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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1965-07-29, Page 2PAGE TWO eda44aI Comment Crowd --Puller in St. Marys No matter what one's political lean- ings the name of John Diefenbaker starts an earnest conversation almost any time it is mentioned in St. Marys or vicinity, Somehow John Diefenbaker has left his imprint in the Stone Town. He has visited here on several occasions and each time has left a good impression of himself. The time we remember most was a few years ago just prior to his landslide victory into Canada's Federal Parliament. It was during •the final few days of the campaign and his touring group was mak- ing it ways from London towards St. Marys. At Elginfield they stopped at a small res- taurant for a break and a cup of coffee, but that restaurant did not serve coffee without and order of food. The Diefen- baker carload thereby picked themselves up and moved their coffee stop to St. ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS Marys where they found the St, Marys Grill served coffee for ten cents a cup to anyone, including the future Prime Minis- ter of Canada, John Diefenbaker sat on a counter stool and talked to the neighbor- ing coffee drinkers. Not everyone rec- ognized him as he sat there, but that did not worry him. He is not that kind of fellow. Mr. Diefenbaker visited St. Marys again a few days ago. He was pleased to note that he again left a very fine impres- sion of his person on the citizens who met and heard him, There's still lots of "magic" left in John. There must be more than magic, too, for he knows when and where to come back to get a real and genuine welcome from some of his most Ioyal supporters.— (St. Marys JournalArgus) Farming With Rented Money The changes in the Veterans' Land Act which were made effective Wednesday night of last week, when the amending bill received royal assent, are interesting for the way they reflect changing times and changing conditions in the farming industry. Some of the amendments reflect the simple fact that nowadays, things cost more than they did when the Second World War ended, and men were putting off the uniform to put on a farmer's over- alls. One of the new amendments raises from S12,000 to $18,000 the limit which may be borrowed under VLA to build a house. Twenty years ago, $12,000 would have built quite a fancy residence. Today, you can spend S18,000, and still not have any- thing remarkable. Another of the new amendments raises from S20.000 to S40.000 the ceiling on farm loans to veterans who are operating full- scale commercial farms as family enter- prises. This change keeps in tune with the times by recognizing, not so much the slow rise in price scales, as the fact that farming is becoming a more highly capital- ized style of business. Fewer and bigger farms require equipment which has to be capitalized at higher levels. A third amendment in the Act is even more interesting, as a sign of changing times. It provides that if a veteran has borrowed to the authorized limit, to get capital for his farm operations, he can borrow again subsequently. as the indebt- edness on the primary loan is reduced. This amendment clearly contemplates a future in which a farm operation may run on and on with the use of borrowed cap- ital. It makes it possible for a farmer operating under VLA to get the use of capital to the limit of 540,000, and then keep the debt floating at or just under the ceiling; he can reduce the debt to $30,000, and retain the option of borrowing 510.000 again. It is a commonplace of the urban business world that capital may be raised and used with no intention of finally pay- ing it all back. The Bell Telephone Co., with its 200,000 -odd shareholders, certainly has not intention of trying to pay hack the money it has raised by selling shares: it will keep on using the money, and in the course of time will probably raise more by selling more shares. The latest changes in the Veterans' Land Act recognize a trend to similar thinking in the rural business world. The farmers of the amendments are providing for future situations in which a business- like farmer may raise money by borrow- ing, with no serious intention of paying it all back as long as he keeps the farm en- terprise going, and makes the borrowed money earn its own interest.—(Stratford Beacon -Herald) Pi/blicity and Discipline the Answer It seems today that every town, re- gardless of size, is experiencing difficul- ties with youth motorists who delight in disconcerting their elders by their motor- ing habits. They accelerate at rates that contribute to heart failure; they squeal their tires: they drive aimlessly one mo- ment and challenge the speed limit the next. And through it all they appear to exhibit a nonchlant distain for constituted law and authority. Goderich has had problems, and the Signal -Star suggests two solutions — the first, publicity; the second, discipline, and explains it in these words: "We do not think for a moment that teen-agers today are any worse or any better than they were years ago. Today, it is the custom of youths to go racing around the Square Sunday evening in cars in a devil-may-care manner which does not contribute to good traffic conditions. But we can produce evidence that youths did the same thing many decades ago—only in buggies drawn by lively horses. Old files of The Huron Signal carry such stories. It simply means that the youths want to Iet off steam. but they have to be checked now and then, todays, just as they were checked back in the horse and buggy days. "Youth have always resented the dis- cipline of adults. even when the former realize that the intentions of the latter are well meaning. But among groups of youths are sometimes found one or two irrespon- sible ones. They sometimes influence their friends into doing things that the latter would not ordinarily do. They become harmful, prodding leaders of uncalled-for actions, thus giving a group of teenagers an over-all public image for bad which they do not deserve." Pointing out that explanations of the difficulties should be given the police com- mission, the Signal -Star goes on to say that it might be well if a press release were available of this explanation in order that the youths could realize that there are two sides to every story. Thinking youths would then be in a position to get the proper perspective. But for that very small minority of undisciplined youths who would ignore any explanation no mat- ter what it might be, maybe there should be some set-up whereby they would be obligated to take a year's compulsory service in the army—where disccipline is rigidly taught. We do think that a small number of youth do feel an unexplainable strong need for something—and don't ex- actly know what it is—when all the time it is just some good old-fashioned discip- line.—(The Huron Expositor) Plan Convention "Many young people from the Hensall-Zurich-Exeter area will attend the "World of Truth" assembly of Jehovah's Witness- es in Kitchener at the Kitchener Imesammeammmimenemmarea ems Memorial Auditorium. August 5 to 8," Mr. Thomas Rawlings of Exeter, the presiding minis- ter of the Exeter congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, an- nounced today. He continued, "C h i l d r e n ranging from babes in arms to teenagers will accompany their parents to the convention. This togetherness of a family unit is one reason why Jehovah's Witnesses are not plagued by the growing adult and juvenile delinquency so prevalent in the world today." Zurich ;- : News PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH 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 Estes: $3.00 per year in advance, in Canada; $4.00 in United States and and Foreign; single copies 7 cents. F:' i III111111IIIIII1111 1111111PliIIIlllilliiii';I i ilI'IIIIIH!(UIIR9)I1110!IIIIUHIIIIIIUIII➢IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINflIIIIIaIliIIpII1i11101111111111111IIIIIIIlIiI1UlIINIIINIUN`= SUGAR and I, �iiee',11100011111e SPICE By BIM Smiley Any of; you old-timers notic- ed the gradual, but steady changes in the physical world about you? You have? Good. I was hoping it wasn't just me. You know what I mean. The hills on the golf course are steeper than last year, The lawn grows larger each year. The dining -room table grows a little farther from you each year. The weeds in the garden are a lot farther away when you stoop to pull them, You look up. instead of down, when you scold your children, And there's one other change that is particullarly evident at this time of year. The water in the lakes is ten degrees colder than it was last year. I noticed this when I went swimming last week with the Old Lady. It was rather a his- toric occasion. With both our kids otherwise occupied, it was the first time we'd been swim- ming alone, together. without the kids. since our honeymoon. You should have seen t h e performance. We sweltered in the sun until there was no alter- native to dip. We advanced with the utmost reluctance to the water's edge. We stood there for ten minutes. peering gingerly at it and each other, Driven by nothing but sheer male pride, I finally stuck one foot in. Twenty minutes later I was right up to the knobs on my knees. The old girl had barely wet the paint on her toe -nails. We'd be st a n d i n g there yet shuddering, had not a couple of six -year-olds dashed past us, splashing us from stem to gudg- eon, And my gudgeon still hasn't recovered. Now, how do you explain this? It was the same body of water my son has been swim- ming in since early May. He said it was 'great then. Th e weather has been hot since. But in mid -summer the tem- perature of the stuff was thirty degrees lower than in May. Something's wrong. But I must admit. like all the other dopes. that "It's grand when you get ducked." There's nothing quite like a middle aged swim, with the old bursit- is in the shoulder crunching at evere. stroke. the heart pound- ing alarmingly, the chest heav- ing wildly for air. It does have its compensa- tions, though. this swimming without kids, No one expects you to act as ahuman diving - tower. You don't have to en- gage n- gage in duck -diving competi- tions, You don't have to race a couple of sturdy teenagers to the big rock. And your wife certainly won't compel you to see haw far you can swim un- der water. It's rather pleasant, really, swimming with the old lady. She dog -paddles about in the shallows with the four -year-olds. You wade out to the deep part right up to your waist, and hit o u t with a purposeful breast stroke for eight yards before taking a rest. After six min- utes. you may return with dig- nity to the beach. And there's no one dragging at your arm ten minutes later, demanding that you go back into that liquid refrigerator for a not h e r shock treatment. There's nobody int+e;rruptingt you for money for ice-cream or pop. _There's nobody interrup- ting with badly aimed beach bails, your aesthetic appreciation of the latest in bikinis. _There are no squabbles to break up._ It's pretty nice, really, just sitting there in your folding I chair, book on your knee, jug of iced mix handy, watching the human comedy. The beach. boys. holding in their stomachs so hard they can't breathe. The beach girls, sticking out their bosoms so hard they almost fall over backwards. Human goril- las. But surely something can be done about that water. If we can devise rockets to hit the moon. surely to goodness we can figure out some way of warming up our lakes so that people over forty don't turn from sophisticated citizens into gibbering cowards t h e minute they get near the water's edge. aspeannsw. DUWARD MCADAMS RADIO — TELEVISION • Sales and Service • DAY AND NIGHT CALLS Dia! Zurich Days — 236-4094 Nights — 236-4186 "Always ready to serve you" Expert Watch Repairs • Trophies and Engraving • DIAMONDS -WATCHES - CHINA Anstett Jewellers LTD. CLINTON — WALKERTON — SEAFORTH FLOOR - COVERING TIME ! Be Sure and See the All -New "VINYL CUSHION -FLOOR" Available in 6, 9 and 12 foot widths, It's so easy to install that anyone can do it themselves. 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