~ Columbia's, Committee. says. the second: “ though, it will provide a oo wlat ml May 97 THE JACK SCOTT COLUMN Published. at Sidney, Vancouver. island, B:C. Every Wednesday By Review Publications Ltd. * 9825 Third Street ; we - John, Manning - - Publisher ” . te -H.V. Green - Editor, — Member of B.C. Division, ‘Canadian ‘Weekly Newspapers’ Assn. . Member of Canadian Weekly Newspapers’ Association Member. of ‘Audit Bureau of Circulations ~ Member Class ‘‘A’’ Newspapers -. Telephone 656-1151 : SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $4.00 per year by mail. SECOND CLASS MAIL REGISTRATION. NUMBER 0128 Display advertising rates on application. PAGE4 < — - - Wednesday, March 31, 1971 THE ADVERTISING BAN The allurements of My Lady Nicotine and the temp- tations of King Bacchus are to be blanketed in obscurity on September Ist. So it has been-announced by the provincial government. Proposed new legislation will outlaw the advertising: billboards, of tobacco and liquor products in the provincial press, on. and on radio and _ television media originating in British Columbia. -The ban may shut from the ears and shield from the eyes the propaganda of liquor and tobacco manufac- turers, but only so far as families restrict their reading, listening and viewing to publications and entertainment controlled by the province. Products which are. offending to the ministerial purists who preach total abstinance rather than tem- : perance, will still gain publicity in plenty from mass circulation magazines published | elsewhere and programs tuned-in from abroad. Effect of the ban on the domestic wine industry can only be conjectured, but it must be considerable in the face of stern competition from Kastern Canada and foreign imports. . “The edict may be fatal to some provincial weekly : newspapers. which already‘are suffering from severely - curtailed national advertising. Up to ten “percent of » revenues are derived from liquor firm announcements which: usually” are. ‘little . more. than prestige ‘brand es identifications. oe Bearing i in mind. that the 1 Ministers accept an annual -. $50 million profit from the liquor monopoly with studied reluctance, it-may be thought reasonable that. they. ~ should: give more thought | to the causes which drive ople to the abuse of alcohol: and. d vertisi the: ‘consequences of over- est ‘that. today’s social © ‘evils to tobacco and olan ae ee I eep harking back to the Jack quotes . and» agrees that our ‘Canadian | character. “is distinguished by». a. manly modesty. as much: ‘as by. mental oe independence: - by. the’ critical. aculties as well as ‘by zeal of the. quirer.’ os... ‘The cause of this harking back : is just that I don’t get it: Where is | ~-/ the human: Gignity, the: quotation. ; implies? Do we, for ‘instance, insist that government be by. the ‘people? To: me, our members at Ottawa’ and Victoria. seem to be + Scott: column ‘of. March 17. He | © Hamlet .- -bear: the spurns: that patient ‘mer it.of the unworthy. take.’ : parochialism. concerned, with ‘showmanship.. and justice? ‘We. could say. with: “who. would. fardels ~ Just a few thoughts by the way: one: hopes. not: old age or BF, A; Thornley — oe Saanichton, B.C. Centennial _ "Festival oF Sports _ The chairman ol British Centennial, annual Festival of Sports, May 20 ~~ through June 7, will be one of the athletic highlights of the: Cons ~~ tennial year, . © “More than 123. communities: have: signified intentions of > gtaging Festival of Sports events -this: Centennial year! said. Laurie Wallace. “Fifty individual sporta will be involved and close to 200,000 athletes - from. many parte of the world, " ‘Last year in its initial staging ~ the British Columbia Festival of » Sports brought together 125,044) athletes. competing in 47 sports in : ia) centres. “The Bentival of Sports will forus much attention on British Columbia and, in particular: our “Centennial celebrations,” said ~My, Wallace. "More important, ft great encouragement to the athletes of » British Columbia,” ‘Three new sports Joining the Festival this year are basketball, football and handball. Golden will host a senior men's ‘basketball tournament,’ May 92- 2, while Esquimalt will conduct’ a junior tournament, Richmond Will play host to a high school Fevitatianal foathall taoriadinedt, dane? Thee Western) Canada handball championships will be O79 in Vancouver A host of provincial. cham: pionships will algo be held during the Fest ival of Sports, fe well as several international events in soccer and rugby, The Festival of Sports” is sponsored by the. B.C. Sports Federation in. co-operation with the Government” of Beitish Columbia. ON, SAANICH SCHOOL > CONCERT a special Centennial ‘Spring Concert will be held- at) North ‘Wednesday: Saanich’ School ‘on April 7 at 8 pan. Both the senior and. junior bands will perlorm inder. their conductor | Austin encourage music appreciation and: participation: in (he. junior high schools of the District. It is hoped that) these: en- thusiastic students will be able to continue their musical studies at the senior high school level next year 08 is possible in other school districts, Toe provide this continued musical propram for the voung reople and. their director. the public is urged to demonstrate their ovygert by aT big Wit , concert. There will be no admission charge to whal promises to be an enjoyable musical evening Beachcomber Dance Sidney Torque’ Masters Chub are holding a Beachcomber's Dance from 4 pm te lam at! Ranscha Wall an Mriday April 2 .become prefessorial. _ exertion U suppose this should not be objected to when I so greatly disparage’ the lack of it: What “visions have we of brotherhood | eS . No War I have written him back a rather testy reply noting that I abhor professors when. they that. I already have a splendid edition of War and Peace. that less than a month ago. during three weeks vacation. I failed. once more to make a dent in ‘it and than. if it’s ail the same to him, 1 would prefer to believe that my ex- perience: with..Tolstoy’s classic proves the old adage: If at first you don't succeed. quit. The only hope I see is that his edition may have a lower gross tonnage than the Modern library copy. Lown, a book which goes to 1,146 pages and weighs at least a pound-and-a-half. ~You get to holding War and Peace in-.a hammock, for example, particularly if you're using one hand to hoist a glass of lemonade or something, and the is. exhausing.. Pretty soon you're going to feel the book slipping through ' your. lifeless fingers. If you're not very careful -you-are liable to doze off from simple fatigue. ~ Because’ of’ this; ‘time aiter: time, I’ve. reached.no further than page four and, reluctantly, have had to turn to some Agatha Christie Penguins as. a kind of therapy for my aching pectorals. “Thave been trying to read War “and Peace; man-and: boy, for - almost 30‘years. The first copy I had was given to me by my father fora birthday present. On the - flyleaf he had written something like; ‘‘This is the greatest of them. all."’ Some-years later I learned that my father had once got as far “as Page Eight. It did not: make “me think less of him: