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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1964-05-14, Page 2PAGE TWO THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1964. ZURIC Citizens NEWS KERB TURKHEIM — Editor and Publisher P*tUBLISHED 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 Meatier: ONTARIO "MIMI NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION Subscription Rates: $$.00 per year in advance, in Canada; $4.00 in United States and and Foreign; single copies 7 cents he Value o Adult Education Education is usually being frowned on by adults as something not belonging in their Iives, but merely in the world of youngsters as part of basic schooling. They reason they finished their education when they left school, that they were able to get along fairly well ever since and that there is no reason for them to pick up books again, to study abstract subjects and to do homework in the same way as their own children have to do. But in the complex structure of modern living, an intellectual revolution is needed among, adults. Not so many years ago, they really were able to coast along very well on what they had learned in school and to add some further knowledge by way of hobbies, but things have changed and continued education is now necessary to life. There are many influences contribut- ing to the state of affairs—what is going on in the world has implications for every individual: automation demands wide knowledge, resiliency and adaption: in- creased leisure threatens to ruin the essen- tial humanes in human beings; it takes wider knowledge and deeper understand- ing to live happily in a modern world and without up to date knowledge we are plunged into great confusion after a short time. Instead of putting periods here and there in life, as at the end of school days or at the end of bachelorhood or the end of employment on going on pension, com- mas should be put in these places to allow a branching out into more spacious versions of life, Continued learning carries us beyond the easy judgments and superficial training of youthful immaturity. It builds qualities of the mind which enable us to understand responsibilities and to detect opportunities and to build a philosophy which becomes part of life. It is a continuing initiation in the art of living everyday life. Nothing other than adult learning can build the wisdom indispensable to the preservation and strengthening of our society. People must continue their development so as to be able to judge new ideas, assess happen- ings for their significance, and to judge the purposes and effects of political de- cisions. This constructive approach to life is an essential of enduring freedom. We need straight thinking, disciplined creativity and responsible co-operation. Such qualities as sound values, understanding and sympathy only develop in an environment of knowl- edge. All these combine to qualify us to exercise the right and meet the •obligations of freedom. Every kind of knowledge, every acquaintance with nature and art, every new understanding of human ways helps towards a comprehensive understand- ing of life. The world into which we were born has changed and is changing; it is not enough to hold ground—we must make progress. It is adults who make homes, churches, schools, communities; it is adults who determine policy on our political, eco- nomic and social fronts; it is adults who have to cope with the dangers and oppor- tunities of every passing day. — (Elmira Signet) ating sy t t 'i t yon all these p i.:rtant Cages; t !: er =;osinless clean safe quiet stat in every room `e living space economy Electric heating is one of the many comfort features of the famous Medallion all -electric homes. For full information, consult a qualified electric heating contractor or your Hydro. your hydro Ill1101IIIIIIIIiIIIIIUIII111111II0111IIIIIIlU1111u111111IIIIIIIIIIIIIi111111 UiIIIU O1111111111111111111111111M1111IIIIIIIIDIIIIIIIIIIlUlln11111111011111111111111101181 IU11011 ...E , M1,k, `Q; SUGAR and SPICB Mt= By Bill Smiley Everybody is writing about Shakespeare these days. The only sour- note is the fanfare of acclaim marking his 400th anni- versary is a deep rumbling sound that has many people baffled. A. few romantics claim it is the ghostly applause of nearly four centuries of playgoers echoing down the years. A few realists assert that it is the mu- tinous mumbling of 20 genera- tions of students who had to memorize chunks from his works. Personally, I think the dis- cordant note is caused by the rapid rotation in his grave of the bones of The Bard, a shrewd businessman, as he agonizes over all those royalties he is not collecting. Otherwise, things are going swimmingly as the critics and professors of English peer and peek and poke among the mag- nificent debris, and the inane argument about who really wrote his plays waxes once more with futile fury. But I am not concerned with that. There are enough people plodding about through his works, trampling poetry under- foot as they search for clues to prove he was really Bacon or Marlowe or the Earl of Some- thing. Let's look for a moment at the real Will Shakespeare. We find him in the hundreds of brief passages that have come ringing down the years with their universal truths He had to put them in the mouths of others, of course, but the man himself is there, warm, alive, grinning, scowling, scold- ing, exulting. What, could -be more human, for example, than his pride in his own success? When the opening night performance of Hamlet showed that the play was a smash, he deftly inserted in the last scene, and on the spur of the moment, the joyful line, "A hit, a very palpable hit!" We can see his amused toler- ance of his wife's lack of muscle in another famous line. She'd slipped a disc while trying to move an old trunk of sonnets. "Frailty, thy name is woman," quipped Will. We can sympthaize with his honest rage (this was before dry-cleaning) as he scrubbed the gravy -stain on his new silk breeches and bellowed, "Out, •damned spot! Out, I say!" What man's heart does not warm to The Bard's forthright suggestion, in Henry VI, Part 2, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." Is there a housewife living who has echoed, at some time, Shakespeare's immortal com- ment when his wife came hone from the butcher with a stringy roast, "This is the most un- kindest out of all"? Many a man has wished he had the gift, and the nerve, that Will displayed the night he got home from the pub, tiddly and tardy and was confronted by his wife, her sister, and his mother-in-law. Did he say he was sorry and would never do it again? Not he, He roared, "How now, you secret, black and midnight hags!" He knew men, as witness, "`Tis ever common that men are merriest when they are from home." He knew women, too._ "There was never yet a fair woman but she made mouths in a glass." As this piece of research ends, I can hear a multitude of English teachers saying, in uni- son, "For this relief much thanks." TV 0 Views by William Whiting Latest American TV ratings (taken in March) places ABC in the number two spot, with NBC slipping to number three. Third for months, ABC changed programs, going with comedy shows, which is apparently pay- ing off in ratings. CBS remains first. :r * * A preview of a new TV show this fall "The Avengers" looks good, It proves one thing — that violence can be fun. A been spring cleaning and had typical plot—Steed and Mrs. Your neighbours profit from using ATRAZINE* Shouldn't You? "Control is excellent wouldn't be without it!" Says George F. Morris, Merlin, Ontario. "I used an over-all spray of Atrazine on 200 acres of picking corn and 50 cores of silage corn" says Mr. Morris. "Control of weeds and grasses has been excellent without any cultl. Vation, I would hate to have to go back to getting along without It;" I'Atrazine treatment le normal routine with successful corn prowers. Your neighbours, who have used Atrazine, will tell )you they wouldn't grow corn without It. One application of Atrazine controls weeds ail season tong ;including those In the rows which can't be reached by cultiva Iion. Start using AtrazIne this year ... discover how profitable (Corn production Can be. 'Ask your farm supply dealer for an instructional leaflet on the stew, more concentrated formula, Atrazlne 65W, Place your Order now and get your sprayer ready on time. for good forma g *trade mark roplste 'ad In Canada for use by Fisons (Canada) limited Summer Assistant Picked for Huron Murray Shepherd, of Scot- land, Ontario, will be summer assistant Agricultural Represen, Gale uncover a fertilizer fac- tory through which a power- hungry neo -Caesar plans to poison the world's population and take over. * * k Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks have. been enlisted to liven up the forthcoming TV Emmy cast program with their version of TV 2,000 years ago, when rat- ings were determined by the number of rocks which were thrown. Two networks are reported negotiating with Ralph Edwards to revive his "This Is Your Life". Jean Vanderpyle, the "voice" of Wilma Flinstone, was recent- ly gifted with a litter of six puppies. She named them Fred, Wilma, Barney, Betty, Pebbles and Bamm Bamm, in honor of the leading Flintstone charar- ters. tative for Huron County. Mur- ray has just finished his second, year at MaeDonald College, P.Q. Mr. Shepherd has a very im- pressive 4-H record, having completed twenty-five 4-H Agri- cultural Club projects in dairy, sheep, swine, grain, corn and tractor. He was a delegate to Provincial 4-H Leadership Week at O.A.C„ Guelph, in 1960, and. he has participated in 4-H Inter Club competitions and was a member of a Royal Agrieultural Winter Fair judging team. Mr. Shepherd intends to ma- jor in Agricultural Economics when he returns to MacDonald College an September. 0 Grand Bend Clerk Justice of Peace Grand Bend — Murray Des- Jar es- Jar din s, clerk -treasurer of Grand Bend, has been appoint- ed as a Justice of the Peace for the County of Huron. He has held a similar position with Lambton County for some time. 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