wabeeen Ct a PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Thursday, September 22, 1977 {the herald) \ \ Published by Genera! Office - 625.4957 Sterling Publishers Cireulation (Terrace) - 635-6357 (Kitimat) » 632.6209 PUBLISHER... WIR. (BILL) LOISELLE MANAGING EDITOR... STU DUCKLOW Published every weekday at 3212 Kalum St. Terrace B.C. 4 member of Varitied Circulation. Authorized rs second class mail. Ragletration number 1201. Postagepalu. 1 cash, return postage guaranteed. ee “NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retainz full-complate and sote copyright In any advertisement produced and-or any editarial or Photographic content published in the Herald. Reproduction is not permitted without the written permission of the 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 | {Peete 7 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 (ss fo 5 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 =e 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. i a! 81977 Universo! Prem Syrdeoa Hiay “| 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