A7 - Wednesday, June 1, 1983 - North Shore News Dear Editor: Your correspondent Michael Walker provides your readers with one of the finest examples of a 19th century mind that our socie- ty has produced. Walker accepts the con- temporary use of the term “Luddite” to indicate an im- becilic tendency to resist progress, by violence if necessary. The original Ned Ludd apparently was Victims of something of an imbecile, who made a name for himself by smashing a couple of machines which made stockings faster than he could by hand. Those who adopted his name for their organizations formed themselves into secret and well-organized societies and went about at night systematically destroying harvesting, spinning and weaving machines. They crime being recompensed Dear Editor: 1 am writing to you regarding the letter sent to you by B. Tomlinson, Sunday May 22, 1983. The St. Leonard’s Society (North Shore) have been Operating a Victim-Offender Restitution Programme for one year on the North Shore. The goals of our agency are =- 1) To provide a community based approach to meeting the practical needs of vic- tims in a personal way. 2) To work closely with the Criminal Justice systems and other private and government agencies to assist in facilitating the It pays to Dear Editor: Our son was recently involved in an accident because a dog ran in front of his car. He had witnesses to prove that he was driving with due care and caution and in fact had done a good job in avoiding the dog and oncoming traffice. ICBC has repaired the car under the collision section of the policy and because of this is increasing our FAIR rate. They state M O OTe paints service to victims of crime. 3) To show that some victims and some offenders can come to a reparative solution to their problems. 4) To improve the private sector corrections resources on the North Shore. Since commencing operation in January 1982, we have dealt with ap proximately 59 offenders, 67 victims, with 560 hours of community work = service being performed directly to the victims, and slightly over $16,000.00 returned to the victims through our trust accounts. W. Dougias-Dungey North Vancouver kill dogs! however, that if my son had hit the dog the repairs would have been covered by our comprehensive policy and there would have been a smaller deductible and no adjustment to the rate under the F.A.I.R. programme. So, the moral to the story is — KILL THE ANIMAL AND SAVE ON sIN- SURANCE PREMIUMS. D. Bruce Morris West Vancouver Benjamin Are Best! Featuring our top of the line Mooreguard Exterior Latex 26°" regular 33 98 Regal Wall Satin Interior Latex 19°° reguias 25 98 onto anda dune 12 1063 ® were not so much opposed to technological change as they were to technological unemployment which enriched a few, but im- poverished multitudes. Walker further suggests that a lot of people are naw reacting to the electronic revolution as did the Lud- dites to the industrial revolu- tion, that is by forecasting gloom and doom. In the short run, howver, the Lud- dites were perfectly right in pointing out the poverty, misery and alienation which reached .. staggering. ..-levels... during the long process of in- dustrialization, and are still today manifest in countries such as South Korea, The Phillipines and Chile, where unions are illegal, workers are treated as expendable commodities, and the gulf between rich and poor escalates rapidly . Recently the - Catholic bishops have been much abused for having the temerity to point out that the ultimate social priority should be human well-being and not profit. They were not, I assume totally oppos- ed to profit any more than the original Luddites were opposed to progress. What they did wish to see was a wider distribution of the benefits of progress, and it is to their credit, not that of the entrepreneur, that such was one of the long term results of the industrial revolution. Today we have ait‘abun-.. dance of § starry-eyed apologists for any changes which promise to increase the gross national product or increase employment. I sug- gest that we need a few more critical, far-sighted and com- passionate Luddites. Walker implies that the only way to Kitchen ‘culture’ Dear Editor: Barbara McCreadie’s statement in her column on Sunday, May §8 citing freedom from shelves “full of cans with the French side showing!” as one of the - pleasures of a grocery shop- ping expedition across the U.S. border bothers me. Either she is making a critical comment on those who stock grocery shelves in Canada without taking care to match the language with the province or she is reveal- ing an antipathy to the French language in Canada. Unfortunately such an an- tipathy is widespread among English-speaking Canadians, springing often from ig- norance and fear, and is not infrequently openly express- ed. I hope I am wrong in ascribing this attitude to Mrs. McCreadie who writes so enthusiastically of the benefits of international travel, one of which is surely the exposure to other languages. If someone of Mrs. Mc- I e ‘ween Creadie’s experience can make this remark, then it is no wonder that there is still such firm resistance to the unique opportunity we have in Canada to participate in culture exploration without even leaving the kitchen. Lois Grant West Vancouver eee oi a ; Sool muy. e.. G sranten & dels eae apg Bos ne ‘Ee ‘gece gh ees bagage sae npaoad iB i saelainaie ished thee increase jobs is to join the. ._ rush to. silicone’ chip technology. and _ that ultimately zeny jobs lost to the computer will somehow be replaced by new jobs, the nature of which we cannot foresee any more than the dispossessed British agricultural worker would foresee that his offspring would find abundant and relatively congenial work in the new factories being built in the last century. It amounts to saying that we should hurry and climb aboard the bandwagon without considering where it is going or those who have fallen off. I have ‘always felt that the whole point of mechaniza- tion and automation was to reduce brain-numbing human labour and to set peo- ple more and more free to indulge in the truly human activities of creative endeavour and community involvement. I suggest we should spend less time trying to create jobs to replace those eliminated by machines, and more in seek- ing ways to permit humans to enjoy an increase in leisure time which the machines make possible. That I would call progress and I suspect the oldtime Luddites would have agreed. M. Burbidge North Vancouver ak Selle ate ay 7” Ta hnl 1. a -aeahers ates mie Hala et mene poh on ne ines: oo ene ee sec ies sate RETIREMENT “ANNUITIES: B.C.’s leading annuity brokers are now on the North Shore providing personal attention and competitive quotes. Give us a call or drop in for a visit and ask us for our brochure on RRSPs and Retirement = An- nuities We're here to serve you on the North Shore Bert Wickham & Associates Ltd. 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