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When yodiepnsider that ik are just a drop in the bucket of the world's population: you can see just how blind lucky we are. Millions of people on earth today are literally starving to death. They will be dead, stone dead, in days. months, a year. Millions more are just above the starving line. They eke out a barren. Hunted. hopeless existence. just one step away from the animal. ' These hordes are subject to all the other things that go with a minimal existence, besides hunger: cold. disease. ig- norance. fear. antt perhaps worst of all, helplessness. Every so often I'm reminded of how very lucky Cana- And we complain endlessly, we Canadians. about such dians are. We are not smarter than other people. Goodness horrors as inflation. postal strikes. taxes, and all the other knows, we are no more industrious. We ire just luckier. be- relatively piddling burdens we bear. cause we happen to be living in this country at this time. We howl with outrage when butter jumps 15 Cents a pound. 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And you, Ms., whining about the mess the hairdresser Some of us nearly have a stroke when the price of beer made. or complaining about the cost of cleaning women, and liquor is raised. The very wealthy feel a deep, inner pain' could be selling yourself tn the back streets of Nairobi to because they can retain only 55 per cent of their income. keep body and soul together, if you'll pardon the expression. But what does it all amount to? The consumption of butter . But you meat and I'm not, and we shouldn’t forget it. will go dewn for a few weeks, then rise to new highs. The mates. We were lucky, We live in Canada. 0hryes. we have poor people. quite a few of them. But you would be hard put to it to find anyone in Canada liter- ally starving to death. Or freezing to death. Or dying be- cause there is no medicine for disease. But what does it all amount to? The consumption of butter will go dbwn for a few weeks, then rise to new highs. The consumption of alcoholic beverages will not even tremor. but go steadily upward. And the rich will become richer.: Truth is. the vast majority of Canadians eat too much. suffer from over-heating rather than cold and are much more likely to die from too much medicine than they are from disease. Talk ait.sout tat-cats, or buxom beavers. and we're it. The Lucky Canadians. The envy of we world. - ', _ _ - And even the poorest of our poor, with all the buffers that welfare provides. are materially millionaires compared with the poor of many other countries. _ Wednesday, Aug. 11th at 8 You, Mister. wheeling your Buick down the highway and KWCHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY' BBAHMS CLARINET GUINTET VICTOR SAWA THEATRE OF THE ARTS The We"! EMU. BEETHOVEN 'SPRING' SONATA SCHUBERT 'ARPEGGIONE' SONATA " Adult: " Senior Citizens/Students Sponsored in part by Wintarm But it was watching television that blew up the puffed-up dream that life was/after all, good and gracious, cosy and comfortable. warm and wonderful. f There on the "news," with nothing to hide it, was the non- Canadian world. Children with the bloated bellies and stick- thin limbs of the starving. Other children, torn and bleed- ing and screaming with pain. Once in a while this hits me like a punch between the eyes. One of these times wason a recent holiday weekend.’ The only fly in the ointment was the constant decisions to be made. At breakfast. for example. Banana or fruit juice? Coffee or tea? Bacon and eggs or ham and eggs? Toast and jam or fresh bread and honey? Evenings were even worse. An hour after dinner, I had to decide whether it was to be coffee and cake with ice cream or tea with butter tarts. Then there was the bedtime snack and more decisions. We were spending a weekend with Grandad, in the coun- try. I spent one of those lazy, thoroughly enjoyable times when there is nothing to do and nothing to worry about: eat- ing and drinking, playing cards. enjoying the fireplace, reading. watching television. -. -itiirii ii/Lt we can stop bitching in our own backyard. and face the facts that were not smarter. or harder-work- ing or better-looking Just lucky. Not much youxand I can do, except feel horrified. It's all too far away. $00k