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N27 7.2 ase RP AR | ---------- av 7 Rk 7. VS ER AR NN NOE VAR YN / ter Chat I read somewhere recently that things are looking up as far as today's youth is concerned. The hot days of the late 60s and early 70s are over, and the rebellious, long-haired hippy-types of that period have learned that unrealistic idealism isn't the answer. "Yesterday's children have cut their hair and replaced jeans for business suits," the article approv- ingly suggests. 'They are buckling down to the real world of competition and making a living." If that's true--and I suspect it is--it should come as a bitter disappointment to our society. What we need--desperately--is more dreamers and idealists. The sobering fact for us to remember is that most respectable people among our society-statesmen, politicians, businessmen, editors and even some preachers supported the useless war in Viet Nam, It was the idealists among us, who slept on the sidewalks in front of American consulates and embassies, radical churchmen, long haired hippie types, who have been proven right in their anti-war protests. After an expenditure of thousands of American lives and over one and a quarter million Vietnamese lives, the effort to stop Communism with guns and bombs ended in an undisputable defeat. Talk of monetary losses in a conflict that cost so much in human life is hardly appropriate, yet war didn't. : While it may be true that the only thing we learn and brown and coloured world were unanimous in their opposition to America's attempts in Vietnam, We might learn something about current issues by noting what the rest of the world thinks about North in respect to South America, South Africa, and the Middle East. by John Gast | Prophets seldom do. Objectors, demonstrators, and protesters seem to have crawled back into the woodwork, despite the fact that they have as much to protest about as ever before. Are young people demonstrating for a cessation of trade with South Africa? Is there public outcry about the need for our country to take a stand at the United Nations about the suspected genocide in Uganda? The sale of Canu reactors to Korea? Is no one concerned about the deplorable way our own -native people are treated? Do we hear young people protesting about racial descrimination in Canada? If not, perhaps we should worry. Recent revelations about Atomic Energy of Canada Limited's sales policies makes one wonder about the government's arguments supporting the sale of nuclear reactors to such countries at South Korea. The government's main argument for the anti- proliferation group has always been that a refusal to sell might be considered international racism abroad. According to Trudeau, "We could say, sorry, the dangers of proliferation-are too great. --It's-too risky for you brown people or you yellow people. We can trust ourselves-white people-not to abuse this tech- 1 but we can't trust you." NOIOgYt the misuse of MCISAT technology is not only feared-it has already happened. Besides the super- powers who unavoidably if not unintentionally, use their nuclear capabilities to influence political manoeuvrings, even third world countries are using nuclear capabilities as a political lever. India, after exploding its first nuclear device, was reported that nuclear weapons were armed and ready to go, and that only a change in the way the war was going made the use of the weapons unnecessary. Perhaps we should continue to provide energy- destitute Third World countries with the means to develop their own energy, but lets not pretend we are do-gooders helping out the under-developed world. It is simply good business for Canada, and nothing more. RAI SAIL PE Trudeau, POP. Signs of Spring? Tulips pushing their way through the moist spring soil may be a sign of the coming summer in most areas of Scugog Township, but on Scugog Island it is the skyward thrust of another development at Goreski's Summer Resort Ltd. At least that's how it seems to Mrs. R. N. Owen and other neighbours of the tourist operator. A long-standing war between Mr. Goreski and his neighbours seems to be shaping up for another battle --this_summer.... Like-the first. Robin of spring, the harbinger of the conflict to come appeared before council this week, warning of another Goreski development, this time the dredging of new boat slips that neighbours consider to be an expansion of a non-conforming use -- and therefore illegal. Neighbours want Goreski's alleged illegal expan- sion stopped, while council is worried about opening the floodgates. Going after the resort operator for a breach of the township's bylaws would leave council open to charges of discrimination, since illegal expansions and conversions on the island -- partic- ularly the conversion of cottages to permanent homes -- aren't exactly rare. According to Coun. Reg Rose, going after Goreski would also mean taking hundreds of other area residents to court, and that would -embroil the township in a legal morass that it is hardly prepared or equipped to handle. . Councillors openly admit that they are forced to turn a blind eye, to decline from enforcing its own bylaws. SE Just how we ever got to this point is perhaps a point to ponder for those who think regionalization was -- or is -- a bad Idea. Look ahead with hope It Is a mark of human decency to feel shame at having been born into the 20th century. So began the introduction to a popular reprint. The statement reflects an uneasy conviction that people of our time have somehow sunk to an u!timate of bestiality and degeneracy, and have brought us to the brink of hell, with about three minutes left to midnight, and the end. No one, of course, should try to dismiss the facts about our age that have generated despair. Yet we should resist the tendency, as old as humanity, to let the evil of immediate circumstance overwhelm us. The world today does not impinge upon the individual life with greater peril than our ancestors knew, nor call for a greater courage than they mustered. The atomic bomb, though it makes possible a new dimension of physical destruction, yet can present to any individual no threat worse than death. Countless generations have lived under that shadow. The stouthearted have always had to build a bridgehead of hope on the edge of pessimism. _In_fact, the. presence of fear. must. have been © much more immediate to past generations in the path of a conqueror, or in the midst of an epidemic, than to the present multitudes who watch television and the instant communication of bad news it reports daily. Indeed, television seems to cater to the mysteri- ous twist in human nature that prefers to hear evil than good. Thus we are too little acquainted with the enormous amount of mutual aid, the degree of brotherhood, the dialogue between religions, that, though less than our ability, yet hever before reached such a measure. y : Moreover, If we are entering the twilight of a spent civilization, we can look for light to come into the Dark Age where it has always burst forth in the last two thousand years: to the, then, Youngest Christian Churches; this time, the Churches of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Where there Is no hope for the future, there Is no power in the present. However, there Is nothing within our knowledge to destroy the firm conviction that now, as in time past, the prophets of gloom and - doom will lose out to the apostles of faith and hope. \ ' Unchurched Editorial »