6 - Friday, March 14, 1986 - North Shore News THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER ‘north shore. news SUNDAY . WEDNESDAY. FR ay 1139 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver, B.C. V7M 2H4 Peter Speck Noel Wright Nancy Weatherley Publisher: Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor Display Advertising 980-0511 Classified Advertising 986-6222 Newsroom 985-2131 Circulation 986-1337 Operations Manager Berni Hilliard Subscriptions 986-1337 Advertising Director Linga Stewart North Shore News, toxced mn 1%. MMebendent suburban Mewtpane and dualtad ander Schedule HL Parrgapn ti} of ine Fatige laa Act ss muguhed vech y Fietay weet Sunday by Nesth Shere Fret Brest itd and asinbutes 19 every dow or: the tecvtt: Shore S non Mutitet JHAS Sumter poms Norn ater dist Vancouret, $25 pet yrat Madng rates dvalatie On request SUtTUSsIONS are weicEme Dut we CANNOT AC CED! Tespnn Orit for umsOnC Jed matrial MCiudn) manuctDT ANE Prctutes WAM Sts aid bE ALCO Date) ty a aes a esind eterno Generic Goodwill he Social Credit government launched its Partners in Promises speech from the throne Tuesday. Delivered by Lt. Gov Bob Rogers, the pre-elec- tion tip-toe through timorous times and blinkered visions was mined with enough facile good news to fill the hearts and propaganda war chests of all Socred party faithful and-all the chronically naive. Every base was loudly touched in the government's run to score points with all dispruntied factions of the home team. Generic goodwill, like garden fertilizer, was unloaded with a snow shovel upon the mysterious roots of the ‘‘new British Columbia economy’’. The government promised to purge the province of every ill with a rousing battalion of yesterday’s cures and tomorrow’s forgotten rhetoric: more jobs, lower Ente contents © 1986 North Shore Free Press Ltd All rights reserved 56,245 (average. Weanesday Friday & Sunday) HEY! WOH! HOLD MT!.. SLOW DOWN. taxes, better highways. The speech included a battery of programs bearing the best in catch phraseology from the speech writer’s art, but little else. For labor’s disaffected hordes, ‘‘preventative mediation”; for we shall have those with = cultural bent, Partnership in Arts; for the rest of us: new pro- grams, new money, a new economy, and new measures for prosperity on every level. It is the age old political song with new cliches that has warbled the arrival of elections over the sighs and resignation of the electorate since the political soapbox first came into being. Stop circus cruelty to animals Admits Alfred Court, trainer of wild animals: Dear Editor: So the Shrine Circus came to. Vancouver again March 7-9. This circus could be fun—if the animals were left out. The Shriners should not be pro- ud of forcing wild animals to per- form tricks against their will. Cir- cus life for an animal isn’t fun. Chained by the leg in a small pack- ing case, the elephant, normally walking many miles each day, sways miserably to and fro. In the next cage, chimpanzees and baboons, chained by the neck and often with insufficient room to stand, stretch their hands through the bars. The big cats suffer in similarly cramped pens. Farewell freedom. Have you thought about how trainers ‘‘teach’’ proud, indepen- Free access Dear Editor: Re: Editorial ‘‘A Free Coun- try’, Feb 28/86 - Cypress Bowl Park I would like to point out that Cypress Bowl Recreations does not have a lease on park lands. ‘They have a permit to operate the controlled areas, and under the terms of the permit the compzny dignity; farewell dent, wild animals to perform in the circus ring? One ex-circus worker testifies: “Some years ago I worked in zoos and circuses. 1 specialized in elephants for six years. During the years I spent with the circus I saw almost all the elephants, at some time, beaten with shovels, iron bars, a 14-Ib. sledgehammer and iron spikes. “My experience of the circus is that pain is the incentive for work. To make an elephant dance the trainer takes an iron bar or ham- mer and hits the animal’s toenails, thus making it lift its foot. The natural reaction is to put the first foot down.’ On continuing this procedure and giving the command “dance’’, the trainer ‘‘teaches”’ the elephant to lift its feet alternate- ” ly. the question has to guarantee free access to the wilderness areas. At present the company is not standing by the terms of its con- tract, and if your newspaper does not get its facts correct, you are assisting those who would nat have this ‘*a free country”’. Nicholas S.P. Rewe West Vancouver is abortion moral? Dear Editor: . Admitting that Pro Life’s ap- proach is morally unassailable (News Viewpoint, Feb. 19) pulls the ground out from under your subsequent attempts to rationalize abortion. The alternative to arguing that abortion is moral justifies the assertion that the logic of abortion will inevitably extend itself to in- fanticide and euthanasia. Is abortion immoral? Or is it moral? You are free to choose! G. McGuire North Vancouver famous “I seized one of the heavy stools and flung it with all my strength at the beast’s head. It went sprawl- ing, knocked out... all the clubs 1 had left in the cage were broken one by one on Bengali’s head; lashes came down like an avalan- che, each cutting deep into the tiger’s shining coat.’’ Congratulations, Alfred! But the Shrine Cricus couid be fun if it got back to the traditional cir- cus basics. Give us the jugglers, the acrobats, the stiltwalkers, the unicyclists and the tightrope walkers. Bring on the clowns! ... but let them be human, not the once-proud wild animal now ter- tified into submission. Worldwide, animal circuses are now being banned. In Great Bri- tain, 64 councils have banned cir- cuses with animal acts. Within the last year, the Greater London area declared illegal all circuses which contain performing animals. In Denmark and Sweden, circuses with animal acts have been pro- hibited. In Sydney, Australia, the North Shore council—quickly followed by two other town coun- cils—banned circuses which’ use performing animals. Come on, Vancouver. Let’s do the same. When we all realize that animal acts are degrading and cruel, then, and only then, we may be near to calling ourselves civilized. Will you heip us ensure that the Shrine Cir- cus is the last spectacle of its kind ever to visit Vancouver? S. Daskalova de Banou Vancouver Female chauvinists must write car ads Dear Editor: Would someone please enlighten this obviously unenlightened, mid- dle-aged male what ‘‘Lady Driven’’ means in a car advertise- ment. In your Automotive section of the North Shore News of March 2, 1986 there were no less than four ads for cars which informed me that they had been driven or solely owned by a lady. [ am at a loss to understand what this exquisite piece of news is suppossd to convey to me. If it is to conjure up in me the idea of that ‘little old lady driving to Church and back on Sundays at speeds well below the posted limits’? it is of course erroneous. Indeed was any car ever sold by that old chestnut? On the other hand, perhaps it is to invoke in me some kind of sen- sual pleasure — the thought that only a lady has sat in the driver’s seat. Again, it fails miserably, for I can think of a dozen better ways to achieve that end. 1 am obviously missing some- thing here and will undoubtedly kick my-4If hard once someone in- forms me of the real reason why, in this age of so-called enlighten- ment, we are seeing this reversal of male chauvinism. . Michael J. Mace North Vancouver | ‘In case lof armed! conflict | please bypass Canada’ Dear Editor: The news is out: equality for all - and in all respects. Homosexuals in Forces and females positions. I would advise the Minister of. External Affairs to send a note to the USSR and USA as follows: the Armed in combat In case of armed conflict, please bypass Canada. Your soldiers will be ineffective: Our female ranks will entice your heterosexuals and what is left over will fall prey to the ‘‘gays’’. As an alternative, the Minister of National Defense could be ad- vised to replace the Armed Forces with a colorfully attired Honor Guard to receive visiting dignitaries. And a iurther advice, this one to the Minister of Manpower & Im- migration: Install bordellos at all seaports and border crossings. But make sure you have separate establishments for ‘‘Homos’’, for the Lesbians and a small one for the ‘*Heteros’’. You will solve a large part‘of the unemployment problem and Mr. Wilson's budget will be greatly improved by Income Taxes. W. Claus West Vancouver