The Daily News Daily Edition: Friday, December 8, 1944 VPumi&iM every afternoon except sun- lay d; frince Kupert uauy Mews lnuiea. i nira Avenue, trince Kupert, British Columbia. O A. HUNTERi' Managing Editor. SUBSCRIPTION HATES: ly City Carrier, per week 15 rr MUUIU 03 -Per Year 7.00 ly Mall, per month 40 Publid Opinion . . . Christmas Cards From our wide selection of fine quality cards, distinctive designs and many messages you'll have no difficulty at all ln choosing your way of saying MERRY CHRISTMAS to your friends. Buy Now! BESNER BLOCK MEMBER ABC. Cl x uimirtiiLV ui upiiuuii mums ia iuuiiu- ly based on human nature. Our curiosity about what other persons are thinking is apparently insatiable. We do not necessarily want to agree or disagree with them; we simply want to know. Even if we have no personal interest in whether the general public approves or disapproves of double-feature movies or blood-red hail polish, we will read a statistical analysis of the varied answers given by plumbers, postmen and policemen and admit that the result of the poll corresponds, in all probability, with public opinion. When the subject of the poll is an election, public interest becomes warm, even heated. One might think that popularity of the polls would also increase, but it seems to be the fact (although this has not been verified statistically) that people resent opinion polls on elections even while they read them. They may readily agree that the voice of the people is the voice of God, but not that either is the voice of Gallup. Resentment may spring from the fact that an election is something in which we are emotionally involved. We know that women and proprietors of moving picture theatres will continue to do as they please without regard to statistics. Unmoved, we can read the results of the polls on nail polish and double features, priding ourselves on belonging to the intelligent minority, or, if -our opinion coincides with that of the majority, getting some satisfaction from the proof that the country is sound at heart. But when the question is whether Hon. Samuel Slumkey or Horatio Fiz-kin shall represent the historic riding of Easanwill, .the black magic that can forecast the Result brings little cpm-fort. There is no satisfaction in be longing to the intelligent minority when the scoundrels of the majority group are going to misgovern the country, and if one happens to side with the majority, the poll demonstrates that the result was predestined anyway. The machinery of a democratic election is cumbrous and creaky, but magnificently human. There is enjoyment to be derived from mass meetings, vituperative oratory, editorials written in the: white heat of partisanship. It is humilating to reflect that the same result could be obtained more efficient ly by a pack of punched cards shuffled through a Hollerith tabulator. Infallibility may command respect, but never affection. Post-war Employment . . . The economic problem of the overseas veteran would be no problem at all if each small employer made a place for one or two. And, in the case of all veterans, this making of places would be profitable to all concerned. But if we look on the veteran's problem as a job for Government or the very small number of very large employers, the overseas veterans really have eause for worry. There is already too much of a tendency for people to seek refuge on the payroll of a big corporation. These big corporations are necessary in some industries, perhaps -many. But the nation will do best, and individuals will be more self- PAGE TWO reliant, if the public remembers that the little businesses, the small employ- j ers, in the aggregate .are extremely im- j portant factors in our economy. ' National Selective Service ... j National Selective Service was adopted to keep people from getting non-essential jobs and it has worked; quite well for that purpose. It did not work well as a conscription scheme, for National Selective Service itself admits that a recent check showed 7,500 draft evaders in employment.! As an employment agency, National j Selective Service does not work well. It prevents a man from, seeking an em-j ployer or an employer from seeking a worKer wunoui going tnrougn tne ceremony of National Selective Service. It prevents employers from advertising for workers. It means a considerable delay for the worker waiting around National Selective Service offices, only too often, in the end, to be given an "open permit," which merely is a statement that National Selective Service cannot find him a job, and that he had better go and find one for himself. It involves altogether too much interference with the ability of both the em ployers and the 'workers to get to gether depression from the lack of a reallv Russian Drive in Hungary . . . The Kussian crossing of the Danube south of Budapest opens up big possibilities. Marshal Malinovsky has three possible ways through which he can develop his offensive: He may drive up the right bank of Dibb Printing Company THIRD AVENUE Delmore Frozen Fruits and Vegetables Raspberries, 6trawberries, Sliced Peaches Enterprise Fruit Co. PHONE 343 SAVOY HOTEL Carl Zarelli, Prop. Phone 37 P.O. Box 84. FRASER STREET Prince Rupert I the Lab6r-Progressive Every Canadian knows, Party? j What did the CCF have to jsay? The Calgary Herald, October 11, 1933, bore the follow ing report: '"Chamberlain did the river towards Budapest, m order to the only thing he could haw, encircle tne city irom the south, in , stated j. s. woodsworth. m.p.. conjunction with operations already ed"al leader of the ccf party, taking place towards the north. He may mova northwest towards Lake Balaton and the Austrian frontier. He may prefer to drive due wst across Drava in the direction of -Zagreb. In the case of the first two suercest- when he discussed the recent world crisis and Canada's foreign policy at a meeting of the Knights of the Round Ttable in the T. Eaton Company dining room at noon today ...II, S. Patterson, K.C., thanked Mr. Woodsworth in behalf of the club 'for his acceptable view of the recent crisis." s-imilar quotations .1 . . V Many, wiaujr, uiaiiy many sum 1 1 fill it V.l 1 1 fi n t h n r,niM nl. n.tl lit .1 L. . . . 1 i V A I uu unyco uic uiug siiuum ue guuu ue- could be given but space forbids. cause towards Budapest there would The fact of the matter is that be few natural features with which to if was the k"-wing iabor move- contend, and towards Austria because , S1 "SJ SJPcfnn' rtHUR'' , ., ii . . Bio again.st war m those days it would run in with the general gram and the ccf is now trying to of the country. The advantage of the ci;jm credit for it. in vic- third course would be that eventually , the drive would link up with the1 Par-' tisans in Croatia and make the position j of the German Forces still remaining in Yugoslavia even more precarious. The Russian bridgehead across the Sava wpuld furthermore be of considerable ; assistance in this drive. With three such attractive possibilities, Marshal Malinovsky may possibly not be satisfied to attempt only one. LIVELY AS A CRICKET! Don't let iluggiih kidneys tlow you down. Take Gin PilU the "relief or money back" remedy and ice how much better youll feel. Rtgulor (lit, 40 Pills large lit, 10 Pilll NEW ROYAL HOTEL A Home Away From Home Rates 75c up 50 Rooms, Hot and Cold Water Prince Rupert, B.C. Phone 281 P.O. Box 190 THE DAILY NEWS THIS AND THAT if ym V TW Cr M.nlx. Ki.m. SmW, lc KjftflHJH "It's a shame! I've got to give a $50.00 concert to get him to sleep!" LETTERBOX speakixg rnii rouPES Un the Other hand, It Was nec- Editor. Daily News: essary during tne man-power crisis and should not be abolished until we are sure that there is no such crisis. In any event, it should not be abolished without there being substituted a proper Dominion Employment Service so that a man seeking employment can get in touch with an agency which can place him in employment anywhere in Canada where such a man is needed. We suffered greatly during ihe On listening to the radio heard with some interest LAC Archibald, CCF candidate for the series of half-truths and that the Labor Premier of New outiight distortions. . .Zealand, Hon. Peter Fraser, Tn nflrHrmlnr T n"i a i rrVi i cf r turlnrv Vi ( c 1. : . .... . i i . " j Mt.uowKw Muifc io intent ayt'ecil in UL- first Class government employment hear the CCF given credit for tawa, declared that capitalism service. i standing in the pre-war years in New Zealand was operating In short, We do not want to hear for a Policy of collective se- better today than ever before. statements that National Selective to 'fjgjf f aBression-, ,hlng, th? men In the : , , v mi- . i wnat are tne facts? 'service demand from those ; Vice has been a brilliant SUCCeSS and In September. 1938, Tim Buck who pretend to speak for ; must be kept forever, Or charges tlijn stated in the Clarion with re- them is honesty. They are not it has been a colossal failure, and Should gard to the betrayal of Czecho- impressed by. men who try to j be oeaooiisneuovernigni. abolished overnieht What w native we want want slovakla: "The onl' effect it can , cash In on the immense feeling 1 nav ls t0 strengthen mtier's of friendship towards the soviet ! IS an employment service of the gOV- power for agression, strengthen ; Union felt by all Canadians in! eminent, interfering as little as possible the fanatical belief among the order to put over basicly antl ! with the individual employer or work- Nazis that the Breat democracies Soviet policies. Stalin today er, but efficiently .aiding to brimV to- ure ,airald p.rovoke w1desPrea.d works J" unity with Roosevelt; crp't W Imnlnvp S I M.S? f ,Ma! ln 5" ' I and:Churchill and the only- road I & v-x.- ..i.u . icrnauonai ireaues, a lar-reacn- ' to the future for rnnarfisn cor cannot 'reach each other, throigi their own channels of effort. ing drift of small srtates from vicemen ls the road of unity on the orbit of French influence the part of all sections and toward the Rome -.Berlin axis classes to assure full employ-and open the door .wide to j ment and rising living stand-European war with Hitler in a j ards. Th boys who are giving much more favorable p6sitioi" their blood to buy this unity Did history vindicate tHjs! will not stand for It being disposition o; ths present adertf frupted by pseudo-radical nhrase- mongering. Inth. U.S. nklii jrvSBflR I -cio. phi." rz$CW1B 1 1 R. THOMPSON. R.CJMR. Vote PI IS PROUD OF HIS RAILWAY traffic. Mr. Berner alluded to the fact that the gradient of thii line or the Canadian Nationc! Railways through the mountains, not exceeding one percent, was the best on the continent. That was why such surprisingly small ermines were necessary to handle large trains. Mr Berner paralleled his own career with the history.of the local line. He had Joined the rall- -- way in March 1914 and. described 'oiia, where the men and wo- a' triP through the interior be-men on the picket-line actually yond Smithers that summer opped the scrap-iron being wnen the train had gone off the dipped to Japan, and in other itrack not less tna" H times In a places, the labor movement Lj'dav- At Mat. the line had been well aware that the CCF leader- n,,t !n shaoe and had played a ship consistently stood aside Part 'n the First Great War by from this movement. carrying airplane spruce east. To hear LAC Archibald tlltine Between wars there had been a this riding announce that he windmills against Canadian fin- substantial tourist traffic. A was going to describe what was ance-capltal one would think number of personal anecdotes on the mind of the boys In the that he was in favor of Social- contrived to make Mr. Berner's services. ism. Indeed he goes so far as talk the more Interesting. However, as one who was for to say that there will be no Frank Skinner, president of years active in the labor move-' future for servicemen until we the club, was in the chair and ment prior to joining the Royal have such a socialism. Then there was a eood crowd of mem-Canadian Navy, I must confess lie starts talking about New - my eyes poppca wnen I neard Zealand, In spite of the fact TO THE CITIZENS OF PRINCE RUPERT as FOUR YEARS AGO IN THIS WAR I By the Canadian Press rvw ft ioin n a v tmitv,j r . ' ' a Dusseldorf and Netherlands temlent, Speaker at Luncheon of Gyro Club j airdromes. Oreeks captured Del- Albanla- President Roose-preciate -I hope you people here ap-vino the good railway you ivelt pledged VS. aid to Greece. have running into Prince Rupert I German air force staged light a railway I am proud to repre- raids on Britain. Cesare Maria jsent," said C. A. Berner, superin-,De Vecchl resigned as gavernor ! tendent, Canadian National Rail- j 0f Italy's Dodecanese Islands, i ways, in speaking before the ' Prince Rupert Gyro Club at lun-, ' ' " cheon Wednesday. The service ! bers with one guest in the person : and equipment on this line com- j of Tony Hill of Vancouver. Win-pared" very .favorably with any ner of the weekly raffle of a war railway on the continent. It had savings certificate was Jack Bul-already established a fine record ger. in handling of Important war I Announcement was made that District Governor Jack Ryan of Nanalrno .wpuld be here January 5 to conduct the installation of 1945 officers of the local club. Mr. Ryan will be accompanied by several prominent Nanalmo members and their wives and there will be special entertainment for the visitors. Nexi week the club will have a stag party In honor of Hector Cowie, a popular member who is leaving the city. THE REX CAFE Now Open Jor Business CHOP SUEY CHOWMEIN Opening Hours: 3 p.m. to 2 a.m. 2nd Avenue (Across from Prince Rupert Hotel) Phone 173 The Civic Labor Fcderatiun is the expression of the organized Labor Movement of this City. It has no political affiliations or alibis. Its affiliates are restricted to Labor Unions with Prince Kupert Charter. u It does not tplcrate outside or political in-treferonce in the conducting 6f-Jts"t)usfrie.sft- ease Service to All Is Our Motto. You BUT Secretary, Civic Labor V-O-T-E December 14th Wm. 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