Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 5, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free May Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights published seven Days a week at 300 Carlton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 Winnipeg free press est 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller a member o the Manitoba press Council i an unsuitable solution Justice minister John True to his has moved swiftly against prostitution in the but the legislative sledgehammer he has designed is not suit Able for solving the prostitution problem of which people in some districts of Calgary and Halifax have it will create a new crime which will not in fact be complaints have Arisen because prostitutes have been creating a they they holler at men looking to hire prostitutes drive their cars slowly along by the curb looking Over the women and people who live nearby and who want to use the Street for an innocent stroll or to get from one place to another cannot do so in peace either because of the throng of whores and customers blocking traffic or because they Are accosted either to hire a prostitute or to serve As Felice departments contend they cannot do anything to disperse these nuisance Street markets or require the women and their customers to mind their because of a supreme court of Canada judg ment according to which Street in order to be contrary to the criminal must be pressing and the Federal governments special committee on pornography and chaired by John offered a carefully tailored solution to the problem that has been they proposed in substance that it should become a crime for a person to make a nuisance of himself in the course of repeatedly offering to serve As a prostitute or of asking a person to prostitute the crime would lie in the which would include stopping people in a Public beckoning to trying to engage them in stopping motor or impeding the flow of the crime could be committed equally by the prostitute or by the prospective because it involves nuisance behaviour and repeated solicitation of different it is something a policeman could easily observe from close by without having to pose either As a prostitute or As a because the repeated offers would not need to be addressed to the same the Fraser committees proposed crime would be different and More easily detected that the pressing and solicitation now in the criminal Crosbie Bill introduced to parliament on thurs Day would make it a crime for even to attempt to communicate in any manner with another person in the streets either to offer to engage in prostitution or to ask a person to engage in Crosbie cannot seriously imagine that any police department in Canada has enough manpower to make even a Good Start on preventing prostitutes and their customers from meeting and making Contact in the the fact of prostitutes and their customers making Contact in the streets is not what troubles the Public it is the nuisance they make of themselves when things get out of that is the evil that can and should be Laws because they reach too cannot be enforced soon become parliament would do better to adopt the Fraser committees proposal and not sugar beet crop assured agriculture minister Bill Ruskis decision to support this years sugar beet crop is but the final Deal worked out with Ottawa is so close to the initial Federal proposal that Many within the sugar Industry will wonder what Benefit was gained by the ministers dangerous brinkmanship on the the by which Manitoba and Ottawa will share a million subsidy to the will get the Industry through this and will for the time the jobs that exist at the processing factory in considering that about 400 producers and 250 factory workers Are the Cost of keeping the Industry alive for one year works out to a bit More than per it is not a settlement that can be recommended on a continuing but the Industry could not be allowed to disappear for the want of a Short term the time to Plant the crop was slipping Uruski was dragging his heels because he feared getting into the agricultural subsidy business which so far has been left mainly to rely on Federal he argued that he was hesitant lest the Federal government use this years provincial participation As a lever in the it is not that Uruski sees anything wrong with supporting Industry where the Market will he simply wants somebody else to pay the it is difficult to see the signs the minister was Reading when he started to believe that provincial subsidization would be from the made it Clear that this years support plan was an interim pending a better look at the Lon term prospects for continuing a Canadian sugar Industry in the face of world Ottawa appears to have a More realistic grasp of the situation than does Noone in the Federal government is expressing the kind of optimism about a Bright future for the Industry that is coming from now that he has agreed to what was the main Federal proposal from the beginning of in the staring match that held Manitoba sugar beet producers hostage for the past few Uruski had he not done Manitoba growers alone in Canada would have been put out of other particularly Quebec and had already accepted Ottawa proposal As an interim measure which will buy the time to decide under current Market Canada can remain a sugar pro in under the leadership of Deng recent years begun a program of modernization in which it Hopes to borrow much that is Best from Western culture and if events this week Are an it is also borrowing much that is this the in cooperation with a Japa Nese began the desecration of one of chivas and the worlds great historic moments after Wang a 77yearold member of the politburo and a Veteran of the Long holding a Golf club for the first time in his performed a ceremonial bulldozers began blowing up the sacred Valley of the Ming tombs to construct a Golf the which is considered to be one of the most Beautiful places in Chinat contains the tombs of 13 emperors of the Ming which ruled China from 1368 to the mings provided the Only interlude of chinese Rule Between the time the mongols invaded China in the 13th Century and the Manchu dynasty was overthrown in their reign was noted for its Art and one of the Ming emperors built much of the forbidden City in the Valley of the tombs has been venerated by the chinese for 500 now the Valley is to i be Home to the peking International Golf and amusement As Well As a Golf the chinese government and its japanese part ners intend to construct a amuse ment water skiing boat Archery shooting race track and Penny Arcade in full View of the the rationale for allowing this chinese Disneyland to mar the historic Valley is the Ming tombs Are one of chivas most popular tourist attractions and Are easily visited by people travelling from peking to see the great it is the governments Hope that a vulgar Western style tourist Complex will bring More visitors to China and thus More Money to help finance the modernization it May be that there Are people who would like to go to China to water ski and play video it is More Likely that most who Hope to visit there want to see one of the richest and oldest cultures that the world has the chinese press has already published letters from westerners protesting this cultural Vandal canadians who hoped to see the Ming tombs in their original condition will have to Advance their plans before the burial places Are obscured by lines of Popcorn stalls and hot dog a year for memories of War by Christopher Dafoe special to the free press this is a big year for War me a full Century has passed since Fred Middleton Little army passed through Winnipeg on its Way to the Northwest two Winnipeg the Winnipeg rifles and the Light were a part of that the officers from Ontario stopped at the Leland hotel for a Good meal on their Way to the most of them were Back a few weeks after defeating Riel at the Leland hotel still but nobody now alive experienced that War at first the year 1885 is More than a lifetime away from but the events of those few weeks Are probably better known and understood today than they were a Century old wars fascinate memory Lane no matter How awful wars some people seem to love remembering forty years have now passed since the second world War came to an but All this week Many of those who took part in one of history most disagreeable conflicts have been strolling Down memory Lane with what appears to be great Vera Lynn has been Given a the old Battles have been president Ronald Reagan has announced that he intends to let bygones be the other Day i heard an old Soldier say that the years Between 1939 and 1945 were the happiest of his i suppose it depends on How the War hit some people would just As soon for it was a glorious Sweet Are the uses of my father took part in the first world which ended close to 70 years i used to ask him what it was he always changed the when he was he used to see men who had fought at a the other morning i woke switched on the radio and heard a voice telling me that Hitler had just killed himself in half i wondered whether i had slipped into a Tim Warp As clarity i realized what was the Csc was broadcast ing ancient news a great Deal happened this week 40 years it was old but it made my we should not have to wait 40 years to hear Good news like that a second i Hope Zundel was tuned the second world unlike is certainly Worth re if Only to avoid having another one like it is also Worth remembering that we even though the Cost of Victory was and for once the line of division Between Good and evil was clearly the second world War was a War that had to be it was but the right Side won in the end anybody can Ever win a like yesterday forty it seems like yester i was three when the War started and nine when it and yet i remember it when i was a child people were always dont you know that theres a War on i knew i could not remember a time when there was not a War when the War ended i asked my father what the free press would do for news now that the War was he assured me that something would turn it this the Vietnam War has been Over for 10 but the americans seem to be1 just As eager to recall their defeat in that Long and unhappy conflict As they Are to re member our Victory in the War against the fascination of disaster win or images this week the television screen has been full of images of the last Days of the War crowds around the american helicopters fall ing into the the triumphant North vietnamese army rolling into for that War has become a greater obsession than Custers last defeat bewilder ten years or a Century later they Are still wondering what it All have people always been like that did the ancient persians spend years hashing Over the greek speculating on the significance of their defeat ten years after 1588 were the Spanish still agonizing Over the loss of the Armada did the a Orkiss and the lancastrian tie themselves in knots attempting to come to grips with the morality of the wars of the roses what role do films and television play in our ability to summon up the horrors of the past Mere memory can turn disaster into a kind of our recent horrors Are All on film and we can use them As a kind of hair viewing them again and reliving them Over and one Hundred forty ten the urge to turn away is but something keeps pulling us walk for hungry i have a vision i want to share with you and Hope to gain your enthusiastic support for its my vision is that thousands of children from All of the schools in the City participate in a Wal Kathon during physical activity week for an humanitarian envision these children walking or running around their respective schools for a period of one hour on the afternoon of May parents and members of the Community at Large could participate As these children and adults would be walking for a purpose far More meaningful than just the improvement of their own fitness and the participants would be walking to raise Money for the hungry children of thousands of Winni Eggers could walk realizing As they walk that they can make a difference that caring concerned people can make this world a better place for others to live there is not much even at this children like those you know Are dying because they do not have enough to eat or adequate medical you have a you can choose to take a stand and pull together in the ser vice of tears Are not Dennis Caine physical education teacher vital school division 6 Winnipeg a Good mend i was deeply disappointed by archbishop Adam Erners recent condemnation of horizons Maga As promoting lesbianism and espousing ant Catholic lesbianism is not a cause to be nor is it an lesbianism is simply another human the mystery of which Humankind is not yet Able to clearly horizons for Many women including is a Good it encourages women to emerge from the tyranny of others definition of to listen to and Trust it tries to help All understand our common suffering and imbues us with the courage to continue our journey with Hope and dignity As free this i what archbishop Exner teaches As coming to the fullness of Susan Waigen Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give heir name and names will be used and Are subject to horizons Speaks Over recent Russell Doern has instigated a vicious Campaign to have horizons Magazine we reject his interpretation of horizons As slanderous and inac those Jame Assiniboia school trustees who jumped on the horizons banned Wagon were no doubt Gleeful Over doers result abused their Power in an Effort to ban horizons from their school Divi to respond to doers com ments that we Are rolling in unde served horizons is Only one of a number of projects that were approved for Federal govern ment funds under the local employ ment assistance development Cri which Are Given to create viable businesses while achieving the governments employment of in its third year of operations continues to be extremely successful in attracting sub scribers and advertising and in creasing its newsstand last year we generated More than in the Money that is generated from these newsstand sales and advertising As Well As the government funded is put Back into the Community via printing expenditures and graphic design horizons contrib utes close to to the printing Industry we also employ six full time staff and four Par time staff in the past we have paid freelance fees to Over 400 photographers and graphic horizons and its employees contribute Over per year in Federal tax and hardly an image of an irresponsible corporate in we contributed last year to the provincial payroll government support for Heri Zons is not most Canadian arts and cultural As Well As publications of social need financial support or they would hot even a Large and established publishing firm such As Mcclelland and Stewart needs government financial As communications minister Marcel Masse recently Grants to arts groups will not be based on partisan politics or political pro motion of Canadian Art groups and thoughts and opinions should be our governments not the silencing and censoring of the impetus behind the school trustees action stems from a few zealots who Are part of the anti abortion in their letters to the editor and the department of Edu Russell Doern and the trustees have continually distorted information about horizons by quoting the Magazine out of the basis for the ant Catholic criticism is comment lifted from an interview with author and theolo Gian Mary the remainder of the quote is excerpted from a news Story reporting on a play performed by an Ottawa theatre obviously the trustees will have to censor theatre groups and theolo Gians along with the school trustees have depended on the Points put Forth in a satirical reprinted from the Vancou ver for the strength of their Antimale this unimaginative Label can Only refer to the fact that horizons Speaks out against men who commit wife abuse and violence against if this is we Wear the Label All the inaccuracies put Forward by the trustees underline their neglect of truth and honesty in Pursuit of their ant Choice in looking Back in we can see that the relentless at tacks Are almost identical to those suffered by Canadian suffragist Nel lie she was accused of hating both men and As Well As being Antichrist an for her work in the suffrage undoubtedly in the future the actions of this group of politicians will be viewed with the same shame with which we now View those who were against women receiving the just As the grand children of those opponents Benefit Ted from the work of those courageous so will the grandchildren of the trustees Bene fit from the contribution horizons has made to the advancement of women in Mitchell for horizons collective Winnipeg another View we Are writing in response to the recent statements by archbishop Adam Exner of the roman Catholic Church regarding horizons Maga the archbishops statements about horizons have received much he stated that he viewed the Magazine As immoral and objected to the fact that it receives some Public such controversial and immoral publications should not receive pub Lic according to archbishop what about the massive pub Lic funds which the Catholic Church receives every year in the form of defrayed taxation although we come from different one of us is a non practising jew and the other a con Vert to we both object to the Catholic Church View of there Are Many of us who despite the Church teach that women Are equal human beings with and that we have the right to the practical expressions of that we also believe that women have the right to decide for themselves if and when to become if archbishop Exner believes that those expressing controversial beliefs should not receive Public fund he should begin by getting his own House in when the Catho Lic Church declines All government both direct such As those involved in the papal and indirect such As forgone tax then he can criticize others who accept such until his argument remains a hypocritical Susan Hart Lissa Donner Winnipeg Wreh Thi a tipped through i ;