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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1974
Good Friday has a word
for the thoughtful!
Whatever one's religious faith, or the lack of it, Good
Friday, the most solemn day in the Christian calendar,
has something to say to the thoughtful.
At a time when the word 'love' turns up on buttons,
on car bumper slogans, and slops out of pop songs as if it
were the froth on a glass of beer, Good Friday impels us to
turn from the ersatz variety and look, however briefly,
at the real thing.
Genuine love for one's fellows, far from wrapping the
person who tries to embody it in a cocoon of euphoria,
means putting oneself out --by inference, a disrupting
process --for someone else. When Lord Donald Soper of
Hyde Park and London City Mission fame visited Canada
he described his work with indigent men. "There's nothing
glamorous about it, " he said, "When you're washing old
men's feet, you're aware that they're ugly and that they
smell. You don't do it for a 'good feeling.' You do it
because it has to be done and you're committed to making
yourself available when you see a need." That's what love
of the genuine variety is all about.
Good Friday --the term is a corruption of God's Friday --
reminds us that every improvement in the human condition
is bought with what the late German theologian, Dietrich
Bonhoeffer, called 'this costly grace." From Jesus himself,
the long, thin, valiant line which includes such names
as the Tolpuddle farm hands, who organized the first trade
union and were banished to Australia for their pains,
Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Tom Dooley and
the Kennedys, the price for this commitment was heavy
indeed. But, somehow, we move forward on their should-
ers. That, in part, is what Good Friday is all about.
(Contributed)
A great bell ringing!
Someone has written "Easter is like a great bell ring-
ing, " sounding the notes of renewal and joy and hope. For
the Christian world, this, the most important of its festiv-
als, centres around the Resurrection, the conviction that
Jesus was the visible expression in time of the eternally
valid, and that "death could not hold him."
Such belief is not easy in 1974. The media inundate
us daily wi th the world's load of disaster; we specialize
in the non -hero, the sick joke, the cynical judgement.
Easter calls us to listen and to look again.
This is the season to follow the insight Laurens van der
Post brought back from his study of the bushmen in the
Kalahri desert, "trust the first things in yourself' --the
leap of the heart as winter's shroud disintegrates and you
catch a glimpse of the first shining green; the wistful stir-
ring in yourself to appropriate more fully the gift of life.
It is a time to resift priorities, to recall that the end-
uring treasures of the eras behind us were left not by
adventurous dictators and massive power structures, but by
artists, singers and sages. It is time to grasp the assurance
that personal integrityis the keystone of genuine commun-
ity.
You don't come at this mathematically, adding here
and subtracting there, instead, it is an affair of the heart.
Hoffding, a German, says "The essence of all religion
consists not in the solution of riddles, but in the conviction
that value will be preserved."
That is what Easter is all about,
(contributed)
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International Scene
( BY RAYMOND CANON)
INFLATION AROUND THE
WORLD
In less than one week we
were greeted with the news
that butter would go up by six
cents a pound and gasoline by
about 8-10¢ a gallon. The
question which must be on
everybody's mind is when all
this is going to end? If it makes
you feel any better, I am an
economist and I ask myself the
same question.
Right now, I am looking at a
map which shows the rates of
inflation in all the major count-
ries of the world. It does not
make a very pretty picture.
The record at this point is held
without a doubt by Chile witha
52. 810 increase in priced during
the past year. To a great extent
this is because the late Presid-
ent Allende was pringint money
as if it were going out of style.
If you do that, you can guaran-
tee rampant inflation. Unfort-
unately quite a few countries,
including Canada, seem to have
forgotten this important lesson.
The unfortunate truth is that
an over the world the inflation
rate has either entered into
double figures or is fast app-
roaching it. This has been
caused, to a considerable deg-
ree, by an extremely rapid
growth in the industrialized
countries, a growth that has
resulted in any number of short-
ages. This has been accompan-
ied by a sharp rise in the price
of many basic commodities and
the net result is a situation when
it is hard to find an area which
Let dates for
training coarse
Members of the Senior Train-
ing Course, "More Ideas for
Sewin Knits, " are putting the
finishing touches on their knitt-
ed garments for Summary Day.
Two Summary Days are being
held in Huron County; Wingham,
Tuesday, April 23, at Wingham
Presbyterian Church at 1:30
p.m.; and Clinton, Wednesday,
April 24, at Clinton Legion
Hall, at 2 p.m.
The program promises to be
an interesting one. The Ladies
will have a Fashion Parade of
adults' and children's clothing
to show off their original creat-
ions. Miss Nancy Simpson,
clothing specialist, Ministry of
Agriculture and Food , Toronto
will be present to discuss t ips
and problems encountered for
sewing with knits. A tea concl-
udes the afternoon.
A cordial invitations extend-
ed to those interested in the
project, "More Ideas for Sewing
Knits, " to attend the Summary
Days.
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is not afflicted. Although the
Societ Union or China doesn't
publish any figures that mean
much to western economists,
I have the suspicion that those
two countries have been affliced
too.
To top it all off, there is
the increased price of oil.
While this has not worked too
much hardship on Canada, for
many countries it almost
amounts to the straw that breaks
the camel's back. Imagine your
self just getting on you feet
financially for the first time
and all of a sudden the price
of one of your most basic com-
modities doubles or triples.
That will give you some impre-
ssion how a lot of smaller or
less developed countries feel
right now. They are not as
fortunate as Canada in that they
do not have any oil in their
back yard.
I would like to think that
there is a silver lining some-
where but, in all honesty, I
have to admit that the outlook
is rather bleak. If there is a
silver lining, it will come when
the following things happen.
First of all, when we can incre-
ase the production of commod-
itites that are presently in
short supply so that the short-
ages all but disappear, In add-
ition, governments will have
to cut back on expenditures
and slow down the rate at
which they are pumping raw
money into the system. Just as
important as the others is the
necessary step that must be
taken to convince everybody
that counts that inflation is now
a world problem and not an
internal one,
Britain expects that inflation
in that country may go up as
high as 200/o. We will probably
not be that badly off but last
year in Canada it was 9.150 and
already it is running at a rate
of over l0/o. How do you expl-
ain to everybody that there is
no law that says that things
always have to get better every
year? The unfortunate fact is
that we are in a period where
things are likely to get worse
before they get better. Tighten
your belts a bit, don't let your-
self get into a panic and con-
sole yourself with the thought
that it could be worse and in
many places actually is.
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