By Pastor Donald. W. ‘Reed ; Several min- ‘| isters were sit- ting around talk- ing about crime and punishment, One had just bur- ied an 80-year-old ecw of his congregation. She had died of injuries suffered in an alley beating. She had gone alone to a shopping centre to buy groceries, The question kicked around in the discussion was: , what single factor had contrib- * uted to the lawlessness of our time? I suggest the answer is this: the notion that the pro- cesses of justice exist solely for the purpose of reforming and rehabilitating the criminal. ‘This idea is largely respon- sible for the principle of the suspended sentence, for the practice of releasing on bail; for the abolition of capital punish- * ment. It is directly responsible’ for the general reduction of penalties for crimes of every description and for the fact that almost no‘ criminal serves the ful] time of his sentence. When it is assumed that justice exists for the purpose of reforming the evil doer, those administering justice begin to fit the punishment to the crime. And whenever evidence ap- pears to demonstrate that re- habilitation has taken place, the punishment is lifted. We do not mean to suggest that there is no place for paroles or pardons, But when forgiveness looms larger in + jurisprudence than _ punish- ment, the whole foundation of justice is undermined. The result is the social equivalent of what happens in a home when d . [If God Went On Strike! | It's just a good thing God above Has never gone on strike Because he wasn't treated fair Or things He didn't like. If He had ever once sat down And said, “That's it, 'm through, I've had enough of those on earth So this is what I'll do. Till give my orders to the sun Cut off your heat supply, And to the moon—give no more light | : And run those oceans dry. : Then, just to really make it tough And put the pressure on, Turn off the air and oxygen Till every breath is gone.” Do ysu know He'd be justified If fairness was the game, For no one has been more abused Or treated with disdain, Than God—and yet, He carries on Supplying you and me’ With all the favours of His grace And everything for free! Men say they want a better deal And so on strike they 80 . But what 2 deal we've given God To whom everything we owe. We don’t care whom we hurt or harm To gain the things we like, But what a mess we'd all be in If God should go on strike! Editor: The above poem was read by Irv Shore over CHQT Radio in Edmonton. It was reprinted in The Canadian Lutheran, and a copy was given this newspaper by Alex Lutz of Castlegar. an loom larger than discipline— every parent can testify to what that ‘means. Punishment is never right- | ly administered to satisfy some- - one's whim for vengeance. It is rather the necessary ‘wages’ of misconduct. ‘And justice con- sists of the administration of the fundamental law of the universe: “For every, action there is an equal and opposite reaclion.”. One always hopes that the criminal will reform. One prays for it, works .for it, eagerly expects evidence for it. But that-is-not the aim of justice. When crime goes unpun- ished, a fundamental principle is violated and something im- portant is lost. Given enough instances of crime. unpunished and society suffers. Our social order is’ disin- tegrating before our very eyes because justice no longer rules ~ in the land. And the purpose of this article is to say that the church bears its share of the blame-for the church has been- in the forefront of the institu- tions that have weakened jus- * tice by mistakenly teaching that the rehabilitation of the criminal outweights all other considerations. Not even God forgives without appropriate’ penalties, That is why Jesus Christ paid the supreme price for our redemption. . church directory +> GRACE PRESBYTERIAN © . CHURCH Fi 7th Ave. South, Castlegar ! Worship Service — 117 a.m. Tues, — Bible Study 7 p.m.. Rev. C. Smyth - 368-3818 ST. RITA'S CATHOLIC CHURCH Rey. W. Harrison Ph. 365-7143 Saturday Night Mass 7 p.m. 3 Sunday Masses at ST. PETER LUTHERAN am. and i1 am. - CHURCH 405 Maple St., Castlegar Worship Service 9:00 a.m. “Everyone Welcome” ‘Sunday, School 10:15 a.m. : CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH Office 365-3430 Rev. Donald W. Reed -.| APOSTOLIC CHURCH One Block East of the Castleaird Shopping Plaza 10 a.m, Sunday School 11 a.m. Morning Worship 7 p.m. Fellowship Service Fri. 7 p.m. Youth ie Family Val Leiding Phone 399-4753 . Home 365-2630 - Next to the Cloverleaf Motel, Castleaird Plaza Sunday School 9.45 Family Worship 11 a.m. Evening Worship 7 p.m. Anglican & United Churches Rev. 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Free. 2 UThe- first “woman in “he + world to. ever be, awarded a | =the library through the: Multi-; | doctor of ea “degree Tei ceived ‘it from: Genover College! iin New, York in 11849, ; \With or without-a degree : ‘in'medicine; however, the aver- age » homemaker © successfully ‘~ +treats a wide variety’ of, ills - . from skinned knees: to attacks of loneliness.::” : : And ‘when’ lost pets \ are involved, then mothers are : particularly adept because they turn: to’ the “Classified Ads j ,. section of-the Castlegar News: Tennessee: As Aromatic Cedar]: ‘ Chests? for help. © Any” person ‘fi finding « any- thing, from a‘ stray cat to a licence ’plate, can advertise the © item ‘free. in’ the: “found’-.col- ¢-umns of the Want.’Ads. You. just phone 965-7266: and ‘tell :the ;helpful’ ad-taker | © that you'd like to* Place a free found ad. < oor A So Buy Yours. Today through Jan. 15 and receive . 25% Es REDUCTION IN-STOCK: 605 Columbia, Castlegar the - final’ show, “‘Levesque and her family are ~ < moving to Ottawa. {teva consistent radio time slot). Apart from hundreds of books in Portuguese and Rus- sian, the library for at least a year, has ‘been developing | its “+ collections’ in ‘all areas. Ap- proximately 200 new. and cur- rent’ books appear on- the shelves each month. New audio-- “ cassette: tape books’ for the blind‘and handicapped are con- ‘stantly, coming f into, the library for use. Since space is: now at a : premium|:bebk/ordering will haverto’stop! 4th branches are filled’ to: capacity,- despite . Though it is..with regret that'I leave’ Castlegar to take up: my’ new. position: in 'Van- couver, I feel that my effective- ness as librarian for the past.16 months may. now. be limited, “until -we ‘consolidate our ser- vices into one-building so as to better serve the community as a ‘whole, . with adequate’ pro- grams and opening. hours. Furthermore, = there has 2 been: no provision ‘by ‘the city for taking on the responsibility ofa qualified librarian in Castle- *gar.when the Library. Develop- ment: Commission: grant’ runs. out at the end of March, 1977. We'all hope, in the library, : for. the. ‘realization ‘of » the’ -Kootenay Library “System when all residents in the Koot- ‘enays’ will have adequate lie brary provision... 7 RS By Neale Gea Hoffman AKing Features + “ni Syndicate Column Would Mary have sent the Baby: Jesus to a day care’ centro? She might if she had + been with us this past Christ- mas* and she was a career “woman out there in the market placé battling for‘a paycheque right along with Joseph. That's .assuming that Joseph: had ‘seniority ‘in the carpenter's union and hadn't been laid off; otherwise he could’stay home with the Baby, although few men in our culture have done very well at the job. If Jesus had been sent to'a } day care centre; shortly: after’ '. Mary had recovered ‘:her strength enough to go | back ‘to work ag an account executive in an advertising agency or as a lawyer, her Son:might not have become the aymbol ‘and ideal of love, both human’ and. divine, which::He -has:‘been ‘for: our. “civilization: for, 20 centuries, Our ‘experience with’ in- ho.are putin’ the in- setting so early in life is}that they grow up with considerable difficulty express-" ing love: or’ loyalty, ‘It's, not ‘a‘scientific fact, but the - impression garnered | by many.‘observers is “that’ the children ‘of:a’ kibbutz-type in- fancy ‘grow up to be intensely * ‘middling’ people, never: at’ the bottom, never at the top. The day care centre seems to be ah: efficient means of rearing organization men and women, ‘but’ as. Dr. Herbert Ratner. has- said, “If, nature wanted children to be raised in “litters, they would be born that way... .The reason only one child/is' born at a time is’ be- cause’ the only way to teach children love is‘in a one-to-one relationship. That is why: I'm against day sare centres.? Parca in ‘ine iibbute are’ now being encouraged to spend more ® time. ‘with’ their’ very young infants for some of these very reasons. Not that there is - any” ground for comparing the care an infant ‘gets: in “Israel ‘with the treatment it. gets in America.:.We' can't begin ‘to av uring. she. firs months,-of existence,” writes Bar! bara Joe,-a mother of four with a masters degree in social. ‘care. services, “they. require many of the services that would be! provided by an ‘intensive care nursing home at any other stage of life—a liquid diet, et the-clock osdings ‘and: assurance that their breathing is unobstructed. They must be dressed and bathed, they are ‘incontinent, they . often regurgitate their, food, they cannot speak, and they are practically immobile.” After that comes Jove: and a million other ‘less tangible, but no leas important things. Tho further away. one gets from home and mother the less: able our‘soclety: is to provide i these necessities for, our. child-:’ ren. .. The reason isn't: hard to come by. The high-status, high- respect occupations are those ‘This is becnise thew way people y Jearn’,to parent—and: girls: specifically to,‘mother'—Is first - by experiencing mothering roles. It:would be almost im-.' possible for a whole generation \0f- children’ raised | in : group settings without individualized’ mothering/and without exam- ples of, this In’ their-oxperience; | to suddenly be able to.adapt this behavior upon achieving, | biological’ parenthood, | what- ever their intellectual commit, ment might be. “Thus, day care; liberating girls from the stereo-,. typed motherhood role, might * liberate them to the extent that money, Pp’ power and fame. The care of human beings is a despised, low-caste occupa: tion.> Our! Hospitals, old age, nursing. and » convalescent’ homes are staffed with poorly- paid, looked-down-upon people, mostly black people and more often than not’ black . women who can't get any other kind of job. ‘The clamor. “for. day care centres from some women's organizations but by no means “all women's groups is, then, riot for the benefit of the child, but only the mother and father who don't want to or can't take care of their offspring. “However, since there is:no data anywhere suggesting the institutional rearing .of infants and small, children is. better than or even as good as a good | home feminist groups might. be ' wiser urging women who don't want to take care of their children just not to have them. The ‘pressure is all the: other way, to go on increasing day ‘care. centre financing by the government. With the new administration, which is rather. thoughtlessly committed to day . care, there will be yet more pressure, especially in view. of the fact ‘these . centres can ‘appear to create jobs, although it’s actually ‘only hocus-pocus to pay people to perform a service * outside, the home that.can, be performed in it for about 20 per cent of the. cost. * Switching’ ‘over to: govern: ment rearing of small children isn’t slike; h from: ing would no longer. be an option” for: them: and the choice, once made, would have’ become irreversible.” : . * * *) The least we can do, ‘as . Barbara Joe‘points out in.her excellent unpublished. paper, Child in Crisis, is debate the significance of what’ we're drifting into here. ' There are other ways ‘to handle these. problems. 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