Page 4, The Herald, Wednesday; August 29, 1979 TERRACE/KITIMAT daily herald Published by Sterling Publishers General Office - 635-4357 Cirevtetion - 635-6357 GEN, MANAGER - Knox Coupiand EDITOR - Greg Middleton CIRCULATION. TERRACE- 435.4357 KITIMAT OF FICE - 632-2747 Published every weekday at 3212 Kalum Street. Terrace, B.C. A member of Verified Circutation. Authorized as second class mall. Registration number 1201. Postage pald In cash, return postage guaranieed. NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Herald ratains full, complete and sole copyright In any advertisement produced and-or any editorial or Photographic content published In the Herald. Reproduction ls not permitted. ‘ Remee ee = = EDITORIAL This country has a substantial prison population. in the last few years hostage takings, prison violence and the con- troversy over the need for prison reform has been making news in Canada‘s newspapers. Canadian Press, the national news gathering co-operative to which Canada‘s daily newspapers subscribe and contribute, has taken a look at the prison system in this country. , In the investigations Canadian Press reporters conducted they found that while the riots which dominated the front pages of newspapers three years ago are not common now, the un- dercurrent of tension which resulted In the violence which threatened Canada’s prison system is still there. As a special feature to Terrace readers we will be running the Canadian Press feature on prisons over the next two weeks. LETTERS TO _ THE EDITOR aa an ae * Dear Sir; writea, by the moochers, Reader Martyn (August tyrants and socialists of the 20) misses the of my world. He would, instead, letter, and also thathe become a free, optimistic does not understand wrifer- and -positive ergson, Philosopher Ayn Rand's Selfishness, one of life’s yectivism. basic forces, was not, aa Mr. . Ih my letter, I ted out the cy of pro . For example: protests Tordon 23 K, but smokes cancer causing Cigarettes and eats cancer - causing broiled steaks. He rotests the American Amenitka atomic blast, but pretends not to notice a dirty’ Martyn suggests, invented average by Ayn , but haa been with us since the of Man's existence. . The ‘capitalist takeover’ for many years a takeover by government with its at- t bungling and foat- dragging — ucracy. 1 have noticed & steady increase In taxes and government in- terference. That I call socialism, Where is the capitalistic er? ‘Please spare us your Bible gyotations, Mr. Martyn. hakespeare correctly stated that 'the Devil quotes Scriptures.’ Most soc and = coatly . oe Rand is primarily a pher, one of the beat world has produced. If one takes time and ort (as I have) to read and understand Miss Rand's _ philosoph and = the Feasoning behind it, he would socialist, ever again; or to ga A persistert t feeling, Surtured, in Ml Rand socialism is about as far from Christianity as one can ge _ - Thomas Atel HCRAMAN “Dad, the cat got married!" ay r do, also. It is my opinion that - have decla “So it smells a little — if I don’t bring it back, how will anyone believe I caught it?” Killing shocks, baffles. LONDON (CP) — Shock and grief came first, then * declarations of despair, rage and revenge. And now that these emotions have quietened, Britons are asking, “What happens now?” The newa rolled across the country like an earthquake. It was just after lunch when radio and television programs were interrupted on a sunny August bank holiday to report the death of . Earl Mountbatten of Burma ' rin a boat explosion. A couple of hours later came an after-shock as Irish terrorists claimed that what had appeared as a tragic accident had really been an assassination. - And the shocks’ kept coming. First, theree was the news ‘that one of Mountbatten’s young grandsons had died : pita lm. The boy's twin bro! er was critically in- jured and possibly blinded. Then ther was further Aparth (AP) — Less .than two months ‘from now, millions ‘of television viewers abroad wil] he able to see whites and blacks sitting together for _ a major sporting event in South Africa. John Tate, a black American, will meet . Gerrie Coetzee, a white South African, for the World Boxing Association heavyweight title recently vacated b Muhammad All, . Fora country where the 19-million black majority has no political rights and must use segregated toilets, transportation, housing, movie theatres, hotels and restaurants, the sight of whites and blacks watching the fight together will presumably do much to improve South Africa's tarnished image abroad. But despite the rosy predictions by promoters that this fight means the beginning of the end of apartheid in sport here, the truth appears to be somewhat different. The Oct. 20 fight is belng heldin the iarmally segregated 70,-000-aeat Loftus Vorsfled rugby stadium in Pretoria, the national capital. For the bout, the city council and the local y union that the stadium will have “inter- national” atatus — a South African term for . integrated. The granting of “inter-' national” status to cer- tain public facilities often makes it difficult for visitors tosee segregation first-hand. For example, the Inter: BRITAIN MOURNS © numbing news that 18 British soldiers had died. in an ambush in another terrorist acck on the border in Nor- thern Ireland. . A weeping John Barratt, Mountbatten’s personal secretary, exclaimed: “May the IRA rot in hell, the bastards!" The blunt headline in The Daily Express condemned the IRA: “These evil bastards,”* ; _. ‘The Star's headline read: « “Murdering bastards,” The inside pages were more subdued. “From tois tragedy, we may perhaps allow ourselves one hope,” said The Evening News. “Horror on this scale may at least be a wedge driven between the Irish people and the IRA. "If the public abhorrence, reinforced by these latest outrages,’ can at last be -. mobilized, then there will. be: no safe hotises for the + rae ¢ ; United States" The Finan- cial Times said’? In the meantime, . the lunatic fringe was in full cry. A vetéran. Hving of Rameey, Kent, was quoted Kent, was in a news broadcast as ad- vyoeating a vigilante army of more arms funds from America.” | David Buchan, political editor of The Star, concluded that “Ireland now is closer | than ever to all-out civil war. Assassination of a member of the British Royal Family could spark off a Protestant. backlash of. unprecedented scale ... . and clean them out.” “One thing can be certain. — A caller to a phone-in radio . There is no question of the show. suggested - sending Pope verituring north of the “ every Trisetch’ patson in border during hia Irish visit. Britain back t9-Ulster and next month. There could turning Northern Ireland even be a question mark into one vast concentration aver the Pope's trip ab a camp under military rule. whole.” _. The Dally Telegraphs The staid Financial Times warned: “No doubt the IRA said the assassination could would be gratified if Britain “strain the already sensitive were to respond, unchar- relations between London cteriatically, by launching and Dublin over security.” some sort of wild vendetta “It is to be hoped, rather against the Roman Catholle than expected, that this population. ’ Z of a man .. ° “Tt would still de more ‘Both year will’ glve"sothe™ tratified, however, if Britain were to respond by doing eid takes punch national departure and While the white |§ apartheid is far from arrivals section of Jan newspapers here have dead in South African Smuts A here has made much of integration sport. . ; integrated dining and of seating for the Tate- This week one of the tollet facilities. The Coetzee fight, other | country's best soccer domestic section {is aportsstorlesintheasme’ ‘teams was kicked out of a segregated. ' papers indicate ‘that. Johannesburg — hotel 0 a which lacks ‘“‘Inter- an al ‘national’? status, because _—— tee moat of the team is black. vk 247228 The team was also TODAY INH ears Laeiochahata it y a ma aga another black. team at a segregated~. sports stadium in Witbank — the ISTORY Se Oe eri ites TODAY. IN. HISTORY home of Punt Janson, the South African minister of By THE CANADIAN PRESS sport. a Aug, 28, 1073 t42'— The Treaty of piace enacts vere Seventy-five workmen Nazi ended the Chinese . reported to have been. died when the Quebec Bridge. , Qpilim- War. kicked off a bus carrying on the St, Lawrence River = 7 white athletes to a cross- collapsed 72 years ago today _1816'— Gen. Paul yon country meet, * — in 1907, The bridge, about Hindenburg was appointed prominent blacks here 10 kilometres outside Quebec - chief of the German army's eve already said they City, was Btarted in 1900 and general staff. will boycott tha Tate- cantilever bridge. in i016, 1958 — The Soviet Union [ueteee, fight, because another 13 construction Claimed the safe recovery of = Wills he temporary workers perished as the two wo dogs that had been fired emetic and designed to completed cantilever spans by rocket into space to an = jyinresa television were bein hoisted into allitude of 281 miles. viewers and the several position and the centre span , hundred foreign jour- fi : 1969 — Jordan's Premier Shinto the river Mafall and 10 others were seliste expecied to cover 1877 — Mormon leader killed as a time bomb went Oe hen U.S. boxing Brigham Young died. off at Amman. “ oter Bob Arum was re recently, Janson that the white minority governmen ' it fa- vor equal =o Letters welcome "por" in tport — Bet seat cannons, | Se tacet nae The Herald welcomes its readers comments. the government didn’ Alb letters to the editor of general public interest rough force integration will be printed, We do, to refuse 'to print letters on grounds of possible libel or bad taste. We may also edit letters-for style and length. All letters to he considered for publication must be signed. - however, retain the right ‘A newspaper quoted him as saying, in a separate statement: “If they (whites) don’t want to ait next to a black man, Tim not going to force ‘ : them to.” LEA TMA ee . government. through the taxp old sweats “to go over there . wor yi OFFBEAT BY RICHARD JACKSON ‘Clark’s Conservatives must win in the war to turn OTTAWA | Ottawa — The first battle Prime Minister Joe around — or at least defend from further logs — the . ‘retreating economy, is with the public service. And the public knows it. . Initial tactics being employed in the opening skir- mish by both sides are threats. = The prime minisier's field commander, Treasury Board President Sinclair Stevens, so far has resorted only the it weepon of the “freeze.” ever-bulging public:service swollen to a gross 450,000- -. ‘That's a huge force for a country of 23 million tax- payers to support in the. indexed-pensioned, job- secured comfort to which the public service has become accustomed. - . frigh ‘The staff freeze, that is, holding the unit-line on the. It imposes a staggering payroll and personnel ex-- _ pense approaching if not already exceeding an annual $11 billion, mo ; * Union officials have a very personal stake in Its growth, _ Their power and personal income depend on an . @ver-increasing number of union members and dues. They don’t have to care about inflation — as long as it doesn’t run so wild the economy goes over disaster’s _ edge —. because cost-of-living clauses in collective agreements and indexed pensions insulate them against the peril jeopardizing the future of un- protected taxpayers. Lo So the union is into a campaign of double in- Himidation against Sinclair Stevens and against the Andrew Stewart, president of the Public Service Alllance, the nation’s biggest union, is threatening the ayers, The - threats are fiendishly * selective. The union hints of Sinclair Stevens’ “freeze” s0 paralyzing the public service that certain of Its ser- vices. — essential to those who depend, in part or whole, upon them —will have to be dropped. Like ‘the preparation and imailing of pension cheques. 7 . Re . The rocessing of family. . allowances. , Distribution of veterans’ . . allowances. the mail; They've done that so often f ; ; ften ‘nobody can be sufe that it-really hag‘started up ‘agatfi, ‘Is: many - No good.any more of the unions threatening to stop ly Bhnything like dependable, will ever be on time, or just.possibly — disintegrate so in non-service that private couriers will have to pick up and reassemble the pieces. So the threats are directed against those who are yulnerable, the elderly, the children, the veterans, the capped. Such a nda campaign of intimidation abandoning another of its election promises. _ So the’ question later rey Antal anal has nee asked: through: the. years. in until Margaret Thatcher,:‘The Iron Maiden,’ tock oyer: wiioruns the country, the government and the people or the unions? The maddening thing is that the size of the public. service is not controlled by the actual need of people to fill positions. ; Government jobs are ephemeral things created as seen to be required by an ambitious cabinet minister _ determined to widen his sphere of power, aided by a deputy and departmental directors equally dedicated to expanding their influence and control. None of them —deputy or department messenger - are real people, They are numbera on a chart called , ‘‘person'years’’ fitted into a budget that artifi inflated when first drawn so that it can be reduced the pressure is enough. ‘ _ ATRILL THINKS — By THOMAS ATRILL What do you know abeut ‘Women’s Lib’? propaga clearly is calculated to frighten the government into - 2st teh You probably know that it is a movement which aims to remove any inequali women sequal pay for equal work and, generally, a place in the sun for all women. . T,too, believed that the movement meant well, although I could not see how some of the goals could ba achieved. Neither could -I: get used to the ter- m'liberation,;when it is common knowledge that _ Women in general are not subjugated in any way. It ‘struck me.as a Communist term. Then I discovered and read ‘Assualt On The Sexes,'by Jim and Andrea Fordham, an extremely interesting book; an exposee of the Feminist Movement. Well documented ties between men and , this book shows how the news has ‘been managed, censored and distorted in order to . promote the aima of Women's. Lib, It shows how statistics are doctored and parts left out; it tells about certain facts that are deliberately omitted because they are damaging to the new idea of Invincible Women. It tells about how Marx and Lenin believed in and advocated the unisex ides, for obvious reasons. - But, perhaps most important of all, it shows how the family is to be abolished and in its place we will have daycare provided by the state, to allow both men and women to work full time. Why this double paycheque should be necessary is not indicated, ex- cept that it becomes obvious that under the new (socialist) regime, with the inevitable Inflation, higher prices, and state inefficiency , it would take two people working to maintain the standard of living that was 6 previoualy possible with the husband only helding a job. According to the authors, the vast majority of : American women do not back the feminist movement. Nonetheless, they are being used in many subtle ways to promote feminist ideas. Women activists are now in places in almost ali U.S. institutions, rewriting laws, textbooks and anything else that they cansider to be ‘sexist’. The authors report that a. movement that is belleved by many to represent goals and aims that no one should condemn, is in fact working for the destruction of our way of life, and the substitution in its Place of a communal system, perhaps Communiam Turge you to read it, whether you are a man or a woman. (It is published by Arlington House Publishing, New — Rochelle, N.Y. U.S.A)