Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 20, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Printed and published daily except sunday by the Winnipeg free 300 Carlton a division of publications Western Richard Malone r Shelford publisher and Peter Mclintock Maurice Western editor Ottawa editor Malone chairman Start of summer no matter that its official arrival Date is june 21 or Prairie dwellers know better summer in these parts starts on the May 24 signs of summer have been burgeoning for in the Garden the tulips Are and even the Sweet peas along the garage Are poking about the the grass is Green Well pretty Green and even the Winter kill seems to be the poplars have their full quota of and along the boulevards the Cra Bapple and fruit Trees Are White and Pink and in the country the Killdeer Are crying and swooping Over the Brown Fields where they have hidden their camouflaged Meadowlark pipe from High in the tall Trees the orioles Are calling and build ing Well behind the Robins who set up housekeeping More than a month around the the storm windows Are off and the screens the Lawnmower has been oiled and has received at least one those people fortunate enough to own a cottage at the Lake have taken their boat out of in readiness for the great annual exodus from the City to the and so it will continue every weekend until labor As Prairie people know no matter what the official Date May be summer ends and fall the italian tragedy the italian local elections went against the communists an italian Public opinion Institute has hazarded the forecast that if last weekends polling were projected on a National the Christian democrats would sweep the country in a landslide Victory and that the communists would be relegated Back to the 25 per cent vote of years it is difficult to believe the the elections were strictly included Southern regions where the communists never were comprised Only a Small segment of the electorate about ten per cent of All voters and were held two Days after the assassination of the Christian democratic Aldo nonetheless and this indeed illustrates the tops Turvy world of italian the Christian democratic leadership is unhappy about the contrary to the dictum of prime minister Trudeau that no party goes into an election without a desire to win the Christian demo cratic leaders ardently hoped their party would not win this particular what they desired was a status quo now that the delicate balance Between the Christian democrats with per cent of the 1976 popular poll and the communists per cent has been the centrifugal forces in both parties May be coming to the fore to disrupt that choral democracy so carefully orchestrated by the murdered thirty years is too Short a Span in the life of a state to have democracy take firm and italian democracy still is a delicate Plant in an inclement could easily this is Why the late despairing of the traditional adversary system of tried his Experiment in what he called choral Democrat but even his choir Sang with too Many dissonant the the Basso prof undo in this had a uninterrupted tradition of reviling and it is no wonder that even the present Al party chorus has produced nothing but a cacophony of As a result of the weekend election there is unrest on the righting of the Christian where the policies of Aldo be they his opening to the left in coalition with the or the historical Compromise in his latest collaboration with the comm were barely tolerated and never the projections of the Public opinion however will be grist to the Mill of those on the righting of the party who advocate a new election that they expect would return the Christian democrats with a Clear even if this Miracle were to the party is too divided to Rule what has become an ungovernable coun if 30 years of democracy is too Short a a Century of a statehood resumed after two millennia of disparate counts for even the cleavage Between the industrialized North with its roman germanic and the Rural South with its byzantine islamic has never been and the flooding of the North with and now workers from the South has Only served to dilute the National spirit prevalent in the which sees government As the legitimate creation of the popular in the government always has been the enemy to be or at least at Italy political crisis is Cardi Nal the Popes vicar for said after Moros murder that Only god could perform the Miracle of keeping the Christian democratic and indeed Italy and since Italy is a Pivotal country within the Western its tragedy is also the tragedy of the metric confusion despite assurances from the results of the latest nationwide poll indicate that Many canadians Are experiencing difficulty with metric the poll shows that five years when canadians were experiencing their first Brush with metric measure ments through the introduction of celsius about 64 per cent believed that conversion would be difficult or very difficult for now that Highway signs Are being the percentage of canadians who believe the conver Sion will fall into the difficult and very difficult categories has risen to Only ten per cent of those questioned could convert Kilometres into Miles and Only 15 per cent could convert kilograms into but these figures will not bother the they have said All along that no one should Only think in the new terms of that this is awkward and in Many cases unnecessary never seems to bother those giving the and today scripture know be that the lord he is god it is he that hath made and not we ourselves we Are his and the sheep of his enter into his Gates with and into his courts with Praise be thankful unto and bless his psalm Winnipeg free press May 1978 pages 4968 Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights r n a a biblical tradition vegetarians on March by Meyers Gerry Cairns maytime get or stay and survive problems of the minority in Quebec Montreal a minority is such in two senses it is one or it feels it is sometimes the two sometimes in for until very recently the numerical minority held most of the now it does so what does it do when in in English Canada the buzzword is in Quebec it is sovereignty and among the no French in Quebec it is even that is not wholly in que Bec at present everything is especially Lan a meeting of Over 100 representatives from a Vari Ety of English and other eth Nic groups at Concordia University in Montreal last week was not yet sure what it would Call the new federation of Quebec about to be but this network of about 70 old and new committees is going to form an association of some there Are two Basic responses to the problem of being a minority out or stay and much of Canada has been made up by people taking the first emigrating voluntarily or parts of the minority groups in Quebec Are but most Are remaining Quebec is in our Quebec is our what is Ottawa going to do about the present National crisis there is some talk of special of of nationality by territory rather than individually or by language making Quebec French and the rest of Canada this can be done in a variety of but a Clear message the minorities in Quebec conference sent Ottawa was respect our As one prominent politician put it if they at tempt to sell us Down the River Over a million peo a Clear recipe for civil Ottawa was hardly discus sed at the How this representative of most non French groups other than big Canadian and for seemed to want to accommodate As much As pos sible to changing Circum stances in some ways the key word was really rap a recurrent theme was the need to pro Mote the teaching of not just out of principle but out of when the government was talked it meant Quebec Alex head of the positive action opening the talked about the official in part this is the non French in Quebec finally recognizing the shift of Power in Canada towards Toronto and the West the next elec after whenever it by Alexander Craig will Mark the first time that the West will have More parliamentary seats than and just As Quebec is feel ing less National and More Montreal has to accept that it is becoming More a regional than a National perhaps it can go the Vienna remaining an important inter National cultural and Diplo Matic while the importance of its hinterland All kinds of committees were present at the Confer including English speaking groups from else where in Quebec displaying their muted resentment of the arrogance of Montreal and its literal and figurative a meeting coming up in Early at Bishops University in and financially assisted by the Secretary of state in will bring together these groups in an offis land regroup ment Confer the people behind this feel that any federation of minorities will be Mon trea dominated and highly and tend to act in an Urban pie were not even considered a part of chief de Lisle advised his workshop group to form a one last in que Bec and Federal was strongly prominent pc there As representatives of other organizations they were connected included the party candidates for West mount and mount Trudeau the Feder Al liberals Only seemed to be represented by one minis ters executive complacency before the storm there Are All sorts of prob lems in setting up an association such As the Concordia meeting it is one further level of bureaucracy away from the yet one other organization for the minority of activists to spread their scarce Effort and funds each group made Clear that it will vigorously insist on its own will the English groups dominate the rest on the other hand there is a certain strength and Secu Rity these peo ple intend to make them selves because politicians make a decision whether they know anything about it or they Are concerned about the future theirs and their Chil Many of them Are committed to becoming a Strong and vital minority highly visible and to getting As much of a share of All aspects of Quebec life politics and the Public ser vice As Well As schools and most of the minority in Quebec is it is a Large and diverse but it is Over six per cent of Canada and Over 15 per cent of Canadas second most populous politicians in Ottawa and Quebec City ignore it at their Tel Aviv the govern ment of Israel has been charged with subsidizing heart this grave accusation was levelled a few Days ago by the local vegetarians Asso which claims that government subsidies on eggs and meat encourage the consumption of these Choles Ter Olrich and this helps explain Why heart attacks account for half of All deaths in Israel today As against Only on third in if subsidies Are to be the association they should be used to encourage the consumption of foods that contribute to health rather than increase ill but even without govern ment subsidies there has been a dramatic growth in the number of health food stores and in the number of israeli of whom there Are now and though they constitute less than two per cent of the they Are a very distinct almost a leaders of the As have recently at tempted to show How their religion stems from Juas Ati Diya admitted in a recent Issue of Teva a Brit nature and the associations is no easy Avidiya begins by pointing out that the Sabbath meal is usually associated with eating meat and that great attention is paid in jewish statutes to the role of the ritual slaughtered and that animal sacrifices were a Central feature of services in the holy Avidiya there Are various aspects of biblical Law that indicate a greater respect for animals than was common in ancient he for the injunction in exodus against any Man Ner of work on the Sabbath by either Man or his in Man is told that he must not plough with an of and a Don key together lest an unbearable Strain be put on the weaker and even the Laws govern ing ritual Slaugh Ter Avidiya Are unusually when the jew is informed that he must not seeth a kid in its Moth ers this is equivalent to saying you have killed the gentle Little kid it would be the height of cruelty to Cook it in its mothers milk As this he con that jewish vegetarians Are in the very main Stream of the mosaic Trade unfortunately for the vege they live in a society where others inter pret this tradition in a rather different in the for the main meals Are almost always which is just Fine for the Ordinary Soldier but not for the vegetarian in to make it easier for the the vegetarians association has reached an agreement with the defence ministry whereby its Mem Bers on Active service Are Given a special allowance to buy their own food to replace the army food they Are not even problems one of these was reflected in a letter that appeared in the last Issue of the associations it was written by Tamar now finishing her studies at a Jerusalem High school and soon to be called up by the defence after pointing out that in the course of her service she will be expected to spend some time working in the Tamar asked How can As a Cook and serve the flesh of poor defenceless animals that were slaughtered solely to satisfy the cravings of human beings in his reply to miss the editor assured her that most commanders would probably take her feelings into consideration and free her from working in the if she could turn to the association for Knock on any door in Rural or Urban Canada and you find a other minorities within the minorities federating in Montreal included envoys from the que Bec federation of ethnic and from in and other or native Peoples organizations sent delegates from the Cree so affected by the James Bay de and from the confederation of indians of the latter ably spoken for by their Andrew identifies a lot with perceptions of until in the native peo government spending government spending government spending Duncan an artist whose reputation has fluctuated Over the years and in whose Honor the Tate gallery held an exhibition to Mark his 90th died last week at the age of he was the last of the blooms Bury the Bloomsbury group included some of the brightest lights in literature and the arts in the Early years of this some of its Mem Bers were Lytton novelist and historian Maynard economist later lord Roger Painter and authority on Art novelist dive Art critic Des mond journalist and editor later Virginia and Leonard founders of Hogarth press and not All gifted people Are Odd and not Many Odd people Are but a High percentage of the Bloomsbury Circle was Duncan Grant was and High spirited and Good company in he had the distinction of never having had a Nasty thing said about him by Virginia but he stood out from the Bloomsbury crowd As being almost in he moved into the menage of Vanessa Virginia Woolf s being the third gentleman to have had that his predecessors were also noteworthy Bloomsbury people dive Bell and Roger his life with Vanessa was Zany and hectic and included periods when either Bell or or joined the but the relations of All concerned seemed to be As merry As if the expression May be Al the Casserie by Janet Saunders Lowed a marriage Vir Ginia said of Vanessa and i never saw two people humming with heat and happiness like sunflowers on a hot Day like those they pour out pure gaiety and pleasure in their Vicissitudes were but through them All Duncan continued calmly to both Duncan and Vanessa had exhibited paintings at the second pos impression is exhibition in London in this exhibition caused less furore than the held in at which Roger Fry was thought by most people to have taken leave of his senses for having drawn the attention of the British Public to a French artist whom they did not be Virginia and Vanessa did not help matters by appearing almost nude at the formal exhibition Ball a Gauguin the fierce controversy throughout England concerning Roger frys first exhibition had the effect of solidifying the amorphous group known As the members began Pride fully to think of themselves As even they had begun in 1904 As a company of friends meeting at the Home of Virginia sad Vanessa in the London District of by 1908 they were licentious in speech sex being the main subject literature and Art were secondary but were Dis cussed with almost equal by 1910 they were licentious not Only in speech but in the love life of the members was a musical chairs procession it was not easy nor important to be Clear As to who was pairing with whom at any Given in its the blooms Bury group shocked Edwar Dian group Mem Bers had no use for the traditional whether morals or their reputation grew Wilder than actual which was wild they raised the hackles of every Strait laced Matron and every staid gentleman who heard of their it was about that for when the nation had been whipped into a fury of speculation because it was bruised about in the first performance of Shaws Patrick Campbell was to utter the the delicacy of the newspaper world was such that the word could not be spelled out in any Publica Tion oddly the Church the most courageous of the other publications could go no further than to print not like others euphemistically referred to the word As the sanguinary the word became the moral Issue of the and its possible use was consid ered Blashe obscene strident voices asserted that All that go fearing people held f most dear was in the gravest compared to today the daring deeds and shocking conversation of the Bloomsbury people have an almost adolescent ring to launched As it was during the edwardian the group made a great but it might have been scarcely noticed had it occurred in England Regency for or in Voltaire France for that with the first world the group dissolved like it was the end of Bloomsbury As an but a number of the members continued to meet spasmodically Over the and for some of them the friendships formed lasted until death in spite of jealous backbiting and during the incident Duncan Grant was a conscientious objector and was sent to work on land belonging to lady Ottoline Morrell and her he enjoyed a restful time Peculiar Ottoline and her husband name was but nobody bothered much about him found it Well nigh impossible to get any work out of the several Bloomsbury members who took shelter from the armed forces on their years Virginia looking Back on the people who had made up the group and thinking of the disparity of the neurotic qualities of some and the touch iness of commented on the they had not turned out too nor had ;