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Conditioned
for adulthood

When a boy hits the age of puberty, he tends, at
least in this society, to become fascinated with
sex in a voyeuristic kind of way. At the same
time he has a tendency to become loud and
opinionated and attracted to symbolic power and
prestige objects such as sleek or unique
automobiles and stylish clothes. At that age the
unbridled energy of his boyhood becomes
channeled into the acting out of a role, a self-
image.

All of this seems inevitable and perhaps
natural, but a chronic failing in man appears to
be his inability te grow out of it. The host of
magazines full of grinning dingbat women in
ludicrous poses, the current obsession with the
physiology of sex in movies, and the ubiquity of
the humorous “dirty” joke epitomize man’s
shiggering, “gee whiz” approach to a human
function which is no more or less important than
any other.

The attachment to status-associated objects
also persists into what is perhaps mistakenly
called manhood and apparent successes in
society can change the confidence of the child,
which is based on nothing but “joi de vivre’’ into
the arrogance of the adult which has as its

foundation the self-glorification of past deeds. —

In pursuit of what they call “liberation”,
women’s groups now cry out for the right to be as
childish as men have been. Magazines with
glossy photos of naked men and pseudo-
intellectual articles depict sexual associations
which come about as close to true human
relationship as nose-picking to neuro-surgery.

The right to remain pubescent seems to be
everyone’s demand and the problems that en-
tangle our relationships, both personal and
societal, are more a result of this malfunction
than anything intrinisic to the structure and
environment in which we live.

Let's face it. When all the philosophies have
been expounded, all the devious politicking has
been tried, when all the sonorous grandiloquent
speeches have been made, differences such as
those between union and management that have
caused so much strife in this province often seem
like little more than the childish quibblings of
spoiled brats. ,

All the talk of historic workers’ movements or
the free enterprise system does not alter the fact
that everyone is out to grab what he can for
himself. In that way we are like looters on the
earth, snatching whatever we can get our hands
on before the supply runs out. ©

And now, as the supply, in fact, begins to run
out, we all look for someone else to blame. Into’
this rather absurd situation, we bring children.
We talk very seriously of the need for proper
education and the right of our offspring to grow
up free and comfortable. We try to mold them
according to our concept of what a child should:
be, but what is the point? What they learn is what

_ they see.

Education, like everything else in society, is
shaped and directed by those who were shaped
and directed yesterday. We operate from the
plateau of conditioning and without turning our
attention to that conditioning we expect our
actions to have significance.

Bringing children up into an essentially
neurotic society, riddled with belligerence, self
pre-occupations, lopsided fixations on certain
life functions, and the non-regenerative use of
the life force, we argue among ourselves over
what form their learning should take. What is the
point?

By the time the child gets to school he has
already learned enough to shape his future life.
What does it matter if he goes to a progressive
school or a conservative one, if the teachers who
influence him do not know themselves; if they
unconsciously pass their conditioning on to the
students?

As long as our attention moves outward from
our conditioned foundation, without ever turning
to examine that foundation, all change will
remain superficial and inconsequential. ‘‘Plus
ca change, plus e’est la meme chose.”

Similarly, until people as individuals turn their

attention onto their own lives and mature in their
understanding of themselves, all our talk of
properly raising and educating the citizens of
tomorrow will be, at best, wishful thinking.

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LENNOXVILLE, Que.
{CP) — The Apple Grove
Cemetary Association in the
small town of Beebe, near
the American border, must
adopt a French name under
a Parti. Quebecois bill in-
tended to preserve the
French language in Quebec.

But English-speaking
residents in Quebec's
Eastern Townships are not
convinced that giving the
Apple ‘Grove Cemetery—
which dates back to 1812—a
French name, will tip the
balance and save French
from extinction.

Lawyer George
MacLaren, who sits on the
Beebe town council, told a
public meeting recently the
‘cemetery must have a
French name by 1983 under
a, provision of Bill 1, the
government's controversial

anguage law.

About 120
townships attending the
meeting in St. George’s
Anglican Church in Len-
noxville made it clear that
although they area minority
now, it was their ancestors
whofirst settled the area 200
years ago. _—

They expressed fear and
anger about the effects of
the proposed Jaw and said
they were concerned about
the survival of the English
language in the townships.

“We're being penalized
for a situation that exists in
Montreal,’”’ said Anne
MacLaren.

Gerald Godin, the PQ
assembly member who
defeated former premier
Robert Bourassa in Mercier
riding in Montreal, agreed
that the language conflict is

primarily a - Montreal
problem.

Defending the govern-
ment’s position at the

forum, Godin said a
declining. birthrate amon
Francophones, combin

with the assimilation of

immigrants to the English-
speaking community in
ontreal, means the city

will become ever more |

anglophone’ unless

something is done.

Godin said the PQ govern-
ment felt it had a duty to
rotect French culture in
North America
described Frenchspeaking
Quebecers as “‘an en-

dangered species, just like ©

the storks and the blue
whales.”

He cited studies indicating
that people who speak only

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English ave the highest per.

‘wAND I WANT You

EDMONTON (CP) - Anne
Anderson is trying to save
from extinction one of the
first languages spoken oii
the Prairies.

The 71-year-old grand-
mother recently published
her second Cree-English
dictionary and has more
than 30 copyrights on other
books on the language of the
Cree Indians.

It's a language the natives
never committed to writin,
and Mrs. Anderson, who ha
a proud Cree mother, is
afraid it will die if it’s not on

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retired nurse, she
teaches regular classes in
Cree from the office of her
company, Cree Productions,
as well as holding a teaching
job at Grant MacEwan
Community College.

“T know I'm of retiring
age, but I just feel that I'm
not in my seventies, and I
want to keep going,” said
Mrs. Anderson.

She speaks passionately of
the importance of her work.

“The Indian must read
and write his own language.
It's the only way to preserve
the culture.”

“They complain that the
white man has taken
everything away from
them, but what are they
doing to preserve it?”
STUDENTS MOSTLY
WHITE

Most of her students are

NEW DICTIONARY
Cree an endangered tongue?

non-ative professionals such
as nurses, social workers
and lawyers who work in
northern -Alberta where
Cree is spoken by older
residents. .
The Indians who do sign

up for classes in Cree have a —

hard time, said Mrs. An-
derson, because many have
dropped out of the white
educational system and
have little understanding of
grammar.

“The white man now is

preserving our language,”
she said frankly, but noted
interest among native young
people is growing.

“The native people never
thought they’d have to write

. their language down.”

In the traditional culture,
an Indian became a fully-
educated adult at 14, after
he had learned language
legends, prayers, herba
remedies and food
preparations from his
elders.

But it's different now.
There is so much pressure to
become part of white society

that the Indian has denied .

his own culture and even
become ashamed of it, said
Mrs. Anderson,
TEACH PRIDE
Indian parents must teach
their children to be proud of
their heritage and their
language. ;
“When I was a child, I
wanted to be Indian, I

wanted to be just like my
mother. There was nothing

‘she couldn't do.”

Although Mrs. Anderson's
father was of Scottish-
French descent, all 10
children Pe up speaking
Cree and learning native
customs.

It was her love and
respect for her mother
which was partly respon-
sible for Mrs. . Anderson’s
decision to start teaching
Cree in 1968.

In 1970, she published the
world’s first, Cree-English
dictionary by going through
a Winston dictionary and
then transcribing page by

page.

She found that the early
missionaries had tried to
record native languages,
but failed because of their
mistaken pronunciation.

So she decided to write her
language as it,sounded. The
result, and the system now
used across the continent,
employed only 15 letters of
the English alphabet, in-
cluding vowels.

“T've had so many people
say it’s so simple.’

ONLY SIX SOUNDS .

There are only six major
sounds in this language,
making it possible for a

erson with a good

owledge of English to
teach Cree after only eight
months of instruction, said
Mrs, Anderson.

and .

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Terence Herard

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capita ‘income in Quebec—
higher even than English-
peaking people who are
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Although French-
speaking Quebecers are the
majority in the province,
they earn less on average

- than anglophones, he said,

and knowledge of English
has been the key to
promotion.

Under the language bill,
the children of newcomers
to Quebec would be chan-
nelled into French schools.

But Godin acknowledged
that English Canadians
have deep roots in the
townships and are “‘a very
vital part of Québec
culture.”

“This entitles you to your
rights,” he said, “‘You are
not a minority that we can
push around and try and
make disappear.”

Her first dictionary was so
well received that she
published an expanded
version last December and
is hoping for a federal grant
to put out an improved third
edition.

She explained that with
the revival of the language
comes a demand for Cree
equivalents for new English
words, such as television.

Cree nouns are classified

as inanimate or animate, |

much as French nouns are
either masculine or
ferninine.

_ Television became the
inanimate version of the
Cree word for prophet,
which, literally translated,
means someone or
something that “tells things
that are.”

HAS NEW LINE

Mrs. Anderson now is-

looking at producing audio-
visual materials for Cree
instruction and taping In-
dian legends told by elders
for transcription into both
Cree and English,

Her publications have
been used across Canada
and as far away-as Poland.
One unexpected result was
that a tribe of California
Indians who had long ago
lost their original language
decided to use Mrs. An-
derson's books to develop
Cree as their new tongue.

The English of the
townships look to Len-
noxville, with a population
of 4,000, as a cultural centre.
The town is home of
Bishop’s University as well
asa private boardin;
school, a junior college an
a regional, high school—all
anglophone institutions.

In the summer English-
language theatre thrives at
Festival Lennoxville, in
Bishop’s Centennial
Theatre. ;

The townships area is one
of a handful of Quebec
regions where pockets of
English groups remain.
Only. 6.2 per cent of
Quebecers outside Montreal
claim English as their
mother tongue. _o

“When we're talking
about the English-speaking
people of the townships,
we're talking about roughly
60,000 individuals with their
own hopes and dreams—
their different jebs— their
lack of jobs in many cases,”
said George MacLaren. —

“We're a small minority,
we have our own institudons
and we're certainly not
assimilating anyuody.”. -

But MacLaren said he felt
the language charter is
perpetuating a myth in
asserting that ‘the French
language has always been
the language of the Quebec
people.”

French always has been
spoken by the majority of
Quebecers, he agreed, “but
it has not been the language
of the Quebec people for
over 200 years unless I
myself and most of us here
are excluded from being
Quebecois,”

“will we ever be
Quebecois if we choose not
to be assimilated?"
MacLaren asked.

_ A man in the audience
said he had found a

document among old family

pers which show that his
amily, the Ives, had
received land grant No. 7
from the British Land Co.

The first house that was
built in 1802 is {till on the
Georgeville road and there
are 75 Iveses in the litle

~ cemetery tight' beside it,”
“he said re

calmly.

“Now I think my rights
are being infringed upon if
I’m not allowed to speak my
own language. I think the
earned my right to spea
English.”

Godin noted that he did
not feel like ‘a stranger in a
strange land’’ among
townships people, because
for the last 10 years he has
spent most of his weekends
in the nearby community of
North Hatley. .

A woman, describing
herself as the former

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secretary-treasurer -of
‘plain Hatley,’’ to dis-
tinguigh it from North
Halley where many affluent
Montrealsers own country
houses, asked abcut the fate
of small farming com-

‘speaking, Applicatior'of the

proposed langua|
would require the minutes of
town meetings to be kept in
French, .

Murray Powell, a farmer
from Waterville, six miles
south of Lennoxville, said he
had voted for the Parti
Quebecois but considered
Bill 1 “a rotten piece of
legislation.”

‘It is against all the things
that the greatness and

romise of Canada stand
or... and I will not permit
an inbred group of oddities
in the upper righthand
corner of the Ni Amer-
ican continent to crush, to
openly discriminate and to
legislate against the things
that are correct.

‘7 have two children and
those two children shall live
in one Canada, united from
sea to sea,” Powell said.

“And if T have to sacrifice
everything that I have
worked for until now and
everything that I have—
including my life—then by
the living Christ, this fall the
red on the maple trees will
be equal to the blood of a
people that will stand and
say, this land is for all men
and fer everyone to be
equal.”

Powell’s remarks were
applauded, and one member
of the audience turned to a
reporter and said: “Did you
et that down? I want to see

at in the paper.”

But several others said.
Powell spoke only for
himself.

“I don’t thing blood and

tolerance mix very well,”

Godin said.

Some criticism directed at
the bill borderednon
hysteria, includin
references to “Nazi’’ and
“Gestapo,'? Goditt'skid, an
this kind of dttitiide’cloud
the issue and prevented
government from seeing
what shoul be changed in the
aw.

“Hw can you com:
what the Gestapo ‘did tp
what we are or”
he asked trying

“It’s the first step,” a
woman in the audience

replied.

‘The peak of the iceberg,
eh? It's as short as that and
there is nothing under the
water,"" Godin shot back,

“Tt’s all there.”' she said.

Liberals face
election test

MONTREAL (CP) —
The six federal byelections
scheduled for next Tuesday
are regarded by many as a
prelude, if Liberals do weil,

a full general election
later this year.

And the Liberals are
reating the last week of the
byelection campaign as the
real thing. n Prime
Minister Trudeau visita
Quebee City and Montreal
later this week,
will be on hand for the first
time in this: hard-fought
campaign.

Liberals are ready to
charter an aircraft to carry
newsmen to Prince Edward
Island on Thursday night to
cover Trudeau's speech at
Kensington, a community in
Malpeque, a riding last held
by rogressive Con-
servatives,

On the Quebec leg of the t
ip, Trudeau will visit the
our ridings left vacant by
the resignation or death of
Liberal members,
Temiscamingue, the fifth
Quehec riding in the byelec-
tions, was held by the late
Social Credit leader Real
Caouette.

Although Liberals are
doing well in public opinion
polls and  Trudeau’s
popularity is high in Quebec,
at least one of the former
Liberal seats is in Jeopardy
and hard battles are being

‘fought in two of the others.

Conservative Leader Joe
Clark and Trudeau crigs-
cross on their campaign
swings in five of the six
ridings this week—all but
Temiscamingue.

Despite talk of a general
election, Liberal workers

ress buses |

are inclined to repeat Andre
Quellet’s comment that the
party would be happy to win

of the five Quebec
seats, which would mean a
net loss of one, Ouellet. is
urban affairs minister in the
Trudeau cabinet and chief
organizer for the five
byelections in Quebec.

“at ,
ISCAMINGUE: Con-
servative candidate Nor-

Caouette, the son of Real
Caouette, and Liberal.
Gaston Pratte, 45, an in-
surance agent and ski-resort
owner. Trudeau visited the
riding two weeks ago, Clark,
may 0 again this weekend,
an ial Credit Leader
Andre Fortin has con-
centrated his efforts here.
Broadbent was in the riding
last week but NDP can-
didate Real Bellehumeur is
not regarded as a serlous
threat. —

VERDUN: Verdun city |
councillor Raymond Savard
has his hands full with two
aggressive. opponents—
Conservative jerrette
Lucas, 37, and New Demo-
crat Phil Edrmonston, 33.
Clark visits Verdun again
Thursday, ‘Trudeau on
Friday, and Broadbent will
campaign Sunday in the
riding.
LANGELIER: Liberal
candidate is Mayor Gilles
Lamontagne, 58, of Quebec
who may have trouble with
Conservative Maurice
Hamel, 43, son of a former
mayor. Trudeau visits
Thursday and Clark onn-
Friday, ‘