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‘HE WILLIAMS LAKE TRIBUNE

Thursday, September 10, 1958

EDITO

REALISTIC SPEED LIMIT

— Cariboo Observer

Provincial department of highways, and its ebul-
lient minister P. A. Gaglardi in particular, has been
under heavy fire from coast daily newspapers the past
month over the possible relationship between increased
highway deaths and the 22 new 60 mile per hour speed
zones which have been established throughout B.C.

This newspaper has long advocated realistic speed
limits on portions of new highway in the province
where motorists have been scoffing at the old 50 mph
limit. It wasn’t too long ago that the coast newspapers
were also advocating realistic speed limits.

On the surface it appears that some connection
exists between the present increase in accidents and
deaths on B.C. highways and the recent posting of
60 mph on various roads. However, linking these two
statistics could give a completely false impression.

For example, there have been three highway
deaths in the north Cariboo area during the past
month. These deaths occurred in two separate acci-
dents and both on stretches of highway where the
speed limit had been raised from 50 to 60 mph. First
glance seems to show an excellent reason for screaming
great screams at Mr. Gaglardi for his terrible speed
limit tampering.

. A closer look, though, shows that speed limits
had little to do with either accident. Suspected reason
in both cases was a person driving when he was too
tired to be at the wheel. Speed certainly made both
crashes spectacular, but if a driver goes to sleep at
the wheel and piles into another vehicle or goes sailing
off the highway, no speed limit posting in the world
could prevent the accident from occurring.

The coast papers miss little chance to rip at the
Social Credit Government and key government figures
such as Phil Gaglardi, regardless of the issue. But the
present outcry is obviously an attempt to make polit-
ical fodder, without even going to the trouble to in-
vestigate each of the fatal accidents, where they. took
place and the apparent cause.

Without attempting to link highway deaths to
speed limits, we would urge, though, that Mr. Gaglardi
areas that have been listed as 60 mph zones. Immedi-
ately south of Quesnel, for example, the road is such
that 60 mph is an unsafe speed, but there are other
sections between here and Williams Lake where such
a speed is quite safe. Posting of speed sign to fit the
road is certainly a necessity, and 60 mph on the newer
stretches of highway is being quite realistic. é

TWELVE POOR RULES :

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«Twelve Rules for Raising Delinquent Children”
ig the title of a leaflet issued to parents by an eastern
department. They’re worth noting, and have no doubt
already caused many a good parent furiously to think.

1. Begin with infancy to give the child everything
he wants. In this way he will grow up to believe the
world owes him a living.

2. When he picks up bad words, laugh at him.
This will make him think he’s cute. It will also en-
courage him to pick up “ cuter » phrases that will blow
off the top of your head later. .

8. Never give him any spiritual training, Wait
until he is 21 and then let him “ decide for himself.

4. Avoid use of the word “ wrong.” It may develop
a guilt complex. This will condition him to believe
jater, when he is arrested for stealing a car, that society
is against him and he is being persecuted.

5. Pick up everything he leaves lying around—
books, shoes and clothes. Do everything for him so
that he will be experienced in throwing all responsi-
bility on others.

6. Let him read any printed matter he can get
his hands on. Be careful that the silverware and
drinking glasses are sterilized, but let his mind feast
on garbage.

7. Quarrel frequently in the presence of your
children. In this way they will not be too shocked
when the home is broken up later.

i i i y he wants.

8. Give a child all the spending money ;
Never let him earn his own. Why should he have
things as tough as you had them?

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sfy his every craving for food, drink, | an
somisit See that every sensual desire is gratified.
Denial may lead to harmful frustration.
i i i rs, teachers.

10. Take his part against neighbors, ers,
policemen. They are all prejudiced against your
child.

i r apologize for

11. When he gets into real trouble, apolog ;
yourself by saying, “I never could do anything for
him.”

12. Prepare for a life of grief. You will be likely
to have it.
The application of the first 11 of these rules would
indeed seem to make the 12th a certainty.
How do you rate?
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THE WILLIAMS LAKE TRIBUN
Established 1931 Editor, Clive Stangoe

Published every Wednesday at Williams Lake, B.C.
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PAGE

In the early

showing.

As it used to look

20’s it wasn’t hard to
get a picture of the valley without
the young town of Williams Lake
The buildings along Rail-
way Avenue are hidden in this pic-

ture taken from the hill over the
tracks. Vacant ground in the centre
of the picture is now taken up with
the main part of Williams Lake.

THE MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT

VOTES OR PRINCIPLES

OTTAWA—Some
officers of the CCF and the
Canadian Labor Congress
gathered together in ~Winnipes
late last month to hammer out
a merger of the two. forces.
They left unresolved a sharp
conflict over the leftward
position of the new party on the
Canadian political stage.

300 leading

The hand-picked del
from the CCF and the
wound up their three day s
sion -confronted -with -alterna-
tives ranging from Ru:
style state ownership and

direction of the whole economy-
with a sprinkling of Canadian
democracy-to an almost com-
plete repudiation of the old CCF
demand for sweeping national-
ization of Canadian industry.
The rejection of the lons-
standing CCF demand for al-
most complete state ownership
of Canadian, industry was} put
before thé ¢onference in f re-
port prepared by the \ top
executives of the CCF and the
CLC entrusted with the job or
bringing the new party to life.
“There seems. . . nothing that
bringing the new party to life.
can be done by nationalization
to redistribute income and
wealth that cannot’ be done
much more easily and equitably
by other devices, . particularly
taxation payments and the prov-
ision of social capital,” the
report declared.

SHARP CONTRAST

This was in sharp contrast
to the burning manifesto
written by the angry persons
who gathered in Regina in 1933
to form the CCF. Then the
party asserted that the evils
of capitalism could only be re-
moved by a socialized economy
“in which our natural resour-
ces and the principal means of
production and distribution are
owned, controlled and operated
by the people.”

It was a long retreat from the
new CCF party platform
drafted in 1956, which contin-
ued to call for nationalization of
most Canadian industry, but
conceded there might be a con-
tinuing place for free enter-
prise.

Press reports which suggested
that the -new political party
might move farther to the right
to meet the less extreme view
of CLC members brought an in-
dignate protest from Hazen
Argue, who is the CCF leader
in the House of Commons. “No
one that I know is trying to
water-down the socialist
gram of the CCF party,” he
declared, blandly ignoring
report prepared by the 20 top
CCF and CLC executives who
are acting as midwives at the
birth of the new party

PLANNED ECONOMY

Mr. Argue said that larger
and larger sections of the
Canadian economy were con-

tining to fall under the control
of monoplies. What — this
country needed was a planned
economy, he asserted.

“I am absolutely convinced
that the capitalist system as
American continent will before
many years be overtaken by the
planned economy of the USHR,”
he asserted. “I don’t’ think
people will be satisfied
to take second place while
others are reaping the benefit
of a planned economy.

Despite Mr. Argue’s protesa-
ations, there seems every
likelihood that the new political
body will move closer to the
centre of the political stage.

Even the CCF party in recent
years has been playing down
its nominal socialist principles
which it has learned through
bitter experience frieghten away
many would-be CCF supporters.

The new ‘s dilemma is
this. If it to attract the
support of any _ substantial

section of the CLC membership,
it seems probable that it will
have to take a position formally
that is less extreme than that
of the CCF. But, if national-
ization is written off the book
as the joint committee recom-
mends, the only difference in
principle between the left-ving
party and the old line will
have been removed. What will
remain is only a difference of
degree, and both old parties
have shown they can move a
degree or two if it suits their
purpose.

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A widespread belief that
organized labor was losing its
enthusiasm for the new political
party has grown up as a result
of some reports on the Winnipeg
meeting which quoted Claude
Jodoin, CLC president, as saying
that the central labor organ-
ization would not be a member
of the new organization. The
reports were misleading, since
it was never intended that the
CLC as such should ever become
affiliated with the party, but
only member unions which
chose to join. In the United
Kingdom, the powerful Trade

Union Council is not a member
of the British Labor party, but
tive-eights

unions representing

of the total TUC membership
do endorse the party and con-
tribute dues. There are un-
doubtedly a number of Canadian
unions belonging to the CLC
who are not interested in the
. but there is every indica-
tion that many of the strongest
unions in the primary indust-
ries will join up,

Liberal leader Pearson, whose
party has not a single member
in the provinces west of the
Lakehead, is going to concen-
trate on an effort to mend fences
there this fall. He will head
out to British Columbia soon
after his return from Britain
and the Continent and work his
way back through the prairie
provinces and try to put the
Liberal party back on the west-
ern political map. The West is
by far the weakest area for
Liberals and the only area
where the fallup: poll"shows{ rio
marked improvement in Liberal
strength since the last election.

The latest Chinese adventure
in Asia, the apparent invasion
of a small Himalayan state and
skirmishes on the Indian border,
appears to make it certain that
the Communist state once again
will be refused membership in
the United Nations. Opposition

to the UN recognition of the
Red government has _ been
diminishing in recent years

and last year a number of die-
hard opponents—Canada_ for
one—seemed to be wavering.
The new aggression, combined
with earlier incidents in Tibet,
is bound to renew opposition to
Peking’s admission.

My little boy, John, wanted
a bicycle. “The man has a
icycle for three pounds
(about $8.50) and he says it
will be ready ‘tomorrow at 12
when he has finished painting
he announced,

I saw Mummy
looked down at the tense,
anxious little face that stared
up at me. What could I do?

smiling. I

It Was a very small blue
bicycle, with — English-style
brakes that worked from

levers on the handlebars. I
lifted the boy into the saddle
and guided him with my arm
around his shoulder, as he
wobbled along.

Iways turn the
falling,” I advised.
was wobbling
took my arm away
seconds,
shouted:

way you're

Soon he
wildly. I
for a few
until he noticed and
“Daddy! Hold me
riding
several yards

less

up." And then he
by himself
at a time.

He began learning to get off.
times

for

Two or three
tered and colla
the bicycle, or under it, At
last he swung from the seat,
hopped on one foot and s
upright.

That was the first da:
morning he clamored to ride
the bicycle as soon as he was

he tot-

awake. I began by lifting him
into the saddle. Later he
propped the bicycle against

the curb and began to ride by
himself.

It had been strenuous work,
running alongside the boy and
shouting warnings about the
danger of cars. Suddenly I
realized that I needn't run. It
was a quiet day on a quiet

street. The boy had been a
fast learner.
His face was comically

smug and jaunty as he moved
past me, I stood back against
a hedge and saw the little
figure on the.blue bicycle go
weaving down the English
road. And I knew that I would
remember this day.

Then I began to be afraid.
“You're too small to ride the
whole way to the corner by
yourself,” I shouted. He
turned his face a little side-
ways, as far around as he
dared, and I could see a trace
of his cheeky grin.

I tried to run after him, but
he pedalled furiously, out of
my reach; so I leaned back
against the hedge again and
watched him go. And it
seemed to me that he was ped-
alling away from my life,
down the road that would take
to places that I would

him
never see.

The largest meteorite ever
recovered in Canada, made of
iron and weighing 386 pounds,
was found at Iron Spring
Alberta, in 1869, and is now
displayed at Toronto's Vic-
toria College.

— LOOKS AT —

Old Man River and its
power potential

S By A. J. Drinkell

Dr.

Shrum’s report concerning his enquir.
the power situation in B.C. reputedly contai

suggestion it may be uneconomical to put off devel-
opment of our power potential in order to conserve

a segment of the fish industry.
will receive more than a passing

a suggestion

One wonders if such

thought from the powers that be.

Incidentally, the
boys are busy perus-
ing the preliminary
report of flood con-
trol and hydro-elec-
tric power in the
Fraser River Basin,
compiled by the
Fraser River Board
and submitted to the
Minister of Northern
Affairs, Ottawa, and
the Minister of Lands
Forests at Victoria. It

and
is a
most comprehensive document
requiring the services of two

rvey parties over a period of
five years to obtain the data
and prepare the maps and
charts accompanying same. In
recent years the fisheries com-
mainly through its
chairman, Senator Reid, has
been most voluble in protest-
ing every proposed develop-
ment in the Fraser River
Basin and up to the present
time has been fairly successful
in its efforts.

RASH STATEMENT

Unfortunately many rash
statements have been made
and a distorted yiew presented
to the reading public. On the
other hand the proponents of
power. have been almost in-
audible of the subject—not
that they are disinterested but
most probably because they re-
alize inaccuracies and wild
statements have an uncanny
knack of catching up with the
author. Also, it has been made
to appear almost sacrilege, or

treason, fo voice an pinion
unfavoratfle to the ‘salmon
business.| The amount of

power which can be developed
on the Fraser and its tribu-

Sundays could still
enjoy their hours of
solitary bliss. The
fact that legend has
it that salmon en
route to their spawn-
ing grounds will mot
rise to the baited
hook will not be
rendered more pot-
ent by the ,erection
of power dams.

EFFECT EXAGGERATED

The effect upon the fishing
industry as a whole has been
grossly exaggerated, while
practically nothing -has been
heard of the infinite variety
and’ yast quantities of food-
stuifs that could be produced
on the bench lands of the
Fraser. The economic loss
due. to fish would be infinitesi-
mal as compared with this
gain. It is surprising the
various Boards of Trade and
other service organizations
throughout the north have not
been more voluble in their de-
mands for power development.
The entire Fraser Basin would
be a beehive of industry be-
yond all present conception. It
is difficult to grasp how Mr.
Bennett can possibly make the
claim that power can be de-
livered to the lower mainland
as cheaply or cheaper from
the Peace River district. Aside
from the loss due to resistance,
ete., the construction hazards
to be overcome are stupendous.

Few people have the time
to fully study so complex and
igr-rdaching'a project or series
of projects as outlined in the
report, so we can only hope
the respective governments
will r ider their positions

taries is nh of
it comparatively near our
main centres of industry. The
estimated expenditures are
equally breathtaking. Just
what the development of all
this latent power would mean
to the province as a whole is
difficult for the layman to
conceive. The delivery of a
relatively minute quantity of
reasonably cheap power has
already transformed such
small centres as Clinton, Lac
La Hache, Williams Lake,
Quesnel. Their activity has
been stepped up and the scope
of their operations broadened.

From this it should be pos-
sible to: gain some idea of
what would occur should a
million times that amount of
power be made available to
the whole of our northern
Interior. What is not gene-
rally known is that the greater
portion of salmon entering the
Fraser goes up the Thompson
to the Adams River Basin,
therefore the so-called Fraser
salmon run could not be wiped
out by power development pro-
jects as outlined in the Fraser
River Board’s report. Those
chappies who like to angle on

Letter to the Editor

MATRON'S APPEAL
FOR BLOOD DONORS

The Editor
The Williams Lake Tribune

Dear Sir—As matron of War
Memorial Hospital I would like
to ask all healthy men and
women from 18 to 65 to give
their service, to the Red Cross

Blood Donor clinic open on
Friday, September 18 at the
Elks Hall from 6:30 to 9:30
p.m.

It is a simple procedure, al-
most completely painless and
takes about 35 minutes from the
time you receive a cool drink
from a Red Cross hostess to the
time you receive a hot drink
and biscuits after the blood-test,
blood donation, form-filling and
ten minute rest period have
been completed.

Scarcely a day goes by at the
hospital without us having, to
make use of blood. Year in,
year out we receive blood don-
ated by residents in other parts
of the province. This is our
chance to give something in
return. Remember—blood
saves lives.

MRS. NORTON OLSSON

in the light of Dr. Shrum’s
suggestion and the comprehen-
sive report presented at con-
siderable cost and with such
patient application to duty by
the members of the Fraser
River Board. Such efforts de-
serve to be heeded.

ONE YEAR AGO
September 10, 1958

Registering an emphatic
protest against hospital condi-
tions in the Central Cariboo,
property owners voted over-
whelmingly in favor of the
establishment of a hospital im-
provement district when they
went to the polls last Satur-
day . . . If the Arena Society
can clean up its current liabili-
ties, artificial ice is virtually
assured for the arena this
winter, it was revealed at a
society meeting last Friday...
The hospital board has been
given the green light to go
ahead with their planning and
they have appointed Thomp-
son, Berwick and Pratt as
their architects for the pro-
posed building Square
dancers from Kamloops to
Prince George will be on hand
this Saturday for the second
annual square dance jamboree
sponsored by Williams Lake
Square Dance Club.

FIVE YEARS AGO
September 9, 1954

What is in store for the
cattle industry of the Cariboo
following one of the wettest
summers ever recorded in the
country? This question is
being pondered today by agri-
culturists following surveys of
the entire district that show a
condition worse than existed in
1948 when shortage- of hay
forced some ranchers to sell
of more than their normal
commercial crop and resulted
in the basic herd population
being reduced by an estimated
15 percent . . . Ford Wray of
Prince George won the Cariboo
Open golf championship at
Quesnel over the Labor Day
weekend . . . Work got under-
way on the McKinnon Memo-
rial Church building on the
corner of Third Avenue and

Schools teach two
kinds of religion

By Rev. Arthur M. Anderson

No religion in (the schools?
Others say there shouldn't be.
But actually there is. In fact
there are at least two kinds of
religion taught in our schools.
And unfortunately they move in
opposite directions. On the
one hand our educational
system seeks’ to maintain a
strictly secular and atheistic
curriculum—no religion of any
kind. A slip occurs now and
then, of course, and something

of classical Greek or Roman
religion may be introduced,
For the most part, however,

education proceeds as if there
were no gods and no God.
Consequently, the children learn»
to worship something else:
knowledge power, _ success,
themselves, or sometimes, even

the teacher. This is one re
ligion that is being taught,
Atheism, the religion that

believes in no god.

On the other hand, however,
the Christian religion is
taught. The laws of our proy-
ince allow in the classroom a
Bible reading without com-
ment, and an offering of the
Lord’s Prayer. Here is at
least a nod in the direction of
Christianity. Far more signi-
ficant though, are some of the
most basic aims of the whole
educational program in our
schools. The National Educa-
tion Council in the U.S.A., in
a recent report mentions these
goals: “Respect for human»
personality; moral responsibil-
ity for decision; group rela-
tionships based on co-operation

rather than competition;
brotherhood; and respect for
truth.” This is Christianity,

or a large part.of it. All these
aims spring from the Christian
religion, and would hardly be
accepted where that religion
had not dug itself into society.
But still further (and we find
this in Williams Lake) many
of the best teachers in our
schools are also’ strong mem-
bers of our churches. They
do not smother their faith
when they go through the
school door. On the contrary,
in the quiet casual contacts of
the day, quite apart, perhaps,
from formal instruction, they
are teaching the Christian re-
ligion by radiation.

Our children, then, are
learning two religions in the
schools; the one contradicting
the other. Who can be sur-
prised if they are confused!
Thank God there dare’ some
teachers and parents” helping
their children to find their way
through this confusion to a
meaningful faith. Would that
there were more!

Cameron Street under the
supervision of David Howrie
Ltd., of Vernon.

TEN YEARS AGO
September 8, 1949

A total of 315 children, 45
more than was expected,
showed up for desks and in-
structions at Williams Lake
School Tuesday and according
to J. P. Phillipson, principal,
more are expected . . . Forest
Grove stampede last Saturday
provided an excellent show for
a great number of- summer
tourists in the Cariboo .
Frank Latin was the only
event winner of the 11 repre-
sentatives from Williams Lake
to take part in the golf tour-
nament at Prince George over
Labor Day.

TWENTY YEARS AGO
September 7, 1939

From an official enquiry re-
ceived by the Canadian Legion
here, it is expected that men
for Home Guard duty will be
recruited Police head-
quarters at Williams Lake has
been flooded by men who have
been pouring in from all direc
tions, anxious to volunteer for
military service . . . Word has
been received that the BRX
mine at Bridge River has shut
down.

The happiness of is
made up of minute fractions
—the little soon forgotten

charities of a kiss or smile, a
kind look, a heartfelt compli-
ment, and the countl infiini-
tesimals of pleasurable and
genial feeling Samuel Taylor
Coleridge.

A man should never be
ashamed to own he has been
in the wrong, which is but
saying, in other words, that
he is wiser today than be was
yesterday.—Alexander Pope.