http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0443668
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: [Taylor, Dave]
issued: 2024-05-22
issued: 1951-12-05
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note: IWJM^WPt^lifl'P!!' - ■ I ... ' «- T CAPITOL THEATRE * *»»'■ The Latest h> * Capital Entertainment J rVHry \yeek Night ******i***iir*»*x-*******). I >sx*\w At*. £>■■■■ I &f ftfil-CEHJ CTl'A II1V a I ill il.il/tiflM.Lll Ol-fW THE MODERN STORE i 'rfg&i PHONE 137 — See Our Advert— a ********************* Fifty-First Year; No. 25— PRINCETON, B.C., WEDNESDAY, 5th DECEMBER 1951 5c per Copy; $2.00 per Yeai BchiniM RIGHT SOLUTION <RT<1Vj,*R. is a stock vaude- ■J»Kjffag^v;ila ioke> a„fl the "Tiost holy must have tittered at. the devious devices of bt**r- r'lnning from nlenteous Prnceton to strike starved Vancouver —ana the counter conspiracy. But it. is not unadulterated'y funny. Idealism must be realistic and imperfect laws must cope with human imperfection. At. times the end must, in this imperfect situation, justify the means. War is wrongt but it. is b tier than something worse. So the obvious and sometimes ludicrous paradoxes of our liquor "aws unavoidably lie in the compromise of law to human imper- jjBfe i fection. No law can command it; "H* law must, accept it and make the best of it. But it must never lose sight of its compromise. It must not degenerate into hypocrisy. . .Assuming a perch of perfection, it is easy—but foolish—fo see the whole system where government profits from an undisputed! cvi' as hvnncrisv. And 'he whole point, is that it is ever on the border, as the true mofve of 'he moment »s profit or protection; for pTfeotion people do not want, so 't cannot he. And that is universal, and by and large, a frank concession to wrong, our 1'auor 'aws work bet- 11 than any we have had, an*1 better than in most 'ands. But inherent :n the compromise, temntaiion remains on both s'des. and ^he morality of perfection -must always be the matter of- the moment. The L'quor Act is therefore neo"ssarilv unusual, and full of potential dangers. Society if served no better bv turn'ne profit and incentive to private licence. Nor by shouting injustic to serve the unjust. Beer-…
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