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EDITORIAL

‘The Good Life’

ince the advent to omniscient power and glory of

Socred ‘‘Prime Minister’? W. A. C. Bennett and his
celestial chorus of ministerial and back-bench ‘‘angels’’ some
17-years ago in British Columbia, the charming story of the
Creation as narrated in the Book of Genesis has become totally
outmoded.

A wise Providence may have created the Earth and Man
out of nothing in seven days in all their majestic splendor and ~
achievement, but that doesn’t go for Beautiful British
Columbia. A premiere showing of a colored film of B.C.
entitled, ‘‘The Good Life’ in WAC’s home town of Kelowna last
week, with suitable commentary by the Socred diety himself,
definitely puts Bennett ahead of all other gods as the master-
architect in the creation of ‘‘Beautiful British Columbia’.

In this premiere film hit showing Socredia as the
‘‘Genesis’’ of a new Heaven and a New Earth in B.C. a la Social
Credit, it is clear that all B.C.’s bountiful gifts, its beauty, its
riches, its magnificant mountain ranges, its fertile valleys, its
great rivers, its stately forests (or what's left of them) is all
the handiwork of this diety of latter day Socred saints.

In this ‘‘premier’s premiere’’, as Bennett describes it, as he
led his Kelowna audience to the ‘‘promised land’’ WAC gave
them the opening line of a battle-hymn, expressing the celestial
wrath of a Socred diety being challenged by heathen non-
believers: ‘‘Don’t let the cold hand of state socialism stop a
great development and expansion . . . we have one political
enemy (one Lucifer, Ed.) in this province and it is straight
socialism. . .”’.

With this battle-cry for a continuation of ‘‘free enterprise
freedom” the Socred Lord of Hosts blew the trumpet for an
early election — as well as a goodly chunk of the taxpayers
money for a 1969 color presentation, set in the 1933 Hitlerite
theme of ‘‘Me Und Gott’’, with ‘‘Me’’ in the star role as the
Creator of all beauty, wealth and ‘‘dynamic affluence”’ in B.C.

It would seem, according to press reports on this initial
showing of ‘‘The Good Life’’, that thanks to a provident deity,
“we have some fine industrialists . . . and the most educated
and best working force in B.C.’’, but the latter who stray from
the fold at times, as misguided sheep are wont to do, require a
Bill 33 (at the insistence of some of these ‘‘fine
industrialists’), in order to keep this Socred heaven running
smoothly — and away from the cunning and evil ‘cold hand of
socialism”’.

All this Socred guff, including the ‘‘premier’s premiere’”’
film hit of ‘‘The Good Life’’ emphasized that B.C.’s self-styled
“‘God”’ is suffering from a case of election jitters, and has now
reached the conclusion that the longer he sits on his monopoly-
propped up throne, the more shaky it is becoming, hence the
necessity to blow his heavenly pre-election trumpet, before
things get worse; to call the ‘‘faithful’’ to gird for battle,
maybe June, maybe September, before the deluge sets in —
with no ‘‘Noah’s Ark’ to take refuge in.

Certainly an oversight on the part of a Socred diety,
especially one who claims to have ‘‘created’’ B.C. and now
finds his ‘‘creation’’ turning definitely sour. ‘“The Good Life’
is designed specifically to transform that sourness into the
‘sweetness of the honey’’ and restore a Socred diety to the

continued rule of the ‘‘heaven’’ he claims to have created. The
taxpayer at the ballot box may determine otherwise— and in so
doing will help restore B.C. to its original Creator — and its
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Sittin

RATEPAYERS CHARGE:

Swan Wooster city transit
plan ‘snow job’ on public

When Swan Wooster engineer
Frank Leighton and architect
Wernett Kennedy presented
their plans for a North Shore
crossing and traffic routes in the
city to a meeting of the Central
Council of Ratepayers last week,
there was one vital question left
out of the presentation: How
much will it cost the taxpayer?

Speakers who followed the
engineering firm’s

-representatives supplied the

answer: Too much.

“A conservative guess would
place the cost of any of these
schemes between $400 and $500
million. It would mean an
increase of at least $80 per year
in taxes on a $15,000 home,”
warned Dr. Setty Pendakur of
U.B.C. Planning Department.

“These plans will benefit the
business elite and cost the
working class money,” said
Simon Fraser University
M._ Eliot-Hurst.
‘“‘The whole scheme is
dominated by business and
middle-class values.”’

“That nasty word money was
never mentioned by the Swan
Wooster representatives,’ said
Alderman Harry Rankin. ‘Yet
the provincial government will
contribute $27 million of the
estimated $400 million only if the
scheme ties in with existing
provincial highway systems. ”’

He said that the suggested
“grant’’ of $100 million from the
Federal government would in
the long run be paid back by
Vancouver citizens. Rankin and
other speakers on the platform
and in the audience maintained
that a crossing to the North
Shore was not a priority. Traffic
congestion from the east end of
the city was much worse and
would continue to deteriorate if
concrete action was not taken.

Moving people and not cars
was the main consideration of
planning in a modern city,
Rankin said, and he outlined
some methods by which this

_ could be accomplished.

A rapid transit system making
use of existing trackage, with
buses radiating out from a
central depot such as the C.P.R.
could provide an economical and
efficient transportation media.
He disclosed the fact that city
council had never approved a
North Shore crossing from
Brockton Point as was inferred
by the Swan Wooster engineer.
He reminded the audience that
the elected representatives of
the people had the final say in
the matter, not a handful of
technicians.

Rankin scorned the idea that «
city council should be urged to
approve one plan or another by
May 15th, How can council
absorb reports which in some
cases number 300 pages,

Cuba exhibit

A photographic exhibit of Cuba
today will be on view at the 341
Gallery, 341 W. Pender St.,
between May 10 and 831.
Sponsored by the Canadian-
Cuban Friendship Committee,
the exhibit will be open from.
seep go to Ee pneyld between 9

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consider financial details and
approve a plan within two
weeks?

“Once we are committed to
any one plan it is too late,’’ he
said. ‘‘What the people must
instruct council to do is to sit
down with other levels of
government and work out
prigrities. Communities such as
Burnaby, Surrey and Richmond
must be brought into the picture;
the whole Regional District of
the Lower Mainland must be
brought into the planning, and
nothing concrete must be done
until financial arrangements are
completed.’

COPE’s transit committee
chairman Dr. Joe Blumes
presented a brief which urged
that no spending be done until a
study of low-cost transit is made.
He said that the group will
publish a detailed brief on the
subject later.

Alex Watson, of the Central
Council of Ratepayers made it
clear that any system which

would penalize the taxpayers to :

provide special privilege to any
one section of the community
would be opposed by the
organization. He argued that a
study of the benefits accruing |
from a rapid transit system —
should be given top priority.

The presentation made by —
Swan Wooster representatives —
was a piece of masterly ©
showmanship. Architect
artist and engineer had —
combined their talents to draw —
up a vision of Vancouver the —

- Beautiful once their plan would —

be completed.

One of the speakers called it a
“‘snow-job.”’ Another speaker
labelled it a plan for the benefit —
of C.P.R.’s False Creek and —
waterfront developments. Most —
speakers were unanimous in —
their demand that nothing ©
concrete be done in accepting
any one of the Swan Wooster
designs until rapid transit and
financial studies were complete.

— M.M.R.

Endicott hits U.S.
‘peace talk’ ruse

No secret peace talks to end
the Vietnam war are going on
and the story is being promoted
by the U.S. to cover up its
acceleration of the fighting. The
statement was made last
Thursday evening by Dr. James-
Endicott, Chairman of the
Canadian Peace Congress, to an
audience of about two hundred
people in the Manhattan Hall,
chaired by Mrs. Mickey Beagle.

Dr. Endicott is on a country
wide tour to mark the 20th
Anniversary of the Canadian
Peace Congress and the World
Council of Peace.

He went on to point out that the
Paris peace talks were an effort
to get some agreement but that
so far they have not succeeded
and are indeed being used by the
U.S. as a smokescreen to give
the people at home some hope of
a qu.ck settlement.

Meanwhile, the U.S. military

is setting out to kill every
suspected National Liberation
Front sympathizer. In the
.Mekong Delta alone, he said,
they are killing them at the rate
of 100 a day and thus hope to
bring about a miiitary victory
instead of a political settlement.

The peace movement must
continue to fight for the
recognition of the National
Liberation Front as the
authentic voice of the people of
South Vietnam, he said. There
will be no sell out, only a get out
— of American forces.

Speaking of the future, he
emphasized the necessity of
striving for the maximum unity
of the peace movements around
specific issues and for the
stepping up of the campaign to
get the Canadian government to
dissociate us from the Vietnam
war. :

‘Should Care

For People

As Much As For Machines’

By ALD. HARRY RANKIN

Last week a number of
aldermen, including myself,
made a tour of city installations.
We visited our asphalt plant,
which has a capacity of 150 tons
of asphalt per day, with the latest
type of computerized control
over the mix. The plant is new,
efficient, and a credit to our city.
By mixing our own asphalt. we
save our taxpayers hundreds of
thousands of dollars.

We also looked over Manitoba
Yards with its huge garages, and
tool, carpenter and welding
shops. Our equipment here is of
the latest model and the whole
place looks bright and efficient.
The men working there are doing
a first class job for the city. They
invented and constructed a new

| type of a efficient garbage
, for juveniles and family courts

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Our tour also included the
juvenile detention home and this
was a depressing, austere and
grim sight, inadequate for its
purpose and without a place for
the youngsters to play, study, oF
work. The staff works hard to
make the institution tolerable but
it can only do so much.

In this age of affluence we
shouldn’t have to put up with this
type of inadequate facility.
People should mean at least aS
much and be cared for as well as
machines. Maybe an efficient
juvenile detention home doesn’t
bring in the dollars the way 45 —
asphalt plant does, but it is youns
lives we are dealing with and
they are more precious than
money.

Our next five year plan must
certainly ,include new facilities —

and —