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The Saturday Sunset Vol. 11, No. 23 VANCOUVER, B.C., SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1915 Twelve Pages—Price 5 Cents f i t is in England as it always has been in defeated ratepayers to sanction these kylaws therefore strikes f l According to the latest report of the Dominion the part oLthe-eiws-authori ties to the observance of countries. Before admitting defeat, the people try to at practically every wage-earning class for the benefit that despite the recent inter-fix the blame and to oust from office the responsible of men whose claim to a full dinner pail is based on issued with and by the authority of Sir George Foster, national complications between the United States and men." This quotation is from an the support they have accorded Mayor Taylor in the "the price for horses other than for army purposes is Great Britain, the danger of a rift i n those relations Germans in Seattle editorial written by a former citi- last civic campaign. • much lower than last year." Isn't there some mistake was never contemplated. Seek to Injure Us zen of Vancouver for the Seattle "German Press." Whether it was the rotund Dr. Briggs or the lean and hungry Dr. Weiss we cannot tell, but these two jackals of Alvo von Alvensleben are busily engaged in creating trouble at Seattle. Both made a fat living i n Vancouver for many years through their connection with German interests and have no doubt supplied the German Intelligence Office with any information they, may have been able to pick up, but at the present time they are exceedingly bitter against this city. It is a well-known fact that a man usually hates the person to whom he has done an injury, and this may account for some of the bitterness. The man Briggs, or Brix, as he is known i n his own country, victimized the city to a considerable extent when here and knows that he will never be able to come back. He escaped just in time. The opinions expressed by the Seattle "German Press" are not particularly interesting, and we made the above quotation merely to show the venom which actuates these former residents. When we look back upon the days before the war, when any cast-off German or Austrian who chose to give himself a title could come to Vancouver and become immediately one of the elite, we wonder at our own gullibility. Never was there any attempt to look into the antecedents of these shady gentlemen from Europe. They were taken at their own valuation and treated with every mark of respect. For this we must hold many of our leading citizens to blame. Attracted by the idea that our German visitors controlled much capital, they were embraced as long-lost brothers and invited to help themselves. It is an everlasting shame to the community, but the lesson has been learned. We shall never forget a libel action brought by Alvo von Alvensleben against a little German printer named Blochberger, in which we were concerned as a witness for the defence. The fact which weighed most heavily with the jury was that von Alvensleben had brought capital into the country and Blochberger was a person of little or no importance. Blochberger lost. the case solely on these grounds, for with practically no exceptions, the witnesses for von Alvensleben were in his immediate employ or interested with him in various transactions. Vancouver has much to be sorry for. The people have been doubly fooled in the character of the Germans for the simple reason that they did not understand the motives of the German people. Admitting thi3, humiliating as it may be, is i t not time to call a haltf A n agitation has already been started to have a l l alien enemies interned, and although this agitation has not yet borne much fruit, there is hope in the future. It cannot be impressed too strongly upon the people of this city that Germans who have not taken out naturalization papers, and many who have in recent years, are an active menace to the community. They will stop at nothing to gain their own ends and surely we need no further proof of their duplicity and murderous intentions than has been given during the past few weeks. C Last year when the mayor and aldermen assumed office i t was decided to do away with the submission of money bylaws, with one small exception, owing to the financial stringency. This . ' ., Who Pays B i l l year the council by a meagre C T h e submarine game is one which two or more for Dinner Pail? majority, but a majority all the can play. This is not a novel proposition, but i t is same, decided to ask the rate- one whose truth is in danger of being overlooked. The payers to ratify bylaws amounting i n the aggregate performances of the German sub-to nearly three-quarters of a million dollars, and the Two Can Play marines, which have culminated in reason given is that there is a money stringency. It at A n y Game the Lusitania massacre, may have is all the same—scarcity of money, no bylaws; paucity caused many to forget that the Different mayors see through dif- British underwater craft have a record of brilliant ONLY ANOTHER SCRAP OF PAPER" here?" If^our memory serves us aright, two—or was it three—mallard ducks were deemed sufficient for a charger. No matter whether the aforesaid charger was, spavined or not, the price was a few ducks. In face of that we are told that the price has gone up. C There is a paper published in Seattle known as the "Town Crier." Outside the limits of that city f l e ^ g t e s s l S the ratepayers' footthe bills. "When achievements unsullied by atrocity of any kind." Two" 11 a P P e a r s t o b e unknown, but by some means a copy ^l^n^^^^iv^t^^ is7obe put the question comes to be decided in the court of of them have recently been working havoc among the w . . c , haf r e a c h e d Vancouver. This estim- ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ S i m ^ fact t l H - - T.»iri<.h « , n i , n o » . . . j *-„ L_ r_ c Weird Storv ahlft nrean nf nrivntp nninimi haa personal amomon. 11 is an unionunaie l a u w C The question has often been asked why we in Vancouver who have been holding forth on the scarcity of money and particularly on the lack of funds wherewith to relieve local Vancouver Gives distress, have been so generous to the Red Cross when it comes to assisting the Red Cross Society and kindred organizations which have the welfare of the men who are fighting the battles of empire so much at heart. There are some who contend that it is the duty of the government who sent the men to the front to care for them in every way,, but there arc things to which official red tape pays little or no attention and that is just where the Red Cross Society steps in, and that is why the responses to the appeals have been on so generous a scale. The British Government, we rest assured, has not overlooked anything that will tend to maintain the army as the finest fighting force known. Still, there are a hundred and one details that must and do escape attention, and here is where the community individually and collectively is needed. The Red Cross Society is doing a work that only the Red Cross sisters could do and nowhere is this more clearly recognized than in official circles. Funds are absolutely necessary to continue that work in the manner in which it ought to be done. The citizen who remains at home must come to the assistance of his brother who is doing a man's part at the front and in no better way can he do this than by shouldering some financial responsibility, even as the soldier is shouldering his, without a murmur. Vancouver has responded nobly to the appeal. In the face of economic conditions her citizens have put forth a supreme effort in this hour of the empire's trial, and those who have contributed, even in small degree, have the satisfaction of knowing that their money will be expended to bring comforts, medical and physical, to the men who are battling i n the cause of civilization. C The probable formation of a coalition cabinet in Britain is one of the most unexpected turns i n the affairs of the Empire that could have happened, though it is not an unknown con- Coalition Cabinet dition of affairs there. This com- Noteworthy Step bination of bodies having one common object of attainment has been found indispensable before in the Motherland and the position in which the country is now placed certainly seems to be one which demands some extraordinary action along that line. It cannot be expected that the arrangement will be permanent, though the war might be the means of bringing about, i f not a complete abolition of the party system in Britain, some system under which all parties will be represented in the government of the day. As early as 1782 the first coalition ministry was formed when Fox and North found i t convenient to enter into an agreement at a period in the history of the country that meant the sinking of all political differences for the time being. The Whigs and the followers of Sir Robert Peel in .the years 1852-53 similarly relegated all political animosity to the background for the common weal. The last occasion on which a fusion of parties was considered the proper course to adopt was when the then Lord Salisbury invited both Conservatives and Liberal-Unionists into his cabinet: The latter at that time were in the minority, but their services to the Conservative cause in helping to defeat Glad* stone's programme of self-government for Ireland were such that they could not be overlooked. Today Britain needs a fusion of all political creeds. By common consent party politics have been dropped in face of the danger that threatens the country from without. Events have taken place which have ren-before appeal—that is, i n the polling booths—it is just prob- Turkish gunboats and transports in the Sea of Mar- Weird Story able organ of private opinion has that the able that there will be a reply to those members of mora. This exploit involved the passage of the f r o m s e a t « e something to say of Vancouver in the council who consider that this is a fit and proper Dardanelles, for the destroyed Turkish vessels were . Particular and Canada in general, time to carry out their schemes, a time when everyone near Constantinople itself when they were torpedoed. R e c e n t events in this city, are referred to i n a way is systematically following out a policy of retrench- Nor is this raid the only instance of the skill and that indicates the " C r i e r ' s " knowledge of affairs here ment, both in business and in their homes. But the courage that direct the British submarines. In Decern- *° b e somewhat hazy. For instance, we are told that reelected and such a condition cannot full dinner pail promise is one that must be fulfilled ber last a submarine commanded by Lieutenant a f t e r t h e fires o n t h e b n<tee s M a n v members of the a™ „ T . l l£ and in order to fulfill it, i t is indispensable that a Holbrook torpedoed the Turkish battleship Messudieh German colony were thrown into j a i l . " We cannot certain section of the community put their hands in the Dardanelles. The Messudieh was of 10,000 remember that any person was arrested in connection deeply into their purses and produce the wherewithal tons displacement and probably as efficient as vessels w i t h t h e s e outbreaks, though this Seattle production to carry out the fulfilling process. There is a time in of the sultan's navy ever become. The dashing British m a v h a v e s o u r c e s o f information unknown to the which to do everything, and looking at the matter commander was decorated and promoted " t o encour- v a n c o u v e r papers. Further on there is the statement from a standpoint that cannot be called interested, age the others," who to their credit be i t said have t h a t " n i o D violence" was the order of the day, and latter element has entered into the present conflict, but it is equally fortunate that it applies to.j;not more than two members of the present British, cabinet. It is, however, recognized that where personal ambition is thrown into the scale, the interests of the country be thought of for a moment at the present juncture. Premier Asquith has taken the only course open to him at a time when the country requires the strongest men i t can command in the counsels of the nation. C While no one will deny that Vancouver is one of we wonder i f this is the proper time to ask the rate- failed less from lack of skill than from lack of oppor- between the lines there is the suggestion that for any the most beautiful places in Canada, thanks to Nature payers to pay up and look pleasant, for i n effect that tunity to equal his achievement. German to poke his head out of his domicile was is what it amounts to. A t the present juncture it's It must be borne i n mind that Great Britain offers tantamount to inviting a bullet. But the cream of this a case of heads I win, tails you lose. a far more conspicuous target for submarines than e f f u>»on is yet to come. Here is what the " C r i e r " has But who are the men who will ultimately reap does Germany. So far as is known there is not a the benefit of a l l this generosity at the expense of German merchant ship of any value on the great seas, other people? Are they Canadians? Within recent certainly not a liner. What is believed to be the last times we have had a sample of the class of men that German steamer in the Pacific was snapped up a few Mayor Taylor and his supporters in the council want days ago. In the open Atlantic there is not a German to clothe and feed with other people's money, and keel, and with the exception of a small light squadron this, too, at a time when the mayor and aldermen, or near Ostend all the warships under the Kaiser's flag a majority of them, declined to agree to a reduction save the submarines keep close to the German coast, in their emoluments.. We have nothing to say against The British vulnerability to submarine raids is pro-the men who have made Vancouver their home, no portional to Great Britain's merchant marine and war matter what their nationality may be, so long as their fleet. There is not an ocean but which bears British conduct is that of respectable citizens, but what we merchant vessels or British cruisers. German sub-yet to say regarding the life led by citizens of the United States who have the misfortune to reside in Vancouver: Any American who has lived for a considerable time in either Vancouver or Victoria will reraem and the artistic temperament of its citizens, much remains to be done in various Why Not Start parts of the city that will stand to Clean Up? a renovating, and in other portions that have already come under the hand of the gardener. The war and civic matters have been occupying the attention of house-ber keenly the hostility towards our nation con- holders, but while we continue to take an active stantly displayed by a certain element there, interest in the war let us not overlook matters that Choleric letters given prominent space in the vitally concern the health of the community. What papers harp on every real and imagined fault or Vancouver requires just now is a thorough cleaning flaw of our character and protest against the least up, north, south, east and west. Let us emulate the advantage given us, and this i l l esteem is shown housewife and get about our spring cleaning in a in a hundred other ways. fashion that will leave no doubt of our intentions. We had always thought that the relations between Here and there, in places undreamt of, piles of rub-do say, and what we would impress on the council, is marines can scarcely miss hitting something even i f Americans and Canadians were of the most cordial bish have been allowed to accumulate, and where that when financial conditions are of such a nature as i t is no more important than a local steamer. Great character in the Dominion. Now, on the authority rubbish is, there will disease breed and spread. Spring to preclude the idea of heavy expenditure in any Britain is forbidden to. retaliate in kind i f it would, of the " C r i e r , " we find we have been dreaming, that clean by all means. Start right now, make it a daily branch of business, the time could not have been more for the sentiment of its navy and its people would both parties have only been too anxious to get at each task until it is accomplished and Vancouver will look ill-chosen to impose an additional burden on those prevent it from committing such an atrocity as the other's throats, and that only Providence and good all the better for it and its citizens will derive incal-who primarily are the sufferers and eventually on Lusitania massacre. Were there a German liner at sea luck obviated such a calamity. At the same time it culaMc benefits in more ways than one. another class of the community from whom, in an i t would be in imminent danger of capture, but its is peculiar, in view of these extraordinary conditions, And while we are about it, shouldn't the idea that indirect way, a considerable amount of the additional passengers and crew would be in no danger whatever that American citizens in Vancouver are so cordially was mooted some time ago to cultivate the vacant lots expenditure must come., This proposal to ask the of being blown to pieces or drowned. welcomed everywhere, that there is no hindrance oU'be more extensively put into practice?
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Title | B.C. Saturday sunset, May 22, 1915 |
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Date | 1915-05-22 |
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Full Text | The Saturday Sunset Vol. 11, No. 23 VANCOUVER, B.C., SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1915 Twelve Pages—Price 5 Cents f i t is in England as it always has been in defeated ratepayers to sanction these kylaws therefore strikes f l According to the latest report of the Dominion the part oLthe-eiws-authori ties to the observance of countries. Before admitting defeat, the people try to at practically every wage-earning class for the benefit that despite the recent inter-fix the blame and to oust from office the responsible of men whose claim to a full dinner pail is based on issued with and by the authority of Sir George Foster, national complications between the United States and men." This quotation is from an the support they have accorded Mayor Taylor in the "the price for horses other than for army purposes is Great Britain, the danger of a rift i n those relations Germans in Seattle editorial written by a former citi- last civic campaign. • much lower than last year." Isn't there some mistake was never contemplated. Seek to Injure Us zen of Vancouver for the Seattle "German Press." Whether it was the rotund Dr. Briggs or the lean and hungry Dr. Weiss we cannot tell, but these two jackals of Alvo von Alvensleben are busily engaged in creating trouble at Seattle. Both made a fat living i n Vancouver for many years through their connection with German interests and have no doubt supplied the German Intelligence Office with any information they, may have been able to pick up, but at the present time they are exceedingly bitter against this city. It is a well-known fact that a man usually hates the person to whom he has done an injury, and this may account for some of the bitterness. The man Briggs, or Brix, as he is known i n his own country, victimized the city to a considerable extent when here and knows that he will never be able to come back. He escaped just in time. The opinions expressed by the Seattle "German Press" are not particularly interesting, and we made the above quotation merely to show the venom which actuates these former residents. When we look back upon the days before the war, when any cast-off German or Austrian who chose to give himself a title could come to Vancouver and become immediately one of the elite, we wonder at our own gullibility. Never was there any attempt to look into the antecedents of these shady gentlemen from Europe. They were taken at their own valuation and treated with every mark of respect. For this we must hold many of our leading citizens to blame. Attracted by the idea that our German visitors controlled much capital, they were embraced as long-lost brothers and invited to help themselves. It is an everlasting shame to the community, but the lesson has been learned. We shall never forget a libel action brought by Alvo von Alvensleben against a little German printer named Blochberger, in which we were concerned as a witness for the defence. The fact which weighed most heavily with the jury was that von Alvensleben had brought capital into the country and Blochberger was a person of little or no importance. Blochberger lost. the case solely on these grounds, for with practically no exceptions, the witnesses for von Alvensleben were in his immediate employ or interested with him in various transactions. Vancouver has much to be sorry for. The people have been doubly fooled in the character of the Germans for the simple reason that they did not understand the motives of the German people. Admitting thi3, humiliating as it may be, is i t not time to call a haltf A n agitation has already been started to have a l l alien enemies interned, and although this agitation has not yet borne much fruit, there is hope in the future. It cannot be impressed too strongly upon the people of this city that Germans who have not taken out naturalization papers, and many who have in recent years, are an active menace to the community. They will stop at nothing to gain their own ends and surely we need no further proof of their duplicity and murderous intentions than has been given during the past few weeks. C Last year when the mayor and aldermen assumed office i t was decided to do away with the submission of money bylaws, with one small exception, owing to the financial stringency. This . ' ., Who Pays B i l l year the council by a meagre C T h e submarine game is one which two or more for Dinner Pail? majority, but a majority all the can play. This is not a novel proposition, but i t is same, decided to ask the rate- one whose truth is in danger of being overlooked. The payers to ratify bylaws amounting i n the aggregate performances of the German sub-to nearly three-quarters of a million dollars, and the Two Can Play marines, which have culminated in reason given is that there is a money stringency. It at A n y Game the Lusitania massacre, may have is all the same—scarcity of money, no bylaws; paucity caused many to forget that the Different mayors see through dif- British underwater craft have a record of brilliant ONLY ANOTHER SCRAP OF PAPER" here?" If^our memory serves us aright, two—or was it three—mallard ducks were deemed sufficient for a charger. No matter whether the aforesaid charger was, spavined or not, the price was a few ducks. In face of that we are told that the price has gone up. C There is a paper published in Seattle known as the "Town Crier." Outside the limits of that city f l e ^ g t e s s l S the ratepayers' footthe bills. "When achievements unsullied by atrocity of any kind." Two" 11 a P P e a r s t o b e unknown, but by some means a copy ^l^n^^^^iv^t^^ is7obe put the question comes to be decided in the court of of them have recently been working havoc among the w . . c , haf r e a c h e d Vancouver. This estim- ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ S i m ^ fact t l H - - T.»iri<.h « , n i , n o » . . . j *-„ L_ r_ c Weird Storv ahlft nrean nf nrivntp nninimi haa personal amomon. 11 is an unionunaie l a u w C The question has often been asked why we in Vancouver who have been holding forth on the scarcity of money and particularly on the lack of funds wherewith to relieve local Vancouver Gives distress, have been so generous to the Red Cross when it comes to assisting the Red Cross Society and kindred organizations which have the welfare of the men who are fighting the battles of empire so much at heart. There are some who contend that it is the duty of the government who sent the men to the front to care for them in every way,, but there arc things to which official red tape pays little or no attention and that is just where the Red Cross Society steps in, and that is why the responses to the appeals have been on so generous a scale. The British Government, we rest assured, has not overlooked anything that will tend to maintain the army as the finest fighting force known. Still, there are a hundred and one details that must and do escape attention, and here is where the community individually and collectively is needed. The Red Cross Society is doing a work that only the Red Cross sisters could do and nowhere is this more clearly recognized than in official circles. Funds are absolutely necessary to continue that work in the manner in which it ought to be done. The citizen who remains at home must come to the assistance of his brother who is doing a man's part at the front and in no better way can he do this than by shouldering some financial responsibility, even as the soldier is shouldering his, without a murmur. Vancouver has responded nobly to the appeal. In the face of economic conditions her citizens have put forth a supreme effort in this hour of the empire's trial, and those who have contributed, even in small degree, have the satisfaction of knowing that their money will be expended to bring comforts, medical and physical, to the men who are battling i n the cause of civilization. C The probable formation of a coalition cabinet in Britain is one of the most unexpected turns i n the affairs of the Empire that could have happened, though it is not an unknown con- Coalition Cabinet dition of affairs there. This com- Noteworthy Step bination of bodies having one common object of attainment has been found indispensable before in the Motherland and the position in which the country is now placed certainly seems to be one which demands some extraordinary action along that line. It cannot be expected that the arrangement will be permanent, though the war might be the means of bringing about, i f not a complete abolition of the party system in Britain, some system under which all parties will be represented in the government of the day. As early as 1782 the first coalition ministry was formed when Fox and North found i t convenient to enter into an agreement at a period in the history of the country that meant the sinking of all political differences for the time being. The Whigs and the followers of Sir Robert Peel in .the years 1852-53 similarly relegated all political animosity to the background for the common weal. The last occasion on which a fusion of parties was considered the proper course to adopt was when the then Lord Salisbury invited both Conservatives and Liberal-Unionists into his cabinet: The latter at that time were in the minority, but their services to the Conservative cause in helping to defeat Glad* stone's programme of self-government for Ireland were such that they could not be overlooked. Today Britain needs a fusion of all political creeds. By common consent party politics have been dropped in face of the danger that threatens the country from without. Events have taken place which have ren-before appeal—that is, i n the polling booths—it is just prob- Turkish gunboats and transports in the Sea of Mar- Weird Story able organ of private opinion has that the able that there will be a reply to those members of mora. This exploit involved the passage of the f r o m s e a t « e something to say of Vancouver in the council who consider that this is a fit and proper Dardanelles, for the destroyed Turkish vessels were . Particular and Canada in general, time to carry out their schemes, a time when everyone near Constantinople itself when they were torpedoed. R e c e n t events in this city, are referred to i n a way is systematically following out a policy of retrench- Nor is this raid the only instance of the skill and that indicates the " C r i e r ' s " knowledge of affairs here ment, both in business and in their homes. But the courage that direct the British submarines. In Decern- *° b e somewhat hazy. For instance, we are told that reelected and such a condition cannot full dinner pail promise is one that must be fulfilled ber last a submarine commanded by Lieutenant a f t e r t h e fires o n t h e b n<tee s M a n v members of the a™ „ T . l l£ and in order to fulfill it, i t is indispensable that a Holbrook torpedoed the Turkish battleship Messudieh German colony were thrown into j a i l . " We cannot certain section of the community put their hands in the Dardanelles. The Messudieh was of 10,000 remember that any person was arrested in connection deeply into their purses and produce the wherewithal tons displacement and probably as efficient as vessels w i t h t h e s e outbreaks, though this Seattle production to carry out the fulfilling process. There is a time in of the sultan's navy ever become. The dashing British m a v h a v e s o u r c e s o f information unknown to the which to do everything, and looking at the matter commander was decorated and promoted " t o encour- v a n c o u v e r papers. Further on there is the statement from a standpoint that cannot be called interested, age the others," who to their credit be i t said have t h a t " n i o D violence" was the order of the day, and latter element has entered into the present conflict, but it is equally fortunate that it applies to.j;not more than two members of the present British, cabinet. It is, however, recognized that where personal ambition is thrown into the scale, the interests of the country be thought of for a moment at the present juncture. Premier Asquith has taken the only course open to him at a time when the country requires the strongest men i t can command in the counsels of the nation. C While no one will deny that Vancouver is one of we wonder i f this is the proper time to ask the rate- failed less from lack of skill than from lack of oppor- between the lines there is the suggestion that for any the most beautiful places in Canada, thanks to Nature payers to pay up and look pleasant, for i n effect that tunity to equal his achievement. German to poke his head out of his domicile was is what it amounts to. A t the present juncture it's It must be borne i n mind that Great Britain offers tantamount to inviting a bullet. But the cream of this a case of heads I win, tails you lose. a far more conspicuous target for submarines than e f f u>»on is yet to come. Here is what the " C r i e r " has But who are the men who will ultimately reap does Germany. So far as is known there is not a the benefit of a l l this generosity at the expense of German merchant ship of any value on the great seas, other people? Are they Canadians? Within recent certainly not a liner. What is believed to be the last times we have had a sample of the class of men that German steamer in the Pacific was snapped up a few Mayor Taylor and his supporters in the council want days ago. In the open Atlantic there is not a German to clothe and feed with other people's money, and keel, and with the exception of a small light squadron this, too, at a time when the mayor and aldermen, or near Ostend all the warships under the Kaiser's flag a majority of them, declined to agree to a reduction save the submarines keep close to the German coast, in their emoluments.. We have nothing to say against The British vulnerability to submarine raids is pro-the men who have made Vancouver their home, no portional to Great Britain's merchant marine and war matter what their nationality may be, so long as their fleet. There is not an ocean but which bears British conduct is that of respectable citizens, but what we merchant vessels or British cruisers. German sub-yet to say regarding the life led by citizens of the United States who have the misfortune to reside in Vancouver: Any American who has lived for a considerable time in either Vancouver or Victoria will reraem and the artistic temperament of its citizens, much remains to be done in various Why Not Start parts of the city that will stand to Clean Up? a renovating, and in other portions that have already come under the hand of the gardener. The war and civic matters have been occupying the attention of house-ber keenly the hostility towards our nation con- holders, but while we continue to take an active stantly displayed by a certain element there, interest in the war let us not overlook matters that Choleric letters given prominent space in the vitally concern the health of the community. What papers harp on every real and imagined fault or Vancouver requires just now is a thorough cleaning flaw of our character and protest against the least up, north, south, east and west. Let us emulate the advantage given us, and this i l l esteem is shown housewife and get about our spring cleaning in a in a hundred other ways. fashion that will leave no doubt of our intentions. We had always thought that the relations between Here and there, in places undreamt of, piles of rub-do say, and what we would impress on the council, is marines can scarcely miss hitting something even i f Americans and Canadians were of the most cordial bish have been allowed to accumulate, and where that when financial conditions are of such a nature as i t is no more important than a local steamer. Great character in the Dominion. Now, on the authority rubbish is, there will disease breed and spread. Spring to preclude the idea of heavy expenditure in any Britain is forbidden to. retaliate in kind i f it would, of the " C r i e r , " we find we have been dreaming, that clean by all means. Start right now, make it a daily branch of business, the time could not have been more for the sentiment of its navy and its people would both parties have only been too anxious to get at each task until it is accomplished and Vancouver will look ill-chosen to impose an additional burden on those prevent it from committing such an atrocity as the other's throats, and that only Providence and good all the better for it and its citizens will derive incal-who primarily are the sufferers and eventually on Lusitania massacre. Were there a German liner at sea luck obviated such a calamity. At the same time it culaMc benefits in more ways than one. another class of the community from whom, in an i t would be in imminent danger of capture, but its is peculiar, in view of these extraordinary conditions, And while we are about it, shouldn't the idea that indirect way, a considerable amount of the additional passengers and crew would be in no danger whatever that American citizens in Vancouver are so cordially was mooted some time ago to cultivate the vacant lots expenditure must come., This proposal to ask the of being blown to pieces or drowned. welcomed everywhere, that there is no hindrance oU'be more extensively put into practice? |