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C, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1916\nPrice Five Cents\nGambling with Prohibition\nIn a Political Bucket Shop\nA PLAIN ISSUE FOR PLAIN PEOPLE\n\"To hear Mr. William Sunday calling\njust as ludicrous as to hear Mr.\nof patronage,\"\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdCriticus.\non a community to abandon liquor because it is intoxicating, is really\nWilliam Bowser calling on the electorate to abandon politics because\nthat if they vote for the prohibition bill liny will be voting\nfor prohibition. As a matter of fact, they know perfectly\nwell the electorate will be voting for nothing of the sort.\nThe bill is an absolute fiasco. A cursorv examination of\nit. however, will not help the ordinary individual. It is\nwrapped in legal verbiage and mystic penalties. To the\nlayman it may look like prohibition, and anyone on a\nplatform could take certain clausel as illustrative of the\nwhole bill and prove to an audience what an excellent\nbill it is. The Hon. Dentist McGuire, Minister of Education, for instance, would no doubt assert that the hill as\ndrafted is the bill as demanded by the prohibition party.\n11 is nothing of the sort. The sincere prohibitionists have\nbeen induced to gamble in temperance by the operator!\nI of a political bucket shop,\n!THE PROHIBITION SUBSTITUTE\nis rewarded and his name kept secret. The reason for\nthis is plain. The prohibition executive knew it had no\nchance of obtaining the vote of the majority of the ordinary citizens on a strictly prohibitory bill. They dare\nnot ask lor legislation against the people win, can afford\nto import liquor, but they believed they could obtain the\nsupport of tllis portion of the electorate for the purpose\nof abolishing the bars. So they substituted private for\npublic houses, unregulated for regulated drinking, privileged venodrs for the hotel proprietors, and a spy system for the license board, and called it prohibition.\nPERIODICALLY violent waves of sentiment sweep\nthrough communities and nations, carrying on their\nfoaming crests the personal fortunes of several politicians and publicists, and the debris of political parties,\nwhile on their heaving flanks a vast mass of public opinion\nrises and falls proportionately with the emotional appeal\nmade by the noise and breaking power of the crest. 11 is\nbeing whispered in certain circles that the Executive of\nthe People's Prohibition Party finding tlieir position weakened by the iniquitous legislation passed at their behest\nduring the closing days of the last session of the local legislature, are counting their dollars in order to discover\nwhether they can afford to guarantee that notorious vulgarian, Hilly Sunday, sufficient money to \"emotionalise\"\nthe public into voting for the British Columbia Prohibition\nAct without giving it proper consideration. It is probably\nbelieved that it will be less expense to concentrate every\neffort on a short but strenuous campaign led by a person\nof Billy Sunday's reputation t'lian ou a six weeks' effort\nunder the aegis of the Hon. Dentist McGuire, Messrs.\nJonathan Rogers, Hammond ur Gibson, who have proved\nthemselves the \"hoodoos\" of the movement. Undoubtedly\nit would revive public interest in the prohibition movement if Billy Sunday could be persuaded to accept such\nan invitation. He would certainly galvanise it into action\nand very likely exercise sufficient influence on its sentimental side to pass the bill as drawn. That it is a bad\nbill, and does not prohibit, makes no difference. The\npublic is more easily swayed by sentiment than reason.\nVaudeville is more popular than Shakespeare, and Billy\nSunday attracts more people than a bible class.\nDESTROYING WINDMILLS\nThe admittedly far-reaching influence of prohibition lies\nin its appeal to sentiment. From the cold, logical point\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdof view, the propaganda does not carry conviction. Sentiment, which often ignores fact and is intoxicated by the\nwarm glow of \"doing good,\" believes that fermented liquor\nis'evil because it is stimulating. It utterly ignores the fact\nthat millions of human beings partake of fermented liquors\nof one sort or another without getting intoxicated. It\ndoes not take into account the conditions under which\nfermented liquor are sold, but condemns the liquor. It\nmight just as well condemn women, because of the conditions under which they live in a harem. Just as there\nare good and bad places for the sale of liquor, so there\nare good and bad harems. They depend on the general\nsentiment of the community for the manner in which\nthey are conducted. If in Anatolia a Turk conducts his\nharem or household in a disreputable manner, he is fined\nor otherwise punished for being a nuisance to the community. But in British Columbia if a dispenser of liquor\nconducts his business in a disreputable manner, the liquor\nis condemned for the fault of the individual. Prohibition\nis one of those delightfully quixotic undertakings continually destroying windmills. It burns the windmill to the\nground and is annoyed to find the wind still blowing.\nDRINKING AND THIEVING\nNobody would ever assert tliat prohibition for an individual is a bad thing, any more than anyone would assert\nthat a potatoe diet for a w'hole community is a good thing.\nIt depends so much on thc individual and the community.\nMost people will admit that potatoes without butter might\nnail at times, or that a strict potatoe diet might proved bad\nfor the digestion. They will also admit that an individual\nmay have tastes not common to a community. Prohibition\nis based on the belief that it is possible to standardise a\nnation into uniform sobriety by making it unlawful to\ndrink alcoholic liquor. The prohibitionist argues that as\nit is possible to eliminate, or practically eliminate theft, by\nmaking it a crime entailing certain legal penalties, therefore, by treating drink in similar fashion, it is possible to\neliminate drunkenness. He does not trouble to distinguish\nbetween a trade and an instinct. Ever since man came\ninto the world he has instinctively sought for stimulants\nin some form or another. The more depressed he is, the\nmore stimulation he seeks. Alcohol has certain stimulating properties\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdtemporary, perhaps, but still stimulating.\nSo man discovered wine, beer, and other quite harmless\nimt distinctly intoxicating liquors; so also discovered he\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdwhisky, brandy, and other spirits which might be turned\n\"to better use than liquidating his digestive apparatus.\nAN INTEMPERATE PERFORMER\nThe prohibitionist is not really a temperance reformer.\nHe is an intemperate performer on the instrument of\n-public sentiment. He strikes a series of crashing discords\nand believes that if only he makes enough noise thc public\nwill believe it is listening to music. To a great extent he\nis justified in his belief. The success of Rilly Sunday is\na case in point. He is a manufacturer of biblical slang on\nthe wholesale. He is as intimate with the Deity as the\nAfSj'eror William. His blasphemies pass as loaves and\nlishes to the hungry. They are excused on the ground that\nthe people are stimulated by them. Presumably the same\npeople are not stimulated by the Sermon on the Mount.\nApparently those who believe in the so-called evangelism\nof Billy Sunday dn not believe ill the efficacy of their\nchurches. They consider it necessary to indulge in the intoxicating process of a stirring emotionalism, in order to\nstimulate their congregations. \"Billy Sunday stirs them\nup\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdhe draws them\" is the common excuse for this type\nof intoxication. Psychologically he has exactly the same\neffect as a cask of whisky in a lumber camp. He excites\nhis hearers by his exhortations. We boast of our civilisation\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdwhy, the nakedest savages in Darkest Africa have\n\"their Billy Sundays, and call them witch doctors. To hear\nMr. William Sunday calling on a community to abandon I But the rights and wrongs of prohibition have nothing t.\nliquor because it is intoxicating, is really just as ludicrous ; do with this bill. Briefly speaking, by the terms of the\nas to hear Mr. William Bowser calling on the electorate Doherty bill, passed by the Federal government, each\nof llritish Columbia to abandon politics because of pat- province was able to really prohibit liquor by forbidding\nronage. - its transportation. That bill was passed before Premier\nBowser brought down the Prohibition Bill. The executive\nA POLITICAL BUCKET SHOP ,\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd- the prohibition party could have insisted on the Doherty\nWhether the leaders of prohibition in British Columbia Bill being part of the British Columbia Bill. They did\nare able to obtain tlie services of Billy Sunday or not, they | nothing of the sort. They insisted on drafting a bill which\nV\nIN \\KW YORK\nupkeep or the Police\n_ AJBBES*r\ufffd\ufffd'I> U ,.VOtt*\nAXCOL'VER ratcpiiycrH are complainingnt tlie cxcchhIvc etwt nl the upkeep ut the Police Department of the City,\nwhile very seulous Imperlallata believe that the entire pollee force mm It now staudN Hhould he diluted for active\nservice, und thc billet* thUH mudc vacant turned out to older men nnd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdin homi- cuhi-h, women,\nIn London thc police woman hllM Appeared to take thc heat of thc sturdy Mutiny who in nwaj doing IiIm hit In the\ntrenches. The preparedness campaign In the I'nlted States linn brought out thc Police Girl. .New York Ih to have\n2,000 police girl*, Home of whom, Hhowii above, hnvc been Nwom in. 1'he idea Im that of llie Kant .Hide Protective\nAssociation, and thc girls, each rcHpoiiHlhlc for one block, will see that HtrcctH, homes and hcIiimiIh arc kept In a sanitary condition and that children behave themselves.\nwill probably make a determined effort in the last two ,rl\nthree weeks of the electoral campaign to bring public \\\nopinion once more into line with the prohibition bill.\nHardly anyone examines a bill\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdthey look at the total and j\nif possible, pay up. They accept the summary as a fact. ;\nThey forget accountants make mistakes sometimes, especially if it is convenient to gloss over certain items.,\nThat is exactly what the political prohibitionists will do.\nThey will try and convince the public at the last moment\n3n Unwinam\nHERE LIES FREEDOM\nThe Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council has the power \"to(SUMPTION of liquor in any information\nTHE NIGGER IN THE WOODPILE\nProbably the political executors of tiie so-called People's\nProhibition Parly will argue that if the bill does not prohibit, if it is such a bad bill as its opponents aver, why\nnot supportjt? Why not get the people to vote for it and\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdi ,..-!'' s been spilt in discussing prohibition. t|ms ,t*u ,vevcr the plaint of the prohibitionist? The\nanswer is simple, if the electorate pass this bill they once\nmore give the lieuteiiant-governor-in-council power \"to\nmake such other regulations as may be deemed necessary\nfor the proper administration and carrying into effect the\nprovisions of this act.\" Not only this, but \"If the occupant\nof any private dwelling house or of any part thereof is\nconvicted of any offence against any of the provisions of\nthis act committed in or in respect of such house, the '\nsame shall cease to be a private dwelling house within\nthe meaning of this act, during the time the person so convicted occupies the said house or any part thereof.\" The\nSuperintendent and all constables and officers of every\nprovincial and of every municipal police force have full\nauthority to enforce all the provisions of the act, and\n\"when any information is given to any such police constable or officer that there is cause to suspect that some\nperson is violating any of the provisions of this act, it\nshall be his duty to make diligent inquiry into the truth of\nsuch information and to enter complaint, in his own name,\nfor the prosecution of such violation, without communicating the name of the person giving such information.\"\nFurther, \"In describing offences respecting the sale or\nkeeping for sale or other disposal of liquor, or the having,\nkeeping, giving, purchasing, or the consumption of liquor\nin any information ... it shall be sufficient to state the\nsale or keeping for sale or disposal, or the having, keeping,\nGIVIXG, purchasing or CONSUMPTION' of liquor, simply without stating the name or kind of such liquor or the\nprice thereof, or any person to whom it was sold or by\nwhom it was taken or consumed . . . .\"\nTHE SPANISH INQUISITION\nN'ovv, reading those three clauses together, can any one\nconceive of a legislature in its senses parsing such an act?\nOnly three Conservative members and the opposition\nprotested against the act being passed. Does any sincere\nprohibitionist or temperance reformer in his senses desire\nto establish by law a state of affairs in British Columbia\nwhich would rival the Spanish inquisition? After the investigation into school board affairs. _ the public know\nsomething of how patronage is exercised to the detriment\nof business. Imagine what -would happen if this prohibition act passed. Anyone who criticised the government\nand who happened- to have imported liquor for his personal consumption\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdand there are special provisions in\nthe act for the tracing of all such importations\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdin his\nprivate dwelling house, could he informed against by some\nheeler of a political party. If be had a card party ami\ngave a single one of his gtte\ufffd\ufffdts a drink, by the terms of\nthe act he can be convicted of an offense, and his house,\nunder the law, ceases to be a private dwelling. There is\nno need for a witness to \"depose as to the precise consideration received\" for the drink, \"to his own persona!\nor certain knowledge.\" but the \"Justice trying the case,\nso soon as it appears to him that the circumstances in evidence sufficiently establish tlic infraction of the law complained of, shall put the defendant on his defence, aud. in\ndefault of his rebuttal of such evidence, convict him accordingly.\" There is nn need \"to show that money actually passed or any liquor vvas actually consumed , . . .\"\nThe Justice is at liberty t\" infer \"that tbe liquor iu question is intoxicating, from the fact that the witness describes\nit as intoxicating, or by a name which is commonly applied\nto an intoxicating liquor.\"\nTHE SPIES OF THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL\nXot for one moment is it necessary to cast any shir\non any judge of this province. But every justice, every\npolice officer and every person connected with the adminis-\nPl.Ktsi in*\nallows anyone who can afford it to buy as much liquor as\nthey choose from outside the province and consume it in\ntheir private dwelling house, while the poor man who\ncannot afford to buy it in case lois or who lives in a\nhoarding house, is deprived of the privilege of buying a\ndrink in a hotel or .a bottle in a store. The Superintendent of Provincial Police, a political appointment, is given\nall the privileges aud power of the Prefect of Police in\nRussia. The rii^lit of search is limitless. The informer\nit shall be\nmake such other regulations AS MAY BE DEEMED\nNECESSARY for the proper administration and carrying\ninto effect the provisions of this act.\"\nMoreover \"if the occupant of any private dwelling house\nor of any part thereof is convicted of any offence against\nany of the provisions of this act committed in or in respect\nof such house, the same SHALL CEASE TO BE A PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE within the meaning of the\nact, during the time the person so convicted occupies the\nsaid house or any part thereof.\"\nThe Superintendent and all constables and officers of\nevery provincial and of every municipal police force have\nfull authority to enforce all the provisions of this act and\n\"when any information is given to any such police constable or officer that there is cause to SUSPECT that some\nperson is violating any of the provisions of this act, it shall\nbe his duty to make DILIGENT INQUIRY\" (. . . which\nincludes the right of search and breaking open of cupboards doors, etc. . . .) \"into the truth of such information\nand to enter complaint in his own name for the prosecution\nof such violation, WITHOUT COMMUNICATING THE\nNAME OF THE PERSON GIVING SUCH INFORMATION.\"\n\"In describing offences respecting the sale or keeping\nfor sale or other disposal of liquor, or the HAVING,\nKEEPING, GIVING, PURCHASING OR THE CON-\nsufficient to state the sale or keeping for sale or disposal, Itration of this act, owes his position to the government.\nor the HAVING, KEEPING, GIVING, PURCHASING : The whole powers of this acl lie in the Attorney-General's\nOR CONSUMPTION of liquor simply, without stating department. It is not a question of judges in any of our\nthe name or kind of such liquor or the price thereof OR\nANY PERSON to whom it was sold or BY WHOM IT\nWAS TAKEN OR CONSUMED. . . .\"\nThere is no need for a witness \"to depose as to the\nprecise consideration received\" for the drink \"TO HIS\nOWN CERTAIN OR PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE,\" but\nthe \"Justice trying the case so soon as it appears to him\nthat the circumstances in evidence sufficiently establish the\ninfraction of the law complained of, shall put the defendant on his defence, and in default of his rebuttal of such\nevidence, CONVICT HIM ACCORDINGLY.\"\nThere is no need to \"SHOW THAT MONEY ACTUALLY PASSED OR ANY LIQUOR WAS ACTUALLY CONSUMED.\"\nThe Justice is at liberty to infer \"THAT THE LIQUOR\nIN QUESTION IS INTOXICATING FROM THE\nFACT THAT THE WITNESS DESCRIBES IT AS INTOXICATING OR BY A NAME WHICH IS COMMONLY. APPLIED TO AN INTOXICATING LIQUOR.\"\nThe Superintendent must report to the Attorney-General everything in connection with this Act, and \"ANY\nOTHER INFORMATION ASKED FOR BY THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL.\"\nW. J. BOWSER,\nUndertaker and Monumental Mason.\n' REMEMBER THAT THE \"VENDORS\" OF LIQUOR UNDER THIS ACT ARE APPOINTED BY THE\nLIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR-IN-COUNCIL \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd THAT THE SUPERINTENDENT, PROVINCIAL POLICE\nAND JUSTICES ARE ALL APPOINTEES OF THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL. THEN CONSIDER WHAT\nPOWERS THE ABOVE CLAUSES OF THIS ACT CONFER ON THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL.\ncourts, but of police magistrates scattered up and down\ntbe province who. with the best of intentions, may not be\nvery capable of administering such an act. Moreover, most\ncareful provisions are made for thc reporting of every case\nby thc Superintendent from time to time to the Attorney-\nGeneral. Thc act makes the Superintendent report \"air-\nother information asljcd for by the Attorney-General.''\nThere is no appeal from summary conviction except by a\nlong and tiresome process. The more the act is analysed\nthe more astounding it seems that the house passed it.\nhor no one pretends now that it is a prohibition act. Nc\none who reads it carefully can ever imagine it prohibits the\nsale of liquor. But what it does do is to throw into the\nhands of the Attorney-General powers which can be exercised entirely outside this act. Tt gives him a perfect\nsystem of espionage right through thc province, gathers\nround him a whole host of \"vendors\" and other official\nadministrators of the act., a crowd of professional informers, and leaves a political opponent entirely at his mercy.\nA POLITICAL INQUISITIONAL ACT\nThis is not a joke or an exaggeration. Read the clauses\nwhich have been quoted and only one conclusion is possible. The Prohibition Act is not a prohibition act but a\nPolitical Inquisitional Act. If that act is passed as it\nstands\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdand thc people of British Columbia are being\nasked to vote \"yes\" or \"no\" at the elections\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdit sets up ir.\nthis province a tribunal which can at any time blast the\ncareer of any person without the semblance of a trial.\nIf that act is passed and the present government is returned to power with Mr. Bowser as premier\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdheaven\nhelp this country. If any constitutional lawyer had carefully designed an act for extending the political powers\nof the attorney-general and the evils of patronage, he\ncould not have drawn up a better act. It is no use arguing\nthat it is absurd to imagine Mr. Bowser or any other at- \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdI\nTWO\nTHE STANDARD\nSATURDAY, JULY 29, 1915\nHhf &tanbar&\nTabllshed every Saturday at 426 Homer Street. Vancouver.\nTelephone Seymour 470\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdEDITORIAL OPINIONS!\nRegistered at the Poet Office Department. Ottawa, as\nSecond Class Mall Hatter.\nSUBSCRIPTION RATES\nTo all points In Canada, United Kingdom, Newfoundland,\nMew Zealand and other British Possessions:\n$2.00\nPasters to American. European and other foreign countries\ntill Par year extra.\nThe Standard will be delivered to any address In Vancouver or vicinity at ten cents a month.\nMember of tha Canadian Press Association.\n\ufffd\ufffd\nThe Standard, with which is Incorporated the Saturday\nChinook, circulates In Vancouver and the cities, towns, villages and settlements throughout British Columbia. In\npolitics the paper is Independent Liberal.\nPublishers The Standard Printers\ntorney-gcncral would use the powers as described. Tllat is\nnot the point. Thc point is that this act was drawn by\nMr. Bowser as attorney-general, and that as drawn it does\nci nfer such powers, as any child can see from the clauses\nquote'. They are not clauses hand picked, they are\nstrengthened and buttressed in every possible way, and the\npeople of British Columbia are asked to pass such an act\nunder the guise of a prohibition act. If that act is passed\nand a Liberal government is returned to power, its very\nfirst action should be to repeal that act. Every candidate\nshould be asked whether he favors that act. The direct\nquestion should be put and no quibbling allowed. The\npeople are asked to vote yes or no, let their political representatives answer yes or no.\nAN APPEAL TO ALL CITIZENS\nThere is no need here to apeal to all those sincere temperance reformers who may have taken part in the prohibition movement. It is absolutely impossible that they\ncan sincerely desire such a bill to pass as it stands. It\nis a bill specially designed to throw dust in their eyes. It\nis a bill which by its name appeals to a sentiment, but\nwhich, by its drafting, appeals to every political evil in\nthis province. The clauses relating to the right of search,\nof information, of the administration of the act, are an\nabsolute travesty of our vaunted justice and liberty.\nLet the Hon. Dentist McGuire answer the straight\nquestion as to whether he will vote for that bill.\nLet the premier himself be asked whether he will\nvote for his own bill. That is the only way to force this\nthing to a proper issue. Those people who believe in prohibition will probably never take the trouble to read the\nbill. Those people who arc interested in the liquor trade,\nwho endeavor to present the bill passing, arc handicapped\nby their associations. Their attempts to lay the matter before the people are suspect. Every thing they publish\nis supposed to be paid for. But let any fair-minded or\neven prejudiced person read the clauses quoted carefully,\nand surely the issue is plain. How many would be candidates have read that bill? Is it possible that any Liberal\nwill fear to pin his opponent down to the clauses which\nhave been quoted. His opponent passed that bill, voted\nfor it and must stand by it. He cannot avoid it. How can\nany intelligent citizen vote for anyone who says that he\nfavors that bill as it stands?\nA PLAIN ISSUE FOR PLAIN PEOPLE\nHere at least is a plain issue for plain people. Here at\nlast is something over which there can be no quibbling.\nBoth parties, Liberal' and Conservatives, both leaders,\nMessrs. Bowser and Brewster, can make their position\nquite clear. Thc Liberals, it is true, are not responsible\nfor thc drafting or the passing of that iniquitous bill. It\nis extremely doubtful if they analysed it, any more than\nthe Conservatives could have analysed it. Mr. H. B.\nThompson, Conservative, specially stated that \"it was not\na government measure in the real sense of that phrase.\"\nMr. Brewster stated for the opposition that \"there are\nmany features of this legislation not in the best interests\nof our people.\" But as yet it is doubtful if thc clauses\nquoted have ever been really considered together. The\ncandidates need not state whether they are or arc not in\nfavor of prohibition. But they surely must state whether\nthey are or are not in favor of the \"British Columbia Prohibition Act.\" As yet it appears the issue has been most\ncarefully avoided. Let there be no such avoidance in future.\nAt every political meeting throughout this province let\nthe clauses quoted be read and then let the candidate bc\nasked whether he votes for the Act. The prohibitionists\nwant a straight issue\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdwell, they have it. There could\nbe no straighter one. Let us see first of all what\nour fighting premier \"with a punch in each hand,\" answers\nto the direct question. He introduced the bill, he drafted\nit, now let him say whether he is in favor of it. He cannot avoid the issue by stating it is a non-party measure.\nHe threw the question of prohibition into the party arena\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdno one else\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdnow let him bear the responsibility. He\nthrew the ministry of education to the prohibitionists as\na sop\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdvery well, now let him stand by his choice. Is this\nan illustration of his sagacity, of his political acumen, of\nhis business abilities? For in attempting to win the prohibition vote, he first of all betrayed the hotel interests\nwhich trusted him; then he betrayed the prohibitionists by\nbribing their executive with a cabinet position; finally he\nis attempting to betray the people by drawing up an tfet\nwhich does not prohibit the liquor traffic, but which does\nadd enormously to his own powers and the patronage at\nhis disposal. Can anyone trust him further? If this act\nis the result of sincerity, or cowardice, political trickery\nor megalomania, what will be the result of an administration born of such parentage?\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdCRITICUS.\nUNITED WE FALL\"\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdTHE BOWSER SLOGAN\nTHE party is united in Cranbrook, in Nelson, in\nNorth Okanagan,!' boasts the NEWS-ADVERTISER.\nPrice Ellison is the man in North Okanagan; Tom Caven, Cranbrook; Billy Maclean was the man in Nelson, but\nhas made way for Dr. Rose, a very reputable citizen.\nWe understand that the Hon. Price Ellison played the\nsame game with the convention held by thc Conservatives\nMonday night, that he was wont to play with the government cattle in days gone by. Mr. Kidston, of Vernon,\nwas the choice of the respectable Tories of thc riding,\nand would have captured the convention had not the-wily\nPrice introduced a man named Kcary, former Mayor of\nNew Westminster, who ran to split thc respectable vote.\nThis Keary succeeded in doing, allowing Price to walk\naway with the nomination.\nIn Cranbrook thc present member, Mr. T. D. Caven, is\nwell liked, and is highly respected in the district. He is a\ntypical westerner, a railroad conductor by calling. If it\nwas Dick McBride who wanted Caven to run, Caven would\ncarry Cranbrook. But Caven is of the type of man who\ncannot stand Mr. Bowser and his methods. He has stated\npublicly that he does not desire to be elected in Cranbrook or any other constituency. And it is probable that\nwhen the contest opens, Mr. Caven, good fellow and good\nneighbor, rough and ready, but free from hypocrisy and\ndouble facedness, will quietly slip the word to his friends\nto get out and vote for \"Doc\" King, thc Liberal candidate.\nIn the Interior, as on the Coast, the party that pays the\nNEWS-ADVERTISER to support it, is united in the\nsense that every one of its candidates fears the coming\nof the month of September. They know that the leaves\nnext Autumn are going to fall upon the mausoleum which\nwill contain the political bones of Mr. Bowser, \"the man\nwho done dirty to Dick McBride,\" to repeat an expression\nwhich was coined by a good old Tory farmer near Victoria.\nwith the money, or raised a bust to some man of true greatness and nobility who has done something for the lasting\ngood of the Province.\nSupposing that many-millioned man in Victoria bad built\na beautiful causeway, a library, adorned a park with a fine\npiece of sculptory, or bought a home for broken down\nminers, or planted an avenue of trees, or improved the\nbreed of the cattle of the Island, or done one of a thous\nand little things that would bc of permanent benefit to\nthe community.\nSupposing Vancouver's cleverest money-maker\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdwhoever be may be\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdwould take some of his easy profits and\nfinance a beautiful bridge over Coal Harbor into Stanley\nPark to bear his name, or set an artist at work to reduce\nto marble the story of some event in the early history of\nthis Province, the work of art to he raised aloft in the\ndirty square where the court house used to stand.\nBut what is the use of supposing?\nAmong all our millionaires, politicians and near-politi\ncians, only one man in British Columbia has done anything this summer towards sending his name hurtling down\nthe corridors of time.\nThat man is the reeve of South Vancouver.\nlie has offered a prize of fifty dollars to the resident\nwho keeps the best garden this summer\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdwho grows thc\nmost roses or corn, sweet peas, cabbages, onions, beets\nor turnips.\nAnd the result is that waste places in that municipality\nhave been made to blossom forth and the residents arc\nstriving with one another in the contest. Result is productivity and added beauty.\nMaybe the smallness of the prize is \"the widow's mite\"\nas it were. For the reeve is not a very rich man. But he\nhas done something that will last long after he is shelved\ninto the discard of reeves, and has set a worthy example\nto bigger men and richer men.\nTHE WORLD IS NOW OPENLY PRO-BOWSER\n\"T^vEMOCRACY has had its way with the Conservative\nI J machine,\" crys the Vancouver WORLD, now openly supporting that machine. \"We believe it will\nhave its way with the Liberal machine.\" The WORLD is\nhorribly exercised over the decision of the Liberals of\nVancouver to let the present ticket stand and enter ihc\ncontest; united.\nWhy'should the Liberals change their ticket? Is there\nanything against any man on that ticket? No one has\ncharged any member of the Liberal ticket\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdSmith, Cowper,\nMacdonald, Farris, Donnelly, Mcintosh\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdwith being either\na crook or a fool.\nYet -.he dear, sanctified WORLD would chiinr-c the Liberal ticket in Vancouver\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdwould hold a new Liberal convention, j\nThere was ample reason for the holding of a new Conservative! convention. Neither the people or the police\nwould endorse the majority of the members of the local\nConserative ticket.\nWhat did a learned and impartial judge say about Duke?\nAnd Duke was a Conservative candidate.\nWhy did F. W. Welsh flee the country- And Welsh\nwas a Conservative candidate.\nWhy did Tisdall withdraw? And Tisdall was a Conservative candidate found wanting by a majority of more\nthan four thousand of his fellow citizens.\nWould the WORLD endorse Walter Leek's candidature?\nAnd Walter was school-boarded to the machine ticket.\nThen the righteous, long-faced and sanctimonious McGuire. Ah, there may bc no compensation for the wicked\npublicans, but there is compensation for McGuire. In having McGuire on the ticket you have a case of prohibition\nand compensation!\nYes, if the people didn't rise up and demand a new\nmachine convention, it would be almost up to the police\nlo do so.\nRETURNED SOLDIERS AND THE CIVIL SERVICE\nR. BREWSTER has made a statement regarding the\nreturned soldier question. He states that when his\nparty takes over the reins of government at Victoria the civil service will be thrown open to the returned soldiers.\nAnd' why not?\nThere ale in the civil service of British Columbia today\nmany scores of young men who should be forced to make\nway for returned heroes. Young men of spirit who were\nin a position to do so have (brown up easy jobs under the\ngovernment and have gone to the front. Many of those\nwho remain on the payroll are mere drones and are handling work which could as well bc carried on by young women.\nMr. Brewstcrs promise to throw the civil service open\nto returned soldiers will appeal to all fair-minded men.\nIt is, moreover, a promise which the plain Mr. Brewster\nwill keep, you may depend upon that. We predict that\nuilder Mr. Brewster the civil service will be no haven of\nrest for party workers. Further, we predict that with the\nreturn of M. Brewster and his party, the blind devil of\npatronage will receive a deathly blow in British Columbia.\nREV. MR. CRAIG'S NOTES\nWE note with considerable interest that Mr. Seymour,\nthe Vancouver School Board chairman, charges\nthat the report of Rev. J. Richmond Craig taken at\na certain meeting of the board in short hand, was \"purpose\nly garbled.\"\nRev. Mr. Craig attended the meeting in question as a\nrepresentative of THE STANDARD. We are satisfied\nthat his notes of the proceedings were accurate in every\ndetail. The word of the Rev. Mr. Oraig, without being\nbacked up by shorthand notes, would be so much more\nreliable than the oath or bond of Mr. Seymour, that we\nsimply smile at the desperate attacks upon THE STAN\nDARD and our representative, of the former purse holder\nfor the Canadian Home Investment gang.\nCHINOOK\nBreezes of Indignation\nAnd Information\nWE ARE INFORMED that a parson at Fort George\nmade the statement that Ashcroft was destroyed because\nof the wickedness of the town. This insult will be hotly\nresented by Ashcroft's popular mayor, Mr. George Ward.\nTHE VERY IDEA of putting Ashcroft in the same category as Sodom or Babylon or Nineveh I\n* * *\nONE OF THE features of the Ashcroft fire was the salvage of several hundred copies of that priceless contribution to Canadian literature from the pen of Skookum\nChuck.\n* * *\nIT IS SUSPECTED that the rubber trust is behind the\npromoters of the forty years' rain.\nIN SPORTING CIRCLES the sudden departure of at\nleading figure in School Board investigation would be\ntermed ''Welching.\"\n* * \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nGERMAN SNIPERS WILL do the \"plugging\" when the-\nvote is taken in the war zone.\nSOME OF THE antiquated \"tiles\" worn at the Vice-\nRegal reception must have reminded H. R. H. of the\nshapes in vogue during the early years of the reign of his.\nillustrious mother.\n* * *\nTHE TEMPERATURE ON the Eastern front is reported:\nto bc extremely hot. This may bc due to its proximity to\ufffd\ufffd\nthe firing line.\n\ufffd\ufffd * *\nIN CLERICAL CIRCLES Saturday is now known asi\n\"l'ic-nic Day.\"\n* * *\nTHE DUKE OF CONNAUGIIT is noted for his tact,\ndiplomacy and affability. The position of Lord Lieutenant\nof Ireland will afford him an ample field for the exercise,\nof these and many other accomplishments.\n* * *\nHETTY GREEN' LEFT a fortune of $100,000,000, which*\ngoes to show what a woman can accomplish by attending\nto her knitting and saving other people's money.\n* * *\nTIIE SOLDIERS WILL, no doubt, vote as they shoot\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nSTRAIGHT.\n* * *\nA\"i MIGHT BE expected, the programme at the Postmen's-\npic-nic on Saturday was carried out to the letter.\n* * *\nIF THE LOCAL merchants wish to make a hit witln\nthe women shoppers, they should make \"Dollar Day\"'\n99 cent day.\n* * *\nA MISS BIRD and one Thomas Catt were married in\nSan Francisco thc other day. Good night, \"Birdie.\"\n* \ufffd\ufffd \ufffd\ufffd\nTHAT SAN FRANCISCO \"Preparedness Parade\" appears to have been on the bomb.\n* * *\nSOME DAY A true friend of the male sex will invent a,\nsimple and effective pair of suspenders that will bc entirely\nfree from the complex combinations, useless gearing, tackling, and other paraphernalia that are features of the present day \"galluses.\"\n* * *\nTHE VICE-REGAL PARTY must be bored to death by\nthc endless round of receptions, functions and other foi\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nde-rols to which they are subjected by the loyal and well-\nmeaning public. The situation is partly relieved by the\namusing attempts of the \"Wallingfords\" to imitate the\ncourtly graces of St. James.\nThe Peace of Nature\nIS it meet, when men are off to war, to dwell upon the\nworld's gentle aspects, Sodden is the nature that does\nnot respond to fife and drum. Dull, indeed, is the heart\nthat docs not qttickeii to the step of young men called in\ndefense of our ideals. When they have gone to defend\nthem, who but those who remain, shall perfect them, make\nthem, through ourselves, more worthy of defense? How\ncan we better honor those who draw the harsher task?\nIf we have kept too close to a material progress, if we\nhave been too much bent upon an interrupted commerce,\nwhere shall we look for the means of an adjustment?\nFrom what motives do we order our affairs? With what\ncoarse rations do we feed our thoughts? We live to grow\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdnot ordering our whole life by the card of its more trivial means, but shaping it to thc righteous form of its more\nlofty ends.\nThe world is sick\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdout of balance. How shall wc achieve\nits equilibrium but in finding that balance between men's\nneeds and their more numerous desires. Where shall we\nseek the perspective in which to view the things of life and\nappraise them, according each part its true relation to the\nothers?\nShall wc listen for the clearest note of life in the din\n(of its huddled centres, in its mad workshops where the\nwhole concern is for the trivial means of life\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdits tools,,\nits conveniences, its bric-a-brac? Or shall wc look for\nthe elements of life where they spring from its source,\nwhere in quiet they shall answer us in simple terms?\nDare one say in these unbalanced times that we should\n\"look to the lilies?\" Dare we say that thc patient fisherman has drunk at tlic font of wisdom? Dare wc say that\nwc should turn to life in its most unsullied aspects as a\nmeasure of precaution in our hurried trend? Shall we\nscoff the suggestion that daisy-grown fields are full of\nmedicine? In youth we sought the wild flowers and saw\ntheir beauty; in our more responsible years shall we not\nreckon upon their potency?\nIn summer, when the hazards of the times, the eternal\nurge, arc more heating than the season, it should not be\nforgotten that the earth itself is at peace; that broad as is\nthe zone of war, there are peaceful areas where brooks\nand rivers flow in subdued harmonies; where the bobolinks\npour their liquid music upon green meadows; where there\narc cool groves whose aged stalwarts smile upon our\nhaste. Let us not forget these unfrequented communes in*\nwhose forms Nature reveals those secrets that hold life's-\nsolid worth.\nALL RICH MEN, THIS WAY, PLEASE!\nSUPPOSING Sir Richard during his days of affluence\nand power had endowed a public charity, granted a\nscholarship in some British Columbia educational institution, cleared a plot of land and given it as a park to\nsome British Columbia town.\nSupposing the present premier, from his great wealth,\nhad taken out a thousand or so and built a public arch\nA WHITE MAN'S COUNTRY\nThe arrest the other day in Toronto of a young man\nnamed Jackson on the charge of- sedition is probably the\nfinal act in a peculiar episode, There exists in Toronto\nwhat is known as the Canada-India League, purporting\nto have as its mission the bringing about of closer relations and better feeling between India and Canada. As\nto who originated the idea and who are back of the League\nthe published literature is singularly silent. In any event\nyoung Jackson, who is little more than a boy and with\nprobably no great appreciation of the task ahead of him,\nwas delegated by the League to go to India and, as he\nexplains it, \"sort of get acquainted with the people.\"\nHe got as far as Hong Kong where the British authorities turned him back. On his arrival at Vancouver he\nwas looked over carefully by the authorities there and\nin the interval lodged in jail. Released later on he returned to Toronto.\nThe literature issued by the League consists of a pamphlet in newspaper form and a small booklet, the contents\nof which is particularly interesting in view of the fact\nthat it deals with the troubles of some years ago between\nthe Indian natives who came out in shipload lots to Vancouver and the authorities of that Province, who eventually after much difficulty, turned them back. The case is\nstated in such manner as to engender bad and not good\nfeeling between the natives of India and Canadians, a peculiar method to say the least, of \"promoting better feeling between Canada and the Indian Empire.\"\nAt best the work of this Canada-India League was\nlaunched at an inauspicious moment. Canada and Britain\nhave at the moment more important work on hand than\ntickling the natives of India in the ribs. And furthermore\nthe dream of this Canada-India League and of Dr. Sundar\nSingh, whereby Canada will open her ports wide to immigrants from India is an idle one. It cannot be done\nand it will not be done. This is a white man's country\nand so it must remain.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdToronto Saturday Night.\n* \ufffd\ufffd *\nNEEDLESS REVIEWS\nA soldier at Camp Borden, Ontario, died from the heat\nafter being paraded in front of Sir Sam Hughes and a\nparty of his friends. Are these arduous side-shows absolutely necessary? . . .\nIt is high time a halt was called to these unnecessary\nand elaborate manoeuvres for the entertainment of amiable people and those soldiers whose conception of war\nis bounded by the limits of the parade ground. Certainly,\nin the extreme hot weather, these theatrical operations-\nought to be reduced to thc minimum. The casualty lists-\nfrom overseas are long enough, without adding to them\nat home.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdMontreal Mail. 4\n* * * W \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd'\nOUR COWS ARE COMING HOME\nThe Premier says this province will not have to pay\nthe interest on the bonds of the Canadian Northern Pacific railroad guaranteed by it. Mr. Bowser said the same\nthing a score of times about the interest on the bonds\nof the Pacific Great Eastern. Last January we paid\n$316,000 and a million of the $6,000,000 \"loan\" is to be\ndevoted to a similar account. On May 8, the Finance Minister of Canada stated in parliament that the Canadian Northern's fixed charges were $15,000,000 and that of this\namount the Dominion and British Columbia would have\nto pay $4,500,000. He thought Mackenzie and Mann would\nbc able to pay the rest.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdVictoria Times. SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1916\nTHE STANDARD\n4>\ni Vancouver Personals\nVery pleasant and successful was\nthe ,'arden party held this week by\ntlie Colenel Leckie Chapter of the\nDaughters of the Empire in the\ngrounds of Hycroft, the residence of\nMrs. A. D. McRae. Music from the\nband of the Irish Fusiliers and a\nSeaforth piper added to the pleasure\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdof the afternoon. Thc tea table which\nwas arranged on thc spacious verandah, looked exceedingly pretty with\nits decorations, red poppies and blue\nand white delphinium, was presided\nat for the first hour by Lady Tupper\nand Mrs. Lothian Russell and later\nby Mrs. A. D. McRae and Mrs. Cecil\nMerritt. Assisting in serving were\nMiss Rogers, Miss Lockwood, Miss\nRistcen, Miss Bee Merritt and Miss\nLucile McRae. Mrs. Douglas Armour\nJiad charge of the fish pond in which\n;shc was assisted by Miss Helen Law-\nMiss Mary Godfrey, Miss Adelaide\nMacaulay, Miss Betty McMurrieh,\nMiss Alix Wilson and Miss Irene\nCowan. \"Shoot the Kaiser\" was tin-\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdder the direction of Miss Blanche\nMcRae and Miss Isobel Gartshore.\nThe children were provided with all\nkinds of games which were in charge\nof Mrs. B. D. Gillies, the regent of\nthe chapter; Mrs. Peck and Miss Ancient. 'Putting was in charge of Mrs.\nR. Hamilton and the bowjing by Mrs.\nEdward Mahon, Mrs. McFarland,\nMrs. Julius Griffiths and Mrs. J. Q.\nDonald. The sock knitting competition was in the hands of Mrs. W. A.\nMacdonald and Mrs. Lay. In the summer house Miss Burdick of Winnipeg\ntold fortunes, and bn the verandah\nMiss Clements read teacups. Ice\n-cream was served by Mrs. Reid and\nlemonade by Miss Sheila Russell,\nwhile candy and flowers were purveyed by Miss Verna Clark, Miss\nFlorence Fyfc-Smith, Miss Kathleen\nFarrell, Miss Betty McMurrieh and\nMiss Sheila Farrell. The tennis tournament took place on the lawn of\nMrs. H. E. Ridley's residence adjoining. Despite the unfavorable weather\nthere was a large attendance, including Lady Tupper, Mrs. Alison Cum-\nming, Mrs. Duff-Stuart, Miss Duff-\nStuart, Mrs. Gartshore, Mrs. C. D.\nRand, Mrs. J. Macdonald, Mrs. Bro-\n\ufffd\ufffddie, Mrs. Kerr, Miss Hall, Mrs. Cecil\nMerritt, Mrs. J. A. Russell, Mrs.\nJames, Mrs. Cave-Bsown-Cave, Mrs.\nWood, Miss Higgins, Mrs. Baldwin.\n|g^3\ufffd\ufffd\nMrs. Carry, Mrs. Thomas White, Mrs.\nD. P. Marpole, Mrs. Longdon, Mrs\nIlendrie Leggat, Miss Flora Russell,\nMrs. Angus Stewart, Mrs. Brlgnall,\nMrs. Mayne Hamilton, Mrs. llutchins,\nMiss Eleanor llutchins, Mrs. Logan,\nCapt. and Mrs. Alexander Reid, Mrs.\nI-;. P. Davis, Mrs. John Burns, Mrs. J.\nMacdoiiell, Miss Fitzgibbon, Mrs.\nRichardson, Mrs. Colin Graham, Miss\nWilson, Mrs. Phepoe, Mrs. Smellie,\nMrs. Percy Shallcross, Mrs. S. Mc-\nLagan, Mrs. McClure, Mrs. W. J.\nWhitehead, Miss F McConnell, Mrs.\nSavvers, Mrs. Ceperley, Mrs. Hall,\nMrs, Phalen, Mrs. Angus Macdonald,\nMrs. J. M. Bennett, Miss Clermont,\nMrs. G. Gilpin, Miss Henderson, Mrs.\nR. C. Janion, Mrs. Bttrrett, Mrs. Dennis Murphy, Mrs. C. B. Macneill, Mrs.\nW. A. James.\n* * *\nHis Honor Judge Swanson and Mrs.\nSwanson of Kamloops have rented\nDr. Whillan's residence on Gorge\nRoad, Victoria, for a mouth.\n* * *\nMr. W. R. Baker arrived from Victoria on Saturday, and will spend a\nfew days in Vancouver before returning to Montreal.\nti * *\nMiss Martha Rowan of Winnipeg is\nvisiting Mrs. Smellie for a short time.\n* * *\nMrs. E. H. Grubb with her family\nis visiting her sister, Mrs. H. O. Alexander, at Gambier Island.\n* * *\nAn informal dance was held at the\nJericho Country Club on Saturday\nnight, when among the guests were\nMrs. Plunkett, Mrs. McLaren, Mr.\nand Mrs. Turqiiand, Mr. and Mrs.\nPatcrson, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Cromie.\nMrs Colquhoun, Mrs. Hintnan, Mrs.\nFrank Springer, Mrs. Innes, Mr. and\nMrs. llavemcycr, Mr. and Mr>. Mc-\nLorg, Mrs. Dracup, Mr. and Mrs.\nSymes, Miss Ruth McLean, Miss Marjorie Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas,\nMiss Graeme Lockwood, the Misses\nPhair, Miss Street, Miss Kendall, Mis-\nBrougham, Miss Babs Macpherson,\nMr. W. R. Baker, Major Duff. Mr.\nHarrison, Mr. Sweatman, Mr. Pugh,\nMr. Farquhar, Mr. I'lindt, Mr. Stevenson, Mr. Lambert and Mr. Jack Cambie.\n* * *\nMiss Sothern is to be in charge of\nthe third Vancouver Girl Guides'\ncamp at Bowen Island this week.\n* * *\nMiss McKenzie, one of the Y. W.\nC. A. secretaries from Calgary, is\nspending her holidays at the camp.\n* * *\nMr. and Mrs. F. Lance have arrived\nfrom Calgary and are staying at the\nresidence of Miss Janet Main, 1823\nComox Street.\n* * *\nDr. Broe of Anyox is in town, the\nguest of his sister, Mrs. W. A. Can-\ntelon.\n* * *\nMrs. C. J. Peter is planning to leave\nat the end of the week for a trip to\nSkagway.\n* * *\nMrs. F. W. Hughes and her daughter Helen, of London, Ont., are visiting Mrs. Hughes' brother, Mr. A. C.\nLochead, 1877 Comox street.\n* * *\nMrs. F. Clarke gave an old-fashioned quilting party last week in honor of her sister, Mrs. O. Reid of Bel-\nlingham, who is visiting in Vancouver,\nthe guests were Mrs. M. Armstrong.\nMrs. Robert Young, Mrs. Ralph, Mrs.\nB. Young, Miss Rilla Ralph, Mrs. A.\nMEN'S GOOD SUITS\nat ca price that ought to clear out tlie lot\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\n$11.85\nStylish, good looking suits, fashioned from serviceable\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd- quality fabrics in neat grey shades\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdsizes 36 tu 42. For\nsummer camp, seaside and general purpose wear these are\nas good as anv man would want to wear. A bargain\n,it '\" ' $11.85\nA Week-End Suit Bargain\nfor Boys at $6.75\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdOdds and ends and broken sizes in Norfolk and double-\nbreasted college effects. Made of serviceable tweeds and\ntailored to give long and satisfactory service. Sizes 24 to\n33s Very special at $6.75\nCrowds Attend the Demonstration\nof the\n\"PYREX\" GLASSWARE\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdNot in our history have we held a demonstration that has been quite as popular as this of \"Pyrex\" glassware. Everybody is highly enthused with it, marvel\nat its unique advantages, its heating qualities, fuel saving possibilities, its saui-\ntariness and cleanly appearance. It's selling readily because it's almost everlas-\ning. Prices follow\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nRAMMAKINS, each 20c\nOVAL BAKERS, each ... .50c to 70c\nCAKE PLATES, each $f.l0\nPIE PLATES, 8-inch size $1.00\nCUSTARD CUPS, each . .25c and 35c\nSHIRRED EGG DISHES, ea. 75c, $1\nBREAD PANS, each $1.10\nBREAD PANS, each $1.10\nCASSEROLES \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd Without covers,\n $1.20 to $1.75\nStore opens at 8.30 a.m. and closes at 6 p.m.\n(JhrfiudsonsHmj (fompnmj\niNCOBPOBffreo 1970\nrUMEItrt.eUMUCE STOWS CaHHISSIOHU\niMcKillop, Mrs. S. Voung, Miss Eva\nj Young and Miss l.illis McKillop,\n* * *\n.Maj ,r Duff of Ottawa, who has\nIn in spending a few days in Vancouver, left last night tor Victoria, where\nhe will join the vice-regal party.\n* * *\nMrs. Brougham left on Saturday\nj night for Victoria, where she will be\nj the guest of Mrs. Barnard at Government House for a few days.\n* \ufffd\ufffd *\nMr. and Mrs. H. J. McFeely, who\nhave been spending the last ten days\nat Harrison Hot Springs, returned\nhome last night.\n* * *\nMr. and Mrs. Bidlake will leave\nVancouver shortly to reside at Powell\nRiver.\n* * *\nMr. Frank Sweatman of Victoria is\nspending a few days in Vancouver before leaving for England.\n* * *\nMiss Sybil Street of Victoria is visiting Miss Brougham at Tliorley Park\nfor a few days.\n* * *\nMrs. Knox Walkem has left with\nher two children and nurse for Deep\nDean, Cowichan.\n* * *\nMiss Baker of Vancouver lias been\nappointed to the domestic science\nteaching staff in Victoria.\n* * *\nMr. N. W. Berkinshaw is spending\na holiday motoring on Vancouver\nIsland.\n* * *\nMiss \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd. Welland Merritt of St.\nCatharines, is on her way to British\nColumbia. As seereary for Canada\nof Queen Mary's Needlework Guild,\nMiss Merritt will visit all the branches of the guild through the western\nprovinces.\n* * *\nMr. R. A. Little, principal of the\nDuke of Connatight High School, is\nspending his summer vacation in Victoria.\n* * *\nThe engagement is announced of\nMr. Walter Islay H. Verschoyle-\nCampbell, son of the late Dean of\nClonmacnoise, and Mrs. Campbell,\nTassaggart, County Dublin, Ireland,\nto Elizabeth Florence Veda, daughter\nof the late Capt. David Macpherson\nand Mrs. Macpherson, and niece of\nCol. William Molson Macpherson,\nQuebec, and) granddaughter of the\nlate Sir David and Lady Macpherson,\nChestnut Park, T iront\n* + *\nMis.- Phoebe McGreg r has bi i n\ntbe guest of Mrs. C \\V. Bradshaw at\nher suniniir home, Cordova Bay,\n* * *\nSir Clifford Sifton, who lias been in\nEngland for several months, is i .\npected home thi.- month ior a short\nvisit. Lady Sifton will remain in England for a while longer.\nLady Piers entertained informally\nat tea yesterday afternoon al the .1 ri\ncho Country Club in honor of Mi-s\nI Adam. Other guests were Mrs. W.\n| II. Ferric. Mrs. Waghorn, Miss Wag-\n] horn, Mrs. Tulloch, Mrs. Cecil Mi-r\nritt, Miss Tupper, Mrs. J, II. Bushncll,\nMrs. Shallcross. Miss Croftoil, Mrs.\nPlunkett, Miss Mary Pybus, Miss\nDorothy Gordon and Mrs. luliiis Griffith.\n* * t\nMrs. Stewarl of Mission is spending a few days in Vancouver.\n* * *\nMrs. Dovcy and her daughter, Miss\nDellafield of Seattle, who have been\nspending several days in Vancotter,\nleft today for Victoria.\n* * *\nMrs. Wink of Port Arthur is the\nguest of Mrs. Herald. Point Grey.\n* * *\nMrs. A. W. V. Innes has taken\nquarters for the summer in English\nBay Mansions.\n* * *\nMrs. William Hogg returned today\nfrom Dawson.\n* * *\nMrs. Brodic entertained at tea this\nweek in honor of Miss Rowan of\nWinnipeg.\n* * *\nMrs. Douglas with her daughter ar-\nricd from Winnipeg on Saturday to\nvisit her sister. Mrs. William Hogg,\nfor the summer.\n* * *\nMrs. F. L. McFarland. accompanied\nTwo Handsome Styles\nin Silk Sports Coats for\nWomen\n2019\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdA smart Sport Coat of Italian silk; is\nmade with patch pockets, wide lapels, and\nloose belt; comes in old gold, rose, or paddy\ngreen; all sizes, at $19.50.\n2020\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdA very fine Sports Coat and Cap of Milanese silk; the coat is made with sailor collar, loose sash and turn-back cuffs, the whole\nbeing trimmed in self color and white\nstripes; colors available are canary. Russian\ngreen, cerise, grey, black, white or brown;\nall sizes, at $25.00 the set.\n!C\nleft this week on | cakes, candies, ice-creams, flowers,\netc. Mrs. Deyos proved an expert\nI card reader and Miss Pettigrew crea-\nand Mrs. P. J. Mackay audited much interest in her cup reading,\nby her son, Georg\na visit to Toronto\nMr.\ntheir family are\nat Boundary Bay.\npending a holiday land the tea room was an institution\nI which was largely patronized. The\nScottish orchestra utider^ the leadership of Mi. T, Shankie was in atlen-\nthe direction of Mrs, Julia Henshaw dance and gave excellent music, also\nThe Vancouver Frivolities, under\nand Miss Jean Mollison will give a\nperformance at Revelstoke under the\nauspices of the Red Cross Societj\nthis week.\na splendid programme of vocal and\ninstrumental items was given, those\nassisting being Mrs. .1. F.adie, Miss'\ntsdale, Miss Wardhaugh, Miss Jenny\nKroner River atnrjreon, caught recently by the B. C. Pnckcra' ANMOelatton.\nThe t'isli wan lit feet, ll im-lu-s in length timl weighed 005 pounds,. The head\nweighed 15S iiiiuiiiR. Sturgeon meat Is north sixteen rent* per pound, while\nCttVlar, obtained from .sturgeon. Ik is- Ml pt-r pound.\nDr. Gillies has returned to town\nafter an absence in the F.ast.\n* * *\nA most successful garden party was\nheld by the Scottish Daughters'. League at the home of Mrs. G. Pettigrew.\n1461 Burnaby street, in aid of the Red\nCross Society and benevolent funds.\nThc beautiful grounds were tastefully\nlaid off, the decorations and electrical lights being quite a feature, and\nthe attractions were numerous, being\nmost ingenious and interesting and\ncreating much merriment. Several\nbooths were erected throughout the\ngrounds, a brisk trade being done in\nMelville, Miss Xan Runcic, Miss Wilson, Mr. Walter Wardhaugh, Corporal\nMcCulIough, Mr. J. Johnstone and\nMr. W. Crann, jr. Hearty votes of\nthanks were accorded to all who had\ncontributed! to tlie success of the\ngathering, special mention being made\njof Mr. and Mrs. Pettigrew for their\nj kindness in placing their home and\nj grounds at the disposal of the society.\n| Over $100.00 was realized for the\nsociety.\nif\nI ifl\n''A\nVancouver Exhibition, August 14th\nto 19th. Office, Loo Building. Entries close August 2nd.\n_ ;\t FOUR\nTHE STANDARD\nSATURDAY, JULY 29. 1916\nSOOtBts^Y\nCommunications of interest should\nbe addressed to the \"Society Editor,\"\nTHE STANDARD.\nSir Clifford Sifton, who has been in\nEngland for several months, is expected home this month fur a short visit.\nLady Sifton will remain in England\nfor a while longer.\n* * *\nMajor A. P. Proctor of No. 5 Canadian General Hospital, who returned\nfrom Salonika a short time ago, and is\nnow at his summer home at Cadboro\nBay, Victoria, was the guest of honor\nlast Friday afternoon at a reception\nheld at the Alexandra Club by the\nwives of a number of the officers of\nthe unit who went from Victoria. Afternoon tea was served, and thos-.-\npresent seized the opportunity to talk\nwith Major Proctor about their relatives. Afterwards he gave an informal talk. Among those who listened to his narrative of the B. C.\nBase Hospital experiences at Salonika being some of the returned soldiers who are now at the military convalescent home at Esquimalt.\n* * *\nThe girl telephone operators in\nEngland have done work which places\nthem amongst the bravest. Some 25.-\n000 girls have replaced men in telephone work. Unstinted praise vas\ngiven thr.m recently when the subject\ncame up-at Hie Hous; i' Commons in\nLondon. It is tlieir courage during\nZeppelin raids, which called forth the\nremark: \"When the Zeppelin raids\nhave been anticipated, sometimes\nwhen they have been going on,\" said\n. the member who was speaking, \"the\nwomen have come oul of their homes\nto their work\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdeven when bombs were\ndropping. They have p'ayed an im-\nporun' par: in the s-\",icme of air-raid\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdwarnings, and have set a very good\nexample to the whole country. In\nDublin, when the bullets were flying\nand the fires were raging, the women\nstuck to their work in the exchange,\nand it was due to them that communication was kept up and that wc\nwere able tc obtain \"-lie military forces\nwhich suppressed the rebellion.\"\nHS.C *t\ufffd\ufffd\nThe Women's Canadian Club of\nVictoria has asked permission of the\nschool board to plant a row of trees\nin front of the Victoria High School\nin honor of the students of the school\nwho are serving tlieir country at the\nfront.\n* * *\nThe Duchess of Connaught on Saturday, accompanied by Miss Yorke\nand Mrs. Barnard, went to the Royal\nJubilee Hospital in Victoria, where\nshe was met by Dr. Hasell, thc\" resident medical officer; the president of\nthe hospital board, Mr. R. S. Day;\nthe chairman of the Women's Auxiliary, Mrs, Rhodes, and her officers;\nand the lady superintendent, Miss\nMacKenzie, the matron, and undergraduates* of the hospital. The visit\npasted only a short time, its purpose\nbeing that Her Royal Highness, who\non her previous visit to Victoria had\ngone over the Jubilee Hospital, might\nvisit the new maternity ward, which\nhas just recently been added. Before\ngoing over to the new wing she was\npresented by Mrs. Rhodes, on behalf\nof the Women's Auxiliary, with a bouquet of white and red roses, the hospital colors, tied with ribbons to\nMelbourne and iu that choir Nellie\nArmstrong, as she was popularly\nknown after her marriage to Captain\nArmstrong, sang solos in the anthems long before she had made a\nstart on the road to world-fame. The\nsinger has undertaken to keep tu-o\nconvalescent soldiers at Coomfee Cot\ntage, her house at I.ilydale, outside\noi Melbourne. It has been considered\nworthy of mention that unlike many\nprospective 'hostesses, she did not\nspecify any particular soldiers when\nshe visited thc base hospital, but left\nit to the hospital authorities to choose\nher guests.\n(Thc Counts of Zollcrn. \"r Hohenzollern, from whom the emperor of\nGermany is descended, hud their seat\noriginally in southwestern Germany in\na territory known as Swabia. William\nllauff (102-1827) the ureal Gc'rman\nstory-teller, has set down in bis tale\n\"Der Hirschgulden\" (The Stag-mint-\nmatch. The maternity ward was visited under the ciceronage of Miss\nMacKenzie, and great interest was\nshown by the Duchess in all appointments of the nursery, diet-kitchen, operating room, etc. In the course of\nthe morning the Duchess visited the\nBlue Cross rooms in Humboldt street.\nAs patron of the order she expressed\nvery great interest and sympathy in\nthe work, and noted with gratification\nthat such good work was being done\nthrough tbe branch. Thc vice-regal\nparty on Friday afternoon motored to\nthe golf links at Colwood, two foursomes being made up among T. R. II.\nthe Duke and Duchess of Con naught,\nthe Princess Patricia, His Honor the\nLieutenant-Governor ami Mrs. Barnard, Mrs. Prior, Colonel James and\nColonel Stanton. Afterwards the\nwhole party went to Ilatley Park,\nwhere they had tea. About twenty-\nfour were present at dinner at Go\\-it.astle t)f Hohenzollern,\nernment House in thc evening.\nThe Hohenzollern Florin\nburg, adding to it, however, the rich\ncity of Balingen.\nKuii'i rode away quietly, though he\nwept inwardly to leave the place\nwhere he had been burn and where\nhis mother lay buried. As soon as he\nwas installed in Stag-burg, he shamed\nhis step-mother and noble brothers\ned Florin) a story of the ancient house by giving full rein to his base procliv-\nbased on popular legends that still ities. There was not a poor person\nare told in winter evenings by the whom he did not visit and help. He\nsimple folk of that part of Germany, associated with learned men though\nThe site of the old castle is less than\n7(1 miles from the battle-line in the\nVosges).\nthey wore rags. Altogether he displayed himself as a thorough vulgarian.\nHowever, the gentlemen of Ilohen-\nIn the part of beautiful Wurtemberg' zollern and Rogue-burg had a rich\nwhich the Germans love under the comfort, Kuno was not at all strong,\nname of Swabia, are the ruins of the i\"I hope he'll follow our sainted father\nonce the soon,\" said Wolf to his lady mother.\nA most successful garden party was\nheld by the Scottish Daughters' League at the home of Mrs. G. Pettigrew.\n1461 Burnaby street, in aid of the Red\nCross Society and benevolent funds.\nThe beautiful grounds were tastefully\nlaid off,'the decorations and electrical lights being quite a feature, and\nthe attractions were numerous, being\nmost ingenious and interesting and\ncreating much merriment. ' Several\n.booths were erected throughout the\ngrounds, a brisk trade being done in\ncakes, candies, ice-creams, flowers,\netc. Mrs. Deyos proved an expert card\nreader and Miss Pettigrew created\nmuch interest in her cup reading,\nand the tea room was an institution\nwhich was largely patronised. The\nScottish orchestra under the leadership of Mr. T. Shankie was in attend:\nancc and gave excellent music, also\na splendid programme of vocal and\ninstrumental items were given, those\nassisting being Mrs. J. Eadie, Miss\nIsdale, Miss Wardhaugh, Miss Jenny\nMelville, Miss Nan Rttncie, Miss Wilson, Mr. Walter Wardhaugh, Corporal\nMcCulIough, Mr. J. Johnstone and Mr\nW. Crann, Jr. Hearty votes of thanks\nwere accorded to all who had contributed to the success of the gathering, special mention being made of\nMr. and Mrs. Pettigrew for their kindness in placing their home and\ngrounds at the disposal of the society.\nOver $100.00 was realised for the\nsociety.\n* * *\nNellie Melba lost no time in getting\nto work after her arrival in Australia,\nafter the first shock of her fathers\ndeath, and she has been giving lessons to many students at thc Albert\nStreet Conservatory in Melbourne\never since. When she stayed over at\nHonolulu on her way home she picked up a young singer named Peggy\nCenter, who accompanied her to Melbourne, and is now studying with her\nthere. Temperamentally, the great\nAustralian songbird never suggests\nthe presence of Spanish blood in her\nveins. Yet her mother was Spanish,\nwhile her father was Scotch. For\nmany years David Mitchell sang in\nthe choir of the Scots' Church in\nSandy Says Wullie has Guid Cause tae\nDread a Defeat at the Polls\nHOW DO YOU\nBUY BREAD?\nDo you ask for, and get, just a \"loaf of bread,\" or do\nyou, like the wise, discriminating buyers, order\nSMAX and\nSUNLIGHT\n\"THE BETTER BREADS\"\nThese are wholesome, nutritious\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdmade in a modern,\nsanitary bakery\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdin every detail as good bread as\nconscientious effort can make them.\nEvery loaf crisp, tender, delicious\ufffd\ufffd\ufffddone to a turn.\nIf your grocer cannot supply you, phone Fairmont\n443 and we'll get it to you prompt.\nHAMPTON-PINCHIN\nBakers of Better Bread\nFASHION'S WIDE FI,AHING8\nTnfctta combined with nitki- Ih one of the dominant notes of fnithloii'a lyre\nthis gay spring sens The enpe collar trimmed with bands of serge, the\ndraped reveres, the nielnl liuekle nnd ihc full sleeves with the flaring- bell cuff,\nare outstanding: features. \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nstrongest burg in southwestern Germany.\nMany cetnuries ago, shortly after\ngunpowder was invented, there was a\ncount of Zollern who had three sons\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nKuno, his first born, only son by his\nfirst wife, and Wolf and Rogue, twin\nsons by his second wife.\nKuno grieved the good old count\nsadly. Instead of practicing the family virtues, he wasted his time in acquiring stupid knowledge, going even\nso far as to learn reading and writing.\nHe hardly knew the use of a sword,\nand his poor father felt humiliated\nwhenever he looked at him.\nWolf and Rogue were not guilty of\nsuch unfilial conduct. Neither of them\ncould write his name, and they were\nso far from being pacifists that they\ntreated each other like cat and dog\nuniting in love only when some injury\nwas to be done to stupid Kuno.\nCount of Zollern, delighted beyond\nmeasure by the worthy bearing of the\ntwins, built two noble castles ou hills\nin his domain, naming them Rogue-\nburg and Stag-burg. These he ' intended to leave by will to the gallant\npair. His wife, however, beset him\nwith tears and wheedling. \"Kuno,\"\nshe said, \"is immensely rich through\nthe wealth left him by his mother.\nHer jewels alone are worth almost\nthis whole domain. Shall he have rich,\nbeautiful Hohenzollern also?\"\n\"He is the, first born!'' growled the\nhonest count, but he yielded. When\nhis will was opened after his death, it\nwas found that Rogue had inherited\nRogue-burg, that Hohenzollern had\nbeen left to Wolf and that to Kuno he\nhad bequeathed the castle of Stag-\n\"Thcn, when Rogue and I divide his\nproperty, we will sell you the jewels\ncheap.\"\n\"What?\" exclaimed his mother. \"Is\nthat my reward for obtaining Hohenzollern for you?\" She turned to\nRogue. \"You'll give me the jewels,\nwon't you?\"\n\"The only thing that is given away,\nlady mother,\" said Rogue, laughing,\n\"is death.\"\nThe three quarreled many times\nthereafter over the spoils. Wolf and\nRogue both sent men to watch Stag-\nburg and they agreed that the one\nwho learned first of Kuno's death\nshould fire all his cannon,*, in reward\nfor which he was to have the privilege\nof selecting the best wines from the\ncastle cellars.\nKuno's faithful squire learned of the\nsordid compact, and Kuno, hoping that\nit was not true, ordered him to ride\nout and announce that he was dying.\nAs soon as the squire told the false\nnews to the watchers, they galloped\nheadlong each to his master's castle,\nand presently the mountains rang\nwith the cannonading from both\nstrongholds.\nBefore, the. guns had ceased smoking, Wolf and Rogue both were riding to. Stag:burg, each fearing that\nthe other might take more than his\nshare. They met at the drawbridge\nand clattered into the courtyard together. Their brother was standing\nat a window.\n\"From this time,\" said he, \"all bonds\nof kinship between us are dissolved.\nLeave my grounds.at once, or you\nshall learn how we shoot at Stag-\nburg.\"\n(Continued on page 8)\nWeel freens, things are commencin'\ntae come oor wey a bitty noo in connection wi' the war.\nI ken maist o' yae are like mysel\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdnever had ony true doobts as tae\nthe ultimate ootcome, an' hard though\nsome o' the trials we ha'e went\nthrough, there wis never a meenit we\ngien bridle tae the thocht that we\nwudnie come oot tap dug.\nIf we ever had ony thochts that wey\na fellie only required tae look at the\ncasualty lists an' read a letter frae\nsome o' oor brave lads that had been\nwounded tae unnerstaun the speerit\nthat wis animatin' thc common rank\nan' file. Kitchener micht bc deed but\nthe' speerit o' unbounded optimism*\nbe inspired in his fe-llie countrymen\ndurin' his lifetime '11 long remain \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nan' that's the speerit that's gaun tae\nwin the war.\nWhen the history o' the war comes\ntae bc written, the battles, bluidy an'\nterrible as they were, '11 fade intae\ninsignificance beside the titanic feat\nperformed by Kitchener\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdfive millyin\nsodgers oot o' raw material in eich-\nteen months. Are wc downhearted?\nXO!\n* * *\nWeel freens, if we cannie gae tae\nthe front, we can at least dae oor wee\nbit tae help at hame, an' the Lor' kens\nwe hae a big enough job here. The\nfellies that are fechtin' oor battles\nin France an' Flanders are deservin'\no' oor very best, an' it wud be a cryin'\nshame if, on their return, they fund\nthe same bunch o' peanut politeesh-\nians in power as when they left. They\ntalk aboot haundin' oot pre-emptions\nfor them when they come back\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdit\nstrikes me that what thc sodgers '11\ndae when they return is tae put the\nwhole miserable crew on some preemption awa up the country an' keep\nthem there. We wud sUne hear them\ngrowl.\nAs yae are a' pretty weel aware by\nnoo, the Provincial Elections in B. C.\nhas been fixed for the 14th September,\nan' it's the honest hope o' every true\nBritish Columbian, be he Scotch, English or Irish, no forgcttin' even the\nnative sons, that oor local Kaiser '11\nbe dealt sic a tremendous slap on the\nsnout that he'll wish he had volunteered for active service, or that he\nhad never left his little back room awa\nback on the other side o' the continent. For, truth tae tell, freens, if we\nmanage tae get that Wee Fellie oot\no' office owre in Victoria this time.\nI dinnie'think we'll ever be bothered\nwi' him ony mare.\nThe gang that represented the citizens o' British Columby (loud laughter) in the last legislature were a\nsorry bunch, an' despite a' thc bunkum an' bull that Wnllie's peddlin'\nthe 'noo aboot oor glorious prospects\nin the future\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdwe, the workers an' producers, ken darned fine that we've\ngot tae rid oorsels o' the vermin afore\nwe can hope tae cure tlje disease o'\nstagnation under whose heavy liaun'\nthe province is stlfferin'.\nThe Wee Fellie's makin' desperate\nefforts tae get back tae power. At\nthc time o' writin' he's stumpin' the\ncountry (at oor expense, of course)\nin a vain attempt tae mak the electors\nbelieve that he's a saicond Emperor\nWilliam wi' the same divine power attached, specially sent frae heaven (if\nhe wud tell the truth for yince an' no'\nmix the twa places) tae lead the province oot o' the era o' debauchery\nDicky the First had led it intae, an\nthat he had noo formed a \"Business\nGovernment\" (gee whiz) tae bring\naboot a state o' prosperity in the\notintry.\nWeel, Wnllie's ha'en a pretty mixed\nreception in his tour up country, an'\nfrae the reports o' his meetin's in\nthe subsidized press, it's plain tae be\nseen that his audiences are very critical. The tone o' the Wee Fellie's replies wud show that he's often times\ntempted tae tell his tormentors, as he\ntelt Cole, the Indian, \"tae get tae hell\nout.\"\nHooever, if there's onything Wnllie's blessed wi'\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdit's a tremendous\namount o' gall. I'm oftentimes tempted tae think the Wee Fellie's got a'\nslate off his tap, that he can go aboot\ntryin' tae mak ordinary, common .folk\nbelieve what he is sayin'.\nBut like ither' loonies, he has a\nmethod tae his madness. A defeat at\nthe comin' election wud mean that the\nWee Fellie wud hat tae resign office.\nThat wud be a bad peel for Wullie\ntae swallow, jist when he had visions\no' bein' ca'd tae London an' comin'\nback wi a wee tin sword at his side,\nas the Hon. (?) Sir William Bowser\n(cheese it!)\nBut, freens, there's anither reason\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdan' the real reason\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdwhy Wullie's\npittin' up sic a desperate fecht, an'\nwhy he'll stop at naethin' in his attempt tae cling tae office.\nIt's my honest belief that if a majority o' the oppisishun get back (an'\nI'll pawn my kilts if they dinnie)\nthere's gaun tae be revelashuns besides which Price Ellison's kye, Dr.\nYoung's coal shares, an' ither sic like\nthings '11 look like Sunday Schule\ntexts.\nIf it's for naethin' else but the Do-\nminyin Trust jobbery, Wullie should\nha'e been out o' office long ago. He\nwis the villain in that piece, an' he has\nnever made ony honest attempt tae\ndeny it.\nWullie's never mentioned Domin-\nyin Trust iu ony o' his \"speeches\" in\nthe upper country, an' I've! nae doobt\nhe's tryin' tae lull himsel intae the idea\nthat the folk ha'e forgot a' aboot the\nrobbery.\nMad that despicable piece o cowardly political treachery been perpetrated\nin ony ither place than B. C, the man\nresponsible for the passin' o' the legislation that enabled it tae be cairrietl\noot wud ha'e been behind the prison\nbars months ago.\nI'll gie yae the Wee Fellie's ain\nwords, in case yae think I'm over-\nstatin'. Interviewed by a committee\no' depositors, Bowser said: \"I told\nmy departmental solicitor to go to\nthc Private Bills Committee an' inform them that the bill wis ultra vires\n(not legal), but be came back an' said\nthat the Private Bills Committee were\nall 'lined up' by W. R. Arnold.\" In\nanswer tae a further questyin by yae\nmember o' the committee o' depositors as tae why he hadnie opposed the\nbill on the floor o' the hoose, he\nknowin' it tae be illegal, the Wee\nFellie replied: \"Well, you know what\nthat would have meant\ufffd\ufffd\ufffda defeat of\nthe Government.\"\nHere wis the heid law officer o' the\ncroon\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdthe man we peyed tae see that\nthe laws that were put on the statute\nbooks were just an' legal, deliberately\nstealiu' a millyin an' a half dollars\nfrae his ain fellie citizens that had elected him tae his public office.\nNoo, freens, yae often read o' a puir\nwretch gettin' three year in the pen\nfor stealin' a loaf o' bread or a bag\no' Rogers' sugar\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdyet here wc ha'e\nthe spectacle o' thc heid o' the polis\nforce in British Columby takin' the\nmajor pairt in wan o' the cruellest\nrobberies ever planned, appealin' for\nthe suffrages o' the people he stole\nfrae.\nNaw, Wullie, the Dominyin Trust's\nnoo deid\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdby a long shot. In the\nmeantime the depositors are markin*\ntime until they see hoo tlieir case\n'11 come oot afore the Privy Cooncil\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nhut, Wullie, they dinnie intend tae\nforget your pairt in it. As faur as\nthey're concerned, yaer number's up.\nYours through the heather,\nSANDY MACPHERSON.\nSpecial Prize Given for Best Loaf of\nHome Made Bread\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdVancouver Exhibition Association\nA special prize has been offered by\nthe Western Canada Flour Mills, Ltd.,\nfor the best loaf of home-made bread\nmade from \"Purity Flour\" by any nonprofessional. To each entry form\nthere should be attached a purchase\nslip for at least one 49-lb. sack of Purity Flour, purchased within thirty.^\ndays of the Exhibition, which coniM\/\nmenc.es on August 14th. The entry\nfee is ten cents and the special prizes\noffered for loaves made with the\nabove flour are $15 as first prize, and\n$10 as second prize. All loaves to\nweigh approximately 1 1-2 lbs.\nKeen interest was shown in this\nfeature at our last Exhibition, and the\nWestern Canada Flour Mills have repeated their offer as an added attraction to our Household Art display.\nWe hope that as many as possible will\ntake advantage of this generous offer.\nVancouver Exhibition, August 14th\nto 19th. Office, Loo Building. Entries close August 2nd.' SATURDAY. TULY 29, 1916\nTHE STANDARD\nFIVE\nBOND INVESTMENTS\nPrimarily, look for healthy security and buy from a responsible\nCompany that has i:arefully_scrutinized the investment.\nSecond, consider tbe interest returns.\nThe safeguards of a true investment can be easily verified. The\nB. C. Municipal Bonds wc handle are a charge on all properties\nwithin each respective municipality. They yield from 6'.'> per\ncent, to 7H per cent. Consult our Bond Dept. in person or by letter.\nCanadian Financiers Trust Company\nHead Office: 839 Hastings Street West, Vancouver, B.C.\nPATRICK DONNELLY, General Manager.\nFINANCE & COMMERCE\nNorthern Securities Limited\nEstablished 1906\n529 PENDER STREET WEST\nFINANCIAL AGENTS.\nSeymour 1574\nESTATE MANAGERS\nNOTARY PUBLIC\nDEBENTURE INVESTMENTS\nWe can offer you, subject to prior sale and rise in price, small lots\nof from $500 up in gilt-edged Provincial and Municipal Debentures, to\nyield 5 per cent, and over. A splendid opportunity for the small\ninvestor.\nB. GEO. HANSULD\nManager\nExcelsior Life Insurance Company\nHead Office: Toronto\nVANCOUVER OFFICES: STANDARD BANK BUILDING\nF. J. Gillespie,\nProvincial Manager\nM. J. Gillespie,\nProvincial Inspector\nThis old line Company has $1.50 for every dollar of liability.\nOur policies are approved by the Dominion Government. The rates\nare no higher than other Companies. \"Safety First\" is our motto.\nTHE LINE TO\nTRAVEL BY\nStraight and Quick\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdthe B. C. Telephone^ Line--to almost any point.\nYou need only stretch your hand to\nyour telephone\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdthe whole country is\nwithin your reach.\nB.C. TELEPHONE CO. LTD.\nTRuSK\nRAIL TICKETS TO ALL POINTS\nGeneral Agency Transatlantic Steamship Lines\nC. E. Jtnney, Q. A. P. D,\nPhone: Sey. \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd134\nW. G. Connolly. C. P. F. A.\nS21 Granville Strtst\nDOMESTIC WAR LOAN\nAs announced early in the vear. tin-j\nIJ .minion will float a domestic war '\n; loan of probably $100,000,000, at an\nearly date, the terms of the loan are!\nnot yet made public but the rate will I\nprobably be 5 per cent., and it is pos-j\njsible that denominations may be as'\nsmall as $100, to give iln- small investor an opportunity to participate\n|and at the same time perform a patri-'\njotic act in helping to finance the great j\njwar. The subscription list .vill bc op- \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nened early in September, and'advertisements will appear next week- in all\n; Canadian newspapers.\nThe advertisements will not givej\nany information as to the terms of I\nI the loan, which will be announced I\nlater, but will be in the nature of an!\nPI appeal to Canadian people to hold\nthemselves in readiness to subscribe\nfor the loan.\nNo doubt the advertisements are\nalso intendr ' to check the flow -if\nCanadian money into foreign war\nbonds, which are now being freely\noffered to our people by' American\nfinancial houses. Judging by the enormous accumulation of capital in our\nbanks, the new war loan will meet\nwith complete success.\nUNION STEAMSHIP CO. of B.C. Limited\nTHE BRITISH COLUMBIA COAST HAS BEEN DESCRIBED\nAS THE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD\nA VOYAGE\n\"North by West in the Sunlight\"\nIN ONE OF OUR\nEight Vessels \"8\" in Regular Service\nWILL HELP YOU TO REALISE THIS TRUTH\nApply to our Publicity Department for brochures \"Outward Bound\"\nand \"Xorth by West In the Sunlight,\"- and particulars on Special Fares,\nHotel Accommodation and Tariffs, etc.\nHead Offices nnil Wlinrfl UNION DOCK, FOOT OF CARRALL STREET\nTake Car to Columbia Avenue Phone Seymour 306\nTHE RAILWAY BOARD OF IN\nQUIRY\nThe above title is given to the Com\nmission appointed by the Dominion\nGovernment to examine into and report on the conditions of the Grand\nTrunk Pacific, Canadian Northern,\nand other lines. The Government\nhas appointed men most eminently\nsuited for this heavy task. The board\nis composed of Sir Henry Drayton,\nchairman of the Board of Railway\nCommissioners for Canada, whose\nwork has brought him into close touch\nwith railroad affairs in the Dominion;\nMr. Alfred H. Smith, pfejidenUof the\nNew York Central lines, and Sir\nGeorge Paish, the eminent British\nstatist.\nOn the report of these commissioners will depend the final policy of\nthe Government as regards our complex railroad situation, and whether\nthe Dominion will embark on national ownership of at least several of our\ngreat trunk lines, or in the alternative,\nhow they may be properly financed.\n* * *\nHAS MONEY DEPRECIATED?\nEconomists are now asking if money has depreciated in value since\nthe outbreak of the war. There can\nbe little doubt that it has and it may j\nbe that in this manner may be explained some of the financial phenomena\nobservable at the present time. For\ninstance, how can it possibly bc that\nwe are more prosperous in, spite of\nthe destruction being brought about\nby the war? Xo one worth talking\nto, of course, would dispute that war\nis destruction\ufffd\ufffd\ufffddestruction of stored\nup wealth and visible objects, such as\nbridges and buildings, and destruction\nor waste of thc wealth producing po-j\nwers of soldiers while they are under ,\narms as well as of all those whose energies, instead of being exercised in\nthe production of useful objects\nknown as wealth, are directed towards\nthe production of war material, the\nend of which is to destroy wealth.\nAnd yet it might almost be said, if one\nwere to observe only isolated fads,\nthat wealth .has increased during this\nthe most costly war of all time. The\nUnited States has been able to perform prodigies of finance as a result\nof the profits her industries have ]\nmade from the war. Never before has\nthe United States seemed so rich,\nand never before has she seemed to'\nhave so much money to spend. Never\nbefore has she paid such high wages\nand never before have fortunes been\nheaped up so quickly.\nIt might be said in reply that the\nUnited States has reaped all the profits of the war. To say this, however,\nwould not be to slate the case correctly, because precisely the same remarks would apply, with necessary\nmodifications to Canada. It is a well\nknown fact that in Canada the deposits, known as savings deposits, in\nchartered banks, are enormously larger than ever before and month after\nmonth these reach high records. A-\nlong with this has gone new high records in the matter of bank clearings\nthroughout practically the whole Dominion. Scores of companies which in\nnormal times were glad to show earnings of ten to fifteen per cent, on\ntheir capital are now considered out\nof thc running unless they show earnings of many times that amount. Canadian applications for loans are favorably regarded abroad where formerly they received scant consideration.\nCanadians themselves have oversubscribed one hundred per cent, a domestic loan for $50,000,000, so that the\nloan was made $100,000,000. Two\nmonths from now, another similar\nloan will bc offered and it is certain\nthat it also will be taken. Meantime, Canada has financed $100,000.-\n000 on account of war orders placed\nhere by tbe Allies. Yet, before the\nwar, Canada was considered to be in\na very bad way financially.\nIf again it bc urged that Canada\nwas particularly fortunate, along with\nthe United States, in obtaining these\norders which accomplished such wonders for her and if it be thought that\nsuch conditions do not prevail elsewhere amongst the beligerents, once\nmore we have the right to offer the\ncontrary view. Great Britain, while\nattending to her own financing and\npaying for a large proportion of the\nv\/a\\r expenditure, has financed her\nAllies to the tune of $2,000,000,000.\nMeantime, her debt has increased enormously. Prior to the war, her national debt was said to be about $3,-\n500,000,000; early this year it had\ngrown to $11,155,000,000. A century\nago the debt was $4,500,000,000, at\nwhich time thc income of the people\nof Great Britain was estimated at\n$1,500,000,000. Today the income of\nher people is estimated at $12,500,000,-\n000. So that while the debt lias increased to 14-5 per cent, in a century\nthe income has increased 833 per cent.\nA century ago the debt represented\n36 per rent, of the estimated wealth\nof the people, whereas today it represents bul \\2 per Cent, of it.\nIt is difficult to go farther afield.\nconditions in the \"tlu-r nations being\nless understood . l-'rom newspaper\ntalk and from the number of orders\nbeing placed by Russia and the evident desire of industrial concerns to\nobtain further orders, it would appear\nthat Russian credit is little worse\nthan it was a year or so ago, when\norders first began offering from that\ncountry. In Germany, wdiere conditions arc commonly assumed to be at\nthe breaking point, the financial statements of many concerns go to show-\nextraordinary profits. Apparently all\nthc war loans offered arc being taken\nreadily enough. Much the same news\nis beard of Italy and of France, while\nFrance and Russia are apparently not\nexperiencing any particular trouble\nin securing loans from the United\nStates.\n* * *\nTHE N. S. P. CHEQUE\nA divine is looked upon as cash\nby a banker. The passing of a cheque\nfrom one hand to another to discharge\nan obligation mean-, that the one has\nin effect handed over so much cash,\nbut finds it inconvenient to carry money on his person and so resorts to\nthe cheque. When a cheque is signed, is presented to a bank, and ii returned marked n.S.f., it means -.imply\nthat the drawer is trying to shortchange some one. So tliat the attempt\nof the Canadian Credit Men's Trust\nAssociation to make the issue of a\ncheque of that nature a criminal offence is common sense.\nMONTREAL BRANCH AT BORDEN CAMP\nThe Bank of Montreal lias opened\nan office at Camp Borden, Ontario,\nThe branch will be in charge of Mr.\nE. Pitt for the present, with the title\nof acting manager.\n* * *\nToronto reports to Bradstreet's say\nthat certain wholesale dealers report'\na temporary seasonable lull in trade. |\nThe same men, however, speak of the I\nvolume of sales this year to date as\nwell ahead of 1915. They state also\nthat fall orders promise to exceed\nthose of a year ago.\n* * *\nMontreal reports to Braiistreet's\nsay that business conditions are.al-gut\nnormal. Statements from concerns\noperating on war orders continue\ngood, showing increases ill sales and\nprofits.\nQUEBEC INSURANCE AGENTS'\nLAW\nThe Province of Quebec has i-na.t-\ned legislation which went into effect\non March 16th, requiring all insurance agents to be residents of thc\nprovince, with certain exceptions.\nThe sections of the Act are as lo!\nlows:\n\"No insurance agent shall do bits'\nness as such in this province who i\nnot a bona fide resident of the province.\n\"Nevertheless the provisions of the\nfirst paragraph of this article shall\nnot apply to an agent residing in any\nother province whose laws permit a-\ngents residing in this province to do\nbusiness in such other province on the\nsame terms and conditions as resident thereof.\n\"The words 'Insurance Agent,' in\nthis section shall include an acknowledged agent, sub-agent or any person, firm or corporation who shall,\non behalf of any insurance company,\nin any manner transact the business\nof insurance by negotiating for or\nplacing risks, or delivering policies, or\ncollecting premiums, but shall not include the officers and salaried employees of any insurance company\nwho do not receive commissions, nor\nthe agents or representatives of mutual benefit associations.\"\nPhone Seymour 9086\nSOMETHING\nYOU NEED\nfor the safety of your valuables\nand Documents.\nA Private Box\nin our Safety Vault.\n$2.50 Per Annum\nDOW FRASER\nTRUST CO.\n122 HASTINGS STREET W.\nPhone Highland 137\nGrandview Hospital\n1090 VICTORIA DRIVE\nVANCOUVER - B.C.\nMedical : Surgical : Maternity\nRates from $15.00 per week\nCENTER * HANNA LIMITED\nNrw Lolion. IM'I Gmiila .Wl. \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd uir ,.-\ufffd\ufffd\nIMC. A.\nVancouver Exhibition, August 14th\nto 19th. Office, Loo Building. Entries close August 2nd.\nClassified Advertising\nFLORISTS\nBROWN BROS. & CO., LIMITED.!\nSeedsmen, Florists, Nurserymen, 48 j\nHastings St. E., and 782 Granville\nStreet, Vancouver, B. C.\nWATCHMAKER\n10,000 WATCHES and CLOCKS\nwanted to clean and repair at the\nfactory, 438 RICHARDS STREET.\nFor Sale\n$150 CASH\nThrough their representative\ngoing to the War, the famous\nAustralian firm of Trewhellas\nwant to immediately quit 6\n(SIX) of their world-renowned\nTree and Stump Grubbers\nTHEY WILL TAKE\n$150 EACH CASH\nfor the full equipment, which\nwas selling at $200 before the\nbig rise in materials. Otherwise\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdwe are instructed to return them to Australia if NOT\nSOLD WITHIN 60 DAYS.\nTHIS IS A VALUABLE\nOPPORTUNITY for anyone\nwanting the world's best clearing machinery.\n'Send CASH $150 and Order\nNow to\nThe Campbell\nStorage Co., Ltd.\n857 BEATTY STREET\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nWHERE BRITISH CAVALRY GETS A CHANCE\nIn Ihe fighting In France and Belgium, the niiliin- ot ihc Conflict obviates the necessity for cavalry at present,\nbnt In the campaign* In Egypt and other thentres of the present (treat war, the mounted men are getting an opportunity. Thc picture sIiiiim some British cavalry patrols discovering some ancient hatha, while In pursuit of the Arabs\nIn Western Egypt, where \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd complete success by the Imperl il Forces was announced a few days ago.\nCANADIAN\nPACIFIC\nBACK EAST\nSUMMER\nEXCURSION\nFARES\nTickets on sale daily,\nJune 1 to September\n30, 1916.\nReturn limit three\nmonths, not to exceed\nOctober 31.\nFor full\nparticulars apply\nto any\nC. P. R.\nAgent\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdMkssaai SIX\nTHE STANDARD\nSATURDAY. JULY 29. 1916\nBicycle Notes & Wanderings\nBy Rover\nChevalier Rene de Knyff, speaking\nin the name of the French Automobile\nClub at the majority dinner of the\nPneumatic Tyre Co., said that \"while\nDtinlop was the creator of thc tyre,\nthey knew from experience that the\nmerit or an invention is not sufficient to place it in the position that\nit deserves, It was necessary to find\nat the right moment a man full of energy anil ardor, who would devote\nnot only his intelligence and his experience but his faith in the success\nof the invention. Mr. llarvet du Cros\nwas the man who hail placed himself\nin the forefront of the pneumatic tyre\nindustry.\"\nSingle-handed, not even a tireless\n\"push-and-go\" man like Mr. II. du\nCros could have succeeded in starting\na business with $10,000 capital and\nselling it within seven years for $3,-\n000,000 cash! Du Cros right-hand\ntyred bicycle against ordinaries (high\nbicycles I at Keimiiigtoii Oval.\nCurious it is, though not the leas;\nastonishing, that the eight-year old\nlad who used to he taken to the gymnasium on the step of his father's\nbicycle is now Sir Arthur du Cms,\nMember of Parliament for Hastings.\nHe is the image of his faiher, and has\nfollowed him in every footstep. He\nsucceeded his parent in the wholesale\npaper business, then as M.I'., and latterly has many public duties apart\nfrom those connected with parliament.\nIle is a keen volunteer, being Hon.\nColonel of the 8th Battalion Royal\nWarwickshire Regiment, has helped\nin recruiting and raised and presented\nto the War Office three complete convoys of motor ambulances for active\nserviie. At present he holds an honorary appointment in the Ministry\nof .Munitions.\nplate, referred with pride to his son's\nservices\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdthe most touching passage\nin a great speech. \"This gift,\" he\nsaid, \"will be dearer to me than anything else I possess. I am sure you\ncan understand what a pleasure it will\nbe to my sons, who have supported\nme so loyally and with so much affection in the efforts to establish this\nindustry, sacrificing their own feelings\nand going to live in foreign countries\nfor years to my temporary distress.\"\nA fine picture of filial devotion and\n! parental joy I\nMany personal tributes have been\npaid to the new baro.net J cannot\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdpeak as to his political or commercial services, but I spent many years\nI with him both in the Old Country and\n|the States; but I do know something\nI of the qualities of the du Cros boys\nlas sportsmen. Well do I remember,\n'perhaps one of the novel competitions\nthree of the boys took part in\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdthis\nwas a camel race down the Midway\nPlaisance at the big Chicago Exposition, and for once in a way the writer\nfinished ahead of the du Cros brothers,\nbut it was only by the length of a\nhump.\n* * *\nIndividually, Sir Arthur du Cros as\na sportsman alone deserves every bit\nwhose names will always be honorably remembered in the world of\nwheel sport, and though he was not\nquite the racing quality of Arthur and\nHarvey, he was a good man on the\npath, and always well liked. All his\nfriends will be very glad to know of\nhis real honor, for it seems to some\nof us that that cass of work with all\nits perils and hard and trying labor, is\namong the very best of the high services which are being rendered in such\na gallant profusion to the country at\nthe present time.\nThe Victorian Order of Nurses of\nSouth Vancouver Hold Successful\nGarden Party\nThe Garden Farty given by the Victorian Order of Nurses of South Vai:-\nmver Saturday alien on was well\nattended and a handsome sum was\nrealised. This will be used in connection with the relief work of the order.\nMrs. Kerr gave the use of her beautiful home on 19th Avenue. Mrs. D.\nWoosnam was in charge of the refreshments. A very de'.'p-htful luncheon was scrve-'l. Mrs. Robert Cavers\nwas convenor of thc affair and assisting her was Mrs. W. W. Harvey,\ncandy booth; Mrs. A .N. Young, assisted by Miss Givins, while Mrs. McDowell and Mrs. A. C. Hunter looked\nafter the kiddies. Mr. D. M. Stewart\ngave a very instructive and interesting\nlecture on phrenology. Mr. Stewart is\nan expert phrenologist, and read many heads during the afternoon, to the\ndelight of the ladies particularly. A\nvery excellent musical programme\nwas arranged. Miss Ralph gave a\nviolin solo, Mr Genrpi; Hogg also\ncontributed a nu Tiber, Others contributing were Miss Orr, Mrs. Bailey.\nMrs. Samson, Mrs. Md-'herson, and\nMr. and Misses Kennedy. The Mick-\nelthwaite Family Orchestra was in\nattendance throughout the afternoon\nand evening. The ladies wish to thank\nevery one who helped them make il\nsuch a success. *\n! HASTINGS MILL WHARF, .11 I.V 3rd\nFor some time It hna been almost Impossible to get ship* to curry lumber, and It looks like old times to sec\nthree at the Haatlnga Mill, the Golden Gate loading one nnd a quarter million fret and the Glenshee, 800,000 feet, both\nfor South Africa, and the Philippine, 800,000 feet for FIJI.\nmen were his sons, six of them, and\nit is with them that this article is\nchiefly concerned. In their father\nlay the secret of tlieir success; he was\nas much an elder brother as parent;\nand their athletic and commercial achievements were due to his untiring\ntuition. The father was an athlete\nhimself, and those who know him only\nas the silk-hatted, morning-coated\nchairman of the Dunlop Tyre Co., little dreamed that he could walk on his\nhands, stand on his head, and throw\nsomersaults and handsprings as gracefully and easily as he could address a\nshareholders meeting. All his sons\ninherited his sporting procliviti'es, and\nr,ll became prominent in various sports\nparticularly in cycle racing. They\nwere speedy riders on the road and\ntrack, and a trio of thc brothers occasionally filled thc first three places\nin a race. Naturally they were anxious to secure anything that would\nimprove their pace, fast as it was on\ntheir solid rubber tyres, .ind the\npneumatic could not have been submitted to more receptive minds, or\nbeen better pushed iu hostile circles\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdtrade, sport and pastime. \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nArthur, the third of the family, was\nthe speediest of the lot, and had a\nbrilliant career on thc path. He was\nonly fourteen years of age when hi;\nwon every hill-climbing competition\nin Ireland for which he entered.\nChampionships, challenge cups, and\nall manner of distinctions came his\nway in succeeding years, and amongst\nhis experience was a proposal to hold\nraces with Arthur du Cms barred\n(he was then practically invincible),\ntwo decisive beatings by Zimmerman,\nin Paris, and thc Surrey Club's refusal\nto allow him to ride a pneumatic-\nIs Your Good Health\nWorth the Price of a\nBicycle to You?\nOF COURSE IT IS\nThen give me ten minutes of\nyour time to tell you the advantage of riding one of .my PARAGON bicycles.\nThe details of the Paragon,\nCanada's BEST BICYCLE,\nhave been carefully considered\nby myself after many years of\nstudy, both as a practical mechanic, an ardent tourist, and\na successful path and road racer.\nAn initial cost of $37.50 is\nbetter than endless doctors bills.\nFRED DEELEY\nThe Cycle Man\nGRANVILLE STREET\nVANCOUVER\n1126\nSend for 47-page illustrated\ncatalogue\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdpost free. .\nThe new baronet is a sportsman to\nthe backbone. True, he motors more\nthan he cycles nowadays, but his\ntastes remain distinctly catholic. All\nthat tends to physical development obtains his support, contests that are\nlikely to produce supremacy in some\nparticular branch of sport probably\nmost of all.\nWithin thc last week or two he has\noffered a $6,500. belt for a world's\nheavy weight boxing championship, to\nbenefit the \"Sportsmen's War Fund.\nOnly recently he brought Wells,\nWilde, Driscoll, \"Digger\" Stanley,\nSyd Smith, and oth'er champions to his\nplace at Canon's Park, to give a display before over 200 wounded soldiers. In pre-war days Sir Arthur\ndevoted considerable time to the Territorials, and it is not generally known\nthat he offered special facilities to\n'Terriers\" employed in the Dunlop\nCompany's huge factories in Birmingham to attend the training camps\nwithout loss of money or holidays.\nMr. Alfred du Cros, besides being a\nfast sprinter, was a grand trick rider,\nand could give a professional a lesson. Harvey Junior's specialty was\none mile handicaps. Fred, William\nand George were all good at various\ndistances, and the brothers have been\nknown to appropriate all the prizes\nin more than one event.\n+ * #\nMessrs. W. and G\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd besides selling\nmotor cars, and running huge motor\ncab services, are interested in other\nconcerns. Not the least exciting is\nthe war. Both are captains, and have\nbeen at the front for months, working\ngratitously with a fleet of motor ambulances towards the lessening of human suffering.\n* * \ufffd\ufffd\nMr. Harvey, junior, has also large\ninterests in various cycle and motor\ncompanies, most of which claim him\nas a director. Mr. Alfred is the secretary of the Dunlop Company, and\nMr. Fred (his twin brother) has likewise made his mark in the tyre world\nAll have travelled extensively and\nhelped to build up the Dunlop business abroad. Mr. du Cros, senior, at\nthe coming-of-age banquet of the\ncompany in 1909, at which he was presented with a magnificent service of\nof the honor he has obtained and the\ngreat success he has achieved. The\nsport and healthier side of cycling\nand racing in particular benefitted by\nhis participation. It can always be\nclaimed for him by his friends that\nhe was a gentleman of the first quality on the track, taking his many remarkable victories modestly, and his\nfew defeats with good grace and a\nnever failing admiration for the men\nwho beat him. There was always\nsomething quiet, refined, and almost\ngentle about his demeanour and'style,\nand there was never a bigger favorite\nwith thc public, who seldom fail to recognise talent of the kind that he in\nvariably illustrated. Who will forget\nhis appearance at thc Aston Track on\nthe occasion of the Sport and Play\nWhitsuntide meeting in 1890? -It was\nthe first time the Midland public had\nseen the pneumatic -tyre in competition, and the manner in which Arthur\nand Harvey du Cros and tlieir \"balloon\" tyred machines swept thc board\nthat sdnsational day is often talked\nabout in sporting circles after all these\nyears. They afterwards generously\nlent tlieir machines to Herbert Laurie, and A. G. Fcntiman, and these two\nable riders immediately knocked spots\noff the three mile record, and made\nhacksk of several first-raters who\nwere riding solids, to thc huge delight\nof the spectators. There are other\nepisodes in the racing career of Arthur du Cros which I could enumerate,\ncvery one of which did him infinite,\ncredit, and my own remembrance of\nhim will always recur as that of a\nvery perfect and gallant Knyghte\"\nin thc-sporting world, and who is a\nfitting man for the title and honors\nwhich so well become him. May his\nyears be long in the land, and full of\nserene happiness.\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd * *\nCaptain William du Cros was men\ntioned in Sir Douglas Haig's despatch\nrecently for efficient services rendered. He has been at the front for\nover a year supervising the transport\nin motor ambulances of wounded soldiers from the fighting line to the\nfield and base hospitals, and has done\nmost valuable and humane work during all that time. Captain William du\nCros is one of a- band of brothers\nTHE EDITOR'S MAIL\nHere is an interesting letter from\na man at Trail, B. C, who is evidently\na Brewster supporter. The epistle is\ntypical of a score of letters received\nat THE STANDARD office during\nthe past fortnight, dealing with the\npolitical situation throughout the interior:\nBox 264, Trail, B. C.\n22nd July, 1916.\nEditor STANDARD,\nVancouver, B. C.\n\"Friend George,\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdJust a few lines\nto let you know that I am still alive\nand much concerned over the condi\ntion of affairs in Vancouver as quoted in the government press.\n\"The hopeful rays of the SUN find\nrest in this far distant Liberal fold,\nand say, George, how about your\nworthy publication? Either mail us\na copy for the Association, weekly, or\nsend one to me and charge me for it.\n\"Mike Sullivan is candidate for the\nLiberals in this riding, and we are\n\"IT'S ALRIGHT, I'LL MANAGE IT, THANK VOL\"\nPrince Henry, the third son of the King of England, Is a regular boy, and\nat the Eton College games recently he proved his mettle by coming well up\nIn several events. The picture shows a typical \"bobby\" offering to help young\nHenry on with Ills sweater after a tight finish to one of-the events, but rhe-\nlad declined his asslstnnee.\ngoing after James Schofield, past\nM. P., hard, and what is more, George,\nwe have his goat. The Tories here\nare going blink over 'School Board.'\n\"By some peculiar freak of diversification in thc several Liberal attendants at the yearly membership meeting, they elected me president\n(groans), and by Harry, I have some\nsome business owing to the fact that\nthere are so many newcomers here.\nWe have to hunt to locate our supporters for Mike. Our policy is first\nMike, then planks, then elect him.\nWe are going to have the great and\nglorious privilege of listening to Mr.\nBowser tomorrow evening. We expect to have sonic pleasant questions\nto ask him.\n\"Any information that you may\nwish regarding Trail and surrounding\ndistrict I will try to gather for you,\nand esteem it a pleasure, and any remarks regarding tlie present campaign\nlet them for our candidate. I desire\nno publicity in connection with this.\nI wish I were in Vancouver now for\nthis fight.\n\"Yours sincerely,\nFRANK L. CUMMIXGS.\"\nVancouver Exhibition, August 14th\nto 19th. Office, Loo Building. Entries close August 2nd.\nKeeping it Dark\nAll the passengers in the railway\ncarriage with one exception wore\nsome form of war badge. A stranger\nonly was undecorated. A fussy badge-\nwearer remarked:\n\"I see, sir, that you are the only\none not engaged in some form of war\nwork.\"\n\"I prefer to be quite unostentatious\nabout what I do.\"\n\"What is your war work?\" continued the inquisitive one.\n\"Sir, I am a German spy; but I do\nnot care to make my occupation too\npublic.\"\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdManchester Guardian.\n* * *\nCoal a la Carte, etc.\nWith most of us the grim necessity\nof purchasing coat is no joke. Y'et o\nBoston man found at a coal emporium\nin that city a chap who managed to\ninfuse a degree of facetiousness into\nthc transaction.\n\"How much is chestnut coal?\" timidly inquired the prospective customer.\n\"That depends.\" said the salesman.\n\"A la carte, it's $8: bul de sac, it will\ncost you 50 cents extra.\"\nMr. J. N. Smith is in town Tror*.\nAgassiz for a few days a guest at the\nHotel Vancouver.\nHere Are the Standard-Bearers for 1916\nCOMPLETE LIST OF CANDIDATES THUS FAR NOMINATED FOR PROVINCIAL ELECTION\nBelow will be found THE STANDARD'S tabulated list of all the constituencies which have nominated\ntheir candidate for the coming provincial parliamentary elections, along with the names of the gentlemen who\nare to represent their different parties.\nConstituency\nAlberni ..\nAtlin \t\nCariboo ..\nChilliwack\nCowichan\nColumbia .\nComox ...\nMassey-Harris Bicycles\nFor Rapid Delivery or Messenger Service, the \"MASSEY\" is a\ngeneral favorite.\nBuilt to stand the hardest usage, very easy running.\nMEN'S ROADSTER, $45.00. IMPERIAL, $30.00\nW. H. MORRISON\n108 HASTINGS STREET EAST\nCranbrook \t\nDelta\t\nDewdney \t\nF.squimalt \t\nFort George \t\nFernie \t\nGreenwood \t\nGrand Forks \t\nIslands \t\nKamloops \t\nKaslo \t\nLillooet \t\nNelson \t\nNanaimo \t\nNorth Okanagan .\nSouth Okanagan ..\nNewcastle \t\nNew Westminster\nOmineca \t\nRevelstoke \t\nRossland\t\nRichmond \t\nSaanich \t\nSimilkameen \t\nSkeena \t\nSlocan \t\nNorth ancouver ..\nSouth Vancouver .\nTrail \t\nVancouver \t\nVictoria\nYale\nLiberal\nH. C. Brewster\nFrank Mobley\nJ. Yorston\nE. D. Harrow\nK. Duncan\nJohn Piuckam\nHugh Stewart\nDr. J. If. King\nA. D. Patterson\nJohn Oliver\nA. W. McCurdy\nG. A. Gaskell\nA. I. Fisher\nDr. J. D. McLean\nJ.' E. Thompson\nM. B.Jackson\nF. W. Anderson\nJohn Keen\nJ. B. Bryson\nA. M. Johnson\nWm. Sloan\nDr. K. McDonald\nLeslie V. Rogers\nDavid Whiteside\nA. M. Manson\nDr. Sutherland\nW. D. Willson\nG. G. McGeer\nF. A. Pauline\nR. S. Conkling\nT. D. Pattulo\nChas. F. Nelson\nMayor Hanes\nJ. W. Weart\nMichael Sullivan\nRalph Smith\nM. A, Macdonald\nP. Donnelly\nDr. Mcintosh\"\nJ. S. Cowper\nJ. W. deB. Farris\nH. C. Brewster\nJohn Hart\nGeorge Bell\nH. C. Hall\nJoseph Walters\nConservative\n~* * --.i-ytl fl\nJ. G. C. Wood\nH. X. McDonald\nJ. A. Fraser\nW. D. Mack en\nW. H. Hayward\nDr. Taylor\nM. Manson\nT. D. Caven\nF. J. Mackenzie\nW. J. Manson\nR. H. Pooley\nW. R. Ross\nJ. R Jackson\nE. Miller\nW. W. Foster\nJ. P. Shaw\nNeil Mackay\nArchie McDonald\nDr. W. O. Rose\nA. E. Planta\nPrice Ellison\nMayor Jones\nDr. Dier\nF. M. Dockrill\nHon. T. Taylor\nL. A. Campbell\nW. J. Baird\nD. M. Eberts\nL. W. Shatford\nWin. Manson\nW. Hunter\nG. H. Morden\nRev. Boulton\nJas. A. Schofield\nW. J. Bowser\nC. E. Tisdall\nF. W. Welsh\nWalter Leek\nA. H. Macgowan\nThos. Duke\nAlex. Lucas\nSocialist, Lab. or Independent\nH. W. Maynard\nJ. A. Macd'onald (Soc.\nJohn Mclnnes (Soc.1\nT. P. O'Connor (Soc.)\nJack Place (Soc.)\nParker Williams (Soc.)\n49*\nE. T. Kingsley (Soc.)\nVV. Bennett (Soc.)\nErnest Burns (Soc.)\nJ. Harrington (Soc.)\nJ. Sidaway (Soc.)\nC. Lestor (Soc.1'\nVV. A. Pritehard (Soc.*)\nJ. Kavanagh iSoc.1\nW. W. Lefeaux (Soc.)\nJ. H. Hawthornthwaite (S?oc)\nP. Williams fSoe.1\nDr. E. A. Hall (Ind; Lib.) SATURDAY. JULY 29, 1916\nTHE STANDARD\nSEVEN\nAmerican Sinn Fein\nWould Rule or Ruin\nAbsolute Power of Government by Labor Unions, for\nLabor Unions and of Labor Unions Is Its Demand\nin the Special Interest of a Privileged Class.\nBY H. M. NIMMO\nIn thejunt \"Black and White\"\n(Herewith we reprint a remarkable protest againsl the\naggression of organized labor. It presents the point of\nview of thc American factory owner, and while not necessarily agreeing with Mr. Nimmo's expressions, we print\nthe article as a matter of interest to all classes.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd Editor\nSTANDARD.)\nIRELAND'S woes are not so far away as the broad Atlantic seems to place them. We have our own Sinn Fein.\nLike thc British, we watch it grow and arm; and perhaps, like them, we desperately resolve that remedies are\nhopeless. We have seen the shooting start in Ireland and\nan ancient city sacked, and blood again upon the sod of\nErin amid weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. To\nwhat purpose? That a organisation with the battle cry\n\"For Ourselves'' shall not prove greater than the government tinder which it lives, and that loyal Irishmen, Catholic and Protestant, north and south, shall not be subjected\nto the will of a group whose methods and whose doctrines\nthey do not countenance. What shall we see in America?\nThere is no race or religion behind America's Sinn\nFein. There are no wrongs that cannot be righted without\nrebellion against American law and order. Such minor\nhistory of oppression as may offer pretext for the overturning of American democracy belongs to an epoch that is\npast, and is written in terms of liberty and equality and\nopportunity more liberal than will be found in the history\nof any other country on earth. The Sinn Fein of America\nhas nothing left to ask but the absolute power of government by labor unions, for labor unions, and of labor unions. And this it demands, not in the name of patriotism,\nbut in the special interest of a privileged class, yet with no\nother battle cry than \"For Ourselves.\"\nXo interference from state or nation will be brooked\nby Mr. Gompers or his American Federation of Labor or\nhis Federal Commission on Industrial Relations. No governmental agency will be permitted to mediate, conciliate,\nor arbitrate in labor troubles. Mr. Gompers resents the establishment of a commission in Colorado, for instance, with\npower to investigate industrial disputes in which labor\nunions arc concerned, on the ground that \"their safety and\ntheir welfare depend on their maintaining their economic\npower and economic organization wholly tinder their own\ncontrol.\"\nTo make sure lhat union control of American industry\nwill not be questioned, his Federal Commission recommends that employers' associations and labor unions be organized nationally for the purpose of considering wages,\nhours of work, and any other such questions as may come\nbefore them: but lhal any agreements they reach shall not\nbe enforceable at law, and that as organizations they shall\nbe exempt from civil suits. It has happened frequently\nenough that a labor union has refused to live up to its agreement with an employer, but this is the first time such mischievous repudiation has been officially offered as a legitimate principle of government.\nTn supplement this power for trouble-making the Federal Commission would make every form of strike legitimate, legalize boycotting, restrict employment to members\nof the unions, and at thc same time deprive any member\nof his right of legal redress against thc union.\nAnd now the labor union press, always hostile to\ncity police and national guards and state constabularies, is\nencouraging the organization of union rifle companies, lo\nthe end, as one of them boldly puts it, \"that organized labor will be able to protect itself when the time comes.\" To\nprotect itself from what? To protect itself against government officers eecuting the decree of a court for tlie defense\nof private property, for the maintenance of public rights,\nor for the preservation of law and order. This is the Sinn\nFein of America, and this its determination \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd to ruin if it\ncannot rule.\nShall we let it rule? Perhaps it would be cheaper.\nPeace at any price is not unpopular in America today. Besides, if we follow a do.-nothing policy much further we will\nhave no choice in the matter other than to surrender the\nrights of freemen. We did not take s olong to clip the\n.inlaws of putocracy. We are not so much disturbed by la\noorcracy.\nIf we believe that no man should be allowed to work\nuntil he joins the union, if we believe that no man should\nbe allowed to work if the union expels him, if we believe\nthat the union should be empowered to dictate wages and\nhours in all industry, if we believe that the union should\nHot be expected to work under the schedule of wages and\nhours it itself has dictated, if we believe the union should\nbe exempt from all laws to which the rest of us are subject\nif we believe that the state or the nation should have noth\ning whatever to say of the conduct of the union, if we believe that under complete union control capital will seek\nto make larger and larger investments in our industries,\nAt Brockton Point on a kiiIii il\ufffd\ufffd> ln-tore tlie w-nr. Vancouver Senforihs \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd .Seveniy-TVa \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd minij- of wliom hn-e paid Hie\nsupreme price on t*.ie field of honor\nand enterprise will be stimulated, and liberty and justice\nand prosperity will flourish, let us surrender by all means,\nand without loss of time, and call in the socialists to take\ncharge.\nThe socialists at least are honest enough to admit that\nthey are struggling for the supremacy of a class, and to recognize their financial obligations by making the state responsible for all investments. Mr. Gompers and his monopolists propose to assimilate all the financial benefits without assuming any financial responsibility whatsoever, and\nwithout putting up any of the money.\nIf we are not ready to surrender our rights let us stand\nup like men and say so.\nA By-Product of the Red Cross\nBy Adelaide Plumptre\n'Are socks Red Cross goods?\" asked a recent visitor to the Dominion\nHeadquarters of the Red Cross in\nCanada. \"It all depends on who wears\nthem,\" was thc reply.\nAnd this is true; it is the nature of\nthe recipient and not the nature of\nthc article which determines whether\na pair of socks is \"Red Cross\" or \"Soldiers' Comforts,\" or just chill domestic\n\"socks\"\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdor even \"sox.\" Sn it is with\npersons and places anil property in\ntime of war. Are they ministering to\nthe need of sick or wounded of the\narmy or navy? If so, they may assume the sign of the Red Cross, and\nlook for immunity from attack or capture at the hand of every civilized nation. Doctors, chaplains, nurses,\nstretcher-hearers, ambulancerdrivers\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nin fact, all the personnel of the Army\nMedical Corps devoted to the care of\nsick and wounded have ihc first right\nto assume the sacred badge, and right an(j.such\nwell they have earned it in the discharge of their arduous and often dangerous duties on the field anil in the\nhospital. But behind the Army Medical Corps, ready to augment its supplies in emergency or to add those\n\"extras\" which in a Government department might be criticised as \"luxuries,\" but which transform a hospital\nward into a home, stands thc voluntary Society of the Red Cross, sharing with the Army Medical Corps the\nright to use the Red Cross, inasmu :h\nas it shares also thc duty of providing\nfor the needs of the sick ami vVounded\nmen.\nAmi how varied arc those needs!\nIn the war-zone arc thousands of men\nin cvery stage of sickness, needing\nskilled attendance, often in peril of\ndeath, yet having continually to bc\nmoved further and further back from\nlhe battle zone so that the more lately\nwounded may take their place in the\nendless stream. To the ordinary problems of a great civic hospital are added this ever-present necessity of\nprompt \"evacuation\" of the wounded,\nwith all the attendant difficulties of\ntransportation; the possible arrival at\nany moment of new convoys of patients; the necessity of coping with\nsuch problems as laundry-work under\nwar conditions, which entail scarcity\nof labor and supplies; the need for\nmajor operations, not at any specified\ntimes, but whenever the enemy's guns\nor mines may create the necessity;\nthe chance that the fortune of war\nmay allow of the destruction of hospital stores, or the delay of essential\nreinforcements of staff or supplies.\nSuch are some of the difficulties of\nthe Army Medical Corps work within\nthe war-zone, and it is obvious that\nthe Red Cross Society's supplies\ufffd\ufffd\ufffda\nsecond string to the bow of the Army\nMedical Corps\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdhave an immense value here. In this zone, the Red Cross\nstands for extra motor ambulances,\nor an additional car on a hospital\ntrain, or a canteen at a siding where\nexhausted patients receive reviving\nfood or drink, or a supply of blankets\nor bed-linen whence the ordnance\nstores have been used up, or ready-\nsterilized dressings when the overworked nurses have no time for preparation between one operation and\nthe next: or for some easily prepared\nfood or delicacy not included in the\nordinary hospital fare, or even for the\nanaesthetic which spares to a warworn hero the torture of thc knife\nor lancet.\nWhen the patient arrives at a hospital where he is to be nursed to convalescence, the Red Cross Society's\nhelp assumes other forms. As.the\nwounded Canadian lands in England,\nhe is handed a blue postcard bearing\na Red Cross, addressed to the Canadian Red Cross Society's Information\nDepartment in Lonon. As soon as he\narrives at thc hospital to which he is\nassigned, he gets a nurse to post this\ncard carrying the information that\nhe is wounded or sick, and is in such-\na hospital. By return of\npost, he receives from the Information Department a \"welcome\" parcel,\ncontaining some socks and cigarettes\nor candies\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdjust to show that Canada\nhas not forgotten him\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdand a letter\nasking him if he needs anything which\nthe Canadian Red Cross can supply.\nNext comes the visitor, sent also by\nthe Canadian Red Cross, who is prepared to write letters home for him,\nand perhaps to talk to him about Toronto or Winnipeg or Vancouver, and\nto show him once more that Canada is\nthinking of him individually; while-\ngames or magazines or a gramophone\ntestily to the Society's work for the\nhospital at large.\nAnd then our patient is convalescent, and once more he needs change,\nand once more the Red Cross Society's help assumes a new form. He is\nwell enough to get up, and a wheeled\nchair provided by the Red Cross receives him and carries him out into\nthe sunshine where a warm Red Cross\nquilt, perhaps embroidered with texts\nor mottoes, is wrapped round his\nknees, for wounded men are chilly.\nA little later, and he is able to walk\ninto the Red Cross recreation room,\nland reads the illustrated papers or the\nnewspaper from his home town in\nCanada\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdsupplied through the Red\nCross Society. Soon he tires of the\nhospital and its grounds, and he longs\nto get out into the world once more,\nbut he is too weak to walk. What\ncan be done for him? Once more, the\nRed Cross to the rescue.\nA motor car appears, driven' by a\nskilful, uniformed \"chaffeuse,\" one of\na.\"fleet\" of cars.Tiwnefl, driven, cleaned and cared for by\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\\vomen who are\nthus serving the Red Cross as truly\nas he brassarded nurse or the bandage il\ncare of our wounded Canadians is the\nwork of Lady Drummond, who presides over the somewhat inadequately\nnamed \"Information Department\" of\nthe Canadian Red Cross in London.\nWe are nut surprised that an official\nof the Australian War Contingent Association said to a Canadian lady that\n\"the visiting ami information system\nof the Canadian Red Cross was more\nperfectly organized than anything of\nwhich he knew.\"\nNor is the organization merely \"on\npaper.\" Most emphatically, it is an\norganization that \"works.\" A lady in\nToronto recently received a letter\nfrom her nephew, an officer in the\nCanadian Expeditionary Force, in\nwhich he says that immediately on\nreaching England, he received a letter from Lady Drummond asking\nwhether there was anything he needed which could bc supplied to him\nthrough the Canadian Red Cross Society, and adding that the Society\nwoul feel honored if able to help him\nin any way.\nAnd so we return to the point from\nwhich we started, having discovered\nthat both a pair of socks and a motor\ncar may be \"Red Cross goods\" if they\narc needed in the care of sick or\nwounded: for it is the end which not\nmeans in thc service of the Red Cross.\nIt i> to secure such service as this\nfor Canadians overseas that the people\nof Canada have loosened their pursc-\n>trii-.u~ and poured a golden stream\ninto the treasury of the Red Cross.\nAmi it is in return for such service\nthat a wounded Canadian wrote recently from England to an official of\nthe Red Cross in Canada: \"Till I got\nyour letter. I did not know that any-\nin the world cared whether I\noiling worker. \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd | lived i\nThis splendid organization for the Cross I\"\ndied. Hod bless the Red\nBARRISTERS and SOLICITORS\nKnow all ye by these presents:\n*J That for Facturrs and Briefs, no printers give\nyou better satisfaction than ahr ^tmiftnru.\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdI That for Letterheads and Envelopes Ulu*\n;\ufffd\ufffdtaui.ari. is the place to buy.\n*1 That for Book Binding, Engraving, Ruling,\nsooner or later you will come to\n5P1\nPRINTING DEPARTMENT\nPHONE SEYMOUR 4 70 FOR PRICES\nON ANY JOB PRINTING ARISING IN\n YOUR OFFICE \t\n\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd - \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nIIMIIIIIIIIWIIB EIGHT\nWm\nSATURDAY, JULY 29, 1916\nWILLIAM DICK Limited\nGILT-EDGED INVESTMENTS IN\nCLOTHING\nEnglish Blue Serge Suits at $15 to $35\nRoyal Brown, thc favorite suit with many. 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BREWSTER (Liberal Leader)\n\"I am surprised we are not asked to pass an Act that\nwill actually prohibit.\n\"There are many features of this legislation that are\nnot in the best interests of our people. As an example,\n1 refer to the burden of proof which should not be on\nthe accused as in this Act, because this is a wrong and\ntin-British principle.\"\nMr. PARKER WILLIAMS (Socialist)\n\"I am willing to vote for Prohibition that will prohibit\nbut not for such a lop-sided, jug-handled imitation such as\nthe present Bill.\n\"I am surprised to hear that thc Prohibitionists are\nsatisfied with the terms of an Act which permits any man\nto import liquor into the Province by wholesale.\"\nMr. H. B. THOMSON (Conservative)\n\"There is nothing like Prohibition in the Bill. It will\nnot diminish the consumption of alcoholic beverages, but\nwill increase the purchase Of strong liquor.\n\"Its very name is counterfeit and to the elector who\nmay desire a real prohibitory measure, it is a 'Gold Brick'\nof the most pronounced type.\"\nEvery Elector should read the Prohibition Act for himself and learn\nwhy Members of the Legislature\nspoke as above.\nCopies of the Act can be secured on application to Merchants Protective Association, Room 24, Canada Life\nBuilding, Vancouver.\nThe caution of the Xew Englander|\nn giving a direct answer to a direct j\n-uestion is proverbial. Two natives\nof a new Hampshire town met after\nthe funeral, and the first asked: \"Was\nnot your father's death very sudden?\"\nSlowly drawing one hand from his\npocket, and pulling down his beard,\nthe other replied, thoughtfully: \"Waal,\nrather sudden for him.''\n* + *\nTommy had a cold in his head,\nwhich confined him to the house, so\nhe was allowed to invite his young\nfriend, Jack, to tea.\nAfterwards the two small boys commenced playing hide-and-seek, and\nTommy rushed into the dining-room\nand asked his father to conceal him.\nTllis father did, behind a big armchair.\nPresently in came Jack, and, instead\nof beginning his search, calmly threw\nhimself down on the rug before thc\nfire.\n\"Come, Jack,\" said Tommy's father, \"aren't you going to look?'\n'Ko, fear!\" was thc small boy's calm\nretort. \"I'm waiting till he sniffs!\"\n* * *\n\"Three years penal servitude\" had\nbeen the verdict of the court, and\nthe prisoner was haled away.\nThat night his wife sat alone in her\npoor little home, and sobbed so bitterly that a kindly neighbor ventured\nto go in. She knew that the erring\nman had often beaten his wife and\nsponged on her slender earnings as a\ncharwoman, so she could not understand the tears.\n\"Don't take on so, Mrs. Smith!\" she\npleaded, as she gently stroked the\nweeper's tousled hair. \"Three years\nseems a long time, but perhaps your\nhusband will, come back before then.\nPrisoners, you know, can reduce their\nsentences by good behaviour.\"\nThe mourning wife gave a great\ngulp to swallow her sobs, and then\nreplied:\n\"That's just it! An' my 'iisband can\nbe a perfect hangel when he likes!\"\n# * *\nTwo \"kilties\" from the same town\nmet in a rest camp \"somewhere in\nFrance,-\" and started exchanging confidences.\n\"Whit like a send-off did yer wtt-\nman gie ye, Sandy, when ye left fur\nFrance?\" asked Jock presently.\nSandy lit a fresh cigarette before\nhe replied frankly:\n\"Says she, 'Noo, theie's your train,\nSandy; in ye get, an' see an' do yer\nduty. By jingo, ma mannie, if 1\nthocht ye wud shirk it oot yonder 1\nwud see ye was wounded afore ye\ngang off.' That's the send-off she\ngaed me, Jock.\"\n* * *\nThe happy pair, on their honeymoon, arrived for their first visit to\nLoTidon.\nAs they stood on the platform,\nwaiting for their luggage, they looked\nobviously embarrassed and shy of the\nunaccustomed crowds.\nthen an outside porter approached\nthem and suggested politely:\n\"Can I look after your baggage for\nyer, mister?\"\nThe redness of rage mounted on the\nfair cheeks of the bride as she-turned\nindignantly on her spouse.\n\"There, Boh, did you hear that?\"\nshe demanded. \"If yer ain't goin' to\nthrash 'im for referrin' to me like\nthat you ain't no man!\"\n* * *\nOne sunny day in May, Mrs. O'-\nTole went shopping in the village.\nAs she strolled along, her heart light\nand joyous, she caught sight of a notice conspicuously displayed in a cottage window.\nIt bore the announcement:\n\"WASHING AND IRONING\nDONE.\"\nMrs. O'Toole read it through several times. Then she drew herself\nup haughtily, and sniffed.\n\"Shure.\" said she, \"that ain't anything to boast about! It's mesilf as\nhad me washin' ami irouin' done and\npjtt away since yisterday, but I don't\nhang out no hraggiu' sign about it!\"\n* * \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\nThe wonders of photography are\ntruly great, but a certain old lady\nsurely over-estimated them.\nRecently a nephew took her portrait while on a visit to her cottage.\nLater he sent her a proof, and received this reply:\n\"Dear George,\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd'The portrait you\nsent me is good\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdthat is, for you and\nmc. But I think the attitude you\nhave put mc in\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdwith my hands on\nmy hips\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdis not quite one for others.\n\"In the portrait you send to Emma,\nas I asked you, please make my arms\nhang straight down.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdYour affectionate Aunt Mary.\n\"P.S.\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdAnd perhaps, as Emma's\nhusband is almost a stranger to me,\nyou had better shut my mouth a\nlittle.\"\n* \ufffd\ufffd *\nWhat with the war and the weather,\naud a few other worries, Brown recently felt that he needed treatment.\nSo he consulted a doctor.\nA few days later a friend called to\nsee how he was getting on.\n\"Sorry to hear you weren't well?\"\nsaid the caller. \"What's the trouble?\"\nI \"Oh, just a little run down!\" replied Brown. \"The doctor seems to\nthink I shall be all right in a few\ndays.\"\n\"I'm glad to hear that!\", commented the friend. \"And your wife told\nme he ordered you to take plenty of\nfresh air?\"\n\"He did,\" answered Brown, with a\ngrin. \"He knew it was the only kind\nof medicine I could afford to get.\"\n* * *\nVictor Vattght, a barber, has announced \"You're next,\" to the waiting list of patrons at the barber shop\nof Ferrand and Peterson for many\nyears.\nHe heard the same call this week\nbut not for shaving. While he was\nbusily engaged on a customer, the\ntelephone bcil tingled. Vaught answered. Then he put up his razor,\ntook off his white coat and started\nfor the door, leaving his patron half\nshaved.\n\"Pm next,\" he told his boss. \"I've\ngot to report at the armory,\" and he\nhastened up the street to join his\ncompany. A fellow workman completed the unfinished shave.\n* * *\nHer Proposal\n\"George,\" she began, \"as it is leap\nyear\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\"\nThe young man started and turned\npale.\n\"As it is leap year,\" she continued,\n\"and you have been calling regularly\nfor four nights a week for a long,\nlong time, George, I propose\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\"\n\"I'm not in a position to marry on\nmy salary,\" George broke in hurriedly.\n\"Exactly, George,\" thc girl pursued, \"and so, as it is leap year, I\npropose that you lay off and give\nsome of the more eligible boys a\nchance.\"\n* * *\nAfter the Blow\nDid you ever lose much time house\nhunting?\nOh, yes; we lived out west at one\ntime, and we had a cyclone. I spent\nsix days looking for my house.\nWarranted by Circumstances\nMrs. Kuagg\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdWhen you speak to\nme don't you dare to use such sharp\nwords!\nSir. Knagg\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdBut, my dear, when I\nspeak to you, sharp words are the\nonly ones 1 can get in edgewise.\n* \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd *\nFather\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\"Johnny, did you forget to\nfeed tbe dug this morning?\"\nJohnny\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\"No, sir, but 1 didn't think\nhe needed anything.\"\nFather\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\"You haven' given him any\nmeat since yesterday morning, have\nyou?\"\nJohnny\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\"No, sir. But sister's beau\nwas here last night, and I don't think\nthc dog is very hungry.\"\n* * *\nNot Totally Depraved\nThe Desk Sergeant\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdWhy did you\nthrow away the gun after you stuck\nup the man?\nThc Culprit\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd'Cause it's against the\nlaw to carry concealed weapons and\nyou wouldn't have me break all the\nlaws, would you?\n* * *\nSignificant\n\"Do you know, George,\" remarked\nMrs. Ray, \"I should say the Browns'\nmarriage was an ideal one. I couldn't\nhelp but notice it tonight. Really,\nthere wasn't one word of disagreement. I believe they both think absolutely alike.\"\n'They are a charming couple, my\ndear, perfectly charming,\" said her\nhusband, \"but as to their thinking\nalike, Madge, did you notice that she\nalways thought first.\"\n* * *\nDisappointed\n\"What was the color scheme of\nJack's wedding?\"\n\"Not quite what he expected. From\nwhat he heard of the bride's wealth,\nhe thought the ever-popular yellow-\nhack would figure conspicuously in\nthe decorations, but the girl's father\ndidn't come across, so it looked pretty\nblue for Jack.\"\n* * *\nWife: Well, dear, I shall have to do\nthe cooking now. Cook left without\nwarning this afternoon.\nHusband: Not exactly without warning. She told me ' this morning I\nhad better bring home some dyspepsia\ntablets tonight, but I didn't quite understand what she meant.\n* * *\nIf anybody ever insinuated to old\nFerris that he read the postcards\nwhich passed through his hands, the\nold chap was most indignant. Hut,\non one occasion he was fairly caught.\nIn addition to being the village postmaster, Ferris runs a small general\nstore. A lady gave him rather a large\norder one morning, including a ham\nand a cheese.\nNext day she came down to the\nshop to see why these articles had\nnot been delivered with the rest of\nthe goods.\n\"Oh,\" said old Ferris calmly, with-\nIput thinking, \"I saw hy that postcard\nI ye had yesterday that yer friends\nwere not coming, so I thought you'd\nnot be needing Ihem!\"\n* * *\nThe drama contained thrills of all\nsorts, and was certainly good value\nfor the money, if you didn't look too\nclosely at the scenery and overlooked\nthe weaknesses of the actors.\nAfter the third evening the manager\nof thc company was discussing thc\nsmall audiences with the proprietor of\nthe theatre.\n\"Business has been bad,\" said he\nfrankly. \"I suppose it must be on\naccount of the war.\"\n\"Not at all!\" said thc owner of the\ntheatre. \"I think it is more on account of thc piece.\"\nVancouver Exhibition, August 14th\nto 19th. Office, Loo Building. Entries close August 2nd.\nSAFE FOR BABIES\nIf You Live\nIn Our District\nWe'll Let You Try\nSOU-VAN MILK\nIf you live anywhere in the district between False Creek and\nFraser River, Bridge street and\nCollingwood, you are welcome\nto try\nSou-Van Milk\nAll you need to do is to ring us\nup\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdFair. 2624\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdand leave your\naddress at the office. Do this\ntoday\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdNOW\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdand try the finest milk obtainable in Vancouver. The pure, CLEAN, wholesome milk\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdthe safe milk for\nbabies. Delivered daily in sterilized bottles\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdsame price as ordinary milk.\nCREAM, 20c PINT\nRich cream for desserts, fruit,\nand all table uses. Half pints,\n10c.\nSouth Vancouver\nMilk Co.\nScientific- lliiir.i mi-ii\n20TH AXD FRASER\nTHE HOHENZOLLERN FLORIN\n(Continued from page 41\nA nOYAI, PIUNCE GETS A DRENCHING AT THE HATER JUMP\nPrince Henry, ihe King** third son, recently took pnrt In the Junior Steeplechase nt Eton College, and finished\ntwelfth ont of 110 contestants, which Indicates royal blood docs not always run cold and alow, nt any rate. The photo\nshows the prince getting out of thc wntcr lump, where he got thorough!? soaked.\nThey say that stupid Kuno meant\nwhat he said. As they dashed down\nthe mountain path, the cannon of\nStag-burg opened behind them and\nballs went whining over their heads.\nA few months later, however, Hohenzollern and Rogue-burg fired 25\nshots each, for Kuno really had died.\nAgain the two brothers met on the\nroad to the castle. \"He will have\nto believe that he is dead this time'\"\nlaughed Rogue. \"We won't see him\nat the window.\"\nWhen they reached the drawbridge,\na knight with a huge retinue heavily\narmed, came up on a gallop. He did\nnot greet them with word or sign, but\nrode silently into the courtyard with\nthem, and followed them into the\ngreat hall.\n\"Bring us wine!\" roared Wolf to the\nservants; but the strange knight\nstrode to thc table, drew forth a long\nparchment and threw a silver Hohenzollern minted florin on the table.\n\"Here,\" he said, \"is your legacy\nfrom your brother, Kuno of Zollern.\nIt is exactly correct\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdone florin.\"\nThe brothers stared at hint with\nmouths open. The knight read the\nparchment. It was Kuno's will. It recounted all the evil his brothers had\ndone and bequeathed that his mother's jewels bc given to the town \"f\nBalingen for the erection of a poor-\nhouse, while thc castle and all the estate and domain were to be sold to\nthe duchy of Wurtemburg for one-\nstag-minted Hohenzollern florin.\nThe brothers ground their teeth,\nbut ditl not say a word. They knew\nthat they could not resist mighty\nWiirtcinberg.\nWolf thrust the florin into his\ndoublet, clapped his feathered hat on\nhis head and passed the Wttrtemberg\nknight without salute. \"Let us drink\nit up!\" he growled to Rogue.\nThey rode to Balingen and ordered\na florin's worth of red wine. It was\ngood wine, hut it seemed like vinegar\nto them. When they had gulped it\ndown, Wolf tossed the florin on the\ntable.\nThe tavern-keeper looked at it and\nsmiled. \"Balingen belongs to Wur-\ntemberg now, you know,\" said he.\n\"Yesterday the duke ordered the use\nof Wttrtember coinage. Your Hohenzollern florin is not good here.\"\nWolf and Rogue looked at each\nother. With a voice that was not at\nall as loud as his usual one, Wolf said\nto Rogue: \"You pay. I have no other coin.\"\nRogue had none, either; and the\ntwo heirs had to ride away, indebted\nto a tavern-keeper for a florin.\n(In his 25 years of life, Wilhelm\nHauff gave German literature such\nchoice creations that his early deal**\nhas always been considered a great\nloss to the world. Among his famous\nworks are \"Phantasies of the Bremen\nRathskeller, Liclieiistein.\" one of the\nbest historical novels ever written in\nany language, and \"The Beggar Girl\nof the Pont des Arts.\" What has made\nhis name most beloved, however, are\nhis \"Tales,\" which include oriental\nstories rich as \"The Arabian Nights.\"\nand wonderfully imaginative tales of\nthe Black Forest).","@language":"en"}],"Genre":[{"@value":"Newspapers","@language":"en"}],"GeographicLocation":[{"@value":"Vancouver (B.C.)","@language":"en"}],"Identifier":[{"@value":"The_Greater_Vancouver_Chinook_1916_07_29","@language":"en"}],"IsShownAt":[{"@value":"10.14288\/1.0315618","@language":"en"}],"Language":[{"@value":"English","@language":"en"}],"Latitude":[{"@value":"49.2611110","@language":"en"}],"Longitude":[{"@value":"-123.1138890","@language":"en"}],"Notes":[{"@value":"Titled \"The Greater Vancouver Chinook\" from 1912-05-18 to 1915-05-01, for 1915-05-15, and from 1915-06-05 to 1915-09-11; \"The British Columbia Chinook\" for dates 1915-05-09, 1915-05-22, and 1915-05-29; \"The Saturday Chinook\" from 1915-09-18 to 1916-04-15; and \"The Standard\" from 1916-04-22 onward.
Published by Greater Vancouver Publishers Limited from 1912-05-18 to 1916-01-01; Chinook Printing House from 1916-01-08 to 1916-04-15; The Standard Printers from 1916-04-22 to 1917-04-07; and The Standard Company from 1917-04-14 onward.","@language":"en"}],"Provider":[{"@value":"Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library","@language":"en"}],"Publisher":[{"@value":"Vancouver, B.C. : The Standard Printers","@language":"en"}],"Rights":[{"@value":"Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Digitization Centre: http:\/\/digitize.library.ubc.ca\/","@language":"en"}],"Series":[{"@value":"BC Historical Newspapers","@language":"en"}],"SortDate":[{"@value":"1916-07-29 AD","@language":"en"},{"@value":"1916-07-29 AD","@language":"en"}],"Source":[{"@value":"Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.","@language":"en"}],"Title":[{"@value":"The Standard","@language":"en"}],"Type":[{"@value":"Text","@language":"en"}],"Translation":[{"@value":"","@language":"en"}],"@id":"doi:10.14288\/1.0315618"}