1 Prince Rupert Daily Hews Monday, July 10. 1953 An Independent daily newspaper devoted to theupbuLidmg'of Princ i Victoria Report j ... by J. K. Nesbltt! DRESS UP For Summer A FEW . rtC TUP ! day after the Commons had up-' held 'it by 90 to 39 votes. The 1 purpose of the, delay was clear: i It was to give the natives, ani ! their friends, more time to makj concrete suggestions for inclu-j sion in the new Act i I THE CANADIAN INDIANS and -their friends were agaiiut ! Bill 2t'7 for an obvious reason. 3upert and northern and central British Columbia Published every afternoon except Sunday by Prince Rupert Dally News Ltd.. 3rd Avenue, Prince Rupert, 5 British Columbia Member of Canadian Press Audit Bureau or Circulations Canadian Daily Newspaper Association O. A. HUNTER, Managing Editor. H. O. PERRY. Managing Director SUBSCRIPTION RATES v. iiituwuuvAm would any other group of Canadians. 1 , I CHALLENGE THE BASIS of Bill 2G7 which was that the Indian man or woman who lives on a 'reservation" mut give up; the right to do so plus his per- ( tional share of the joint property in order to get the vote What a stupid argument ta ,5ay that, as Indians are exempt from paying some1 taxes, the ret of us have to pay they therefoie n.ay not vote. War veterans pay no income tuxes on their penslons-M.P.'s and Senators pay no taxes on the extra allowance they recently voted Uiemselves. Yet nobody in his risiit senses suggvsu that Men's Fine HRv.HS siiif, C.C.F. To Meet In National Convention Cabinet Ministers To Europe VICTORIA C.C.F.'ers from all across Canada! will gather in Vancouver the last week in this month j to see if they can figure out why they were so badly hrom $2i A statute like the Indian Act is not something that is changed year after year. The old act, hi fact, has existed much as it !s now since Canada first became uy carrier, rer Week, zoc; Per Month, 79c; rer xeai $8.00; By Mail, Per Month 50c; Per Year $5.00. Men s Fine WOHstkd si , r,m $37 j By ELMORE PHILPOTT AFTER BILL 267? THIS IS TO SAY thanks to the readers of this column in various parts of Canada who fol- set back in British Columbia and federal general elections last summer. In the B.C. election the C.C.F. legislative group was cut from 11 to seven mem- Problems of Aging ' a Dominion. Hence the Indians feared tha;, if Bill 267 were passed into law, it would set the general pattern for administration of native affairs for a long period to come. They .preferred another year's Men's GAKAKDE fw. From J10 Men's SPOUT KllntTS.pe,. lt frutn VHV.HS ml WORR large selection. bers. Less than two weeks later. lt's the very lowed my request to pour and they know delay in making ANY changes ! from Pr. An protests against the government's Bill 207. j , As we all know, because cf j such protests (of which those Inspired by me were only a small fraction) the government dropped Bill 267 like a hot coal one Men's OUTING SHIrt ' Wool. Reg. H0.30. backbone of our economy." A Department of public Works official said: "There's nothing sentimental about our road program it's hard-boiled busi- ness; if we have good roads we'll : get more money." I At the way the gas tax is coming in now from the Hope- in the Indian Act, other than enactment of a itsy-bitsy law which scratched only a lew outer fringes of the long standing weaknesses in laws govern-ling them. Boys' PANTS. A good J In the federal election, the C.C.F. House of Commons group was slashed from 28 to 13 members. National leader M. J. Coldwell r-nd B.C. leader Harold Winch will do their best to explaia these humiliating setbacks. For the first time in the party's history, a national convention will be held west of the Rockies. The last convention was two years ago In Winnipeg. AH the C.C.F. big-wigs will be at the metings. Chief, of course, will be Mr. Coldwell and the only C.CF'er in the country war veterans or M.P.'s shuuld therefore be disfranchised. The measly handouts which ! the Canadian . treasury gives Indiuns on reservation should be recognized fur w'n-at they are partial compensation for depriving the original owners of this land of their means of livelihood. By giving the vote to ail Indians British Columbia hat rendered ridiculous the clawn that "it can't be dune" without upselplng the reserve system. It has been done province-lily . . I tour now and Lands and Forests I N recent years more and more thought and reseach I nave been devoted to the process and problems of aging. The conclusions reached are often tentative, butthey suggest that many accepted ideas about older people have been wrong. It is now widely recognized that a person's functional age is by no means the same as his chronological age. Some are as young biologically at 70 as others at 50. Frequently elderly people prefer to remain in jobs beyond the retirement age and it is often conducive to their health and happiness to do so. The compulsory withdrawal of such people from productive employment is a waste of manpower, and to the extent that older people continue to be usefully employed the burden of old-age' dependency is reduced. CONTRARY TO GENERAL I Princeton Highway, that $10.- woo lor aress and Boys' 1'KUUtWEAK.Tupi, Minister . E. T. Kenney experts to lead a party or B C. lumbermen to Sweden later in the 000,000 road will be paid for in I less than 10 years. That's not bad business. outturns Car. I summer. That leaves five ministers to election Public Works Minister ! get to Europe before the next mmm Every cabinet minister, during misconception, tremendous progress has been made in the past few years in extending health and education facilities to the natives. But this is on a spotty basis. Where the Indian Affairs Department officials are really go-getters" the improvements are being made. But that is mostly where the rival churches have no vested monoDolw in who has been able to form a ; his term of office, likes to take and it can be done federally. government Tommy Douglas a trip to Europe. The present ; Carson, Mines Minister Mao cabinet has done pretty well in or Saskatchewan. Dr. Hugh Gillis, professor in - UJ ZZZj a- this regard. Premier Johnson has been twice in less than political history and Even more important than the question of WOrk at Nova Scotia's famous government St.i three years; Attorney-General foffeersons hpvnnrr tVm i,cal -.J . ; Francis Xavier University, Willi Gordon WUmer has been twice. terest in the education of the INFANTS' WHITE BOOTS nearby Indians. Where sn..n Donald, Health and Welfare Minister Turnbull, Labor Minister Cates and Agriculture Minister Bowman. The man who was longest a cabinet minister in B.C. history George Pearson somehow in the 17 years he was in government never found the time to make a European tour. . . , . v , ma"- attend churches have vested riohts as will most of the C.C.F. I Finance Minister Anscomb has and M.L.A.'s, including i been to England and so has Ul usinS LO aavantage a workinz force that con- m.p.'s Frank Calder of Atlin, first j Miister of Trade and Industry tne government seems afraid j to take the bull by the horns.) Yet this is the very core and ' native Indian ever elected to;L. H. Eyres. Education Minister the B.C. Legislature. "S-otty ' ! W. T. Straith is on a European Bryce, M P. for Seikirk, Man., is j mm crux of the trouble. As thP 1 Don'f Strain Yourself carrying heavy cans o( upstairs fur your k!t range. CRT AN OIL UP! Eliminates barrel si-Fewer oil deliveries. No: fire hazards. Stahlo tribe declared in their admirable brief to the govern ment "this law should be bnrlp.i f i 3.5 1 so deep that it shall never be going to drive a carload of delegates ' to Vancouver from Xhe Winnipeg area. Dr. Harry Laid-ler of New York, head of the League for Industrial Democracya kind' of Fabian Society and his wife are also expected resurrected." t . ' ! ONE OF THE BEST BRIEF?? muo an uiL-i easing proportion of workers over 45. Here, too. it appears that many popular beliefs require revision. It is often said, for instance, that older workers are less productive than younger that they are less adaptable in learning new techniques, that they lose more time through illness, and that the accident rate for them is higher. Studies have shown that the last of these allegations is quite erroneous: the accident rate. is generally higher for young workers than, for those 45 to 60. Illnesses aryeIy be of longer duration among older peo-pl&Sit frequently of absence from all causes is less. The extent to which the ability to learn is reduce after middle age appears also t.n bavp hppr BRITISH and JUJ EDVETER AS who may bt eligible under amendments to the war rcmuis allowance act ever submitted to the govern-' -Clean Safe OdwW Economical Call nieni un the Iniiain Act wu-; i that by the Vancouver Civil Liberties Union, into which i years of study had cone, it! GORDON D. RONSu The government is more than delighted with the traffic that's rolling over the Hope-Princeton Highway these mid-summer days. That traffic is bringing la good financial return? to the nude this chief point that the! 733 5th Ave. West. Black 503. FAMILY SHOE J STORE L TD. J Charlie Roberts treasury the gasoline tax alone reservations" should be pro-' giessively transformed into or-c'inary communities, in which the owners who live on them have the same right to admin-i.'iter their own holdings -as ereatlv exaQWratPri. A mW a itw; j this year Is. going to be up $1, Box 83S hone 357 and meet the other qualifications of the Act as to service in the armed forces, income, sets and so forth. IMPORTANT rwae amendments have been made eHec-fiVe April lit, but retroactive payment can only be made if the veteran qualihe under the Act and make hit application to the nearest dittrict office of the Department of Veterana Attain by July 31 sr. Payment in cases where ap- - plications are received after that date can only be made as from the date of receipt of such application in the Dis- trkt Office. r ; . : ' , "A 200,000 maybe more thanks najve disclosed that old dogs can learn new tricks ,C! the new highway. Thousands District office of the Department of Veterans Affairs are now accepting application! from certain British and Allied veterans made eligible to apply for War Veterans' Allowance by amendments to the War Veterans' Allowance Act passed at the present session of Parliament. Complete details as to those eligible may be secured from the nearest district office of the Department of Veterans Affairs. In general, however, .. to be eligible veteran who did not serve with the Canadian forces must have 20 years' residence in Canada, of Americans who would turn f around at Vancouver and head back to Seattle are now taking f the loop, over the Hope-Pentic- -ton and? going back to Seattle j .. i GOVERNMENT OK BRITIHII COLOMBIA HOT WATER HEATING PLANTS. thj?, Ability to learn declines only slowly with age, and the apparent inability to learn is often due to laek of practice, or to discouragement, loss of interest, and other psychological factors. 1 The question of productivity is more complicated. There appears to be good ground for believ- that way .Because of this they re buying lots of extra trasoline in B.C. and every time a gas tank v I Notice rings us iitue aei: its three ri ing that certain physiological changes take place in cents for the Government of- i tv.i cv : I 4? trie torties which reduce speed, agility and strength, j Iers- Our program of roads is i i' : I. . I ; : I . Fublisksd ender (he ogftorlty of the Hon. Milton f. Gragg, V.C. . Minister .of Vetarant Affairs I it i I I I .- what enables us to borrow mil- lions in the east,'r a finance official said. "The financiers have looked at that program FOR PLANNING FOR BUILDING FOR REPAIRING Call 363 MITCHELL & CURRIE LIMITED I'.uilders & Contractor! Every owner of a hot-water heating plant of over 10 h p. used for any purnose whatsoever (except in a private residence, but n rooming house or an apartment house containing more than 3 self-contained suites shall not be considered a private residence) AND every owner of a hot-water heating plant used in "a school, hospital, church, theatre, hall, auditorium or building where the public assembles" whether the plant is over or under 10 h p. is required to register such plant with the Chief Inspector, Boilers and Machinery Inspection Department, v Any such owner who has not already complied with the foregoing is requested to do so forthwith. tnpugn mere are great variations among individ-uajs. But often what is lost in speed of reaction and muscular strength , is offset by increased skill, experience, judgment and dependability. The problem is.jthrough rearrangement of duties- retraining programs and other methods, to place older workers in jobs fitted to their capabilities. JX is quite possible, too, that as more is learned abpuj. the process of aging, and as progress is made inj cojnbatting the diseases particularly characteristic of middle and old age, the productive capacity of J the older portion of the population may increase notably. ? j The readjustments necessitated by the changing aeie structure of thp PfinnlaHnn nra WV. D. Denham, CHIEF INSPECTOR. WlttHlltHlttlffltltHMtl'mtlMtHtflMHIimtimHIlK 411 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver, B.C. I ! I il l iiiiiilii iill i STRAMER PRINCE RUPER VWWm sJsa&l? - m .!,. ...... ....... , lAr.v m m k-w f ii w r Afiiiai vnvtwiT i iiicaiu vv tnai i annual u idic, rcuuin i and social. In the older countries the economic prob- ' BAILS FOR Vancouver S - awawtama. BW-.a Juml.imcn tally it is not a special privilege reserved for newspaper pub Bmi Intermedial Thursday at 11:15 p m- FOR KETCHIKA! WEDNESDAY MIDNH Itjt? U 1 COAL or WOOD ) I Y- ;, j T and I lem i extremely serious. In Canada with her growing population, expanding economy and increasing productivity, the economic problem is more manageable. Indeed, the social problem may prove even more difficult than the economic problem to find a satisfactory place in society for an increasing proportion of older people. The challenge is to provide rncjre security and opportunity for the older portion of jthe population without seriously limiting the opportunities of the young, and 'without creating undue rigidity and discouraging the initiative that majkes for progress. In the adjustments that are majde a pattern will be set not only for the old, but forjthe young and for society as a whole. lishers. It is rather a phase of a much larger freedom the freedom of all men to speak their minds openly and without ear. The press claims no right which should not belong to every citizen In a democracy. 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