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PAGE FIVE The VANCOUVER SUN: May 31. 1071 JIP-, THE PICK OF Punch Loud moos from the milch-cow OTTAWA CITIZEN We know so much and so little Excerpts from an article by MAX WAYS in Fortune, the monthly business magazine published by Time Inc. in New York City. From day to day, we expect either too much or too little from this unique kind of civilization that learns so fast and yet blunders so horribly, that achieves so magnificently and yet seems to leave undone more and more of that which ought to be done. Trite, but deeply significant of our confusiqn, is the remark that, if man can reach the moon, he ought to be able to solve this, that, or the other mundane problem.

Americans are more deeply involved than any other people in the knowledge-action nexus and, therefore, more bewildered and frustrated by the disappointments it seems to generate. Almost every area of American public policy, from international affairs to crime-in- "We were relying on yon to hold our marriage together." "Hold it, Grayson you're "Not sex Si Cl7l, TORONTO TELEGRAM supposed to be a good gay." again!" An editorial. The Citizen, formerly independent-Liberal, now declares itself politically independent. Premier Willram Davis has apparently set a collision course with Ottawa. Whatever his motives whether they are political, as provincial NDP leader Stephen Lewis charges, or whether he sincerely believes he is doing what is best for Ontario a return to the narrow provincialism of the past by Canada's wealthiest province can only damage national unity.

The doctrine that Ontario is Canada's "milch cow" was rejected by former Premier John Robarts, who agreed that Ontario's riches should be used to help the have-not provinces. He also agreed that federal revenue, much of it drawn from Ontario, should be used to promote industry in the underdeveloped provinces. The resulting increase in wealth in the Maritimes, in Quebec, and on the Prairies would ultimately benefit Ontario. Mr. Davis now opposes this policy Although Ontario has gained much in the past from federal tariffs, the St.

Lawrence Seaway, and freight rates, he behaves as though Ontario is an isolated jurisdiction, unrelated' to the rest of the country. He acts like a local warlord who wants to 'confront Ottawa with ultimatums, instead of proposals for co-operation. Good- federal-provincial relations and national unity must rest, at least partly, on the willingness of Ontario's premier to be bigger than his province, however wealthy it may be. Mr. Robarts achieved that.

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from Feb. from SYNDICATE "He's lucky having a second language to fall back on." much of the guilt, cynicism, and bitterness that now discolor private and public life in the U.S. The awful truth seems to be that as knowl-' edge advances ignorance does not diminish. If contemporary man does not learn to live with this paradox he will come to despise both his knowledge and his practical achievements, which are first made possible by knowledge and which then put him in the position of needing more knowledge than he has. Last December, in a remarkable farewell speech as he left the White House where he had been coping with urban problems, Daniel Patrick Moynihan recalled the warning of the Swiss historian, Jacob Burckhardt, who foresaw that the twentieth century' would be the age of "the great simplifiers" and that "the essence of tyranny would be the denial of complexity." Tempting simplicities Moynihan called the tendency to oversimplify "the single great temptation of our time" and "the great corrupter." He said that "what we need are great complexifiers, men who will not only seek to understand what it is they are about, but who will also dare to share that understanding with those for whom they act." Refusal to admit the genuine intellectual difficulties of policy formation in the contemporary world brings with it "the moralistic style" and the public tendency to lurch "from crisis to crisis with the attention span of a five-year-old." Moynihan's point can be illustrated in a field where he was directly concerned, the effort to improve the welfare system.

The system would not exist if the moral standards of the society had not risen to the point where the majority accepted responsibility for the material subsistence of the poor. Today the system is widely regarded as unsatisfactory. Consensus on this has formed not because the public heart has hardened, but because welfare's cost seems to be out of line with the amount of visible good it is doing for relief recipients. This' last standard 4s a rather modern development. St.

Francis didn't ask At the time when St. Francis impulsively gave his fine clothes to a beggar, nobody seems to have been very interested in what happened to the beggar. Was he rehabilitated? Did he open a small business? Or was he to be found next day, naked again, in an Assisi gutter, having traded the clothes for a flagon of Orvieto? These were not the sorts of questions that engaged the medieval mind. The twentieth century has developed a more ambitious definition of what it means to help somebody. We are used to getting action and we want better results than the welfare system has been producing.

We are bothered by the possibility that the present system may be actually hurting a lot of welfare recipents. The Vietnam war is an unsatisfactory operation like the anti-inflation policy, the welfare system, law enforcement, and environmental protection; Too many such failures could be fatal to a society. But it doesn't follow that the leaders of a society involved in such mistakes are idiots or moral lepers. U.S. mistakes do not prove that the society is "sick" but rather that life in an age with high levels of knowledge and of action is a hard and hazardous adventure.

The late lieutenant was fa 1 popular RUN AYAY TO SEA! THE NATION Choose from 4 cruises to warm weather ports on the popular "Oriana" DANIEL MOYNIHAN a need for complexifiers the-streets, is gnawed by popular anxiety arising from the question of why a nation that knows so much does not handle its affairs better. (This crisis of confidence, a product of all the accumulated disappointments, is a much graver danger than any particular failure of U.S. society in action. Our worst disease is the idea that this is "a sick society." Faith in democracy in recent years has depended too heavily on the horrible examples presented by rival systems. To concede that some societies are sicker than ours will not instill enough confidence to sustain effective democratic vigor.

In short, the knowledge-action mystery now undermines the assumptions on which self-government rests. 1 CALIFORNIA 1. 28 Nov. 7 2. 10 Dec.

21 fined almost entirely to the army because that service is most plagued by indiscipline, often verging on mutiny. According to the Pentagon, 209 fragging incidents were reported in 1970, more than double the number for 1969. The number of deaths decreased, however, from 3J) to 34, presumably because the attacks were more indiscriminate. The Pentagon has not released figures on the numbers of wounded, nor on the apprehension and conviction offraggers. The basic causes of the fragging phenomenon, practically unknown in previous American wars, are probably the unpopularity of the war, the widespread use of drugs, and the generally rebellious attitude of many young civilians toward forced military, service.

The subject is now out in the open, and it should remain there. The facts of this war are hideous the more reason to face them- He was a first lieutenant and he was killed just four weeks before the end of his tour of duty. He had graduated from West Point near the top of his class, served on the honor committee, completed a course in ranger training, and volunteered for Southeast Asia. He did not think that anyone should be forced to enter our armed services. There is nothing extraordinary about a lieutenant or a soldier of any rank being killed in Indochina; it has happened to 45,000 of our men so far and the total is still rising.

But this lieutenant was not killed in combat. He was not a helicopter casualty or the FIRE AWAY! If hot pants are indeed "a cold war weapon," as an East German newspaper charges, we can hardly wait for this arms race to gain momentum. St. Louis Post-Dispatch MEXICO and CARIBBEAN 21 Dec. 17 Jan.

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I 7 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR victim of an accident there are many accidental deaths in every war. He was the target of a "fragging," as he lay sleeping in his billet at Bien Hoa. "Fragging" is a delicate subject in the army and here- From an editorial in a liberal American weekly magazine. tofore the Pentagon has been reluctant to discuss it. A commissioned officer or a noncom is "fragged" when an enlisted man uses a fragmentation grenade with intent to kilJ or wound someone of higher rank.

These grenades are of potato size and easily concealed. By all indications, the lieutenant was popular; the fragger may not even have known him. He may just have wanted to kill an officer, as a way to vent his rage. There are thousands of bomb explosions in the United States every year, the great majority having nothing to do with politics. Fragging is the service equivalent, and it is con Poor move Editor, The Sun, Sir I was horrified to read in The Sun (May 13) that Professor McGregor had, on behalf of the University of British Columbia, denied Fischer and Taimanov the use of the Graduate Centre Library.

Only a Philistine would refuse such artists the use of the best available facilities without substantial reason. Is this the institution that recently built an appropriate swimming pool for the British Empire Games? As a chess player, I am appalled. As a Canadian, I am ashamed that this university showed itself unworthy of the honor bestowed on it, the disgrace being felt over two thousand miles. Toronto is Canada's chess centre, and the University of Toronto's Hart House is hospitable toward chess and us childish enthusiasts. If Vancouver is to become a centre for chess, this sort of action is hardly appropriate.

JOHN MacPHAIL 1310 Dowler Ottawa Out of proportion Editor, The Sun, Sir One can only be amused by Recreation Minister Kiernans comments on pollution of the Similkameen river caused by the proposed expansion of Manning Park Lodge. Why is it necessary for a publicly-owned establishment to have first class facilities for the treatment of a mere 28,000 gallons of effluent when the privately-owned pulp mills can discharge 90,000,000 gallons of untreated effluent daily into B.C. waters. His concern is out of all proportion. G.

WORTH 3250 West Twenty-ninth A disaster Editor, The Sun, Sir I admire -Pierre Elliott Trudeau. He is so clearly a superior man, one in whom the insouciance of wealth, the arrogance of training, and" the good luck of natural endowments have been superlatively combined. Consider his clearly demonstrated ability to overwhelm all opposition to easily summon up words, logic and poisonous looks to confound his enemies. Consider his effect on the men in his government. There is no shortage of personable, talented and aggressive men, but with a couple of exceptions, these tigers have become pussycats.

Consider Trudeaa at the Great Wall of China, or paddling to Cuba. Trudeau the professor, the radical intellectual, companion to Chartrand and Vallieres, Trudeau the writer. What other head of state is so lean and hard and fit? Does Nixon have a judo belt? Just as I felt proud of Northern Dancer, so I'm proud of Trudeau, our Homo Canadien-sis. Let's give him a cup, but let's also recognize that, as prime minister, he is a disaster. The aforementioned Northern Dancer would do better.

The trouble is that this man, for all his glitter, has no heart, and the political fact of the seventies in Canada and in the U.S.A. is that you cannot be governed without this organ. Trudeau can never be anything else than the rich dilettante from He Letters to the editor must be signed by and bear the address of the writer. The shorter the better. A pen name may be used only in special cases.

The Sun may edit letters for brevity, clarity, legality or taste. today's schools. Occasionally students are subjected to this type of discipline. Generally, these are young people who do not have the privilege of firm discipline in their own homes. Corporal punishment in all schools is administered in the principal's It is witnessed, and recorded in a book kept for the purpose.

According to the rules of the Council of Public Instruction of B.C. it is administered in the "manner of a wise and judicious parent." I encourage Mr. Ney to visit the schools of his district and discover first hand the situation in schools concerning corporal punishment. I am confident he will find no sadistic monsters needing punching. And when Mr.

Ney has discovered the -true facts, I encourage him to give as much publicity to what he knows as he has given to his opinion of a subject on which he is ignorant. JOHN E. COLLINS President, Provincial Teachers' Association Box 264, Pitt Meadows No place to go Editor, The Sun, Sir Re care for elderly people. It boils down to not enough money to build the necessary places for their proper care. Yet this same Social Credit government wants to build a $55 million office complex in the centre of Vancouver for the edification of Bennett and his supporters.

Instead of building hospitals and rest homes, which were supposed to be built and financed by the sales tax, it has been financing dams and hydro. Wake up B.C. electors before the next election, you may be old yourself and no place to go. GEORGE MACKENZIE 1835 Morton sneers at those who are out of place in his Cruel Society at the old, the unemployed, the exploited, the despairing separatists, the homeless, the jobless young, the women who can't endure the thought of bloody back-room abortions, the idealists, the Vietnam protesters. He feels for all of them the contempt of a wealthy, secure and heartless man for those who, he thinks, are disorganized and weak and futile.

He knows that he is more than a match for the wretched of Canada, who oppose him, and that he will never have to eat what they must. We can't afford Trudeau. The c.ountry could be destroyed with more of what he did to the La Palme drivers, to the Quebec dissidents, and, most of all, by what he has done knowingly, willfully, cruelly and arrogantly to 600,000 unemployed. It doesn't mudh matter who replaces him, as long as he takes his puppets with him when he goes. Stanfield, or Lewis, or even, from his own party, Kierans or Hellyer or David Anderson, would all do, because they all understand what Canada neds to survive as a nation.

Under Trudeau, we will disintegrate. Ty now we ought to know what he has in mind for us a pool of unemployed, an ever-ready War Measures Act, and Information Canada. Let's get him out of there. ANDREW GIBSON 2987 Scmiahmoo Trail, White Rock Unions blamed Editor, The Sun, Sir Don't blame the government for unemployment, it is due to the unrealistic and fantastic demands of the unions which must limit the number of employees. M.

C. REID 3329 Marine Drive, West Vancouver Dr. Bethune Editor, The Sun, Sir I agree with James J. Larkin's letter concerning the imprudence of erecting a monument to Dr. Bethune.

The question was put to Prime Minister Trudeau in the Commons April 28 and reported in Hansard. Mr. Trudeau replied that the matter was in the hands of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board adding: "As an old China hand myself I must say it is somewhat surprising to see this great Canadian recognized more in China than in Canada." China Reconstructs of June 1967 tells us why, reprinting an article by Mao Tse-tung (In memory of Norman Bethune) dated Dec. 21, 1939. He starts: "Comrade Norman Bethune, a member of iha r'anariinn P.

nmmiiniftt party, was around fifty when he was sent by the Communist party of Canada and the U.S.A. to China." He concludes: "Every Communist must learn the true Communist spirit from Comrade Bethune." But we never do learn. PATRICIA YOUNG 1030 Nanton Strap is rare Editor, The Sun, Sir The Sun, May 18, quoted Philip Ney, Victoria school trustee, as stating: "It would be beneficial to have a punching bag in the teacher's lounge rather than a strap on the door." Mr. Ney seems to be suggesting that teachers currently tako their frustrations out on students with the strap, and should be provided with more inanimate objects for this exercise. In 16 years of teaching I have never seen a strap hanging on a door in a school, Neither have I met a teacher who is the type of sadistic monster that Mr.

Ney imagines they are. The strap is listed seldom in prim A birthday party in a retirement home. With a cake with real icing and candles to blow out. And friends and laughter and happiness. Yes, you can buy happiness.

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