PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Thursday, January 5, 1976

a rs ee rs

EDITORIAL .

~» dn Terrace

= Leadership needed

“* Tt might be interesting to find out how many
‘“ people in Terrace watched the one hour s

«On Channel 3-6 in which Terrace’s An-
niversary was reviewed.
& Perhaps it was “old news” to Terrace

‘‘s residents — certainly there was little discussion
*3 before and after the program; I just chanced to
,, Hear about it a few minutes before the TV
;, program came on.

To a newcomer to Terrace, the idea was an
si exciting one; one wonders how many other small
: communities would have a full hour devoted to a
‘wrap-up of their past 50 years history.

* But now the celebrations are over, and
;, Terrace is caught in the chill grip of a windy

~-freezing Winter — one might be forgiven for .

siasking what has been accomplished by the
:oAnniversary — other than having a year's
“ celebrations — and what new. course has been
“charted for our community.
_.. The much needed Visitors’ Bureau (as tourist
,,beureaus are now euphemistcally referred to )
zewill undoubtedly prove a worthwhile un-
ycdertaking; the sports and arts facilities —
especially the R.E.M. Lee Theatre — are
>-providing a core of recreation and entertainment
‘that should enable Terrace citizens to find fun
“and games at home rather than having to drive
far afield for therm. But, in another sense — no
community will usually progress to any wor-
tnwhile extent on a diet of “bread and circuses”
lone.

Unemplyment is a very serious problem in
Terrace. It is also one that gets. the least
discussion and perhaps is getting the least at-
tention.

A number of men and women have told us
during the past few weeks that unemployment is
the Number One problem in Terrace — but no
one will admit it.

There are women we know of who make the
rounds every day looking for work. One woman
told us, today she had exhausted every abenue
job hunting, without success. ‘Usually the
restaurants and hotels have in for
waitresses — but there aren’t even waitress jobs
going any more,” She recited a long list of

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businesses she had contacted in her hunt for ‘MALONE
work, without success, She was one of the “On :_

Call” persons “laid off’ by Skeenaview in early
December. Though she had applied immediately
for UIC, after nearly a month she said she was
still being told she would have to wait ‘‘two or
three more weeks” before she got her first UIC
cheque. She is a single parent with small
dependent children.

We spoke with a father of two, who. is also
looking hard for a rough-<Carpentering, labouring
cr semi-skilled work. He can run diesel
generators, drive some heavy equipment, and
turn his hand to just about anything. He is
currently making the rounds with firewood for
sale on his truck. The truck is old and the repairs
consume most of the money made from the sale
of the wood.

To the “instant expert” what is needed in
Terrace would appear te be an over-all or-.
“Master” Plan. There have probably . been
studies galore don on Terrace and its “poten-
tial”. There are probably all sorts of plans for
Terrace. Butis there one plan, that everyene can
get behind and push for, that will lead Terrace
out of the wilderness of uncertaintainty and
hesitation? ;

And what about leadership?

Every community, if it is to succeed, must be
well, wisely and strongly led. Not just by men
whose main concern is to line their own pockets
first, and think of the public good second. '

Perhaps there are good leaders in Terrace —
or A good leader. So far we have yet to meet him-
her or them. Without good leadership, a com-
munity is akin to blind leading the blind.

Where are our leaders? The Chamber of
Commerce? The Churches? The Council? The
Regional District? The Services Clubs? Do we
have leaders among our schools and college?

What are they saying? What are they doing?

If the leaders of our community fail to lead,
there is danger the many dissatisfied, the
unemployed, the poor will try to lead and make
themselves heard — and the process could be a
shattering and costly one.

It is time for “Terrace” — if it has a plan
forthe future, to make that plan known; and for
our leaders to prove they can lead, Otherwise,
our 50th Anniversary could well have been a
hollow mockery; a celebration of pa:
achievements by those who prefer to live in the
past — rather than challenge the future.

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.. Pitt
“stro ublic
reformed the economy

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Reprinted from the
Toronto Globe and Mail
Nov. 16, 1967 ‘

BY RICHARD §.

Each week in Ottawa
arges are
made of waste, scandal
and coverups, the con-
viction grows that our
nation despite all its
advantages of wealth and
social advancement has.

lost direotion. and ds sick. ;

with ‘an ancient

throughout history have
suffered from 2 similar
sickness.

Britain, as it has been
many times before and
since in its history, was
tottering ‘on the edge of a
precipice back in 1782. It
was at what seemed its
lowest ebb, beset with
accumulating

calamaties. Its armies

defeated in the field. Its Th

ple torn by social

ords, sinking in debt, of

inflation and taxation. -
Therewasa inquiry
amentary
Ito the lavish pensions
granted - Government
supporters. “There was
something very rotten
with the state and it had
un with the
Prappeals “wy @

y Govern-
ment leaders for national
unity, Greater confidence
end ali 8 peole

at; the people
knew. the Government
itself was ridden with
intrigue and tainted with
corruption, bribery,
patronage and abuse of
public office.

TheGovernment

pouns member of
arliament was called
‘upon to form a new
overnment. This offer

rejected as he realized
“the fruit wag not ripe”.
ahough nok oe and

r; public of-
ficers were still too
selfish and indifferent to
respond, They were not
sufficiently araused or
angry to answer any c

self-sacrifice in the
national interest.
Another weak ad-
ministration was formed
‘and the rot continued for
a further year til] Lord
Shelburne's Government
was forced to resiga. it
was then, when the frult
was ripe, that Wiliam
office and with
support,.

wrified Parliament an
or 20 years on gave

Britain one of -the most be

oriows chapters of its
story.

command public respect.

all having

' fer common action or

act

“ Girona BURIAL. .

yo . What this five-cent cigar needs is a good country. ”
The time is ripe for Canada
to take a good look at itself

The lesson: a nation
cannot be called to
greatness by 8 govern-
ment which cannot

In Ottawa today our
Government i or
misreads the lessons of
history. Cabinet mem-
bers call for national

purpose
jay-to-day
litical game is played
As new cracks a
the substance things
and more disclosures are
made in the nature of
things strategies ‘are
improvised for the single
purpose of holding onto
office and power.

Are Canadians ready to
throw off their com-
placency and in-

difference and inaist upon three

change? Are they ready
to ay that the time has

passed for shrugging and fri
ny

shoulders and as

“what can Ido about it”

etimeis certainly ri

for a proper examination
our ills

The diagnosis of
Canada’s . si does
not require prolonged
consultations or
reference to complex
charts. The reasons for
-our majady can be stated
very clearly and very
briefly.

For the past few years
we have

‘like
disease. We have hoped
that our ailment would
go away by itself if It
could be hidden or
covered up. The truth is,
it can only be cured when

wh
we expose it, recognize it ©

eal avith it, Now,

‘before mite damage is
collapsed and a brilliant don v

a.
We are still in the grip
of serious inflation: «
We spend recklessly
and borrow mindlessly
commnultting our chilren to
a debt for years to come.
We price ourselves out
of world markets and pa
the Lee of wit :
unemployment, again a
the expense of our youth.
We uy the dream of
é highest wa:
rates in the world .
printing more dollars
uing more bonds an

borrowing more money

abroad. ©
We crowd to our air-
rts co
ual
Cant - ; iW. or

+ piling up a
. tourist deficit of more

than ‘a billion dollars and
promising to double it
next time around.

We accept a’ budget
deficit this year that will
reater than our entire
budget was less than 10
years ago.

- sexual

year history? .
. yonder is that. ‘other

ed to hide both *
the symtoms and the.
sickness a social reali

eographical
a P

aining of hard .

We countenance rates
of crime, drug addiction,
child abuse, violence and
ersion that

; dais in
“pic affairs that make
dlines every week. -..

In these circumstances
who sould be. surprised
that our country is facin
its most severe teat
national unity in its aie

rovinces , PR: as
ce
federation. :

"How has this national

tragedy ‘been: -allowed
when we are blessed with
one of the largest and
richest land masses in the
world, with enormous

resources in fresh water, -

minerals, forests, and
arable © land, th
unassailed shore lines on
Pewary“on ths south
on | s0u

protected by a powerful

neighbor?
The picture is bleak but

ow place in: it is not.
leaders tell us that

our problems are largely
due to general _ world
conditions and there is
really not much we can
do about that as'we can’t
he expected to have the
Temedy ourselves.

False! There is.a° great
deal we can-do about our
future and our fate if our
leaders have the cotirage
tolead. Canada can meet
the challenge if wé face

The reality. 1s . that
Canada has experienced

4m unprecedented =.

r ever since the

cond World WEar, with
ever increasing wages, to
luce one of the
hest living standards
in the world. Not content
with this, a series of weak
govenrments in defiance

- ofl economic sense has
“allowed the nation to go

off on a A d
spree. We have
rat | Canada | in hock with
paper money and endless

t schemes.
The different levels of

Canadian society and
divisions of race, culture,
language ‘anada have
never been in total
(which jis un-
deratandable for
reasons
one). But there has
always been some degree
of national correspon-
dence east and west sad
between . governments,
business, labor, the press
and. urban and rural
communities, -

In these troubled years
this correspondence: has
broken down and
sometimes it seems it has

vanished,

The cement of national
understanding, cor
fidence and "

a .
ee eople no | er have.

borliness has crumbled.

Patroitism seems ob-
solete, a curious relic of a
proud, thrifty, more
vigorous and happier

the feeling of active
participation, or com-
munication with
government. They have
simply watched with
faligs of helplessness
crowing. purer as a
Browlng. ,. pursaucracy.
Brae aud Siore eon

TW

The, Government of
Pi Trudeau carri

es
. them steadily along the

road of more inflation,
more Government
spending, more livi
mmere ‘experimentati
more entation
with liberal-socialism.
All the while the so-called
“servants ‘of the public’’.
use their power to
selfishly insmé
themselves from their
own follies with
per: and indexed
pensions. Public apathy
measured by the la
of public er at this
overnmental attitude of
‘I'm aboard Jack, pull up
the ladder.”

Canadians may w
opposed to these cheap-
ack tricks but’ we no
longer react or work
together as a force to halt
the madness or bring our
Government to account,
In this, the. tion
arties in Parliament

ve been wanting an

blame. Too often ap-
position members have
content to sit. back,
let the press and the
broadcasters dig cut the
unpleasant facts, only
in when to do so
seamed nopular.

The opposition has
consistently failed to
make a convincing
national impact on {ts
own. The measure of its
productivity too often has

dependent on Mr.
Trudeau's mistakes. In
the past, in the face of
droughts, depressions’

‘0 , ressions,
fo and auch,
Canadians have
responded collectively to
meet whatever challenge
and have been prepared

make peraon
sacrifice in the national
(whatever is the
national) and their own

Government, despite its
exploding bureaucracy
and massive public
relations structure, has
been unable to mobilize
any serious moral force
in support of its policies
whether for price an
wage restraints, national
unity or whatever. .The
public recognizes this

releases and TV per-
Oct iyprocisy.
What has made our
country grow soft, lose its

re, purpose a -
res F “Why has the
nation grown selfish
materialistic and full of
self-doubt? Our
Govenrment need not
look far for the reasons.
- Almost since its in-
ception the Trudeau
Government has been
disclosures of

nation’s confidence and

respect. The sordid soa

opera has gone through
e Skyshop affair,

Ouellet and Drury with
judicial interference,
Candu reactor kickbacks
and bribes, Otte Lang and
air travel, illegal
wiretaps,
cartei, and
arson charges against the
police, suggestions of
minis terference
in such regulatory bodies
as the CRTC, the Tran-
Commission and
others,
Consider all this. Why
then should Ottawa
wonder as it preaches

burglar

that its appeals for unity,
restraint and confidence
fall on deaf ears? How
can people rally to a
Govenrment which is
fearful of telling the

: Letters

Terrace Herald
Edi e

liter;

Mrs, Agnes Sutton of
spring bought eliicks, fed
Ep c ,
and fF. them to be
la hens, mind you,

n't the first time
she’s done this, she’s
been raising chickens for
her own use for year. On
Nov. ilth 1977 whe went
to iox to attend a

athering, and while Clima

ere, someone © who
probably Imew she was
going to be away for that
one day, had the audacity:

to go and steal 13
chickensifrom her. Had it both

been H beg animal, there
woul ns of s e
hut there was no sige of

Mrs. Sutton has always
cared for animals. And
sometimes takes . in
strays because she does
not want to see them
suffer. oe loves, life.
Peing ears of age
she'd like ‘oe enjoy the
rest of her life and home
quietly in Cedarvale,

If this was someone's
idea af a eke, Pe they

leep well at night. Some

le should show a
ttle respect.
.G. Dalen

the uranium .

B <
The vast majority of against public apathy, mr

London
Editorial

- LONDON (Reuter) —

“When a a
e minister can talk

of ‘using the sword’
against a secessionist

- challenge in Quebec,

even hypothetically
there can only be concern-
for the (eat logy: thal
tional paychoiog a
cements. y a Federal
union,” the Times said.
“Canada is passing
through a frustrating
time in many respects.
Unemployment is high,
business confidence is
low,, the balance of
payments is unfavorable,
social tensions increase
.. but every vexation is
now compounded
made worse hy the
separatist ideology and
nda 0 the
esque government.
“What (Quebec
Premier Rene} Levesque
hopes is that he can make

‘federation more in-

tolerable than .

alternatives both to
Quebeckers and the
English-speaking >

Canadm,” the newspaper

said.

“But there is no in-
dication that Mri
Levesque is anywhere
near getting a statement
that the vast majority
want to go it alone
without counting costs or
consequences,’ th
Times said,

Judge's ©
statement

protested — .

The Alliance for Life,
national co-ordinating

tion for the pro-
life groups in Canada,
written to Ontario's

Attorney-General
McMurty, requesting a

ack Climans,
“abortion was the best
thing possible’’ for a
t eighteen-year-
old woman who had
pleaded guilty to in-
nticide.

Judge Climans iz also

alleged to have stated
that it is “unfortunate”

power to order an

protects unborn children
against deaty. by abortion
utic

except when, in the
opinion of a Thera

Abortion Committee,
continuation of the

Since

in this case, it would be
a that a iadge

ans has counselled,
and regretted that ‘he
could not compel, an act
contrary to the alwa of
Canada :

The Alliance for Life
considers it. intolerable
that-a woman already
affected by t and
distress should be sub-

jected
provincial court’ judge to
seek the death of n ee
child, by abortion, and-is
deeply concerned that
this not be allowed to
. pren again. -
e lance further
maintains that Judge
limans' probation or-
der, which states that the
Children’s Aid Society is
to take custody of the
chhild at birth, provides
sufficient protection for

His recommendation for
, ©F e

a a ;
undermines the very

protection he has

provided.
Since the law and the
courts perform an

inherent educational role
in forming social ethics,

the Alliance for Life

believes that Judge
Climans' recom-

mendation of an abortion
in this cage inex-

cusable. It has therefore.
asked that his remarks be
investigated and that, If
the report of his remarks
is correct, that ha be
removed from the Bench.

public inquiry intp -the .
d -re Shabby behavior which ‘statement allergy
i and -re ae ay . j Bes A
their, lives and Tearie ave. squandered the

“there ia no
evidence of such danger |

to ure from a

mother and child.

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