AG- Sunday News, August 2, 1981 A total ck. of confidence in. our F political leaderShip, both at the provincial and federal levels, has taken root among the paying public. This past.week, the provincial government said they would be cutting services in order to..prop up. their anticipated financial “troubles, while the feds continued to. dither and: ‘diddle over the plummeting dollar, assuring Canadians that they. would be the lever used to. put a brake on the slide. ‘While ig personal restraint, the governments, ‘both in B.C... and in Ottawa, have opted out. of problem solving and * simply given themselves big salary increases. “In other words, they've taken the money and - FONE. obsessive strike: ‘wash « over the land helping fuel the fires of an already out of control economy. We fight constantly over our nebulous constitution, over‘language rights, and over energy’ costs, . to decide whether Edmonton or Ottawa will have the right to gouge from the public's pocket. The government urges people to convert from off-furnaces to natural gas, then when the; cered them in,. announce a 25 per “cen increase in the cost of that fuel. Is ‘there-any wonder for this growing lack of confidence? . - What is'sad.is that so many seem to be giving” up out a fight, and accepting, without question, the actions of suspect politicians. ‘Have s a happy day. False muzzle The - Alberta - Federation of -Labor's decision to boycott two newspapers because of their “anti-union editorials and editorial cartoons” shows once again the unfortunate tendency of some unions to fail to accept the _free'press. Imagine what would happen ff the provincial or federal government expressed ‘their dissatisfaction with editorial cartoons by refusing to provide interviews and press releases. | wunday 1139 Lonsdale Ave. ” north shore Vv H4 pnews 7m 2 (604) 985-2131 ADVERTISING NEWS 080-0511 CLASSIFIED 085-2131 CIRCULATION 986-6222 986-1337 Publisher Peter Speck Associate Publisher Editor-in-Chief Robert Graham Noel Wright Managing Editor News Editor Andy Fraser Chris Uoyd Genera! Manager Administration Berni Hitllard Production Director Rick Stonehouse Advertising Director Eric Cardwell Sports Editor Patrick Rich Creative Otrector Tim Francis Photography Eltaworth Dickson Accounting Supervisor Circulation Director Purchaser Barbara Keen Brian A Ellis Faye McCrae North Shore News, founded in 1969 a9 an independent community newspaper and qualified under Schedule [ll Part tt! Paragraph Ili of the Excise Tax Act ts published each Wednesday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Ltd and distributed to every door on the North Shore Second Class Mal) Registration Number 3865 Subecriptions 320 per year. Entire contents © 1981 North Shore Free Press Lid All rights reserved. No responsibility accepted for unsolicited maternal inchuding manuscripts and pictures which should be accompanied by a stamped addressed envolope VERIFIED CIRCULATION 63,470 Wednesday; 52,760 Sunday North Vancouver, B.C. KNOLL, Canyon Heights By REV. D.A. pastor, Chapel A recent Donahue show, with the help of Carol Bumett and Charles Grodin, attempted to promote a back-to-friendliness-attitude among the Syracuse New York audience and, hopefully, all Americans. It is refreshing to see a segment of our present society concerned about the lack of consideration being given to one another especially when everyone seems to be preoccupied with defending personal rights at any cost. Various suggestions, made by the audience-and guests to change the insensitivity of _ human beings, ranged from: parental responsibility and public school education to more expressions of friendliness produced by T.V. programs and movies instead of violence, selfishness and immorality. Most psychiatrists would agree that our environment has a lot to do with our attitude towards others such as; racial discrimination, anti-socialness, bigotry, and lack of compassion, However, environment is not enough to change the. heart of man anymore than putting a clean pig‘in your living room - it is still a pig at heart.- All the humanistic efforts to change our attitudes are well worthwhile and we certainly would not want to discourage the common courtesies such as: a “thank you” for a kindness offered, holding the door open for someone else, or allowing No more hospital hi hindsight — ._By PATRICIA Mce.- CORMACK The long-sought “better mouse trap” may still elude inventors but one other search has ended. The world now has the ‘long-sought better hospital gown — one with a modesty panel.” Once it’s available to the millions admitted to hospitals each year, jokes about hospital gowns may go down the tube. (There were 35 million hospital ad- missions in the U.S. last year, making opportunities for hospital gown jokes pretty plentiful for friends and relatives of paticnts not acutely or gravely ul.) The world's better hospital gown comes from the drawing board of Stan Herman, a_ high-fashion designer who also designed uniforms worn by Mc- Donald's, TWA and United Airlines workers. The modesty pancl is constructed from an in- verted pleat This gives the rear coverage something the way overlapping drapcries cloak a window The hem is fashioned like a shirttail, giving the gown a certain fashion flair. * “The patient can remain covered while standing, sitting or getting into bed,” “rear _ said Herman. someone to: gO y ahead of ‘you in the ‘traffic, but the real ~ change must come from the heart where all ‘issues of life come from. Most of oar efforts concentrate on correcting the surface problems without coming to grips with the root problems...it is like trying to treat 4 deep wound with a band-aid. Some of our present problems where band-aids are being. applied include unemployment, inflation and labour disputes while the deeper problems’ pertain to selfishness, greed, covetousness, and other attitudes of the heart which can only be corrected with a change of heart. It is this change of heart that is central to all our problems whether they be gomestic, economical ° or political and until we recognize this, little can be accomplished in correcting social ills. St. Paul the Apostle recopnized when he said in II Corin- thians 5:17 “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things have become new.” That is what is needed;-a whole new outlook, a new attitude, a chance _to let Jesus Christ change our inner man where love reigns supreme and the other person's rights are as important as our own. Whenever this change has occurs in the life of an individual there is a change of attitude; instead of taking advantage of his employer the new person in Christ will do more than paid for, he will not demand what he has not earned. He will think of “The idea for the new gown grew out of the complaint that most hospital gowns expose the paticnt’s backside,” Herman - said. “Our challenge was to keep . _ the back closed, yet kéep it SUNDAY BRUNCH will return next week functional. We developed the idea of a deep pleat held by snaps atthe neckline.” The new hospital gown passed six months of bed- tests with flying colors, even though it’s offwhite. Nurses found they could put "it on patients who couldn't get off the’ flat of thetr backs Grateful patients found it didn't expose their aft sections when they got well cnough to got out of bed. ‘Greeting aint manufacturers * may: only ones saddened. The bedtests, took pl Ace in this’ “ others first by going the ‘extra mile by doing unto . others what he would ‘have , others do unto him. Can you imagine what a joy it would be to live where everybody was *a new creature in Christ where we did as Jesus would have us do? There would be no labour strikes because both employer and. employee would be unselfish in their dealings with one another, there would be less inflation because we would be willing to share with others, and unemployment would not be a problem since only those Audobon Hospital in Louisville, Ky. - Everything turned out just fine. As a result, papers were signed in Chicago the other day, authorizing the Opelika Manufacturing Corp. to turn out the patented gown its designer guarantees is patient-pleasing. Marvin Martin, vice president, said the gown will be a little more expensive than the standard type. The patent is held by Herman, award-winning designer, and Humana Inc., the nation’s largest investor- owned hospital company, based in Louisville and owner and operator of 90 hospitals in 23 states and London, England, and Geneva, Switzerland. Herman, winner of three Coty Fashion Awards, plus the prestigious “Winnie” (the “Oscar” of the garment industry), said he were the hospital gown to bed himself while working out wrinkles and testing comfort, par- ticularly fit of the neckline and shoulders. He's so pleased with the look and feel of the finished product that he wears the gown reversed and belied as a tunic for at-home leisure wear. -“No matter what you've i dane before in fashion, this really guarantees you a place “jn history,” Herman was told | Humana’ hospitals, who needed to work would seek employment. Domestic problems would be*reduced to_a minimum because the scriptural guidelines for the family would allow the husband to be the head of the home and provider with the wife fulfilling her role as helpmeet by complimenting her husbands efforts instead of competing with him. ‘To be sensitive to the needs of others the heart must be involved and when the heart of man is in tune with the heart of God nothing is impossible. AAA AEE AD IID NT LOO NAED REE OD LO QUEEN ee CON EAR the other day by a visitor. Herman said he feels “just wonderful” about that. “You should see _ the letters I get from people who have worn it,” he said. “They are so grateful. And friends with parents in oursing homes say they will he so’ relieved that something has come along to spare their parents embarassment.” You can't look for the gown in the hospital of your choice just yet, Martin said. It will take some time to get the orders in and processed. “Hospitals,” journal of the American Hospital Association, describes the “*Humana-Stan Herman Gown” as “a gown that climinates hindsight.” Humana, operator of more than 16,000 of the nation’s one million hospital beds, is setting other fashion trends on the hospital scenc. In January the investor- owned and operated hospital system introduced the first completely coordinated “designer career apparel” in the hospital ficid. Herman also created the designer uniforms. These, like the new hospital gown, were tried ont at the Audubon, the newest of the, which: employs 1,000"and has. 600°: ‘doctors on is statt.