THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1955

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EDITORIAL

ERADES LICENCES

matter of outside firms conducting business in Castlegar|
wine a trades licence 80, came up again at the board of
commissioners meeting Monday evening. This is a problem that,
recurrently causes headaches for municipal governments every-|
where. The cooperation of every resident could make it much
less difficult to enforce.

ve a manifold purpose. They sy.nbolize the}

are
Village needs. And by levying a higher licence fee for firms not

in the town, some protection against unfair competi-
tion is provided the locally established firm which also contributes|
to the community's welfare in taxes and service.

But if trades licences are required of locally established busi-
ness, it is only just that outside firms, which have their headsuar-
ters eleswhere and contribute nothing in return for the profit]
realized trom business here, pay them too. Indecd they should be|
required to pay a higher licence fee than local firms.

The commissioners and their delegated authorities
all’ they can to ensure that ‘all who eolicit or transact business|
lore, bare Deid for te. sieht $0 do sa, Dicks work woud balsa
it every resident business would refuse to buy from repre-
saotalioas of ouiidc teas tai be or ta has ben sured Sc
firm is licenced to solicit it,

EERE

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1955

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CANADA'S WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS

has 963 weekly newspapers with a combined

Canada
tion of 2,475,140. Some distribute a few hundred copies every];

reek, while others have circulation in the thousands. Singly’ or]
taken together, these weekly newspapers have a qrest influence
on the thought and action of our people.

Everybody, im a sense, lives two lives, one in a small and
the other in a great circle. He belongs by birth or choice to various

imate groups, like his family, his neighborhood, and his eluster| he.

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of friends, He is also a member of the whole society of Canada,’
and he is living within an interdependent system of nations, The
‘weekly newspaper belongs to his intimacy.

It is not safe to generalize about newspapers, because of the

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wide difference in the thoroughness with which newspapers ful-

fil their functions. We are not without journals that debase public
taste and warp public opinion. It can be said, however, that the
majority of Canadian weekly newspapers conscientiously main-
tain the highest standards,

Every newspaper is at one and the same time a business en-
terprise on which the owner and his family depend for their
daily bread and an agency:of mass communication bearing public
responsibility, In this land, where the press has freedom under the
Jaw, the weekly newspapers discharge their public functions with
sredit to themselves and benefit to the country,

‘The average paper represented in the Canadian Weekly News-
papers Association, said W. H. Cranston, publisher of ‘the Midland
Free Press Herald, in an article he wrote for the Financial Post,
covers 82 percent of the homes in its trading ares, has a net paid
Girculation of under 1500 copies a week and is produced by a staff

ten.,

These are few millosares gmamg the 605 publishers who are
members of But every weekly newspaper represents a
Sas net capital for the size of its town, It is usually,

wad been mayor or reeve or hadi.

‘or Board o
held other high elective office; 97 percent were members of a ser-
vice club, and 90 percent had served as club president,

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