2M RY Ae st edt! midleg ofl ages a reBeerde rene bed nme 1 URED tet EME weed rete Pte ee “Rds = = Fringe: Rupert Daily ‘News Saturday, December 28, 1957" f an independent daily newspaper devoted to the uupbuitding of Prince Ruperr and Northern and. Central British Columbia. Member. of Chnhdian Yress-—Audit Bureau of Circulations Canadian TMaily Newspaner Association 7 Published by. The Prince Rupert Daily News Limited me J. F. MAGOR, President im spp : Subreription Rates: ip By mail—Per month. §1.00;..per. year $10.00. :. By carrier—-per month, $1.26; per year, $12.06 " ‘aubriced us second cluss mail by. the Post Oftice Department, Ottawa Sohal Punishment Justice Minister Fulton’s brief reference to the extremely ¢ controversial subject. of capital punish- - ment in answer: to a question in the House of Com-- mons is of interest in the light of experience of other countries which have abandoned the doctrine of.a life for a life. Mr. Fulton, replying to Mr. Harold Winch, said the Conservative government had no present in- tention of commuting existing death penalties pend- ing study of the Senate-Commons joint report. : Barbaric as executions may appear to some, ‘per- haps it is just'as well for the federal government to leave this issue alone for the present. There is grave doubt as to whether society has yet progressed far enough to be able to afford to allow convicted mur- derers their lives. The practice of retribution car- vied to the ultimate finds fewer adherents nowadays, when the emphasis is less on punishment for revenge than as a means of correction and rehabilitation. The executed killer is placed beyond both. Abolition of the death penalty, however, leaves the problem of protection of society unsolved. In those countries where it has been tried the conse- quences give rise to serious misgivings as to the wis- dom of removing what it widely believed to be the most potent deterrent against violence. . In Great ‘Britain where the death penalty: was partially abol- ished two years ago there is growing agitation for ‘its estoration because of an alarming wave of violent - crime. The same thing is happening in West Ger- imiany, where the death penalty was done away with after the last war, in revulsion against Nazi terror- ism. :~ Jt appears that what has aroused deepest con- ‘cern is not so much the incidence of premeditated ‘murder as of: gangsterism and robberies in which ‘criminals shoot policemen and others to death while ‘making their escape. Proponents of a return to capi- ‘tal punishment in West Germany as in Britain main- ‘tain that violence and indiscriminate killings are on ‘the increase because criminals are reassured by the ‘knowledge that they cannot be deprived of what they -Nalue most, their lives. *< This is an aspect of the capital punishment j issue Svhich predominates in the minds of those who are Shore concerned_over_crime. in general and the wel- ‘fare of the innocent than over the preservation of a dciller’ s life. It would seem to be the. lesser evil to re- ‘tain the death penalty until a substitute ean be found ei equal value as a deterrent. —Victoria Colonist. Simp le English This? aa TO’S civic property committee struck a ; blow for correct English the other day when it re- Suked property-department officials for reporting ahat citizens “flout, flaunt and cireumvent” the zon- ain g bylaw. « Of the three words, only « “cireumvent” could shave any proper application i in this case. One of its wlictionar y meanings is “to get;the better of by craft ‘wr fraud,” and there are undoubtedly individuals who Hilo just that with the zoning. ‘rules. “Flout” on the {Her hand means “to mock, jecr, insult} express con- dicmpt for’; while to flaunt something is “to parade chi show it off. ” Trritated property-owner's may on occasion insult and show contempt for this particular ‘bylaw, and some might conceivably parade oy show “oft acopy of it; but neither proceeding is illegal. The disuse of “flaunt,” incidentally, is one of the com- smonest of recently-developed errors in English, ' 4% What the officials in question presumably meant 4vas that individuals were breaking the bylaw. Why Wot just say the it? — Toronto Globe and Mail. Ween s- sa cnmeney baw bees aavnnged acne HA gevtte inet te een em ey « bye Ww “ we we iW ene ereege ca aha meni tee ta mean ¢ Wt Miles (C2 NONYHWEST TERRITORIES ~ UCAV ATRORAPT FROM NAMAO, near Edmonton, made an- nual Chrisimas supply drop of gifts and supplies to lonely Y Arctic outposts, Working out of Resolute, on Cornwnl Us > Taland 1,000 miles northeast of Edmonton, the barrel-chexted -CH110 Flying Moxear schoduled. drops to numerour atations, mostly manned by about elght federal tranaport department employees and United Btates weather station men, PR Ge haar ar ara OE De a a odikely lose their jobs. ton by nas aan . yf aa ee Ne ee ee ee wee ee Sw Me bE Deters Hee dec tebe ha lenewmeentes: eminbheetameteaee WL Ps Sas ~ ee we RE a meg e? by If the U.S, lead and zinc lobby wins its argument before the Tariff Commission, and if Presi- dent Eisenhower acquiesces in the requested ‘boosts, one third of the workers in Trail, B.C., will But the circumstiineces surrounding such a loss would surely cause a tidal wave of demands in our. parlia- ment,.for rataliatory action. . The two next-door neighbors right back to the bad old days | which. followed the stock market ;erash of 1929, the Smoot-Haw- ley tariff boosts by the U.S.A. | King and Bennett governments. +than admit the fact'that they and allies would find themselves and the consequent counter-ac- tion by Canada, by both the THE basic cause of the demand _ for the boosts in the U.S. lead and zine tariffs is that the big. powers are no longer stockpiling metals for war purposes. With the cessation of such stockpiling, world prices have fallen.. A good many U.S. “mar- ginal producers” have found themselves. caught in the squeeze between lower prices and high costs of production. Rather are uneconomic producers, they are trying now to sclve their own problems at the expense of the mines -and miners in Trail, B.C., Flin Flon, Manitoba, and other suppliers of U.S. hase metal needs, who are ‘located outside that country. _—_ | THE U.S. Tariff Commission wes : allow our Canadian Metal Min- ‘ing Association to appear before :it, and present a masterly brief iagainst the proposed increase. It fair and courteous enough to | did so in November. The brief {showed that there is no unfair, ; competition, as between mines jon different sides of the border. Average pay for Canadian min- ers and smelter workers is $2.45 per hour. Average in U.S.A, is »only $2.30 per hour. Nor have the Canadian mines’ exploited the situation arising from the Korean war, and the jlater stockpilirig’ In‘ response to All Aboard As | See ft Elonore P hi pot e Tariff Threat to Trail OTTAWA—Good relations between Canada. and the United States are now thr eatened more seriously than they have been for a good, many years. tariffs Kootenay East, is direct exhortations from the U.S. president, Canada did greatly expand lead and zinc produc- tion. But. our mines studiou: sly refrained from trying to grab the U.S. share of the total ‘mark - et—as they cou'd§ easily . have done had they so chosen. Our lead exports to the US. were: 90,298 short tons in 1953, but. were onzy 45,799 tons in 1908. i Zinc shipments were 276,697 | tons in 1953 and. were. 289,219 tons last year. But this is be- cause U.S. smelters must have! certain concentrates which our! mines produce, but theirs do not. THERE are 13,672 miners and, smelters workers in Canada; whose jobs directly depend on! lead and zine production. The U.S.A. is not self-suffic- ient in these metals, and by no; possible means can she become: self-sufficient. A raise in the lead and zinc | against Canada would be! a grave violation of the spirit, if not the letter of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which the U.S. government it-i 2 self sponsored. Mr. -James Byrne, .MP for himself ai hardrock ‘miner. STORM CLOUDS—A storm builds up over the Strait of Juan de Fuca n: ear Victoria. The dark clouds and rough chops are typical of the su iden squalls that often blow up over the Strait. ‘Piroto) 7 ew eh we we we eH He eH Hw 'POST- WAR PEAK PREDICTED» Government Measures Not +t Sufficient To Block Further Unemployment Rise By JOHN LEBLANC Canndian Press Staff Writer | by the labor department with a i'view to overhaul of the Indus-, OTTAWA “(— Mounting un~! trial Relations and Disputes In-. jobless:—which governs |employment, with the possibil-! vestigation Act—the labor code | ity of record’ “post- war employer-e.n- figures in the coming late winter | ‘ ployee relations for about 450,- and early spring, The 1,000,000-member by al labor Cana- i 1956—consolidated For years he! dian Labor Congress was talking! steadily as the main force of the constituted the!000 workers. (mal “no concern of Canadian labor: as 1957 drew to a close. During the year, the big cen-- congress—formed 17 its position has acted in parliament as the ‘of a national emergency shaping; Canadian labor movement. The | vigilant guardian of the legiti- | up and calling for government! congress was formed mate rights of his fellow workers; in the mining industry. In the old days he’ had vowerful backing of the re- | doubtable C. D. Howe, who nev-; no crash program appeared in| yincial federations and local la-: -. er bothered about protocal or: red tape. C. D. was not above phoning. the kev neopie in Washington | and telling them in a few pun-: gent words what would happen! to them . if they penalized our! lead and zinc. The present government has a! responsibility equally forceful’y | to make known to the U.S. gov- | ernment that all Canada would regard the proposed boost in the | to a post-war peak of 500,000. ; tariff on lead and zinc as an UN- | powever, just and unfriendly act which | would certainly cause a strong. kick-back from this country. 13, G GE Mortimore In England, erly decorated for unless .a white-bermed spray of mistfetoe hangs from the ceil- ing. By old tradition, any girl wno kissed. European mistletoe, which has! the Latin: name og: viscum al-| bum, docs not grow in North America. However—a lotanist tells me—-we do have a couple ot {ts poor relations. On the Pacific coast, there jis arceutoblum am- eriganum or “sntall “mistletoe,” an mconspicuous*, plant: with small grecnish berries, “Mf you kissed a girl, under: a rebbie weed-Iike thatrshe mipht kiss you back with her little clenehed fist to the jaw. brother In Europe, is a parasitic Plant which clings to trees and draws nourlshment from them, In Britain, mistletoe grows on oak trees, apple trees, and other trees that shed their Jenves In the autumn, Mistletoe growing on oak trees was sacred to the anelent Bri- tons, Thelr priests, the Druids, wut it ccremonioualy with palden knives, used it in rites of wor- ship, thon cut sprigs of the plant and hung Jt over doorways shelter and honor sylvan gods ta the enld sensan, Because of its pagan nssocia- tlons, mistletoe Is not supposed to be used to decornte a church. jonly on canifers, partienlmly on namloek and jack pine. Tt is a harmful parasite, and it wenk- ong he treas, Tt aauses the swale lon, pulfy, tangled condition known ws “witehe's broom.” larger than the west const one, but sull inferior to Turepenn mistletoe, Is called phoradendran flavescens or “false Mistletoe,” Jt grows in Bastern Canada, This kind pets an ogrip on deciduous trees, Why doesn't someone bring to den old Buropenn mistictoe to Canada and start a mistietaa Diantatlan’? ; To a hotantat, this males about TILMS HELPED EXETER, England (hom Woy Khe first time by four yenrs the Ob-yeur-old Theatre Royal in this Daven elty. made ua profit. The theatre, whieh showed filma for port of tha season, made £1,410. : no home is prop-;: Christmas | “Small mistletoe," Uke its big; oo Tho small mistletoe Is parasitie | Another variety of mistlotog,, in country. British mistletoe, for all is: cheerful associations, is a deadly: nuisance, It is harmful to orch-: ards’ and to forest trees. The problem is to get rid of the stuff, t There have been rumors of} steps under the mistletoe can be: misguided souls‘trying to estab-- ne tine | i lish European mistletoe on west coast. A plauue on them, But my batunist friend tells me; hat the stuff! probably won't ‘grow in B.C. anyway. Mistictoe is common in south- em Eneland and the western midlands, and is scattered acrass Burope and Asia as fnar as Japan, But there is none in Scotland, 8a iy-you are planning Lo kiss: & strange Scottish lass under the Tnistletde: Hough, hold ‘back ‘ane count 10 Mrst. She iay not be used to these formen custonis. 4 WIL CORTES. = Mayor FL Lioyd Wendersan of Portage La Prarie, Man, kos an- nouneed he intends to he a cnndidate for londership of the Liberal party, A conven. tion to choose no sueeessoy to Opposition Leader St, Laurent Will be hele in Ottawa noxt month. Lostar 8, Pearson, for- mer minister of external afte falrs, and Paul Martin, form. er healdh mintster, aleo have announced they are willing to atand as enndidates fer tho lenderiitp, some walves and! (CP Phatoa) action. and without Parliament—but pr ospect. .MID-NOVEMBER FIGURE The bureau of statistics esti- mated that 292,000 Canadians were unemployed at Nov. 16,: more than double the number | of unemployed at the same time: last year. The figure represented: ‘a rise of 84,000 in a month. CLC, Fresident' Claude Jodoin, was; predicting the number would rise: 1957 employment als»: ‘was at an all-time high, though; /an upsurge in the labor forse: ‘had outstripped the rise in jobs.: while amployment ‘of immivrants, which had been. Why is mistletoe so scarce in| the same amount of sense asi heavy in the early*part of 1957. Canacda?.It is true that you. can | bring-ne buy sprigs of tive stuff wrapped | lions” to make life more colorful in plastic from flower stores. But{in a sheep and cattle inere is little of it around. In an effort to stimulate coid- | weather employment, it ordercd fan extra £150.000,000 in govern-., ‘ment - guaranteed loans) for merger of the Trades and Labor The federal government hadj Congress and the Canadian Con- ; the }same measures in hand—-within j gress of Labor. By December, virtually all pro- ‘bor councils of the one-time: ‘rival groups had been merged. | ‘The congress was working, toc, ' tradit:onally- -independent To hold down the labor force | at.an association between caught uPr cho and the the new government or in U€' Canadian and Catholic conte ‘year clamped down on the flow! oaton of Labor in Quebec. By mid-December, no satisfac- - | tory basis for a liaison had been. ‘home-building, and was propos-. ing to release another $150,000, 'Q00. It also was pushing a vigor- ous program to persuade Cana- =! \ 'dians to get work done during | the winter which normally mignt: left off until spring. AS stop paps, ;ment insurance provis.ons were too, unemploy-_ being broadened and restrictions ; ‘on federal | Sistance to provinces were being | delaxed with removal of a ‘“thresh-old” provision tributions might start. * IMPORTANT SURVEY Of over-all interest to labor, unemployment as-, lim. ting : the point at which federal con- was a survey being undertaken | © Suits @ Pants ® Topcoats ® Slacks i} ALTERATION SPECIALISTS to hold down inter-union mem-' bership raiding, and during the’ year it suspended the Interna-: tional Union of Operating Er - gineers for this type of activity On the other hand, it took in. ‘the brotherhood of railroad” ‘trainmen, to give it most of the | ‘Canadian membership rai- road running trade unions. LIAISON SOUGHT - Meanwhile, negotiations ‘tinued through the year 100,000- member NOT NECESSARY? LONDON @® The Practi- tioner, a medical magazine, Says that for tification: for the daily bath, AHORA QUICK. SERVICE Ling The Tailor from ol, con~. aimed! - tre : the ordinary town-- dweller there is no medical jus- . 220 - Gh Street Phone 4238 for ogalnst Gaspe ‘Limited in a of tne , CP _ reached, and there appeared no. prospec t of un early hookup. Largest and most acrmior is Quebec, members of the Workers of America CLC struck , months: where more than five the strike. Prime Minister dent Jodoin. for Caffee too ! —ftalian Cuisine : 3 -cell in VISIT OUR LOVELY VENETIAN ROOM one Fae about United: . Stee) . Copper cispute marked by violence and tangled court bat- tles. The union eventually called off Diefenbaker had refused to intervene despite a persona! plea from CLC Presi-. Sunder provincial jurisdiction, The operation is ‘try WONDERFUL ...and at mealtime oh a Gon dole t -CL PPOPOLPGP PIP LS LDDDPOO PR OLDOD PLOT Specialty, yet we do ex- Western Preparation ftoo--- Come in Today ee. omy worl POPODPOPOFOLE PS VOPODOPOLODLOCIOL : »~ be Semi-Screwballs , Best-Equipped For Space Travel INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Semi-serewballs ‘might make the best crew for] ‘space ships, a sciéntist said today. © 9° » Or perhaps Eskimos, or ‘calm i Buddist monks. — The, reason is that spatemén will face tough psychological or- deals on long trips, and will need training or a particular state of ;mind to do it, said Donald M. | Michael of .Stamford,:Conn., ' Space exploring won't be alla | delightful casy adventure, he ‘told the American Association for the Advance of Science. It could mean iiving’ for !months in cramped quarters... so cramped that in human rela- tions a close buddy becomes in- sufferable . long boredom .. . ‘danger of meteors puncturing | the ship... few if any games ior recreation ... silence... little stimulation of the ordinary 1 human senses Michael, ‘senior rescarch asso- , ciate of Dunlap and Associates, /Ine., sdid volunteers “will neces- 4 | sarily be ‘personality deviats” because so-called normal -people | pecass take such risks. Schizophrenics or hermits | ‘might meet one condition—they rions | don't depend upon cGthers tor 1,009 ; psychological support. But they might not feel enough social ob- lieotion to do their iobs. 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