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LETTERS TO | THE EDITOR

Cancer campaign

To the Editor:

It has come to our at- tention that an organization called the Cancer Research Society Inc. of Montreal has been soliciting donations from firms ant individuals in British Columbia.

We would like to inform your readers that this organization is in no way connected with the Canadian Cancer Society or the Terry Fox Marathon of Hope. We do not know why it is set up as a separate society and are not aware of the work it performs.

The Canadian Cancer Society, through its research arm the National Cancer Institute of Canada, is now in the process of identifying new research programs which will be funded by the Terry Fox Fund. With this expanded base of cancer research, coupled with our already heavy commitment toongoing research projects, there is a great need for the Canadian Cancer Society to raise the necessary funds

through its annual fund.

raising drive. QS

This annua! April cam- paign for funds will also support the extremely im- portant programs of public

education and service-to-

patients. With the com- plexities of cancer, it is ’ vitally important that cancer research be augmented with our lifesaving education messages; especially how lifestyles can affect the incidence of cancer. It is also vital that some of those who have cancer be given limited financial and emotional support. Both the public education and ser- vice-ta-patients programs account for approximately one-third of the funds ex- pended by the society.

The annual fund raising drive by the Canadian Cancer Society in April has for many years been the mainstay in the steady improvement of the control and prevention of cancer in this country. We would like the public to be aware that it is the Canadian Cancer Society campaign taking place during the month of April and that we are in no way connected with the Cancer Research Society Inc. based in Montreal.

Sincerely yours, Bileen Puder Division Campaign Chairman

Nass Road petition

TheEditor:

This petition was initiated by the IWA members working in the Nass Valley and reflects the feeling expressed by many area residents.

Participation by all Nass Valley residents is invited and support of any interested groups and individuals is welcomed.

The iocal IWA committee plans to present the petition to the appropriate authorities when signatures have been collected.

Our address is: Box 3%, Nass Camp, B.C.

Yours truly, M. Martin (Secretary - TWA 1-71)

’ APetitionlo Improve The Nass Road

We, the undersigned, due to our places of residence, employment, or other reasons are obliged to travel on the Nass Road, which is the most direct overland route between Terrace and the Nass Valley - including Greenville, Canyon City, Alyansh, Nees Camp and points between.

The Nass Road provides a vital link with hospital and

medical facilities, shopping

and other necessities of life. The importance of access to these facilities has increased lately along with the population of the area and Its Teeds,

Unfortunately, the concern and energles of thase responsible for maintaining this lifeline have not responded to the needs of the times and the condition of the Nass Road can often only be described as deplorable, This situation has resulted in a general hardship to the entire community - including discomfort to the sick and injured, shorter life spans for our vehicles and high repair costs due to excessive wear and tear.

We, therefore, demand that the Nass Road be im- proved to meet standards that might be expected of a public road and that these improved conditions be maintained.in future.

We also solicit the support and sympathy of other members of the public in our efforts to obtain what most people have been able to take for granted for years: namely - a decent road to drive home on.

Tradition important for families.

VANCOUVER (CP) — The traditional family unit cannot be expected to sur- vive when most or all of the traditions are gone, Says a U.S. child pschologist and author.

“Yet we still expect the family to function when we

have taken away all the:

groundwork of mutual necessity,'’ Bruno Bet- telheim said Saturday.

“There was a time when the family’s ability to sur- vive depended on child labor, Parents and children knew each other because they worked tagether. .

“When a child saw his father hitch a team of oxen to the plough, it was not dif- ficult to admire and respect him. Now, a child has very little to admire about his parents, It is kept away from him.”

Betlelheim is a professor emeritus at the University of Chicago and was speaking on

the family at the University of B.C.

In the old days, said Bettelheim, life spans were much shorler and a child became an adult at age 13 when ‘in many cases the children no longer lived with their parents."

Today, he said, the average North American child spends 17 years in school because “parents want to get rid of their children. They don’t know what to do with them.”

“They are more socially, sexually and inteltectually aware now than ever before, but we keep them economically and socially dependent longer than at any other time in history,” he said.

“School is a complete waste of time. Everybody knows that. School is where you learn to be places on time, how to be persistent and that you can hold your

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own against the system.” Bettelheim said one of the

prime examples of

curriculum failure and

hypocrisy surfaces In senior

high school when ‘students are introduced to Shake- speare’s Romeo and- Juliet. “When Romeo, not yet 16, got involved in a street brawl, he was not considered a juvenile delinquent .. . what do parents think they were doing when Romeo and Juliet spent the. night together? Quoting Shake- speare to one another? “After they spent the night together, Juliet went to a friar to get powerful herbe, a thing many young ladies asked for at that time.”

France at its most prosperous period in the 17th century was ruled by Louis XIV, a 16-yearold king. “Frankly,” said Bettelheim, “France was better off then with a 16-year-old king than

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"we in the United States are

with men in their 60s.” Bettelheim said parents

today worry themselves and

their children unnecessarily

pectatioss, © - =. ~He said that children long ago were able to contribute something tangible-such as earnings to the faniily, but now they aren't sure what it is they are contributing.

Until the age of social security, the only reasonable expectation most parents had was that their children take care of them, said Bettelheim. Children could then accept without guilt all their parents gave them, knowing that they could someday repay it.

This does not not happen today, he said, and, con-

- sequently, there is much~

confusion and anxiety in families about what can be expected from each mem- ber,

GULF OF ST, LAWRENCE

FASHION Sud

% ‘peer _ Interferon said over-rated

Manitcba researcher says the experimental drug in- terferon is over-rated as 8 potential cure for cancer and may even worsen some forms of the disease.

“It’s almost inevitable that there's going to be dis- appointment attached to it,” says Dr. Arthur Greenberg.

Greenberg, who has been studying the drug for the last

“two years at the Manilba °

Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation, said scientists have been largely ignored in the rush to get the drug on the market.

"We know nothing about

how interferon works and experimental results in

animals have shown it may be harmful in some cases,” he said in an interview.

publicity given the drug

afler it was used in the-

treatment of Marathonof- Hope runner Terry Fox has created political pressure, Greenberg said.

“Doctors and patients have been very anxious to have something happen in the cancer field and as & consequence there's also been great ‘ political pressure.

“The paliticians have poured millions of dollars

into cancet research and grea

they want something to happen, too." .

Interferon, first discovered in 1057, is a natural substance produced by the body in response to viral infections, ita great ex-

facing researchers trying to measure its effectiveness, the dector said,

Asmall vial costs as much .

as $10,000 and even the tiny amounts used in Green- berg’s research on mice cost $7,000 to $8,000.

anyway.” .

Reports of trials on cancer patients in Sweden and the United States indicate it can be useful in treating - osteogenic sarcoma, the cancer affecting Fox, as well as other forms of the disease.

“The question we're

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“Fortunately mice are asking is whether interferon small, so we don’t need can in fact alter the tumor much.” cell ina way that makes the

_. immune system kill it more

Whether or not interferon easily," said Greenberg. is found effective, there is a Interferon has not been ¢ deal of money to be used on cancer patients in-

made off of it, he said. “Whoever makes it first

Manitoba. ; Greenberg said while’ he

(synthetically) and can has found some types of market it first is going tobe tumors can be killed moré extraordinarily wealthy easily with the aid of in- because everybody realizes terferon, the substance that whether or not in- makes other types more terferon works, there has resistant te the body’s been so much anticipation defences.

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Federal government members of parliament and their NDP counterparts are quietly turning our political system into a vehicle _ for totalitarianism through a charter of criminal . rights. . ; Consider that the charter of rights also has an amending formula. Whatever thé reasons for It that is the reality. One cannot change the fact that the entrenched” charter of rights can be changed and amended, Ottawa has come up with a new definition for entrenchment; and people are accepting it.

Are our government representatives really being honest with us when they say we should get on with the constitution question; and get It over with so we can get on with more important issues? What is more important than freedom and liberty? Why are they so eager fo sellusona charter that will ultimatety take our rights and freedoms away from us?

Aso-called entrenched charter of rights would result Ina shift of power from parliament, which is subject to public pressure, to the Supreme Court of Canada, which Is composed to a select group of nine men, who are not subject to public pressure and would have the final say In regard to any legislation passed by parliament.

In the United States a Supreme Court judge has openly said that democracy Is finished in his country. The courts should determine what-is legal and what Is Illegal, says the judge. How soon after our charter of rights Is passed will Canadian judges start acting according to the American judge’s view? How soon after the charter is passed will it be befare some in- competent lawyer looses a case over something that is fundamental to our rights and freedoms. It will happen here.

This means that unless churches and private institutions, have thelr rights explicitly protected in the charter of rights —that is unless thelr rights are spelled out In black and white — which Is not the case now, they may be challenged to argue thelr case for the existence of their assembly halls and their hiring practices — before the courts. - se ete. BiB This ‘means that’ schools like Veritas, Cet, fennial Christian, the Church of God, the Gospel Altiance, etc., will be forced by law to hire people outside thelr own terms of reference. That means atheists teaching in Christian schools.

The right of the individual always takes precedent over the right of the group. Because there is “equal protection of the law without discrimination because of race, national or ethnic origin, color, rellgion, age or sex" Is in the charter Christian schools cannot refuse to hire non-Christians, thus in effect making it im- - possible to have distinctly Christian schools. One must consider all the possibilities of a iaw when determining if it Is bad or good. Is the charter of rights therefore good or bad?

Every society has its god. Whether It is the state or the Mighty Savior above, all people must follow some moral point of view. History has proven that freedom and fiberty flourish in a state that recognizes an abstract god; but. where the state becomes the absolute god freedom and liberty are destroyed, .

In the charter our rights are subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified In a free and democratic society. In other words the in- dividual god has only the rights the state god

- allows him. If the state god decides to change the

rights. of the Individual god (whatever moral beliefs held by each person) then the individual has no rights. . ,

‘Ten years ago people were fighting on the front ines of democracy to make abortion legal. Society determined that abortion was good; and it became legal to have an abortion. Now It is being proven that abortion is extremely unhealthy for the woman, no matter how much right she wants over her own body. The push is now on and soon abortion may become illegal again. That is how democracy works; but when one allows one’s righis.and freedoms to be put into the same kind of process It could leave one not knowing If he-she were truly free.

It is interesting that although many of the men who voted on the original American constitution were atheists they demanded that God be placed at the head of state. But then they knew the evil that men of power, particularly authoritarian figures tike kings and judges, could bring to a hation trying ta establish Its own statehood. The American Constitution was-no Boston tea party.

What can be done? Those concerned by this threat can call upon their member of parilament ta insist that a more practical solution be found In relation to Canadian rights and liberties, not the present course of granting Individual rights to the collective nobody, The charter creates.the perfect Utopia because most of all it fails to recognize the existence of reality. We are more than just a collection of individyals having no moral value. We are peoples with moral points of view. Copies of letters should also be sent to the prime minister, the opposition leaders, the queen and the British parliament, :

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