Prince Rupert Daily News OTTAWA DIARY B'N"Mtlr Thirrsday, January 15, 1953 : flu ----- .:.. . decision was Judj'a j own Exchequer O.urt 01 Judge Thorson hlmvii As I See It I - V V Clmore UB MOir to sit In An Independent dally newspaper denoted to the upbuilding at Prlno Rupert and Nrtrthcrn and Central British Columbia. affember of Canadian Press Audit Bureau of Circulation Canadian Dolly Newspaper Association. Published by "Hie Prince Rupert Dally Newa Limited 1. r. MAOOR, President H. O. PERRY, Vice-President ll'al I! t!, or Iwar the one. For a good many years, now, there have been sporadic complaints on Parliament Hill over (he practise of appointing judges to hniidle conciliation and arbitration boards which aren't properly in tile realm of judicial bodies. The other day, one of Canada's top Judicial figures let it be known that he didn't like he how much Canadian radio stations should pay to CAPAC. the C'omixisers. Authors and Publishers Association of Canada, for performing rights in 19f3. The same question was dls-cussed In l'Jf2. After Judge Tliir-son and his fellow boord-mem-bers handed down their decision CAPAC and the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, representing most of the private Subscription Rau: ftY ealrlei I-er weK. a.'Sc: npr mo-.ilh kl 0j! ner vear. S10.00 6f mall Per monin, "iSc; per vear. H 00 Authorized as cor.d class r:all fc the Post Ofiue Department, Ottawa. i I practise either. And t. the time Northern Line Pays That's the very iia Judge Thorson romp!3ln.,, th other day. Her,,,, are used on mm boards they are nut pc,,, . sit In their own courlr-,. easr that may f,m boards In their court sr. means that the whi.li-of their courts is wea,.. The very man !,o strengthen 8 court on t he made his personal pronoun-' radio siatlons, decided to take cement on the subject, he was! the matter to the courts to deserving as chairman of Just cide some matters connected with such a board. it. The ease la still before ihe In almost any part of the 'courts und therefore sub Judlre. country, and at any level of the! FXriKlf.'M K WFAKFNH " " Judicial structure from police,' Rul ,h( nt-r.,lr, ,hin . Urges Thatcher Budget IF FINANCE MINISTER Abbott wants to bring down a budget which tho whole country will approve he could not do better than to start with the court magistrate to the chief ; lhat ,h, roun wh,ph CAp . j u a JZ'Z .( -f - 'I . I- - ' w . ...... . e.j. -. a. . JfOf-wm - - v - .-.- im "T n ai lira nis rourt they can do to handle the wor j .... , . . ui lam colitis, yet time and time again, Judges are "borrowed" from the courts by one government or another to serve us chairman 'of primarily administrative bodies. The other d.y, the President of the Exchequer Court, Hon. J. T. Thorson, had something to say about this practise. by the CCFMP for Moose Jaw. Lot us Ignore the fact thai Ross Thatcher is a bit of a contradicltion in his own party He Is the kind of contradiction that every party should h glad to Include and the CCF should v -Y GLASS.orPujposes Northern Glass Cc , x . .' is At that time, he was handling be proud of him. For the sanieia "case" though legally it really FIRST A r IT. EAST (Net to Industrial Wrl.linr Box 562 Phone Red - WILL BE OPEN 1 1 qualities which have made him! ' wasn't that in the Exchequer such an outstanding business Court courtroom. It was a hear-success apply to his public at-ting by the Copyright Appeal titudrs. Nut lotig ago Mi. Thai- Board, of which he is the chalr-cher showed where the govern-1 man The discussion was about ment could save $375 million per year without cutting essen -'MILESTONES tial service. He has also made' 3 A.M. to 5 P.M. DM BlfiGSY, AN ANGORA RAItBIT, and Omar, 18-year-old saddle horse, ara stablemates at a Victoria riding club. Buggsy was found on a nearby hignway and put in Omar'i stall. They now are the best of friend;. Omars next-door neighbor, AllegTo, Is a bit puzzled by the friendship. admirable auaeestlons for the forthcoming budget. ! fom lh rlk " lhf s"" i 40 Yc0r HERE ARE th taxeduetlons A9 Todoy STARTING JANUARY 19 Report From . . Toble Tops . . . Mirrors . . . Auto Glon Window Gloss . . . Plate Gloss suggested by Ross Thatcher l Prince Rupert will be the lir.rt in the House of Commons on Canadian city to see the 'Ala-ska December 10: , Siberia pictures showing at the Cut sales tax by 2 percent. I Westholme Opera Houe Ihu Cut personal Income taxes 10 week percent. j . Cut corporation taxes, as poss- F panvlnl returned to the city " hl i . Parliament Hill By GEORGE M. MURRAY, M P., Cariboo There will be no election this spring. It a icw nays ago ana siaies mere 1 cannot eo alone with Mr may; come in the fall of but there are many who now j Thatcher in hia previous reeom-jcoa.st of America rhowtng bet- IP ANYONE remains unimpressed by the possi-I bilities of this neek of the woods, in its literal sense, there is occasion for thought in the report that last year the line between Red Pass Junction and Prince Rupert was the most profitable stretch of track on the entire CNR system! A total of almost 44,000 revenue carloads was handled on the Smithers division, to give the division its all-time record in freight traffic movement. If account is taken of the relatively small population of this area, the wide separation of its centres, and the work stoppages in the forest and fishing industries during 1952, the performance assumes remarkable significance. Whereas more heavily developed areas can provide fairly continuous two-way traffic, the Smithers division in many respects is still a one-way operation. Last year . approximately 5,000 eastbound freight cars were Amoved off the division empty. -; Traffic from the Columbia Cellulose Company Ls doing much to reduce this tendency; and as our "Alaskan, and possibly Oriental, trade develops, the "trend will be cut down still further. But the important point remains that, even under present conditions, the commerce of this part of the province is more than holding its own with that of the rest of ''S Canada. With our scope for development, the business "that will be done here about five years from now Jshonld be something for the text-books on Canadian Economics. A Fast Game of Treachery in Montreal of another network of DISCOVERY Soviet espionage should remind those among us 3'ho are cultivating the friendship of Communists .'that they are playing a fast game for which the "main qualifications are trickery, treachery and a "certain native knack for common stealing. If they are willing to assume these qualities and to the true Communist they are admirable one? 2 they may eventually be indoctrinated in the finer "'points of the underground, underhand technique. Broadly speaking, this means selling out their own country as rapidly and as ruinously as possible. 1" In doing so, the eager or scared disciple rtiever questions the wisdom of the one who gives .'the 'orders. A good current example of this blind '"obedience is demonstrated by those now beating the Communist drums of anti-Semitic propaganda for the Rosenbergs, who are awaiting possible execution in the U.S. for espionage. "J Although the masters at Moscow are at present -waging a bloody campaign against Jews, and dropping them through the hangman's trapdoor with say that the spring of 195-1 will be chosen. ! Z onT I ei !T '"ff ", Vn G'" JT . ' . , . OKJ pension wnnoui ttaut meansham Island. Several firms are Easterners do not want a fall test, although I have a deep re-jaiready drilling there now election. The B.C. government j vived. Of all the national hlgh-''1 ,or hi courage In saying' MODERN AND OLD TIME DANCE FRIDAY, JANUARY 16 LEGION AUDITORIUM .Music By PETE HEOQ and HIS WESTKHSAIRFS ways through the Rocky Moun-1 'l u 'ool,'sn t Riv! au,'h rnu 30 Yeorj Ago Today tains, that of the Peace River ; &Tt LV', "kl F i.s the broadest, lowest and most, point. They are simply Mm-J- likely to serve any nw rail dS-.pulsory savings, organized for y. 'er, , ,y i?""",. , will likely go in May. At Ot- ' tawa, they do not a ish. to have a repetition of the 1949 show when the B C. provincial and federal appeals came almost to-gether. I all. But you have to admire the " " "--" - - member, n attendance man who gets right down velopment in the north. It would be cheaper to build Price $1.00 Dancing from 10-2 such practical details as when through the Monkman Pass. .j Norma Talmage and Wyndham ne asks why rf do we need one &nd the distance from Grande barber shop for the House of s,anclln apiiearlng at the ' Westholme Ttieaire week PrairiP Prin n.r. w I I'mmm. nnrt onnth.r tnr ann. this ill My bill to incorporate the Peace River Transmission Company went through ' second reading with the whole Houe the picture ("Smiling Through than 100 miles shorter than bY'tors?" approving. This company is toi the Pine Pass or the Peace Pass take over local pipelines in thel The fact remains, however, thatj AS I HOPE the Minister of ftn-Peace River country for tran.s-'the Monkman Pass is too far to! ance will read this column, mission of fuel to Dawson Creek, ! the south to serve the great ' as usual. I add my personal Fort St. John and other points throbbing Peace River empire of j recommendation to the proposed on both sides of the B C. -Alberta j 1953. It might have served in "Thatcher budget." , line. 'the 1920s as a key to a very i m addition to a 2 per cent i ncn uarv oi me reace nivi r cut in sales tax and a 10 per Women s ,Nylon J j Overshoes i A Waterproof... ' V, Nylon Sheerling Vt I'ncd. '' -jf!'y Loced 7.95 MjJ -Vy Zipper .. $9.45 y Fashion Footwear 20 Yeors Ago Today News of the death of Mrs Alice Clapp was received in the city today with a deep shock and regret by her many friends here. A larpe crowd was attracted to Mount CidfiCld over the weekend by the perfect skiing weather 1 0 Yeors Ago Todoy Thirty-one ca-w of emereencv clothing for women and children ( for use In disaster relief have arrived In Prince Hupert, It was innounccd by It. McAfee, president of the local branch of the Canadian ited Cross, t The local fire marshal!, H. T Lock, has expressed concern over the fact that Booth Memorial School ha no brush around it for shelter in the event of an air raid. The British Columbia railway 1 country, problems caught the spotlight! Today there are settlers and when the B.C. Minister of Rail-; industry 300 miles north of ways gave out a statement that !; Grande Prairie. The develop-the government was seriously j ment of the oil field around considering building the Peace ! Fort St. John is, In itself, a rea-River rail outlet to the Pacific : son for planning a railway out-through the Monkman Pass. ! let to serve that area. The dt- This at once caused a storm ! velopment in Alberta along the of i Peac River has en very ex- protest throughout the north, ... ,., .. . .1 tensive. Nothing like it was heard, The nee6s of W5, lndicate a since the late P;eml" Joh,n ; Pacific outlet with branches on Oliver of British Columbia, 2D;both sidcs of tne Peace Hlver years ago or more expressed cxten(Un througn tne RockiCii of Monkman Pa- approval a d to prince Oeo thwe route. It was in 930 that I was to t boln tne Canadian Na. cent cut In Income tax. plus reduction in corporation taxes, I would put at the very top of the list abolition of the nuisance stamp tax of cheques. This surely is one of the least necessary, most unproductive taxes of all and one that causes the rarwl annoyance, and expense to business. A good accountant tells jne that It costs business much more than the face vaJue of the stamps. When people do what I always did that Is, add three cents to the value of the cheque and omit putting on the stamp many business firms must make two separate entries on i tional Railways and the Pacific 1 Great Eastern Railway. I have ' drawn up the following resolu-' tion which I hope to get before ! the House at an early date: .J . "Ihaf in the opinion of this present at uranae rrairie wnen the Canadian Pacific Railway sent a crew of engineers through the Monkman Pass under the leadership of Alex Monkman, discoverer of the pass. Hopes were high that a Pacific out "tfar less ceremony, it would never do to speculate " let might be built as a result of! the survey. Nothing happened. their books one for the cheque: and another for the three cents for the stamp! Don't ask me why I Just know some do. What are we, a nation of bookkeepers? Surely the time has come to wipe out this nuisance tax forever. BUT WE need extra expenditures in some fields even more than we need tax cuts. I think Mr. Abbott could give us both. House, the Government of Canada should study alternative routes for a Pacific roast rail outlet for the Peace River country, following the Peace River between Hines Creek, Alta., and Finlay Forks. B.C., This battle of the passes, n.s far as the Peace River country is concerned, has been going on since 1874. The Peace River Pass having in mind development of the valleys of the Upper came very nearly being the route of the Canadian Pacific Peace, Parsnip, Finlay, Nation Lon this strange contradiction. Stalin is all-seeing and all-powerful, so beat out the drums! .-' jo attract prey into the fold, a successful ruse has been to portray Communists as champions of ihe . underdog. By causing industrial unrest and p'fomenting strikes, it is surprising how many underdogs can be created. A man deprived of his wages 'An this way is very susceptible to such persuasion. At the same time, the faithful Communist r'never reflects too long on the U.S.S.R.'s attitude - towards the underdog. Russia's attack on Finland, - for example, probably had some reasonable explanation by which it could be shown that Finland was the bully that provoked the fight. Nor is it healthy to wonder why there are so -many refugees escaping from Communist control -4nto western Europe, or why there are so many )JM Chinese prisoners-of-war unwilling to be re Omim-ca and Manson rivers; "And that rn selecting new townsites care be taken to establish same wherever possible adjacent to farm settlements under the Veterans Land Act; , "And that study be given to a large scale land settlement program to be carried out adjacent to the proposed Railway. There are reams of material here at Ottawa, from! the most distinguished engineers of the Confederation period, who favored the Peace River Pas as the route of .the Canadian Pacific Railway main line. At that time, there was some support for the Yellowhead Pass which was later occupied by the Grand Trunk Pacific and Canadian Northern Railways (now incorporated in the CNR system). The Kicking Horse Pass was finally determined by the The government should give long overdue justice to the War Veterans Allowance men. They need the rate urged by the Canadian Legion, namely $60 per month for single men and $120 foe married couples. The double means test should be abolished once the man has been given the WVA he should not be subject to month by month inquisition. I would bet a month's salary that it costs the government more to administer this double means test than the treasury would lose by abolishing It altogether. Highest known waterfall Is the Angel Falls in Venezuela with a shear drop of more than 3200 government of Canada under feet. the Liberal Prime Minister, Alexander Mackenzie. patriated, a little investigation would probably Hirove they are all lousy capitalists, so why worry? DRAPERY AND Decision to use it was largely political. The government had exact information on the Kick-; As long as the young revolutionary does not r.Jisk too many questions, and is indifferent to a rinife in the back, he will find it a great game. lng Horse Pa.su. The government SLIP COVERING FABRICS General Electric Appliances "My presence shall go with tlwe."Exod. 33:14 From I- to Hr-yard ends. No two pieces alike. Printed of Bniish Columbia, which came into the union in !871, threat- j ened to pull out of Confedera- j tion If Canada did not complete ! the promised railway to the coast. The Mackenzie govern-1 ment gave order to fire away with construction of the Kick- j ' ing Horse Pass route, rather ' than risk the disruption of the I new nation which had been ! Former Officer Spent Too Much nougniex, Nail Cloth, Bark Ckith, Homespun, and Damasks. Suitable for permanent and slip rovers, drapes, etc. Attractively prieed by the end. We are CLEARING OUT our entire stock of short eixU. More than 59 patterns to choose from. ed for use of the area command ant. The officer wasn't named. formed in 1867. However, an army spokesman Washing Machines, Floor Polishers, Rodios, Kettles, Ranges, Vacuum Cleaners and, many others. RUPERT RADIO AND ELECTRIC Phone 644 Box 1279 Z: OTTAWA The auditor-gen -eral reported to parliament that an army officer got a $29,000 .house for his use in Regina al- though he was only authorized to .spend half that sum. Waterscm Seller, in his annual ' report to Parliament, reported .' the case Involved a project for - Improvement of the house acquir IE said the area commandant In Regina at that time was Brig. Alan Conne!y,44, of Calgary, who was retired last fall on the grounds that there was no further army employment for him. Whenever the 'railway men are in a tight corner with respect to the Pacific coast outlet for the Peace River, the battle of the passes seems to te re- ! t