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EDITORIAL

Fire Prevention Week

Every two minutes, sornewhere in Canada and the United States,
the wail of a fire siren shatters the normal routine of a city or
village. Firemen scurry to their machines, fire trucks roar into action
a curious crowd rushes to the spot where billows of smoke are
marring the skyline, and another stunned family are staring dazedly
at their home, and their belongings turning to ashes.

This is a familiar scene to everyone. Yet.it is nonetheless tragic.
Fires have always been one of the scourges of society, But fires have
always been preventable also..

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of fire and

realife he has a part in the prevention of it.

‘Fire Prevention Week” is something each of us should take
serJously because any one of us can cause a fire. No one is safe from
fiyé unless he takes steps to make hi safe, istics indi
tie average home-dweller does not take such steps. Municipalities
adopt fire prevention measures for public buildings; Industry like-
wise protects its workers and property against fire, but the average
homedweller often appears indiferrent to fire safeguards.

Every year some 260,000 homes go up in smoke. Every year
about 12,000 persons are killed, 24,000 more are injured and $700
million in property damage is caused by fires in the home. In plainer
terms, it means that a home burns somewhere, somebody’s shelter
and cherished possessions evaporte in smoke and lives are endang-
ered by fire every two minutes.

These are real tragedies. But in most cases, they need not hap-
pen-They are preventable. The persons killed and maimed could
still b@~-safe_and unharmed and the Pile of ashes could still be
somebody’s home. a

During this next week, therefore, it is the duty of every home-
dweller to think about fire prevention. It is a duty he owes to him-
self and to all those with whom he shares his shelter. It is a duty
that involves knowing how to recognize fire hazards; how to keep
a constant check on them; what measures to take to keep the
smallest fires from starting and what to do should fire break out.

Fire prevention of course, is not a matter that requires only a
week of attention. It is a year round affair. It ‘requires constant
vigilance on the part of every member of the household. With lives
and property at stake, however, it is a small price to pay for safety.

Editorially Speaking ; .

(This is the fifth in a series of editorials explaining how a
‘weekly newspaper functions).

An editorial is an opinion. More correctly, an editorial is, or
should be, an informed opinion on matters of public interest.

The Castle News rarely deals editorially with world subjects
except in their reaction upon this district. This is not because we or
our readers are nps interested in the Korean situation; for example
but first of all because it is practically impossible for us to be fully
informed on these world problems, and secondly, we deal exclusive-
ly with local news. We lack time for the research necessary for a
discussion of world problems and an editorial not solidly based on
information is a mere street-corner guess.

It is easy to write editoriais criticizing policy or administration
of public officials and bodies. Much harder is the task of putting
forth constructive ideas. We try to refrain from the class of ir-
responsible critics, for no public good is served by that kind of
editorial.

Our editorial columns are pledged to the support of all policies
and movements which will advance the welfare of the people of
this district,

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Montreal”s western
who will visit Castlegar next

official tour of branches in Brit-
ish Coumbia since his appoint-
ment as head of the bank’s west-
ern division last March. On his
trip, Mr. Turner is accompanied
by W. H. RAIKES, resident sup-
erintendent of the British Colum-
dia district.

Mr. Turner and Mr. Raikes,
who will visit over 70 branches

offices in Trail and Rossland.

Residents Praise
Home Nursing Course

Course held in the Kinnaird
School and sponsored by the
Kinnaird St. John’s Ambulance
Association, is now in its fourth
week with a full quota of stu-
dents, mostly Civil Defence Per-
sonnel, and an enthusiastic re-
ception for the classes.

Last week there were lectures
by Mrs. P. Gavrilik and Miss. Cc.
Baker, V.O.N. Next week the in-
structions will be given by F.
Richardson and will include a
practical demonstration of roller-
bandaging.

The Kinnaird Centre has Pur-
chased considerable equipment
for the course and borrowed
more, and has applied to the
K.R.C. for a donation to help off.
set the cost, of this equipment
which includes thermometers
sheets, bedpans, etc. ,
Reaction to the classes to date
is reported as very favorable,
Many express amazement at the
comprehensiveness of the course
and several have declared that it
is a course which very house.
wife should take sometime. Due
to lack of sufficient facilities and
space, however, the limitation on
total number of students must,
continue.

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At the time of the 1951 census

universal old age pension.

JOHN H. F. TURNER, assistant
general manager of the Bank of
branches,

Wednesday, while on his first

during their month-long tour of
offices in the Province, will also
call, during the day at B of M

The Kinnaird Home Nursing

Thursday, October 2, 1952

Just
LOOKING.

Thank ‘you

By E. G. 0.

At the Tyranny of Words:

In her excellent little book,
“Thinking to Some Purpose,”
Susan Stepping says of language
“We use language to express per-
sonal reactions to situations, to

ar in |
else and for the sake of thinking
something.out.”

Today, language is of more im-
portance than ever before. Never
before have theresbeen so many
mediums for the dinning of lang-
uage upon the minds and con-
sciousness of men. Never before
has each word and phrase been
so carefully measured, not for its
information content, but for its
use in creating an effect desired
by the author. In a world of

' science, amid the clash of ideo-

‘ logies, the use of words has also

b a i —a i
which uses words with never so
keen a cunning, for their ‘emo-
tional impact_on people;; for their
effect in distorting a truth; for
numbing or destroying thought;
for furthering the ends of their
author, but rarely as vehicles for
scientific, precise information.

.One hears of the expression; a
tyranny of words. I am not sure
what the originator of the ex-
pression meant, but surely it
could be applied to this torrent
of words to which we are sub-
jected today, This flood which
gives us no time to think or col-
lect such thoughts as we may
have which tyrannizes our every
waking hour — this tyranny of
words! -

And Words of Tyranny

There is one aspect of this flood
which, in the writer’s opinion, is
more dangerous than any other;
like the treacherous undertow of
a swollen river, is more danger-
ous for its seeming innocence.
That is the growing use of eu-
phemisms, gentle terms for harsh
ideas, im many aspects of domestic
and national life.

To use the expression “ques-
tion” when we mean “beat his
ears off”; “liquidate” when one
means “the murder of an individ-
ual or nation”; “protective cus-
tody” when one means “impris-
onment without trial”, is to use
the expressions as weapons of
totalitarianism and tyranny.

An honest if violent expression
at least stands on its own merits,
forcing the listener to declare
himself openly by disagreement
or agreement. An emotionally-|

loaded euphemism, which appeals |:

to our often unconscious prejud-

there were 652,776 Canadiang of
age 70 and over eligible for the

The average spent last year by Average wage of male farm
every man, woman and child in} help in Canada at May 15 was
Canada for clothes .and personal | $4.90.a day with board and $6 a
furnishings was $118, day without board.

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H. K. NARUSE and K. A. MORROW
OPTOMETRISTS

Announce the Opening of an Office at

Suite 3, Creighton-Horswill Building:
Over The Bank of Montreal

Castlegar, B.C.
Gor the Practice of Optometry

Commencing

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1952

HOURS:
Wednesdays — 9:00: a.m. to 5 230 p.m.

Saturdays — 9:00; a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Please make appointments with Mrs. Sutherlamd! at
Cyril Bell Agencies (Creighton-Horswill Building),
Telephone 3441.

DIRECTORY

Greep’s Electric
ELECTRICAL CONTRACTING.
Free Estimates
Box 384 Castlegar

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Furnace and Chimney Cleaning
CASTLEGAR PEUMBING. &-

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Complete Beauty Service
LADIES’ HAIRCUTS
HAIR COLORING
Phone 2661, Maple: St. Castlegar,

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Duraclean Service
Rugs and F i Revived:
Car Upholstery Cleaned:

K. ATKINSON.
. Pitone: 2601

A. J. WEIR

Painting Contractor
Paper Hanger

Free Estimates.

Box 388

ices, is allowed to pass and gain
support by’ agreement..

By agreeing to expressions of
violence or unlawfulness, no
matter How sugared’ by soft
words, we make ourselves: guilty
by association. The persom who;
accompanies the “necktie party”
or agrees that “certainly they

need to be put in their: place” is |;

just as guilty as the one who car-
ries out that violence:.
Euphemisms of this kind’ are
the weapons of the propagand-
ists im the war of’words: They: are
literally, carefulfy concealed: but
potemt, words of tyranny and. to-
day’s supporter may be tomor-
row's" victim.

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Phone 3421

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Terms. No carrying charge Store Hours: 1.5 p.m.

PARK ELECTRIC

At your service with 2 geod
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Let us help you with your
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Cor. Maple & 2n@ Ave.
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Thank You :
To All My Friends and Patrons.
I wish to announce that I have disposed of my

coal business to T. J. TEAHAN, well-known Trail
coal-dealer for over twenty-years.

I thank all my customers for the business they
have accorded me these many years and feel confident
they will continue to receive excellent service from
my successor in all your Coal requirements.

I will continue to dive °
trucking and: excavating Needs. *

you in your transfer,

N. V. DEFOE.

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Kinnaird, B.¢. Phone 3098
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