THE DAILY NEWS | ‘THE DaiLy NEWS | THE LEADING NEWSPAPER IN NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA Published Daily and Weekly Guaranteed Largest Circulation | HEAD OFFICE Daily News Building, 3rd Ave, Prince Rupert, B.C. TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING—50 cents per inch. rates on application. DAILY EDITION CADADA’S PART doing her fair defence of the Is Canada the world’s liberty against German Mr. N. W. Rowell, his share in militarism? who is always master of facts and is not given to over- statement, very plainly that the has and is doing far less in propor- tion to her population and her says Dominion done than other self- governing portion of the Em- wealth any pire. He urges that this coun- try should de at least half as well as the people of the United Kingdom, raise the strength of under arms to 300,000 men. There is no dispute as to the facts cited by Mr. Rowell to support his appeal. The popu- Great Britain and Ireland is about 47,000,000. Before the war began some 660,000 men were serving in the army, the navy, the territorial forces. the war broke million more have enlisted in Kitchen- There were in before the 1,350,000 and Canadians lation of and Since out three er’s Great Britain army. war about more women than the fact that men more freely than women, and pay heavier toll in industrial accidents. The 3,660,000 Brit- ons who have donned the uni- not from a male population of twenty three and a half millions, but from one of 22,800,000 at most. It will be seen, therefore, that over 16 per cent. of the male population of all ages in Great Britain serves with the colors How do the figures stand in The census of 1911 males began men, because of emigrated form were drawn Canada? showed an excess of The numbers of somewhat over 420,000. disproportion in men and women has increased} rather than diminished 1911, and it would be entirely! = { THE UNION STEAMSHIP CO., OF B.C. LIMITED Salis for GRANBY, NAAG, and PORT SIMPSON, Mondays at 11 a.m. Sails for VANCOUVER, SEATTLE and VICTORIA Tuesdays at 8 p. m. SAILS for STEWART, October 2nd, 16th, 30th, December 41th, 28th. Sails for MASSETT, PORT CLEMENES, Sunda Zist, November 14th, 28th,December 12th, 26th. Sails for SKIDEGATE, JEDWAY’ IKEDA, Tuesday A. M., October 5th, 19th, ber 2nd, 16th, 30th, December 14th, 28th. Salis for BELLA COOLA, RIVERS INLET and the South, Thursday P. M™., October 7th, 21st, November 4th, 18th, December 2n JOHN BARNSLEY, Agent. S. S. VENTURE S. 5. CAMOS vem 623 Second Avenue. since | Telephone 98. Contract aGGRITO Friday, October 45, 1915. = — rn reasonable to assume the 8,000,000 people in the Do- minion when war broke out 3,- 750,000 were women and 4i,- The enlistment fill 250,000 men. up to the present time that of} somewhat sbort of 160,000, or! slightly less than four per cent of the male population, as « om- | pared with 16 per cent. in Great Britain. These the con- figures do not stitute most serious part of the indictment. The Cana-, | + * ' dian people are not responsti-e | for the use made of the troups of the Dominion sent overseas and if the men—keen and eager as they are for active service— are held in reserve in England the entirely that of the British War Office. During the first year of the eonflict, however, Canada was represented at the front by 2 single division of about 20,000 men. There are now at 43,000 Canadian soldiers in France, or a little over a fourth of the total number The number at the front is en- when responsibility is most enlisted. tirely inadequate com. pared with the vast -hosts sev! forth from the British Isles Canada will not be properly represented in the firing line until there are at least sixty thousand men there, with au:- ple reserves in Great Britain to make up _ the _ inevitabl wastage. In Mr. Rowell’s appeal and it: the comments evoked by it there is no suggestion of partyism. The government of Canada in the raising and de- spatching of troops has kept ahead of rather thar lagged behind ment. But more must be done if Canada is to fill hitherto aceorded overseas overseas public senti- the place her as the premier Dominion. The great bulk of the men whr have left these shores to fight EE = = GRANBY, Saturday, A. M. November 13th, 27th, P. M., October 3rd, 17th, d, 16th, 28th. FRED STORK’S HARDWARE 710 SECOND AVE Carpenters’ Tools Suilders’ Hardware Ship Chandlery Wire Cable Stee! Blocks Fishing Tackle fron Pipe Pipe Fittings Rifles and Shotguns Rope Valves Ammunition Pumps Hose Paint Stoves and Ranges Fubberoid Roefing Corrugated Iron “WE SELL NOTHING BUT THE BEST”