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On Reading Newspapers

Tn his little book, “Intellectual Life,” P. G. Hamerton
tells of a man who told him that he did not believe in read-
ing newspapers. He made the charge against them that
they dealt too much in sensational matters, and claimed that
the 500 hours or so a year which he ordinarily spent on
reading them could be used to better purpose in more se-
lect reading.

Someone has said somewhere, in stating the value of the
newspaper, that one’s mind needed checking up as the busi-
ness man’s ledger did, and that this could be done best by
the information as given in the press. 5 25 i

In some wi there is no more welcome visitor a
home than the Roe People read it who do not read books
and who do not attend church. Indeed, for some it is their
most important point of contact with their community, prov-
ince, country and the world at large. It is a regular and
friendly visitor and its various departments have something
to interest the several members of the household.

Mr. Hamerton, in the book referred to, shows the place
the newspaper fills in the life of the people. For one
thing, it is to the public what the conversation of a home
is to the inmates of that home. There they discuss domes-
tic affairs—exchange ideas, discuss vital matters. So the
Mewspaper provides a medium for the exchange of ideas,
and matters that concern all the people are ventilated.

Besides, it tells the achievements of our day—registers
progress. The cares, the thoughts, and the aspirations of |
the great families of nations are spread out upon the printed
pages. We read of the adventures of the people who made |
what we now call Canada, or Europe, or America. These
places are still in the making. We see them reaching out}
their hands to one another, and we follow their great trade |
routes, and note their reactions to the crises of our time.

The French peasant of Hamerton’s day did not read the
Papers and so was out of touch with contemporary life.
The paper is an auxiliary to history.
African traveller did for the mapmaker, the paper does for
history, and the historians of tomorrow will search the files
of the papers issued today.

It has been pointed out that people respect history when
it is bound in leather. They tend to overlook the chronicle
of present day affairs.

Among the services rendered by a local newspaper is
that of friendliness, It tells the people of one another,and
has done as much as any agency to end isolation. Then
what contributes more effectively to what we may call a
profitable entertainment?

That leads us to another valuable service rendered by
the newspaper. The advertising columns of the local family
newspaper not only stimulate sales for business people but
Save time and money for those who buy. As a result of
advertisements many are able to do their shopping in the
comfort of their own home. Here they can compare values
at their leisure, consider their needs and prepare their shop-
Ping lists. It is a well-known fact that best values will
always be found in the advertisement which is held up for
comparison.

True Community Co-operation

The School Board and the Parks’ Board are deserving
of praise for their announced plan to seek more c0-opera-
tion between their two bodies in the matter of full-time use
of school playgrounds.

Last week a Parks’ Board member addressing a
gathering stated that the two Boar
Plans whereby school
children as recreation:

public
ds are trying to work out
playgrounds can be made available to
al areas for after school hours.

With so much stress being lsid on recreation and the
Srowing tendency to consider it as a means to combat delin-
Quency, there is surely a need here to Give every en¢ourage-
ment to the Boards in this proposed forward step in com-
munity co-operation.

It is, of course, easy to pick flaws in the suggested plan.
There is the matter of proper supervision, for one thing.

Supervision means extra staff and extra salaries, which
would have to be met from allotted budgets.

It could also mean that childre:
home and

Evidence is a
need

a

More of the parents’ job,
ens the state has little
Boards suggest can be
rece will, in the long run, cost the taxpayer
ping to prevent juvenile delinquency. Few

ly the present system of keeping the
@elinguency in detention institutions and

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conditions stand today,
Tf such plans as the

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aspects of the
only to stop and
Playground areas and
to make full
of daylight and not

ities began to

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George Truelson lives in
Whitehorse, Y.T. His hobbies
are fishing and photography,
in that order, After a hard
week’s work, George likes
nothing better than to toss his
fod and camera into his sta-
tion wagon and take off for
parts unknown. It’s a vast
country, the Yukon, and
George has found many places
to fish and photograph, no
two alike.

Sunday, June 17th was
somewhat different in that
George knew where he was
headed. He'd heard it men-
tioned that Otter Falls, about
a hundred miles north-west
of Whitehorse, was really
jumping with fish. Otter Falls
proved to be one of the more
Spectacular spots in a very
Spectacular country. After set-
ing up his rod, George, ever

ture, took time to look around
him. He looked down stream,

on the alert for a good pic-|
| where,”
Ito prove it,

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then up, and he had a very
\strange sensation. The falls he
was looking at seemed oddly
familiar. Before _ leaving,
George stepped to a shingle
bar in mid-stream and snapped
a couple of pictures of the
Falls. Later, the following
week, he stopped on his way
home from work and picked
up the developed prints, and
as he looked at the picture of
Otter Falls, he remembered
something. A friend had once
told him that he had written
to the Government to ask as to
|the origin of the outdoor scene
jon the Canadian five dollar
bill, when it first came out.
The answer to his query had
been a politely vague: “Some-
where in the North land.”
|George placed a five dollar
bill above the picture of Otter

overdue,
in my opinion. I had the need

me on the weekend when I!

discovered that the present
Victoria to Vancouver trip on
the Princess Elizabeth now
takes from 3.30 in the after-
noon to 9.30 at night! All those
tedious hours and miles’ which

could go straight from here
to there (W.R. to V.L, in other
words).

Of course, there is the Van-
couver-Nanaimo route but that
necessitates a drive of appro-
ximately 75 miles down the
Island. Add to this the 2 and
three-quarter hour boat trip
and the traveller is faced with
a long and expensive trip, no
matter which route he
chooses, Nor is the Black Ball
ferry from Horseshoe Bay
much quicker.

IT SEEMS RIDICULOUS

of 135 miles to get from one
to the other of these two im-
portant centres which are not
much further apart than the
35 miles of the above figure.

Falls,
He had found that “some-

and he had a picture

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n The Bookshelf

In fact, what the |«

Oh, well, we will just have
to keep on pushing. Once that
super-highway is built which
Mr. Gaglardi keeps on dang-
ling before our eyes, compan-
jes engaged in this mainland
to Island transportation busi-

ness may give more favourable |

attention to White Rock.
SPECIALLY—and uniquely

FOREST,” by ©
Icolm Durrell, his beak and shyly said
' d indeed are the |"Wheep.’” :
adventures encountered by| The ant-eater, christened

Mr. Durrell and his wife in
their search for quaint birds
and be; in Argentina and
Paraguay.

“The Drunken Forest” is not
exactly a travel book and most
certainly not a zoology text,
but rather a series of tales of
curiously endearing little ani-
mals, and of highly improb-
able, but very likeable,
humans,

Bebita, for example, is
Something of a fairy god- ;
mother. She procures unbe-
Mevable bargains, bewitches
ferocious-looking taxi-drivers
into carrying forbidden cargo,
and even secures a night's
lodgings for Durrell's animals
in the most exclusive of resi-
dential areas.

Two of the author's fayour-
ite creatures were a baby
Screamer and an ant-eater. Of
the baby screamer he writes,
“On his back were two small,
flaccid bits of skin, like
couple of cast-off glove fi

gers which had become at
tached there by accident,
which did duty as wings, He
v clad entirely in what ap-
peared to be badly-knitted
ight yellow suit of cot

on
‘ool. He rolled out of the

sack, fell on his back, strug
gled manfully on to his en
flat

mous feet, and stood
there, his ridiculous wings
Slightly raised, surveying us

with interest. Then he opened

There is rioting in Hong Kong,
fears,

The French have on a shootin;

Budapest is drenched in
pore,

Israel and the Arab States, are

Fists and club can't cope with

The action of the Russians, is

not;

Stage”;

Sea,
The good Lord sure has been
surely should be.

{~——— << —_—_ eee ee
GRATEFUL WE ARE.

i war, out there in Algiers;
blood, and there’s riots in Singa-

This is not pleasant reading, but it’
And the pictures in our papers,
What can we do about this? As
We would if we could, but we

One can't Keep from wondering,
Shakespeare was right when he

Here we have cause to be thankful, peace over land and.
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Sarah Huggersack, was a most
affectionate but determined
little being. “To begin with
reports her captor, “she
tremendously vocal, and would
not hesitate to blare her head
off if she could not her |

for!
or refuse to cuddle

}own way; keep her waiting
her food,
her when she demanded affec-
tion, and Sarah battered you

into submission
lung-power.”

As you may judge from
these graphic passages the |
writer endows his pets with a
personality that is irresistible.
The stories are told in a
light-hearted humorous style
that should make this book}
very popular.

Although he writes in so
happy a vein, the author has
his worries. Difficulties in
transportation he might have
expected, but hardly a revo-
lution which made it neces-
sary for him to release many
of the animals which he had
already acquired. Fortunately
for us Mr. Durrell is filled
with a zest and enthusiasm for
his work which carries him|
through such frustrations and
which enables him to face the
drudge: olved in the daily
tasks of caring for his wild |
creatures.

Other

by sheer
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books by the same
author are, “PHREE SING-
LES TO ADVENTURE,”
“THE OVERLOADED ARK”
and “BAFUT BEAGLES,”

Suez Canal has caused grave

adding to the score;
tanks, no matter where they

simply massacre;

's there in black and white,
show many a horrible sight.
indlyiduals, not one jot.
can’t, just precisely we an:

4s this an enlightened age?
wrote “all the World’s a
good to us, how grateful we
W. FMcCLINTOCK.

transforms milk into flavour-
ed milk drinks has been in-
troduced
seems, The secret is in the
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White Reck District

flavoured milk is now in the
planning for junior, a milk
firm have announced. If New
York has this improvement
today we can expect it tomor-
row. I guess it is a case of
“the end justifies the means”
for it has been noted by sta-
tisticlans for some time now
that junior is definitely not
interested in milk as a bever-
age anymore. Coke has gone
far towards supplanting “cow
juice” in family dietary plans.
Anyway, trust the producer
to come up with a solution to
this as to many another
household problem. A new
food product, straws with
“built-in” flavours, — which |

in New York, it

could be eliminated or cut to’
@ quarter of their length if we !

to travel in the neighbourhood |

in large

mpt to:

la
ic
ride
So,
willl
ge the proper
it will have

aleitim
their growing periods.
the flavoured filters
a bit to encoura,
intake jof milk,

A BIG IF, I hope, but it is
an ‘if” nevertheless, regard-
ing the suggested by-law on
Shop closing in the munici-
pality. Lots of merchants in
this town can’t possibly be for
a Monday closing. In fact, it
is likely that many would
Vote, if they had a chance, for
no closing at all seeing we
cater so much to the needs of
the holidaying public. What is
one man’s meat is another
man's poison, in this as in
many another situation in life,
If Whalley wants Monday
closing and feels it would be
in the best interests of their
community to have it, it
doesn't follow that such would
be for the good of White
Rock . As far as a weekly
newspaper is concerned, I
should think Monday closing
would be simply dynamite.

This and That

KINDNESS.
Such a little thing is kindness,
Never could be bought nor

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sold,
Yet its power is fraught with
magic,
Precious more than miser’s
| gold.

Just a kindly word in passing,
A helping hand to one: weigh-

ed down, }

A tender smile of understand-
ing, i

Where one thought to see a
frown.

Kindness is God’s gift to man-
kind,

To ease the burdens of life's
way;

Let us, like the Blessed Savi-
our, :

Practise Kindness day by day.

Tides of

Reference Station. Point Atkinson. Standard) Time
Oct. Time Ht, Time Ht. Time Ht. Time Ht,
1Th. 4:42 13.7 10:10 8.8 15:36 14.4 29:38 25
2F. 5:38 14.4 11:00 94 16:10 14.1 23:17 2.0 ‘
3Sa. 6:28 14.8 11:47 9.9 16:42 13.8 23:55 1.9
45s, 7:14 15.1 12:36 10.2 17:20 13.4 9” } ° i
5M. 0:32 2.7 7:58 15.1 13:24 10.4 17:54 12.9 tha
6 Tu. 1:08 25 851149 14:12 10.4 18:32 19.4 ;
7 W. 1:48 3.2 9:24 14.6 15:12 10.3 19:18 117
8 Th. 2:26 4.0 10:07 14.3 16:20 10.1 20:10 11.1

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