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Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, May 28, 1986-5 C wke students kept busy at car wash .M Clarke High School students High School and sponsored in sup- a steady stream of cars and at times were kept busy on Sunday after- port of the Students Against Driv- reached a sizeable line-up. noon with their car wash held at the ing Drunk organization. There was PLANTASTIC ASSORTMENT begonia impatiens for your garden PETUNIA l INNIA MARIGOLD apple blossom shop Main Street. Orono 983-5291 At Bay of Quinte Conference Claim - Illegitimate Use of Power in the world Members of 62nd annual meeting of the Bay of Quinte Conference were told that power, of which God is the source, is being used illegitimately illegitimately to maim and kill many of God's creatures. The Rev. Dr. Garth Legge of Toronto, General Secretary of the Division of World Outreach of the United Church, spojce to the 520 attending attending the annual meeting, held in St. Paul's United Church, Perth. "In the world today there are growing concentrations of power in the hands of oppressive forces who are trying to be like God," he .said. "The result is often an oppression of creation in the natural environment, environment, and a dehumanization of life created in the image of God." He said that the superpowers, are making a wilderness of much of God's creation. Examples used by Dr. Legge include nuclear testing in the South Pacific by France and the U.S.A., the proliferation of submarines submarines armed with nuclear warheads, and pollution with nuclear wastes. This creates barriers of powerlessness in the victims of the wrong uses of power. *'We have a responsibility to be in solidarity with all inhabitants of the earth," said Dr. Legge. "This is a tremendous challenge." Dr. Legge said that the popular media do not give much help in interpreting interpreting all the facts. He'listed a "catalogue of inhumanity" which includes millions of refugees, the horrors afflicting prisoners of conscience, conscience, economic bondage of third world countries to the affluent na~ . -tions, and exploitation of women. "Easy Optimism is no longer possible," he said. "But it is truth that makes us free, and this is the truth." No Return To Death Penalty Capital punishment may come before the House of Commons again as a free vote as early as January 1987, and polls show that if it were taken now we would have capital punishment reinstated. So - says a report to the annual meeting of the Bay of Quinte Conference of the United Church of Canada by the Rev. Jamie Scott, Ottawa. Conference Conference met in Perth last weekend. Rev. Scott is currently working on contract to the Interchurch Council on Justice and Correction, mentioned that polls show 68% , V, ,.ne population are in favour of the death penalty but the same polls indicate that 80% have never read anything about the issue. "The reason for this increased interest interest is due to the recent case of Clifford Olsen and the number of police killings in the past year," he said. "But" the call for the death penalty on this basis is more a reaction reaction that seeks a quick fix for the problem. What people are really saying is that they are afraid and want to be protected and feel safe," he said. Scott said that there are several myths associated with the death penalty. For instance, some prison guards and police officers have themselves asked that the death penalty not be reinstated because it . tends to create a siege mentality with criminals who feel they have nothing to lose after one murder, lie also cited the juries who have acquitted murder suspects because they were, unwilling to convict with the death penalty as. a given. "Since 1970, of 400 convicted murderers who were released on bail, only one has committed a second second murder," he said. Violence, he says, is# not an answer to violence. He cited the slogan: "Why kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong?" Murder, is a social problem problem which comes out of society. "Rather than a quick fix, we need to deal with it as à social problem and deter victims of society not punish criminals," he said. , Scott reminded the delegates that the challenge of Jesus was hot to .ostracize people and cut them off because of their behaviour. In fact Jesus taught that the person who is ostracized and left out is the very person we need to embrace. The goal should be a justice system with the goal of reconciliation and forgiveness. At a sessional committee which met to discuss this issue, conversa- tipn'centered around a resolution to General Council to re-affirm the abolition of capital punishment. The group rejected the resolution as it was worded but affirmed the intent intent of the motion that more study was needed of the subject. Discussion then developed whereby some objected to Jamie" Scott's presentation stating that they were only hearing one side of the issue. Some voiced strong objections objections to the abolition of capital punishment. H One member of the group said that it \yas easy to make a judgement judgement afcouf capital punishment when ut affects people you don't know. But he used an example to show that when it is someone who you have known intimately and personally personally for a long time and you know all the circumstances it is hard to make a blanket judgement, especially when you know that capital punishment, in that case, would not have had any déterrant effect. At press time the resolution had not been dealt with on the floor of conference so a report of the vote is not available in this report. Farm Crisis in Ontario More farmers died from suicide than from accidents with farm machinery in Ontario between 1979 and 1982. Thirty per cent of the violent and accidental deaths on farms were caused by machinery accidents, accidents, while 34.8 per cent were suicides. These were some of the facts presented in Perth last weekend at the annual meeting of the Bay of Quinte Conference by Dorothy Middleton of Crysler, a well-known leader in the farm womens' movement movement in Ontario. Mrs. Middleton presented the human side of the current farm economic crisis as part of a report of the Agriculture Committee Committee of The Division of Mission of the Bay of Quinte Conference. Self-destruction is only one of the spinoffs of stress generated by the squeeze in which farmers find themselves. Others are a high accident accident rate among farm children, alienation from the community because of the myth that farmers never fail, alcohol abuse, depression, depression, marriage breakdowns, family violence, and high-stress medical problems such as migraines and ulcers. It has also been concluded that family economic problems are contributing contributing factors in half of adolescent adolescent suicides. • The speaker told the conference that she sees in churches a great resource for the farm community. 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