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of Statistics.

out. 1
the line—for instance where it say:

used, not purchased.

over.

about the way it stands.
in which to reform, but we have alr

THE WILLIAMS LAKE TRIBUNE

Wednesday, December 9, 1959

EDITORIAL PAGE

SHADES OF OPINIO

N

Meeting recently in Williams Lake, the South Cari-

boo Ministerial Association
lations of the Lord’s Day

expressed concern over vio-
Act. One of the specific

violations mentioned was the practice of charging ad-
mission to local Sunday sports events.

That this group of Prot
the question of Sunday spo
time was to be expected, p

estant ministers would put
rts on their agenda at this
articularly in view of pub-

licity emanating from Prince George.

However, circumstances

have placed the association

here in an awkward position whe nit comes to arguing

against the practice of cha
Sundays

To begin with, are
events on Sunday, or only
charge of admision is made

the
y against such

T

ng for sports events on

ministers against sports
sports if a

It would seem, acording to the wording of their
own release, that the fact that money changes hands

is the main objection. Or

perhaps this approach is

made because of the phraseology of the Lord’s Day

Act.
It isn’t very long ago
churches of the Ministerial

that one of the member
Association sponsored two

showings of a motion picture in Williams Lake on a
Sunday and charged admission.

No one voiced any objection to the use of the Lord’s
Day for such a worthy project, but in the light of this
latest development, the public might well wonder what
fine shade of difference there is betwen paying to

watch a hockey game and
picture.

money So much as with ge
in entertainment.

NOT JUSTIFICATION

Hopeful chatter

comes

paying to watch a motion

In either case a good percentage of the spec-
tators are no tconcerned with the object of raising

tting their money’s worth

—Letter-Review

from Ottawa concerning

price-support accumulated farm surpluses, which, it

-seems, are moving to markets abroad at a brisk pace

and at prices that may mean a less severe loss to Can-

adian taxpayers than might
curred.

Reason for increased

farm product surpluses is twofold.

otherwise have been in-

price-supported
First, hot, dry

sales of

summer in Europe has reduced domestic farm produc-

tion in many countries. Sec

ond, communist countries

apart from drought conditions, have been running into

growing opposition of farme

rs to collectivization.

Two swallows don’t make a summer. Nor do the
fortuituuos circumstances that have temporarily re-
lieved the government of embarrassingly large price-
support-accumulated farm surpluses provide any justi-

fication for price supports th

emselves.

20,000,000 pounds of price-support-accumulated

ores

buttér has dwindled to sale
because price offered by U.K. was too low.
2,00,000 pounds butter sale was at a loss to the tax-
payer, with sale price of 56 cents a pound substan-
tially below 64 cents a pound support price, plus stor-
age and handling costs.

HEADED FOR JAIL

of only 2,000,000 pounds
Even

on Advance

If you hear something shaking the bars of the cage

(Or

Faithful readers, if any,

in the municipal hall basement one of these days,
don’t assume that someone has caught a Sasquatch.
It will probably be us.
probably be we’’?).

should that read “It will

may remember that back

in June we unleashed a blast about a statistical report
we were supposed to fill out for the Dominion Bureau
The bureau wanted to know a lot more
details about our business than we need to know our-
selves, and we objected both to having to waste our
time rounding up the answers and to having to pay
civil servants to waste their time on such nonsense.

Well, somehow we never did get that form filled

you

The result, of course, wa:

egistered letters.

We started several times, but somewhere along

‘Report materials

Include paper, etc., supplied by
you to other printers doing trade work for you, but
exclude paper, etc., supplied by you to other printer,
publishers of periodicals and other customers.
include returnable containers
chargeable to Capital Account.
which is to be reported under se

“all trade work done for 1
Ready-print, inserts and all partly completed printed
matter purchased for completion in your plant, should
be reported under item D of this section.”
way, somewhere along in these we alwa
grip and flung the thing back in the basket.

Do not
or any other items
Do not include fuel,
on C. The cost of
by other firms, including

Well any-
lost our

s that we started getting

: -erned.
mimeographed letters from the department concerned
After e while we even got typewritten letters, then
Finally, a double registered letter

i i y i stating
which turned out to be a slightly pathetic note sta
that we were too impossible for the local office to deal
with and they would have to tell Ottawa about us.

Mind you, there were times when we sat down to

i tter of explanation, just as there were times
hen 2 sat down to fill out the form. But it seemed
only polite to start the letter by apologizing for the
inconvenience we were causing the department, which
always started us thinking about the inconvenience
the department was causing us, and the letter-never
even got started.

After the double registered letter there was a long

i e—presumably while Ottawa mulled the matter
en But this week came a rather ominous communi-

cation, stating in part:

“The mailing of this registered letter completes

idence or proof of notification .. . uve
ne put to consider the penalty provisions of the
statistics act . .
to co-operate
tion

. we can only
and leave yo

On the whole we have to
We

it leaves no alter-

conclude that you refuse
urself open to prosecu-

agree with them, that is
have another two weeks
dy arranged to

spend that time Sasquatch hunting in California. No
doubt the jail doors will be
back.

beckoning when we get

| picture taken

As it used to look
Almost hidden against the hil
old mining town of

side
Barkerville
in the 1920's.

is the
in this

CRACKER

a. Px

BREL

— DISCUSSES —
The unusual utterances
of Premier Douglas

By A. J.

The Premier of Saskatchewan has j
a tour of Europe and Great Britain

Drinkell

ust completed
At our last

hold-forth one.of the beys produced a report on:an
address he gave before the U.K. Chamber of Com-

merce.

Among other
things, Mr. Douglas
told his audien
“Canada is naturally
concerned about
European community
of Six Nations and
the free trade area
of the so-called
Outer Seven. While
Canada welcomes
trade liberalization
among European countries as
a unifying influence in inter-
national affairs, Canadians are
apprehesive these economic
groups could develop into pro-
tectionist blocs instead of fol-
lowing a policy of freer trade
which would tend to torce
Canada further into the U.S.
economic orbit.”

He also recalled
Minister Diefenbaker’s
tion that a shift of 15 per cent
of Canada
U.S. to the U.K.
correct the imbalance
Canada’s trade position. The
was much more of the same.

the

Prime

ass

would lar,

of

During our discussion one
chappie wondered just how
naive Mr. Douglas deemed his
audience to be. Another
opined that they who have
“followed John” since the
election must conclude he has

tin the said 15

nsfer and would, in
yone to forget he
mentioned the matter.
Surely, saith another chappi
Mr. Douglas will know Canada
will have no room for
plaint if she finds protective
tariffs impending the entry of
her products into other mar-
kets? She maintains tariffs
and other restrictions against
innumerable things entering
this country. Britain, for ex-
ample, would like to exchange
textiles for farm products,
lumber, fish, ete.

com-

RELY ON EXPORT

Mr. Douglas must also be
aware that Canada despite her
increased industrial activit
still remains primarily a pro-
ducing country and must re
on export markets for the di
posal of her surpluses
Coming from Saskatchewan
Mr. Douglas must our
high tariff policy causes the
mer to pay exhorbitantly
for the things needed in
business thus raising his pro-
duction costs and compelling
him, in turn, to demand pro-
tection against the dumping of

hug

realize

his

farm countries into
this country at prices
he cannot __ possibly
compete against. If
Messrs. Diefenbaker,
Douglas and Co. are
really concerned
about the eventual
loss of the European
markets, they must
immediately under-
- take what the late
Foster Dulles described as “An
agonizing reappraisal"; that is
to say they must finally recog-
nize the fact that there are no
one-way thoroughfares
the lanes of commerce.
must find answers to such ques-
tions as: Can we continue bol-
ering up economic industries
to the detriment of our primary
products? Of what value will
such industries be when our ag-
becomes derelict?

sl

riculture

What object is there in the

further development of our
power resources in order to
broaden the scope of our pro-
ductive capacity if we have no
markets for what we already
can produce? How much
longer can we afford the lux-
ury of unbridled trade

unionism? Would it not prove
better all round if we sought
membership in the freer trade
movement inst: of wasting
our substance bucking it?

Until these answers are
forthcoming words emanating

from the mouths of our states-
ment cannot fail to have a hol-
low sound to the ears of the
U.K. Chamber of Commerce.

Nature’s

scrapbook
BY BILL MYRING

The deer, like most wild ani-
mals, lives in a world where he
is guided largely by a sense of
smell. It is not a special sense,
but a highly developed one. Deer
blaze their trails with scent-
secreting glands located above
the hocks on their hind legs.
When these glands are removed
the deer thus handicapped be-
comes easily lost The mule
deer, which has a high, bound-
ait when running, and con-
deal of
single has
scent glands about six times as
large and potent as those of the

eat

LOOKING
BACK ALONG
THE TRAIL

ONE YEAR AGO
December 10, 1958
Louis Lourmais, of Brest,
France, commonly accepted to
have more guts than brains,
is still paddling down the Fraser
River while ice — thickens
around him . . . Cause of the
water failure early Tuesday
morning and again Tuesday
afternoon which left the en-
tire town without the vital
liquid was reported as a cor-
roded automatic control at the
pumping station . . . Although
residents have complained for
ears at the inconvenience of
trying to locate anyone in town
due to lack of numbers and
street names, very few people
have taken advantage of the
fact that they can now num-
ber their home For the
first time in 43 years, an up-
to-date history of British Col-
“umbia has hit the book stalls
— and it is expected to be a
national best seller The
present policy of the Depart-
ment of Lands as it is being
applied in the Lae La Hache
and Williams Lake working
circles will deal a crippling
blow to the economy of the
district, according to princi-
pals of several local firms who
are seeking public support in
the fight shaping up between
industry and government.

FIVE ¥)
December
Village
healthy
Comm
Goad

9,
finances are in
shape, according to
ion Chairman Stan
addressing the stew-
t Thursday
Funeral services
afternoon
from St. Peter's Anglican
Church for John Dexter Smed-
ley, one of the town’s earliest
businessmen, who passed away
home Sun
year
studen
been suspended as a result of a
full-scale investigation —_con-
dueted by school authorities into
wave of shop lifting from
local stores . Just over
per og of the guided huntin
trips Mis season in tlie Williams
Lake area were successful ones,
according to figures compiled by
Game Warden Joe Gibault.
TEN YEARS AGO
December 8, 1949
The six canvassers for funds
for the War Memorial Centre
building collected $1,200 with
nearly all from residents and
business firms in the town of
Williams Lake, according to the
chairman of the canvassing com-
. G. Woodland... Ten
of the 70 lots offered by the PGE
Railway in the new subdivision
were bid on by purchasers and
sold last Tuesday when H. W.
MeNeil, executive assistant of
the Railway, opened the sealed
tenders... The B.C. Division,
Canadian Red Cross, opened its
13th Outpost Hospital Unit in
this province Saturday at Alexis
Creek... A meeting was held
in Forest Grove Community Hall
on Wednesday evening, Novem-
ber 30 for the purpose ot
forming a Board of Trade for
Forest Grove, Canim Lake and
Buffalo Creek.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
December 11, 1939
The Youth’s Vocational Train-
ing School at Williams Lake
now operating under the leader-
ship of three genial, popular
men instructors and three
pleasing and accomplished young
lady instruetors with Mr. Rennie
as principal, have a regular at-
tendance of from 30 pupils
and up... A top price of 75¢ a
pound was paid by Sateways
Ltd. for the Grand Champion
single steer shown by the West-
ern Canadian Ranching Co. at
the Christmas Show and Sale
at Kamloops The North
Cariboo Growers Co-operative
Association with headquarters
at Quesnel, has applied for in-
corporation under the Co-opera-
tive Associations Act to take
over the business of marketing
potatoes, to control the handl-
ing of potatoes, growing, mark-
eting and distribution.

in
ardship mee
night

were conducted thi

ng

a

THE WILLIAMS LAKE
TRIBUNE

Established 1931

Editor, Clive Stangoe

Published ever Wednesday at

Williams Lake, B.C., by the
Cariboo Press Limited.
Subscription per year _ $3.00
Outside Canada $4.00

Advertising rates on application

Authorized as Second Class
Mail by the Post Office

THE MACDUFF OTTAWA REPORT

Loud bark, short leash

OTTAWA — After two years ployed to mobilize the weight

of study, the royal commission
on price spreads has brought
down a report written in re-
strained and moderate language
by men and women of the same
temperment.

The implications of some of
their proposals and suggestions,
however, border on the revolu-
tiona

They concluded that excessive
profits and promotion expendi-
tures by the major grocery
chains and some of the food
processors were partly
for the growing spread
price between farmer
housewife,

The remedy they
was the bright glare of public-
ity. What they proposed was
the formation of a permanent,
independent Council on Prices,
Productivity and Income by the
government and intensive in-
vestigation of the buying and
selling practices of the food in-
dustry by the Combines Branch
ot the Justice Department.

Because the food industry is
closely allied with the course of
many other industries, the re-
port suggested that the Council
should not confine itself to that
one alone, but should act as a
watchdog over the economy gen-
erally.

In effect this Council would
act as a guardian for the inter-
ests of an important and long-
neglected segment of the com-
munity the consumer. It
would inevitably find itself in
the position of protecting the
consumer from being caught in
the middle between managemnt
on the one hand and labor on
the other.

While it would have no auth-
ority, it might obviously be em-

to blame
the
and

in

SPEAKING
PARSONALLY

BY. REV. A, ANDERSON
People often talk about the
ul meaning of Christma:
as of there were only one mean-

ing that was real.” But that is
only partly true. Christmas has
a multitude of meanings, and
each of them is real to some-
one " some
iy has a sociat
deaning. Prob-
ably most of
us look for

ward to Christ-
mas as being a
time when we
meet friends

more often,
and get to
know them
better. (Some-

times this is terribly disillusion-

ing). Or perhaps during this
season our thoughts move to-
ward the gross inequalities

within our society and through-
out the world. And in our own
small ways we try to do some-
thing about them. These mean-
ings of Christmas are real, very
real.

For many, Christmas has also
a family meaning. Relatives
come together who may have
been apart for the rest of the
year. Celebrations are carried
out in ways that are rooted
deeply within the family’s own

and tradition. These fam-

ily meanings are real, very real

But. Christmas carries a
slightly different meaning to
when all ‘else been said,
every single person, because
any kind of celebration is ulti-
mately a personal
To someone  Christn
mean sorrow becaus
there is a vacant chair at the
festive table. To someone it
will mean joy because this year
he has found someone with
whom to share his celebrations
and his life. To someone else
it will mean lonliness because
for him there is no family mean-
ing to Christmas. To someone
else again it will mean a meas-
ure of disappointment because
this year there was no money
for an elaborate celebration, or
for costly gifts. All these in-
dividual meanings of Christmas
are real, very real.

Yet there is another meaning
of Christmas, as real as all the]
rest, which ought to infiltrate
and give a different ring too
all the other meanings. Of
course, I refer to the religious
meaning. God came to us in
the person Jesus Christ. And
He who is the same yesterday,
today, and forever, still comes
to us. The social meanings of
Christmas take on a clearer
reality because of this coming.
The family meanings are hal-
lowed by a love which is even
stronger than love within the
family. The individual mean-
ings are tempered by the glory
f the religious meaning.

Tm glad there is more than
one real meaning of Christmas.
Ir would rather be a drab occa-
sion otherw

has

celebration.
will
this year

of public opinion to give the
consumer strength in the battle
between big business and big
unions.

The proposal is another re-
flection of the demand that is
being heard with increasing
frequency in both Canada and
the U.S. that some way be found
to guard the interests of the
ordinary consumer.

If this proposal has radical
implications, they are mild com-
pared to other tentative sugges:
tions advanced by the seven-man
commission.

For example, they raised the
possibility that if publicity did
not work it might be necessary
for the government to impose
what would amount to an excess
Profits tax on the earnings of
companies that were more than
“fair and reasonable.” What
would be fair and redsonable, it
did not define.

LIMIT TO EXPENDITURE

It suggested the possibility of
a limit being imposed on the
amount of money to be spent on
Promotion by food retailers and
Processors, or, alternatively of
some forms of promotion being
Prohibited completely.

The report no virtue
in trying to turn back the
clock by breaking up the five
corporate grocery chains
retching across much of the

saw

country. But it added; “It
could well be an object of
policy, however, to limit con-

centration and to prevent fur-
ther concentration which offers
little prospect of achieving fur-
ther increases in efficiency.”
Understandably enough, the

commission has the food in-
dustry reeling and other in-
dustries regarding some of
these proposals with great

concern. ‘‘With the existing
structure of the food indust-
ries, the welfare of the con-
sumer can not be assumed to
be secured by the decision of
large industrial organizatio:
the report said. The same
thing might be said of many
other industries in Canada.

READERS LETTERS

"I noticed your re-
cent article in your newspaper
on the wu
Bridge Lake Schoo? following
the Hallowe'en party held
there. May I take this oppor-
tunity to correct you.

First, there was no break-in.
The youngsters were caught at
the door. Secondly, no dam-
age was done to the school.
There was not even a soaped
window.

One should check the sources
in information before publish-
ing such an article of this
nature in the paper. It re-
flects on our school and our
community. Kindly have this

letter printed as the truth is
known

P. HAMPTON,
Principal,
Bridge Lake School.

Contrary to Mr.

opinion, news items
from smaller communities are
not entirely rumour. The re-

ports come
respondents. This, course,
does not preclude the possibility
of errors, but then errors happen
in written by our full-
reporters as well.

1 check with the School
Board reveals a aiserepancy in
Mr. Hampton's account’ of the
incident, He states emphatic-
ally there was no break-in. A
School Board official says that
two boys forced open the school
door and had walked the length
of the room before they were
interrupted by a neighbor who
had heard the racket at. the
door and gone to investigate.

of

stories

time

Dear Sir —

Two weeks ago I did comment
on the teacher’s sarary schedule
ot Williams Lake. My  con-
clusions that an “Elementary
gAdvance Certificate” would be

from appointed cor-_

firm recommendation submit-
ted virtually without comment
that is of no special signifi-
cance. That is a requirement
that all private companies be
required to make public their
financial statement. For the
first time this would enable
outsiders to look at the com-
panies like Eaton’s department

store and such wholly-owned
foreign subsidiaries as General
Motors and Chrysler of
Canada.

CAPITAL HILL CAPSULES
“Broaden the base!”’ seems
be becoming the great
ery of Canada’s politi-
The CCF has been
this pursuit for
through its plans
for a merger with the affiliates
the Canadian Labdr Con-
gress. The Conservatives were
working at it in a more limited
way last week as they provided
for a greatly increased repres-
entation (from 200 to nearly
1,500) at annual general meet-
ings of the party association.
Soon the Liberals will unveil
their own plan for broadening
the party’s support. one pro-
posal being creation of party
membership other than in local
constituency organizations.

to

cal parties.
in

engaged

Both Liberals and Conserva-
tives are taking note of Hon.
Lester Pearson’s diagnosis of
the former government’s down-
fall — “the Brass lost touch
with the Gras Both have
now provided for annual meet-
ings of members from across
the country,’ the Conservatives
doing so on an even grander
scale than the Liberals.

The Liberal leading Ottawa
Citizen came up with a show-
stopping headline at the Con-
servative convention. A change
in the co tution required the
West Ottawa Conservative
Association to accept females to
its previously all-male member-
ship. Read the headline:
“Force West Ottawa Men to
Accept Tory Women.”

TO THE EDITOR

the top level of certification,
and therefore salary, in the
Elementary school was entirely
incorrect and my lack of edequ-
ate information was unforgiv-
able.

I was indeed happy, however,
to be corrected and frankly en-
joyed the repromand so duly
accorded me by the British Col-
umbia Teacher’s Federation.

I was much impressed by
both the British Columbia
Teachers’ Association and the
Williams Lake Teachers *Assoc-
iation for their unified efforts
in correcting the fallacy of my
too hasty conclusions. And, I
find myself even more interested
in British Columbia because of
the outcome of this incident.

I hope there is a place for
an apology in your newspaper.

Dear = Sir,
Tribune the heading
charged with murder of
arrested by attention.

On read-
ing this article I learned that a
life had been taken, a wife left
a widow and an innocent babe
lett

fatherless. And this
the
inking

on at the time of the

why
to

ice there had been ¢
going
tis cae

Atter glancing
rest of the paper I saw
five advertisements

the
at least
inviting

people to drink. Mr. Editor, by
accepting these

and displaying

otherwise fine newspape

not feel some responsibility
these acts of violence that from
time to time make headlines in
The Tribune?

The Christmas sea: is’ fast
approaching and as a result of
liquor it is going to be the most
miserable, heartbreaking time
ever experienced by somebody in
the Cariboo. We'll be reading
about it in The Tribune.

MRS. C. N. BEST

“He makes his mind
up sudden-like does old
Charlie. If

needs tuning,

his car
chances
are he’s gone down to

see Lloyd.

Lieyd Berkan

PHONE 177

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