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-BY JACK SCOTT

Our "local PTA, apparently

~ scraping thé bottom of the barrel
“. for speakers, has asked me ta say

a few words at-their next monthly

.vimeeting on-the. foys and perils of
being’ a foreign correspondent.

“The dear ladies, | gather. re-

tain the. image of the far-flung.
‘journalist as a  swashbuchling,.

even a romantic figure whose life
is one derring-do adventure after:
another.

I hate to be the one to. banish
“the illusion,
‘the “foreign correspondent no
longer ~ buckles: a
swashes abuckle. asthe case may
be. The fun has gone out of it. I

hate to be the one to come right

out and Say so.”
On my own beats over the past
six years -- SouthAmerica, Bri-

East--- Twas always astonished

at othe numbers of famed cor-

respondenis who were ready,
even eager, to give upa life that's
the envy of every. stay-at- home
newspaperman.

“Gne reason is that the div idends

of travel, constant travel) pro-
. duce diminishing returns. After
the. first time around the won-
der of it begins to drain away. One
. of the great travelling writers,
Evelyn Waugh, observed, at the

- ripe old-age of 35, that he would

have to go-to the moon to re-
capture the excitement he felt
when he first crossed the English
Channel... It may be that the first

correspondents to. the-moon will:

weary of that, as well.”
The. world, iteself; has chang-
ed immeasurably from the days

when men such as my friend
Gordon Sinclair could ‘rounr. it

and produce an adventure story.

for .every edition. It once was

.- for’ just such discoverers... Now
Increasingly,

it. is for. tourists,
the globe is beginning to seem

But the fact is that _

swash vor}

the Middle

~ Foreign Correspondent —

just an endless chain of, Hilton

- hotels.

I have listened to Gor don talk .
of those days when he -first.went:
on the foreign beat. it was then
a search for the exotic, the sur-,
prising, the unfamiliar. India
“was the Taj Mahat es moon-
light. Egypt was-a camel cara-
van tO the ptramids. “Japan was -
the yeisha house. Holland was
tulips and wind-mills on the
dyhes. Africa. was’ jungle and
tribal dances and py-gmies with
rings in thelr noses

Where did it all go? Today

Leave-of-absence
For Counsellor

>. Geoffrey G. Hett. Special Coun-
seHor. for Schoo! Districts Nos:
63. (Saanich) and 64 (Gulf Is-
Yands). has been granted a year's
leuve-of-absence, to continue his
studies at the Univer sity af Ore-
gon‘in Eugene.

He has been, “ACE epted in the

Psychology and worked during the
summer. months in order to ac
celerate his studies towards his
degree of Doctor of Psychology by
OFA Ascording to advice ree
ceived, the openings in the doc-
toral program are at apremium,

During M:. Heit’s absence, his
position will be filled. by John
C. Nuttall, BLA.. M.Ed. As well
as teaching and lecturing in the
(inited Kingdom and Canada, Mr.
Nuitall has held positions in
diagnostic, .clinical..and. educa-
tional. psychology. Mr. Nuttail's
main area of professional in-
teresthas been in retardation and
other - physical:
handicaps in children.

‘form or. spheres of influence, tle |
“and the confrontation of ideaio-

>What happened to. the strange.

‘them.

Seeking Doctorate

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blens . of squalor, of starvation
he mused,
I'd been

gies. Trouble is his business, in’ the deep south,

Business is forever booming.

beautiful world’. What happen-
ed to pith helmets’ Where have
the crocodiles gone? .
The old-timers yw on this way
at great fength wherever you meet
Nostalgia is the opium of
vlobal writers, especially those
who wentwhen the poing was good,
It is onis the newcomers who see
it realistically, They know that
it is really progress when you can
record the aspirations and the

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mies, They know that a series of

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of. India is far more meaningful .

than. a flamboyant description of ~ POW E R. ;

a maharaia's tiger shoot, a stand+ MANY

ard item when dear old Gord was
on the prowl,

But the glamor is gone. ton :
pone,
Justa little o over a fear ago in”
atiny cafe off Wenceslaus Square
in Prague I listened to one of the
greatest of the British corres-
pondents. a man who has explor-
ed the far corners of the earth

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for more than 30. years and was
now about to retire himself volin=
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the good Dixieland jazz’ in the
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"ners. But the story Pd come for
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