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Zurich Citizens News, 1964-03-05, Page 2PAGE TWO THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1964 1 eammeott A Question Much too often, these days, we're apt to measure our successes and accomplish- ments in terms of direct cash, monetary value or material benefit. The structure of our modern society has caused us to evaluate otu• status and our worth in the community in this manner and we're apt to forget that we may have other assets which cannot even be meas- ured by material standards, yet, assets which cannot even be measured by material standards, yet, assets that could give us a position of very great importance within the community. To stand in a position of importance in the community does not necessarily mean that one must be a leader of men, nor does it mean that one must occupy the house on the hill. A position of importance can be occupied by the person with such seemingly unglamorous personal assets like charity, human understanding, kindness and gentleness, courtesy, tolerance and consid- eration. These personal assets have more value in the long run. What's more, we ourselves control their destiny. A stock -market crash does not decide whether they continue -to exist or not. Whereas an economic de- SOO al if of Value pression does dictate out standard of liv- ing and the extent and value of our ma- terial possessions. The peacetime purpose of the Canadian Red Cross Society is "to carry on and assist in work for the improvement of health, the prevention ofdisease and the mitiga- tion of suffering throughout the world"„ a purpose that is motivated by personal assets, a purpose which cannot continue to be carried out without the active use of these assets. We are the Canadian Red Cross. We keep it going. Its success or failure is de- pendant upon how much use each one of us makes of such personal assets as charity, kindness and human understanding. The success or failure of the Red Cross is a direct reflection on the value we place on these assets, and in the end, a reflection on us and our community. A strong Red Cross means a strong com- munity of individuals who place a high value on these personal assets. When you're asked to give to the Red Cross, think of the many ways your Red Cross helps to improve health and relieve suffering throughout the world then give generously. From The Editor's Chair Good old income tax time is with us again. Do you remember the day when we used to say "we wish we had enough money that we would have to pay income tax?" Well, that day has arrived and few escape its hungry maw, and we are gradually learning to become used to it. When we read of the millions, nay billions, that the government is spending on planes, scien- tific research, roads and all those things that we directly or indirectly demand we could be surprised that the call for money is not greater. Will the day come when these demands moderate? We'd hate to bank on it. As long as conditions remain good we prob- ably will go along with the almost fantastic expansion that is in progress today. With changes in living conditions, our roads, our new schools; the growth of our western cities, such a forecast would have been laughed at sixty years ago as a pipe -dream; we would have been accused of asking the impossible; but new inventions, the in- creased power of automation has made the impossible possible, and in spite of their nostalgic memories none of us would be willing to return to "The good old days". So when we are anxiously making out those Income Tax forms don't let us blame any government for filching our hard- earned dollars; we might remember as a TV program says "You asked for it". -The Qu'Appelle Progress) Conventions - Are They Worth the Cost We often wonder if the benefit de- rived from various conventions that muni- cipal officials attend is worth the cost to the ratepayer. It would alarm many people if they knew just how much it actually costs to send delegates to a convention. In recent weeks there has been a con- vention for all municipal officials in con- nection with good roads. A lot of money is used to pay the expense of these dele- gates from the local municipalities. More recently there has been a hydro conven- tion, which many officials attend. While we are not sure what some of these affairs cost the ratepayer, we have a good idea of what the hydro convention cost the village of Zurich. By the time the members who attend .are paid ten dol- lars per day for their time, plus the cost of rooms, meals, transportation and so on, for both themselves and their wives, we imagine the tabe will come close to four hundred dollars. The big question is whether or not the municipality who is paying this bill is benefitting to this extent from the an- nual outing, Or is it just another few days away for those who attend? This same question has been pondered in many other neighboring municipalities in recent years, but no one seems to be able to determine the value received. Easter Seals Help Crippled Children Easter Seal contributions are financing the finest, most up- to-date program of treatment and rehabilitation for Ontario's crippled children that you can find. The Ontario Society for Crip- pled Children and its associated Service Clubs have had 40 years of continuous expansion and improvement, so that today the child or teenager living in On- tario who has a physical dis- ability has the best possible chance of complete rehabilita- tion. The people of Ontario have indicated their concern for the crippled child and their belief in the Society's program of care and treatment, by their faith- ful support to the Society's one annual public appeal, the Easter Seal campaign, The 1964 campaign must raise at least $1,000,000 in order to assure the more than 16,000 crippled children that the help of the Society through its nurs- ing service, treatment centres, clinics, camps, research and many other activities will still be available. In every community - every small hamlet and every large city in this province -there are crippled children needing help. Social position, race color or creed offer no immunity. Crippling conditions can oc- cur in many ways. Babies are This Weeh a«d Nest By RAY ARGYLE The first votes in the long campaign to elect an American president will be cast in New Hampshire next week, But don't expect a decisive verdict from the state's March 10 Republican primary. New Hampshire is the first of some 17 states and the District of Columbia which holds presi- dential primaries. The princi- ple behind the primaries is to give party followers a voice in the selection of the presidential candidate. This seldom works out in practice, however, as the party conventions usually go ahead and choose their nominees with- out worrying excessively about primary. Only in the states where the primaries are used to elect committed delegates for the winning candidate, do the primary results count. The others are just popularity polls. Only one successful presiden- tial candidate - John F. Ken- nedy -has been able to use the primaries as a lever to capture the nomination in recent years. In 1960, the late president suc- cessfully used the primaries to prove to the Democratic party that he could overcome the han- dicap of his being a Catholic. Because of the inevitability of President Johnson's nomination by the Democrats in August, the Democratic primaries count for nothing this year. All the atten- tion will be focussed on the Republicans, with the key tests after New Hampshire being Ore- gon on May 15 and California on June 2. Of these, California will be the most significant because it born with cleft palates, de- formed or missing limb s, absence of nerve and muscle control or one of scores of im- pediments to natural physical development. Disease causes many physical disabilities that can have a life-long affect. Chil- dren, too, are prone to acci- dents which these days of great speed appear to increase rather than diminish. Every Easter Seal contribu- tion will be of help to some crippled child. Every Ontario citizen who can help - should help! The campaign throughout this entire area is being conducted by the Zurich Lions Club, and donations may be mailed or left with George Deichert, treasurer of the campaign. ZURICH Citizens NEWS HERB TURKHEIM - Hditor and Publisher PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING at ZURICH, ONTARIO Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa and for the payment of postage in cash. Member: CANADIAN WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION Member: ONTARIO WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION Subscription Rates: $3.00 per year in advance, in Canada; $4.00 in United States and and Foreign; single copies 7 cents will commit the state's 86 dele- gates to the winner. The New Hampshire contest will likely be indecisive because of the long list of entrants. In addition to Gov. Nelson Rocke- feller and Sen. Barry Goldwater, there's Sen. Margaret Chase Smith of neighboring Maine and the perenial GOP hopeful, Har- old Stassen of Minnesota. To make the vote a real free-for-all, there also have been write-in campaigns organized for Rich- ard Nixon, for Henry Cabot Lodge and others. Because of the multiplicity of candidate, no one will really win New Hampshire, nor will any of the serious contenders really stand to lose much either. Despite this, Sen. Goldwater runs considerable risk of having his lustre dulled, especially if Nelson Rockefeller is able to prove that his divorce has not seriously weakened his public following;. The state's leading daily newspaper a supporter of the conservative Goldwater, has run an emotional campaign against Mr. Rockefeller, label- ing him among other things, a "wife swapper". The strategy could backfire. The tremendous shake - up which has been going on in American politics since Presi- dent Kennedy's assassination is not yet over. Rockefeller has been damaged to some extent by his divorce, but Goldwater's radical right-wing views may prove more of a handicap in the long run. And there's still Mr, Nixon to be heard from, along with such people as Gov. Scan - ton of Pennsylvania and Gov. Romney of Michigan. II111111pIpIIpgIU11m111111II11111uIIQUIII111111 tu1111 SUGAR and SPICE By Bill Smiley Have you watched teenagers dancing lately? If you haven't and your are old-fashioned, and your blood pressure is high, take my advice. Don't. Saturday afternoon, through sheer inertia, I found myself before a television set showing one of these teenage dance programs. Fortunately, I am neither old-fashioned nor high - blood -pressured (it says here). But I must confess, I was wish- ing I were 25 years younger. Today's kids dance dolefully but sweetly, to the slow num- bers, heads knuckled togther, bodies scarcely moving, intent, serious, tender yet strangely impersonal. But when the music begins to clang and thump, they come into their own. They laugh; they bob and bounee; they wiggle and jiggle and giggle. Their faces light up. Their feet weave and shift and trace pe- culiar patterns. They are very young and very much alive, and completely caught up in that most ancient means of com- munication -rhythm. Watching them, I was sad. It's a pretty bitter thing, after all, to have been too young for the Charleston, too old for the Twist. But I couldn't stay sad. Let- ting -my mind drift back over the years, I actually began to fell sorry for the youngsters. "These kids," I thought dis- dainfully, "How many of them have mustard a step as I did? Sure, they can do the Cha -Cha and the Twist and the Bossa Nova. But is there a single one of them who can base a whole era of dancing on one step- the fox trot -as t did?" There a r e ample -bosomed middle-aged ladies across the land who will testify that Smi- ley was a corker, if not a terror, when he tripped the light fan- tastically. There are grandmothers in Canada, England, France and Belgium whose eyes still light up when they remembered the way we whirled about the dance halls, a symphony of smoothness, a fantasy of fox- trotting. "How many of these kids," I wondered, "have ever danced with a Brazilian beauty who couldn't speak a word of Eng- lish and was doing a dreamy tango while you were doing a brisk fox-trot?" "How many of them," I quer- ied, "have ever been to a real old country square-dance, where the sign that the dance was over was not the band playing 'The Queen', but the stovepipes coming down when the fight started?" "How many," I thought, "have ever tried to fox-trot with a brawny Land Army girl who was bound she was doing a waltz, and could lift you right off the floor in the process? "How many of them," I con- sidered, "have walked up to a flashing -eyed young French ma- tron in Brussels, at a nightclub, bowed to her, bowed to her hus- band, asked her for a dance in impeccable Grade 11 French, and received a slap in the face from her, and a kick in the groin from her husband?" No. Let them have their fun. I have my memories. Long be- fore these kids were running around with their diapers dang- ling, I was cheek-to-cheeking it on enchanted summer evenings, and breathing heavily into the ears of their Aunt Mabels. Crossword ACROSS 1 . Viper 4l Female servant 8. Inquires 12.. Also 13. Whirlpool. 14. Twisted 15, Belonging to 1e 16. Portion 17. Region 18. Get ready 20. Cu* 21. Malt beverage 22. Valley 23. Burns 26. Shaft of light 27. Mimic 90. Rabbit 31. Possesses 32. Roman date 89. Make a mistake 84. Coal 85. Odor 36. Sea eagles 38. Consumed 39. Something o1 value 4L Barters 45. Tardy 46. Kind of shoe 47. Large tub 48. Bound 49. Gaelic 50. Pisco out 51. 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