........Comment by Bill Moore ...The forest around us |
Hot tubs, blue movies and loggers |
....I
placed a very expensive long distance call to our dear editor of this
prestigious periodical – The B.C. Lum-berman – and in a
voice trembling with emotion asked, “Ed, what the hell is this
about so-called Hot Tubs and Loggers?” |
....In your good pages he has been shown
with bone dry hat askew, feet well spread apart – astride a goliath
of iron. Jut-jawed, facing the world – a proud and serene man.
Never once in all these decades of the Good Lumberman can I remember
this archangel of the hemlocks being associated with the gentle Eve. |
suspicious about the direction
this fine male manual was taking. Now with the revelation of the “Hot
Tub Caper” I am convinced that somewhere in your editorial staff
lies a disguised Hugh Heffner, ready to tear down the immaculate image
of our logger. ....I quote from your article, sir, of January wherein it states – “Most important of al…..the incomparable experience of feeling the childlike blissful comfort of worm water surrounding your body (bathing suit or not) while breathing fresh invigorating |
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Yellow Traktors,
a giant of good taste and decorum. |
WILL THE men of B.C.’s logging
camps withstand the moral temptations that come with hot tubs? Bill Moore
has serious doubts. |
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page 58 | British Columbia Lumberman,
March, 1978 |
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air is unmatched. Many people say the Hot Tub experience
is best on a crisp, star filled night, soothing vapor rising from the
water, wine, close friends, quiet conversation” – unquote
sir! ....Soothing vapor! Wine! Close friends! Indeed when did our typical jut-jawed logger need any of these, when for comfort he has his cribbage board and the good readings of an old Eaton’s catalogue? You would have him plied with demon rum and surround him with new found friends who would drag his soul into hell! ....I further quote – “A further part of the pleasures of the Hot Tub, it would appear, may well depend on who you are sharing it with. Not that there’s anything wrong with most of the guys who work in logging camps – but many might decide that togetherness can go only so far” – unquote. ....Now, Ed – from these last insidious lines I faintly detect that lovely Anita Bryant may wish to investigate some of our camps if she gets wind of your suggestive material, as is hidden in this last quote. For shame, sir! ....Can you not see the destruction of morale you may have caused in Saintly Sandspit or Holy Holberg – not to mention Happy Harwick Island. One can only visualize these fine forested areas with their true blue loggers – and see barge loads of Hot Tubs being unloaded to destroy the moral fibre of our fine lads. ....If this is the direction of your editorial staff, I would imagine that you are preparing a centerfold of some fine young muscled logger from one of the large companies such as the Potts Logging Co. I beg you sir to recon-sider this extreme journalism if we are to have our good tall men of the woods attend to their chosen careers – the gentle art of logging. ....It has also been drawn to my at-tention of late – via the Big City news- |
papers – that so-called
“Blue Movies” are to be – or have been – shown
in some of our more remote camps that are unable to receive the exciting
tv fare of the good grey CBC. If this be true – and such films as
“Flying Danish Stewardesses” and “Deep Nose” are
in truth being shown to our chaps in the Cedars – then I say to
you, the world is coming to its rightful end. Why would our loggers want
to see such evil fare when they could lay on their bunks and think of
“Mother” and “spot” their dog, waiting for them
back home in the little thatched family cottage. I feel certain the Red
Coats |
will be on to this caper
and do their duty and prepare high priced raids on such camps as would
show such film. ....You and your organization of writers, editorialists and foreign cor-respondents should remember the cold clear mandate you have been shoul-dered with – to uphold – in its finest glory – the upright logger of the forest around us. I trust we shall see no future signs of Heffnerism in your trusted journal. ....Rub-a-tub-tub! Indeed! . .........................Keep out of the bight, ..........................................Bill Moore |
British Columbia Lumberman, March, 1978 | page 59 |