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Established 1931 Cite Siangoe, Editor ves the

e is much to be said for

the old apprenticeship system. A

youth who has r a

he knew full weli many of them] ¢. . pene Daler ots

i Z of craft is seldom a still fellow. It is
ere just nincomoops, and if these | jer 4

petter to be busy in the worksho

than idle and yawning in the clas:

By A. 3. Drinkent

Published every Thursday at Williams Lake, B.C.
By The Tribune Publishing Co. j At our last hold-forth one of the
|hoys produced a letter he had re-

ceived from a hi

Subscription: per year
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$2.50

chool teagher in| choice specimen had not been trans-

= = : Vancouver complain ng Uhat eduea formed by so much expensive educa- =
Payable fa Advance ah ih Wie age oe 3 room. Yet, it is the very enthusi
is oldru B easting | tion into great citizens why should }to. equesdcn Sid rer
Paya : a yho retus ;
Melber! Ganagtia:Weeidly. Wewspaneis Messcfation around for some sustantiation of this|more and more-of the same he ex. nizenize'tiiece Gucte enn ee
Zi Zz is uets. Dassion for

British Columbia Division, C.W.N.A. complaint he was surprised at the} pected to work wonders with nea ly “equality of opportuniy” )linas ‘them
; number of articles appearing in the | everybody. It just hasn't -worked out = i
ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION various publications each critical of arly educators dan- ro the essential difference between

human types, so — a final irony —
we lack good craftsmen because we
have failed so many scholars and we
spend so much on education that we
have nothing left to spend on improy-
ing the environment, the street and
the town that for most youngsters
will inevitably defeat the school.
In conclusion Mr. Priestley says,
What we need is some fresh clear
light on the whole subject. That is
erainly true of England and the
ods are that most of it is true in
Canada too. We must stop our par-
rot cries and begin thinking again.
There you € a reasonably weli-
informed Bri view. Por an m-
formed American opinion we con-
sulted the } York Times and
found there an article by

Authorized as Second Class Mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa our present education set
recent issue of Saturday Niznt

tried an excellent article by the

“up. sly underestimated the influ-

epee of the environment on young

people who had not so much passion
In Retrospect tish author J. B. Priestley. “Tn | for education as they had.”

trying to show where education bas | E ISM

- fallen down he cites a novel by dl Priestley agrees there is too

2 Just five yeras ago the present publishers took over the young teacher in which he relates] much blank pessimism and sneering

editorial reins of The Tribune. In retrospect it has been a busy his experiences in a modern e} lamentation that we may soon arrive

time and a period in our lives that has flowed swiftly behind us. tary school in a large industri i ta state of mind so bogged down in

men-

It has been a time of change too as we look over the storie. centre, similar to one his own fath hopelessness that any notion of 1
that have appeared in these pages through the years. Williams had ¢ 1 is absurd. But, equally dange:
Lake has experiecd a bustling period of growth during the five 3, '. Priestley, “I can imagine | ous blind optimism that has lost
years. Back in the begiuning of 1960 we didn’t have the new father’s hor- all contact with actual that re-
theatre, the present Ranch Hotel or the addition to the Maple ror. Indeed, I fuses to see what is happening under
Leaf Hotel, to. mention just three of the many commercial doubt if he would its fine pink nose,
additions to the town. Still to come was a new Federal building | have welievea a Mr. Priestley blames the great
and the new high school hadn’t opened as yet. word of this nov- wars for blowing to smithereens the

There was a living accommodation problem back in 1950], 4 would not idea of inevitable progr The First
too, but the residential section was much smaller. The ‘new’ | have seemed pos- | War took the sons and ‘avorite pn-

ears previous. | for

TERIOR WHOLESALE

subdivision overlooking the Stampede grounds had been on the | gjjj6 to him for pils of Uvose hopeful educators. They Bush, Professor of English ; e
niarket for everal months, but there was no rush to start build- lis: to spend’ so Were tossed into the furnace and con- cee: a ete a a ane DISTRIBUTORS
ing. Now that property is the ‘old’ sudivision and the new 94 | aias: Ghicletien ane sumed as if they were the rubbish of Serna ap ee Williams Lake, B.O.

the world and not the treasure of its
manhood. Britain lost nearly a mil-
lion dead. The best and brightest of

Jot one on the other 3ide of town is fast being covered with | tion and then fina [RS s

houses. But there is still a living accommodation problem. ourselves with schools of this sor:
In town and district it has indeed been a period of un- Many of the teachers of his fathe a5

precedented growth for Chis section of the Cariboo, and we have | age were largely labour men, largely | generation perished. They too were M ~

enjoyed recording this expansion. self-educated. They thought all that | imbued with the idea of self-improve- High School Basketball
Your local newspaper has grown too. Each week over 1500 was needed to overcome the sordid | ent So we Jost both the men and

Papers roll off the press to carry the stories of the activities environment was more and still more | the ideas. The world was not improy- ELKS HALL

of the town and district over this vast area. education. According to the novel all Ling itself but still it could be im-
One thing that we have noticed no change in at all is the| the things those early teachers haat Proved.

quality of friendship that was extended to us when we first | dreamt of had come to in the- These self educators

arrived. At that time we thought that Williams Lake and the] ory, but what is actually happening | the school would event

district was peopled by some of the friendliest souls in the} woula nh |

med. that Friday, January 28
y become
e, Many 7:30 p.m.

emed like a’ night-| master of the street outs:

world, and we still think so. S ma Rau was the magical | educators still believe inis. 1t has not
anacen but n they were giy-| done so yet but give them another THREE GAMES
2 jing it a gvificance. His| few years and it will. It is, in f. - eas ‘
father knew men who, in theory,| always just about to work. If their WILLIAMS LAKE vs QUESNEL

D : \ d d were much better educated than he|fromer pupils disappoint them. the

onations eede S was, had sat in classrooms and lec-| Present generation will redeem all.

ture halls longer'than he, had passed | LAUDS APPR HIPS Adults 50e Students 25¢
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more ms and received more cer. Priestley thin there’ are
t degrees and fancy gowns,' many other forms of education quite

Elsewhere in this issue there is a news item dealing with
an appeal from the Emergency Cothing Committee for more
clothes for their dwindling stocks.

House fires in the district over the past few months have
resulted in unusually heavy appeals to the committee £08 | . .
clothes -— appeals that have been answered promptly by the! From the Files of the Tribu ne b : :
volunteers in charge of this little publicised committee. fee é 3;

If you have any articles of good used clothing that you can inate A ] M t
spare, faa them over to the committee. Your donation will be OSH SEAR AGO : : nnua ee ing
catalogued and stored, and sometime in the future will give a 2 ; last published by veteran editor : eo
some material comfort to a victim of unforseen tragedy. gainst_a highly touted | George Renner. Clive Stangoe,, form-

Stampeders pull|erly of New Westinster has taken

a —_— , ace ae Sie the pune: uae ea War Memorial Hospital Society
—S enema ; i Fs don! Smetana prominen® lovar Her grand old pioneervor the ari Bg ‘ s

Say

The Weekly Newspaper

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sportsman, tr

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ferred to Prince] boo, Benjamin Howard “Benny” Me- | of Southern Cariboo
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virtually every fair-sizea’| ust 14 nd four hours after it|ro and Fireman Harry Seymor lose

for the PGE— Mer- il, age passes away at Kam-
ee besinning Obthe conpury. paper. Most of the towns dipped below zero to record the sea- | their when PGE train swept

up to 4 above, | loops hospit neer Alex Mun-
village in Canada had a weekly new son's longest cold spell— Wong Kuey | into Seton Lake by a snow and rock
Hadise Kim, 57, found frozen to death about |siide— Death reported of William || Mond ay, Feb. 14

High costs, wider and quicker distribution and finally Unillesandsa halt from, his hoine:at | Haller, 75: a
amalgamations have changed that picture drastically. But one missael Forks— Led Jobin, retired | Walsh: reelected president the
ae thing has not changed, the place of the weekly newspaper in | 00°" warden, presents wildlife speci- | local ss branch— Station at the Courthouse

platform jammed by well-wisher:

community life. All over Canada people still look for and read 5
Andy Steele, veteran engineer with

to local school— Voting a

their weekly newspaper. in local by-election for comm
ue = ae seat. Up to noon only 26 voters had| the PGE makes his last run. Andy
The current letter of the Royal Bank answers that gone to the poll— has been with the railway for 34
ee toa . nse, lives two lives, one in a small and BVI YPARS.AGO ae TOL makOEE an ae Menge a
“Byerybody, in a se , s tw res, E cae Jamun 6,1 suddenly at his home at Chimney
ri gre ircle. belongs by birth or choice to 2
the other in a great circle. He belongs 6; ‘This issue of The Tribune was the (continued on page 9)

various intimate groups, like his family, his neighborhood.
and his cluster of friends. He is also a member of the whole
society of Canada, and he is living within an interdependent
system of nations. The weekly newspaper belongs to his

intimacy. _ B : 2 £
The weekly newspaper has its home in such a community anking the Way you like it oe e

Its readers are not anonymous creatures in great impersonal
aggregations, but the people in the next house, or the next
street, known and understood.”

Canada has always been well served by its weekly new:
papers. It is well served by the 963 being published today.-
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