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" tei-fotfc\nVol. V, No. 26\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDEstablished 1911\nVANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1916\nPrice Five Cents\nThe Dinosaurus and the Poor\nHard Working Men Disagree\nWhat are the Arbitration Laws for\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDWar\nor Peace?\nThe Right Way and the Wrong Way to\nSettle Labor Disputes.\nis lhe- psychological moment they think\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDanel probably\n:annot be blamed for taking advantage of it.\nTHE PUSILLANIMITY OF GOVERNMENTS\nEverybody talks conciliation, except the men imi\nlately concerned, wh i merely take- their stand on thi I >ui\ndationi of force \"By striking now we can force the company to give way\" is their argument. \"The government\nwill not allow a strike at smh times as these\" No amount\nof technical objections or subterfuge can overcome this\nplain fact. Tliere is a board of arbitration, and the greedy\ncorporalic.n which grinds the poor into the dust so that\nit may make profits\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDanel all that sort of thing\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDis actually\nwilling lo Bubmit ils case lo arbitration, lent tbe men will\nthe officials have worked their way up. The president\nhimself, Lord Shaughnessy, was a clerk in a railway\nfreight office in Milwaukee, and his father was a policeman in that town \"i excellent beer. Others might be named\nosi careers have been equally desirable. Tliere musl\nlee- a limit to something. A railroad like any other business, has lo earn money on the capital invested. Even\nsupposing the C. 1'. K. i', earning immense sums owing to\nthe freight il carries < j ii account of the war\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDwe have not\ni:\"tice-e] any increase ill its dividends\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthat is a matter for\nthe- railways commissioners to settle. Hut freights and\neverything connected with the operation of railroads are\nhedged around with all sorts of restrictions. It seems\nas tin ugh tlic only portions of the business which are\n(N.B., not I'S.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThc dispute between thc C. /'. A'.\nand some of its employees having been settled without\na strike, the following article should Ue scanned in the\npast tense. The settlement makes no difference to Ihc\npoint of thc article).\nTHE Canadian Pacific Railway Company, a bloated\ncapitalistic corporation which controls not only all\nthe banks but tbe telegraphs, the lands, the railways,\nthe steamships, the politicians, and the governments of\nCanada, from the soap box at the street-corner, is having\na dispute wilh its conductors and trainmen. The dispute\nis somewhat technical and involves the working hours,\novertime and wages. The men ask for a reduction from\n5600 miles to 5000 miles as a monthly guaranteed mileage\nand preparatory work. Presumably this means that they\ndesire thc same wages for the 5000 miles run and preparation therefor as for 5600 miles. They may be perfectly right in their demands, and the greedy dinosaurus\nof a company which preys on all Canada, holding the\ncountry like a stricken animal in its claws of steel\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDwhen\nyou come to think of it to liken the C. P. R. to a dJno-\nsaurus is rather effective\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDmay be absolutely wrong in\ndenying the men the privileges they desire. That is not\nthe point. Who is right and who is wrong is a matter\nwhich can be decided by a board of arbitration, and the\nlaws of Canada especially provide such a board to prevent war between corporations and their employees. The\ndinosaurus no doubt lias its own point of view. Even a\nprehistoric beast may have a point of view somewhat different to the modem conception of its utility. \"Not being\nfossilised\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDno one would suggest that it is a spent force-\nit is willing to move with the times. So it suggests that\nas tbe matter in dispute is dependent on thc point of view\nof two opposing bodies, it might bc as well to take advantage of the laws of thc country and submit the matter\nto arbitration. The arbitration board provides a gyroscope\nto the two opposing and resolving bodies.\nTRYING NEGOTIATIONS\n\"Arbitration be canned!\" says Mr. Murdock, tbe leader\nof the men. He may not have said \"canned,\" but something rather stronger. His meaning was the same. \"You\ngo chase yourself. Last time we arbitrated this little\nmatter the arbitration board gave the verdict against us.\nThis time we will not arbitrate but take what we want, or\nelse we will tie up the railroad so tight that Russia will\nnot be able to get munitions and Great Britain will have to\ngo without reinforcements and the public without trains.\"\nMr. Murdock no doubt did not use these exact words, but\nlie probably thought them. Moreover, when it came down\nto a question of policy, it was announced that troop trains\nwould bc allowed to pass. In other words, the men were\nto be allowed to go to the front, but presumably the munitions which arc just as important as the men will have\nto wait until the dinosaurus gives the trainmen and conductors whatever they desire. It was apparent at once\nthat the men would not have public opinion behind them\nif they interfered with the war. So to try and obtain a\ncertain amount of public sympathy the troop trains were\nmentioned as being graciously permitted to operate. But\nthe point remains in the definite decision made by thc men\nthat they would not submit their case to arbitration, because they felt they would not get what they wanted. If\nthey bad felt that they were right, or at least bad a really\ngood case, they surely would have been willing to submit\nto arbitration. They stated that, having tried arbitration\nonce, and lost, this time they would force the issue by\nstriking. The government was appealed to and Sir Robert Borden and the lion. Mr. Crothers, minister of labor,\nboth hii el hard to bring about conciliation. The dinosaurus t.ilc! them ii was quite willing to allow someone else\nto adjudicate tlic affair, bat the men said. \"Xo. This is\n\"iir business and unless ihc company gives way and grants\nOtir demands wc will fight.\"\nTHE CALAMITY OF WAR\nIn other words, the men elici exactly what Germany did.\n. Germany told all tbe other nations that it would' not arbitrate the questions in dispute, lhal it was not a matter\nfor arbitrating, as it concerned the sovereign rights of\nAustria. Both Austria and Russia bad expressed a willingness to arbitrate So as to avert the calamity of war. So\nwe come down to the present issue. The men refuse to arbitrate and prefer the calamity of war, over a matter of\n600 miles a month. What does this mean? It means that\nthe war is being fought for principles to which a certain\nportion of the community refuse to adhere when thc matter affects them personally. Here arc 7,000 or 8.000 men\nwho believe they have the right to force a war which will\nmean the loss of thousands upon thousands of dollars,\nwill inconvenience the whole country, and cause bad feeling, simply and solely because they do not agree with a\npast finding of a board of arbitration. Here, in times Such\nas these, when every appeal is being made to induce men\nto fight for the principles of arbitration, one-tenth of one\nper cent, of the community deliberately throw principles\nto the wind and take their stand on what they call their\nrights. And what is worse, it is perfectly obvious that just\nas the Brotherhood of Railroad Engineers in the United\nStates held a pistol to the head of President Wilson over\nthe eight hour question and forced congress to pass a law\ngiving them what they desired, because an election was in\nsight,, so the C. P. R. trainmen and conductors, through\ntheir executive organisation, is holding a pistol to the\nhead of the government, believing that an election may\nsoon take place and that the government will be inclined\nto listen to them and force the C. P. R, to give way. It\nIT'S LIKE CORONATION BAY IN OLD LONDON\nNever since IvIiik George vvnH crowned hail nhcIi crowds weilln-ri-il In Lomloii im recently when tlie\nFrench Itepubllcau Band %vu\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD nhcie Iln civic recc\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDUoii. (Dally .Mirror War Service).\nnot; Why? Arc they afraid of losing? If so, it is evident\nthey have a flimsy case. Are they afraid the board of arbitrators will not be a fair one? Perhaps if Sir Henry\nDrayton and Sir William Meredith sat ou the board they\nwould still say it was unfair. To tell the truth\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDand tbe\ntruth is no doubt extremely unpalatable in these days\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nif the angel Gabriel himself came down from heaven and\noffered to adjudicate the dispute, the men would still\nstate he was unfair because thc directors of the C. P. R.\nwould naturally be favored as they can put more in the\nplate on Sundays. It is the unreasoning silliness of the refusal to arbitrate that makes the whole thing so annoying.\nThe government apparently is afraid to take the only step\npossible under such circumstances. If the government\nsuddenly turned on both the C. P. R. and the employees\nat thc beginning and said, \"Argue it out and settle it if\nyou can by yourselves, but by the soul of our soldiers\nlying dead in Flanders, if either of you refuse to arbitrate,\nwe will step in and insist upon the machinery made for\nthat purpose being used,\" the whole people of Canaela\nwould rise up and bless the government. And if the men\nstill said, \"You cannot force us to arbitrate, we i* ill\nstrike,\" and the government stated through the press that\n\"Any strike order issued or obeyed would be followed by\nthe immediate arrest of the guilty parlies and tlieir punishment,\" tlu whole country would at once think there\nwas a real government in the land.\nA DIRECTORS' STRIKE\nBut that apparently is exactly what thc government is\nafraid lo do, ll is afraid of losing voles ami tlu- leaders\nof the men, acting on iln- principle thai fear i^ the in->t\nadjuster of disputes, insist on striking whether the \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nment or tlie public think it advisable or not, li i- casj\nenough lee say thai tin- C. I'. K. i> a giant corporation with\n\"lashings\" oi money an;! is determined to conserve ii--\nown interests and Ileal il can \e-ry well affe rd I givi\nextra wages or whatever it is the men demand, But the\nC, I'. 1<. is a gi.'.nt corporation whose shares are held all\nthc world over and whose capital consistl of thc savings\nof hundreds upon hundreds of small peo| le :\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD.-> well as the\ninvestments of a few capitalists. The directors of the\nroad and the managers thereof are merely trustees. They\nhave to administer the railway for the benefit of lhe shareholders or cls6 lose tlieir jobs. Supposing that the managers formed a union and were not satisfied with the salaries they were being paid and went and demanded from\nthe shareholders a share of 50 per cent, of the net profits\nbefore any otber dividends were paid. They might argue\nwith truth that they were doing the work- and earning\nthe money and therefore were entitled to the lion's share\nin the earnings. If the shareholders refused, supposing\nthe managers all laid down their pens, or whatever they\nwork with, and walked out of their offices. Vou say that\nis an absurd supposition, but why? If the C. P. R. were a\ngovernment-owned railway, why should not the managers\nand all the responsible beads form a union of that kind\nand when the moment was opportune, calmly announce\nthey would quit work unless the Minister of Railways were\nappointed from among themselves. Confusion worse\nconfounded would prevail and tbe whole country would\nhave its backbone dislocated before the line could be operated again. Moreover, if you could replace the managers\nand all tbe host of officials, they might call a sympathetic\nstrike for their rights among the trainmen.\nUNRESTRICTED EMPLOYEES\nProbably the men would argue' that they were not paid\nthe wages which are earned by ,the ofifcials. What has\nthat to do with it? As a matter of fact, a great many of\nunrestricted are the employees. There is no more loyal\nbody of men in the employ of any railroad than those in\nthe employ of thc C. P. R., but in this case loyalty and\ntraditions seem to have been flung to the winds in order\nto obtain something by force which it was known could\nnot be granted by ordinary justice. H the government is\nso rotten that the men do not trust it, let them say so.\nThen let them postpone the strike until alter an election\nor at any rate until the war is over. Wc have so much\non our hands just at the moment that a railway strike is\na national catastrophe, and there is more than a suspicion\nthat tbe leaders of thc men regard it as such and believe\nthat cither the government or the railway will give way\nat the last moment.\nTHE VILLAINS OF THE PIECE\nAs has been said, it is not a question of right or wrong\nbetween the people and the C. P. R. employees. It is a\nquestion of principle. The C. P. R. may be the cruellest\nand most tyrannical of corporations to work for. For all\nwe know, the managers thereof are the most, villainous\nmen on the face of the world. In the past and present\nind in the future thc railway company may bc grinding\nthe .loses of the men in the dust of the right of way and\ngrabbing the lands for miles on either side of ils present\nproperties. For all we know, it bribes thc politicians and.\nof course, all thc newspapers are in its pay. For all the\npublic knows, this article might be written purposely to\nfrighten tlic C. I' K. anc', make it pension thi writer thereof for the resl of liis somewhat nebulous existence, so\na- lo prevent such articles appearing again. It is, ;\ncourse, obvious that the local offices will I\"- bcsiei\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD' , \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD tor of the paper with this article i-i pr f,\nn,-i i., print ii in return for a couple if i coca\ncola ,ei i c ncarcsl \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD eda fountain, Coloquially he is probably a cheap skate All these things are so nol\nthat perhaps n >: wast< of time to repeal But evci\n>o ii is impossible t\" understand \-,li> the men object t\"\narbitration at such a time as the present. They would\nscore heavily in public opinion if they slated that because\nof the war thej would willingly submit the matter to arbitration, although tlicy feared the result But to deliberately take exactly the same attitude as Germany seems\nso silly. It is such a waste of a good opportunity to\nshow the reasonableness of labor and the greediness of\na corporation\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDif thc C. P. R. had refused to arbitrate:.\nHowever apparently a free democracy is allowed the privilege of being extremely silly at times and the politicians\ndare not force these matters to an issue for fear of the\nvote. One would think that they would rather get out of\npolitics altogether than be subjected to such fears. If\nevery government and cvery politician is going to judge\nevery question on the number of votes his decision will\ngain him, what sort of a country is this going to bc to\nlive in?\nA FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE\nSeriously speaking, surely the people of Canada recognise that the whole issue is fundamental. It is merely a\nsign of the timese,and of the difficulties which must be\nfaced in tbe future. The after war problems will bc infinitely more difficult to settle than a small matter of this\nkind, but if the government had established a precedent\nnow by insisting on arbitration, and if there is a strike,\ninsisting on keeping tbe line in proper operation, even if\nit had to call out the soldiers to do so, its position in the\nfuture would have been immensely strengthened. It is\nreally not the apparent silliness of the strike\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDif it comes\noff\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDwhich is so irritating, but the conviction that governments are afraid to act, are afraid to put in action their\nown machinery for dealing with such cases. It is quite\ntrue that the men have a perfect right to strike after the\nmatter has been submitted to a board of arbitration if\nthc decision is aginst them, and that they say that the\ndecision being against them already, they are only acting\nwithin their rights. But circumstances alter cases, and\nunder the conditions which are coming, is this right to\nstrike at tbe behest of a few influential leaden\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthis docs\nnot mean that in this particular case the strike is being\nbrought about by a few leaders\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDto be allowed? Surely .\nour problems are going to be too great to waste our time\nwith strikes and such methods of settling labor disputes.\nLet masters and men meet round a table with three officials\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDone on the government side, one on the opposiition\nside, and the chairman of the railway commissioners or\nsome such perosn, and talk the matter out. Let the figures on either side be made quite plain, so that the cost\nof the increase or decrease in wages with due regard for\nthe cost of operation or production and the markets can\nbe calculated. Also let the men estimate the cost of the\nstrike to their strike funds. Then let the government produce the cost to the country. Xow surely if nine ordinarily sensible men got together in that fashion under the\nleadership of a genial, tactful man who knew something\nof economics and business, there would be very few\nstrikes.\nIS THIS ETERNAL?\nFor look at which way you will, strikes are nothing but\nwar. We are fighting to do away with war if possible,\nand millions of men are being killed just because one side\nrefused even to submit its case to arbitration. We know\nhow expensive that war has been and how much easier\nit would have been if it bad been possible to be arbitrary\nabout it at the start and insist on arbitration by united\naction among the nations. But here we are going along\nthe same old way, committing what is nothing more nor\nless than a crime against our whole people, solely because\na body of men refuse to make use of the governmental\nmachinery established for the purposes related. Is this\nthe sort of thing we are going to stand for in the future?\nAre the men who have fought at the front to come home\nand find us still settling our disputes in thc same old way\nwithout sufficient strength or intelligence to prevent civil\ndiscord and strife. That is where this thing drives home\ninto our vitals. It is intolerable that the government cannot insist on arbitration and use its powers to make strikes\na criminal offence under such circumstances. Loud voiced\ndemocrats mount the rostrums and declaim about the\ncriminality of tllis or that nation and tlie immorality of\nwar and the necessity for high moral altitudes and unswerving insistence on first principles\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD_-whatever they may\nmean. But put these same men in positibns where they\nhave a chance of practising what they preach, and by the\nbones of their ancestors they are afraid to utter a word.\nThey are afraid to give the public a lead. They are afraid\nto tell the labor unions and the capitalists that the laws\nof the land are made to be kept and that those who break\nthem will find the people strong enough to enforce them.\nIt is not the greed of the capitalist or the short-sightedness of the men which rejally must be blamed. It is the\nweakness of governments and their dependence on votes.\nAnd we talk about the nationalisation of industry! Great\nCaesar! !\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDCRITICUS.\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDEDITORIAL OPINIONS!\nB, C's POTENTIAL INDUSTRIES-\nSHIPBUILDING AND SHIPPING\nIT IH not.as a .phenomenon thai we greet the industry of\nShiphuildi^g'ji'jfce'.MC'iiner and the adjacent\nbut as the na^flra'l and inevitable consequence ol eur\nunrivalled potentials and facilities, These have been\nflaunted and '. ti I, pressed and depreciated in the ast\nbj the ver* - ivhe re n \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD nost vociferous in their\nI s ol the enterprise that is now tasl risii lo\non i ie ir i ' s, Ti ttieto it is a i\nfor they ha I tone to the sti\nnor cm an i ro - imi on i til\nit beci I h an ac mpl id fact,\nBut ii is n , .,' he il \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD in\nrred I I \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD natural re-\n: -,.i\nin industi ial pi oduction.\nAn obligation will be casl u the nc rei nn -\nVictoria to keep thi shipbuilding o npanici within the\nlaw and not allow them to run free nnd loos ai i n\nriotous with their shares, debentures and other insignia\nand'appendages at \"limited liability.\" This has been the\ndastardly characteristic of the Provincial administration\nand control of the con,panics registered at Victoria for\nyears past, though we have upon the statutes an Act which\nis well-nigh perfect; for it is, in spite of Mr. Bowser's\nhypocritical claim to thc authorship of it, virtually a literal re-enactment of thc English Act which was evolved\nfrom over forty years of tentative legislation, and from\nthe knowledge gained by the experimental results.\nIt is strange that we have been forced into the shipbuilding arena, into a new life of industrial activity, by\nthe vigilance of the foreigner\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDof the Norwegian, to be\nmore precise. But while this is in some sense humiliating,\nit is a fact that should impart a shock to the \"idea monopolists\" of Vancouver, and give them a juster apprehension of the amenability of our resources to productive\npurposes.\nBefore the Norwegian contracts were even mooted, and\nbefore Mr. Bowser's wooden ships were projected, the\nSTANDARD pointed out what out potentials for shipbuilding were, and how the initiation of the enterprise\nwould operate beneficially upon our iron and timber resources and engender not only steel and wood factories as\nnecessary accessories'of ship construction, but other industries of far greater magnitude and of world-wide commercial significance.\nEven if the Norwegian contracts should not materialize,\nh\n:\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD$\n_____\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD FWO\nTHE STANDARD\nSATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1916\nour potentials for shipbuilding are placed beyond dispute.\nThere is not much, however, to apprehend in regard to\nthe construction. The Norwegians are neutrals, and the\nfirst enactment against the transfer of British ships was\ndesigned to apply only to \"enemies.\" But some of the\nneutrals were perverting or abusing tlieir rights to such\nan extent by making themselves the shippers of our enemy\nbelligerents, that the restriction was extended by an Order\nin Council to transfers to neutrals, or to any one who was\nnot entitled to own a British ship. The consent of the\nBoard of Trade\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthat is one of the Government departments in London\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDremoves all difficulty, and this consent\nis certain provided tliere is an assurance that these projected ships at Vancouver are not eventually designed to\nsubserve the enemy.\nThe Xorwegian company or Syndicate that are anxious\nto build these ships here design, if not to dominate, at\nleast to secure a large share in the ocean carrying trade\nof the world. Ships have been, and are being, constructed\nfor them at several ports along the Pacific; and the idea\nDO doubt is to make themselves persoiiae gratae with the\nworld's shippers. This is long-sighted patriotism, for all\nwill eventually redound to .Norway's prestige.\nHere is another lesson in patriotic perspective that\nought to be taken to heart by true Canadians\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDreal British\nColumbians, and especially by our highly patriotic Manufacturers' Association.\nXow, when we are on this theme, it is most opportune\nto point out that while ships may be constructed here by\ncompanies formed under the Provincial law, it is certain\nno company so formed can operate ships between Canada\nand any foreign country. The moment a ship is slipped\nfrom the construction dock, both the ship and the owner,\nif he be a British subject, comes under the British Merchant Shipping Act and the Canada Shipping Act, the\nlatter being largely a re-enactment, and in some respects,\na complement of the former. And here again rises up\nthe arrant mendacity and effrontery with which Mr. Bowser foisted his pet project of a \"Mercantile Marine\" before\nthe people as part of his business policy. We cannot forget the pageant and the panoply of the Shipping Commission which sat here in the Court House under the\npresidency of Mr. Tisdall and the minutiae of details which\nit collected from the most incompatible sources, for the\npurposes of forming its report to the government as the\nbasis of the law with which Mr. Bowser was to establish\na \"Mercantile Marine.\" Alas how it shrivelled up into\nthe puerile plan of building with public money and subsidizing wooden ships for the benefit of the timber exporter alone. A \"'Mercantile Marine\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDpshaw! A Mendacious Manipulation to gull the people, and we rather\nthink poor Mr. Tisdall is himself ashamed of the masquerade in which for the time Mr. Bowser arrayed him in\nsemi-juridic splendour.\nA Mercantile Marine ought to be established here, with\nVancouver as the chief port and port of registry of its\nvessels. These vessels ought to be built here, and they\nwould not only subserve British Columbia, but the Western Prairies. They would be enormous contributors to\nour industrial development and commercial expansion.\nBut the Provincial Government could not establish or\nown or operate such a Mercantile Marine, and any company formed to do so would require to derive its powers\nand authority from the Dominion. The Provincial Government is not, however, by this rather anomalous fact,\nrelieved from responsibility. It Ought to bring its concentric power, as the representative of the people, to bear\nupon not only the Dominion Government, in formulating\nsuch a project; but in facilitating in every legitimate way\nany company proposing to carry it into effect.\nTruly the new Government has not merely acceded to\npower, it is the inheritor of the consequences of the incompetent regime of drivellers and nincompoops whom\nMr. Bowser so long dominated as the arrant Poo-Bah.\nBut the people of the Province are now moved by a common impulse for an era of advancement,' and the new\ngovernment has to act in unison. It cannot merely sit\napathetic, nor can it be content to be the plastic instrument of the speculator and railway promoter, as Mr, Bowser admitted that the McBride-Bowser government had\nbeen when deprecating any qualifications to statesmanship,\nhe asserted that it was chief among the expert real estate\nmanipulators of the ruinous epidemic of graft, plunder\nand blunder.\nelection out of all tiie acts passed after the 14th of March.\nIt will devolve naturally *upon the new Attorney-General\nto adopt the only course available: that is to refer to the\nSupreme Court as an urgent constitutional issue whether\nthe legislature was or was not legally extended. This\ncourse Mr. Brewster, or Mr. Macdonald challenged Premier Bowser to adopt when he was about to pass the dubious extension Act; but he declined the challenge with\nsupercillious scorn. Fate has ordained\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDor is it retributive justice?\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthat Mr. Macdonald, as Attorney-General,\nmust do this work himself, and on lhe decision of the\nCourt everything depends. He must act promptly, for\nuntil we have certainty we cannot have anything but formal government.\nIf the Court holds that the legislature had died before\nMr. Bowser tried to extend its life, then not only must\nwc have another election, but all the acts passed after the\n14tb of March are void, ab initio, including tlie act by\nwhich Mr. Turner was superannuated, and Sir Richard\nMcBride cajoled into placid submission to the ignomy of\nbis expulsion by the Agent-Generalship with an enormously inflated salary. All\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDall the mockery and mummery of Bowser's masquerade falls into a heap of ruin,\nand the new election would require to be held on the\nbasis of the law as it stood on the 14th of March last.\nIt was not Mr. Brewster's writ that created this chaos\nand confusion. It was Bowser's Act, and if Brewster's\nwrit had never been issued, cvery lawyer in the Province\nwhose client was affected by the legislation passed after\nthe 14th of March would have raised the question of its\nlegality until some one brought it to the Privy Council\nfor final decision. Several lawyers have already raised\nthe question in actions they are conducting or defending,\nincluding, wc believe, Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper's firm.\nBrewster's writ only raises the question incidentally, and\nbis action would be good and tenable if the question were\ndeleted from the pleadings. He should, therefore, not\nwithdraw, as has been suggested, but proceed, and get\nsome measure of restitutive justice from the arrogant dictator. Constitutional government we must have, and all\ndoubt must be promptly removed in the way we have\nstated.\nIf the Liberal government find that they have not been\nlegally elected they need not fear the inevitable new\nelection; for even if Bowser and his unholy machine had\nthe effrontery to again contest thc constituencies, the\nwrathful indignation of the people would rise and swell\nto such proportions that the only palliative and consolation for it would be the ignominous effacement of the\nlast remnant\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDevery vestige\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDof the aggressive and abominable horde from thc petulant dictator to the most servile\nrubber-stamp.\nANOTHER GENERAL ELECTION\nTHIS QUESTION was mooted in the STANDARD\nlast week, because it is within the range of possibilities which confront us that another election may be\nnecessary to put the new government on a legal basis.\nThis is part of the damnosa haereditas left to this Province by Mr. Bowser through his helter-skelter legislation. We learned something of the infamies of this from\nthe Dominion Trust Company's collapse; but Mr. Bowser\nlearned only the art of stiff-necked arrogance and recklessness. And accordingly he put upon the statute book an\nAct, dated thc 15th of March, 1916, which pretended to\nextend up to the 1st of June the legislature, whose term,\nor rather thc term of whose elected members, had expired\nthe day before\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthe 14th of March.\nWhether this was constitutional or not, Mr. Bowser did\nnot care; he didn't stop to consider. Once he got it on the\nstatute book he defied interference in the abominable\nmasquerade of enacting the pell-mell expedients which\nhe euphoniously designated his \"business policy,\" a part\nof which was the subsidizing relief loan to thc P. G. H.\nRailway. All these present issues which must be investigated. The Act passed by Mr. Bowser on the 15tli of\nMarch last is law till it is set aside as being not merely\nultra vires, but as being completely beyond the competence of a dead legislature to enact. The recent election\ntook place on the basis of certain amendments to the election act passed between the 14th of March and the 1st of\nJune. The writs were duly issued by the Lieutenant-\nGovernor, and every formality having been gone through\nthe election is valid so far as the Lieutenant-Governor is\nconcerned, whose unshirkable duty it is, on completion\nof the count of the ballots, to call upon the leader of the\ndominant party to form a government. A list of new\nministers and of the cabinet has to be submitted, and on\nits acceptance, installation follows as a matter of course,\neven if Mr. Bowser glued himself to the autocratic chair\nfrom which he issued his ukases to \"starve the Nanaimo\nstrikers into submission,\" and to do other brutal and unconstitutional deeds of arrogant defiance.\nOnce in power it will be the- first question with the\ncabinet to agree upon testing not only the legality of the\nboldly into the heart of Quebec and make the appeal to\nthe recalcitrant French-Canadians? _hey fear to do what\nLaurier has already done. They fear to antagonize Bourassa and others of the ilk, and they arc too craven-hearted\nto do what this paper challenged them to do\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDtell the\nQuebec shirkers, who arc no more than misguided fanatics like the Sinn Fein Irish, that unless they volunteer\nup to the full standard of their quota to the Canadian contribution of 500,000 men, conscription will be applied to\nthem though all thc rest of the Dominion is honorably\nexcluded from the indignity of the crusade.\nUntil they do this, regardless of political consequences,\nevery effort by them to secure the needed recruits by a\ngeneral appeal all over the Dominion is no more than poltroonery and pestilent pretence, though it is absolutely in\nharmony with the traditions and ideals of \"Organized\nHypocrisy.\" And Sir Wilfrid Laurier is right to abstain\nfrom all participation in such a shocking abuse of public\nrectitude and the ideals of public candor between thc\ngoverning and the governed.\nORDER NOW Your\nPRIVATE GREETING CARDS\nG. S. FORSYTH & CO.\nCor. Homer and Hastings Streets\nORGANIZED HYPOCRISY\nLORD BEACONSFIELD, the great Imperialist and\nliterary statesman, was a master of terse, definitive\nphrases which were a condensation of recondite\ntruth, and he never uttered a finer epigram than when he\ndescribed the .Tory party as \"Organised Hypocrisy.\"\nThe leopard has not changed his spots in this case, for\nthe definition of Disraeli is as true today is when he gave\nit utterance. Look at the attitude, for instance, of the\nBorden party in reference to Canada's contribution to the\nImperial army forces, and their attempt to attribute to\nSir Wilfrid Laurier all responsibility for the hesitancy\nof certain sections of the Nationalists of Quebec to join\nthe ranks, though the war, being much more French than\nBritish, and Nationalists being of French lineage and\nspeaking still the French language, the obligation upon\nthem to support the Allies' cause is preponderant over all\nother affinities or allegiances or party'or provincial as\npirations.\nThe Borden party having shattered the hopes of their\nmost doughty supporters, and having alienated them by\nthe fickleness and falsity of their promises, found a new\nrallying cry in the war propaganda, and they have organized, hypocritically of course, around this to such a\ndegree of perfection that they conceive all their defects\nand delinquencies are submerged from public view, and\nthat now is the time for an appeal to the country.\nThey begin by working up the recruiting campaign to\nwhite heat, and in spite of all the cordial acquicscences\nof Sir Wilfrid and the Liberal party in the money votes\nof Parliament, and in the measures passed to organize the\nCanadian contingents, the Conservatives\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthe party of\n\"organized hypocrisy\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDclaim to be not only the monopolists but the sole exponents of loyalty, and they assert\nthat Laurier is not only allied with the traitorous element\nof the Canadian-French population, but that he is himself\na traitor to the cause which he pretends t6 espouse. They\ndo not hesitate to say he is animated by hostilities to\nCanada's continuance within tbe Empire. In other words,\nthey ascribe to Sir Wilfrid all the characteristics of that\n\"organized hypocrisy\" of which they arc the Canadian\ninheritors and the doctrinated exponents.\nSurely the people of Canada can penetrate below the\nspecious sophistry and tbe arrant mendacity of this \"organized hypocrisy.\"\nThe recent speech of Sir Wilfrid at Montreal is itself\na refutation of the malignant aspersions, for no orator\neither of ancient or modern times has ever uttered a more\nsoul-stirring message to bis country or made such an\nappeal to the manhood of its people. It was the unmistakable expression of a man intensely moved by the necessities of the times and the obligations of patriotism and\nloyalty, to respond to the call of duty. If it failed to thrill\nevery French-Canadian heart, then wc must conclude Sir\nWilfrid Laurier has little influence among the Nationalists\nof Quebec, and in this alone he stands exculpated from\nthe charge of leading and conniving with them in their\nobstinate hostility to the participation of Canada in the\nwar.\nSir Wilfrid has not, and never had, any influence with\nthe National element of his countrymen, and Bourassa\nand his followers found much more congenial co-operators\nin that \"organized hypocrisy\" which is more generally\nknown as the Conservative party, now led and represented\nby such stalwarts as Borden, Foster, Rogers, Sam Hughes.\nAfter each of these names a huge P ought to be placed\nto indicate their main features and claims upon public\nconfidence. Thus: R. L. Borden, P (Promises); George\nE. Foster, P (Platitudes); Robert Rogers, P (Perfidies);\nSam Hughes, P (Pyrotechnics). The four great P's of\norganized hypocrisy. And even now they are solidfying\ntheir organization to win the credulity of the people by\nfalsely ascribing to Laurier what they themselves essentially are\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDhypocrites. We regret that we cannot add our\nown H. H. Stevens to this gallant four, partly because it\ntakes two P's to give him his right appellation\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDPuny\nPoltroon\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDand partly because he is too puny and puerile\nto rank at all among the stalwarts of \"organized hypocrisy.\"\nBut as the STANDARD has already said to Sir George\nE. Foster, the man of platitudes, when he was recently evaporating heroics here, why do the Conservatives not go\nTHE JITNEY JUGGERNAUTS\nTHE JITNEY has now, under the malign air. of prosperity, become itself odious and a positive menace\nnot only to our lives, but to our morals. The Juggernaut Jitney now plunges recklessly through our streets\nregardless of all law and all restraint, and it reaches thc\nsummit of defiance when it swept from its path the\n\"Safety Zone\" protections designed by Alderman Gale,\nand established at certain points of congestion and traffic, for protection of the public.\nContemporaneously with this, we are faced with a pathetic appeal\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDor is it a menace?\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDby the street car management for the return of the public to their former patronage. This appeal makes it clear not only that the B. C.\nElectric is a large contributor to the City's resources,\nbut that if tbe patronage of the public is not restored to\nit and the jitney eliminated, the service will decline and\ncars will cease to be run along routes which at present are\nnot self-sustaining. And more than this confronts the\ngeneral public. The electric light system is dependent,\nas regards its cost of supply, upon the street car returns,\nand if these fall below a certain standard for dividend\npurposes to the stockholders of the great undertaking,\nthen the prices of electric light in our homes must be raised, and probably the street car fares as well.\nIn these rather stringent times, the position is some-'\nwhat startling.\nThe appeal of the Company\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthe statement of the dilemma confronting both it and the public\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDcomes very opportunely; for the jitney day after day is piling up revulsions against itself. We believe it might have been\nkept in better restraint by the enforcement of the City's\nown regulations. But if the drivers were bent upon it,\neven the police oculd not very well have thwarted or circumvented the prostitution of their jitneys to the purposes\nnow attributed to them. By the dissemination of the red-\nlight district over the City, the vice and the victims have\nfound their habitations in rooming-houses in the erstwhile respectable residential districts; and certain of the\nless respectable jitney drivers knowing these habitations\nand their modus operandi, devote and direct their efforts to\ncatering to them and to accommodating the traffic which\nflows to and from them in almost ceaseless streams.\nThe eyes of the people as they walk along are shocked,\nhorrified and revolted at thc spectacle which is the natural corollary of distributing the evil that formerly was\nconcentrated in one area, well within the control of the\npolice authorities. A similar kind of distributed evil will\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDit is feared\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDpresent itself with the transference of the\nliquor from the store and the bar to the homes of the\npeople. The evil remains in spite of its distribution, and\nit becomes more malignant day by day in spite of the\npretentious claims of the purist cults that they have extinguished it, merely by removing or changing its. centre\nof operation.\nBut what is to be done with the jitney? The wrongs\nhere stated as pertinent to the machine, are not necessarily attributable to all the drivers. Should not they\ncleanse their own stable? Before we condemn them in\nglobo we should bring them to a sense of duty and right.\nPresident Wilson, to the inevitable. But everything and\neverybody is out of joint with the austere innovation. The\nworker and operator, even in his own premises, is.under a\nstrange duress, for even the artizan that nails a sole to\nan upper has to desist from what, to many a one, is an act\nof obliging humanity. What a dead silence! Everything\nis shewn from within but neething must be bought or sold.\nAnd Saturday evening is the time not only for the spender, but for the visitor.\nWho benefits by tllis?\nXot the city. Xot the people, for has not the housekeeper to crush bis purchases into the Friday evening\nand has he not, after exhausting himself on Friday night,\nto be up and out again for his work on Saturday morning?\nA few of the assistants may prize the Saturday closing,\nnot because it gives them a half-holiday, but because it\nreleases them from a work which never would they perform were it not for the living. But balf-a-day off on any\nother day than Saturday would bc quite as acceptable,\nand it would serve even a better purpose of resuscitation to\nhave it in the middle rather than at the end of thc week\nwhen they have a whole day by the ordinances of the\nChristian religion.\nBut who, again we ask, docs this Saturday half-holiday\nserve or suit? X'obody. Everyone is disgusted with it and\nthe results it has produced.\nLet us learn from thc experience and restore our social\nand business life to normal and rational conditions. The\nphantasies of Vancouver quixotics are premature until\nfirst we have abolished or overmastered the orthodox rule\nof mankind\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDsupply and demand.\nw\nSATURDAY CLOSING\nINTER is fast closing in upon us, and we are constrained to ask: Can nothing 'be done to relieve\nthe absurdities and the vexatious inconveniences of\nthe Saturday Closing Bylaw?\nThe City and the people, besides the inconvenience,\nhave suffered heavy losses during the summer months,\nwhen visitors were continuously passing in and out, and\nanxious to spend money by buying many of the commodities which should have been ready for them. But these\nvisitors found here shop regulations more stringent than\nanything ever encountered. They could not buy what they\nwanted, nor could they understand the prohibition or\nrestriction; and they turned away in disgust or convinced\nthat this vaunted Vancouver had transported itself backward to the whimsical austerities of the Puritan period.\nWe have even surpassed those austerities in decreeing that\nSaturday afternoon shall bc added to the day of rest as a\nperiod of preparation for the \"due observance\" of the\nLord's day. Ahem! Our visitors failed to relish the fact\nthat the Vancouver wiseacres surpassed in knowledge\nand humanity the grcat Authority who made thc famous\npronouncement, \"Six days shalt thou labor.\" Vancouver\ndeclares for five days and a half, and in this way \"puts one\nover*' on the God whom the people say they worship. The\nsame symptom of superior wisdom found expression in\nthe policy of discarding \"temperance\" which the Divine\nMaster inculcated, and of substituting for it \"Prohibition\"\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDcompulsory abstention from even \"the little wine for\nthe stomach's sake\" which St. Paul extolled as the ideal\nof life.\nThe truth is that for Saturday closing there is no reason\nexcept the vain desire of the cranks of the community who\nhave nothing to do since the real estate epidemic ended,\nexcept to soar aloft and tower high as philanthropists.\nBy doing this do they hope to make retribution for their\nown past? This is not returning good for evil, but piling\nevil on the top of evil. The storekeeper has to live, and we\nhave all our needs to supply, and Saturday, of all other\ndays, is incomparably the best for replenishing the larder\nas well as for making all sorts of purchases.\nSaturday afternoons bring nothing but sombre silence\nand empty streets, and while in the summer we consoled\nourselves with the reflection that the beaches and the\nparks were filled with the erstwhile pedestrians of the\nthoroughfares, we know not only that that was an illusion, but that during the winter the Saturday afternoon\nwill be devoted to toe-toasting and other devices of nonchalant ennui.\nIf that Vvere all, we might protest and then submit, like\nSUB-CITY TUNNEL\nTHE ABSOLUTE necessity of a tunnel for the accommodation of the traffic of the C. P. R. between the\nwaterfront and the freight yards, extending from\nPender Street to False Creek, is becoming more and more\nimperative. It is a sine qua non of the City's future advancement, and however much the railway company may\nevade it and seek to shift the cost of construction upon\ntbe City, the work must be accomplished, and the sooner\nthe better. We have seen during the past summer the\nmost obnoxious disregard of the public right and public\nconvenience. Long lines of empty cars, almost interminable, as one stood glowering at them, were and are\nrun to and fro across Hastings and Pender Streets at the\nprecise time when traffic is most dense. The stoppoge\nof the people, especially along Hastings Street, the stoppage of street cars, jitneys and all forms of vehicle, have\nover and over again evoked loud cries of protest and indignation. But it seemed as if no remedy was available.\nNor is there for the individual man, though it is individuals who make the community. Mayor and City Councils\nare a body corporate and for all purposes of right and\nwrong affecting the City, they are its mouthpiece of expression. They should, in the present instance, formulate\ntheir views and urge upon the railway company the necessity of constructing the tunnel which was proposed and\neven projected some years ago. Why it was abandoned\nit is not easy to see, for the urgent need has grown day\nby day and year by year. It would seem from the latest\nattitude of the railway company that they do not admit\nany obligation in the matter. In fact they repudiate the\nobligation, and assert, per contra, that as they are satisfied with present conditions, thc City must construct the\ntunnel if the public want it or need it.\nNow this, in the concrete, is defiance of the rankest\ndescription, and wholly unbecoming to a huge corporation\nwhich possesses a national status. Defiance like this is\nintolerable. Public rights transcend every private or\nmonopolistic title; and the people, if aroused, may\ndo with a railway what many a time they have done with\ntheir tyrannic Kings\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDcut them off in spite of their titles,\nand convert their lands to public uses,\nThe people have a remedy in the last resort which is\ndrastic.\nBut the railway is under the jurisdiction of the Dominion Railway Commissioners, and their powers are paramount in regard to compelling the construction of all\nthings necessary or conducive to public safety or public\nconvenience. Here we have a concerte case. Steps\nshould at once be taken by the City to procure the order\nof the Railway Commission for the construction of the\ntunnel by the C. P. R. And the Railway must comply\nonce the order is made, because there are enormous powers and sanctions for its compulsory enforcement. With\nthis recommendation'to our City Fathers for immediate\naction, we ask tbe people to defer any resort to the ultimate remedy which, in the essence, and however revolutionary it may appear, is only an assertion of thc predominance of the rights of the public and of every individual over the titular claims of monopolistic or other corporations.\n_\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD>_\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD___>, __*NAN__* Breezes of Indignation\nWrilnlWA be\nused to send Xmas gifts to the members of the fire department who are\non active service. Last year a large\namount of money was raised and it\nwent a long way to making the Xmas\nof the boys in the trenches a cheerful one. It is expected that this year\nthe affair w ill surpass any pre\ngood time arranged by thi firemen.\n* * *\nMisa Dorothy Langford has returned from a visit to her father at Vernon.\n* * *\nMisa Nina Carscadden, of Chilliwack, i- visiting friends in this city.\n* * *\nMr. and Mrs. II. B, Adams have\ngone over to Victoria for a short holiday. ,\ntt * *\nMr. and Mrs. II. K. Spencer of this j\ncity, are spending a short holiday at j\nVictoria.\n* * *\nMiss !\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD',. MacKenzie is spend!. *\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nfew days in Victoria visiting . i\nfriends. *\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\n* * *\nThe marriage of Mr. John Burns\nanel Miss Macey took place in Toronto last week.\ntt t, tf\nMrs. J. Booth has returned to her\nhome in Xanaimo from a visit to\nfriends here.\n* * *\nColonel and Mrs. Ogilvie, accompanied by the Misses Lemon and\nMiss Brownie Bodwell, of Victoria,\nare in London.\n* * *\nMrs. VV, T. McArthur, with her\nfamily, returned last week from llali-\nDemonstrating That Our Black Silk\nValues are the Very Best Procurable\nMAINTAINING a reputation that we have enjoyed for many years, for giving\nthe best black silk value to be obtained anywhere in Canada. When rumors were\nafloat that silks were going to be scarce, our buyers busied themselves assembling huge stocks, which meant lowest prices. Today we claim, without any exaggeration, that not only have we the largest stocks of black silk in our history,\nbut that value for value our prices are unequalled. Let us show you. A partial\nlist of our prices follow:\nFINE BLACK FRENCH TAFFETA SILKS\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD36\ninches wide. Unrivalled at, per yard... .$1.50\nBEST FRENCH TAFFETA CHIFFON SILKS.\n39 inches wide, at, per yard $1.95\nTAFFETA SILK SUPREME\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThe best quality. 40'\ninches wide, at $2.50\nBLACK PAILLETTE SILK\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDGuaranteed dye. at,\nper yard 89c\nFINE PAILLETTE SILK\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDA good wearing quality, 36 inches wide, at, per yard $1.25\nRICH SATIN DUCHESS MOUSSELINE\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD36 inches wide, at, per yard $1.50\nSUPERB DUCHESS MOUSSELINE \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD39 inches\nwide; extraordinary value at, per yard ....$1.75\nIlKNGAI.INK CORD SILK\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDFor suits or coats;\n36 inches wide, at, per yard $2.25\nVERY BEAUTIFUL FAILLE CORD SILK of\nFrench make; 40 inches wide, at, per yard. $2.95\nSATIN SUITING\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDIn a very fine heavy quality, 40\ninches wide, at '. $2.50\nBLACK SATIN ROMA INK\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD40 inches wide; rich\nand beautiful, at, per yard $2.25\nBLACK SOFT GORD FA I I.LF.TI NK\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDA French\nsilk novelty, at, per yard $1.75\nBLACK SILK POPLIN\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD36 inches wide; a popular\nnumber m. per yard $1.50\nHEAVY SILK I'.K.W, AI.1NK\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\ silk and woo!\nfabric, at, per yard '...$2.50 ^^^^^^^^^\nBLACK CREPE DE CHINKS, at $1.50, $1.75,,$2.25\nAnd many BLACK TRIMMING SILKS OF CORD, MOIRE, OTTOMAN\nstanding any comparison.\nSATIN, etc., etc., at prices\nk Dress Goods Stock\nIS AT ITS BEST NOW\ni-b\nmagnificent variety and prices so\nKine Black\nBlack Satin\nFine AIl-wo\nBlack Mel\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDHack Sun 'I\nbine Black\nBl_ck Alma\nSilk and W\nCashmere, $1.10, $1.35, $1.50, $1.75, $2.25\nFace .Alexandra Cloths, per yard,\n $1.95 'and $2.25\nol Armure Cloths $1.75 and $1.95\nsa Cord Fabric, yard ....$1.75 and $2.25\n'oy Cloth, per yard $1.50 and $1.65\nWool Panama, per yard $1.35\nTwill FJbric, per yard $1.73\nool Resilda, at ..$1.85, $2.35, and $3.25\nRich Black Silk and Wool Corduroy Dress Fabric.\nyard \". $2.95\nFine Heavy Poplins, at, yard ..$1.50, $1.95 and $2.50\nBlack Wool Crepeline, per yard 79c, 85c, anel 98c\nBlack Silk and Wool Crepes,\n $1.10, $1.65, $1.95, $2.25 and $2.50\nPlain Black Broadcloths, yard $2.50\nBlack Serges, \"Imperial Navy\" Brand, a manufacture of high standard quality and reliability. An\nimmdhse range from 69c, 75c, 85c, $1.00, $1.25,\n$1.50, $1.75, $2.25 up to $4.50.\nWhen it's black materials you require, the Hudson's Bay Company stands ready*\nto meet your every desire. Let us show you.\niL#*^Ba!J (fompanu\nINCORPORATED mWT.\nimt tn t .tuwit-t swots cwjWjSjjwiw\nfax, where she has been spending\nseveral months.\n* * tt\nMiss Edna McVicar has left for\nNew York, where she expects to take\na post graduate course at the Manhattan hospital,\ntt * *\nMr. and Mrs. II. T. Lockyer. Dr.\nFarrell and Mr. Edward II. Halse\nare- amongst the Vancouver people\nregistered last week at the Hotel\nPortland, Portland, Ore.\n* * en\nMr. and Mrs. John Sae, of Midi-\ncine Hat, whose marriage took place\nlast wei \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD . an ipi nding their 1. nt j\nmo mi \ i king in Vancouver,\nia and other coail I \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\n* * *\nThe King and Q \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD revived\nthc custom of going to church twice\nevery :'\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD inday now, and the) i peel\ntheir guesti to do likewise.\n* * *\nBar _l , rheilm, wife of the\nSwedish minister iii Tokio, was n passenger \"ii the Empress of Amu, e,n\nthe way to Stockholm, Sweden.\nMiss Bessie Cassaely, of New Westminster, will enter the Vancouver\nGeneral Hospital Training School for\nnurses about the first of next month,\n* * *\nMrs. Fred, Pemberton, who has\nbeen the guest of Mrs. \V. Ii. Robertson for the last two weeks, left yesterday for her home in Victoria.\n* * *\nMrs. Horsman and her daughter,\nMrs. A. M. Berrynian, of Calgary,\nwho have been visiting in Vancouver\nand Victoria, have returned to their\nhome.\n* * *\nMr. and Mrs. William B. Barclay,\nof this city, are spending their honeymoon visiting the coast cities, and\nwill later take up their residence at\nPowell River. ^\nft * ft\nMrs. Ilargraves. of this city, whose\nhusband and sons are \"somewhere in\nFrance,\" has gone to Naramata to\nspend a few (lays visiting with her\nnephew, Mr. Dean.\n* * *\nMr. and Mrs. K. S. Cunliffe, whose\nmarriage took place here about ten\ndays ago. have returned from their\ntour of the sound citie-s and have\ntaken up residence in their new home\nat Xanaimo.\n* * *\nI.ady Lougheed, and her daughter.\nMiss Dorothy Lougheed, of Calgary,\nare leaving this week for England,\nwhere they will spend Christmas\nwith Major Clarence Lougheed anel\nLieut. Edgar Lougheed.\n* * *\nXank Solloway, familiarly known\nas \"Pot,\" who before enlisting was\nemployed at the Bank of Toronto,\nhas joined thc 6Sth Depot Battery\nField Artillery. He is the second son\nof Mr. A. E. Solloway to join the\ncolors, Leo. his brother, being in\nFrance now.\n* ft \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nThe Duke ana Duchess of Devonshire, before leaving for Canada, are\nevincing keen interest in the various\nCanadian institutions in England\nThey visited the Maple Leaf club on\nMonday, and were received by Lady\nDrummond and' other members of\nthe committee. On Friday last, the\nduchess, accompanied by her daughter, Maude Cavendish, visited the\nKingswood convalescent hospital at\nDulwich, and were received by Mrs.\nGooderham and Mrs. Reynolds, of\nToronto, and Mr. Robinson, on behalf\nof the Massey-Harris Con.pany, Limited.\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD t\nSir I lerbert Ames, who will add\na large- meeting ol evomen's o ganiza-\ntions \"'i '!' ii - la* uexl eek,\nvery logical and nvinci penki\nI places his subji I\nui i in .-. i tic ilarl\nnjli i His\nj -'.u : lid execul\niasm ci - I I him an anini I\ne in the raisi\nI tion of C \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD ida's gn atcst war I\nStore opens at 8.30 a.m. and closes at 6 p.m.\nAn Excellent Showing of New\nSilk Scarfs\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDVery Popular Now\nSPLENDID ASSORTMENT now on display at\nthe Neckwear Section. The /ery latest styles\nare represented, among which are the following:\nArtificial silk scarfs, in all\nthe new plain colors.\nThese are 52 inches long\nand 10 inches wide and\nare finished with fringe.\n$2.75 and $3.00 each.\nArtificial silk scarfs, with\nthree rows of Roman\nstripes. These are in\nheavy quality and are\n58 in. long and 14 in. wide.\n$6.50 each.\nArtificial silk scarfs, 60\ninches long and 14 inches\nwide, in purple, saxe blue,\nwhite, coral, rose, sand,\nred, Copenhagen, green,\nblack, navy, copper, biscuit or cherry, at $5.00\neach.\nArtificial silk scarfs, in\nRoman stripe designs,\nwith fringe ends, 14 in.\nwide and 50 in. long, at\n$3.25 each.\nNavy Blue Suits for Juniors, $25\nOUR JUNIOR SUITS are designed for young\ngirls who have just begun to wear suits. The\nmodels are not the ultra fashions that older girls\nwear. Rather the simple Norfolk and belted jackets, with short, smart skirts. We are now showing a splendid collection of suits for juniors in all\nwool navy serge for ages from 13 years. These\ngarments are particularly well designed and possess features usually associated with the better\nclass of tailored suits. The coats are satin lined.\n575 GRANVILLE **\nPhone Sey. 3540\na cause in which he has worked with\namazing energy. Arrangements are\nalready well in hand for the meeting\nunder the auspices of the Women's\nAuxiliary of tbe Vancouver branch of\nthe fund, and every woman who can\nshould be present to hear Sir Herbert\nAmes' address on Tuesday, 31st inst.,\nat 3 p.m., in thc ball room of the\nHotel Vancouver.\n* * *\nThe Valcartier Camp Chapter I.n.\nD.E., has announced that the proceeds of the bridge tea held in t! e\nHudson's Bay Imperial tea moms last\nweek, amounted to $315.90, From this\nbas been deducted $14.70 for expenses,\nleaving a balance- of $301.2 which\nhas been sent to the Municipal Chapter of the order to 1\"- us id for Christ-\nImas cheer for prisoners of war. The\nmembers of the Valcartier t\nChapter feel much I \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD the\niuana._c:!i'. nt of the Hud\nstores for their most gene\nThe\nKii\nboard\n* * *\ni \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD .\nci the Hotel Van\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\n'\ni\nic-i-s.\nll\nli , there will be a 11,1-\nllowc'e it I Ucnc >c 1 '\nTuesday, October 31, from 3.30 to 7\no'clock. A good musical programme\nis being arranged, and some exhibitions of dancing by an accomplished\ndancer. Palmists will be in attendance and a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon will be assured.\n* * *\nMr. am! Mrs. Ritchie, of Xew Zealand, who have been spending the\npast two months in the city as thc\nguests at Glencoe Lodge, are leaving\nfor England. Mrs. Ritchie is a niece\nof Sir James Mills, president of the\nNew Zealand Steamship company,\nwho arrived in the city last Monday\non the Niagara.\n+ * *\nMr. and Mrs. Alder and ehil In n\nhave in town from Vernon.\nect to d ihe winter ice re.\n* * *\n1 ii Monday last, I ler R lyal i lif.li-\nness, Conna\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD i Canadian\nShi\nom 11 ol.\nIrtiini Bulke-\n. iln*\nI\nbeen\nti i mus-\n. '\n1 her\n'\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD'\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD. j.-VV '\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD;.''\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD -.0\n_____ I _,\nDRAWING \"TAJIKS\" WITH CHALK IN THE SCHOOL rl.AYGROUKU\nSInny of tfcc teacherH of the Lomlon County School* have head n lively time _U___g the lant few e*ayn\nas the p_pl!_(___ _n_louN for full dcticriptionN of the \"tanki*.\" The boys hnve experimented with \"tank**\ndrawing*. (Daily Mirror War Service). FOUR\nTHE STANDARD\nSATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1916\nHOW DO YOU\nBUY BREAD?\nDo you ask for, and get, just a \"loaf of bread,\" or do\nyou, like the wise, discriminating buyers, order\nSMAX and\nSUNLIGHT\n\"THE BETTER BREADS\"\nThese are wholesome, nutritious\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDmade in a modern,\nsanitary bakery\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDin every detail as good bread as\nconscientious effort can make them.\nEvery loaf crisp, tender, delicious\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDdone to a turn.\nIf your grocer cannot supply you, phone Fairmont\n443 and we'll get it to you prompt.\nHAMPTON-PINCHIN\nBakers of Better Bread\nRETURNED SOLDIERS\nMr. A. R. Doble, president of the\nKhaki League, Montreal, has requested the STAXDARD to give publicity\nto the following appeal:\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nThe 'Military Hospitals Commission and many official and private\norganizations are spending much time\nand energy in behalf of the returned\nsoldiers, but every Canadian citizen\nshould and can take an interest in\nthe national heroes.\nMany have neither time nor opportunity to join an organization for that\npurpose, but much is to be done by individual and independent effort, intelligently directed. Here are a few\nsuggestions which may help you to\ndo your part.\nWhen you see in the papers that\nany of the boys are returning to your\nneighborhood!! get together with a\nfew of your neighbors and give them\na hearty reception. It is not an indispensable of appreciation to treat\nthem to alcoholic refreshments; for\nwhile under ordinary 'circumstances,\na drink might do them no harm, many\nare not in normal health or mental\ncondition, and a drink might be far\nfrom beneficial.\nFind out what jobs are vacant in\nyour community. Make it a matter of\nduty rather than pride for employers\nto give the first chance to a returned\nsoldier, and in every way encourage\nthe men to get back to work, for it\nis the antidote to many errors, and it\nis more curative than long weeks of\nidleness.\nIf you are an employer, give the returned soldiers a fair show. It may\ntake a little time for them to get their\nbearings. Have patience with them,\nand encourage them. This is the best\nrequital of their devotion to King\nand Country.\nBe in a position to aid the returned soldier. It you see one in any\ndifficulty, aid him, not only with advice, but with whatever co-operation\nhe requires.\nThe Military Hospitals Commission of the Dominion Government\nhas its chief office at 22 Victoria St.,\nOttawa, and the British Columbia\nReturned Soldiers' Aid Commission\nis at the Parliament Buildings, Victoria.\nAt cither of these enquiries should\nbe made and information procured in\nrelation to returned soldiers.\nReturned soldiers need neither coddling, nor charity, but they do need\nfull measures of human sympathy and\njustice; and for these, this appeal\ngoes forth to every Canadian.\nRead a Good Newspaper\nA boy who has just finished at\nschool and is about to attempt to\nearn his own living asked his principal for advice as to the books that\nwould give him the broader education he covets but must acquire by\nhimself. The-reply was as follows:\n\"For every work of fiction read also\na well selected volume of history or\nbiography. Study living people as\nwell as books. More may be gained\nfrom the perusal of a good newspaper than from the pages of many histories.\" There is better guidance in\nthat advice than in most of the lists\nof \"the best books\" that have had\nwide publicity.\nifflptt, fcmnt, mu Snnka\nDO YOU EVER TRY\nTHE LONG DISTANCE\nTELEPHONE?\nWe tell you about our Long Distance Service,\nhow quick it is, how good it is, how satisfactory\nit is.\nThe telephone is right at your hand. Try it\nyourself!\nAn important matter can be settled in a moment. N6 waiting. No delay. No inconvenience.\nB.C. TELEPHONE CO. LTD.\nTHE RHYMES OF A RED CROSS\nMAN\nAnother volume of poems by Robert Service will arrive in Vancouver in\na few days. Those who have read\n\"Songs of a Sourdough\" are expecting a volume of \"live,\" vigorous, unconventional verse: they will not bc\ndisappointed. \"The Rhymes of a\nRed Cross Man\" have been inspired\nby experiences in the war zone, where\nRobert W. Service is serving with an\nambulance.\n* * *\nService sees the tragedy of war,\nand describes it: as he saw and described the tragedy of the hunt for\ngold in the Yukon, but he also sees,\nand reproduces, the unquenchable\nhumor of the men, the humor which\nwill be such a great factor in the\nwinning of the war.\n* * *\n. . . there is his dog by his empty bed,\nAnd the flute he used to play,\nAnd his favorite bat . . . but Dick, he's\ndead,\nSomewhere in France, they say.\nAnd I called him fool . . . how blind\nwas I!\nOh I the cup of my grief's abrim!\nWill glory o' England ever die\nSo long as we've lads like him?\nPORTRAITS OF THE\nSEVENTIES\nG. W. E. Russell, the younger son\nof Lord Charles Russell, and a nephew of Lord John Russell, has already given us books of anecdote.\n\"Reminiscences\" which will long remain delightful reading.\nA new book from his pen, \"Por-\ntraitik.of the Seventies,\" will be a fit\ncompanion to Justin McCarthy's\n\"Portraits of the Sixties,\" and prove\nquite as fascinating for \"the Seventies\" saw many splendid men and\nwomen of world-wide fame in the\nzenith of their powers.\nHe * *\nMr. W. E. Russell knows what to\nleave out of a book\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDas well as what\nto put in, and his volume will be like\nan egg\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\"all meat.\"\n\"A Hymn of Peace.\" I have beard\na rehearsal, and if this music is not\nrapturously acclaimed\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDI am no true\nprophetl\nThe STANDARD published one of\nthe papers on \"The Bore,\" read at\nthe \"Vagabonds Club.\" That was\ngood. The paper I want to see in\nprint is Professor Ashton's essay on\n\"The Education of the Senses.\"\nProfessor Rossitter Howard- in the\nlecture he gave in Vancouver on Architecture showed some splendid\nphotographs of American buihjings\ninspired by memories of the ancient\ngems of Greek and Roman architecture. He showed how an American\nrailway station was largely a reproduction of the \"Bath of Diocle-\ntion\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD a wond'erful building. He\ndid not tell us what gem of antiquity inspired the Vancouver City Hall,\nand he said not one word in praise of\nVancouver building a wooden church\nand painting it to look like granite\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDjust as if God wouldn't know that\nit was \"cheap!\"\nTHE CALL OF THE WEST\nCaptain Galloway, R.M.R.E., is now\nat the front. Xot long ago, though\nit seems long, we are making history\nso rapidly,, he was out here, and I\nhad the pleasure of chatting with him\nabsut Vancouver people and places.\nHe has published a book, \"The Call\nof the West,\" which shows that brain,\ncamera, and hand were all busy. He\ndescribes British Columbia's wilds\nwith power. . He tells the people of\nthe old country of the difficulties, the\ntrials and the triumphs of life out\nhere. He is happy in description,\ncaustic but fair in judgment, and he\ngives some good advice. May he\ncome safe out of the war and see his\nbook achieve the success it deserves.\nHe is particularly interesting when\nhe deals with Vancouver and other\nBritish Columbian cities.\n\"ENGLAND'S EFFORT\"\nMrs. Humphrey Ward is no longer\na young woman. Most of her life has\nbeen spent among quiet and elegant\nsurroundings. She has written chiefly of the leisured class in England\nin her many novels, i Her industry\nhas been great, but few who know\nher work would have thought her capable of visiting the front. Yet this\nis what Mrs. Ward has done. Her\nmotive was to let the people of the\nUnited States know what the people\nof Great Britain have done in the\nwar. The title of her book is \"England's Effort.\" It is written in the\nform of letters, and is, she says, \"the\noutcome of an urgent call from America sent by various friends whose\nwhole sympathy is with the Allies.\"\nMrs. Ward describes the part taken\nin the factories and munition works\nby women, as well as by men, no\nless graphically than the scenes nearer the front. ' An interesting part of\nthe book is the preface by Joseph H.\nChoate, a great American, and a\nfriend of Mrs. Ward. \"England's Effort\" will be widely read by the people of Canada, and its women will\nlearn from it more than they already\nknow of the sacrifices and the efforts\nmade by all classes in the Motherland.\nSOME NEW MUSIC\nMadame Pratt-Stuart, whose husband is fighting for the Empire\n\"Somewhere in France,\" finds work,\nhard work, a relief to anxiety\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDand\nshe has been working bard on sonic\nnew music, Already she has shown\nher talent as a composer in the \"Iroquois Lullaby,\" and other charming\nsettings\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDsome to the poems of Pauline Johnson. At ihe Avenue'on Xov.\n4 we shall hear Madame I'ratt-\nStuart's new ballet music\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDincluding\nNEW LIBRARY BOOKS\nNew books at the Carnegie Library\ninclude: Thayer's Life and Letters of\nJohn Hay, 2 vols., 8vo.; Curtis^ The\nProblems of the Commonwealth;\nHurd's The New Empire Partnership; the complete works of Judge\nHaliburton (Canada's greatest writer), including the rare history of\nNova Scotia, 26 vols., various sizes;\nHuxley's Life and Letters, 2 vols.;\nStephen Leacock's literary essays and\nstudies; Rupert Brook's poems and\nbis Letters from America, 2 vols;\nVictor's Canada's Future What She\nOffers After the War; Merrick's The\nWorld's Decision; France and Italy\nin the War; Zangwill's The War for\nthe World; Martin's A Surgeon in\nKhaki; Fortier Jones' With Serbia\nInto Exile; Edith Wharton's Fighting France; Burpee's Sandforil Fleming, Empire Builder; Win wood\nReade's Veil of Jsis, or Mysteries of\nthe Druids; Moore's Romance of a\nRed Cross Hospital; Ruhl's Antwerp\nto Gallipoli,\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDPETER PICKUP.\nPreparedness\nBy\nR. C. Hodgson, Chairman North Fraser Harbor Commissioners\nThe STANDARD, in furtherance\nof its campaign for the establishment\nof local industries, and the utilization\nof our port as a centre of shipping for\nWestern Canada, feels fortified in its\nadvocacy by the masterly address of\nMr. R. C. Hodgson recently given\nbefore the Pacific Coast Association\nof Port Authorities at Vancouver,\nand which it now reproduces as a\nthorough exposition of timely development. It follows:\nMr. President and Gentlemen:\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nThe subject which I have chosen\nfor this paper, \"Preparedness,\" is\none which I believe to be of the utmost importance to every port authority, as the ports that are doing the\nlargest business and doing it most efficiently, are those that have kept\ntheir facilities ahead of actual requirements\nMy colleagues and I have all this\nin prospective. It is the ultimate aim\nof the Xorth Fraser Harbor Commissioners to create or to be instrumental in the creation of an efficient\nfresh water harbor. . . .-\nHarbor development spell \"Patriotism.\" A successful harbor is a\nsynomym for a successful country,\nand a successful country under proper spiritual and educational guidance should be a happy one, as success brings happiness. . . .\nWe must forestall, if possible, the\ndanger that, like other cities, our port\n\"will just happen,\" and so prove a\nburden and a problem for the future,\neven or perhaps the next generation.\nWe are all aware under what tremendous difficulties the two largest\nports in the world, London and New\nYork, are laboring to overcome the\ntremendous handicap of congestion\nof business, traffic and population\ncaused by unintelligent, unguarded\nand undirected growth. . .\nIt is certain that those harbors\nwhich have been successful beyond\nothers are those tliat have been con-\ntredled by men who have intelligently anticipated with the most modern\neffectives to be had, the desire and\ntendency for expansion, which is so\npre-eminently the distinguishing feature .of this century's business life.\nThis century belongs to Canada.\nCanada has got into her stride, has\nattained full adolescence, lias develop,\ned strength physically and mentally,\nto reach out for thc big things. . . .\n\"Will Canada be able to progress\nduring Ibis century as fast as the United States progressed during the\nlast?\" The answer is, Mr. President,\nthat she will if we do all in our power\nto help her to that end, therefore,\ndo not let any of us \"Sleep at the\nswitch.\"\nOur west and middle west are our\nnew problems, and must find us prepared. Our agricultural middle west\nis a land of vast potentialities, is\nlike the sleeping beauty awaiting the\nkiss of the Prince whose name is\nOPPORTUNITY.\nWe in Canada have to thank our\nAmerican cousins for the Panama\nCanal. It will have the effect of\ndistributing the population of both\nNations more evenly. It will correct\nthe anomaly of a dense eastern and\na scarce western population.\nI venture to predict that within\nthirty-five years the manufacturing\nand productive power of the west will\nbe required to supply the west, leaving for transfer to the east only such\ncommodities as the west is able to\nproduce more advantageously than\nthe east and vice versa.\nIf we are to build ahead of present\nrequirements, the questions now present themselves. How much of the\nfuture should we take into consideration? For how many years ahead\nshould we plan? Suppose we make\nit just one generation, say thirty or\nthirty-five years? I know it will appal some of us, but let us look back\nfor that length of time. Thirty-five\nyears ago Vancouver, the Queen of\nthe West, the City of which we are\nall so proud, was not even thought\nof. What of Seattle, Tacoma, Los\nAngeles and other great American\ncities? If the thirty-five years of the\npast has carried cities that would\nhave required, in Europe, centuries\nto build, what will the same period\nbring forth in the future with cheap\nmodern navigation made possible\nthrough the Canal, to the same European Ports that have supplied the\npopulation to the East?\nThirty-five years ago the middle\nstates of the Republic to the south of\nus was \"The West.\" Today they are\nproducing and manufacturing as\nthough they had centuries of life behind them.\nI think, Gentlemen, it would be\nfolly for the west to be timid. If we\nwant to keep abreast of the times and\nour opportunities we must strike out\nboldly, and let us remember that the\ngreat shipping centres of both the\nold and the new world were not created by mere chance, but are the result\nof the intelligent study of thc subject\nby men especially selected for the\npurpose, and the expenditure of vast\nsums of money.\nThe Nations of Europe have not\nhesitated to pay the price of success\nfor they are alive to the fact that the\nport that captures the trade is tbe\none that keeps is facilities ahead of\nits demands.\nTo give snme idea ol the titanic\nworks which have been accomplished\nby some of the European ports, I\nmight mention that London has expended in harbor developments and\nfacilities Two Hundred Millions of\nDollars; Liverpool, One Hundred and\nFifty Millions; Hamburg, One Hundred and Fifteen Millions; Manchester, One Hundred Millions; Newcastle, Ninety Millions; Glasgow, Fifty\nMillions; Bristol, Forty .'Millions;\nMarseilles, Forty Millions; Harve,\nThirty Millions and Montreal, Twenty-five Millions.\nIt should be borne in mind that the\ndevelopment of great National ports\nalso develops the trade and'commerce\nof the whole nation. A port which is\nadequately dleveloped and equipped,\nnot only gives a tremendous impetus\nu Jii ri -ii__r~i *nrr\" \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD J-~'\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\"_\"-_\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nto the manufactures and commerce of\nthe whole of its tributary territory\nand builds up its population but is\nan impetus to the whole country.\nThe territory under the control of\nthe Commission over which I have\nthe honor to preside is what is known\nas the Xorth Arm of the Fraser River, now the Xorth Fraser Harbor,\nand extends from the extreme west of\nthe Point Grey Municipality through\nthe Municipalities of Point Grey,\nSouth Vancouver, Richmond and\nHurnaby, to the city limits of Xew\nWestminster, a distance of approximately seventeen miles, and although\nas I stated before, it is at tbe present\ntime practically virgin territory, we\nbelieve we have the making, with a\ncomparatively small outlay for dredging, one of the finest fresh water\nharbors in America.\nA century ago the City of Glasgow\nwas a small town with no harbor,\nsituated on the river Clyde, twenty-\nfive miles from its mouth. Iu some\nplaces tliere was a depth of only fifteen to eighteen inches of water, and\nwas fordable for twelve miles below\nthe city. Through the dredging of\nthat river, Glasgow is possibly the\ngreatest shipbuilding centre in Europe.\nAgain look at what has been done\nfor Manchester, an inland city. A\nship canal was built thirty-five and a\nhalf miles long at a cost of over\neighty-five millions of dollars, making the city a great shipping centre.\nWhen we see what great drawbacks\nthese cities overcame no wonder we\nare optimistic over the possibilities\nof the North Fraser Harbor, on the\nborders of which we have thousands\nof acres of flat land which will provide ample accommodation for shipbuilding yards and otber industries\nthat require a considerable area of\nground. Then with its close proximity, about four and a half miles,\nto Burrard Inlet, which is, I believe,\none of thc finest natural harbors in\nAmerica, improved with the comprehensive scheme of development now\nbeing .undertaken by the Vancouver\nHarbor Board. Vancouver will occupy one of the most unique positions of any seaport, in as much as\nshe will have a fresh water harbor\non one side and a salt water harbor\non the other, which I am confident\nwill make her after the close of the\nwar and the resumption of normal\nconditions, a commercial metropolis\nwhose pulse beats will be felt not\nonly throughout the length and\nbreadth of the British Empire but\nthroughout the whole civilized world.\nIn conclusion, Gentlemen, I wish\nto impress upon your minds the fact\nthat we, particularly those of us who\nrepresent ports that arc undeveloped,\nhave a tremendous responsibility resting upon us, inasmuch as we are planning for a foundation upon which we\nas well as future generations will\nbuild a superstructure, therefore it\nbehoves tis to consider the question\nfrom the broadest possible standpoint, ever having our eye on the\nmagic word, \"SUCCESS.\"\n. Oriental Courtesy\nA year or two ago a distinguished\nEuropean diplomat paid an official\nvisit to the Sultan of Morocco.\nDuring tbe audience the diplomat\nnoticed with some surprise that not\none of the three clocks in the audience chamber was going. Very delicately he mentioned to the Sultan\nthat bis clocks had all stopped, and\nhinted that he would' like to present\nhim with one that would be more reliable.\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDThe Sultan thanked him,\n\"But my clocks are excellent timekeepers;\" he added with a smile.\n\"They were all going until just before yon came; but 1 bad them all\nstopped, as I did not desire, during\nYour Excellences all too brief visit,\nto be reminded of the flight of time!\"\nWANTED \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD PUBLIC SCHOOL\ngraduates or high school students to\ntake shorthand or business courses\nand pay for same from salary earned\nafter graduation. Only a limited\nnumber accepted on this plan. Apply\nat once in own handwriting to-\nSuccess Business College, Vancouver, B. C.\n_W_-^___t#_tf_-***\nUNION STEAMSHIP CO. of B.C. Limited\nTHE BRITISH COLUMBIA COAST HAS BEEW DESCRIBED\nAS THE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD\nA VOYAGE\n\"North by West in the Sunlight\"\nIN ONE OF\nEight Vessels \"8\" in Regular Service\nWILL HELP YOU TO RE >\nAnply to our Publicity Department for brochures \"Outward _wun_\nand \"...rth by West In the Sunlight,\" and particulars on Special Fares.\nHotel Accommodation and Tariffs, etc.\nHe__ Ov rices nnd Wharfi tmilOK DOCK, FOOT OF CARRALL STREET\nTil*. Cur to Columbia Avenue Phone Seymour 106 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1916\nTHE STANDARD\nFIVE\nThe Cant of \"Cant\"\n\"The word 'impossible' is not in my\ndictionary.\" It was a boast, but it\nshowed the spirit of a real man.\n\"Think twice before you say you\ncan't, and then think again, is a good\npiece of advice.\nThere is a lot of fatalistic cant being written anel talked, and the worst\nof all may be summed up in tbe word\n\"can't.\"\n\"It can't be done,'' was the judgment even of men considered wise in\ntlieir day, when bolder minds proposed to replace horses by steam.\n\"Can't\" is giving place to \"can\"\nevery day now.\n\"It can't be done,\" was the contemptuous comment, when a elaring\nprophet said that men would fly. f\nLook at the men carried off thc battlefields of Europe. A large proportion would simply die, if the surgeons\nand doctors had not been absolutely\nresolved to turn \"can't'' into \"can.\"\nThe percentage of recoveries, even\nfrom serious wounds, has been raised\nto an astonishingly cheerful figure.\nThen the men who have actually\nlost limbs, or suffered other permanent injuries, are being taught to turn\n\"can't\" into \"can\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDby the training\nand exercise given in our own Military Convalescent hospitals, and in\nthe similar institutions of Europe.\nSome of these men might be excused, if any one could be excused, for\nthinking nothing is left for them but\na life of useless idleness. But happily\nit is not the nature of our soldiers to\ngive in.\nWhen a man \"bucks up and buckles\ndown\" to it, he may have lost even a\ncouple of limbs, he may have lost his\nncrve_and that is worse \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD but he\nfinds himself able to conquer his deprivation, to get bis body and mind into fine trim again.\n\"My dear friend,\" as Dr. Johnson\nsaid to Bozzy, \"clear your mind of\ncan't,\" and he might have added, \"by\nknocking off the \"t.\"\nPhone Highland 137\nGrandview Hospital\n1090 VICTORIA DRIVE\nVANCOUVER - B.C.\nMedical : Surgical : Maternity\nRatee from $15.00 per week\nCKNTER _ HANNA LIMITED\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 thr\nfactory, 43S RICHARDS STREET\nCANADIAN\nPACIFIC\nThrough Titkets\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\nPRESENT AND FUTURE OF\nMINING\nThe season for examination of properties by capitalist! and others is\nreaching ils close, and though the\nvolume \"f business the past season\nhas far surpassed anything for years,\ntliere are no doubt many who are\ndisappointed that a deal has not come\ntheir way, and that their properties,\nacquired and developed at such expenditure of time and personal effort, still lay awaiting the treatment\nwhich only capital can bring. In\nthis respect those who turn their attentions towards agricultural pursuits are more lucky in many respects\nthan the mining prospector. Each\nfall the former gets his crop and the\npercentage of failures in the great\nfarming districts of Canada are very\nsmall and infrequent, while the prospector may have to wait a lifetime for\none harvest. Our American friends\nhave come in this year in great numbers and the great activity in the\nmining districts is almost entirely due\nto the investment of their capital.\nAs soon as the war is over a large\nquantity of English capital will be\navailable for speculation and investment, and indications are that British\nColumbia will secure a full share of\nthis for testing and developing mining properties in all directions.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMining Exchange.\n* * *\nSIR MAX AND SIR SAM\nOttawa is said to be interested in a\nreport that Sir Max Aitken, who is\nreturning to Canada in the train of\nSir Sam Hughes, wants to be appointed Canadian High Commissioner in\nLondon.\nThe source of the rumor connecting\nthe name of Sir Max Aitken with the\nhigh commissionership is not known.\nIt may be that Sir Sam one day, forgetting himself foi the moment, called Sir Max \"Mr. Commissioner\" and\non Sir Max replying: \"I am only an\nEye Witness, not High Commissioner,\" Sir Sam replied: \"You are now,\"\nthereby bringing the matter to an end\nwith the proper Napoleonic touch. As\nis well known, Sir Sam has a habit\nof making appointments like that, letting genius go off at half-cock with\nout the interference of other mundane\nconsiderations.\nIf Sir Max Aitken has ability to fit\nhim for the important position of\nCanadian High Commissioner at Lon\ndon, the people of Canada are generally \"from Missouri\" with regard to\nit. On his arrival in this country, Sir\nMax will find out promptly that the\ninfluence of Sir Sain does not extend\nso far nor wax so great here as it\ndoes on the parade ground overseas\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMontreal Mail (Con.).\n* * ft\nEARLY DOMINION ELECTION\nLe Canada, the French-speaking\nLiberal morning paper of Montreal,\nwhich often reflects the views of Sir\nWilfrid Laurier, says the Toronto\nWorld, sounds the warning signal lo\nthe Liberals of Quebec. All signs\npoint to an early Dominion election,\nin the opinion of Le Canada. It calls\nattention to the fact that Conservative meetings arc advertised in Jacques Cartier and other constituencies\nand advises the Liberals to get busy\nand place their candidates in thc\nfield. Le Canada says:\n\"We repeat our advice to our\nfriends in thc province to gel themselves ready for the general election,\nwhich will, in all probability, take\nplace in the coming spring, but thai\nit may even be this fall is made clearer day by day. Tbe return of Sir\nSam Hughes increases thc plausibility of tbis hypothesis.\n\"We earnestly beg of our friends in\nthe counties where there is not yet a\nregular Liberal candidate chosen, not\nto lose any time, but to convene the\nnecessary meetings as early as possible for choosing a candidate.\" \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nMoncton Transcript.\n* * *\nTHE ROGERS-GALT INCIDENT\nAn effort is being made to show\nthat Mr. Justice Gait was in the\nwrong in accepting to act as a commissioner for the province of Manitoba in investigating matters in connection with the construction of the\nAgricultural college of that province.\nIt is claimed that he bad no fight to\ndo so. Who is to judge? An attempt is made to condemn him under\nthe Judges' Act of 1915, but, at that\ntime, Sir Oharles Fitzpatrick, then\nminister of justice, stated that judges\nwere not to be debarred from sitting\non commissions which dealt with\n\"important public business.\" The\nConservative party has been in office\nfor five years. They never sought\nio inve ke the law against judges.\nRecently, tin-> appointed Judges Me-\nreditb and Duff on a commission\nthemselves. The point was not raised when Mr. Justice Mathers investigated the Manitoba parliament scandal. Would the point have been raised at all now, if Mr. Rogers had not\nbeen called at a witness? There is\nreason to doubt it. What has the\nminister of justice been djoing all\nthese years? Was it not his duty to\nreprimand Mr. Justice Gait if he was\nin the wrong? The people of Manitoba and of Canada as well, are more\ninterested in the outcome of the investigation than they are in the point\nraised by Mr. Rogers at an unfortunate time for himself.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDHon. Charles\nMarcil in Daily Telegraph, Montreal.\n* * *\nTHE PATRIOTIC FUND\nThe Patriotic fund will require $13,-\n500,000 for 1917. This year, between\n$8,800,000 and $10,000,000 will bc expended, exclusive of Manitoba. What\nis asked for 1917 includes the latter\nprovince. At the present time, in addition to this, the Dominion is paying\n$2,000,000 a month in separation allowances. It is proposed to ask the\nprovincial governments to supplement the additional amount given by\ncorporations of cities, towns, county\nand township councils and contributions by organized bodies and individuals. It may be expected that\nnone of the provinces will refuse to\ngrant what may be asked of them.\nCanada must, in all honor provide for\nthe dependents of soldiers.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMontreal\nDaily Telegraph.\n* * *\nORGANIZED HYPOCRISY\nThe Toronto News quotes Disraeli's description of the Conservative\nparty under Peel as \"organized hypocrisy\" and applies it to the Liberal\nparty in Canada under Laurier. In\nthe same file of exchanges were the\nBelleville Intelligencer and the Moose\nJaw News, both Conservative.\nIn the Intelligencer we found this:\n\"When Sir Robert Borden took office\nQuebec Nationalism ceased to bc\npowerful at Ottawa\"; and, in the\nMoose Jaw paper we read: \"The spectacle of Armand Lavergne, the noted\nNationalist leader, appearing in company with leading Liberal politicians\non Liberal platforms is unlikely to\nleave a favorable impression.\"\nTo those of us in Ottawa who remember the very prominent part\nwhich Armand Lavergne played in.\nthe formation of the Borden cabinet\nhow he 'came down here and had\nconferences with the new premier\nin regard to Quebec representation in\nthe government, Disraeli's words as\nquoted by the Toronto News will\nseem very appropriate.\nAnd when we visualize one Blondin\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDa ferocious Nationalist when Nationalism paid\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDstill sitting as a prominent member of the Borden cabinet, we cannot help exclaiming with\nthat Hritish statesman, who bad little\nto learn about party politics, \"organized hypocrisy.\"\nMr. Armand Levcrgne may be a\ngooil cabinet maker, and Mr. Blondin\nfine cabinet timber; but, if so, why\nshould the Conservative press disown\nthese gentlemen, of whom, by the\nevidence that exists. Sir Robert Borden has a high opinion? \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Ottawa\nFree Press.\n* tt *\nSINGLE-TAX AT THE COAST\nIt is fitting that California should\nbe the first stale of the American\nunion to submit the single tax to a\nthorough test, for it was in that state\nthat Henry George conceived and\ndeveloped his economic theory and\nwrote his famous book, Progress and\nPoverty, thc sacred scripture of the\nsingle-taxers. On Nov. 7 tbe question\nof the introduction of the single tax\nis to be the subject of a referendum\nin California. The1 measure which\nthe people will vote upon provides\nthat \"public revenues\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDstate, county,\nmunicipal and district\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDshall be raised by taxation of land values exclusive of improvements, and no tax or\ncharge for revenue shall be imposed\non any labor product, occupation,\nbusiness of person. Land holdings\nshall be equally assessed, according\nto their value for use or occtipance,\nwithout regard to any work of man\nthereon.\"\nIt is explained that \"the intent of\nthis provision is to take for public\nuse the rental and site values of land\nand to reduce land holdings to those\nonly who live on or make productive\nuse of it.\"\nThis is about as near an approach\nto single tax as any state of thc American union or any Canadian pro\nvince could go, Of course it is nol\nli i.i ; in ai pie\npeopli ol the state will continue\nto pay \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD ustomi and e ccise taxi\nthi federal income ta*-. But. ii they\nratify this measure, they will pay\nonly one state and municipal tax \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\nthe tax on land values.\nThe people of the Pacific coast appear i , be peculiar!) susceptible to\nthe beauties of single tax\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDperhaps\nbecause the system originate! there.\nIn British Columbia several towns\nhave gone as far in that direction as\nthey can. For years Vancouver has\nnot taxed buildings but has derived\nall its revenue from the taxation of\nland values. The plan worked well\nwhile Vancouver grew and land values were constantly rising. But there\nhas been another tale to tell in the\nperiod of depression that the city has\nbeen passing through. Land values\nhave steadily fallen, and tbe necessity\nof raising revenue has put the city\ninto sore straits. Owners of thousands of city lots have abandoned\nthem because they couldn't afford to\npay the high taxes on them; these\nlots have been put up at auction, but\nin vain\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDvery few of them could be\nsold for the taxes; they are on the\ncity's hands, and the city has lost\nthe tax revenue from them.\nBetter times may come and Vancouver may emerge from its present\ndifficulties; but the opinion of many\nVancouverites is that, although single tax is all right in time of prosperity, it is anything but \"a very present\nhelp in time of trouble.\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDHamilton\nTimes.\n* * *\nMINING ACTIVITY IN B. C.\nIn reference to the STANDARD'S\nrecent reports of mining activities in\nthe Province, the following editorial\narticle from the Kamloops SENTINEL is of great moment to Vancouver men:\nIr m all parts ot the province\ncomes reports which indicate constantly increasing activity in the mining industry of British Columbia.\nMines long closed down are resuming\noperations, installing new plants and\ntesting new pren-esses for tbe reduction of ore*. I'ro.-pccts which have\nior years been vainly seeking the\nlary capital t'j ensure development on a commercial scab . i\nfinding little difficulty in i\nian when he sect it at\nlull is that -many a claim hoi i'\nwhose heart hat grown lick with hope\ndeferred is now reaping the refard - I\nfaith in the mineral resources of the\nprovince.\n\"This renewed confidence in the future- of British Columbia as the\ntential producer of very large portion of thc world's supply \"f gold,\nsilver, copper, lead and other metals,\nprecious or base, is not confined to\nany one section of the country. The\nnew Northland opened up by the G.\nT. P. is overrun with the advance\nguard of the big mining concerns. The\nlong established mines of the Koot-\nenays, idle for years on account of\nlow prices and a glutted market, are\nagain coming into their own, and by\nthe help of more economical methods of handling and treatment are\nagain figuring in the list of paying\npropositions. In the Rossland and\nBoundary countries there are more\nmen employed and more tonnage is\nbeing produced than there has been\nfor years, and if it were not for the\nunfortunate shortage of coke supply\nthere would be more smelting furnaces running than has ever been the\ncase since the first charge was lighted in the province.\n\"From the Similkameen and Nicola\ncomes the same story of increased\nactivities made possible by the opening up of new lines of communication with the smelting centres, and in\nthe Coast districts the enterprises of\nthe big companies have encouraged\nthe development of numerous smaller\npropositions which will ere long join\nthe ranks of producing mines.\"\nKorean Customs\nWhen you first enter Korea, it just\nseems like a mysterious dream. Tlieir\nways arc ijueer and just backward\nt - ours, and when they see you coming they will ask, \"Where are you\ngoing?\" r -Wbaf are you going to\nAnd they are very polite,\nThe Korean people talk in a\ncoarse, loin! voice. At first when\"\nyou hear them it sounds as though\nthey are quarreling, but -they are\nonly having a friendly chat. They\nal- , have three kinds of tunes\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDhigh,\nlow am! middle. I\" tbe old people\nand people above them they talk in\nthe 1 gh tone; to the children and\nservant, they talk in the low tone,\nand to their equal, or among themselves they talk in the middle tone.\nThey eat on tables about one foot\nand a half long and six inches high,\nand the women wait on the men at\neach meal, for they are not allowed\nto eat with the men, and are really\nonly servants. They call the men\ntheir lords and masters, and the men\nreceive all the love, if there is any,\nfor thc father gets a wife for his son,\nand thc son rarely ever sees his wife\nbefore the wedding day.\nO'Flaherty \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD Misther 0'Snllivan,\nwill ye stop and have a friendly discussion on the matter of Home Rule?\nO'Sullivan\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDIt's sorry I am, but it's\nnot convenient just now.\nO'Flaherty\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDAnM why not, honey?\nO'Sullivan\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDWhy. to tell ye the\nt.'uth, O'Flaherty, I haven't got me\nshtick handy.\nPHONE: SEY. OOO\nMacDONALD & HAY\nBarrUtert, Solicitors, Etc.\n1012 Standard Bank Bldg.\nVancouver, B.C.\nWANTED \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD PUBLIC SCHOOL\ngraduates or high school students to\ntake shorthand or business courses\nand pay for same from salary earned\nafter graduation. Only a limited\nnumber accepted on this plan. Apply\nat once in own handwriting to\nSuccess Business College, Vancouver, B. C.\nARGUE!\nacca\nApple Growing inNova Scorn\nTHERE Is no part of Canada\nwhere apple production Is more\nBuccessfally carried on than In\nthe Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. The principal reason tor this,\napart from the fact that soil and\nclimatic conditions are favourable,\nIs that practically all of the large\ncommercial orchards are situated\nIn a continuous and closely connected chain. \"The Valley\" is approximately SO miles In length, with\nan average width of 9 miles. There\narc about 40 shipping stations in\nthat area, all being on the main limy\nof the Dominion Atlantic Railway\nwith Its terminus at Halifax. Consequently the facilities for shipping\nund for export are perfect.\nThere Is one otber reason [or\nthe success with which fruit growing Is carried on in Nova Scotia,\nand that Is the systematic manner\nin which the fruit is marketed. Over\none-hall' 'it the entire apple crop Is\npacked and marketed co-operatively. Kuril particular section ot the\nAnnapolis Valley has its own cooperative association, am.', all these\nsubsidiary companies are responsible to one main selling association,\nthe United Fruit Companies. All\not the fruit marketed by tbis ortran-\nIzation is uniformly packed in accordance with specific grading rules\nand marketed under the brand of\nthe central selling body. The details concerning the operating methods of the United Fruit Companies (too lengthy to be outlined\nhere) are well worth careful study.\nTheir headquarters are at Berwick,\nwhich Is the principal apple shipping station.*\nBy far the greater portion of Nova\nScotian apples Is exported to Great\n' Britain, the principal market being\nLondon. In the year 1911, which\nwas a record season, almbst 2,000.-\n000 barrels of apples were marketed.\nAt that time Nova Scotian fruit was\nIntroduced in the Prairie Provinces.\nThere is every Indication that shipments to those markets will be increased, Inasmuch as the Graven-\nstein apple, for which Nova Scotia\nis famous, matures at a time when\napples are In great demand In the\nCanadian West. A growing trade\nIs also being developed with South\nAmerica and South Africa, corresponding geographically to the trade\nIn apples between British Columbia\nand Australia. C\nIt is rather interesting to note\nthat the apple barrel used in Nova\nScotia contains only 96 quarts, as\ncompared with the 112 quart barrel\nlof Ontario. The Canadian Govern-\nu.etu regulations call for a minimum\nnas adopted that minimum. The | conditions by the end of October.\ndifference In the siie of the two barrels must therefore be always taken\nInto consideration when comparing\nthe prices ot Ontario and Nova\nScotia apples In any particular market.\nIt Is impossible to single out any\nvariety ot apple which is most successfully grown in Nova Scotia.\nSeveral varieties succeed equally\nwell. Undoubtedly the province Is\nIt stored in a suitable cellar it will\nkeep in prims condition until Christmas.\nTbe demand tor the Qravenstein\nsppls ia increasing. Unfortunatoly\nvary few nsw Qravenstein orchards\nare being planted to replace the old\nones which ore rapidly dying out.\nNo movement could be undertaken\nwhich would be worthy ot wider\nencouragement than the extension\nmost famous for the Gravensteln, and development of Gravensteln\nbecause that variety is grown more\nextensively in the Annapolis Valley\nthan in any other part ot Canada\norchards.\nThe apple crop in Nova Scotia\nthis year will be small. Probably\nAbout 15 per cent of the apples j not more than 600,000 barrels will\nmarketed in Nova Scotia are Gra-; be marketed. The short crop la\nvenstelns. It Is a tender, early fall\napple, usually harvested, between\nSeptember 10th and 25th, and\nsize of 96 quarts and Nova Scotia should be consumed under ordinary\ndue to unfavorable weather and to a\nvery heavy June \"drop.\" The quality is expected to be excellent. SIX\nTHE STANDARD\nSATURDAY, OCTOBER\n1916\nNEXT WEEK AT PANTAGES\nTHEATRE\nXext week's bill at Pantages promises to be \"in- of the best of the season's offering. All the acts seem to\nbe in the headline class and are of\nthe highest class, J'he bill will be\nheaded by Schepp's Comedy Circus.\nThe act consists of dogs, ponies and\nmonkeys of several species.\nAs a joint headliner and one of\nequal importance is that of W. 1 lore-\nlick & Co., who will present a ballet\ndancing divertisement entitled \"A\nGypsy Camp.\" Tlie members of tlie\ncompany give pantomime dances, the\nscenes of which arc laid in a gypsy\ncamp.\nHoward and Fields will offer their\nfamous act, \"The Dining Car Minstrels.\" They havx an elaborate act\n' as to stage setting and they are offering a new and distinct line of\ncomedy and songs.\nThere are none better than San-\ntucci on the accordeon. He renders\nsome very irresistible music. One can\nhardly conceive that the accordeon\ncontains such music as this master\nartist extracts from it.\nFrcar, Baggett & Frear are three\nyoung and versatile men, who will\noffer a comedy juggling act that is\nnovel as well as amusing.\nliveable improvements arc promised in\nthe way of realistic effects and -: i :ial\nattention is said to have been given\nto the selection ol musicians for the\nlarge symphony orchestra.\nThe musical score oi \"The Birth of\na Nation,\" which is known as the\nfirst significant accompaniment written for a photodrama, includes many\nof the finest melodic compositions ex-\ntaut. In addition to the original music supplied by the eminent composer,\nJoseph Carl Broil, one hears such\npopular songs as \"Comin' Thro' the\nRye,\" \"Bonnie Blue Flag,\" \"Dixie.\"\n\"My .Maryland,\"\" \"Tramp, tramp,\ntramp,\" \"Hail to the Chief, Flic\nCLASSIC AND TOE DANCES\nAT OPENING RECITAL\nA unique and interesting entertainment is to be given at the Avenue\nTheatre on Saturday evening, November 4, by the Vancouver School of\nExpression and the School of Classic\nand Toe Dancing in connection with\nthe School of Expression. This will\nbc the beginning of a series to be\ngiven by the same departments of the\nschool.\nThis one will be devoted chiefly to\nartistic classic and toe dances, .illustrating the teaching of Madame and\nMdlle. Belates-Barbes. The children\ndance with the unconscious grace and\nfreedom of the ancient Greeks.\nA special feature will be a grand\nballet or tableaux entitled. \"What the\nMoon Saw,\" with M'lle Belates-\nBarbes as premier danseuse. Those\nwho saw this delightful artiste in her\nonly too few appearances last season\nwill be pleased to have another opportunity of witnessing her graceful\nand expressive dancing. The stage\ndirection and lighting will be of the\nhighest order, and a most pleasing\nspectacle of youthful grace and charm\nwill be enjoyed. Mr. Lionel Tucker\nwill make his debut as a solo performer in romantic and humorous dances,\nand will assist M'lle Barbes in her\nnumbers. The programme will be\nvaried by dramatic scenes, recitations\nand vocal solos by the various gold\nand silver medalists of the School of\nExpression, who arc also pupils of\nMr. Harold Nelson Shaw. Among\nthese will be Mr. Edward Chamberlain, Master Charles Brencliley and\nMiss Eva Barclay. Dramatic scenes\nby Misses Pennington, Stevens and\nLozier, with Messrs Strang, Kilgoure,\nAlderson and others, will be of interest. The vocalists include Blanche\nXadeau, Margarcl I.e-Mcssnrie-r. Ethel Beswick, L.A.B., who has the honor lo be ihe fir-i to receive thai degree in VahcOu* e!{ for concert solo-\nsinging, and Mr. Thomas Alderson,\nMadame- Pratt-Stuart lias composed\nspecial music for lhe dancing, and\nthis will be interpreted by Mr. Zicy-\nb r's orchestra.\n\"ALADDIN\" PRODUCTION\nWORTHY OF DRURY LANE\nWhen asked the difference between\nan old country pantomime and an\nAmerican Extravaganza, F. Stuart\nWhyte. whose production of \"Aladdin\" will be seen at the Avenue Theatre week of November 6. replied\nthat it was \"mostly in the spelling.\"\n\"The American musical extravaganza, o( Broadway Revue, is principally English pantomime painted\nover with a thick coat'of local color,\"\ncontinued Mr. Whyte. \"Take, for instance, Montgomery & Stone's 'Chin,\nChin'; it is simply 'Aladdin' localized\nBUSY MONTH PLANNED FOR\nVANCOUVER OPERA HOUSE\nOne of the first road shows to start\nits entourage from the east anil which\nwill hit Vancouver for three nights\nbeginning November 6, is \"llobson's\nChoice,\" a delectable comedy which\nwill be shown at tlie Vancouver Opera House, formerly the Empress\nTheatre. Following this closely on-\nthe dates following and closing tbe\nweek will be the \"Winning \"f Barbara Worth.\"\nWith the second week of November fairly ushered in \"The Garden of\nAllah\" will make its appearance here\nWOUNDED SOLDIER ENJOYS HIS PISHING TIUF\nThis may lie a limy way lo fish, but lo n wounded mini It ha* conipciiwition. An EiikIImIi Aiih'IIhk\nAssociation recently enlerliilneil 150 wounded soldiers this wny. (Daily Mirror War Service).\nCocoanut Dance,\" \"In the Gloaming,\" \"Home, Sweet Home,\" and\n\"The Star Spangled Banner.\" Those\nfamiliar with the music of the world's\nmost famous masters recognize excerpts from Suppe's \"Night Cavalry\nOverture,\" Greig's \"Peer Gynt,\"\nsuite in \"The Hall of the Mountain\nKing,\" Wagner's \"Die Walkure,\"\n\"Rienza Overture,\" \"Zampa Overture\" and \"The'Ride of the Valkyries\", also Tschaikowsky's \"1812 Overture\" and Mozart's \"Mass in C.\"\nAn orchestra of thirty musicians\nwill accompany \"The Birth of a Nation\" and many prominent soloists\nwill be beard at each performance.\n\"The Birth of a Nation\" is the\napothesis of the moving picture.\nThousands of people took part in\nmaking it. Thc scenes where real\nbattles were fought are its background. In il one sees the counterfeit presentment of the great men\nof the Civil \\';ir as they were when\nthey lived anel moved and had their\nbeing\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDLincoln, lhe great heart of*\nIthat troublous lime; Grant, the may\n.i-c,\nnanimous;\nSouth; ('In rlcs Su\nhis finger tips; Sci\nand hard as death\nwlm made histor\\ntin*\nBayard\niNation\"\nli\ ing.\nthe\nlit to\ncruel\nthers\nof :c\nis history vitalized\n\"BIRTH OF A NATION\"\nIS HISTORY VITALIZED\nThrough the efforts of Manager\n.Scott arrangements have been completed to bring \"Tbe Birth of a Nation\" with the big symphony orchestra back to the Avenue for a limited\nengagement commencing Monday,\nNovember 13,\nDuring thc engagement many not-\nWANTED.\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMen and Women, canvassing experience preferred, to retail Rawleigh's Medicines, Toilet\nArticles, Extracts, Spices, Stock\nRemedies, Poultry Supplies for City\n* and Town Trade. Largest line,\ngreatest variety, lowest prices\nknown anywhere. Terms Cash or\nTime. Backed by four million dollar concern. Address, The W. T.\nRawleigh Co., Ltd., 1025 Gunnell\nSt, Winnipeg, Man., giving age,\noccupation, references.\nand tailored to fit those two comedy\nstars.\"\nIn speaking of his forthcoming production her.e, Mr. Whyte explained\nthat the old country pantomimes were\nre-written cvery season; the dialogue\nand musical numbers being brought\nup to the minute and the action being\ninterspersed with bits of satire on\nthe foibles and follies of the day.\nThe setting always remains the\nsame\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDChina. For there, anything\nmay happen, both within and without\nreason. In Mr. Whyte's fall production, war and love as the predominating factors, and \"all's fair, etc.\" A-\nmong the characters introduced, in\naddition to the always faithful Aladdin. Widow Twankey, Princess See\nShi, arc General Sam Fuse, commander-in-chief of the Chinese army; the\nKaiser, in thc guise of a mad magician, and numerous political potentates, whose favorite pastime is putting tlieir hands into the public purse,\nMr. Whyte lias Bpent over $10,OOp\non bis \"Aladdin\" production) and thc\npresentation oi tliis piece w iuld be\na credit i i any London theatre's niid-\n\, Inter panti mime season.\nHope is a chain of iron which holds\na man lo a woman's sielc- uatituelc\na silken thread a million miles Ion-.:\nwhich permits him to wander at will,\non Nov. 13. This is a great production, carrying more than 100 people.\nIt will be here for three nights and\nmatinee.\nOther bookings have been arranged\nwhich will keep the lights on at the\nVancouver Opera House for the remainder of the month.\nWord has just been received that a\ndate can not yet be set - for Sarah\nBernhardt, who arrived' in Montreal\nlast week, but assurances have been\ngiven that she will play here early in\nDecember.\nA strange, but witty statement\nwas lately made in regard to opera.\nA writer in the Chicago Tribune\nsays there are only three and they\nhave been .\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDwritten. The lady is\nwronged\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthat is the first opera.\nGounod wrote it and called it \"Kaust.\"\nThe gentleman is wronged\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDthat is\nthe second opera. Bizet wrote it and\nGalled it \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD \"Carmen.\" The lady and\ngentleman are both wronged\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDtllat is\nthe third opera. Puccini wrote it\nand called it \"Tosca.\" Operas may\ncome and operas may go. lull the\nwronged soprano and she wronged\ntenor go on forever. The composer\nwho does the most c-.,:i ideral le- \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD' o-\nagc i\" his hero and heroin\nwhen opera itself has gon\ndiscard,\nwill live-\nin to tlie\nPantages Theatre\n Week of October 30th, 1916\nSCHEPPS COMEDY CIRCUS\nCats, Dogs, Ponies and Monkeys\nHOWARD AND FIELDS, With Their Dining Car Minstrels\nSANTUCCI, Genius of the Accordeon\nFREAR, BAGGETT & FREAR, Baseball Idiosyncrasies\nW. Horelik's Imperial Russian Dancers\nIncluding Mile. Natcha and Mile.Tatiana in a Ballet Divertisement\n\"THE GYPSY CAMP\"\nPrices: Matinees, 15c; Night, 15 & 25c; Matinee-2.30; Evg., 7 & 9\nsiru^io\n(Musical items, reports of concerts, etc., should be\naddressed lo the \"Music Editor,\" STANDARD\noffice, 426 Homer Street).\nWELSH CHOIR COMING\nVancouver is in for a rare musical\ntreat ou Monday, October the 30th.\nwhen tbe Royal Gwent Welsh male\nsingers are to appear at the Avenue\n\"heatre for the benefit of the Returned Soldiers' Club.\nWales clings tenaciously to the old\nsongs. Her most famous melodies\nare part and parcel of history of the\ngallant little Principality, and it is\nbut natural that her people should\ncherish them.\nTo those who are not acquainted\nwith Welsh singing in the original,\nthe extreme staccato; the acute phrasing; and the emphasis which characterize thc choir's work must, at times,\nappear peculiar, but it is indigenous,\nand without it the singing would not\nbe Welsh.\nThere are other qualities, however,\nwhich possess a universal appeal, and\na powerful one, too. Thc volume of\ntone this choir produces is astounding; its quality is absolutely organ-\nlike. A remarkable sonority, clear cut\nenunciation, perfection of attack and\na strange precision of phrasing, arc\nthe salient technical features. The\nbeauty of the tonal gradations and\nthe purity of intonation also impress\none.\nIt is a far cry from Handel's \"Hallelujah Chorus\" to the centuries old\n\"ArHydy Nos.\" \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD with the air of\nwhich most Canadians arc familiar as\n\"All through the Night\"\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDbut this\nchoir can compass the rhythmic\ncharm of the latter and the spiritual\ncxalation of the former with ease.\nGEIOIAN INVADERS BURIED ON BRITISH SOU,\nOnly n few onlookers watched Hie funeral of tlic crew of Hie Intent Zeppelin which eiinic down In\nflumes In E\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDe_. The service won very simple, nil the men Ileitis hurled In n Brent pit. I'hoto shows nt\nthe graveside. (Dally Mirror War Service).*\nMUSICIANS HAVE HARD\nSTRUGGLE TO LIVE\n\"Mepbisto,\" in Musical America,\nwrites: Sad tales come to mc of the\ncondition of the musicians, and especially of the music teachers, in the\nwarring countries in Europe. Many\nof these, you know, even in peace and\nin good times, were barely able to\nmake both ends meet, but, under the\nstress of war conditions, they have\ngradually gone from bad to worse.\nProbably no profession has suffered\nas much as the musical profession,\nwith thc exception, perhaps of the\npainters, who have also been hard hit.\nI read in a special correspondence to\nThe New York Sun from Paris that\nthe French musicians, the concert\nsingers and the teachers, except the\nfew who have gone to America, are\nin great distress. They have eaten\nup their savings, waiting for a revival of social life and in the hope\nof getting concert engagements, Some\nof the most distinguished singers,\nwho were accustomed to receive large\nsalaries for singing tlie leading role!\nin operas, have been gla 1 to get leu\nfrancs a night lo .-'ing in some cabaret. One instance is given of a distinguished artist of almost world\nrenown, who has been living in extreme poverty, doing her own\nwashing, cleaning her own apartment.\nAnother has been living by selling the\nfurniture and belongings that be\nprized, piece by piece.- You would\nthink that the poorer class of musicians, who used to go around in the\nstreets soliciting contributions, have\nbeen the hardest hit. They, it seems,\"\naccustomed to such work, have been\nthe most prosperous of all, for public\nsympathy, as they travelled about,\npoured money into their hands. You\nwould also think, from this, that the\nbetter paid and more renowned musicians would have followed suit, but, it\nseems, they were prevented by pride\nfrom doing so, and so have concealed\ntheir poverty and their distress from\nthe public?, which, no doubt, had it\nbeen informed, would have rushed to\ntheir relief. Conditions in Germany\nare said to be somewhat better for the\nmusicians, but even there tilings are\npretty --bad. The same story conies\nto me from Italy. This suggests the\nquestion, why is it that so many of\nthc foreign artists iu this country,\nwho made most successful tours last\nseason, or received large sums from\nconcert and operatic engagements,\nhave done little or nothing to relieve\ntheir poor, suffering brethren on the\nother side? If J remember rightly,\nnot a single entertainment was given\nby them to aid their* poor foreign\nbrethren.\nTHE ORGAN\nThe legitimacy of transcriptions\nforms a continual point of controversy between opposing schools of\nmusical coknoscenti whatever the\nmerits of the case so ably made out\nby those rigidly adverse to exercising\nany untoward liberties with tile original composition as written down.\nIn one field, however a large concession has been made, that of organ\nmusic. The continued advance in the\ncomplexity of organ construction and\nthc correspondingly increased possibilities of the instrument are a sufficient answer to the critic who, adhering to convention with inelastic\nrigidity,-would bar all music unless\nsacre'd from performance in a church.\nBut there is another large class whose\nobjections bear greater weight. They\nwould have organists restrict themselves solely to music written especially for the organ, and would\nveto all the organ arrangements that\nfigure so largely on recital programmes. The organist may object\nwith verity that the succession of the\ngreat composers since the time of that\nmonumental genius J. S. Bach, with\nthe exception of more recent composers, had little familiarity with the\norgan, and gave but small heed to its\nclaims. Mendelssohn forms a prominent exception, it is true, but it\nwas not until comparatively late\ntimes that the grcat body of modern\norgan music was written. Apart\nfrom the first rank writing of Widor,\nCesar Franck and s others of the\nFrench school organ music was regarded as possessing a more or less\nmeasure of austerity as its rightful\ncharacteristic. Many of the French\nschool are blamed for having run to\nthe other extreme in an attempt to exploit the possibilities of the organ in\nthe rendering of light music, bul their\ninfluence, at its best, atones for the\nfailure of some of their more extravagant experiments. Much modern organ music is, however, of a second\nrate class, and the organist is left\nwith the alternative- of playing il or of\nadapting music expressly written for\nother instruments, The apparent goal\nof organ builders lo oreheslralize the\ninstrument, tends to turn the organist who has a thorough grasp of the\nte'e-lniii|iu' of organ-playing to orchei\niral music. Someone has said tha|\norchestral muiic attempted on thc\npiano is like tltc reduction of a wonderful painting rich in color and atmosphere to an engraving, and thai\nplayed on the organ the- transcription\nbears tlic relation ol\" a rlironio-litho-\ngrapb, bard in tint and line, inasmuch\nas it is never possible' for the organ\ntones to reproduce thc color ol the\nvarious instruments, and color, a bun-\ndree! fold since the Wagner expositions, is as important in modern orchestration as design. That eminently conservative body of organists,\nthe Royal College of Organists, how\never, has long since removed its \"non\nplacet\" ban, ane^ that authoritative\norganist, Sir Walter Parratt, master\nof music to the sovereign, has been\na staunch defender of Ihe validity of\norchestral transcription playing.\nWANTED \u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD PUBLIC SCHOOL\ngraduates or high school students to\ntake shorthand- or business courses\nand pay for same from salary earned\na>fter graduation. Only a limited\nnumber accepted on this plan. Apply\nat once in own handwriting to\nSuccess Business College, Vancouver, B. C. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1916\nTHE STANDARD\nSEVEN\nPhone Seymour 9086\nWE INVITE YOUR\nFIRE INSURANCE\nBUSINESS\nWe Write Insurance in Sound, Reliable Companies.\nDow Fraser Trust Co.\n122 Hastings St. West. 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MUNICIPAL.\nBONDS\nHave proved their Safety and Stability as a\nProfitable Investment.\nWe offer a variety of thoroughly safeguarded\nbond issues, sold to net d'/z per cent, to 7H per cent.\nConsult our Bond Department by letter or in person.\nCanadian Financiers Trust Co.\nHead Office: 839 Hastings St. West, Vancouver, B.C.\nPatrick Donnelly, General Manager.\nThe gross receipts of the Granby Consolidated Mining,\nSmelting and Power. Company for the year ended June\n30, 1916, were $9,299,337, more than double those of any\nof the two years preceding. The expenses were $5,191,-\n717. The net profits were $4,107,621, as compared with\n$1,340,558 in 1915, while the surplus is $3,819,295, nearly\nfive times that of the year before, according to a statement made at the annual meeting in New York on Tuesday.\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD *******\nThc property of Quatsino Copper Co. is to be taken\nover by tbe Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co. of Canada, the largest concern in the Dominion. The news leaked out with filing of articles of incorporation of Coast\nCopper Co. with capital of $1,000,000 in 200.000 shares of\n$5 each. The company will operate under a British Columbia charter, with head offices at Trail, B. C, where is\nalso located thc big smelting plant of Consolidated.\nTRADE BANK FOR CANADA?\nEfforts Now Being Made for Foreign Trade Must Be\nBacked By Government, Financiers and Traders\nBy A. T. Drummond, LL.D.\nThe department of trade and commerce has, especially\nsince the war broke out, been making important efforts to\ndevelop the foreign trade of Canada by establishing representatives at many foreign centres of trade, by issuing\nweekly bulletins in which are published the reports from\nthese representatives and by affording valuable facilities to\nmanufacturers and exporters for making general enquiries\nas to conditions of trade at these foreign centres. Much\nmore, however, requires to be done. The information\nand facilities afforded by the government will be barren\nof results if they are not supported by the personal efforts\nnot merely of the manufacturing, mining and agricultural\ninterests, but also of the banks, the press, the universities\nand thc moneyed public. Foreign trade has been practically thrown at us by the war, but when peace arrives\nand government war orders cease, it will rcepiire enterprise and much courage in maintaining the business when\nthe competition of other nations will have to be faced.\nPersonal acquaintance must be made on thc spot with the\nmerchants of the foreign countries and with conditions\nin these countries, and hence there must be knowledge of\nforeign tongues among the heads of the mercantile establishments or their representatives who visit these countries, and ability among their staffs in Canada to deal with\nforeign correspondence. The banks and other financial\ncorporations must be ready to assist with capita! for the\ndevelopment of business here in Canada on a larger scale,\nand must afford favorable facilities for dealings in exchange, not merely with London and New York, but\ndirectly with other great centres of trade. Our universities must not only encourage the mastery of the languages of modern European countries and knowledge of\nthe history, literature, institutions and customs of these\ncountries, but from their laboratories must emanate new-\nideas which will assist the manufacturers in overcoming\ntheir difficulties, in utilizing their waste products, and in\nbringing the raw material of the country into useful service. The daily press, also, by dropping unimportant trivialities and by disseminating more information about\nforeign countries and the political and mercantile conditions existing there, can give to the people a broader outlook and a better knowledge than now that they form an\nimportant section of a great imperial power which, at its\ncentre, trades with the whole world.\nBanking System is Domestic\nEven if all this is accomplished, a further important\nstep is necessary. The demand for some of our special products will have to be created by our own personal efforts\nin foreign countries; the export of tlieir products to us\nwill have to be encouraged; favorable rates of exchange\nbetween these countries and our own will have to be arranged and terms of credit adjusted; whilst to properly\nfoster trade with some important countries we must be\nprepared to develop enterprises there which will both,\ndirectly and indirectly, lead to consumption of our products, and which will, in turn, facilitate the production\nand export of their products; and we must be prepared,\nfurther, to ourselves finance these enterprises, whether\nrailway or industrial, and, at the same time, assist their\nmunicipalities, and even their governments, in borrowing\nfor public improvements. It may be thought that it would\nbe in the interest of our larger banks to, in some respects,\nmeet these requirements. By opening branches at Buenos\nAyres, Montevideo, Rio Janeiro, Genoa, and possibly in the\nnear future, at Petrograd and Moscow, the National City\nBank of New York has confirmed its belief tllat the banks\nmust assist in important ways if the foreign trade of the\nUnited States is to be rightly developed. Our Canadian\ninstitutions, in establishing branches in the West Indies,\nthe United States, Newfoundland, Mexico and elsewhere,\nhave also shown most commendable enterprise. It must.\nZo |ntoe*tors\nTHOSE WHO, FROM TIME TO TIME, HAVE FUNDS REQUIRING\nINVESTMENT, MAY PURCHASE AT PAR\nDOMINION OF CANADA DEBENTURE STOCK\nIN SUMS OF $500 OR ANY MULTIPLE THEREOF.\nPrincipal repayable 1st October, 1919.\nInterest payable half-yearly, 1st April and 1st October by cheque (free\nof exchange at any chartered Bank in Canada) at the rate of five per cent\nper annum from the date of purchase.\nHolders of this stock will have the privilege of surrendering at par and\naccrued interest, as the equivalent of cash, in payment of any allotment\nmade under any future war loan issue in Canada other than an issue of\nTreasury Bills or other like short date security.\nProceeds of this stock are for war purposes only.\nA commission of one-quarter of one per cent will be allowed to recognized bond and stock brokers on allotments made in respect of applications\nfor this stock which bear their stamp.\nFor application forms apply to the Deputy Minister of Finance, Ottawa.\nDEPARTMENT OP FINANCE, OTTAWA,\nOCTOBER 7th, 1916.\n\"THE MAN WHO KNOWS\"\nDoes not have to seek a position. A position seeks him. Business men seek \"Success\" graduates. We\ncannot supply the demand. Why not get ready now? Our FallTerm opens September 5th.\nThe SUCCESS BUSINESS COLLEGE, Limited\nCOR 10TH AVE. AND MAIN ST., VANCOUVER Schools from Coast to Coast Phone Fair. 2075\n r, be remembered that the Cai ian banking act\nand the long-established policy of the ba rporated\nunder it. somewhat restrict the of these in\nstitution-, and provide rather I r a purely Canadian banking business than for all tiee- ramifications which a world-\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD i i pansion of trade requires.\nWhat is needed is an institution, with large capital,\nwhich, whilst having some ot the characteristics ol \"iir\nle cal banks, would have the wider poweri of certain well-\nknown Paris anel Berlin banking institutions, and a broad\npolicy which would be capable of adjustment to the particular needs of each country with which trade was to be\ndeveloped. Among the distinctive characteristics anil po-\nwers which this institution should possess should be: to\nhave offices in tbe large exporting cities of Canada .-icy\nbranches at the foreign trade centres where business was\nto be developed: to specialize in all foreign, as well as sterling, exchange; to make advances on long as well as short-\nterm paper as the foreign conditions may require; to issue\nbonds and treasury notes; to accept deposits both at its\nCanadian and foreign offices for the special accommodation of its own customers; to undertake the flotation of\nforeign loans, whether government, municipal, railway or\nndustrial; to assist in promoting new enterprises in foreign countries which would require Canadian material\nand Canadian or cither capital, and to accept the' stock\nand bonds of such enterprises, as well as cash, as its profit or commission; and to be a centre of information for,\nand assistance to, its customers in regard to foreign con-\nlitions and the standing of mercantile bouses, corporations\nand municipal and other organizations in foreign countries.\nTo illustrate the need of such an institution after the\nwar, it is only necessary to refer to Russia, Italy, Spain,\nthe Argentine Republic and Brazil, all of which are to us in\nCanada like sealed books in the face of our desire to have\ntrading relations with each one of them. With France\nand man capital and German acquaintance with the language of these two countries and that of Germany are\npractically the only modern foreign tongues we have allowed our English-speaking college men to grapple with,\nand even then, we give them merely a reading acquaintance.\nCannot Grasp Special Conditions\nWhen our merchants and manufacturers come to deal\nwith the business of our other allies, Russia and Italy, how-\nmany of. them are in a position to grasp the special conditions surrounding the initiation and development of that\nbusiness? In both countries in the past German banks.\nGerman capital and German acquaintance with the language have played important parts in initiating and controlling many lines of business in these two countries, and\nof, in this way, creating extensive openings for German\ntrade. We must use similar effective forces if we would\ndevelop an important trade in these and other countries.\nIt is here where an institution with large capital and wide\npowers, as above indicated, becomes a valuable instrument\nin this development. It should appeal to our Dominion\ngovernment as a necessary means by which its strong desire to extend the foreign trade of Canada can be accomplished, and it should equally appeal to our local bankr.,\nas the extension of this trade with foreign countries means\ngreatly enlarged output by Canadian manufacturers and a\ncorrespondingly enlarged demand for banking facilities in\nCanada. Bankers in New York have become interested in\nan institution of a somewhat similar nature for the promotion of especially the trade with South America, whilst\nin London. England, both politicians anel bankers are arranging for the establishing of an institution for like purposes, and to bc effective at tlie close of the war. Will\nCanadians have the broad vision to do the same?\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDMonetary Times.\n(ity-e #tanJJar5\nMining News of the Province\nRAILWAY CONTRACTORS BUY PROPERTY AT\nJONES LAKE\nA mining deal of mure than ordinary interesl i the\nYale district has been consurnated at Hope\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BDFoley, Welsh\nand Stewart, the railway contractor.-, having purchased a\ngroup of sewn claims at Jones Lake. The deal u lives\na consideration of $100,000, the firsl payment\ncash having been made in Hope last Saturday The I\"-\ncators of the Jones Lake property .-ere Willi..-\nStephen Ross, Oscar Nelson, James Baiiej ai ' William\nBrow n\nFoley, Welsh and Stewart have been examining this\nproperty for several months and their engineers are now\non the ground prepare! t\" proceed with development\nWhile the plans of the company have not been ann\nyet ii is generally underst '. that they purpose t i build\na railway spur a distance- of eighl miles to connect the\nproperty with tlie C. X. R. al a point a few miles below\nMope. The property is located seventeen miles from\nHope, which town will benefit very materially by its development.\nHundreds of thousands of tons of copper ore of a good\nvalue are said to bc in sight and is easy of access. Reports of mining engineers say that the mountain on which\nthe vast deposit is located contains several bodies of copper ore carrying values of from 2 to 5 per cent, copper.\n*******\nConsiderable activity in minig circles is noticeable lately\nat Bridge River and F. G. King and Dr. E. J. Rutherford,\nof San Francisco, representing the U.S. Copper corporation, are now in the hills examining the extensive copper\nproperties of Joe Russell, and Henry Schwartz on Gunn\nCreek. A favorable report by these experts will result in\na working bond being secured by the copper company,\nwho have already secured a fifteen month option on the\nclaims. If the deal goes through work upon an extensive\nscale will be commenced immediately, to be followed by\noperations upon a very large scale.\n*******\nMr. A. D. Cummings, mining expert of Duluth, who returned this week from the headwaters of McGillivary\nCreek, where he has been on a tour of inspection of a\ngroup of mineral claims, reports several valuable minerals\nas well as free milling ores have been located and are\nnow awaiting roads to facilitate development and the\nmarketing of the concentrates, also tbe getting in of machinery and supplies. Among other minerals which have\nbeen discovered in this section is quicksilver.\n-uniiFhed every Saturday at 426 Hosier Street, Vancouver.\n>lephone Seyaiour -71\nf'.._isM>red at the Poet Office _*\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD_*\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD>__-__t, Ottawa, aa\n\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD\u00EF\u00BF\u00BD>f.,.'t Ct-_- Mall Matter.\nSE-BSCRII-riON ILATK.. 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