8 - Friday, February 15, 1985 - North Shore News CENSORSHIP WILL NEVER WORK 1984 has been an by Doug Collins heighis (five feet above the floor, so the tots like “No Bed Of Her Own”; ¢ : o West Vancouver plans to raise porn to new cry. They objected to titles can’t see it). Attorney General Brian Smith “Here ls My Bod: '', etc. The biggest laugh was in says he’s for purity, too. New laws will regulate ; Vv ¥ 1953, when anconver what you see on videotapes in your own home. The censors believe a pornless day is dawning. But 1 have news for them: they're wasting their time. Take a look at the record. Keeping “porn’’ under control has been a failure, and nothing will change unless this coun- try becomes a dictatorship, which is what some people wouldn't mind at all. THE B.C. Government Employees. Union (BCGEV) has filed application with the Labor Relations Board for certification as the bargain- ing agent for the: 28 non- unionized hourly paid employees for West Van- couver’s Salmon House on the Hill restaurant. The -union’s communica- tions officer, Robbie Robin- son said restaurant ‘employees approached the BCGEU with a request to discuss the Possibility of br- 81 -yea r-old wv hecame world famous for closing down Erskine 1] remember all the fuss of Caldwell’s play Tobacco the 1950s, Churchmen and Road. The affair would have parent-teacher associations made a great Keystone Cops strode the land quivering movie, what with the police with anger at the afl- moving in in mid- enveloping iniquity. The performance and arresting Catholic Women's League the actors and everything. wanted hundreds of paper- The book was seized from backs, magazines and even stores, too. comics banned. ‘Wipe the Apprised of this little newsstands clean!'" was the drama, Caldwell commented: union inging in a union to the fa- America, including the cility because they felt the Chuck E Cheese's chain. BCGEU was powerful “1 can’t comment on what enough io represent them. chances we have for getting He said the majority of the the union into the restau- restaurant's employees have rant, but our application has already been signed up by been filed with the LRB. the union, These things take time and it Robinson said the restau- could take anywhere from 10 rant has been owned by days to two weeks for the Nintendo Entertainment Board ‘process to be com- Centres Ltd. since December pleted and before the Board 22, 1984, a multi-national orders/a vote,’ says Robin- Japanese-owned company son. which owns up to 151 res- Restaurant officials ref- _ taurants 5 throughout North used to comment on the winner calm about $100, 0GO | JOHN WILLIS, a retired. cabinet maker from West Vancouver, is $100, 000 richer, a didn't ‘feel anything, | ‘Bay shore Hotel I’m a calm and collected sort Western Express number of guy but my wife’s niece drawn in late Janaury. was more excited than 1 ! Willis’ immediate plans are was,'’ says Willis, 81, of his / a new car and he ¢ expects to reaction as he watched his j share a portion with his niece. Valentine’s Q) Ball (> February 16th 8:00 p.m. — 12:30 a.m. with Bobby Hale’s Big Band PLUS Magic Show by Enchantment AND Dance Shows by Jack Ellard Dancers * Door Prizes * Ladies receive roses * Men receive carnations | DRESS: Semi-Formal — Formal PRICES: Non-Members — $17.50 Members _ $12. 50 Cail for reservations — non-members welcome. Tickets available at the door. 669-9348 738-2411 “lt is gratifying that a novel and a play after 20 years still has a lot of life in it. I must write another.”* As late as 1960, Lady Chatterley’s Lover was deem- ed obscene, some dumb judge in Montreal ruling it had ‘‘no literary merit’’. Then there was the time when an employee of Van- couver Public Library was silly enough to ask Customs and Excise whether Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer was hanned, Before you could blow a whistle, the Keystoners were on the trot again. The library was raid- ed, all copies of Tropic were seized, and for good measure the cops popped into two bookstores and grabbed their copies too. In 1962, the Supreme Court made an _ honest woman of Lady Chat. But only by one vote. Other books banned for years were Fanny Hill and Candy, doth issue when contacted by the North Shore News, According to a press release issued by the BCGEU, the Salmon House on the Hill, is the third of the union’s applications for certification in its current drive to sign up’ workers in d gone / classics of the libido. The biggest putsch came in the mix-Sixties, when Ted Fraser's Book Bin came under the gun. Thousands of paperbacks were seized, in- cluding hilarious titles like Whip Some More, My Lady, and after a long trial Fraser was fined $3,400. All the breast-beating and huffing and puffing didn't stem the tide because no one can define obscenity. Governments have written and re-written the laws, and still judges come up with con- flicting judgments, just as you and | do. ht will be the same in the future, despite the December seizure of Penthouse Magazine, which action could probably be declared il- legal if it were taken to court. The professional fems were breaking out in bumps, you will recall, because’ naked Oriental women had been shown ‘‘trussed up like the hospitality and food ser- vice industry on the Lower Mainland. The release says the BCGEU recently. signed a formal merger agreement with the 500 member Hospitality Workers’ Union and also recently filed. ap- chickens’? But I] made a point of getting a copy and my comment wes *‘some chickens”’! The anti-porners claim porn audiences are a menace because they are likely to im- itate what they see. But in 1978, a U.S. commission on obscenity and pornography found there was no relation- ship between porn and anti- social behaviour. And none has ever been proved. Over in wicked Denmark, mean- while, there’s no censorship at all, and the Danes are no more lustful or criminal than anyone else. The stuff bores them. I wouldn’t give you five cents for a cartload of porn. But Everyman is his own best censor. He needs no help from the state, or from the Jancis Andrewses and Jiliian Ridingtons. 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