Prince Rupert Daily News As I See (t ray not So far away but spilled with deliberation and not in the blazing heat of passion. A little ! further down, the disturbing line: "Perhaps Battleford next." Wednesday. August 22, 1951 Reflects and Reminisces The second column gives a list of less than a dozen names of the Frog Lake victims. One Is a, more ' I that of Qulnn, Indian agent. Premier St. Laurent is back Another, rather Indistinct, looks in Ottawa after a tour that as jj u might be Gowanlock. A took him as far as Alberta. He y0Ung clerl named Cameron felt the pulse of the west. Speak- . waa 0ne of the few survivors of ins in Battleford, the mme fro Lake, in alter we, tie wrote an authoritative and Prairie Art Buds NEAR SASKATOON. $Ptf JG an i ' " -a ! I - - 1 I . j .-' - - ,r'';?xW.vcAc..'.i; Minister suggested, in a reler-lence to the stormy spring of '85, that choice of -uprising" might have been more suitable as well as accurate had the word "rebellion" not been recognized. The First Minister's re- ; deeply interesting book on his experiences. The story does not reflect resentment or fear. He lived a full life, dying not more than some months ago in Sa.sk- i atchewan. ! marks have gone the rounds I particularly wanted to meet Bill Perehudoff, the up and coming young: Canadian painter, cf j Doukhobor origin. I had seen some of his work and ; and given quite a measuie ul siXTY-SIX support. Press comment L" - And so much for the veteran tinues to be published. Take the Hraids f(,at ln fioshinir a Calgary Herald for example, i gUmpse of tne west as lt looked ! I in '85, before the luxury-loving BEFORE THE EYE-OPENER folk Of today with their alleged It was a two by four sheet . woes, insecurity and endless when the Metis and the tribes- shortages. Sixty-six years ago! men started following the war Then, no wheat empire, f abu- it impressed me as having great power. Bill drbve in from the family farm. Dark and slim, he looks Just like a kten young business man though perhaps a bit more thoughtful. path. Originally established Dyj0us enough to delay delivery "Would Nancy like to see a movie with me on your television set?" ; a COuple of young fellows, it had because of its Immensity. Then, a stirrlne: commencement, me no oil pipe line laid across the very soil where Riel was fought. : Then, no towering business blocks. Then, no breakfast ln Vancouver with luncheon In Winnipeg. j boys from Ontario made their way westward on the partly completed CPR. "Knew them both," Alfred Carter, grizzled trail blazer who but they said it was to their left. At 2 a.m. these journeys were not particularly attractive. Then as I entered another sentry posf I heard a voice say. "Quiet!" Then .oma q ViantF qg the rifle cracked -'V "'H" T 'V II ATS Of Other Days and Circumstances n Independent dally newspaper devoted to the upbuilding of Princt Rupert and Northern and Central British Columbia. Member of Canadian Press Audit Bureau of Circulations Canadian Daily Newspaper Association Q A. HUNTER, Managing Editor. H. O. PERRY, Managing Directot SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Carrier, Per Week, 20c; Per Month, 75c- Per Year, jIRS . $8.00; By Mail, Per Month, 73c; Per Year, $8.00 tJ-Prince Rupert Daily News Ltd., 3rd Avenue, Prince Rupert. Published every afternoon except Sunday by What About Our Parks? ONE of the problems that faces the citizens of Prince Rripert is the provision of suitable parks. The importance of the park situation is recognized by the election of a parks board. What the ordinary citizens is concerned about is what is the Parks Board doing about the parks? Parks have various uses in any city and all cities recognize how very important it is that park space should be made available and usable. In Prince Rupert we have various types of parks. In picturesque McClymont Park there is available the splendid swimming pool and much playground equipment. The use that is made of these is sufficient proof of their value. Alder Park, with its valuable totem poles as well as its playground equipment, is a real asset to the city. Parks for playing games are also needed. Acropolis Hill is used for football and baseball. It is not very accessible and there is no doubt that the long climb is often a deterrent to the would-be spectator. The impossibility of making a suitable surface is also a serious drawback. Then there is Algoma . Park. There are some who maintain that it is on this park that the best chance of having a good playing surface lies. It is centrally situated and could be easily drained. Gyro Park is being used for softball but its small size is a drawback. While we noted that the chairman and the members of the Parks Board had difficulty in arranging a suitable time for their meeting we feel that that is a trifling matter. Whose ego is being ignored is unimportant. But suitable playing space is an essential and the Parks Board have not much to show for their year's activities. And already the evenings are drawing in. The fence round the We drove around to the Intercontinental Packing Plant where Bill got his start as an artist. It was Just before the Hitler war, at the tad end of the great depression. Work was siack in the plant for a brief period and Bill was laid off. But. the wise and , kindlv Mendels. who own the Then, Just the unpeopled died in Prince Rupert a year or out and the voice said, somewhat so ago, used to say. He liked to i plains and a startled country IM. E. ANDERERI exultantly, "Dot him!" , What live tne eariy west uvcr Sam, i should I find? An enemy? Noth- and was one of Prince RuPts most consistent boosters. Could ing so exciting. The soldier merely said, "That's the second he behold the present boom he iL. i , hmtaht." Th would say: "What did I tell p'ant, encouraged the young ar- Epk-jde ' No. ' 1 tist to try his hand at painting! t i,,,. ,,,rai; Mention of the prevalence of "PROTECTION AGAINST INFLATION" Aik your lnvttmnt Dvaltr for lh abov foidr and protpvefut of SS"1 -t"- . - , , , p.. . yOU; mi. lOi i-i nua til gary ln '85 and kept a daily lecord of events for many years. ai me ana m uic : t . t. , . : ra'5 cuy oump expiunauuu .iVt. Hke the kW who I ' calls to mil,d "perience with j while on sentry watch he had rats rats in other places and under been annoyed (? by the taught to swim by being tossed in and dlKerent circumstances. Three m0vini all over the plate it ; water over his head. Anyway " " ay ! . ov,1BrWea In reticular stand .,.ti-.iH., they crawled worked. The murals are good, " r . ,.,.. .,,,,1, took i,. w. i "But there's no use saying we were not scared," he solemnly reflected. "We were. Blackfeet and Bill's later work gets better out. Of cxiurse they place : aiong the fop of the parapet over year? ago, actually in the days'which he was staring hard into better. and were well armed, well mounted. of the First World War when the no man's land kteping watch for horde." of rats made the lives of an enemy. He figured out a plan; a'"1 W nu.mr. 0f,thf,m'nT'1 dian l go out anu soldiers even more miserable as tc deal with the rats, which he THE YOUNG artist went down to Colorado latterly and studied under a top notch Mexican painte:. I was told that when he ever, they h was the influence of Chief Crowfoot and Father Lacombe, and nothing else, we had to thank." : il the mud and slush were not couid see. He put a small piece ; j bad enoush. But there was a 0f cht ese on his bayonet and j humorous angle to the th; laid the rifle across the parapet. ; i experiences referred to. I As the rats came along to in- ' The first was in the trenches 1 vestigate it was a simple matter j Inear Fleurbaix. Here the tren- to pull the trigger and. "bang,". CALVIN BULLOCK lid. tj . s ' Sr returned some of his work showed a strong Mexican influence but I saw none of this myself. I did see a few of Bill's paintings downtown in Saskatoon. They clearly show the distinct periods in the development of the young artist. His earliest work shows razor-edges on the out ches had to built up. as owing to there was one rat fewer. their flooded state and the i yes, it was a simple matter nature of the country, it was not but to an army on the alert tne possible to dig down. The twnt; discharge of a rifle line, which had been taken over " the start of an French consist-'might nv-an lrom th troops, ed of a long fandbagged para-(enemy attack. The repetition of pet, wit(h recesses where the dtf- j the shot would surely indicate SEE I S FOR . , EXTRA! EXTRA! About a quarter of the editorial page of the 20-page Calgary Herald, published a few days ago, is devoted to a reproduction of what it printed one day in the early spring of 1885. It carried no dateline. It hardly needed one. It looked as If hurriedly thrown together to yell the news with minimum of delay. Radio and telephones were unknown. And what a story! In heavy type appenred the single word "MASSACRE." And underneath, a few grim lines telling lines of shapes and ligures. His latest is the very opposite he paints the human form, stream ' 11 J te 1 " 1 :n nu man i sume enemy acwvuy lined and almost edeless-look- i nnea ana aimuM, eugeie&b iuuk. ,ath Times werp uneasy and minhi tho ;hri ing. In all his work there is - -' J iaUU UUU tii'giil; I- U. u.li; vtn. nvv, i the amateur soldiers in their j j ront to i ,come involved. So j first assignment in the trenches ' wt(j1 a' gentle (?) word of ad- marked individuality. Hoists, AU-Steel Dump Bodies. Winches -all sizes. Heavy and Light Trailer Frames and Wheels. Power Take-Offs, All Crrtified Operator for high pressure and general welding INDUSTRIAL WELDING CO. m -1st E. Phone C.reen 884 - - i were nerhaDS more iittcrv than ' m . n 1 1 i n n trt tha rwemivnufnl SASKATOON has long deserved later cn. In any case the report i.ghting man that such origin-its growing fame as a budding cf a rifle being fired aroused ality would hardly be appreciat-centre of painting in Canada, apprehensions and, as corporal ; e by the powers that be. I left They tell me the mainspring of;on ' duty, I immediately investi-;tne sentry somewhat subdued this growth was Ernst Lindner, eated. At the first sentry post antj certainly for my own peace GKOKOiE DAWES AUCTIONEER Phone Green 810 anil Keri 137 who was born in Austria, and the soldiers said they had not cf mind, much relieved. Rats! more or less compelled the Sas fired but that the sound had come from their left. A short tramp through the mud-filled trenches took me to the next post katoon educational authorities to let him teach painting in night school classes. This was in the darkest years of the great depression. Most noted of Lindner's then- to pass on. Just as the Pyramids had been left as a monument to pupils is Robert Newton Hurley, j ths builders of ancient Egypt, so whose paintings of prairie eleva- he believes the tube shaped con-tors have long since become in- Crete wheat elevators may stand ternationally famous. In those for all time as Canada's most tragic years Hurley lacked money , characteristic contribution to even to buy paint and paper building. 111 do your 1 Jill eI canning in Jj and at times even used beet juice for color. Now there is a rapidly growing circle of really good artists. Beginners' painting is "busting out I had never really thought of how beautiful they are until Bill iemarked on their chaste and itripped-lor-action beauty ln all over" partly because, besides j simplicity. tssmm jswra!8va!i cooi comrorr mm. these mentioned above, the Nor- mal School has a .dynamic art teacher In the person of Nonie &uleastei. She sends out teach ers to ev?ry nook and comer of this province with at least a touch of her own fiery Roosevelt Memorial is a commendable effort. But there is need for a definite parks program and an active, aggressive board that will devote its energies to providing parks not arguments. What To Do For Tourists? value of the tourist trade to British Columbia THE is being increasingly recognized and developed. With what objectives is the industry being developed? The complaint is often made that the tourist is being exploited. It is true to some extent. Does this allegation hold true in Prince Rupert? On a recent trip by boat from Vancouver a leader of a group of tourists complained about the long stay-over in Prince Rupert. He didn't know what there was to do all day long . . . and he had been here before. A fellow passenger edged in on the conversation. He wanted to know what he expected from such a city. Did he expect the entertainment to be found irv .-large cities? The characteristic features of the city were pointed out, things that he would Mot find in other cities. Quite a number of his party talked of great numbers of miles they had driven on other trips. They seemed to think that that was the standard by which a holiday could be judged. What standard is ours ? Now there are two points to be considered. What is the tourist entitled to expect from a visit to Prince Rupert, and the other is what preparations do the citizens, business men and others make to entertain the traveller? There would seem to be much that could be done to make the visitors feel that we do "not want tourists only for how much money we can get out of them. A visit to the museum, the attention given visitors by large industrial plants, are worthwhile contributions towards making our visitors feel welcome, and will give them the urge to tell others that in addition to the wonderful scenery enjoyed along the "inside passage," there is a warm and thoughtful welcome extended to all. But we have to cultivate this attitude, and we should go out of our way to sell our city to our visitors. Perhaps a booth at the wharf would be helpful. Much can be planned for next year and a start should be made in time. THE ARRIVAL here of the Men- . (WTTTrTTF l5J-S:Si! vw fna canning teason when nMKOZ.S :-:-:-:-!:o?:' ' IVi&iW Krli.4. rhere't an electric rang in 'l1? your kitchen) Whether your dels, with a fine art collection brought from Hungary, has also given great impetus, to all this. Not only have they encouraged young artists, like Bill Perehu-doi'i. But their own fine collection is open at all times for study by the young painters. They are impulsive, kindly folks. Mrs. Mendel took me to lunch, then down to see the pictures at the framers. When I admired a fine portrait of my hostess, by a noted Parisian painter. Gyey Csnto. On th w of the moment, Grandpa Mendel gave me another line inciuie the same artist a small, beautifully executed still. Af WE drove back out into the country Bill Perehudoff made one remark which I would like jjTfcjrJ M favourite procew is top-of-the-itov j:':-t'5f 1 or "tne-oven you get cooler, more - yESSOi satisfying results when fTZ 1 "J SEE VOI R ESSO "'HNER DEALER ESI IfuWTrJ 1 ! Cj. you can electrically! ni '.l Jl.HI.H. ALL YOUR PRICED FROM . W! FAVORITE ARTISTS' Now available Scripture PaiSaqe for oJaij "And ye shall find rest unto your souls." St. Matt. 11:29. -DECCA 45's- at Rupert Radio and Electric