Page 2 THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAER, B.C. Thursday, February 10, 1985. - Williams Lake Tribune Established 1931 P Ciive Siangoe, Rditor ublished every Thursday at Williams Lake, B.C. By The Tribune Publishing Co. Subscription: per year .. ++ $2.50 Outside Canada sees $3.00 Payable in Advance Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association British Columbia Division, C.W.N.A. ADVERTISi RATES ON APPLICATION Authorized as Second Class Mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa Hospital Business Next Monday night the Hospital Society holds its annual meeting to: hear the-annual stewardship report from the di- rectors on the operation for the past year of War Memorial Hospital. If the past twelve months have brought more than their usual quota of headaches to the directors, they have also aroused more than usual interest in the hospitalization problem with the result that membership in the society is at a high peak. It is to be hoped that this membership, representative as it is of every segment of the community and district, makes an effort to attend this one meeting and offer their opinion on the question of accommodation and the possible solution. Faced with a continuous growth of occupancy percentage, the directors haye decided that emergency measures were necessary before embarking on any long-range building program. To this end they prepared plans for a 20-bed additioz to the’ present building, plans which await Victoria’s approval before construction can get underway. It is not a plan that will solve the district’s hospitalization needs inthe light of economic expansion in every direction, but it is one that will take patients out of the corridors and handle all those who are.now receiving treatment at home. It is a move that is desperately needed and needed immediately. : The society meeting is open to the public although only members have the right to vote. For those who might wonder how one obtainsa membership in the society, the requirements are quite simple. Anyone who contributes money or goods valued at one dollar, becomes a society member for the current year. The February annual meeting is for thé calendar year 1954, and anyone who has a membership card for that year is eligible to vote. : _ King-Sized Workers Two of the district’s king-sized residents with king hearts deserve the commendation of the rest of us this w: for giving an object lesson in community service. We are referring of course to the Kohnke brothers, Bill and Felix, who carried the majority of the load on their broad shoulders in staging a hospital benefit wrestling show last Saturday. Not only did these popular athletes look after the Promotion of the program; they sold tickets, set up the ring, borrowed chairs and set them up, took part in the prograin itself, and then turned back their wrestling share of the night’s take into the hospital fund. ease eee everybody in the community worked as wholeheartedly On a project as the Kohnke boys. the hospital addition or any other community service we set our sights on would soon become reality. ized eek Over His Head A statistician, according to an old fable, drowned while wading across a river that had an average depth of four feet. This is a reminder that, unless their use is combined with common sense, figures can be thoroughly misleading, although David Lewis, national chairman of the CCF, doesn’t seem to ‘know about it. i Mr. Lewis has told a party rally in Ottawa that 70 per cent of Canadian families live on less than the minimum income required for the basic needs of shelter, food and clothing. The nation’s prosperity; he says, is an illusion. His reasoning is based on the claim of the Toronto Welfare Bureau that, to supply its basic needs, a family must have a minimum income of $65 a week. Mr. Lewis, of course, was using these statistics to prove that Canada needs socialism. Common sense requires‘that both these estimates must be regarded with some suspicion. It does not seem possible that a Canadian family with an income of $65 a week can do no more than purchase the absolute essentials.. Nor does it seem pos- sible that 70 per cent of Canadian families have incomes of less than $65 a week. Canadian prosperity is an illusion, says Mr. Lewis. Yet in recent years Canadians have been’ spending more than a billion dollars a year on new homes, a like amount on new cars, about seven billions on taxes, hundreds of millions of dollars per annum on such luxuries as television sets, liquor and travel. Canadians are healthier than ever, living longer than ever. None of that indicates that 7 out of 10 families live on starvation pay. Mr. Lewis should never attempt to wade a creek that has an average depth of four feet. His heirs might discover the fallacy of using statistics without combining the figures with common sense.---The Printed Word. Now if Victoria would only provide experts to interpret the official interpretation of the new educational finance set-up school boards would be happy. The Pacifie Great Eastern Railway Co. Effective June 1st, 1954, Will Operate THROUGH-FAST PASSENGER & EXPRESS SERVICE between VANCOUYER, B.C, AND PRINCE GEORGE, Including Sleeping & Dining Car Service Prince George - Squamish Dock Pacific Standard Time Ly-Vancouver (Union Pier) 9:30a.m.-Mon- Ar-Wms, Lake 6:20a.m.~1 Ly-Vms. Lake 5 0a.m. Ar-Fr. George 2:30p.m ly-Pr. George Ar-Wms. Lake Ly-Wms, Lake a 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 BO, The Cracker Barrel Forum By a. J. Drinkell During a discussion of “The World ij We Want” at the New York Herald Tribune Youth Forum an 18-year-old delegate from the Phillipines made | the feNowing contribution: “Usual- ly, when I discuss with people th kind of world we want, they astonis me by describing a Utopia without cares. As for me. I like this world we have. I like living in this country —- full of striving and plans that 1 feel part of a won- derful and ex ing experiment. like the suspens which gives to life its only true zest. Let me have this world, with dreams for me to dream and prob- lems for me to : : solve. If I had lived before the A- and H-bombs I might he less optimistic of the future. But today I have great hope that we shall enjoy peace, for 1 feel deeply that no nation will start a war which none can possibly su vive. I believe that this worla we have deserves a vote of confidence, With its dirt and cleanness, its ups and downs and its total unexpecte. ness, it has given, through variety, more pleasure than pain. Whatever else it may be, this particular century is still the broadest, the most excit- ing, the most prom this world always } as it is. N thing to be s ed. But above all, may this worla never be a soft place for soft people with soft heads. For I want a world where a man, by facing his troubles, can prove his manhood. With a world of such challenge and scope our lives will never be complacent, but they I will certainly be worth 1i ing.” This forum cannot a ee with those educators who state most of ‘the criticisms of present. day educa- tion comes from people incapable of passing a sound opinion. Even youth itself tires of their pampering. There S no need for us to enlarge upon the academic aspects set forth in this re- view, but we would suggest, how- ever, that some idea of the muddled thinking currently plaguing us may be found in. the whimsy for larger school areas, for elementary schools OUR SCHOOL, Formerly when a school w: ed a grant was made by the author: ties, a local school distriet was form- hoard of three trustees elected and with this the school was built, mostly by the parents inter- ested. It immediately became OUR SCHOOL.” The children ware taught it was a privilege to be able to at- tend. Doing part of the daily janitor werk was obligatory. The teacher must be obeyed. The results, in the main were good. Any faults were usually of a social nature and due to too much zeal. During the depression the little school districts were called upon to bear a much larger share of school costs. The time was inoppor- tune and it could noi-he done in most instances, so the three-man hoards were condemned as inept, ignorant, and unfit to administer “ou R CHOOL.” Yet, they select 7 or $ persons from amongst the same citizenry, living miles and as need. a miles apart, and ask them to administer the affairs of fifty schools splaudered all over the map. These boards im- maconna on the walls of the new teacherage that Johnny’s copy book gets only a cursory glance in conse: mately it will he realized these large areas have heen a costly expel professors of chaps having a fortune in the aptitude of their fingers and cease trying to teach too much to too many. 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No teacher should be required to teach in a log building, no matter how cosy, {t is most undignified. The demand upon the time of these volunteer trustees is enormous and grows and grows, We have nothing but admiration for the unselfish manner in which they respond until they awaken to the fn- tility of it all. Then they resign in disgust. The government, the educa- tors, the teachers’ federation and the Public combine to make them into mere puppets t6 be yanked hither aud thither. “Theirs not to chart the way: Theirs but to jump — and pay.” Even the inspectors are victims now of too much administration work. They are kept so busy seeing that paper is not substituted for don- : From the Files of the Tribune. ONE YEAR aGo February 11, 1954 Authority for the directors of War Memorial Hospital to continue. their plans for increased accommodation and to investigate methods of finance: ing the districts share of the cost of such a project was given by members ef the society at the annual meeting — Commissioners give final approval to plans for village sewer system— set aside mnual budget for addi- tion to town high school— Vive Pontiac juveniles, Purjue, Richard ar team 1 puck play-offs— Mer- cury drops from high fifties to ten above as week of false spring van- Stangoe and Bruce fin named as directors of War- Memorial Hospital for coming year — Showing their best form of the on, Stampeders take two wins from Lumbermen on weekend— FIVE YEARS AGO 1950 February 9, Story of hardship and courage en- folds in Chileotin country as Elmer Purjue rides 65 miles through snow up to the tups to get medical aia for his wife and baby in lonely Ne- maia Valley. United States airman Gene Skinner makes reseue trip to bring Mrs. Purjue to hospital in town. The haby died of pneumonia before the flight was made— Mrs. George Mayfield elected president of United Chureh Ladies Guila— hoo Cattlemens Association pu es building on Railway Avenue own- ed by Ben Richards. jon of- fices have heen in the Lakeview Hotel since 1941— Puner: rvices con- ducted for Charles Ross, well-known Soda Creek resident— frat YEARS AGO 1945 all-night Lake Williams an rain that turns roads to slush— BE. G, Woodland and Ken Rife off to Prince ¢ honspiel— Reere teen set up in P; Columbus for ot trict— TWENTY YEARS AGO Febri 3 RN. fly elected president of loca? district Liberal as- sociaton— Fifty attend local Burns night celebration— Hospital Auxili- anys Mrs. Beesley vice-presidnt and Mr Gaspard secretary at annual meeting. elects Mrs. Roberts president,’ NOW-AS EVER = Canadas Greatest $ Price Gui SEND REQUESTS TO WINNIPEG “T. 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