The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

John Matthews, William Scott, Mary Russell ... Who are they? People who received blood and, because they did, were restored to life and health. Last year alone more that a quarter of a million Canadians shared the same experience. They received the gift of life â€" human blood. *~> And all because someone else took half an hour of their time to give. Â¥, It‘s a lifeline and, as more and more blood is needed each year, a lifeline that must grow. _ For people like John, Bill and Mary the blood transfusion service is more than one of the biggest most efficient blood programs in the world. So this March, Red Cross month, remember to help support your local Red Cross. Your gift may help save someone‘s life. If you know someone like John, Bill or Mary in your family or among your friends â€" someone who needed blood and needed it badly â€" you‘ll be glad you gave. This March give generously to the Red Cross. It‘s working for you. Reoerirrvoo oi o o riee oi e e en oi o ts The blood transfusion service offers free Rh factor laboratory tests for pregnant women and operates rare blood banks which supply all of The Canadian Red Cross blood transfusion service is the largest and costliest Red Cross service. It has sixteen blood depots from coastâ€" toâ€"coast. Founded twentyâ€"six years ago, it provides hospitals throughout Canada with all the blood and blood products they need. It collects nearly a million units of whole blood annually. The highest standards of testing, research, storage are maintained. Many vitally useful blood components are produced: Cryoprecipitate rich in the clotting factor required for treating haemophiliacs; Gamma globulin a plasma fraction containing antibodies which combat many infectious diseases; and For John Matthews, William Scott and Mary Russell the experience was a dramatic one. They realized the generosity of a person they will never know restored them to health or even saved their lives. They understood what it means to have to depend on other people. They even took a closer look at Red Cross and the blood transfusion service and here‘s what they discovered: process the milk is put through after % milking and before delivery in bottles. 40 years ago = "I would urge that all committees keep % their expenditures to an absolute minimum # this year,‘" so requested Deputy Reeve % Gardhouse in making a motion, seconded by % Reeve Jas. Cameron, that the budgets for the various committees be prepared by % March 15 this year. The motion went further % to ask that it be the objective of all members "?.1 of council to limit the total for town exâ€" g penditures to $220,000 for the year. "I doubt @ if this will be possible, concluded the % deputy, but it would be a great satisfaction 5 to all if we did accomplish this." é 20 years ago & Drivers! U turns on Main Street between % King and Bellevue Crescent are now % prohibited by law. This amendment was i¢ passed by Weston Council at their meeti:g last Monday. Weston traffic has increased :# to such an extent that this new rule is one # that will benefit everyone. The chief of # police and traffic committee are to be # commended for their altertness in matters :# of this sort. Traffic lights at three busy ; intersections are not too far in the offing :; according to the grapevine. & 10 years ago & The City of Toronto doesn‘t have much of :# a chance of getting cooperation from & Weston in the preparation of a city brief ;;' urging enactment of legislation for the% amalgamation of the area municipalities % 60 years ago A special invitation is extended to all citizens of Weston, including milk inâ€" spectors, to visit the Balmoral Dairy at any hour of the day or night and any day or night of the year, so that they may be able to judge for themselves whether or not they are or are not getting pure milk, as milked from the cow, and whether there is any Looking Back telets â€" used extensively in the fight against Established 1890. incorporating the Weston Times and County of York Herald, the Times ana Guide, and Weston Timesâ€"Advertiser, and the Weston Times. V.J. MacMillan, President and Publisher M. Fenton, General Manager Bill Bailey, Editor.. Telephone 241â€"5211 Circulation 249â€"7641 Second Class Maii Registration Number 1588 Subscription Rates Home Delivery $5.00 Per Year. Mailed Deliveries $7.00 Per Year in Advance in Canado. Other Countries $9 00 Published at 1705 Weston Road, Weston; each Thursdoy by Looking ahead to the 1973 Principal Publishing. A Division of Burlington Printing Co. L1d. | 8€88i0n I‘d like to devote this : 4â€"â€"The Weston York Times, Thursday, March 1, 1973 Save a life â€"York Times |_â€" The farmer from York South t Skid row encouraged by handouts portfolio. The municipal affairs aspect of this monâ€" strous portfolio, coupled with the increasingly important development of regional governments, â€"will be hanâ€" dled for our caucus by Mike Cassidy, MPP for Ottawa Centre, who was, until last September, a member of the Ottawa Council and of the But each opposition caucus has a basic division of work. Members are assigned soâ€" called leadâ€"off responâ€" sibilities in connection with a ECJY VOZC CBSRt, MCS year my chief responsibility will be in the field of the tinuing concern. Beyond these, who knows what will turn up, without notice, any day during the year? Intergovernmental _ Affairs With continuing unemâ€" ployment, and such exâ€" traordinary developments at Acme Screw & Gear, these munity and social services because it is the coordination of the services which falls under these ministries which will be involved in our local home area, Because of my involvement in the development of a multiâ€" service" centre in the have a special interest in the topic which catches his fancy, or which may be of report on my responsibilities Let it be said at the outset ‘Herr up iF ir Dporsn‘r work r9y aSSSIANVFAND 1 wit L JOIW you" Are drivers admitting their _ shortcomings by wearing seat belts? Don‘t believe it for a moment. They‘re driving defensively â€" looking out for the other guy. Journalists and church workers in Halifax, Monâ€" treal, Winnipeg and Vanâ€" couver contributed to the Observer article. Their "All across Canada, people who need healing drift to the geographical his prowess as a good driver. To paraphrase â€". Anyone who wears seat belts is admitting his inadequacy as a driver. The: Observer editor recognizes that many of the dedicated people in Salvation Army hostels, Catholic soup kitchens, of fundamentalist evangelical missions would disagree strongly. ‘"They would say, and so would those in most United Church institutions until recently, that rehabilitation means inâ€" dividual salvation, accepting Jesus, getting right with God. Then most other problems will solve themâ€" selves," Mrs. Clarke writes. attract men, sustain them and prevent legitimate rehabilitation. The explanation for this otherwise bizarre situation is briefly this. Down through the years 1953â€"70, it was my responsibility, as leader of the CCF and later the NDP, to maintain close contact with farm organizations and the various commodity groups. In that role, I think I can safely say that I atâ€" tended as many, if not more farm â€" conventions â€" and meetings than any other member â€" bar none, inâ€" cluding the Minister of Agriculture himself. For that reason, I developed a range of contacts and firstâ€" hand information. Food. Your first reaction may be a hearty laugh at the thought of a cityâ€"slicker from an urban riding like York South, being â€" assigned responsibilities _ as agricultural critic. Often, in the past, I‘ve been twitted in the debates as the farmer from York South. reply to the budget on behalf of the New Democratic Party. According to present plans, that will be my task. But this year I shall have an added ministry to hanâ€" dleâ€" that of Agriculture and regional government of Ottawaâ€"Carleton. That leaves, as my responsibility, the treasury, with its backâ€" up of the Department of Economics, and the federalâ€" provincial _ aspect _ of Intergovernmental Affairs. The major job in this area Donald C. MacDonald QUEEN‘S PARK REPORT MPP for York South But 20,000 Canadians don‘t have to live like this. Skid ‘"Less than a third fit our stereotype of the drunken bum. A third seldom or never drink. Most get odd jobs by the day or draw pensions. A third are mentally _ handicapped; another twenty per cent have various physical handicaps. They live as they do partly because it‘s the only way they can afford, partly because it‘s the only place they are accepted." A Sad Profile ‘‘Most of the clients are men in their fifties, with little education and less job training, no family, inâ€" credibly bad health, low selfâ€" esteem and no hope," writes Patricia Clarke. She says there are virtually no women on skid row because they find housekeeping jobs, live with their children, or go into institutions. area the rest of us call skid row â€" in Vancouver, skirâ€" ting the harbor; in Winnipeg, along Main Street. They gather wherever they can find cheap food and beds and drink, where they can be anonymous, where they find institutions that feed them and feed on them â€" the day labor agencies, the secondâ€" hand stores, the pawn shops, the missions. It‘s convenient for the missions to be close to their clients‘ other hangouts and in some cities, such as Montreal, zoning laws keep them there. Having stated all that, however, let me hasten to add that it is no longer so strange that a city member should be critic for the Ministry of Agriculture. It is no longer dealing exclusively with agriculture; today, it is the Ministry of Agriculture and Food. And city folk have a liking for food, at least three times a day. In adâ€" dition, the cost of food has become a matter of major public debate. Federation of Agriculture. I am told this was the first time an urban member ever received such an invitation. In short, I don‘t seem to be able to escape continued association with agriculture; and since there is no other member. of our caucus with critic since 1967, those contacts with farm leaders have never been severed. So much so that, last fall, to my surprise, I was asked to be the keyâ€"note speaker at the annual convention of the In fact, I hope in this portfolioâ€"to tackle what is emerging as a key problem affecting every household, to a degree to which most simply do not realize. Food comes from the farm and, when food prices go up, have not been agricultural this background and exâ€" perience, I‘ve bowed to the inevitable and resumed responsibilities _ as agricultural critic. ‘‘The third step is political action. That means taking the profit out of skid row by regulating slum landlords. Philadelphia with a comâ€" bined _ governmentâ€"commâ€" unity attack, shows that eighty per cent of those who go through the program become independent In answer to the question: ‘"‘Why isn‘t more being done?" Mrs. Clarke says the charge is not only that wellâ€" intentioned church help keeps people dependent on it. It is that church institutions, along with business, along with the free enterprise system, actually need skid row. What can be done, she says, takes three forms. ‘"One is support for the men who may never make it off skid row, such as church friendship centres that are open when they need them ‘‘The second is real help for the men who can make it. Six years of experience in We ought to make it just as difficult as possible for a guy to get on ski row," the Rev. Tim Sale, Urban Church Council, Winnipeg says. We should be willing to give counselling time, willing to plug them into welfare, willing to talk job but not willing to talk handâ€" out." row could be eliminated, Ed File and others say. It takes two steps: first, cut off the intake, second, heal the men who are there. over which they have abâ€" solutely no control. point which should be driven home: the farmer is receiving, . with every passing year, a lower and lower share of the conâ€" Unlike the apostle Paul, Catherine could not say, ‘‘None of these things move Catherine, delicate in health, was unable to eat garlic flavored prison food. Her nights were disturbed by mice and the odors of the prison were appalling. But these were not the most severe trials of her imâ€" prisonment. It was the memory of an article, written by a prominent Swiss woman, that accused her of immodestry, unwomanliness and vanity. by Dorothy Clare Kilburn Catherine Booth, the dynamic, soulâ€"winning daughter of General Booth of the Salvation Army, was imprisoned at Neuchatal, Switzerland, for preaching the Gospel. POINTS TO PONDER ieledelleleele n e e etetn n ornneonn oneen nomnnnnennomnn nc nonn # _ Peanuts is a comic strip and the exâ€" i pression Good Grief could be taken as a : mere comic reaction to adversity. But is it ;z really so comical? Is it any more comical :# than the words of our beatitude for today : # Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall ; be comforted? When you put the two exâ€" % pressions side by side Peanuts is saying = _ "Good grief, Charlie Brown!" So do the gflnytwcpcolmmeunmlnatevm & their boon companion when the world = deals him yet another blow. _ Recently I went through a painful exâ€" perience myself: not a bereavement nor an attack of physical pain. But it seemed something I had longed to do for the Lord was to be denied me. My hopes noseâ€"dived. I thought and prayed my way through it. And now there seems to be opening up a way unimaginably better than the way I had originally counted on. So it can be with all the sorrows that lie so thickly strewn about our path. Whenâ€" sorrow strikes we don‘t simply have to put up with it. That‘s the stoic way and it knows no blessedness. We don‘t need to rage blindly against our lot. That‘s the cynic‘s way and it finds no good. We have No person can go through life without being touched at some point with the profound grief that comes at the moment of bereavement, or sudden misfortune, or the shattering of hopes. We need to be prepared for such moments. Not to anâ€" ticipate them. But to be ready. As Rabbi Rosenberg said in the Toronto Star last week: "We need to include as part of our personal philosophy of life, large areas to accommodate the inevitability of pain and suffering." More than that we need to be prepared with a positive reaction to it: to know in advance that when sorrow strikes there will be blessedness in it: that hidden in every sorrow is the seed of good. The better Thy will be done GOOD GRIEF Then the Holy Spirit came and her cell became holy Writing the false acâ€" cusations and fears upon a slate she hung it on the wall. To all of these things Catherine could not say, ‘‘Thy will be done.‘" The slate hung for two days before Catherine could sign her name beneath them, accepting them all for Jesus‘s sake. Fears tormented her: her reputation might be defaced forever; she might have no opportunity to defend herself at her trial; she may remain indeflnitel)’ in prison, broken in health. me." The false accusations stung her eyes with tears, disturbed her peace of mind and cast a gloom upon her spirit. Rabbie Rosenberg began his column in the Toronto Star, from which I quoted earlier, with "a prayer of a famous medieval Rabbi: "I dare not ask, O Lord, that I should not suffer. I only ask that when I suffer, I suffer for Your sake." Blessed is the man who can pray such a prayer. Yea, blessed are all those who suffer (mourn), for they shall be comâ€" forted. If you grieve; if you sorrow â€" as all human creatures must if they are to be human â€" take comfort from this: that in your sorrow and suffering you share in a special way in the redemptive suffering of Christ. eemenenemememnmnmnnmnmuns But Christ‘s grief was good grief. And its comfort lay in its power to atone: in its redemptive power; in its power to heal the hurt of humanity. Only mourning, only sorrow that is like to his sorrow can do Who does not grieve over the blooasned :: Th Treland ‘or the Intest victims of Israeli : trigger sensitivity? Who does not grieve : cver the increasing number of Canadian # children who begin, at an inâ€";; comprehensively early age, to smoke :: themselves to a painful and premature : death? Who does not grieve over the :# failure of the church to communicate a # lively and confident faith in Jesus Christ : and over its bungling attempts to nurture :# that faith in the younger generation? Who ; does not grive over a son or daughter who : cheerfully flaunts the family traditions and trips all unsuspectingly and light of : foot, among the subtle snares of tempâ€" : tation? m So the prophets grieved over Israel. So the Father, in the story Jesus told, grieves over his dissolute Son. So Jesus himself grieved over Jerusalem and, in the Garden of Gethsemane, sweated great drops of blood for the sorrows of mankind. We find much stress being placed on the accent of celebration in Christian worship today. It is true, we should celebrate, for we have much to celebrate. But we also have to sorrow for the world, for there are many things in it to be sorrowful about. Dr. Temple, one time Archbishop of Canâ€" terbury once wrote: If anyone feels that the language the church asks men to use is exaggerated â€" "we do earnestly repent and are heartily sorry for these our misdoings, the remembrance of them is grievous to us, the burden of them is inâ€" tolerable" â€" then let him think of slums and sweat shops and prostitution and war and ask if the remembrance of these is not grievous and the burden of them ought not to be intolerable. Then Temple goes on to say: "Let him remember, too, that these horrible things are there, not because some men are outrageously wicked, but because millions of men are as good as we are, and no better." 1 Let us now look at this beatitude, Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted, in this larger context of the world‘s sorrow. The use and application of this text was never intended to be confined to the funeral parlor. It speaks of much more than personal grief. It speaks of vicarious grief: that is grief for others. We all, in some measure, share in this vicarious grief. We sorrow for the state of the world, for the victims of misfortune or malpractise, for lives gone wrong, for people oppressed with problem$. pain itself takes on a feeling of fierce joy. In the sequel lies further blessedness. For with the comfort wherewith you have been comforted, you yourself are able to comfort others. This is true. As we look back on our own experience we find we received greatest help in our grief from those whose own lives had been touched with sorrow. And, in larger context, as we look back with a discerning eye on the distant pages of history we find the tale of man‘s progress there inscribed in characters of pain and sorrow. forted. The comfort is in the grief; and This act of commitment resulted in a great joy for the Son of God â€" the joy of winning you and me. Perhaps our trials are not as drastic as were those of Catherine _ Booth _ but, nevertheless, they cause our hearts to ache and our spirits to droop. If we will yield glad obedience to our Master and whisper, "Thy will be done" we too will find that those very trials become a place of blessing to us. This is the pattern of blessing to every obedient child of God; first the subâ€" mission to the test, then the triumph. ground. So precious was the presence of her Savior that before she left to face trial, she kissed the walls of her dungeon. $| ®