inning books ne:

So Prime Minister Joe ‘(me too)’ Clark is

jumping on the ‘Let’s kill the Olympics’ band-
wagon. Following in puppet-like. lock step with
the American peanut king and. his:running mate,
Clark seems to be in favor of having the Olympic
Games taken away from Moscow and moved to

Montreal.

That would really show
those Commies who rules
the world, wouldn't it?
Besides, on the positive side,
it would mean the
Americans would be able to
win many more gold medals
than they have in the past
because all the Communist
athletes wouldn't appear.

Then too, there would be
a distinct possibility that the
Canadians would be in a
position to improve on their
miniscule total of past years.

Without competition, it's
amazing how much better
mediocrity becomes.

DOESN'T WORK
THAT WAY

Mind you, these noble and
true leaders of the free world
undoubtedly feel this would
be the correct step in solving
the world’s problems,
although we fail to un-
derstand how alienation,
which always creates a
backlash, ever solved any
problem to any degree of
satisfaction.

Back in 1936 there was
similar concern over the
Olympic Games being held
that year in Berlin. Those
games, so the story went,
would be nothing more than
a showcase to Hitler and the
Nazi government.

Somehow, however,
common sense prevailed and
in the end those 1936

Olympics are not remem-
bered because of Hitler, but
because of the dedication
and desire and spirit of an
American black-sprinter by
the name of Jessee Owens
who, in front of Hitler and
thousands of Germans,
showed what the Olympics
were all about with his
superb victory in both the
100 and 200 metres: over ‘the
system’.

A pity Carter and Clark
couldn't have been there.

Also a pity that the
goodwill and friendship that

people have for each other is

so easily prostituted and
abused by the political
aspirations of nations.

What is so frightening in
this approach is not the fact
that it is taken against sport,
but that if sport is able to be
pushed, pulled, poked and

‘prodded by the political

forces - who are only
temporary - then what else
can be manipulated or
forced to toe the line?

If events carry on the way
they are at present, then we
can say goodbye to any
hockey involving the
communist nations. Mind
you, this too could have its
side benefits.

Canada once again might
enter the world cham-
pionships with a hope of a

t?

medal. Again, with the
world’s best out of it...

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No more Soviet hockey - |

tours? Good grief, -then
whose anthem will those-red-
blooded Americans in

Landover, Maryland he able -

to jeer as they did during the
playing of the Soviet anthem
last week? Of course there’s
still ‘Oh Canada’ in French,
in Vancouver.

Once these protectors of
our freedoms have managed
to ruin all levels of in-
ternational sport for years to
come, then perhaps, in their
wisdom they will appoint
managers and owners of the
some of the National Hockey
League teams to their
cabinets.

Can't you see it? Harold
Ballard, Punch Imlach and
Joe Clark? Boggles the mind
doesn't it? :

The sad thing about all
this is that the politicians
seem to be serious. And to
what end?

Athletic are games per-
formed for and by children
and adults. dss the
‘children’ are taking over.

Wouldn't it be better to
run against a Russian rather
than fight him to the death?

Carried to its extreme, “if
politicians can dictate who
we may run or jump with,
then will their next step be to
place a ban on the reading of
all books by communists...
or Soviets... or atheists...
or...? ,

Think about it.

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