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“AGE 4, THE HERALD, Friday, July 15, 1977

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Insecurity
- A curious phenomenon of our age is the
preponderance of ‘How To” books. Go into any
bookstore. There are such books on nearly every
subject, from gardening to capital investment,
from sex to spiritual enlightenment.

It can be argued that in this day and age, people
are more aware and are seriously trying to better
themselves. That argument, however, is not very
sensible. Rather, the “How To’ books, some of:
which are absolutely outlandish, indicate a state of
mass confusion and blind searching
_ Think about it for a moment,
ridiculous to read a book called “How to Make Love
to a Single Girl’ and then go out and try to apply
what you believe you've learned? There are books
on how to eat properly, how to get to sleep, how to
be popular, how to succeed, how to be happy, how to
rid yourself of fear, how to face death, how to stay
physically fit.

It is as though the whole life is a riddle an deach
“HowTo” book a clue. “If I read enough of them, I
will become a balanced, complete human being,
with no doubts and insecurities.”

, Human individuals conceptualize themselves as
in a state of constant becoming. One is always

becoming something, always building and .

accumulating. But to what end? Man spends his
_ childhood dreaming, his adulthood planning and his.
old age reminiscing and on his death bed locks back
on his life as “One long, boring Sunday afternoon.”’
The truth is we are riddled with doubt. We find
ourselves alive on earth and we wonder about that.
We are trapped in a continual round of up and
down, with the same idiosyncrasies, habits,

problems, conversations, thoughts and’ actions -

endlessly -fepeated “as * ‘“in-a stitrealistic
movie or slightly. warped nightmare. All our lives
are fashioned around these doubts but it is
customary to act as though they did not exist.

Though we may try to walk through life as though
there are no questions, concerns, fears, or
misgivings, they are there, perhaps hidden,
probably smoldering and eroding away the heart.
As we wonder whether others are as troubled as -
ourself or if we are slightly inferior in some aspect
of life, we resort to the ‘‘How.To” books, standing
shoulder to shoulder with other beokstore patrons,
trying to extract the bits of wisdom that may rid us
of our doubts.

But the doubter remains always and the process
is infinite. There is no end to that kind of relative
knowledge, nor will the pleasure one things one will
gain by making love or being the hit of a party alter
the fundamental insecurity that underlies one’s

e. ; ‘ .

Resorting to books to Jearn how to live would be
validif we were not now alive but were about to be. |
Though we were born through no self-exertion, we
fret and struggle and honestly believe we will
enhance the quality of existence through the
acquisition of such knowledge as ‘Winning through
Intimidation” or “How to Cook without Meat”’.

Except for the most practical volumes, “How
To” books appeal primarily to the ego. If through
reading these books and pasate the pleasures
they promise the ego would finally be content, then
there would be a point to all this. But the ego is the
doubter. The fatter it becomes, the more it doubts.

The one who takes a “How to Make Love” book
home and reads it in his solitude is only Narcissus
making overtures to himself. The one who studies
“Winning through Intimidation” will be the same
ald bore with a few more strategies to occupy his
hyperactive mind.

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“And another thing! I'm getting sick of you being
so-agreeable afl the time.”

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By ESTELLE DORAIS
ONTREAL (CP) —
Banking indicators
ealcula monthly since
April, 1975, for Clinton
County, N. Y., ‘show
significant increases in
money flows from Quebec
into the Plattsburg area at
the time of the Nov. 15 pro-
vinelal election.
The indicators are based
on data from six banks and

|. are calculated by the

Technical Assistance Center
of State University of New
York in Plattsburg.

“We can see trends,” said
the center’s. economic
development specialist.
‘We can definitely state we
can see an impact from

Quebec.
“The activity is in terms
of ; deposits,” Robert Daly

said.
Clinton County banks give
data to the Center on a con-

ITS. :

ut  Plattsburg is
somewhat of a banking
eenter, generating more
volume than would be ex-
pected in a ‘town of
comparable size and the
center saida figure of close
to $500 million was a fair

estimate. ‘

The index of monthly total
dollar amounts of all
deposits stood at a high of
200 for November, 1976, up
from 102 in November, 1975.

The base period of the
index is the mean for the 12-
month period from April,
1975 through March, 1976.
This base year is set at 100

which is compared'to each

month’s data. ©

The November figure was
up from 110 in October and
came down to 168 in

Business spotlight _

_ New Yorkers mine

in February.”
But the figure for
February, 1976 was only 76.
Total deposits for March,

the latest month: calcklated, .
show a climb to 125,.

compared with 114 for
March last year.
HAVE TAPERED OFF
pat ey ani
get pretty similar,
I would postulate that the
big change; (radical
overnment action) did not
ke place and you have the
situation where pe le have
sort of. tapered’ off,” - Daly

said, Ae
But the figures in this in-
dicator .only ‘show total

‘activity during a given

month.

The ‘cumulative "or

‘balance sheet--figures for

total bank deposits show an
index. figure of 148 as. of

_ November, 1976, up from 112,

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‘

&

of the previous. No-
vember... — DT
Although the - differences
are not as sharp, the
balance sheet ‘figures show

significantly higher levels

in thé past.

a the March figures— .

132 for March and 100 for
March last year—show a
higher trend than those for
the month by. month index.

“The trend line is going up
at a steeper rate,” Daly
said. “The rate of deposits
in those accounts have
increased.”

Although the increases .

are not all due to Quebec
money, a strong correlation
exists between the monthly
total amounts in American
dollars of Canadian funds

. sold:

‘Daly said this measures

all the Canadian funds.

accepted by the banks and is

made up of retail spendin
and deposits made in

Isn’t it patently

- “Donating blood is part
of the Canadian way of
life." So says Florence
Edwards, —
Blood Donor Recruitment

But isn’t that a bit of an

consi
one Canadian in 50 is a
regular blood donor?

Blood collection systems
vary around the world. .

“We Canadians enjoy a
voluntary blood
transfusion service run for
us by the Red Cross which
utilizes volunteer blood
donors. exclusively and
much free labour by Red
Cross clinic volunteers to
supplement paid technical
staff," Miss Edwards
notes. ‘

This contrasts with
Britain, for instance,
wh blood is callected by
the Government with all.
staff on the public payrall.
It also contrasts with the
United States where, until
recently, most blood has
been bought and sold for
profit by commercial blood

In many countries of
Europe and elsewhere the
Red Cross operates
volunteer blood services
like the one pioneered in
British Columbia 30 years
ago and extended across’
Canada in the following
few years.

Before 1947, Miss
Edwards recalls, “getting
a bloed transfusion was a
real hassle in Canada. ~
Relatives and friends
would have to be found to -

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Director of ff
for B.C.-Yukon Red Cross. }

exaggeration when you @
. that only about &

TERRACE CLINIC, AUG. 10.

. -There’s no substitute for

coy Se

blood - not even
peanut ail, Jimmy Carter recently became
the first U.S. President to donate blood to
the American Red Cross, and some 86 of his

pm.

staff also responded at the annual White —

replace all the blood used, .
for instance. LF.
“In some States south of.
the border even today,”
she notes, ‘‘hospital
patients must pay
enormous sums to:
commercial blood banks
for transfusion blocd.”
This blood comes from’
paid donors, many of them
om Skid Road, and it
causes five to 10 times as

much hepatitis as

volunteer blood, according
to experts in Washington.
Because of this, the U.S.
Food and; Drug
Administration has:
decided to order that the 10
million units of blood used
in transfusions and other

treatments each year be |

‘plainly Marked
‘volunteer” or “paid.
donor’”’.

House blood drive. There will be a clitiie
‘held in Terrace at the Arena Hall, banquet
_room, Wednesday, August 10, from 2-te 8

the urging ‘of Caspar

’ most U.S. groups handling
" pleod formed an American

“work towards safe blood-
through

. notes. .

About four years ago at.
Weinberger,: then.
Secretary of “Health,
Education and Welfare,
‘Blood Commission to try to

-an. all-volunteer
system - “like we Have in

wr

- "SOS - believes
- amendments.are crucial to

hydroelectric project. -

nada”, Miss Edwards

| Interpretitig'‘the news —_

Revised language’ charter

Editor’s note: This
article, dealing with the
revised ‘language bill
introduced in the Quebec
National Assembly-
Tuesday, was written for the
Canadian Press by the
editor-in-chief of Quebec Le
Soleil.

By CLAUDE BEAUCHAMP
QUEBEC (CP) - Four
days after Ontario Attorney-
General Roy McMurty went
to Montreal. to to
Quebec public opinion why
Toronto’ could not give a
French trial to a Quebec
businessman called before
Ontario courts, the Quebec
government made public its
new version of the bill for
the Charter of the French
Language in Quebec.

There is no other

- eonnection between the two

events other than a political
one. But this coincidence in
timing greatly eased the
stask of . Cultural.
Development Minister
Camille Laurin, who
announced Tuesday,
following three weeks of
study in a national assembly
committee, some 40 changes
in his original bill, none of
which changed the
fundamental _ principles
which guided the original
writing of the proposed

charter.
ignored the
princi al emand of
nglish-speaking groups in

‘French-speaking.

the area of the language of
education by continuing to ©
‘limit access to the English

ublic school system: to.
hose children whose
parents already are
established in Quebec at the
time the charter is passdd.
But he could state that
under the proposed charter
an English-speaking person
has the right to have his trial
conducted in English in
Quebec.: Only Frgnch
versions of texts of laws,
regulations and judgements
il have the force of law,

‘put the use of English is
' permitted.

“OFFICIAL

UNILINGUALISM

In a word, although it is
difficult to sum up 219 legal
clauses in one single picture.
it can be said that what the
proposed Charter of the
French Language does is
make institutions French -
government, municipalities,
public and para-public
groups, . businesses,
professional corporations,
etc. - while allowing
bilingualism, or the use of
Engiish, on an individual
level. Thus a deputy
minister and a mayor must
write each other in French.
although they may both be
English, but may talk to
each other in English
although they may hot pe
citizens may communicate
with government

organizations in English and

receive a reply in English
and receive a reply. in
English. Municipalities

which are mostly English as

well as English school
boards will be able to”

communicate with those
they deal with in both

. Janguages. ‘
The new version of the

charter will not satisfy those
who insist on official
bilingualism, nor those who
oppose putting a: ceiling on
the on aneton of the
English-language school
sector. Neither will it
revent businessés who fear
rancization from leaving
Quebec. However it likely
will alleviate .most of, the
anxieties expressed In the
260 briefs
government, all of which
were closely examined even
though only about 60 were

discussed in public
committee hearings. |
Here, very briefly, is what

the situation of French and
English will be in Quebec if
the charter is adopted in its
current form, which is very
likely even though Rene
Levesque’s government
may have in reserve.a last-
minute strategic concession
concerning admission of

Canadians from other
provinces to the English
school sector.

“OF course, to begin with,
the only official language
will be French, which

resented to the |

"in 1974.

since

LANGUAGE, OF

in an”

EDUCATION: «5
- On the most coritroversial
point, that of language of

education, the situation will.

be as follows: **”

‘All. ‘French-speaking,
future.

ersons. atid, all {
mmigratts to, Quebec,
whatever ‘their language. or
wherever they come irom,
‘will have to enrol in French

. schools. -
The English sector will

thus. be limited to children
already enrolled in the

English systems, to their

younger -- brothers .. and
sisters and, in ‘future, to

: thoze children having at

least one «parent who
received primary education

Quebec or one parent who
was living in Quebec at. the
time the charter was pagsed
and who received ‘his

elementary education in.
English anywhere. . a
rding the language of. -
‘forbid the use of English on.

Rega

edueation, there is one.
major point to remember:

the restrictions on English

exist only for primary and

secondary. schools’ financed
the government.

ne
Absolute freedom of choice:

exists at the junior college
and university levels.

Fears among some
English-speaking people of
seeing Englis

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inglish school in

_all ‘companies wil

culture

Canadian funds

“The fellow who brings
$4,000 down here to open.an |
account’. is included in this |
index, he ‘said. =.”

Canadian funds sales
reached the
246 in November, 1976, ‘up
from 148 the month before
and from 68 in November,
1975.0
EXCLUDES U.S. FUNDS

This excludes any mone:
Quebecers convert to U.S.

index figure of -

inerease in Cana

funds before spending it in
the Platishurg area.

The index: went down to
144in December, up 0 152 in

January, down again to 108 ©

in February: and sprang
back to 152'in March, The
figure in March, 1976 was 80.
it “shows:a phenomenal
dian funds
handled by: the Clinton
County batks,”’ says” a
report issued in Jankary on
the banking indicators. —

| Voice of, the readers .
Fisheries Act
changes lauded

The Rt. Hon. ‘Romeo
LeBlage

Minister of the Environment
and Fisheries
House of Commons

Ottawa, Ont. -

Dear- Mr. LeBlané °°
| « The: Save, Our Shores.
Committe in Prince Rupert -

wishes to express our whole-

: A hearted: support: for, the.
, proposed. -amendments . to .
e

eral Fisheries : Act,

embodied ‘in the new —

legislation under’ Bill C-28.."

the” development of’ a
comprehensive and truly
effectivé ’ Fisheries . Act. :
They serve. to strengthen

and clarify’ the cxisting: |
legislation, and go a long.

way towards providing.

meaningful protection for --

our coastal waters and
fisheries resource. : .
In B.C., aquati
and spawning
been
unpreceden|

and mismanagement...
The headwaters: - of

«been clear-cut logged bole

river systems have-..been

|) eae 2 Pawnee tcate

destroyed and
saltwater estuaries polluted:

these -
a taral flow.of the river and
* could: cnuse:: a’. potentially

habitats...
areas have .
subjected to”
ited © -.--" *- be ‘made Jaw as 5000 a8
environmental - disruption -

the - heart:

ludicrous to proceed

traffic, our west coast
fishery is also threatened at
con the river
stems and estuaries that

‘ provide the habitat and. .
‘ spawning | grounds for
‘juvenile fish. -

¢ ts . :
Already, the Fraser River.

has ‘become ‘a - dumping

d‘for sewage effluent,
toxic. metals, pesticides,
detergents, oils, fertilizers
and-pulp mill effluent. © -
-The- Fraser:.fishery is

’ further endangered by iC.
[McGregor

y B
ydro’s propdsed McG
aversion project: ‘This
would alter the

devastating:: assault  ‘on-

salmon stocks from the -

possible introduction of
worm parasites. -

S feels that it would. be
-with.a
$150 ‘million ‘ Salmonid
Enhancement Program

under: these circumstances.

Therefore, we submit that

" Bill-C-38 must be a priority
§

for your ministry an
possible, If one important

- mandate of your ministry is

* to. protect and manage
streams and rivers haye:.

and encroached: upon” by. .

landfill projects." =~:

The B.C. Wildlife
percent of the Fraser River.
estuary ‘‘has'.”. been

' Federation claims ‘that 70' .

destroyed”. According.to.a .

Vancouver Sun. survey,
every major river and lake:

fisheries resource, this new
legislation. must form a

-baslé for-aetion befora- the

fact. Specifically, major

- hydroelectric projects such
. as the McGr

or diversion
should be monitored closely
for" environmental impact
on fishery habitats: —

“SOS sees the. McGregor
diversion and similar
projects such as. the
proposed Revelstoke Dam
as very real.threats to our

" salmon fisher

in B.C. is now polluted or

threatened. .° b a]

Never before has . this
province been faced with

such a massive onslaught
of its:
inland ©

against the ecology
marine and .

‘waterways. ee
’ As well as the disastrqus

consequences of a major oil .

spill

so pecause the’ ‘French

charter puts-no restriction, . chart | .
* Original bill, will be. under
:the .jurisdiction of the
‘Human ‘Rights Charter
‘or film.- -.:: Which will
LANGUAGE OF BUSINESS

on popular forms of cultural

communication,”.whether It.
be .'the’ = press, ‘radi, ~

televisiori or film.- -;::

At : the “level --of; the
language

-commerce.and business, the.
charter. ° falls.. ~“into -
administrative ..and:

bureaucratic heaviness.
This is unfortunately

inevitable since the. goal of

the charter is to change.

rom. offshore tanker ..

similar
disappear gradually from,

thus seem ‘totally’
crated, so much more”

“Rick.Olding °° |

We: trust ‘that the new
amendments to the

Fisheries Act will enable.
'totakea more .

ministry

active and protectionist .

stance in preserving the
integrity . of 0.’
waterways. —. Oe

Director.
SOs...

_-eriticisms, the language

* Sof.) work, :

reality in this area. The new -

version of the charter. is

nonetheless “much more °
acceptable than the-original -

version. -
took into account the most
eneral criticism of the
fusiness world and softened

several harsher aspects
the original txt: .
Briefly, under the charter
LJ

The government ~

obligated to deal with. their .

personnel and ‘clientele in.”
peaking Mebecers support
“the. government's move in

nch, But this does not

an individual basis

’ ‘The charter also provides :
- numerous exceptions to the:

obligatory use of .French,
particularly for hea

over’ the langtt

franc hones a!
“ama: an

They decided to rely on the
of French-speaking majority

charter, in ‘gontrast to t

take precedence
age bill, «

The ‘government of
- Premier Rene Levesque a8
thus: built its nest ina -
definitive fashion, Havin

learned from: the -elector;
of the

misadventures
Jean-

overnments of

.Jacques Bertrand in 1970

and Robert Bourassa “in
1976, the Pequistes in power,
in Quebec City know that on

“thé issue ‘of ‘language

legislation it is impossible to
‘patisfy both a major
and a
hones.

even if it means totally
alienating the English-

speaking community, For
there is no doubt that ‘the’
great majority of -French-

thigarea, - «= «.
After eight years.. of
uninterrupted debate on

"language, during which five

offices, small businesses, .-

research centres and ethnic,
cultural
ideological. and religious

political, '

groupg, not to mention the:
special treatment granted ta:

. bills were presented and two
laws passed;. Quebecers in —
‘ Reetiet are. eager for. a.

niguistic charter whichis at

once viable and in the -
interests of the majority of;
the population,

the Cree and Inuit, a

\ Finally, and this also.
responds ‘to anguage .

eo

ity of,

ee