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by Karl Schuessler
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My wife's always wondered if God would
keep a deep freeze in his house -- you know
what I mean -- one of those icy bins that hold a
whole garden full of vegetables and a half a
side of beef or two.
For a long time now, she's nursed a
suspicion that , there's something slightly
immoral ab out stock piling so much food in
the house.
She's bolstered her doubts by quoting a few
Bible verses to me. Didn't Jesus say, "Give us
this day our daily bread?" And what about
Matthew and that Sermon on the Mount?
Jesus said, "Take rio thought for the
morrow.." And "Sufficient unto the day is the
evil thereof." And the real clincher was "Lay
not up for yourselv es treasure upon earth,
where moth and rust doth corrupt and where
thieves break in and steal."
I told her our freezering wasn't doing any
mothing and rusting and corrupting. And
certainly the thieves weren't breaking in and
stealing.
But I did admit there was always that faint
possibility that the freezer could do some
thawing -- the whole chest of it -- without our
consent, of course.
Ever since we bought that freezer, my
wife's been asking, "But what happens when
the hydro goes off?"
I tried to redirect her thoughts. Get her
mind off what seemed to be top priority on her
worry list. I told her to look at the good side of
freezers. Here we have a whole treasure full of
summer goodies for winter eating.
And think about all that top quality meat.
You'd never find Rudolph Bauer's black
Angus beef in a super market counter. And
think of the convenience. The money saved.
She balked there. And brought out
magazine clippings to show me all about
hanging weight and net weight. I got a mini
course in bones, waste and cartilage.
And what on earth was she• going to do with
UP YOUR BLOCK
(and back again. That's
as far as . vou. need to
walk to. be a bit fitter
than you are now).
cuts like kidneys, knuckles and snouts, when
no one in the house claims them as favorite
food?
But no matter, I insisted. Every house
needs a freezer. And the only ,good kind of
freezer is a full freezer. A chockful one. '
"But what happens when the hydro goes
off?" my wife kept it up.
She found out last week.
We stayed away from home for three days.
Now she knows.
• She had quite a runny and mushy mess on
her hands. She can wash off the leaking red
strawberry drips all down the freezer walls.
She can sop up purple elderberry juice on the
bottom.
She can finally throw out some two yeal old
sauerkraut she's never got around to fixing.
She can take eight limp beef roasts over to
Marie Meyer and find out how to can in her
pressure cooker. She can boil up beef bones to
make enough soup to feed a gang of
threshers.
She can get me to telephone around to the
neighbors'and see if anyone wants to chance a
beef roast tonight.
She can serve runny peaches over
everything.
And most of all , she can hope. Hope for the
best when the blown fuse on the hydro pole
gets replaced. Hope that all the rest of the half
thawed meat gets frozen up again real quick
and we'll never know the difference.
She can hope there's not going to be an
American Legion convention seizure in
Brodhagen.
'lir freezer's stopped thawing, but my
wife's still jawing, "I knew something would
happen if the hydro went off:"
I see she§ bought a book called "Drying
It". She's reading it now. But I would hardly
be the person to remind her that Mice do
break in and steal.
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\ WEDNESDAY AUGUST 12, 1976 0NTARIO
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The poor and the ric
' Canada's decision to cease nuclear cooperation
with India may be unfortunate in that it will cause
temporary strains in relations between Ottawa and
New Delhi. Yet it was a wise and necessary move.
The Indian Government had used Canadian technical
assistance to make nuclear devices -- or an atomic
bomb, to put it more crudely. The Canadian decision
is a reminder to all that nuclear bombs remain to this
day one of man's greatest follies.
It was said in 1974 when India tested its first
atomic device that it was merely an experiment. Yet
it proved that India could make atomic bombs. The
• last thing the needy population of India wants are
costly and wasteful nuclear weapons.
Mankind has foolishly got' itself into a corner
where the size of nuclear and thermonuclear bombs
has become a status symbol. The military
establishments of the two super powers, the United
States and the Soviet Union, have grown to
enormous proportions. The U.S. defense budget now
tops $100 billion. Between them, the super powers
spend well over $200 billion a year on arms and other
defense expenditures. That figure represents 40
years of World Bank loans to the developing nations
at the current annual rate of lending.
Unfortunately, the super powers believe that they
can afford to splurge these vast sums on weaponry.
But of course they can't. And India certainly can't.
No nation can afford the folly of the nuclear arms
race. India's decision to explode a bomb two years
ago was-as much of a mistake as was the move by the
great powers to begin building and blasting ever
bigger nuclear bombs from the mid-1940s onward.
The Indian bomb perhaps had one beneficial
effect. It reminded us all that we live in an
interdependent world. And if India cannot really.
afford to make bombs because of her poverty, other
nations cannot afford them dither for quite another
reason -- for they are the guardians today of human
survival in a civilized world.
While national boundaries are merely
conveniences that tend to keep some nations rich and
others poorer, Governments will continue
manufacturing grisly status symbols such as Atom
bombs. Only when we move closer to the one world
concept that so many dream of will the nations of the
earth accept greater trust instead of larger bombs as
the lever toward a more just human society.
(United Church)
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