' Prince Rupert Daily News As I See It All Aboard m, -lie 'rte drive anve fnr for VT i I ' Saturday, April 3, 10r4 Canadian Rod nrlUn,' " ""-tV-J , the m,i.... , -ratf pendent dlly newspaper devoted to the upbuilding ot Prince. Rupert and Northern Rnd rnrral British Columbia. Member of Oen&dlan Prena Audit Bureau ot Clrnilailom Canadian Daily Newspaper Association. Published by The Prince Rupert nailv Newi. Limited. J. J. MAUOR, President it. O. PERRY, Vice-President ! -if. dr'"e ;llu"-lay. feloC and na- f bv i , ,yJ Ctniore ffiWtiiiiliiiMAiI' md, Subscription Rates: rnrrler Per week, 25c; per month, II 00; per year, III) On. mall Per month. 7fic; per year, $fi 00. has follertPd t17 .m ; VMHO objective Ooruced m second class mall by the Post Office rvportment, Ottawa Starve Reds Out? THE MOST astonishing1; thing about the recent! a family of rare and fierce ants as a hobby, and that today one of them jumped up as you were bending over the nest, and clamped Its pincers in your cheek." I think he followed my advice. I -noticed several persons moving away from his desk in silence, wearing puzzled frowns. In view of his success, I plan to use the same defence. When people ask: "Going into the egg business, eh?" I shall answer: "Why, yes, the rattlesnake egg business. Each one of these boxes is filled with rattlesnake eggs. Let me give you an egg to put in your pnekd The warmth of your body will hatch it in half an hour." Don't avk hie what Munday can do to protect hiinor Change his i in.ic, I suppose. H ,.V, ' ' ' yeview Death Penalty "Is- IS not easy to fo along with the contention which ha gained some publicity lately that cap-al punishment should he abolished. There are. too w5ny instances of murder when anything less than full price would lie inadequate. At the same time it must he recognized that, STTl'ile the death penalty meets tne demands of jus- ie, it may he failing to eradicate the crime. Cases Some people have names that provide raw material for Rags and puns. Take, for In- ; stance, a man named Munday. j "Well, I guess it just isn't your day today, Munday. Haw. haw!" You look kinda blue today, Munday. Blue Munday, yuk, yuk!" Those are the jokes that a man called Munday hears. The people who make the jokes, and tie themselves In knots laughing at them, wonder why Munday just stands there with a weary look on his face. , The reason Is not hard to find. Munday has heard the joke, before perhaps 10.248 times before. A farmer delivers eggs to me ul the office. Whenever I bring back a bundle of empty egg-cartons for him, someone is sure to remark: "Going Into the egg business, eh? Haha! Heheh!" At first I gave a faint chuckle to indicate that I saw something funny about the notion of myself In the egg business. But after the 20tli time of hearing, some of the shinr began to wear off this sparkling little Jest. My chuckle sounds a trifle hollow these days. A collcagu.: and I were discussing the matter of worn jokes and trite remarks. He pointed to a patch of plaster on his face. "I'm waiUng for someone to say: Cut yourself shaving, eh?' I'll hear It any minute now." . "When they say It," I suggested, "tell them they are mistaken. Tell them you keep 5 debate on international: i affairs in the House of; : Commons was the sugges- j jtion made by John. Dief-j i enbaker that C a n a d a ! should refuse to sell food; to Communist countries. Parliament ha.s hoard about j the samp .sugge stion from the ; leader of the Social Credit Ki'oup, a few weeks earlier. Bui j : coming from the Social Credit-! jirs it. had caused no great lift-, ! ing of eyebrows, for that party ' ha.s always taken what most ! MPs consider an appallingly re- actionary line. ! However, John Diefenbaker Is! innocent people being executed are so well Trown that iuries freuuentlv hesitate to convict THE 1C0-FOOT HIGH STATI'E of Christ the Redeemer towers above a Brazilian Air Force Oloster Meteor ius it circles Con-ovado Peak, at the entrance to Rio de Janeiro's harbor. The twln-et plane was made in England. OTTAWA DIARY By NORMAIn M. MacLEOD mm recognized in Canada as a true ; progressive. He has long been , 1 I he most foremost champion !n FOR THAT EXTRA SPECIAL PRINT JOB CALL OH DIBB PRINTING COMPANY The question that is troubling uecbions more difficult than ;many of Parliament Hill's more j any made hitherto in our rt la-: conscientious corps of observers I tively tranouii diplomatic, past. ;at the monent is whether the In short, Canadian diplomacy Canadian delegation at the com-1 may have to grow up suddenly ing Geneva Conference is going j and stand on its own feet at i to have to stand up and be the Geneva meet. Canada of the idea of a constitutional Bill of Rights. , to guarantee to every Canadian certain democratic privileges. He is just about to leave for Jerusalem, where he Ls to make .v.vl 7f' .1 im l.v.v.jli Up i, I Y.h r I OpiiiJ ."hen death is the penalty. Even if they are certain , f the accused's guilt, they are apt to experience .hat instinctive reluctance to be party to taking a . fe. This has led to a condition in which murder is ctually the safest crime a Canadian can commit. Another reason for abolishing the death penal-""vis seen by D. B. Macdonald, chapman of the '" k'anadian Welfare Council's delinquency and crime .-. "livisioii. "The brutalizing- presence of the death penalty imong us tends to strengthen those factors which wing about murder and crime in general," he ; bis"!' Wp Joti eve murder is less likely in a w holesome isocial atmosphere than in an atmosphere fouled by the morbidity, melodrama and horror as- sodated'with executions." His remarks point up the tact that the responsibility for crime does not rest with the individual alqne. Crime is a sympton of an underlying social disease, and the criminal is only th"e weak spot counted on either the United x series of lectures on the sub lht "nd W the .nfrolei' Communist China.- Y0UI tl How then, could a like John Diefenbaker ad- It l.s taken for graaled that , ray... Reflects anc Reminisces ( vocate anything so reactionary ! one of ue mttin issut'li of tne ! as an attempted blockade ofl conference on which a settle-food shipments to Russia, and'mpnl wU1 r .sought will be the other Communist countries? admission of Communist China Trapped Miners Rescued TOKYO (Reuters) Eight coal miners were rescued' Friday 1 after having been trapped 600 , feet underground by a cave-in at a coal mine In Kitatku in i Valuable Set the Elio 12, ( Elto 3 ol your deol-Wril for lileratat "Sportimon'i Hondbc: Made in Canada vl Service every wh(r(,l "Outboard Molms" r into tne united Nations, -in Soviet argument in favor of ! DIEFENBAKER Ranch-style architecture has, the southern Japanese island MR himself I unnH a r-mircp Ic im nlpoQunt t been adapted to every kind ot the basis of his gave reason- j baslc nnmpl that communist ing to the House of Commons i Cnina (.oinpri.scs Blmost 20 pe, of Kyushu. The trapped men were supplied with food passed to them through a ventilation pipe. He argued that Russia was in i 9 phone book. V .structure we can think of. outside of lighthouses. And even this in not without a novelty of which we can provide a sizeable variety. where the disease breaks through. In many ways the throes of real a agricultural ; und lnal no ,lasUng .settlement ens. s, due primarily to the fact; ot intornali0nul questions can that agricultural production had be reachP(1 lf M iare a snCP of i VrV MCI the criminal is nrodiict of hi Hnvircmmt unA thp i ) J I nnliin 11,1 r4r,liv,n ;H ,U 1..., OC Peterboroi the world's population is ignoi- failure tO provide the child With the kind Of en. years, notwithstanding the great 9 Conodi increase in Russian noulation. Ottawa The impression in which in f:lft. miwh mnr Viftn Distributorship Inclusive distributorship is olfered to aggressive man to devote full lime as Northern H.C. distributor for an untaxing new Canadian automotive product currently sclliiu in leading Canadian department stores and K.irjgn ami incepted by thousands in l .S A. and Canada. $1000.00 ' invcsl-ni"nl required (secured by Inventor)). fur personal inlervieiv apply by letter to Stanley A. Sharp, Manager, 710 Uenman St., Vancouver 5. 5, B.C. B.C. Of the 31 United States college students who arrived i'l Canada for a delayed visit, 25 realized that Canada is bigger than the United 8tate.s. Bin re are prepared to wager that n a one of them haiip,l l'r.im Tex.u. it the, overcame the friglitful . United Kingdom, albeit relucts suffprpfi hv thp Swipl In tha Checked I Hitler war ' antly and unenthusiastically, i 4 1 ofnrV ' tO thtt baSl Thpi Mr ,fr,K !, 7di.spO.Sed 3CCept MS ED CARS realism of the Russian argu-1 implied, the western nations RUPERT Ul vironment that will make it possible tor him to become a law-abiding adult rests with the community as a whole. Complete abolition of the death penalty is not a solution. When a life is taken without answerable" cause, the law must be allowed to go the limit allowed but not compelled. If the mandatory death penalty for convicted murderers were eliminated, Canadian law would come closer to meeting the 'equirements fif Canadian life. AND '.To own o.- : t own p. ! house?. Casting, twice. u,i much I and more today, as well as then. We remember all the items 4C years ago. ELECTRIC 1 hv, that the United btauM toppling down; by the-vi.nple h.S"any such intention. Onnhri i expedient of not selling th 1 ' coltwr' aU siSns Communists any food. ( if, if. it ; Washington is prepared to bt) 313 3rd Ave Phonr Ml 1 1 I 1 ONE ASTONISHING feature ofi ntranslgeant on the Chinese; ! Mr. Diefenbaker' suggestion ! issue- -i The universe, is commcnclnn, 'was that It was directly con-!' A situation of this kind in the at la.st to get an idea of what a J v conference would place thti, third world war would mean. trary to others made by same Jnhappy Millionaire of his own front bench party i Canadian delegation in a defin-i There wouldn't be a fourth, and colleagues. J. M. Macdonnell the ! Ile'y .Uncomfortable position. 1 just what .sort of a univer.se Cnnrvaiivn f..,-i,.i I.: With no middle position oosslble' would we have without a fourth. All these cars are equipped with healers T IS a ti-ite saying that money does not bring r.y - record as 'Icult choice of sup-T '50 Pontioc 4-door sedan ... No! There happiness. Some people may dispute that and ; porting either Washington or: possibly pass for it. must be a New Deal. 1475 1375 '50 Chevrolet 4-dr. sedan. Hartlo Moreover, on the very same London policy. That Is a choice afternoon that Mr. Diefenbaker j tnat llt 1('ast on any major made his suggestion that wc , scale Canadian diplomacy has should try to starve out the ! managed successfully to avoid Russian regime, another Con-! in tnc oast- A physician remarks that "hard work does hurt .many people." Perhaps because they dodge any violent exertion with li '50 Plymouth -j (fZ 2-dr, low mileage AOttJ ! servative front bencher, Donald , , The general bi-Ht.-i in the Cap-Fleming complained of the vast j ital is that the Cunadian in-; quantities of food that Russia ! clinatlon Is to support the Brit- The name McClymont ha-s .... t4 '48 Plymouth 4-dnnr sedan. Radio In a off and on i charge did not seem to gibe! cord with the realities of the! type with the Diefenbaker thesis of situation. At the KamC- tlmej . Sm? ! acute food scarcity In Russia, j the , .more-th-n usual reJ 975 945 l Ren '48 Plymouth 4-dnor sedan. Radio to the cnust to fyvnd the rest of 1 1 AM rHmetricalljr opposffl. to ; at ero.ss-purposes with Washing' I the suggestion by John Dlef-' ton policy. One reason is the his active umllnterestlng lite at .ti"v 1 1 ut, Tv tX ens-- ..ocm- ontent themselves by saying- that it is at least a reat help. Perhaps it is, but there was a striking llustration of the trite sayingvhen a, doctor in )etroit committed suicide by taking poison al-hough his asseta added up to $5,000,000. One would think that a man who had about .45,000,000 at his command, or even $1,000,000, ISAild feel Jie had enough of the world's comforts "o 'ovcrrcomte any 'eVhonijl' riefif he) niightf haVe, lit this man's troubles, whatever they might have een, were so overwhelming, or at least he brooded m them and thought they were, that he felt life vas not worth living. It takes something very serious' to grieve a nan so much that he could not assuage them or t, if there was only one thing troubling him with h& comforts and pleasures that money can buy. Ye, all his millions could not solve his problems. St. Thomas Times-Journal i . Letterbox enbaker, because I think it is, sense of obligation felt here ford muilic'i,wi and' civilian stain! ! both immoral, unpractical,, and the close economic co-operation peinU He performed valinbl the very kind of thing much , currently being received fromd Jervlce aS a loilecr cm.n. -' more likely to bring on a third j Washington. In the critical mat-t 1 V' J ! -4- . 1,1 " -.to- 't- Trucks world war than to bring the i ter of the world wheat surplus.?! Early to bed and early to rt-e Kremlin masters toppling down. of the dependence of wholt sections of the Cunadian econ will never make you wealthy- that Is unless in between yu omy upon United States tariffs Li In the first place it would be against the principles of decent, kindly folk everywhere fur even in wartime the planned do something. You may be a bit 1 Mf.P '51 Ford Yi-Ton Express With canopy 4 - Q Very low mileage JLJLtt late retiring. policy, as well as in the costly field of continental defences, Washington policy is showing itself definitely sympathetic to Canadian interests. Ottawa un Dress yourself nattily, youn,; man and you'll win those promotions that will make you rich enough to go around looking like. ! starvation of civilians Is a I measure of extreme gravity. But apart from that it Just I would not work. If Canada did ' not want to sell any of our ; surplus wheat to Russia, there i would be plenty of middlemen ; who would buy it from us and ! sell it to the Reds. The imme- Rupert Motors derstandably doesn't want thi.i climate of co-operation to change. Thus there Is a feeling that the whole situation is delicate and that the Canadian delegation at Geneva may have to face a bum. But the devil of it is wj happen to have more old clothes than dollars. Try Dc:ly Nevs Ci.'.ioilid Second Ave. and First St. I'hone 8fi FLY... The Editor, ; the disadvantage that will b' TUe Dallv News: i imor.sed on our whnlo hnsle In While winters ink mav be'dustrv fisheries and nt.hpr hpow diate effect would be to deprive with Your First Stop For Carefree predd over the pages of your! industry, if the plant is disman-1 Canada of some of the export ;aper in argument against the i tied and removed In Its entirety, i markets we may budly need - emoval of the drydock, I feel J Therefore, I hope any person ! . he question niust be approaehed seeing merit in such a proposal, j The famous Asphalt lake on n more direct manner. j after due consideration, will b, the Island of Trlnadad covers Therefore, I Intend to move a . present and support it, or more about 100 acers notion at the forthcoming Mon- effective means if devised. .... '. 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