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rtfe HO Lb IMS Halton Hills Outlook OUTLOOK li published each IhrHAlTDV Home Newspaper of Hills A of NeuKpaperx Company at Ontario Second Clan Mull Registered Number Brian MacLeod Donna Sharon I tol tings worth llHlliTIN Dave Hastings Sup Mvlrx Mary Outlook The War Poets Twos a Crowd By BILL By SUTHERLAND Nothing at public schools or Ox ford or anywhere else could have prepared young Englishmen for the trenches of the First World War And for poets no precedent In a postural or patriotic ode could have helped them to write about a comrade shot in the scrotum or drowned In mud The war poets had to find new ways of seeing and saying The best of Ihem did and Robert Giddings in The War Potts Crown IKS pages Is right to call pernicious nonsense the theory that there was a long lull during which little of value was created In English poetry while the world waited for the revival of our genius in in providing copiously 11 lustrated samples of work by soldierpoets surf as Robert Graves Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Glddlngs has given us an uneasy blend of coffeetable book and annotated anthology Force- marching the reader through the war year by year his patchy repetitive and sometimes gauche glosses are little rival to a study he credits In passing Paul The Great War and Modem Memory The smarmy rhetoric employs immortalise is his favorite verb is precisely that which repelled men such as Sassoon The old romantic lags were mean ingless to men who underwent the mingled horror terror and aching boredom of fighting at the front and who watched thousands die to gain a few yards of quagmire Nor Is the content of Giddings pro se adequate to these doomed occa sions He includes a few poems by German French and Italian poets but touches little on their experience German atrocities are described but English ones Nor does he mention the in tense homosexual feeling that per vades much wartime poetry Despite contextual shortcomings does Include enough poems and a useful index so the reader can Judge the complex moods of the time Here are the familiar Remem brance Day texts Canadian John In Flanders Fields the popples blow Between he crosses row on row Laurence SNAFU Bruce Beattie For the alien At the going down of the sun and In the morning We will remember them and Rupert Brooks The Soldier I should die think only this of me that theres some corner of a foreign field that is forever England The emblem of glorious fallen youth Brooke likely never fired a shot In anger Part of the Dardanelles ex pedition he died of Wood poisoning on island of Scyros Against this mellifluous patriotism is the savagery of Sas- Base Details If I were fierce and bald and short of breath Id live with scarlet Ma jors at the Base And speed glum heroes up the line death Or Graves sardonic retelling of the David story with Goliath the victor Or the sweet- nat tired Owens recognizing that the enemy Is war Itself not the an tagonist in the trench opposite I am the enemy you killed my friend I knew you in this dark for so you rf da I parried but my hands were loath and cold Let us sleep now Not only did the First World War Invoke a new era of mass destruc tion It revolulionited language A new vocabulary of killing and life under fire entered English poetry traversing firestep sand bag messtin Lewis gun and fivenine and the more enduring dud and dugout The old sedate world was under siege A book such as The War Poets also powerfully reminds one of the per sonalities who were poets Some gladly went to battle or simply relished male bonding As the same time soldiers such as Graves Owen and Isaac Rosenberg grew to despise the war and Its leadership For them however disgusting or perilous the front may have been it was preferable to ig norant and fatuous Jingoism at Sutherland is a living in PI clou County Nora Scotia I Thought You Were Supposed To Say OMWIM Bourassa bides his time Ottawa Stewart MacLeoc Thornton Newt Stttict Im setting this off to protest all the violence in thp world Incredibly a little announcement by Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa made it to the front pages of certain newspapers in the pro vince What he declared surprise surprise was that he would remain neutral In the next federal election campaign Now even in normal times this shouldnt rate a mention simply because there has never been a Quebec premier who took any other position And considering the cur rent situation which la far from nor Premier would be absolutely idiotic to take sides Good Lord the man can sit there like a sultan and have Brian and John Turner prac tically plead with him to be their best friend And for all we know Ed may be trying to figure a way to have his head patted In public by the highly court Quebec leader Furthermore the suitors come bearing gifts the most generous ob viously being from Mr As prime minister he has by far the most to give When you can offer things such as billion aluminum smellers even before an election has been called the mind boggles at things to come It makes Mr Turner the Liberal leader look like a bit of a pauper but nonetheless he nuzzled up to Mr Bourassa a few days after Mr Mulroney s proposed payout and said Montreal not Ottawa should get Canadas new space agency Considering he didnt have to say anything on the subject which Ottawa area Grit candidates would have clearly preferred It was a nice gesture Not like an aluminum smelter mind you but modestly nice VERY CLOSE Its Utile offering like this that permit Mr Turner to claim such a close proximity to the premier relative to the prime ministers dont know bow I could be any closer to the premier without be ing indecent he said Top that Mr Mulroney When the campaign officially begins for those federal seats in Quebec the courtship of Mr should become positively steamy As we have observed over the last Tour years and particularly during recent Quebec by elections the premiers definition of neutrality can differ sharply from say the Popes It might be lust a handshake a smile or an officially nonpartisan Introduction and the premier can turn thousands of voters loose Well never know how many provincial Liberals worked for Tory candidates in 1964 but were talking big numbers When federal Tories win SB of seats in a province where provincial Liberals reign supreme It gets you thinking doesnt if Anyway Its no secret that the prime minister and premier ore very close friends Have been for yean But there is no point In Mr coming out openly for the Tories until he sees what hit closc- tolndecency friend John Turner can come up with In the heat of the courtship In a simple byelectlon campaign you may recall Mr pro posed paving a road to James Bay normally a provincial responsibility Perhaps the Liberals might want to widen it to four lanes After all what are best friends for FREETRADE PROBLEM The Liberals will have to come up with something Innovative to offset their problems with free trade In Quebec Mr Mulroneys freetrade Initiative Is stoutly supported by the rentier and this creates an obvious nodi cap for Mr Turner He certainly did his best to sell his alternative broader International trade Initiatives but all he got was a Bourassa comment that this would compliment but not replace the free- trade deal Not much help there Turner strikes out in attempt to woo declared the Mon Gazette The newspaper was obviously not impressed by the Liberal leaders claim of closeness Quixote quips Your Business Diane Matey Thomson So the provincial premiers are telling Ottawa to lower interest rates eh Thats a good sign that they arc about ease soon anyway After all why make demands that cant be met The premiers would love to take credit for putting an end to rising rates With on election Leader Ed has climbed on the bandwagon too No one knows bow long the economy will keep steaming along the way It has been for the past six years Exports are booming and capacity is tight But from south of the border a worrisome sign has come All across the United States newspaper adver tising rev people an spending In Quebec the Montreal Gazette has warned employees that some of them may be laid off because of a drop in ad revenue although the newspaper may be suffering from Increased competition The slowdown could simply be a brief dip not uncommon in the cur rent expansion In the past though newspaper ads hove been a tens live barometer of economic health and an early warning of what lay ahead DON QUIXOTE Meanwhile John Crow governor of the Bank of Canada keeps fighting the phantom inflation cur rently running at a modest per cent What the premiers object to is the wide spread between Interest rates in Canada and the United States Based on historical differences our rates could be a full percentage point lower they estimate While historical comparisons can be simplistic the premiers have a point That they have no business telling the federal government how to run the country is a fact they choose to Ignore They argue that the country is suf fering from high rales with the ex ception of southern Ontario where the economy is seemingly Ir repressible No matter what they say Interest rates are made in the USA Mr Crow can ease the spreads but he cant change the direction Is the health of the American economy an illusion Not likely but the belief that it is overheating may be The same applies to Canada as Premier Robert Bourassa points out onehalfofthclOpremiera We consider that he threat of on economic is presently stronger than he threat of tion he told reporters THICK OR THIN With other economic Indicators so uncertain we might as well watch the thickness or thinness of our newspapers or the number of cars in shopping mall parking lots If the expansion is to continue It will be without the consumers help I suspect Exports and business In vestment will have to carry he day Unfortunately Canadas exports ore being hurt by high Canadian- exchange rale while business j vestment will be Inhibited by high merest rates A slowdown appears