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Zurich Citizens News, 1975-07-24, Page 4Page 4 -Zurich Citizens News, July 24, 1975 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 farmer, it 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 summer the Red Cross Blood Transfusion Ser- vice 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 volunteers 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 camp- ing trips, motor trips; boat trips, and airplane trips. Sometimes they simply go to a neighbour' s backyard pool. There is no one home to answer the telephone when the blood donor recruitment vol- unteer calls. Please share the joys of summer. A Blood Donor Clinic is planned for the Zurich Community Centre next Monday night, and officials are hoping for well over 100 donors. Won't you do your share and offer a pint of your blood. On the way up - to what? In keeping with the pattern of predictions in the United States, a prominent Canadian economist has declared that the recession is now on the mend. He• is confident that the "trough" of the big dip in business was reached during the second quarter of this year and that from here on we will find our- selves on the uphill climb to better times. Unempl- oyment, he says, will continue as a serious problem for the next 18 months, but will gradually return to an acceptable level. Well. that's pretty good news --although it has to be more welcome in the cities than in smaller communities, where the pain of recession was not much more than a slight twinge. The thousands who were laid off in the auto and related ind- ustries will be looking forward to a better Christmas this year and we can expect an increasingly confid- ent outlook on the part of manufacturers, retailers and consumers. So it appears we are on the way back to a healthy economy --and inevitably another recession tied tail - to -tail with dizzy inflation. Just how long it will take for the pattern of big spending and big recession to repeat itself is anybody 's guess. Perhaps a lot less time than was required to trigger the fall -back of the past few months. If experience is worth anything at all we should have learned something helpful from the economic events of the past year. It is now obvious that as the price of essential consumer goods --food, clothing and shelter began to skyrocket, and as the surprising shortage and consequent high price of gasoline and heating oil became apparent, thousands of automob- ile owners decided that the family car really could be driven for another year. Thus declines of 25 per cent and more in car sales created a sudden and cala- mitous economic slump and the shock waves rolled out to every sector of the wage-earning society. It is worth noting, however, that during the same period when new cars were piling up on dealers' lots, thousands of other items of consumer goods were in such short supply that delays of weeks and months in delivery were not unusual. Surely the lesson of the recession which is now supposed to be on the mend is that we must redirect our manufacturing skills to wiser channels. It is ludicrous to continue over -producing cars, boats, snowmobiles and hundreds of other luxury items which become the first victims of any toughen- ing economic cycle. The lesson here is that type- writers, building materials, street and highway maintenance services, production of adequate and nutritious food supplies, better health and educat- ional facilities should be given higher priority. In this country there is work for everyone and a pressing need for the goods we can produce -- provided we concentrate on those things we really need. (Wingham Advance Times) ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB T,URKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 VV Member:444011111,4*e,, y Newspapers Association % .• C *CNA Canadian Weekly. Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association E .60 Subscription Rates: $6.00 per year in advance in Canada; $8.00 in United States and Foreign; single copies 200 The International Scene (by Raymond Canon) THE AMERICAN UMBRELLA My wife and I recently visited Leslie Young, a friend of ours in Atlanta, Georgia, who is involved in somewhat the same business as I am. While Leslie's wife and mine were out on a shopping tour, we got talking about journ- alism since he has already done a very credible job of writing sev- eral articles on foreign count- ries and customs. Leslie is even more of a globe trotter than I am and, in addition to his wide knowledge of foreign countries has a good command of the English language and a classical education. All this translates its self into the makings of a good writer and I would like to let Leslie take over this week as my guest columnist. According to a survey by the Chicago Council on Foreign Rel- ations, states Leslie, most Amer- icans still believe that they should come to the defense of Canada if it were attacked by 'a foreign power'. This is a comforting thought, and not only to the 80,000 members of the Canadian Armed Forces who must at times feel just slightly more vulner- able as they calculate the length of Canada's borders. It is a con- solation also to all of Canada's citizens who at one time or anoth- er have pondered the close prox- imity of their northern borders to the icy Siberian Sea. A similar feeling of comfort and protection no longer pervades the countries of South -East Asia since the collapse of South Vietnam. These countries cannot fail to notice the growing indiff- erence of the average American to the desirability of fighting again for any country in South - East Asia threatened by invas- ion. South Korea is particularly jittery and the renewed assur- ances of President Ford and Hen- ry Kissinger are muted some- what by the knowledge that these two eminent gentlemen are rest- ricted by Congress from charging into battle on their own initiat- ive to "defend the cause of Freedom" yet again. How can a President even give assurances when his is restricted in his power to make war? The capital of South Korea is a pretty safe place to visit and when I was there some time ago I was assured that I was perf- ectly all right if someone came up to speak to me in the streets at night. "they only want to pract- ice their English on you" they said. However, Seoul is no more than 30 miles from the Commun- ist border and every bridge into the city is constantly guarded by the military. The demilitari- zed zone between North and South Korea has been described by Seung-Mok Yang in his book "Modern Korea" as looking like "a desparado Monodic Zoo. As long as the demarcation line remains, this place is rememb- ered by Koreans with unbearable pain and the people look away with averted eyes." No one knows whether the rest of the free world, and particularly the United States, will look away with averted eyes if the Communists should again attack the south of Korea 41,000 Am- erican troops are on war alert there and it is difficult to imag- ine their running away as soon as the first shot is fired. However, President Park's regime in South Korea is more totalitarian than democratic and, while democ- racy as Canadians understand the word is perhaps not yeat a workable alternative, never- theless it is easy for critics to say that Park is yet another dictator being kept in power only by the military strength of the United States. Korea was first unifed in the 7th century and stayed as a semi- independent state associated with China until late in the 19th century. Japanese annexation in 1910 lasted until 1945 when Russian troops entered from the north and American troops came in from the south. Negotiat- ions between Russia and the United States to unify Korea ended in failure over the refusal of the Communists in the North to allow free elections supervised by the United Nations. Instead two republics were formed and in 1950 the North invaded the South the way, you will recall, lasted until 1953. The hope rem- ains that the embers of that war will not be rekindled. Indonesia and the Philippines are also concerned about the des- ire and ability of the United States to continue armed support. A gradual re -alignment and shift- ing of attitudes is taking place towards their Communist neigh- bours, especially China. For the moment at least there is no fighting in that part of the world, which is a rare event in this century. Let us hope that it becomes a habit. So endeth Leslie's article. I have another one here with all kinds of excellent advice for those people travelling to Eng- land and which I hope to e able to print at a later date. Symbol signs The Ministry of Transportat- ion and Communications has announced new symbol signs ind- icating travel information centres operated by municipalities, chambers of commerce, or reg- ional councils will be installed at provincial freeway inter- changes. The signs, with a lower case letter "i" symbol and the legend "travel information," will be incl- uded on composite signs listing various services available at freeway interchanges. • The first of these new signs will appear on the Queen Eliz- abeth Way in the Burlington - St. Catharines area this month. The "i" symbol will indicate an official information centre approved by the Ministry of Ind- ustry and Tourism and located within three miles of a freeway and in continuous operation eight hours a day, seven days a week throughout the tourist season. A composite sign including the "i" symbol in advance of the appropriate interchange as well as a direction marker with the "i" symbol at the freeway ramp terminal will be erected by MTC. The information centre oper- ator will be responsible for er- ecting any additional signs between ramp terminals and the centres. TODAY'S CHILD BY HELEN ALLEN Scott is a strikingly handsome six-year-old with blue eyes, long curly lashes, brown hair and fair skin. He is active and appears healthy but his medical history is lengthy. • None of his difficulties keep him from enjoying life and from active play both indoors and out but he needs parents with special understanding to cope with his catalogue of problems. Scott has epilepsy, well controlled by medication. He was born with some deformities of fingers and toes. Two fingers on each hand are bent and he cannot straighten them. Surgery attempted on one was not successful and doctors are reluctant to try any more since he has fairly good use of his hands. He is hyperactive, his speech is not clear and he has developed slowly so is about two years behind the average. Nonetheless he is an affectionate, appealing little fellow becoming more independent since he started to school. He was in a regular kindergarten last term and his teacher found him co-operative and interested, He will probably need special education later on. Parents who can give Scott love, patience and stimulation and who are energetic enough to keep up with his hyperactivity will find him a loveable son. To inquire about adopting Scott, please write to Today's Child, Ministry of Community and Social Services, Box 888, Station K, Toronto M4P 2H2. In your letter please tell something of your present family and your way of life. For general adoption information consult your local Children's Aid Society. C. HE NEEDS SPECIAL PARENTS