P3 Prince Rupert Daily News REFLECTS and REMINISCE As I See It 1 Monday.. January 12. 1953 i 190 which could be made simpler to man. and I asked him If u(1 H),.l comments the North Bay Ko well with my evening 0, Niii-vt And thousands of per-1 He said: 'Listen, Hon..,, , voiu too lazv to become more! you get one of these stra f imili.il- with the language. j evening gowns on, nobody s A Independent daily newspaper devoted to the upbuilding of Prlnoe Rupcn nd Northern and Central British Columbia. If ember at Canadian Press Audit Bureau of Circulation CttUHdisn Dally Newspaper Association. Published by 'Tie Prinrw Rupert Dally News Limited 3. T. MAOOH. President H. G. PERRY. Vice-President Subscription Rates: , y oairler-f er wrn, 2f.c: per month 1 00; per year, 110.00 6tX3jto ay msll Pet month. Mc; per v.w. 8 00 -i-H- uthor!wi as cor.d class r..all b-.- the' Post ORof Department, Ottawa COST-OF-LIVING INDICES f o canmja. 1935-39-1001 - , 20 ' ' ' j120 KUiim wj iuok lil your !.. Monica Dickens. PUfmlt A lengthy political rn France Is anticipated by v observers. Situation normui' AN lltltllK SOMtWHi:RE! A man who stayed voluntarily In a. hospital for the unbalanced for 14 years has left it f,ir the outside world. He's probably realized his mistake by now. I I otc.i DEC. I "I 1W 115.8 HO1- I 10 CANADA'S CONSUMER PRICE INDEX Mitch Hepburn Unique THE NEWSPAPERS in the west gave small space to the death of ex-Prenner Hepburn of Ontario. Mitch Hepburn was one of the most amazing men I ever met. "The riay after I was married I was buying some evening shoes in one of the smartest shops in New York, and I was , . s 1949 100 J 1 I 1 I I I L -1 1 1 I J L I . I,. I 100 100 951 1952 MILESTONES I r.im Ihc 111'- ' Tttr I'ulli HAPPY NflW Yr.AK! Sherlo'k Holmes disap when Conan Doyle &m ago, but now the Imnmru! leclive has reapixaierl y thousands are weleoimi, , Ingenious writers and ttus guessed right when tlwy created Holmes and Dr to be - found In the sam rooms In Baker Street The winter rllmat" of fr, Morocco In northern Afn;-, renurded as near rx rl linn world travellers hall ttw t city of Marrakeeh as ttw , resort. Of course, there t, sale gambling, near-nutk c Ing. knife wicMmp, Ariit , plenty of riots Kven v. weather Is pretty fair Although I ran in 1930 against! Mitch for the Ontario Liberal j leadership. I worked c losely with him in the later by-elections i 40 Yeors Ago ToJoy M:w COVSVMER PRICE index declined by three-tenths of a point during November to 115 8 from 116 1, the bureau of statistics reports. The Index, bused on 1949 price eounllin inn wax at an a!l-tin;e hlh uf 118.2 in, December. JS51. The old cost-of-living Index, based on 1U35-39 prices equalling 100, continued a five-month decline with a drop of three-fifths of a point during A hostile group pawngrTS arrived In the rtiy last niuht which stalled him on his march co victory. Contrary to Mackenzie King's cdvlee, I cut loose from Mitch November to 184.2 from 184 3. The peak was 191.5 in December. 1951. . "CP PIIOTOi ; from M.iHM't en route to Van couver and Victoria wnere wi'-y will proies' the inadequate mail servu e to Mussel. . before he came to power. Mr. King, who distrusted Mitch th n and detested him later, ureed Letterbox A-Bomb Expert Building New to 100 million feot of merchant ;iCobalt Bomb i. Mayor Newi' has unnouneed his Intention alur all of running lor mayor afciiln 30 YcorsAgo Today The Harlow elevator for the new dock arrived lat evening on the 1'rhwv Allifrt. and l b-lnt: able timber In the area to b I me to try to slow Mitch down. 1 to steady him. I saw enough of i j Mitch to know that neither I j J nor anybody else ulive could i slow him down. j i j lYOU COULD READ the whole Hepburn story in his face and head. He was a sort of cross i between Abraham Lincoln and j Huey Long. He had a Lincoln i .. ..... , ! f ' .J I Y T r i flooded io far there Is very, OTTAWA CP) A biKKer and 'hU thdt U-better Z?J? ara cobalt bomb for cane.., being logged. h tre.itm.nt U under rnnsl met im. Three morning pa pen laid on Queen Mjuiv brerikfaft table. Ka rr well take It for granted tiiv, route boy wus never krui-be luU. Or how many o! thre-e (Mism.ss a hieyrlet -.I Mr. Martin stale.; In his arUckitn a btiseemnt woricn.ip In stit)-;rtls'' that Ootsa Lake wi.l merpe wit.' , urban Eastvlew ) the southwest end of Francois Orders alrruilv have been- T v rnmrnt Bull!in(! today today by by It H Lake. This is ridiculous. Fran-! placed for six of them-siKht .were taken over Lake will still be 14 mil-; un.seen-by clinics in Cannd", Wr.rlak. r I'rovim.al Govern- cols from Ootsa Lake and Is not II!;,: ! the United States nnd Britain luiriiuiiu. mm nuey ijong n s mouth, plus an enormous dim- pie. He was a brave, real states- r man sometimes, a bon vivant at i all times, and a rank demagogue ' A Golden Opportunity IF THE B.C. and Alberta governments are intent on going through with their strange plans of railway construction in the Peace River country, the Canadian Pacific or the Canadian National or both are left with a golden opportunity to recoup the traffic they will lose to the Pacific Great Eastern. Under the latest proposal for its extension, the PGE will become a freakish affair with one end in Vancouver and the other in "no man's land somewhere northeast of Prince George. By its connection with the Northern Alberta Railways, however, it will receive business from that system which would otherwise go to the CPR or CNR for the more roundabout haul to the coast. Even so, the new route will be by no means a shipper's dream. Instead of heading for the nearest port, Prince Rupert, approximately 500 miles from the Teace River block, a shipment will wander about 700 miles to Vancouver. Then, if it is destined for a port across the Pacific, it will on the third day out find itself nearer to Prince Rupert than Vancouver. Against this unrealistic course, on which the B.C. government is contemplating the expenditure of millions, the trans-continental railways have a chance to recover the traffic they will lose to the PGE, and simultaneously realize the full possibilities of the Peace River country, by linking the NAR to Hazelton. This would provide immediate access to Prince Rupert and the trade lanes of the Pacific. While it is the wish of every British Columbian to see the PGE prosper, this desire assuredly does not sanction the spending of their taxes on a half-baked proposition which will see nothing like the returns that a wiser scheme would receive. Coming from two Social Credit governments, the idea is all the more mystifying in light of visionary statements made at Ottawa recently by the party's national leader, Solon Inv. ) "My constituency of Peace River does, indeed, need a rail outlet to the coast," he said. "The vast majority of the people out there have no confidence in Libera promises. They know that a Social Credit government at Ottawa would have that railway between Mines Creek and Dawson reek extended to Prince Rupert and'or Vancouver in its first term of office." If the present proposal embraces the rail outlet Mr. Low had in mind, the people of his constituency must feel they are right back where they started. rm nt urchltivt and lll be open to the piiii.le toniitht for Inspection. 20 Years Aqo Today Some 3(Ki iniempioyrd m-'n marched li the court hour this moriiiiig to reniiej.t mre ad"- ly to move. Any tout tst coming t j Thl, flMt of tn(, nPW niode!-. Noralee and planninK toemba; t wnl(.h rotate i,Ke Riant steel there on a circle trip of Tweeds-1 horseshoes round the "bombard-muir Park will be sat ly iliw,,-. cd patient. likely will lie corn-pointed. Mr. Martin also .slam pi, i,.d next spniiK that the road betwwn llousf.n: ,niprovrment'over An the eo- WILD LIFE WILL SIFTER ; Editor, Daily News: In your Issue of Nov. 29. I read an article by Eric S. M.uUi, regarding the flooding of I'weei.A-muir Park, and I feel It is o... fair that, as M.L.A. f'tr Online' sv I should reply to same, rd It l the public know that all in tii.s article is not correct, as ) knou this country well. I wa.. bor:i here and have lived her a.l Uptime, except for .six years .spei.t in the Army. Mr. Martin, I think, shou'c! have come to this ara jeio.e writing about it. First i,; all, 1 do not agree that duo to ini flooding, wild life will net suff.r. It definitely w 111. All the moo e .vinter feedLi ground i alon"' he rivers and lakes. W .en iiv. moose are driven out of this are:, by the ruing waters, th:.- .all .,: back w'.ore the range L jor, on the high'.r ground and i-ir .-e will not be enough letd lor i.soii an. Moose cannot travel far iu the deep snow. They go to one ara rarely. For instance, he won the election of 1937 by abandoning in the twinkling of an eye the Separate School policy which was dragging him toward defeat, and taking up the cry "Keep the Communistic CfO out of Canada." Mr. King knew that " fr,ly' " " "alt 60 beam therapy unit whi-a ,,uate relief allowance lor sln;le for anjthinB but packhor.se a or Canada first built a year auo. unemploved men who are now a jeep, it is absolutely lmpa,-1 ,ne npw mod(,s are .jn mlie receiving nine dollars ier month, able in any season, wet or dry. I ... , by Atornle EnerRV , C;w)l)f E IBISES U UliaLa cry was deliberate bunco, so did i mow Senntor) Arthur Roebuck and Dave Croll, both of whom j it would seem to me tnat those melneers. who wish to write recarriinn ..' I They will be known as "B" floodins of Tweextsmulr Park ' models. should go to considerable effo:: "ifg quite a compliment to ONE GREASE JOE to acquaint themselve.- with tr have confirnjed orders like thi.s ll w., decided t a meetllrg ol the Canadian I.epMin. British Empire Servu e IaRue lust evea-I'lt,, with President J Preece In the eliiir, Ui form a Women's Atix'IS iry lo the Leglnn. 10 Years Ago Today J J. Li'.tle. local A BP. chair- FACTS, before going "o p.reat length explaining how good a thing this is. even before the first model B Is built," says R F. Errinitton, chief of Atomic tnt-rny's commercial division. In the case of a project such in the fall and stay then. I ha .; were too honest to go alon. with it. and were out in the cold. But Mitch won the election hands down. Yet. earlier I saw the same Mitch offer to resign his seat in the House of Commons if he could not prove that a mighty insurance company was broke. All of Mitch's friends, including me, told him for heaven's sake to lay off. We tried to show him that he was arguing from with purchase of 1 set of Tire Choins Offer od nlil Januin 1 Hil. srr. SUPERIOR AUTO SERVICE LIMITED seen many moose dead w.ien tn-as tnis. 1 believe that every .U- They will cost about $70 000 man. uru d tne people to take each. They contain radio-active ; Immediate step, to comply with tail should be looked Into thor regulations for the dlm-;ut woives cnasc too many it,;o ore feeding aiea. Also the c.-w moose have their calves on small L;- oughly before any action Is taken, and then if it prove t to cobalt equal In runcer-treat-ment power to millions of do!-, lars worth of radium. But the cobalt supply line h.t-; which becomes elfective Februury I. At the fame t'.me he announced 40011 fas masks had be-n received In Rupert for disposal to Jrd Ave. W. Phone .m r been hit by the crack -up of th world s biggest atomic furnace 'he Public at $1 25 each. reactor at t'haU Canada's rtiver, Ont. lands in the rivers and ialieslbe a good thing for the Provide where predatory aniinaU will not a 'hole, the go ahead shou'd disturb them. - , , 'be given. In the case of tnio With the water rising In tre , 5roiet' '"7 'ittle nvestiiuiion winter time, many beaver and''3 macle' befoie Ule walcr il muskrats will be drowned o. icence was panted. The people of the area to be rlooc,ed were forced the up on Ice to be killed by the wolves and coyotes ;lv'n liule coiwWerallcii. Mr. ,AU but about f-"-"1 v Martin says there will Ix -ten olentv of wnr f,.- it, old now, leaving these to sit on a. purely arbitrary . angle the j insurance company was never going to be forced to liquidate I all its common stocks at dis- tress-depressed prices on one day. and hence the question was : purely theoretical. (Incidental-1 The furnace, the only one la the world that can produce cobalt 80, sprung a "leak" Dec. 12 It has been shut down and f-l uials are uncertain when it ly. the company's policy of own j j....... . -n . , "... i their nlaces above thr "flood level 1 General Electric Appliances iiu mucus. nr-rc ceriainiv svn: . . r . - i - .11 k- be in fact there will be a prea uiiu leiuemoci wnai a bmhi coi i-i - of the cobalt CO. munity they used .o live in, v.Khi booking dances twice a month and p.;-i wnlr" ,"lt0 a 1'7 c(,i'- deal too much water. Mo.-,t of these birds feed at the head of ing stocks was later completely vindicated in fact, proved immensely wise and r--of it able." But in the face of the opposition of all his friends, his whole party, and all the financial people, Mitch held a public meeting in his own home town and told the whole story. THE LAST TIME I saw Mitch was in an enormous public meeting in Maple !af Garden., Ootsa Lake, where ' there I a ,nce wef,K- "ow f"1 ! UV are Some cobalt a a year year twme 1 in i community Is small that U.c fP"u; thousands inousanas oi of acres acres ol of mnr-h mar. ,.i . . ' so , .,, the furnace wan a little more land which took centuries t3irIma,l"ng f 'f h nave R" " j than half-cooked when the "J" t,KIRPa " lm form iorm. All ah thl tnts w win in he be under ,if.r 1 1 ir. 1"! i miles .,.. to a dance . or show. Fou.- break-down occurred, Udren to schoo .,,, i l ,i i ..,, ,. leet of water. Some s.y tna" go more marsh land will form. Howl"" f .0,d .bt Pltal. in New York. Philiuiel- " Min VfAn hsvnn i iki i thin ft Washing Machines, Floor Polishers, Radios, Kettles, Ranges, Vacuum Cleaners and many others. RUPERT RADIO AND ELECTRIC tan marsn jana ue iormetl wan OTT A A A niADV By NORMAN MocLEOD Trap lines are being destroyed. ; Urrt,d Kingdom and Hamilton, not only in the flooded area, but j of tne mod(1 A uniU ,our M. also In the NechaKO area by thc;riv hnvp Keen installed Tl.ev Toronto. It was a few months I'erhaps the political moralists can make some-i after Hitler had invaded Rus Phone 644 Box 1279 great drop of the o.ater level in are London, Gnt . Saskatoon the isechako R.ver. When the Vancouver and New York, river dropped, beaver had t.i , thing of ttis. At least it would seem to be their duty ; cuj to tn,-, if only for the peace of mind of the rest of u?. i in Canada. Tim Buck had The probton is the deal that -' emerged from his hide-out. The federal ... i unpredictable Mitch, who was Fate, ably aided bv the sion rinfips rpaarrtlp: leave and fihd new homes; tit j Is, those that were not killed. Some day the Nechako Valiev! maw need irrigation and find 1 no river flowing to actually deposit soil and thereby form the mar.sh? -The water we.ds o.i which the ducks and geese feed, grow in not more than six fee? of water, and take a long time to grow. In 1933 we built a dam to raise beaver, and there is very little feed in the pond yet. Jn-cidentaHy, the trees are .till standing, and one can smell the water from at least a mile due to the decomposition of trees etc. Ootsa Lake and other lakes affected will look the same in 20 to 100 years. Tweedsmulr Pirk will be a park that no one will want to see or, foi that mattei EASY WAYS TO HELP YOUR POST OFFICE then Premier of Ontario, wis staging a public welcome to Tim Euck. and some fifteen thousand people were there )o cheer. Laixiai iniiujiiiie, nave lo me , j- . . , . individuals concerned or the late Mitchell M. Hepburn, on,- i time Premier or Ontario. i tlme that had elapsed since set- Known sometimes as "the1, tlement; the result was the rs-polltician who made the onion covery of many millions of dol- there is not enough water due to the drop of the river. Already some springs are drying up. No one has ever mentioned HELP YOU GET THE BEST PARCEL DELIVERY farr.ous because of his owner- Beside Mitch there were other distinguished speakers, including the leader of the Ontario Conservative party, Leopold Macauley. I sat at the press table and wanted the name of the book Mitch had read which, he said, the potential farm land at th?j head of Ootsa Lake where there is from IS to 20 thousand acres , of land as good as any In the; Fraser Valley, with only mriil brush to be cleaned off and a lars of unpaid succession duties for the province. , He broke organized labor's "sit down" strike technique when it invaded Ontario from the United States. His successful resistance not only banished could see if tney were U) travel by boat, because they could not land to make camp with .a had changed his opinion of dJv many trees standing In the drainage system to be put in. i Do many people think about I the effect of this project in fie j Wrap it right shipfjf Western Ontario's largest onion farm, the late "Mitch" started out in life as a bank clerk, detoured into the Air Force in World War I for a spell of service, got bitten there by t the bug of public duty, and entered Parliament in 1921 as one of the youngest MPs to be elected. He speedily developed an irreverence for great corporations and a considerable genius for crusading. Ontario Liberals, who had been lost in the wilderness of opposition since the defeat of u tUonq poptr tne 'sit-down' menace from i Russia. I passed Mitch up a Canada, but was also a factor) note which he was to answer in its ultimate defeat south of 1 later. But I never did get around ! water. Logging only takes t'.ie merchantable ttmoer, and leave? i the balance, and therefore v.iil j not solve the probelm of appear the border. to that model onion farm where FATAL ERROR On the debit side of the Liberal political ledger there was Mitch was his true, best self. But I did hear, from a lady welfare worker who spoke that night with Mitch, that she s?id Tie it right province oi u c. as a wnoie, in the event of war and the dam were to be broken by enemy action? All communications of t'.ie province would be broken. Mr. Martin feels that the world has gained much and that the losses have been small. If we felt convinced of this ther ; would be no "quibbling " CYRIL M. SHELFOHD, Wistaria, B. C. to him laughingly: "Aren't you afraid that this meeting will ance. Many people have written about the timber on these lake and few seem to know much about it. They nearly all say that the largest trees are from 12 to 14 inches on the stump. This is wring. I can anow anyone who will spend the time, thousand of trees over 36 Inches. 1 f:'. hurt your political future?" Suddenly dead serious, Mitch answered: "I have no political Address it right future it's all past." A few months later he re surs that I am under eitltnathr, signed. Try Daily News Want Ads In saying hat there are from 75 with Mroflg cord Pleoi Print Of writ clearly end olwoyi give COMPUTE oddr. Include Postal 2o number on mail 0 Otfowo, Montreal, Toronto onrt Voncouver. Ploy ofe. Have your Pot Offic weigh your parcelt and avoid double postage due. You can now tend Air Parcel Post up to 25 lbs. A-.lt about this fast delivery iric. We shall not see his like again In Canada, for he was unique. really only one entry: The forthright "Mitch" offended and feuded with the past-master of the art of political footwork, the redoubtable W. L. Mackenzie King. It was only one debit entry against an imposing array of credits. But it was an unforgivable one. At least, that was the way the Liberal machine treated. Within a few months the one-meteoric "Mitch" was back in obscurity as a private citizen. And a few months later the Liberal party In Ontario also was back In an obscurity from which it has never since emerged. There should be a moral in Mail it right Socred League, Begins Drive To Gain Membership on Island the Ross government in 1905, figured they had nothing to lose ' and took a chance on electing him provincial leader. The gamble paid off handsomely in 1934 when he routed the Conservative government of Premier George S. Henry. POLITICAL BALANCE SHEET From that point here's the Hepburn record as preserved in the sheets of the Liberal party's political ledger: Credit Entries After redeeming the province for Liberalism from 29 years of Conservative rule, he held it safe In two subsequent general elections by substantial majorities. He negotiated contracts of the Ontario Hydro for the purchase of power from private Quebec companies, with savings of tens of millions of dollars to Ontario power users over the period of the a;::cments. He re-opened wealthy estates to re-examination for succes- organizers will be placed in the field soon and Vancouver Island headquarters will be opened in Victoria. Mr. Hawkins said today an the story somewhere. But It ust isn't apparent at first glance. London Bus Strike Looms " LONDON (CP) Lordon Is facing a threat of a !.. ike that could tie up trolley bus services as two unions squabble ovc the right to unscrew last year's licence plates. Four locals of the giant Transport Union originally had planned a walkout for midnight Saturday in protest acalrmt a decision to classify the licence-removing job as a skilled intensive educational program j DEF.P-FREEZE VIOLETS VICTORIA KP) 'ifce B.C. Social Credit League has launched an organizing program aimed at making the party a power on Vancouver Island where It failed to elect a member in the June general election. Percy Hawkins of Mill Bay, chairman of the Vancouver Island area council, has been placed in complete charge of organizing on the island, end also has been named secretary-treasurer of the B.C. league. Two full-time Social Credit CANADA POST OFFICE ana an au-oui memoersnip drive would be launched on the Island Immediately. "We don't Intend to have any repeat performance of the June election at the next one," Mr. Hawkins said. "There will be Social Credit MLAs from the Island In the next legislature." HALIFAX (CP) Mrs. Walter Curry of nearby Sheet Harbor found a bouquet of five violets In her garden. The violets, three of them in full bloom, were poking their heads through the Ha AJciife C4U, Q C, M W I rmk.D. season s first heavy snow.