Page 2 : Be 2. A - THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. F EPLIORIALS Deteriorating Asset digs unusually mild winter we're experiencing this year is bound to result in one group in town giving a lot of serious thought to a capital expenditure of Some magnitude next summer. e.are referring to thé Arena Association and their problems by trying.to change the type with the sweet problem of trying to finance a worthwhile community asset without any revenue. Organized hockey is now two weeks behind schedule, and although the pessimists keep insisting “ we’re going to pay for“this,” with the implied threat of winter extending into May, fact that every day passes soon becoming our way. At the other side of town, the curling fraternity have increased the enjoyment of their sport twofold, First, because they can curl in their new rink, and secondly, because they can do so in comfort with the thermometer registering 30-plus outside. Installation of an artificial ice plant in the arena is going to take a large investment to handle, and the general economy of the town in 1958 will have a direct bearing on such a scheme, but it would be worth serious consideration. Ag it is, a $50,000 building has been Standing idle for the past 10 months—a deteriorating asset that will never serve the community fully without artificial ice. Old Times — Old Friends lee? week an old friend came to town and we spent a happy couple of hours reminiscing about the Williams Lake of eight years ago, when the town was less than half the size it is today, and life seemed a lot less complicated. Those days there was a lot of ‘‘ putting the busi- ness of commerce off ’till tomorrow to meet: the social requirements of today.” Spontaneous get- togethers used to be the rule, not the exception, and there was no such person as a stranger on the streets. The real old timers, of course, will scoff at these lines and harken back 20 or 30 years, when the times were just that much gayer—but for us, the ‘Lake of 1950 was the setting for a lot of pleasant memories. Old times and old friends are like the old books we Save—worth experiencing but only appreciated for their true value with the passing years. Far-reaching Precedent —B.C. News-Letter XCEPT for an uneasy, questioning editorial in the Vancouver Province, the incredible action of the federal and Provincial governments in putting up/ funds: to subsidize. the operation of the 3 time Of Mine of the Howe Sound Company has to the time o wr#ting of this news-letter passed without comment. Yet it could rank as one of the most significant de+ cisions. made by government in Canada in this or any other year ... The doubt is in whether or not governments involved realize what they have done. They have subsidized not an industry in general (nothing new for government) but a single commer- cial unit of an industry, to prevent it from closing down because it was losing money. The argument was that unemployment insurance payments for the men who lost jobs would be so high by comparison with the needed subsidy as to make the government support financially justifiable. From here, unless the governments involved resolutely say: ‘No more,” and put a definite time limit on this subsidy, they could become individually and jointly embroiled in very many other such jn- stances... The Communist-run mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union, which sold this idea to understandably sympathetic local politicians, has won a major local and ideological victory and democratic government in Canada eventually will be red-faced about the Red Trojan horse they have taken into the democratic camp. Unless this is disavowed as policy, every company in a similar position in Canada would be expected by its employees and perhaps even by its local chamber of commerce to ask for similar govern- nt largesse. : ae toned arch foes of Socialism and Communism, the Progressive-Conservative and Social Credit goy- ernment of British Columbia, unwarned by the press and even encouraged ‘by some sections of it, have stumbled into a government intrusion into industry in behalf of one enterprise, SCHEDULE Conta DAILY SERVICE SOUTHBOUND—Leaves Prince George at 7 a.m. NORTHBOUND—Leaves Nth. Vancouver at 8 a.m. TIME TABLE EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 20, 1957 Southbound Northbound Read down No. 1 daily STATIONS 8:00 a.m. Lv. North Vancouver 8:27 Horseshoe Bay Ly. Squamish —__ Ly. Lillooet Clinton _ Lv. Williams Lake 1 4 Quesnel __ 12:36 a.m. Ar. 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For the most part, they demand changes in the education system Coming at a time when our scholastic institutions are being badgered into providing cour covering every conceivable con- tingency a human being may encounter in the brief journey from cradle to grave, it just seems to add confusion upon confusion. It was somewhat refreshing, in the midst of the sound and fury, to come across the following article in The New York Times, entitled: “Two Pleas for Basic Educa- tion.” BASIC SUBJECTS Americans, Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell wondered last week what was wrong with a School system that does not teach enough of the basic sub- jects. He wondered also, what was wrong with a community that could not supply the incen- tive and facilities to keep pace With its own demand for quality manpower. “Mr. Mitchell sug- gested that in the first place we should not lose sight of the fact that a school is meant to train the intellect and that those who are able to learn more than others should be given addi- tional training to develop their full capabilities. If we accept these as facts, he said, maybe we can accept the idea that school is meant to be-an intel- lectual exercise, not a experience. social “Maybe we can accept the idea our children go into schoo) primarily to learn rather than Emphasis On Basic Education newspapers and ighbors have shock of Russi Successes in the field of science—a which the U.S.A. felt it easily pre eae s “Along with many other n field in edominated. jto ‘adjust.’ Maybe we is|store the high standards to our |!T0™ schools even if the | for some of our | be we can profess lectual vigor comes that he is able to explore and his discipline own | mina. individual COURSE FOR DRIVERS? [Council tor Basie Education te Pak on in the public schools | when automobile driver training becomes a credit course. Some- thing has to give, it noted, when | driver education ‘is fitted into a |nearly overcrowded curriculum. before ame, a ne- is drowned pyig ments as the following from a deputy superintendent of educa- uch _pronounce- tion in the State of Florida: ‘The training of our youth in |Sound practices in the operation of mozor vehicles, for instance, is as important as learning to read. One might aswell be illiterate as he ignorant of the basic principles of safe driving.” “Another point of view was offered by Kenneth J. Moore, principal of Robert BE. Lee In- stitute, who asked: ‘ Would you rather have a seeretary who could drive or one who knew how to use the English language ind type? There is serious food for (bought = in the foregoing, especially for they who believe a sound drilling in the basic sub- jects is old fashioned and obselete. can re-|Scheduled freight service to and are too high | udents. May-| Christmas Day. ‘in intel-/bigh altitude and extreme cold, out of | intellectual competition and that|- - man achieves only to the extent “At about the same time, the Washington was wondering what ie schodis are) Wednesday, Janwary 8, 1958 From the Files of The Tribune ONE YEAR AGO W. Crosina suffered broken leg. and non-resident hunters during the hunting season... The P.G.E. recently purchased 75 new all-steel box cars and two }-. | January 9, 1957 SERVICD «| FOR CLASSIFIED Axel Larson, 70, of Likely, was burned to death in his cabin : $125,000 locomotives... Frank eatly Monday morning... . To. English, 82-year-old pioneer of : 72 Mtn Bie Pes tae | ee aisttice cee te supplies gust/E hone of the Exeter Arms Hotél at| ¢oom Peavine Springs, on the| 56 100 Mile . . . Canon Ralph S.] Fraser... a record long-dis- Dean, 43, donned bishop's vest-|tance call for Williams Lake THE TRIBUNE ments of the Anglican Chureh | ¥8s placed by Erwin Brandly SS i es ats Garrat ae i to his mother in Zurich, Switzer- Saget in Vaunoaeee He i oe EEN was consecrated as Bishop of TWENTY YEARS aco TEIBUNE: the Cariboo . . . No action was taken by. commissioners on 2 request from the Williams Lake| 4 meeting was held between Flying Club to obtain a five-year officials of the Forest Branch lease on the present airport and stockmen interested in the when the new one is in service| restoration of the overgrazea section of the Riske Creek Stock Range. It was decided that ap- Proximately 25 miles of drift ‘Acording to.