Whitby Free Press, 2 Mar 1983, p. 10

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&PdÀ-&GE 10e WEDNESDAY a --- Man swings pipe A Toronto man was arrested on charges of Impaired drlvlng, public mlachief and possession of a dangerous weapon followlng an incident at the Spruce Villa Ilotel in Whitby, Feb, 22. Police aay two men returned Wo the hotel af- ter being asked Wo leave by the manager, and confronted two men i the parking lot with an iron pipe. One man began swinging the pipe and broke the wind- 'shield of a car parked in the lot. Ne one was in- jured. Cbarged with impair- ed drivimg, public mis- chief and possession of weapons dangerous te theý public la Andaya Inocenclo 0f Lands- downe Ave. in Toronto. He la scheduled te ap- pear in Whitby provin- cial court Mardi 4. It la flot necessary Wo get away from human nature but to alter is inner attitude ef mind and heart. J.F. Newton Where do we stand on the issue of the Nazi war crlxninals? Public opinion may very weil decide their fate. Man's inhumanity te, man, "'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."I In the past ten yeara or morethe world bas moved into a very grey area, but are the resuits very gratifyig? Tis leada us te, thoughts of resolve; something bas W 'be done, the problem will mot go away mer will these people until death finaily atrikes. The eld adage of paying for their sins over the yeara doms not always apply. No doubt mamy of them have lived in luxury over the'years protected by some form 0 f a sick society which bas formed aroumd them. To be able te murder and torture any number of people from one te a million, a person adds up ,te one or two* thinga. Dreadful mental ilmness or such a feeling 0f total power that their minds are totally corrupt. ' Conscience, a moral sense of right and wrong, be damned. 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Ajaxc Shopping Plaza, Ajaxc Telephone 416-683-1968 and 416-683-1970 - ,.. -, ,~- - - 1 Between You.and Me By RUTH COLES Freedom of expression and at what cost? Why have any of these people been allowed to leave their own country and for that matter been ailowed to become citizens of another country? Total Isolation, 1 understand, Ia the beat form of punlshment. We can't begrudge them bread and mil but we cari deny them the niceties of life. To end their lives alone eut off from the mainstream of lie mlght be the answer. Under these circumnstan- ces they mlght be able to thiink back on their un- believable misdeeds to their fellow men.' The religionists would have.us beileve the reckon- ing cornes with death. Does it or flot? None of us will ever know. }lowever, be as it may t keeps many people in lime. Over thousands 0f years the heavens must rock to its very core wlth a reckonlng for ail the past sinners. What is sin to one may be pie for anotlfer. For children brought Up to ateal it la a way of life' and a good one. 1 met a young girl many years ago at a guide camp who had been brought up to steal, and to ber this was flot wrong, but clever to be lle Wo out- wlt others. How could we judge, her by our stand- ards? To lAve and learn other ways of lfe would be ber only salvation. And so it may be wlth many extremes but we have te impose restrictions to live in a civilized society. The war criminals are part of the whole. and we hope theywill be deait with i a proper rrianner which may in good part be determined by public opinion. I was persuaded once to'go to the remaixia of Dachau i Germany, one of the famous concentra- tion camps. I did net want to go but was. convinced' that it might bring some sort of understanding' somehow of how and why it happened. IJnderstand- ing, flot reaily, but a realization that thinga if taken too far could encircle you. When we drove to this place we could have been in Whitby and this hit me hard. It was such familiar territory. Wimding roads, trees growing tail and straight on either sîde, the sky se blue and clear. We could have been in our "owm back yard." 1 While going through the buildings no one present spoke; it was physlcaily Impossible te mouth word. * The ovens were there, the lmplementse= to push, prod and pull were ln full! view. The -gas chamber, supposedlyia shower room to the slck and weary, we walked through. Those simple jets i the ceiling spewed death te thousanis, hlgh above our heads as we walked through the room'a. 1The picture galiery, hundreds of humans almnost made us faint and slck. Skeletons held together by amail bits of flesh, gaunt, frlghtful wlth deeply sunk- en eyes and joints out of ail proportion te the legs, spindles on which to stand. Men, women and chlld- ren, thousands of them reduced to a living death; how some of them wlthstood la beyond me. One story we were Wold which was supposedly an amusement for the guards was this. They had *pri- soners cllmb a tree; 1 tbink we saw this tree. They had ropes on them and they were taumted over and over, '"fly like a birdie,"I they dld, Wo their death, un- doubtedly an agonlzing one. From one aide ofthe world to another. During the war.iw the far east were two small boys born of Dut- ch parents who were associated with a' tea planta- tion. . The father.was killed, the mother with bier.tWo babies was put in a concentration camp. Housed i Ial quartera with littie food they barely existed. One thing which was ailowed were funerals. The amallest boy, about two, died of starvation. On liAs coffin the authorities placed fruit, ail kinda 0f 'fruit, not flowers. As the ,mother 'told me, 'one piece of fruit a day miglit have kept him alive." The truth of the matter la plain to see-and kepti this.mother's heart always. 1Every month when the moon was full these people were required Wo stand i the compound with their eyes pointed Wo the moon higli in the sky. Al through the night without moving and my friend let her babies ait on her feet.until the morning came. Cruelty, evil, sadism, and this is only a small part of the whole. The young man who lived through this iLa My friend and a local resident who shows signa 0f absolute terror on occasion, an expression of total fear. Within minutes it has gone, quite unknowm Wo hlm I'm sure. In how many cornera of the world do people relive their past if only for a moment? Our land la governed by strict laws and we must believe that often black la black and white la whitè. Sometimes there can be ne l'in between."1 Let us, if we can, rid our world somehow 0f these people who are surely amongst us. There must be justice; net necessarily death but. a reckoning bet- ween us.

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