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Some years ago the American
writer and wit, Don Marquis, theorized
that boredom with the welfare state
and the aifluent society would soon
drive people back to barbarism. Listen
to any newscast today, scan the
papers, watch television or the movies
and it seems fairly obvious that we are
stage
retrorression. We live with violence
every day and il’s doing something
dreadful to the psyche.
developed an immunity to shock, a
tortoise shell against compassion.
Famine in Pakistan is too remote; war
and massacre have teft us numb.

It is a matter of statistical recov
that out of ten dramatic sequences in
television designed for children, three
are openly violent. In addition 71 per
cent of children’s programs have at
least one violent scene, many of them
involving the use of weapons. Even
more startling is the fact that little or

fast reaching that

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Mind pollution

The violence is part of the game. It
is condoned amd -becomes an ac-
ceptable problem solver, Is it any
wonder then that it spills ovel into the
nation’s behaviour patterns in our
streets and parks and even our homes?
Are we bringing up a generation of
insensitivie, brutalized human beings
to whom violence on TV and in the
world at large are much the same? The
answer is probably ‘yes’ and ‘no’. “Yes’
from those likely to be affected by
watching dramatized ciolence, ‘no’
from those young people who sing
peace songs and refuse to be part of the -
national savagery that drops jellied
gas bombs on defenceless people.

However, we cannot risk one child
being infected by the violence he or she
watches on television or movies, A
campaign against this type of mind
poliution is needed just as urgently as
the campaign against the pollution of

our environment.
—United Church of Canada

of

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no serious damage ever results.

A sad, sad story

TORONTO (CP) — This is
the sad story of Billy Tapper,
a taxi driver, and his harrow-
ing experience inside a To-
ronto tavern.

When Billy woke up at 4:30
a.m. Sunday in the Horseshoe
Tavern and found everybody
gone and the place locked up,
he wasn’t concerned,

“At first I thought, what a
wonderful place to be—locked
in with all that beer and
whisky,” said Billy, 26, who
had fallen asleep in a per-
former's dressing raom Satur-
day night. >

+ Buthe'di Sov er ed the

whisky. was locked: up, and
“after a while I started to
worry.”

People

More and more people in
trouble are turning to a
resolute and sympathetic ally
in the community — their
newspaper, reports the
November Reader’s Digest.

In the past five years some

million Canadians have
received a sympathetic
hearing and practical

assistance from “action line’
columns across the country.
It’s a direct action for people
in trouble, at a time when the
interests of the individual all

too often get. lost in the —

organizational machine.

The Toronto Telegram's
column, Canada's first, was
organized by Frank Day, an
award winning labor reporter,
in May 1966 as a three-month
experiment. The newspaper
expected about 35 queries a
day. In the subsequent five
years. Action Line received
and acted on more than 150,000
complaints or requests for
help. Of these only about two
per cent got into the paper but
satisfaction was obtained in
approximately 90 per cent. of
the cases, At its peak, a staff
of six fielded 1200 to 1300 calls
and letters every week.

Soon ather “helping -hand”
columns were flourishing:

The Free Press’ Sound Off the .

‘Toronto Daily Star’s Star
Probe, the  Tribune’s
Spotlight, and Action Linesin
both the Vancouver Province
and The Ottawa Citizen, = '
No problem is too small,
0 official too big, for the
action columns. Their
technique is .a mixture of
ingenulty and ,“golng to the
ps :

; Vancouver,, The
Province’s Ray. Chatelin

devotes one column a, week to .
explaining -- such’. ‘social’.

programs as’. the’ Canada
Pension Plan and: Old Age
Security, and such legislation
asthe B.C. Landlord— Tenant
Act, At intervals, too, some
action line columns review in
print the outcome of earller
eases, which keeps public and
‘private’ agencies intensely.
aware that their services are

“What if police see me and
think I’ve broken in? Surely
they wouldn't believe me if I
called them and said I got
locked in.’’

So Billy sat down and pon-
dered a bit and then called
The Star. A reporter met po-
lice at the tavern door.

“Am I in trouble?” Billy
yelled through the burglar
alarm door.

“You're not in trouble as .
long as you haven't done any-
thing wrong,” a constable
shouted back.

When police told Billy they:
had to call the alarm com-
pany In get him out, Billy

we have done has increased
our credibility more than this
column. Time and again (thas
proved we are - not
manipulated by large ad-
vertisers or by individuals.”

The range of appeals for
heip is impressively diverse.

Many of them. deal’ with
‘shoddy treatment from
private enterprise and

government, Deserted wives,
unwed mothers, drug addicts,
and their families and people

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first threatened to break the
door down.

The policeman told Billy to
be patient. Since Billy had fi-
nally discovered a fridge full
.of beer, he replied:

“Okay. I'll just go get a
beer.” .

“No,”’ snapped the consta-
ble. ‘Don’t be a fool, “You
take any beer and you'l] be in
trouble.”

So Billy had to sit there in
the hallway of the tavern,
controlling his thirst until the

_ alarm man came and opened .

neon
the
‘era ziestsituations," Billy
said.
*] could do with a dritk.”’

rely on “Action Line"

seeking employment or
schooling, write or telephone,
too

Besides solving thousands of
domestic dramas the action
columns reinforce in poor
people both the habit of
making their grievances
known and the expectation
that, if a-claim is just, it will
be resolved, They also rise the
quality of administration at
both civic and corporate
levels, "

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“Don't knock it, if it wasn't for cabinet. leaks ——

we wouldn't_know ANYTHING!”

First woman president of Quebec Liberals looks

forward fo another year in office

QUEBEC (CP) — The first
woman president of the Quebec
Liberal party says she looks
back on a year which disrupted -
her family life and private
career, brought astonishment
from the traditionally-minded
but+results’ for-the-party.."-". =
" ‘Lise Bacon looks forwatt"to,
‘another year of the ‘same’
because “T feel that I have not
finished alk I want to do in the

party.”

Unruffled by the fanfare when
at 36 she assumed the post in
September, 1970, she also sees
her acceptance of a second term
as “a logical step” after 20.
years of political activity.

In an interview following her
re-election al the Liherals’ 16th
annual convention’ during the
weekend, Miss Bacon expressed’.
the irony attendant on in-
volvement in a part committed,

. to federalism but surrounded.

with an electorate lured by
separatist and nationalist
banners. .
. "Federalism for us is §
constant negotiation,” she said
of the province, “and on this
point all Quebecers are a little
tortured.”’ - :

Her own role is to serve the
best interests of Quebec.

FAMILY IN POLITICS
_She'comes [rom a politically-
active Trois-Rivieres family.

' Both parents were Liberal

party members and her brother
-Guy now is Liberal member in
-the Quebec national assembly

for Trois-Rtvieres. Politics has

been a way of life for her from
_an early age,

'.. Simple membership was not -
enough. :

“Those who want to venture

~ Intoconstructive criticism must
- be present, must. take on.;

responsibility at the level of:

' collective action,” she says, ''
. arrived at the presidency step -
+ by. step,” .

Those steps included posts as

treasirer of the ‘women’s. wing’

of the party. in. the : Trois-
Rivieres riding in

her riding’s ..  women’s-.

association in 1961, president of:

‘the . Quebec Women’s - Liberal.
Federation’ ‘in | 1967. “with

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provincial director of the Young Ak
Liberals in’ 1954, president of ~..

Miss Bacon says many things
have changed in her first year
as president.

“] always wanted the party
militants across the province to
be consulfed and this year,
we've done. it in. regional .con-
ferences and. within party
Structures ¢hemisetves’': 0!

She notes with satisfaction a
movement to give the party a

new constitution knitting the
women's and youth wings with
the main party rather than
maintaining three separate
federations. |.

Great progress had also been
made in, keeping the. public

ment of a party paper and press
bureau last Mareh, she says.
- Many problems can be solved

informed: through: the establish- ..

through consulting the people

and channelling their ideas to -

the government as well as in-
forming them about. govern-
ment action’ and~ explaining
legislation. ° a

‘c MToo. often: iedpleWeve? 2 United:-Natiing’ children’s aid &

AR Ware-46f-~ 1 RWS. evs
direct their lives to their ad-

vantage,” Miss Bacon says.

‘ WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4%, 19

A grant of $1,500 for ca
+. Hopulmonary research at-S
.« Paul's Hospital in. Vancouv:
"Was announced teday by

\. Disabled Veteran
"> geneposity. of Prince. Ru

‘such as Ottawa's national I

"people have been barred from

“motorists!

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Association -- thanks to-

7B Vet board’ chairm

-.William H. Burt, sald - i} aim

funds raised locally in the
‘Vets'. annual province-wid4]
mini-tag auto licence ca

Burt said the research.
be performed. at St. Paul’s
Dr. K.W, Turnbull.

University. of ~ Britid
Columbia’s lung functler
laboratory, Burt noted. ~-1

He added that, the cam-\iig
paign, which provides em-|§
ployment for chest disabled] a
veterans and other han-| (am
dicapped: persons, also hast

“made grants for university {im

scholarships, low-cost housing 1%
and hospital visitations. es

TO HIRE ScioLars |
TORONTO (CP)'’— Thi
federal government soon wil]

Martin -O’Connell, minister| IM
without portfolio with special| it
responsibility for citizenship{®
affairs, said Saturday,

Mr. O'Connell promisedi&
“substantial”. federal funds for| Sa
national cultural . institutions. +3

He told a convention of the
Ukrainian Technical Society in |x
Canada‘ that the deeds ‘of {f
cultural and ethnic groups {Am
contribuling to Canadian multi-
culturalism should be made \R
known to the public in places

Museum of Man,

He also said the government
is studying the possibility of
encouraging one or two centres jj
for ethnic studies in Canadian
universities,

NO UNICEF CARDS |
OTTAWA (€P) — The

Christmas spirit has‘taken a.
beating at a local shopping mall.

- Stores Selling commercial
Christmas cards complained of
persons selling UNICEF cards, '¥

proceeds of. which go to the

merrand=the UNICEF fi

the mall corridors. -

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been where you'd like to go.
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