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WHY didn’: I think of it first?

Because there are lots of things f don’t think of first, that’s why.

Einstein’s theory of relativ- ity, for instance, the Internet, the j jet engine, and how many beans make five, the answer to which is uafit fora family newspaper.

All the same, I should have seized on David Schreck’s staternent that he is running for council in North Vancouver District because he wants fo restore Harmony in local affairs. I didn’t. But Coun. Ernie Crist did.

. Harmony makes heaven drowsy, said William .

Shakespeare, So we don’t want councils, legislatures and parliaments falling asleep that way.

Yeu remember Schreck. He was the NDP MLA for

North Van-Lonsdile who was turfed our bv an unger electorate. When will peeple learn to respeer their betters and those who strive for a Better World?

On the subject of Schreck, as on much else, E $ very much awake.

“If David is so interested in Harmony,” he asks, “why did he go into politics in the first place? It is like volunteer- ing for a war party and not liking blood. or watching American TV and hating vio- lence.

“And why did he not prac- tise harmony in Victoria where he served for five vears? After all, comparing, loxal poli- tics to provincial or federal politics is like comparing a convent to a boxing ring.”

To which your ever queru- lous scribe can add that Mr. Harmony was one of the insti-

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“This legislation will put a stop to the kind of thing Doug Collins writes.”

Strangely enough, that has not yet happened. Not through any fault of the Schrecks and Bells, of course. Rut they're still trying.

There’s no doubt thar the famons firm of Schreck & Bell is harmonious. They float in the Harmony Harbor of Socialism.

If all members of North Van District Council were of one persuasion the snores from our local heaven might reach into the stratosphere.

Then again, they might not, for we have seen how those fine people over in Victoria have been spitting at one another over Nanaimogate, forestry funds, and so on.

We admit, however, thar Harmony ofa sort is possible

under Generalissimo Glen Clark. In much the same way as it was achieved in the dicta- torships.

Erni¢ says that instead of giving us a sample of his cus-

“There’s no doubt that the famous firm of

Schreck & Bell is harmonious. They float in the Harmony Harbor of Socialism.”

tomairy arrogance or playing us for fools, Schreck should provide examples of how Harmony can be achieved.

Iris all a question of what price you are prepared to pay for it, he says.

“To achieve Harmony,”

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writes Ernie, “David would have to keep quiet when he finds out that some people in the district pay only $10 a year for the use of district land adjoining their properties while the rest of us have to pay 74% of its lease value.”

Not to mention, continues Ernie the Unharmonious, that retiring Mayor Murray Dykeman voted in favor of logging i in the watershed and against rapid transit for the North Shore and for turning, the North Shore into another West End.

And what about when civic democracy itself is on the line? Our man states that in an attempt to make the Northlands Golf Course pro- ject fail, Dykeman said coun- cillors should not attend meetings of the task force committee “without obtaining the permission of the mayor and his political entourage first.”

But with the help of the North Shore News and com-

munity organizations, states Ernic, “petty tyranny had to | retreat.

“Jr was a great victory for democracy in the District of North Vancouver. ... But no help came from David Schreck, to whom | had appealed as well.

“He did not want to get involved .... Striking a blow for democracy would have interfered with David’s efforts to achieve Harmony.”

Ernie could have added that the North Van School Board and Lions Gate Hospital were also left out of Schreck’s Harmony Plan.

Oh well. As the sage said, nothing is perfect in this world.

— The North Shore News believes strongly in freedom of speech and the right of all sides in a debate to be heard. The columnists published in the News present differing points of view, but those views are not necessarily those of the newspa- per itself:

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