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EDITOR'S JOURNAL . ¢

BY

GREG MIDDLETON

rT _ J It wasn’t more than minutes after Joe Clark’s not-

quite-governing party went down to defeat and the pundits of the press were telling everyone how much no one, wanted a winter election.

Personally I found that a little hard to believe, The NDP and Liberal MPs obviously wanted an election. They. voted for one. The federal Socreds wanted one. They stood around in the corridor waiting for one. I also think Clark wanted one too. It was his party which didn’t have all its members in the house.

If you look closely at Clark’s background you'll find that jclection, campaigns are his specialty. He's worked on a let of them. In fact, that’s about all he’s done,Oh, he worked on a newspaper a couple of times, but dven wheg he was supposed .to Re a student he spen mas os time working 6x s.mdone’s cam- paigd or wiitilig political speeches.) 1° |

Icértainly wouldn't believe a journalist who says he or ship didn’t want an election. Elections aré great for the reporters and photographers and cameramen of the nation’s news media.

As for the public, that nebulous body of nameiess and faceless voters, well, all they have to do is trudge downto the polls at the end of it all and many, if not most, won't even do that.

It might be bad for business. The hotel, car rental, airline companies, as well as the advertising agencies and the media will all make a buck or two, On the larger scene it might mean the bigger companies might fe a little more cautious but as government does pet of meddling and readjusting things when it is in full force they might welcome the lull.

Thé only realcomplaint with ar ter election is that it will cost about $50 million.

I don’t really thir’ that’s a 9t of money. The Liberals would give that away ing. .intsin afew weeks and the Tories were going to give imost that much to the multinationai oil companies out of the oil and gasoline price hikes.

Took atit this way. It’s probably worth that much to keep the politicians busy for a couple of months,

"POET'S CORNER.

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By T.A.M. MCKAY ; THE LORD'S NEW YEAR

Each day that we start a new,

We ask the Lord to see us through.

Each. night as we lay our head to rest, We thank the Lord for every test. So let us all in this New Year, ° Use qur time to spread Gods cheer. Let us through our word and deed, Prové the Lord will fulfill every need, If you’see someone stumble and fall,

Offer your hand, help them to stand fall. Should someone harm you in anyway, Kemember them, when to God you pray.

Holdipg.a grudge will just turn you sour.’.

Placing you in the Devils evil power. Instead smile, be quietly forgiving, Show that with: Jesus you are living.

If youbelieve in Jesus and hold Him dear,

He wil guide you all through the New Year.

4 : Shelford re

I rdad with interest Nadine Asante’s Commentary on Columns in the Dec, 11 edition of the Herald, and must Bay that I was left puzzled because she appeared to be against my Brief on Forest Management without saying what she didn’t like. 1 don't think that this is fair to the readers interested in the question. It reminds me of the story of the Irishman landing for the first.time in America, and asking the first stranger he met'wnat type of Government they had. When he was ,told, he said: “Well [’m against it.”

My main concern is that Asante’s comments left the impr¢ssion that this brief is the first time. I've shown my ¢fficern of this mattet-twhich is completely wrong. Even. with the most elernentary research, show would have known different. For those readers not familiar with my past interest I should give brief outline, Then. those opposing my brief have a better opportanity of attacking my ‘views which were outlined to spark discussion.”

From 1945 to 1952, I was a contract logger with horses. We are proud of our harvesting methods as with a horse we didn’t damage young trees in mixed age stands. After being elected in.1952, I sat as a member on the Forest Committee df the Legislature until 1961, then was chairman until] 1968. In 145, and again in 1956, 1 presnted a brief to the Sloan Royal

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PIERRE TR UDEAU

Spirit of election past

By ALAN FREEMAN

QUEBEC (CP) — The February federal election has raleed a apectre to haunt Premier Rene Levesque ~~ the possible return of Pierre Trudeau a8 prime minister In the midst of the Parti Quebecois independence referendum.

It no doubt took awhile for the impact to sink in since the premier was preoccupied last week with the Supreme Court of Canada which averturned portions of Quebec's Charter of the French Language.

But the surprise defeat of the Progressive. Con- servative government in Ottawa — the same day aa the Supreme Court ruling — certainly must be weighing on Levesque.

The reaults of last May's federal election suited him: Not only was Trudeau beaten, but the Con- servatives under Joe Clark accomplished the task by aweeping English Canada and electing only two members from Quebec,

According to Levesque, the results showed that residents of Quebec and the test of Canada are two different peoples with op- posed interests,

Levesque alao interpreted Trudeau's defeat as the end of French power in Ottewa, taking it as evidence that English Canada hes had

enough of French Canadiens,

Ironically, the May result broughta temporary truce in relations between Ottawa and Quebec.

Under Trudeau, Quebec ministers like Jean Chretien, Andre Ouellet and Mare Lalonde never shied away from confrontation with the PQ. But the Clark cabinet refused to debate conflicting federal and provincial pol- icies.

With only four Queberers holding posts in the cabinet — Supply Minister Roch LaSalle, Sclence Minister Heward Grafftey and

Commission on Forestry, and opposed my own party’s

Senator Jacques Flynn, who serves a8 justice minister — the Clark government fig- ured its best way to deal with Quebec was to be aa ensy- golng as possible,

Even when Levesque

attacked Clark for delays in federal investment plans in Quebec two weeks ago, Clark refused to fight back.

But most important of all, Clark swore not to get

ATRILL THINKS |

by Thomas Atrill

[ have a solution to the U.S.-Iranian crisis.

First, let us look at the desires and demands of the two countries:

Iran wants the Shah.

U.S, wants the hostages freed.

Iran needs money,

U.S. needs Iranian oil. © ani Rebellious students want authority. Khomeini needs rest and retirement.

The Middle East needs peace and prosperity.

U.S, needs military bases in Iran.

For many years, the United States has been called an imperialist country, meaning that they try to annex territory and expand the U.S. ‘empire.’ It is an idiotic concept, with no facts to back it up. However, my plan requires that the ‘imperialist’ epithet becomes a temporary reality.

I want the U.S. to take Iran. Not invade and fight, only to retreat like a whipped dog, as they did in Vietnam. No; I propose a takeover patterned after the Russian conquest of Czechoslovakia. Quick, ef- ficient,ruthless and almest bloodless.

At that point, things will begin to fall into place, The hostages will be freed by U.S. Marines. Student criminals will berounded up and jailed, Khomeini will be given a well-deserved retirement, otherwise known as house-arrest. The Shah will be returned to Iran, and instailed as head of government. Oil will begin to flow again, U.S. and world money will begin to pour in to Tran, The lid will be on all subversives and socialists in Iran. The U.S. will obtain numerous military bases. Peace and prosperity will reign.

Then the imperialist United Staes will quietly with- draw its forces.

[expect to be chastised and reviled for thinking such thoughts.

Greenpeace, The Sierra Club, The Society For Prevention of Everything Constructive (SPEC), and others, will call me a right-wing Fascist’ or a ‘running dog of the American imperialists’ or worse, I care not.

Their old friend, Chairman Mao, once said, ‘‘Power ' comes oul of the barrel ofa gun”

What's good for the goose is also good for the gan- ‘der, I guess. :

personally involved in the spring referendum on th- dependence, saying thls was a matter for Quebecers to settle.

If the Liberals win the federal election, it will be because they have boosted their support in the reat of

the country — especially.

Ontario.

Since it's unlikely Quebecers switch from voting Liberal federally, mce again Frenchspeaking Quebecers would vote the sameway as much of Eng- lish Canada, q

And it would mean ‘a

atrong Quebec presence in Ottawa once again and ja

federal} cabinet ‘anxlous 1. gets.

involved: in the referendum battle.

Even in announcing planned resignation from Liberal leadership last month, Trudeau Indicated he would continue to take an active rolein the referendugn campaign. 5

If re-elected, he could te expected to further em- phasize that commitment.

The federal electi cféates a‘ ihore difileult problem for Levesque, The premier always has banked on extensive media coverage of his government's every action.

The text of the question in the spring referendum is to be made public this week, but itd will be debated in

. detail when the assembly resumes sitting after the Christmas break — likely in mid-February, just when the federal vote will take place and all eyes will be on Ot- tawa,

Levesque will probably

think twice about in- —

tervening in the election this time, as he did last spring when he lent tacit support to the Social Credit party under Fabien Roy.

That strategy ended in dis- aster, with the drop-

- ping to six MPs from

Quebec. One of them, Richard Janelle, later jumped to the Tories.

ON FOREST MANAGEMENT plies to Asante’s comments

years in either Prince George, Kamloops, Vancouver,

position on Tree Farm Licences for large companies. I maintained that the independent contractor was getling a bad deal, and that management practices were inadequate. This most likely cost me a cabinet position for many years!

As chairman of the Forest Committee, I was able to get the co-operation of the NDP and Liberals, and brought down @ unanimous report to the Legislature each of the seven years I was chairman. Our main thrust to Government was better management which would require more money, and recommended a $500,000 a year increase each year for ten years. Had this been carried out, we would be much better off

lay.

Each year | took the commiltee to different areas to see first hand the problems and methods of re- forestation. We went to Washington State, Oregon, and ail major logging areas of B.C. The value of this was in the form of education for all of us. I carried out the first thinning trial on my ranch in the early 1950's and, after several years, took the results right to the Legislature to prove that we could grow twice as much wood per acre in fewer years. :

In 1970, [ went to the Soviet Union to observe their management practices which were impressive in many areas. I’ve been on logging panels, and have moderated panels, nearly every year for the last 20

or Terrace.

While with the Northwest Loggers Association, I, brought in speakers from outside, mainly from the NDP management and labour. During that time, we spent weeks on the Pierce Royal Commission on Forestry, and were pleased when he used six out of our nine points in his recommendations which gave credit to our local people. I also, wrote a monthly report called, ‘Northwest Viewpoint” which appeared in the local papers. Many of my ideas have been used in forest management seminars at U.B.C. and in logging publications.

The most knowledgeable writer in the 34 years I've been involved was Pat Carney, columnist for the Vancouver Sun. Like myself, Pat urged more money and better management years ago. She was very thorough in her research and did a tremendous job in reporting the hearings in the area of Tree Farm Licences for Can-Cel and Eurocan. She was able to analize all our positions and point out the weak points, and strongly support the better ones. This is the type of critizism all of us interested in the subject need.

All of us who have been involved for many years recognize the need for constant forest acreage in order to carry out proper management-—the same as in farming. If we lese valuable forest land for only

PERSICY S PERSPECTIVE

By STAN PERSKY

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neighborhood Vietnamese “boat person”’ got a job leaning up automobiles aver at the Budget Rent- a-Car agency. The local paper ran his picture a couple weeks back and told us bout his new job. Buess they wanted to reassure us taxpayers that he wasn’t living

off welfare or anything. So there he ‘was, standing _

there in his Budget Rent-a-Car overalls, not looking like much or a threat to national security, racial purity or the absence of a hepatitis epidemic on our street. ; ;

Apart from taking note of that momentous piece of information, I must admit that I've been rather lax. when it comes to waking up in the middie of the night in order to worry about immigration. I realize that most normal Canadians regularly have their sleep disturbed by nightmarish visions of our country being overrun by swarms of multihued, foul-smelling varieties of home sapiens who jabber at us with the forked tongues of Babel.

At least that’s what last week's Gallup poll reveals. In a survey conducted for the right-wing National Citizens’ Coaltion, it was discovered that 64 per cent of Canadians disagree with the federal government's policy of admitting 50,000 Indochinese refugees. (For 96 per cent, even one boat person was one too many.) Coincidentally, the poll results appeared just after federal Immigration Minister Ron Atkey told a meeting of shocked church leaders that the govern- ment was cancelling its commitment to sponsor one Vietnam refugee for every boat person sponsored by private groups (to a total of 50,000).

Up ’til then, I hadn’t given the matter much thought. (Of course, didn’t get very excited in 1957 either our biggest post-World War II immigration year, when 250,000 newcomers arrived, many of them refugees from Hungary,and alarmists predicted our cheeseburgers would get covered with paprika. Twenty years later, and you can’t tell a Hungarian from a Winnipeg Jets fan.) Bo

That's not to say I've been entirely inactive in combating the menace of immigration. But, like the government, I do it for purely political reasons rather than as a matter of faith.’That is, whenever I feel I’m in danger of not being thought sufficiently’ narrow- minded, I’m not above casting the second. or third at environmentalists, opponents of the death penalty, and perfect strangers to our shores (I'll even tell one or two bigoted jokes about Californians), just for the sake of credibility.

Naturally, it's easier to get worked up about mad- dog mass killers or to make fun of Greenpeace than to deliv-r a tirade against immigrants. But just last mon.a, in mixed company, 1 wondered aloud about the wisdom of taking in 50,000 boat people, given the current unemployment rate. Even then, my heart wasn’t really in it, since I knew perfectly well that after, Joe Clark.gets done dismantling Petroqan.and

- Jacking up the.interest rates, the, addition, o£ M,000.to

the ‘unemployed stats will be barely noticeable. (Maybe I’m just not cut out to be a right-winger, even for the sake of credibility.) : Inany case, I can depend on others to do most of my worrying about the preservation of English Canada for me. In fact, one of my journalistic colleagues down South (who’s fondly known in the trade as ‘‘Bulldog’’ never lets a week go by without scrawling a stirring diatribe against another dark-skinned huddled mass being given tous, His dogged devotion to his pet peeve is awe-inspiring, ook Bulidog is constantly hunched over his pocket calculator proving that those 50,000 boat perople, just like fruit flies or rabbits, will inevitably multiply into a horde or 750,000, And then there are his authoritative medical pronouncements (as if he were trying to get a guest shot on Quincy) that the Indochinese im- migrants are sure to cause a hepatitis plague. Any minute now, I expect him to rush out and tack up quarantine signs around the neighborhood, even though his startling scientific discovery is about as believable as saying all bulldogs have rabies. Before ] join that angry mob about to drive all those people who have different noses (or different whatever-it-is that makes us so angry) into the sea: like lemmings, there’s just one thing I don’t quite understand about our crusade to preserve English Canada. I mean, let’s say all those figures about multiplying foreigners are correct, and that even the predictions about outbreaks of hemorrhoids or hepatitis or hickeys are true. Let's say, for the sake of argument, that English Canada really is, despite appearnaces to the contrary, about to diappear. ~ What I don't understand is this: why do we want to preserve it? I'm sure there's a perfectly good reason why we want to fight to the death to preserve English Canada. ‘I just can’t, for the life of me, think of it.

gingle-use pu sustained yield.

I hope this will give the readers some idea of the concern that I have had over the years and trust they will come forward with contructive critizism all of us interested in the subject need.

All of us who have been involved for many years’ recognize the need for constant forest acreage in order to carry out proper management-the same as in farming.‘ If we lose valualbe forest land for only single-use purpose, it upsets. the entire concept of sustained yield.

I hope this will give the readers some idea of the concern that [ have had over the years and trust they will come forward with constructive critizism go that, together, we can put forward an even belter plan for the future. This area is far too important to the future ~~ anomy of the Province for writers to oppose briefs 4d ideas solely for political purpases, | must give credit to members of all parties in the Legislature during that time as they were always big enough to stand above this sort of thing and make concrete proposals, or critizism , for the betterment of the

OS€, It Upsets the entire concept of

‘industry, and the economy, which affects all of us

regardless of party politics,

Sincerely, Cyril M, Shelford

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