PAGE TWO DAILY EDITION The Daily News PRINCE RUPERT - BRITISH COLUMBIA Published Every Afternoon, Except Sunday, by Prince Rupert Daily News, Limited, Third Avenue IL F. MULLEN ManaglngiEditor I r SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail to all otLer pans of British Columbia, the British Em- 't pire and United States, paid in advance, per year ........... 6.00 By mail to all other countries, per year .. 7.50 By. mail to all parts of Northern and Central British Columbia, paid In advance for yearly period , 3.09 Legal notices, each insertion, per agate line 16 Transient advertising on front page, per Inch 2.80 Local readers, per insertion, per line ............ A .23 Transient display advertising, per inch, per Insertion , 1.40 Classified advertising, per Insertion, per ord 02 Or four months for - 1-00 For leaser period, paid In advance, per month -50 City delivery, by mall or carrier, yearly period, nald in advafnee $5.00 Contract rattt on application. Advertising and Circulation Telephone Editor and Reporters Telephone Member of Audit Rureau of Circulations .98 .86 Wednesday, Dec. 31, 1330 THE OLD YEAR The old year is passing' tonight ami it goes in the usual manner without regrets. Wnile Prince Rupert business people have tlor.G well except for the last month or so, the anti-climax of late Novemoer and early December put a damper on their enthusiasm. For several hundred people who find it difficult to get remunerative employment, the year has not been a good one. The city shared the national condition. No matter how prosperous had been Prince Rupert, there would still have been many unemployed because they would have flocked in from outside points. During the year just passing we have had constructed a fine new hydro-electric plant which is bound to be a great asset We may not feel it much for a few weeks, a few months or even a few years, but it is there and its influence will be felt before very long. Considerable building has been done, including a fine new concrete liquor store on Third Avenue. The salmon fishing season was an excellent one so that the year just closed has been an outstanding one, probably the best the city has had since shipbuilding days. NOW FOR NEXT YEAR On account of the financial depression Prince Rupert people have been inclined toward pessimism during the past few weeks. Today there are some who wonder what is going to happen in 1931. If we all knew we should change our courses to suit the conditions. But happily the future is shrouded in mist. We can only guess at the future but that does not help us. What is quite clear is that Prince Rupert is now on a solid foundation' all ready for progress. With an abundant supply of power she can supply any industry that may consider coming here. The raw materials are still in the district and each year that passes brings us nearer to the time when they will be utilized. The mines which have been more or less idle will be working again soon; the lumber trade will revive and the pulp which this district can supply will be required. Wheat will be in demand before long and the price will rush up as fast as it has recently been pushed down. Prince Rupert's elevator will be operated, tile ships will be coming here and there will yet be a regular line of steamships sailing to and from the Orient. The probability is that the C.P.R. will make its terminus here and this will be a hive of industry. Of all the smaller cities of the continent today Prince Rupert is the best bet, because she has the resources, the position, the power and we hope she has the men who will be able to rise to the bccaViOnand share in her prosperity. If they do not, others illWnie here and carry on the work and reap the rewards. . ALL CARRY ON Our message to the people of Prince Rupert and the huge district sUrorunding fs to carry on. Do not let a few weeks of rain, sljiw collections or pessimistic talk dampen your ardor. TheM'orld is ours today as much as ever it was and even more. "Our prospects improve each year. One businessman said yesterday : "If we could only be sure next year would be as good as this we should be quite happy." Well, it will, if we make it so. Possibly it will be much better. There is less reason for pessimism today than glory over the scene to those who look up and tune them- DCIVCB.VU SCC Ik. And after all, happiness does not always consist in the number of dollars We make. It consists in iwlrintiricr nn selves to the conditions and making the most of what we have. WORK INSTEAD OF DOLES Yflsterday a great deal of interest was taken in the article descriptive of the men who came for meal tickets. It was the most discussed subject of the day. The general opiriion is that every man who gets help from the city should earn it. Most of the men want to work and if pressure is brought to bear on the federal and provincial authorities it is possible that they may reverse their decision in regard to paying their share of the relief. It is time there was a complete revision of the system. The revision must come from Victoria or Ottawa but the pressure to bring it about may come from the districts. Watch the man who is doing business during hard times. He is thcone yho will be a success in life. NITRATES HERE NOW lirftlsh Columbia no Longer Impart Fertilizer Material But Manufacture it at Trail VANCOUVER, Dec. 31 Nitrate which in the past has been brWght all the way to Canada from the mines of chile will soon be produced la V-i-ge Quantity in British Columbia as one of the chrmlcal fertilizers to be turned out by the new plant of the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co. at Trail, B.C. . Consolidated, one of Canada's largest mining companies, plum to manufacture nitrates. phospho-rai add potash the chief ingredient needed for 'wilding up the fertility of soil. First shipments will be made to the prairies in time for the spring planting. Ten million dollars has been invested in the big chem'cs1 fer-ifljr plant 3t Trail. On of the featitfte of the protect is that : will be turning Into a profit va-. quant'tle- of materia! wh'ch the pit hair b-e-i wasted. B-eatue of lack of a -roces to make effective use of "-t- materia' they have bees J enured andf ' ei aside on the scrap h-an. How. however, this hidden wealth H to be realised rod tb? la ones wit yield thrir riches as we.'l as the virgin bodies. There if no fear of arly exhaustion of the phosphate deposit In reach of the Trail olant according to Virgil II. D Klrkhem. -o-ogist, who points out that h; found five billion tons in sight and another stmi'ar amount in prospeei. These figuirs bare bee i concurred in by the Geological Survey Most of the phosphates in the undeveloped form will be brought into British Columbia smelter town from Idaho. In connection with its Introduction of fertilisers, the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company is undertaking an exhaus tive enquiry into the properties and requirements of agricultural soil in various parts of Canada' When completed this survey wit be.pt far-reaching value to' -agri culture, as it is the first time that an investigation of this kind has been attempted. RELICS OF LAMBETH Only Three Chairs Remain Follow-! tag Iterent Assembly of Bishops and Archbishops , LONDON, Dec. 31:- -Three relies, of the momentous conference of Anglican Bishops, which was held at Lambeth Palace last summer, remain In the library there. Every archbishop and bishop who attended the conference was allowed to take away as a souvenir the wooden armchair which he had occupied. .Each chair bore the name of the prelate to whom it was allocated. Only three of these chairs remain. One bears the name of the Archbishop of Canterbury, another that of the Librarian, and the third is that of a bishop who died on his way to the conference. THE DAILY NEWS Wednesday, Decern wr si . Conflict Ends In Victory For Coeds .cOin ..Men Claimed R.V.C. Students Were S1 Members ef MrGll! t-V crsity MONTREAL Dec. 31 The fai; sex. in their perstetent and worW wide fight for the right to he re-! cognlsttxl . as, "persons in the full- i ut sense of tlx term, ;iave seorsil a notable victory in Montre'. for years a conflict has been raging aa.io whether students a: the Royal' Victoria College (for womenj were actually and officially members of McOill University. The law jhas been consulted anu proof made that the femsAe ste-:'4hte have equal and effectfar rights together with the male undergraduates. The male students at the uni versity claimed for years that) James McOill leh no provision In bis will lor women who mlgf. wish to enrol for courses In the! cCJege whl2h he founded. Tit founder did no consider the even ualitv of women entering and the men declared that when the Royn' Vlrtorie .College was authortsH pud h9 thr udeot eoroHeil f Via Ma etasA 1 mmIm, a lasts vwip .r-w-Tvri V" ' J eru dents pi tfcs-.eelfeee whteh n4vd. Mfrlfatloruiwitfa MeCMU bat did not Venue ftirt of It The vwr taken by the- men was summed up n the ftrlOvsfruc extract from an editorial 111' the college paper. "All things stand, due to a ruling by a grand benefactor. MrOill Ood rest his sorJ there is no place for women in MeOUl College. Hence they hare no status as members of the university but are affiliated with it (n the iaeUtutkn of the R.VjC. Mr. Walter Vaughan. warden of the Royal Victoria College, recent ly tent available charters, statutes and wills of James McQW and Lord Strathcona, a great benefac tor of the . university, with other data to a legal office and a pro- noUheenjejjt, reassuring to the wo men, was received in reply, in part as fbJipwj: "The fdjmdcr makes no mention wnateoevVK of. youth, or- youn men or women. He founds a uni versity, or 'college jr the purpose of education, or the advancemet of learning. No foundation eouM be more broadly expressed or be more inclusive of all and sundry, of whichever sex, who sought eduea tkin from our more modern view. It must be admitted, of course, '.hat In the founder's Ume no one reading his will conceived that he was founding a college for both rexes. But at that time no one thought of women sltUng In Par liament and the Senate. The flnrt A'oman senator of Canada had i much more difficult time to ob tain her seat than a woman would have under the wide provision of the founder's will, to take her teal 'oday as a student of the univer sity." The statement adds that Royal Victoria College Is not an affiliation but "dearly a part of McOill while a footnote states that wo men are certainly obUglble through thfc constitution of the t tudents council, to become mem bers of that body. tt: A Dnily Aewt Hnir remit vrsnt-ad will F-eggy Radclllfe of Pennsylvania, as. she arrived in Miami, Fla, after completing 1.350-milti speedboat hike from New .York.ln-12 days,-- HESE days of business complexities demand foresight and courage. "General business conditions in Canada are fundamentally sound. They are perceptibly improving, and provision .must' be made to capitalize the opportunities of to-day and to-morrow. "Manufacturers and retailers who advertise to-day are reaping good returns. "Money is not spent' in advertising; it is invested. "Folly whispers in the ears of executives: 'Cut down your advertising and save money'. "Timidity suggests the use of the blue pencil and the consequent loss of a market won by years of intensive cultivation. "Improve your product, give good values and the Canadian people will buy them." Ecery man, every woman and every child , is still a consumer. Are they consuming your goods? Trie effective, economical and sure road' for gain" ing consumer acceptance is the daily newspaper. EJUK1 UN-TRfATfD MILD and MELLOW Now irradiated by the. new ultra-violet ray process