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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1965-07-15, Page 2FADE TWO ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, JULY TS, 1965 dual eamotefrd PINI 111MI Less Togetherness Might Help Whether to take the family vacation in the mountains or at the seaside has long been a standard joke for the cartoonists. And the reason for its popularity could well be the seriousness of the basic prob- lem involved. The whole trouble is that although it's customary for families to go on their va- cations together, there is seldom agree- ment on where to go. And when you come down to it, why should there be? If mother has her choice she would go to a place where the dishes are done, the meals cooked and the beds made. A spring shopping trip to the big city — without the children — would probably suit her down to the ground. Father would likely choose a fishing trip away from it all with the fellows, or He Asked For it Another Toronto youth who stated he "wanted to see for himself" if the fight being waged for desegregation in the Southern States .is as bad as it is painted, depending upon which side you support journeyed to Mississippi. He was there but a short time when he stuck his nose into another country's business and landed in jail. This young man, Paul Saltzman by name, is a son of Percy Saltzman, well- known and highly -esteemed radio and TV weatherman, interviewer and program leader. A lot of us rather regretted to read that Percy gave full approval to his son's folly: remarking he was "glad he had the guts" to become involved in the black and white controversy in the South. To us the Saltzman lad. rather than :Paving any spelial amount or quality of "guts", lacked greatly in common sense. When a foreigner enters another country and deliberately involves himself in po- litical controversy in that country he is asking for trouble and that is what Saltz- man got himself into aplenty, This does not involve mixing in the U.S. racial dis- pute particularly, but in any phase of affairs that are of a controversial nature. Surely a great nation like the United States can handle its own •affairs, no matter how distasteful they may be to outsiders, with- out the outsiders entering that country to tell them what they should do. This ap- perhaps a couple of weeks on the golf course. But what happens? The family usually winds up at the beach, or at Disneyland, because that's where the kids would like to go. And because most vacations must be taken during the two months when the children are out of school, some of the best vacation months are automatically eliminated. So there goes mother's spring shopping trip or father's hunting in the fall. Obviously if family loyalties were not involved, the sensible thing would be for members of the family to go their separate ways, And it might be a good idea, at that. After all, there are 50 weeks for to- getherness. Two weeks might well be set aside for apartness. -- And Got NI plies paricularly to .inexperienced, inquisi- tive, mistakenly determined young men and women. There has been far too much of this encroaching on other peoples af- fairs by Canadians, who themselves would be the first to resent interference from foreigners in the operations of our own country. The most surprising point about this affair of Saltzmen's, "I came, I saw, I was jailed," adventure, is that the Toronto Star is publishing a series of articles written by the youth in question in which he gives his side of the picture, and we can well imagine how his views would be played up. Frankly we feel the Star is setting a bad precedent in publishing such articles. There are people who now believe that Saltzman rushed into the Southern States melee for the simple purpose of selling his story to some paper. Many other youths who see that Saltzman is making a good thing out of his foray into other peoples' troubles. will take up the same avocation. We don't believe that the press of Canada is doing the slightest bit of good for the youth of this country by encourag- ing them to become jail bait by getting involved in foreign affairs which are none of their concern except for developing private opinions on their own side of the border.—(Doug Young in the Kincardine News) Later Than You Think July could be compared to a man who is just past forty, and suddenly awakes to the realization that life is slipping away. He is •over the hump, on the downward slope, and the question is: What happened to all the time that used to stretch end- lessly before him. and all the interesting and ambitious things he wanted to do? So it is with July. Suddenly the year is half over, and most of the resolutions made away back in January are still just resolutions. Here it is six months later, time has gone on. but accomplishments seem to have stood still. July has one advantage over being forty, however. The summer provides a breather in the form of a vacation, which enables people to get their second wind and gird themselves for the remainder of the year. Smart people allow themselves enough leisure during their vacation to indulge in some unhurried thoughts about the months to come. If their contemplations have been pro- ductive they'll be able to go back to work at the end oftheir vacations filled with all the ambition, enthusiasm and optimism with which most of them greeted the New Year. People in their forties don't usually have this opportunity. Life at that time is at its busiest, and the chance to step off the merry-go-round and watch the ac- tion for a while is not something most people •in their forties can manage. But there's one consolation. July and forty may be past the halfway mark, but it's still a long time until December. Safety in Num'bers Mob action and demonstrations in favor of or against something are becom- ing increasingly frequent these days, even in Canada, where the national boiling point is fairly high. Couple these with the usual hoodlum element which kicks over the traces Saturday nights or on national holi- days at beach resorts; and you have more than the usual headaches for policemen of the nation. It's surprising how little courage it takes to resist a policeman when the odds are five or ten to one. In fact, most cases of mob violence are attributable to the fact that normal cowards become suddenly brave when fortified by strong drink and carried along by a rampaging mob. Much of today's juvenile delinquency is caused by aggregations, rather than in- dividuals. While lone -wolf criminals are apt to be psychotic, those who run amuck in the company of others can be quite ordinary people. It's probably the herd instinct. Short ,of calling in the army, the au- thorities are hard put to cope with mob violence. Even smaller incidents may be diffi- cult to deal with because of rthe chronic shortage of police officers, 'and cases of policemen being roughed up are becoming more frequent. Before it becomes any more difficult for the forces of the law to deal with the situation, the public must act to curb hood- lum attacks on police •officers. The only effective method is to in- crease the size of police forces and hand out stiffer penalties to those convicted of taking part in mob action. rich News PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIM.I'LI D, ZURRICH 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: Member: Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Canadian Community Newspapers Representatives Subscription Rates: $3.00 per year in advance, in Canada; $4.00 in United States and and Foreign; single copies '7 cents. SUGAR. AND SPICE by Bill Smiley Year after year, we moan about the bitter winter, or the dreary fall; or the backward spring . , , until July and Au- gust, when we take the rare -felt heat as a personal affront, and whine increasingly. Along about the first part of J u 1 y, we usually get a little whiff of that hot weather we've been looking forward to since Christmas. Nothing t o r r i d. Just a litle breath of warmth that .a native of the tropics would sneer at. So what do we do? Do we cast off our long - handled underwear and burn it in the streets? Do we have a big welcome party for genial old Sol? Not we. We totter around complaining even more bitter- ly than we did all winter. We adopt a harassed a i r. If we live in the city, we dash from one tomb -like a i r conditioned building to another, inevitably catching a wicked summer cold in the process. We greet each other with anguished groans and that old folk -saying, "Hot nuff fer yuh?" Some idoits try to fight fire with firewater. With remark- able ease they convince them- selves that a long cool one is the only way to beat the heat. Which is about as effective as trying to put out a blaze by pouring gasoline on it, Others have an even more silly solution. Their idea of getting, away from the heat is to hit the highway, drive for four hours in extreme discom- fort to a beach where they lie baking with similar sweaty cit- izenry, before retiring to sleep in a cabin' like a steam bath. Most of the preceding re- marks have to do with the male population, poor devils. I must admit that women and children stand up to the heat better. Big reason, of course, is their attire, or lack of it. Small fry have less clothing on them in this weather than there is in the handkerchief their old man totes around in his hip pocket. Women, whose name is vanity, are interested in acquiring a tan, so expose every possible inch and ounce to the dazed gaze of the men. Women's summer garments are a delight to the eye, and the ultimate in common sense. May- be that's why ladies don't sweat, but just perspire. Not so the men. Unless they are on their holidays, they face the heat with a surly lack of compromise that would be ad- mirable, were it not stupid. Most of them wear the same clothes in summer as in winter, except for an overcoat. The odd one will take off his jacket. A few sneakily remove their ties. And the wild individual will roll up his shirt -sleeves when it hits a hundred. But that's about as f a r as they'll go. The vast majority of men wear wool socks, heavy leather shoes, long trousers of wool or flannel, and the same shirts they wear in January. One more thing that makes a man miserable in the heat is the amount of junk he has to carry in his pants pockets. In cool weather he can spread it around in jacket and overcoat packets. But when he has only trousers pockets in which to carry cigarettes, lighter, hand- kerchief, coins, car keys. pen. notebook, pipe and tobacco. golf tees, sinkers and about 50 other essentials, he looks about the shape of an old tree, cover- ed with fungus. Hot weather is not for men, They should all be given about six weeks off in the summer, while the scantily clad women and kids keep things going. The men won't be happy until they sniff the first nip of fall in the air, and can start grumbling about the cold, and what it costs to heat the place. Expert Watch epairs • Trophies and Engraving • DIAMONDS -WATCHES - CHINA Anstett Jewellers LTD. 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