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Page 22 THE HERALD Wednesday March Arts and Ideas The printed news forms a collage I read an average of three to four newspapers or magazines every day The amount of fascinating information I come across in my daily reading is always illuminating Mere are some examples that for me establish a pattern John Kenneth Galbraith the Canadian by birth who become the American ambassador to In dia 30 years ago and a close ad visor to President Kennedy is now professor imeritus of economics at Harvard Universi ty He addressed the Senate Com mittee on Labor and Human Resources in Washington last January Harpers the American magazine adapted his statement for their March Issue Let me quote some of the key sentences of a very lengthy article What has caused this downturn in economic prospects How serious does the recession promise to be What must be done by way of remedy As to the cause of the recession let there be no doubt We are paying for the economic aberations of the past decade An era of securities speculation and financial manipulation has come as it always must to its inevitable end The corporate raids and leveraged buyouts have let a great number of our large enter prises with a heavy burden of debt that they now must service at a high cost to innovation in vestment and employment Additionally and of more im- melaate consequence we have come to the end of a period of ex tensive real estate speculation This has brought the construction industry to a near halt This in dustry is a large employer of bluecollar workers these workers in turn are a large and growing component of the unemployed Further during this decade there was the heavy transfer of spendable income from the poor to the rich The poor perforce always spend their income The rich do not How long will the recession last The Great Depression of the Thirties lasted a full 10 years I do not predict a similar disaster I do urge that all predictions however great the authority be received with something between amusement and contempt It is my feeling the great welfare measures of this century have given the economy a resilience it did not have in earlier times Ideas and The Arts by John Sommer Turning to specific action there are some steps that should now be taken The Federal Reserve should make further and substantial reductions in interest rates Second we should for now suspend talk of a balanced budget column in the Toronto Sun had this to say about two of the lucky recipients John Crow who limps along with a salary that may be more than certainly needed that Ron Lawless who runs Canadian National and has made such a tremendous success of VIA Rail was no doubt desperate for the 2 hike on his stipend of or so And the Hills Herald had this cheerful news to report on the same day Federal Finance Minister Michael Wilson will get another chance to redeem himself with the Halton Chamber of Com merce Chamber President Dave Page confirmed Friday he will present Mr Wilson with a replacement cheque during the Debt Freedom Conference in Ot tawa March for the one that was issued by the Chamber to the government last summer but went uncashed The printed news is a collage Each item seems to be separate but in the readers mind these bits form a picture that in fluences the way each of us thinks Special lecture It will stand as one of the cruci fying errors of our time that we ran large deficits throughout the last decade when we did not need them However it only the er ror if we reverse that policy now that the economy is in recession r have seen much public action that was constructive humane and good And some that was il logical eccentric and socially perverse Rarely however have I seen anything quite so im pressive in this regard as the ef forts of the White House budget director over the objections of the secretary of health and human services to cut back at this of all times on ad ministrative support for Medicare Social Security payments for the disabled prenatal care health care and generally for help to minority groups and lowincome people Third now that the Cold War is over we must look to the employ ment efficiency of our public ex penditure For sophisticated weaponry the yield of jobs per dollar of public expenditure is very low For other public pur poses including housing needed civilian public works and elementary health care the employment efficiency is much higher There must now be a ma jor shift away from low- efficiency spending Michael Wilson just a day before announcing his tough new budget gave of the highest paid civil servants in Ottawa a retroactive pay increase And Allan in his Respected literary and biblical scholar John Francis will be giving a public lecture on the Noah and the Ark Story as part of the Guelph Spring Festivals 1991 Education Events The lecture will take place at War Memorial Hill at 3 pm on Sunday May 5 It will be followed by a reception at the Stewart Art Centre All tickets for this event are Dr is replacing the late Northrop who was original ly scheduled to present this lec ture on literary and biblical aspects of the famous Bible story John has taught at several universities throughout England and North America As a lecturer and educator he is highly revered and has a special talent for torching his audience and bringing the bible to life Many who have heard him lec ture say that he should have taken up acting because of his animated speaking style Dr Bligh has written several books and numerous articles on what he calls desertisland literature the Bible Shakespeare and Milton For many years John taught a course on The Bible as Literature at the University of Since his retirement in 1988 he has con tinued to write and lecture on literary social and theological topics This special education event promises to both enlighten and stimulate and will be held in con junction with the Guelph Spring Festivals production of Ben jamin Brittens brilliant operatic setting of the Noah Story Noyes on May 6 and Gallery House Sol private collection sale People buy art works and hav ing lived with them for many years get tired of them Or they get old and wish to live in a smaller easy to look after home Gallery House Sol Charles Street in Georgetown has gathered art works from people like that and has put them together in an exhibition and sale of art works from private collec tions The exhibition is filled with a great range of excellent pain tings sculptures drawings and original handprinted graphics All of these creations are waiting for new masters and new homes The exhibition opens March and continues through April Some of the artists represented in the exhibition and sale are Frank Black Ken An dreas and Yosef Drenters Mackay Sharon Merkur and Harold Town The viewing hours are Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays from 200 to 800 pm Fridays Saturdays and Sundays from 200 to pm Admission is free Artist helps Cancer Society Georgetown artist Linda Donate presented Ted and Ketman of the Hills 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