PAGE Ad, THE HERALD, Monday dune 6, 1977 fggrmcenaanet neta tcnarhonnsateonee mini neaianasnntnte a tae ithe herald Terrace - 635-6357 | SSNA Kitimat - 632-5706 * cette eO octets Published by Sterling Publishers Ltd. “Published every weekday at 3212 Kalum $t.- Terrace, B.C. A metnber of Varified Circulation. Authorized as second class mail. Registration number 1201. Postage pald in cash, return postage guaranteed. PADverTisine MANAGED = KAYE EHSES J Po os s SUBLISHER GORDON W. HAMILTON? KITIMAT MANAGER = W.S. ‘KIM’ KIMBLE = SRE “at Tegenere MANAGING EDITOR “ALI AN KRASNICK peste "a ees _ . NOTE OF COPYRIGHT / The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright in any advertisement produced and-or editorial or photographic conten? published In the Herald. Reproduction is not permitted without the written permission of the Publisher. be ctateteteetntet em enaMeeMei sme TeNeT Sresisceeseeees a Aaeatadetiteeteewanseanbobosesseabeneeaen em ton anit Degrading to society Rape is an extremely difficult crime to bring to justice. ; Not’only Is it difficult in a court of law to establish the technicalltles involved in the charge of rape but as often as not, the victim herself opts ta ignore the legal process fo preserve her own dignity. ; Authorities agree that rape Is the fastest growing violent crime in North America. What they cannot seem to agree on is what is the cause of this aberration is and what to do about It. in the field of crime, rape stands out as particularly neurotle, for in it there is nothing apparently gained but the satisfaction of having degraded another ‘human being. In addition, it shaw a morbid fixation or tetish for one particular human fuction which indicates a psychological fragmentation characteristic of neurosis. Recent statistics show that rape has increased 165 _ per cent between 1960 and 1964. Compared 'to the 91 per cent increase in murder, the rape figures suggest that pressures in the North American lifestyle are aggravating this one neurotic impulse more than others. The causes and cures for the crime of rape have been the subject of heated discussion for some time, especially since the popularization of women’s groups but the result of such discussions has been largely noise. Being tethered to their own beliefs, the par- flelpants are only interested in imposing those bellefs on others and will resort to shouting and sophistic arguments in order to do so. So-called women’s liberationists are as wrapped up In their own polemics and vernacular as are the ‘chauvinists’ with whom they spar. Let‘s face it, the world is full of liberationists, each trying to break away from a web constructed as much by himself as by anyone. As stated earller, rape is a neurotic impulse to degrade another human. The method used reflects a morbid fixation on a human function. Both of those aspects of the crime must be taken Into consideration if It is to be understood. Leaving the degradation aspect of It aside for the moment, the fact it Is a fixation on the function of sex is In keeping with the rest of society. For years ad- vertisers have used sex to sell every form of product without though? or concern for what the longterm effects of such overloading might be. Far from diminishing, the use of sex in advertising has become bolder In recent years. In all forms of entertainment, sex has been singled out and emphasized and there are even sex therapy groups all over the continent. One is reminded of a curious neurosis that afflicts animalsin zoos, What begins as mere grooming often develops into overgrooming, until ultimately the animal Is tearing his fur out in great chunks leaving his hide raw and infected. The animal, in his miserable, incarcerated state takes a normal, healthy functlon and distorts it beyond recognition. So It appears to be with sex. The sexual function Itself has been raped by this society; is it surprising that Individyal women are raped by men conditioned by the society? ' Historically, this era will IIkely be seen as the one In which people were, for some odd reason, unable to outgrow pubescent fascination with sex. seem natural, would it not, that It would also be an era in which rape stood out as the most popular violent crime? There is no question that a rapist suffers from a fixation on his genitals. He alsoseems to suffer, as we said, frorn a desire to degrade other humans and this too Is not surprising In a'soclety that breeds isolation and a kind of narcissistic self-interest. The in- clination to degrade and destroy comes as a matter of course to one who is out of relationship or in improper relationship to those around him. There can be no doubt that society breeds crimes Such as rape; nor Is there any doubt that we as in- dividuals are-always shaping society, It Is the proverbial vicious circle, as are most recurring human problems and there is no solution in dreaming up forms of punishment or deterrants. Neither is censorship of sexually oriented books, films and magazines a viable course of action, nor yet endless studies an how, when and where rape takes place. The depressing truth is that the onus here is, as It always Is, on the individual to see how he and his: fellows are contributing to the pressure that creates crime and, in this case, rape and simply. cease to do $0. BSA taToh aa aan esioecaee cet e uericte ietetzeen It would - S kagway _ SKAGWAY, Alaska (AP) — Once the crossroads of gold seekers and ‘outlaws, only dust devils stalk the still-unpaved streets of this Klondike Gold Rush town of boardwalks and false- fronted buildings. The whole town turned out Saturday, however, to remember those turn-of-the- century days when a youn lad could play pool wi Jack London and watch an % infamous outlaw be killed in “ a gunfight on main street. The townsfolk were celebrating the opening of the Klondike Historical Park, a United States- Canadian project to com- memorate the hoardes of stampeders who triggered one of the last gold rushes on the North American con- tinent. Skagway is the headquarters of the new international park. The park stretches from Seattle’s Pioneer Square to the killer “Trail of 98’ leading north from Skagway across SORRY = DON'T GET ‘OME N TIME To BE NOUW 7 THE KLONDIKE HISTORICAL PARK Chilkoot Pass to the Kion- dike gold fields in Canada's Yukon Territory, Seattle was the jiimping off point for those struck with gold fever. It was a beautiful day in the now quiet town of 950 that {s nestled against mountain peaks that form an awesome barrier to the wilderness interior: of Alaska and Canada. It once, however, was home to 20,000. : The rush began when the July 17, 1897, issue of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer announced: “The SS Portland, heading for Seattle out of St. Michael, Alaska, steamed down to Seattle this morning with a ton of gold aboard,” The story was no exagger- ation. When the gold was weighed, it came to two ns. But it didn’t matter, The stampede to the Klondike and Northwest Canada was on. Ships came jammed with treasure seekers, cattle, horses, food, equipment and outlaws like Jefferson Randolph “Soapy’’ Smith. A Northwest Mounted Police report of 1896 said 5,000 pergons arrived in the month of February alone. The same report says the town quickly became ‘‘Ilttle ‘better than hell on earth." “Every other place was a saloon or a gambling parl was the leader of t gangster people who would rob your money by hook or crook,” ‘recalled oltitimer “Bobby” Sheldon. Sheldon is one of the few remaining witnesses to the gunfight that claimed soapy ’s” life, Sheldon, who left Skagway in 1908 and now lives in Fairbanks, was 15 when the shooting oc- curred on July 8, 1898. He was standing about 150 feet away. The unsavory Smith had gotten his name because of a con game in which he sold $1 soap bars he falsely claimed i or. or a pool hall. An poapy remembers its sassy were wrapped in bills Chilkoot Pass. ranging from $5 to $60. Somehow Frank Reid, an early arrival, and “Soapy tangled. A gun battle followed and both men were fatally injured. Sheldon remembers that no one would go near Sapy “He -was sprawied out with his Stetson lying there ... but nobody dared put his feet together to place his hands over his heart. They didn't dare show sympathy for fear somebody would pull out a gun.” A kid could have some fun even amid ite tough ines “T got pretty good a and used to play with Jack London on his way to Dawson,’ Sheldon recalled. As bad as things were in Skagway, the miners really had tough ‘cing when.they hit the trail for Whitehorse and Dawson points beyond. Dead Horse Gulch, 19 miles from Skagway, was named for the 3,000 pack animals who perished in the climb over 3,789-foot sh TIVE FOUGHT THiS FIGHT Ys 4 eLNDRED TIMES OVER is. ME MIND = eee _ Only way to conservation | is to hurt user’s wallet NEW YORK (AR) — ‘The debate in Congress over President Jimmy Carter’s energy program raises the question of how much Americans should pay for the ojl they use s0 wastefully. The aim of the proposed National Energy Plan is to induce conservation by Making energy cost more while at the same time making the transition gradual enough so that the increases do not work undue hardship. _ While there is growing agreement that energy should cst more, opinion is split on whether to achieve higher oil prices through taxation, as the president proposes, or through removal of price controls, For years following the Second World War the world rice of oil stayed at about 3 a barrel. The U.S. im- posed import quotas in 1959 Oo protect domestic producers from, a flood of cmeap foreign crude. The creation of the Organ- ization of Petroleum Ex- porting Countries (OPEC) in 1960 reflected a nationalist trend in which less-developed countries sought control over their own natural resources. OPEC was a relatively powerless group when the rice Of domestic oil was ixed under. the 1971 economic stabilization pregram. During that year, foreign producers started demanding and getting higher prices. Within two ears, OPEC set prices for Ye own members and regulated its production go it was in balance with world oil] demand. Then the price situation was reversed and it was only the retention of controls CARTER’S ENERGY POLICY that kept domestic prices from soaring. Changes in the in- ternational oi] picture, especially the fourfold price increase of the OPEC cartel in 1973, created pressures that have kept a ceiling on domestically produced oil. The Cost of Living Council devised a two-tier price stem in 1973 that limited e price of socalled old oil to $4.25 a barrel and allowed KINGSTON, Ont. (CP) — A therapy program for tapists has been 100-per- cent successful with. . par- ticipants within prisons and 7S-per-cent successful with participants outside prison, The program, using aversion therapy, was in- stigated by psychologist William Marshall and has operated from the Kingston Regional Psychiatric Centre since November, 1973. Speaking about his work with rapists in Kingsten penitentlaries at a rape symposium of Queen’s University, Marshall said. the aversion therapy pro- am “tries to find out what ng them (rapists) on and do something about it.” Astudy done on convicted rapists showed they had r social relations, par- icularly heterosexual ones, Men who rape are uptight about their masculinity and are generally inept, he said. “For some of .these fellows, aggression against a woman js a turn-on, What what was defined as new oil -to sell at the market price. Following the OPEC oil embargo in October, 1973, the average celling price of old oj) increased to $5.25 a barrel. President Gerald Ford sought to eliminate gradually price controls on domestic crude oil bit in late 1975 he gave in to Congress who would not ap prove higher prices to = AN' EACH TIME 2 WAS KayO'S | contro! consumption and encourage production. The compromise they agreed to set a ceiling of $11.28 a barrel for new oil that had been selling at $12.50 to $13 and it forced a. reduction in the average price of crude Oil produced the U.S. to $7.66 from about $8.75 a barrel. Price controls on domestic oi] are scheduled to expire in May, 1978. BUT THERAPY SUCCESSFUL _ Fear and guilt linger on for scarred rape victims we want to do is decrease their interest in these ex- citement-producing things Detective-Sgt. Michael Breen and Constable Linda Paul of the Kingston police department, also panelists at the symposium, said they follow a rape case from the initial report to the com- pletion of trial and appeals. They said only two rape cases were reported to Kingston police in the last: year despite the department ing open seven days a week, 24 hours a day. Dr. Hugh Gorwell, a. gynecologist at Kingston and increase their appro- priate arousal to mutually consenting sex, : “It is impossible to dis- tinguish any features of women that will deter or altract a rapist,” Marshall - said. “Provocative behavior seems to be the least con- sistent characteristic— I think it seems to turn them Those imprisoned for ra usually are criminals already, he said. “They have a long history. of criminal behavior. On an* average, rapists have five previous foen-sex con- vietions,”” . Getteral Hospital, said medical staff assess physical damage to a victim’ and collect evidence to send to the forensic laboratories in Toronto when the victim decides to press charges. A victim must decide quickly whether she will lay charges since evidence must be gathered im- mediately, he said. Eva Horvatch, a coun- sellor with the Ottawa Rape Centre, said her main concern is what happens to a victim after the offence, T centre provides crisis in- - tervention at the time of the Offence and Jong-term counselling, She said one woman at- tending the centre still lives with fear and guilt after being raped five years ago, Mary Poile, a Kingston lawyer, said the law tries to balance the rights of the accused and the rights of the A-tailroad, the narrow- gauge White Pass and Yukon Route, was built to connect Skagway with the Interior and speed the miners on their way. Work began at a frantic pace in the spring of °98 and it was completed in two years. It follows one of the steepest railroad .grades in North America and workmen had to be suspended from ropes to drill and blast. -When the miners reached either Chilkoot or White Pass they entered British Columbia, but borders went unnoticed. ‘The early stampeders Small is large is An Oxford-educated woman from Wales says modern cities face two ossible fates, whether ey’re a healthy Dallas or a decaying New York. The book, Falling Apart: The Rise and Fall of Urban Civilization, by Elaine Morgan, traces the history of cities from the time the Israelites toppled Jericho to today when urban walls from New York to Bangkok threaten to crumble. WILDLIFE ~REFUGE WHITEHORSE, Yukon (CP) — The International Wildlife Range Society, which is seeking establish- ment of a wildlife refuge acrogs the northern Yukon, is calling on all govern- ments concerned to look at management of the Por- cupine cariboo herd as a priority. . The society held its annual meeting here Saturday and elected a Bob Sh of Whitehorse to succ Dr. Andrew Thompson of Vancouver as president, Thompson said the Berger Report’s recommendation - Of a wilderness park and the fact that decisions on pipeline development in the - north will soon be made. - have given the society en- couragement for making — new ‘initiatives. The group has been seeking establishment of a wildlife refuge since 1972 but had been told by the federal government that decisions on pipelines and Indian land claims would have to‘come first. Thompson said the park propesed in the Berger Report is in the same area as the sdciety’s proposed wildlife range and the two ideas are compatible. Meanwhile, Indian and Northern Affairs Minister Warren Allmand said he e8 to release a northern policy paper in July.. victim, Debra Lewis, a member of the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre and co-author of the book Rape—the Price of Coercive Sexuality, which soon will be released, ad- vocates removing rape from the Criminal Code and in- cluding it under assault, She said that in rape cases the fact that the woman does not give consent to the sexual act is crucial in courts. In other acts, no such proof is needed. The abéence of consent in rape cases should be a secondary issue, she said. Crown attorneys: are reluctant to proceed with some cases where the victim is not a good witness, e@ said, “If the police’s initial reaction to-a victim is that she is intoxicated, there’s no chance the case will go to court,” she said. ‘In preliminary hearings from 1970-1973, there were no con- victions where the victim was drunk and the offender wasn't. . Jearn only knew where they were joing and why ... Man-made ines On a map identifying litical divisions were of ittle concern,’’ Warren Allmand, Canadian minister of Indian Affairs and nor- thern development, said Saturday. , Allmand, who represented Canada at the park opening, said park planners have worked hard to preserve the international element of the area’s history. Canada is developing the Canadian portion of the trail with plans calling for the 13,00-acre U.S. park to officially become an in- ternational park later. stable; chaotic Miss Morgan dismisses the idea of a well-oiled ur- banized world, that better ways to pick up garbage, wipe out poverty and crime and bring city and suburb into harmony will be found. Her book says the world either will continue its present course toward huge cities and what she calls an unsolvable mess, or people will learn that “small is stable.” The problem lies in why cities exist. Miss Morgan says that 5,000 years ago farmers settled on fertile land and produced more than they could use. “Atsome point the benefi- ciaries of the work became separated from the per- formers,’’ she says. pomebody got the bright idea: ‘With crops like’ that, he could grow enoughfor 0. ” : . Soon craps were taxed, ad artisans built tools for the farmer to produce even more food. Then the farmer was @ service consumer, and those who provided the services needed his food. Laws and accountants were needed. Rulers, armies and gods lent legitimacy to the enterprise, and cities were rn, For most of history, cities relied on the country poor, the colonized or the en- slaved to create surpluses ‘needed to build and feed them, Miss Morgan says cities always have sapped their rural surroundings of goods and talent. Eve now, when most cities only promise newcomers a slum, hope of, a better life for their children draws the young and talented to the city. Until a century ago, rural areas fuelled the city, It was - cheap and plentiful and cities produced things. Along the way, cities that coal and oi! led to wealth. ; But lately, those living Outside established metropolitan’ areas realized that they could build a metropolis in the country. _ New metropolitan areas sprang up near coal fields, in places where larger, ‘more modern factories could be built, The wealth that older cities orice monopolized now flooded into newer cities. Miss Morgan says the bigger and more con- centrated a city is, the more it favors services over production and the poor arrive ill-equipped to enter an increasingly white-collar job market, Turning to nuclearnpower would suppl ample energy. Cities would grow again but the size and complexity of urban problems. would reach unimagined proportions, The other choice is to harness the sun and earth heat and get rural aid but that would mean smaller engines, smaller factories and imaller cities, if cities all, mo This course would be difficult and the ad-- justments would take years, Miss Morgan said. The big-city rich would | have the means to leave urgatt disaster areas while the rest suffer the- con sequences of dwindlin resources. Those left behin would rebuild “with soberer: expectations and . fewer usions of grandeur.”