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o The contributions of the Red Cross Society to the community, nation and the world are many. March is Red Cross month - a time to remember the work Red Cross does, and a time to support the work with the same generosity that Red Cross volunteers bring to those in need in our own community and communities like ours throughout Canada. Red Cross provides sickroom equipment supplies free of charge to those who need them; helps youth develop qualities of effective leadership; teaches people to care for the sick when illness occurs at home. Without public support such programs could not exist. With all that the statistics do show, they cannot present a clear picture of the individual cases of persons restored to life because blood was there when they needed it; of verterans who took new interest in life because they found, through programs of arts and crafts, something worthwhile to do; of disaster victims clothed and fed because programmes of relief existed to help. 1tyt...e1111te.tefPe..ter,-,tm Statistics represent a massive amount of work done by dedicated people. Last year volunteers of the Red Cross Women's Work Committee made clothing valued at $529,600 for use in emergency and disaster relief in Canada and throughout the world. The Blood Transfusion Service provided every hospital in Canada with all the blood and blood products they needed and helped restore a quarter of a million persons to life and health. Nearly 800,000 persons par- ticipated in Red Cross courses in water safety training. Saunders pointed out - and all present, Including Mayor Bull of Weston - agreed the praent (1962) set-up is better than any form of amalgamation. 10 years ago Still another variation of the old amalgamation theme is being played by the York Township ensemble. As a special meeting, Reeve Walter Saunders asked Forest Hill, Swansea and Weston repruentatives for their opinions on an amalgamation of the four communities. Mr. Nationwide thousands of volunteers of the Canadian Red Cross Society work to help people like those you know and love in communities like your own. Volunteers play a vital part in programmes of water safety, blood procurement, hospital visiting, international development and disaster assistance. 20 years ago The Cambridge Daily News of Cam- bridge, England, commends the election of Henry Loose, a Weston citizen, to the presidency of the Chess Federation of Canada. Mr. Loose, whose record appeared in a recent issue of Chess Chat, is described as a born organizer who has devoted his time and efforts to improvements of community life in Weston. 40 years ago What may have been the first mobile home was constructed by two Woodbridge men for a work-finding journey to Peace River, J5.C. The house was constructed on the rear of a light truck chassis and was fully equipped with all the necessities of home. The oak frame house cost all of $75. to construct and equip. 50 years ago On Thursday evening last, the Weston Volunteer Fire Brigade held an enjoyable social gathering .in the brigade rooms. Progressive euchre kept all pleasantly engaged and at the finish Mayor Flynn awarded prizes. In presenting the awards, the mayor took occasion to congratulate the brigade for their eight years of efficient service rendered to the town. The recipients responded in a neat manner and the members, and their friends, about 50 in number, left for their homes. 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Exporters see expansion this year The explanation to this apparent anomaly is the wage explosion in Europe and Japan which during 1969 and l970 saw year-over-year wage increases in excess of Paradoxically, while unemployment has been on the high side, in most of Canada's big customer countries, consumer ex- penditure represented one of the strongest components in overall demand, and this strong demand is expected to continue during the current year. However, in assessing current business conditions abroad, and the relative movement of international prices arising from alterations in production costs and in exchange rates, the bank feels "that exports will move up at a sutr stantially faster pace, while domestically-oriented in- dustries should be in a good position to withstand foreign competition in the home market." Last year the growth of exports was the lowest recorded in over a decade, and had it not been for the strong 10 per-cent increase in exports to the U. S., Canada‘s overall external sales would have suffered a significant decline. Canadian exporters will be operating in an ex- pansionary environment this year, according to the Bank of Montreal in its just-issued Business Review for February. _ Dr. J.D. Fleck, associate dean of administrative studies at York University was brought in as executive director. So far the com- mittee has produced four interim reports. Dr. Fleck has been taken onto the prime minister's staff, presumably to oversee the implementation of the far.. reaching recommendations which have been made. The government has given every indication of accepting the In December, 1969, the Roberts government set up the Committee on Govern- ment Productivity (COOP). Its membership was made up of one half of top civil servants and one half of top businessmen. As the Com- mittee's name indicates, its purpose was to make recommendations for im- proving the efficiency of government. on the North American continent. most extensive re- organization ever un- dertaken by any jurisdiction to the extensive re- organization of government which is now underway at Queen's Park. Normally theseintemal ehangesareof limited general interest to the public, but Prime Minister Davis has proclaimed this to be the well u some clarification at its generalities, anything that might be said would be highly speculative. So let's turn for this report forth the iovKnment'ii 'r"B"'n for tttla qt'ritrt, I! mum-www- wee,tnttttrttilt.ettavxrttottt Policy mlnisfers' role uncertain Thls letter ls meant as an and join in the fun. We can openinvitatlon for all former assure you it will be worth residents of the St. Thomas the trip. are. to return home for this F. Exley great week long celebration. Homearoming Chairman From Monday, August 28 to Labour Day, Monday September the 4, the City of St. Thomas and the County of Elgln will celebrate its second annual "Talbot Shivaree." 1972 will mark the second Talbot Shivaree. To reach the many former residents of St. Thomas and Elgin County who may now live in your area we would be grateful if you could find room in your publication for this letter. Talbot Shiva ree Dear Sir It is likely that demand tor foreign goods in Canada's most important market, the United States, will slow down considerabley this year. Last year's copper strike together with stock-piling in As a result, current stimulative policies are mainly directed towards Increasing investment expenditures, and the overall impression is that, with the exception of Ger- many, strong demand conditions. coupled with an improved business cofidence should provide considerable impetus to the growth of output in most industrialized countries. "The weakest component of overall demand at the present time is business fixed investment. In Europe and Japan, this weakness is mainly the result of a cyclical downturn rein- forced, until recently, by restrictive fiscal and monetary policies." There will be three policy fields: Social Development, covering education, colleges and universities, health, housing and social and Over and above this massive departmental reshuffling is another development which has captured most of the public attention, namely, the combining of related departments into policy fields which will have a policy minister which, to the continuing objection of the prime minister, have become dubbed super ministers. No fewer than ll depart- ments will be completely taken by others, such as Tourism and Information by Trade and Industry, or amalgamated to form a new department, such as Lands and Forests and Mines, to be combined into the new Department of Natural Resources. seemingly countless task forces which are examining detailed proposals which have been made. They affect every department in a dozen and one different ways. In fact, they not only affect departments; in some in- Itanfes they wipe them out. normnl work at Queen’s Par%duringtttisprwi-ion period, has been over- Pttytntutions pretty Donald C. MacDonald QUEEN'S PARK REPORT MPP for York South St. Thomas is waiting to welcome you back. Be sure to come home for "Talbot Shivaree 72." To you who are not former residents of the St. Thomas area, come along and join in the fun. We can assure you it will be worth the trip. Plan your summer vacation now to include a visit to your old stamping grounds. Last year It Talbot Shivaree" was a huge success with everything from beer tents to buffalo barbecues to street dances and roving bands. Literally thousands joined in the week long festivities. The forecast aggregate growth rates for imports by Canada's major markets are in general good, and whether or not Canada will be able to take advantage of this potential growth depends on the exporters' ability to However, the expected economic upswing in the United Kingdom promises to accelerate import growth from last year's 10 per cent to 15 per cent in 1972. Japanese and Italian import growth is also likely to in- crease, and all in all, world trade as measured by import values, is forecast to grow by about in per cent. preparation for the dock strike and the potential threat of a strike in the steel industry all contributed to the estimated 13 per cent increase in U.S. imports. For 1972 U.S. imports will be strong but likely to decline to 9 per cent. I discover that everybody, except 'perhaps the chief government spokesmen for these changes, are very uncertain as to the exact role of the policy ministers, and more particularly, where their responsibilities end and those of the departmental ministers begin. Time will be required to sort this out, but meanwhile, it is the major areas of uncertainty and misgiving, not only among the legislators, but the public at large. There is a legion of doubts and queries about hundreds of details in this whole Beyond these three policies areas, there is what appears to be an incredibly large department, to be known as Financial and Intergovernmental Affairs, taking over treasury and economics as well as municipal affairs; and Government Services, which will absorb the former department of revenue, public works and the provincial secretary and citizenship. and information; Justice, covering the attorney general, correctional ser- vices, and financial and commercial affairs. deveioismen t ind mum"; family when; Ream Devlopment. covering agriculture, mum and communication, en- vironment, . lands and After a seven hour wait, council decided to reserve a part of the lot for Mr. "Singers' future needs. For this consideration, Lionstar promised to drop their ob jection at the OMB to have the lot zoned for municipal parking. The motion to support Mr. Singers" offer was moved by Controller Douglas Saunders and seconded by Alderman Fergus Brown. The vote went as follows: Ben Nobleman, Cy Townsend, Fergus Brown, Douglas Saunders. Gordon Reyes and One must realize that this occurred on the day before the hearing at the Ontario Municipal Board which would see the John Street parking lot designated Municipal parking lot only. We were summoned to last Monday's Borough of York Council meeting to again defend the boundries of the John Street parking lot from the designs of Gordon Singer, president of Lionstar Developments. Dear Editor While the major foreign exchange markets still appear to be adjusting to the currency realignment, the new exchange rate structure seems realistic and there is a fair chance that Canada's competitive gains will not be compromised by major speculative thrusts or new currency revaluations. Letters to the editor compete effectively in terms of price. of the legislature. Prime Minister Davis countered criticism on this point by saying that he will have proposals at this session, but they appear to be very much as an after-thought. I shall have much more to report in this connection in the weeks that lie ahead. In fact, the most significant feature of the Committee on Government Productivity is that its terms of reference specifically excluded any consideration They may well become Ontario's equivalent of the regional desks which have been established in Prime Minister Ttudeau's office in Ottawa. Such development merely accelerates the persistent trend to down grade the legislature as the fifth wheel to the govern- mental carriage. efficiency ot government, one would have thought that major attention would have been devoted to the role of the legislature itself. After all, members of the legislature have traditionally been regarded as the key link with the people, yet, now, we find that one of the main objectives in appointing super-ministers to deal with policy, free of departmental responsibil- ities for its administration, is to develop more effect linkages with the people. Muhammad?“ they are.But _ .honelngjqr areas of irrespresaiiie de'vehrrenmtt, but it may be beat to have them for the pigment yntil, ”patience We'd really like to lynching _to improve the to bring about a measure Jt the executive of the Weston Ratepayers' Association have spent two solid years working with Mr. Trimbee and Mr. Sainsbury by the businessmen and citizens of Weston. As a result of strenuous op- position, though with con- tinued support of those members of council who support redevelopment at any cost without any effort to assess the implications of that redevelopment, Mr. Singer remained much in evidence over the years at council, and Planning Board. The John Street parking lot was the subject of a public meeting on May ll, 1970 attended by 400 Weston citizens. At that time Mr. Singer had used every ploy in the developers' book to get the lot, a piece of land owned. Jack Gallichan voted for Mr. Saunders motion. Controller James Trimbee, Lloyd Sainsbury, Peter Bosa, Michael Waclawski and Mayor White voted not to touch the boundry. That is the universal cry of the human heart when it is visited with its own bit. terness. And that, I may say, is often the inarticulate cry of half the people that crowd our doctor's offices and psychiatrists counselling rooms today. They are people who need forgiveness and yet cannot feel forgiven and therefore find themselves in- capable of forgiving. Their terrible trouble is that they are slowly crushing themselves in the remorseless coils of their own con- sciences. Sir Oliver Lodge once said. "Modern man is no longer troubled about his sins. And that, quite frankly, is the trouble! We may not trouble about sin. But sin still troubles us. We just have to come to terms with it. Only the morally blind can ignore it. But even on the purely human level the question "Is forgiveness necessary? receives firm refutation. I doubt if there can be any person who, in all honesty, can say they have never let anyone down, or at some point failed in an obligation, or at some time or another behaved badly towards another The person who raises such an objection must be either intellectually obtuse or morally blind. Laurens Van Der Post, the Dutch%uth African writer wrote a novel, In a Province, which deals in a very sen- sitive way with the whole complete problem of racism and racial guilt. In it he has one of his characters, a negro, say: 'l don't know if I want justice, lest in justice being done to others, justice should be done to me. It is not justice I want but forgiveness." First is forgiveness necessary? "I just can't see the need for forgiveness", we can imagine someone saying." Justice I can understand. Justice I can allow. With the concept of justice I concur. But forgiveness, who needs forgiveness?" But there may be scoffers who would classify all this talk of forgiveness as pious twaddle. There may be doubters whose attitude verges on the sceptical. Some, perhaps soured by experience, may be in- clined to shy from the whole subject. Let me parade their doubts and objections and patiently try to meet them. Maybe in so doing we will all emerge with a clearer idea of what forgiveness is and above all, what forgiveness can do. There are three questions that can be thrown at forgiveness. They are: Is forgiveness necessary? Is forgiveness right? Is forgiveness possible? It is this emphasis on forgiveness that makes the Christian Gospel unique among the religions of the world. If the symbol of the Christian faith is the cross; the heart of it is to be found in forgiveness. "The certainty of forgiveness is, if not the sum, at least the secret of the Christian religion", wrote H. R. Mackintosh. And that carries us at once to the heart of the Gospel. That, says the Gospel, is how God deals with us : redemptively, righting our wrong by his forgiving love. Forgiveness is different from justice. Everybody is entitled to justice. The denial of justice to any man, whatever his race, color, class or creed, is a wrong that calls for remedial action. But forgiveness is a different matter. Nobody is entitled to forgiveness. No man can claim a right to forgiveness. When we do wrong we deserve to be punished. If instead of punishment we receive forgiveness, if instead of vin- dictiveness we find that is because someone has chosen to treat us not as we deserve but according to the goodness and generosity of his own heart. A wrong done to us, for example injustice, calls for remedial action. A wrong done by us can only be put right by redemptive love. Because it is so important and because it is specially relevant to the season of Lent, I want to say a little more this week about forgiveness. Mr. Singer's next move cannot be anticipated ac- curately. We, who are more seasoned campaigners, see a future fight for the laneway behind Canadian Tire, the old post office, Elsmere Avenue etc; etc. The developer's ploy is to nibble any at municipal assets by coercing council or by Obviously “tizen par- ticipation on a responsible level by mature adults is not desired except on the oc- casion when some act or public meeting requires bodies. stability to our area by co- operating with Borough Council and staff in introducing a zoning by-law. We are already at work assisting in the presentation of the Proposed Official Plan for our area. It is a time consuming but worthwhile task. However, after wat. ching council at 10 pm. Monday night capitulate to the demands of a non- builder, norrdeveloper in our area, we can no longer continue. DON REED an. Rqed is Mummy of Wnlmmsw Umud Church In IN-ton. Forgiveness We see this divine author-as-actor in the story of the paralytic. In this story a man paralysed, lying prone on his back, is brought to Jesus through the prevailing hope of his friends. They break a hole in the roof and lower their friend at the feet of Jesus. Jesus in astonishment looks up and sees those four eager faces flushed with expectant faith. Then turning back to the man at his feet he says "Be of good cheer, take heart, your sins are forgiven." The scribes are aghast. "Who canviorgive sins but God only, they say. Yes, indeed they speak truth. Only God can forgive in that way. And this is God forgiving. And to show the power of his forgiving word Jesus said to the man, "Get up, pick up your bed, and go." And to the astonishment of all who were present the man did just that. And while they still stood there, in popeyed, wide- mouthed wonderment, he tucked his bed under his arm and walked away. "Take heart" Gid Jesus, "Your sins are forgiven”. Forgiveness: rsjrrGslrible? Yes, but only in God and through God. Forgiveness: Is it right? Yes. It is a Diving Right. Forgiveness: Is it possible? Yes, butonly in God and through God. A miracle? Yes. The miracle of forgiveness. A miracle that is repeated as regulary as each returning day reveals our need for forgiveness. Forgiveness: Is it necessary? Yes. And none onus can live without it. In other words there is a cause and there is an effect in the scheme of thing. And there is no gainsaying of the one, as there is no escaping the other. As a man sows so shall he also reap. As he makes his bed, so he must lie in it. "Our Lives, wrote George Eliot in Savonarola," make a moral tradition for themselves. So all the great authors and playwrights, form Sophocles to Shakespeare from Danke to Dickens, trace the tragic consequences of human choices. They build the one-way bridge between cause and effect. And humanly speaking there is no way out. But there is another actor in the drama or rather there is the author of the drama himself to deal with. His is the decisive liberating word. His is the life giving work of forgiveness. right?" Is it possiE question we now turn But once we have recognized the need, the further question arises:Nt forgiveness right"? Some people think it isnt George Bernard Shaw once said "Forgiveness is a beggar's refuge; we must pay our debts. It's all very well for a man like Shaw to throw out a statement like that. But he's only looking at part of the problem. What do you have to pay with when you are morally bankrupt? Shaw's statement sounds im. pressive. But it's a bit of moral braggadocio, really. It's the attitude of the elder brother in the immortal story Jesus told. The younger brother - the returned prodigal way thing from a very different point of view! The question that haunts a man who knows his need of forgiveness is not, "Is it writ . moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it" logically forgiveness is impossible. You remember how Omar Khayam puts it: Here we have to say that for men, alone and unaided, forgiveness is not possible. But with God all things are possible, and that includes forgiveness. person. This being the case there can be no- one who has not, somewhere along the line, known the need of forgiveness. The moving finger writes ind having We wish all concerned citizens would attend our next meeting, March is at Central United Church, to express their views on this matter. As concerned citizens, we resent this. We do not deserve this treatment and will not tolerate it. We reserve the right to use our experience to assist Westonl citizens and our local municipal representatives. We would particularly like to thank Mr. Waclawski of Ward 8 and Mr. Bose of Ward 3 for their support. We wanted our day at the Municipal Board to either safeguard our parking lot for public use or have it removed from us by due process of law in open court. Deals were made and public notice not given. Despite our continued support and assistance offered at every turn, we were rebuffed. know threats of loss of face in court. possible? " Yours sincerely, The Weston Ratepayers' Association Executive. To that final tl.