@ - love him and trust kim we. feel

. dismayed at the poor attendance

i shocking situation that so few
™ House at any given. tlme, . Of
= Some of the absence, |...

at ience, that 1 would never get all
@ of my correspondence dealt with

f the House and work in my-office,
Sof tho House that usually com-

period at the start of each day
:— "| from, the: House on certain days, :

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to change wording in its fir

‘Is at least a realistic acknowledgement

of the inevitable.
Previous legislation wh

that purchasers of fireworks in the mu-
nicipality. of Terrace must first receive

.a.permit fromthe Fire Chi
-. those quaint. aberrations

dreamed up when. the cigarette smoke -
“hangs: too heavy in the council chambers.

. The glaring weakness

was of course the fact .that a. mere.
crossing of our ricketty bridge into by-
lawless Thornhill made’ the question of

permits absurd.

The new by-law waives the permit
but in effect insists that the ‘fireworks
be exploded on the property of the pur- .

chaser, How effective the

will be: decided by results\— and-prose- —

cutions — during the next two weeks.
The fireworks by-law also reflects a

growing tendency for an outright ban

' West of Skeena Forest Pro

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on the mi

eworks by-law

reinforced

ich demanded: » ch

. continuing
fire,

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occasionally

in the by-law’

It wou
to forestal

legislation ts

in many parts of the: province.
‘The argument for such a‘ban is well |-

to children, including blindness, and the

Those who would - most. vigorously
“oppose a ban are-far too young to have
any effect on legislation, However, the
children who-still delight in the explo-
sions, sparkle’ and wonder of fireworks
- will-at least find ‘some sympathizers
among ddults -whose- memories can
stretch back to younger days.

use of care and caution in the handling
of fireworks. The local legislation limit-
ing their use to private property and,
inferentially, to the supervision of par-
_ ents at least. indicates “an intelligent
acknowledgement of the problem, .

ny, October 23,1968

WHEN I COME:BACK,
I DONT WANT T FING
NER MATES STILL
‘ERE PLAMIN' CARDS

T'VE CLEANED UP ON
THIS MORNIN'—L BON

niature bombs and sparklers

by ‘the statistics on damage

NEVER MIND “YES PET I
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threat to property

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ld appear that the only way
| such a ban Is an increasing

Editor,
Herald:

TO THE EDITOR

Howard wrong on po

Editor Herald

Re, “Report from Parliament
by Frank Howard (October

Hill 7
16),

* If Mr, Howard wants to winmy

‘vote he will have'to stop treating
me like a piece of putty thathaia
confident he can shape and start
treating me like a rational being
with at least a few brains of my

own,

: ‘Take thé . latest report from
Parliament Hill concerning the
increase in postal rates, ~

First of all, he implies that be.
cause we have amajority govern.
ment we will be faced with all
kinds of irresponsible actions
that will be forced upon us..,
As an example of this unreason-
able use. of power, he has cited
_the increase in postal rates,

This he states is outright dis.
crimination - against the individ.
ual (you and I and Mr, Howard
and all the other downtrodden’

working class) who use the firat | householder does, 1 can also| Mr Howard in Opposition, - with guns, first-aid Kit, stretcher |takes in a lot of geography,
class mails, At the. same time | gtate wo oat. | ees and ambulance were quickly! 0K, just for purposes of some
: State that know at Jeast a8 Saeewee _EDNA COOPER transported into whattome would | intelligent discussion for a

:

res of society,

second class mail
“the post-offices with junk;

Now I always thought thatthese
rates.were being increased be,
cause the postal workers went
on strike for and received high-
er wages, along with the fact that
the Postal Department was not
paying its way. 1] for one think it
is the Govarnment*s duty to put
this department on a sound finan-
cial basis and it is the Opposi-
tion's duty to see

oo ., ;

On. the subject of who uses
the first class mail, I happen to
be the mother of an ordinary
household as‘ well as the book-
keeper for a businesa ‘go 1 can
say with authority that the busi-.
ness sends out at least ten tlmes
as much first class mail as the

he says the government is sub.
Sidizing their friends, those og.
the business
Ten who take advantage of the
rates to flood

ep tae &
Rote Be

-to it that they | -

the future, .

many Conservative and NDP busi-
ness men as I do Liberal busi-
ness men, - ;

2 agress that some people,
iheluding politi¢ians at election
‘timerifeoutd sthey-all ‘be ends

@ Liberal Govérnment?) are |

taking .adyantage ‘of the second
‘class mail“ rates,: I would go
further and say that most of this
junk mall is directed straight at
me, the housewife, in the hope
that Iam indeed a piece of putty,
-50 uninformed and mesmerized
chy this Literature and ‘Reports
“from Parliament Hill’? that Iwill
fall for their propaganda, . ‘
I am happy to say that by the
look of the Post Office floor
sometimes, we still have. some
discriminating, albeit untidy
housewives around, — --

‘So.T- can only come to the con-
clusion that if we are going to
stop this ominous dictatorship
that Mr, Howard says we have
in Ottawa, we are goirg to need
some clearer thinking men than

requirements,
common — sense, .

people,

‘Report from Parliament Hill

Absenteeism by command? -

‘By FRANK ‘HOWARD, MP.
Absenteeism ‘in Parllament
has always been a matter of con-
cern in some quarters andamat-
ter of acceptance in others, But,
now absenteelsin: has been given
the official blessing of no-less
. apersonage than the Prime Min-
ister himself, and because we all
that this 18 a good thing, Don't
we? a . a
When people from home ‘visit
Ottawa they have been invarlably

in the House of Commons, I have
spoken with many who feel: it a

MP's ara in their places in the

caurse, there -is a-yreason for] 4

' I know, from ‘personal exper

if I didn't absent. myself from
There is one spot onthe agenda

nfanda ‘full attendance’and that ia
the question period, This is the

STILL TOPS IN U. Ky
1 ONDON (AP). — Returning
ASears, Gone. With the: Wind re-
elyed a fond-welcome, summed

ordinate. length... it re-
gmaing - proudly and exhauatitigly
landmark in. the: history. of

| : The trouble with most mod." -
ern novels is that the covers *
are too far apart, ' ae

London: screens, ‘after , 29).

up in the words of critic Anne]:
Pace inthe Sunt “In spite ofits

A fillng cabinet has heendo-_ aE

when M.P,'s may ask questions of
Cabinet Ministers, Those ques-

urgent nature, That is they must.
relate to something which simply
cannot walt, | co
The question period is a time
of expectation, a time of excite-
ment, -a time of ‘anticipation, So
much so that even the press gal-
Jory is filled whereas at ‘other.
times of the one hundred or more
newsmen in the gallery; there
Tay be only one watching and
listening, - 2: ae
This. question period-is ‘the
time when all - Cabinet:“Minfs.
ters are in’ thelr places ready
to answer, any. question put to.
them, ready, to parry any’ poll.
eal thrusts, . ready to duck’ an
embarrassing question, |.
” But,- this, Is all to change saya:
the Prime Minister.. Pierre who
asked Canadians to ‘come work
with him’, ‘hes now issued a
ukase that this co-operative ven-
ture.of working with him canonly-
take place on certain days,
Piorre,: as he is affectionately
‘called, has ordered certain ofhis
Cabinet: Ministers to ba absent

This -is a revolving thing: : some:

tions, by the rules, must be ofan |

be terrifying nothingn

ilar grissly terrain,

‘ter 1s supposed tobe there for
the question period and all Min-.
isters are required to be present
on Wednesdays, Needless to say
‘even this enforced absence has |ting
‘never been 100 per centfor some |cher,
Ministers hava obviously. mis- |perately
unerstood the Prime Ministerial jfor'them, _ a
ulase and have been absent from| There is no easy route,
the question. period when they
should have been here,

” But, Monsieur ‘Trudeau knows |.

This is the behind-the-sceneas

T understand it, of the over-pub-
Heized story of the mercy -res-
cue: of an injured hiker from the
Java field on Oct..6th. I can only
‘| hone that what I must say may
benefit hikers and climbers in
The minimum requirement for
any hiking trip, no matter how
short, should always include: fir-
st-aid kit, flashlight, matches,
knife, compass, and extra food.
Common sense dietates choiceof
sultable footwear and. clothing,
Also very important points to
consider are climate conditions,
adhering strictly to the trail and
adequate time to completeahike,
{allowing <for minor injuries or
incidents) before being benighted.
The hiking party of Sundays
expedition wore lacking in most,
or: all, ofthe above minimum
including the
_It the -hiker| ing,
who was injured had not continued
on to the crater it 1s quite pos-
sible he could have made it back
to the road, or at least within
reasonable stretcher distance of
the road, (it is better to be less
a hero than to endanger the lives
of others who may become in-
volved) And so a vicious eirele
was begun which involved many

' What started out to be apeace-
ful uneventful Sunday evening in
camp for eight men and. their
families was suddenly turnedinto
@ nightmare for all, Efght men,

ess,’ Dan-
gerous, In that they must climb
over a lava field, treacherous | i
even by daylight, but extremly
more so by tight with only flash-
lights to guide them ‘over unfam-

“. Four long bruising miies fin
ally brought them to the chilled
injured lad, (He had no matches
to light a fire.) Then came the
impossibla task of 6 menattemp-
to pack the lad on the stret-
the other 2 men tryingdes+
to- find the easiest route

It is one of slipping and falling
into crevices, lava sliding out

Our readers write:

Common sense needed on hike

from under your feet, the sharp
cutting edge of the lava beating
at your every step of the way.
After four hours with perhaps
less than 2 miles covered, the
men were too bruised and ex-
hausted to go on, it being too
dangerous forall. The possibility

coming a major fatality wes not
a remote possibility in the least,

(t cannot decide whether those
Nass Valley men should get a
medal or a boot in the NASS, for
going in under the circumstances,
At least I didn't feel very placid
waiting through the long night
wondering who would be the next
victim claimed by the lava field.)

tually air-Lifted ‘out of the lava
field by helicopter in the mors

.. JEAD DOBIE
Ex Member of the PATOMAC:
APPALACHIAN TRAIL CLUB of
WASHINGTON, D.C., and AL.
PINE CLUB of CANADA

Editor, Herald

Agnostics and atheists the
world over subscribe to the con-
tention that religion is the cause
of all wars, all riots, all revol-
utions, all pain, all poverty, all
disease, all ignorance, and all
salfighness, 7

' I'm aware that polnt of view

change, let’s try to vizualize a
world without any form of relig.
lon, - oo

- Naw, if we lookthe whole world
square in the eye, we.find a uni-
versal acceptance of the fact that
2 plus 2 equals 4, On this point
every person in the 'world is in
agreement, .
‘But from this point on, every
person living on the face of the
earth today is at war with every
other person on the face of the
earth, Question: Why? Answer:
religion,

ing lie in the first place has to
subdivide the human race by sep-
arate. schools to catch the young-

What he ‘is doing, He is lord) # ij
and master and what. he say goes,
With this ‘fort of blessing bein
elven to absénteefam what might |
we .expect’ to. follow? . Perhaps |
members of the opposition will
start. .to be absent on days in
which: thé Cabinet Minister to
whom ‘they, wished to direct a’
‘uestion is absent ‘and only: ap-
‘pear. when: he appears. ‘If this |i
happeris it could lead to a fur~
ther. breakdown’ of our Par'lla-
mentary system and a greater
concentration of dictatorial type
‘power, In. the hands ofthe Prime
Minister and: the government;

A ukase, so states the diction-
ary, was a decree ‘or edict with | i
the force of law from a Russian | _
Emperor or. Czar. -:Quite 80 ap |

_ commedation, Fre
Christmas,

propriate . word

FOI in the efreum- |.
stances, don’t you think, om

time during the week each Minis.

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of one or more of these men be-

Camp was pitched and a roar-
{ng camp fire was lit to ward off
.the,. bitter . cold, .-The. strongest
men ‘returned to camp, ‘several
of the weaker staying with the in-
jured Jad until they were even-

sters before they ean learn to
think for themselves, This is why
churches send their mission-
aries out among (backward say-
ages?) for converts,

Religions don’t dare to accept
the fact that mankind is nothing
more than a cancerous growth
which evolved from inorganic
rock,

‘If that fact every became clear
to humanity, a lot of preachers
would need to find. out howtohan-
de an, idiot. stick damn fast,

- This al? means that ifhumanity
is to survive we require auniver-
sal educational system where all
the youngsters learn onuniversal
language andthe real facts of what
Iife'is all about. =~;

: Then, Mr, Editor, tf, we lived
in‘ a. world ‘of no religion, where
children ‘are taught’ facts rather:
than nonsensical (would: you be-
Heve “fertilizer”? Ed, Herald)
it would look like: nowar; nodis-
ease; no unwanted babies; nopad-

locks; no selfishness; no ignor-
ance; no -pantles when girls go
awimming, .

And above all — no need for

a brainy apo. like the writertouse
'.| space in the Herald,

: Norman Wells,

|: Canada’s vast north.
~ is beginning to.move

You can’t begin to believe how
hig: how vast and how empty the
nowtn is until you catch aglimpse

North of the 60th parallel it
-| covers, 1.5 milllon square miles,
1,600. miles from the western
provinces to within §00 miles of
the north pole. Thisis morethan
40 per cent of the total area of
Canada,” and the. population of
some 50,000 is less than half of
one percent. But'you can’t ap-
preciate the meaning of \ these
figures until you get a glimpse
of the north, which I did recent-

We covered nearly 6,000-miles
from Calgary to Resolute on
Cornwallis Island, with a stop at
Yellowknife; by helicopter and
plane around Melville Island to
view Panarctic’s joint industry-
government operations; thenflew
a tour around the Island, back to
Cornwallis: 1 ig to Calgary
via the Coppermine district and’
Great Bear Lake with a Stap at

Here must lie the largest, un-
tapped storehouse of Natural re-
sources in the free world: pet-
roleum, sulphur, potash, silver,
lead, zinc, copper, iron ore, ur-

anium, and water resources in
quantities that no other area of

the world can match,

You realize that this is Can
ada’s future, if Canada har the
courage, the drive aiid the fort
itude to conquer this ast, for=
midable land; That our survival
48 a meaningful, viable nation
depends on whether or notwecan
meet this challenge, And if we,
cannot, others can, and will,

* You can see the problems, The
emdiless ise of empty dis=
‘tance, the tong Arctic night, the
cold, the fce-clogged Arctic Oc-

ean, the excessivetransporiation
costs, , :

You also realize that this is far
too big.a job for either govern-
ment or industry alone, and that
the active participation of bothis
required if the job is to be done,
In the past four years, mining
development expenditures have
totalled $300 million — with $140
million from government for
roads, railway, town sites, power
Projects and educational facili-~
ties. You start to understand
why. petroleum. and mining com-

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