CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, September 5, 1957

DIPLOMATIC DEVALUATION

Time was, even at the Court of St. James, when a dipl holding it dorial rank =was’a rare and important personage. Only the diplomatic repre- sentatives of the great powers aspired to such exalted status, Other countries contented themselves with missions headed by ministers.

Today, not only in London, but in Ottawa and other capitals, the coinage of diplomacy has been de- valued by the proliferation of ambassadors, Any cock- tail party worthy of note in Ottowa nowadays is not complete unless at least half-a-dozen ambassadors

turn up. The reception where nobody above the rank of minister is present, is deemed by most Ottawa hostesses as a social flop.

The trouble with this sharp devaluation of diplo- matic rank is that Canada is expected to reciporate. Canadians with the rank of ambassador, and with an ambassador‘s pay and allowances, are now accredited to half-a-dozen “banana republics”, while in the capitals of the great powers it is a commonplace to have both an ambassador and a minister at the same mission ot the same time. :

No wonder the appropriations for the External Affairs Department have-soared in recent years,

PRELUDE TO A “PEACE OFFENSIVE"?

What does the latest Kremlin shake-up mean in terms of the Soviet Union’s relations with the West?

That's the question political observers are asking themselves right now, and wishful thinking had led some to conclude that the political furore in Russia means that peace is within the grasp of the world’s leaders. Has Unfortunately, past experience should dispel such dangerous illusions out of hand, :

The sacking of some of the Kremlin‘s top brass, far from meaning that peace is just around the corner, probably means instead that a new “peace offensive” is in the making. More than a hint that this is so, is ‘found in the fact that the sacked communists, Molo- tov, Malenkov and the rest, have been branded by the

Khrushchev clique as “obstacles to peace.’” . ere are many reasons why. the Soviet Union

should wish more than anything else at the moment to wrap its sinister policies in the cloak of peaceful intentions. Branded as an aggressor in Hungary by the UN special committee, its Middle East power play a shambles, discontent rife within its own borders, the Soviet Union is desperately in need of time—time to regain the sympathy of the satellite countries, time to try to convince the neutralist countries of Africa and Asia that the Hungarian affair, far from being aggressive imperialism, was a dreadful error on the Part of the Stalinist clique, time to persuade the West: that NATO should be allowed to fall into disrepair,

Time is what Russia néeds to regain political and economic strength and to compensate for her diplo- matic losses of the last few months, Hence-the pos- sibility that a new “peace offensive” is in the offing. 'f the “peace offensive” succeeds, the Kremlin will once agai: be ready to return to its long-term objec- tives of imperialist aggression.

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POLL OF EOD Gh ¢ first. white men f y Atlantic seaboard

of North America? : Norsmen from Greenland are known to have visited the shores of north-eastern America. about 1000 A.D, but their exact’ land- ing place is a matter of contro- versy. Their visits produced no tangible results, for in the 14th century the Norse colony in

Now, when I was knocking Greenland was wiped out, and

‘around here a hundred years the very memory of the Norse :

®go there were the two colonies Seeveny ef America died, |

‘or the

in place of the one

you have now. There was the discoverer of the mainland of Vancouver Island Colony and North America was John Cabot,

there was British © Columbia colony.

James Douglas was the governor of both of them. Well, dt wasn’t long before the main- Jand folks began to complain, Douglas lived in Victoria and he had so much business over there that they didn’t see enough of him or get enough lon to

who, in an attempt to reach Asia by the western route, probably reached Cape Breton Island in 1497, and coasted down the At- lantic seaboard from ~ Labrador to Chesapeak Bay in 1498, Jacques Cartier first demon- strated the insular character of and the exis of the great waterway known as

suit them on the They kept sendin’ petitions to London to get a new set-up with their own separate governor and politicians, . Well, I guess it seemed crazy to the people in Lond

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these two colonies, side by side, thousands of miles off in the bush, with the population be- tween them of a third-rate city. And here they wanted separate governments,

But the B.C. ‘folks kept on askin’ and after a while they got their way, Or at least they ,got part: of it, Ripe es

The British said

the St. Lawrence River, What tragic event helped bring the chartering of the Artic Coast of Canada?

A northern tragedy oocur-

“*red in 1845 when Sir John Frank-

lin and all his men lost thelr ?lives on King William Island when hemmed in by the ice, +1, Numerous expeditions were sent out to search for the famous explorer and his men, andin the course of these expenditions the whole of the Artic const of Can- ada was charted.

Ships sailing west from the Atlantic met, ships sailing east trom the Pacific; thus the exis- tence of the long sought North- west Passage was at last demon- strated. :

What newspaper has the largest eiveulation in Canada?

The Toronto Star was only a feeble publication, seven’ years old, with a circulation of 7,000 in 1899, when Joseph EB. Atkinson, newspaperman born near New- castle, Ontario, accepted the

ént on the sti

that he’ be paid partly in stock,

By the time of his death in 1948 he had built up a daily circulation of 345,000 — the larg- est in Canada — and the Star Weekly, founded in 1910, had passed the 900,000 mart.

His father died when he was two months old and at 15 he went to work in @ woollen mill, but he was able to attend high school for 2 time. He began his lifelong newspaper career ass Newcastle correspondent of the Port Hope Times, and went on to do- distingui: writing for

1. What English-b issi ary spent forty years in Can- ada building a world-famed medical mission?

2. What is the annual average cost to the Canadian motorist of license fees and gasoline taxes? “

3. What Canadian city is ‘the only walled city on the North Ameri

OK, you can have a separate governor and you can have a kind of .half appointed, . half elected Legislature (not to ex- ceed 15 people).

5. The way they set it up, we

were to have these 15 men run the place, one third of them to be Government officials, one ‘third to be magistrates and the other third to be elected.

To show you the vague ‘kind

the five electoral districts... New i Hope, Yale

AN’ SHELL MAKE US A LOT OF MONEY, Too! SHE LAYS, GOUT A DOZEN ESGS A DAY, THE GUY SAID. MORE OR LESS:

and Lytton, Douglas and Lilloo- et, Cariboo East and Cariboo West. And they didn’t lay down any basis of voting.

In New Westminster the municipal council said that a voter ought to have some quali- fications, y

So they. made it that he had

4. Of Canada's total $10.5 bil- lion foreign trade in 1958, what part was trade within the Commonwealth? . Which is greater’ in Canada the amount of public funds spent annually on education, or the amount spent on social Security and welfare? ANSWER: 5. Schools take about eight cents of the over-all tax dollar; social security: and.

Grenfell. 4. $1.8 billion. 2, Esti- mated average cost is $88 per year.

But it was a start toward a democratic B.C, Government.

The capital was in New ‘Westminster at that time, so they met there in the winter of 1864 and Douglas made them a long

“speech, covering a lot of ground,

other newspapers,

His, will left the newspaper properties in perpetuity to the Atki Chari

and instructed the trustees to devote the profits to religious, charitable and educational under- takings in Ontario,

Sneciai Gitizenship Day On July 1, 1958

July 1, 1958 has been offical- ly designated by the B.C. Cen- tennial Committee as Citizen- ship Day.

At ceremonies next ‘year, new Canadians -taking their Citizenship oaths will be given an impressive welcome by the various communities receiving them. ‘ ‘

They will be given a short history of British Columbia and special centennial name cards to_ be inserted in the bibles presen- ted. After taking their citizen- ship oaths, they will witness a pageant portraying the history of citizenship Iegislation in ‘ this province from the days of Sir

to be a British subject,-he had but leavin’ the road tolls. (Say James Douglas to the present,

to have been there three months, he‘had to own realestate worth about a hundred ‘dollars, or he had to lease some, or he could he a settler with: a pre-emption.

Some districts just left it

wide open and let anybody vote. There .was only: the five to be elected and a handful to

you're still trying to get rid of tolls today, eh.)

They budgetted that first year to spend about $650,000 and they got a loan of around half ‘a million,

Well, it shows you how far

“we've come today with a budget

Of $274,000,000 and so much debt

elect so the whole thing didn’t they're still orguin’ héw much

amcunt to much compared to to- day,

it is, But yeu ain't seen nothin’ yet.

The citizenship day programs ‘are being planned by the Ethnic Groups Sub-Committee, headed by Mrs. Pearl Steen of Van-~ couver. This sub-committee which is part of the main B.C. Cen- tennial Committee, has been holding meetings for the past year bringing together represen-

tatives from all ethnic groups in -

the, province to sit on its com- mittee as members. fs .

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by Lewis: Milllgan

“What do they know of England, who only Eng land knows? wrote Rudyard Kipling. And What do they of Canada, who only Eastern Canada know? Hav- ing just Teturned from a.trip to the West,Coast — my third in 30 years — | stilt contend that you are not a whole Canadian unless you have crossed the

* Prairies, tt ted your way through the Rockies and gazed on the Pacific Ocean from the Uplands of Victoria,

Geologically, climatically and’ socially, Canada is three different regions, and it should be the aim of every Canadian to see the whole of it. Moving west- :

ward in the CPR train through the Precambrian hills.

of Northern Ontario and emerging from the wild bush and lakelands into the open Prairies is in détself a ‘surprising experience of scene transformation. The flat landscape, with its large farms, wheeled around the speeding train like a moving Panorama iluminat-— ed by the level rays of the setting sun, which smote the farmhouse windows to gold, casting ‘long shadows from the barns and silos, It was Holland on on im- mense scale. The only items missing to complete the Dutch picture were the dikes and windmills. Saskatchewan Land Of Golden Grain

Travelling for endless miles over the vast plain of Saskatchewan (on the retum CNR line), | was suddenly awakened from a doze to find myself in the midst of the busy little modern city of Saskatoon. . | felt as though | had alighted from an Arabian Nights’ magic-carpet into an oasis. But Saskatchewan is no desert; it is a land of golden grain, and the only complaint | heard was that the farmers had too much of it in storage and could not transmute it into gold- en cash.

Crossing the border-line on the outward trip into Alberta, we came to a halt in the real westem city of Medicine Hat.. The scene on the wide end of the platform was a lively arid colorful one, with Red In- dians in full feather and cowboys “and cowgirls on horseback in the rear. We were entertained with can old time barn dance to the droning strains of an ac- cordion, accompanied by the staccato voice of an old cowboy calling-off to the dancers. At the close of the brief interlude the veteran cowpuncher addressed a few words of greeting to. the passengers, assuring them of a warm welcome at any time by the people of Medicine Hat. “We're plain, open-hearted folk,” he said. ‘We're Western!"

‘ Plains Turn To Rolling Hits

The tgansition from Saskatchewan into Alberta is noted by @ gradual heaving of the plains into rolt~ ing country, rising into the foothills and the Rocky Mountains beyond. Calgary is famous for its annual wild west rodeo, but it was all over by the time! I got there, and the city was anything but wild in appear- ance. Ideally situated in a wide valley, it is skirted on the West by a long highfand; below which runs the broad Bow River whose fast-flowing, ice-cold waters come down from the glaciers of the distant Rockies, Calgary is a thriving modern city and, so far from

- being wild, its citizens are said to be the most Peace-

ful and law-abiding people.in Canada. A. young man

from Terento told.me. there was ‘no crime in Calgary.’ «.-

He said théy’ had’only had one “robbery ‘last’ year. “What, no murders, and such?” | said. “Then what do-the newspapers use for front-page headlines?”*

My next stop: was Vancouver. It. Toronto is the fastest-growing city.in the world, Vancouver is the | next, for it has grown enormously in the past decade. Situated at the bases of high mountains, its environs have spread in a semicircle around the bay. The set- ting is spectacular, and all that Vancouver needs ‘to match. Edinburgh is a castle on one of the hills and broad Princes Street, studded with historic monu- ments. But Vancouver is not musing’on the Past, its face is turned seaward and-eyes and mind are fixed on the future, :

The sail on the gallant little CPR Princess liner from Vancouver to Victoria is at once a pleasure and @ voyage of discovery. It is a delight to watch the

‘white gulls following all the way, weaving, diving and

- mewing over the foaming wake of the ship, like fly-

ing shuttles'on a sunlit loom of memories, After the long journey over the plains and through the mountains, the voyage into the open sea isa refresh- ing and inspiring experience.

Standing on the Uplands of Victoria, | was re- minded of those vivid ‘lines of Keats's sonnet, “On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer't—.

“Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise— Silent upon a.peak. in Darien.” :

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Jand and the mainland to take part in a ambitious Centennial year spectacle,

They will escort the Fraser Brigade from Yale to Vancouver next year as their ancesters did the real Simon Fraser 150 years earlier,

Gordon Hilker of Vancouver is the porducer of the whole wide- ranging show.

The whole spectacle goes like this: A day-by-day . re-enactment of Fraser's trip from Fort George (Prince George), followed strict- ly from Fraser’s diary, will be- gin’ by 18 men in three canoes

May 28. It will stop wherever 280.

Fraser stopped and welcoming celebrations will be held in the ‘communities .along: the’ way. ‘The' brigade -will be met at Yale, after the dangerous. waters

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Memorial Cemetery.

Wright and hymns sung were the well-known favorites, “Unto the Hills", and “Abide With Me.”

¢ Pallbearers were J, T. Web- ster, O. B. Ballard, H. Evans, J. Thorndale, J. Leamy and W. Devitt. Honorary _ pallbearers were W. T.’ Waldie, J. Raine, W. G.' Kennedy, Jimmy White, Joe Thiel and Elmer Wallner,

Many friends. gathered to pay .

their last respects and the church was filled with beautiful floral

escort him to Vancouver. The an- cestors of these members of the Salish Nation did this 150 years

At Hope on June 29 there will be a race of these war canoes, a giant salmon’ barbecue and all the trimmings. Good mon- ey prizes are provided. There'll be an identical race,

@ plus many other events, when

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the brigade arrives at New, West-,_ minster July 3, fortunately tieing in with Dominion Day obser- ‘vances. ‘

As Fraser did, the brigade arrives .at Vancouver the next day and a giant water spectacle involving. 300 to 400 craft will entertain the citizenry, The Pa- cific. Coast Yacht Racing Assocla- tion regatta will be held there at

craft will mingle with the liter- ally hundreds of. power boats of every. description .as the Fraser brigade . arrives.. A water show will be-held, including a power boat ballet, another war cance race will be held.

About a week -before the brigade is duc to arrive at Van. couver,, a “Men Against the River” canoe‘ race:will start from Fort George. Men. will cover ‘Fraser’s route without the, stop- overs in an all-out race schedul- ed to end in Vancouver Harbour in the midst of the July 2" cele- brations. Substantial prizes’ will be awarded for this race. © -

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