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PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Friday, May 2, 978

Editorial

I would rather write a simple sincere poem
that brings joy to the heart of one child than a
best selling book that says nothing.

To write about “Mother’s Day” is more of a
challenge to one who wishes to be sincere, than
perhaps any other topic, because so much that
one reads about Mother's Day is rubbish.

1 cannot -bring myself to think of my own
Mother without feeling the wellsprings of
emotion swelling inside me, clouding my reason
and blotting out everything else. How do others
really feel?

There are some things that are just too sacred
<o expose. We cover them up, in shyness and
almost embarrassment, because we fear the
public gaze almost as much as we fear public
ridicule,

“Make fun of me, yes,” we might say, “‘but not
of the unspoken bond between the woman who
bore me, and suffered so much for me, and
understood me better than anyone else ever
can.” ‘

Looking over some of the entries submitted in
the “I love my Mother because’ HERALD
contest - of which there were 789 when the con-
test closed- and more are still coming in - you
will notice there are. recurring themes. One of
the most common is, “‘I love my Mother because

she (first) loves (loved) me.’’ To any person who
is even remotely familiar with the Bible -
especially the New Testament - this will have an
almost sacred ring to it.

When I was a boy, I heard about a barn nearby
that burned. The farmer, in cleaning up after a
fire, discovered a mother hen who, though
burned to death, had managed to save her chicks
by shielding and protecting them with her own

y. ;
This, to me, denotes the essence of Motherhood
in stark but beautiful simplicity. '

Many years later, when in the Canadian North,
I learned of an Eskimo mother on southern
Baffin who fought with her bare hands and
successfully retrieved her baby from the jaws of
a polar bear who had snatched the child she was
carrying from the hood of her parka. In those
two instances I could see the common bond of
Motherhood that exists not only among all races
but also between different species - even between
humans and animals.

Behind the scenes of this year’s Mother’s Day,
another and different drama was being enacted
that, to me, says a great deal. I almost hesitate
to reveal it in case some readers might think it is
just another commercial promotion. You'll just
have to believe me or not...

-P.C. Feud

Ottawa, - Now it comes clear. ..the reason, real
or imagined, for former Prime Minister John
Diefenbaker’s lack of enthusiasm for Con-
servative Leader Joe Clark.

Think back 12 years to 1966 when former
Conservative Party president Dalton Camp's
campaign to topple Dief from the leadership was
clearing the field for Robert Stanfield.

Ever the consummate actor, The Chief,
shocked and shattered, didn’t neglect to get off
those memorable lines: I’ll lay me down to bleed
awhile and then I'll rise and fight again.

But amid the dramatics he noted--and has long
remembered—that Lowell Murray and Joe Clark
were active in Dalton Camp’s successful palace
revolution.

Lowell Murray, like Joe Clark, remained at
work in the party's backrooms after the coup,
both, at various times, as hands in Robert
Stanfield’s new leadership staff.

Now Joe is leader--which to Dief appears to
seem bad enough-and has appointed: Lowell
Murray Conservative National Campaign
Chairman.

And that is more than The Chief hag been able; :

to take quietly. ad eS

He is scoffing at the idea of Lowell Murray
organizing, much less winning, a campaign; and
while saying very little has done nothing to assist
Joe Clark personally,

While anything like a “rift’’ is being denied
vigorously on all sides, there is a difference—of
opinion--among the Conservatives on philosophy,
thrust and direction.

Joe Clark allows it to appear that he is a lot
closer to such “Red Tories” as Flora and David
MacDonald than to such more right wing, and
basically Conservatives, as Stan Darling and
Allan Lawrence.

In fact, Dief seems to be mounting an election
campaign of his own-independent altogether
from that of Joe Clarkin appearing at rallies for
Mr. Lawrence in Northumberland-Durham, Stan
Darling in Parry Sound-Muskoka, and David
Crombie in Rosedale.

Ottawa Offbeat

Count on seeing him, too, on platforms with
Dan McKenzie of Winnipeg South Centre and
Alvin Hamilton of Qu’Appelle-Moose Mountain,
among other constituencies west of the
Lakehead.

Gddest thing of all is that the Conservative
campaign—the ‘official’? one, that is, the one
directed by Joe Clark's organization--seems to
be making no use of Dief’s talents.

And this bothers him.

Enormously.

The Old Chief--and those veteran loyalists who,
like the early settlers in the West, are closing
their protective covered wagons around him--
lament that ke is the greatest campaigner of
them all, |

His 1958 election record of 208 Conservative
seats remains unchallenged.

But Joe Clark, the campaign organizers, and
the party’s election strategists not only haven’t
offered--but in fact denied--The Chief time on the
networks.

They have made a point of not asking him to
help in any way.

*="They Have gone out of their way not to consult . *

‘tiim; much less ask his advice.
Or so he says.
With regret.

_ So, to keep his hand in—working is what keeps
him alive and active as ever at 82—-Dief has taken
to running a parallel campaign.

It all goes back to Dalton Camp and, as Con-
servative Party President and Nova Scotia MP
Bob Coates called it, ‘The Night of the Knives,”
in 1966,

Incidentally it’s not making things any easier
for Coates in his riding-to-riding migrations, pep-
talking the constituency organizations and
rallying the troops for the assault on the polls.

Coates claims—perhaps hoping the wish will
come true in time--that Joe Clark and Company
any day now will recognize Dief as The Old
Chief, full of honor and of years, if only to get him
out there huckstering on the hustings. ;

Why immigrants leave Canada

Letters
Dearsir, with the country which
Tt is disturbing in our time provides a living for them?

and age to see Canadians Many of these ‘landed im-

Canadian scene.” ‘IT was
also concerned about the
quality of Canadian schools—

them back to their native
lands.
A man, returning to

The HERALD had, as our readers all know,
promoted an, “I Love My Mother Because...”
contest with the idea, lets be honest, of attracting
much needed advertising sponsorship that would
also allow us the newspage spare to publish the
letters of those who responded. That much is not
news, However, the problems that were
presented by the overwhelming results - and
they were very much overwhelming - and how
members of the staff attempted to cope with
them , was, tome, little short of dramatic. Long,
long past closing time, a handful of people
worked, day after day, this past week, sorting
the letters, arranging , transcribing them and
hand setting them up in type- then working
equally long and hard to produce an attractive
format and copy layout for as many as possible
to be squeezed into the extra section of the paper
- 0 as to disappoint as few mothers as possible.

Mother’s Day _— The Sacred and the Profane

No one said it, but I could not help feeling that
those who were putting in the extra hours of
effort were strongly motivated by the touching
tributes in the children's letters that bespoke
their feelings towards those women who had
given them life first, and unending love from
ther on. ;

We know, all of us, and we know it all too well,
there are mothers who are not the best examples
of motherhood. We see examples of this from
time to time - and it hurts all of us; perhaps
because our senses find it incredible and we want
to refuse to believe it. ;

It is all the more timely, then, that, on this
coming Mother’s Day, 1978, we are able to
witness such a splendid outpouring of hundreds
upon hundreds upon hundreds of little letters
written by little children, singing the praises of
those they love - who first loved them,

The happiest girl on our block!

Report from the Legislature

VICTORIA - The call for the establishment of a

. British Columbia media council by Graham Lea,

a former CBC broadcaster who represents
Prince Rupert in the legislature, is one which has
been echoed by MLAs on both sides of the house.

And the MLA’s concern is one which is shared
by a great many British Columbians.

$5.6 million
for Whistler

WHISTLER TO EXPAND

native countries-leaving the
good life they came to
Canada to find. Each year

still desperately seeking an
identity--not knowing
whether to join the U.S.A,
divide up into Provincial
units or stay in the Com-
monwealth with the
Monarchy as.a unifying
symbol.

To many people the very
term Canadian means little.
What is a Canadian? Are he
and his ancestors merely
only voluntarily exiled
Europeans ggi¢,ihextiteal
Canadians belng our Native
Indians and Eskimos?

How many Europeans and
others come over here and
stay here for years, as
landed immigrants, without
wishing ever to take out
citizenship so ai to identify

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migrants’ simply return to
their own countries ofter ‘X’
number of years, or wait till
retirement and then return
home,

Much money leaves this
country regularly and is sent
home to relatives in Por-
tugal, Italy, Greece, Malta,
India, Pakistan, Yugoslavia,
the Philippines, the West
Indies ete. Many of these
immigrants also who live
and work here are quite
disgruntled with the way of
life and culture here and
form their own little Milanos
ete within citles like Toronto,
Edmonton and Vancouver.

Let us look, then at some of
the dissatisfactions, which
have already driven some of

Published by
Sterling Publishers

Canadians--] found it hard to

Holland after 16 years in
Canada, said--“‘In Canada I
achieved everything I’d
worked for.” ‘But then I
looked around at what I had
and asked myself if I was
really satisfied, and 7 had to
admit, that I ‘wasn’t
satisfied.” “I felt there was
more to life than material
success.” “The Canadians
were going s0 fast that in
their haste they'd forgotten
how to live.” “‘The driving
force in Canada was always
the dollar, and always there
was the pressure of
everyday life,” “Here, in
Holland people don’t have
personal problems, brought
on by pressures elc- the
Dutch people are more
relaxed and controlled and 1
think they are happier.”

A returning German said-
“Here in Germany 1 can go
toa nice inn and sit down and
talk and have a few drinks.”
‘In Canada If you try to do
that, the waiter’s on your
back the whole time to get
you to have another drink.”
“In Canada it’s always 8
straight dollars and cents
business,” Canadians, too,
live a superficial life-they're
preoceupled with themselves
and too busy making money
and living up with. the
Joneses." They pretend

they’re interested In you, but .

they're not really-you could
drop dead on the street, and
they’d step over you and
keep on walking.”
Someone, who returned to
the U.K. said-“I had dif-
ficulties making friends with
of

becam,.. .a... part the

it wasn’t just a maiter .of
academic education~it was a
matter of social education.

“T still think of Canada as a .

Province of the U.S.A."
“The Canadian way of life is
all built on materialism~you

know a split-level house in a.

sterile suburb, two cars, that:
sort of thing--I didn’t want
that for my children."

One returned to Italy said--
“I hated the Canadian
Winters,” and back home in
Italy stated--"look at that
aun out there and you ask
why I left Canada!”

Finally,“ a returned
Frenchman said-“I missed
the good cooking of France,”

“T was startled by the bland
taste of Canadian meats and
vegetables-you can't’ find
good vegetables in Canada--
they areall big, and although
they arsail big, and although

they look good, they don’t”

have a lot of taste— the same
goes for meat and fish-a
lot's frozen and that kills the
taste.” y

“Tn Canada, too, you work
and work at preparing and
no matier how hard you
work, you know the meal
wont tagte as it would in
France.4.

This FFenchman was also
surprised and baffled by our
liquor laws--the ‘prices of
wine and liquor, and he
loathed the businesslike and
lost conscious nature of
Canadian Restaurant

ownera, So all the
aforementioned came to
Canada, saw and did

reasonably well for them-
selves here--and then they
left and returned to their

now Canada gets fewer

immigrants and mere -and

more newcomers seem to

SOUr On Ws 80 quickly.
“PRO PATRIA"

Dennen

WILL COMPETE

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Miss Vancouver will
represent Canada at the
Miss Universe beauty
pageant this July in Mexico
City, Andrea Eng, 22, will
substitute for Miss Canada,
Catherine Swing, who is
unable to compete in the
international contest due to
matriage plans. Miss Eng, a
commerce student at the
University of British Co-
lumbia, placed second in the
Miss Canada pageant last
all.

VANCOUVER (CP) — Gari-
baldi Lifts Ltd. announced
plans Wednesday for a $5.6
million expansion at
Whistler Mountain, British
Columbia’s largest ski
resort. The plans call for the
construction of thiee new
chairlifts up the mountain's

‘ worth face which has no lifts

at present. The lifts will be
connecting and passengers
will have to take all three to
reach the mountain top, The
Jowest lift will originate at
the site of the proposed
Whistler townsite, 1.5
kilometres north of the
present ski lift area. There
are currently two lifts up the

west side of the mountain,

100 kilometres north of here.

B.C. Briefs

DOCTOR APPOINTED —

VICTORIA (CP) — Health
Minister Bob McClelland an-
nounced Wedneaday the ap-
pointment of Dr. William A,
Black to the staff of the
rovincial public health
laboratory. in Vancouver.
Black, 98, is currently with
the University Hospital and
the University of Western
Ontario in London, Ont,
TO BE FRIED

FORT ST. JAMES (CP) —
Brenda Mae Ann Prince was
committed for trial Tuesday
ona charge of causing bodily
harm with intent.to wound.
The charge was lald after
her father, Samson Prince,
87, was stabbed Nov. 7 on the
Necoslia Indian Reserve
near this central British
Columbia town,

TO BUILD NEW PLANT
“VICTORIA (CP) — The Do-
rosz Tool Co, Ltd, has been
given a conditional incentive
grant of $206,888 from the
Department of Regional
Economic Expansion, the
federal government said
Wednesday. The gov-
ernment said in a news
release the company plans to
manufacture the world's
first non-bearing tri-cone
rock bit, to be used for
seismic, mining and water
well drilling. The company
will set up a new plant in
Prince Rupert and is ex-
pected to employ 38 workers,

Some species of petrels
hardly ever return lo land
except for nest-building

purposes.

_ ifthe changes are for the better or worse.

by
Tony
MacGregor

In 1976 the B.C, Conference on the Family
recommended the formation of a monitoring
team of concerned citizens to asses the media’s
influence on society and its values. .

The conference claimed that British Colum-
bians have become desensitized by long ex-
posure to violence and abberrations and are
being taught that violence is a solution to
problems.

The report of the Special Senate Committee on -
the Mass Media in 1970 voiced similar concerns.

It called for the establishment of a press
council and urged media owners to think again
about maximizing profits by skimping on the
product.

It also urged the Canadian Daily Newspapers
Association to get together with the Canadian
Association of Broadcasters to study the social
consequences of advertising.

Lea has called for community discussions
before the formation of the council - a thought
which is also expressed in the senate report.

“Fell your local newspaper publisher you'd
like him to organize a Community Press
Council,” says the report. ‘He might get a
better idea of what his community expects from
the paper - and you might find out that it’s doing
a better job than you think,”

Lea says the media is doing a superficial job in
covering the B.C. political scene because
reporters don’t have the time or the education to
do investigative reporting.

And he says that even if enterprises genuinely
don’t make enough money to pay for in-
vestigative reporters, that’s a question that
should be examined because misinforming or
failing to inform the public is dangerous.

Few British Columbians are totally satisfied
with fhe media. numost, all have complaints in

or: another and all admit to being af-

fected by the media but the don’t quite know how
or 2 what degree,

rs. Connie Hawley, co-ordinator of the B.C.
Council for the Family, said that the delegated ta
the 1975-76 conference on the family expressed a
feeling of helplessness about the forces which
were directing them. One such foree was the
media. di

media council, independent of the go -
ment and representative of the community
would heip ‘alleviate that feeling by giving
British Columbians some real power to influence
what is | eing beamed at them.

could be a first step in finding out in wh
ways British Columbians are being changed by
the media and.will give them a chance to find out

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