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So, yea :picked conserva , your chin with razor and
five and the Liberals get in. yoti vowed that the next time
You stalked out your house your little brother deeided to
and knocked on everyone's 'use.your best shoes as boats
door. trying to find whO the in. the bathtub you: Would
Tre son wastwIdo-voted'for-7-kinrcleinS head Pit • Mr. Trudeau: PeOple lOoked So, you trekkedUt to your
'at you as though you were • car in foot deep drifts and
crazy and you vowed thatthe .when'yon finally got your. car,
Jima. person who looked into started You found that the,.
Our eyes and said they, four foot drifts were behind
didn't know how the Liberals; the car too, You dug the car
got in, was asking .to -get his% out, got back into your cat
head knocked-off. and •Was already to go when
So, your Clock :radio forgol the snowplow drove by and
to,Walte you up at seven, and L.-deposited five feet of snow at
. you, bad te eat burnt toast the bottoM of your driveway
because the• toaster forgot to and you vowed that if you
pop while you Were cutting „ever found out we invented
'.Edit orial .•, . . •
the subject simply because .I . No, there is really• no.
felt that sufficient eoMments question at all, and now is°
had already been made, and the time to, •prove our eofilt.
because I really didn't know initinent to human ?beings.
what my.feelingswere op the Now:is the time to open wide
. subject. But now that stage is
over:' and know Where I
stand. This editorial is an at-
tempt to voice this stand.
The refugee problem is not
simply a matter of Whether or
not we will allow a - few
thousand or even a few,
million refugees' into our
• country, It goes Much deeper:
than that It probes right into
' our respect-for human life,
our selfishneSs, and our
vision of right 'and wrong. ,
We who haVe plenty are new
being qiiestioned on our
beliefs of 'fair play, and in
these times, of .penny-pineh
big,' we are finding it difficult
to keep everything in the
right perspective.•
• To me, it is impossible
go blindly On and ignore the
plight-pf reftigeos in Kau,'
puchea, Vietnam,. Thailand
and elsewhere Without feel-
ing Severe pangs of guilt.
And since the Weekend',
when 1---saw-- slides---from,
camp . in Thailand taken by
Sister Muriain Theresa Min-
ter of the Medical Mission 'N••
Sisters while working with
the refugees there, I have
felt those twinges of guilt
severely. The pictures of
starving, sick children and
the factual stories of ',people
simply turning their heads to
the wall and dying, bit deep
into ine-. The reality 'of child-
ren who knew, no songs other
than the war rhymes that
they had been taught by
4oldieis, and Men and wom-
en who wokeupScreaming in
the night from nightmares of
such horror that we could
never understand, hurts me,
But most of all, the fact that
' people have Seen such im-
measurable indeCency
ainst human life that they
can no longer• feel, eat or
even speak) makes the pos.
sibility of • there being •anY
question at all, ridiculous.
Hew can We who liVe in a
so-called christian country,
turn our backt oil our fellow
man while we live in pros-
perityl How can Ave, who are
descended front refugees be
so SelfiSh that we worry
about refugees taking our
jobs? Who 4re we to say that
only we deserve 'a chance to
live; to thrive? How can we
allow logic "and practicality to
even enter our minds when
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the next , person Who makes people feel it is time to stop
any comment is asking to get moving, interest in life goet
his head ,knocked off You -to in ultimate low and every-
realize that this Mei-,
another victim of the winter Doctors suggest that even,
willies,' , a little exercise, like a walk
You decide you can't go ,, around the block helps. the
on. ThiS calls.- for evasive body and the mind to cope
action. We must get' your with Winter. So the answer is
spirits . up, up, ,upl not, hide but to stride
But seriously folks, It has. been, felt by a few
Doctors' claim that the - people that the winter dee-
reason peqple get the tion , made the season a little
er blahs is because they more bearable; "Perhaps,"
hibernate. "People," say the, . they suggested, eieffion
professionals, "cut 'clown should be held every'winter.
drastiaally pn r activity when "PersOnally, I think we
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The person leads you to the
nearest department store.
,Look,:". the person saYs,
gver since refugee 'we are talking abOut*hUman • our `arms.to the refUgees,, "your friendly departmeni
erisfs:gutfaced, have refus-; life? These thPusands "over. both,in offering a new home store wants to make You feel :- edit; let.mysejf be drawn into there" ,are just like US; theyand sending :aid to their better by diSplaying their •-
the isSue;haverefused to, let'. are pepple with fatuities, countiits, for if we turn away summer fashions." "Notice
mYSelf write an editorial:on • with names'!! ' ' and leave the thousands of the bright cheerful colours,"
men,.women and children to 'the personsays. "Notice the '
, we care nothing better prioost,, you say, The perenr
than a country of Alders and clears her 'throat, and leads
AminS. , • you onward. "Perhaps a trip
KATHY UNDERWOOD- to the..,Bahamas," She says.
' "Perhaps a trip to MacDon-
alds would be cheaper, ' You
say, '1,00k honey, the 'per-
son says I didn't ask for this
job, but it paid good money.,
Well let 'me tell you it's,• no
weeks; You smile Weakly the first. sign of snow shows' shonld stick with ,Walking.
e. Answer 1 clear
snowplows. You, woUld per- "No, yo.n'll freeze to:death".
Sonally 'meek his bead. off. You tried to tell .her you
Sp, if you intend to be already were and she told
grumpy for the rest of the you to•Stop complaining and
winter and knock everypne's add a piece of furnitiire to the
"-„head off because the ground firez7=
hog saw his shadow you need ,Y60 hold your , head be
not worry, you • are simply a tween your hands and. ask if
victim of the "winter wil- -life must go on this way. You .
li'es". Life seenis as thinigh it are about to end it all by
is an endless blanket of• hyperventialting when, from •
snow, an- eternal puddle of - seemingly nowhere;•,a person'
shish and you don't think you wearing, a bathing suit jumps
can wait tohear the first robin before your eYes. You watch
sing. YOU asked your Mother in amazement as the person '•
. last night if she....would_Con---.takes.4init hand and 'leads
cider putting your body intcy„ you away. '"Do not wool:or!'
cold storage until winter was, SayS'the Person, winter will
over and she only answered,, ' only be here' for another