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Home My WebLink AboutWingham Advance-Times, 1980-02-13, Page 12ONLY MINUTES OF YOUR LIFE... ...WM. ?MIA L/fE `lifrngham Advance Times, February 13, 1980 Corner „Ilk* an island fA ,B 'dark, unknown sea .Gripped by the hands; of some supernatural power The earth turns. Spinning around in a never- ending orbit Encircling a fiery ball of light It continues its existence Evolving around a seemingly timeless plain. But in the core of that island Ticks a bomb That threatens not the time- less scene But the root of its won exis- tence. A race called mankind Locks about, ever menacingly Capable at any moment of pushing a button And watching itself be smothered in its own smoke. And all the while the island keeps spinning And the timeless galaxies never know. Aileen Underwood 11K RE A RED CROSS F31000 DONOR' SPECIAL NEEDS DESERVE SPECIAL ATTENTION Especially at Tape Time Editor: Kathy, Underwood. Executive Editor: Lori Brendel Features Editor: Bernice Passchier Sports Editor: Lynne Nicolson Editorial Oh Lord, today let me remember Why is it so hard to see people as special, individual human beings? Why is it so difficult tosay: .,Gee , even though you look different, you're a lot like me." And why is it so easy to forget that re- gardless of opinions, per- sonality and physical appear- ances, every person has feelings? I guess if I knew the answer to all, or even one of these questions, I could pre- vent, even sto a lot of the problems that alae going on in the world. Hitler wanted a pure and unblemished race of mankind, se he sent the Jews to ex- termination camps. If his ob- sessed mind had been able to look beyond the less -than - human stereotype that he had given to the Jews and had seen instead the sensitive people inside, would the thousands have died? Russia wants power, con: trol, so it invades Afghanistan. But if the Russian leaders stopped to realize for one second that those uneducated Afghanese they are stepping on are actually people, would Soviet troops be sitting in Kabul right now? Or what about me? How often I feel myself thinking; "Oh how Ihate those Russians!" How easy it is to forget that "those Russians" ,are people who love, hurt and have red blood just like me. Students in Toronto and Hanover booed, catcalled and snored through Joe Clark's speeches, and in other centres Broadbent and Trudeau faced similar ordeals. Yet how many of those studs to bothered to think for one minute about how deeply they could be damaging that politician? In hockey, basketball and other sports, whether amateur or pro, it is so simple to see the opponents as machines that are there only to be crushed. It is so natural to accept them as The Enemy and forget that they really are human beings. IN MY OPINION And every day we forget. When we laugh at the fat kid walking down the street or make „an of the aci.arucu per- son in the crowd, we are for- getting. When we scream at the Chicago fan in Maple Leaf Gardens or tell our friends what a strange guy the math teacher is, we are forgetting. When we drop our bombs, shoot our guns or yell our in- sults, we are forgetting. But, how to stop? How can I re- member to look inside every Abortion is murder Today it is a major issue in politics and law -making; the dictionary defines it as 'the expulsion of the human fetus during the first 12 weeks of gestation'. It is an abortion. I call it murder. Murder,' you say? But how can you murder a blob of cells, a nothing? It isn't murder until the child is born. That's the whole mistake. From con- ception on those cells mean a new life- a new life that will feel the warm sun, swim in the ocean, eat ice cream, and smell the flowers. Still people say this being is not human until born or very close to birth. Well, here are the facts. The, heartbeat be- gins between the lath to 25th day. Brains waves have been recorded as early as 43 days. Wayne M. Chandler RR 4, Brussels Telephone 5191887-6021 Spend your time before you spend your money. Get your future going-- today. aingtoday. SYNDICATE LIMITED TUG OF WAR—The team from' 11E putpulled all the other Grade 11 home -rooms in one of the Winter Carnival games at F. E. Madill Secondary School. At eight weeks the brain is completely present. At 11 to 12 weeks he is steadily breathing fluid. At this same time fingernails appear. At eight weeks all body systems are present; by. 11 weeks they are all,working. At the First Inter- national Conference on Abor- tion, held in 1967, a group os specialists in medicine, law and ethics came up with an. almost `unanimous decision. "We could find no point in time, between union of egg and sperm and birth of the in- fant, at which point we could say this was not a human. . life." And killing a human con- stitutes murder. Oh, there are excuses, feeble as they may be. "I cant afford this baby now. It just won't have a good life. I'm not married. It's my right; if I don't want to carry this kid for nine months, I, don't have to. With the cruelty and wickedness of this world, he'll never survive anyway. But this disease runs in my family!' What if the baby gets it and suffers all his life?" To • me, these reasons , are very selfish. • They just; don't. want to be bothered with a child apd all the responsi- bilities that go with it. Well, if the child wg,s not wanted in the first place,ere is something called 'birth control' avail- able. To kill innocent children is completely unnecessary; it's legalized murder. You've heard the facts. They are so plain. There are no excuses., -Perhaps we would do best to listen to Albert Schweitzer. "If a man, loses reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence' for all life." • Debbie Sjaarda FRIENDS • Friends are the People We turn to for Understanding Of our Troubles, our Joys Which they can share, our Love„ Which -we given them, our Selves To let them know That We are always There. Anonymous The man who whispers in a well about the things he has to sell will never make as many dollars as he who Climbs tree and hollers Let THE ADVANCE -TIMES Do your shouting for you CALL 357-2320 SNOW QUEEN Janice McMichael officiates a face-off between Murray McLennan and Steve Pritchard to start the second half of the student-teacherbrcaa�frribaii yOMO. The game Is an annual part of Madill's Winter Carnival. person and see a sensitive, feeling individual there? Well, rguess there's no easy - answer to that; no quick six- week correspondence course to take, teaching res t for the human race. No, w have only ourselves, our ow per- sonal hurts, and the str ngth within us, td prompt our com- passion and our respect for a fellow human being. And' that can be more than enough ammunition, if we want it to be. - Kathy Ui,derwllud 12K A MAD, DASH for the finish line in the three-legged race ended with' .!fnt,Johnson and Kevin Walmsley the win- ners, folio i 0;Dtf`ariie Letteau'ancl' Bill Graham and Bev Bell. "d Sandra Irwin. The race was ..one of the events afthe Madill Secondary School Winter Carnival. THE FINALE—The three-legged race, one of Madill's Winter Carnival ,events, ended in a tangle of arms and legs as racers tumbled into the snow. INVENTORY CLEARANCE SALE Winter Underwear Odds & sods, thermal shirts, drawers, Penmans, Zummerhait, Stanfields, Mr. Brief, etc. NOT ALL SIZES ALL FIRSTS 374 each Jogging Suits ' 1 Mil Bomber Jackets Styl Jackets o $44.95 to $59.95 Reg. O OFP. 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