No taxpayer, will quarrel with the objective of Grace McCarthy's: new welfare policy which takes effect in a few weeks. But whether the methods chosen will achieve the objective is open to considerable doubt. The Human Resources Minister's laudable aim is to encourage “employable” welfare recipients to find wage-earning jobs as quickly as possible. For that purpose, the eligibility of theoretically employable cases to continue receiving assistance is to be reviewed every month. This presupposes, of course, that jobs for unskilled workers — who form the bulk of welfare recipients — are readily available. Such is simply not the case. That is why a good many of them are on welfare in the first place, as victims of the current unem- ployment level. Meanwhile, the new system of automatic monthly reviews is obviously going to add considerably to the workload of the Human Resources bureaucracy, which must mean added expense for the taxpayer. The most effective incentive would be to soften the penalties for part-time earnings by welfare recipients, since such earnings can often be a halfway house to full-time em- ployment. Under the present system there is virtually no financial advantage in earning $200-$300 through part-time work because most of the extra is docked from the sub- sistence-level welfare payments. If reductions in welfare payments were graduated so as to enable recipients to better their position, up to a certain level, by their own efforts, there would likely be little or no extra burden on the taxpayer. And many more genuine welfare cases might be en- couraged to fight hard for the rewards of an eventual full-time job. Terry lives on More than a million Canadians will run, jog or walk up to 10 kilometres this Sunday to keep alive Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope for cancer research. On the North Shore the Terry Fox Run starts at 9 a.m. from Kapilano 100 in Park Royal South. Get a pledge and entry form from your rec centre, municipal hall or any Safeway or Bank of Montreal. Get involved in Terry’s dream that “somewhere the hurting must stop”. TP sunday news narth shore 1139 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver, B.C V7M 2H4 news (604) 985-2131 ADVERTISING NEWS 980-0511 CLASSIFIE O 985-2131 966-6222 CIRCULATION 986-1337 Publisher Peter Speck Associate Publisher Editor-in-Chief Advertising Director Robert Graham Noel Wright Eric Cardwell Managing Editor News Editor Sports Editor Andy Fraser Chris Lloyd Patrick Rach General Manager Creative Administration ODtrector Berni Hilhard Tam Francis Production Director Photography Rick Stonehouse Elsworth Dickson Accounting Supervisor Circulation Director Purchaser Barbara Keon Bian A Etbs Faye McCrae North Shore Newa founded in JVB as an mGEpendenot «Oomumnunity Newspaper and qualied under Schedule IW Part Ht Paragrapt I of the trcime Tas Act in puttished each Wednesday and Sunday by North Shore Free Presse Lid and datibuted to every door on fhe North Shore Second Class Matt Aegistahoe Number 148% Subscriptions 320 per year Entire contents ' 1861 North Shore Free Press Ltd All rights reserved No reagpocsitihty acuaogited tor wosobe fad tateriat we Wading Mans FITS Bo pe tures whe fs shout! be ac ompan ad thy a slampead AMArEssed anNvetupo VE RIE CTR On ATION 863 470 Wednesday $27 750 Sunday SIR" THIS PAPER IS RECYCIL ABLE Four months ago the spe- cial parliamentary commit- tee -on alternative energy unveiled a lengthy report containing a blue-print for Canada’s energy future. Reaction from the federal government since then has been notable only by its absence. Energy Minister Marc Lalonde has said absolutely. nothing about the committee report, and there is some doubt that he has digested the contents, if indeed he has read it. The central recom- mendation in that report sought to have the federal government break new ground by committing itself heavily to a research and development program on THE UNITED STATES HAS A GREAT ADVANTAGE WITH THE NEUTRON BOMB AS IT fl lilt Down with bad I've always hated Labor Day and the remains of the week immediately following it. Not that I’ve anything against labor as such, organized or disorganized. And, mercifully, my hang-up about the first full week of September lasts only seven or eight days at most. l hate Labor Day for what does to summer. Personally, | would like summer to last for 12 months each year. Nowadays, 1 usually lasts about 12 days. This year, of course, has been a bumper summer — 1 actually got under way in late July. But regardless of when it begins, summer in North America always suffers the same violent hiatus Just as I'm starting to fall in love with summer all over again, along comes that pushy spuilsport, Labor Day. and declares carefree summer to be officially at an end It's like being jilted by a tax collector 1 hate the weck Day for of Labor Is pompous self righteousness As cvery = Lawns Crale Hridge commuter koows, 6/7 percent of the North Shore s wage slaves mysteriously manage to gool off from July lLonward presumably to live on these fat GOLDEN WEEKS boot twee blissful months the tush bour traffic Ge ups disappear You can whee over town between and Y am Mant maorniags, woth nothing to delay you tut the traffic sagnals At Taylor and Manne and Capilano Manne a prevails But’ promptly) on the Tuesday after Labor Day the lengthy line-ups are back The easy living 1s over The stern call of duty echoes through North Shore homes Get back out there and work... get back out there and carn moncy get back to school Shame on us, suddenly, for cnyoying ourselves Labor Day heralds the day of reckoning after the golden weeks of indolence And also) promises nothing but problems ahead in the neat sax months dark nights, hghong and heating bills, chauffeunng the kids. and hohday mood once more Labor Day misted windshicids, rain. snow ice. smivelly colds flu bugs and Christmas shopping What oa way to pull the plug on summer all in 24 hours Tender shortlived SUMS descr ves a mote Jessurcly dignified death Not the harate chop oof Labor Lay Ino oany case our Own Labor Day isa traud Alb the rest oof the works bomors ats wotkers on May to the in (crnationally recognised { abet Only North [ay Canadian Comment BY PETER WARD hydrogen. There is ab- solutely no intention on the part of government to spend anything like the billion dollars over five years that the committee suggested. The hydrogen budget this year, for all departments, is $3 million, and roughly two thirds of that amount is being spent on a pet project for Mirabel Airport that involves Noranda Mines, Inc. There will be no ad- ditional funds allocated to hydrogen research = or development this year, and it’s highly unhkely that next year’s budget will produce much of an increase. Politicans like Marc Lalonde are preoccupied with conventional energy issues and won't spare ume for long-term planning. Civil servants are uneasy with something as unfamiliar as hydrogen, except for a few, who are still cautious, but at least not dragging their feet. One of the senior bureaucrats queried on the hydrogen issue explained that the responsible officials were afraid that if things moved too quickly, too far on hydrogen, and govern- ment support for this coming energy currency, there might be a mistake akin to what happened when the British Comet jetliner had so many problems. The Comet was the first commercial jetliner, but it bad metal fatique problems caused when the metal skin contracted and expanded, as the plane soared to un- precedented high altitudes. Several Comets were lost, along with their passengers, before the fault was diagnosed. " Should there be similar problems with a hydrogen demonstration project, said the official, the whole concept could be put on the shelf for years. Any hydrogen demonstration project, he said, must be thoroughly proved before it is tackled. Sure. Caution is a praiseworthy attribute when decisions are being made about new technology. You can have too much of it, though. Canada_ through some happy circumstances, is im a position to become a world leader in hydrogen technology. The commons committee that pointed that out deserves hearty thanks from all Canadians. The committee dese. --s more than hanks from the government. It deserves action. out old Labor Day focus tee Noel Wright Ameneca ts out of step thanks to the Kaaghts of late nineteenth century predecessor of the American Labor a Federabon of which Ws Labor invented Laber 188) Day style, an INDIANS SMARTER Pall st seems has always heldia gloomy fascination bor North Amen ans the Pilgrim cver stmec bathers spent these two months from September lo November 1620) being seassck on- the Mayflower But) thats neo excuse for what we sull try to dooto sammer every ime the first week of September rolls around. Especially when you consider how Labor Day flies in the face of nature. Last Monday — the of- ficial date of summer's funeral — the sun blazed for 11 hours out of a cloudless azure sky. The thermomcter hit the high twenties. Shorts and swimwear were the order of the day in parks and on beaches. Suntan lotion was still sclling bnskly. More of the same was tn the im mediate forecast. Summer doesn't dic casily Surc. that there may be odd showery interludes. Tem peratures will graduaily creep a Iitthe lower But if Vancouver runs truc to form, our renowned Indian summer wall stall be checnng us up five or six wecks from now The Indians in this acck of the woods obviously knew something that the K mghts of Labor didn't Thats dhe thought revives my spirits September as soon as the pious, hypocntical farce of this first weok 1s fact, Fm beginning to tec! better already If we have to honor labar that cach over in on the wrong date we should al) least postpone 1 until Hallowe'en - time by which summer wil) finally have bowed oul grace chully of ws own accord Besides what could be a more appropnate Labor Day Ly theme than “trick of treal Fart aga art tahini a