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ftp THE HERALD OUTLOOK Nvmstar Hallon Hills OUTLOOK to each Saturday by the 1 1 ALTON Home Newspaper of Haltoo Hill A DIvUlon Canadian Newspaper Company Limited at Georgetown Ontario LIU Class Mall Registered Number STAFF WRITERS Brian MacLeod MARKETING REPRESENTATIVES Caroline MacLeod PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT Donna Kell Tammy LclUh AD MANAGER Dan Taylor Errors in omission Twos a crowd Review By KENNETH What are ihe characteristics of a bad biography One of them Is undenting hero- worship on the authors part leading him or her to mention the heros detects only lo excuse them or ex- Sain them away Another Is failure draw attention to mysterious In- in ihe heros attitudes and conduct Moit serious however Is the omission of significant and readily available evidence either through Ignorance or as a means of putting the hero In a more favorable light than the facta justify In her biography of South Africa a Anglican archbishop and apartheid campaigner Desmond Tutu Tula Voice of the Volcelen General pages Shirley Is guilty of mil ibese transgressions The worst of them results from her to convince reader that in calling for economic sanctions against South Africa Tutu has been speaking for toe great majority that countrys blacks As proof she dies a single poll that she falls Identify except to say that it was In August 1985 There have been more than a dean surveys of black opinion on economic sanctions and on the related Issue of disinvestment foreign Investors withdrawal from their South African businesses Nearly all these studies have shown that supporters of such measures are outnumbered by opponents who fear disadvantages for black workers especially Increased unemployment The poll that seems lo regard as conclusive was a freakish exception probably because It relied en the smallest sample and was restricted to blacks living in ur ban areas It was conducted under the auspices of a British newspaper the Sunday Times which later spon sored a wider poll that included the rural population Published in the Sunday Times on Aug the wider poll which completely Ignores agreed with the overwhelming majority of other surveys in finding that fewer than onethird of those questioned considered sanctions desirable grave doubts By using evidence so selectively to make Tutu appear to be what he has never been the spokesman for the bulk of Ms voiceless fellow blacks regarding sanctions grave doubts about her own credibility In respects however her portrait of this ecclesiastical rings true tutu emerges as an avowed who capitalism prhapa one reason though the author falls to make this point for his advocacy of disinvestment He is also a deeply devout Chris tian who believes thst In prayer he hears directly the voice of God To him therefore his personal cons and opinions seem not merely his own but expression of God will This conviction may He the root Tutus authoritarianism and in tolerance of dissent When a col league In the South African Council of Churches dared to disagree with him on some matter dismissed the unfortunate culprit as silly child and ordered him to get out of my office For three weeks Tutu refused to speak to him On another occasion without con suiting black unions he called on workers to stay away from their jobs for a day of prayer an act thai would cost them wages they sorely Tutu himself has always been the generosity of antiapartheid ad overseas enables him to travel tike a prince refers to his riding in sleek black llmouslnea and to him crossing Atlantic on the supersonic Concorde Tutu has certainly displayed both moral and physical courage in the course of Ms career for Instance in saving the life of a black whom a mob of black extremists intended murder But when he advocates sanctions arguing that suffering from the consequent unemployment will be temporary and with a pur pose many economically vulnerable workers doubtless understand that Tutu Is unlikely to shore In the hardships he considers acceptable for REALISTIC Black workers may also be more realistic than Tulu about the durability of the whlUscontrolled South African government and thus about the meaning of temporary As early as Boulay reports predicted that the country would nave a black prime minister the next five to 10 years Tutus flaws become obvious to the attentive reader of du book But the author allows none of them to restrain or lung the gushing flow of her adulation Swept along by this flow unwary readers may overlook unexplained Inconsistencies To give just one ex ample As Anglican Dean of Johan nesburg Tutu refused to live in bis official residence In a segregated white area because he was to accept special privileges as ar honorary white As Archbishop Cape Town however he resides In white suburb In mentioning his Cape Towt borne Boulay does not even re mind ua of Tutus earlier stand let alone tell us why he abandoned his previous scruples Despite bias and demonstrable inaccuracies this book may be of value as a source of Information on Archbishop Tutu But it should be used with care cau tion and skepticism It is by nc means a reliable guide to the African situation Prof Kenneth tea the MUteentury history at the Universi ty of Western Ontario London OUR LANGUAGE by Jeffrey clew f or a thread I gave up teaming cause I didnt have a clew Ergo comes from Latin for there- ore Im no ogre who withholds spelling Clues ergo Id recommend spelling ogre backward Were having a reunion of the A is the plural of the masculine term for a graduate or student Female graduates are the plural of alumna To avoid offense use both alumni and which show more class than using alone for a com group Election hangover Of course Its expensive That one was five months work Retailers cope with the herd mentality Your Business Diane Haley Thomson Itself up it will have to do so much help from new Investors Only two per cent of people who do not own slocks plan to buy some over the next year a recent poll shows Their decision holds for both com and preferred shares Only per cent of Canadians hold shares In publicly traded companies poll conducted by Research Group for The Globe and Mail surveyed 2031 people and found that saving money is foremost on our minds If the poll is right Ihe judgement most Canadians on the stock market parallels that of Ihe pros were in a bear market in a scary economic Ihe nexl move In the market is likely to be This pessimistic view is held by wsveandcycle theorists and fleet- tooted traders alike Pushing aside the disaster scenes one reason ex are cool to slocks Is because they expect interest rates to stay high perhaps creeping higher In the months ahead Why take a chance on the stock market when you can earn 11 per cent on a savings certif IcateT PEAR OR PRUDENCE The poll found people plan to save morn and lees By and large we expect fortunes to stay about the same In future rather than worsening or Improving But the number of people a weakening In the economy up slightly to per Compared with the previous poll fewer believe time to make major purchases Con fidence in the economy is relatively weak In the West and the Atlantic provinces while the Toronto region remains the most Optimistic Our choice of Investments is not surprising Canada Savings Bonds top the list followed by registered retirement savings plans Next in line come guaranteed Investment certificates and term deposits followed by savings accounts real estate and company pension plans Bluechip stocks follow on the heels pension plans taking precedence over a category that in cludes treasury bills and corporate One of more Interesting facts to emerge from the Globe poll is the proportion of Canadians who reces sion or worse In wake of last falls stock market crash After the crash In October 38 per of us believed recession was at hand Nineteen per cent expected a depress In the Given such a gloomy outlook one wonders how long consumer spen ding will bold up Forecasters are calling for good Christmas sales for retailers followed by a slowdown next year Undoubtedly If a third of us foresee recession and another IS per cent depression our fears should soon work their way through to spen ding becoming always a self- prophesy This brings up the question of the good and bad things about polls As they do with politics polls can in fluence our thinking If we read that everyone else has stopped spending and started saving in earnest were likely to quickly fall in line This herd mentality right or wrong Is enough to make retailers tear out Staff Comment Ever since last Tuesday morning things have slowed down Words have come less naturally to the finger tips pounding on my trus ty Underwood typewriter and there Is that feeling of something missing Now Ive figured out what It is Its election Some of you may have noticed the Herald reached your doorstep a tew hours earlier on Tuesday or you may have been able to pick up a copy at your local variety store as early as following the municipal and federal elections The idea was to allow you the reader to find out the inside story locally before you sat down for sup per on Tuesday With a staff of four Including our Intrepid sports editor Paul Svoboda we managed to catch all the action In both elections Paul became our official photographer for the municipal elec tion while myself and Donna KeU bandied about the floor at Gorton Alcott Memorial Arena as the results came in And as we settled in back at the of flee afterwards after some lively discussion we found out that 3am came early But not for Paul and editor Mike Turner who made the Herald their home the entire night for both dec Fielding phone calls from minds asking about the results of the munitipal election and writing the story at the same time you would think the whole Idea of the elections would lose Its lustre It didnt We enjoyed answering the late night phone calls and reading what we couldnt remember we wrote Tuesday afternoon In contrast Mondays federal election brought nary a phone call I guess television did job initially Were we a bit jaded the second time around Not thanks an extra large pizza Jolt cola and free coffee from next door The federal election made for a long night but it could have been longer If voters had delivered a minority government we might have stayed at North Golf and Country dub taking in results and getting reactions from our local vic tor Garth Turner until the British Columbia results came in In the wee hours of the morning As it was the typewriter keys were thumping by midnight But there are some blank faces around here now Weve kind of gotten Into the habit of making sure each candidate has equal space In our paper making sure certain issues are discussed each week and making sure we take In the nilcandidates and free trade debates Weve gotten used to talking free trade taxes abortion free trade submarines bath kinds garbage free trade affordable bousing roads free trade industrial growth whos going lo win free Us Covering two elections at once has proved taxing pardon pun but Its been a blast Its likely one chance In a lifetime right Think again The municipal elections will be held again In the tall of The last provincial election was held in September