THE DAILY NEWS Guaranteed Largest Circulation | GILLETT'S LYE EATS DIRT H. F. McRAE, EDITOR AND MANAGER HEAD OFFICE Daily News Building, 3rd Ave, Prince Rupert, B.C. TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING rates on application. Telephone 98. 50 cents per inch Contract wy Ne a | GIVEN CANADIANS Hamilton Man Tells How Domin- ion Soldiers Were Received in France. ' A letter re at the office of the Canadian Associated Press details of London, March 3. ceived this morning lnlowed by the act of June 4, 1794, aGGRGVO Thursday, March 4, 1945. DAILY EDITION EDITORIALS How often one hears it said great deal more decent by re- that the hardest thing in the world is to get a good man. The moving the object of tempta- This has proven in Russia, where their tion. been amply kind of good man that is re-) : recent measure of prohibition peeves. Wy me. he atne me ‘S| has worked miracles among competent and willing and the people. It is safe to say honest. On the other hand, it! : i k that th | that if it were not for the profit is we nown a ere are} scores of men, 8 portion of the| it would not be tolerated for time of every year, out of a job) and always looking for sume- | thin permanent. Putting | these things togetther, the so-| lution ought to be self-evident. | The attributes that are requir-| ed in a good man are born with} some men and acquired by) others. The man who makes a} failure of life is the man whe! has never set out to do some one thing supremely well, whether that be along the line | of statesmanship or digging a} trench for a sewer. * * «* There are scores of young men in every town who have not yet learned this lesson. They are waiting for fortune to come to them on golden wings | Ex-Alderman J. D. McNeill Inti- or grouching because she) mates That He May Be Can- doesn't. The solution can only didate for Mayor. be found in hard and honest work. No man is worthy of a job who wants to earn his pay said to be a strong probability of and nothing more. It is the |a third candidate for mayor in the man who besides earning his|Person of ex-Alderman J. D. Me- pay, makes the most money for Neill entering the mayoral handi- his firm that is always sought |C@P- Although no definite state- after. Bedides that, the more|™ment as to his intentions could a man’s heart is in his work,|be obtained from Mr. MeNeill, it the less trying does it appear.|i8 known that he to The whole question settles reconsider the answer he return- down to one of self-interest. It|¢4 to a number of his friends last pays in coin of the realm to week ond to enter the field. «render the best service that is|ther representations in you and the very fact of do- ing this lightens the burden of moment in any decent Its effect on the peo- ple is almost as bad as lep- have one country and governments long ago that disease from human society. * - - + = The British ernment is planning to spend a million dol- rosy, isolated dread Columbia gov- little over eleven lars in the next year, which is estimated to leave a deficit of almost five millions. The reve- nue of the Ontario government for the past year was #11,122,- 383, and their deficit was only $627,928. MAY ENTER THE FIELD. Vancouver, March 3.—There is is inelined Fur- were made by a delegation of prominent bus- iness men, who saw Mr. MeNeill yesterday. At the conclusion of your work. 7.8 -@ ®@ this conference Sie that Classical literature is full of he would give question of references to a fabled drink|"¥=ning serious consideration which turned the upright shape|®"4 might accede to their re- of those who imbibed into a|@uests. Nomimations for the new grovelling swine. We do not election have to be placed next Saturday. Alderman Hepburn and Mr. L. D. Taylor have already def- initely announced their candida- need, however, to go to classic fables to get our examples. We find them almost every day in practical life. A drunken man ture, is far more filthy than the swine and a great deal more disreputable. Any man who Canadian could see himself in that watson toss STEAM LAUNDRY disgusted that he would never —— - return to it. Why it that Latest and Approved Methods men will persevere along that Only Skilled Operators Employed slippery path, when they know Phone us oi 0 will call is the fate of those who have for a trial bundle gone before, it is difficult to - see. Vote Our Address: “a iar 515 SIXTH AVENUE WEST It used to be the fashion to say that you could not make men moral by acts of Parlia- ment. Perhaps not; but at least you can make them a PHONE NO. 8 NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS Canadian Steam Laundry that is in the liquor business, | | | SUBS OF THE FUTURE —— | |} New York, March 4.—The value lof the submarine as a means of joffence as well as defence has fully demonstrated in the j been lopinion of Rear Admiral Francis > eee of the t Bowles, retired, formerly chief }. 8. navy, who jjust returned on the steamship jRotterdam from a two-months’ stay in Germany. Rear Admiral Bowles was a close observer of submarine op- erations while in Germany, and looenmnented on the naval end of the war. He expressed the belief that German vessels disguised as neutral craft and not under-sea bases were utilized to supply the submarines with and tor- pedoes, which he thought explain- ed the ability of the German un- fuel der-sea fighters to reach the Irish Sea and return to their bases. The latest model of submarine, he added, can carry sufficient fuel to about thousand miles, and by conserving this sup- remain as long as cover one ply, is able to a week from her base. Heretofore naval warfare, |/Rear Admirmal Bowles said; sub- in | marines have been considered I, aluable for defence only, but that their been established, offensive jhas he should not be taken as proof that the day of the battleship is past “The battleship,” “as well as other units of the well ;now power added, he declared, organized navy, is just as useful * Like is merely that as ever in its special fleld. the aeroplane, it the submarine ceases to ‘be an unknown value. Mechanically, the submarine has _ practically > : : : reached perfection, but its size and cruising radius will now be enlarged as its means of offence is recognized.” AGED P. E. ISLAND MAN 1S BURNED TO DEATH March 4 of Souris, Charlottetown, Frank White, aged burned to death by a fire which destroyed his dwelling. About 6 o'clock a neighbor noticed flames jarising the He ' pushed in, reached White's side 76, was from building. and attempted to rescue him, but | he was overcome by the heat and ismoke and was carried out in an White was a tinsmith and an invalid. It is thought that the fire start- jed from the explosion of a lamp unconscious condition. when he was alone in the house, his assistant having gone home to} tea. His charred remains were found in the ruins. TO BE MUCH ENLARGED from the front. Eventually we arrived at the village in which wé are now billeted and which is about nine miles from the firing iline. We can hear daily the !booming of guns, while at night lrockets are used by both sides. This village, however, and its gives some interesting ithe Canadian contingent's life in | France. The Perey Buttery, who was on the Hamilton |Spectator staff at the time of his lenlistment in the Canadian Am munition Column. “Owing to the very rigid cen- sorship,” he “T am unable ito tell you here or exactly where we are now 8 writer says, how we got exactly ;|We had a pretty rough passage far than thing [ had experienced , two crossings of the Atlantic. lacross, rougher any in my “Upon our arrival we met with a great reception and it was evi- dent that the Dominion troops that had preceded us had estab- lished themselves in the affec- tions of the French people, par- ticularly the female portion thereof. Crowds lined the streets cheering loudly and clam- orously asking for souvenirs ,all along the route we met an equal- Union everywhere, ly enthusiastic reception. Jacks flying and in point of number seriously rivalled the French national em- blem. “One feature of the crowd, im- pressing me more than anything, was the large number of young mourn- were women dressed in deep ing. At two stations en route the girls handed us postcards on which were written their names and addresses and bitter denunci- Germans, the ations of the request- ing us to send ecards back neighborhood is so peaceful and quiet and the inhabitants so calm that it that a big battle is raging a short seems searcely possible distance away. This village was in the possession of the Germans for a couple of days, but they were driven out by the bayonet right back to the position in which they are now entrenched and from which in a few days we hope to shift them. In the very field in which our horses are now picketed nineteen Germans are buried and large numbers of others are in different places round about.” CATHOLIC CLERGY HELD. All Natives in Mexican Capital for $500,000 Ransom. enemas Washington, March 4.—All the} native Roman Catholic clergy in | | Mexico City are being held for a} ihalf million dollars ransom, offi-| |cial advices from diplomats in the | | Mexican capital received here say, | and the only priests excepted are} those of foreign nationality, who | have the | been ordered to leave }country. The habitual invalid can stick | jto the job longer than any other BILL FOR U. . TO | -PUT EMBARGO ON NATIONS AT WAR —_—__-_ & Washington, D. ©., March 4 Word for word with the text em by which all trade was stopped by ihe United States with Europe Representative Stephen G Porter, of Pennsylvania, introduced a bill authorizing the President to declare an embargo between this ountry and the warring nations The measure, if it becomes a law, will enable the chief executive to lforbid the commercial activities of all ships in the foreign trade. Should an embargo be declared however, it is specifically termi nated by a provision of the meas ure fifteen days after the conven session of Con- ing of the next grees Citing the analogy between the conditions which existed dur ing the Napoleonic wars, when the embargo of 1794 was enacted, | and the conditions of today, Rep- resentative Porter in introducing his bill declared i “T am strongly of the opinion | that if a proclamation were is-| embargo on sued an wheat to take effect the moment | our stock of that great) cereal has been exported it would | placing surplus stop the gambling in it and re- i sult in normal prices.” SAYS MARITZ IS CAPTIVE OF BRITISH London, March 4.—A dispateh | to Reuter’s Telegram Company | from Capetown sdys it is reported | there that fieut. Col. 8. ©. ritz, the rebellious leader, has been to Windhoek, Cape Colony, as a pris- Boer arrested and sent oner. from. Pretoria, said A dispatch February 10, there had published a report that Colonel Maritz had been executed newspapers by the Germans for treachery His supported were of His reported to have been due to an attempt to surrender to the British at Ka- kamas the forces under his com- movements the Southwest military by Germans German Africa. execution was said mand. that introducing one to a new brand of Friendship is proved by drink is not always desirable. 9 Don’t Send Money s in a Letter HEN you send subs- criptions to magazines or order goods out of town, or pay small accounts at a distance, do not place the actual cash in the envelope. Thousands of dollars are lost every year through fire, robbery or mis-direction. Use the Bank Money Orders, issued by this bank. They are yable in Canada and the nited States in any sum up to fifty dollars. Their protection is well worth their small cost. THE BANK OF North 78 YEARS IN BUSINESS. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $7,554,000, P. 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