THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1871. + TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C, geen oe ro a ri . “Tickle your reader's funny bone. . Keep ‘em laughing,” Says my boss. “People love x funny. column.”” And he’s right, What’ the world needs: is laughter.’ and - fun; a ‘respite from the sham, drudgery and broken dreams _ of life, aan ; . ' $a, for the most part, I like to take -you,: my. readers, skipping merriliy through my ‘column, © But there are times when I can’t be funny... : It's difficult. io be, funny when-your brother-in-law has just ianded in Vietnam after calling us from his: em- barkation- point in Oalddnd, - Calif. ca '* TODOORSTEP., |. You feel the war has been brought to your doorstep. ‘And - you think, You think about this stupid, Asian war. And you wonder ‘what. .-the American's are doing there in the first place, And you read in the ‘newspaper that the North Vietnamese have the South Vietnamese raiding’ force, supported by U.S. helicopters. and air support, _being chased back to war-torn Vietnam by: Communist ‘forces, complete with tanks. ” And Presitient Nixon calls it - an orderly retreat. It was a complete rout. - It proves the South Vietnamese can’t make “it on their “own. Sam and Uncle Sam’s economy needs the war. Let's be honest, The U.S. is losing this war and losing ' face among all Asian peoples, ' Nixon still talks of-* his pullout, or orderly withdrawal program of U.S. troops and of Vietnamization of the war. If the U.S. troops are being’ withdrawn, what is my brother-in-law, Sam, doing there? : cS LIFE ON LINE . He called us from Oakland on the eve of his departure. We had asked him to--and to call collect: because a‘ U.S, private only gets $179 a month for laying his life on the line. a oi ke at ri He's a little bit older ' than “most - draftees---22, ae Why don’t the old men fight wars they start? Instead they Saigon’s — dictatorship needs old-.Unele -- send their sons to slaughter and war greases the wheels of the economoy so the old men can get richer, — . Already, nearly 50,000 U.S, boys-—-many of them kids just out of high school—have died in Indochina, For what? How do you tell 60,000 American parents their son died in vain? “We're taught to think of them ‘and -talk of them as ‘gooks’,"* Sam told me. He said right from boot camp impressionable: young men ‘are told and retold ‘that the Southeast Asian peoples, _ believe in this, including’ South Vietnamese’ are nothing but “gooks"; Their. lives. don't mean anything to the U.S. govern- ‘ment. oo * SEES PROPAGANDA “Gook”. How'd you like to - be called that?- Sam, for. tunately, was able to see through this propaganda. He didn’t want.to go into the army---something we can’t fathom up here-,where we have an all-volinteer defence force. « ne * But how would: you feel if _you are suddenly ‘plucked ‘out of civilian society because you had- a low draft-lottery number and thrown into a war.’ you do tot -believe in, much Jess understand? . 0. Modse gives | over $800 °° . to hospital... At the B.C. Loyal’ Order of Moose . Mid-Winter . conference’ _ in New. Westminster, ; Terrace Moose Lodge -presented'.a. - | |. cheque For $860. which members. . collected on behalf of Children's . Hospital March of Dimes.:*. 0 5.03. _ The Children’s; Hospital, ‘with © ita widespread. services, -has- become the major referral and diagnostic center for children ini: need of s 8:1. Nationalism is drilled into _. Why didn’t Sam . before he Was drafted, come to Canada? good, honest people like Sam — to help be, part of it; ‘to help - build it.- so. tye He admits he gave it ‘some thought... But he’s not .a_ Canadian. He's an American. . He-didn't want. to become a.’ draft-dodger.:) - : OPPOSES KILLING ‘: . His Feasons were noble in his‘own context.. He admits he | is opposed to the Vietnam war and he is opposed to Killing. But still-he allowed himself to - . bé-“drafted. ” Why didn’t he- fight-it? - : artly, it was a ‘selfish reason, but one I cannot condemn. ~ The U.S. ts biggest and best; 80, therefore, it’s right, It then “assumes the roll of. world — Policing. Quiet, gentle Sam is: ‘caught up in the tentacles the U.S. is strangling Asia with. > - Tf the’ U.S. administration doesn't pull its troops out, we - could be. faced with a world war, China is wooing Hanoi. Itis supplying weapons, It has _. Baid if the war expands it will’ send in troops. . | And Nixon expands the war in Laos and Cambodia, And . the young men of the country ‘+ are Maimed and killed. _ The “silent majority” has condemned them to the slaughter in the name’ of God .and Country... ©. - Whether -it was right or wrong, he made his decision, ‘We only hope now -that his letters keep coming. . At the same time, we hope that a . - certain -letter, or telegram - does not come. We want Sam home again to: laugh and joke with us. We want to see him finish school and begin a career .., and then a family with children of his - own. ‘We pray heand thousands of : other American youth come home to help build a better world, _based on world ‘-humanism rather than ex- “treme nationalism. But what, then, was the - Great War, the First World War, ali about? It was a war to end all wars, Then what are allegedly civilized human beings doing in Vietnam? Why are they My Lai’s? Why? Why? ; It makes any problem we ‘face in Terrace nothing. 5 en kelse Ka aS CANCER Your lucky stars this through your fingers, “may have opportunity have been hoping for dreams.. oe AQUARIUS -_ January 21- February 19 In the world of romance -: _ things seem to be at sixes and. sevens this week, So watch that” you do not react too sharply or’ too unreasonably, if, on the}, consideration of others, a ray of sunshine may well be- your! reward. Jt would bea mistake, to judge too much: from ap- pearances. wl vy PISCES |. _February20-March20 ‘ Not your lucky week - for speculation. Nor much you reply too much on your. judgment of business trends. conservative in your methods and thereby play for safety. , _ ARIES Mareh2i1-April20°0 0: Take the lead in business or careeral, interests, but do not: wholse desire it is to help and be of assistance to you. « Misjudgments at the present? juncture might prove costly. -: TAURUS . April 21 - May 21 ; Some circumstances may tend to irritate. 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But be tactful on Wednesday and Thursday, as may be tried and others besides yourseli may be tempted to fiy off the handle.. Those who retain their sense of humour will be best off best off. . CANCER June 22-July 22. A soft answer turneth away wrath-and therein liés the key’ for your suécess in this current week. When others are losing their heads, you have capacity for maintaining your cool, and it . is that which will make all the difference. Keep up your - suavily and your helpful ser- vices, and then you will be displaying traits which will - endear others to you. Spurn the cooperation of part-.. : ¥ ners and persons of goodwill LEO July 23- August 22 There are moments in life when onefeels so fed up that one is tempted to throw a spanner into the works; and this week might seem to offer such an - occasion. Tere is seldom any sense in taking radical action, : however, so make it your policy - to think things out thoroughly and then see what answers you .come up with. 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