Page 4, The Herald, Wednesday, Navember 28, 1979 r TERRACE/KITIMAT daily herald General Office - 635-6357 Circulation - 635-6357 GEN. MANAGER - Knox Couptand EDITOR - Greg Middleton CIRCULATION: TERRACE. 635-4357 KITIMAT OFFICE - 632-2747 Published every weekday af 3212 Kalum Street, Terrace, B.C. A member of Verified Circulallon. Authorized as second class mall. Registration number 1201, Postage pald In cash, return postage guaranteed. NOTE OF COPYRIGHT The Heraid retains full, complete and sole copyright In any advertisement praduced and-or any editorlal or Photographie content published in Reproduction Is not permitted. Published by Sterling Publishers the Herald. LETTERS TO — THE EDITOR Dear Sir, We ag a club are very tired of hearing complaints about dogs. Has anyone every heard of spaying and neutering peta? A number of years ago Kitimat sponsored a spay and neuter program. They have been reaping the benefita ever since. A year ago after reading In The Herald about dead dogs being found, female dogs In heat Hed up and easy access .to males, we thought it waa about time Terrace followed sult and had the spay neuter clinic. Terrace hae two yets who both sald they would Lake part, We're sorry to say though, that is almost the extent of the support we received. Last fall we sold candles at the Skeena Mall just before Christmas to raise money for this clinic. We thank all those that bought candles, Now we will tell you that our hopes for the clinie haye been shelved temporarily. Our reasons why: We sent out letters to every business in Plaining avout doge getting pla about dogs g into their garbage fehind thelr ateres, We sent a letter also to the letter carriera union here in Terrace because they complained. . about. dog biles. We were slmply explaining the dog problems and asking for donations. We never recelved a penny. We then tried to see Cyril Shelford to apply for a grant but he wouldn't see us. The district office wouldn't help us because the downtown merchants wouldn't help, We found ourselves going round and round In circles. Don't gel us wrong. We love dogs! They’re our favorite peta. We can’t un- derstand why people who love their pets let them run loose. They could get hit by a car or get picked up by a kook or the pound. If you pay $10 for a dog of mixed parentage, why pay $50.00 to get It back? If you pay $300 for your dog, why take the chance of kisalng your money good-bye? We assume all the dogs running loos@ are unwanted. We do feel sorry for farmers like the McCann's who don't appear to have any rights to protect their farm animals. We are like all people. We don't like picking up our garbage from all over the road after puting it very neatly into pails or bags beside the road. We don’t like cleaning up waste from nelghboura dogs using our front lawns when our own dogs only get to use the back yard. We think it’s about time something was done in Terrace to get these un- wanted dogs off the streets. If you don't want puppies, then for goadneas sake, get your dog fixed. Your neigh- bours friendly pooch is on the prowl. Anne Payne Terrace Dog Club Hon. Dr, Pat McGreer, Ministrer of Education, Legislative Buildings, Victoria, B.C. Dear Sir: This senool has no art room, no lunchroom, and a library with only 50 books. There is no gym. In winter, the students go bawling, roller skating and curling. In warmer weather P.E. classes are held on the school's large, grass playing field. The students work hard because they want to, The school has no discipline problem because the students are proud of it. *‘All. kids are here because they want tu be,” the teacher said, "The rules are: Do your work, respect other people, respect others’ property. There is little absenteeism, no truancy, and we don’t have any kids that wreck things." This could have described the Two Mile School in Hazelton. But it is quoted ‘from an article written by Karenn Krangle In the November 10, 1979 edition of the Vancouver Sun, and it describes Richmond's four room Incentive School, begun in 1975 after a Rich- mond School Board com- mittee recommended that two alternative schools be set up in the district. Four teachers guide the 77 students in Grades 8,9 and 10 toward the school's goal of teaching the students to be independent learners. The school board of District 38 closed the Two Mile School in June on grounds it was behind the times; Richmond's school board would have turned it into a progressive model. Sincerely yours, Mrs. Claudette Sandecki Dear Sir: After attending Tuesday's meeting about the much needed Terrace bus service [ was dlaappointed to learn in most cases the contract to — operate the aystem is let out for private tender. It was Btated that no public transit system in the world makes money and that private enterprise runs it more efficiently. 1 take no exception to the first part of the statement and would like to add that It makes no money because it is set up as a public service to the people, similar in com- parison to the library. However, to atate that private enterprise is more efficient because the con- tract is usually taken over by a company in. a almilar business giving them a lower combined overhead is very misleading. We must remember that private enterprise runs on a cost plus ‘ofit basla. If a profit is not nvolved then obviously private enterprise is not interested, We presently have such municipal services as the fire department, library, blic works etc. I belleve ‘or the most part all are run with a high degree of con- cern for the public by an able administration. IT am equally convinced that this same ad- ministration in city hall, in any number of departments ls quite capable of running a public transit service, The government of Saskatchewan owns and operates a large number of public corporations that often compete with the private sector, Thoy operate for the benefit of the people and last year generated a surplus of over $500 million which enabled the province to reduce the tax burden by an equal amount. So to say that the public sector is not capable of being as efficient as the private one Is ludicrous, An able administration from city hdll can run the proposed Terrace bua ser- vice, but only If they are given a chance. Thousands of tax dollars will be spent to subsidize this much needed service but alas, must we be saddled with paying a private en- terpreneur a profit an weil? Yours truly Peter Poole th TEHRAN (AP) — In headlines and prime-time broadcasts, the Iranian media tell of the glorious struggle of “God and uuuuusus' against the root of all evil, the United States, but they ignore most demands for the re- lease of the U.S. hostagea. No measage of support for the Nov. 4 takeover of the U.S. Embassy by militant students and the holding of the 49 U.S. hos- tages goes unreported. Tehran's six main newspapers, oll solid supporters of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his revolution, carry such headlines as ‘“Selzure Hailed,"’ ‘‘Milllons March,” and “Imam (Khomeini) Raps Car- . ter” . Hours of government --1 television and radio time are devoted to speeches, sometimes more than an hour in length, and statements by Khomeini, the leader of Iran's revolution, and members of hig Revolutionary Council. The Tehran Times, now the capitel’s only English- language newspaper, had - a front-page story about a group of Iranlan students who ed a U.S. flag in Kuwalt to support the em- bassy seizuré, But it made no mention of, President Carter's warning that the United States would hold Iran responsible if any harm came to the hostages, But Carter and the United States are featured in daily storles of antl-U.S, accusations and editorials accusing them of past and present wrongdoing. Accusations include helping the de shah to embezzle billions from Iran, suppressing U.S. blacks, pillaging the Third World and organizing the armed takeover by Moslem {a- natics last week of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Islam's holiest shrine. Iran’s press is biased Sometimes it is more _ than a matter of news selection. Lilian Johnson, | & secretary who was one of the 13 hostages released last week, made confused references at a news con- ference in the embassy compound to counterfeit U.S. currency belng . brought to the embassy before the occupation. Under the headline: “Hostages Reveal ‘Plot’ to Hit Iran's Economy," The Times reported Miss Johnson had sald: “The abject was that the monetary system of [ran should be paralysed,” Khomelni and his supporters have done a complete aboutface in their attitude toward forelgn journalists, 18 of whom they expelled before the embassy seizure, Hundreds have been admitted to cover the siege, and officials and demonstrating crowds court forelgn television audiences. eee Se " Naaser Minachi lectured Tranian officials say frankly they want maximum coverage in the Western media ant revolutionary viewpoln and the outpouring of anti-U.S. sentiment. But they are not always happy with the published results or the questions asked them. At a recent news conference, National Guidance Minister foreign .journalists at length about avoiding distorted and dilahonest reporting. But a correspondent who asked why Iranian television and radio was allowed to report an antl- government demonstra- tion by Iran’s rebellious Kurds as « rally in sup- port of the embassy takeover was told: “The mass media here have had unparalled freedom since the beginning of the revolu- ion.”? OTTAWA OFFBEAT BY RICHARD JACKSON EDMONTON (CP) — It's been a long and often bitter fight, but after 6 years in Alberta the Hutterite religious sect seems to have found a home. Gone, at least on the surface, |sthe discrimination that was 50 much a part of Hutterite life in the province. Gone, too, is restrictive legislation that determined where colonies - could locate and how much farm land Hutterites could Today, about 7,700 Hut- terites in 104 colonies live in Alberta and they are beginning to lead the life they have sought for so long. In recent interviews, leaders of the sect said they did not want to waste time discussing discrimination because it is no longer a problem, Jacob Stahl, leader of a colony near Calgary, says loca] townspeople now greet him “with smiles from ear to ear.” It wasn't always like that. In the bad old days, the Hutterites were widely resented, but “they're very happy with us” now, says Stahl, Hutterites, like the Amish sect in southwestern On- tario, follow religious beliefs which call for them to foresake luxury and leisure. Sect members do not own cars, radios or television sets, for example. One of the few concessions fo modern-day life is that there is usually one telephone on a Hutterite colony. Hutterites put money made from selling supplies — farm crops Ironically produced with the aid of the most uptodate equipment ~ and shipped to markel in. large, modern trucks — into a communal pot because they own no peraonal property and shun a world they say can only corrupt em, DESPITE RACISM ’ Hutterites find a home One farmer near a colony northwest of Edmonton, said: “] resent them because of the way they Ilve and how they don’t become invalved with the rest of us.’ But the same farmer, who asked that he not be iden- tified, added: ‘‘At the same tlme, I look at their crops, the lack of crime on the colonies and the growth of the sect since they came here and J kind of feel that maybe they do have a better way."* His feelings were more widely held, or more often heard, a few years age. On the surface the ill-feeling has abated. Hutterites were con- sidered bad news by local merchants because colonies bought in bulk from wholesalers, contributing little to the local economy. At least that was the belief al- though one Alberta study showed that to be a myth, There's no question that their religious beliefs do little for local stores such as barber shops and appliance dealers, Married brethren wear beards and most cut their own hair, Appliances are not used. But resentment about their buying habits has declined. “If we're competitive, they'll buy from us," says Wayne Klassen, a lumber dealer in Beiaeker. “If not, they buy somewhere else, That's the name of the game.” Stahl says his people have to go where they can get things in bulk. “Other people &, to Calgary. why shouldn’t MERMAN “| just bought this package of batteries and it says, ‘Batteries not incuded.'” There remains some resentment that Hutterites do not become part of the community near which they live. They don't take part in social events because their religion precludes it and they don’t give taverns or government-run liquor stores business — they make ‘their own beer and wine, Things have improved greatly since 1973 when the Alberta government repealed the Communal Properties Act, which controlled the number and location of colonies. While the act was in effect, whenever there wag even a whisper that a new com- mune was planned, farmers and merchants scurried around with antl-Hutterite pelltlons. But the federal govern- ment remains a villain in the eyes of the Hutterites because of income tax. Rev, Joseph Wurz, a spiritual leader, says income tax “isa war tax, and we will not contribute to a tax that buys warplanes and guna.” He also says his people cannot pay income ‘tax because any money earned belongs to Gad. He says the sect will win ita fight agalnst Revenue Canada ‘if the. federal government calla itself Christian,” Revenue Canada is trying to collect $37 million in back income tax, claiming that it belongs to the government, not God. The sect’s stance against taxes still irks some people, but not as much as after the Second World War when veterans returned home to find that Hutterites could afford prime farm land because they had not taken part in the war. To a man, Hutterite leaders say that sort of resentment has gone and they are convinced it won't return, Ottawa,- The newly-expanded 282-seat House of Commons appears to have another original thinker in its midst. . It is a rare species. So unusual, perhaps, as to be endangered. Most of the MPs come here looking for more money for their constituencies and sometimes for them- selves. Nothing really wrong with that, either. To work to help your constituencey with more federal funds and works is what most of it, if not usually all, is about. After all, the taxes roll in from all parts of the country, some wealthier than others, so why not grab a chunk for your people-and the bigger the better- even if it means more spending and finding more inventive ways to do it? But a few--a precious few-Honorable Members have other ideas. These are the original thinkers. — Like Saskatchewan Conservative MP Alvin Hamilton who sold Prime Minister John Diefenbaker his “Roads to Resources” program to open up and develop the north which recent years has been beginning to pay’ off. Pay off in ail, gas, uranium, coal and a treasure trove of base metal ores. Alvin Hamilton's ‘Road to Resources” program didn’t cost the government-or you-- much money, It was the idea that sold and the sale was to private enterprise, the entrepreneurs who took the risks and knew how to get the job done. The Alvin Hamiitons-there hayen’t been many~are the initiators of enterprise, the generators of development action. He's still at work here in Parliament and still spinning off ideas. The other kind of original thinkers are the Don Blenkarns, two-term Conservative MP for one of the Toronto suburban ridings. He's the most unusual kind of politician who dreams up ways of NOT spending government money. It won't win him any popularity contests in this ‘'me generation” House of Commons, but it could endear him to the taxpayer. Not only is he a “save-it-don’t-spend-it type, but even rarer, he is hewer of bureaucratic underbrush, cutter of red tape and chopper of public service dead wood. . . His efforts are all directed at letting the en- trepreneur get on with the. job -without being bureaucratically second-guessed, red-taped and excessively-taxed for all the government “services” he doesn’t need nor want. He has examples. One he calls ‘Hardin's Law,” which to the bureaucrat means that if he has a problem, he causes a law to be passed by Parliament creating three more problems requiring three more laws, resulting in three more problems leading deeper and deeper into the red tape jungle. He fears “Hardin's Law” will come into play when teh Parliamentary Committee on bank interest goes to work on Finance Minister Crosbie and Bank of Canada Governor Gerald Bauey. . “What do we do?" he asks, “pass an interest law impose foreign exchange, invoke controls, or what? ‘What we should dois realize that we cannot have it the way we want in this world, and that passing new laws only creates more problems and more control and regulation of life.” He wandered into his Federal Manpower office the other day and found 5,000 jobs available. They told him they would fill perhaps 1,000 of them, the others would be filled by people fending for themselves and never going near the Manpower Office. “So is the Manpower service worth the effort and cost? he asked-and nobody answered. He recalled that a mandarin from the federal tourist service was thunderstruck to be asked if he or his people had ever brought a visitor to Canada. _ And when he couldn’t answer and was asked, then waht did he do, he answered ‘We co-ordinate things, you know, that sort of thing.” Ah yes. Then there are councils. He askeda council member what it did and was told the council not only was superfluous, but with its job being done by various agriculture departments, its one task was “dealing with the ministries.” Itrubbed down to a case of ‘‘a ministry dealing with a ministry dealing with a ministry dealing with .a ministry all over the country.” “So what,’’ asked Mr. Blenkarn, ‘does the taxpayer think about paying for a federal agency that~does nothing for him except unnecessarily complicate ings ” the national farm marketing TODAY in HISTORY Nov, 28, 1079 capltal punishment in The machine invented by Dr. Guillotin in the 13th. eentury was brought from storage seven years ago today — in 1972 — in France to behead two men. The first to die was Roger Bontems, 36. Seven minutes later Claude Buffet, 38, was beheaded, Both had been condemned to death for the slaying of two hostagea during a prison riot, Since taking office in June, 1968, President Georges Pom- pidou previously had refused France. 1520 - Magellan . reached Pacific Ocean. 1099 — The Comte de Frontenac, governor of New France died. 1029 — Russian pianist and composer Anton Rubinatein was born. 1928 — U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd began his flight over the South Pole, 1954 — Enrico Fermi, father of the atom banb, ed. Ferdinand the Letters welcome The Herald welcomes its readers comments, All letters to the editor of general public interest will be printed. We do, however, retain the right fo refuse to print letters on grounds of possible libel or bad taste. We may also edit letters for style and length. All letters to be considered for publication must be signed.