THE DAILY NEws NEWSPAPER IN NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA Published Daily and Weekly Guaranteed Largest Circulation Hi. F. MeRAR, EDITOR AND MANAGER HEAD OFFICE Daily News Building, 3rd Ave, Prince Rupert, B.C. Telephone 98. TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING—50 cents per inch. Sontract | rates on application. DAILY EDITION ate ge Teeedey, Deventer |, 1044. EDITORIAL S There is a growing inclina- Dread- nought Canadians to talk tol- of the British Admiralty. Any tion among former agreement noW possible must in its main features be a re- newal of the off by the government erantly, if not enthusiastically, one broken about putting Canadian cruis- Borden ers on the Pacific to defend three years ago. In 1910 each Canada’s western coast. Sir Dominion started preparing to Richard MeBride, for ex-| carry it out, and the Laurier ample, who denounced the government submitted to Par- Liberals last session for liament a Naval Service Act opposing a subsidy to the} under which the Niobe and the British government for three} Rainbow are still in commis- super-dreadnought war ves- sion as ships of war. By all sels, to be added to the North Sea fleet, where there already is a superabundance of such ships, has recently ‘discussed’ means let us have a renewal of the agreement, and have un- der it a fleet of Canadian cruisers to police the Pacific with the Borden government! in co-operation with Australia the “question of naval defence} and New Zealand. Too much on the Pacific,’ and has said] time has already been lost.— he was satisfied “adequate Toronto Globe. steps would be taken.” If this Ss remark is warranted, it means When the Laurier naval that Sir Richard and the gov- policy was before the House ernment have made up their some of its opponents took minds to abandon ‘their own North Sea Dreadnought contr® bution policy and adopt the Pacific cruiser policy of the Laurier ministry. Little eredit is due to them for belated ac- tion that ought to have been taken three years ago From other directinns come foreshadowings of an agree- pleasure in referring to it as the “Tin Pot” navy. It may not be generally known that these “tin pot” ships were to be of the same class as the Australian cruiser Sydney which did such grand service against the Emden and which is believed by naval experts to be the most serviceable class ment between Canada and Aus- afloat. The Laurier naval tralia about British naval de- policy called for four of these fence on the Pacific Ocean. cruisers and six destroyers. Fiye years ago such an agree- ment was entered into by these two Dominions, with the ap- provai if not at the suggestion Tenders had been received by the government for the construction of these ships Laurier in Canada and had they been Flour Money In British Columbia If every woman in British Columbia bought only British Columbia goods for her household nobody would be out of a job in this province. Of sourse all the necessities of life are not produced in British Columbia, so there is a steady outgo of money to bring them in. But the chief necessity of the household, flour, is pro- duced in British Columbia and no better flour is made anywhere than Royal Standard Flour, ground in Vancou- ver. At present over a hundred families are earning a living making and selling Royal Standard Flour. You can help to increase that number by demanding Royal Stand- ard. Every additional man employed means one less un- employed—-means one more chance for a job for your husband or your neighbor. Keep your money in British Columbia and help the unem- ployed problem, at the same time do yourself\a good turn by using the best flour made— Royal Standard Flour, made in Vaneouver at the Vancouver Milling & Gram Company, Lid. Vancouver, New Westmmster, Nanaimo aad Victoria mV Ont Ra aN) ai | the greater portion of them today accepted we would have in commission and probably wearing some of the halo stuff which the grandly. Sydney carries ss The tenders received by the Laurier government not “pigeon-holed,” but were held in until the results of the impending election was known. were suspense When the Borden gov- ernment came into power, in 1911, the tenders were dropped and all talk of a navy set aside for over a year, or until December, 1912. When they did take up the question it was in the form of a money contribution—the last thing Britain needed for is she not the world in In the mean- Australia went ahead with the plans which Canada turned down and who will get up and say today that Australia has a “tin pot’ navy. Laurier was right. September, now financing spite of the war. time BOMBS HIT ZEPPELIN WORKS. Berne, Switzerland, Nov. 30.— Latest reports received here say that four of the bombs dropped by British aviators at Frederich- shafen last week struck the Zep- pelin works there. The germ causing gangrene has been discovered by two sur- geons in Paris, who have pre- pared a serum to counteract it. | so); THE DAILY NEWS. War is not vastly different in reality from the fantastic that I had always had of it I have not by | have seen and heard so far may say, that greatly startled anything We | receive our rations regularly and lin abundance, and the only fault that could be found with them is that they lack considerably in va- | riety. Between the battles and I have seen so far two en- we change our the on gagements , po- stragetic at night, in a ditch, sitions, study out | possibilities, move land sleep as we can 1 under a wagon or not at all. Hap- pily, have developed a remarkable abil- ity for hidden springs. “of know whether we are to be permitted water is plentiful and we discovering course, we never to rest where we are or whether we must depart without warning. The orders come, in the briefest form, and they are forthwith obeyed, always without the slightest knowledge of the gen- eral plan of the campaign. It is this necessity for being continu- ally on the ‘qui vive’ that prevents our bathing or freshening our at- tire, resulting in a filthy condi- tion that would be rather fright- ful under other circumstances. I am constantly astonished that no epidemic breaks out, and must be- lieve that the life in the open air purifies everything. We freeze at night and stifle during the day, and yet there is no rheumatism! We cook our food over wood fires, like savages, and sometimes go or three meals there without two in succession, because is no time to build a fire. In this case, however, we do not touch the can- ned cooked food that we carry, for every one realizes how nec- essary that may becomé at some future time as emergency ration. “As to battles, they are exactly what I always thought them. An infernal racket, galloping horses bearing officers with dispatches that own role), shells bursting on all sides, and so on, but so much of it really not hold- ing one’s attention ‘at all. Even the horses do not shy or bolt, and that proves that there is truly nothing heroic in remaining calm. As I have figured it out, it is a simple matter; the less one thinks about what is going on, the better for him, for such re- flection is a fatigue, and one has is my enough other fatigues to support as it is. And then, too, we are running about the battlefield in |the thick of dangers, and seeing constantly the wounded, and the brutality and brutishness of war. If one is in a hurry, these things do not trouble him; if he has any time to spare, calmly. “In four days of the battle, I have not yet seen a German. That, I had rather expected: the two armies are so far from each other. Even at the infantry out- he gives his aid too, posts, where I had to go with or- = EE BATTLEFIELD PHILOSOPHER WRITES TO FRENCH PAPER WHAT IT 1S LIKE TO HAVE BULLETS CONTINUALLY FLYING ROUND YOUR HEAD—SOLDIER MUST BECOME STOICALLY CALM iF HE IS TO BE OF SERVICE. idea | though I was met by a storm of I) been | lj three ders at 7 o'clock one evening, al. bullets, and though they whistled about my ears for Prussian exceedingly disagreeable minutes, yet it was impossible for me even to discover whence they these Prussians. Sometimes came, for night had fallen al-re——™ ready. The men themselves, after a whole day of the rusit- fF jade, said to me: ‘We have not MUSIC seen them; we have only found Teacher Ba their dead. an sane ¥ But they are not all savages, 462 Eighth gee, get | Ast Dp 5. S. 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One does well to preserve his presence of mind for more needful occasions. “We live in a time so different from all others that it is neces- sary, in order to suffer as little as possible, to take for oneself a brand-new point of view, adapt- ed to one’s environments. War Recall the old of barbarism, and take upon yourself the simple view- point of the savage. Think no other way until you have some appreciable period of rest and tranquility. Tell yourself to ex- pect nothing better, and you will be doubly pleased with is barbarous. stories it when it comes; otherwise you will be disillusioned. “For my part, that method suc- ceeds with me admirably, and I feel myself as firm upon my two feet as a rock. If I have five min- I I that can be depended on, I drink; when I know utes, sleep-—no matter where; where find water that next day's rations have ar- rived, I finish those of today. I believe nothing that I hear. St. Thomas was a credulous infant beside I help to maintain their common sense by me. others the example of my own stolid ef- I am, in truth, another man; I live without trying to un- derstand the haw or the why. . “Let us both be fatalists, but not neurasthenics. It not a moment for grand phrases. It will be time to talk that way when fieiency. is one has some hope of a to-mor- row. “IT am here at the home of an honest peasant of the wealthier sort, who has received us most hospitably, and to whose gener- osity IT am indebted for this pen these two This morning I managed to buy a bit of powdered chocolate and and sheets of paper. boiled myself a cup of it, with milk. What a luxury it was! And how comfortable Tam here! But these things will last only at the pleasure of Fortune. I shall give myself no anxiety on that or any other seore, and I urge you with all insistence to accept the same point of Translation made for The Literary Digest. view.” DR. 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