A6- Sunday, January 9, 1983 - North Shore News Eight Roman Catholic bishops, in a year- end economic review, have posed an un- comfortable question for adherents of the capitalist free enterprise system who also call themselves Christians. The Catholic hierarchy's eight-member commission on social affairs describes current unemployment as “a serious moral crisis” and suggests that governments should _ give it priority over beating inflation. ' The manifesto says “the needs of the poor have priority over the wants of the rich”. It is eritical of present-day capitalism, wage restraints, social service cuthacks, labor... saving technology and the federal 6-and-5 program. Inevitably, the NDP and the = viriiietse) we ony ss have accorded a warm welcome to their unexpected new allies. ___Just_as_inevitably, the bishops have been ~ told to mind their own business by Catholic Prime Minister Trudeau and _ other _establishment leaders -- including certain senior members of the Catholic Church itself. Nevertheless, the bishops have raised a nagging thought that won't easily go away. They are applying the Gospel lessons to modern economic conditions. In essence, they are suggesting that 1983 governments should heed Christ's example in driving the moneylenders from the temple and feeding the five thousand. Thus, the dilemma for Christian Capitalists: was Christ wrong or is today’s system wrong? Now the question has been bluntly put, it may take more than glib boardroom logic and economists’ double-speak to provide a convincing answer. All in the family Thirty-nine ladies of the evening in Zurich, Switzerland, have petitioned city hall to let them start business on the street at 5 p.m. instead of the present 8 p.m. For domestic reasons, they say, many of their clients would welcome the earlier “opening” hour, which would also enable the ladies to spend more time with their children. In Zurich, it seems, the oldest profession is a solid champion of family life. CV0E VOSTE OF NOTH AMD WEET VANCOUVER sunday De _ oe news 980-0511 986-6222 985-2131 986-1337 Display Advertising Classified Advertising Newsroom Circulation "aT [onadale Ave..N¢ north shore Tyre Sate eM woe Publisher Peter Speck Editor-in-chief Noel Wright Associate Publisher Robert Graham Advertising Director Tim Francis Personne! Director Mrs Berm Hilhara Circulation Director Baan A Ethie Production Director Office Manager Chas Johnsen Vonna Grandy Photography Manager Tay Peters North Shore News founded in 160 an dae dependent | ommunity newspaper and qualned under Schedule tl Part Hl Paragraph tll of the foncome Tae Act 8 pubisned each Wednesday and Sunday try North Dhore Free Press Ctd and distebated too every door oe the North Shore Second Class Mad Bogistiaton Number si Entire contents 1982 North Shore Free Prose Lid All rights oxerved Subscaptions North and West Vancouver $25 per year Mathing hates available on raquest N. esq er esat alt y avec asgitasdd fon cane abe ibamed rtacthese nent nee tec btnagy pele Gee Beet we abies ated Boer te ceeragrerrercd bey uno aneag rete! fe VERIFITO CIRCULATION 64 543 Wednesday 94 093 Sunday bad oe “ 4! lara Phe THIS PAPER IS RECYCLABLE By WALTER BLOCK There is something more than jusf passing curious going on the TV industry. Of late, bars, con- dominiums and hotels in Canada have been receiving U.S. television = signals without permission by means of sophisticated satellite receiving dishes. As one might expect from -a-_Fespensible- -government, Communications Minister Francis Fox has announced a . crackdown,.. and -a--moere vigourous enforcement of the law prohibiting such practices. But here’s the rub. Mr. Fox does not oppose the unauthorized lifting of U.S. sports programming and pay TV on legal and moral grounds. Instead, our Communications Minister opposes the practice because it represents unfair competition for domestic cable operators, broad- casters, advertisers and firms such as the Canadian Football League. This is truly amazing. Suppose some .car thieves went down below the 49th parallel and returned with a some U.S. owned automobiles. Would Canadian authorities ap- prehend the villains because their booty was competitive NO WORDS can express the depth of fecling for Gerry, Judy and Marc Strongman among their North Van neighbors following the tragic New Year's Eve car accident in Jamaica which killed the Strongmans’ two daughters and Marc's sisters - 15-year-old Seanna and li-ycar-old Nicole, students at Crofton House’ and Bracmar Elggentary— wre “you, Geary, Judy aud Mare We understand the dull agony that fills these days, for your irreplaceable the community's loss. too That's all we can say for the moment unl the subside. . loss as - from our hearts pain bepins to oe ee The oldest member of Bill and Kay Gilmour's Picasurc Skating Club celebrates his 84th birthday neato month and the youngest are sail in their teens The 65 member group meets every Thursday at BIS pm at the Karen Magnussen Arcna in North Van tor two nours of do your own-thing fun on the we to live organ long blade specd shates just ans welcome as the shortics A epgreat way to eet md of those cxtra pounds says Kay whom you Mrauasic Christmas A Strange TV dish ’ with the domestic product? With this reasoning, our police wouild have to look the other way if the stolen goods consisted of bananas or oranges, which are not produced in this country. Even apart from strange —attitude toward theft, this Communications Ministry policy is suspect. Why, just because U.S. TV signals may be competitive with the domestic product, should the former be prohibited? What about the Canadian consumers? Are its - they To Be forgotten? Is our cultural heritage so weak that it can only be protected ~ ing competition? - If Canadian entertainment is really so unattractive to home viewers that Mr. Fox's policy is needed to prop it up, it would be far better to allow it to die a clean, decent and honourable. death. But this is simply not true. Good Canadian program- ming certainly does exist. Allowing the consumer to choose freely would only eliminate those aspects of the domestic product which Canadians find least ap- pealing. Paradoxically, it might actually strengthen the remainder, by forcing the stronger ciements of the Canadian’ entertainment package to compete with their U.S. counterparts. Canadian culture - ought not to be a protected in- dustry, which can function only in an artificial hothouse - environment. Our govern- ment must allow it to be free, to sink or swim on its own merits; to compete against all comers for the approval of. the Canadian audience. To follow any other course will be to consign Canadian culture to a sunday brunch by Noel Wright can call for further details at 987-9694. The turnout wasn't quite as large as at English Bay but at any rate it was a start when Mery Ovesen, Bill Neff, Tor Baxter and Russell Maynard -- cheered on by 10 spectators -- immersed themselves on New Year's Day in the fnyid waters of Deep Cove in the Wweie ow ATO Cd tow DY DENG - elected (in that order) president and first, second and third vice-presidents of the PP. sponsored by Cove Canoe Rentals and now firmly estabhshed as a yearly mte Tf you're inspired to start training for Jan 1 1984, call Ingrid Baxter at 929 2268 for details Also taking the plunge again several times in quick succession has North Vans tar putu David Ingram. He recently bought been Frank Baker's West Van Attic) restaurant complex reportedly — for over $1 millon, and plans to turn ut into a soft rock disco called Hard limes Soup Bistro plus anew hotel Phen) on Dec J} (tax angle again) marnied Jose Rogers and just before departing on his {wo wecek David honeymoon cheerfully rutacd his powder-blue wedding tux which he wore for the Jan. 1 Polar Bear Swim. “oe 0 Congrats to North Van's Phyllis Munday, -88, co- discoverer of B.C.'s highest peak, Mt. Waddington, on surviving her obituary in Wednesday's Vancouver un -- which got her mixed Me x tha Wbit P+ ladys of he - ws e¢ famed woman mountaincer, 1975 recipient of the Order of Canada, wants it known she's halc. hearty and very much altve HITHER AND YON: Haggis Pipe time again and this year North Shore Scots will have their “Nicht Wi Burns” Saturday, Jan 15. at the Coach House Motor Inn Piper at the supper-dance to mark the 224th anniversary ol the bard's birth will) be Stuart Fohnston of — the Vancouver Police Pipe Band, assisted by Ershine Blackburn the Poast To The Immortal Memory. Staart Cowan dolivering the Address To [he Maggis and Cathte Weir as the featured soloist Call pre passing 9AT ESOL of 98S BASSO for your haggis vouchers A salute to West Vans Osmond Borradafle, cectired second-rate standard. And the big lasers will be the Canadian people, forced to settle for a product that cannot stand on its own. (Dr. Watker Block is Senior Economist of the Vancouver-based Fraser Institute.) cinematography great and two-time Academy award winner, who has been named Officer of the Order of Canada... Ticket 2421 brought Mrs. K. Mangalji of West Van, winner of Woodward's Park Royal “Tree Of Happiness” poten a giant 50-inch color TV an video disc recorder. Store manager P. Robinson reports that the month-long $2 Christmas tottery raised almost $10,000 for the Children’s Hospital... Tom Symons of the Norvan Power Squadron announces a second registration for the aguadcang Basic Raatine Vuesday, Jan. «vo. at Delbrook Communtty Centre -- and he stresses the course is for sailing cn thusiasts just as much as for powerboat types... Len Mache of Crash Pad Colsion and Glen Newman of the Squamish Indian Band have joined the board of directors of North Van Chamber of Commerce, which also named Merrill Shepard to its cxecutive And Aldcrman Gordon Rowntree whispers that West Van council has a happy Itdle surpmse in store for the citizenry at tts first 1963 meeting tomorrow (Monday) cyvening. Bettcs be there WRIGHT OR WRONG: Uhe cyatc who satd “nothing is wonderful once you gel used to it’ was dead wrong of course, about two things both beginning with S