»*" Flection Outcome,Hinged On Single Candidate Who Lost VANCOUVER (CP)—It could be said that the outcome of the British Columbia general election hinged on one ‘Roman Catholic Christian Democrat ‘andidate who polled only 1046 votes of the 750,000 ballots cast. Whether Social Credit or the 1 CCF were elected to form a mi- nority government swung on the vital second seat in Vancouver- Burrard The two parties could be con sidered tied at 18-18 with the outcome depending on that one UNDER OUR ROOF Little Augie came out to the shed the other day There is only one room in the Ask your lnve. ‘stm, for the Latew re end Prospectyg # 2 Prince Rupert Daily News » 1952 As | See It by a 3 3 ie 4 Elm ore 1.00; per year, $10.00 ’ eg | ! " ues AS Sah / y, ihpott iding of Prince Rupert olumbia 1 of Circulations ciation i New PERRY and asked to see me. shed (where my family are living on account of the guests in our house, including Little Augie) so the request seemed rather unnecessary, He couldn’t help but see me, However, Little Augie is always polite when he has something on his mind. | “I think, pal,” he said, may have to leave you.” I‘should have jumped = with | joy. If little Augie ieft, it meant that at Member of e bl {AG OR Limited J.F Vice-President Sut y carrier—Per $ sy mail—Per month, 7 , aI 8 uthorized as t TIN Uae PUile _ =<" CALVIN ByL 10 he ‘ost Office Need a New Tire? WASHINGTON Need a new tire? Take fishing pole down to the River and catch one A brief flood Department, Ottawa. | Keeping Up With The Joneses A, STATISTICTAN in the Financial Post has made the discover that the hr three most common anada do not include Jones. (AP) youl Potomat the Reds would back Ask yourself surely strike “that I The Drive That Failed THIS IS written the final selection of the Republican candidate for this question ° which would be easier—for a before ps agent to blow up, say, a dam in Bulgaria, or for a Rus- sian Communist agent to spread and mouth disease in Can- ada and USA.? undermined a service-station storage shed and carried 400 new tires valued at ' $6,000 into the muddy river. So ifar only 25 have been reported names in ( hoof Smith and Brown are at the top, as everybody would naturally expect, quite substantial ranks fifth, he stati pre ctically more ce tician’s fig any telephone Wilson and Taylor are ymmon than Jones, which ures are supported but by directory, most as- uredly from the metropolitan city directories where the from the the Brownes. Anothe) ing on head the list w Smyth mythe; Brown econd \ Smith; Cott) about of the out, theory « hov the part they are being worn For a generation or 1 been busy themselves the Jonese mu trying to keep in the lead business, and likely the smaller familie gration, though not keeping up with the than here, Without think that the famous doing much Robinson of ixth pla would vet but that of onee trio would come about Macdonald them out Log Coutl or even hope for. 5 ISUNESS SPoOy ti¢ 4T em ote OR trying to keep up w ith the Joneses, ind high mort to the Jones es Brown, ithout any aid whatever or other variations, and ithout any help from the this Jone ©} unexpectedly poor perhaps is that nore everybody else has and busy t have been equally This is an exhausting that would. lead to ality rate and even mi United where is even more prevalent id States statistical research Wwe the third member of the Jones and Robinson, ce, If the McDonalds and ether, they could nose e is too much to expect / arge Development Program Seen in Loan wa FORBES RHUDE an Pres Large ¢ in Austral nouncement of ¢ by the Internati reconstruct The loan i forer.gy needed macht programs themse with Aust out of pu levelopme! yroreram la are indicated 1 7000 GOO excha anced partly rt Ds pu 1 individuai item which Wii be import« ome of Which there pro Will be ¢ and on bably Lud Tractors for and maintenance port vehicles for local assembly equipment €1 agricuitura mine equipmen concentrating fining machine t for iron anadl road < ing men coke tion dies and othe! ovens, al yel-ele rollins ponents fo { achine tools fo: 1i6p rail and equipimne truction equipn lor power st sion facilities The growing panding alleviated by from h half the it will ' mining Wn BiG tec s maint nes atior outlines som { Australia Which, it bank yaiINS ¢ economy ean be eatel duct 6 Nearly for coal to Australia Business Editor incustry electric ay COAL MINING BASIC tO ECONOMY Coal mining is ector of the the meet her railways, transport and power; and the bank basic to every ralian economy Australia was own needs for | and had a surplus of export Yow, because the rap'd growth of indus and population, coal must imported at high cost “Tron and steel can be produc ed cheaply in Australia, but the pres output is far below de- mand “The power Aust Beiore wal able to try be ert ram for electric- will satisfy the and provide for requirements over the next few years. Most of the new capacity will be in thermal] (steam) units in 1950 the bank made a loan of $100,000,000 to Australia for the purchase of capital goods ind equipment needed for de elopment. About two-thirds of this has been spent, and it is expected that the remainder will be spent by 1953. The new wil) help carry forward de veloy 1954.” The bank says that AuStralia’s rapid post-war development har created economic strains which have shown up in shortages of labor, materials and equipment “not to mention lack of housing frequent power blackouts, trans port holdups and many other nilay difficulties which ‘impair the productivity and flexibility of the economic as a whole progr capacity present needs early oar nent in | lor We in ¢ the U.S. presideney; but after the overwhelming victory of the Eisenhower forces over the disputed delegates from Georgia and Texas. It i yet sure that the genial General Ike will be the Republican tandard bearer but it is fairly clear that Sena tor Taft will not be. For which every Cc and indeed every every other | th wea vile Ve not anadian citizen of allied with should say “thank God.” Taft would have been a danger to us, if only because he was pledged to the gates igainst ¢ imports. But he would been a disaster to us, and the whole United Na tion organization for by his wn confession in his book A FOREIGN POLICY FOR AMER- ICANS he is nothing but a 1952 isolationist . COUNUrYy slam Janadian have 0 -® WE SHALL have full story of to wait for the how the Taft drive failed. But even from the evidence that we can see and hear at long range it is clear that the delegates who held the | balance of power in the Republi- ean convention reacted against the “steam roller” tactics of the Taft machine General MacArthur vected to go to Chicago the skids under his fellow gen- eral, Lke Even so shrewd an observer as Beverley Baxter had in Maclean’s that Mac- would stauipede the eon- against putting ANY reneral in the White House Actually, MacArthur said not single word that could be con- trued as a direet attack on a direct boost for was ex- and put predicted Arthur vention isenhower, of Taft eS 4 -— { i HAVE never disguised my own syropathies in this election Normally I am against ANY Re yublican in the White House plainly shows that ‘anada get along with our big neighbor far better when he Democrats are in It is also true that, if Ike does wiit the nomination, his popu- larity will carry into power doz- ens of Congressmen and Sena- who could not be elected otherwise. These will be regular machine Republicans whose ideas was much like Taft's For all that I would like to see Ike in the White House for the next four years because I believe there is a better chance of keeping peace under *Kisen- hower than under any other pos- sible President + &¢ ¢ If IT IS true—as all ists say—that the Russian Communists respect only one thing strength -——then Eisen- hower is the western leader most likely to mobilize the strength which the Russians do respect und hence which will keep peace But under Eisenhower ship I do not anticipate any of the provocations which would be certain under Taft or MacAr- thur. Taft talks of waging large- scale underground civil war be- hind the Iron Curtain, He would | openly all US. with Chiang shek. Apart altogether from total illegality of this- is explicitly forbidden under | UN Charter—the Taft peo- never seem to realize that history tors the real- leader- Kai the tnis the ple ECONOMIC CRISIS THREATENS B.C. VANCOUVE ~ f A econom.¢ cri British Columbia tocas major threatening , the re of labor ¢ industries Forty thousar id including forest industry fi strike or } jobs on major ects and thousand ployees threater The woodworkei ed 3] days ago. Thi carpenter il Vancouver Islar been idle since Demand for the snag in all disputes The strike of carpenter has made another 5,000 allied ers jobless, Painters, too, are strike in Vancouver 900 of them seeking of pay. Merchants were alarmed day. All reported sales as the workers’ ings dwindled. In many savings: had been exhausted Sales in some centres have drop- fon pro f other em construc to quit trike settremeny plan work on Victoria higher rate: i ana to- decreased cash sav- * contract, ped 30 percent in everyday com- modities, and tere has been an almost complete halt in the buy- ng of luxuries Government 1emanr intervention terday by ver merchants Johnson has was Vancou Premier Byron refused to inter- ven calling the woodworkers’ trike illegal becawse the men walked out before taking a gov- ernment-supervised strike vote. Proposals for settvement made by the BC. Labor Relations Board have been rejected, the first one by labor, and the sec ond by management. The deadlock came in the for- est industry when the 162 major operators refused demands of the International Woodworkers of America (CIO-CCL) for a 35- cent-au-hour pay inerease. The basic Wage, based on the 1951 is $1.29% hourly. With dwindling world markets for B. C. lumber, the operators called for a “hold-the-line” pol- ced ye cases icy with no change in wages. A majority report of a conciliation board, accepted by the operators, recommended in pay | rates | OOSTLY It has strike worker 000 no chang STRIKE been estimated already has cost aud operators $28,000,- The workers have been jes- ing $500,000 a day in wages and | the oper raters another $500,000. Loss to allied industries and merchants, mounting day, will run into other millions. Hundreds of tugboat crews which tow log booms thave been left idle. Six thousand fishermen seeking bigher salmon prices have set a strike deadline for July 19. Another 4060 shore workers in fish packing plants have asked for a supervised sirike vote. Other labor-wages disputes in- volve 7,212 workers now seeking conciliation poards or strike votes. They include marine en- gineers; oil workers, bakers, giassblowers, stationers, clothing workers, bargemen, film workers and watchmakers. jin the day by, seat After the plete in Vancouver-Burrard Bal- lot B, this was the standing . : Grant MacNeil, CCF, 10,397; Bert ae a ke tl pene ag Price, Social Credit, 9002; J. G ‘bul vo Keep i eles, Liberal, G08: J. D. Cox wage a new form of war. al _|nett, Progressive Conservative ray eee 6615; J. M. Stephens, Christian Democrat, 1046 Reflects and Reminisces UNDER not get Fisenhower we would such folly. We would complete the strengthen any the west Under the aiternative of voting, Stephens on the second and his ballots distributed among the other four candidate Of Stephens’ 1046 ballots, 460 went to Cornett, 276 to Price 109 to Gould and 6&0 to MacNeil, while 131 were exhausted Cornett was the date dropped ar did not have a majority phens’ ballots for Cornett transferred to Gould and Gould was count, Stephen transferred to Price In other words Credit, picked up the 276 bal- lots originaily alloted to him ‘plus the 480 transferred through Cornett and Gould, a total of Ts On the final count, Price had majority of 246 votes over MacNeil of the CCF. Without Stephens’ 756 votes, Price would have lost to the Socialist candi has blundered. But date. And the CCF would have not make it any the won 19 seats t6 Credit's true ig eer eae The Christian party was Roman Catholic province’s separate schools dis pute. Eight Roman ( didates were couver riding system was dropped count Employed in a (N.Y.) cafe are The name Long Island two waitresse is Muriel Finn The other is Edith Haddie. Now here’s a golden opportunity for co-operation between the man nd the aitresses. All a toue h of orig- with publicity 5S voonl next MacNeil of one still Ste were when final were agement that inality, alongs watch busine dropped on the needed i ballots and Price, Social Up to his sixteenth year is a Bov Scout. After a Girl Seout a lad that he’s SEEING CALIFORNIA Part of what is Island, in Canada, south of the California map-maker this does less called Pelee |g is situated northern part of You may fancy som Social Democratic light 101 in the ‘ That voleano in perted to be still team. Perhaps its like that in the or soon will be convention } Hawaii is re- blowing off something United State The Democratic almost at hand formed to Gb te Live itholic can entered in Van None was elected The Sunday before the elec tion, the British Columbia Cath olic Education Association dis tributed leaflets to Roman Cath- he has what may be honestly, if| olics in Vaneowver-Burrard sug- somewhat breezily, described as gesting they vote for Stephen a cushy job, Employed: by a large|as thelr No. 1 choice, for Co: stablishment dealing in ladies’| nett as No. 2 choice, and Price wear, he the height,| as No.3 choice; Stephens re- weight and contours of women. celved — 1046 first-choice ,vote past four years he has|Cornett 480 second-choice vote taken the measurements of sev- and Price’276 third-choice votes en thousand ladies of every size The Catholic Educ: Asso in every ot His object ciation maintains the provinetal is to find out the mest popular government should Sizes in clothe and he’s doing! aid to Romar © it. He’s not only doing it. He’s | g& hools. Under pre also getting it, and perhaps) séparate schools there’s overtime public funds We'd, privately like to know what's the scale. Before the said it believe in system in school lieves in PAID TWICE Brooke Wilson of London calls himself an anthropometrist, and measures ition ~cupation five fininelal itholic paraté ent BA iaw, go not receive the present separate Social Credit said it be “equal rights ali election the NOT ON FOOT regard to Law is law in England, where the pedestrian is presumed to have complete right of way over vehicles. Yet a Liverpool! driver whose car knocked down a small child, crossing the street, was found not guilty. The kid was on a scooter, instead of her feet. for used to be a rifle from where .a_ trail through the woods, stream’s murmur is that meant risks ards as time wen not far winds and a heard. But and more haz t on. range For the first time, hundreds of local newcomers crossed the har- Some bor Sunday to enjoy a few hours’ Windsor on the Tsimshean peninsula, or| ing as Other folks might say, “at the Salt Lakes.” And what a day! Midsummer magic, in fact. There schools, observes the (Ont.) Star, are teach- bistory without using text- books. And there are occasional indications they're not even using history } the | wood- | i | | SHELTER STATUE—A shelter is erected around the statue of Queen Victoria in the Parliamentary library at Ottawa to pre- vent it from being damaged during replacement of the larg windows broken in a recent storm. It was damaged slightly by falling debris once before when repairs were made to the win- dows. This time no chances are being taken. (CP Photo) first count was com- candi- | CCF, jeast one bed- room would be availabie. Ha-| mish and Col, | 8. Skeffington- | Smutts (Ret) ‘ and his wife) John Sturdy anastasia have the others But there was such a look of dejection in the ex-blind-pig king’s eyes that, instead of joy, \I felt sorry for him. 1 have had ' soft spot in my heart for littl: Augie ever since he was a big joperator in the old days back Bast Why?” I asked. “It’s the Plebiscite,” said Little Augie. “It passed.” Well, that wasn't exactly news lput then I remembered that Lit- tle Augie never bothered to learn how to read—-he was always too busy—and of course he wouldn't know anything about the pleb- iscite or the election unless someone told him “That’s true, Little said “It's the end of an muttered “First the States, then Quebec, Uhnen On- tarie. Everybody opening up cocktail bars. And now BC. Ii: the millennium, the axe.” “There’s always Manitoba,’ suggested He shook his head. “Shey have a union in Manitoba,” he told me. “The Association of Certi fied Bootieggers, You have to serve a five years’ apprentce- ship before you can get a lice ise rhink of it! Me, who has spent twenty years as a leadet im my trade! And anyway he added “they don’t like outsiders In fact, they closed the border to workers when Ontario changed its liquor laws, Just like we had foot-and-mouth disease or something! He sat down on the the shed aid starved out ‘Seems Kke a gentleman make an honest living anymore he murmurec unhappily I put my hand on his in sympathy. Now, you take’ a person like Little Augie. Imagia him as a happy-faced youruste: just out of grade school and hi father says to him; Augie, what vould you like to be—-a a lawyei a politician? And Little Augie shining eyes turn upwards to his father and in a proud voice he says: “Papa, I want te be a bootlegger So the father cashes in the endowment policies he took out jor Litthe Augie's college educa- tion and buys him the first set up, a little room off the kitchen a small place, true, but his very own, And Little Augie studies hard and burns the candle late at night, and sells only the best stuff, and pretty soon he has a reputation anc a clientele and 1s a success in his trade And then they: change’ the jaws and Little Augie faces ruin All his years of service to the publie go for naught. Now 4 fot of unskilled laborers are making the money, and experts like Lit- tle Augie are thrust out in. the cold But out on the Pacific Coast the sun is still shining. So Little Augie, courageous of heart, beats his Way across the country to start a new life on the shores of the blue Pacific, And then I stil had my hand on his shoulder when he aSked: “What is the situation in the Northwest | Ternitertes?” I made him look at were tears in his eyes “Litthe Augie,” I said, “I’ve got news for you. Did you ever hear of the Alternative Vote?” “The last word is familiar,” said. “Well,” I said, “it is a system by which the people elect a new government, Only it takes a long time to cownt the ballets and by then nobody really knows which is the new government. It is very confusing.” “What has that got to do with me?” Little Augie asked “The Plebiscite,”” 1 said. “There js sO naach confusion about the | |new government that everybody | jhas forgotten the Plebiscite.” | Little Augie jumped to his feet, ‘his eyes shining. “You mean Augie,” I era,” he United stoop of fo 3ea ean't shoulder doctor me. There | he | sl cam carry on?” “Until further notice,” I \“Until further notice.” | I watched him dance away, a happy man again. | Of course, there is that bed- jroom. 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