PAd TwO .THE DAILY JTHWf MISS ATLANTA Walking Oxfords With all the zip of style trends plus comfort and dependability. Low heel to low cuban. Widths A to D. We can highly recommend these shoes. Priced From DAILY EDITION $ Family shoe store ltD. The Home of Good Shoes THE DAILY NEWS. PRINCE RUPERT BRITISH COLUMBIA Published Every Afternoon, Except Sunday, by Prince Rupert Dally News. Limited, Third Avenue H. P. PULLEN Managing-Editor Paid in advance, per week Paid n, advance, per month By mall to all parts of British Columbia, the British Empire and Member of Audit Bureac. ot Circulations Advertising and Circulation Telephone 98 News Department Telephone KG as if each side was tryincr .12 .50 Tuesday, October 17. 1939. EDITORIALS MUST BE PREPARED In the course of the next year or two we must expect to hear of many reverses as well as victories. Yestr erday's dispatches were a sample of others which are bound to come. Possibly in the course of the next few months our neohle will be suurred on to a ereater decree 1 aeainst their strong line of defences. What will happen when they get there we can only surm'se. Each side -knows about what the other has in store for the attacker This wjll be no gentleman s game, struggle. EDUCATION IN THE FAR EAST United States j The nrovincia) government navs the teacher between three and four hundred dollars, it being left to the schooli .district to sunplemept this if it wishes but only 55 dis tnetp out of 197 do this and the amounts they pay are small. The farmers on the island sho that thev value educpHori verv lifhtly, because the attendance at the - school" is not "wl and it is no wonder. ! We hav1 flKavj lookpd upon Ouebec a the backward prov'nne in the matter of education but there $46.05 ner nunl nnnt vWeas only S31.55 is nnid in PrinpftlEdr wai-d Inland and the onlv nrovince cominf hwor than it is New nrunsurlck with S29.86 about which the Federation may tell us in future bulletins. We realize that we are giving only one side of this mixtion and that there mav be circumstances about vhiVh wp are pot informed. We are reiving on the report of the teachers themselves. However, we can see no excuse for any part of Canada treating its teachers in the manner stated in the circular. MacKpnzie s Furniture Inlaid Llnoieum Per 'sq. yard. $1.40 Printed Linoleum 8q. yard 90c Cunioleum 6q, yard ., 70c Conroleuni Ruts and Linoleum Russ A large stock carried at all times to meet your requirements, w : : : . : : : PHONE 775 Letter Box CITY MANAC.KKSHIP Editor. Dally News been borrowed from the bank. In the schools, manual training had been stopped and home economics was being gradually dis- feachintr nrofession in Prince Edward Island and issues i,he bet trained body of teachers SAVE OUR GOOD-WILL COUPONS With each 25c cash purchase, one Good-Will Coupon is given free, to be redeemed for useful household Items, Our latest Premium Catalogue will be available soon, Mussallem's ECONOMY STORE sidewalks are built under the local , Improvement plan and paid for by abutting property and no applications have been made for renewal or new walks. In 1933 the Fire Department had three trucks of which only one could be depended on to get back In the matter of the plebiscite to tak-n out A new chassis was be taken shortly regarding council bought within two weeks of th and city manager, do you noi win flrst arrivai of the Commissioner the sponsors of the movement In 1935 tne bonded Indebtedness should call a public meeting to en- ot the cjty was refUnded for twen- llghten. the voters on the subject ty vears at a savjng in Interest of As I understand it, we will be asked $34,000 per year or a million dol- to. voe on a ballot marked: "Are jars jf compounded for twenty you "in favor qf a City Manager for years. At this time the total in- the city?" Is the alternative the debtedness was $1,735,000 with a continuance of a Comml'sioner or net, debt after deducting the slnk- a mavor and council? Or are thre jng fund 0f about $1,600,000. To- any stated alternatives to be Dive-' day the net debt stands at about before the voters? If not I fail to $1 .300.000. see how an intelligent ballot can be in 1933 the only park In the city taken was McClymont Park. The area on aEQ. B. CASEY. Fraser 8treet where we now have . , , one of the most unique little parks CO.iJMlSSIONFH'3 2iTATE.MK.NT M Canada with 1U fountain and Editor, Dally News: A letter in your papr Its totems was a decidedly slummy area. Hervice Memorial Gardens by Mr above the police station was an Elliott regarding the plebiscite is unimproved area and a dllapitated misleading. The only question to be ball court did not Improve Its voted on will be: "Do you favor looks. The Canadian National Rall-the City of Prince Rupert being way some three years ago cleared administered upon the City Mana- out a disreputable pond and made ger Plan, details to be arranged a beautiful parfc between Second later?" There are no other ques- Avenue and the C. N. R. offices, tlons. The City Commissioner has The city, supplying the water for resigned and either the City will the fountain and making tax con- revert to a council administration cessions, made the Improvement or to a manager appointed by a possible. pfmhell or another Commissioner In 1932 the property holders 'appointed by the government. Iwere called on to pay a tax Mr. Elliott takes occasion to S2C9.000 but in 1939 the tax levy throw discredit upon the schools was $135,000. or a drop of almost Wpnfhpt rplf land the public works for lack of one half in seven years. " upkeep of streets and sidewalks. 1 There are other improvements I remaps u win oe aavisaDie 10 sucn as swjjpuib mc umuiug u.j look back at the city in May 933, aaroage on me nignway when the City Council asked the building with it a road, removing government to take control and offensive buildings, ananging for appoint a Commissioner. There was renewal of old wooden water pipes a current debt of sixty thousand at a cost of $40,000. payment by dollars for defaulted Interest and the government of $40,000 on ac- the winter. This was followed by another sixty thousand due f or i count of improvement taxes which, warm "Chinook" airs and. heavy wages and salaries, including it had ignored for 25 years. Many rain wWch melted, the nt4'jww teachers, relief accounts to merch-1 Bylaws were pas?d, which have on the mountains and broufht the ants, hospital per diem account been of instant benefit. The ac- skcena River up U flod levels. At and street lighting as well as for quisltlon of the Cow Bay Indus- the week-end Conditions were back city buildings. There was no money , trial area and the purchase of the to normal at this Ume of the year In the bank and no bank credit dir area lying oeiween enawauans and City of Prince Rupert bonds (Lake and the harbor and extend-were being offered at 35c on the' n beyond the Nelson reduction dollar. Within a few months all plant, thus providing tlUe for the obligations except interest had . pipe line and pumping station and been met and a pay as you goiprovldmR further industrial sites. policy adopted and maintained The Commissioner is now and ever since, Not a aoiiar nas since ajways nas octn one ui we iwh-i of i-uthlessness by the ruthless enemy, jusi now it seems - . j-" to draw the other to attrack ln the xhools and a fu to. date equipment has Just b?en In-' stalled, not only for wood work-, ing but for metal and electricity.' ljclDal taxpayers ln the city and I will always be interested ln Its welfare, whatever the form of ad ministration may be. W. J ALDER. City Commissioner. HAD FISHERMAN' BATTERY PARTfl fWnhor 17- (f!P Art- It it will Will he he a a horrible noiriOl. . u,fA J""'"'. School wasimlra, Darian, commander of the established and together with theFrencn forces hu becn 0 High School occupy tht Booth.years' ln the navy but 8pfnt the Memorial School with about 500 ,agt war on iand!n command of siuoenis inorougniy organized 25 motorized naval guns manned ,and under the supervision of one by 500 Brcton fuhermcn. A circular issued by the Canadian Teachers Feder-jthe prince Run! srhooi. u with.1 ation has gathered official information in regard to thejout a doubt the best qualified and MITCHAM, Eng.. Oct. 17: CP itin.the form of a soecjal bulletin. It shows that the popu- :Jtf,"ce R"1 ey had. For1 a true sporting wedding wa that of J1938 and 1939 there were about on and Miss R. Splller here. The bride in iPQi to 8ixty-seven thousand in 1931. However, it still hundred applications each year. is a daughter of the lightweight has 40.31 persons to the square miles Whereas Nova Scotia I rn 33 the Public Works De- boxer who represented Britain in has 24.72, Ontario 9,.45, Saskatchewan 3.87 and British!15" , 1 naa one sma" tiUck- an: tne woa Olympics. Uolumhia The cost of educatinor the child in the av- fully twiche wVk has been don erao-e rnsirici is n.oo compareu witn $m.iv in lintisn Columbia or jiist slightly higher than the black belt of the Five sports yi:Dii.N(; thousand eacn year on me upiceep or tne' people read the Dally News. It streets to what was possible prior pays to let them know what you io inai aaie. under the Bylaws all have to sell NEW ROYAL HOTEL J. ZarelH Proprietor "A HOME AWAY FROM HOME" lUtes 11.00 up SO Rooms Hot St Cold Water Prince Rupert, B.C. Phone 281 P.O. Box 198 FOR SALE NEW American stamps for sale, ones and threes. Dally News, (tfi FOR SALE Whole chimney sweep ing outfit, complete. 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