—— THE DAILY NEws THE LEADING NEWSPAPER IN NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA Published Daily DAILY EDITION and Weekly by THE PRINCE RUPERT PUBLISHING CO. LTD., PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. Editorial Notes and Clippings Tuesday, Dec, 24, 1942.) “PEACE ON EARTH, GOODWILL TO MEN.” “Peace on earth, goodwill The centuries to men.” rings down the the first Christmas Day, over nine- teen and today is as welcome as it was then. message since centuries ago, lt was such a gentile message breathing tenderness and love, and each year since the estab- of the Christian church the season of words has been one that over- flows with kindness, self- sacrifice and love. Santa Claus, the darling of the children, is the personifica- tion of the spirit—the great jovial, gentle old saint, with his untold wealth of toys and al- luring presents. Millions and millions of little ones have been looking forward, since last year, lishment those to the return of the saint, but there are also little ones that the Yuletide only brings yearn- ing for that they have not and unsatisfied desires for that which they cannot obtain This, although in a measure it can be alleviated, cannot be stopped, for the Christ words ring as true today as they did in the Holy Land—‘The poor ye have always with you.” It is a sad thing to contem-| plate were it not for the other message, “Peace on earth, goodwill to men,” and the ac- companying promise of salva- tion for all, regardless of pov- erty, wealth or social standing. This Christmastide let there be joy and gladness in the hearts of all, and in the cele- bration, the feasting and drinking, let us see to it that everyone possible is satisfied. In_the Letter Box | LABOR. The Working Class and the Pub- lic Interest of the City of Prince Rupert. To the Editor of The News. Dear Sir; In our previous are ticle We promised to political ground regarding mu- nicipal affairs. Let us do so, The main characteristic of the twentieth century's civilization is, essentially, to buy cheap and sell at a higher figure so as to realize a profit. The merchant buys goods at a figure with the object in view of realizing a profit in selling them; in the same way intellectual and manual labor is being bought. The peculiar quality of labor represented by a human being does not alter its nature of be- ing a commodity like any other one. Labor, intellectual and manual, embodies all goods and_ all wealth, as wealth in every shape or form is only materialized hu- man energy; in other words, cerebral human phosphorus ap- plied to the natural resources of the nation. Governments are raising tariff barriers against foreign goods under the pretext of creating na- tional industries, bul, mark the words, protection can only be so by being a parisite on somebody. The national industries are created, yes; but at the expense of the consumers of the products of those industries. The tariff clear the price is the bonus paid by the community to industries thereby created. The City of Prinee Rupert has adopted a_ protection on the commodity that she needs most, common labor, so as to foster an industry of her own, home labor. Something scarcely to be found anywhere, nevertheless Prince Rupert has it and if the reader is a taxpayer he knows it. In every branch of production —the mine, the factories, ete.— there are two distinct interests, those of labor and those of cap- ital. Capital invested = hirés labor to produce, or transform, goods into goods and remuner- ates labor with a price called wages. The two interests are antagon- istic, labor is striving to get al! he can, capital, on the other end, gives as little as possible, that is human nature applied to every- day life, by every mortal being living under the sun. Prince Rupert has all the as- pect of a great enterprise, yet her interests are complex, The formula of the two conflicting interests existing in the mines, in the factories, and al! other en- ferent aspect in the city’s eeon- omy. Municipal economy different from that of the fae- tory and such like. The interests are not capitalistic and proletar- ian alone the citizens constitut- ing the working elements are in way as well as the other share holders in the corporation more specially in a new metrop- olis like ours. The numerous working ments inteliectual and manual not sharing in the protectionistic is totally some ele. Engravi Etc.—with the exception of going at this discount. We specially call your ELECTRO-PLATE manufact MAKERS TO THE BRITISH guaranteed. Priees in plain f- S. Gray & Son... 15 per cent. Discount Sale Every thing in the Jewelry line—WATCHES, CLOCKS, RINGS, BROOCHES, UMBRELLAS, HAND BAGS, Ete., Etc. ng Free standard contract watches, attention to our stock of ured by FENTON BROS.,, ADMIRALTY. Every piece COMPARE THEM. OPEN EVENINGS figures. =O CHRISTMAS our stock is at its best. No TURKEY. Now is the time to order your Xmas Turkey—while has ever been shown in Prince Rupert. FRIZZELL’S MEAT MARKET Third Ave., Next Roya! Hote! finer display of Xmas poultry BEARS THAT MAYOR NEWTON HAS K ~ THE DAILY NEWS Mr. G. R. Naden Tells How Mayor Newton Did Not Save the Tele- ‘he Editor The Daily News, Prince Rupert, B. © | Dear Sir: : = story is told of the visit of a " bear to a house kept by two people. When the unwelcome | visitor rapped at the door (inet dentally breaking in said door the man of the house promptly climbed into the loft, leaving his wife to entertain the visitor. This she did by reaching for a gun and shooting the bear. When the neighbors came around the man of the house very proudly ex- hibited the bear he had killed. The heroine was too modest to ‘claim the honors, but the neigh- bors knew well enough who had killed the bear. You cannot fool jyour neighbors for long. |For years strangers coming into | the community were regaled with very jthe story of “how I killed the bear.” The municipal elections are |nearly here once more, and Mayor | Newton again telling his | neighbors and the strangers in |} the community “how he killed the bear’’—beg his pardon, I meant “how he saved the telephone for lthe people of Prince Rupert.” His neighbors know well fenough who saved the telephone, |but, for the benefit of strangers lin the community, it may be well to relate the history of the mu- nicipal telephone of Prince Ru- pert. ’ | During the year 1909, a repre- | sentative of the British Columbia | Telephone Company was spying | out the land with the intention |of wetting one of the tentacles of | that octopus in Prince Rupert. A number of the citizens, know- ing the strangle hold that same company had obtained on nearly jevery municipality in the Prov- 18 j}inee of British Columbia, tried to | devise some ways and means of |; were | preventing them from obtaining} |the same strangle hold here. The } city was not incorporated; there jwas no official body which could} | take it up on behalf of the city. |A meeting of the citizens was |held and it was decided to ask the | government for to instal a telephone system in this city and to have the the gtreets pending the incorporation of the city. This permission was granted, with the proviso that permission use of the telephone company should be turned over to the city after incorporation, Public spirited citizens were asked to subscribe for the shares in this company in order to be} the first in the field. The sub- scriptions came in very rapidly, and the installation of phone system was proceeded with immediately. Being the secretary of that company, I had access to all the in connection therewith, have diligently searched without success for the name of M. Newton among the sub- scribers to that company Mr. W. M. Law was president, and he gave a great deal of his time and the benefit of his un-| doubted business ability to the organization of the company, and got it started. Westenhaver Bros. spent aj} great deal of time in portions of Canada and the States trying to find out the best and cheapest} system it was possible to instal, | and a number of other citizens | freely gave of their time at meet- ings of the eompany and other-| wise. To make a long short, the company was organized and | the system installed before the| incorporation of the city in 1910.) As everyone knows, the first city} council had its hands pretty full. | For months meetings were held| on an average of five nights in| the week, in addition to commit-| tee meetings in the daytime. In} spite of the demands on their | time for other things, one of the first things they did was to intro- duce a bylaw for the purpose of taking over the telephone com- pany. i It is interesting to note the actions of these wicked who, according to Mayer Newton, anxious keep the tele- phone for themselves. They do- nated all the work they had had the tele- papers and I 8s. story people, in incorporating the company and installing the sysem. They donated the use of the money from the time they had put it up/ till the city paid them charging 5 per cent. interest for the use of the meney. I can say, without hesitatior, that had that telephone system been installed by the municipal ity it would have cost at least 50 net ever tariff adopted by the city on the hour of common labor are in- disputably being sacrificed by the extra taxation on their property, just for the sake of keeping up a protection for their fellow workers on the city’s pay roll. Prince Rupert is an advanced of the economy of Canada, and the world, therefore subject to the laws of competition. Bx- cessive protectionism on laber will undermine its future and prevent her development. The policy of a semi-elass struggle that our city fathers gradually adopted in the last two is detrimental to both the jinterests of labor and capital. | For the City of Pgince Rupert it is a question of to be or net to be. These and many other ments we will discuss letters, if the reader ently follow us. DEMOCRATICUS. post years argu- future ob ice in will THE CHAMPEEN’S CREED Gather the may When all the world is cheering, The cheers that ring for you to- day Tomorrow may be jeering. nickel's while you Only a short and fteeting day To live on milk and honey, Gather the shekels while may Go out and eop the money. yeu Mrs. Cleveland, who has been }On @ visit to her sister for sew. eral months, left for her home in Chicago om Saturday on the }\ Princess May. Accountant desires bookkeep- ing or other work for evenings | Apply Box 68, Daily News. 301.7 Miss Johnston, Miss Milligan, Miss Martin and Miss Peck, all members of the teaching staff of the public scheoals of the city, left on the Princess May on Sat urday evening to spend the Christmas vacation in the south Dainty Xmas Handkerchiefs jand Collar Sets at Demers’ Paying Ore Found at the Sur- prise Mine, Near New Hazelton. Hazelton, Dee. 23.—Word came down from the Surprise Mine on Monday to the effeet that the ore had been hit in this first vein which the long tunnel cut. While this vein was small on the sur- face, a gang of men were put to work drifting on it from the tun- nel. They have gone ninety feet and have eneountered some very high grade gray copper ore carry- ing big values in silver. The vein is getting better now with every foot of work. At the same time the long crosscul tunnel is being carried through to cut the second vein. which promises to be a big payer. The tunnel is now in 440 feet and will reach the vein almost any time. Superintendent North and other mining men who have seen the property recently are satis. fied that the Surprise will be a good paying mine. Pantorium Pioneer Cleaners. Phone 4. Opposite Majesty Theatre KEEFE & DORREL Proprietors That little girl of yours—-she'll soon be having her hair done up and, too, she wall be outgrowing her childish ways—-and you haven't had @ picture simee she was in long dresses. You don’t exactly want to k her a8 she is, but you want to keep Sweetest of memories “They grew in beauty side by side They filled the home with tee.” There is & Photographer in Your Town at the PANAMA STUDIO Burns’ Meat Store, Third Ave | Above (of property | phone System for the People of Prince Rupert---Was Not Even a Shareholder in the First Company jper cent, more than it did, T can lalso say, without hesitation, as | eeoretary of that company, that during all that time I never heard it suggested by a single share holder that it should be held as| a private corporation Had they! wanted to do so, they could not have held it. The government gave them permission to use the} streets with the distinct proviso that the company was to be turned over to the municipality Even had that not been so the company would have had to ob tain a franchise in the usual way, and every voter would have had his say. When the bylaw was pul through, if I remember rightly, | nine voles were cast against it.| I think T am well within the mark in stating that, had the first city} council wanted the by-law feated, they could certainly have got more than nine voles against it. Mayor Newton, by this knows more about the difficulty of getting the requisite number} owners Lo sign de petition asking for a money by law to be put through, and ene remarkable success the Mayor had this year in passing his | money bylaws has probably given | him further information on that | subject. | Yours truly, G. R. NADEN | | } Silversides Bros. [a ae Paper-Hanging Our Specialities c “We aiways deliver the goods.” 2nd Street Phone 156 Green i SNAP) Lot 31, Block 4, 5. This is a corner 4th Ave. and has an structible view 3 ways. lot unob- Section | on | ' | On grade and desirable in every $4,500.00, way. Price Terms. Crown Agency Co. = — | One Double | Corner | 7th AVENUE SECTION SIX $2000 cash and the balance over ter years at 6 per cent. Alex. Mi. Maneon, B. A. December, 24. 4 Tuesday alae 5.5. PRINCE RUPERT CEG aa leaves for Vancouver, Victoria C nd Seattle Tee FRIDAYS, 9 A. M. > ; Gratby Bay, Stewart, Naas, if a. m., Jan. at a Oe Sth, 19th, March Sth ,10th fl ae a eth Pet t sae 1 Nadew Harbor, 12 p. m jan. 10th ‘ iodine sd me March 7th, 2tst ror » ri Bay and other Queen Cherlotte Island ports, 10 pn seein gsrt uo! a tote 26th, Feb. oth, 23rd, March Oth, 23rd G. T. P. RAILWAY PASSENGER SERVICE @ leaves Prince Rupert 10 4. m Wednesday and Saturday Grand Trunk Railway System (The Double Track Route) Chotee of routes to Chicago tu nt Grand Trunk Railway No Nine month excursion rates tn effect with the excursions and fast trains of the Syster eame . i") infermation apply to gency for al! Atlantic St hip Lines. For a y ' ' A. &. MoMABTER, Jevera!l Agent, Centre . B.C. COAST STEAMSHIP SERVICE Savoy Hote Choice Wines a SAFETY SPEED SERVICE FAMOUS PRINCESS LINE 5. S. PRINCESS MAY Southbound — Sat., Dec. 21st, 8 p.m. S. S. PRINCESS BEATRICE Southbound—Sun., Dec. 22nd,8 p.m. SSS eee ’ Cor. Yraser and Sth, RUPERT'S PALACI | THE IROQUOIS POOL English and Americar ar CANADIAN Lae Prt 7 ne COMTORT Billiards 4. @. M’NAB, General Agent Twelve Tables SECOND Avs a ween . ) ess Bowling Alleys | UNION SS, COMPANY OF B.C, Ltd |; Empress Bowling Alleys |) @ ALLevs 12 TaBLes | Best Fitted and Most Luxurious on )) The Twin Screw Steamer the Coast “Venture” ; Arrives from Vancouver Every C O A L MONDAY NIGHT iia ke New Wellington Coal Rest « Salis for Port Simpson, Naas River Points Phone 116 wanat —_— & Black and Granby Bay Tuesdays, 8 a. m. CARTAGE anc | LINDSAY’S STORAGE G. T. P. Transfer Agent» Saite for Vancouver WEDNESDAYS, 2 PF. M. Rogers Steamship Agency | Phone 116 Orders promptty fil) = Prices OFFICE~ H. B. Rochester. Centre St Phone SMITH & MALLETT THIRD AVE | SONS OF NORWAY Plumbing, Heating, Steam/itting a Meets every Thursday at 7 p. m., Sheet Meta! W jat 319 3rd Ave. All Norwegians) | Office: ard Ave. Wor i Phone 174 and Ave. vet ‘ are welcome — THE “Walhalla” of S-H- &E-F- Westholme Lumber Co (SCANDINANIAN SocreTy r —LIMITED- Meets every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the hall at 319 3rd Ave. STUART & STEWART Acoou.itantes 308 2nd Avenue Prone 280 Auditors for the City of Prince Rupert PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. Lumber and Mouldings All Kinds of Building Supplies First Avenue Phone 186 W. &. Williams, 8. A, L. L. B. WILLIAMS & MANSON Barristers, Solicitors, Eto. Box 286 Prince Rupert, 8. C. WALLPAPERS —--— _ To make room for P. O. BOX 28 PRINCE RUPERT large stock of nex! si JOHN E. DAVEY —— ae See or TEACHER OF SINGING ing PUPIL OF WM. FOXON, ERG. ARAM. LON. UNG | White backs from 7'2c up per roll } Gilts, from 10c. up per ro!! HAYNER BROS. UNDERTAKERKS anp EMBALY ERS } funeral Directors | Grd Ave. near 6th St. SEE OUR HIGH GRADE BURLAPS Dor-na Phone No. ® double yd.,200¢ Colonia Tex-ta ed, soft burlap, per Imperial and ed, The A.W.Edge Co. 2nd Avenue dyed, per yard 30c E. L. FISHER Funeral Director and Embaimer CHARGES REASONABLE 2ng 8t., cor. 2nd Ave. Phone 366 PP PPL LOLOL POPP LLLP LD LOLOL POL ODO PPP P DOLL O COOL OOOOOOLCCCCCCCCOOLOOOOA OPEN DAY AND NIGHT THI Turkeys, Geese, Ducks and Chickens in Town Phones 126 and 436 The Prince Rupert Fish & Cold Slorage Co, Lid RD AVENUE AND SECOND STREERY Have the Finest Selection of Quality Guaranteed and Suit All Prices to FREE PRESENTS FOR THE CHILDREN All children, accompanied by between 4 and 10 p. m., will their parents. \ . paren Visiting our store on Tuesday December sth receive « present off eur Christmas Father Christmas , Tree by