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Page 4, Terrace Bay-Schreiber News, Wednesday, February 5, 1986 Terrace Bay Schreiber The Terrace Bay-Schreiber News is published every Wednesday by: Laurentian Publishing Co. Ltd., Box 579, Terrace Bay, Ontario, POT 2W0. Telephone: (807) 825-3747. Singis cable: SS cont Subscription rates per year in-town -- $14.00 Re 5 a Conrad Felber out-of-town -- $18.00 ADVERTISING ...................... Maes te ees re Gigi Dequanne Member of Ontario Community SS sk 4 Oe OR eS Gayle Fournier Newspapers Association and The Gg PRODUCTION MANAGER... Meaty Melos cee nee Editorial Care about day care Day care seems to be doing its very best to finally ar- rive in the Terrace Bay area. However, it seems some residents of the township are, for one reason or another, completely against the idea. One can only wonder why. A letter to the editor of the News arrived earlier this week which addressed this entire issue. As it was not sign- ed it cannot be published, but some of its pertinent points can appear here. "THE REFRIGERATOR" (VULRONEY'S DEFROSTING ! The anonymous letter writer complained that "I have Ee Se en no children, yet I pay high education taxes ... I have a a ae ol FD OO OV IEF four-wheel drive (vehicle), so why waste my tax dollars = ae ee LR to plow the streets?" This person used these examples to BAL OR] a TiN eats ; answer the recent complaints from some people that they Y Ga a S~ don't want their tax dollars used on a service that they SALW aver aA won't ever use. Bp © ONE These same people are forgetting that they may be already paying for services that they never use: the ski hill, the swimming pool, the Recreation Centre, etc. Besides, it is entirely possible that tax money won't be even needed to establish a day care centre in Terrace Bay. Even if tax dollars have to be used, what's the problem? As the letter noted, *'Day care is a fact of life and should be available in this town. Maybe you don't want it sub- sidized by tax dollars. Well, maybe I don't want senior citizens housing subsidized by tax dollars. A need is a need Co A en Le a Le ONS PO ee OE ME ELON IS oem and it should be met." **We shall not cease from explora- tion, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." (T.S. Eliot) By the time you réad these words, some time will have passed since the tragic, startling explosion and crash of the Challenger space shuttle just off the Florida coast in which seven brave American astronauts lost their lives. This terrible accident may already be fading from your memory, but there are those who are against mann- ed space travel and are therefore go- ing to continue to remind us about what happened. These people, led in part by Duke University space historian Alex : Roland, feel that the human and Arthur Black economic expense of manned space missions is not justified by what these voyages accomplish. Roland has gone on record as say- ing that remote controlled machines and robots are less expensive and do the job just as well without risk to human life. After last week's inci- dent, some of you may be starting to think the same way. Yours truly, on the other hand, still feels the gain is worth the risk, even after seeing the Challenger disappear in a sudden ball of fire, over and over again, on TV replays. Even after what happened, I would volunteer to go up in another shuttle tomorrow. People like Roland seem to be missing the point. As former NASA Administrator David Williamson said recently, if our entire method of space exploration is turned over to machines and machines alone, we as a species and as individuals ,would lose. that important sense of adventure. It's like that Eliot quotation which started this column. We reach out. not to find something new but to find ourselves and to learn more about how things work down here as oppos- ed to Out There. But if you still don't know what | mean, allow me to let others explain it for me: That potential alone, to expand mind and spirit, urges man to con- tinue his search -- not to -wait, as some insist, until he can first set his own world completely in order." (Mayo Mohs) 'We never stop investigating. We are' never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question: This has become the greatest trick of our species.'" (Desmond Morris) We always need to be tested ... it's. worth the sacrifice." (Ray Bradbury ) Do you see what I'm trying to say? We, as humans, would stagnate and become like machines ourselves if we don't press on and continue to search and explore our universe. I'm not saying we should ignore the lesson that the shuttle destruction taught us. For every two steps for- ward sometimes there is one step back. We must now catch our breath, find out what happened; ensure that it doesn't happen again, and then begin again. It won't be easy, but it must be done. Changing our direc- tion now would be a great disservice to those who perished ever since space exploration began. It all boils down to something that was said back in 1984. Francis Scobee said "'You have to- risk something to get something." In case that name sounds familiar, he was one of the seven astronauts who died on January 28. I think that about says it all. If that turns out to be his. epitaph, fine. He would probably be pleased. Carson is in trouble for Nevada quip Well, I see Johnny Carson's in the soup again. The Tonight Show host may be the most popular TV comedian in most of North America, but not in Nevada he isn't. As a-matter of fact Richard Bryan, the governor of Nevada, has rented. some television time to de- "mand a public apology from Carson. Gov. Bryan claims Carson "'held the women of Nevada up to ridicule" in a recent monologue. How? By pos- ing a riddle, that's how. Carson ask- ed: *'What's the difference between a parrot and a Nevada woman?" Answer: "You can teach a parrot to say no." Sorry, Gov. Bryan... but I'm with Carson on this one. Not that I have anything against Nevada or its womenfolk -- I've never even been there. It's just that jokes made at the expense of places are one of the time- honored mainstays of humor. And Ill take a waspish joke about a piece of real estate over a politician's outrag- ed sense of dignity anytime. Just think of the geographical rivalries that have enlivened daily life on this side of the border over the years. We've got Calgary versus Ed- monton, Montreal versus Toronto; the rest of Canada versus Hogtown and -- even though Ontario politicians would have us believe that they don't exist anymore -- Port Arthur versus Fort William. One-liners sometimes snipe at greater entities than cities or states. Occasionally they take on whole countries. There's an old Czech raspberry about England that goes: "Continental people have sex lives, the English have hot water bottles.*' Speaking of which, Marlene Dietrich once took a long, cool Tuetonic look at the U.S. and con- cluded: "In America, sex is an obses- sion. In other parts of the world, it is a fact." Truman Capote described visiting Venice as like "'eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs at 'one go." John Gunther grumbled that Moscow was "'the only city where if Marilyn Monroe walked down the street with nothing on but a pair of shoes, peo- ple would look at her feet."* You don't have to be an out-of- towner to run a place down. Writer Nelson Algren lived in Chicago, but that didn't stop him from calling it "a joint where the bulls and the foxes live well and the lambs wind up head down from the hook."" Many observers have swabbed selected chunks of Canada with similarly vinegarish prose. Wyndham Lewis wrote Toronto off as "a mournful Scottish version of America." Goldwyn Smith suggested the city of Winnipeg *'wants lifting into the air_ten or fifteen feet."* And Sir John A. Macdonald gent- ly chided the early residents of Regina with *'If you had a little more wood and a little more water, and here and there a hill, I think the pro- spect would be improved."* ; Here in Ontario, the city of Sud- bury has been the butt of jokes so long that its detractors have failed to notice that it is looking less like the "backside of the moon"' with every passing year. Sudbury-bashing was even worse when I was growing up. Then, wiseguys would affect a W. C. Fields contralto and say: 'Ahhh Sud- buryyyyyyyy.... where you find a pretty girl behind every treeeeeeee. The real irony of the Carson ver- sus Nevada kerfuffle is that Carson has been launching his barbs from Hollywood... and no place on the planet has been more thoroughly lam- pooned and savaged than the "home of the stars." "*Hollywood's a great place,' said humorist Fred Allen, "if you're an orange.' Critic Rex Reed defined it as the town where "'if you don't have happiness, you send out for it.'* So- meone else observed **Hollywood is where people from Iowa mistake one another for stars."' One could just as easily substitute Nevada for Iowa. You think Carson will eventually cave in to the political pressure and say something nice about Nevada? Actually, he already has. Sort of. Recently he told his studio au- dience: "Nevada serves a useful pur- pose... it separates California from Colorado, so John Denver doesn't keep Californians awake all night with weird songs about mountains. *" Carson even had kind words to say about the wealth of Nevada. "'It's a rich state,"* he pointed out, *"*with 38 per cent of the nation's gold." Pause... 'Most of that in the teeth of six cocktail waitresses in Reno."' I figure Gov. Bryan has two choices: he can dip into the state budget and hire a team of Hollywood gag writers, or he could just throw in the towel and join in the bellylaughs. Good sportsmanship is a_ lot cheaper in the long run. Healthier, too.