Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 8, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free press. Friday May 8, 1981 Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion published and minted six Days a week at 300 Carlton Streel. Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 943-9331 second class mail registration number 0286 Donald Nicol punish to John Dafoe Murray Bufu Jilm Garrison stalled again editorials the Washington court decision that ordered a halt to construction on the Garrison diversion project pending a new congressional approval is Likely to be appealed first to the . Circuit court and then possibly to the . Supreme court. It could be overturned on any one of several grounds including the possibility that the . Federal judge who reached the decision overstepped his jurisdiction once he sought to Congress what it could and could not do however the judicial process is slow and while it is being satisfied the original order barring new construction stands i he longer the bulldozers Are Idle the higher the Cost of finishing Garrison. Cost Benefit ratios tenuous when the project was first approved based on a 1965 plan have Long since passed the Point where the primary beneficiaries the North Dakota Farmers whose land will be irrigated if the project goes ahead could have been retired in luxury at far less Cost to . Taxpayers. The decision that has stopped construction on the project was not based on Canadian objections. Rather it was the result of Legal action launched by the . Audubon society an organization that claims it has a binding agreement with he . Interior department that no further work would be done until Congress had an Opportunity to consider an environmental study completed in 1979. This study recommended that the project be scaled Down from acres to acres. It did not address the Basic Canadian objection to the Transfer of any Missouri River water to the Hudson Day watershed. 3 if Garrison is built it will be the result of a political rather than a judicial decision. While Canada can appreciate the breathing space it has been Given by the most recent decision Canadian politicians will be Wise to remember that the attitude of the . Secretary of the Interior James Watt is favourable toward Garrison. As Well the newly elected governor of North Dakota Al Olson is an outspoken supporter of the project As is the North Dakota congressional representative Byron Dorgan and North Dakota Sena tors Mark Andrews and Quentin Burdick. A spokesman from the Audubon society Casey Dingles has correctly described the judicial decision As a Means of delaying the project Long enough to give some serious thought to completing the Garrison diversion. If the decision is upheld and if the . Congress must authorize again what it authorized before then the Way will be open for Canadian politicians to lobby for its abandonment in the interests of Canada. Or. Begin gets it wrong Menachem begin s determination to make a major Public Issue of certain statements by West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt is a surprising departure from customary methods of conducting inter state relationships. The israeli prime minister has accused or. Schmidt of still being Loyal to Adolf Hitler and has maligned ail West germans including millions born after the nazi Era. He is angry because Chancellor Schmidt said on West German television following a visit to saudi Arabia and the United Arab emirates germans who themselves Are seeking National self determination cannot allow themselves not to recognize the demand for the self determination of the palestinians. The palestinians Are not the Only ones who throw this produced a bitter attack by or. Begin on France and West Germany together. He said they Are greedy and have Only two goals to sell weapons expensively and to buy Oil cheaply. They have no principles no heart no memory nothing else interests thus far or. Begin might have been described As saying bluntly and undiplomatic ally what Many israelis feel about French Middle East policy and fear about the possible future direction of West German policy. On arms however the logic is flawed because or. Schmidt decided not to sell tanks to saudi Arabia. Or. Begin went much further. He said that or. Schmidt served in the army that would surround the towns until the work was finished by the this was a reference to the special is squads that operated on the Eastern front during the second world War rounding up jews and others for mass executions. He thus implied that or. Schmidt was personally involved in the nazi extermination of jews. Of All West germans he said i have never forgiven the German people As a whole. I never will forgive them because they Bear collective or. Begin ignores the fact that what or. Schmidt said about palestinian rights simply reaffirms current thinking among the ten member states of the european economic Community. This collective View can certainly be opposed but Why treat it As Only a German and French phenomenon and Why imply that it is linked to nazi atrocities in attacking the Chancellor or. Begin made a serious mistake. What Are the facts Helmut Schmidt was a member of the Hitler youth during the 1930s, As were millions of Young germans. There was no Choice involved in whether to belong. He served in the second world War As a lieutenant in charge of an army artillery Battery was captured during the 1944 Battle of the bulge on the Western front and ended the War in a prisoner of War Camp in Britain. How is an artillerymen serving hundreds of Miles from Minzat grup pen operations to be held responsible for the mass murder of jews on the Eastern front or. Schmidt s Post War political career has been marked by a profound understanding of and moral repugnance for the shameful atrocities of the nazi regime against jews in 1978, he called for Jordan to join the Camp David peace process. In 1979, he praised the .-made television serial holocaust As an encouragement to moral reflection by All germans. Ten months ago he became the first Ever German statesman to be Given the top humanitarianism and peace award of the world jewish Congress. Or. Begin May have spoken out because he is under the pressure of an election Campaign and simultaneously handling a crisis Over Lebanon. He May have done it because of his known personal dislike of the Chancellor. Whatever the reason his intemperate remarks cannot be in the National interest of Israel. If Israel is to change european Rains about the palestinian Issue that Effort will not be helped by its prime minister heaping abuse on the two leading member states of the dec. Anti Union our outnumbered privates Dario Perfumo executive vice president of the Manitoba hotel association has gravely compromised his position on the Manitoba labor Board because he distributed a letter offering advice on How to frustrate the formation of unions to members of his association. Members of the Manitoba hotel association have every right to regard the unionization of their employees As something they would rather not have happen. If. As the newsletter advises they can avoid unionization by offering adequate pay benefits and working conditions then Ever. Dick Martin president of the Manitoba federation of labor could have no serious grounds for complaint. But or. Perfume s letter goes much farther. It counsels forms of pressure which violate the spirit if not the letter of the Manitoba labor relations act. It expresses a kind of hostility to the very idea of unionization which is totally foreign to the function of the labor relations Board. The Board by its nature must include representatives management and labor. By their nature the Union representatives Are Likely to be much More enthusiastic about the spread of Union membership than Are the representatives of management. Union representatives on the Board Are Likely in their Union work to express a certain amount of hostility about management. Management representatives in their private lives Are Likely to bemoan the unreasonable demands of the unions. The important thing is that those activities should not Cross a line which interferes with their function on the labor Board which is to permit employees to form a Union if they so choose and to facilitate rational negotiation Between unions and management. Or. Perfumo has crossed far Over that line. He has forfeited his usefulness As a member of the Board. By Fred Cleverley As annual reports go defence Canada so provides More history and More useable facts about the department of National defence than has been the Case with and annual reports for at least a decade. There can be reasons for rejoicing found in the Book the size of the armed forces has increased by Over 1979 and reasons for gloom the total strength at is still lower than it was 30 years ago. Former ministers it also contains the names of All former ministers of National defence from the time of confederation former chiefs of the defence staff and the names of All senior officers at National defence Headquarters and abroad. There is also buried in the statistics a recruiting guide of sorts the main message of which is that if anyone is considering starting a military career at the Bottom of the ladder he had better be prepared to learn How to Salute. It has been almost traditional to joke about the number of generals in the mexican army but anyone who reads defence Canada 80 will wonder whether the jokes should be directed at this country instead. Under the heading the Canadian forces How they the plight of the private suffering from a sore right Arm begins to unfold. For example Canada has 109 generals and privates in its armed forces. This Means that for every 203 individuals in uniform the private meets there is a statistical probability that one will be a general. But generals Are not the Only people who have to be saluted if one happens to be a member of that rather select group privates in the Canadian armed forces. Canada has 321 full colonels one for every 69 privates. There Are 943 lieutenant colonels or one for every 23 privates. The Canadian forces have majors one for every seven Pri Vates. Scratch a regular Force Captain and the first thing he will Tell you is that captains really run the forces. There Are certainly enough of them to be exact at the time of the annual report printing. In the eyes of the lowly private this Means one Captain for every three and one half of his Bud Dies. More salutes add to these numbers Lieuten ants 462 second lieutenants and officer cadets and the total of commissioned ranks in the Canadian forces reaches a figure that is quite respectable when compared to the 22 170 privates. What this Means for a private of course is that for every 1.4 other uniforms he meets there is an excellent Chance that he will have to Salute. There Are of course 817 chief War rant officers master warrant offi cers and warrant officers All of whom qualify to be addressed on occasion with the same respectful sir that is applied to commissioned ranks. Now there is a total of people who must be called sir in the forces and Only privates to speak the word. Not everyone has to be called sir however. The Small group of privates in the Canadian forces has the right to address individuals As ser As master Corporal and As just Plain add these three groups together and the privates who appear to be Mem Bers of a More elite group with every tally must use ranks when talking to still another group larger than the one they can Call on a first names basis. As a matter of fact the number of. People who have to be paid special respects in the Canadian armed forces outnumbers at the group giving the respects by nearly three to one. Bad for women while for the forces in total there Are More officers than privates women do not fare As Well. Of the women in the regular Force Only 794 Are officers. The ratio is one officer for 6.3 other ranks. No figures Are Given for women privates. Back in the Days when the Canadian armed forces counted in the world there was a saying among privates. It went something like this. If it stands still paint it if it moves the saying was responsible for military respects being paid to an unknown number of greyhound bus Drivers. In today s world it would appear the saying has More significance. Another Page of the same report shows that the military has recognized the plight of the private. Once he has finished his training he gets a Stripe to Wear on his uniform. It used to signify a Lance Corporal s rank. The title has gone because if it had not the right to be called private might have disappeared entirely. Master plan on april 21 i attended a meeting held by Derek Doyle director of Parks where he and his colleagues presented the master plan. After listening for three and one half hours it became abundantly Clear that or. Doyle and his two assistants did not understand the needs of those who use our Park areas. This is probably due to the fact that none of these men has camped rented or owned cottages in the Park areas of Manitoba. Or. Doyle kept highlighting the fact that he wanted our input As it helped him and his staff decide the course of action that should be taken. As it turned out he proved conclusively that he and his staff did not listen to the people nor did he understand their concerns. I am a member of the White Shell association and fully Back its stand. We do not want succession duties placed on our cottages when they change hands nor do we want unreasonable rent increases. If or. Doyle has his Way there will not be a modest income cottage owner left in the provincial Park in ten years. Twenty to 30 years ago the government was begging people to Settle these Lake areas. Well we did and now it wants to Cash in every time a cottage changes hands. . Arnold Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from readers. Writer Musl give their name and address. The author s name will be used and letters Are subject to editing. Sewage costs White Shell provincial Park unreasonable i was disappointed to read of the change of policy by the free press concerning Carrier boys and girls. Now that the carriers Are responsible for providing each subscriber with a news paper regardless of whether the free i Russ has left them one the Carrier must deliver at All hours. Granted sometimes a Carrier is responsible for an undelivered newspaper but Many times the loss is beyond the Carrier s control. To expect a Young person to run to the store at any time in the evening and to pay with his own Money for a newspaper then to deliver it is unreasonable. If the free press expects to be Able to Call its employees Back after hours then it should also expect to pay More for that service. Brenda Wedlake Winnipeg Grandview Home recently i visited the nursing care Home at Grandview Manitoba. The building is spotless Bright and sunny and cheerfully decorated. The staff work hard to make the patients comfortable and Happy while still preserving their dignity. The food is carefully selected and tastefully pre pared. Activities Are arranged for the patients such As baking cookies and building birdhouses. They have entertainment in the form of Bingo piano playing and games. The people who work in this Home Are special people and they should be highly commended. A. Rozmus Bird s Hill not missing during the past several weeks stories have been carried in the press concern ing material supposedly missing from the Public archives of Canada. I would therefore appreciate the Opportunity to Lay the facts before your readers in order to try to undo some of the damage that has no doubt been done to the reputation of the archives. If donors and potential donors of Archi Val material lose Faith in our ability to protect their donations our acquisitions will decrease significantly and Canadian history will be the poorer for it. The fact is that no documents have disappeared from the archives. There is a Gap of several weeks in the 1945 diary of former prime minister Mack Enzie King. Whether there Ever was a diary entry for that period is not known but the Gap was identified Long before the diaries were transferred to the archives and not a single Page of the diary 1893-1950 has disappeared from the archives. The transcript of evidence of the Kellock Taschereau Royal commission was deposited in the archives by the responsible Agency the privy Council office. In 1976 the transcript was Exa mined and identified As exempt from opening according to current regulations on Access to Public records. It is being examined to determine if it can be opened without violating the privacy of persons who gave testimony in Confidence. The Public archives has an enviable reputation internationally for the Quality of its collections the expertise of its staff its sensitivity to the needs of those in the research Community using its sources and its care of material in its custody. Such a reputation can easily be marred by the publication of stones which state or imply that material is missing when in fact the material was never at the archives. . Smith Dominion archivist Ottawa opera buffs on april 251 tuned in to Csc radio at 2 . To hear the first show of the season of opera by request. However what i got was a banal variety show i phoned the Csc and was informed that it was a local decision not to carry opera by request in Winnipeg. The program director was trying out the variety show on an experimental basis i was also informed that the most effective Way of registering a com plaint would be to write a letter to the Csc. I urge All opera fans in Manitoba and i know there Are Many to write a letter of complaint to Csc Public relations Box 160, Winnipeg Sheilagh Geer Pine fails police bouquet i think it is High time the Public was Given the Benefit of the doubt. There fore i applaud inspector Hicks for his humanitarian Effort in giving the tax payer a break for his Money. His motive in not issuing parking tickets to motorists on easter monday was sound and caring. He showed great character in making the decision that he did. A Large majority of people was con fused As to whether the monday was a Holiday or not myself included. Inspector Hicks showed courage and leadership and served the citizens Well in promoting Guod Public police relations. Hilda e. Pei Luck Winnipeg your Lead editorial of May 1, end the water bargains is noteworthy but probably betrays your naivete with regard to water and a co subject sew age. Look into the costs of sewage treatment versus water Cost and you would be surprised at the result. Water consumption can be controlled to some extent by Cost penalties on consumption. The Bod biological oxygen de Mand for sewage treatment is less controllable and less subject to analysis by the press. Consider a Homeowner who Waters his grass and Garden. Of his year s consumption of water maybe half does not go into the sewage system. Yet he or she gets charged sewage rates for the portion that never enters the sew age system. The apartment Dweller sewers almost All of the water that goes through the meter. Industries in the City dump aqueous sewage with a much higher Bod than the average Home. Possibilities Are the packing plants dairies fish processing plants and the like. Do these compan ies pay their fair share of sewage treatment costs i do not know but would be curious As to the answer. Another interesting question is in metered water Wells that discharge into the sewage system without paying any Cost. These Are a minor Factor in Many cases because the Bod is negligible. Most of these Are Industrial and i believe the City has tried to locate them. If you Are going to Deal with water Deal with the entire Issue of water Supply and sewage disposal. Get your facts straight or get the City to place its facts on the table. There Are a number of alternatives to a second Aqueduct if people would look at them. I agree that the present source of Winnipeg drinking water should be preserved from excessive contamination. P. Florence Winnipeg president Trudeau i would draw to the attention of the people of Canada the fact that Prince Charles was invited to visit states but was not invited to visit Canada especially the Western part of the country. I think prime minister Trudeau and his Cabinet would like the people of Canada to forget that we have a Royal family so that they can declare Canada As a Republic and elect or. Trudeau As president. That piece of legislation would Cost us a pretty Penny to say nothing of the salary we would have to pay a president whereas we get All the prestige and Honor by having a Royal family at no Cost at All. Besides who wants to pledge allegiance to or. Tru Deau i would like to see the free press print news about the Royal family on the front Page instead of on the Back Page or the sports Section. I think they deserve better coverage than that. Grace e. George Winnipeg wow you la never guess where babies come ;