| As I See It by , | Elmore P hil olf ® Send Back Those ‘Books © OTTAWA—The Toronto public library has come up ~vith an-ingenious scheme to-gét'back the 8300*books which borrowers have failed to return in the past two! years, For a brief period there will be big boxes located at each library branch where the borrowers may return the books anonymously, with no questions asked, and no fines to be paid. The idea is based on the theory that not very many people are really deliberate books thieves. They borrow books. from the li- brary-on exactly the same basis as they borrow a book from a friend—fully Intending to Dive it back. But: time slips by, the book gets mislaid, or let in some out of the way corner. Finally when it does turn up after months, or even years, the borrower is ashamed to send it back. ‘In the case of library books ‘the accumulated “fines” for hav-~- ing failed to return the book may have. piled up to fantastic heights. ay , lag : Prince Rupert Daily News an . Saturday, December 14, 1957 . mo indépénaent dally newspaper devoted to the upbullding of Prinre Rupert - ase ce and Northern and Central British Columbia. ‘Member of Canadinn. Rréss—Auciit Bureau of Circulations Canadian Daily Newapaner Association Published by ‘fhe Prince Rupert Dally News Limited . ‘J. F..MAGOR, President ; 4 ‘ . . Subscription Rates: i> By mati—Per menth $1.00; per year $10.00. sO NASA By carrfer—per month, $1.25; per year, $12.00 © : -#uthorized ‘g3 second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa. oo ee N Thursday To Tuesday | W HEN the last ¢eneral’election destroyed the im- - “¥™: ‘balance from which ‘the ‘Canadian Parliament pe ‘had suffered for so long there was some expectation ‘that members would be persuaded by circumstances to stick more diligently to their job, the first obliga- fg ‘tion 6f which is'to attend the sittings of the House. — “With the government’s control so‘precariously poised it might have been thought that nothing but serious ‘illness ox some other emergency would keep parhia- ‘mentarians away ‘from‘their duties, and that the 'Thursday-to-Tuesday. weékends which ‘had drawn so many public rebukes hitherto would become-a thing ‘of the past. De — , | ‘ "Not so. From attendance records at the ap- ‘proach of weekends during the current session it is clear that a large majority of the MPs still place their ‘own personal pursuits and convenience ahead ‘of public duty as.soon as-the House has risen on Thurs- ‘days. By the'néxt day they have:scattered:in all di- ‘rections from Ottada, most of thém to return not on “Monday but on Tuesday, which means that their ‘work so far asthe House itself is concerned’ consists- ‘of being in their places for only three days out of the Or ‘course Laid what all other | eracy—which was one of the: ‘whole week. . ‘ overdue book returners alwaysimost constructive feats . os ; weet “ap do—swore blind that I had re-/statesmanship in the whole his- , On a recent Friday the House of Commons WaS | turned the volume ages and ages | tory of the human race. ‘all but empty when the business of the day was be- | beforehand. I can'tquite remember now ; / . eli f 36 ber The lady had to pretend to ‘gun. On hand was a mere sprinkling of 86 members | take my word for it, but T could : sf ath sjtential 265. “No doubt many 1 S€€ by the cold look in her eye of all parties out of a poten . a 265 S that, when it came to borrowed |eral hands, until it got lost in: -were legitimately absent, with sickness prevalent at hooks, she would ‘not have be-jthe shuffle. ET te tia . : : . an: #44 bt that lieved me had I sworn on a: So’ ‘this is. just to say that I: this time of year, but there can be little doubt . stack of bibles. hope whoever now has that book | “more had sim sly pushed off for their homes, which Nor could I say I blamed her. called “The Indian as a Peace-' s yi For although I was pretty sure,maker” by Mable Powe il: : oe +4) 6 6 . ; ser’ Powers will: , the speed of air ty avel has made so much more acces that I really had returned the|look inside the front cover. If. ‘sible in recent years. It is a reproach. to the absen- . book years earlier, 1 went home| my name is. still there, stamped : : . nati dade ie Ted ; WJ, an searche a our book/in ‘indelible ink, please, “please ' ‘tees also than dn that pai ticular Fi iday the House shelves, just in case. 'send ‘that book back to me, as I ‘was discussing the amendments to old-age pensions. | | + cot ne oe on eng need it in my business. : : : . : os . . ume anywhere. But how cou And if you do—whoscver you :The long weekenders evidently . regarded thei I prove that one or other of my j are—I swear by all'the gods that; -pleasure as being of‘greater importance. big-hearted offspring had not in The political insincerity of the Liberals. of “course, is partly to blame for. this :coritinuation of a ‘bad practice. Ever ready to snap and snarl but never “to-bite, they have made it plain thatthe government “during ‘this session need not fear defeat in a sudden seeing some other name than mine in the fly leaf, had not said to himself for ‘mére probably herself) ‘why should I return this book to 'that old so-and-so for it didn't belong to him in the first place? , oo THE Scots have a fine'old cus- tom, which I always: try: to follow, if the Scottish side of my ancestry happens to be upper- most, at the tail end of the’year. That is to be sure to return all: borrowed articles before © Which suddenly gives me ani idea for a really original Christ-: mas card. “Why not a polite card | reminding all those delinquent’ the books they owe you before! ring in the new year? ALL joking aside, unreturned books are not always'a laugh- NOT long ago a Vancouver lady friend buttonholed me and demanded the return of a book which was precious to me, as it; called “Programme For Pro- gave the whole history of the or- | igin of the Six Nations Confed-: of | and re-re-loaned through sev-; ‘I will make still yet another | turn loaned that book to some ,search of my bookshelves and: one else? ‘cupboards to try to locate that ! And how do I know that the Strachey book which a suspic-j. person to whom that borrowed ;ious lady suspects I am holding : book may have been re-loaned, out on her. : ic Picture Good t t i , “division.at a time of ‘numerical weakness in the | t ; ee . "House. “ees Despite; Increase In Jobless” e 7 ee, 2 Victoria Colonist. de Seer BRICIE Jr. a NEW YORE 3, -—~ Businessmen viewing the USS. economic picture from all angles could. reach one comforting conclusion this week. It probably wasn’t as bad as it looked. Unemployment had passed ‘the (TE ns 3,000,000 mark—and was still 1956 week but this seemed to be growing. But nearly 65,000,000 little more than a brief flareup. | Americans still had paying jobs.' Detroit, sources said production | Christmas retail sales’ were schedules for the next 3% idown from last year. Transit months had been revised down- i ' i | ness in Toledo, Pittsburgh, Los pected sales. i Angeles and New York. Even so, Railroad carloadings in the ;many merchants counted on a‘latest week were down 1614 per jfrenzied J1lth hour shopping cent from a year ago, cheque ‘spree to help them meet. or beat: clearings down three per cent, last year’s record totals. department store sales down five Activity in mines, mills and Per cent. | factories was down--and in this: Government economists also l sector of the cconomy there was ‘forecast a reversal of the long lseant hope of improvement for Upward trend in business spend- isome time. ing. Since early 1955 business | Steel production trailed Jast i : a , iyear by 29 per cent. Production ‘ily on new plant and equipment. ; Prot ae ‘owed § : ‘ lof crude: oll was, downwive per rhey borrowed 80 much money icent, soft coal 14% per con Pordactories, affice buildings, re- 1 ¢ a 4 be ¥ rE oy Cc: Tes matali : a nee hand paperboard 6.2 per cent, Aineries, machine tools, ware AUTOS SPURT AHEAD ' Auto output seored a 614 per: gages and | cent gain aver the comparable jlouns became “tight,” ‘funds available for home mort- RUSSIAN TRADE MISSION --Chalrman of a Russian trade mission visiting Canada is T. T. Ivanov Cleft), He js shown here with M, A. CHviemarev, one of the elg@ht other members, “daring a stop in Montreal, {CP Photo) ee i, or . f a) Ee Lies epee Where a dinner date means dining dolight! - Delicious food at reasonable : prices - a wonderful way to lhegin or end an evening Inoall the better elrelas It's a woctal vietoby aeored " To have everybody's friend. + ne 4 \ Cire! 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To countless persons living for: pecause the :prestife af the US... - > a ‘years in fear of war, this dream as ‘the most “powerful of ‘NATO | who borrowed that book from :—however unlikely of fulfilment! nations, has fallen to its lowest’ me, only that it was re-loaned, ; Sounds like parad.se and goes | ebb in two decades. far beyond’ even the most am-i FORMULA OFFERED , bitious hopes of the NTAO meet-! ‘ings. ‘ MAGIC WORDS ithe | armament and trust. West sum mit meeting. that Russia, with its technologic-. “pected ‘strikes throttled Christmas busi- | word because of lower than ex-. ‘firms have been spending heav-_. ‘houses and otuer facilities that. short-lerm business | 20YAL GREETING — The Chri eral Massey this year visit to Ottawa’ in October. -Dulficarrying ‘the Queen’s purse as and ‘Mir, Massey stroled at Government House. INTERPRETING THE NEWS coe Pressures, Propaganda Grow | dawn of the new year. me As NATO Summit Talks Near bears a photo taken during the Quecn’s The photo shows Mr. Massey’s dog NT stmas card of Governor-Gen- the Queen, Prince ‘Philip (CP Photo) By JOSEPH MacSWEEN Canadian Press Grinding -pressures are building book returners to send back all; the NATO summit meeting 1 Sovict Premier Bulganin, in ‘ He raises hopes while at the, hinting darkly at! 1 dream of East-West dis- | But Bulganin sounds like she. preacher who was “against sin.” naelear He makes such proposals as one: to “outlaw war,” as if that could, be done simply by a handshake | ora few magic woras at an East- (4) 'siles would not be fired from, for “instance. France, without Frencn | What Buleanin well knows is al advances, never was in a bet-: ter propaganda position. This: will change as the West catches: up, so the Kremlin can he és-. to wrench everything: possible from the current situa-: lion, among the so-called nen-| tralist. copniries as well as in the West. Actually, Russia’s continuing | attack on the NATO meeting‘: oneof the few indications that 14 holds promise for success. Ruz-. sia apparently feels NATO has 4. ‘gooe chance. In Europe there: are fears that the meeting mny, be a flop in the face of historic! changes in defence alignments. MACKIILLAN PLIANT Prime Minister Macm:lan of. Britain has indicated to the House of Commons just how sieal these changes are. In 2 staterment that would have pew unthinkable even 10 years ago, Maemillan refused n Paris. to promise. Stuff ‘Writer up as ‘the deadline ‘nears -for . “President Risen hower has! shown vividly’ how important the | meétitic-ts by his' decision toval- | tend ‘despite “his ‘iliness, which. | Has ‘not ‘yet completely cledred. -Belland picked a half-bushel of oe i Whit: fates ‘the “westein “allitnie: _crabapples ithe usual date of the first frost. fy the} Me said that in 40 years in Nor- - -oypeepeee is a‘complete reappraisal of dv- 1énces “and ‘strategy ‘and tries. The US. has been trying ‘2: allay fears particularly in: ‘yranee —- that unwilling NATO> countries would be dragged into: war by unilateral Am- erican action from French or: other missile bases, It is striving for acceptance of » formula by which nuclear mis-- agreement. French mistrust of Anclo-Am- crican intentions reaches into another fieid. There have been fears that the U.S. and Britain planned ts seize a dominant rote in NATO and mizht even oppose France in North Afriea by in- sisting upon negotiation over Ai- .veria, where the French want 19 be recognized as paramount. LINDSAY'S © Cartage & Storage Established 1910 HOUSEHOLD GOODS ‘MOVING — PACKING CRATING — STORAGE Agents: Allied Van Lines Lia Phones Wharf 433: Cffice 5016 Lift Van Service | Parliament that he will not sur- 277 -render any degree of Britain's national reorganization, ' 1 CLASSIFI on tho day of ADVERTISEMENT OUT ‘FOR YOURSEL. ONE THING To Place Your ADVERTISEMENT CALL 4125. Before 10'a.m. IF YOU CAN HAVE YOUR IT WILL SAVE TIME OTHERS THANKS! Prince Rupert Daily News ED ‘issue WRITTEN F AND f ok fairs ath yet 6 i spel > & pepyegege Ct Canada: Wont Lease Space » In New York's Canada House OTTAWA @ — The Canadian government has decided not to lease office space in New Yorks’ Canada House, now under con- struction, . The decision was outlined by moved out of RockefeHer Centre Jules Leger, deputy external af- {to a site closer to the UN build-] minister, ' month to the mannger of Can- ‘ada House (New York) Limited. 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