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EDITOR'S
JOURNAL . ¢

BY

GREG
MIDDLETON

rT _ J
It wasn’t more than minutes after Joe Clark’s not-

quite-governing party went down to defeat and the
pundits of the press were telling everyone how much
no one, wanted a winter election.

Personally I found that a little hard to believe, The
NDP and Liberal MPs obviously wanted an election.
They. voted for one. The federal Socreds wanted one.
They stood around in the corridor waiting for one. I
also think Clark wanted one too. It was his party which
didn’t have all its members in the house.

If you look closely at Clark’s background you'll find
that jclection, campaigns are his specialty. He's
worked on a let of them. In fact, that’s about all he’s
done,Oh, he worked on a newspaper a couple of times,
but dven wheg he was supposed .to Re a student he
spen mas os time working 6x s.mdone’s cam-
paigd or wiitilig political speeches.) 1° |

Icértainly wouldn't believe a journalist who says he
or ship didn’t want an election. Elections aré great for
the reporters and photographers and cameramen of
the nation’s news media.

As for the public, that nebulous body of nameiess
and faceless voters, well, all they have to do is trudge
downto the polls at the end of it all and many, if not
most, won't even do that.

It might be bad for business. The hotel, car rental,
airline companies, as well as the advertising agencies
and the media will all make a buck or two, On the
larger scene it might mean the bigger companies
might fe a little more cautious but as government
does pet of meddling and readjusting things when it
is in full force they might welcome the lull.

Thé only realcomplaint with ar ter election is that
it will cost about $50 million.

I don’t really thir’ that’s a 9t of money. The
Liberals would give that away ing. .intsin afew weeks
and the Tories were going to give imost that much to
the multinationai oil companies out of the oil and
gasoline price hikes.

Took atit this way. It’s probably worth that much to
keep the politicians busy for a couple of months,

"POET'S CORNER.

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By T.A.M. MCKAY
; THE LORD'S NEW YEAR

Each day that we start a new,

We ask the Lord to see us through.

Each. night as we lay our head to rest,
We thank the Lord for every test.
So let us all in this New Year, °
Use qur time to spread Gods cheer.
Let us through our word and deed,
Prové the Lord will fulfill every need,
If you’see someone stumble and fall,

Offer your hand, help them to stand fall.
Should someone harm you in anyway,
Kemember them, when to God you pray.

Holdipg.a grudge will just turn you sour.’.

Placing you in the Devils evil power.
Instead smile, be quietly forgiving, Show that with:
Jesus you are living.

If youbelieve in Jesus and hold Him dear,

He wil guide you all through the New Year.

4
: Shelford re

I rdad with interest Nadine Asante’s Commentary
on Columns in the Dec, 11 edition of the Herald, and
must Bay that I was left puzzled because she appeared
to be against my Brief on Forest Management without
saying what she didn’t like. 1 don't think that this is
fair to the readers interested in the question. It
reminds me of the story of the Irishman landing for
the first.time in America, and asking the first stranger
he met'wnat type of Government they had. When he
was ,told, he said: “Well [’m against it.”

My main concern is that Asante’s comments left the
impr¢ssion that this brief is the first time. I've shown
my ¢fficern of this mattet-twhich is completely
wrong. Even. with the most elernentary research,
show would have known different. For those readers
not familiar with my past interest I should give brief
outline, Then. those opposing my brief have a better
opportanity of attacking my ‘views which were
outlined to spark discussion.”

From 1945 to 1952, I was a contract logger with
horses. We are proud of our harvesting methods as
with a horse we didn’t damage young trees in mixed
age stands. After being elected in.1952, I sat as a
member on the Forest Committee df the Legislature
until 1961, then was chairman until] 1968. In 145, and
again in 1956, 1 presnted a brief to the Sloan Royal

*

PIERRE TR UDEAU

Spirit of election past

By ALAN FREEMAN

QUEBEC (CP) — The
February federal election
has raleed a apectre to haunt
Premier Rene Levesque ~~
the possible return of Pierre
Trudeau a8 prime minister
In the midst of the Parti
Quebecois independence
referendum.

It no doubt took awhile for
the impact to sink in since
the premier was preoccupied
last week with the Supreme
Court of Canada which
averturned portions of
Quebec's Charter of the
French Language.

But the surprise defeat of
the Progressive. Con-
servative government in
Ottawa — the same day aa
the Supreme Court ruling —
certainly must be weighing
on Levesque.

The reaults of last May's
federal election suited him:
Not only was Trudeau
beaten, but the Con-
servatives under Joe Clark
accomplished the task by
aweeping English Canada
and electing only two
members from Quebec,

According to Levesque,
the results showed that
residents of Quebec and the
test of Canada are two
different peoples with op-
posed interests,

Levesque alao interpreted
Trudeau's defeat as the end
of French power in Ottewa,
taking it as evidence that
English Canada hes had

enough of French
Canadiens,

Ironically, the May result
broughta temporary truce in
relations between Ottawa
and Quebec.

Under Trudeau, Quebec
ministers like Jean Chretien,
Andre Ouellet and Mare
Lalonde never shied away
from confrontation with the
PQ. But the Clark cabinet
refused to debate conflicting
federal and provincial pol-
icies.

With only four Queberers
holding posts in the cabinet
— Supply Minister Roch
LaSalle, Sclence Minister
Heward Grafftey and

Commission on Forestry, and opposed my own party’s

Senator Jacques Flynn, who
serves a8 justice minister —
the Clark government fig-
ured its best way to deal with
Quebec was to be aa ensy-
golng as possible,

Even when Levesque

attacked Clark for delays in
federal investment plans in
Quebec two weeks ago, Clark
refused to fight back.

But most important of all,
Clark swore not to get

ATRILL THINKS |

by Thomas Atrill

[ have a solution to the U.S.-Iranian crisis.

First, let us look at the desires and demands of the
two countries:

Iran wants the Shah.

U.S, wants the hostages freed.

Iran needs money,

U.S. needs Iranian oil. © ani
Rebellious students want authority.
Khomeini needs rest and retirement.

The Middle East needs peace and prosperity.

U.S, needs military bases in Iran.

For many years, the United States has been called
an imperialist country, meaning that they try to annex
territory and expand the U.S. ‘empire.’ It is an idiotic
concept, with no facts to back it up. However, my plan
requires that the ‘imperialist’ epithet becomes a
temporary reality.

I want the U.S. to take Iran. Not invade and fight,
only to retreat like a whipped dog, as they did in
Vietnam. No; I propose a takeover patterned after the
Russian conquest of Czechoslovakia. Quick, ef-
ficient,ruthless and almest bloodless.

At that point, things will begin to fall into place, The
hostages will be freed by U.S. Marines. Student
criminals will berounded up and jailed, Khomeini will
be given a well-deserved retirement, otherwise known
as house-arrest. The Shah will be returned to Iran, and
instailed as head of government. Oil will begin to flow
again, U.S. and world money will begin to pour in to
Tran, The lid will be on all subversives and socialists in
Iran. The U.S. will obtain numerous military bases.
Peace and prosperity will reign.

Then the imperialist United Staes will quietly with-
draw its forces.

[expect to be chastised and reviled for thinking such
thoughts.

Greenpeace, The Sierra Club, The Society For
Prevention of Everything Constructive (SPEC), and
others, will call me a right-wing Fascist’ or a ‘running
dog of the American imperialists’ or worse, I care not.

Their old friend, Chairman Mao, once said, ‘‘Power '
comes oul of the barrel ofa gun”

What's good for the goose is also good for the gan-
‘der, I guess. :

personally involved in the
spring referendum on th-
dependence, saying thls was
a matter for Quebecers to
settle.

If the Liberals win the
federal election, it will be
because they have boosted
their support in the reat of

the country — especially.

Ontario.

Since it's unlikely
Quebecers switch from
voting Liberal federally,
mce again Frenchspeaking
Quebecers would vote the
sameway as much of Eng-
lish Canada, q

And it would mean ‘a

atrong Quebec presence in
Ottawa once again and ja

federal} cabinet ‘anxlous
1. gets.

involved: in the
referendum battle.

Even in announcing
planned resignation from
Liberal leadership last
month, Trudeau Indicated he
would continue to take an
active rolein the referendugn
campaign. 5

If re-elected, he could te
expected to further em-
phasize that commitment.

The federal  electi
cféates a‘ ihore difileult
problem for Levesque, The
premier always has banked
on extensive media coverage
of his government's every
action.

The text of the question in
the spring referendum is to
be made public this week,
but itd will be debated in

. detail when the assembly
resumes sitting after the
Christmas break — likely in
mid-February, just when the
federal vote will take place
and all eyes will be on Ot-
tawa,

Levesque will probably

think twice about in- —

tervening in the election this
time, as he did last spring
when he lent tacit support to
the Social Credit party under
Fabien Roy.

That strategy ended in dis-
aster, with the drop-

- ping to six MPs from

Quebec. One of them,
Richard Janelle, later
jumped to the Tories.

ON FOREST MANAGEMENT
plies to Asante’s comments

years in either Prince George, Kamloops, Vancouver,

position on Tree Farm Licences for large companies. I
maintained that the independent contractor was
getling a bad deal, and that management practices
were inadequate. This most likely cost me a cabinet
position for many years!

As chairman of the Forest Committee, I was able to
get the co-operation of the NDP and Liberals, and
brought down @ unanimous report to the Legislature
each of the seven years I was chairman. Our main
thrust to Government was better management which
would require more money, and recommended a
$500,000 a year increase each year for ten years. Had
this been carried out, we would be much better off

lay.

Each year | took the commiltee to different areas to
see first hand the problems and methods of re-
forestation. We went to Washington State, Oregon, and
ail major logging areas of B.C. The value of this was in
the form of education for all of us. I carried out the
first thinning trial on my ranch in the early 1950's and,
after several years, took the results right to the
Legislature to prove that we could grow twice as much
wood per acre in fewer years. :

In 1970, [ went to the Soviet Union to observe their
management practices which were impressive in
many areas. I’ve been on logging panels, and have
moderated panels, nearly every year for the last 20

or Terrace.

While with the Northwest Loggers Association, I,
brought in speakers from outside, mainly from the
NDP management and labour. During that time, we
spent weeks on the Pierce Royal Commission on
Forestry, and were pleased when he used six out of our
nine points in his recommendations which gave credit
to our local people. I also, wrote a monthly report
called, ‘Northwest Viewpoint” which appeared in the
local papers. Many of my ideas have been used in
forest management seminars at U.B.C. and in logging
publications.

The most knowledgeable writer in the 34 years I've
been involved was Pat Carney, columnist for the
Vancouver Sun. Like myself, Pat urged more money
and better management years ago. She was very
thorough in her research and did a tremendous job in
reporting the hearings in the area of Tree Farm
Licences for Can-Cel and Eurocan. She was able to
analize all our positions and point out the weak points,
and strongly support the better ones. This is the type
of critizism all of us interested in the subject need.

All of us who have been involved for many years
recognize the need for constant forest acreage in order
to carry out proper management-—the same as in
farming. If we lese valuable forest land for only

PERSICY S
PERSPECTIVE

By STAN PERSKY

wo

neighborhood Vietnamese “boat person”’ got a
job leaning up automobiles aver at the Budget Rent-
a-Car agency. The local paper ran his picture a couple
weeks back and told us bout his new job. Buess they
wanted to reassure us taxpayers that he wasn’t living

off welfare or anything. So there he ‘was, standing _

there in his Budget Rent-a-Car overalls, not looking
like much or a threat to national security, racial
purity or the absence of a hepatitis epidemic on our
street. ; ;

Apart from taking note of that momentous piece of
information, I must admit that I've been rather lax.
when it comes to waking up in the middie of the night
in order to worry about immigration. I realize that
most normal Canadians regularly have their sleep
disturbed by nightmarish visions of our country being
overrun by swarms of multihued, foul-smelling
varieties of home sapiens who jabber at us with the
forked tongues of Babel.

At least that’s what last week's Gallup poll reveals.
In a survey conducted for the right-wing National
Citizens’ Coaltion, it was discovered that 64 per cent of
Canadians disagree with the federal government's
policy of admitting 50,000 Indochinese refugees. (For
96 per cent, even one boat person was one too many.)
Coincidentally, the poll results appeared just after
federal Immigration Minister Ron Atkey told a
meeting of shocked church leaders that the govern-
ment was cancelling its commitment to sponsor one
Vietnam refugee for every boat person sponsored by
private groups (to a total of 50,000).

Up ’til then, I hadn’t given the matter much thought.
(Of course, didn’t get very excited in 1957 either our
biggest post-World War II immigration year, when
250,000 newcomers arrived, many of them refugees
from Hungary,and alarmists predicted our
cheeseburgers would get covered with paprika.
Twenty years later, and you can’t tell a Hungarian
from a Winnipeg Jets fan.) Bo

That's not to say I've been entirely inactive in
combating the menace of immigration. But, like the
government, I do it for purely political reasons rather
than as a matter of faith.’That is, whenever I feel I’m
in danger of not being thought sufficiently’ narrow-
minded, I’m not above casting the second. or third
at environmentalists, opponents of the death penalty,
and perfect strangers to our shores (I'll even tell one
or two bigoted jokes about Californians), just for the
sake of credibility.

Naturally, it's easier to get worked up about mad-
dog mass killers or to make fun of Greenpeace than to
deliv-r a tirade against immigrants. But just last
mon.a, in mixed company, 1 wondered aloud about the
wisdom of taking in 50,000 boat people, given the
current unemployment rate. Even then, my heart
wasn’t really in it, since I knew perfectly well that
after, Joe Clark.gets done dismantling Petroqan.and

- Jacking up the.interest rates, the, addition, o£ M,000.to

the ‘unemployed stats will be barely noticeable.
(Maybe I’m just not cut out to be a right-winger, even
for the sake of credibility.) :
Inany case, I can depend on others to do most of my
worrying about the preservation of English Canada
for me. In fact, one of my journalistic colleagues down
South (who’s fondly known in the trade as ‘‘Bulldog’’
never lets a week go by without scrawling a stirring
diatribe against another dark-skinned huddled mass
being given tous, His dogged devotion to his pet peeve
is awe-inspiring, ook
Bulidog is constantly hunched over his pocket
calculator proving that those 50,000 boat perople, just
like fruit flies or rabbits, will inevitably multiply into a
horde or 750,000, And then there are his authoritative
medical pronouncements (as if he were trying to get a
guest shot on Quincy) that the Indochinese im-
migrants are sure to cause a hepatitis plague. Any
minute now, I expect him to rush out and tack up
quarantine signs around the neighborhood, even
though his startling scientific discovery is about as
believable as saying all bulldogs have rabies.
Before ] join that angry mob about to drive all those
people who have different noses (or different
whatever-it-is that makes us so angry) into the sea:
like lemmings, there’s just one thing I don’t quite
understand about our crusade to preserve English
Canada. I mean, let’s say all those figures about
multiplying foreigners are correct, and that even the
predictions about outbreaks of hemorrhoids or
hepatitis or hickeys are true. Let's say, for the sake of
argument, that English Canada really is, despite
appearnaces to the contrary, about to diappear.
~ What I don't understand is this: why do we want to
preserve it?
I'm sure there's a perfectly good reason why we
want to fight to the death to preserve English Canada.
‘I just can’t, for the life of me, think of it.

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sustained yield.

I hope this will give the readers some idea of the
concern that I have had over the years and trust they
will come forward with contructive critizism all of us
interested in the subject need.

All of us who have been involved for many years’
recognize the need for constant forest acreage in order
to carry out proper management-the same as in
farming.‘ If we lose valualbe forest land for only
single-use purpose, it upsets. the entire concept of
sustained yield.

I hope this will give the readers some idea of the
concern that [ have had over the years and trust they
will come forward with constructive critizism go that,
together, we can put forward an even belter plan for
the future. This area is far too important to the future
~~ anomy of the Province for writers to oppose briefs
4d ideas solely for political purpases, | must give
credit to members of all parties in the Legislature
during that time as they were always big enough to
stand above this sort of thing and make concrete
proposals, or critizism , for the betterment of the

OS€, It Upsets the entire concept of

‘industry, and the economy, which affects all of us

regardless of party politics,

Sincerely,
Cyril M, Shelford

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