BEEVOR-POTTS IRKED BY MODERN YOUTH Foot - in - mouth disease hits Nanaimo cadi By BERT WHYTE “You are old, father William,” the young man said, “And your hair has become very white; : And yet you incessantly stand on your head— Do you think, at your age, it is right?” Over in Nanaimo, Magistrate Lionel. Beevor-Potts remained seated when he launched his vitriolic attack against “strides” and “duck haircuts” a fortnight ago—but he managed to turn reason upside down and stand justice on its head. . The blood began pumping up through Beevor-Potts’ hardening arteries into ‘his flushed face when a 17-year-old youth sport- ing a duck haircut appeared be- fore him recently on 8 charge in- _ volving a disturbance at a ‘dance hall. “T don’t like juveniles with hair like yours,” the irate cadi scold- ed the boy. Then, turning to the boy’s father, he ordered: “Take him across the street and get his hair cut the same as yours. He'll have to have his hair cut before Tll deal with the case.” When another youth wearing drape trousers and a black shirt faced Beevor-Potts, the magis- trate blew his legal top again before fining the lad $100 for carrying a knuckle-duster. “You would-be big shot,” spluttered the court ... “there, is a shorter term than that ... you punk. Tli give you the maximum.” The youth, of course, had no opportunity to stand up and -re- ply: “Listen, you bigoted old goat, I refuse to be tried in your kangaroo court. I demand a fair trial before a sensible magistrate whose reason isn’t befuddled by his prejudices.” But if the youths couldn’t voice their disgust at the cadi’s attitude, some citizens quickly came to their defense. * * * Blasting “magistrates who per- mit their prejudices to interfere with their task of dispensing justice,” Vancouver Daily Prov- ince columnist Jean Howarth ‘wrote: “The guilt or innocence of any citizen before the court should be judged on the facts of the case. It should be a matter of no concern whatever to the judge whether the accused has straight pants or strides, a crew-cut or _ ‘hair down to his knees, a pug _ nose or a Roman nose, straight eyes or slant eyes. '“And if it does become a mat- ter of concern to the judge, then that judge has outlived his use- fulness. He has ceased to be judicious.. His judgments have become colored with prejudice. He is no ijonger capable of bal-. ancing the delicate scales of jus- dee ‘3 “Tf Magistrate Beevor-Potts doesn’t ike boys with strides and loig hair, then, ‘he is pre- presume -the accused innocent disposed to find guilty ‘half the ‘teen-age oupulation of B.C.” Another columnist remarked that eur courts are supposed to until proven guilty. Among the press fraternity, only the Vancouver Sun’s twin hacks, Harold Weir and Jack Scott, agreed with Beevor-Potts. Scott weni into a rave about the cadi’s methods of dealing with “some junior-type bums.” His piece was rather aptly call- ed, “Woodshed Court.” + * * This week I asked Steve En- dicott, provincial secretary of the National Federation of Labor Youth, for his comments on the conuoversy invo.ving modern youth aroused by Beevor-Potts’ actions and remarks. “Many of oui NFLY members wear sifides ana a few of them have duck haircuts,” said Endi- cott. “Ir our urganization we judge them by their work. “Unresi -amongz youth today isn’t caused by ‘strides or duck haircuts, but by the insecurity ‘of their lives, the lack of jobs conscription anu war. “It seems to me that the ‘strides’ fad is, in a sense, a pretest against a society which has little regard for youth, which fails ‘to provide youth with creative outlets for recreation, but wants, instead, to put them into khaki uniforms.” : Not long ago in Vancouver the manager of a Teen Town in the swanky Shaughnessy district -al- most precipitated a rict when he ruled that no youths wearing ‘strides’ could attend a dance. Some 400 young boys and girls (for the gixls naturally refused te enter the ‘hall without their escorts) milled around outside, and a few wanted to “get” the ‘youths who went inside. A mem- on leaving schoci, the threat of, ‘ber of the NFILY persuaded these hhotheads not to act rashly, and then had a taik with the man- ager, who le. everyone in: There was no further trouble, but no one turned up at the next danze. The ban on “strides” was res- cinded, and now al! the young people flock <9 the place. Thinking it over. what’s there to get excited about? Youth fads today follow much the same pat- tern as they did in our own younger days, back in the so- callec Roaring Iwenties. Instead of strides, we wore (for a time) horrible monstrosities known as “plus-fours” and in a jater period ‘bell-bottom or “balloon” trous- ers (“Ya gotta take four steps before the trousers begin to move”). And grandpa? Twenty-three, skidoo: Skir the gutter! 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There is a woeful lack of year-roundswimming pools in Vancouver. the same building as the gym- ‘nasium by an arrangement whereby the parks board would share in its construction and the building could also be used as a community centre.” Parks board Chairman Arnold Webster stated that this was a new idea and worthy of consid- eration. “While there ‘has never been such a combined project of the school board and parks board,” said Webster, “‘that does not mean there could not or should not ‘be.” After half an hour’s discus- sion the proposal was unani- mously referred to the, parks ‘board sports committee for con- sideration. Discussion between members of the delegation and park com- missioners revealed that com- missioners are sensitive to the charge that the East End has been neglected. The chairman went to some lengths to defend the parks board record, assert- ing that a change had been made in the last two years with more attention now ‘being given to East and South Vancouver. 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