PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Monday, 1978

EDITORIAL

May 4,

When I was going to high school the worid was
suffering the ‘Great Depression”. The town

sages you know, the local people who are always |

being quoled- the president of the chamber of
commerce, Rev. So and So, the TRM (Town's
Richest Man), the local pub owner, the town’s
only doctor- people like thai- were insisting upon
the importance of acquiring a “Higher
Education”. © ;

I can remember my father reading the New.

York Times, and adding tothat urgency. The
Rockland Light and Power Company (the
equivalent,in that town to B.C. Hydro) was ad-
vertising for post hole diggérs. Among the
requirements for the job was a B.A. degree. If
you had to have a bachelor’s degree for a
labourer’s job, imagine what the requirements

would be, in a few years- by the time I.

Braduaic. .*y father hinted, for a middle class
or professional eccupation!

So the pursuit of a higher education became
my goal, and has continued in that direction until
the last few years, when I realized that

My

Two items appeared in the newspapers that
threw me into a tizzy - one indicated that chefs
made more money than doctors in Cuba and the
other referred to a doctor consulting an African.
Witchdoctor, and suggesting his advice was
worth taking. . -

With a chef making more money than a doctor,
do you realize that it would cost more to have
bacon and eggs in a restaurant than have one’s
appendix out? (ED. Note: Have you been to a
restaurant lately, Judy?) Only one conclusion
can he drawn from this situation - people in Cuba
eat out more than they go to the doctor. I can see
a real problem with 500 chefs to every doctor.
You cut your finger and you may have to go to
Charley’s Hamburger Joint to be sewn up.

Looking at the similarties of the two oc-
cupations, one can see that both require con-
siderable training, both wear uniforms in their
work, both use the knife and work with organs
and both have lots of patience (patients).

Despite these similarities, I can't see why a
chef is paid more. I can get a little excited when
my Chateaubriand, tastes more like a broken
down outhouse, but my blood boils when I go into
hospital to have an ingrown toenail removed and
end up with my appendix out. I might find
myself suing the doctor for malpractice whereas
the best I could get from the restaurant is a
package of altaketzer for my indigestion.

‘Even the hours are better for a chef - he isn’t’

called out at 3:00 a.m. to deliver a stuffed Cor-
nish hen. Besides the chef has the added ad-
vantage of taking home the leftovers!

OTTAWA OFFBEAT:

BY Richard Jackson

Ottawa,- Slow starters in making the fat
federal public service a campaign issue, the
Conservatives are catching up fast—- the smart
way.

They’re being selective; drawing a bead on the

$50,000 to $65,000 deputy ministers and other
Liberal fat cat appointees, while leaving the
rank and file pretty well alone. ;

Fast off the mark, the Liberals, knowing a big
election seller when they see it, are on the pre-
campaign record with the promise to cut the
* publie service down to size.

They'll limit its growth, the say (again), but

new in the “we promise’ department is the.

pledge to tie public service salaries to levels in
business and industry, cap indexing of govern-
ment staff pensions and hang tough in strikes.

For too long, mindful that one million public
servants-federal, provincial and municipal—
have a bagful of votes, the Conservatives hung
back and even came to the defence of the civil
service.

The Tories seemed to forget that there are 13
million non-public service votes. ;

And they neglected to remember that a great
many of these 13 million too long have been
enraged by public service pay and pension ex-
cesses, not to mention the pushing around they
have taken from their uncivil servants.

But it has come to them, slowly, that there are
votes to be had in the issue.

So with Dan McKenzie, Conservative MP for
Winnipeg South leading off, the Conservatives
have mounted their own campaign to collect the
enormous anti-public service vote.

Dief has said it before, and Tory leader Joe

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education- particularly higher education, is
something like the icing on a cake.

It was, strangely enough, an old professor of
mine who first opened my eyes for me on the
overselling of the university degree as a symbol
of worth.

Ithasi- ensaid many times before, but when I
heard it from the lips of old Dr. Cosgrave, it took
on special meaning.

“Son”, the old prof, who was pushing the
century mark said-(everyone was ‘Son’ to him,)
“When yu take a savage, and give him a full
education, usually what you get is an educated
savage.” .

Therefore, with this in mind, I am not so
shocked as many appear to be from the re-
announced statistic that “Almost one quarter of
the adults of British Columbia were either
illiterate or severely undereducated when the
last census. was taken’? according to an
University of B.C. education professor.

It seems Gary Dickinson, of UBC's adult,

education department has produced a report

Two Cents Worth -

by Judy Vandergucht
[have misgivings about going to a witchdoctor »

for what: ails me regardless of what Dr. Henri
Collumb of Paris believes. I can see it all now, I

call him up feeling poorly and he’ll tell me to

take two tarantula forelegs and call him in the
morning. My visits to his office might prove
disconcerting as he prances around the
examination table chanting ‘Uga Uga Uga, 000’
Sure cuts down on the bedside chatter however.
Iean’t see too many people wanting to spill out
their troubles to someone who looks like a gorilla
with war paint. Also, I can’t see anyone being
too anxious to have house calls especially when
he would bring along two water buffalo to help

cast out the evil spirits. (Unless your front lawn

needs fertilizing of course.. ;
Filling a prescription might prove em-

barrassing to the local pharmacist who had just -

used up his stock of powdered Rhino horns and
Cheetah whiskers. The witchdoctor would
probably prance into the drugstore and put a hex
on "

Actually, I think Dr. Collumb was thinking
that the price of medical care would go down.
‘After all the Witchdoctor wouldn't need any
fancy offices (his calling card might read, third
tree on the left past the watering hole) Nor
would he need expensive drugs, the only problem
would be using too many parts of an endangered

species. His idea of a hospital would be to sling a °

hammock between two trees and have his
grandmother feed you Buffalo blood. - I'd
guarantee your hospital stay would be VERY

P.G.’s Missed A Good Thing

Clark has mentioned ‘it-very low key—leaving
the issue pretty wide open for Dan McKenzie to
come out swinging. , .

No promises--and even some of the rank and
file public servants are applauding—that if the
Tories win the election, heads will-roll in the
plush executive suites of the public service.

Those deputies--all Order-in-Council govern-
ment appointments—those $65,000-a-year Liberal
yes-men mandarins—will get the chop.. Dan

. McKenzie estimated there are maybe 40 or 50 of

them.

He's grossly underestimating.

Since the Trudeau Liberals began inflating the
public service, the deputies, assistant deputies
and associate. deputies have multiplied.

Where in the prudent pre-Trudeau days a
government department seldom required more
than one deputy, it’s the bureaucratic fashion
now to have a dozen.

You'll find the evidence of that in the federal
government phone book.

And majority
Liberal ‘“buddy-buddy” network, loyal and
dedicated to Pierre Trudeau. ae

Dan McKenzie knows it and says they'll have

to go. . .
Only trouble is that the Tories have said it all
before. - .
Back in 1957 when John Diefenbaker took
power, he found a public service loyal only to the
Liberals after 22 years of rule by Mackenzie
King and Louis St, Laurent. Lo
But Dief wouldn't believe it.
_ He protested--when warned of treachery—that
the deputies were honest and loyally non-
partisan. - 7
Only his good and faithful’ Trade Minister
Gordon Churchill knew better, and fired his
deputy, Mitchel! Sharp, before Dief could stop

him. .And did anybody ever say that Sharp -

wasn’t a Liberal?

This column can take some of the blame for the
lack of Conservative action in not cleaning house
after '57.

Remember it well. It was a slow news day.
Dear old Howard Green then the new. naive
Public Works Minister, came by and was asked-
in a very leading way--whether the newly-elected
Conservatives would indulge in political
patronage, firing Liberals and hiring Con-
ser'vatives. :
hoe my no, gasped good old Howard, never

at.

And so they didn’t And they didn’t know until it
was too late that their throats had been cut by the
Liberal public service,

But not this time, swears Dan McKenzie,
“We'll get them first.” :

¥

Twenty-Five Per Sent of Us in B.C. Is

showing that 20.1 percent of B.C.’s population -
313,625 adults - had fewer than nine years’
schooling; according to 1971 census figures, and
about 62,000 adults (3.9 percent of the
population) had less than Grade 5. .

With a population of one and a half million
aged over 15, the figures are said to poia. to, “an
alarming number of adults with little or no
employment qualifications” the Dickinsor.
report says.

“The criterion of less than five years of
schooling provides a measure of what might be
termed absolute illiteracy, while that of eight
years or less assesses the population that is
severely undereducated and thereby inad-
missible to most existing vocational training
programs,”’ Dickinson says.

“The initial and continuing education of
Canadians is based almost entirely upon
literacy. Consequently those who lack facility in

of.them are menibers of’ the

reading and writing are virtually uneducable,
‘and without education, their employment

prospects are diminished

Illiterut

t, at the same time, the UBC Prof. had a few
kind words to say on behr** «B.C. He found the
incidence of undereducation to be lower in B.C.
than elsewhere in Cnada, where, as a whole,
«more than five million people had eight or
fewer years of schooling with 6.4 percent
reporting less than five years and 27.3 percent
five to eight years of schooling.”

nder if the serious professor of adult
education for UBC, Gary Dickinson, could have
overlooked a likely possibility: Maybe the
situation is a Jot worse than even his figures show
them to be. How about - for instance - all those
total illiterates who were unable to fill out the
survey forms and questionnaires about their
degree of education- simply because they could
not-read or write?

It seems to us a little like the locksmith who

mailed a duplicate key to the woman who phoned
him to say he had lost the key to her mailbox,
and would he please send her another!

score,

Action at last Sundays Terrace vs Prince Rupert
rughy game on the Skeena School playing field.
Terrace “walked on” Prince Rupert with a 24 to 0°

Estimates on the number of spectators attending the

The Terrace team is off to Edmonton in two weeks to
compete in a regtonal, interprovincial, rugby play-
down. Last year the team placed well in the May 24th”
event, according to one spokesman for the club,

LETTERS

 20-y

_ Likes Her Job

The Editor

I read with disgust and
distaste, your editorial
regarding the terrible plight
of THE ‘WAITRESS. ‘Ap-
perantly, your reporter did
not do hig-her homework.
How many waitresses were
interviewed to bé able to
make those ‘informative’
statements? It sounds like

One disgruntled gal crying |

the blues over a few beers.

Don't you know how a few
beers loosen the tongue and
seli pity develops? She
sounds like a person that had
been r anded for not
doing her jab, and by that I

_ do not mean cozying up to.

“those leering, octopus
handed, arrogant, dark-
booth male customers.
Thave been a waitress ina
Dining Lolinge (where they
serve those DRINKS !1) off
-pndon for 20 years, IT am not
some young sexy dimwit that
causes OLD FAITHFUL to
lose her job, I am OLD
FAITHFUL, and enjoy my
job very much. I donot have
varicose veins from being
run ragged all day. I take
pride in my appearance and

“my jeb and my customers. |

Every. shift, I receive
compliments for my ap-
pearance, for the service I

give, and not from those
crude customers in a semi-
private dark booth.

. MALE BOSS will not tolerate

any rudeness from any
customer, no matter how
much money he has to spend.
He will evict any one of them
that make the slightest
advance or
language around his staff, no
matter how old or young the
waitress may be, We all
know that if we do an ef-
ficient job, we will be well
protected by our manager.
Any waitress that complains

about sexual advances from,

male: customers in those
dark corners, is asking for
these advances, The reason
s0 many “HELP WANTED-
WAITRESS” ads appear is
mainly because of the ad-
verse publicity in the Media -
newspapers, cartoons,
movies, plays, T.V., ee.
ete.). You always show her
as a stupid, gumchewing,
hipswaying, sexy retard that

doesn’t know the difference’

between a. ham sandwich
and hamé& eggs. This job is
always shown as her LAST
RESORT!!! How misin-
formed you are! If I would
ever chew gum, lean on the
table to show my cleavage,
confuse my orders, sit with

use rough ”

the customers and smoke
cigarettes or drink liquor
while on duty, I WOULD be

laced by a sweet young
thing that DID NOT do these
things, We are not rejects
and misfits in our society.
We work hardat making our
profession an enjoyable,
respected one in spite of your
kicks in the face to push us
down to the bottom.

You felt so sorry for the
poor dear that had to make
more than four trips to a
table to serve a meal, The
next time you go out to eat,
PLEASE ask your waitress
to serve your complete
dinner in Jeas than four trips.
Then sit back and enjoy your

dinner, and be sure and tip”

her well, because I know the
satisfied smile on your face
will show how you Ilked
having your water, menu,
cocktail (allowed before
dinner?) escargots, soup
caesar salad, filet mignon,
bus, butter, dessert, coffee,.

"refill, after dimer drink, and

oh yes that bottle of wine
with your dinner all dumped
on your table at one time. It
would take care of OLD
FAITHFUL’S tired feet
wouldn't it, but it wouldn't

- bring you back for another

meal. We enjoy making

ear Waitress

those extra trips so that you
willenjoy your meal. Thatis
our job and you, who know
nothing about this profeasion
should not try to write such
eeulighten ng" articles
when you are so ignorant of
the profession. We work
hard to learn the correct way
to nerve you the customer,
we work hard and study hard
the same as you did when
youattended college to atudy
Jounaligm, ;

"Please stop slandering and

belittling the Waitress.
We are proud of our
profession, are you?

i there are so many
positions open for
waitreases, why don't they
quit the unsatisfactory job,

the one with the leering male-

boss, the crude male

bosses and
respectable clientel just lke
there are different types of
newspapers. Please
remember, the one girl you
interviewed does not rule the
majority.

“OLD FAITHFUL”

Second Community Gentre Not The Answer

Editor

Two High School girls
came canvassing to our door
when they should have beén
in school learning, Their
question; if we are in favor
of anew Community Centre,
Our ansWer: no. Why? We
have an arena, a swimming
‘pool, two pool halls, Ker-
mode Friendship Centre, a
ski-hill, every school has a
beautiful gym for sports, we
have sport fields maintained
by service clubs, there are
all kinds of youth clubs run
by churches and cther
organizations, our fancy

a

homes have recreation
rooms in their basements,
we have the great outdoors
(Terrace is not a clty slum)
ede. ete. Do you think our
kids are deprived beings for
whom we ahould feel sorry?
I do feel sorry for the tax
yers, whose burden is
ming unbearable, Some

people want a new police
office, a new Health. Unit,
expanded facilities for In-
dian Affairs and many other
government departments.

There is no money and it is
high time to stop wasting

; You ask our opinion on

Vandalism. Well, vandals (if

young) are protected by lew.
The kids know that nobody

can touch them. Disciplina

and punishment are looked

upon as old fashioned. Itis —

high time society returns to

the Ten Commandments, the

old law of God,

BU Homburg

“aay