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Zurich Citizens News, 1964-09-03, Page 2PAGE TWO THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1964 I ea#11Mot Ortit MAY AIN Declining Dollar Most of us, noting the latest rise in the cost of living index to 135.3 (1949 - 100) will understand that it means we need $1.35 now to buy what could be bought with $1.00 in 1949. Fortunately, many Canadians (among them manufacturing employees whose hour- ly earnings have actually doubled in the 15 -year period since 1949) have done much better than this and as a result they have so far escaped the consequences of what we call inflation. But there is some merit in looking back over the past 25 years and taking stock of just how steeply insidious the decline in the value of the dollar has been. A married Canadian with two children, for example, who earned an income of $1,500 in 1938 paid no tax at all on it. Today, merely to be holding his own, he would have to have a gross income of $3,273. Of this, and taking family allow- ance into account, he would pay federal tax of $94. If he made $3,000 in 1938, such a Ca- nadian paid just six dollars of it in taxes. Today, to be as well off, he needs a gross income of $7,169, of which $825 is. income and old age security tax. The $5,000 a year man with a wife and two children paid just $80 in income tax in 1938. The same' man today must earn $12,731 to be doing as well now as he was then, and of this sum he will be paying $2,306 to Ottawa. As for the lucky (if rare) fellow who was making $10,000 in 1938—just $440 of which was taken from him by Ottawa— he now must make a gross income more than three times as great ($30,236) merely to stay even. And of this he will pay nearly one-third ($9,978) in federal income taxes. In other words, practically as much as his total 1938 earnings. Where this whole business will end none of us can know. Many,' in their in- nocence, will not worry just as long as the gradual, year -by -year depredations of in- flation are masked by a rising standard of living. But there will always be those on fixed and limited incomes .who will not enjoy such protection. Such people, the first victims of inflation, are rarely the last. All of which has moved one inflation - conscious Canadian to sum up, Ogden Nash fashion, as follows: I think when we think of infation we tend to think in extremes Of steeply ascending prices, of lunch money measured in reams. But I think when we think of inflation we ought to be giving Some thought To the fact that a little inflation can accumulate to a lot. You may not have actually realized but a 2% annual toll In a mere 30 years of its progress can practically halve your roll. So I think when we think of in- flation we'd really do better to keep In mind not its thundering gallop but its much more insidious creep. Editors May Not Read Letter -Review cites the incident of a life-long employee of a newspaper who left his life savings •of $21,000 in a baking soda tin hidden in a radio. It goes on to state that the employee who was robbed could hardly have read the newspapers or he would have known of hundreds of articles published through the years indicating that hiding cash is helpful to robbers. We marvel that a newspaper employee could ever manage to save $21,000 out of the kind of money such employees re- ceive, but this is not our main concern. What makes the public thirik that news- paper employees read any more than any- one else? Why should newspaper em- ployees, if they did read the papers, pay any more attention to the warnings issued through newspaper articles than anyone else does? After alI, there are many kinds of jobs connected with the publishing of news- papers which have nothing to do with read- ing the paper. Even such jobs as proof- reading and typesetting become mechan- ically automatic. One may set the type or correct the spelling of millions of individual words without ever linking the words to- gether in order to produce thought pat- terns in the mind. And as far as editors go, even though they may desire to read enough to get other authors' ideas, they do not want to read so much that they will take on another's style; so even editors - may not read much. We boldly suggest that the poor news- paper employee who had amassed a $21,000 fortune and then lost it, may never have read of the danger •of keeping large sums of money around his residence. And if he didn't read newspapers, while he may have missed some good information, think of all the nerve-wracking, demoralizing, time- cansuming, heart -breaking junk that he missed. The loss of his money may not have been as harmful to him as would have been the hardship caused by all the reading required to know how to prevent the theft of his money. Editors may not read, they may just write.—(Nanton News). Credit is Due Clinton, like all other towns, has had a problem of squealing tires and irrespon- sible driving. Clinton has taken action to control the problem, as the Clinton News - Record points out: "We believe credit should be given where it is due and credit is due to the Clinton Police Commission and Clinton Town Council. "Those groups have taken positive ac- tion to combat reckless driving which was becoming a serious situation in Clinton. The last of their promised resolutions was enacted last Friday when a telephone was installed in the police cruiser. "There are those who will argue "it sure took them long enough', but the elected representatives wanted to make sure what they were doing was in the hest interests of the town and the people they represent. "Since that special meeting of the police committee held on June 1 of this year, Clinton has .a fourth police officer and effective communications for the police department. Before the fourth police of- ficer was hired assistance was sought— and provided by the Ontario Provincial Police from the Goderich detachment. "The action all started when Councillor George Wonch began raising hell in public about tire squealing punks in town. Mr. Wonch banged his fists on the long table in council chambers. He wrote down li- cence numbers and reported the cars to police and he wrote a letter to the News - Record. "He kept hammering away for what he wanted because the people who elected him to council also wanted it ... and he got what they wanted. "But every man on council is to be commended for voting in favor of the changes which were needed in this town. "It was said the police department didn't have (a) enough manpower to cope with the traffic problem, and (b) proper equipment to patrol the town. It was said the police couldn't be blamed for the sit. uation and were doing the best they could with what they had. "So now they have the manpower and the equipment ... who's blaming them? "Nobdy. "There's no need to. "They have the situation in hand."— (Huron Expositor). Television Views by William Whiting The race for the Democratic V -P nomination is over. An- other race—the fight between the three American networks for ratings—has ended. Last month NBC was first by miles with the Republican convention. It will be a while before CBS will know how close they came with Robert Trout and Roger Mudd team. They were compe- tent anchor men, but CBS lack- ed imagination and direction. The show, and that's what a convention is, was on the floor and not in the booth. So why put the anchor nen on camera at any given time? With the many cameras available, the di- rector could select shots on the floor where the legmen are sit- uated, and when they are not interviewing, Robert Trout with his rich and silky voice could do the commentating and report any bulletins that may be hand- ed to him. The tribute to the late Presi- dent Kennedy was excellent. CBC's first sale of film to Hungarian television was an- nounced, involving three epi- sodes of The Living Sea series. :N :k* When Prime Minister Pear- son and the premiers of the 10 Canadian provinces meet in Charlottetown at the end of this month, CBC -TV will cover the festivities. ZURICH Citizens NEWS HERB TURKHEIM — Editor 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. 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Dr. George MacBeath, Direc- tor of Ontario's Centennial Project, will be in charge of the Project's administrative aspects. He was formerly New Brunswick museum director IUQdIUIWIU111111111181111111wW °" ""18"" SUGAR and SPICE y BHSmiley How I envy the fellow who has two weeks holidays! He takes his family to a cottage, or on a motor trip, or out camp- ing, and that's all there is to it. He can then go quietly and sanely back to work. Things are always pretty hec- tic around our place in the summer, but this was the hec- ticest ever. As a teacher, I'm almost frantic for school to start so I can get off the ferris wheel. Five weeks at summer music school for Hugh. Three weeks at a different summer music school for the old lady. Two weeks at camp for Kim. Two weeks refresher course in Eng- lish and two weeks as a week- ly editor for me. Now this doesn't sound so bad, when you say it quickly. But all these things were going on in different places at differ- ent times. The result was a combination of the Grand Prix, Musical Chairs, Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? and Let's Break the Bank. My wife gets home every Sat- urday night, heads for the base- ment with a huge armful of soiled clothes, and we don't see her until it's time to get in the car late Sunday and charge off once again in all ;directions. Last Sunday, for the first time in six weeks, the four of us were under the same roof together. We were all a little uneasy at being with these strangers. Hugh came through virtually unscathed, despite the trembl- ing and trepidation of his par- ents. He talked us into extend- ing, his stay at the summer school from three to five, in a letter emphasizing the "inspire - tide he was getting there. After deep and midnight con- sultations, we reluctantly sent -14111 off the requisite extortion for the extra two weeks. Soon after, another letter arrived. In this one we learned he'd been out for dinner—steak and mush- rooms, Chianti, the works—with a Yank girl whose father was an English teacher, was di- vorced, and was having an af- fair with the daughter of the bartender in the place they'd eaten. Hugh's momma was ready to call out the militia, declare war on the U.S., and invade if nec- essary to snatch her boy bac to safety. His father was try- ing to soothe her fears and at the same time, remembering, with not a little, sadness, what he was like at that age. However, he surprised us. He arrived home the day he was supposed to. Even more amazing, he had some money left. Completely astounding, he looked only slightly depraved. In those five weeks, he had: be come 17, fallen in love at leas twice, bought a pipe and tobac co, cooked for himself for tw weeks, living mainly on pablu and cheese, and been in a bee joint. None of this botheredm too much, although his moth.e gave him an interrogation the would have done credit to In spector Maigret. Perhaps the most rugged tw weeks of the summer wer those 1 spent as a weekly editor It all began with a wedding - my partner's, and very near! ended with a funeral—mine. And how doubly devastatin it is to be a weekly editor i a .tourist town, where every old friend cottager within a radiu of 40 miles is hell-bent o wrecking your marriage, you constitution, and the next day with his hospitality. Oh well, the worst is over There remains only a gritting of the teeth, a girding of the loins, and a hardening of the resolution, to get through the last week of summer—the week- ly newspaper convention. When that's over, and I come home a shambling skeleton, a shadow of the fine young fellow I was on: the first of July, my plans are made. I phone a sanitorium, take my 20 days sick leave, and resume living about the end. of September. 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As a teacher, I'm almost frantic for school to start so I can get off the ferris wheel. Five weeks at summer music school for Hugh. Three weeks at a different summer music school for the old lady. Two weeks at camp for Kim. Two weeks refresher course in Eng- lish and two weeks as a week- ly editor for me. Now this doesn't sound so bad, when you say it quickly. But all these things were going on in different places at differ- ent times. The result was a combination of the Grand Prix, Musical Chairs, Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? and Let's Break the Bank. My wife gets home every Sat- urday night, heads for the base- ment with a huge armful of soiled clothes, and we don't see her until it's time to get in the car late Sunday and charge off once again in all ;directions. Last Sunday, for the first time in six weeks, the four of us were under the same roof together. We were all a little uneasy at being with these strangers. Hugh came through virtually unscathed, despite the trembl- ing and trepidation of his par- ents. He talked us into extend- ing, his stay at the summer school from three to five, in a letter emphasizing the "inspire - tide he was getting there. After deep and midnight con- sultations, we reluctantly sent -14111 off the requisite extortion for the extra two weeks. Soon after, another letter arrived. In this one we learned he'd been out for dinner—steak and mush- rooms, Chianti, the works—with a Yank girl whose father was an English teacher, was di- vorced, and was having an af- fair with the daughter of the bartender in the place they'd eaten. Hugh's momma was ready to call out the militia, declare war on the U.S., and invade if nec- essary to snatch her boy bac to safety. His father was try- ing to soothe her fears and at the same time, remembering, with not a little, sadness, what he was like at that age. However, he surprised us. He arrived home the day he was supposed to. Even more amazing, he had some money left. Completely astounding, he looked only slightly depraved. In those five weeks, he had: be come 17, fallen in love at leas twice, bought a pipe and tobac co, cooked for himself for tw weeks, living mainly on pablu and cheese, and been in a bee joint. None of this botheredm too much, although his moth.e gave him an interrogation the would have done credit to In spector Maigret. Perhaps the most rugged tw weeks of the summer wer those 1 spent as a weekly editor It all began with a wedding - my partner's, and very near! ended with a funeral—mine. And how doubly devastatin it is to be a weekly editor i a .tourist town, where every old friend cottager within a radiu of 40 miles is hell-bent o wrecking your marriage, you constitution, and the next day with his hospitality. 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