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We struggle on

despite

With all the worlds pathos, its lunatics,
its pollution, its deceptive
governments, its neurotic outlooks and
countless other ‘I can’t live with it’
problems, it certainly seems a chore to
even bother waking up in the morning.

If it isn’t hunger in India then its a
riot in Gastown or Attica.

If itisn’t an OD in the slums then its
pulp operations shutting down.

It itisn’t the murder of Laporte then
its the accidents on the highway.

If it isn’t Vive La Quebec Libre then
its unemployment.

Ifit isn’t mass pollution as a result of
Amchitka then its Jacques Cousteau
telling us the ocean is dying.

If it isn’t thoughts of hatred in
Ireland then its fear of China in an
eventual nuclear calamity.

Yes, its enough to make you want to
roll over in the morning and hope that
the day will pass in sleep or utter
euphoria.

One certainly wonders of the lust and
deceit in the world and like a very
human nature...depression is not
uncommon in the mind these days.

Yet we struggle on, day by day
hoping for betterment. We turn to the
bible, we turn to hope, We turn to
dreams, we turn to better judgments.

Whatever the case of escape or

hangups

memorable moments are the smaller
ones. Many people fail to give credit to
these incredible seconds,

A child's smile, a bunch of brilliant
flowers, a family altogether for a
special occasion.

They add a measure of warmth to
life’s cold corners and weave a
harmless sort of magic which comforts
a friend, welcomes a stranger.

You know, and even if it is an old
cliche, we really do make life all by
ourselves. Actually much of man’s life
is spent ina world which he himself has
created. Here his culture and his
beliefs are molded and shaped. Here he
is motivated, nourished and sustained.

Man’s world is a place of excitement.
From the tiny collection of houses in
the sun Iooking over the harbour, to the
bigger towns and streets of bakeries
and boutiques and dentists, to the huge
megapolis that blurs time and feeling,
it offers endless opportunities and
possibilities for experience.

From afar, this world, sometimes in
shambles beckons with promises of
new opportunity, a new way of living.

And that living is based upon so
many good things and the flowering of

e. .

And as you go through the day with
countless supposed ‘hang-ups’

Ae

‘finding that hope’, different... Ferflember the dreams, 2127:
sources...we all nave tiene ai, ES une oh these esths any not be

We are a tough race, this human
mankind. Whether we trudge through
muddy disaster we always retain hope
for that possible better tomorrow.

We spend memorable moments, we
really do. And many of life’s more

realized but is the dreaming and not
the realization which makes life a
series of tomorrows instead of a
collection of yesterdays.

Don’t get hurt today or ever, You
have a lot of good ‘life to live.

~The vanishing railway

OTTAWA (CP) — The pas-
senger train, once the only
sure link between isolated Ca-
nadians, ‘is in danger of he-
coming as extinct as the car-
rier pigeon.

A recent application by the
Canadian National Railways
to the Canadian transport
commission illustrates the
current state cf the rail pas-
senger business.

The CNR has asked for dis-
continuance of some-of the
maj or inter-city passenger
routes in Canada, all in the
Quebec City-Montreal-T
to-Windsor corridor. The rail-
ways must apply for abandon-
ment to qualify for subsidies.

The application follows

’ strenuous attempts by. the
CNR to promote ‘the Mont-
real-Toronto run, The railway
had hoped to make the route
profitable,

But the losses claimed by
the railway for the eight cor-

ridor roytes totalled $13.4 mil- .

lion in 1970, ;

‘The Montreal-Toronto’ run

~ alone lost $5.2 million in 1970,
The other seven money-losing
routes are; Toronto-Sarnia,
Quebec City-Montreal-Toron-
Windsor, Toronto-Brockviile,
Toronto-Niagara Falls, Ont.,
Montreal-Ottawa and Mont-
real-Quebee City, .

RAPIDOMAKES MONEY
The CNR says the-fast Rap-

ido service on the Montreal-

Toronto run is making money

but it must be included'in the :

application as the. transport
comm

role, .
With. this application, . the
CNR:and the Canadian Pa-

cific Railway: new have filed .

for abandonment of all inter-

city passenger services inthe .

country. Co
* ‘TheNational Transportation

_Act. tequires railways to file -
for abandonment in order to _

~ be eligible * for: federal: subsi-

dies of up to 80 per cent of. .

“annual losses,

ave loging money and should”

be: maintained in the, public: 2

| interest

ion wants figures for «
all sefyices on.a particular

lines should be discontinued.
Until the late 1940s, the pas-
senger trairl was a going con-

cern,

In 1920, the railways carried
41,3 million passengers for a
total of 3.65 billion miles, a
pre-Second World War peak.
There was a decline during
the hungry 1930s but war
brought a passenger boom.

More passengers—-60.3 mil-
lion—-were carried in 1944
than at any other time in Ca-
nadian railway history, They
were cairied for a record 6.9
billion passenger miles, .
DECLINE BEGAN

But with the end of the war,

' along decline began. By 1961,

the railways were carrying
only 18 million passengers for
two billion passenger miles.
This was going on ata time
when the Canadian population
was steadily rising. The popu-

‘lation was B.5 million in 1920,

11.9 million in 1944, 18.2 mil-
lion in 1961 and 20.4 million in
1967...

Freight hauled by the rail-
ways also climbed. Trains
carried 100.1 million “tons in
1920, 155.3 million tons in the
wartime year. of °1944, and
153,1 million tons in 1961, a

poor year for the Canadian |

economy. By 1967, freight fig-

ures had zoomed to 210,5 mil- ©

lion tons.
The CNR launched a vigor-

ous promotional campaign in:
1962 to increase passenger’
traffic. It came out with the

red; white and blue fare plan
which offered cheaper tickets

on days when the trains were’: °

normally lightly used,

'-. Passenger ‘numbers=roge, .
reaching a peak in 1967—Cen-
tennialYear--whenheavy |
tourist travel boosted totals to -

24.6 million, travelling 3.1 bil-

* Hon miles.

- TRAFFICDROPPED
. But Inteyest in the rallways
eropped off again and by 1969, .
the allways had fallen back-)

eir 1961 level,

. 0 | 4 Along: with the decline. in.
"I the Canadian transport; passeligers,. service: .
‘commisalén pidges the routes °.

almost to

figers,. Ber rapidl
outpaced revenue, ae

:° The CNR has ‘issued a.com:
- parison of revenue and.expen. -..
ses for the period 1981 to 1969 ©
. with 1961, figures equalling’
iy + 1002Revenue' fell. to’ about 60 |:
». 0.1965 while costs climbed_to

‘ outdone

About 115, Revenue started
rising again to about 93 in-
1969 while costs rose sharply
to 150.

Why has this happened?
Why shouldn’t passenger train
service he as popular and
profitable as it was in the
boom years early in the cen-
tury?

One of the main reasons is
that passenger trains now
have to compete for passen-
gers with fast, efficient and
comfortable airplanes and
with buses using good high-
ways.

_ But the most formidable ©
rival is the automobile,

4 Canadian transport com-
mission survey ‘of competing
methods of transportation be-
tween Edmonton and Calgary
shows that the automobile
claimed almost 92 per cent of
the passenger traffic in 1969

-with the railways getting‘less

than one per cent, The rest
was split evenly between air-
planes and buses. .

The problems the railways
face are partly brought on by
themselves,

While their rivals were im-
proving,passenge'r train
equipment was standing. still.

CP Rail introduced the :

_ flashy: transcontinental, The °:
. Canadian, in the mid-19505 at:
‘ a cost of $50. million but :
quickly lost heart when it did ©

, Not prove profitable! -.-° - -

TRIED TURBO. |

real-Toronto route,

But throughout most of this _

post-Second World War: pe-.

riod, the railways were being.
by other forms of — _
transport, particularly theair- | ... es, mmerce
- me Business. Administia tion,
“Wniversity. of BC} es a
Theme of the convention was

» SQertennial plus one” 4 - look’
into labor. and management: ’.
... relations -in the coming year. .’;

Wines,
‘The complaint has been le--

-‘gitimately made that the rail-
“ways seemed more interested

in freight trafic than in pas

‘senger trains,”

is ay tose why

CN estimates that passin: -
, Ber. train. services: bring: :in.
~ about. seven per. cent’ of the: . .

company ré.venues while
freight accounts
percents

_:; The CNR also- carne -oyt: |
‘with modem transcontinental -

.. rains, and has récently. tried ©

‘the new Turbo. on: the Mant-

_> president:

-Wancouver, ‘first: - yice-

president; —

. | ie ih :
AN IM

me

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WERE STILL
HOLDING THE ©
CONTROLLING
ENDOF IT! |

THE SPECTATAR, HAM TOY

2:

Mindless idiots shame all Canadians:

that he, himself, often was the remedy of most of the ills about

Where was all the vaunted
security for Premier Kosygin
when less than 24 hours after his
arrival in Canada he became
theobject of a personal physical
attackon Parliament Hill? Had
his assailant been armed the
premier might well have been
shot dead. ;

Itis not as though no one knew
this would be a difficult journey
for both the guest and his hosts.
Prime Minister Trudeau, while
he was in Russia, warned Mr.
Kosygin ’ to expect
demonstrations, and explained

aware
of CGA

HARRISON HOT SPRINGS -
The newly-elected president of
the Certified’ .General
Accountants’ Association of
B.C, says that one of his main
goals during his term of office
will be to create greater public
awareness of the role of the
CGA. ;

James L. Denholme, of
Vancouver, told delegates
attending the annual convention
of the association here Saturday
that both the’ business

‘community and the general

public must be made aware of
the fact that the CGA is a skilled
financial manager who holds
positions ‘of responsibility in
virtually every type of
industrial, | commercial,
service, institutional and
governmental enterprise.

“For young people
considering a career, a CGA
designation is a -. virtual
guarantee of a job,’ said
Denholme, who is executive
vice-president of Adka
Industries Ltd., Vancouver,

“Graduates of our courses:
are eagerly sought after
because the years of practical
experience and academic study
required to qualify ag a CGA
gives the graduate the
qualifications that. employers

want and need.” .

-_Denholme succeeds Clancy
Fuerst, North Vancouver, as:
president of the .association. .
Other officers elected Saturday.
were Gordon © Cummings,

Brian’ Adams,
second —vice-

Craibrook,
and |.

McKinnon, Vancouver,

secretary-treasurer.'~ ™-.
- Sixty-tive praduates‘recelved

their .CGA. certificates at passengers
_gradpation ceremoniés’” in a
the ‘Harrison Hot: Springs. ~ ‘aveller.”
. Hotel Saturday. eveilng., The

graduating class was addressed .
by Dean.Philip H. White of the .
Faculty of’ Commerce. and’

Speakers.” included Labor

“Miltister * James : Chabot; C.J,’

“"'“Gonnaghan, : president’. of |

for’ about (74°:

-. Constrauction Labour Relatlons
“Association. of B.C,‘ and Ray |
Haynes, secietary-teasurer of *

the B.C, Federation’ of ‘Labor, .

Gerald

. commandments

way of: getting :the message
across. to. the ‘group, ‘many:.of
whom... were..; first-time
- We: WoUK) have . been: created

target of demonstrators..

But demonsirations are one
thing and vilence is quite
another, The mindless idiots
who prepare  firebombs,
dynamite bombs, and plan
physical violence on the target
of their displeasure do harm to
good causes, and imperil the
international relationships that
are the only hope for the

“ANDY CAPP

which they complain.

- Mr. Kosygin has learned in
the space of a few hours, that
the open society and
participatory democracy of
which we boast cannot
guarantee wisdom, or even the
simple courtesy due him as the
head of a great union, -

. Most of the protestors are

sober, responsible people,. many
of whom know from’ personal
experience that the conditions
about which they complain cry
out for remedy. They should
also be wise enough to know
that Russian policies are more
likely to harden than alter when

- faced with events such as those
that have marred the opening of

Mr. Kosygin's visit, :
They share - the serious

q

responsibility of seeing that the

protests are proper and clothes
with the dignity that they feel
sure their causes command. -
Canada’s security forces, on
the other hand, may hjave been
ei given the kind of jolt that will
remave seli-complacency and
help guarantee that there will
be no repetition of : the

Parliament Hill incident that

shames all: Canadians.

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Instead of planning costly

Space probes scientists should
be doing their utmost to
the
creatures who are already
visiting the earth from. other

communicate with

Planets, says. Stanton T.
Friedman,
nuclear and space expert, .

“I am convinced that the
earth is ‘being visited by.

intelligently-contralled vehicles
whose origin is outside the

earth,”” he’ told 20) Simon

Fraser University students
Monday. . .

Friedman, who spent 14 years

‘an American

in the development of advanced |

nuclear and space systems for
the U.S., , Government, says

there’ have been enough

sightings of saucers and their
occupants. by technically
trained observers, including
engineers, astronauts,
astronomers, - pilots and
physicists to convice him they
are visiting this planet, —
Twenty-onestudents, about 10

percent of his audience, told |

him in, response te a question
that they had personally sighted
UFO's . (unidentified flying

Objects).

In ‘response to another
question, only. four. siad . they

A British Columbia :pastor- 4. - Remember to take only one:
recently set the scene for a Holy 7
Land tour he’ was leading by
: Sending his group of 40 CP Alr:

'* ten:
_ for. the,

It was a clever, and effective

international: travellers...

things -as:, thou’ has. them. at
home. for thou” has = teft:thy:

‘face the ridicule of se
-from space.’ .

Do not laugh |
| may be ~
_ beside you~

had reported their sightings to
officials, So

“That's a better record of
reports than the’ average,"
Friedman told the students.
“Most people: are hesitant to
break ‘through the ‘laughter
curtain.’ They are loathe to

- In view of the tremendous

the past 100 years, particularly
the spéctacular increase in the
speed of movement, it shouldn't

be difficult ta concelve of other.

‘civilizations’, possibly

_ created hundréds or millions of diameter, and .able to: travel

years before ours, speeding

- emissaries to the earth and . nothing’ on earth: to ‘explain,

back, said Friedman.

“We think of, the. diéfieulty of ”" ‘The occupants

[

ing ‘men
; . recently. sighted UFO's,. said

getting to a star and back in one -
lifetime, but we think .in
conventional terms. . Possibly
speed in outer space could be

‘ multiplied many. tinies from.

today's known limit." - “
Friedman, © who | gave:

descriptions’ and - showed’:

pictures. of some of the most °

they”. show -a remarkable

-increase in world technology in similarity. They. are usually.

round, saucer. er -hat-shaped, ©
melallic, capable. of . vertical -
takeoffs and sudden changes of.

direction, noiseless,without ;

exhaust, as least 30 feet. in:
10,069 miles per. hour.: ‘There's:
them” he said...

universe, My

of Country.

‘parson with whom ‘thew hast had
frowble Pf

‘in,
“treateth

green men with big but eyes and
antennae of science fiction,
friedman said. By the best
descriptions they seem to be

.. “humanoid” creatures, but.
_ with grey skin, slitted eyes, long
: arms and ;

legs. .

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“Wf they're coming here, why . |

don’t they iry to. éstablish
contact with us?” he was asked
by a student.

‘“Maybe we're somebody’s
colony,” said Friedman, May
be we're’

some impending catastrophe,

They may be from a defeated °
civilization. or dying star §

heeding a new home.’ -

leader’ . jokes. are. funny
‘primarily’ because this planet

- hasno leader to be taken'to,"he -

said. ‘‘Frankly, it would

surprisé-me if they would want’ |

to communicate with us,"”

reluctance .of,.a .majority of

earthlings to accept the reality ;
“of flying saucers aS ‘partly a
‘problem of. the - htman | ego,- .
. which. insists ‘on ‘regarding this.
“planet as‘ the centre of the *

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“money (2 0 oo meneame

“By! Meniember. thy : passport -
.sothouknoweat whereitisatall ' .
“thmes....for.. aman; without, a 00:

"passport is a man-without-a

“6: Remember”. if: we “are.
expected-to stay in ‘one: place,

home lo find: things. different,

"Thou shalt riot tale ariything

too. ‘seriously.:.for‘a carefree. ~ it's

Milind is. the ‘beginning -of
vacation 0"

3.) Thou shalt not. let the ‘other
tourists ‘det. on..thy nerves. for
| m

thou.art paying out
Hr Hi

‘a fine.

treated as an honored guest."

the prize, booby or ‘We
_ otherwise, in some interglactic
competition. They may knawof §

. “Those ‘take’ me to your

.. Friedman ‘says he sees the “1

‘every ‘‘land,.and he anat 18
th his ost -with respect Is,