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TllfiiEiiiEiifM Nuclear arms will be useless at Armageddon The Bible is not alone in warning of world destruction. The present secretary- general of the United Nations has declared that for the first time in human history we are now "placed on the narrow edge between catastrophe and survival." In a memorandum written as far back as 1958, former US. president Harry Truman said: "Now we are faced with total destruction. That destruction is at hand unless the great leaders of the world prevent it." Truman should know for he was the US. president who authorized the dropping of the Atom Bomb on Hiroshima Since my last school column. some ot the committees of which 1 spoke are moving along. Numerous interview meetings have taken place with the Junior High Study Committee. In addr. tion to the parent groups. we have since met with students, principals and vice principals of the Junior high schools. principals of the feeder schools, pastors and lay chaplains. student services and junior high staff members. The common strengths and weaknesses identified by each group have been documented for consideration and action. Rumor has it that the Liberal Govern- ment is planning to end the current Parliamentary Session and deliver a Throne Speech in the second week of December. It you cannot remember the last time this Government spelled out its priorities in a Throne Speech, do not be dismayed - the Governor General has not been given one to read since April, 1900! The final draft of the Bishops' Currie ulum Guidelines on Christian Family Life and Education were released at the end of October. At the Provincial Trustees' Professional Development day in Toronto, Bishop Gervais of the Bishops' Education committee, gave an informative in-service to Trustees on its content. (There are two excellent ar- ticles on the Guidelines in the Catholic Register, Nov. 19 & 26 editions. Please take time to read them.) Yes - the current Parliamentary Session has lasted for over 600 sitting days. During this time the Government has shattered the democratic traditions of the Canadian House of Commons. it has rammed through divisive legislation. cutting off debate " times with the use of closure motions. These are records which have rocked the credibility of this Liberal administration. Sadly, they have also put in question the supremacy of the Canadian Parliament... It is a sad day Indeed. when a growing number of Canadians speak nostalgially of the one free national forum passed to us from the founder, of the country. They recall the plan for 1 Chamber in which a On the same P.D. Day, our own Director of Education, Frank Clifford, gave an inspiring workshop on Leader- ship to the many Trustees from across Ontario. The 0.E.C.T.A. (Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association) hosted a County Mass at St. Clement's Church in Preston, Cambridge this month. The evening Mass, celebrated by Bishop Tonnos. was attended by many teachers. support staff and trustees. The social which followed as well as the Mass helps to remind us that we are all partners in Catholic Education'. Books are a popular Christmas gift for children as well as adults. One of our WALTER McLEAN Primary Consultants. Gabrielle O’Reil- ly, has written a paper titled “Personal Bending" which was published by the English Coordinators and Consultants of Ontario. Although it deals mainly with personal reading as a lifelong process, it includes a section for teachers and how they can promote a personal love for reading amongst pupils. There is also a section for parents and the important role they play in developing reading habits in their children. With Gttbrielie's permission. I have extracted the following section. Parents foster reading every time they: q engage in casual discussion about books with friends odiscuss what each family member is reading oborrow books from libraries or friends osubscribe to magazines or newspa- . read aloud to children of all ages . show that they value time for their own personal reading . give gifts of books or magazine sub. scriptions Maybe you could help Santa with his Christmas book list and thereby nurture your developing readers - - _ _ _ Our Board News Tabloid should be out shortly. I hope that you will take time to read it. There are so many articles covering topics which space does not allow in this column. Those who do not have children in school can obtain their copy at the rear of your parish Church. God willing, I will be in touch in the New Year. In the meantime, may Advent be a time of true preparation for the great feast of Christmas! and Nagasaki killing thousands of innocent victims. Have the great. so-called world leaders moved to prevent total destruc- tion? No! Even the United Nations has proved to be more of a forum for quarreling among themselves than an agency for building peace and security for the peoples of the world. The nuclear armaments of the nations will provide them no protection during that "war of the great day of God the Almighty" the battle of Armageddon! Revelation t6:14-t6. Now at "the conclu- sion of the entire world system of things" we have all the more reason to accept Jesus' word in Matthew 24. consensus would be shaped, reflecting the views of all Canadian people. They know it still ought to be what John Stuart Mill once called it: "the nation’s committee of grievances, and its committee of con- cerns." But " closure motions (known as the infamous guillotine) mock this tradi- tional view. And mockery ot Parliament. a shameful disregard for the notions of mandate and emtfidenee, Is what I re- member from this Session... Here is part of the legacy this Session reasons, are not able to help ourselves... leaves to future Canadians: o a record unemployment rate that leaves Wilfrid Laurier University Political over one and mte-haif million Canadians Science Professor John Redekop writes: without jobs. nearly 30 per cent of whom "The Liberal Party is now heading are under 25; towards a disastrous rendes-vous with o the creation of whattheAuditor General voter wrath." But I find his partisan has termed a “parallel government" - pessimism premature. What I am con- Crown cohorations - employing more corned about is the here and now! The people than thepuhllc service. and respon- Throne Speech may be an expensive. sible not to Parliament. but to the Prime lasHiltch desperate ploy to the Canadian Minister and Cabinet; electorate. That would be tragic. o the savaging of the Canadian petroleum industry in the name of the National The View i prefer to hold is one of Energy Program, and the driving out of revitalization. i hope for a return of Shattered democracy W.D. Pope Waterloo, Ont. t'm afraid if Monday was the day to measure worker productivity in the city of Toronto. the results would have slid oft the bottom end of the scale. ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRttos are the reason why, of course. It has been years since the city of losers and has-been has come together as one to celebrate a sports victory. And come together it did. Wild? You should have been downtown T.0. like I was Friday night. Fans blaring trumpets on street corners. Bellows of ARRRRRRRRRRRRgos on one side of Yonge St.. answered by identical shrieks from the other side, and waves, and laughs. Enterprising youngsters hawking buttons, pennants and other souvenirs. One young man's entire body. covered with buttons, all available for the right price, hatch. Imagine the same BOO was in evidence Saturday night. over $4 billion of investment and jobs in I8 months, because outside investors were afraid to work with this Government; . but the greatest negative legacy of this Government's mismanagement is that 25 cents of every tax dollar collected now goes to service the national debt. This has jeopardized Canadians' collective protec- tion (or "safety net") in our society: the ability to maintain those programs which help those of us who, for any number of reasons, are not able to help ourselves... Wilfrid Laurier University Political Science Professor John Redekop writes: "The Liberal Party is now heading towards a disastrous rendervous with voter wrath." But I find his partisan pessimism premature. What I am con- cerned about is the here and now! The Throne Speech may be an expensive. iasHlltch desperate ploy to the Canadian electorate. That would be tragic. But nothing compared to Sunday when the Double Blue shed their sad sack image by edging B.C. Lions 1b17 to win the Grey Cup. At approximately K. 48 pm. on the sabbath, city streets, which to that point had been strangely quiet. foamed over in a sea of human happi- ness. It is not hard to summon jubilation from within when one has waited 31 years since the last Toronto coup de Grey. I wasn't as exuberant " most. I've only waited 30 years. But right after the victory, the street noise started as some 40,000 strong, many who watched the spectacle through any-colored glasses, began to toast the champions. Kissing. hugging, horn honking Ito say nothing of a smidgin of vandalism. which, as any Oktoberfest reveller realizes, is bound to happen at any festive celebration), they all went at it most of the night. And since they had already been at it most of the day. most were likely worth a tinker's damn at work Monday. But what the hey... The amazing thing about the entire affair is that the team has undergone such a remarkable turnaround in a short three-year span. From an absolutely dreadful, and worse, not even loveable, 2-14 team of 1981, they rebuilt practi- cally from scratch under incoming president Ralph Sazio. Last year, they got all the way to the Cup before losing to Edmonton, but everyone knew even then it was only a matter of time before Argos pulled it all together. as their longstanding motto urges. Happily, they took but one more year to prove their worth, and I say that because thanks to Sunday's win a euphoric tranquility has settled on 72 Cuffley Cres. in the big city. NAM W. WV. WI so. "e-- PAGE 7 il RICK l CAMPBELL At long last Yup, look up htatg-stltterug Argo (an In the dictionary and there's a portrait ot my dad. He wasn’t one of the 40.000 on Vance St. Sunday night, but there wasn’t a happier soul than be when the tual gun went off. You see, he was around for the last Argo Cup win - and has hung in for every victory and defeat since. There are easier M-year sentences, let me tell you. At times, Dad's emotions got so trar zled. he'd have to turn off the radio, walk out of the TV room, put down the ridiculing newspaper reports. Right, he just couldn’t take it at times. But, he never once gave up on the Scullers, never once. He was always there to celebrate their supposed Grey Cup victory in July, and always around to pay last respects in early November. One year, when I was young, the Boatmen found some way to squander a 4tFpoint plus edge to Hamilton in a two-game Eastern final. Bored by their ineptitude, I departed for some street hockey. Came back an hour after the game was over, and Dad was still sitting in the TV room, in the dark, staring ahead in disbelief. The year 1971 was no less a hardship for him, the year Leon MeQuay fumbled the ball with victory only yards away against Calgary. Everything was going together so well, the team was playing it safe to work towards the winning field goal - and then boom, all was lost. You’d have thought Dad had lost his last friend. He did. I left the room cursing the blackheads. But he stayed again, albeit in dead silence, and swallowed yet another bitter pill. _ Last year's loss was somewhat anti- climatic, since Argos had put together such a Cinderella story all year and had none of the Edmonton experience going for them. Again, Dad plotted victory, hope against hope, in his mind, and again. his club came up short. But the thing to note here is that through the years while jokesters have ridiculed Argos unmercifully, fans have come and gone with fairweather f1ekle- ness, reporters have torn innumerable strips from their hides and a nation has partaken in annual autumnal belly laughs, the head of the house at 72 Cuffley has remained loyal to a fault. And so my happiness in seeing Toronto Argos win Sunday went much further than personal pleasure. l am ecstatic for them, of course, but even happier for a person I consider their No. 1 fan through so little thick and so much thin. Next time I see him, I will share a "five-high" with Dad. And maybe a drink. For once, to rotting hell with "wait 'til next year." confidence in the parliamentary process. The Speech from the Throne will provide an opportunity to reaffirm the traditional supremacy of Parliament as the forum tor developing consensus on important nation- al issues: 1. unemployment. not job creation "schemes"; 2. incentive, not government "grants"; 3. a sense of control over public spending. not this Government's notion of "using oar money“; 4. health and education planning. not "blame it on the Provinces"; 5. in essence. democratic leadership and grace. not manipulation and patronage. I leave you with the thoughts of a Canadian historian of another age, Dr. A.R.M. Lower. l think it is applicable today: “In every generation. Canadians have had to rework the miracle of their political existence. Canada has been created be cause then has existed within the hearts of Its people, a determination to build for themselves an enduring home."