ome ayo bem ee EY «8 Prince Rupert Daily News “Wedne: lay, July 81,1957 - r AD fudependent dally newspaper devoted to tee uppullding of Prince Rupe and Northern and Central British Colimbta, Member of. Canadtun Press—-Audit Bureau of Circulations ie ' Canadian Dally Newspaper Association : Pubiished by The Prince Rupert Dally News Limited J.P. MAGOR, President . Subscription Rates: uf sis D> By mali—Per month 61.00; per year $10.00, “ By currier—per month, $1.25; per year, 612.00 Authorteed aa second class mall by the Post. Office Department, Ottawa rn . Governor General’s Power pack in 1926 a Canadian election was fought and won on the question: when, if ever, has the Gov- ernor General the discretionary right to: refuse to dissolve Parliament ona Prime Minister’s request? If the voters settled the matter in 1926, the Financial Post observes, the decision was that the Ciovernor General never has any choice but to take his first minister’s advice. . But this rule is clearly wrong. If it were correct, a prime minister defeated at the polls could obtain an immediate dissolution, and-then another until at last the public produced a House of Commons to his liking. . Clearly the Governor General must have power towefuse dissolution to a prime minister who loses a general election. By what criterion is it to be decided Lhixt an election has been lost? If a prime minister r esigns right after,the vote, as did Louis St. Laurent, het concedes defeat. He admits hy implication that het does not think he could form a gover nment and carry on. « Hf he meets the House with his own party in a minority and then is beaten before he gets any busi- ness done, again it is clear that he has lost the elec- tion and the Governor General should refuse a disso- hugion if it is asked for. To allow the. representative of the Crown wider diger etion than this would be to give him more politi- ca] power thai he dusht to, or probably would want toy possess. If this be admitted, the present position is that the new prime minister may have another election when he thinks fit; meaning, in other words, when he thinks party interest and national interest make it advisable. If he errs in judgment on this pdint, the blame and penalty will be his. "The rule, however, is not really in doubt at the present time. To raise doubts about it is hardly wise since a repetition of the unedifying debate. of 1926 would bea national misfortune. . \ First Aid: A Highway. Requisite BACH day, somewhere in ‘Canada, can be heard the , sickening screech of ‘auto brakes, the whirr of protesting tires, the scrunch’ of metal and shattered glass. And invariably another death is chalked onto the nation’s already lamentable’ highway accident tofal: ; Last year, 3, 183 Canadians died in motor acci- dents—1,180 of them i in Ontario—and a further 73,-: 59d were injured. increasing. every month. : In January, 76 persons ‘died on Ontario’s roads; im Fehr uary, 77, and in March, 98, The June total was 102, wnd the spate of aceidents to date this month in-. ditates the July figure will be still higher, + Some of these tragedies might have been avoid-, ed by slower, more careful driving, or even by sheer luck. “Still other victims might have been saved had the persons who chanced across the accident in ques- tien hada better knowledge of first aid. 1 Ace coviling to St.John, Ambulance, for instance, an imeonseious man should always be turned, very carefully, upon his stomach, to prevent possible suf- focation should the tongue fall back. Also, well-intentioned motorists, coming across a highway smash, often move a victim into a “more comforti ible position.” This often aggravates his in- juries, ShYyS St. John Ambulance, pointing out that an injured man should not, if poxsihle, he moved until medical assistance arrives, but should be kept ime mobile, ' Any assistance rendered to an injured man by a passerby is, of course, not a substitute for qualified medical aid, which should he summoned immediately, along with hot drinks and blankets and, of course, the police, | But quick actibn by the man in the street has sav- ed many an accident vietim’s life’ in the past, and will dda so in the future, Tt is evident that a basic know- Je (pe of first aid on the part of every car owner and ditiver would do much to ent down Canada’s shock- inye highway death record, | —Toronto Telegvam, As I See It is we ee eee EH we Terr) Perper iene craters Somer ag AE pga eee wt . Pes | Elmore P hi pott e Those Unborn Books PENTICTON—Here on the sunny shores of ‘lévery: ing over the tales in the book called Johnny Chinook, Lake Skaha our family has been collectively chuckl-: ewew ee .NEW AND MODERN FISHING METHODS are constantly being with the recently- invented “power block’, seen at the end of found and applied in the B.C, fishing industry, This sleek Salmon. . purse seiner, operating in the Strait’ of Juan de Fuca, Is equipped NO TANDICAP SOME DIFFERENCE OTTAWA @ — Blindness was; CALGARY @ —~ Thomas E. no special handicap to sports| Magner of Toronto saw his sec- contestants at the annual plienic! ong Calgary Stampede this year, of the Canadian National [nsti-| pre , tute for the Bind. Contestants from the show he saw In 1912 included foot races, broadjump- ing, shoe-kicking and needle-|When he was an Alberta ranch threading. hand. , 1 aes Ls . 4 2 elt OX ~it! S. says it’s changed quite a bit’ This year the figure moves apace, . by Robert E. Gard. by Longmans Green. But Rob Edwards. The book is an excellent job— hunt there is a mystery about it. Why did it take a professor from Kansas to come into Canada to write a finny book about such all-Canadian characters as the notorious Calgary Eye Opener? ‘The answer to that question goes right to the heart of the beok publishing riddle in Can- ada. It has to do with dollars and. cents. The plain unvarnishéd truth is that “the great Canadian novel” has never yet been writ- ten because no Canadian hook publisher has yet found a way to get the Canadian -mafket to pay cash for enough books to make publication really worth- while... Offhand, I can think of only one Canadian novelist who has been able to make a living by writing fiction in Canada. Yet even the one and only Maza de la Roche would have starved to death had she been dependent on. the Canadian market for books—even as excellent as Jul- na, ete. CANADA has made an oulstand- ing financial success of, some kinds of puplishing— why not others? . There are many Canadian newspapers, such as the one which has employed me for the past fifteen years, which day af- ter day sell vast numbers of papers, all for hard cash. On some of my foreign trips I have written for Canadian news- papers with combined circula- tion of about .a million copies. Yet the would - be Canadian author of a book is lucky if he can find a Canadian publisher |. who will take a chance on print- ing more. than two or in- tended only for the Canadian book-reading public. The plight of the Canadian poet is even worse than that of the Canadian author of fiction. We have had quite a féw really ‘gvood poets in Canada—in fact we still have. No Canadian busi- looking " eee Mack from the Files of The Dally News 10 Years Ago . Mr. and Mrs. William Murray are sailing tonight on trip to/San Franciseo and Oatk- land, 26 Years Ago 1 ee ann eee 30 Years Ago To mark in manner their guests of honor the Commodore aing, to neem come omer 40 Years Ago The Returned on Third Avenue changed has three |; {thousand copies.of a book, the “Prince Rupert” for a vacation ; an outstanding going away, Mr, and Mrs. Walter S, Fisher were at a dance in Ciufe Jast eve- Soldiers’ Tome rapidly Into one of the most The book is subtitled, “Tall Tales. and True From the Canadian West,” and is published itis confined to - stories about’ Alberta—mainly some, gems about the famous ness man has yet come up with | the answer which the poet.can- not neglect for too many moons if he or. she wishes to remain alive.. ‘Some Canadian --poets have, done fine work on empty stomachs and anguished souls, even as did the starved compos- ers in-Vienna and elsewhere. But Tennyson ‘did his best work when he:-was paid about two thousand pounds sterling a year —a sum. which would be worth maybe. $30,000 per year, “in the actual purchasing power: of 1957. So did Kipling, and some others. THE great. missing Mink in our Canadian book ~ publishing field is exactly the same as in regard to-our live theatres. have.:sO many of those unborn Canadian hooks, unpublished Canadian poems, and unstaged Canadian plays because we lack the businessmen, able and will- ing to make the live theatre pay in any given centre—or able and willing to sell enough books, in Canada, to Canadians to make Canadian book publishing really healthy and profitable. As things now stand, the bus- iness of publishing books in Can- ada is an appendage or slopever of the business of publishing books in the United States. Ifa Canadian author can sell a. book about Canada to a U.S. publish- er, or even to a-British publisher, then, he is reasonably assured of satisfactory sales in Canada too. But unless he can sell his book | to publishers, and hence readérs, outside this country he is lucky if he can make enough money out of it to pay the stenographer’ for the final re- typing. Job. AT ABOUT this point. I can .im- agine some readers, and may- be even a poet or. prospective! playwright, murmuring . “well |? what about all that: Which parliament voted for ‘the Canada Council? Was it not: -in- tended to- subsidize the. fine aris? Lo . Not if anyone expects the Canada Council to be able to put authors, poets and playwrights on the public payroll. | What we need in all the’ fine arts in Canada is salesmen-— good hard headed businessmen who can think out ways means of getling people to pay cash for their books, poems, paintings and live plays, as they how pay for their newspapers. . Wel. money! and. speeding up the operation. . by J. His Honor the Lieut-governor and. Mrs, Frank Mackenzie Ross did just that at the July garden party in the Government House grounds, ; It was a monumental task, and His Honor and Mrs, Ross seemed thoroughly to enjoy it, and showed no sign of. being weary. That's because they like people. AS your name was an- nounced by an aide, His Honor and ‘Mrs. Ross looked you right in the eye; repeated your name and shook. hands. As the society column = an- nounced next day, it was a bril- liant affair, To be snobbish about it everybody who's any- body was there. : But the Government House garden party’s no snobbish af- vited. All you. do is write your name and address in the Lieut- governor’s Visitors’ Book, and he returns the compliment .by inviting you to his garden party. You in. the interior of. the province, and at up-lsland points, next time your're in the Lin this book and then come here for the warden party. You'n see everyone you know, and have a good rubber-neck at all the notables, and the ladics’ fash- jons, and some strange costumes that. old-time Victorians drag out of their mothballs for such events. It was. the usual colorful af- fair, the 1957 garden party, hardly the ruins of Government House, destroyed by fire in Ap- ril, ‘There were grey top hats and jcut-away coats; there were grey ‘slacks and blue yachting trous- ers; and sports jackets and con- servative business sults. One Englishman carried a tightly rolled umbrella, though there was no sign of rain, it be- he also wore a green silk vest. To. uphold Victoria's .tradition, there was one monocle, whiecl One dear little old lady . had on white rubber shoes, tied tigh- ly to her ankles, and wore a large white scarf over her hat, | Rev, J. C. Jackson, the new pastor ‘for the First United ! 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