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At the risk of incurring the wrath of the police,
officials at ICBC and the others who support,
without reservation, the compulsory seat belt
legislation passed in the provincial legislature
Wednesday, it should be stated that the concept
raises interesting questions.

All arguments in favor of making the use of seat
belts compulsory seem to be addressed, not to the
legal but to the safety aspect.

Asked to justify the concept of a law which would
fine a man for driving alone in his own car with his
seat belt undone, proponents invariably quote
statistics which show, incontrovertibly, that seat
belts reduce injury and fatality on the roads.

It’s true, but it’s not the point.

Supporters of the law will go on to point out that
injuries and death claims resulting from
automobile accidents are costing the government
and therefore the tax payer million of dollars.

The obvious implication of this argument is that
we, the tax payers will somehow realize a saving of
money when the law comes into effect. That is
profoundly unlikely.

Furthermore, if one extends the argument to its
logical extreme, what’s to stop the government
from making it illegal to smoke, overeat or indulge
in laziness on the grounds that they will lead to ill-
health and perhaps death which again cost millions
of dollars in health and life insurance?

* If the government can force you by threat of
4 punishment to protect yourself in your car, why

should it not inspect your home from time to time to
make sure your carpets aré not loose and your front
steps clear of ice? After all, household accidents
result in tremendous costs as well.

There is no question that seat belts reduce
injuries and fatalities from automobile crashes.
There is no question that it is sensible to wear them
for these reasons, but the passing of a law, which
makes it illegal not to wear them, has a disturbing
ring to it.

The move to make seat belts compulsory did not,
of course, start in this province. It started in other
areas where it was not government, but private
insurance companies who were complaining about
the cost of accident claims.

Private insurance companies are known for their
considerable influence and profits.

Could it be they have put one over on us?

Personalities

If absolute political dogmas did not exist, if
Trudeau and Levesque and their repective teams
did not have old accounts to settle, if all these
people could for a moment put aside their will to
come out on top no matter what, a ynique thing
could happen.

Everyone agrees that the economic crisis this
country is facing is largely a result of a redefinition
of the social and economic roles citizens and
organized groups must play. The industrialist can
no longer content himself with profit-making at the
expense of workers and irreplaceable natural
resources.

Unions can no longer harass their employers for
the simple pleasure of snatching a portion of the
profits the employers haven't managed to hide.
The government can no longer content itself with
watching these two slug it out while patching up the
cracks, because it is itself an employer - and a
large one at that.

The post-controls period involves a strong test for
the Canadian people. If the wage and price controls
are successful in nothing more than removing the
psychological causes of inflation, fear of higher
prices in future and rising expectations from a

ited economy, then a ce amount of freedom
must be restored to the economy. Not the same
freedom which, unbridled, would spark uncertainty
again, but rather a freedom that would have the
form of shared responsibility.

On the part of the federal government, there.is a
desire to see unions, management, consumer,
governments, and all other influential groups sit
down at the same table to get the wheels of the
economy rolling again.

Is it a Utopian idea? Perhaps, but necessity
becomes law when the laws themselves no longer
form the basis for a consensus. ;

These political rivals will soon have to get it into
their heads that they simply will find no more
supporters if they don’t temporarily shove aside
their aspirations. For no matter how legitimate
their goals are, they can only take second place
when it becomes a matter of getting a derailetl
society back onto the tracks.

~~ Alcohol co

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Dear Sir:

Tam concerned about the
reporting of my alcohol
reading it appears in the
lea article by Joanne
Ames, “Skeena leads in
drinking deaths,” published
in your paper June 14, 1977.

The conclusions drawn in
the exploratory study are
only tentative. I feel that
your article has misplaced
the emphasis of the report in
several instances - mainly
by taking quotations out of

context and. attributin
the author statements which
were in fact only the
personal onpinions of some
of the many people who
were interviewed. .

In particular, I myself do
not fee] that I have, enough
data to state at the present
time that the drinking
problem is greater in any
particular ethnic groups.

Also, in the study there
was no conclusive evidence
whether the consumption
rate of aleohol was greater

Voice of the readers

nclusions only te

in this regional district than
elsewhere in the province as
suggested in your limited
reporting of the
consumption statistics. The
consumption figures which
you have reported show
percentage increase in per
capita sales which in actual
factare below the provincial
average,

Any reportin of
consumption within a
regional district such as the
Kitimat-Stikine Regional
District is inconclusive

without an accurate figure
of population _ size.

Economic and other
conditions within the district

since the 1971 census have.

not allowed for ‘an accurate
population figure to be
developed so that yearly and
regional comparison is
difficult.

In an explorator
epidemiological study suc
as I have conducted I feel
that it is important to
caution readers that a true
picture can only be obtained

after monitoring the
problem over a number of

7A tnajor P

major of
study was to pein an initial
understanding of the
problem and from this point
fo examine possible
measures which could be
used in the ongoing

- assessment of the problems

and in programme
evaluation.

The time which Ms. Ames
has evote 0
preparation of the article is

ose of the -

the .

ntative ~

indicative of the positive
concern which has been
expressed to me by many
individuals, and = is
appreciated. .

I recognize the difficulti
in summarizing a study of
the dimensions of this one,
and thank you for the
opportunity to clarify what I
feel are unsubstantiated
assertions. mS

Sincerely, |

T. Myers

Modular home plant needed for Terrace

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strongly ‘oppose Council's collective egos have been over, a lot of good can result the first to cry about the short ted Council ind

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disinterested observer, but secondary industry it can an irregular fashion, but if act magnanimously and shoots him down because comm Reeling o
long time resident of get and the creation of Councilwouldfacefactsand unanimously and push this they disapprove . oft his your tly .
Terrace, and therefore only regular jobs. For a Council realize that no harm has project through as quickly tactics. _ (Perhaps these Te Meks .
anxious for the welfare of ‘to. prevent this from been done and when this as possilbe. same tactics are the regult =e

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TOHONTO (CP)
Serving as jurors at the
longest ‘rial in Canadian
his' ty cost four Toronto
men their jobs. Other jurors
lost their vacations, their
health and some, their
fnhibitions,

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FAMILY LIFE ALSO SUFFERS

Four jobs lost by jury duty

They were involved in the
Barry’s Bay
methamphetamine
(commonly known
speed) ~traffickin
conspiracy trial that starte
May4, 1976, and ended with
a verdict May24, 1977. The

court had sat for 179 days.

The jury deliberated for
seven days before finding
six defendants pullty an
acquitted four others.

A juror’s pay is $10 a day
for each day in court. There
is no law requiring an

KAISER’S GRANDSON

German Prince Ferdinand
never served on his throne

BERLIN (AP) — The
prince who was born ta be

aiser, emperor of the
Germans, but for whom the
sceptre of royal blue
remains out of reach, said
that the idea of monarchy
atill is very much alive.

Prince Louis Ferdinand of
Prussia is the grandson of
the last kaiger, son of Crown
Frince Frederick Wilhelm,
putting him in line for ther

man throne until his
grandfather abdicated Sept.
1, 1018, after the First World
War. Prince Ferdinand was
11 at the time.

As an apprentice
mechanic for Henry Ford,
father of seven children, 11
times a grandfather and a

descendant of six Hohen-

zollern kings and three

German kaisers, Prince

Ferdinand, who now is

almost 70, said, “I am

content, to be a private
Bon '

But he said things might
have been different.

“I firmly believe that
without the First World
War, the whole of Euro
including Russia, would
have developed in another

direction.”

Had the German

monarchy remained after.

the First World War, Hitler
never would have come to
power, he said.
DIDN’T CAUSE WAR

In an interview with The
Associated Press, Prince
Ferdinand said he never
would accept any thesis that
his grandfather, Kaiser
Wilhelm II, was responsible
for the First World War.

“All the states slid into
that war. My grandfather
was at the peak ofhis power.
Everything only could

or

become warse him)
thro war,”

As for the Second World
War, he said: ‘‘Hitler

roduced that war because

had everyone against
him and because his regime
was on the verge of state
bankruptcy. He needed a

ar.

Prince Ferdinand now
lives in West Berlin and
those around him still call
him Kaiserliche Hoheit (His

Imperial Majesty).
Hluent in ey Spanish

and English, a doctor of
philosophy trained as an

administrator, he said
Europe’s future lay with a
uniting of states similar to
that of the United States.

Prince Ferdinand lived in
the U.S. from 1929 to 1934,
For two years he worked on
the assembly line at a Ford
auto plant in Detroit.

LIKED AMERICANS

“] enjoyed the experience
and I came to know and
grow fond of the Americans
who steod there with me.”’

Lack of class
consciousness is . the
American characteristic he
admires, he said.

. suffered

For Prince Ferdinand and:

his family the golden days in
Germany in this century
were the years just before
the First World War.

In 1945, Prince Ferdinand
went westward with the
coffins bearing the remains
of Frederick Wilhelm I, the
so-called Soldier King, and

his son, Frederick II, called _

by history The Great.

They now are buried in a
castle near Stuttgart, the
original seat of a dynasty
that would rule Germany.

employer to continue an
employee's pay while he is
on jury duty.

But in January, the judge,
through the atterney-
general's department,
raised the juror’s pay to #40
a day, five days a week.

Raymond Bennett, 41,
foreman of the jury, was an
employee of International
Business Machines Canada
Ltd. for 24 years, He said the
company paid his regular

salary throughout the trial. -

When the jurors’ pay was
increased to $200 a week, he
said he returned $150 a week
to the company.

“The biggest hardship
was that I couldn’t do my

job because I could not be

there," he said,
“T took the jury job
seriously. My _ family
cause I didn't see
them as much as usual.”
Tom - Daley, 23, the
oungest jury member, said
e had been working for an
accounting firm for almost a
year when he was picked for
the jury. He quit his job
because his employers were
worried about paying his
salary while he served on
the jury.
Daley said boredom was
the worst part of jury duty.
“More than 80 witnesses
testified and many were
asked the same questions
and gave the same answers.
It became quite redundant.”
But he said the trial was
“a fa inating lifetime ex-

jente.
ac would not have missed
it, both the learning process
and making 10 new friends."
Another jury member,

Randy Gwyn, 26, lost his job _

Poor want more
rich giving less

LONDON (CP) ~— Far-
reaching differences.
between rich and poor
countries again came into
focus this week in the formal
communique of the Com-
monwealth conference.

The intensity of the
dispute— subject of the
continuing dialogue between
wealthy northern countries
and underdeveloped
southern countries—was
muffled hy the
Commonwealth leaders in
the diplomatic vagueness of
the communique.

But communiques are
meant to express consensus,
not. idivistony and ‘the fact
ferences were
cited at all indicates their
depth and breadth,
observers say.

At issue is a vast range of
demands from the poor
nations for changes in the
world’s trading and
monetary systems which,
they say, are needed to
redress the international
imbalance of wealth,

They want higher prices
for their raw materials,
easier market access for

after four months on jury
duty. He now is taking legal
action against his former
employer.

DAUGHTER MISSED FA-
THER

He said the toughest
moment during the trial was
when he packed his bags
before being sequestered.
His three-year-old daughter,
Breck, also had her suitcase
packed.
. Gloria Lavigne, 42, a
housewife, said that when
she was called to jury duty
she viewed it as a chore
because it disrupted her
normal routine.
“Then I found
participating in the judicial
stem rewarding. J feel
‘is has helped me expand
as an individual,”
The oldest jury member,

Bessie Swift, 70, said she

cancelled a vacation, caught
pneumonia and gave up her
weekly church and card-
playing activities.

“But I wouldn't have
missed it for the world. I
loved every minute.”

Her husband, Harry, said
his wife collapsed in bed the
day after the trial ended.
But he said he waa proud of
his wife’s fortitude
throughout the trial.

Even when she caught

eumonia and the trial was

ted for two weeks, Swift
said his wife insisted she
would get back to court. if
she had to crawl.

FACED LONELINESS

While Mrs. Swift went to
court every morning, t,
who missed his wife, tried
play golf during the warm
weather and “in the winter,
1 just waited.”

their young manufac
industries, moré aid,
better deals from such
bodies as the International
Monetary Fund and the
World Bank.
These were the central
ies at the Conference on
International Economic Co-
operation (CIEC), which
wound up in Paris two
weeks ago. .
DISCORD SHARPENED:
After 18 months of,
negotiations, the 4&7:
members of CIEC, including:
Canada, were unable to:
agree on many of the moat:
important - questions they.
aa ae of 10 poor oun!
grove coun?’
tries and oll exporters said’
in the final CIEC.
communique that ;
conclusions “fall short of the
objectives envisaged for a.
comprehensive and
equitable program of action.
designed to establish the.
new international economic;

er.

The group of t rich
countries, with Canadian
Privy Council President
Allan MacEachen as its
chairman, “regretted that it,
had not proved ible to
reach agreement on BOme
important areas of the
dialogue, such as certain as-.
pects of
operation.’””

That had been the chief
demand of the eight—

energy: c0-

' consultation by oil ex

on the future supply and:
e cies,

Pr iter Pine sour end of
CIEC, Canadian officials

- attributed some of the

disagreement to tactical.

errors and vote

within the group of 19, some 5
a

however, the sam6
differences emerged in the
Commonwealth meeting.

The Commonwealth.
communique says members
who took part in CIEC—
seven incl Canada—
“considered that it had
contributed to a broader
understanding of the inter-
national economic situation,.
and that the Intensive ‘
discussions had been useful

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to thenn, _

It adds: “In the view of
the developing membera of
the Commonweaith,
however, the specific
Measures agreed were,
inadequate either by com:
parison with their needs, of.
as a con’ribution towards
the ia‘ruduction of the new
international economic
order,’ ‘

This discord was also.
present in debates of thé.
eaders during the eight-day
conference,

Prime Minister Trudeau
told the meeting that the
recession of Western
pereuade poopie of ike nocd

ade people en
fo ahift thelr wealth to poor
countries. _

Towhich Jamaican Prime
retorted tht tr the wah ok

a
Western leaders to

‘overcome such political
- Obstacles. on