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THE PROVINCE Published every day except Sundays and holidays at the southeast corner of Hastings and Cambie Streets, Victory Square, Vancouver, B.C., by The Southam Company Limited for the owner. Pacific Press Limited. Authorized as second class mail. Post Office Department, Otawa, and for the payment of postage in cash. FRED S.

AUGER, PUBLISHER SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1963 Highway slaughter: Have we had enough? Are we really prepared to do something about it? If we are we will tell our governments, provincial and municipal, to launch a persistent and systematic program to get dangerous drivers off the road and keep them off. This will involve traffic enforcement on a scale never before attempted here. A driver who habitually travels so fast he leaves ordinary traffic standing still would no longer continue to weave along the highway. He would be stopped, summonsed and his licence taken away from him for six months. There would be no ifs, buts or ands.

If he did it again his right to drive would be removed permanently. The teenager who careens wildly 'J- "Every society contains the seeds of its own destruction." Karl Marx. Is the emphasis off defence spending? Clear skv or blue elouds Shhh! Don't do anything to break the spell, but if you sneak a look through the curtains you may find the sun is shining. As we write this, we are told the sky is clear and that the weatherman Is employing, for the first time this summer, that magic phrase: "A high pressure ridge is building up over southwest B.C." What's that you say, Junior? That big shiny thing up there? Why, that's the sun! You remember we saw it last May. We refuse to believe that it could be just a mirage or that the clouds have merely turned blue and that isn't the sky we see.

Vancouverites are wearing happy squints on their faces, youngsters will soon be splashing in pools and the bikinis are blossoming at English Bay. all to welcome 6iliost By CHARLES LYNCH Pi mince Ottawa Bureau weapons, as though these were hardly a factor in the long-range efforts to beat swords into ploughshares. In this, his testimony provided an interesting contrast to he earlier briefs submitted by the armed service chiefs, with their basic assumption that nuclear weapons would be available and that Russia is "the potential enemy." So far, Mr. Ilellyer has not tipped his hand on what he hopes to achieve with his review of all the major defence programs. Even the defence chiefs themselves are not sure what Mr.

Ilellyer has In mind all they are sure of is that he is asking more questions than any defence minister before him, and has put all hands on notice that he Is running the defence department, and not the service chiefs. There is no item of defence spending that he Is willing to accept as Inevitable -and the major Item of public evidence on this is his suspension of the navy's shipbuilding program for review. It is no secret that Mr. Ilellyer does not like the shipbuilding program, because he doesn't think that eight small frigates are worth the $320 million it will cost to build them. The navy, backed by the shipbuilding lobby, Is trying to convince him that the investment is worthwhile.

The lessening of world tensions could strengthen Mr. Hellyer's hand In a situation of this kind not that he is likely to cancel the frigate program without putting something else in its Why should this be? Something unsporting about it? But is it any more unsporting than for drivers to break safety rules when the police aren't looking? How sporting is it to dice with other motorists' lives when those unsuspecting people aren't looking? Let's have no more nonsensical OTfAWA It is one of the ironies of the times that the Canadian government should be grappling with the problem of strengthening the nation's defence forces at a time when international tensions appear to be lessening. The negotiation of an agreement with the United States for the acquisition of nuclear weapons, plus the calls from the chiefs of our armed forces for additional weaponry, have an odd ring to them In the light of the nuclear test ban agreement and hopefulness on all sides that a start can be made on disarmament. It would be premature to attempt any basic conclusions from any of this it was less than a year ago that the international situation was befouled by the Cuban crisis, and the present be-nign atmosphere could be altered suddenly and unexpectedly. Also, it could be that the desires of our armed forces to expand will be checked by decisions of our governmentuntil defence minister Paul Hel-Iyer completes his review of defence programs it is Impossible to know whether ho has expansion or contraction of defence spending In mind.

External affairs minister Paul Martin veered away from the militaristic tone In his testimony to the Commons defence committee this week, when he emphasized the peacekeeping aspects of Canada's military role and hinted at increased emphasis In future on the foreign aid program. Mr. Martin referred only in passing to the negotiations for nuclear place, but rather to think in terms of ships that might have some peacetime utility within the framework of the defence program. Shortage of shipping is one of our present defence weaknesses we could not move our reserve army brigade to Europe with its equipment, nor could we undertake the seaborne movement of any force we might be asked to provide for the United Nations. It will not have escaped Mr.

Hellyer's attention that for $300 million we could build a mighty fleet of transports and subsidize their commercial operation In peacetime, while reserving them for military use in an emergency. The British government has just turned down a proposal to build a replacement for the liner Queen Mary, on the ground that the $G(3 million cost was too high. The amount that it is proposed to spend for the eight small frigates would build five such superliners at British costs, or three if they were built in Canadian yards -and the military transport problem would be covered Into the bargain. Tills is one of many ideas being batted around in the defence department these days, and it may be that nothing will come of any of them and that defence spending will go on as before. One thing sure, though if the International atmosphere continues to improve, the Pearson government will be anxious to de-emphasize spending for purely military purposes.

Are we British Columbians sufficiently shocked by the wholesale carnage on our roads to do something about it? If we are still in the hand-wringing stage, the viewing-with-horror stage, the pious resolution stage, we may as well forego another so-called safety campaign. By now everybody knows what constitutes safe driving practices. Jim Plaskett, for many years the conscientious manager of Vancouver Traffic and Safety Council, patiently repeats that hurry and speed are the basic causes of fatal accidents. "People are travelling too fast on two-lane roadways," he says. "Every time they pass they face oncoming traffic.

Slow up to stay alive. Don't hurry. Leave plenty of time to get where you are going. Don't drive too long. Stay on your own side of the road, and so on." These are simple, uncomplicated safety rules.

As Mr. Plaskett says, they have been publicized so often he really doesn't know what else to say to drivers to keep them from killing or maiming themselves almost every day. Attorney-General Bonner diagnoses the problem as partly one of human psychology. Others ascribe the trouble mainly to teenagers, a theory that seems to be borne out by the auto insurance companies' tables. Whatever the theories, we are obliged always to return the fact that scores of our friends and neighbors continue to be killed or maimed in screaming tangles of glass and steel, accidents so ghastly few of us could bear to look at their results.

enou Probably the first test of the public's firm intention to get tough with highway killers will be its reaction to the suggestion that "ghost cars" may be employed by the police on B.C. highways. So far there has been widespread but rather illogical protests against the idea of police using unidentified cars to catch traffic violators. The Moscow agreement between the Great Powers to ban nuclear tests in the atriiosphore, in space and under water is not the end of the cold war between East and West. This would be altogether too much wishful thinking.

The Iron Curtain will not collapse that quickly or easily. But the agreement is a milestone of progress away from the unyielding antagonisms of the post-war years and toward the Time lo Two-thirds cf the people In the Columbia riding ore led up to the teeth with the Dennett government. Two out of every three voted against It on July 13, In a byelectlon. Tie four-way split Rives Columbia minor-Ity representation for the remainder of the Bennett jjovernment, two more sessions at hot. Unless the people waken up, It's a damshur Bennett could be forming the next government, too.

It's a sudden death In these four parties, for two of them, while still splinters continue to fester the legislation of British Columbia and the federal as well. The stupid taetlrs of three opposing political parties, spending money, energy and people's time to listen, to defeat one party, cannot continue If we are to huve any kind of responsible government In Canada, either provinelally or feder-ally. It is evident that the NDP, which will always be CCF to were and Mill are liberal-minded voters. Labor strictly Is for the birds In ever hoping to form i government and God spare the day It ever would be. We can only compare It to any other sect A from lane to lane as he tries to impress his girl friend would be told: "Son, you're just too dangerous to have on the road.

You can try driving again when you're a little older but not any more now." The drunk would be ruled off the road no matter how much he pleaded his living depended on his ability to drive. The livings of too many others are risked by his lapses from sobriety. Too tough? Impractical? Undemocratic? Probably. But if we aren't prepared to scare motorists, every last one of them, into permanent safety habits let's stop kidding ourselves we are going to reduce the highway casualty list by more sweet appeals to reason. cars protests about the police patrolling highways in unmarked vehicles.

Nobody who obeys the traffic laws has anything to fear from the police. Those who drive dangerously have no right to feel immune from interference just because they can't see a police car. If "ghost cars" worry dangerous drivers let's have "ghost care" plenty of them. field it does not seem improbable that they will be able to find fruitful agreement in other fields. There arc many other problems: Berlin, German unity, a non-aggression treaty between NATO and the Warsaw pact countries, an overall non-aggression agreement, and so on.

These disagreements will not so easily evaporate. But they no longer look quite so insoluble. The ice jam has not broken but it has begun to thaw a little. a danishui ,9 other name for Conservatives. This cult lias become more Tory in thought and action than the conservative-minded party patriarchs.

Who, we ask In this day, wants anything conservative, of any nature? We don't say that the people don't need some conservatism, but no one wants to admit It or have It. To save face, and to lick the Bennett regime, the constituencies will soon have to make up their minds, draft one good man who Is charitable In performance and fair In his thinking and then all three work like hell to oust the dictatorship In B.C. The tragedy as we see It, In the Columbia lies with the Tories, No one needed the seat only them. Fulton should have been drafted and the other two parties work together to give this prospective lender and experienced public servant a chance to be hard. It's a damshur If Liberals, Conservatives and CCF don't get their one-cylinders turning, pull some new political timber out of the British Columbia woods before the next provincial election they will have Pre mler Bennett In again for another four years' dictatorship.

ihaw in the ice jam warless Utopia for which everyone yearns. A treaty on which American imd Russian signatures stand side by side will bo a sign and a symbol for the world to see. The two great powers will have officially recorded their willingness not to try to "bury" each other but to act together in measures to limit the danger of war and the fall-out hazards of nuclear testing. If the U.S. and Russia find themselves able to collaborate in this most delicate and dangerous waken up it's a 11 Margaret Murray (An editorial from the Brlriac TMver-Ullonet Too careless lo pronounce Ncw) Province readers write and try to learn how to pronounce the place names of dally use.

A few days ago I heard an announcer pronounce lite well-known and simple name Char-lottetown as and a few days later to pronounce the name Charleston. as "Chariest own," And as for Newfoundland, It seems hopeless to have anyone pronounce it proicily, generally said as New'funn-lunn, and again Iceland as Icelunn, Saint John, N.B., as St. Johns, and of course a host of others. Truly our school system Is In sorry plight when even the best of the pupils cannot pronounce ordinary Canadian place names. lue In great measure of course to the absence of any true Canadian spirit In BC.

Parksvllle F. X. BOD1N30N Trite of crime I.aw enforcement In Vancouver has now become the most fantastic and Ineffectual money consumer of all time. Sundry revenues for 1W2 writ Kl.Oi.ufl, almost all of which in turn Legal Hints Question: I have keen told that If a person Is making monthly payments on a debt It Is impossible to sue for collection. Could you Inform me If this Is correct? Answer; t'nlc the creditor agrees to accept Instalment payment In liquidation of the debt, the rtwlltor Is not precluded fioin suing for the total amount owing at any time, message And Jesus Mime and (pake unit thfm Mylnp, All power tauthoiity) given unto me In heaven and In taittu -Matthew If.

IW i i.j.' Tsawwasscn went to finance various activities under the specific term of law enforcement. Our modern equipped, highly mobile police force. Including dogs, an arsenal of guns and gas, augmented with 11m most brilliant street lighting in the world has completely faded to provide us with the protection we deserve, particularly for women ami children. Instead, we have achieved the highest drug addiction and general crime rates In the Western world, including 13 murders in 12; an Increase of 100 per cent over any previous year. It Is obvious that momy is not the cure.

It may even be the root of the problem. Certainly, at today's prices, we can no longer afford the existing biand of law enfoi cement Vancouver "OLD TIMER" From Province files 50 years July 37, 1913 GARIBALDI The distinction of being the first women to attain the summit of Mount Garibaldi belongs to Miss L.C Ilanafln and Miss pansy Munday of Vancouver, who have Just irtumed from a vacation in that dis-trict. They climlied the famous mountain on Wednesday, July 15, During the same expedition, they were also the first women to rllmh Mount Mam-quam. 23 years uo July 37, 102S Canadian Pacific Railways, coastal service Pier was completely testioed by a million dollar fire to-lay. The alarm fire broke out at 1:13 and soon alter the pier was a crumbling ruin.

Thank you for your informative explanation as to the correct pronunciation of the word commonly spelled Tsawwasscn. As the name referred to Is now in daily use, and so frequently pronounced Ta'vvassen. why not for correctness sake try to Induce a universal use ot the pronunciation favored by your informant, and Incidentally, while about It, try to Induce the provincial government to aller the spelling to that Indicated by jour article "Che Or if that Is too much of a mouthful for our careless population, spell It "Chewassen." Anything better than the stupid pronunciation Ta'wassen, which appears to have no association at all with tho true word. At the same time try to have the various radio announcers take course in Canadian geography and history, TODAY'S BEST I'KOM III 'KOI'K Tour lurk's run out That niaUei the hall, card room nl all tho tables youU have to clean." mm mm i mum "'''S i i i tin ii rri i i rn i 1 1 "Mil" Murray "Dennett must go or branch of our democratic life on tills continent. For our own profession, we would say, God forbid that the press and Its Ilk would ever be allowed to form a government for the people of Canada.

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