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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1974-07-25, Page 4PAGE 4 ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1974 I Eq Your blood is needed! Summer is'a special time for all of us. For the city dweller, it's hot pavement, cool drinks and vacation time. For the farm- erit is a time of work, of hoping for rain --or hoping the rain will stop. For children it is the very essence of childhood, For one group of Canadians it is a time of crisis. Every sum- mer the Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service runs short of blood, The normal needs go on and there is usually an increase in the accident rate; this demand for blood and blood products increases. For the colunteers of Red Cross who recruit donors, summer is a time of bruised telephone -dialing fingers as they step-up their efforts. Summer is a time when a great many people leave home; they move to cottages, they go on camping trips, motor trips; boat rips, and airplane trips. Sometimes they simply go to a neighbour's backyard pool. There is ao one home to answer the telephone when the blood donor recruitment volunteer calls. Please share the joys of summer. A Blood Donor Clinic is planned for the Zurich Community Centre next Tuesday night, and officials are hoping for well over 100 donors. Won't you do your share and offer a pint of your blood. It will take only a half an hour of your time. This small effort on your part can help as many as five people back to health. Blood donors love life. The gossip game! Most of us take delight in discovering the follies and sins and shortcomings of others and in chatting knowingly about them. Gossip does bring us some cheap comfort, giving us nice feel- ings of superiority. Our weaknesses and,failures do not seem so serious when we can compare thein with the monstrous ones of some people we know. We like to gossip because it generally makes us feel much better about ourselves. Behind much of our gossipping is the mechanism the psycho- logists call "projection." There is the tendency to attribute to others our own reprehensible attitudes and feelings. A London psychiatrist, Dr. J.A. Hadfield, has commented on this tendency: "In judging others we trumpet abroad our secret faults. We personalize our unrecognized failings, and hate in others the very faults to which we are secretaly addicted. Like the lark fluttering with agitation over her nest, we exhibit most flag- rantly the very thing we would hide." Think about that the next time you are tempted to assist in the distribution of malicious rumors about someone you know. Censorious gossip generally tells more about the person who does the gossipping than about the victim. In Albert Camus' novel, "The Fall, " the narrator gives this warning to his companion: "People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves... The judgement you are passing on others event- ually snaps back in your face, causing sorne damage." (contributed) Violence anonymous! The whole world seems wrapped in a security blanket of violence --addicted to it. Violence is socially acceptable, nations and individuals believe they profit from it, The troubled, oppressed, disinherited turn to it for solutions. We're surrounded by violence in news broadcasts, TV programs, and theatre screens. In North America people have voted with theirs fingers their preference for it --- 24 weekly prime time TV shows deal with crime --compar- ed with eight shows 10 years ago. It's exciting fantasy which too often turns to grim reality. Last fall after a TV movie showed youths dousing a derelict with gas and lighting him afire --a woman was incinerated under horrifyingly similar circumstances in Boston. Meanwhile non-violent advocates like Ghandi, Martin Luther King, or the Berrigan brothers are assassinated or jailed for their beliefs. There's no real solution. But just for a wild chance why not encourage formations of small "Violence Anonymous" groups among world leaders, media executives, philosophers and writers, They could try swearing off addiction to viol- ent solutions slowly, one hour, one day at a time --with the results hopefully sifting down to the people. It has worked for other addictions! (contributed) ZURICH Citizens NEWS. PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LrMIITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 Member: t Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association 11`: Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association '1.1 �w� Subscription Rates: $5.00 per year in advance in Canada; $6.00 in United States and Foreign; single copies 15¢ International Scene (by Raymond Cannon) MEANWHILE, BACK IN SOUTH VIETNAM You all remember Vietnam. That is where so many Americ- an soldiers fought and died to protect that small country from the scourge of communism, Well, Mr. Nixon achieved sorne sort of peace with honour and got his soldiers out but in Viet- nam to -day there is neither peace with honour nor is the country safe from communism. Nobody hears anything more about the truce commission that Canada served on for a few months until it was obvious that it was just as big a farce as the previous one. Ottawa wasted no time in pulling its troops out where they are now located in the Middle East, The Canadians were replaced by the Iranians who know nothing about peace -keeping. In effect you pulled out the world's best U.N. force and replaced thein with troops that probably didn't know a North Vietnamese from a South Vietnamese. Don't blame the Iranians for this: they at least volunteered which is better than most other nations did. Meanwhile, back in Vietnam, the two sides hardly missed the Americans and continued as if the truce commission wasn't there at all. The non-existance of the cease-fire has never been-" more apparent than at the pres- ent time when, in the open land not more than 25 miles north of the South Vietnamese capit- al of Saigon, the two sides have been hammering away at each other just as if the Americans were there. This is not a war between the South Vitenamese army and the Viet Cong or guerilla fighters. The North Vietnamese are there in full force and, in the battle to which I am referr- ing hundreds of soldiers on each side have been killed or wounded. One village has been totally destroyed and two other near -by villages presently held by the communist troops are about to suffer the same fate. So much for cease-fires! At the present time South Vietnain has over a million men under arras. To give you some idea of its relative size, this is the fourth largest arinyin the world, about fifteen times as large as that of Canada. It takes a lot of money to pay for an army that size and when the war is going on in your own country, never very prosperous to begin with, it makes it that much more difficult to pay for: Just how long can you lob thous- ands of shells, each one costing $75, 000 without running our of both shells and cash to pay for them. With a military situation that is growing worse and a real bout of inflation, the Saigon government has to look to the United Xates for help and, it must be admitted, the Americ- ans have helped out in both supplies and money. However, this is a bad tune to ask Wash- ington for anything more, as you can well imagine. Presid- ent Nixon, who might be will- ing to go to bat for South Viet- nam, is saddled with the Water- gate scandal and he can't push too hard at the present time. In addition, the war in Vietnam, in contrast to the one in Korea or the Second World War, has never been very popular with a Loneliness is something you can't walk away from. great many members of Cong- ress and it is the same Congress that has to vote for any funds which the president may wish to send to Vietnam. For this reason the American govern- ment hasn't been as generous as it was after the other two wars, a fact which hasn't gone unnoticed by the South Vietn- amese. In order to make the country look a little less like a military dictatorship, President Thieu has released some of its most prominent political prisoners. It has also restored the privilege$ and diplomatic immunities to the Vietcong's military deleg- ation in Saigon, something that it said it would not do until there was a reduction in North Vietnamese attacks. By moves such as these Saigon hopes to win as much American support as possible. However, the fact remains that the links between Saigon and Washington are much weaker than they used to be and it is. now Congress, rather than Mr. Nixon, which may have the last word, It is a sad and tragic fact that the little war-torn country whose population must be as weary of the fighting as any country can be, is no nearer peace than it was when the Americans left a year and a half ago. Bang1,art, Ttetly, 'Doig aild Co. Chartered Accountants 268 Main St., Exeter ARTHUR W. READ Resident Partner Bus. 235-0120, Res, 238-8075 Si ss and Pr OPTOMETRISTS 1, E. Longstaff OPTOMETRII•IT SEAFORTH ME; ICAL CENTRE 527.124E Teesday, Toursday, Friday, Sat- urday a.m., Thursday evening CLINTON OFFICE 10 Isle Street 02.7010 Monday and Wednesday Call either office for appointment. 1� a e, Norman `'; 'actin OPTOMETRIST Office Hoare: 9.12 A,M, — 1:30-0 P.M. 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