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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1966-12-08, Page 8N o• ..0-7THE EXPOSIT How FORTIktg t DECaK 194 (In The Toronto Telegram) $y CLARE WESTCOTT (Mr. Westcott, executive as- sistant to Ontario's Minister of Education, is a father of eight. He attended a UNICEF meeting in Paris earlier this month). Christmas has moved into the stores so maybe this is a good time to take a swing at the ultra - • organized commercialization of goodwill to alt men that threa- tens to smother us all like a vast electric blanket, Nora bad idea, either, to do this with a backward look at the annual Hallowe'en splurge. What would Hallowe'en be without trick -or -treat? Under commercialization trick -or -treat is fast becoming trick -and treat. Manufacturers of . treat goodies and stores hornswoggle parents into large, unneeded purchases, and bemused grown- up deluge the kids with a lot of beguilingly packaged gar- bage. I can already hear the yells of outrage which that statement will bring down on my head. But isn't it a fact, ;that this Hal- lowe'en business is getting out - of hand? Time was en the really important thing were the pumpkin with t flickering candle inside; the feverish ex- citement of kids with sooty facesdressing up in old finery; the sheer daring of knocking on other people's doors and wait - An .Expositor Classified will pay you dividends. Have you tried one? Dial 527-0240. CHRISTMAS TREES Select Scotch Pine Ken 'Smith EGMONDVILLEE ROVERS IT'S NOT ��► TOO LATE TO, ANSWER YOUR CHRISTMAS SEAL LETTER HELP FIGHT U TB ing breathlessly for the res- ponse, friendly or hostile; the games and the pranks. But what if a procession of over 80 youngsters (yes, I count- ed them) comes storming at your door? What if you're an elderly couple with a fixed in come who have to watch their pennies in these inflationary days and who love kids, but can't afford to ply hordes of them with fancy candy? ' The 'kids are brainwashed; credit - swamped parents are disgrun- tied; harassed treaters sigh with relief when the door closes for the last time. Why don't we really tap all the latent goodwill with a con- structive twist in tune with the new spirit of the times? A Needy Army Back in 1950, some youngsters in the United States had a brainwave that tied Hallowe'en to UNICEF, the United, Nations International Children's Emer- gency Fund. Since then, some of the 0 annual .Hallowe'en col- lections in Canada and the U.S. for UNICEF have topped the $2 million mark. But the undernourished, un- dereducated children in more than 100 countries whom UNI- CEF befriends constitute a vast army with a long list of humble but essential needs. There are about 800 million of them. The majority of these grow up in countries where the income per capita is less than $200 a year. UNICEF targets are the time-honored ,demons besetting the human race poverty, hunger, ignorance, dis- ease. Today, most of us accept without question the principle that the better -off countries must help the others. High-level development projects fo'r un- developed nations are matters for governments.' They need time to be negotiated, planned and implemented. Meanwhile, the great major- ity of those 800 million child, ren have 10 times less chance of living beyond the age of four than children in industrialized countries like ours. Than—riot -nota theory, but statistically docum- ented fact. 1 What is called for, then, is not occasional, sometime relief but a wholesale harnessing and practical direction of the good- will that now exists. UNICEF- gets around 80 per cent. of its funds through vol- untary contributions from gov- ernments and the rest through the voluntary generosity of pri- vate individuals- „ All the same, the total figure at UNICEF's disposal last year was $33 million. Peanuts, by any standards, to finance projects in more than 100 countries. Yet 1965 was the year in which UNICEF was awarded ey uIIigan Man. THIS YEAR GIVE. Mother a Real Treat FOR CHRISTMAS And Enjoy These Dividends: CLEANER * Pots • Pans * Dishes * Glassware • Floors * Walls * Tuba * Sinks * Toilet * Autos • Clothes .. •. and kids! MORE EFFICIENT * Dishwashers * Water Heaters * Clothes Washers * Garbage Disposal * Drainage • Homemaking • MORE FUN * Cooking * Bathing * Shaving '* -shampooing BETTER * Soap and Detergent Efficiency * Drinking Water * Coffee • Tea * Mixed Drinks * Food. Flavors With Soft,. Water by CULLIGAN You, don't have to buy a Water Softener . . . Try our TANK EXCHANGE. ALSO MANUAL AND -AUTOMATIC UNITS FOR .SALE ON A LEASE ' PURCHASE PLAN You and Your Fam- ily can � live Better Get More Value For Your Money by Callin g—. CULLIGAN WATER 6OND►1TIONiN-: Be Ready for Trky Winter Drl ving - • Ontario Education Minister William G. Davis joined the Canadian delegation at the Biennial Conference of sUNESCO, The United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organ- ization„ held at UNESCO's Paris Headquarters from Octo- ber 25 to November 30. The organization which was twenty years old on November 4, assembled delegations from more the Nobel Peace Prize. Bear in mind: that all assistance is giv- en in response to requests by governments, who must assume responsibility for staffing and administering any . project and providing the bulk of the re- sources for carrying it out. In recent years, .assisted gov- ernments have spent an aver- age of $2.50 for every dollar al- located by UNICEF. That's the answer to people who talk about handouts and throwing good money after bad. Children will take to this UNICEF collection game like ducks to water. With a little help • from teen-agers they'll organize it themselves. And to cater to the holiday spirit, there's nothing like (a soft-drink and sandwich party to reward the elated and hungry workers — in a church hall or -•a com- munity centre or parent's homes. Just One Gift Proceeds from Hallowe'en collections across Canada in 1965 amounted to about. $438,- 000. Imagine how this year's. UNICEF total might have been boosted, with no pain to any- one, if all those bags of sticky mush had never been bought. Push your imagination tine more notch. Picture' how kids around"the world would) benefit if the Cost of just the unwanted, never -to -be -used Christmas gifts were transferred to UNICEF funds. Suppose everyone in the afflu'en,t West gave up one gift. What can all the money do?. Let UNICEF tell you: Five cents can buy enough penicillin to cure two children of yaws, a common tropical dis- ease; Ten cents can provide the an- than 120 countries. Attending the conferexice with Mr. Davis was his• executive assistant, Clare Westcott. '(left to right) Mr. Westcott; Hon. William G. Davis, Minister ,of -Education; Dr. Henry D. Hicks, chairman, Canadian delegatiqq& president of Dalhousie University, Halifax and former Presider of Nova Scotia; and Dr. W. A. C. H. -Dobson, Professor of Chinese, University of Toronto. tibiotics to cure one child of trachoma, another widespread disease; Fifteen cents can buy 100 vita- min, capsules; A quarter can buy enough vaccine to protect 20 children against tuberculosis. The cut-rate shopping list goes on and on. Overspending? Hardly. There are political dividends, too. Since the Marsshall Plan restored Europe after World War II, it's Seen demonstrated that capitalism has the flexibil- ity to outdo Communism on ev- ery economic front. The best proof 'conies from the Commun- ist countries — who are falling over 'themselves to imitate cap- italist methods• and lining up to trade with 'capitalist countries. Where is the Communist bread- basket filled? Mainly in Canada .and the United States. If any • charge can still be effectively leveled at the capit- alist system, it is on the score of splurging on luxuries. Let's start this Christmas to guide our bottomless reserves of holiday spirit and goodwill to all men into practical, pro- ductive .channels. For openers, earmark the cost of one Christ- masift this yearfor h s UNICEF. And next Hallowe'en, when a goblin pops up at your door, look behind the massk and re- mind yourself that they neigh- borhood kid you see there with a UNICEF box is a Nobel' Please Prize winner. And at Christmas, if you want to soothe somebody's ruf- fled feelings over the absence of a gift, why not do so with one of the charming UNICEF 1?ead the Advertisements — It's .a Profitable Pastime'! 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