are Just a few menu,-, ; nie nays or B5, ther i-1 Prince Rupert Daily News Solons May Boost Pay - a mm. As I See It What heart could have thought Monday, January 21!, 1952 r ray . . . Reflects and Reminisces Members (if Common Study I'os-.iliilitv Of Indemnity Itlse By D'ARCY O'DONNELL ceives a salary of 2,000 and 1 000 as a member of the Com-, 'mons. Cabinet ministers receive ! K.000 in addition to their indem- i Prinee Rupert iSa,,. Into Its own. Ruilwa, are admitting iuf t; with no ifs or but i years and k.i,t,r , thought we wfe ,' Now, b'gosh, we kn,'! Canadian I'ip.s stutl Wnur ".--J CI more OTTAWA (T-Sormj members ' Dluls as of the Commons are discussing Members of the House of Lords the possibility of government receive no indemnities. t action at the forthcoming ses- Members of the United States sion to increase the indemnities Congress receive $12,500 a year , of members of parliament. in addition to a tax-free living; No Thanks, Congressman Although they have received allowance of $2,500. The allow-- you Past our derlsal? O liligree petal, fashioned so purely, Fi agility, surely. From what paradise, Imagineless metal Too costly for cost. Who hammered yoti. wrought, you From Arg.'iulne vapor! Gcx1 was my shaper, Passing surmisal. lie hammered, he wrought me From curled silver vapor 'It: last of his mind. Thou coulds't not of thought me So purely, so palely, Timely, surely, Mightily, fiaily. Insculped and embossed With His hammer of wind And His graver of frost. - Frunces Thompson. no indication from the govern- FOR HIGH CLASS ANOTHER America n'ment that an increase will be ! proposed, they have worked out Congressman Wants the, on paper what members would US.A.' w.n.ji. to c annex Canada ! ' ',KCiv aft,;r taxation, from m- (lemnities at various levels up to But that's an old Amon-$10,000. This is the w eek a multitude of I Canadians will start drawing $40 J a month without ever having1 done anything in particular to rcceive it. A new experience!- The rurrerit Maclean tellx Lubout Louis Rlel and one in templed to inquire how many today are familiar with hln hl tory. School pupils, for example? W. O. Mitchell ta the author and he calls hi story "The Riddje." meaning by that how the leader of the rebellion perplexed everybody and had numerou friend , uf well as foe. The yarn and ; it's a good one tells how he wag called rend and a murderer. In mystic, the founder of Mnnl-ilotm. how he saved the north-1 west from annexation and how, j when a refugee; he wat electei ' to Ottawa but dare not take hi ' seat.. A source close to the govern- can custom. PRINTING - inent said the question is strictly a matter of "corridor gossip." The tragedy is that the might- iest, mast powerlui natum In the There has been no indication, he world Is governed bv a mixture IN 1952 raid, that the question has received or will receive serious consideration by the government thir year. The session is to open in Feb which includes many able men, j but also a few outright ignor-: amuses. This fellow lrom Chi-cago does not even know that -King George has no more de-1 As Aiwa ruary or early in March. Royal Babies' Sturdy Minds antes IUI .sn.Iti.ili.iI uiiu 1 , help are more generous than either in Canada or Britain. j Many Canadian members feel the point has been reached where parliament must meet al- i most continuously. In almost! every year since the end of the last war, parliament has had to, hold sessions in the spring and : fall. In pre-war days, sessions; lasted three or four months a: year. i Some of the members suggest that the government could save, the taxpayers money by paying an annual rather than a sessional indemnity. They point to last year when members received $10,000, in-1 demnities of $4,000 for each session and $2,000 as a tax-free allowance. , It was estimated that married taxpayer without dependents the category Into which most members fall received a total of $8.8i0. If the same member had icon paid $10,000 with no tax-free allowance he would have received S8.174. But the annual payment would assure members of a fixed in-income even if Parliament sat only a few months. It would eliminate attempts to prolong a PLACE ORDERS i In Independent daily newspaper devoted to the upbuilding of Prince Rupert and Northern and Central British Columbia. Member of Canadian "ress Audit Bureau of Circulations Canadian Dally Newspaper Association. Q. A. HUNTER, Managing Ec'ifor; H. O. PERRY, Managing Director SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 3y carrier, per vek, 2:e; per month, $1.00; per year, gj. $10: by mail, per month. 75c; per year, $8.00. 3?4s ' Published every afternoon except Sunday by Prince Rupert. Daily News Ltd., 3rd Avenue, Prince Rupert. On Forest Management THE QUESTION of forest conservation in British I .Columbia in rc hition to the Government's sustained yield policy is much under discussion 'these days in view of the fight of small timW-r operators against a proposed forest management licence in the Eraser Valley area. Here is what the Vancouver Province has to say editorially on the matter: British Cjlumbia is in the midst ot a great industrial boom Minimis of dollars are being invested in the province in water puwer development, pulp mills and other industries. . Millions of proiit. made in our industries are being plowed fcx:U. As these invt-UiiiciiLs are made, it is assumed by the In-, vestors and bv .the people ot British Columbia who are interested in payroll-;, rrv-nues and piol'its, that the industries ' thus set up v. :il coniinui in perpetuity. But it is pertinent to a-k it this assumption is b.i-eci on accurate information. At the bc-iimnig of tiie vear. Hon. E. T. Kenney, minister of forests made the .statement that, by the end of the fiscal , year, on Murr-h 31. the timber cut in British Columbia might reach 3.50(1. iKiO.ut.'O board feet for the year. This Is a record and far more than a record. In the ' calendar year lino, the cm was 4.500,000,000 board feet and that for 1D43 4.tij!i.(Ji:U,000 board feet. Had there been no layoff on account of drought in the summer of 1931 the cut would have been much greater. Here the question arises: Has British Columbia 5.500,- 000.000 feet of timix rto cut in any one year without reducing lis forest capital? Bnt'-h Columbia does not, of course, make a physical inventory every year of the content of its forests. But its io'e-.t 'depanin'eni has an idea of the annual growth and of the annual depletion through fire, insects and fungi and wind lu.-s. The latest figures give the net annual .growth at 3.0o7.000.000 board feet. Thus, in 1949. we cut prac-' til ally up to our net growth lor the year. In 1950 we exceeded 'the net growth of the vear bv over hall a billion board feet, .and in the current lisi-al vear. on Mr. Kenney's figures, we -shall exceed it by 1.500.000.000 feet or by 37'i percent. ' We are supposed, in British Columbia, to have abandoned ..the old "cut and gel out" forest policy and to have adopted ' a sustained yield poii.-v that is. a policy which will give a 'perpetual yield of timber to the fullest extent of the forest . land's productive capacity. If we are cutting 37', pereent over our annual growth, how can we do a sustained yield policy? The tale describe him a a thorn in the sltl of Sir John A. LONDON (CP) Prince Charlo hoc a n-ilt nf Hiv. nwts an in Dibb Printing quiring mind and clear bluo ey i Macdonald and whose leadership stare." ; eventually created battlefield capable of an "unwinking says P. H Mitchiner. senior vice-i In Saskatchewan. Eastern regi-pn-ident of the Royal College I merit went west on the partly of Surgeons at Lincoln's Inn completed CPR back in lf!85 F ielcL-t ! Thv time was early spring. Puto- . , .. ., ,. ' lie discontent at Red River, Speaking at a m''y - whPrp Winnipeg stands today, which Princess Elizabeth received " . sire, legal rignt or pny.sicai pow- j Any Increase must be sponsor-er to "sell" Canada to Uncle Sam ; e( by the government and ap-than he would have to sell Un- proved by a majority in both the ele Sam s Alaska back to Rus- senate and the Commons before ria. ii! could become effective. ! Some members believe the OF COURSE there have always government may move to in-been Congressmen and others crpase- tne indemnities and at who wanted U.S.A. to take over th(. s.,me Ume mtrorliic-o a pen-Canada. , Sinn plan fur members of the But Canadians, up till now, commons have always said "no thanks,. guch a p,an t ,pn work(,d "1 the finance Mgrand old dad, who Is now ? 'al? but details have not in his eighty-sixth year, has foment, only one vivid memory of his 'f' 'n,atle ';"blic- " ,s un(ter-own tr 11 would provide father. It was at the timef pensions r member who have served in . of the Fenian raid into western pari,an--nt for at 1last Ontario, back in the 1860 s. The gutting the honorary fellowship of the college. Mitchiner s-aid the young Prince's qualities "augur well lor the future of this country un- gun confronted rifle pits. The final downfall occurred at Ba-toche not far from what became the city of Prim Albert. Vnimo fnnliiin John Phi limit ''" The plan would not apply to had ridden away on his horse at thc Se:'ie when apnointmenls s'"" "vcr tne necessary ,n ih. he.rt of comnanv of Luuat L a ?J?Z hL l made for life. Members of days in order to qualify for a fall local militia. But he came home der the rule of Charles III." A.s for Princess Ann, he forecast a fine independence of character coupled with a forth-rlghtness of speech. He said he deduced this iroin her habit of prshin? her parents and rel-at'ves to one side when being pl-.jtoniphcd. the Commons must seek re-elec- indemnity. tion at least once every five sword and all, a few days later, using very strong language. The Fenians had run back across the border before dad's dad had had any chance to fight. What a DINING PLEASUF IN SPARKLING' SURROUND!' years. Some of them, after devoting their life to politics, are defeated and left in necessitous chcumstances without means of FRIKNDl.Y FOLKS Once we spent a day in May at Binoche, driving by horse and rig from Rosthern, on the railway north of Saskatoon. It wan necessary to cross the Saskatchewan River, flowing swiftly between high banks. Wheat fields, patches of prairie and timber, gardens, friendly folk, a church, a cemetery, little ranches, an old frame house with the scarlet tunic of a mountle hanging in the kitchen, and the dim outlines of far away forests these HE'S FED UP MONTREAL CP1-Emile Blan-chard. 63 - year - old pawnshop proprietor, said he was going out of business after his store was robbed for the foirrth time In less HARDY BUTTERFLY EDMONTON (CP) The cl- My mother too, also eighty-six, support, can remember her lather, Bob 'ANNUAL BASIS? than 12 months. He said the ender said January, but eight- meii, soma 011 . L..ai same Tne members believe the in- 1 1 ..LI I fc. i ,,nn nJrt rnnol " tmt.-,A n W. . 1 Commodore! iracas, wearing ni svaiiei corn : demnities might be increased to itAlL hulpu nun wn. jem um uwuoiu iwunu wu.- r.p incar. nnrt 4. thc same men who cleaned out terfly In tne basement of his a-s a sei'eaoi in wic vmi-na $333 home. ne till last November. vwu. . an nnm.nl fnlhi.1, iVinM r, ..Ani., by an estimated 33 to 50 per cent. Retail trade has quietened. Big a' basis. Under such a system r-ifMTTMn daw H-.t r..rthr LOOKING BACK a bit further ,lh ,d , the same still in the family record, I ; amount annually no matt.-r how see where "a par , of Americans held. were disguised as Indians, destroyed " the lirst Philpott log cabin in' Under the existing system, Elgin county, western Ontario in. where uidemnities are paid on a the war of 1812. They burned all' scnal basis, members have re- the building in the new Talkol ceiv-'d as much as $10,000 a .-'fur i 1',7 wh.cn two sessions were held. That wns the case in 1051. At firesent, members of U;e settlement, stripped the people naked, drove oil all the livestock, fhe record, with a ma.ster- J piece of understatement, jays 2G2-scat Commons receive $4000 foi each session of moid than 65 the settlers were left "very mucn annoyed." The American general who ravaged all western Ontario in that episode was from Kentucky, by name MacArthur. SOME EASTERN Canadian busi-i ness men were telling me a few months ago how they had a day .' duration. In addition they 1 receive an annual $2,000 tax- ' free Jiving allowance. Members of the 102-scat Senate receive $4 000 for each session and a $j0O0 taxable living allowance. The Prime Minister receives a: salary of $15,000, a sessional indemnity of $4,000, a living allow- ' Business Signs Point To Slump Australia! Fears By LOUIS I,. I.ECK f ';iji.Tlain Pi f ;.s C. , -bjialcr.t SYDNEY, Australia (CP)-The economic picture in Australii has changed with dramatic swiftness. A few month-, ago all the talk was of rapidly worsening inflation bu: business mf-n now are talking uneasily of a recession. Bo far their fears have not been expressed to any great extent in falling prices and it is generally expected that the increase in the basin wane due in February will' be even bigger than the 14 shillina.s weekly rise in November. Basic wage movements directly reflect movements in the official index o; cost-of-living, that is, of th prices of food, clothing, household -goods and rent. But these are the signs to which bitsinessinen peint in justification of their fears: The Commonweal' h government, through the Central Bank, has clamped down on bank credit. Money is tighter, line purchase business- especially in the motor-car trade-lias .shrunk stores are cutting prices. The ; rate of increase in business over , 1950 has dropped from nearly 50 per cent in March to about five , per cent in October, j The stock exchange is in a slump. The rate on Commonwealth bands has gone from 3'i to 3' 4 per cent. Prices of equities-were marked down to bring yields into line but have Continued to sag under the pressure of quietly remorseless .selling and very moderate buying support. ; De.spite the housing shortage home building has contracted. Prospective buyers can't find money so easily and many of them are concerned about the present level of costs. , Woo! prices, though still well above 1949 levels, are down 50 per cent from the boom levels of early 1951. Monthly export income did not show the usual seasonal reiovery toward . the end of the year but imports continue to run at a high level. In 1950-51 Australia had a vlsi- ble favorable balance of around , t220.000.000. This year that may - become an unfavorable balance i of 1250,000,000. i The number of vacant jobs at - the end of November was 15,000 1 less than at the end of October. This was the first time for years that such a movement has been reported. cnance 10 meei me present great lan.-e of $2,000 a year and an an-waiTior and U.S. hero. Genera) ; nual motor-car allowance of MacArthur. ! $2,000. At a dinner given for him i Cabinet ministers and the lead-there were two separate con- Prs of tha opposition receive sal-vtrsations, both about the same a-ics of $I0.(K)0, sessional indem-'Ubjcet: .nlties of $4,000. living allowances "What is to stop Canada fromi0( $i,,000 and motor-car allow- s "f thank $oet far the gfimfM ye bat gire me of the grr.ttneti tf thn nation and the even greater future uhith is u tthin iti grafi, i hat e leeti this future in the eyet of hundred 1 of thousand tf your . children , . 1 -' -7 '.XMt occoming part ol the United ,rricri FliaHrth in Iter (arrwftl MM., Not. U, States. The answer, a.s given by one Canadian .sales manager was: Nothing, but a rea.son, in our own minds we don't sec why ; wj should." Alices of $2,000. Parliamentary assistants receive 4.000 a year in addition to the regular sessional indemnities and living allo-wances. . The government leader in the Senate receives $7,003 a year ir. addition to the sessional indemnity ot $4,000 and the living allowance of $2,000, or a total of $13,000. The opposition leader Oil r4ulwi tt njit it (tM. in I1i wk 41 m karrthup 3V, l yens nil IS', ta9lm ihM H',0. What will his eyes see? EVEN. MY GENIAL, personal Iriend Dick Neuberger, who is a state Senator in Oregon and a regular contributor to the Sat-' inuay Evening Post, has written ! . new. paper articles giving rea- : sons why he Uiinisji Canada' should be gud to amalgamate, with the UaS.A. Maybe I shall answer Dick's' aii.cie one 01 these days giving his arguments in his own words,' just as he wrote tnem with my , own reouttal sandwiched in Big things are htippeiitig in Canada loilay in the Senate receives $10,000. i Canadian indemnities are' much higher than those paid to memliers of the Commons in the ; United Kingdom, but. they arc; lower than the salaries paid to members of the United States Congress, U.K. INDEMNITY In the United Kingrom, an 6r- r Bunk clearings are. declining. The October total was about 15 i-.-r cent below the September total. The Commonwealth government, on the other hand, is well content-officially at lexst. Its view is that the squeeze on nonessential industry is tightening. Dismissals from non-essential service tradas will provide more labor for defence work and for the essential reconstruction jobs In the transport and power Shipping and Cenrral Moving, I'ackiut;, Crating, Cartage and Storage Complete, Reliable and Efri-clent Service. Also agents for Canadian Liquid Air Co Ltd. for Oxygen, Acetylene and all welding supplies. LINDSAY'S CARTAGE & STORAGE LiMITED Cor. 2nd and Pai!; Avenues Est. 1010 Phones to and C8 paiagraph by paragraph. Wha . dinary member of Commons re-. m POfULATION(0Mdtf ptulKitH kin iiutH'.id ?I7 ,', in ton rein, h 13,113,(01 tui6n tt tfct If SI (iftitji. AlUMINUM-tmdi Hit wsrU t iuni ItiKI tfuttt I tumwiirffl. tilt holt Milan M-lr etpmiMii prtqttmiM M unt mmf ill ittblt tur tHi-immffii ilpttily.iiitkio II tpfirai. hultr mlHitt IMS t ltf. Hi yet, a far, havt (tan littlo mora than hit mathar'i faro. Soon they will tea further ... hit home, hit tchool, hit town, hit province, hit country th Canada that on day will be hit. From year to year, The Royal Bank of Onada'J Annual Financial Statement is a measure of Canada's vitality ami f'fo li. The figures arc cold, as inures must he, hut (lie story tliey tell is an exiiting story, for you and for your ihiMrrn. Total assets of the Royal Bank have now passed the $2.5 billion murk, a figure never before reached in Canadian banking history. Total deposits exceed S23 billion, another Canadian record. Interest bearing deposits of nearly $1,124,000,000 die highest point ever reached by thc bank are an indication of the thrift of Canada's say, leaoer.s? , ceives 11,000 a year. He can claim 4 41 : an income-tax deduction for out- I DO NOT THINK that Canada i -rocket txpeases. will ever willingly become part1 rh British Prime Minister of the U.S.A. We have our own 1 1 -ceives 4,000 tax-free expense personality, individuality. Thus 1 allowance and a salary of 14,000. nation, Canada, is not only a I The """" Jeader of the opposition re-part of the British Common-1 l- letterbox! MNUFACTUINO-0tr ttmntnt ntw flitnultrtuilnl plant! wtrt tptntri In (tntdl bttwim IMt mi HSI. Mm-uitT (taut h ana tt Hit aita"t ftitttt tr awinf ttunlrlav. wealth but the key and vital part in it. If Canada were to fold up and quit, there would still be an England, Scotland and Wales, but mere would be no British Commonwealth. The only way that I can see whereby the boundary between Canada and the U.S.A. could be wiped out would be for the en JTffl (mil ftttoiti IIIIIH ItM t) Mll l9l! Ntf iIWfl Hi nM. Frrt(a iN fe iMfttita tbf - PICKING I P BODIES Editor, Daily News: It gave me a big surprise to read in the Daily News on January 24 of a fisherman claiming that bodies could have been recovered early from the wreckeo citizens. Loans to Canadian farmers, fishermen, to manufacturers, to firms large and small, and to individuals exceed .VitK),000,0O0. LOOK A NEW INGLIS WASHER With features no other machine can offer. Save S39.0 BUY NOW AT 159.00 RUPERT RADIO & ELECTRIC tire U.S.A. and British Common wealth to eomb.ne but on a "'reran, at sandspit. I would seli-ie.sDectine rre and riemn-1 to Inform Monty Mclntvre Ml It These impressive figures are more than an index of the Royal Bank's record of accomplishment; they are a cleat indication of Canada's economic health, and the scale of olsnnmmirv rlur ic mire f 3;i-"i:i a cratitiiiy equal basis. 1 lnat pcrml'ssicm is not needed to We don't want to elect U.S. brin8 a botJy w bodies up to the Congressmen from Canada. But I ,"rfac- Anybody seeing bodies we might listen to a proposition ) underwater i duty-bound to try . Jf t e HYDRO-EIECTRIC DEVEl. OPMCNT (tnaaa has tvtr l?lt million fevelopaa' aydft alaclrk htnapawti. Thii ll ItK lhaa at knttta ia itota. Intaitaltanl (war bvtn kIX ar plannaJ will artvita a turlbar tti miHian bantpowti. to set un a single parliament for "a D"ng mem up sectirin Umtlotut, ,lli"l IRON ORE-Um tf. H wvtrH 1r llkrortr twvt 0tmt4 rtttrvl ! 3it nHt-Hn Hm f (Hk rtft the wnole Kni!sn spcaKing world. t'NDFR NEW MANAGKMENT . , tnem alongside ship. Bodies Khould not be touched with hand but brought to port. If a body Is seen floating Tt should be tied to ship, towed to port and reported to neure?t police. EVery master of a ship is. in fact, a police officer. I am in doubt if the police would have tried to prevent Mr. Melntyre from doing-his duty. F. Mnj.ER. ' i GETTING COI.DE31 saskatocv cn . :r0w u-s over, weather records compiled at the University of Saskatche- ! wan show 1951 was the coldest year here since 1900. The average temperature for the year 1 was 39.0 degrees. THE ROYAL BAEM OF CANADA ON OF THl WORID'S GREAT BANKS, GROWING WITH A GROWING COUNTRY TOTAL ASSETS EXCEED $2,500,000,000 SAVOY HOTEL Prince Rupert's only modern rooms with bath Fraser Street Phone 37