PRODUCTION -~- Gordon Hamillon , ADVERTISING - Bill Groenen Our Opinio There exists 4 word in the English language that perhaps takes in more people than any other single adjective. That word is APATHY. The word means, according to Noah Webster, ‘Lack of interest or desire for activity.’ The feeling has’ engulfed mankind to the point where man has become dangerous to himself. The simple fact that he doesn’t care is the main reason that much of the air on the earth is unfit to breath. It is the reason why so many of our natural forested areas and parklands are being destroyed. Man cares only about his own immediate needs and couldn't care less about tomorrow. Some years ago, the word came into full light when, in an American city a man was beaten to death while a number of so-called ‘good citizens’ stood around shaking their heads saying, ‘I don’t want to get involved...’ Peaple not wanting to get involved has resulted in Terrace having to wait nearly fifteen years for an Ice arena. It's finally coming around because someone got up and did something about it. Slowly, the people of Terrace are getting involved, and Terrace will have it’s arena. But where are all the other things Terrace needs? Apathy seems to have gotten the best of most of the people,. and conversely, the people have become apathetic because of it, Terrace is sadly lacking in park areas, and the result will be that the transient population of Terrace will get up and go to some place that has something more to offer on a Sunday afternoon than a baseball game. Several schemes have been perpetrated to develop the park-areas:~»:- f in Terrace, and particularly Thornhill: Mt That winced z but all these efforts have heen thwarted by noting more than the ‘I couldn’t care less ' syndrome in this town. A businessman of our aquaintance came to Terrace about three months ago. The attitude of Terrace people has started a deep hatred of the area. Why? According to him, Terrace’s potential is lst in the attitude of the peaple who-Jive here. : Since nobody cares.about Terrace, nobody will stay, : Terrace ommeca Herald The Terrace Herald Is a member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper . Association, The B.C. Weekly Newspapers Associatlon, and Varified Circulation. Monday and Thursday at 3212 Kalum Avenue, Terrace, 8.C. Postage paid in cash, return postage guaranteed. Second . class mail registration number 1201. ASSISTANT MANAGER . Georce T. English EDITORIAL - Rudy Haugeneder, George English n Published . every P.O. Box 399 Phone 635-8357 -Business address ~ 3212 Kalum Avenue, Terrace, B.C. & At one point in our recent history, a major firm made an offer to Terrace that could have made it one of B.C.'s major cities. The offer was treated with a hap-hazard attitude, and the offer was made to another city. But the people who live here couldn't care less, After all, they are only Going to be here for a few years, long enough to make enough money to move to the upper social stratae of a bigger place like Vancouver. A number of service clubs in this area keep trying to bring up the level of involvement, but the final end was driven home last Friday night at the first annual Miss P.N.E, contest here. There were a few people at the function, but the crowd was by no means capacity. In fact, three times the number of people that showed up would have been no where -capacity...because, who cares if these were representatives of the young women in Terrace? Who really cares what «ind of an impression Miss Griffiths makes on the rest of the people of B.C. when she goes to Vancouver to attend the pageant there? This attitude is infectious, and it shows all over, Many people in B.C. don’t know that Terrace exists as a civilized place. Th is is incredible. Do the people that have lived in this area for the last twenty years care so little about their city that they haven't made it known? A local teacher was at a convention in Victoria. One conversation he relates foes like this... ‘Where are you from?’ ‘Terrace... Deedee tem, ‘those boys ran from?’ That event was only three or four months age. So what else does Terrace have other than a number of enterprising young men who decided to do what they could to make Terrace a known place? Terrace has very little so far.. One of these days, after the world has gone ahead the fathers of this city are going fo say,‘Wait for us’ and they will promptly be told to go cry on ‘gomeone’s shoulder. It will be too late. In My View By Nadine Asante President Nixon is going to China, No matter what the reason, the visit must be heralded as a move in the direction of better world relations. How times are changing. Nixon suddenly has become a peace emissary instead of the war. monger he proved himself to be since he was a young lawyer working for McCarthy during the era when a communist hid behind every American hot dog stand, Doing an about-face from ordering nepalm to be dropped daily by the ton on Vietnamese women and children the American president has, in this pre-election year, pulled a truly ‘tricky Dickie‘ by startling the world with the news that he has accepted an invitation to visit the Chinese hierarchy, ; Let's not knock the news but let's take a look under the headlines. Could it be that after years of negotiating disarmament with the U.S.S.R. that even without” the misinformation’ supplied. by. ‘this — inefficient C.1.A., his disarmament . negotiators are well aware of the war | potential of the Russians?. .: ~ _-' Could it be that: his ‘changed’ attitude has been:‘fostered: by. the awareness that. America cannot catch up with the Russians in their mad race for domination:of space? . ‘Could the change -of: Heart have . -been aided by. thé knowledge that he can’t outwit the Russians but that he still suffers under the. illusion;-that::” the'Chinese are 4 primitive race an peace? es ayn '-Maybe Nixon hag. gurplanted:th . old: adage,.\“if- you. can't’. beat- em: join’: ‘em “with. his... own’ version if. you can't. beat; ‘em, _ efficient. propaganda about seeking id” * "Phe" fact “that Nikeit ig" going’ te ~ he