CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, Feb. 3, 1966

_CASTLEGAR NEWS

rights malatate, unawed Sd leet ai eatin ere
Established. ra Nineteen Hundred and

the press the

Forty-Seven

a for Action on Assessment Taxes

thode inf,

Taking issue with the p:

to assessment val-

jof arriving at assessed values for pro-
‘perties is the Review newspaper at Cres-
ston, published in a community which —
‘like Castlegar — has just been raised from
‘village to town status and which must now
salso assume responsibility for its own as-

sessing.

H The Review suggests that the citi-

izens of Creston, and

ues on land.

increased to

Creston.
“If this

ical

the bus-

jinessmen, “should take a good look at
jtheir recent assessment notices. In eight
:out of 10 sales they will notice their

of existence.
d and in

‘and has been ii
ta lesser ratio, improvements
*ereased.”

The Review then comments that the
{basis of such. increased assessment boils
“down to “what the newspaper terms “sa.

Jes information.”

It continues: “This is a false way of

determing assessment and

Should protest thig method of assessment.
t:In short, it boils down to this: if a large
“badly enough and pays a high price to the
perty badly enough it will pay a high
: price for it. If a person wants property
: badly enough and pays a high pice to the
i seller, such actions, according to the pro-
pvincial assessor, are basic enough (sales

wigTe | f REnaAT

“When
councils of
communities

have also in-

and

“Thus the small landowner, business-
man and industry have their assessment: ~:

meet this inflationary real

estate economy which is now evident in

is the formula used for: as-

sessment, then it has dispensed ‘with any

table which has previously

been used. In fact, if allowed to continue
the entire main street could be taxed out

one considers Mayors and

several Kootenay-Boundary °

have taken a dim attitude

toward this year’s spiralling assessments

and are

the taxpayer

should give such legislative

bodies their full support in throttling this

this district
“History

and the abilit
business.

action in the
es.”

assessment policy octopus and bring the
government and assessor's office to time.

has shown Canadians are ‘al-

ways too late.’ When we are taxed far
beyond the intrinsic worth of our property

ty to pay — we are out of

amen £,

tnd

«i
The tints has come for concerted

reduction of assessment tax-

Me. Na BF Bn aoe
ow UGGS Ke NOSDIMT

TIMELESS TOPICS —

Need to Learn Essentials Early in Life

By Rev. Ira Johnson

Kinnaird Church of God

We live in a Jand of great
opportunity. We have the op-
portunity to receive a good ed-
ucation, to find a good iob,
to make good wages, to sur-
round ourselves. with many
things that add to our com-
fort and enjoyment of life. } We
pre constantly endeavering 45,

raise “our “standard of living.’ ye

:“That Throne Speech Was Long, Brother”

nett from information provid:
ed him by his cabinet ministers
and delivered'in 47 minutes
by J Haut -governor George Pear-

“] think the best summa-
tion of that speech came from
U.S. Negro comedian Dick Gre-
gory. Asked what he thought

of that speech, Mr. Gregory
said: “It was long, brother—
long, long.”

What's called the throne
speech debate really is not a
debate at all. It’s a series of
speeches, most of them large-
ly political, and there are rare-
ly interruptions, It is an_un-
written rule among, members
that they permit . these
speeches to ‘drone on, unless
the speaker really gets. out of
aon politically-speaking, that

As always, this throne
speech talkathon is following
time-honored fashion. Social
Credit backbenchers say the
Soci) Credit government is a
fine government indeed,

the best we ever had, and that
it’s marvelous to
wonders that it works for the
good of all, etc., etc., etc. Oh,
mind you, now and: then a
Social Creditor, priding himself
on his daring, slaps out a bit
at his very own government,
just to. show his independence.
is means very little; such in-

is seldom

more than verbal — a good
show, you see, designed to im-
prace-and_the Premier wel.

behoid « the -

Set the business of the pro-
vince done more quickly and
efficlently...But then what's
speed and efficlency compared
to public entertainment eman-
ating from our legislature?
The government has been
finally forced to bow to public
opinion and so compulsory.test-
ing of automobiles will come
into being throughout the pro-
vince, as there has been in
Vancouver many years. This
good. Perhaps the beat-up old
wrecks, those dangerous heaps,
will now be ruled off the high-°
ways, and we'll all be safer as
we drive along. Good, too, is
a tighteningup (0 up on those who

Fed an
pening day, went ‘off as

iy Pa glitter and . glamor,
hand. shakes and ~ back-pats,
fashions and furbelows, music,

Sad Toll of

gun salutes, gold braids, stuff:
protocol by the mile ‘and of-
ficialdom strutting about, de-
termined nothing. will ever
change in this regard. ‘
This they call p:

all of this is good,
provided we learn to live a
truly worthwhile jite while we
are making a

From his vantage point of
some 50 years of active public
life as a teacher, preacher,
and for many years the pre-
sident of a liberal arts college,

of tradition, the keeping up of
e Establishment and the Sta-
ne Quo, so that the run-of-
the-mill populace will be im-
pressed, which it is. not. The
general ect couldn't care
Tess. It lets officialdom go its
own sw , the populace
paying ieee pills because ere’s
no ‘way out of 2, 0!
dom being in-charge, and
never being short of money.
when it comes to frills and
fol-de-rol,

Indian Guns

Few Indians in British Columbia, in comparison with other
parts of the country, were killed in battle with the white man.

Along the coast there were a

few small but spectacular mas-

sacres of the crews of trading ships, or of Indians attempting to
capture them, and several bombardments of villages by naval
vessels, The Indians’ own tribal wars were quite another mat-
ter. The introduction of firearms made these much more lethal
affairs, and the mortality rate came to be terribly high. — Wild-

life Review

SUGAR AND SPIGE

. JO] has words
or “commendation for the pro-
gress that has been. made
the field of education and edu-
cational know-how. He observ-
ed however, that “one of the
saddest things about life is
that: a person lives up the ma-
jor portion of his allotted three
score years and ten (70 years)
before he learns how to live.”

He went on to say. “One
great need of our time is some
adequate method to teach peo-
ple early in life how to ue
According® to Dr. “Mo:
these: .are:some ‘of: the “lee
sons” which should be learned
earlier in

How to enjoy the simple
things of lie:

to get pleasure and

not dentaaee out bi daily work.
How and when to speak
one’s mind.
How to cncreae alco
and hold b: selfishnes:
How to be yqecent without
being a prude.
How to control the sex
drive so as to make it a glory
rather than an abomination.
How to distinguish between

By Bill Smiley

The Good Old Shift Work of Yesteryear

Ever been on
shift work? Most

Many. i

workers have.
Warmers, execu-
tives, “merchants,
office workers —
and’ until’ recent-
— have not had

coms it, for he. can then go
abroad on the: hustings and sa:
his supporters are never throt-

tled.”

Oppositionists approve the
odd bit, here and there, about
the throne ‘speech, but gener-
ally they. say it. shows the ho gov,
ernment's -- run nine eae
naenly an ssa, a il fe hone is
mere! iz vor
with the public and nd at itself
re-elected.

That’s the pattern it al-
ways has been, and always will
be, until we streamline fone,

ey want to
freewheel about all over the
place, which can be
entertaining at times, cas _
if MLAs would keep their e:
off the polling booths, theyd

that delightful experience.
First time I ran into it
was‘on my first job, when I
was 17 — back in the middle
ages, somelinnes Imown as the

‘irty. I have been a
stalwart mites of ‘the works
ing man ever since.

. It. was on a-steamboat on
the .Great Lakes. Sevens days
a week, For a.dollar a day.

I worked the graveyard
Except that in those days it was
a shift:and-a half, from mid-
might, to noon. And it seemed to

ling “a little ev mid-
night Just enough to make you

Sick at heart, sick ats stom

ach, we er made o1
to the alley, a bout i300 pm,
for “b

The ni, eee jol-
ie ntleman eed

le knew we needed

in which

te the 12 hours ney

mn a 17-year-old stom-

Eve:
ach, the human organ that most

the population of Dien entire
schools, some 2,000 students,
are sharing a building intend-
ed for half that number.

The schook board had two
alternatives. They could have
each student hold another stu-
dent on his or her knee all
day, or they could run two

mane a living and making
a
As we think of possible
answers to these so called les-
sons in life would seem
that the main problem lies in
faulty attitudes which are form-
ed in peoples’ minds toward
work, toward themselves and
their fellowmen, toward God.
igo. aad toward life
Too often people’s
vousideration in making
choice is this: “What is
poste in it for me.”

Even among those who
claim to be followers of Christ
there are those whose attitude
toward life is basically selfish.
They are probably unaware of
it. but they expect favored
treatment from God all thro-
ugh life . » Ro problems,
no burdens, no sickness, no
poverty, and a mansion in the
sky bye and bye! This is not
to cast any reflection. upon
the blessings that God best-

ows,
attitude of selfishness in peo-
ple, which can develop.

Christ calls all his follow-
ers to a life of gratitude and
unselfishiiess, He jealle Tian to

but to expose | ithe faulty:

"ONE Mawes:

Opinion

By FB. Pearce
meri-

can crattaanh of
Dr.

an
they go into teaching ‘because
they are afraid to try anything
$ more: adventurous a compe-
Maybe they are conform-
ists but so are many in, other
professions and: vocations these
days and if American teachers
are shining examples of supine
; conformity it would be as well
to find out why this is. so.
My own impression is that
_ teaching is despised as a tradl-
_ tlon from ‘Colonial days: when
the teacher was a misfit un-
able to do:.a day’s manual la-
bor and therefore condemned
to teach. ©
Dr. Halpin says that tea-
chers make poor admi:istrat-
ors because they Jacl: imagin-
ation and a ‘sense of adventure
and don’t want’ to rock the
‘ boat. This is possibly quite true
but who'can Beat the system.
In the .days. when I was prin-
cipal the departmental fad was
the three group system in
“classes, the bright, the average
and the Blow. You shouid he

love all’ mer in

way, that “is, to have no other
motive at heart than the. high-
est good of the other person,

regardless of his status, color,
yr: creed,

These words of Christ as
translated in the New English
Bible are worth pondering ser-
iously. “.. . If anyone wishes
to be a follower of mine, he
must leave self behind; day af-
ter day he must take up his
cross and come with me. Who-
ever cares for his own safe-
yy is lost, but if a man will
let himself be lost for my
sake, that man is safe. What
will a n gain by winning
the whole’ world at the cost of
his true self?” (Luke 9:23-25)

The Judge Was No Lawyer

David Cameron

A Scottish cloth merchant,

with no legal training; David
-Cameron rosé’ to:-become the

first chief justice of Vancouver
Island, Though often villified
because of his lack of formal
qualification, he was’ praised
later for his integrity and the
manner in, which he earned
public respect in carrying out
his duties.

David Cameron was born
in Perth, Scotland, in 1804 and
trained in the textile industry.
At 26 he emigrated to Demera-
ra to oversee a sugar planta-
tion. He failed in’ business
there but was offered a post
in the Hudson’s Bay Co. at its
Nanaimo coal mines in 1853.
He arrived broke and in debt
but had one possible asset —

“he was married to a sister of

James Douglas, then in charge

won for him the post of chief
justice. - +

Cameron held the post un-
til 1865 when he was succeed-
sa by, Joseph W.. Ne: sete

island and later governor Ot
the island colony.

Cameron was made a jus-
tice of the peace soon after
his arrival and: thena:judge -
of the supreme court.’
of his

iy.
enquiry into his sudd
was demanded. But after,
yeore nt Ro:

ant-
a “Cameron a pension of P3500
annually and he retired to bis,
fine home at Belmont, n
Victoria, where he died-in 1872.

He! was accorded a state ‘fun-

al with sailors acting as, 6 pall.
bearers and the press’ w!

_had earlier ‘attacked him jock
raise

dy.were!as: loud in thels pi

heard m! whe!
found that I did not agree with

The Americans like to talk
about administration in schools:
It sounds so important
an administrator that one tobe
the impression that it takes a
great deal of business acumen

run a school. It doesn’t.

There can be a great deal of

paper work, jose Pot which is
chief: part 0!

ents. The success of a school
depends largely upon the bits
eipal’s ability to establis!

py working relations seth his
staff and pupils, It calls for a
supreme lea eadership to have an

excellent sch
Dr. mae is q nite right

ways make good principals.
They are too prone to control
rather than to delegate-auth
_ity:andithey tend ; to: igno)
the: personality of pupils.

a Sant to
pupils than their master.

A principal will necessari-
ly_ nee

the work of every

behavicy and bring the welght
autho! ey tO to help his
factors maint these: stand-

She ‘will have ideals of per-
sonal conduct which he should

to impress on his pupils.
It: is safe to say that. if: prin-
cipals everywhere had insisted
that pupils should not: smoke
there would be fewer juvenile
cigaret smokers, and it they
had definitely. shown that they
disapproved. of going. steady
thers ‘might have been no rise
in ‘illegitimate birth rate: Prin-
cipals and the school system as
a whole has-failed to give ie
leadership the community sho-

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CiUseiy “ten
thixer, couldn't ‘take it. We t use
ed to push the greasy
around the plate, and settle, Or
some greasy coffee.

But the clincher, the thing
that really
heave, that made us rush from
the gallery to our jobs of clean-

ing out the lavatories, was the «|

dessert,

Triumphantly, Sing would
sing out, eyou like nice Boston
cleam pie? I got,” Now, as you
Probably J snow, “Boston Cream
Ple isa rich, nauseous concoc-
tien custard with
cream, Almost 30 ae later, I
still gag when I see it on a
menu.

As you ‘may have gathered,
I didn’t « like «shift -work then.
And ‘it; hasn’t improved much
during the intervening years.

This year, at -our school,
we're on a'double shift. A com-
bination of post-war. baby boom
and bureaucratic red tape have

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made our stomachs’ -

200 pou
board parents
and voted hon ie

id. that’s why your faith-
ful ze ort tures out ot bed
al groping for the
alarm clo lock, has a coffee bres
e nee abe £10.80 in tthe
ea about

morning.

theory, it’s ‘wonderful.
Teactiers have all afternoon to
sleep;; golf, cunt or ‘hunt, and
the evel prepare lessons.
Good ‘for the students, too.

They have their homework all
done by dinner tims
watch TV-or wash

e, and cal

or go to the
have to: do to ‘get to bed
a couple of hours, earller, than
in the good ol

In practice, it's. horrible.
Wives persecute: husbands
fhe stiemnoons swith ; shopping,

ig, gs
if ye you “sleep i in the ie, btteraoon,
you lie Here alr , insom-
niacal;:.at, night. If. Fou work
or play, ot fall asleep in the
middl dinner, pota-

die of
to half chewed.
Nobody ‘goes’ to’ ‘bed an:
earlier’ than they ever did. And
what we wind up with is a
pedantry, of: red-eyed vs
atthe edges, f

phom ‘were up. ai
‘h‘ the’ school" "bus, nny,

at.7.4 = :

‘compromised, °

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