CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, October 16, 1958

Castlegar News

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Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa

About 600,000 families and
the Post Office Department
celebrate a special birthday on
October 10th. Canada’s first rural
route was placed in operation on
that date in 1908, between Hamil-
ton and Ancaster, Ontario, intro-
ducing a postal service whereby
country dwellers had their mail
delivered to their homes,

The Right

With the advent of the shorter work-
week it has become not uncommon for the
family breadwinner to take ona part-time job
in addition to his regular employment. f

In some cases men have taken on an ex-
tra part-time job because they prefer work
to idleness. In other cases financial necess-
ity has been the motive. Labor leaders have
taken a dim view of the practice, mainly
because a second job, or part-time employ-
ment, gives union members a measure of
economic independence from union officials
who like to control the economic destiny of
every worker in the union.

No law exists; however, forbidding a
worker from holding more than one job. Nor
have union officials ventured to demand that

New Threat To.

From Washington comes word that
the Senate Agricultural Committee has turn-
ed thumbs down on the Administation’s pro-
posal to end agricultural surplus giveaways.
instead, the committee has approved plans to
barter, give away or sell for foreign curren-
cies five billion dollar’s worth of surplus crops
in the next two years.

This is not only bad news for Canadian
“farmers, it is bad news for everyone in the
country. It means that the United States, in
- the face of:the warnings from the Eisenhower
Administration, is going right ahead with
plans for invading Canada’s wheat export
imarkets, Canada cannot hope to meet the
‘threat of sales of wheat and other farm sur-
rpluses by the US to the tune of 1.5 billion
dollars in each of the next two crop years.
Nor can Canada afford to match the US in

To Work -

abstention from extra part-time employment
be made a condition of union membership.

It is, therefore, suprising to find Ontar-
jo’s Minister of Labor speaking out against
this practice in the Provincial Legislature. In
fact, the Hon. Mr. Daley has said that every-
one who has a regular job should refrain from
taking extra part-time employment.

There is no faw in Ontario or in Canada
which says a man should not supplement his
earnings by spare. time work. It is unthink-
able that such a law would ever be introduc-
ed.. Yet Labor Minister Daley, in speaking
as he has, is saying in effect that it is the!
Folicy of the Provincial Government to dis
courage men from working as they see fit.

Prairie Farmers.

farm surplus giveaways to the tune of nearly
half a billion annually.

Equally serious is the apparent deter-
mination of Congress to go ahead bartering

The on R.R. No. 1,
Hamilton, the official name of
the ploneer, wended his way for
7 miles from Hamilton to An-
caster, Ontario, and returned,
each day serving householders
along the route of travel.

When the system was intro-
duced, it was confined to existing
stage routes, but strong claims
Were: made by those on other
roads with the result that by 1912
under improved regulations, all
Persons residing along well de-
fined roads over a mile long be-
came eligible for rural mail de
livery. Another advantage was
that Rural Route couriers were
permitted to sell postage stamps,

take applications and accept
money for Money Orders and
Postal Notes. By November of
that year, over 25,000 boxes were
being served on 900 routes,

Over the years, the number
of calls has continued to increase
and on almost all country lanes
the horse and buggy has now
been replaced by an automobile.
A few hours travel by car covers
a route which required a day to

As hi

wheat and other surplus farm
for resource industry products. This can on-
ly mean that Canada’s qwn resource indus-
tries will continue to be adversely affected,
that the trade position will worsen, and that
industrial ur at will be agg d.

It is ironic that while the indifference of
Congress towards the effect Of its farm sur-
plus disposal poiicies upon Canada remains,
this country should continue to open its
domestic market to an almost unrestricted in-
flow of goods of all kinds from the United
States, Yet this is the price which Canada is
paying for adhereing to the outdated trade
policies based on the General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade, :

ed in violent civil war. That in

Nehru As Referee

.By LEWIS MILLIGAN

Jawaharlal’ Nehru, Prime
Minister of India, has issued a
long “Statement” in which he re-
views the confusion that afflicts
the world today.” He says: “We
shall never get out of the confus-
ion unless we have some clarity
of vision or, at any rate, are clear
as to the questions posed to us.”
He does not pretend to have that
clarity of thinking or to have any
answers to our major questions.
“Al I can say, in all humility, is
that I am constantly | thinking
about these questions. In a sense,
I might say that I rather envy
those who have got fixed ideas
and therefore need not take the
trouble to look deeper into the
problems of today.” .

From the above preamble,
the reader would rightly con-

ment of national and interna-
tional disputes. He accuses both
capitalism and communism of
being based on the “approach of
violence” in such settlements. He
admits that capitalism has under-
goe change in this respect be-
cause of its democratic develop-
ment,“ and he roundly accuses
of “having

allied itself to the approach of
violence... Its language is of
violence, its thought. is violent
and it ‘does not seek to change by
persuasion or peaceful, demo-
cratic pressures, but by coercion
and, indeed, by destruction and
extermination.”

Mr. Nehru, as a neutral, has
thus assumed the role of free-
lance referee between the East
and West. He is proud of the fact

elude that Nehru is a philoso-

‘pher, Indeed he is the only phil-|

osopher among all the rulers of

« state in the world today. Like;

Hamlet; he realizes there is
“something rotten in the state of
Denmark,” and he would prefer
to ‘be neutral, and (in other
words) he cries, “O cursed spite,
that ever I was born to set it
right!"

But, unlike Hamlet, Nehru
does not believe in ghests and he
is a pacifist. Being a disciple of
Mahatma Guandi, he ts opposed to
the use’ of violence in the ‘settle-

that India has achieved her in-
dependence from Great Britain
by peaceful means. But he can
hardly claim that Gandhi’s pac-
{fist raethed of achieving that se-
paration brought peace or real
independence to India. Gandhi
himself met a violent death and
violence spread throughout the
entire country.For over a hund-
red years Britain ruled the con-
flicting racial ad ele-

itself by contrast was sufficient
evidence of the peace-giving char-
acter of British rule, “and the
folly of Gandhi's fanatic pacifism,
India is now divided into states
and a third portion, Kashmir, is
claimed by each of those states,
who are prepared to fight for its
Possession.

So that what Mr. Nehru calls
the. “confusion that afflicts the
world today” prevails right in his
own country, and he had a good
deal to do with bringing it about.
If. he can now view the world
philosophically with a clear mind,
he owes that to his British educ-
ation at Oxford, where he played
cricket, and he has admitted that
he is for the most part’an Eng-
lishman, Gandhi also had: that
training and he has more of a
Christian than a Hindu in relig-
jon, but he had the Fakir temp-
erament. Mr. Nehru in his State-
ment says the approach of Vio-
lence “is completely opposed to
the peaceful approach which
Gandhi taught us.” But one ‘ex-
treme always creates its oppo-
site, and Gandhi's fanatical Pac}
ifism resulted in the violence and
the confusion of which Mr, Neh-|
ru complains. Nevertheless, his
Statement is an interesting hu-

man and if it

ments of India by ordered gov-

ernment, and when the British
d was

withdrawn those elements clash-

no practical solution of the pro-
blems that confuse the world to-
day, it should help to clarify the
causes thereof, -

Sunday Church Services

ST. RITA'S CHURCH
Rev. E. A. Brophy, P.P.
Sth at Eim Streets
Sunday Masses at 8:30 and 10:30
Mass at Genelle at 4:00 p.m,

PENTECOSTAL TABERNACLE

Sunday School — 10 am.

Morning Worship — 11 a.m.

Evangelistic — 7:30 p.m,

Prayer and Bible Study, Thurs,
7:30 p.m,

Friday, 7:30 pm Young Peoples

COMMUNITY BIBLE CENTRE,

Sunday in the Legton Halt
10:30 Sunday School .
7:30 Family Service

At 5x Columbia Ave,
Wed., 7:20 Young People’s Hr,j
Fri,, 8:00 Prayer & Bible Study

THE UNITED CHURCH
Robson: Ist & 3rd Sundays at]
lla.m.
Kinnaird: Service of Worship]
at 9:45 a.m.

Castlegar: Service of Worship at}
ft

7:30 p.m.

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST
OF LATTER DAY SAINTS

Sundays at 10:30 a.m.
Twin Rivers Hall

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
KINNAIRD
Public worship. Sundays at
11 am.

Church school in the basement
at 10 am.
M. Reside, Minister .

THE ANGLICAN CHURCH

Kinnaird 9 a.m,
Robson 11 a.m.
Castlegar 8 am., 7.30 p.m.

In the case of the original service,
some rural routes are the fore-
runners of letter carrier delivery
as Canadian cities continued to
expand, In 1951, in an effort to

Anniversary Of Rural Mail

groups of families on the New:
foundland coast, several “Water
Rural Routes’ were started.
They were over thirty miles Jong
and patrons were served by mo-
tor launch once a week. There
were no mail boxes Involved as
patrons met the boat at the whar-
ves an conducted their postal
business on the spot.

. While not strictly speaking a
rural route, the Alaska Highway
service certainly handles mail for
country people. From the end of
steel at Dawson Creck, B.C, a
three day journey twice a week
brings the mailman over 900
miles to White Horse with all
surface mail for the Yukon, He
also tends the needs of eight Post
Offices en route and stops at a
number of non-Post Office points,
where patrons can transact Post
Office business with the courier.
At White Horse two connecting
services branch off, one follow-
ing the Alaska Highway to the
Alaska border ~ 300 miles -
while the other runs over 400
miles to Dawson, Y. T.

Although the ideal rural route
is about 25 miles long, forms a
eireult and serves 100 or more
Patrons, locai conditions often
require certain deviations from
the perfect route. Victoria R.R.
No, 2 on Vancouver Island in B.C.
is over-ninety miles round trip;
runs daily except Sunday serving
441 boxholders and four Revenue
Post Offices. The largest number
of boxholders are served on Riv.
fere des Prairies R.R. No. 1 in
Quebee Province. On this 25 mile
daily journey, over 1,100 house-
holders are served as Well as two

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Know Your
CANADA

WHAT IS THE CANAD)
WELFARE COUNCIL?
Most people and organiza-
tlons concerned with social wel-
fare in Canada are members of
the Canadian Welfare Council.
More than 400 organizations and
1,000 individuals are among the
members who use it as a medium
of co-operative planning and act-
fon. Some influentlal ' persons
have operated the Ottawa head |
quarters. First full-time execu:
tlve director of the organization,
found, in 1920, was. Dr. Charlotte
Whitton, who was to become
Ottawa's first women major. She
was succeeded by Dr. George F.
Davidson, who Iater became
deputy minister In the Depart-
ment of National Health and Wel-
fare. The present director is Dr.
R.E. G. Davis.
It is organized In five fune-
tional divisions ~- community
chests and councils, delinquency
and crime, family and child wel-
fore, public. welfare, recreation-
which elect their own chairman
and national committees, In add-
ition,

pedia Canadiana. ‘

Born in London in 1670, he
salled to Fort York (York Fact-
roy) on Hudson Bay in 1684 as

‘Jan apprentice of the Hudson's

Bay Com. In June 1690, when
he was about 20, he was sent to
the Interlor with a party of stone

and to safeguard the supply of
furs by pacifying the Indlans, He
established a base camp at Deer-
ing Point (probably at or near the
site of the modern town of The
Pas) and from there In the sum-
mers of 1690 and 1691 made two
long and arduous journeys into
what is now northern Saskat-
chewan. ot
He returned to Fort York in
June, 1692, after an absence of
two years. He was twice captured
by the French and ransomed by
the company during the struggle,
for Fort York. In 1714 he was
commissioned as ‘deputy to take
over the Hayes and Nelson river
forts from the French; he was
deputy governor of all the com-
pany's posts on Hudson Bay,1714
- 1718, ad governor, 1718 - 1722,
In 1719 and 1721 he made trading
expeditions to the North, in the
course of which he searched for
the Northwest passage, After

nearly 40 years In the-company's
service, he was recalled to London
in 1722,

His last years were spent in

are
on subjects of interest to the
council as a whole, >
ee 8
WHO WAS THE FIRST WHITE
EXPLORER OF GREAT’
CENTRAL PLAIN?
The story of Henry Kelsey,
thought to have been the first
white man to view the great
central plain. of Canada and to

London
in

and pi
poverty; in 1730 and in 1734

his widow, Elizabeth applied to
the company for afd for her sons
William and John. His journals
were printed in1929 as The Kel-
sey Papers. His story was told
more recently by J. W. Whillans
in First in the West: The Story
of Henry Kelsey, Discoverer of
the Canadian Prairies, published

provide mail service to Isolated

Revenue Post Offices,

see there the buffalo and grizzly

in 1955.

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For Cominco

(Trail, B. C.) Nearly 4,000,
Visltors registered for tours at!
Cominco's Tadanac and Warfield
plants during the summer sche-
dule. People came from all parts
of Canada, the United States, and
many far-away lands, including

4,000 Visitors Register

Tours

Ica] fertilizer operations. He pass-
ed through the district, a few
years ago, without knowing what
was here, or realizing the scope
of activities, During a ferry cros-
sing in the Kootenays, he struck
up an with a Com-

England,

New Zealand,
South Africa, Pakistan, Austria
and Germany. .

In addition, gatehouse guards
report hundreds of inquiries
from tourists unable to walt for
guided tours, They are happy to
receive plant information and
souvenirs, and many express the
desire to return at a later date to
view the operatidns. .

Some, hearing about Comin-

inco who. pI him
with and

school children have raised $18,-
000 to help Ml and disabled chil-
dren at the Queen’ Alexandra
Solarium, Victoria, and the Pre
ventorlum, Vancouver.

tween the two
provide

Schoo! Children
Raise Funds For
Disabled Children

Victoria — British Columbla's

The money will be split be-
institutions to
libraries, visual aid

about the and fert-

and toys for the

children,

Nizer plants at Trail. C Pt

dence between the two prompted

o return visit by the Mayor.
Another lady from C:

GAS LIGHT

ig: lib-

rarles at both places will account
for $10,000 of the amount, At
Princess

read a book about British Col-

umbla, and came this way, while

on holidays, with the express

purpose of seeing the distict and

the “huge smelter”,
A

cu, long out
of the way to get an on-the-spot
look at what is taking place here.’
A farmer and rancher from Tex-
as, growlng cotton and ralsing
beef, saw a Cominco fertilizer
poster, while on vacation. He
came, with his family, a thousand
miles out of his way: to see the
Warfield chemical fertilizer oper-
ation, oy
The mayer of Exeter, Cali-
fornia, made’ a return visit to
Trail, this n

to company
guides, visiters were generally
impressed with the Trail Dis-
trict, and displayed considerable
interest in plant activities,

The winter schedule . of
plant tours, now {n effect, will
continue until March 3ist, In-
stead of two tours a day at each
operation there will be one, met-
allurgical, starting at 10:00 am.
and one, fertilizer, starting at
2:00 p.m. There are no tours on

to
visit the metallurgical and chem-

and statut-
ory holidays.

Regular meeting of the Sor-

Soroptimist Delegates
Hear Their Governor -

speak on attending the American

here on
Friday night was presided over
by Vice-President Mabel Creigh-
ton in the absence of

in Houston,
Texas this summer.
During the Biennium, the

Mrs. Alice Fowler.

‘The members heard an inter-
esting report from Mrs. Alice
Anderson on the dinner meeting
in Nelson recently to honor Major
Frances Wagner, Governor of the
Western. Canada Region of Sor-

F of the

NAME

ADDRESS

Americas. .

Governor Major Wagnor who
was accompanied on her trip. by
Miss Marjorie Black, past region-
al treasurer, :

“Delegates .from four Sor-

a $25,800 cheque to the Univer-
sity of Toronto for study of ger-
atology.
Mrs. Wagner gave a com-
prehensive report on the Texas
convention, and in her address
to the gathering illustrated how
large are the

lage, $4,000 will be usd in pro-
viding a childrn’s playground: in-
cluding a covered area for use in
bad weather.

The other $4,000 going to the
Solarium is for a record player,
records, bowling sets made of
plastic, medicine balis, play posts,
angle steps for leg exercise in
Play, a ship's wheel telemotor,
developer for photography, Rot-
tery wheel and kiln. and . other
supplies for hobbles. vi

A donation of 10 cents from
each child was asked, early in
the centennial.year as their cen-
tennial contribution. A board of
trustees, incl

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two
was appointed to administer the
fund when it was collected,
Dr. J. ¥, K, English, deputy
minister of education, is delight-
ed by the response to the appeal
by the school children.
He said “the generosity
shown these. unfortunate child-
ren by the province’s healthy,
active school children is some-
thing of which our province can
be truly proud."
“Certainly, it is one of the
most fitting centennial projects
of the year."

The Vancouver School of

Memorating the school children’s
centennial gifts for unveiling at
both institutions, November 18.
This is the day -when school
children. will be united by a

results of smaller efforts of each
member, extending through the

e-wide radio bi in
(honour of British Columbia's
100th Birthday which follows

local and
to. the American Federation.
Theme of her address was ‘Light:
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Castle fi Mi

clubs, Trail,
Nelson and the Castlegar, Kin-
naird- Robson club, were pri-

vileged to hear Major Wagner

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‘| reminded the dolls, are to . be

P, irs,
Alice Fowler, . respondéd to the
Governor's address: and on behalf
of the four local clubs, presented
her with four coffee spoons, re
presenting each club, also a
framed scene depicting a beauty’
spot near Nelson,

Mrs. Laura Bridgeman spoke.
on her trip-to Paris to attend
Soroptimist International Con-
gress and showed color slides
taken during the journey.

. Those travelling to Nelson
from’ Castlegar, Kinnaird and
Robson,’ were President Alice
Fowler, Mrs. L. Bridgeman, Mrs.
Marg. Anderson, Mrs, -Alice: An-
derson, Mrs. Jessie Donnan and
Mrs. Edna Marshall,

At Friday’s regular meeting,
plans for the yearly doll raffle
were discussed. Members were

ready for the next, meeting. The
| Yaffle will be held at the annual
Christmas party.

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‘Wasps and bees’ and ants
make up a group which occupies
top place on the family tree of
the insect world, partly because
of their complicated anatomy but
mostly because of the built - in
automatic ‘features of their be-
havior which meny people rais-
take for intelligencce. They mere-
ly inherit these instinctive traits,

The wasps include a mult-
itude of kinds ranging in size
from parasitic species almost in-
visible to the naked eye and
reaching their full growth inside
the tiny eggs of other insects, up
to the giant cicada - killers,
Most kinds are so small or so
searce that they are seldom ‘seen!
or recognized by ordinary peop!e,

One of the most familiar
types, social wasps, are the
world’s finest pupermakers. They
chew up bits off weathered wood
waste paper and cardboard to
build many-celled combs of tough
membranes, The queen of the
jcolony Iays an egg in each cell,
When it hatches, the grub is con-
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with the bumblebee, only fertile
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