. a¢dademy: a1 d an’ institute of advanced vy ve ae Sete tina seme ane sues ent JOHN: F ‘MAGOR | ° . President” wa * we ws DN bee a dependent 1 newspaper: ‘devoted ‘to ‘the, pbuilding nce Rupert and Northern and Central British Columbia. — ber ofthe Canadian: Press — Audit Bureau of Circulation Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers. Association . ublished by The Prince Rupert Daily News. Limited» as second. lass ‘mall by ‘the Post Office ‘Department Ottawa wee OVA SEA Ce OEE EO ‘ vy tae Poy, ‘ oy toe ye re ed J.R. ‘AYRES “Managing Editor . eg d, we td ring British’ Golumbia’s s education Up to a ‘standard necessary for S ‘gical age. > sLoeal: organizations who presented - brief ; to the commission here, and” — The. Daily. News itself, which long. be- ae labored. the’ inadequacy of the present ved pablie school ..system, will. find. many - “of: the “improvements suggested’. by eed in the Chant report... oe : > Of | the major recommendations - joy “vocational | ‘schools, ae ‘collegiate’ sential to ‘work at. all. We are also extremely, pleased: at the stress placed on a return to, em- phasizing the “three R's,” so that we will not continue to send illiterates to university. For the same reason we are glad that: a-start is to‘be made to- rd ziniplementation of full degree = Bafa care ° urged Bighty-six. ‘people’ died: ‘on Canadian ‘roads during the last Christmas and New ‘Year holidays ‘and ‘experts are ptedicting that this figut re will be sur- passed before the New, ‘Year’ holiday is:over. . ‘The fact. that there. were at least six traffic accidents and some injuries © during the Christmas weekend should give city drivers cause to consider the safety of others as well as themselves. The tragic accident tol] across: Canada is not ‘inevitable, nor is it in Prince Rupert. A little extra ca ive on the part of both ‘motorists an id pedestrians i * ae ated o can you imagine what. would happen if, in n'city the’size and. importance: of Quebec City, Windsor or. ‘Calgary, a’strie cut-out ‘all tele- phone communication; for #, prolonged period? /Down in Trinidad, . telephones have . been silent for over four. months. But Port-of-Spain, the capital and. ‘business and industrial centre, has taken {fallin its stride, Business. 1s better thar ever d,: what's m rman Jmportant, rela tions betwen: busine cordial than - they } st the phon an 4 Main’ a sree es snea "0 ° we rds wen rae nioniane ‘ ap is . changed. Tofed : Canade 0 He orevelven ane re Or outetien sprees ri ‘Ys the two-year’ study, the former | for ap- How, to live without a phone of commerce and head of one of the biggest . ‘ara"-even™ more»: ‘ the toca chamber - } i o:he ai Tora ‘Toronto, to. “tional loan plan to subsidize teacher-. - | training to a maximum of $4,000; there is aid for school boards to help : them build the required hundreds of - classrooms and shops envisioned un- - der the proposed new system; a better: chance is offered ‘the s tudent in the . streamlined, de - frilled curriculum plus bursaries for. deserving students in rural areas. For parents’ there are ]- free text books on basic subjects and a longer school term for their chil- dren, cutting down on the longer sum- mer vacation at the end of which chile dren are almost eager to return to school and mothers. cannot. wait For the opening school bell. Also important are the clauses gov- , erning an increase in requirements. for basic elementary certificates for teachers, regulations to provide with- _ drawal of unsatisfactory teachers and a centrally-negotiated, provinee - wide teachers’ salary scale. | Without a doubt, the proposed ve vision of the school system is going to. cost a tremendous amount, ‘of money. This is something that the. provincial | government and. taxpayers. -have to-.- - recognize. The” increased Gost will be 1: the.price to. be paid for survival. 7 it’s not ‘met and met handsomely, we If pointing the commission. and the latter for its painstaking” job. ‘Whether’ the . commission’s work will bear: fruit de- pends on the government. Since the present education system’ has ‘been found wanting for some* years’. now, the sooner the majority of the Chant — Commission’ s report is. implemented, the greater the value B.C.’s education | system will be. to its youth, its econ- omy and the rest of Canada.. to cut mishap toll. could curb traffic accidents substan- tially. -The Tea Council of Canada, as part of its annual safe-driving campaign, offers these suggestions for a safe New Year holiday: vo Don’t drive if you are tired. Obey the speed limits, © Don’t mix alcohol with: driving. Before driving home from par- ties have a cup of hot tea or other. alertness beverage, pedestrian give the other ‘fellow a chance, 7 -. import houses In -Port-of-Spain told FP why. “T now get to office half.an- hour eariler. I go through my mail, do necessary dictation and make decisions faster. Then I get. off my seat and go and see customers... 4. * ‘Where my customers were once: just ‘voices: on the telephone, they are now, very. personal people, Many have become my friends.’ And my business has increased dn’ the ‘nah. four ” months,” Ma _ Every cloud has its moral, _ The’ Fingnell “Report rm Yee wm ¢ Toronto nq Toronto left, 1 believe it will be the end of elviligation.” you too, . ‘ neath are the Everlasting Arms. Deut, 38:87. 4 eations 4a true of individuals as: well. as.of ations, ETE ey wi aveuyy Ayes wea - ns . feats hasnt hes Ceca ew eevee ee peten panes Re CENCE Slee of. the year. a a Me Lae wos re eee eK eect ane WE] NT ew tet Vee Rw eee Ee | ye NY eye es SOI OR 8 AR YO IE HOw Py ~S ¥WN WN VED eae OU be Vee HRW FLOWER OF THE HOLY NIGHT — Poinsettia plants are called flowers ‘of the Holy Night in Mexico. and ETD florists: »SBYer. that these heat-loving plants, which flower in warm Canadian , ‘homes, ‘are .still. among the ‘most popular choice for Christmas gifts. The Florists’ Telegraph Delivery Association, reports: wiring more flower gifts during Yuletide. than any other time ous hollies and: greenery. xX Other | flower choices at this season were carnations, chrysanthemums and vari- Photo by MALAK, Ottawa vee Tee ee ew RY _ represented with two one. looking - forward-and-the - ewe VERVE Ce er, rye rr Ce Oe 2 Aa at ee ag, ae - Peering into. the future By LEWIS. MILLIGAN Janus, after, whom January was named, was the’ Roman — god of gates and doors. He was faces, other backward. Man has been _ described.as.the only creature. - that looks behind and before; - but, unlike Janus, he can anly ng, direction The past éri; vista’ *: DIMI ; recent * “events dim: ‘mists of prehis- orice’. ‘ages, The future: ds “a blank. And yet from ancient times man has been . impa- * tlent and curious about the future.” The Greeks and: Ro- mans had their oracles, pwhich - were consulted by” emperors — and - even the common: “people — before: ‘venturing . upon some national campaign’ ‘or private. enterprise. Ambitious men_in_ all ages | have been obsessed with a de-.. sire to peer into | the’. future. Napoleon. consulted: ‘astrolo- ‘gists, and Hitler had a private - -- fortune-teller. Hitler was. pro- bably prompted by fear and a '. guilty conscience, for he had his. fits of gloom and passion, from which the oracle relieved “him with lying forecasts — of victory. and world power, All oracles ° are ‘deliberate ‘liars;; they can. ‘read the-pre- ‘sent condition. of their con- sultants and... accommodate them with the. they desire. A famous example ‘of that was the’ Delphic or- acle telling Croesus that if he -.began a war he would destroy on great Empire. He went to. ‘ Whether you be a driver or a | Thank you, Mr. Green; thank you very -much, Wo Torontonlans think pretty highly of | ~ From The Toronto Globe and Mall | e ie Bible Thought for Today - The eternal God is. thy refuge and under- : a ALL ABOARD with G. E -Mortimore ‘The’ game of “I invented ib first” between’ Russia.’ and*" “‘America has been played with: great zeal on both sides,. these: ~ last” several syears. - The two giants, intent ‘only upon, ‘elouting. ‘each other.on th : ny: invention ‘they: saw" dying - around, without - m invented It Fiirst” sis a childish game, since no ‘nation and no individual can claim sole credit for any ad- “vance of knowledge. i Inventors don’t- pull ideas’ from the air, They put them ‘together from the’ materials “supplied - by other mea.’ “Each ‘invention is built on -eentur- ‘ies of ‘knowledge, Men with creative minds are able to put together old “elements into new shapes. But they: can't do: this strictly on their own. The time must be ripe for it, The raw materials must. be there. And those raw materials come from many countries. The stuff of know- ledge is international. However, when. al} that has been said, the game of “I in- vented It First” can be fun to play, as long as you dont be- Neve it is real. ++ + I see in the Sentinel, the of- ‘ficial magazine of the Loyal Orange Association (which someone kindly sends to me) that Canadians have invented a number of useful things, _- “The constant ballyhoo and -propaganda concerning Rus- sian (and U.S.) inventive achievements so annoyed a Brantford, Ont., businessman, Cyril D. ‘Henderson, that he ‘decided to blow Canadas trum- -pet for a while, ' . “After two years’ research he publicized a pamphlet of Can- adian and British inventions that far outshine those of the ‘Soviet ‘Union, . It’ sts 20 firsts that are definitely Canadian and 53 _ that are British ..." ‘For Cannda, he claims: ‘Insulin, by two. -Torunto doctors, The telephone, by Alexander Bell, The railway sleeping car, built at Brant- ford ‘and Hamilton. ' Standard time, originated by “Canadian Sanford Fleming, ' ‘Paper made from pulp, dis- ;covered jn St, John and Nap- anes, Two ‘famous wheat strains Maras _ Reward, “The first crossing of the At- Tanti by a steamship, the - Canadian-made Royal Will- jany. The compound, steam en- pine, which replaced the oner “aylinder type. rhe {iret come mercial of] well In North Am- -erlea, at, Ol} Springs, Ont. . The submarine cable, which “‘Wnked New Brunawick and. Prince Edward Yaland, ' The* _.. Glectrie heater, at Ottawa, The ' plepm ‘Soghorn. -Hellum gas, at. ‘the Univers : sity of Toronto, Pablum, ane ie other. U.of T first, now, world. renowned as a baby food, Life - eum, loom.: * matches, machine, insurance, started by a Cana- ‘dian in New York.’ . Hockey, five-pin towling, and basketball. The world’s first board of trade,-at Hali- fax. The founding: of womens, institutes, at Brantford. ‘These are the first for Great Britain: : ‘Propellor-turbine . “pirliners, air matt - service,’ antiseptics, atomic power station;. Besse- mer: stee] process. blood cir-._ culation. discovery, cellulose, Portland cement, Liquid compass, reinforced * concrete, elastic, electric clock, — - electric dynanio, electric lamp, - chemical fertilizer, fire exting- ‘uisher. fountain pen, hydraulic " press, jet engine, latex ( foam), lawn mower, lifeboat, linol- . ‘Macadam © roads; * griétion microphone, open hearth furnace, penicillin, - photographic negatives, pneu- matic tire, postage stamp, ra- dar. reaping machine sextant. ' Ship’ stabilizer, tirst Atlan- tic flight (Alcock and Brown), slide -rule, spinning jenny, spinning mule, ‘stainless steel, steamboat, steam hammer, | steam locomotive, : telegraph. - reflecting telescope. ee de threshing. ma- ‘vacuum: boring Television, : ‘chine, vaccination, : - cleaner, aniline dye, chronometer, coal-- ‘lamp. electromagnets, - food . cutting machine, electric arc ‘ canning, machine-made glass ' bottle. -Hair spring, miner's ‘safety “lamp, motor boat, bicycle, ro- ; tary press, . screw niicrometer, - seismometer, -yacuum bottle, water closet, . The last: item is’ an Inter- or "Catalog of seeds he ' Timed with precision for that time of year When every garden sleeps be- neath the snow And gardeners plan their gar- dens by the fire, Tho catalog presents a fashion * -show— Crossed strains, best hybrids, vegetables and | ‘flowers. :, ‘It is the prelude { to an early ° -epring, The herald of less dark and . longer hours. - : When. sun turns north again “yand marshes ring. with pyle choruses In allyer. - 7 9018 ? eurely 08 | the songons em around 34 J4. h o fill a ‘oyele”. turo’s rules,. A book of. Boods. will melt the frozen groun(’. ; And: furrow drifts one Febru- 1. Ory with. colored: splendor, far au mind can sec. ee . ‘heping’ ft fae G — William Vincent Bielier 7 ‘Short sermons When: you lose hope, you'll “woaker “ne. argument, _ i ‘ her with: ‘onything. ae the m ‘ronger the words, universal joint, ° . the people..of that + want to. goon using some of. ' their original models, it’s their esting one, who are always. critizing English plumbing. Britain in- vented indoor plumbing. If country cwn. business. Some North Americans har- : bor: the » . strange . nation - that ~ Britain is, a fusty" old. ‘country. 23 . Britain is. the. Far from ‘it. motherland of the industrial revolution, And the industrial revolution includes the water closet aS well. as the atomic power generator. 7 for those people — ‘war and destroyed his own, That is a-bit of ancient his- ‘tory, but: it has been repeated ’ down through the years, rul- ers and would-be world rulers are still peering. into. the fu--- ture and consulting the or- acles for confirmatiion of their dreams of power. Karl Marx was the greatest oracle of the 19th century. and he is still doing a roaring business — es-_ pecially in-the Near East and Africa. The rulers of Russia and China have put their whole faith in his utopian predictions. Stalin, who at ‘studied for the. .one time scope whole. and he proceeded to fulfil it. by violence and treachery, His succesor, Nikita «. « Khrushchev;: tries hard’ son OC-.. caSion to: be affable, : ‘but he — jean be as fanatical asa whirl- — “ing dervish when. the infalli- bility of his oracle is, flouted. He has himself assumed’ the -“mantle of a prophet by. dog- : matically declaring that the 2 tention’ of ‘stretching — * dietion:: _ thank Mr. Khrushchev for his predictions . the lighter side, _ priesthood, . swallowed Karl Marx's -horo- ~ wee yer g o ae ‘ an at: present United the grandchildren of the inhabitants of the States will live under Communist system. On that authority we can look forward to the New Year “with agsurance that Mr. Khru- shchev has no immediate in- annihilating the inhabitants of this continent with his fantastic rockets; ‘for that would, cancel out the ful- filment” ‘cof his: oracular pre- ‘We ‘can gratefully promised respite from Com- munism for ,at least a couple of generations, and wish him, along with ourselves, a Happy ‘and ‘Prosperous New: Year. caren pemmaninrsee eer eran teen With the. classics Should auld. acquaintance | bes ‘forgot, “9° ‘And never brought to mina? Should auld acquaintance be: ‘forgot, SR “And auld lang. syne? nes For auld lang ‘syne, my dear, For. auld’ Jang syne, We'll tak a'cup 0’ kindness yet, For auld: lang syne. And there’s’a hand, my trusty fiere! . And gie’s a hand o’ thine! And we'll ‘tak a right gude- willie waught, , For auld lang. syne, For auld lang syhe, etc. ~—Robert Burns. Hostess .to her principal % guest: ‘I: ‘suppose I mustn Offer you wine. Aren't yours chairman’ of thre Temperance: League?” -“Oh, no,” said the. guest! “I'm president of the Anti- ~Vice League.” - “Oh.” replied the now flus- “tered hostess, “I knew there ~ Was” . something I shouldn't “offer: you.” f i —eeeeemcamemmeninmans She madea right- -hand,turn . from the left lane and collide® with anothér car. -. “Lady—why didn’t, you *sig- nal?” he -roared. * “Don't be silly,” she; retort ed, ‘I always turn here.” ee at The husband was telling the divorce judge— ..“Then I came nome and - found my wife embracing a strange man... but what hurt most. of all, sees’ me she says to. this strange man, ‘Well, look who’s here; old blabbermouth; now the’ whole neighborhood will _ know’. ” hi tonight. 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