A6 - Sunday, May 29, 1983 - North Shore News HEE editorial page ne-party CSIS Were it not for the lopsided pattern of 20th century federal politics, the uproar over the creation by the Trudeau government of the new Canadian Security Intelligence service (CSIS) might suggest Canadians are still singularly naive about such matters. The new civilian agency will have sweep- ing powers to spy on Canadian citizens and anyone else in the country who is “reasonably” suspected of activities threatening national security. For this pur- pose it will be empowered to tap phones, open mail and even, im certain. cir- cumstances, break the law without CSIS operatives being unanswerable in open court. Similar agencies with similar powers have long been established for the same purpose in most other western countries — America’s FBI, Britain’s MIS and France’s Deuxieme Bureau, to mention just three. Enemies of the state, bent on destroying it, play hardball and, even in democracies, that sometimes has to be the name of the’ game for those charged with foiling them. The danger, however, lies in the interpre- tation of national security. In nations with a one-party form of government there's an ob- vious temptation to include among “enemies of the state” political opponents of the ruling party. Canada — governed by an increasingly ar- rogant Liberal Party for 61 of the past 83 years — isn't yet quite a one-party state. But an early return to a more regular alternation of parties in power, as happens in the U.S. and Britain, would be the best assurance that the CSIS will never be used against democracy itself. Un-speak Last week Premier Bennett “uncreated” the deputy premier post hitherto held by Grace McCarthy, thereby apparently un- thanking her for past services to the party. The possibilities are unending for this latest contribution to the language by Mr. Bennett who, earlier this year, might accordingly have been accused by many of un-governing, criticized for un-budgeting and who, even now, still un-gives any date for ceasing to un- call the Legislature. TS CONTR OF EUETTD: ASED WERT VANCOUWEE sunday ; news north shore news 1139 Lonsdale Ave... North Vancouver. 8C V7M 2H4 Display Advertising Classified Advertising Newsroom Circutation 980-0511 986-6222 985-2131 986-1337 Publisher Peter Speck Associate Publisher Robert Graham Editor-in-chief Noet Wnght Advertising Director Tir F rane ts Personne! 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Living, happy proof of the superior workmanship that went into many oldtime marriages are Robert and Barbara Fletcher of North Van. Barbara was born in Boat O’Garten, Inverness, and Robert in Glasgow, where he married her on June 5, 1918. Next Sunday they celebrate their = sixty-fifth wedding anniversary. To look at them today, you might conclude they must have gone to the altar around the age of four or five. Barbara, who could pass for a lady in her late six- ties, is actually 85. Robert, a former amateur boxer and soccer player (and still an avid Whitecaps fan), is a remarkably fit and firm 83. Sixty-five years together seem to have done wonder- ful things for both of them. Robert served with the Highland Light Infantry in the Kaiser’s war and then, for over 30 years, with the Glasgow highways depart- ment before they emigrated _ to Canada in 1953. There followed some 15 years in Moatreal, where he was employed by the Protestant school board, while Barbara worked in a department store. Finally, in 1968, they settled in North Van. Hosting next Sunday's open house celebration at the Kiwanis Towers, 170 West 2nd, will be sons Joe and George, with wives Grace and Helen, of North Van, son Alex of West Van: By NANCY BEATTY WHILE THE ELECTION campaign was in full swing, there was always some issuc over which my husband and I could draw swords With that behind us we find other ways of spothng perfectly fine weckends Now we tum our allention to poltucs back yard i don't know whether our current domestic nft) results from my suscepubility to detergent ads or my hus band's blossoming ¢rcativity We seem to be at odds philosophically dhe prac tical vs) the aesthe th The problem ts the clothes line T guess if dates back a few years to a dreary prey winter when Morgan brought home books on Japanese Gardening We didn't even have a yard but thus the seed was planted Poronto This spring without ceremony my dear husband removed my clothes line Ht had become “acstheud ally displeasing” to him tt cid not fitin with his Gsrand Plan for our miniscule yard oo plan that included a pond with real fish, running water sunday brunch by Noel Wright daughter Esther and hus- band Harry Bull of Co quitlam. Plus 10 of their 13 grandchildren, six of their 10 great-grandchildren and niece Barbara Paton and family from Port Coquitlam. Another daughter, Barbara Payne of London, England, unfortunately can't join 1956 Inglewood grads ... Gertie Todd's 3ist Miss North Shore Pageant beauties hold their fashion show next Saturday (June 4) at 11 a.m. raund the pool at the Coach House ... And on. Sunday, June 5, the Van- couver YWCA celebrates its 85th birthday with a BARBARA AND ROBERT FLETCHER ... 65-year old secret. them. The 4 to 8 p.m. reception promises to be quite a party, with casual neighbors and acquaintances dropping by as well to add their con- gratulations — and to try to figure out the Fletchers’ heartwarming 65-year-old secret... DATELINES: Everybody's invited to the West Van Historical Society's meeting tomorrow (Monday, May 30) in the old Inglewood School, now North Shore “Y", where they're launching a competition to unearth photos and other memorabiha about 1925. “Memory Lane” lunch star- ting 11 am (for former members, volunteers, staff, residents and friends - call LoutBe Donovan, 683-2531, for tickets ($7.50) and details. FOLKTALES: Honorary engineer in the driver's cab of the Royal Hudson on its inaugural “Boatrain Daytrip” last Sunday was Tourism Minister Claude Richmond who says trains are in his blood (seems his dad was a railroad man) ... Special guests aboard for the first combined train-sea_ cruise day excursion included Expo 86 commissioner Patrick Reid and North Van- Capilano MLA Angus Ree --- Incidentally, Angus’s wife, Cheri Ree, who was also along for the ride, is North Van delegate to the annual convention of the B.C. Chapter of P.E.O. Sisterhood next Friday and Saturday on the U of Vic campus... Newly elected treasurer of the B.C. Divi- sion, Canadian Metital Health Association is David Northrup of West Van ... Still on the health beat, the B.C. Lung Association has elected -three North Shore residents to its executive — Dr. F.D. Mackenzie as presi- dent, R.W. King as vice- president and Stuart Fraser as honorary treasurer ... Welcome to students Mike Fricker and Marion Foxall, two friendly, enthusiastic types hired to help with the summer programs at West Van Seniors’ Activity Centre Can't keep media folk apart, it seems, which ex- plains the September wed- ding bells planned for North Van's Judith Endean and West Ender Kent Spencer. He’s assistant sports editor of the Bigtown morning daily, while Judith happens to be a popular, longtime North Shore News staffer... Happy birthday to West Van Fire Chief Colm Evans who celebrates his first half cen- tury today ... And congrats to 11-year-old Jamet Taylor of Gleneagles, an Anna Wyman dance student, who's just been accepted for the summer school course of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. Busy Janet, who attends Gleneagles Community School, is also a flute player at St. Monica's Church and a faithful North Shore news carmier ... WRIGHT OR WRONG: The future is that time when you'll wish you'd done what you aren't doing now. a Japanese garden a any bridge and countless mintature trees which Morgan assures me are “genetically incapable” of growing large cnough to block the sun. On weckends, while prun ing these Lilliputian trees, he contemplates the oasis of tranquility he ts) creating While he is posed over his spade, pondenng the in scrutable wisdom oof the fast, the unpredictabilty of the West soaks him through Our two muddy Westies bark frantically at the giant crows Uhat taunt them just oul of reach in this soon to be serene garden In the pond the few remaining goldfish Inde amid the clut ter of sunken Fishes Price toys and cmpty yogurt con tainc rs To sttain the peacefulness of a fountain Morgan samply leaves the hose running all the time Phis results ina constant high patched whine to the bathroom lt may be mecessary to pul wire meshing across the surface of che pond to discourage ca coons and stop the dogs yap ping at night Phe ncighbours are amus ced) Morgan hauls wheel bar rels full of great ugly bobde ss which they have been harvesting in their yards for years and arranges them in ways he deems “aesthetically pleasing”. | curse one of these monsters, stubbing my toc as | attempt to hang laundry on a makeshift linc Morgan grits his tecth and calmly points out that: one doesn't see clothes lines in Bnosh Properties or Upper Delbrook Truc, but they have bears. | counter’ My peint has no relevance but in the heat of domestic squab- bling you have to make points, rele vant oF not T can well imagine that all those folks scrambling for a parking space outside a dry Cleaner’s would pive the jocuzzis for a simple clothes lane Just watching a Sunlight commercial, foocan) almost sancll the freshness OK so] gouled and hung clothes out ona weekend in April and it all stank hhe a beverage room New residents arco t warned about the West Van ritual buftnings makes mistakes Peveryone And whats weong with having partially dned flannclette py sand jock shorts hanging over the heat registers? The weather fore: asters arc only human “Clothes lines remind me of a Singapore slum!” , he at tacks. “Ob yeah, well you have this yard looking hke a Ten nessee chicken farm.” I retort with cqual worldliness What was to have been a picturesque little bndge in Morgan's Master Scheme !s more like the Atlantic City boardwalk | expect a hairy troll to spring out and accost me en route to the carport And « has become iumpussi ble to mow the grass because of all the “pockets of in terest” at various levels If there is anything Japanese in all (his tt ts ts likeness to a rice paddy [he dogs and kids trek mud to the kitchen door, which | don't consider “acsthet, ally pleasing” at all, and as the stack of muddy overalls mount up. | throw) up anothers makeshift linc But Morgan has a Viston and he asks me to “have fasth” Pd eather have o pro per clothes line And so another the battle continucs (Nan y Beatty is the pen name oof an Ambleside mother of three children) Sunday yrs np OO RS