Doug Collins @ vet this straight @ st JOE MATHIAS of the Squamish Band is a blowhard and a blockhead. And judging from the tirade of which he reliev- ed himself recently in Toronto he is also bonkers. Do the Squamish fave to have this guy? His outburst took the form of an ultimatum to rotten old Whitey, whose endeavors have given him and his tribe such benefits as the wheel. Yes, said this military genius, the Indians must use force to strangle this country if they don't get a fair hearing from its courts and government. Who will decide what's fair? Mathias and Co., that's who. Canadian Press quoted him as follows: “We must find out what we can do to block a bridge, to block a train, to block a road, to stop them from cutting wood or taking minerals out of the ground. (As | said, the man’s a blockhead.) “Freedom fighters is the word we must brainwash ourselves with,”’ said Joe, ‘‘and if they’re not listening to us and we’re not getting the media coverage in the white man’s media we deserve, then we will strangle the country.”’ This was greeted by the assembled chiefs with ‘long and loud applause’. Such idiocy should inspire com- ment from coast to coast. There hasn't been a word. Red racism is OK, you see. But if some white chief had announced it was time to strangle Indian country on ac- court of how they're always whin- ing and cost us a fot of bucks, editorial writers and the CBC would have been working over- time. Meanwhile, this modest col- umn is an attempt to give Mathias the coverage he says he deserves. You're too dumb to know when you are well off, Mathias, For the truth is that because of our incom- prehensible inclinations, Indians are rapidly becoming a privileged caste. Never mind the billions that are shovelled your way via the helpless taxpayer. That's old news. Not so old is a Medical Ser- vices Plan announcement dated May 26 that [ see before me. As is well known, ordinary folk now have to pay five bucks a time to get treatment from physiotherapists, podiatrists, chiropractors, and other medicine men. Not so the Indians. The statement reads: This charge applies to all British Columbia residents with the ex- ception of those who hold valid MSP identity cards which identify them as: *Registered Indians Refugees Persons receiving coverage through the Ministry of Social Services and Housing. Our downtrodden friends also get a cheap rate on commercial fishing licences. Whites pay bet- ween $400 and $1,600 for Category ‘A’ salmon permits. In- Make a fun day of it at Lonsdale Quay Noon - 4 p.m. Each Day “Yamuray” — 5 pce. S. American Folk Music Keith Pearson — Clown, Juggler, Balloon Animals “Rainbow Face Painters” July 5 July 5 duly 5 July 11 July il T.B.A. July 12 duly 12 duly 12 July 18 All Day Sean Falcon — Clown, Mime Drew Barnes — Acoustic Folk Guitar Keith Pearson — Acoustic Folk Guitar “Rainbow Face Painters” North Shore Tae-Kwon-Do “Break-a-thon” — Breaking Boards for Muscular Dystrophy July 18 July 19 duly 19 July 25 duly 25 duly 26 T.B.A. duly 26 Steve Reid — Acoustic Guitar — Folk & Beatles Keith Pearson -- Acoustic Guitar — Folk & Beatles Paul Serret — Acoustic Guitar — Folk & Beatles “Yamuray” — 5 pce. S. American Folk Music Drew Barnes — Acoustic Guitar deff Smith — Acoustic Guitar MARKET: A FRESH EXPERIENCE....EVERY DAY diate pas only $20, Catepors CH roe herring Teeneces issued fe) none dadians operating a rill net cost $200, and they have to pas $2,000 to operate Seine nets. Joe's bows citn pet those Heenees for Po tiny little bucks. UNo wonder they've put the looa on the dollar!) The same disparity is shown for fishing tor herring roe on kelp: $2,000 for a white, SEO for an Indian, Ain't that) discrimination? Where are you, Gordon Fairweather of the Canadian Human Rights Commission? Too busy multiplying the multicult program, | guess. We are so cowed these days that if'an Indian jumped on our big toe we would apologize. So maybe Mathias isn’t so dumb after all, He senses what stuff we are made of. Run rabbit run, TICW x k A word on that vote in parliament. lc was not surprising that the proposal was defeated. What else did you expect from that fot? Besides, the thing was a con from the word go. Even if the vote had gone the other way, nothing much would have happened. The question of “reinstating the death penalty" would then have been sent to a committee and there would have been endless maneuvering to keep such nasty stuff off the books. In the untikely event of shar sleight-of-hand failing, Brian Baloney would have commuted every sentence. The vote was yet another exam- ple of how skewed our political system is. The people think one way, elitist MPs another. It's the same with immigration, grants for crackpot fems, homos and _ les- bians, endless favors for Joe Mathias & Co., and a hundred other horrors. 9 - Sunday, duly §, 19%7 - North Share News Mailbox PROVINCIAL VOTERS’ LIST Keep registration on election day! Dear bditor: Ino the Lest provincial generil election, 4,500 voters in the consti- tuencies Of North Vancouver regis- tured to vote on election day. Left off the voters’ dist, they were exer- cising a right enjoyed in most other provinces — a right that the Social Credit government is planning to wipe out in British Cotumbia. Across B.C., over £57,000 peo- ple voted in this manner in 1986. In the North Vancouver ridings over eight per cent of all votes cast on election day were registered at the polling station, But if the pro- vincial government has its way, voters like these, missed by our sloppy voter registration system, will be denied the right to register and vote on polling day. The solution, of course, is to improve our system of voter regis- tration. But the small improve- ments in Bill 28, the Eleeti Amendment Act, in no way com- pensate for removing voters’ rights to register on election day. fnstead of disenfranchising citi- zens who are left off the voters’ list. we should develop a full enumeration at the beginning of each election. For the few people missed by this process the right to register on polling day must be maintained. B.C. has a long and unfortunate “history of unfair election practices — like redrawing the political map to favor Social Credit. 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Often tule or condition changes coincided with years in which indiwidual records were not merely broken bul were smashed to oblivion. Lel us examine severat examples. In 1884 a pitcher named Old Hoss Radbourn had been suspended for drunkenness by his team, the Pro- vindence Grays. The team's other pit- ches, Charlie Sweeney, in the midst of a contract hassle jumped the team to join St. Louis of the newly formed Union Association in mid-season. Radbourn pitched virtually every game femaining. Using a newly legal cricket style delivery as opposed to an underhand delivery Radbourn won an incredible sixly games -~ eleven games more than the previous season hign record. The new delivery gave pitchers an ad- vantage. Also he was pitching within one year of the formation of the Union Associalion which diluted talent. In the 1890's batting averages soared. Indeed, eight of the top single season averages were achieved during that six year period from 1894 to 1899. At the time, however, pitchers were ad- justing to a new pitching distance. The mound was moved back ten and a half feat to sixty and a hall teet in 1894. in 1919, Babe Ruth hit twenty-nine home runs, breaking all records. The year after he hit fifty-four home runs and in 1921 he hit filty-nine. Pitchers eatned run averages soared as did bat- ting averages. Yet, again the game was changing. First, in 1920 the news that the 1919 Warld Series had been “thrown” broke. This Black Sox scanda! terrified the owners, They were prepared to accepl change, Ruth’s 1919 record had fascinated fans. if hame runs were what the fans wanted, they would get them. In any event the game changed. Second, the ball may or may not have become more lively. Third, a limited ban on the spitball (ar doctored bail) was in- Stituted. 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