nted and Published Every Thuryday at White Rook, BO. a By the Semiahmoo Sun Ltd. © OFFICE LOCATED AT 916 WASHINGTON AVE. ‘Phone: Whito Rock 3600 | Authorised 1 Second Clasn Mall, Pont Oftico Department, O\tawe Subscriptions (In advance), Canada, $200 per yours U.S.A, $2.50 ‘Member of B.C, Weekly Newspaper Advertising Bureau ‘Member of Canadian Weekly Nowspaper Assoc, and B.C. Division of Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association ‘Changes for Advertisements to be In Not Lator than 6 p.m. Monday, ‘ublisher, H. . PINCHIN, Faltor and A wooden curtain? Ue unfortunate plece of public relations occurred Monday | Semlakmoo Sun reporter was barred from attending a meeting of Zone 1 White Rock Ratepayers’ Association. he Semiahmoo Sun has always been on good terms, with the rarfous zones when parent organization and until this meeting with tho v: Genstituting itx make-up. The Sun has always endeavoured to sl fair and accurate coverage to all ratepayers’ problems, At one ftime last Fall it devoted half of page one and editorial space to the organization so that an urgent problem could be froned out. the ti ‘The Sun asked former councillor William Offer for usual press courtesy in exchange for publishing a notice of meeting, Mr. Offyr stated that the press was not welcome and would be barred The notice went- unpublished. from the meeting. Readers may well ask, “Why this petty bickering?” In keeping with its policy of community service, the staff was endeavouring to learn what lay behind the abrupt Mr. Irwin's only remarks editorin} resigna- tion of Ratepayers president Tom Irwin were that it stemmed from the “non-recognition of the parent body } among its own zones,” Did this mean that one zone was ignoring the rest of the organk- Gallon and running its affairs scparate from the group? Or was there personal antagonism between members? These questions we wanted to find the answer to, in order that the public would know the truth of the matter. Rumour had it that Zone 1 was ignoring the parent association In all fairness to the zono your editor requested the normal press courtesy of being allowed to report the meeting. This was refused by the chairman. ‘Readers will bw have to draw thelr own conclusions and accept with some basis in fact any rumours they may hear. If the zone Swaebeen acting properly we sec no reason to fear reports of its (activities. The Sun has never yet been accused of biased report: ing on local fasues. Secret mocting and press secrecy will not strengthen the rate- ayers organization. Public business should be transacted in public ‘and not behind closed doors. The orld waits No where in the world more than Canada is the nows of a truce jn the Korean fighting more {favourably recolved, editorializes the, Harrison-Agassiz Advance. It is significant, however, that the news has been accepted quictly and with rome reserve. ‘The world has Jearned to wait and sce before parsing judgment on any pronounce- ment from Soviet Russia's satelliter. It Is also significant that the suggestion of n sottlement of the Korean war comes only after the Communist forces have failed In three major offensives, and are again on the retreat, Preparations for the Korean aggression were mado during tho time the USER threatened to make Berlin the danger point. Focus ‘of world aitention wax drawn away from Chinn to the Went. & fow months “after we knew why, : Now an allem Is being made to concentrate attention on the ettlement In Korea—to draw attention away from, Iran, Contrary to the general belief, the USSH ty without gufficient off suppliox to run her vast military machine, Sho has no satellite nation behind: the Tron Curtain to mupply her. What would the United Nations do if the USSR were to (ake the Tranian off fields? Han our determination to rentat’ nggronsston jered that? Ax 9 family of nations, wo have been teatod [Mint the answer we gave was the right one, for a lot ankwer to the threat of Communism, te Cae uid The Semiahmoo Sun & White Rock Weekly, White Rock, Senator Reid BC. favors old age assistance EDITOR'S NOTE: Senator Thomas Held spoke in the Senate on June 27 favoring Increaved old age Aeststance, Text of his speech ‘an taken from the official report of Honourable + Hon, Thomas Told nenator#, Tdeaire to take up a Nttle time of tho Senate to dinouan thin bill. T offer no apology for mpenk- ing on Oils Important moanure, though the hour Is Inte, for aa far baok ax tho year 1031, when T wan © mombor of the Flouse of Com- mons, I propoied n contributory monaure of old axe pensions, T want to compliment the govern mont upon Introducing such a monauire as thjs, and also my hon- ourablo friend from Hallfax (Hon. Mr, Tenor) upon the excellent specch he made yenterday when moving second reading of tho bill However, I nm a littte perturbed by what looke like a trend in our social welfare schemes, I was hoping that we would havo all- out contributory old age pensions, but this ill proposes to provide assfstance—that fs the term usod— to peoplo between the agen of 65 and 70 who can qualify under a moans teat, And it is intended to Introduce next session a bil to provide assistanco—termed old age security—to all those of 70 and ‘aver, regardless of their means. At the moment T will not deal with the legislation of the October nes- sion, other than to say that some of the Intimations as to {ts con- tonts are rather interesting. For Instance, It Is sald that all people ‘over the age of 70 will receive $40 ‘a month. Of course T am not in favor of paying that. sum tothe rich and well-to-do: as well"as to those In need, for I claim that however high the income tax may xo for this ponsfon it will never take back from those who receive the $40 a month, even {f they be million- falres, the full $480 that would be paid to them Jn any one year under such a moasure. Assistance by way of income tax is not just the same thing ax di- rect payment under a contributory old age security scheme, I am one of those who hold to the somewhat old-fashioncd belief that thore something worth while preserving in man, namely, his self respect; and you take that away if you hand him from the treasury some payment towards which he has not made any contribution. I do not know whether many senators haye had anything to do with the handling of old age pen- sion cases under the existing schome. I have had to do with hundreds of cases and I know something of how the system works, nt least In the province of British Columbia, I can tell that girls of 21 to 24 have been uscd fis Invostigators—young people who have not the experience which age brings—and thoy haye beon Into homes to ask the most Intimate and particular questions of people. ‘Thin In n practice that has made many oltizons sour if not bitter. I know of many instances also whoro people, becauso of thelr ob- Is it| pend on whether we are propardd to continue d of living of other nations, One polloy with- lis nowhere. An Improyed standard of living tn jection to giving the detailed ox- planntions and information asked for, havé refused to fill out tho necessary forms to obtain old age pensions. - I was looking forward to tho time when we would havo a rehome under which avery eltizen could wale hotly upto @ wicket and furtly ask for, and receive, some nayment towards which he had rontribnted, But here, after all the vena of experience In tht and pther countries, we aro beinelnit in an Act authorizing: the handing out of payments from the treasury to people who have to quality tmder 4 monn tent. 1 would remind the government, of what unually happens when you tart a scheme for panding out nubile monoy, During election eam= ‘patina the nchemo becomes m pol jeat football, If un to. the taxa nt etlon the maz or the ol eps will may and we will give ng the Kove Put ua In office ates follows, had no orianization and no defi. nite platform other than one based on the slogan, “Mixty dollars at sixty" ‘That waa ail he sald over the alr and through the press and on the nidewalks, Aw LAberal eam- palgn manngor 1 know that there was some danger, to our candi- date beonuse I had learned trom my long public experience that| make the old age pensions scheme you can usually get more votes! strotly contributory, for ft te by making promises like that than} then that the menna text can pro- hy olting performances, 1 can] perly be removed, 1 wonder how truthfully say, howover, that I]many honourable senators have never used such tactlen. ory hind an opportunity ta observe a senator who hax run for publlo|menna test belng carried out. 1 office known that what I ray true, The candidate T speak of did well, and the yative and the CCF cand{datos lost thelr deposits. I would ndvise the government— I do not suppose it will take my advieo, for it nover has— Somo Hon. Senators: Hear, hear. Hon, Mr, Evler: Keop trying. Hon, Mr, Beaubien: You aro a young man yet. Hon, Mr. Reld: T will keop try- Ing. Hon, Mr, Euler: same box as you. Hon, Mr. Reld: Tam In tho thinking before it brings in next jession & Bill to make an outright contribution to every citizen, and to substitute for it a whereby every man and woman In the country above a certain age will make contributions towards insurance or pension, or whatevor it may be cailed, for his or her own old age. T strongly urge the substitutlon of contributory scheme because I am afraid that A non-contributory schome would destroy or at least seriously weak- en the fecling of self respect and Independence which 1s s0 neces- ary for the people of a nation such as wo have In Canada. T agree with the remarks made by the honourable senator from Poterborough (Hon. Mrs, Falls) as to the position In which some peo- ple find themsclyos in thelr old age. I say with pride that T come of honost, God fearing parents, who brought up six children. Like thousands of other parents In this country, after having ralsed 2 fam- ily of six children thoy reached a time of life when, through no fault of thelr own—and they were thrifty—they found themsclvos with ttle resources left. In Scot- Iand we have a phrase “poor, but a honest," and I trust that every.| ¢ senator knows what that phraso|/)")vorvon® Whe may not require moans, And again with some| * £0r selfishness ati exists today. prido I kay that I have endeav- oured to remain true to the socond part of that description. As to the first part, can only say that for- tunately this country haa been very good and kind to me by giving me the honourable positfon which T hold hore, a winocure no to xpoak, for life. But becausc I myself am. safeguarded against want, am ,T to ait allent and not raise my volce fon behalf of tho many thousands In thix country who re just as good ax I am but loss fortunatey T sometimes think that too many people Who aro well off are In clined to forget how fortunate they have boon, T have heard some of thom say of other classe: “Why don't they work banior? Why don't they avo?” In voleing that eriticlam they remind me of the man who got ott of A burning hall by trampling ever the heads of other people and, Wavinis mately mehed tho atroot, kept crying, “Why don't they come out?” Ono hears often the expression: ‘Why don't they aaye thelr money for thelr old age?” ‘Tho fact In that there mre many thousands of ood, honest, hard-working eltizens in this country who, through force of lrcumstances, could never save anything from the mall amount ed in Progresnive-Consor- I would advise the governmont to do’ some scrlous scheme Period of apending mi noon to bebe 4 ing backw fast that « dollar today wit buy only 45 conta worth of what It would purchase in 1¢39—and who {n to eay that the standard of Wy ing or high wages will fo down, ‘ven to the level of 19907 From my observations practically every raise nince 1939 haa become stabl- Vinod, Too often we look bark and think of what we could buy some- thing for in 1900. or 1880, forxot- ting that we are on different Jevel or plane today, and that per- hops high wages and prices are hore to stay 1 whould ike the government to wonder also how many of them would submit to answering ques Ulona by wome anocty individupl who makes ‘mich comments Ay “Your furniture or house good for you to ask for an old nize pension.” ‘The applicants for penslona are so harraseed by ques- tlons from there youthful’ Investt- fintora that the vory tiearts and rouls of many old people have been neared fn too ‘The pension should not only be on n contributory basle, but to my mind it should be for a sreater amount than $40 a month. T polnt to. the’ uncmployment Insurance sacasure as a contributory scheme which has worked out very well Have you ever heard of anyone nuggesting that unemployment In- surance bonefits should be Increas- cd? No, Tho reason 1s that crease In the return would mean fan Increased contribution from the workers, An old age pension plan could very well work the For Instanee, In such coun- tries ax Great Britaln, New land Australia. there In great cry or demand for Increases in old age benefits, for the very ood reason that the schemes are contributory schemes, To my way of thinking a contributory plan would mean that everyone had to pay, and then all would have a right to hold out thelr hands and receive somothing back in return. Woe hear a great deal of talk about the proposed now old ago| pensions, whether well to do or! security schome, under which al needy, will recefye $40 a month} upon attaining 70 years, To my way of thinking such a proposal Is unsound, Tf, the government te quires those who wish to receive 8 pension to make application, Iet | me say that when T attain tho age of 70 I for one will never do It. But T feel that that cannot be said 8, an In- same Ten and no Hon, Mrs, Fallls: would the hon- Tn ther paw oney 10 ‘epi Hon, Mra. Fallte: And wo to every person I yeuns? b Hon, Mr, Fuld: An of right, 9 Hon. ira, Fajlin: Then 1 ages with you. Hon, Mr. Reid: An to the test, my strong complaint against the searching asked, and the {oventi¢atora Inquire into the intimate affairs older people hetore & peniene granted, e f 1 repeat, honourable senators, | that I fake no apology for rain to spenk thié afternoon on behalf of thin great class of citizens whine respect and dignity abould preserved Hon, Mr, Lacasse: Honouratte senators, I rise to aay that there i) be him: nishes prot that Job of & senator Is no xiseenre, Trae. as ardu duties ax 2 mex ber of the House of Commons; but In that respect I In the . That la jot oy opinion of the Mr, Halg. That will Bold’ om Inkerman (Hom Hon motion was agreed to, aad second time: The the bill wax read Referred to Committee. The abl be Hon. Speaker: Houser senators, when shall the Bill I moye that the bill Bene ferred to the Standing Committee on Banking and Commerce ‘The motion was agreed tom BISSSSISSISISISISIISSS SS EXPERT CLOCK & WATCH REPAIRING We buy old JEWELLERY, ANTIQUES, SILVER, et T. CHRISTENSON ‘ourable scnator permit a question. Hon, Mr. Reld: Yes. j Hon. Mra. Fullis; Did T under | stand him to say that he Is in| favor of the completo abitition of | the means tost? | Hon, Mr. Reld: I certainly am. Hon. Mrs, Falls: Thon if the Means test In abolished, how do you avold paying the pension to everybody? Hon. Mr, Reld: By following the Shoe AL CUTLER NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS — Repair