Page 4, The Heraki, Tuesday, October 24, 1978

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LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

Peuple lalk about the right
lo strike, totally disregar-
ding the rights of uthers. In
Russia and China a strike
would be an exonomie crime,
requiring death penalty,

We workers have a
demucratic right lo work, A
Right to Wurk Law should be
initiated which will protect
-us workers frum Union
tyranny. I am not against

‘Unions, they are a must to
protect _ UB from
Managemenl| tyranny, but
- they should nut becume a
political Cummuaistic
power block, ready to
overthruw the Guvernment
chusen by the people.

I am against revwlution
and anarchy in any form,

Dear Sir:

The Order of the Rvyal
Purple in Terrace exlends a
sincere. thank. you to the
peuple and businesses of
Terrace and district for
helping us to reach our ob-
jective of $4,000 in the recent
Canadian Arthritis and
Rheumatism Society
campaign.

C.A.K.S. sends an oc-
cupational van to Terrace
twice a year. Upon referral
fram their doclor, arthritic
patienls can receive
treatment by a well qualified
physiotherapist on a regular

Dear Sirs:

Thank you for the publicity
you provided fur Tamahnous
Theatre's pruduction of
“Liquid Gold" which we
Sponsored.

Capitalism, Fascism and
Communism are all wrong
and have all brought disaster
tu the nations, I du believe
in true freedum and
demucracy. Thal is why I

vbey my Government and’

went back tv work in the
Terrace Post Office.

We cannut take the law in
vur uwn hands, Rumuans 13,
in my Bible, is clear un that.

Su far only une persun
phoned me up and called me
“seab". She hung up and I
did nut have time to tell her
“Jesus loves you and so do
I". That there may be peace
un earth.

Bill Homburg

basis, and can also be
referred to the eccupational
therapist and
rheumatologist whu visit
Terrace with the van.
Thanks to the Terrace
Herald, the. News Ad-
verilser, and CFTK Radiu
and TV fur their coverage
and a special thanks (to the
many canvassers whe gave
sv much of their time and
efforis to this worthy cause.
Yours sincerely,
cam Joyce Martel
(Campaign Chairman)
m Edna Fisher
(Secretary 0.0.R.P.)

Because of your efforls,
the venture was a success!
Yours very truly

Joan Spencer

Secretary

Terrace & Dist. Arts Council

BAKER'S BATTER

BY NIXON BAKER

Huxley predicted it in Brave New World —
first double diglt inflation co-existing with high
unemployment, followed by disregard for the
rule of law, followed by a break-down in law and
order, followed by chaos and thence by dic-

tatorship,

The American coal miners set an example

recently when they flatly refused to go back, to -.
work as directed by President Carter. Canada’s.

postal workers are following thelr example.
“We are not worrled about punishment,’’ the

headlines read.

The rationale seems to be that If a law Is abad

law; a person or a group of persons Is allowed to

flaunt the taw.

Terrific! (in that word's classic sense, that Is
terrifying). How many teenagers out there
believe the ‘aws pertaining to certain drugs

(soft) are “‘bad laws’.
been set for you.

The example has now

Whether or not a member of a democratic
Slate agrees with a particular iaw is surely

irrelevant.

The principle of law must take precedent and
in our country parllament reigns supreme. The
bili has been passed and is now the law of the
land. If one group Is entitled to break this law
with impunity, then it follows that any tine
assessed against anyone else for breaking
another law is nothing short of malicious
Persecution. This argument may sound specious
on the surface but the principle is sound, and all
the circumlocution about who negotiated with
whom In good faith is to beg the main question,

Having taught law to young people over the
past ten years | know the questions which the

young people will ask.

“If they can get away with It, why can’t we?
The answer my friend, Is that no politician has
the Intestinal fortitude to enforce the law.
Perhaps a good case could be made for charging
these politicians with conspiracy to obstruct

justice.

Under our system of government we have
available to us the means of changing law — by
electing persons commited to a change in the

law.

This system might take a little longer but It
works. If It doesn’t, then why not say so right
naw, chuck the whole damn governmental
system and start over again.

ACRAAR

B1P7G Univertal Press Syndicate

“I'm well aware you're only 28 years old, That's
why I'm telling you to take better care
of yourself.”

Gerivation. Let .
Dominion Educaté

“Assassins, an ‘
which

assassination,

been derived.....'’

Derivations

+ gl?
The word ‘assassin’ has an interesting

quote from The

atic order or society

in the tw&fth century became
powerful in Persia¥§ind Asia Minor and
terrorized the cou
murder of all whd' were opposed to the
society. Upon a select band fel! the work of
to which they were
stimulated by the intoxicating influence af
hashish. From the epithet ‘hashishim’
(hampeaters}, which was applied to the
order, the European word ‘assassin’ has

Ky by the systematic

Hashish, as you know, Is now known as
‘hash’, or cannabis, or marijuana, or ‘pot’,
which are not all atike but similar in

THOMAS ATRILL THINKS:

fascinating

chemical makeup and,° presumably, In

action,

It seems to me that the violent aspect of
drug-taking has been suppressed, perhaps
deliberately, by the so-called media. If a
crime can be blamed on guns or alcohol,
this fact is well publicized, But drug- .
induced crimes are played down, usually
explained on psycological grounds:Why? -
Who is profitting from the lucrative drug

traffic?

Perhaps you too, have wondered about all
those senseless killings and fits of violence,
in the news. Could hemp-related drugs be a

factor?

A few years ago, my

sister, three

children, her husband and a neighbour were
brutally murdered by a drug-crazed young

man.

WASHINGTON (CP) —
Women are running for
office in ever larger
numbers in the U.S., but
their chances of winning
election to Congress in the
Nov. 7 balloting are still
slim.

In the Senate, it ap-
pears that the easiest way
for a woman to hold office
is through widowhood—a
sorry situation for women
who want to be elected on
their merits.

Both women senators in
the 95th Congress, which
ended during the
weekend, took over their
husbands’ seats when the
men died in office.

Neither will be back in
the 96th Congress, which
starts next year, Min-
nesota Democrat Muriel
Humphrey, widow of for-
mer vice-president
Hubert Humphrey, has
resigned while Alabama
Democrat Maryon Allen,
widow of former senator
James Allen, was

BUT HOW MANY WIN

defeated in the primary.

Two women have son
Senate primary
nominations in Tennessee
and Kansas, but they face
uphill fights and the odds
now are that the next
Senate will be all mais.

Women fare slightly
better in the House of
Representatives, where
they held about four per
cent of the 435 seats in the
95th Congress. In Canada,
women hold about 3.5 per
cent of seats in
Parliament.

Fifteen of the 18 women
representatives are
seeking re-election in
November, but three face
exiremely tough
challenges frum men
opponents.

The three women
representatives. who have

hot sought reelection will ~

be replaced by men, And
for the‘'37 other women
trying lo take over seats
now held by men, the
prospects are puor.

Analysts predict that
only about six are likely
to win their take-over
bids.

The conspicuuus lack of

women in high offices -

demonstrates the fact
that women candidales
suffer a number of
disadvantages.

Perhaps lhe must
conspicuous is that
gender becomes an elec-
tion issue. Polls show that
10 per cent of voters say

- they would not vote for a
woman under any cir-
cumstances.

‘Many. women
politicians suspect that
prejudice against their
sex is much higher,
although ~
unacknowledged,

Women candidates also
tend to suffer from money
problems. Their contacts
with the network of
businesses-connected
Campaign donors are
generally poor — and
surveys have shown

More women running now

many lack funds for
polling or other
professional campaign
services,

But women are making
Zains in state and local
offices.

Women will likely win
about 10 per cent of state
legislature seats to be
contested next month, the
highest number ever, and
they are expected to win a
slightly higher proportion
of local seats,

Increased participation
in politics by women is
shuwn by the 20 per cent
rise in the number of
women nominated for
Slate races since 1974.

The gains are slow in
coming, however, and
even the mus! oprtimistic
suppurters of women
candidates agree that it
will be along time before
women cume anywhere
close to winning a number
of seats approximating
their proportion of the
general population,

TORONTO (CP) —
Hannon Bel! is a young actor
whv has appeared on stage in
New York and at Toronto's
Royal Alexandra Theatre,
but on any given day you
may find him in a warehouse
slogging barrels «af herring
for $3 an hour,

Bell belungs to a growing

an economist wilh

that the

1976.

During thal time,

the
Universily of Weslern On-
tarie in Lundon, Ont., shows
number oof
Canadians with temporary
jobs increased tu 115,000
frum 68,000 bet ween 1971 and

the
nunber uf temporary em-

AS JOBS DECREASE

Crockford says temporary
work is always ayailable tv

him.

Canada Manpuwer has an
office tu deal wilh temporary
jobs but sume employers say
they would rather hire
thruugh private agencies,

“We don't hire wur tem:
peurary staff from Manpower

at all,” a Toronto insurance

execulive says.

“The private companies
very
farginal types whu are
boking for [rivulity, but they
are better than the unes wht
come frum Manpuwer—I
unskilled,

ften have io deal wit

find = them

Soviet veteran
still honored

MOSCOW (AP) —
Anastas Mikuyan, former
Suviel president and the
firgi of the uld Bolsheviks
tu retire with honor, is
dead at age 82, il was an-
nrunced Sunday,

The Swviet Communist...

parly and government
announced the death of
the durable Kremlin

veteran “with deep
sorrow.” The news
agency Tass said he died
Saturday after a
prolonged illness.

The brief . an-
nouwicement gave nu

location vf his death or
other circumstances.

A = duur-lovking Ar-
menian with a cval-black
muustache, Mikeyan in a
40-year career survived
in goud graces the purges
of diclatur Jusef Stalin
jmb thd fall of Premier
Nikita Khrushchev.

After His retirement
from the presidency in
1%5 al the age of 70,
Mikuyan continued,.to ap-
pear uccasionally in
public with other Suviet
leaders. He managed tv,
stay in the first rank of
the Kremlin hierarchy
largely because he never
tried tv take uver as lup

man,

As his health declined
in recent years, Mikuyan’
was seen less and less In
public. Even as rumors of
his death circulated
before the Tass an-
nouncement, Suyiet  uf-
ficials said they did nvt
know whether he was
dead ur alive,

Mikvyan was one uf the
must famillar Svviet
afficials to the uutside
world during the Stalin
and Khrushchev years,

. when he acted as Irade
- emissary,

internalional
cuncilialur and Kremlin
(ruuble-shouter. Urbane
and wiity, he seemed
more acceptable in the
West than many of his
Muscuw colleagues.

Throughout his career
Mikvyan seemed = to
pusses an uncanny ability
1 back the right man at
the right time. Early in
the Bulshevik movement
he backed Stalin against
Leon Trotsky. He then
backed Khrushchev in a
su-called “antiparty'™
pewer play in 1957 and
was at the side of the
“cullective” challengers
when Khrushchev was
furced tu step duwn in
1964.
Born Nov. 25, 1895, the
son ouf a carpenter,
Mikvyan, like Stalin,
studied fur the Orthudux
priesthued befure joining
the Bolshevik party at the
age «af 20. When the
revolution came (wo
years later he was
already a top Communist
party member in the
Caspian seaport city of
Baku.

When the Baku cum-
mune cullapsed in 1918,
Mikoyan was turned over
tu British forces and the
counter-revolutionary
While Guards, who
sentenced him tv be shat
along wilh 25 other Baku
cummissars. He was the
unly une (0 escape exe-
culiun, suppusedly
because hig name was
mislakenly left wif che
execution list. -

Released frum jail flve
months later he travelled
10 Muscuw and met the
three jeaders of ithe
revulution: = Viadimir
Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin,

In 1935, Mikvyan
became a full member of

the Politbura and
remained a member until
his retirement.

While heavy industry
was being stressed during
the Stalin years, Mikeyan

Ceuncentrated on the

“growth of agriculture and

- hight industries. He was
credited with bringing ice
cream— now a favorile
ireal—to the Suviet Union
after one of his many
visits to the United States
in the 1930s,

Mikvyan negutiated the
wade (reaty with Ger-
many in 1939 (hat led tu
the short-lived Stalin-
Hitler nun-aggression
pact. He became a deputy
premier in 1937 and held
the title until 1955, when
he was made first deputy
premier under Khrush-
chev.

He hada close personal
relatiunship with Khrush-
chev, and al the Soviet
party Congress of 1956 he
made the firs! major al-
tack un Stalin, opening
the dour for Khrushchev's
famuus secret speech
denvunecing the lale dic-
tatur's irun rule.

Mikoyan was elected
president of the Supreme
Suviet, the national
parliament, in July, 1964,
making him the numinal
head of state. Three
menths later his buss,
Khrushchev, was
oustead, and althuugh
Mikoyan did nut work for
his duwnfall he voted with
the majority,

It was Mikoyan the
mediator whe escurted
his ld friend back to
Muscow frum the Black
Sea resurt where Khrush-
chev was vacationing
when he heard the news of
his ouster,

Although the new ruling
iriumvirale vf Leunid
Brezhnev, Alexei Kusygin
and Nikolai Pudgorny
shuwed respect for the
aging veleran, Mikuyan
slepped down. as
president less than two
years later, in December,
1965, citing ill health.

Litile is knuwn about
his persunal life, He had
five suns, one uf whom
was reported killed

during the Second World
War. His wile, i Aschep,
died in the early 1960s.

In 1957 Mikuyan told a
Western writer he had
contemplated suicide
during the Stalin purge
years of the 1930s and that
he was pusitive he “was
about to be executed"
shortly before Stalin's
death.

Enver Hoxha, the hard-
line Communist buss of
Albania, has insisted thal
buth = Mikvyan = and
Khrushchev admilted to
him they plotted to kill
Stalin.

Mikvyan's death leaves
only Vyacheslav Mulotoy,
38, and Lazar
Kaganovich, 84, still alive
of the uld Bolsheviks who
served Stalin.

Molotuy, the last of
thuse whu worked closely
with Lenin, retired in 1961
ty live out his days in
ublivion after being
branded an accumplice in
Stalin's crimes.

Kaganvvich, known
under Sialin as the tough
“ron Commissar,” was
vusted from the Politbura
in 1957, accused of being a
member of the “‘antiparly
group.” He was believed
tu have been sent to run a
cement factury in the
Ural Mountains and has
not been heard from
since.

on ne et eh ne erie
a ee

unlearning
compromising.”

ployment agencies increased
tu nearly 500 frum 200,

Empluyment agency
spokesmen say they have
more job orders than they
can fill.

communily of temporary
laburers and js one of more
than 100,000 Canadians who
make a tiving from jubs that
may last nv lunger than one
or two days.

Employment agencies say
the number of Canadians
like Bell who held temporary
jobs is increasing as per-

Torontu says he is unhappy
with jubs he has ublained
recently thruugh a private

manent jubs become sear- agency.

cer. “Assembly line work is the
“Whenever there are ecu- pis," he says.

numic problems, = our “You feel like a machine.

business flourishes,” says
Verna Primaiera of Peggy
Dean and Assuciales, a

But you get te iry so many
jubs you see the anes you
dan’t want ta da, The thing I

femporary = employment tike about it is I'll work for
agency in Toronto, three days and E have a two-
Asludy by Lawrence Frie. day holiday.”

Bul Tim Crockford, 20, uf -

Temporary workers are on the inc

and

The federal goverament

uses private firms as well as
Manpower tv hire temporary
employees, says Nurman
Gauthreau of the public
service cummissiun.

“We went through Man-

power and we were only

rease

gelting a certain amount of
peuple, a we were
Public an
private) agencies,” he sald.
Manpower spokesman Run
Bull says Manpuwer cannut
i against ap.
plicants and that hamperg its
competitiveness with Brivale

qualified
using buth

discriminate

Agencies.

Battered wives, no alternatives

WINDSOR, Ont. (CP) —
The executive director of a°
house of refuge for abused "It becomes for moat a
wives and theirchildrensaya matter of circumstance
one of the biggest myths without alternative,” she
around is that sadista and sald.
masochists find each other “You have to understand
and that battered wives take that for some women the
some pleasure in their thought of making It on their
situation. own is worse than the

Donna Miller of Hiatus thought of a beating.

House in Witidsor said inan = At least with a beating a
Interview there are reasons woman lives within a known
why women slay in a situation. She has learned
situation where they are what toe expect. And by the

beaten regularly by their
husbands.

battered
publicize thelr plight or
complain to the authorities
because of fear of increased
physical abuse and social
8

time she thinks of leaving,
her self-image is pretty low.
She doesn’t have someone
telling her she’s OK and she
ean make it."

Ms. Miller sald most

wives don’t

“Ws a pattern you see

very often caused by the self-
image problem," she sald.

“There is a lack of asser-

tiveness,'*

Ma. Milter Said many
strength

@0 through with a court cue

“The husband tells the
wife she hasn't a leg to stand
on; that she can't go to court
and get custody of her
children or demand he

women lack

support them.

“He threatens her and
believes hire when in facta
- Can go to court, demand

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