. aa Castlégar News July 9, 1989 OPINION Nothing Wrong with Patriotism Canada Day has come and gone. And so has independence Day in the United States. ‘he two observances ore just a couple of days apart, but in many ways the attitudes of Canadians and Americans to the two “holidays” are worlds apart. Thomas Jefferson, in the American Declaration.of Independen- ce, wrote: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these rights are life, liberty and the Pursuit of happine: This quotation has b en called the “most famous single sentence ever written in the Western hemisphere.” The convictions expressed in these 36 words were at once peculiarly and profoundly represen- tative of the natural law tradition — the belief in objective norms of conduct for both individuals. and nations — that lies at the root of everything that makes our human existence civilized. Jefferson's words conveyed the belief that there is no such thing @8 a natural or divine right of any class of human beings to rule others. Le; ate governments exist to secure equally the natural rights of every citizen and the safety and happiness of us all. HE FLAG 7 (1 SOUTH AFRICA Wich Coury Loe DseNT F THe EPaNT OF Government is not for the private ad of any individual or class. The only government compatible with the rights of man is a government in which those who make the laws ore equally subject to the laws they make. This proposition, in terms no intelligent human being in 1776 failed to understand, implies a relationship between mah and his fellow man that arises from contemplation not of man only, but of the whole of creation. In looking at man in the light of the, whole of creation, we see him in compariosn not only with what is lower than mankind, but also with what is higher The belief in the equality of men is to be understood first of all by comparison with the inequality that characterizes man's relation- ship with the lower orders of beings. In. comparison with this inequality, there is nothing more evident than that no human being is marked by nature to rule while others ar > marked for sub- jection. But the question of who shall rule only becomes relevant after the recognition that government is instituted for the sake of the rights of the whole community, and of every member of that com munity Remember When? 40 YEARS AGO From the July 7, 1949 Castlegar News Castlegar was thronged July 1 with visitors from many parts of the Kootenays for the Kiwanis-sponsored Dominion Day celebration. A colorful parade started the mor- ning events with the Canadian Legion Band in the lead of a flag-covered truck, ‘followed by the Castlegar volunteer fire truck, decorated bicycles, motorcycles, horses, tractors and a tractor carrier. Horses from the Castle Bar Ranch were ridden by George Anderson, Burt Campbell and Gordie Anderson on the Shetland Pony. The parade marched down Main St. to the park On Saturday, July 2, at Provincial Police Court, Castlegar, Richard Wassick, of Nelson and Jacob Letters to the editor Reader rhymes response After an absence of a month from Castlegar, I tried to catch up on the happenings in our home town through reading the back issues of the Castlegar News. Letters to the editor from Bill Chapman, Garry Hoodicoff, and Polly-R. pads 1 felt Discouraging words, to read, | confess Then Polly Romaine comes in with herletter She thinks that our city has never been better Since Polly was my teacher, alon; Under the legitimate government of a civil society, every man tecouse he understands that in doing so he enables it t6 defend him (that is, to secure his rights) If man is higher than the beast, he is still very far from being God. The equality of mankind, then, is to be understood in the light of this two-fold inequality: The inequality of man and the lower levels of creation on the one hand, and the inequality of man and God on the other. Man's wisdom, goodness and generosity are limited rege the fact that man’s passions are often at war with his reason, and his selfish interest with his goodness. Thus it is that no man is good enough to govern another without the other man’s consent Beliefs are terribly important. Without strongly-held convictions and an appreciation of one’s family roots and those of one’s country, anarchy can be fearfully close at hand. Which brings us back to the comparison of Canada Day and In- dependence Day. A tormer Castlegar resident attended a hands-across-the-border joint Cub camp composed of young Canadians and young Americans. When O Canada was played, the Canadian lads joked with each other, slouched where they stood, and few sang When America was played, the young Americans stood at atten- tion, placed their right hands over their hearts, and all of them sung the words to their anthem. If Canada is to grow and to prosper, then we are going to have to go back to the fundamental principles of humankind that our forefathers share with our American neighbors, but which we have allowed to diminish as a collective mentality spreads amongst us: We have to be proud. And we have to be proud Canadians proud of our individualism Prince criticizes English education By ROBERT BARR LONDON (AP) — The British government may have given up on Association of Schoolmasters-Union of Women Teachers. “The royal prerogative seems to drilling the Queen’s English into the skulls of the young, but the Queen's heir has not. “*All the nonsense these academics come up with!"’ Prince Charles said following a recent report that urges teachers to tolerate ‘‘we was’’ and other non-standard expressions as “*objects of interest and value."’ *‘All the people I have in my office; they can’t speak English properly, they can’t write English property,’’ the prince said last week at a seminar laun- ching the Foundation for Education Business Partnerships. ‘‘All the letters sent from my office I have to correct myself, and that is because English is taught so bloody badly.”” “If we want people who write good English and write plays for the future, there is no way they can do it with the present system. It is a fundamental problem — we must educate for character,’’ he said, Reaction was mixed as is usually the case when Charles, 40, ventures into controversial areas. The prince is the product of uppercrust private schools known in Britain as public schools, and his use of the swearword “‘bloody’’ drew particular attention MUST HESWEAR? “If he has to swear, he is proving that the public schools are as bad as the state ones,”” said Nigel de Gruchy, general secretary-elect of the National mean ignoring all the evidence. More children now pass more exams than ever before. He probably doesn’t pay enough to attract the right quality of staff to write his letters.”” The conservative Evening Standard, under the headline Bloody Bad Form, said it was unfair of Charlés to criticize his staff publicly, but said he was right toattack teaching standards. The left-leaning Mirror, parodying London pleb-speak, said: ‘*Charlie might have.bin a bit qut of order, but clitches from teachers is worse than bad spelling from secretaries, innit?”” Doug McEvoy, deputy general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said Charles ‘‘has not received the benefits of a state education.” “To motivate children, you have to make lessons exciting and interesting, and you do not do that by teaching grammar by rote," McEvoy said That was the line taken by the government’s working party on English teaching, chaired by Prof Brian Cox of Manchester University “If Prince Charles read our report, and not just newspaper reports about it, he would find there was much he agreed with,’ Cox said The report urged tolerance of con- structions such as ‘‘we was," “he ain’t,”’ ‘she come here yesterday” and “they never saw nobody."* — LISHED AUGUST 7, Lv, CAMPBELL PUBLISHER mecORPORA ee tite MIO) WER MIRROR PUBLISHED SETPEMBER 1? PUBLISHER, AUGUST 7, 1947 a Castlégar News amaes OF Ti Bc. renee count . TWICE WEEKLY MAY 4 FEBRUARY 15.1973 Compbell —Bourt EDITOR — Simon Birch PLANT FOREMAN — Polo: Harvey ADVERTISING MANAGER — Gory Fleming OFFICE MANAGER — Lindo Kositsin CIRCULATION MANAGER — Heather Hodley compelled to comment in verse: Bill Chapman considered our city ablight Our leaders and council, amoron’s delight Our college neglected, our business amess More comments [have been in many towns all across Canada and all of them have some beautiful gardens and some very nice people. A few of the gardens I have seen even rival Pauline Romaine’s However, Mrs. Romaine has the distinction of using these attributes as justification for having a depressed downtown and polluted environment. time ago Her view I must share, this she should know Then Lopened my mail, and here was my tax The city will rob me, how can I relax I have never been in a town that is en- tirely bad and Castlegar is no excep- tion 1 have another maxim which Renate Belczyk can add to her collec tion of what I presume are sayings for six-year-olds: if you having nothing in- telligent to say, don’t say anything. Our funds are mismanaged, and costs ontherise The people will suffer, thats “no surprise. When business and people'are taxed to excess ‘ This drain and thestrain leaves no room for success Bill Chapman’s impressions were partially right But we're not giving up without a good fight. N.T. Ogiow on city Finally, | must say that the Castlegar Ministerial replied to my letter with humour, wit and more than a touch of sarcasm. I see that your faith has given you the strength to look at a dilapidated sign and see that it is indeed dilapidated Bill Chapman Richmond Scales of justice tip against natives By RICHARD HOFFMAN The Canadian Press Four inquiries into the treatment of natives in Canada’s justice system have painted a bleak portrait of abuse and misunderstanding by white-dominated courts and police The question now on the minds of native leaders and legal observers is whether the intense examinations will lead to changes in the justicgsystem. The recurring theme i four inquiries — starting with te Donald Marshall case in Nova Scotia, followed by ones in Ontario, Manitoba and Alberta — is that natives are largely ex- cluded from the criminal justice system, except as defendants “There is a depressing repetition to all of these inquiries,” sayé Doug Saunders, a professor of law at the University of British Columbia who specializes in native justice. “It’s all been said before, by other inquiries before them — Indian people are victimized by a white criminal justice system.” Aside from teaching law, Saunders is an adviser to Manitoba’s inquiry into native justice that was partly sparked by the 1971 rape arid murder of Cree teenager Helen Betty Osborne. It took 16 years before a white man was finally arrested, although others may have been involved Osborne had been stabbed 56 times with a screwdriver. She was so badly mutilated here mother confirmed her identity only from her eyebrows Testimony has suggested it may have taken so long to bring Osborne’s mur- derer to justice because of the silent complicity of local townspeoplé who knew her killers but didn’t tell police SEPARATE JUSTICE Saunders says the problem won't be resolved until Ottawa and the provin- ces create a separate justice system for natives — one that would include native police, courts, jails and suppor- ting social services. The idea has gained the support of the Canadian Bar Association and a recent poll suggested 73 per cent of Canadians supported such a separate justice systerh. The creation of such a system was one of the major recommendations of the Ontario task force into police racism earlier this year. Members of the task force — created in the aftermath of the separate police killings of two Toronto-area blacks — were visibly shaken by chilling tales of Northern Ontario natives allegedly harassed and brutalized by police. Without exception, the task force found natives under-represented in the police and judicial system, yet over- represented on court dockets and in jails. Log scaling cutbacks may be costing province VANCOUVER (CP) — A former scaler for the provincial Forests Ministry says the government has left itself vulnerable to being cheate¢ because it privatized the business of measuring logs to assess provincial timber royalties against forest com- panies. Bob Fredrickson, who now works for a private contractor, said *hat although he knows of no actual cases of abuse, the new procedure poten- tially could cost the government millions of dollars in lost revenue. “*Up until the last two or three years, all the log scaling was done by MOF (Forests Ministty) employees and that meant | went out to the forest, scaled the logs and provided the data to the ministry office,” says Bob Frerickson, ‘a scaler with the ministry for 34 years. “The principle was that being a ministry employee, 1 would be providing unbiased data not influen- ced by the buyer or broker or other forces out there.’” But now he is concerned that some of the work he and others do never reaches government offices Asascaler, Fredricksen is a vital link But Fredricksen, now a contract scaler for private says the of PP before O.B. Ballard, S.M., for speeding in the Castlegar and Kinnaird Village zones, The court imposed upon each a fine of $10 and costs of $4.50, and each was issued with a Blue Driver's Licence 25 YEARS AGO From the July 9, 1964 Castlegar News Cominco this week announced it would ‘‘take a strike if it is forced.”” It announced this in a two-page ad- vertisement in Kootenay newspapers appealing to its employees to accept “one of the best wage agreements” in the Canadian mining and steel in- dustries “‘rather than strike.”” sy July 91989 Castlegar News as Const. Derek Sitar was killed ‘‘by the accidental discharge of a .32 calibre semi-automatic pistol’’ a coroner's jury decided here Monday night after hearing evidence for three hours. The accident occurred in the RCMP barracks here at about 2 a.m. the mor- ning of June 24, The 24-year-old con- stable died in hospital four hours later. He had cleaned the pistol and was ap- parently looking down the barrel when it discharged No parking signs are to be erected on Main St. between Columbia and Ist avenues, council decided Tuesday night. A motion to prohibit parking in the ‘area was passed several meetings ago but action on the motion was tabled following representations by area property-owner Cec Gorse and his lawyer Mickey Moran. 15 YEARS AGO From the July 11, 1974 Castlegar News Can-Cel’s pulp division was still operating at noon yesterday following a walkout by its maintenance crew earlierthat morning The walkout, which local PPWC president Rudy Martini said was to protest rates of pay, occurred at about 8:15 a.m. Similar walkouts are repor- ted to have taken place at all other pulp mills in the province with the possible exception of the Northwood mill at Prince George and the pulp mill at MacKenzie The people of Castlegar and district, have along with the rest of the voters in Kootenay West constituency have a new Member of Parliament in Ottawa. He’s Bob Brisco, a Trail chiroprac- tor, who won election as a Progressive Conservative in Monday's federal election Mr. Brisco defeated NDP incum- bent Ran Hading and ended 30 years of CCF-NDP representation in this riding SYEARS AGO From the June 20, 1984 Castlegar News Cominco was fined $5,000 Tuesday for being tardy in reporting the dis- charge of over 100 cubic feet of mer- cury-tainted sludge into the Columbia River four years ago. The company pleaded guilty in ‘Castlear provinciat court Selkirk College board approved a motion Tuesday night giving the college authority to remove all equip- ment from David Thompson Univer- sity Centre needed to carry out ministry still has insufficient _man- power to patrol the resource adequately at the Castlegar campus for the 1984-85 instructional year. The question of what becomes of the DTUC’s assets has been the centre of during several meetings im a process that g more than $500 million in annual royalty paymen- ts to the provincial government, That began to change in March 1988 when the ministry stopped doing its own scaling, Fredricksen said CHECK SCALING Before 1983 the province employed 325 scalers at a cost of $9.5 million Today, the ministry spends $4.5 million annually to employ 127 people who check the scaling done for forest firms by private companies Because of recent criticism. by provincial” Auditor-General George Morfitt, the department announced the creation of nine two-member “‘log squads."’ . Please address all Letters to the Editor to: The Castlegar News, P.O. Box 3007, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3H4, or deliver them to our office at 197 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar. Letters should be typewritten double-spaced ond not longer than 300 must be signed ond include, the writer's full name and address. Only in very exceptional cases will letters be published without the writer's nome. Nevertheless, the nome ond address of the writer must be disclosed to the editor The Casilegor News re: to edit letters tor br ‘ond grommar ves the right wity. clority, legality held between the City of Nelson representatives and the college, regar- ding the college’s willingness to cooperate in the provision of equip- ment and furnishings, should the city sponsor new programs and service. The provincial government has ap- parently turned a deaf ear to a request by Castlegar council for financial relief on its municipal assessment Council must. refund $53,000 to Westar Timber because of an assessment appeal the forestry com- pany won for its Celgar pulp and lum- ber operations. Ralabow Chequing Savings Account CASTLEGAR SAVINGS CREDIT UNION YOUR COMMUNITY FINANCIAL CENTRE FOR OVER 40 YEARS! CASTLEGAR SLOCAN PARK 601. 18th S1., 365-7232 Hwy. 6 © 226-7212 A Simple, Sate System of Money Management! (5) Community spirit at work beaeney ests from Lega Casteger and District Heritage Society and the Selkirk Weavers do Station gi eatecier | for the station. . This is the first step in an Abortion injunction denied WINNIPEG (CP) — When a Manitoba court refused a man’s plea to stop his former girlfriend from having an abortion, the man tried to stop her himself. Steve Diamond rushed to hospital after the ruling but couldn’t talk the woman out of having the operation, which was performed within a half hour of Mr. Justice Aubrey Hirsch- field's decision Thursday. The judgment contradicted an On- tario court ruling earlier this week, in which Mr. Justice John O'Driscoll granted an injunction preventing a woman from having an abortion in Ontario. O'Driscoll gave no reasons for his ‘Taxpayers cover travel expenses OTTAWA (CP) — The Senate changed its travel policy without debate in May and senators now may travel anywhere at taxpayers’ expense, says the Ottawa Citizen. The paper said today that the upper chamber’s policy, until May, had restricted senators to free trips within Canada. No figures were provided by the Senate to show how much the change could cost taxpayers. Last year, senators spent more than $1.8 million on travel. “It’s one of those things that nobody's going to know what it costs until it happens,” said Liberal Senator Colin Kenny, chairman of the commit- tee that proposed the change. Members of the Commons are not allowed to travel outside Canada at government expense unless they are part of a special parliamentary com- mittee, said Jim Watson, assistant to ‘Commons Speaker John Fraser. The Senate’ s new travel policy isn'ta free ticket to world travel, said Kenny. Senators must justify trips abroad before the Senate internal economy committee, and must provide detailed itineraries and expense claims. On the old travel expense forms, senators had to provide only, general information about their travel. 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