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KALAMAZOO, Mich.— Jon
Mason is a newspaper publisher
with a staff of five reporters and
editors. His paper has all the local
news and sports — and it shows a
profit.
Jon is 11 years old. He wears
three-piece suits, carries a brief
case, signs up advertisers like a sea
soned pro and has enough initiative
to qualify for the hero of a Horatio
Alger story, 1970s style.
His newspaper. Children’s
Views, is distributed to 375 students
at Parkwood-Upjohn Elementary
School, where Jon is in the 5th
grade.
Jon approached his principal. Jack
Wickert, with the idea last summer
and even persuaded the teachers to
chip in $28 toward the ambitious
project.
“I just got out of his way and he’s
been doing the whole thing,” Wic
kert said. “It was as smooth an oper
ation as any I’ve had here.”
Asked if he planned to pursue a
career in journalism, Jon replied:
“Not really. I’d just like to get a
job.”
Child's play on a fall day
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OTTAWA— Prime Minister
William Lyon Mackenzie King said
more than three decades ago that
Canada had “too much geography.”
A few Canadian politicians still
agree — though not everybody sees
big as necessarily bad — and some
would carve up the country. Others
believe that regional differences
give muscle and sinew to national
unity.
First among the separatists, of
course, though for reasons of lan
guage rather than geography, is
Premier Rene Levesque with his
promise to lead Quebec out of
Canada’s 111-year-old confedera
tion.
Levesque and his governing Parti
Quebecois see independence, de
spite the federal government’s pol
icy of bilingualism, as the only sure
way to preserve and foster Quebec’s
French language and culture.
Canada’s other regional differ
ences, though not as emotional and
fundamental as those of Quebec,
nevertheless place strains on na
tional unity.
Marc Lalonde, the minister for
federal-provincal relations, said
much of the resentment in the
western provinces for the “Eastern
establishment” was based on myth
and an instinctive reaction that any
thing that comes from Ottawa will
be slanted against them.
Lalonde said one of the oldest
bugaboos is that the federal gov
ernment is dominated by French-
Canadians who don’t understand
Western problems and are too
preoccupied with Quebec anyway.
External Affairs Minister Don
Jamieson, a Newfoundlander, said
he hears the same old irrational
complaints.
“The cry is always that there are
too many goddamn Frenchmen
running the country, while I and my
English-speaking colleagues are
seen as a tired old bunch,” he said.
Lalonde said this mistaken view
“is due to the high visibility that
French-Canadian ministers have
had over the last 10 years — and
Prime Minister (Pierre) Trudeau in
particular. ”
There are 10 French-Canadians,
including Trudeau, in the present
32-member Liberal government.
Lalonde used a recent experience
of one of his Ontario colleagues to
illustrate his point.
The host of a radio hotline show
remarked how difficult it must be
for an English-speaking member of
the cabinet to discuss a French
Canadian question when “half the
ministers in the government were
from Quebec.”
Lalonde said his colleague
pointed out that there were only 10
French-Canadian members andtl
they had never at any time ini
nation’s history constituted halfl!r
cabinet.
“There has been no increase j
the last decade,” Lalonde said.li
obviously people feel threatened^
these myths and the myths aredev
erly exploited by some people-
politicians and members oflln
media.”
But clearly some of the suspicioi
and resentment felt in British 0
lumbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan
Manitoba is created by what Wei
temers consider intrusions by tl
federal government in the prom
ial domain.
The premiers of the four West)
provinces at a 1976 meeting
Medicine Hat, Alta., noted "theii
creasing tendency of the Cover
merit of Canada to legislate inarei
which historically and constitute
ally have been considered with
the provincial sphere.”
Because of their concern they
up an intergovernmental taskfom
under the chairmanship of Brittl
Columbia, to examine the issue
In its first report the task fom
outlined 61 items of concern. Th
included the fields of energy a«
other natural resources, consum
and corporate affairs, housing ai
land use, economic development
immigration and the administratii
of justice.
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Soviet-American
Relations: A Soviet-
American Debate”
Mr. Melor Sturua, Bureau Chief of Izvest-
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Soviet view, and Mr. Robert Kaiser of the
Washington Post will present the Amer
ican view.
November 9th
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