Zurich Citizens News, 1981-05-14, Page 4Page 4
Citizens News May 14, 1981
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Yet another `hunger strike'
Those guys living in Maplehurst really have it
tough! A bunch of them went on a short-lived
"hunger strike" this week, because of what
they called poor food quality. Their examples (get
this) were: Cold toast, warm juice and milk, and
some cold meals. The super called the complaints
"trivial". We call it nonsense.
Those who have seen the inside of this penal in-
stitution call it the "Milton Hilton". You and me,
Joe Taxpayer, are footing the bill for those law-
breakers' care. Compared to the good old days of
only a few years ago, when heavy physical work and
sparse meals were the norm, today's inmates live
in the lap of luxury — TV's, games rooms, sports
fields, well equipped shops and classrooms and a
well stocked library are today's fare.
So the toast was cold one morning? Somebody
put the juice and milk on the table a little too soon?
Come off it, you guys.
We think the boys had a touch of• spring fever
and a few trouble makers stirred up a little action,
just to break the monotony . Ten days in solitary
confinement, or a trip to a "real" jail should cure
that kind of uprising.
Milton Champion
Keep pace with growth
Don't spoil me, I know quite well I shouldn't
have all I ask for, I am only testing you.
Don't be afraid to be firm with me. 1 prefer it.
It makes me secure.
Don't let me form bad habits. I have to rely on
you to detect them in the early stages.
Don't make me feel smaller than I am. It only
makes me behave stupidly "big".
Don't correct me in front of people if you can
help it. I'll take much more notice if you talk quietly
in private.
Don't protect me from consequences. I need to
- learn the painful way sometimes.
Don't make me feel my mistakes are sins. It up-
sets my sense of values.
Don't be too upset when I say "I hate you". It
isn't you I hate, but your power to thwart me.
Don't take too much notice of my small
ailments. Sometimes they get me the attention I
need.
Don't nag — if you do, • I'll have to protect
myself by appearing deaf.
Don't make rash promises, I feel badly let down
when promises are broken.
Don't forget that I can't explain myself as well
as I'd like.
This is why I am not always very accurate
• Don't tax may honesty too much. I'm easily
frightened into telling lies.
Don't be inconsistent. It completely confuses
.me and makes me lose my faith in you.
Don't put me off when I ask questions. If you do,
you'll find I stop asking and seek information
elsewhere.
Don't tell me my fears are silly. They are
terribly real
Don't ever suggest that you're perfect or in-
fallible. It gives me too great a shock when I find
out you are neither.
Don't ever think it's beneath your dignity to
apologize to me. An honest apology makes me sur-
prisingly warm toward you.
Don't forget I love experimenting. I can't get �n
without it, so please put up with it.
Don't forget how quickly I'm growing.a. It
must be hard to keep pace with me, but please try.
Miscellaneous
Rumblings
By
ROB CHESTER
He leaned forward and asked coyly, "Do you
read cereal boxes?"
If you are anything like me, you are probably
constantly on the lookout for something new and
different to read.
It usually doesn't seem to matter what it is so
long as you've never read it before.
This is an interesting' condition: I'm not really a
descriminating reader, but neither can I read just
anything.
I like to read, but am easily bored by reading.
But I can usually pick up any book or magazine or
cereal box and find something worth reading.
It doesn't matter what the article might have to
say and it doesn't matter if I finish what I'm
reading. (If you're the type who willingly goes back
to dentist's office to finish off the article you were
reading — then you are in serious trouble.)
My strong point is not that I can write (as most
of you have guessed) but. that I can read.
The newspaper gets a tremendous volume of
mail every week, and I usually scan the highlights
of it., Most of it is rather dry political stuff — the
government is' great at churning out press reports
on any fool thing that's going — but the odd piece
gets saved from the garbage can and. set aside to be
read later.
The majority of the information does not apply
to the Zurich area, but irregardless the oc-
casional bit makes juicy reading. I've learned
about Inuit at Landcaster Sound, nuclear radiation
— and I've learned a few things I really didn't
want to know and have read things I really didn't
understand.
(I've also written things I didn't understand but
that's another column.)
Two books on model building are balanced on
the edge of my bathtub. A book on ancient warfare,
last Tuesday's Globe and Mail, and the May
Playboy decorate the living room floor; and the
bedroom is strewn with books on history, wargam-
ing, and another Globe in sections. There's not
much to read in the kitchen.
I have no chairs and- nothing to perch on while
scanning the words in the kitchen. I'm half way
through my cereal box, though.
The plot is a bit thin, and the character develop-
ment is poor, but the built in snack keeps me from
getting too bored.
It seems the Klan is at it again.
I say seems because whenever a few Klan
members get together within a few feet of a gun,
the news media labels it an armed insurrection.
I honestly can not see how 10 men armed with
automatic weapons and a couple of sticks of ex-
plosives can take over a Caribbean island. (They
could make a small and colorful attack but could
they honestly hope to overthrow and hold a govern-
ment — with 10 men?)
Suddenly hordes of them are training for combat
near Lucan. Everyone in the "news media" knows
this for a fact. Too bad no one near Lucan knows
about it. '
The Klan meanwhile, both of them, are
probably sitting in a run down office on a Toronto
back street laughing up their sleeves.
Score: Klan 3, Society 0.
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