—_—— 4 | Te rrace. Herald The Terrace Herald is a member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, The B.C. Weekly Newspapers’ Assocation, and Varified Cir- culaticn. Published every Monday and Thursday at 4613 Lazelie Ave., Terrace, B.C. Postage paid in cash, Return postage guaranteed. Second 1 class mail registration number 1201., GENERAL MANAGER GORDON HAMILTON ADVERTISING MANAGER; BILL GROENEN . | Business Addrees: Terrace BC. EDITOR ' KAYCE -WHITE _Phove; 638-4357 OUR OPINION Kind’ firm’ judicious Wherever he may be - still caning trembling bottoms, perhaps, in ‘the great study in the sky- Dr. Thomas Arnold of Rugby must be proud of the Kamloops Schogl Board. Not since Tom Brown’s Schooldays have the fundamentals of education been so forthrightly expressed. teacher says the Kamloops board — complied with regulations when he strapped each of the 21 boys and girls in his Grade 10 class after none would confess to a piece of michief. In justification, the board cites the - B.C. Public Schools Act wherein it Says ‘every teacher shall practise such discipline as may be exercised by a kind, firm, and judicious parent in his family,’ There will be critics of the terrible Dr. Arnold,’ of course, who will quibble along with Sir William Blackstone, that ‘it is better that 10 guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer,’ or A offer . similar -wishy-washy abjection . ‘But what do they know- eh Dr. \Arnold- of what.a kind, firm, and judicious father of 21 boys and girls would consider fair discipline? As with the Bible, the meaning of the schools act is in the eye of the beholder, And what fault could possibly be found in at? But no repentance It is sad to have to report, as Police . Chief George Kerr of Brantford, Ontario, did the other day, that forigveness has no place in police work. . Brantford’s police department last March started this scheme of setting aside one day a week as Forgiveness Day. On that day nobody got a traffic ticket. They were stopped, warned and sent on their way - with a smile or at least that was the idea, “Tt just didn’ t work out,”’ says Chief Kerr, announcing cancellation of the Day. Nobody has a good word for it, apparently. The chief didn’t say what went wrong, but of course we all know, don’t we? Who ever heard of a motorist admitting he ran the red light? It was yellow. Or suppose he was just a couple of minutes over in the parking spot, or a couple of miles over the limit? Forgiveness? Bah! the other guy has to repent first. ; Vancouver Sun A tough’ significant decision By ordering striking B.C. Hydro linemen back to work, and to compulsory arbitration of. their contact dispute, Labor Minister James Chabot made one of the toughest decisions ever forced on any cabinet minister, Jet alone one who’s been in office only three months, He has suspended the right of workers to withdraw their labor. To do that he had to have some - important reasons. ’ Both the decision and his reasons for ’ it appear to establish significant new precedents that will probably dictate the government's attitude towards labor relations generally in the years . ahead, He said the linemen's strike is beginning to create large areas ‘of _ secondary unemployment. .Some mining developments are in danger of being halted by lack of power. Already the construction. industry is being progressively shut down as power supplies. diminish. This significantly expands: the government's own interpretation of public interest. Bill 33, under which Mr, Chabot has taken his decision, permits the cabinet: to order an end of a work stoppage that it judges to be against the public's welfare, Welfare was not defined but it was presumed:to mean that the public broadly would have to be affected beforé arbitration would: be invoked, But the Chabot decision’ means that the spread _ of secondary unemployment i is now to-be considered _ against. the .public. interest. ° Many - strikes where services essential to the public are not directly affected create secondary unemployment and they - could be similarly: ended. However, in invoking. Bill 33. Mr. Chabot has sidestepped the three-man mediation commission that was, under the law, to be entrusted with the © arbitration function. Mr. Justic Nathan Nemetz will have sole power to arbitrate or mediate and his decision will be binding. The appointment of an independent mediator or arbitrator, especially one of th statue of Mr. Justice Nemetz, may have aimed at making the useof Bill83 more palatable to the linemen and their union, But it may mean that the government will be more prepared in the future .to use. independent mediators. linemen in particular sworn not to appear be fore the commission. By by- passing the commission Mr. Chabot has appeared to have driven another “nail into its coffin. The question now is how relevant can the commission be in the future if the _hew minister, in his first important decision, ignores it: If it is irrelevant the government should end its agony ‘by getting rid of it as soon as possible. A confrontation between labor and the government is the last thing Mr. Chabot would want so ‘early in his - ministry, especially since he appears to have created a good impression on labor. Aside from the fact that they should obey the Jaw, it would be prudent for the linemen to go back to ‘work and give Mr. Justice Nemetz a chance to find a settlement they would find acceptable. That way his decision would not, have to be binding. Vancouver Province "TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE B.C. MONDAY, JULY 5, 2971. Proceeding» with stealth BY WILLTAM MILLINSIIP- ~From-an . article in The Observer, London,. a. libera British: Sunday paper, "What sticks in the mind afte: reading :the New York Times presentation :of a. massive and till now secret Pentagon stud of American involvement | Vietnam is the ‘deliberate stealth with which the Johnson administration crossed successive thresholds. of military escalation in 1964 and * 1985, ° The fact that the’ country was deceived is searcely hot news. [: ". >) «Johnson's: “credibility ‘gap” is J ".. Tama young government peeper peeping on the “government's young people peeyers "peeping on the young people,” Bill Smiley We're in a terrible dilemma around our house these days. My wife is going off her nut worrying about the situation, my daughter is having bad. dreams about it, and 1 as usual, - am being ground between the millstones of two hysterical women who expect me to come up smiling and with the right answers. . In the =summer when there is so little employment for students, my daughter has two jobs available. One,:as I’ve mentioned ‘is at a hotel, waiting table in the dining-room. It’s a pleasant place, over-looking the water, She likes the job and the people, _ chef, boss, and the other ™ waitresses.. -The salary. is well | beléw the ‘niinimum wage, but * the tips are gdod. But there’s the inevitable fly in the soup. There is no accommodation for the hired help, and the darn thing is ten miles out of town in a smail village. - As I have reported, this . means that she must heave the fledgling newspaper, Georgia: ¢ .Qnee again Vancouver's job, or get a room in the village. She doesn’t: have a car or driver's license. A taxi would be $2.50 each way and there goes a day's tips. So I've been driving her .to work in the mornings and her mother picking her up in the afternoons. Even the. kid _ realizes that this is somewhat of an imposition, if we expect to have any holidays this summer. Analternative would be to get a room in the village. As she ~ puts it this would be like going into a nunnery. Which, at age - twenty, unless your tendencies * are nunnish, and hers are not, is not too appealing. ' However, like most teapot tempests, something could probably be worked out. Now comes the dilemma. She has ~ been’ offered another job as: a’: waitress right here in town. Five minutes walk from home, The wages are better, the tips poorer, The work is just about as hard. It’s right on the main street and hotter than hades in summer. She doesn’t know’ whether Bhe likes the boss. only part time at the hotel, usually weekends, but can be on full time during July and August. She has already worked. twoshifts at the restaurant, ona trial basis, and they’ve offered a full time job. Isn’t this a sad story? The poor kid doesn't know what to - do, She likes the first one better — but the . second has _ transportation problem. no And of course a waitress hasn’t much security these days, or ever. She could be fired from either job if business fell of or she got blisters and couldn't walk or she had a run-in with the chef or dropped a tray of foodon the customers. (which I did one time, though it wast food, it was beer). i... tre The . whole thing mother was a waitress for a couple of summers at the same -age, and thinks she knows all about everything and keeps poking her nose in. The irony of the situation is that if she diddles around and doesn’t make up her mind, she © vital. for free press Labor generally and the Hydro s ; opinion deserves to be in print. : News reporters everywhere ; Straight, has been subject to poecognize that if it were not for } altach, . This time, apparently, the Siraight’s ‘brave attitude, : Canada would be that much because it had the temerity to sloser' (0 having one news apply for, and be awarded, a = prand under the Opportunities = for Youth Programm. - The criticism, which resulted in cancellation of the Straight's praat, issued from the mouths: of people who pride themselves mt holding fixed opinions. The Straight has charged, . harrassed, arrested and ridiculed - usually are . peagle who have never read an “issue, *..Fartunately, the Straight has: ' © survived, ..For the past two years it has a been apparent to career , journalists that the Straight fs one-af the Tew--tf nal the aily- Canadian newspaper that has — tefied the creeping threat of press censorship. The Straight has opted: to been ‘charged with being obscene and tnorally corruptive, It hag been source — government operated. = . Since the Georgia Straight = first appeared in print May, : 1967, it has broken more : stories than any newspaper’ of comparable size: in Canada... . Police brutality, landlords & ee and ‘tenants rights, political ; = corruption, welfare abuses, a abortion & ; facts, American control of and Whereas. the remainder were Inteeference in Canadian affairs : 4 divorce “information, - the sort of story which 3: commonly eludes, or is. treated lightly by, the ‘established = press, [ts right 40 print’ such eo news has heen upheld by the highest ‘courts ‘In Canada.: . Consequently every serious": newsman ‘betieves. that” the g percent to'1l.4 percent, . Straight: is vilal-to our unlted® “effort to ensure, freedom of the ; nationally ‘significant news ‘ @ other Here's a problem Bill can't solve could wind up without any job and knowing my daughter for twenty years, I have a feeling this is exactly what will happen. This would give her a perfect excuse to go off hitchhiking to Vancouver or Charlottetown, which she’d much rather he. doing than working as who wouldn't. As you can see the whole thing is a tragedy in a teaspoon but you've no idea how we burn the midnight oil, the three of us, turning over new leaves and unturned stones, building up one job and then knocking it down with the other, doing sums, calculating — tips, considering the personalities of. cashiers and cocks. _ Tf something isn't settled. soon, I’m afraid Kim ig going to. complicated by the fact ie , decide that the Great. world free enterprise is too baffling and opt out. And if- something isn’t done soon I’m afraid I’m going to decide that the whele world of student employment is too baffling and take off on a solitary holiday, leaving the two women to sort-it out for themselves. _ Middle-class_ welfare Young welfare recipients: are typical examples of a middle |. class upbringing, according to a. council ' Vancouver city administration report. In a-report which the city’ 8 olds. states: “The only direct contact with ; service ‘he city social board of administration itself . department for 96 percent of the described as was disclosed that: Sixty-two percent of ° young welfare recipients have grade 12 or better education - with 8.5 percent of . them holding university degrees. - Forty-two percent of them 2 have been employed and #4 3 percent of them have actively looked for employment. -Only 16 percent of them were described as seeking the so- called ‘welfare life-style’’ actively looking for work. In the council report it was stated that: The ta to 25 year- -old Population increased only two- ‘tenths of a percent.from 1966 to 1970 while the proportion of that cross-section recéiving social assistance increased from 2.5 _An interviewers hired ata cost tothecity of $1.794 surveyed 166 “shattering”, it: _ tangible. provided recipierits to help recipients interviewed was with _ the cheque delivery system, “As a Tesult, in their eyes. no assistance them get off assistance.” The board recommends .the report he sent to Rehabilitation _ financial ‘Minsiter P.A. Gaglardi, The report - stated that: generally speaking. the welfare - recipients interviewed had. middle-class backgrounds, - Parents income averaged | $8.367 compared with B.C. average of $7.376. The recipients came from larger than. .average: ‘sized _ families. the report said. But only aue‘in seven were from families with a welfare . background, Ninety- nine. of. the 166 had lived: in Vancouver one year or more before they received | financiat assistance, the. report, Vis ‘erucial. “of” The hoard report which was” considered by council ‘Tuesday Was . - already an | age-worn image. But § now .we have documentary § Lo evidence of the way that gap WS apparently no thought. for the -Mmorality, the censtitutional 3 ‘implications,. or even the. $% -prised open. with. - political dangers of steadfastly , Misleading Congress and public - about policy in Southeast Asia, One of.the few men within the administration who, at that time.. challenged © basic ‘American assumptions was @ =. Under-Secretary of. State. George Ball, Johnson as advocate.” In a memo to the president ‘the devil's "dated July 1, 1965.- Ball wrote: “The decision you face now Once large numbers of U.S. troops are committed to direct combat, they will begin to take heavy casualties ina war they are ill- equipped to fight in a non-co- operative: if not downright hostile countryside. “Once we suffer large casualties. we will have started a well-nigh' irreversible process, Our involvement will be so great that we can not ~ without national humiliation - stop short .of achieving our complete objective... -“T think humiliation would be mere Hkely than the achievement of cur objectives - even after we have paid terrible costs.’"" President Johnson ignored ’ this advice. He pressed deeper into a war which ended his iveareer, and..which. six years.; }: later ‘is still doing : immense. ... a damage to his country. Budget holds seeds of social democracy By CLAUDE LEMELIN _ ..From an editorial in: le ‘Devolr, Mentreal, a- left-of- centre daily, on the. recently announced federal budget, “In. the short term. the. Trudeau government has succeeded in drawing an acceptable compromise. from the — rigorous commission, on one hand, ‘and - the almost complete renewal of the exceptions and privileges : authorized by the current { Igcall law: on the other hand. : ‘ _ In the iong run, “however: Benson's reforms could have 8. ‘more radical impact. In effect; the: moderization -of the fiscal law will, permite “future governments which. might be. * more Progressive. than: ithe Trudeau | government. accentuate quickly progressive changes: in. income tax," -0-4.-- The great. period. of social democracy is“ still far awey, But Liberals. who.-are .more authentically liberal in fiscal matters than’ they were in the old days. ‘have'just: given notice “of. its. advent tolerated by } - @galitarian {8 . recommendations of the Carter publish all the news ¢hat.in its pF -of Vaneduver’s 1R-t0-25 year. aaid, , ARBOR oR ANYTHINY THATS HANDY. YESTERDAY I PICKED Ay Be FIGHT WI' THE VICAR = -— S's NE NERVES, ANDY, t GET THIS 1 BEL DEPRESSION— AN! 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