THE DAILY NEWS THE LEADING NEWSPAPER IN NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA Published Daily and Weekly by THE PRINCE RUPERT PUBLISHING CO. LTD., PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. SUBSCRIPTION Daily, 50e per month, or $5.00 per year, in advance. Weekly, $2.00 per year. All Other Countries: Daily, $8.00 per year. RATES—To Cangda, United States and Mexico: | aes $2.50 per year, strictly in advance. DAILY E DITION. THE GIFT BATTLESHIP NEW ZEALAND. Much ado is being made by the Conservatives on the ot- casion of the arrival at this coast of the battleship given by New Zealand ‘io the Imperial navy. In not a few journals this gift has been held up as an example to the people of Canada, who are exhorted to go and do likewise. Now it is all very well to con- gratulate New Zealand on what she has done. Her loyalty to the Empire is certainly com- mendable. She may have taken what was, in face of the existing circumstances, the wisest course. But that does not say that what may be the best course at present for New Zealand is the best course for Canada. It does not even say that it would be under better circumstances the best course for New Zealand. Because New Zealand now contributes to the Imperial navy does not say that she would not employ her money more wisely in as- sisting Canada and Australia to maintain a fleet on the Pa- cific if this country would only join in, At present, however, thanks largely to the action of the present government of this country, no such Pacific fleet, supported by the colonies, exists. So our sister dominion pursues what is perhaps the wisest policy for a very small country to pursue. There are to be considered, too, other things than external efliciency or convenience. New Zealand is peopled mainly by people of British descent and of strong imperialistic tend- encies. She has not to face, as Canada has, the great prob- lem of fusing the peoples of divers races into one nation. Her people being chiefly of one mould the action. of the ma- jority in a matter of this sort is not likely to accentuate race division as in Canada. Friday, July 25, 1943. | In this country, on the other hand, the action of the major- ity should always be tempered | by a consideration fot the wishes of the minority. If Ganada is to be of any use to) the Empire it must be a united Canada, and the problem of consolidation is harder of so0- lution even than the task of confederation. The true Can- adian statesman therefore must steer a middle course. He must not take measures which are in such direct opposition to the wishes of a large section of the people as to make more acute the division between these and their fellow citizens. He must indeed be imperial- istic, but he must, above all things, be national, for the sentiment of all Ganada is that of a people realizing that it is approaching its maturity. And the more that feeling is allowed to develop the more united Canada will become, and, therefore, the more efli- cient a unit of the Empire. Mr. Borden's apparent pol- icy of contribution to the Brit- ish navy may have a greater superficial appearance of being imperialistic. It makes a cheaper and more sensational appeal to what is in itself a very creditable sentiment, the sentiment of devotion to the Mother Country. But however flashy and catchy it may be il has not the soundness of im- perialism because it lacks the true naitonalism of Sir Wil- frid’s policy. Give Jack Canuck the gloves and let him prepare to fight his own fight, and he will be ready if Mother England calls him to defend the Em- pire. But if he pays his cousin John Bull to do the bruising Jack Canuck will find himself doing nothing but trying to settle the quarrels between Jean Baptiste and John Bull's younger brother, who came out here to help build up a greater Britain. 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That is Mr. Robert Miller, who occupies an import- ant position in the operating de- partment of the Canadian Paci- fic Railway at Windsor street station, Montreal. Mr Miller, who recently celebrated the fortieth anniversary of his entry into railway work, began railroading on July 6th, 1873, on the = old Richlieu, Drummond and Artha- basca Railway, one of the wood- en railways that had been built through the aid of the province of Quebee a couple of years pre- viously, and taken over by the South Eastern Railway. “These wooden railways.’ Mr. Miller told a Montreal Witness reporter, “including the Gorford Railway, now part of the C.N.R. from Quebec to Lake St. John, were heavily subsidized hy the Provincial Legislature of Que- bec, and were built for $5,000 per mile, including grading, bridges (excepting the bridge over the Yamaska River), sta- tions, and sidings. The rails were of maple four inches by seven, and were secured to the ties by a notch cut into it fou inches deep-and five inches wide into which the rail was laid and two wedges tightly driven be- tween the rail and the cut in the tie, so that no iron whatever was} used in construction. _—— a SO COO ee eee. FOREMAN oF) |(THE IDEA IS TO GET THIS RANCH THaT ZX CAN DO SOME- Fett ends WIPE DISHES- Fore