PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Wednesday, June 23, 1978

EDITORIAL

“Holy City” fi

The settlement of Cedarvale, about 40 miles
East of Terrace has a long and interesting
history. Much of that hisfory is Church-
connected. All of it dates back approximately.a
century ago to the arrival of a Rev. Tomlinson
from the north of England who settled there, on
the fertile banks of the cedar forested salmon
filled Skeena River.

By dint of much hard work coupled with a gift
for organizing and leading, Dr. Tomlinson soon
had an industrious community gathered around
him, disciplined, schooled, busily employed at
gainful occupations, morally principled, and - to
all reports, as sin-free, sober and enlightened as
any community of its size in the world. It was
rivalled only by another Native community,
after which it could have been patterned - and
probably was - that of the Rev. Wm. Duncan's
“city” of Metlakatla, a few miles North of what

- was later to become Prince Rupert.

As with Duncan, so under the leadership of the
Rev. Tomlinson, the little village soon sported a
beautiful wood Church. It became known as
“Holy City” because, among other restrictions
was one that forbade the Skeena River steam-
boats to stop there on a Sunday - no matter how
desperate the community might have need of
supplies: Though non-religious. writers have
scornfully derided Tomlinson for this lack of
humanity - another more valid reason for this
was to avoid the disruption caused by the liquor

and ruffians said to have sometimes been aboard
the river boats as well as some of the diseases
spread by itinerant visitors plying the native
village girls with booze, while Tomlinson and the
community’s mentors were attending Divine
worship and unable to oversee their flock.
With the development of the railroad and the
highway, village life was eventually fragmented
as family after family moved away to accept the
amenities offered by the rapidly growing cities
of Prince Rupert, Smithers and Prince George.
Tomlinsons descendants tried their best to keep

. things the way they had been during the village's

heyday, while watching the inhabitants drop to a
handful in number. -
Finally, long after Tomlinson’s death and
interment in the historic Cedarvale unmarked
cemetery, alongside his wife, a surviving son,
said to have married a Salvation Army lassie,
deeded a parcel of land with a small house of
worship and school on it to the Salvation Army of
Canada. According to the village postmistress,
whosays she attended school in the building that
eventually became the Salvation Atmy Chapel -
Richard Tomlinson (Dr. Tomlinson’s son) in
donating the property expressed a wish to see
either a Pioneers Residence or a children’s home
built on that property. -
The original beautiful church has long since
burned to the ground. The tiny chapel-hall one of
the few original cedar built buildings left in

Victoria Report .
_ by Cyril Shelford:

One of the most interesting developments for
many years happened this month in California
with the passing, with an overwhelming
majority, Initiative 18 which will cut taxes by 8
billion dollars. «

This experiment should be watched with care,
not only by governments, but all people in the
province and especially union leaders in the
public sector where their members are in the
front line. : .

The reason 1 say this is because it could
happen here in a slightly different formas we
don't have the provisions in our system for a vate
such as this. However, it can come forward in a
different form, where some political party will
make a promise of reduced taxes without telling
you of the. problems it will create. .

Already hundreds of people are getting
together to form a group to cut taxes which is
only the start, and it will likely be the “in” thing

iti'the‘hext*decade - like énvironment was in the ©

last. ; ;
One thing comes out loud and clear, not only in

California - which is a clear warning to govern- .

ment and government employees.

People have had enough of government grants
and give aways. No long ago giving a grant to
some organization was a real plumb to the local
MLA of M.P. That day appears to.be gone, and
from now on giving grants to some organizations
could very wel be the kiss of death to many
polititions. ..

_ One thing we all have to face the issue in a
reasonable mainer, trying to look at both sides
and make sure the cure isn't worse than the
disease. ;

No one likes taxes, but we like the benefits
from taxes - such as hospitalization and
education. Yet if we seriously cut back taxes,
the hardest hit will be health and education
because they are the big spenders. We could cut
out ministries altogether like agriculture, mines,
forests, attorney-general etc, yet it would hardly
affect our tax bill at all.

So to make real inroads, the cut has to come
from the big spending ministries which would

mean less health care which is one of the worlds |

best. ‘It would also mean a great reduction of
teachers where salaries are over 70 percent of
the total cost. This could lead to 35 or 40 to a
classroom, and does anyone want this?

This is not all, and we should watch closely the
affect in California where likely 300,000 of the
1,400,000 public servants will be laid off. By
using the standard multiplying affect it would
mean that over 600,000 to 700,000 would be out of
work. ”

This group having less money te spend would
soon put a further group of people out of work in

the service and supply indusiries as the chain -

reaction spreads. Without a doubt this can cause
a mini depression in the State.

Let’s hear it for-
or against- Bill 13

Another interesting thing to note is the fact it
will save the taxpayer over 8 billion dollars,
however property taxes are deductable from
income tax in the United States, so the savings
then become taxable and nearly 4 billion will
simply go to the federal government. -

This means taking money away from state and
local government which are close to the people
and directly give benefits to the local home
owner such as roads, streets, sewage, parks etc.,
and transfer nearly half of it to Washington to be
used for defence etc.

The California property tax is close to 2
Yopercent of the market value compared to 1
percent in British Columbia. Home owners in
several British Columbia towns after the Home
Owners Grant is deducted on a $60,000 house is as
follows:

$650.00 Victoria
548.00 Kelowna si,
' $16.00 Penticton
748.00 Prince George
In California: . ; ;
$1,728.00 Sacramento
1,740.00 Los Angeles
1,341.00 San Diego
. 1,550.00. San Francisco
The question people have to ask themselves is
do they get the value from their taxes.

We are extremely fortunate in Canada to have
the opportunity to'sit back and observe both the
good and bad affects of the tax measure 13
adopted by the voters in California.

If we use our heads rather than get carried
away on an emotional issue we can avoid some of
the pitfalls that are bound to show up in a new
scheme, which is a fefinate about turn in the long
period of tax increases which most governments
thought there was no end. .

It will likely do us all good if we take note of the
changing mood of the tax payer who wants to see
more restraint in government spending which
means a strong hold on costs of all kinds in-
cluding wages which is the lions share of ail
government spending.

The present government has reduced its tax
Share of the gross provincial product from: 17
percent in 1975-76 to 15 percent in 1977-78 with a
target of 12 percent. O

There is no question in my opinion a law should

be on the books prohibiting any government.

from spending more than it takes in for current
services, as it is a dishonest way of spending
more than they make and it only passes on the
debt to future governments and generations.
This should not apply to borrowing for capital
projects such as Hydro which will serve future
governments and the next generation.

I would like to receive comments from con-
stituents on initiative 13 and find out what people
think of it, .

OTTAWA UPDATED

_I was in Skidegate last weekend for the
opening of the new Skidegate Band Ad-
ministration Building and the raising of a totem
pole carved by pre-eminent Haida artist Bill
Reid. The Administration Building has been
designed in the traditional Haida longhouse
style, and is an excellent return on the in-
vestment of over $50,000 in federal funds thet
have aided in its construction - much of which
has come from the Canada Works and Local
Initiatives Programs.

Canada’s unemployment rate remained un-
changed in May, at 2.6 percent of the workforce.
The underlying growth of our economy,
however, was indicated by the fact that during
this month 27,000 new jobs were created - raising
the employment level in the country to over
10,000,000 people. “

A recent article in the Prince Rupert Daily
News contains a number of misleading, inac-
curate, and completely false statements about

my trip to Europe last year as Minister of State
for Fitness and Amateur Sport. ‘I used a
government aircraft for this visit largely for
security reasons (3 of the countries I visited are
under Communist control) and as for the figures
“compiled’’ by the author - they only’show what
happens when irresponsible journalism is
matched up with a pocket calculator. The actual
cost to my Ministry was approximately $8,000. I

regret that the Daily News irresponsibility in

this matter appears to be as unvounded as was
the original malicious column in a Victoria

newspaper some six months ago.

Housing starts In Canada are hitting record
levels. In the first quarter of this year there have
been 47,197 new housing starts, an increase of

.11,700 from the same period in 1977. It is ex-

pected that, at this rate, the 3 year*period of 1976-
srs wil see over % million housing starts in
nada.

Cedarvale - still stands. But for how long?
Almost all the native residents left in Cedar-
vale are greatly upset, because they have heard
the property - said to consist of several acres
covering three lots- has been sold to a Portugese
immigrant family who have been grazing their

‘eattle on the property for some time. Rumours

are rife, One being the Salvation Army sold the
property for $28,000. Services, according to
some of the Native families there, have not been
held in the ancient church for years. As one old
lady wrote, “People here remember how their
relatives were baptized, married - and later,
their bodies brought to the Church building for
funeral services before being buried in the
cemetery at Cedarvale. When and if the Church
building is pulled down, everyone leit will feel
the loss.

Salvation Army officials in the nearest com-
munities of Terrace and Prince Rupert will
neither confirm nor deny that a sale has been
completed for the property which it admits
having owned, and the original deed of sale held
in their Toronto Salvation Army property of-

ces,

They do, however, seem mystified by all the
uproar and especially the petition with 20
signatures which reads as follows:

“We, the People originally from Cedarvale,
British Columbia on the Skeena River, object
tothe sale of land which was originally set out for
their use by the Tomlinsons and was later taken
over by Mr. R. Tomlinson, who therefore
donated the three (3) pieces of land with Hall
(originally built by the people of Cedarvale) to
the Salvation Army. The Hall has not been used
for Sunday School for approximately four (4)
years, but has been used for services of all sorts
by the people of Cedarvale. Those who want to

-buy or are bidding on the property are new

residents of Cedarvale and therefore not in-
terested in any of its history or origin of the
place, and, are only interested in it for their own
personal gain.

We feel we should be informed and given a
Chance and a Say in what is being done with the
property in order that there is no ill feeling,
which is already circulating by rumours that a
certain person, with.cattle, needs the land.”

Salvation Army official contacted say they had

never had any representations for the Salvation °

Army to resume services at Cedarvale - for
years and years, at least. Attempts by a Capt.

- org.

ights to save its only “Church 9

“Young, when he was the Salvation Army in-
cumbent at Terrace, to rivive the use of the hall
for religious purposes at Cedarvale, several
years ago, met with no response at all.

- Some church officials suggest the “Army’’ has
been experiencing difficulties with its Native
work in general, in the area, “‘After we poured

$12,000 in renovations to the Salvation Army —

chapel in Kitseguecla, the people there changed
the locks on the doors and wouldn’t allow us in” a

member is said tohave complained. The Native .

community of Glen Vowell - established as a
“Salvation Army Village’ 80 years ago 18
likewise reported to be having its troubles. At
Kitwanga (or nearby) the hydro is reported to
have been turned off after the residents ran up a
bill of over a thousand dollars. The Salvation
Army village of Canyon City alone is described
as stil] being a “going concern.”

When one ‘“‘Sally Ann” officer was told the
anization is reported to have received $28,000
for the property at Cedarvale, his reply. was,
“Well, I would say that might just about pay for
the outstanding bills on our Native work around

ere,” .

What bills? ‘Hydro, and taxes and bills like
that. It takes approximately $20,000 a year,
these days, to ruin one church’. The Hali at
Cedarvale, however, has no electricity and being
registered as Church property, ‘for religious
purposes”, should be tax exemp. As for salaries
- with no services held there for the last three
years, this could not be considered a legitimate
charge against the Cedarvale property.

. Said one 93 year old native of Cedarvale, to the
editor of the HERALD: “All we want is a little
bit of tire property with the church Hall still on it
so we can use it for a funeral”. The wrinkled old
woman, who can still get a twinkle in her one
good eye, even though it is clouding over with
cataracts, and can still laugh when she

reminisces about the time she was eight years .

old and the first steamboat to pull into Cedarvale
frightened her so badly she hid in the hollow
trunk of a cedar tree all day - may yet see her
wish come true. .

One “Army” officer has suggested Lt. Col.
Rea, of the Property Department of the Corps,
on 20 Albert St., Toronto, might look kindly if
such a request was to be made to him by the
residents of that once “Holy” city. We wish
them all the luck in the world!

Reprinted from the Vancouver Sun
True, Canada has problems. Some big, some

‘ small, all of them important to the national

character and psyche. But we're not going down
the tube and the sooner we realize that the better
off we'll all be. m ;
Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau is right
when he says there’s too mush pessimism
abroad in the land — pesimism about the
economy,. pessimism about inflation and
unemployment, pessimism about the future.
He’s right when he says, as he did at the
Northern Wirter Games in Prince George last

week, that ‘we have too much doubt. aobut

ourselves. It’s in our minds.” .
He’s right when he says we really haven't got

-much of a national spirit.

He's right when he says there’s no such thing
as a free lunch and that we have to pay for the
choices we make — “if we want to pay less taxes,
for example, we have to cut our social benefits.”

These truths may be unpalatable and hard to
digest by people waiting in line for their
unemployment cheques; by housewives,
workers and others struggling to make ends
meet against a declining dollar. But swallow
them we must.

And having absorbed them into the blood-
stream, bounce back with a resolve to turn
things around for the better. The patient, as the
prime minister has made ciear - and the
economic: indicators are there to support his
contention -- is not terminally ill.

It is merely a prolonged session of con-
valescence after the post-operative blues of oil
embargoes, trade deficits, dollar devaluation,
unemployment and inflation.

The medicine Doctor Trudeau is prescribing is
right, even though in the short term, it might not
taste so good and the patient may not recognize it

for what itis: a tonic. An attempt to lift us out of

our depression by making us.come to grips with
reality. ‘““We are not chronically ill, we are not a
sick nation. Economically. we must redress the
balance but we don't have to fear the future ....
It’s a tougher world to compete in: We can’t
expect the economy to grow at the same rate as
in the past. We are going through a period of
adjustment. We are not seeing the bottom falling
out of the economy.” .

It would be too easy to dismiss this, as some —

undoubtedly will, as mere political rhetoric, :a
preamble to a possible spring r summer etection.
But the facts speak for themselves.

Over the past 10 years, our gross national:
product has grown at a faster rate than that of
any other country except. Japan. We have
created jobs faster than any other Western

exonomy even though our enemployment rate is -

worse -- due primarily to more people entering
the job market. Inflation, while still high, is not
the runaway problem it was before wage and
price controls were introduced.
The average weekly carnings of Canadians, .
according to Statistics Canada figures for Oc-

. tober, are up 9.7 percent over a year ago --
 DOCSTOR TRUDEAU scrzcstents eit ste ctss percent,
mewiwne Ft mara ~ Problems ‘still :remain, of course. Govern*

ments by and large are curtailing their growth
and this means fewer jobs in the public sector.
The anti-inflation board is on the verge of being
dismantled. We have yet to settle on a sensible
formula for dealing with out world trading
partners and even among outselves.
But none of these is insurmountable. The
greatest difficulty is in recognizing them and
‘facing them down. Not crawling under the
bedsheets with another bout of pessimism.

Letters to Editor:

‘Public Schools are un- product of Christianity. If

Christianity.

To be more to the point:
teachers in public schools
attack the teachings of
parents. The same teachers
need the tax money from

parents to help

thelr salaries. But we ore
not crazy tosit down with our
mouths shut and give in to
this garbage. These kids
belong to the parents, not to
the teachers, appointed by
schoolboards Es

. pecially
when. bearded hippies
(former draftdodgers from
the United States) and other
rebels and communists and
homosexual perverts can be
offered the responsible job of
teaching our children,
Forget it. Something 1s

going to happen. For in-.
, Stance;

over and over we
hear that teachers tell their
students thatthe churches
should not engage in mission
work, This is destroying the
cultures of the nations and
interfering with internal
affairs, We willleave it up to
the communists to do that!

These are the real culture
destroyers. Christianity has
. refined cultures. Our whole
western culture is the

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these teachers mean what
they say, they shoud
abandon this western
culture, turn their clocks
back, get rid of what
Christianity brought their
ancestors, and start running

_ around in bearskins and live

in a hole in the ground. ‘At

least let them leave our |

children alone, because
achools, hospitals,
agriculture, industry, roads
and solid houses are all the
product of the teaching and
infiuence of —s- early
missionaries, together with
Roman elvilization. But our
modern teachers do not
know these facts. History,
spelling, arithmetic ete, is
not their bag. Political
science, labour relations
sex, the occult, how to revolt

_ against parents and society,

these are the popular sub-
jects. All this have to help to
bring about their communist
utopia. If you see more and
more Christian Schools
established across the
nation, then you will know
one of the reasons.

Bill Homburg

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