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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1965-02-25, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1965 ittad Cam UN pm Not Dead In Vain A question posed in a letter to the editor published last week in this paper deserves an answer. Mrs. Lucy Klumpp, Dashwood, asked. "I wonder what the many school children who were there (at the felling of the great elm tree) will remember of that day in years to come. The demise of the mighty tree, the terrified look on the bloody faces of the squirming raccoons, or the gleeful look on the faces of those mighty hunters." There is no doupt what the children will remember, Mrs. Klumpp. They will remember the brutal beating suffered by the eoons and how they writhed in agony as they died. Perhaps the sight will serve as a much more valuable lesson than 100 such tree cuttings. We do not condone the actions of the men who took up sticks and mercilessly clubbed to death two tiny animals right before the eyes of those impressionable school children. We cannot justify the purpose of the deed or understand the pleasure gained by the wanton destruction of the coons. Violence is a fact and children are sometimes the most violent. There can be nothing so cruel as a child who without understanding will poke at a cat's eyes just to see the animal squirm or pull at a dog's ear to hear the canine yelp. Nothing is more heartless than one child taunted by a horde of sneering, jeer- ing children or more unsporting than a devious plan to ambush one classmate and send him home beaten and ashamed. Perhaps the coon killing was a picture worth a thousand words. It could be the children understood in that moment what mothers and fathers have tried to teach for years—the difference between kindly, humane justice and torturing, bullying mad- ness. It that group of school children ma- tured, even a little, the coons did not die in vain. Guided, Not Pushed It is difficult to believe that children entering grade nine are able to determine with any intelligence the line of work they will seek after graduating from Upper School. Yet this is exactly what they are asked to do. A new idea has been born out of this modern trend ... maybe vocational guid- ance should be taught in elementary school. Vocational guidance is relatively new to the older generation. It is a program usually begun in the high schools and de- signed to help young persons select the job for which they are best suited. Taught correctly, it can be useful. Taught incor- rectly, it can bring years of regret and unhappiness. The guidance program in most high schools is not all it should be. Too many youngsters are pushed, rather than guided, '.nto certain fields or profession. Too few teachers really understand how to approach a guidance program with any success. It is even more doubtful that guidance would become meaningful to the students in elemetary schools. Properly qualified teachers would be difficult to find if their salary demands could be met. Even then, it is questionable whether youngsters would be mature enough to grasp the intent and make wise decisions. It has been proven it takes time and experience in the business world to seek out just the right niche for a person. Some- times adults will train for a certain type of work and through trial and error will "fall" into the job that is right for them. Occasionally, people find they are trapped in a profession for which they have no real liking and not enough ability to be anything but mediocre. Children should not be expected to make unalterable plans in childhood for adulthood. They should be given a well- rounded variety of subjects preparatory for many fields of endeavour. Guidance should remain just guidance ... not a forceful shove into a career chosen in childhood innocence. The Fires Of Change Justice Minister Guy Favreau said Mon- day the federal cabinet had about made up its mind to ask for a House of Commons vote on adopting "0 Canada" as this coun- try's national anthem, Undoubtedly, government o f f 1 e 1 a l s must feel the time to strike is when the iron is hot. The coals from the heated flag debate are still warm. Perhaps this is the hour to add fuel to the smouldering embers and stir up the fires of indignation so that all visible ties with England will be burned to ashes. The renewed flame could very well lick up the remnants of British heritage and melt the frozen hearts of Canadians who want to bask in the flickering light of national unity. Or the heat could become so intense that an explosion could rock the entire na- tion, leaving behind the charred ruins of what once was a proud but independent daughter of Great Britain. We have a new flag. We have accept- ed it. We may get a new national anthem. We will accept that too if it comes. But the fire of tradition has been banked . . maybe extinguished. From My Window By Shirley Keller Among the collection of wierd and wonderful television commercials that are my favor- ites is this one. The scene is set in an expen- sive restaurant. Waiters in white coats move silently among the guests. Elegant china and gleaming silver grace the linen - draped table for two. Gypsy violins play a bewitching mel- ody and in the flickering light .of a single candle we see the enthralled faces of a man and a woman. She is beautiful. He is hand- some. They sip champagne from a crystal goblet while their fingers entwine around the orchids he gave her. He whis- pers something in her waiting ear. She tosses her lovely head and smiles shyly. Then the announcer ask the question: "Have you evver won- dered why some honeymoons last anniversary after anniver- sary?" The answer is plainly ridicu- lous. "They never take a clean. fresh mouth for granted!' Rubbish! If mouthwash was the only thing women needed to get a performance like that from their husbands, no amount of machinery and men could supply the demand for the stuff. Down through the ages, women have tried about every- thing to keep romance alive in their marriages. They lose weight; they. "accentuate the positive"; they eliminate as much of the negative as elastic will allow; they rub cosmetics in, on around, over and under; they spend their last dollar on seductive perfume; they walk with a provocative hitch in the git-along; they file, massage, brush, press, exercise, dye, push, pull, bend and sooth. All for nothing. Some women give up and move on to greener pastures. Some keep plugging in the be- lief that where there is life. there is hope. Some stop knock- ing themselves out and start let- ting themselves go. Husbands are hard to fig- ure out. The little woman in his kitchen may be as beguilling as Cleopatra. He doesn't notice. But just let another man glance her way and hubby becomes as protective as a mother lion and twice as dangerous. Should. some other woman give him a tumble, he's Rudolph Valentino in thermal underwear. Perhaps it is the word "ro- mance" that is misunderstood. To a woman, romance is un- expected gifts, tender looks, surprise invitations and a de- parture from the usual. To her husband, romance is reading the paper after a good meal, taking the wife to her mother's for Sunday dinner and allowing himself to be dragged off to a dance when there is a hockey game on TV. ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOtTTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH MRS. SHIRLEY KELLER, Editor HERB TURKHEIM,, Publisher J. E. HUNT, Plant Superintendent 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 Member: Canadian Community Newspapers Representatives Subscription Rates: $3.00 per year in advance, in Canada; $4.00 in United States *Ind and Foreign; single eopies 7 cents. One Last, Fond Salute to The White Ensign Now that the ensign has been pulled down for the last time, and a brave new distoinctive flag raised in its place, most Canadians have accepted it. Likewise, the Canadian navy, but not before it has spoked a word concerning it own beloved white ensign. The following is a letter for- warded to us by C. V. Laughton, district lawyer, who is president of the Naval Officer Associa- tion of Canada, London and Dis- trict Branch. We feel it expresses the views of all Canadian who take pride in tradition and hold fast to heritage. One Last, Fond Salute A good deal of derisive com- ment has been aroused by the reluctance of the Canadian navy as expressed by a number of officers, serving and retired, to give up the navy's white ensign for the country's new maple leaf. It is all too easy to dis- miss such naval traditionalists as hidebound old fogeys or even, as the Toronto ,Globe and Mail did, to sneer at them as Anglicised snobs seeking to re- tain an out -dated bit of British swank. Actually there is a good deal more to it than that. It is dif- ficult for any member of a force with a high -specialized tradition and esprit de corps to explain the importance of some seeming trifle to a civilian, but there are today in Canada many thousands of brokers and bank- ers, painters and plumbers, salesmen and tradesmen who served with the RCN in World War H, and who know very well just why the white ensign is a precious part of Canada's navy. For the ensign is the cere- monial heart of the navy, the heraldic symbol of a history crammed with the sort of le- gends which impart pride and character to a great fighting force. To the saltiest matelot or the greenest raw entry, the white ensign IS the navy, and its austere beauty recalls asso- ciations and incidents which quicken the blood of the most decrepit veteran. For the white ensign is the badge of the greatest fighting fraternity of the sea; the fra- ternity of ships, great and small, which share age-old traditions and a record of proud suprem- acy unmatched in the annals of war. Not only ships of Britain's OWRC Approves Grand Bend Mains The Ontario Water Resources Commission has given approval to plans for Grand Bend's main street water main. Total esti- mated cost of the project has been set at $23,700. The water main is planned for the length of main street and will carry water from the proposed Lake Huron water supply line, expected to be in- stalled by the OWRC along Highway 21, to the property lines on main street. Final approval for the main street system will be sought from the Ontario Municipal Board. Clerk Murray A. Desjardins has completed a survey, front- age and depth, of all the prop- erties on main street, This in- formation has been forwarded to W. J. C. Ayearst, water en- gineer. Members of councils from Grand Bend, Bosanquet and Stephen hope to meet with OWRC officals in Toronto this week to further discuss water plans for the area. Correspondence f r o m the Honourable Mr. Spooner in- formed council that applications to the Municipal Lean Assis- tance Fund will be treated on a first come, first served, basis. Clerk Desjardins noted Grand Bend's application has been for- warded to the proper authori- ties. The letter also stated that a maximum of $100,000 is avail- able to each municipality re- ceiving a loan, and stipulated all projects must be scheduled for commencement prior to Sep- tember 1, 1965. 1 It's... RENEWAL TIME For Many of Our Subscribers Many of your subscriptions expire in Jan- uary and February. In such cases this is indicated by Jan. or Feb. '65 on your ad- dress label. Earlier expiry dates will be indicated, for example, by "Oct. '64", which means the subscription has been in arrears since the end of October. In the face of constantly rising publication costs, strict adherence to the paid -in -ad- vance policy is the only way we can hope to maintain the present subscription rate. IF YOUR SUBSCRIPTION IS DUE OR IN ARREARS Don't Delay - - Renew Today $300 in Canada $3.50 to United States ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS DIAL 236-4672 — ZURICH "Open Every Saturday Throughout February" Royal Navy, but those of our .sister Dominions flew the white ensign during World War II. Each nation formed a sepa- rate lodge within the war -time brotherhood, distinguished by its own funnel markings and national "jack" at the bowstaff, and all of these none was proud- er than Canada's, whose maple - leaf funnels belonged to the free world's third largest navy. To wear the white ensign was to "belong". The tiniest Cana- dian motor launch or the salti- est RCN corvette was brother to the mighty battle squadrons which ruled the trackless oceans. What middle aged business- man today will forget the thrill, years ago, when his Canadian escort group caught sight of the battle fleet that had just driven Bismark to her doom, forging relentlessly on to Iceland be- neath a lowering Arctic sky, their white ensigns whipping in the wind? What Canadian sailor will forget the surging forays of the Canadian Tribals along the coasts of France, or the Cana- dian MTB flotillas in the Chan- nel, the Canadian Bangors that led the way on D.Day; above all, the tireless Canadian frig- ates, corvettes and destroyers that bore the brunt of the Battle of the Atlantic? To wear the white ensign was not only to be part of a tremen- dous past but also to be adding new, Canadian chapters to a proud and ancient history. Today, that is all to be writ- ten off with the flick of a poli- tician's pen. Canada's navy is to leave the white ensign club, 4 11111 Ng the proudest brotherhood of the sea, and is to fly instead a little flag of its own, like the tinpet navies of the banana republics;. It's a flag to gladden a poli- tician's heart and swell with pa- triotism the landlubber's bosom, but don't expect any sailor its lead the cheers. Not an old corvette type, anyway. 0 (BC To Provide Good Coverage CBC radio and television will be on hand at Tampere, Find- land, to cover the 1965 world. hockey championship. Besides daily, 10 -minute wrap- up reports from March 8 to 12, CBC radio will carry three games live and in their entirety, Following is the radio sehe. dule: Thursday, March 11, at 1.30 p.m. EST, Canada vs. Czechoslovakia. Saturday, March 13, at 10.30 a.m. EST, Canada vs. Sweden. Sunday, March 14, at 10.30 a.m. EST, Canada vs - Russia. Commentator for radio is Don Wittman, of Winnipeg. For Canadian television view- ers, CBC will carry one-hour videotapped highlights of four tournament games. Wednesday, March 10, at 11:35 p.m. EST, Canada vs U.S.A. Saturday, March -3, at 2:00 p,m. EST, Canada vs Czechoslovakia. Tues- day, March 16, at 11:35 p,m. EST, Canada vs Russia. Satur- day, March 20, at 2:00 p.m: EST, Canada vs Sweeden. Television play-by-play comen- tator is Dan Kelly of Ottawa. 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