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BRUSSELS
ONTARIO
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1978 -
Serving Brussels and the surrounding community.
Published each Wednesday afternoon at Brussels, Ontario
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It's Easter
Behind the scenes -By Keith Roulston
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TOP WINNER—Mary LUanne Clare of Wingham (centre) was the top winner in the
United Nations pilgrimage for Youth public speaking contest held at Clinton
recently. Jane Allen (right),of Brucefield was the•runner up. The contest, sponsored
by the Oddfellows District 8 and•Rebekahs District 23, allows the winner to spend
10 days as an observer at the United' Nations. Dave McCutcheon of Brussels, the
district Deputy Grand Master and chairman of the contest, congratulated the girls
for their efforts. (News Record Photo:
Bernard Shaw, in the preface to his play,
Androcles and the Lion, discussed • the New
Testament Gospels. Here is part of what, he wrote`
about Matthew's Gospel: "Matthew then tells how
after three days an angel opened the family vault of
Jospeh, a rich,,,marrof Arimathea, who had buried
Jesus in it; whereupon Jesus'rose and returned from
Jerusalem to Galilee and resumed his preaching with
his disciples, assuring them thatehe would now be
with .them to the end of the ,world."
Then Shaw added: "At that point the narrative
abruptly "stops. The story ,has no, ending." •Shaw
there said more than he intended. He rejected the
traditional Christian interpretation of Easter, but in
writing, "The story •has no ending", he underscored,
inadvertently, what Easter has meant for. Christians
through the centuries. For the Christian believer the
crucifixion of Jesus does not mark a tragic ending,
but rather, a new beginning.
For those who stood around the cross on Good
Friday it was the ignominious end of Jesus of
Nazareth. For officialdom it was the end ,of an
awkward and challenging incident. For Jesus'
disciples it' was the violent and tragic end of a
glorious hope.
Then came Easter morning. The Gospels declare
that God raised Jesus from the tomb. And soon
Jesus' followers came to an awareness that he was
alive, that he had ongoing life--and out of this
awareness, out of the Resurrection experience, came
the , Christian faith and the Christian Church.
The details of the' Resurrection, its means and its
mechanics, its "how", are shrouded in the mists of
history. There are serious inconsistencies in' the
accounts of the event in the four Gospels, and there
can be no simple,. agreed account of what happened.
Proof and-disproof are 'quite beyound us here. But
the Resurrection experience and the. Resurrection
conviction have persisted--and this has been the
dynamic of Christian faith through the years.
The Christian religion, is not simply a matter of
honouring the memory of a great man and trying to
liVe in accord with his teachings. The Church should
not be merely a memorial society, a sort of . Jesus fan
club. -Christianity is not essentially, in the
remembering of a dead hero; Christianity is in
experiencing a living Lord. "The", story has no
ending." (The United Church)
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To the editor:
Arthritis says thanks
I would like to thank the people of your area for the fine
support we received froth them at our recent Arthritis. T.V.
Special held on March 12th over CKNX VVingham. '
The public were most generous in their _Pledges toward
Arthritis Research. I know all those who watched 'our program
were thrilled• with the excellent talent from all across the viewing
area who helped to make, the 1978 Special the most successful
one we have yet produced, raising $I6,831.00.
Our appreciation to the Volunteeri who manned phones,
taking pledges and passing the al-e m ong to the m Studio.
Unfortunately, we were unable to get all the pledges on the air
and wish to express our regrets to those Whose pledges were not,
read.
Pledges are still being received at Box 999, Winghani and
cheques should be made payable to the 'Arthritis Society.
(Mrs.) Betty Janke
'Field Representative
Blue vtrater Region
(By Keith Roulston)
C.B.C, television Sunday night produced a
--frightening look at the future of Canada's
economy with its Quarterly Report.
The program predicted that by the end of
the 1980's Canadians will not rank second in
the world in standard of living as we'have for
so long, but won't even show up in the top 10.
The program had many explanations for
why we've 'suddenly found ourselves in this
position, but the biggest seems to be that
we've been fooling ourselves about our own
prosperity over the years. We simply couldn't
go on at the old rate when we import huge
amounts of goods and have nearly all our large
industries controlled by other nations.
Supporters of big business say that there is
nothing wrong with the multi-national
corporations that control so many aspects of
production in the world today. 'One shouldn't
look at the nationality of the owner, they'll
argue Whenever a Canadian government tries
to do something about foreign ownership. We
should simply be glad to have the industry and
not care where its head office is located.
The fallacy of this assumption is rapidly
being prciven of course in two ways. First of
all, the big multi-national companies are
interested in profit and profit only and thus,
when costs become too great in a country like
Canada, they think nothing • of moving
operations to Asia or Latin America where
; they can easily get workers at cheap prices.
Even Canadian controlled companies have
abandoned their own country for cheap wage
„countirke s.
The second fallacy is that these companies
don't really have a nationality. Sure they may
have their head office in Philadelphia, but that
doesn't really make them Americans, the
appologists for big business say. That too has
been prtwen wrong. Canadians. are learning
today what people of ihe rest of the world have
been saying for years: that the United States
may not be an iniperialist nation in the regular
sense of the word, but through its octopus
tenticals of big business• it is exerting, control
over the whole western world.
The evidence of the true nature of the
American big businessman has been there all
along for us to see, but we in Canada have
been so close to the Americans, so enjoying
our high lifestyle, that we refused to admit it. I
recently finished re-reading a book' on one of
the greateSt American businessmen
imperialists of them all, though probably one
you've never heard• of. His name was Henry
R. Luce and he was the man who, until his
death 10 years ago, controlled the huge
publishing empire of Time, Life, Fortune and
Sports Illustrated magatines.
Luce translated the old Manifest Destiny
yearnings of the Americans into a new kind of
expansionism The son of a missionary in
China, he turned his missionary zeal into
making the world a place free for Anierican
business to Operate. lie tied his belief n God
and his belief in business and his believe in
America so Closely together that to oppose
busines$ or Ainerica was to oppose God.
Hi§ power came hot just from the fact that
he had millions or that he owned the largest
publishing business in the world, but in the
way he used that publishing empire. His
publication' seldom printed editorials but he
was adept at working his opinions into the
news in 'such a way that he could lead the
thoughts of his readers while they thought
they were simply being informed. He used sly
adjectives to describe those he was against but
glowing ones to hail those he favouted. Thus a
communist was always going to come off
looking bad while someone like Senator Joe
McCarthy, (who he supported in his anti-
• communist witch-hunts until he became an
embarrassment) was made to sound like a
hero.
Luce used this power to set the disastrous
policy of the United States toward China
where the Americans kept giving millions of
dollars of aid to the corrupt Chiang Kai-Shek
even though he was losing the support of the
people of China daily. , Even after the
COmmunists won the wai, the U.S., in a good
part due to the propagandizing of the Luce
• press, continued to ignore the obvious that
Mao Tse-Tung was the real 'leader of China'
and that Chiang was a corrupt war lord living
in' a fantasy world on Formosa island.
The Luce press conditioned the thinking of
Americans in the Vietnam 'war making all
those who were against the war seem like
traitors and those who were for it seem heroic
realists.
Luce's propaganda supported by other big
business leaders in the U.S. eventually
brought about the tragic alienation of -the
generatiOns that came to a head over the
Vietnam war. The older generation had been
listening to the Gospel according to Luce for
so many years that it believed that America
was right through thick and thin, no matter
where it was fighting. hroughout the war. The
younger generation saw through the
propaganda.
Luce, of course, was propagandizing here in
Canada too, not only because of the huge
circulation - of Life here, 'but because he
published a special addition of Time magazine
here that iniptoted most of it's material from
its New York office, adding a few pages of
Canadian news and, thus producing a product
So cheaply that an all-Canadian magazine
couldn't compete.
This then is the kind of man in Control of
many , of the so called "international"
businesses that havehead offices in the U.S.
We Canadians deluded ourselves for many
years into believing that we could have the
good life the multi-national businesses
brought us without paying the price. Now, we
find we can't. We find that thk American
busineSsmen were happy to come here as long
as they got cheap materials arid labour but
once they've 'Used that up, they'll go
elsewhere and when there is troublt in the
U.S., they'll close their plants here ri.)id take
the jobs back hotne.
Frankly, for being as gteedy and stti id as
we've been, we deserve Our piesent
problems: