@prefix ns0: . @prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . @prefix geo: . ns0:identifierAIP "8e027f82-28b8-4e99-a5a7-11f7eb55f89b"@en ; edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:issued "2016-08-24"@en, "1916-01-22"@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/gvchinook/items/1.0315599/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note """ SATOROAVQCHINOOK VANCOUVER BRITISH ^^W COLUMBIA pa mafia VANCOUVER Vol. IV, No. 37���Established 1911 COLUMBIA SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1916 CANADA Price Five Cents jeOITORIAL OPINIONS: GEORGE M. MUIIRAV Editor "The (rulli at all llmin firmly hIiiiiiIh And ahall from age to ��(te endure." THE PACIFIC AND GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY. IT is apparent from the inspired articles in the daily | press that Mr. Bowser is going to give to the promoters of the Pacific and Great Eastern Railway the six and a half million dollars they crave. Mr. Bowser I is going to relent from the stand he took when he abused Sir Richard for wanting to give ihis sum over to the con- iractors. Here goes six an da half miljion dollars uf the people's niuney into the laps of a crowd uf exploiters who haven't put in real cash much more than as many thousands into this road. That there is a need for tbe road tu the Peace River, nu ��� me questions. That it should lie completed right away. nu one disputes. WHERE IS TIIE JUSTICE OF BUILDING THE ROAD ON TIIE PEOPLE'S MONEY AND THEN" GIVING THE ROAD AWAY TO A CROWD OF .-PECULATORS WHO HAVE PUT NOTHING INTO IT WHATSOEVER, SAVE THE PRICE OF ADVERTISING FOR TENDERS ON CONSTRUCTION, BOAT FARE, OFFICE RENT AND POSTAGE STAMPS���AND MONEY FOR BUYING UP A CERTAIN SECTION OF THE PRESS AND ENTERTAINING BOGUS STATESMEN? IS IT ANOTHER PRIVATEERING VOYAGE? HAVING played to the limit the grabbing of the people's money through the medium of bonusing railroad contractors, is it lo bc the policy uf the Government of this Province to use the bonusing uf shipbuilding contractors as a new means of translating monies from the public purse tu the private pockets? Let us hope that such is not the case and that Mr. DR. MATTHEWS, OF SEATTLE. The evening of January 25th���Tuesday next���will be a night long to be remembered in thc history of British Columbia. The campaign fur a dry Province which has been carried on with such energy during the past few months will be taken up with renewed force following a banquet uf business men which will bc addressed by Dr. Matthews, of Seattle, one uf the greatest public speakers in the Northwest. It is expected that 600 people will sit down at he board which will be spread in Dominion Hall. Already tickets by the dozens have gone out to Victoria, New Westminster, Nanaimo and other points throughout the Province. It is understood that a few more tickets are available and may bc had on application lu Mr. A. R. Dingman, who is in charge of ihe reception committee, whose office is at Prohibition headquarters. 703-706 Rogers Building. service to thc Province. We have pleasure in publishing this week article j ASHMEAD-BARTLETT���FAKIR. , Maybe he ponders over the evidences of the terrible car- from the pen of Mr. Bram Thompson dealing with the | _ HERE was such a pack aUhe Canadian CUtb luncheon I "^ -hid, had been wrought at this place. For in this .ship-building policy of tbe Government. Mr. Thompson's I article which appears on the next page, should be read | * , ,, ., iii i r .i : . i a ticket, were obliged to wait in the outer chamber by all lliiisc people who have regard for the future wel- ., , . , , ,, r) ,, .... , , . ��� , i until such time as thc company had broken bread with Hire of the Province. .Air. 1 hompson speaks plainly upon ' J . ! thc guest of honor. In due season we were let into the a subject upon which he is exceedingly well informed. The SATURDAY CHINOOK invites correspondence upon the question of ship-building from both those who favor and those who oppose the Government in the pres-l cut undertaking. We hope to publish further articles upon the question from Mr. Thompson. i this week that we, win, had made nu.arrauge-iru-ut for neighborhood 29.000. Australians gave up their lives for thc Empire, for freedom. Gen. Maxwell, Gen. Albors, Gen. Mlinro, then in command at the Dardanelles���these men are mere boys beside the great Kitchener. And as one examines these pictures closely one wonders how it is that Kitchener stands up under the awful responsibilities he carries. In Vancouver men who undergo the pain of losing a few thousands of dollars sometimes ! gallery. We were annoyed at first lest we might miss | one word from the great newspaper dent, but when Ashmead-Bartlett ipctl corresponds lips all For Ashmead has a mighty voice of brass. Had we remained in the billiard room of the Hotel Vancouver we could have J suffer ill health and become broken down. There as distinctly as from the railing heard the young l j of the gallery. While Ashmead the recruiting officers on Hastings and Main Streets were busy and the brass band of their department was on par- was speaking at the Canadian Club CONSTITUTIONAL JERRYMANDERING. SIR Charles Hibbert 'flipper asks his erstwhile coadjutor, the editor of the News-Advertiser, a question, adroitly framed, concerning the Constitutionality of. a,",7 "U'hik, Asnmcad was bawling out his reasons for the resignation of Mr. Turner, the agent-general of this believing that the whole jolly war was being frightfully Province in London. We regard that as we are just going bungled by the British generals, the to press, we cannot discuss in detail the flagrant violation WCre enrolling new recruits for Overseas, of the most vital principles of representative government, T|u. ,,lnnv part ,���- it |8 t)lat Ashmead should have thc by the autocratic caucus at Victoria, or in fact by the j p0|ite attention and much applause from the leading men inner cave of thai caucus, viz.. Sir Ricard McBride and Lf Vancouver, several hundred of whom were al the Mr. "W. J. Bowser. Ir this act alone these two men have |uncheon. It would seen, that there arc men in Van- shown how everything has been prostituted to political ends, Even constitutional government bad to succumb to lhe overtopping load of graft, chicanery and corruption. Shortly, the resignation is not a resignation but a con- litional offer made to two members of the Government that he would retire from his position upon certain terms. These terms were, and are, such as these two members had no right to accept. They could al best receive then,. and present them to the Legislature iu the turn, ul" a bill to amend the Agent General Act, 19Q1, Cn such a bill passing into la"', Turner's resignation would become an accomplished fact. The position thus would be vacant, and not till then would Sir Richard McBride be eligible for the appointment which had been ostensibly conferred upon him as a quid pro quo lur clearing the way for Mr. Bowser's accession to the Premiership. If by any chance of circumstances���if tl.c Legislature fur .nee assumed the role of representative; of the people. 1 ��� lead of being automatons recording the behests of an aiisterjj Nabob���the bill failed to pass, then, Turner still Would hold his position; for his conditional resignation would be void; and Sir Richard McBride might return to ihe Province to claim restoration to the Premier's pedestal from which he had been expelled or which he had surrendered through listening to Bowser's bamboozle. The effrontery with which the manipulation has been Presented as a genuine transaction is revolting, particularly when we know���the writer of this note knows out "f McBride's own lips���that Turner's resignation has been 1 Hie tapis for two years, and McBride has been using " as a- stick to keep his reactionaries in order. But alas! Sir Richard has found it a broken reed. Alas! couver who would cheer the Devil if he were a guest at a Canadian Club luncheon. Ashmead did his bit in behalf of the Kaiser and passed ini to Australia and New Zealand where he will lecture on the great war, lie will tell ih'.' Australians how their boys were led to certain slaughter by Ian Hamilton and will rattle the dry bones which lie iu the sun on the Gallipoli Peninsula for Australian money, w ANOTHER DOMINION TRUST VICTIM. MR. John Armstrong, a pioneer, who conducted a grocery at the comer of Fraser Street and River Road, on the route to Ladner, is dead. Ile was a few years ago considered to bc a very wealthy man. lie owned large interests in Vancouver and along the North Arm of the Fraser. He was a public-spirted citizen who had worked hard all his life and had done much for the development of Vancouver and British Columbia. Mr. Armstrong lost heavily by the failure of the Dominion 'rust 'Company, in which concern he was a depositor. Business worries brought on ill health. MORE BEANS AND LESS SCENERY. ILL some one kindly come forward and explain why the completion of a railroad from North Vancouver to Squamish is a necessity at this time? The survey to Squamish runs along the edge of the warn,, pleasant waters of the Salt Chuck. Upon the Salt Chuck, great bunks upon political economy tell us, freighting is cheaper than upon railroads. The Government of the United Slates bet several hundred million dollars that this was so when they builded the Panama Canal. Here is a situation where we arc building a grade upon the edges of cliffs and in stomachs of vast mountains at the cost of a hundred thousand a mile in some places��� just to run a line from North Vancouver to Squamish. The road is completed now to Horse Shoe Bay. It is a scenic marvel. But we want more beans and less scenery in this country. [cases of men killing themselves simply because a couple of hundred thousand dollars' worth of their property In- jadvertently fell into the clutches oi thc sheriff. Some Vancouver people suffer ill health owing to our "beastly" climate. One leading business man, who met a friend of ours in San Francisco, pleaded that he had "to get out of Vancouver for a lime in order to get awav from recruiting oficers|(he 1|u,(, ������ Thcse lhiys everyone seems to be sick. There is grip ,'��� the air. Let us return i" a contemplation of the physical points of Earl Kitchener. Under all abuse, worry, mental and physical strain, change ol climate, diet and governments, with carping politicians annoying him here and blackmailing newspaper attacking him their; with a million or so of men depending upon old Kitchener, he stands up with his chcsl high, his hips back and hi* head up. the greatest man in Britain. His secret? lie lives right, ih sleeps right, He doesn't make his insides green smoking cigarettes, lie doesn't sit down to the big dincurs with the gay companies and crowd liis Stomach with a I"' of trash, lie cats simply, indulges in those exercises which make for cleanliness within and without the'body, lie cuts put the booze. Kitchener get* enough exhilaration oul of life will,out resorting to the alcohol can. Manly, soldierly exercises of the bod" keep his blood shooting through his veins in the healthy manner ordained by nature, and the more brain-work you pile upon a man in ibis condition the mure efficient his brain becomes. .And so you have a real man who is always awake and alert, who duesn't fall down���a man who seems to be at once the world's greatest military organizer and civil administrator. experienced and capable official who has been advanced because of his merit. Nineteen sixteen should be a great year in the life of \\ ancouver. WELL DONE, ALBERTA! NEWS from Calgary is to the effect that not a single wounded soldier who has returned to Alberta, and who is physically -fife is out of a job. Either work has been provided for him. or a job is waiting for him to take when he is ready. Secretary Howard Stutchbury, of the Provincial Hospitals Commission, made this announcement to the Canadian Club executive at Calgary, and the statement was received with every manifestation of approval Mr Stutchbury said that many of the returned soldiers had been employed as guards on public buildings, military establishments and the internment camps, and also that the civil service had absorbed a considerable number who were able to do clerical work and were fit For such posi- tions as doorkeepers, janitors and elevator men. I" caring for the returned heroes Alberta seems to have dune much better than British Columbia. Only yesterday we were accosted on Hastings Street by a man who had been injured at Festuber.t, This man was begging for nickels. When we consider the waste and extravagance of the Canadian Government in such matters as the War Contracts and the carelessness along the entire line in the expenditure of public monies, it makes one feel the poor hero-mend.cant isn't getting a square deal. We are a wonderfully humane people in some parts ot Canada. How we shed tears for our soldier dead' But when they come back to us busted up. lame, half blind, wheezing from the soaking of German gas, surely we should be able to muster up for them a sufficient 'stake to keep then, from the necessity of begging. BY THE WAY THE FACT THAT B. C. has forwarded a shipment of onions to the front strengthens the impression that an early offensive movement againsl the enem plated. icniy is content- JACK FROST IS doing good work in killing the germs, and Jack Canuck is doing his share in disposing of the Germans. . * * * THE "ALSli RAN" entries in ,|,e recent civic race are almost as lengthy and exciting as a Chinese play. * * * WHENEVER THERE IS a lull in local police circles it is always in order to raid a Chinese gambling joint." EASTERN RESIDENTS OF the Coast are looking forward with cheerful expectancy to the early arrival of an old but almost forgotten friend of their youth, one January Thaw. SEATTLE UNDERTAKERS REPORT business brisk "'" �� aIcoho1 With "coffin varnish" chasers swells the casualty lists. THERE ARK ENOUGH sleek, well-fed "Dicks" on -he Vancouver force to police a city the size of Toronto, Half iot them would be doing their country bettei service if they I were ill harness or the trenches. THE SURVIVING MEXICAN villains arc now pursuing Villa. K IF PRESIDENT WILSON could convert his diplomatic notes into cash the navy could add. another dreadnaughl to the fl.-. t. | IT IS SURPRISING that a staunch Imperialist like Sir Richard McBride could nol find a school within the Empire where his children could be educated without pat- | ronizing a Boston college. CONSIDERING THE PREVAILING temperature, A& miral Tisdale of the proposed B. C wooden fteel would be quite justified in using the popular nautical expletive, K. OF K., THE BIG, CLEAN, SILENT SOLDIER. ? ORD Kitchener bears upon his shoulders today, and y . has borne for the past two years, heavier responsibilities possibly, than any other living man in the world. When the war broke out we remember seeing photographs and snapshots of the great Kitchener. In those days he was a tall, broad shouldered, narrow waistcd, graceful man, apparently in tbe pink of condition. There is before us a copy of the CANADIAN COURIER, of Toronto, a well-illustrated weekly, and there is a page here devoted to photographs of Kitchener on the Gallipoli. In one corner, he is shown, shaking the hand of Gen. Sarrail, the Frenchman. He has to bend down to reach the little general's hand. Next he is shown in the trenches, and he is bead and shoulders taller than his companions. He is shown inspecting one of the abandoned forts where the Turks had been. Here is the tall, well balanced, fit looking soldier. His head is slightly bowed. MAYOR McBEATH STARTS RIGHT IN. M R Malcolm McBeath, Vancouver's new mayor, is starting in right. The first matter which will come to his hand is the cleaning up of the frazzled edges of the railroad company contracts between the various corporations and the city of Vancouver. lu thc oast there has been a disposition of the City Hall authority to play fast and loose with the railroad hoys. The result has been that neither the Great Northern nor the Canadian Northern have made any effort to live up to the letter of their agreements With the city. Mayor McBeath. temperance man as he is. will also direct his energies at an early date to an investigation ol certain phases of the liquor traffic in this city. There arc certain rowdj* joints which masquerade under the name of hotels which will conic under the investigation of the new Mayor. These places should be put out of business and His Worship will have the hearty support bu*! i thc best people of Vancouver in the task- of letting light and air into some of Vancouver's pest spots. Mayor McBeath is backed up by one of tbe strongest Councils Vancouver has ever elected. He himself is an TACOMA OFFICIALS ARE enforcing the new "dry" ] law so strictly that lhe boys arc afraid to venture down | to the rinks carrying skates. * * * WE WELCOME THE shipment from the prairies of their No. 1 hard wheat, but must protest against the sample of winter weather they are exporting this way at present. \\\\ HITE SPATS ARE as common in Vancouver as real estate agents iu the boom days. * * * WHEN WOMEN ARE elected to the Manitoba legislature, the male members will have to pay more attention to the cut and drape of their Coonskin overcoats. IT IS SAID that in Cripple Creek. Cactus Centre and Lcadville. in the State of Colorado, there was a time when if a man was plugged, he bled whiskey. These towns are now in the Dry Belt. DESPITE THE OPTIMISM of the leaders of the Pro-, hibition Movement, Vancouver will never go dry���in winter time. two SATURDAY CHINOOK SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 191C THE SATURDAY CHINOOK Published every Saturday nt the Chinook Printing* House, 42(i Homer Street. Vancouver. Telephone .Seymour 470 Registered at the Post Office Department, Ottawa, as Second Class Mail Matter. Sl 1IS< HII'TION IIATISS To all points in Canada, United Kingdom, Newfoundland, New Zealand and other Hritish Possessions: $1.00 Postage to American. European ana other foreign countries $1.00 per year extra. The Saturday Chinook will be delivered to any address in Vancouver or vicinity at ten cents a month. Member ol' the Canadian Press Association. The Saturday Chinook circulates .throughout Vancouver and the cities, towns, villages and Settlements throughout British Columbia. in politics the paper is Independent Liberal. We do not accept liquor advertisements. Publishers Greater Vancouver Publishers, Limited. WESTERN WEALTH. How seldom, in referring to the vast natural wealth of this Western part of Canada, do we find reference made to the food supply of our lakes and rivers? As a matter of fact we have a reserve food surplus in these waters of ours capable of feeding millions. And in a short time we expect to have opened to us the great salt water fisheries of Hudson Bay. But, as Hon. J .D. Hazen. K.C.. minister of fisheries, said in a recent address on Canadian fisheries, too little advertising has been done, consequently our citizens are not. even moderate fish eaters. They do not fully appreciate the muscle and mind building qualities of fish. In order to make an early start in the New Year and endeavor to do our little part as a newspaper in advertising our fisheries, we propose to quote from Mr. Hazen. Taking a wide survey at the outset we arc told that Canadian fisheries are the most extensive in the world. . . . Off tbe Pacific coast we have by far the richest and largest halibut fishery in the world. Thc deep seas there are also stocked with many other excellent varieties of food fish, and along the shore line there are over seven thousand miles of coast waters into which flow such large glacier-fed rivers as the Fraser, Skeena, Xaas and others, up which every year swarm countless thousands of five different kinds of salmon. In addition to our sea fisheries, we have over 220,000 square miles of fresh waters, most of which are abundantly stocked with excellent fish, the supply of which is being kept up by our hatcheries. The annual value of the fisheries now runs from about $31,000,(100 to about $.14,000,000, depending on the extent of thc salmon run to the Pacific rivers. In the Fraser river, there is a big run every four years, and in the three succeeding years thc run to that river is on a sliding scale. The approximate total, marketed value of all kinds of fish, fish products and marine animals taken by Canadian fishermen from the sea and inland rivers and lakes during the fiscal year ended March .11, 1915, amounted to $.11,- 057,550, the value of lhe fisheries of each province being as follows: British Columbia $11,487,312 Nova Seotia 7,7.10,191 Xew Brunswick 4,940,083 i Ontario ' 2,600,000 Prince Edward Island 1,201,666 Manitoba , Saskatchewan ' Alberta Yukon 825,417 1.12.017 86,659 69,775 for such fish is limited, and is being adequately suppliei each year; hut Canada itself should afford an exceeding!* large and continuously growing market for the product! of the fishermen. W'e live in the north temperate zone, where fish are in greater abundance anil of heller quality than in the southern waters, and where, consequently, they should form an important portion of the daily food supply of lhe people. That the day is coming when such will be the case, ami when there will lie a steady and rapid growth of the fishing industry, is evidenced by the development that bas taken place in recent years in the fresh and mildly-cured fish business in this country. While this development has been a rapid one, it is merely a fraction of what there is room for. It is not surprising (hat in this new country, with its unsurpassed agricultural resources, and. until recently, wilh butcher's meat readily available in all portions of it at moderate prices, there has been little demand, away from the immediate water fronts, for fish; hut a result of this condition is that the Canadian-born population has grown up without a taste for fish, and what is worse, with little knowledge of our fisheries and of the value of fish as a food. Even more unfortunate is the fact that comparatively few housewives have learned how to cook fish so as to make it attractive and tasty, and at the same time to maintain, and what may bc readily done, even enhance its food value. It is of the utmost importance that people should speedily become informed of the excellence of fish as a food, as well as of its palatahility, and of the fact that with the transportation facilities now availab'c, it is quite practicable to lay fresh fish, smoked fish, etc., down in practically all parts of the country in as good condition as when shipped from the starting point. There seems to be a widespread opinion tllat fish is not a nourishing food, and that, consequently, it may not, with safety to health and strength, replace meat to any large cxent. Thc sooner this impression is dispelled, the better. Not only is fish, like meat, rich in nitrogenous food���that is, food wdiich supplies the body with the strength to do its work and builds up its tissues, but docs not go to the supplying of fat and heat���hut high medical authorities advise that it cannot be too strongly insisted on, that for working people of all classes���those who work with the ir heads as well as those whb work with their hands���fish is an economical source of the energy they require to enable them to carry on their work, and it furnishes the very materials that children and young persons need to enable them to grow healthy and strong. How much more economical it is as a supplier of the bodily needs than meat, keeping in view the price that has to be paid for each, is little appreciated. Without going into the analysis of the different kinds of butcher's meat and fish, it may be stated in a general way, that fish is only about two per cent, poorer in nitrogenous constituents than meat; but on account of its greatly cheaper price, it is a much more economical food than meat. For instance, if dressed cod���fish with the entrails removed��� can be purchased for eight cents per pound, beefsteak would need to be sold at eight and one-half cents per pound to be as cheap a source of nourishment. If fresh haddock can be bought for eight cents per pound, fresh mutton would require to sell at seven cents to he as cheap a food. If halibut sells at sixteen cents p -r pound, frash pork would need to sell at slightly less than fifteen cents to bc as economical a food, as halibut is even richer in nitrogen than meats. In the midst of all the addresse of politicians that contain nothing nourishing, it will be admitted that these quotations from Mr. Hazen's speech are not alone interesting, but instructive. What he has said should set people a-thinking���the women as well as the men, for it is a fact of thc household that the education of our cookery folks with respect to the preparation of fish has been sadly neglected, hence the indifference of so many people if they never see fish even on a Friday.���Winnipeg Tribune. CANADA'S DUTY IN THE GREAT WAR. MEN WANTED, NOT OFFICERS. RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION. ()i this amount the sea fisheries contributed $27,170,483 and the inland fisheries $3,887,067. The fishing industry now gives employment to almost 94,000 people, over 84,000 of these being engaged in lhe sea fisheries, To carry on thc fisheries, 282 steam vessels. 1.326 sailing ami gasoline vessels, 431 carrying smacks and 3S,05S boats are employed. Of the boats, 9,2dl are now fitted with gasoline engines. There is now invested in fishing gear, vessels, etc., about $24,500,000, over $22,000,000 being invested in the sea fisheries. While the fisheries are now one of the industries of first importance to the country, their present value ami importance arc merely an index of what they can ami will be made in the next few years. While it is true that the fisheries are now worth from $31,000,000 to $36,000,000 annually, and not so many years ago their value was less than $20,000,000, the fact remains that this increase is practically altogether due to the phenomenal development of the salmon and halibut fisheries of the Pacific coast, and of the fresh water fisheries. Now, what is the cause of this non-progression in the Atlantic fisheries? It certainly is not due to any failure or shortage in thc supply, nor to the necessity of going greater distances to make catches, nor to the need of considerable capital to engage in the industry. The supply of fish in our waters is as great as it ever was, and the fact that in the European waters, where fishing is so intensively prosecuted by all the countries bordering thereon, during every month in the year, there is no sign of depletion, is an evidence that we have little to fear in that direction. The whole difficulty in Canada is the question of demand. The great bulk of the fish on the Atlantic coast is being sold in a salted and dried condition. The market Repeatedly, .he Tribune has endeavored, in as mild a .vay as possible, to curb the tOQ apparent desire of well- intentioned, patriotic young citizens lo jump into positions of military command, while the crying need is for able-bodied, high-spirited young fellows to shoulder a rifle, and take their pari unostentatiously in the greal work of defense tliat ihe nation and the Empire throws 'i, lhe shoulders of the younger elements, One of our local writers on news military says: "Including the 500 nun who will lake lhe officers' training course in W'inipeg this month there arc said to be enough officers in sight in Military District N'o. 10 to supply fifty new battalions. From twenty-one to twenty-live officers are required for each battalion. There are a the present time scores of new officers who have been unable to secure tlieir commissions, and the officers in charge of the new schools are smothered with applications from men who want to be "somebody" in the war game. "An interesting phase of the situation is that the various regiments are adding very materially to their regimental funds as a result of the rush. It is first necessary for a prospective officer to become attached to a regiment, and be recomemuded by lhe officer comamuding. To do this he must contribute a fee of $25.00 to the officers' mess. ll is the opinion of military officers tllat the young men would be giving their country better service by entering the ranks, and working up to thc desired position by practical efficiency. Many of our old-fashioned military rules, drawing severe and unnecessary distinction between privates and non-coms, and the commissioned officers account for the desire of so many young men to be in the swim for the higher-ups in thc service It is just a title tiresome for the brainy, able-bodied young fellow in the ranks, fired with enthusiasm to do his bit for bis country, to bc touching his cap half-a-dozen times within the space of a block to, perhaps, young chaps who have not had the nerve to take their chances in the ranks, and who are on the waiting list for something to turn up, while others are roughing it in true soldierly style.���Winnipeg Tribune. May wc inquire how much longer Messrs. Flumerfell Tisdall and Campbell are going to retain their cabinet positions without ascertaining if the public are satisfed to have them there? It is now a month since they were sworn in and it was anticipated then thai writs for bye elections would be issued without delay. No word or sign as to Mr. Bowser's intentions has come from Kamloops. Evidently he has not made up his mind whether it would be safer to have a general election at once or a bye-election. The Liberals are ready for either cour��i and the longer the Premier hesitates the greater becomes tlieir confidence that they can defeat the three new ministers. A government suporter makes the stupid suggestion that the opposition fear bye-elections. If Mr. Bowser thought that, writs would have been issued long ago. He can easily satisfy himself on the point by taking tbe plunge.���Vitcoria Times. BRITAIN CALLS FOR REAL MEN. If the call were for horses it would bc for good horses ���SOUND, STRONG, DEPENDABLE horses. That is the kind of men they want for war���that kind and that only. And that is tlie kind of men the country at peace, as tbis country is, should consider, because, remember, the think at stake, always, is the country's FUTURE. So just what are we doing toward providing good. sound, dependable MEN? What is our NATIONAL interest in the matter "i clear, clean minds and strong, healthy bodies for men oi the present and for generations to come, taking a good look into the futrue? What is our NATIONAL interest in the morals of men and the futures of their wives and children? What is our NATIONAL environment? Are lhe boys of today, who are growing to be men, SAFE? These questions relating to the economic value of men sugest tbe great national issue that must soon be determined in tbis country. The issue is ALCOHOL and the SALOON.���Detroit Times. Chinook Printing House FOUNDED 1886 (Huntingdon Gleaner, Edited by Sellar Brothers.I Although we have yet to face three months of winter, which will give us the most intense cold, the fact that we have pased the turn cf the year, that the sun is niountaing higher and the days growing longer, gives us more heart to face what is coming. Unfortunately, it is not the ordinary stress and strain of a Canadian winter we have this j ear to prepare to bear, but lhe losse and burdens which war brings. Looking back, nothing is io he seen lo give encouragement, At the best our armies have only brought the enemy to a standstill. Of the operations carried on at thc several fronts the words of Lloyd George are true���we have been too slow and too late. We were too slow in trying to force the Dardanelles, What might have been done three months sooner was failed lo do in April. We were too slow in moving lo the aid of Serbia, and arrived too late to save that ally. In France there is now no question that slowness robbed our arms of victory at Loos and Feslnbcrt, We were slow in providing munitions, and we can see that the same activity shown this winter would have ensured the breaking of thc German lines a year ago. Xow that there has been a terrible waking and shaking up of those to whom thc conduct of the war is entrusted, we may hope there will lie a change. To one branch of lhe defence we look wilh complete satisfaction. The navy has swept the seas of the enemy, and kept his fleet bottled in tbe Kiel canal. Apart from what his submarines effected, the enemy has been powerless on the ocean, and it now looks as if our sailors had circumvented those watcrsnakes. While there is nothing to justify thc belief that the war will end before long, there arc solid grounds for confidence that the future will demonstrate the superiority of our arms and that there will be a steady march towards complete victory. When a man by shipwreck finds himself plunged in the sea, he strikes out, his sole aim and effort to save himself. He does not worry about who was accountable for the ship being wrecked or what he will do when he gets on shore. All the powers of his being are centred in his eforts to escape from his present danger. That ought to be our attitude. The people who keep boring us with platitudes about the cause of the war should hold their peace, and with them those who are writing rubbish as to what Canada is going to do and to be after tbe war. Every energy and every thought ought to be concentrated upon carrying on the war in such a way as to ensure speedy success. Our country is in danger, and Duty demands we turn neither to the right nor to the left until we have grappled with that danger and overcome it. The Mother Country is now in grim earnest. With set teeth and unflinching band she is grappling with the foe. Our faith in her ultimate victory should not excuse Canada in doing whatever common sense indicates we can do. 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':,!; j:,:!.'ii; ��� lii lllllll ��� PL II I Champion & White | Best South Wellington Coal DELIVERED NORTH OF 25TH AVENUE I Lump $6.50 Nut $5.5? j H PHONE 9570 ' 1083 MAIN STREET jj iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaii���^ \\n incident in the rrvnit civic elections reminds one of an old, old story. Several boys mn fishing were about ready to hit the trail fur home. Sup- pcr was over, and needless to say. there weir not more than a few crumbs left after several hungry lads had been fed. A kettle in which cooking had been done was the last dif- ficulty of .the day. Every one claimed it. Finally a plan was hit upon, and while it was being worked out, the local preacher of the gospel came along. "What's up, hoys?" he asked, "Evcrj fellow wants the kettle." answered the spokesman, "so we're telling lies, and the fellow that tells the biggest one gets the kettle." The minister held up his hands in horror. "How terrible! Why. hoys. I never told a lie in my life." Willi one accord the buys shouted in chorus, "Ciive the preacher the kettle." One of the candidates iu the recent elections made the amazing statement that he had not told a falsehood since he was a, small lad. In face of the above story, and the many who have heard it before, no one would be surprised to hear that the hack yard of the gentleman in question is hy this time, full of kettles. * * * One of the other amazing things about the recent elections was the attitude of the daily newspapers. Not till the last moment did they evince any interest in the event at all, One would have thought that Vancouver elections and Vancouver's daily moulders of public opinion were removed to distant parts of the earth from each other, and that the latter had no part nor parcel with the former. This in spite of the fact that one would naturally judge that a city's newspapers, eager to cater to its readers, would be anxious to pick up every scrap of local news. in other years, each newspaper has had its special candidate which it hacked to the extent of near-to-life- size cuts, display headlines and no end of good advice concerning the gentleman himself. Said newspaper would whack the other candidates unmercifully and paint them as black as printer's ink could make them. Everybody just sidestepped a lawsuit in order to make out the absolute undc- sirableness of those men who'dared oppose the pet candidate. It was some fun, generally interesting and sometimes instructive in other years round about civic election times. Not so this year, and while the plug has been kept pretty secure ill the barrel of "Inside Information," yet one or two leaks have spilled out a queer little sentence which correctly interpreted might lie meant that this year's mayorality candidates would not put up the price, hence the silence. It is a case where most of us are doing a lot of thinking. * * * An interesting item in Red Cross news tells of the Japanese Red Cross, which 1 doubt not some of us did not realize existed. It says: "Another special feature of Ked Cross work at Netley was the arrival and efficient help of a Ked Cross contingent from Japan. They were only sent out for a year, but as the time fur their departure draws nigh regret is mutual on all sides; for the Japanese surgeons have taken tlieir full share in the working of the hospital, and the nurses have especially endeared themselves to thc British soldier by their unfailing kindness and sympathy. The well-known adaptability of the Japanese to circumstances was shown in the fact that the nurses settled down quickly to their new work when they were separated from one another and distributed among various huts, where they 'each worked with Hritish colleagues only." With regard to the East Indians, this organization says: "Conspicuous was the success with which the unexpected arrival of a greater number of Indian sick and wounded was met. Of these there were 512 in all, including Sikhs, Gurkhas. Pathans and Punjabi Musul- mans; and here again the wide Indian experience of the comanindant at Xetley proved invaluable. Only twice was trouble threatened, when the Indians discovered that the milk was brought to their wards by European hands. Fortunately a tactful native ex-official of the Indian Educational Department held the post of senior interpreter and he was able to convince the natives of the futility of iheir scruples and iheir refusal lo lake the milk wa- nol repealed. ,'Everything else connected with the treatment of the Indians was of a pleasant nature only. The European staff were delighted with the docility and gratitude of their brown.charges; and although some trifling inconvenience and amusement were caused by the longing of the cured patients to carry off some souvenir from the place where they had been so kiiidh treated, farewells have always been exchanged with mutual liking and respect. Added to this the returning Indians have the delight of taking with them the turbans���too highly treasured to wear���and the walking sticks given to them by Queen Alexandra herself, tn lie preserved���as they said���"as jewels in our families so that our children and our chil- dred's children may, like us. be proud of them and be inspired to serve our Emperor," * * * Have yon been feeding lhe birds through our cold spell? I hope so. and that you have had as much I'm, and pleasure in the doing as we have at our house. The first day he came, we mistook him for a robin, till he turned to us full-face, and then we saw the fine black collar he wore, and knew he was no robin. He was about the size of a robin, with a. robin's coat and breast, but had also saucy red streaks where his ears shoudl be, and aCwonderful collar of black feathers around his neck which shone irridescent in the sunshine. His beak, too, was longer than a robin's���though I'll be bound it was not any sharper. lie tilted on a branch of our best cherry tree and looked as if he knew that folks were made to help a bird out in snow time, even if said bunch of feathers did resemble a butter-ball for roundness. His silent appeal was irresistable, and a pan of good things such as a hungry bird might condescend tu eat, were placed where he could not miss them. That young gourmand stuffed till he could scarcely hold any mure, then he propped himself in a crotch of the cherry tree and allowed the chickadees and sparrows to have a fill. Then he was gone, but not for long. Four oilier birds came with him, and while he "bossed" the lot, they had no end uf a feed, and nu( till night drew its first little curtains, did they really leave that impromptu restaurant. Next morning as sunt, as the blinds were raised, Mr. Red-Breast was seen to be un hand. He stood on one leg. with his feathers ruffled, and said as plainly as bird language could say. that he did not approve of our late hours, and did we think he-wanted lo wait all day for breakfast. Since then the entire flock of near- robins have been daily and all day visitors. With them have been a peculiar flock oi black birds which when in flight are lhe must stunning things ill black and while effects possible. They have a head like a fan-tail pigeon, walk like a crow, and produce the dearesl little "chirr-r-r" oul of iheir dusky throats, Other visitors have been dainty, saucy chickadees, mere bundles of animated feathers. Several crows have called hut been promptly shooed un. And the sparrows we always have with us. A loaf uf bread a day, grain, bits of meat, and any other thing a bird might fancy have been placed out every day, along with a dish of water. Meanwhile Patsy, my black and white cat, has been highly indignant at being kept indoors, and only allowed to run iu the basement. He sits in the window and gnashes his teeth at sight of so much bird flesh that is so near and yet so far. I sometimes wonder if seeing them has the same effect on his teeth that tu think uf a lemon has on ours. It looks like it, anyhow. It is little enough that we can do to look after our feathered friends in stress times like we have just passed through. That they aprpeciate it is shown by the way they turn up regularly to be fed, and the shy, pretty way iu which they accept our offerings. Do not forget our bird friends. ���LADY VAX. The End of a Nightmare I REM EMBER that a good many years ago I saw a splendid production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." I remember the glorious joy of Titania when she awoke and found her hideous dream over���and the horror���she threw into the words: "Melhought I Was enamored of an ass." South Vancouver has awakened from a night-mare. We can now appeal "from Philip drunk to Philip sober"���for the whirligig of time has brought its revenges and we have been afforded another proof of the wisdom of old Abe Lincoln, who said: "You can fool some of the people all the lime; you can fool all the people some of the time, bul you can't fool all the people all the time." i ���#��. And now let the dead past bury its dead; let South Vancouver rise on its dead self to higher things. Mischief has been done by the past regime of folly and brutality. But no mischief beyond repair. South Vancouver has elasticity, recuperative power in its constitution, and if the present council will only be warned by the follies of the past, if it will only gain the respect, and as a consequence, the support of the community, then South Vancouver may yet achieve her destiny. One thing must be done���there must be no recriminations over the past, let that be forgotten as a wise man forgets the horrors l of a debauch���when he makes up his mind "Never again." To the ratepayers one word: Hold your souls in patience! Remember the Council has much to "live down," much to disentangle. It will be some time before it can get into its "stride." Give ail the support you can���make it easy to do right, difficult to do wrong���denounce at once any recrudesence ol rowdyism, should there be such manifestation, and all may yet be well with a Municipality which was born for greatness���if you will only encourage it to achieve its destiny. PETER PICKUP. Building The Ship There is something picturesquely fascinating "about the idea of Vancouver taking up ship-building on a large scale, (ither industries would employ many "hands." other industries would under good management "pay," but the finished product when turned out could not appeal to the imagination, could not arouse speculations as tu futurity���like a ship. I )ur mind noes back lu the Romance oi Shipbuilding. King Henry, "the much married." building "The Great Harry"���one thinks uf Peter the Great learning shipbuilding at (lid Deptford, England, and one thinks oi the little picturesque towns ���such as little Shoreham, England��� lhat grew famous and opulent by the ship-building industry. Think <
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