THE DATLY NEWS. 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. | H. FP. MeRAR, EDITOR AND GENERAL MANAGER HEAD OFFICER Daily News Building, 3rd Ave, Prince Rupert, TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING- rates on application. B.C. Telephone 50 cents per inch oR Oontract DAILY EDITION va gue Thursday, September 3, 1944 In a recent discussion in] themselves strong in case they Parliament, W. F. MeLean, of | are called upon to pay out more South York, had the following| deposits, they refuse accom- to say about money matters,| modation to the people. But, which would indicate an early under the splendid new princi- reform in banking methods: ple «ff discounting—new at “Now, let me tell the House least to America—-when a bank and the country what is the| manager finds that either his actual condition of business in| head office or his branch of- this country today. The banks fices are being called on for today are organized largely on deposits, he knows that he can the deposits of the people: and| take the notes that he has on if the manager of a bank—I discount in his bank to the re- care not how large it is or how serve bank, cash them for 90 great its capital—finds one} per cent or 95 per cent at a morning that some of his de- reasonable rate of interest, and positors have withdrawn their; have national notes the next deposits, he is very much con- morning to meet all his re- | cerned. In some cases word is | quirements and to pay his de- actually sent out to the} positors or any one else. Our branches of the bank all over | banks are timid today because the country that they must go} of this condition of affairs. slow on discounts and let up in} They cannot rediscount; the accommodating the public. the bank that would redis- Why? Because they know that count in Canada today would if some persons are withdraw- lay itself open to suspicion ing their deposits today, others The great feature in banking will be withdrawing theirs to- in Europe, especially in Lon- morrow, and “in order to keep don, is the system of redis- 5 ec Locate oil juse the drill. To test FLOUR BAKE BREAD. Day in and day out we apply the bak- ing test — the only practical test — to ROYAL STANDARD after the wheat and then the flour have been subjected to every test known to science. We give ROYAL STANDARD the test you will give it in your kitchen. ROYAL STANDARD behaves in precisely the same beautiful fashion 365 days in the year. AT YOUR GROCER'’S. Royal Standard Flour F. G. DAWSON, Wholesale Distributor. PRINCE RUPERT BAKERY SUPPLIES eather gee wees Deneees teers, of tvend or one, see us. Our KNOTT - CLIFTON LIMITED. Day Phone 180. Night Phone 078. THIRD AVENUE LUMBER counting The Bank of Ene | from a street car ticket to $300. “If that ticket is worth $800 to Everything in the way you like it cooked London Cafe. season ficult one Lo since they lack the e hief “Auction the ticket. ‘said Mr.|] postulate of a plan of march Noel Marshall, a prominent mem- through Belgium, namely a free ber of the executive passage of the Meuse, a route by Five hundred dollars.” bid the} Liege and Namur, and inaction on president, Sir William Muloek. the pari of the Belgian army.” “Bight hundred,” raised Mr. J. . C. Baton, 10'. POUND GIRL 24TH BABY IN THIS FAMILY and his wife. fourth ¢ Cop This is the been twenty have presented Mr. Eaton ,it is worth $1,000 to cme me,” said Sir William, and what|Father is 76 Years Old, But Ap- is probably the most costly car pears Younger ticket in the world was knocked Sterling, Septembef 4. Cc. 6. down to him. . : g hes The incident closed with three Copley .o farmer living ‘twenty : miles northeast of Sterling, is in cheers for the boy who gave the : . 7 - the city, coming ostensibly for ticket. the purpose of purchasing farm FE. E. Confectionery sells high|supplies, but in reality to an class ice cream in bricks; also|nounce to his friends that a ten- pure candies 155tf|pound girl has been born to him hild yley, BEER EEEREREE EERE ERR were born during and sixteen to eight of wh Leaves for VANCOUVER and Vici or min tions for SEATTLE on Tuesday, Sop 9 Cones, Weekly Service maintained to Granby, Stewar P 9 bm Fortnightly service to Masset, Queen Ohario River p " Low Excursion ftxi: TO EASTERN CANADA and UNITED 8TATES good return until! October PYomber guy Passenger Traine leave for the EAST on moND, WEDNE SATURDAYS, AT 10 A 9 SOAYE ny For through tickets to any point and full infor ALBERT DAVIDSOW, G. TP. 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Estimates given affouy 4 wt & an ' ride Apply FRED KLIEN Third Ave., Head of Secon ‘Princ e Rupert Phone Red 268 P.O. Box 237 MARTIN & M’GOWAN LAIN AND ORNAMENTAL PLASTERERS Cement, @rick and Tite Work Estimates Furnisned Phone Biue 328 0. C. STUART @ooouna B08 2nd Are PRINCE RUPERT. £ BLYTHE BROS. =" * “*", . w.t ap det | PLASTERING CONTRACTORS WILLIAMS @ SANSO | Phone 194 Barristers, So!iciton, & MONEY TO LOAN Satisfaction guaranteed i ‘ Helgersun Bluck we HARRISON W. ROGERS > PACIFIC CART AGE land, whenever it wante money ja former marries: or gold in a time of emergency REN * | the present union out and sell these bills where rhe father is +6 years of age ever you can. and bring us the but has the appearance of @ man gold. Sometimes they are of not over 45 or 90 He came willing to submit to a farth ito Logan county five years ago ing reduction in interest, and joo Ypsilanti, Mich think nothing of it; they know Of his twenty-four ehildren that the next day they can gel} BoA a are living Most of either the gold or its equiv-} them are school teachers alent, namely, national notes | of one kind or another We} ee must have that system in this | , Her Omnipotent Defence ’ country if we are to inspire] ee eS our banks. with confidence tb} Of all the nations caught into carry on business at all t mes | this mad maelstrom o fthis hu and to provide money sulll ropean wal Britain is safeet cient for the business of Lhe | Britait « most secure the country. | most rm mnding figure of : = = lthem all! We have iother corre Why? spondence today re military Austria vades Servia, Rus matters but as we have already | sia invades Austria and Germany published two etters from ; France vades Germany, and each side no more will be is Germany ades both Russia and sued for the present Any Rene Viviani rranee No nation invades Bri thing further that could — be tain, and the no talk of in said will accomplish nothing Latest picture of the Pren li vading Britain by any nation now and there is no use to keep ge France who is much the neaged this colossal war ing a useless discussion, publie eye during the present) Invading every other nation, Bri las inhi conan war crisis, tain is immune both from the act INSPECTED ROCHER and the contemplation of inva DE BOULE CLAIMS sion! aes ANTWERP FORTS Why? Angus Stewart and D. McLeod OBSTACLE T0 THE For five hundred years-——since Bring Samples From Copper Francis Drake scattered = the Side of New Hazelton. GERMAN ADVANCE Spanish Armada among the winds - —- and waves of the English chan Omineea Herald. ne no nation has ever invaded Messrs. Angus Stewart and D Paris, Sept. 1.—JIn an = offi-/] Rngland McLeod have been up on Rocher|cial statement the Belgian war Why? de Boule mountain to have a look ]office says: Of all the great capitals of at some claims Samples from “In conformity with a prear Kurope, and of the world, Eng the last working on these claims | panged plan, the Belgian field land’s capital at London alone were brought down and will be]army retreated on the entrench. | 28s Bevet been entered by a hos sent out for analysis. rhe ed camp of Antwerp, after br#l- tile foe claims will be given names fur- liantly fulfilling its duty as dic- “Why? ther on. tated by the strategical situation, “This little kingdom, whose Mr. McLeod had the pleasure /ang delayed for a fortnight the standing army today is not 80 of a view of the district from an] German passage of the Meuse large as that of Switzerland, and elevation of 6,000 feet. He is im- “Antwerp has a double role it smaller than the standing army pressed with the extent of the], , formidable entrenched ca:mp, of any other first class country territory unrolled to the eye a8]fortified on most modern lines, |°%°ePt the United States, fears they climbed u pthe grade. It is]and is the base from which the| the invading foot of no foreign wonderful and grand, and the] pejgian army can threaten the foe! equal of the famed European |(jerpman flank and co-operate ef- “Why? travel points. As a piece of scenic | feetively with the allies. “To each of these thirlling, in- beauty its equal will be hard to The Antwerp defenses consist | SP! Ine, stupendous facts and its find. There are plenty of moun-|,f three fortifications, whose] #companying question, the an- tains elsewhere, but none with} power of resistance can be heigh-|5We? '§ the same the rich valleys in between. Some|tened by flooding a large area “England's Navy is England's day the New Hazelton’ districtlaround all the works Antwerp Complete and One Omnipotent will come into its own. The warlis fully equipped with the most Defence!""—-New York American may hold the tourist at home) perfect appliances To besiege next year, and now is the time the fortress the Germans would a to make the beauties of the dis-|have to detach imposing forces rs . trict known. The Herald will 8Oland a large siege train This Prince Rupert Dairy Co at it with renewed vigor, 80 S00D|they are not likely to do If they " as the editor gets home. Having|qo not. they will be obliged to FOR GUARANTEED PURE MILK renewed his impressions of the |eoyer themselves against the - he 99 are a comparison.|operations of the Belgian army Rvery- e are the people. which is intact, thanks to the apen for ib skilful retreat, and augumented con ae any STREET C. iICKET by the Antwerp garrison : moore SOLD FOR $1,000 “It is to be added that the Susi. Liege forts still hold out nat Toronto, Sept. 2 When the From this it would seem that captains of the teams of the Ga-|the advancing German armies are Part Ave nadian Patriotic Fund were an-|Caught between the positions of ee nouncing their collections a few|Namur and Antwerp a distance days jago, Colonel ‘Ghanider, of |from each other of only thirty- the Salvation Army team, stated] five miles, as the crow flies. The that he had contributions ranging {German situation then is a dif- FO R R E N T PATTULLO & RADFORD Architect Suite t, Federal Block Genera! 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