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BASEBALL VANCOUVER���Home Schedule In Northwestern League for 1917 Great Fall*. May lt, 15, ti*,, 17, Is. in, it. Seattle. May 21, 24, 21. 25, 2.;. Butte, June- IK, 19. 20, 21. 22. _���:), 23. Spokane, June 2.',, 2t;, 27, 28. Tacoma. June 2it, 10, Julv 2. 2. Seat lie, July II. 7 BASEBALL VANCOUVER���Home Schedule In Northwestern League for 1917 Tacoma. July 11. 12, 13, 14. Seattle. July IS. It". 2D. 21. Tacoma, auk h. v, l", ll. Ureal Falls, Ann. 13, 11. 1.'.. 1<I. 17, Spokane, Auk. 2ij. 21. 22. 2;:. 21. 2:,. Tacoma, Au��. 2:1. 10, 31, .-'���-���pt 1. 1- Vol. V., No. 52���Established 1911. VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA. SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1917. Price Five Cents Hcll-Hounds of Politics Are Loosed; Fight for Good Governmeni Musl Co On. XN fighting the good fight for clean government in llritish Columbia, tlie Premier finds arrayed against him a crafty hand of exploiters who will not give up without a great struggle. It seenis that every scheme the denizens of the political underworld can devise are being tried out with ^ view to bending the Premier from the path of duty. 5Jln overthrowing for the time being one of the Premier's most trusted ministers, the Apaches have accomplished a grcat stroke. But the Premier's answer is that Honest John Oliver, Minister of- Railways, proceeds to set the screws on Mackenzie and Mann in tllis Province in a] manner which that railway corporation will regard asi being a trifle frightful as compared with the open- handed methods of the previous government. Surely the Premier is entitled to the heartiest sup-1 port of every man in tlie countil,' who wants clean I government, regardless of party. Brewster and his ministers are being opposed today by the Canadian Northern interests, the Pacific Great East-1 em millions, the Land Speculators, a certain section of the lumbering industry, and the possibilities are good for having aligned against him the full strength of the liquor interests of British Columbia. And tliat part of the Conservative parly opposed to Brewster and liis policies is made up of individuals who in tlie past have enriched themselves from service under the interests here mentioned. Brewster and his ministers have the support of only one daily newspaper in British Columbia in the fight which is now proceeding. That paper is the Victoria Times. In the line-up of printing presses seeking openly or steathily to smash Brewster and his policies, heading the list is the Vancouver SUN, the local "martyr'' to this great cause of Liberalism. Many hundreds throughout British Columbia will grieve that Malcolm Macdonald has fallen. His crime is that he accepted money from a fellow Highlander, an old neighbor, a fellow member of the lodge. I le accepted this money on the eve of an election when party feeling ran high. .And it was probably told to him by his bogus friends that the success of tlie day would depend upon tliis bit of money. Probably they said, "Malcolm, let us fight the devil with his own fire." But there was a string lo tliat package of bills that reached across Canada to No. 41 King Street. Toronto. Jusl like tlie string wliich runs from tlie printing press at the World up to the office of Stuart Cameron, rnil- liouair government contractor, in the suite occupied by the Pacific Dredging Company. Just like the string from the Sun office which has led for so long' to the head office of tlie Pacific Great Eastern Railway. When Sir William Mackenzie on his visit to Victoria sat at the oak table of the Premier and intimated that unless there was something done towards making it as light as possible for the Canadian Northern Pacific the government might experience violent treatment, he knew what he was'talking about. Meantime if Macdonald drops out another good young man will be found for his place and lhe fight will go along. And the possibilities are tliat Brewster and his ministry still have a fighting chance of lasting long enough to see some of the promote!; friends of tlie former administration, for whose tip-keep the people are today paying extra taxes, looking out through jail bars. Need of Conservation of Food Will Drive Mongrels to Lethal Chamber. XX these days of enforced economy and abstiu- ance, when the governments are casting about tliis way and tliat lo discover something to wliich tliey may attack a special war tax. is it somewhat surprising that our old friend the dug litis up to now been immune from attention. Most of tlie cities in British Columbia give lhe dog a license to live for twelve months, on payment m' a two-dollar-tax. I.ady dogs pay three lo five dollars. which is a wise provision imposed in the interests "I the peace of mankind. The money derived from dog licenses in llritish Columbia is possibly $5000. though the dog population is roughly estimated at 15,000. A large proportion somehow evades payment of the tax in the cities, while in the country districts tags are all but unknown. N'o objection is taken to this, as a dog- is absolutely necessary on the farm. But in the city the reverse is the case. Fortunately for Vancouver, its dog population is not great. That is one of the city's attractions, but the number of mongrels roaming at large could be substantially reduced without anyone being tlie worse for it. The trouble with the dog is that he bas such a healthy appetite. In normal times this may not matter, but today. . . . The food fit for human consumption thrown to the licensed dogs in Vancouver every day would feed a thousand Belgian women and children. And, remember, many of our clogs fare better than the downtrodden sufferers under the heel of Prussian despotism in Flanders, Food in the British Empire is not equal to the demand. A crisis is at hand; superfluities must go. The unnecessary dog is one of these. We can confidently look forward to the day when he will be taxed out of existence, and the law rigorously enforced. A' The Revolution in Russia FTER an absence of a little more tlutn three months, Mr. George Bury lias Just returned from Russiu, which country he visited at the request of the British and Russian Ooveruments In connection with transportation. Mr. Bury was accompanied throughout hlB trip by Mr. W H. Winter- rowd, Assistant Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Canadian Pacific. Mr. Bury and Mr. Winterrowd travelled from London to tlie north of Scotland, from where they were carried to Norway by a BrltlBh destroyer. They proceeded through Norway, Sweden and Finland to Russia. Mr. Bury states that his experience gained by close personal contact and association with Lord Shaughnessy enabled him to make recommendations which were accepted by the old Russian Government as well as by the new, who are now putting them Into force with great vigor "Russia," he Bays, "Is, of course, an Immense country. It has a population of 176 million people. The last time they took the census the papers had to bo printed in seventy-two languages, or dialects. "In Russia 1 travelled from a point where I saw reindeer caravans to a point where I saw caravans of camels ���that is, from Lapland to the Caucasus. "There Is no doubt whatever that after the war Russia will have to build several hundred thousand miles ol railway. Canada has ten times, more railway mileage per unit of; population than has Russia. Then i in the navy amongst the officers, .have been done and much has been again, Uus-la made the mistake of' Foreigners were not molested de- said of the mistakes, mistakes in- patterning her railway transportation llberately and any killed was due to separable from any undertaking and after that of Europe rather than accident. j but to be expected in an undertaking America. Traffic in Russia moves; "When the revolution was at its that dwarfs anything in history, vast distances in great bulk. The height, in company with a British', authentic or mythical, country lends Itself to low grades officer, I went to the Duma. It wasj "Everywhere we travelled in Great and easy curvature. If that great rather a long walk from tlie British Britain evidences of sacrifice, willing- country is to achieve the destiny In Embassy, so we asked some soldiersjly made, were visible, store for her she will have to come to to take us on a sleigh tilled with j "Our past mode of living is at an the large train and large car, because revolutionists. They did so. Arrlv-end for some time and we will have those two factors make for economl- Ing at the Duma we had to make our to come down to a more simple form cal transportation, and economical way through a dense mob of soldiers, and economical conditions will com- transponatlon ia essential if a pro- sailors, workmen, etc. Recognizing pel the elimination of waste. duclng country of wide distances is the British uniform cheers went up: "The trade possibilities with Russia to hold her own In the markets of the for tho Acgllski (English). It would after the war are Illimitable and world. make the heart of the least emotional those nations who will study the "Had Russia been equipped with man beat faster to think he belonged needs and the Russian character will railway transportation, say as In, to an Empire that would be cheered succeed. Up until the time of the Canada, she would have been able to, under such circumstances, have played a much greater part In "In England, Scandinavia and Rub- the war. jsla, everywhere I travelled, food re- "The impression gained during my strlctlons of varying degrees were In I try show what our enemies accom- two months stay In Russia is that' force and rail travelling curtailed.; pllshed. they nre a brave, self-sacrificing. War or no war, it was time that a I "One has to travel around the world kind, and rapable nation. The edu- halt was called to the food wasteful- *�� "e�� how well off we Canadians are. cated classes are remarkably well Iness that had been going on. "The Canadian soldiers covered Informed and I came In contact with "No one who has had the slightest themselves with glory In the recent some of the really big men of the \ opportunity of learning all that Great advance. They took a strong posi- world. Britain has done In this war for bu-tlon which had been tried twice be- Comic Opera Stuff Features License Commissioneers' Meeting. GEORGE BURY, Who has just returned from Petrograd. E war It would appear that the Hun appreciated the possibilities of Russia and the trade statistics of that coun- "I happened to be In Petrograd during the revolution and saw perhaps as much of it as anyone. The casualties In i'elrograd were heavy aa were they inanity can help being proud of the Core by other troops, and their deeds Mother Country. With the proverbial w��re in the mouths of everyone ta modesty of the Englishmen but little j London." has been said of tbe big things that I After Every Hiyu Celebration Neglect of Vacant City Lot Cultivation There Should Be a Clean-Up Day. Amounts Almost to Criminal Indifference. Cl IK llritish Columbia Travelers have a chance "t~7ICTORIA, Vancouver, Xanaimo. and several to establish a precedent as an aftermath of V oilier British Columbia towns have tliis spring their War Dance and Carnival that will be worthy of: made an attempt to cope with tlic High Cost of I.iv- emulation for all time. They should delegate to three! ink and food shortage by bringing vacant city lot OR sheer imbecility and asinine ineptitude, the tomfoolery staged at Tuesday evening's meeting of the license commissioners has never been approached in Canada. With the full knowledge and consent of Mayor McBooby, three secret service operatives appeared to give evidence ill a star chamber session, disguised after the manner of opera bouffe actors or clowns at a country fair. This trio of stool pigeons, creatures of Mayor Mel looby, were prepared to give serious evidence that would probably have caused lhe cancellation of several licenses because of infractions of tbe law. They were called before the commissioners to prove that the hotel men had recently flagrantly violated the law of the land. Do they come in as persons who realize the seriousness of tbe duty which devolves upon them. Well, hardly. They are brought in in secret, after the room has been cleared of the public, ushered in through a side door by the mayor's private secretary, who acted as a sort of ringmaster to the three melodramactors. The tliree operatives, two men and one woman, were disguised���it is to laugh���much as if they were there to rehearse a funny stunt with Charlie Chaplin and Edna Purviance, or about to take part in a seventh- rate amateur production of "The Pirates of Penzance." And they came in in this ridiculous way with the approval of our tiddle-de-winks mayor. Mr. Duncombe McBooby! After this, there is no circus stunt we may not expect from our chief magistrate. When the Rotarians placed a fool's cap mi his head al a banquet a few weeks ago. they must have had him sized up just about right. Possibly he thought he was being spectacular: he was merely silly. What he tin night was mystery was but mummery. Mayor McBooby is wearing the wrong pair of pants. What he needs is a pair of panta- 1> iims. and cap and bells, and jester's wand. He is a funny fellow, but tbis nonsensical disguising of hirelings is more befitting a callow youth, or an ancient in bis dotage, than the elected mayor of a big city. Mayor McBooby's inclination runs to the grotesque. It is a pity that he should be ever so slightly handicapped in bis natural bent l.y having to���sometimes���give serious thought to matters of civic importance. He really belongs to the circus lot; the pitched tent and the smell of the taribark for him. Or perhaps the amateur nights at the little theatres are his forte. Or does he yearn for lhe comic life of the moving picture actor? What a troupe could be recruited here with Mayor McP.ooby as the slap-stick comedian! What capers he could cut! What funny laces and grotesque twists! Can you see him putting oil a two-reel P.ud and Ham comedy at the Burnaby Moving Picture City, with J. Harold Xelson yelling directions*. Reeve Fraser and his council the admiring audience, and the (Continued on page two.) Three amateur theatrical performances were produced within a few days of each other, under the auspices of the War Dance. "In Sunny France" lost money. "The Old Woman In a Shoe" lost money. "The'Masque of Industry" lost money. All were meritorious performances, but the public simply will not support amateur performances, except at rare intervals. an or four of iheir members the duty of seeing tli.it a removable advertising signs and decorative l.ttntin displayed in Same Old Hocus-Pocus Game Of Jewelry Auctions Is Going On. inflection with the fete he taken down within the next few days. These have served their purpose as advertising matter; from now mi tliey arc but litter and rubbish. After every well-advertised affair, Vancouver remains decorated (?) with banner?, posters, window cards, etc., for weeks. These rapidly lose what attractiveness they once bad, and become unsightly. Apparently it is nobody's business 1 too much trouble for individual main, forlorn reminders of past Vancouver would look infinit the placing of these advertising (he obligation lo remove their purpose. teni; it it tho*. re ��� renin ���ffort. < iry. v more attractive if igns carried with it tliein once they had served Dr. F. E. Oliver Coming to Spread Gospel of Pre-Millinarianism. OVER on the old court house square, in the heart of the cit)*, a small army of volunteer workers are busy building an immense tabernacle, which will hold thousands of persons. This tabernacle is being built by free labor, and in contravention of the city fire bylaws. This, ostensibly, because it is being erected for a worthy purpose. Said purpose being to save the citizens of Vancouver from eternal damnation. Dr. F. E. Oliver, an evangelist of international reputation, is the man who is going to the mat with Old Xick. He proposes using most of the words in the English language, and a couple of thousand words of slang, in telling sinners just where they get off. Dr. Oliver is, we are assured, second only to Billy Sunday as a bombastic expounder of obsolete theology. In the precise language of the gentlemen of the cloth. Dr. Oliver belongs to the school of pie-mil- linariaiiism: he liarlcs back to the primitive stages of theology. In the language of the common people, this means that he believes in the liell-fire-and-brim- stonc theory. The orthodox ministers are of the opinion that the second coming of Christ will not be until after the thousand vears of peace and plenty prophesied in the Bible. The "pre-mills." on the other hand, are sure that Christ may appear any moment. Hence the great haste and overtime in the building of tbe tabernacle: it would be deplorable if tbe Second Coming found the lumber still strewn over the old court house (Continued on page two.) under cultivation. The city authorities have nol only freely given advice lo lot owners, but have gone sn far as lo plough up the land for a small sum. The example shown by the authorities has been good, and has been widely copied by individuals. At limes like these, every foot of good land should be made productive The more foodstuffs that can be grown iu the cities, lhe more farm products can be exported to ihe Mother Country. It i- regrettable thai iu Xew Westminster, a city which has hundreds of vacant lots wliich are available I'or cultivation, no provision could be made !>;. llie civic authorities tor ihc ploughing of smne of these. The eil. teams, it seems, w. re all busy during lhe early spring, bm even if it wire necessary to hire others, the expense would -ecu, to have been justified, in view of the emergency." As it is now, Westminster's vacant lots will, in most ca_*e_j, remain vacant as ill past years. For a cit. possessing such admirable advantages from a gardening standpoint, this neglect of a patriotic dutv is greatly to be regretted. �� 1IE.\'E\ ER you see a red flag a cheap jewelry store, and a bi: box-car letters that there i- an auction salt in I here, if vou haven't anv monev ticking outside sign yelling in. ng nn tep inside and man b is made cent, idler trading _��� up of and watch the smoothed-tongued vomit trinkets fur real cash to a crowd win seventy per cent, suckers, twent) pet the balance hired boosters, Enough unnecessary truck i- sold ai these auction sale- in Vancouver in the course of a year lo stage an Indian potlacb at Squamish, Ami the -nrrv part of it is that ii is bought by peop' price. Inn u li recei\ ing l>ar_ buying pan o reality, most manufactured wise man win musi have hai Vou never ill!/ one of tl ��� are ain-. a rej if tlie i mn l*ci\ ei Bargains' ,'iilar jewelry lime, they for these io can ill afford il e believing thev are ney think they are when in jewelrj :s. The Jittered of Canada licli will bc Manufacturer's Right to Fix Prices Really In Best Interests of Buyer. Jr^sllE amendment to the criminal code V_��^ suggested l.y Mr. Knowles, M.P., wl considered at the coming session of parliament, has aroused a protest from one end of the Dominion to the other, as the Commercial Record points out. It is plain that tbe thought behind Mr. Knowle's bill is to lower the cost of living, it being assumed that the principle of fixing retail prices tends to raise the cost of the goods to thc consumer, lt is evidently the object of Mr. Knowles by placing this restriction that the retailer shall be permitted to sell at any price he wishes without regard to the manufacturer. Tbis assumption is equivalent to a declaration that tbe prices which lhe manufacturers fix are unfair, unreasonably high, and savor of tbe nature of a combine to obtain excessive prices. Whatever may be the object of the bill, its effect would undoubtedly be price-cutting, and it can readily he shown by anyone who has a knowledge of the facts, that tbe cm ting of prices on well-advertised and standard-quality commodities is a bad thing for the public, is of no advantage to the retailer, and permanently injures the manufacturers. If thc fixing of retail prices were to be made illegal, the profit on advertised commodities would immediately be cut by tlie price- cutting retailer and the result would be that the handl- jing of such standard commodities would rapidly be- ��� slock. jetting expressly lor these auction sal said that all was not gold that ibis truck in mind. een a level-headed business man attend- ese Cheap John sales. That's because any man who knows anything about the jewelry business is well aware that practically all jewelry sold in the small city stores i- the property of tb,. manufacturer, who is paid by monthly instalments, and keeps lhe merchant supplied wilh fresh goods on credit. Any lime a jeweler wishes to go Hit of business, the manufacturer will lake back bis stock on a ten per cent, discount. Xo goods worth while are sold at these dav and night auctions, and possibly two-thirds of the articles put up are knocked down to the "boosters" who run up the bidding against the ninnies who can't tell the difference between platinum and pewter. But they fall for it as hard as ever." Even this protest won't do any good; it's merely a voice crying in the wilderness. come unprofitable, thereby forcing them into the background. The retailer would, to protect himself, handle in preference other goods upon which he could make a larger profit and the public would therefore, in most cases receive an inferior quality* at higher prices. This is the germ of the argument in a nutshell. It is to be hoped that the opposition evinced to this measure will be sufficient to kill it. as it would undoubtedly be a bad influence on the integrity and quality of "made in Canada" goods. ��� ___,��� In an office window on Pender Street is a big sign "Government Registering Office." Right next door is another sign "Rubber Stamps to Order." A year ago that would have had a sinister significance, but fortunately times have changed. TWO THE STANDARD SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1917 Comic Opera Stuff Features License Commissioners' Meeting (Continued from page one.) scenery all made up <>i disguised sure sefrvice operatives? It would make :i super-picture, a screen masterpiece. Wlm ..ill write tlic scenario? The Standard would gladly publish ll. in the interests ul a laughter-loving public. Of course the three star chamber mysteries would have to be in the cast, and so, for the benefit of the scenarioist, here's tlieir description; The huly was "Jennie Doe" of llie Police Court, who won su much notoriety as the "Veiled Lady" when Mayor McBeath first made known the activities of his "secret service.' She was veiled, tins lime with a white netting which allowed the outline ol her face under her yellow win and her big blue goggles lo be dimly seen. She never removed her mask. Officially she is known as 1... E, 1'. One of her companions, a thin- faced, lantern-jawed individual wiih high cheek bones, wore an all-fitting carl, wig and a pretentious black mustache, lie is the mysterious "K. Il.j E." referred to by initials. The other was "Old Sleuth," whose disguise was a huge blonde wig ami a pair of goggles, showed a full, heavy face, and slightly aquiline nose from behind his concealment, lie, for the purpose ol thc official reports, was known as "M. M." Only thc members of the press and the lawyers representing��� those aganist whom charges had been brought were allowed to remain in the room, a policeman being placed at the door to keep the public out of the public meeting of the license commissioners, liven those against whom charges were laid were only to be allowed to come into the room at the time that their particular cases were called, and were not to have the advantage of hearing the cross-examination in thc preceding cases. There was only one case called. however, for Commissioners IJuke, Leek and Tacey declined to hear the evidence of the masked operatives, when they refused to give their names, upholding the protests of the barristers present, and finally, after several hours of argument, out-voting Mayor McBeath and Commissioner Miller in favor of a motion to drop all the cases against the hotels because of the refusal of the "detectives'' to reveal their names. As a result of the action taken by the three commissioners the charges were dropped, much to the chagrin of the mayor. Despite the efforts to preserve the identity of the "operatives'' when two of them at the request of the mayor, but still refusing to give their names, removed their wigs and spectacles, those persons who bail been put behind the police-guarded <l<>or secured a view of their faces through a crack in the panel. Crowding the corridor outside of ihc committee room these banished citizens took turns at peeping through lhe liny aperture and tlie key-hole. "Why do we meet tllis way in a se- erel meeting?" demanded Commissioner Duke "To give protection to these pri.ale detectives," he was told. Mr. J. A. Russell, appearing for the Astor Hotel licensee, that being the1 first and only case called, commenced ��� his argument, advising the commissioners that according to ihc recent decisions of the Supreme Court that they were withoul authority lo hear| lhe charges as laid, which were pre-i ferred against llu- license holder, while the alleged infractions of the law had bee'n committed by employees. "The board will assume lhat we have the right to discipline license! holders, ami if your clients sec fit to' carry the matter further they are al liberty to do so," answered the mayor. "But this is not the point." declared .Mr. Russell. "1 am trying lo shorten matters by stating to you that you are not acting in accordance with the law as set out by the Supreme Court. 1 The mayor, continuing, said that the end of the license year would soon be completed and that when the mat-' ter of renewals was to be consideied the board would see that the license-1 holders would obey the requirements of the board. Mr. Robert Cassidy, J<. C��� joinedi ill tlic argument, declaring that the board was acting in a manner that was ultra vires, the authority which, it once had being changed by the 1 amendments to the Liquor License I Act of 1916. The mayor overruled all arguments and ordered the case, to proceed. i Mr. Russell strongly argued that the operatives should remove their disguises. The mayor said that he had given, the operatives lhe assurance that they, would be given reasonable protection of their identities, but he felt that they had little to fear if they removed their disguises. Commissioner Leek said that he' agreed with Mr. Russell. The witness should disclose his identity, or. else the cross-examination would be farcical. . Finally his worship asked that "R. \ H. E." take off his wig and moustache. This was done after the mayor asked the press not to describe the features of thc operatives when they had come from behind their disguises. Their features were not altered by the removal of the wigs and spectacles from the persona of "R. Id. E." and "M. M." The latter had little difficulty in removing his disguise. Ixlli 1 1 IN 1 Hi O grown CANADA'S BEST SEEDS Rennie's Prize Swede Turnip, for table or stock; 4 ozs., 20c; per lb. '/.. 65c Rennie's Derby Swede Turnip, biggest cropper; 4 ozs., 20c; per lb. 70c Perfection Mammoth Red Mangel, for stock 4 ozs., 15c half lb., 25c; per lb. 45c. Yellow Leviathan Mangel, good keeper; 4 ozs., 15c; half lb., 25c; per lb., 45c. Rennie's' Jumbo Sugar Beet, for feeding; 4 ozs. 15c; half lb.. 25c; per lb. 45c. 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RENNIE CO., Limited 872 GRANVILLE STREET Also at Toronto, Montreal, Winnipeg. Canadian Northern Railway TRANSCONTINENTAL LEAVES VANCOUVER1 us ��.00 A. M. SUNDAV WEDNESDAY KRIDAY, 1.00 A.M. SCENIC ROUTE BETWEEN VANCOUVER AND TORONTO. SHORT LINE TO EDMONTON AND PRAIRIE POINTS. NEW AND MODREN EQUIPMENT. ELECTRIC LIGHTED STANDARD AND TOURIST SLEEPING. DINING AND COMPARTMENT OBSERVATION CARS. DAILY LOCAL SERVICE 7.00 p.m. Leave.... VANCOUVER ... .Akrlre a.m. 11.01 0.45 p.m. Arrive Chilliwack Arrire a.m. 8.IS 11.00 p.m. Arrive Hope Leare a.m. 7.00 frull particulars may be obtained from any Canadian Northern Agent. DISTRICT PASSENGER OFFICE ��� (08 HASTINGS STREET WEST Phone Seymour 2483 but "K. H. E." left lhe room in company with the mayoral secretary, who had up to that time acted as "inner guard'" of the "star chamber." ami was absent for. several minutes. When he returned lv. II. E, refused to give his real name. He was known as "Kudcrby," lie said. Further argument resulted in the refusal of Mr. Russell to proceed with his cross-examination. Commissioner Duke supported the contention of Mr. Russell, laying thai while he held no brief I'or any hotel- man, he did demand lair play, and he moved! seconded by Commissioner Leek, that inasmuch as lhe witnesses refused their names and identities lhal all the cases against the hotels in which thev were to appear "lie dropped. His worship in his further remarks! declared that the hotels would he closely watched in the future for in-1 fractions of the law. ami these would I lie drastically dealt witli. lie re-1 ferred again in excluding lawyers] from the deliberating "f ihe board | saying lhal legislation would hei passed prohibiting men of the legal profession from appearing before lhe hoard. The mavor, in his further statements, declared that he was not satis-] fied with the supervision which had been maintained in the past over the hotels. The inspector was too well! known, and it was no reflection on him, but he would sec to it that Inspector Reid would have a sufficient; staff, even if $10,000 had to be appropriated for that work. ���Commissioner Duke, again declare-"1! that bc held no brief for any hotel- man, much less the proprietor of the Astor, hut he intended to see justice done, and would not accept the evidence of men who were ashamed to give their names. lie had no use for "slool pigeons." The mayor began to again announce the fact that he would not recommend harsh dealing with thos* found guilty, w'ken Commissioner Duke demanded that the motion which he had made should be put. The debate continued despite Commissioner Duke's demand for the motion. Commissioner Tacev making himself heard above the noise of argument to say that 'If a man is ashamed nf his name. I don't want to hear him." "And I'm tired of this <far chamber meeting," declared Commissioner Duke, demanding again that the motion be put. Filially it was read, after the nia*v>- made an effort to have it amended. and was carried "ith the mavor am' Commissioner Miller dissenting. So ended the comedy. Dr. F. E. Oliver Coming To Spread Gospel of Pre-Millinarianism (Continued from page one.) square, and most of Vancouver's I population carrying season tickets for the infernal regions. Dr. Oliver clings to.the obsolete idea that a real hell exists, an idea discarded by most theological students long ago, ami doubted by intelligent laymen even during the dark ages, when lhe church believed* in a gospel of terrorism, when souls were stampeded into heaven through fear of hell, instead of being drawn thilhcr by love of God. Most of the city clergymen look with disfavor on this yircus style of revival. They do not object to an ethical revival, which will teach man bis duty to his fellow-man. but they contend that individualism in religion is a thing of the past. "Man cannot live for self alone." As a class they are not sanguine of the chances of success of the coming soul-saving campaign; .even Dr. J. I_. Campbell, of the First Baptist Church, fears it will be a gigantic failure, owing to lack of preparation. On the other hand. Dr. Hunter, the revivalist's advance agent, looks over Vancouver and is certain that with so many sinners within its boundaries there is bound to be a big harvest of souls. The devil is sure to he landed one on the jaw that will jolt him from horn to cloven hoof. As an attraction during dull days, the tabernacle services will probably draw crowds. Tbe preaching will be along sensational lines, and there will he some fine singing and music. Mr. E. Hemniinger, a famous singer who foured thc Hritish Isles with Dr. Henry, of World Temperance Movement fame, is billed to sing at every performance���services, we mean. One big attraction is kept away from the revival for reasons of prudence. We refer to Dr. Torrey, of Los Angeles, 'who is a mighty man of many words. Hut . . Dr. Torrey is-*-so strongly suspected of being pro-German that Vancouver men would sooner go to hell than be routed lo heaven by his agency. ELECT DR. M'CONKEY "The Standard" Job Dept. Phone: Seymour 470 President of Proportional Representation Association. The Vancouver Proportional Representation Association was formally organized Tuesday night at a meeting held at 208 Carter-Cotton building. A constitution was read clause by clause and adopted and it was decided to affiliate with the Canadian Proportional Representation Association, with headquarters at Ottawa. The local society will operate as a branch. The only officers elected were Dr. McConkey as president and Mr. Garfield King as secretary. Other officers will be elected and committees formed at a later meeting. i The bill to be submitted to the Provincial Legislature vvas discussed and a committee left for Victoria with instructions to interview the government and further the interests of the measure. The committee consisted of Dr. McConkey, Dr. Robert Telford. Rev. Richmond Craig, Mr. D. Chalmers and Mr. Garfield King. ��� ^ ��� Xever court a girl whose father is a pessimist, for he always has a kick coming. WITH THIS ISSUE OF THE Standard we bring to a close five years of publication. We take this opportunity of thanking our Patrons, Readers and Advertisers for the loyal support given us and Respectfully solicit your patronage for the future. A FEW OF THE FIRMS AND INSTITUTIONS WHO SAW ' FIT TO USE OUR COLUMNS : ��� Dominion Government ��� Robert Dollar, of Canada, Limited B. C. Telephone, Ltd. Hampton Pinchin, Limited Canadian Pacific Railway Gordon-Drysdale, Ltd. Simonds Canada Saw Co., Limited Hudson's Bay Company B. C. Electric Railway Company SoutrrVancouver Municipality Wm. Dick, Ltd. Great Western Smelting & Refining Company. < McNeill, Welch & Wilson Kelly, Douglas & Co., Ltd. Brown Bros., Ltd. Canadian Northern Railway Kirk & Co. Campbell Storage Company Union Steamship Company Booth Fisheries B. C. Provincial Government ��� Vancouver Daily Province Canadian Linde Refrigerator Co., Vancouver School Board WE ALSO HAVE A GREAT HOST OF SATISFIED PATRONS OF THE JOB PRINTTING DEPARTMENT / 426 Homer St. Vancouver, B.C. 'o-m SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1917 THE STANDARD THREE (BY "LAURINA") SURELY we are at last justified in believing that the sunshine ha. come to stay, and we are fairly '-il the way to summer. How different everything looks after just a week or two of genial weather, the trees are green with that fresh, clean green of spring, before the dust has whitened, and dulled their beauty. Tht birds are fairly bursting their little throats with song, and, by-thc- vvay, what a charming idea is that of building pretty little bird houses in gardens, to fasten en trees or stand tj-rt pedestals. The leathered creatures ���ty/on find tlieir way to them and make tlieir nests there, so one is sure of keeping some of their cheerful song about one. Everything possible should be done to foster and encourage singing bird life in this country, for it is all too scarce. * * * The stores are full of dainty silks and cottons just now, and most fascinating they are. The clever lingers of the home dressmaker can manipulate the daintiest of garments, for a minimum of cost, and the patterns provided now-a-days arc so perfect tliat the merest novice at dressmaking can hardly go far wrong. I saw the other day the most successful gown of sheer cotton voile, in a soft rose pink, made with the straight lines so much in vogue. A panel piece ran from the neck to the hem in front, and was braided effectively with a tiny braid of tbe same shade as the dress, while back and sides were plaited. A braided waist land, and large white organdie collar finished the toilet. Another useful afternoon frock was made of taffeta silk, in beige, with a looped up tunic giving 'fulness at the sides of the skirt. The waist was of iiinon iu the same shade, with bands and cuffs ol the silk, while a sash was passed round the waist, crossed at the back, and loosely -knotted with long falling ends in front. These two frocks certainly had good style to recommend them, and1 could quite easily be undertaken in the home work room. Paris models are showing a tendency to draw in the skirts rather lightly about the hem, a la the "Id hobble skirt, and another inovation is to make the skirt much shorter in the immediate front, running up almost Jo a point in some cases. Such freakish fashions do not sound particularly entrancing, and I should hardly think would become popular, but one never knows, for when fashion steps in common sense often steps out. In Xew York many of the designers are copying a new model winch is taken from early Egyptian apparel, and which some consider the smartest of all the new innovations. It is a knife pleated skirt wliich hangs straight from waist to hem. is made very narrow, and of soft materials, and is several inches longer than the skirts of the winter season. The coat worn with this skirt, is a simple, straight up and down affair, giving the silhouette a narrow, straight appearance; quite after the style of the female figure which usually appears in Egyptian works of art. The large pointed collar so much in vogue just now on waists, and coats is really very becoming, and will probably be much iu evidence all through the summer months. * * * Iu a couple of weeks time' time we shall be considering the bathing gown, and preparing for splashing in the water at the bays. For the woman who really enjoys ber plunge there is nothing to equal a good weight stockinette, close fitting costume, for comfort both iu and -nut of the water. CARNIVAL MORALISINGS 1 stood in the crowd mi Wednesday, the first day of the carnival, ami waited for the procession to pass. In front of me was a little lad oi perhaps nine years with his mother, who talked excitedly to some friends. The boy was left to his.own devices, an<< stood first ou one leg then on the other, at last bringing his little nailed boot too near his mother's toe. "For goodness sake. Johnnie, can't you be still a minute," she cried. A flushed, excited, eager little lace was upturned to hers, as Johnnie breathlessly replied. "Oh, mother, I can't, 'cause I'm waiting." "Who ever heard such nonsense; can't keep still because your waiting.'* was the irate parent's scornful remark, as she once more joined her friends. Never mind, little Johnnie, you hail all my sympathy, there are so many of us older ones who understand what you meant, who know only loo well, the awfulness, sometimes tlie I tragedy of having to keep still while] you wait. * * * Later in lhe day, wheif on the viaduct, I was attracted by some of thei shows, and visited among others the| dog-eating Igorottes. They were! certainly roasting something, which1 with much stretching of my imagina-l tion, 1 persuaded myself was a dog; but no such effort was apparently re-] quired by one small maiden, who frantically clasped her father's hand, crying. "Oh! Daddy, you don't think it is our little Spot, do you?" ft ft # I was tempted, too, to pay a visit to the lady placarded as "frivolous, fascinating, flirtatious, fat Trixie," the last qualification evidently being calculated lo draw, as the showman assured the crowd in strident tones that "she really was a fat, nice fat Trixie." It was quite true. Trixie was a fat girl, but "frivolous, fascinating, flirtatious." no indeedl for with ample proportions well displayed, she slept the sleep, not of the just, but of the fat. while prodding with a stick, and admonitions to wake up from the lady in charge only caused licr to half open her eyes, to as quickly close them again, ll was very funny, but pathetic, too, and 1 went awav wondering what there could be in life that was beautiful for such as Trixie, and feeling just a little sail. MUSICAL NOTES It is interesting to note that 136 works were sent iu for competition lo the Carnegia trustees by llritish composers, in response to their offer I" publish six which should be oi sufficient merit, the composer to have the copyright, and a royally on all sales. The report announced that those chosen, "were such as would do honor to the music of any country," ami so much that was worthy was sent in that seven were accepted for publication. They are as follows; "Before Sunrise," symphony for contralto solo, chorus, and orchestra, by E. L. Bain tore; "Hebridean," symphony by Granville Banlock; "The Immortal Hour," opera, by Rutland Botlghton; "The Sea," symphonic suite, by F. Bridge; Pianoforte Quartette in, A J ^minor, by H. Howells; "The Travel- , ling Companion," opera by Sir C. V. Stanford; "London," symphony, by R. Vaughn Williams. . " LAST POST " A MASTER ORGANIST Dr. W. G. Alcock, who has been appointed the organist of Salisbury Cathedral, England, is a master of his instrument. He acted as organist on the occasion of the coronation of King Edward VII, also at the coronation of our present monarch. At the coronation of King Edward a hitch occurred iu the proceedings. and Dr. Alcock with much presence of mind interposed an extemporization, which people thought was an arranged part of the proceedings, but which undoubtedly averted a disaster. The organ, as an instrument, always held a great fascination for him, and as a small boy he would pretend to play at his father's desk, using the drawer knobs as stops, getting his hrother to pretend to blow. A most successful concert was given un Tuesday evening, May 8, at Lhalincr's Church, by the choir, under the leadership of Mr. W. II. .Sanson. The interesting feature of the program was the performance of Stanford's ''Last Post," a work written in commemoration of those that fell during the Boer War. The choir was at its best, the attack vigorous, and tone full, while the parts were very evenly balanced. ��� The work was rendered in a most artistic manner, with good observance of light and shade, while the cornet solos, by Mr. Shields, one of wliich was played from behind the organ, were splendidly done, some beautiful notes being produced. Mr. Harry Barlow gave all necessary support at the organ. Dudley Hick's "Hymn to Music," was also rendered by the full choir, while some of the members sang Quartettes and trios. There were two light and 'charming numbers by ladies, ''A Madrigal iu May," and "Sunbeam" ami an arrangement of "My Ain Folk," for four male voices. There was also a male chorus, "(> Salmans." by Gounod, and a chorus for ladies' voices only, Mendelssohn's "1 Would That My Love." Miss N'ickawa, recited mosl dramatically "Ohvistoh," by I'alinc Johnson, and "The Song of the Canadian Legions," as well as two encore pieces, and Mrs. Daniel Day sang "Spring's Awakening." in a mosl pleasing manner. "Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind." was sung by Mr. W. J. Stevenson, who is the possessor of a remarkably line bass voice, lie sang as an encore "Up I'mni Somerset." Mr. McKellar, who is a baritone, gave a selected solo, ami "Mother o' Mine," in good style. Much praise is due to Mr. W. II. Nanson; for a really successful entertainment. "That we. the Women's Canadian Chili of Vancouver, urge the government to enact prohibition as a war measure not later than July 1. 1917, and that the secretary be instructed to immediately forward this resolution ti the Provincial Government" was the resolution carried unanimously at a meeting of the Women's Canadian Club Tuesday afternoon in St. Andrew's schoolroom, with Mrs. ill Pencier presiding. ft ff tf At the twenty-sixth annual meeting of tin- Women's Missionary Society of the Methodist Church of British Columbia which commenced its sessions in ihc Mount Pleasant Methodist Church Tuesday, Rev. W. J. Sipprell, D.D., addressed the convention on the efforts that missionary societies must make to meet the demands that the future will, make upon them. He maintained that the cosmopolitan influence of commerce, education, economics and inventions has influenced the immediate past, and will influence the future of the non-Christian world, lie treated in detail tbe changes which bail taken place in Japan, China and Korea: in India and Southern Asia, and in Western Asia. * * * A group of Pennsylvania suffragists, who. in response to the request sent out by the National American: Woman Suffrage Society, are going into the business of farming with vigor and vim, have been investigating statistics to find out how many women in the United States have preceded them in this field of industry. They found, by consulting the census returns, that the number of women farmers is 257.706; farm laborers. L- 514,428; farm foremen. 7763; gardeners, 7M.14: gardeners' laborers, 7474; miscellaneous, about 7000, making a total of 1.802.202. * * * The depot of the Daughters of the Empire will be moved at the close of this week from 736 Dunsmuir street to Rooms 011-912 Birks building. ft ^ ft Orders for free luncheon for' thirty-six conveners of the various stations in connection with the Syrian lay day Saturday have been kindly donated by Mr. Lockyer of thc Hudson's Bay Company. * * * Thc Queen has given $500 for Si Dunstan's Hosiel to Sir Arthur Pearson, part of a sum sent by thej Illinois State Regent of the Prince of Wales Chapter of the Daughters of the llritish Empire, Chicago, Women are being taught to run trolley cars in Topeka, Kan. hollowing the announcement of the plan of ihe Northern Pac"':,. Railway Company to employ women i,v the place of men. iwo women have been put to work i,i thc railroad shops at South Tacoma. They are serving as checkers in the storehouse, where an inventory is under way. oughdly scrubbed before being put in the pan. Afterward the liquid series as a base for soup. Many people are unaware that valuable mineral salts are contained in and next to the skin of the potato. This is the reason why a baked potato possesses such a rich flavor. Don't Peel Potatoes Tiie French seldom peel potatoes before boiling. They boil them "in their jackets" and BO retain these mineral salts. If baked the potato, skin and all, is eaten. 'I'he way to save by using bonci for soup is known to every housewife, but apparently local women do not care to take the trouble, for this is a common waste evidenced by the garbage can. Another species of food waste i^ found in the fact that the old time "preserves larder" no longer bas a place in many Vancouver uoines. generation or 50 ago practically every woman took a pride in showing her well-stocked larder to visitors. The modern housekeeper does not seem t<i take an interest in her own handiwork in this respect. . .She would rather get factory-made preserves from the store than buy the fruit and sugar and can the stuff herself. A Vancouver chef has installed an efficiency department iu his hotel kitchen. He never wastes the roots of cabbage, celery, or other vegetables. He has there things thoroughly scrubbed and then peeled. The resulting vegetable makes an excellent compound for consomme. In addition to a saving thus created, the best flavors of the vegetables are conserved. BY WASTING FOOD WOMEN HELP HUNS A MEXICAN SUFFRAGETTE llermilda Galindo, a progressive modernistic Mexican senorita from Yucatan, where, as well as in Cuba, she has been prominent as a leader in the feminist movement, has been elected a deputy from one of the electoral districts of Mexico City to sit in the next session of the national legislature, opening May 5. Though of Yucatan, she is legally permitted to sit for a Mexico City constituency. The fact that a woman of this type has won a seat in the centre of the conservative forces of the new state is significant. 1 _��� 1 OPENS STUDIO Mr. Kenneth MacDonald Shook, baritone, of this city, has opened a vocal studio in the Mason & Risch studios. Vancouver block, and will accept a limited number of pupils for voice production, breathing and singing. .-^_�������� MUSICAL SOCIETY ANNUAL The adjourned annual meeting of the Vancouver Musical society will be held on Wednesday evening, May 16. Immense Quantities of Foodstuffs Thrown Into Garbage Daily In Vancouver. 'I'.very ounce of food wasted helps lhe German cause." Tin- is the warning slogan of the nation-wide "Save and Produce" campaign launched this week in the l'nited States. It is the warning sounded score- of times recently hy Haron Devonport, British food controller, to people throughout ihc British Empire. This warning applies 10 Vancouver as well a- to any other community in the Hritish empire or iu lhe United Suites. Cursory inquir* by The Standard develope . the facl that greal quantities of f 1 are wasted iu Vancouver 'daily which, if saved, would nol " 1' materially reduce the high cost of living but would enable greater exportation of foodstuffs to help the allied cause. Health officials of Vancouver, and I especially those of the scavenging department, declare that tons of foodstuffs are thrown away into the garbage daily. The remarkable feature is that the waste is not so great in the wealthy districts as in the working class districts. "It appears." said one official, "that local housewives do not properly understand the culinary art. The tale is told by the garbage can. Tons of meat, bread, vegetables and the like are thrown away, apparently because the housewife lacks the knowledge of how to make up into tasty dishes things that are left over from the table." The chief articles noticed by the garbage men are big meat bones with chunks of meat sticking to then extra thick potatoe peelings, slices of stale bread, ^and numerous other "scraps." all of which could be made into tasty wholesome dishes. Tells of Extravagance A noted Frenchman who recently visited this continent declared on his return: "America is a wasteful country. The population of France could bc well fed 011 the waste from American homes." By this he meant that sufficient nutriment was thrown into the garbage can. in the United States and Canada, to provide food fot many. In French homes even the water in which vegetables are boiled is not wasted. The potatoes, carrots, cabbages and other vegetables are thor- YOU CAN FIGHT IN YOUR KITCHEN It is impossible to put too much emphasis upon the necessity for food saving by everyone during the war. Food may play as important a part, if not a more important part, in the war than guns and ammunition. The saving of food is very largely an individual problem. In the filial analysis it is up to the women of the nation. I'.very woman should do her part in lh-.- campaign to increase and con- serve the nation's food supplies. The food necessities of all the nations with which we are allied in the war against Germany, are very great. The people of this country must save every pound of food that self- imposed rigid ecoouniy makes possible to the end That tliere lie the greatest possible surplus for shipment to our hard pressed allies. Do not make the mistake of confusing the food problem with the financial problem. You have no moral right to waste fond simply because you can afford to do so than has your small-income neighbor. It is not a question of saving food for the money's sake. It must be saved so that there will be enough to go around. Every pound of food that finds its way to the garbage can means that much loss of fighting strength. Volunteer today, for the duration of the war in the-great army of food savers. Begin now. today, to demonstrate thrift in your home. Make saving, rather than wasting your social standard. You can fight for your country in vour kitchen just as effectively as effectively as your husbands, brothers, sons and sweethearts are fighting for it on the field of battle. . Restrictions imposed upon consumers in Grcat Britain and France should be a warning to Canadians to do everything possible to increase anil conserve the food supply. EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN British Columbia has recently and wisely followed the lead of other provinces and commonwealth in granting tiie ladies the voting privileges. The gradual granting- of the franchise to the women of tin' world is a duty that man has owed her for a great number of regrettable years; it is emancipation from that stale of irresponsible slavery into which she fell, and which she has endured ever since the cowardly and selfish man falsely accused her of stealing the apple and thereby bringing sin into the world for the first time, it has been a long time coming, but it is no less welcome to the women now ii is here. The world has been civilized for a great many years with this one deplorable blot upon it: the wonder is that the ladies did not present a magna charta for King John's signature centuries ago. Woman has been down trodden because she has been the weaker of the sexes, yet she has always had the heaviest physical burden to bear. It has been a long time coming but it is gradually creeping on. They day has gone by when the orld will look out and judge with one eye only���when the affairs of two distinctly constituted peoples shall be governed by one of those peoples only. Until recently woman has been a chattel of man���part of man's equipment to be used at his pleasure. In the past woman bas been prohibited, restrained and latterly discouraged by unsurmoiintable obstacles from entering into professional life; she could not even be her own doctor, but, in this, had to submit to man as in all other things. Xow that the franchise has been granted we will look to woman to assert herself; she will no longer be part of man's luggage; she will no longer be an asset of man, a piece of personal property, or a separate animal. She will step upon a tetnin- ine throne and manage her own affairs. She will be tried by her peers as she has never been before: she will be her own physician, surgeon. lawyer and administrator, for in every community tliere should be a female lawyer, and there should be female judge as well as male judges. Every woman in the province of British Columbia, which has just granted the franchise, should hasten to have her name registered on lhe list o' voters so that at all future elections she will be able to assert herself and ultimately become fixe.���Ashcroft Journal. NELSON WOMEN ARE IN LINE The Nelson Conservative Women's Association has elected the follow ing officers: Lady Borden, patroness; Mrs. W. I, Bowser, honorary president: Mrs' R, F. Green and Mrs. W. O. Rose, honorary vice-presidents; Mrs. \*. M Cummins, president; Mrs. C. D. Blackwood, vie ; residenl Mrs. Donald Guthrie, treasurer; and Mrs. 1. 11 Nfathe 1 ���<��� retary. Members of the executr ������ : Mrs Thomas Bennett. M��s. 1 V Gitker. Mrs. Joseph Jackson Mrs I. E. Goulding. Mr-. I-'. I. Porti r, Mi- 1. Bulger, Mr- |? p, Morrison, Mrs (',. .1.', M.��� 1 o. 11. Mrs. rcssii K. Fraser, Mrs. W. M. Walker, Mrs. Stanlev Mrs. G. Haggitt. Mrs Herbcrl ICeefe, Mrs. If. 1'a.hs anil Mrs. Alex Leith, It was decided that seven members of the executive might "constitute a quorum. MADAM GADSKI WITHDRAWS New York. May 11.���Madam Jo- hann Gadski. the opera singer, wife of Captain Hans Tauscher. agent of the Krupps in the United States, who returned to Germany in Count vol. Bcrnstorff's party, announced last night that she had withdrawn for the present from the Metropolitan stage. The action was prompted, she said, by "unjust attacks" against her on the ground that she was anti-American. BYRON'S CALL ��� TO ARMS In times like these it is inspiring to recall the glorious death of Lord Byron, for, while the poet passed away in bed, the victim of disease, he was as truly a martyr to liberty as any soldier who meets his fate on the battlefield It was in 1824 that the great bard, then 36. breathed his last at Missolonghi, Greece, where he had gone to aid the Greeks in their heroic struggle for freedom from the yoke of the Turkish tyrant. Byron not only devoted his services, but also a large part of his fortune, to the cause of Hellenic liberty, aud on the altar of freedom he laid down his life. The reforms he accomplished in a short time in the poorly equipped and wretchedly disciplined Greek army proved that he possessed no little ability as an organizer. Byron's physique, never strong, soon gave way, and he was disappointed in his hope that he might fall in battle. Shortly before his death he wrote to a friend: "I cannot quit Greece while there is a chance of my being even of supposed utility. Tliere is a stake worth millions such as I am. and while I can stand at all 1 must stand by the cause.'' The following verses from Byron's last poem, written in Greece not lone before his death, arc full of inspiration iu (hose times when another grcat war for liberty is being fought Awake! (not Greece���she is awake!. Awake, my spirit! Think through whom Thy lii'c-!d.'oil tracks its parent lake, And then strike home! If thou regrett'sl tin youth, win- live' The land of honorable death Is here:���up to thc field, anil lmvc \wav thy breath' Seek nut���less often sought than found��� \ - Idicr's gravi. for thee tlu- best; Then look aroiun'. an I choose thy ground. And take thy rest. Established 1904 PURE VINEGARS AND SWEET APPLE CIDER Carload Business a Specialty FACTORIES: B.C. Vinegar Works VANCOUVER AND VERNON J. II. FALCONER, Manager Member Society of Chemical Industry. ENTERPRISE RANGES Give Satisfaction for a Life Time PACIFIC STOVE & FURNACE CO. 856 GRANVILLE ST. (Between 3obson and Smythe) NOTICE Having purchased a large consignment of high quality white paper at a very reasonable price, we are now in a position t" give close prices on catalogues, books, pamphlets, 'lodgers, etc. The Standard Job Department, 426 Homer Street: phone Sey. 470. STONED BY THE UNCO GUID The Human Soul Development corporation of Detroit, was formed a year ago t" take care of Christine Neilson, 17 years old, after four business men had read tiie newspaper account of her arrest ;i- a street walker. They met the judge before whom she was to be tried, and arranged to have her live with a minister in Chatham. Out. She went willingly, and was making good progress in school until her story got about. Then all her new friends dropped her. Soon afterwards she disappeared, and when one of the men who ��� had befriended her found her leading the old life in Toronto he could n.>t persuade her. for all her dejection, to go back and try again. The Human Soul Development corporation has closed its books. GUILTY WANT PATRIOTIC FUND NATIONALIZED The administration of the Patriotic fund Came in for further criticism at a meeting of the Grcat War Veterans" Association in O'Brien hall Thursday night, when a delegation of soldiers' wives and mothers came lo ask for assistance iu having the fund rationalized. Xo action was taken bm '.he matter will be biViiehi before the executive. There was a good deal of discussion and the opinion was generally expressed that the fund ought to be under the control of the government. Complaint was made particularly of the methods of investigation at present employed. .____��� Xelson has boosted its dog tax to three dollars a year. THE FOUR-LEAF CLOVER 1 know a place where Ihe sun is like gold. And the cherry Id 10ms hurst with snow. And down underneath is the liveliest nook, Where the four-leaf clovers grow. One leaf is I'or hope, and one is for faith. And one is Ior love, you know. And God put another in for luck��� If you search you will find where they grow. But you must have hope and you must have faith. You must love and be strong���and so. If you work, il" you wail, you wil! find the place Where the four-leaf clovers grow. ���Ella Higginson. ��� 1 ��� SUGAR REFINERY INCREASES WAGES To conform to the rates giv-Mi in the recent civic award the B. C. Sugar Refinery has increased the scale of pay to laborers to 38 cen'.s an hour and the rate for girls to 22 cents an hour. Work has been resumed at the refinery and conditions aie now* stated 1_> ne satisfactory. Mrs. Stella Stinson Not Punished for Her Activities. Mrs. Stella Stinson was found guilty by the jury Thursday evening of fraudulently representing herself to be an agent or member of the Red Cress society. After the verdict was brought in. Frank Lyons, counsel for the accused made a strong plea for mercy, on the ground that Mrs. Stinson had done so much good work for the soldiers even if she was technically guilty of thc offence in the indictment Justice Morrison thereupon sentenced her to thc time since she had Iiecn arrested, and she left the court room a free woman. She had been out on bail ever sinci 1 1 iharge was laid, so thai sh,. .. ��� ��� , ,���-. ir i iii al all. EMPLOYED WOMEN Baltimore. Md. May 11.���The captain " :��� .\orwegian - ip in port today declared that two months ago women wen lehu used at Stettin, Germain', p. load and discharge steamers, even running the winches on decks and docks, He also slated thai it was becoming difficult ; men lo volunteer to man tin s,' rines, of which a number were being built at Stettin. TIME CLOCK FOR HUBBY 1 liislialids in wet cities may have lo face the custom of punching a time clock when they go out of evenings and when they return, just as workers in factories do. A Chicago woman has bought a time clock so as to keep tab on the nocturnal goings and comings of her husband, and the custom may become popular. _ _^ 1 The Imperial Oil Company, which has a $2.000,(XT0 refinery at loco, has started an advertising campaign t" induce Vancouver people to buy their products. The regular meeting of the University Women's club will be held on Saturday. May 12. at S o'clock, at 745 Dunsmuir street. The business for the evening includes the elections. The executive will entertain. The annual banquet is to bc held on Mav 19. A contract ha; been let for tbe building of a million dollars' worth of wooden ships at Xew Westminster. A rummage sale will be held on Tuesday. May 15. at 1025 Granville street, under the auspices of the Connaught chapter l.O.D.E. Thc entire proceeds vvill be used for the material fund. Any scheme that contemplates a woman making a "garden should include letting her keep the egg and butter money.���Portland Orcgonian. FOUR THE STANDARD SATURDAY, MAY 12, 191/ I ���I l^""3 Richmond Craig's Weekly Message ^^^ 0t ;*i WOMAN IS THE SECRET chile earth, hut never a ll mini ter regarded women tellcctually, to men. woman at medium ior the and it world ssiah, I lim. manhood "Certain women ministered unto Him of their substance."���Luke 8, 2:3. (Not week Church 4 of address meeting in Vancouver given at mid- Westminster 11. C.J ��� ChrjJ Women Superior to Men lit be advanced that lhe Mai is superior, ill. Ile chose the the well ol Samaria as the nVeying to the fact, that lie was the V was to lhe sisters in Bethany, that lie,declared the greal truth ol "1 am the Resurrection and when death came a band of loyal wo- 1 11 im still when man, with the c< fled. On the resurrectiQii m was to a woman. Mary, that 11 appearance after il not significant, f the resurrection was taught to a woman, for as we all know, this is the basal fact ��� tianity, the mainspring oi its ' power, the hope of its life, _ revealed to a woman? Truly, for th Savior of the world. Woman was the secret. Dominant In Early Church hi trace lhe place of women tolic Church am. ome of the worms giean.:-- .._. Some people thought they saw in the writings ��� ._._-���-,,.-, m0Vemeni with the hereafter, and the Life," t wa lhal was aroun . iward heart had rn, it made lie hat! that the first t" His first risen. Is doctrine o Women We mig in the early Apos again find in its history Id's greatest names. HUMAN BLOSSOMS 1 almost think ihe angels, Who tread life's garden fair, Drop down the sweet wild blossoms That bloom around us then-. It seems a breath from Heaven Round many a cradle lies. And every, little baby Is a message from the skies. * * ��� fii she it n of being. Wh holi Is the ; who harac- woiild if Chris- church's and it was Some time ago one of our modern: writers. Mr. Harold liegbie, discussed, in his own fascinating style, the question, ''why is it that the twentieth | " unbeautiful, men so i of man so un-' be possible." he ���* was simple the ^���r Pwhy century is si small, and the heart satisfied?" "Can it argues, "that the answer and old as the ages of antiquity, the ....oiries inro by of Paul a reactionary regard lo women. That is not in cordance with the facts, as related t us in the Acts of the Apostles, nstaut association with \ the work of the Church, and we lhal as the work grew. large part had Paul men singly women in answer given many centuries age ** 'Where women I hind. ,^^^^^^^ I played an increas...��., -- -- - .... Ithe oropagaton of the Gospel, int arc is lie and development there s ^f^^/^v^\^^irsvs^^ The mother in her key of the soul; and stamps the Ciller, and makes the be a savage bul for a Christian man. .. * * "Children are whal the mothers are. Xo fondest father's fondest care Can fashion so the infant heart As those creative beams that dart. With all tlieir hopes and fears, upon Tbe cradle of a sleeping son." er gentle cares, Guinea, and they would not let the preachers stop. Here is the story: "My two native helpers. Aruako and Aruadaera, preached in the huge temple to a crowd of savages���real cannibals. It was a weird scene, and it was the most attentive congregation "f the kind I have ever met. They listened well. Soon after stin- -< I it began, and when I sought sleep it was still going on. When I awoke, ami lhe sun had preceded me, they were still talking and listening. Looking at Aruako, who was hoarse, I said. 'Have you been al il all nighl?' 'Yes. Inn I am now at Jesus Christ, ami must tell them all about Him.' Whin Aruako had finished there was bill one response from all their lips. N'o more lighting, no more man-eating; we have heard the good news, and we shall strive for peace.'" ALCOHOL AS MOTIVE POWER Back Of The Brawn , The Brain BY PRANK A SCOTT tie N America," I jon, of the *��� pany. which depend drinkable * * ff mothers vhat holy what ^^^ i kingly power "And say to charge Is theirs���with their love Might rule the fountain of the newborn mind; Warn them to wake at early dawn, and sow Good seed before the world has sown its tares." "MOTHER1 S DAY QUOTATIONS " nd Rome The world will probabl) upon alcohol (of the non- kind I more and more as time goes on, says Dr, Alexander Graham Bell. "We can lake coal out-of a mine, hut we can never put it back. We can draw oil from subterranean reservoirs, but we can never refill them again. We are spendthrifts in the matter of fuel." Alcohol I'or fuel, says Dr. Hell, can be made from sawdust, from cornstalks, from weeds, and even from the garbage of our cities. "A great field of usefulness is opening up 'fcjr the engineer who will modify our machinery to enable alcohol to be used as the source of power. ��-_�����_��� DAIRY STABLE LIKE A HOME N America," savs II. 1*. David-] J. ')'. Morgan Com-; h has handled the U.S. purchases of llritish munitions, "the manufacturers on the whole wh"! have made munitions for the llritish governmeni have lost money." Why? I'or one lliing becau.-c ol lhe lack I of standardization. That meant rejec- i tions, loss of time, loss of labor, confusion, uncertainty, waste. Standardization, every manufacturer knows, is one of lhe essentials [uf quick production. There are manufacturers who have doubled, eve" I trebled the production of their plants, by methods of standardization. The | | American company that built 550 submarine chasers for the British Navy in just 55(1 days was able to do so he-1 cause every article used in those boats I was standardized. Those familiar with the early days of the production ol munitions for the Allied governments in the present ] war know that in some instances cm-1 cerns, lor lack of proper specifications, had to turn oul tlieir product from samples without drawings. The I establishment of correct blue prints I and specifications to make such a conditions impossible in the United Stales is one reason for the Munitions Standards Board which has jusl "mother William fame, once God are the must either Brighton said two I anchor are procli a poor, of woman pant. The progress National life depends upon or great thinker. Robertson, of ^^^^^^ that "woman and ocks on which man >r be wrecked." And this is no mere platitude or piece of pulpit rhetoric. We cannot exaggerate the importance to men ol the position of women. In every nation where they are held in respect, purity abounds, and noble specimens of humanity are produced, but in nations that have a poor, and low idea nhood. vice and sin arc ram- decadence of ^^^^^ the view held by men of the character and, sphere of women. In the novelists: words. "Woman is thc secret. Man's attitude lo woman is the decisive factor of human life." Most Beautiful of Love Stories Xo literature in the world contains lovelier pictures of womanhood, jhi its various aspects, than the Bibb we find the heroines, set in position as to br'jg out the portraits to perfection. The most beautiful love story of all history- is found in the Book of Ruth, one of the gems of the Old Testament. The fragrance and holy character of that idyll, showing thc affectionate determination and unselfish devotion of one woman for another, and for the land of her birth, will linger in the world, so long as time lasts. And then there are also in Holy Writ the names of Hannah. thc praying mother; Sarah the mother of nations; Rebckab, Rachel. Hagar, and Naomi, all of whom have clouds of glory trailing around their memories, and bearing touches of the mystery and charm that surround the best types of womanhood. The Master's Idea of Womanhood And in the New Testament storv the place that women occupy is very large indeed. It has been said, that the religion of Jesus Christ was Search the long annals and Greece. The tombs of war. Th peace. I Ransack the old| fame. To fit the brightest splendi name The name above all means is * ff ft f pr, chronicles md modern rolls cms heart and an open courage and* devotion to noble hospitality and fine humility that have dominated womanhood generally, throughout the Christian have formed the themes thinkers, and historians, pages of history arc full Mother. duty; the era for poels. and the of records There such a "OUR MOTHER'S DAY" May 13, 1917. God thought to give the sweetest thing In His almighty power To earth, and deeply pondering What it should be���one hour In fondest joy and love of heart, Out weighing every other, He moved the gates of Heaven apart And gave to earth���a Mother. land that rocks the cradl t mil ���Wm. Ross "The Is thc hand that rules ihc world. "'���- Ross Wallace. * * * "The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."���Henry Ward Bcccher. "A mother is a mother still. The holiest thing alive." ���Coleridge. or hope to be I owe mother."���Abraham "All that 1 am to my angel * * * "My mother was the making of inc. She was so true, so sure of me; and 1 felt 1 had someone to live for, someone 1 must not disappoint."���Thomas Edison. f, * f, "To the man who has a mother all women are sacred for her sake."��� Jean Paul Richter. ft ft if "Youth fades, love drops; the leaves of friendship fall: A mother's secret hope outlives them all. ���Oliver Wendell Several features strike the visitor to the stable of a certain dairy in Portland, Ore., as quite remarkable. I Pictures hang upon the walls: ferns are placed above the stanchions; the windows are screened and covered with freshly washed curtains; the doors are doubly screened and at une side of the stable is an enamel washbowl with running waler. Such unusual conditions are due. in part at least, to rivalry which has sprung up among the Portland dairymen, who must obey rigid city rules regarding the production of clean milk. At this dairy caWi cow is bathed before entering' Ihe stable and her udder washed with warm water, soap and a fresb- lj laundered cloth. The milk is strained through sterilized cotton batting The cows are never hurried or frightened, and on returning from the pasture are allowed to move along leisurely. The milk in ihis dairy has improved considerably in nuritv, the number of bacteria found in it being much lower lhat) in milk from the average dairy. u l^ I VANCOUVER LEADS Only that Woman was the j which show secret. Woman Still the Secret In these war times, too,' we arc proving thc truth of this statement. At no time in the world's history has woman measured up to the ideal standard of love, devotion, and sacrifice, as she is doing at this very moment. Every home in the Empire is feeling the influence and inspiration of those who minister to us, of their substance and their life. The charm of consecrated womanhood is certainly the most exquisite of heaven's gifts to mankind, and the one that we must cherish the most. Neither beauty, wit, nor intellect in womanhood, can, of themselves com- llolnies. htin- pel more than passing admiration simply for women and neurotic men. j from man. The features of the most "One good mother is worth a drcd school masters."���Herbert. a, ft f, "The mother is one of the supreme assets of national life; she is more important hy far than the successful statesmen, or business man, or an isl, or scientist."���Theodore Roosevelt. THE SIN OF PRAYERLESSNESS The makers of such statements only parade their ignorance and prejudice, when such uttrances escape, in weak moments, their lips. Christ brought into the world a dynamic that has strengthened manhood, beyond the dreams of the greatest philosophers, and His Gospel has elevated women to their proper sphere. Ilefore he came walking on the shadowed side of the world, with His peerless religion of love and hope, the common people were neglected and despised. Women were supposed to possess no - rights, and to be able to establish no claims. They were looked upon as slaves. They were tools in the hands of tyrants, and beasts of burden to minister to the luxury of their lords. The coming of Christ enohlcd womanhood; the proclamation of his doctrine of love, has slowly but surely given woman her proper place as the helpmate and friend of man, and this development constitutes the purest and most perfect protest, that the world has ever seen, against the sovereignty of force. Womanhood Honored Christ That Jesus was in his teaching regarding woman, twenty centuries before Mis time, has often been pointed out. In Mahommedanism of today. women have no place. The Koran was written for men. not for women. Mobammedism regards women as soulless, and makes no provision for her in the great fundamentals of religion. But Jesus treated woman as not only having a soul, but placed her on the 6ame plane as man. The affection that existed between our Lord and His mother is beautifully set forth in the Scriptures. His last thoughts were of her. He did not leave her unprovided for, but enjoined on John, the care of her, who hail borne in misunderstanding and sorrow, the early days in Nazareth. She was thus openly and publicly honored by her great son. Many men are recorded as having spoken in derision purely modelled perfection, do not give that touch to the world, that il seeks and longs for. The world fears wit rather than loves it, and pays homage lo intellect only grudgingly, and from afar off, but it is never slow to appreciate, and worship that form of true meekness and holy loveliness that is revealed by those who are the handmaidens of the Lord. It is the purity of the soul that makes heaven of the face. It is of little moment whether a mother be brilliant or clever, but it is of her mind he noble ^^^^^^^^^^ the highest���that she be visited by those profound thoughts, which have their home in the unseen, and be inspired by unworldly enthusiasms. Such a woman will ever be the secret of all that is highest and best in the circle in which she moves, and will ever command tbe devotion and loyalty of admiring love. Giving Library In America Free Literary Talks. Willi the giving of a lecture "Swift, and the .v'onicn Who Loved Him." bv Librarian R. W. Douglas at the Carnegie Library "Saturday evening, the series of Saturday night talks closed until fall, One of the first lectures of the winter will deal with llritish Columbia poets and an thors. The giving of these literary lee Hires, as part of a Carnegie librar; public service, has been watched with considerable attention by outsit! librarians, as this is the first librar in America to branch out in this respect. The interest taken at fir: was small, only about thirty attem ing, but by the time tlie spues of t< lectures was completed, this had ii creased to over two hundred. done by an ordinary workman. All this calls for a more definite method of measurement than that formerly used. In other days we wanted only one piece, now we want thousands of pieces all alike���-each one an exact duplicate of the other. If organization is carried out along this line in all necessary channels, we can start a large number of factories making war materials that will be .one hundred per cent, good, at the same time standardizing the cost of production. Improperly designed gages with improper tolerance have cost the manufacturers ill this country, as well as the Allies, many millions of dollars, Thi' government should have, first of all. its blue prints prepared with ihc proper tolerance perfected l/l test- and careful practise. The sequence of operations and the time taken to do the work should also be perfected and put in printed form with the necessary cuts showing the set up, as well as the best way lo handle the work, both in operation and gaging of same. This would enable all factories to standardize llieir productions. The Munitions Standards Board is. of course, fully aware how efficiently the technical work of the government bureaus has been and is performed. On this side probably the chief ser- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^���., . 'ice which the board can render to been created by the Secretary of War. t]1t, government is to suggest ways by authority of the Army Appropria- and means of adapting peace time tions Act of August 29. 1916. The standards to war lime conditions, men who form this committee have Also, through the arli-ities of the learned a greal many things about the I hoard, there may be drawn into the production of munitions and special militarv departments of the govern equipment from having been interest- mcn( t|,c experience which has been ed in their manufacture since the be- developed through two and one-half ginning of thc warm Europe. Thev k,ears 0f making war materials for are especially qualified to establish | foreign governments. Previous to the creation of this board there seemed to be no duly constituted channel such fundamentally vital things as correct specifications and drawings for immediate use. because tliey have been actively engaged, in their respective fields, in the supervision of such work. The men who make nn the Munitions Standard Board are: Prank A. Scott, manufacturer of automatic machinery and optical instruments; W. II. Vandervoort, builder "f special machine tools; E. A. Deeds, owner of engineering laboratories; Prank Pratt, manufacturer of electric products; Samuel Vaiiclain, maker of locomotives, rifles, munitions; Jiihn !���',. Otterson, manufacturer "j rifles. The nomination of this excellent group of Americans, who are serving without any compensation, comes In great measure, ot course, Irom the growing realization, even on the part of the layman, that war is now a business proposition and tllat battles are won not only by fighting men but by fighting hiQiistries. As Howard Coffin has said, "In modern warfare the iln no _ Ugh which tllis could be brought j about. Tbis is particularly true since war has ceased to be a profession to I the successful conduct of which military men alone are called. Modern I war enlists every science, industry rand snecial knowledge of thi' nation. ll should be borne stronglv in mil"1 I that the work of the board is as vital i for peace as for war. Tt is essential , that manufacturers should have such j information as will enable them to l'i themselves for proper production in ian emergency���ami Primer production means quantity production. In many ways the work Stretchine 'before (he Munitions Standards .'Board is of great, immediate and potential value to the people, to the | government of the United States and to the maintenance of their armed forces. SUNDAY LABOR TO CEASE bfo'od of the soldiers must b? J""1^'' i Kngland Will Abolish It in Majority three parts with the sweat oi the man * , m._*_*i__._ m.,.,_.. in ..... ���,ills." There is coming the! e ,....��f,."""':,l��n, fijU**':. .��� ',,��� London possible to hi m the nulls I here is coming u,e, Snm,.lv |a|.(_r ,__ realization thai preparedness is _no abo|;shec1 as last longer a. glorious melodramatic thing Iiu. majority ,���- munjtions works, of vast bodies of uniformed men and 0nly ,��� establishments; in which the waving flags, but rather an or: I pr0Jcss wor,ie(1 if of ���eccssity c���n_ ization and co-ordination of tht tjnU6us or where contracts of greal sources irom which these things j llrgcncy are |)cing filled will expep. spring, ! ,;ons foe made. To go from the abstract to the con- This decision is thc result of an excrete, it has been said by qualified, periment carried out for months in authorities that if we can measure an' works on the Tyne and Tecs, where article, wc can make it. To meet the the abolition of Sunday labor, ac- (leinand of the present age we must' cording to an official report, has been have progressive manufacturing in most cases highly beneficial to the where each man has only a small part health of the workers and the output of the work, and that part must be of munitions, Twenty Five Years on inrJob! A SERMON ON SPORT Ex-President Roosevelt loves sport so well and so wisely that it is worth while reading a short sermon he preached about it the other day. The pulpit was the playground of a high school near Washington, and thc play ground was church as well. There had been an athletic contest in the afternoon; and here was Ronse- vcldt's' short sermon in four heads: ���"Play hard, do your level best to win. but scorn to be guilty of bad practices. Play hard when you play, but when you work don't play. Get (By Rev. J. H. Jowett, D.D.) "God forbid that 1 should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for yon."���I Sam. xii. 24. How few of us have placed prayer- lessness among mir possible sins! And how even fewer have placed the omission to pray for others in the black list of sins against thc holy Loid! W'e have called it thoughtlessness, or negligence, or even apathy, but we have not called it sin. But how this word sin, as used in this unfamiliar relationship, broadens and deepens the ministry and obligation of nraver! My needy brother has a right to my prayers. They are to be regarded as part of his capital strength. .They constitute a part of thc forces which were purposed to .make him victorious in all the battle great price that r,f |jfc. My prayers for him are nart and sensitive to!0f his army. I control some of his vital equipment. Without my co-operation in prayer he is weakened and maimed. If 1 refuse him my prayers I deprive him of so much of his heritage. I defraud him. I wrong him in a far more deadly manner than if I refused to pay a material debt. 1 disclaim my spiritual debts, and- he is impoverished in the central resources of the soul. 1 help him into moral bankruptcy hy depriving him of his sacred dues. Thus do T wrong my brother, and thus do I sin against God. All this, I say, is a very lofty conception of the obligation of prayer. It is something we owe to others, and if we refuse to pay we leave them poor indeed. On the other hand, how uplifting is the conception that by my prayers I am increasing a man's moral capital. I am helping him to mobilise his spiritual forces. I am sending him army corps to enable him to meet his enemy at the gate and LONG SERMONS all you can out of sport, but do not! overthrow him. I may share in his neglect your,duties. Don't make the|warfare, and I may rejoice and glory mistake of thinking sports are thej in his triumph. serious thing in life. It is fine to be known as a football hero, but a poor thing if, when you are forty years of age, the only claim you can make is that you have been a football hero. When the serious things of life come, go at these things just as hard and with as much enthusiasm as you these sports." Long sermons are not long if people are interested. The great mission- ���. ary. James Chalmers, tells of a scr- d0 mon that went on all night, lt was preached to the cannibals of New C. ID. McPHERSON, assistant passenger traffic manager, Western Lines of the C. P. R��� was born at Chatham, Ontario, June 7, 1862, and was also educated there. He entered tbe service of the Grand Trunk at Toronto In 1876. He was with the company at various places until 1881. when he entered the service of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway as general agent tor Canada. He Joined the Canadian Pacific Railway, September 1. 18S6, as general travelling agent, with an office at Montreal, and the following year hu was appointed district passenger agent at Boston, In charge of the New England States and Maritime provinces. On absorp tion of the New Brunswick Railway England. He came to Canada In 1885 and entered the land department ot the Canadian Pacific Railway, Aug. 8, 1885. He was genera] clerk In tbe land department from 1885 to 1899. He was chief clerk from 1899 to 1912. He was appointed land agent of the company In Winnipeg, Feb. 1, 1912 which position he still holds. JACOB L. DOUPE, chief surveyer, C. P. R. Western Lines, was born in Toronto, September, 1867 Educated In Winnipeg public schools and St. John's College, he graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1887. He entered the Canadian Pacific Railway service as assistant engineer on construction in June, 1890 He be | came surveyer of the land department in 1890 by the Canadian Pacific Rail Iln May, 1891. and was appointed as- way he was made assistant general "istant land commissioner tn Sepiam passenger agent at St. Joan. He was transferred tn the same position tu Toronto In 1895. In 1899 he was appointed general passenger agent, Western Lines, at Winnipeg. In 1910 he wao appointed assistant passenger traffic manager at Winnipeg. FRANCIS W. ^RUSSELL, land agent, C. P. R.. Winnipeg, was born at Hastings, England, Dec 19, 1864. He was educated at private schoolB In ber, 1900. He became general townsite agenit In March, 1912, and chief surveyer of Western Lines In August, 1912. # R. PRESTON, asst superintendent of motive power, Western Lines, C. P. R.. was born at Toronto, July 28, 1863 He entered railway service in 1877. From 1878 to 1882 he was a machinist apprentice connected with Toronto. Grey and Bruce Railway, later absorb ed by the C. P. R., 1882 to 1884, ma- chlnist, C. P. R., Winnipeg, and Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway, Toronto. 1884 to 1887 he was a machinist In,the employ of the C. P. R. at Toronto; 1887-1890 he held the position of locomotive foreman at Have- lock. Ont. Prom 1890 to 1894 he was locomotive foreman at London, Ont. 1894 to 1897 locomotive ��� oreman Smiths Palls, Ont. 1897 to 1898, locomotive foreman, Montreal; 1898 to 1901, locomotive foreman, Toronto; 1901 to 1903, master mechanic, Lake Superior Division, North Bay, Ont; 1903 to 1909, mauler mechanic, Ontario Division, Toronto; 1909 to 1914. master mechanic, Manitoba Division, Winnipeg. Since 1914 he has been assistant superintendent of inotlv* power, Winnipeg, _���__������ ______________ SATURDAY. M \V 12. 1917 THE STANDARD FIVE LEGAL NOTICES TIUItllH SAI.I-- \ wis ! Co-operation or Obstruction? The people ni Vancouver and this company have a common aim���better service. Wc want in give it as a matter oJ policy; the public wants lo get it. As you signal a car lo slop, as you observe the rules lor tbe convenience of your fellow passengers, as ymi send us your complaints and suggestions, we would urge you lo co-operate in wishing this company success in its efforts to give service. Tbe surest way lo make the service worse is to knock it or knock lhe company. A street railway company is too often looked upon as tbe legitimate prey of unfair critics. W'e want to give you better ���-ervice���so why stand in tbe way. (live us vour relive suppc.rt. The House at Ottawa is discussing proposal to cut oil the supply oi I grains used by brewers and distillers, ' s" as i" conserve ihc food supply, * * * Sir Sam Hughes intends to movt this resolution in parliament at tl i first opportunity " ("ha! in tin- opw imi "i ihis House the best interests oi Canada, "i the Empire, and "i humanity, will be served by tlie api li cation ni lhe militia act. or by other action t<i raise troops ior compulsorj overseas service." * * * 'lhe Imperial government is considering the purchase by the stale o ihc liquor trade nf Great llritain. men. while thc police force have tnir- teen. lhe two departments will be pia, id under une head, and lhe i in"': staff reduced by -i ..r seven men, giving a sa_ing in salarii - ol ;iii"'it $50(1 per mouth, i :.' i need a pi dice ' irce in Brandon, auj way. (inly one man, a purse-snatcher, has been sent lo jail since lhe begin- lung '���: ih<- year. t" iheir homeland, ami those who iiave died since tlieir arrival, it will i.e seen that there are fewer than I.- 000,000 former subjects of the kaiser in this country who have ii"l been SEALED TEKDEHS here more than 26 years. Of morel _ ���>> "'" Mini ";r '".,.,, ��� i ���,.,,,���, , .- .- i ��� .i 'Hutu not'ii on il,.- Jiih any <o than 8,000,000 people of German birth I m7 ,���r ,h, purcbaae of i ami immediate ancestrj among us, X865. ut 380,00 et m Ced fewer than l.OUi.OOU fail to have the Hemlock -""i Balaam, on an arm joining I."' B08 "-I 'If north ��hor^ ��� : will i. ! II'! ,, eel.. ���: not later 'I'he Russian gov< rnmenl sued i declaration in fa* or oi a '-"ah ii"u ministry. Meatless days 1 in Britain, s" as i ply of breadstuff: ibolishei the slip Frani Jrigai i- tn have twi meatl cr-C rial Leckie, formerly :>��� in the C. !���'.. forces to the c of iln- Eleventh Military liistrict Canada. background of birth nr long n behind them." foreigners Flock to Cities In lhe United States the people ":' Foreign Inrth constitute only one- seventh "f ihe population; but they ��� I..-iiinii' almost one-fourth of thc arm-bearing strength. In many -i.ae- the foreign horn arm-bearing population exceeds thai "i ihe native population. That i^ i" say, immigrants an : :i ostly childrei . ��om ��� Id men. bul usually young and able- ad- ��� i tun i-, It is also noted ihai the greai majority of aliens .'ire in lhe 'ilii -. In .ml;. 14 ',:' 5" the United States do the whites nf mil native parentage > o stitutc a- much as half the total | red lation, Such e'ties is I: iston, I ii and troit, Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburg, i Milwaukee, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Providence, St. Paul and Scran- 1 ton could muster ..niy one io three The attorney-general of Ontario i- native burn whites against the foreign authority for ihc statement that (..'iii- horn "i those of forejgn ancestry. in-'��� restaurants have the right to Fortunately, the foreign born are of employ white girl-. Shortage of help [British or Irish b'rlh almost as (re- had worried iiu- Chinese restaurant fluently as ihey are of German ex- kecpers at Hamilton and they took fraction, and this tends to mal i thi iln- matter up with iheir consul-gen- immediate problem of the United eral. | States simpler than it otherwise wuuld have been. Announcement has been made that Vancouver is i" have a theatre capable 'i accommodating 22u persons. It will he buill nn Burrard, near Pender. The Archbishop of Canterbury commends Sunday labor for the growing of food-tuffs in England as a patriotic duty. * * * ' George Hull, a street vendor of The National Coalitionists of Aiis-jchipped potatoes, drowned himself in tralia have defeated the Labor parly, j ll"' Avon al Bath. England, because both for the House "f representatives j he could not obtain potatoes. and the senate. ; * * * The city council of St. John, N'.B., License Commissioner Millar says decided not to have daylight saving of the Rainier. Crown and Panamalm St. John this summer but to mem- i hotels: "They arc in an especially orialize ihe provincial and Dominion filthy condition for licensed premises. I government for a nation-wide $20,973 SHORTAGE Aged Employee of Late Government Made Fine Pickings. Victoria, May 12.���Investigation Drtrry rniet Range I, <'-.;ist District One (IJ y<*;tr will l*<* allowed for r��_.- moval -I timber. (further pari I'-ni.'ir^ of the ��� '!��� ������ ��� r, \ I c tori a, J:. '"., or DUtrii t _��� on 11��� i'. Vancouver, -> C- \ nu; Mvmi! of Till-; "BEJWEV- (K.KM SOCIBTIBB' iOT," *m> \ iii.mi wi.\ i s i iii:ki: i o: TAKE KOT1 i"" lal _-:���:���- in- ��� iinn ������! iim UriiI ii Col imbla i. . ��� i be held nt liogen building, . ncou t er, U, -' , un Ti. day, 1 ��� i day <>i May, 1911 ,...u (j.m., ��� i ��� i ,"-��� ��� el conaldoi _ n;_ ;.ad, ll ')��� in- 'i ������'���! v laable. pa ��� ��� ... ��� ��� ci ii i ii ' Columbia Loi - ��� A.--i���������i.iiimt _._���*_ **i��y abandon tbe ������ ��� - iciatlon a�� et oul n isi i ol t'i-* ��]--' laralIon fl led on the 2nd <ln;.' ol May, i 807, and ad op I . . ��� ��� i i,''r.-<il": i. T<�� promote the IntereMiu and w< - fare ", Um Prtn ince "i Bril lah C in:, in r eh peel ol the Logging [ndustry; 2 t<> briny together the persona In- ere* ted a I be Log \ Ing bualneae aa Bet oul In the Bylaw**, ������<- eligible for mem- I., pah Ip; .;, T<i icn-iil- r w aya and nn ana tor th.- bettermeni ol their condition and for id' promotion of their buainesa and the Logging Bualneaa generally in Brltlah Columbia , -l. To make such arrangements aj Hi- Association ahafl deem expedh nt with similar Societies or Aaaoclatlon within or outside the llmita "i' Brltlah Columbia for the interchange, of Information relative to the Logging Industry; ;_ To regulate aa nearly aa may be practicable, and aa may Im* proper Ii at 'i legal!j done thi output of For< ������ t Products, to conform tu the denial <; ;,,.,j ,-. quin men. - --i the Manufactur- ��� I- k] in Ma ii p. I havt seen cleaner pigpens * + # , scheme. < >m* ���- hope to house in Penticton fruit growers have an up-to-date packing tliat district this season. * * * Port Alberni is getting in print again by making a hid ior a lirst- class shipyard, to take care of Imperial orders. MANY HYPHENS IN UNITED STATES Blbll . <'"llj"ill! I] ��� Mil I!" the accounts ol A. Carney, an agent ere ���'���"! others, whereby in the lands department before ihcj11"' eia_Mlfication md - organization of the fur,-,, branch, has ���^iu'hedMJd maintain, commenced before flic public ac- 7. 'i-. use every effort counts committee, and the statement fa' ���' "'���''���v '" vropetly was made by P. W. Barclay, auditor I ^f/'FaorueSt P-^ducM; '" " und A Revelstoke man says lie lias invented a machine t" detect the pres- ence of submarines '>r marine mines. He lias sent his plans to he pigeon-1 factj holed by the Naval department at,/...,',. Ottawa. 1st state rly by S. W, Barclay, auditor I I who checked up the timber royalties in East Kootenay district, that Carney's shortage was found in b'e $20, ''>73 from 1905 i" 1912, Carney w. nl t" work at Sifts a month in 1904, Imt 1 110 books were found previous !���> 1906. I Carney Mill resides at Kasln. According to a written ow hyphenated is mc L mteu I submitted In a spiritual sense it is 1 Only Half of Population Can Claim Full White Native Ancestry. provide way.--' and -.1." necessary ni" ray expenses Incur in Hi.- objects "i tl ins I' itemenl ' 1, 1, isily rrlai There is a scarcity teams in ihc cast c Prices are advancing. * *��� * Canadian slacker-. across the boundary United States to avoi their erstwhile friend try, are slinking bad L'nited Stales draft - heavy work just now. win, slipped I line into the! lhe taunts "l'i in this conn-: now that the item is being I enforced, fearful that they might be I drafted int" the \mcrican army.| Seven came through While Rock this WCck*. * * * After K"inn overseas with the Seventh Battalion in the early "days of the war, Sergj.-Major Philpott, of Xew Westminster, has been steadily promoted until today he is commanding officer of the battalion. Mc holds the record for promotions with the Canadian expeditionary forces. * * * William McRae. deputy chief of police under the late Chief MacLennan, has been appointed head of the local force, lie has been with the department since 1902, u answer tin " far as for are concernedi able, and were recently public by ihe national geograp ciety. Roughly speaking, tlie 1 li ui of Ihe United Siaic-. is 100,000,- 000; "f this number only 54,C 0,001 are what the society calls "full white nam Ch ���ill American burn in a fo parents were these people iple ft ft Frankie Russell has been acquitted of a charge of complicity in lhe murder of the late Chief of Police MacLennan. * * * The B. C. Sugar Refinery complains that strikers arc molesting their workmen, and demand better protection, or compensation from the city for damages. * * T tlv WE HAVE A NICE ASSORTMENT OF GREETING CARDS. CALL IN AND INSPECT THEM. THE m BOOK 1 SHOP " G. S. FORSYTH & CO. Corner Homer and Hastings St. TO LIMIT HOURS Railway Brotherhoods Send Delegation to Ottawa. Ottawa, May 11.���The Railway brotherhood worked in Canada was fore the committee engaged in the consolidation of the Railway Act and strongly urged thc necessity for a labor law similar to that enforced ill the United States, which provides that no man shall remain on duty more than sixteen hours at a time. They contended that the conditions under which the employees of their brotherhood worked in aCnada was not only detrimental to their own health but also constituted a danger to the public. CARD PROFICIENCY Mrs. Caroline Bishop's remarkable proficiency at cards helped bring her before Superior Judge Hum last week in Spokane, says the Spokesman-Review. She was suing for a divorce from her husband, Wm. H. Bishop. For a long time she and her husband got along smoothly, she said, but while they were living at Princeton, B. C, they took to nightly games of cards to pass the long evenings. Mrs. Bishop invariably won, and steady defeat rasped her husband's nerves. ' I think," she said to Judge Hum, "that was one of the reasons why he left me." The judge after epiestioning Mrs. Bishop closely, said he was not sure but it was the wife, not the husband, that had done the leaving. He took the case under advisement. * * * Some of the palmists rcce fined for telling fortunes in Vancouver, and ordered to leave town, are back again taking money from the gullible. In the opinion of men who ought to know, the real estate market in city lots and unimproved hind mi ihc coast has reached rock bottom. \n advance in price is expected tins sumnier, The outbreak of ringworm among Vernon school children has now been overcome. * * * Vancouver has adopted tbe <i"B flower. That's a dog gone good idea. ���Trail News. * * * The opinion recently rendered by thc United States attorney-general relative to the status of German residents in that country, is typically American: ''Obey the law and keep your mouth shut." * * * Hundreds of Indians from the Cherokee, Choctaw, Comanche, Blackfeet and Sioux tribes arc clamoring to enlist for service in France. A thousand red skins on the western front would lend a dramatic coloring to that gory locality. * * * Trail probably has more chickens than any other town of like size in B. C., and supports a live poultry association. * * * The monthly report of thc Returned Soldiers' Club at 700 Cambie street shows that 600 veterans have registered at the club's offices since their return from the front. * * * The arbitration committee of the Vancouver Board of Trade has offered its services in an effort to settle the dispute between the B. C. Sugar Refinery and its striking employees. * * * With the sole object of reducing expenses, the Brandon city council have decided to amalgamate the police and fire departments. The city cestry. I here arc in ail- 1,1 0,000 negroes, Indians se There ai e ii" fewer than who were country "r rn-born, Tu hyphenates, however, would be absurd. I'or instance, "illy one of President Wilson's parents was burn in the United Stales, and be would be set down as of forejgn ancestry. \vt nobody has suggested that be was a "hyphenate." The truth is that the l'nited States is a comparatively young country, which, had ii been withoul foreign immigration in the past 50 years would not have one-third of its present population. The Alien Army At the present time tliere are 11. 6X10,000 persons of foreign birth in the United States; 14,(J00,0vAl persons both of whose parents were foreign horn, and 4,500,000 others one ol whose parents was born under a foreign flag. Of lhe foreign born citizens the greatest sin.nie element is the German. Tliere are more than 2.6C0,- (XXJ German born persons in the United States, and there are 1,680,0 Austro-Iliingarians. Ihc Turks antl Bulgarians are nm separately classified, bul it is probable that there are not fewer than 5,000,000 people in tlie United Stales who were burn in countries now at war wilh lhe country of their adoption. To counteract this element there are 1,164,000 Canadians; 1.145.CC0 English, Scotch ami Welsh; and 1,130,000 Irish, though whether tliey should be included under the word "counteract" is nol unite clear. There are also 1,335,000 Italians, 1.669.Dili) Russians and Finns and 1,200,000 Scandinavians. Not All Classifiable Citizens .if Entente countries .1 e seen to considerably outnumber lhe German but it would be f lolish I" calculate thai lhe Russian. Italian and Irish-American are as devoted 10 [he cause of thc Allies as the Germans and Austrian are to the cause of the central powers. Allowance must be Io tbe commute . iditor, the Carney shortages' I'u-i.on. but the menced iu 1906 and contii eil *! 1912. when he left the goveri employ. 'J'he statement the submitted, showed that the la picking by Carney wa - $1,2 '. the amounts ranged down vat as $9. Under the oh! s; -������ lumber mill companies, ������ ��� _ ��� ties t" the government, made ' ��� payable l" the agents of tl i [1 ment. One of the first change- in the reorganization, was to ba t' iduetry he A.-.-*" ir Log- ind i" use nil propi r . pawagi ol ��� nl lo sum''; t.,,t,. .',-,-..|.>'r;M ;"ll Im-iu ��� ��� n and I1,' Manufacturers ol 1 la luiiib.r; 12. To I . , . ,; . and to ��� .1' , ,.,i ��� I payable I" iln I Tt cheques mad branch. Mr. Carney is said t" bc 84 yea of age and is under superannuate The old government made an el'fi t" collect tbe alleged shortai 1 - an " i: understood there was an an ��� _ ment ior this t" be made _. "'. , hard times came mi. Tbe commit! will subpoena Mr. Carney and. commence the formal investigati next Tuesday. The committee is disunsed '������ Ii very leniently with ihis matti r, account of Mr. Carney's advanc vears. 5000 FACTS ABOUT CANADA will welcome the m ' uf -5000 Facts Ab< popular and vahia! of Canadian dates, coi Tliu public i*sne for I'M Canada," tin encyclopedia piled l>y Frank Yeigh of Toronto. well known writer and lecturer >n the Dominion No up-to-date and intelligent Canadian can afford to !���< without thi* "hardy annual." wl ich is a revelation in concrete forn ��� ���: the wonder nil growth of our coun- irv !.i a sin^lf year, desoite war c n- ditions: indeed, it circulates all <i-.-- the world, ami as such U a snlendid advertisement. The chapter of "Wat I;aets" is, hy the wav, both ti'nrh and illuminating. Fifty other chanters are devoted al-nhabct'callv ti everv nhase of our national Hfe, '���" '���" Agriculture to the Yukon, �����������.. several sketuh maps are of : ���'��� value. Copies ma\ be had fri in i i dealers m- by semline 2.; cent* I Canadian l**act< Publishing C,.. 5? 1 furon street, Toronto, Canada JAPAN FORMING AFTER-THE-WAR TRADE POLICY' CANADIAN PACIFIC Throii^,:* Tickets iosued to all parts or the world. THE POPULAR ROUTE to the Old Coan ry, Alaska, China and Japan. For full particulars apply to any C. P. R. Agent made for ihe Germans who ..:������ posed to kuiserisni. Therefore, to as- riiat _the Japanese government is stime that the problem of the Cnited "''U'"'"-'"'* a special economic body States government in maintaining or- M'-'W'd with preparing and detuimg der will be estimated by the number a". "O"0111"-' l>0,1l'-> l". be '.""f"*'1.1. al of enemy-born citizens would be fallacious. For even the anti-kaiser Germans to support their native lam in a struggle against Britain. France and Russia is a different thing from supporting their native land when it is Germany against the United States In a very real sense the United States is more a German country than the fatherland, or rather it is more the country of the German born citizen. In Germany he had not much more voice in the affairs of the gov ernment than a horse; in the United States he has a voice. In othe- words. the German-Americans have more to do with shaping the course of American politics than the Gcr mans have with shaping the course of German politics. Not Many Late Arrivals The national geographic society points out some peculiarities of German immigration. For instance, from 1'776 to 1890 more than 5.000,000 Germans settled in the United States. In these years more than one alien out of three arriving was a German. Since that date, however, only one out of 17 has been a German, the actual number being only slightly more than 1,- 000,000. As the society expresses it: "If from this number a proper deduc- tcr the war. with a view t" insuring ihe present national prosperity, is stated by the Japan society ir. a Mamillary of recent significant features of conditions in Japan, This body consists of four committees of inquiry, representing the four government departments of foreign affairs, agriculture and commerce, finance and communications. "Of these." says the society, "by far the most important committee is that of agriculture and commerce, which will undertake to reconcile to Japanese life and customs the measures adopted at the Entente Allies' economic conference held in Paris. Every energy must be conserved. Japan forsees, because competition will bc keen as well as world-wide. "Japan like any other country would like to see her industries in such a position as to have the least possible dependence on other countries for raw materials. This is very difficult on account of the limited natural wealth of the country. Import statistics show that over three- fourths of her purchases are raw materials. "Of the raw products imported, cotton, wool, linen and hemp are of most value. As Japan's agricultural area is for the most part devoted to rice ge c uisign- lite ; aner at a ve are now in prices "ii cat- ilogues. books, pamphlets, dodgers, etc. Thc Standard Job Department, 426 Homer Street: phone Sey. 470. Ila.ing purch fnenl of high n'i very reasonable pri a position to gi' e cl important import, is raised in but limited quantities. Cattle are not raised in sufficient quantity to supply ihc need for her leather and wool industries, nevertheless, the country produced many articles of leather made up from the importation of the raw material. A large part of Japan's woolen goods are ol" English manufacture. SCHOOL AT SUNNYSIDE Many a man has wished that God would turn back the universe and fire brigade have a staff of fifteen tion is made for those who returned fields and orchards, cotton, her most give him yesterday. The progressive residents of Sunnyside. near Port -Moody, have just built a school by volunteer labor, the material being paid for by subscriptions collected among thc homesteaders. When thc little school on the hill opened last Monday, twelve or fifteen children assembled to be taught thc three R's under the direction of Mrs. Rothwcll. the government teacher. _ SIX THE STANDARD SATURDAY, MAY 12, 191/ I J She ^taniiarb .Published every Saturday at 426 Homer Street, Vancouver Telephone Seymour 47C Registered at the Post Office Department, Ottawa, a* ���ecoini Class Mall Matter. si*iisi;��ii"Miix RATBf Tu all points In Camilla, United Kingdom, Newfoundland New Zealand and other British I'osseflsioni: $2.00 ��� Poili-ffe to American, fc-uropean anu other forelun countries 11.90 per year extra. The Standard will bo dnlivered to any addreaa In Van couver or vicinity at ten cents a month. Member of the Canadian Preaa Aaaoclatlon. The Standard, with which la Incorporated the Saturda> Chinook, circulates In Vancouver and the cities, towns, villages and settlements throughout British Columbia. In politics the paper Is Independent Liberal. Publishers The standard Company Printers The Slunfliird Job Department Phone Seymour 90S6 WE INVITE YOUR FIRE INSURANCE BUSINESS We Write Insurance in Sound, Reliable Companies. Dow Fraser Trust Co. 122 Hastings St. West. McKay Station, Burnaby ONE OF THE LARGEST INSURANCE OFFICES IN ��� * WESTERN / .A^ CANADA / 4^X> Every Client a Walking Advertisement Address: 414 Pender St. West Vancouver, B. C. Canadian Financiers Trust Co. Incorporated 1907. First Company to obtaia Registration under the B. C. Trust Companies' Act. (Certificate No. 1) Executor, Administrator, Trustee under Wills, .Mortgages, Marriage Settlements, Receiver, Liquidator and Assignee, Fiscal Agent for Municipalities for sale of Debentures, Registrar and Transfer Agent for Companies, Agent for Real Estate and collection of Rents. Insurance and Investment. 839 Hastings Street West VANCOUVER, B. C. Vf 5CYM0UR rt69 WORLD BLDG S'd FLOOR! ' IvA'NCO.U VER! '��� C_ Branching Out The Canadian Northern Pacific Railway lias opened its gas-electric service on the Patricia Ray line. Service is being given twice a day. except Sunday, from Alpha Street 15 1-2 miles north to Patricia Pay. This is the third railway line running from Vancouver through the Saanich Peninsula. Immigration to Canada 1916-1917 A total of 73,39? immigrants were admitted to Canada during the fiscal year of 1916-17. Of the number 61,389 came from tlie L'nited States, 8282 from Great Britain, and 2935 from continental Europe. Buring the same period 17.988 persons proposing to settle in the Dominion were denied admission at the international boundary line between this country and the United States; 172 were rejected at seaports and 605 immigrants were deported. The Stillwater Lumber and Shingle Co., Ltd., have commenced operation of their new shingle mill al Avola, near Kamloops. The equipment and machinery of tlie Western Logging Co., Cracroft Island, have been purchased by Tohn Schoeber Lumber Co.. an American firm, for $23,000. A Chinese has invented a typewriter for his native language, and obtained a patent for five vears. It has -1000 characters. Manufacturing In British Columbia BRITISH COLUMBIA is essentially a manufacturing countr). It has been endowed by Nature with all the attributes to successful Industrial enterprise, It has within its boundaries abundant supplies oi law material���it has millions of acres of fertile land suitable for mixed farming, fruit glowing, grazing, etc.���its standing (immediately convertible) timber represents one-fifth of the timber of the Dominion���it lias unlimited supplies of coal, iron and other minerals���has the finest natural harbors in the world, and is blessed with tremendous water powers, which can be developed at a minimum of cost practically at tide water. In addition by its geographical position it lias the cheapest of all freight routes���the ocean���and is'therefore happily placed to develop a large overseas trade. General manufacturing is only Ln its initial stages. Our lumber and salmon fishing industries are developed to a conconsiderable extent, and our mineral resources are being gradually developed, but the possibilities of those industries are not even guessed at yet. British Columbia has been growing through the natural evolution that all new countries experience. It is only within the last ten years that general manufacturing has occupied any position in the. development of the Province. The resources and natural advantages of the province were little known prior to that period and capitalists and captains of industry who were attracted came more in the way of speculation than anything else. Conditions changed, however, with the advent of the railways and the tremendous publicity campaign they carried out in United States and Europe. The population alone increased from 22,000 in 1898 to 150,000 in 1913, necessitating the establishment of stores and factories to cater to their wants. The Klon- dyke rush of '98 also caused the establishment of certain wholesale firms and factories, and British Columbia's birth as a manufacturing centre may be dated from that time. The history of the pioneer manufacturers is the history of courageous men. and an example of wonderful faith in the future of the Province. There was a veritable fight for existence in face of many difficulties���limited capital, adverse freight rates, competition of established branches of Eastern wholesalers, and general apathy on the part of the Government, public and semi-public institutions, and the purchasing public. Our population, like that of all the Western Provinces, was attracted by the prospect of easy money in speculating rather than by industry, the result being a real estate boom and a consequent overgrowth of our cities; tremendous sums borrowed and invested in non-productive and unremttnerative enterprises. This led banks and financial experts to regard British Columbia credits with disfavor and the bona fide manufacturer suffered with the rest. The day of real estate speculation is gone, and thc people of British Columbia have now settled down to legitimate enterprise on sound business principles. Credit is being restored and today a casual observer would be surprised at the remarkable progress made in the last few yeas. At the present time our business conditions are coming back to normal, the only slackness being in the building and allied trades. Our lumber and shingle mills are operating full time and overtime. Our mining interests have increased their output over 1915 by thirty million dollars, our general manufacturing plants have an output of approximately sixty million dollars per annum. The arrticles manufactured are many and varied, for example: Aerated waters, boilers, babbit metal, bronze, brooms, brushes, bedsteads (brass, iron and wood), belting, bricks boots, beer, biscuits, cattle feed, chocolate, cider, cigars, cigarettes, concrete pipe, cement, creosote, clothing, cereals, cans, dies, canvas goods, dynamite, elevators, electrical machinery and light fittings, engines (marine,-gasoline, oil, hoisting, logging), fencing, furnaces, fruit syrups, fish (cured and dried), furniture, furniture springs, flooring, flour, fertilizer, gasoline lights, girders, glass work, glass bottles, gloves, harness, ice making machines, iron working, including structural steel and iron for buildings and bridges, ice, jam, jelly, kalsomine, lead, lamps, ladders, labels, leather, lacquer, lithography, machinery for canners and shingle manufacturers, metal stamping, macaroni, mattresses, nuratic acid, nails, nickel, nitric acid, oatmeal, overalls, pipe (wood, iron and steel), pumps, pickles, pillows, paints, paving, boxes (paper and wood), refrigerators, roofing, rice flour, solder, saws, stoves, shipbuilding, sauce, syrup, shingles, showcases, saddlery, sewer pipe, knitted goods, stone cutting, and art stone, shirts, sulphuric acid, stumping powder, tins, tools, veneer, vacuum cleaners, varnish, vinegar, wire, wash boards, wagons, zinc chloride, etc., etc. There are throughout thc Province exclusive of the basic industries, lumber, fish and mining, some six hundred manufacturing plants, and British Columbia today ranks as the third manufacturing Province in the Dominion per capita. Tliere are still several obstacles in the way of successful manufacturing, viz,: high freight rates, scarcity of labor, and lack of co-operative effort. Strong representations have been made to the Government (Federal) for the appointment of a Canadian Customs Official at New York to enable raw material and supplies to be shipped through New York in bond, and give British Columbia the benefit of water rates and the Panama Canal. The Government has placed contracts for two steamers to ply between Canadian Atlantic and Pacific ports and the West Indies. This service will be increased as the demand warrants. The labor question will settle itself as manufacturing increases and we may expect a large influx of land settlers and skilled artisans at the cessation of the world war. In regard to lack of co-operative effort, the manufacturers were the first to realize this and formed the Manufacturers' Association of British Columbia for mutual benefit and to further British Columbia industries. Other organizations covering other business interests have been formed and the exigencies of the war have brought all organizations into close and intimate touch with each other. The above bears out the contention that this is naturally a manufacturing province, and a survey of the future possibilities makes this more apparent. One of our most serious drawbacks was the want of shipping. Today we have commenced shipbuilding on a large scale and orders are in hand at present in British Columbia yards amounting to twenty million dollars and over. Copper and zinc smelters are being established. An immediate start is expected in the erection of blast furnaces for the manufacture of iron, and electric power is available for steel production. Otlver industries being attracted at present by cheap electric power are fertilizer manufacturers, aluminum manufacturers, electrolytic treatment of metals and concentrates and chemical manufacture. Our lumber interests, when ocean bottoms are avail able, will be called on for material to reconstruct de vastated Europe. There is now being created a demand for our halibut, herring, cod and other fish besides salmon. This demand will be continued when the war ceases. Plants are being erected for the treatment of fish offal for various purposes, and plants are todav in operation extracting potash, algin, etc., from our kelp beds. Ou** pulp industry has increased from ninety tons in 1911 to seventy-five thousand tons in 1915 and this will be greatly increased in the near future by the operation of three hew plants employing 2500 to 3000 hands. With the opening of new foreign markets there will he further development in all classes of wood manufacture, such as furniture, freight cars, vehicles, motor bodies, etc., in fact motor cars, tires, etc., arc likely to be manufactured for export very shortly. The manufacturers of food stuffs, etc., are in their infancy and sure to develop by export���and development is looked for in the manufacture of paper, rope, twine, pig- New Shipbuilding Programme Information received from Ottawa regarding an extensive programme of shipbuilding to be undertaken by the Imperial Munitions Board in Canada, shows that a considerable proportion of the $10,000,- 000 which it is proposed to spend at the outset, will go to II. C. The sum will be voted at an early date by parliament, as a loan from the Dominion government to the Imperial Munitions Imard for this purpose. Vancouver as a Ralway and Shipping Terminal (BY NICOL THOMPSON.) WE speak of Vancouver as being the Liverpool of the Pacific Coast . When you realize that Vancouver has 34 miles of waterfront and 52,000 acres of water area, exclusive of False Creek you will readily conceive thc possibilities wliich lie before Vancouver as a natural terminal and distributing centre. In a recent conference between the General Manager and Vice-President of the C. P. R. and the Council of the Board of Trade the question ol" shipping wheat through the port of Vancouver was freely discussed. For many years this question of shipping the wheat of Alberta and Saskatchewan to a Pacific port in preference to the long haul to the Atlantic seaboard has been under discussion and consideration. Heretofore the head officials of the C.P.R. and eastern interests have been against the western outlet. Natural conditions, however, have at last broken down sectional prejudice and the power which for years has opposed now freely admits that the natural solution to thc present deadlock and congestion of traffic from Winnipeg to the eastern Atlantic seaboard is the shipping of all grain produced west of Swift Current via the Pacific Coast route. This will become more and more apparent as the grain production of the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan increases, and the mining, lumbering and fishing industries of our own province continue to develop. In this and the intelligent development of the Port of Vancouver is a supreme necessity; and to accomplish this the Harbor Commission should be reconstructed on business rather than on political lines, and, while both Dominion and Provincial Governments should have representation on the Harbor Board, the various business interests, including the different municipalities within the jurisdiction should not only have representation, but should control the board. Remuneration should be paid only to officials such as secretary, engineers and harbor masters. It would then be possible to arrange harbor dues and fees to cover the expense of running the port without unduly taxing shipping. - The development of a free port district in the port of Vancouver wold, I feel sure, be a great incentive to both import and export business. Looking to the future of this great province the settling up of Alberta and Saskatchewan, the export and import trade which will inevitably follow, the establishing of a propSrly developed and equipped shipping port, the City of Vancouver should promote a joint railway and shipping terminal in English Bay, constitute the Harbor Board on business lines and have it made representative of all the interests comprised within the harbor jurisdiction. The ter of should demand fur ships is so gceat that it is a mat- necessity that every resource of the Empire The Mineral Resources of British Columbia While life insurance does not cost any more today than it did 10 or 12 years ago, the American dollar today has shrunken in that time about one-third in it^ jpurohasing power. It takes $1.50 to buy now as much as $1 would have purchased then. This means that the man who provided his family with say. $10,000 of insurance protection a decade or more ago. should have Sl5,000 insurance to give the same protection now.��� Pacific Mutual News. (By E. A. HAGGEN, Mining Engineer, Vancouver, B.C.) BRITISH COLUMBIA covers 900 lineal miles of the Corrdillera of North America���the world's greatest mineral zone. In the United States, where the mineral industry has a history extending eighty-five years, the mineral production from the Cordillera is estimated at about $4,000,000 a mile. Its extension " northward into Canada is attended by similar geological conditions, pro- ditcing minerals of similar clraracter, so that it is reasonable to expect the mineral wealth of this Province will, as our mineral resources are developed, rival that of our neighbors to the south. The mineral industry of British Columbia, with the exception of placer gold, dates back not more than twenty years. With an average population not exceeding 250,- 000, the Province has produced minerals of a total value of $560,000,000, or over $2000 per head; while annual output is now at the rate of $150 per head. The year 1916 saw the mineral production increase from $29,447,508 to about $45,000,000���an increase in one year of 50 per cent. Gold leads the figures of mineral production, with a tota. of $166,192,28i2 to date. Coal is next in importance, the production of coal and coke being valued at $165 644- 842. Copper takes third place with a value of $115,204,794. The other minerals produced in important quantities are silver, lead, zinc, stone and clay products. British Columbia is destined to be one of the world's largest producers of copper. It has the two largest copper smelters in the British Empire, viz.: Those of the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting and Power Company, Limited, at Grand Forks (4000 tons a day), and Anyox (3000 tons a day)). It has the three largest copper mines in the British Empire���the Britannia, on Howe Sound, within thirty miles of Vancouver;* the Hidden Creek Mine at Anyox; and the Copper Mountain mine of the B. C. Copper Co., Ltd., in Similkameen. / The Slocan is the principal producer of silver-lead-zinc ores, but Northern British Columbia, along the route of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, gives promise of becoming of equal importance in the mining of these metals. The Coal resources of British Columbia are the second largest of any Province of Canada, the estimated tonnage of the known fields being placed at over 70,000,000,000 tons. Other minerals produced, in addition to these enumerated, are: Platinum, molybdenum, antimony, manganese, sulphur, talc, magnesite; while there arc known deposits of mercury, tungsten, iron, chromite, alunite, tripolite, cobalt, graphite, etc. In metallurgy the plants of British Columbia arc second to none. The Granby Company has to its credit the profitable treatment of the lowest grade of copper sulphide ores in the world's mining. The plant of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company is the only plant in the world elcctrolytically refining five metals���gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc. This plant was one of the first to develop the electrolytic refining of lead and the electrochemical production of spelter. That plant was also the first in Canada to install an electrolytic copper refinery. Mining in British Columbia is a profitable enterprise, where conducted on business lines. The dividends naid from thc mines of the Province aggregate about $30,- 000,000. ments and kindred lines. Metal trades, machinery, etc., will have enlarged markets. Our Province is also going in strongly for cattle and sheep raising, and this will mean the establishment of tanning and other leather plants, wool spinning and kindred plants'. In addition to the above our harbors are being steadily improved. Steamship companies are establishing headquarters at Vancouver and Victoria, through shipping by our ports has increased and -is increasing by leaps and bounds. This all means a considerable circulation of coin of the realm, and taking all the above into consideration I firmly believe our province is destined to become one of the foremost, if not the foremost, manufacturing Provinces in the Dominion. The one thing hitherto and still lacking in this great Western Province is the necessary capital to develop the, natural resources to the stage where the small manufacturer can obtain his raw material to make the different commodities that would replace the imported articles for home consumption, at the same time catering to the export trade; and in time bring the balance of trade, which at present is against us into a favorable balance. We in common with other portions of the Dominion wish to help to make the Empire self-supporting, and keep the wealth of the Empire within the Empire, as has been so necessary from a supply and credit basis in the crisis we are passing through and replace iu our own country and those of our Allies' raw materials and manufactured pro ducts previously supplied by our enemies. ie utilized. The present great scarcity of steel renders it absolutely impossible that a sufficiency of steel ships can be built. For some time past information has been made available lo the Dominion and Imperial governments as to the suitability of Douglas fir as a shipbuilding material and they have been kept fully informed as to the progress of wooden ship-building on this coast. The announcement that the government intended having wooden ships built, therefore, came as no surprise to those who had followed the position. While it is impossible at present to state what definite orders will be placed, it is certain that withhrO month the existing shipyards in I!. C. capable of constructing vessels of the required type will have an opportunity of submitting tenders. The suggestion has been made that, owing to the difficulty of guaranteeing a continuance of price and labor conditions, the Munitions Hoard will place this business on a basis nf a definite percentage of profit over the actual cost, which system is being extensively followed by the government in Great llritain, both as regards the building of ships and other government work. Government experts are prodnsing standard ship designs which will be available at an early date and there is every expectation that a start will soon be made on the actual construction of these vessels. If the requisite labor is available there i- no reason why at least fifty 3000 Ion wooden steamers should not be built in llritish Columbia within the next twelve months.���Industrial Progress. Shrunken Insurance The Budget The main feature of the budget of the Minister of Finance is one which, in principle, at all events, will meet with little adverse criticism, except, perhaps, from those who are called upon to pay the additional taxes. Critics are finding more fault because of what the budget does not contain than with what is proposes. The returns respecting trade, revenue, expenditure and debt are expressed in figures which a few years ago would have been deemed impossible. After the first shock of. the war business readjusted itself to the changed conditions; the new orders springing irom the war more than balanced those that had been lost. So far, then, as the general business of the country is concerned, the war is making for prosperity. Imports have largely increased, and values in many lines have risen to unprecedented figures, with the result that, under a tariff that is largely arranged on the ad valorem principle, there has been a great increase in the customs revenue. Of course, everybody knows that this is a tmporary condition, and that soon after the coming of the peace which all must desire, while the demands on the treasury will still be heavy, the problem of revenue will be less simple than it is today. s The only new taxation proposed is as respects the excess profits of corporations. The present tax of 25 per cent on all profits above 7 per cent, is to remain in the case of companies earning not more than 15 per cent. Those companies whose profits are much larger are to be required to pay a larger rate, running as high as 75 per cent., on the excess. This graduated scale of taxation has much to .recommend it. At the first mention of it there was a disposition to regard it as likely lo have a disturbing effect on the husiness of many companies, and on the market- in which their Stocks are traded in. Further considera- tax ire not likely .���ompames earning ire imt very iitim- ures mentioned in tion. however, "shows that (he new to have a very wide effect. The more than 15 per cent per annum erotis: those earning the higher fi; the budget resolutions arc comparatively few. In the great majority of cases, probably, tlie new taxes will not be found operative, and the companies lucky enough to have the exceptionally large profits can well afford to pay what the Minister asks of them. For the present the war must go on with unremitting energy, and we must all be prepared to bear cheerfully the increasing burdens which it is causing. No legitimate expenditure, however large it may be. for the prosecution of the war and for generous consideration of the claims of the soldiers who are returning disabled, is likely to be questioned. As to other classes of expenditure, both Government and Parliament should be watchful that nothing is undertaken, > now that can reasonably lie set aside for more favorable circumstances.���Journal of Commerce. Postal Savings In U. S. The most recent report of postal savings in the United States, carries convincing evidence of the spread of thrift in the statement that the postal savings banks now hold $125,000,000 in deposits and that the depositors number more than 700,000. The deposits in these banks in March last were $4,500,000, or more than double the amount of the deposits in the same month in 1916. Twenty cities reported gains of more than $25,000, and Xew York showed the greatest gain. �� ^ i The average prices secured by P>. C. coast mills for their 1916 cut of lumber was approximately $15 per M. feet. This was a good deal higher than tlie 191-1 and 1915 figure, but inadequate taking into account the increased cost of production. ____���______��� SATURDAY, MAY 12. 1917 THE STANDARD SEVEN - I universal use of the metric ; English chambers of Needs No Excuse It is natural, when one studies the situation, that the farmers of the country should now be buying half the automobiles that arc on the market. Aside from the fact tliat the farmer has bad ;i year "i exceptional prosperity and thai the distances he travels make some vehicle an eco noniic necessity, he is in a better position t" keep nn auto at a minimum expense than is thc city man. In the first place, he is likely to be s mie- ihing of a machinist and will do a good deal of his own repair work. ., ing I ireed by his distance from town to rely on his own resources. Then he is likely to have a barn or ii shed already built, and '-ill be put to no expense for the building or rent nf a garage. Almost (very time he goes anywhere he saves time that is atPasscl in bis business. If he is wise. possession of thc auto enable him to reduce the number of his horses sufficiently to pay for the gasoline he system. commerce are | propqsing that parliament enact a | law for its adoption, This is part of the program to bring about closer relations with France, where the sys- i teni has been in use in all departments "f the government since 1K37. It is useless to suppose that the nations which have adopted the metric system will ever abandon it. especi- persons familiar with electricity and ally for so cumbrous a scheme as the experienced in handling it were ob- English-American, li Britain adopts tamed, lhe people firmly lichee the metric system, the L'nited States that clectricty inflicts pain, it is said, will probably take similar action very and strongly advocate the adoption shortly, to be in harmony with most i some mililcr way ol putting ani- of th intense agony. Membi inane Society uf Kan have been conducting : ence campaign in whi of the Hu-! City, Mo., ide intellig-' ii opinions of ind! m.ils in death.���Indianapolis News Y. M. C. A. Work With the Troops The generous gifts of Mr. .1. Og- ".'���' den Armour and Mr. James A. Pat- .".',' ten, who each contributed $10,0 0 to ' ''��� the fund to be raised for Y..M.C. V.Illu' work with iln troops, ue hope will has never come call attention to this worthy cause "droit News, and stimulate donations. The Y.M. C V demonstrated its usefulness during the last mobilization, doing a fini service in providing the mcji with | clean entertainment, places of wholesome resort, caring for mail, and do- larmony great nations of the world. Russia and Japan will then 1 e the only important commercial countries with their own peculiar systems of _i 111s and measures and iu n ��� they would doubtless co metric system has been U United States since 1866, shorl iform gal in but il min Ci inniiiu use.��� lii-, business he must figure 01 added expense.��� Portland (ii ing other services ameliorating the umes. Fhe city man has no such |0t-of the soldier in the field, The ���ts. and unless he uses ' auto in | need for relaxation and amusement is clear acute in any army and it is important to have it provided under llie ri__bt conditions. The Y.M.C.A. policy displays the wisdom of the serpent as it has the innocence of the dove. It does not frighten young men awayj by thrusting religious instruction upon them, though it provides ii for those who will accept it. The rc- llld the army. The death j suit of this tact is that it is able to do olished, Woman 8 real service in its nun way. established, All! It we bring a million or two mil- Liberalizing Russia The Provisional Govcrnn declaring new and radical r- daily, yet there is no reason ti that it is going t<>>�� fast, for pears to be supported by *';l ol people penalty has been suffrage has been 'liian. ���nt is, forms mini, it ap- How He Prefers to Die 'J'he miserable miscreant who assaulted us in the dark last night, using a -lull, naturally failed of his dastardly purpose. His work was entirely rudimentary, vulgar ami coarse. We arc indifferent as to whether we die with "ur boots < n or off, but as wc are living the intellectual life��� and making money at it. too���we have a pardonable pride in wishing to sjjitf- fle off, if the shuffle i- squarely up i" us. with our brain hlock pristinely intact.���Arizona Ace. i Russian Hon men into the field, il the Y.M.C.A.Jbeen wrestling Ioi laws limiting the right citizens because of tlieir religious lu-j work will be a useful factor in pro-ilem for a liefs have been repealed. The re- tec.ting men from demoralizing in- balked by I fhiences and in keeping up the spirit j Chirstian After Many Years China seems to be aboul t ff the dreadful burden of th pium. The ancient throw traffic strictions imposed upon the Jews have been removed. The Poles have been promised freedom to determine their own form of government. The proclamation t'i the Poles denounces the attempt of the Central Powers to induce them to fight on that side audi says: They wished at this price to buy the blood of a r,acc which never fought ���or the maintenance of depotism. Nor .vill the Polish army go into battle now for the cause of the oppression of liberty and the dismemberment of its country under the leadership ol | us hereditary enemy. j Polish brothers, for you also the hour of great decisions has struck. Free Russia calls ynu to her ranks in ihe fight for the liberty of the people. I Hound to Russia by a free military union, adds the proclamation', tile Polish slate will be a solid rampart against the p'ressurk of the_ Central Powers against the Slay nation. May the ancient appeal of the of your liberation if the troops.���Chicago Tribune. Trans-Siberian The Trans-Siberian railroad is a continuous route from Petrograd to Vladivostock, a distance of 5,481 miles. Vladivostock is the "farthest cast'' of Asiatic Russia. The railroad was completed in 1902. It is Russia's only big transportation outlet in winter. As everybody knows. Russia has long yearned for an ice-free port. She hales to be all bottled up iii ice. That is why she craves possession of Constantinople and the Dardanelles, although by lung practice she has almost made herself believe that her motive is to substitute the cross for the crescenl on th Sophia, which used I church but is now place ni worship. ��� The Trans-Siberian 'route thing in thc way oi a railrc tthtry has with the opium prob- ( time, hut has been the commercial greed of nations.���Southern l.nni- icrmaii. ���ionic ol at. be a Christian Mohammed in Veterans' Pensions Returned soldiers have just cause! for complaint in the scale of pensions now being paid. The maximum pension for the rank and file i> $480 per j year with an additional allowance to those who arc unable to care for themselves, or whn require special' attetion. The pensions increase with j rank up to a brigadier-general, whose pension is $2700 a year. The soldier! disabled to the extent of 60 per cent! or over, receives $5 per month for each child. The child of a brigadier- general receives $10 per month. A private's child is only worth half asj much to the state as t child. This disparity pension of the rank and fleers in the allowance m I drcn is manifestly unfair lS\ he removed.���Calgary X officer s etween the file and of- dc for chil- and should itcracker. as length is conceniei 180 ctequacy less the mad has given pctus to agriculture and terpriscs as well a ization. Russian that in time Ihis ell) world from the vasl grain lands of glortous precuri he preached with new and irresistible single-track mad. which strength. Forward, side by side nndjable form of inai' i and in hand for the fight. Thc martyrs of the revolution, in number, were given a slate Iiu in Petrograd and buried togethe the Field of Mars. The proces was composed of Soldiers and organized brigades of peasants, w ingmeii. college girls, servants and other civilians of all sorts. As each coffin, draped ill the red flag, was lowered into the grave the fortress ol St. Peter and St. Paul, where the officials and courtiers of the old regime are now confined, fired salutes from its big gun; There is mt it is a a deplor- Nevcrthe- great im-l isiness eu-1 Ion-1 ���icrs believe | will feed tlu ' ��� to Siberian financiers Siberia.���Si mt hern Lumberman. "Her Eye On the Clock" It is important to remember that the essence of the German calculation is time. Time has always been her enemy, for land power is in the position of the sprinter in a race and j sea power is the position of the long ign yet of a general distance runner. Ccrniany has fought German offensive against Russia, but the war, as il were, with her eyes on I an attack was made against the Rus- the chick. That fact was never more sian lines on Stokhod River, northeast imperious than now. We cannot say of Knvcl. By heavy artillery fire and |low ncar S|K, js to collapse. She may thirteen successive waves of poison- be very near; she may. on the other mis gas, the Germans succeeded in hand, he able to survive till the next taking the Russian trenches.���file harvest. But what we do know abso- Ihdependent. s The Best Medium Newspapers oi L'nited States gained jo per cent, or $A>,OJO,000, in advertising during 1916, amount being $75,(AW,lA.O, as compared with $.*i.v <Uy,.XX) ill Wli. Guard the Trees Thousands ol trees throughout Canada are being injured by the nailing i.i advertising matter tu them. Not only is the nark injured and the inner layer l>roi.en, which goes lungi an opportunity to attack the trees imt tlie spaces iicliiud such signs serve as harbors for moths and utile* insects, i ne municipalities should iiass bylaws making it an offense punishable by a good stiff penalty to place signs on trees. Better still would bc for the Ontario Legislature lo pass a law for the whole province covering such vandalism. A number of states of the Union have now such a law and it has proven a powerful HeterreritJ���Brockville Recorder. lutely, is that she is gravely impoverished, that she has long been suffering from a shortage of essential tilings, that she is a nation on an ex- istance diet. And that fact, operating over months, is lowering the vi- \ tality and fighting strength of the i nation. It may not mean imminent collapse, but it means certain depreciation, the weakening of nerve and the failure of morale.���London Daily Xews. The One Weak Spot The one weak spot in the armor of the Allies is Russia. There is no disguising the fact tllat ill London, Paris. Rome and Washington a greal deal nf apprehension exists that the Muscovite empire may wholly collapse this year under thc sledge hammer blows that von Hindenburg is preparing tn rain upon it. The oilier danger, lhe submarine menace, while sstill grave and threatening, is not sn acute. The Russian empire has plenty of men and an abundance of ammunition, also vast supplies of grain which have not been able to find a market abroad. Rut the question upon which hinges Russia's ability to match her foes this spring is almost solely one of transportation. Can the government move the grain, the munitions, the guns and the men lo the battle lines and keep the arteries of traffic open at all times. Upon this issue hangs the fate of Russia and possiblv of the entire allied cause.���Buffali Commercial. WILL SOLDIERS GO ON LAND* IT'S DOUBTFUL A recent cam ass oi returned soldiers in Alberta showed that le-- than 2 per cent of those already stationed iu that province expressed a desire to tal.e up work on the land. This statement was made in an address al Ottawa lasi week by Mr. J. S. Inn nis, assistant tn thc president of thi Canadian Pacific Railroad, Mr. Dennis, who has direct charge nf his company's colonization policy, considers the returning soldier a moo difficult problem than the ordinary immigrant. He said: "In Canada wc need all ihc agriculturists we can get. As the northern European usually has an agricultural vocation, and therefore, makes a go i settler, wc should welcome him am ! scud him where he is mosl leeded - to our Xortli-Wcst. The returne I llritish or Canadian soldier is a more difficult proposition. It is a fallacious dream t" imagine that air. largi proportion nf these men will settli down nn the land. They will n I. Ohl greatest problem will he in provide work for them. In thc radical readjustments nf nur wage scales we Mini find further complications." RUSSIA'S PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY The following principles arc outlined as the l>asi> of the policy ul' the new government in Russia: 1. An immediate general amnesty for all political and religious offcnseSj including terrorist acts, military revolts, and agrarian crimes. 1. Freedom of speech ->i" tlic press, of association ami labor organizations, and freedom to strike, witli an extension of these liberties to. officials and troops insofar as military and technical conditions iienr.it. 3. The abolition of all social, religious, and national restrictions. 4. Immediate preparations for thei summoning of a constituent assembly, which, with universal suffrage as a basis, shall establish the government ] regime and the constitution 'of the ci tuntry. 5. The substitution ol" the police for a national militia, with elective heads, ami subject to the self-government 6. Communal elections to be car-l ried oul on tlie basis nf universal suf- ". The troops that have taken part in the revolutionary movement shall I not lie disarmed, but they are not to] leave Petrograd. H. While severe military discipline must bc uia-intained on active service, all restrictions upon soldiers in the enjoyment of social rights granted to other citizens are to bc abolished. Upon such principles tlu1 provisional government should build up a firm and stable democracy. ODDS EIGHT TO ONE AGAINST GERMANY Interesting Statistics Show How Hopeless Is Fight of Hun Against World. i'imsidering wealth, pi<pulation and territory, more than V'1 per cenl oi llu- .'.nrld ii al war. Roughly speaking, 80 per cent rep- n -'ht. the allies ai ': i" per c< ni. thc enti al powers. Tlic remaining 1" per cent ��� scuts the neutral.-. The total wealth of the �� irld - ��� timated at I. Quite a snug sum! About $S5< ; I.0C0.I '������ Ioi ;s to the Allies, si 10,1 ��� '., tl e cen tral pi ,vei -. ?40,l ' to 1 neutrals. 'I he total population of thi in round numbers is 1,7: I 0, Tin- allied nations have al oiil 110,1 .: ' people, the centra] powers 164.CC0.000, iln- neutrals 176,0 Tlic allies control upwards of 40,- 000,000 square miles of territory, the entral powers a little less than 3,- 000,000 square miles, the neutrals a little less than I0,i '.'' I - miles. An eastern financial publication suggests that allied airplanes drop pamphlets containing these figures among the German soldiers and the "4. Don't w mry about your hi 1 have a friend, given up lo die al with "iu- lung, il.- ..ill be 93 nn his next birthday. "."-. Don't wait for dead men's al "d. Don't lost your nerve. When ''.'. lias tremendous task tn perl he usually takes son e nan and loads him with egotism so he vill iad le the job. "7. Don't' thinl ;. oui si li a failure SOOI Lim dn was a i.led'' lawyi i ��� ' ��� ii distinction rtr . ii honest. "8. Don't I,.- a : fii It's . i to sec a blacksmith trying to I" a statesman, as we havi witnessed in ' ur iniinti'. *, recent polili il li ���. "o. Don't -t"p till you find your place. Il was a great day ' I 11 struck tllis planet and it will great day when ynu leave it. I'n l it's ii greatei hen you nui why you're hei i, "in. Don't try tn make duplii oursi 1'. I';:' tits make a mis:. Ihey 1 i" bring up their In n to be I i ! i -." hire in ��� ������ ��� f thi British ��� Kingston, i did $10,- daniage. Son ��� of tl ������ editorial burnt up. NOTICE Herman people one very effective way of hastening the end of the war Certainly unless the Germans have entirely lost the power to thinl- fi r themselves, a little study of these figures ought to impress them with the hopelessness of llieir situation. And it ought tn impress them with the criminal stupidity of their rulers, whose policies have forced the greater part of the civilized world to make war against them. In the whole history of the world there has been no tragedy more ter rible than the betrayal of the German people by the rulers and ruling classes to whom ihey have given their blind devotion. Having purchased a large consign- |inent of high quality white paper at a very reasonable price, we are n a position to give close prices on catalogues, books, pamphlets, dodgers, etc. The Standard Job Department, 436 Homer Street; phone Sey- mi ur 470. GRANT LANDS The Late Maitre Labori Maitre Labori's name in this country dated from the gallant defence of Dreyfus, but he vvas prominent in all the causes celcbres in France in recent years. He defended, eloquently, 'S jut vainly, the man Vaillant, a fanatic if high character, who in 1894, threw a bomb without effect in the French chamber. He was counsel for Madame Humbert and for Madame Caillaux. Probably the last case confirmed him���if he needed confirmation���in his outspoken belief in the rottenness of French Parliamentary politics. He was a big man, in every sense of the word, and leaves no evident successor at the French Car. Really grcat advocates are perhaps rarer than great statesmen.���London Daily Aews. American Regret Americans will feel a certain envy in the thought that Canada has outdistanced us in reaching the battle line, which is the frontier of our civilization.���New York Tribune. Electrocuting Animals Considerable sentiment against thc use of electricity as a means of putting unwanted animals out of the way is growing up among members of humane societies in various parts of the country. The popular belief now is that animals when electrocuted suffer Fisherman and King A fisherman can look at a king, lie surpasses the cat in ability to shake a king by ihc hand. Tom Wing, .\l.l'��� tells how he accompanied one who was awarded the V. C. from a mine- sweeping trawler to Buckingham palace lo receive the decoration from the King of England. "lie rolled along with me in true seafaring style," said Mr. Wing, "until, as we approached the gate, \ re-j African marked, 'We must pull ourselves to-'' gether, otherwise we shall not be admitted.' My gallant friend, who had been chewing a plug of tobacco, took it out of his mouth and carefully put it in his cap. "It is usual for the King to shake hands with recipients, and when he did it on this occasion, my man would not let go. He held on, and to make certain it was all right, he put his other hand on it: Then he looked at his majesty as much as to say: 'Are yiKi the King or are you only kidding me?' "When wc got outside he said it was all like a dream, and he felt for his pipe to make quite sure he was awake.���Boston Transcript. Empire Must Keep Soldiers We must organize, as well as lay down new principles. The resource? of the Empire are enormous, and the war has shown how much our existence depends upon a far greater concentration upon mir own pi overs of production from the soil. When wc think of the future of our ex- soldiers, wc must especially think nf turning them into land settlers and fond producers. We may hope to see many of them at work upon the land in the Mother Country, but the wider spaces and freer life of Canadian lands must prove irresistibly attractive to large numbers, ami we must set tn wnrk IIQW if wc arc nut to see ex-service men pass to foreign lands and lose their Rritish citi/cn- ' ip. as they did after the South War.���Canadian Gazette. Discretion In War Time The practice of most of the Canadian newspapers may be regarded as a good example to follow. They print plenty of news, fill their papers with interesting and timely information and interviews, but carefully avoid publishing anything which it is their business to conceal from the enemy with whom they are at war. There never was a better chance for American' newspaper proprietors, publishers and editors to show how well their craft can serve the country and how carefully they can refrain frQin setting thc momentary pleasure of exclusive news ahead of the genuine satisfaction of never betraying a valuable secret.���New York Sun. The Metric System One result of the war may be tin DOG SHOW Canines Show Will Be In Horse Building May 24-26. Arrangements have been completed for the holding of a dog show under the auspices of the Terminal City Kennel Club on May 24, 25 and 26. and the club has secured the Horse Show building on Pender street for the event. They have also requisitioned the services of Mr. George Sheadman Thomas, of Hamilton. Mass., to do the judging of all entries. The club is being congratulated on tlieir selection of so able a man to assume the roll of judge. This is being evidenced every day by the number of enquiries received by the secretary for premium lists. Entries arc coining from Winnipeg, Calgary, Regina. and from Seattle, Portland and probably California. The club have collected over 150 special prizes, and the owner of the dog who is successful in winning will get a prize that is worth taking home. ��� _^ i SNIPS The world is so full of a number of thugs. I'm sure we should all be as humble as bugs. ���Sun Dial. * * * "This." said the goat, as he turned from the tomato can and began on the broken mirror with relish, ''this is indeed food for reflection."���Tiger. "NO JUDGIN' " THAT DAY This Irishman nu Sunday heard a clergyman preach mi thc judgment- day. The priest told of the hour when the trumpet shall blow and all peoples oi all climes anil all ages shall he gathered before the seal of God to be judged according tn their deeds done in the flesh. After the sermon he sought mil thc pastor and he said, "Father. I want to ask ymi a few questions touching on whal you preached about today. Dn ymi really think that nn thc judgment da) everybody will be there?" The priest said: "That is my understanding." "Will Cain and Abel bc there?" "Undoubtedly." "And David and Goliath���will they both be there?" "That is mv information and belief." "And Brian P.oru and Oliver Cromwell will be there?" "Assuredly they will bc present." "And thc Ancient Order nf lli- liiirniaus and Protestant Protective Association?" "I am quite positive they will all be there together." "Father," said the parishioner, "there'll he little judgin' done the firsl day!"���Boston Xews Bureau. TEN "DON'TS" FOR THE MAN WHO SUCCEEDS Bishop Charles Bayard Mitchell, of St. Paul, speaking in I iii.;._ a' ij his hearers tn "Sec Yoursel ���, If you want tn gel a goi yourself here arc ten tlltiigs i- ivoid "1. I)i.n't think ymi -i e j rsi I a mirri ir. Yi ni will sei onl* ll side, and your right ear ih.1 hit side nf your in . d. "2. Don'l imitate, It's hear that there ar.' scon - men Irving t" walk like CI:, i' lin. Be yourself "3. Don't expect somel dv anybody like you. Oiie of j m i- enough. OREGON & CALIFORNIA RAILROAD C< i. Gram Lands. Title to same revested in United States by Aci if Congress Dated June 9, 1916. I'��������� million three hundred thousa acres to In- opened for homesteads and .-ale. Timber and agricultural lands. Containing somi of best left in L'nited States. Now is thc opportune lime. Large Sectii nal Map sh' . - l'i: lands . lescription of s ill, Climate, rainfall, eli atii etc. Postpaid i Ine In.liar. Grant Lands Locating I ... Box 610, Portland, ' 'rr 501 . mmmom .CONDONES 5elb freonX5obaaxx DEPOSITION OF KING DECLARED BY GREEKS 'London, May 12.���Telegraphing from Saloniki Renter s correspondent says: "Today was a great day in lhe history ot Salomki. A mass meeting proclaimed the deposition of the king and dynasty. Uver lorty thousanu persons assembled in the principal square and were addressed hy various speakers. 'Ihey cheered themselves hoarse with shouts of "Long live Venizelos!' 'Long live the national government!' and 'Down with the King!' "T Ile mayor of Salnniki presided. He proposed a resolution proclaiming the deposition of the king only, btit the crowd insisted that the entire dynasty must bc removed. All shops were closed and business was suspended. Processions marched through the town and carried out demonstrations before the residence of Former Premier Venizelos and at other points. Very fine. The only trouble is that, though fired, Tino won't quit. ��-^___���������. '��� Among the securities serving as collateral for the $100,000,000 5 1-2 per cent secured convertible gold 2- year notes of the French government, issued in the L'nited States last month, are Canadian Pacific Railway 6 per cent note certificates; Quebec province 3s, 1S94; 4s, 1888; and 41-4s, 1880. 1^| DECIDEDLY There are times when it seems as if W. J. Bryan ought to be relieved of the fierce suggestion implied by bis title "Colonel." Veteran Soldier Honored f-pHIRTY-FIVE years work with the Cana- j dian Pacific Railway Company and *��� sixty-two years service in the military forces of the Rritish Empire have brought recognition and honour to Fred. L. Lydon, tor the well-known veteran has been advanced by the big transportation system, and he has been made a Lieutenant-Colonel by the military authorities. Born at Bermuda, West Indies, in 1838, the son of a father who came of a Galway, Ire-' land, family, Lieutenant-Colonel Lydon has had an interesting career. It is no wonder that his special outlet for activities lies in the military field; his father was a soldier, and on the paternal side also his grandfather fought as a private under the Duke of Wellington when Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo in 1815; on the maternal side his grandfather was soldier militar) secretary to the "Iron Duke," and also took his part in the overthrow of Napoleon. Both grandfathers fought through the Peninsula War. "W'e Irish are shy to talk about our experiences," said Lieutenant-Colonel Lydon in an interview, "hut I may say that lt was in my blood to be a soldier. In 1864, when I was only fifteen years of age, I began service in England with the Dorset Militia. At the time of the Indian Mutiny I volunteered for service in the King's Royal Rifles, remaining in this regiment from 1857 until 1866. 1 had not an opportunity of doing duty at the Indian Mutiny. When the King's Own Rifles were coming to Canada in 1861 I came with ihem, arriving on the 12th July. Afterwards I spent two years In Quebec, two In Montreal, and a little while In London, Ontario." Having spoken of the wonderful development of the Dominion during the last half century Lleutenant-Colone' Lydon went on to say that In 1866, when the Fenians raided CanadA he was amongst those who went to meet them. "I remember the time well," he said, "for the hardest march of my life was that which brought us into touch with the invaders. We marched thirty-four miles In a day. At Ridgeway and Fort Erie we captured quite a number of the Fenians, who were badly organized and did not offer a vigorous resistance." In December. 1866. he left the regular army and became adjutant-instructor of the 28th Perth Battalion, serving two years with this unit. I��| those days the employees of military age on the railway to which he was at" tached. were volunteers under military control. He was an energetlftj organizer amongst them. Later he came to Montreal and re-organizedn thg "5th Royals," and was their adjutant-instructor for many years. The "5th Royals" was the parent of the present 5th Royal Hlglanders. In' 1889 Lieutenant-Colonel Lydon broke new territory and organized two companies of Scotch Highland Cadets. This undertaking was most successful, for the companies gradually increased until there are now eight of them formed Into one unit known as the Highland Cadet battalion. "These are my children," proceeded the veteran. "We gave eighty to the South African War, and to the present conflict we gave between four hundred a__<! five hundred. I am still commander of the cadets." "I did not seek any promotion," said Lieutenant-Colonel Lydon. "I was content to work as I had been working, but I had a letter from Major- General E. W. Wilson, dated March 26 of this year, telling me that I have been made a Lieutenant-Colonel on the retired list." He then produced letter from Major-General W. E. Hodgina, of the Adjutant-General's Office. Ottawa, which stated that the promotion was: "A recognition of your long, faithful and valuable services to the militia, and which are much appreciated by us older men, who know what you have done" Besides having such a distinguished military career Lieutenant-Colonel Lydon has a good railway record. He has been in the General Ticket Department of the Canadian Pacific Railway for thirty-five years, and he hag watched the company develop and spread Its branches all over the world. The veteran railroad man under review was at the opening of the first general office at Place d'Armes, and during his connection with the C. P. R. has become widely known and deservedly popular with the public. It wa�� a surprise to Lieutenant-Colonel Lydon when, on the mornin? of March 31st, he was summoned to the office of Lord ghaughnessy, President of tho Canadian Pacific Railway, and was appointed to assist on the reorganizing staff of the First Aid Branch of the company, with office in the department of Mr. George Bury, Vice-President. This means considerable advancement. It is a happy coincidence that two splendid recognition! ' came a* the same time to crown a "ong life's worthy labour. raED. 1,. Lvnotf. i n p Re;: ' EIGHT %kt SATURDAY, MAV 12. 1917 Mil 11 MONEY'* Oil YOI ll MOK urn: i li :\ n\<iv ��� how long will it take Wm. Dick to sell 500 Suits these when Nothing small aboul they start out t" buy. Something over 5<x> blue suits. I.Poland woollens, have just lice stock. Ynu can't find as good a at $25 (outside Win. I lick's). The i lerchauts themselves can't at what he gives them to you fori They're just from tllc hands of the best tailors in Canada and you can have whatever style ynu like, from a I'iiichcr nr N'nrfolk lo a most sedate business sack. HOW LONG WILL THEY LAST? all West of n put iu the suit in town buy them $15 DICK'S PRICE ON THE 500 IS. ARROW AND LANE SHIRTS $1 to $8.50 William Dick Limited "Two Big Stores for Men" 33, 47-49 ��� Hastings East M-IIIMI HATS. lllllll (KJ.SO " Though we are busy moving Vancouver folks from house to house, we are not to busy to book more orders. Always the same care. Always the same cheerful service. Always the same fair terms. Always on time. PHONE SEY. 7360. "WE KNOW HOW" SECURITY FIREPROOF STORAGE i MOVING COMPANY LIMITED CHAS E CAMPBELL. Manager Fireproof Warehouse: 786 Beatty Street Phone: Seymour 7360 NABOB BAKING POWDER ���along is a pleasure JABOB Baking I ! used because it is Vancouver, What steps have you taken with your milk ? What have you done about your milk lately? Is it still up to the standard you have set? Is it delivered regularly? Is it sent to you in clean bottles? Is it entirely satisfactory? If your milk is not what you expect, call us up and ask for a trial bottle of Vancouver's very finest and safest milk���SOU-VAN MILK Here is a milk that you will find good every day���a milk you can give to baby and the children, knowing perfectly well that it is clean and wholesome, nourishing and fresh. The fact that you obtain a bottle is no criterion that you must use this milk regularly. We leave that to the milk. PHONE FAIR. 2624 SOU-VAN MILK (SOUTH VANCOUVER MILK COMPANY) SCIENTIFIC DAIRYMEN 29th and FRASER Need 3,000 Willing Workers To Gather B.C. Small Fruits Crop Call for National Service Comes to Women of Vancouver ��� Conservation of Harvest Will Largely Depend On Volunteer Assistance This Year���England Must Have Food. vhy British particu- illll! lint The clarion call to National Service is being sounded in Vancouver. Who will help? Tliree thousand women and girls and boys are needed���urgently needed���to harvest the small fruits of the lower mainland, and the orchard crops of the Okanagan. Who will help? Already five hundred women and girls have signed the muster roll. Twenty-five hundred more are.needed. Who will help? Early last March various fruit growers' organizations, affiliated with the I!. C. Fruit Growers' Association, made a plea for the importation of three thousand Chinamen, to be used in the harvesting of the small fruits and orchard crops of the mainland. The growers put forward a strong plea that without this Chinese labor they would be unable to save their small fruits, as farm belli was almost impossible to obtain. Without competent help (luring the few weeks nf thc harvest, their crops would be a total loss. Blow to the Blockade The Federal government seemed inclined to lend a sympathetic ear to the request of the growers. The conservation of foodstuffs was a matter of urgent necessity especially foodstuffs, such as jams, which could effect of the German submarine blockade is being felt to an alarming degree, in spite of the many reassur- There is no reason why Columbia women, and more larly Vancouver women, sh do likewise. Though further away from the grim struggle, there is hardly a bniiie that is nut directly interested in the battlefield by Ihe presence there of some dear one. This is the opportunity for the big-hearted women of the west (o "Dn their bit" in the patriotic cause of National Service. Picking raspberries is of infinitely greater importance to the nation than I is the Inlying of a raffle ticket on a : silk cushion nobody wants, nr at- I tending an amateur theatrical per- I formance given "for patriotic purposes." Five Hundred Volunteers Five hundred women and girls have already volunteered their services for next June, July, and August. Nearly one hundred Normal school girls will be going out together, to work at two of the biggest fruit farms ill the Hatzic district. Thirty or forty wives and daughters of overseas soldiers propose going as a group to the Mission district, where they will strike a community camp, leaving one of their number in charge of the young children during the day, while the elders work iu thc fields. These are the women who understand the tremendous necessity of conserving the fond supply of the nation; their work at Mission may save their men in France from hunger. Fine Type of Workers Only women and girls of irreproachable character will be .sent nut by the Consumers' League. The girls who have signed up to date are of splendid' type of Canadian womanhood, ami include a large number wko Intend entering the teaching profession next year. Dozens of stenographers have their names on the list. Tliree nurses are included. And Women and girls whn hear this an in National Service may obtain additional information from the N \V. C. A. nr from Mrs. J. C. Kemp, at the II. C. Consumers' League office, 2tXy Carter-Cotton building. This schedule nf prices paid and accommodation provided will be found interesting: MravMierries���Shipping. 30 cents per crate with a bonui of 10 cents per crate; cannery, berries in pails, 2 cents per pound and a bonus nf one- half cent per pound. Raspberries���Shipping. M) cents per crate, with a bonus of 10 cents per crate; cannery, 2 cents per pound, with a bonus of Otic-half cent per pound. Hlack Currants���Shipping, 35 cents per crate, with a bonus uf 10 cent! per crate; cannery. 2 cents per pound, with a bonus nf one-half cent per pound. Loganberries���Shipping, .10 cents per crate, with a bonus nf 5 cents per crate; cannery, 1 1-2 cents per pound, with a bonus of one-half cent per pound. Blackberries���Shipping, 35 tents per crate, with a bonus of 5 cents per crate; cannery, 2 cents per pound, witli a bonus of one-ball' cent per pound. The bonus mentioned will be paid to any picker who remains until t'- end of the season of each variety, and whose services arc satisfactory. Pickers pay tlieir own fare tu an from station, and will be met an taken back to the same place free. Cottages and tents arc provide ' including mattresses, stoves, camp cooking utensils and fuel; pickers supply tlieir own table requisites am' bedding. Most pickers will have tn share ��� hed. and it is advisable for two friend. or acquaintance! to come togetbi" and groups or parties will be given accommodation together as far a possible. The picking seasons are about a.< follows; Strawberries. June 1st until 1st. Raspberries, July 1st until 1st. Logans, July 1st until August Hlack Currants, July 1st until gust 1st. Blackberries, August 1st until September 1st. A natty, business-like uniform of khaki duck will be supplied girls bv the League, at factory cost of $3.50 This uniform consists of working blouse and overall pants. In addition the workers will require a big straw hat and a stout pair of walking boots FLIPPINGS The Nanaimo Herald says that seven swans were seen nn Somenos Lake last Monday morning, evidently on their spring migration tu the north. Personally, wc think the Herald man must be lomi-ey. or un a wild gonse chase. �� �� * Rolling the dice fur cigars is again under tlie ban in Vancouver. Tliat will raise the deuce with the business for a few weeks. * ��� ����� R, 1). Thomas, oi remains a prisoner turia. They say he principle, but it may principal and r slate prisoner. if state at Vic- s a prisoner for be it's really foi interest. Inn. * * Considering the wine cellar am' music room, maybe the late government didn't pay too much at $10,00 fur the yacht Kahuna. But why thos good-time auxiliaries un a fialvMtiv-. cruiser? They're running a Patriotic Girl contest over in New Westminster But they're going to decide by vote* =uld at ten cents apiece, instead of b\ the number of sweethearts the girl has in khaki, or thc number nf slae ers she' started. snubbed since the wai July \llgllsl 1st. Au- Maynr McBeath Magistrate Shaw i certain offenders, men in the d comolains . ton lenient Oh. pshaw, have never thai witl Th. beer known to complain mi thi * * * Tomorrow is tin band concerts and in Stanley park. opening nate i- Bttmmtfr -spbonin "WHAT WOULD YOU SUGGEST?" MRS. J. C. KEMP President of B. C. Consumers' League Phone Highland 137 Grandview Hospital 1090 VICTORIA DRIVE VANCOUVER - B.C. Medical : Surgical : Maternity Rates from $15.00 per week Classified Advertising FLORISTS BROWN BROS. & CO., LIMITED, Seedsmen, Florists, Nurserymen, 4? Hastings St. E., and 782 Granville Street, Vancouver, B. C. WATCHMAKER 10,000 WATCHES and CLOCKS wanted to clean and repair at the factory, 438 RICHARDS STREET ing semi-official stories to the effect that only a few ships are being sunk. Hundreds of private letters received every week in Vancouver tell the same tale; Britain is experiencing a setious food shortage. No one is optimistic enough to foresee a change for the better for some time. 'J'he submarine menace is growing; its cumulative affects are depleting John Bull's larders from Land's End to John o' Groats. "Send us niocny. Send us loud," arc tbe insistent cries today. The call for men is still urgent, but the demand for food is paramount. The nation can borrow, but cannot grow enough foodstuffs to satisfy its teeming millions. It must depend on the colonies and foreign neutrals. lt was with a full realization pf the necessity of conserving the food resources of the nation to the utmost that the B. C. Consumers' League, through its energetic president, Mrs J. <C. Kemp, undertook to solve the problem of the B. C. fruit growers, and incidentally prevent the importation of another three thousand Chinamen. The pla nwas this: The League would supply three thousand white women, girls and boys, to harvest the fruit crops of the province. The workers were available, in Vancouver. There was no occasion to bring in Chinese. Precedent In England In formulating this scheme, Mrs. Kemp and her able assistants have admirable precedents in what has been done in Britain since thc start of the war. There millions of women are today doing men's work, in munition factories ,in industrial plants, in clerical departments, and on the farm. Hundreds of thousands of women and girls have donned overalls and taken the place of the men with the hoe. They have put their hand to the plough and have not turned back. Today they are saving the nation from starvation. THE PUSSY FOOT BRIGADE We have a little mayor man And he has helpers three Who slip around on rubber heels And tattle what they see. Now one of these is R. H. E. And one is Jennie Doe, M. M.'s the third, but more than that. No living man may know. For paints and powders plastered thick Doe's classic features hide; Thc men have horsehair mustachios Around their faces tied. And so they go, when day grows dark. Where night hawks feast and sing; They snoop around, for they musl tell The mayor everything. Do they report the solemn truth Or Just "work un a case?" Tt matters not, this much we know; The mayor's off his base. ���FLIPP. When the Minister nf Agriculture fur Canada made Investigations whicl showed that wc bad a surplus nf twi million bushels nf potatoes in Car. ada, a newspaper friendly to the go. ernment said that the high price- were due lo "apathy at Ottawa " What would tllis newspaper criti have the .government du? He doi - not suggest any action. He mend comolains, and places the blame oi apathy at Ottawa.���From thc Conservative Headquarters Press Service March 14. 1917. If this is the official view, whal In comes of the work of tlie High Cn-' of Living Commissioner, who assert- that he is getting results, althougl Ihcse results are nut visible to the householder? "What would you suggest?" seems to be about the mil;, answer the government back in Ottawa can make to appeals to do something to keep prices reasonable. 'I'!' people suggest leadership and actim lint evidently the administration ha. none of that commodity in stock. "What would you suggest?" T' people suggest that a change of a ministration might be a most effi'd- ivc remedy for ��ome of the evils thai now exist throughout the Dominioi When the government finds it nccc- sary to raise another "loan," dues ask the question: "What yvould ymi suggest?" Not on your life! simply gets busy and makes the Ida' Why is it that when the necessity . keeping under control the prices living commodities is exceedingly a parent, the government does not tal decisive action and acccinptish som thing of material value? But wl talk, what can be expected of a g" ernment controlled by millionaire ���Nicola Valley Advocate. WHEAT SHORTAGE it The crops of wheat, harvested fur the most part since Deceniber, in Argentine, New Zealand and A:i-- QUESNEL FAVORS LEIGHTON'tralia arc ol,1y a little over half the | amount garnered in the previous At a meeting of the Quesnel Lib-jyw* In tl,c United States the cou- eral Association held at Quesnel last dition of winter wheat generally is Saturday, delegates to attend thc low; in some of the important wheat- there are many fairly well-tcf-do women, whn have never before worked for wages, but who feel that iu this national emcrgmcy, their services are, as they should be, at the disposal of the state, "For thc Common Good." Girls will bc sent out to the fruit farms in groups, and each girl must he accompanied by a friend. That is, no single girl will be sent out with a party of strangers. This regulation lias a double edge; it assures congenial companionship for each worker, and it swells the ranks of the recruits. Hundreds of down-town office employees arc planning to take their holiday vacation on the berry fields of Hatzic or Mission, and they propose making their national work a picnic as well as a patriotic duty. Each group of girls wili have a chaperon. The work of picking small fruits is not hard, and is comparatively well paid. Inexperienced hands will make two dollars a day, and in a few days as high as three dollars can be earned. Women who have once tried picking berries as a business are keen to return to it year after year. Every season fifteen thousand women and girls leave Seattle and Tacoma foi the Puyallup valley, where they gath er the fruit, much of which is later shipped to Vancouver to compete with the B. C. product. Boys for Okanagan Most of the boys are intended for the Okanagan valley, where they will gather the orchard crops of apples, pears, plunrsj cherrie's, peaches, etc. Adequate provisions will be made.for the supervision of the lads. There is one thing* that should appeal particularly to these youngsters, there will be no restriction on their appetites; they may eat fruit to capacity as often as they please. The~ fruit growers feel they might just as well give the boys a liberty they would take in any event. Liberal convention to be held at Kamloops on May 16 were appointed as follows: Messrs. John Unit. H. Drinkrow, T. Fletcher. S. Dowling and R. Rutherford. They were instructed tn give their first ballot in favor of Raymond Leighton. of Sa- vona. IVORY DOMES DON'T KNOW IT ALL Youths should nut be deterred from marriage hy tin: remarks .of boneheads who ascribe unpatriotic motives for thc haste' A Chicago youth yesterday gave an excellent reason when be said he was afraid another might get her. The old misanthropic "ivory domes" do not know it all.���Portland Orcgonian. The woi d food. Sooi we face a sho tage . let ms use ill tli food and ii It "Now tin bid any grj T. R. IfOR PROHIBITION Former PrAident Says Nation Should Bar Inl ixicants During War. Speaking it a luncheon/in Chicago, Saturday, _* iril 29, Colo/el Theodore Roosevelt i ged that tbe manufacture of alcoholic liquors be/irohibitcd during the peri id of the/'ar. The farmer presiden said: / ��� ��� * n(j a shortage of Tthis country shall f food. Therefore grain we have for intoxicants, war is on, let us for- corn being used in the manuf|c|_irc of intoxicating liq uors " growing states condition is the lowc- on record. In Europe, now that opci field warfare, with hostile armtc moving over large areas, has su ceeded stationary trench warfare, tin destruction of growing crops bound tu be enormous. BAND CONCERT SUNDAY The board of park commissioner' has arranged with the band of thi Sixth regiment, D, C. O. R.. for concert in Stanley park Sunday al terhoon from 3 to 5. A patrioti' programme, including a number > gootl, old favorite British airs, hi been arranged. The bandmaster > the Sixth regiment band informed tin park board, in reply to a suggesti": from that body, tllat he regrelti' that there vvas no band music avail able in Vancouver at present for tin national anthems of all the enteni' Allies, but in arranging the pro gramme for next Sunday he had ma' it as representative as possible. PHONE: SEY. 900 MacDONALD & HAY Barristers, Solicitors, Etc. 1012 Standard Bank Bldg. Vancouver, B.C. The Cellbrated is AERONUI, in Iceless Refrigerator. ��� ____ ��� After the amateur gardner gets through with the hoe it will be time to get busy with the hose. CKNTER ,V HANNA LIMlTEty Y M C. A. mb.-.Kim _n,l 8-c*mii_ Vi RAIL TICKETS TO ALL POINTS General Agency Transatlantic Steamship Lines C. E. Jcnney, G. A. P. Phone: Sty. 1114 W. O. Connolly. C. P. F. A. 127 OrinviUe Street
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