~ 1 2 Prince Rupert Daily News i Monday, August 11, 1952 ee iidinthtetihainseviatemennniteteerionyiin SpinSubitiigcaoagit csccsipusasiciiessiabonmasiaiahcniaediboteia ~ independent daily newspaper devoted to the upbuilding of Prince Rupert | and Norti Columbia, 1 and Central Britis ; Audit Bureau of Circulations Newspaper Association Rupert Daily News Limited H. G. PERRY, Vice+President | Member of Cai | Car ! Published by 1 J. F. MAGOR, Presid i Subscri By carrier—Per wee month $1.00; per year, $10.00 By mail—Per month, 7: per year, $8.00 e lauthorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa. ‘A Cue From Edmonton ITHOUT condemning the new hospital insur- ance plan before it is barely under way, we are curious to know why there has been such governmental indifference so far to the recommen- dations of the Hospital Inquiry Board. Although they made after months of painstaking scrutiny into this province’s own particular hos- pitalization problems, the recommendations appear to have been brushed aside in favor of a scheme imilar to Alberta’s, were Baited with alluring but more or less meaning- less reductions in premiums, it has some aspects of a quick political manoeuvre to ingratiate a new | here each day at breakfact by Elmore Pi I, ihpott Soldier of Peace GULL LAKE, Alberta.—| It was election day in| |Alberta, but you would never know it at this! summer camp. Some of those here already |voted at the advance polls, But most were thinking of other things—abeve all the question | of war and peace | They have morning devotions and today they were longer than | usual, For a quiet, thin and thoughful smaller town preacher | told of his experience last Re- | membrance Day government with its public. * * ¢ | As I See It | | (Reuters) | successfully battling the prolific }rabbit business profitable. \ ized ‘ ' i By S. G. ROYDHOUSE WELLINGTON, New Zealand After years of th- rabbit, New Zealand now is try- ing to “tax” them out of ex- istence. The manoeuvre has been re sorted to because the old-fash joned “bounty” system made the In the 86+ years since skins were first Europe, 760,000,000 pelts have earned more than $70,000,000 But the rabbits from which the skins came caused a _ loss of wool, lamb and mutton revenne estimated at more than $1,00,- 000,000 Rabpits were introduced into New Zealand from Australia be- fore 1838. By 1842 a Baron Orts- dorff was running a lucrative} business near Wellington and| selling them to all parts of the country at $5 a pair. That was before it was real- that the progeny of one pair of rabbits, if left undis- rabbit exported to 7A 2°: ¢ 248K New Zealand Ties New Tax to Fight Rabbits spite attempts to stem the rab- | bit invasion. One ranch alone had to reduce its carrying cap-| acity from 120,000 sheep to 45,-| 600 | Some farmers were bankrupt- ed by rabbits, and some even) abandoned their properties | rather than continue the un- | equal siruygle i Widespread wensels, stoats and ferrets was) not a success | Hundreds of miles of “rabbit- | proof” fences failed to arrest) the onward mareh of the} scourge | For years, rabbit control was hampered by efforts of inter-| ested parties to introduce more | foreign breeds to improve ihe strain and pelts. The cash value of rabbit car- casses and skins, together with a system of bonus payments in- trodiiced by the goverment, did | more to stabilize the rabbit population in New Zealand than anything else Today, rabbit boards, whose importation 0! Memorial Planned | ALL HIS adult life he had been |turived for three years, could aim is eradication without com- REFLECTS and REMINISCEs ON THE WAY! Two of Prince Ripert and best busing without a foot of them. It’s like briae Street to yards of Fultor Speaking of weather -and lisn’t it beautiful? — Nothing | beats an old-iashioned thunder land lightning storm for finding | something lost under a bed new lane } that f The military boss of Egypt \has abolished titles. A lot of what's wanted j lthose rich, fat Egyptians are it looks. Chan, | going to lose their Bey windows. | are setting in. This wi of them "s King Farouk says that all he) ; lwants now is the simple life ’s about time alls a It’s about th Chilling Visite PORT COLBORNE, 0; 0 Mrs. E. Crawford, checbing will| odd sound, saw ; tlesnake slithering -_—_—_—— back porch a fey (GETTING STARTED from her threx It is suid that young people | Dwight. Answeri: today when applying to a pros-| mother’s call, Ly\k pective employer, the first ques- | killed the rattle; “' \tion asked is “How much is in 1906. Before thet he ou- there in it for me?” This may} FOUNDING pat posed of nine ttle res be true. But there is no doubt} ‘The chureh of & a (CP PHOTO) | whatever concerning the follow lestablished in 1560 ing narrated by a Scot. It’a|- , iwhat he listened to when, as a) youth, he applied for a job in) ja bank { “For the first three years we) NOW A PREACHER Tommy Burns, 71, Canada’s first and only world heavyweight box- ing champion, annually visits Vancouver to preach and spread his gospel of ‘“Univer- sal Love.’ Burns, born in Han- over, Ont., lost his title to Jack Johnston in Sydney, Australia, | From an engagement an- nouncement in the Stamford, iCt., Advocate: “Bedding | take place in Paris in July.” ay fi a Christian pacifist. That was|increase to a colony of 13,000,- the reason he had come out of | 000 hig native Russia at the time of In ithe revolution, All through the | Hitler war he had quietly stood It also contains an alarming hint that hence- forth Victoria may take its cue in everything from : recent years, rabbits have Edmonton. cost New Zealand an estimated $45,000,000 annually. mercialization, undertake ue By A d C p lca you as a nuisance be- ah. destruction of rabbits in the rmore or 5 cause we will = Rag you | 4 16 f whole area under board control. | all about banking. ew not | 1% Some 170 rabbit boards are now | LONDON (CP)— An pay you any salary the first } |year, but if your work has been | shee . a functioning successfully in Nev has been addressed invitation to British |sculptors to submit designs for Neither of these features is cause for encour- agement, Quick tricks and carbon copies are not to our mind instruments of efficient government. On the other hand, we have no reason on this score to criticize the plan itself. It may very well work. While the dollar-a-day levy will impose hardship on patients in long confinement, certainly hospitals with a king-size collection problem should be sup- mented with sufficient revenue from premiums to enable the plan to carry much of its own weight. We would still like to know, however, if the government plans to cut administrative expenses and effect other savings recommended by the in- quiry board. A window display may look alright, but if the store is a mess inside we will not buy. A Young Canadian: Pearson NE of the most unique careers of Canadians in public life is that of External Affairs Min- ister Lester B. Pearson who is currently being men- tioned as probable next president of the United Nations General Assembly. In everything except training Mr. Pearson is the antithesis of the kind of Canadian who usually represents us in our foreign affairs, Whereas the men of his department are inclined to be on the formal and somewhat sombre side, the chief him- self is easy to meet and is obviously more comfort- able behind a bright bow-tie than a dark four-in- hand. When at one reception in Ottawa an embar- rassed hostess found herself running short of ice, it was guest-of-honor Mr. Pearson who scurried up the street with a bucket to obtain a fresh supply from a neighboring friend. His individuality. is the more remarkable in light of his early training which was of a very con- ventional sort. He grew up in the deparfment: and went through the usual secretaryships in which a young man is obliged to have serupulous respect for his P’s and Q’s, to say nothing of the vast wisdom of his superiors. Possibly this rigid grooming caused him to assume his present unorthodox manner, although even in the early years his hair never sat quite so | smoothly on his head as that of his contemporaries, | Whatever the reasons, the overall effect is good, Canada is a young country and those repre- senting her to outsiders should not take their re- sponsibilities so seriously that they do her the injustice of behaving like old men. Park Board Doesn't Approve of Bare Legs; Too Much Competition HAGERSTOWN, Ma. (AP)—-Women in bare legs have been giving too much competition to the natural beauty of the city’s parks, according to the park board. So police have been ordered to hustle women in shorts out of such public places “The only limbs we want to see in our parks are those growing on trees,” said Paul L. Snyder, chairman of the board. jitable institutions in England and especially to a “committee of honorable gentlemen of Put- ney, London, to help sufferers from the blitz and rendered homeless or lame.” Blitz Victims Heirs to BC Man’s Fortune jerly and was therefore void VICTORIA (CP)—A British Co-|Executors of the estate applied lumbia Supreme Court justice| to the court for directions. today decided that the Attor-| |his ground, as a United Church |minister. No occasion had ever arisen in which there was a direct issue But now he was on the spot For he had been asked to preach | the Armistice Day sermon at the service at which veterans and uniformed service men wele to | march into the church in a body | Could be remain true to his ‘convictions, and yet preach |something which would tend to |unify and not mar the day and jrend the community? + &¢ THE MINISTER read us his talk this morning, and it took ex- lactly the fifteen minutes he had |been allotted in the November /11 ceremony. As he read the | words, in his not quite unaccen- ted English, I thought I sensed ;something of the spiritual sweat \that must have gone into the ; oak ne eee | preparation of that talk, and the | * oe or or, : . ee agony that must have been pee vt me © Ossie te {the heart beneath the tongue | Pe iiday Me tora _ ee \that was uttering the words. | ys gee For with a quiet solemnity he jt aRer Pee 2 a fe made a frontal attack on war | Frank, Pons it an Poe ed | itself. He cited the exact figures! their fun first, | of the thirty million killed in the} proby is introducing to B.C |first world war, and the sixty| what Americans call “national million killed in the second. He | credit.” The Americans invented | told how those sixty million) ¢yis tourist technique of travel- family sorrows—such as they all! jing on the cuff knew locally and were met to|—— = |} commemorate that day. + + HE QUOTED from Woodrow Wil- son, not at the peak of his politica] triumph and power, but | G th { after repudiation of his peace- a er da making plan, by his own Alb Cj | Alberta City The rapid breeding of rabbit population their taking hold in various parts of the dominion long be- fore the turn of the century. By the time it was realized that action would have to be taken to check the pest it was too late. On millions of acres stock- carrying capacity of the land had been seriously reduced, de- BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT eeeenrceretintinnure tarertreaietane sewer rmemieaine .rmaamasnmmematictincece dint Go on Holiday By The Canadian Press } they can have gress and his own people, The minister's warning words were to the effect that because | CALGARY (CP)—Delegates from mankind had refused to repent, | every province in Canada are ar- | at Qualicum or sight-see at Lake | site which historical records in- | dicate qnce was a Roman settle- and depart from the outworn and riving in Calgary for the eight! evil institutions which had pro~| annual conference of the Can- duced the first world war than | aqian Council of the Blind, to be | many millions of Americans, and | held Aug, 11 - 14 | other human beings would surely | ’ Among those arriving today} the | resulted in; 1150 BC. |Zealand. They control 26,000,000 acres A government tax levy on rabbit skins, together with the energetic measure taken by the rabbit boards, have today help- ed greatly to “devalue” the rab- bit. From the beginning of June, | the government levy has been fixed at 662/83 per cent of the market value of skins. The levy | is returned te the boards for further eradication work | | sliienttencinteanpntieal — | British Columbians Now Can |men of other armored units who | »0nus of £15 lequivalent to $1.50) s Flat Broke | Proby says that national credit works exactly like gas station | credit but it extends delayed | payment to everything you heed | when travelling transportation, | hotels, meals and so on So far, Proby has enrolled and Alberta firms, ‘It | | won't be long,” he says, “before | | we'll be operating in Australia jand England.” | ON-THE-CUFF TRIP ‘ | A typica) on-the-cuff trip} | might run lke this: on credit | |} you could drive in Victoria, ' . | Parksville, Vancouver, Kelowna, | Canada 5 Blind | Nelson, Cranbrook, Banff, Cal- | gary or Edmonton; sleep in Van-j| couver, Hope, Creston, Banff or | Calgary; buy your wife a holiday | wardrobe in Chemainus or Ross- land or a hair-do in West Van- | couver; charge up drug sundries | in New Westminster, Kelowna or | Calgary; dance at Victoria, swim Louise. If you want, you can set up a} holiday schedule, pay Proby aj down payment and finance the | balance over the rest of the year be doomed to die in future, big- |was Mrs. Sade B. Bending, Lon- }If your bill at any one of the 27 ger, wars; and that Would alWays| gon Ont president of the or- | hotels or motels registered so far | be true until they ended the Set- | oo nig: : Malad tte bong. | is, Say, $100( the hotel sends it | hizgation, whic 5S its head- |“ , : [eagentin, walsh tne ae" to Proby, who remits $94, keep- | Then the thin, Russian-born | quarters in her home city up which made war not only | A few of the highlights ar- (sible, but indeed inevitable jranged for the visitors, who ar Umited Churen parson rose tO) a) registered as blind, will be a his owh ‘peak: lisocial | Cowlishaw’s relatives claimed the will was not made out prop- J. A. Byers, representing the There would never be peace, | he told the ex-warriors, until all | the people in all lands with one | mighty voice cried out against | all wars in all lands: “No more, | no more.” | ’ * ¢ | HOW would they react? Would | the ex-soldiers, who were his friends, neighobrs and his own church members turn against him? Would they whisper around i\town “could that fellow be a | Russian agent?” These are the thoughts that must have worried the parson as he voiced his little masterpiece, | Of course his fears were un-| founded. What he was saying | was exactly what every war vet- | eran wanted said—not onl the | war veteron of Canada, US.A., | Britain, but of Germany and, I believe, of Russia too, For almost all war veterans are fathers or grandfathers now—and no real father, who has himself seen war, close up at bayonet range, ever wants his son, or grandson to be made a part of it. + + + WHAT this old world is waiting for is somebody to show the common people of the world how to end war. No one, that I have found, has convincingly done so yet—not even Our Lord himself. But this self-battered planet seems to me, at least, to be get- ting very close to the point where they might listen to some new John the Baptist who cried out, .| “Repent.” Fer “repent” aecord- ing to my book, means, think again, and discard the outworn things which drag you down, evening at- the CNIB centre on Tuesday evening, Aug. | 12, with the Calgary blind as host; a luncheon be the guests of the Calgary | Lion’s Club and a banquet on} the evening of the same day W. H. Phillips, Calgary, pres- | ident of the Alberta division of | the Canadian Courwl of the Blind,, will act as “emcee” at the | banquet, Guest speakers will be Mr, D. H. MacKay, Mayor of Cal- gary and Capt. M. C. Robinson, O.B.E., national director, Wesi- ern Division, Canadian National Institute for the Blind, of Van- couver, The organization is the spon- sor of white cane week, one of its many worthwhile objects. It is a nation-wide organization of blind Canadians, drawing its membership from 40 clubs across Canada. DISCUSS WORK phases of work for the blind, and to gather ideas and suggestions which will improve the lot of the 19,000, sightless Canadiatus, and because of its representations to governments, pensions for the blind have been increased to the present level of $40 per month. F onsag' for pension has been re- uced from 40 to 21 years of age and residenct in Canada from 20 to 10 years while the ceilings on pensions, plus permissable earn- ings, for a single blind person, the present level of $840. Delegates from Alberta who | cow, Leningrad and a large part Its purpose is to discuss all| The original minimum age to has been increased from $440 to jing his six per cent “service | fee.” “Firms go for it,’ says Proby, | “because we send them business.” | MOSCOW (AP)—The produc- two biggest republics were ful-| filled by 103 per cent or more for | the second quarter of this year. The figures, as announced by| their statistical boards were, | | R.F.S.F.R.—(which includes om \of Siberia)—103 per cent. | The Ukraine—103.6, Iran Senate Gives Reins To Premier | TEHRAN (AP)—Iran’s Senate, in a complete about-face, today |yoted Premier Mohammed Mos- sadegh unlimited powers to gov- jern the country for the next six | months, The Upper House gave final japproval to the sweeping grant |of power which on Saturday it had refused to adopt without further study. The Lower House already had approved the measure which now is law. It gives the premier the right to govern by decree in nearly every phase of Iranian life He said the sweeping authority is necessary to save the near-bank- rupt country from economic ruin. la memorial to the men of the |commanhder of the 79th Armored | Rabbits Unearth | satisfactory we will give you & : oe eas cortan wie fall |bonus of £5 equivalent to 50] Royal Armored Corps who fel 11) cents a week at that time! the Second World War. “We will give you a written| A site in London’s Hyde Park,|examination and if you pass, near Stanhope Gate, has been | that we will take you on for set aside for the memorial by the}q second year, We will not pay é ministry of works. The final/you any Salary but if, at the choice of design will rest with 4/end of the year, your work | } | committee of eight judges. | satisfactory, we. will give. you ae Maj.-Gen, Sir Percy Hobart, q'|bonus of £10 [equivalent to $1 | Sa and|®@ week]. “We will give you a written] if you pass! member of the committee Division until 1945, said the|@*amination, and theme of the shrine will be “com- | that we will take you on s.S oo U Us tadeship.” Its purpose was not|another year, We will not pay| When © the Now to glorify any particular weapon |you any salary but if at the end} or instrument of war, but to pay|°f the third year your work is ( tribute to the tank crews and|S@tisfactory we will give you a ia week] | “Then we will give you a staff G E N rE RAL appointment at a fair salary ‘’s all right to drink like a} ELECTRIC if you drink what a fish drink Fi P lj | oor Polisher s counter-rotat- depend on wm tie ing brushes do gasy Write... z - all the work. Georct S$. May Company ‘ Cwintas Emginuning Western Division 291 Geary Street, Sum Frongisce 2, Calif. Established 1925 Ue died in the service for their coun try “The main’ feature should not represent a tank or other armor-| yy ed fighting vehicles in general! ¢icp, Hobart said, ‘but should express the spirit that animated tank crews in the war—comradeship,| | | interdependence and trust in on ee es | Regargless of election results— your business will continue to you simply guide it! Two RUPERT RADI & ELECTRIC | Phone 644 Box! Old Roman Relics LONDON (CP)—Burrowing rab- bits in the River Gray region of Bexley, Kent, recently uncovered fragments of pottery which have led to the discovery of other rel- ics believed to date back to the first dnd second century Since the pottery remains were found a party of archaeologists has started excavations on the ment, Until the rabbits got busy the} actual location of the settlement was unknown. But now pieces of | Roman tile and other finds have disclosed the presence of a large | farmstead and a village of flimsy | huts A discovery of particular inter. est is a small kiln used either for | firing pottery or roasting corn trea Tween wanes’ Seyiat Production Plans Met Figures for the individual min- ition plans of the Soviet Union's) istries show that in the RF.S.F.R 11 ministries hit or exceeded their production quotas, while | three did not meet the plan. In the Ukraine, 32 ministries | made or exceeded their pro- | grams; seven tel] short. | > enti aa This advertisement is not published or displayed b) the Li ae Board or by the Governemnt of British Columb™ pe Wr Such Economy! Esso and Esso Extra are continually being improved to give the best balanced combination of instant starting, smooth flowing power, lively acceleration and protection against engine ping. Switch to Esso Gasolines and you're always ahead! | "Glad | switched, ney-Genera! of Britain may dis-| Attorney-General of B ritain, tribute $22,000 for “the honor-| contended the will was valid able gentlemen of Putney.” jand that the money should be Walter Harrington Cowlishaw/turned over to the Attorney- of Victoria died here in 1950,/General for distribution to vari- leaving a $22,000 estate to char- 'ous charitable institutions. FAMOUS HOSPITAL London, England. One of the world’s first child- ren’s hospitals was opened in 1852 in Great Ormond Street, will attend the convention are Thomas Goss, Edmonton, and William Gilendenning of Calgary, while Mr. Nat Herman of Leth- bridge will be present as an ob- server. NATURE'S ENGINEER “Canada ean thank the Goug- ing Glaciers of the ice age for the St. Lawrence River. fo PRODUCTS _OF_IMPERIAL OIL