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tral. Mritiah Sabin :

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AJONN UF MAQOR 0 fo
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iy) General Manager

* aumnorteed aA “aeoond clans matt by ‘the Pont, Oftien Department, Ottawa

 

  

   
 

are cheered on the one hand by
Ontario Preniier. Frost's aetion*

  

le 100 per cent: Canadian flag and

   

 

ve benef parliament s a8 patriots, enemies .
of cowards depending on their atthe

| ae towards the Native Sons version

   

 

ie what. looks like. a reason-.

_on the other by the fact that]. A, Pic-
| cand, president of. the Native Sons of
| Canada, has come: to his aenses. and

THURSDAY, JANUS Y 22, 1959

Let palariont act on flag i issue now

“ard: label.

kee: i oa ‘nenions Mes

triots: those answering in the nepa-

tive were to be called: enemiss anda. 1g
-refusal:to reply would draw tite cow-
“T yealize it was in poor

taste,’ " Mr. Pieard said later. .
Mr Picard. Was $0 right. Any time
it becomes a ériine to express an opin-
ion in Canada, Mr, Picard wants to
start sere ming for a bill of rights be-
fore wo ying about a flag. If mem-.
ory, serves us. right the Natives Sons’

flag} is formed of two triangles with a -
t maple leaf dead centre. It looks more
io like.a distress call. than a national flag

and is about ¢ 23. Canadian aga hot

| ee own heel,

: ph Fone oral ea around the Can.
nadia ¥ st. So if it’s all the same to them we'll Jet
er parliament decide the: ‘flag issue as
“well aa the adoption of “O Canada” a
in ea national anthem. There- are ‘many.
o. of us, in-Canada, who - though — we've.
only: lived here three. or four decades,
was , still like the: unrestricting ties with”
neBy e government. or
pe that Mr. Frost's action:

 

Sons’ flag design v were > to be called pas

tamale...
: quarreling. with ‘the Native Sons, who.

We have “no -intention — of »

 

without a doubt, next to the Indian,
are. Canada’s: second-ranking citizens,

royalty. | “Westill like to sin gthe hymn
asking for continuance of the Queen’s

health,

in. one’s

 

‘one from which most of the graces

of Hfe have. fled. : Then™ all. cat onee
_ something: turns up. with the ‘gentle

 

reminder that there are tine things

happening every day.

it may be something “simple, such”
from Washington.

as this
De,
Distriet af Columbia police recent-
dy auctioned off about 100 unclaimed
bieyeles, For the first bike up, an
cleven-year -old boy bid. The bike was
“ld far a good deal more.

Each time a bike came up, . the
vourpster hopefully exeluimed, “One
edhe

New the man in charge, by name
Rebert Weschler, had been at the
business of auctioning stolen or Jost
Tueveles for 43 yeurs, It did not eseape

news jtem

And by the same token, while
Governor General Vincent Massey is

} without question a great Canadian, he
was ‘more ‘serious. “Any .
_ MPs answering: “yes” to the question
of whether they: favored the N: ative .

doesn’ t inspire the same loyal emotion
breast as does Queen Eliza-
beth of Britain and the .

wealth. | ont

. Sold ©

00. often" our age: appears'a harsh his’ ‘neti that’ the’ youngsters’ heart

seemed to be set firmly upon a_racer,

Every time a racer came up the’ hopes

: soared, only to be cruelly dashed.

Before long-there was just one rac-
er left. The bidding climbed to $8.

“Sold to that boy over there for
$9,” ‘said the auctioneer.
from his own pocket and called on the
eleven-year-old for his dollar, The boy
counted out the money—in nickles,
dimes and quarters,

For a few moments the rush of joy-

ful pride in his new possession drove -

out every other thought.

He was wheeling it away when, af-
ter a few feet, he stopped. Carefully
parking the precious bike he went
back, threw his arms around Wes-

chler’s neck, and eried,

—The Montreal Gazette.

Common-

He took $8.

  

 

INTERPRETING THE NEWS

U.S. now hesitant about test ban treaty

By GEORGE KITCHEN
Canadian Press Stall Writer

tio V'inited States is expertencing seme ob-
mole 4nd understandable second thoughts
about Lhe windamn of entering Into an atomile
eo. Ban epresment with the Soviet Union,
dass that o month ago, Washington was
Vatebtngy hteb ooptiolem that the Soviets
hate finality be ready to stake a wortatite
ae rorreany WU tbe UO & and the United King»
Gat whe two Wealern atomie powers, and
Sb. GT OC fe pigned some tiene this year.
ut now Amenean alficlals, and somd @).
Aen in Conprest In particular, are plagued
hy AwUUL, woaUL Wwiellaer 1 would be pradent

“eye ome WT feet en at the present.
Toe
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Ie jikely that the doubts will increase tf

‘oe Panne do sot respon) pontively to. a
tew ceoneenion by the U8 and Britain, On
Ma Taey the two Weeters countries dropy
‘wot demiod thet duration of any tet ban
tread tae Uinked with progress ln dhaaemamnent.
The Chane in ned developed after a
mone of TOM eclentiste reported to President
Laat abhower aiew evidence Indicating that une
Hew stone fete actually ant minh
haroen te detect Chan was telleved Jan eammer
When Lechiniewl eapertes fron Rua end tae
Wewlers: ecuntrion ngromd at Geneve that an
AEUQ ULE Lest delection wyeloan wine femedthe,
Poo shower prougily placed fie evidence
wefiore Par Oerg, und Wertern _ Salona ven new

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meeting Jn Geneva to nee if they can. work
about an agreement based on Use earlier can-
chustana,

The report added fuel to the long-standing
controversy in U8. sclentifie and palitleal
elrefes over whether a ban on wl nuclear tests
would, In faet, be in the national interest,
Bome feel it would Hamper the development
of new weapons tn (he UB,

And it wave weight to the arguments «of
thove congressmen who oppose a ban on the
grounds the Boviet, under thelr system of
Uuhtly-controlled tnternal security, would be
mor lkely to “eheat” on an international
prohibition dian would the Wealern powers.

The panel, basing Its conclusions an new
data obtained from underground (tsts con.
ducted In Wevada Jast October, reported that tt
may be ne much as 16 thoes more difficult
to distinguish between an underground nuclear
explosion and an enrtaquake than previens
had beeh Uhought,

The upwhot is that American offictals now
beheve the worldwide 160-etalion contral syeten
for w nuclear ban, approved at the Baat-West
achenufic conference last August, may be ‘only
b0 per cont effretive invtead of @0 per cent,
a previously calimatad.

Befors this new nascaament hed been made,
1 had Leen ealinated that a nuclear power
trying to cheat on the ban would funia v0-
per-cent riax af being caught once Une propoerd
1ib-mMation system was functioning. The rink
now may be mtuced to 0 per cent--dive
chanors in 20 instead of ulne i 10 of being
onught.

The sruptrt, released by the president's
acsence advisory rommliee, makes it untikaly.
the U8 will sign any agreement on cuapending
taate untld full accoun (he new findings
hoa been taken in Ue development of @ contra
and inspection system. —

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All Aboard & G4

The party- -line: shog is a BCL:

“Twenty-four states: of the
U.S.-have adopted laws com-.
_ pelling. telephone party-line
users to give. up the Hine for
an emergency..

This fact: comes from: an. ar- |
“Is Your Teéle-::
By.
Leonard Gross, in the cur rent

ticle . entitled -
phone Really: Private?’

Pageant. magazine, :

If they. refuse” - yield,

‘party-ling hogs can "Be. SUNT.

monsed before. the magistrate.
“In New.Jersey a few. months

“ago, a baby died while Its par-
‘ents tried to make an emerg=:.
ency: call to: ‘hospital and. two-:

women refused: to give’ up the

party Hne. ;
"Tn Marin County, Caltfor-
nia, a few years ago, the wife.
through’ a."
nightmare argument with the’.
other subserlber. to her. party’:
line while her: husband’ was,
his ‘breath and”

of -na chef went:

veh ting for

  

change color, ‘for the, respir-

ator crew of the fire depart-~
J ment.

“She pleaded and cried hys-
terically, but could not get the

Hne.; When the doctor and fire -

department arrived, her hus-

band was dead.”

ing

f

That's one thing I have no- |

ticed about party-line hogs. —
They're stubborn. The more
often you Hft the receiver, .

the longer they keep talking.

They feel that they are be-
bylled, They make up
their niinds to hang on longer,
$0.88 to show thelr independ-
ghee,

  

Mortim ion tore

fish and. unpleasant” Kind of
animal.. :

Ordinary. decency:
lead a telephone-user. to hang.
up after. there: had been. two
or three clicks to indicate that -
someone else wanted. to ‘talk.’
To the., telephone- ~hog,:-
ever, decency ds an unknown -
word.

What need. is there, in any-.
event, fora telephone conver-~
sation to-go more, than. five”
or 10 minutes?

A women’s. magazine recently
printed a» handy -tip. to house-
wives: install ‘a blackboard in.
your kitchen, so you can write

questions and answers silent- |.

ly to the children without in-

terrupting. your telephone con-

versation.;
Why not ring off, talk to the’

children or.cuff them smartly, .
_and let. someone else, use. “the

Spgs. “ghe’tiled to get help? "phone for’\a* while?” 'rhings*-
“ener from her doctor and once ©.

: when her husband: began. to

have come to a sad pass, when.
Q magazine advises’ housewives

how. to..hog<the telephone.'

There are'two ways to check

. the telephone hogs: Pass a law

similar*to those in the United

- States, laying down heavy pen-
‘alties for. people who refuse

to yleld. the line in emergen

‘eles; and put a time limit on<

ordinary calls. Anything over:
five minutes would have to be
pald for, at a rate ‘growing

_Progressively steeper,

‘A system similar to this, 1

ot believe, Is In use In some par ts
‘of Britain.

Sharp measures may be
needed to’pry telephone bar-.,

-nacles loose.

 

— oLETTERBOX:.

APPRECIATION

“The Editor;

“The Dally "News:

On behalf of the Girl Guilde:
Local association — tor
Frinee Rupert distriet, 1 would: |
Hke through your

munity our thanks for the sup-
port. given to our Guides and
Brownies during 1956, There
has been

for addl-
the:

rec
and

aw consistent
tionnl leaders,

prauitying. 6

List aumimer we were ex-
ceedingly fortunate in having |
n Guide Camp at Lake Lak-
elie for the entire Northern
Lights Division. Without 3
generous co-operation of the

ci(ivensg and merchants of our |

tity. i would not have been
possible for our
pert Guides to attend. this
ramp, end we thereford. ex-
send our Mincore Uvenks to an

ALLE NARS OE ASL EE NE Hr gy

Spea king
sped French

g¢ La Tribune, Sherbrooke

At the aame time aa we are
claiming Qi righta of French
and demanding Urat more anx-
lenalve billngiallen be prac-
taed among our fellow-clunens
of the Knglish language, we
curselves are onl showlng
much pode in’ this language
about which we boust 6o much.
In not our lowe of French more
W tops for inflammatory
speechsinaking, rather than a
Profound conviction expressed
by uo willlngneas (0 speak tt
with wo eter-grealer perted:
ton... UP Preneh is worth the
trouble of Seng = preserved,
surely we should make the ef-
forte necessary Lo apenk it car:
rectly.

the
newspaper attention,
to express to Une entire com-~

and -Brownle

a tremendous Ine -
crease fy our enrolment, with.

rea
sponge to this haa been most -

the —

Prince Ru- .

‘gituation to a great
ANd Quebeckorsa entertain the
hope that such activity main:
tained Unrough twelve montiys
of Uwe year would allow thea.
city a!

who contributed {in any way

, towards this very worthwhile,

experience,

To the members of the staff.
of the Prince Rupert Daily
News, Wwe wish to pny speelai
It has been most
interesting to us to note that
In a, provincial record of Guide
press reports,
Prince Rupert ranks near. the
top, and this is only by virtue
of the generous space allowed
our organteation in your pa-
per, Would you, please convey
to your staff, -vnd partieulnrly
to) women’s editor’ Qriave
Brown, our sincere apprecha-
tion for her efforts on our be-
Hal,

Tt tS co-operation such as
we have been recelving Crom
the community during the past
year whieh oncourages our
Guides and Brownies to main-
tuln this standard of Guiding
in Prince Rupert.

~ Prince Rupert Gir) Guide

Local Assoctition,
per Mrs. L. 8. Mean,
Beeretary: Treasurer,

Sp 8 sleep tio tue peemnendrendee ERT a Set

Winter port

From Le Devolr, Montreal

It appears (hat Quebec mat
become a winter port in the
near future. This would be an
enormous advantage for the
city, the region and the whole
province, UC ts generally known
that Quebee tsa city very vul-
nerable to uneoployment and
more particularly td Chat of a
sonkonable nature. Winter nae
vigation might remedy. tila
extent.

thelr
Of induatries.

to altract to
greater thiuber

Tn tint event, Quebec would |

be the great winter port for
the whole of eastern Canada.

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noling, businessmen. ‘are far
LO). timid about proclaiming

tetas of economia le.”

poss of Sun’ O81, His name is

~ Robert Dunlop,
os “out-to make a profit.

, Monstraté. that busines ac-
“tually. is ‘out to make a,profit’

“vig to survive—1" believe we ie-
_ complish a good deal. We.can-
“not do these things as long as

» ftp.” long as we act as
catring: them."

he offensive On the subject of

fo make a
“rhe Finanelal Bont -
or se

-yorts ot heavy pum- |

or even “admitting, the basic |
“Thav was the theme Jof a.
“‘yeeont. speech wa iliked by. the:
Ho sald bluntly that bustness -

Dunlop said: “If we can de-.,

mand why tt must do 8O Tf Mt.

we are -defensive about prov.

“though ‘we’ are almost ashamed os

‘ttigsnigh time: that we took:
“Besex, town,
of bacon hi awarded’ to thi
‘Happiest’ maid | couple, may
resumed this” ‘year: after es,

- profitsto get before the. pub-.
ite the true story of what pro- -
te ow gmake. and where. * they "be

profit”

after taxes of 6.2 cents on the

‘piles dollar, -

Of this profit, an ‘average ‘of

* ty eg
Canadian manufaetu‘ors inf.
1087 made an average. prosit

it
‘

2.3 cents was pald in dividends —

and’ 2.0 cents retained.

est were seven cents in. 1954

and ffve In: 1982, vf

The
"mean average of pr oftts in re
lation. to-sales “over the last
410 years: in Canada was 5.72

 etnts. Phe highest and jow-

These profits were used; an

Mr. Dunlop suggests, tO pro-

~ -yide plant and tools and jobs.’
“Without an understanding of

the function of profit, all sorty *

of nonsense gots attention. :

 

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ob 800- year-old . tradition of ‘the —
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—-: SPEECH FROM. ‘THE. THRONE.
ms ‘Governor » “General Vincent -

   

| ‘ghould

 Mnasey: reads the Speech from:
“the Throne. before members.’
“of the. House of Commons and:
‘the Senate ‘and their. wives -
at the’ opening of the. 24th
parliament last Thursday. —

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poets
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British poet © >,
“The art’ of- writing ‘poetry .
is keeping that natural ear for.
rhythm’ with which we. are ‘all.

. born, and having » something

to” ‘say. I notice that. a: great -

“many. unpublished poets think

_ that itis enough. to write what °
they have to say “in ‘short »
lines. which do’ not ‘scan with.
the ones before, and which: “do

not: éven have a rhythm, of
"their ‘own: You can only write’
-in' free verse when. you. have.
first. learned- to, write in. the

“strict ugattional: “mietres' from:

which you intend to free your-.
self. Others write’ in ithe tra-

.ditional metres; but: they have |

nothing: to say that” has. not
been heard already and they
use dead wards: which are. as-
sociated with poetry and have
become mere conventions and
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