Review

LUMBIA RIVER power
ust be public power.

is is the only assurance that
ydro-electric potential of the
umbia River will not be sold
directly or indirectly, to the
fous U.S. interests ‘scheming
ain control of it.

E is equally the only assur’
> that the power required for

future development of this
Wince will remain within pub-
sontrol and be available as it
eded at low rates.

e Labor-Progressive party
eady campaigning for public
opment and control. Vari-
sections of the trade union

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The old Hudson’s Bay Company fort at Fort Langley, shown in this historic picture, is to
be restored as a joint federal-provincial undertaking for British Columbia’s centennial
celebrations in 1958. Cost of restoring the fort, of which only one building, now used as a
museum, remains, is estimated at $250,000. ’

Make Mica Dam a public project

movement have similarly placed
themselves on record. So have
such organizations as the Nelson
Chamber of Commerce.

In the circumstances, the state-
ment made this week by Robert
Strachan, CCF provincial leader,
demanding that the Mica Creek
project be developed by the B.C.

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Power Commission, brings
powerful support to the popular.
movement now finding common
ground in defense of the national
interest. And nothing less than
the national interest — the indus-
trial development of this province
and jobs for its people — is the
issue at stake.

Comment

New forest
policy needed

WHEN former Liberal MLA
Gordon Gibson appeared be-
fore the Sloan Royal Commis-
sion on Forestry recently and
branded the forest management
license system in B.C. “‘a com-
plete failure’ he confirmed what
the Labor-Progressive party has
said for some time.
_ When Gibson further advo-
cated abolition of all forest
management licenses and crea-
tion of a series of public working
circles where timber could be
sold by public auction, he was in
effect endorsing — as thousands
of people in B.C. have already
endorsed — the concrete pro-
posals advanced by LPP pro-
vincial leader Nigel Morgan in
his pamphlet, British Columbia
Needs a New Forest Policy.
These LPP proposals were
submitted in the form of a brief
to the Sloan Commission some
time ago. It is to be hoped that
when the report is brought down
some such plan will be included
in its recommendations, plus pro-
posals for speeding up the de-

velopment of wood manufactur-

ing and processing industries,
and a policy to assure a stable
and expanding market for our
lumber products.

— Tom
McEwen.

like an angry cobra at the refill.

up with the Joneses.”

N HIS TOWN HOME Mr. Bugs

screams his head off if there
isn’t enough hot water for a bath,
if the drip of a leaky tap disturbs
his slumber, or the toilet tank hisses

* generally

In electric stoves, fridges and
similar “modern living” gadgets he
insists on the best and mortgages
his future to satisfy the urge to “keep

But in a-“cottage by the sea” for
a week’s vacation, Mr. Bugs returns
to fundamentals like a veteran
pioneer, ready to “rough it” at a
rental which would give him ap-

which illustrates the undiminishing
perversity of homo sapiens.

* * *

We picked our Shangri-la in one
of these quiet Vancouver Island re-
sorts. The leaflet described the
cottage-by-the-sea atmosphere and
sylvan locale very accurately. All
the cottages had charming names
derived from Indian lore. The rest
was left to the delights of discovery.

The furnishings were simple —
speaking, they. were
among the most delightful. antique
pieces ever found outside a junk
yard. You got into bed with a
feeling of imminent collapse and
were surprised when morning came
to find the thing still standing on its
four shaky legs.

The huge old 19th century kitchen
stove was the cottage masterpiece.
To our question, “Will it burn?”
the proprietor proudly replied that
his venerable .grandmother had
baked the finest bread in the country
on this same stove!

After some, experimenting and no

little coaxing we got to know of its
numerous eccentricities and could
produce a fine roasting temperature
with all drafts open. Then we had
to vacate the cottage until it cooled
down.

sea” you return abruptly, like turn-
ing back the pages of time, to that
great American institute known as
“outdoor plumbing.” Set deep among
the whispering pines these ancient
outposts stand proud guard, their
only link with modern civilization
being a frayed edition of an Eaton’s
catalogue or an old edition of the
Ladies Home Journal. Here the
noted author and architect, Chick
Sale, would find much atmosphere
for a new edition of his great “double
decker” masterpiece of primitive
culture !

the thrill of being back in the 18th
century and enjoying it. Life with
an old stove, a bed that sways like
an old barge, and the exhilerating
tang of the sea has still muth more
te offer than any TV program.

Here too, in these “cottages by the

A week in Shangri-la gives you

oplexy in his home town. All -of

July 13, 1956 —PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 7