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Zurich Citizens News, 1966-04-14, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1964 Cdto4saI est Beware of Sham Salesmen An $80 a week factory worker must pay $64 a month for five years for goods he was told were free. Woman tricked into signing 40 prom- issory notes by salesman run up $3,840 unawares. It couldn't happen td you? IT IS happening to people all over Canada, who are being tricked by sham salesmen. These .men are experts. They often represent themselves as vice-presidents or sales managers of reputable firms whose literature they are carrying, They will ASSURE you that your sign - titre is just a formality. It is not. Every time you sign one of their bogus docu- ments you may be signing your savings away. BE WARNED. When a salesman calls on you take these steps: 1. Ask for identification. 2. Phone office of firm he says he represents or wait and write if this is im- practicable. 3. If you are a woman, check with your husband. 4. Tell the salesman you are check- ing and ask him to call back in 24 hours. If he is not genuine this may put him off. —Durham Chronicle. Haven For the Rejects It is difficult to get enthusiastic about the 10 new appointments to the Senate which have been made on the decision of Prime Minister Pearson. Several of the 10, as for example, Mr. Jean-Paul Des- chatelets and Dr. Norman Mackenzie are distinguished Canadians who can probably make a better contribution to public affairs through Senate membership than they might be able to do in any other way. Mr. Deschatelets was an intelligent and courte- ous member of parliament who may have lacked the pugnacity needed for the rough- and-tumble of the House of Commons. Dr. Mackenzie is a high-ranking expert on constitutional law, who has the unusual added qualification, from an all -Canadian point of view, of having been a university president at the opposite ends of the coun- try, first in New Brunswick and then in British Columbia. We could add to the list of commend- able appointments the name of Hon. Harry Hays, who had a short and turbulent ca- reer as Dominion Minister of Agriculture. If Mr. Hays works at his Senate job, and is not detoured from duty by his private business interests to quite the same extent as when he was a freshman MP, he can be a valuable member of the Senate. He gives off ideas like sparks, and while not all of them are good ideas, a man with five new ideas of which three are good, will be better for the Senate than a man with no ideas at all. When we have said this much, how- ever, all we have said is that a list of 10 Senate appointments, at least three look to be good. This is not a particularly high batting average, in the Senate -selection league. It should be possible to pick 10 Canadians out of public life at almost any level, and get at least three good ones. The list of 10 has one element of rather dreary sameness. Nine of the 10 are faithful Liberals, the only exception being Dr. Mackenzie, who has no clear affiliation with any political party. We have nothing against Liberals, as such. Nearly half of all the admirable politicians in the country are Liberals. We have nothing against potatoes, either. We like potatoes, but a menu consisting of potato soup, baked potatoes and potato pie would make a rather dull three -course meal. The particularly sad thing about this list of 10 is that no fewer than five of them bear the label, "Defeated Liberal Candidate". We had hoped for something rather better than this use of the Senate for political payoff to Liberals who were rejected by their own constituencies. If this is to be the key to success for hopefuls who aspire to the Senate, we think one of the new appointees, Hazen Argue, is entitled to complain. In his own riding, after jumping from the New Demo- crats to the Liberals he got defeated twice; he got appointed to the Senate only once. —Stratford Beacon -Herald. They Do Not Stand Alone The disease to which we apply the term "cancer" affects many areas of the human body, making its presence known by various symptoms. Neither the causes of cancer nor a cure for it have as yet been absolutely established. Perhaps be- cause of the facts contained in these two statements a fear has developed among people that leads to an attitude of with- drawal from further knowledge of cancer. This attitude, in turn, tends to frustrate the efforts of those who work to defeat cancer by encouraging the recognition of danger signals, leading to early diagnosis, an important factor in successful treatment. However important it is to realize the menace that cancer is, if this awareness prompts us to determine to seek it out for early treatment and to provide adequate funds for the ultimate defeat of the dis- ease, it is also important to appreciate the many successes that already have been achieved against cancer. Many cancer patients have success- fully been treated with surgery, such as the colectomy operation for patients with rectal cancers. A colectomy operation is usually performed to remove an obstruc- tion in the bowel. Part of the intestine is removed and an opening to the bowel is formed on the surface of the abdomen to permit bowel irrigation. With some slight adjustments and perhaps some diet modification, thousands of Canadians with colostomies continue to lead normal, ac- tive, self-supporting lives. This surely is an important achievement in our battle with cancer. In a Hamilton development for re- tired citizens, lives Mrs. R. S., a slim alert woman, who spends her days in cooking and cleaning. In one way, Mrs. R. S. is not typical. She is a former cancer patient. Between 1956, when her cancer was first diagnosed, and 1960, Mrs, R. S. had many operations. At times, defeat appeared to be im- minent but medical skill and her own spirit won out. After recovering from her co- lectomy operation in 1960, Mrs. R. S. began to feel well, and she continues to feel well today. Like many colostomy patients, Mrs. R. S. finds it necessary to wear a colostomy bag at all times. She uses a four inch square plastic envelope with a small hole centred on an attached square of ad- hesive that permits adherence to the skin of the abdomen around the colostomy open- ing. For several years, Mrs. R. S. bought her colostomy bags. Only when the re- tirement of her husband made the expense a burden did she approach the local unit of the Canadian Cancer Society for help. Although colostomy bags must be bought ready for use, many of the dressings and pads used by Mrs. R. S. and others can be made by volunteers. Of the many thou- sands of dressings given to patients by the Hamilton unit last year, most were made by volunteers from women's organizations and other dressings groups in the district. Mrs. R. S. has been relieved of a con- tinuous expense through the work of vol- unteers and through the support that the public gives the Society's April campaign. Besides providing dressings, many morale building services are rendered by the Society. A gift, for instance, may be a homemade Christmas cake, .a flowering bulb, or perhaps a useful toilet article. Last Christmas donations from chain stores in the district enabled the "Service to Pa- tients" committee to provide hampers to families of cancer patients temporarily impoverished through illness. At Easter, cookies will be baked and piled into small baskets for distribution. Making dressings, knitting socks, bak- ing cakes—small gestures of help per- haps. But when joined with donations to the Society for cancer research, and mul- tiplied across Canada, they tell the cancer sufferer that he does not stand alone. Zurich • eia_ N•ws 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 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 and and Foreign; single copies 7 cents, SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley IT'S A STATE OF MIND Spring is not a season. It's a state of mind. To Browning, writing in Italy, it was, "Oh, to Be in England, Now That Ap- ril's There". To Botticelli, it was delicate, long-legged ladies in long nightgowns, scattering petals as they danced. To Bee- thoven, it was lambs gambolling to the notes of the shepherd's pipe. But in these parts, it's a. time of agony and ecstasy, depending on what age you are, and what you are up to. Ecstasy for little kids. 0 ff with the snowboots, and snow- suits hurled into a corner. Out into the wonderful world, from so long ago they can scarcely remember: wading puddle s, building sinky rafts, shooting marbles; skipping; picking pus- sywillows. And lovely, brown, soft, silky, sludgy, slimey mud everywhere. Heaven. It's ecstasy for the young in love. For the first time in five months they can hold hands, bare-handed, on the way home from school. They can hang around the girl's back door, or the corner, for an hour, talking inanities, joyous in the certain- ty they won't freeze to death. Could anybody be happier, and cockier, than the young mothers in spring? Trim girls last fall, they wheel their prams down the street on the first sun- ny day, three abreast pushing honest taxpayers into the gutter, as they display with utmost pride those miracles they pro- duced during the winter. They are women this spring. For our senior citizens, spring brings another kind of happi- ness, a quiet, deep one. They have been dicing with death all winter. They have suffered lone- liness and pain and despair. That first balmy day of spring warms their old hearts and their old bones. It's a promise of life, renewed which they need badly. I think farmers and sailors are happy in the spring. Far the former, it means another eight months of back -breaking labor with small return. For the latter, it means back to and the loneliness of absence work often dull, often dirty, from families. But both are ready for it, after being under- foot all winter. It restores purpose to life. A man who isn't working is only half a man. For the housewife, spring is combination of the agony and the ecstasy. There's the agony of choosing the right paint and wallpaper, the ecstasy of attack- ing the house like the Assyrian coming down on the fold. Gardeners are happy. Gloves on, they go out in the backyard and joyously muck about. They squall over the first crocus, in- hale with delight the rotting stench of long -buried earth, plan glorious gardens in the mind's eye. Golfers are giddy with glad- ness. The last streaks of snow are still under the pines. The course is muddy, the wind chill- ing. But the first day the flags are up, they're out there. You see, this is the year when they will slice not, nor will they hock. They feel it in their bones. Anglers are snooping the countryside, looking for new beaver dams, checking last year's choice spots. Opening day is still not here, but they're dreaming of that first speckled beauty caught on the first cast. Merchants are optimistic. People are coming into the store for something besides keeping warm. Buildings booms, and the carpenter, elec- trician, p 1 u m b e r, bricklayer, feel a surge of hope after a slow winter. Where's the agony, then, if everybody is so happy about spring? We've run almost the whole gamut, and nobody is suffering, What about the university student? There are hundreds of thousands of them. They are chewing their nails, pulling out their beautiful hair in hand- fuls, sweating cold with fear. Outside beckon the sun and soft wind. Inside beckon blear -eyed grind, despair, guilt. And what about the ordinary, middle-aged codger like me? Bursitis behaving badly in the cruel winds of April. Income tax looming like an iceberg. House needs painting. Back- yard looks like an exhibition of Pop art. Car on its last legs. Christmas presents not yet paid for. Hairline receding rapidly. Harder and harder to get out of the sack in morning. Kids getting more difficult. For us, spring is for the birds. And you should hear the little stinkers, about five a.m., just when we're finally falling into a sound sleep. 0 Television Views say the). It's about a circus artist and cat burglar turned Peter Gunn (sounds unique). The rock will roll back in this fall with a show called "The Monkees". It's about the ad- ventures of an unusual rock and roll group. "Star Trek" —an hour of science fiction about a captain and his inter- planetary space craft in the 1980s. (This one should keep the U.F.O. spotters off the street.) "Pistols and Petticoats", "The Iron Horse" and "The Ad- ventures of the Seaspray" are other new shows coming this fall on TV 13. Renewals include "Bewitch- ed" "Big Valley", "Batman", "Lucy", "Run for Your Life", "Jackie Gleason", `Hollywood Palace", as well as Wednesday and Saturday evening color movies. Speaking of color — more than 90% of all programs will be telecast in color by Ca- nadian television stations. The only possible obstacle would be that a couple of stations may not have ordered their color equipment soon enough (like two years ago). CKCO is all set and rarin' to colorize West- ern Ontario. Cheers till next week, By William Stoltz What's new for 1966 fall pro- gramming? ... not much. CBC's "Seven Days" will be dropped. It's inevitable . . . any good show these days that's educa- tional, informative and contro- versial usually lives a short life. Most die from rating mal- nutrition. On the brighter side, CKCO will be carrying new offerings next fall. Among them—"Love on a Rooftop" . . sounds in- teresting? It is . . , it's a so- phisticated comedy about young marrieds, starring Rich Little, who by the way, will be doing a comedy hour special on CKCO May 2 (Monday) at 9 p.m. An- other variation on The Avenger —I Spy theme is `in'—it's called "Mission Impossible" all about counter -espionage. Here's an- other gem—"T.H.E. 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