Prince Rupert Daily News As I See It Thursday, January 3. 1952 ray.. Reflects and Reminisces Human Rights in South America Reported Scarce Ni;V YOKK.-In most of South Amei'ioa, human rights as they are known in the United States do not exist, according- to a civil rights expert who recently made an extensive survey of the area.' GENERAL ELECTRIC FOR YOUR GENERAL ELECTRIC APPLIANCES V3J kn Independent daily newspaper devoted lo the upbuilding of Prince Rupert and Northern and Central British Columbia. Member of Canadian "ress Audit Bureau of Circulations Canadian Dally Newspaper Association. 3. A. HUNTER, Managing Editor; H. O. PERRY, Managing nirector SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By earrier, per week, 20c; per month, 75c; per year, ot-.,, $8 00; by mail, per month, 75c; per year. $800. igygj?0 Published every afternoon except Sunday by Prince Rupert Daily News Ltd., 3rd A venire, Prince Rupert. base for good civil liberties. A solidly founded middle class must be developed before democracy can be lastingly practicable in most republics, she holds. "We can never have the right kind of protection for civil and SEE The Game of Life Rupert Radio & Electric SPECIAL! '.-)" -? Fashion EVERY now and then we have refreshing interludes in sports such as the Work! Series, the National Hockey League playoffs and, closer home, such events as the basketball series now being played here. For a while we forget profound problems ruthlessly demanding solution. Political and economic puzzles, factional enmities and disturbing doubts vanish. How often we hear it said that life is a battle. And it is so to some extent. We have to fight disease and injustice and temptation. I'ut maybe God intends life to be more like a game than a battle. A game develops the heaithy energies of life without the bitterness that go with battles. In the most of games the possible elements of destructive strife are buried by the spirit of the game and team play. In a ball game who would say: "Let so-and-so chase that fly. Let so-and-so take that pass. There's npthing in it for me." ; Political, religious, money differences are to be found in spoils teams. Put team interest does or should submerge individualism. Team play discourages selfish individualism although it does develop individuality. : In family life, only team play can keep home life healthy the spirit of co-operation rather than bitter competition. In good citizenship, too, we must have team play and the spirit of co-operation. We must learn to work together for the advancement of our community and our nation. Healthy rivalry is a safeguard to democracy but blind and bitter individualism is the way to destruction. Of the 10 Souih Amerii an countries only (our -- Uruguay, Chile, Ecuador and Brazil - permit any real sense of freedom, reports Miss Francis Grant, chairman for Latin America of the International Lcafrue for the She renorts that in some coun- .tries, personal freedoms are jut vi(,imislv sunoressed as in many of the Iron Curtain eoun- tries; 110 opposition political ac- , Uvi. nermttted. no freedom . the press, no freedom of as- nibly or speech. Bolivia, she said, is in a state oi i'-ntion and the nilins mili- J1"u" Ilas f1"""5 ual resumption of civil liberties. OITOSITIOX FOUND In Argentina, the elements ol' repression are very much present, but she did find a "most extraordinary opposition filled with re silience und courage." Dsnit d rties. many Argentines still Insist on saying what they want to say even though it means prison, she said. "I think the ordeal of Pernn-ism has given a major spurt to development of a real democratic spirit in Argentina," added Miss Grant, also secretary of the Inter-American Association for Democracy and. Freedom. She caught a fueling in Argentina that the magic hold President Peron has had on the country is beginning to disintegrate. But '"ic said that this doesn't mean that Senor Peron is going U bo overthrown tomorrow, but it seems only a question of time. There is a growing spirit of optimism and determination to free the country, the Latin American expert says. She found that opposition leaders no longer blame the United States or other conn- I tries for their misfortunes as she aid they did in the past. They , h:iVf hp'rnn to rpnliyp I hnl Rpnar ' p,ml ,A u" , tor t.n ihrirnL ,, ! ,,ivi,in,.t divisions. ; THRONES' THREATENED If ' President Peron should be overUirown, the repercussions would spread all over Latin : America. . helping to totter the' "thrones" of niany dictators and ' dash the hopes of many would-be caudiilos, she said. In contrast to the lively feeling u' 4"ul " " a hi oi aruiuL-iuai, noueiess aoainv and silence" exists among the opposition elements in many, other countries, such as Peru and Faraguay, Miss Grant reports, adding that they appear to have j last courage. ' It is her belief that ization of. Latin American nations is necessary to help provide a For I ljve peace ana what Is more Let me add to Hell with war. Siggy has at least one thing in common with the greatest American poet, Walt Whitman, He has to publish his own poems. Whitman had to give his away, no publisher would tpuch therii. Siggy sells his book for $2, from his home 4333 Parker St. Van- couver. s m .''ly Prince Rupert will look down from the walls oi City Hall s; that future generations ui taxpayers and public generally may reflect that nere is no mean city. A work ol arta painting ul' signiflcanee is coming our way. The community is yuuirg but thi.. will give to it a historic stamp. c.ivj, war ra(,ed ta England whn Rupm lived. A King was bf- h.,1l(.rt Furllament was para- lyzcX sir re, me nines were sin-. ringi A Vancouver p.aetica, by a few oi her more fearless youn? ciiukms, ltd by 1-ee fan. ages, not so young now, has been the SAimmmg ui in?, haroor every New Years Day. UuUi a lev years ago, the same feat, per-tormed by Douglas Kraeli at Kn.ee hapei-Li was witnessuJ 'wan no small degies of admiration. 'Inere might have been cccu ions when t-jus was not alone, but whoever his companion was, ' iara" m a small ooat. Canada's twe.ity-firsi parliament prc.'ot'.ued Saturday but it cots n,;l mean the House will remain that way very long. Date tor tne opening ol the regular I'jjU session is tentatively set f-V Fioruaiy 7. Still, these sessional indemnities can be con- wnventent STII.L DOMINION Perusal ot Hansard shows how greatly in the deoales members make use of the expression Dominion," now of!i::iully ban.-icu by' the RuvVrti.v.-ttt. Ho' -er.ly Q. 'nicy say it. With emphasis, dj iomu cni.ciiie the policy mat saw fit to discontinue what was ad-.ptrd as part ol th Co.il.ueia-tlon proceedings. THAT GKAMOrs AM Since New Year's, Prince Rupert hurried from ten K about forty above,, as below zero re-ptwts were received from central B.C. and the prairies. Well, we always did prefc rubbers to car-muffs. M ire younjt fellows, cpiite unabashed, continue lo solicit fin ancial assistance. It Is assumed! they do not feel tne pawrs of ! himcer. They thirst. It can be taken for granted they h ive not tei. i l.ng nere. Local old timers say they can tell them a mile; away. breakup of coalition will make the election one of the most un- predictable that, has ever been held here. Much probably will depend on the leadership of the parties.' Herbert Anscomb, who has been Jlnance minister since the retire- ' ment uf ex-Premier John Hart, Is' certain to lead the Conservatives, and there Is no doubt but tint Harold Winch will continue as the CCF chief. Presumably Byron I. Johnson, head of the coalition : government and as such the ac- knowlcilgetl leader of his party, will head the Liberals, but that' is still debatable, and there has; ben a demand by' an insurgent1 element among the Liberals to' have Gordon Wismer, present at- torney general and the party's "strong man," lead the party. i ... i ' V- ! V t;. mt e.i Ladies' Worm Wool Lined Boots 8.95 Lad'ts' Shearling Lined Boots 10-45 & 11.93 Footwear ELECTRIC RANGE Students and English political liberties without having equal asurance of the kind of standard of living that is tenable for a human being," she contin- ued. "The two go Hand In hand. The free man must be a worker, not a slave." ! FLOOD OF RF.FKiF.KS Another human-rights problem causing growing concern In the Americas is the Hood of refugees pouring from one Latin country lo another to escape political persecution--the Displaced, Persons of this hemisphere. Many of Uiese people, estimated to nun.ber in the hundreds of thousands, find it difficult to make a living in' other countries and, as a result, float aimlessly all over the hemisphere, even though they include the highest type of human materials, such as lawyers, doctors, and writers. The organizations Miss Grant represents are considering measures to meet this problem. She says there are some places in ..; Aw.,-i.. ...I,,, ilw.i tnl. ent.; c,uld be put to good use if some international agency could be set up to supervis the situation. ' Puerto Rico, for example, could use many teacher:,, she says. Writer Sees Coalition End By CHARLES L. SHAW ! The Christian Science Monitor ! .. . Coalition government may oc expected to end when the pro- vincial government of British Columbia next goes to the country, probably sometime In 1902 writes spokesmen lor both the Liberal and Conservative parties which have teen working in double harness Jiin?e 1941 have indicated that they wiii cam-gaign as separate parties at the nex. election. The two old-line parties will be opposed nt only by the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, a Socialist group which has been the ulficial opposition party during the past decade, but by the Social Credit party which promises to have a candidate tor every constituency. A few years ago no one would have regarded the Social Credit bid for power in British Colum- bii seriously, but the party has been exceptionally active and it is trading on the success and prestige of the Social Credit gov- eminent in adjacent Alberta, de- claring that what British Colum- bia needs is a sound business- likt administration such as Pre- mier E. C. Manning has given Alberta. These who have studied recent political, history in British Coi- umbia and who have a fresh memory of the recent by-election in Esquimalt believe that the Hi y . : if. ir, S3 ML. tVi more FW1 Sigffy's New Poems GUS cipunnonv s Written a new book of iwrns poems, ivhiVh wniCll Vi.,v nae a - much punch and power as 111 first SI vfilnmn VOIUme, o-tWvA called PPM 1 fc,JV CIL STUB STANZAS. Siggy's new volume is DREAMS AND DRIFTWOOD. It is quite different in tone from the f ir.it one, for the obvious reason that the poet has found a .sweetheart, Tilt 'ii (.mi. utii mi; I It I Ml I V I K It happened one day as 1 travell aio,,a There crime from a dlbtance lovely sweet Bona X took to the bushes I ran anJ I wasn't a culprit nor hiiru a miin tor 1 wits ft hullo unkent. 1 dove into the water right up to my waist. I witMheU unu I scrubbed in a rt-;h!e haste While meanwhile I shivered anil wept. I won t g.ve away the end ol that .-'tory except to .say the poei, got a job, got the girl and got a car. THERE 13 just one throwback to Siggy's old army days in this new Book. It is aDout Whitey IWcKInnon from Cane Hi t ton I.sle "in iiKuie air angle" he saU with a smub "But lentl me 4 buck" and you couldn t retuM? Thounh yon knew that his miii it- was buyim; more boe.e. ' There are more moving patriotic poems about Canaduk an J Iceland. Trtere is even three verse newspaper columnist, which be- gins I ' A keen observer, shrewd ami bhai p , He swings a mighty pen Harsh as a whip, sweet as a harp ' To ears uf common men He plays hu favours to a lew Yet truly slve.s each man his tine. But Siggy's range is very wide in this book. He writes wittily about his enormous moustache. ....u.. ; He says "I trust, a man, until ' I find, him being brutal or un kind, to someone lower on the shelf, of social standing than himself." SIGURDSON'S most blasts in this book are against those pushing the world' to new war. It matters little this: The side they're on Capitalistic. Communistic spawn Power Is the madness in their ' hearts. Here is Siggy's peace bomb: Tin: iMiiseiKi ii noun Peace Is now a whispered word Let it not be ov:.i heard; Fire a bullet through my t.w..:'t Tear me limb from limb apart, ' I j, 'ft . Si.' sssKwfca mk:t Kings Plate pJT Seagram's $urcw This advertisement is not published or displayed by " th liaunr Conlrol Bcnrd or by th G"vrnment of British Columbia r ROM a wire story sent out by the Canadian I. University Press, and therefore presumably reliable, we learn that a special examination w as recently held in the University of Toronto to obtain "some indication of what degree of knowledge of Knglixh the average undergrad possesses," and that the results were "much more than expected," says Maclean's Magazine. Plans had been made to form five instruction groups of 25 students each for those who failed to get 50 per cent. After the examination 10 groups were arranged for with 35 students in each, and even these looked after only those who scored 35 per cent or less. Those who scored from 35 to 50 per cent will have to get along as they are. This corresponds pretty closely with the experience in other Canadian provinces. There is, we think, only one conclusion to be drawn from it, Lamely that there is something radically wrong with the high schools which send up these students. There is a inxvalent theory in these schools that on learns to use English by using it, without any special instruction. This is a theory which is not applied in the more practical realms of football and basketball, where careful and systematic instruction in the technique of the game is imparted to everybody who , is going to represent "the school" in those highly competitive forms of" sport. But of course football and basketball are important, and the school which does not have a fairly good team is obviously not a "good" or successful school. There is no such feeling about English, and for that matter no means (except a special test like that just held at U of T) by which the public can tell whether a given high school is teaching English well or badly. Reddy says, "You'll sing all through '52 if you buy an PS - - .-'i'. . --i fnre paiAarje for Doilaif Ii'h such a (Uliidit lo rook twlh ml rli-ctrio ratine! Jusl lllxiul rililH itself. All von iln in m'l IhecltK'k nnl pna litillon ... ' " " IS Tjf. a tUS ' r, ' 4 which the Lord thy God ied "Remember all the way thee." Deut. 8:2. Canada Minerals Ahead in Value OTTAWA Value of mineral New Companies Incorporated Incorporations listed in" thei latest Beitish Columbia Gazette: lteiill Ix ller ewikiiiu, more tuiiritiotitt fiMiil . . arid IoIh more lilNiir for yourself. An, rlfrlrl runiie ftiven eivn. heiil, riielly riht Ultt ull ftf il Jioiitjc itllo (he fiMHl. itnl i'itiiliK inln I Ik' kill hen. I j'onoluti al in fuel nnil iimd vuluv. You ran net il ami Corne t il . . , untl dinner In ri'iiily on the ilol. Start now . lo (jet unuler fihiiNiire from eookirip; , , . nnil (five nn-iilej' plejisnm Hilli vhnl you eiMik. ltrn in ) to look over the IiiIpkI ilevieel for I'.'inv rooking. production in Canada for 1951 is include Qrmes lr jgs Limited, estimated at $1,300,000,000 by the Prince Rupert, with capitaliza-Dominlon Bureau of Statistics, ! t:cn of $10,030. . an increase of seventeen percent j Another district incorporation over 1950. The increase is due to is that of Linda Silver Lead higher mineral prices rather Limited of Sm .oners with capital than volume of production. of $30,()0. I'NDEB NEW MANAGEMENT . . . SAVOY HOTEL Prince Rupert's only, modern rooms with bath Frascr Street Phnne 37 HIGHLIGHT OF YEAR Big event nf 1951 news at Prince Itupert was the official opening of the Columbia Cellulose Co.'s great pulp m!H at nearby Watson Island. Since then the company has announced plans to increase Its capacity by fifty percent. ljBIStjij ... f j