, Le NS ae eee Se oe eee ee ee oye ~ cee ee cete e suet ea Pe bbe itn An fidependent daly mecpaperoeiet dt toe plavdtas of Prinee Rapert fad Nether aad Cential atid @otuntba Member of Canichin Press Ase t Diroatl vi Gavcubathony Cunachua Daly Setapaper Sonn thn Published by The Prince Eyiocrt Daas ee Linited JOP. MAGOR. Prestdant ee Babecripther, Hates yr Ado By cantier Per week he per roen th EPMa. por year, $16.00 wo Sede Ny mad Por meath, Te nor year gut PY Authorized ag second ches all by the Pees Gide: Departnerdt. Obbewa itnetewee aay ony $22,000,000 Idle Boast -p REMIER Bennett's recent atement ip Squitmish . that he is sitting on a provincial treasury nest-eype OL $22,000,000 in straight cash is a peeutiar kind of -boust. Communities dike Prince pert which have found Victoria's assistance sorewhat less Chan gene evous will not be favorabic tat reese Ei is nat feasible to increase municipal vrants fur rear of “showing partiality to certain localities then surely she stm could be used to good purposes iN dprove: “ments of the northern figaway system, .. Motorists who are spending birge stains to repalr the damage done to the ears hy Hiehvay 16 will not appreeiite the informuition (ant dia je S22.090,000 volny a-Wasting In Vietorit ‘The premier eave no hint about what he plays todo with this cosy fortune. © Evidently is point in reset! ne its existenes Wiis to impress his by-election cainpater audience with the fact that the province is ina solid financial posi- dion, Thatis all very well bat idle money does nat help anyone, In this instance itimay do actual harm since Premier Bennett is shortly te leave for the inter governmental conferenes at Cttasa where he will ask for more federal aid, No doubt tie minister there will first wish to know what he pleas te do with his fat nest-egg. Tu judge from the premicr’s pant performances as acanny politician Lie wits not lowing bunself to vo out on at timb in disclosine the secret, But usu he cares Wo claborate, bis arnotneeuent is not likely to Win friends and influenes voters, Ris | “Leave My Boy Alone” He PATIER of an Pevear-old boy is thinking of sling out and moving toa neiehborhood where dhe dad can be neglected, This isa quiet boy, healthy bat not interested in athletics: anyway net tern cithledes, But hearty ndtilts fram the neighborhood civic reereation assocl- ation keep caling up and urging tim te “come ont” and play hockey, barebail and, lately, football, for the honer of the weet side of the community, The one or Wo times he has answered this sum- mons to the lists he has been thoroughly miserable. His role isa minor one and his perfcrimance reflects | a profound disinterest in the outeome of the affray. ’ He has one or two friends who, he says, feel the same way but make more effort than he does ta play up to what they feel is expected af Cem, The boy recently sat out six innings of a base- ball game in which he was a second string outfielder, Just before he was scheduled to go in he noticed a strange inseet crawling on his glove, captured it and went home to study dtunder his ierascope, The coach called up the hoase and wanted to know what would "Dad" aink if he learned that his soV had so little team: spirit. The boy broueht this prot len: to his father who said that, out of politeness, he should have checked in with the coach before coming home but that other Wise he had displayed an ainoint-ol social courage Which he (the father anvied, ~The father is concerned becuse he thinks the boy is under social pressure to take part in aetivities Which do not interest: ban, But when this wae pac te die coweh he was in- dignant, “There ds absolntely no pressure on any boy to take part in the games," he said. "Hf he doesn't Want to playewe ceptanly don't waht him on the team, We have enough trouble as itis keeping the move normal boys interested,” ~The Printed Word, GQUERS WO! Tempers tite tien this (8. Gb anewers (he phone atthe both Aro Pastel Unit ta Potters, france. "Who's spenkioy? (he callers ack. and the irritating reply dy always, “Cess.” The soldier dav trying ta be funny; that. his une, “Va BPP Don Jd. Guess of eho, S20, tan Advertising in Daily News Brings Results ' See It By Em ore , Py ilpoll This Lueky Land EVERY time | go away to foreien lands | come back heme thanking the wood Lord that my child. ren and grandchildren were lucky enough to be horn in Canada. The omore To see oof other Countries, the nore PE honestly via convinced that) this fs) the bnest cotmtry on earth to live mio right naw. ven ib our) i-month old granddaughter, Debble. and her cehsie, Gur ewat-emonth old grandson, little Stu, beth looked we df they were going to baw) their heads off when they got ai " 4 eof nfy 268 arkine> wood luok at thelr disembarking: ict planes. prundaddy’s face, FE still think they are among the luckiest in- tents on all the earth. born, And there ds na country mall the world where a child is fo tueky ty be born as right here mn Canada. ’ ob oh IT IS certainty not that 7 believe that Canadians are the most: cfiicddent peuple on earth, be- cause, quite frankly 1 do nut, We. con't run our country nearly a. well as some other nations run their lands. Alb the Scandan- Wian Countries, for instance, are petter national housekeepers thon Weare. That Is, they get! better results with more modest ; satural resources than we have.! The Gernuins are far more ef-! tielent Ghan we are tno many, many ways. Even the much er- ticized) French peasant tarmer celts a production of wheat, per sere, that is tar above the sields ef our best praine farms, And, if poor old Britain--gale wat old Britain--had half the “nakings” of prosperity that we Save, right here in this vast and eoudly land, the British would be “wimg in aoundance, insterd of scraping and serimping a very modest," iffleleney, Pam not waking dust of our governments, ot about the way we jive, Some of the countries of Europe could live well on what We Waste in our Ritehens, farms ahd dovelny samps here in North Ameriea, e oh ob BUT THE shortcomings end ills of Canada are just the ragged edges of the pletare of a fand of Menty, We have to date, bardly serat- ehed the surface of the possibil- tes of Chis country, Tustead of a population of about fifteen miifion, this country should) be ‘Upporting Fifty milion peaple, We hove oll the necessary “nak. wivs’ te house, feed) elutie and edueate at least $9,900,090 people at this country. Tt is downrleht JArdeculous to Untak that we nive fo chip our whent andi meat and forest produets and: metals ta other countries to find "markets" for eur expanding produetion Granted that we will always ave te yp out oof Canada esau hte pay for Che things we ave to dnpert into Canada, the fact remidns that the best eus- tomers for the products af Can- -tfla are (he ‘people wha tive right here ta Conadas mn) Oy ts HoT WERE a teeneaper agaln, trying to make up may mind whether to go down ta the Un- fed States arsthek nere In Cane oda, Te owould: surely stay right! ere dn Caanudie. Srue, there are qnare diverstf- feel, aad) perhaps tamediately better paving fobs Gir vounposters de the U8 Al than Chere are tay Conade Hut Peeertabnly do nat believ> tial Wil be trae over the next connie Of years, And besides, the younp Canadhan who praws up WIth this his own eaitntry ean are di fhe greab adventure of Walldi.e up the young ciear thint of the new north, REFRIGE ae For this: isa good World inte which to be. peat PRY ERIN While They Last! 20% OFF ON ALL 1955 @ CROSLEY SHELVADOR | @ PHILCO We Need The Space McRAE BROS. LTD. Other Papers OTTAWA D Say... BRITAIN STILL SUPREME Yeu ean say all you want about the immense strides the Untted States, Canada and Russla are making in the feld of aviation: but when it comes to sheer class Britain is stil secure un the top rung of the ladder. Litest preof of the above statement qune when the news was anounced of the successful | erossing from London to New: York and back to London ino a Hitthe more than I hours of a Hritish Canberra jet bomber, Speed records were broken to such an extent that even. blase American papers are hailing the leat as sumething worth shout. Ing about. ' lmavine having breakfast tn London, lunch in New York, and dinner in London, all in the course of cone day! Well that's exactiy whit the pilot and nay-. igator of the Canberra bomber (did, and that is why the aviation warld again is foreed to salute Britain as tops in the fleld par- ticularly in the construction of —Lethbridge Herald. POWER OR FISH A battle of the giants may be developing jn British Columbla— tne battle between Industrial de- mand for hydro power and the $30,000,000 a year fishing indus- try, An engineering concern 1s now taking preliminary surveys of wossible power establishments in the cousi province and is said ic have suggested that ten hydro wants on the Fraser and Cfhomeon rivers might be dev- sloped ta produce 3.5 millon norsepower, Naturally British Columbia would like to have this power available as industrial plants requiring it are built. But there {ts one stumbling! block. Fisheries interest. in B.C. vey that it is hard enough now for the salmon to get from the seean to the spawning grounds at the head waters of the Fraser and other rivers emptying inte the ceean without putting ten more barriers in thelr way in the shape of power dams, even If they are equipped with fish Ind- ders, They point to what has happened on the Columbla river hich, on the Washington side: uf the boundary, has been turn- ed into w great series of hydro; developments but which have: made the salmon fishing Indus-; try there practically non-exis-! tant. B.C. fishermen donot! want that to happen on the Can-, wdian side on rivers wholly with: | in B.C., and they doubt the sug-; gestion of dams for hydro power | iyoa preat fishing Industry fs torentened with destruction, Meantine the battle lines are’ peing drawn while the rest of Canada watches. Of course, it ts wcholly possible that Canada’s wreat uranium deposits may chaneve the whale eleetrie power picture within the next few years. Plants powered by atomle ‘uel from uranium could be buh most anyvwhese close to the need: lor stteh power whereas hydro. plants must be built where the! water can be reservolved and’ dropped through the penstocks mite the turbines. It conld well! pe that the salmon may live atamie fuel on thelr side in’ the Dattle that ds shaplng up. - Lethbridge Herald, DEETH’S . PHARMACY. FOR HBALTIE AN] BEAUTY We Dellver DIAL 4313 EES ERE Te iD AO ee CUE EET e+ 7 ( Chinese Dishes | CHOP SUEY... : CHOW MEIN Open 6 p.m.-3:30 a.m, Hollywood Cafe tee Vor Outside Orders Pe ag @ RCA RATORS By NORMAN | AR M, MacLEOD | The St, Laurent Government is imurning to its considerable pul- {yieal discomfort here these days that it ds never safe to sell oki Mother Nature short. For a long time now Its Cabin. et Ministers have been telling Western farmers that — thelr mounting grain surpluses, which could be described more jecur- ately as unsold grat surpluses, were exactly the same thing as money dn the bank, But now the Western farmers sre discovering to thelr acute disappointment that they aren't the same thing at all. For you ean draw on money in the bank whenever you are short of cash, But the Western farmers cannot crowon thelr vast grain surplus. es for a single nickle--at least not until they are delivered into eevator storage whieh at the present moment and apparently for some UUme to come ls plur- wed full. In other words, Western grow. crs With huge mountains of un- seld grain from 1954 and with a bumper 1955 crop new being har. vested, are finding themselves without immediate cash re- sources. The discovery is mak- hag them understandably trate, since many of them are without ihe ready funds to even finance their harvesting costs. Their tre is threatening to take the form of political discontent. On the not unreasonnuble grounds that they have done their part in raising thelr crops successfully, they are getting Into a mood of plaming the government for their inability to market them fara cash return, The St. Laurent Ministers, tor their part, feel that the whole unhappy sittation represents a! Bross betrayal of themselves and roe me GEORGE DAWES AUCTIONEER Phove 6082 and 2952 T-A--L-0-R-1-H-G @ Suits © Pants ® Topcoats@ Slacks ALTERATION SPECIALISTS QUICK SERVICE Ling The Tailor 220 6th St. Phone 4238 of Liberal polltleal fortunes; aeress the Pralrles as well by a preverse fate, For the Cabinet: has been banking for some time; Past now on a your of crop fall-; Ure elther In Western Canada or in some other major producing wren of the world which would; restore the balance between sup. ply and demand, Qn the law of; averages over the years such a {allure is over-due, But it has-; higher price than a free market would be willing to pay. ernment so politically embarrus. red, has relleved the Federals trearury of a threatened demand: from Eastern Canada, The re. covery of Ontaria and Western, Qnebeo ngrleulture from the past: summer's record drought elias: been so rapid dn recent weeks: that no suggestion Is heard juny longer of disaster puyunents to; the farmers. Bul the polltleal | reef whieh that situation brings , vo the government isa long way! from compensating ft for the! | worries which Mother Nature's Wavishness is causing it West of the Great Lakes,--a one-tine ‘Liberal stronghold — stretching : trom Lake Superior to the Rocky Meuntatns, 25¢ PER DOZEN PAID FOR EMPTIES PLEASE HAVE THEM READY WHEN THE DRIVER CALLS. eo This advertisement is not pub- XR eee POPP AIAN “2,000 PRIZES “= $120,000 VALUE e POG PIP Pe wh tag's \ ee ene ee me eeneme se fee mamen teem ree BBE LDAP BA LPASIP A Ps Pr, YOU WILL FIND PLAY MONEY IN ry Daily News Classifieds: lished or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Goverty meatof British Columbia, + seer auee ee See amet ee came crams a @ OGILVIE ALREADY CAKE MIXES @ OGILVIE ROLLED OATS Full Information on each piece of PLAY ‘MONEY! + et meat: OR pte es, sone, ~m en nvention | Not Until Next Spring VANCOUVER @ An execulite within 60 days” was dey of the British Columbia Liberal, Tuesday by James P , i Association sald yesterday the Vietoria, janmedtate lhext provinelal convention of; dent of the BC Yor party to drift new polley be: Association, held In the spring followine the. legislative session. The apekesinan of a convention this of Monday's Lil. | alng. hieh Socks! sat full support of Mr, Laty wheapi credit snatehed away the legis; wits Immediately dectareg ‘ature seat formerly held by Lib-! Young Liberal Association Prog | eral Gordon Gibson. ' Immedhite convention | yer. Next Liberal Co Mr. Proudfoot called {op « ive-assessment” of party pols ciscounted the nd a discussion of th n't come yel and the Govern.) possiblity t)p of provincial lende ment ds the loser in its gamble fall in the wake of holding Canadkin grains for ai luoet by-election In Ww ; | das Burns of Vanieg : Mother Nature's bounty, whieh} = An fh Western Canada has the gave} tee DanC he OF Nuala Pay Nagin Pa @ OGILVIE FLOUR @ OGILVIE VITA-B CEREAL