A6 - Wednesday, May 18, 1983 - North Shore News,

EH editorial page

) Off target

Prime Minister Trudeau's “open letter”
defence last week of the testing in Canada of
U.S. cruise missiles followed by his blunt
comments on President Reagan's “warlike”
image must have confused a lot of folk even
more than they are already confused by the
theory of nuclear deterrence.

The cruise is a kind of “second level”
deterrent to be deployed by NATO and
targeted on Russia to counter the threat to
Europe from the Soviet Union’s SS-20s.
Neither weapon belongs in the _inter-
continental category.

This presupposes that the cruise/SS-20
situation in Europe will be subsidiary to the
main intercontinental balance of terror
which has kept an uneasy peace for the past
30 years between the two superpowers. The
“second level” concept also seems to be
based on the premise that a nuclear ex-
change might be confined to destroying
Europe without directly involving North

America. a

The idea that Russia would refrain from
retaliating against the U.S. mainland merely
because U.S. missiles annihilating western
Russian cities were based in Holland or
Britain seems optimistic to the point of
lunacy.

Once deterrence at ANY level fails, the
planet stands to be destroyed within hours.
The two superpowers already share enough
nuclear overkill to achieve that destruction
several hundred times over. That’s why side
arguments over “parity” and the cruise strike
many people as being strangely off target.

Such arguments merely cloud the gut
issue: nukes and humanity cannot co-exist
indefinitely; one or the other will eventually
have to go.

Watch it, Joe!

The poll showing Joe Clark way ahead of
his major challengers, Brian Mulroney and
John Crosbie, in the Tory leadership race
may be bad news for Mr. Clark. There's a
growing theory that candidates trailing in
such polls work twice as hard, in the time
left, to overtake the top candidate, who's
tempted to rest on his laurels. Watch it, Joe,
between now and June 11!

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MAINSTREAM CANADA

Holiday in Canada — it pays!

By W. ROGER WORTH

PERHAPS, just perhaps, we
are Our own worst enemies.
How else to describe
Canadians’ penchant for
visiting other nations, while
tourism operators and their
employees in our own
country are facing such

difficult times? It's a
paradox, but the facts are
relatively simple.

Last year, Canadians took
more than five billion of
their dollars out of the
country to travel and sup
port tourism operators in
other nations. What’s more,
about $3.2-billion of the
total bill was spent in the

United States.

Naturally, there are some
good reasons for the
spending. The winter
weather in Florida, Arizona
and California, for example,
is certainly warmer than it is
in St. John’s, Chicoutimi,
Thunder Bay and Cold Lake.
But that’s a cross we have to
bear, even condoning the
sun-seekers who drift south
to recharge their batteries.

Nevertheless; we're now
entering the sunny season
when Canadians can get the
ready-made warmth in their
own country. So, there's
little reason for them to take
their money south of the
border. Sall, many persist in
making the trek. There are
good reasons why they
should change their ways.

Canada’s campgrounds,
trailer parks, cabins, lodges,
motels, hotels and tourist
facilities, for mstance are at
least the equal of those in the
U.S.. and travellers don't
have to worry about losing
money on currency ex-
change rates. (Don't forget,
the exchange rate is more
than 20 per cent, and that
cash is lost money.)

Then there are the funny
little items that pedpiec tend
to forget when they add up
the cost of a trip. We
sometimes don’t compute,
for example, that the use of
Canadian roads is generally
free, while those south of the
border costs nickels, dimes

or dollars.

But there is more than out-
of-pocket costs involved in
the choice between
vacationing in Canada or the
U.S. As.lit stands, it is a
crucial maker of jobs, and in
which country they will be
available.

With 1.6 million or more
of us unemployed,
Canadians badly need the
jobs that can be provided if
we vacation in our own
country. In addition, they
are the kinds of jobs that
really count.

Many of them are filled by
students, who may not be
able to attend sessions in the
fall if they don't earn some
cash. Others belong to the
young unemployed, who
haven't had the opportunity
to show their skills. even on
a short-term basis.

So perhaps Canadians
should have second thoughts
about relaxing for a week or
two at a U.S. rather than a
Canadian resort this
summer.

By spending, the cash in
Canada, you won't have to
feel guilty about depriving
Canadians of jobs.

What's more, your spouse
or children might actually
appreciate seeing a greater
part of their own country.

It’s) a point worth con-
sidering.
(CFIB Feature Service)

The real world of Sir W.S.C.

“HE WAS SHORT, obese, vigorous, pugnacious,
something of a vulgarian, power mad (and for a
time at least almost insane with power), afraid of
nothing either physically or morally.”

Thus wrote actor Richard
Burton, by political in-
clination a socialist, of the
man whom he had portrayed
with acclaim on television
and with whom he = ap-
parently felt: a strong love-
hate relationship

“Whatever else he might

have been,” Burton con
unued, “he was a great
natural force When he
walked into a room. he

dwarfed the tallest men and
awed the

most seductive
women When |! first met
him «the shock of — his

presence was hhe a
under the heart) I] cannot
pretend otherwise, though
my class and his hate cach
other to secthing point
Last Thursday in the
ballroom of the Hotel
Vancouver,

blow

nearly = 200
middle-aged and cldcrly
males — most of them
Canadian-born. all of them
resplendent in tuxcdo tats

or military uniform sat
down to pay thes annual
homage to the memory of
Burton's great natural
force”

They were members and

guests of one of the most
extraordinary clubs in
Canada Vhe Rte Hon Sir

Winston Spencer Churchali
Soctety

ONCK A YEAR
Its ongins are cxchusively

Western The Society was

launched in 1964 by seven
Edmonton citizens “to
ensure that the ideals and
achievements of this out-
standing leader should never
be forgotten by succeeding
gencrations”

Permission to form the
Sociely was granted = per-
sonally by Churchill, who
was to die the following
January, 1965, at the age of
91) There followed a Calgary
branch and. in 1979. the
establishment of the B.C.
branch - all three now
affilhated with the In
ternational Churchell
Society

To date the society has
been strictly stag But there
was o hint Thursday evening
that lady devotees of Su
Winston may cventually
breach (he male ramparts

Most of its members meet

only once a year for the
giittenng annual banquet
That and the © statutory

annual mecting in the late
fall consatute the Society's
total calendar

Highlight of the yearly
banguct is a distinguished
gucst speaker chosen for his
intimate — personal
nechons with = the {ree
world’s wartime leader The
Names read hke a Who's
Who of the 1939) penod
onward including karl
Mountbatten of Burma, Earl
Alexander of Tunis,
Budler Sar Alen

con

Lord
Douglas

fo

Noel Wright
Ds |

Home, General Mark Clark,

Viscount’ Amory, Lord
Shawcross, Lord Hailsham
and Sur Fitzroy MacLean, to
menton only a few.

REAL WORLD
This Game it was 70-year-
old historian Sir William

Deakin former warden of
St) Antony's Collicge, Ox-
ford, wartime hero

(parachuted into Yugoslavia
in 1943 to assist Tito and his
Pacusans) and for
Churchilts chief
advisor

He could hardly bave had
a better primed audience
following the gourmet five-
course dinner, wines, brandy

years
llcrary

and cigars — consumed to
the car-blasting music of a
military band, the nostalgic
wail of pipers and regimental
songs belted out by in-
dividual tables as, in turn,
their tunes of glory were

played.
Aside from the chan-
deliers, the black ties and

the $2.85 ryes, Vancouver's
1983 tnbute to the most
famous Englishman of the
century could have been an
evening at any decorously
conducted branch of the
Legion.

“What does it have to do
with the real world?” asked a
32-year-old colleague to
whom | described the cvent
the next day.

I understood his view
point. He was barely 14
when Churchill died and his
generation, of course, poscs
a@ growing challenge to the
future of the Sir Winston
Churchill Society. Who will
replace the hero
worshippers as they dic off”

I suspect, however, thal
the Society is already
working on that problem
Next year, it was announced
during the evening, Iadics
will be admitted to the
banquet for the first time

When the womenfolk gc!
in on an affair such as this, «|
usually isn’t too long before
the rest of the family follows
— as is-already happening
with the Legion itself.

And once the kids havc
experionced a feast like last
Thursday's, Sir Winston
stands a good chance ol
becoming part of their real
world, too