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_EDITORIAL,

Look

This cannot be a nation of cynics. This
cannot be a country which is going to have
one big temper tantrum Oct. 26 by voting
‘no’, But that could very well be the case
judging by the popular opinion in the land.

The extreme ‘yes’ and extreme ‘no’ posi-
tions would have us believe ultimate rack
and ruin awaits Canada should the vote not
go their way. Of course they are wrong.
Saying ‘yes’ won't solve a lot of our prob-
lems. Saying ‘no’ won’t either.

What this vote is all about is power —
who gets it and what they do with it once
they have it. It’s the main driving force be-
hind each and every one of the politicians
who struck this deal.

And that’s where the challenge and op-
portunity is for the rest of us. For what the
politicians have done is better define. how
things run and how they work and how
they should run and work in the years
ahead, In a very real sense we have the op-
portunity to take that power now held by
the politicians.

This has nothing to do with how many
seats in the House of Commons Quebec
pets or what powers the Senate will have.
Any discussion of that is just like a sand-
box war fought by little kids..:

Of course .the prospect. of. native. self
government is scary. It recognizes some-
thing completely alien to a large percent-
age of Canadians, There will undoubtedly
be some horror stories before any complete
and comfortable resolution is reached. Yet
there is not one single Canadian who can
honestly say he or she does not want the
present situation to continue.

We must remember that the native self
government framework was struck be-
tween white and native leaders, another

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form of the power game. This is not the
same as citizens working out what should
happen with all the common sense and
goodwill at our disposal.

Voting ‘yes’ gives notice for a change in
the way natives fit into the society. It
means we all must then take the responsi-
bility to keep an eye on what happens and
to speak out if we do not like what is hap-
pening.

The same works for those greater powers
the provinces will have. Decision making
will move closer to where we live and that
will enable us to take a greater degree of
control over what happens.

There’s a great story that makes the
rounds in political circles once in awhile.
A politician dies and at the pearly gates is
given a piece of chalk and pointed to a lad-
der. At the top of the ladder is a blackboard

ladder, while reaching for another rung,
somebody coming down steps on his hand.
He looks up to find his greatest political
opponent. ‘“What are you doing here?’’ he
asks. ‘‘Coming down for another piece of
chaik.”’

-We.are.all:.on that.ladder.together. None

O£,us is blameless .for.what has happened

before, But each of us will share the blame
for what happens next.

I’m voting ‘yes’ on Oct. 26. It’s because
of my grandparents Leopold and Emma
Molzahn who came from Poland and be-
cause of my great-grandparents Richard
and Louise Link who came from Russia.
They came for something better. I cannot
believe they would want to look backward
and not foward.

Rod Link, Editor

Triumphant royal

I prefer a bicycle to a car, a

gas range to an electric stove -
so long as it does the job - for
the same reasons I favour a

manual typewriter over an Bifocals
electrical model. It’s simpler
to deal with, less responsive to by Claudette Sandecki

unintentional operation, and
has more manoeuvreability.

Through

Back in 1961 I bought -
secondhand - a_ standard
manual typewriter, Standard
meant it was full office size,
too heavy and bulky to be
toted from place to place un-
less I’d eaten my Wheaties.
Manual meant it was powered
by elbow grease.

For years that Royal helped
me earn a living as a freelance
redical secretary, correspond
with family, and dabble in
writing. Then a few weeks ago
it plummeted into the base-
ment, a lump of twisted metal
under a truckload of charred
debris.

Replacing it is difficult.
Maybe impossible. Royal quit
manufacturing typewrites five
years ago, crowded off the
market by electronic
typewriters and computers
with memories, built. in dic-
lionaries, and switches to turn
off porch lights and turn on
furnaces.

’ Ask a typewriter dealer
about buying a new manual
machine if you want to be
humiliated like a guest ata
Don Rickles roast, Dealers
laugh - snort, really - at the
suggestion of anyone expect-
ing io buy something as

anachronistic as a typewriter
fueled by muscle power and
caffeine. You may as well go
to a hardware store for a new
buggy wheel or to a fabric
store fora bustle.

My Royal was compact, a
twelve inch cube, with small
metal keys that snapped unlike
the plastic clatter of a com-
puter. It could sit anywhere,
never tripped traffic, and
worked well even during
power outages. Its margins,
tabs, and other stops didn’t
reset whenever a sheet of bond
wafter over its keyboard. Best
of all, its $4 ribbon could be
re-used indefinitely. Electric
ribbons cost about $8, can be
used only once, and last less
than a week. ;

Those who’ve ditched their
manuals and upgraded to com-
puters advise me to forget
about my pre-Elvis Royal and
grab this chance to replace it
with a computer.

Perhaps I should. But first, I
intend to search. widely for a
Royal. So far I’ve phone any-
one advertising a manual
typewriter for sale. And so far
they’ve all been sold already,
one within minutes of the pub-
lication. . reaching __ store

counters. So I’ve placed at
wanted ad in a local trading
sheet, as well as in The West-
er Prodcer.

The Producer is read by
dozens of old-fashioned folk

’ like me who cling to cast iron

waffle irons that have to be
heated on stove tops, and hand
cranked coffee grinders.

I’m sure there are still lots of
standard manuals tucked away
in closets, basements, and ga-
rages. Few of the are for sale;
they’re just too integral a part
of a person’s life to be
shucked off. Only a small per-
centage of them will be
Royals. How many of them
will be Royal KMG’s?

_ Probably not many. But all I

need is one,

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country has seen since the

For the first time in my 30
years as a journalist I openly
espoused a cause. It wasn’t an
easy decision. I don’t sub-
scribe to advocacy journalism.
But this was different.

You may not share my fears,
but there was no doubt in my
mind that the future of the
country which I have come to
love very deeply was at stake.
There still isn’t.

Thad to make a choice: take
the high road and confine
myself to observations and
predictions, speculate on the
making and breaking of politi-
cal careers, or wade into the
issue wilh not the slightest
pretense of objectivity. I chose
the latter. :

[have listened to the debate
that has raged during the past
few weeks. I have analyzed
the arguments against accept-°
ing the Charlottetown Accord.
[have found some of the
reservations valid, but in-
significant when viewed
against the risks, as I see them,
of rejecting the accord.

As an immigrant, I have per-
haps a greater appreciation for
what this country is and what
it can be, and a greater fear of
what we could lose.

As an immigrant who was
born into the lap of the most
ruthless state that ever existed,
I tend to take no chances with
my adopted home.

If I could convey to you the
feelings of that 22-year-old
who came to Canada so long
ago and found himself ac-
cepted without reservations,
you would know why I will

- vote yes on Oct, 26, AndI

make no apologies that my
‘yes’ vote is based entirely on
emotions.

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conscription debate.is, over! 1710 From the

Capital

by Hubert Beyer

If }’'ve learned one thing in
my adult life it is this: allow-
ing myself to be guided by my
heart may not always have
produced the most profitable
results, but invariably the best.

Take a moment to reflect on
how far we have come as a na-
tion in the past 125 years. We
have grown and evolved into
what I consider the most
decent society yet devised.

We pride ourselves in
tolerance. We are the kinder
and gentler society George
Bush so brazenly proclaimed
the United States to be.

We have within our grasp
the reality of a society that
could offer a tortured world
the greatest hope yet - a
society that is home to men,
women and children from a
rainbow of cultures, languages
and religions, but doesn’t ask
of them to let themselves be
absorbed into some amor-
phous, homogeneous whole.

Canada is home to two
wonderfully. and magically
different founding cultures. I
consider it a source of im-
mense pride to have as fellaw
Canadians six million people
who speak a different lan-
guage, and have a different
and rich culture,

With increasing horror I read
the accounts of how others
settle their ethnic and cultural
differences. Serbs in what was
once Yugoslavia are engaged
in “ethnic cleansing’’, a
euphemism for genocide.

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Georgia, until recently part
of the Soviet Union, a political
structure that had been held to-
gether by brutal force and fear,
js tearing itself apart in a civil
war over ethnic differences.

Shortly after I came to Cana-
da, nearly 35 years ago, I
worked as a lobourer on the
Trans-Canada Pipeline. One of
my fellow workers, a chap by
ihe name of Jean Paquette, as
French-Canadian as they
come, asked me one day
where in Germany I was from.

Duesseldorf, I said.
‘Duesseldorf?’ he exclaimed,
leading me to believe that he
knew it well. had he ever been +
there? I asked. He looked
somewhat sheepish and said,
“Well not exactly in, but
above, a number of times.’”

Jean had been a bomber pilot:
during the war. We became
friends, And that to me is Can-
ada in all her glory,

If you plan to vote ‘no’ on
Oct. 26, Task you to examine
your motives. If you truly be-
lieve that a better deal can be.
achieved, vote no by all
means,

But if you are angry at

politicians in general, or Brian.
Mulroney in particular, if you
hate the GST, if you think
Quebec is too demanding,
think again. .

Think that this just might be
not only the best, but the last:
deal we can get, And that if it -
goes down the tube, so might
Canada.

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