_ MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 3 1971 _ Victoria | 'j tl ie neral comment. @ : ; “BY BOB McCONNELL ne PUBLISHED BY. a , __-Provinee Victoria Bureau |i NORTHWEST PUBLICATIONS LIMITED of, , oo se gon “With Joe Aea Published five days a week at 3112 Kalum Street, Terrace, rp arsplaced From ees on Lg B.C. A member of the Canadian Daily Newspaper. : Ce. conteder atio 2 - Publisher's Association and Varied circulation. Authorized . extraor dinary” ‘change ae as second class mall Registration number 1201, Postage pala Cente polities ie aimnas _ _ in cash, return postage guaranteed. a ‘complete, ne I: > _Its impact is best realized -ED VAN DER LEELIE MANAGING EDITOR this - way: - Next’: to - Premicmiae Bennett,. Prime MinistewEmy Trudeau now isthe oldest headim of government in Canada: ° The man who was the Pete Pan of Canadian politics thre years ago at the age of 49 is no a doddering ancient at the ag of 52, Three years ago there wer seven provincial permlers w: were older. than. Trudeau. 2% Bennett, Smallwood. Ernest “Mannning. (60), Ike Smithergg (59), Daniel Johnson, (53) andiaa John Robarts 5 Thatcher, both 51. Bennett _ have replaced by younger men. ‘Even the younsters of 1963 3m have been replaced by ‘youth, 3 Walter Weir of Manitoba, whom was 39 three years ago, was am defeated by Ed Schreyer, who 2 will be 36 next month, . Louis Robichaud of New Brunswick, a a sprightly” 43 back in 1968 has 3am given way to Richard Haitfield 4 who was 40 last April, a In fact, only two of the 1968 a MARY OLSEN. ° ' GORDON HAMILTON rY OLS ADVERTISING PRODUCTION. P.O. BOX 399, 3212 KALUM STREET TERRACE, B.C. . WW u ‘ Our “thank” to our volunteers It is not too often that the volunteer workers in a community are given a great big ‘‘thank you”’ for ail the time and effort they put into their various activities with young and old alike: There are the Scout and Guide leaders, the assistants at the hospitals and libraries museum and service clubs efforts. They give of their time and talents to brighten the lives on others to help to train children - yours and mine to teach new projects to persons of all ages and to try to pass on some of their knowledge to the younger set so they may lead richer, fuller lives. And what thanks do they get? It’s not that they do their work for the thanks, the plaudits, the praise, their names in the newspapers.....no, most : of them really ‘‘get a kick’’ out of their ; efforts efforts and are really pleased : when their work results in something : constructive for someone, when some : child learns something which will : - enrich his life so he may enjoy it all the more, So really and truly . this is what : volunteer work is abil about - I help you and you help me or some of my family - and so the world goes round, so life continues, and so more peopie find out that it really is “‘more blessed to give 3 othan to receive” far more satisfying i be able todo something for others, than. to sit back and let them doit all for you. long - the youngest and one of i the oldest, Bennett is still going # strong here at 71, and Prince a Edward Island’s Alex Campbell now has matured to a ripe old 3 “years, = . "In this process, the average 3 » > ape of-the political leaders has 1 _-.» -; dropped sharply, Three years ‘" + ago ‘the average Canadian : ‘ premier was 52 years old- today '% “the “average is 43. Bennett 7% “ aside, the average is 40, ° A: What: effect this. shift will ’% we. - . Lo Dog Ee OSL y.- half of. th . Cy ‘ . provinces have elected their ; ° new premiers in the last year, health problem foreman who is also a union member can’t always be expected to have the’ interests of the company fully at heart if they conflict with those of the union. Obviously this suits the unions. The Construction Labor Relations Asso- ciation has proposed a plan under © which foremen would be put on annual Solving B.C.'s The answer to the query ‘When should a foreman not be a foreman?” may be: ‘‘When he’s a memer of a union.”’ It’s certainly the answer of the B.C, construction industry, which is trying to take for foremen out of the construction unions. There’s no general rule about the union status of foremen in B.C. Some unions consider them part of the of labor. Indeed it can’t be otherwise under goes back into the pool of labor ‘con which the construction companies them. It’s an illogical system because a draw workers as and when they need salary and kept in a pool of their own to be called on when necessary. Even if solutions were found for the that may be more than they prepared 0. union bargaining unit. But that too would probably be resisted by the _unions. The construction industry has picked a tough nu to crack on this issue. When a foreman With each silly new trade, Health Minister Loffmark confirms what we. said about him months ago - the sooner he retires thesooner B.C. will resolve ‘its problems.- with doctors and hospitals. Now, when Fort Nelson physiclans ask his aid in getting a surgeon for Province should do it. The Vancouver Province had an awful lot to say about is nota foreman else offers an equipment grant to help them get established. Government officials there say the plan works well _ and is not expensive. ‘B.C, doctors proposed the same plan _ to Mr. Loffmark 18 months ago. But Mr. Loffmark's poor government, down to its last few. hundred million in Mr, Loffmark completely overlooks our most constructive proposal, which we have made several times: the As the two great wars of this century move gradually out of memory and into the pages of old sweats call their war the Great War, and the middle-aged changed from Armistice Day to *: a good change.- But I'm glad they haven’t changed the date. November 11th is an ideal time toremember. It’s usually cold, wet andgloomy. Even the skies seem to weep at the folly of man. | It's difficult to conceive of hearing those hallowed cliches: ‘fallen comrades’*; ‘‘In Flanders fields the poppies grow..."* At'the going down: of the sun, and i in the morning, we shall refnember them...”; “lest we forget...”; on a hot day in July: But I'm not being sardonic when I refer to hallowed Cliches, They are cliches, but they arealso hallowed, and they the cream of Canadian young men, in two generations, was skimmed off by a brutal fate on faraway fields. “It’s hard to believe in these days of the burning of draft © cards, of draft dodging, that in At least, with hindsight, the despite the cynicism of the Thirties - perhaps the most anti- war generation of this century- brothers had jumped in early. reasons were hazy. But atthe That didn’t bother me. I was a ‘enough: Hitler was outtestomp — through: endless‘ “months of :dull across the civilized world in jack-boots. Clear. - the sods. We didn’t” fight to. subdue anyone, -as the Russians, training, stalemate. But a time -came. Germans. broke. through.. Germans, Japs, Italians have Civilization, as we knew it, was done. We weren't. out. to conquer new territories. We were out to prevent someone from subduing us, or conquering our territory, In both wars, there was-a minority who “joined up” for .~ less than heroic reasons: to get in danger of being tramped into the mud by the jackboots. That was when thousands of us stopped sneering at. the “phoney” war and took, the oath, away from a nagging wife;'to “desperate we were to get killed. avoid the law; to escape a boring job. But inthe first great It was.a traumatic experience to be washed - out of air-crew,.. war, Canadians literally flocked. where your. chances of . being to. the colours, ~swamping killed were fairly. good, and recruiting offices. respected throughout Europe, and especially among th enemy. And in the second, despite the wind Up ‘washing dishes at in.some instinctual way. ’. We warited to come to grips. That’s why ¥ feel a certain pity for the conscripts of the so-called free while the war in _ Let's stop. Europe was, a complete The . _ _.°, -- train's whistle. Looking back, .I shake’ my’. head wryly as I remember how. . world, in 1 these. days. “They are. forced to-go to war against an unknown enemy, for ‘something good times and the good friends. their impact. has hardly had .% time to be felt. But it seems @ obvious that there will be some |— premiers can have only the |B : 4 history books, our annual those two great wars, they did it again. And once they don't believe in, amidstan changes in values. , management group and won't have difficulz problems of setting up and Remembrance Day recurs with Canadians went not only again they proved themselves, atmosphere of corruption and . For example, the great ‘— them as members. The construction operating such a pool and in sharing alarming rapidity, for the willingly, but in most cases beyond a doubt,- as doughty downright lies, depression and ‘the Second ‘f unions insist that foremen must first be the salary cost, among the cons- veleran. thi ' eagerly, to fight in a war 3) 3,000 warriors an land, seaandinthe - To. ail eterans: don’t . World War wore ihe dominating ; i i i i ere was nothing “great” miles away, against an air, remember the blood and mud economic and political events of ‘I members ne under i{losed shop truction companies, the unions would cut either of these wars, unknown enemy, for Hazy - Personally, I didn’t exactly and sweat and brutality and this century. Yet eight of agreemen » unlOnS are the suppers ve 10 agree to give up the foremen. aexcent for their size. Yet, the reasons. flock to the colours. Both my fear. Just remember all the Canada’s 10° provincial :™ vaguest of direct memories of 7 You'll never have them again. Rag Railroad Crossing Warning: During . winter weather conditions, railroad ‘crossings can be extremely hazardous to. the driver. Icy roads make it "difficult to stop in time if a.train - is approaching, and:. car windows closed to keep the cold out can muffle the sound of a ~The B.C; Automobile Assocation ‘advises all. “motorists. to approach railroad crossings. with extreme ‘caution. . . Windshield Wiper care: - Frequent checks of windshield wipers should be “made mechanism ‘breaks down, it can posé a serious safety hazard . care resent umstan cause a e rovincial Bo-. sweats have te gattie for tha title time, they were. crystal clear... product.of the cynical Thirties, peed rye aretha de ression - they were all in Sane foreman only as long as, cons. ard ard. could. soresumatly crue, ahat +e name of tha day-hes béen. «a0 alse was out to-deatroy 2 Giedat then student, and 1 “knee” ne pan in 1939 when the: bees Saar bender a ora as Poy sree eter a ASHRAM bbe ) alt. ‘truction job lasts. Once it's finsi Sa he toeinen should not properly be in a. e name of dus days been poten Br map Boers e as. ley went ae Mar gat COMMENT ’ There has been another change as well. Canada’s: premiers were.a fairly well ‘educated bunch in 1968 - six. of the 10 had university degrees. i the degrees of the existing premiers are far more recent than those of the men they Teplaced. Amodern university degree is ; not a prerequisite of political : ‘leadership, of course, butithas to be a help in dealing with the technocrats whose work does so mich to determine the policies of government. By now that is up to eight out of 0, and there is an added factor -' "But if this political kiddie : ’ throughout the winter season - f . » mean a great deal to the men - In that war, they showed a manning: ‘pool, safe’ as. a... ’ corps is riding the wave of the |e their hospital, he sends. them this surplus funds, couldn t afford it. ‘What and many women - who gather dash and elan and: fortitude, sausage, says the BG Antomobile fatere ther a still no positive reply: “I think the Vancouver rubbis once a year to remember that - once inaction, that made them —_.Weknew what we were doing, Associa OP their Pee tensig, evidence that it has slopped 7m ‘over the Rocky Mountains to the shores of the Pacific. : - This ‘week’s Social Credit ‘ convention © which (the problem) but they don’t come up . with any solutions.” Fortunately a qualified doctor has. “gone to Fort Nelson. But that doesn’t end the matter. Pass the scalpel nurse, Let’s open the leanred minister's eyes. On Aug. 30. we told him about the way Ontario. handles the same problem. It provides - a guaranteed first-year income for doctors who move into rural areas, or disillusion of the depression, during snowfalls. opens biggest problem in medicare and - hospital services in this province is Health Minister Loffmark. If he should selflessly move to some other job and let somebody else become minister, things would get better at once. ‘If he would like our nomination for a better: minister of health, we give it. gladly: anybody. Thursday at the Hotel 4 ‘Vancouver, will be a prime -am example of the power of the § gerontocracy in B.C. There will #33 be three main speakers’ - Dr. Gordon Shrum will -tell the delegates about the future of ; B.C. Hydro, Einar Gunderson ® will tell them about the future of © the PGE, and Premier Bennett 332 will tell them about the future of B.C. and his little government, - Their obyious vitality has so ‘convinced the party that life begins at 70 that there is still no fam mechanism in the. party’s | constitution by which to choose Bennett's eventual successor. Moreover, as .in most years. past, the problem will-probably- not even’. be Considered this year. " But even if Bennett were, to announce his resignation at the. ‘eonvention, which" isn't likely, 4 he would hardly. usher in a new: = age of youth. - Of his: possible #4 successors within. the : ‘party, # Leslie’ Peterson’ is 48; “Dan Campbell is 45, Phil. Gaglardi -is 84, Ralph Loffmark i8 51, and. even young Herb. Capozzi is’ @ A really 46, °-In ‘the: oppasition:. ranks,- NDP-“leadér: Dave Barrettis 41 and Liberal leader 3 Pat McGeer is‘44,, None of them could’. spring - onto. today’s”. | Canadian . political... stage ry without: the ald. of a- cane: In- fact, if. this sprovince: is: golng toretain any ‘credibility. at. ail ny the > -: " aledholism, reports “Signs and’ ‘Bruises * in. ‘unusual ‘places; Symptoms.” -Erratic eating. what Bates calls the ‘battered: -produce “adult: syndrome,” ‘are usually. - habits will. probably . "various ° yitamin lefictencies; . ed while ,. stumbling: G, .Foom : trying: ‘to- find lack of vitamins : Q the ‘ nicotine: ‘acid, “riboflavin “and “the: . | Injuries will ‘oft ‘thiamine: should -be- considered: - occur: in, the: home. andthe not ask for help. until hours | *. days’ later: - Alcoholics: have “a. “tendency ‘to overindulge in all ings: cigarette .smokin rétcularly. Nine out of 1. of é patients repor y keds ee smoked 2.06. -. theif act at ‘the. 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