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1-T?7t—-^-^H :tW^' ff!W*» — *»->».>t.l»-»*>«-lM-)M-)M-*-**Jt.»>M-* * lTINlTCT PlrT, iT.PC * S * Every Week-Night " * FINEST PICTuKES at Princeton's CAPITOL THEATRE THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR it********************* * Cameron's Grocery * The Friendly »to*e J SeeOsrii j t PHON3 1!W t Fiftieth Year; No. 8 PRINCETON, B.C., MONDAY, 13th MARCH, 1950 5c per Cop •; $2.09 per Y«MT AMBER AT WAR WITH OFFICIALDOM WANTS SKISPORT NOT POLITICS And Princeton Wants Full Value From A Valuable Resource * -u * seriously iholding the bag1. We were happy o seetemergence of an organizat'on strong and self -responsible. In that time Amber kids have gone to the top. To the Olympics and highest national honors with a new crop (coming on CPU) WAR — AND ALL WET THERE is cold war in the sno.w'l every year- B1ff tournaments wt 1 sport and the ski-nanigans I haTf enterta ned. We have had mark a cross-roads in a v tal s enteramment, good pub- public resource. | hcity. B has made business. Everyone likes a scrap and We have Bad S7003 value and our dour and doughtv Ambers wc are Srateful. But it must be have won as usual. But— ' he president of the ski association kow-towed to Pop and there have been apologies from everybody but Amber, which never has anything to apologize for. And Amber again won all the prizes and got a lot of publicity—but. There are stout friends of Similkameen — and of Amber, which has done so much for us —who are a mite doubtful in triumph ana who see a dec. tension in the grand graph of Atnber ascendancy.-' Time to stop and th'nk. Now first of all ski-sport is Important: H fe everybody's business. In a democracy sport is not merely a vital element in the social weal: it "'s a major industry. Ten percentage po nts in major league standings rep remembered too that we have paid the modest tolfc. , Support makes sport possible. The public is a factor. However little Amber has asked, the publftl off?r .exceptional opportunities for has a right to suggest that it eaJ°y'n8 a W1^? variety of outdoor ask all it needs to do the job adequately. Winter Sports in Canada Skiing—Bob-Sledding—Hockey—Curling—Tobogganing—Dog Derbies Outstanding Attractions HE invigorating climate of a typical Canadian winter, now regarded aa an advantage rather than a hardship, owing to the unusual variety of healthful and appealing sports, is attracting increasing numbers of visitors to the Dominion. Across Canada there are many beautiful and attractive snow-clad mountains, hills and valleys, which Plenty Still To Do Amber had a fighting, struggling start. It (has won every obv'ous objective. It was conceived in the idea of ski.sport for our own kids—now kids of all ages. Ms ach'eivement is remarkable. But it is not the final answer to ski sport in Sim'lka- meen. It is not enough to grow a good crop. You have to make the best use of it. enjoying winter sports. The principal activities throughout the country are skiing, snowshoeing, ' skating, tobogganing, curling, hockey, bob-sledding and dog derbies, all of which may be thoroughly enjoyed, under ideal conditions. With the exception of an occasional day during mid-winter, the temperature is not too cold for participating in outdoor sports. While motor travel is not general during the winter season, there are many long stretches of highway which are kept conditioned throughout the winter months. The traveller will always find train service a modem and luxurious means of transportation. Hotels in m&ny of the leading summer resort districts remain open the year round, providing good In great achievement — and resents perhaps a. n'llioiT dot- i we must pay due tribute to the accommodation for those wishing io participate in Iocai winter events. la>s to a cty's economy. In I Lew wno nave done '*—AmoeT Ssnv<kameen .our winter ter- ' has .s,mP1y achieved great and rain is as real an asset as our | continuing opportunity. Let coal, our copper and- our news- j tnem remember - that and revel paper Private management of n **• A phase is over, and in a pubic resource is a commun- som* ways tae easier, fighting ity trust and we have a real Praise.. Xlh* ■ feBthful fepr have anfl vital stake in its manage- Pu* us °:n tne sfci map. Let them ment. Whether we sk' or not, ski-ing is important to us, and we have to start out by thank- 'ng Amber—and mostly Pop for a very handsome contribution But— reflect, that what we do ;s ?:nown and watched. Let them refelct that the other phase is no less important, its rewards no less real/ : Now Amber has all it asked. i It has a local monopoly. It has J the h'll. It has the youngsters. I No one interferes. It has sta«d- tands on ite oSI fL? „„ II I in* °ffers °f he1P- « has had . enoe and determination No- ""^ £J° .conque'? A ' body wants to interfere •»■* ' Now a " that nas chanSea- But We L ose No but i ski-'ng is one of many things I you can't have without people, j both our own and outsiders. In the same theme, our sk' 'management concerns our won public and outsiders^ and ski- J management in general affeits Amher is simply an advanced example. It got *n first and enjoyed the fruits. But two years ago our best skier—young Bert—agreed that Amber could w>t [hope to .perpetuate her dominance, whereby, as oTd us We have. a. right, a responsi Bert conH saSi corralling so * bility. Our /interest is friendly anfl sincere and seeking common advantage in common right. The people speak. They kept their peace until tne turn- nament was over. Thev sup- pored it. They have eagerly given friendly .help and at oppor- tunty they are eager Ito 'sivfe more yet. They are the passive partner in sk' sport. The Ski fraternity ' should eagerly give them'ear. What is good for the public ;s good for the sport. Just before the /tournament a controversy b^red forth between Amber and the association. There was some bad procedure, some bald log'c and some bad journalism, and everybody suffers. But a boil is sometimes a blessing in authoring a sound diagnoses. And these are symptoms. The time has come for a frank and friendly going-over of the whole ski-sport scene. Way Back When j History should serve the continuity of intelligent understanding. There is no service 1 in dirty linen. Amber is a fight- | ing: club. It came about_in a ] Sighting origin. We all !>>ve a ! fighter, and Amber has fought | successfully and well. And there j will always be plenty to conquer. But it is a battle of ach-' ievement' in the good gospel of sport, not a ravage of arroga- ■n and ill will. Let us be mindful first of the goal of victory always. You never conquer an enemy till you make him a many of the available ski-ers and fae'lities, had he wished, that he could control any tournament. It was simply not good for anvone, Amber injc-ud''d, "nt it was so. Monopoly: Danger Now in the post-war ; other and bigger places bound to do some catching up. i w;^e n We can't, hope to have all the w,n never f ^ Anfl jngt ?s big dates or all the ski-ers We Amber's honors have been wor'h can have better than we had if m sh „ke ^ we realize^we have someth ng , m ^ no j^ bigger to shoot at. > T . . . .. But there are and in a chang- Last week-end, as more than Wide Range of Sports In Every Province Each province possesses winter attractions more or less peculiar to its own particular surroundings. Practically ail forms of winter sport are available in the Maritime Provinces, but a preference is shown for hockey and curling. In the province of Quebec the major sport events centre in and around Montreal, Quebec City, Murray Bay and the Laurentian mountains. Lovers of winter sports will find vast territories in Ontario, which are ideal in location and in scenic beauty. Ottawa, the federal capital, is adjacent to some of the finest skiing country on the continent, while the and more spectators shoulid mean more aU round. But a chang:ing pi lure cal s for a new focus, both here and in the ski association. In that lies the explanation of the recent "lash. Twenty years ago, when the spore was in its infancy. Princeton had its first tournament. There were virtually no local ski-ers, the town was on y half its present size, no more attra* - t've and nowhere near as ac- cesible. But every big name in skisport of the day was here— Nets Nejson, JofVftad, KaldaM, 1 Sotveht, Mobraaten and the r?st f —and crowds came from far and ■ was an event Princeton best of ice-yachting may be enjoyed in Toronto bay and along the waterfront of lake Ontario. In the Mus- koka and Algonquin Park districts, hotels and cabins are open for the accommodation of winter visitors.. In Manitoba the Winnipeg bonspiel also the winter carnival held at The Pas, are annual events of international interest, while Banff, situated in bhe scenic Canadian Rockies in Alberta, is one of the most important -Centres for winter sports. Record performances in ski-jumping have been witnessed at Revelstoke. The islands and mainland of the southwestern pant of British Columbia offer golf, tennis and other summer sports^ for the winter visitor. Government Bureau Information Service Information concerning winter sports*in Canada may be obtained from the National Development Bureau, Department of the Interior at Ottawa. Those who desire such information should state, if possible the particular district or districts in which they are interested, in order that the most complete data may be supplied. | Wronged - And blamed For It The facts are that Amber did offer a club tournament under virtually open auspices. And t~e dates d d conflict with an association-sponsored mee„ at Ke. lowna. And despite apologies, and whatever the reason, Coast ski-ers diH virtually boycott the Princeton tournament. For none came. And that adds up: unfortunate, and seriously la king in co- operat on somewhere. But no trick on Amber's part. As to dates. Amber, through no fault of its was the big loser. It always has a tournament, long before there was a Kelowna club, and usually on that'weekend, proven most suitable to local conditions. The Mates were set and publicized early in the year. Kelowna knew and set its date accordingly for the week preceding. THE ASSOCIATION ORDERED KELOWNA TO RETARD ITS DATE TO CONFLICT WITH PRINCETON. THIS WAS TO SUIT REVELSTOKE, WHO HAD I SET ITS DATES THE WEEK BE- ,'FiCftE KELOWNA, AND THEN CHANGED IT. So everybody had te suffer to suit the real offender. Kelowna had arranged to send.ski-ers to Princeton and Princeton to Kelowna and neither was very pleased about being aeprived. Threatened Strange Malady \ing... picture Amber must be alert to the change. Conceded Amber has given more than good value. But— Twonlty years iafJo ski Report in B.C. was a comparative innovation. There was Revelstoke There were a few week-end adventurers to the Vancouver hind-hills. There were a handful of old-line immigrants, somewhat second rate, but authority and amazement in this ski wilderness. "(pinny" fault a jazzy sweatem like amy plri-iup. It's tiriue. We seen It. TJhe insanity was curling, and the occasion their Wonsp el—French, bon, good; spiel, Siwash, talk. Curling is a game where one guy Srles to get a rock in, and seven others try to knock it out, or talk :'t out. It 's lots of fun, and the rocks are not really necessary, but the brooms and the balmorals really are. does not aways fight a Detroiter in Detro't. Thirty years ago we had the Salmonbellies in frontir one remarked, you would hard- Priweton and you still see it 'y have known there was any-1 referred to in the big papers to- (journalisnv The apologies arte in. Amber was right. So was the fellow who had the right of way. A man with a freak hat and I To insist on right is vital, but only a broom; well, maybe not a I ?talf f"d «ss: r°» hav* to "a** the other fellow feel right about i* And this too we must rcmem. thing on. And we had enough ski-ers to make our own event; i better hill and other facilities and a bigger town. And that century-long dream, the Hope Road was open. Let's Share It Now Amber will argue, and with much truth, that the bet ski-ers were all here—our own (though one or two were away at big events where they did not nonopol;ze the honors). But that is very much Tike a bachelor putting on his tux to dine on a can of sardines in his •■b n. As a fact, there were the Norwegian champ ons who bafl come as near to us as Revelstrke and so could probably have been got rather cheaply. We suspect one or two of you might have thought it a treat, and goefi I value at even a little extra- Amber Is thrifty. You cou'd our salesmanship, have been all too cheap; one b'g reason why we are not as good a town as when we were half as big. Why "v attract so few visitors and why so many of our own folk ce'ebrate in other towns, send So we had Amber slapped in big headlines, all over he pro- v nee. Somebody said it. Pop < omplains, half in pride that they are all sore at Amber, be. ca.use they are jealous. There was a threat to boycott Princeton, to ban any competitor who went to Princeton. Amber was accused of a cheap trick, stag'ng a club tourney where for_50o — less than the normal entry fee for one event —anyone could become a. member for the tournament, so that it s really an open tournament. But the real kick was that-it was virtually in def ance of the parent association, that it convicted in date with the Kelowna , tournament, sanctioned by the day. Latterly our celebrations, 'association. "This sort of thing has got to stop." Official Efficiency Not very nice things to say, or print. And they were said.- I Bon't Mame the paper for much val'd business out rf Printing them. A darned good town. We need some good pro- ' s*ory. motion. Publicitv without t is I The reporter wrote a letter tj made propaganda.. When Pop I Amber. He does not back down protests that our tournament got ■' at all—except that he has the more publ'citv th?n the others, president saying them, when he he is unwittingly condemning a I adm'ts the president din not: a a well-mean'ng guy. very damaging admission of i GnnA /^ Pi.Mij.:*.* irresponsble journalism. And in 000 ^ '.) rUDIIClty \ the welter of words that hVs right. Yon couldn't put an a ski tournament if you shot everybody. Twenty years ago a pair of skis were as much a sensation here as Lady Godiva or even her white horse. Still as much allured by skis as by either the lady or the horse, some of us have long memories and long association anld some disinter, ested contribution, happy to see the authority taken over by the more actively qualified. Pol'tics and personalities are not new in ski sport. There was the Verne nonsense of 20 years and local peccadillos that provoke a weary smile but still hold strong. The sport is Itoo b'g for them. In those 20 years the picture has changed. The public has learned something too. Ski-ing is an established sport. We look ' for the same good sense, the for hte same good sense, the same good enterta'nment value, the same social contribution as from any other sport we support Locally the early enthusiasts showed themselves impossible administrators.. OT»ev got into such a mess as m'ght not only i When sport looks to the public it should remember the public. Princeton must capital ze on its resources. It must encourage its own athletes. It 's also entitled to a good show. So we got some publcity in the latest squabble, and Pop, was only relative. Now there'are And A^ber'ar'sues'that ifTthadi ?%£ sore aZut if I P JUSt skLspots ail. over the map. with | «g wouM not^spend «- ^ZZaTLa on the for- natural j to ^otr^ntfdV. Kef T^Z^^L^ *? S& in geo- elstoke, where the sport is reL j?**S0^£?g *\thf£yAsaL'PIen& »iv nreii ., . > ,.s.i ...f_j 11 _i.j Mate may pack the house^when hot. It is not established ha picture and the whole picture. , and radito men aiw a big show And the ski association must which the folk probably difl not fr'end, eagerly converted to j ber, good though, we werev it not ^ for a better bargain, l^ughThe boaVts of it nrtit. Yon couldn't nut on a was nnlv relativp Nnu th»r„ .» . . . ..-- «._.. *„•=.. «-_j. uiuusn tie ooasis or It. bigger populations, more money other attractions. In facilities, in material, see it too. There is more ski-ing and bet. ter sk'-ing and there is going to be more and better yet. Amber's susc.ess was not the ultimate. Home Brew - Only? Amber owed its success to its inceptive ideas. It made its own ski-ers. It was for sk'-ers, It | gave more ski-ing, and more cheaply/ simply by m|nking it mind pay;ng for.. And with no disrespect to our own kids, we suggest Princeton would not grudge it either. The Yankees and the Dodgers are currently the top teams In baseball, but other teams, we predict, will be seen this summer in New York, where everyone doesn't know everyone as well as in Princeton. An* E^ioy It, Putting on a good show is no easily available. That s always sound, but it is not all, and it j more being disloyal to your cm simply cannot, oompete with the I munitv w:th so mu"h here that skill and subs dizing of the Swi?s j uncar'ngly is—than staying home ^.nd others. And we are going Mom 'the Cap'tol bcaiuse Me1 to have to compete with more ana Noreen don't star in every and more of that over here. And «i-ture. T^ere are legitimate m i-ot too much to be regretted, if i-»-*s—tfejtagS vou oapit do—"nd we "et a fair share in It. *>iev pav H°- ;n the commerce Th's spread of sk: gospel need ~* "0"dwilL They bring- nvnv ftjjtt irk Amber anv mor" than -^i^rs. *«<• tn<» ev»"t and as »ni *h^ invention of *he power lo_m »"V->t "t It. Th"v «p11 your town, have killed the sport for all I put men out of work. More ski- And they gi*e ■wmr own folk time, but deft the community rrs and more tournament towns' full value in a treat. Joe Lou's J fol"owed, where everyone :s try ing to wriggle out of a serious I and careless libel against Amber I two things are pla'n: (1) ex-j tremely poor relations between •he association ajid ihe Coast Prrss; and (2) a mest inordinate •"onfusion in t<-p level proceedings at the assoc:ation. The reporter says nasty things r-bout the officials; and they are cheerfully re.'ijarocated. To d'smiss the newspapers— j in a serious adm'ssion the le- porter can at best claim to have j made a bad j-b of recording ac- ; <msations against Amber. Cer. I tainly he didn't invent the accusations. SometMnsr like that TOas said by somebody. A ^HIv Business it keeps warm as long as goodwill Hitler had lots of public ty too. It is not a corollary that he won many friends or attracted many tourists. Now let it be established at the outset that in this latest clash Amber was, as usual, right, and I ». '. .. * . , regrettablv wronged. Th! admls- „,,Now .°* course tha* ^ont do-1 is are to. There was some ir. I ™Sere *fa.r t"0 mucll ,™cs»on- I responsibe talking and some bad ?lbIexfnd incompetent journal- ! ism. No good reporter would as- I ] cribe a statement to someone; i unless he was sure he said it. | ' And he would never back down. The pract'ee in Vancouver is to "ive the ski beat to some kid who skis and who has no 'our- , nalist'o qualifications at all Coast journalism is rather poor. Even . Einste'n would lur-e to ser-e a journalistic apprent!ce- "h'n Th're is far too much care le^s^i^ss a"d inadequacy in a s»ri"M" orofe=«'o"; far too mq* fro^t-offi-o for a free and res- , ~,«>-...jVe Prp^o. So much for the ■ --"-ter, who says his ^iare of hard things, deserves his. ' The rights of the thing aside, i rincetion was never asked to hange her dates. They just got .) and Deuyached and rushed ito headlines. Nor is it tne iirst tune rnnceton nas oeen the victim of date switching. The whole principle is wrong and contrary to establshed practice in sport. Postponed games don't change a schedule; they fit in at the end. And theie must be a strong suspicion that Revelstoke'e Norwegian attraction, engaged at Lake Plac d, wou'd not be available for the ear'ier date. Certainly championship priority could not be argued for side shows, however enterprising. Amber says the association was advised of Pr'nceton's meet, probably before Revelstoke's original dates were set. And if anyone didn't know, he is not a very eager skier, for it was well publicized and long before the rumpus we talked with Va& couver—and Seymour skiers who had seen the posters. And there was certainly no cheap trick to it. It was ai on the posters, which openly invited entr'es. Fifty cents is Amber's standard fee. Its boast is 'heap ski-ing, and that "is no sin. "Membership" is the regular practice for club ftouma- I ments, and as the secretary — she is the only one who seemed to show any offical savvy—was reported to have pointed out, there is nothing in the rules to stop it. The rumpus was raised at an offic'al association meeting, at- which club delegates attended. But Amber, a member club, had no notice of the meeting. They have in Vancouver^ an Amber member who is their accredit-d delegate and who would have represented them.' But None Came Amateur'sh confusion seems c'early the tone of the meeting, with incompetent and bungling S'ffcialdom certainly no steer. The reporter's confusion f;nds . easy explanation though that is n"t >xi.use. The fi'-st Amber kn»w about it was 'n the p->per. Immediately there was a wire denouncing the report; regrets from the Seymour Club to* 'misrepresentation' (Seymour's Marg. Owen 'pad iust been a guest at the Trwin home, using Amber's fa- cil'ties to train for Aspen, and join? down with the Princeton p^rty She. told us Princeton ws a great favorite with Vancouver ski-ers. It was a Seymour spokesman who started the rumpus.) There was a letter from the reporter mainly stacking to his sru"s. though he had printed a- /©fraction, admitt'ng that the statements he ascribed lo the ires'dent were not made by the president. Then, quite spontaneous, a letter from the presMent, a nitnous plant of a much misunderstood man. It must be aHojjt the str«nge«t official doc ument of a1! time, the sort of (Turn to Page Seven) Their Four Hhl Plan DEVELSTOKE 's embarked on *^ a plan to build four jump hills on the Same site—inn, 140 200 and 260 feet, to bring jumpers f-^m the beginners' stagevto the top rank in skir and daring. And they are at work en the plan. ■' ::-^fSf r'~ i PAGE SIX— * THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR, PRINCETON, B.C. MONDAY, 13th MARCH, 1950 EEBKSEHEaBBIHEaf IBS lllllllillllllllllMlllinilllllllllllHIIIIIIIII VANDERSPEK IT Mr. Donald Saunders, now of i Robertson's Cleaners are pre-i Princeton Hotel is making al B I Osoyoos, underwent an opera- aring to enlarge their premses. maj>r improvement to the iroin B tion for apendicltis this week- A new power p'ant will be built: lobby and other changes, under I ■ He is rerovering nicely. I at the rear on fireproof lines. I enterprising Jnejw management.i LIMITED Hope-Princeton Highway RAPID FREIGHT PRINCETON • HOPE • VANCOUVER Leave Vancouver—Monday, Wednesday, Friday—5 p.m. Leave I'ririce'on—Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. = --■ ORDER ONE DAY—DELIVERY THE NEX.T E • Phone Princeton 140. riiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiogHE2EBBsssHa»aes' i Welcome to the NEW REX j £ Princeton's Popular Pleasure Place ") ■< ? •!!• -j CONFECTIONERY SCHOOL SUPPLIES . 1 ICE CREAM, DRINKS Drop in before the show • H • /EBMILION AVE. - PRINCETON IWWWUVWW Ed"mOLLIn':)(:~F: PESCT £ ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■' !!■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■"■■ FORD MONARCH — SALES and SERVICE m II m u m ■ B a ■ From Sales to Spark Plugs... Imperial *** Gas and Oils Ford Batteries—Dunlop Tires Complete Repair Service BURR MOTORS LIMITED ■ ■ ■ PHONE 55 i BRIDGE ST. llIllillIIIIIIIIHIlit m Travellers or Homesters Princeton's Leading Eating Place is the TRAVELLERS'CAFE MR. & MRS. NICK BUSH ^^P'' Bridge at -Harold—Prmceton 371 rwo Rivers Lumber & Building Supplies Ltd. k LUMBER * BUILDING MATERIAL k GENERAL HARDWARE • PAINTS * RADIOS • ELECTRICAL GOODS EQUIPMENT * • CAMPING etc. LOOK AROUND— —YOU'RE WELCOME Bridge at Harold—Princeton 171 —; *+-+-* fc-K-te-Mc-fc***** %^^M¥****¥¥M¥**MM*M*Y*¥M*¥*¥¥¥¥J¥.-¥- ■k * * * * * * * • TYPEWRITERS ANO SUPPLIES OFFICE EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES * THE STAR PRINCETON 3a ir An Important Announcement about HEW MARGENE Whrn the sale of Margarine in Canada became legal 12 months ago, MARGENE v. as the first brand to appear on the market. At that time Margarine had been banned from Canada for 25 years. There was no way of knowing what flavour and what texture would best appeal to the Canadian palate. Id the intervening 12 months, Canada Packers has carried on week-to-week tests to find out exactly the flavour Canadians wish. We feei we have it in the NEW MARGENE-the flavour and the ter,:- -:• Canadians like. Il you have not tasted the NEW MARGENE try it now. SPREAD IT on hot toast. SERVE IT with hot vegetables. BAKE with it. You will like the NEW MARGENE e a ABA PRODUCT OF PACKERS LIMITED Record $8,900,000 Was Spent For Telephone Expansion In '49 The greatest expahsion and improvement in the history of the B.C. Telephone Company and associated companies operating in B.C. was carried out in 1949. A record total of $8,900,000 was spent in the 12-month period on the installation of new central office and outside plant equipment and on buildings in various parts of the territory- Here are some of the highlights of the 1949 operations: • More cable placed than in anyother single year. • Record average business day calling — up from 1.281,000 in 1948 to 1,350,000 in 1949. • Record total of filed long distance calls — up from 5,893,946 in 1948 to 6,238,995 in 1949. • Second largest telephone gain in the system's history • Second largest telephone gain in the system's history — 18,940 new instruments installed. • Major manual switchboard additions made to 20 exchanges. ® More than 12,000 new lines of automatic equipment put in service. • A total of 25 building projects started or completed. • Sixty new long distnace circuits added in B.C. and between B.C. centres and outside points- I • Greatest number of employees in the history of the system — more than 4,400. BRITISH COLUMBIA TELEPHONE COT Provisions FreshFrait andVeg. P R1 N C E TO N GROCETERIA B. MITCHELL, Prop. Phone 38 Bridge St. k PHONE 68 BRIDGE STREEJT PRINCETON it LADIES'WEAR SPECIALISTS Adorable Gown Shop IM AT THE REX ALLEYS Vermilion Ave, Princeton E. Mullin—F. Pesnt I CAMERON'S I GROCERY Groceries, Provisions, Hardware, Drygoods Meats, Flour & Feed, PHONE 147 — BRIDGE ST. tjg&e* £ Home-madeQuality^ \with Factory Skills i • Choice Chocolates 5 5 • Boiled Sweets S 5 9 Bon Bons 5 0 Fudge \ • Caramels etc. TRAVELLERS' m ABRIDGE ST., PRINCETON vw The. Pioneerf Store i'F.PCOOKESTATE Ml — SINCE 1886 — I PHONE SIX—PRINCETON |; Groceries, Drygoods n\ Hardware, Paints Flour and Feed Prospectors' Supplies 1 ■m MONDAY, 13th MARCH, 1950 * THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR, PRINCETON, B.C. PAGE SEVEN-^ e. Better.... Quicker... Cheaper.,. STAR t PRINTERS ?_ TUUMEEI CAFE 'UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT' 1 A Trial Will Convince ************************ Pasture Fresh MILK -From your own Similkameen Meadows Atkinson's I • Princeton Dairy! J — Daily Delivery — J *********** ***** * * ****** Record Cable Program Features 1949 Telephone Development More cable was placed through out <he territory <f the B.C. Telephone Company and associated companies in B-C. in 1949 than in any previous year. This was one of the highlights of the record $8,909,000 expansion program throughout ihe system last year. Major manual switchboard addit ons were made to 20 exchanges and 25 training p.c. jecs'were started- or empteied during the year. B.C. TELEPHONE CO. AMBER AND THE COLD WAR - (from Page Five) thing you write to your aunt Agatha to kill time when strand ed "n OlaJla with a close season on the night clubs and all the kioot-hmen retired to pious meditation jn keekwiW e jtopn- vents. Seven pages of boyish scrawl, each on an association letterhead. After copious comments on the weather, the state of affairs in Denmark and endearing enquires about the family cat (which Pop no got) and the paternal bunions (wh}4h have got) he traces the history of $.the holey roaming vampire from ' genitive to reservations and the only edification on the issue is that the pres dent is a very bewildered young man who loves Uttle Amber and hates the wioked an|d bundering newspapers (include us in SuhSpence Of course this was essayed as a gentle laxative to Pop's no. tor ous bile, but the bairn is al too artless. Pop had already written, when he first saw the story, a personal masterpiece of injured dignity. Now he resorted to (Page Eight) NEED PROTECTION Don't Risk It Don't take oanees—a dip may mean a Pink-Sapor a broken bone — er a burglary or a fire. The onus is on you. Shift tt to ns Let us take the chance on you. We are Able. . . . Insure It EARL W. NOWELL - Insurance - PHONE 5 PRINCETON MEAT. 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THE STAR — PAGE EIGHT— • THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR, PRINCETON, B.C Monday, 13th march, 1950 Old timer Arch Samuel has a Princeton bakeries are now bad arm, broken at work- in <he I ftpen until 6 p.m. indud ng also mine a month ago. [ Thursday afternoons. AMBER AND THE COLD WAR - - (From Page Seven) * if. hayseed with a sling. After po-["and inefficiency, but has had a titely answering the enquiries i plain raw real. about his venerable weilbeing. reporting the weather (without acknowledgment to Salesman 5am) as the best for ski-ing in liie northern hemisphere, he told the sol ciious president that he ^ciau'tl take enedit toft 'the whole blooming mess both agree (and the only thing) that ski- sport is in. Waxing poetic, lie compared the infant so'ons of the b g city to our bobbing little river birds, for' which Junior will quote you | During the war, Amber claims no other cJub was able to put on a big meet and Amber was expected to save the ship. Now that conditions are better, the avorites get all the plums. Two years a«o Amber bid in the formal manner for the Western Canada championships The'rs was the only proper- bid, anld according to the bylaws they must gel it and they were assured they would. But they hcs'il no more. The a,soc ation, name, and wheh (hey say, often ignores an ap- proarfi. does not answer letters. "It just does what it wants—a few big-shots who know nothing about ski-ing; and tries to make skKers do what it fancies." o^aViotin^iiAftedJaJTU^ a eharmin Pop quoted, but spellelil wrong. Iago-likc, he told the president what the reporter had said of him, and the reporter how *^he president was going to kick all reporters (ladies, gentlemen and real newspapermen) in (he pantz. Then the threw the case book at them, not denying him self a few personal observations. . . All of which may be enter-1 Mi enough of it for co-ordin- taining, but no more helpful to! atl0n. and smooth sailing; have ski-sport than the [blundering la ,t,me for sVort PoHt"»», and and thundering at the other end I wou d be 1u te haPPy if sPort Slides or Slide Rules? Publ c and athletes care little about sports government, want they wax so righteous about— and wrongly—over Amber now. (Amber sneers they may figure to win a prize or two, having angled Amber out of the way). \JBut the Vancouver off'ca's came up arid took over the boss ing There is one Amber plea that the paying public will heartily applaud—all too much technical hokus pokus and emphasis on some magic of "style." Scoring a ski jump is a work of art. You never know who f the meet. Tbe-i would ] won on the spot. It is figured not let Princeton kids jump on out by the judges hours after, hius-for the paying pjiblic-they And I have seen experts' cards had been jumping on all winter, that told amazingly different R ght along, Amber contends,' stories and qualified skiers will they have been holding Amber site you classic atroc'ties. For k'ds back by classifying them, one thing, it tends too much to be'ow their abil ties, simply be- | foibles and favoritism; for an- cause Vancouver kids of the j other, it is death to spwtalor same age can't do what Prinse. interest. Imagine go'ng to a ball ton kids can do. I (Page Ten please) "Cqyfa/b /tlorpaff's //? fatm^ / ** This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board by the Government of British Columbia. i m i ii r Protects Lhu / // m Is the temperature in your home always "just right" for children's health? If not, install an Iron Fireman and be sure of healthful, steady, clean heat all day long. You'll have new peace of mind, too, knowing you have the outstanding leader in the automatic coal burner industry, world famous for dependability. See the new Coal Flow models. tSvt This Is all just the boiling of a.n o'cl kettle of flounders, willi au appropr'ate smell. . It serves nothing1 to belittle a <entral authority,, for there must be one. Its auhority must deserve respect. Browned Off Amber It was frankly because Amber lias none for it that they preferred to take (heir own chances with a. club tournament. "The association gives us no help, and this way they can't interfere as much " Ambei has sent her stars all over 'lie ski zone, and in Itan years helped make many meets s'mply by supplying the ski-ers. And certainly Amber has done a good job in its own house; no n!ub, Comparatively, has done betiei: id winning h'oiiiiYs, iii t\* veloping ski-ers, giving the kids ro much ski-ing. That is a contribution to ski-sport at large which deserves to be honored. oouKI be regulated by an auto maton. But it is only too obvious, however "wearying, that ski-sport has too many badgers There •'Is executive ''rreguljarily ( ',d inefficiency. Trie present case eloquent example. Sport is for sportsmen and spectators, not for badgers and bumbledom, who neither pay nor play. Big 'sport turns administration over to a paifl <oom misssioner and clerks and it goes on as lumobtrusivaly as in big business. But amateur sport can be terr'b'.y amateurish. AH these squabb'es, these displays of amateurishness, (do the sport no good Bad publicity is worse than no publicity. T me wil prove it. And there is too much petty jealousy, between clubs, among officials. Sport itself prov'des an ideal outlet for healthy rivalry. Last year Amber was a'lcd t* stage the official zone 'iham^- pionships. 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There is tourist gold in these hills, and never fear that the tourist will come seeking our values as shrewdly as we do his. He mostly comes *rom the big :olty, and he gets around. The true gold for him.is here by nature's blessing and we can sanely win it into our cash registers by the safe currency of fair exchange. The accessory va'ues we have to give are rel-r aUvely small, but vitally important. In what is ours to give, we must simply give good va uu in civic attractiveness, in oom- meroial dealings and in hosp'taU ity. We have a reputation for the latter, an open-heart: d h'l hospitality that we should z.al- ously oherish. For the rest,, we shou'd remember that -we can best exploit the tourist, in the larger sense, by not exploiting him in the smaller. As to civic attractiveness, we are much in arrears and there is no time to waste. Nature — and the government—has done much more for us than we have done for ourselves. It is up to us —and now. Some men, and some organizations, like the Bod and Gun Club have mahie intel'igent investments. Some investments have been more selfish. A v'tal intelligent job is publicity. It too is subject to the ' longer or shorter view. In the longer v'ew, it Is an expert job- It is our job, and we mean to do our best. We cant have too much help, and there is no better investment. The Bergman Case EVERY once in a while a self- righteous world is pleased to be shocked by a scandal that puts in the public balance of morality what is smugly excused in too many private lives, We had the Prince of Wales, and events have shown that most of us were wrong, for the ultimate justice lies in private concsience. Now we have the Bergman case. It is interesting, were it not so sickening, to see the rush of outraged morality, more sentimentality than sentiment. Now the seventh commandment is good morals and good sense and; it is right that-we should resent a wrong in it. But it is by no means the alpha and omega of moral lawt and Cthis is not the first time it has been broken. It is argued that prominence Is a factor, that in hero worship it sets a sad example to the young. It would be well if we were always as careful of example, in aU things. The real factors in the outraged arguments are not so much morality as prominence and exposure, in the plain deceit that the evil of evil is discovery. The true moralist will find it hard to believe that Hollywood, or the world that makes it thrive is a mirror of morality. News of The World outsells London Times 50 to 1 and there must be some suspicion that the outragfe in the Bergman case is in the same morality. Let each judge himself in that. The point is that any immoral act is a sin. But hypocrisy only adds a second sin to the sin. All Way Streets TTHESE are the days of thaw * and pudd'e. Some of us have cars; we pav a licence and that gives us rights. Some make a good bargain of those rights. They use the roads, parking or driving, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and drive in the same assumption. If everyone had a car—or fleet of trucks—and assumed the same, it would be •■ awfullv jolly, what? And there are meticulous house keepers who dnmp ash«*s and. garbage in streets and lanes and never give a. thoueht that pub- He *idine«s is mor<> of an eviration than private And lon# stretches of. sidewalk fronts f*e owned by the best people from O whirh not a shovelful of snow has been l'fted al! winter; An<1 ; thev think incorporation would work. RifhtV and necessarily giving priority to main, arteries, the government tends inadvertantly to holster an arrogation of sheer selfishness. All the streets belong to al) the people, and the difficult sea. sons must be met wi'h courtesy and consideration a'l round. * COALD COMFORT For taking-ccflll from a negfh- bor's IMn a Princeton man paid a nlrarilinal fiinle The masfisfaa+e said there Was no criminal intent. . TheLittleMan and the Big Cigar The Beauty of Winter TTHE British election surprised no one—and pleased f;.wer ) sill. A sick world can't th'ive on new Us, and the B.-i ish vot ■ was that of a sick nation which voted to be sttfcr sal. And th.< great patriot' Churchil'. has lost no time showing that he means in. In wisdom, the British Commonwe- 1th •• uld be ths wer of the world. It has th -riitory, ihe people, th r - ■Tees, and far from dsint - 'rating in t mes of crisis, it should be privilege and security to belong to it. And a righteous Mi m to make capital of its si kn ss commonwealth could have done to promote his chi'dish van'ly, ■ for the world what the United I 'his lust for personal power. What Britain needs is strong solid government, and it c n- cerns the whole world 'hat sh? get it, for there are few solid i-rops against a growing m nac \ of chaos-—the chaos of achi ve- ui nt. And Mr. Churchill off is —politics, and a cheap trick. ;'oiitcs is not government and the tragedy of the age is that <the gap is widening. Government is drawing ever farther from the people, principles which divide parties matter less and less and the emphasis >s on office — power. Here in BC. we have the prime example. This trend, at this serious time, Is treachery. Totali*arian- ism is scheming, using every advantage, to orerthrow right and the indiv dual freedom to -enk it—the only way—to funnel 'he fruits of a progress of tremendous resources, to serve the few. Life to-day shou'd be very much fuller than It is; but GoS- iss men, foolish men, will was'e | he heritage of their felows to dl a little to their vanity. BAD MEDICINE I And our governments, responsible leaders against this ancient anarchy fortified by modern assets, are gving the total intruder utmost opportunity by exposing our weaknesses >n weakening the ideal of democracy with just the same tact'es, Their hostility to foreign dor- tr'nes in the same spirit is in 'e'ence of their lust to keep ,the advantage tor themselves. ■ The tragedy is truly in the illusion, for you cannot pass !aws cannot find happiness in mater-, to make people good, and you ialism. A diamond will not, in circumstances and in ignorance, g ve the satisfaction of a lump of ooal—both carbon. And ou* material quest has so outstrip- ,ed the cultural and the spiritual that we do not know how to enjoy our advantage. And all our quest is the material. In that the motives that dominate so«tt»ty—funnelled in politics and big business, ma. teriaUst- power — are precisely those of absolutism, and in the ignorance and inequality of the contest, there wi1! always be utmost opportunity for foreign j intrusons—an ambitious Communism hard on the heels of Fascism. So Britain voted in illness and ignorance. Politics seizes on a glamorous catchline in sutMe salesmanship. The real issues-are: not put to the people. The rea" issue, is power. In Britain the struggle for power is between the workers and the vested^in- tesests. There is no /guarantee of fairness or success in socials' ism any more than capitalism- Just as~tree enterprise has been 'xoloited by politics and big business, so has Communism made the working man the dupe '<\ make a few men powerful. THE POWER HOUSE — Socialism could work no mir Nations, finds so hard to do. II we are good Britons we must admit our history is not all good —AND POOR HOUSE A colonial—not commonwealth —policy d ctated by the private power that finds expression in politics, exploited rather .than developed the resources of one fifth of the world; not for the colonies, not for Britain, not for the masses, but for the selfish profit of a few. And the prosperity was therefor largely fictitious, finane al. The British Empire was a bankers' empire. Selfishness Is suicide. It was a factor in bringing war and war showed Britain's weakness. But we would not learn. A second war left us just that much worse. Britain's artific al props had gone. And worst of al, her human structure was inevitably weakened. Britain's true industrial strength, her standard of living, never reflected her f - nancial power. Her morale was weakened by linequalities, by class discrimination. Always the reaction to exploitat on, both at home and in the colonies the underdog took advantage of criT sis. That his reaction was neither fair nor he'pful is understandable—but none the more helpful. It was a sorry task for any government to take over in post war Britain. It was the worst nbssible auspices for socialism And fair observers, who have no faith in socialism, can have •>nly admirat'on for the job M ■•, Attlee has done. almost apologetic Attlee. There is very little of the sacrifice that is true bigness about him Whie he drove others, he was always the limel'ght seeker; while he urged others to give and go without, he was always the special exception; his childish whims and petulances put down as whimsical s;gns of genius. He felt, made no boms about it, and so it 's still f>t k NED M'GOWAN'S WAR THE MAGISTRATES BROKE THE LAW COn Christmas Day, 1858—British Oalumlblia's first.—a minieir, ' * THE SAN JUAN DISPUTE THE PIG THAT CStSH PEACE ■ HREE .housand mites of tin-, 1 defended frontier and a cm wy plus of peace was admost shattered by a pig. No relationship in h/story. :g mare salutary than that wMch- shjaireis a (Mntinent divided a* Its-waist by an imaginary belt, between men of ithe same stock one half held by. those who revolted from the British Crown the other by men who held lea; But there have been times since Valley Forge and John Paul Tones when -relations were sore- 7 strained; not always faced wth the calm fortitude of the Un&tiw Empire Loyalists. Nowhere wias the frictoon fiercer than in the belated claiming of the Pacific Northwest, isund none of the long se. res iQf grievances-was more- gravK -o-: more grotesque--than the San Juan dispute, which wias skewered In a firebrand soWter—and cold pork. When, 200 years after the East had been tamed and d- v&dled, attention turned to the "sea of mountains" beyond the gweat ba1'riers of the praires and the Rookies, Britafn rind Amer'ica were the chief rivals. H'atortcally, the ITS. had soawt claim, for in the great era of adventure, while .the Tnlr (tear* (Oolonlrfis were stSB good Britons, the west coast had been vlsfltad «nH io'ateied—amd lafit primeval In 1493 witfe a sweep of his i'tant half-knowledge and jjj**«sed at tihe sight of a negro sentimen'aUty, that he h->d Jal'^";' and Prooeed«d to beat earned immortality. Xet it was hi'ni.u|P' 'forgeDHing that here was "o surprise to those On the scene ^Jf1 jj^erarace. that, at the he:ght of h's glory, I „ ?m,J™> ,rus?c mEgisfirates of he could not win his first elec- T* (Whaimjea) and HiM's Bblr Hon. It was not Churchill who (P?'Jle^_Zli!?e peacock - proud made the gains in this one. It ^^ Sl^ Je.aoJls of each- was <he toll of events i atn?f.- Whe<11 Penner teamed that Mr rt.„-M,in !„- - -• » . * <ataze'n of his meltropoftig had hy d^r™,LaT atlst0T^' misbehaved he sent h<s constat by distant ancestry. In one elec-; bufe to {etch h;m baicfe hl^ tury—hetold an audience <hat 'te teamed lawman did nfcit . middle and working- cWs know that, amd probably would e not fit to rule—it was th- not have oared two hoots anv- of the ans'ocracy This wa Famett., at ma's Hae wemfc up shlatoy pen-Bcpe Alexander VT to Yale, two miles up the Prasc-r. ' CekltuOJing aver-freely., he was "To avoid contemiKion among the Chris'lam. princes" drew a rive dividing thle new WBirid between his Catholic pats, Spain riod Portugal. But the 'heret'cal English adventurers of EL'zatoeth were not impressed, and Driake, in 1579 toss undoubtedly -the flirt bo vslt the British Columbia "oast FURS FROM THE SEA It was not wniMl two centuries later that the west was1 broached Mid then a sudden era oil in'Jense ac'jvity began. The fu; traders pushed over the mountains and expanding America _ wlaiy Bu*(b» magistrate oaf Yale -«^«Pl«W» too. cottisn Industrial town <-f had already had Faroe"! anrest- when the Russans sent Be- ■^d<>e, and there is a suspVi"n ed, and when the Hll's Bar con ring pushing, down from tlhie a there are distilleries nearV- stalble arr.ved he promptly had A^n north Spain and Britain But Dundee answered the ar-'s- htm isrrested tied, doubtless hop- ^^ replied with marine ex- tocrat of the era by eVc"-n» | irig the magist-Blte of Bill's Bar P'-^'-'ons. Landfing at Nomina '■"<" him an unknown pr«h:b!- | would come along also 1 inl 1>778 book's sailors swapped . tionist. And ever since Mr. C. But the -eamrneid Magistrate at *2!& *le t*11®*™ 31D^ to°k in , has cold-shou'dered Dundee! I Hitf's Bar had the advantage exclaange a strange kind of furs, I Many of his henchmen wish they] of stoaAegie counsel—the* cete- ^■an *5ley tm^e<i <** again 3ii J could govern him, or win with- brated Ned MaGowan who hadJ iF^i^^ rea aed thalt tlhie-«e^ Mr. ATTLEE But he worked no miracle and as fair minds foresaw, ev).n.s took their toll. Out of aU this comes increasing respect for Mr. Attlee. In tremendous contrast to his illustrious rival, he has ne ther out him. Some want td. His im-1 been a judge iim Oalifloinnia periousness blinds h'mself as it Consequently a Waraiariit was spellbinds others. He has no I issued foci the lairrest of tihe Mag mag'c touch, which, h's great- '■ istira'-ie Of Yale anld his constable est failing, he seems to believe I *or contempt ' n arresting the ■"in does Even a genius is no cons able of HSUl's Bar. Hnlfoaced Churchill disdained <he strategic! by a posse Qomitatus he mlatnched xnerts. He had amighty tiff with Tsenhower—and lost. When, at ■ critical time soon after he took — two invaluable warsr-hv? were literaly thrown away without air cover, and in the people's House the action was questioned, he "satisfied" doubts with- anv'mperious "I did it." When any strategy was questioned, he pdtutomtlyl refused explanation nr analyls, caHed for a vote of confidence. In effect, he sa'd, "I am winning this war; if you question me I l»ave you to your 'ate We need'M a strong hind; wo accepted a high one; but we ■lid no' forget, even If only sub- ons:~iouslv. THEY LIKE IT TOO If nothing else, men like .cles ™**^m**tb*^"■ magnetism nor genius. He is a ? n- ous Uftetojnat'°°a'^•" o^* very ordinary UtUe man-but an g not a "iaMlity. Its econrmy ^^ and £ourageous one who -nd welfare was ^e^ypropp-d ^ b . ^'h artLfieial props which is, ampeded. In s" many ways fle th- m-dern magic of govern- ; ,acks the &.fts so high | post cTaurchil and Koosevelt set a mont, and which collapse in ne aemands Yet how few> you fee)): dangerous precedent of personal 5 r ss wn"*."JH„.,™» _ „ ' use so well—and fa#hfuUy ^_! rule which others have not been the g fts they have. | slow to exploit. Churchil', in contrast, is a I Mr. Churchill is too vain lo brilliant but irresponsible spell- iearn. It may seem that he re- binder. How big he could be, 1 couped in this clecelion. He how much better he knows than , slii i.J have won it hands 1'vun, d'es and eto*eneies It r ,ex ample. i Brit>h terrain, capable of sup porting ten mi'l'^n population, has 45 mH'i~n. It is typical of the timeless pattern of the m->- -i's—u^dTpriy'leg^d ma«s-s t rrovide and protect the power d profit of the few. British itnn-viil s»>i rea"h"d ^v r the worlfl to support the on Yai-e anrested the mag's tajafe, and his .constable, opened 'hie jail and let his own. man out He Imposed a heavy fiinle on hSs "braHher" rmasisitlrate. A MILD CASE The Yale magistrate thereupon endited a lurid complaint to Governor Douglas, making the DOitorious McQowav. thi hero of the piece, charging a conspiracy io oust Bfil'dsh autlhior.'^ty otter Ihad undreamed of value. So began the brief but unique era of the marine fur tradets- on Vancioiuver Island. Uand was "bought" from the Indians at Niootku and a post established by Iieuifc John Mearnes, B(N. Spain prd^ested hotly 'and wiair was near over the log huts of Nootifca. Spain's cla"ims were simioereJy based on tlhie 'discoveries' of Juan de Fuca, and it was an Englishman, Michael Lok, who caused aitt the twautoe. In the halcyon days of discovery iHoradhed off by Cohmjbus- the'He wlais an avid appetite for the adventure story and aTmchuir admirals sailed . tftie seven seas with no rudder l annex the country to the, than the pen. Lok UM of meet- Dougias sent post j ing in Ventoe Jmam de Fuca, and. " chronteJed his disoaveaes In Puget Sound in 1392 Lofe may niaver even have been in ¥611106 moid cer-tatoty die Fuca was never iter Puget Sound. There is a whole series of apoc- rsipha' voyages rela'lng to the NoD'h-'West whadh diece'wd sold haste for Col. Melody, ccimmV'n danlt of the- i&ny contingent off Hoyial Engineers who had only recently an*ved frcm Britain. Wii'ih- 25 men plus ra'iings and marines in port, -amd- trailing a, fteflid piece, the long grim trek ■began to save a n-a/fion So that ■here might be quick dispatch historians till recent times. of the traitors Judge Begbie But the contest over Nook a was included. | was y^ j,^. Gentlemen and The opera bcnitfe had a fit- laiuthentics, "Vlaihioouver and- Qua- Dg fintate. Ned McGowan's cr- dra were happily chosen by their aibar(v d/aminatad ube hearing raspeative giovernments and 'he and Judge Bigbie e Bagbie wenit ating Nootka Ocnventfion. amicably he does. Why? Because he lacks Sojialism is no solution and in wiil'(fl nim tio lea n how to pan agreed that there would bi no j the wisdom of sincerity. He is ] the most importunate auspices Mr. CHURCHILL a precocious, but spoilt child, with the shrewdness of more than man, the vanity and ir- responsibileness of the boy. He does not know enough to mean we'l, knowing so much. In a world that does not analyse and th'nk, he is the most j THIS GREATNESS? . uver-rate|d_ man in the world- To those who know him, and the world, his failures are no amazement, tor, while he is. carelessly deif.ed, he is also much suspected.- His political history is that of the great individualist, with changes of affil ation based not on principle but on ego. Even now he is used by his party more for his spellbinding cap- (apicty, hisi popularity —qualities; over-rated—than his saga- cite He is the self-made hero who commands acceptance,, full Of petty vanities incompatible w th bigness. His bigness is all in effect. He has done real y very little. His self confidence and conceit were simply the qualities needed to crystallize courage arid fire enthusiasm in dark days. With so much more to exploit he is held in much less'favor by in war-bled Britain it wo.ked no miracle. But jMr. Attlee promised none. And he did make a sound antl honest contribution to recovery and his on'y promise of solution was in that appeal. And there was a long overdue and wholesome levelling up of old inequalities, doubtless overdone. That was the true issue of the election, and if the old offenders had learned their lesson, air and sensible men would have forsaken the lure of socialism and returned gladly to .1 alert and honest two par y ystem. just as they will in the ame circumstances anywhere. But Mr. Churchill was up ti the same old tricks. He played politics. He enticed the disgruntled — who wou'd be disgruntled under any system, but le failed to convince reasonable men and the biased on the oth"r side he only drove more fiercely to working class rule. Mr. Attlee had the policy of a sincere mistake. Mr. Churchill had no policy but a return lo nower, and that breeds suspicions He diH not lay bare the error of the socialist conc:p' for pay dirt, followed by a Cham pjgnie lunch in has hut. Ned Mo Ozmisa's war was won by Ned McG-.wan But his was, officially, the: fiits- military operaion in BnilJslh Columbia .jccfloancy at rltl mes ultima Bri'fcfiin miaide an agreement with Russia fix'mg the necthem bounWasy tub 54-4» Expanding Ameiliica bought Alaska, took CaliBarnia in a war wi'h Mexico, and made an agieeimiemt Kamloops In Tne Early Days • ^-.v_ -..-^^.'.Ji/;' ---. -/'".s. ^.^ _: ^?iljL''i^.._;x^ lv,«y believed in them—and r,o -ite'ligent man can — the o'd "in"s parties could have given l",n? wi'h Spain that "awarded" tar a"« teiri'ory between CaMfomia and A'a-ka. Thus America, w41to his own henchmen than little, He left all the social sops which before the socialists did, just as no rights of discovery, bed the ;n this country they have been wni^te coast, and set owt 'o pu'h given in the sheer determina- her claim with the anti-B:itish (Page Nine) { (Page 7\u.. iyaM^^fe^ PAGE POUR — * THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR, rTONCETON, B.C. MONDAY, 13th MARCH, 1950 '1 SUSETTE Variety Store.. : DRESSMAKING ALTERATIONS = REPAIRS SUPPLIES . NOVELTIES g MRS. A. C. BELL Vermilion Ave., Princeton J P.O Box 103 B Mall Orders Welcomed n „__^^„ -—■■■sisiBia Nest- F^esh EGGS Delivered straight from the coop to your door • Alex. Graham Personal Service ■PHONE 720. Ski Publicity For Princeton IT'S 'bad eniougib to oalDi us * Amber, B.C. but it's going too fiar wtarn ithey ptoch our etef stars. Qne Eastern report has Noel Paul' foam Revetetoke anothietr Brint Irwin ftooim Vancouver. And B.C. papers printed 'em. On, . ihe whole, however, H incrton got .ftaat class publicity out of the season's ski junket. Canadian Paess wires cartrtJed a big tribute to 'the Irwto- hoys, and tacMletnitallliy a good plug (for ithe carpenter business, and if' ifipJkis iSeeH hie can make houses Hike he does ski-ems, flathe* Irwto is Bkely to be plagued with coders from HaJi- ifiax to HonoJiuttu. Beit Briwln, Sir., shows leifr- iters firom all over Canada and' ittoe U.S. asking about how they j do'Jit,the Amber way-. ¥¥¥*¥¥¥**¥¥¥¥¥¥*¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥*¥¥¥¥¥¥-ti THE STAR Can handle the Valley's every printing need j> i&a&r **************************************** ************************************************* F:I:S:H Fresh As The Waves Salmon, Halibut Sole Fillets Oolichans Smoked Haddpck, Kippers, etc. Fresh Cod & Fillets Princeton Meat Market S. A. Wilson, Proprietor PRInceton 21 International Trucks , M & A Products I Tires, Batteries General Repairs Etc, Johnston & Byrne The Bouse on the Hill Princeton — Phone 48X ' +++++++*.■*.+-*.■*■*¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ QUALITY WOODWORKS Cabinet Makers, Builders ■k Craftsman-made to your requirements • S- BROWN Princeton—Next Post Office -♦ m '• ' • • DON SPEARMAN Painter and Decorator PRINCETON—Phone 119-Q It's an event, first, because it shows the increased use of Canadian bank services... More deposit accounts: now over seven million. More funds: customers' deposits now reach nearly seven billion dollars. More services: to farmers; to personal and small-business borrowers; to war pensioners; to people receiving Family Allowances. It's an event, too, because of the kind of men and women who have joined our ranks. Eager to get ahead, they are finding in banking an interesting job, a challenging career. They can tell you how important privacy in banking is to the Canadian way of doing things. • THE STAR PRINCETON 36 They may be homesteading right now in your favorite suits or dresses. Better protect your clothing with U-San-0, the ■ Insured Mothproof Cleaning System. U-San-0 is part of our regular cleaning service. Call us today and forget your moth troubles. ROBERTSON'S CLEANERS PHONE 123 PRINCETON fy^Sf *ffitfOiM OVER FOUR YEARS OLD 0FT« iHOltS. SPONSORED BY YOUR BANK BIO INSPECTOR .'iunwf 'OtdfiyStel -<**** '&t&ujL m M **| mtl«Mi»iit la not published tyt Olvplajred by the Liquor Control ■4*n o» by the Government <** British Columbia. -—— MONDAY, 13ih MARCH, 1950 * THE SIMILKAMEEN STAR, PRINCETON, B.C. -PAGE NINE I BENNETTS BUS DEPOT GARAGE NIGHT SERVICE Open from 5:30 p.m. REPAIRS — WELDING — TIRE SALES & SERVICE TRUCK SERVICE A SPECIALTY HUGH BENNETT, Proprietor PHONE PRINCETON 1-13 immmBHSBm-ftiimiMWSm-'iflfHm The Big Cigar - - K^K From Page Three " ion to retain power. In a time when Britain can not afford politics, he used-all he old political tricks. Take his peace offensive with Stalin. No sane observer can believe that it would work with a Russia so oppositely deter- 'ned. and, as Stalin promptly showed, Mr. Churchill was just about the last man who could i sincerely or successfully suggest it—except as an unscrupuolous 1 vote getter. To probe deeper, most of our practical difficulties with Russia stem from the mistake of Ya'ita—a stupid, secretive if not: sheer sinister sell.out of simple, inexorable right And whatever I his stand, Mr. Churchill allowcfl himself to be one of the three au'hors of Yalta. A violent anlag COHEN'S Cash DEPARTMENT STORE Ladies' Men's and Children's Wear Verm'lion Avenue, Princeton "The good-natured whisky" Seagrcmte § Kinqs Plate CANADIAN WHISKY The price is *G-oo</-iYdtt/rec/'' too! I This advertisement is riot published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia. onist of Bolshevism of old, a hearty comrade in the strange alliance in a war in which he authored the Atlantic Charter —and promptly admitted Shat it was not an ideological war— within a month of Yalta he was at Fulton. Missouri voicing the first public suspicions- of the sinister Soviet; showing that whatever he is he is no fool. That he came tap with •fthe election bait of "Fm the man to talk to Stalin" was rather foolish, even if it fooled some pretty big" people. And Mr. Churchill has lost no time in showing that he means to use the o^ knife; and none too wisely, sincerity apart. In the crisis of war Labor buried its own ambitions in the national interest In this equally critical time for British—and world recovery, he exploits crisis to promote his ambitions. He Ios+ no time in pinning down the shaky new administration and it is obvious that he means to exploit it at every turn. To most of us, politics don't matter. We want good government, and a strong Britain is more vital to us than who does it or how it is done. Mr. Church - iH has wonderful lever to compel sane administration, a tremendous contribution to mankind in these dangerous days. He is much more concerned with his own ambitions. And al unwisely. He is gradually revealing to the many what the few have always known He is oute enough to leave his Beaverbrooks in the background But his own hand shows more clearly, and the Churchil- myth is breaking down. He did not carry the nation with logic or with spe'tbindihg and he is not ><a.rrying par'iament with petty Politics. The more he tries the more he discredits himse'f. Simply, grandly, the little man Mr. Attlee meets the challeng< with honesty and courage, with neither ability nor inclination *o meet a brPUant adversary at his own game. And humanity win wish the little sincere man more wisdom rather than the brilliant man more power. Mr Churchill tru'y said, so nwittingly against hims.!f> that the ideology we fought for was a hypocrisy of ideology. By whom if not our leaders? The myths are exploding. Joe Sta'in is a patent rascal again. They are beginning to call Mr. Churchill a warmonger. It is not true, but some men push ambition even at the ctost of war. Most lovable and perhaps most sincere, Roosevelt was nei. ther saint nor paragon. He too was an individualist and he made some bad mistakes. Perhaps, after all, fate treated him most kindly of the three. Meanwhile, until a true prophet appears, perhaps we might go along with the honest 5ttle men and pray that God give them abounding grace. Men! Want pep, vim normal vitality? Thousands Regain Vigor, Easy Way Quit feeling weak, neplera. worn-out, rundown, older-than your years. Try a tittle "pepping' up"1 with stimulating. Invigorating, revitalizing, blood- regenerating Ostrex. Especially advised for moD, women of 40, 60 or 00. Costs little. New "get acquainted" size only 60o. Try Ostrex Tonic Tablets to renew pep, vigor, vitality and feel years vounger, this very day. 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No body understands ski scoring; no expert we have yet met, and Ihe "Vancouver experts can't jump against cur 12-year-olds without the laws they usurp the authority to judge by Pure hokum. As in any other jump, outside a simple foul, the best jump is the biggest jump. Tet they were spee.'hless when Pop dared to put on a special longest s*and- ing jump—won by a kid who had been lmited to 50 feet. But the public, who pays, was ever, out however we admire the fighting spirit, and equally I determined for our rights, we . cannot f nd that Amber's is the fright way. With Pop, grand old 'oyftlist that he is, you some. iHEapjHHHMsaasisHaanHiHesBHBE £^3gps NOW! Our Bread is now made with I TENDER^DO * a new scientific vegetable shortening which gives added vitamins — increases food value — more tender — more tasty — stays fresh longer... Try it and be delighted! All our recipes noy use TENDER-DO HOME BAKERY PRINCETON — PHONE 54 plenty vocal and in this we are | times fee, that ha^ g^^fi su ior. Amr><>r. ...... j the local dragons, the obsession A new deal ,s definitely m | goes on> andS he'wo„'t be can* tent till he has put all the others out of business and has everyone ski-ing for Amber from Satan to the king of Siam. But Pop's not really l.ke that and most of us know that the bigger anld better the competition the better for al1. and the better the true Amber spirit— whuh Pop has occasionally to critio'ze—will assert itself. Amber has done kabout as much as any club can do, but it takes town pins club to get big billings. Certainly a free hand in its own house his paild off for Amber in ski skill, but in ski-nanigans Pop has to let 'cm know the town is right behind ts ski-ers; ;i.od in some ways just too far behind, itev- e'stoke, for instance. And Hel order, with far less off"ciald>m an-1 favoritism, anld "note for skier and spectator. ' And there is no denying' that certain towns are favored for b'g dates. Some.have more natural advantages and winter playground reputations. These are legitimate factors in awarding big meets, but they must accommodate rival clams in the same argument. Banff and Revelstoke are prin etpally C-P.R. towns and the C. P.R needs no charity from a sport that makes its athletes pay their own way to represent their country. Discrimination Certainly both Banff and Revelstoke have cla ms and it. wil ■ of Amber winning all the honors Very few local stars contested oustide meets} the honors bag was the leanest ever. "They won't practice" is an odd 'complaint to. hear from Amber. But the fact is that many of the youngsters who were soar ing to stardom were not at all keen this year, and Amber is htly not very keen about being represented by them; is in fact considering not allowing anyone to compete in outside tournaments 'without sanction of the dub. It is of course hoped that the prodigals wiH come back with a j vengeance next year, but there [ will never be any lack of material, with youngsters lalways <oming up, and some new sta's and potential stars came out in s lean year. •k ON Page One is (a suirmiary, with ■cfoseajv&t ons flair- the eleven ottoem* of SinuikarnBen ski re- aaunoes for She-toenefiit of at1:. * BILLY IRWIN is still skMug at Fort Wi'liam but was slowed up this year by a leg injury^-— THE SOLUTION From Page One 7—ACCOMMODATION _ Com mercialism will take care of the tourists but we must find cheap and attractive accommodation for the week-end sk:-er. The Winter Sports Club's p'an for cabins, was a good one. A suggestion—cheaper rates for visiting ski-ers by the auto camps. 7—ROAD—We have a marvellous ski hill right alongs de the highway. Both are public and state assets. A road idirect from the highway would be an excellent bargain a 1 round. 8—TO AMBER—You are custodians of a community asset. In your own. way, you have done a wonderful job. But it is not all your job. Con -entrate on your speciality^HSki technique- — and work hand in hand with the community in the larger sphere. Development of ski-ers is grand but don't forget the spectators have a stake too. Let's get. together—assoo'ation c'-ub and community, for the advantage of all. • • Ca/rfa/b /Morgan's m /bm; / // Let's Dig In serve nothing to fan a petty feud sinki ski club d'd not land the But each town must see that its Olympics, cla ms get a fair hearing, and Princeton—anld the facts — do support Amber in this view. Banff certa'nly has attractions for those who can afford them. But that is net the true gccpel ol amateu'- ski-sport, ana we st;U contend that the chef ben- efl.ary is the CP.R And in terms of ski population Banff is not central but remote. II can .we'l be argued that no good reason exsts why Revelstoke should in this day get any big date. Its claims 1 e aU in.sentiment. It has the big tournament "radition. Once it was the only town capable of a big tournament and it had Nels Nelson. It still knows how to promote, where Princeton is utterlf deficient, and its enterprise in importing a $3000 attraction deserves commenflation Now Revelstoke did in a way Though there has been real progress, this has not been a good year for 'Similkameen ski sport. The big hill was considerably improved anfl a new record set. The hill will now provide jumps or 250 feet, and that alone is attraction for the future. The new downhill course and the slalom course rate nong the best in Canada. And there is climate, terrain, geography — and the highway to back this up. Every week-end the nill should be crowded. A few Coast ski-ers have already been up. They say it is better value than a trip across the line, which dozens of Vancouver ski-ers make regn- lar'y. And they like Princeton. In competitions. Princeton has hardly hall a worse year. 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A few promoters and a civic mindedness that appreciates them te'1 the real story. And in terms of 16?al mis- sionis'ng—something the asso- elation should consider — it j can't hold a canld'e to clubs like Amber. Moreover, it is a spectators' attraction ' rather than a sk'-ers'. In straight ski facilities most ski-ers—try them— vote for Princeton every time. Now Amber's boast that it is a ski-ers' organizat:on is a sound attraction, but it is also a good explanaton why it has fallen down in the promotional s:de. The Spectacle Too Though its -own ski-ers continue to thrive, and. as Amber digues, are a tournament in themselves, that is ju3t about what H 's getting to be. The big annual event as an attraction has been going down hill lately. And w£th 'everything in our favor. For if there is more tournament competition, there are j also more ski-ers, more potential spectator visitors. We have a very good c'ub, I with a tremendsous honors re-1 cord. In climate and terrain we can not be surpassed- And now ski fa. i Hies are up to top na-! tional standard, with plenty of hospitality. And modern trans-, T>?rt r.nd the Hope road p'ace us' 'ive hours from the teeming ! Coast—an ideal jaunt once the road is really accepted. More than one Vancouver ski-er considers there is no bet- ' ter week-end bargain. And what ever ski politicians may be, skiers like Amber and Princeton; anld where ski-ers come spectator will fo'low. With judicious handling, then Princeton would seem to be more in line for big events, than AGENTS WANTED Do men and women with selling ability we offer a real opportunity to better your financial position. adian women's team, but it certainly was not the o"«l monotpnv Blended in Canada from carefully selected rare old rums by Captain Morgan Rum Distillers Limited. 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