Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 22, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday october 22, 1973 arts organizations run state Aid risk by James Nelson Ottawa up unless private citizens and Corpora Lions Are prepared to spend More Money on them in the next 10 or 20 years Canada s big theatre music and arts organizations May have to be come government run Agen cies. So says Andre Fortier head of the 21-member Canada Council which dispenses roughly million a year on the arts humanities and so Cial sciences. Hue rises again by Chris Peterson Hoe South Vietnam Reuler it is More than five years since the Graceful old Imperial capital of Vietnam was battered and bloodied As american and South Vietnam Ese soldiers fought to Clear communist troops out of the City. The Long slow process of re building the City and trying to forget the Slaughter of the 1968 communist offensive is at last beginning to show results. There Are still buildings riddled with Bullet holes pock marked by shrapnel and Sag Ging dangerously where shells rockets and bombs landed. But the government is Clear ing away the wreckage and new buildings Are going up. In september the City put on its Best clothes and flags flew Ever y w h e r e As president Nguyen Van Thieu took part in a ceremony to commemorate a i o t h e r name synonymous with destruction in Vietnam s Tri which lies about 37 Miles further North. But where Quang Tri was reduced to rubble in the fight to retake it from the communists Hue was luckier. The Citadel perhaps Hue s most famous landmark Domi nates the Northern Bank of the perfumed River which swirls gently through the Centre of the City from the mountains through to the South China sea. Now a Large yellow and red South vietnamese flies Over the battered rust coloured battlements that stretch along the River. The Flag went up in february 1968, replacing the red and Blue Viet Cong Flag that had flown Over the Citadel for 25 Days. The Citadel itself a vast area of palaces and lakes modelled on peking s forbidden City still shows signs of the Grini struggle of tet 1968. Bullet holes scar doorways and Arches and several build Ings still lie in ruins. The throne room where Viet Nam s emperors held court is untouched. Empty and duly the room still has the throne mounted in the Centre. But the air of decay and neglect that hangs Over the Cita Del is not True of the rest of Hue. There is a peaceful Friendly atmosphere that is lacking in the present capital of Saigon. The girls walking gracefully along the Banks of the River in their traditional dresses Are a poignant reminder of the City s aristocratic past. But while the quiet gentle Pace of the perfumed River its actually a dark Muddy co typifies the Way of life in Hue the nearby mountains provide a constant reminder of what happened in 1968. The rumble of artillery can often be heard in the City As government troops Exchange salves with the North Viet namese and Viet Cong units in the area. Or. Fortier 46, has had a 30-year association with the performing and visual arts since his Days at Laval University Quebec where he took a classical Liberal arts course. Subsequently he earned an honors degree in mathematics from the University of that led to employ ment with the Federal trea sury Board for 13 years Dur ing which his main interest was in government spending programs for the arts. The Council was formed 16 years ago with an endowment income of million a year. The Federal government later began putting More Money directly into the Council s work. Its present million an Nual budget is divided be tween the arts and the social sciences. But even with million a year going into the performing and visual arts Many theatrical music bal let and opera companies and Art galleries Are still crying poverty. Or. Fortier was asked in an interview whether this is be cause knowing there Are government funds available they have become extravagant in their spending and ambitions. He said. We just Don t realize How big the artistic Industry has become in Canada. All of these Compa Nies Are growing and expand ing. None of them have reached their full ment except possibly the Stratford ont., Shakespeare theatre. Our town major symphony orchestras in Toronto and Montreal still employ their artists on a full 52-week or. Fortier said Federal and provincial subsidies have grown rapidly but municipal and private support has not kept Pace. As a result the Gap Between Revenue and expenses for in Deavors has widened. This Means in effect that when we reach the limit the Gap will be so great that what we will have on our hands is a government institution for these or. Fortier said. This really would t be new. We recognize govern ment institutions in the Fields of the libraries the museums the Csc and the National film Board and so on. In the performing arts i think As Long As we can keep the private sector and the Box office providing a fair ratio of the funds we will be better off in terms of the Freedom of the Enterprise its creativity and so he said he would not like to see performing arts Compa Nies becoming government enterprises at this but could t say what would develop in another 10 or 20 years. The Council recently made a study of 29 arts organizations which it had subsidized for five years. It found that their costs had doubled in that time and their Box office receipts had not kept Pace despite a 50-per-cent increase in audiences and higher ticket prices. The municipalities and the private sector slipped not in absolute terms they did increase their funding but not enough to keep up Wilh the growing or. Fortier a greying Man with expressive Brown eyes and gallic gestures warms to the subject of what the country gets for what it pays through the Canada Council. For one thing he says there is about of employ ment and economic return for every the Council spends. The arts attract in ticket sales As Many people As professional sport. In Mon real there Are As Many people going to place Des arts As go through the turnstiles to see the expos. In Ottawa More go to the National arts Centre than go to see the rough riders. These arc the facts of life this is a service Industry part of the tertiary element of our Industrial Structure. It s a Candle crowd Baton Rouge la. A nearly persons in Louisiana state University s Tiger stadium followed Wilh fascination a flickering object which passed Over their Heads at the half Lime of the l s u Kentucky football game saturday night. At one Point a police Ucli Copler was called in to try to track Down the object. However a staff Pho i o g r a p h c r for the Balon r o u g e morning advocate later reported he had focused his camera s Tel photo Lens on the object. He said he Dis covered the mysterious object was a cellophane bag with a Candle inside. As the Candle healed the air inside the bag in Rose Ami floated with Hie wind Over the stadium he said. Service that is demanded by a growing the Council has been criticized by Young artists Par l i c u 1 a r 1 y for putting too much of ils Money into big established arts organizations like the National Ballet and the Canadian opera com Pany. Other critics say the Council spreads its Grants too thin encouraging mediocrity. Or. Fortier said the coun cil s first objective in recent years was to raise the Quality of artistic Endeavor in Canada. Now it feels the Money should be spread but More. If we had All the funds we wanted we could do both. But at this stage of the country s development creativity i s booming. This does t happen often in the life Span of a nation and when it does should pick it up and Hope for the Best. It s a sin that we have nothing going in Northern on Lario or in other parts of the country where there Are so Many pockets of population and nothing is or. Fortier also suggests governments May have to be come More Active in the visual arts. You can probably count professional painters and sculptors in Canada who Are trying to make a living at it. To support them with average incomes of Only year after they be paid for their materials they would need to sell million Worth of Art works a year. We Don t sell million. We be got to do some thing. The government Art Bank is a Good idea and we have other in the Art Bank the Canada Council spends million a year for the works of artists and rents them to government offices for a fee that goes Back into the. Purchase of More Art. Or. Fortier has some of these works in his own office articulated aluminium column by. Ulysse Comtois that he can shape into what Ever form he wishes and a Blue and White montage of abstract forms by an artist who hid better not be named. I liked it at or. Fortier said of the latter but i think i m growing tired of it now. I think it proves that some Art is consumable. You bring it in put it of the Wall and six months later you can pass it on to someone some municipal and Pri vate Art galleries operate rental services and or. For tier. Says this might be devel oped on a larger scale. Should have an Agency that buys the Best and rents out the works. Sure it will involve a subsidy but it is encouraging the artist to pro Duce and sell and not leave his works piling up in his Stu or. Fortier s Job takes him from coast to coast twice a year with frequent visits to Montreal Toronto and the larger centres for major events in the artistic Calen Dar. It s a wonderful life Wilh a lot of theatre because i be a fait with what is going on. I like Reading and i must do a lot of it with All the books we subsidize but with a family of five it keeps me by Jonathan Steele London special the guardian at a certain stage of development Rivers cease to be barriers Between countries and help to unite them or so it seems at least in the Balkans that traditional powder Keg of european poli tics which most Northern europeans still treat with a mild Rose of ridicule if they bother about it at All. Almost unnoticed in the space of a few years International co opera Tion has begun to develop in the Balkans to an astonishing degree. Two countries could hardly seem less fitted for useful contacts than anti communist president Tito s Yugoslavia. Yet Greece s development has reached the Point at which no government in Athens can ignore the fact that Salonika is running out of so water supplies. Mean while Only a few Miles West of the cily the River Vardar which flows Down the Middle of Southern Yugoslavia runs into the Aegean sea. For iwo years now under the benevolent Umpire ship of United nations and with an englishman in charge As project manager a research project has been under Way to tap the Vardar s Waters. At the moment the River s flow is highly uneven and in Hie dry season at be Velija on uie yugoslav greek Border is Down to Little More than a respectable trickle. A series of dams will have to be built inside Yugoslavia but irrigation projects in Northern Greece and the thirsty Popula Tion of Salonika will get most of the Benefit. Further North the River Dan ube forms the natural Frontier Between Romania and bul Garia. Although the two coun tries Are fellow members of the Warsaw pact their few differences in recent years Ere big enough to prevent them agreeing on harnessing the River s formidable Power. In september 1972, it took a Between pres ident Nicolae Ceausescu of to mania and Todor Zhivov the bulgarian head of state for agreement to be reached at last on a. Proposal for a Dani to be built across the Danube at Belcner Cioara. The need for Trade has been a Factor in bringing the differ truck sought in slaying m a l d e n out. Up Small truck painted White and Salmon Pink is being sought in connection with the slaying of an escaped Collins Bay Penitentiary prisoner provincial police said today. They also Are seeking a Man believed the Driver of the truck which Duck Hunters reported seeing near where the body of Vicor Joseph Martin was Dis covered. The Bullet riddled body of one of four men who broke out of the Kingston area Penitentiary last saturday was found wednesday on the Bank of a Creek near this Village 10 Miles South oif Windsor. Still at Large Are the three o t h Ross Walters 27, of is. Thomas out., Stephen Czupor 34, of Hungary who has no Canadian address and Frank m. Walters 18, of Hagersville ont., no relation to Larry Walters. The three Are believed armed with knives and Are considered dangerous police said. The 41-year-old Marlin Origi Nally from Windsor but Giorc recently , ont., Resi Dent was found wrapped in a blood soaked Blanket. Police said he had been shot several times but they have nol revealed the time of death nor findings of an autopsy. Two of her deaths in the Windsor area this week also Are under investigation. Wendy Cal 22, of Belle River out., was found fatally shot at a col Lage about 10 Miles Casl of Windsor and the body of Vaughan Nicholson .10, of do Iroil was recovered from the Detroit River. Balkan powder Keg defused forms forms forms by Hal Boyle new York a the. World May be destroyed again by flood. The world May be consumed to a cinder by a vast atomic fireball. But some astute students of our planet see a Fate possibly even More imminent the human race May simply be suffocated by increasing tidal Waves of government forms. Filling out forms has within the last half Century become perhaps the major nuisance of civilization. It is such an essential part of modern life it is surprising that no College gives an advanced course in How to do it. These forms beset us at every step throughout our existence. In fact there Are Only two major events in our lives at which we Don t have to fill out a government form and death. On these occasions the paperwork is done for us by grudging Doc whose signatures testify that we Are legally alive or legally dead. A child can also usually Cozen relatives or family friends to sign his baptismal certificate but after that he is pretty much on his own. You have to fill out a form to pay taxes. You have to fill out a form to open a business. You have to fill out a form to buy a House or a car. You have to fill out a form to build an addition to your House. You have to fill out a form to get married or divorced. You have to fill out a form1 to get a welfare payment. You have to fill out a form to vote to another country get into or out of the armed forces drive a car or keep a dog within the limits of most cities. And following the example set by governments other organizations now require the filling out of forms so that you have to fill out a form to rent a Tuxedo join a country club open a charge account get a credit card enter a College obtain a Library card apply for a Pat ent become a Hospital patient make an insurance claim apply for a Job or do Nate your body to a medical school to escape funeral expenses. In t there anything a Man can do any More without hav ing to ill out a form first yes he can Rob a Bank or Socal an automobile. But if he gels caught he will find his adventures in fill ing out Gnu Crimont forms Are Only beginning. Ing countries of the Balkans to Gether in the last few years. It was certainly a Factor behind what must have been one of the world s strangest mar r i a g e s of convenience too years ago when Greece and the albanian communist re Gime of Enver Hoxha opened diplomatic relations. This year while Many socialists in Western Europe still favor a Boycott of Greece the albanians ran an Export Pavil Ion at the Salonika Trade fair. On paper the Balkans from an unlikely Patchwork of Dif Ferent regimes. They include four types of communism Al Bania s pro chinese and anti soviet version Yugoslavia s non aligned self managing so Bulgaria s pro soviet and anti chinese communism and Romania s tentative in dependence As the Only member of the Warsaw pact which refused to join in the in Vasion of Czechoslovakia. To the South of these four Are the sworn enemies of com m u n i s m nato members Greece and Turkey. Yet among these six nations the Only two which do not have full diplomatic relations with each other Are Albania and bul Garia. Their links Are still fro zen at charge d affaires level. All the Balkan countries whatever their ideology have authoritarian regimes. It is undoubtedly this Factor which has enabled them to sink their differences in the interest of Trade and economic develop ment. The result is that this Region is currently enjoying its most peaceful period of stability for centuries. With the exception of Al Bania where Only a third of he population lives in towns All the Balkan countries have Jeen transformed into societies with the population roughly equally divided Between the cities and the Countryside. Bilateral economic commis Sions Are being set up by All he countries with the exception of Albania with the aim of improving Trade. Last april the greek government accepted the longstanding bulgarian request for special transit facilities for its goods to pass through Salonika. The roman ians Are hoping for similar facilities. They also Are studying the possibility of helping the greeks Prospect for Oil in the Aegean. Greece and Bulgaria Are building a radio be tween their two capitals which will link the Middle East with1 Central Europe. Bulgaria is to free electricity to Yugoslavia from its National Grid and the romanians May help finance the enlargement of Yugoslavia s Southern most port Sar. A new railway is being built from Belgrade to the pert which would give Western to mania an outlet to the Adriatic instead of sending goods via the Black sea. Romania would like to go beyond the current network of bilateral economic links to create As Many Multi lateral agencies As possible and pro Mote pan Balkan co operation. In Bucharest s View the bal kans should not just be a Geo graphical definition but should have a separate identity As a pension exemption endorsed Ottawa up a Bill that would exempt certain religious sects from participating in the Canada pension plan was endorsed unanimously by the commons health and welfare committee last week and sent Back to the commons for final consideration. More than older order and Amish mennonites in on Tario would qualify As Well As an unknown number of hut termites. A delegation from Ontario s mennonite Central committee told the committee its objections were not financial but a serious matter of con members of the sect refuse to accept old age pen Sions or family allowances be cause they consider both pro Grams insurance schemes. By declining to apply for family allowances and old age pensions they saved the tax payers annually and this represents four to five times the amount they would contribute to the Canada pen Sion plan. In support of the Bill delegation head Douglas Snyder said the sect Practised what it preached. He said the objections were truly religion its matters of conscience. We have offered repeatedly to pay the equivalent of the welfare premiums into a worthy welfare or charitable fund that this Money might be used to help in areas of he said. Under questioning by Eymard Corbin l Mada Waska Victqria m r. Snyder said the sect provincial school yet supports its own separate schools. The schools he said follow the Public school curriculum except in religion arid Are regularly inspected by the Educa Tion department. Region with a variety of functioning regional institutions. Obviously this Means giving the Balkans their own political dimension with frequent conferences of Balkan Heads of state. Romania s motives Are Clear enough. Bucharest is continuing the age old policy of trying to keep great Power influence out of the Balkans and in this Case this Means the soviet Union. Similar motives could activate Yugoslavia and Al Bania plus the two non communist nations and Turkey. But a Snag comes with Politi Cal and no other country has picked up roman a s Call for multilateral Politi Cal Greece and Turkey both fear that detente in the Balkans could be a device for weaken ing their Rolstin nato. The first romanian Call in 1957 for a Balkan Summit came shortly before the greeks and turks decided to install bases on their soil. Even though the Vived romanian suggestion for a Summit a nuclear free zone Balkans has a completely different con notation Greece and Turkey remain suspicious. They Proba Bly also calculate that even if soviet influence would be mini Mal in a Balkan conference they would still be in a non Community minority. Among the communist nations Bulgaria is the main opponent of the idea of a Multi lateral Balkan conference for much the same reason Asro mania wants it. With the full encouragement and support of Moscow the bulgarians politely reject the idea for fear that it would undermine soviet in fluence in the area. The bulgarians arc about the most Loyal allies of the soviet Union in Eastern Europe possibly even outdoing East Germany. Surprisingly perhaps Yugoslavia which is Romania s clo Sest political partner on most issues does not support Bucharest on the need for a bal Kan Summit. Marshall Tito and president Ceausescu hold an Nual meetings but this summer they came to no agreement on the Issue. The pragmatic yugoslavs argue that it is still too Early to push for a Summit. Marshall Tito also feels that focusing on Yugoslavia s role As a Balkan state May Lessen the country s voice As a respected non aligned country. There the matter rests. Al i Hugh there is no Chance of the Balkans speaking yet with a single voice bilateral co operation is bound to go on growing As the major Powers keep a watchful but Distant Eye on the area. 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