- 2» CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, March 16, 1967
ONE MAN'S OPINION iy F. B. Pearce

Does the Press Lead Opinion or Do es it Follow Along?

Full House on Saturday

whey,
a :
The Gay Nineties Oglow, G. Reinsbakken, M. Reith,
prevented saturday “evening by B, Sahlstrom, 'P. Willey, J, Char. Photocopying

I matter
of¢onjection
whether public
opinion is man!
ipulated by the
press or. whether
Newspapers are
merely copycats

who follow the lead of other.

increasing far more quickly than

fortunate idea that they were
mainly responsible for the alarm-
jng rise in ge in population.

not bother them in
the Toast, They were not con-

own re
personally.
was pure selfishness

Canada’s, Canadlans got 't!

A TEACH

e un- | of great to atactlon to the alarm-

ER TALKS

It often takes a spectacu-|ty there are’ many ‘adult people

iar achievement by a competitor] who do not have these mathema-

fo bring about self-examination.

tical and language skills. They

Such was the case in North| are the result of an earlier edu-

American education after the| cation system when grade IX or

great achievement of the Rus-| lower was considered adequate

sians in the fall of 1957 when| schooling for the average per-
son,

they put Sputnik I into orbit.
Years of conservative edu-

of these people are

Many
cation. with limited funds had| capable of being trained in spec-

preceded this date, and because jalities

if they can obtain the

of national fears ‘and pride the| tools for Tearning fundamental

Americans have since

large sums of money in a techno-| 5

At the.

no full-th

eoment, there is
»adultcontted school

logical race. C:

has been by. these

and advances,

x i ‘The present » Enlor
high school courses are not valid

Teaching programmes have | for adi

been or now are being radical-
to meet the new chal-| specialist tr:

changed

It seems that adults prior to
‘aining' do not need

lenges. People are required to|a vast store of facts to manipu-
stay longer in school and they | late; rather, they need the the

. Bre also having to accept the

opportunity to gain a facility in

prospect of.a continuing educa-| writing, discussion and mathe-

tion in their specialities.

matics so ‘that they can contend

Rapid developments in busi-| with current ideas, work oppor-

- ness, science and technology are

e | ni and problems such as

ists who saw in the rise of world
population world wide starva-

also gave pleasure to
those who believe that woman's
reason for existence should. be
subordinated to the needs of in-
dustry and commerce and her
self’ fulfilment, though the
things she does seem of small im-
portance » besides ‘her ' unique
ability to raise children.
oe Un doubtedly “the pl” will

ill is death. Anything

or prevents life is
Hrs crs But be arently it is
not death to the ‘individual but

is approachin,

achievements ‘Jn science and in-
dustry are marvellous, the stan-
dard ‘of living was never higher
but it is quite obvious that these
things have’ weakened our abili-
ty to wage war. Despite all their
weapons and mag Ines of: war

ange our.

It already has for we take. it
ag a matter of course, And since
we approve of it for married
people we also tolerate it for
unmarried ones,

It is just another of those
things which tend to change us
from a Christian nation to a pa-
gan one. We are just as satur-

ated with sex as ever were the
ancients who worshipped Astarte
and Diana. ‘

It will change the propor:
tions. of our population for the
decrease.in bi , together. with
the longer expectation of ate

day, will result in a
number of old people who do nat
work, a smaller number of peo-
ple who will have to work hard-
er to keep them, and a few
children.

It 1s doubtful if life will be
any easier since there will con-
tinue to be an onrush of develop-
ments in sclence and industry

which will call for ever more
workers,

Success Nearly
Led to Failure
For Pioneer

The first lieutenant-govern-
or after British Columbia became
a province of Canada, Sir Joseph
Trutch, almost missed his’ en-
trance into public’ life because

"making present
_ information obsolete. Retraining
is becoming a_ real. necessity.
Also, there is and will continue
to be a need for training people
- for completely new technologi-
fields.
Education for a healthy so-
ciety suet become a reality.

eople who have-a_ high | o:

"school education or have them:

gap

themselves and their Wrospeetive
high school or college children.
This educational need of
adults is only surmised. Adults
who have the ability to obtain a
grade X standard should make
their requirements known to the
educational authorities. It is
nly when a need is made appar-
ent that the educational authori-
ties can start to consider a suit-

able programme.
Let us Reet in general

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» OGLOW’S

y be call
ness period and its length would
vary with the ability of the stu:,
ent

he was too in private
life.

He was a British civil engin-
eer, born in Somersetshire in
1826, and was in Jamaica when
he heard the call of the west.
It took him to California, a place
he disliked, and to Oregon, which
he liked, ‘and there was mar-
ried. Construction work took
him back to Illinois, but in 1859,
he came to Victoria..where he
won the task of building Alex-
andra Suspension Bridge over
the. Fraser uzzum. and : Di

y
Trutch ior a Toschi

After this "y per-
iod a regular roguamne “of de-
veloping language and- mathe-
matical skills could be taught
for some two or ‘three years.’
Again, the length of. the pro-
gramme would deperid on indi-
vidual ability. On completion of
the course, the student would
receive a diploma which would
enable him or her to be guided
into an academic, technological
or vocational field of continuing

education.

in the

Seymour wrote. to London -in
1864 -pointing out that Trutch
for’ six: more years would’ con-
tinue to collect tolls on roads
and bridges he had built.’

> Alexandra’ Bridge alone
brought him’ £4,000 a year. If,
as land commissioner, he allow-
ed one of the many portages of
the Fraser to become impass-
ible, all the traffic would go to
his bridges, tripling his private
incom ie, finally made

adult

war has shown that
the Americans ‘have failed to
realize it is‘men. who count,

The next war will be be-
tween China and the rest of the
world. If the Chinese have no
pill they willbe able to oppose

Association and the Castlegar
Centennial Committee drew a|M
packed house to the SHSS acti-
Ty room. B.
Produced’ and directed b:

crossed ugh
fines as residents front}
Castlegar, gO!
centres worked together ‘to pro-
duce the fun-filled evening.
Proceeds from the affair,

yy| bert, H, McLeod, G. Schwartzen-
Y | hauer.

ir Letters — Birth Cortificates
Important Papers
Clippings
Coplee: of Book Pages
Black-on-White Process
Reasonable Retes

Gastfegar Hews

D. Blais, De
. Schiavon, E.

which included a dance at the

arena, are destined’ for the Cen-
tennial
Those taki: ing part in the Gay
Nineties Revue, which included
choruses, a tableau and a one-

* THE

BEST
BUY

masses of men to machines, His-
tory shows the odds are on their
success, if for'no other reason
than that their’masses have not
had the soft comfortable living
we are enjoying.

But why pee Let us eat,
drink and be merry while we

peace in our.

can, and pray that there may be|Cabe, B, McCutchi
times B, Marken, L.

act melodrama included: e@
‘The SHSS

eon.

Miller, B

at Fi
of the; road | ‘tom: Yale: to. Gari:

ag Y connislen of lands. and|f::
works and surveyorgeneral but|[r

should be aware of a problem.
Adult education invariably
means evening classes, and al-
though students may be ini

enthusiastic, the student pare
be a mature discipline to consist-

activities like club ‘meetings,
golf, hunting and fishing could
pe detrimental to a student

turn ‘out to classes. Adult| tog to

on
thet Trutch sell his interests,
Once in office, Trutch ‘con-
tinued his career.as_a builder,
became a member of. tlie ,execu-
tive ‘council, was a delegate in
1870 ‘to the Ottawa , talks ,w!

our entry into Confedera:
tion and in 1871 was appointed

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