Editorials & Comments Men are most apt to believe -what they least understand. —De Montaigne An Independent. Class "A" Semi-Weekly Newspaper devoted to the upbuilding of Prince George and oil communities comprising Northern and Central B.C. DIRECTORS : N. J. Izowsky, H. G. Kennedy, C. A. Warnar Prince George Citizen (Established 1916) Published every Monday and Thursday at Prince George, B.C., by The Cltiren Publishers & Printers Ltd. Editor: C. A. Warner Largest circulation of any weakly newspaper in Central and Northern llllk\ '¦*** Coiwmfcla. . hiil IK — t Subscription: per year - - $4.00 Outside Canada .... $5.00 Authorized as second class mail by Post Office Department, Ottawa Innaccurate Road Reports In the interest of accuracy and good tourist relations, radio newscasters here and elsewhere -in. the province should make some attempt to edit the daily road reports issued by the Department of Highways. It must be obvious to everyone in Central B.C. that these reports, often condensed into a single vague sentence, ore misleading to say the least, when they attempt to describe the state of the roads in this part of the province. And radio newsmen must bear some of the blame for spreading this false information. They have a re-* sponsibility no less than that of newspaper reporters to l>e as accurate as possible in giving information to the public. The almost unbelievable condition of the-Cariboo road and some sections of Highway 16 which vare well within, the broadcasting range of the Prince George radio .station is a live topic of conversation at every garage and filling station and wherever motorists meet in this country. Last week a Vancouver man described them as "the worst in Canada with the exception of Newfoundland." We can imagine the angry reaction of motorists returning from the south or tourists travelling between Macalister and Woodpecker with the|r radios turned on to hear the startling announcement: "All roads in this district are in good condition!" Sometimes the word "fair" is substituted for "good" as some slight concession to fact. But the unhappy motorist and his passengers, jolted and jarred by a never ending succession of pot-holes and washboard and. blinded and choked by dust, can get his only consolation from the fact that he is not travelling on what might tempt the radio broadcaster to term a poor road. * Our advice to motorists with so little respect for their cars and lives as to travel on the Cariboo road north and south of Quesnel is: carry spare springs and axles and gas masks—and keep your headlights burning night and day. You mav make it. NOTHING BUT THE TROTH by Russ Arnold <* 500ms>$ -9nd can speak in both sm/fisH mi ENGLISH If Owe of tme safest PLACES DURING A 6TORW 15 SOME" 4JgfAl NCLGSUtev SUCH A6 AN AUTO H/WE PROBABLY THE MOST EXERCISED MUSCLBS • IN WE HUMAAJ BO0y-— IN A DAY OF REW5IM6/ MU6CUES MOVE YOUfc EYES. ABOUT 100,000 TJMSSJ/ A man who makes $3,000 a year is more severely punished by a fine, no matter how he pays it, than the person who makes $15,000 a year and is subjected to the same penalty. —Victoria Daily Times Judging by the manner in which the simple job of raising and levelling the Little League park has been muddled, some members of the city council and their salaried employees should be playing in the same league. By G. E. MORTIMER The children arc making good finished. progress in their campaign to •wreck the house and turn the garden into a deserC. Visiting and neighbourhood children are co-operating heartily The little girls have also cleared away a number of toys and dumped them in the lake. The handle of the boy's wagon yesterday went gurgling down into with inmates of the, house to- eight feet of water, and is now ward this end. Dogs have also done- their share, by hollowing out a number of caves in the lawn. The lawn was never impressive to begin with. \% was only a ragged expanse of daisies and couch grass, blotched by the leprous shadows of objects that had been left there too long — rubbish heaps and upturned rowboats. a-waiting repair. However, even an old and battered lawn deserves to have its wounds dressed. So daddy filled the dogs' excavations with earth, tramped the earth down and scattered grass seed. Shortly afterwards, the. three-year-old and a visiting boy dug new holes in the same places. •is -it -tx Two little girlsr from next door have done good work dislodging stones from the bank alongside the path, and scattering gravel on the veranda. They join forces with the resident small boy in an attack on the vegetable garden. Then managed to snuff out the lives of several bean plants, preventing a clutter of messy foliage which might have grown up. Narrow-minded Mother stopped them before they invlsihle in the mud. What is left of the wagon stands in the front yard,-a forlorn and crippled object. It will be on the bottom of the lake before long.' The smallest boy, aged, one year and a few months, does his part by pulling down any fragile object within reach and shattering it on the floor. He Is already dojng good work for his age. Most of the time the three-year-old hoy and the little girls collaborate peacefully in their campaign of destruction, but they have occasional arguments which'are settled when one party hits the other on the head with a piece of wood Yesterday they discovered the1 word "Sorry." So they amused themselves by whacking each other with heavy objects, and say-Ing "Sorry" after each blow. Then they began to play with paper soon afterwards, I wanted a 'Sorry'," said the boy, and the three of them drew large shapeless objects that might have been well received at a, gallery of progressive art. Unfortunately they tore up'the paper soo nafterwards. I wanted to keep their work. Those were probably the first pictures of a ":Sorry" ever drawn. "The Shoppers' Paradise' "Where Your Dollar Has More Cental 2095 Fifth Ava PHONE 909 FRESH MEAT We handle "Blue end Red Ribbon" Beef Government Inspected Meats PORK SAUSAGE PORK CHOPS Lb. 46' 60 FRESH PRODUCE Lettuce....................2 for 25c Peaches ........•......... 6 for 35c Eggs, local in cartons, doz. 69c -There are-— people who Vote for the same party at every election regardless of who the candidates or the partly leaders may be or what the issues are. All parties have these dependable supporters but perhaps we would have better government if they were not so dependable. —Summerside (P.E.I.) Journal Pioneer Parking Meter Politeness ...... .'• •¦.¦•¦, , , ,. j he bftnl over A story is going the rounds that one of our leading i (]ent recorcis i Killed A Child!' By GEORGE BZAN Associated Press Staff Writer last year for The Buffalo Courier- BUFFALO, N.Y. — "I killed a chilil." The words fell on the ears of Walter "Froehlich, a reporter, ts he ben I over a desk,In the acci-eau at police citizens, seeing an American tourist vainly searching for; headquarters one day last sum-a nickel lo put in a parking meter, took a coin out of his ]mev- own pocket and dropped it into the meter.' ]t was a gesture' Froehlich was gathering mat-., . . , n J-f. , . . . , . ., . r,. .. ! erial for one of the more than 30 that would make at least one tourist feel that Canadians tr-arrjc safety articles he wrote are mighty nice people. But along comes a similar story 'involving a Prince E*f"oss' George motorist who stopped his car in a small Washing- cu'j:^»^ ton State town recently. He, too, couldn't find a nickel, i saw him. And he's,all I've been for the parking meter. "Feeling that perhaps a visitor] seeing since! I saw'him. But it wouldn't be given a ticket, he ignored the meter and went Jvas l0C) la.lc> l°.s}J*E b . .to see him alive." into a store. Froehlich looked up from" his When he returned to his car, dangling from the door pages of statistics to seeVn an-: handle was a ticket. It was from the'local chamber of |euished_ motorist siantoQefore commerce, and read: "Welcome to. Valleyville. We hope you have a good time here and we will do everything .possible to make your visit pleasant. We have put a nickel in the parking meter for you. If you like what we are doing for tourists, a small donation to help us with our work will be appreciated when you get home. While the Prince George man was reading the ticket a policeman came along. f "Oh, there you are, he said. "I was just going to put another nickel in for you." By this time the visitor was feeling lower than a snake's stomach. He said: "It's a nice thing you people are doing here. It must cost 'the town a lot of money." "Heck, no," said the policeman. "T&s is one of the biggest money makers we have. All kinds of visitors send. po1|co hant'«» C9&ft L° traffic bb J ... , „ , ., . . ,, violators, Police Chief j. Walter us one. two, or even five dollars when they get home. All\)f which proves that hospitality sometimes pays off in hard cash. l was lhe last the long counter in the office. A policeman listened sympathetically. I was the last to see him alive. And the first to see his lifeless body limply Sprawled on the pave- ment a few inches from the bumper of my car. Yes, I am the man they now call "death-car driver." I own the car whose pictures you saw. in the daily press. And, yet, a thousand times I wish I wpre the victim rather than the man who killed him. For he '.lied only once, but I then. a thousand deaths since I saw him running out between Indians We!! Treated Says Missionary VANCOUVER — Canadian In- for barely 100 years so we cannot grams, sometime within the Re>:t 10 days. . ' . Canon Waite and his wife are in Vancouver holidaying from his posting at Prince Albert, Sask,, residential- school. dians are receiving fair treatment from the federal government but they are being made a "political football," Canon Gilbert J. Waite, an Anglican Missionary, said here Wednesday. "Too many people criticize the government's handling of Indian affairs without any knowledge of the problems," said Canon Waite, who has worked at Indian, settlements for 32 years, "I think the government has done a good job and does'not deserve much of the criticism we Will be held on Tuesday in honor House Party For Governor General A cocktail party at the home of Mayor and Mrs. J. R. Morrison hear. After" all, Indians^ have expect them to change pvernlghtj' been in touch with our civilization Highways Minister Tours Cariboo Road Seeing is believing and jsuch being the case-the Hon. Mr. P.-A. Gaglardi, B.C.'s minister for the department of highways should need no convincing regarding the two cars. He looked away. But yet j condition of the Cariboo Highway Ills childish steps led into ray j between Prince George and Ques- path. I honked the horn. I kicked into the brake. 1 heard the tires squeal. And then the1 thud. I saw his little body hurled through the Once he had begun, the motorist could not stop. Froehlich took it all down and later wrote the article as he had heard it, deleting only names and details that might identify the driver or the accident. The article was of less than 500 words. It appeared in The Courier-Express Saturday, July 2, just before the- deadly holiday weekend. But it did not end there. In Chicago the article was seen by the National Safety/Council, which obtained permission to reprint it in its monthly publication. In Ehnira and Rochester N.Y., police handed copies to traffic Equality In Sentences Olson, of Fargo, N.D., saw the piece in a police journal and had reprints made for his city. MANY REPRINTS Two national insurance firms, a state power. company in New York, an Ohio motor-freightline and a national dairy concern ask-'ed reprints for each of their employees. General Motors reprinted the article in its company publlca In his Vancouver address to a conference of B.C. magistrates recently, Deputy ^ Attorney-General Alan Maclean drew attention to the inequalities of sentence on the affluent and the poor man. Frequently, he noted, a man of little means could' 1oln.s- The Bell Aircraft Corp. put . . ,. , ., . ., • mu copies in Its workers' pay. envel- not pay his fine .and consequently went to jail. Tne,opes wealthier person could pay and thus escaped a prison J An association of trade unions term j m Bonn, Germany, obtained per Mr. Maclean suggested that magistrates might reduce Ei^l^^^^SS this difference, in treatment by permitting a convicted person to pay his fine ^by instalments in certain cases. Such a course could save a man from going to prison. It is doubtful, however, if it would bring about equality in treatment of the rich and the poor. Whether a man pays a fine in a lump sum or pays it on time, the penalty falls more severely on the low-income bracket than .on the individual who is well off. In recent year's, those who have been given the question of sentence consideration have been inclined to vary old axiom of making the punishment fit the crime, suggest the punishment should fit the criminal. more thought might be given to that point in an make the system more equitable. Into German for use in that coun try- A year later, the requests con tinue to come in. For Froehlich, 34, who began stopping wheel almost 'touched him once more. HELP SUMMONED I walked ahead and bent over hjs crumpled form. "Call an ambulance!" I shouted. "Quick!" I saw the gathering crow^l. They all looked at the child. And then at Me. Then came police and then the doctor. Fie looked first at the little face and form, then, looked away and slowly shook his head. And then I saw the anguished features of a man—the father— and heard the desperate screams of a bereaved mother—How can I forget? And when the scene had cleared and I had filed reports at headquarters and the police had cleared me, I stood alone and suddenly knew what I had really done. "Could happen to any of uV a voice behind me said. I felt the sympathetic touch of a policeman's hand. "You were not speed-Ing, nor violating any law. We preferred no charges, nor did any witness charge a fault by you. The child was unattended, roaming the streets alone, and .^you did nothing that was dangerous or wrong." I carry insurance, sure. But who can replace a life? Should I visit the parents? See the child laid out? Or coldly disregard the death, the bitter grief? Will the father, mother hate me? Or would they understand? A sense of moral guilt hangs over me. It punishes the driver hard and makes him all afraid to face the parents of nel. of His. Excellency Vincent Mas-sey, Governor General of Canada when he arrives here to address the Prince George Canadian Club. City aldermen; their wives and executive members of the Canadian Club will attend the...affair which will take place shortly after the Governor'General's arrival at 5:30 p.m. via private CNR railwaj car.. His i Excellency will speak to the Canadian^Club at a dinner meeting commencing at "7 p.m. in the Prince George Hotel. Members may obtain tickets from* Mil- Tuesday afternoon, after arriv-) Hard Clare at Northern Hardware ing unobtrusively in . Trince and'from Mrs. M. Park at Cut- George by air, Mr. Gaglardi drove the 79 miles to Quesnel.rto examine for himself the state of the highway and to investigate progress of new construction. . \ : After travelling the highway, accompanied by regional engineer Ray S. Cunliffe of Prince George, Mr. Gaglardi ordered an immediate acccleratibn r6f"malhtenancV work on the road. After at Quesnel he was picked up plane and returned to d According to reports Mr, lardi will return to the city to talk with Board of Trade officials j concerning road building, pro-) grams. , Rate Grocery. GROCERY SPECIAL! * Rose's lee Cream, brick .. 25« I.B.C. Graham Wafers.....3lc Kellogg's Corn Flakes, I2oz...........2 for 49c Watch for announcement sooi of opening of new addition to the store. 25 lb.....$1.98 In Cotton Sack ¦ r/ Cash - Pay Less SELLING VOUR CAR? Let Bryant Do II FOR HIGHEST RETURN WOODBURN i (Continued from Page 1) ' he was appointed to the bench for i the County of Cariboo in 19fl2. j Soon after he moved his. homo i from Quesnel to Prince George] where he resided a t!994 Twelfth' Avenue. ¦ ; News of the judge's death ca^ie as a distinct shock to his msny friends here and former (hone 839