Page 2 THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. Thursday, February 3, 1955. Williams Lake Tribune Established 1931 Clive Stangoe, Editor Published eyery Thursday at Williams Lake, 1.C. By The Tribune Publishing Co. Subscription: per year . Outside Canada Payable in Advance $3.00 Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association British Columbia Division, C.W. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION Authorized as Second Class Mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa The Cratker Barrel. Forum By A.J. Drinuell While continuing their questing in | of the democratic principle if educa. the realms of education the boys were | tion loses much of its meani gin the stunned by the by ie with | process; The situation would not be protessor open- 1 In schools, col- | ward pre s and universities today the re- | rully sults of the huge increase in student body sug rather pa fl thonght; the principle of edue: tion for all, however fine in theory, in practice ultin which the Hery his attacks. Say leg it has heen if the down- ure had not been power- strengthened by misguided e | doctrine and practice. "| PRESERVE MINORITY CULTURE | He continues: Mas tends to reflect ma Stabilization Necessary In seeking a fair solution to the problem of lumber over- production in this area, the Foresty Department faces a Guestion that might well be impossible to answer without working a hardship on those men who are actually producing the material. But that an answer must be found is self-evident. It would be unfair to the economy of the entire district it present cutting volumes were maintained and the industry worked itself out of timber iin six years. Curtailment of present Production would undoubtedly force some operators out of business, but the eventual move of all operators out of the area when the trees have gone would result in financial losses for every other business in the Cariboo. This question is rot confined to one industry as far as results of policy are concerned. Just as it would be impossible for a lumber operator geared to produce six million feet of material annually to get a fair return for his investment if his production were cut to two million feet, so would it be impossible for many firms outside of the industry to keep themselves financially solvent if the lumber vanishes, when their facilities have been geared to service this industry’s needs at its present peak of activity. The same goes for the cost of services extended because of the presence of lumbering. The schools and road improve- ment and maintenance, for example, are all costs borne by the taxpayers, that in some instancés would be money down the drain if this lumber population were to vanish from the district. The unfortunate part of the production limit theory is that some such policy was not instituted two or three years ago when the number of producers was smaller and some method of equitable sharing of production volume could have been worked out without some operators facing the prospect of losing their -investment because of lack of material to push through their saws. However we cannot blind ourselves to the black prospect of an entire industry without raw material by attempting the maintenance of any status quo. The ultimate aim should be for the establishment of a stable industry, and towards this goal there can be no compromising if it is conceded that we are in danger of following many other districts in the province that had their general economy dealt a staggering blow when their timber resources wére completely harvested and the operators moved on to other forests. New Highway Deal The announcement contained in the Speech from the Throne on ‘Tuesday that it was proposed to split the Depart- ment of Public Works and create a Department of Works and a Department of Highways gives rise to some interesting speculation. For years there has been mention made of a highway com- mission to administer the provincial highways. Such a com- mission to be non-political and its main purpose to pursue 2 vigorous highway program. The move proposed by Premier Bennétt is not exactly a highway commission but it may be the next best thing. A De- partment of Highways will have a singleness of purpose that is somewhat lacking in the present Public Works Department. Building highways has become very big business in this province and as development continues it will continue to be big business. The Cariboo Highway has now been rebuilt as far as Macalister, but there is still some tough construction be- fore it connects with the John Hart Highway at Prince George. This is only an example. There is a tremendous amount of work to be done on the highway west to Prince Rupert, and the Hart Highway has still to be paved. And we are only citing work that is needed in the central and northern portions of B.C. To the south there is equally as much work, if not more. if the Mica Creek project is undertaken on the Columbia River tien the existing Big Bend section of the Trans-Canada High- way must be re-routed. Perhaps it should be re-routed in any event as has already been suggested. If Mr. Gaglardi is to become the new Highways Minister, which is hinted in the news reports, he will certainly have his hands full. But he will also he able to devote full time to the job and not have to worry about other details that have previously been under his portfolio. On the Lower Mainland there is the problem of a new express-way leading out of Vancouver that will eliminate the traffic problems existing on the present access roads to and from the city. This is something Mr. Gaglardi has already Promised and a development to which he must have given ptead of opposing it. Even if educa- tion were working everywhere on the highest level it would face tremendous odds. The great prob- jem has been and will be, first the preservation of minority culture against the many and insiduous pres- sures of mass civilization and second- ly, the extension of that minority entlure through wider and wider areas. I think the top layer of col- lege students now are proportionatly more numerous than they were thirty years ago and are more gen- erally critical. I have no novel and dramatic remedy for the evils that . have shown themselves so clearly al- CAN THEY WRITE IT? ady but I might mention a few At every commencement one won- ying importance which ders how many of the -hordes of|4o not seem utopian. In the first | Bachelors of Arts can speak -and| place I see no reason why the flood | Write their own language with ele-| of students should be allowed to pour mentary decency or read it with un-| into college, why automatic gradu- derstanding. One of the main causes|ation from school should qualify of this condition has been the sheer anyone for admission. We ought to pressure of numbers along with a recognize and make people in gen- deplorable shrinkage of qualified eral recognize that a desire for teachers. The professor then scores economic or social advantage or for the John Dewey doctrine that all| merely four years of idle diversion kinds of experience are equally or} is not enough. As things are we have uniquely valuable. The lowest com-|an army of misfits who lower edu- on denominator has been not an|cation standards and increase ex- evil but an ideal. There is no use in priding ourselves on the operation [From the Files of the Tribune: ONE YEAR AGO Mile destroyed by fire— Local Red February 4, 1954 Cross branch agrees to divert funds ‘Benny’ Abbott elected to|from annual fall cattle sale canvass lage Commission seat in| to War Memorial Hospital to assist close win over opponent Elmer Cars-| that institution in its present finan- well— Officsrs of the local RCMP | cial difficulties— stag move into their new quarters in TWENTY YEARS AGO the Federal Building— Mereury January 31, 1935 climbs to 40 above in unusual mild | Two amateur broadcasting sta- ‘spell— Possibility of combined huila- | tions in ‘own, operated by Keith ing program for the local historical | Caverly and Jack Duke, do their society’s museum, art club and_li | part in the rel, ng of messages brary” discussed—*Constructiof “to lthroughout ‘thie province by* the Slart soon on first units of United 7 ‘hams’ during the recent province- Chureh building program— Mild | wide storms— Stewart and Burley weather stops curling play— A mo-| partnership operating drygoods firm tion requesting return of the s ssizes | in town is dissolved and business te to Williams Lake passed by riboo | be taken over completely hy Miss A Bar Association— R Burley. FIVE YP. —— MOVING? If you are moving anywhere in Canada contact cation for none. In other words the ideal of edu- cation for all forces acceptance of the principle that the function of social and political ra- ther than purely intellectual. If school standards are geared to an almost invisible low average there is not much real edu- ion available for anyone, even the sifted. Junior Colleges should ANS AGO 2, 1950 Salary increase demands by the teachers of District 27 that would have meant an annual increase in educational costs of $6,065 was turned down by the School Boarad— Total value of loss by fire in Wil- liams Lake trom 1944 to 1948 in- clus. 9.00, which is term- pane SMITH | lation according to B.C : | TRANSFER & STORAGE ance Underwriters Assocjation— Mrs. Selective Tressier: hospital in 57th year— Total of building permits in town for past years was § 255,061— Funeral ser- vices held for Charles Preston Goet- jen, rancher of the Horsefly di: tor past 26 years— Fi Fully Equipped Padded Van passes in alue Phone 57-R-2 QUESNEL, B.C. ealional centres for the | spent nursing lame ducks there - Thirdly. | think the need | would be a considerable change in the education beyond~ eeu Concluding the professor says: school would be much lessened and | Like everthing else the Ph.D. has the ity of both secondar and | been cheapened by quantitive pres- higher education obviously raised it sre and it might be earnestly wished colleges and universities getting the | public behind them made a concerted | teaching profession. There are plenty Gemand that the schools do their] of young people who would bs good proper work and do it better than| teachers without such a degree and many have been doing it. the degree itself aught to mean We have grown so accustomed to| something more than it does. a battalion of instructors teaching] The ‘two articles reviewel were elementary composition to freshmen | chosen because they @mbory most that we take it as a normal part ot | of the complaints contained in short college education, whereas in fact. | er articles, letters to the ed:.ors and it is @ monstrosity. If high school , editorials appearing in many Cana sraduates are illiterate they have no | dian publications, businessvin college. We do not need| The February issue of Readers Dic to maintain the naive doctrine that| gest contains a most en ightening there has to be a course in anything | student contribution which we will and everything in which anyone ever| go into next week. has been or might be interested. One thing that has suifered Berean | has been the study of foreign lang- uages. Serious study of a foreign language means work ‘and a first principle of modern pedagogy has been the eliminatior of work. QUALITY COULD BE IMPROVED | Since I touched upon the large! number of people who are in college and shouldn't be I might mention those who are not in college and should be. Educators and others are more and more conscious than they | once were of our failure to recognize and foster promising students. [1 we spent on exceptional students a frac- tion of the time and money we have it were mot a union card for tne 20th ANNUAL Parish Meeting of St. Peter’s Anglican Church at the PARISH HALL Tuesday, Feb. 8th 8 p.m. EVERYBODY WELCOME The Pacific Great Eastern Railway Co. Effective June 1st, 1954, Will Operate THROUGH-FS3ST PASSENGER & EXPRESS SERVICE i between VANCOUVER, B.C. AND PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. Including Sleeping & Dining Car Service . Prince George - Squamish Dock Pacific Standard Time Ly-Vancouver (Union Pier) 9:30a.m.-Mon-Wed-Frid Ar-Wms, Lake 0a.m.-Tues-Thurs-Sat Ly-Vms. Lake ‘Tues-Thurs-Sat Ar-Er. George Op.m.-Tues-Thurs-Sat tuv-Pr. George 3.40p.m.-Tues-Thurs-Sat Ar-Wms. Lake -m.-Tues-Thurs-Sat Ly-Wms. Lake 11:30p.m.-Tues-Thurs-Sat Ar-Vancouver (Union Pier) _6:30p.m.-Wed-Frid-Sun THROUGH FREIGHT SERVICE Lv - Vancouver-Mon-Wed-Frid Ar - Wms. Lake-Wed-Frid-Sun ‘FREE PICKUP AND DELIVERY ON FREIGHT AND EXPRESS This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia. fly— Deka Lake Lodge near Lone Butte completely destroyed hy fire— TEN YRARS AGO Pebruary 1, 1945 Pat Hosey of Pat's Tire Service, announces he is taking over the loc: Home Oil Agency, with the assistance of his brother-in-law, Buster Henke — Home of Henry Ogden near 115 i | | f | e des | home of Alfred M. Webster at Hors! | | some thought. # The move will have other adantages. It will keep highway funds for highways, with no chance of them heing diverted to some other project which might seem urgent. While we are not suggesting that such was the case in the past, no doubt such a thing was possible with work and roads lumped into one department.---Cariboo Observer. Those Assessments All over the province people are up in arms over their assessments, Despite assurances from municipal élerks and asses that the new government equalization policy need not higher *s on the local level, people are fearful and that it will mean higher in the future, if not now. It is already clear that the equalization policy will create Many inequalities, particularly insofar as it applies to business It is equally apparent that an enlarged and what will undoubt- fdly be an inviting tax field has been opened up for the muni- litie’. Should the government deprive them of some of the financial support which it now provides municipalities, the muncipalities will not be long in picking the plum. No wonder people are worried. = ~-The Chilliwack Progress. EDGERS Good fo ods if SKF Manufacturers Prone INTERIOR WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS Box 1078 Williams Lake, B.C. | Coutts Sawmills PILLOW BLOCKS Morse Roller Chain and Sprockets BF Goodrich V Belts Esco Bardon Hooks and Ferrules Quesnel Machine Shop and SAWDUST BLOWERS DODGE Dodge V Drives Weiders QUESNEL, B.C. Phone 86-R-2 | i