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Premier MeBride complains
that criticism of the Provincial |
government in connection with |
the Dominion Trust failure
will damage the credit of Brit-
ish Columbia. Gould anything
be farther from the truth?
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The only thing that can hurt
the credit of British Columbia
is a lie. The Dominion Trust
was a colossal lie. It was a
huge balloon, inflated with real
estate hot air, masquerading as
a solid business structure. Its
collapse damaged the credit of
British Columbia, but the dam-
aging fact today is not that it
collapsed, but that it was al-
lowed to exist. The only thing
that can re-establish the credit

 

of British jolumbia is a

searching post-mortem exam-

ination.
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It is futile for the Attorney |
General to lay so much of ne|
blame on the late managing
director of the Trust. There
were others. The men who put
the late W. R. Arnold in power
knew, or ought to have known,
that he was not a genius, but
a lucky speculator. If the other
directors knew the true state of
affairs during the last two
years, they were guilty of a
crime; if they did not know,
they were criminally § guilty.
The heart of the lie must be
laid bare, and the men respon-
sible for it swept from public

life forever.

A lie cannot face the abso-
lute truth and live. Gan the
McBride government face the
truth? Can it face the truth
about the Songhees Reserve
deal and live? Can it face the
truth about the Kitsilano Re-
serve deal and live? Is it
afraid to face the truth about
the Dominion Trust In
spite of the ravages of the Mc-
Bride government, the credit of
British Columbia is still strong
enough to face the truth, and
will be stronger when the lies

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RIALS

hidden by the present govern-
ment have been torn up by the

roots, labelled McBride, Bow-
ser & Co., and consigned with
these gentlemen into an igno-
minious oblivion.
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According to the
people of British Columbia will
be asked for their verdict
the present mal-administra-
tion in April. Its great weak.
ness has been its strength; it
had so much rope that it car-
ried out the proverbial hanging
operation. It will go down to
history as an example of how
not to govern. Autocratic po-
litical bossism must give place
to of the people,
for the people, by the people.
For years the political bosses
‘throughout the province have
kept the machinery well oiled,
but some of the sand of the
Songhees and Kitsilano Re-
serves has got into the bear-
ings and there is not enough
oil left to wash it out. The
jarring causing shivers
along Sir Dick's spine and he
is casting longing eyes on a
quiet, peaceful corner in Ot-
tawa, where trusts will do no
bursting and critics will be
kind.

* *

rumor,

on

government

is

o *—

The report that Premier Me-
Bride is to resign the
provincial arena and contest
New Westminster for the Fed-

* * *

from

eral House is probably well
founded. There is no doubt
that Sir Richard views the

prospects of the party in Brit-
ish Columbia with grave alarm,
and to suffer a defeat while he
the leadership of the
would a of
prestige to him which it is al-
together certain he could not
The personal equa-
tion is therefore a strong one.

is in

party mean loss

recover.

At the same time, there is an-
other reason which leads to the

conclusion that Sir Dick is
about to try to enter the Do-
minion House. Mackenzie &

Mann, having bled this prov-
ince dry, are anxious to secure
Sir willing
at Ottawa. At the next session
at Ottawa, it certain that
Mackenzie & Mann will again

Richard's services

Is

appeal for financial assistance;
and who could better serve
their purposes than our Pro-
vincial Premier, Sir Richard
McBride.

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The country is far from
through with Mackenzie &
Mann yet. The burden which

they have been able to impose
upon the country wil! have to
be for to

borne generations

come. The people of this prov-

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ince are at last waking up to
the position in whieh our na
tive son, Sir Dick, has placed
but

Mackenzie & Mann, this

realization will be

when the guarantees
have to be met, as they will
next year. Sir Richard wants
to make a g@et-away before that
time arrives and if he ever
lands in the Federal House it
is dollars to the hole in the
doughnut that he will be found
championing the cause of Mac-
kenzie & Mann for further tens
of millions.

manner

EIGHT-HOUR DAY

Mr.

not merely a manufacturer, but a

Henry Ford, of Detroit, is
sociological experimenter. A year
ago he started two experiments,
and lately, to the “Federal Indus-
trial he

Commission,” reported

progress in both. One was pay-
ing to his employees a percentage
dividend out of the profits of his
motor car company for the year;
the other was the substitution of
an eight-hour day for anine-hour
day in the case of workmen. With
the intelligence and accuracy that
his business a phe-

have made

nominal success he has carried

on observations through the year,

 

and there is no reason to doubt
the soundness of his conclusions.
There has been an improvement
in the economie condition of the
employees that is not due to the
actual receipts of their share of
the profits: an increase of a hun-
dred and thirty per cent. in bank
accounts, of eighty-six per cent
in the value of houses owned. In
other words, has
marked advance in the
of thrift, in confutation of these
predicted last

there been a

practice
pessimists who
year that Mr.
tions would
profligacy. A like result bas been
noticed in Great Britain from the

Ford's cash dona-

put a premium on

payment of old-age pensions.

Still more striking is Mr Ford's
testimony regarding the effect of
the eight-hour day change: the
increased efficiency of the men
has been fifteen to twenty
per cent. in the amount of work

from

produced. That is to say, each
man on the average has done
more work by more than one-

sixth in eight hours than he used
to do in and furthermore,
the daily work
have decreased from ten per cent.

nine,
absences from
to three-tenths of one per cent
that the
twenty-

to indicate
of the
four hours is into eight hours for
work, eight for
eight hours for recreation.

This seems
proper division
and
There

can be no doubt as to the bene

hours rest

ficial effect of such an arrange-
ment in promoting effective long
evity. All this should be surpris-
ing, and will not be so to those
who have paid close attention to
the influence exerted by the mind |

on the eflicieney of the body. The

VS. NINE-HOUR DAY)

THE DAILY NEWS

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CRACOW AND WARSAW
ARE OPPOSING KEYS

Hillaire Belioe gave a lucid

this province at the behest of |

| Mr

brought |explanation of the main features |if not against
home in much more forceful|of the war to a crowded audience |until Warsaw was recovered

in the Queen's Hal! He showed
fate of the

lis being decided, and why Cracow

iwhere the

jane Warsaw are so important

“In the of the
}war the task of the Allies in the
the
tains and the North Sea is to

present phase

lwest between Swiss moun

con
tain the enemy. There must come
‘a time when an advance will be
lordered; but for the moment the
| task of the Allies in the

|
hard task o

ithe dull,

is

west
necessary, f

holding as many possible of
Theirs is the hardest
of all—the

waiting under the strain

The Detached Reserve.
“Meanwhile, in the east, in Pe

as
the enemy.

moral duty duty of

land and upon the Serbian fror
tiers, the fate of the campaign is

now being decided. On the cam

paign in Poland mainly depends
whether the war is to be a very
long and wholly destructive bus
iness or a comparatively short

war and one from which the civ

ilzation for which we are fighting |
Tt must
remembered that

may re-arise. however
be the
the Allies are not only containing

in west

the enemy, but are preparing a]
vast reserve against him The
doctrine of the ‘detached reserve
is the seul-of French strategy.|

The new army and the Territo-|

are part of

rials in this country
the reserve. The British fleet is|
This keeping back of a|

irritates civilian

part of it.

creat reserve

‘pinion and exasperates even mili-|
tary opinion, but if it is held back |
and then
he de
cisive.
importance of Cracow.

said Mr. Belloc
“in the east three theatres of war. |
the Hast boun- |
and Serbia

until the right moment

launched the victory wil!

“There were,”

Two Prussiar

dary were subsi-

diary. The primary field was the

Poland. Two

to

|
|
|
|
ancient kingdom of
}

things were essential either

and both were Polish
the

sacred capital of the

combatant
ancient

Poles,

towns—Cracow,

Warsaw, their wealthy and mod

ern capital

to Silesia.
flanked by

Ivangored and

two fortresses

Novo

its of |

Georgievsk

campaign |

and}

The fortress of Cra-| agi,
cow in the south blocked the way Rainfall
The depot of Warsaw, |

|
controlled the railway communi-

cations of Uhre Let the

 

Germans , posse aw and

a

}
they would atwonee make

lionged and successful campaign

if the Russians against Germany

Austria, impossible

door to

the

was essential to Germany

Oracow being
sie a
land Austria at this moment. Just
Ihewond Cracow there lay through
hold to the left the

highway to Vienna, the Moravian

great

Silesia

gap between the Carpathian and

the Bohemian hills, while to the
eft lay the high road to Berlin
behind the Oder and the frontier
fortifications More than that

esia was the South Lancashire

of Prussia. Let a Russian army
vweupy Silesia and all mercantile
Germany would be struck at the
heart Again, on a smaller but
very intense scale, Silesia repre

sented the great landed aristor

racy, the second material wing of
the modern German Empire. The
estates of Pless, Lichnows and
many others would be found
within a cavalry ride of the fron
tier, and if an enemys cavalry
ride over your land it is not only
ln ride.’

Importance of Warsaw.

“Warsaw was essential because

there converged the railway com
Imunications upon which any Po
lish campaign depended. To un

derstand what Warsaw meant one

it seemed, within a day or
had

failure on both sides

mce

two, and twice been
This

was responsible for the indeter
the

double

minate character of eastern

j}campaign.”

THE WEATHER.

“By F. W. Dowling, Observer.

 

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which
destructive of eflicieney,

feeling of fatigue, is so

is psy-|
chological rather than physiolo-|
gical. The result of Mr. Ford's |
first year. of experimentation |

among sociological reformers

 

foreshadows for him a high place |
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must see the Vistula—a stream
jnot only broad, but deep, across
which bridges were extremely
rare. It carried all the merchan
dise and life of ite valley Hold
Warsaw and no one could hold
the line of the Vistula against
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