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BC Historical Newspapers
The Abbotsford Post was published in Abbotsford, in the Fraser Valley region of southwestern British Columbia. The Post was published and edited by John Alexander Bates, and it was the first paper targeted specifically at the Abbotsford area. The paper has since been bought and sold a number of times, and continues to be published to this day under the title of the Abbotsford News.
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' rr ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½'.:^kil With which is incorporated "The Huntingdon Star" Vol. XXIV., No. 4. ABbolsford,$VG., Friday, June 2, 1922 ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½: '. '. Jit:.'. ^ $1.00 Per Annum. Give Us Our /lights or .iGive-Us Our Lands OTTAWA, "May. 29.-^-"We have given'lmlllioh^; juid ^millions o'F acres of our land for "t lie right' to protect ourselves against unjust ,. freight rates. ' They took our lands; you took our rights. Restore to us,our rights/ or else/-; roatp.ro to ms our lands.''' '.. "This was the bombshell that Preni-' ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ ier John Oliver dropped into the railway committeo this morning near the close of the most oxclting session which-'I hut committee has yet experienced. <"-'- ..,:."ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½- { This is the crucial stage for the ou quiry..-Every opportunity' for inr ITtiencp is being usedï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½conversations in ministers' rooms,' conferences he- hind closed .doors, goll ' friendship,' dinner.engagementsï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½for .the" com- mitteejis ainiing'to report this week to the-house. Nominally the committee is'compos'ed-of'Liberals, Conservatives and Progressives. Actually it is composed.of lawyers, farmers and a:majority of more or less1 silent members. The lawyers'ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½with the exception of Hon. A. B. Hudson, former attprney-;general~-f6r Manitobaï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ show a natural' genius for espousing the side of the railways. There are no lawyers before the committee but there are lots of lawyers on the committee. The farmers, of course, are a'unit for reduced rates'. Heckled by Lawyers No witness so far ,,has succeeded in unmasking the committee^ like Hon'. Mr. Oliver. Before he had beeif^go'ing half an hour""~h"e~had-'-"a .front,row of lawyers interrupting - him with questions like heelders'at a political meeting. He .answered them with the same vim and welcome. By the time he Avas through he had half a dozen members of the'commit- tee vainly trying to take a fall out of him, while the remaining -forty 'or fifty sat back, laughed, and applauded the readiness and pointed humor of the witness' answer. Oirthe question of the land grants the premier was on a familiar ground for in 1903,'while a private member of' the legislature, Hon. Mr. Oliver forced a public inquiry at which he acted, as his own counsel. Feeling before the committee ran so high this morning that .Hon. Wal- at one stage, protested G. G. McGeer, K. C, the province, supplying about a" freight rate which the premier' had not memorized. Hon. Mr. Mitchell was overruled, however. It was agreed that Mr. McGeer is to have the same standing as an advisory expert - as was given to thev various,.railway experts who advised the respective railway presidents during their testimony. Even the chairman, Hon. A. K. (Continued on Page Two.) i-ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ OKGANIZED A REHEKAII . LODGE THIS WEEK AuId .Lang names ol On Thursday evening'a Rebekah Lodge was organized in Abbotsford. Mission City R'ebekahs were present and put on the work, receiving great credit for tho manner in which it was done, President Kozens of Vancouver stating that the work done was second1 to no other' initiation work in the-V province at the present time. Besides tho members of the aliovo lodge who' came in seven cars, tho members of the Cloverdale Lodge were present. After the new Robok- ahs, had received full instruction as to how they .should proceed, the meeting 'closed with the singing ol God Save Tho King and Syne. _ The following are' the the officers. N. G.ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Sister Peachy. V. G.ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Sister McKinnon. , Conductorï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Sister Silvers Warden-^ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Bro. McKinnon Secretaryï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Sister McKay. R. S.ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Sister Carmichael P. S.ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½'Sister Stevens. ' I. G.ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Bro. Fooks'. " O. G.ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Bros. Trousdale. , The new lodge will be Pearl Rebekah Lodge, No , Mission City, Rebekahs the newly formed Lodge with a cake two. and a half-feet long,' .decorated with-all the-emblem's of the Rebek- ahs'-and Odd '.Fellows'' orders. Tt also represented the "third- anniversary of Mission City Rebekah Lodge. Mr. Bowie of Mission City baked the cake and put in the.many charms. ARRANGING EOR .SHORE SCHOOL ACCOMMODATION oif*rt rrx build- cloak known as . 43. presented YOUNG JAPANESE IS DROWNED IN ABBOTSFORD LAKE ter Mitchell against Mr. counsel for information On Tuesday evening a Japanese lad by the name,qf-S'/Kat "was drowned in the Abbotsford Lake; while in swimming with other companions. The shouts for help were heard on the lake shore, but before assistance could be given the unfortunate lad had gone down for the last,time. Mr. J. A. McGowan who assisted in tha search for the body, twice went down to a dept of 25 feet, but as the water Avas very cold, no attempt Av.as male to go further; and the body was later brought up in a drag by S. D. Trethewey and Mr. Roach, from a depth of approximately 45 feet. "" S. Katt was 21 years of age and a good swimmer, and it is thought that he was taken with a cramp. The deceased was the second son of Kondo Kat, Avho has been employed at the Abbotsford L. M. D. Co. fiw several years. The funeral was held at 3 p. m. Thursday from the end of the mill road, and Avas' largely attended. A Japanese Missionary from Vancouver conducted the services, interment being made in Hazehvoed Cemetery, St. Nicholas. The floral offerings were many and beautiful. At a meeting of'V-)'o ratepayers of the school' district".1': of Abbotsford which 'was held 'Insfijje. school house Saturday, even ing," it* vas unanimously decided,to -eiiJarge'' the present scr)6oi"housey raising the,roof and building , four ^roo'ms,' upstairs. , This plan was previo.usly'approved by the Government ahdi"tfio local school board, and will'"provide - for heating Uirbughou'tvHhe entire ing..; There Avill "also be two rooms and a large?*;hall on the second floor. The enlarging of the school accommodation in-''^Abbotsford is a 'long! standing " necessity. At the present time the" average attendan :e is 218, Avith an 'enrollment of 252 scholars, arid the*-1 capacity of the building as it nowrstands is' 1 60. The new alterations will be carried on during the summer vacation and wheii completed will provide ample accommodation' for ;& third year'high school should the ratepayers see fit to vote sufficient money to carry on same. The Government is willing to raise' the. status ' of the Abbotsford School to. third year high, if it is the wish'of'the people. -'-".' ' A committee waï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½'' appointed to interview' the government 'in 'relation to the cash grant,' 'which -it is expected will be more, than fify per cent, of cost. ' ' <" - ;'H ' -' "ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ V - ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ . ' CHAUTAUQUA ITINERARY ON MONDAY EVENING The people of th'is'^town appear to "be" >ve'lrsatisfied^-wiSr tjx&-v '05hau tau-- qua this' year andAthe.atteridance- is' said to be much.-?'better;* this year than last. The .programme is a good one" and is being 'highlyT appreciated by'those who attend. Two more days completes the stay in Abbotsford and the people of this district are asked to 'make a record attendance as the' best of the programme is said to be on Saturday and Monday. The attendance a; these two days will go a long Avays toward bringing the Chautauqua back next year. The committee will be pleased to accommodate all those who wish to secure their tickets beforehand. By making the attendance large the committee-backing the financial arrangements" will feel that they have conferred a boon to the people of this district by bringing the Chauauqua here. MR. P.-J. It. WHITCHELO HEAD OF CHJLLIWACK LIBERALS Mrs. H.. Conway of Central Park spent the week-end in Abbotsford. ay anï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ Monday Show, by your presence, that you appreciate what the men who have financed the Chautauqua have done to provide entertainment for you. You don't want it to cost them too much for the enter- Sinmehlof the people of this district. In other words you want to see the Chautauqua a success. Mr. F. J. R. Whitchelo was elected president of the ChilliAvack Riding Liberal Association at a meeting held in Abbotsford, Wednesday afternoon. The full slate of officers follows: Hon. president, Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, Hon. John Oliver, Hon. E. D. Barrow, and Mr: Elgin Munro; president, F. J. R. Whitchelo, Abbotsford; first vice-president, J. F. Semple, Chilliwack; second vice- president, Mrs. H. Fraser, Abbotsford; third vice-president, A. U'. Mercer, Rosedale; secretary, S. A. Menzies, Chilliwack (re-elected), treasurer, J. H. Ashwell, Chilliwack. Executive for Chilliwack section, J. I. Thornton, Mrs. Munson, Mrs. Alex Mercer, . Mrs. Heron; foi- Abbotsford section, Angus Campbell, Dan Morrison, James Higginson, William Stuart. During the afternoon speeches were made by Hon. E. D.. Barrow, minister of agriculture, and by the provincial organizer, Mr. Turgeon, of Vancouver. The delegates to the provincial convention to be held in Nelson in October will be appointed later. PERSONALS Mr. Jackmau who recently underwent a critical operation in the local hospital is gradually improving in health. Mrs'. Cassidy of Murrayvillo was the guest of Mrs. A. McPhee on Saturday. Rev. Mr. Robertson addressed the newly installed minister, Mr. Ross, 'at the meeting in Clayburfb- last Thursday. The W. B...A. of the Maccabees held their initiation meeting in the' Orange Hall on Thursday evening. A degree team from Vancouver - v. as present. , Mr. T. McMillan spent Tuesday in North Bend. The death occurred this week of Mrs. Rowles, Sr., of Sumas, Wash. The deceased is' survived - by three sons and two daughters all resident in this district. Messrs. .J. Heath, W. Morgan and, F. Taylor motored to Vancouver on Thursday. ' *. Mr. James Downie was' among those Avho journeyed to Vancouver on the 24th to hear the Scotch Guards. At the Sunday School service to he held in the Chautauqua tent on Sunday afternoon the programme of the B. C. Religious Educational Council will be used. The net prj- ceeds of the evening meeting are to goï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½to the M. S. A. hospital, but ' not from the Sunday School. Mr. Alex Vannetta of Aldergrove Avas the recent guest of his brother, Mr. J. J. Vannetta. Mr. and Mrs. George Smith of "Straiton..^ spent>Thursdayi,,in'rtown;, ,-.ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½: -Mrs.-Manning-visited - 'friends in ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Vancouver last week. ' ,. . Mr: and Mrs.' Robertson of Ladner were the guests of. Mr." and Mrs. Coiitts over the -week-end. ^ Mrs. L. McNeil iW'returned from Calgary where he visited her sister. Mr. H. Davenport of Powell River, well known in Abbotsford, visited friends here during the week." Mrs. A. M. King very kindly divid- j cd the $10 won in the May Day parade between the True Blue orphanage and the M. S. A. hospital. Mrs. T. A. Swift who won second prize of. $5 also made a. donation.of it to tV.e orphanage. Mrs. Sasseville Dolly Sasseville, ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Edward Sassevile and Johnnie Grif- ' fith.s were the guests of Mrs'. H. Gaz- ley over Sunday. Miss Sadia Campbell of Lynden is visiting her . cousins, Jessie Coogau and Florence Roberts'. ' <ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½.' Mrs. H.^Gazley is in Vancouver attending the wedding of h"1* dfierht"'" Mrs. Sasseville to Mr. McMurray, ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ of' Vancouver, /fhe ceremony tooic. place at. the home of the bride on ' Thursday, June 1st. Mr. R. DesMazes, proprietor of the Pioneer grocery store is opening a branch store at Whatcom Road. The St. Saviour's football team of Vancouver, champions' of the Lower Mainland, played a mixed team at Abbotsford this week, the result; being a score of 4-1 in favor of the home team. Miss Vera Hunt was home over the- week-end from Vancouver, where she has successfully passed the Normal, exariiination. ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ Miss Helen White of Mt. Lehman. was,.among those who graduated. ' >it, the'Royal Columbian Hospital, "New , Westminster, on Wednesday. Mrs. Rowley has gone to Seattle,1 and will spend, some time further south, owing to ill health. " ' , ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ I To-day is a-great day for the'Mats-' qui children. Mir. McCulloch of Clay- - 'ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½'bu'rnMFv;helping-the' boys;atul...gii:ls",tosv> ehjo'y themselves; j ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½'ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ k ' C : Mr. J. 'J.. McPhee 'was a visitor''in - New Westminster on Wednesday. Mrs. H. McNeil and little sons visited her parents in Sumas tliis week. Services will be held in St. Math- eAv's xVnglican Church at Abbotsford every Sunday night at-7:30. Rev. A. Harding Priest, vicar. Considerable interest'1'is taken in the rise and fall of the Fraser. This afternoon: the water mark on. the i'rasn' River bridge -had reached the If. uci mark, with lots of drift wood and foam. It is reporied that the Thompson River is not high as yet, and'.vith only,the P'raser from the north high it is not expected that it will be a dangerous height to which the water will go, A stylish and high class stock of dress goods have arrived and it is'believed that the ladies of Abbotsford will appreciate the opportunity lo purchase in their own home town such New Crepes and Voiles, figured and plain, at per yard 50c and 60c Plain Cotton Crepes, all shades. Wash Dresses, new and .exclusive range al prices ranging from ., $1.50 up 30 PAIRS ONLY- SUIT) mer Shoes, 30 pairs only Ladies' White Canvas Leather-soled Boots ranging in price from $4.50 to $6.50 to clear at ...........:..:.,...... .$2.95 Men's Summer Clothingï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½White Duck Trousers, Flannels, Outing Shirts, B.& D. Underwear, Light Hosiery, Hats, Etc. Butterick Patternsï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½that answers itself. Limited ABBOTSFORD'S "STORE OF QUALITY" ntaSn tSSSSS& .-.,# mmmmm^^a^mmmm^msmsmmm^mm^^mmmmm^mm^ms^mm^^^mmmm =5= PAGE TWO fp& Ibbo^SfOBD post THE ABBOTSFORD POST Published Every Friday : j. A. BATES. Editor and Proprietor FRIDAY, JUNE 2. 1922 Premier Oliver at Ottawa 1 ing the fight of his life before the railway commission in regard to the ,reduction of freight'rates. He goes so far as to say "Restore our rights -.or return our lands." He might oven " go a little further if hotter freight rates are not given the province and say "Give us rights or give.us separation.". Premier Oliver is taking the matter seriously indeed but he is not the first premier of this province who has seen that the province is. not getting a square deal from the powers , that he at Ottawa. Premier Oliver was one of those who did not agree Avith the late Sir Richard McBride in his fight for what was known as "better terms for U. C" They say it, was "childish"' of Sir Richard to ' get up and walk out, but prolir.blv the then premier was in about the same state of mind as Oliver was this week when he gave expression to the above.words credited to him. In it Ave see a veiled threat , that' will meet -with .the approval of many people of this province. The, light between .the east and the west of Canada has probably begun with the question of freight rates. Not .all ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ wisdom, and not all the rights ana privileges belong to the east and the ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ soonei^the least-..realizes this the. better. In less than a quarter of a century the west will have the control by majority in- Canada, and it is up lo the east to give a fair deal at the present time, or as near as' possible. so as to prepare for that day when the hub of control Avill be in . the hands of the west. The Avest is a great country and is gradually being filled with men who, being-surround- ed with freedom and .privileges, learn to demand that which is. coming to them. Premier Oliver knowi, that in the interest of the develop- '' ment of the west there should, be more equitable freight rates. It must have been a big shock to the easterner when he-found out that Vancouver Avas the largest shipping port of the dominion. There are other surprises in store yet for the people, of the east. Our hope is that Premier Oliver will return west having accomplished something in the fight he has underta'ken in regard to . the freight rates. This is not a political matter. It is a matter that comes with the rapid development of the west, and the east hates to acknowledge the facr.. "East'is' east and Avest is west" is again a truism. s mok-1 embraces all denominations. Its ob 1 ject is the moral, physical and social betterment of the young people. '.'Thï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½' result is that Protestant and Catholic boys and girls of all denominations work together, each with eciuali(righ'ts' and in harmony," Avhich has a healthy modern flavor. When the people of Ashcroft rend the above, no doubt the question will arise in many, "Are the boys of Ashcroft going to the devil?" Is there a single influence leading them in the right direction? ' ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ Some will reply, "Yes, there is the church," and others will laugh at. this. The church, in its way no doubt thinks it is doing what it, canï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½-on Sundav endeavors between one sermon and the other? The truth ot. the matter is that although the minister has his eye on the boys on Sundav me eyes of the police are on them from Monday morning ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ until Saturday night. A "K. J. B." would be a good thing for Ashcroft.ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Journal. The big fight of Vancouver for a drydock has probably .ended for tlu> present time. Is it a punishmen! on British Columbia resulting from the last election? But why do it? Like some ether matters it is a question of politics' probably. The Nicomen Island is.another example of politics, but why punish the Fraser Valley? It returned a Liberal, who is a faithful follower of the Mackenzie King government. .But unless Ave are mistaken B. C. will get, very little at the hands of the present government. The.east is stilrred up in matters' concerning the west. The east has the controlling influence with the government and fior that reason all plums will go to the east. But Vancouver could not expect to get the drydock at a time when one is being.built at Victoria. The government' deems it wiser to carry out it is concerned. The late government, saw to that, and now the King gov- ernment deems is wiser to carry olut that obligation to Victoria rather than drop the work there and build a drydock at, Vancouver instead. Years ago in Dewdney there used to be a nice little fight going on about where the trunk road should be built. Every reader of this paper is in possesion of the facts of the case. The same little busybody, is busy again between Vancouver and Victoria. Until this is' stopped all governments will follow out the course mapped out by itself rat!,pr than that which the people wish to map out for them. We may hate to see it so, and we may wish that a According' to Herman Rosenfield. advertising manager of Sear.s Roc- buck-& Co. big Chicago mail order house, this, firm has one bureau employing several persons whose duty it is" to read every week the country newspapers from all over .the Unite-.! States. "There is not, a paper of any consequence in our trade territory that our bureau'does not. get," Mr. Rosenfield recently stated. "This bureau looks over all these papers carefully and whenever we find a toAvn Avhere the merchants ai-p not advertising in their local papers, Ave immediately flood that territory with our literature. . This always brings results that are far < in excess . of those obtained by the same effort put forth in territory where the merchants advertise." THE LAST GREAT WEST The Last Great West is' the popular title given to the Peace River country of "Alberta and British Columbia. The Home Missionary is entering, the district along Avith the homesteader and the rancher. The Presbyterian Home Mission Superintendent for Northern Alberta, Rev.' Wm. Simons, recently made a trip of exploration- to Fort Vermillion, 300 miles north of Peace River, and found that settlement extended, in some places, forty miles back from the river, and that 2,000 people are already settled northwest of Peace River. Many of them are 3 00 rniley from the nearest doctor and a similar distance from, the nearest minister. This single' fact illustrates the need of mission work in the vast hinterlands of the Dominion. HURT BY FALLING LAMP The production of Douglas Mac- Lean's new Paramount-Ince comedy, "One a Minute," which will be shown at the local Theatre this Saturday, Avas' halted for two days by ah accident Avhich might have proved fatal when Victor Potel, a character actor, Avas knocked unconscious by a falling lamp. Two heavy lamps were placed on a staging, which gave way during the "shooting" of a scene hurling the lamps to the floor fifteen feet below. Portel was unable'to escape, and after being revived, he asked that the scene be continued, but Mr. Ince ordered that no more photo- ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½graphing he done until Potel's' recov ery. Mr. MacLean has one of tho best roles of his stellar career iu "One a Minute." His leading woman is Marian De Beck. The best thing about a plafonic friendship is that it smoothes the way for real flirtation. RESTORE OUR RIGHTS OR RETURN OUR LANDS Continued from Page One) M^icLeari', interrupted at one stage to protest against receiving evidence to show that the C. N. R construction between Ottawa and Montreal cost ino! (ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ per-mile than the C. K. R. drydock would,be built at Vancouver,' construction through the mountains we may even realize the need of it, [ and the Fraser river canyon in Brit- hut unless the right pull is there jSh Columbia. He 'ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½id that it wns with- the powers that be, nothing will be done. K. J. IL The above initials stand for "Kam- loops Junior Brotherhood.", It is an organization composed of the youtn of Kamloops who formed themselves into an association for their personal welfare and betterment. It Avas "born of necessity," for the, young men cf Kamloops' awoke to the fact that "meeting every Sunday and listening to well-delivered addresses did not appeal to them." They "wanted apples than for eastern apples. V, hat action." One member of the com-! justification is' there for It. Our in- muiiity solved the problem. He said," dustrial life is at stake im volant''ii--A useless to compare c s-ts in comvariiig rate" In his statement Premier Oliver showed that British Columbia is discriminated against from 9 to 27 1-2 per cent on Avestbound grain" for export, up to 102 per cent on domestic grain and flour, up to 50 per cent on commodity rates, up to 100-percent on sugar and that these rates would be added to by 25' per" cent if the Crov/.'s Nest Pass agreement is' reintroduced in, its old form. -".'ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½'ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½' "Railway figures show that three times the rate is charged-' for B. C. "Gentlemen, the boys of this city are'going to the devil, because there is nowhere else to go. Let us do something for the boys." As a result the ' K. J.. B." came into existence. It he said. The Chairmanï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½You don't,suggest that this is involved in the Crow's Nest agreemnt? Hon. Mr. Oliverï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Yes, I- do My authority is President Beatty in his ****^i - ii ii fi-i-i"- -1---I in-r-- ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½- " '*" evidence before tliis committee when he said that the Crow's- Nest agroe- aieni. involves the whole rate structure of Canada. He says that the $26,000,000 deficit will have to be charged against other . commodities and w,e already have more discrimiri- lation in British Columbia than we can bear. , Quoting other comparisons ' of rates, Premier Oliver said: "With all respect to this.committee and to the railway board I want to tell you that you are putting the care before the horse. We have been the cart before tho horse. We have been- for 16 months before the railway board in an extensive and costly inquiry on this, matter. The findings of that board should have been laid before this' committee. The chairmanï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½-But the board snys it wants the opinion of parliament on this agreement first. ' Premier Oliverï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½With all respect. 1 say that the board Ichoavs more about the effect of Crow's Nest agree ment than does parliament or this committee. .ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ Hon. Mr. Manion interrupted Premier Oliver's reading of a telegram from the Nelson BoarcL.of Trade asking for a neAv agreement on,' basic commodities by quizzing him about the rates on the P. G. -E. Premier Oliverï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½No fair-minded man can make a comparison between the P. G. E., which is a construction road beginning nowhere and ending nowhere and a transcotihental road. But 1 will tell my friend this. The ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½samo rates are charged all over tin P. G. E.; we haven't a special raf< for one end and a double rate at tl.c- o'ther end. (Applause.) Hon. Walter Mitchell after his in effectually protest against Premie. ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Oliver being assisted by Mir. McGeer protested-against the issue of B. C discriminatory rates being heard at alii but Premier Oliver Avon out in ai. argument that the Orow's Nest agreement involved a xonsideration o' these B. C. rates. The second brand of Premier Oliver's argument deal1 Avith the land grants given Avhen tlu Ci-oav's Nest Charter and other agree nients were made. It was a revelation to many of the prairie mem ben- of the committee. "British Columbia Avas the only province in" Canada that gave a lane grant and its gift of land has beer; .worth more than the total cost or the roads in British Columbia". he said "We gave tAvelve million acres o strip forty miles Avide across B. C. and-a block on the Peace River prairies for the building of the main line. ,Hon. Mr., Mitchellï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Did you get a rate' agreement then?/ 'ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ Premier Oliverï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½No the laAV then forbade discriminations. Had British Columbia known , it would have .been discriminated against it would never have given its land oi joined Confederation. Continuing Premier' Oliver said that British Columbia had given 1,- 800,000 acres including coal, timber and minerals on Vancouver Island for the building of the E. & N." line, yet has to pay mountain rates to use the road; British Columbia had given 3,755,000 acres, including the Crow's Nest coal fields, for the Crow's' Nest road; an additional 2,541,000 acres for the Crow's Nest extension; $850,- 000 in cash subsides and waterfront- age valued at millions on Vancouver Harbor, Lord Shaughnessy had admitted in the 19 03 enquiry' that the 2 50,000 acres of the Crow's Nest Coal Company Avere valued at a price "infinitely beyond that of the railway." Continuing Premier Oliver pointed,.out that the Crow's Nest agree-, ment placed 50,000 acres of coal lands in the trusteeship of the Dominion government for' the purpose of letting the public have coal in carlots at the pitmouth at $2 a ton. "We're dealing with more than frejght rates," he said. "What are you going to do with that part of the agreement? Are you going-to Avipe that o'ut-, too?" Mr. E. M. MacDoriald, K. C.ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ What do'you suggest'^ Mr. Oliver? Premier Oliverï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½I .'.' suggest that you give very careful consideration to that clause. (Loud laughter.) Mr. MacDouald, who had been very active in quizzing the premier, reminded him that he was not above the committee and should make proper answers. Mr. Oliverï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Well, the Dominion government has agreed to see that, we get coal at $2 from Its" lands. That's part of your agreement. The chairmanï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½I should say that by itself is a good reason for parliament abrogating the? agreement. Hon. Mr. Oliverï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½If the railways want to be relieved of their contract Hon. Mi Mitchellï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½When'you gave these lands you gave them.to get the road built, without any conditions. Premier Oliverï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½The're is where you are wrong. The conditions on which these lands were given were' that rates should be under the con-, trol of the lieutenan.t-governor-in-, council. That was our right. We' gave millions and millions of acres ( for the right to protect ourselves : against unjust freight rates. Tnc; Dominion government has taken away our rights. Restore to us our rights or else restore to us our lands, j we are willing. 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Catherwoocl Building Phone 8001 P. O. Bo* CO MISSION CITY, B. C. Mr. Oliver also put in a number of statements covering other commodities to show heavy discriminations against British Columbia. Answering W.'.D. Euler, Mr. Oliver said he thought the discrimination was fairly general against movement from Vancouver eastward. The bringng back of the Crow's Nest agreement without revision would practically break down many British Columbia industries by closing them out of all but their own provincial markets. Hon. R. J. Mans.on asked if, the movement of empty cars west from Fort William had not a bearing on westbound rates. Mr. Oliver agreed with this.. Some seven million bushels of wheat had gone to Vancouver last year and had lumber rates been reduced the railway companies would not have needed to carry empty cars" eastward. "You have a railway of your own in British Solumbia?" Mr. Manion .' "Well, somebody in, the opposition called it a rabbit track," 'Mr. Oliver replied. Wm . 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Box 94 Most of Your Home Actually the greatest part of the area of it, is covered with ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Wallpaper. Wallpaper is . its distinctive feature;-it ftfrms the . background for . . everything else. Let- me' show you- samples and -give you "figures' on ' hanging, [painting, staining, calsomining, ;-etc. - - <*- J.E. PARTON ABBOTSFORD, B. C. . SUBDIVISION OF FARM LANDS ,j0t xï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½3.364 acres uncleared land. . 1. soil, good water, .electric light, facing' the Hospital. Would make fine fruit of chicken ranch.- Terras., $900.00. ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ ' ' Lot 2ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½5 acres. Same as above. All this property joins the town and this 5 acres is partly cleared. Per iicre, $250.00. .Lot 3ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½5 acres partly cleared, per acre, $250.00. 'Lot 4ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½One'acre,-splendid home- site settled all varound with a good class of houses, $300.00. "Lot 5, 6, 7ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Same as lot 4. -Lot 8--One acre. A corner lot having a large frontage . on both' streets ajd a splendid view. Lots'-of water. Electric light. $500.00. -ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½tot-9,-10,'11,"12ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½One acre each. Fine homesites, each $300.00. -Lot ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ 13ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½5 room cottage. Lot 50x150, rented, $900.00. Lot 14-=ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½5 room cottage, tot 5 Ox 150, rented, $900.00. Lot 15ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½6 room house. Lot 5Ox 150, .$1000.00." Lot'lGï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½5 room house. ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ Lot 50x 150, $1100.00.'' ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ " 'ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Lot' 20ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½13.26 -acres; 6 room house, large barns, outbuildings, orchard, good water, on main road oyer looking and adjoining town. Splen did view. $5000^00 ..^ _ Lot 2iï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½11.54"acres.' house, outbuildings ana ciai. irig; frit i trees. Fine situation overlooking the town where there :cs - rrnvVPt for all kinds of produce. :ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ 30 00.0 0. Gliding lot 66x132, -HaildLig lot 66x132. -Building lot 66x132. Lot 25 $250.00 ' Lot 2 0 $250.00 - Lot 27 $'250.00 Lot 29ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½One acre, $300.00. Lot 30ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½One acre, $300.00. Lot 31ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½One acre, $300.00. Lot 32ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½One acre, corner lot, frontage on two roads, $400.00. Lot 33ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½1.118 acres, north of B. C. E. Ry, $300.00. The whole subdivision would be sold at a price and terms that would make it a splendid investment. APPLY TO JAMES MILSTED ABBOTSFORD, B. C. ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ When a man listens attentively to what a woman says it is a sign that he is not married. Every man makes a fool, of himself occasionally, but the wise ones are those who don't make mistakes as often as the others.ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Atchison Globe. Crerarn Speaks On Immigration Mr. Crerar said: The subject or' immigration is a very large one, and notonly is it exceedingly interesting, but it is natural that there should be, in this House as" well as out of it, a variety of views as to the best methods and, indeed, as to the desirability of promoting it, as' well as ' concerning the sources from which immigrants, to Canada should be drawn. I have frequently stated that in my judgment immigration to Canada is needed, and badly needed, and 1 cordially support the minister (Mr Stewart) and the Government in .the efforts they may make to bring to our shores immigrants of a desirable type who will go on the land and in time become adapted to our Canadian institutions, get our Canadian spirit, and be assimilated into this Dominion as good citizens of it. I dc not think that we can have too muni immigrants of that type. In the cliï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½- cussion this evening a good deal has been said regarding the need of adding to'our agricultural population, and, in order to do that successfully, of improving the conditions surrounding agriculture. To my mind that is a very essential thing in connection with the whole subject of immigration. Without doubt at all, the best immigration" officer, the.best immigration agent yon can have in the Dominion is the contented settler whom you, bring to these shores. Ex perience, 1 beliove, has shown that. !i .wo bring to Canada the Scolsma-i. the Englishman, the Irishman, the Scandinavian, or the man from the United States, when, he comes here and gets located and finds conditioi s onerous, when he. finds he is not accorded the welcome which perhaps he thought he should have, what is the effect upon him? He writes home to his friends and gives them the impressions he'has formed of the country to which he has come. He recounts to them the experience he has had in Canada, and they are influeuc ed accordingly. Consequently I say that-the,best immigration agent yon can have-in Canada is the contented, happy and .prosperous settler. For that reason, the conditions that make agriculture prosperous and. that enable those who are engaged in it to succeed are of the very highest importance. The minister and the Government will be taking altogether too narrow a view of .the. question if their energies and efforts' are confined alone to the expenditure of "so many hundreds of thousands of .dollars in this or that country for the purpose of inducing people to come to Canada. That ,is altogether too narrow a view, to'take of this great question. I believe that efforts directed within the Dominion along the lines I have indicated, as" well as along the lines suggested by a good many of my friends from this side of the House, are just as important and essential to a successful and practical policy, of immigration, as is the securing" of good agents and sending them abroad. There has been a good deal said in the House by seme of my lion, friends around me as to the dreadful condition that agriculture is in to-day in this country. It may be that some hon. members think the picture is overdrawn, and perhaps at times we are ' inclined ,t to stress that aspect a little too much, tut tho facts that were poinod out by the member for South Grey (Miss MacPhail) to -night coui I not be lost on the Govf'iivnent or o 1 ihe li-use. It irf a lact' that in the finest agricultural countries of the province of Onta'-o there has b^er. an actual and very serious decPne in the rui-tl population in the last ten years. Indeed, not only in the last ten years. Lull in previous decade-, ( has thai occurred. My hon friend from George Etienne Qartier (Mr. Jacobs) suggested that possibly- those farmers descended of sturdy Scottish stock, in the old countries of Ontario, the Bruces, the Middlesexes. the Hurons and the Greys, had gone to Western Canada. Some of them have gone; but that does not account by any means at"all for the decline in the population there. And I make this prediction to my hon. friends from the province of Quebec, that as time goes on they will find the same condition obtaining in that province. We have had a tremendous growth in cur city population in the last decade. There are certain causes that, conduce to that. I am not at present going to discuss the fiscal question, but I do hold most firmly that the fiscal policy of Canada, the' policy of protection that we have practised in this country, has been the greatest single agency in retarding the development of agriculture in Canada. If you are going to make agricultc ve prosperous you cannot ignore these facts. We have proceeded in Canada on the assumption that we should oe largelv an industrial people, and our policy for the last forty years has been directed to that end. What are the fruits of that policy? What are the fruits of it in Ontario, where it has been in full bloom and effect? Its fruits have been a tremendous increase in youir city population and a decline in rural population; and that will follow inevitably in a country such as Canada is at this stage of its development. I know that the conditions in the West are in many cases onerous and difficult. We may as well frankly recognize the fact that there are difficulties and handicaps to the success of agriculture in Western Canada, although it has progress sed with tremendous development iii the last thirty years. But let mo point out to hon. members that the greatest single factor in promoting the development of agriculture in Western Canada in" the last thirty or forty years, and in attracting" people to that part of. the country, were Ihe cheap fertile " lands available there. The people were looking for cheap ' lands. Our ' immigration agents could go to Europe, to thb United States, and advertise the fact, as' they did: You can get 100 acres of the finest land you wish to fix your eye3 upon in Western Canada for $10. That was the lode- stone that drew people to Western Canada. What arc the conditions today? Our homestead lands are practically a thing of the pant, and tho immigrant to-day to- that portion of, the Dominion must pay from $10 to $2n an acre for land. Consequently that has narrowed ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ the area , from which our immigrants can be drawn The questions ofr freight rates and tariff as far as the.c'Wost is concerned, Mr. Chairman, are pressed upon tho House and the .country by my hon. friends around- me not because of purely selfish local reasons, hut because the proper solution of those questions is essential to the development of our agricultural industry; and 1 would point out to my hon. friends from Ontario,, aiid particularly to the,hon. gentleman who", preceded me in this debate, that if your factories'there are to be kept running you must have a market for their output. When did .our manufacturing industry develop at its greatest speed, when did it' find its greatest prosperity? When people .were flowiing into western Canada by the hundreds'of thousands and that country .was opening up at a -rate never known before. If our manufacturing industry is to continue to develop,1 you must lay the 'foundation and create the conditions that will keep the country prosperous." What is the position of western Canada so far as its products are concerned? " We are fortunate at -the present time in that Russia, chat great competitor of ours in supplying wheat to Europe, is out of the market. Bad for Russia, but good for us. In 1914 Russia .exported 175,- 000,000 bushels of -wheat to Jthe western countries of- Europe. Arid Russia will again be a factor in that market. Therefore I .say .to the House and to the Minister ,of .Immigration that to have-.'-a permanently successful policy of .immigration-one of the vital factors is to" reduce our cost of production-in agriculture su that we may successfully compete with other countries in the markets of the world. Consequently in this whole question these issues to my mind are involved, and they are vital issues. A good deal has been said tonight about our immigrants from central Europe. I wish to say a word for the people whom we brought from that part of the - world fifteen, twenty or tweny-five.years ago. My hon. friend from ,-Brandon (Mr. Forke) informed..the House'that 18 per cent of the undergraduates " in the University of Manitoba were of foreign birth. Without doubt in twenty-five years' time the descendants of these people who came from Europe in their sheepskin coats twenty-five years ago will be among the leaders in our professional life. Is that an undesirable type of settler to bring to this country? I .submit not. The Slav is one of the most adaptable of our immigrant;,. He can be assimilated,as quickly at any rate as the immigrant of any other nationality, for his temperament is such that he quickly responds to his environment. While I agree with the observations made by some hon. members" that it is unwise to open our gates ,f'uU width to these people, 1 do submit that we can take a considerable numbe'r of wisely selected settlers of that type and- the} will prove a useful asset to the Dominion. I hope my hon. "friend, the minister, will not overlook that in his plans for promoting immigration. Without doubt we can also secure settlers of a very desrable type from the Scandinavian countries,'from the old land and from the United Stat3S. But when we bring those people to this country, let us do a little bit more for them than we have done Mi the past in holding out the hand of welcome. That is a suggestion 1 would offer to the minister. I do not know what plans he may have to carry out that idea, but I do know it has often happened in the past that we have brought immigrants from the United States and from Europe who naturally were entirely unac quainted with conditions here, and far too freqeuntly they have bec-ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ the prey of the exploiter who hat traded upon their ignorance in ord. i that be might enrich himself. ' I repeat, Mr. Chairman, that what we need is more population. It is the only way by which our taxation and our railroad problems will br ultimately solved. The Minister ol Immigration has a possibility of tin greatest responsibility in that resp.ee! I am glad to say, Mr. Chairman, that knowing the minister as I have for o great many years, I have full confidence in his ability, his desire and his intention to make a success of this very important work. ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ There is one, other suggestion 1 have to make to the minister. Our immigration statistics give.a very full record of the number of people who come to Canada but we have no record, so tar as 1 am ' aware, of the people who leave Canada and where they go to. J am informed that for the expenditure of a- few thousand dollars a year this information could be'secured, and in view of the importance of the question I would impress upon the minister the desirability of his department taking the necessary steps to keep such records. If we study the census statistics for the last decade we find that something like a million and a quarter people have gone somewhere who should be in .this Dominion. Where have they gone, and why have they gone? Are not these questions of the greatest importance if we are going to handle this problem in an intelligent manner? Like my hon. friend from Brandon, 1 have great faith in the future of Canada. We have a great country, but in order to assure its complete development there must It fullest co-operation among all sections of the people, and if we work with determination for that goal there is little doubt that success will be ours. This vote is probably as important as any in the whole department tluit the minister presides over. I trust that when he conies back to the House another session he will have a year, of progress to report, and that im the meantime his department and the Government will make every honest . legitimate effort possible to bring to our shores the class of people. Lhat we stand so badly in need of today. Miss McPhail Gives Her Opinion Miss MacPhail said: I really think that immigration to Canada has now reached the point where it is, no longer aguestion of getting people on the' land but a question of keeping them there. I, for one, do not favour the sort of immigrant who wears a sheepskin coat unless he has a bettor one some place else. Of course, we have to ,have sheepskin coats and we all wear them at home sometimes; but by that reference I mean the class of people who go upon t'-.e land, but whose-standard of living is lower than that of others' who are already located -there, and that'is low enough. Such a policy would be a good thing for Canada rather -than one of an opposite nature that would work to her final detriment. Because my own opinion is that the difficulty with the Canadian farmers has been that their standard of life has not been high enough. They have been willing to work long hours and to receive from their investment Tar less return than any other class' of people; and'if those immigrants who come to Canada are willing to work longer hours :ind receive less pay than the existing farmers are. then the condition of affairs instead of being improved will .-apidly Pe rendered worse. " ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ The minister has spoken in favour of bringing a large number of children to Canada; he has pronounced himself in favour of further developing child immigration. If those children were very carefully selected and came from the rural parts of the Old Land there might be something to be said in favour of such a policy, but in the past a great many children that have been . brought from Britain have come not from the country but from the city, and were not always' carefully selected either. They were brought out here and placed in homes where sometimes they did not have a very nice time but where, on the other hand, they did not return very much value for their keep. The result in most cases has been that between the ages of seventeen and twenty they have drifted into the cities and, not being experts or skilled in any certain line, and not having a very excellent educationï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½possibly not as much as, oral all events not any more than, any other classï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½they have helped U- fdrui bread lines when such were needed; and then the country that helped to bring them out here has had to keep them. It would seem that we have come to a time in the history of our country when we must be very careful about further immigration; otherwise we stop people who are well qualified to earn a living by agriculture from going on the land. Agriculture is no longer an occupation that poor people can afford to engage in. Many people w,ould l'ike to farm but cannot afford it; it is too muclicof a luxury. Do you know ..that old Ontario, with which I am quite familiarï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½it is the only part of Canada with which 1 am familiarï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½is losing ts rural population at a truly alarming rate. The condition is one that we should all try to understand if we love Canada. Many a time in the past I have wondered, when we were spending thousands and hundreds of thousandsï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ yes" millionsï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½of dollars to bring immigrants from the Old Land and settle them in the West, .why that same encouragement was not held out to the young men and women of old Ontario, to say nothing of the young men and women of Quebec and the maritime provinces. Why were they not given the same opportunity as that accorded to those who came from1 other countries?- Do you know that-in my own riding of Southeast Grey and the ridings that touch upon ' itï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½South Bruce, Wellington, Duf- ferin and North Simcbeï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½we have lost from the farms over 18,000 people since 1911, and so it would seem,to meï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ Mr.- Jacobs: Will the hon, member permit me to ask a question? Miss MacPhail: Yes. Mr. Jacobs: Is it not possible those people went to the Northwest, because, as I understand it many of the people have come from the various districts to which the hon! member has alluded? *" Miss MasPhail:'It is quite likely that before 191L a number of them did; but western conditions have not been so splendid for farming that there has been a very great trend from the East to the West. Rather is it a fact that those who were lucky enough to leave the West have come back to the East. And so I think my hon. friend's explanation is scarcely applicable this time; I .think they have riot to any considerable extent gone upon the land elsewhere. This T know to be .true. I went to some little trouble to find out how many , women, and children used to live on a tract oi' 2,000 acres of which my father's farm of 150 acres forms a - part, and fifty years,ago there were sixty-five women and girls on .that much laud. To-day there are about twenty-three ancl of the number mentioned only ahout four or five live on " land elsewhere. Taking that as a guide I would say that not a very great number are living on the land in other places. Rather- than spend any lavish sum of money to bring other people to Canada it would be well for this Parliament to bend ev- orv energy it has towards making farming conditions liveable for its own citizens. BTG FRUIT OUOP LOOKED FOR Available reports' from ths orchards of the valley are to the effect that there has been an excellent fruit set and that indications now point to a big fruit crop throughout the district.ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Grand Forks Gazette. Whatever else may happen When our country has gone dry, The sailor still will have his port, The farmer have his rye; The cotton still will have its gin, The seacoast have its bar, And each of us will have a bier No matter where we are. As a general thing, when any kind of calamity befalls a married man, ho confuses the date of it with his wed-' ding anniversary in after years.ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ Dallas News'. ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ REED METROPOLITAN PLAYERS Presently "Mrs. Temple's Telegram," fifth day at Chautauqua, y ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½THIS ABB6ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½S#(Md POST, A.BBOT8FOHD, u f&2* Ktm^xam WMMnuina ' '*} CLEAN. AND WHOLESOME * it is-an important feature with us to keep every tool a ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½"id appliance in a thoroughly sanitary condition. All our sui"_ -roundings are-sweet and wholesome, not only those which are exposed to the view of the customers, but all portions of the premises. No better meat can be offered for sale. S. F. WHITE B. C. Phone 41. Farmers' Phone 190?) Abbotsford, B.C. NT THE ESTATE OF JAMES PATTERSON m*tpWr*nmmBElmsiirK;K Tr7-~-"-ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½^irrT"^-~"-"=ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½"^^ DOG HOWLS AS BAND I'L.US; " FIL.MIXCJ Sl'Sl'HXl'HJ) Because "Mickey," a young bull pup ...belonging to Douglas MacLcan, disrupted an entire evening's work on the young star's'latest Paramount comedy, "One a Minute,'' which comes ,to the Abbotsford Theatre, this Saturday, June 3rd, canines of all species, unless they take part in productions, have been banished from the Thomas M. Ince studios in California. When the exciting election night- scenes of "One a Minute" were being.filmed, MacLcan brought his dog along for an evening's outing. Mickey was orderly until the election bands began to play and MacLcan mounted a soap box to make an address of thanks to the citizens who ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½had elected him their mayur. With the first note of the trombone," Mickey poked hie nose toward the moon and commenced a vocal accompaniment. The election 'crowd,' primed for excitement, roared with laughter, and the scene' was spoiled. With order restored, :.> second attempt was made to,film tho'spectacle. Again Mickey gave .vent to howls, and the action was suspended. ' After several more trials to attain gravity, each of which Mickey broke up 'w'th, song, the harmonious hound was led from the studios, and the scene completed.- The following morning the ban on dogs was posted. IWVIOIN SKI'VICI* TO UK HELD IN CHAUTAUQUA TENT Chautauqua'is running in Abbotsford (his week and is being much enjoyed. Th"o weather is" ideal and the attendance is very large. The programme, is well filled with picas- ing'features and is rated even bettet than last year. On Sunday a united Sunday School service will be held in the Chautauqua 'tent at 3 p. m. at which the choirs of the two congregations will take part. The collection taken at this service will be used in aid of the M. S. A. Hospital. In the evening a service of song will also be enjoyed, under the canvas, at which a splendid local orchestra will render music. Late of Huntingdon, formerly of Webb,' Sask., Deceased. Notice is hereby given that' all Ipersons having claims against th'j i above named deceased are required to send particulars .thereof duly verified to the undersigned on or before the 30th day of May 1922, after which date the undersigned will proceed to distribute the assets of the deceased among "the'persons entitled thereto having regard only to the claim of which J will then have had notice.. Dated at Huntingdon, 13. c., this 28th day of April, 1922. D. B. DERBYSHIRE, Webb, Sask. Executor of the above Estate, Per C. H. Croke, "Huntingdon, U. C. a2S-m26 REGISTRATION OF VOTERS afiaaff^-^tmiBfliimtB iriTW Y SPECIALS if il is anything in ihe Grocery line I have .1 complete slock of up-to-date groceries and my prices are right. Tomatoes, 2 cans for :..::. 45<ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ Corn Flakes,. 3 for 25^ Tea, 3 lbs/for ..:: . ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½1.15 49 lb. Quaker Flour '..-.:: ......:.. $2.35 Qualify -Service - Price ALBERT LEE, - Baker and Grocer Meeting Postponed The regular meeting of the Abbotsford Board of Trade has been postponed from Monday evening umii Thursday evening. .June S. This is done to allow the members of the Board to take in the Chautauqua. Abbotsford has now the thirsty members fresh cool drink these a club where can have a hot days'. i.SAYS Hl'DGKT liKAIVS NOWHRUl-J FIRES THREATEN ''CiltftlCN TIMBER 1. NEW WESTMINSTER, June Bush fires continue to burn at various places throughout the Fraser Valley, according- to reports reaching the Royal City. Touching the edges ol' tho famous Surrey "Green Timber," a fire has been burning on the King-Earns Lumber Company's holdings since, Tuesday. Walter Reid. iloroman, and'a gang of 50-t'ire lighters have been working sfeadily to save the tall timber. The company's office reported tonight that the fire was weil under control. L. H. Collins, manager of tho Dimension Lumber Co.'s mill at I lea ton Spur, near Sullivan, told 13. C. E. R. officials, at 4 o'clock this afternoon that the, fire at the po'nt was so bad that he "and his men were going out to fight the flames ancl expected" tc work all night in order to save the timber. Fred Hill, former advertising man of Vancouver, and now a pouitrymai: on the Shipyard Road, near Port Coquitlam, was almost obliged to vrate his flock of birds this week, when bush fire flames got within 1^ feet of the chicken house. Fighting from noon until 4 o'clock in the afternoon, he was able to save the brooder houses with 2-;000 chicks and from COO to 7 00 adult birds. OTTAWA, bud May 27.ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Declaring ret brought- down by MR. ROM-LEV ItlOSIGiKS FROM SS'lCRETAitYSim At a recent nieciiug of the Emit Growers of the district it. was agreed ' to adopt the same scale of payment to pickers as fixed by the "Fruit and Merchantile Exchange, Ltd." Arrangements have been made with the B. C. E. Ity. for ail express car to lie attached to the regular passenger train at 7:17 p. m. whereby shippers will be able to send away a full day'; picking. Warehouse space has aiso been secured from the local B. C. 10. agent. The resignation of Mr. was tendered and acceptei Rowley and a hearty vole of thanks was passed to Mr. Rowley for his services, especially for his work during the organization period. George P. I'nifr. was appointed Secretary-Treasurer. It was reported that local strawberries-will be "ready "for market in about two weeks time. W. Hllltout was chairman of the meeting. The legal action between the school board aud a former teacher of the public school will be taken up in court on Monday. The teacher is u- ing the board for loss of time in securing a school after the opening term, until t lie time/she seen red a school. that., the imuaci uiuus Moii. Mr. Fielding "takes us nowhere leads nowhere and settles' nothing, but on the other hand adds doubt and uncertainty," Sir Henry Drayton opened tho attack on the government's proposals in the House of Commons yesterday. He reviewed old Liberal pledges, including the long free list drawn up at the Liberal convention here in 1919 and the projected fifty per cent, increase m British preference, and dwelt' on the serious moral effect of failing lo carry out such pledges. Those who had been depending on Mr. Fielding for reductions in the tariff had been leaning on a broken reed he suggested. Sir Henry criticised the interference with the Marking Act and the depreciated currency section of the Customs Act pointing out the necessity of the latter for the protection of the Canadian producer against the flooding of Canadian markets with cheap German goods. To emphasize this point he quoted reports showing that the German mark has two standards of value, one domestic and the other for international use. making it impossible for any outside producer to compete with German manufacturers. . Despite the fact that tariff reductions under the new budget are almost trifling, Sir Henry was not sure that they might not prove serious for the implement industry. The real .trouble with Canada,- economically, is the one-sided character of its trade with the United States", whica this budget would merely accentuate iu some degree, ably seconding the effects of'the Eordney tariff. The speaker twitted the Liberals with their changed viewpoint now that they are in office. Attacking the luxury tax during Ir.e previous regime, they held that automobiles valued at $1,000 or less were not luxuries and should not be talced, yet now they place a tax on such automobiles'. Taxes which were formerly an outrage are now regarded as: right and proper. l>. C. Heard From Dealing with the budget from the viewpoint, of the British Columbia fruitgrower, Mr. .LA. MacKelvie of Finance by abolish-' ri'otii the ths dump- Mr. Field- be willed, orferencc Chilliwack Electoral District NOTICE. IS"'HEREBY GIVEN that 1 shall on TUESDAY, the 20th day of June, 1922, at NINE O'CLOCK in the forenoon at the POLICE COURT, ABBOTSFORD, B. C. hold an adjourned Court of Revision for the purpose of hearing and determining any and all objections to the retention of any name or names on the Register of Voters for the above named Electoral District. JOS. SCOTT, Registrar of Voters, Chilliwack Electoral District. Chilliwack, B. C. Slst May, 1922. ' J2-9 above issue. OF ALL Advertisements heading cost 25 ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½under cents the "per FOR SALEï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Four lots' and seven roomed house .with bathroom and pantry. Good well water in house all furnished, woodshed, chicken house, chickens, fruit bearing trees, electric light. All fenced, in town. Apply to Box 120; Abbotsford, B. C. ;' - '. 2-9-16-23* tion a deputation., from British Columbia . had come .to Ottawa;, seekin g assurances that tjie. clause in question would be retained, and had,announced in the press that, they had got such assurance. Mr. D. W. ;,Warner," Progressive member for Strathcona, said the prairie farmers are' ' bitterly disappointed with the small amount of reduction in the~cost of operating then- farms. ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ ;. <- NOTARY PUBLIC , ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ r . Marriage Licences Issued REAL, RSTATJJ3ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Money to Loan on Gtood Farm Mortgages Abbotsford DATE FOR FALL , FAIR ANNOUNCED . VICTORIA, May 29.ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Final dates for the fall fairs of British Columbia have been set, after considerable revision. The Vancouver Exhibition will be held froni August 19 to 26 inclusive; that of Neï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½' Westminster September 11 to 16, and that of Victoria, Sept. 18 to 23. The dates of rural fairs on the Lower Mainland are as follows: North Vancouver, Sept. son's Landing, Sept. 1-2; Sept. 4; Agassiz, Sept. 6 (Milner), Sept. 6;. Maple Ridge, Sept. 6-7; Chilliwack, Sept. 6-8; Coquitlam, Sept. .7; Surrey, Sept. 7; Bu'rquitlani, Sept. 7-8; Whonnock, Sept. 9; Matsqui, Sept. 19-20; Abbotsford, Sept. 21-22; Mission, Sept. 26-28; Aldergrove, Sept. 27;' Richmond, Sept. 27; ^Ladner, Sept. 28-30. 1-2; Gib- Squamish, ; Langley SATURDAY, JUNE 3rd- 1922 DOUGLAS MqcLEAN - in "ONE A MINUTE" Also A Two Reel Comedy "MOVIE FANS" SATURDAY, JUNE 10th, 1922 % TOM" MINX in "AFTER YOUR OWN HEART" Playing at The Rex Theatre.this week. also A MUTT, and JEFF COMEDY TUBERCULIN TESTING FOR OlTIJHjS AND TOWNS .ilon'd.ed with the. Minister not to ruin that industry ing the protection it gels regulations'aimed against ing. This clause, which ing has announced will out as an unwarranted in with commerce, provides that1,' customs officers must determine the value of imports for dutiable purposes by ascertaining.-the. cost of production in the country where they are produced and adding .thereto., a Fair profit. U. has been invoked twice bust year, once when the prairie market was flooded with pears from 'the State of Washington'at-a dollar a box. Injus-election campaign, Mr. McKelvie said, he had expressed a fear that this clause would be eliminated if the Liberals were returned, and his opponents had ridiculed^such a suggestion. And since the elec- A discussion which vfcook' place recently in the House of Commons revealed the fact that the cities and towns of Canada do not take advantage, to the extent they should or might do, of the opportunity offered by the Dominion Department of Agriculture, to have the herds supplying milk or cream tested for. tuberculosis by officials of the Heatlh of Animals branch. By order-In-coun cil passed in April, 1917, it is provided that, on application to the Veterinary Director-General, any city or town can secure this service.on con dition that the dairies supplying the milk or cream are licensed and conform to the standard. It is further understood thatj two years after the first test, the sale of unpasteurized milk or cream in the applying city or town shall be probihited, unless the veterinary inspector can certify- that the dairy herds contain no reactors and are free from tuberculosis'. These conditions being.-, agreed " to,-an inspector or inspectors will be sent to test all the cows furnishing milk and cream to the ci,ty or town concerned. ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½Dominion Department of Agriculture. '.. The new fashion Button is all colors and styles, each card contains 9 Buttons which sells for ..15c CHEESE CLOTH, good for so many purposes at a yard ..... ijjc Indestructible Pearls, a bargain at $8.66 and $9.00 a string. ^ PHILLIPS' MILLINERY. SHOP DO YOU WANT TO ENJOY i If so, use a hammock made and sold by J. Downey; also babies' safety swings, sweet pea netting made to order. * %. All Material Imported Shopping and Hand Bags All articles reduced in price. , J.DOWNEY Abbotsford, B. C. ""IfiM net
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