rhursday April 9 1944 ue is 15.-PHONE-75 TAXI | ——————— POLOCCOCt seet pert eeeeeeaggee sixTH AVENUE BARBER SHOP \ up a new e the sehvu |. ae ork; every: ind fresh Prices. Give us e Call ancouver OO UAE ES edd Se AAA IIIA IIIIR | seereeet YOR AEE AEE ABE 567—P HONE—567 TAXI ALF HALLIGAN Machine * Beven-Passenger Prompt Service arge Special Rates for Parties STAND, ROYAL HOTEL FEU OO IIA IAAAIDA AAS IASIAIASISISIASA. a and! Land! raham Island | pre-emption of 160 acres will make you Independent. SEE US QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS WOXMATION BUREAU nosy. 8. ENTWISTLE, Prince Rupert, B. C. Mor. POOPIE LLPPELLODODODIODOPL 4 PPOLLIL OLE OPIOID LILOL LS AL ESTATE BARGAINS The best located double corner Second Avenue, opposite @. T. hotel site, $60,000; quarter h, 1,2 and 3 years. Liberal re- ction for all cash. Pair first class residential pok 10, Section 7, $600 f cash, balance arranged. Splendid pair on Graham Avenue, tion 2. $3,500; terme arranged. M, STEPHENS & GO., LTD. | Estate lots, each; Insurance Notaries rer ene SOLEIL EEOLELELOLOLL ODD DOLD LE one 37 P.O. Box 1704 SAVOY HOTEL FIRST CLASS CUISINE in bt and Cold all Running Water Rooms 'y finest brands of Liquors and Cigars kept E BEST HOTEL IN NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA RUDHOMME & FISHE? Proprietors POLL OLLEOLODLEOOODL OLD LL A POOEEEEOPOOOLOPOLODOROODOOOOEY lel ; Directory i —— mbers P.R.L. Vintners Association WINDSOR HOTEL of First Ave, and Eighth St W. H. Wright, Prop. rner MOTEL CENTRAL Ave and Seventh St ropead aod American Plap Peter Black, Prop. = First Et KNOX HOTEL rat Av Between Eighth and Ninth “Peau Plan, Rates 60¢ to $4.00 8 re bay esner & Besner, Props. bY. Roct t V. D. Casley EMPRESS HOTEL Third Ave, Setween Sixth and Seventh Streets “ropean Pian, 60 to $1 Per Day PREMIER HOTEL ‘2 8hd European Plao F. W. Henning, Manager Amer WOYAL HOTEL rte y & Burgess, Props "ra Ave. and Sixth St, “opean Pian Steam Heated EA ¥. VER WHOLESALE LIQUOR co., LIMITED 1 Ave. and Sixth st Phone 109 RiINCE earn CE RUPERT IMPORTING ©O., LIMITED ana F ser Sixth Sts Phone 7 SPP o ree hneeee ee ietldiededaa a oe en ae ere pee eeeteOtUAAOOTOOIOHE found impossible to find men of | the necessary physique required | for work, and that a} consequence the force had to be} recruited from the coun- | while though the | required for recruits enlisting in the imperial | police as largely try districts; Standard of height defence force had been reduced from five feet six inches in 1845, to five feet three inches in 1883, and finally to five feet in 1900, at the present day there was a rejection of 60 per cent of the men presenting themselves for | enlistment. Phe speaker went on to show that the decrease in vitality and health was in direct ration with the inerease of immorality and crime Both in England and America the number of suicides during the past twenty years had doubled in proportion to the population. The chief medical officer of the English board of education reports that out of six million children registered at the ele- mentary schools of England and Wales, more than half show pro no. ed evidences of constitu- weakness, which was a} significant statement when we! DR. GILROY, DENTIST Crown and Bridge Work a Specialty. | Office: Smith Bik., Third Avenue PACIFIC RLY. Excursions to Montreal | CANADIAN Summer Prince Rupert QNd Peturn ..cerccecece Do to Toronto and return. Do to St. Paul and return.. Do to Chicago and return... 108.50 | Do to New York and return 144.50 } Other points correspondingly low. Effective June ist. Final return | limit October 31st, { Cheap rates to Norwegian Cele- } | bration in Norway, effective April j 20th, 25th and 20th. } Cheap rates to Norwegian San- | gerbund itn Chicago, effective May | $141.00 128.00 96.00 19th and 20th, Beatrice, Sunday night, 8 p. m., for Vancouver. McNAB, Generar Agent 3rd Avenue and 6th Street | J G }f Corner ' "UNION TRANSFER CO GENERAL TRANSFER AND STORAGE South Wellington Coal PHONES: 86 Office. RESIDENCE 110 333 Second Avenue PRINCE RUPERT BOAT BUILDER | s ahaa 321 H, Seal Cove 215 Second Avenue Phone 43 WILLIAM T. HOUSE B.C. Land Surveyo" PRINCE RUPERT P.O. Box 618 JAMES GILMORE Architect 2nd Avenue, near McBride Street IMPERIAL MACHINE SHOP | Repairing Quickly Done COW BAY PHONE RED 156 The Tavorite Household Coal Brightest, Best J. H.R Md Avenug OGERS Cleanest el Velington Goa Phone 116) JOHN CURRIE — Contractor & Builder .. Estimates Given dn Moving Bulldings,. Phone Black 294 tinction to the inereasing num- dren as regards the origin of life. bers of the Oriental nations. Speaking of infantile mor- Ignorance and _ brejudice oe tality, it was stated that 27 per the worst enemies of progress, cent of the annual number of but in face of this increasingly difficult problem there could be deaths were children under five : room for neither. THE DAILY. News ; —-- ————___—_—_—_—_—- tn ' | GAVE ADDRESS 0) horse, in which a century of | r GENICS breeding and (traininw had added 50 per cent ( s efficieney. BEFORE DEBA TY While it was the speaker's | G SOCIE purpose to ad the whole- | ma sale adoption he evgenic - P ; , as a oh “ | PRESIDENT TALKED VERY ENTERTAININGLY ON THE MO8T| onnat ihooietn he folk hat | MODERN TOPIC OF SOCIETY —mucH LiaHTt THROWN |... yet 1e an ON SUBJECT—GAVE FAVoRnaBLE IMPR ” in view of the far vhich he had | ean a ESSION brought before the meeting that | Mr. J. Roberts, president of : " s the time had comms: r some defi- lithe society, gave a very able 1d vine future of the| nite action to b iken to con- ; é serve the health d vitality of lave on the subjeet of “Ku ’ the which in it-|the nation. In this connection jgeni¢s” before the Young Men bott ind effect of{he was entirely of the opinion | Prog essive Debating society at ; wae increasing/that a certificat of health j their meeting last Thursday he Tih wanes This, de- should be obtains before mar- | hevening during the course of!} wets! oq elief work|riage was permitied, and com- | B eng Carried o1 soveruments | mended the action of Dean Sum- whieh he gave some startling|and philanthropi: nstilutions.|ner of Chicago for his stand on statistics concerning the preva-! This elass of cit obviously |this question Pursuing this lence of insanity and physical) o0"°" TeP oduce ng, normal|point, the speaker gave some ap- degeneracy amongst the people |)" eae known fact|palling facts relative to the ne- of this continent, as well as the | il i lass the very poor glect of this precaution as wit- older countries of Europe The|\. iribule more to the birth rate}nessed in the phvsical and moral speaker quoted the statement of a A other Education, | tendencies of children Dr Hillis, an eminent United \ seems to have had the It was obviously madness to United States authority, to the|°!!*! reducing the size ofjallow the physical, mental and effect that every time the popu-| 7") in all classes of the|moral abnormalities in the hu- lation of New York City doublea|°O™™Unly. man family to perpetuate their the number of insane multiplied rhe population of France at}|diseases, but the present condi- by three, and the number of|'#@ present time is stationary, tion not only permitted it, but feeble-minded children by four,|Hile in both England and Ger- the vilest social evil, which was At the present rate of degener-|"!4Ny the birth rate is falling so largely contributory to this state acy there would be more erazy|'@Pidly that it is calculated that of affairs openly flourished un- people in the United States than |! the rate of decline of the past der the implied sanction of the sane in less than three hundred | thirty years is continued, in one authorities. ; years According to the report | !undred years time these na- Napoleon had said ae oie issued under the auspices of the| [ons will have ceased to repro- hundred years igi _Zrence New York Bureau of Municipal | @ue On the .other hand, it was pads soothers, ang ; without Research, out of 1500 children|POlted out that the birth rate doubt France's need of yesterday attending three city schools only jof Japan was on the increase. om our need of today. The ques- 105 were normal as regards eve.| lhe average family in America| ion largely hinged on the econ- sight, hearing, good limbs, ete, |t0day was a family of two, and|O™¢ conditions also, which did while 1395 were handicapped only one family in seventy-five not erat a ora, non ane | from the start. jhad more than six children. Al||!28 !9 the early een Of Timms Turning to the problem as|!!s, the speaker pointed out, BpOd: oe sete vn 5 presented in England, the speak- |'e4”! racial suicide, a gradual ra eae ee 1 hy- er said that in the large manu- | Weakening of the European and neaee an Sho one oe ar facturing centres it» had been|*meriean people in contradis- esbilan itt ces’ “taeibed: chil. ere UME cae A NR HM A, ttf ttt ri c(h ‘ii ff i ti ‘ay it ai i - FACT HUNGER- As ‘dhildren, our first de- mand is for nourishment; our second for facts. All through life we go about searching for information. We make a new acquaintance; but before we will accept him as a friend or invite him to our home we ask for facts about him. We visit a foreign land; and from the moment we step across its border we are asking questions— searching for facts. We are asked to try a new food product; isn’t it instinétive with us to ask at once: “Who makes this new article ?” “* How is it made ? what goes into it ?”” “Is it worth the price charged for it ?"” Facts—we are simply hungry for them. Strange, isn’t them > it, that we should so often have to search for Odd, that some manufacturers still withhold the facts * about their product, Not always because they are facts to be ashamed of—for there are many worthy articles yet unadvertised, But it will not be so much longer. human race is becoming keener and keener. The fact-hunger of the The more facts we get, the keener our relish for more of them. Soon it will be impossible to sell a man or a woman anythin years of age, which seemed to ; ; ’ : ; point to a deplorable ignorance|.. 50M exceedingly interesting until everything has been told about the goods that can be tol on the part of mothers concern- tea ati feats eee f a al through Advertising. ing the rudimentary principles Peis ear eae , Coe ‘ the address. Evidently the i ° ° és of health % ‘a ae Se aain ae nga iy The public has discovered that Advertising tells much-needed facts— ‘aia bie, tin te ine ua realized by the members, which that, in fact, Advertising satisfies fact-hunger. considerable time to the elabor- iat ive aie s a hopeful indication. The con- : . ss ation of these features of the|'* 2 m If you are doing a local business talk over your advertising problems with the problem, Mr. Roberts turned his |8¢@8¥S of opinion seemed to har Advertising Department of this newspaper. mitentionsko; pawedtal niakainia monize with Mr. Roberts’ views, If you are doing a provincial or national petieoes ) rent neaee ate ee fran ; Em ~, although it was difficult to sis- to have the counsel and assistance of « good advertising agency. A. list of these will be Science had shown that in plant Ata: of haveaneiihontal’ aided furnished, without cost or obligation, by the Secretary of Canadian Press Association, and animal life by careful selec- Fi . ae oak : satin . The (10) Room 503, Lumsden Building, Toronto. r tion, by rigid exclusion, and a biases haw dna? celtteieen ne nen nae are ee ane open to abuse, and the steady de- . re o ; : ; ; “Stoline in the birth rate to the meg possible to bring forth the per-| | caarn craze for social enter. = = == —== = fect specimen. He instanced the taitiinante ? Of English invention is a new) _ evolution of the apple end ; the At the close of the meeting tac|Ccentrifugal pump directly con-| (¢ , potato under man's guidance, chairman announced that or the|nected to an electric motor that} and hte marvellous advances runs equally well in or out of the following Thursday Mr. A. Davis and Mr. Kidwell will lead a de- bate on the “Abolition of Gapital which had been made in increas- ing the productiveness of wheat. water. Your opportunity is in Port Edward; investigate prices. DEMERS Just Arrived... Large shipment Third Avenue SPRING CORSETS In the Selection of Easter Gifts Our Easter Booklet will prove a great assistant to out-of-town buyers—in assortment of gift lines suitable for time festival, illustrated. tions in Jewellery, small requisites in Table Silver, Rosaries and Rose Beads. Photo Novelties in many forms, your address at once. it a splendid presentation during this spring- These lines consist of many neat produc- Frames, if one of these Booklets has not reached you write to us asking that one be sent to Hine, Birks G& Sons, Limited JEWELLERS AND SILVERSMITHS Geo. E. Trorey, Managing Director VANCOUVER, B.C eee st PRP IT AAA AAA AAA IA AAD AI AASA AA AAAS ASA AAS ASA AAA SAS AA SISA SSAA ~~ In the animal kingdom the sci- Hanikhinent:” ence was sd commonly under- stood as to hardly call for spe- bien the eauenh: ——- cifie reference, but he would : mention the case of the trotting List of passengers into Prince Rupert yesterday on the s.s. Prince Rupert: } F. McNeil, N. Forbes, N. K. Johnson, C. | ©. Purday, T. F. Hopkins, G. Waddell, 3.| Dougall, W. Feeney, M. Clarge, E, H. Me- | Kee, H. W. Philpot, Mr. and Mrs. J. N McKenzie, J. Driver, G,. Millichamp, e.| of Love, H. L. Dickson, F. Weir, F. F. Eilers, | K. Miller, J. Caldwell, S. A. Rose, J. R. | Dee, J. H, Pillsbury, Mr. and Mrs. Hinden, | J, Blyth, Miss Morgan, A. Ansell, Mrs. J Brown, J. W. Lang, W. S. Cameson, V. | Tompkins, T. Callin, Miss Maahes, J. Don- | hue, Miss A. McCallghan, Mrs. G, Mc- | Callghan and child, P. Plewee and wife, A | McInnes, Mr. and Mrs. Seeley, Miss ans | ley, A. Beun, J. Petit, B. Bowden, Mrs. | Bowden, J. Bowden L. K. Walk, J. Buck, | Mrs, Cheery, J. N, Floyd, Mr. Cole, G. | Freberg, ©. D. Newton, Mr, and = Mrs. Runnington, S. Bergman, RA. E Pageit, Mr. and Mrs, Taafu, ©, Rudd, N. S. Camp- | ~~ ~+ bell, A. L. Eeaton, C. L, Cullen, W. Dunn, | f e l E. D. Lanahan, R Lublin, J, Lublin, Mr. | and Mrs, P. McCormick, W. E. Walker Th See,” Mr. and Mrs. S. Johnson, W. Watson, B j RK Johnson, J. B, Gibbons, Mrs. P. Gor- SELAH B. HOWELL don, J. N. Fraser, ©. W. Parfit, A. Tem This is the first’ picture pub- |bey, L. Donah, H. Grenninger, M, Ruzjck, ) lished of the man who will sail]J. Fitzpatrick, J. Bethuen, EB. Seal, © ’ the sloop Defiance, one of the | Gore, I. 0. Beckwith, and F. Hartwick. three boats being built to cca Ae a compete for the honor of de- THE WEATHER fending the America cup] , Serene against Sir Thomas Lipton’s| Furnished by F, W. Dowling challenger this fall. Captain Observer Selah B. Powell comes from — Highland, N. J. He is one of|For the 24 hours ending 5 a the best known racing cap- April 9, 1944. tains in America. The De-| Barometer reduced to sea fiance is being built at Bath, LOR GK 5 Ses ees 29.883 Me,, on designs of Geo. Owen|Highest ............... 65. of Newton, for the so-calledj Lowest .............. 38. | Boston, New York and Phila- Sa $e | delphia syndicate, The De- Have you a lot of your own?! fiance will be launched May 11.’ Secure one in Port Edward now. . Details | oft the City Census A report from Chief Vickers relative to the population of the city was submitted to the ¢ ouncil on Monday night. It was as follows: Male Female Children British Alien ‘Tota! Sec itan. 4 , 2242 304 299 2284 Bat 2825 | Section 5 760 406 454 1182 438 1620) Section 6 123 «238 = 288 720 164 884 | Section 7 . 285 104 124 413 97 510! Sections 8 and 2.. 104 22 40 146 20 166 3784 1164 1060 4745 1260 Total. a 2 A Ea a a i Oi a i A i i ~~ en ae atte 6008 | Ga emsdormernes THE DAILY NEWS SAFE SANE SPICY IMPARTIAL INDEPENDENT INTELLIGENT ee FOI IIIT AT DADA AIA AAI AAAI AAAS IAAI AAA AAAAN ~ | NEWSPAPER for Prince Rupert and Northern B.C. The Daily News goes into nearly every homfe in Prince Rupert. It the popular newspaper of the Gity because it is ¢lean and’ reliable.” Tt has all the news of the city, and keeps in touch with events and topics interesting to Northern British Coluni- bia. It treats these subjects with moderate opti- mism and reliability. The Daily News is the most valuable paper advertisers because it is read by the buying public. It has a bigger circulation than any other paper in the vity. It is read by the class of people the advertisers want to talk to. is to DAIL EE ne Y NEWS