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We will not forget
Mr. Premier Ban-it

ones position when mayor advertising
content is attributed to the governmetn
of British Columbia.

By now we are all fully aware of
Premier Ban-its ad ban on booze and
tobacco. Dailly and weekly
newspapers haven't been suffering all
that much but this is mostly due to
Premier’s campaign for more political
advertising.

Advertising content — that is
speculative to political maneevering.
But have no fear. Once the elections

ad bans has ceased so will Bennett’s
advertising with an eventual result of
major loss of revenue,

Already reports have stated that the

Reading our brother paper, the Daily
news in Prince Rupert it has been
made quite clear by the quantity of
provincial advertising (those full page
mug shots of Peterson and such) thata loss to weekly newspapers in the
formal election is in the making. province will be in the neighborhood of

‘ - $380,000 per year.

Weeklies, by and large, have been
subject to the slings of outrageous To sum up, Pat McGeer, Provincial
Liberal Leader said aptly, “Its a

fortune in more ways than other
media. AS once source pointed out, matter of regret he doesn’t hand over
the reins io a younger and more

“the ad ban has given the government
a big stick over the editorial position of capable man.”
weeklies.”

This position must apply to the daily
newspapers of the province. How far °
can one go, what can one say, what is

Yes, Mr. Bennett, the time has come,
Have no fear of rememberance, Mr.
Permier. How could we ever forget.

Thoughts of Mao

. 4, Worldwide speculation about events
tin China has been reminiscent ‘of those
‘hardy pérennial rumors about Kremlin
shakeups, based upon unusual
behavior but often flimsy evidence.

by Mao in an interview with Edgar
_ Show some months ago.-2. os
Mao is 77.
many more years of active political
life. His great energy has been devoted
to conditions inside China, rather than
China’s position in the outside world,
and with remarkable results. As a
man whose patriotism is paramount,
he might well have decided that the
welfare of his country would be
jeopardized by a power struggle for
-succession to his post as chairman,
whenever that time comes. ~He has
seen the chaos and panic that can arise
from the demise of an absolute despot,
in the Soviet Union after Stalin’s death,
Recently, especially in the opening
field of international politics, Premier-

Most times the Kremlin rumors
prove to be unfounded. But
occasionallay they are right. ‘It is
very easy to speculate about events
and people in countries of which
Westerners are quite ignorant and
where leadership exercises tight
control over news.

Some of the most interesting
observations have been made by the
newly-arrived Reuter correspondent in
Peking, James Pringle. Nothing that
one official explanation for the
cancellation of the National Day
parade is ‘‘reform’’, Mr. Pringe
wonders whether Chairman Mao
himself is doing the reforming. .He
suggests previous evidence of a waning
‘in the personality cult through which

Mao has dominated almost every , au anee
aspect of life in China for much of the _ Well as its political security, is almost
impossible for Westerners

last decade, including remarks made ; .

limelight. Bu Chou is 73.

someone not yet known.

are over, once the rush of madness of

He cannot expect too.

Chou En-lai has assumed more of the |
burden of leadership, and more of the |

So it is possible that Mao is paving |
the way for s smooth succession by —

But penetrating China’s mind, as

THE HERALD, TERRACE - KITIMAT, B.C.

“gta ar of CAN) SPND LEAST

BILL SMILEY

A grade.

Recently [ wrote a column on
the subject of what the in-
dividual would do if he or she
had one year to live. I asked for
suggestions from readers and
have received quite a few.

‘Perhaps the most interesting

- ideas came from a Grade 9

class, Their teacher had
suggested my topic and asked
them to write an essay on it.
The results were revealing,
touching in some cases, rather
horrifying in others.’ I'll give
you a sampling, reproduced just
as they were written, grammer
and spelling intact. .

In most cases, the boys were.
brief. and pungent. The. gixls
tended to write what the teacher
might think was worthy, with a
few notable exception.s ‘They
waxed romantic and dramatic. '
The boys were blunt and honest.

Grace: “About a month
before I was to die I would go to
a church every day talking to
God and then later to a priest.”

Lynn: “If I had one year to
live I would‘quit school, leave
home and go live with my
brother in Montreal. When I
died well { guess I die.’

‘ Debbie: “I would quit school
and,,.go0.to Las. Vegas because

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| CUPROBABLE STIS me -

- WIONDETeNIG OMIT HEYA
GOING TO SAY ABOUT ME NEXT.

nine class states their view

my mother and father...said it
is the best place to go if you
want to win money. After I go

there I am going to go all over.

the world. Then I will go to the
hospital and just wait until I
DIE. But [ will have'a won-
deriul time before I go. THE
END." Obviously a hedonist.

Cindy: “The first thing 1
would quit school because
what's the use of getting an
education if you don’t have time

to use it,” “Good thinking,
Cindy. ‘ oo
Barb: “I would quit school

leave home and take lots of
money, Then I would travel all
aver by my thumg. Have Cops
after me and get all Kinds of
trouble...

Susan would smoke in front of
her parents and come and go as
she pleased with no housework
or baby-sitting to do “and
probably get anything I wanted,
especially from my dad.”

Bonnie: “T would like to leave
school, leave home & go with a

‘motor-cycle gang for a

year,..have cops after me all
the time and getting in lots of
trouble, And about one month
before [ was to die I would try to
take a trip on speed. and see

what it really did. And just live
in freedom.”

Tom: “I would borrow 5,000
and make a formula to blow up
the world just before I died [
would blow up the world.”
That's one way out,.Tom.

Jim: '*] would like to turn 18
and quit school, start drinking,
get my drivers license and start
working.” There’s a com-
bination.

Tom: “I would get leave of
school and bum it all the way.
And by a snobombile and a
bigger boat.”’

Frank:. “I would -go:to banks

and borrow. 20,000 ‘and-go have.

some fun. First I would go and
steal a car and smash it up, I
would buy a lot of food and give
ittoCare. I would go to Toronto,
and steal a bunch of junk and
sell it tosomebody. I would get
into fights. 1 would burn down
the schools and factors,”

- There's a nice, wholesome kid,

Steve: “ First I would quit
school. Then since I'm 18 go out
and get stone (bleody maries).

After about a week recovery I'd ~

buy a .303 and shoot President
Nixon (good)
over

Then I'll go all

Steve: “First I would quit

school. Then since 1’m 18 go out
and get stoned (bloody maries).
After about a week recovery I'd
buy a 303 and shoot President
Nixon (goad). Then I'll go to the
electric chair and go the fast
way."

Jim: ‘I would want to go all
over the world with my wife
also I would write a will leaving
everything to my wife and
would donate my eyes to a blind
person.” He must have a girl
friend.

Mike: “'I would like to drink,
eat and live it up (have stag
Parties, boase, lot of girls, food
and money.) =
About a month before 1 die ‘will
arrange my funeral.” -

AS [ said, just a sample, but it
makes youthink. I've used only
bits, but there's a pattern.
About 80 percent would leave
school atonce.- About 50 percent
would leave home. About 90
percent would travel around the

‘world, About. 60 percent think

bank managers and’ are
philanthropists. - About 20
percent are idealistic, and the
rest. materialistic. ”

Rather frightening, what?

FROM ME LIKE MY.
MISSUS 00

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DON'T TURN AWAY ~

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PUT tended we “eninge Ka Le

- TSS A
MONEY
LENDER. }

the Child Welfare League: off

“megaton bomb. On behalf off
children and future generations

. sent the following telegram ang

“President Richard Nixon,

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1971

ats a ‘private. child weltard

afd offering multi-servicesiag

tomore than 14, 006 children anda
families| in the City. of
Vancouver and “as the legaj
guardian | of some 1,500 childre
in: care, the: Children’s Aig
Society of Vancouver, B.C, haga

letter .to President Richard -
Nixon of the United States:

“The Children’s Aid Socie
of Vanowuver, British Columbia
Canada, a member agency of

America, requests that . you
cancel the proposed Amchitkagge
blast ‘underground. of: a fives

we. protest additional -po}lutiongy
of.:the atmosphere without -
justification. Letter follows.,
(sgd) Mrs. Wallace P, Beck, a
- President, ;
Children.s Aid Society ofe
Vancouver, B.C. Canada. |

White House
Washington, D.C. .

- Dear President Nixon: .
The Childrn's Aid. Seoety of i

“Vancouver British Columbia Bi

on. But mankind stil has a long
way to go. He has a leng, long
- way to go before he can say that

Hon. Jack Davis, P.C..,.M.P.
Minister of the Environment

depredations unless man
. ‘himself Jearns to respect: the
laws of nature and to live within

again, beforé he can say that
life’s species axe increasing in
number and variety once more.

those who decries economic
growth. Mans’ numbers: will

Pll be brief. My message
continue to mount especially in |

today is simple. Jt is straight- _

forward, Nature’s laws are  underpopulated countries like . I suppose what bothers. me
-universal.-. They are far. Canada,’Moré jobs are needed most is the thought that man, as
reaching. They are all for busy hands - more his numbers increase and as his

mobility increases, is bent, at

meaningful jobs £ formany more |
the same time, on creating ° a

hands... But it is the nature of
those jobs which is at issue.
They must not be such as to.
destroy _ the recuperative.
powers of nature. They must.
not be such as to downgrade, to «
poison and, worse still, to ~
annihilate. the plant life and the
‘animal life which we see around
‘Put even more simply, . I
believe we can and we. must
have economic ‘growth and
- environmental protection too. :
.Wecan and. we’ must: achieve

embracing. We break them at

our peril. We break them and

succeeding generations are the
_ poorer for our lack of foresight,

and lack of sensitivity and our

lack of discipline on the
_ environmental front.

What 1 have been saying
applies. not . only : locally and
nationally but internationally as
well, It applies to the U.S.S.R.

"ag wellasthe U.S.A. It applies
° in Toronto’ as’ "well as. Banff «
’ National Park, It. applies to
_ industry and “it applies to the:
individual actions of every | one
of usin this'room. /” :
. | Nature has been kind. tous.’ "It
has been. kind, -especially, to.
_ Canadians. But its response has
ite limits. Tks .reenperative
: powers: are finite, - 1b cannot
nd the massive onslaught: of:
—_ in’ -his: millions.
“withstand “his

himself,

mass consumption,

“All these ; are, characteri

people du
_ ‘ningpiring.

‘a
pair the’ production , of
fertillzers trom barred rock, ‘the :
“use of: thermal, -plant::

= waters to grow n ore

‘| can't burn a few

Notes for an address its limits as vur little earth’s human activity as a whole is jn
? hee other creatures have been wont. ance with nature, before he
Cora A todo. can say that his waste products:
oe Rant, ‘ita, -Mr, Chairman, lam notone of. are being used over and over ©

dull, drab environment for ::-
Mass production, '

environment.

Obviously our new ‘awe ~ anid
we. certainly need new laws to ©

protect “Our natural

environment from mani ~ should ;:
be universal.. They-should be-
more than. . municipal, : more:
than provincial, more than.
They should -be
universal: ‘They should apply to..."

national, :

the big as well as small,” They.

should ‘apply to might ‘ nalon ag

_ Btatea as. well: as tiny hamlets.

They | should | ‘apply to. Peet ;
me.

nN} BB
ome crashing

‘disposal, massive refuse hea el :
Blac

rthquake ; zolie
with. the ‘certain - resuult
ited: rocks a

“C0.
prop sitions ike -

, contaiminated

 be-
_ radioactive waste for thousands
“of years! -

_ We've gat to stop this travesty

‘On justice; this flaunting of one .
Jot nature's fundamental laws as

s00n. and’ as finally as Wwe
possibly can,

The question of the big and’
‘the ‘small ‘of -course isn’t
Confined to mations, It raises its .

head «in the industrial
eas well. ‘Take ‘a big
chemical. ‘plant dumping
"mercury into a. fishing stream: -

“Who takes - on * ‘the industrial ~~:
7 vulnerable.

7 commercial :

with

slowly by ‘minute “organisms

and multiplied on up through

. the food chain through plants to.
insects to fish and-through fish
another thousand ‘fold to. you’

We.

and me.

So we need protocols.
need to vet new. industrial
procesges . and new. products
before they. are introduced.

Government: has ‘to. set : them. .
much‘as.our Federal Food and :
Drug. administration vet: foods"
and drugs. before, they can get.
: on the: market’ at: all... mo
‘itte man: ti: fo:
small a

“Yet: still, the.
*. The:

Or the _—e ‘resort a

hose” waterfront
property
wnetream' of. the ‘big plant

whose. discharges of. mercury

orlunately- caused all ther

aumage In the first. place?

; “pu
‘technologica

. case; ‘it. seems :

unfortunately, lies <*

may.
thoughtlesaly dntro

. : ae

i tha’ like,

ja the dl, Inbelvec, ist ew
7" aliort . vital. ‘vedra
| strong - foundation

leaves: in an ‘old drum’ |

overdone to little result in the

United States today] I hesitate,
also, because I'am not a lawyer

- ‘and many of. you are. Bog Bay
. Many. -
‘problems on the environmental -

So.it’s over to. you. :

front remain to be ‘solved... You

can help us to stlve. them...And.
in developing Jaws which, are
‘truly univergal.. you. will.” be
performing 'a great service, ‘not’.
only. for 22. million Canadians
“alive today but’ for all mankind,

"Thank. you, Mr. "Chairman; :

physical ‘and. mentat,

build A!

- of the Child Welfare League of §

‘should “net be “justifying ‘bur &

“Reach |

” describe & an impossibility, there 7
- world to permit its children to

be deprived of the essentials of §
‘life:
“@ducational opportunities,’ Yet, §

_born-every.few seconds in the I
- developing - countries” ‘of the HF
World; two will not survive more
« than’a: few. days, six will: suffer
"from malutrition. “Of the eight
-who ‘survive to school age, only f

Canada, wishes to protest
vehemently the impending &
underground detonation of a@
five megaton’ bomb at al i
Amchika. As a member agency &

America, we feel all
responsibility to speak on behalf
of children of this and future §
generations. | 7
The ecological implications of §
such a blast are international %
and inter-generational in scope. #
At this time everyone is @
concerned about poliution of the f
atmosphere, oceans and earth;
with preservation of wildlife, §
fish and other material
resources. The question is not §
wherer the Amchitka blast will &

ereate earthquakes, tidal
waves, or have other
consequences, nor is © the

question related to the tong J
term effects of radiation §
‘wastes, with their fantastically
lingering ‘half-life. ;
The query is rather how do {
you justify such a procedure in @
‘the name of humanity? How
does this add to the human &
Bood, the futue'af children”: We &

oppositon, but ‘you should be J
justifying the reasons for
jeopardizing the ecological
balance at this time.

Surely we must accept the
fact that weapons and violence J
cannot solve, human problems. §
We are opposed to the testing of #
nuclear devices by anyone In
the past this -has resulted in §
over-kill capacity by a growing
number of nations, and each §
test has accelerated the arms |
race. \

If we invested, the same effort :
and financing. into human
solutions “for what’ vare
essentially human problems. we i
‘could only benefit ourselves and g
future generations: . ;

We appeal. to. you President §
‘Nixon, to: eance] the proposed i
Amchitka detonation. — wo
: Sincerely, oe
Saw Mrs, ‘WallaceP. Beck @

|... President

for the
“moon.

“In. an era when renchinig for De
the moon’ -has ceased . to

ig no longer any excuse:for the
go hungry in body and mind, to .

s-vmedical care. and ®

‘of the twelve children who are ie

four will set, foot inside aschool,
d. !

"UNICEF ede ey milion §

million of s

oe ‘the efforts" mi

in who. ‘¢ollec

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. equivalent to Canada’s, annu