the other press

February 14, 1977

 

 

 

 

Over the break, I was too broke to go out to eat often (except
to good old cheap McDonalds). However, I did get around to
trying a few new restaurants.

I tried The Organ Grinder twice. The first time I went it was
the girls’ night out and we were hungry and thirsty and game
for something different. The Organ Grinder, at 1260 Hornby
(689-1401), is called a ‘‘musical eatery’, and features a huge
organ. The entertainment is unusual and enjoyable. The organ
player explains his instrument, takes requests, and is a

irtuoso. Italian food dominates the menu. The gazpacho (a
chilled and spiced tomato soup) is lovely, the pizza is
individual servings (pizza prices start at $1.95), and the other
Italian fare is fairly good too. The decor is nostalgic (a la
Spaghetti Factory except much more fascinating) and, of
|icourse, they are licensed. (However they do NOT serve
spaghetti: for that you have to go to their cousin, The
Spaghetti Factory). All in all, a fun place for a casual night out.

 

One night we went to The House of Fortune in North Van for
Chinese Food. I was impressed by the very tasty food, the
reasonable prices and the warm atmosphere. Another nice
thing was that the waitress brought each course separately
and served them to us piping, steamy hot.

Dinner for four is about $20. For $21.75 we four of us had
egg rolls, readed boneless almond chicken, deep fried prava: ,
chicken chop suey, chow mein, barbecued pork fried rice,
sweet and sour spare ribs and chinese tea. Nothing was
greasy; everything was delicious. If you’re going on a
weekend, I suggest that you reserve a table near the fireplace.

On New Year’s Eve we went to what certainly must be one
of Vancouver’s finest restaurants. The Three Greenhorns
(1030 Denman, 688-8655) has exceptional service, excellent
food, a lovely atmosphere, and prices that you can expect to be
a little higher than usual, but not much. I had rack of lamb and
my man had steak and lobster. The food was prepared just
right. I couldn't find a thing wrong. We were very pleased.
The staff were very friendly and efficient. My boyfriend once
was going to fill up our wineglasses, but he had barely touched
the bottle when one of the owners appeared and poured the
wine. He (I think it was Helmut) said that customers aren’t
allowed to pour their own wine. We topped the evening off
with liqueurs, coffee, land crepes-for dessert. The crepes were
light and thin and tasted heavenly. It was an incomparable
evening - I think the meal we enjoyed was as close to perfect as
one can get. I highly recommend The Three Greenhorns for an
evening that you will never forget.

“ICH HAB MEIN HERZ IN HEIDELBERG VERLOREN”’
‘Upon the recommendation of friends, my man took me to
the Heidelberg Restaurant at 1139 Robson Street (phone
684-0817). It’s a nice cozy restaurant: not super-fancy, but
clean, warm comfortable and with very good food. It rates
ong the top 10 restaurants that I have ever been to.

You can have a beer, soup and bread, salad, and a superb
meal for $10 or less. The portions are very (very) generous, the
food is prepared in the, ‘‘Old Country’’ German style which I
have always loved, and the staff is courteous. (Don’t let the
German accents bother you, they ARE authentic.). My
companion had Wiener Schnitzel (veal cutlet) and I had
Rouladen (Beef Roll). The Wiener Schnitzel covered half of my
friend’s plate, and I could barely eat half of my Rouladen.
(Don’t be afraid to ask for ‘‘Doggie-Bags’’ here - you’ll need
one: the portions are enormous!). The dinner included a
hearty home-made chicken noodle soup (a meal in itself), rye
bread, salad, a choice of either sauerkraut/purple cabbage/or
mixed vegetables, and potatoes-mashed, boiled, or fried. It
was very satisfying and very filling. And so affordable that you
should try it soon!

So ‘‘GUTEN APPETIT”’ until next week. Remember: letters
land recommendations are welcome. Write me c/o The Other
Press on New West Campus. :

 

 

 

 

 

 

Natives must confront system

PRINCE ALBERT (CUP)--Nat-
ive people must stop depending
on the law for equality and
develop a political awareness to
deal with the oppression’ they

’ face, Rod Durocher from the

Saskatchewan Metis Society
told a conference on the Native
and the Law here Jan. 29-30.

“‘The law is only one aspect of
an interrelated pattern of dis-
crimination that includes em-
ployment, education and a
whole range of other institutions
in our society,’’ Durocher said.

‘Political awareness has to be
developed in order to deal with
every aspect of this oppres-
sion.”

He said his group had ‘‘adop-
ted the strategy of confrontation
in poiitics in the last couple of
years because that’s the only
way you can get things done.”’

Durocher said there is a
regressive link between educat-
ional and correctional institut-
ions for native people.

“Our kids graduate from the
school on into a correctional
centre and on to the ‘big
house’,’’ he said.

Durocher blamed the situat-
ion on the government’s refusal
to acknowledge the existence of
racism in Canada. '

**Wouldn’t you call it racism
that the majority of people
incarcerated are native people?

“If the government would
only admit that racism exists in
Canada, that would be a start,”
Durocher said.

He also chided the media for
perpetuating discriminatory
images of native people.

‘The press plays violence up
to the point where they have us
as a bunch of Indians and Metis
who are running around in the
bush looking for violence.’’

University of Regina socio-
logy professor Doug Daniels
told the conference ‘‘overpat-
rolling of the reserves is a direct
cause of the high arrest rate

among natives.

‘‘Police have always protect-
ed property more than people,”’
he said.

“But you can’t just peg the
police, you have to get down to
the structure of the whole
system.”’

Daniels pointed to the welfare
system as one institution that
ensures native people will be
there ‘‘to be used when they’re |
needed and dumped back onto
their reservations when they’re
not... :

Native organizations must
begin to ‘‘argue against the
increase of social welfare agen-
cies...which just increase the
supervision native people are
under.”’

He said these agencies are
more ‘‘band-aid solutions’. For
their money, he said, the tax-
payers get solutions like intoxi-
cation centres designed mainly
to keep the natives’ plight out of
the public eye.

”

Le Jour back on stands

MONTREAL (CUP)--Le Jour,
this time in the form of a weekly
news-magazine reappeared on
Quebec news stands last Friday.
The once-daily Montreal news-
paper, after a short life of

* two-and-a-half years, shut down

operations on Aug. 24, 1976 as a
result of internal labour conflicts
and financial difficulties.
Francois Dagenais, Director
of Le Jour hebdomadiare nat-
ional, stated the priorities and
objectives of the newsmagazine
in his editorial column of the
first issue. Dagenais claimed
that the publication was devoted
to the defence of independentist

ideas and social democracy, and
that Le Jour itself desired
independence from all political
parties. The newsmagazine
aims.at exploring the innumer-
able possibilities of Quebec’s
political status ranging from the
confines of dominion frontiers to
independence with the aid of
arms, explained Dagenais.
Elaborating on Le Jour’s pos-
ition on social democracy and
independence, Dagenais stated
that many had been awaiting an
organ of independentist infor-
mation, qualifying independen-
ce to signify Quebec’s powers of
a sovereign state. Dagenais

rejected the Trudeau viewpoint
of 4 new constitution, claiming
that this does not correspond
with the aspirations of the
Quebec people who really wish }
to obtain sovereign power. —

‘Speaking for the staff of Le |
Jour, Dagenais added that soc-
ial democracy means that poli-
tical, economic, social and cul-
tural power would belong to the
people and that all political.
decisions should involve the
participation of the people. He
insisted, however, that the legi-
timate aspirations of the people _
shave yet to be found.

 

Two priorities in Irish struggle

cont’d from page 8
equally--there’s no room in the
system. And despite what the
British would have you believe,
capitalism and socialism cannot
exist in harmony.”’

There are two priorities in the
Irish struggle for freedom, she
said. The.first is to remove the
British troops from Irish soil,
and the second to create a
socialist reform in Ireland. ‘‘As
it is,’’ she added, ‘‘South Ire-
land is quickly evolving into a
satellite state of Great Britain,
and Northern Ireland is so torn
by dissension that people are
not only jobless but homeless.
We have to take back what has
been taken from us: the means
of production and distribution.”’

Discussing the need for soc-
ialism in America, Devlin said
that the last time Americans
admitted to a working class was
during the Depression. Since

then there is no one who will
admit to being working class--
anyone who has a job is consi-
dered middle class. ‘‘Everyone
is so busy protecting what he
has that no one knows what has
been taken away.”’

“Your Mr. Rockefeller...well,
far be it from me to suggest the
man’s a thief,’’ Devlin chuckled
‘‘And as for the Queen of
England, she’s not so much a
thief as a receiver of stolen
goods.””

But the job of a socialist
“‘revolutionary’’ is to work in
the working class,...to educate
within the working class. We
have so many dangerous react-
ionary ideas we have to educate
ourselves out of’’, Devlin plead-
ed during her speech.

‘Don’t put on Che Guevara
hats and raise your clenched
fists and wave your rifles. Join
the working classes.”’

“I’m not here to entertain you
or tell you stories that will make
your Irish hearts bleed’’, Devlin
continued. ‘‘If you’re really
serious about helping us, raise
your voices for the Murrays, but
start building the struggle for
socialism in this country.’’

The jubilant crowd at the
close of Devlin’s speech con-
trasted sharply with her grim
and sad resignation minutes
later when she talked to Canad-
ian University Press about the
women’s peace movement and
the situation in South Ireland.

One of the speech organizers,
seeing how tired Devlin looked
after her 20-day campaign in the
US, commented, ‘‘I don’t know.
She’s done so much work. But I
looked around at the madly
cheering crowd and felt a real
surge of sadness. I just don’t
think Americans are ready for
a revolution without party
hats.”’