CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, May 10, 1962 _ CASTLEGAR NEWS Local Correspondents Serve Community (This is the last in a series of editor- ials on how a weekly newspaper functions.) w * Without its District correspondents a weekly would little news. C dent ial to the gathering of news of. the. District. This is particularly true in a District such as the Castlegar News serves. We try to record the happenings in Renata, Deer Park, Syringa Creek, Robson, Bril- liant and Blueberry Creeks, as well as Castlegar and Kinnaird and it is imposs- ible for our small staff to attempt to cover them all from one office. Local men and women, living in those communities, knowing. their residents, are the ones who can and do gather our District news. These correspondents are performing a public service to their communities. They chronicle the doings of its people and report the meetings of t ired and Forty-Seven dent.is a valuable aid in the building of a live, definite community. Without the aid of our District corres- pondents it would be impossible for this paper to carry all the news it does from the various communities of the Castlegar District. Ww Xe In closing this series, let us review the main points we have tried to establish: A weekly newspaper is .a business enterprise providing a public service for a profit. Advertising, the main revenue of a paper, is dep on. cir VICTORIA REPORT By. JAMES K, NESBITT Where, oh where, please toll us where the Pre- those bonds? The |, ‘@3bond salesmen say © people aren't buying the bonds, but the Premier says hey are, but he won't say who it is that is buying: them. The bond Coole said they couldn't get’ rid of the first $25, 000,000; promptly the Premier, a defiant man, not one to be pushed around, announced another ue, this time for $54,000,000. But who's buying them. The Premier's highly secretive: about the whole matter, Under modern’ conditions, no news- paper need have its‘ advertisers influence editorial policy. Mr, ‘Bennett: appeared ‘buoy- ant, without /a care in the world, as he made ‘his bond announce- ment at ‘one ‘of: those’ cozy press in his office, at which The p .is re ible for every word published inthis paper—signed let- ters and paid advertisements included. The local correspondent is providing organizations. A good District correspon- Good Illustration of the Futility of Striking Recently, at the CLC convention in Vancouver, a trade union leader. expressed the belief that the strike pon is out- ity service. to the District in which he or she resides, stubbornness of both parties, enormous and irreparable harm has been done to moded and obsolete. This seems to be well borne out by the almost year-long and recently ended strike at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto. The waste and futility of strikes as a means of resolving difficulties between labor and management was perhaps never better illustrated. More than a thousand employees walked out and stayed off the job just two weeks short of a year, then ended up by agreeing to the terms which were ‘proposed originally by the manage- . ent. What untold hardships, what do- mestic. strain and. sacrifice, what" nr ness and unk were entailed. i strike of such magnitude. Millions . of dollars in lost wages, lost sales, and lost ‘hotel revenues, and all for what, comments the Orillia Daily Packet and Tim # If some vital principle were ae ‘stake, some issue of very real: significance, such a, strike might be justified. But' it is ap- parent.that no such issues, were involved, but that the strike arose out of the sim- ple Hnability of the representatives of union ‘and management to come to terms about the usual routine concerns of. any collective contract; a few minor changes in rates of pay and clarification of some contract conditions, Yet. because of the Business Thinking Requires Open Mind. A financial consultant. who ‘never at- tended high school told a group of ac- countants in Toronto recently that there is a lack of relative thinking in business. George M. Bowman, an investment man- ager, and the self-educated author of three books, was speaking to the Guild of Industrial, Commercial and Institutional Accountants. “Many men holding responsible posi- tions,” he said, “have minds beyond teach- ability because they are closed to new ideas. Creativity is a lost art to such men,” he said. Mr. Bowman pointed up what he call- ed two serious problems in the business world. Far too many business men, he ex- plained have almost no knowledge at all of basic commercial law or accounting which is the control of all business, Ignor- ance of these subjects caused most bus- iness failures, he said. “The other problem,” he continued, ‘is to give a man eccterts without of people in all walks of life, including not only the strikers and their families but hundreds: of small shopkeep- ers and tradesmen dependent upon them for their own livelihood, as well as the shareholders of the railway which oper- ates the hotel itself. In other words, a large part of the community has suffered some loss, and a thousand employees have experienced real hardship, because of the faulty judg- ment and stubbornness of a few meén. The -union itself has exhausted its funds, and has lost both status and membership, as a result of this foolish and unnecessary strike, while the hotel has suffered in- loss of r and ‘reams’.of unfavorable publicity. It-is a sorry story. | “‘\ Phe dreadful record of. such a strike should surely impress upon the minds of legislators and general’ public -alike the need for legislation to replace thé strike with some more practical method of resol- he spars and jousts with reporters and everyone has a fine time. I don’t. ‘understand all this Social Credit: high finance, and don't pretend to. I only know I had a few dollars, and went to a bond office, and was told not to buy Bennett hydro bonds because they're too high. I don’t know what that means; I found it so Jusi a Show of Appreciation confusing I took my $5 and went to an auction and bought a ruby- colored pony ‘glass, and now I don't know what to do with it. The Premier told us. be “had been ‘travelling through the pro- vince, talking to all and sundry, and everywhere he went he found people completely sold:on his So- cial Credit government. Y'm afraid the Premier - puts ‘too much faith in.what people tell him to his face, The Premier's an important person, and it’s only na- tural to butter him up. ‘That does-/ the n’t mean they won't call him nasty names the minute his back is tur-| ned; » it doesn’t mean, certal that just because they butter him up they've pledged themselves to vote for him. A tyro candidate in the Fed: eral election campaign came to. me for advice.,I said I could: give a politician no advice, except not to Selieve everything everyone’ told him about ‘voting for him. I told him such pledges of loyalty, most- ly, doesn’t..mean a thing, and not to count on them. He: appeared disillusioned, and I told him he'll have to learn the facts of Political life the hard way. One reporter at the Premier’s press conference, who had also been on a fact-finding tour of the province, told the Premier that in Kelowna he found all: sorts’ of people who didn’t know who their MLA Oh, yes, he ‘said, they The Time to Ask Politicians Where They Stand Is Now By AMBROSE HILLS A zood time to let politicians knew. the Premier by name, but they didn't know he’s MLA for South Okanagan. Quick as quick the Premier shot back with the remark that Kelowna’s a great and, beautiful and. wonderful tour- ist place, and that there are always lots of strangers about, and, nat- urally, the reporter had. been tal-| wit king to the strangers, and they couldn't be expected to know who MLA for South Okanagan is, Thus it is that our Premier usu- ally talks faster than reporters — rand. ‘thats saying something. I talked with another report- er who had been to Kelowna, and he told me that he found there lots. of people who have grown anti-Bennett, though, ho sald, they sort of whispered it to him. The Premier’ said that every- where he went people fell all over him, even to the extent of giving him free. meals; coifce counters, when they saw the Premier prop- ped up on a stool, wouldn't charge him. I asked the Premior what he thought these folks were after, and he. said nothing, noth- know what you want and don't iting your votes. This is the time to put them right on the spot and get from them some clear state- ments of how they stand on var- fous issues, © For my part, candidates who solicit my support will have to as- sura. ‘me that they. will be more prudent with the dollars they col- deck. T have no deslie to be bribed my_ own money; I will: vote for thee candidate who promises to stop spending money as if it were Boing out of style. I know there are:some voters who think that when taxes. are raised they are not hurt personally, They. eyen approve of the notion that Corporations should be soaked. It is a nalve position to hold, because if the corporations are soaked they Tust raise their prices and who do you suppose pays those increased prices? | However, those who ‘are nalve enough te want the corpor- ations soaked ‘must get/in’ their best digs during the election cam- paign, Another thing I'am‘ going to ask of Hie! candidates in By. Son ing, no special favors for anyone from Social Credit — these people just wanted to show appreciation for. all his Social Credit govern- ment had done for the people of British Columbia. Doctors in Saskatchewan aro still opposed, as a class, to the pro- vince’s medical insurance scheme, and the tactics. of the government now. being directed towards forc- ing the doctors’ to cooperate by ous to the state, whether it con- sists of efforts to be self-support- ing in spite of governments or in active onposition to the new sche- mes with the consequent new tax- es that ‘politicians and ‘pressure groups dream up for bribing’and the voters. making the the sole pay- master for citizens’ medical bills. Voters are also showing some alarm about the cost of the in- surance to individuals, many of them. believing that they would be better o! ither ‘The Saskatchewan experiment in medical insurance ‘deserves to be watched closely by voters in other provinces, so that they may be on their guard: aga’ ‘similar schemes. Its immediate effect Saskatchewan Plans Tends. . To Regiment All Citizens should be to encourage doctors to move out of that province to other places where they - cam count on the right to practice their pro- fession without interference, The long-range effect, - particularly. if the idea: spreads to other provin- ces, will be to discourage young People from‘ entering the profes- sion, thus impairing the quality of medical care available. to Cana- dians, instead of improving it, as promised by the politicians. — The Letter Review. or eae ea widows’ pensions. f go along with the National Council of. Women in their argument that the present tax on widows’) pen- sions, is grossly unfair and ought to be dropped or changed. Indeed, I think Canada’s entire tax structure should be changed to lower. the rates, so that we can compete in Price. with ather countries, and I am going Yo ask candidates how they feel about it and what they will do about it if. elected. Elections can be boring, but they are, in niy opinion, an educa- tion, You can have a lot of fun and learn a lot by. taking part, at- vived, Next time you meet a neigh- bour, involve him in a political ar- gument, You might: not’ convince him, but you are almost certain to come out’ of the discussion pom what wiser, and he is likely to makes democracy by e carrying policies with existing pri- vate insurance plans or by making thets own arrangements’ for medi- care in some other way. ‘Faults. of ‘the Saskatchewan plan,‘as of the. government hospi- tal insurance plans in force there and elsewhere, -are that they tend to regiment. all citizens and that they invariably cost more than the when they ving labor-management differences, The strike is outmoded in the complex, inter- ‘connected society of today, and does harm to the general public out of all pro- portion to the issues involved, which af-| in, fect a relative few. — Kamloops Daily Sentinel authority. You cannot turn a man into a competent manager of others. if you _re- fuse to such a iit with authority. Such an appointment de- foisted the ‘schemes on the public. One reason for the’ increased cost is that, in addition to the normal costs: of medical and hospital care, the citizens have to pay for the overhead costs entailed in -keep- track of © insurance - policies, paying claims and collecting prem- ium. In all government-controlled schemes of this kind, the. admin- istrative. staff: tends: to: multiply as the service opens opportunities , [for politicians to place their elec- tors in government jchs. y. In the’ philosophy’ of the wel- fare state, governments must con- tinue to regiment citizens for their own problematical good. Individ- ity |ualism is looked upon as danger- mands no respect. from subordi and invariably causes serious losses in produc- tion.” Mr. Bowman said that success in bus- iness. was impossible without ‘effective communication. ‘Successful communica- tion,” he said, “depends: not upon the sender's but upon the receiver's familiar- ity with the code used. Too many speak- ¢ ers and writers are more interested in communicating their vocabularies than their ideas,”. and their choice of a code (big words) confuses their audiences.” Mr. Bowman concluded by saying, “Control is more important than power because it puts power to use, and ‘com- munication is more important than ideas because it puts ideas to use.” — Kamloops Dally Sentinel CASTLEGAR NEWS | Published Every Thursday At “THE 1. V. Campbell, Publisher rate to the Newa ‘8 $3 per year. The price by delivery bey is 35 cents a month. 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