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CASTLE NEWS, Castlegar, B.C.

Thursday, August 13,1953

Page 4 a
Fire Enquiry - Just re
(Continued from Page 1) LOOKING
Renata, ¥ . ‘ ‘
He and his nephew, Roger Id- Thank You

dings, he said, had passed through

to and from Trail but had left
here about 10:30 p.m. ‘the same
day, in a black, 1941 Ford.

‘ He first learned of the fire, he
‘said, when he came to occupy it
con July 9-about 8:30 to 9:00 p.m.
‘in preparation for another 12 day
“shift at the smelter. He had left
‘the door locked on July 3, he said,

By E.G. 0. —~'
At the Question. What is Man? :

reading and hearing such. re-
marks as “a wonderful hunk of
man",
and others that I asked myself
what does the term “a man” sig-
nity, other than from a purely

I get so completely.fed up with

“he-man,” “Man's man’

and had no idea of how the fire
‘might have, started, there being
no electric wiring in the build-
ing. Police officers testified’ they.
‘found the door apparently blown
off the building and unlocked.

Castlegar ferry operator Char-
les “Ronald Nickerson, who was
working the graveyard shift on
July 7-8, said he was.on the ferry, | -
about half way across to the Cas;

ting him from “Adam's rib?”

the chances are excellent that
one would get a hundred answers
varying from, the humorist’s “one,
who chases a woman until shi
catches him” to the “Are you
kidding?” of the girl next door.

more from the pocket @ooks, an
mi, a

If one asked a hundred people

From the -advertisements and

ight: that

built up,

Bruce

pitcher while Ki
were M, Swihart for the first two
innings, releived by Johnny Paul-
son with one ‘out in the third.

Eagles shot into. 7-0 lead by
the fifth canto when Kinnaird cut
loose with their first three runs. | yj,
The victors, however, held: Kin-

naird to only one more run in the
seventh and one in the ninth, ad-
ding one in the sixth, three in the
seventh and two in the eighth,

Eagles Snap Kinnaird
Winning Streak With
13-5 Jolt: Lac! Nite

The Eagles Softball crew grab-
bed a firmer hold on first place
in Castlegar-Kinnalrd Softball
League: standings last night at
Castlegar, by trimming the Kin-
naird nine 13-5, thus snapping a
winning streak the . latter “had
at five games, an:
stretching their own unbeaten
record to four straight games.
was the

{0-4 At Kinnaird

The

tive

10-4 at Kinnaird,

Johny Paulson.

for the losers.

tlegar side at the time of the fire
siren on the morning of July,3.
He said the ferry landed at the
Castlegar ° side and about: five
minutes after the fire siren, load-
ed one car for a trip to Robson.

Because of the fire, Mr, Nick-
erson’ said he began writing
down on a slate; the license num-
bers.of cars whgse .owners‘he did
not -know, who were using the
ferry immediately after‘ the fire,
relaying these numbers later to

basis as a bull and for essential-
iy the same reasons, He would be
“broad shouldered,
handsome, fearless, lusty,”. would
swear and would probably smoke
a pipe, take an active interest in
sports .of. all |
generally, Others would require
thatilie have a.deep Voice,thairy
chest, thick beard, wear a certain
style of clothes or be a gentle-

“man” was judged on the same

innaird chuckers

tall, dark,

kinds and women

gha Din. I would also nominate
his late Majesty and the quiet
man working in his garden down
the street and a million others.
Too often; unrecognized and un-
sung but the salt of the earth
and one of the stays of civiliza.
tion.

For a’ that an’ a’ that,
It’s coming yet for a’ that,

+
million in 1952,

Latest Standings For
Intervillage League:

Kinnaird Trim Kiwanis

Kinnaird + Softballers
stretched: their winning;streak to
straight’. games,’- Monday
night, and climbed ‘to within a
game of the league leading Eagles,
by coming from behind a 4-0 de-
ficit to jolt the Kiwanis crew

Johnny Marshall started on the
mound for the losers, relieved by
Clift Wanless
went the distance on the mound

Labour income from manufac-
turing in Canada increased from
744 million in 1939 to $3,574

In the world only Brazil and
Russia’ have more forestland
than Canada ‘and nine-tenths of} ;,
Canadian forests stand on pub-
licly-owned Crown land. |

ing

iter.

More money was spent, in
men’s clothing stores in Canada
in 1952 than in women’s cloth-

stores — $204 million in the

former, $202 million in the lat-

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the police, The ofe car that}™=™  . : That man to man, the world oe'r
warded ti : rt hall brothers be for a’ that.

tt five} “These are Shal
ees tise Bea ne ena: istics of certain males of certain = = — 25 aa = =!
"was a black Ford car, either 1046 aoe shes oo pernasine 7, 7 a nj ns : TY, ,

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orede. The ane " gaid, turned jod of time, They are, in other 4
towards Nelson when leaving the| words, limited, ' non-inclusive; | §

fe at the Robson side, He saw
tworceeupsnts in the front. seat
but there may have been mor
in the:back,he said. :

Examiner at, yesterday's en-
quiry was Chief Inspector Rob-

masculine charcteristics but they
are certainly not the essential

these and gnore and be a-man or |’
he might, Eve none of them and
still be a man. They are second-

ert J. Holliday of V

the true of a man

with G. of P

the official stenographer. Qffi-
eers of Castlegar Detachment
RCMP, also testified. with Cor-
poral ’G. R. Cline assisting in the
examination, :

which are ii 1 rather thanex-

sical.

A true man would have a defi-
nite and well considered code of}

best’ of the society
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cause-him to circumvent or sub-
vert that code, once established.’ - |:
He would realize, consider and
carry.out his responsibilities as] §
a person, a citizen of the country
in which he lived, as’ a husband
and father, and to human society
as a whole. -
If he promised to do something |.
he would do it to the best of his
ability dnd: if he could not, he
would say’so. But whatever he
did, would be done without fan-
fare or ion. It is

There is an ‘old saying
"that when somebody. is the
butt of a joke... that “he’s
the Goat”. Well when you
neglect your car... it’s no
joke ... but your car is the
‘goat just the same.

Cars are worth too much
money teday to be neglect-
ed. Or not looked after. We
know that you have a lot
of pride about its appeat-
ance ... but after all, it’s
what's on the inside é6f the
car that counts. No car will
run without a motor ., . or
wheels ... or stop without
brakes. But... if every-
thing is functioning pro-
perly on your car... then
|. that’s wonderful.

IF IT ISN’T
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KINNAIRD

that he would believe in some
eternal power, greater and be-
yond himself and his faith would
be like that of a shallow and
noisy brook. If he could not ac-
cept some, Divine Power, he had
arrived at his decision only after
long careful thought and search-
ing. He would make his decisions
and accept the consequences with-
out complaint,
kindly, considerate, and thought-
fal’ of others. He would he
courageous in defeat, sincerely
modest in victory,
As Charles Kingsley most apt-
ly said, Man was meant to be not

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ternal spiritual rather than phy- s

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he recovers his humanity, in
every sense of the great obsolete
word — in proportion as he gets
pack the = spirit of manliness
which is self-sacrifice, affection,
loyalty to an idea beyond him-
self, a God above himself; so far
will he rise above cirgumstances
and weld them at his will.

of all the challenges of life, met
and subdued. As Bucher said,
A man is a sword, daily life, the
artificer and those cares which
beat upon the anvil and file the
edge and eat in, acidlike, the

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Moreover, a man is the result

the

inscription upon his hilt. ‘These
are the things that fashion the
man,

Finally, the term, a man,
knows no boundaries of time,
space, ereed or society. Buddha
and Christ were men in the finest
sense of the word but so was
Savonarola and Kipling’s lowest

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CASTLE NEWS, Castlegar, B.C.

Let's Discuss... .

_ JUSTICE and the DOUKHOBORS .

A solution to the Doukhobor
Problem jwould be very simple
+4f.the Sons of Freedom group
were non-existent, If such were
‘the ‘case, once -a/‘number. of:-re-
commendations proposed by ‘the
Research Committee are action-

ed by the’ g ; there in: British
would be no-problem. Columbia's history was ‘the fall-
Unfortunately, ‘most’: of our #UTe in this other Doukh

problems. cannot. be ‘solved with
facility because of some un-
Pleansant factors, In the problem
under discussion the unpleasant

ir

“\" ‘What their aim in life’ is, I'do
not know and I doubt if any of
them’ do.'The group '.came ‘into

/ being when many of tfie Russian’
immigrants, _ more
called by their :
Doukhobora, began
lated into v
‘of life. The continuation of the
,asaimilative trend woufd- have:
€ventually. destroyed the .com-
munal life and radically altered

the

ry

BY GEORGE B. LANDIS '*

the Country,
As individuals, they would

governments and to the laws of

mal ‘life, so they, found ‘it! neces:
sary to ‘heed the saying, “United
we stand divided we ‘fall.” The

know about: his opposition: '

forwarded _ instructions

that

is.reported to have deserted him ae au _

and to have gone to be with Highway Bridge On
Sorokin, ‘From: her he! can obtain
all the information he needs to

A source of information, from
Krestova states that Sorokin had
which
in| have. been interpreted ‘to mean
time succumb to the ways of nor- burnl t le

Columbia Avenue .
Geiting Overhaul. ©

A provincial _ public

20 years ago, ». +
~The opposition of the group
elvilized. living

from that time:and

the. Sons _o! Freedom

has been:

continued
it: will ‘con-
tinue for some’ time. Our coun-

lent’. groups,. Our h

t ped ‘from peo-
ple of ‘diverse races and. creeds;
consequently, we have the tend-
ency, to’ be: tolerant with dissi-

fast becoming ‘an ‘accepted ‘fact,
‘this is Probably the first time the

commonly

diate

“name,
to be assimi-

e Ci way. ot wheré

slaye labour. camps would di

the Di ‘In Kresto

ing‘ and h intri

The

these ‘people and their ancestors
“underwent for refusing to bear
-atms, for disobeying: laws’ and
for ‘other protestations, were now’
being set aside, © 66) ts

Certain elements within ithe

group, .. refusing “to -follow the
“trend* and or to

the suffering’ as. ‘a lost cause,
formed the. Sons .'of ‘Freedom
sect. This sect was composed of

that

for: its :leader,* A: third. group:

usually. involves ‘all three.

who had no i of

beco:

ming
did they want.to be Canadians
at all. They were intent on. con-

good Cariadians, nor

‘accused, F

a

ism“ would not allow an imme-
A quick solution is
possible -/only * in “communistic
to the
state is dealt with quite harshly
without ‘delay. Firing squads or

solve the group in short order.
there: ic as much
, 88 in any Far East
country,.Some of the Freedom-
ites follow Stephan. S. Sorokin.
Another group has John Lebedoff |"

composed of those who belong to
neither. All groups have been
subjected tothe effects of arson.
An of fires is not con-
fined ‘to. -any one group but

might be that some of the houses
are put to the torch by the own:
ers for self-defence in order to
‘Prevent their group from being

Lebedoff's wives

'@
intentions has appeared in print.
‘On one occasion he collected $94,-
0000 and on another the sum col-
lected is said to be over a hund-
red thousand.’ The view: is. that
this money will not be;used for
the intended purpose, As long as
the terrorism. continues in Sons
of, Freedom : settlements, he. will

is-

cause no country will accept law-
| breakers, 5
Some of- the. representations
is} that )Mr.- Sorokin made: to the
Uruguayan goverpment on_be-
half of his group:are astounding.
The” Sons ‘of Freedom. are ‘sup:
posed 'to have assets of some $28-
000,000 in lands, machinery and
It} capital, Once correct information

is obtained through proper chan-
nels, the Uruguayan government
will have‘no choice’ but: to reject
the. application, Failure , of the
Sons’. hope to emigrate. will pto-
bably be blamed on our govern-

tinuing ‘their’ opposition _to’.the

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‘| the burning of not only one’s own

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At-a meeting in Krestova a:

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‘ few,
years ago which was-attended by
‘Ja délegation of . officials, ‘the
:| gathering, of Sons of Freedom
‘]members. vowed to “keep. the
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mus we.
numerous burnings’ in Krestova =
‘certainly ‘substantiate the possi-
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The Sons of Freedom sect and
ir groups have
been swindled by’ various leaders
to/ and officers in their organization.
The loss of their lands to Mort-
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buted © to:.” swindling. * Ignorance
i to put their trust. in
self-made leaders. Although it is

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On Monday morning and Tues-
day afternoon, the - four man
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a car passed over them, and fast-
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securely, : :

Wed: they +
their repairs by'.replacing some
of the more.worn planks with
new ones, They, expressed amaze-

trattic which’ uses ‘the bridge
every, days :
" Opinion in many

works
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some corrective attention to the
higt bridge on. Columbia
Avenue over the C.P, Railway

Planks that wobbeld every. time

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“'T have fallen ‘heir to ‘this scrap
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of its rightful owners, ‘and while
we got ‘along just dandy for the
first couple of days, it is now bez
coming exceedingly - tempera-

ing back in self preservation,

ing to be a lot of fun driving that
Austin, and it''was, for a while.
I enjoyed the rattle and bang of
the motor starting up for. those
first two blissful days. Then ‘one

the table were the religious sym-
bols — bread, salt and water. The
Lord's Prayer and: other prayers
:| were said, the congregation knelt
‘}and begged forgiveness. A sol-

emh declaration, indeed,: before
God and man. As soon as it was
over, various remarks were heard

FE for no i rea-
son,. it simply refused ‘to c0-op-
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slightest effect. There is abso-
lutely no sound so hopeless as. a

dead motor.:
In desperation I got out and

poked around a bit under the lid,

+! to the effect that “today we make

beste and ‘tomorro re shi oy
what . is -prompted:
time ‘tracks have- been dynamited |:
and a number of houses burned
is staggering. f “+
According | to. Doukhobor’. be-
liefs, ‘for their salvation ‘it is not
essential“ to have - an external
Imowledge of Jesus Christ; for
there is the inward word which
reveals him in the depths of their
souls, (From Report of the Douk-
/hobor Research Committee.)

that it is the devil’s word in the
radicals’ instead of God's In the
Old Testament one reads of races
and generations being cursed, If
they have not ‘already been, the
Sons of Freedom radicals are. fast
becoming the cursed race in our
generation. . They must - be
made to realize that their behav-
iour is completely unjustified and
that it’might. only lead them to
.perdition,

Violence, indecency, disrespect
are not commandments of Jesus
Christ. In replying. to’ the young
man who came seeking the way

wilt be perfect, go and sell what
thou hast, and, give to the poor,
and.thou shalt have treasure in|
heaven; and: come and follow

faites,
‘Since* that >

start, and something usually hap-
pens.- Only. with: me. it. didn’t.
Maybe. I just didn’t poke ‘the
right gadget, because later. the
same day a friend of mine ‘(at
least’ he was before looking
under the hood), tightened a bolt
or two and did other mysterious
things which didn't make sense
I am more inclined ‘to believe os me, and it struggled valiantly

this trouble, though, except that
the-boss swore he'd pushed it for
the last time, and as far.as he
was concerned, I could wear out

shoe leather or just stay home. [+

to do under those trying circum-
stances was to convince my bet-
ter half of the
the Austin. I proceeded to imp-
ress this upon him by offeririg to+
drive him to a show. This proved
to be folly on my part because
no sooner had we got started
to eternal life he said, “If thon|merrily down the ‘road than the
convertible gave up the ghost
entirely. How one small car and
one small wife can upset the

as the. boss:remarked sort
h “also hi

ae wy
An: ‘ay,-Pve ‘seen other. people
‘do ‘that ‘when’ the engine won't

I wouldn't have gone to all

The only ‘sensible thing for me

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of a
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one small Austin, .

home, but also that of his. neigh- | at
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Furthermore, ‘if “the Sons of
Freedom ang sympathetic Douk-
hobors feel that the government
is their enemy, let us remind

were considered as a sacrificial
warning of a.world war, A half-
wit would perceive that such acts
would’ more likely start a local

all like Christians should. ©,
In the ‘past some of the fires

sion because Our Master said,
“Love your enemies, bless them

that hate you, and Pray for them
which despitefully use you, and
persecute you.” They act con-
trary ‘to. this commandment, not

them that the government repres-|war. than prevent a global ‘con-
ents the people and therefore they flict. - :

consider us as their i ‘The going of
Once again: they are in transgres-| heresy. can lead to nothing elsé

than damnation. Such talk might
sound a little strong; it has to be
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