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PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Thursday, September 22, 1977

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TORONTO (CP)- Tom Lennox, 30,
former bouncer at the rowdy Jarvis
House hotel bar and part-owner of the new
Ports of Call bar, says he never had a
fight at the Jarvis House.

The six foot, five Inch college graduate
said, ‘‘As long as I was the doorman at the
Jarvis House I never hurt anyone. I have
never even hit anyone yet. There’s
always the cahnce you might kill
Mest people I can just pick

‘Most people I can just pick up.
Besides, most of the rowdy people a
houseman gets involved with are drunk,

He just hoists them off the floor
Gentle bouncer never gets into fights

between the’two parties who are having
an argument,

“Tremember one time the barmen were
trying to eject some guy who was standin
there in a karate stance, moving aroun
making motions with his hands. ‘What
the hell's going on” I said, rushing up.
Then I see this weird guy standing there
and I tell him, ‘‘Ail rig t, cut it out before
somebody gets hurt.” So he says, ‘OK’
and he waiks out.”

Lennox said one of the problems a
bouncer hasis that “some people have the

such as ‘laying hands on them and
removing them y.”

A good barman, he said, can “feel the
tempo of a room just by walking through
i th

“There are basically two types of
people. One guy goes into a bar and he
drinks and becomes mellow and happy.
The other type becomes sullen because
he's not getting the giral or he has a
problem at work. These are the guys who
give you problems. If you see them
Getting upset, you have to keep an eye on
fhem,”’

- to loo

other people or standing there and trying
P beautiful. The whole idea of this
business is to allow each individual to
express himself personally withor
disrupting anyone else. Violence should
never enter into it.”
Brains rather than brawn have brought
Lennox a long way from the Jarvis House.
In January, 1976, he joined three other
young men in forming their own com-
pany, Consortina, Inc. ;

A year later, acting as a subsidiary of
the giant mining concern, Conwest Ex-
ploration Co. of Toronto, they purchased

. The will to chang

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nal

* We dare say most Canadians would gladly par-
‘ ticipate in the change to a conserver society if the
* government was truly committed tosuch a move.
: But it isn't. Because changing this nation from a
bunch of wasteful consumers to citizens who value
their environment and are aware of the earth's finite
resources isn’t going to be accomplished by federal
. programs which subsidize insulation of use taxes to

‘penalize the purchase of a gallon of gas. That isn’t .

-even a start, .

'_ The changes that are necessary , according to the
‘Science Council of Canada’s report on today’s front
page, involve fundamental modifications at the grass
‘roots. That means public meetings in community halls
.in which citizens trade information on how their
‘regions work - what resources they have and how they
could be used most efficiently.

: It means citizens discussing their problems with
‘government representatives and reaching decisions
‘with the power to act. Local people know best how
‘their communities work and where waste can be
.eliminated. Government representatives should be
‘there to supply the money and the technical
‘knowledge.

Small changes would come out of meetings like
these, but their effect would be massive if reflected in
every community in the country. And the biggest
change issuing from such meetings would be the
positive feeling a community would get by taking its
future inte its own hands.

What we don’t need is the government telling us what
todo. What wedo need is the will tochange. Together,
we have the answers and we should be telling the
government.

News isnt worse
.» just more of it

It's hard to quarrel publically with someone you respect.
And Dr. Viktor Frankl has won repect around the world.
He is to psychiatry today what Frued and Jung used to
be; from the horror of his experiences in Nazi ex-
termina tion fie he develo ed a new jchool of
psychiatry calle otherapy, based on each person's
need to in meaning to life.

aning

But recently Dr. Frankl stated,in Toronto, that theworld
‘is getting worse, not better.

“In former times,” he said, “‘a;; our activity was based
on optimism... that there is something like automatic
progress, and that all the evils will sooner or later be
done away with. But this has nnow been shown to be a
compltet ilusion. There is no automatic progress but
rather an automatic regression in which things keep
getting worse.”

He suggests that only pessimism--realistic awareness of
how bad the world is--offers a creative minority the will
to fight on. That’s Biblical and theological concept too—
Abrahamic minorities who persevere with the truth
while society self-destructs. ; oe
Today, the news seem to justify pessimism. Dictators
like Idi Amin seize headlines and hostages, while British
democracy (according to conservative economist Milton
Frieman) has a 50-59 chance of being dead in five years,
But the news now includes many things it used to ignore.
War massacres like My Lai have happened before. But
no oné cared about them. Now they get reported, and for
the first time a people repudiated their own armies.
Political dirty tricks were around before Watergate, But
this time, a nation’s moral indignation forced a president

resign.

When Bisfrans were starving a few years ago, people all
over the world helped them. A centruy earlier when the
Irish were starving, neither theri government in West-
minster nor their neigbor in Englad bothered caring.
Greece and Spain have both moved from dictatorships to
free elections recently. And while China and much of
Africa and Asia may not practice Canadian-style

and you shouldn't take advantage of
someone who's drunk.” He said the bar
room fight is not the John Wayne brawl
you see in the movies. Most of the
distrubances are over in 30 seconds, The
important thing is tomove quickly and get

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misconception that a pub

e said he would

ic drinking
house means it belongs to the public an
they can do anything they want.”

k to trouble-makers
first, explain that they had to behave, but

if that failed he had to use physical force -

“I never appreciated the real value of education till the kids returned to school,”

Business spotlight

Food magnate gets
us both ways

TORONTO (CP)- V.J. Housez
doesn’t ery the blues because more
Canadians are eating out these days.

But he said he wouldn't complain
if everyone ate at home either.

As chief executive officer of
Standard Brands Ltd., Montreal, he
gets the business both ways.

Housez, who is also chairman of
the Canadian Grocery Products
Manufacturers Association, said in a
recent interview that one of three
meals is eaten outside the home in

Canada. The ratio may eventually

reach two of three.

One of the reasons why the in:
crease in eating out is “not really a
cloud on the horizon’ for
manufacturers is that the food the
don't sell through retail chains wi
be sold through restaurants,

Amother is that retail stores, in
order to combat the trend to eating
out, may require manufacturers to
produce ‘‘convenience food” of high
quality and nutritional value to win
back customers.

He said two trends may develop -
an increase in the number of meals

eaten out and an increase in the .

number of high-cost, ready-to-eat
dinners sold by retailers. '
Grocery products constituted a $20
billion a year business and new
trends in eating would help maintain
the industry’s five to seven percent
annual growth rate.
Housez said that two or three
ears ago national brands produced
by leading grocery manutacturers
appeared to be suffering from
falling market shares. 8 Wad
because so-called house brand:
ckaged for chain grocery stores
gan taking an increasing share of
meat that trend to ha
ui rend appears to have
halted

“T don’t say that house brands are
falling out of favor, but they’re at
least stabilizing.”

Some house brands had not been
roperly researched or were of
lesser quality than national brands

he said, and this has been reflected.

- effort to

in pricing and acceptance.

liousez said house brands are
packaged by the lading manufac-
turers in competition with their own
national brands but the manufac-
turers have never made a major
commitment to them,

“We do not, for example, build
new manufacturing facilities to
produce house brands, we do use

em, however, to fill in valleys in
our own production.”

Companies will duplicate a
national brand for a house brand if
the customer so specifies, he said.
Housez also said that although the
costs of transportation are rising,
the Canadian food manufacturing
industry will hold back on any major
decentralize its
manufacturing operations,
_. While a manufacturer might find
it appropriate to build a plant in New
Brunswick or Alberta to save on
transportation costs, he would not
immediately receive the return on
capital to justify the investment.

Lennox said he is in the people business.
“It's not a captive environment by any
means. What you’re doing is bringing .
people together so they exp
selves to others, whether by talking with

democracy, at least their people can now have influence
on national policy than they could under their tyrannical
warlords of former centuries.

Maybe the owrld isn’t perfect, Dr. Frank]. But it’s not as
cruel and callous as it used to be. And more people than
ever before know want’s going on-in Canada and
elsewhere-and care aboutit, andare trying to improve it.
Surley that's grounds for optimism, not pessimism. .
United Church.

FCRAAR

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left with the thankless job of
ensuring that there will be a
country held' over for the
next generation.

Consider, for a moment,
the politicians’ approach to
the twin problems of unem-
ployment and inflation. The
politicians want to hand out
more subsidies ta firms which
will buy more machinery

band-aides alone won't do
the job; only major surgery
can provide a cure.

The bureaucrats — who
aren’t nearly as dumb as their
popular image suggests — un-
derstand the limitations of
band-aiding only too well;
they know that they'll be
around when the economy
collapses ina few years' time.

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“| told them they could watch ‘tl thelrs
was fixed.’

OTTAWA
and Small
Business
N
A Bureaucrat’s Wink ©
by JIM SMITH selyes don't like one another.

Q: How does abureaucrat
wink?

‘A: He opens one eye,

Q: Why doesn't a bureau-
crat look out his office win-
dow in the morning?

A: Because he needs some-

thing to do in theafternoon. .
And on, And on, You've °

heard your fill of bureaucrat
jokes by now, Perhaps — af-
ter all, it’s hard to resist the
temptation - you've made
upa few of yourawn. At the
very least, you keep a supply
of bureaucratic horror sto-
ries on hand ta amuse your
friends,

No one really likes a bu-
reaucrat, For that matter,
even the bureaucrats them-

But stop and think for a
minute: where would society
be without some career civil
servants to make the tough
decisions?

You see, for all its attrac-
tive features, democracy has
one major flaw: it doesn’t
work,

That is democracy doesn't
work without the civil ser-
vice, The politicians — wha,
it says on paper, should be

running the country — are

more concerned with getting
elected and re-elected than
with making the tough decl-
sions that will have profound
impact on the shape of socle-
ty a decade or more from
now, So the civil servantsare

But, even though the bureau-
crats are scrubbed and ready
for surgery, they can’t go in-
to action without the politi.

and buildings (which, inci-
dentally, would tle those
firms to more consumption
of energy). That's the way
these problems have always
been solved in the past and
that’s the way big business .
and big labour would like to e
see them solved today. Sure, :
this sort of policy will blow
up in our faces ina few years’
time but six or eight months
is a long time to a politician.

They call this kind of
plece-meal approach to plan- Fitness is fun.
ning “band-aiding”. And It Trysome.
works — when the problems
aren't very serious, But, ag Gl
the Canadian Federation of A |
Independent Business points PRANIPRETION
out, when the wound isdeep,

nomic scalpel.

Too much bench
time slows-you
down. Get active.
Get in shape and
put yourself in
the clear,

t

cians ready to wield the eco-

the Ports for $3 million, had it resigned
and redecorated and opened it last spring
as a combination of restaurants and a bar,

Consortina has purchased three other
bars and two restaurants.

Ottawa Offbeat

ose them-

Public service strikes

the main issue

BY RICHARD JACKSON

Ottawa-Unless the chronic crisis in Quebec becomes
explosive, umemployment runs widly out of control, ot
terminal illness threatens the econo economy and the
dollar, strikes in the public service will erupt as the issue
for the Fall session of Parliament, — -

And if an election later should intervene, upsetting
Parliament's scheduled nine-month sitting, the strike
could be one of the two big issues-national unity the
other-of the campaign. __

Stripped of all the rhetoric and pared down to the
basics, the issue-in Parliament or in an election cam-
paign= will be: who runs the country, the government or

@ public service unions? = .

In london, two governments in turn at Westminister,
the Conservatives and Labor, have faced the same issue
and question, and backed off.

So “over ‘ome,” The British disease threatens to rage
on.

When former Prime Minister Pearson, in his in-
nocence--judging the new, younger and more militant
public service by his own lifetime career as a civil ser-
vant-promised Parliament and the people that govern-
ment employees were ‘just too responsible” to exercise
the right ots strike that he was giving them, he simply
didn’t know the score.

Since then the publics ervice has come to regard
striking as not only its right, but its obligation to keep
submissive governments on their knees and taxpayers at
their mercy.

There is talk in the Cabinet- and a slpit amoung the
ministers--about doing something to curb the right to
strike, at least in the essential services; when Public
Service Staff Relations Act comes up for revision this
next session of Parliament. _ . .. —

And not a moment too soon. ;

For although it is improbable--it is definitely not im-
possible that rail, air and postal workers will all be “out”

y year-end.

ey know their strength. Theya re aware that 90
percent of the million and a half of them across the
country are unionized.

And they're militant.

Parliament has only to legislate them back to work?

Like it recently did with the Air Traffic Controllers,
and then watched them defy the law in spite, if not in
fact, by a slow-down inconveniencing thousands, —

What's more, they're ready to defy Parliament.

Defy not merely back-to-work legislation but any
attempt to curb the “right” to strike.

Bill Findlay, president of the usually reasonable Letter
Carriers Union, swears ‘‘nothing” Parliament does ever
will iftoe his people form striking when they feel

jus

’ Jor Power, president of the Union of NATIONAL
Defence Employees, is one record with the public threat
that the government “will have one hell of a battle” if it
attemptst ampering with the public service specifics.

Finally, getting own to specifics union leaders, as a
collective and protective group, warn the government
that regardless of what senctions Parliament may apply-
-fines or imprisonment-for defiance of legislation, there
really is no defence against the wildcat strike,

So the battle is being joined on the question: who runs
the country? .

New plan —
for north.

By JIM POLING

OTTAWA (CP) — Hugh Faulkner, the new northern de-

velopment minister, said Wednesday he will try.to in-
troduce a different concept of development tothe North.

It will involve putting environmental issues into the
development planning process, rather than simply tagging
them on at theend, he saidin aninterview.

I have no particular objection to development ... ,”
Faulkner, who was named to the Indian affairs and nor-
ther development portfolio last Friday, said in an in-

But planning only for development and facing the con-

uences later was a disasterous approach.

problem with all development ‘is that each sector
pushes its own interests without anyone locking at the total
picture, he said. As an example he cited urban areas, where
ansport, housing, industry and other sectors often
developed separately. LOOK AT TOTAL
“Wehave tostart looking at the total community.”

Faulkner, a 44-year-old former Peterborough, Ont.
teacher, takes over his new job under difficult cir-
cumstances.

His predecessor, Warren Allmand, was widely liked and
respected by Indian groups, but was not admired b
developers who felt he was too tough on development,
Allmand’s shift to another department has left some Indian
groups suspicious that Faulkner has been appointed to put
more emphasis on development than on indian affairs,

Faulkner indicated that is not the case. .
by erink my attitude cowards the indians is best reflecte

@ secretary of state, I'm very sym-
pathetic to their cause...” y ey evan

Elected to the Commons in 1965, Faulkner served as
secretary of state from 1872 until 1976, when he was ap-
pointed minister of science and technology As secretary of
state he was responsible for many of the core financing
programs Indian Rroups recelve today,

**A lot of my thi
with them,"

ing hag been developed In consultations