Looking at the present
through eyes of the past

Dear Editor:

You may recal! that [ve been critical of dear old Doug a
few times in the past.

Reading a the Nov. 19 News, the thought came to me
that perhaps, what Doug and his generation were fighting
for wasn’t quite what they got from all that. And maybe that
explains his dissatisfaction with the world of ruday, and our
ridiculous governments adding to the confusten,

As Doug points out, the world of the Flaming Forties
was a vastly different one from today’s.

While he was getting shot at over there, T was a kid ped-
dling the Toronto Star in a little one-horse town in Northern
Ontario, and using my spare change to buy War Savings
Stamps. Gas and tires were rationed, along with sugar and
other things, and for a couple of years there, nobody could
buy a new car fur love nor money, because all the production
was going into the war effort. Even getting new tires for my
bike to keep on delivering the papers was a problem.

And in those days, young people amused themselves at
the Saturday-night sock-hops in the high school gym, danc-
ing to the big bands of Glen Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Artic
Shaw, and others.

The world was a different place back then, for sure.

So perhaps Doug can be forgiven for being so unhappy
with the world of the ‘90s. None of us back then even
dreamt it might be like this, of course.

And for all our technological wonders, the world of today
isn’t anything like we’d hoped it might be. That much, I
know for sure. And I’m all for remembering the “bad old
days” — but 1 must add that November 11th is a hell of a
poor choice for a guy’s birthday.

Ray Sutton
North Vancouver

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Open {etter to North
Yancouver Coun. Ernie Crist:

Re: the film viclence debate
you have started.

In the recent civic election I
understood yeu were re-elected
as a councillor not a counsellor.
J will presume you will know
the difference.

Are you a councillor? or, do
you feel that you have been
elected as a counsellor?

My suggestion is that you
return to the process of council-
man and assist in the manage-
ment of North Vancouver
District.

Planning and running of
local government: does not
incude censorship of the film
industry or whether people may
smoke in pubs or restaurants.

Questions of public morality
and behavior are best feft to

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