THE DAILY News THE LEADING NEWSPAPER IN NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA Published Daily and Weekly Guaranteed Largest Circulation i. F. MeRAR, EDITOR AND MANAGER HEAD OFFICE Daily News Building, 3rd Ave, Prince Rupert, B.C. Telephone 98. TRANSIENT DISPLAY ADVERTISING—60 cents per inch. Gontract rates on application, DAILY EDITION SESS IS EB tvena, January 12, 1945. EDITORIALS The expected has cite The electors of Prince Rupert | “belly | are going to have their full” of Sam Newton. matter of fact, they are As well fed up with him now. al pretty | Sam) Newton has put this city in the | most unenviable position of any on the continent. He in- sisted when times were good in financing the city on short term debentures. When he en- tered office last year the pre- had everything lined up to sell the city’s long vious Council term debentures at 86. Sam and his satellites said they wouldn't sell them under 90— a price the real big cities couldn't get for their fifty-year debentures. * ¢ @ Now the city is up against a demand for treasury certifi- eates of almost two million dollars, to say nothing of local financing and other bungling, and Sam Newton has been com- pelled to say in office and hold his nose to the grindstone. By the end of the year the people may have learned to realize the kind of a man they have been supporting. A big dose of Newton will probably cause vomiting before the year is out even among the partisans who united last year to oust one of the most capable men in the city, in order to replace him by aman like Sam. There is little ———__--— a STANDARD Made in British Columbia, by British Columbia workmen. If that is not reason suflicient for you to use it and help these work- men keep their their money back guarantee sack if you are dissatisfied. Vancouver Milling & Grain Co, td. hope for Prince Rupert till the} citizens find out that it costs money as well as dignity to put a man like this in office and the present is to as good as any get down to rock bottom. * * * Fuller reports seem to indi- cate that the did to against the charge made by the Chief Justice. He tried to ex- Plain it away by saying that he of the It however, by his op- Attorney General try defend himself did not know case. is charged, ponents that Bower's law firm gets most of the criminal cases of the are believed to have at court. Whether these things are true or not the Attorney General of this province should not leave himself to the charge. The people are paying the At- torney a good to do their business and he has no right to enter into private business that may conflict with his duty as a Minister of the Crown. Bowser has received a knockout blow and he lies bel- ly-up in a helpless condition until the current of popular feeling carries him out to oblivion. Exit Von Bowser. because influence they open General salary Most of us have to be pretty sharp collectors to get the living that the world is supposed to owe every man. —— ROYAL FLOUR jobs and support families, then there is our with every MAISER EATING “K” BREAD HOPING THAT PEOPLE WILL DO SO. Berlin, Jan. 144.—Emperor Wil- liam has given orders that war be served to himself of entourage. styled K bread, of 85 per cent of rye flour bread the members his This bread, con- sists and It 15 per cent of potato flakes. is being consumed in accord- ance with a wartime proclamation with the idea of making the sup- ply of foodstuff in the empire last longer. Up to the present time it has not been bought readily by It is hoped, that the decision of the Emperor to eat this bread himself the general public. however, will influence.the people to follow The newspapers are giving much attention to the course of his majesty in this con- nection. his example. Salvation Army. Public meetings, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 8 p. m. Sundays at 7:30 p.m. . Some girls never seem to enjoy a courtship unless the rest of the family are knocking. the objects of their affection. MATHIBUS NERVINE POWDERS = For Headache and Neuraig: Se PT “ tei —One trial will convince you that asure and safe remedy for any headache fs ye mane service in Nervine Powe Powders 18 in a box, 25c. Sold everywhere. If your dealer does not sell them we mail box on receipt of price, 25c. J. L.MATHIEU CO. Props. SHERBROOKE, P.@. 6-5-0 and | THE DAILY NEWS Tuesday, January 12, 101; ey THE BUCKING SYSTEM. Editor, The Daily News. Sir—If you will kindly give space to these few lines I will try and show the citizens how the bucking system is being worked at the City Hall. ago the City Council decided to A few months erect a small building near the city scales and as I had an agree- ment with the city to run the scales and as I was not doing any- jthing at the time IT went up and asked the city engineer if there any chance to go to las the scales had to be moved and ithe building put up. He told me lthat it would be utterly impossi- | ble as the mayor had two friends ithat he wanted to do the work and after a long wait the friends went jdown and they certainly dawdled i° lot of time away and I believe the was work, y worked complaisantly for the mayor and IT understand you are to hear more of this later. When the scales were ready I found it was impossible to take a load of coal up the approach the Second Street as was a three-foot fill of mus- keg that Superintendent McNeil! had sent down from the postoffice The engineer had spread about an inch of crushed rock on the top of this. The first team that tried to go up got stuck and had to be pulled back and for eight days the teams had to go up First Avenue and turn back over the seales from the upper side and then turn back to the power plant. I went up to the engi- neer’s office and reported this five times. A few days later the chairman of the Board of Works Commit- tee came down to see me. He said that he believed that I had been given a raw deal in having to wait so long for the building but that the engineer was not to blame. but that his friends had slipped one over on him, but that he (the engineer) would get square with them as they would get no more city work. from side, there site. It would seem alright but it would never do to slip one over on Mason as he was a high sal- aried automaton and I was taking a chance on making a living by to slip one over on me running the scales on a percent- as the City Council had refused to pay a weigher a salary, although the liehf superintendent told me that they had lost over twenty- age basis, eight tons of coal on one deal by not having a weigher. A few days later the chairman came down again and I asked him if there was any chance of get- ting a couple of loads of crushed rock for a cross-over, as the mud deep and two rock crushers were working near by. It was then, was very in the presence of that he told me they were bucking me pretty hard at the engineer's office, and he did not think that I could get any crushed rock. He then said that the city had a lot of old plank and that he would send some of |them down; and I believe that he |did his best to get them; and I |agreed to lay the walk myself. |After waiting four weeks I met ithe chairman up town and he in- ‘formed me that he could not get j the old plank and that they were ) Still bueking me at the epgineer’ 8 [office and he said also that I did not go about things right—that | another citizen, | should go up and see Mr. Mason. | Perhaps the chairman thou str that I should go up to the eng neer's office and stand around for an hour only to have him come out and say it is utterly impos- sible to talk to you and when he did talk he dictatorial that he was impervious to consideration or After waiting three weeks longer I met the chairman up town again and he informed me that he had just seen Mason and that Mason had told him that it would be utterly to lay the walk, was 80 egotistically reason. impossible as he could not get a permit G. T. P. IT then realized that th bucking from the system was working out immensely for W. MeG.,, being content with his statements and not and his snake in the grass meth ods I went down to seg Superin tendent Meehan and the first thing that Mr. Meehan said when I asked “Why, I the to that walk some time ago,” mean two weeks: him was, gave engineer permission lay ing, as he said, and yet the chairman had said within an hour of that that could not get a permit. long the of Prince Rupert going to stand for such monopolistic rule? If the citizens will look into conditions at the City Hall they will find that time they How are citizens things are fast becoming farcical and the reason for such must be obvious to Canadians Is it not about time this had practical men at the heads of its most city departments instead of egots and obstructionists? Thanking you for your space, I am, Yours truly, J. H. MeLEAN. Prince Rupert, Jan. 11, 1914. WHAT? HOBBLE SKIRTS? SCOTS'LL NAE WEAR — First, Khaki; Now 2 Vards Less, and Order Sets Bonnie Heather Ablaze. 7 | : London, Jan. 12.—A recent of-| + 35-~-PHONE-35 3 ficial announcement that in view s of the difficulty in obtaining the) 3) necessary tartans Highland regi- TAXI 3 ments would in future be sup- ° plied with a uniform of the khaki : ; kilts disgruntled the Scots, but agin s an additional order just issued to ; ALF MALLICAR : the effect that two yards less of t a . closed will be used in making the! age uniforms has set the heather |—~ ablaze. The Highlanders § are scornfully indignant, and declare they object to wearing hobble skirts. Sympathizers with the High landers add that the men are afraid their sweethearts will ridicule their new uniform the latest ously affect land. Highland associations, of Parliament and others are sending concerted pro- tests to the War Office against this innovation. 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