vriv I No oiher poet cuula i m ireal Tommy Atkn-Jt"' . h R lMifiliHi,., ... . . IU u: Prince Rupert Daily News As I See It ray.. Reflects and Reminisces Thursday, July 26, 1951 daunts endu--yi experience und knuwL, could. There was lines: '; 'Oh it's Tummy n.i, Tommy that And chuck 'im out ik., -v.. VBSS ore An Independent dally n-ewspaper devoted to the upbuilding of Prince Rupert and Northern and Central British Columbia, idember of Canadian Press Audit Bureau of Circulations Canadian Daily Newspaper Association G A. HUNTER, Managing' Editor. H. O. PERRY, Managing Director SUBSCRIPTION RATES: "it.!? ;jf When the gun begin Electricians in Toronto have bten seeking an increase in their hourly wage rate. There Is no need to ask watt for. nr. uuuiiuaiice uf ,M.t whine Icod. a .h-w. r 1 - -j, . .. , (UNION AjtB ' ay Carrier, Per Week, 20c; Per Month, 75c- Per Year, $8.00; By Mail, Per Mflnth. tie: Per Year, $800 iu nc uuwn ana pltnt V t,. . Jackass A?e reads a current bullmn $ PliKHAFS YOU SAIU IT! Comes word from Vancouver that former residents of Prlniv , .,' Prince Rupert Dafiy fjews Ltd., 3rd Avenue, Prince Rupert. Published every afternoon except Sunday by i ".-. Lias isn't t r, iproach to Utopia- i, ! Rupert rejoice to hear about thejugncultural formula "t numilt, in at and around this city, it si tutor. even taid that many would have jnj sermus uujcihiuh i,u r.-iuiiiiii(j i which miKht well be a fact, could j the real truth be known. For it j dce not always follow that, when ; a man und his family puck up and move, the head of the house if always 'rarln' to go. FIRESIDE BY VlLKTlW Employee.? 0f the d, ! Cillulose Corporation inquire dwellings. Thirty -a,? getting down to buslm-a 'I the most cf us they haws what they feel is a w A DID YOU ever hear of a law which helped to keep down the cost of living? Never? Or just hardly ever? Well, did you ever hear of a single week going by where some law was not used to make the cost of living higher? DOWN in Brazil they burned 80 million baas of coffee in the 1930s, for the prices were too low to make it worth while selling. But oh. some say, that was in the depression not now when everything is scare. y J$JZ$?Wv 'Iff Vacations Necessary routine of modern work tends to make the THE individual more of a mechanism than a human heing, observes a national labor union publication in advocating the importance and necessity of everyone having a regular holiday. It is especially important at a time when everyone is plagued by inflation at home and crises in the international field to get away from the usual routine, if only for 1 j j. ' i j.1 ' V .1 i Christmas, accordirn t Bl'T THINK OK THE MUSIC I ca!cuUtlons. the, Victoria p Ace ordvr silences nomi.s ri,ad y,K v,r bk-h' - " j When the day's labor at .lib H""."lcu- ; "".vnds, the Job ;f huui i Hon starts. This Is getti' ; where. . , oting Hereuuueu. iiie ujuiinui, how.'vei, enjoytd the music, so they ure now suffering disap a c nivr Ti mo unr c- l n 1 11 r2 in i h h i hi s t-t - pointment. It's always possible, however, to sh :ve up some of the Parliament house windows, and sirenade with two or thne hour peeches the?e dry, hot and dusty days.. Scarce? Who said so? j The Brazilian government has a scheme to buy up and take coffee "off the market" to keep the present high prices from falling. No, we haven't heard, very much about that up hire because the U.t. state Wpan-ment stepped in when Senator Guv M. Gillette had an agricul If Fetain, in 1940, na(, j the on-rushlng might m , ' what then? A fulr enoufl tion. The aged Ktrslut i more. France had stern penalty. But tr " never forget niiey dj( m - or that, in tin hour i mutiny in the French i failed. tive. A vacation provides an opportunity to make a psychological inventory, to think out one's problems and make a fresh start. A vacation is like an annual overhaul for a hard-working machine. It also provides the opportunity for .an annual inspection of the human ma-' chine. What we need is "the pause that refreshes." an When Bill Bailey, who entered the Hiom .re' H line Tuesday, taru i wearing a uniform half tural sub-committee of Congress all set to expose the fa-'ts century ago tr longer, the com- mleht cause international British Army was the sort Rud-yard Kipling liked to write about. Depari- plications, " the State U" t'lasslfii!.-. fur hi- . opportunity for rest and recuperation, for recon-" sideration of the meaning of life. Certainly it was Timrov in cmflurl fli-it Vinman liointro clirii1l cnond 4 NEW ARRIVAL By Robert Chambers in Halifax Chronicle Herald CP PHOTOi ORMES their lives in continued activity, with all the stress and strain which this involves. Life is worth living only if one can raise his eyes from time to time to a wider horizon, appreciate the beauty of nature, V and, to paraphrase Walt Whitman, "loaf and invite LETTERBOX Scholarship For Gordon Graham one's soul." That is vvhv vacations are so vitallv ENJOYED VISIT Editor, ment boys said. IF YOU sigh and say it's too bad those foreigners have such low ideas, what about our own? I heard over the radio the other day how one authority, set up under the laws of British Columbia, Is now going to com- 1 pel the farmers who sell prod- ucts at their own road-side ' booths to charge the same prices as are charged in the big ci y stores. I read in the bright monthly, The Northwest Digest, the sad tale Of a Cariboo trucker who got the bright idea of buying j fruit in the Okanagan. taking ! it to the north, and selling it , direct. i The law caught up with him, and he was fined for trying to by-pass "the regular channels." i 1 on this project the location was ! to be on Sixth Avenue near the I Armories. Couldn't somewhere Gcrdon Richard Graham of Daily News Our recent stay ward, also visitiin ' necessary in these modern days. Pinnppr nirit Nockr-lorl The Pioneer Druggists at Port Ed- Boom memorial nin oi.mnn, Prince Ru- in tnls vicinity still be obtained Pr;nce Rupert, was the top pupil pert and Terrace, . was very : as US preiiy wen cenwai 10 we lor vms umt.t 111 c icny I h,,!. Htv? ! High School Junior Mulricula- pleas-ant Beine a veteran of the Boer tion (University Entrance 1 examinations. His average was 87.9 or rcent. He receives a Chris Spencer Foundation award of $2'25 and a general proficiency scholarship of $175. PHONE 81 I would like to see some others express an opinion on this matter. How about it, tennis plavers! TENNIS ENTHUSIAST. War and World War I. I visited the Canadian Legion Hu41 and , was amazed to see such a fine place. It is the best I have seen i in all my visits through the United States and Canada. The sights we saw in Brith UNITED STATES under a capi talist government spent bil Columbia we will never forget and we are very grateful to All, for the way we have been treated. C. MUSTO. lions and billions of the people's money to buy up and hoard vast mountains of food all of which was kept off the market. That was called "price support." b. minu.iii juM. luiu mui e y cii were spent in building and cementing the massive arch that t springs from the Atlantic to the Pacific, says the ' Winnipeg Tribune. Now the eyes of the Dominion . "are turning to the north. .. . - a new vista is opening ( to the people of Canada. Millions of square miles that for years were looked I on as rocky barrens incapable of supporting human '.life are now beginning to offer treasures as startling as those of the rich agricultural soil of the jrairies. But the spirit of the pioneer is needed to roll hack these new frontiers. The faith, energy and determination that has made Canada what it is today are needed to meet the challenge of the future. 6th in a aerie to bring you the farts about your Hospital Insurance plnn KII,IT illlOUT IWATIi HOSI'lTl ROTARY TENNIS COURTS I Editor, I Much of the food that which wasn't deliberately destroyed or Bail News- given away to foreigners-Is still y in storage of your spare to write in regard to the Rotarv tennis court.;. I'mi PUSS? 11 unn: But hold everything, you ira'.e socialists. The greatest price hoid-up in all history was the ool racket, which I exposed in this column between 1945 and 1950. Several governments, led by tho.-,e of Britain, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, joined together to keep the price of wool from falling. The then stocks were enough to supply 20 i ii e .very tF-nnis player in the eily was more man pita ed i) pee th.it the Rotary is goin? throueh with th:s project. However, I'm also sure there will b? ' disappointment at the location j chosen. II seems a shame to put 1 such a badly needed facility lu such an out-of-the-way place. When the Rotary first started 'Why tlnn't private hoopltal Innuranre plant operate tn Many" people have asVrd, B.C.?" Scriplnre J-aiiaye for Jodaij "The Lord shall make good his loving-kindnefs toward me." Ps. 133:8. years of normal trade. But so cunning was the scheme useci that, instead of wool prices falling as they should have done under the "law of supply and jemand," they were boosted to the highest level in history. Three of the four governments PLUMBING and HEATING DECCA COLUMBIA . CAPITOL Latest releases fn Popular, FoIk Songs, Classics. 78 rpm and long play. ALL RECORD ACCESSORIES which combined in this scheme were "socialist." t IF THERE ever was free enterprise it has long since become as hard to find as the sea-serpent, Ogopogo. Strangely enough, th'e big business men who pay for bi advertisements, in press and on radio, about "Free Enterprise" and "the American Way of Life" did more to kill their ideal than any other part of the population. Did you ever hear of a "free enterprise" manufacturer who really believed in "free trade" that is, competition from but-side? On the other hand did RECORD BRUSHES Keep your records clean for longer wear 98c The Reliable and Prompt Service You Know PHONE 174 For Repairs and Alterations Smith SEIkins Lid. P.O. Box 274 Rupert Radio and Electric Private hospital Inmirance plann lo not operate In B.C. herauae they can not match B.C.H.I.S. service for the name low premium. W hen the (jovernment introduced Ihmpital liiHuranee, provUion Man nimle wherehy any rilMing plnn could continue operation providing it could give equal lifiufiU and coverane for the nme low premium. Private plans readily saw that they could not do thin without raining their rates over those charged by B.C.H.I.S. and as a result left the field on their own accord. t,- , v-When comparisons are made Iwtween ll.C.ll.I.S. and private plans, It Is often for--gotten that B.C.H.I.S. covers everyone, and seldom rcmemlx-rcd that private plans were retttricted in services and in memhership. As a result, their licncfita were limited to certain groups. In most cases, private plans select the people they will insure, and limit what they will cover. " 4 For example, private plans do not Insure against the re-occuranee of a previous ailment, nor inmire anyone over a certain age. This feature automatically excludes a lurge niimher of people. Private plnn did a good joh as far as they went, hut they didn't go fur enough. They were not designed to meet the needs of all the people of B.C. The M-)lr of B.C. needed a Hospital Insurance plan. Before B.C.H.I.S. started Im 191'), one out of every three persons could not pay his hospital hill. Many hospitals were lotting money and cities, municipalities and the provincial government had to give cash grunts to keep them in opcrtilioii. Something hud to he worked out to protect the people from high hoxpitnl hills, and at the same time help the hospitals. B.C.H.I.S, was the answer. B.C. eili.ens can now enjoy protection against large hospital hills for acute caret Some people have said, "Give the Hntpilul Insurance phut hack to the private plans' without reuli.ing that these private plans 0ieraled lcfore B.C.H.I.S. They didn't help the overall situation in 10tH, and they wouldn't help it now. Private plant were good M far as they went, hut they didn't go far enough to solve B.C.'s problems. , It's true that B.C.H.I.S. premiums have increased, hut these private plans could noff have kept their premiums stationary in the face of rising hospital costs. Their premium would he as high if not higher than those now charged hy B.CJI.I.S, B.C.H.I.S. has solved B.C.'s hospitalization problems and accomplished Its maJoe objectives. People may now have protection aguiust large hospital bills for acute care, and the hospitals are now in a position to ox-rule on sound financial basis. Next week, we will discuss 4,,Miat almut the different hospital public ward ratest' Be sure to read these messages. They deal with y?-ur Hospital Insurance plan- a plan which has already paid over IMUMMUHH) for more ti.nn 51)0,000 hospital cases, x providing benefits for thousands more each month. B.C. HOSPITAL 1SSI ft ASCE SERVICE,. YOUR PROTECTION AGAINST LARGE HOSPITAL BILLS, P.O. BOX 1279 313-3rd Ave. W. Phone 644 you ever hear of a big business 5' -TTttT- concern putting a small com-, petitor out of business? THE BIBLE plainly predicts a time when no person will be allowed to buy or sell unless he rf THE BEST CTil QualityL or she has "the mark of the beast" stamped on the hand or ;in the forehead. I think we are j pretty close to that day now : in fact, I think of a very good I design for that "mark of the beast.'' Not the lion, not the eagle, the bear or the beaver. No make it the Jackass. Prince Rupert Hotel DINING ROOM UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT ' THE' RESTAURANT WITH 1 " THE FAMILY ATMOSPHERE GOOD FOOD AT MODERATE PRICES TRY OUR BUSINESS MAN'S DAILY 60c LUNCH Specializing in Chops, Steaks, Fried Chicken . . . Southern Style COURTESY AND GOOD SERVICE IS OUR MOTTO Open Daily i f..... 7:00 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sundays and Holidays 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Grain Hold-up Proves Costly MONTREAL The grain bottleneck continues to cause expense Craftsmanship In Type.., Let Us Solve Your Printing Problems PHONE 234 Dibb Printing Co. BESNER BLOCK THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & WELFARE! ' and inconvenience. No fewer I than eleven freighters continue ! tied up in Montreal. This is Resting $1,000 a day for each of i the eleven. HON. DOUGLAS TURN BULL, Minister