L. V. (LES) CAMPBELL, 1912-1977 Publisher from Aug. 7, 1947 to Feb. 15, 1973 BUAT CAMPBELL, Publisher * RAYON GUEDES, Editor * TIM MESSENGER, Advert. Mgr. RENE DRODMAN, Foreman * LLEW KEREIFF, Oltico Mgr. tne Audit Bureau al Clreutation re Cenadlan Community 4c 55a tan eansany y ‘All correaponaence shouid be agarenied to. Th « / BC. VIN SHE. Letters tor gubi.cation erust be sgn Pen names aull be uted on request Dut Ihe correct name mutt deserves the fGht toed Tellers in the interests ol Gravity, Go0d ta Le’s rights maintain. “Herelet the press the papers Atteciallon. 1113 tepresenied by ADREPS: C'V6G 128, Lelephone 604 a Submitted. The Coutlega ae and C COMMENT sri sim The Hopeful Animal — "lt was the best of times,"’ wrote Charles Dickens In his novel A Tale of Two Citles. ‘lt was the worst of tim Dickens used those words to aum up the turbulent soclal climate of revolutlonary France during the late 1700s. Yet as we embark on a new year and reflect on the past one we find it strangely appropriate as a description of our own climate today. Our frustrations during 1978 were as numerous as our trlumphs. Locally, the opening of the Castlegar-Salmo highway link has iiterally paved the way for economic and industrial growth, and funding for the water supply Castlegar requires to accom- modate ihis growth seams almost within Its grasp. But the renewed Incidence of terrorism in the region threatens to generate dangerous tension among a large sector of our population. B.C. still has an educational system which Is among the most enviable In the world, But it was disrupted here by a contract dispute between trade unionists and elected trustees in which the most ‘the student responsible for the threat of Quebec's separation from Canada. Canadians enjoyed a relatively peaceful Christmas season. But across the Atlantic, Londoners had thelr yuletide spirits damp- ened by the threat of Irish Republican Army ‘bombings while guerilla warfare continued in Rhodesia. The year ended with promises of renewed peace talks In the Middle East while a truce, however frall, emerged In Lebanon. But in another corner of that part of the globe, tran, violence neared civil war Proportions. The medical technique providing for the birth of the world’s first ‘‘test-tube’’ baby Pp an But the problem of over-population In many parts of the world remalned unresolved by any similarly awesome achievements. In spite of all this, we find it difficult not to believe the world will make the best of its bad times as wall as Its good times In 1979. Because man Is an adaptable anima! his Instincts run strongly toward survival, and because he is a social animal as well his survival Is subject to ongoing the loser. the federal gi has gone to considerable lengths to promote national unity. But It has not had much success in isolating or resolving the conflicts change. More Importantly, man Is a hopeful animal. That, after all, is why he observes the beginning of the new year: to mark his successes, count his fallures, and raise his hopes for the next 12 months. War on Red Tape (An editorial in the Creston Valley Advance.) Anew western front has been opened in the war on red tape with British Columbla’s establishment of a ministry to deal with the problem. The Bennett government is following Ottawa's lead which set up an office of paperburden six months ago. The new red-tape cutter in British Columbia is Sam Bawlf, who has a two-year mandate to unsnar!l the problems of the ever-increasing bureaucracy. For instance, the reglonal district review commission found that rezoning applications were taking up to 42 weeks to pass through regional district and provinctal offices for approval. Anyone who has ever dealt with more than one layer of government to receive approval for anything from building a factory to rezoning a piece of, property wil! City council votes to as! on plans for monitoring air emissions from CanC appreciate the office if It can’be made to work. In Ottawa, the paperburden czar has been given the gargantuan task of eliminat- ing $200 million In useless paperwork within two years. In Alberta, a Joint Industry-government committee hopes to reduce the burden significantly by 1980 when industry will file streamlined information into a new govern- ment computer system which will extract material for various government depart- ments. : The relatively modest cost of establish- ing a control system can pay big dividends In reducing human frustration and real costs savings in releasing business personnel for more productive tasks than filling forms and filing useless reports in quintuplicate. Proposed runway resurfacing, which.would shut down Castlegar Airport during April, May and June, awaits federal treasury board approval. * 4 Trustees return Pat Haley as chairman and Anne Jones as vice-ch: meeting of Schoo! District No. 9 board. * ———So You Wa By ALLAN CONNERY (A column in the Calgary Herald.) WHAT'S A COLUMNIST to do when he has no kids or pets to write about on a slow day? This question may not absorb you as much as it docs me right now, but stick around and we'll see what.the answer. is, Life would be simpler with a kid or a dog around the house. No. Wail. Excuse me while I bite my tongue, Life would not be a bit simpler—on the con- trary. I should know that. I've read enough columnists to know that kids and dogs are great complicators, IN FACT, I SHOULD know the truth about kids and dogs first-hand. After all, I was a dog once myself, (It was in an earlier incarnation. I sinned, and was condemned lo serve time writing a column, I don't know what I could have done as a dog to deserve being sent around again as a journalist. Allowed a man to bite me, probably.) No, kids and dogs do not make life simpler. For a col- umnist, they make work sim- pler, There is a difference between life and work, and I'll start fully believing in the dis- tinction again just as soon as I've filled this gaping void, here, with 15 inches of prose in small type. FILLING SPACE IS EASY, you think? Well, there's a catch. The material has to be English prose, more or less, and it has to be about something. Foolish, picayune requirements, Lagree, but they come with the terri- tory. Everything would be dif- ferent if I had a child or a dog to fill the aching, lonely void in my page. Other columnists have, and look at them: never a dry day. They can always wrile ‘a light, warm piece about the cute thing the dog said, or the revolling thing the kid ate, or whatever. If the kid eats the dog, the columnist can pull out the Vox Humana stop on his typewriter and do the big Farewell To A Beloved Pet piece. Love means never having to say-you're dried up. CHILDREN AND SMALL animals are Instant Column: just add water. Quite a lot of water, I would have been tempted to add if I were in better spirits, but today I am filled with sympathy for my fellow-columnists. It's a much more attractive emotion than self-pity, don't you agree? The worst thing about writing for a newspaper is this: no sooner do you write a piece than they print the darn thing, and there you are, back at square one, You're forever shovelling into a hopper whose big opening is al the bottom. SISYPHUS THOUGHT HE had troubles, condemned as he was by the gods forever to roll a huge stone up a hill, only to see it roll back down. Frus- at the 1978 ii 1 trating, . Action — Work — Discipline nt to Write a Co 4) 15 enough to stay out of the stone's path, but at least Sisyphus had the consolation of being a mythical character. Maybe if I work hard and keep my nose clean, I'll be promoted to mythical character, too. Like Gordon Sinclair. Enough of the fantasizing. Action. Work. Discipline. Topic. pic. That's the toughie, isn’t it? No grist for my mill on page one today. That grist has been ground exceed- ingly fine already: “Tories catching up, Gallup poll shows.” Son of “Tories losing ground.” “Dollar rallying.” Wake me when it’s back to 90 cents, or at Christmas, whichever comes first. ANOTHER FEDERAL- provincial dispute. Don't you hate it when your parents fight all the time?'No wonder Cana- “Bad news, Dr. Thwart... dians are neurotic, We come from a broken home, Let's see. I could write something outrageous for Fri- day, and fill next week's columns with indignant letters denouncing me, writing them myself, if necessary. Right, then. Hit those keys. The trouble with the wo- ‘men’s movement (in the poli- tical sense of the word, wink, wink, nudge, nudge), apart fromthe fact that its ranks are filled with manless harridans whose seams show even when they're not wearing stockings is that it has no sense of humor. Even now, as they read these harmless words, countless frus- trated viragos are reaching for their pens to denounce... No. Fifteen inches of that? Not today, thank you. NO, I'M SORRY. THERE just won't be a column today. Bes . we're running out of things to ban that choses! x Businessmen Sheltered; The Writer By MORDECAI RICHLER (From a column in Mac- lean’s magazine.) IN THIS COUNTRY where once or twice during his career a writer may have squeezed a grant out of the Canada Council, he is con- sidered to be the most cozened of creatures. This, by totally inept tex- tile manufacturers, who could not function if they weren't protected from foreign compe- tition by outlandishly high tariffs. 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