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EDITOR KAYCE WHITE:

Phone: 635-6357 4

OUR OPINION.
Seasonal Runaround

BY CHARLES WOLVERTON

The longest distance between two

points is the runaround.
And this is what
unemployed youth,

line.

Prime Minister Trudeau announced

the federal government

$57.8 million to create summer job and
travel opportunities to youth coming
into the labor market as school closed.

But the outlines of this
program were vague. Substantial
employment, the federal minister said,
would result if initiative was taken in
the localities to create projects, which,
if approved, the federal government

would fund.

For a few weeks therewas a spate of
‘> provinces,
municipalities and other subdivisions
of government. Typically many of
offfered projects that included parks
and beaches, archives research and

projects, from

[ out of the
universities and the high schools, are
getting as they search for a place in
that $50 million-plus summer payroll.
Between Manpower and the local office
of the federal secretary of state,
Gerard Pelleter, there is no straight

care of retarded children.

But for youth temselves, what do

hordes of

will spend

spokesman,
broad -

there.”

they do about finding work connected
with these and other programs?

A Manpower spokesman said there
was nothing his agency could do about
jobs. It couldn’t create them. It-could
only fill them if created,

A spokesman fot the secretary of
state’s local office said all
information about youth job program
was made available to manpower. ~

“They have the obligation to tell
you,” said he. But the Manpower point
of view was this, as expressed by its

the

“The government of Canada can hire
students,” he said, “just as other
employers register jobs with us. How’
can we produce jobs unless they’re

The Manpower official said the

coming summer could be worse for

jobs than last summer, and he said that
it was up to the young man to hunt out
his own job. .

But then the question for the kids
remains: Where are the jobs and
whom do they see?

Indian

Margaret L. (Ma) Murray, the salty
sage of Lillooet won herself a modicum
of immortality when she talked to
Ontario students some time ago about

- Sex and the permissive society. Take it
- easy, she said. Don’t start too soon or
you'll wear yourselves out.

Now the experts, confound them, say

she's all wrong.
them?

The American Geriatric Society
heard from a learned researcher that
the very thing that Ma warned against

is the best guarantee of

Is nobody safe from

a sexually

summer

active old age, The more the young, the
merrier the old, so to speak.

Dr. Eric Pfieffer said it is just not
true that sexual activity declines
rapidly with age. and cited examples in
their sixties, seventies, eighties 7 Aity people two.had. One will
and--wait for it-nineties. * y

It sounds like a genuine spring-time
story. But we wonder how the protest
groups will react on learning that
youth has no monopoly? At 18, 30 is an
incredible age. But 80?

Vancouver Province

Life is to Live

_ The first time she noticed that
“something seemed to be wrong
was when her husband began
leaving the bathroom in a
condition that looked as if a
hurricane had hit it. One of the
things she'd always noticed
about him and was proud of was
his immaculate attention to
cleaning up afterwards - the
bathroom, the kitchen, or
cooking on the patio. Now he-
had begun leaving everything
around, wet towels on the floor,
clothes hung over the edge of
the bath, and one day sauce
dropped over the patio floor and
the steak burned to a cinder.
She spoke to him a few times
but he came instantly angry,
replying in a voice she had very
seldom heard, - taut, and with
almost violently suppressed
anger. Then he began to be so
restiess in bed at night that she
was forced alter a tew weeks to
suggest he move to the spare
‘room. His anger at this was so
violent that she became afraid,
and moved to the spare room
herself, when he completely
refused. Many an evening she
tried without any success, to
discover if something was
troubling him. ‘“‘What-should be
troubling. me?” he’d answer
abruptly. ‘We've everything
two people could possibly want,
The kids are doing well - as
-happily married as anyone else.
what in the ‘world would be
‘worrying me. What do you keep
‘on asking. for?. For heaven's
‘sake, stop nagging,”
' But it was difficult not to_
probe and question him, for she

just could nat find the answer,

The bathroom ‘was now
constantly in a mess.and when
the next summer came she
found she dare not trust him to
barbecue properly when the
. crowd came in, One weekend on
the. boat he crashed -into. the.
dock’.at the marina; jolting
everyone. aboard, .and seemed
irritably unconscious of. having -
done: anything -. ;
Incidents like.this, became
went. i
* At last, one of “her cloge
friends, Julia, spoke to: ber. :°

by Cay Wade

“Don’t you think Kons acting a
litde oddly these days?” “Is
anything troubling him?”

“I'm tired of asking him
that,”’ Madge replied, and found
herself distressed that Julia-
should have noticed anything;
though she supposed by this
time all their friends were
wondering. She did not want to-
discuss the matter with anyone,
not even Julia, Thereseemed to
be some kind of shame for Bob
mixed up with her concern for
him. Shame for the whole
iamily she supposed,

Even the children were
beginning to wonder, she knew,
though none of them said a
thing. “I suppose,” she thought,
“that the children think we're
having marital troubles, and
don't want to interfere,”’

With this thought she began to
watch her husband more
closely; perhaps there was
another woman, but surely not,
Then one night Bob did not
return home. He'd heen to his’
club, she knew, and usually
came home about midnight. At
two in the morning, Madge
became alarmed. She called the
night porter, No, Mr. Benson
had left around eleven o'clack,
He didn’t seem every well, the
porter said.. Had he been
drinking too -heayiiy? thought
Madge. If so, it was most
unusual, She lay in bed
worrying, and found that a
terrible suspicion was now -

“beginning to. invade her

thoughts, There was be
someone else, There could ha-
rdly be any other reason fer him
being like this. :

At Elve in the morning Bob
arrived home. When she started
‘to ask wherever had he been,
for the first time ever he struck :
Madge. “It’s none. of . your
business where I've been,” But

if you must know, I've been.

wandering . around .. the

waterfront, I've just been

wandering.” He. fell into bed,

slept’ heavily, almost in a

stupor,” ", coe

. The office called, and Madge.
made some weak explanation...
Bob kad the ‘fu, he'd | e back in -

- had eight months of therapy, He

a few days.

But Bob refused to get out of
bed, and was suddenly very
depressed. He became violent
when Madge suggested getting
their doctor. “I'll leave if you
do,”’ and not come back at all,
this time.”

Only when her friend Julia
and her older daughter, Bess;
pleaded so strongly that ‘she
could not resist, did Madge talk
to them about her growing fears
for Bob’s' emational health,
“There isn’t any one else," she
said. “I know that now. But
something is very, very
wrong.”

Julia told her then, of a
similar time she had with her
mother. _ .
at this little book,” she said to
Madge. It’s called ‘When things

-Go Wrong-What Gan You Do?

It has some really good advice
as to what todo when this sort of
thing happens; attitudes to
adopt, and so‘on, Do read it,
Madge, and then talk ta me, and.
Ti doanything I can to help you
help Bob.’
.' Madge read carefully and
then sent for. some more copies
form the local Canadian Mental
Health Association. |

“The CMHA ‘is- sending out
many hundreds of these all
across Canada, to everyone who
asks for one," ‘she-.told her
daughter. later. ‘‘And it
certainly guided ‘me as to the
approach, I should take witht
Dad. I: think that'every family

. would. be wise to have one on.
-hand, Look how long it was

before I really became aware of
what was wrong?’

Twelve months later; Bob
was planning a party aboard the
boat; Madge was planning the

‘barbecue. “I've bought the’

steaks; and you'll cock them I.
hope;” she said to him. “Who

“else?” he said he replled, with
his old vigor and sense of fun,

much more like his old self, He
had - accepted in-depth.
counselling and after a time,

was very ready ta have; the.

‘party. It was.in celebration of a

promotion for him at the office. ”

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BILL SMILEY:

An Idle Summer

This is going to be a long,
tough summer for parents of
young people in the senior high
school and university brackets. .
They're going to be stuck with
bored, restless children.

And the only thing worse than
having a bored, restless child on
your hands is a severe case of
the crud, with complications.

The reason it’s going to be a
badsummer is that there are no
jobs for the majority of young
people who would normaliy be
working.

The other day I carried out a
brief poll of one of my senior
grades, Most of them are bound
for unversity or nursing or some
such. I asked how many had a

job Jined up for, summer. Out of

work for his father on a dairy
farm, The other, a girl, will
punch a cash register and only
got the job because she'd
worked at it last year.

So there we have twenty-
eight. frustrated young people. [
have thé greatest sympathy, not
for them so much as for their
parents. Northing will break up

agood family relationship more -

quickly than having a healthy

young animal Jolling about the |
house all summer. a
They eat as though every.’

meal were their last one. They
get lazier and lazier, staying up
late and sleeping in late. They
have no money for recreation,
and get surlier and surlier.
They develope a feeling of being
useless and unwanted and
resent any advice.

Too darn bad about the
spoiled brats, you say, and [
agree. But that doesn’t alter
the situation. I'd rather live for
‘the summer with a porcupine
that had anulcer than a student

” tourist industry, which used to .

without a job. ©

Thousands of them will hit the
road, like the hoboes of the
Great Depression, drifting
about the country, bumming
meals, a place to sleep and
alosing their self-respect in the
process.

And just as the hoboes used to
raise enough for the occasional
gallon of wine, some of these
kids will payhandle or steal to
get moeny in order to get high
on drugs,

What's the answer? Don’t ask
me. 1’m & question man, not an
answer man. Then let's .ask
some questions.

Is it partly the kids’ fault?
Yes. Some of them would rather
bum .aill summer than clean
themselves up to the minimum
standards of a pretty free
society. Others have never done
a dirty day’s work in their lives
and would not stoop to menial
chores, (My first job was
cleaning out lavatories) And a
great many of them simply
sneer at the whole protestant
wark ethic, It.s all right for the
old man, but I’m going to do my
own thing--not work.

But I think the majority of
these kids would welcome.a job
of any kind. Tough toe-nails for
them. There aren't the jobs.

Industry doesn’t want them,
ior practical reasons. They «
have to be trained for even the
simplest factory work, and by
that time they're off to school
again. Industry preters to mre
people who are going to be
content to put round pegs in
round holes for years, at
miminum wages.

And speaking of wages the

‘ absorb so much student labour,

ean't afford it any more.

YOUR OPINION

Dear Editor:
Will beautification’ again
Become a Terrace Tradition?

In the good old days when the
Pioneers established their
homes in Terrace gracious
living could be achieved by
planning and work, money
could not but it: Some of the
pioneer homes, after half a
century, show the zeal for
planning the home grounds and
planting trees and flowering
shrubs. ;

“Whe Tate George Little, who -

_presented Terrace with ‘its
central park, at the turn of the

living trees on our streets. The
time has come to make our
homes § and our streets fit
into the wonderful setting that
Nature has given to Terrace. It
is our duty to preserve and
enchance this beauty for
ourselves and also for future
generations.

Qur younger generation is
active, Fourteen years ago the
graduates and students of
Skeena Secondary started the
beautification, of -Skeena by -
making the first lawn and
presenting to the school its first
tree. Each graduating class

century also planted a row of « since then has presented a tree

eastern maples and cutleaf
birches along Lakelse Avenue.

Some of these trees are still |
to our"

giving shade and beauty
main street, et

Some five years ago our town
council replanted the missing
trees and inten years or so the
impressive beauty of main
slreet in the early fifties will
‘again be restored. =.

years; Terrace became a yery

busy place. The little village of te,
about five hundred expanded.
oo .

‘rapidly in the boom, - houses:
“were built and new streets were

opened. Living trees: were cut
.Gown, and dead :trees were
‘planted along . our. dtreets. oy

Oe es cy oy
- ‘Our town council 1s giving us

‘some leadership in planting . ‘taste.

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to the school. This year the
students of Caledonia expanded
‘the program. —. .
‘The Student Council decided
te give more trees and also pay
‘for making ‘seme outdoor
benches. They have.a laste for
gracious living, Let's all: join
this club, Many of us could plant
a few flowering trees, a shrub or

“a Shade tree, couldn't we?
. When Terrice became the {0 | |
centre for the army camp'in ;. .
1940 and five thousand soldiers -- |
stayed here. during. the war ge!

Letters lo the editor must’ be.
*‘slgned by and bear the addreud
Of the writer: The. shorter the —

te . better... A® pen name. may be |
“°BLC. Hydro and B.C, Telephone © a ane

Andrew Toews
*. 4020 Agar

used only in special cases; The

; Terrace Herald may edit letters
for: brevity, clarity, legallly’or.

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Minimum wage laws in jobs

that used to be supplemented by
tips have made many resort
operators turn their backs on
students. Why hire an awkward
girl waitress with no
experience, at a buck fifty an
hour or whatever, when you can
hire experienced waitresses
from the vast pool of
unemployment, for the same
figure? .

Is it the government's fault?
Partly. The $50 million the
federal government put up to
alleviate the students’ situation
was too little and too late, and
had so many strings attached to
it that Mr. Benson might just as
well have thrown it into the
Ottawa River.

All it has done is’ create
another branch on the vast oak
of bureaucracy. That's where 2
good chunk of the money will
go. It’s like foreign aid. By the
time the wheat or whatever it is
trickles down through the
bureaucrats to the natives
(students) there’s only a
mouthful left.

Any reader with a nicdicum
of comprehension will have
realized that by this time that
daughter is home from
university without a job.

Anyone have a job for a
twenty-year-old with big brown
eyes, a charming grit and
aubrun hair? Qualifications:
plays a mean piano and guitar
and sings; types as quickly and
accurately as her father; has a
sunny disposition except when
she’s loafing around home
without a job; fair cook; washes
dishes faster than an automatic.

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WE tes Veet ‘

YOUR ASSURANCE OF QUALITY .

Pastors
pen

BY REV. J. VANDYK
BABD :

Have you read one of the
recent bestsellers? ,

It is titled “The Good’ News
for Modern Mant”

Ministers value it as a sacred
book.

Highschool teachers discuss it
in English literature class.

Judges present it to new °

Canadian citizens...

Magistrates demand that you
swear on the bible in the.
courtroom,

But for most of us the book is
too big and filled with irrelevant
stories, poems and sermons.

We make a seriovs:mistake

when we consider the biblé#%

story book for the Sunday-
school, or a sacred book for the
preacher in the pulpit.

The bible is a very down-to-
earth book, dealing with the
problems we face in the
twentieth century, .

The bible has very little tosay
about life after death, and very

‘much to say about a just

society, labour problems and
how to solve social evils.

Communism has realized the .

value of the book a long time
ago, claiming Jesus as the first
true communist.

I want to recommend to you
the reading of the bible, A very
impressive letter quoted by all
great men in history, recited by
astronauts in outer-space, The
word of comfort for the dying,

the word of guidance for you _

and me today.

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} they will be too’ tired

MONDAY, MAY 17, 1971
A muse”
on news
Nadine Asante, |

Radar has been developed to
detect the flight pattern and
height of flight of birds near
airports. Means will then be
found to rid airport areas of this
nuisance. . If we provide a
complex enough obstacle
course for our migrating friends
to
complete their journeys north
and south and we won't need
pollution to kill them off.

It's a matter “of. deciding
which has more right to be in
the air men or birds, ©

Canada geese and the

_ whooping Crane are no match |

for men in the bout-called

_progress,

XKXXX

The Provincial Government
is establishing twenty five
‘ecological reserves’, Not parks
but areas reserved for the study
of flora and fauna.

Has the myopic visianed B.C.

‘ Government suddenly had a

look at the future where such

_ areas will: be the only natural

surroundings left to us after
strip mining and forestry
interests have destroyed the
Test?

Perhaps. Because
spokesmen say that ultimately
these areas may be fenced off

. and permits issued to the

general public for visiting
privileges,
‘ XXXXX

Authorities now admit that
the life-taking slide in Quebec at
St. Jean Vianney could have
been averted if planners had
foliowed the advice of a.
geological surveyor.

‘Dwellers in the age of
Aquarius have turned deaf ears
to warnings when the light of
industry says ‘go’.

XXHXM

The originality of the Soviets
is open to question but at least
one good idea from behind the
Iron Curtain has been put into
effect recently on Russian
trains. |

Guards have been given
authority to throw drunks off

* trains at the next station.

Many Canadian bus and train
passengers could wish for the
same effective method of
dealing with over indulging
passengers.

*! Anothet 25 million dollar per"

“““imr industry has been killed’;

because of mercury pollution.
Swordlish,

Swordfish is hardly a staple
on Canadian tables but halibut,
salmon and sole swim in the
Same ocean,

Following the Amchitka five
megaton underground atomic
blast being prepared to boom in
October who knows what
delicacies will be struck from
our eating list?

XXXEN .

Prince Philip during the
Royal Tour of Vancouver Island
said he dislikes the smell of pulp
mills, .

This is the smell of money
good Sir and ambrosia to the
noses of industrialists,

A rare book is one that comes
back after you've loaned it out.

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