ee Dear Editor: ] wholeheartedly agree with Mayor Bell and Alder- man Baker’s argument for an increase in the number of aldermen from six to eight. The fact- is that we are entitled to. eight aldermen and Council does not have. the right to deny -us democratic representation. As far as Alderman Bell's argument is concerned. that eight is not necessarily better Dear Editor: Your paper is congratulated on the stand it has taken for years against Canada’s cruel seal hunt. 1 particularly liked — Peter Speck’ Ss article of February. 23. The Canadian -Govern- ment is being backed into a tighter corner every year by relentless pressure from all” over the world against. this barbarity. | The argument that the hunt is an economic neces- sity has been undermined by the offer of a Swiss coriserva- tionist to buy the lives of the baby seals and at the. same time attempt to set up an alternative industry. All that Canada’s Minister of Fisher- ies could reply. wasito's scream _ ° Blackmail”. * Dear Editor: z In an ‘article » by - Tim Padmore. appearing in the | Vancouver Sun, January 25, Wilfrid Bennett Lewis. Canada's Father of Nuclear Energy. is reported as saving that the whole development of nuclear energy is hung up on human nature for people are afraid of it. He states that getting the food needed by the people in the world requires nuclear energy. We are afraid because the generation of nuclear energy is accompanied . by. the release of lethal radioactive waste substances which re-- main deadly to humans for long periods of time. There is a dangerous implication that a safe way of disposal of these wastes is being found. But radioactivity destroyed, In this twentieth century political and military leaders during World War One sent thousands and thousands of soldiers against machines to be massacred, . Politicians and the owners of land, capital and industry allowed a runaway inflation in some ef Many Canadians do not cat properly and some are even suffering from mal- nutrition. About half of the adult Canadian population is over-weight, , and. many suffer from iron deficiency or deficiency of such vita- mins as B, C and O. Make proper eating habits part of your Lifestyle. to -be- cannot be_ Lifestyle MAYOR BELL... council needed? Against the ever mounting accusations that the hunt is disgustingly cruel, suicidal from a conservation point of view and a disgrace to any _ civilized country, the Canad- -ian Department of Fisheries and Environment has issued “a. 24-page -handout which, amongst other things, at : tempts to portray the hunt as romantic and- glamorous. I quote: * ‘Sealing is an enter- prise with an air of adven- ture, pursued’ in a hostile environment which tests the - mettle of its participants. It is a Part of a cultural heritage.” They might just as well have said, had it-suited their _purposes, that ‘‘Sealing is an _enterprise which exploits the ‘poverty . of a. ‘brutalizing nature and carried out under conditions -of which would -. European: ‘countries to. ruin the middle class, leading ‘to the riseof -dictators.. In the. 1930's the: misguided policies of. the. leading . capitalist countries, advised by econo- - mists and financiers. caused a worldwide depression. The greed of armament manufacturers was one cause of World War Two, during which national governments on both sides rained down death and destruction.on city, dwellers -- helpless women, old men and innocent: child- ren. Scientists, blinded by war propaganda, produced the first atomic bombs and the atrocity of. Hiroshima. Since 1945 the most powerful governments in the world continue to pile up nuclear armaments. The latest horror is the enormous Trident submarine, now being built in the U.S.A., at a cost of nearly a billion dollars. One, armed with nuclear long range weapons is capable of destroying half the world's cities. Economic and industrial ‘power is now mainly directed ‘by the ,Multi-or Trans-Na- tional Corporations, too big to be controlled by any government. These immense companics rely on lying advertisements and __ trick psychological propaganda to brainwash us into buying ‘food loaded with additives. apparatus guaranteed to wear out quickly and cars ‘unsafe at any speed,’ A popular American week- ly critic'zes a genetic re- search program about to commence at Harvard Uni- versity. There is grave danger due to human error that bacteria might escape to bring about an outbreak of incurable, infectious disease, community. Ald. increasing the number of» a relic of barbarism’”’ I hope your readers will” sending : West Vancouver confidence -- in whom? In the this up to the citizens of this North Vancouver We, the undersigned con- cerned citizens of the District of North Vancouver, are in agreement with the position taken by Mayor Don Bell and. Marilyn Baker aldermen from the present six to cight as is permitted by. the Municipal Act in. a community exceeding a pop- ulation of 50,000. S. Williams . K. Williams — “ never-be tolerated by organ-— ized workers. ‘*It is an industry which is. giving Canada a very poor image in the rest of the world but it is enormously profit- able to the fur dealers of. such foreign countries .as Japan _and Germany. Culturally itis. heed ~your-. call to’ keep their letters of protest. to the Prime . Mini- ster, the Minister of Fisher- ies and to their own M.P.s. The fight has been long and sometimes discouraging but there is hope now. Such > “organizations as Greenpeace | and Brian Davies’ I1.F.A.W. déserve our financial ‘Support _ to finish the job. Mrs. J.M. 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