WEDNESDAY, JULY. 31, 1974

THE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C.

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Published every Wednesday at 3212 Kalum St.
Terrace, B.C. A member of Varified. circulation; '

Reprinted from the Dawson Greok ‘News

-... Ed, Note: The following article is reprinted from
the High, School League ‘Bulletin. If ony article
drives. the point home on the subject of rules, -
régulations end morality, this one does. Read It
carefully, Read It often —- B. Pound.

By all sneans, let's lower all the standards of
_ morolity, intagrity and decency. Let's dispense with,
‘ary rules and regulations that may restrict any:
individual in his pursuit of happiness. Let's make
things os “easy” as possible for everyone - and
heaven forbid thai we should expact any young.”
people to conform to ony set pattern established by
can older generation which is still guided by an
“ gyimoded moral code and is still clinging to some”
vestige of human dignity and established morals.
For the sake of peace and quiet and unrufiled
feelings, let's give in fo all the rabblerousers, the
‘hippies, ihe beatniks, the enlightened generation.
«Let's rationalize - It's the thing to do - all the kids
: ara doing it - so why fight it?
"Why Hight #?. 11 should be apparent i
somebody will have to start fighting it — and soon,
Ip would) seem - that some “‘enlightened’
- “educators and some “enlightened” ministers and
pfiests are leading the pack to.“fower" the stan: .
“dards established by their institutions. They. ap-
porently »want to: be "in". with’ the younger.
*. generation and in .doing 50, they'ra way "out. -
“Instead of telling their students, “these are the
- pules at this school — you live by them or gat out —
° they are easing up on all the rules in order to ac-
= Sommodate'those who cannot of will not conform
“49 set standards of good conduct and morals, In-
~ stead of ralsing up those wha enter there, thay are
lowering themselves to mee! standards set by a
| “gangration that has been pampered and spoiled,-
~ catered to and caddled, °
It is no wonder that the young people of this
pation have become disenchanted with us, the
'. “plder generation. We haven‘! got enough guts to .
' stand up and tell them, “Well Buster,” this Is how it
_ will’ go — and it you with all your modern
\deologies and modern. standards on drinking,
“dopa, sex; and moralities can't stand ihe gaff +
then‘cut ouf —- and fine your “niche” in the world
"some place elsa — some place, where. you'll fit in
“_ because you don’t fil in here.” _
Ina recent newspaper orticla, a minister was
--/ > leading the campaign for more lenient punishment
“3! > for high school cihlates found drinking. “IF you take
>. Sawoy fren youth something he has given so much
“for as athletics, yow are doing him graal horm.”
would seem that you.are doing him more/narm
‘by’ not expecting very much fram him, The stan-
"dards have already been lowered from a one-year
+") Jguspendion to 14 school weeks for . drinking
©) ‘vlolations, The lowering of this requirement has not
‘lowered the number who drink — rather the
- drinking violations have Increased. 1! would also
“2. seem’ that any “boy who is relly dedicated to
athletics, and “who has given so much for them,”
~ should and would be willing to give a little more to

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comply with all the rules — or he's just not quite as.

dedicated as he pretends to ba — and ifthe rules
were enforced as they should be, to the letter of
the low for avery infraction and violatian, you would
find thet those whe really want to be on the team -
— who really want to play for their school would
give ita fittle more Ihought — o Sittle more con-
sideration of what they were about to lose — of
what they would have to give up, before they broke
any of the rules. : .

Living by the rules will not destroy.an individual
— rather i would help him be better able to cope ~
with life and its complexities just because he hos -.
had to discipline and has had the moral courage to
keep his integrity. : o,

And then, we get to the. colleges — where
drinking is allowed in the dorms, girls are allowed
to visit in boys’ roam ond vice versa. Of course, the.
door musi be one-quarter opan and all four feet
must be planted firmly on,ihe floor. How modern!

But in our quest to be modern, we have
neglected one important ingredient. We hove
forgoiten that we are not dealing with two wooden
statues, but with two human baings — with or-
dinary normal human embtions and desires. Give:
them every fraadam with no restrictions on hours.
Give them the most ideal conditions for their

. rendezvous, but don't expect them io react to the
‘circumstances. Lead tham into temptation, but.
‘don't expect them to be tempted. They could plant
their feet firmly on the floor of the lobby or waiting
room in the.dorm, and if they're 19, they could go
off campus and drink, but why put any obstacles in
thelr poths on the road to their degeneration. Give.
* them a helping hand. ‘ ‘
‘Why-Fight 1177? Because it’s just, about time:the
educators, the ministers, the’ priests and thé. do-
goaders took a long hard look at the -situation.
Easing the rules is net the answer. Lowering the:
standards is not the answer. This very gen¢ration’
that we are coddling and pampering and glving in
to and easing the rules for.are ihe vary anes who
are involved in‘more automobile accidents, are
taking more ‘dope, drinking more booze, are in-
volved in more “have to" morrlages, and divorcing .
‘ more than any generaticn. befor’ it. But, that's:
modern!) . oo —

Why Fight It??? We must, bacause this country is,
deteriorating from within. History has proven that
almost every great nation and empire that crum-
bled and fell—tel!, not from outside. sources, but .
because it rotted from within, and here wa quate a |

- ‘paragraph called “Food For Thought,” The average,
age of the world's grealest‘civilizations has been —
200 years. Each one has progressed from bondage
to spiritual faith, to great courage, to liberty, to

-abundance, ‘to selfishness, to complacency, to
apathy, to dependency, back to bondaga, In iT -
years the North American way of life will be 200
years old, Of all 22 civilizations ‘In history, 19)
collapsed whan they reached our present MORAL
state.” ws
WHY FIGHT

WW??? Because We Must To Survive.

o: - Dent Analyses Federal Election Results

. eellences

FAREWELL EUROPE
TM STUCK AT HOME

by Bill Smiley

Well, | thought this col-.
umn would have a fairly ex-
atic date-line: Amsterdam, —
Copenhagen, Stackholm,
Rue de Something-or-Other
in Paris. . : an

That's what I’ had. in
mind for the summer. My
young brother has an apart:
meat, with lots of sleeping.
space, in the Black Forest of
Germany, or the Schwarz-
wald, as we jet-setters callit.

He offered it to‘us as a
basé for bashing around wes-"

‘tern Europe. It was ideal.
About five hours from Paris,
the same from Switzerland,
Denmark, Belgium, Berlin. A
day to Sweden. A mere bag:

' atelle to Holland. .

"Thad it all worked out. A
one-day. trip to Zurich, a
two-day .spree “in Paris, a
smash at a Munich. bier-
garten ‘(that’s a coffin where
you have to keep yoursecks
up), with the occasional for-
ay into Frankfurt or Ham-

burg. - .
Unfortunately, most of
our forays this summer will
be into hamburg. That’s all
we can afford,and that only
once a week,
There’s ‘an old nursery
rhyme, which doesn't even
- rhyme, “For want ofa nail,

a The Way of —
. the Snob

We are ail quite adept at
detecting the snobberles of
others. We: generally see-
snobbery. as the uppitiness of
the other person over some
bogus‘excellence he thinks he
has, This bogus excellence, and
the snobbery that goes with it,

- gompares most unfavorably

with our own. genuine ex-,

oper pride: we take int
Being aware of the snobberies
of others does give us some
comfort: “We can be thankful
that we are not-like them.

* "We tend te be snobbish not ©

‘over things about which we are
firm and strong and secure, but
over things about which we feel
insecure. Lionel Trillings
writes, “the déminazit emotions
of snobbery are uneasiness,
self-conscisusness, self-
defensiveness, the sense that

| Violence .—
> Anonymous |

Phe” whole “world - seems
“wrapped in a security blanket of
‘violence — addicted to it.
Violence is socially acceptable,
nations and individuals believe
they profil from — it, The
troubled, oppressed,
disinherited turn (o.1t for
solutions.
We're surrounded by violence
in news broadcasts, TV
grams, and theatre screens,
In North America people have
voted with their fingers their
preference for it - 24 weekly

, prime lime TV shows deal with

crime — compared with eight
shows 10 years ago. Il’s exciting
fantasy which too often turns to
m reality.” .
Last fall after a TV movie
showed youths donusing a
derelict with gas and lighting

nd. authentie™.
Bistro ie van: thedlquit yaTweedamulr,
m.

the shoe was lost; for, want
ofashoe, the horse was lost;
for want of a horse, the bat-
tle was lost, for want of a
victory, the ‘kingdom -was
lost.”. Or something like
that. I'm quoting from mem-
ory. | read it‘in the Hook
of Knowledge when 3 was
eight: And along with all
‘those nails and shoes, a good
bit of my memory has been
fost.
At any rate, you get the
message. One thing leads to
another. Or something.
. That’s why I’m not-writ-
ing this column fromthe
Eiffel Tower in Paris. or -
“God's Badburg in Germany.
Wt all started with: the
Good Samaritans. You may.
recall that 1 wrote a column
a few weeks ago about some
former students who came
_ around and fixed my garage
door for nothing. They ab-
solutely refused lo accept a
cent. It gave me quitea warm
glow at lhe time.

That warm glow lias, over
the intervening weeks, turn-
ed into a blazing ulcer. -

Not their fault. It's: my
wife's, She’s been saying for
about two years, “Bill, we've
got to get the. house paint-
ed,” .

] always agree. “Yep.
Sweetie, next’ summer. for
sure.""Now, our house is not
something you paint on a
holiday weekend, buy a case

one is not quite real but can in

some-ways acquire reality.”
Our feelings of gnawing in:

security demand some kind of

-emotional compensation. And

this oftea leads (o attitudes and
actions which make for some,”
degree of special separation
from other persons. This is the
heart of snobbery. John ,
Bachan, . the. first Lorde
Jpatgitein a lbleny
way: “Insecurity Isthe mark
of the snob... The true definition
of a snob is one who craves for
what sepalates men rather than
for what unites them.”
Complete separation from the
herd must, of course, be
avoided. After ail, part of the
joy of being a snob is that
members of the herd must be
_able to observe the excellence of
what the snob is and what he

“had and which: they, un-

fortunately cannot share,
,

him afire — 8 woman was in-
cineraled under horrifyingly'
similar _ circumstances in: ,

Boston.

Meanwhile non-vicient ad-
vocates like Ghandi, Martin
Luther King, or the Berrigan
brothers are assassinated or
jailed for their beliefs.

* ‘There's no real solution. But
just for a wild chance why not
encourage formations of small.
“Violence Anonymous” groups
among world leaders, media
executives, philosophers and
writers. They could. try:
swearing off addiction to violent .
solutions slowly, one hour, one.
day ata time - with the resulls
hopefully sifting down to the
people. It has worked for: other
addictions!! ; .

of beer and getting some of
your old buddres to come in
and help. "4

It's a two-and-a-half stor-
ey edifice of brick. Driving
past, you might: say, “Hell,
I'd paint that for $85.00,”
There’s just the trim that
needs painling, You see.

But that is some trim.
There are thirteen storm
windows, thirteen screens,
eleventy-four shutters, two
French doors, and. at least
‘twenty-seven blackbirds in *
a fir tree, That's before you
start painting the trim.

Well, in a burst of sent-
imentalily, my old lady sug-
gested we give “the boys"
the job of painting the trim.
I would have given them a
case of beer and felt | was.
all even. - .

The “trim” is costing me
5500. Fair enough, in these-
days. | could have done it
myself, but I'm not going to
climb a fifty-foot ladder un-
less there's a mighty fait
damsel al the top. And all
they found was a hornet’s

nest. :
., Next. The boss, who still

calls me “Mr, Smiley” or-.

“Sir”, bless him, said, *'Sir,.
you've gol troubles,” with

that roof.” My heart sank...

I've been through it before’ «.
* Well, I don't have to ga

into detail, Any home-owner

knows the rest. The roof is

t

a

shot, everything is rotten,
though it hasn’t leaked a
drop since Wwe came here. «
The only thing lpaking is the
downstairs toilet, just after
we've spent $16 having it
“fixed”.
t

Farewell, Amsterdam. .
Farewell, Copenhagen. Hel-
la, roof. Hello, bank mana---
per. Py

_ | shoutdi’t complain, I
guess: Suppose’ those boys
hadn't come to fix my gar-
age door. | might have been.;
lolling around in Copenha- -

. gen, saying, “Pas de nuit,

‘cherie,’ instead of answering
the door.ten times a day to”
loan ‘the construction gang
a screwdriver. “ :

It's going to be a $2,000 _

~~ summer holiday. At home. :

It turns out that the garage.

has to be painted, too, and --
the back porch, Rather bit- ;
terly, | asked one of the,

“boys” ‘if they shouldn't.” .

“paint the woodgile, as well,
io go with the decor. And
with a nice twist of wit, he-.
said, “Would you like us to”
paint the cat, as well?”He |

’ sleepsthere. Why nat7Green::

* Shutter. green. With a high”.
plasse.0 ~ ne e

The Argyle Sysidicate Ltd,

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| the Editor

‘Watch It...

Dear Sir:- ;
In thi Julyybatts Iekue 0
paperbartiar!

of the sections of the new
fluman Rights Code of B.C... |
wou lo draw your at-
tention | following excerpt.

“4, Employment Advertisin
(Section 7) 8

.aaThe Human Rights Act of

1969. prohibits...ony ¢m-
ployment, advertising which
expresses directly or indirectly
‘a specification or preference as

"Our Public Picnic
a Grounds

‘Dear Editor: ; ,
‘As a- taxpayer 1 strongly
protest Lhat our plenic sites are

being turned into public pubs.

- Last Saturday 1, my wife and:

two kids were trying to have a
nice pieni¢ al the Lakelse Lake
Picnic grounds, The park is just
beautiful and also well kepl by
the Parks Branch. Nature ts
impressing _ and majestic.
However most of the people
there did not appreciate it and
behaved just miserable. The
Parks Branch tolerates a drink
- With meals, but intends to break
up‘ any drinking party.

However, itis hard far them to.

draw the line. Some food is

being used just to cover up and .

camouflage such parties.

It is really necessary that
each party brings several cases
of beer, plus several bottles of

‘hard liquor in order to cansume
a few weiner's anid hamburgers?

Is you, iil
tidecion. pfage~<BE? >:
’ informing your readers of some

Gn

‘OBSERVATIONS ON: THE
RESULTS OF THE FEDERAL
ELECTION AS RELAYENT TO
. THE -SKEENA . FEDERAL
-RIDING | :

The first-and°most important
fact about the 1974 Federal
Election was that there was a
strong desire on the part of the
people right across the country,
to ‘resalve: the political
stalemate that was facing
Canada by electing ‘a majarity
Government. This desire for a-
majarity Government led to a
polarization of the two main
political parties in Canada, the
Liberals. and the. Progressive
Conservatives, For example:
Ontarlo' the .. strong

polarization reduced | the

numberof NDP geats and voles’
_. thus asalsting the Liberals in
"winning a majority of the seats
In that: Province. . In British
- Columbia,‘on, the. othér hand,.
‘the’ de. was In favour of. the.
Conservatives, The Liberals
only increased - their

‘Federal polarization.

-eaptured the. riding,

representation because
traditionally NDP voters
supported the Liberals. It is
nateworthy that six of the eight
seats now held by the Liberals

-were formerly held by the NDP,

namely,, Skeena, Coast
Chilcatin, Comox-Alberni.
Vancouver-Kingsway, Burnaby
Seymour and Vancouver East.

A poll by poll analysis of the
Skeena Constituency clearly
shows the Impact of the overall
Those
polls lying within the Provincial
Constituency of Omincca (at the
East end of the riding) voled 47

reent Conservative, partly

cause of the influence of the
heavy Conservative vote.in the
Prince George - Peace River
Riding. On the other hand, the
Riding from Smithers Weal,
which has had. the strongest
NDP vote in the riding, gave the
largest number of vated to the
Liberals, candidates and since
there ig more population In the
Western’ end, the ‘Liberals
Those
NDP voters, whether In Ontario

or British Columbia, clearly
yoted Liberal because of thelr
fear of a possible Tory victory.
Perhaps the reasons 1s
because of the fear of price and
wage control or because of the
feat.of Standfield and some of
his right-wing policies. In the’
Skeena Constituency, virtually
all of those who switched thelr
yote from NDP went to the
Liberals and not the Con-
servatives. Another point worth
nating {5 thal Iona Campagnolo,
the Liberal Candidate , did not
do as well in Prince Rupert (her
own home town) as-she did In
Terrace and Kitimal where she
was not as well known, This
would Indicate that where she is

_ well known she is not personally

so popular, NDP Candidate,
Frank Howard, did not-
therefore lose a6 many voles lo’
the Liberals in the Prince
Rupert area.. In these polls
within .the -Prince Rupert —
Constituency, Mr. Howard. got
40 per cent af the votes whereas
those polls outside the Prince.
Rupert area he got less then 35:

percent of the yotes, ©

There is no doubt that the
actions of the Provincial NDP
Government had an effect on
the yoters in this election,

. however, it is diéficult to assess

which had the greater impact
on the vote pattern, the desire
-for.a majority Government and
‘the resulting | polarization
between the Liberals and the
Torles, or the political backlash
against ihe NDP Government
within the Province. I would
guess that the impact would be
70 percent for the Liberal-Tory
polarization and °20 percent
Provincial . backlash.
There is'no doubt that we

-have a major job to do within:

the Province to inform the
people about the many can-
structive reforms and policies

- that the NDP Government has

‘mplemented in ils firet two
years in office, but there Is also
no doubt that we must do a
better job of presenting the.
NDF’ an attractive alternative
lo the old Inc parties al the
“Natlonal-Level,

For what shall it profit a nation If it doubles its Gross Nationa!
’ Praduct in fifleen years and allowa Its physical environment lo
- deteriorate at the samerate at the same time? ;

To what extent can we have effective pollution control without
seriously slowing dawn economile growth and increasing .unem-
ployment?. ‘ oO L

Suppose that in your community there is a plant manufacturing ©
plorial - rads, bul thal its processes. put polluting gases into the
atmosphere and poisons into the local river, And suppose that the
cast of controlling such pollution is economically prohibitive, that it,
would price those plorial - rods right out of the market. And suppose
that the plant, employs 200 persons - your friends and neighbors,

. perhaps you. Ani suppoke you own a few shares in the company.
What wauld you think should be done? ‘ ;
Effective pollution control muy require some quite radical

changes in our economic structures and operations. It is obyious .

that it will require some public controls which many industries will
hot like. And large sdine of public méney will be needed for clean

Up programs -- and that will touch the purses of allofus.
"}thas been sald that smog isa deadly mixture of smoke, fog, and
legislative inaction. But we ordinary voters can liave’quité a bit ta

do with the action, and the inaction, of the legislators we elect. But

politicans area wily breed, and they know how-easy Itisfor citizens

to make idealistic and compassionate nolses without serious!
considering the sacrifices they may have to make if those nines
~ are to be acted on. ‘ ;
How much pollution are you willing to tolerate rather than accept’

a drop in your standard of living?” a me nseept

Let nobody, try tv foo} you.
When we were there most of the
tables were decked and littered

with bottles of any brand of .

liquor. As a result, people were
behaving stupid. Some were

playing football right in the’

middle of the plenic. tables.’
Gravel flew around. A ball hit
pats and paus or landed right it
the middle of, salads, spagettt

+

™ ~ ,m . :
Oolong must be some cup of tenxtt's (he most expensive:

“in the world, retailing at $11
" : —

The British are going to

two. Although. they consumed 139.2 ounces pe
in 1970, the Irish and Libyane drank even more! P "
we ™ * ‘ .

Ten hasn't always been a beverage. The ancient Chines
-and. carly American colonists usad It as a relish, Even today,’
_ some Oriental people relish it that way! . Carn

Did you k |
Did you know?
The tea ceremony of Japan was introduced from China 4
inthe 16th century ag a semi-reljgious ritual! ey

“tothe sex or marital stalus of d,:
ny person. Advertising for a-
“Girl: Friday" or ,‘Salesman'®

no-longer be allowed.” ;*
age EE Se &

~*May | also draw your” at; -
tention to page B10 of the samay
issue. You — have column*

headings “Help Wanted Male: .°

and “Help Wanted Female”. 1,:
would suggest. that- you.
seriously consider, adjusting ~
your classified section... .- °.:

Yours truly,
Alice Chen-Wing

and corneebs, ‘There was.
yelling and screaming: Two big
fat women were embracing

scenery was so disgraceful and

embarrassing and stupid, thak:. ©

we had to pack our stuff-and

leave, ms!

Over we went to Furlong Bay

Picnic Site, But here the same. =’. .

pattern, Beer bottles all
the place. irs
So, we’ turned around
headed for heme,

Personally, I refuse ‘to sil.

down in an open door pub, while
My. intentions were (o enjoy
nature. Till people learn :to
vshare the God-created beaches
with their fellow men I will have
no intention af ever going back:
there, .
wasting my tax money, Maybe
nature levérs : should get
togelher some day and discuss

the possibility of creating thelr“
own private recreation area,
which they truly can call their.”

own and where they can have

-pedce of mind..In the meantime.”

‘I do hope that the Parks Branch
-and the Police are able to cleat
‘up the mess somewhat. .?

“Bill Homburg.

apound! | -
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have to-start drinking’ tea far:.
cupila

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each other and making crying * | |-
and sobbing sounds. The whole oan

and

That -means I. am |

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