fo dependent new: pane fP ince. Rupert: and’ Nor paper “Publishes Association Pr ne Rupert: Daily News Limited. “Most “gongs are “wellten’ ‘in i tortionists of ‘music, that no - one of two ways: either o poem vestige remains of the relation. -or clever lyrie ‘is written . first,, ship “between the meaning of and sultable -music ‘designed: ‘the words ‘and ‘the sound of to suit the words; or else. a’ the music—the secret of the composer dreams up'‘a.-beau- ‘song’s continued: popularity, ~tiful: or. interesting. melody, ‘y Stride by stride, we are en- and! “words: Are ; COOK et yto.» tering ‘into . an era. in’ which sult: the! tune... / meaning. is” sacrificed : for a Most of,” the: popular: 'sorigs = fash. buck. en ve "written: in ‘the’ past: thirty years: “were composed ‘by ma tunesmiths inj search of a fast buck: rather than ee WOODSIDE 3 - General Mannger roma om | “Time short” : From. ‘The Brandon Sun _. What ‘too. few irealize is. that "modern : communications. have "made ‘evéry. country a neigh- bor, .Underdeveloped countries -,Wwatceh’ our luxuries and extrav- ~/ agances with hungry eyes, and ' _their ears. are receptive to the have adopted it instead: of | whisper All this can be-yours, writing ‘songs.’ ' “The. time in “which we can -Thus,only. a. limited. num- ~.-make ‘up: our’ “minds to volun- ber of, :SONnS. have survived the © ‘tarily share our wealth or have good’ ones, ‘These fire played’ it? taken: away: from. us.in a » .and’sung;over.and over again, revolutionary. explosion is run- va. ‘not: only year. ‘after- year, but~: ning: short.” © “day ‘after day,’ by ‘singers and... : © bands: ‘that are’ not eontribue. ting. to,’ but: trying: to get.on. board; the’ popularity: of these few dozen ever-surviying tunes : ” and”. songs... ae oy “Each | singer. or: ‘band. leader, rt ~ feels he must add: something | " vi to the song. So he “arranges’"| |" ity to give it his personal touch, i The result is, after.a few years, New. Year’ s’ Party of being booted around by all}: f . Manner of acrobats and con. |} S IMPORTED. PIPES, r ‘CIGARS, ‘CIGARETTES DID YOU KNOW? ||| and: TOBACCO . : "and: other Smokers’ Supplies ae "MANY OF. THE a ma ‘also . BEST PARTIES | - Delicious ‘Chocolates ENJOY OUR DELICIOUS: for: the Ladies « CHINESE Foop! GROTTO. Ra ae | "Just Phone 3329 CIGAR STORE RADIOACTIVE WATCH - TE -Dayid.' ' Straker, ' 30-year- old MELROSE CHOP SUEY. 1 “Wholesale and. Retail 4- Ave. — Phone 5341 Calgary. draftsman,- displays - Oe ~ & , ‘3rd : : ‘Swiss-made watch which’ tests ——, have: -shown , contains . an. -ab- . normal ‘amount of ‘strontium . po the: ~ tunesmiths, So called; way ol ie Mrs, Pairelough 4 is right to: eae he “Jaw. To ‘male a visitor’s visa’an ‘auto : matic vehicle for permanent residénce* | would make mockery of Canadian law. - | . el. with immigration’ Moreover, as thousands of refugees Minister Fairclough’ a is "wait in Hong Kong for a chance: to | come here while only a trickle gets n,” “making oar fast Bey buck, ° they: would “HISTORIC. COLLEGE - Oldest university in -Germ-. any, | Heidelberg’ was $ establish; ed: An 1386. “Stock Up. a country, is too fresh 1 in the minds of. Canadians. for them to be taken ‘Ina: ‘second time so.soon:- | oe ~The. ‘Toronto Telegram Not easily fooled scientific expert ‘on the ‘business, Dr.. cannot be countered they might be a olished Keyston,of the national defence. reasearch ‘altogether. oN : * ee “has told’'a “Montreal audience. .some- - Dr. Keyston emphasized ‘that thes wise: as-. of. his. real thoughts on nuclear war-. sumption” for planning . purposes _ is. ‘that: no. There is. no adequate | defence against » adequate defence against,.the nuclear® threat . i “is possible. It is this: assumption, happily, that at aa Seong” : b coe _ “is implicit in the disarmament discussions ‘now - : taking ‘place in Paris and which, -it.i* pleasing. ° to note, Canada is pushing for all its -worth. _ Victoria ‘Report by J. K. The: allied foregin ministers have: called’ for “ VICTORIA® — Constant * crease ‘in teachers’: pay : bringing constant | demands jot ‘Nesbitt and. exercised no control over the teachers.: It. could well be good for the talks’ with their Communist opposites. on. “the: Subject in March. : On’ the face of it all the powers. ‘concerhed, “and ‘downs: of: ‘political life; the ‘public: shas © ve Sagacity that” comes - to’ its | ‘rescue t: has ‘been. sent to . 200 A: The likelihood - is that: the: ‘public is recon-: / sive: device can. nullify. any nuclear weapon... __ NOW ist they’ re pone broke larly want a uniform ae , further | tests. a _ Terrace “LV. 6: OO A d.. to. the: catastrophic; power: of . “nuclear” “Indeéd ‘the public is so wise’ on the subject | Paying | eacners’ ern a _ Seale, preferring. to negotiate —CP photo. “Smith ‘tv 12:40 A explosion ‘ Ansofar as physical. means ‘to ‘rebut’: that if it were possible. to leave the decision atest.storm has started’ over ‘piecemeal, believing’ this” gives: ——— mithers~ Ve on. both sides, are: pledged to. seek * ‘abolition - of: the one peapon to which there is. no effective -answer.: It‘is on’ this . that the public pins: its: “real ‘hopes, not on: ‘the myth that some defen-. + to -all ‘the. world’s laymen the® ‘nuclear threat 7 youl ‘vanish tomorrow, " through, ‘the: destruc-, “os mas trees) vag almost. an’ “exclusive national heritage; . if? other “countries - ‘grow. them, ‘they can’t grow.as many and they must be smaller. ' . But the Scandinavians have huge forests, too, and -since 1947, the lighted tree which glitters each Christmas ‘between the fountains of Trafalgar Square in London has .been the gift. of the! city’ of "Oslo, Norway, to the’ people of Britain, — Scandinavian tree at Christmas, It is sent . “A fellow gave me a $100 bill in mistake for a two the other night,” said the Toronto driver, “‘but I noticed it before he got out of sight so I caught up with him and gave him his money back, “He gave me. five’ bucks and said, ‘Gee whiz, you ‘ought to get some recognition for this. I know Smith who writes ‘2 column in the evening paper, Give me. your name and rh phone him up so he'can make a ‘story REPO RT. FROM OTTAWA _ ion of every atomic pile?!“ | enterprised” Edinburgh in Scotland also receives the gift. . - from. Copenhagen by. the ‘st: “Andrew's Society of Denmark. As the. UK. magazine; Coming Events in Britain, has observed: “These trees, symbol of -the season of goodwill, have become a treas-. --ured ‘feature of our Christmas scene. Could: ‘there-be a more delightful Christmas gift?” _ So it seems the Scandinavians have “out. Canada, the .Commonwealth’s greatest grower of trees, in this field of Yule- tide goodwill—but a Merry Christmas to them, all the same. | —The Hamilton Spectator. Put that little. candle out ociological note from the taxi-cab . out of it.’ So I sald: “Please , don't do that, I don’t want to be the laughing stock of the taxi business.’ “You see,” the driver explained, “there's ® motto in our business: ‘If a man gives you too much money, tap on the window but tap with a feather.’” Moral: Some people pretend, to be less honest than they are, This new, 20th-century form of hypocrisy nright be defined-as the tribute that virtue pays to vice. —The Financial Post, s Money still in CMHC kitty for winter works By Gerald Waring in The Works Minister Walker began his first press ‘conference the other day ona refreshing note of. frankness, . : “I want to explain why I was so stupid, mr he said, , Now, cabinet ministers do not usually ad-: dress the press in this disarming way, So we listened fascinated-like while the Queen's No, J hoy for housing, flower beds, printing bureaus and the P.E.I, causeway confessed ' his short- ; ; comings. ; , It seems that a couple of months ago his Contral Mortgage, -and' Housing Corporation| put. oul a press rolense saying that It had ’ run through all the money the government oria Colonist. was that the banks could not up thelr rates because of the ceiling of 6 per cent Imposed on bank loans by the Bank Act. : Couldn’t this be got around by on amend- ment to the National Housing Act’ to permit the banks to charge the higher rate on mort- gages only? A “notwithstanding . . ." clause? No, said Walker, because’ the Bank Act Would he the dominant logisiation, ; But surely Parliament can do'anything, ,., Walker switched Nke a way freight whip- ping Into a siding just ahead of the trans- continental, Oh, yes, Parliament: could, ha od- mitted, but the prime minister ‘had said the 6 per cent ceiling would not he raised, = ‘from municipalities ° that: the. provincial “government take. over entirely ‘the: payment. of teachers’ salaries, cn ~ Most::-B:c. * “municipalities a. $400,000 a year increase’ in , keachers’. salaries - in’: Greatef - “Mictoria. An arbitration - ‘poark horrified, insist .the taxes will -have.to go up to pay the high- oe ‘salaries - to. teachers. , “the ‘provincial - -govern-. ° : ment takes over full payment - OF . teachers’: teachers will. become. nothing : salaries, the more, nothing jess than civil servants. The teachers. them- selves are fearful of this, for they don’t want to be classi- fied as civil servants, for what reason they do not explain. . “Yet, their demands and their pay inereases are bringing the day closer and closer when they'll be civil. servants, .whe- ther they want to or not, The government some day will have no. alternative but to force it. The provincial gov-.. ernment could not pay teach- -ers' salaries and permit, teach- ers the freedom. they now have. It would: not. be honest with the people's money if the government paid the salaries, Imitation Halda “slate” to- tem poles, selling at a frac- tlon of the price of the real article, are being turned out by the Royal Ontarlo Museum. T saw a large one in a store, priced at $10, The same article, made by Indian craftsmen in the Queen Charlotte Islands, . would sell at about $250, “They're not competition for the real. article,” said a man in the store. “We handle both, But the people who would buy an Imitation pole would never he In the market for the real atufe, " Lm not: so. cortain, From a ‘short distance. away, it's hard province and. its people if the government paid all the’ sal-* aries, making them’ ‘uniform -. throughout: the province. ~ The.teachers do not particu- ‘them .more power. : “There's . no. reason | “why. a teacher’s. a . teacher, and | the. _ Students: .in outlying “places -are quite. as important as the. students ‘in- ‘Victoria. or Van- :couver, : ‘ For some. reason the provin- cial: government -has: been afraid to seta uniform stand- ard of teachers’ pay through- -out.-the entire province. But it will come when the government. takes over full payment of teachers’ salarics, -and turns the teachers into elvil. servants, a move the gov- ‘wernment will be forced to take ‘by the teachers themselves, ’ who do not want such a move. It’s bound to come if teach- ers’ salaries keep rising, with the municipalities unable to pay without inereasing the taxes, and no taxpayer favors his taxes going. up. to pay ‘teachers more than what the ' public considers an adequate wage, All Aboard with G. E. Mortimore ‘eelving many complaints. nd I gathered from that ‘the. company wasn’t doing much. That same day, the alr was thick for miles around with an odor of rotten eggs. After a time, a denizen of . pulp-mlll country gets used to the smell of rotten ergs. He thinks it's normal, . When pulp mills are spaced close cnough together across the countryside, escape from the smell will no longer be ‘possible, By that time, people will ba conditioned to sniff rotten-agg amell with rolish. A blast of rose-potal or new-mown hay ‘will cause them to hold their "0 . had given it to make’ mortgnge lonns, #0 “It Was St the governmont’s Intention to drive to ell tho differance ‘bo ween noReR. was calling a halt on new lonhas, the banks out of mortgage lending? | ‘Juat why has the Royal On- — ———— “I was greon’on the job," explained Walker, “No, anid Walker, No such Intention, Matter. tarlo Museum entored competi- G d punning on: his predecessor,. the ‘Honorable of fact, he hoped the hanks would continua tion with the Haida Indians of 00 move HWoward G. “The press releaso could. be taken two ways," he added, He took it the wrong way, “We're not broke,” affirmed the ministe In Octdber he had thought so, but it was ‘all in the way you read’ that prosa release, Read it’ the othor way—as he does now—and you realize that Central Mortgage stil) has KONIC , $260,000,000 to Jond for housing, Mind you, this monoy: Js nearly all com-' mortgage lending nt 6 por cent, VThe banks could make just. as much money ‘on mort- gNges at 6 per cont ns on other types of lonns ab 6 per cent. 7 | Wasn't there a: basic Inequity jn permit. ting mortgage and Insurance companies - to charge 6% per cont on an NHA mortango, and forbidding the banks to charge.more than 6° por cont on an identical NYA Mortgage? * Wasn't this unfalr discrimination against tha mitted, But it hasn't been paid out yot., It's, banks? Aull] in the kitty to. help—and hore a nod In tho direction of Moccna—to holp: “tho prime | minister's winter program,” ‘Whit can you. do with a guy lke that! Takes 0 big man to admit a. mistake,: and, whan t's a f280.900.900 mistake swell. tes But unfortinntely for the reat of my tale, : this was whore Mr, Walker and frankness. rather parted company. Ho war Inoreasing NHA mortgage ‘Intoyoat | rated from 6 to 6% per cont, in the hone of attracting more private monoy Into housing, ‘Legal opinion received by the banka, ho anid, , ’ . . No, Walkor didn't think BO, ‘Mortgage lend. Ing by the banks Is only.an “anoillary” activity; It's the brond-and-buttor of the othora, Boaldog, the .mintstay anid, “Tho banks toll us they ‘aro so heavily comim| tied supplying . the needs of tholy cuatoniars orJoona, it Is a queation how much monoy the banks would have to Jond at 6% por cent.” . But My, Walledr, don't you recall Mr, Diefon- baker saying that the banks hove “plenty of ‘monoy" for smal) bualnosaes, farmors and ho bulldara? That they only havo to sprond. it f fround moro equitably? the Pacifie Const din the mak- Ing of Halda handierafts? I'd Nike to hear an explanation, | Thera ia talk of more pulp mills in B.O, T suppose every mill is good nows for aharo- holders, bankora and mereh- ants, — But {v's bad noaws for the nolghbors, becausno cortaln kinds of pulp mill have a amoll, Boalontists have boon study- Ing the problem of P.O, (Pulp ,Odor): for yonra, Every so ofton thay announce that they aro on tho track of tt -romady, But It: nover comes. - A pulp mill! still has the odar| of mud flats at low tdo, About m yen ago Y asked h pulp mill excautive what his company war doing about tho amell, Ho said blandly this hla rampany hadnt hoon YO From The Ottawa Citizen The salo of sovornl thous- nnd tons of aluminum’ to China by the AlumInum Com- pany of Canndn js a atop in ‘the raght direction. ’ Aluminum is not on tho pro- hibited Mast of strategic goods, and the sale represents the kind of poncoful trade — that could help cronte a more hos- pitable polltien! ealimate «in Which Iasues enuasing friction hetween nations could be ro- salvad, , Trade In goods Involves, by Jta nature, porsonal contact ‘and. an exchange of views, This in itself does not bring pence, But it can help create mora peaceful atmosnhorn, «That ia the host that can be expected at the moment in ‘China's valnations with the world, 90. 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