> peaple, Vol, 26 | — _NEW HAZELTON, B ‘BC. WEDNESDAY, SANUARY 4, 1988 : No. Teachers’ Salaries Fixed Rural Districts Get More Help From Government, Victoria, Dec, 27-—~British Columbia school districts will receive approxi- mately $1,925,000 fram the government next year, based on teachers salaries. a reduction of $450,000 from the totaT nf $2,400,000 advanced in respect of'}- higher salaries in the pust. The ap- proximate amount ‘city and district municipalities will get was set fortb this week by Hon, Joshua Hinchliffe. after cabinet approval, of an entirely new basis for these grants, which also settles the teachers salaries issne, in- sofar as it is of any concern to- the gor ernment, . Rural and poorer (listrict munieipal- ities will receive Incrensed provincial ussistance, but well off municipalities and larger cities will fet’ Tess. Van- cover will get $240,000,but that city hns reduced its snlaries. by $131,000. The new plan which. will require leg: islation for the reclassification of cen- tres for the purposes of the grants, will come into effect by proclamation : in the cities on April 1, and in the ru- ral arenas on July 1, before annual dis- trict meetings of local sehool ‘authori- ties, Three standard salary sched- ules are set, solely for the purpose of estimating government nassistince, the ineasure of such assistance depending largely on the taxable property per tencher area, The elementary stand- ard salary is. $780; the Junior igh fs £1,100; and the high: school ‘standard is $1,200, Neither minimum nor max. imum séales :are” * Provided; aud” each urea must séttle this question for it- self. “Male and female teachers are all treated alike. On top of the government zZrant one mill wilk pay the balance of the “stan- dard” solary for elementary teachers in yural-and district municipal areas; and one mill and a quarter In city ele- mentary schools, “One mill over the grant will pay junior high school stan- dard salaries, affecting only seven of the centres, One and 2 quarter mil) will pay high schol standard: salaries in all areas, added to the erant, The grants are so arranged that er- ery urea need contribute only one and and a quarter mills to bring the gov: ernment grant’ up to the standard sal- ary for high school teachers. Elemen- tury teachers salaries will trke one and a quarter mills in‘ the: ¢ities, but only one mill in district or rural mnani- clpalities. Tow much is paid in- any centre over -the “standard” schedule. will be a matier solely for that centre und its-rate payers ‘to decide. : In other words the Sovernment grant will call. for precisely the same mil rate from comparable areas to make up the standard silaries in each type of school. ‘The chief change comes ir the resultant distrilmtion of provincia! funds on this basis, thus cutting sharp- ly, from richer centres, und added to poorer ones. Of total grants of $1,- 925,000 in 1933-34 the government will advance $798,143 to cities, and $381,- 003 to district. munieipalities, and $764,749 to rural arens, Rural elementary schools ave te be freded in areas with less than $20,000 per teacher, to nore than $520,000 per ‘tencher, in $20,000 steps: . the high school classificntion being the sine &s for cities. Rural school districts come under amount set apart as the total grant in these areas is $764,749, In- ‘paying $2,400,000, the estimated cost for the grants this year, the government con- tributed to school areas on the salaries as paid st a higher level in 1930 and 1081, ‘The reduction to $1,025,000 is therefore purtiy offset br lower salary costs, MORE ABOUT YOUTH By 1 Jorothy Dix Whit's the matter with the younger senerition is uot sé much tack of mor- als os Jack of taste, At leust Chat is the thing lint shocks | us okisters most and aver which we have oftenest held ‘wp one hands in horror and-denmid to know whnt this uve is coming to. It isn't that what the liuys yond girls doa is realhy wrong, It i+ Just thet if ts in stel oxeerably bad’ Giste, we eat forgive their outraging cur serge of heanty and tending, down ald: trampling nader foot the tllwsom dnd Yexerves, w ith which we lave -nt WHR cloaked! a0: mich of the nglines: af life, It is. of course; all, “pight to vall¢ spade we spadd,” but w hv drag SINMTOS Lap to ‘the pilot, uN rit Potnger gener tlon do. ‘and make them the topie af ‘couversation in mixed company ? Perhaps nothing about -the younger ‘ veneration gets on the nerves of the Selder as its liek of MAneL, Generally speaking. politeness his hecome at lont art with the. boys and girls. of today und with rare exceptions, they io not tke the trouble to be civil to-colder - Hostesses complain that thet young guests da not ervey hother te signify whether they accept or refuse un invitation, so they never-know how many are comlug ta a party, and afte: the guests do arrive they think nothing ‘of deprrting nlmost fia hody 1f some- -ane stggests that there: Ix it. AIveller affaly going on somewhere else, Th fact, rudeness may be sald to he a. the fashion and brutality of. speech and ‘Taek. of. consideration for feelings of others Ix considered smart, Which may faa bongaway toward explaining’ why, A. sO Inany young people find Hfe harc sledding, for the world is: still run a2 soft soup instead of rocks, and zood ; Miners open doors thtt are shut te } boorishness, But the thing that. really shocks us oldsters move then anything else is the atitude the Modern young man tikes to sivis, To ‘nll outward seeming chiv- alvy is “dead. Girls make the dates They give the parties. They do the tet- ephoning, They write the letters, and men condescendliely aecept their atten. tions, When they design to take a gir] out they drive up. te her house aml honk the horn yntil she comes out and elinibs, wnassisted, into the var. Woman has become the pursuer ane “hein the porsued, and this is not only bad taste, but bad psychology on the “wommu’s part. And it is this bad taste that we oldsters deplore, oy HAD VERY FINE DANCE ee The New Yeurs dance given by tho Citizens Associntion of New Hazelton in the community hall last Friday ey. ening was one of the big snecesses off the season. The attendance was mreb larger than anticipated, and the dance went with a swhig from the heginning. Music wis provided by Miss Lois An- derson and Miss Vivian Chappell, ang it wns the best that the local: people lurve danced ‘to, fora long time, It was quite late when the affaly broke up, but everyone had a gond time. Wn. Gow, agent. for. the NR, at South Hazelton ia this week laid- up with the fin. A relief man arrived at South Magelton Monday night, ° ‘supervision of the: Prov fee, “and ‘the Cc. NR R. Change Time Table on | | January 8th “Vancouver, Jan. 3—Htfective Fann ary 8, important train service changes Natioual Itailways, on the north line oi the system between Sasper and Prince Rupert. Train No. 195 operating westhounc Will leave Red Pass at 3.10 than, dn stead of 11 nam. on Mondays, . Wednes days and Fridays, arriving -at Smith. ers ut 1145 .a.n. instead: of 840 am on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturday At New Huzelton the train. will ae rive at 2.01 p.m. instead of 11 14, ‘nes : ‘days,. Thursdays and Saturdiys. The arrival at Prince Rupert will he 10.15 p.m. instead of 9.00 p.m, on Tues: flays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Eastbound train No, 196 will envi Prince Rupert at 0.30 p.m, instead o. 9.300 a.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and will be arriving at New Hazelton at 6.58 um, on Tes. ilays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and arriving at Smithers at 8.10 a.m, oD Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays instead of 8.10 p.m. Mondays, Weines- days aud Fridays, Trains Nos. 195 nnd 196 will operate through’ to Jasper where direct con nections will be made with the Tran: continental trains Nos. 1 and 2. These chpsges will go into effect an Sunday, J Tate ary, 8th, and will remain until further’, notice. Through slbeping ear service will be operated betsreen: Edmonton. nnd Ru. pert. Mus, T. Bi Campbell bas left Havel- ton to join her husband at Wainwright Alta., wherel Mr, Campbell is working for the CG. N. R. Mrs, Camphell has hones of ret ening in the spring. There was a hockey play ont in Taz elton last week end. Some of the boys from.New Hazelton went over to the old town, and with the boys there and the Hazelton Indinns made up a couple of tenms, Ail the school teachers who spent Christinas in Hazelton have gone boct to thetr schools, and the local teachers Who spent the holidays elsewhere arc back on the job again. KELLOG’S REMEMBER THE PRESS Manufacturers. of Breukfast Foods . Sent ont Large Samples of Their Goods—Are Mueh Appre- ciated Duarlug the Christmas season The Omineen Herald recelved from Kel- logg’s Company of Canada, Litd., whose factory is°in’ London, Ont. 2 liberal sanple of ull the food products of that company. The box contained = corn fakes, rice krisples, al bran, pep, and bran flikes, besides a can of their own special braud of coffee, These goods come ns n Cheistmas remembranee and We unsure “Kelloggs Co. that they. are, gvently apprecintedss There is. no food for. breakfast for ebildven. or adults any better than Kelloggs, and to that compuny the Omineca Herald extend: Its: thanks, and hest wishes for 2 pros. perous New Year, The Kellagg Com- puny was one of the few firms that kept fn force running throughout the year and in addition built a large addition - to their factory in Conadn. The firm. states that the main. reason their high grrde goods are so extenst- vely used in’ every nook and - cor- ner in Canada, us well as in the larger centres: Is because of the big advertis- ing: eampalgn carried: on through. ‘the weekly’ ‘press of Canada. - The -weekly press is the best advertising mediam for either local merchants or for’ “the manufacturer, will be put into effect by the Canadian | At the Hazelton Hospits 7 the pitieits enjoyed Christmas and New Year fes- tivities. including turkey dinners, cay, things, singing. a Christmas Tree and othe. George Graham Terrace, Died Prince Rupert The passing of George Graham wil} ferve a gap in our community life that will, be hard to fill, For a consider. able length of time he has lived in this community, at one time in Dorrecn und later at Terrace as nssistant forest ranger. He was well known and just as well liked along the line by all who came in contuct with him, iid took his duties seriously and worked’ with- paub stint when. forest. fires. Huredtoned the countryside. He was pron; inent in sports, always taking a keen :inter- est in baseball and other games, For & number of years he has been 1 mem- ber of the Terrace baseball team. Te is survived by his wife and two child. ren, and also by sisters and brother: who are living in Mexico. ; George Grulam passed away in the Prince Rupert hospital where he bad been 2 patient for a short ‘ine: Mrs, Graham was called to Rupert last week jand was with him at the end. CONTROL OF FEEDING STUFFS Prior to the time of their control, and partienlarly during und immedinte- ‘lly following the Great War, ‘there: wis uostrong incentivé to incorporate inte mixed feeds and tutu such. conmoanty used nnd highly valued feeds as wheat shorts and middlings;'substential quan: tities of velatively inferior materials such. as grain screenings nnd: out hulls without declaring the presence of these inferlor ingredients. Ehrough cumpetition for markets these practices becatne fairly general-and went from bad to worse until the use not only of inferior adulterants but also of unpil- atuble and deleterious materials, such aa inustard laden screenings, brought profests trom individual and organized feeders, With over 500 flour and grist ns throughout Cannda, producing a hilt million tons of bran, shorts and malddlings}-it was a ‘common complaint thut these millfeeds could rarely he obtained in pure and unadulterated form, In 1920 the Feeding Stuffs Act, ad- ministered by the Dominion Seed Branch, was passed. Its essential pro- visions required that wheat millfeeds he free from ndulterants and standar- dized as to quality; that commerctal mixed feeds be guaranteed as to chem- ical composttion and ingredlents, and that all feeds be free from deleteriour weed ‘seeds sand amateriala: that. would render them unpalatable or harmful to livestock or. poultry. With: ‘this. new control measure came marked improve- ment in the general situation, and. there |- has been: little cause for complaint: in’ | vecott years against the quality. and: | ey vurity of inillfeeds. . Through un improved know ledge of feeds nd feeding, _ Hyestock, poultrs feeds began to demand ‘quality feeds With injurions materials © prohibirec ‘nd the nse of low quality ingredients exposed through the application of the ~ hiw, the progressive manufacturer wa. able to respond to their demand. witb- out the former bugbear: of. unser:ym- lous competition. Many of them ent- ployed trained men and freely consult. ed experimental institutions in order ti: formulate their feedst on a sclentific basis. This development hes been pro gressive since the Act came into force Another recent and desirable develo. ‘ment. has..been.: -the. commercial produc. tion. of protein and mineral supple- ments designed ta supplement and bal tince home. grown grains. BRITAIN'S WESPON a The writer has come into possessin: of a communication prepared aver twe: months ago by one of Britnin'’s fore- most firms, long-established, conserva tire, capably managed. These extracts shewid interest Washington and every American taxpayer: treit Britain is now in possession of a Very powerful weapon whieh she kL not hold at this time last year We refer to the sterling dollar rate. “Tf America is going to say. ‘Pleas continue your war debt payment, Bri tain will answer, ‘Certainly, but tt: pound will be brought down to $2.50), “This nitter of the sterling: rate t absolutely vital to. America. Already. as a result of sterling at $3.50, we fine that America’s export trade has shrnuk te the smallest fraction of its breviow total, : “The sterting, rate of $3.50 has thn: Wrought great “havoe to the exyu trade of America. The cost of living in Great Britain, owing to the immensi size of the sterling area, which is in. deed virtually self-supporting, bas not Advanced 2 point since September last : it is indeed a striking fact that labor wage reductions are continuing to ocent frequentiy. “Consequently the full binst of an ad ditional drop. to $2.50 would be felt hy Amerlea, and this known to her, “We foresee that she will offer ti cancel war Mebts, perhaps entirely, 11: return for a stabilization of sterling nt, say, $4.00."—B, Cc. Forbes, . Wrinch recelyed a call to the sek. at Beament on Monday night ans he found the going not too good, Al- though the snow blow had. been over the road once, it had: been followed by considerable wind and-more snow, The doctor made the trip successfully, how- .. ever, » but it was not a joy” ride, * ct” after ‘spending ‘the. “holidays ennsts a the: Miss - Burns. returned: ‘Monday lent: 7 a 7