SUNDAY « WEDNESDAY . — 1139 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 56,245 (average, Wednesday Friday & Sunday) ‘Dear Editor:, my One of your letter. writers recent- ly suggested that ‘‘We need social- sm’? (North Shore News, Friday, Ly January 10, 1986): to alleviate. all Dear “Editor: _ | refer to the January 1 12, "1986 Doug Collins column, regarding Stokers housing Dear-Editor: . This is regarding the proposal to consider Stoker Farm for seniors’ - housing. _For the past five years I’ve wat- ched my beautiful home be mutilated and burned by vandals, _ and finally bulldozed into a heap of rubble. The once meticulously tended gardens are now used as doggy SDA DIVISION * SELENE OAS) «RIOTING CS OF 25,000,000 Publisher: Peter Speck Disptay Advertising 980-0511 ; Classified Advertising 986-6222 Editor-In-Chief Noel Wright Newsroom 995-2131 Managing Editor Nancy Weatherley Circulation 986-1337 Operations Manager Berni Hilliard Subscriptions 986-1337 Advertising Director Linda Stewarl North Shore News, lounded in 1969 as an independent subutbun Feespaperl and qualhed utder Sctedute tlt, Paragepee Hl ol Ine Escise Tax Act, 15 pudlisned tach Wrdnenday. Faday and Suratay by Moin Shove Freq Press Lid and dstntruted to every dout on the North Shore Second Class Mail Hegisteation Number 3884 Subscrotons North and West vancouver $2h pet rat Maing rans avaragle on tequest. Subruspocs ate welcome but wa cannot accept Mespans:tulty foc UNsObCIAG Material NCU MANU IE aS, and pttutes winch fiould be accempanied by a Stamped, addressed envelope Entire contents © 1986 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All tights reserved. sorts of problems such ‘as ‘talist society. Fine. . + unemployment, low: wages, /and . Now that James Minal told us unfair treatment ‘of the’ working ; what’s good for us, I’d like to class in general - all, according 'to { counter by suggesting what he him, caused by an out-dated capi-; should do with it, i.e., to stuff it nN ‘the termination . of. Les Bewley’s Collins suggests that a major engagement with the Vancouver reason why Bewley’s column no Sun. . 7 ; longer appears in the Vancouver ; Sun was that he drew the wrath of the Canadian Jewish Congress for his column on Israel last July. It seems more likely to me that Les Bewley’s column no longer appears in the Vancouver Sun because of a lack of competence. What outraged many people about the column on Israel was not - its. overwhelming bias against project Israel per se, but that it was shallow, poorly researched and selectively presented the issues in a paths and are over-run with black- deceptive and less: than complete berry brambles. way. . There have been numerous pres- Those flaws were not confi ned entations for development, but the — to the Israel column aione. most recent proposal to build Surely the public has the right to housing for seniors is exactly what expect more. the Stoker family would wish for.1 . I can only assume that the Van- know my deceased grandparents and father would approve. GO FOR IT! : Judy Lynch (nee Stoker), North Vancouver couver Sun finally agreed. What | find hard to understand is why it took so Iong. Martin Thompson North Vancouver marketing item. strategies around. . back between: the. well “Worn: pages of Marx's: “Das Kapital’”’ ’ ‘where it came from, and keep , it. buried there, preferably forever. Becausé we necd socialism as a hole in the head.’ Has/it ever dawned on him. that - some of us might-have had the un- fortunate privilege to experience .. the full brunt of what he is ad- vocating? And that we might be "growing tired of ‘his regurgitating the illogical drivel as first hatched |. by Karl Marx, and répeated by:a’ - succession of social thinkers of the collectivist stripe ever since? He and they totally misrepresent what capitalism is. and ~ how it works. Capitalism in its pure form, i.e.,' laissez faire, unhampered by gov- ernment intervention, and contrary to Marxist teaching, works miracles for economy and general well being. To imply that capitalism has created a glorified welfare system News Viewpoint Be my consumer * ig indeed'a gross misnomer. On the -contrary, this is exactly. what so- day is quickly approaching. Since Boxing Day, merchants, card manufacturers e and chocolate mongers have been hyping,us to go out and spend for the big day of love. : Can you blame them? Valentine’s Day is an important Unlike the Americans, we Canadians have no civic holidays between the Christmas season and the Easter holidays, therefore nothing to base mid-winter marketing Both Christmas and Easter are important consumer milestones in the retail marketing year. Christmas promotions begin to roll just after Labor Day and catch momentum after Halloween. Spring fash- ions, usually associated with Easter, are already being ‘advertised but don’t catch on until March. Hence any merchant: worth his salt grasps onto any available marketing tool between the seasons and nothing could be more convenient than Valentine’s Day. Car dealers.. promote sweethesrt specials, furniture stores plug Valentine madness and fashion boutiques push styles with sex appeal. businesses which flog romantic dinners for two, flowers, jewelry, perfume and chocolate, and February 14 quickly turns into a marketing bonanza, What’s the poor consumer to do? Perish the thought of forgetting your sweetheart on Valentine’s’Day. Buy the | roses, go out for dinner and thank your lucky stars that marketers haven't picked up. on Robbie Burns Day, Ground Hog’s Day and St. Patrick’s Day...yet. ‘Take into account the cialism is striving for, and preten- ding to be.’ Notwithstanding,:.so- .. cialism is no more than‘a glorified Misery, :no..matter.: :what:: ‘label it masquerades under: >. Be it the policy ‘of .the Socialist ‘Labor. Party. here, National. Social- ism of Hitler’s Germany or the state socialism of. communist . Russia. All: such systems - ‘destroy. individual initiative that’ is ‘essential to economic: progress,” which in _ turn ‘alleviates much: of ‘human ’ misery. Sony : This ‘simple ‘chain ‘of cause ‘and effect’ ‘completely ‘eludes James Minal. * If he feels that life here is mere existence; as he says itis, he would _ , be well advised to pack his Marxist _bible and go to Russia,-so that he ‘can live there according to what he is preaching here. Jan Musil - North Vancouver f Men have | ‘no right! ‘Dear Editor: . Re: Mr. George Carruther’s Letter © ‘of the Day in the North. Shore News, Jan. 17, 1986. I was halfway through reading this viewpoint and I just knew it had been written by a male subject within our society; I was disgusted with it by the time I reached the end of the article. : How dare he, even, have the gall to comment!.° © _ Women bear children ~ —_ - just for. the record! . f Only they should have the choice if abortion is medically available.. When will society recognize that even now women are still having their rights infringed upon by men, Joy Sparks North Vancouver