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Governing by Default

> Are politicians an endangered species In the
: Castlegar area?
ey seem to be going the way of the
rumpeter swan.
:  *T- Not one set of nomination papers has
: been filed for any of the seven two-year
positions available in the Nov. 18 municipat,
regional and school elections at the

time this editorial was writen. Either the |

+ area's Incumbent and would-be aldermen,

+ regional district directors and school trust-

: 668 are not Interested In the positions, or
they're obsessed with thelr timing and don't
want to peak too soon.

-** But as the Monday noon deadline for

: fidminatlons draws near, it ls becoming very
claar- that we have a problem.

: When voters have littls or no cholce to
make on election day the democratic process
Is'In trouble. And when so many govern-

it seats can be had merely by filing

: fhomination papers we are forced to question

+ our politicians’ accountability to the voters.

Those winners assessed and deemed

: worthy to hold office have been entrusted
with the confidence of the efectorate and

: have been give a mandate to carry out both

+ specific and implied campaign promises.

: Withi an election by acclamation—essential-

' ly winning by default—there is no mandate.

Does the elected-by-acclamation oftice-
holder owe anything to the public? His or
her oath of office binds him to serve with
honor and to the best of his ability, but

+ because no one else would take the Job the
new official’s fink with the electorate is
negligible.

There are a numbar of possible reasons
for the scarcity of candidates: a general
apathy towards local politics, the demands
which weigh heavily against the rewards of
public office, the fack of algnificant cam-
palgn Issues. That the Incumbents are doing
auch a terrific Job no one cares to challenge
them would also be a plausible explanation
if not for the decision of at least one
officeholder not to seek re-election.

It ls not easy to pinpoint the reason for
the scarcity of candidates this year, but
perhaps it would be useful to hear from local
citizens who considered running for office
but thought the better of It. Perhaps,
aithough we probably can't Sepa this
year’s apathy, we can open a forum to
consider ways to Improve our chances for a
more exciting election next year.

But until then, It seems voters’ re-
sponse will be as underwhelming as that of
the candidates. With so little choice, It is
uolixely we will have a record turnout.

ly.

Unjust Punishment

(From an editorial in the Fernie Free Press.)

According to the laws of our land, naws-

+ pabers must be very circumspect about
: bublishing criticism of a court Judge. For
} 83 ple, there Is an offence called ‘‘scan-

dallzing the court,”? which consists of any

damaging remark of attack on the court's

impartiality made outside the presence of

the person attacked.
2 One example is-a newspaper that
2 publishes a defammatory comment about a
+ fudge In respect of a recent trial.

Having said that, we move to the

purpose of this editorial. In Fernle court
: recently, a young man appeared to answer
: obarges of breaking and entering a Fernie
: s¢tioo! and another premise In Fernle and
> stealtng varlous items therefrom.
3 He pleaded guilty, so Is therefore due
io just punishment. No one can argue with
3 that.

foes ‘However, the presiding judge asked for
: alpra-sentence report, a common proceed-
* Ing.-Probation officers need time to prepare

such areport. In this case the Judge ordered
that the young man, who had a Job, be
incarcerated during the time It took to
prepare the report.

The young man appeared in court for
his trial, he did not try to run away. He was,
contrary to dozens of other young men who
regularly appear In court, gainfully em-
played. There was no indication that he
would ''skip."’

‘We question the wisdom of the rullng.
The young man could losé. his Job. He could
be embittered by the experience of being
locked in an institution before sentence is
even passed. In the latter context, we
wonder about the legality of the actlon when
others Involved In the same breakins are
freely roaming the streets.

Surely prevention is part of society. 8
war against crime. Putting a young perso
in a situation where he may tose his Job and
Jalling him before sentence could be the
pivot which could set him on a life of crime.

The receiver for the company that built the 14-unit townhouse development atop Cenotaph Hill—
%: and was assigned into bankruptcy a year ago—has offered creditors 20 cents on the dollar.
* * 8

Water boards and improvement district for areas outside Castlegar are interested in
participating in an Arrow Lakes water supply function—providing the price is right.

S With a quotation of $419,223 a Penticton company was the lowest bidder when tenders for the
construction of two bridges on the Castlegar: pooling highway link closed Friday.

City council's parks and recreation will meet Sait a local motorcyclist for further discussion of
s the proposed construction of a dirt track for motorcycle racing in the city.

{An editorial in the weekly
Grand Forks Gazette.)

ANEW ECONOMIC SY8-
tem, including a new financial
system for the western world,
is on the way. What it will be no
one can say or prophesy, but it
will, of necessity, come about.
Any regular readers of news-
papers and magazines and lis-
teners of news broadcasts on
radio and TV must be near the
conclusion that our present
system is in its death throes,

The developments that
have taken place in most coun-
tries during this century, in
science, in industrial manu-
facturing, in concern for social
welfare, all indicate that our
present economic system will
no longer work.

FROM THE ASHES OF
‘our present economic system a
new Phoenix must arise. It
must be, in our-own minds, a
free enterprise system, but it
will have to be a system more
strictly controlled by the va-
rious governments in power.
The new system of government.
must control unemployment by
whatever means it can discover
and develop. It must provide
complete care for all elderly
citizens who are beyond the
working age, whatever they
may be.

A new international econo-
mic system must be developed
that will allow all countries to
import and export raw and
manufactured goods to and
from other countries without
said imports and exports de-

or he

parations for war are too

A New Phoebe us

ethnic culture and ethnic de-

tl
value of any country’s mone
tary unit.
WARS MUST BE ELIMI-

nated world-wide. War and pre-

pi and will
make every nation bankrupt.
Under a workable new econo-
mic and political system, each
country can fully maintain its

Wealth Through

By RICHARD J. NEEDHAM
{From columns in the Tor-
onto Globe and Mail.)
The popularity of lotteries
is easily understood. Winning a
lottery isn’t a matter. of skill or
intelligence or effort—beyond
the effort of buying a ticket.
The lazy or stupid fellow has

the same dead-equal chance as
anybody. else. Furthermore, if ;

he wins a million  tax-free-
bucks, nobody will hate him or
attack him in any way. On the
other hand, if he makes a
million taxed bucks by hard
work or by good judgment he’s
a speculator, a profiteer, an
economic royalist, etc., etc.

What's $6,700
Damages
Split 10 Ways? °

A PHOENIX WOMAN
whose car was. struck from
behind in 1974 sued for $1
million in damages, claiming
that as a result of the accident
she had developed 10 different
personalities. The jury re-
sponded recently with a modest
$6,700.
Pity, Perhaps she should
have launched a class action.

Toronto Globe and Mail

-/ The Bierman Bite

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I see by the paper that
brewery workers in British
Columbia are to get $10 an
hour, and bus drivers in Missis-

Its citizens should
be allowed to move and live in
any other country they may
wish—as long as they abide by
the laws of the country they

According to Needham:

choose to live in.

Many will say that a new
economic system is’ impossible
to achieve. But we must con-

sider that our present system is”
no good. We have outgrown it.

qyK

Eononton JOVAMAL

AND, ASK ANY POLITI-
cian who states ‘our present

system is a failure how he|:
would correct it. He cannot give J:
you a definite or workable]:

answer,

Se

Dumb Luck is Forgivable:

sauga are to get $8 an hour. I'm

neither for nor against - such
wages; I've never pretended to
know what a “fair” wage‘is for

any kind of work, including
newspaper work; I always took
what I got, and was glad of it.
My comments are simply—(1)

Eat your hearts out, you BA‘

and MA's and PhDs; (2) I widh?:

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each hour he puts in. -

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