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THE OMINECA HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JAN UARY..18. 19S

The One Thing
You Can Afford —

The great national pastime this weather is squeezing the
expenditure column 80 that it will remain in proportion to the
revenue. The first step in this of course is making a decision as
to wha items are absolutely necessary to the well-being of our
minds and bodies and consigning the balance to the limbo of things
we will have when the times improve, :

You eannot do without your local newspaper for several very
xoad reasons, the first of which is that as an intelligent citizen
of the community it is necessary that you keep informed as to what
is taking place in that. community what is transpiring at the school
the churches; if. grants are being made from publie funds, or cut
off; what your community proposes doing about relief measures:
‘where food stuffs, meat, wearing apparel, wood coal, may be pur-
thased to the best advantago; all the intimate personal news; the
deaths, births, marriages, and the thousand and one other occur:
renees that go to make up the life of the community.

That is the function of the local weelly newspaper. Its news
columms each week carry the story of the activities of the com-
munity, and in addition to the effective news of the world at
Jarge. Its advertising colunms bring into your home the best of-
ferings of the stores and shops with prices and deseription.

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umns are clean, carefully edited and contain all the NEWS.

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Mining in British Columbia

Among the Canadian Provinces, British Columbia is the lead-
ing producer of Lead, Silver and Zinc.

In this Province about 45% of Canada’s Silver, 97% of the
Lead and 93% of the Zine are produced.

British Columbia has produced approximately $1,300,000,000
worth of minerals.

About 200,000 square miles of unexplored mineral-bearing
ands are open for prospecting.

‘Practically every mineral known to be
found on the continent occurs to some
extent in British Columbia.

"RECENT PUBLICATIONS :-— a

' Annual Report of:the Honourable the Minister
of Mines for the calander year 1931. |: :

- “Lode-Gold Deposits of British Columbta. _
“Placer Mining in British Columbia. ' Moos
“McConnell Creek Placer Area.” | :
Non-metallic Mineral Investigations :.“Barite;”

_” “Asbestos”; "“Glassware,'; “Clay.” .
Lode-Gold Developments in British Columbia
during 1932. oO oye

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seen,

‘The Honourable the Minister
7" o"" Bavliament Buildings,
* | Vietoria,B.C.

Now is a good time to pay

Producing Early
Vegetables

fof interest and economic value, Cer-
tain phases of this work have been
carried out at the Dominion’ Exper.
niental station at Agassiz, success ax
agninst earliness and stand of crop
varying from yenr to year and depend-
Ing to a great extent on the variation.
of climatic conditions such as precipa-
tion and .temperature.” In essentials
the production of mest early craps
Varies but little from bringing the
same crop to maturity at a later datt.
the chief considerations beipg the timc
and the conditions -umder which th
seetl is sown. The temperature condi-
tions of seeding may be divided into 2
general classes, either In the apen or
tnder glass supplied with bottem heat
The advent of the elestriz hoibed has
rnnds avtilabla for the sity. gardener
i very satisfactory a6] easily baudle
type of hotbed in which to force the
young plints, Many kinds of vege-
tuhles will respond to ihe planting op.

erm iy atter-war period of ad-
£  fustment through whtch this
county is going is still short of
completion,” says E, W. Beatty,
IC., in his annual review “but I
\.ould add the positive assertion
iuat, unhappy as the past year
may. have been and as lacking in
re-ussuring factors as the imme-
diate future muy appear, 1932 has
econ definite and constructive
progress towards improvement.
We see on every side the effect
of long drawn-out world trade

is depression — a process of econ-

omic deflation — grinding slowly
forward and ‘leaving behind it o
wake of human wnhappiness and
even ruin in directions where it
seemed least likely to bo possible.
Having no clear vision of a defin-
ite end to our troubles, we are
tempted to despair or to look for
remedies to those who preach
short. cuts to economic security
that are as unsound and as surely
disastrous as were the extrava-
gant and wasteful methods of con-
ducting national, corporate and
individual business which brought
about present conditions and we
are. likely .to overlook evidences
of progress which justify the be-
lief that this transitionary period
is taking its “well ordered way
towards better times,

A year ago I suggested that the
movement towards economic read-
justment would go further, per-
haps even into public and govern-
mental institutions. I am con-
vinced that failure to' boldly meet
and satisfactorily deal with this
matter may easliy mean national
Insolvency and will certainly re-
tard any possible return to a rea-
sonably full measure of prosper-
ity. ‘Nothing that the troubles of
the past year have brought into
public recognition is so outstand-
ing as is the need for curtailing
public expenditure and co-ordin-
ating and re-organizing public
activities so that they may be
placed upon a basis such os this
country of ten million people can
well afford, Courageous effort
has accomplished real progress
along this line but much remains
to be done before our national
affairs ara on a sound economic
basls.. The nation’s annual inter-
est bill is mounting steadily and
has done so for many years, a
statement that is equally true of
Dominion, provincial and munici-
pal affairs. It is the corporate
and individual taxpayer who has
to pay these, and since the Cana-
dian Pacific Railway pays yearly.
the country's largest tax Dill I

. may bo allowed to Jay particular
stress upon this point which I
consider calls for earnest study at
the present time. . Lo

The: railway situatlon retains
place as Canada’s most impera-
tive domestic problem. A year
ago we hoped that ith early solu-
tion was. foreshadowed. by~ the

appointment of a competent tri-

bunal to probe into its. causes and
complexities and to. present: an
efficactous solution,
then 8foresee that the proposed

solution would be based upon
what the Commission thought the

"Production of early vegetables it.
{@ardening is always  considerath:

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Watch Repairing and

To

R. W. Cameron

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seed in the open thiring wy fine spell
in late Mareh or April, Where suc.
procedure is followed the most: satis-

open solis which do not have ad marked
tendency to bake or became pneked.:
The -kinds pf vegetables that lave
proved the most satisfactory for th,
kind of work are cabbage. carrots, ra-
dish, lettnee. spinach, beet. peas. &
flower and turnip sid ‘early varictios
of sprouted. potatoes planted about tht

Jewellery Requirements |'

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- Prince Rupert |

Thanks

factory results results are obtained on [

Build Up B.C.

Mr.Davis):

Mr. Edgar Davis has read about
Pacific MHk for many years, bat
says, not being a cook, be does not
tse it, However he was so inn.
pressed by. the fret that we send
it to Seattle he could not refras,
from, offering: congratulations.

Pacific Mik §

end of April.
superhitendent | of
Pari, Agassiz wll bring more detail
ed information,

BEATTY FORES

We did not.

the

people of Canada would be willing
to accept rather than upon the
stern necessities of the case. Nor
was it then apparent that condi-
tions that had brought about the
immediate need for effective relief
for @ situation that threatened
national bankruptcy would be-
come still more aggravated as
business offering for the railroads
continued to show drastic and un-
precedented declines. That is
what has happened. The decrease

Bhi

Mr. E. W. Beatty
Chairman and President
Canadian Pacific Ry,

in freight car loadings which
began, in 1930 has continued
almost uninterruptedly. In 1931
up to the end of the first week of
December, 658,359 less freight
cars had been loaded on all Cana-
dian Railways than for the same
period of the previous year. Dur-
ing the same period this year
376,016 less cars were loaded than
in 1931. The decline in passenger
business has been relatively the
same, The resultant effect upon
rallway earnings has been natu-
rally disastrous, Tor the first ten
months of 1931 Canadian, Pacific
Bross revenue declined 22,1. per
cent as compared with that of
1930. For the first ten months of
this year now closing there was a
further decline of 154 per cent,
The decline continues, and there
certainly eppeara to be no evid-
ence In sight that for many years
we shall see them entirely .ellm-
inated..and our earnings back
where they were in 1928.4 It is
true that the rallways have offect-
ed drastic economics. As com-
Dared with 1931 Canadian Pacific
operating costs for the first’ ten
mouths of 1932 were 15.3 per cent
lower, and we expect that we shall
meke a still better showing In
this regard throughout the com-
ing year, : Somes

Hayling the best hope in the
world, I -hesitate to prophesy any
sreat incroase in grosa earnings,
but tt is my deeply considered
conviction that Vif: the railways
over the next ten or fifteen years
are to live anywhere within their
tneome, economies will have to go

Letters addressed to the
Mxperimental

EES BUSINESS UPTURN

' C.P.R. President Points to Many Helpful Factors.
Eut Says Further Adjustment Necessary
to Completa Re-establishment.

“100% B. C. owned and controlled
Plant at Abbotsford,”

very much’ further. indeed than
has yet been considered by a great
number of our people who, it is
only fair ‘to state, have not had
eyén a fair opportunity of inform-
ing themselyes upon the situation,
For years we have been impelled
towards large capital expenditu-
res, while at the same time com-
petitive transportation agencies,
railways, highways. and canals
have been built up and maintained
cut of public funds..Keeping these-
facts in view and haying in mind
the probable course of economic
events over the mext-few years,
the urgency of the need for fun- ©
damental change in our railway
policy should be clearly appareni,
{ think that in the wider fleld of
world economics we have witness-
ed important developments lead-
ing towards trade stabilization and
encouragement. The improve-
ments in the situation with regard
to international war debts and the
hope contained in. tha coming .
World Trade Conference can cer-
tainly be regarded on the brighter
side of the ledger, while the first
results from the Imperial Trade
Conference at Ottawa in the way
of improved intra-Empire trade,
provide honest ground for quiet
congratulation, r

EI am still as great an optimist
as ever on the subject of Can-.
ada’s ultimate future: The inhe-
rent soundness of our country
strengthens. me. in this opinion,
I do not think that our business
Tecovery will come with a rush,
since the temptation to forget the
economic lessons we have learned
would be too strong. For one
thing, I do not hesitate to say that
if within three years we found
ourselves again in such a period
of economic inflation as we ex-_
Perienced about 1928, and if wa
had not then definitely settled the
railway problem on sound and
permanent economic lines we
would again be swept off our feet
by the flood .of competition and
competitive extravagances. This,
t think applies with equal force
to all forms of business.

Referring a year ago to the
Royal Commission on raitways, I
urged that the people of Canada
should meet its suggested solu- ;
tions for our problem with‘ earn-~“*
est consideration .of their econ-
omic values unbiased by political
color or preconceived prejudices.
The question is now more: than
ever 2 maiter of urgent public dis-
cussion and will: centinue.so- for
many months. It cannot gatis-
factorily be dealt with in a way
to save the country. from. disaster
unlegs It 'be ‘considered .ag.* an
economic question and settled in
accordance with the economic
truth that transpoMation agencies
are no different from any othor
form .of industrial institution in .
that they must be both allowed <
and required. to pay thelr way.
Any ‘other attempted golution of
the difficulty would abe inoffec- .
tual, and it is the ‘inescapable
obligation of the people of Canada
to apply this test to whatever
Proposals for settlemant ‘of ‘thi:
problam ‘may come forward, ‘

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