PRINCE GEORGE CITI ITOL. 16, No. 13 Percy Batard Gives His Views of Kenya Colony Finds Conditions in New Home Vastly Different from Those in Salmon Valley PRINCE GEORGE, B. C. THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1934 DISTRICT VOTE FOR FORT GEORGE RIDING SET AT #32,000 The district vote for the Port George riding is set a.t $32,000 in the estimates tabled by Hon. F. M. MapPherson in the legisalture. The vote for Omineca riding is $26,000 and that for Cariboo riding $41,000. The total vote for road maintenance, bridges, ferries, wharves, etc., �3 $1,415,000. There were nuraer-' ous protests over their inadequacy but the minister informed the house that $3,000,000 was needed for the work but Holdings Extensive but Owners could not be furnished. He/ intimated are Dependent Upon Native Labor for Everything highways | Percy Batard, the pioneer settler in .itihe Salmon Valley, who left this sec-L';tdon.som.e Lime ago to take over an estate left to him in the Kenya colony, ^British East Africa, has an inter-, view in the Mount Kenya Review in 'which he gives his impressions of the ;; country in which he finds himself. ..-"What he thinks of his new surround-< togs has an. interest for the many friends whom Percy left behind in this /section of British Columbia. Referring ||gji: conditions in Kenya he says:-�'.""Well, it was rather like s'epping |3ack 200 years as regards farming Hfehods. Easier of course, why I Kpe met farmers here who seam to �doing fairly well, but from the way By run their farms I .should say ^fe be look'ng for a laborer's job in six months if they were in Can- I some of the bridges and' l might have to be closed. I M. M. CONNELLY HAS i MADE FIRST SHIPMENT I OF POPLAR LOGS M. M. Connelly, of the Praser Lake Sawmills, has made his first shipment c'f white poplar logs to Prince Rupert, Farmers of the Interior pissing Their Markets J.A. Grant Delivers Informative Address Before Members of the Board of Trade LOCAL DEMAND STRONG District Farmers Can Secure and Hold Market on Complying with Reequirements J. A. Grant, markets commissioner for British Columbia, whose present mission is the preparing of the farmers of the Central Interior in their approach to existing markets, was the Five car loads have reached tidewater, t speaker at the board Of trade and it is expected an additions ltwen j and it is expected an additional twen- ] funcnecn ty-five cars will be unloaded within ths ' next month. The loss are being taken the evening. !? out as an experimental shipment to !?lp George hotel Mr. Grant of CITY WILL API GOVERNMENT FINANCE REL1 Five Cents )ANTO COST Grant to Dependents Advanced to $3.75 on Suggestion of Provincial Authority The members of c-iiu city council spent Monday evening in giving consideration to the estimates of the several standing committees in preparation of the municipal budget. The reports were substantially the same as those for the previous year, and after being carefully considered were referred to the finance committee. The relief issue was before the council again in view of a communication rece'ved from the provincial authorities to the effect that discretion had been given to them to increase the grant to dependents by one dollar per month, making the grant to municipal dependents $3.75 per month, the cost of which will be divided equally by the municipality and the provincial and federal governments. As [he city is unable to meet relief charges, and as the provincial China where they are to be.used in a son, ^iden 'iment has exPre3Sed a willingness to i Homsby informed the board members y j Homsby informed the board members the match trade. If the B. C. poplar , the grandfather of Mrs. Grant had ,; iound suitable a considerable busa- : ness may be developed. gf*'Otcourse it's a much easier country, anikTm not sure that ]>eople who are keen dnxthe country, making progress as they-call it, are not making a mistake. Morexprogress means more competition, and tfuKmore competition you get the less likely -.you are to go an enjoying an easy life.x Look at the majority of the dailies here. They seem to satisfy people hereNvThe cream goes off to the creameries and produces butter. But in Canada you'd have inspectors coming around and making all sorts of criticisms; "but after all your'bu'ter gets an average price on t&e London market. "There seems to be an extraordinary waste of labor in the country; no doubt because you have such cheap labor. Perhaps its because of all this cheap labor that you seem to manage without any real co-operation. There 's a great deal of the spirit of mutual help and iieighborline�s in Canada, which so far as I can, see simply doesn't exist here. JMBaybe also this is because you have A"'good number of people who have separate ;ncomes, who don't depend on farming for a living. If the jyexage working farmer in Canada to put up a barn or a shed, he hisntimber together and prepares frame and trusses. Then, when he y to put his barn toge her, a n of his neighbors will come along the day and by evening the barn Will be built so far that it needs only the farmer's pair of hands to finish it. In this colony the method would be to order the timber, and get a dozen natives and a couple of Indian carpenters; the farmer usually strolls down now and then to eee how they are getting on. That's why you have people, supposed to be practical men. runn'ng their farms of thousands of ..acres, who couldn't put together a 'chicken-coop without having someone -to do it for them. I "I'm aston'shed at so many jobs, and � jbo much business going to Indians hi �thds country. It seems to me a short-.Sighted policy, for the longer these ^people stay the more they will dig ^themselves in, and you have plenty of jfoatLves here to share tlie jobs without iiencourafring imported Indians. White jjjpeople have their own children growling up, and it's not a good sign to Ifhave all these Indians here :f the fwhite man is going to hold the coun-pry." It would be interesting to learn how |the white farmers in the Kenya colony v'react to the comments of their new ^neighbor, who by the way is a landed ^proprietor, but who came to them after kyears of experience acquired cn the � fringe of settlement in British Colum-?bia, where the chief re-ource of the \ settler cons'sts of the contents of his \ brain-pan and the ability of his hands. ; Percy's old friends in the Salmon Vai-' ley would be hard-put to envisage him start'.ng out- in the morning to build a chicken-co op with a crew of natives and a couple of Indian artisans. He is evidently on the frontier again, but he landed there with a wealth of experience and may prove the piece of leaven wlrch will transform his community/I It may be there will spring up- in the Kenya solony something like the Farmers' Institute of the Salmon Valley with Percy Batard in the president's chair. This is regarded as more prob- j able than Percy dropp'ng into the ways of the colony and letting things slide. -------------o------------ FRENCH POLICE MAKE FOUR ARRESTS IN THE PRINCE MURDER CASE d 1 I iCllUd Will Intervene been th Hudson's Bay factor at Fort . Ge&rge in lg20 and *hat Mrs Grant I had been born at Fort Praser. ' ^ the course of his address'to the ] members of the board Mr. Grant ex- advance the amount necessary as a loan, the council decided en motion cf Alderman Armstorng, seconded by Ai-tierman Griffith ,to make application to the provincial governm int. for a loan Great Britain Has Not Adopted the Hornby Plan Empire Settlement is Desirable but no Plan Decided Upon to Secure it Hornby Proposal may be Taken as Basis for Negotiations that Are To Follow Brigadier-General M. L. Hornby, in a communication to The Citizen, tells of the progress he .is making in the British parliament with his British family settlement in Canada. From the informal on now given one will have to recast former conceptions of the settlement plan, as the commitment of the British government ap-pears to be much more qualified than was at first supposed. General Kcmby admittedly has interested prominent members of the British hcus2 of commons in h's plan. He has sold them on the advisability of securing a redistribution of the of $3000 to cover relief disbursements, j while population of the empire, but not Reference was made to the anomaly existing with re?pcct to the meeting of j pressed himself as highly plsased with the rel?>f cnarges by I,the in'erest of the farmers along the Mun;cipalities which on His Behalf Unirprl , united ' line of the C.N.R., from Prince Rupert j to Prince George, had shown in the I possibilities of the markets which are ------- j available to them once they master the Will ho Ack-^rl tnr ' matter of market approach in packing Will be /\slcea tor and grad?ng and m the maintenanc| j cf an orderly supply. He said he had ! satisfied himself that the Prince Ru-i p-ert market consumes very much more 'in the way of farm produce than the His Collapse was Outstanding j total production of ail the farms in Tragedy of the : the whole of the Central Interior, but Stay of Proceedings Against The Utilities Magnate Twentieth Century the greafc bulk of produce markeled in Prince Rupert is imported from out- side points. His special mission had London>Mar. 26�Friends of Samuel been to ascertain what might reason-Insull in his""city have started to raise ably be expected in the way � f pro-a fund for the "assistance of the fugi-; duce from the farms of the Central tive United Statesx_financial util'ty interior, to arrange for proper packing municipalities, have avoided passing in!o the hands of receivers tiave to pay their full share of the relief charges, while in the case of municipalities be:ng administered by receivers the property owners are relieved of such charges and they are borne by the provincial government. This practice it was suggested puts a premium upon the suspension of the municipal charter for administration by government receivers. PETROLEUM AND GAS ADMINISTRATION IS AGAIN AMENDED Victor:a. Mar. 27�Hon. A. Wells king. It is said an effort will also be and grading of it, and the forwarding i Gray, minister of lands, has submitted made to induce the UnitedvStates gov- | cf it to the market at Prince Rupert eminent, to stay tlie prosecu'on of In-Lor Prince Geoige from common ship-sull so that he may be permitted to ping points through marketing agents. reurri and assist in straightening "cut ; He said he had found the business ' his affairs. Insult's friends in this city-l.men of the two cities favorable to the i are said to be in ' communication , purchase of the produce of the farms Mii d j hK with the tramp steamer Maiotis under j Central interior ares provided a bill amending*he procedure for the administration of the petroleum and ratural c?s which brng the same under the Coal and Petroleum Act, from which it was taken by the amendment of 1932. Experience showed the legislation of 1932 was too far in advance of charter to Instill, and on which the i the farmers will pack and grade their | existing conditions. It resulted in the to the extent, of getting them to undertake the entire ccat, as was at first believed. The matter was introduced in the house of commons on January 29lh, in a resolution which had the approval of approximately 300 members. This recited the time had arrived when active steps should be taken to consider schemes for the redistribution of the population of the empire, and that the government be urged to consult with the dominions and colonies with a view to the promotion of organized empire settlement. The resolution disclosed nothing in the nature of a perfected plan for the bringing about of settlement, at the cost of the British government, but even as presented was no*; acceptable It was amended to read as follows: "That this hcuse is of opinion that the time has now come when H:s Majesty's government should go!; in touch with the governments of thp Dominions with a view to putting forward a scheme for the voluntary redistribution of t he white peopes of the emp;re, and the itimulaVion of shipping and trade under the flag."" Th's resolution, which was moved by fugitive i.s accompanied by his wife, j produce iri'Hhe same manner as their j issuance of but one lease and virtually i sir Arthur Shirley Benn and seconded EnsulTs career has been described as competitors dONand undertake to keep | wiped cut a revenue of $22,000 per a twentieth century tragedy. A few ! them .idviied asSo^the supply whichj annum which the government enjoyed h fifi j i fj d th ld lili h by Sir Hemy Page Crcfc, was adopted The undersecretary for the dominions, Mr. Malcolm MacDcnald. .-peaking for years ago he was one of the fifty-nine j will be available andNi� to volume and j under the repealed legislation, the I."rulers- cf the United States" listed by durat on of supply. Tms^infofmation lottery feature under which licence j the government at the conclusion, of ; former Ambassador James W. Gerard, j has been secured from growlers at a j holders laid a bet of $100 there was oil j the discussion, accepted the motion, 'His personal fortune was estimated as ; number of points along the line^qf the in their holdings against the govern- .'stating that a .special committee on j up to $300,000,000. He controlled, but j railway and he had reason to believe ment's bet that there wasn't. A bet j empire settlement would have a report : did not own, for ownership was scat- i ;hey are already taking the necessafy-j..which the government consistently On their problem ready for presentation j tered among hundreds of thousands of ; steps to perfect the organiations which I won and which the licence-holders j within the next few weeks, and that investors who held the securities, a S4.- will enable them to reach the markets I consistently and cheerfully paid. The 000,000.000 public utility labyrinth of pyramided holding companies, investment trusts and operat;ng companies. such action., will render available to them. new legislation will permit making applications for..,licences on sun-eyed lands Mr. Grant commented upon the co- without staking, and the regulations spreading cut from Chicago over thir- j cpera'.'on shown by the management i are eased up all round to coax licencees ty-seven states and into Canada and j of the C.N.R. in the granting of spe- back into the game^-and restore the Mexico. Perhaps it was the colossal j cial L.C.L. rates on shipments from j government, revenues. size and intricacy of the economic Vanderhoof and intermediate points to machine he created, iike Frankenstein's Prince Rupert, and intimated an ef- | QUEBEC LEGISLATURE monster, that bore him down. fort would be made to secure^a like 1 X^ , . � ,�. ,^T ��� , , _, . , ,^ The crash was preceded by two furious struggles, the first with Eastern concession for L C. L. shipments to i UNANIMOUSLY FAVORS Prince George. In the case of Prince ; CHARITABLE LOTTERIES the secretary for the dominions would approach the dominions as soon as possible thereafter, net with a cut-and-dried scheme, but with a plan for discussion. This makes it fairly clear just where the Hornby settlement plan stands, and doubtless explains why the governments of the several Canadian provinces did not *eize upen it. General Hornby apparently worked out all the details under which the British government would bear all the cos'., of banking and utility interests who op- I Rupert he said the imported produce posed his incurs'on into the Maine i was drawn largely from the Eraser I ottawa Mar o8_After the Easter ' settlement^even to the po:nt of re-utility field, and the second with Cyrus j Valley, and in the case of Prince ! recc,^ tne house of commOns will dis- ! turning to- Great Britain all potential S. Eaton, the Cleveland financier, who j George largely from the districts stir- j ^ ttl fd ^b b f b i tried to wrest control of the Instill em- i rounding Edmonton pire from its founder and forced him } Speaking generally of marketing to weaken its financial position ser:- [ conditions in the province h.- said im- cuss the- lottery question. The legisla- j s,enlers, found ttire cf Quebec unanimously favors state' lotteries\for charitable and edu- p be unfit, but cvi- ' dently he lacked sufficient backing on the nart of the British "government to caticnal purposes, and desires an am- ously by huge purchases of its securi- < ports of beef cattle hogs and mutton | endmem 'o the bVminafcodYto per- ties at exorbitant price. i from prairie points have averaged over In April, 1932. Mr. Insull asked for ; the past ten years about $5.000.000; the appointment of receivers for! grain and fodder have been imported Middle West Utilities, a $3,000,000 hold-j to the value cf about S3.000.000; and ing company, the largest of the Instill i butter to the value of $2,750,000. It units. Insull Ut'lities Investments, was in the face of such marketing Inc., and Corporation Securities Com- | conditions that B. C. producers of the pany, capitalized jointly at nearly j commodities contended they were un-$500,000,000. collapsed immediately af- j able to meet competition, but the terward. j speaker said the solution would .-e June 6. 1932, marked the end of Tir. i found in improved marketing condi-Insull's career as a great d'rector of t:ens; in the securing of a regulated American business and finance. Cn i market for the district produce. He that day he was deposed as shainnan had 'n mind an organization which of his three main corporations nnd as i would learn in advance what the prob-ore-ident, chairman or director of 85 i able output of the Central Interior corporations in all. I would be in all kinds of produce: in the same. In the legislature the resolution was moved by Premier Tas-chcrt.au and was leader of the opposition, of the commons will be free to speak an dvote on the issue without regard to party put lv's �settlement plan into^execution. So far the British government, does not appear to be committed beyond an agreement that a redistribution cf the white people of the empire is desirable. It docs no:, intrmaie an intention of submitting any fixed plan to trie dominions for the bringing about of this settlement, but will approach the do-miivons for a discussion of a .se'tle- LEGISLATURE REFUSES Tliis^disclosure of the position cf the TO ACCREDIT McGEER j Hornby plan with the British govern-AQ PPDPPRPMTATTVC ment must bevdisappointing to those Ao Kci-KcoclNlAllVtl communities which have been boos ing ------- lit on the assumption the imperial gov- Victoria, Mar. 27�Although the leg- i cnirnont was fullv committed to it. On islature approved of G. G. McGeer's views on the Central bank it has re- He fled the country, arriving in the getting of this information to the j fused ro accredit him as the leg'isla-Pari's on Juno 22. Then known that bath the United State and all sides it was hailed as the most advantageous settlement plan submitted, but the fly in the cvntment is the un- selling markets; in seeing that the ture's representative before the.parlia- certainty of the extent of the Britisn ....................... ............... produce is properly packed and graded; mentary committee on banking and government's co-operation. General Illinois authorities were investigating | and in the forwarding it to the mar- cunency. On Tuesday Hugh Savage -Hornby is deserving of much-credit for kets as they could consume it and thus moved an adjournment cf the house to , the energy he has shown in the pro-avoid market glutting. i consider a matter of urgent public | motion of empire settlement, and it is Mr. Grant is no novice at marketing; j importance�the sending of McGeer to i hoped he will have the fullest possible Fie Rave a brief review of the agricul- i Ottawa. Premier Pattullo denied any measure of success, but there is no Paris, Mar. 28�The police have ef- ! fecied the arrest of four underwor... characters in connection with the mijrrier of MasisTat� Prince, who was killed just before he was to appear to �testify before the government investigating committee in the Stavisky scandal. All four of the men under arrest are known to have been Stavisky henchmen and sensational disclosures are expected. h!s affairs. Later he and his brother. Martn J. Insull, who fled to Canada, were indicted on both federal and state counts. They are charged with defrauding investors, using the mails to defraud by means of false representations in the sale of securities, embezzlement of corporation funds in order to protect stock brokerage accounts, and violation of the federal bankruptcy laws by transferring corporation funds in contemplation of bankruptcy. On Oct. 4. the day the Insull brothers were jndicted in Chicago for the first, time. Samuel Insull left Paris by train for Venice, whence he journeyed by airplane to Athens. There he remained for nearly a year and a half, fiercely fighting every effort of the United States authorities to bring- him home to stand trial. "When the Greek "�nvemnient Lssued its final order for Insull's expulsion from that country he chartered the tramp steamer Maiotis and he h^e been a fugitive on the high seas ever since. ularly with conditions as they existed eighteen years ago when he was com-nvssioned to find an outside market for fruit and vegetables which exceeded what the province could absorb. At the present time he said B.C. not only supplied the prairie market with apples but has displaced United States apples of fancy grade at all Canadian points pact to Halifax. The Canadian market he said absorbs 3000 cars of boxed apples, or about half of the surplus B.C. crop. The excess is disposed of lao-gelv in Great Britain. In 1919 the British market consumed 400 cars of B.C. apples, but in 1933 tlvs consumption had been increased to 2600 cars; Mr. Grant dealt with the difficulty producers experienced in the effort to �equalize prices as between those sell H h kt ing in markets, (Continued on Page Fire) wrangle Speaker Perry rang the division bell to decide whether the Savasre motion should be discussed. All the Liberal members with the exception of McGeer voted in the negative, and all the Opposition members with the exception of Planta voted in the affirmative. Mr. McGeer may appear before the parliamentary committee, out not as the representative of the legislature. NO BEER AND WINE SALES IN RESTAURANTS Vancouver, Mar. 27�Premier Pattullo has advised the restaurant men of this city that as he proposes to prorogue the legislature on Thursday there is no possibility of submitting legislation at this session to permit ihe sale of beer and wine in their establishments. escape from the conclusion his plan as yet lacks the measure of co-operation on the part of the British government which a great number of people ;n this section of British Columbia were lead to believe it had. MARTIN J. INSULL MAYBE DEPORTED IF HE IS CONVICTED OF FRAUD Chicago. Mar. 29�It is stated nere that in the event of Martin J. Insull being convicted on the fraud charges against him he will be deported to England. He was extradited from Ontario and has been granted bail in the sum of $50,000. Word fiom Europe is that Samuel Insull is endeavoring to secure guarantees which will permit, him to enter Roumania.