-(L0.D, parcels were stolen,

_« ¢RORRIDGE, OF, PIONEERS —

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‘ THE OMINECA HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY

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ered

Parcels Misse

On Sunday night, April 20 the post

Office Ent )

BM ulfice at Maxelton was broken into by
m when a young
fcutcance from the lobby to the’ in-

Tntlian boy gained
side through a drawer that some one
til darelessly left unlocked. Three
The theft

wus nof notived until a few duys after

‘when people began to nll for their

atl, Qne parcel contained a watch
und the other two were of not much
material value except to the person to
whom they were addressed. The mat
tor was reported to the police on Thurs
day nud on Friday Cons. Grant hed a
young Indian boy in the lockup and
laid recovered the watch which the
hoy had hidden under one of the stores
The other two pareels the boy said he
threw into the Skedna river as they
were no good to him. The youngster
was taken before W. J. Sanders, J.P.
aud. veinanded far trialk Tt may be
the boy will be taken before a juvenile

~ vourt, depending on the decision of the

attorney general. The offence is i
very serions one and were it an adult
who had cominitted it, a very long
sontruce would be attached upon con-
yietion. In this case it may be 9 term
in the reform school,

The sume boy is supposed to have
entered Dr. Hy C. Wrinch’s office: at
his house ond taken a number of ol
coins. What action will be taken dle-
pends on the Doetor when he yeturns
home Thursday. morning.

‘The Dominion Minister of Agricultur
Describes the. Most. Useful Var-
fety of Hull less Oats |

‘

The wide spread interest in hull-less
nats found an echo in the House of
Commons the other day when Hon,
Robt. Welr, by request gave some in-
teresting information on the. subject.
Work lins been carried on for a num-

ver of yenra in different countries,
including the United Kingdom, the
Tnited Stutes aud particularly Canada
in the development of buli-ess oats,
snid the minister, The difficulty has
eon to get a strong enough straw and
in getting an oat that would give a
suffidently high yield. It is believed
wow that these difficulties have been

well: met by the Laurel variety
uf bull-less opt; tt makes better feed
for horses. und. catte, Sined “it” isa
hullJess ant if makes better feed, es
pecially for eaves and hogs than oats
cnened in live stock farming wil
having fhe hulls on, and those who are
vedlize fhe wastage in feeding oats
will hulls without crushing them, That
4s ane of the ehief advantages of hull-
ext outs ns green feed,

Horses are particularly fond of this
Imil-less ont, and our experience has
hoen that they do better on it than on
other forms ef green feed we have
used, ‘Phe Field is not quite as high as
in the ense of sue: onts 18 Gopher,

‘Banner, und Victory, yet it is quite a

high yleld; with a normal crop it runs
fifty, sixty or perhaps seventy bushels

per aerve, nid a meausnred bushel of 0

" wood sample of hull-less ‘oats: should

welgh in the neighborhood of fifty lbs.
he Lnrel is an
variety and, contrary to what one
would @xpect, the onts cling to the
atraw when. it is quite ripe. One of
the greatest advantnges of the inli-leas
aut is that it bas heen used for scene
time by ‘homestenders. It is well
adopted to the making of porridge by
sonlcing withont even hnving it ground
It is grown by hhomesteaders, pioneers
in outlying districts, because of that
quility also, for the reason it hag no
nulla, it ia very anttable for feeding
young pigs
ee
Dr. Wrineh will be home.
atter a trip to Vanconver.

tomorrow
Ne is ac-

-epnypinled: by Mra. Wrinch.

Rev. R: Connell

early maturing}

Welcomed: by a
Big. Audience

Rev, R: Connell, leader of the .C.C.F.
aud the opposition. in the legislatere,
accomplnied by 4.) Bakewell,. MLA,
of Ocean Fills, spent ¢rém. Monday at-
terneon until Wednesday. evening. in
the district, As it was the only break
the speikers expected. to. get, their
schedule covering forty-five meetings
ju forty days ever n 2500 mile trip,
the visitors took full advantage of the
Hime on their hands and made most of
the fine spring weather they found
here. Qn ‘Tuesday afternoon EH. T.
Keaney, M.I.A. for Skeena. took the
visitors to Lakelse Like and up to the
hot springs. ‘The Lender of the Oppo-
sition, who isn liaturalist and botanist
of international standing, was greatly
interested in the plant life to be found
in the hot waters flowing from the
springs and collected further samples
for further investigatipn.

‘On Tuesdity evening Mr. Connel and
Mr. Rukewell addvessed a large gath-
ering of citizens ‘that filled the 1.0.0.
F. nll Y. J. Kirkpatrick president
of the loal CG. GC. Fy Club, presided.
IE. Bakewell, who spoke first, dealt
with the timber industry, and speak-
ing from his personnt knowledge gain-
ed during the Inst ten yeurs as chemist:
at Ocean Falls paper mills, advocated
the selective’: logging system, under
which system better wages coud - be
noid. the jen anid the government
wenld be money in pocket on the oper
ution. He based his arguments on an
extensive. experiment in the State of

| Washington,
4 ORS eM Conhell whese maurer- 16,

a very pleasing one, and who showed
himself a master, of platform work,
and the use of words, gave a very able
address, He snid the chief problems
of present day governments. were with
the science of economics. Members of
all parties recognized this. The idea
of a Co-operative Commonwealth was
not a new idea. It was at least eighty
years old, and the plan had been thor:
oughly studied and worked out. The
wreat trouble with the present system
was that wages and salaries paid will

fore goods ‘necuinulate and factories
close down, still further pling up of
surplus products,

The growth of fascism was an gd-
mixsion thet capitalism would not sue-
veed under free democratic govetn-
ment. Dictatorships were being intro!
duce to. give enpitatism a, slightly ex-
tended lense of Hfe, and this would he
effected by the further enslavement
of the masses. The C. C. BF. plan
wanted the best from everyone accor-
ding to his ability and in return would
five to everyone the things required
necording to his need, ‘To do this a
national bunking system was necessary
und it was also necessary that the
basic industries be nationalized. Ther .
is nothing in the plan providing for
the nationalization of homes and per-
sonal property. All the C. ©. F. pro-
pose to do will be done by constitution
ul mensures, When a mandate wus
given by the people. ; .

At the Jast election the Liberals had
onll y40 per cent of the tota Innmber
of votes cust. The Liberals had 160,-
000 and the C, C ©, had 189,000. «The
Cc. CG. F. does not interfere with rell-
glon. If deals with. economics... Un-
der the 0. G. F. the farmer would be
assured of the tenure of: the Jand he
is using, and would have the power
to transfer.it. The only objection the
Go. Cc, F. had to private. property wns
when that property was used: fo ex-
ploit other men, Oe,

He claimed the: C..0, F. was.the on«
Canada, as” tho-

ly patrhotie. group. in

aystem and challenged any of fem

to disprove that: cnpitalism’ is. @,con-

tradiction of Christian ethies. _Show-
ing whnt capitalism will do“to fndlyid
unal he told of the eyil.effects of child

labor, slnvery In thé’ Congo and else-

not buy back goods produced ; there- |

other parties supported,the:«npitalistic |

New Butcher

: Shop Opened —
_-Hudson’s-Bay

. . ghols: :

to celebrate their 264th birthday’
mid to ‘round out a complete service
to the people of the Hazelton District
the. Tindson's Bay Co, have opened “i
bntcher shop, the most, moderna and
sanitury shop in Northern British Col-
Tubin. In the construetion of — this
shop the chief feature was sanitation.
and the presentation of all kinds of
meats, butter and eggs to the public
in the most perfect condition. possible

The new. butcher shop adjoins the
hitin store at the side and its equip-
ment cousists of a scientifically mod-
ern storage room, a ment display case.
of specink construction assuring ¢gom-
plete refrigeration and display, suto-
mittic scales, ment slicer mincing
machine, and sausage machine, and 1
separate refrigerator for butter anil
CEES. - 7

The building aud meat storage were
put up hy Gordon, Williamson necord-
ing to plans provided. ‘The hest of
material was used throughout and the
interior is all white and washable.
with stained trimmings. The meat
storuge compirtment is of food: size,
and so’ built that it has a continuous
civenlation of air, The new meat éle-
partment is in charge of Geo. Morrison
a fully qualified butcher from one of
the Company's city stores,

FAMILY DAY SERVICES

The CG, G, LT. of New| Hazelton
took the serviee in the church on Snn-
day evening and. they did exceptionally
‘well, The, repular, programy, rovided
by the. Church School ~for Mothers’
Yay ov. Family Day, was ‘used, and
Ella Richmond ‘acted as leader and
was assisted by Evelyn Casa who an-
‘nounced the hymns. Other “members
of the group made up a choir to lead
the singing. Rey. Mr. Redman gave
a very interesting talk, especially to
the parents, pointing out the part they
are supposed to play in making home
life- more attractive, and in assisting
the work of the chureh and of the
schools, so

c. C, F, LEADERS WERE HERE

There wis a very large gathering in
Hodder's hal li nHazelton last Thurs-
day night to hea rRey, R. Connell, the
lender of the opposition in Vietoria and
head of the C. C.F. in British Colum-
hia’ wind “Mv.” Bakewell “M.A... from
Ocean Falls.s A good iIntny went over
from, New Hazelton and others from
the distiret surrounding were also
present. This was the first trpi either
zentleman ever made to the north and
they found much to interest them in
mare ways..than just political Rev.
Mr. Connell was keenly interested in
the wild flowers which grwo 60 pro-
fusely in these part.s Natural history
is his hobby and he is widely known
ns an authority on such matters, es-
pecinily sea weeds, On Friday the
visitors went out to Kispiox and held
a meeting and then proceeded to Smith.
ers aml est.

The rivers have ail dropped to a
*ysonable leyel qnd transportation is
open an all the ronds.

where, antl the extensive. slums.to be
found. in all, industrinvized areas,
“The aneeting concluded by singing
the National Anthem, —

‘On ‘Wednesday evening tle 6. 0. F

| party’ atet ;the ‘members ‘of the Ter-

race Club and wert. into the matter of
further organization, ete. _
. On Friday. evening the ‘Tetrace C.

C.F, Club put on a successful concert

and dance in the I. 0, 0. F. hall. . The
building was crowded to capacity and
ail present expressed themselves as

well peased with the evening:

|Fartners‘Talk

_| hon,

3 Iq The House
» On Marketing

¥.

(The proirie furniers who ave men-
ters af ihe Hause of Comiions, do not
aways practice brotherly love as one
nbeht. expect. The folowing is taken
feo Hansard i— + .

Mr. Young—Ilear the new nli& of
the Tory party. : .

Mr. Luechkoviech—The great defen-
ders of Jiherty in this country (he was
refersing to the Liberal party} were
the ones who lost this trade to ts.
(meaning, the trade with the United
States) Yet they keep oon erying.
“Why don't you negotiate ?’—comple-
tely forgetting what a sad lot of nezo-
tlaters they turned out to be when
they were in power. Lf neeotiantion ir
the eviterion by which the Liberals are
to he measured, how would they ex-
phen the enactment of the Fordney
MeCaupher tariff tn 1922 which killed
eur enttle trade?) Phey dil not do
mreh by negetiatipn there. What ex-
ense have they for the Smeot Hawley
tovifft of 19297 That certainly did not
do us much good. In view of these
facts [ should think they would be the
last ta mention negotiartion.

T should like also to refer to the
‘brick for brick’ tariff. policy that wus
cousidered’ so great ‘a virtue. in the
time of the Dunning budget, but so

‘| terribie a ‘thing under the the Rt, Hon.

Arthur Meighen; bnt I do not wish to
tub it in too much, I think I do Mr.
Dunning an injustice by not enumer-
ating some of the great benefits that
neerued to Canada when the Liberals
in- 1930 prt hay, straw, onts, wheat
‘dnd cut flowers ‘on the2free*Hst-of im-
ports. Of course Canada has not
enough of these things, but must bring
them in from foreign countries!
only right to give the credit for so pro-
found a diseovery to the Liberal statis-
tielans of the day. It was when the
farmers of this country began to see
the rediculous. futility of snch a free
list that the party had to look into
their bag of tricks for same other
scheme to fool the public. Their lat-
est device has heen fo make goo-gap
vos at Miss: Liberty and try to win
her over to their way of thinking.
But by their ernde ways and lnek of
goad behavior and. proper — etipnette
they lave estranged her  effections.
1 heard the hon. member for Lisgar
(Mr, Brawn) heave’a couple of sighs
mid saw him cast a few flirtations
winks in her) direction. I) saw the
hon méinber for “Noxth “Battleford
(Mr. Metntosh)} also..throwing - kisses
by the handful, the hon. sember for,
Vancouver Centre. - (Mr. -MeKenzie)
give a long series’ of yoo-hoos, the hon.
member for Werlurn plead on bended
knee. the leader of the opposition
whisper n tot of sweet nothings in her
ear, but generally speaking the am-
orous technique of the Liberal would-
he Romens made no impression what
soever upon her’: for while any < of
these so-called Uherty lovers might be
able to supply the veil the ring, the
treassean. and all the other parapher-
nalia ineldentnl to a wedding, with the
member for Tiisgar hanging
‘vound to tie the knot, I verHy beHeve
that Hgnest Bob Gardiner, could step
right up to the very altar like Lochin-

evar of old and. snatch away the un-

willing -bride from the whole lot of
them. One scan almost imagine Bob
suying:T ernnot-offer you castles in
the alr. like.the leader of the oppost-
tion. or sugar coated Liokum like the
member for Vaneouver Centre, or the
luxuries of free trade like the member
for Weyburn, ov the paradise of good
old TAberalisin like the member for
North Battleford— a,

Mr, Young—Why don’t you sperk
for -yonrself, John?

Mr. Luchkovich—I am not offering
her anything at all because I am not
making love to‘ her like. you fellows
dld—Bob Gardiier ‘saying ‘All I-can
give yon is true love and nn honest

_ [nverngé living,” and Miss Liberty say-

a

Big Family on

It is:

Long Hike to
: Reach Terrace

It hes Leen known for families .to
do’ sone kicking when they have to
meve house, even if it is only a short
hop.. But Sid Fraser and his family
seem quite cheerful after a move of
seveity miles over the ‘trail front
Aiyaush, There are nine in the Pri-
ser family, seven childreh and the two
Jarents,’ the oldest child being nine
years:anud the youngest 14 months.

The Fraser family left Alyansh. ws-
ing a jumper, but before they got very
fur the load of a hundred and fifty
pounds of supplies and belongings hal
tu he transferred to pack = sniddiles.
From then on troubles began to de-
velop and the horse played out con
pletely nt 13 mile. The animal had to
be shot and the load relayed by back
picking the rest of the way. A stop
wis inde at the north end of Tavi
Tatke. three days being taken in wait-
iug for the owner of a boat to arrive
and ferry the party across the Iake,
along swith thelr effects. Another dat
was lostlat Cedar River. ‘The bridge
went out last fall during the high

veross on a log Jam. This was acconi-
plished without loss of goods or lives
and the bulance of the trip to Ross-
wood was without further difficulty.
just a lot of hard work and tough
trumping. Kalum Lake was crossed
in 2 gus boat, and from there in te
their “Valley of the Moon” was.made
by truck. , - me,

Sid seemed quite happy the other
day, “Tt wasn’t too bad.” he said.
“Tee: kids bad. it the bardest, but ye ...
made it.” pe ee

That “making. it” means volumes

The family is now housed near the
Kitsumgallom School. As soon as
Mr. Fraser gets it fixed: up he wil be
reidy to go to work, hoping'to get on
at the Columario mine: —

eo Spooner, Tom and Arthur Wil-
lan are preparing (o go to the Cariboo
the latter part of."May. They will zo
down in Leo's trick.

ing: ‘1 understand, Boby, darling. but
that is more than I expect from those
fellows over there;

‘Naw all that this bill purports to do
is to facilitate inarketing, and in my
apinion it ‘tn ne way infringes upon
the liberties of the individual; rather
it xims at the lightening of the burden
npen the producers of this country in
consequenee, of abnormal marketing
conditions, Why, therefore, should we
theorize and elaborate oon abstract.
problems of Jiberty? Why should we
Warp facts to fit them into preconetiy-
ed ideas of freedom? . This. marketing
problem ts an actual condition in Can-
nda nud it must be met by direct ac-
tion and net bhy long quotations abont
liberty from men the worms have eat-
on a hundred or'a thousand years now
To defeat this bill, it seems to me the
Liberals: must even. resurrect the dead
instend of allowing. them to lie in
peace—or pleces. ne one hon. member
behind me suggests,

Once again we have this weird ghost
of constituttonalism taken out of its
musty and mouldy’ casket in the dark
and damp parliamentary dungeon
from amongst the cobwebs, worms,
lizards and other crawling creatures
existent. down there; and once again
we have this fleshless and | khoulish
skeleton trotted owt on the floor to
haunt hon. members and destroy their
piece of mind. Once again we have
this soulless, ficshless, meaningless alll
bug bear flaunted by the leader of the
opposition to scare the wits out of the
spinsters and bachelors and sisters and
brothers and fathers and mothers nud
hadtising and” aunts. and uncles nnd
grandmothers -and: grandads to show
them how devilish nnd damnable ts the -
legislation which, we now. have before
us. - ee .

witer, and the party finaly serambled