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TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C.

‘THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1971 1%

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GENERAL MANAGER; GORDON HAMILTON

ADVERTISING MANAGER: BILL} GROENEN
Business Address: _4613LazelleAve., - ‘Terrace, B,C.

Foaomz— Ts

EDITOR KAYCE WHITE.

Phone: 635-6357"

UR OPINION

Too soon, too much?

It is certainly to be hoped that a 50
percent raise in salary and a 33 1-3
increase in expenses will ensure that
the best men and women in the country
can afford to serve as members of
Parliament without penalty or
sacrifice.

The job is arduous and demands
high-calibre candidates. None should
feel disqualified for lack of means.

Pay increases for MPs announced by
Prime Minister Trudeau (at the
percentage rates mentioned above)
would raise salaries from $12,000 to
$18,000 and expense allowances from
$6,000 to $8,000, the latter tax-free and
no questions asked. In wrapping this
$26,000 package, Mr, Trudeau
rejected the proposals of a special
committee headed by industrialist
T.N. Beaupre which would have
boosted salaries to $25,000, all taxable,
but confined expenses and other
benefits to accountable limits,

Since the Beaupre expense formula
was somewhat complicated it is
difficult to work out whether Mr,
Trudeau’s plan means more take
home pay or not. 1t seems to beso. It
will certainly be so if, as has. been
hinted, the government intends to
introduce additional fringe benefits at
a later date.

However, the major difference is
that Mr. Beaupre’s recommendations
were for raises after the next federal
election. Mr. Trudeau’s bill is
retroactive to Oct. 8, the opening date

of the current parliamentary session.

This rather contradicts any
argument about the need for higher
pay! to attract good candidates for
office. It assumes that the MPs elected
in 3968 are worth more than they were
prepared to accept. It assumes,
further, that the electorate was
prepared to pay them more. In fact,
the electorate has not been consulted.
It would be if the raises were held over,
to become effective in the next
Parliament, after the next election,
expected within about 18 months.

Furthermore, there is a risk that Mr.
Trudeau's generous treatment of
fellow-MPs will encourage inflationary
wage demands in private industry,
which his government claims to have
worked so hard to suppress, and being
in the neighborhood of 10 times its
guidelines.

According to a survey by United
Press International Canadian MPs will
become the highest-paid legislators in
the world, outside the United States. If
so, Canadians have the right to expect
a commensurate standard of affluence
in the quality of Parliament.

The government’s intention to ram
salary legislation through Parliament
before July 1 does not display much
concern for any of these questions.

The public should be consulted, and
the best time to do so would be when it
can choose for itself whom it wants to
elect for $26,000 a year, if anyone.

Vancouver Sun

It’s not so many years ago that a
sense of outrage gripped a large part of
the public because women began
sacrificing their ‘‘crowning glory” in
favor of the shingle and the bob. There
are still a lot of people around, and
some of them are employers who feel
the same sense of outrage against
young men with long hair.

The Victoira Labor Council has
shown itself a progressive body by
passing a resolution asking that job
discrimination against long-haired
workers be ended in this province. Its
members had been assured by a
spokesman for long hairs that a “‘lot of
people have lost jobs over their hair
and a lot aren’t hired because of their
hair’.

Honestly, though, one can
sympathize with some employers,
particularly if they have machinery
around. It creates another hazard if
long hair gets in the gears.

The armed forces, we believe, are
beginning to ease up regulations
against beards and long hair - though

not too long. And this seems right, too,
remembering Shakespeare's soldier,

“bearded like the ard,” and recalling
that the Duke of Marlborough wore a
wig, if he didn’t have his natural hair
down to his shoulders. .
However, there are traps along the
way to freedom. The Swedish army,
being Swedish, ought to be as liberal
as any in the world given the
permissiveness of that country. It finds
that 50 per cent of its recruits prefer to
wear their hair long. No voiced
objection, so far as the high command
is concerned; but the other day,
according to the official Swedish
Information Service, the army made
an usual purchase.
It ordered 50,000 hairnets. Yes,
hairnets. They are to be worn by all
long-haired soldiers starting June 1.
If you think this is just a device to
keep long hairs out of the machinery
you are only half right. ‘The subtle
Swedes have been experimenting for a
full year, using two regiments . as
guinea pigs. They have found that the
ignominy of wearing hairnets is too
much for most soldiers and the
military barbers have been busy.

-Vancouver Sun

High cost poverty

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“Uh — WHAT economic policy are we said to

be working at cross-purposes on... ?”

OTTAWA REPORT...

OTTAWA (CP) — Prime
Minister Trudeau has not
given a general news con-
ference in Ottawa since Dec.
22, 1969,

Apart from periodic an-
nouncements, such as imposi-
tion of the War Measures Act
last fall, he has not made a
Commons speech since Oct. 9,
1970.

Informants say the prime
minister has decided to
concentrate on the television
interview as the best means of
communicating
Canadians, :-3- 2. 10 re
’ They say he is likely to rely
more on television in the next
election campaign than he did
in 1968 when he flew back and
forth across the country in a
charter jet making 20-minute
speeches here, there and
everywhere.

Mr. Trudeau this year has
given more news conferences
abroad than in Canada.

He gave a brief news confer-
ence in Niagara Falls, Ont.,
April 2, He also gave news
conferences here Jan. 5 and
Feb. 9. But they were not
general. They were on specific

with.

subjects—his participation in
the Commonwealth prime
ministers’ conference in the
first Instance, the eon-
stitutional conference in the
second,
MADE TY APPEARANCES

He has also made brief ap-
Pearances for television cam-
éras and radio microphones
after the Commons question
period on subjects of his
choice,

By contrast, he gave at least
five news conferences during
his. January : Asian. tour - to -

. Pakistan, - India,. -Bingapore, «:

‘Indonesia and Ceylon,
However, these were as
much part of the diplomatic
protocol of the tour as the
meetings with heads of
government and visits to
temples of all descriptions.
During his Pacific tour a year
ago, Mr. Trudeau conducted
at least five news conferences.
Mr. Trudeau used to have
fairly frequent question-and-
answer sessions with
university students in Canada.
But his only recent one was
held in New Delhi in January
and he has not had one at his

OFTAWA (CP) - “It is time
we extended this welfare state
to include the poor,’’ the
National Council of Welfare
said recently in launching an
attack on the existing system
and proposed federal
government changes in it.

An immediate start is urged
by the council on the payment of

a guaranteed adequate income:

that at least agsures everyone of
poverty-line. basics in food,
clothing and housing. ;

” The statement is the product
Of a six-month study by the
council, a federally-appointed
advisory body ‘composed

largely of; welfare rights and -

poor people’s representatives

‘and voluntary agency workers.

It ‘levels almost
unprecedented criticism at
federal policies‘.andg plans,
‘specifically attacking federal

taxation and ‘monetary policy. .

‘Intended to fight inflation as
producing unemployed who

-were labelled :deadbeats. for -

' seeking welfare assistance.
‘ It‘ indicts» Welfare :Minister
John Munre's white paper: on
income . security,“ tabled . last
Noy. 20 in. the: Commons, . as
‘likely to: mislead -peopte. into
‘baleving something’ will ‘he

done to help poorer, people,
5 Fhe.33-pagé.atatément says
Canadians ‘should“accept the

principle that “every member
of Canadian society has a right
toa share of the national wealth
sufficient to enable him to
participate fully in that -
society.”

‘It says the present system
aims to help the aged,
fatherless families, the
disabjed, the unemployed and
the working poor but only
results in disparities in levels of
financial support arising from a
patchwork of programs,
''*The indefensible
inconsistency of the results
argues Strongly. for
consolidation of income support

hospital is $5,200 amd the cost
per prison inmate is. $6,653 a
year. .

The greatest inconsistency is
that welfare mothers receive
$20 or $25 a month a child while

foster mothers get $80 a month:

or more, .

(TCH! TALK ABOUT
SC TWO-FACED!

Terrace B.C,

Reason:

Pere ere teen ne

shelter. Shelter only.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?
. The Herald invites your opinion on whether a youth hostel
should be established in Terrace. :

If you'd like to let us know what you think, please complete the
questionaire and mail it to The Editor, Terrace Herald, Box 390,

Do you favor establishment of a youth hostel in Terrace?

ettsseenen VOS wesssereceeel

it in favor, what facilities’ should be provided? Food and

Should hostel facilities be free.....yes......00
What rules and regulations should apply?

What governing and-or Supervisory organizations would you
recommend hold responsibility for the hostel?

Rees wae
CHARLIE WHATSISNAME—) I DO

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Programs, either in a single ~~ -

program or an integrated
system of interlocking
brograms,’” .

A first step should be to
guarantee incomes of $2,000 a
year for a single person, $3,400
for two adults, $3,980 for a
family of three and $4,560 for'a -
family of-four.: ae
' “The: doliar costs ‘of the
products. of ‘poverly are
infinitely . -higher’ than - its.

‘ellmination.”

For‘ example, the $38'to $100

daily cost of maintaining a child . .
in ‘an’ Ontario’ residential |.‘
thé
income
. Of $13,870, to $36,600, the annual” .

‘centre’. ig.’

treatment
equivalent of an. annualin

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old’) alma mater —the
University of Montreal— or
any other university in
Quebec.

Last Sunday, Mr. Trudeau
appeared far an hour on CBC
television in a recorded
interview. The transcript had
already been made public by
the prime minister’s office after
part of the tape was aired in
New Westminster.

His general news con-

ferences seldom, if ever, have
lasted that long.

Mr, . Trudeau .is,. however, -

: available-to the. press :in-short
bursts, So to speak, on the way
to or from his Commons of-
fice,

Normally, he does not object
to being button-holed for ques-
tions by reporters. But by and’
large he carefully chooses the
timing and site of his major

' press appearances and more

and more television is the me-
dium,

- During the Quebec troubles
last October, Mr. Frudeau did
not make a Commons speech.
He left that task to Justice
Minister John Turner and
Regional Economic Ex-
pansion Minister Jean Mar-
chand. But he appeared at
least twice on television, once
_ with a major speech,

NEWSPAPER RATE
REMAINS

OTTAWA (CP) - Postage
rates for. newspapers and

younger”

Terrace residents who have
responded to the questionaire
about youth hostels published in
Monday’s Herald ‘show | that
they are concerned gsbout [I
establishing recreational and |
accommodation ‘facilities for
youth in our community, ,"

Respondents to ("the
questionaire were not required
to identify themselves; One
1 who Is in favor of
establishing a youth hostel
explained “because we care for
our youth”: that food, shelter

and moral and spiritual help 33mm

should be offered at the hostel
which should be “almost free” Fm
and supervised by the Terrace (ie
Ministerial Association--a non- 7a
denominational alliance of {&%
ministers in the area.
Another respondent wrote:
"we should start with a
younger generation program if
we want to get these kids off the
street. If anyone drives around
our streets at night they must
notice all the 3,9, and 10 year
olds who are roaming around
with nothing to do. If we do not
solve this problem in the riext
few years it will triple in size,’"
The respondent continued: “I
am sure that if 16 to 20 year olds
were interested, they could
come up with something and
finance the project ehmselyes,
“T don't know how many teen-
towns were formed here’ but
none of them lasted very long.
“If all they want is a place to
drink coffee and play their
guitar, why are they all so
efraid of adult supervision?”
So-what do you think? The
Herald offers its columns for an
expression of your consider °
opinion. . .

Word trip
for the
straights”

An approximate guide to the
meaning of same words and
phrases used in the Alternative
Society: ,
Straight - A person who
doesn’t know the meaning of
these words and phrases
without a glossary; someone
who would never-use drugs.
Trip-pursuit, preoccupation,
eg.- “He’s on a Jesus trip.”
‘Also... used, to describe

periodicals will ‘not -be: affected” ' psychedelic. drug experience,

by. amendments: to. the Post
Office Act given first reading in
the Commons.

A spokesman in the office of
Jean-Pierre Cote, minister
responsible for the post office,
said that only first and third-
class mail is affected. ‘

Newspaper and periodicals
come under the heading of
second-class mail. ’

‘YOUR OPINION ©

The Editor
Terrace Herald
Terrace, B.C.

Dear Editor:

Vd be grateful if you'd
publicize an incident which

happened last Friday beside our

house in the 4800 block Olson
Avenue,

My daughter and drove up to
the house, which had no one
home, just as the afternoon rush

” of school children was going by.

Before we got there a hoy about
twelve or thirteen suddenly
started to run into the drive. We

saw the reason as we stopped |

the car. There was a fire
‘Starting in the trees of the
empty lot next-door.

My daughter followed the

unknown boy to the back of the

house and between them they
brought round a garden hose
and connected it. The boy took
charge of the hose and had the
fire out very quickly. The whole
operation took no more than a
couple of minutes.

Meanwhile I, had to speak
with the mother of the two very
small children who had been
playing with fire. By the tine I
was finished with her the boy
had shut off the hose and was
gone, While I was wondering
how to stop him and to thank
him a fire truck arrived so I
never even found out his name.
’ Such definite, cool headed and
quick action deserves
commendation even if the boy
chooses to remain anonymous,

* Peter Horsfield
4418 Olson Ave.
Terrace, B.C,

eg., ‘tripping on acid.”

Ego Trip - Indulging inseif-
gratification, acting in one’s
own interest,

Power Trip - Seeking personal
leverage over others, a failing
often attributed to political
revolutionaries,

Chauvinism-- Using women
as sexual objects or’ taking
advantage of their ‘social
conditioning to relegate them to
minor roles,

Commuwe-: Where5, 10, 15, 20.
or more try to live as cheaply as
two or three, ‘

Trashing - Shattering window
glass, overturning ash cans,
throwing paint as a political

- Gesture aS opposed to a

Halloween
resembles,
Smack - Heroin ="
Crash Pad - A place where
one can sleep, . and
occasionally eat, without money
and without questions , being
asked. ;
Macho-A male sexual tripper
with political covering, |, *.
Freak - A beautiful person, a
member of the drug culture, a
dropout,'a hippie who can’t go
home, — _
Super Freak - An older freak
who has done it all and offen -
marijuana, mesecalin, s ed,
acid, etc, and wouldn't go home

prank, which. it

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even if he could, — wy
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