Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-18
Doing Even More Than She
Ought, Feeling of People,
Says Visitor Here.
GIVES $4,000, 900 DAILY
AND THOUSANDS OF MEN
British Columbia Recruits q Japa.
nese and Little" Mans
Regiment.

That Canada has done all that was
war. and, perhaps, even more than she
ought. is the feeling of the people of
that Dominion, according to Leslie H.
Wright of Vancouver. B. c., at present
visiting his brother, DIR. Hamilton
Wright, in this city. Heavy as recent
taxes and other sacrifices imposed are.
declares Mr.. Wright, who represents a
British Columbia the Canadians feel
that perhaps the present marks only the
beginning of long series OF such
sacrifices in men and money, and yet
the attitude of Canadians generally inn
plies willingness to spend their last
cent and send their last man il needed.
British Columbia, with a population
or some 100000. living mostly on the
lower mainland or on Vancouver Is
land, says the visitor, has alone al
ready recruited no fewer than $4,000
men to send to the theater Of war,
which seems a really wonderful per-
centage when it is considered that this
PPoptn ason includes many who might
extremely difficult to leave their fam
lilies. and number of Indians
Some of the Indians have enlisted,
although there have been no regiments
or other units formed exclusively from
them" says Mr.. Wright, but there
has been recruited one entire regiment
for service with the British flag, COM
posed exclusively of naturalized Japan
csc, who are officered by men of their
own race. 1 have seen them at drill
and they present very smart appear
ance.
Regiment OF Little Men.
Another regiment has been recruited
from the little men, the fellows whose
lack of stature has prevented their
joining other corps. 1t is called The
Regiment OF course, the men
are physically At in every way except
size. They also are offlcered by men
of the same stature.
'Latterly there have been formed regi-
ments of lumberjacks, miners and other
manual laborers and one would be sur
prised at the wonderful change that
out of the rough clothes that make
them usually so uncouth and placed in
smart khaki. The psysique is there:
they are splendid natural material and
all the better for the fact that most of
the men are used to the rifle and are
something like the rifle regiments of
pioneers who played such important
parts in several of Americas wars and
whose feats at Kings Mountain. New
Orleans and other battles are SO well
They know how to take
care Of themselves If any men ever
did"
British Columbia, according to Mr.
Wright, is much like Washington. Oregon
and California, in that 1t usually feels
Al. - = a.
by good times. Business conditions in
that province now are unusually poor. he
states, one of the principal reasons being
the scarcity Of ships in which to export
the salmon and lumber which figure SO
largely in its resources. Salmon now has
and with insufficient transportation facili-
ties.
British Columbia's big real estate
boom burst early in 1872" states Mr..
Wright, land today it is difficult for
owners carrying first mortgages to sell
cover those mortgages. Mining, on the
other hand, is booming. especially the
copper mines, which are being worked
night and day, and whose product is
being shipped to the United States.
Germans Lose Their Holdings.
Vast holdings in the hands of Ger
mans have been lost in British Column
oia through the fact that they We're not
fully paid for and the original owners
have foreclosed. Ali Germans, Aus
.rians and Bulgarians have been placed
IN internment camps, where, however,
they have a comparatively easy time
IF it. Workmen are permitted to sell
heir labor to the government, and men
Of higher station are allowed consider
able in the way of comfort and even
luxury.
within the last three weeks the
Dominion government has enacted a
axation measure requiring all corpora
ions capitalized at $4,000 or more to
contribute % per cent Of all profits
,ver and above the amount needed to
ray shareholders at the rate of Z per
cent per annum. This. moreover, is
'etroactive. and applies from Deem
Der 81. 1914. This is going to be pretty
leavy. but. as I said before, the peo-
lie feel that they should spend their
asst cent II necessary. Canada Is now
pending no less than twelve million
lollars a day. none of it in improve
nents. a large proportion OF which
,oes either directly or indirectly to
well the war chest"