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Discount in effect until Nov. 15, 1979 at participating CO-OPs, I.J=1:3 UNITED CO -OPERATIVES OF ONTARIO BELGRAVE BRANCH riNakcipit AtikAitt NAMItH THE OR07$.'S-..EC§.71itIST,-'6alroBiR'1.24., 19 9 Editorial: To kill or not to kill A few days ago, while headline, lost in the middle leafing through the news- of Section One, caught my paper, a small unobtrusive eye, "Death Penalty Sup- What do Debate," it read. Apparently numerous bills (as many as porters Pushing for Early' 20) have been proposed in. you think Parliament in the hopes that one will come up for early debate in the Commons of Madill's Prime Minister Clark has already indicated that he will jogging allow a bill concerning the death penalty to be debated and voted on in the form of a program? free vote, sometime this year. I have long debated with What do you think of the myself the justice, necessity school's jogging program? and worthiness of the capital "It's neat 0! Karen Mc- punishment, something Nfichael 10E which I now consider to be "Jogging is okay when the but another form of pre- weather's fine, but they meditated murder. This shouldn't make us run when week, I welcome Jack Why- it's raining, snowing, or just tack of I2K as guest editor to plain cold!" Sandra Irwin put forth his views on the 10D death penalty, an echo of my "I think it's pretty good thoughts on the subject. but we could get just as much No? out of other exercises." Patty I feel that putting a person Barger 10A to death for a murder they "It's different" Brad Cur- have committed deserves ran 12A some searching. It deals with Sometimes it's somewhat the reality of extinguishing bor'ng" Anonymous the life of a human being. A "I think it is very challeng- life in which joy and tears has ing and that's all!" Marilyn expressed itself. Yes, they Renwick 11H who have committed murder are humans, Humans have been known to change in outlooks to- wards ideals. Today the Nobel Prize is given to people who have tried to bring about peace. However, Alfred Nobel developed a destructive force and now gives awards for peace, That is a change in human outlook. Therefore, if there is the slightest chance of human change, in the prisoner condemned to death can we take their life? No. The person must be given the chance to change, and that chance is life. If we fail in giving this chance we have judged something beyond the bounds of a human. Today many are concerned with the cost of keeping a prisoner: rather they see punishment by death as a way of relieving the state of added financial burden. People are much too precious to have a money value placed upon their existence. These -cold thoughts, of money placed before human life, are thoughts conceived without love, understanding, and true human feeling. In committing a person to death we are going back to an old ideal of giving that person a sentence of what they have done. In this we fail to give accent to the new ear of compassion towards a The school year of 1979/80 at Madill is off to a good start, as the Student Council has been busy with activities that will help to make this year one that the students will enjoy and remember. The year began with the , election of class represen- tatives. These are people elected by each homeroom to attend council meetings and report business of the council to the students of their homeroom. The first dance of the year Was held on September 21 with music provided by a band, "Helix." There was an excellent turnout and a profit of $700 was made. Every week more and more people discover what mighty jobs arc accomplished by low cost Post. Want Ads. Dial Brussels 887-6641. human, Since that person is human we must regard that person as truly being human with possibility, and as a Student photographs were taken in early September; but due to a malfunctioning camera, some of our smiling faces did not turn out. Retakes were taken on Oct. 19. Staff advisors of the clubs have submitted their budgets to the Student Council. The council will begin work on passing these as soon as possible. Grade nine night (Ankle- biters' Eve) was held on October 12 to welcome the newest members of the Madill student body. An enthusiastic group attended PURPLE CHASER Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a ripple of hope. Robert Kennedy neighbour, As a human and a neighbour we must not ex- tinguish that life. Jack Whytock planned and hopefully, all had an enjoyable time. The Athletic Council has initiated something new this year—Grade Thirteen Infra- murals. Grade thirteens who are looking for something to do on their lunch hours be sure and sign up. Last, but not least, remem- ber that October 31, Hal- lowe'en is Purple and White Day at Madill!! All the students (and staff too) will be wearing the school col- ours. Those who don't will have to contend with Madill's own "Non-Purple People Eater." Plumbing Repairs & Installations • Water Softeners • Mervin A. Jones Plumbing & Heating 887-6685 Hallowe'en dance The Madill mirror Sugar and spice By Bill Smiley The real Canada As he promised, James Lamb had his publishers send me a copy of his just- published book, Press Gang, and I'm glad he did. Laid up with a di e of 'flu, I was able to escape from my per.onal miseries into this warm and entertaining account of small-town Canadian newspapers and the people who ran them in the post-war era. As well as the newspaper world, the author has produced a social document of some importance, re-creating small-town Canada (the real Canada, in my opinion) in all its quirkiness, wealth of colorful characters, and basic stability, qualities that seem to be eroding rapidly. It is very much a first-person narrative. We meet the young Jim Lamb, just out of the Navy, after years on the corvettes, and determined to become a newspaperman. Lamb recaptures the excitement and urgency of that first autumn of 1945 and the years immediately following. Canada had come of age in World War II, and Canadians knew it. Europe was shattered, Britain exhausted. This was the best country in the world to live in, and all we recently discharged young veterans kneiv it. There was an almost palpable exhl ar- ation in the air. Right across the country, including Quebec, there was a sense of pride, a feeling of unity, that had never existed in this country before, and has sadly deterior- ated since. Our fighting men had proved themselves the equal of any, our industry was booming, there was lots of room and opportunity for everyone, and the future was rosy. Well do I remember the feeling. This was before the social revolution, the inflation, the monstrously swollen govern- ment, the huge deficits, and the shadow of separatism: the things that have turned us into a nation of security-minded, material- istic cry-babies. But let me not draw a gloomy picture of "Press Gang". it's a delightful book, one that will bring a nostalgic glow to all those people who lived in small towns across t'anada in the forties and fifties. Lonely as only a young reporter in a strange town can be, Lamb gradually became absorbed in the atmosphere and social life of the places he worked: Woodstock, Moose Jaw, Orillia. And he recreates this feeling of a younger, happier Canada, when life was simpler and society less sophisticated on those tree-shaded streets of Nir towns and small cities. From thekatithor we also get a look into the workings and Machinations of those small newspapers with their 'ramshackle old buildings and rickety machinery, where reporters worked for thirty dollars a week, and loved it. It's delightful stuff for anyone who has been in the business. But perhaps the greatest pleasure in the book is the anecdotes and vignettes of characters, all the way from Lamb's first meeting with tight-fisted Roy Thomson, -to become eventually Lord Fleet of London and owner of the biggest newspaper empire in the world, down to the grubbiest paper-carrier, baffling the bureaucracy of the newspaper with his complete lack of organization. We meet Harry' Boyle, self made Canadian millionaire, who wound up with the Queen of Rumania as his mistress. And C.H. Hale, editor of the Orillia Packet and Times, "a prototype of all the old-line newspapermen across the country who ran newspapers because they had something to say, not because they thought they could get rich." There were quite a few of those around when I was in the business, but there aren't many left. The thundering of the editor has been replaced by the wiles of the advertising manager, in the pursuit of the buck. The result is an almost national blandness on the editorial pages of small-city papers across the country. Don't step on too many toes. James Lamb was one of the good ones, and during the years he was editor in Orillia, Packet and Times editorials were quoted across the country. In the last few chapters of Press Gang, Jim Lamb's tone changes from a nostalgic chuckle to a tone of lament and even anger for a Canada that has been lost. He sounds off loud and clear for the millions of Canadians who must grit their teeth and suffer in silence the "inanities and incomprehensions of a new breed of journalist", or be labelled "rednecks" or "reactionaries" by the trendy types who today write the news. He comes out swinging at government that governs in a vacuum. "It is probably fair to say that most recent Canadian legislation runs directly counter to the wishes of the majority of Canadians .,Iri a whole range of issues; from abortion and capital punishment to the metric system and the monarchy, the attitude of the rulers is at variance with that of the ruled." And a lot more of it. This is vintage Lamb editorializing, and white you might not shard all his views, it ends the book with Strength and sting.