B4 CASTLEGAR NEWS, October 17, 1979 Nega-Prod. . avoiding trouble SOME people, like me, believe in. rolling with the punches, rather than sticking out ‘our chins to show how many we can absorb, | have found that, in general, if 1 avoid trouble, trouble avoids me. LA know that some pain in the rm has been trying to get me $n the phone, | also know imnfediately that he or she wargS me to do something that 1 don’t want to do, Thepefore, 1 take the phone off the hook and leave it off unti the pain has found some other sucker, Another invention of mine to Stay out of trouble is patemed as Nega-Prod, This is short for Negative Produc: tion. The theory is simple. ‘The more you praduce, the more problems you have, whether it is children, manufactured goods or farm products, The more children you hive, the more emotional and economic problems you create for yourself, The more goods you produce, the more you have to hustle to find customeys and mect payrolls. The more farm stuff you raise, whether it's beef or beans, the greater your chance of being caught in a glutonthe market. Qur great national railways caught .on to. this years ago. When they had low of sengers, they had lots of problems. People wanted comfort, cleanliness, decent meals, and some assurance that they would get where they were going on time, There was much more money to be made, and fewer problems, by transporting wheat and lumber and cattle, So the railways began . treating people like cattle. Passenger trains became un- comfortable and dirty. Ve (Bill Smiley repairing those already in ex istence. We'd all be sore as hell for a while, but as the rouls gor worse and worse, mast of us would stop dris- ing our cans. The govern: ments would save millions of two-thirds of the highway cops, 1 don't quite sce how the governments could use Nega- Prod to get out of the liquor business, which — certainly produces plenty of problems. The booze wade is so. pr fitable that asking gover mient to abandon it would be like asking a millionaire to forsake his country estate for a run-down farm. they had a Free of problems. It wou tainly reduce the surplus population. This, turn, would cut down, drastically, the unemployment figures. Should the — provincial governments find that Nega- Prod is all I've suggested, some of it might spill over in- to the federal zovernment, usually the last to catch on to what the country — really needs. Instead of the manna and honey flowing from Ottawa in the form of baby bonuses and pensions, we might get some terse manifestocs: “People who have more than‘one and a half children will be sent to jail for four past 65 and claim a pension will be subject to an open season cach year, from Oc- tober 1 to Thanksgiving Shotguns and bicycle chains only."" “AML veterans of all wars may claim pi ipa apply to Ottaw: mediate cutheni These might se Draconian — measures, they sure would put an end to a lot of our problems and troubles. Think of what they would do for such sinful ac- tivities as sex, growing old, and hanging around the i Hall, playing But we must also. think of the economic benefits. With a plug put into that river of paper money Nowing from Ottawa, taxes would drop, inflation would vanish and undoubtedly, separatism would wither on the vine. People would be lined up six deep at the U.S. border, try ing to get across, and that would solve, in one swell foop, our unemployment dif- ficulties. We could go back to being hevers of water and carriers of wood, which was our manifest destiny before the Politicia ‘ Fishermen or lumberjacks, in short, which most of the rest of the world thinks we are anyway. Nega-Prod may scem 4 bit lofty and abstract at first glance, but it works. 1 know from personal experience. Every time 1 try to make something, or fix.something, it costs me a lot of money, and I get into a lot of (rouble. So, | havea policy of never trying to fix something or make something. It's a Jot less trouble.to put up signs. * Off The Manufacturer's Book Prices On Wallpaper for your . shopping convenience 61234 CLAIRE ROY Pre-Pasted Vinyl-Coated ‘Stripovin' — Strippable & Scrubbable Easy-to-hang Wallpaper ottractive palterns, Pre- ‘packaged in doublo rolls, for your conveniol Single rolls (85 sq. 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