicitors Clive Pringle. N. G. Guthrie. Parliamentary Solicitors, Departmental Agents, Board of Bailway Commissioners Mr. Clive Pringle is a member of the Bar of British Colombia. Citizen Building, Ottawa. PUBLIC SCHOOL DESKS SHRAPNEL Willing Recruiting Officer: "Ever served a term of imprisonment?" Applicant: "No, sir; but I don't mind doin' a short sentence if yer think it necessary!"���������Sydney Bulletin. ��������� * * * Sentries have been placed over the captured German guns on the Horse Guards Parade. We are not going to have the Germans pinching them back again while no one is looking.���������London Star. # * # ������ The Recruiting Official���������One ^ran'- father living? Is he on. your father's or m6tlier's".sid? ~ The Recruit���������Oh, 'e varies, sir; 'c sticks up fer both on* 'em���������a sort o' nootral. * * * * Mistress: "Another sailor has called on you, Jane. I thought you had only one sweetheart?' Cook: "No, mum, two. I has one 'on the reserve," as they says in the military.'.' ������ ������ ��������� ������ "The late Admiral Evans had a quick, buff wit," said Surgeon-Gen. William C. Braisted, U. S. N. "The admiral once was taken through the Vanderbilt stables in New York. Tlie stable manager showed him walls and floors of pale, translucent tiling, marble drinking troughs, mangers of Circassian walnut, solid silver 'fittings', and so forth. " Do you find anything lacking, Ad- moral?' the manager said, proudly, at the end. " 'Nothing,' the admiral replied, " nothing except a leather upholstered sofa for each horse.' " Sheepily, after a night off, a certain intern hastened to his hospital ward. The first patient was .a stout old Irishman. "How goes it?*' he inquired. "Faith, it'sh me breathin', doctor. I can't get me breath at all, at al1." "Why, your pulse is normal. Let me examine the lung-action," replied the doctor, kneeling beside the cot, and laying his head on the ample chest. "Now. let's hear you talk," he continued, closing his eyes and listening. "What'll Oi be sayin', doctor?" "Oh, say anything. Count one, two, three and up," murmured the intern, drowsily. "Wan, two, three, four, five, six," began the patient. When the young doctor, with a start opened his eyes, Pat was counting huskily, "Tin hundred an' sixty-nine, tin hundred an' sivinty, tin hundred an' sivinty- three wan."���������Christian Register. Pbone Seymour 9086 One Is Apt at times to be forgetful, but don't forget that A Deposit Box in our SAFETY VAULT will protect yonr valuables, documents, heirlooms, etc., from FIBE or BUXtOLABY for one year for $2.50 We cordially Invite you to inspect same I DOW FRASER TRUST CO. 122 HASTINGS STREET W. SEALED TENDERS, superscribed "Tenders for School Desks," will be received by the Honourable the Minister of Public Works up to 12 o'clock noon of Tuesday, 21st day of March, 1916, for supplying the following desks: Single Desks Size No. 3 250 Size No. 2 250 Single Hears Size No. 2 100 Size No. 3 50 Size No. 5 ..._.. 25 The desks are to be quoted at a price per desk. The name of the desk and maker to be mentioned in tenders. ���������Delivery at Victoria or Vancouver on or before 31st day of July next. The successful tenderer will, free of any additional charges store the desks and pack or crate ready for shipment to places to be hereafter designated from time to time to the order of the Department. _ No tender will be entertained unless accompanied by an accepted cheque on a chartered bank of Canada, payable to the Honourable the Minister of Public Works, or by cash, in the amount of two hundred dollars' ($200), which will be forfeited if the party tendering decline to enter into contract when called upon to do so, or if he fail to complete the contract. Cheques of unsuccessful tenderers will be returned upon signing of contract. The Department is not bound to accept the lowest or any tender. J. E. GRIFFITH, Deputy Minister and Public Works Engineer. ' Department of Public Works, Victoria, B. C, 1st March, 1916. mh2 SEALED TENDERS addressed to the undersigned, and-, endorsed "Tender for Freignt Shed on Gov eminent Wharf, Vancouver, B. C." will be received at this office until 4.00 P.M. on Thursday, March 23, 1916, for the construction of a Wooden Freight Shed on the Government Wharf, at Vancouver, B. C. Plans and forms of contract can be seen and specification and forms of tender obtained at this Department, and at the offices of the District Engineer at Victoria, B. C, and on application to the Postmaster at Vancouver, B. C. Persons tendering are notified that tenders will not be considered unless made on the printed forms supplied, and signed with their actual signatures, stating their occupations and places of residence. In the case of firmF, the actual signature, the nature of the occupation, and place of residence of each member of the firm must be given. u Each, tender must be accompanied by an accepted cheque on a chartered bank, payable to the order of the Honourable the Minister of Public Works, equal to ten per cent. (10 p.e.) of the amount of the tender, which will be forfeited if the person tendering decline to enter intio a_ contract when called upon to do so, or failtb complete the work contracted'for. If the tender be not accepted the ' cheque will be returned. The Department does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender. NOTE.���������Blue prints can be obtained at the Department of Public Works by depositing an accepted bank cheque for the sum of $20.00, made payable to the- order of the Honourable the Minister of Public Works, which will be returned if the intending bidder submit a regular bid. By order, R. C. DESROCHERo, Secretary. Department of Public Works, Ottawa, February 24, 1916. Newspapers will not be paid for this advertisement if they insert it without authority from the Department.���������91770 SYNOPSIS OF COAL AONINQ REGULATIONS Coal mining rights of the Dentin- on, in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the Yukon Territory, the North-west Territories and in a portion of the province of British Columbia, may be leased for a term of twenty-one years renewal for a further term of 21 years at an annual rental of $1 an acre. Not more than 2,560 acres will be leased to one applicant. Application for a lease must be ��������� made by the applicant in person to the Agent or Sub-Agent of the district in which the rights applied for are situated. In surveyed territory the land must be described by sections, or legal sub-divisions of sections, and in un- surveyed. territory the tract applied for shall be staked out by the applicant himself. Each application must be accompanied by a fee of $5 which will be refunded if the rights applied for are not available, but not otherwise. A royalty shall be paid on the merchantable output of the mine at the. ratei~6'f "fivie'cehts^iprtbi-^"^"^" " "^ The person operating the mine shall furnish the Agent with sworn returns- accounting for the full quantity of merchantable coal mined and pay tb0 royalty thereon. If the coal mining rights are not being operated, such returns should be furnished at least once a year. The lease will include the coal mining rights only, rescinded by Chap. 27 of 4-5 George V. assented to 12th June, 1914. For full information application should be made to the Secretary of the Department of the Interior, Ottawa, or to any Agent or Sub-Agent of Dominion Lands. W. W. CORY, Deputy Minister of the Interior. N.B.���������Unauthorized publication " ot this advertisement will not be paid for. ���������83575. LEGAL ADVERTISING Get our Rates for Advertising Legal Notices, Land Notices, Etc., which are required by law to appear but once a week. We can advertise your requirements at a satisfactory price. THE WESTERN CALL 8 THE WESTERN CALL Friday, March 10, 1916. The Connaught Chapter of the Daughters of the Empire will hold, its regular business meeting this Friday afteriion at 2.30 at the home oi* Mrs. Gartshore, 1126 12th ave. west. On Wednesday afternoon of last week the King Edward High school hockey team, after a long period of inactivity due to the adverse weather conditions, played a game against the University of British Columbia eleven and were defeated three to one. Both teams were severely handicapped by lack of practice and the game was a poor exhibition. In a fast game of basketball in the King Edward high school gymnasium on Thursday of last week, tlie Point Grey basketball team was defeated by King Edward. The game was very even up to half-time, but in the second half McPhail and Hunter of the K. E. side seemed to be incapable of missing their opponents' basket, and the final score was 46 to 11. ' west, was well attended,, the house looking very gay with its decorations of flags, carnations and pussy willows. Mrs. A. Robinson, the president, assisted the hostess hi receiving. Mrs. Cole, Mrs. Pyke, Mrs. Lyttleton and Mrs. J. J. Mackay poured tea, the table being gracefully decorated with daffodils. Among the ladies assisting were: Miss Stewart, Miss Muriel Stewart, Mrs. Mackay, Miss Hilker, Mrs. Slop- er, Miss McQuarrie, Miss Lyttleton, Mrs. Cole, Miss Marian AVilson, Mrs. Barger, Mrs. A. M. Sharp. Mrs. Culver, Mrs. Pyke, Miss Pyke, Mrs. Barclay, Mrs. Addison, Miss Miller and Mrs. Paul in. The Military JSad Cross Sawing Circle tea held on Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. E. B. McMaster, 967 Tenth ave. Could Hear Just As Well At a British recruiting meeting re cently the speaker, having got his au dionce in a high state of enthusiasm by tolling them of the many brave deeds performed by our soldiers in France, suddenly espied a big, strongly built man at the back of the hall. "My man,"-he cried, "how is it that you arc not at the front?'' "Oh,, it is all right," replied the burly yokel. "I can hear every word you say" from here."���������Tit-Bits. FIRE PROTECTION vs. FIRE PREVENTION Seeking Them Out The tragic damage that this war has done to Germany it that it has destroyed confidence in German national character. ' Honor, truth, mercy are divorced from Germany in the estimation "'of the rest of ��������� Christendom. That is a shocking tragedy, tlie worse because it involves so many people who are not to blame. We know very well that all Germans are not'hell-cats. The difficulty is to separate those that are from those that are not.���������New York Life. 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While enormous sums are spent annually in the equipment and upkeep oi* fire departments for the purpose of controlling and extinguishing;, fires, it is almost- a novelty to find a municipality with a department charged with the inspection, and with authority to enforce the correction, of conditions favorable to tires, says a contemporary.. In some of our larger cities some progress has ,been made by the fire departments, which have sot apart small details of their staffs, charged with inspection work. The result of their work is minimized, however, b}r the fact that the inspectors have not. sufficient authority. The fire chiefs have it in their power to advance the fire prevention campaign and secure results. If a fire chief's record depended upon his keeping down the number of fires, instead of his ability to handle fires after they have broken out, there would bo greater effort at inspection. Fire chiefs should insist upon sufficient men for inspection work; these men should bo held responsible for tlie inspection and correction of dangerous conditions, and, to make their work effective, tlie inspectors should be clothed with lire marshal authority, in order that any fire breaking out in their inspection districts might be thoroughly investigated and the cause definitely assigned. In this way :ui inspector's reputation for thoroughness would be at stake and, with the knowledge that a fire would be investigated by one familiar with the conditions, there would be fewer fires of a suspicious character or; due to carelessness. Municipalities can well afford to make generous appropriations for fire- preventive inspection work. It is an investment which will yield large re- returns, not only in reduced fire loss, but in reduction in the cost of upkeep of fire departmets and equipment. In Vancouver a very efficient system .of inspection is maintained and tho inspectors have the power to or-, der dangerous conditions to be removed. Tho building bylaws- also pay special attention to the elements of fiie risk. ORDERS OF MERIT WOMEN MAY WIN A Piano in the Trenches The following account of the strange adventures of a piano in wartime is taken from an issue of The London Times of recent date: The whole line was digging, itself in. The Germans were shelling the position heavily, and life, itself depended upon digging in. The men worked feverishly, racing death. Suddenly the trench t������������h3 of, one party struck on wood. Ihcy had found a box���������a large box���������a very large box. On this site had stood'. in the happy days now so long ago, n large chateau. What was this relic of the old world upon which the trench tools of the new had struck? Buried treasure? Yes. The wooden box grew larger and larger till it revealed itself as a grand piano. And immediately, German shells or no, some one must needs try it. It was sorely battered, but it sounded. A grand piano which sounded Avas a prize which the British soldier���������brutal mercenary of - an unmusical people���������was not going to sacrifice for all the shells in Europe. That piano must not be moved. The trench formation..must be altered to make'room for it, and altered it was. And, tenderly propped upon two legs of its own and a third built up of. mud the piano held the field. . A pianist was called for, and, tinder tlie whistling aud. screaming aud crashing of the' German shells, the piano showed what it could do. The trenches all about were packed with would. Add the company officers warned them ..of snipers, insisted on their taking' shelter beneath the parapet. Stand tip and listen they would. And the company offcers- themselves were just as bad. In its palmy days the piano-' may have had its, triumphs, its rapt audiences, in the calm of the chateau; but this was its apogee. And when the tini.e came for the battalion to be relieved nothing would satisfy the men but the piano must go with them. Now, with a new third leg of wood, it dwells in honor in a safer, drier place somewhere behind the lines. And what music was it with which the pianist had held the men spoil- bound, oblivious of. danger] "Tipperary"' "Let's All (Io Down the SI ra nd," .' " The Little Gray Homo in the West".' Not a bit of'it. It was music of a kind to which the piano was probably accustomed. It was Debussy. For .(he moral of this true story is that, whatever music that odd creature, the British soldier, may choose to sing or whistle or mouth* organ on his own account, when it comes to listening he wants the best. Nothing cheaply sentimental or "music, hall''' for him. In good music only does he find the qualities that he needs. It is common complaint among women, that whatever heroic deeds they may perform in war. or peace times, the}' cannot-win a memento such as that bestowed on the male sex for signal acts of bravery. This, however, is scarcely correct. There,is, for instance,, the Imperial Service Order, founded by the late King -Edward to commemorate his Coronation, for bestowal upon women for very conspicuous bravery. This is one of the most coveted and honorable decorations that a woman can wear. The Royal Red Cross The order of the Royal Red Cross which was founded on St. George's Day, 18S3, is another decoration reserved for women only. It is given for merit and valor displayed in nursing, particularly army and navy nursing, and ��������� consists of a red and blue ribbon���������colors significant of the fighting services���������with a scarlet cross inscribed with the words, "Faith, Hope, Charity." The Order of St. John of Jerusalem���������a -little Maltese Cross, bearing the words, "For services in the cause of humanity," attached to a black ribbon, can also be won by women. Another Order founded by King Edward is the greafclj'-eovetcd Order of Merit, which is bestowed upon men and women who have gained distinction in literature, art, ��������� science, or any of the peaceful, as distinguished from the fighting, services. But tip to the present it has only been conferred upon one woman���������the incomparable Florence Nightingale. Legion of Honor Queen Victoria was responsible for the institution of the first English decoration for women���������the Royal Order of Victoria v and Albert, founded in memory of the Prince Consort, and consisting of a medal bearing portraits of the Royal couple suspended by a white ribbon. This Order is reserved, as a rule, for ladies of European Royal houses. The Imperial Order of the Crown of India was also founded by Queen Victoria, and is usually bestowed on ladies, who have been Vicereine of India. Lady .Randolph Churchill is one of the "holders of the most difficult of all Orders to obtain. Of foreign decorations for women the French Order of the Legion of Honor has been bestowed on the greatest number of womqu. Ther6 is only one Russian decoration for women��������� the Order of St. Catherine; while there are two Spanish decorations��������� the Order of St. James, which was founded in the twelfth "century, probably the earliest decoration ever, bestowed on a woman, and the Order of 'St. Maria of Spain, an Order similar to our Order of the Royal Red Cross conferred for distinguished service in nursing. Queen Victoria re< ceived it some years ��������� ago in recognition of her practical .interest in nurs- ;ng work. The Ribben and Star of the Order of the Shefekat (Order of Compassion) is a Turkish decoration whieh can be worn by women. Turkish women seldom receive it, but Lady Conan Doyle received it some years '"go- Perhaps the most coveted of all Orders for women, certainly so far as Roman Catholics .are concerned, is the Golden Rose, which is bestowed upon pious daughters of the Church by the Pope. It may only be conferred once in each year. Queen Victoria of Spain is one of the very few recipients of the decoration. _mVENTElX���������ByL WOMEN An Irish "Bulh" Geo. TV. Pi-out, member for Kil- donan St. Andrews, in the Manitoba Legislature, recently delivered himself of a mixed metaphor which materially added variety to the proceed ings of the day. 'Mr. Prout was speaking on farm credits. He was very much in earnest. Tie advocated a system which would benefit the poor farmer. "We want a system, sir," he said, "by means of which the farmer will be able to raise wheat, oats and barley: and these when boiled down to brass tacks, is gold." The house roared. Women' are; .generally considered lacking in inventive genius. The truth is that ladies ha^-e been taking out patents steadily since 1730. It must be confessed that these ideas have n'ot always turned out a complete success, but, then, the world has progressed' as a result'of many mistakes other than those of inventors. How few women ever realize as they ply the crochet-hook that it was a Scotswoman, Christian .Shaw, the daughter of the laird of Balgarran, in Renfrewshire, who was the first to produce linen thread, as far back as .1720; her "idea was developed later by the big Paisley firm of Clark and Coats. Silk-weaving was invented by the wife of the fourth Emperor of China, in the dim ages of antiquity; a woman in the harem of an Indian prince invented the weaving of cashmere shawls; the same clever woman or her mother (authorities differ on this point) discovered attar of roses; while a poor Italian woman rediscovered the secret of Venetian Point lace, whieh had been lost' for nearly six hundred years. For Her Own Use As a rule, the women have confined their attentions to the improvements of articles of personal or household use. But there have been notable exceptions, as in the case of a Bristol i shipbuilder, who amassed a fortune by adopting his wife's suggestion to use copper-iron, nails in the .hulls of the vessels. It. was a, little girl,, who hit upon an invention which revolutionized the making of screws; and the American woman who patterned a process for turning out horseshoes on a big scale saved her country the sum of 250.000 dollars in a dozen years." The most amusing, application ever received at the patent office was from a woman who desired to patent a moustache protector; but the authori- Advantages in U&ing Campbell's Big Moving Vans They are completely enclosed, not side-curtained���������therefore no toj or flapping sides to expose your household goods, to all kinds of weath] , conditions.. Each "Car Van" is heavily padded inside to prevent j! or friction. First to introduce these in Vancouver. CAMPBELL no] operates twice as many as all other firms put together. Your gool will come out safe, sound and whole when moved in them.; .Rates mol erate���������free moving estimates given. Phone Seymour 7360 TODAY. (AM PBELL$TORACE fi>M PANY Oldest amp Largest in Wfstepn Canada 'Phone Seymour 7360 Office 857 Beatty Street J J. Dixon House Phone: Bay. 886 G. Murray House Phone: Bay. 1137L Office Phone: Seymour 8765-8766 DIXON & MURRAY Office and Store Fixture Hanufacturers Jobbing Carpenters Painting, Paperhanging and Kalsomining Shop: 1065 Dunsmuir St. Vancouver. B.C. WHAT CONSTITUTES A GOOD SHOE? First of all, von want a shoe that will be comfortable on yonr feet���������an anti-corn and anti-bunion sort of shoe. Then yon want quality���������the best leather, the most superior workmanship because that constitutes wear. Xhcn you want appearance���������style, attractiveness. Take a LECKIE BOOT. Examine it carefully. You will find it crowded with all three points, FIT, WEAR and STYLE. For sale at all lead ing dealers. LECKIE BOOTS ties are still undecided as to whether it was for her own use or that of a man! One ingenious woman iii London, England, some little time ago topped the record by owning no 'fewer than ten patents, which ranged from combination toothbrush racks to methods of disinfecting money in tills and microbes on doormats. To Save Her Husband. . , Mary Kees was the first American wom.au to take out a patent, iu 170S, for weaving straw with silk or thread; but with the spread of education, the numbers of feminine inventions have increased, until between ]8S4 and llOlO the. sum total of 7,9-12 patents was granted them. These varied from a" baby-jumper to a deep-sea telescope,- and"from- a- fountain-periXo-th^ first cooking-stove. A woman who used her wits, was determined if possible to save the time and labor of her husband, who was a-postmaster in California, and she brought out a permutation lock witlv 3,000 combinations, as well as a letter-box for the outside of houses which -displays a sign to the postman when (.there are letters to collect inside. /������ A woman shop assistant patented a satchel-bottom payer bag, and pocketed $24,000 for her brainy idea. Several' wives who assist their husbands in farm management patented improvements on agricultural implements. Others have reduced labor in factories and shops by their practical solutions and not a few nurses have been responsible for in'iproved hospital appliances. From Dress to Aeroplanes Madame Surric's triumph as the discoverer of radium is still fresh in the public mind, as is that of Dr. Maria Montessori, whose novel methods are likely to revolutionize the art of teaching in the near future. Last year 350 patents were applied for by women, and the following'anal-, ysis demonstrates the scope and variety of their interests: Dress 54, nursing and medical 34, household requisites 20, cooking Q, mechanical 24, motor-cars and cycling 7, gardening and needlework 6, babies' requisites 6, and aeroplane 3. Others less practical concerned inventions for preserving the contour of face and chin, fleshre'ducing garments, pneumatic boot-lasts, means for keeping the seats of busses dry, and an apparatus for preventing chills after a hot bath. The warlike spirit of the times was reflected in such patents as nets and arm-rings for defensive purposes, aud an inflated lifebelt. ��������� New Belgian Postage Stamps The most noteworthy postage stamps ���������> of modern times are those of the occupation series that Germany imposed upon conquered Belgium; a scries that resulted in a sfamp issue of reprisal. Tho Germans confiscated Belgium stamps as fast as they could find them, and sold great quantities at a discount in Germany and neutral countries. No revenue accrued' to the Belgian treasury from those ��������� sales and the Belgian government .put to press-a novv Belgian scries. The stamps appear-, ed last October, apparently printed in London and distributed from there. The Belgian govern meat has, demonetized the stamps that the Germans seizeJ. ..-Xrho---..iie.w^--=I3elgiaiv--.,sta.inps���������will----:be- unique in the annals of philately, because of their historical significance. Seven values, from one centime to 'twenty-five centimes, of the ordinary sizo, contain the portrait of Albert. Several higher values of a larger size reflect the coming of the Germans. The 35-eentime stamp shows the Cloth Hall of Ypres after the destruction wrought by the enemy; the 40-centime, the College of Dinant and the surrounding landscape after the invasion; the 50-eentime, the ruins of the University of. Louvain'. The 1-franc stamp symbolizes the freeing of tho ��������� Scheldt, as the most important economic event in the history of Belgium.; the 2-l'rane commemorates the annexation of the Congo; the 5-frnnc shows King Albert oil the steps of the town hall at Puriies presenting the Belgian Hag to his army. The 10-cen- t'nne portrays three kings of the Belgians��������� the two Leopolds and Albert. "Have you much of a police force 1 in this village" , "Bather. 'E weighs 17 stone." Their Imperfect .Tongue Prior to the war nobody had any idea that the German vocabulary was so deficient Now by Ambassador von Bernstoff's assertion that "there is no such word in the German language, "disavow" is added to the list led by. "treaty," "honor" and "humanity" There is no room for these alongside of "Kultur," it appears- It still remains to be seen whether there is room there for "fail"���������From the New York Suu As Others View It Old 'Housekeeper (to son of the house���������home on short leave): "Why, if it isn't Master George! Well, whov would ever have thought the war would haA'e been over so soon'" "Any fool can take a chance. It takes brains to be careful. Indignant Customer���������Barber, why did you drop that steaming towel on ��������� my face. Barber���������Because it was too hot to hold, sir. .;,