c6 Dept, Ottawa. per year; USA. $350 , Baditor end Poblisher, ne sew lution. 4 or Ganadian Weekly Newspaper Axssoclatl aa sa ote Weekly Newspapers Assoctation and BG. Weakly Newspapers Advertising Bureau. Vanoouver Office: 207 W Hastings Street. — White Cane Week Doctors state that half the blindness in Canada could ‘be prevented if people would give a little attention to their vision. With almost 22,000 bind persons in Canada this means thet ten thousand of them would have their sight today, if they had acted on this practical advice. The Cana- dian National Institute for the Blind have urged the adop- tion of the theme of this year’s White Cane Week now under way—"Be wise, take care of your eyes.” CN.LB. recommend examination every two years, by an eye Specialist particularly for those over 40, or if the person had ever worn glasses. They warn that some eye diseases like Glaucoma set in without pain or discomfort, and come to light only through proper examination. Inatitute officers give a few helpful hints to help the wise take care of their eyes. Readers should hold their book about 14 inches from the face for reading. On windy days watch out for dust particles. If a piece of grit or dirt lodges in the eye and resists all efforts to remove it, have-a doctor. nurse or druggist do the job- Tha White Cane is the symbol of blindness. It stands for the desire of the sightless to find a useful place in soviety- Through the cane and the help of sighted neighbours the blind can now travel city streets to work, to the club. to church—anywhere. The White Cane is also a mute reminder that those who see, should never neglect their eyes. Everyone, indeed, should take to heart this White Cane Week message “Be wise, take care of your eyes.” ° . . Compulsory Car Insurance If, as it has been publicized, one in ten cars in British Columbia is likely to meet with an accident this current year, it is high time that our car insurance was made com- pulsory. The Provincial Motor Vehicles Branch which made the prediction, also forecasts an average cost of $440 per accident Worse still, for every 79 accidents one person will die. | Last year's fatalities rose to 313, which was 88 over the} previous year. | Whese are terrible figures and call for public outcry. It was encouraging in this regard to read the other day that a man guilty of killing a fellow human being by knocking him | down on the road was sentenced to five years imprisonment. | Last week three cars were involved in an accident on} Crescent Road. The car which crashed into the other two had no insurance carried on it. Luckily no one was killed but one innocent driver whose car was badly wrecked has a big repair bill to meet and has as well to suffer the inconveni- enct: of no car with which to get to his job. If he ever col- | Jects on his bill it will be a long and tedious business. Every week, summer or winter, S a repetition of such €vents and the death toll mounts and mounts. It's only by stiffening the sentence and making car insur- ance compulsory that we can hope to improve the situation. As an aid in this programme we would Suggest that before closing a sale ali car dealers should be compelled to ask for production of a pink slip or for proof that the buyer of a car Say able to take care of expenses in case of acci- le Calling All Writers British Columbia writers are Tesponding well to the ap peal of the Centennial Anthology Committee’s request for both unpublished and published material, but Executive Edi- tor, T. K Willis is asking for more. To date some fifteen hundred articles and poems have been received by the Here is a chance for all writers wh vis ee thelr work reproduced who might wish to see in an exceptional de luxe volume. It is @ chance, in fact, for their work to reach posterity. Alter petblleation the Centennial Anthology will reach thousands | bookshelves throughout BC,, Canada and the world. It | that valuable prizes will also be awarded. ct igs fast-approaching. It is set now for March, 7 death a mE to eliminate correspondence until their ean ora mail. The five editors in Vic- eerie ra ir time for careful consideration of manu- x i Possible criticism or correspondence with the tuthors in connection with Material accepted Editors ask that all manuscripts be addressed to The BC, enclosing a self-addressed, Parcel tone Tides of White Rock District Feed Grain Subsidy To the Editor. “The Senilahmoo Sun,” Fellow Constituents. We have passed our first group of estimates. It is true they were supplementary. a bit of business that needed tidying up. left over from last year and one Or two other ex- penditures which were wholly unlooked for and which would never have arisen had it not been for the action of Colonel Nasser, the Israeli’s, the Hun- garians and the action of other countries. Normally when estimates are before us the minister in charge of the department for which the estimate is called is there to answer the ques- tions re the item. Such was the case in the first of the group only how- ever. Mr. Gardiner was there when the question of Feed Grain Subsidy was raised but he did not come back after lunch otherwise we might still be plying him with questions re the subject. FEED GRAIN Yes, the Right Honourable, the Minister of Agricultural did not return after lungh and affirn last Friday night's tion (pardon me, \COr= | iy poration) meeting had strong | St “family” atmosphere. I’ 3 go further and say the whole evening augured well for the land go. future of the new City oflor victori White Rock if and when thelof humour final steps are taken in the | adjourned, “progressive” or “fatal” (de-| y; ite Rock is ae pending how you look on it) pare Ries yaa move towards self-govern-|ment, but I'd like to wager only postponed the evil day of [mea they'll all get together to aiestontngs THE WELL-BEHAVED |brate the family } Undoubtedly, many of you See Lancers Ste en wonder what the problem is, 's ability to hear ; : Stated briefly, it is this; |both sides of the question, pa- This_and That prairie farmers buy wheat |tently and in good temper. from neighbouring farmers, or | They followed politely the dex-| Love for God anid man is poultry producers, and stock |*erous skipping about of the ee eee in both Eddy. see Incorp' pears now the government has feedmen who live on the |&Uest speaker as he balanced prairie, purchase grain from |the “nays” and ‘yeas’ in the neighbouring farmers for as |!2CoTporation picture around} — low as 50 or 60 cents per bus |the Province. For every case in Lives the favoured pooch, hel and get their stock and |Point, of disaster following on with a pedigree, poultry fat on this cheap feed, |incorporation, he had an ex-|1n luxury on Milady’s knee; British Columbia dairymen |@mple of one which had prov- While the luckless mutt who and poultrymen are denied the | highly successful. is minus points, right to purchase this same Jensuing year, He will be there for those estimates and it ap- | New W inster, BC what he was talking about jalso asked question after question, Part of my question ; i being why had White Rock | such poor streets and side- : ini : An hts Sbsence te PSInIET CU | reaavandl theleteeci costar thienl Finance took over. It soon : turned out it was rather of |0M $3_ to $4 per hundred little use to ask him any|Wlght. They suffer thereby as they cannot be as competi- tive in the same market. The request we put forward questions regarding the mat- ter, for he did not know the answers. H Jat this time, was merely that Owever, opposition mem-'the government replace the bers are not going to be dis-/feed freight subsidy which it suaded too easily from this subject for they look forward to the opportunity to tackle it again when the Minister's esti- | before ,had removed 2 years ago and lwhich we complained against |so long and loud at that time The government, however, was deaf to our pleas. Sincerely. George Hahn, M_P. mates are us for the walks when over in Cloverdale the streets were in such good condition, I was told by Mr Letters published in this col- umn are the sentiments of th The audience took without |Must hunt his living round @ murmur the speaker's plea| Other joints, that having come by train |Marine Drive. (though what this had to do 5 with it remained a mystery) SPECIAL PEOPLE he had no facts and figures to| “1 ‘tink the gardener is a present — only “generally- 1PeF80n apart, I envy him his speaking” statements. He was |KPowledge and skill, his joy in a pleasant young man and he |?¢Preduction, his gentle man- seemed to like White Rock, so|@ and it isa benediction to he got a good reception, even |"@¥¢ even one friend who though a lot of listeners might |*#!*8 with earnestness, and love have been forgiven had they pezeet his or her garden.” — pleaded “all this is wellknown |B2Cs Light Programme. s, and please may we grad- ! Re 2 from the primary | WHITE ROCK SAND PIPERS |Little Sand Pipers on White EVEN POST MASTER DON |, Rock's smooth sand, MUNRO'S figures relating to |PPing and waltzing my praise the sewer were taken with on-| > you demand!: 9 i ly a few quickly-suppressed Running and twirling with grouns from some of the more |, Dreath taking ease. financially-minded in the hall.|1 pink you are trying my After all, Don is a native son| Beart to please! and his fellow towns-people Little Sand Pipers so joyous generally, didn't like to see’ and gay: him make a mistake. Mr- Ir-/You beckon to me. then all Germayde |writers themselves and are n M or perha t was the necessarily subscribed to by the | Munro perhaps it was the = Chairman who said that I Editors, ; didn’t know that the streets To the Editor. that looked so good to mej Dear Sir: were put in so as to connect As a member of the audi- With the main highways | €nce at the Silver Moon last Friday, called by the Citizens Committee, I wish to commend the guest speaker (Mr. Churc- hill) on the following three points. Firstly, that despite I forgot to tell you that in| the first part of my question | T had stated to the Chairman that not being a taxpayer was I entitled to ask a question and after consulting with others the roads and weather he made the OK After listening to Mr. Irwin I got up to ask a second | question but I was at once told | trip from Vancouver ondly, that he was honest enough to admit that he had not the foggiest notion down, not being a tax- the ituation was I was not entitled to ask | Thirdly, that he had th any more questions. Well, you erity and gall to take abou could have floored me. Here | yout that (Incor-|I was in Canada and had been Pp Ich he had previ e 1909, all-told about 48/| ously admitted he kn noth- , and s$ one gentleman i bout. How ridiculous can |< congratulating «me said, some people rr selves? after seeing me turned In conclusion I would like 9wn with my second ques- to commend the audience who tion he said that he thought had come for information, on |the days of Hitler and Stalin |} their patience and tolerance ;¢re a thing of the past. and of such a farce. {he never expected to see it in on the platform he said it was | © se almost (but not quite) con- sheep, “have you gone nuts?” vinced his hearers they would be very selfish to ask for the plied the second sheep. “I’m status of full manhood from majoring ‘ore the head of the family, or at ages.” er brother. win in fatherly, if forthright] fly away! manner, put Don right on the You eat and you fly and waltz facts and all seemed glad an-| with the breeze. other hurdle was safely pass- Then skim o'er the waves ed. Re sr with fairy like ease! agrecing lemporatiye= ete Rea who pipe end” atmosphere. sl farther, [TMS Cold winters day you Jack Hv Renaly cited penal iprs at ley fn ; the sun, everyone got his just(?) des- s -} rts in ike adestige a ans- | With breath taking magic my : : | heart you have won! rwe period MR. McELLIGOT, in a scho- Parker St. Jane Johnson. larly dissertation, appealed to OO residents to climb aboard! One sheep meeting another their own great White Rock said) “Baaa.” u to get a wider view of the land “Moo, Moo,” replied the Scape, which obviously was a other sheep, municipal one. The “sweet ‘What the heck’s the matter reasonableness” of his discour- with you,” said the first “Indeed not,” haughtily re- in foreign langu- least from such a kindly eld-) “They cried for bread and |White Rock of all places. : ye gave them stone.” ; Well, I attended the meeting Yours, {held at the Legion Hall and received the same treatment. Interested: Iotiere’is one thing that I dont understand and that is how : Munro ever got hooked up Suite 3, Elm Apts., 1164 Elm S&est with the committee fe 1s now. I Feb, 7, 1957,|0% Here is a man who has To the Editor. made a close study of condi- Cc Dear Sir; tlons, etc, and although I I attended a meeting at the Silver Moon last Friday, call- ed I understand. to enlighten the people of White Rock re Yes or No in regard to wheth- er or not they were to become @ city or remain a poor sec- ond to every place sround them. The Chairman. Mr. still think he 1s a good post- tte rt hn o lots of others | © master and a good citizen. account of time anyone at the |Poth in White Rock and dis- would be allowed to|trict that wern't born in Ger- ing one [ Hungary. To my way of think- ing they were sure Hells. George Brown. You have heard a person classified, And the very old quotation “where t ere’s Questioned some of his fig-} What actually is our status. ¢ ures at the Tuesday meeting | Apathetic” KEEP TOLERANCE I that's more. ‘ fire.” Lies ee valet beh ona Hope ant, ta: Bay) ees gt on r ‘ould cause both fire and mud make attention. : ona is the word thal vote. ide the Some really So ‘midst pre: many or Russia or in the latest | While the