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CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, December 17, 1959

MLA’s One-Year Service is a Record
Of Conscientious, First-Class Service

One year ago Tuesday, on Dec. 15, 1958, Don-
ald L. Brothers was elected MLA for the Ross-
land-Trail riding. Indications that he has been a
conscientious and tireless worker on its behalf

ever since then were given in Trail Saturday at.

the ceremonies for the pouring of the first con-
erete pier for the new Trail bridge.

At the official ceremony at the bridge site,
Attorney-General Bonner congratulated Mr. Bro-
thers on his persistence in making sure that the
provincial government did not forget to discharge
its promise of starting the bridge construction
on time, “We get more letters from him than. all
the other MLA’s put together,” Premier Bennett
told a luncheon sponsored by the Trail Chamber
of Commerce.

Rossland-Trail should consider renting Mr.
Brothers out to neighboring ridings pecuuse
when he goes after something he hounds
government until he gets it done, said G. R. Me.
Meckin, chairman of the Trail Chamber’s roads
and bridges committee,

Mr. MeMeekin recaled that Highways Min-
ister Gaglurdi had been quoted as saying that
the Rossland-Tfail MLA “is always on my tail
about and d Mr. with
a safety helmet as a remembrance of the trek Mr,
Brothers had taken with Chamber members over
# section of the Salmo-Creston route this fall and
on which tenders have now been called.

Mr. Brothers has not given any section of the
Rossland~ ‘Trail riding any preference over other

alone Mr. Brothers has been in

ondence with the government

s over such matters as cuivert

for Milestone Rozd in Kinnaird, the work sheds
a: the ferry, manholes for Bloomer ereelt in Cas-
tlegar, cleaning up of the David Thompson mem.
orial site, improvements to the Deer Park road,

Cominco and Local 480 Give
Example to Rest. of Province

Two of B.C.'s foremost politicians spoke on
labor and management in this province last week
and between them came up with a conclusion,
that is being reiterated a lot these days but bears
repeating anyway.

At Vancouver, CCF MP Harold Winch re-
ported on his 42,000.mila world tour and said
that everywhere he went he was told that Can-
ada, and B.C. in particular, were considered “un-
stable.”

“They love us,” he said. “As individuals Can-
adians have tremendous respect in Common-
wealth and foreign countries. But when I told
them I came from B.C. — it did not matter what
country I was in — they replied: ‘Oh, that’s where
you have all the strikes.

At Trail Saturday Premier W. A, C. Bennett
paid tribute to the management and workers of
the CM&S Co, He said there had not been a strike
in Trail since 1917 and said it was a record for
BC. “I appreciate the good cooperation that exists

“electricity for Deer Park and Renata, increased
free hours on the Renata.Deer Park ferry, a se-
cond ferry for Castiegar and on private matters
brought to his attenion by scores of individuals.

Mr. Brothers has not been successful in all -

of these projects and many of them he is still
fighting for, but on the occasion of his first year
in office he deserves congratulations on what he
has accomplished in that short time, He may
not be the government's favorite correspondent
because of the number of letters he writes, but
as its most regular correspondent he has given
the whole Rossland-Trail riding first-class repre-
sentation.

: Generous Drinkers

Very soon, in government liquor stores across
the land, women with good hearts and faces will
stand near the cash registers, silently asking for
small gifts to some charitable cause.

They will collect handsome sums, The drink-
ing members of the popu‘ation are notably open-
handed. a

It is seldom remembered that the buyer of a
Christmas prckage of liquor, before he drops his
coin in the proffered slot, has already through
‘axation made a voluntary contribution of $5 to
perhaps $50 or more to such gocd works as hos-
Pitals and cdusation, I's voluntary because no one
forees him to patronize the liquor stores and ‘be-
cause theré's no taxation without consent in free
countries. z

Bu: he has no objection to giving another
25e or 50c, The appearance of the collectors in
liquor stores, rather then anywhere else, is a re-
markable and deserved compliment to the gen-
erosity of the drinking majority. — Financial Post.

Mr. Winch warned employers that “They'll
have to think of some profits instead of big pro-
fits — or there won't be any profit at all in two
years.” He sald that everywhere he went he lear-
ned that imports from Canada and B.C, are being
eut off entirely or drastically reduced. “Austral-
ia is no longer going to buy B.C, timber. They’re
going to get it from New Zealand and Malaya,”
he said.

Without sparing his CCF voters, Mr. Winch
warned labor: “Yes, you can maintain your stan-
dards, but remember that the rest of the world
does not owe you a living.” Ha then apologized
for being “brutally frank": with his party sup-
porters and labor ‘but_I have come home from
this trip around the world determined to get down
to earth.”

Industry and labor are going to have to learn
that with an export conomy like B.C’s, indus.

here between union and
the Premier. It is a relationship that has made’
Trail one of the most stable economic areas in
the province,

A National Vote
On Death Penalty

‘There is a growing possibility that the fed.
eral government will eventual.y permit a free
vote in Parliament on abolition of the death pen-
alty.

Exactly when such a vote will be arranged in
uncertain, but there is mounting evidence that it
will take place. Part of this syidonce is the fact
thet of the 34

trial could be
fatal, The rest of the prévinee would be wise in
following the example pointed out by Premier
Bennett: Cominco and Local 480.

Tories Lose Favor

Popularity of the Progressive Conservative
party, the polls indicate, is slipping. There should
be little surprise in Ottawa over this, even though
there will undoubtedly be a great deal of recri-
mination in the Tory ranks. Since the honeymoon.
that followed the overwhelming PC victory in
1958, the Tory party has gone steadily downhill
in the public estimation,

Now, about 18 months later, it’s apparent that
the Conservatives aren’t the great white hope of
Canada. True, some of their ideas are excellent —
for example, their "vision" of ig the

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We saw. a litde boy in a candy store. He wandered from
ease to case, studying each assortment with great seriousness.
“Hurry up, son,” his mother called. “Spend your money. We
mus, be going.” “But Mamma,” he replied, “I've just one penny
to spend and I must spend it carefully.”

That boy had warned a great lesson of life. If he had had
x pecketiul of pennies, he could have afforded to be a little
‘ess careful. But he had only one. That made his problem ser-

ious.

I wonder if we are as careful in spending our lives. If 1
had 10 lives to invest perhaps I could afford to spend one of
them merely having a good time, or making money. But I have
only one. I must make it count for the most, I cannot afford to
invest my life in every passing whim and fancy. I must learn
to sce the difference between the good and the necessary.

My time, my energy, my s‘rength and talents are too sac-
red to be thrown carelessly about, I have but one life to invest.
I must consider i: carefully. I must give it whoily to God.

“Only one life ‘twill soon be past,
Only what's done for Christ will last.”

— Miss F, Clemo

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northland, But what the Tories seem to lack is

since the Progressive Conservative “government
took office in June, 1957, only seven have hang-
ed, The other 27 had their death sentences com-
muted by the cabinet to life i

with the of how to put their

platform promises into tegisla‘ion, Perhaps it's
simply experience that they need.

_There has been, in Ottawa, a distinet lack of

A free vote in Parliament would be in line
with the views on capital punishment held by
Prime Minister .D while an
member. During a commons debate in 1956, Mr.
Diefenhaker joined CCF Icader Coldwell in pro-
posing a free vote — allowing members to vote
according to persona) conviction rather than fol-
lowing party lines — to be taken then on the
question of abo‘ishing the death penalty.

We agree that such a subject should transcend
party lines. But we are against having 265 men
vote for or against capital i for us

since the Tories took power. How
much of this is traceable to inexperience is dif-
ficult to say; it’s also difficult to estimate how
soon the party’s cabinet ministers will overcome
what may be merely diffidence to back up their
selection as ministers of the crown.

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done away with on a free vote.

‘The only alternative to a party vote on the
subject whereby parties would vote for or against
the abolition of the death penalty and then ask
for approval of their stand on the hustings would
be a national vote on the subject conducted at
the same time as the next federal elec‘ion, Let
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