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, 4,-Orono Weekly Times, Wednesday, October 6th, 1976 U.C. Women attend Qu i n -Mo- La c ca m p Two hundred and seventy women of the United Church from the seven Presbyterials of the Bay of Quinte Conference Conference met recently for a weekend at Camp Quiri-Mo- Lac near Tweed, Ontario, ■Çhç Theme of the weekend was Bible Explorations 11 his four addresses on Christian Christian Living : Courageous and Contagious. 1. As a Christian are we willing to listen to one another; admit a mistake; admit your need of other people ; grant freedom to your loved ones at home and at church. 2. Let us forgive others always; let us be enthusiastic about our faith. 3. Christianity is invita tional. Come and follow me. 4. Christianity is good news. It is what Christmas is all about and at the heart of our "faith is a empty tomb. God does not want us to be. servants, but sons and daughters. daughters. let us all return to our homes and live and work and witness. The communion • service preceding Sunday morning breakfast, arid following worship worship to start the day at the lakeshore, was conducted by Rev. Hunter and was another of the spiritual highlights of the weekend. The 1976 School was truly a weekend of fellowship, joy, enlightment and dedication. The Dean for the 1977 school will be Mrs. Glen Howes, Parham, Advertising- helps you find exactly what you need. THE ANTI-INFLATION PROGRAM Christian Living : Courageous and Contagious. Attractive informative posters posters prepared by the seven Presbyterials, of living in -seven of the Third World 'Countries, decorated the dining dining hall. . Mrs. Clifford Minifie, Cold Springs, Dean of the School presided at all sessions and kept the entire weekend schedule. Mrs. M. D. Brownlee, Kingston, leadership development development chairman of Conference U.C.W. was the chief co-ord- inator in the planning and carrying out of the program. A varied supply of interesting interesting and informative literature as well as United Church crest, jewellry was introduced introduced by literature secretary Mrs. Kenneth Weaver, Stirling, Stirling, ably assisted by Miss Verna Hillyard of Distribution Distribution Services, Toronto. Interest Interest was so great that $1,751.00 was received by the sale of literature. - Enthusiastic singing of songs both old and new was a feature of the weekend under the leadership of Mrs. D. W. Mcftendry, Glenbourne.- On Friday evening 5 minute "Let's Laugh" presentations were made by the seven Presbyterials. These were hilarious and each had actually actually happened within the respective respective Presbyterials. Friday night vespers were conducted by the Assistant Dean, Mrs. Glen Howes, Parham, basing her thoughts on faith. Each camper received received an acorn to remind us in the months ahead that our faith can grow as the little acorn grows to be the mighty oak. Mrs. B. J. JÜassen, Kingston, Kingston, led us in our offering wprship and dedication as the offering of $504.00 was received received for the Sahel Project in the Sahara Desert of west Africa, through the world development, development, service and relief fund. This area has suffered extensively extensively from a prolonged drought. A group of Counsellors in various stages of their camping camping experience made their witness as each told of the best thing that had happened to them during summers at camp with the children of our conference. Later they led in five separate campfire programs. programs. The theme speaker was Rev. Gordon C. Hunter, Toronto, who based each of , mi, -r-- ■■.linn; ta F.R. Tennant FuelsLtd. Phone 983-5693 Whereweave and where weYe going L After one year, the anti-inflation program is doing what it set out to do. The most important achievement has been the drop in the inflation rate. A year ago, consumer prices were rising at a rate of 10.6%. By .August 1976, that rate of increase had dropped to 6.2%. This fall some unavoidable increases in energy costs and municipal taxes will affect the rate of inflation. In spite of this, the first year target' of an inflation rate of no more than 8% will be met. Increases in all forms of income-wages, salaries, fees, profits, dividends-are also being successfully restrained. On the average, prices have gone up less than wages this year. This means that most Canadians can cope a bit better, we have more buying power than we had before the program began. ' ' ■ . The goalbf the second year of the antiinflation antiinflation program is to bring inflation down even further,, to no more than 6%. This can be achieved only if increases in everything slow down together. In our kind, of market economy, prices have to be able to move up and down to some extent. • But the anti-inflation program does put an effective restraint on prices by controlling profit margins. In the second year,.- the. price and profit controls are being changed to make the rules ^simpler and to apply restraint more fairly among different companies.'They also include important incentives to encourage the investments the country needs to make the economy grow and create new jobs for Canadians. New investment credits will make allowances for company profits re-invested to boost production and productivity. , In the area of wages and salaries, the second year Guidelines limit,increases to 6% as a protection against price increases, with 2% more added as a share of national productivity. % ■ j|l Government Gouvernement I'm of Canada du Canada This Guideline is designed to protect and „ improve the real income of working Canadians, while bringing down the rate of inflation. All governments are restraining their expenditures. The federal government is limiting growth in its own spending to keep it in line with the overall, growth of the Canadian economy. This means that every'day hard, choices must be made to limit new programs and trim old ones. These choices are, painful. But they have to be made , if the government is to restrain its costs and avoid contributing to inflation. 3. Nobody likes controls. Not the people whose private decisions are affected by theih. And not the goverriments that have to enforce them. But bontrols were and are needed, to bring inflation down and to assure a growing economy. The program will be terminated by the end of 1978. Until it is ended, the government is committed to making sure the controls work hard to bring about a continuing reduction in the rate of inflation. Inflation has to be cut down to protect our personal buying power, our savings and pensions, and jobs for Canadians. If last year's spiral of rising prices and incomes had continued,- Canadian-made products would soon be unable^o compete in world markets. Imports could easily undercut goods produced and sold here at home. It's especially important for us to keep our prices arid costs competitive with the United States,* and on both counts the U.S. is still doing better than we are. Finally, inflation also hurts investment. And when investment goes down, unemployment goes up. After-a year of controls, inflation has come down. Progress has been made, in*protecting Canadian jobs andrimproving Canada's wellbeing. wellbeing. The success of the antidnflation program so far has depended a>great deal ori the cooperation-of cooperation-of many Canadians. With continued co-operation, we can all look forward to sharing a more prosperous and growing economy. THE ANTI- r~~ INFLATION I '■ PROGRAM- A'REVIEW YEAR ONE f--