‘ing for last-minute presents. eof : % a” - PRINCE. RUPERT DAILY NEWS. - ~ 1958 An independent newspaper devoted to the upbuilding | of Prince Rupert and Northern and Central British Cofumbia. A member of The Canadian Press—Audit Bureau of Circulation—Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Association Published by The Prince Rupert Daily News Limited JOHN F, MAGOR ce . . ’ President: “ J. R. AYRES vi , Editor G. P, WOODSIDE General Manager Authorized an second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa ! MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1958 A month from today the pre-Christ- *“ mas excitement will have reached ; itsspeak. By tradition no mice will-be stirring in Prince Rupert homes and mother and dad will be waiting Yatiently for their off spring to fall asleep so that they can bring out mys- thrious gifts from their hiding places. - Right now in town, the panic is on. Stores and shops are burdgeoning with Yuletide goodies and the Post Office is preparing for battle stations. ‘Phe annual Christmas postal rush is underwe uy. There are some among us, probably countable on one hand, who not only have completed their Christ- mas shopping but also have finished mailing their out of town presents. These are very clever people. They vank alongside the whooping crane fpr rarity. * Most of us, however, still belong to that mass of folks who are still lining up With parcels on the day aftey a mail deadline is past and are wandering around town on Christmas Eve look- 7 We run out of paper half way through our parcel wrapping, can’t find enough _ String when we want it, find that the 9aby has licked all the gum off the parcel stickers, the cat has torn up.all the TB Christmas seals and we are’25 short on our Christmas cards. °° Let’s be different this year. What say. we make it easy on ourselves, the Post. Office and their extra staff. ter i te ROHIBITION failed and it has been _apparent for years that the Indian Act as it pertains to liquor iS a Sa failure. Unpleasant incidents here and in other parts of the country can be traced to the fact that a race of people has been placed in an untenable position in regard to liquor. Those trying to enforce the laws must agree that there is something radically wrong. Admitting that : | Let's be different this year We'll buy sufficient stamps to begin with, make sure we have all the sturdy “brown wrapping paper we need, a few extra stickers and Christmas won’t matter, we can always use them next year, .(No one kicked when they re- ceived those 1956 ones we sent last year.) We'll get all the parcels pr operly wrapped and tied (scotch tape is il- legal just by itself); we'll address them in a clear legible hand so that the postman in Toronto ‘or Saskatoon won't have trouble reading them; we'll put our stamps in the right hand corner and the.TB seals on the back; and we’ll make sure that the return address is in the upper left hand cor- ner of the envelopes or parcels so that they won’t get lost. Furthermore we'll post early this year.’ We'll avoid those long tiring ‘ line-ups, . waiting with one’s arms full of parcels. To- morrow we'll clean up our shopping, _ Wednesday night we’ll wrap the par- cels and address the cards, Thursday we'll hit the post office and get rid of the works. Man! what.a wonderful feeling-it’ll be to-have it all finished. Come to think of it though, if everyone else has read this they’ll be down at the post office too. Oh well, you meet some of the nicest people in the post: office and it will sure help the Post Office workers if we get our mailing over early this year. See you in-the lobby. - . One law for all liquor is a curse, we also have to ad- mit thaf it is here to stay. Laws dis- criminating between different people in the same country as regards con- sumption or anything’ else, only serve to emphasize the problem. Why prohibition should work for the Indian when it never worked for the rest of the population is'a ques- tion that would be hard to answer. —Courtenay Argus, Danger i in hanging a hat ‘HE forest industry has come up with a switch on the old saw about “for want of a nail,” ete. Not for want hut for presenee of a nail deep inside a log a band saw may fly to bits and valuable property and possibily the life of a sawmill worker will he lost. IXnie Kolbe, chief forester of the Western Pine Association, tells of in- specting a logging operation where trees were being cut eight feet above the ground, ‘The trees stood on the site of a former hunter’s campground and were:so full of nails it was dan- gerous to fell them with a power saw. Where the hazard is not so apparent, a nail imbedded in a log might reach a sawmill before it did its damage. While neatness is to be admired in a camper, Mr. Kolbe asks that hunters do not pound steel nails into trees to provide hangers for their gear, Alum- inum or copper nails are less danger- ous, but hest of all are wooden pegs forced into -holes in the bark. The hunter should consider this admoni- tion when he looks for a place to hang his ved hat. —The Portland Oregonian. The rural churches An editorial by Wagrh fenplin, Edltor of the Vergqus Nows-lecord A niost important part af the weelly: news-~ paper is that portion davoted ta the news from . the rural correspondents, The faithful souls who weite theie budgets of news, more or lass remnlarly, tell about what ts happening in thelr tiny villages or school sections. Sinee a large portion of the elreujation goes to renders who Hive on the farms or in these small villages, the newspapers would nol he complete without the correspondents, some of then’ used to write without recom. pense, but those days are penemlly past, The contributors usmuly get patd ab regular rates Decne thelr news items obtain and hold rural sabsenbers, Jditora treat them with the res- peel thi is thee due, The editor, rending over the eapy whieh comes dn the offiee mall, oecastonally has some doubts. Where is a certalbn almiarity, week after week. This isnot only i the nannies. that ds inevitable becnuae there may ‘be only “0 or 30 families In the village. More Witely it di heenuse de wonders tometimon If every- thing really takes place in the churches. is uminily mention of the Bunday There Rervices, of Bunday ‘schoo! netivities, of the young people's organizations, The weddings tuke place In the church and the receptions ‘are sometinies in the basenient, If the “do- conned" (terrible word) is important enough, his funeral js from the church, At thts season of the yenr nonrly every ona of the small churches holds its fowl supper, taking In $600 or more in nonight Afver Christmas the youn martiod couples will getup a play and prosent dt in the Bunday scheol room, The WMA and WA meetings are reported each month, ven the Women's Institute meots ocensionally in the “shureh parlor,” it faney name for the basement. Burely, the editor. thinks, there must be somothing important that. hasn't any connan- tian with the ahurch. There are a few acaidents, operations, births and week-end visitors, but they are uneplanned. The chureh his no control over them, — Yorhaps o jnayge: pert of the undoubted utrength of ehayncter of urban Ontorlo 14 explained by the fnet that the Witle church ronally ta the centre of the community. Nearly everything revolves around ft. as ve oe 8 Oa me ea te he SUNSHINE STRIKES’ the ‘woods on. the ‘far ‘side of Taylor Lake as: Norman: Minslor, member of the Prince Rupert Outboard association starts out on a -buoy-collecting cruise. Associa- -tion’s buoys were tied. Up’ for the season bef ore the lake. is frozen over. : ‘Photo by: Gladys Baldwin. oF . S¢ason.. Flowing bow! at office party blamed for Yuletide traffic toll The office - ‘party - with . its flowing bow] was blamed by the National Safety Council today for boosting, the :Christ- mas traffic toll. “Either dry it up or cut. it out,” the Council urged bus- iness and. industry. Surveys made by the Council indicate, it said, that.a-size- able percentage of Christmas traffic accidents in..Canada and the ‘United. States .occur in the early hours of the:hol- iday period. Many of these can be traced back to the of- fice party and its. highball hilarity. “This is no effort” ‘to dam-_ pen the traditional’ Christmas spirit.” the Council empha- sized. “It isa practical attempt to eliminate.a definite source of death and destruction .on : the highway at a -time -they .- hurt the most—the’ Christmas. , 2 et ge “But don't | forget—drinkine .and driving are a letal com- bination any time, anywhere, and not just in connection with the Christmas party.” The Council is’ asking its 8,000 business and industrial member concerns to take a new look at their office parties and either keep the cork on j. the bottle or eliminate the parties. “It is tragically ironic,” it said, “to celebrate a hol- iday dedicated to Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward | Men" and then send people out on a public highway in a condition to injure or des- troy their fellow men.” The Council is.enlisting the support of churches of every . falth and creed-in a. united effort to keep the: threat of. drinking drivers to a min- imum over the Christmas hol- iday season, “There is no better place to apply pructical religion than behind the wheel of a car,” Ae ee bee Wifely influence From The Baltimore Sun The cult of the organizae tion man Is being extended by a New York firm of mnanaga- ment consultants which Intere views not only enndicdates for jobs, but thelr wives, too, The check includes 1Q, ink-blot, moechanie¢nl camprehene alon and personality tasts, nnd n “depth interview.” Low seory ors, presumably wreek thelr spouses’ crreers, Yet history gives Innumere thle examples of men who Koared to great hoights bae cause thoy were driven from home by termagants, and many more of men who were sustained by the domestic twitterings of pretty nitwits. And what if the test reveals to the hormified male that the admiring almpleton at tho rent has an Iq higher than Va me epme tame: St COR PEED Oy More dependable | From 'The Bt, Thomas Times-Journal The prosidont of a bly come pany once anid that when fe Yred an executive he always naked him about his church uctivitios, Ylo contended tliat a man Who attended churel, took part iy) Ite work ond cone tr}lou ture, reaponatbla and depon- dabte, Ce ew me tee he ar ge veges ed to It wan more nine. it said, “and certainly today’s traffic is “an.-ideal place to demonstrate the true Christ- mas spirit . of sharing with others. ‘We appeal to every. driver to stay away from the wheel after drinking, and to every pedestrian to stay out of the street when he isn’t in full possession of ~his faculties. “The most dangerous drink ever concocted is ‘One for the road.’ Turn it down. You'll ‘live longer—and ‘so will the other fellow.” wheel. - Demons: ‘at wheel From ‘The: Calgary ‘Herald _The.fact is:'there are a: good many people ‘driving .automo- biles .who-refuse ‘to exercise | ordinary ‘ecommion sense at the ‘Unfortunately there is: no-way-of determining. just who these drivers are when licenses are -being issued. An individual may pass a: driving .test with honors, he may possess all the-car handl- ing skill and quick. co-ordina- tion of an expert... But no test - can foretell how fast: he will go when he gets on the highway or how courteous he will be toward other motorists. Some of the mildest, kindest-looking characters turn into aggres- sive demons when they get be- hind the wheel of an automo- bile. " mittee, active’ for - won a: ‘position dniwhieh it is i - Public i inquiry : ‘best way pe wa fee cope ty alti ‘ whet tl From’ The Ottawa Journal: - Ottawa and Westminster are equally devoted to the .prinel- ples of ParHamentary govern- ment, Ib does not follow that every United, Kingdom mech- anism, of ParNament should be... copled by Canada: The.Cana- ‘dian Senate and Comnions » have their own rules: and pro- cedures and methods. develop- ed from .the operation ofa o “Mederal: system - of, government. ‘80 ‘there | is .a: Aveakness in “the. ‘argument: piit forward “by thé able’Mr.. ton, M.P., who “nas returned from London with the thought ‘that our Public Accounts: Com- mittee of which:he was chatr-’ ‘man at the last’session,.would ‘work better in’ private, ‘follow- ing. the example*of.a ‘similar committee in’. ‘England. or The United | ‘Kingdom com- years, has regarded. as non-partisan, al- /-. most a'part:of the Civil Serv- ice, “Undenlably. it’ -has \ vast prestige, : Tt is.a- terror: to. the spendthrifts:-and: ‘“incompet- ents as it examines: ‘the: outlay: - of publi¢ - money.: “The . ‘House ~ receives: ts: re-." of Comitions : ports with respect and: debate. Mitte : ‘The London: commiitiee ¢ ‘éarn-, ed its status. by: ‘Long: and ‘dili- gent work, In Canada ‘the. Pub- lic Accounts Committee”. for years.was an easy- going group which might, or night: not, be active in a-session..In the pre- sent year :it achieved. promin-~ ence by its inquitycinto Printing. Bureau.-;: ‘For the: first tine. He. Cana- “dian ‘committee, : following to ithis extent: the: ‘London: exam- ple, -had- an’ Opposition. mem - ber as. -chairman.: “Whatever the other observations. on ‘the work: of the committee; which revealed - the - furies:: Ol. “party divisions in ‘its. discussions,’ Mr. MasNaughton’s:: cchalrmanship deserved: nothing” ‘but praisc. It is: understandable. that, as he saw the angers of’ opposing forces and‘ thé embarrassment cf Civil Servants caught in the cross fire, he should feel that the privacy of . meetings - such as those of the United King- dom would be more desirable. The fact remains that the, Canadian committtec has: been”. "ha pists Start an interest-bearing BNS Christmas Gift Account pow “Alan: MacNavgeh- : hardly: obtain, or-obtain:in a | - dependable way, from a.com. — mittee, sitting . in: \ private. oe ‘the -corgperation -in OY? Account accustomed to meet in pub-_ lic and |i would be more than passing strange, after. the: tu- mults of its recent sittings, 1f 16 shuts ils doors and pursues. Js, further inquiries . in-camera, “Whatever maybe ‘donéthh ¢ . the United Kingdom. now;-and #- in Canada in the future, Cannes dians have: expected that : tae i committee Will study thevuse . OF thelr mioney in open. ‘urt. ‘ ‘There: ‘rat to Civil Service witnesses.‘{iwho oare. hat: zag thin-skinned“or - naive as some séem to think), {| ‘there may .be undignified ar- - gumentsand even. doubt.as to ., Whethey this-is thg best ‘meth- -od of inquiry.’ . 2am barrassing mt! All this accepted,. ‘the Cai . dlan:system of public’examin- | ation of accounts, letting.the | chips: fall where they may, s{in - must appear to. be ‘the> best for. Canada. People should be * informed on the nation’s busi- - . ness and how it Is: being’ cone | This. ‘Information. they could . 4 te * ERBOX. ‘ m : APPRECIATION ee The. Editor, Sa The. ‘Daily; “News: oe “What, a wonderful eattefiat” on . October.14 urging suppert for: the Canadian: Arthritis apa a Rheuniatism ” ‘Society! You: ‘have? /explained sO aljly: the awork which’ is being done by “CARS .in - ‘your communtty and the. need -of community its .continn- . ance. As ‘in ‘so. many. otter conumunity services, you hawe , been very. largely instr umental in helping CARS to maintain a high standard of work and to bring the benefit to many‘of. your residents. ” ne “f “May we express our. thaiks and.wish for your. success and good health. (Miss) Mary Pack, Executive | Secretary, { ~ “CARS (B.C.- Division). ; Try. 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