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THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAME LAE, 8.6,

Williams Lake Tribune

Bstablished 1931 Clive Stangoe, Editor
Published every Thursday at Williams Lake, B.C.
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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.

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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

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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.

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