ss__ Castles News _pecember2s, 1965 CANADA NEEDS TO LOBBY MORE WASHINGTON (CP) — Canada should put more money and effort into prom- oting its in US. IN U.S. Canadian Embassy but to encourage greater efforts by Canadian ee vernmen and Telephone 365-5210 legislation through profes- sional lobbyists, says a study financed by business in Can- ada. “Given the number of is- sues having an impact on Canada now before Congress and given the role Congress plays in the (U.S.) decision process, an increased lobby- ing effort on the part of Can- ada is called for,” the study concludes. It follows expansion of Canadian lobbying efforts, including allocation of $650,000 to the -Canadian Embassy early this year to help finance the hiring of Washington law firms and expert consultants. to mon- itor and. promote Canada’s interests. | This is used in such fields as fighting recent U.S. moves to restrict Canadian com- merical interests in trucking and shipping, on sales of lumber and cement and car parts, and in advocating American action against acid rain and border waters pol- lution. Canadian businesses. and federal and provincial gov- ernments should ° increase their outlays on professional ; lobbying by at least one- third, one of the authors sug- gested, and even then would be lagging behind the efforts of Britain, Japan, West Ger- many and Israel. FIGURE COSTS The study, conducted by Charles Doran and Joel Sok- olsky at the Johns Hopkins Centre of Canadian Studies in Washington, estimates that all Canadian lobbying outlays amounted: to less than $7 million in 1981; Sok- olsky said Canada should bé spending “in excess of $10 million” a year hiring private lobbying firms, additional embassy officers or a combin- ation of both. . The figures tend to be in- flated by such factors as the cost of running Canadian provincial agency offices in US. cities — Quebec, Ontario and Alberta have them — - and the Quebec office alone accounted for about’ $3 mil- lion of the 1981 dollar figure. On the other hand, the ig, mon- itoring a influencing the deliberations of the U.S. Congress.” Doran, who is director of Canadian studies at the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and Sokolsky, an instructor ‘there, predicted that dealing Brown Certified General Accountant 270 Columbia Ave. directly with American ieg- islators will become increas- ingly important in U.S.- Canada relations. “Canadians must under- stand that there is nothing unusual or morally question- able about a, foreign gov- ernment’s seeking direct con- tact with Congress,” they said Such lobbying consists mainly of keeping track of what Congress is doing that might help or damage Can- adian. interests and letting the legislators know about Canada’s: interests. After that, there may be efforts to influence the content of legis- lation — but short of using political contributions, .a practice forbidden by U.S: law to agents of foreign gov- ernments. 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Ge December 28, 1983 UNDERWRITTEN BY THE PEOPLE WHO WROTE THE BOOK ON INSURANCE "We Have « Avtopiane Homes Life © RV's® Business © Bonds It All" © Travel ® Boats 1016-4th St., Castlegar Ph: 365-8313 cross From The Post Office” Herman is someone | everyone has known Editor's Note: Herman, the popular cartoon strip, will be a-regular feature of the Castlegar News star- ting Jan. 1. It will appear’in every issue on. the Business Directory Page. In full slouch position, he's five feet nine inches'tall and burdens the scale with his 240 pounds. His quadruple chins spill’ over. his shirt collar and his belly bulges over his belt. He's balding and bespectacled and . always looks'a bit unshaven and rum- pled. But .because he’s Herman, he's never at a: loss for’ words. He looks up from his morning news- paper at his wife, who is equally obése and rumpled, her head full of curlers in chaos, and says, sneering, “Sure, I'd like to go on a second honeymoon +... who with?” - He's only a figment of Canadian car- toonist Jim Unger’s imagination, but to the millions who eavesdrop on ‘his single-panel life in. more than 200 newspapers in nine countries, Herman is much more, He’ is somebody ~ everybody . has known, lived next door to or is related to. Readers tell Unger so. “You must have been looking in my window when you drew Herman to- day,” Unger said they write. “T'm constantly amazed at how much - empathy there is out there for the char- acters in Herman or the situation he is in,” Unger said. Although no real person was his model for Herman, Unger said, the sardonic, slovenly. Herman has been a good friend to him — a friend who helped him move from his $250-a-week art director position at the Missisauga Times, a a! newspaper in Toronto, paper, Unger said. newspaper and became. its editorial” she is one of Herman's fans and actress Farrah Fawcett asked for an original drawing of a recent panel that mentioned her name. The cartoon showed a widow at the reading of her husband's will, in which he has bequeathed all he owned “to the. woman who sustaihed me during my later years — Farrah Fawcett.” Unger, claiming to be more philoso- pher than cartoonist, said Herman ‘is “completely devoid of anything sexual” because he believes his audience is too general for him to risk adding such an cartoonist when the regular cartoonist was late for work one too many times. “The editor asked me if I could whip out an editorial page cartoon in two hours and I did,” Unger said. His first try at syndication in 1974 proved successful also. Within a week of the day he mailed sample panels of the character who would become Her- man to Universal Press Syndicate, he had a 10-year contract. Since that time, Unger said, no pub- lication has cancelled Herman and new customers are added almost every month, $i Proof of how many fans klutzy Her- man has is illustrated whenever the element. Orwell's 1984: (This story, part of a series, considers the fiction of Nineteen Eighty-Four that could be fact.) By ARTHUR CHAMBERLAIN For Canadian Press Orwell. Orwellian. Big Brother. 1984. These words evoke strong images even among those who haven't read-George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. The book has become the symbol of totalitarian control and its terms the shorthand of fear. With 1984 just weeks away, references to the book are more and more common. The most often asked question is how close are we to Orwell's vision? Perhaps closer than we care to think. The technology exists to permit the sort of total control Orwell wrote about. -For Orwell's constantly watching two-way TV screen, substitute computer.information banks, and the effect could be the same, or worse. In Canada the danger is growing not from some malevolent Big Brother but from the efforts.of government and business to be efficient, to protect secrecy and to provide new services which, often as a side-effect, erode individual privacy. © As Orwell tried to explain after Nineteen Eighty-Four was published, only our strong commitment to liberty can prevent his prophecy from coming true. In the novel, written just after the Second World War, Orwell envisioned a world split up by three superpowers which waged permanent war against one another, changing allies and enemies regularly as a means of keeping their | » for ra actions to be monitored on a scale never before citizens whipped into a frenzy. Set in Oceania (Britain), Orwell's description of London in 1984 is modelled on the bomb-battered city in tHe mid-1940s. Orwell was a political writer and the central feature of Nineteen Eighty-Four was his vision of the thorough totalitarian control by the Party led by Big Brother. Society was divided into two classes — party members and proles, workers who simple mindedly did their jobs, and spent their spare time sodden in gin. The book is the tale of the efforts of one man, Winston Smith, to break out of the control and be free. It was not fear alone which kept people in line. Robert. Tucker, a political science pr at Princeton Uni: says love and hate are the central emotions, love of Big panel is accidentally left out of a news- “When the Boston Globe ‘didn’t get Herman in one day, the switchboard went so crazy that the paper ran a story the next day exp! their phone lines had been‘all tied: up the . “Herman is the typical guy who goes to.a convention and tickles a waitress but he would die if his wife ever left JIM UNGER ... Herman's creator him. He’s relatively easily married, but he's just not sure he's enjoying it.” Herman's wife, Unger said, “is the type who would go lie out by the swim- ming poo] in hair curlers‘ or. go down- town in her carpet slippers.” “Unger said he has received ‘only two unfavorable letters (he calls them “dis- lsining . why aid ,didn’t like a Herman panel that made light of those who do. , Another came from a wife of a school teacher who didn't like teachers being the brunt of a‘ Herman joke. : Unger said he wrote .both critics personal letters, apologizing and advis- ing the first woman to not be ash London bobbie and a driving instructor that that she wore a hearing aid and the ‘other to learn to laugh. “Humor is born out of adversity. You only really learn to laugh when things get tough,” said Unger, who recalls many tough times during ‘the World War II bombings of his native London. He also believes one learns to be funny through the sheer experience of living and that his former jobs as’a Brother and hate of his enemies are skilfully used by the rulers. Political scientists say this was one of Orwell's major insights into totalitarian governments. Hitler, Stalin, Mao Tsetung, Khomeini — all have been cult figures. In fact, without such a figurehead total control is virtually impossible, says Tucker. Orwell said “his book was based on totalitarian tendencies he saw in all governments of the 1940s and was : an:attempt to parody them. He wrote of a state in which oppression and propaganda were used by rulers solely motivated bya desire for power. Memory was abolish were chap! Pp Unger Base Herman's appeal is a combination of the cartoon being both visually and verbally funny. “I work on having a balance of both;” he said. “It is not enough to just have a good joke. You have to make the char- acters look funny.” Herman's physical appearance, the way he slouches and what Unger calls “the entire attitude of his body andthe cartoonist). computer where an individual's name can be punched in and reams of data spill out. Individuals now have the right to view most of their files — except those kept in sensitive, exempt banks mostly held by the RCMP — and require information be corrected. John Meisel, who just sipped down as chairman of the Canadian Radi and Com- mission, says information banks bestow unprecedented powers on corporations and bureaucracies. As well, he says are “relation to his body to others,” are all Inger said. : “Too many young cartoonists may have a good caption, but then draw their characters just standing there — erect,” Unger said. “That's not nat- ural.” “Concise cleverness” is’ another car- . toon element Unger said he appre- ciates and is quick to cite an example of one of this favorites (drawn by a fellow “Rub this on your feet three times a day, during meals.”’ It depicts a man drawn very tiny in one corner of the panel and a three- story high eye chart with a single “A” on it on the other side of the panel. The man has a card over one eye and is saying, “B.” Under said he prefers a panel car- * toon toa strip because a strip “dilutes” a joke. “Humor must have spontaneity,” he said, “and a panel should trigger that spontaneity.” How close is it? Burnham warns that western nations have become enmeshed in political and technical processes that are them into but relatively benign police states. In Canada, Prof. David Flaherty of the ‘University of Western Ontario, has warned that two-way cable-TV systems designed to permit at-home shopping and banking, will collect information about subscribers which could be used to compile detailed dossiers on individuals, x Flaherty, in a study for the Ontario government, said “an individual in the late 20th century can no longer protect and now the elaine of wealth,” with ind i history i and. Orwell called the book a prophecy, not a plealstisn, but warned it could come true unless ‘people were vigilant. He'saw the misuse of English as the first step down the road to totalitarianism and Big Brother makes full use of Newspeak in which.War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery. “Orwell foresaw — and made unforgettable — a world in which: ruthless. political interests mobilized intrusive technologies for totalitarian ends,” Prof. James Rule, an expert on the impact of.new technolgy, has written. “What figures in national economies. Canadian companies are gathering information they hope to turn into profit. Trevor Eyton, chief executive officer of Brascan, recently helped establish Trilon Financial Corp. a new merchant bank. “I visualize the day when a ‘family’s entire financial services will be handled by one company,” said Eyton. “Theoretically, Canada is small enough that we should be able to have all the family units on our computers so that we know precisely how old everybody is — when each son or gets out of dad is old enough to buy his he did not consider was the that the of the intrusive technologies wduld occur in its own, without the spur of totalitarian interest. This, in fact, is what is now happening.” Rule and David Burnham, author of The Rise of the Computer State, say current government and private and new di make it possible possible. ‘ é The federal governmont has more than 1,500 databanks that ‘contain confidential information” ranging from an individual's name, address and birthdate, to language spoken, social insurance number, marital status, criminal record, income and health: Information is added every time an individual has contact with Ottawa, whether. applying for unemployment insurance or a job with the civil service, filling out income tax, customs or census forms, or. paying into the Canada + Pension Plan. - Privacy commissioner John Grace, whose job is to monitor the government's actions, hastens to point out the information banks are all separate — there is no master or her first insurance policy, for example.” “The knowledge that one cannot discard one’s past, that advancement in society depends peal on a good record, will create actions,” said Kent Greenwait, a professor at Columbia Law School. “In the long run, independent private thought will be reduced.” his or her own privacy, without the assistance of regulatory authorities . He urged “cable TV operators to establish rigorous controls over the information they collect. Burnham says that in an effort to combat crime, and terrorism and protect national security, society has gradually been drifting toward authoritarianism. He warns that large private companies with massive amounts of information on individuals must also be closely watched. As the aftermath of the Soviet downing of the Korean airliner showed, the superpowers, using spy satellites and other surveillance techniques, can closely monitor conversa- tions and actions even in remote parts of the world. Rule says the central issue of all this new technology — is power, who will control it and to what ends. Ina statement shortly after Nineteen Eighty-Four was published Orwell said: “The moral to be drawn from this dangerous nightmare situation is a simple one: Don't let it happen. It depends on you.” Poll says 1984 to be better TORONTO (CP) — A’ majority of Canadians feel optimistic about the coming year, suggests a Gallup poll taken in mid-October. Asked if they thought ‘1984 will be better or worse than 1983,” 59 per cent of those polled believed next year would be better; 14 per cent said it would be worse; 23 -per cent said it would be the same and four per cent didn't know. ‘ This is the first time since Gallup began testing that opinion in 1978 that a majority thought the coming year would be better than the current one. The figures cited are based on 1,052 personal, in-home interviews with adults 18 years of age or older. Gallup says a sample of this size should not err by more than plus or minus four percentage points in 19 cases out of 20.