THE DAILY NEWS a Gia) | ———_— —— ——~ — a — = —_—_— Phe a eee —_ B . | The Daily News e~~~~ Letters to the Editor ~~~~* Yet eT eHOEBELISLISLSOEIERIEL ISL OHSOH36H368265 362655252935, « oP RePROP Se, Pe OPRO PEER es, . a The Leading Newspaper and the Largest Circulation in Northern B. C. ABOUT THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S SCHOOL MEDALS ESRESRESEESRESEESEESRESEE DEEDES SERS ESSERE LESSEE gat oes ae a { Published by the Prince Rupert Publishing Company, Limited siianlad @ DAILY AND WEEKLY Dear Sir,—Lord Dufferin, in’ 1876, introduced the custom of é TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING—50 cents per inch. Contract rates | donating annually certain bronze medals, to be awarded to the pupils err on application. of the public schools of the Province of British Columbia, upon the : Ae i SUBSCRIPTION RATES—To Canada, United States and Mexico—Dalny, 50c|results of the high school entrance examination, a custom which ————————— er— ‘ au ae onion year, in oe oan s $2.00 per year. All/has been kept up to this day. His Exce'lency Earl Grey, very gen- > : eee aily, $8.00 per year; Weekly, $2.60 per year, strictly erously increased the number of these medals from 4 to 15 oy ' These 15 bronze medals, have been distributed duriry the past e ; HEAD OFFICE six years, in British Columbia, in such an unfair and unsatisfa¢ tory | é Daily News Building, Third Ave., Prince Rupert, B. C. Telephone 98. manner as to bring little honor, either to the donor or to th ipiert. | : ny } For instance, in 1906, the first year the 15 medals were distributed i r ia ee ete tee eee ee one was given to a school district where there was no competition, Cea O i New YorK—National Newspaper Bureau, 219 East 23rd St., New York City. {and the pupil to whom it was awarded got 634 credit marks, and et SEATTLE—Puget Sound News Co. ranked 48 in the Province; whilst the district that ranked first in the ey N, ENGLAND—The ; 5 ; Province, where 6 passed the examination and the head pupil got Chk nm Soeur D—The Clougher Syndicate, Grand Trunk Building, Trafalgar $42 marks, got-no medal. Another district, Which ranked 55, where THE DAILY NEWS READERS HAVE ANOTHER TREAT IN STORE FOR TH! } a Supscripers will greatly oblige by promptly calling up Phone 98 in case of | 8 passed the exdmination and the head pupil got only (0! marks, id non-delivery or inattention on the part of the news carriers. got a medal. The district that ranked third in the Prov where a 7 passed, and the head pupil got 831 marks, got no medal; whilst ny DAILY EDITION. aioe SATURDAY, OcT. 14/a meda! was given to a district that renked 82 where 5 passed, and mn the head pupil got 677 marks. ms TRADING UPON IGNORANCE This shows clearly. that neither competition nor excellence in s scholarship cut much figure in the distribution. Hi Over in England certain ecclesiastical circles, as well as the pop-|__ In 191, a medal has again been given to a distric t that ranked 4] ulation of the village of Tivetshall St. Mary, Norfolk, have been 55 where 7 passed the examination, and the head pupil ¢ t 632 marks; Si: vastly entertained of late by an amusing contest which took place whilst the district that ranked third where 14. passed the examination, St between the vicar of the parish and one of his flock. The parishioner, and the heed pupil got 82% marks, got no medal, There are many : S33 an agricultural laborer, had passed some disparaging comments on instances of similar unfair awards. ; ey The News has received so many letters AEE Sse the vicar’s work, which were resented. Finally, Hodge challenged oe Seer ete VOUmBAIEL YY ot eeeer tment ite ae of appreciation from its readers for its 32 the vicar to “swap jobs.” The vicar promptly consented. The vagaries was, that these bronze medals were given to districts where : : ; ; challenger backed out, however, when the vicar placed the following | ® high school wes established. Wher this explanation was published enterprise and judgment In securing schedule for the Jaborer to perform as his Saturday’s work in the |'™ the press, a district where there has been a high pchoo} since ne the serial rights of Captain Clive Wol- contest: demanded why it had not gotten a medal in 1906, or 1907, or 1908. 9.30-10.0—Retranslation of English into Greek. The explanation was then given that these medals were awarded | ley’s great story, ‘‘The Tenderfoot’s 10.0—11.30—Oecumenical documents of the Faith. Revise the! t® Giayricte: Wane there was the om competition, at the high gehor! nar Wooing,” that it has gone still further. -—————— “definition” of the Council of Chalcedon. entrance examination. The fact is that neither explanation is correct. 1 In 1907, two districts without a high school got a medal erd two 11.30—12.30—TheHomo-ousian and theConstantinopolitan symbol. 12.30-1.0—The ‘“‘hapax Jegomena”’ of the Apopcalypse. 3.0-5.0—House-to-house visiting in St. Mary’s. 6.0-6.30—Write out notices for church porches and choose hymns for Sunday. §.30-9.0—Prepare two sermons and a children’s address. districts with a high school got no medal. In 1908, a medal was actually taken away from a district with a high school for 6 years where 3 pupils passed. One was given to a district with no high school where 12 passed, while another district with a high school for 5 years where 17 pupils passed got no medal, It is very gratifying to read in the speech of His Excellency Earl Grey to the boys of Trinity School, Port Hope. ‘‘There was something rotten in the character of Canada, if her sports were rot quite straight The News has secured the serial rights for Louis Tracy’s Great New Story “The Pillar of Light” and will start the story Next Week. Of course the parson won on a bluff. ‘‘Hapax legomena’’ sounds very formidable—in Greek. The laborer was frightened from his task by an unfamiliar phrase. Possibly he would not have recognized his familiar ‘‘cow with a long tail’’ under the pedantic definition of | ‘a bovine with a caudal appendage of exaggerated Jongitudinality.”’ To no brother cleric would the parson have attempted the bluff that he spent his week in retranslating English into Greek, in con- templating the Homo-ousian symbol, in revising the Chalcedonian definition—or even in Saturday afternoon house to house visiting— while two sermons and an address were left til] last thing on Saturday evening. Nor is it at all likely that any English parson in this day of sweat shop evils ard rack rented peasantry, would waste time’in preparing a revised definition of a question that even in 451 A. D. possessed no interest for the people at large. Indeed, on the | 107 Metcalfe Street, Ottawa, other hand it is quite probable that Hodge was quite capable of the September 28, 1911. job, had the parson merely explained to him that the Chalcedonian — —_ = LS problem was as to whether two perfect and complete natures could i live in unison in one body. Hodge was beaten on a bluff. or fair,”’ and ‘“‘to give ro countenarce to those who did rot play the game fair.”’ 4 The foregoing shows that there will have to be an urderstardirg with the McBride goverrmert that those brorze medals will be dis- tributed, in the future, according to some fixed prirciple, so that there wilh be no chance of a recurrence of anythirg like the irciderts cited above, whilst H. R. H. the Duke of Connaught, is our Goverror- General. On behalf of the pupils of the Public Schools, of the Provirce of British Columbia. JOHN N. MUIR, Barrister 2rd Solicitor. FREE ROE RO RO RO ROE BOF BOF ROP ROS ROP ROP RO! BOF ROT SOF BOF ROS ROP ROE® sees es: ons eae tos one Sas Sas tae eas Ons ont oss O2s ont ees ont ent eet eete SEN EN aN ON eek rel eek eek eer ek ee en el ek ok ot ae. eek wel woke The little incident, amusing in its way, has its bearing, upon the broad public issues of real life. 3 How many people, for instance, were stampeded during the recent 3 ie election, just as easily as was Hodge by his smart-Alick vicar, by the 2 if fear of something that looked big and terrible because they didn’t 2 understand it. The annexation cry was an eppeal to blind fear. # The ‘‘save our natural resources for ourselves’ cry was even more i palpably a cry that depended for its success upon reaching a public o so ignorant of elementary economics that they could not realise that G3 Louis Tracy is the greatest writer of fascinating adven- 4 progress waits on the sale of our natural resources. Not one man in a thousand who voted against reciprocity, has ever bothered to think for himself that the deficit in our balance of trade with the United States which he was anxious should not be paid in natural products, must else be paid in good Canadian coin. Members of the Canadian Manufacturers’ Association who talked to such good effect in the East about “the balance of trade,” “saving Canada for the Empire,” ‘saving Canada for the Canadiars,”’ etc., traded as much on the ignorance of the Canadian voters as did the English parson on his less literate parishioner. ture stories in England.—His plots are vigorous. — His characters are lifelike. There is not a dull paragraph. His stories are models of good English too. Beate PEs ’ eeehwehgebwel ewe fe" Fa a Se OSS Ceo CosCC [a > a » ene Ss ay re ae] | oi ’ Prince Rupert nd the Skeena district may well fee proud of | is What The Pillar of Light Is a the fact that they withstood the appeals to igrorarce ard cast a rational _ and enlightened opinion on the recent reciprocity proposals. T) Pill Light” i f . —————_ $$ ______—_ ne ‘‘Pillar of Light’ is a sea story o ; i ee 3 SSS SSS SS SS SS SSS OS SSS ’ , . ro Te in SSS 255 5S = love and adventure. As you may guess Ssostostessossestosseseeseesees oPRO ROSE: eecvcce ‘eee’ it AT THE EMPRESS THEATRE | “ TO-NIGHT the ‘Pillar of Light” is a lighthouse. The story concerns the romance of Stephen Brand the lighthouse keeper and man of mystery. It is a story of heroic deeds in many lands, It will —————! hold you to the very last word and de- -————— light you all the time. In the end you will see the greater meaning of the title ‘‘The Pillar of Light. BSL SLISI ISL TSLISLISLIS! YSLISH FOI YO! 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