ores, Page 2 = THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, February 12, 195% THE TRIBUNE Published every Thursday at Williams Lake, B.C, By The Tribune Publishing Co. Established 1931 Clive Stangoe, Editor Subscription: per year $2.50 Outside Canada . $3.00 Payable in Advance ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION Member: Canadian Weekly: Newspapers Association British Columbia Division, C.W.N.A. Authorized as Second Class Mail vy the Post Office Department, Ottawa Interest Fails To Keep Pace As the district grows, so does the expense of providing educational facilities, hospital facilities anda every other service that is designed for the use of the public. Constructive interest fails to keep pace' with this growth, though, a fact was twice demonstrated during th® past week. School area representatives had to delay their meeting Saturday for the better part of an hour until the necessary number for a quorum could be gathered together, and this meeting was called to approve a record operating budget in a field where costs have reached astronomical proportions. Behind these men and women, in turn, is the apathetic attitude of the taxpayers, who hold fast to their own fireside every time a meeting is called to elect area representatives and in- struct them as to the wishes of the majority. Monday night the War Memorial Hospital Society held its annual meeting and directors were on hand to give a stewardship report of their activities during the past twelve months. Out of a membership of over 100, only 15 turned out. It is a discouraging fact that the handful of elected men and women in either case who dig deeply into their private time to work in the interests of the public are totally forgotten by the same public unless they make a whopping mistake. Then the word goes out and the resulting rush to crowd the next meeting bears a more than slight resemblance to a pack of hungry wolves closing in for’ the kill, Perversion of Government Clarence Manion, Dean of the College of Law, Notre Dame University, speaking to the Annual Meeting of the National Small Businessmen’s Association said that: “Goy- ernment is not now regarded merely as an instrument to re- strain men from injuring one another but as a sort of all- purpose around-the-clock device to make men happy and se- cure from cradle to the grave. It is this perversion of Govern- ment that now makes it both ridiculous and corrupt. Govern- ment does not create liberty; on the contrary, Government is the one persisting danger to human liberty.’ This tendency to look to Government to solve our problems has manifest itelf in many ways. There is, we believe no one group wholly re- sponsible for the red-tape which hampers the operation of a free economy and will, eventually smother it completely if enough of it is applied,’ Z fC Restricted legislation comes into being usually at the insistence of a relatively small group. Once in effect however it applies to all citizens. The measure of a good law is not the effect it has on a small segment of the economy but rather the overall eifect it produces. Among those who invite Government interference are the planners who believe that they have such superior wisdom that they can best determine what is good for all. There are also the ‘“do-gooders” who without malice but also without knowledge or foresight depend upon Government to cure the ills of the world. There are those businessmen who have not yet learned that freedom is indivisible and who selfishly and thoughtlessly appeal to Government to protect some immediate interest of their own. There are some leaders of organized labour who believe that by a sort of magic, economic laws can be suspended enabling them and their followers to secure a larger share of the pie. of productivity without a corresponding contribution. .What is forgotten by those who appeal to Government to interfere in matters beyond its normal function is that by so doing they are placing fetters upon all society. Because team- work is essential to the efficient operation of our economic system, obstacles placed in the way of capital or labor or Management are bound to slow up the whole team and the interests of the public welfare are affected. Farsighted thinking and the recognition of the inter- dependency of capital, labor and management demand that there be less interference by Government in business, not more, if the general welfare is to be served to the fullest extent. --Canadian Chamber of Commerce Newsletter. Niquidet Transport Williams Lake - Horsefly R. M. Blair’s office, Wms. 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Troubles v yz 3 1+ Z IS Ss ro 12 13 an ae rc 17 6 Ea ar 31. Stop , a, ae 32. Personal pronoun EWE bre ae 33. Sun god 34. A shoe tie 39 [ ey F | 35 Open HHA ( poet.) ER 3 36 Elude 38. Greedy se 57 39 Impress. > fe a copy 3 TS] ao 40. Armadillos c 41 Remain _ fai [| az 42. Large GY S17 | bundle From the Files ONE YEAR AGO February 14, 1952 It will cost $252,958 to operate schools in District 27, Area Repre- sentatives learned when they spent a five-hour session learning just where the educational dollar goes. This figure is up $57,000 from last year’s operational expenditures and the jump is mainly concentrated in teachers’ salaries and conveyance ot pupils— In the final loop fixtures against Quesnel the Stampeders were edged out for a one-goal margin in both tilts— Stores and business houses in Williams Lake will close as the town observes the official day of mourning for the passing of King George VI— With a total operating expense of $41,215 for 1951, Wa Memorial Hi: ital showed of $941, mien bers of the Society were told at their, meeting. Largest expenditure of the Hospital Board in 1951 was in con- nection with the completion of the sewage line project that took $3,321 to install. About 40 members of the society attended the annual meeting. Three new directors were elected to the board; J. R. N. Purser and Clive Stangoe representing the town, and Mrs. W. Stafford of Springhouse, the country— The sum of $2000 will be placed in the supplementary esti- mates for work on Williams Lake airport— The senior Elks went un- der by one point to a visiting Wells basketball team but came back to split the two game series by an equal- ly small margin the next afternoon —Mrs. Tom Bishop’s curling rinlr took the T. W. E. Henry Challenge Trophy— FIVE YEARS AGO February 12, 1948 The financial statement of the War Memorial Society showed a loss of $944, due to the increase in cost of wages and supplies and to the re- duction in the number of patients last year. Sam Sloan, A. R. W. Wil- son and C. Singer were elected to the hospital board for the town, and Mrs: P. Ogden for the country representa- tive— Improvements to the streets | and opening of a new subdivision were part of the work accomplished by the Board of Commissioners, ac- cording to a report presented at the annual Board of Trade meeting. Plans for a new water system have been drawn up and water rights have been reserved, hut the price of pur- chasing the present system from the PGE is at present holding up further work— Paramatta Aipways have suspended operations for the winter months due to weather conditions —- The Forest Grove Young People’s group was formed— TEN YEARS AGO February 11, 1943 Only a small gathering of town peo- ple attended the annual meeting of South Cariboo Hospital Society. New members elected to the board were Mrs. H. C. Richardson and Mrs. S. C Elliot for a period of two years, and Pun Quesnel for one yea Clinton Kelly Brigman, an old age pensioner of the district, died while being taken to War Memorial Hos- pital in the car of Const. Sharpe- Williams Lake hockey team travel- led to Quesnel and won both games from the host team, Lake line-up Was Jack Chalmers goal, Wilf Moore of the Tribune and Gordon Smetanuk, defence, Brownlee, Andress and Robertson, forwards, and J. Anderson, J. Moore, and F. Latin— Judith Borkowski, 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Borkowski, was taken to War Memorial Hospital suffering from a severely injured arm which had been caught between the wringers ef an electric washing machine— Selma Wobte, Big Lake, became the bride of William Litzenberger of Williains Lake— A son was born to Mr. and | Mrs. H. B. Place of Dog Creek, and | a daughter to Mr. and . Douglas | Huston of Soda Creek— | TWENTY YEARS. AG | February | Williams Lake hockey players) own 10 gefeat in two gal ~tintorl, whieh gives that thm the right tofmeet the winners ofthe northern league, Prince Georgé— A daughter was born to M and Mrs. John Parminter of HorseflyS a large crowd attended the badminton play between four Lac La Hache and local players. : | Brown rice is more nutritive than Polished white rice because in its surface layer are the vitamins and minerals that make it so valuable as a food. From Another Viewpoint “EXCESSIVE DAMAGE CLAIMS” (in The Edmonton Journal) One of the queerest features of present-day lawsuits — to a layman at least — is the astronomical sums demanded as damages. In_ personal injury cases. especially, it is common to ask for many times the amount that even the most generous jury would be likely to award. This is the tablished practice in the United States and is becoming so in Canada too — as motorist and insurance companies know to’ their cost A typical example comes from San Francisco, as a sequel to the wreck of the steamer Princess Kathleen off the Alaska coast last year. In that disaster, the 300 passengers were brought safely ashore and none sut- fered injury. Now the lawsuits are starting and one passenger intends to sue the CPR for $65,000 for “shock, loss of property, humilia- tion, vacation time lost and general damages.” No doubt he is entitled to compen- sation for the loss of his baggage and for any expenses he may have incurred in leaving the scene of the shipwreck and returning home. Per- haps he deserves something too, for the interruption of his vacation, though there are few precedents for such a claim. But these items together would hardly amount tor more than a couple of thousand dol- lars at the most. It is difficult to see how the “shock and humiliation” (Continued on Page 3) Pp $Le PROPANE— PROPANE—. PROPANE— PROPANE— pe carbon. PROPANE— PROPANE— equipment is leased “A supply goes where Mains Don't! 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