PAGE TWO THE DAILY NEWS The Daily News PIUXCE HUPEUT - BRITISH COLUMBIA Published Every Afternoon, Except Sunday, by Prince Rupert Dally News, Limited, Third Avenue 1LY EDITION 1L P. PULLEN - r 1 i mer-ii i iriri v riVrtR By mail to all otLer part of British Co7umbis?.talIiih Empire and United States, paid in advance, per year". G.00 By mail to ail ofber countries, per year 7.60 By mail to ail parts of Noithern and Central British Columbia, paid in advance for yearly period ....... .1.00 Ligzl notices, each insertion, per agate line 15 Transient advertising on front pagej per inch 2.80 Local readers, per insertion, per Ifee . .. 25 Tracsient display advertising, ,frer iilcb, per insertion 1.40 Classified advertising, per Insertion, per word 02 Or four months for 1.00 For leaser period, paid in advance, per month J50 City delivery, by mail or carrier, yearly period, naid In advance $6fl0 Contract rate on application. Advertising and C irculation Telephone 99 Editor nnd Reporters Telephone 86 Member of. Audit Bureau of Circulations DA Monday, Dec. 8, 1930 LOCAL AIR SERVICE It will 4 a great thing for the city of Prince Rupert to have its-iown air service and a good deal of credit is due the people who are backing the local obmpany with their, nioney in order to secure such a service for the city. We hope that it will prove a financial success so that it may become a permanent institution. . There have been objections taken in the past to Prince Rupert people sending all their money away for investment. Here is a case where local people are trying to develop something at home. j PROVIDING FOR CHRISTMAS The Salvation Army is asking for support this Christmas in order to bring cheer to the large number of people who will have no other place to go, at that time. There are always some homeless, but this year promises to cause the Army to extend itself to the limit. We strongly commend this to thosa who wish to make others happy. The Army will handle the money given to it to the best possible advantage in order to bring the best possible results. NUMBERING HOUSES jThose merchants and SmjS's who have deliveries to make in Prince Rupert domplain of the lack of numbers on the houses. They say that when' a new delivery boy commences he finds it very difficult to locate his customers. Boys who deliver papers also find themselves puzzled and the customers are sometimes disappointed, simply because there are no numbers on the houses. It has been pointed out to us that the cost of ffletal numbers Is only five cents each so anyone can affoyd to secure them. , MUST DO BUSINESS The Royal Bank in its monthly commercial review gives stress to the grains made of late by the store with the big turnoer at the expense of the smaller store with the-small turnover. The chain stores have been the chief gainers. J The lesson i? that a turnover is necessarv and that is where the publicity factor is necessary, to keep before' the public with goods sold on a close margin seems to be the modern method of doing business. CONGRATULATIONS TO DR. FRED KERGIN It is a creat nleasure to be able to eoneratulate a Prince Rupert boy, Dr. Fred Kergih, on being appointed Rhodes Scholar. This appointment gives him the opportunity to pursue his studies for another two years at Oxford University in England where he will get thejv'ery latest that medical science can jjpve and also will be In touch with the young men of Britain who are likely to be among the statesmen of the future. It is a great, opportunity and doubtless Dr. Fred will take full advantage of it. Prince Rupert people will feel proud of the fact that one of the1 local boys is achieving things and will partake to gome small extent in the iov that comes to Dri and Mrs. W. T. Kergin, parents of the promising young physician. First Railway Car Shops In British Columbia The first railway rolling stock to be built entirely in British Columbia is beln constructed at the Itmsell shops of the FfcMjwult & Nanalmo Railway, subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway, in Victoria where ihe railway shops have been transformed into a manufacturing plant engaged in the production of 200 specially designed logging cars. Twenty-fivo of these cars, the first of the 200 to be completed, left Victoria recently for Chematnus where they entered the service of the Victoria lumber and manufacturing company In Its logging operations. All other cars wlU be used by logging concern, on Vancouver Island ' .... - - X Y Monday, DeeenA Department of Trade and Commerce Ottawa, Canada To Canadian Citizens, Everywhere in Canada, December 6 th, 1930. Suppose Eveiybody Rocked the Boat! One of my friends, who has what he considers a refined taste in cheese and is particularly partial to imported brands, tells me that he thTnks I am overstepping the bounds of good taste in keeping this "Produced in Canada" agitation up so long, and elaborating it from so many angles. In effect he say to me: "So long as the importation of cheese is lawful, whote business but my own is it if I gratify my liking for imported cheese? I pay what the law demands in the way of customs duties. Then why lecture me for doing what I have a perfect right to do?" Whose business but his own? I am going to try to show him, in this my public answer to him, that it's everybody's business f At an easy and effective way of doing so, an old lesson from school days comae aptly to mind. In proving his theorems, you all remember how often Euclid used to employ the "reductio ad absurdum" method assuming the opposite of what he wanted to prove, and then showing how absurd were the deductions it involved. So let t(s try the same thing on this business of importing cheese, rememberingalwaxf, of course, that any one of a hundred other products would serve equally well as an illustration. ' First we must admit that if it's all right for some Canadians to restrict their purchases of cheeee to imported cheese, it's all right for every Canadian to do the same thing. Now if not one single Canadian were to purchasm Canadian-made cheese, most of the Canadian cheese factories would have no alternative but to dote up, for there isn t nearly enough export trade in cheese to keep them all going. Next, we must concede that if there is no question about the propriety of those people, who prefer imported cheese, buying imported cheese, we must likewise concede that there can be no question about the propriety of these people who prefer imported biscuits, jams, hats, shoe, motor cars or what not, buying such articles. And as before, if there can be no objection to some Canadians buying such articles, there can be no objection if every Canadian should decide to pass up every Canadian manufacturer, and buy only articles that had been made by some foreign manufacturer, employing foreign labour and using foreign materials. Result Every Canadian factory of every kind whatsoever (excepting only those manufacturing wholly or mainly for export) closed up, hundreds of thousand of wage-earners left stranded, tradesmen deprived of the great majority of their cash customers, landlords clamouring for rants and professional men clamouring for tees that could not be collected, empty houses, empty stores, tax sales, people moving away all for the simple reason that nobody had any inaome beoaus nobody was producing anything. Nobody, that is to say, except the Canadian farmer. But why should we assume that he would still be producing? If Canadians unanimously Chose to buy imported manufactured articles in preference to domestic manufactured articles, why should they not also choose with equal propriety to buy imported farm products in preference to domestic farm products? Many Canadians already do it regularly in the case of early fruits and vegetables. So if it's all right for some pf them to do it part of the time, why isn't it all right for all of them tp do it all of the time? 0f course by the time we got round to the point where nobody in Canada waa producing anything, due to the fact that no Canadian was willing to buy a made-in-Canada product, none of us would have the wherewithal to buy the noxt meal. "Whioh is absurd," as our friend Euclid would say. Hence we are forced to i he conclusion that our original assumption was incorrect. That being ao, my friend should seriously eonm'der trying to-curb his appetite tar imported cheese, and endeavour to satisfy it with Canadian aheese. So to those who think that perhaps I am going a bit too tar with this agitation, all I feel called upon to say is that I would rather be held guilty of overstepping the bounds of good taste in order to help my tyountry keep within the bounds of common sense, than be given credit tor keeping within the bounds of gaod taste when it meant letting the common sense side of the question go hangl Very sincerely yours, . 4 Minister of Trade and Commerce. 1 Wlaen you are tared Jj&l I a cup fi hot I I is wonderfully stimulating iJiM I AND GIVES YOU FRESH ENERGY f 1 H UhAtnti;luoiVMiAd Co. LtL, Toronto p.) ST H Let the Daily News Classified Ads. work for you.