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Cops make better judges

Dear Editor:

Not many letters to the Editor
are better than Doug Collins, but,
Lawyers Make Laws, by D.D.
Cranfield of Saskatoon, Jan. 26, is
the most factual I have ever seen in
the North Shore News.

In 1972, 1 wrote a similar letter
titled ‘‘The Brotherhood" in The
Thin Blue Line, a publication by
Vancouver policemen.

I pointed out the growing Lisi of
restrictions placed upon policemen
to prevent them from jailing crim-
inals,

Judges are always searching for
ways to let criminals go free, and
the Trudeaus, Turners, Basfords &
thousands of other Jawyers and
politicians keep churning out laws
which make it easy for criminals to
stay out of jail, while they are busy
practising their trade of robbing
the taxpayers.

1 also poirted out, as does Mr.
Cranfield, that as long as only
lawyers can become judges, we'll
have lots of law but damn littl
justice.

The very best judges would be
available from the ranks of retired
policemen, with high arrest records
and thousands of hours of court
experience.

In this category, with 30 years
experience, although I don’t speak
Latin, ... 1’m available ...

In my article in 1972, 1 pointed
out that lawyers, judges, pro-
secutors and defence council are all
members of the same
Brotherhood,

Proposed
-bank drab

Dear Editor:

In the smaller cities in the
U.S.A., bank buildings set the
trend for attractive architecture
and landscaped surroundings.

All the banks in Santa Barbara
and Carmel are masonary struc-
tures, framed in gardens. with
shake or tile roofs. A small wood
sign by the path is the only adver-
tisement.

Our West Vancouver banks are
devoid of any planting. Their
sterile fronts and ugly signs would
not be welcome in California.

The Royal Bank is now propos-
ing to destroy the present
Hollyburn Post Office at !7th &
Marine and construct yet another
bank.

On the roof of this small bank

- building they plan to park 21 cars
with a ramp from 17th Street. One
can well imagine the hazard
created when the 22nd car has to
back down over the sidewalk and
into the trhffic at 17th.

Surely West Vancouver deserves
something better than this in this
choice location. Perhaps our plan-
ner should ge to California and
take his camera.

G. Baynes
West Vancouver

Engineer
disputes
Collins

Dear Editor:

Just:the sort of slip you would
anticipate Professor Collins to
show, Saying engineers can't need
to know about. who and whom.
They do.

We have to write reports and
things. Maybe Professor Collins is
out to insult the integrity of
engineers whom could care less
about him. When all is said or
done, in effect, engineers write as
good as anyone in the globe.

Henry Smith, P.Eng.
West Vancouver

Who do you think a lawyer or
politician is going to serve, the Cit-
izen or the Brotherhood? Think
about this for the next election.

Chicken Kiev

Chicken Cordon Blue or

Terrific article Mr.
let’s have another one, soon.
Howard Sanderson

West Vancouver

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