iis te. . e jel ' ‘at , pe he tg + f ity got ha } vat gut wh Lt ee ey J Hp ony. nt 4 dey * o Ny : Oe Naat pagel! ie ts a ae yh then! * rn, : a b ayy . oy [E> eo rHNy | - oh yet IO bs a ri veda ve an ve PP TINAG Veale beady ears Hriday, Septemuer 24, 1Yo4 . ~ & Bs ' 1 peerings | mndependent dally newspaper devuted to (ue upbullding of Pr.nce Rupert | nN and Northern. and Central British Golumbta Member of Canadtin Press -—~ Audit Bureau of Cirenlations Canudlan Dally Newspaper Association, Ns - , Published by ‘he Prihce Rupert Dally News ldmited. : 2. 3. MAGOR. Prestdent Subsertrtlon Rates: : ‘ al seek of V OA By oatyler—per wy 2ek, “Zhe; "per rionth, ‘s!.o0! per year, $10.00. wes de) per yer, 88.00, . ey Re . vithonized us cecond class mail by the Post Office Department. Gcca Ip" mall--Per month, "We: es See Undeclared War 3 EPORTS of vadio-active rain falling on the west * coast and of the first known death resulting “°° HG PERRY, Vice-President ‘ + PEG OAT from the explosion of a hydrogen bomb sue a chill: ing aueury of things to come, + It is true that the rain ig considere:} harness thd the Japanese fisherman who died was much closer to the explosion than he was supposed to be, Gut what these incidents mean js that the world is nioving into ain ave when experiments for war have | no boundaries, The ultimate of this is unpleasant tO think about, Tn the past when a country prepared for war it | did so within its own confines in the manner of a T hoy setting off firecrackers in his oxn backyard. he boy is still in his hacky ard but now he's fooling around with sky-roekets and suddenly the whole neighborhood is within uneasy ranve ground, of his play- It experiments with weapons continue in this way, the time may come when peace carries with it the same physical dangers as war, As countries Vie with each other in showing off their latest ther- monuelear devices, the atmosphere threatens to be- come saturated with deadly dust to a point where Wa “OTTAWA DIARY | i | | | i recent weeks. _ No the most part the statesmen verify the fact that their offi- the cobwebs out of them. In the process they have tried also to tike stock generally of the broad picture of government of which they're supposed to be a very in- teeral part? In most cases they have re- turned to their homes after a few days’ stay. Their mental palate as a result of thelr look- jsee hereabouts has been mainly ione of real confusion. That isn't oat idl surprising. The re- Hiharkable thing would be if it , were olherwise, | For when the sessional indem- “nity was raised last session from $4,000 and a $2,000 tax-free al- ‘lowance “to $10,000 including a lyz,uuu tax-free allowance, the ‘M.P.'s were told that the hoist should be justified to the public ‘on the grounds that their job’ ‘had become virtually a year- round occupation. Most of them ‘dutifully followed that line in ‘their explanations to their con- ‘Stituents, But now, to their em- harrassment they find them- selves left. to cool their heels on itheir’ home fronts. The latest There's been a considerable in- | flux cf M.P.'s into the Capital in particular event has caused the trek. For have semed anxious to simply ces are still intaet and to dust thing, | awoke this ‘mo: of King Fouis, a As I waited for my compar:- ions 1 looked cut un a ecbble- stene paved square whith som»- how looked yaguely familiar Then I happened to note the name— the. Pleee of the Red Cruss. . By sheer aceldent I had cone Jack to spend the meht in th- yery same building in the vary same city where I had been car. ied on September 2, 1918 will, 4 big blue cross marked on mm forehead which meant “gzrtously wounded,” eo bk of more moving experlénee than my revisit fo Vimy Ridge—