Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 12, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba The wifi Peg free fress welcomes letters from writers must give their name and the author s name will be used and letters Are subject to Winnipeg free september 1981 f Reader forum Blank spaces Dorit make Art it must have been a great Comfort to Ken Lulewich nature of Art Contro free september 5 to consider me in need of Art appreciation and i am sorry to take away his Security but i in studied As a gallery Lulewich is clearly at an advantage in knowing All the Winnipeg Art gallery has to but he must surely realize that most visitors Are exactly i main Tain for there was Little or nothing to see though i do concede i might have visited at a bad John Petite inns what we enjoy constitutes our abundance is a bizarre Choice of quotation to use in denouncing my supposed Lack of knowl my reviews were not intended As i mentioned recognizable exhibits in an attempt at but Lulewich leapt to their my main objection is to empty frames and Plain paper however or painstakingly i am not in to abstract but i insist there must be something to artists could give up work and be paid by the galleries for t their without the trouble of transmitting we could visit Barren galleries and gape in Awe at the wonders of the intellectual i am in favor of intellectual Challenge and but let us extend this to other Art Are we to peruse books of Blank pages and intellect Alize As to the authors message should we play silent records and speculate on what we would be hearing had the musician performed May we expect to attend plays without actors and words instead of this i had sent a Blank Sheet in an unmarked Enve the unlikely event that the mailman and the free press staff guessed my intention and acted accordingly would it not be reasonable to imagine that most readers would react what a waste of space these examples would provide Many an intellectual but it would be a Dull world with each person forming interpretations and failing to if we allow ourselves to be tricked by pseudo intellectuals for fear of being thought ignorant or lacking in knowledge or appreciation we shall indeed find ourselves As naked As the emperor in andersens tale and thoroughly deserve it Knowles Winnipeg action needed Canadas High interest fates treat Only the symptoms of and not the they discourage private Enterprise and Industry efforts to stay maintain production and generate new for the mortgagee Home owner fac ing renewal at escalated interest rates it becomes a frolic in what Canada needs Are prices and earnings supported by a government austerity program to Correct the cause and the source of Liberal members should quit evading the Issue and give themselves a trans fusion of intestinal they should cease pacifying those sections of the Economy and the populace which feed on continual government hand outs and Liberal pacification measures seem designed to perpetrate the Liberal members tenure in office and to ensure buildup of their own generous government tailored pension these pacification measures in the Economy continue to Pyramid Canadas present incredible debt mortgage on the which is being increased daily As a legacy for our grandchildren to worry about instead of hoping that the problems will it is time our Liberal government started commonsense action with controls the Only alter native or we will continue to live in a fools Paradise with the final danger of Canadian Bank balances evaluated overnight to Rescue a collapsed econ it would be helpful if homeowners facing renewal of mortgages at Esca lated rates and other concerned Citi Zens and pensioners write their maps and protest that High interest rates Are not the answer to inflation demand action for wage and Price controls with strikes prohibited while the controls Are in then legislate to take the right to strike away from All essential Wilde Winnipeg repulsive film ads the movie Industry or the theatres Are buying to time to advertise repulsive scenes Are shown during family viewing the advertised movie May be rated pm or r and yet the scenes Are shown this practice makes a mockery and a farce of legitimate censorship and regulation of decency i refer to a scene from a movie entitled deadly which was shown during a Canada cup game by Channel 7 on september shortly after i am sure Many people were viewing the game who should not have had to see the the scene displayed a woman being forced to have a Black spider lowered into her the producers have to be operating at the very lowest level in order to present what i consider to be night mar Type please try to Stop the unscrupulous display of scenes from pm and r Type movies on to during family View ing Bob Baergen Winnipeg devious with regard to the buys right to talk with free september As nip Leader Howard Pawley i just cant believe it the Keystone club is to provide funds and advice to the provincial conserva Tive How devious can the pcs get it is another Bain Winnipeg Seatbelt Law not wanted would like to comment on your strange editorial 27 entitled Why you wonder Why with no Seatbelt fairly lax drink ing higher Speed limits with comparatively few traffic policemen should have just As High a traffic fatality rate As British Colum which has mandatory Seatbelt lower Speed limits and about the strictest drinking driving Laws in can since about two thirds of All traffic accidents Are caused by excessive speeds and liquor is involved in about 40 to 50 per cent of All grave concern should be expressed about not maybe the rate is so High because of the Seatbelt Laws the editorial also contends that the Ontario fatality rate is the lowest of All if it is very inter Esting that they have finally which has Long had the lowest and has neither Seatbelt nor motorcycle helmet what motorists in Manitoba do seem to have in respect for their traffic and not the contempt that is Felt by the majority of motorists for the Seatbelt and tends to spread to All other traffic if the writer of this editorial was really worried about the Cost in lives and he would expend his ener Gies in fighting the cause of rather then something that can in no Way cause medical costs Are the same whether the victim was or was not wearing his i cannot help but think about the collision at that involved nine three were not wearing Seatbelt and escaped with the six wearing Seatbelt were All three of them by injuries caused by their come what right do you think you have to make a decision of life or death for another person Barkman Manitoba big brother once again the free press has donned its big brother hat and adv the compulsory use of automobile Seatbelt and motorcycle your justification for withdrawing these freedoms of Choice is that it would save healthcare Dol some months Back you published statistics on causes of death which indicated violent including vehicle with or without Seatbelt and came in a Dis Reader says Seatbelt can cause serious injuries Tant third behind heart disease and cancer As causes of Why not first tackle these bigger problems for what presumably would be bigger health Cost savings Cigar High cholesterol Why not crusade to have use of these items4 instead of concentrating on the lesser Issue of the compulsory use of Seatbelt and Hel mets Eyolfson s to dancers visit it was Only 20 months ago that Canada suspended cultural relations and exchanges with the soviet Union in protest Over Moscow armed rape of Canadian athletes were asked to sacrifice years of training and personal goals in boycotting the Moscow since nothing has changed in yet Trade and sporting contacts have resumed on a Normal official cultural Howe have not yet been reestablished and it is hoped at least on a symbolic this minimal Canadian gesture of protest will the of want to nor Malize cultural relations without hav ing to pull out of Afghanistan or without stopping their internal repression of if it cannot be done on an official basis then do it through the Back the very ova chorus and dancers is said to be on tour strictly on a Commer Cial conveniently sponsored by former officials of the Canada now in private very ova is advertised As having been the High Light of expo 67 in it May be instructive to recount so Viet fraternal assistance since then to ethic Vietnam asked to forget these examples of detente and cooperation and to look longingly Back to expo More ironic still is the fact that very ova is acclaimed As a state ensemble from the Ukraine conveniently dropped is the term ukrainian soviet socialist Republic As if that country formed an Independent and Sovereign entity and its imposed regime was not a puppet of As propagators of ukrainian the very ova ensembles Mission is to hide the harsh reality of the Fate of the ukrainian people under soviet russian we Are to forget the continuing oppression of the the persecution and imprisonment of thousands for their demands of civil and religious the policies of Russini cation in every facet of life in the Ukraine and the disappearance and the very ova dancers Are coming Here while the soviet army remains in Afghanistan murder of such artists As Volodymyr Evasiuk and Alia each member of the very ova ensemble probably could give an individual account of the real picture in the but they cannot speak they Are sent to dazzle us with their song and to make us what better Way to prove to us that culture and politics do not mix on september enjoy the show if your conscience will let John Mazur ukrainian students of Michnowsky Winnipeg inhuman reds in the August 29 edition of Arthur Thompson writes about humanism and human ism and christianity have one Essen tial it is a very informative and interest ing Thompson mentions the millions of people who perished in the death Camps of Adolph chair Man Mao and pol what he fails to mention is the 66 million peasants and other common people who were Des troyed in the most inhumane ways under Stalin and later rulers of communist Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his gulag archipelago and other writers give us proof of i wonder Why so Little coverage is Given to the terrors of the communist states Are we afraid of their feelers that reach out across their Borders sometimes or do we sympathize with a state that has Ridden roughshod Over its own people for Over 60 years should lenins prediction fulfil itself that the Western world can be lulled into complacency and then fall into communist hands like a Rotten Apple according to his not a single shot needs to be fired to bring the West to its Dyck political ads would fail Lyons own truth test the latest Public relations gambit by the provincial tories would be hilarious if it we rent such a Gross abuse of Public Money and elective it int the its the and the sheer Gall and arrogance of it is the government plans to spend 000 of the taxpayers Money on an advertising Campaign to make the Manitoba business Community aware of the opportunities afforded them by Meg deals that Haven yet been the whole affair smacks far More of a worried government facing an elec Tion in which it knows the performance of the Economy will be the number one Issue than it does of any need to help the business at the very the government must have a very Low estimation of the average businessman few including business could be unaware of the almost Alcan the almost Power connection with Alberta and the almost Potash the maybe Mega projects have been paraded under everybody noses for nearly a year with the that talking about them might get votes even if it Doest make them when and if they do Manitoba businessmen Are quite capable of Tak ing advantage of them without the Frances Russell assistance of government brochures printed before the As the ads should be charged to tory party the Cost be that painful for the since the government gutted the Law on election spending Over a year progressive party Leader Sid Green summed it up taxes Are no More than compulsory contributions to the conservative the move follows hard on the heels of other tory missteps such As the Money talks Keystone a advertising Campaign to extol the Vir tues of budget reforms and a television series to Tell Manitoban what a great place Manitoba is to the Premier obviously has forgotten his own uttered during the 1979 budget debate just Days before the May 22 Federal Lyon waxed Indig Nant Over the idea of Public funding of election nip noting that it was the first time we Are attempting a form of subsidy from the Public taxpayers revenues to enable political parties to pay for these ads Lyon said he found it interesting that a such As the new demo cratic which receives Only 16 per cent of the popular vote in should have its million Dollar and Campaign paid for out of taxes that come from 100 per cent of the tax pay i find that rather an ironical the Premier then went on to say that perhaps the new parliament should consider establishing a truth squad to judge the veracity of the various party parties would Only be paid for ads that were what Lyon found particularly galling about the nip ads was the fact that with All the slickness of the Advertis ing Federal nip Leader de Broadbent Able to come on television in his Pinstripe suit and were just Ordinary were not such he prevented people from judging the fundamentals of Polit ical knowing their True intentions and remembering their rec ords in the premiers current political that he is paying for out of tax hardly Tell the whole Story of his government they fail on All the criteria he himself despite the ads glowing picture of Golden Manitoba Hast been doing that in it has been performing either at or near the Bottom of All provinces on economic in its 1981 the financial Post ran a feature How Well do you know Canadas prov inces the article was a series of questions and the first ques Tion which province had the lowest economic growth rate in 1975 80 under a picture of Lyon Cap Premier Sterling Lyon partly to blame for Manitoba Low economic the article answered Mani Toba Manitoba difficulties Stem in part from the efforts of conservative Premier Sterling Lyon to reduce the provincial deficit through restraints in government spending and higher Manitoba growth for the five year period was four per com pared to 16 per cent for Canada As a whole and 40 per cent for Manitoba did come in with the lowest inflation but the reason cheer any said the article Manitoba sluggish growth Over the past five years is probably part of the statistics in the conference Board of Canadas quarterly provincial fore cast for August Are equally gloomy about in Sharp contradiction to the glowing ads about mining that Are currently appearing in this new spa the conference Board stands out As the sole area of Industrial weakness in Manito Bas 1981 the Board reports that Manitoba had the second lowest employment growth rate of All provinces in this year and forecast for if the Premier is serious about a truth in political advertising test to qualify for tax Manitoban should demand a doonesbury Teil do you say to those cd tics who claim in not i that w66ers Are Sukeji 1 under that affect an stamp of superiority for sex weve been talking 20 and promotes you have Yetto it does that Yew have Chi Selep features alpacas Halbur subsume Ulm Obe incredible Hes right Anthis Istat folks i warm Ive maybe Forte i ;