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By TREVOR LAUTENS

(An article in the Van-
couver Sun, for which the
author edits letters to the
editor.) i

I BELIEVE OUR FAIR
country is doomed to become
(or remain?) an ignorant, sec-
ond-rate backwater peopled by
linguistic barhoriane and com-

CL COMMENT nccrinnscoicaon
Revolt? What Revolt?

A memorabie scene In the flim Network
shows countt

on by an Insa ushing
to thelr balconies and screaming nm mad
as hell and vm Not going to take this
anymore... .”

Whether or not he actually eaw the flim,
lobbylet Howard Jarvis see! to hi
tapped the same mood In. fostering
movement which eventually led to passage
of Callfornia’s anti-taxation Proposition 13.

Already the Proposition 13 bandwagon
has left tracks on North American political
thought which are Indelible if somewhat
ambiguous.

In an exasperated tone, an editorial In
ihe Dayton (0.) Dally News recently noted
ithe growing popularity among reporters and
politicians of ‘tax revolt’ as a tabel
spollcabie to any event related to the issue

taxal

owners In that state, the premier explained,
Pay an average of three per cent of the

value of thelr property while thelr
B.C. counterparts pay an average of one per
cent.

‘The main tlaw In the Bennett argument
Is that It splits halrs. The hysterla of the tax
revolt movement could be adapted quite
easily, for example, to lquor tax and the
tive-per-cent sales tax. It [s no accident that
Stephens, after his aborilve property tax
revolt, has followed up with a campaign
against the sales tax.

Perhaps a better explanation for the
revolt's lack of success In the province Is
that Proposition 13 simply could not happen
here. Although residente can still approve or
reject by referendum further tax burdens on
a regional level, that recourse is not

ly open to on
level. Governments are formed and dis-
solved on the basis of economic policy, but
voters’ impact on any senior government
to election of

The editorial sald the phrase ‘‘sum-
mons up Images of a tong-abused populace
rising up and smiting the
wastrels who have ravaged the pockets of
honest, hardworking folk and used the
money At high living and foolishness.”

tatives,
But that theory is undermined by the
growing Interest throughout Canada In the
use of referenda. Nelson-Creston MLA
Lorne Nicholson told the Regional District of
Central Kootenay board such a device Is one
“of the more desirable aspects of the
American system of representation” and
sald the Sockston n Saturday toholda roareral
jver-

3 from over-use, every [a
ip will be viewed through t!
“tax revolt’,"* it continued.

ry.
In a noticeable departure from the sion was,a step toward that end.
in his proposed constitutional reforms
provinclal Liberal feader Gordon Gibson has

called for the use of Proposition: 13-type

y his
provincial Tory leader Vic Stephens—not
one to pass up a good revolt—responded to

slobs.

Pay nc tention. I go on
this way whenever I glance
over our letters to the editor,

NO, DEAR READER,
not the finely-chiselled, ex-
quisite prose that is spread
before your wondering eyes
each day on the page opposite, I
mean the raw—god, how raw in
some cases—letters as they
land fresh on the correspon-
dence editor's desk.

The current holder of that
distinguished chair, by the way,
is Mr. Jack Ramsay—who
should be writing this piece, not
me—the sharpest word-man
and practical grammarian of my
experience. Last week Mr,
Ramsay had the vapors for a
few days, and in his absence I
inadequately separated the
chaff from the chaff on his desk.

HOW INADEQUATELY
is defined by the fact that I let
go through the hideous error “I
am not adverse..." for which
T have done 10,000 obsequious
penances of a nature too hor-
rible to reveal even to a public
hardened to the daily cruelties
of our times.

In language, as in every-

in varying degrees, all per-
manent But the

thing else, we are all ignorant -

Like, Y"Koow,, H's the Quality of our Minds

Hi

the
skills of people across the
of

appalling thing is that our
baseline is so low.

A YEAR OR TWO AGO I
began collecting some evidence

the California phenomenon by urging B.C.
taxpayers to withhold payment of thelr
Property taxes. But save for a few initial
twitches In Victoria and the lower maintand,
the impact of Proposition 13 falled to draw
the popular kneejerk reaponse in B.C. that it
has In the U.S.

The reason for the tax revolt

referenda on a provincial level. And In
Ottawa Justice Minister Otto Lang has
suggested he would be receptive to a
national referendum on capital punishment.

Optimists that we are, we tend to favor
the theory that the tax revolt hysteria has
falled to thrive in B.C. because of the

enjoying the same longevity here as, say,

the Nehru jacket or the 101-millimetre
clgarette Is difficult to isolate.

One plausible argument advanced by

* Premier Bill Bennett In his visit here last

month, is that such a movement Is

of the 's taxpay
(t Is possible voters know the cost as
well as the value of the movement and do
not see It as a substitute for long-range
economic planning. And perhaps thay ha
just reallzed that despite its attractiveness

the polls, a Proposition 13-type referendum
will allow thelr elected officials to sidestep
economic issues on which they should be
making decisions.

unnecessary In this province because the
- shackles California taxpayers voted to cast
off do not really exist in B.C. Property

Castlegar News Headline Stories One Year Ago

L. V. (Les) Campbell, founding publisher of the Castlegar News, dies Sept 30. Service is held
from St. Rita’s Catholic Church here the following Monday.
.
_ Regional District of Central Kootenay administrator Reid Henderson receives board of directors
toi gate the ibility of reducing Castlegar's planning levy in the 1978 annual

budget.

' #

The municipal affairs ministry will consider the city's request for an additional four years

forgiveness for its heavy police costs.

t * +

Praetices for the new 41-member community band are to continue on a weekly basis.
. 8 8

Regional District of Central Kootenay board of directors has asked Municipal Affairs Minister

Hugh Curtis to expedite plans for an inter-city bus service between Castlegar, Nelson, Trail and
Rossland.

from our lett pretty good

occupa-
tion, and so forth. In the age of
Massmazn, television, and, like,
y'know, the spoken or ill-spok

Pp so. Long may they
write.

But what can you say when
the president of an organization

helping children sith learning

word, if anything they are of
bs lit
ig y

According to Needham:

You'll

By RICHARD J. NEEDHAM

(From columns in the Tor-
onto Globe and Mail.)

You'll know the hard times
have arrived when the race-
tracks are deserted, the cock-
tail bars are shut down, and
women are no longer paying
$10 for 47 cents’ worth of
chemicals guaranteed to make

» them look five years younger.
* #6

Over the next few months
and years, weak, mumbling
politicians will attempt to re-
store order and discipline in our
schools, in our industrial parks,
in our streets and parks and
plazas and housing develop-
ments, I'll get many a laugh out
of it, but I don't expect order
and discipline to be restored,
That must wait for harder
times, and for harder men.

‘Expertise
Of the Non- °
Churchgoer

Ifa qualification for telling

the cardinals how to select a

hew pope was attendance at

eburch—any church—last Sun-

day, there would be a lot less
speculation these days.

—Calgary Herald

——/ The Bierman Bite

— p—

WHOOPEE

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diagnostic facilities i in the pro-
vince of British Columbia are

-Letters to the Editor: Writing in the Raw-

TE LEVEE MEA?

woefully inadequate?” The
kindest comment is that the
end of his sentence forgets
what its first part said.

OR THE SAD LETTER
from a woman of 49 com-
plaining she couldn't get the
kind of work she wanted,

Know Hard Times are Here

Larry Davis of Peterbor-
ough sends me a clipping from
the Washington Post about the
trouble American apple grow-
ers are having in getting
workers to pick their crop. In
1975 Vermont sent postcards to
all 28,000 residents Srawing
welfare or

miles away. Only 75 New York-
ers, out of an estimated 500,000
unemployed, signed up for the
apple-picking jobs, only 12
showed up at the orchards, and
none of those 12 lasted on the
job more than a week. In 1975
and 1976, foreign workers
an

surance, inviting them to take
jobs\in. the orchards; ‘just 19
responded. In 1976 there was a
big campaign in New York City
to get workers for orchards in
the Hudson Valley, less than 25

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had
to be brought in; this was done
again in 1977, and will be done
again for this year’s harvest.
The same thing of course
applies to Canada; everybody
has the “right” to cheap or free

food; nobody, save the farmer,
has the duty to produce it or
help produce it. God may or
may not pass judgment on this
kind of slobbery but history
does, and sometimes in a clear,
dramatic fashion. The collapse
of North America’s dollar goes
straight along with the collapse
of North America‘s-public mor-
ality. Alexis de Tocqueville said
it 140 years ago, “.
great because it is good. When
it ceases to be good, it will
cease to be great.”

‘America is

‘sissue. 0:

Uttered with words ike indis,
lasion,

calleously, disgard, and self
richeous, She concludes, piog’
nantly: “I have kept improving
my skills, when time and mone;
allowed, but I guess I jus
missed the boat.”

(None of this is written in
mockery. An editor who hasn't
changed adverse to averse is iy
no position to mock.)

FROM A MAN WRITING
approvingly of the use by somé
French-speaking Canadians of
the term La Colombie Cana:
dienne for our province: “If we
have to be anybodies Columbia
let's at least be Canadas
Columbias, I get tired of telling
people from other countries
that British Columbia is not
just southeast of Guatamala,”’

Sometimes otherwise in-
formed letter-writers misspell
the key words of the very
subject they write about, like
one referring to Palistine, the
Palistinian question, propo-
ganda, and Semetic. This phe-
nomenon probably should be
left to the psychologists rather
than the grammarians,

MOST RECENTLY 1
added to my collection a letter
written last Tuesday protesting
“todays Page Six editorial.” (It
should chasten us in the craft
that readers blithely use the
words editorial, article, and
column interchangeably;
wonder so many fuzzily i
that Doug Collin's columns re-
present the editorial policy of
The Sun.) In fact the piece, by
Andre MeNicoll, strongly op-
posing legalization of —mari-
juana, was clearly identified as
having been a speech,

The letter said in part: “As
an interested bystander I must
protest Mr. MeNicoll's aceusa-
tion that 20 per cent of pot
smokers are going to experi

it
veral regional
and a large
populus in
sat it's best
estimate..."

THE WRITER SIGNS
himself “a volunteer worker
with the ministry of human
resources,” and adds a post: |
script: “Please excuse the poor
job of typing.”

But his typing isn’t the
where the billions on
education went. Or even the
quality of our grammar. In the |
end, it's the quality of our
minds.

would place (s
figures follow
part of the An

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