Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 26, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Printed and published Dally except sunday by the Winnipeg free 300 Canton a division of f publications Western Richard c Malone publisher Peter Mclintock editor r s Malone r Shelford and Maurice Western Ottawa editor chairman Winnipeg free press a four letter word so there it Over Tot another year and again we have managed to today is boxing Stephens Call it what you will or just the first Day after Christmas the stockings which were Hung by the Chimney with cafe do children still hang up Stock and does Santa Claus come in a spaceship Are the toys have been played with to the Point at which batteries despite those to ads will have to be renewed on the Morrow the Turkey is a fit Only for Turkey Tetra Ziti later in the the presents have been admired and set some with a View to being exchanged the wrappings have been stuffed in the garbage awaiting pickup at the end of the garbage collection systems own twelve Days of the Christmas card received list has been checked and resolutions made to Send new years greetings to those whom we forgot deliberately or otherwise but who did not forget but in spite of it we managed to get through the longest festival of the the who celebrated the return of the Sun at this time of were bikers compared to their festivals were built around the Winter solstice on december later the festival was reduced to the traditional twelve but for Christmas begins on halloween and continues right through until the Day after new years How did we manage to survive this festival about which George Bernard Shaw once wrote i am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas in these it is an indecent subject a gluttonous subject a disorderly subject a disastrous subject a blasphemous and demoralizing Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press on its own merits it would Wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of Universal hatred and anyone who looked Back to it would be turned into a pillar of Greasy Strong and there Are still about a number of unregenerate Scrooge whose Christmas greeting is Bah Humbug perhaps they Are very much in the Why what is the reason How do the rest of us get through Christmas untouched by such grouch iness the answer is a Brief one a four letter word a Long time ago Ovid wrote Vincit conquers and there probably is no greater manifestation of the truth of this thought than at Christmas to be through november and december we Are through our ears with Christ Mas through our via to and the printed with Christmas it would be Folly to deny that Christmas today contains a Large measure of but it contains much More than it also brings about an outpouring of Goodwill toward other people that is not Manifest at other times of the parents to relatives to friends to often strangers to the better off to the less let the Scrooge or psychologists explain that and Christmas of celebrated in Christian countries and in other lands where christians but the As we have taken and adapted is even More embracing than it had its origins in the Eastern Mediterranean and spread from As the English William has observed when the English speaking countries sit a traditional Christmas they eat an Aztec Bird by an alsatian followed by a pudding spiced with subtropical while in England itself the most popular of Christmas carols tells of the Bohemian King to music taken from a swedish Spring the festival we Are celebrating has survived Down through the since Long before it was adopted and adapted by the Church and named it will through further survive for Many As Long As Mankind is still around to observe and Honor the old love one our shining planet the popular vision of and one that has been described by innumerable science fiction has been one of a Green Paradise where soft Light is diffused through the Cloud gentle winds blow and strange and marvellous fruits one Lewis in used Venus As the setting for a second Garden of Eden and a Sec and this time Hunsuc temptation of we All or at least we were pretty that Venus was not really like scientists had told us it now How that the scientists were both right and the planet is not what we might have liked it to but neither is it exactly what they thought it the United states space probe that reached Venus this month and sent Back information had some Prises for it May Force a Complete revision of theories about How the solar system was since it appears that Venus was made from different material than that from which the Earth was it is hardly a Garden of Eden peopled by an Len race which is at least a theological it is an unpleasant sort of where the surface temperature reaches a toasty 900 Grees fahrenheit 480 Grees with an mos Tieric pressure Job times greater than that on swirling Clouds composed of Carbon dioxide and sulphuric and a night that is 58 Days the information that the space probe has sent be of great value to it will help them in discovering the Ori gins of solar an May also have some practical applications Here on it is almost certain that there is no life on and it the place nearest to where extraterrestrial life might now be found is around the Star pro Imus years away at the present Speed of american although Venus is our sister it As one astronomer described a hell in the it presumably holds no life while Earth is Host to two million different species of if we Learned nothing else from the Venus we have Learned what a strange and special place Pur own shining planet there is nowhere else like it for millions upon millions of today scripture and when they were de the Angel of the lord appear eth to Joseph in a and take the Young child and his and flee into 3u3 december 1978 pages 3550 Freedom of Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights average annual income increasing doctors fees by fr6d Cleverley Winter on the Banks of the Seine Gerry Cairns another myth shot full of holes they Call it mans Best Friend but i am beginning to have my i of to that Domestic encumbrance known As the i notice that a study has recently been published drawing attention to the fact that most male dogs develop a very special re Gard for their female male members of the family May be tolerated and the dog May even accept food from his Mas ters but when the chips Are Down he goes to his a dog May be prepared to put up with the enduring their noisy games and teasing without tearing them to but his True loyalty is to the women of the when the news came out that dogs prefer women to a great Many people Shook their Heads in after the dog and members of the male sex have enjoyed a longstanding association in the his tory of the idea of a boy and his dog has Long been a popular Man the Hunter has always been pictured with a faithful dog trotting at his the Noble dogs who died of grief on their Mas ters Graves Are celebrated in song and dogs with names such As Rover and Fidele have followed men into tight Corners since first stood guard Over the Mouth of Cave and held the Mastodon at appears that we have been if you will Pardon the expression Barking up the wrong dogs prefer women and they make no Bones if you do ask any the fact we men have always taken our dogs for any dog that did not actually sink his fangs into your leg was assumed to be mans Best a dog who favored us with a wag of the Tail was assumed to be on our heart and we were simply not paying attention and we failed to notice that far from beaming the full Light of his adoration on his male at merely tolerating the hairy hand that fed science has now discovered that the typical dog regards his mistress As a cherished piece of property to be guarded and protected against All like a jealous he will not tolerate Ever since i read that i have been looking at the activities of my own dog with renewed the results of my Tion indicate that science on the right i mans Best beast by Christopher Dafoe Dence is too Strong to Morgan likes me Well he is absolutely devoted to my when my wife is absent from the dog is i Consol she May Only have gone out for an hour or two to return a birthday pres ent to but so far As the dog is concerned she might As Well have the Tail the eyes become deep pools of mis he lies there with one of her slippers Between his looking like an in from time to time he emits Low howls that seem to come from the deepest Depths of his the fact that i happen to be there offering a dog Bis Cuit Means nothing to if i appeared dangling a piece of porterhouse Steak he might be equally unit i Bounce his he regards me with a look of ill concealed levity at a time like this is not orpheus mourning for eurydice presented a More cheerful face to the my wife return is in variably greeted with Vio Lent As she marches up the front path All hell Breaks wild shrill fran tic dancing and furious Tail wagging Greet her and her actual arrival in the House produces gyrations of an apoplectic the dog leaps and rushes turns to the House doing you would think that my wife would be overwhelmed this a bit of Calm him Down she retreating to Ward the bedroom with the dog in hot according to a re cent scientific resent displays of affection tween their master and i can vouch for the most innocent embrace provokes furious agitation on the part of our dog when i return Home at the end of the my wife is often at the door to meet this happens most frequently on payday or when i might be bringing Home the sunday but even on less auspicious occasions we frequently pause to embrace in the i have not failed to notice that when this happens Morgan invariably at tempts to wedge himself Between he is always Friendly enough i have never actually been bitten or clawed but his Mes Sage is perfectly Clear hands when we at tempt to watch television seated Side by Side on a who has to my displayed the slightest in Terest in masterpiece the forces himself be tween us and lies with his head on my wife Gaz ing up into her face with ill concealed his backside is firmly turned in my direction and from time to time he gives me a Sharp shove with his Back his message is painfully Clear Buzz the other when i was still half he shoved me out of i landed on the floor with a Sharp my wife mans Best Friend there goes another shot full of i have retaliated by being especially Nice to the nothing is More Likely to Send Shivers Down the Back than a big headline that promises unlimited doctor this is doubly so to the Many people because their medical costs have disappeared under the heading tax deductions on their Hon Estly believe that there is no Cost to them for the care that they just As a postal worker defends his right to earn for work that can be done with Little or no train ing by a High school student during Holiday most doctors with a vehemence Peculiar to the medical their average annual Gross it really matters Little whether a postal worker is Worth the or whether the doctor is Worth his the hard fact is that if either can earn More those who ref use to pay the higher in comes will have to do with out the and it is Likely that people can sur Vive without a postal Tern much More easily than the average Canadian can survive without the first class medical care to which he has become accuse if the promising doctors Are to be persuaded to remain in this their potential for earning must what is available since two successive provincial administrations have All but admitted there is Little apart from costo living in that can be squeezed out of the tax paid medicare the Doc tors have countered by ask ing for extra Billing Privi while this request certainly translates in some minds into unlimited doctors see the matter in a different the present Manitoba health scheme locks doctors into the or out of if they Are they cannot but if they Are they must Bill not necessarily extra Bill every because the government pays medi care benefits directly to the patients of the opted out the doctors want the privilege of jumping in and out of the system on a a Tiente patient the Way the doctors explain they would extra Bill those who could afford and accept the government Cheque As payment in full for services to patients in the doctors Opin qualify because they do not earn enough to pay More for the doctors ser the doctors make the system sound they say Saskatchewan has such a with the implication that if the Birthplace of Canadian socialized Medicine says the practice is it must be they argue that it makes the patient aware of the fact that medical care costs while at the same time protects patients against horrendous costs after the patient has paid enough on an extra Billing basis to drop into the Cate gory where his doctor con siders him worthy of Chari but there is another Side to the the make1 Heric pay premise on which the Doc tors argument is based is already a the wealthy already pay much More for their medicare since its Cost comes out of income tax where those who earn More pay is it really fair to charge any extra costs involved costs that include the doctors profit to those already paying More than the average and what does the Princi ple of user fees in any form do to that other the one that Grants equal Access to medical care for All a select committee on healthcare financing and costs set up by the Ontario legislative Assembly has produced an extremely de tailed part of which deals with user charges and opting this re which is being studied by health authorities in offers an inter Esting analysis of the prob first of two articles Auld Lang syne with a Challenge the last trip of the legers when the lieutenant governor and Premier of Ontario planned their re cent Farewell to governor general and Madame aim must have been that it should not be a the reception at the on Tario and then the banquet at a nearby Auld Lang butane acc Moshere for Mal were laced with fun touch of when to speak his de that this would Notrea Tome on the state of the but it after my last trip before my mandate a teas Nice to have been invited to meet with in my this throne speech of five Short paragraphs went to the heart of the his heart say stay province be cause i shall continue to live in Ottawa leave Rideau i shall continue to be your but my conditions Are the following by Norman Smith the unhurried Pace of legers words added to their meaning and sincere yet his slow speech is not just because of the impairment is a result of the stroke he suffered less than six months after Tak ing he has always spoken fastidious in selecting the and few was the remark he made last year to Brian Mckenna for weekend tru Deau must realize that there is More to politics than just the it is in the emotions it was a character sketch of Leger As Well As of Madame Leger has words via French or in the Quality of care and de Olidah irn f t n onh n i f t t n one recalls the almost remark he made in his opening address to Sherbrooke University on the occasion of his ing an honorary degree on june 1974j when illness struck him he began a father had two that was our to the he gave the gift of to the other that of to each he gave of he sure them that gift would be enough to enable them to make their Way in the sons went the first i wish to in the service of the a Good second want to Tine to love the province of Quebec from third i want to contus be to speak French in genial fourth i want to chive from you and your colleagues Good govern fifth i want to pay Church Cardinal of the the office memoranda of Jules Leger in earlier Ern ment service were Al ways his personal letters were usually within a conveying in an almost miniature hand Dis tilled thoughts worked out against wide even As he spoke there Votion and the gift to express them with effective in looking ahead she noted that 1979 would be the International year of the child in so privileged and wealthy a country children must be Given the Best of but i feel that the children must be taught to value the wealth that sur rounds them arid learn to give and to this also applies to we have indeed much to learn from children their capacity to love unconditionally their approach to life which is free from prejudices i at times we should also have their exp Premier Davis brought to the banquet a text of unqualified regard for the throne it must be trained As an Gral part of parliament and of the and the Laws of parliament must continue to be made and approved in the name of the the premiers formal tribute to the legers was speaking of their and of your love of this your if your commitment to this country has been outdone by it is your commitment to each you have stood together for committing your selves to a better under standing and appreciation of All canadians by All Ca great Faith was placed in you at the time of your appointment arid great Faith has been one of the Hallmarks of your term of the evening remained alive with me for several Days after coming reminding me of other thoughts Jules Leger had left with us in earlier in Canada we have the beginnings of a but it is not a Complete it takes centuries to shape a centuries spent we have not spent enough centuries together in perhaps in time we can say we have spent centuries together per haps that time will never i dont in not a we must bring a sense of history to what is Man must never admit there is a dimension called this country is not a matter of of of a it is like a River going Al ways going after an election or referendum you and our friends and i and and Wiki get together and work out our ;