Base 8 = THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAME LAE, 8.6, Williams Lake Tribune Bstablished 1931 Clive Stangoe, Editor Published every Thursday at Williams Lake, B.C. By The Tribune Publishing Co. - $2.50 - $3.00 Subscription: per year _ Outside Canada _... a Payable in- Advance Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association British Columbia Division, C.W.N.A. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION Authorized as Second Ciass Mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa Not A Happy Lot A policeman’s lot in Williams Lake can hardly be called a happy one these days. Five serious breaking-and-entering cases in the town’s commercial houses over the past two months has caused a certain amount of criticism to be tossed in the general direction of the RCMP detachment. While we are not arguing with the theory that the town, and district, the detachment serves is underpoliced, we cannot see the justification in confining our complaint to the local level. These men, from the NCO commanding, down to the constables, are doing the best job they can under the circum- stances. If their orders are to police this area with two men or ten, that is the way it has to be done. Because the detachment is stationed here, an erroneous impression is gained by townspeople that the main job of the officers is to look after law enforcement in Williams Lake. Actually, we have no more call on their time than any other citizen from here to Horsefiy or Likely. Until Williams Lake reaches the status of a municipality and is assessed directly for police protection, we have no local recourse to demand additional police staff. In the meantime, the action of the Board of Trade in spur- ring interest in a private patrol system for the business district. seems the most logical one to follow. There is nothing new about the idea. Other villages, towns and cities have found the patrol system to be the only feasible way to deal with a problem that is always more acute in the centre of a community’s business district. At the same time, we do not think that the adoption of such a scheme should halt. any pressure we can bring to bear to obtain a larger police staff here. While it is true that every citizen in the district has an equal right to police protection, it is only logical that centres of population require more attention with their correspondingly higher incidence of traffic problems and criminal cases. Our Water Power Canadians have been astonishingly slow in realizing the importance of our water-power resources. There is no chance of our neighbors being equally slow. For some years the mounting power needs of the North- western United States have been driving consumers in that area back to water resources which are properly Canadian. This was the case with Alcoa’s desire to use Yukon and B.C. water for an aluminum smelter at Skagway. This is the case with the U.S. application to the International Joint Commission for permission to dam the Kootenay*at Libby, Montana, backing the water up into Canada. It is exactly the same with the Kaiser Aluminum Com- pany’s ingenious scheme for damming ‘the Columbia below Arrow Lakes so as to provide a regulated flow through existing power plants in the United States. Nor is this all. The Puget Sound Utilities Council wants to pay for damming the Columbia in Canada, at Mica Creek, so that it can benefit from the increased power which would be developed in the United States. It is high time that Canadians woke up to the value of our water power before we start giving it away ‘‘for chicken feed.” Power, let’ us never forget, means permanent business, industry, employment. To give Kaiser the waterflow which it seeks is equivalent to giving it. another Kitimat—virtually for nothing. It would be handing to Alcan’s competitors a cheap supply of aluminum which with the U.S. tariff protection, could drive Canada out of the American and other markets. If people are going to talk about free sharing of natural resources between Canada and the United States, as many Americans are beginning to do, let’s at least start equal with reasonable tariffs. So far, fortunately, Ottawa has stood firm against the alienation of natural resources which can and will be used in Canada. It spiked the Alcoa scheme at Skagway when British Columbia seemed ready to give away its own northern power. The trouble is that the federal government is relying on legislation passed in the early years of this century, when neither the complexity nor the scope of the problem were fully realized. This legislation needs rewriting and bringing up-to- date. And it would be a wholly salutary thing for the next parliament to reaffirm in unmistakable terms that Canada is not going to give away our power resources to run competitive industry in another country.—Financial Post. PLUMBING AND HEATING Sales - Service - Installations FOR FREE ESTIMATES Telephone 70-R-4 Central Plumbing & Heating The Pacific Great Eastern Railway Co. Effective June 1st, 1954, Will Operate THROUGH-FAST PASSENGER & EXPRESS S between VANCOUVER, B.C. AND PRINCE GEORGE, i Including Sleeping & Dining Car Service Prince George - Squamish Dock Daylight Saving Time : Ly-Vancouver (Union Pier) (a.m.-Mon-Wed-Frid Ar-Wims, Lake Ly-Wms. Lake Ar-Pr. George Ly-Pr. George RVICE :50a.m.-Tues-Thurs-Sat :30p.m.-Tues-Thurs-Sat 3.40p.m.-Tues-Thurs-Sat Ar-Wms. Lake 11:00p.m.-Tues-Thurs-Sat Lv-Wms. Lake 11:30p.m.-Tues-Thurs-Sat Ar-Vancouver (Union Pier) 6:30p.m.-Wed-Frid-Sun THROUGH FREIGHT SERVICE Ly - Vancouver-Mon-Wed-Frid Ar - Wms. Lake-Wed-Frid-Sun FREE PICKUP AND DELIVERY ON FREIGHT AND EXPRESS 9 5 5 1 3 Thursday, Getabsr 64, 1684, The Cracker Barrel Forum By A. J. Drinkell The regularity with which the de- mand for legalized lotteries keeps flaring up is most remarkable. Equal- ly impressive is the fact that the main opposition to them continues to stem from certain religious, de- nominations most of whom, at one time or another, have resorted to raffles, draws, etc., in order to raise funds for their various causes. If the worthiness of the cause is to be the criterion by which we must decide the issue then all other-argu- ments, pro or con, must be ruled out as superflous or irrelevant. If it is in order to hold a raffle, or, to put it more bluntly, to gamble in any menner when a portion of the proceeds benefits a religious order or an agricultural fair then the oft § propounded argu- x ment that gambling in any form is a sin is at once untrue, and insup- portable. A game of chance does not become pious or justifiable act simply by placing it in a sanctimoni- ous, or rural, setting. Wrong-doing cannot be condemned on some grounds and condoned on others ex- cept in an atmosphere of rank hypoe- isy. Furthermore acceptance of the worthiness of the cause as the rule of thumb in making a decision not only rules out any question of wrong- doing but poses the question of whe- ther the only worthy causes are ag- ricultural fairs and ecclesiastical efforts, LIFE IS A GAMBLE So far as this forum is concerned we believe it is far better to recog- nize that life ip its entirety is some- |The former by various what of a gamble and that most. humans are imbued with a desire to take a fiutter now and then. It is this inate urge to take risks «that explored, populated and developed this universe. It will not become ex- tant because of prohibiting legisla- tion but will become more and more insistant under. provocative frus- trations, Attempts to eradicate other human weaknesses by such methods have proved woefully disastrous. Is it not far more desirable to provide scope for their expression in an en- vironment devoid of deceit and sub- terfuge and in which governmental supervision replaces rapacious ex- ploitation. Insofar as worthy causes enter into the controversy we suggest schools and hospitals rank high on the list. exercises, build healthy minds and strong bodies, while the latter maintain them both in reasonable repair. To- gether, they make a powerful con- tribtion to man’s earthly progress and his enjoyment thereof. To meet the exacting requirements of mod- ern living the need of wider mental develomepnt and greater physical fit- ness hecomes more urgent with each succeeding generation. Likewise, the ravages of life’s quickening tempo imposes ever greater demads upon or maintenance institutions. So re- pidly are these needs growing it is almost impossible for governing bodies to keep abreast of them by orthodox methods of financing. Even the small rural school costs infin- itely more to build and maintain than ever before and must be equipped to teach far more than just the three R's. Our outpost hospitals today re- quire to be far removed from mere From the Files of the Tribune ONE YEAR AGO October 22, 1954 Finishing touches are being rush- ed on the new Federal Building— Board of directors of War Memorial Hospital decide to collect figures to supplement argument in favour of new hospital for district— Contract for reconstruction of 8.58 miles of the Cariboo Highway along the 150. Mile-Williams Lake section awarded to W. C. Arnett Construction— Can- vassers collect $377 in drive to help blind— Local Canadian Legion branch purehases quonset hut from Central Housing —_ Corporation— Frost this week kills off garden flow- ers— Christmas tree cutting, sea- sonal industry of the Chilcotin, un- dérway again— Work being rushed on completion-of new planer mill of Allfir Lumber Ltd.— 35 district 27 school teachers attend Prince George convention— FIVE YEARS AGO October 20, 1949 $489,435.94 was the sum of sales from the 3,368 head of cattle entered in the commercial classes here last week, establishing a new record— The 70 head of registered bulls at the sale brought contributors $25,160. J. Gardner Boultbee won the show’s grand-champion with his bull, Bridge Lake Domino 9th. Animal sold to A. M. Piltz of Big.Creek for $950— A grand old lady of the Cariboo Road, Isabel Felker, aged 82, passes at her home— 700 head of ewes have been purchased by Orville Fletcher, dis- trict rancher— TEN YEARS AGO October 19, 1944 Buyers’ market reflected in annual Orange-’ Crush Phone INTERIOR WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS Williams Lake, B.O, cattle sale as 2,199 head of cattle and bulls sold for $187,416.11— Cariboo breeder, Allan Jeffries of Meldrum Creek wins Shorthorn bull championship with his Meldrum Creek Willie— A record price for beef in the Cariboo was set when the champion valf, fitted and shown by Rosalie Church of Big Creek, was sold at 40 cents a pound to Spencer's Ltéd.— Prize carload of fini steers, shown by “Alkali Lake Ranch, sold for 11.70— Meat Market business of Lambirth and Co., sold to C. H. Poston and L. James— TWENTY YEARS AGO October 18, 1934 Mackenzies menswear department advertises men’s dress shirts for $1.50 each and wool pullovers for $1.00 each. first. ald stations they aged to be, Overcrowdéd urban centres can no longer accépt any great number of rural students in their secondary schools and rural patients cannot be assured of beds in their hospitals. The 5% sales tax which was supposed to proyide adequate hospitalization for one and all in B.C. is falling far short of its objective, judging from the repeated admonition given to all hospital boards to hold the line on costs which is about on a par with King Canute’s attempt to stop the tide coming in. Consequently we be- lieve we could have better schools and more efficient hospitals if each re- cived additional assistance through government operated lotteries. (In- cidentally we think it would be good to enliven those church bazaars by allowing us to risk a dip in the bran- tub or the grab bag and why not raffle off a few of the choicest don- ations? By utilizing the proceeds of such lotteries for the purposes mentioned we would at least cause one human weakness to become a pillar of strength. Surely, anyone having a thoroughly developed mind actively employed and sustained by a whole- some body is more likely to become a first rate citizen and more apt to acquire the attributes desired ‘or him - by his spiritual mentors than one possessed of a dwarfish rentality eking out a furtive excisten-2 within the debilitating confines of an ema- ciated bag of bones. What Am Williams Lake BARGAIN SALE Must Sacrifice Ranch Property. — 1241 Acres ROSE LAKE DISTRICT _Paid $37,500 DR. J. W. JAMES I Offered? Telephone 84 particulars. Ban-lIce every time Even in the coldest weather, gasoline and diesel fuel systems are kept Ban-Ice. 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