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System incapable of solving problems You would probably try one modification after another to see if it would work better. But what if you found that after each repair it got worse? Would it not be time to consider that the machine itself was unsatisfactory, and that a difâ€" ferent kind was needed? > Our present system is like the machine or a patched up tire. It is beyond repair. Under this system, hardworking people see their money eaten away by inflation. Millions of people are starving throughout the world, yet granaries in some places are bulging with food. Even in lands with food surpluses, prices are skyrocketing so fast that many are unable to buy enough to keep healthy. # ‘"For many poor people the price of a single meal now exceeds a day‘s income. A whole day‘s wage for a loaf of To the Editor: â€" Today‘s economic and money system plainly show it is inâ€" capable of solving the many problems confronting us. If you designed a machine and it did not work well. what would you* Letters to the editor We don‘t have the answers, of course, but it‘s rather jnteresting to notice the sudden interest of these guys, who are usually talking about their boats, or their snowmobiles, or their last victory at racquet ball, or their mortgages. For the first time in a couple of decades, young Canadians are taking more than a casual interest in world affairs. Young male teachers are asking us old veterans what we think about the invasion of Afghanâ€" istan,. of boycotting the Olympics, whether the situaâ€" tion is like that when Hitler was on the march. > And they‘re not the only ones. Just the other day. I was discussing with a Grade 11 class George Orwell‘s ‘‘*Animal Farm,"*" that incisive allegory of revolution and totalitarianism. At least 1 had planned to discuss it. Instead we talked about Russia, which led to Afghanistzen, which led to NATO, to China, to Hitier‘s waltz into various vacuums while Britain, France and the U.S. stood back and tutâ€"tutted, to a possible invasion of Canada, to our pitiful armed forces, and a lot of other things. The kids were serious, concerned, and eager to learn more. They reminded me of the young people of the early Sixties, who were deadly in earnest about the cold war and a possible nuclear holocaust. But they retained their sense of humor. I wound up by asking jokingly, which of the services they would be joining. "Will you go into the Army, the Navy or the Air Force?~ } One boy riposted, "T‘ll be going into the woods."" For what they are worth, I do have some opinions on Canada, a pioneer in such areas as Telesat and the Anik domestic communications satellites, still has no single government department in charge of its space program. a*" y ; If we are to play a major role in the utilization of space, we need a central agency to coâ€"ordinate space research and devélopment. * In the 1960s, the governmentâ€"sponsored Chapman Report proposed the creation of a national space agency to control all government research and deveâ€" lopment programs. In 1967, the newlyâ€"created Science Council of Canada backed the report, but the country‘s space program remains divided among the National Research Council, and the Departments of Communications, Environment, National Defence, and Energy, Mines and Resources, with an interâ€" departmental committee assigned to run interference. between them. It‘s not the best of situations if you ever want a consensus of opinion ... and a relatively fast one at that! ' Bernard Ostry, deputy minister of communications in the recently defeated Clark government, couldn‘t see the urgent need for a coâ€"ordinating body, bechuse it.is ‘‘incumbent upon the people suggesting someâ€" thing new* to show fault in that which already exists. But the Air Industries Association of Canada, a group representing about 100 firms in the aerospace and technology line, believes the fault is obvious â€" too many bureaucracies. + bread."* Revelation 6:6. An examination of human efforts at governing the earth‘s affairs have met with disaster because it is built on greed. selfishness and a lack of concern for others. The time has come for a new system to be installed that will be free of wars. famine, injustice and misery. Such a Consider repercussions To the Editor: As an occasional user of the steam room and showers at the Physical Activities Building (University of Waterloo). let me express my thanks to the university janitorial staff. They do a stalwart job of keeping the building clean against some formidable odds. and do it with a very small staff. If only Carl Totzke, director of the building, would please consider the repercussions that when he broadcasts. as he did on the CBC the other morning. about the possibility of the world situation. Even Joe Clark‘s terrifying threat that Canada would boycott the Olympics will not make them pull out of Afghanistan until they are good and ready â€" probably after they have set up a puppet government ruthlessly ruled from Moscow. Why not? Because the hardâ€"liners have taken over in Russia, and they don‘t give a diddle for world opinâ€" ion, at the same time keeping their own people in the One was when Russia cut off Berlin from the West. The western countries responded with the Berlin Airâ€" lift, in the face of Russian threats that the mercy planes would be shot down. They were not, and the very tense situation resolved itself. Another was the Cuban crisis. President Kennedy laid it on the line. If Russian ships carrying missiles and other obnoxious items to Cuba did not turn around and go home, they would be attacked. The Russians went right to the brink, then backed down. A few weeks ago, the interdepartmental committee on space proposed a $300â€"million fiveâ€"year space plan to the Cabinet, and some parts of the plan have already been approved. Canada will invest $2â€"million in the European space industry‘s development of a large multiâ€"purpose saâ€" tellite scheduled for launch in 1983. The Canadian money wili be spent in Canada to build satellite comâ€" Secondly, nobody has the guts, or the stupidity, to take them on, eyeball to eyeball, in Afghanistan, any more than anyone did when the Russians crushed the liberating climate of Czechoslovakia, or steamrolâ€" lered into the ground the Hungarian revolution. On only two occasions since World War II has anâ€" yone stood up to Russia. On both occasions, the Rusâ€" sians cooled it. Oh, there were cries.of dismay from every where on those occasions, but nobody did anything, except wring hands and take in refugees. _ A new space agency could determine whether Canaâ€" da would receive better value by using several satelliâ€" tes for différent purposes, or a single satellite for a number of uses. It could ensure a series of projects for the industry, rather than a massive load one year and nothing the next. It could design and manufacture prototypes of new systems for remote sensing in the Arctic, shipping, resource surveys or even soâ€" vereignty protection by suggesting discoveries to deâ€" partments which might not be aware of what space technology could do for them. It could keep track of what everyone is doing. â€" The space program should be handed to an expandâ€" ed Science Ministry or, better still, to a corporation much like the United States‘ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) F A central agency is not only necessary, but must be independent from those departments, like Comâ€" munications and Defence, that are trampling the But those were the days when NATO had some agencies.in the race to promote their narrow Bill Smiley holding much of the Olympics here on the campus of the university . 4 e s 3 system can only be brought about by Jehovah god who creatâ€" ed the heavens and the earth. 3 Concerning what lies ahead for the entire world, I would suggest you read Ezekiel 7: 19 and the entire chapter of Mathew 24. * W.D. Pope. Waterloo. Perhaps he has a special source of money from Bette Stephenson. minister of education, who says fees have to be raised. : I trust that brainless ideas such as packing thousands of Olympic participants on the university grounds is hot going to be covered‘by the increased fees. Glenn Julian, In an industry where direction is vital, Canada ‘needs a central body capable of leading in that direcâ€" tion and consolidating the many voices of governâ€" ment, industry and the academic community. The Conservatives made a good effort to get the proposal off the ground, and I hope the idea won‘t be dropped when the newlyâ€"elected Liberals begin their housecieaning in Ottawa. States‘ $8.§â€"billion space shuttle, and Canada will help design a new European remote sensing system. Will Canada reap the full benefit from .its large inâ€" vestment in space, and use to its hest advantage an inâ€" dustry that is currently handling $150â€"million worth of business each year? > It‘s one thing to underwrite innovations in comâ€" ml?:ations. surveillance and remote sensing; it‘s quite another to make strategic use of the results. A cohesive strategy demandsâ€" a Single, authoritative hand at the controls. Given enough power and a large enough budget, an independent agency based along the lines of NASA seems to be the best option. The American space program has led to major techâ€" nological spinoff benefits in electronics, computers, medicine and geology. Canada continues to slide backâ€" wards in these areas. 7 ponents and subâ€"systems. .. The National Research Council and NASA will coâ€" operate on a sixâ€"year program involving the Canadian construction of scientific experiments for the United In Europe, the NATO forces‘are no match for those of the Warsaw Pact, in men or machinery. About five years ago, an American general, now head of the U.S. chiefs of staff, told me personally that NATO could hold the Russians for only about two weks. The situaâ€" tion today is worse. On the world scene, the U.S. has received one black eye after another. A stalemated war in Korea. A disâ€" aster in Viet Nam. The procgping up of petty dictators around the world. The machinations of the CIA. A lot of prestige and a lot of clout has gone down the drain. * Britain is a thirdâ€"rate power, as is France. The Scandinavians are wary of disturbing the bear. Gerâ€" many west is tough and wealthy, but vulnerable from within and without. Japan sits on its can, making money, while protected by the American military. China is a big question mark, India the same. The Moslem world is not going to take on Russia. So who‘s to stop them? I predict that they will conâ€" solidate. in Afghanistan, with little opposition, then cool things down for a few years, though keeping brushâ€"fires going in Africa and elsewhere, before SIm:kfng their next move, possibly to squash Yugoâ€" via. teeth, and the Americans probably had an edge in nuclear hardware. Things are different today. As for Canada pulling out of the Olympics, unless the great majority of nations outside the Soviet bloc follow suit, it would make as much difference, one way or the other, as a flea biting an elephant. General arts student, University of Waterioo. 20, 1980 â€" Page 7