i ofr ee entree ve Loe petted mle sedate ca ahag an 's ate ETE we ee = im "for on te mo rn 1 Loe ot 1910..— PRINCE ‘RUPERT DAILY NEWS — 1958 | Soy, et An independent newspaper devoted to the upbuilding of Prince Rupert and Northern and Central British Columbia. _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 President “+3, RB. AYRES Editor G. P. WOODSIDE General Manager Authorized as second class mall by the Post Office Department; Ottawa MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 11958 . e ‘Clothes in TH local school board is not aiming ‘to copy the Christian Doirs of the fashion world but it has some ideas about dress fitting the schoolroom which-it will put before parents. No doubt: the latter will welcome them, for exayger ated styles cost money ‘and pargnts usually have to foot the clothes bills.” Ji&private schools dress regimenta- tiofris easy; pupils either conform. or they leave the schoo, In the public school system discipline of this nature is not’so easy, yet if it wills the school | board can be drastic also. It has sta- tutory. authority for enforcing mod- eration in dress among its pupils. . The trouble, as usual with such things, is with a minority of extroverts who like to show off with garb quite inappropriate for schools. Girls, ap- parently, are not the worst offenders. __ ~ should not shrink from making rules about dress stick. The extrem- |. It féthe long-haired male cultists who effect the most startling sartorial dis- plays, obviously designed to attract at- tention and separate them from others; thereby upsetting the norm of school life. This group would be shock- ed if every student had to wear a uni- , yet a uniform their outlandish rtainly is. WHAT S party leadership doing to Lester B. Pearson—the oldtime “Mike” Pearson with sense of propor- tidiif His jolly humor? impere have to judge by the scene he having a little loudspeaker put on his office desk to keep him in touch with the House he talked as though Mr. Diefenbaker were Khrushchev and he (Mr. Pearson) the appointed warden of freedom and all humanity, party lead-. ership is doing Something terrible to him. We have heard of the smallest fish talking like a whale and town council argument being * -adjectived into a Thermopylae. That is what happened to Mr. Pearson over Mr. Diefenbaker’s gadget. There was nothing strange ov new about it at all; certainly noth- ing mysterious or sinister : Britain’s prime ministers have had a like device fo or years-—just somethin g to save their _ out either, What's happeriing to Mike? —_ On in the | Commons. ‘when: Over ra : : sult: puny matter of the Prime “Minister the schools The clothes guide to be given par- ents is modest and sensible. , Neatness for both boys and girls is the criter- ion, without extremes in either style or accessory. Certain habits are con- demned—elaborate jewelry, form-fit- ting clothes, teddy-boy jackets and straggling shirts, ete.—but the board has not erred in severity. There is plenty of room left for individual choice and taste, so long as it is fairly conservative. | It. is significant to note that the board’s recommendations are partially the result of a recent student question-" naire on the subject. Most junior and -senior high school students are there- fore in agreement with the limitations: now being placed on school-room dress. This should make the school board’ s task all the easier. If it has to, however, the board ists are generally those to whom school is.a place for anything but study, and who often are a nuisance » to their fellow students. A flaunting garb can be as disrupting as bad be- havior, and schools can well do with- —Victoria Colonist. ee we. time—yet here we had Mike Pearson of all people, down to rococo like this: “This is a precedent in parliamen- tary history ...a development i in our "parliamentary ty aditions . . .. ‘the re-- hat the proceedings; .of;:this. now be heard outside this House.” Dear, dear, what a calamity! Bad enough to have a press gallery and a _ Hansard, plus the CBC with its wires and cables, but think of the prime min- ister hearing what goes on in the House without actually being in the chamber, only just in the building! We wonder if Mr. Pearson knows that in Australia they broadcast the proceed- ings of the House of Representatives all evening to all the country? .. Come, come, Mike, don’t let some of the wild boys belfind you get you down like this—just be your old self and tell Mr. Diefenbaker that. if these gadgets are any good you would like one, too. —The Ottawa Journal, Be The Editor, The Daily News: 0: . Many -things Keep ‘the aver: age citizens worried these days and for good reasons. -: We all know that.in: earlier days towns and cities grew up on the basis of natural resources: but that. time ‘has passed now so I venture a bold prediction namely: Five years from now, © if things develop .as of late, there ’ will be no more-logal contrac- tors left in Prince Rupert: Consequently - ho more local. carpenters or other tradesmen will be employed and the local merchants wil no more’ ‘be here. . Absentee owners, absentee workers and- “everything - ab- sentee will be running. vevery- thing here, and mind you, the city will still be growing into a metropolis. I think that we should acknowledge. that we have been exceedingly. ‘selfish * in by- -gone days. in ‘keeping things within our local group- ings but suppesing that it is still not -too late, could: we not get together and discuss | ‘what may be done locally to-.. wards making. this great city. of the future. be a mejropolis + for all: of us..-5 6°" There has been times in ‘the past when most.of our. ‘citizens | preferred to. ‘move: out, ‘what’ was called, more suitable clim- ates, when. they - thought. that | their stake .was .made, but” _FUR ANIMALS us - Muskrats stored up” food for . the wintér by plasterink it with with mud into curious struc- tures like small : haystacks.~ ew eR we ER ew eR “LETTER. BOX have we not. come . to such maturity that we ‘may’ wish to stay here to the ‘end of our. days, which. certainly is: ‘the. wish of this writer. ‘CUSS | these.. matters? a : August .S.: Wallin, Prince ‘Rupert.: Krom The Comox .Free Press ‘Towns in B.C. which are not, having a visit from HRA Princess Margaret or others, such as Vancouver, which don’t ° ‘Not fair to whom? ss tars yatta, “igtighge agit githy “albigtaptesta fue as 1M sai yA PS, vedbenbel Nee wr I Ebon alt sey Pgh payee Seo Begg tele eae pitas Peli “How about it, fellow citizens? - could we get’ together and dis- ; think they're getting the royal lady’s presence for long enough, | all fall back an‘the same excuse. It isn’t fair, the ‘complainers say, to the children. Rubbish. ‘Civic: pride is being hurt. ‘The rank: ond te of pe receiving lines are being -affronted. 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Bigham, Manager. 315A Third Ave. W. - _ Telephone 4311 PRINCE RUPERT Lett ete oy celeron nttameramey ge imme te EY _ positions is inevitable—-for one reason, they draw up the: gueat-* - we 7 tod : . : ee * oe wf at a Sosy 4 N uote ra % A change a “LE MATIN, of Montreal,’ referring to the ‘Canadian’ ate ‘exhibition at Brussels, sald that while Eskimo art'had ‘merit it! was to be hoped that forelgners -would . not he deceived, Intasi believing that Canada was totally populated by Eskimos, Sim-, larly, it is to be hoped that Princess Marg aret does not leave“ Canada with the Impression that there are no young - people woe ‘in the country. The attencance of venerable persons .in official!) ~ Hist—but it would be a pleasant change to” Bee a photograpfl" of the Princess at.a . party surrounded by men and’ women‘ of” her own age. : oe eee me . “ 7 moe > ae os hits ee Ee = ga: Wena a its ; as they are-taking: place, can’ pi INTERPRETING THE NEWS Canada should gain trom committee work g' GEORGE KITCHEN Canodian Press Staff Writer Canada stands to benefit more than the United States from the twin moves now under way in Ottawa and Washington set up par- “Hamentary committees to.try informally to fron out some of the Aifficultion between the two countries, Largely this is because most of the com- plaints which throw Cannda-U.8. relations out, of harmony from time to time come from Can- nda. Americans customarily find Uttle or noth- ing to {rritnte them nhout Canada and Can- wdians, But, basically, Canada will benefit more because many of the American actions which nygravate Canadian originate in the U.8. Can- press, Future misunderstandings might be av- olded if tha work of the parliamentary com- mittee ylves the average American Congressman n clonrer apprecintion of Canada and the way. his Joglalative actions affect the Canadian peapla, CONTRAST STRONG Tho pré@blem es in some fundamental dif- ferences Inherent In the governmental and parliamentary aystema of the two countries | Both wore set wp as federa) untons—a collec- Lion of states and provinces with a central overnmont at the ton—but the resemblance between them onda there, The Canadian ayatom embodies a rtrong central government with power vested In a eabinet that is part and parcel of the pariia- mentary structure, With the prime minister os its hoad, the eabinot sits In the Commons, commands the support of a majority of sts members and je responsible far Introducing nl major legidation, Including any. bil) that affects the publie purae, Under the ruloa of Parliament, government legislation haa precedence and the private ore itiete ytd ad member is Nmited to the introduction of only certain private and public bills, FREE WHEELERS The framers of the American constitution, having just freed themselves of British rule, feared of vesting too much power In a central authority and adopted a system of checks and balances, They distributed power beteween the Con- gress, which has a free hand to originate leg- jslation, the president, who can recommend legisintion and also veto congressional bills, ‘and the Supreme Court, whichinterprets . the: constitution, and, In that sense, also in a lawe making inatitution. The rosuit Is that the avernge American Congressman $s a much more free-wheeling . individual than his Canadian counterpart. Ap- - art from a few limitations placed on him by | the constitution, he can Initiate legislation on juat nhout anything. If he fa a member of the -sonnate, ho cannot Introduce money bills, That ‘priviloge, as it la in Canada, is resarved for ~ tha lower House, known Jn the UA, as the Housn of Representatives. Congressional committoas, too, are far more powerful than the committeos of Parliament at Ottawa, CARRY WEIGHT Cominitteos can, and often do, write legiae Jation. 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