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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1974
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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)
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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.
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