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Zurich Citizens News, 1966-04-28, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1966 eclitipual itif MI Mt We Like Letters The Citizens News is favored occasion- ally with letters from its readers. News- papers like to publish letters, even when they disagree with editorial views. That's because people find letters interesting and read them. Th editorial page has as its purpose the stimulation of thought, as well as the advocation of the newspaper's own opinion. Letters provoke thinking—and they are evidence of readers' interest. When you get the urge to write, here are a fed tips to keep in mind: Keep it short and interesting. Letters to the editor get high readership because people are interested in other people. But they don't want to wade through long epistles. Use short sentences, keep paragraphs short. This makes your writing interest- ing, too. Use a new sentence for each new idea. Write like you talk, Don't try to write The clan feud, the blood feud has a long and honorable history. It has been a necessity of the past in many of our so- called civilized countries, and it is a nec- i essity of today in many parts of the world. Where organization is sketchy, the local tough roosters can rule the roost practically with impunity. The tougher and rougher they are, the more successful they are apt to be. The government is far away, and only interferes if there has been a major massacre. Under such conditions the blood feud is a necessity. You kill me and my broth- ers will kill you or your brother or your cousin. That will make you think twice about killing vie, even if the government is .a long way off. The strike weapon is the same method of justice, applied to the economic domain. Like the blood feud it has a long and honorable history. It has been a necessity in the past, and will continue to be a ne- cessity in many countries. But it, like the vendetta, is a relic of a feudal society. Somewhere along .the way in every country's history they have to outlaw the duel, the blood feud, the vendetta, the clan feud. They had served their purpose; feuds could no longer be tolerated as the damage done to innocent bystanders was like a college professor, Avoid sarcasm. This is very hard to handle, even for accomplished reporters. You make a bad impression if you start out to hurt somebody's feelings. Don't be cute. These attempts usually don't come off as the writer intends. Make your first shot the most telling. Begin with your strongest argument — or strike at the other side's weakest argu- ment, Sign your naive and list your address. Otherwise, your letter won't even be con- sidered. You may request that your name be withheld, in which case the editor will honor your request or not use the letter at all. Don't lay down an unconditional "no editing" rule. This usually results in rejection of the letter, Don't be hesitant to write when you feel strongly on a public issue. You would be surprised to know how much influence a citizen's letter in a newspaper has. Keep it short. Moral Strikes greater than the problems which they, in a rough and ready way, had kept under control. It's about time that Canada did like- wise with strikes. They have served their purpose; you have to stretch and strain every shred of evidence to produce a case for a "morally justifiable" strike in Canada today. Minimum wage laws, hours of work and holiday legislation, health and safety regulations have largely destroyed the public benefits which once did accrue from a justifiable strike. With our increasing centralization of the whole apparatus of modern living, with our inter -dependence not only of in- dividuals and companies but of whole com- munities and regions, you can't win a strike unless it is the general public who does the suffering. The strike today is not primarily against a company, nor even against one single industry. It must, by definition, be against the public. Somehow we must summon up our courage and say that the strike belongs with the duel and the clan feud—relics of a rougher, simpler and decentralized past, no longer tolerable in a tightly knit society. — The Surrey Leader, Cloverdale (B.C.) It Takes Two The advent of spring usually means a return to the garden and outdoor pleasures and also a return to the highways for many people. From now until the snow flies again, motorists will use the roads for holiday travel, sightseeing and just plain "Sunday driving" as well as the conduct of their business. Car safety programs gain momentum et this time of year and drivers are bom- barded with propaganda issued in the hopes of keeping motorists and their ve- hicles in a safe condition. Much in the news at the moment is the need for producing safer automobiles to combat the increasing highway fatality toll in an age when the two -car family has become a commonplace thing. However, no amount of safety features built into an automobile will prevent Jo Driver from having an accident if he sits behind the wheel and drives without due care and caution. Even care and caution is no assurance of a safe trip for the mo- torist for he is still at the mercy of some other driver who may be unfit to handle an automobile. It is a strange fact that many people, otherwise stable and unassuming, become hell -drivers when they turn on the ignition and wheel out onto the highway. Perhaps it is their way of getting rid of frustra- tion, but a death -dealing method it can be. Car manufactures should design and construct their product to provide the maximum in vehicle safety. It is up to us to provide the efficient and safe hen- dling of that product. As yet, no one seems to have come up with .a sure-fire answer to the second problem. — New Hamburg Independent. Do It Properly or Not at All It was the usual after -the -show mo- ment of national reverence: men caught with a foot in mid-air, tugging on galoshes; women slithering fur coats on; several in full flight down the back stairs. The strains of the scratched tinny version of God Save the Queen wafted through the am- plifier. Not the majestic sound of its full 14 bars; just the first six. Then, an unseen hand yanked the record to a halt. Thus doth legislation make traitors of us all. The provincial Theatres Act, we are informed by an obliging movie house man- ager, lays down the requirement that the national anthem be played at the begin - ring or end of each public performance. We have all been through this — the sudden intrusion of the anthem, without warning introduction, as the departure confusion is in full swing. Most, realizing that it is — as it should be —a signal to pause and stand respectfully to honor the symbol of our country, do their best to recover their dignity. How can this be .a mark of respect when some movie houses can scarce bring themselves to go through the motions? If the law requires it, let it be done properly— the full anthem, a good record- ing of it, a roll of drums to allow the au- dience to do proper homage. It should be done well or not at all. ----The Aurora (Ont.) Banner. Zurich 6,4/1 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 payment of postage in cash. Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Member: Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Member: Canadian Community Newspapers Representatives Subseriptiln Rates: $3.40 per year in advanoe, in Canada; $4.00 in United States and and Foreign; single copies 7 cents. • To Be in Religious Series Pretty Adrienne Poy Clarkson is co -host of the pop- ular CBC -TV public affairs show, Take 30, seen each week- day afternoon. A native of Hong Kong, Adrienne spent most of her early life in Ottawa. She is a former university lecturer in English poetry. Besides her Take 30 duties, Adrienne has been working on four programs in the religi- ous series called Ferment to be seen beginning in May on CBC television. "i; PICK YOUR EXECUTION In its wisdom, the Canadian Parliament has decided that the death penalty should not be abolished, that capital punish- ment should be preserved. I agree. Completely. In my youthful 'dealistic days, I had a crazy idea that the cold de- liberate taking of a human life by a civilized society was wrong. But I'm becoming blunted in a world where young men who never did a nasty thing are killed daily, and women and children are bombed and burned daily, all in the name of peace. In the face of this, who can worry about a handful of hood- Iums about to be hanged? If there's the odd one who wasn't guilty, tough! There are a lot of other non -guilty people dy- ing these days, and always have been. Without a trial and jury, What I can't understand is the Canadian Parliament's lack of follow-through. It's pretty disappointing to one who has upheld this nation against its petty attackers for years. But we get this again and again. Take the Gerda Mun- singer case. A few red faces, a few TV tears and it's all over. In the capital punishment case, our Canadian politicians had a chance to set the world on fire. Did they do it? Not they. They cast their votes and went home for the holidays. Not an iota of imagination in the whole hang -dog group. This was their chance to give Can- ada a penal system unequalled itte *is* cat it/ atitiw in the world. I don't, for one instant, think all those chaps who voted "nay" are in favor of hanging. It's a pretty crude business. After all, some times the rope is too loose, or the head is too loose, and the girl reporters puke. I think something could be done about this, Paper bags, perhaps. Not a single MP suggested another way of dealing with murderers. There are dozens. But I believe the most sporting way, for the culprits, and the least lacerating way, for a touchy society, would be to throw all the varieties of exe- cution into a hat and let the prospective departude take his pick. It would add a certain "Jenny-Say-Kwoy" to the whole thing, which, in these troubled days, might keep Quebec within the fold. Throw them all into a hat. There's something for every- body. 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Just because you're a flamboyant type doesn't mean that you're going to pick the ballot saying you'll be burned at the stake. You might get the one saying death by strangling. Tough. But at least there's be some imagination in the whole thing. And this could be spread through the whole penal sys- tem, Shoplifters could be de- ported to the U.S. Kids who stole apples would be branded on the forehe ,d with T for thief. Income tax cheaters and peo- ple who were tricky with their expense accounts would be sent to the tundra with four dollars, a fishing line, and all three of their wives. This would fill up our great northern spaces smartly. There are great possibilities. 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