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Citizens News February 26, 1981
"I haven't given the constitution much thought — we've been too busy trying to decide
whether to go cold or hungry this winter."
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NATO must spend for future
With all the strife in Poland these days, it is time
.hat the NATO countries started to do some spending
in weaponry.
From 1970 until 1979, the NATO countries had no
.eal growth inweapons while the Warsaw Pact had 'a
rowth of 38 percent.
The NATO countries are sadly behind in just about
very area. NATO has more surface warships over 500
)ns and more combat aircraft but those are the only
eas that they are ahead.
It is time that the NATO countries started to look at
Lhis situation with a little more thought. The way that
it stands at the moment, the Pact countries would
have little trouble taking Europe.
The problem problably will not arise in the near
future. but it is bound to happen. The Soviets like to
flex their muscles every few years,like inAfghanistan
for example. In five or ten years, maybe it will be
some small country in the middle of Europe they in-
vade. Will we sit around and do nothing like we did
when Hitler invaded Poland? If there is nothing done
to correct the uneven balance, we may not have the
chance.
There will be people who will protest that this is an
aggressive act and that it could ultimately lead to war,
or at least a return to the cold war. This could be true,
but it will happen anyway. -As soon as the Soviets feel
that the NATO countries are weak enough, they will
move in for the kill.
It would be better to be prepared and possibly post-
pone the attack. A strong NATO alliance would be a
healthy reminder to the, Soviets that we haven't
forgotten them as a threat.
If it means that the relations with the U.S.S.R. are
strained, so be it. At least then everything about the
hording of weapons would be up -front, or more than
they are now.
Love: there is no definition
Love defies definition. There are things that
cannot be defined but which are perceived and un-
derstood by the heart.
It is not always easy to express our love to
someone; our tongue is tied and our throat is all
choked up! Why? Because love is felt but not
spok 9n.
4n other words, it is often by tenderness alone
that love is manifested. Tenderness is at the centre
of love, just as poetry is found in the interior of
things.
Put two ounces of tenderness into your
relationships with others and you will see that you
do riot need to know the definition of love nor to
have a rich vocabulary in order to make others
realize that you are thinking about them and that
you love them.
What modern man suffers most today is
coldness and dryness. Noise and alcohol, gifts and
parties will never warm the heart of man if
kindness and tenderness are lacking.
We often rightly say that we must take time out
in order to live and not let ourselves be victims of
situations. It is no less true to say that we rhost also
take time out to love and prove it by our actions.
What is the definition of love? Dont look for it in
books! Rather, look for it in the everyday acts of
life! Build it yourself with the events that happen
and people you meet!
Author unknown
Distributed by the Canadian Council of Christians
and Jews
For Brotherhood/Sisterhood week, 1981
Miscellaneous
Rumblings
By
ROB CHESTER
We got about 64 pieces of mail last week and God
only knows who pays for it all.
I totalled the marked postage on the envelopes and
it came to • $11.91. Government mail accounted for
$8.90 of this
Included is postage marked with stamps or meter
markings. This doesn't include newspapers and
magazines, advertising flyers, etc. It doesn't include
the cost of the envelopes, the cost of personnel to ad-
dress and stuff the envelopes and it doesn't, include the
costs of the contents.
All for an average week's mail on a small town
newspaper.
The government expenditures are particularily
maddening. We get two copies of Hansard, the printed
transcript of House of Commons debates, everyday.
Each averages about 50 to 75, 81/z by 11 pages. We go
through one of the issues for interest sake, but could
only very rarely make use of the information.
We got a government report on Lancaster Sound, a
large 81/2 by 14, 113 page report. Not only do we not
print articles on stereo, we don't usually have a use for
reports on bodies of water in the Arctic archipelago.
The report is printed in English, French and Inuit.
I have problems with English.
The provincial government sends us 81/2 by 11 sized
single -page press releases in 12 by 16 inch envelopes.
They also send us two press releases in' separate
envelopes and paying separate postage, two days
apart.
The cosi; of an envelope, a stamp and a person'§
time to stuff, address and mail' one of the items could
be saved if both were mailed together.
We have a file where most of our mail goes. It sits
by the corner of the desk, and is emptied every night.
Companies are often looking for free advertising.
Labatt's sent us a large press package in a gold -
coloured embossed folder. It contained information on
what new beer Labatt's was brewing, some colored
picturesof beer bottles and a blackand-white of'a pretty
girl holding a bottle.
The girl got pinned to the wall, the rest got filed.
The point of these packages of course is to help our
overworked newspaper editors. What better way to fill
some empty space than with a free pre -written story?
These are often very handy , and useful to both
newspaper staff and the readers. The problem is com-
panies and the governments, both provincial and
federal take a shot -gun approach to their distribution.
We end up with items of very general interest,
described in loving detail, often complete with ex-
cellent photographs, but taking place in Saskatchewan,
or the moon, or someplace.
One of the best ways to get an article printed is to
associate the material with a. professional sounding
name.
Ontario Press Service sounds official, like Cana-
dian Press, but is actually the public relations organ of
Global TV. If we printed a weekly TV guide we'd have
it made.
We also got some health and fitness clippings from
a government sounding body, which in fact was a
private organization looking to sell freelance stories.
Out of 64 pieces of mail, we got four letters per-
taining to our own business.
' I love to rip open mail.
I guess it's a throw -back to childhood Christ -
masses, where I very quickly ripped open all my
packages. Not to play with anything, just to see what
was there.
A trip to the Zurich post office is not unlike a
Christmas morning.
Published Each Wednesday Sy J.W. Eedy Publications Ltd.
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News Editors - Mark Hough and Rob Chester
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