Page 4, The Herald, Tuesday, December 4, 1979

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EDITORIAL

Friday’s attack on two goats is not just an isolated case of one or two dogs turned killers, we hope we have made that quite clear in the front page coverage we have given the numerous such attacks in the past year.

Terrace and Thornhill have a serious dog problem. Any day of the week you can go for a drive and see a dozen or more dogs roaming the streets singly and in groups. ;

This is not to say that pack of wild Savage hounds are roaming the streets tearing apart local residents as they walk down the road. For the most part these are family pets.

The problem is that these animals, while they may be domestic and spend the greater proportion of the time on their owner’s hearth or front step are being allowed to run free,

Whether we like it or not we have to face the fact that loose dogs are a danger to livestock. It may be hard for someone to accept that their beloved pooch is killing a neighbor's sheep or chickens or in the excitiment of a battle with another dog has savaged a child but it happens too frequently here.

We are calling on the counci! members for the District of Terrace to examine the problem and come up with some solutions. We. need -better dog control than we have been’ getting. «

CONSUMER COMMENT

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CYRIL SHELFORD

A proposal

It seems every time the price of lumber drops it creates an immediate crisis, This is due to the three month moving average in calculating stumpage rates. Granted, it should even out with what they lose when the market falls as theorectically they should gain when the market goes up. However, all of us who have been involved in this industry for many years know it is not aht easy and all it does is interrupt a stable logging industry. :

We all know that most companies log like mad when the stumpage is low to build up inventory, and then cut back as far as possible when stumpage is high. This can, and does, lead to a “boom and bust” logging system which as a result imposes severe economic straln on many independent logging contractors, and much of the-forest work force. This will not improve unless government and industry work out a new system whereby stumpage payments are based on a cercentage selling price of the product, whether it be lumber, pulp, paper, ete. This system would reflect the true selling price at time of sale, not a fictitious figure that you get with the present system when prices suddenly go up or down.

There are many other areas of change needed before we can sit back and relax over our forest management practices, Forest management, like game management, has been talked about by all governments over the years, yet, even with im- provements in forest management, we still seem to fall behind on research and restocking as a result each year we have a greater area of forest land ‘NSF’ (Non Sufficiently Stocked).

It is true that government can point to the thousands of trees planted each year, however, with the cutting of smaller trees in many areas many more trees are cut and iam certain no one knows how many are cut. I am certain, if we did know, it would send a shock wave through the province.

Pve had time this summer and fall tolook at some of the clear-cut areas, and areas cut years ago. The thing that stands out as a shocker is in the mixed age stands where less than a quarter of the trees are mature, and the rest range from 10 to 30 years.

There simply has to be a better method of har- vesting than knocking down all the young trees and fosing those years of growth in order to get the mature

ees.

In the age of horse logging or small machines, this was no problem; however, now with high cost logging, with big machines, this brings new problems, In some of these stands not more than one tree in six will even be moved from the area. In my opinion, if we are really serious on management, we must know how many trees are cut or knocked down each year so we can compare it with the number planted to reach decisions. Unfortunately, it is all a matter of economics.

There is no argument that mature and over-mature stand clear-cutting is the best way to get the crop harvested and a new crop started. In fact, in some of these over-mature stands stumpage should be nil to assist companies in harvesting and getting a new crop started. Mixed age stands could better be logged by small independents, cutting rail ties.or other special products, as they .are better). equipped to log economically in such stands--as they have in the past. Even if it requires Jower stumpage rates, it would be worth it to save the young, growing trees. I can point to areas in the Interior that have been logged three times since the early 1900’s. This would fit in well with the government's small business program.

T would like to make the following five points which I think should be considered:

1) A tally is needed of all trees cut andknocked down each year to compare with trees planted.

2) When trees are planted a sign is often put up giving the date of planting’ which is good. The same thing should be done when an area is logged so all would know when it was cut and how long it took for a new crop to establish. (I visited areas obviously logged over 15 years ago, judging by the rot in the stumps, yet nething is growing. When asking Forest Service, or company personnel, as to when it was cut,

hae statetetatel .

Reader offers us a thought

SKEENA SUNRISE By David R.. Erickson

There is a place in the north . The sun it never sets

Nor wails awhile, nor lingers on Nor pauses with sad regrets

I have looked, years and years For the setting of the sun

And now I must conclude There simply isn’t one.

for forestry |

CYRIL SHELFO

RD... has years as a guide you seldom find anyone who _ knows.)

3) At present, increased wage costs are a deductible expense from the stumpage formula so there is no incentive for the companies to resist high demands from unions, They are mainly negotiating away the people’s share of revenue as over half the increase would have gone to stumpage. ;

4) The province, if revenue Is plentiful, will ap- propriate large sums of money for Forest Management; however, in times of restraint other areas, such as; health, education, and welfare get higher priority from all governments. This system ts not good enough for proper management at all times as the need for replanting and good management is

t as important during poor economic years as during the good years.

Asystem has to be devised to ensure a steady flow of revenue every year, rather than being left to the whims of the treasury board as to where the priorities should be set. In a province largely dependent on forestry for our standard of living, nothing should have a higher priority than an adequate management program. For this reason, I recommend that 10 per cent of the selling price of our forest products go directly to a Forest Management Fund, used ex- clusively for Forest Management.

5) Federal involvement: Federal governments are no different from provincial governments--during the good years they go all out for forestresearch and other programs, yet during poor revenue years (with the emphasis on restraint) these programs get cut first. The priority goes to more politically beneficial areas, such as; social programs. However, these do not build the economy for the future where the next generation can enjoy the benefits of sound management programs today.

forest industry to go directly. to the Forest Management Fund of the province generating the revenue. I recommend that not less than 20 per cent of all the federal forest revenue go automatically into this fund. In order to get away from the “boom and bust” cycles of monies being available for forest management, 50 per cent of this money should go into a Perpetual Fund from which only the annual interest would be used each year. By this method, the fund would double annually, under normal economic conditions, thereby improved management programs could be achieved each year.

I repeat, that it should be clear to all of us that the past system of relying on the whims of any govern- ment treasury board has not given us good forest management in the past, and will not in the future. A better method simply has to be found, or this province will suffer the consequences in the years ahead.

ATRILL THINKS

by Thomas Atrill

Have you ever wondered why there is so mucn protest these days? .

It isa long list, with new subjects being added daiiy. Whales, tankers, pipelines, dams, mines, logging, roadbuilding, atomic power, and so on and on.

It would be easy to fall for the familiar line about ,to use one of their words, ‘horrendous’, results of all that industrial activity. [never did. Instead, I searched for the true motivation of those who are forever protesting what would otherwise be known as progress.

The subject is all the more puzzling when one realizes that the policies promoted and advocated by the protestors would, if implemented, almost certainly

‘poweniie Gollecteddroim thees.eeceht Conve iy

PERSKY'S PERSPECTIVE

By STAN PERSKY

“Tf get brainwashed by Communist propaganda, is McDermott. , ced ve Mr. McDermott, president of the country’s largest trade union organization, the 2.3-million- member Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), has un- coved a Red menace within the labour movement he leads. Never one to lay down of the job (especially with the possiblility of a Red under the bedhe might be lying on), McDermott urged union leaders last month to start fighting back against the Commies,” other- wise they will destroy ite Jabour movement and the try if they have their way. ; perhaps you were ynaware of this threat to national security. All the more reason to be grateful for Mr. McDermott’s timely warning. Admittedly, the cir- cumstances in which the CLC president made his iscovery are slightly suspicious. otal goes back lo the post office, of course. In Oct. 1978, ihe 23,000-member Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), led by the feisty Jean Claude Parrot, had been without a contract for over a year, and were about to declare their annual or biennial strike in a last-ditch effort to avoid being mangled by: inflation. (For purposes of this discussion, let's just take it for granted that the Canadian Post Office is the worst-managed, most-nearly-certifiably-nuts major corporation in the country, and is about 85 per cent to blame for the decade-long dispute with its employees. Acceptance of this basic truth will save us a lot of time

later on.)

Just as CUPW licked its.last stamp and prepared to hit the bricks, the government suddenly passed a law . suspending their right to strike. Somewhat disturbed by this unexpected change in therules of the collective bargaining game, the postal workers were slightly . tardy in falling to their knees and complying with the - government-management decree (in fact, they defied the instant law” for seven or eight days). For this bit of effrontery, Mr. Parrot and some of his co-workers were promptly arrested, and Parrot was eventually sentenced to three months for his crimes. (He is currently at large, on bail, while the case is being appealed.) ; . ;

This is where McDermott comes into the picture. Rather than rushing’ to the barflcadés alongside his brother and sister workers, as might be expected, the CLC president seemed intent on ioaning the govern- . ment his knife-sharpening machine so that they could complete their back-stabbing operation.

Since then, workers have begun to wonder aloud about Mr. MeDermott's stewardship of the trade union movement. At events such as last month’s B.C. Federation of Labour convention, his name was murmured in tones far from hushed reverence. Now McDermott could probably live without veneration, and he might even survive the occasional buffet to his

ant, 3 250,000. member Canadian. Union of Public Employees (CUPE), a resolution is passed demanding his resignation.

Coincidentally, it was just at this point that Mr. MeDermott discovered a group ponderously known as the Marxist-Leninist Organization of Canada, In struggle (that’s MLOC In struggte for short; presumably pronounced Moloch is Struggle, which, admittedly, makes it sound more like the title of an H.G, Wells science-fiction novel than the name of a revolutionary group). In Struggle, charged Mc- Dermott, was behind the move to force his resignation. The CLC president said there was a direct link between the CUPE resolution and a booklet authored by this group entitled “Dump McDermott!"

__ Now some people might claim that Mr. McDermott is trying to sidestep genuine criticism, but 1, for one, am prepared to take him at his word. Naturally, I felt compelled to read this powerful piece of subversive literature, fully aware of the risks of permanent brain damage. As everyone knows, reading Communist propaganda is the next most dangerous thing to Gangrene or static cling.

Ineedn’t have worried. This best-seller is filled with patent falsehoods. Among “Dump McDermott'"'s obviously absurd charges: Canada is in the midst of an economic crisis; inflation is rife; workers’ pur- chasing power is declining; the-state is using its muscle to suppress trade unions; Mr. McDermatt's unwillingness to engage in labour militancy is a betrayal of the working class; his support of the NDP is even worse (“opportunism to the very marrow,” as they put it in their own inimitable style), and so on. Now who would believe any of that? The In Struggle group also propose a few modest measures to improve matters (such as overthrowing capitalism) which would be eminently reasonable but for the fact that most workers don't yet consciously identify them-

selves as members of a social class with interests of ts own.

., The- only, way this cart be overcomie, is fora set;,,..0g0.'But it’s something ise when, as happened at the amount of the iederst Bt

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bring our civilization to a standstill. We would abolish conventional forms of power. We would favour cottage industry and do away with the factory system of production. We would phase out the family and sub- stitute day care and state indoctrination instead. The state would be the new God.

Printed in 1971, Ayn Rand’s book “The New Left: The Anti-Industrialist Revolution,” explains in hard- hitting and clear language, just what is the motive behind the whole protest movement. She correctly states that socialists and protestors are ‘birds of a feather,’ born of the same bankrupt philosophy.

I found the following quote most interesting: (Ayn Rand quoting Newsweek magazine) “To a man they (ecologists) maintain that a national population plan must be invoked, primarily through 8 land-use plan. “The battle against pollution must also overcome the Perhaps CLC le jurisdictional lines 5 that carve the planet inta separate warning us about Reds vould debe to athise us i sovereignties”’ “(this will require) some fairly im- mail our New 9

rant modifications of the American tradition of Year's cards early.

ee enterprise and free choice.”

Therefore, while I'm grateful for Mr. McDermott’s warning about the Communist; possibly he over- estlmates the immediate danger, More important, it

seems unlikely that his charges will iti who believe him to be a sellcut, Sence the crits

Meanwhile, back at the post office: Dr. Noel Hall, one of the country’s most respected labour ar- bitrators, told an Industria) Relations Management workshop last month that the post office is again on the verge of breakdown and that we ean likely expect more disruption when the current government- imposed contract expires Dec, 31. Dr. Hall, along with several thousand other experts on the matter, lays the

blame for the continued mess at government's management, the feet of the federal

It slips away so fast and clean But never really sets And = goes behind the To paint their silhouettes

mountain peaks

The sun sets on the ocean

With only waves to black its view And on the prairies flat and wide The sun it sets there too

But the Skeena and her sunset Are hapless and so rare

By the time you hasten to the spot You find it is not there

The world is all In balance And bad and good comprise From the bad God took the good And gave to us the sunrise

TODAY in HISTORY

Werke Wilson became Treaty of Versailles in June, When the clouds have shifted My copy is dog-eared from re-reading and is L the first United Slates 154 — | Nicholas And the mountain range is clear marked and underlined for easy reference, It should etters welcome president to leave the Breakspear became the only There is no beauty in the world be read by anyone who is puzzled and concerned by

country while in offlee when he sailed for the Versailles Peace Conference 81 years ago today — in 1918, The conference dlacuased the terms of peace following the termination of hostilivler in the First World War and resulted in the signing of the

Than what we have right here the negative actions and utterances of the Protest Movement.

Last, but not least, for all students and anyone concerned with the business of education, there is chapter nine, entitled “The Comprachicos.” It is an indictment of modern progressive education. You will be shocked.

More on education later.

Englishman elected pope,

1604 — Champlain reached the St. Croix River in Maine.

1923 — Opera alnger Maria Cailas was born.

1#43°— Tito’s government WaB proclaimed in Yugoslavia,

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To watch the beauty of this land Develop before your eyes

And such it is in Skeena

In the morning and the sunrise.

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