THE DAILY NEWS THE LEADING NEWSPAPER IN NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA Published Daily and Weekly by THE PRINCE RUPERT PUBLISHING CO. LTD., PRINCE RUPERT, B.C Daily, 50¢ per month, $2.00 per year. rates on application. York City. Seattie—Puget Sound News SUBSCRIPTION RATES—To All Other Countries: Weekly, $2.50 per year, strictly in advance. TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING—50 cents per inch. New York——National Newspaper Bureau, 219 East Co London, England—-The Clougher Syndicate, Grand Trunk Building, Canada, or $5.00 per year, in, advance. United States and Mexico: Weekly, Daily, $8.00 per year Contract! ’ HEAD OFFICE } Daily News Building, Third Ave., Prince Rupert, B. Cc. BRANCH OFFICES AND AGENCIES } Telephone 98.| : 23rd St., New) since he was last here the city has made such tremendous jstrides forward. He expecis§ to see it a very bustling place be fore the present year is ended. Mr. Gotsworth is secretary of lene International Almanak Re form League, of which he is the originator. He has spent a great deal of time and has travelled much in connection with the sub ject drawing the attention of all European governments to the manifold advantages of the re- tion than cash in the savings department of the banks. money in Prince Rupert return profits double and several times the invest: while cash in the bank w turn 4 per cent., per a and no chance for any There have been time Prince Rupert when the business could have been ent — real estate or building. Rupert people can build up their retail and their wholesale business by assisting in the de- velopment of the interior, the coast cit it is up to exert every effort people and money terior. Rupert's one sure market. in to se th with the interior, and until the interior has come into its own Prince Rupert cannot reach its real goal—a great commercial, manufacturing and shi centre. SAVE $50-$75 ON YOUR TYPEWRITER tike and do one year. ter, but that has never effected The interior is Prince money and more business will come from the interior than any other source. Prince Ru- pert will prosper and grow Trafalgar Square. Subscribers will greatly oblige by promptly calling up Phone 98 in case of non-delivery or inattention on the part of The News carriers. & te — DAILY EDITION ie Tuesday, April 8, 1913, RUPERT as SEEN WHERE Does BORDEN BY OTHER EYES. HIDE HIS POLICY? Prince Rupert has been en- The Albertan says it has joying ‘wonderful prosperity. made a careful and faithful From its very birth there has search for the policy of the * not been a break, and the fu-| Opposition and has failed to ture is even brighter than its discover anything that in any past. Prince Rupert, from aj Way resembles a policy, a plat- business standpoint, is the form, a promise or a record brightest ; thee Pp if It has examined the journals of : ie a or parliament, searched for legis- Coast, says the Omineca Her-| jation placed upon the statute ald. Money in Prince Rupert books or bills proposed or reso- property is no more specula- lutions introduced, but it has But will treble nents, ill re- nnaum more. s in retail bet- and y to nding e in- More pping failed to find anything that has been done or attempted. It has perused the speeches of all the members of the opposition with some care, but has been unable to discover anything that has even the remote ap- pearance of an issue to be placed before the people. It ias carefully examined the newspaper opinions of the Southam press, the Conserva- tive dictators of the province, and found them more barren than anything else. The Albertan from day to day has ealled attention to this remarkable shortcoming of the opposition, Such a declaration has met with some denial but with no declaration of policy. There has been nothing but a mournful procession of unfair, and for the most part, untruth- ful knocks. It is a reflection upon the intelligence of the people that they should be approached by a party which does not consider it necessary even to place an issue before them; which asks for power, not for the further- ance of any political principle, but for the gratification of the political ambition of commonplace men. some “FROM HOME TO HOME.” HOTEL ELYSIUM Sid. Sykes, Manager The Finest, Newest and Most Up-to-date Hotel in Vancouver. Excellent Cafe. 1142 Pender Street West y G. A. Sweet, Manager. a sr ato ~ = THOLME LUMBER CO. Limited | ff *;,¢0 So wor Drawn for The Da News DY Hop” Phone 8500. Moderate Prices, . = Vancouver, B.C. ORIGINATOR OF THE REFORM — ALMANAK IS THE DAILY NEWS VISITING RUPERT THE REFORM is TO HAVE ‘THIRTEEN MONTHS OF TWENTY- EIGHT DAYS EACH—EACH YEAR TO BEGIN MONDAY. M. B. Gotsworth, F. G. 8., audi- tor of the municipalities of New Westminster and Burnaby, again visiting in Prince Rupert and expresses his pleasure thal is formed method of reckoning time. He now believes that all coun- tries will have legislation on the subject, so that the reform could start in every country with soon the first of 1916 The reform proposes a new standard month of exactly four weeks, to limit the present tweive months to 28 days each and to insert an additional month of the same length between June and July to be known as Sol. Mr. Cotsworth bases his con- tention on the fact that no two months are alike in earning or spending time during either the year, because names for by present or past their lengths and day vet each date vary, we. pay months, but have no uniform measures for them. We need a measure. “Consider the many needless worries and references to Al- manaks Caused by months vary- ing between 28, 29, 30 and 31 days in length,” he says ‘when by simply deciding on months of four weeks eaeh we could know exactly what a month measured, and our clocks and watches could after 1916 constantly show us both the day of the week and the date of the month. “After we then make this op- erative, it will forever become a costless but ever increasing daily benefit to every human being. You will be pleased by its con- every day. No more to find what day of the week or month passing; nor whether an appointment or monthly venience daily worry is bill date will fall on Sunday, nor} clash with your Tuesday or other} . i fixed weekly engagements. Fra-| | ternal and other regular society} (oF 4 Wednesdays, meetings, if on would, when weekly, always be on the 4th, fith, 48th and 25th or breweekly on 41th and 25th, oF monthly say 18th. | te gy on Wednesday and is |i | We should for the first time derive a true and pemanent idea} of the month, and save many} business men from bankruptcy as some now fail to meet their payments for goods ordered dur ing a 31-day month, when 28] days or five Sundays occur in the following month, Our erratic Al- manak causes many such troubles especially amongst po: peoprte, who are increasingly forced to resort to money lenders and pawn rT brokers during the ends of months containing five Satur- days, to obtain money for the ex- tra rent, food, ete., they have to provide for the coming week, out of the wages they receive for the previous four Saturday month.’ HAZELTON MINES More Butte Capitalists to Pay a Visit to the District. well known in ughout North- F. A. Brown, mining circles thri ern British Columbia, arrived in the city on Sunday evening's train and left yesterday morning on the Prince Rupert for Butte, Montana. Mr. Brown is _inter- ested in a