6 ~ Friday, August 21, 1992 ~ North Shore News "NEWS VIEWPOINT Out of tune ‘Ing at Rogers Plaza in North Van- couver City. An oversized, slightly Byzantine-looking trumpet with a disem- bodied hand. Et is called Joe Bustemente Trumpet, a sculpture by Polish-born Richard Wojciechowski. | ¥T BALANCES on the edge of the rait- It is meant to commemoraie a one- armed Chilean man named Joe whose horn calls helped navigators make their way. threagh Burrard Iniet fog. doubtful that people strolling past the". cculptare’ would; absorb the local humzi ‘element of the story, because Joe’s body doesn’t figure in the piece. . Now to ‘confound matters further, the “Cenadian Polish: Academic Club is asking North Vancouver City Council to consider’ having the Polish tune ‘“Hejnei’’ broadcast out of the horn at noon every day. Legend has it that while the tune was veing played in 1241 in Kracow to warn the public of approaching Tartars, the trumpeter was shot, and the tune ended abruptly. Let’s get this straight: North Vancouver hes a sculpture of a hand of a one-armed Chilean: man pisying a trumpet, created by a Polish artist which it is proposed should play a Polish tume? if North Vancouver City approves such an incongruous idea it will prove itself out of tune with public art. Coun. Rod Clark is right: consider using the tunes that Bustemente actually played and give the onlookers an injection of local history. They might even approach the sculpture for a closer look. Dear Editor: disappointment, I and my signifi- this is disgusting to us. if you What can the public expect from the North Shore News next?. First you force the Citizen paper out-of business, then there is Doug Collins, and now adver- tisements for pornographic XXX movies. I was upset that you undercut the Citizen paper; a good com- munity paper. I was and still am annoyed and in disbelief of most of what Doug Callins writes. But I have to write to you to protest, the anger and absolute cant other have over your allow- . ing somebody to advertise XXX pornographic movies in a local community paper. Is this the image you want to project to the community? On one side of the page you have your Sunshine girl, and ad- jacent an ad -for pornographic XXX movies. How dare you publish this? Legally or not, how can you do this morally? You do. have a choice of what publish: As parents of two young girls, you continue te publish pornographic advertisements, what’s next? . You are jeopardizing the integ- rity of your paper and maybe it’s time people started a new com- munity paper, with community issues, not pornographic adver- tisements, We are positive you will be. receiving many more letters on this issue, as our opinions are supported by many others in this community. Capt. and Mrs. Evelyn Howell North Vancouver Peter Speck . .Timothy Renshaw Noel Wright Publisher Managing Editor . 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SDA DIVISION 61,582 (average circulation, Wednesday, Friday & Sunday) Entire contents © 1992.North Shore-Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved, Exports icing on just the | homemade cake _ COLD WATER which Wednesday’s column generously poured on the North American Free Trade Agreement (MAFTA) has brought your scribe stern rebukes from some focal disciples of Trade Minister Michael Wilson. . It is I who am all wet, they in-- sist, because the NAFTA will fi- nally solve Canada’s economic woes. Arguing otherwise puts me in the same category as separatists who burn the Maple Leaf fag in . public. Dear, dear. All this just for stating the obvious: prosperity, lixe charity, begins at home. The flip side of that truth being that you can’t IMPORT prosperity. No nation has the stuff for sale. So once more back to basics — this time the Dick and Jane ver- sion. If some four-fifths of everything you produce (the Gross Domestic Product} is sold and bought at home, that’s where the lion’s share of your prosperity comes from. The one-fifth you seil abroad can be nice icing on the homemade cake — but first you must bake the cake. As well, your foreign customers need to be folks more or less like yourself in numbers, incomes and labor costs. That’s the TRUE - ‘level playing field’* — the kind they broadly have in the European Community, not Mike Wilson’s lopsided fake. Much bigger populations benefit from economies of ..cale. Selling to lots more customers means things can be produced cheaper. So te match their prices, you have te produce SMARTER, with more rokots and computers, and fewer workers — making surplus workers jobless. Or cise, of course, you can simply make things in the other guy’s country, using HIS workers instead of yours. Example: the U.S. ~— 10 times Canada’s popu- lation with {0% lower labor costs. Countries with much lower wages, on the other hand, can’t afford your things anyhow — unless, again, you make them in that country. Example: Mexico — with an average hourly wage of $2.12 — which now buys a micro- scopic 0.4% of our exports. Meanwhile, what happens when your home market itself — 80% of your wealth — gets badly out of kilter because consumers, . business and governments alike splurge for too long and wind up deep in the glue? Layoffs all round, that’s what, leaving little spare cash to buy from each other until everyone. - slowly digs himself out of debt. Example: Canada 1992, where every man, Woman and kid owes HITHER AND YON $4,000 for consumer goodies aloae: total $100 billion ~ .NOT - including mortgages. a For this, alas, there’s io: quick fix. Least of all, by ADDING to © - today’s 1.6 million jobiess as we °. try to play the ‘‘free trade’’ game. . Sorry fans, but the NAFTA is 2 luxury we can’t afford until we - pay off the monstrous bills we’ ve run up. Have a very nice weekend. POSTSCRIPTS: Four West Van service club stalwarts were. honored at this month’s Kiwanis: Pacific Northwest conference in’. Portland, Ore. Distinguished Club: President awards went to Derrick Humphreys (West Van Kiwanis) and Marray Henry (Xiwanis of Cspilano), while Gordon East: (1992 West Van Kiwanis presi- dent) and. Vic Nygaard (Kiwanis of Capilano) received Distinguish. ed Club Secretary citations, tention any Old Fedidtaus hidii in this neck of the woods! ‘Your old school Goey Smaliwood’s and : Joba Crosble’s too) — Bishep .: Felid’s College; St. John’s, "Nil — is planning a big party to‘cel brate its !S0th birthday and want you there. Write for details to P.O. Box 13954, Stn. A, St... John’s, Nfld. AIB 4G7.... Mean: while a very happy. birthday | tomorrow, Aug. 22, to: . _ Gleneagles’ Monica Dran WRIGHT OR WRONG: There’s only one way to ensure crime doesn’ t pay. Let the goveram it HONORED KIWANIANS...Derrick Humphreys (teft),. Murray. Henry (right), along with Gordon East and Vic Nygaard (see cof: Rem).