PAGB TWO THE DAILY NEWS Published THE DAILY NEWS. PRINCE RUPERT - BRITISH COLUMBIA FJvery Afternoon, Except Sunday, by Prince Rupert Daily News. Limited, Third Avenue H. F PULLEN Managing-Editor SUBSCRIPTION KATES City delivery, by carrier, yearly period, paid in advai.ce $5.Ct Paid in advance, per week 12 Paid in advance, per month .'. 50 By mall to all parts of British Columbia, the British Empire and United States, yearly period, paid in advance . 1 '. 3.01 By maU to all other countries, per year .....r... 9,01 ADVERTISING RATES Classified advertising, per word, per insertion tocal readers, per line, per insertion ,.. Advertising and Ciiculation Telephone 98 A New Telephone Number 456 Taxi AL. FRENCH With The Same Reliable Service .0 2S Friday, January 28, 1038. THE WORK OF THE POLITICIANS ' We are often told that the world should be governed oy experts, ny college men who have had training in thei respective vocations. Roosevelt tried that when he estab lished a brain trust but where is the brain trust today and what did it do? We are told that our highways should be taken out of HOSPITAL MATTERS The Daily News is in receipt of a letter today on hospital matters, the writer of which desires to use a pseud-enoym instead of personal signature. In view of the situation which arose last year, the Daily News wishes to announce that it is not the intention to publish any letters on hospital matters which the writers are unwilling to sign personally or for which they seek to evade responsibility. Nor does the Daily News intend to subscribe to any controversy which may prevent the obtaining of a new hospital which all agree is a real need here. We would call attention to the fact that the annual meeting of the Prince Rupert General Hospital Association is to be held tonight. That would seem to be the proper piace for any persons or organizations interested in hospital affairs to present themselves and air their views in public, ARE TIED FOR LEAD ... Rupert Motors and 'Printers fin Even Terms for Supremacy In Commercial Rowling League Rupert Motors defeated Canadl-' an National Recreation Association No. 1 two games to one last night and moved into a tie with Printers for first place in the league standing. In tie second regularly rcheduled fixture last evening Gyro Club defeated North Star two games to pnc. In a ppstpqnecl garne North Star won over Canadian National Recreation Asocitipn two games to one. High average scqrer for the evening was, Vic Houston lOf Printers wjtl 176. The scores were: 1 2 3 Rupert Motors 7II 810 800 C. N. R. A. No. 1 790 793 725 Gyro Club 7G0 North Star 748 North Star .'..CG7 C. N. R. A. No. 1 627 Printers 10 Ruoert Motors 10 Electrical Workers 8 Gvro Club 7 Biological Station 5 C.N.R.A. No. 2 3 North .Star 3 C. N. R. A. No. 1 2 743 775 773 758 2 2 4 5 7 9 9 10 BRAD BEHIND STUMPS 753 858 the hands of the people's representatives and placed in the! The ieanie standing for the sec hands of an independent board of experts who should liaveiond na' 's as fNws: full nnrl rnmnWp prmvn-o wifhrmf amr i-,Kf ;1 I Won Lost Pt.? ence. This board would in theJast analaysis have to bej watchecj by the elected representatives of the people to see that they did their work properly because the elected representatives have to account to the people periodically for the funds entrusted to their care. In spite of popular opinion to the contrary, the politician is the man who rules the world and always will do so under the democratic system. He is the man whose duty it is to survey and co-ordinate the work of the specialists and interpret it to the people. Complaints are often made that "politics are rotten" by the people who think they should get good positions or contracts or preferment. Also in electioneering political parties charge opponents with objectionable political activities, knowing that the public, which does pot understand what it means, will be always receptive to the charges. The present political method of handling, the affairs of the country js not at all perfect. JVJany mistakes are made. Possibly jt would be done better under a dictatorship as long as the dictator was a capable and honest man but we all know from reading history what happens "to countries governed by dictators. Viewing the work of democracies with all their faults, We must come to the conclusion that, taken on a long average, the system is better for the country than any hitherto tried and that the politician, who is supreme in all democracies, has greater opportunity of serving his country, practically without reward. What happens to the politician at the end of his career? He is cast off by the people for whom he sacrificed most. Sometimes it is his own fault. Possibly he has ceased to serve faithfully. If he lives long enough he is bound to find himself discarded by the people who at one time cheered his every word. It is not a pleasant picture. We follow the bier of our kings with tears in our eyes and read columns in the newspapers about their virtues. Yet the men who are greatest, the politicians, the real leaders, organizers and workers, the contact men who look over the mass of opinions and efforts in the country and co-ordinate them into a workable whole, these are the men we should worship and thank for their efforts in our behalf. As a rule these men struggle to get a decent living while their activities continue and pass away leaving nothing but more or less unhappy memories for their families. Their every act is open to criticsm by the ignorant and vicious. Time tries to hide their misdeeds while it is left to the historian of some far off day to resurrect their SYDNEY, Jan. 28: (CP) When the South Australian wlcketkeeper was hurt in a cricket match against New South Wales, Don Bradman, famous batting star, put on the gloves. He stumped W, J. O'Reilly ! cleverly. BILLY HEARNDEN DIES LONDON, Jan. 28: (CP) Billy Hearnden, 74, old-time bare fist lightweight boxer who turned preacher, is dead. Following a ser vice at East Ham Central Hall New Year's Eve he collapsed while shak ing hands with friends. MINERS LIKE SOCCER attend soccer RIVIERA SKI MEETS NICE, France, Jan. 28 world, turns out in running kit at GOLF PRO'S DEATH t -vrrnrvM inn OH' fPPl -Ilpnres SPORT CHAT In the ranks of Canada's 1938 British Empire Games team noy. in Australia are athletes fromi George Graves, Montreal cyclist 882 i and Walter Young, Verdun,Que.,j C69 rmarathpner, are also policemen In their home towns while Aileen Meagher, Halifax, and Isobe! Bleasdell, Montreal, are school teachers as well as sprinters. Vio let Montgomery, Winnipeg sprinter, Phyllis Dewar, Vancouver Swimmer and Roblna Higglns, Winnipeg,, wjio throws the Javelin, are stenographers during working; hours. A. pair of wrestlers, Vernon Blake, bantamweight, and Larry Clarke, featherweight, are fellow iron-workers in. a Montreal Of the Dominion's nine prov inces, only Prince Edward Island is without representation on the team. British Columbia sent 30 athletes and Ontario 27. Nine came from Quebec, six from Manitoba, three from Alberta and one each from Saskatchewan, New Bruns wick and JJova Scotia. The team, whkh will see actioi February 5 to 12 inclusive, include; 37 track and field athletes, 18 swimmers and divers, 10 boxers and wrestlers, six oarsmen Including a coxswain, four lawn bowlers and three cyclists. British Columbia contributed six imen and three women to the track and field division and twj rARnTFP wnips .inn 2S; mpi'men and five women to the swim The South Wales Miners Federation minS and diving squad. Two box-has endorsed a Welsh Football As-ers and a wrestler are also from soclatlon suggestion that colliery he Pacific Coast province as b workers be given shorter Saturday, on cllst and the entire rowing shifts so they may games. and lawn boiling teams. Fifteen men and two women or the track and field team came from Ontario ns rilrt flvo men on " ' (CP) 'i , - " - invu women summers, a Doxer. 9 Skiers from a dozen countries arp wrestler and a cyclist QUebec'ha.s expeciea 10 compeie m uie him two boxers and two westlers. alon international ski championships to be held at Valberg, Beull and Auron, winter resorts near her. RUNNER AT 70 BERLIN, Jan. 28: (CP) Hugp Gottschllng, 70, believed to be the oldest marathon runner in the wun a man and a womarf on thr iracK ana neia squad, a man anc a woman on the sylmmlng teair and a lone cyclist. Three women and a man In thr track and field divisions are from Manitoba. The prairie province a'.-so has one boxer and a woman his home in Brieg every Sunday lor. diver on the team. Of the othei a brisk 18-mile trot, maker. He Is a shoe- PAGE PICKS EDRICH CANTERBURRY, N. Z., Jan. 28: (CP) M. L. Page, New Zealand captain, picks William J. Edrich, MlrlHlocov nrn n thp best of Ene- land's young cricketers. He hits); freely on the on side and is adept. at the cover drive; provinces, Alberta sent a man and a woman with the track and field squad and o wpman diver, Saskatchewan and New BrunswicK each are represented by one man on the track and field team while Jbva Scotia. has a ione wpman in the same division. WEARS UNION pOLQRS LONDON. Jan. 28: (CP) Barbara "Burke, South African track star, left; London -with the British team to the suicide of Tom Trapp, 51,'ef.- nauye country in me umpire professional at Shirley Park Golf .flames at Sydney. Miss Burke lives Club since 1911. He was found dead ..'In England. at his home in Addiscombe ENLARGE SPEEDWAY BERLIN. Jan. 28: (CP) New tralia, but officials decided other wise. on the first boat, HOCKEY SCORES PRQUNIJ FIJNP GROWS BRISTOL, England, Jan. 28: (CP) Grandstands are being erected to woucesiersnire uounty uricKet nrovlde increased accommodation Club's chances of buying the coun at Nurburg Ring, Germany's big y ground here are bright. motor racing track in the Elfel Mountains. HIS PLAN FAILEP JOHANNESBURG. Jan. 28: (CP) C. J. Nel, wrestler, hoped to be ac-? cepted as a member of the south African Empire Games team when? he stowed away on the Ascanlus.j carrying -the elected squad to Aus-'j 'LADIES' .7 or a total of MJWfl ($65,000) required, only 2,000 (13,000) remains to be raised. BOWLING KVfchriinrv 1 Annottoe va Tn1 He will leave South Africa phone Girls; Big Sisters vs. Blue National I.eatue Detroit 3, Chicago 4. Rangers 2, Canadlens 4. . Pacific Coast League Seattle, 2; Spokane, 4. Vancouver, 0; Portland, 3. Birds; Merchantettes vs. Rangers; Our Gang vs. Knpx Hotel. February 8 Knox Hotel vs. Mer- ' chantettes; Rangers vs. pur Gang; Big Sisters vs. Telephone Girls; Blue Birds vs. Annettes. February 15 Big Sisters vs. Annettes; 'Blue Birds vs. Telephone Girls; Rangers vs. Knox Hotel: Merchantettes vs. Our Gang. LORD ATHOLSTAN, GREAT CANADIAN JOURNALIST, IMES IS MONTREAL (Continued from Page One) cause of civic health involved such a struggle, it was made In 1885 when, at the head of a com- Rrucucuuy au wa. fc. mittee backed by funds subscriber! school teachers, students, clerks, salesmen, stenographers and a farmer are among the athletic army of 78. George Sutherland, hammer and discus expert frpm De Wintpn, Alta., near Calgary, is the fanner. Vancouver's cyclist, George Robinson, earns his living servicing cars with gas. Terry Evans, middleweight wrestler, is a member of the Tpronto fire department and Jack Harrison., sprinter", jack Fra-ser, middle-distance runner and Jack Whelan, heavyweight wrestler, all are Vancouver policemen. for the purpose, he fought th smallpox epidemic which ravaged jthe city. ine civic aumorujes were it was found. Pepple were re fusing to be vaccinated and there Graham did not hesitate to go himself Into houses where the sick !ay and explain the necessity of vaccination and isolation. But the need of an Isolation hospital remained and Mr. Graham realized that the exhibition buildings on the putsklrts of thu city were the only suitable structures. When the exhibition aur thorities refused tQ give ttyem up he secured a requisition to call out the troops, marched at their head soldiers marched into the buildings followed by a corps of nurses. Soon smallpox patients began to arrive and in a short time most of the cases were Isolated and the epidemic was under control. On another occasion he organized a company of Judges, lawyers, business men and citizens generally to clean the streets of ice, snow and filth when the alder men had conspicuously failed to do their duty. This company, dubbed the "Montreal Pick and Shovel Brigade," cleaned the streets until the civic authorities were shamed into action. Lotteries, gambling dens, bucket shops, usurers, fake boxing matches and numerous flim-flam .schemes were exposed ruthlessly by Lord Atholstan through the columns of the Star. As an ardent patriot and a trong Imperialist, Lord Atholstan vas actively identified with all th: reat Imperialists and patriotic movements In the Dominion for he past half century nnd more He was the first journalist in Canada to demand the sending of. Canadian troops to South Africa when the Boer War broke out in October, 1988, and years before the outbreak of the European conflict in 1914 he called for Canadian contributions to the British Navy In the North Sea. Many I'hanthropies The Indian Famine Relief Fund and, of later date, the Belgian Chil dren's Relief Fund, were among the many philanthropies which owed their existence and success to his driving force. A consistent protectionist since the days of Sir John A. Macdonald, tie fought strenously to secure thp defeat of the Taft-Flelding reci procity agreement during the memorable Canadian election campaign of 1911. He was one of the first to advocate Imperial preferential trade as a policy. As was to be expected, he lent strong support through his papers to the Empire Trade Conference at Ottawa in 1932. Lord Atholston was proud of the name of Journalist and his services to his brethren of the fourth estate were many. In 1910 he was vice-president of the Institute of Journalists of Great Britain, having the year before been chafrman of sion following two breakdowns led "for Australia but she will represent I the Canadian .delegation to the Im- perfal Press Conference lp London In 1920 as chairman of tjie Canadian Committee of the Imperial press Conference which met at Ottawa he came prominently .before the public of the whole piriplre. To his organizing genius and tireless energy were due the success of the conference and of the memorable tour of the pressmen through the Dominion. The thanjes of the con ference were officially tendered to Lord Atholstan by the chairman, Viscount Burnham. He was vice-president of the Children's Mem o r 1 a Hospital, Montreal, to wfilch he .devptd a great deal of time, solicitude and money; a governor of the Montreal General Hospital; member .of the boards of the Society for -the Protection pf Women and Children and Society for the prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and associated with many other institutions and societies of a philanthropic nature. Ills philanthropies ran into hundreds of thousands. In 1922 he donated $100,000 for cancer research work and another $100,000 as a nrlze for anyone discovering an actual cure, the donations being in- ful environment. As a governor of McGlll Unlver sity, Lord Athojstan did everything in his, power to forward the Interests of that institution. In the drive' for funds towards the close of 1920 when the sum of $10,000,000 was raised by public subscription, he FTkUy, Januarj spired by a reading of Pasteur si ganery 01 wnicn ne presented writings. Hundreds of mothers and lamous paiming. children in the slum districts of! Lord Atholstan was a Presbvt.. Montreal owe renewed health tq so-1 Ian and a member of the Church 4 journs at the fresh air camp estab-,St. Andrew and St. Paul. iu llshed and maintained through his1 one of the founders of the Mta efforts at Chambly Canton. Royal Club in 1909. in re&dena A personal philanthropy with the , was a dignified st-ne mansion oj intensely human touch Is indicated sherbrook Street West, by the Inscription on the door or a beautiful stone mansion on Dorchester Street West, Montreal. "My Mother's Home" the inscription reads. The stately house with its fine grqunds, formerly the home of Lord Strathcona, was bought by gTdemoion pFle-l Atholstan. as a home for groups at the City HalL he and ! derly ladles Ing straitened civic ' pumstances. There many a mother others were named as health committee. During the vlg-1 na a naPPv 8. su'" i mot win Mr ! rounded by comfort and a beauti- the home of the late Sir WiliiaJ van tiorne. Diamond Jubilee In 1892 the then Hugh rjrahait married MlssAnnle Be "kirun Ham. lltc-n. of: Montreal. Their cluughto the Hon. Alice Graham, was mar ried to Barnard M. Hallward in 1925. Lord Atholstan observed the occasion by giving a half huUdaj and extra week's pay to every ou or his employees. The first chile of the rnarriage was chrlstenec jfiign uranam auer nis grar.i. father. Later, a second born. in ta 1 Two brothers of Lord AthoLtu 1 predeceased him, Thomas McLe; Graham, for many years a dlrch served as chairman of the publicity of the Montreal Star Publkhl cqmmittee. His personal subscrlp-1 Company, dying in 1921 tlon was one qf $100,000, entered In January, 1929, the Montreal! as given In commemoration of the Star celebrated its Diamond Jubilee I splendid services redered to the un-' being the only newspaper published to the grounds, scaled a high livenlty by Professor Charles E.' which had been continuously ur.l fence and himself tore the fasten- ,'Moyse for 42 years. A few years one proprietorship for 60 yeirsl mgs irom tne oarred gates. The Mater he nresented thP finp mvspi r.nrH At.hnUt nn thi n,v..,,n ..,! Hall to the university and endow-' the recipient of a number of con-1 ed three travelling scholarships. ' gratulatory messages from new- Another of. his interests was the naner confreres in Canada a- Montreal Art Association, .to the Great Britain. GROWING GIRLS Black and Brown Oxfords WitJ) or WUbqut Tongues. 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