CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, March 31, 1966

CASTLEGAR NEWS

“Mere let the press the People’s Fights maintain, | unawed by influence and unbribed by gain”
din N H

and Forty-Seven

They Must Go So Canada May Prosper

mockery around the world in 1965...

Step down, old men,

Release your hold on the country and
Jet it breathe and live again.

Take your strangle-hold from Canada
before you pull it into the mud of your po-
werhihgry egos, your stubborn, well-mean-
ing leadership; your bitter recriminations.

Step down, old men.

Take your fingers from, each other’s

An old man overriding his Minister

f Justice in the House... .
An old man, head of our country,
phoning the Pitiful Canadian involved in

asking for d

Old 1 men, you are aiding in the hum-

iliation of what should have been the

flabby tk in this

Canadians are forced to watch,

What do we see?

', An old fee) bitter from defeats and ier.
to

most dynamic country in the world. A
country pushed to the brink of. greatness
by men like St, Laurent and Howe. A

country rich beyond count, the last front-

hamper the nation’s business for months
on end to fight the issue of a new flag...

An old man, stubborn and well-mean-
ing, forcing a flag on a country that did
and could still live with the Red Ensign.
Then accepting an ill-proportioned design
as a second-best choice to get his way...

An old man, wallowing in the scan-
dals that made the name of Canada a

SUGAR AND SPICE

the past.

A country’ ashamed now to raise its

Step down before the damage is too.
great to be repaired;

Step down and hand over your pow-
er to those with the minds to see the
visions of the future, not the scandals of

Step down, old men, — Lion’s Gate
Times, West Vancouver

By Bill Smiley (%

Rockefeller, English Premier & Socialist

piles
T’ve spent the p:
with no Obvious pr irons in‘thelr,
altitude. Exam papers.

temper.

But it has a ‘salutory effect
on the ego. It’s a little like try-
ing to Bull in your stomach
and finding that your chest
doesn’t go out any more, Or
catching .that first horrible
glimpse of the naked bald spot

- which you thought was merely
a thinning on top.

Yes, it's humbling. You
have begun to build up — with
no really good reason, except
that you haven’t been fired —
the idea that you're an ex-
cellent, if not outstanding tea-

cher,

Then you start to read
what your students have
“learned” from you in the past
six months. Nothing. Zero. You
have merely compounded their
ignorance. You have only con-
fused the simple teenage phil-
osophies they have acquired:
from television, hootenanies,
Mad” magazine and the pool-
room.

Some young and tender
teachers, faced with this shat-
tering moment, have been
known to turn green, rush to
the school board, offer their

resignations and even, in dras--

tic cases, attempt to pay back
thels salaries ghey have accept-
For the older, tougher
teachers, it is not quite such
a traumatic experience. Oh,
they may swear a bit, tear
their hair a bit, and froth
slightly at the mouth, a But they
do not offer to return thelr ir
salaries. The last known
of this, among older teachers,
was in 1714.
The more experienced fen:
chers accept this

of unrelenting labor on their
own parts, it will be all sorted
out by June and most of the
kids advance a grade,
And it must be admitted
that marking exams is not un-
mitigated misery. It has its
On several
responding to peals of maniac-
al laughter from my _ study,

my wife has dashed up the
stairs, ready to call the boys
in the white coats,

There's the student we,

us: “He was a “prime minis-
ter of England and very im-
portant in the labor move-
ment.” The rumble heard at
the time was John D. trying
back to this

id strangle the

Sometimes it’s not fun-

On, a recent exam, junior
students were asked to pick
the right verb from this sen-
tence: “They ha nk,
drank) all the wate
blonde girl with tr

to argue
world so he cou!
kid.

chose “drank” because, as she
pointed out, “bea is not a

VICTORIA REPORT

: ‘WHO NEEDS AN UMBRELLA WHEN IT ISN'T RAINING?®

By James K. Nesbitt

Hints of Election Extended the Session

The govern-
ment was as stub.

born. during
the legislative
session and

o) tionis ts
posit gues

verb. It’s a noun.” She had &

good reason for her answer.
Her father is one,

sense out of
all ‘his ihrer It’s like find-
ing a solid piece aot ground
in a swamp, a cool spring in
the desert. foros
That's the. moment when
the poor old teacher is hooked
once again by that most. irrit-
ating of nuisances, faith in the
ture of the human race. And
Dleary-eyed, but with a light-
er heart, he bows his weary
head once more over the waste-
jand of pores looking for, the

e ONE MAN’S OPIHION

appeared the opposition had
the government on the run.
That's what oppositionists
like to think, anyway, and
that’s what they'll tell the vot-
ers, The government will tell

Residents Gained
And Others Lost

In twenty years Canada

gained 2% million immigrants
but lost one million emigrants.

By F. B. Pearce

Ghurkas Worth More than U.S. Might

The: fact ent
within ‘sound "ot
the: “bi of

Aldershot camp
does not qual

So it was- are a ‘great
«deal of pleasure that I read an
account of the Battle of Ala-
mein. :
Desert warfare was a par-
ticular type of warfare. It was
not until both the Germans and
the British mastered its pecu-

Marities ‘that it really became |

a matter of. skill. .That Mont-
gomery eventually beat Rom-
mel was due to the fact that
he was a far better tactician
and more capable of handling
“troops in this type of ‘warfare.

Both sides employed mod-
ern arms but the fun

was so vulnerable to tank at-
tacks that anti-tank units with
sixpounder guns became part
of the defence of the front
line. The effect of Alamein was
to prove that resolutely handl-
d, puns could beat

, Though the

of. war Rare the
same, each war is different.
‘The Americans today 2 are fight:
ing'a war in Viet Nam wil
cogs

they maust inevitably be defeat-
e

The British, who are ex-
perts in meeting and defeating
guerrillas,

id so in Malaya b:
an_ organized: deliberate came:
paign, using men instead of
tmachines, which in the jungle
are paseleestt took seven. za

comp! le ing. out of
the oud Tene
5

all the heavy equipment of the
American army. B

ae Scottish Botanist -
_ Discovered Douglas Fir

damen- _ #
sas of war do not. change. It

ag the infantry which in the

end decided the outcome of: :
the battle,

re are curious paral.
lels_ between Alamein and

“Waterloo. It was the steadiness « -

and resolution of the British
soldiers which beat Napoleon's
army in that great battle. At
Waterloo, the squares stood
fast and reserved their fire

yards, Their
volleys were 3F erative "At
jlmetn. the . infantry: allow-
ed the German tanks to come

‘ well within range before open-

ing ‘fire! On one occasion an
Australian battalion armed
-with the inadequate two-poun-
der guns, allowed the enemy
to come within 100 yards, then
they® destroyed the leading

= -Wel Hington’s day artii-
lery went with the infantry and
cavalry. During the First World
War the place of the artillery.

David Douglas
4 common error is the as-
sumption that the Douglas fir
was named after the first pov:
ernor of the: mainland ‘co!
of British Columbia, Sir. ‘James

economy was David Douglas,
one of the world’s great botan-

ists and explorers.

David Douglas was born in
Scotland in 1799. ‘A bright stu-
dent’ he fell in love with bo-
tany and at the age of 24 was
chosen by the Horticultural
Society. to-go ehroad in ¢.
of specimens for Lond

Philadelphia be saw
~ specimens collected by the Le-
wis and Clark ‘expedition to
the Pacific Northwest and he
resolved to explore ‘those re-

He endured a 256 day trip
around the Horn during 1824-
25 and established; a head-
quarters at Fort Vancouver on
the Columbia river. He rang-
ed east and north as far as
* the Rockies for two p years, send-
ing his specimens back to Eng-
land where he soon was fam-
ous,

In 1827 David: Douglas
made an overland journey to
York factory on Hudson’s Bay
through 3,600 miles’ of wild-
erness, From there he sailed
to England where in
because of his knowledge of
the area involved, he was con-
pulted in the negotiations then

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the Oregon boun-
dary dispute.

Soon he was back in the
coast regions and resolved to
go overland to Alaska. He got
as far a8 the Skeena river be-
fore the hardships of his jour-
ney, ill health and hostile In-

ns B caused him to turn back.
1833 he arrived back at

to shorten letters tn the, interests of economy’ of

space,

papers Association, the B.C. division of the Canadian
Weekly Newspapers Association, and the B.C. Week-

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Fort V , in seven years
he had collected more speci-
meng than any. other botan-
ist had ever done over sd
wide an area.

In 1834 Douglas went to Ho-
nolulu, where he tumbled into
a pit which had been dug to
catch wild cattle — and a
captive bull gored him to death.

the voters it's the opposition-

are scared because
they ‘now they'll never take
the government away from So-
clal Godt,

‘The government told only
what it wanted told and the
op) jonists, never discour-
aged, only mad, asked ques-
tions over and over and, over
again.

‘They didn't learn much,
except what the government
wanted to them, and even
then the

to) 0 said

they were being led down the
garden path, and that the gov-
was deliberat mis-

leading them and the public.
There were far more wide-
flowing oneraliies than speci-
fies suring the the session.

e's pr blems,
froma pouteal standpoint, re-
ceived a thorough airing, and

removed.

There’s more money for edu-
cation and the manities,
though ond oaitiontets say not
nearly enough. i
Oppositionists ¢ gave cabinet

salt
Some of she petty: nuisances of.
living

and now oud then then they we
joined by the odd a government
supporters who as vocifer-
ous in his criticism | of the gov-
ernment as if he were Liberal

ied

upon by one of his own flesh’
and blood. i :

was Many a politi-

cally bitter interlude during
the session. Tempers were
short and there
matches Ealore. rua

iberals

chagrin of the New Democrats.
4X do not know why the
Premier kept giving hints that
an election is just around the
corner. There wore ti Siraes when
it seemed
threatening an Glection. His
election talk just whetted the
appetities of the oppositionists
and made them real talky, just
as if they were out on the hust-
ings, instead of in the chamber
of the province’s most import-
ant lawmakers, Both sides, as
3 matter of fact, did 1 plenty lenty of
electioneering, with the public

- paying the bills.

fs Sout i
‘nore e an
election I do believe the ses-

over the place leads: me to
believe an election won't come

iproar, especial-
ly election uproar, and so it is
that, under. our constitution,

poli

Pad more Stability in ‘polities
there’d be more public respect
for politicians,

Ration Needs
To Maintain
Homan Habitat

“We lave Rone: bine é i
a nation, to the most

Id of ig
re ” habitat, the porery: basic basic
things we call natural

fuman essentials are lit-

Contemporary
Comments and
Observations

“Population stabilization is
not a brake upon ‘human dev-
E ment, but rather a yeleaze

” — John D. Rock-

Mer IT
“As the quality of tele-
vision declines I we will
sell more paler] and T think
the le auallty of television is ab
certain to decline.

ms impossible for aA to go
much ch lower but I think ie wilh”

are rebuilding a
bridge which for centuries has
lain fallen between the Church
of Rome and the Church of
Canterbury, a bridge of res-

of esteem and fa

pect,
Pope Paul Sadressing ace
shop Ramsey at thi

meeting

“If in 19686 we. do: not

succeed in negotiating an. ef-

fective and watertight treaty
to stop the spread of nuclear

weapons, t the world) may have

passed no return.’

Minister

Curious Rule
Of Britannia

“Ht was recently Siscover:
ed ina Tendon bank tha’
door which had to remain

Dusk-To-Dawn
Outdoor Lighting

for so: socurity

for safety
for convenience

‘There {s no substitute for the security, -
safety and sconventece of your. own Outdoor
Light It dispels’ the Blo of carne

aaa
courages vandals, and Tengthens the day for

work ov play.
Dusk-to-Dawn.

thting is automatically

Lig
turned on at dusk and turned off at dawn by
control,

For additional information concerning
DUSK-TO-DAWN LIGHTING — write, tele-
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