PAGE 4, THE HERALO, Tuesday June 21, 1977 the herald) Published by Sterilng Publishers Ltd. Terrace - 635-6357 , Kitimat - 632-5706 Cirevlation - 635-2677 PUBLISHER... GOROON W, HAMILTON MANAGING EDITOR... ALLAN KRASNICK KITIMAT MANAGER... W.S, ‘KIM’ KIMBLE CIRCULATION MANAGER... JACK JEANNEAU Published every weekday at 3212 Kalum St. Terrace B.C. A member of Varifled Circulation, Authorized as second class mall, Registration number 1201, Postage pald in cash, return fasiage guaranteed. NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald retains full.complete and sole copyright In any advertisement produced and-or any editorial or photographic content published In the Herald. Repraduction is not permitted without the written permlision of the tunrt oft ae Publisher. ‘ They deserve your support Canvassers are right now knocking on doors of houses and businesses in Terrace, seeki contributions for the annual March of Dimes campaign, It’s an important project and one that all residents should support. Campaigns like this, besides the obvious good they. do to _ recipients, provide clear evidence that the volunteer spirit lives on. This year, organizers from the Moose Lodge hope to collect $2,500 in contributions. That’s considerably more than canvassers garnered in 1976 but there’s reason behind the higher aspirations and with community effort, we can meet the challenge. ; The funds are earmarked for expensive, sophisticated but necessary facilities at Vancouver's Children’s Hospital. This past year, 72 Terrace and area youngsters were treated at the lower mainland centre, double the © previous year’s total. _ At Children’s Hospital about half the patients are from rural areas - many from northern communities. Last year, almost four thousand tients were admitted to the wards of the ospital from the 193 towns in the province. Innovations in patient care services provided by the institution include a pediatric allergy unit, a diagnostic centre, aday care surgery unit, and a clinical investigation facility ward. The hospital provide highly specialized patient care programs that cannot economically be supplied in smaller centres. - Many of the hospital’s programs are not funded by the provincial treasury. But the lack provincial sanction” ‘doesn’t diminish “the - “suffering of a disease. It only increases the need’ for help. Though public funds are not earmarked for propertreatment. of these problems, the concerns nevertheless exist and the Children's Hospital helps meet the needs. Facilities must he developed or purchased. Idness can be a traumatic experience for a child, but it can be lessened in an environment geared to one’s special needs and peopled by those who understand these special needs. Children’s Hospital, assisted by March of Dimes funds, is a place where pediatric specialists are available. It’s a place where the skills of many specialists are combined in the team. approach to treatment. It’s a place where the facilities and equipment that are crucial in the treatment of sick children are available. The Children's Hospital has one purpose: to give children the best possible medical care. That’s a tall order and one that can only be met with public support for research and the collection of new ideas, techniques, and -, r, Ferry rates still Wander along the streets of Tofino or Ucluelet these days, or stroll along Long Beach, and you can't help but wonder where all the people are. We don’t, of course, mean the residents of the area - they’re still highly visible as they trundle off to work or do repairs on their fish boats, or have coffee with friends in a local cafe. What we do mean is tourists. This area is noticeably empty of that special breed of person these days, considering the time of year and the excellent weather that the west coast has been enjoying. There are hardly even any hitch-hikers on the roads, much less motor homes in the parking lots of Pacific Rim National Park. The beaches, essentially, are deserted despite the lure of blue skies and sparkling water. The campgrounds aren't overly full, and even restaurants and coffe shops during their usual rush hours aren’t all that crowded. Some of them are Guest editorial Where then, have all the tourists gone? And even more important, is there any chance that they’re going to show up at.e summer? Granted, it may bea little early to be making any bets on what the tourist business on the coast is going to be like this season. Despite the fact that the B.C. Ferries Corporation has lowered ferry fares toa very minor extent this summer, tourist-oriented business operators on the Island this year are going to have plenty to contend The major problem at this point appears to be the backlash from last summer's rip-off ferry rates, which strung those with campers and motor homes -and stung them hard. Those folks may well never return to our island, and meanwhile they'll be spreading the stories back home about how much it cost them to get over here. It’s not, to put things simply, the greatest when it comes to publicity. scare away to roblem, however, would be a massive advertising earn ign outlining the new rates. Obviously the combined Chambers of Commerce on the weat coast don’t have that kind of money, and ive certainly unlikely that the provincial government would pick up the tab for nation-wide advertising. It may be a tough summer again for tourist business operators on the west coast, and this year it can’t be blamed (at least, not yet) on lousy weather. Neither, it might be noted, can the American Bicentennial be used as a scapegoat,’ The only thing that can be blammed this year, if indeed the tourist business is bad again, is the provincial government's short-sightedness last summer in hiking the ferry rates, and the fact that there’s going.to be a lot of backlash as a result. Alberni Valley Times. urists - even half-empty. The only thing that could counteract that sort of A. Journalists look in ’ But this time, WASHINGTON (CP) — .U.S. newspapers, which in the last four years chronicled a lengthy series of scandals in the White House and Congress, are beginning to examine allegations of abuse of power by another group— themselves. As the glory of their Watergate reporting fades, . U.S. journalists are coming under increasing criticism from political leaders who charge the national news media with cynically un- dermining public confidence in government, The complaints appear to + many journalists are wondering publicly whether — the politicians may indeed be right. - Washington news media have been giving increasing prominence to the debate. ‘any columnists are saying that . they and = their colleagues have been guilty of going overboard in commentary, assuming the role of opposition to government and giving excessive play to damaging stories. . One group of journalists is in the process of starting a was sparked by a Wisconsin Democrat in the House of Representatives, David y. . Obey, chairman of the House commission on administrative review, says he wants an inquiry into free services given to reporters who cover Capitol Hill, He has_ _— bitterly condemned reporters for giving wide publicity to congressmen’s fringe benefits while not mentioning the fact that many reporters enjoy the same benefits, from free parking to special dining “About that story accusing me of muzzling the press — see that it’s killed!” closure statements showing any outside interests that might appear to affect their reporting. And he makes clear his basic disgust with what he sees as a national press establishment that concentrates on “cheap shots” at politicians. Another spur to journalists’ growing self- doubts has been public opinion polls that show the news media suffers fram a high degree of dislike and distrust. BERNSTEIN COMMENTS Commenting on such Car buffoons Editor, Terrace Herald A warning to motorists: Please take care when you are driving and there are people riding horses down the road. In the past few weeks, there have been some smart alecks around who think its smart to drive straight at a horse or as they drive by torev their motors. One of these days a rider is going to be killed. Then, won't you feel good? Some a of the incident that have happened arn ound irl riding down Queensway and a boy on mn road and no plates on the bike) rode straight for the horse and nearly scraped the horse’s sides with his handlebars. Result was the girl was thrown and bruised and the horse badly frightened. Aboy riding down path near his home had an adult (7) do a wheelie practically under the horse’s belly, again dumping the and scaring the horse. Again on Queensway someone in a Datsun pickup came up toa girl on a horse and as he pulled alongside reved his motor. This happened on the wooden bridge near the re- load yard. If the girl hadn't the strength to contro! the horse, it could have slipped and lost its footing or gone over the side which could have resulted in injuries. If only you so-called good (?) drivers would only realize that while these kids got off easy, the next time you pull some stupid stunt like that the result could be the death of either the rider or the horse or possibly both. Please use the brains God gave you and leave a horse and rider alone. . In future, if you do something like this, these kids have been told to get a description of your vehicle and your licence number or your name, if known (it was in two of these incidents), goto the nearest phone, and report you ta the RCMP. They will handle if from there. So beware. We have rights, too. . Mrs. M. Harber anetbcn ot bre ARB cy “I think there’s nothin less gratifying than mutu backslapping about Watergate, either about the press in general or the ashington Post’s part,”’ he said in charging that the news media have indulged in an ‘orgy of self- congratulation’’ since Richard Nixon was driven out of the presidency. - The doubts of journalists are even extending to “shield laws,’ which protect journalists from aving to reveal their sources in court, Columnist John P. Roche, and unusual a punishment as we have witnessed in a century” when he refused to “But put a different customer on the rack; demand, for instance, that a reporter reveal the source of a story or be held contempt of court. The of- chestration is incredible. “A reporter, it seems, is a priest with special protection state inquiries.”’ The problem for ‘the would-be reformers of the news media is how to end from euqipment. new publication, the rooms. polls, Watergate reporter however, recentl ; "the best way for all of us to help is by donating represent a return to Washington Journalism But his concern goes Carl Bernsteintold arecent contrasted the shield laws stats Vadleod i eae through the March of Dimes during its present normality following a period Review, to concentrate on much further than that—he conference of investigative with the treatment given without preventing future ! ing US p when Watergate and such issues. has also called for journalists that since Watergate conspirators who investigative journalists campaign. various congressional scan- THREATENS ACTION legislation to require Watergate, the news media refused to talk in from exposing Watergate- dals put politicians on the = Much of the recent reporters and news organ- has been insensitive to the courtnsaying that Gordon pe scandals that may THE LITTLE WOMAN defensive. Washington —_self-analysi8 izations to file financial dis- public's distrust of them: Liddy received ‘as cruel dretoe again. “Bestel 6-7 Fane " ‘Ksan art woos southern crowd hel Se === GO king Pastuces Syncete, ie, 1877, Word rights reserved. “T need the money to feed a coffee habit I can’t break," Auto Service Tips ONE OF THE REASONS FOR WATER PUMP ANP ALTERNATOR. BEARING ING; IN MOST CASES WHEN BELT 1S PROPERLY TIGHTENED. YOU SHOULD BE ABLE To FLEX THE BELT IN ANP OUT ABouT ey INCH ALONG & SPAN OF 12 INCHES. By PAUL St-PIERRE BEING ONE OF THE MOST wretched of Philistines who say they don’t know anything about art but they know what they like, Our Man Stanley went to the Vancouver Centennial Museum to see some new Indian art which he likes, without understanding. This was a House of 'Ksan show which opens tomorrow and runs to July 6, by which time it is expected everything will have been purchased by viewers who have $6,000 to spend for a chief's carved seat.and other wads of thousand-dollar bills to pay for gold bracelets, masks and similar treasures of the modern native Indian artists of this province. The House of ' Ksan, as might be expected, is better -mown in some’ other parts of this continent than in B.C. The public in Kansas City mobbed the concert hall last month to see some *Ksan dancers who, here in the home of that culture, might have to paper the house to get an audience. ’Ksan is a non- profit, cultural society based in the land of the Gitksan Indlans at Hazelton on the Skeena River, which has had an outstanding success in reviving the arts of carving in cedar, silver, gold and ivory as well as basketwork, leathercraft, textiles and silkscreen printing. *Ksan people are also active in dancing and in collecting the people’s legends and for this show are selling collector's edition coples of a new illustrated bock which will cost $108 a copy. After the first run has been sold oe subsequent printings will. sell for Our man’s guide and tutor was Ear! Muldon, Hazelton resident born in Kispiox, who before starting to carve for a living was a mill worker, log scaler, provincial parks board employee and, y schooling, accountant, Mr, Muldon decided rather suddenly eight years ago that he could make a living as an artist and, before checking out his facts, he quit the parks department and picked up his knife. , “THE FIRST WEEK I EARNED $6.50 and the second week it was $30.” he said. Mrs. Muldon, accustomed to running a gix-person family home on a monthly income of $1,200 to $1,400, found the change unsalubrious, but time and talent have taken care of such matters. Mr. Muldon declined to be specific about his annual income but reported that a good Indian artist today can enter the upper middle income bracket, about $20,000 annually, with reasonable assurance. Also, he has now developed a name and a clentele which makes work more : pleasant. “Qne of my customers phon the other day and just said, ‘Make me a gold bax, I’ve got $4,000 to spend on it.” Neither Mr. Muldon nor any other "Kaan artist is free, however, to make such a box under the society name unsupervised. His design will have to submitted to a panel of three fellow artists at Hazelton, as must his workmanship when it is completed. If it fails to meet their standards he will be _ obliged to melt it down and do it again or sell it without the ’"Ksan seal of approval. It may not, in any circumstances, be a copy of anything else he or another artist has done. No copy, he says, has ever emerged from the doors of the House of :) an, : Qur Man Stanley was less able to understand the intricacies of Indian art standards. Mr. Muldon tried to demonstrate how lines must not be, as he put it, cut off by the carver, but the total effect upon the inexpert viewer remained only a feeling of awe that work could be so intricate and effortless in line and form when viewed closely. while resenting, in the whole, a sense of fine ance and beautiful Proportion. Although they insist that hand tools be used in carving the Indian artists of today are not insisting that their art be frozen in the form it had a centu ago, said Mr. Muldon. It must adapt with the changing years. ‘But without departing from the basic principles of design there is limitless room for variation,” he said. ONE OF THE TRADITIONS HE AND his family retain is that none of his many artworks of these eight years is displayed in his own home. He has other artists’ work, but never his own. “The tradition was that you hired other people to carve things for you as they might hire you to carve for them. “Thave an old pole at Hazelton which we are hoping to reatore. I’ve cut it up into eight pieces and taken it to our building. But the pole is from my fami] and there is no way they would permit me | bo lay a hand on it when restoration © Mr, Muldon, a quiet and soft-spoken man with short, blunt fingers and a face younger than his 42 years, noted that Americans are wild and sometimes rashly impulsive buyers of the new Indian art. He was offered $4,000 for an ivory sculpture of a beaver which is on sale at the Vancouver museum show for 200. an Why didn't he sell it to them, Our Man Stanley wanted to know. Because, said Mr. Muldon, it had bees promised to the Vancouver museum ow. And why did the Vancouver museum get this six-month collection of ‘Kean work to sell? _ Because museum buy Leona Lattimer is the wife of a former Hazelton Royal Bank of Canada branch manager and the House of ’Ksan has always had the Royal Bank manager as treasurer of the society. It’s a tradition, Our Man Stanley left the museum not . much wiser about what distinguishes . good Indian art from bad but very much love with the works of 'Ksan; - Vancouver Sun..