PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Friday, June 23, 1978

EDITORIAL

Just how important little things can be in a
matter of life or death was forcibly driven home
to me many years ago when I was a missionary
on an Indian Reserve in Northern Manitoba. One
of the main duties of my calling seemed to be
that of conducting funerals. Most of the funerals
were for infants. At that time we had a baby of
our own. My wife had noticed the majority of
infants that died were those whose mothers had
attempted to bottle feed them. Most of these
mothers were or had been suffering from
tuberculosis and had been advised by the visiting
doctors not to nurse their babies because of the
heavy T.B. control medications they had to take
daily,

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Sandy would not pay ten cents to save a baby’s life = until. a

The time came when our own infant had to go
on the bottle. Looking over the nursing bottles
sold at the local trading post, my wife was
dismayed to find that only one style and brand of
nipple was stocked for the bottles. This was a
thin, elongated soft sticky plastic variety. “Good
Heavens,” my wife said. ‘‘These would either
starve or choke a child.”

“Tapwe! Ke-ba!” said the Indian women,
“They are baby killers!”

When we ordered some of the hard rubber,
‘noncollapsible nipples from thé catalogue, we
gave a few to the bottle-feeding mothers -
who were forced to bottle-nurse their infants.

Sure enough - their babies lived.

OTTAWA OFFBEAT

Ottawa,- Come when it may, the federal
election is a no-win situation for the public
service. ;

After 15 years of fat-catting it —- ever since that
first week in 1963 when former Liberal Prime
Minister Lester Pearson, himself a career public
servant, took power — it has run out of friends in
High Places. .

It was in luck from Pearson's first week, when

as a former duputy minister, he called in his so- —

recently senior public service colleagues and
told them that at last they had ‘‘come home.”
Coming home meant salary increases that led
the national pay parade and gassed up the ‘in-
flation balloon. ae
Coming horthe meant opening the door to the
unions and the continuing blackmail, especially
by the militant postal workers and other ac-
tivists, of the taxpayers,, with the acquiescence
of weak-kneed governments. .
Coming home meant indexed pensions and
fringe benefits including not only goodies but
immunity from reprimand, discipline and even
penalty for mistakes involving millions of your

And when Prince Pierre succeeded the
Monarch Mike in the Liberal throneroom he
carried on the tradition of treating the public
service as part of the court.

Nothing was too good for it.

Not only was it allowed to multiply and prosper
even beyond former Deputy Minister Mike
Pearson's fondest dreams, it was even permitted
to write its own job descriptions in filling the
ever increasing positions at the-public trough.

Knowing —. in fact having invented the
bureaucratic buzzwords, it was able to write up
the job requirements for a junior clerk to make it
sound as if it were in the employment market for
a senior administrative executive.

With the result that not only does the public
pefceive the civil servant to be underworked and
overpaid, but the Treasury Board itself, making
an investigation of pay levels, confirms that
thousands of them are salaried at inflated

| by Richard Jackson

positions and rates. —

So after all these years of overindulgence of
the public service, the government suddenly
senses taxpayer outrage and it hecomes
politically profitable to crack down and squeeze
out the payroll fat.

- Bill C-28 results, and just as suddenly th
public service is as anti-Liberal as it always --
repeat always ~- was anti-Conservative.

Because Bill C-28 will cut the obese public
service back to the pay-and-privileges weight of
the inflation-thinned taxpayers.

The legislation would keep government
payrolls on a par with the private sector levels,
put a control-lid on pension indexing and curb the
abuse of power of the public service unions. |

But worse was to come.. ’

The Conservatives, knowing a good election
bet when they see one, ‘“‘me-tod’d” themselves in
on the Liberals’ public service hashing action.

In fact, they might even go further ~ as far as
drumming the mandarins out of their empire, or
to put it in street talk: firethefatcats. .

To the barricades, was the call of the public
service unions,

. Battle back, beat the bill and all those

parliamentarians who support it.
- - The call to public service arms is sounded in
the union’s news-letter.

But how to beat a bill supported by both major

es?
Work to defeat MFPs who support it.

Question pro-bill candidates at nomination —

and election meetings. ;
Write letters to newspapers
Get on open-line radio shows.

Run for office themselves. , :

The Public Service Employment Act, limiting
political activity of government employees,
rules out any open campaigning FOR a party or
a candidate. ; ars

_ . But what about campaigning AGAINST

Different, apparently. ;

‘So it’s war on the hated Bill-23.

“Heritage” contest kid winners to tour every

Canadian
Island and visit the
Parliament buildings and

the British Columbia
Provincial Museum in

The cross Canada tour
itinerary was announced .
today for the 35 winners,
ages 13 to 16 years, to be

selected from British
Columbia in the national
competition “Explore Your
Heritage," organized by the
National Museums of

Using planes, buses and
boats, the youths will vizit, in
4 days, every province of
the country, and see famous
historic sites, scenic at-
fractions and museums. _

The winners of the com-
petition from across the
province will joln ap-
proximately 340 other
winners fram the nine other
provinces and the two
territories on this voyage of
discovery.

The 3 winnera af the
competition from British
Columbia will gather in
Vancouver on July 21 and
will start thelr adventure

chaperones, specially
trained by the YMCA, ac-
companying thegroup. They
will stay at University
dormitories throughout the

Arriving in Vancouver,
they will take a scenic drive
through the city to visit the

Gallery

Victoria.

At Kamloops, British
Columbia, they will visit the
Canadian Armed Forces
Base, and then depart for:
Banff and Lake Louise,
Alberta, to take in thelr-
great scenic beauty.

In Calgary, Alberta, the
groups will visit the Glenbow
Institute, take the scenic
drive to Heritage Park, and
then leave for Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan. Here they
will visit the Mendel Art
and. Western
Oe eealag ddlewheel

eve.
crulseon the fled River, with
dinner and dancing, has been
arranged at Winnipeg.
Visits have been planned to
Louis Riel's grave and to the

‘Museum of Man and Nature.

Driving past the grain
elevators at F'ort William,
Ontario, the groups will
arrive in Toronto, and visit
Ontario Place, ‘Royal Qn-
tario Museum, Black Creek
Pioneer Village and the
Metra Zoo,

Two days will be spent in
Ottawa with visits to

_
province .
“back to Montreal. Je Drive Jr. Seconda:
“in Montreal they will visit Stipa

Man and His World, the .

McCord and Military Delta : .
Museums and do city VicklePolice 13
Sightseeing, before ChristinaRasmussen 14

‘proceeding to Quebec City Beverly Reid

a 9 .

We tried to talk the post manager into carrying
the better type nipple, and when he saw the

-guecess of the hard rubber variety, he did so -

finally. Result. Death rate dropped noticeably
for bottle feds,

Then the company sent in a new manager and
the old one was transferred. Back went the store
to the plastic, collapsing nipples. Up soared the
death rate. ©

The difference in price of the two types was
very small, About ten cents, I believe.

This proved to me, that sometimes the life of a
child hung on the difference of a dime. Ten cents
for a life. A baby’s life!

Do you think I could get the idea across to the
new bachelor-manager at the Company trading
post? His philosophy was one of ‘‘survival of the
fittest’’. Ifa mother could not nurse her baby, he
insisted this was Nature’s own way of saying the
child was not intended to survive! In that case, I

tried to argue, Nature had not intended Sir’

Winston Churchill (who was born very
premature) and many of the greatest men in
history to have lived. No matter.

A few weeks after this rather heated
discussion, Sandy, the post manager - or ‘‘fac-
tor” as the fur trade term was, received a visit
by float plane from his old mother - all the way
from Scotland.

the Scots lacy attended the
morning, afternoon and evening services of my
church the next Sunday. I congratulated her on
her faithful attendance, so far from home. . -
“Och, Aye!’ she protested, in broad Scots,
“It’s noo that. I just love to see the wee bairns
suckling at their maither’s breast, It’s noo the
fash no mair in Scotland, ye noo, Yet it were
when I were a Lassie. But ye noo, Sandy” she
said, “I noo would nairse ye, yuh bonnie
swacker!
ye’self. If I noo had fussed ye wi’ a botde night
and day, ye wouldna be here the noo - ye know.
“Ye were a bottle-bairn reet fra’ the stairt!
Sandy turned a beet red from collar to
forehead. = ,
His mother gave me a big wink, and teased
him for being so modest - but that wasn’t why
Sandy was blushing, Only my wife and I knew
THAT reason!
The next mail plane to take off from the lake
left the following week.. Aboard it was the year’s.

Areligious woman,

Ye was a fair to weakling bairn, .

full requisition of staple goods for the company

trading post. Included in it was an order for
rubber, anti-colic, no-collapsible nursing bottle
nipples. A whole gross (twenty-four dozen) of
em,
Sandy’s “mither’, it seems, had succeeded,
‘beautifully, where I had failed. .

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sont

- AEN SER a
ican situation, crumbling detente,

nuclear proliferation, the Middle East... but not a BEER shortage!”

MacMillan Planetarium,

take the ferry to Vancouver Canal, city sightseeing and

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where they will visit the
ArrivinginSaind doh, N Naple Ridge
ew
Brunswick, they will driveto § Landen 8B .
Shediac, and have a clam Helen Bladon 1s
dinner at Parlee beach. Kari Skarset 18
Moving to Prince Edward Jodi Johnston 15
Taland, a lobster. lunch has « .
been arranged at New Fort Ware
London Bay, and the af- Mitch Massetoe 18
ternoon will be spent at the © Victor McCook 18
National Park beach in DorisPoole 16
Cavendish, Lucille Porter ; 14
At: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Sekani Indian Day School
they will drive to York _
Redoubt for a plenic lunch, Vancouver :
tour the fort, visit the E. 15
Citadel, and have aboat tour Michelle Nash 15 ,
of the harbour. And on to .
Sydney, where they will take
the ferry to Argentia, -
Newfoundland, and visit , CeleateBobb 16
Castle Hill park, Wayne Bobb Jr. 13
an St, Jchn's.. New:  PetterPettis 15
foundland, they will visit Seabird Island Band Ad-
Gallery nad do city's ‘abt ministration
0 a
seeing, before taking a plane Burnaby
and flying home to British § Teresa Andrews 15
Columbia on August 15. Robinson 16
The British Columbia Wendy Maclean 15
‘Provincial Museum = in 7
Victoria is the participating §=TODAY IN'HISTORY .
museum for residents of by THE CANADIAN PRESS
British Columbia only. A force! OF about. 3,000
Contestants will design American troops was taken
and construct a museum by surprise in an attack by
exhibit model illustrating an 700 British soldiers at the

aspect of regional British

Catumbia heritage,

The following are the.

Britlsh Columbia winners of
“Explore Your Heritage
“program" .

Victoria :— altacked in the early mor-
DonaldLawrence 19° Ung. The American com-
Michelle Fue 5 Chandler and Gen wiles
Pamela Willams 15 W 2
Valeria Felker 15 Inder, were captured in the
Nevin Evans 16 SE ihe Supreme Court
Randy Hetherington 15 oy Canada had ite fret it-
DiannaBlower 14 , . 145—The king of Norway
Carol Lauzon 14 left Britain to return home

after five years of exile due
to Nazi cecupation.
Lynda Aitchison 86119 1H7—U.S, Secretary of
Sheila Armstrong 14 State George Marshall
Karen Monroe 14 _ announced his Marshall Plan
Jackie Wheelee 14 for the reconstruction of
BrendaNorn = 15 Europe.

a
‘Battle of Stoney Creek and
WAS

routed in confusion 165
years ago today—in 1313.
During the War of 1012, the
invaders were camped near
Burlington Bay on the
Canadian side of Lake On-
tario when the radcoats

Lang replies to MP Iona Campagnolo

: on M.L.S. for Terrace airport

My dear.Colleague:

Lrefer to your letter dated
April 11, 1978, concerning the
new Microwave. Landing
System (MLS) developed in
Britain.

capabilities ' at many
locations but exceptions are
to be expected. There is
some doubt about ,
such as Terrace, which are
surrounded by mountainous
terrain. In such cases the
minimum safe altitude to
which aircraft may descend
in cloud in influenced by the
‘ability of aircraft to safely
execute a missed approach
procedure on instruments.

This lure the
aircralt to climb clear of all
obstructions while

meet ;
established by ‘the In-
ternational Civil Aviation

nited ' AD innovative consumer
ye. assistance program spon-
sored by the federal
Department of Consumer
- andCor te Affairs will be.
in opera on in Prince
evaluation flights at Mon. Super B summer,

demonstrations were in ot@te Iona Campagnolo
eprhunation vith @ mening "oeniieey:
eal Se —

Operations Division of ICAO: _ Theprogram, called “Food
pain nered sitapaes beard Talk” is designed to show ©.
maké recommendations Consumers how to save
co adoption of one "Money when shopping for
syatem for world-wide use. =, ,
The Australia-Uniled States

tem was selected but

sys

before official adoption, the
selection must be approved
by the ICAO Air Navigation
Commisalon and the ICAQ:
Cerne, ne
~ scansport Canada officials
have been involved for

navigating in cloud. At some
locations, this may be the
Himiting factor and the in-

stallation of improved in-.

strument approach facilities
on the airport would not
provide a lower minimum
safe altitude.. Each airport
will require .careful con-
sideration taking into ac-

count the height and.

Proximity of the surrounding
terrain and the climb per-
formance of normal aircraft,
,23 well as the improved and
more versatile capabilities

and preparing food. ‘It is a
part of the federal govern-
ment’s student job creation
initiative, and will operate in
Prince Rupert with a project
Teader and five employees,
all hired from the local

community,” explained Mr,
Campagnolo.

" ‘The“Food Talk” project is
one of 46 out Canada,

through
and it ls-recelyving $15,025 out
of a national “Food Talk”
budget of $624,100.

of this new instrument
landing aid.

General use of MLS is not
expected to commence
before 1985 but you may be
assured that every effort will
be made to take full ad-
vantage of the equipment
capabilities to improve
service at difficult sites in

Yours sincerely,
Otto Lang

t

While Consumer’ and
Corporate Affaira Canada
has astablished basie

Guidelines for the program; '
‘and has provided a training

course for all project
leaders, each team wilt
assess the neods of its in-
dividual community and will
gear the: program
Specifically to meat those
needs, The ‘Food Talk’
teams also augment the
work of existing community
Stoups and sccial agencies,

THE CHAMP.

dards and acgirating 4

Much work remains to . BYEARS INAROW.
en See
Stet peacenat
Landing Systems (ILS). ‘The Grn tec an aks

mew system will provide
better instrument approach

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