6 - Wednesday. April 3, 1991 - North Shore News THls ISYOUR LAST CHANCE, CANADA... -ORWE FIRE THIS 4 BABY UP AGAIN! NEWS TaRC— The party’s over WO PILLARS of the Social Credit party were lost last week, and the foundations of that party have been seriously undermined as a result. Jack Davis, the perennial Socred MLA in North Vancouver-Seymour, died last Wednesday after a long battle with cancer; Bill Vander Zalm, the party’s leader since 1986, announced Friday that he will call a convention to select his successor to lead the confused and foundering Social Credit party. The two events represent two more serious blows to the embattled Socreds. To many, Mr. Davis was an an aloof, maverick politician. But he was also a tireless MLA who worked hard for his constituents and pushed relentlessly for in- telligent and far-sighted solutions to the province’s transportation and energy prob- lems. His intellect and dedication will be sorely missed, not only by the people of the North Shore, but by the Social Credit party which can use all the intellect and dedication it can find. Bill Vander Zalm, bound ever tighter in the Fantasy Gardens affair, stumbling from the accumulation of past political missteps, had little choice but to step down as Socred leader. But, despite all his mistakes, he, too, will be missed by the Socreds. He was a master salesman who delivered a relentless pearly-white pitch of optimism about B.C. that was hard to resist; he provided the Socreds with the .»«rk of flash and light that it so desperatety needs if it hopes to survive. The Social Credit party is now a house seriously divided and perilously close to collapse. ‘LETTER OF THE DAY Teens well aware of the consequences Dear Editor: In response to Samuel Wagar’s letter of Wed., March 13 entitled **Free Sexual Expression is OK’’, as a young person I would like to point out that if sex is so free, as Mr. Wagar would have us believe, why then do people have to go to such extraordinary measures to protect themselves from the natu- ral consequences? Surely everyone is fully aware by now that the consequences of **free sexual expression’? can be as devastating and often lethal as those resulting from drug and alcohol abuse. Does Mr. Wagar support the experimentation of Pssblisher Managing Editor Associate Editor Advertising Director Comptroller North Shore News, tounded in i Sunday by Notin Snore Free Pr qustnbuted to every dant on the Second Class Mai Registration Nur Subscenptons North ang We: paste) year Masding fates ay SLDMmussions ate wel reeponsibility tos manusct pts « AOCAOINEL Ee Lita Peter Speck Display Advertsing Timothy Renshaw — Real Estate Advertising 985-6982 Subdscripiiors 986-1337 Noel Wright Classified Advertsing 986-6222 Far Linda Stewart Newsroom Doug Foot 1985S as an Heit oOc4 OF eset ANE WEEE amCOUL IH independent suburban ni and Quairied under Schedule 111, Parag ph iW of Ine Excise Tax Act is published each Wednw . Friday and ana such substances as readily as he supports fornication? As we are all well aware of the consequences of ‘‘free sexual ex- pression,’’ it is for this reason that excellence must be expected from our teenagers. To assume that they cannot meet the challenge of abstinence is an insult to their ca- pabilities. It takes much less effort on the part of an authority figure to hand a youngster a box of condoms than it does to offer them one’s time, proper guidance and unwavering support. Let me assure you, Mr. Wagar, that it’s those who exercise self control in this matter who are tru- 980-0511 985-2131 SUNDAY © WEDNESDAY > HHODAY 1139 Lonsdale Avenue North Vancouver. 8 C V7 DHA Eshre contents Distruoutian Agminsiration 985-2131 a 61,582 crverage oF ‘Qt North Shore Free Press Lig Ail aghts reserved ly free — free from the threat of sexually transmitted diseases in- cluding AIDS; free from the burden of unwanted pregnancies; and free to conduct themselves with the confidence that they are going to be loved as persons, not used as an object of free sexual pleasure. There is nothing ‘bad or wrong’? with sex, providing it re- mains within the context of a faithful) marriage. Let us not forget that sex involves much more than a simple, free, trans- action between two people. Natalie Hudson North Vancouver 986-1337 985-3227 MEMBER ————_~ SN” - hatin, SOA DIVISION Poulan Wearesdagy Pentay 4 Suncaye That way to ain’t no treat ruling women! WHEN TALKING FEMINISM, count me as a charter member of its Male Auxiliary — a solid supporter of most of its goals. The exception being a crime it regularly commits that I find hard to forgive. } refer to the fems' bird-brained mutilation of the English lan- guage. This is the idiocy that nowadays reduces the leader of cammittee, board or task force to a piece of furniture — ie., *‘chair.”’ Never mind the perfectly non- sexist choices given in the Oxford Dictionary: chairman (fem. chairlady, chairwoman).’’ Any- thing to get rid of that hated syl- lable *‘man,”’ let alone ‘‘lady’’ —~ of which more in a moment. The same linguistic lunatics would describe the human race as **personkind;”’ equip our streets was ‘‘personholes;’’ employ **firepersons’’ to save our homes from burning down; and — when the ship is sinking — ‘‘person the boats.’’ My otherwise esteemed col- league Peggy Trendell-Whittaker did it again in last Friday’s News with a column titled ‘*That ain’t no way to treat a woman.”’ Her message: please don't call me a lady. “‘Lady,’’ she complains, por- trays an image of kindness and passivity. tt serves ‘* psychologically strip us of the powers and sexuality that have acquired undeserved negative overtones in our culture.’’ So the only way a female can assert her powers and sexuality, Peggy argues, is by being called a woman. The Oxford Dictionary doesn’t agree one bit. It defines ‘‘lady”’ primarily as a ‘ruling woman"? — which obviously means a leader type who gives the orders and calls the shots. A secondary definition is ‘‘woman belonging 10 the upper (read ‘leader’) class or fitted for it by manners, habits and sentiments.”’ No mention of kindness or passivity. But lots of implied powers — including, no doubt, sexuality. So in Oxford Dictionary terms, Eve’s conquest of Adam with an apple indubitably makes her the first lady of history. “*Woman,’’ meanwhile, is dismissed as simply an ‘adult human female’’... the average or typical woman, any woman.”’ Peggy is correct about ‘‘lady”’ and ‘*woman”’ not being inter- changeable terms. And ‘‘lady”’ is clearly the one that best fits feminists claiming their right to an equal share in running the world. Being merely the ‘‘average or typical woman” is exactly what they’re supposed to be escaping from, isn’t it? WILL SHAKESPEARE... or chair problems. no lady Noel Wright HITHER AND YON Meanwhile, efforts to brainwash us with clumsy surgery on the rich, subtle English vocabulary are both dumb and an insult to the intelligence. Feminist failures to date can’t be corrected by trying to turn words into scapegoats. The world’s favorite language was created by far more expert and sensitive wordsmiths. The Chancers, Shakespeares and Hem- ingways — the Jane Austens, Emily Brontes and Virginia Woolfs — knew precisely what they meant by ‘‘rnan,’’ ‘‘woman,’’ “‘lady”’ and ‘‘person.”” And they definitely never con- fused chairs with the people who sit in them! eee WRAP-UP: For court and jail watchers the Citizens United for Safety & Justice host a 7 p.m meeting Thursday, Apr.4, at North Van Chamber of Com- merce, 13} East 2nd, to hear Parole Board and Corrections Canada speakers... Newly up-’n- running B.C. Liberals launch their campaign in West Van-Capilano Sunday, Apr. 7, at an 1} a.m. brunch in the Canyon House, 3650 Capilano Road. Along with Senator Ray Perrault it features candidate Jeremy Dalton and B.C. Liberal leader Gordon Wilson as keynote speaker. Tickets (20) from Jeremy, 936-2885, or Palle Ebbehoj, 987-5320... And happy fourth anniversary wishes tomor- row, Apr.4, to West Van’s Bob and Anne-Marie Graham. oee0e WRIGHT OR WRONG: Never hit a man when he’s down. It may make him get up. JEREMY DALTON... gun for Capilano Grit. starting