1910 PRINCE RUPERT DAILY NEWS An independent newspaper devoted to the upbullding 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 J. R. AYRES Editor President G. P. WOODSIDE General Manager Authorized as second class mall by the Post Office Department; Ottawa MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1958 BE collapse at Second Narrows on ‘Tuesday afternoon was an appal- cling tragedy. But its causes will not . be uneovered, and a repetition of it | elsewhere perhaps thus averted, by ‘ emotionalism or political hay-making. : It.will be done only by a cold, dispas- : sionated and mier oscopically thor ou gh ; Investigation by engineers, » ~Tn the little that is yet known about the. fall of the bridge one fact stands , pub: ‘ What failed in the first place was aoe the permanent structure but a piece of falsework—a temporary sup- por t holding the anchor span as it was +. +. pushed out over the water toward the “next permanent pier. The span was not designed to be self-supporting in space at that stage “of its construction. Indeed, you need yonly to look at the remarkable aerial * or tte “picture taken the day before the disas- “ter and published in this newspaper - ¥ yesterday to see that by its very shape *it could not possibly have held itself sup, cantilever-fashion, without a° tem- * » £ 8 a ems sto use‘the Canadian High- way Safety Conference held in Ed- ‘monton was fighting a losing battle hen it sought to have the licensing age for automobile driving raised from 16 to 18. It is well nigh impos- sible to stem the tide of teen-agers sixteen and many of them are very good drivers. This is the age when automobile driving is an accomplish- ment that has become a part of our culture. If a teen-ager is able to drive then he should be allowed to drive pro- viding he has arrived at the age where T..comes as something of a shock— - although it shouldn’t—to realize that a Canadian aviation has matured to the ~ point where it has started to retire its ; pioneers. Two of» them—Ken Dewar and Norman Forester—will be honored by Canadian Airline Pilots’ Association at a testimonaial dinner here Monday night. They are the first regular air- line pilots to be retired at 60, a mile- stone not only in their lives but j in the annals of the aviation business, Mr, Dewar, who captained a four- who are able at an even lower age than © Facts, not emotionalism porary prop. In other words the collapse had- nothing whatever to do with the de- sien and construction of the bridge proper, whether they .were good or bad. | . It had to do solely with the false- work—with that temporary support. Why the falsework failed is what has to be determined. Was it wrongly designed? Was it accidentally sub- jected to excessive stress? Did its foundations (also. temporary) slip? Did something strike it? Those questions must be answered, and will be answered, in the names of the men who died in the twisted wreck- age and the tidal current, and in the names of all the others-in the bridge- building craft. But it will take time. The men who work on_ high - steel are a tough and gallant lot. The newly dead.among them would spit with contempt if they could know that their deaths were being used in the meantime as the fuel for political emotionalism, —The Vancouver Pr ovince. A loosing battle the law recognizes him as a responsible individual. The secret is not to raise the age limit for teen-age drivers but to insist that applicants for licence: to drive can show ability and responsibil- ity. This may be done by an adequate system of driver education. This thorough system of education may be followed up by a rigid enforcement. of the law and the revoking of the licence as soon as there is evidence of the vio- lation of law. There is not much doubt about the ability of these young people to drive but there can be some ques- tion as to their judgment. ~——Claresholm Local Press. Canada’ s first retired airline pilots engined CPA airliner, lives in Burn- aby. Mr. Forester, who held a similar job, comes from Edmonton. Each had flown millions of miles and, apart from a few hair-raising incidents when they were risking their necks in ‘the box kites that passed for planes 30 years ago, have lived uneventful lives, . Now they can sit on the front porch and watch the big transports making altitude. And recall how they helped to nurse Canada into the air age. —The Vancouver Province. (INTERPRETING THE NEWS Hammarskjold’s hands tied by President Nasser By JOSEPH MacSWEEN Canadian Press Staff Writer The bitter truth about Dag Hammarskjold's mission to Lebanon js that he won't be able to do anything unless President Nasser approves. The United Nations secretary-general hos won remarkable personal reapect through his efforts at “quiet displamacy” but few belleve he can take the pressure of Lebanon unless Nasser Js willing, This js just another way of saying that Wammarskjold's hands will be tled unless Ruagla will co-operate with him, since Nasser now ls generally thought to be among Soviet camp | followers, Mhot the undoubted prestige of the ‘United Natitms can be rendered impotent In a clash pete Mast and West has heen shown In Tunenry. RNS ot Ud ik " ha UN comittee on Hungary has succeded in “Wate ’ Nttle more than a sounding board of indignation, practically spenking,: In regard to the Russian suppression of the Mungarian uprising of 1056, And the committee continuos to ba so after the bald announcement of the execution of Imre Nagy and his leading co- workers. There Is an essential difference jn that the UN Hungarlan committee was never allowed to conduct an on-the-spot Investigation in Hun- gary, While Hammarskjold and his officers now have free movemont in Lebanon, There's an aven more essentini differonce in thEtaw of th UN Emergency Force’ in Wgypt, where Canndian and other UN soldiers with arms moved in to keep the peace between Is- raolla and Arabs after the Suez troubles, Tt Is posible that Nasser and his planners Jn the United Arab Republic figured that their tims had already been substantially achieved before they agreed to the visit of UN observers to Lebanon, " if + ¥ Certainly the pan-Arab plans of Nasser are being served by the fact that the Lebanese flght has taken on aspects of a religious war between Christians and Moslems, Since practically the whole Lebanese popu- lation is composed of Arabs, religious confltet will almost definitely work to the bonefit of Nasser. If the Beyptian dictator succeeded only In splintering away the Moslem group from the pro-Western Lebanese government, he would achieve a vielory—-and so would his Communist frends Jn Moscow, If the Lebanese regime of President Camille Chamoun were toppled, Nasser would win not juat a vietory bul a coup in his Middle Bast polilical campalgn. It ts incroasingly clear that In Nasser Rus- sla has captured tho most popular ‘fifure in tho Middle Enust. The West haa no such eandidate -to command Arab popular feollng. Thought for the day One's love for God ta equal to the, love ona, has for the man he loves lenst--John y. THiyro. Thore are more people whoa wish to be loved than thore are willing to love —Sobastian Roch Chamfort., 1958 _ ALL ABOARD ets Do stop signs do any good? A correspondent in the 2000 block Chaucer Street: thinks not. “Like a wise man you offer- ed no comment on the fact you reported that 19 out of 20 people do not stop their cars at ‘Stop’ signs, though one gathers that your informant did not approve~of it. “More British Columbians, Victorians especially, seem ‘to have the idea that safety is proportional to the number of regulations. Surely this is the reverse of true. If we are legis- lated into not using our judg- ment we will drive unintelli- gently and eventually dan- gerously. “The, French have a saying that rules are made for those who have not the decency or intelligence to do the right thing. Since the B.C. govern- ment allows us to back out of our driveways, why can it not | concede us the decency and _ intelligence to use our eye- j. sight and common sense at. ho. @ painted ‘Stop’ sign, provided ||. there is no hidden hazard? , “Perhaps the motoring pub- _ lic in the province is too irre- sponsible to use proper judg- ment. I don’t know; but I do feel that such rules as the one in question (and there are plenty more equally de- batable) tend to make us either lawbreakers by using. our judg~ ment or bad’ drivers: by not using it and adhering blind- ly to signs. “I. have talked to many drivers on this topic and I ‘would say that about eight out of 10 maintain they never go, however slowly, through ‘Stop’ signs. “Tf there is such a big dis- crepancy between safety and the law, then surely the law is at fault. Nine ‘no rlght-of- way’ sign sould be sufficient in most situations where we have ‘Stop’ signs at present... ik 4 % "T would appreciate your not mentioning my name if you should want to quote from this. Most of my friends think Iam an anarchist, and I am weary of trylng to explain that by the same token so are most of the European driving pub- lic. And yet I am sure thut compnrable accident statistics there are far lower than here.” This Js an interesting point. My correspondent might also make a ense for doling away with all driving regulations and leaving rond safety to the discretion of the drivers. I don't doubt that this gentleman and his friends are sharp-witted and responsible enough to be allowed to make thelr own rules, about “stop signs ahd” everything Félae. But the rules are nade far the rest of us rabble who are putting It bluntly—too stupid to be trusted, Giavbos There are lots of collisions ni. corners that are not marked hy stop signs. There are plen- ty of collisions at stop-siyn corners too, many of them In- volving people who failed to stop at the sign. Does this mean that drivers have been so demoralized by stop signs that they don't look whore thay are going? I doubt that, I think It Juat shows that a certain percentage of driv= oe eb RES Men can work From The Stratford Beacon-HMorald , | “The anak dreas ia counted on: to get us out of tho recession, and jt may do that, because with all the women wearing them, the men enn keep thelr minds on thelr wort, _ Evening at. New Floats —Photo by Gladys Baldwin By G. E. MORTIMORE ers are absent-minded, or just dumb. ‘Aren’t we? The most effective safety measure wulod be. to rule all the dumb drivers off the roads. But the roads would be pretty empty, the.gasoline tax rev- enues would go into a decline, and the government would be heaved out of office next elec- tion. That French saying about rules being made for those who have not the cecency or intelligence to do the right thing — it sounds like a true saying. Unfortunately, how- ever, there are numbers of such persons around. You decent, intelligent folk must submit to .a certain amount’ of boredom and an- noyance on that account. But after all — how much time is _ wasted coming» to a “H E yt a who took all my Pilsener? - Pilsener is popular, no doubt about that! Tt’s B.C.’s hort-salling heer —- enjoyed in more setpoint stop at a sign? It does give the slow thinkers time to col- lect their wits and look around. For quick thinkers, it teaches patience and tolerance for the profound stupidity of the world. Even though some people break the rule, I suspect that it slows enough -people down to justify itself. Some of the drivers who pride themselves on using their own judgment would probably go across an intersection at 60 miles an hour if no stop sign existed— and on some foggy morning, run straight into a truck that has backed suddenly out of a driveway around a corner. When a stop sign éxists, these people still drive straight through, but they drive at only 30 -miles.an hour,: which is safer. . - . vy + See Te RNR AS RE ENR IRAE RRL IUD Eat Tan ralag gna Uenyugamenanns ates 8 wemeeon seen te SR ne my jin ilar teat ae. “ aoe, wn bt ' eT ‘ bys 4 2 dae ae ~~ "Canada’s youth and liquor From Maclean's Magazine ‘By. their own admission more than “half Canada's 1,7° mil- lion high school students have taken an alcoholic drink at one time or another. More than.a quarter of the boys at high schoo! today say they've been drunk at least onee, and 6 per cent of both boys and giris admit they drink once a week or more, “These statements were gath- ered for Maclean's Magazine by an independent research or- ganization which polled = stu- dents In elght citles across Canada, With other findings by Maclean's associate editor Sidney Katz they.make up the’ first attempt to fix, on o na- tional scale, the dimensions of the problem of youth and ale cohol.'s' ot: Katz's report. gives the first indication of the facts about these other aspects of teen- age drinking: Of the students who do ad- mit) taking a drink, almost a quarter drink without the con- sent of thelr parents. In this as other categories, girls re- spond affirmatively far less frequently than boys: 14 per cent of the girls polled on this question answered yes; 34 per cent of the boys. Pend _ leggers for In the drinking half of the high school population, 62 per cent of the youngsters -say they get their llquor at home, Acquaintances have provided - drinks for 39 per cent; bars and beer parlors for 11 sper cent of the boys, none of-the girls; liquor stores for a little more over 1 per cent; boat- less than 1} -per cent. Nowhere in Canada, Katz reports, do teen-agers seem to have any real difficulty In get- ting liquor when they wantrdit. The survey seems to demy- lish nat least one widely-held misconception about teen-age drinking, Educators and others concerned with the problem have assumed that many youngsters drink because they feel obliged to “go along with the gang.” But asked “Is it difficult to refuse a .drink?” only 4 per édnt of the students polled angwered yes; 93 per cent said no. aroha pom armen se ent No monopoly From The Brantford Expositor British farmers are growing 50 per cent more wheat than before the war and many other countries are doing the same. This reminds us that Canada enjoys no monopoly “in the wheat field, in fact never did. Saree ile ie eu aU }. one WAREHOUSE STEEL. » se Steel service from depend ont ore assured of quic nead a bar or 4 truck he size of load. Dominles Bridge se shearing, paring stecl {n addition, n advice on if required. we cre expe gicat problems with nine stra trom coast 10 brings quality ste coast, “P.O. 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