JtVfO THE PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN weekly newspaper devoted to the upbuilding of the City of Prince George and Northern British Columbia. Published Ever:? Thursday By THCNTRAL INTERIOR PRINTING CO., R. A Ben wick. Editor. LTD. Subscription Rates by mull in Canada 32.00 fr>i deliveries to points outside the Dominion of Canada 93.00 per year. Advertising Rates Transient Advertising, per inch land Purchase Applications _____ Mineral Act Applications ___,___ Classified Advertising, per line ___ Reading Notices, per line----------- Bpeclal Rate for 100 inches. Lt*al advertising at B. C. rate, 16c and 12c per line. .___50c _S10.00 .$10.00 : 13C MUCH CONFUSION IN EMPLOYMENT MATTERS. rnHERE appears to be much ccnfu-< sion in the handling of,the unemployment situation, and the present outlook is matters -vill be wor.se next winter than they were last. Last'winter a number of men who found themselves out of work had small earnings, with which to tide themselves over j "££££ remains to be several weeks, but when winter sets n t the cit win ^ most concerned in again this will not be the case. L js the definition to be placed upon There are, ten men available for'every I transfents by the federal and provin-job offering, and for the most part j cial governments, as the entire army it has been necessary to place ths ; wnich j^g beea receiving relief in the working crews on for short periods, so i ^ teve ceased to be transients that all might have a chance to earn j b reason of their, six-months' resi- long-distance telephone, as well as by wire, but up to the present time, apparently, no decision has been arrived at by the federal government. We hope to receive a decisidn from them within the next few days. In the meantime nothing remains but to carry out direct relief for which the Provincial government will pay 50% and the Dominion government 50% for transients. The citizens of Prince George, of course will be kept on the same terms as before.' It will be noted thers is a difference in the position as stated by Premier Tolmie, and later by Hon. Mr. Bruhn in the matter of the proportion of cost to be borne by the municipal, provincial and federal authorities with respect to direct relief given by the municipalities to indigent residents. Premier Tolmie is on record as saying this cost would be split 50, 30 and 20 per cent as between the three parties, with the federal government assum'ng the heavy end and the municipalities the lighter end. Hon. Mr. .Bruhn, in his letter says the expense will be borne in the former manner, each of the three parties assuming an equal amount. Whether the provincial government has modified its stand on this something. Under this system the, unemployed are being fed, but they are not in a position to set anything aside for the winter, when the season will-interfere with the prosecution of out-door employments. There is no intention of finding fault with either the federal or provincial governments, as it mast be recognized the situation .'s unprecedented and the premier of the dominion as well as those of the provinces, requires to be very stout-hearted not to lose courage. At the moment the municipalities are waiting upon the provincial governments, and the provincial governments in turn are" waiting upon Premier Bennett. There, is every reason to believe a number of major public works will be got under way during the coming winder, but, the unemployed will have to be fed between now and then, at least the very .large number for whom no employment offers at the present time. Mayor Patterson has been in communication with Hon. R. W. Bruhn, minister of public works, and learns from him that so far as indirect relief is concerned the money apportioned for the same by the federal government has been used up. Senator Gideon Robertson, minister of labor in the Bennett cabinet, has completed his survey of the several provinces, but this has only disclosed to Premier Bennett just how big his job «>f handling the unemployment situa-tfon is.. It is beyond his power to give1 all that has been asked for, and so fax he has been unable to advise Premier Tolmie just wfiat measure of assistance to expect. For this reason two or three major public works in t&is section of the province have not been started, and there is no definite rnformation as to when they may be expected to be started. Under date of July 2nd Hon. R. W. Bi-uhn, writing to Mayor. Patterson on the relief problem says: "I regret that up to the present time we have re-reive no word from the Dominion Government in regard to our proposal to carry out certain highway construction in the province, to relieve the unemployment situation. We have dence. If this matter is not closely checked the municipalities will lose a great deal more than they stood to gain on a split, of the direct relief of 50, 30 and 20 per cent as intimated by Premier Tolm'e. IS REGISTRATION OF ALIENS DESIRABLE? (~)NE of the effects of the widespread unemployment is noted in the State of Michigan, where legislation has been passed to provide for police registration of all aliens, whether they have been naturalized or not. The state of Michigan has gone congress one better. The desirability of securing a registration of aliens has been advanced at Washington for a number of years, but its advocates have never been able to muster the necessary strength to give their views the force of law. Those who opposed the measure took the position the registration of aliens would be followed in time by the compulsory registration of all c-'tisens, which they held is not desirable. The move which has been made by the State of Michigan goes further than that which congress squelched in that it contemplates the registration of naturalized citizens as well as aliens, doubtless for the reason that,one cannot tell by looking at an alien whether he. has been naturalized. The justification for the registration measure of the State of Michigan is pleaded In the crime wave from which that state has suffered,, in common with many others. It is argued that'if the police have a complete check upon the foreign element there will be less lawlessness. For the same reason it. would serve as an efficient check upon applications fr relief from foreign residents. In Canada the law presumes the alien immigrant shall not become a charge upon the people of Canada; Given an efficient registration of aliens, in the dominion, it is fair to presume the aliens would exhaust every means to help themselves before taJting their places in the bread-lines, or making application to the municipal authority for direct relief. been in touch" with Ottawa on the It is a matter of record that the The Children of the Farm —dreaming . . . planning ... thinking of the future, perhaps. Let a Savings Account shape their course. Let them look forward to what money in the bank will do. It will buy land— stock—implements. Open an account for your boy and help him cultivate the habit of saving. ¦ i i - You will like banking at the Rayed Th© Royal Bank of Canada Prince George Branch W. L. Horasby, Manager aliens in Canada are responsible for the greater part, of the more serlous crimes committed in the dwuiinion. I* is the opinion of police officials tha an efficient registration of the alien element would act as a worth-while deterrant; that the possibility of deportation is more feared by aliens than other punishment. If this is so it would seem as if an excellent case has been made out for alien registration. The rights of the native-born residents of ' Canada are involved in the matter quite as much as the rights of. aliens. If the bed is made too easy for undesirable aliens in Canada the country will continue to have them for all time, and they will be permitted to absorb assistance which should go to more deserving native-born Canadians, who may have too much pride to solicit it. AN OLD ABUSE BREAKS OUT IN PEACE RIVER. TJEAOE RIVER residents have entered a protest with the provincial governnoent against the abuse of the Land Act by -members of the army of unemployed. During the past month they assert 300 unemployed have filed on crown lands as pre-emptors, on the payment of a record fee of $2.00. There is no objection to the unemployed securing pre-emptions, if they liave any ser'ous intention of becoming settlers, but the Peace River set-tiers assert they have no such intention, that hey have become pre-emp-ors for the sole purpose of strengthening their position as applicants/for public relief, and that in the issuance of pre-emption records to them the land department is virtually withdrawing so much land from settlement by men who would become farmers. They asfert'90% of the men who have filed on B. C. lands in the Peace River during the months of May and June arrived in Old cars, or on freight trains, that they have played the'r strings out in Alberta, and now propose to work British Columbia. The ieroarid is made that the minister of lands exercise the discretion given him 11 the Land Act, and decide whether it is in the public interest to grant a pre-emption or not. Id is safe to say there is no statute of the province more flagrantly violated than the sections of the Land Act defiling with the securing and holding of pre-emption records, it is not an abr.se which has come w:;h the depression and the unemployed. Evasion of the statute requirements with respect to pre-emptions had been perfected to the state of fine art before .he present depression was heard of. The unemployed have simply directed ittention to the matter by reason of heir numbers. There was a time when ;he minister of lands was helpless in he matter of the fssuance of preemptions, when the Issuance was mandatory, but this has been changed. It s novir discretionary with the minis-;er whether he.shall issue a pre-emption record, in the same way as it is iiscretlonary whether he shall sell ands for which purchase applications lave been received. He has the power o act on the demand of the Peace River settlers, but if he" elects to do io so he will have more trouble on iis hands than his predecessors had with squatters. Their name was le-jion, but it is said to be a matter of ecord thnt but one was ever dispos-essed by the government without ome measure of compensation, --------------o—----------- pREMIER Bennett is said to be willing to give consideration to the uggestion that the, requirement for evenue stamps on cheques of all denominations be modified so as to ex-lude cheques drawn for tne payment >f five dollars or less. One concession he premier has made, and th's is he permission to uss postage stamps on bank cheques. This is a convenience to the people, and will cost the government nothing. For reasons or accounting the government heretofore insisted on the exclusive use of revenue stamps on cheques; and there were numerous limes when the person drawing the cheque did not have a revenue stamp, nor the ready opportunity for getting one. It was an offence to issue a cheque without the revenue stamp! but it was an irksome requirement and thousands of citizens violated it without compunction. THE "walkathon" craze has struck Vancouver, and several of the B. C. fiiies on the coast, and an effort has been made to induce the provincial government to suppress them, on the Ground they -are inimical to health. Dr. H. E. Voung, provincial health officer" has given it'as his opinion the walkathons are a menace to health and sanity, and Attorney-General Poaley describes them as the' "most nonsensical thing I' ever heard of," but they are not matters of immediate government concern. He says it is-for the city authorities to decide wheher they shall have walfcathons or not, and that he has no thought of attempting to interfere. 1747 Y^ there have been numerous complaints of persons having been missed by the census enumerators ' 'n-vtstigation of a number of them have disclosed the persons alleged to have been missed had been accounted for, information with respect to them having been secured from others. There is of course Reason to believe a number living in Prince George and vicinity may have escaped the enumera-•orp but the taking of a census is a difficult matter. A check must be kept upon the cost of making the enumeration and it doubtless happens that in some cases the allowance made by the government is not sufficient to [ warrant enumerators in spending too much time on a person difficult to locate. . CHILDREN THRIVE QNKLIM/ Absolute.purity ancf uniform quality make Klin, the ideal milk for children. All the cream VM T. O. Bos Phone 93 HIGHWAY ACT NOTICE is" hereby given^ the authority conferred by seciw of the "Highway Act" Ctapte -tht Statute! of British Columbia, it is the intention of the und'^ after 30 days from'date. u> dtocjg and close portion oi the h'Ho r0(a)!—Central Avenue. J™mr]l\v tersection with the £°rt.,9£? Hazelton Highway in -Block" S District Lot 1432. Cariboo gg the north boundary, of Lot 8lY^ boo District, for a distance of app mately aA of a^mile fb)—An unnamed terseotion witfi the Hai-elton Highway District Lot 1432. the East boundary o It is proposed to substitue ternative road along the^ south dary. of District Lots 8176 and ac "\li:Vf to Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B. C. June 25, 1931. 1une 25-5t June '