PAGE 4. TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C. MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1973 Association, _ ADVERTISING MANAGER;i GARY CARD Business Address: 4613 LazelleAve., . r The Terrace Herald is a member of The B.C. Weekly Newspapers’ Assocation, and Varified Cir- culation. Published every Monday and Thursday at 4613 Lazelle Ave., Terrace, B.C, Postage paid in cash, Return postage guaranteed. Second class mail registration number 1201. GENERAL MANAGER ; GORDON HAMILTON Terrace, B.C. Herald the Canadian Weekly Newspaper . INTERM EDITOR - NADINE ASANTE + Phone: 635-6357 A : OUR OPINION | How expert are the experts Up to twenty odd years ago, left- handed children within the B.C. school system were made to change from. their left to right hand when writing. They had to overcome their natural inclination to use their left hand and change to their less dexterously developed right hand and the reason given for the traumatic changeover was that left-handed people didn’t ‘fit in’, The fact that the better developed half of the human brain decides whether the person shall be left or right dominated was overlooked or ignored completely. If the experts-decree that it shall be done, then without question, it is done. Although the -practice has now ceased, the amount of physical and psychological damage done to thousands of people due to the enforced change in their genetic make-up has never been assessed. But the changing didn’t cease. About fifteen years ago the experts decided that the only proper way to teach children to read was by ‘sight’. The proven age-old method of phonics or ‘sounding out’ words was declared obsolete. Grade 1 pupils were shown a picture of a boy running with the caption ‘run’ written. under it and that was how they learned to read. The trouble with this method, which was eventually discarded, was that children used the ‘look’ of the word rather than the ‘sense’ or ‘sound’ of the word when reading. Thus the words COMPETENT or CONFIDENT could be mentally inter-exchanged at random because they’ looked the same. And because words were never ‘sounded out’ the student would use the one which made most sense in the sentence.,.whether correct or not. ' After realizing the error of their ways, the experts brought remedial teachers into the schools to try to undo the damage that had been done to a whole generation of B.C. readers but to no avail. Once a sight reader always a sight reader. A few years ago the ‘Cuisenaire’ method of teaching mathematics with different colored wooden sticks signifying numerical denominations was introduced in many schools on the lower mainland. Terrace so far has escaped. The method is fine if your are able to carry a colored woodpile around with you in your back pocket when mathematics is necessary. To be fair to Cuisenaire the method does have its advantages to the beginning scholar. According to a Grade 1 Terrace teacher who trained in various Vancouver schools, the method teaches the relationship of amounts, e.g. if the number 9 is a black stick and the number 3 is a green stick then it is very obvious to the novice student that 3 green sticks are the equivalent of one black stick. But the teacher hastens to add that the method in her opinion is useless for students after a month or so of learning arithmetic. The method will undoubtedly be added to the huge pile of Experts’ Rejects which continues to grow daily. But by the time it’ takes its rightful place in the garbage heap the method will have influenced a _ whole generation of children who will think of numbers in living color. On the other hand there. may be something to- he said for a colored calculus, : Changes are needed At the 11th hour a growing number of observers are beginning to realize that several of the proposals contained in the White Paper on Unemployment Insurance, now before Parliament, are not only likely to prove hugely ex- pensive in the years ahead but appear to be both unjust and unwise. Perhaps the single most glaring injustice is the failure to distinguish between full-time members of the labour force on the one hand arid part- time, casual people on the other. It really is preposterous that persons who may do no more than a few weeks’ paid work in any year should be able to qualify for many more weeks of benefit than they ever worked — or for someone to contribute as little as $15.80 and draw out as much as $3,417, albeit that would be taxable whereas present benefits are not. _ There are many more part-time workers of this kind now in the labour force than is generally imagined. Their Situation bears no relation whatever to that of the full-time employee who works day in and day out, 52 weeks a year, minus a three week vacation. Now that unemployment insurance is to be universal, covering everyone ° ‘regardless of wage or salary, the distortion and abuses created by failure to distinguish the full-time employee from the part-time employee will be greatly magnified. In the same way, the proposal to have the government contribute to the Fund where unemployment in any region is above four per cent strikes at the whole insurance concept, If it is considered necessary to make special provision for those parts of the country where unemployment is consistently above average, this should be done in some other way, perhaps through the Canada Assistance Plan. The same must be said of the proposals to extend unemployment insurance benefits for sickness and pregnancy reasons. The financial burden which this extension of benefits will impose on the Fund is reliably estimated to run to several hundred million dollars a year. Clearly, premiums are going to have to go up, up and up... These are only a few of the more obvious «questions raised by the unemployment insurance’ White Paper, The ‘available to work but _ unable to find it” concept which should underlie any true unemployment in- surance scheme, has apparently gone out the window, — ; It is not so, the Minister of Labour. - has yet to convince a good many. thoughtful Canadians of. it. “Acrid Pulp Industries? May I drop in to discuss our new get-tough anti-pollution guidelines ... 2 90 I MY _VIEWS sine sume I'm happy because of two unplanned events in my life. One is that [ am tall and the other is that I marrieda man . whose name begins with an “A”. Unless you are also tall and have a surname beginning with “A” you will never share my joy. And those of you wha are short and have a last name beginning with anything past ‘L’ in the alphabet will know immediately what I mean, During my teens I despised being tall because it cut the field of eligible males to about one third of the prospects available te short girls for dates. Many times at parties as a teen I had to give some : feeble lying excuse when a handsome boy asked me to dance because I knew that if i stead up he would look me right in the . navel or at best, his head would reach my, shoulder if he stood on tippy toe. Another reasen that being tall is no fun for young girls is that really tall girls can never be coy. They might feel coy as 4 kitten inside but how Kittenish can you appear when © you stand six feet in high heels? The only thing you'll impress when you bat your eyelashes is an eagle. I think I started my career as a man-hater when walking down the beach with my handsome hera and my petite girl friend. He lifted the very capable small wench over a huge tog and let me fall over it the best way I could. Big girls don’t bring out the masculinily in men..But now that I am safely married I have learned to like the advantages available to tall women, For example it is delightful to have a¢ built-in vantage point ata parade, And in an elevator I-usually- have the nice clean air all to myself because I'm head and shoulders above the rest. In any-kind of a crowd the danger of claustophobia is minimal and we are the first to be able to spot the emergecny exit in times of danger. The happy height syndrome changes with local, In Scotland J felt like Gulliver in Lilliputanland and had to stop myself in bursts of maternal feeling from taking the hands of pedestrians crossing the YOUR OPINION |. Railway Stakes The Editor Terrace Herald Terrace, B.C., Dear Sir: They’re at the Post! They're off and running for the Canadian NationaF Railway; stakes, It’s the Mayor of Prince George as the Eastern entry: and Mayor Jolliffe for Terrace, ' Around ‘the first turn the; Eastern jockey used his whip’ and Jolliffe cries “foul”. Wait: a minute folks -.there's another! horse in this race, a dark horse: coming up on the outside, Yes, : there is another entry in the’ . race for the riches of Northern ; B.C. All the uproar caused over; the C.N. extention has muted . Not right The Editor - - the drive and hammer of the P.G.E. pushing north from Stuart Lake. : - North to where? [have heard the destination is Dease Lake and IJ have not heard of ‘a rail link to the seaports of Stewart’ Kitimat or Rupert. If there is “no outlet on the northcoast for | the minerals and timber of Northern B.C., they will all zo to the port of Vancouver, to bolster an already well-developed port. By the time the northern ‘urchins step fighting, and the C.N. gets the line built, the prize will be gone-south. But Prince Georgé can’t lose (as the P.G.E, has its junction there, There are.4 MIAs, Little, Calder, Murray and Shelford that had better steer that dark horse in the right direction - northern resources for the ‘north. Ot street but were I to move to the land of the Watusi whose average height is over seven’ feet, my joy would turn to sorrow. It is handy too for descriptive purposes tobe tall. “You know the one I mean,” they say, “‘the very tall woman.” The fact (hat you have a warton the end of your nose or that your hair is two shades of orange doesn’t seem to have as much impact as height. Maybe psychologically ‘people know the wart can be removed and your hair will change color again but the * height ‘goes: on - forever.) ": Actually height doesn't go on forever so ] enjoyedit as much as 1 could when I was able Now my two eldest daughters who are over five feet ten inches and once looked me eye lo eye now ask me why [’m - standing in the hole. Now the bit about the name beginning with “A’, Tlearned to hale my maiden name'af Jones by the time I was six years old. Kids seem to take a delight in ridicule. 1 was always , ‘‘one of the Jones _Birls”, or somebody would make a crack about ‘‘keeping up with the Joneses", or ask me “Who do the Joneses keep up with?”. And then I found that not only was the name _ Jones the source of merriment but groups were divided _ alphabetically from “A” to “I” and from ‘‘J" to"'N" ete., so that I never never entered the first group.in my- whole content with being in group number 2, j Then I married an Asante and my whole life changed for the better. Security was within my grasp at last! Mind you, I might have waited longer and found someone named Aab, but Asante will do nicely. Now when I'm .- segregated alphabetically, I immediately take my place proudly at the top of group number 1. I'm surprised that girls barn with the name Adams marry men with the name Aaronson aren't impossibly conceited and agressive. a Even though. I've carried the name Asante for a ‘good many.years I still take great. pleasure in asking people to phone me. I say, ‘We're in the book under “A"'. And secretly I know that I’m on the first page of the Terrace end of the directory and nobody has to thumb through half the alphabet to find me, - » The horrors I knew as a child with the name of Jones and being a skyscraper have- done a complete about turn and now are the source of contentment to me. — Forgolten are nightmares caused by boys saying, “If I had a step-ladder I'd kiss you goddnight" or people continually -asking “How's the. weather up there?” oo I have learned to adore o | THEMONESTTIIEF. ° “ STILLMUST PAY. Towards the end of a long, , -dreary wintér like this year’s, even ‘the ‘most jubilant: off -. spirits begin t6 flag. The ‘ world- takes’ on -a’ gray monotony, ‘about the. colour and taste of English gravy.. - We seem to be. suspended inf Bill Smiley & vague nightmare in which Mi which we need a good spring tonic. In the old days. our mothers gave usa physical § ‘one, in the ‘shape of a good purge, and it seemed to help. # But in these days in instant § laxatives, we,need something ; j We angawimming in porridge, Gimme / ‘with no land insight. We have am forgotten the glory of the Siam individual spirit and ourgiae fellow-beings seem to. merge iim ‘into the murk,.. =‘. - ° Right there. is the paint at for the spirit, not the body. 1 Haim got my tonic this year, just in time. It was in the form of two stories, both true. My faith in g the colour and-vitality of the human spirit was -restored, and I feel like living again. The first one contained satisfay the most demanding of writers. It concerned a bank hold-up. The manager was out to iam lunch when. the desperado struck. He slipped a note to one of the tellers informing § her that it was a stick-up, then slipped a sawed-off shotgun from under his coat, and wen to the front counter. ~— Chatting happily on~ the _ accountant had his back to the the walking wilh my head in the: clouds as! head for that happy group whose names start with the letter “A” academic career but had to be When the launching pad is blazing And the oxygen ignites; When the dawn is psychedelic With a million colored lights;- When the mighty engines thunder HYMN OF JOY arenes And they speak of Power alone;. Grant our future may be Star-led AS we reach tor the unknown... . When the sealpel-gently severs 2°. For the heart to be revealed: : |“: When the foetus is aborted; © =~ And the fate-of life is sealed; ~~ > - Then be ‘with us, Christ Incarnate oO villain. call'and get the. message. A lady teller trying to get the accountant’s attention,. kept hissing at him, “Dave!: Dave!” He went blithely on, while the robber began to } drum his fingers on the ‘enough irony and humanity to & ' phone’to his girl-friend, the ia The latter waited Sim politely for him to-finish his & counter with just a touch of Sam impatience. . Finaly he roared in a stentorian voice, “DAVE”. Dave looked over his shoulder and dropped the phone: as though il were red-hot,.as he looked into that shot-gun Jee barrel, about the size of a Cyclops’ eye, | The intruder sheved a bag at Dave and told him to fill it. It was done and the visitor left with what turned out ‘to be J $3,000. He got away clean, though three of. the staff had [Re ’ pung alarm bells which were directly connected. ta the police station. A customer saw the getaway car and got the license number. The chap was picked up about a week later. A sordid little story? Not at all. This , was no ordinary hood. This ‘. was a man of character. He didn't go careening off in a mad chase with ‘police bullets and tires screaming. He drove a few blocks to a hotel, went in and hada few i drinks, Sensible chap. . -What did the hald-up man do with the: money? He went to his own bank and paid off a $500. loan. Then he went to a finance company and paid them $1,000 he owned them. : What a pity he was caught! An honest man who paid his debts, pushed by them into an armed-robbery charge. A man-of character. © The second story. is ‘also true. [ just-missed-seeing it, bul an eye-witness filled me . inttsa cowboy'story, . eat The -hero lives in.a small “town. He owns and rides a -, beautiful-horse. On-a recent Os: SAturday, ‘he ‘rode uptown, § :~ féeling no pain.. He wanted his horse to enjoy life, too, so he took him to a hotel and tried to ke. him inte the beer parlour. U _-/Who; in woman’s womb ‘did lie, _ As _we search’ for-what isHuman: ‘+. Give-us wisdom from on’ High Terrace Herald - Terrace, B.C. — — ne | Sigiied, } h Pele Watmough A muse on i e news. : 1969 Sande Road. In 1867 the United States bought: Alaska from Russia, In the mid 1600s they bought ' Manhattan Istand.for $1. That Dear Sir; _ The Terrace Lite Theatre regrets that through some unwarranted publicity the impression has been given that apprehension for the possible pg > When the winds of revolution ~~ contamination of " their _ Thank. you... _ Make the continents.’ ‘Arrecent law has been passed Middle of the road poticy in Canada will have,taken its first major detaur-offthe American. governmental - policy freeway fal : inents: resound; .~*. _ When the lives of men’and natio S- comes under the heading of inflation. = | : The American Government is _ offering $1 billion to the natives | of approximately 200 villages in _, Alaska for land and royalties on mineral rights. which -money:. - will allegedly be appropriated : for:health and education. — when we receive China's first Ambassador -‘to’ that will allow dire retaliation - ’ sinking if necessary - to future _ Polluters of the British coastline _ resulting ‘from spills occuring” -either in or outside. British - territorial waters. = _ + The proposed route for -oil . from Alaska to Cherry Point.in’- Washington is down the coast of Canada - “British Columbia: . delicate navigation in and out of _ Smali islands in the Straits of -. Juan de Fuca, shouldn't we.take 4’: precautionary’ lesson from’ -Britain and be prepared? , .Or-should:-we ‘wait. for -the-.. _ Spills? ‘ --s-EARLY VISITORS ~. Viking explorers.are thought. to have visited Labrador about: ‘the-year 1000." it ce - audience - performance ‘before. entering” etitior a preview - ’ performance will beheld for a ¢: _simall: ad’ a public ‘performance will be held of its Festival-entry “The Killing of Sister George” for a. -The — “Dear Sirs: restricted audience, ° content of the play requires no , such restriction. ~ The fact of the matter is that ” to give the cast the benefit of an. _ Teaction competition,..“a “ number ‘of » invited ‘ patrons, Should anyone: be especially interested .°to.."““see® “this at 695-8605, on es Thank You ++... - performance’ please ‘phone me . 0" Mien van Heek net qe President. to its _ generously The Editor 3363 * “The Terrace Omineca ‘Herald Terrace, B,C. ee May. we’ ‘make: use of your newspaper to-thank the many ~: volunteers - who ‘gave. so — _ generously of their. time so that - ~ patients of Skeenaview Hospital © could display,their crafts ‘atthe’ =‘ - y~_ recent Terrgce Arts:and Crafts. {. how, boots nye . ot here very special thank. yau’ to - irs.Betty Irwin, our-volunteer, ~ o-ordinator,”-who gave-s0 | “Of. her - time: and: ~ fforts..; ‘ours. truly, Phillips: ~ Supervisor’) ‘With injustices are bound; When the Haves ignore the. Hav N -And.a Third. World :,goes’ unheard Lord disturb us with Thy Spirit, ~"Pieree ‘Thy People’ b In this ‘age of new beginnings ,..7 . Giye-us grace.to wait’s ., . Give us strength to-moun - On-the‘dawn winds high an _ That Mankind may: ney m “Never: faint, but, walk BG. Do-you: