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Prince Rupert Daily News

Tuesday,.October 7, 1952
© independent. daily newspaper devoted to the upbuilding of Prince Rupen
and Northern and Centra) British Columbia,
Member cf Canadian Press — Audit Bureau of Circulations
Canedian Daily Newspaper Association "
Published by The Prince Rupert Daily News Limited
J..¥. MAGOR, President H. G. PERRY, Vice-President

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Dialing Wrong Number
EFORE Prince Rupert gets a new telephone

system, it appears we are going to be asked to
dial another number. The idea is that we speak

The Stay Home Vote

THE Metropolitan Life
Insurance Co, is pub-

lishing some useful ads

ack to ourselves. It sounds complicated, and it is. which show how many

Having approved a by-law authorizing the /eligible voters actually
ew system, we will now be asked to admit by used their franchise In the
etition that we did not mean exactly what we said, latest general elections.

Chat may be all right, but onee having admitted The exact percentages are
his there is no guarantee that anything can be
lone about it. We may thus be in the peculiar posi-
ion of being forced against our will to accept what
ve asked for in the first place.

Australia 96, Britain 88,
Sweden 80, Germany 78,
'Canada 74, Israel] 72 and
U.S.A. 61.

. 4 Australia has the compulsory
It is to be hoped that when, if ever, the new |yote with a fine for those who
system is finally installed, it will be more satisfac- {ail to use it. But the others are
: , ‘ ‘ .) isle , jas free to vote or not to vote
tory than the method employed in getting it. Speed a; the citizens of USA. Thus
and clarity are two main requisites of a good tele- we see the strange paradox thet
. pee f the mightiest democracy in his-
phone service. Our present one where half the voters
neither care enough about the
: to go to the polls

manoeuvering has

4 Brand of Calm Philosophy t SPENT British ection day

last lear in Rutherglen, a
T > r NIT. hac > . ‘~~ o ‘ site iburb ef Glasgow. No less than
Re RAYMOND has been gone for oy ” ™ k. 88% of the people actually voted
To .evervorie Lut those on the staff of the though they only had about

Tiniter Kou : ae ee ee 4 OE an nie . fo» | one tenth the number of-polling,
Daily News, this may have no significance. As EOE | ioc ed ae eee ee te
as our reatlers are concerned, Ray still “Reflects | Canada for the same siged con-
: ete 99 URT . > ve pines thie ta } tituency. Also the British laws
and Reminisees.” Wheve 01 how he does this is not | jiictay aimit ‘the aummber iat
important. fe them he is still a presence on these [cars any party may use to get

- <i : es as ete : ‘ot of its voters to the polls. dn other
pages and, if he is.dging his writing in the quiet of yo .as the British get there
his own room u at is probably so much the better | afoot, or by bus or tram. ¥et

for him. — get ten Sal
On the staff, ewever, we miss him. As this is |the world. That is because they

a matter affecting only ourselves, we will not dwell | 5): a iisiegiieaheanietanee sh

on it, but in a larger way it is an experience with | But there is another side to

which most readers ave familiar. ; Se yoo
It is the retirement from their midst of an as- that the key to Roosevelt's rec- |

sociate whose gentle maturing over many years

has produced its own special brand of calm phil- | o:

ord-breaking success was ¢hat!

the people that it WAS in

osophy and kindly outlook. Men and women so | ‘Ber interest to get out and
blessed see the best in others—or at least no harm nis
ONE YEAR in Vancouver we

to worry akout—and therefore attract the best. ONE.
° t ‘ : had a
Their presence is a sedative, and to be able to go | spout 27% of the eligible voters
i ‘thr their memories reduces ‘urned out to vote. The editor
back with them th ough : 3 | of the Edson, Alberta paper was
the future to its proper and less awesome per- in town that day. He began.mak-
spective ing a sort of impromptu speech

‘ ‘ ‘ . : to bell boys in the Hotel Van-
Such a man is Bill Raymond. Although we are | couver about the iniquity of this
inclined to reflect sadly that he is not at his desk,

civic election where

lack of interest among Vancou-

ue <. ei o. : ver citizenry. But finally one
and xeminisce about the time when he was, We | thoughtful bellhop remarked
quietly

recalled ‘his assurance that he will remain in Prince
Rupert and it does not seem so bad after all.

Could the reason be, sir, that
nobody was running and no is-
sue was presented which really
interested those who stayed at
home?’

 

Scripture P. assage for Tada

“The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming
in.’—Psalm 121:8.

Soviet Imperialism Attacks
Saboteurs Within the Union our family right down the mid-

; ; idle. We boys would get so work-
here hac ¢ inclinatic amone people in ed up that more than once we
There has been an inclination among | Ple tt) o me to bioee fee mae te
he west—particularly those in officialdom—to shrug) mother organized a sort of liv-
iff the Moscow attacks on “bourgeois nationalists” |‘"¢ Toom parliament and made
' oe eae gd us boys debate the question—
ind.on spies and saboteurs within the Soviet Union. | with so many minutes for each
The reaction has been that these attacks were nothing “ide. It was such fun the whole
: s neighborhood used to come to
more than a means of dangling phantoms before the watch and join ia.
we : . © @
workers c. :
orkers to keep them producing in the last election the
But these blasts now deserve a9— ae
ong second look. Above all, in| ijlabie Ukrainian nationalists. | most fundamental of all
he Soviet Ukraine, the violence} Moscow has just published an|for successful
f the denunciations hints there | gceount of a Ukrainian party
3 more to this than just crying | congress. L. D. Melnikov, Ukrain
ver ees jian party chief, railed once agair
“Bourgeois Nationalism,” a.pet| against the Nationalists, calling
bogey of Moscow, is @ sin that/them spies, saboteurs
can happen only outside great | ete,
Russia, In the 15 other Soviet}
republics, it is a serious offence
to forget that the great Russians

+ ¢ ¢

IN MY lifetime I have seen some

really hot elections, where the
people really got worked up and
discussed the issues and out-
come with universal interest.

In our house the famous Re-
ciprecity election of 191 split

 

IN BC

agents, eral leadership also failed to-of-

Meanwhile the Soviet press has or
been full of criticism of the

issue on
say yes or no, by their votes.

Ukraine al n ars, heavy i w through interest or hired
are the masvers of all the soviet [Usraine- of toy =e" ote There was no certainty that around and go hack and look (2? : he ; Fs , . : at} ialr dealing on
\industry workers (many of them ‘ pmoney, pare money” out a ;
Union. ; - 2 ee _ the day after the election the for them, and a couple of hun- ot hi . » cause for} CERTIFIED
; ; likely slave laborers) on the : lintercat has been the cause for
Along with “Bourgeois Nuvion- old parties would not once again | @red feet down the track they | taxation,

hydro-electric programs of the
squthern Ukraine and northern
Crimea.

Perhaps-the Ukrainian nation-
ists have risen, ‘phoenix-like,

alism,” the Kremiin’s organs of
education and enlightenment ai-
sO Are digcoveiing spies. Sa o-
teurs and. agents of the American al
Impertalists.

A suspicion Is justified that
this is not all hogwash. While|
Moscow ‘has incuctrimatec its

form the

escape.
The situation was made-to-

munist rulers again.
Ukrainians exiled from their|®bhors a vacuum. Students o

people to believe the feliow next | Native land insist that the na-| Politics could well say the same) ir, nish nodded in agreement.

door may be un enemy of the | Monalists still are a potent foree, | thing.

state, it is a serious admission Stabbing from hideouts at ten-| ‘That is why B.C. ;has.a Made
for the Kremlin to say the Amer- :
icans have -pénetrated with their hides.

agents On.such @ grand scale. wiidunitene, in the ber ee

The “agents,” of course. would could also happen in other Soviet lid ©

not be Americans at all. The | republics, particularly among “— ee eagle: Cae GON:
people the Kremlin iears now | nomadic and fiercely-individual- |
are the nationalists, in  the| istic peoples of central Asia. This
Ukraine.and in.other constituent | would be one more reason why
republics of the USSR. ithe USSR. would move an

 

END OF TRIP

concentrated attack in the
Ukraine for some time. Two years
ago the ruling Communists let
it be broadcast that they had

The Kremlin might be watching | abandon their jnope of
its subjects with a nervous eye.| from Winnipeg to the jun ’
——______--—-—--—— of the Assiniboine and Qu’A)

The tansy, a bitter herb found| Rivers in Saskatchewan.

 

Nquidated “the worst encmies of | along roadsides, has been used in}canoe was stolen while they post ities were staggering.

the people,” the apparently un-! medicine since the middle ages. | were making a portage.

, separates

Liberal government broke the
rules
poiitics. It had}
heiped introduce a complicated |),
g system which made at
vey difficult for voters to think , ,
in clear-cut terms. But ‘the Lib-| Auge beside me ig

fer the people a clear program later that we discovered
which they could) Hamish and the Colone|

very coalition from suddenly came into view
which everybody was trying to)

|from their ashes to plague Com-| order for exactly what happen-.
,ed. Scientists say that nature |

der spots in the Commitnist | in-Alberta minority goxemnment|have changed the entire face of!
today, which was the firstehoige|the Dominion.”
of a mere 26 per cent of the

Deas Sask, ee aes east and west. Well, Hamish and G#srett, John Garrett, John Gar-|
nipeg boys, Robert Ellison, J6,/1 have just complet, |
There has not been such a/|iously to avoid a third world war \and Gien Fisher, 16, a to. the ene WT the ck ae

lle | flowing east, and vice versa.”

  

 

COST-OF - LIVING INDICES 3
(NARA ano THE UNITED STATES a ¥

1935-39 = 100

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C-O-L DROPS—The eeast-of-living index declined by 1.1 points during August to 186.5 from
187.6 following a drop.of four-tevths of a poin’ during July The index, based on 1036-30
prices equalling 100, reache: ali-time high of 191.5 last December. The August deeline
the sixth in eight months of 1952—-was caused mostly by lower prices for foodstuffs and some
clathing items. The detted | shows the United States consumers’ price index which Aug
15 lt a peak of 1911. The ndjiees neeasure percentage changes in prices in each country
but showld not be used to c pare actual jevels of prices between the Wo dounieles

UNDER OUR ROCF ray...
By JOHN STURDY lid thea

If you are having any
please don’t blame me, Just R. ms

dian Geographical Societ, CMINISGES
liament, and I’m sure that some action will"be taken gepasunc oF CLIMATE

to put matters right, because I know how anane- ne aoe eontorunns a
rassing it must be to wake up and find that the Tivel’| umpia what its climate is like}
flowing ‘by your door is an «altogether different ee eae, i. a so

stream to what you had yesterday. it is neither mild nor moist. |
You see, it happened this way. ~~~ “There are many places in the)

emeaamuinare

 

trouble with your rivers,
drop a note to the Cana-
or your member of Par-

 

Col..6. Sheffington-Smutis (Ret tne Groat Divide and got the | tener valleys where the ther- |
and Hamish and Little Augie rivers jiowing in the right di- mometer reaches 100F in ‘the
and I are trying to get home rection again, but just at that shade and even higher in sum-
to The Island, and just the other! momert, a freight train came | er and drops to 50 or & below |
day we managed to.teach Banff! along and we had to get aboard, |7eFO P winter, There is a place
But owing to the fact that the! you van see that I am entirely |90 Wie west const of Vancouver |

Colonel purchased a glacier with Itiand where the average rain-

MUMMERS

our Yew remaining dollars (and) 41.4 «.) ¢he next tims you take fall is 200 inches while over
— t om his wer - ste large areas in the south, sage

no Ope else seems tO Want . look at the Skeena, don’t be! ).
: hands ind |e es . brush and cactus with rattle-
take it off his hands) we find , ewe. It may be the Sas- i
ourselves ‘temporarily strapped | °°). “a ; snakes are as comison as they
for funds : katchewan are in Arlzena.-D. M. LaBour-
Or sunds In fact may be Old Man} aaj, :

In fact, we are so strapped
that we have been forced to walk
the railway tracks, “hoping
jump a freight train, and yes
terday morning we had got a

River himself

 

A commission of three will
recommend changes in the B.C
drinking laws. What a thriving

THE

far as the Great Divide without f trade it is! It almost rivals

even seeing a hand-tar ETTERBOX clwareties among the ladies

Fhe Great Divide is an inter ae . 7 What significance is attached

he convinced the .great majority | esting place, partly because it | to that oft heard exproasion
' f liquor by the glass.” Is there

 

Alberta and British
Columbia ¢you notice the chang
in alr almost immediately) bu

any other workable way of swal-
lowing a sniffer?

CANADIAN CREDIT

mostly because it is suppose IN DEFICIENCY ones ‘
to be the highest point in th NOT OFTEN SEEN
seountry Editor, Dally News: «| ‘Try to borrow a copy of the
Well, there was a bus load sf One's ability t produce goods Prinee Rupett Pioneers Assocta-
tourists at the Divide when we an services determines the ton book, with numerous por-
arrived there, and while I wanted | amount of his credit In lke ‘faites of old timers, and see how
to continue our journey, Hamish manner a nation’s ability to pro- fr you'll get Some are here, of
demurred luce azoods and services deter- Course, but they seem searce
“Loak.” he said. “there is a| mines the amount of its credit, The association was organized
evidence, July 1, 1914. First officers were

Taking statistics as
Canacian. goods and services President, David H. Hays (brother
unted to $21.241,000,000 in Of the late great railway genius
d wages and salaries (of Chay. M. Hays #ho visited this

guide giving a lecture, and per~
haps we shall learn some inter-
esting facts about this great am
1951,

   

country of ours.”

“Y would rather get some in- the people who produced this) Port and gave it its name); |
teresting food,” I said, but the only amounted to $17,299,000.000 ne : president Wm. Marn-son
Colonel and Little Augie backed This shows a deficiency of four M PP; Secretary-treasurer Ar-
up ‘Hamish, and so we sat ov billion dollars between the cur- thur Cuthbert; directors Alder-
the tails and listened to the ren! (etal income of Canadians ™4n D. W. Morrisey, Alderman
guide and the selling price of the goods John Dybhavn, and Alfred J

» they produced Galland; membership commit
RIVERS BORN roar tee

“Now folks,” he was saying, in Urer Secial Credit you will
the quaint dialect of the Rocky put a parliament at Ottawa that
Mountains, “you see this here#| will at onee re-possess the ex-
stream running along at my power
feet? You see how it divides,) to private banks in 1871)

1% know as much as the Canadians
and part of it goes one way and | issue of all money which is nothing. In other words
part of it goes the other? This!

' throvgh a monetary commission j; was successful. It always is
is the birthplace of our great

appcincved by parliament, cheque
river systems, folks. From this} wil be distributed equally to all
here point the rivers either flow citizens, supplementing their i
west to the Pacific or east to} waqes dnd salaries to equal valur
the Prairies. Take a gander at of the goods they produced. Thus
this little stream at my feet,| wiil come the National Dividend

mers eon enmeenae

detalis go concerning that atomic

+t handed it «
‘it handed It over past off thelr north coast. they

of the

and credit. at
anid creat, ana

chuvive

    

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Atk your lnvesiment Dealer
for the Latest Report

folks. See how it branches east |{erecast by William Aberhart in end Protpectus of
and west, like I told you. Well,| 1985
prety soon each branch turns into} Mhouwld production exeeed Can

}great, big, rushing rivers, going\adian people's needs, exceat
out to the Pacific Coast or back | gous may be exported, and yet
to the East. Ain’t it wonderful?” | the people will possess sufficient
| Well, the stream looked pretty | purchasing power (money) to
feeble to me, In fact, I thought | replace excess (exported goods)
if you threw a pebble into it,| with imported useful goods, thu:
you would probabiy dam up the| making use of exchange of goods
whole works |with other nations. Al) Canad
The tourists got back into the | jay credit amassed at Ottawa
us and drove away, and I said: | wit) enable the Bank of Canada
“Come on, Let's be moving,” | to sue Morey for every purpos
Little | without interest. Taxes and li-
: l cence fees will be wiped out.
It was about twenty oT Wofiation and deflation cannot
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were | ae ‘ vices sand |
through goods and services sand We have built a reputation for

missing. 50 we hed to turn

I poticed that their hangs| Ali this will be corrected when USED CARS
| were and ‘that thei we socialize our credit and our |
eres eens vay — cont government bank issues our own |
| “What have you ‘bee gn \money, Bocial Credit will do}
. ” ap wn this. for the people of Canada.
CHARLES W, REEVES

1040 East 8th.

following A-=1 used cars will,

satisfy the most discriminat-

ing buyer:

1951 FORD FORDOR— two-
tone, only 21,000

\. demanded,
{| “A rather interesting experi-
}ment,” said the Colonel. And

 

| AN EXPERIMENT FAMILY TRADITION | miles $2100
Tha tt Our small way, We MAY! TeTHBRIDGE, Alta, CP) —|| 1950 RORD FORDOR—
When three men and a baby boy) A well kept car... $1800
“What do You mean, Colonel?” | got together reecntly for a four-|| 1947 FORD FORDOR—
I asked nervously. generations picture ¢ontinuity VEY UORE oe saressstnnenes $1200

“Well, amy boy,” said the Col-| wis stressed. The cutlines un-|
onel, “you heard what the feller a the phot raph r ad 30
Said ,about the rivers flowing | °° og @ oan)

SPECIAL OFFER
One only 1950 MONARCH
CONVERTIBLE — Every pos- |
sible extra. Truly a dream car.’
Priced right 9

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rott and John Garrett. |

—— }

to speak, and the water that | : | at
ij formerly flowed west is now) WILD RICE ;
Wild rice, which grows in| '
| yarious parts of North America|
Phone 93

ex\pecially near the Great Lakes, |

ir od heavens!” 1 cried. The

: Eastern Highway Death Gs

Australians say that so far as

“MY, 80M BAS...

}exis) as all money gets its life |~ et eee et

A test drive of one of the ]|

     
  
   
 
    
       
       
     
     
        
   

SOMERSET, Pa., (AP)—A Greyhound pus coll

a trailer-truck on the Pennsylvania turnpike 12 mi
Ales

here, killing four persons and injuring elght ott a
ners,

It was the third fatai accident in the ateg
several weeks, *

AUTOMATIC

TOASTERS
TOASTMASTER’

THE ARISTOCRAT
OF THE AUTOMATICS

ONLY $3295).
RUPERT RADIO & ELF

Phone 644

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COOK ELECTRICAL
G.E. Push Button Range

With Pressure Cooker

G.E. Standard Range
GE. Apartment Rance

Northern B.C. Power (Co. |i

Mesner Block — Phone 210
Prince Rupert, B.C

 

 

- chosen banking”

When a bank manager retired |ast
he wrote his General Manager to §
why he was proud his son also had
chosen a banking career:

“I shall always recall my banking &
with pleasure and I cannot think of
any other occupation that gives one ®
greater opportunity to meet peop’ “
form lasting friendships. I have
privileged to serve the bank in three
provinces ... That my son has chose!
banking is algo a great satisfaction
He is most anxious to make good ™
his own account.”

Any young man.on the lookout *

interesting and worthwhile caree!
for opportunities to grow and get :
ahead—should take 4 look at bani
Have a talk with the bank manage
your neighborhood branch. It -
prove an important turning po”

your life.

This advertisement, based
on an actual letter, is
presented here by ) !

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THE BANKS SERVING wap

YOUR COMMUNITY 1h) 5
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