"8e027f82-28b8-4e99-a5a7-11f7eb55f89b"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "2016-08-24"@en . "1917-05-26"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/gvchinook/items/1.0315575/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nYOUR FRIEND\nAT THT.\nFRONT\nWILL\nAFF RE-\nCI ATE\nTHIS COPY <>l:\nB.C.'S LI\nUDING\nWEEKLY\nta lib arb\nBASEBALL\nVANCOUVER\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDHome Schedule\nIn Northwestern League for 1917 |\nI Tacoma. July 11, IJ. 13. 11\nBeattle, Jul., is, in. 20, *J1\nTi'ionia. Aug S. H, 10. 11.\nUreal Valla, Aim. 13, 11. 15. It. it. 14.\nSpokane, Ausr. 20, -i. --. :::;. 81, -\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nTacoma, AiiLf. V.t, 20, Sl, Sept 1.\nVol. VI., No. 2\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDEstablished 191 I.\nVANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SATURDAY. MAY 26, 1917\nPrice Five Cents\n\nThe physical burden of the conflict among non-\nbatants may be -aid to have fallen almost exclusively\non their shoulders, for many a well-to-do man who\nbelieves he is contributing liis .-hare toward.- the\nlessening of war's load i< merely shifting the responsibility on the defenceless.\n(Irganized charity, associations dealing with tbe\nsick, settlement work, and like organizations dealing\nwith the relief of distressed humanity, all have seen\ntheir support from the charitable dwindle almost to\nvanishing point sinca tluy commencement of hostilities. Other and nwetmsisteiit calls were being made\non tbe purses of tlieir erstwhile friends, and. if they\nwere not forgotten, neither were they remembered.\nThose accustomed In give merely shifted their contributions from the local association to the wider war\nrelief organization.\nSuch action obviously represents no sacrifice on\nthe part of the giver. He gets the publicity and thc\npraise, but the bah, the lame and the blind get thc\nsuffering. Tllis is not sacrifice, but a sacrificial\noffering of thc helpless.\nThe man who has merely changed the quarter to\nwhich he makes bis charitable gifts is no more deserving of lavish praise than was Mark Twain when he so\nvaliantly offered to sacrifice all liis wife's relatives\nmi tbe altar of his country, and is no more to be\ncommended than is the husky slacker who has three\ncousin- at the front, and who seeks vicarious glory\nbecause of kinship.\nToo manv men ami women have thought thev\n0 other achievement of Mr. David Lloyd George\ngives so convincing a proof of genius a- the\nlittle Welshman's handling of the Irish home rule\nquestion. His proposal to leave tile matter to the\nIri-b themselves and pledging the British government\nto accept their solution was a stroke worthy of a Pitt,\na Disraeli or a Gladstone. The Irish people may have\nhome rule when they decide upon what -ort of home\nrule they want. Until then the British government\nmust be absolved from any blame in delaying a solution of the question. If the Iri-b cannot agree, we!!,\nthe) can wait.\nTbu trouble has been that, when the distracted\nBritish statesmen had fixed up a scheme which suited\none Irish faction, the other faction beaded straight\ntor the warpath. The British government was between the devil and the deep blue sea, and was successful only in getting disliked by both faction-\nIt was then that llritain'- great little premier displaced a knowledge of human nature which should\nmake certain his niche in the hall of fame. As they\nexpress it in the vernacular, bc passed the buck to\nIreland. Hi- scheme was so simple that the wonder\ni- tliat il was not tried before. He proposed a con-\nvention of Irishmen in Ireland, to Which all factions,\nincluding the Sinn Fciners. should be admitted. When\ntbe convention has decided upon a constitution for\nIreland and bas devised a satisfactory scheme of government, then Mr. David Lloyd George will be ready\nto give it force and effect by putting it through the\nBritish parliament.\nIf the Irish convention is unable to agree, no\nblame can possibly attach to the British government.\nWhen it is remembered that Ireland is ready and ripe\nfor self-government, the agreement as to tlie form of\ngovernment necessarily will bc reached and there will\nno longer be any Irish question. Once started upon\nits career, Ireland will have tlie responsibility of look-\ninp to the control of its several factions.\nwere doing tlieir duty in these time- of stress by\ndropping an occasional dime in a tag box, or signing\naway a small percentage of their weekly stipend to\nthe Patriotic fund. Trifling contributions are no\nmeans of equalizing the burden, and unless tliere is\na radical change in the not distant future, we may\nlook forward to the nationalization of many things in\naddition to the food and munition resource- of the\nAllied nations. The conscription of wealth would\nnot long precede the conscription of wages, with its\ncorrellary of absolute slate control over everything\nuntil the end of the war.\nAmbition is so powerful a passion in tbe human\nbreast that however high we reach, we are never satisfied.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMaehiavelli.\nA TWl)\nTHE STANDARD\nIATURDAY, MAY 26. 1917\nStorage\nand\nOffice Space\nFOR BROKERS, COMMISSION MEN AND OTHERS WHO\nCARRY MERCHANDISE AND OTHER GOODS\nIn a big. well-lighted warehouse in the heart of the wholesale\ndistrict\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD847-863 Beatty Street.\nEvery modern convenience for handling merchandise.\nVERY REASONABLE TERMS\nPhone us today far further par ticulars\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDSeymour 7360.\nOMPiSIJU\nSECURITY FIREPROOF STORAGE a. MOVING COMPANY LIMITED\nCHAS E CAMPBELL. 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OOO\nMacDONALD & HAY\nBarrUtera, Solicitor!, Etc.\n1012 Standard Bank Bldg.\nVancouver, B.C.\nCKNTER ft HANNA LIMITED\nHow The Easterners View\nThe Free Wheat Policy\nAfter many years of insistent and\nconsistent bombardment <>u the part\nnf the agricultural forces of Western\nCanada the federal Governmeni lia-\nremoved the duty on wheat entering\nthe t nitod States markets, The\nrather unexpected announcement\nfrom Ottawa that Much an order had\nbeen issued ha-, been well received\niu all pans of the prairie provinces,\nwhich the new decree promises to\naffect ni\"-;!. Since a similar move\nmade by the United States government, when the recent reciprocity\ncampaign was on in ibis country, is\nstill law, it means that from now mi\nCanada and the United Stales will\nhave free trade in wheat. It bas\nlong been contended by western agricultural communities on the prairies that they have been seriously\nhandicapped by the embargoed barrier to their must natural and nearest market tu tbe south. This held\ngood, not so much for the high\ngrade wheat, but more particularly\nfor the inferior grades, which undoubtedly resulted in enormous losses to western producers. The handicap is now removed. It merely\nmeans that it' lhe government due.-,\nnut see that western farmers arc\nprovided with thc necessary avenues\nand proper prices for such grades\nas do not come within number one,\na ready market awaits the farmer\nacross the line, lt is evident, however, that in the construction of a\ngovernment elevator and the inauguration of a sample market in Winnipeg, tbe government appreciates\nthe necessity of bringing about a\nbetter condition uf affairs for tbe\ngrain growers of the west.\nTbe organized farmers of Western\nCanada commenced agitating for\nfree access to the United States markets fur their grain product in 1908,\nbut nut until 1910 were there any\nactive steps taken Inwards bringing\npressure on the government to attain that end. A large delegation\nwas sent to Ottawa in December nf\nthat year. Aiming other demands\nmade, special emphasis was placed\nnn free interchange of all kinds of\nnatural products between Canada\nand the L'nited States. The government was impressed witli the contentions of tliis delegation, and the\nbenefits that wider markets would\nconfer on the farmers and the general trade of tbe eounlry. Reciprocity agreement with the United\nStates within a month of the visit uf\nthis delegation to Ottawa was negotiated. The government was unable,\nhowever, to get tbe agreement ratified by parliament, and, being defeated at tbe election, reciprocity\nwas set aside for the time. Immediately after tbe Wilson Tariff Bill\nbecame law, which provided that any\ncountry giving free entry to United\nStates wheat and wheat products\nwould be granted free entry of wheat\nand wheat products into the United\nStates, the organized farmers urged\nthc Canadian government to accept\nthis proposition of the American\nCongress, but the,y refused to grant\nthe request.\nAccording to R. McKenzie. secretary of tbe Canadian Council of Ag-\nculture, there has been no other\none thing that tended to discourage\nproduction and cause so many to\nabandon tlieir farms in tbe prairie\nprovinces during 1912-1913 as tbe\ndefeat of the reciprocity agreement.\nThe farmers looked upon tliat measure as a means of relief from tbe restrictions imposed upon them in thc\nmarketing of their grain, and when\nit was defeated many gave up hope\nof being relieved of tbe monopoly\nthat contributed so much lo make\ngrain-growing unprofitable.\nThe advantages 16 be attained by\naccess to tlie United States markets\nwith wheat, which would alsn apply\nto all other grains grown on western\nfarms, iu bis judgment, are two-fold.\nFirst, it gives free access to a consuming population of over 100,000,-\n0(H) people whose demands are so\naried, and whose consumptive powers are so great, that it will readily\nabsorb tbe different grades of grain\nthat western farmers have to sell.\nIn view of the wide areas under cultivation In which crops are grown\nd the varied climatic condition;\nthat will obtain in this wide area\neach year, there will always be in\nsome part of Western Canada more\nor less \"out of condition\" and classed with \"low grade\" grain. Tiie disposing of that class of grain has always been one of the problems con-1\nfronting the western farmers. The\nUnited States markets will now provide an avenue for the consumption\nof that class of grain, and minimize'\nthe loss the farmers suffered in the,\nmarketing nf it.\nThere is always a demand in the\nUnited Stales fur Western Canada\nHard Northern wheat fur mixing\nwith the softer winter wheats of the.\neastern and middle western slates.\nThe result is going to be that the\nHard Northern spring wheat of Dakota and Western Canada will be'\npooled. It will create a market for!\ntsclf becruse of the excess gluten\ncontent's, not only in the United\nStates and Canada, but in other parts\nof the world as well, where it will\nbe used by millers for blending with\nsofter wheats.\nAnother advantages that will accrue to the western grain growers is\nthat it will provide a competitive\nroute for export. One of the reasons why western farmers were so\npersistent tor access to the southern\nmarket was to secure a competitive\nmute of shipment for export. Up\ntill now all western grain had to be\nshipped for export through tbe one\nspout, which afforded opportunities\nfor manipulation both by transportation companies and grain dealers,\nso long as they had no competitor\nin the handling of this grain. With\ncompetitive market bordering on\nthe three prairie provinces, and a\ncompetitive route of shipment available. Canadian handlers of grain will!\nbe kept on their good behavior.\nSome changes must necessarily be'\nmade in \"iir inspection and met!\nof handling grain\" in order to get\nmore in conformity witli the methods\nemployed in Minneapolis and Dul-\nuth. This will be made easier v.ith\nthe completion \"i the huge government elevator now being creeled at\nTranscona.\nMr. McKenzie is of tin- opinion\nthai changes will have In lie made in\nthe specifications nf nur grades,\nwhich is now considerably higher\nthan those nf Minneapolis. As there\nwill be considerable of nur wheat\nshipped to Minneapolis market. it\nwould be unjust in the Canadian\ngrower In have tu put up a higher\nstandard nf grades than the American grower. The organized farmers will likely withdraw tlieir objection to the establishing oi a sample\nmarket in Winnipeg- for the same\nreason, as in all probability the\nUnited States millers who purchase\nsupply on the Minneapolis market\non sample will become buyers of\nCanadian wheat on sample, if proper\ntrading and transportation facilities\nare provided.\nIf Canadian dealers meet the competition nf Minneapolis, and Canadian transportation facilities equal\nshipping facilities with that from the\nsouth, il is doubtful if much of our\nwheat will-be diverted from Canadian channels, except during periods\nof freight congestion and low grade\nwheat. Millers in the eastern and\ncentral states will secure their requirements nf hard spring wheat\nfrom Fort William through lake\nports, instead, as formerly, from\nMinneapolis. Flour mills tributary\nto Minneapolis markets will be supplied wilh the bard spring wheat of\nDakota.\nThe problem of transportation has\nby no nivalis been solved with the\ninauguration of free wheat markets.\nIt is well known that the different\nrailway; have thousand of cars tied\nup across the line, and facilities for\nthe movement of grain have long\nbeen pressed to the limit. Lifting\nthe duty on grain southward does\nnot by any means produce, as if by\nmagic, the necessary facilities to\ntransport the grain to the open American market. Once this handicap\nis overcome there is no reason to\nthink the different railways will not\ndo everything in .their power to facilitate the movement of grain to\nany market desired. As one prominent western railway official put\nit: \"They are directly interested in\nthe prosperity of all producers, and\nconditions which tend to assure that\ndesired era throughout Western Canada, and may be relied on to cooperate in every way tliey can.\"\nWhile the railway chiefs in Winnipeg are not disposed to talk for\npublication, J. R. Cameron, assistant\ngeneral manager of the C.N.R., is\ncredited by the Saskatoon \"Daily\nStar\" as having said: \"It will take\nsome time to see just what the effect on nur lines will be. We have\nfrequently been asked to make a\nthrough west route on grain to Minneapolis, and hitherto we have not\nseen our way clear to make such a\nrate, as the total amount of Canadian grain being shipped to that\npoint was too small to justify our\ndoing so. Now, however, the conditions are somewhat changed, and\nit may become necessary for us to\nmake such a rate. 1 do not think\nthis would have a very great effect\non the car shortage. 11 would be\nsible to ship grain lo Minneapolis\nall winter, of course, and tbis would\nhave some effect. We have been\nshinping a great deal of grain into\n1 .ninth, where it is stored in bond\nuntil navigation opens in the spring.\nEquipment would be seriously tied\nup bv any large movement of grain\nto Minneapolis, because they have\nil. sample market there, and there is\nalways a gnod deal of delay in getting the cars unloaded. One of the\ngreat advantages of the grade system\nis that there is practically no delay\nin getting lhe cars unloaded, provided there is elevator capacity sufficient to take care of the grain as\nt arrives.\"\nWhile free wheat is highly appreciated as a move which promises\nto lie of inestimable value in tbe development of Western Canada, it is\ninvaribaly treated as a prelude to\nthe removal of similar tariff barriers,\nparticularly in the way of agricultural implements.\n\"The next logical Step,\" says J.\nA. Maharg. president nf tbe Saskatchewan ('.rain ('.rowers' Association and of tbe Saskatchewan Cooperative Elevator Company, \"is to\ngive the farmer the same Opportunity to purchase tbe necessary supplies required in the production of\nfarm product\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthis done, the Saskatchewan farmer will he able to\ncompete against tbe world, despite\ncheap labor iu other wheat-producing countries, lt will make certain\nfor our farmers the /loing of their\nshare in cleaning up tbe war debt\nwhen this terrible confict is over, as\nnn doubt the cleaning up of the debt\nwill be based on our basic national\nindustry, agriculture.\"\nII. W. Wood, president of the\nUnited Farmers of Alberta and president of the Canadian Council of\nAgriculture says: \"If we can continue to have the western farmer's\nrights recognized in respect to the\nmarkets wherein lie buys as well as\nthose in which be sells, we will\nbuild up the necessary prosperity\nfor a civilization in Western Canada\nwhich in a short time will be surpassed by none. I sincerely hope\nthis is a sign Ottawa is getting a\nwider vision and will co-operate for\na greater Canada. When the government gets properly prepared for\nthis work it will find the west with\ncoat off and both feet in the ring.\"\n\"Of course.\" says Roderick McKenzie. secretary of the Canadian\nCouncil of Agriculture, \"we have\nstill got to press for free access to.\nthe United States markets for oats,\nbarley, flax, potatoes, and so foith.\nMUCH WORK\nAT SESSION\nLegislature Passed Eighty Bills\nDuring Eleven Weeks\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDImportant Laws Enacted\nIn spite nf a session marked by\nmuch recrimination and prolonged\ndebate, imt unmixed with tlu- usual\npolitical speeches front butb sides\nof the bouse, the first session of the\nfirst Libera) legislature in llritish\nColumbia got over a tremendi us\namount oi wurk between tbe first \"1\nMarcli and when thc session adjourned at ihe close of Saturday night.\nNumbered among the measures\nare several having an influence upon\nthe prosperity of the province\nthrough lhe agency of better devel'\nupiiunt nf natural resoucces. A complete.list of the new laws Which have\nbeen enacted, follows:\nThornton Fell, the clerk if the\nhouse, read lhe titles to the following bills:\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nNo. 2\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend lhe llritish Columbian Railway Act.\nNo. 7\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend the Pharmacy Act.\nNo. 9\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend the Supreme Court Act.\nNo. HI\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act respecting tbe Dolly Varden Mines Railway.\nNo. 11\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act tu make provision\nfor a numeral survey of the province\not llritish Columbia and lor lhe development of the mineral resources\nof the said province, including provisions in aid of prospectors and miners and lor llie protection ol wage-\nearners and investors.\nNo. 12\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act respecting the\ncivil service.\nNo. 1.1\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend the\nWater Acl, 1914.\nNo, 14\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act for Ujc better protection of sheep.\nNo. 15\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act respecting the\nmarking of cattle and horses.\nNo. 17\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend ihe Eggs\nMarks Ad.\nNo. ]\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDH\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act lo amend lhe law\nrelating to the guardianship and custody of infants.\nNo. 20\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend llu- Animals Act.\nNo. 21\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act respecting a certain\nby-election hoiden in Vancouver city\nelectoral district on the twenty-sixth\nday of February, 1916.\nNo. 22\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend the Contagious Diseases (AnimalsI Act.\niVO. 23\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act lo amend the Succession Duty Act.\nNo. 24\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend the Complex Ore Process Aid Act.\nNo. 26\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend tbe Sale\nof Goods Acl.\nNo. 27\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend the Assignment of Hook Accounts Act.\nNo. 28\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend the Timber Royalty Act.\nNo. 229\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend the Forest Act Relief Act.\nNo. 30\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to apiend the Forest Act.\nNo. 31\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend thc Vancouver and Districts Joint Sewerage\nand Drainage Act.\nNo. 32\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend the Trust\nCompany's Acl.\nNo. 33\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend the Taxation Act.\nNo 34\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to provide fur the\ncollection of a t^ix on persons.\nNo. 35\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to increase the revenues of the crown for thc year ending thirty-first December, 1917.\nNo. 3d\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to provide for lhe\ncollection of a lax on persons attending places of amusement.^\nNo. ,i7\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act lo promote increased agricultural production.\nNo. 38\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend the Public Schools Act.\nNo. 39\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to validate certain\nsales of land fur arrears of taxes.\nNn. 40\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act respecting dentistry.\nNn. 41\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act fur enabling bodies\ncorporate to hold property in joint\ntenancy.\nNo. 43\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend lhe\nNorth Vancouver City Incorporation\nAct. 1900.\nNu. 44\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend the Vital\nStatistics Act.\nNo. 45\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to authorize the\nconveyance by the crown of certain\nlands for public and patriotic purposes.\nN'o. 46\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend the Fori\nGeorge Incorporation Act.\nNo, 47\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act In amend (lie Land\nRegistry Act.\nNo. 48\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend the War\nRelief Act.\nNo. 49\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act lo amend the Companies Act.\nNo. 50\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend lhe Van-\ncomer Incorporation Act.\nNo. 52\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend the Land\nAct.\n\n. 54\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act for the establishment of public sampling and concentrating plants, custom, smelters and\nrefineries, and lo make provision in\naid of tbe treating or buying of ores.\nNo. 55\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act respecting a certain\nelection holden in Fort George electoral district on the fourteenth day\niif September, 1916.\nNo. 56\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend cjiapter\n35 of the statutes of 1915.\nNo. 57\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend the Administration Act.\nNo. 58\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend the Agricultural Act. 1915.\nNo. 59\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend the Execution of Trusts. (War Facilities)\nAct.\nNo. 60\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend the Mechanics' Lien Act.\nOur principal object is achieved, but\nwe have still some demands which\nwe must continue to press upon the\nauthorities.\"\nJ. B. Musselman. secretary of the\nSaskatchewan Grain Growers' Association, states: \"If free agricultural\nimplements may but be added In free\nwheat such an impetus will bc given\nto western agriculture and agricultural settlement as could be given in\ntut other way.\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDToronto Satnrdav\nNight.\nNo. 01\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend the Municipal Act.\nXo. (io\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAll act to amend tlie In-\nlustrial Home for Girls Act.\nNo. 04\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act relating to the Soldiers' Homestead Acl.\nNn. 05\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend the l.n-\n.tl Improvement Act.\nNo. 66\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act in amend the Municipal Elections Act.\nN'ii. 07\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to provide for auditing public accounts of die province.\nNo. 66\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD-An act respecting the department nf labor.\nNo. 69\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to borrow tiie sum\nof two million dollars for tlie pur-\npuses therein specified.\nNn. 7'l\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend the Constitution Act.\nNo. 71\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend lhe Revenue Act.\nNn. 72\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend tile Dyking Assessments Adjustment Act.\n1905.\nNo. 73\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act allowing municipalities lo adopt proportional representation in municipal elections,\nNo. 74\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to provide for the\ninvestigation nf methods of taxation\nanil for the creation of a permanent\nboard of taxation.\nNo, 75\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act-respecting the semi\nmonthly payment of wages.\nNi. 7fi\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend the\nDrainage and Dyking Act.\nNo. 78\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend tbe Vancouver Island Settlers' Rights Act,\n1904.\nNo. 79\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn acl to provide tor the\ninvestigation of the overseas vote in\nconnection with thc British Columbia\nProhibition Act.\nNo. 80\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn act to amend the Administration Act.\nNo. 81\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAn art to amend tbe Public Inquiries Act.\nFamous Women\nFew women have been more widely known than Alice and Phoebe\nGary. The sisters had but slight educational advantages supplied by\nschools. Alice Cary first attracted\nattention by some sketches of rural\nlife published in a newspaper under\nllie pen name of \"Patty Lee,\" and.\nthenceforth became a frequent con-\ntribuior in periodicals, Phoebe, four\nyears tlie junior oi Alice, also gained\na reputation as a write.r oi verses,\nand in 1850 the sisters published a\njefint volume uf llieir poetical works.\nAlice Cary also wrote several novels,\nincluding \"Hagar,\" \"Married, _N'ot\nMated,\" and \"Hollywood.\" but \"her\nbest known wnrk is \"C'lovernook,\" a\ncollection of sketches dealing with\nwestern life. The sisters removed to-\nNew York in 18522, and Alice died\nhere in 1871, while Phoebe died at\nNewport a few months later.\nCareers for Women\nWhat a prospect in \"careers\" the\nCanadian girl will have! In ihc old\ndays, lhe girl who wished to be independent was confronted with teach\ning of needlework, as a means of\nmaking a living and \"having a little\nin the bank.\" Another generation,\nlooked with favor on being a governess\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDbut a drab and bleak existence\nwas that of the governess, with little\nprospect of finally emerging from an\nintermediate state between mistress\nand servant. In tbe old-time English\nnovel, the governess invariably cap-\nlured thc earl or the baronet, in\nspite of the evil machinations of his\njealous womenfolk. But the governess of real life was an entirely different matter, who usually ended in\nbeing a lonely dweller in a cottage,\nhaving an allowance from reluctant\nrelatives. Time and 'Varsitv have\nchanged all that, and the modern girl\nis allowed to survey the whole range\nof professions, confident that law.\nmedicine or high finance may afford\nber a decent livelihood. She may-\nhave her eye on a police magistracy\nor a milk inspectorship. She may\naspire to chartered accountancy, or\nshe may be willing to be dietitian\nand estimate calories for a hospital\nor a college. She may manage a\nsummer hotel or conduct tourists\nover Europe in after-the-war days.\nIn fact, tbe girl of today, to say\nm dliing of the-day-after-to-morrow.\nwill be embarrassed by tbe riches of\nthe careers offered her. And yet\never so many of these maidens of\nmodernity will prefer a June wedding\nand a cosy little home of their own\nto a climb up the ladder of fame. A\nladder is quite a toil, and a kitchen\nahinet or a fireless cooker appeals\nmore surely to feminine fancy. And\nthen, of course, there's tbe romance\nand Ihe husband and the Wedding\nMarch.\nPraties and Rice\nSixteen ounces of potatoes contain\nsomething over twelve minces of\nwater and cost four cents or so. Thc\nsame weight of rice contains one\nounce and a quarter of water and\ncosts five cents. The balance in each\nftse is fund: proteids and starch.\nCornmeal and oats compare with the\ntuber even better, especially oats,\nwith their large proportion of p'ro-\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDeitl, or tissue-building material, and\nfat. The inference is that potatoes\nat their present price are not worth\neating. If you cannot break yourself\nof (he potato,habit and must eat\nthem, grow them for yourself.\nAlso, Weed, Brother, Weed With\nCare\nPlant, brother, plant; plant with\ncare.\nPlant the garden in the sun's\nbright glare.\nA long straight row for the radish\nrare,\nA fuzzy furrow for the lettuce there.\nPlant, brother, plant; plant your\nshare. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nPlant your stuff for the familv fare.\nSeattle Post-Intelligencer\n \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD ^ \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\t\nPolice reports from some of the\n\"bone-dry\" cities to the south of ift\nindicate that a \"bone-dry\" law is\nnot effective in the hands of boneless\nofficials.\nOur own ideas of a food riot\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDa\nMulligan stew made un of Belgian\nhare, wienies, roast beef, macaroni\nand French rolls and flavored with\nvodka.\n* * *\nWhv shouldn't a butcher cut his\nth\"iTib pud \"'ran it nn? He always\nweighs it with the meat. SATURDAY. MAY 20. 1917\nTHE STANDARD\nTHREE\n-LY\n3,000,000 Unmarried\nMothers in Germany\nDon't Can: Dry!\nAnd Here's Why\nHa\nRadical Countess of Warwick\nWould Surrender Land to State\nIncrease of Illegitimacy Since the War Began Is Remarkable! ol Sending Tons of Water Thousands\na,J.n ,X,^,amS -T-,00'8 \"I\"' Advocates Abolition of Private Tenure of Estates in England-\n, I ___._ . I u ...... I !......._...\nand Government Is Even Said to Be Encouraging It;\nSomething About the Recent Growth of\nSocialism in Germany\no( Miles Away\nIn the Berlin \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDageblatt on January\n16, 1917, Dr. Engcl, \" ie ol the aldi r-\nliun nf Berlin, stated thai then wert\n.i,ckhi,(K4I 'illegitimate children burn in\nGerman) since iln- beginning of the\nwar, and thai ihis number was increasing at the rale of 20,000 annually in Berlin.\n\"Only a vigorous,-rich increase in\nchildbirth can make up for the in-\nirmous loss of life which the war\nbrings up daily,\" declared Dr. Engel.\n\"The increase in population must,\ntherefore, be recognized as one of\nihe most important problems of the\nfuture. To continue the increase we\nure forced to consider tlie illegitimate birth, which is already in per\ncent, \"f the normal rate. 'I'he war\ncompels us. also, whether we wish\nit nr not. to consider this kind nf\nincrease in population in tl\nin a kindlier way. Our object now\nmust be to better the situation (or\nihe illegitimate child.\"\nThis frank statement by one of\nBerlin's physicians, who is connected\nwith the city governmertt, shows thai\nsocial conditions in Germany haw-\nreached ttle point where they demand\ncareful consideration.\nDr. Engel presents startling statistics. He states that the number of\nillegitimate children born in cities\nsuch as Berlin. Hamburg and Munich has increased from 15 ner cent,\nin 1914 to 45 per cent, in 1916. He\ndeclares that unless the government\ndoes something immediately t\" legitimatize these children a big percentage of the future German race will\nbe illegitimate.\nThe problems confronting the\nand nation as a result of this\ntion are as numerous as they\nimportant. In tbe first place.\ngovernment, the doctors and tli\nucational classes do not like the\nof having these children raised as\nillegitimate offspring. They want\nthe government to adopt the children\nand provide by legislation for their\neducation and sustenance until they\nare at least fourteen years of ace.\nProposals have been made, also, for\nthe children to take tbe names of\ntheir mothers and be made legitimate\nchildren by a special act of parliament.\nAt present the government is doing\nnothing to decrease the birth rate.\nOn tbe other band, everything pos-\nsible is being done to encourage, women to have children. Exceptional\ncare is given to mothers and prosnec-\ntivc mothers. They can go to >ov.\nernment hospitals during confinement. Tf they are girls working in\nfactories they are given from one\nmonth to six weeks' vacation at that\ntime .on full nav, and the city niivs\nwhatever physician and nurse bills\nare neccssarv. The result is that\nmillions of young girls, especially\ni \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD-\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD imong tin- working\nhaving children and m this cay are\ncontributing i\" the future of their\nfatherland. It is nol i n \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD. a\ndisgrace in Germany to have a hild\nif the girl is not married. On the\ntrary, they are complimented '\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD?\nii. and women who il\" not have car\nbabies are not considered loyal Germans. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nProstitution at the -aiu,- tin e hat\ndecreased. In such cities as Berlin,\nHamburg, Munich and Co.logm ani\nFrankfort, there are no .'.ar time red\nlight districts. I'or our a year the\nproblems incident to the birth of I\nIf conditions in Engla\nai urate)} described\no\ Warwick, ii would\nreform is long o rdui\ntic.\nll.\n'I he\ni. i -. ;\nIn i\nalist i\nlostly\nimp*\nat-!\nians.\nthe\nfol-\nt li _\nall\nillegitimate children ha*\n'.iii' ting the attention of physii\nrhe plan which it seems probabl\ngovernment will sanction is the\nmure] lowing:\nnow Every child born in an urn.li\nwoman will take the name i :\nmother. The cily already pay\nthe expenses at birth. After thai the\nmothers will be given from 1 i . 3\nmark- a day Inward the cost of caring for and feeding the infant. As\nthe child gel- older it will be supported by the state until it is old\nenough to go i\" wnrk. Its education in the public schools will be entirely at the governmeni expense.\nAfter it is fourteen years nf age it\nwill have an opportunity of learning I\na trade or some kind of business at|Kc\ntlie government's expense, \"0\nThe reason the birth rate of Hie- dr\ngitimate children is constantly in- th\ncreasing is because the government its\nindirectly encourages, especially the|ct\nworking girls, to believe that it is\ntheir duty to the fatherland to recreate the race. Married women are\n| encouraged in the same way.\nThe problem of caring for the\nchildren in Germany is one of llie\ncity\nsitua-\nthe\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD ed.\nidea\n\\ - i'.--rr talking f fi\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDn\ and '\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD: :-\ni lin' Carl.il'i and I.\n; '\" \" I said, \"isn't - \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nmuch a matter of growing things, as\nof using all we grow. Why, the\nvegetables and fruit that rut on the\nground \"ii my farm every year\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDand\nit's nol a wildly extravagant farm at\nthat\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDwould pretty near feed another\nfamily lhe size nf mine. Our problem\nas i see it is only partly one nf pr -\nduction. Above all, it is a problem\n\"i -laving, canning ami distributing.\"\n\"I'm imt so -ure about the canning.\" answered Mi'. Garland, \"Canning mean- water, .ind the idea oi\nsending millions of tuns of water i\"\nEurope seenis rather foolish. It's\nfoolish even to send potatoes in\nbulk.\"\n\"You can't send them by wireless,\"\nI protested mildly.\n\"Xo. but yon can dry them,\" he\nanswered.\n\"Powdered potatoes?\" I asked in\namazement.\n\"\\ by. yes.\" he replied vvith a reminiscent smile. \"Am', they're good,!'\nto... When i was outfitting for The '\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDw the\nI g Trail' into the Yukon valley,(,ran'' Dukes and\nin '\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD8, | found myself deeply con-1fcudal properties i\nSays Feudal Landlords Are an Anachronism and the\nNew Money-spun Ones are an Abomination\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDEmulate Grand Duke\nat \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD at all\nthe Countess\nSeem that a\nu that coun\nis may\nthai tiie lam\nlu the state.\nIon\nSh\ngive\nher-\nsaid\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD amc\nattic\nlivii\nn that ihey have\nand would be lhe I,enemy division. Perhaps,\nni - is ui reasoning, most\nU1S \"1 a great many ol\nantagonistic to socialism\ncounted fur, says a writer\nito Saturday Night. However, mil to wander from nur subject, the Countess is the owner of\nsome 23.1M) acres in England, and\nis presumably, convinced that she is\nimt entitled tn this estate. She has,\nmine iv cr. made an appeal to tiie\nlanded aristocracy nf England tu fol-\nonple of ' the Russian\nover their\n: slate.\n.*-!.' propon\nthe land ba\nself, would doubtless be prepared t\n. give her estate.- back, bat thc fact\nbe that tliey are entailed makes it im-\niry radical possible to do so It is lucky fur her\nicialist, and t.,,i! tin- i^ the ca-... Otherwise she\nal property may nnd herself in a state of finan-\na socialists cial embarrassment, wry shortly,\nthose wlm'which would be anything but pleas-\nup properly ant when she would waken lu find\nlm liir\ning i\"\nficiarici\non the\nI of tile\nj us who\nI might be\nllie Ti\ncerned with the question of lu odl ' W<\ntransportation. All mir supplies fi\nSoil miles uf wild country had to b\npacked on the backs of our horsi\nmust\nsav-\n\"The\ncial\nwhich\nant when she would vval.v\nthat she was the only landlord :\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD dispossess herself. Her position would\nthen be lhat of tenant tu some other\nlandlord. The injustices would be\njust as great ami she would be the\nsufferer instead of, as now, the beneficiary. For my pari, if there is\nto be any land-owning, and if I really\nbelieve that the owner get.- the advantage over the non-owner, I would\ncertainly elect to be the owner.\n-v more practical suggestion, and\none which would finally come to tiie\nsame thing, would be mat tne estates\nand the land ol England, generally,\nbe maue to bear the burden ol taxation. Let lhe tax be levied on tbe\nunimproved value, so thai there shall\nbe absolute justice, 'lhe unimproved\nline Matthews tells how she had set\nher heart ne of the\ngaily embr mva us.\nby tbe firls for market\ning. 'I !.'\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD; could :'.\"! be bought at a\n-li p and tl \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD trj folks were noi\n;t mpted i i \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD in nder tljem fur any\nreasonable\n\"I met a mar. leading a pack horse\nand ui: that horse were strung some\nbags, am. one il thosi I ags vvas a\nglorious color; new and fresh. Have\nthat bag I n iuld. So I went into the\nmiddle of the mad and quietly\nstopped the mare.\n\"The man sei lazed and\nrather in .lii I resent being\nbrought i -\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD mdstill. I launched\nforth in very halting Serbian, on\nthe eathei the pony, and then\nout came ; :tte case and we\nwere friends ' inly one of the mad\nEnglish, I .- ippose Ik- thought.\n\"Tbe moment was ripe. I raised\nthe bag, emptied the parcels on the\nsaddle and placing -nine money beside them. I ohi I at the man in a\nfriendly way. lie smiled. A new\nkind nf game, he thought. Without\na vv rd I held nut my hard In Serbia\nwhen a bargain i- concluded in the\nselling \"f a ! rsc ur cattle the men\nshake hands and so make tbe bargain legal, li i- quite a little ceremonial. My new friend took my\nhand. Tlie deed vvas done. The bag\nwas mine.\"\nbiggest problems nf tbe government.\nInasmuch as the state encourages a\nliberal increase in population, it has\nP. be iu a position to take good care\nof tbe children, or prospective mothers will be discouraged. So physicians are given special instructions\nas 1\" tbe care of children. For instance, a year ago when the milk\nSupply began to decrease, physicians\nwere given orders to instruct young\nmothers that they must nurse their\nown children. Physicians were advised tn do everything in their power\nto get the mothers to continue tbis as\nlong as possible. Then in order to\nfeed children only the smallest amount of milk physicians prescribed\ncereals, mashed potatoes, spinach\nand carrols for children above six\nmonths nf age. Some physicians\neven did away with milk entirely and\nprescribed a mixture of cocoa and\ncornmeal and meat broth for children only a few months old.\nand every pound of extra weight\ncounted against our speed.\n\"Naturally we ruled out\ngood.-\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDI\" pack water into the\nnorthwest was id' tic W'e turned to\ndried fruits, flour and beans, and\nn to a new ration which had made\nappearance in the western mark-\nlets at that time. This new ration was\n'granulated' potatoes and 'dessicated'\neggs. The potatoes were iu slice-\nshaped grains. The eggs resem-\njbled yellow bird shot. A small\n' can of these grains included, as\n1 recall it. six dozen of eggs. In a\nsomewhat larger can I bought\nflaky residue of several bushels\ncarrots, parsnips and turnips.\naristocracy of England, in their posi-.\ntion of heri-dioirv Ph,,i,.,.-\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD.-_. ........ H\nereditary landowners, must\ngo. The country rings with suggestions mr the betterment of the conditions under which land is cultival -1 _!ie.\".\ned, but as I see things, the StlggeS'\nire in no instance drastic en\nla\nDESPATCH RIDER\nHAS TROUBLES\nBecause He Is a Little Fellow\nand Can Swim, Fred Deeley's\nBrother-in-law Still Lives\nA most interesting letter has been\nreceived by Mr. Fred Deeley nf Vancouver from his brother-in-law,\nCorporal Harold .Wheeler, who is\nserving his country in France as a\ndespatch rider. With kind permission ul Mr. Deeley we are enabled\nto give extracts from tbe letter telling ot some exciting and narrow escapes. He says:\n\"1 recall one ur two instances in\nparticulars, once when my short stature 15 ft. 3 1-2 in.) saved my bacon;\nonce, when my swimming abilities\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\n1 can do 100 yards without stopping\nif I have plenty of time and the\nwater is not too cold\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDcame in useful; and yet another occasion when\nI.scraped through merely because I\nwas not too inquisitive, or of tbe serious sort of chap. On the first occasion we were billeted \"somewhere in\nFlanders,\" in what remained of a\nsmall French village. Just in the\nrear were some hefty 14 inch howitzers, mounted on the railway, and\nthey were in the habit of straffing\nold Fritz like bell, and then the gunners would disappear into the dugouts, and we poor devils in the village would clique for any retaliation\nF'ritz might give.\nThat particular day our guns had\nbeen busy as usual and Fritz seemed\nvery, very annoyed. Scarcely had\ntile boom of our blighters died away\nthan the wail of the 3 9's was heard.\nI happened to be sitting in a small\nestaminct, drinking white wine, when\nnumber one burst outside in the\nstreet. Suddenly there was a h\nof a crash and number two arrived\nthrough the roof and into the room,\nA sergeant next to me was killed aud\ntwo more chaps were injured, but I.j\nmyself,, escaped unhurt, although a\nmirror a few inches above my head\nwas smashed to atoms. I bolted into\nthe cellar.\nA month later three of us were\nriding along a screened road, very\nclose to the line, when wc hetird a\ncrash not far away. As I happened\nto know that a battery of field guns\nvvas somewhere on that road I didn't\nworry, but just opened the throttle\nand bunked. My two pals, however,\nmust have realized that it was a\nshell and not our guns, as I thought\nfor both stopped, then made for an\nold trench that ran parellel with the\nroad. 1'uor beggars\nThe next shell tell close to them;\none had to have bis leg amputated\nand the other poor beggar had shell\nshock, which is a darned sight worse\nthan most wounds. I am thankful 1\ncleared out or 1 may have been beyond the need of \"bully aud biscuits\"\nnow.\nThe occasion when I brought my\n.swimming capabilities int\" play was\nwhen 1 got burned. I have never\nquite found out what happened that\nnight, though there must have been\nplenty doing for a few minutes.\n1 vvas riding along tbe canal bank\nlate one very wet night last autumn.\nThe glass of the filler cap \"n my\n\"Dong\" was cracked and a constant\nflow of petrol was spraying my overalls and must have dripped down on\nthe plugs. Suddenly she caught fire\nand in a few seconds I was literally\na blazing torch. Before I could pull\nup I was burnt about niy bands and\nface but without a minute's hesitation into the canal I jumped. As\nsoon as I was under I was quite\nalright, but when I struggled back\nto the bank I found myself utterly\npowerless to climb the slippery ten\nfont bank, and for the time vvas in\nimmediate danger of being drowned.\nHut two \"Id Frenchmen, probably attracted by the blaze, came trotting\nalong and' in a few minutes bad yanked mc nut. 1 don't remember anything else until late that night the\ndoctor from the field ambulance was\nremoving the dressings from my\nface, and ye gods and little tisbes. I\ndid have a pai' il time of it for the\nnext few days, mt I am more than\ngrateful to bear ugly little sears, and\nmy hair and eyebrows have grown\nagain. 1 enjoyed six or seven weeks\nrest then once more found myself\nback on tbe road with a new \"Douglas\" and a very jumpy set'of nerves,\nperforming tbe duties nf a glorified\nerrand boy. or as the army payrolls\nshows us to be \"Special Despatch\nT_ \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD , \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD * + ft ft ff\nRiders.\nIt is just impossible for anyone,\neven in England, to realize thc desolation and destruction that exists\nout here. I have read many articles\nin newspapers where the writer has\nattempted tu describe the ravages,\nbut in every case he has failed utterly. To sec towns like \"Brum\"\ncompletely demolished, aud villages\nwhere it is literally impossible to\nfind two bricks standing, seems to\nbe exaggeration, bul.it is not. I have\nseen a church with an eighty foot\nspire brought to thc ground with six\nshells from a 12 inch howitzer.\nThank God I am not in the German army. \"Poor old Fritz.\" he is\nnut a bad sport when yon actually\nc une up against him.\"'\n .__\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD.\t\nNaturally Bullecourl fell when the\nGermans dropped it from the Hindenburg line.\n\"Mv partner\nwas suspicious of de\nsicated' eggs.\nBut as soon as vv\nlearned how\no use them we wi\ndelighted witl\nthe result. A laid\nspoonful nf th\ne eggs, and two -po\nfills of the po\ntames when steamed\na skillet will\nsweat up into a '.it\nsavory mess.\nuincil i1 n. n\nritisli I linns\nough.\"\nIsn't that great!* These many years\nwe have been taught to look upon\nRussia as the visible evidence of all\nthat is tyrannical m the way of government. The aristocracy were supreme and the people the veriest\n[slaves. Xo one might call his soul\n| bis own. Russia was a drag on the\nis progress of the world, and would\na | continue to be such for centuries to\ne come, We woke up one morning to\nif I find lhat Russia had somehow got rid\nI of the yoke, over night as it were,\nvalue is not the creation of\noi any individual. It is a\ncommunal value. Individuals create\nonly one value, namely, improve-\nincluding houses, barns and\ni anything made or done by man\nI which attaches itself to land and tan\nbe appraised. Exempt the value of\nall such improvements entirely, as\nany lax placed upon ihem is in its\nvery nature a handicap upon industry. The exercise of industry is not\na crime. It is not something to be\ndecried and discouraged. If 1 build\na house or paint my fence. I am to\nextent a more desirable citizen\nI\nthis\nthan if\nbeautified ll\nthis extent i\nof the neighbor!\nencouraged, not\nnot\nsum\nhied t\nione so. i nave\nHoldings, and to\ni the desirability\n1. 1 should be\nuraged.\n\"It beats rice for expanding, my\npartner said.\"\n\"By George, there's an idea there!\"\n\"I think so myself.\" Mr. Garland\nanswered slowly. \"Ever since the\nod problem vvas first agitated. I\neyes\nlaud'\nf\nhave been wondering whether such aji\nralinn could not be used for our soldiers and for the soldiers of our allies whom we may have lo feed.\nTransportation is going to be a\nmighty problem, and tlie saving and\nshipping of ruits and vegetables in\ndried form may be one of the best\nforms of food conservation. Canned to' the nation he fo\nand had become a republic, while wc] 'N'\"\" -*1**' England is experiencing\nve, champions of liberty, were still a I'.''*' l,t,n\"st difficulty in obtaining\nre I monarchy. The Czar bad abdicated, '\".'\"' an**. '''J*' various necessaries of\nand within twenty-four hours bad e' '\"\".' 's fac,ed with enormous bur-\nalmost been forgotten. Afterwards *'*'\"s \"! taxation, the time would\nthere appeared somewhere the ac- seem r'pe ,or '',e introduction nf a\ncount nf a later episode under tllis s>'st(-'\") ol taxation which would at\nheading; \"Nick Romanoff and his once \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD>\".** \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\"\"' 'n ''\"<-' with the best\nwife have been arrested.'' It was a economics. Although the evil effects\nfew moments before the full signifi- \"f landlordism are nut experienced\ncance of what had happened present- '\". a\"ything like the same degree in\ned itself. Yesterday, bare your head'.\"1'5 country, the argument is none\nand bow before the Czar and Czarina ''\"*' 'ess applicable here. Taxes are\nof all Russias and the ruler oi mill-1 \"ceded. Levy them where they will\nfruit is heavy, dried fruit is light.\nPotatoes arc mostly water, heavy to\nship and likely to bruise and rot, but\n'granulated' potatoes could be sent\nin small compass anywhere, aud so\nfar as I know would keen indefinitely. Local factories could be established where the eggs and fruits and\nvegetables are most abundant, and in\nthese ovens tbe water could be\nsqueezed out and the food compressed for easy transportation.\n\"And you can really eat the stuff?\"\nI asked incredulously.\n\"In our own case, with bacon and\ncoffee.\" Mr. Garland replied, \"it made\na perfectly good ration, which we\nate day after day with satisfaction.\nI forgot to sav that dried rasnberries\nalso came in for use in our dietary.\"\nHe chuckled with reminiscent enthusiasm. \"Our ration was perfect.\"\n\"Perhaps you have a particularly\nrobust constitution.\" 1 ventured,\n\"N'o.'' be saui. \"All tbe miners used\nth- rat\ntritious\nnot at\npotato\n'; ii, l-ecm'se lt wa\nand easily transpi\nall sure that the\nand the dessicatei\nthe solution of the\nEurope as it was\n1113 lit- 1111-\nted. I am\neranulated\n'egg' may\nfood prob-\nu the Vil\nli I\nlem\nkon '\n\"The granulated potato and the\ndessicated egg.\" I murmured unhap-\npilv.\nMr. Garland laid bis band on my\nshoulder. \"My boy.\" be said, \"you\nwill have to get used to worse things\nthan dessicated eggs if we don't beat\nthe submarines!\"\n\"If we don't\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDymi don't think\nthere's a chance ?\"\nMr. Garland looked grave. \"I'm\nimt a pessimist.\" he said, \"hut we\nneed submarine chasers, and here's\ntbe best one I know\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDDon't can!\nDry! Remember it!\"\nI told him 1 would. Aud 1 do.\nI'.very time I see a potato or. an egg.\n1 think of it. The idea is beginning\nto get rrte.\nIt would be funny, wouldn't it, if\nthe world should be made safe for\ndemocracy by the granulated potato\naud the dessicated egg?\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDT. II.\nLight and cheernu ettects, in the\nvery best taste, have come with the\nuse of flower and fruit pictures,\nwhich give a fine air of distinction\nlo a robm and have the merit of fitting in vvith almnst any scheme of\nfurnishing. So great has been the\ndemand for pictures of this class that\nthousands of them have been brought\nfrom Europe in the last few years.\nA long list of capable artists of tlie\npast, headed, perhaps, by Van Hcy-\nsam, left these Ornamental flower\nand fruit pictures for American home\nbuilders, as well as hundreds of their\nnameless followers whose pictures\nare also lull of beautv.\nof subjects. Today. X\ninanoff and his wife have been arrest,\ned. And. now. is held up before thej\nof tbe ancient and honorable j\n1_ aristocracy of England by:\none of their number the action of thej Paris,\naristocracy of Russia as a model i given a\nwhich might with justice and profit: has not\nwed. ; years.\nk Ro. | interfere least wiih the financial and\n'industrial activities of tlie country.\nMusic in Paris\nFrance\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThe Opera has\nrevival of \"Messidor,\" which\nseen the light of day for 20\nIt is a lyrical drama in four\nWe.cannot for one moment sup- I acts and five tableaux, poem by Em\npose that the suggestion will be ad- \"e Zola, and music Dy M. Alfred\nopted,-and while we may thoroughly Bruneau. As in US97. M. Delmas and\nagree witli tbe Countess in ber con- ;M Note are in the cast, wliich also\ntention that the land is rightly the I includes M. Franz as tenor instead\nproperty of the state, the most of: of M. Alvarez, and Mile. Lapey-\ntis will not agree that this is the best re'te and Mile. Gall,\nmethod of reclaiming it. At the Odeon, Alfred de Musset's\nBoys Bar Cigarettes\nLouisville, Ky.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDNearly 11XH) boys\nunder the age of 16 years have signed\nan agreement under the auspices of\ntin: Juvenih Court in Lexington not\nto use cigarettes or oilier tobacco in\nany form until they are IS years old.\nThey havi- enrolled themselves in\nthe Lexington Anti-Cigarette League\nCANADIAN\nPACIFIC\nThrough Tickets\nissued to all parts\nof the world.\nTHE POPULAR\nROUTE\nto the Old Country,\nAlaska. China and\nJapan.\nFor full\nparticulars apply\nto any\nC. P. R.\nAgent\nBm let us see what else the Countess has to say on the subject. She\nsays she has known estates where\nthe tenants are expected lo belong\nto the Church of England and where\nnonconformists are barred or persecuted. Farmers, laborers and small\ntradesmen have been ruined or exiled from the place of their birth\nbecause iheir opinions were contrary\nto those of their landlords. If the\naristocrats possessed the overwhelming wisdom necessary to their role\nas supreme dictators, all would be\nwell, but the Countess only knew six\nwhose claims would bear momentary\nconsideration.\nShe then proceeds to drive home\nsome arguments which are worthy\nof repetition. She declares that it\nis no justice which calls men to\nfight for the land and then leaves\nthe land in the hand- of a fraction\nof those who fought. To her, it is\nimpossible thai in the future \"His\nGrace\" and \"My I. ird\" should own\nsquare miles of the tarth for which\nTom died. Dick was wounded, aud\nHarry fought unscathed. She thinks\nthat-it is no more than justice that\nthe men who have offered their lives I\nfor Britain should have tbe freedom |\nof Britain f\nbetterement\n\"On ne badine pas avec l'amour\"\nwith music by Saint-Saens was given.\nPierre Laid considers that nothing\nmore unsuitable cfluld have been devised than de Musset's poetical fantasy, set to music by so totally un-\nromantic a composer as Saint-Saens.\nHe also criticized the fact tllat Saint-\nSaens has introduced in the final\nscene a long musical episode which\ninterferes with a most effective and\nnotable development in the rule of\nCamille. This is. he says, perhaps\nthe most striking example of the incompatibility oi thought and sentiment between Saint-Saens and Alfred fie Musset.\nDefinition of a Perfect Woman\nA conference of school teachers in\nEngland lias given its definition of\nthe \"perfect woman,\" hirst of all\nshe is 40 and the mother nf five\nchildren She is in happy circumstances and lives in a beautiful part\nnf the country a few miles from a\nbig town. She i- patriotic, religious\nand a friend of the poor, And this\nis Imw she fills her time:\nShe takes walks, rides, bicycles.\nimbs. swims, dances, skates, hows\ntheir reward. Fur llie Iand l>'**>'s S:lllu'S' She can ride a\n' social conditions i\" i1,or\"*0 :lml drive a motor\ncar.\nTbe ex-czar is also charged with\nbeing the author oi a political drama.\nBut why keep kicking him now that's\nhe's down?\nEngland, if supreme sacrifice should\nbe made. Tbe country has great\nneeds and. if it is to remain solvent,\nthe united work nf all is necessary.\nThc feudal landlord is an anachronism and the new money-spun landlord is an abomination. \"W'e who\nare in the high places in England\nshould retire from them, and the act\nwould be a greater memorial than\nthe best of us could have hoped to\ngain.\"\nWhile the truth of most of what\nthe Countess has to say has been\nlong recognized by many, it takes\noil an added significance at this particular juncture. W'e read that, in\nEngland, the large estates bad their\norigin centuries ago in grants from\nthe Crown in the nobles who obligated themselves to undertake the defence of the country. Thus, in times\nof war. they supplied so many horses and so many men together with\nfood and otber requirements. Land\nwas not worth a grcat deal in cash\nin those days, bul it carried wilh il\nlhe virtual ownership of the people\njust as is tin case today, and must\nalways be the case. Hence, the\nCountess declares, that only lhe\nstate can own the land in trust for\nthose, who can make it productive;'\nUnfortunately, the proposal of lhe\nCountess is not verv practical, in the\nform in which it appears in print.\ngames.\nlrive a t:\nproficient iu many branches of practical learning. She can do anything\nand every tiling about the house. She\nknows how to invest money, can use\nhas some knowledge of the law.\na typewriter. She is a great reader.\nEvery day she reads some serious\nbook, as well as a newspaper and a\nnovel. She speaks three languages\nbesides her nwn and reads foreign\nbooks. She is fond of gardening and\nbas learned several crafts\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDwood carving, melalwork. book binding and\nemh\nT\nshe\nroulerv.\nconference\n)es in her\nnoes\n.pare\nnot sav what\nmoments.\nMusings of a Modern Maid\nA man goes into every new flirtation with all the buoyant enthusiasm\nof \"first love\" and tbe perfect confidence that it is going to be \"the\nlast.\"\nTbe only thing \"eternal\" about\nIn'-\" is ils eternal change.\nThe woman who holds a (nan's\nlo.'o forever is the one who offers\nhim neither devotion nor indiffer-\noii\";.'. bul just a mild, tepid interest,\n\"hich niniies bis vanity, anneals to\n'w curiosity\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDand at the same time\nlulls all his fears of matrimonial designs. .\nA S<\"-bi*\"- rs.irpain\nIn her book. \"Fxi-vriences m\" a\nwoman doctor in Serbia.\" Dr. Caro-\nEstablished 1904\nPURE VINEGARS AND\nSWEET APPLE CIDER\nCarload Business a Specialty\nFACTORIF:S:\nB.C. 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By Donald Downie, Barriste r-at-Law.\nTbe herded wolves, bold only to\npursue;\nThe obscene ravens, clamorous o'er\nthe dead;\nThe vulture- to the conqueror's banner true,\nWho feed where desolation first has\nfed.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDI Shelley .\nA distinguished clergyman\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\"vv ho\nis alsn an ornament t\" bis profession\" (for I must use his own words\nand not allow him to surpass me in\npoliteness)\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDtreated his public to a\nsomewhat sensational politico-religious pot-pourri Sunday evening of\nla^l week. The clergy may always\ndo this with impunity. They are a\nprivileged class. Question of taste.\nThey know the deep respect for the\ncloth, in which we have all been\neducated. And, unlike the members\nof our own much-abused profession,\nthey know that they have only one-\ncase to plead each week\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDand no reply.\nHis very excellent congregation\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nwho by some strange chance (1 did\nnot say, misfortune) are mostly of\none political color\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDmust have been\nawakened from their customary\nslumbers with a slight shock. But\nas it is not under his benign ministrations that I take my usual Sunday\nnap, 1 have to depend on the report\nof a sympathetic and friendly evening journal: with its accompanying\neditorial. I had intended going to\nsee \"Intolerance\" at thc Orpheum;\nbut these trial demonstrations saved\nme two dollars.\nOh, we are a great and good race\nof people, in our complacent, superior, self-satisfied Anglo-Saxon way.\nWe are not temperamentally ill-\nnatured as a rule; nor German in\nour implacable ferocity. And we\neasily forget injuries\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDno matter\nwhether we suffer then or inflict\nthem.\nBut once in every seven years we\nhave a sort of spiritual revival, or\nclearing-house of conscience. Wc\nawake. Our virtue calls for a victim.\nHis offence may be venial compared\nwith all those we have tolerated and\nsuffered in silent approval. And it\nnihy not be clearly established. A\n'mere error of judgment. And a\nneedless, ha_/v and too sweeping denial. But we .--Icct tliis victim by\nchance\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDor by decimation. Or by\nhis popularity, or prominence. He\nmust be thrown to us from a certain\neminence\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDwhich involves the ruin of\na reputation and the degradation of\na name. Then, all the pious censors\nare turned loose. And when they\nhave torn and devoured him, for nine\ndays\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthen they lick their chops and\nclose their eyes, and go to sleep\nagain for seven years more.\nNow, moral philosophy speaks\nplainly of all things, and it calls actions by their right names. Said\nMahomet 10 his son: \"Let us occupy\nourselves with that which is eternal;\nlet us found a new religion.\" Sn let\nus speak here of lhat which is universal. Not the unusual; nor the\n'unique; nor unheard of;\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthe moral\ndepravity involved in rather rashly\naccepting, and then not quite clearly\nand openly avowing, these otherwise\nperfectly innocent campaign contributions,\nI know, that, as a rule, aspiring\npublic men should not thoughtlessly\n/accept presents from anyone. Most\nof us would not. It is a question of\nprudence; and of taste. We are perhaps rather careful generally, to look\nthese gifts in the mouth. .TimeO\ndanaos\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD(you know the rest.l. Nevertheless after having beard il fairly\nstated in open court, by counsel for\nthe complainant\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthat \"they had\nnever charged that the attorney-gen-\n1 eral was a dishonest man,\" and while\nthe whole matter was still more or\nless sub judicc; for the Minister was\n: still in place; and the rather fair,\ni mild and harmless flnding-of-fact by\nthe learned commissioner vvas as yet\nunpublished\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDwas it not uncharitable,\nj to say the least, to hold this young\nmember up above all others to his\nfellow citizens, as the \"horrible example\" (?) For, though the gcturc\n: was imlprudent, might it not have\n' been entirely compatible with purity\nof intention? I ask you; Oh, you\ndoubting Thomas.\nIt bas been said that the \"scholar\n.in politics\" is without success. That\ni the theologian is without authority\nI there. Xow, nature has given every\nman two eyes. But whenever he\napproaches politics, he closes one.\ni So docs the political parson. Just j\ni like a common mortal. So the church I\nj loses by his intervention. And 1 fear\ni the state docs not gain.\nPolitics is not an exact science.\n(The same might be said of theology). Compromise and tolerance,\n| are of the essence of political science.\nTherefore, let us not exaggerate\nhere; nor extenuate; nor set down\naught in malice. Nor impute motives. Says Byron: \"1 hate a motive,\nas i hate the Devil,\" And we can\nsurely speak as observant and detached students, of public men and\npublic affairs, without fear or favor.\nFor a fallen minister has no time-serving friends now, inspired only by\nthat gratitude which is a lively sense\nof benefits to come.\nAnd what was the offence, after\nall, of the young and rising Vancou-\nI ver member, and minister,\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDstill in\nj his novitiate\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDwhose first bold elec-\n| tion-campaign a year ago broke the\nI long spell that bound this province\nP. the insatiable railroad gang\nawoke lhe people lo lhe true -tan\nof their affairs; and ended the orgy\nof an old and arrogant regime?\nWhat was the gravamen uf the\ncharge? And was il a crime, or a\nblunder? Certainly it does nol carry\nwith il public robbery, nor conspiracy, nor treason, nur assassination.\nNor dues it appear that the candidate personally solicited, either for\nhimself or in lhe name \"I a parly nr\na government, any ol these campaign\nfunds, which were thrust upon linn\nby these innocent and naive railroad\nbuilders (so-called)\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDwlm have built\nthe t'. x. K. These professional\nlobbyists and vote-buyers believe,\nfrom snme experience, lhat every\nlegislature has its price. And they\nhave never been denounced, as they\nshould be, by the watchful clergy, to\nwhose church campaigns they have\noften so generously subscribed\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDwilh\nnther people's money.\nNo. It does not appear here that\nany seductive advances were made\nto them; nor corrupt promises; in\norder to loosen their purse strings.\nand weaken Iheir virtue. It should\nseem, on the contrary, lhal one of\nthis predatory clan was the slool\npigeon or the agent-provocaleur.\nAnd when that same agent, examined as a witness, tells us lhat in\npaying over this money to this campaign fund for another benevolent\nclansman and private magnate, lie\nwas only the messenger boy; and\nthat it was not Ihe money of any\ncorporation expecting favors; and\nthai it was not the money of any corporation expecting favors; and that\nlie himself selected tbe recipient campaign official, through whom the\ncontribution was to be made\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthen\nthis shy decoy-duck, and chief witness for the prosecution, with all his\nair of unwillingness, must certainly\nbe believed.\nWas it really lo be a pistol held\nat the head of the government? Perhaps, And when the government refused to bold up ils hands, then\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nwith a certain hesitancy\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDobviously\nintended lo give the ministry a last\nchance to make it easy for the clan\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthen the pistol'goes off, with this\nphariasaic explosion , from Tory\npress and pulpit, that we have just\nheard. And so tbe Ministry and the\nMinister properly decide that these\nmatters can better be threshed out\nwhen he has become a private member. That is all.\nXow we all know that political\nparties must be organized, and that\neven reform campaigns must be financed. The most canting of Pilaris-\nsees will not pretend the contrary.\nBecause political parties are necessary concomitants of free institutions. For when bad men combine\ngood men must associate. And party\ncampaigns, like churches, must have\na treasury. It is a pity; in both\ncases. But if the son of a great\npromoter or railway-broker, or tin-\nreformed lobbyist, opens up the\ncockles of his heart, and his cheque\nbook, for any kind of reform movc-\n(Continticd on I'.-irc l.iglu)\nI\ni fF\ntooocoaoocxcooJ\nRichmond Craig's Weekly Message\npoaoooooooaoooj\n\"THE GREATEST OF THEM ALL\"\n=*\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nClubb& Stewart\nLimited\n309 to 315 Hastings St. W.\nSpecial Bargains\n---For\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nThis Week Only\n15 1). B. Blue: and Black Suits, \"20th Century Brand,\" guaranteed dyes; dJI 7 C I\nwere $25 to $35. Choice $11.3 I\nSO Tweed Suits, Special value\nYour choice\t\n$15.00\n40 Pinchback and Norfolk Suits (M C AA\nfor young men. Great value at \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDpl\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD/\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDUU\nThis Sale Stops on Saturday Night. Get Some of\nthese Exceptional Values\nJ. RICHMOND CRAIG\nNever Man Spake Like This Man.\nJohn, 7 and 46.\nWhile on his last western tour, Sir\nWilfrid Laurier, the leader of one of\nour great political parties, was introduced lo his audience by one of his\nlieutenants, as thc Prime Minister of\nCanada who had made the least mis-\nlakes. \"All men in this exalted position,\" said the henchman, \"have\nmade mistakes,\" \"and they would not\nhave been human, bad they not done\nso, but Sir Wilfrid is the greatest of\nthem all. because he has made fewer\nblunders than any of them.\"\nThai Sir Wilfrid is a great man in\npolitics not even his bitterest opponent will deny, but his greatest admirers also confess that he has made\nmistakes. They offer apologies, as\nall men do for those whom they\nhonor and love. N'or do wc think the\nless of (hem for so doing. We are all\nso human and so liable to err, and\nyet, there has come across the stage\nof time One for whom no apology\nneed be offered. Jesus Christ, the\nSon of the Living God, the Greatest\nand Grandest Personality the world\nhas ever witnessed and heard, requires no apologist to explain His\nweaknesses and failings for He had\nnone. He was the Perfect Man,\nand His Gospel is the Perfect Cure\nfor the world and its ailments. He\nspake as never man spake.\"\nIn a Class By Himself\nWe cannot classify The Preacher\nof Nazareth. He stands in a row all\nby himself. He belongs to no special\nclass, and yet He was superior to\nall classes. As a preacher He was\nthe greatest of them all. The common people heard Him gladly, and\nmultitudes thronged to see Him, just\nas they will today wherever, and\nwhenever, lie is raised up as the\npoor man's friend, and the sinner's\nliope. lie was, and is, and ever shall\nbe. the most attractive Personality\nin the whole world, and why?\nThe reason why simple and natural people readily understood Jesus\nis that, in the kind of life they lived,\nthe primal emotions were supreme.\nThey were able to understand the\nsimplicity of his teaching and the\nevery-day application of it to tlieir\nlives. Tbe peasant fathers and\nmothers knew what it meant to welcome a prodigal son. They were always standing with arms to receive\nllieir penitents from the cruel snare\nof the cities. They liked this working It.an who talked to them of compassion and love. In poor men's\nliuls, beside the Sea of Galilee, Jesus\nHimself had found love, love in all\nits divine daring, forgiveness and\ninaganimity, and He knew that among the people like these, He would\nbe understood.\nAnd tbe world is craving today for\nthe simple Gospel of the Man who\nSpake as never man spake. The Gospel of love and compassion' and\nHope. A Gospel lhat can bc understood and practised by all. We do\nnoi want creeds, dogmas or doctrines about Christ. We waul Him,\nami His spirit to. permeate our lives,\nand sweeten them. \"Come unto Me\nall ye that weary, and are heavy\nladen, and I will give you rest,\" has\nan unexplainable attractiveness for\nthe poor in spirit and the faint of\nheart of all time.\n' The Working Man's Friend\nW'e have often been taunted with\nthe remarks thai The Jesus of lhe\nGospel was only a working man. He\nhad no education, and so, what real\ncontribution could He make to the\nworld's good? \"Is not this the carpenter?\" has often been asked, and\nalmost always in the same spirit.\nAnd yet He spake as never man\nspake. Lowliness of station is not\nexclusive of the highest gifts, nor\nincompatible with the highest culture, nor inimical to the highest usefulness. \"You may,\" says one, \"be\ncarpenter and prophet, carpenter and\npoet, just as you can be house-drudge\nand angel.\" And as a working man,\nJesus has brought himself into sympathetic relations with the great\nmasses of mankind. He speaks to\nthem as no one else can. He fathomed the depths of humanity, ' and\nhas given sympathy and succor to\nthe lowly and neglected. His mission into this world was to be a Bro-\nther and Friend to man. Through\nthe tiring and toilsome state of a\npeasant carpenter, he showed the\nuniversal, permanent and ever increasing significance of the genius of\nthe Christian religion. In a quiet\nand unostentatious way he demonstrated the great ethical value of His\nGospel and by clean and clear reasoning was able to prove how superior the new order was to that of the\nPharisees and Sadducees. His keen\ninsight into tbe heart of human nature enabled Him to speak to the\nmen ol all times as never man spake.\nii lias been punned out that l be\noriginality oi jesus consists tn tins,\nthai lie nail the teeling lor what was\ntrue aud eternal amid a chaotic in.ia_,\nui rubbish, and thai ile enunciated\nil wiui ine greatest emphasis. ' i he\npositiveness oi Jiis assertions, and\nllie authority with winch lie mace\nihem gives US the right to claim,\nthat He spake as never man spake,\nine 1 say unto you'' of the Gospels,\ngives force and deep meaning lo the\ntilings which are contained therein.\n1 be moral law becomes through\nChrist The will of the personal\nlather, and to Jesus is given the peculiar power to make his moral\nteaching effective in the lives of men.\nThe \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD greatest contribution that\nJesus makes to ethics and religion\nis Himself. No personality can for\nan instant be placed beside his as\nworthy of comparison with him, and\njust in ihis fact lies ihc greal, peculiar unique contribution of Jesus\nto Ihe moral and religious life. He\nhas spoken with authority to all. To\nthe ignorant, he gives counsel with\nkindly consideration. To the guilty,\nHe brought a message of mercy and\nhope. Uf His enemies, He -spoke\ntenderly and without bitterness. On\nall thc mysteries of life lie has given\nus interpretations clear and bright.\nIle has taken tbe sling out of death,\nand to those in doubt, despair or\ngrief lie has given the only permanent message of peace and comfort\ntruth there is no certainty apart from\nthat the world bas ever heard. In\nHim and the priceless service. He\nhas rendered the souls of men is\nthat lie lifted faith for ever out of\nthe realm of speculation into that\nof intuition, and has made it sure and\nabiding, for all wdio have eyes to see\nHis glory, and hearts lo understand\nHis love. Ile spake as never man\nspake\nall tbe newspapers of the world, by\nfurnishing free copy of interesting\nevangelistic matter, aimed directly\nat the conversion of the soul. Ibis\ngentleman offers $5, is raised lo make a fair trial in\nJapan. Korea and China, and at least\n$l-5,000 more, in case $1,(KX.,.XK) is\nContributed by all Christians, to\nprosecute the work among all nations except the L'nited States. As\nthis work is to be world-wide and\nexceedingly economical, all lovers of\n! the Lord, in all churches, are invited\nto contribute liberally to this method\nof winning the world to Christ. A\ncolumn in a secular weekly news\ni paper for a year would cost but little\n' and would reach a grcat multitude\nl of readers, many of whom could not\nbe reached in any other way, and\nwould yield great results under the\n> blessing of God.\"\nMRS. LLOYD GEORGE AND\nFUTURE REFORM\nSome interesting views on the\nliquor problem are expressed by\nMrs. Lloyd George in nn article\nunder lhe title of \"Our Most Deadly\nEnemy,\" which appears in \"Answers.\"\nThc question of how to deal with\nthe trouble of the nation has, she\nsays, become more and more important and insistent, and she does\nnot profess to say how far the endeavors and schemes to deal with it\nhave been successful.\n\"Hut 1 do think that the diminution of the sale and consumption of\nalcholic liquors is neither, so great\nnor so universal as we have every\nright to expect, seeing the strain and\ntension of the nation, and remembering all the warnings and sound\nadvice which have been given by\ncompetent and influential counsellors\nin tbis matter. Parliament can do a\ngreat deal towards helping forward\nlhe solution of this problem. It bas\ndone much since the war began, but\ncould do very much more. It will,\nlater on, when the war is over, if not\nbefore, have to tackle the thing thoroughly. Hut we men and women, as\nindividuals, also can dp far more\nthan we imagine by our example, by\nour advice, by'our help, by our de-\nterninied resolve that all excessive\ndrinking\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDif not all the drink traffic\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDshall be put down.\nWhether it can be done best by\nlocal option, as it is called, or by-\ndirect national control, or by civic\nmanagement, or by greatly lessening\nthe number of public-houses, or by\nrestricted hours, I do not pretend to\nsuggest. But 1 do know that, if we\nare to prosper as wc ought to do\nafter the war, the thing must be\ndone. And I trust all women vvill\nbe ready and resolved to do their\npart. 1 cannot conceive of anything\nwhich would more insure the glory\nand triumph of our nation in commerce, iu an, in literature, in a high\nstandard of life, than the conquest\nof England's greatest and most terrible enemy\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDdrink. We shall have\nan unique Opportunity\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthe chance of\na lifetime\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDwhen this war is over and\nour land has to begin a new life. Let\nus see lu it that we grasp this opportunity, and that wc set our faces\ntowards the 'Vision Splendid' right\nIrom the start.\"\nEach one has a gift entrusted for\nuse. It may be as a treasure hid in\nlhe field, or as the lost piece of the\nnecklet, which thc woman swept the\nbouse to find. Hut it must bc found\nand used, or we shall incur the serious displeasure of the Lord when He\ncomes to reckon with us.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDF. B.\nMeyer.\nAre you where God would have\nyou be If not, come out and at once,\nfor you certanily ought not to he\nthere. If you are, then be afraid to\ncomplain of circumstances which\nGod has ordained on purpose to\nwork out in you the very image and\nlikeness of His Son.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMark Guy\nPearse.\nNEW WAY TO PREACH\nTHE GOSPEL\nThe daily press is not being neglected as a medium by which religious information may be carried to\nthe public, as the \"weekly sermons,\"\nthe \"go-to-cluirch-Siinday,\" and other\npublicity campaigns show. Now an\norganized movement to spread\nChristianity in non-Christian lands\nthrough the newspapers is on foot.\nIt is thus briefly described by the\nPittsburg Christian Advocate:\n\"Inspired by the convictions and\nsacrifices of a Christian gentleman,\nwho is not a Methodist, the Board\nof Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal church is now developing a plan to preach Christ through\nIMMIGRANT BIBLE-READERS.\nXew Americans must read the\nBible before they enter lhe United]\nStales, according to the decision of\nthe Department of Labor. Passages\nwill be selected from more than one\nhundred languages and dialects, says\na Washington dispatch to the New\nYork Sun. Tbe department thus explains its choice for the literacy test:\n\"This is not because lhe Bible is\nconsidered a sacred book by many\nneople. but because it is now the\nonly book in virtually every tongue.\nTranslations of the Bible were made\nbv eminent scholars, and, what is\nniore to the point, the translating\nwas done by men whose purpose it\nwas to put the Bible in such simple\nand idomatic. expressions in the various foreign languages as would\nmake it possible for the common\npeople of foreign countries to grasp\nthe meaning readily and thoroughly.\"\nLEGAL NOTICES\nIN THE MATTER u.' THE \"BEXBV-\nOI.ENT SOCIETIES' ACT,\" AND\nAMENDMENTS TIIEIIETOi\nTAKE NOTICE that a special generat\nmeeting ot the Brltlah Columbia Loggers' Association will be held at 822\nlingers Building, Vancouver, B. C\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD on\nTuesday, the 29th day of May. 1917. at\n7:30 p.m., for the purpose of considering and, If deemed advisable, passing\nDie following resolution:\nThat the British Columbia Loggers\"\nAssociation hereby abandon the objects of the Association as set out ir*\nClause 2 of the declaration riled on tht\n2nd day of May, 1907, and adopt the\nfollowing In lieu thereof:\nI. To promote the interests and welfare of the Province of British Columbia in respect of the Logging Industry.-\n2 To bring together the persons interested In lhe Logging business as set\nout In the Bylaws, as eligible for membership;\n,1. To consider ways and means for\nthe betterment of their condition and\nfor the promotion of their business and\nthe Logging Business generally ' ll*\nBrilish Columbia:\n4. To make such arrangements as\nthe Association shall deem expedient\nwith similar Societies or Associations\nwithin or outside the limits of Hritish\nColumbia Tor the interchange of Informal Ion relative to the Logging industry;\n5 To regulate as nearly as may be\npracticable, and as may be properly*\nand legally done the output of Forest\nProducts, to conform to the demands-\nnnd requirements ot the Manufacturers;\nti. To devise ways and means, if possible, conjointly with the Manufacturers and others, whereby uniformity in\nthe classification and scale of logs.,\nspars, piles, bolts and timber may be\nestablished and maintained;\n7. To use every effort to secure, as-\nfar as may be properly and legally\ndone, a uniform schedule of prices for\nsaid Forest Products:\n8. To provide ways and means for\nraising the necessary money to pay\nand defray expenses incurred In carrying out the objects of this Assocla-\n9. To maintain an office In the City*\nof Vancouver for the collection of Information relative to the Industry and\nfor lhe general benefit of the Assocla-\nic! To promote legislation for the\nbetterment of conditions in the Logging Industry, and to use all proper\nmeans to prevent the passage of legislation Inimical to same:\nII. To promote eo-operatlon between\nthe Loggers and the Manufacturers or\nlumber;\n12. To promote the sale of wood\nproducts, and to discourage the use of\nsuilbslllules therefor.\nDATED al Vancouver, B. C\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD the .Ira\ndav of April, 1917.\nW. B. W. ARMSTRONG.\nSecretary.\n5-55\nTIMBER SALE X MM\nSEALED TENDERS will bo received\nhy the Minister of Lands not later\nthan noon on the 1st day of June,\n1917, for the purchase of License\nX 938. lo cut 972,000 feet of Cedar.\nHemlock and Balsam on an area ad-\nJoining Lot 774. Broughton Island.\nRange 1, Coast District.\nOne (1) year will be allowed for\nremoval of timber.\nFurther particulars of the Chief\nForester, Victoria, B. C or District\nForester, Vancouver. B. C.\nLAND IlEGISTUY ACT\nIN THE MATTER of Application No.\n31388 T and\nIN THE MATTER of the title to Lot\n17, North of 3-4 Block \"B\" and\nSouth 1-2 Block \"C,\" District Lot\n704. Map No. 1960.\nWHEREAS application has been\nmade for a Certificate of Indefeasible\nTitle to the above mentioned lands inr\nthe name of William John Adair:\nAND WHEREAS on Investigating the\ntitle lt appears that you were the\nholder of a right to purchase the said\nlands, under an unregistered Agreement for Sale, dated 2nd February,\n1910:\nNOW THEREFORE, I hereby give\nyon notice that it is my Intention at\nthe expiration of fourteen (14) d>ys\nfrom the service on you of this notice\n(which may be effected by publication in \"The Standard\" for 5 consecutive issues), to effect registration in\npursuance of the said application,\nfree from the above mentioned\nAgreement for Sale, unless you take\nnnd prosecute the proper proceedings\nto establish your claim, if any, to-\nsaid lands, or to prevent such proposed action on my part.\nDated nt the Land Registry Office,\nVancouver, B. C, this 12th dny of\"\nApril. A.D., 1917.\nARTHUR a SMITH,\nDistrict Registrar.\nTo: Joseph S. Merson.\n___*_\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD.. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDATL'K^^BIHK, 1917\nTHE STANDARD\nFJ VE\nQUICK ACTION\nBy Telephone\nMilady's Gossip\n(BY \"LAURINA')\nThese are days of speed. People demand\nrapidity in everything. The jitney found a\nplace in urban traffic because ii pave\nquicker transportation. The automobile\nrevolutionized commercial conditions.\nBut, faster than all is the telephone. The\nfield <>r the telephone is not circumscribed\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDanywhere, everywhere, il is all the same\ntn the telephone. And all in a moment, too.\nNo necessity to travel, even by the fastest carriers, when you have the telephone.\ni Ions :ription though not yet an\nactuality, \"ill almost assuredly be\nio in .1 very shorl lime, and tlmse\nwomen that have held lack their\nsons, husbands, sweethearts or brothers will fjuile :i- assuredly re-\nproacli themselves that they have\nlaid llieir men open to stigma.\nThai vv.niieii shi uld hate bloodshed\nnnd ihe attendant horros and cruel-\nB. C. TELEPHONE CO. LTD.\nI tics of war ii Inn natural; also lhat\nthey should exer'l all iheir influence\nthey possess againsl it, hut at the\nsame time it must he remembered\nthat they admire above all things\ncourage in men. It is the hard struggle of idealism\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDlove of home and\n-li .hi ess against instinct, for it is\ninstinct, an old and deeply inherent\none that even now as in the ages of\nthe primitive people, acknowledges\nit to be the rightful pan of the man\nin do his share iu the fighting when\nneed arrives, to protect those he\nloves from harm.\nThe man who would not fight in\nearly limes was pul lo death; as being no fit member of the community,\nso, today, he suffers the scorn of his\nfellow men. Women would rather\nknow their men to be anything but\ncowards: at the same time their love\naud dependence wages bitter war\nagainst the knowledge that tlieir men\nshould do their duty.\nli is the lot nf women that tliey\nsuffer always alone\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthe man is left\nfar behind\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDanil in the dread experience of seeing their beloved ones go\nforth io face death al duty's call, only\nwives and mothers can kn -vv lhe untold agony of suffering it entails.\nl.ei the women of Canada then add\nyet another to their \"crown of virtues.'' perhaps lhe greatest of all\nheroism.\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD:!'''i.\"*' :' : -: :!:!!i;':l::_ . .\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD' v- - \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD;,, \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD ., : \"'i;:;v-\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD; : -^j\nThe Street Railway's Problems\nAre YOUR Problems\nThe increased cost of operation, together\nwith unfair competition are preventing the\nstreet railway from making a fair return on\nits investment.\nThe tendency is to add expenses by means\nof taxation and other restrictions upon a\npublic utility company.\nThere can be only one result of this\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDpoorer\nquality of service to the public.\nA street railway requires continually to be\nrepaired and renewed. .Unless a fair return\nis assured, its ability to give service wlil\ndeteriorate.\nIt is in, new thing for women to\nshow courage aud at this critical\ntime in our nation's history they\nhave nut ami will not fail tn answer\nthe call. Out of this terrible carnival\n| of death is rising, nut only mi tllc\nbattle field but here amongst the\nwomen sueh a spirit of heroism ami\nglorious, uncomplaining sacrifice as\nshall never be effaced.\n* * *\nThe useless woman of frivolity and\nartificiality are perchance disappearing for ever, lor they are working\nnow for others, and surely finding\nlife more full of satisfaction than\never before. The war is acting as a\ngreat melting pot, changing and\nequalising social values. burning\ndown barriers which we fervently\nhope will never be rebuilt.\n* * *\nWomen's work in the world has\nalways received less recognition\nthan any other, bul they are imw vindicating their right to every consideration, 'There are more than 25,000\nwomen working iu Trance as porters,\ncleaners, conductors and agents. According to the statement of the\nRailway Gazette they give all satisfaction, arc more efficient than men,\nalso they handle' a crowd with less\nfriction. One fault is that they are\ninclined to take more risks, showing\nless fear of the trains.\nMr. Lloyd George has ou more\nthan one occasion paid splendid tribute to the work done by women,\nand the part they arc playing iu lhe\nwinning of the war. Wc pause to\nthink of the wonderful and hitherto\nunsounded depths of capacity that\nhave been lying dormant, clipped and\nrestricted by artificialities,\nXow the women nf Canada vvill be\ngiven their chance to make good, and\nadd to their own burdens the work\nof father, husband or brother. As\nfar as possible they should undertake work most suited lo the capabilities. Stalwart women accustomed to domestic work should undertake the rough muscular labor, and\nlei tbe woman of less robust physique and perhaps higher developed\nmental qualities take tllat\nthey are most fitted.\nmental qualities take that\nthey are most fitted\nI! lill\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD*ill!lll!!ll!\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDillillll!llllllii\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDlilfiilillliia ..\nTHE\nBOOK\nSHOP\nwe Have a good assortment,\nwon't you look them over?\nM G. S. FORSYTH & CO.\n- * Corner Homer and Hastings St.\nFugler & Mackinnon\nMagazine, Music, and Book\nbinders to the trade\nLoose Leaf Systems\nPHONE Sey. 3691 319 PENDER ST.\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nR. G. FUGLER HUGH MACKINNON\n|directly at the rool of principles\n.'. hi i form so vital a pari in tin- s\n..\"li.. foundations of our Empire,!\nnamely, tin- perfeel home life conditions, ,i- '/.ill as the accepted religious standards ol ihe British people.\nli i- In tter ihnl child life be fostered\nami given every care bv iln- -late.\nI that there may be fewer underfed,\nundcrclad, underwarmed little es.\nIn \"liter vv-r'ls. quality H\"I quantity\nWill I..- the greater need. Infant mortality has always been at a high rate.\nStatistics tell us that of the 875.000\nchildren horn in the United Kingdom\n| in 1915 over KiO.OOO died before\nland \"tiler years show much the same\nreaching tbe age of twelve months.\npercentage. Surely tbe repopulation\nof the -tate vvill be well commenced\nwhen all its energies are directed\nI (\"ward- bringing tins death rate\n| lower.\nShall Women Agree on Weekly\nFast Day\nShall the women of Vancouver\nvoluntarily adopt a weekly meatless\nand potatoeless day?\nThe idea has already been discussed at a meeting of the .Municipal;\nChapter, Imperial Order Daughters!\nof tlie Empire, following the move-1\nment suggested by the Provincial\nI Irder in Ontario. While no decision\nhas been reached it may be assumed\nlhat Canadian women are alive to\nllie necessity for economy and to\nthe importance of the part that\nI housewives play in tbis connection,\nj Should such steps become advisable.\nI it will be very creditable if women\nvoluntary agree on a specific ami,\ndrastic economy without Govern-\nI ment compulsion.\nAt the same lime it is. a great deal\n, easier in do what has to be done\nthan lhal which is left to individual\nI initiative. Economy in the wrong\n| direction is no economy at all. The\nmeatless day in Great Britain was,\nnot an unqualified success as it\ncause'! a greater ilc_inand in a direction where the need of economy was!\nstricter. The most cursory student\nof economics knows lhat results are J\nwhat count. It is useless to dismiss!\na domestic if it means that one more\nperson will bc looking for an unproductive job. Tlie voluntary worker.!\ntoo, musl be sure that he or she is\nan additional worker.\nThc women of Ontario appear to\nthink that effective action can best\nbc attained by Government control.\nThe Women's civic league of Winnipeg has made representations to Ottawa asking for government food and\nfuel control. An appeal to women\nhas been issued by the Ontario Provincial Order of the Daughters of\nthe Empire for a vJeekly meatless\nand polatoless day. and that no lamb\nor veal bc used by housewives at any\ntime.\nI tu\ntor\nwliich\nwhich\n* * *\nThe Vicountcss Wolsley has done\nmuch in England to Irge women to\ntake up gardening and farm work:\nshe begs those lhat \"hear the call of\ntin land not to push it one side.\"\nand tbe need fur land labor will he\nmost urgent. For long after the war\nis over we may make up our minds\nthat conditions vvill be bad\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDlhe hardest tinle will come then. Everyone\nwill be poorer than ever before, the\nprices of necessaries will remain\nhigh, at any rate until things have\nundergone some attempts at readjustment, and the competition for\nwork will be keener than ever. To\nknow that this will be so. wc have\nonly to look back over the histories\nof past great wars and sec the number of years it has taken to bring\nthings back to anything like a normal\ncondition.\n* * i.\nAre women physically fit to stand\nthe strain of these years with impunity? Are their bodies equal to\ntheir courage? If not the question\nof equality between man and woman\nwill rage with more violence than\never, for they vvill never willingly be\npushed back to the routine of home\ndependency after their taste of power\nShould they prove themselves capable and strong surely then they will\nbe granted the position they have so\nlong striven for and so well deserved.\nBut, after all, who can tell? When\nthe exaltation produced by tbe need\nof their services and the-strain of\nwar has passed, perhaps the great\nmajority will bc glad to subside into\nthe smooth, protected haven of home\nlife, giving their sole attention to\ntbe care of their children.\nThe re-ponulation of the state is\nbeing brought forward as a vital\nquestion. Thc possibility of polygamy has been advanced, but that,\none feels confident, is an innovation\nwhich would never bc seriously considered for one moment by the people of Britain, for it would strike\nUrges Thriftier Habits\nToronto women are paying special\nheed to Dr. Hastings, medical health\nofficer of that city, who is quoted\nthus in the Toronto Daily Star:\n\"Anyone who has given serious\nthought to the food problem cannot\nhul be convinced that if not averted\nby well organized and prompt action\na footl famine is unavoidable, aud\nthat in the near future.\" Dr. Hastings urges thriftier habits of buying\nand eating, and immediate mobilization- of available resources. Many .if\nthe women's societies have endorsed\nthe principle of the conscription of\nwealth; they might now advantageously press for mobilization and\ncontrol of food and fuel.\nWoes of Lady \"Helps\" Get Into the\nSpotlight\nAny kind of notice is a good advertisement, and if tlie Progressive\nHouseworkers' League bas been ridiculed in Some directions, it bas taken\na step into the limelight. An indefatigable exponent of the rights of\nthe down trodden presented their\ncommunication t\" the Labor Council\nland objected vvith proper indignation\nwhen J,he elaborate proposals coil-\n| tained therein were filed. It could\nI hardly be expected that a body of\nmere males could deal with so delicate a subject as the relations of\nj mistress and maid, or to express it\ni more tactfully, woman of lhe house,\nland lady help. There are some professions and occupations where an\n! eight hour day will always be im-\ni practicable, and domestic labor is\n! surely one of these. At the same\nI time there is room for improvement\ni in conditions faced by a domestic em-\nI ployce, and also in the qualifications\n! of the average \"lady help.\" A pretty\nj talc of incompetence, and lack of\n1 knowledge of tbe ordinary requirements of an ordinary household,\n! could bc unfolded by many a distracted wife and mother: finally driven to\n'the alternative of a heathen Chinee.\nI A chat with lhe proprietors of board-\n| ing houses, as well as tbe heads of\nhouseholds, will convince the skentic\nthat the grievances are not confined\nto one side.\n! work, or looking after tin nei -\ni iheir own soldier bi ';\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD s.\nPrizes Awarded for Shakesperian\nEssays\nAn extremely interesting function\n.,:- held in the auditorium of tbe\nAberdeen school on Tuesday evening\nlast when tiie prizes offered i\"r the\nShakesperian essays were distributed\ntl eir w innei -. The chair was\ntaken by Mr A. Dunbar I aj 1 >r, K\nC. who al-o presented the awards.\nWith oik- exception, that ol iortl\n\ .-ni'-''iiver Iligh Schol, thc sui i \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nful essays were tlu- work uf girl-, and\nin iln- case, i\" . ol the a unpetiti m\nopen to the proi im i . the first and\nsecond prizes were won by ladies.;\nThey were :i- follows: University \"f\nBritish Columbia students. 1-t prize\nwon by Mi-- Car 'line Munday, who,\nwe much regret lo -late died aboul\nthe ver> time the re>-.ilt was made\nknown.\nVancouver High Schools. Prizes\ndonated by the Board of School\nTrustees. 1-t prize. Mi-- Dorothy\nBlakey, King Edward High School;\nind prize. .Miss Sadie Edwards and I\nMi>- Gladys Gale, Britannia High\nSchool. In ilii- section 120 essays\nwere written, out of which sixteen\nwere selected by the adjudicators.\nNorth Vancouver High School. 1st\nprize. Mr. Arthur G. I'.rim: honorable\nmention, Miss Rita Harnett. Prizes\ndonated by North Vancouver Board\nof School Trustes. Eighteen essays\nwere sent in.\nSouth Vancouver High School, 1st\nprize, Miss Marjorie Sing: 2nd prize.\nMiss Grace Franklin. Prize- donated by South Vancouver Hoard of\nSchool Trustees. Eight essays sent\nin.\nPoint Grey High School. 1-t prize.\nMiss Vida Abbott; 2nd prize. Miss\nDorothj l.ockie.\nOneii compeittion. 1st prize. Miss\nI-'.. M. Blackmore; 2nd prize. Miss\nIrene C. Dukes.\nA musical programme was provided which included a pianoforte\nsolo by Mr. Sidney Deane, an\npropriate Shakesperian son\npupils of Mrs. McNeil. I\"..- i\nscene from \"Thc Taming\nShrew\" was given by Miss\nTattersall, .-ind the quarrel scene\nfrom Julius Caesar was excellently\nperformed in costume by Mr. \\ . R,\nDunlop and Mr. Francis Bursill.\nSome of the prize winning essays\nwere read by their authors.\nBefore the singing of the National\nAnthem a short address was given\nby Mr. McKim of the School I', aid\nwhich contained some remarks\nhardly to be described as tactful,\nwhich indeed displayed a certain\namount of ignorance of tin- subject\nin band. They were to the effeel\nthat he could not understand how\nShakespeare cBllld have risen to his\nsupreme heights and written his j\nnoble works when he was born and i\nlived in such a miserable place as I\nStnitford-on-Avon. which. so he!\n(Mr. McKiml understood bad only\na sleepy sort of river, and a ivw old,\ntnmbered houses. It would be as\nwell that sonic day Mr. McKim were,\nto visit England, and incidentally |\nWarwickshire, the garden of England, that he might judge lor himself\nof that scenery which was so fitting!\na background and inspiration fur tlie\ngreatest of all poets, and thai he!\nmay understand a little of the refining influence of antiquity am! fine\nold traditions. If Mr. McKim fails!\ni\" understand how splendid characters and lofty ideals call arise from j\nlowly surroundings he has only to\nstudy the lives of many of our great I\nmen. including the One great exam-1\npie whose humble birthplace vvas ;1\nstable. \"\nap-\nthe\nJanie\ni i ide\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD ., i be had in a - -\n-hade-. ! is shown a little .-t.i\n. ' ,,i frock made of tins mal\nw ith oil - .tnd licit \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nsilk harmoni nisly iu c lor-,\nwii- ,i greyish blue; ami a more\nn inarj wear no\n'.'- heart could desire. Another\norded suiting,\nof iln- straight it-frocj or-\nollar, I.i-li and cuffs em-\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD -had. - of the\nsame i : luches of sil\nThi i \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD wen I e r:\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD_\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD 111 hats t\" -vear\nwith these frocks to . thi one was\na plain hat of iln- large sailor shape,\nof a ci arsi \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD dda straw, lined un-\nib iii.- brim -.vuh a fine tagal,\nib,- edge of brim being bound _t_i\nribbon, and a ribbon band with ill\nbow in fri m comprising the si le\ntrimming. Tin- other hal wa- a\nsmaller, closer fitting -hap.', high in\nthe crown, the brim coming well\ndown in mushroom shape. It\nmade of stitched -ilk. lined underneath with a contrasting color, and\ntied around with a ...ft satin ribbon\ninto a bow at lhe side, the end- of\nwhich left a little long hung slightly\nover the brim edge.\nToo Indolent to Register\nBj the way it makes my iieart\nache to think bow many women\nthere are iu this city that were too\nindolent, or too thoughtless, i\" register their vote last week. Women\nof intelligence, too, in whose hands\na vo;,- -.-.- uld he used vvith due con-\nsideration and thought. Why this\nindifference and lack of interest in\nthe affairs of our country? I- it\nlhat these rights have been for so\nlong withheld from us | r females,\nthat vve can feel no responsibility\noutsidt our homes, or can it be that\nthe tl: i-li- \"i main- women arc\neven now upii d only with trivili-\ntn--' thai they di not realize that a\nkeen am. vital interest and a -hare\n\"i responsibility in it- welfare must\nbe taken by every man and woman\nbefore the promise of such a future\na- liii- country surely hold-, can\nev er ': car fruition.\nThe Mikado\n\ most enjoyable production of\nth.- ever popular aud favorite comic\nopera ''Tiie Mikado\" was given on\nThursday and Friday evenings, and\n,vill In- repeated thi- evening at tbe\nAvenue Theatre, tiie proceeds to go\ntoward- the Province Tobacco Fund,\nPatriotic I-'und of tin- Daughters of\nthe Empire, Pauline Johnson Chaptel\nMr. \rthur J. Foxall was responsible for the performance which\nmoved merrily throughout, and the\nstage management vvas in the hands\nof Mr. R, C. Reed.\nTin- play was well mounted and\ncostumed. 'The singing and acting\nthroughout was most creditable, the\nhumor being given with point and\nappreciation, keeping the audience\nwell amused.\nThe tenor role. Nanki-Poo, was in\nthe capable hands of Mr. Foxall,\nwhile the heroine Vum-Yum was\nbrightlv played bv Miss lean Ron-\nece. Mr. James Wallace an.I Mr.\nFrank Browne were both very good\nas K\"-K\" and Poo-Bay, while Kate-\nisha was nlaved with understanding\nIiy Miss Kathleen Macdonald.\nShould Bridge Be Stopped\nConsiderable criticism has been\nexpressed against the practice of\nclubs and societies holding bridge\ncompetitions for patriotic purposes.\nCard playing is an unproductive occupation, therefore, it is argued, it\nshould have no place in war time activities. On the otber hand, it is\nclaimed that a vast amount of money\nis collected on these occasions.\nAgain it has been said that money\nis spent on clothes for a bridge tea\nwhich might otherwise have been\nsaved. This may hctrue. but at any\nrate it puts money in circulation, and\na certain amount of relaxation is\nnecessary for everybody. Two hours\nat bridge is hardly an exxcess of\namusement out of the twelve or fourteen hour day that many women average, engaged as they arc in multitudinous household duties, Red Cross\nThe Dress Question\n\"Tie time has surely come vv\n:iie attention oi most women, ;.t\nrate ol tin- women of intelligence,\nami who have llie welfare ol lie:;\ncountry at heart, will be given t\nthe dress question only its simplest\nform, and that which is at once practical and useful.\nConscription, stares us in tin- face\nour men will be needed for service,\nand llie Canadian women vvill now,\nwithout doubt, follow the example of\nllieir sisters in the mother country,\nand in France, fill the vacant places\nI\" the best of their ability, .-on' keep\nthe wheels of business running\nsmothly until the war is ended. And\nfor the large army of women who\nvvill come forward I'or this purpose, i\ndress will not need to be less ln-\nci'ining. becau.se common sense, com-!\nfort ami utility are considered in the\nmaking..\n'lhe ready-to-wear one-piece dress;\nfit- the need perfectly, while the easy1\nfitting looseness of all garments at!\ntlu- moment, has undoubtedly originated in the search for comfort and\nfreedom of movement, which the\ngreal dress artists have so successfully combined with elegance and charm !\nIt is no, longer the \"make believe\"!\nsimplicity of expensive cut and ex- j\nquisite touches of .embroidery trim-]\nmillg sent from Paris; it is the real\neconomical and useful simplicity that\nis wanted.\nParis, the grcat centre of fashion.\nhas of course been making interesting aud beautiful models, but the\nmarket has been to the United\nStates, whose coffers have been so |\nwell filled of late, tllat fashion and\nluxury have attained to high levels.\nThe women of France, themselves.\nthe women that count in their country's history, have attired themselves\nonly in garments suitable in color,\nfabric and cut. to the needs of the\nmoment, and the demands of their\nindividaul work. The shop windows\nof London. I am told, have never\nbeen so interesting as at present.\nInstead of the usual array of 'Spring\nami Summer Fashions\" displaying\nall sorts of wonderful and sometimes\nfearful originalities of line and coloring, one sees, only tbe plain, workmanlike One-pice frock, or the jersey\nsuit.\nNow America has joined the great\ncause, and wc shall find the American women noted always for her cap-\nabilitv and resource, putting her\nshoulder to the wheel in her country's cause, and altering herself in\nnon-luxurious useful smartness.\nThe most delightful frocks can bc\nThe Pools of Peace\nTin- little I'ools-iif-I'i ace lie far\nFrom dust) ways of Noon,\nAlong the winding paths of Sleep\n1\" where the lull- of Twillight keep\nI ile gardens oi Cn- Moon.\nWhen night conn- softly down the\nsky\nAnd light- each vvaitiing -tar.\nThe Minstrels of the Moon plaj low\nFor dancing feet of winds that go\nT\" those -lill pools afar.\nTht little Winds-of-Dreams go swift\nAnd scatter with light hands\nThe Dust-of-Dreams to -cal thc\nsight\ni if those -.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD li\" v. i.iry of thc liybt\nNmi -eek for Elfin lauds.\n(I. follow then the little winds\nAlong those shadowy ways\nAnd find the Pools-of-Peace that lie\nSo fair beneath the dreaming sky\nSo far from dusty dav-.\n- -\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD-^___^\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nMcBRIDE DIVORCED\nFROM HIS FAT JOB\nContinued from Page < Ine\na scconuary position. So Sir Richard\npined .n secret for the freedom \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD f\ntlu- mountains and tlie eastness of\nthc seas \"1 the far west, ami resigned.\nIt is no reflection on Sir Richard\nlhat he could not fit in v ith English\nstandards. Many other prominent\nCanadians ami Australians have felt\nju-i the same way m dear oh! London. Joe Martin is restless even\nwhen tliey are not alluding to him\n:1s a \"superfluous politician\": Sir\nMax Aitken is much too full of dynamite to be really welcome at\nshooting parties; Sir Robert Borden\nheaves a big sigh of relief when lie\nsees tbe green shores of Erin fading\nin lhe distance, ami even Courtly Sir\nWilfrid Laurier is happier away troni\nthe burning Strand, llamar Greenwood and Sir Gilbert Parker are apparently acclimatized by this time,\nbut they are of a different type, antl\nmore truly English in their sentiments.\nWe are told that there is a possibility that Sir Richard may re-enter\npolitical life in this province. There\nis no possibility about that: it is a\nforegone conclusion. But whether\nhe will enter Federal politics or be\nsatisfied wilh taking a secondary\nposition in British Columbia affairs,\nis now pure speculation. There is\ncertainly not a faint chance that Mr.\nW. J. Bowser vvill abandon the leadership ol the remnant of the once\npowerful Conservative party am!\nhand over the reins to the former\npremier, for, though publicly Mr.\nBowser may say nice things of Sir\nRichard, privately be long since decided that he would call the tune in\nfuture. From now on he is going to\nhe the boss, in name as well as in\nfaet. SIX\nTHE STANDARD\nSATURDAY, MAY -\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD 191\nGilt? ^tattftarfc\nPublished every Snturday at 4215 Homer Street. Vancouver\nTelephone Seymour 470\nRegistered at the Post Office Department. Ottawa. _u 1\nl#con.l Clnss Mall Matter. j\nIUBSCIUPTIOM It Vii:s\nTo at! point-, In Caimda. UntOMl Kingdom. Newfoundland\nMew Zealand and oilier Hritish lM3_i.-.ssioni:\n$2.00\nPopi^;;e to American. ESuropfiAU ana other foreljjn counlrle*\n11.SO per year extra.\nThe Standard will bo delivered to any addiern in Van\neouvt-r or rtolnlty at ten centf a month.\nMember of the Canadian Pre -h ASHnclatlon.\nTbe Standard, wilh which ij* incorporated the Saturdn>\nCbinoolc, circulates in Vancouver and the cities, towns, villages and settlements throughout British Columbia. It\npolitics the paprr is ind'-pcndenl Liberal.\nPublUherf\nPrinters..\n Tin- Standard Company\n,The Sta ndard J\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDb Department\nPhone Seymour 9086\nWE INVITE YOUR\nFIRE INSURANCE\nBUSINESS\nWe Write Insurance in Sound, Reliable Companies.\nDow Fraser Trust Co.\n122 Hastings St. West. McKay Station, Burnaby\n0>JE OF THE\nLARGEST\nINSURANCE\nOFFICES IN / k\nWESTERN / <*^\nCANADA / -A^y / Every\n^^^ / Client a\n. > / Walking\nk V / Advertisement\nV\nAddress:\n414 Pender St. West\nVancouver, B. C.\nCanadian Financiers Trust Co.\nIncorporated 1907. First Company to obtain Registration under the B. C. Trust Companies' Act.\n(Certificate No. 1)\nExecutor, Administrator, Trustee under Wills,\nMortgages, Marriage Settlements, Receiver, Liquidator and Assignee, Fiscal Agent for Municipalities\nfor sale of Debentures, Registrar and Transfer\nAgent for Companies, Agent for Real Estate and\ncollection of Rents. Insurance and Investment.\n839 Hastings Street West\nVANCOUVER, B. C.\nMoney at Home to Spend Abroad\nReferring to tlie reported lack nf capital for industrial purposes in llritish Columbia, the \"Victoria\nColonist\" points out that tliis is one of the results of\nthe flotation of propositions which for various reasons found their way into the hands of receivers, to\nthe injury of the name of the province as a field foi\ninvestment. Another is that tlie profits on large investments, when successful, are enjoyed by non-residents, and thc third is tliat a group of men. on the\nlookout for opportunities for industrial development\nis not called into existence, with the result that a\nperson having any industrial proposition in British\nColumbia does not know where to look for capital\n\"We have seen in Spokane,\" says the \"Colonist,\"\n\"how it is possible to build up a group of industrial\ninvestors. Most of the wealth of the very prosperous\nAmerican city has been derived from the exploitation\nof Canadian natural wealth.\"\nDuring the past twenty-five years at least five\nhundred million dollars paid out in the province has\nbeen sent out of the province for food products that\ncould have been raised at home, so, that it is really\nopen to doubt if Hritish Columbia is much better off\nfoe the industrial expansion it has enjoyed during\nthat period. What that country needs is that wealth\nshall be created within its borders and remain there.\nSlower progress accomplished by our own people, by\ntheir own money, would be a much greater thing than\na more rapid progress due to the investments of foreign capital.\nMaking good is simpK\nmaking good demands.\nmaking the sacrifice thai\nU. S. Uniform War Risk Policy\nRepresentative? ot' United Slates life insurance niia-\nI'lmii- who luit recently in conference with a special\ncommittee oi State Insurance Commissioners in New\nVork,decided upon a uniform war risk policy which is\nt<< Ih- recommended ior national adoption, Thv clause\nwhich, affects the soldier, sailor and marine most is the\nstipulation between the companies that no concern shall\ncharge less than S.?7.5ti mi each $1,000 of insurance ior\nthc extra war premium;\nTin- committee oi seven members selected hy the 15(.\ninsurance men was chosen Iiy the committe nf commissioners which had been designated hy the National Convention ni Insurance Commissioners, held 4n Des Moines,\nApril is, tu handle the new war situation, When the\ncommittee agreed upon a general form uf policy which\nin its i,pinion would he sufficiently elastie lu he practical\nfur the -mall as well as the lar,t;e companies, the conclusions were put in letter form to he addressed tu the Insurance Commissioners uf all the States, and all the\ncompanies,\nThe agreement reached, while in no sense binding,\nreflects the judgment uf the insurance men, and it was\nthe opinion of the men present at the conference that it\nwould he generally adopted with slight modifications\naccording to the financial standing af the companies and\nthe varying State-insurance laws. The covenants agreed\nupon were:\n(11 The military clause shall cover the entire period\nof military or naval service, in time uf war, if commenced\nwithin time nf the register date.\n|2) The clause shall call for ''such extra premiums\nas may he fixed hy the company.\" , '\n(3) Thc extra premium charged for lhe present' shall\nbe at the rate of not less than $.17.50 per annum per\n$I,(XK) nf insurance.\n(4) In the event of death during service nr within\nsix months after termination thereof, the liability nf the\ncompany, shall, unless all required extra premiums have\nheen paid he limited tn an amount not exceeding the\ntotal premium paid on the policy exclusive of any extra\npremiums which may have been paid fur military nr\nnaval service.\n(5) The clause shall require payment of the extra\npremium within thirty-one days after entering upon service, oy if already in service, along with the first premium on the policy.\n^6) A refund will be made uf any extra premiums\nnut required.\nFire Insurance Expenses\nThv legislatures in tin- L'nited States and Canada\nare always agitating about insurance rate-, and tin\nexpense of conducting iln* business, bm never dn anything to reduce the expense. On ihc Other hand, b)\nabor entailed in giving\nadditional taxation, and tlic\nadditional details in needless and innumerable statements required by each slate in the L'nited States,\nand cadi province in Canada, thc insurance companies\nfind an increasing outgo in expenses instead of a\nrebel.\nAt hist one government has tackled this problem.\nThe Stale of ( htecnsland. Australia, has be legislation controlled llie commission expense by limiting\nthc maximum commission, whether to one or more\npersons, to 10 per cent, and that only persons licensed\nIn receive thc same as brokers or agents. Any person\nnot licensed as a broker or agent accepting a commission is liable to a penalty of \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD100. The payment to\na general agent is limited to 5 per cent, to one such\nmanaging agent in the northern district of Queensland and thc same to one managing agent in the\ncentral district.\nOn the other hand, tlie stock companies' tariffs\nrales are reduced by 20 per cent.*, unless results in any\ndistrict or class show the need of increased rates.\nThis reduction of 20 percent, is offset partly by the\nabove saving in commission and partly by prohibiting\nthe discount of 10 per cent, to insured. This 10 per\ncent, discount by stock companies has been the practice for years past to compete with the discount oil-onus granted by the mutual companies out of their\nprofits. Now thc mutual companies will quote tbe\nsame rates as'the stock companies. The result of this\nact has been to cut out a large number of brokers and\nagents in Queensland to whom insurance was a minor\nside line of their business.\nSummer Fires\nA serious lire hazard is the summer kitchen or\nean-to. Frequently there is no chimney attached\nyet stoves are moved out for the warm season, ani\na stovepipe put through the wall or runt\". This is\nverv dangerous practice, and sliuuld not he permitted\nStuve- should be ai least eighteen incites from ai\nwooden wall or partition. The floor should b\ncied wilh zinc or iron beiiealh the -love lo catch BI\nive Coals, the covering should extend beyond ||:\nstove lor eighteen inches in front ami ou the side o\nwhich the fire door opens. Where pipes pass throug\npartitions, proper thimbles with air spaces should I\nprovided, Brick chimneys should be .used, and the-\nshould be at least eight inches thick, and start froi\na foundation eighteen inches from lhe ground. If tl\nchimney- be lined with tile forms made for the Dili\npo-e. a single brick thickness is satisfactory. This the only safe way, and, while more expensive, ti\nreduction in the fire danger more than compensati\nfor the added cost. Again, as insurance conipani\nwill not knowingly insure a building where a -lm\npipe passes to tlie outside through a wull Ot roof, :. u\ninsurer risks being unable to colled the amount K\nhis insurance policy.\nFarming Co-operation\nDecimal System Recommended\n\"That the British and the overseas Dominions governments should co-operate after'the war to establish\nthroughout the Empire a uniform coinage based on\nthe decimal system and uniform weights and measures basetl on thc metric system, is the recommendation, in.their final report, of the Dominion Royal\nCommission. They say :\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\n\"We have studied the discussion on the subject\nof currency and coinage laws at the Imperial Conference of 1911.'and have also heard evidence from the\nrepresentatives of the Decimal Association and from\nwitnesses in the Dominions as to the desirability of\nintroducing metrical weights and measures and a new\nstyle of coinage based on the decimal system..\n\"The general advantages of these systems arc\nrecognized; the complications of tlie present arrangements, both in the United Kingdom and in several\nof the Dominions, are such that few would undertake\nto defend their principles.\n\"Many of the Dominions, recognizing this, have\npassed resolutions in parliament, or even permissive\nlegislation, in favor of the decimal and metric systems\nThere is clearly in the Dominions a considerable body\nof opinion in favor of this change. So far, however,\nall efforts to induce the community in the mother\ncountry to agree to a change have proved unavailing.\nWe understand that the ^United Kingdom committee\non commercial and industrial policy is now examining the subject.\"\n t __\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\t\nSerious Effect of Interior Coal Strike\nA news despatch from Calgary, under tlate of\nMan 21, has the following to say:\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nGranby, largest of metal ore smelters of Canada,\nlocated at Grand Forks,.B. C, and handling tlie ores\nof many mines of the Boundary country, as well as\nthose across the international border, has suspended\noperations, the cause being a shortage of coke. The\nsmelter of the Canadian Consolidated Mining &\nSmelting Company at Trail, and the smelter at Xorth-\nport, Washington, are also said to be so handicapped\nfor want of coke that they, too, will Ije compelled to\nsuspend before many days.\nThe smelters in question, as well as others of\nBritish Columbia, Washington and Montana, receive\ntheir total supply of coke from the Crow's Nest Pass\ncountry; and as the latter plants are closed down\nbecause of labor troubles, the suspension of operations at the other smelters seenis but a question of\nhours, days or weeks at tbe latest.\nTlie Granby turns out more copper than any other\nplant in Western Canada, so that its suspension will\nseriously affect the output of munitions if it continues\nfor some time, and there is apparently little hope that\nit will resume immediately, but rather a belief that\nothers must follow, and speedily, because of the fact\nthat all labor discussions as between operators and\nmen have been cut off abruptly.\n > ^ \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\t\nJapan's Trade Increase\nK_~J!-___\nOf the increase of $200,000,000, or 58 per cent.,\nin Japan's merchandise export trade of 1916, a Yokohama letter to the London \"Economist\" says that it\nis due, first, to export of war munitions; second, to\npurchases bv the United States, because of ber prosperity ; third to trade with Australasia and tlie Middle\nEast, which Europe bad formerly controlled ; fourth,\nto revival of business activity in China, partly in consequence of the rise in silver.\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD^xtsirw-r.a-'a\nCo-operative selling and buying requires no argument today to sustain its advantages. Tlie saving\nin cost of handling large orders instead of numerous\nsmall ones is recognized by every business house.\nThe wholesale houses do business on tliis basis, and\nare consequently able to seii their goods at much lower\nprices. Thc retailer lias to tireak bulk, has many\npackages..to weigh out and parcel up, has many accounts to make out antl many orders to record. Over\nand above these costs is the very large item of delivery. This item is a serious matter in urban cent res.\nbut it is much more so in the country for, whether\nthe dealer delivers them or the farmer drives in for\nhis supplies, thc cost is there*.\nIn a recent rural survey of the Commission of\nConservation, among 100 farmers in one township,\nit was found that 63 of them lived five miles or more\nfrom a shipping point. Of these 63 farmers, not one\nwas either selling his produce or buying liis supplies\nco-operatively. Each farmer-was driving this ten\nmiles (5 miles each way) to his market place, covering largely the same ground as liis neighbors, using\nhis team and wagon, his own time and energy In\nmany instances the great waste of time and energy\nand thc monetary loss clue to the smaller business\ntransactions might be materially reduced by extension\nof the co-operative system.\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD_> \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nThe Wisdom of the Romanoffs\nIt would appear that the Russian Royal Family\nhas been wiser in the matter of investments than in\npolitical foresight. The vast and wealthy private\nestates of thc Romanoffs have been seized for the use\nof the Russian people, but the ex-Czar and his immediate family are supposed to possess something like\n$11,000,000 in securities, which is not exactly poverty.\nThe Grand Dukes also have nesf eggs, and it is interesting to note that the whole family placcd their investments, not in Russia, but in France, Great Britain\nand the l'nited States. Crowned heads\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDor rather\ntheir financial advisers\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDeverywhere are credited with\na gootl deal of canniness.' The private wealth of the\nSultan of Turkey is rumored *> lie in an enemy country, which one is not stated. The Kaiser was supposed to have considerable holdings in Canada prior\nto the war.. Tt was even said that he plunged in\nVancouver real estate, and if the slump here put a\ncrimp in liis bank account it should be a consolatory\nthought to other sufferers.\nExpansion of Fishing Industry\nruder the stimulus of exceptionally high price\nthe exploitation and food production of Catftda\nfisheries during the coming year should be substa\ntially increased, despite the absence of many fish\nmen on military service. It is gratifying to note fr\nthe fishery statistics for lhe last two or tliree yea\nthat tlie marked decrease in the number of ftshernn\nactually fishing in Canadian waters appears to In-\nbeen arrested. During 1915, as compared with 1\";\nthe total number of fishermen increased by near\n5.000. and the number of persons employed\nbranches of fisheries' work was the highest\ncord. For many years the development of thc\nindustry has encountered serious difficulties.\nthere lias been a steady antl even rapid growth ;\ncapital investment antl in thc secondary operatim-\nsuch as canning, similar progress has imt been ::\nevidence witli regard lo the primary occupation\ncatching fish. Willi improved equipment and organization antl with a continuance of current tnarkel\nconditions thc industry may be expected to evino _\nproductive capacity far beyond any yet attained.\nin\non\nfish\nWl\nGreater Production\nTiie Canadian Fisheries' Association i- to be c\nmended for its commercial enterprise ami patri\nservice'in undertaking an extensive campaign for\nincresed output from Canada's fisheries, lt is\nintention of the Association to not only have\nsplendid fisheries of the Dominion contribute\nlargely as possible to the relief of the inimcil\ngrave shortage of food, but also to promote pern\ncut development of our fisheries on a much gre,\nscale. In serving the particular interests which\nrepresents, the Canadian Fisheries' Association,\nthc Canadian -Forestry Association, 1 'nip and I\nAssociation, the great Farmers' organization\nnumerous other influential bodies identified with |\nmoting primary production in its various phase-,\nat tbe same time bS of great service in assisting n\nproportionate national development than Canada\nbeen securing during thc present century.\nipt\nConservation of Natural Resources\nOne of the great movements of our time i- the\nmovement1 for the conservation of our natural resources. We have gone on as ir the world were coining to an end when we were dead. Now we are getting a better perspective. The conservation movement,\nas was natural, was at first most conspicuously identified with the conservation of our forests and our\nwater power, but it must extend beyond the forests\nand water power. It must more immediately concern\nitself with the conservation of the soil, for even our\nbrief history tells us that fertile fields may become\nabandoned farms through other causes than lack of\nrainfall.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD.-Governor Frank O. Lowden, of Illinois. i\"\ninaugural address.\nBanks and Alberta Farmers\n.Life Underwriters Organize\nOn Thursday afternoon, about twenty-five life\ninsurance men met in the board room of the Mainland Fire Underwriters' Association in the Rogers\nbuilding and organized a Life Underwriters' Association as a branch of tbe parent association, which\nholds its next annual convention August 22, 23 and\n24 at Winnipeg.\nMr. James H. Campbell, recently appointed manager of the Equitable Life, was elected president;\nMr. John H, Poff, manager of thc Sun Life, vice-\npresident, and Mr. J. W. Alexander, secretary for\nB. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD_. of the Canada Life, as bon. secretary-treasurer.\nThe Vancouver life men are thus getting into line\nwith the other cities of Canada and no doubt tliey\nwill have a strong representation at the next annual\nmeeting, as mentioned above.\nIt is hoped that in the near future the annual convention will be held in this city, as many agents in\nthc East are anxious to learn something of the West\nand thus become better Canadians.\nWar Taxes in Ontario\nAccording to provincial treasurer Hon. T. W\nMcGarry, the nroyince of Ontario has collected up\nto January 1 of this year some $3,900,000 on account\nof war taxes due by the municipalities to the province. The government up to March had spent $4,000.-\n000 on war purposes.\nIn speaking with regard to the Alberta legi\nfor live stock loans, Hon. Duncan Marshall said. ;\nmentioning that the Merchants Bank was the\nbank that offered money at 6 per cent.:\n\"That if a hank has Hot a branch where the ia\nlived, the bank would lake his 'cheque on the ba'\nwhich he had his money and cash it without\ncharge for exchange or discount. All a man w\nhave to do would be to satisfy tlic live stock emu\nsioner he was a man wdio could be trusted witli\nstock and could go into the live stock business\nmake a success of it.\"\nitmii\nafter\nfirst\nruler\nik i\"\nany\nmild\nituis*\nlive\nand\nConfidence in Rumania\nGreat Brtiain, so London learns, is lending rin-\nmania $200,000,000 on par basis at 5 per cent. Lombard Street writers comment that \"the loan is ,\"'\nspecial significance as showing the confidence of tne\nAllies in the future of Rumania.\"\nThe man capable of handling large affairs, is one\nwho subdues his emotion by the exercise 'of hi- i\"'\ntellcct.\nEnthusiasm is an inspiration, arising from a clear\nas day insight and conviction of a man's duty in t'1*\npath before him.\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDi\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDi 1 _\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD <\t\nThc Imperial Oil Company will erect on Bitrrarq\nInlet an oil refinery to cost $2,000,000.\nDouglas fir wood pipe recently has been taken up\nin Seattle after use for 16 years as a water main aM\nfound to be practically as sound as when put dowilj\nI the strength of the wood being 88 per cent, of tl'e\n!\nA draft bill is to be introduced for the registration\nand licensing of all foreign companies carrying ol'\nhusiness in British East Africa. SATURDAY, MAY 26. 1917\nTHE STANDARD\nSEVEN\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDEDITORIAL OPINIONS-\nTne War and the Eternal Kiddle\nIccasionally an eerie il rj comes\n[roin the front which brings tu mind\nil,, fact that if there is anything iu\nspiritualism thc air in .\"\"ranee and\ngi igium should bc filled with disi n\nir,I spirits, relieved of the fleshly\nIncubUS,, still lingering about the\n. , nes of their transition,\nhe living men who remain in the\n.irmies of Europe have gone dowTl so\nclosely to the door of death, have\nlived upon such intimate terms with\nit, have hebl the bands and gazed\nhit\" the eyes of comrades down i\"\ntin-very moment of the passing, that\n(hey have perhaps bail some view of\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD'v depths oi the dark gulf and of\nthe1 Strange country upon the other\nSpirit life, il il exists, must lie but\nmi exalted mental life; certainly the\nability of thc mind to communicate\n.vith mind| apart from the instrumentalities of the body, is demonstrable, one writer remarks..\ni'he misery anil horror oi Europe\nare just now felt anil reflected across\nlhe seas, in strange places and\namong all peoples. Everywhere the\nhuman mind feels the vague unrest,\nlhe dimming of the future, lhe drag-\nting of civilization's anchors, the\nuprooting of tradition, ami senses\nthe menace to humanity by some\nmysterious subjective sense. It\n.peaks for a world of sensation apart!\nfrom that controlled by the instru-|\nmentalities of tbe body. It is a merg-i\nint; nf the material with the immaterial, the substance wilh the spirit j\nin which the two come into a closer!\ncommunion ami understanding.\nIf then, thc spirits of the dead may\ncommunicate with the living, certainly it should be at this lime, when lhe\ni^1111 is so bridged with the bodies oi\nhumanity and living men venture\nnunc than half way across.\nMansfield tells ol men dying with\nmessages bul half spoken, I licking\nthe ash from a cigarette, anil falling\ninto the stillness tliat resembles sleep\nliul this writer says that it is not\nsleep. \"Some say the dead look as\nthough they were asleep, but no\nsleep ever looked like death;'' and\nthis keen observer is puzzled over\nil. \"These men are not asleep, they\nare dead, whatever that may mean.\"\nIt is like a bouse from which the\n.occupant has just departed. The\ndoors are locked, the blinds are\ndown, and one may note at the first\nglance- that no one is within. But\nthe late occupant bas not necessarily\nbeen blotted out because he has\nchanged his tenement.\nWar is bringing -closer the world\noi unreality. Perhaps six millions\nstrong, vigorous men, in the high\ntide of life, have gone oul of the\nbusiness of existence, abandoned\ntheir fleshly tenements like outworn\ngarments anil perhaps are yet within\nthe sound of human voices.\nAdvertising Not By Any Means\nModern Art\nAdvertising *as wi II 1 nown in\nthe palm) dayi of Egypt, Of course,\nthej didn'l have tin- electric signs\nblazing across iln- sky, they didn't\nknow ihai red makes ihe best color\nfor advertising, green the second ami\nblack tin- next, but they did understand the first principles and applied them in daily life.\nPerhaps iln- first bit m' advertising\ncopy was the \"lost, strayed or stolen\"\nadvertisement written bj an Egyptian on a slip in\" papyrus when his\nfavorite slave was missing,\nThe Greeks had even greater skill.\naccording to a writer in tin- Detroit\nFree Press. They advertised their\nconcerts, musical affairs, plays and\ncontests. The. gave us the idea of\nusing bands to attract a crowd, for\nthey sent around iheir cities a town\ncrier, accompanied by a musician\nplaying a harp or a lyre. He praised\nextravagantly in the besi of Greek\nthe thing he was advertising, Later\nthe people began to advertise, giving\ninformation about the standing nf\ntbe family occupying the hi,use and\ntbe state of their finances.\nThe Romans went them one better.\nThey named their streets, advertised\nshows and exhibitions in their public\nbath, notified tin- public of sales of\nstates, posted lists of articles lost\nami found, anil bouses for sale or\nrent.\nWhen the Huns swept down upon\nRome lhe advertisements disappeared with Ihe Knman power and ilid\nnot return until the town crier of (Jic\nmiddle ages began advertising again, j\nWhat Gooo Garden Means\nA vegetable garden this summer'\nwill be as good as a full bin next\nwinter\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDand will provide money to!\nfill the coal bin.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDBrockville Times, i\nThe Last of Red Tape\nIn these days, when so much is\nhappening, even really important\nevents are apt to come and go unregarded. Ami so, wilh no more notice\nthan is. represented by a small paragraph tucked away in a corner of\nthe Hritish daily papers, comes the\nannouncement that, henceforth, the\nuse of red tape in law offices is to\nhe discontinued. I'or snme time, ii\nappears, white tape has been used in\nseveral courts in England, ami the\ninnovation, so changed are the times,\npasseil unnoticed. Xow the breakaway from time-honored tradition in\nthis respect is to be general and\nunashamed. Red tape, however, as\na synonym for \"official formality\nund delay.\" anil all that phrase implies, is likely to remain as popular\nas ever.\nKeep the Cars Moving\nHie traffic police system, now\ncommon to the congested districts\n\"' large cities Ihe world over, might\nhe applied, .one would think, and\nwith grcat profit to Ihe public, to\nthe railways of the L'nited States.\nOne of the cardinal objects of the\nlystem is to keep the traffic moving,\nand if traffic were kept lYOvlllg mi\nthe railways, especially in the railway yards, there would be less cause\n'\"r complaint of a car shortage.\nNever More Patriotic\nMr. Gompers pleads witli the work\nmet! of Russia in play the game.\nwhile the miners in Northern Ontario propose an agreement with the\nowners until the war is over. Labor\nwas never more patriotic than it is\nln the present strdggre.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDToronto\nDaily Xews.\nSinging No Longer National Accomplishment.\nThe Indianapolis Xews arises tn\nsay regretfully lhal singing as far\nas most people are concerned is a\nInst art and there is much truth in\nthe assertion. Thousands attend\noperas, recitals anil musical comedies, tens nf thousands wind up\nphonographs: but as for singing\nthemselves, informally, at their work\nor play, they have forgotten how.\nIn times past people of all ranks\nsang together as a matter of course.\nSailors sang at their work, shepherds, peasants, cow-boys all had\nIheir favorite and appropriate songs.\nThe songs of children at games, the\nlullabvs of mothers are in the collected ballads and folkore of many\npeonies.\nThe pastimes anil the labors of\nthc husbandman and the shepherd.\"\nsays Andrew Lang, \"were long ago\na kind of natural opera. Each task-\nhas its own snug: plowing, seeding,\nharvest, burial\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDall hail their apnro-\nn'rinte ballads nr dirges. The whole\nsoul of the peasant class breathes in\ntheir burdens as the great sea resounds in the shells cast up on the\nshore.\"\nNowadays the whirl of machinery\nmakes all the noise. The workers ill\nmills might find it unsatisfying In\nson.' at their work, but it is doubtful\nit thev would sing even if their voices could be heard: while singing in\nan office or store would pretty surely be stooped by the \"boss\" Ur the\noobce. Thousands congregate everv\nnight in the silence of moving picture\ntheatres; and even in the churches.\nwhere singing bv the congregation\nused to he rncromarv, the attendants i'O'\" usually listen in silence to\na naid singer,\nS'ntrln'g in this age is tarfrelv con-\nf.nprl to the professional nerformer,\ndrunken men and pramobhones.\nTne Example of Canada\nI loldii Canad,\no, inspire am : \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD lhe I nitcd\nState! i its conduct qf tin\niioston Herald says:\n\". .man.i has found il sell in the\npast two j cars and a half. It has\nI rough the fire ol a lesl such\nti fi depi ndi i ii - ha c ever had\ni face, and u i- coming out of the\nlire urn only welded closer to the\nllritish Empire but of empire\nength itself. It has set an example and has had experiences that\nan- very likely to provi nf much\nvalue to us mi this side of the line\nin tin- months ahead.\nRemember that io do things nn\nthe scale that Canada, has been doing I\nthem since ihe summer nf 1914, thei\nI luted Stales would raise and train I\nand equip an army of 5. IK III. I tin I- men I\nin a little over tw.o years, and ship\n4)000,000 of them across the' \tlan-\ntic. It would raise and spend un less\nthan $12,00O,CO0 for war purposes.\nYet when the war cloud burst over\nthe world Canada was as fully unprepared as we have been. Its army\nwhich has grown to 4tl(l.iKIO soldiers,\nw;as smaller than the militia of Massachusetts, and its resources and industries, now splendidly mobolized\nand efficiently organized ior the\ngreat work on hand, were on tbe\nmost peaceful kind nf a peace basis.\nSmall wonder that nur patriotic\ngatherings listen with much respect\nand wth deiep interest tn Canadian\nspeakers. One thing is certain, the\nCanada of the future is not to be\nlooked on wilh anything resembling\nthe superior air thai we have habitually assumed on this side of the\nborder. The peace that has made\nil unnecessary tq^ufyd a imt along\nthe .1.1 Ilill miles (if - .border \".ill continue, but it is gipSlig to In- tin- peace\nof the enndescenmng kindness of a\nbig brother to a helpless youngster.\nAn American only belittles himself\nif he fails to recognize and applaud\nthe great things that Canada has\ndmie in this great world crisis.\nAnd if any American belittles himself by failing to recognize the things\nthat Canada has done in this war,\nwhat is to bc said of the Canadian\nwho wilhnlds the same recognition?\nPrinci Edv ai d I stand long r<\ned in % utomobile. 1\nit couci led il r< e da; - a vet I the\nintrusion of that nia-liim. v<\nhas let down the bars, and a motoi\ncar maj '-nt- r and spin ai in nd the\npro. im \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD ievct daj - a veel i inlj\nit must - nil!..nn to t\nrub--. ca -- for tin 0\ngem rallj il is propi . I saj thai\nthe auti ihili drivci w lm does not\nIn- car carefully, in I i\niry, is ertain - i \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\ndriven from lhe roa Perhaps\ntucket. Mas-.. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDhich has nc er yet\n thi bile. I\nmay be mined to greater lii i ralitj\nby the example of Prince Edwai\nIsland Christian Science Monitor\nNot Yet Realized It\nWhile ivc an grateful for the sup\nporl und ardor of the I hiked States,\nwe maj say, without offense, thai |\nmir neighbor has m i yel realizi \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nthe steri ness oi the struggle, ai \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nwill nol do so until American troops\nhave faced the blaze of final tontro-,\nversy, until the sailors on American\nshin- have -i-eii the waterspout of\nhostile -lulls. The l'nited Stat,- is\nour static reserve, but the front rank'\nis held by Hritish. French and Cana-\nThe Strength of Canada's\nLiberal Party Is Growing\niple\nfeeling the!\nAfter dnp-ftiling Flsc\nHut then, if it hadn't been the new\nCanadian peers. \"Joe\" Martin would\nhave condemned something else.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nPeterboro Review.\nThe New Battle Cry\nline rule should lie the leading\nhome cry in \"Canada litis season,\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nI laniiltmi Spectator.\nNot the Only Power\n'I'he Rritish authorities 'held\n\ -.v-dish' food ships in port until\n'\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDvrden came to time in respect to\nrcjjfctsing British shipping tied up in\nSwedish- ports. The European neutrals are learning that Germany is\n\"nt the only power.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDToronto Mail\nand Empire.\nNo Wonder\nAn investigation of finances in\nRussia showed that it cost $20,000,-\n'00 a year to run the imperial household, $600,000 of this going to autos\nand the imperial stables. No wonder, with potatoes and onions at\nllieir present prices, the country has\nbmnd it necessary to cut down expenses at the top.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDLondon Chronicle\nInstead of complaining of the inroads made upon his business by the\nmail order houses, as some men in\nhis line do, a western United States\nmerchant advertises that he will duplicate the prices contained in the catalogues of those establishments.\nWhat more could be asked than this\nby those who are not influenced by\nsentiment to do their buying fn thc\nhome town?\nTongues Bring Alliances\nXn (wo rfations speaking the same\nlanguage are fighting against each\nother in this war. ll is also true\nthat there can never be a perfect al-\ni liauce between any two nations\n! which dn not speak the same tongue.\nThere can be strong economic and\nI military alliances between countries,\n[these alliances being arranged by the\nrespective governments, the benefits\nfully appreciated by the peoples, and\nI a mutual understanding existing between these individuals who are able\nto communicate with each other.\nA perfect alliance between two na-\n.tions, if such a thing is possible,\nmeans that the people of each nation arc able to visualize the habit of\nthought of the other, this not apply-\n! ing to the. few that arc particularly\nj well informed, but to all farmers,\n. workmen and business men. as well\nI as scholars, diplomats or social cos-\n| mopolitcs. Between America and\nI England, therefore, exists a bond\nI like that between no other two great\nI countries in the world, with the cx-\ni eeption of Germany and Austria.\n,' and the closeness of the alliance be-\nI tween these two countries is tribute\ni to the binding power of a mutual\ni tongue. This is a point of symna-\ni tbetic contact in every way to bring\nI about a good understanding.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDLondon Dailv Chronicle.\nSteel, the Master Metal of the War\nSteel, the master metal of peace,\nhas, been demonstrating, for more\nthan two years past, ils unquestioned position as the chief instrumentality of modern war. It is a tragic\nparadox that without this commonest metal of civilization, the superlative frightfulness of war as it is carried on today would not be possible.\nEvery major agency of destruction\nof battle on land and sea requires\nsteel in all or sonic of its essential\nnarts. That wth the nation strongest\nin steel resources has rested the\nadvantage in armed conflict has been\nestablished by lhe position of Germany in the present war. That country with her own steel industry, the\nlargest in Europe, supplemented bv\nthe works in the Belgian, French and\nTYilish territory ronuuercd by ber.\nfor many months has held the tremendous strateeic lead over her rui-\ntagonists. Onlv rpcentlv has this\nmargin of advantage been reduced or\noffset completely bv the large drafts\nmade bv the entenl \"ers unon the\nsteel capacity of the l'nited States.\nWomen Abhor Bribery\nTt will be some time before any\nI women of this province will be\nI charged with bribery. Women have\n| an abhorrence of dishonesty, and on\nI the other hand intense self respect.\nI \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDKamloops StahdardkSentinel.\nFarm Credit\nW'e know nf a private bank in\nSaskatchewan that is making loans\nto men who could lint secure loans\nthrough branches of our chartered\nbanks, and it has been making these\nloans for years. Further, il has been\na paying business and is iu a better\ncondition today than it has ever been\nbefore. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDTherefore we say thai until\nthere can be smne organization\nwhereby the lender will loan money\non character where the financial\nstanding is not sufficient to ensure\na loan through the orthodox channels\nand where the borrower can take the\nlender into his confidence and get\nhis advice, knowing it is sound, then\nand only then will we begin to solve\nsome of the more pressing features\nof farm credit.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThe Farmers' Advocate, Winnipeg.\nAs to Fancy Food Wrappers\nConsumers should use all their\nbuying influences to encourage the\nplain wrapper aud box lor food-\nStuffs. The gilded label, fancy trimmings and frills are of little Value\neven as additions to the wasler paper\nstore, 'they represent an expense\nwhich the consumer should not be\ncompelled to bear at tbis time. They\nshould be eliminated even at the cosl\nof sacrificing a distinctive package\nor wrapper. L. G. Burns of the\nBurns Candy Company of Spokane\nsuggests that people get too much\nthat cannot be eaten when they buy\nfood. He declares the advanced cost\nof certain' lines of staples is due\nlargely to the increased price of\npaper. His idea immediately brings\nto lhe fore a long list of household\nfancy colored paper, smothered in\nnecessities which are delivered in\nlayer upon layer of cardboard and\ntissue paper or sealed with fine specimens of the lithographers' art. Tbe\nplain wrapper, manufactured and\nprinted in the Pacific Northwest, will\nfind ready acceptance by Northwestern trade if it checks the riisng cost\nof food. The trade should carefully\nseek out the goods produced by the\nmanufacturer who honestly attempts\nto reduce unnecessary costs in favor\nof the consumer.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDSpokane Chronicle.\ncruel discipline.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD British Columbian.\nWhen the French delegate- kissed\nthe baud oi Jeanctte Rankin in the\nAmerican house of representatives.\nthey were too gallant to rememberl\nthat it was the same band that brushed away the tears that Miss Rankin\nshed when she voted against American entry into the war.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDXelson\nXews.\nGame Protection Treaties\nToronto. Ont.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThe Statute Law\nAmendment Act of Ontario now has\nii clause incorporated in ii giving the\ngovernmeni power to make any regulations required to make effective\nany treaty entered into between the\nImperial or Canadian governments\nand tin- government of the l'nited\nState- for the protection nf any\nbirds nr animals. An international\nagreement between Canada and the\nL'nited States for the protection ol\nmigratory birds is imw being considered.\nAnother Group of Millionaires\nWith stigur jumping up iu price\nabout .-II cents a week. lhe man win-\nowns a sugar bush is next door\nneighbor In a millionaire.\nBefore the amateur gardeners get\nthrough with the hoe it will be time\nto get busy with the hose.\n'I i \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD anada in*-\n.\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD,,'.- .i\nI in\nth,- Got crnmi in ' ,\nouial Railway, .. madi\nleaden\nfavoritism in the distribution uf pat-\n' to war ., li\nWon re ently, tin- Liberals have ex-\ndi.appro.al ol ti -\nnient's plan foi icting\nfrom incomes derived from i\nprofits in industries, to the e> lusi n\nni other in--'-in.- taxation, ami m thi\nphn, which pri vents iln- hea ier tax-\nation 'it hind- withheld from proi\ntin- uses. Despite this dissatisfaction, am! -..spile tin- frequent reiteration by Liberals, f tin- belief that\ntin- Conservative governmeni under\nSir Robert Laird Borden, i- living\non borrowed tune, and that it- days\nof usefulness to the people of Canada have passed, there seems little\nlikelihood that a general election . ill\nbe forced.\nIt is interesting, in view of the circumstances inn! the estimated\nstrength of the Liberal puny\nthroughout the Dominion, to ascertain and analyze those restraining\ninfluences which are recognized even\nby lhe Conservatives, as preventing\nthe launching of a vigorous political\ncampaign, and a possible administrative upheval. As is well known,\nCanada is under Liberal provincial\nrule from the head -if Lake Superior\nto the Pacific Coast. The foui provinces included in that area, namely.\nManitoba. Saskatchewan, Alberta\nand British Columbia, are a unit in\nopposition io the policies of the\nBorden government; and partj\nspokesmen there aud elsewhere in\nihe Dominion freely condemn, apparently without partiality, certain\npeace and war policies of the administration. Bul beyond ihis free criticism and outspoken disapproval of\nnn tliods which the Liberals denounce as grossly inefficient and unreasonably partisan, there seem* to\nexist, and to In- exerted, an element\n-if strength, if not of actual fortitude, born of genuine loyalty t . the\nDominion and to the Empire. The\nLiberal lenders realize. ;i\"i! their\ncountrymen affiliated with :', Conservatives appreciate the fact, thai\nthe forcing of an electi in in tl c\nmidst of war. no matter how great\nthe provocation, would savor ,,- dis-\nISI\nW ilfru \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD mier,\ni- .- \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD i.\nadheii \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD il that, as lo\n'l ot evi\nPhis\nenl \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD i. onstrued as\n' \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD nnaii\n.ir-uv ' .1 there it\n ml Willi ll\n' ai \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD '\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD' - - listed and in\nactual sei vice n the Dominii\narmy. .- -, ,,i thi poll\nat tliis in, , i . , d l.y tin- I\nservatii - ore than a i i\nIt \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD it the a\nsurance, implied though it maj\nthai tin- Liberal party nf Canada\ndoes n.,t esti strength bj tin\nnumbi \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD n can poll in an el-\nIt i- exhibiting far greater\nstrength in the loyalty it is showii .\nto tin- , ause in which it- oh n aiu'\nother democracy - nr.- i .,,-. , nlisti I.\nIt sees, in a possible . i< tory .it I \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\npoll-, and it- earlj return to powei\na reward in no way cnmniensurat,\nwith tin- attendant sacrifice which,\nat this tune, would lend aid .ind comfort to the common enemy by discrediting, before the world, the government responsible for the admin\nistration \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD: tin- Dominion'- policil\nin the war. Self-restraint, and unquestioning loyalty quite often requite more strength than misdirected\nactivity\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDChristian Science Monitor.\nARGUE!\nNOTICE\n1 lav inv; purchased i lar ;i - onsign-\niiicnt if lni_.li quality white paper at\na verj reasonable price, we are now in\n.i position to give close prices oh\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDatal igues, bonks, pamphlets, dodgers, etc. The Standard Job Department, 420 limner Street; phone Seymour 470.\nMontreal's 275^ BirThda\\nWhat Ought to Rule\nThe price of flour should bc based\non the price of the wheat in the\nflour, not the price of wheat in the\npit.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDToronto Globe.\nMONTREAL is proud to celebrate\nits 2T.rith birthday this vear.\nOn May 18th, 1642, Paul de\nChomedy, Sieur de Maisonneuve,\nbrought his little flat-bottomed\nnaee to anchor close to the site selected by Samuel de Champlaln\nthirty-one years previously, and Hit\nnew settlement was formally ;-u,\neateil hy Bert Viiuonl.\nTo-day Montreal is a city ol\nstreets and stately buildings, win,\nwealth unaccountable and a pu;nila-\ntion of nearly three-quarters of i mil\nlion; headquarters of most ol the\ngreat banking companies and ul that\nworld-wide enteniiise. the Cannula*!\nPaeilie'Railway. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD iul all this springs\nIrom (he landing of Maisonneuve and\nhis associates in May, 111-12.\nTbe Island of Montreal was visited\nby Jacques Cartier in 1535, and nearly a hundred years passed befme another white man came. On the 2Sth\nof May, 1611, Samuel de Champlain\nlanded with another Frenchman and\nan Jmdian. He seems to have explored the shore line as far as the Rapids,\nbut finally decided that the best place\nfor a settlement was a little strip of\nmeadowland. to which he gave the\nname of Place Royale. Incidentally,\nIt was de Champlain who first advocated the cutting of what is now the\nPanama Canal, in 1600.\nThirty years later, plans were perfected for the founding of the settlement, which wns called in advance.\n\ille-M\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDrle de Montreal for Mount-\nroyal. De Maisonneuve was appointed leader of the little parly\nconsisting of about a score of people.\nThey set sail from France in a small\npinnace, landing at Quebec ou the\nl\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDIl of May. Here they were warned\nI by Montmagny of the danger of anni-\nIhilation by tbe Iroquois.\n\"It is my duty and my honor to\nfound a colony at Muunt Unvul ii\"\nMaisonneuve. \"aud 1 would ko it\nDominion Square, Montreal, with th\" great C. P. R. Station ln background\nevery tree were an Iroquois.\"\nThe long butfrttng across the Atlantic in his cockleshell of a boat had\nnot daunted his courage or that of\nbis companions, nor did the almost\nequally perilous passage up the unchartered St. Lawrence, which occupied them ten days. He and his associates had their duty to do and\nthey went on and did it.\nit was a heautiful afternoon when\nthey lirst sighted the Island, with lhe\nfurest-elad mountain rising steeply\nagainst the sky. The pinnace fetched\nup by the side of a rivulet running\ninto the St. Lawrence. There was a\nstretch of Meadowland along the\nshore, with ratches of flowers growing amid tb_ grass and brightly eol-\noied birds darting to and fro Be-\n>ond the meadowland lay the forest.\nwith who knew what secrets h'dden\nln its mysterious depths. De Champlain had told them of the palisaded\ntown of Hochekiga which stood opposite the present McGill University.\nDe Maisonneuve was the first to\nspring ashore, followed by Governor\nMon I ma env fmn.f Quebec, Pert Vi-\n,i tint, ivnllie. -l.-ai, Manee. M!._hiuie de\nia Peltrie and her servant, Charlotte\nbane, and about a dozen farmers,\nartizans and laborers. A guard was\nhurriedly set to watch the forest\npaths. Tents were landed and set\nup, and the baggage and stores were\nbrought ashore. And then having\nprovided for their immediate safety\nand comfort, an altar was raised and\nDivine Service was held.\nThe sun was sinking as Pere Vi-\nmont pronounced the last words of\nhis solemn exhortation and the fireflies were twinkling in thousands\nabout the meadow. The colonists\ncaught them and hung them in phials\nabout the altar, where they gleamed\nfor a little time and then faded one\nby one into the darkness. Whereupon the little company, having lighted watchfires and strengthened their\nguard, lay quietly down to sleep on\nthe grassy slopes of what is now\nPlace Royale. From the heroism of\nthose early Canadians to the heroism\nof those who have immortalised the\nnames of Ypres, Cutircelette. Giveuchy\nand Vimy Ridge, is a long way as\ntime g >es, but it shows tbat the\nSpirit nl Maisonneuve and those wl r\nhelped him to found the ciy of Mon:-.\nreal still survives. \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD EIGHT\nSATURDAY, MAY 26. 1917\nA New Hat and\na Good Hat\nIn almost iter; line oi hat- you'll\ni few tlint aren't up to whal you\nexpect from thai name. Vou many\nliave had one or t\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\" liati with a well-\nknown name in thai diil not wear.\n. on never _;.ii one like that at WM.\nDICK'S inn! you never will. He goes\nover the line ami lakes lhe bell ami\nleaves the others ior the men who\ndon't happen to know how to judge\na mat more than skin deep,\nhim, it gives all you think a Wolthau-\nWheii you buy a Wolthausen from\nsen should and SO on with all the hats.\nU ollhauseu's at ?2. $2.50, $.1 and $4.\nBorsalinos at $5 and $6.\nStetson's Town Topic at $5.\nStraws from $1 to $5.\nPanamns from $5 to $10.\nEve./ new shape and every new shade\nARROW SHIRTS $1.25 to $8.50.\nWilliam Dick Limited\n\"Two Big Stores for Men\"\n33, 47-49 - Hastings East\nI\nWhat steps have you taken\nwith your milk ?\nWhat have you done about your milk lately? Is it still up to the\nstandard you have set? Is it delivered regularly? Is it sent to you\nin clean bottles? Is it entirely satisfactory?\nIf your milk is not what you expect, call us up and ask for a trial\nbottle of Vancouver's very finest and safest milk\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDSOU-VAN MILK.\nHere is a milk that you will find good every day\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDa milk you can give\nto baby and the children, knowing perfectly well that it is clean and\nwholesome, nourishing and fresh. The fact that you obtain a bottle\nis no criterion that you must use this milk regularly.\nWe leave that to the milk.\nPHONE FAIR. 2624\nSOU-VAN MILK\n(SOUTH VANCOUVER MILK COMPANY)\nSCIENTIFIC DAIRYMEN 29th and FRASER\nPhone Highland 137\nGrandview Hospital\n1090 VICTORIA DRIVE\nVANCOUVER B.C.\nMedical : Surgical : Maternity\nRates from $15.00 per week\nClassified Advertising\nFLORISTS\nBROWN BROS. & CO., LIMITED,\nSeedsmen, Florists, Nurserymen, 48\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\nThe\nAeronui\nCan be seen at\n670 RICHARDS ST.\nRAIL TICKETS TO ALL POINTS\nGeneral Agency Transatlantic Steamship Linei\nC. K. Jennejr, 0. A. P. D.\nPhone: Sey. (134\nW. O. Connolly, C. P. W. A.\nM7 OrinvUlf Strut\nAn Ineffective Law\n1 Mi Tuesday, May 1, 19.17, after\npractically 25 years' contest, the\nrestriction alien measure, incorporating the literary test, went into effect. From now on every alien, except for ihe special exemptions, will\nlie Subject to lhe literary test, ami\nthe head tax will lie $8 instead of $4.\nHut the irony of fate is tliat this law,\nso long battled lor hy the restric-\nlionists, goes into effect at a moment\nwhen immigration is at an absolute\nstandstill, and thc world is being\nraked over for the able bodied men\nand women. It is therefore a sale\nprophecy that at the end of the War,\nand this war changes so many things,\nthis restriction will be abolished, and\nthat all who wish to enter will be\nwelcome as long as they arc healthy\nand strong and able to do some kind\nof a day's work. But even the \"welcome\" mat at the front door of the\nUnited Stales will serve very little\npurpose, fur few people will come\nhere when the war is over. 'There is\nnow no fear whatsoever of dumping.\nNo government will willingly release\nits subject and ^citizens, and every\nland will be equally a laud of opportunity and of heavy taxation. So the\nwhole purpose of restriction falls to\nthe ground, and incidentally a considerable number of institutions\nwhich have banked their existence\nupon immigration, might very well\nput up their shutters and put their\nfiles in storage.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDBoston Jewish Advocate.\nAlways Dead Ones\nA Missouri editor refuses to publish obituary notices of people who\nfailed to subscribe for his paper. Tie\ngives this pointed reason: \"People\nwho do not take their home paper\nj\"e dead anyway and their passing\nlias no news value.'1\nG. S. Forsyth's New Book Shop\nA new and up-to-date hook shop is\nbeing opened joday in the Orpheum\nBlock, 771 Granville street. Mr. Forsyth is the pioneer book-seller in the\ncity, having operated a store on the\ncorner of Homer and Hastings\nstreets for a good many vears. The\nnew store should prove popular and\nwill have the same policy\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDcourtesy\nand service\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDas the old one.\nTo Cultivate Indian Lands\n.Major Megraw, inspector of Indian\nagencies, informs thc Penticton Herald tliat permission will now be\ngranted to white men to cultivate\nIndian lands on shares. For instance,\ntf a man supplies seed potatoes and\narranges for cultivating a portion of\nan Indian's land he may receive permission lo do this on the basis of a\nreturn of one-fifth of the sacked product to the Indian. Already several\nagreements of this nature have been\neffected with Indians on the reserves at the head of the lake and\nDuck* lake.\nMr. Charles E. Campbell\nMr. iChas. E, Campbell, president\nof the Vancouver City Liberal Association, who has filled nearly every\noffice in the gift of the Britisli Columbian Liberal party during the past\ndecade, is busy at work preparing for\nthe return of Hon. J. W. dell. Farris\nas Attorney-general of British Columbia.\nTo \"The Standard\" Mr. Campbell\npaid a high tribute to thc new Minister of_ the Crown, for whom he\nprophecies a long and honorable career in the public life of this province.\n\"I have known Hon. Mr. Farris for\nmany years since he came to this\nprovince lo engage in his profession\nand in that time 1 have formed a very\nhigh opinion of his character and\nability,\" stated Mr. Campbell.\n\"There are two prime considerations which the premier and the public must consider in the selection of\nan attorney-general. One is his official capacity as an executive head\nand legal adviser, and the other is\nhis character as an upright man. In\nboth of these respects 1 feel that we\nhave in Hon. Mr. Farris a man who\nwill bring credit to the Ministry,\nhonor to his fellow citizens and con\nfidence to all parties within thc community. I look to see all classes in\nour city unite in agreement on the\nchoice which Premief Brewster has\nmade. In the return of the young\nand able supporter from Vancouver\nas attorney-general I see the best\nguarantee that the excellent work\nwhich Hon. Mr. Farris did as chairman of the Pacific Great Eastern\nRailway committee in the recent legislature will be followed up, now that\nHon. Mr. Farris has been vested with\nfull powers at Attorney-general for\nBrilish Columbia.\"\nWhy the Government Should\nMobilize Women Workers\nFrance and England Have Lear ned from Experience that Separate Groups Cannot Work to Best Advantage. Now\nThey Enroll Women in Regular Service Under\nWar Department\nIf everybody's looking to us for\nfood and we can't raise enough for\nourselves it looks as if somebody\nmight be disappointed.\n* * *\n\"One glass of buttermilk.\" says\nthe Philadelphia Ledger, \"contains\nmore fond than f;ye glasses of beer.\"\nThat's some balm for a dry state.\n* * *\nThe plan to save grain by slopping\nj the manufacture of liquor is based on\n' the theory that whisky goes against\nI thc grain.\nThe instant that women were allowed to take over the commissariat\nin our training camps aud certain\nplaces at the front the men ceased\nto grumble at the food.\"\nThis was the outstanding fact that\nstruck- Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch,\nwho has seen the women of England\n\"officially\" working in the war\n\"But this step has other advantages,\" she continued. \"It was an enormous saving of soldier power. Also\nthe women were immensely more\neconomical than the men.\n\"At thc beginning of thc war the\ncommissariat was conducted on a\nmost extravagant scale. They still\nworked on the oJd idea of 'so much\nand so much' bread and 'so and so\nmany ounces of meat,.' etc., per man.\nIt was actually given out that way,\nand the waste wsa terrific. It took\nIhem three years to learn that women could do better perhaps than dole\nout food automatically, according to\nschedule of mere weight.\n\"On a journey through England\ntwo years ago I was amazed at the\nhuge waste of soldier-power everywhere. So many big, able-bodied\nmen would look me over and decide\nwhether my hair was black or gray\nbefore they would sign my passport.\nThe army bakeries in England and\nat the front employed thousands of\nmen who could have been released\nto go right to the front. At every\nstep I took I saw strong men per-\nformnig tasks for which any woman\nof average intelligence could have\nbeen used.\n\"But that is all changed now. One\ngreat example of the power of economic organization shown by women\nis the war hospital in Endell street.\nLondon, run entirely by women.\nHere, again, it took the women two\nyears of pleading before they were\nallowed to show what they could do.\nThis hospital was equipped by women, organized by women and is entirely run by women. All its officers\nhave honorary ranking in the army\nunder the war department, just as\ndo the medical men.\n\"When Sir Alfred Keogh. head of\nthe medical department of the war\noffice, went over this hospital and\nexamined its books he bad but one\nremark to make to its chief. Dr.\nFlora Murray:\n\"You women ought to equip and\nrun every hospital.. How do you do\nit so cheaplv?'\n\"Vt;t this is still the only war hospital entirely run hy women todav. -\n\"There is but one cook in that hospital.\" she mused, \"who. with two\nor three helpers, is feeding 500 people, and feeding them well.\n\"But not only England has learned\nthe lesson of right use of women\npower. One of the most efficient\npieces of work accomplished since\nthe war began was done by thc\n'Conseil National des Femmes\nFrancaises' with the co-operation of\nthe French government.\n\"This was the bringing together of\nthe thousands and thousands of Belgium refugees who had wandered\ninto France. Gradually they were\nenrolled in a huge government catalogue, and so far as possible, united\nfamily by family. All this huge\nn-ass of work was done by women.\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD The first step in this work was\nto order thc prefect to report in detail regarding any Belgian refugees\nm Ins vicinity. Aud he did immediately. But solely because the government was behind the work, nda he\ndid not dare disobey. \"Do you sup\npose, Mrs. Blatch added, emphati-\n$\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD$,'. \ ?'\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD th* P**f\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD-t would have\nbothered himself to take notice of\nthese women had they asked for information in the name of some social\norganization?\nMrs Blatch was asked what she\nthought America should do to nieel\nthe present crisis; how the eager\nand abundant woman power of this\ncountry could best be utilized\n' Profit by the bitter experiences of\nEngland and France in this war\"\nshe answered emphatically, \"and not\nbegin with the foolish mistakes they\nmade Why doesn't the government\nuse the hundreds and hundreds of\ntrained women at its disposal?\nGather together, for instance, the\ndietitians and economists aud draft\nthem into an 'official' part of preparations for war. Why not organize\nthem into a unit of cooks and helpers, reheveing the thousands of men\nwho are now occupied with the canteens of thc army?\n\"And the women doctors? For\nwhat reason cannot they be treated\nas the men physicians and given honorary ranks Why should all this\ntrained power and energy go to\nwaste for the mere sake of an old-\nfashioned prejudice?\"\nAnd about the trained business and\nprofessional women?\nMrs. Blatch spoke of the curious\nthing it was to watch the mediaeval\nI spirit of American men toward their\nwomen folk. It seems to her that\nwhere thc European man puts up\nhis haud and says, \"I will not let\nyou do these things, because they\nare my prerogative,\" the American\nI man puts up his hand and says. \"I\ncannot bear to see you doing these\nthings\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthey are not for you to soil\nyour hands with.\"\nBut the result is thc same.\n\"There should be founded immediately a department under thc war\ndepartment, or as part of the Council of National Defense,\" she said,\n\"in which there should bc received\nand docketed all the woman labor\navailable, each branch undfer the\nheading to which it belongs.\n\"For those who can do nothing\nspecial, but are 'willing to do anything'\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDand heaven help us from\nthem,\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDshe added in parentheses,\n\"there should be a special training\ndepartment to teach them to do any\nsingle thing they want to do\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDwell.\nSo she continued; the womne\nwould gradually be drafted into the\ncommissariat, the munition factories,\nand most emphatically into a department for the supervising allowances\nto soldiers' wives and families, etc\n\"At the present moment, she\nstated, \"women are offering their\nlabor to half a dozen or more societies., each with a different aim and\nof a different social purpose.\"\n\"Will the women of America,\" she\nwas asked, \"when they are catted ou\nto help, answer as well as the English and French women did?\"\n\"Decidedly so,\" she answered; \"for\nthe American woman be she a college girl or a high school graduate,\nhas been used to organizations of\nvarious kinds since she was a child.\nThere vvill be nothing unaccustomed\nto her in forming one of a group destined for any one purpose.\n\"But let the government mobolizc\nits women. Civic groups with the\nbest intentions will never achieve\ntheir aims unless drafted under the\nwar department in time of war. The\nFrench were slow in recognizing\nthis\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthe English disgracefully slow.\n\"The Germans, however, recognized it from the beginning of the struggle, and not one atom of woman's\nlabor at the disposal of the country\nwas wasted. How many of us have\nrealized that here lies one of their\nchief claims to supcrcfficiencly?\"\nwas her parting warning.\t\n'AND THE GREATEST\nOF THESE IS CHARITY\n(Continued from I'asf* Four)\nment, should the good impulse al\nways be suspected or discouraged\nDn good men alwa>> rciiisc a bail\ntnan'a money for a good cause? lh\nmay they nol accept it as possibly\nmuch pillaged from lhe enemy?\nthe homage which vice pays to iir.\ntue? Presumably, ihc usual and onij\nimport.ml ethical consideration, I \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nSunday-school treasurers, or ior I\t\nesi campaign managers, would li\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nthis (ami the recipient here was ,\ncampaign manager) had the contribution any improper string to it?\nWas it tainted? Of course, ill eithc\ncase, il may perhaps be called indelicate. Bul if it had oi|y been open\nand avowed; or published on polling\nnighl las is the case in some com:.\ntries) and as it certainly carried n\ncorrupt condition with il\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthen\nmight it not be absolutely moral yi\nacceptable\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDper se? Or might il ' \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD:\nstill have been used lo build churches\nor to help lo bring in the gift \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD.'\nhonest government to Britisli Columbia?\nOr should lhe answer have been\n\"Gel thee behind me, Doctor?\" And\nfinally, since it does pot clearly come\nunder any section of thc code, supposing we remove it from the church\nand leave it to the lecturer on nn ral\nphilosophy in the University.\nHe may decide that it would have\nbeen wrong to deprive any member\nof the MacKenzie clan of the Satisfaction of contributing to so good .,\ncause; or lo curtail the pleas,if\nwhich good men and others always\nderive from doing a good action*\nFor some people are said\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDunfairly\nno doubt\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDto have plundered this fair\nDominion, and this poor debt-riddci\nprovince of' ours, so long thai they\nmay now think some little penance\nis in order; and some restitution due\nIt may have been a case of conscience. Who knows? Let us not\ndecide rashly.\nOr, perhaps, on the other hand, a)\nit has been unkindly suggested\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDafter\nenriching and assisting for more\nthan a decade, one complacent gang\nof frce-booters (as Sir Charles term)\nthem I they may have cynic.illy\nthought that another such gang .._..\ncoming in. For they are not embarrassed by the possession of any political principle themselves Not con\nbad ones. They are non-partizan.\nThey are neutral. Absolutely independent. Free from any pernicious\nparty affiliations. Party! which ii\nmi loudlj denounced these days by >\ncertain pulpit, and press, and - .;\nbox orator; and latest of all by thai\ngentle and sympathetic Borden government agent, the well meaning\nColonel Mulloy, and his \"Win the\nWar\" convention of super-men. now\nin Montreal, lo help lo win the rest\nelection.\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDSuch political neutrals, as tin-''\nMachiavelian MacKenzie clan, :i\"''\nother predatory tribes have always\nbeen willing to compromise by giving\nback a little of the booty, now and\nthen, to one side, or the oilier, whenever they thought it would do the\ngreatest good to thc greatest lumber. And the greatest number is\nalways number one. They willinglv\nthrow a spratt to catch a salmon. A\nMacKenzie is not like a Cameron,\n\"who never can yield.\" His ami'-\ntors in tbe Hiehlands once lived, no\ndoubt, hy \"rustling\" cattle. (So did\nmy own nerhansV The taxpavine\npeople of Canada are now his herd.\nThe instinct mav bc sometimes hereditary. There is a reversion to Ivpe\nI \"ow and then. And it appears fur-\ni thermore. that we have such n\nbrtisnue and obstinate John Bull in\nour Ministry of Railways In Vieloria\n; that he is actually said to have rudely and defiantly ordered this generous and romantic Rob Roy from his\noffice. And that thc redoubtable\nKnight went out samming the door.\nAnd then he drew bis dirk and thro\"'\naway thc scabbard. For at that moment the plot of Roderick was ripe,\nand thc campaign chicken had come\nhome to roost.\nBut my little sermon is finished.\nI am not here to canonise the member for Vancouver: nor to defend\nhim; nor to praise his every acn\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nBut to protest against thc time,\nplace, and manner In which you have\npillorizcd him.\nT.apidation may be a good old puritanical method of procedure. Rut\nwhen it is about to begin. I wish the\nPriest would take his lantern and\ncome down from the Alter, and\nsearch among the pews for the per-\nson who should \"throw the first\nstone.\"\nTIMBER SALE X 954\nSEALED TENDERS will lie receive,! by\nthe Minister of Lands no! later than noon\non the 4th clay of June. 1917, for the purchase of License X 954. to cut 550,000 feet\nof Cedar and DouRlas fit on an area situated\nnear Lot 2230, Narrows Arm, New Westminster District.\nOne (1) year will he allowed for removal of\ntimber,\nFurther particulars of the Chief Forester,\nVictoria, Tl. C. or. District Forester, Vancouver, n. C.\nTIMBER SALE X 956.\nSEALED TENDERS will be received by\nthe Minister of Lands no- later than noon\non the 31st day of May. 1917, for the purchase of License X 95fi, to cut 1,000,000\nfeet -i Dead and Down Cedar, on an area\nadjoining Lot 2359, Chippewa Hay, Powell\nLake. New Westminster District.\nOne (1) year will be allowed for removal\nof timber..\nFurther particular* of the Chief Forester.\nVictoria, H.C., or District Forester, Vancouver, B C.\nlw--l\nNOTICE\nMay 22nd, 1917.\nGRANT LANDS * >\nOREGON & CALIFORNIA RAILROAD CO. Grant Lands. Title to\nsame revested in United States hy\nAct of Congress Dated June 9, W\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD-\nTwo million three hundred thousand\nacres to be opened for homesteads\nand sale. Timber aud agricultural\nlands. Containing some of best Id'\nin United States. Now is the opportune time. Large Sectional Map showing lands and description of soil, climate, rainfall, elevations, etc. Postpaid One Dollar. Grant Lands Locating Co.. Box 610. Portland. Oregon-^\nTIMBER SAI.r* X S03\nHaving purchased a large consign-\n! ment of high quality paper at a very\nreasonable price, we are now in a position to give close prices on catalogues, books, pamphlets, dodgers,\netc. The Standard Job Department.\n426 Homer Street: plione Sey. 470.\nSEALED TENDERS will be receive!\"\nby the Minister of Lands not Inter\nthan noun on the 25th dny of Maj,\n1P17, tor the purchase of Licence\nX Sfir,. to cut 3SO.0OO feet of Cedar.\nHemlock and Balsoin, oil nn area adjoining Lot R08 on the north shore ot\nDrury Inlet. Hnnge 1. Coast District\nOne (t) year will be allowed for removal of timber. . ,\nFurther particulars of the Chie\nFor.'.ster, victoria, E. C, or Dlslri' *\nForester, Vancouver, B. C."@en . 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