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To date, nearly 70 Canadian municipalities — including such giants as Toronto, Van- couver, Ottawa and Regina — will be conducting plebiscites this year in support of the international crusade for World Disarmament through a Global Referendum.

The Canadian campaign, sponsored by “Operation Dimantie” in Ottawa, reflects a powerful upsurge of public opposition to the nuclear arms race. Last year’s huge demonstrations in numerous western nations indicate the movement is far more widely based than earlier protests by Communist and environmental groups. Ordinary, decent citizens everywhere, it seems, are now actively concerned about the gut issue of SURVIVAL.

North Shore politicians, however, appear to have been frightened off by former municipal affairs minister Bill Vander Z.alm's claim that municipal fands — estimated at under $2,000 for a plebiscite combined with the November elections — can’t be used for “non-municipal” business.

We don’t believe local taxpayers would begrudge $2,000 for the opportunity to join millions of other Canadians in officially registering their preferences for life or death, nor that they would regard that issue as being no business of their elected council. More likely, such a referendum would draw them to the polls in record numbers this November, compared to the miserable turnouts of recent years. And that, in turn, would also ensure a more truly democratic election of mayors and aldermen.

North and West Van councils should forget Mr. Vander Zalm, now departed, and

let their people speak out in today's most sombre issue of all.

Joys of alcohol

Grhn as the times are for governments, they'd be grimmer still without B.C.'s tip- plers. Last week’s 15% excise tax hike, bringing the price of a bottle of rye to $11.96, gives the distiller exactly $2.22 for his product (incl. freight). Of the balance, the feds grab $2.98 and the province $6.76. Ah, the joys of alcohol for our masters in Ottawa and Victoria! .

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Canada desperately needs

policies of economic nationalism which - have bankrupted one of the strongest and richest nations in the world. But who asked

for their spending? Who glecfully their nationalism? We did.

We make scapegoats out of the unions but let us also remember the Nelson

matters now is how we get out. We got into it together and now, if we work together, we will gradually get out. However, if we continue to quarrel, and if some groups seck to advance themselves while others

QUIET, PIEASE! If fife today scems a lot nossicr than it used to be, you're dead right. And if you don't like at, there’s now

internal combustion coginec) and, ilatterly clectronics have

Pabliic Health, the mostsc level from 1970 to 1980 alonc rose 20 decibels, equivaicat to a 100 per cent increase in

West Van sayz it's having a temiblic cficct on our acrves. Mr Belz ts chairman of the rceently 93 launched Society for Soundscapc Awarcacss & Protcction which sims to “bring aboat measures to Counter serious dcgradation by noise in oar mechanized clectrome apc” A certain dcfcmsive mechamam tp the human car scems to shut ouf oF ignore

nase tt feck powcricas to suppress. caplaims Mr Bitz

suffer then our children and grandchildren will pay the price.

We will forgive unions for past excesses, for example, but we should not forgive strikes which seek to im- prove workers’ positions at the expense of others. Now is the time when we should all take less - and this in- clades the managers of the labour unions just as it should include government and business managers.

We need a new sense of reality in Canada and we need to recognize, in par- ticular, that governments can only do so much for us. For too long we have placed impossible demands on them and abdicated our own

responsibilities. Especially |

in British Columbia, we have believed that we could go on

And now it has caught up with us. What to do? Could we n? Could we work out a code of ethics? Could there be a doctrine for sharing work and sharing wealth? Could we recognize that we have only so many trees, so many fish, so much food, and so much energy and that’s all? Could we have a New Realty in economics which

form an

“recognizes that two million

people have this much wealth to share and no

more? Can we recognize that -

we have been misied by economic theorists - by modern alchemists - who told us they could create wealth out of

cruelly

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nothing through magic incantations?

Above all, can we help ourselves?

Could we have self-help circles in our communities? Can we have forums and idea sessions? Could we recognize that everyone has a contribution to make, even those who are not drawing regular pay cheques? There is no need today for any individual to feel un-needed because the wants are

sunday brunch

by Noel Wright

But our nervous system is not really adapting to noisc. it is continuing to take the fall brunt of the noise which our conscious mind thinks it's escaping. As a result. there has so far been little pressure on governments, he says, to treat noise as a major form of pollution whose detrimental cffect on our well-being may be “the most ncfarious” of all forms of pollution, including acid rain.

Among other ncrve-

jangling sounds, the SSA&P ts dedicated to fighting the overhead roar of cndless private airplanca, the harsh clatter of gardcn powcr tools, trailbikes, motor boats and ski mobiles, and con- Gimeous murak in depart. ment stores. somctimes “irom as many as four different tapes blaring at cross purposes”. If you'd like to join Mr Beltz in his crusade for a fatic peace and quict, the gumbcr to call ts 922-5948 Please spcak softly

West Van council will be bcavy with apprenuces aftcr thes year’s municipal election, still three and a half months away None of the

three incumbent aldermen whose terms expire in November plan to run again this time round. So it will be farewell — for the time being, at any rate — to 19- year council veteran Don Lanskafi, orthodontist Bob Hicks and business man John Hemphries after jobs well done. Their replacements had better be good Meanwhile, watch for a sensational devclopment come November, in the North Van District election batdes — at which North Shore Jaycee chairman Nefl MacLear will also be making a first bid for office | .

If you don’t know what a quahog is, Marjorie Coutu of Bowen Island will enlighten you — delight- fully. This summer she has published a charming naturc study book cntitled “A Scashore Alphabet’, featuring 26 finned = and winged scashore creatures with descriptive texts and cxquisite illustrations by the author Simple cnough for children to understand, but no less interesting and in formative for adults | It's available (pnee $5) from Bowen and Horseshoe Bay

is in our hands

greater than they have ever been.

Our world is going through a period of fun- damental change and will never be the same again. It can not be the same again because we can’t afford it and because - let’s face it - it wasn’t a world which made us truly happy.

We can do better.

We can come out of this stronger and happier people.

stores or direct from Majoric herself, Hillcrest Road, Bowen Island, B.C. VON 1GO. Oh yes, a quahog is a heavy-shelied Atlantic clam

- glad you asked ... FOLK STORIES: West Van house painter Borge

Eskesen, a beautifier of North Shore homes for the past 20 years, has just been joined in his business by son Per Eskesen whose wifc Corime recently presented Borge with his first grand-

son, Michael Paal Congratulations to Jammy Holmes of Windsor

Secondary one of the 13 winners in the recent province-wide cssay contest sponsored by the B.C. Human Right: Commission New sales manager of North Van's Mohawk Loabricants is Sohn W. Macdonald, vetcran oil man from the U_K., Africa and Asia before migrating to western Canada 15 ycars ago . Idea-of-the-week prize to Neville Bayly who wants to climinate candidates’ namcs from clection ballots. replacing them with the percentages of the taxpayer's income which cach of them would scck | And happy birthday this Thursday to Dundarave's lemay Disher WRIGHT OR WRONG: There's nothing so annoying as arguing with a man who khaows what he's talking about