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GEORGE T. ENGLISH
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Peanut Butter next
on Bennett's list?

You really have to hand it to
Premier Bennett — he's a pretty crafty
ald bastard. He passes legislation that
akes away part of our freedom to
nformation, while simultaneously
naking anyone who objects to it loo
‘ike a “pusher” of evil.

It puts this newspaper in a very
awkward position. If we decry the
legislation banning tobacco and liquor
advertising. it appears that we wish to
benefit from possible ill-consequences
to others from excessive use, If we
ignore it, we give Bennett the go-ahead
to ram through even more repressive
legislation. We're damned if we do and
damned if we don't.

Like we said — pretty crafty.

We. feel very strongly about the
advertising ban, and so should our
readers — because it’s their rights that
are being abridged. What kind of free
country is this when it’s perfectly legal
to sell beer and cigarettes, but a crime
to advertise them? And what’s next —
peanut butter?

We don't deny that excessive use of
alcohol and tobacco can have harmful
effects. But this is a matter of
education, not ‘out of sight, out of
mind".

If tobacco and alcohol, even used
in moderation, are half as evil as
Bennett would have us belleve, then

they shouid be taken off the market
immediately and their sales totally
prohibited.

some of this “tainted” money trickled
down to our level, Not as much as we
would have liked, but we did have
hopes of more in the future,

And this directly affects our
readers — the more advertising this
paper contains, the more pages of news
we can print. In the past few months.
liquor advertising has averaged nearly
$300 per month. The loss of this won’t
break us, but it will cut down on the
number of pages of news our readers
will be getting.

And ali to what purpose? To drive
all those millions of advertising dollars
out of the province or across the bor-
der? We think no,

next — Direct censorship?

The precedent has been set for us
many times —- this newspaper could
publish stories chock full of very im-
polite or four-letter words; it could run
pictures of nudes of all descriptions,
including full frontal nudes. No action
would be taken.

But just let us publish an ad-
vertisement suggesting you might
enjoy trying a particular brand of beer
or a new brand of wine, and we'll find
ourselves in court before you can say
“Skol”. Rather stupid, isn't it?

We'd very much like to know
where Bennett gets the idea he can
dictate what we may see and read.:
Does this perhaps herald the coming of
another age of euphemisms, where

. i, ~e irmbs", and tare desthly-iafraid-of +

give a damn about the consequences'oF: showing their bare ankles in public?

We'd like to nominate Mr. W.A.C.

Bennett as our candidate for Queen

Victoria II, ruler of the Neo-Victorian
Monarchy of British Columbia.

And God save the people.

K.A.G. Marshall,

Editor,

The Smithers Interior News,

ployment lines; he doesn’t care about
the millions of dollars, previously
spent in this province, that will be put
to use outside.

But we care, We care, because

Luoky . Ri er = where the wat

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~«women delicately.,-refer..to their ..
“*"munion service. Atothers;-achristening-’d-wedding, perhaps a -

" mission. She helps establish and run Sunday schools, teaches
, ¢taft work of all sorts, and “‘just ‘can't resist showing pre-

_ .Singsong and dance,

|. At Hartley Bay recently, the Crosby’s skipper, George Bar-

._ ~ ber, gave a two-day navigation course to the Indian men. Mrs... 0°
., Keenleyside took over the runing of the local. school while the. -  ~ :

: principal a Hative Indian with an education degree from the”:

choir also comes in handy at many of the cutposts. But some of -

“ask us to pick up special things, get radios ‘and teleylaton ota : a :

‘The crew will be in Vancouver fora mi hile the ship.
"a refit and. inspection, and the Keenleysides have quite a:
matters to look after for their isolated friends...”

.. herself. for ‘an old bachelor who asked me.to, buy, some Bo!
underwear! oy ek

- TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C.

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BILL SMILEY

Don't

Don't worry. Not me. [hope to
live for at least two, or even
three years more. ;

But I sometimes wonder what
I would do if I were told that I

. had exactly one year to live.
And I'd like you to think about
what you would do,

This is not a new theme, but
it’s always an interesting one
when it comes up in fiction or
philosophy or just a plain gab-
fest.

Name of the game

Lending a hand when and where needed is the name of the
game for Rev. and Mrs. Keenleyside. He was minister of the
United Church at Terrace for 10 years before taking the Croshy
assignment 14 months ago.

A chunky little ship powered her way through the Lions Gate
one afternoon this week and tied up at the immigration dock on
the Vancouver waterfront, -

The while-hulled United Church mission ship MV Thornas *
Crosby V and her crew of seven were home on annual leave from
their regular beat - the farflung territory of scattered
coastal villages, tiny fishing stations and lonely lighthouses ;
which they serve as missionaries along the rugged northwest
sector of Canada’s Pacific Rim,

It’s a mission which in three more years will have completed a
century of service to people in remote places from the tip of
Vancouver Island to the B.C.-Alaska boundary, Many of their ; .
points of call are inaccessible except by water or helicopter, and Let’s suppose. Suppase you
visitors are few and far between. have been to the doctor and

This makes Missionary Rev. George Keenleyside and his crew have learned that you have a
most welcome callers, and the arrival of the Crosby V is often fatal illness (make up your
the signal for unusual activities, own) and will die in ap-

BUSY TIME proximately one year, You

It also signals a busy time for the ship's company, For — won't be sick or in pain until the
besides being missioners of the gospel who conduct religious last hour and you'll go out
services among the isolated residents along the islands and quickly. ;
inlets of the north coast, the Crosby's group of seven. also How would you spend that
dispense spiritual advice, books, magazines, medicines and year? What you would do would
often first aid, organize young people's activities and some for | cettainly reveal very clearly
the adults too, set up study programs and sometimes assist with What sort of person you really

teaching, organize hobby groups, and even take on some per-  8re behind that facade that
sonal shopping assignments for delivery on thenext visit. most of us wear daily, - I

“When you call at 55 different places you do 55 different There would be the jai

~ things,” Mrs Keerleysideaaid. “In some. they want a com- 1" Shock of course,, Humans have_

~ immortal, until they finally are
: stricken by some deadly illness,
But after the shock wore off?
Then we'd see a separation af
the men from. the boys, the
sheep from the geats, .
Some people would become
constant. whiners, “Why coes

funeral. We usually don't know until we arrive what the people,
’ orasin some cases the only person, aregoing towant.”

At several of the ship's points of call, the residents are of
another religious denomination and don’t care for spiritual
communion, But inevery instance, the friendship, conversation
and brief companionship the visitors are ablke to provide are
deeply appreciated.

NEW BOAT
The 80-foot, 129 ton steel hulled Crosby V was built for the
. United Church of Canada four years ago by Star Shipyards in
New Westminster. She is operated by the church's Home
Missions Board. :

Her hame base is Prince Rupert, and it's a continuing mission
which began in 1874 when a Methodist, Thomas Crosby, was
ordained and sent to work among the native Indian people at
Port Simpson, near Prince Rupert.

Travelling by canoe, Crosby sought out people on the fishing
grounds and in isolated villages. His work grew rapidly, and
Methodists across Canada responded to his appear]. A young
Scottish shipwright built hima boat at cost in New Westminster
after listening to one of Crosby's sermons.

She was the first of 10 which have plied the coast, initially
from Victoria ta Port Simpson. Three of them were wrecked,
for these waters are sometimes far from gentle, The others,
including the first two and the fourth of the Thomas Crosby
series, were retired as they became too small-or too old for the
job. ,

The work of the mission has changed as the coast has
changed, said Mr Keenleyside: ‘A hundred years ago there
were no lighthauses; we now call on 15. Modes of living have
altered drastiacally, and sohave occupations. Many of our calls
now are social as well as spiritual.”

His territory is about 350 miles lone and, because some calls
are at places located far up B.C,’s deep inlets, it’s also about 100
miles wide. They aperate‘on a tight schedule of 21 days out and
14 ashore, which is according to government regulations,
although sometimes weather or other circumstances interfere.

contributed to charity,”’ And so.
on. Some of these would: be
come so bitter they would turn
against God their friends and
relatives, A pretty sour way to

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Some would be so depressed
they would crack up mentally
and become vegetables, Others’
would’..adopt a
epicureanism (if there's such‘a
thing): Their attitude would be, .
- “If I'm ‘gonna go, I'm gonna
enjoy ‘it.’ "They would escape
into alcohol, drugs, sex; not
’ Necessarily in that order.
Some"people ‘would become
instant Christians or whatever.
They would be filled with a
terrible fear of. the after-life,
and would spend twelve months

desperately doing ‘‘good

works”.in an effort to make up

for all the bad works they had

‘done in the rest of their lives.
Now, not one of us, gentle

reader, would fall into any of .

those classifications. Question

is where would we fall.? |

. First decision I would make

_ would’ be’ not to waste one.

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But although the shore time may spell time off for Capt.
George Barber, Engineer Lawrence Landsdowne, and crewmen —
Don Martyn, Hugh Stansfield and Graham Jack, it doesn't for
Mr. Keenleyside and his wife.- : . ;

That's when they handle the many administration chores, like
ordering supplies, scheduling the next trip, and even taking on
some onshore jobs like subbing for other ministers on leave.

- So when the ship visits places where ministers. are away for
Some reason, even communities as large as: Ocean Falls, he
takes over .and handles regular services, baptisms, con-
firmations,' weddings, ‘or funerals, Tye
A former teacher Mrs. Keenleyside is an integral part of the <

second in the year were used

more rewarding than all the
‘Previous ones put together,

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schoolers ways to keep busy,”

"What she likes as much ai anything about the.mission is the’
elements of surprise, Like at Owineka on Rivera Inlet, on their
way down to Vancouver, where the, whole community gathered |

when the Crosby arrived, They staged a whole fiesta of games,
sandwiched in a brief church service, then a feed, followed hy a:

RAN THE'SCHOOL -

God have to do this tome?” I've ~

fatalistic ©

second of that year. If every —
fully, the one year would be *

Next, I would make a superb
effort to love my neighbour.as
myself. This is a tough one. In
the first place, it's extremely
difficult to leve oneself. Most of
us seem to, but many of us
secretly despise ourselves, In
the second place, some of us
have appalling neighbours (we
don't), But I'd have a good
whack at it, not as a “hedge” to
to make sure of getting through
.thase pearly gates, but because
1 believe in it. Good old love.

My first action would be to
divest myself of all materal
possessions, except a tooth-
brush and a few clothes, Would
even gel rid of my razor. The
proceeds? I wouldn't give them
to the poor, The hell with them.
They can go on welfare, and it
would be only a drop in the
bucket anyway. And I wouldn't
leave them to my family either.
They could go to work for a
change. oo

Vd quit my job, take the whole
$500 of-my estate in onedollar.

. bills, and burn them one at a

“sone weird idea ‘that“they are ~ time: to’the'screarris‘of anguish

from on-lookers, That would be
cutting the umbilical cord of the
sistem and I'd be free for the
first time in many years. Then
don the knapsack pick up the
begging bowl (a wooden salad
bowl) and take off.

I'd see every inch of Canada I
could see. And I would savour
every sight, sound, taste, touch.
and smell (even whiskey-breath
and onions) I. could come in
contact with-in this most
wonderful of worlds, Might die:
in @ ditch, but what’s the dif-
ference? ;

-How about you? Put down
carefully and briefly what you
think you would do with a year
to live. Send if-to your local
editor, I'd like to. reprint some
of your ideas. a '
~ Hey, I might even get a.
‘divorce, remarry and make
some other -woman’s life
miserable for a year. Just an
afterthought. - ;

Trade wari

eo _
booming. &

The trade of war is booming. : »
Warfare in Indo-China Has te

-widened considerably, despite a

President Nixon’s promises of

disengagement. The neutrality a

_ of Laos, whieh has always been
questionable, is now becoming &

‘meaningless, s. ]
The ceasefire in the Middle
East trembles always on the
brink of collapse, And in the Big
United States, defence spending
is up once again to 76-billion iim
dollars annually, a figure thatis Iie

very close to the record. 79- [i
billion dollars the USA spend on Sm

defence in 1969, the year of the a

Tet offensive in South Vietnam.
Defence spending represents
-one third of the record federal
budget for: the 1971-72° fiscal
year.. Stepped-up military’

spending in the United States is ig

designed partly to strengthen
the languishing economy,

It is a sad commentary on
human society when nations
must use the manufacture of
feath - to. help. sagging.
igconomies,. yet this “ happens’
“time’ ‘and *
world, —

In-ab . feet

In a better-organized global 7
community itshould be possible jim
for the industrialized nations to §
turn out more tractors instead
of machine-guns, more civil
aircraft instead of bombers,
and helicopter gunships; more #
chemical fertilizers instead of 7
chemical weapons and
defoliants.

In a just society, the trade of
war would wither and die. But
this will not occur until mankind
‘heeds what Benjamin Franklin
wrote almost'2W years ago.

‘There never was a good jRm
-war,” he said, “or a had |
peace,"'

CENTENNIAL: MEMO --
Victoria’s Outer Wharf was #am
constructed by R.P. Rithet, an ie
early mayor of Victoria in 1885.

- The B.C, Federation of
Labour-has taken the products
of Western Gypsum, Ltd.. off
the “hot” list,: but has. an-
nounced a, “hot” declaration
against the products of Canada
Wire & Cable Secretary-
"Treasurer Ray Haynes said
today: .

“We have been advised by the
Cement, Lime & Gypsum
Workers Local No. 400 that they
have negotiated a settlement in
their six-month strike and ‘are
now, hack to work.

od

Goods declared “hot

on their knees in church, and -

__ “However, at Canada Wire & i
Cable, 24 thembers of Local 264 fig
of. the.

Workers are still on the picket

line -with the company. at- (am

tempting to circumvent their
strike after ‘unloading its
warehouse material prior to the 7am
strike ‘taking’ place. The §&

Federation has asked all its Samm

affiliates to do everything
possible to assist the strikers at
Canada Wire & Cable and en-
sure full implementation of the
Federation's “hot”' policy.”

AGE GETS

‘University of B.C., attended the navigation sessions...

QUITE EXCITIN' :
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igatlon segstor ._IN THE FOOTE
- Mrs. Keenleyside's ability to play the organ and to direct a: —
her extra-curricular buying assignments make-her laugh. .°

“We're often asked to do personal shopping for.people ‘Who
can’! get to towns where there are big‘stores,":she sald. "they

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repaired, one be ‘a month while the ship.

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" But Mra. Keenleyalde is going to look after oné shepping item

again around “the jam

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Brotherhood. of Electrical fe