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TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B,C.

MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1971

~ TERRACE

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GORDON HAMILTON
EDITOR: RON THODY

Terrace, B.C,

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Phone: 635-6357 |
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OUR OPINION

Unity and love

Your daily life is your temple and your

religion.

Whenever you enter into it takes with you your

all.

Take the plough and the forge and the mallet

and the lute,

The things you have fashioned in necessity or

for delight.

For in revery you cannot rise above your

achievements

nor fall lower than your failures.
And take with you all

men;

For in adoration you cannot fly highér than
their hopes nor humble yourself lower than their

despair.

And if you would know God be not therefore a

solver of riddles.

Rather look about you and you shail see Him
playing with your children.

And laok into space; youshall see Him walking
in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the
lightning and descending in rain.

You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then
rising and waving his hands in trees.

Gibran was speaking of religion. His
God was inherent in nature; in all that
we are and all that we do and all that is
around us. He was also writing of
humble unity man must share under
God, and with God, for God and love of
God who lives in all of us. God,
however, means many things to many
people. And that’s where the problem
lies.

For many of us, our lives have
become secularized. We call ourselves
Christians, but our view of God is seen

only through our.particular church, or. -
sect,-within the broadest term of -

Christianity. In effect, we for the most
part believe that OUR church is the
RIGHT church.

God is love. And yet we see
protestants and Roman Catholics, both
calling themselves . Christians,
viciously attacking with stones and
molotev cocktails in the streets on
Belfast and Londonderry.

On one hand we have The Masons, a
tightly-knit group of protestants fer-
vently believing they are superior to
Roman Catholics and yet there is the
Knights of Columbus, believing
Catholicism is the only way to heaven,

Not only do we secularize ourselves
into various churches, each trying to
find “the only true way, but we blindly
condemn others in our society for a so-
called agnosticism or athieism who
may, for all we know, find God, or
Truth, in their own way; and, if they
are creating a positive good, who are
we to condemn smugly from our pews
and pulpits. Is there not love, warmth
and goodness, a belief in a cosmic
awareness that we may roughly
translate as God in the other religions
in the world?

This month, the Anglican Church of
Canada is holding its 1971 General
Synod in Niagara Falls, Ontario. This
time there will be a difference.
Members of the United Church of
Canada will participate, and a dialogue
of the proposal of the merger of the two
largest protestant churches in Canada
will be conducted.

This is a small step, but a step
nevertheless, True union with God can
only come with selfless dedication to
the union of all Christians under one
church.of God: a further step. From
here? The union of all religions, all
mankind, must be consumated.

Impossible? A brief look around the
world is enough to make a pessimist
out of the most optimistical optimist,
’ Why, many of us. are still. at. the
‘Church on Sunday, cheat on Monday”!

‘level of worshipping our Lord. Church
congregations are diminiching; yet we
Cannot condemn the church for its
social benefits, especially in bringing
old folks together. But we still lie,
cheat, steal — if only morally. We are
quick: to condemn: others in our
egotistical desire to prove we are right

- even if we do not know what the hell

and damnation we're talking about.
Dowe really love one another?’ Are we
our brother's keeper?...or his ‘jailer.
Christ was crucified for our sins: sins
we continue to committ; sins against
all humanity because we ‘have not

_ we are part of an enormous,

_ Kahlil Gibran,
From ‘The Prophet.’

found the light of God burning within us
with compassion and love and trust
and faith. Wedonot give, We take.

But why do civilized cultures have
any religion at all if we do not practice
what is preached? ‘
~ The challenging concern is how man
can find a way to live in peace and
harmony with his fellow man. And just
what is the moral attitude of man
today? Perhaps we are still primitives
in the overall scheme of a Supreme
Being, or Power we call God.

God, also is a sort’ ‘of. “cosniic
awareness”; a knowing, deep within
the wellspring of our knowledge, that
orderly
plan within the universe.

In our primitive religions of today,
we conceive this as our personal
“God”, who is the creator of the world
and who embodies in perfect form the
moral virtues of justice and love im-
plied in sincere committment to the
Golden Rule, In other religions, this
might take the form of a cosmic ex-
tension of the moral law or a super-
personal One transcending the ex-
perienced world and all it contains.

To be aware of Self; of achieving
union with God, or a cosmic
awareness; that is, self-evident Truth,
perhaps we may find that we do have
soul,

It is then man may find the power to
respond to feelings and like ac-
cordingly toa supreme moral ideal; to
realize harmony with a Divine Being
embodying that ideal, It is the core of
one’s personality--it is that in him
which is most real and of greatest
value, :

In liberating ‘‘oneness” with God, or
a “Supreme Being’, with that tran-
scendant reality, we may become
capable of a joy beyond our wildest
dreams. ;

The new man must be born within us,
which is Christ living within us, and in
our rebrith the Christ within us will
show its presence by the fruits of the
spirit, such as_truthfullness, peace,
fearlessness and love, which then are
the spontaneous expression of our
transformed nature, .

But first, we must stop squabbling
among ourselves and join in complete
unity and communion, then go out in
the world and meet our brothers of
many faiths until we find that faith is a.
gift of God given to all of. us regardless °
of our race, creed--or religion.

One does not have to go to a struc-
tured church to find his peace with his
the Age of Aquarius -
‘Enlightenment’. se

A union of the Anglican and United
Church would be-a small beginning.
But, it is a beginning. 7

. Or

And in the beginning, God created _

the heaven and earth; They are one in

the same. With truth, we may find’ -

wisdoni. With wisdom, we may find
peace within ourselves, With peace, we
will find God:-and héaven onearth, If |
we continue, however; to play. games,
and remain divided we can only blame:
‘ourselves for creating Hell on earth.

own God, in this so-called beginning of |

, Self-sustaining--getting

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Smile with

Thank goodness for work
and routine. They’re the best
therapy there is in the
neurotic world we live in.

The highly-touted “holiday
season” should be enough to
make a great many people
agree with me,

Looking back, I predicted a
quiet holiday. And it started
out all right. Kim came home
from college a couple of days
early, quite happy, just like
her old self. But each day her
face lengthened as she sorted
the Christmas mail. Nothing
for her. Day after day.

Her secret desire, of course, .

‘was a message [rdin the loved
one, who is spending the
winter up around Hudson Bay
somewhere, Nothing. She
alternated between reviling
him and glooming about the
place.

. DAY BEFORE

The day before Christmas, it
came - long letter, so personal
that she would read only bits
to her avidly-interested
mother,

And the thing that really
killed her was that in thesame
mail she received an equally
ardent letter from. a young
man she’s been seeing at
university, “Just to pass the
time until Joe gets home.”

She chortled at the irony of it
all,

Gentle grandad arrived and
.. We setiled in to spend a quiet
Christmas Eve. All serene,

PHONE RINGS

Then comes a phone call
from son Hugh, from some
gad-foresaken village in
deepest Quebec.

He and a friend had been in
acar accident. The ear was a
write-off, but they were both
alive. (They weren't even
supposed to be coming home
for Christmas.) .

They arrived the next day,
“all racked up and bruised and

abrased“and cut, The only

thing that hadn't been
damaged in the accident, it
seemed, was their appetites.

They got through about eight

pounds of our nine-pound

* goose.

KEPT BUSY

Then there was around of X-
rays of chests, calls to in-
“surance adjusters, and. con-
fessions that some people had
six eSsays overdue, that
others had an exam right after
the holidays and hadn’t done a
. tap of studying and that others

were out of a job.
This was all very good for
my wife's nerves. Combined

Bill Smiley —

with the general slobbiness of
the young people - they ali
smoke makings and there’s
tobacco all over the floor; they
eat and drink coffee in a
continuous process for 24
hours and never wash a dish;
their ciathes are draped all
over the house; and the hi-fi
goes at a brain-shattering
decibel count - all this made
her come down with what
seemed like stomach ‘flu but
to me was a break-down.

' SNARLED

She threw up regularly, She _
“-yeouldn’teat or sleep. She hadi!
no energy. She-snarled,? Shet,

whimpered.

Wii ee

As a result, 1 was busier |

than the proverbial one-armed
paperhanger,

Talking to Kim about her.

love life.

Assuring Hugh that he
wouldn’t die, even though
every time he coughed it was
like an arrow in the chest.

Calling the doctor. Getting
Alex in touch with insurance
people, Telling my wife to get
off her tail and give me a
hand...

DAD COOKS

And I cooked everything

from the Christmas goose to
the New Year’s ham. And

washed dishes until I couldn’t
bear a TV commercial about
the beautiful hands you have if
you use Ivory soap.

And didn’t have time to
watch TY anyway.

And would come down in the
morning lo read my paper and
find that the young gentiemen
had seized a section each and
were immersed in it and their
third cup of coffee.

But the worst thing of all
was the complete lack of
privacy. lam not anti-social,
but Ido need an hour or wa a

yto escape from people,
read,. think sleep. rn

le No pRavacd
‘The only privacy I had was
when I locked myself in the

- bathroom, and-then my wife

would. be shrilling from her
bed, “‘Aye-the dishes done? -
Who's going to vacuum the
rug? : There are four loads of
washing in the. basement!”
The only other private
moments were when I went
shopping. And baby, I didn’t
hustle through the super-
market, :
_I strolled like a tired tor-
toise, enjoying every volup-
tuous moment of it. «=
_ Allin all, it’s wonderful to be
back to work, 9 - | .

7.5 million visit B.C. parks ©

More than 7,5 million visits to
Provincial Parks during 1970
surpasses all previous annual
altendance records.

According to the recreation

_and conservation department,

the increase in use over 1969 is

just under five per-cent,
Camping in parks increased

by more than 12 per-cent to

nearly 1.6 million camper-
nights, while day use showed a
modest three per-cent increase
to just under six million visits,
ount Seymour Provincial
Park in North Vancouver has
exceeded 700,000 visits for the
year while Golden’ Ears, near
Haney, had more than /500,c00
visits during the same’ period.

YOUR ‘OPINION:

“Those heroes rake it in‘

The Editor,” ;
The Terrace Herald, ° -
Terrace; B.C,

Dear Sir: oT

I wish to make a few com-
ments regarding @ news item
and your. editorial in the
January 4 issue of The Herald.

First off: those. ‘Unsung
Heroes’? who are engaged in
snow removal--they are getting
a damn good wage and lots of
overtime (at time-and-a-half or
more), They are simply doing a
regular job and there is nothing
unusual about it, The way you
sound they are doing it for free!
You state that the municipality
‘has: 10 trucka~thig is utter
nonsense; They have two at-the
most and the rest are hired
from local trucking firms when
necessary, ©. ae

In your editorial under the
heading “Equalize Taxes" you
‘Made a few. statements which
are misleading.’ Kitimat ig in

‘goed financiai- shape ‘because

Alcan built the town-site (and
paid for the road paving in the
initial stageg), they. built. the
YMCA ond the arena. ‘

_ Since then Kitimat has been
its
revenue. from. taxes on. the’ in-

+ dustrial: :domptexes; and, | of

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course; from the hameowners.
Prince Rupert has received a

lot of help from business firms

, for their récreational projects

and have sponsored a pood

many of them in the past.
This
lacking in Terrace.
Also, Kitimat and Prince
‘Rupert have extended their
municipal boundaries several:
times so that there are no free
'‘Joading areas to sponge off
-them. Everyone pays -a fair
share of the tax burden'in these
two cities, As long as we have
” these unorganized areas outside
-. of our municipal boundaries we

generosity .is sadly —

One park, Shuswap Lake, had
over 300,000 visits and two,
Cultus Lake and Alice Lake,
exceeded. 200,000 visits each,

Twenty-two parks, including
Barkerville: Historic site and
Fort Steele ‘Historic site

registered over .100,000 visits. °
Place of residence of campers.

ou a province-wide basis
remains much as it has been for
the last five years with British
Columbians leading at 59 per-
cent, U.S, residents next with 23
per-cent and Canadians from
other provinces last with 18 per-
cent. . a
Provincial Parks ‘along the

Alaska Highway are. visited

predominately by Americans,

while those. in the East.

ANDY CAPP

_ Will never be free of high taxes |’

:and the problems they bring.

* Our- education tax | could. be

2 reduced by one-third to one-half

‘if everyone in the School
District paid thelr‘siare.
™ E chave said this in’ two.
previous letters to ‘The Editor

. and still repeat: if the business

firms” in Terrace were. fully’ : ;

assessed according ‘to their
‘value, size. and ‘volume: of:
business, instead . of getting
* assessment: Incentives, ‘the tax
‘burden to the homeowner could

‘be substantially reduced, *- Ps

ruly,
D.S.. Cooper,
: Terrace. . a

Kootenay have the majority of
their. visitors from other

_ Canadian provinces.

Lower Mainland and Van-
couver Island parks are visited
mostly by British Columbians,

‘There. has heen little change
in the type of accommodation
used by campers this year.

Tents are still the mast
popular at 40 per-cent with
tamper-type vehicles next at
26 per-cent, and tent trailers
and travel trailers tied at 17 per-
centeach. .

_ AUTO INDUSTRY STATS

More’ than’ 52,58 men and
women were employed by car
makers’ in Canada ‘and. paid a-
total of $474.7 million last year,

ani: Comment:

‘By REV. K. NEILLFOSTER

The Scottish soccer disaster

has stunned the world: sixty-six
persons died and many were
injured. when steel crowd-
control barriers in ‘a Glasgow
Stadium gave way before
frenzied fans. ‘

Afterward, British papers
were filled with recriminations
and one editor rightly observed
that the teams pay more for one
super-star than they would ever
spend on improved facilities,

True, And __thought-
provoking. Mest people wouid
agree that no sporting event is
worth even one life.

When the contest is over and.

the feelings have subsided, a
game has done nothing but
entertain people.

But it gets in your blood. And
sometimes it exerts a negative
influence. .

Often there is a fascination
that makes sport, to borrow a
phrase, an opiate of the people,

We'd have to agree with
Paul’s statement, ‘hodily
exercise profiteth a little, but
fodliness is profitable unto all
things.”’ ;

Mind you, once in a while we
still play a creaky game of ice.
hockey, but it's hardly im-
portant and certainly not vital.
And, we think, the fan who lets
nothing interfere with his sport
can never find God.

He already has his own,

Taxpayers
come out

second best:

With a smailer number of
tax cases heard in 1970
compared with 1969, the
taxpayer's share of wins in
1970 decreased by seven per
cent while the Minister held
hig own, says CCH Canadian

Limited, national reporting -
, authority on tax and business

law, te

Out of 302 income tax cases! -:

heard in 1970, the taxpayer
won 70, (23 per cent of the
total), the Minister won 197,
(65 per cent of the total), and
35 were split decisions. During
1969, 332 income tax cases
-were heard, of which the
taxpayer won 100 (30 per cent
of the total), while the
Minister came on top in 216
cases (65 per cent of the total)
and 36 were split decisions,

Abreakdown of the cases by
CCH reveals that 229 cases
were heard by the Tax Appeal
Board (soon to be replaced by
the Tax Review Board), six
less thar the previous year. Of
these, the taxpayer won 48
(same number as in 1969), the
Minister 147 and 27 were split
decisions: \

In the Exchequer Court (to
be known in the future as the
Federal Court of Canada), of
52 cases heard in 1970
(compared with 80 in 1969),
the taxpayer. won only 17.
(compared with 47 in 1969),
the Minister won 31 and four
were split decisions. Further
analysis of Exchequer Court
decisions indicates that where
the taxpayers appealed
directly to the court he won
10 ow of 23, Where he: aps
bealed from a Board decision
he won only seven out of 29,

The CCH analysis shows

~ that the taxpayer continues to

fare poorly in the Supreme
Court of Canada. Of the 13.
decisions handed down he

succeeded only ance; in 1969 -

he won four decisions out of 16..

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