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2 CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, September 24, 1959 j

Politics Encroach on the Free Market
As Polling Booths Replace the Market

Most Canadians are firmly convinced

that what they produce and what they ¢on- .

sume are decisions that should be made in
the marketplace rather than in the polling
booth.

Jt would be interesting to know to’

what extent contemporary politics has al-
ready undermined his necessary and desir-
able social objective.

. For one thing, the polling booth rather
than the marketplace has largely assumed
the role of decision-making when it comes
to what foodstuffs-shall be produced and at
what price. This is inherent in any system
of support prices for farm products-

The polling booth, too, has superceded
the marketplace in deciding which indus-
tries should be made to prosper and which
to starve. Thus. mortgage loans guaranteed
by the Federz: s:vernment have kept re-
sidential construction booming, while the
“freeze” on freight rates and outdated re-
gulations have starved the railway indus-
try.

pools and air-conditioners.

Some votes, to be sure, would go to
the CCF party for advocating nationaliza-
tion of the necktie business and public own-
ership of the canned soup, industry. Some
folks, after all, feel that choosing a necktie
or a particular variety of soup is too great
a strain and should be left to the ‘“Papa-
knows-best” type of politicians. .

The trouble, of course, ‘with tooth-
paste, necktie, air-conditioning polities is
that the politicians rather than the people
themselves would decide what should be
produced and what should be consumed. Al-
together, that would make for a pretty dis-
mal way of life for most Canadians.

The wonder of it is that so few people
in Canada recognize that they have already’
moved so far in this direction.

Gutter Politics

The state of B.C.’s public life has been

The polling booth appears also to have
replaced the marketplace in deciding upon
the amount of money ‘in circulation and the
level of interest rates. . ‘
Thus far, this steady encroachment of
politics on the prerogatives of the free mar-
ket has come about quietly and without
much fanfare. If the trend continues, how-
ever, it may bring about a marked change
in party platform and political labels.
“Consider, for example, the wide range
of political debate that would be possible it
Prime Minister Diefenbaker’s Conservative
patty declared itself in favor of greater pro-
duction and consumption of soap and tooth-
paste. It would not be hard for any smart
advertising agency to cook up a campaign
that would depict soap and toothpaste as
symbols of progress and essential to health,
therefore in the national interest. On elec-
tion day people would go to the polls to
choose, not between candidates, but bet-
ween soaps and toothpaste as opposed _ to
the Liberal party’s slogan’ for swimming

No Regulations
On Bond Buying

B.C. civil servants, according to news *

reports from Victoria, who wants to invest
their savings through payroll deductions
will be required to switch from Canada Sav-
ings Bonds to 5 per cent parity bonds is-
sued by the government-owned Pacific
Great Eastern Railway.
-Mr. A. C. Bennet of the B.C. Govern-
ment Employees’ Association says: “I am
- opposed to any kind of regulation as to how
a civil servant should invest his earnings.”
However, B.C. civil servants aren’t be-
ing regulated at all so far as investment of
their savings is concerned. Neither in B.C.
nor elsewhere is purchase of Canada Sav-
ings Bonds compulsory. Nor, for that mat-
ter, will B.C. civil servants be required to
buy PGE bonds. They may choose to do so
and avail themselves of the payroll deduc-
tion scheme. Or they may invest their mon-
ey on their own.
Certainly those who invested their
savings in Canada Savings Bonds, at the
urging of official Ottawa, cannot he said to

have done. very well out of their invest--

ment. — The Letter Review

Quotable Quote |

Credit for quote ‘of the week goes to
British Conservative MP Sir Ian Horobin
who, in a lively debate in British House of
Cc duched off a pandemoni of
protest from Labor party Opposition bench-
es by his statement that “there will always
be a Socialist party so long as there is any-
thing to steal.” — The Letter Review

pulled to a new low recently by the unparl-
i and ungentl ly 1 of
the leader of the opposition, Robert Strach-
an.

It is the type of language that is not
only revolting to, his politicgl opponents
and to those who are intellectually toying
with his political and economic philosophy,
but it is also distasteful to those loyal. CCF-
‘ers who saw in him the qualities which
would lead their party to the reins of gov-
ernment in B.C.

Perhaps having tealized the foolish- a

ness, absurdity and politicat and

¥ Residents Should Complain

FS

“QUICK — HAND ME A FLY SWATTER”

TIMELESS TOPICS

Gipsy Smith, an outstanding evangelist, was known
to say “The worst agony I know is.to lose Christ and
nen attempt to keep up the camouflage with an empty
heart.””

We would think a thirsty man foolish should he
stand gazing at a crystal-clear spring of water then
turn away without having quenched his thirst. The ex-
pression upon faces and conversations. amongst people
leave no doubt in the mind that there is a. great vaid
in the human heart. They try in various ways to sat-
isfy a spiritual hunger from natural sources, only to
find the emptiness increased and: the void greater,

The Lord Jesus Christ in His great omniscience

At Council Meetings Early _

Castlegar and Kinnaird residents who have com-
plaints about local services and conditions should regis-
ter their complaints with their village. councils.

Time after time, at meeting after meeting, residents
appear at Kinnaird and Castlegar council meetings ex-
pressing surprise that their appdarance at the meetings
is the first. notification that the councils have had that
certain’ conditions exist in the villages.

“This déplorable condition has existed for years,”
the petitioners complain, “Our neighbors have beer up
in arms for years.” This might be true, but unless the
conditions are reported to the two councils they can’t
be expected to know about them, or more importantly, do
anything about them: , e tard

They must be informed before they can act. And
they should be informed immediatly after the situation
arises, not months later.

Loan Sharks Squeeze
Canadians for Inierest

Merchants are squeezing 30 per cent to 54 per cent
from Canadians on installment plan purchases. One in.
every five. Canadian families purchase items like cars, ap-
pliances and furniture by installment. payments. ;

There is no legal limit to the interest charged on
this type of purchase. 1,107,000 Canadians were in hock
last year, for $477,000,000 to reputable licensed money-
Jenders and small loans companies. Absolute maximum

perceived the hearts of men and’ was alivays longing t
impart the satisfaction that He alone could give. Joh
chapter 7 views Him visiting the Temple on the last
day of the religious feast of Tabernacles. He watches
them and finally His yearning heart cries out. as re-
corded in verse 37, “IF ANY MAN THIRST LET HIM
COME UNTO, ME and DRINK.”

The source of abundant spifitual water stood in
their midst offering the satisfaction. that their religious
observances could not, but many: turned away sadly.

The song writer penned these words, “All that my
soul has tried left but a dismal void. Jesus has satisified,
Jesus is mine.” Is he yours? — Miss F. Clemo.

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these ean charge is 24 percent a year.

A bill to “curb loan-shark gouging” is introduced in
the House of Commons regularly each spring, by CCF
House Leader Hazen Argue. He would set a maximum 12

per cent interest rate on all debts—whether cash loans, .

mortgages. or installment plan accounts. As yet the bill
has never come to a.vote.

“Before making major purchases, consult the better
business bureau or your bank, is recommended. ‘Compare
prices, especially after credit charges have been added.
Never sign a blank contract. Get and keep a copy of the
contract.” — The Kimberley News. - “¢ i

unrealities of his platform, Mr. Strachan
has now changed his tactics and hopes te
march the party faithful to the seat of gov-
ernment with public outbursts that rank of
‘the gutter.

Mr. Strachan is marching alright, but
it is in the direction of’ the sewer, not Vic-
toria. And he is marching oblivious to. the
fact that his party faithful are dropping off
along the way to let him stride there alone.

Rockefeller's Luck
Still Holds Strong

Vice-President Richard M. Nixon be-
gan his paign for the Republican presi-
dential nomination in Russia.

Governor Neison Rockefeller began
his in Norway, with the wedding of his son
Steven to his pretty ex-parlor maid, Ann
Marie Rasmussen. He didn’t do it on pur-

pose; but he’s a mighty lucky man just the | -

same.
* * *

The whole world loves a wedding. And
this one had everything Hans Christian An-
derson never wrote a more satisfactory
fairy tale: the handsome young prince with
the gold-lined pockets beseeching the hand
of the fair young begger-maid, rags to
riches; Cindereliaj democracy, in action;
and all'the rich in-law$ quite ly

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beaming; and the bride herself as gentle
and demure and pretty as a princess. . .

Such under signed and perfect luck
_must set the hearts of Nixén supporters
quaking. There was their boy, cashing in
heavily on his Soviet trek, winning a good
long lead on his nearest contender, snatch-
ing 90 per cent of the headlines.

And then the fairies take a hand.

* * * *

It couldn’t have been planned. It can’t

even be attacked. How can one attack).

young love and stardust? Especially in
America, that great hungerer after ro-
mance! oo

And it was exactly the.one touch need-
ed to make Rockefeller,. the ‘billionaire, a
human being. ,

Against words Mr. Nixon can contend,
and against clever planning and political
brilliance and bold action.

But. what about that unparalleled
Rockefeller luck? — Vancouver Province

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