~ ! . pweeaeaeeae* . ‘ « * . . ~ * Prince Rupert Daily News Tuesday, September ependent daily newspaper devot ilding of Prince Rupers Nort 1 Columbia, of Circulations n Limited Vice-President r year, $10.00 ue erp et a t, Ottawa. rd Fish to Babies TH UGH there has amount rose CO! ‘ket for op ortunity to Ay been a considerable mment about the limited ish products, there is one good expand it which is still going a-beg- That is in the rbies. production of canned sea-food her food industries in eatering to infants, high coneen- and other e al chem fishing industry has so far ymising market. ion is hard to fathom as the pro ess is the simple cne of passing the product through ine-mesh plates, which would represent no great apital outlay Now that the need for increasing per capita onsumption of sea foods has been thoroughly ex- usted in discussion, it seems about time that some sh action be taken to solve it. Building up the fant market points to a possible way hey Ease Tragic Plight \/ /HAT would life be without sight? / { To most of us blindness is puzzling, bewilder- 1g, almost without understanding. It is difficult ) conceive how we would continue our family and ymmunity relations, or how we would carry on with ur employment. We wonder what kind of recrea- “ional and social activities we could enjoy. If blindness struck tomorrow, we would be hrown into a life that would at first be immensely ‘range and frightening, r It is good, therefore, to know that something is sing done for those who, in tragic fact, have al- sady suffered this great misfortune. The Canadian ‘ational Institute for the Blind is constantly assist- ng many hundreds of those so afflicted to live with lindness and to find in their dark life a degree of appiness which we might think impossible. The experience and knowledge of this organi- aticn are extended throughout Canada by social |, ANOTHER m« | re share my ideas on Korea at all j reverse jnorth. Most of the tive US n cne ai As I See It by e oe ore t 4 ‘> Philpott | AGAIN this term, as for years past, I will ve teaching Vancouver Night Schools. The course is a once-a-week news analysis and discussion The sessions: begin Thursday night, October 2, at King Ed-~- High School—Time sev lasts till next usual break aefian callie ng of the term 1 that one gap 1 iasse every yea! Hitler’s wal frank, I find wo! and the pay all other school and university pro Alse it is quite a grina to be on hand when we really bad nignht—especiai-~; pet bugebear—dense fog find that } classes for them lso force me} } itn 1y own hnome- on the news of the week h is, really to get at the hanging facts o -@. ®> yst valuable exper- to get an intelligent dians in front of yourself how lence is roup ol ina ou and to see for they react to the changing world | picture Some years my own general affairs has been y acceptable to s—other years— r of the Korean the substantial the group did not I knew t jority in thought then (and still think) | jthat it was right to resist and the aggression from the class felt therwise on the. ground that man, Syngman Rhee, had made such a mess in South Korea before outbreak of things could 10t be much worse, no matter tual Wal YOO Woh We had couple of service en in the class that year and them wrote me from forea ter that it was ever nore of a mess than he had ex- orkers, home” teachers, field secretaries, employ- | pected ‘ent specialists and many others. They ‘ross the blackness to give friendship and counsel, 1d to lead the sightless into an active and con- ted life. The Institute is now making an appeal in Prince |, ynert for assistance to carry on its work of be- ome ‘ rather ending and helping the blind. It is an urgent call hich we should answer generously. s Cites Mosinee he tl Jecripiure a ssage for —/oday ‘The I good the ul that seeketh him.” it Lamentations 3:25 icing - ing struggle BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT ere lence ett tel ude Fishing Worse, Prices Lower — Nova Scotia’s swordfishermen are battling low-,, ering prices as weil as the wily broadbill this year. Preliminary figures from the - - deral Fisheries Department how that to the end of August this year the swordfish | increased 479,000 pounds over ‘he grounds for a week or more,| he 2,233,900 mark made in the heading home only whon the | ume period last year. But the! hold is full or the fish are gone. | west prices in the history of 1 seasonal industry have eant so far xekets of the vordfishermen | irtually all of the s fish | ee oe ee about 250 pounds are in Nova ohed i the auterh United | S°otia coastal waters from mid- | tates and the price 10st often 1erease in the value anadian dollar. at a crew of about five men, these Fisheries officials province’s of the Shing fleet-—some 300 strong— The drop has been startling.) Yarmouth on the southwestern he average price last year weas|shore of the mainland. Glace 9 cents with a high of 45. This Bay, Ingonish, Port Bickerton | fear the average is 26 and the| and Louisburg are the principal| price has plunged as low as 23.) swordfishing centres. Hardest hit this year are the | reach |, there ha the general thinking has seemed nay ave and more ;only gue « the swordfish to the grounds) ‘ 1,200) offshore this year | 1952 a The broadbills, averaging | wingers have moved too. + + ¢ VER THE whole seven year period since the Hitler war been the same shift in average of class there has been hinking that n the general population. Back round 1945 and more vocal doctrinaire Over the 1946 there leftists and socialists. i years the general to me to, hift steadily to the centre. This have been because the La- | bor government in Britain turn- jed out to be ministry much more than it was a Social Welfare ruly socialist; o1 een that it may have the steadily wofrsen-| between the two' and the truc-} Soviet turned the | and woman more against the broad leftist Ideas—I can power blocs of the Age man tream of * ¢ ¢ for this o the seeming general shift} centre. That is, in all western countries the Welfare} then. State is now pretty well an ac-| cepted fact The ideas for which | he radicals of yesteryear ar- gued and strove are now €5-| white-haired old bell-boy ap- catch specially-equipped craft stay onj tablished laws, even in Canada. | proached me. Last year I heard Mr. Chur-| hill say that he not only was| |;NOT against the Welfare state | —indeed he himself had started say water/it! If you $32,000 in the|’™Peratures may have driven} Drew's speeches compare George about Family in 1943, 1944, and how far the right Allowances . .. June to mid-September. During |( d drop is . attributed to the | the summer months the sword- ana ian | flock Ca Breto ts | trom. sails a os vrs Jets Head For Europe OTTAWA (CP) — Sixty-three : . The gutted fish are shipped|jet planes, Canada’s main con- inshore fishermen, who work) to american markets fresh in|tribution to the North Atlantic the coastline of Cape Breton ice frozen, wi pads ils trom Touisburg, on the eastern peor FORE, wien Beaca, Vale oast, to Dingwall on the north-| tne weight to fi rn tip of the island, Foul weath-| ment due the er and a scarcity of swordfish | cent is lopped off the final fig-| nave combined with the loW) ure to account for meat eut prices to give them a bad year.) gway from But offshore, from Georges}Poon scars. Bank to Sable Island, graveyard ‘of the Atlantic, the harpoon/the fishermen is the swordfish! lines sang a merry tune. The! liver. Sale of livers brought $15,-| large boats, some converted 000 to fishermen last year and ftshing schooners, atcounted for) $12,000 up to the end of August’ this year’s big catch. Carrying! this year. gure the pay-| fishermen 10 per | Treaty Organization, Goose Bay, Labrador, Force announced here. The three-squadron wing of Sabre Jets teok off in perfect the Air “dart. holes’—har-| flying weather on the first leg| |of a leap-frog operation that An added source of income to! Will take them across the North | Atlantic to a new base at Gros- Tenquin, France, near Metz. DAILY NEWS CLASSIFIEDS! BRING QUICK RESULTS Ray Reflects and R eminisc A rainfall of 200 inches a year is said to exist in the Ruwen- gori mountains of the Belgian Congo. It is called the wettest place on earth. This, however, should not be considered final It takes time’ to establish a worthwhile museum. It’s doubt- ful if there is one anywhere without a history. Prince Rupert has done well indeed, when one thinks of the relatively few years since it was started. To close, because of expense would) indeed be a pity. An effective display is, of course, desirable, | HISTORY BOOKS WRONG?—The first steamship to cross the Atlantic, despite what all the history books say, was not the Quebec-built Royal William (shown), according to Michael Dwye 75-year-old former mines minister of Nova Scotia. He the Royal William claim was simply founded on “negative ”" and that the 124-ton steamer Capt. Breton sii inte North Sydney, N.S., with British supplies two weeks before the Royal William sailed from Pictou, N.S., on Aug. 18, 1838 (CP PHOTO) yped UNDER OUR ROOF By JOHN STURDY We arrived in Calgary yesterday by fast freight from Edmonton. I have always liked Calgary, and furthermore I knew that the people there would ac- cept Col. 8. Skeffington-Smutts (Ret.) and Hamish and Little Augie, because almost anything and any- ithe last jold devil!” left Ot-| fins cut off. In calculating | tawa today and arrived safely at. {| WINDOWS & SASH one goes in the old cowtown on the banks of the Bow River. It looked much the same as time I was here. We had a little trouble getting to the reservation desk in the hotel because we kept stumbling over millionaires every couple of feet They were all over the lobby and the desk clerk told me that they were becoming quite a problem “They have no piace to go,’ he said. “They just sit all day in the lobby here and wait for another oil well to blow in That means an extra million or so, and I guess it must get monotonous after a while.” Well, I couldn't help thinking that I could stand a little of that kind of monotony, but at the same time I had to admit that the millionaires were an unhappy-looking lot. Calgary was a much gayer place in the old days when everyone was broke and mortgaged to the hilt, and you rolled your own cigarettes HORSE IN THE BATH I am always getting nostalgic about the old days, and stand- ing in the lobby surrounded by millionaires, I remembered the time in this same hotel when I found a horse in my bath- room. At the time there didn’t seem to be anything unusual about it. The horse wasn’t mine, however, and I remem- ber telephoning down to the desk and saying ‘There is a horse in my bath- room.’ “Is it staying for the the cierk asked. “I dent know,” I haven't asked it.” “Well, please said the clerk, “because have to charge you the double rate.” At that moment a@ cowboy en- | tered my room, looking around, | and then perceived the horse's | tail sticking out of the bath+/| room “Ah, there you are, Midnight!” he “Hiding on me night?” said. “I Little | cried happily. Yes, those were the days. Cal+ gary was a wonderful town I was thinking about how things had changed, what with all these millionaires, when a “Hello, Mr. Sturdy,” he said. Well, I hadn’t seen this bell- boy for a long time, and [J asked him how things were, and he shook his head sadly jand said that nothing was the same anymore, and then sud- denly he asked: | “By the way, have you seen | Mr. Rogam lately?” |OLD FRIEND |; “You mean my old |John Rogam?” I asked, | “Yes, sir, that’s the one,” “Well, no,” I said, “I haven’t seen John for some time. Is he ie Calgary?” | friend, “No, sir,” said the bell-hop, “but his stomach is.” again, eh, you! And thereupon he | mounted the saddle, doffed his This Year For Nova Scotians | THERE IS another explanation) hat to me and rode off, Does Mr. Rogam know «about it?’ That’s the trouble, sir. He didn’t leave any forwarding ad dress. So we've been holding his stomach in the Lost and Found Department, hoping he would turn up some day and claim it When did all this I eneuired happen?” It was during Stampede Week, a couple of years ago, said the bell-hop. “On Satur day, which was the final day, Mr. Regan reported to the desk that his stomach was missin “It must have been week,” I suggested “Yes, sir, it was. Well, any- way, we looked high and low and couldn’t find the article in question, and then some men came and took Mr Rogam away.” “His employers, no doubt “Yes, sir. And when we find the object, Mr. Rogam was gone. Do you think i tha all this time “No,” I said. “I'm quite posi- tive that he must have got an- other one, somewhere he carried a spare The bell-hop nodded sir, I took it upon myself to have this one re-lined—it was badly corroded——and so if you are ever talking to Mr. Rogam you might tell him what I've just told you “Yes, I will,” I know he will be to you.” Yes, Calgary was quite a town once quite a “Well said, very and I gsteful let us know,”| # we'll| [7#4 ' ‘ t FILM COMMISSIONER Arthur Irwin, born at Ayr, Ont May 27, 1898, is Canada’s Film Commissioner. He was appoint- ed Feb. 1, 1950, (CP from Na- tional Film Board) Maybe’ RECREATION | From Cradle to Grave i ® _ JOIN YOUR “Good heavens!” I exclaimed. “What a disturbing situation! CIVIC CENTRE wg tee | Reduce cost of heating and eliminate draughts by installing STORM WINDOWS—now. ALL TYPES OF WINDOWS AND SASH MADE TO ORDER Greer & Bridden Ltd. Phone 909 215 Ist Ave. West P.O. Box 721 yet is a large two storey build-| ing necessary, to start with? Another man dies, trying to go faster. John R. Cobb perishes at Loch Ness (Scotl). Already re- nowned, he was trying to break the hydroplane record. Instead he broke the boat and himself Speed——just speed—is becoming a matter of life and death. Why” The man who cannot wonder ig but a pair of spectacles be hind which there is no eye Thos. Carlyle PLENTY OTHERS The travelling goo, In Prince Rupert last week, has only one snake but there’s plenty more where it hails from. Describing a visit to Port Elizabeth ‘Af- rica) a sea captain tells of in- specting a Reptile Park in which were puff adders, ringhals, egg eaters, boomslangs, skaapstak- ers, and most dealy of all, the black mambas which can grow, to fourteen feet and whose ven- om kills in fifteen minutes. Business Failures Increase Steadily OTTAWA & Canadian The firms going bankrupt has increased steadily since the end of the Second World War number of A Bureau of Statistics report: discloses that in the first six months of this year there were 848 commercial failures, an tn- crease of 17 per cent over the corresponding period of 1951 The number of failures has in creased graduallly but steadily since 1945 from a low of 260 in 1944. The total is still well below the peak year following the Firs World War. In 1922 there wert 8,926 failures with total liabili jes of $63,692,219 There were 272 failures in 1945; 278 in 1946; 545 in 1947 813 in 1948; 1,066 in 1940; 1,303 in 1950; and 1,399 In 1951 The 844 failures. so far this year had liabilities of $14,552,000 slightly more than the total for 1,219 failures in 1938, the first year before the outbreak of the last war The failures have not been confined to any one particular type of business or manufacture The figures for this year show that in the first six months most of the bankruptcies were in gen- eral stores, groceries; drink and tobacco shops; confectionery, fish and meat; boots and shoes; dry goods; clothing; furniture; |jewelry and electric apparatus Clothing and textiles were among manufacturers hardest hit Golden October, just around the corner, also Massey month. INDIA TODAY “IT arrived in New Delhi the evening before the inaugura- tion of the Indian Republic,” writes Lionel Fielden of the CBC. “The lavish extravagance I have never seen equalled, It was breath taking. Next morn- ing IT went to the inauguration ceremony in Durbar Hall. The magnificent scarlet-coated bodyguard made a glowing cir- cle round the hall itself, uni- forms glittered. It might, have been any vice regal show of the past, except for the dhoti-clad | olack-spectacied figure of Raj- agopalachari, general, and the substitution for the British insignia behind the throne of a rather uncomfort able looking Budda.”’ It looks like another battle next summer retiring governor | between Joe and gS | Rocky, and on | Safe t h ; “O Predict the Fate | be larger Ten ‘mons las Mor ‘ON enough to free publicity is of LATEST Repo SUPPORT | AIR CADET LEAG | CAMPAIGN for FUN OCT. Ist — Sr Air Cadets . 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