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Oh it’s ‘Tommy this au’ Tommy that an ’Tommy go away,’; But it’s ‘Thank you Mister Atkins when the band begins to play.’

RUDYARD KIPLING’S words apply just as much today as they did in the brave old days of old. But now there is a new twist. It comes from some of the churches and it says: “Tommy stay ’way from my door, even if you’re dead.”

In West Vancouver, too.

It happened last year, but never made the news. People are shy about that sort of thing. But there it was. Old Horace Clarke died, you see. He had fought in the First World War, was in his nineties, and had been a regular attender at St. Stephen's Anglican Church.

Relatives and friends wanted to send him off in style. His three nephews wanted a color party from the West Van Legion, and they and three Legionnaires would be pallbearers, the latter wearing their uniforms and medals.

The relatives asked Legion man John Struthers to speak to the church about it. But the Rev. Ed. Wallace (now retired) backed away from the proposal, even though he had been a Navy padre.

According to Struthers, he said there were a lot of very ‘‘an- ti-military’’ members in the church and that a military-type funeral might upset them. There could be a funeral service, but the mourners would have to settle for no medals and no color party. Which they did.

T have not been able to find Rev. Waliace, whom I knew slightly, so Thaven’t been able to discover whether his version of events is different from Mr. Struthers’. But Struthers had no reason to embellish the story. He did not come to me with it. 1 went to him after hearing about it from some-

one else.

The tale is typical of what has been happening in the Anglican Church, which is even wonkier than some of the other modern churches. Last July, for example, The All Saints Anglican Cathedral in Edmonton refused to permit a

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held in the cathedral for 41 years.

Church parades ‘“‘hide us from the horrors that take place in real war,’’ declared the church. Not only that. ‘Both sides in World War Two believed they were fighting for the will of God and under God’s protection,”* and the church had to ‘‘dissociate itself from even the appearance of con- doning such attitudes.’*

I take that to mean there are no just wars, and that Canadians who fought against the greatest threat this century has seen were a bunch of suckers.

Three years ago, Christ Church Cathedral showed HMCS Discovery the door. There had always been an annual parade at the cathedral but it too became a no-no. As far as I can recall, there was no publicity on the sailors becoming despised and rejected men, but the matter was mention- ed in a recent issue of the news sheet of the Naval Officers Association of B.C.:

“Due to the reluctance of the Very Reverend James D. Cruikshanks, Dean and Rector of Christ Church Cathedral, Discovery chose to parade at Sail- ors’ Point Memorial in North Vancouver.”’ (Where, in May, they will commemorate the Battie of the Atlantic.)

Do you remember the films The Cruel Sea and In Which We Serve? They showed just what the sail- ormen went through on the Atlan- tic and elsewhere. When the ships went down, them as died were the lucky ones, as old Long John Silver would have said. And now we have bishops and parsons from the Anglican Church telling their ghosts that there's no room at the inn.

There is room, though, for pan- sies, perverts, and aid for foreign terrorists.

Old Harry Clarke is probably

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would prove unenforceable.

“It is the federal government's responsibility to prosecute violat- ors,’’ said Aid. Bill Rodgers.

Ald. Murray Dykeman § sup- ported the concept of a public awareness campaign to advise on alternatives to the use of the dan- gerous synthetic chemicals, despite worrying as to where his nevt help-

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ing of whipped cream would come from.

“To just say that people shall! Stop using aerosol cans very simply would just not work,’? Dykeman said.

Another recommendation of the report was for staff to draft a bylaw prohibiting new dry-cleaning establishments from discharging tetrachloroethylene (perc) into the atmosphere. West Vancouver

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Council also voted to submit resoluticns based on the report to the Union of British Columbia Municipalities, the Greater Van- couver Regional District and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, and adopted a district purchasing policy that will avoid the use of products contain- ing CFCs wherever possible.

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