L. V. (LES) CAMPBELL, 1912+ 1977
Publisher from Aug. 7, 1847 10 Fob. 15, 1973

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“Herel let the press the peopte’s rights maintain.

Cc 6) M M EN T Thursday Morning, November 30, 1978

Money Well Spent

It was Ald. Len Embree who In October

* erltlclzed council members’ decision to save

the taxpayers the approximately $2,000 a
eltyowice fall rubbish cleanup would cost.

Importance of the service pi

thelr views known to various levels of
government In the two provinces, In much
the same way as the Union of 86.C.
a focus for

: sin the tell cleanup, Embree argued quite
| Justiflably, tar outweighed the money the
; elty would have saved by dropping It

: We wonder now, noting his success In

st * persuading council to reinstitute that ser-

+ vice, why he was unable to put Ald. Jim

: Gouk’s attendance Saturday at a mesting of

7 the Ci Highway

+ successful candidacy for a position on ihe

's board of dir imi-

: ilar perspective.

At acouncil meeting earlier thls month
: Embree suggested Gouk’s responsibilities
+ would require his attendance, at an estl-

+ mated cost of $110 each time, of a greater

+ number of asseclation meetings.

Although somewhat more abstract than
+ garbage pickup, the benefit gained through

* the city’s membership in the organization Is
‘no less significant. A group of municipal

: esunciis, chambers of commerce and Inter-

“Indigiduals: from both B.C. and
Serta, Pat asecctation has made Important

affairs ministry
and ‘other. level of government affecting
them.

In comparison with the cost the city
faces each time It sends delegates and staff
to UBCM meetings, the cost of sending a
single delegate to represent the highway
even on a quarterly basis will not be high. In
addition, as Gouk has pointed out, assocla-
tion directors could In the near future be
attending meetings at no cost to the city
after a planned review of the associations’
expenses formula takes place.

An f whether
representation of Castlegar as an ordinary
member would have been worthwhile, It is
obvious Gouk’s presence on the body which
Is actually responsible for the functions of
the association will give the city a stronger
voice in the future of the arterlal highway
which became a major factor In the area
economy with the opening of the Castlegar-
Salmo link two months ago.

It would be Irresponsible for any council
to let costs of this nature

to
* and greater use of Highway 3.
Serving In a para-governmental ca-
. } pacity the organization provides an opportu-
+ nity for communities whose economies are

become excessive, but It would be even
more irresponsible for iis course not to
ensure C:
in matters which are 80 important to its

: ; directly affected by the highway to make

growth and

-GIC: A Sacred Cow

(From an editorial in the Creston Valley Advance.)

Over the years, every leve! of govern-
ment has gradually increased Its services to
the paying public. in-
surance benefits, welfare and senior cliti-
: zens’ benefits and even municipal garbage

“collection are all services which we have
come to expect.

And once these services are In place,
they are in place forever; no government,
except one foolish enough to want to incur
the wrath of the voters would ever dream of
removing them, or even readucing the
benefits.

Unemployment Insurance Is an ideal
‘example. When the program was first
‘announced, its intention was to provide
some sort of income for a wage earner who,
through no fault of his own, lost his Job.
Qver:the years, ‘losing one’s job’ could
means fisherman who could net $20,000
during the fishing season, and then collect
benefits the rest of the year.

Seasonal workers are entitled to bene-
fits, although they know that the work Is
only temporary, and usually the workers are
only providing secondary income.

Periodically, and usually after the
release of figures which show that the

are run-
ning billion-dollar deficits, the . federal
government moves to tighten up on unem-
ployment. But how difficult it is to apply one
set of rules all across the country. In an
effort to make the system more equitable,
regional differences are taken into account,
but rather than making the system run more

, it only

No, the unemployment insurance bene-
fits will not be changed with a quick flip of
the pen. They may be Increased, but to
decrease them, or Insist on a means test
before Insurance is available will raise the
ire of the voters, not a prospect which the
government can afford.

Construction of a tourist information booth at the Kootenay Doukhobor Historical Society and
National Exhibition Centre complex in Qotischenia and more extensive development of local
recreation areas by the provincial government are among recommendations made in briefs submitted

to Tourism Minister Grace McCarthy.

*

Relocation of the city works yard, continued sidewalk repairs and installation of a new water
storage tank are among the projects recommended for 1978 in Ald. Brian Kilpatrick's works and

services report for 1977.

By MacKENZIE PORTER

(A column In the Toronto
Sun.)

IN A RECENT CRACK-
down on prostitutes Toronto
police laid charges against Uheir
“johns” or clients. This pro-
cedure is not merely futile but
an infringement on civil liber-
lies and a threat to many
reasonably happy marriages.

Itis true that some “johns”
disrupt traffic by curb-crawling
on streels frequented by pros-
tilutes, But the proper charge
against them sis one of the
dangerous or careless driving
variety.

A prostitute is just as
much entitled to charge a fee
for sexual services as a young
woman is to marry an old man
on promise of a marriage settle-
ment. The difference in prin-
ciples involved is fractional.
Sex between consenting adults
for love or money is a private
matter and of no concern to the
police as long as it is free from
violence.

SOLICITING BY PROS-
titules anywhere is of little
nuisance to anybody who has
the common decency to look the
other way. If somebody didn't
need the woman she wouldn't
be there. And people who pro-
fess to mind their own business
shouldn't be there.

The calling and beckoning
of prostitutes is an ancient
street cry, no more trouble-
some to other pedestrians than
the whistle of the popcorn man.
It is even less irritating than

the handing out of advertising

(From an editorial in the
B.C, Medical Journal.)

HOSPITALS ARE FOR
sick people, plus other people
who care for them.

Hospitals are not busi-
nesses, not financial institu-
tions, not political entities.
They should not be considered
as conveniences for medical
doctors, or as power-bases for
any medical, par-medical or
administrative groups, or as
primary teaching ur research
centres.

Whatever internal organi-
zational structure of any hos-
pital might develop, it will lose
its force and purpose if it is
forgotten that the hospital is
people.

THERE IS NO DOUBT
that the important people in a
hospital are patients, Without
patients there is no need for a
hospital to exist.

Many hospitals accept the
responsibility of being the
centres for teaching medical
students, nurses, therapists in
physical or radiological medi-
cine, lechnicians in laboratory
sciences and radiology, pupils
in hospital administration.
When a hospital adopts this
role, it must always remember

-that the teaching effort is
secondary to the care of pa-
tients.

NEXT TO THE PA-
tients, medical doctors are the
most important people in hos-

—/ The Bierman Bite

Sex for Money a Private Matter

-Politicians are Gutless,

Not Puritanical,

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leaflets or the holding out of
coin boxes on a‘ flag day.
Prostitutes should be left to
pursue their profession where
they will, unharried, as are the
doctors they preserve from so
much trouble.

PROSTITUTION IS THE
oldest profession because it
cannot be wiped out. The hodge
podge of laws designed to
eliminate it merely aggravate
its more lamentable aspects.
Any worldly reader knows that

there are a hundred reasons,
none of them particularly de-
plorable, why some men and
some women engage prosti-
tutes of their own or the
opposite sex.

One reason rarely remem-

Hospitals Are for Patients

Doctor's Role Needs a Hard Look

pitals. They decide when people
need to be admitted to hos-
pitals, which investigations
should be done on these people,
what treatments should be
given, and when the people

should go home from hospital.
Furthermore, doctors have a
personal legal responsibility for
their management of people in
hospital.

Surely it has to be accept-

ed that this people-doctor re-
lationship ought to put doctors
ina primary position of impor-
tance in the conduct and policy
of hospitals.. People who are
admitted to hospital consider

Broudcasting Beasts to Gain New Enemy?

Bad News for Bambi

Biologists of the fish and
‘wildlife branch at Nelson havea
touching faith in hunters that
we find hard to share. The
biologists are asking the big

game shots to hold their fire
until they have tiptoed up to
Bambi to make sure she isn't
wearing a radio transmitting
collar, used in a wildlife re-
search project.

But even if the hunters do
spare her, the Canadian Radio-

Telecommunications Commis: -

sion will probably nail her for
broadcasting without a licence.
~—Vancouver Sun

bered by the is that:
some respectable women and
men, through no-fault of their

own, are emotionally and phy- |:

sically unattractive and are
thus driven to pay for the
satisfaction of nature's most
persistent appetite.

THE NEW YORK SMASH
hit musical The Nicest Little
Whorehouse in Texas is a
cheerful, wholesome, common
sense plea for government
regulated brothels. In Amster-
dam the system works well,
concentrating supply and de:
mand ina clean, orderly, festive
area. The women even sit in
lighted shop windows display.
ing their charms. Because they
are protected’ by police they
fel safe and so operate without
the pimp and organized crime.

I have’ said before that
suitable areas for regulated red
light districts in Canadian cities
are such out-of-date carnival
grounds and stadiums as those
of the Canadian National Ex-
hibition in Toronto and the
Pacifie National Exhibition in
Vancouver.

RECENTLY, FLORIDA
prosecutor Leonard Glink, dis-
cussing proposals for licensed
brothels, said; “The puritanical
heritage of North Americans
just won't allow it.” I-do not
share Glink's pessimi:
absence from Canadian munit
cipal council agendas of motions
for the establishment of gov:
ernment brothels is due not i
the insularity, ignorance antl
bigotry of the electorate but to
gutlessness on the part of local,
poli iticians. :

We Don't Know Where
To Draw the Line.

ON SERVICE
JUNCTION SHELL SERVICE
2.” AND WASH (1976)

201-7th Ave., S. 365-6511

their doctors are in charge of
their destinies for that period.
Their doctors are their pro-
tectors, and are seen to be the
final authority over all matters
and events that occur in the
hospital environment.

MOST PEOPLE THINK
that doctors have a large in-
fluence ‘on all matters in
hospital policy and function. To
a degree we must admit that
doctors, for a variety of rea-
sons, have often stepped back
from their responsibility in this
area. Our profession should
have a hard look at the present
status of doctors in hospital
function and organization.

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