QUIPS and QUIRKS
by JOHN WEIR a

The column this issue is going to consist of borrowed items. It’s
that we’ve got spring fever and gone fishing (where can you
fishing that isn’t polluted, anyhow?) but that we read a couple
‘things that we wish we had written ourself... so here they be.
: Ne first, from the current issue of UE News is a CGE worker’s—

LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER
et to compliment you on the efficiency of your plan to com-
: ation.
There. may be some deluded Canadians who are in full and
Y agreement with your policies.
ha OWever, there are many thousands of Canadian ex-workers who
Mg cause to be bitterly sorry that they cast their ballots in favor
Ino’ Pierre Elliott Trudeau, and his associates. Little did they
ne they were placing a cold, callous, and brutal institution.
_., DOwer.
Yet another industry has succumbed to the onslaught of unre-
med and unfair foreign competition, aided and: abetted by a
; Vernment which is only too ready to forfeit national pride and
BNity for the almighty dollar.
See cra Electric Company’s Tube division is about to close its
vs thereby adding to the already long-list of Canadian plants
ae’ been forced out of business by a short-sighted policy of
sugethaps your government’s policy will have some measure of
| ‘cess, and bring about a drop in the cost of living. “Perhaps”!
| have S, however, will bring small consolation to those of us who
W, to watch our jobs, pensions and security disappear into limbo.
fo € who have to pay the cost will be faced with a bleak future,
Med to live on welfare and hand-outs.
yan hile our members of parliament will be disporting them-
thing in the Caribbean Islands or on the slopes of the Rocky Moun-

at Would be well for you, Sir, to reflect on the possibility that, if

ato ign control of our economy continues at the present rate of
wth, you could well end up without a country to govern.

stly, Mr. Prime Minister, may I point out that a physician does

Not k; 5 A
“t kill his patient in order to effect a cure.
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POLITICIANS

When they promise peace and bread
No sooner said than .. . said. me
—Joe Wallace >

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hin @inning with Aesop of Antiquity — and probably long before

— fables from the animal kingdom have been invented the
ing Braphically to picture our human realm. We found the follow-
venc® written by Samuel Arthur in a recent issue of Daily World

'Y much to the point and are passing it on:

i ee THE FELINE PAW AND ORDER
| eater is a problem in the kingdom of cats. The cats have been
aDee mice for centuries, but, nevertheless the-cats call themselves
Wer Mocratic Society. The cats say that both the cats and the mice
tole born equal and all have the same right to lead a happy life;
_ We in security and peace.
ate f the cats, in spite of their daily profession of these sentiments,
i Orever on the prowl for mice. They developed large, terrible
Ws (which they hide in soft fur) and teeth that are stilleto sharp.
by ey like to torment mice. They not only catch one and eat it,
Steg they play with it a minute of death before they crush it in
Sel jaws.
j lide €y wound it at first, to make sure it can’t run away, then
trevate it, shove it away with a vigilant paw, let it make a few

| again ane steps toward freedom, only for the paw to clamp down

ike a huge hammer on the quivering body of the mouse.
i si t is the problem, then, in the kingdom of cats? ;
| don Dy: that the mice have gotten together and decided that they
_ “tlike the way their democratic kingdom is run.

! that is not enough, they concluded, for it to be written somewhere
| as ea and mice are born equal, unless equality exists after birth

| it isn’t enough for guarantees to be written that all citizens of
ang Cat kingdom have a right to security and peace, unless peace
| Security aren’t broken every minute of the day.

the 0 are the breakers of the good laws? The cats are! Who are
+ Victims of the lawbreakers? The mice are!

3 qu, © mice decided to fight back. They became vociferous with
| ‘€aks of protest.

_ je cats got enraged and started to arrest the mice en masse.
- ity [© mice were charged with breaking the laws of security, equal-
~ qend peace. .

: jug ey were brought to court and ordered to keep quiet. The cat
la 8€s said that “civilized decorum” in the court, respect for the
| «Must be preserved.
| fing ut, Cat Judges!” the mice cried. “We wouldn’t be here in the
fy Place, if you cats hadn’t been breaking every law in the books
layjecnerations! You have a peculiar democracy here. You were
i poly murdering and ravaging us for centuries, and it never
t Wri Tred to you that you were doing something wrong. A mouse
! beneeles in your teeth, or under your paws, and you say we are
 aaVing like savages.” ;
© still! Cat Sheriff—see to that!”
i . €re is a great travail going on in the cat country at present.
F abigt we trying to figure out how they can keep the mice “law-
~~ ng” and quiet.

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When you look at poverty anywhere.
You see the shadow of a millionaire.
The millionaire in the sunlight lolls
And doesn’t care where his shadow falls.
—Joe Wallace =

AUUC-WBA Festival

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Manitoba story on concert stage

By MARY KARDASH

WINNIPEG — A most recep-
tive audience of. 2400 filled to
overflowing our attractive new
Centennial Concert Hall on Sun-
day, May 3 to witness a high-
standard presentation of a festi-
val program dedicated to Mani-
toba’s Centennial by the cultural
forces of the Association of
United Ukrainian Canadians
from all western provinces and
Ontario together with other
Manitoba groups. In the words
of one observer this was truly
“one of Manitoba’s Centennial
highlights.”

Some 360 people, young and
old, mostly non-professional,
combined their talents to pre-
sent a colorful and stirring his-
torical pageant of Manitoba’s
100-year-old history, projecting

particularly the cultural, econo- ~

mic and social contribution of

its citizens of Ukrainian origin, ~

who today constitute the second

largest ethnic group in the pro-—

vince.

The program was divided into
three parts, each one telling its
own story and making its unique
impact upon the audience. The
author of the script was M. J.
Sago, editor of The Ukrainian
Canadian.

Part I— “Prelude to a Cen-
tury” was opened with a rousing
Indian pow-wow dance by color-
fully costumed members of the
Native Brotherhood of Stony
Mountain, directed by Rev. Wm.
Cuthand of the Métis Federa-

“tion. Their beautiful execution

of the dance was followed by
members of La Chorale des
Intrepides of St. Boniface under
the direction of Marcian Ferland
recreating with their lively
songs and dances the spirit of
the period when the Red River
‘Valley was settled by French
and Scottish settlers.

Popular actor, TV and radio
personality Bruno Gerussi sent
a spine-tingling reaction
throughout the hushed audience
with his dramatic reading of
Louis Riel’s Address to the Jury
at his fateful trial in Regina in
1885, where hé was sentenced
to hang for treason. The thun-
derous applause he received was
repeated when Mr. Gerussi ap-
peared for a second time later
in the program with his reading
of the poem “The Black Planet.”

The combined choirs and
orchestras then gave a fitting
tribute to the great founder of
the province of Manitoba with
the rendition of the “Louis Riel
Song” with its inspiring chorus:

They who hanged him

from the gallows,
They are now forgotten men,
But to those who

fight for freedom

Louis Riel lives again.

Part II—‘Builders of Manito-
ba” and Part III—“Heritage for
Tomorrow” was a skillful and
often exciting blend of indivi-
dual and collective artistic ta-
lents of the well-trained versa-
tile dance groups from Edmon-
ton, Regina, Winnipeg and
Thunder Bay, the Winnipeg
AUUC “Bandurist” and ‘“Barvi-
nok” choirs augmented with
singers from other centres, the
Winnipeg AUUC string orches-
tra, the Lakehead String Orches-
tra and participating players
from Regina and soloists Harry
and John Stefaniuk, Mary Biles-
ki, Anis Kozub, Elena Green-
berg and Karin Woods, all_of
Winnipeg. The musical perfor-
mance was under the very Ca-
pable batons of musical director
Wm. Philipovich of Winnipeg

and conductors Walter Sloboda
of Thunder Bay and Walter
Rosiewich of Edmonton. Dance
director Ronald Mokry was
ably assisted by dance directors
Betty Kisiliwich (Edmonton),
Alex Lapchuk (Regina) and My-
ron Holyk (Thunder Bay).

Janis and Alan Kossick of
Moose Jaw depicted with their
lyrical dance ‘a most touching
scene with Ukrainian emigrants.
leaving their homeland and then
arriving to the strange place
called Winnipeg.

One could feel throughout. the
program the great respect for
the hard yet creative labor of
the early settlers and of the
working people of today who
built and continue to build this
province and Canada. Very
well portrayed was the building
of the railroad with the “Bandu-
rist” Male Chorus singing the
“Extra Gang Song.” The fine
rendition of working class
songs by the popular vocal trio
from Vancouver “The Mile-
stones” called for encores.

Greetings made by the Festi-
val chairman ._and Manitoba
secretary of the AUUC Michael
Mokry, the ,Hon. Ben Hanus-

TURN TO BOOKS

chak for the province of Mani-
toba, Alderman Slaw Rebchuk
for the City of Winnipeg and
M. J. Sago for the National
Committee of the AUUC under-
lined the contribution of Ukrain-
ians in. Manitoba and their
desire for a continuing enrich-
ment of our heritage in a world
of peace and brotherhood.

This hope for a peaceful world
as a necessary prerequisite for
the fulfillment of mankind’s
dreams of a happy future was
exquisitely expressed by the
Winnipeg AUUC_ Children’s
choir singing of Ed McCurdy’s
“The Strangest Dream” under
the direction of Karin Kozub-.
Woods.

In the grand finale of the
rich program a “Salute to the
Pioneers” was rendered by the
combined choirs and orchestras
followed with a Grand Hopak
by all dance groups and ending
with the singing of Manitoba’s
Centennial Song. Gordon P.
Watson, composer of the Mani-
toba song was warmly. greeted
by the audierice when presented

by Wm. Philipovich.

Study of drug problem

Drugs and the Law; the Cana-
dian Scene, by Reginald Whit-
aker. Methuen paperback, 1969.
$2.50. 2

The Toronto Star featured art-
icles on “The Drug Outcasts”
on Feb. 28. The March 28 Tele-
gram carried a two-page spread
on drug. abuse. Almost every
day the drug scene makes news.
The alarming increase in illicit
use scares everybody and it’s
time we found out more about
it.

Reginald Whitaker has writ-
ten a critical survey of the
abuse and control of drugs in
Canada called Drugs and the
Law. It’s one of only two books
on the Canadian problem. His
main thesis is that the law has
made drug abuse a legal offense
and that “the law seriously in-
terferes with the scope of scien-
tific research into the true na-

-ture of the phenomenon.”

So much emotionalism , has
been displayed by the advocates
of “make pot legal” and their
opponents that people should
discover the objective facts. The
Addiction Research Foundation
states that 75% of all heroin
addicts started out as marijuana
users. That’s a fact. Before mak-
ing more drugs more available
the government should recog-
nize that a hospitable climate

.encourages the acceptance of

drug abuse. But teenage abusers
should receive lenience before
the law, and medical and psy-
chiatric attention.

Whitaker talks about the phy-
sical effects of the opiates,
marijuana and other hallucino-
gens, the amphetamines, the
barbiturates, especially among
the young. And about the posi-
tion of the law in the apprehen-
sion of the drug “criminal”. The
Narcotic Control Act of 1961
lists the offenses in trafficking
and unauthorized possession of
drugs.

Although the Act recognizes
addiction as a medical problem
and provides for treatment, very
little has actually been done, by

the provincial departments of
health to study the problem.
Most scanty research indicates
addicts suffer from “major and
deep-rooted personality disord-
ers,” but none relates the prob-
lem directly to the way of life
addicts are trying to escape
from.

Whitaker makes no compari-

_sons with the socialist countries

where drug abuse is virtually
unknown. For example there are
few teenaged drug addicts in
the Soviet Union while in Can-
ada we record the youngest vic-
tim of glue sniffing as an eight-
year old. Whitaker’s only refer-
ence to the socio-economic im-
plications is this tongue-in-
cheek observation: “It would be
amusing -to see the reaction to
those most concerned with the
teenage dope menance if they
began to realize that the best
way to take kids off drugs is to
encourage them to join the revo-
lution against the capitalist-
bureaucratic system.” Does he
know how truly he has spoken?

-Whitaker makes the point
that crimes without victims,
moral crimes, are difficult to
penalize, but he says that the
state must be responsible to
look after public health and
control the use of chemical sub-
stances ingested by human be-
ings that affect the working of
the central nervous system.

His’ book is a pretty fair
appraisal of our Vancouver-
Toronto-Montreal-based problem.
It should be avaiable in all book
stores and in the public library.
It is recommended by the On-

‘tario Addiction Research Foun-

dation (344 Bloor West, To-
ronto). And you can order free
pamphlets on alcoholism and ad-
diction from the above address
and in other provinces from
their departments of health for
the latest findings on a growing
national problem.
problem.

Harriet Sanger

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