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Get on With Progress

A® PRINCE GEORGE enthusiastically makes

ready for the official opening of the Pacifie

st Office

Great Eastern Railway into the city, our best
wishes go to this neighbor which may now antici-
pate important new business and activity.

At

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tn

e same time, this added transportation
the northern interior focuses attention on

( vast and potentially productive territory
hich, for lack of communication facilities, has
een barely tapped. It is the Peace River country

With a grain-growing area estimated at 34,000
quare miles, th

like

is country sprawls across’ the north
ome enormous garden, fertile but neglected.
So sure are its inhabitants that they have a

their doorsteps that at one time, de-

action

treasure at
of to give them a
highway to the coast, they started to build one for
themselves, With axes, picks and shovels, they
hacked their way for several miles into the Monk-
man Pass until the sheer indifference of everyone

spairing government

else finally sapped their resolve and the work was
abandoned.

Now after years of entreaty and restless wait-
ing they have a highway. That is progress, but it
is shamefully delayed progress, and it would be a
glum outlook for the future if as many years must
pass again before a railway is laid into the country.

Such a development is no pipe dream, The
value of penetrating into the territory with ade-
quate lines of transportation has long been recog-
nized by provincial leaders, up to and including
former Premier Byron Johnson. In pre-election
days Social Credit spokesmen uttered the same
thought,

But it is high time the project was removed
from the conversational stage and put into that
of blueprints.

We Can See For Ourselves
BOUT the last thing that most people are

A interested in right now is the Olympic Games,
The competitors’ village at Helsinki, alive with
activity last summer, must now resemble a ghost
town—if indeed it has not been entirely dismantled
—and it will be four years before another some-
where else takes its place,

But taking into account the weak showing of
‘anada in the last games, it is by no means. too
early for this country to start looking ahead to
1956 with an idea of getting itself once and for all
out of the also-ran class,

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Of timely concern, therefore, is an article in
the current issue of New Liberty magazine which
makes some scorching observations on the reasons
for the Canadian debacle at Helsinki, The blame,
according to the article, rests right in the lap of
the Canadian Olympic Association,

“Make about it, Canada’s 1952
Olympic strength was sabotaged quite thoroughly
from top level,” author Gordon Walker writes.
“And unless we can take drastie corrective meas-
ures, this year’s farce will be repeated in 1956, the
next Olympic year.

Among the examples cited by the article is the
treatment meted out to the Vancouver athlete,
Jack Burney, generally regarded as the best 400-
meter hurdler ever produced in Canada,

Unable to compete in the Hamilton Olympie
trials: because he was serving with the U.S. Army
at the time, Barney, who had broken the Canadian
record for his event and had received a substan-
tial promise that he would be allowed to compete
for his country anyway, paid his own way to
Helsinki to take part.

There, however, he was quickly cold-shoul-
dered by Canadian officials, On top of that he was
told it would cost him six dollars board money for
each day he spent at the Olympic village.

“Surely this must have been the darkest, most
dishonorable day in Canadian sports history,”
Walker remarks,

From this distance it is impossible to say who
was at fault, or why. The bald fact is there for all
to see, however, that Canadian performance in the
Olympic Games does not by a long shot measure
up to the standards which the country is capable
of achieving.

Some critical self-examination is necessary
right away if, four years hence, we are to send a
band of athletes into the contest with any real
hope of success,

no mistake

ding of Prince Rupern

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No Quick Easy War

THE 1952 EDITION of
Brassey’s annual car-

ries an article by Briga-
dier-General C. N. Bar-
clay which deserves the
leather medal for down-
right silliness,

Brassey's is guide book

which gives all the latest facts
ind calculations about the var

the

armies navies and all
forces. It carries authoritative
Ucles by “experts.”

Brigadier Barclay says that
the next war would be an atomic
war and would end in a few
weeks with “overwhelming vic
tory” for the side with the most
and deadliest atom bombs. But
he is not quite sure that the
U.S. has more bombs than Rus
Sia. As a boost for more and
bigger bombs his article is no
dud

* +
I TURN BACK to my own
olumns for the years just
before Hitler’s war I see that I
wrote again and again against
‘hat very sort of false prophecy
We were teld that mass bomb
ing would end wars in a mat-
of weeks Experts” even
wrote books based on what
would happen in Britain if and
when the “nemy mass-bombed

IF

ter

‘hat isle. Millions of civilians
would make for the country
said the prophets. The whole

structure of society would col-
lapse. The whole thing would be
so ghastly that it could not pos-
sibly last more than weeks

As it turned out, the Second
lasted longer than
the

Mr

first
Churchill's recent predic- |

tion about the nature of a third /?

world war seems
more realistic

to
than

me much
Brigadier

Barelay’s. The destruction of the |!

first month would

the Prime

be ghastly
Minister for
sides . would every-
in’ their house of
sh weapons

after the first month
Mr. Churchill, the great
would fight on like

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for ry life
I read Mr
with great
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Russia

ays that

Churchill's speech
care. For it seems to
pointed warning to
particularly when he
after the first month
there would be large areas of
the earth across which no large
land armies could move. As Rus-
Sia is primarily a land power
and the Atlantic Union nations
are primarily sea powers, the
meaning of that statement
seems clear
+ & ©

MR. CHURCHILL reasons, as I
have done in my small corner
for years, that a third world
war is extremely unlikely BRE-
CAUSE both sides know these
basic facts Unfortunately for
our argument, the present sit
uation in Korea shows how it
iS possible to get into war which
it is impossible to end quickly
There is course a very
Breat difference between the
situation now and that befor
Hitler’s war. Hitler always in-
tended to wage war—in fact by
the of his regime
could Survive indef-
nitely war The one
Kremlin fears
more than anything else is an
cutright, total war of the
Hitler deliberately brought on

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very nature
not even
without

Contrary to Brigadier Bar-
clay’s prediction—I do not be-
lieve that either the United
States, Russia or China could
be knocked out by atom bombs
or other such devices. If war
comes, it will be ended, in the!

long run, by land armies
idea that it will be any
button” pushover—ghastly put
short—is just silly.

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SHOWS AFFIDAVITS

Columnist
Claims Truman

| Was Klu Klux

NEW YORK €P)—Commenta-
| tor-columnist Walter Winchell
showed photostats of seven
affidavits on his television show
Sunday night and claimed they
were proof President Truman
had been a member of the Klu
| ux Klan.

| The dates quoted by Winchell
from affidavits were, with one
possible exception, during Oc-
tober, 1944, while Truman was

campaigning for vice-presi-
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Governments Have No Control

Over Finance,

Says Socred

VICTORIA (CP)—The greatest fallacy in the

world today is the belief

that governments control

the financial policies of their country, Health Minis-
ter Eric Martin told a meeting of the Vietoria branch
of the Society of Industrial and Cost Accountants

of B.C. here.

Addressing the meeting on
Some of the Fallacies of the
Present Financial System,”

Martin deciured

“No government on earth con
trols its own financial! policies
The banks control everything.”

Imposition of credit restric
tions in Canada was not a fed-
government plan con
Mr. Martin The sug-

Nth lied

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ben Ship of Le

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Angeles, Can
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radio show
to Canada

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radio workers
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Survey of
Drug Addicts

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eslion actually came from the

Bank of International Settle-
rent.”

The minister claimed the
edit restriction policy impeded

expansion
Canada

Why were credit restrictions
instituted in @ country already
short of purchasing power?”
sked the minister

He pointed to the situation in
Canada in 1948 when, he said,
total production was valued at
$15,000,000,000 and the national
income at only $12,000,000,000

TAXES PUSH UP PRICES

Action of the government in
increasing taxes pushed up
he said

The result of all this is that
the money supply is dying up./
The gap between purchasing!
power and goods produced is
petting wider

“We're headed for difficulty
because we're piling up goods |
ind services to the point
where workers will have to be
laid off. And unemployment
will see the purchasing power
fall off still more.

It should

and prosperity in

prices

be obvious to all
that, under the present finan-
lal system, the more gou pro-

duce the less purchasing power
there stated Mr. Martin
He told his audience a depres-
sion doesn't have to be created
as it Was in 1929." It can be
automatic, he warned
Canady. at present, the speak-
continued fortunate
enough to have outside capital

er is

which is warding off a depres-
sion

‘But this shoultin't be neces
ary,” he stressed

SOLUTION TO DEPRESSION

The solution, he said, is what
Social Credit tried to do in Al-
berta and was “stopped cold by
the federal government, the
Bank of Canada and the CPR.”

The pian, he explained, was
to place more purchasing
power in the hands of the peo-
ple through issuing of $26 divi-

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VANCOUVER (P)
mut Che plans

addicts

The Com-| On a nation-wide basis, now
to put 150}

, ; constitutionally impossible, he |
the micro-| said the deficiency of purchas- |
the causes | pny power would be made up by!
treatments of theig |the Bank of Canada. The money!

j}would be drawn from the bank

drug inder

scope” to determine
and possible

addiction

pgs > . ;
A meeting of the Che *\by the federal government
standing committee on drug ad | 000,000
Kiction voted to seek a feds ral} If there was a $3,000,000,-

“push- | ¢;

 

grant to finance the

which would delve into such ac-

Sociological factors surroitnd

}4ng their general environment”

The 150 addicts would be vol
unteers and probably prisoners
at Oakalla Prison,

| If approved the project would

|require the services of an ex-
| pertenced psychiatrist, social
 pertanes, chirric Psychologists,
| technicians and secretarial per-
sonnel ,

In a resolution which wilj
g0 before the directors of the
Community Chest, the com-
mittee said there has been a
1 per cent increase in women
addiets within the jast 16
years,

The age at which juveniles
start On narcotics has declined,
the resolution added, The Ma-
jority start at 16 or 17 years and
a few on record began at 14,

During the last 10 years there
has been a 500 per cent increase
im the number of prosecutions.
under the Opium and Narcotic
Drug Act and a 600 per cent rise
in the number of convictions,

 

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survey | 900 deficiency in purchasing |

power, he said $1,500,000,000
could be made up in payment
of dividends, and the other
half by discounting by proe- i
lamation the price of all goods |
by 10 per cent, {

“There would be a balanced!
economy. Prices would come!
down and purchasing power |
would go up,” said Mr. Martin, |
“We would have the money to/
buy what we produce.”

PRINTING MONEY

“We're told we'd create infla-
tion by this method because
we'd resort to the printing press
for money. Well, they resort to
the ptinting press now, don’t
they?” ‘

He stressed, however, that So-
cial Credit has no intention of
nationalizing the banking sys-
tem.

When Social Credit changes
the system, he assured his list-
eners, business in Canada would
not be disiocated, and there'd
be no upheaval.

“Some day,” he continued,
“we'll abolish one of the most’
vicious principle on earth—in-
terest on money.”

 

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It just doesn’t happen by

Ray Reflects and Reminiscgs

line
itself

Want Ad Wanted typist,
smart enough to be worth $135)
a month yet dumb enough
start for less.-Gait Reporter

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“KILL It

A reporter in Kenya says he
has received a letter of the cir
cular kind, saying he will be
killed in retaliation for the Bri-
tish campaign against the Mau
Mau terrorist organigution. It
wouldn't be the first time thing
have been killed in print shop
PULL DETAILS

Some fellows who boast that
they don't know when they re
get married and find out
Ex

During last year Canada's
canines devoured fifty million
pounds of canned dog food
This was worth about $7,0v00,-
000. We couldn't think of a
business going to the dogs in
a happier way.

Chinese soldiers have started
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domestic help, 50 cents of cloth. |

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cents of house and 41 cents of Nea ,
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food
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A couple” married recently
aboard a tug @n the river at Mon.
treal-—the god old yatlor’s knot

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that a Woman always looks NEW! Fe
rather stout In a@ fur coat SWIVEL-TOPI
NOTHING FINAL Ae)

Life in Bakersfield (Cal) is
becoming hard on the nerves HOME

Early this autumn an earthquake
required rebuilding parts of the
city. In the midaie of the jun
this week, more tremors were felt

just enough to make everyoye
xchange glances

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A BIG COIN

Speaking of the 1939 dollar, CALVIN BULLOCK Metterined Doct @

that respectable coin will now Lid. GENERAL GB ee

buy 105 cents worth of electric- VACUUM CLEANERS

SAVES MILLIONS ine

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B.C. Reacts ( : “t} be Pe -| mf \
HI CII) One |

To Rejection
Of Rate Hike}

VANCOUVER ©& Business |
men here estimate the Board of
Traneport Commissioners rejec
tion of the railways’ application
for an eight per cent freight rate
increase saved British Columbia
“millions of dollars.”

A spokesman for retailers said
today the higher rates would
have been reflected in retail
prices because manufacturers
and retailers could not have
absorbec the boost

“The board decision undoubt
edly wili have many beneficial
effects insofar as this area is
concerned,” said Howard N. Wal
ters, secretary of the Vancouver
Beard of Trade

Bince the sharp increase in
ral! rates from 1948, others said
millions of dollars have been
added to the price of consumer
goods

!

Meanwhile, C. W. Brazier,
British Columbia's representative :
in five freight rate hearings

said the board appeared “to have
gO itself out of a straightjacket”
by rejecting the railways’ appli
cation

The board in previous deci-
slong appeared to have bound
itaelf to a formula,” said the
Vaneouver lawyer. “Now they |
seem to have worked themselves
out of it.”

Te
ETTERBOX

QUESTIONS RIGHTS
OF NATIVE INDIAN
Editor,
The Dally News

With reference to the editorial |
in your issue of Oct, 24, regard-
ing the plans of the Oblate
Fathers to control the freedom
of movement of the native people
of Canada, it would appear that
the Oblate Fathers take the view
that the Indians are to be hived
on reserves for all eternity, and
that they are not to be encour’
aged to find a place for them- |
selves in the national life of their |
own land,

It is stated that the scheme
now awaits the approval of the |
Federal government. Does this |
mean that if approved, the In- |
dian will be foreed by law to
accept the fact that his destiny
is to be foreordained at the
eaprice of any organization
which is strong enough to bring
4 minority influence on the gov-
ernment of the day?

Is the Indian to have no voice
in his own affairs, either now or
in the future?

“PUZZLED.”
Suicides in
Sudden Deaths

VANCOUVER Four pro-
bable suicides were among six
sudden deaths reported to Van-

couver police during the week-
end.

BIGGER GAME
ISAAC'S MABOR, NS. (CP)
Ernest MacMillan went hunting
for deer but returned with a
black bear estimated to weigh
900 pounds. MacMillan
hunting alone when attacked by

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