OTTAWA 2! DiAi Prince Rupert Daily Mews NORTHERN CANADA Scale of Mitts k Saturday. February M; 1954 By Norman M. MacLeod As I See It t ' --J Pt hun t.I'.'s fur '.t i- a Independe-ot dally newspaper d-votl to th upbuilding ot Prlnos Rupert and Northern and Antral British Columbia. Member of Canadian Press Audit Bureau of Circulations Canadian Dally Newspaper Association. Published by The Hrlnre Rupert Dail New. Limited. J P. MAOOR. President H. O. PERRY. Vlco-Presldent S r if cu 1:a,!am''n at,,,; lv.ltatli1(? a bl has heen tarwl military eiMtt' - "lilies. Rut..;,,.:; ELIZABETH.1 V . 8ubscr1p'.loD Rates: v) carrier Per wee, 25c; per month. 1100: per year, tioon. mall Per month. 75c: per year. 8 00. ' loLANUb -7-'' . v luthorizea as second class mall by the Post Office Department. OtUa .-. V THK leader of the Ct'F asked the Minister of Justice a" question, the other day. which sounded Devon ' The flow of news across Par-; liainent Hill (luring the p is' ; ek or so has been ertiphaslz-ln: to the M.l'.'s In a particularly forceful and realistic way the new sort of competitive world in which 'JDlh Century Canada is livintf. Since Paiiiameiit lias been concerned iiwinlv with routine, must of the Interest has been centering in the conference o' the Big Four in Heilin. Talilln? of the year's filinmtea, v.ith their Increase of more than $50,-tOU.OIMI over lat year's figure, was a tinii ly reminder of the ituke which this country has in a settled world and peaceful diplomacy. The news from the Berlin meelim; wasn't regarded as too hopeiu! oy Parliament's i xper'.i on foreign alfalrs. Some satLs-f:ietioii wns expressed In the fact that the four powers at last were sitting down around the same table. Hut underneath that limited foundulion for hope, there was the uneasv leur that they P'lrent casing ,; to dir.'ct U ,Wjtt ecoiK.uii,- lls)., Ail titct, the ki; on Parliament w Canada conveni,. trhil atomic find herself out,;,,,. Industrial fi,.d ,.' years, it, rmn; placin steam m, a soiiive i, (.lr power. So there y;, hjtl .1 t 4- 0 r" -5 ni('.K,.s imuiarj "arch al I lie rU0! du-.triiil atnmii: rtv. wk til her wtiy new choice wtiich : state faces hct,.' Industrial compffj-one fraught a greater than any : tively simple p. islands In Canada, shown In Uie dotted circle, has been THE NORTHERNMOST group of Arctic named the Queii KHabeth islands Northern Affairs MinMt r I.esat-e arinaiiiiced In the Com were meetlnf! simply to disagrep. And that prefpect was laced as i a doubtful Impruvement over Ui f previous .sit nation. mons that the Queen has allowed her name to be lveu to the northern half of the Canadian Arctic archipelago. The islands include some 130.0(H) square miles of territory inhabited by fewer than 200 persons scattered among seven tiny communities. I simple. I It was whether the tovcrn-i ment of Canada would refer to the Supreme Court the valid-: ity of the recent legislation passed by the Legislature of Quebec, arid which concerned I distribution of printed ' matter ; uii the .-arrets. j The Minister did not exactly ; sidestep the query. But. his an-swer was of the diplomatic variety which conceals the gravity ; of what was mentioned. Mr. I Garden said thai the Jehovah's Witnesses were contesting the ; validity of the legislation be-! fore the courts right now. and i hence, he implied, the question of intervention by the federal government did not yet arise. NEARLY every newspaper in j Canada has written on the i importance of the Jehovah's Witnesses issue. This sect which I ' opposes war, and all organized religion, has carried on a mill-i tant campaign against the Ro- man Catholic Church in the j Province of Quebec. The present government of Quebec has I used all of the legal powers it j possesses to suppress the ac-Ulvitles of the Jehovah's Wlt- nes-ses whose activities are St. Valentine's TOMORROW Dan Cupid will be on the wing, I shooting out his arrows which are known for their stimulating effect on the heart. Everyone likes to have little Dan around. He is not asking us to celehrate anything, hut just to feel a little sentimental. He starts with the very young and goes right along to the very old. He lias iound that the common denominator of all is the vish to love and be loved. Just how the occasion of his visit came to be called St. Valentine's Day remains a mystery. Historians have tried in vain to trace it to one of the many holy men by that name. The only conclusion they have reached is that it was accidental. Somehow a St. Valentine became associated with the; medieval belief that birds began to mate at the start of the second fortnight of the second month. "For this was on seynt Valentynes day," wrote C'h&ucer in the Parlement of Foules, "when every foul cometh ther to chese his make." I But the origin doesn't much matter. The important thing is to have someone to whom you can say, "Re my Valentine." i Public Ownership ti HEN an industry is taken over by a govern-vy ment, it is said to be owned by the public, which means that the public will pay for any losses but will not necessarily share in any profits. In moH cases, the public's newly acquired property is put. beyond the reach of the elected representatives Fred El All Aboard Kootenays Expecting "New Era" Dut the most depressing fea-ure of the news in the minds of the M P s riurins the week was the wont from Moscow that Is-yi-stla, the official Soviet news organ, hud published two article ( dealiW! with progress in the oeilei'lion of atomic wea OPTOMtfr New address: 30! v ' Phone Cm By (1. K. MOKTI.MORE After Record Construction Year NELSON, B.C. (CP) British ! ear in the face ol a .three-Columbia's Interior Kootenays j month strike which shut many district, home of .Consolidated of the 327 mills In the Nelson Mining and Smelting Company j forest district, operations, is gearing itself for The makers of compound words are at their nasty work again. First they invented "smog" (mixed smoke and fog I and then "smaze" (smoky haze). I lodged a sharp protest with Webster over the last one. It dirt no frond, of pons. 'Hie articles p-esumuh'.y! were by way ot warning to Am-1 erica, Thev toUl ul MrkcW cap- j able o belli launched against1 American CkJUvi, of other atomic! weapons capable of being! STOP SI! a large-scale Industrial expan - 67-Year-Old slon in the face of slumping SUFFER 1, launched against the American I metal prices clearly offensive to the substantial majority of the Roman Catholics of Quebec. In the famous decision the Railway Retains Five-Cent Fare Di.sclosure that Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company, Ltd., of Canada Cominco profits dropped In 1S53 for the second straight year has coincided with reports of construction projects coasts from submarines. j 'Die iii'lic'cs 'ere 'U lc-v t mildly blood-chilling. The mini- j mum inference which tney sug-j Si.sled was that the present wes; no time lor the Wesiern powers! to relax the intensity of their; military atomic lesearch. ! the fist tiw run ottu;n tvw.ir.t viitf iih Nl.ta. . lite public iJie-VL iind ltir.v'. M":r, prm-Hi thai .VA'j elimifiali firm . a!mw-t all st. other metl,l hi. Nil,l un Mint (llmnl' At All IK; - ; Supreme Court of Canada held j that the provincial statutes, j which had been used to arrest lend imprison certain Witnesses, j did not give the provincial authorities the extreme powers ! they had used. However, the recently completed or under ' way. Business men are confidently predicting "opening of a n w : i ra." i This nntimism is based on a NEW YORK of Got a nickel' Want to go somewhere? You stlU can provided you want to travel from Biddeford. Me., to Sao, Me., or even vice versa. The nickel fare is a memory in mast cities. Transit compan With Canada a major partner j in Western dcno'i'icy's atiimh , research, this situation has more course. , , j Now we have "smice." "Until the word was coined by a weather forecaster in Re-glna, smico was called Ice fog," a news story says. And as far as I'm concerned, it still Is called ice log. Who does this weather forecaster think he is, anyway? Where is his license for run-running a word-factory? There is something abopl weather forecasting that turns a man's head, it seems. Once he starts hob-nobbing with iwarm fronts and mixing 'with Isobars on equal terms.' he gets feelings of superiority. He thinks he's an expert on everything, including the language. I can see that Keeiiia wea- ; Duplessis government was quick j ies tell you, and offer statlstici SHOE SAL! 'booming construction program' jthat saw more than $42,000,000 worth of major projects start"d or completed during 195;! and the fact that the value of total I production of agricultural, for-I estry and mining industries in the area continued" near the j 200.000,000-mark despite a drop ' in lead and zinc, prices. to remedy that situation. It i sponsored a new law which j clearly 'does restrict' 'the power'!' of the Jehtn.aiirt; Witnesses to 1 distributer jts rjjlnied matter-, j on the streets of Quebec, un-, less licensed in S'dvariee by the j local authorities! The Leglsia-1 ture voted for the new lawJ I unanimously. If you question them, that oner-, at ing costs are way up yonder. . But in Maine, the Biddeio-d' and Saco Railroad Company . fill operates on a five-cent fare. "The only one left in the country," says president J. Button Stride. I It started c.7 years ai?o with The - Winnipeg Free PrOv-r'r therman now. leaning back in Cominco sparked the ronstruc- i t)un drive with completion of a, two-hoi.se. open-car. four- heei- i.ooo.ooo fertilizer plant near shows by what a narrow margin . the Supreme Court rthVd that the province had any such power to pass such drastic, laws It is ''trim that four Kuorem.' LADIES' SHO $1-95 of he public on the theory that it should be free from political influene in other words, the elected "representatives cari'tj be trusted not to irtess ; anftind. with it. ; How this can work dut was.yhown a couple of. weeks ago in the House'of (Simmons when a mem-hereof Parliament asked the Minister of Transport, Mi Chevrier, for some information about Canadian National Jfatyvays..,. Sir. jQhevriisajrlJie coiildn t gi ithaiise ONR official!! 4hotijht the information could he collected "only at considerable clerical expense and great inconvenience to themselves." Th hapless member Had tobe satisfied with that as Jn answer it was just too much trouble for the, officials of the publicly-owned iiiljj:ay to .produce ceitain figures requested by a, spkesman l1)r?.,the puElio. I If boredom threatens during one of these long widter evenings, we can spend a pleasant hour or twfi figuring out who got railroaded in this instance. Saturday Night. ed conveyances. In 1881 l changed to electric trams, and In 1939 to bimes. But ail that time It has stayed loyal to Urn lowly nickel. - , WORKERS MAIN Cl'STO.MP.RS The transit line's customers , aloni; Its 20-mlle route are mainly textile workers from the Kiinberley and a 210.000-horse- I power hydro-electric plant at i Waneta, ubout 50 miles south-1 ! east of here. CONSTRICTION ( (IMI'l.n Kl) j - Other construction saw the; j Crowe's Nest Pass Coal Com- j ipaiiy's $6.r0 000 bi louctte plant I Court Justices, of the nine on the bench, haye ruled that ,the province has uo tight. to Interfere with the distribution of printed matter. But by a slender majority the present court stems to have decided-ratJiT i go into operation j near the Alberta- at Michel, ,pallt.s 0f Bates , Pepperrcll ai'd . B C. boiiti-I K w I . i at dary: romplelion of the $1,500 - : jOOO Canadian Pacific Kailway's j dW sel malnteiianee plant here j land Ka;t, KiMilvnay Power Com-; j party's $1200.000 power and; storage project on Fall Rlyer. ; FASHION FOOTWE President Stride says his em- 1 ploytes have wa-e scales com-, parable to those of the larger ( transport lines. He gives a lot of credit to the use ot modern equipment which keeps operating costs down. The company j has only two working exeouHve.t and one secretary. I The construction btxim was re- fleeted in nearly every rnunici-; pality In the 20,0(Ki-,square-mi!e ; area with new buildings, tourist! resorts, housing subdivisions! and churches springing up. aniDiguousiy anu in a coniusta and contradictory manner it is true thut the province, and not the federal authorities, does have the power to say what printed matter may and may not he distributed on the public: highways. Naturally every intelligent Canadian will watch the outcome of the legal battle which Is now shaping up with more than mere Interest In a struggle between clever lawyers'. What is Ht stake 'is whether or not every Canadian from t-coast to coas i? to be, suaranlc&dwtaln fundamental i1ghi'4)t" free- expression; or whether any province which so chooses may limit the freedom of the press, as its own legislature may enact. WHILE the argument of the Winnipeg Free Press seems to me as sound as it is powerful, I Judged Canada REFLECTS and REMINISCES jRay' Weather Hits Lumber Industry j , The fall in base metal prices! j hit mining hard In the district.1 4 jne numuer oi initjej in opcia-l . POKTLANT) '-.Bft.a.-weaUKtr UUMr It-U-iconf 7&;t-thfr start-bf-Vayed h'ivoc"wtth liotiftlai Ih-1'J53 to 30 early this year, with , iu,i.r production in January. a swivel chair arM looking smogly beg purdon, mitii-ly at his assistant over the tops of his horn-rimined glasses. "Well, Henry." lie says. "I think. li invent a new word today.'' k J f- J "Sure, boss," his assistant replies. "It'll take people's minds off those lousy forecasts we've', been issuing" ., lately. Wkat's ih new word, chief? I sure liked the last two words you Invented '.smog' and 'amaze'. Tluy've got every dictionary publisher from here to Nome alter your blood." " Thank you, Henry. T h e new word,ls "smife.' " "Stnlch, boss?" r "That's right. It means ice-fog." "But If It's a mixture of Ice and. fog, shouldn't it be "flee," bos? Or maybe 'lg'?" . "One more crack like that arid you ;tjn;u iu your anemo-ieM'irfin'd B't,j your pay. Tlif-iV's no' room for insiili -dlnatUiii.' htre." , , S'V dWn't mean any harm, boss. It' was only an idea. I think the new word is terrific, honestly. It should cause no end of confusion Why. If you keep this up you'll have a whole new language." The foregoing fragment of dialogue will give you an idea how these weathermen operate, when they start making words. They are getting out of control, that's all. How would you iike it if writers and newspapermen started trying to make their own weather? I have a good mind to pack my bag with a couple of Polar air masses, a tropical hurricane, a few Isotherms and a bundle of cumulonimbus clouds, take the next plane for Keglna, and dump the whole lot In your weather office, or weaffice. That Will teach you to meddle with matters that you know nothing about. Sflnt Valentine' Bay is ivkW-'flu lune.''Attr8jbtions will thtiitde aryjHth .and while Mils ancient: a speelally-bullt, acrpiarlum and Finest ancldltinaul.shed 11k ure of the iisplay of beats and types of equipment from the earliest days. Canada has vast fisheries and has staged ambitious ex Beer ,a resiutanl drop from l.Mo to Tllt. Wl.st tWst Luinbermen's I !G50 in the number of men em-: Association said Thursday the j j ployed. output was the lowest "for any However, mining authorities ; month since 1050 und thut 'say this picture has been lnr('e-! lumber shipments alno fell olf I j ly offs-t by discovery of new , from January, 1H53. j Ii-ad-zliU! di posits with reserves: Production totalled 709.998.000 1 running into millions of tons. ! board feet, compared with near- i i Lead-zinc production in 1953 ! ly 876.000.000 feet In the same j Ri(an calendar is said to have been martyred, Juveniles of both sex$ manage to extract no small degfee of humor from the annua celebration. There used to be $ie mailing of alleged poems. Anyway they were robust. hibits, but nothing to approach this. The British barmaid was flirt, and when the corporal went out to buy a paper, she pursed her Hps and leaned over 'he bar toward the shy young jaropped to $80,100,000, comoar- j month last year. Orders, totalled with $105,120,348 In 1952. I ling 813572,000 feet, and ship-I The lumbering Industry main-1 ments of 785,581,000 also were , tained a $25,941,196 pace last ' down, the associat ion said. , I'or the last four years tlic jur of international brewing experts i. llie International competitions lc C.tnaJian lircwers have awarded I.u I.aRcr the Star of Kxccllcncr cannot agree that the remedy for the really grave situation is as the Manitoba paper suggests. "There could be no stronger case than Is made out by the Judgment . . ." says the Winnipeg paper. But the real catch is that the Parliament of Canada could not of its own authority enact such a Bill of Rights SOtfE OTHER COLOR AKsordLng to a, style expert graj hair Is really very becoming observes the Chatham News It sp happens that with a lot of rrie gTay hair Is not be coming ltbe going ? private, whispering: "Now's your chance, darling." The private looked around the empty room. "Bo it Is," he remarked and oromptly drank the corporals beer. symix" 1 Prize for Canadian IJecrs FLY . . . Experience L? what you have whflti you are too old to get a job; dp Mft. Joseph DlMaggio says she wnicn would take away one whit of the legal powers which the provinces now possess. In other words, if the Parliament of Canada were to pass a Bill of Rights, without prior agreement with the provinces, including Quebec, the courts could rule the Bill of Rights invalid to the extent that It tres-pased on provincial Jurisdiction. hasever seen a ball game. Now it ! up to Mr. Joseph DiMaggio with to sjy he has never seen a movie It's a relief to behold the Vancouver press without seeing, day liter day, so much of the new 'nidge. Of course it's first class md has not been built too soon, but this daily bridge business vas becoming tiresome. We've inly a couple at Prince Rupert Hays Creek and Morse Creek and the history of each commonplace. The only sensation was early one evening when a leht-seelng car broke through Nfatt to being shot "at and ma m J ..,rM!( ml6ad, there is nothing quite as satisfying as an Income tax ELLIS -wir refund. . BRUSSELS L ,)(' 1950 Plenty of us are reading where RECORDS the guard rail and dropped sheer 'o the railway tracks beiow. Lady nd boy friend escaped without 'he slightest injury or 75 per cent of Canadian homef havs a washing machine, 60 per cent have a refrigerator, 50 per cent a vacuum cleaner and 3" percent an electric stove. And POPULAR MUSIC POPULAR ARTISTS yet the housewife Is Just as bur.y BY as great-grandmother who had nont of these conveniences, and to Is jrJMt as tired at the end of the day. ANTWERP 1952 New Long-Ploy Selections Albums and Accessories " . All Or u Iff has been truly said that KETCHIKAN with connections to SEATTLE, WHITEHORSE and oil ALASKA OCR TOTEMS On the Fulton Street hillside among the trees, lust along from City Hall stands a small, new:y built shed or shack to provide shelter for those entrusted wl.h Improving the appearance and lengthening the life of Prince Rupert's totem poles. Canada has few to equal thein, and their preservation is well worth while. The cost Is light, compared with what is gained. vats imut nF.LIVER kindness is a language which the blinjl can see and the deaf can LUCKY LAGER BREWING ALSO BREWERS OF BURTONf- RUPERT RADIO AND ELECTRIC 313 3rd Ave, Prince Rupert Phone 641 Fjr the first time In the nation's history, a national fair will be held tn Norway Phone 266 Office Opp. Post Office Thi jdvertisemtnt Is not published or display" blf , j,n. Bord or by the Government of Bum