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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1966-05-05, Page 2PAgE TWO ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1944 Cd4G,l Cammeat .. APIF Wages Go Up, Food Costs More A national political leader, protesting the increased cost of food, declares he is all for the under dog. In the same breath he defends the zeal with which the well organized labor unions fight for and se- cure more and more in the way of wages and benefits. He completely ignores two very appar- ent facts. One is that as the unions suc- ceed in their demands they add to the cost of doing business to the detriment of the under dogs who, in our opinion, are not those in the ranks of the strong and afflu- ent unions. Actually those who are feeling the pinch of increased taxes, the cost of increased social services, the impact of higher wages and salaries are those hi the very low income bracket and the people, the old people, on fixed incomes. Apparently the spoils go to those who bargain from strength and, equally appar- ent, those responsible for the mad rush to set up all the cradle to grave benefits have failed to give much consideration to the plight of those who have no bargaining power. We have often wondered if some of the economists and politicians who shape our destiny have ever given consideration to higher minimum wages as one means of off -setting the costly social services which are contributing so much to the increasing cost of goods and services. Perhaps a decent adequate minimum wage for the unskilled would reduce the need for the growing tax rate and do away with the need for all the costly paternal- ism. To single out the cost of food for attack is only due to the fact that food takes such a percentage of the weekly budget. The attacks ignore the reason for the advances. Wages are a major part of the cost of goods and services. The in- creases compound themselves. The result is that goods and services cost more and more and will continue to do so as long as the plumber, the electric- ians, the carpenter, the truck driver, the railway worker, the workers in the auto shops, the civil sevants and all the others who can impose their will succeed in doing so. It takes many processes before the foodstuffs in the fields are hi the hands of the consuming public. The pressures are constant. As one company president in the re- tail food business remarked: "It's simple when wages go up, increase the charges for the goods and services"'. This is what happens. So the pinch on those who can't for various reasons, enjoy their share of the increases becomes tighter. They are the under dogs. Unfortunately they are the ones who have little opportunity to protest or to enjoy the benefits of the affluent society. In the meantime it will be interesting to watch the success fruit and vegetable pro- ducers will encounter in meeting the in- creased costs as they march into production. Some of the marketing boards, those who have completed price negotiation, have been successful in securing higher prices. This will be their protection but it will have but one effect — higher costs for canned good. The merry-go-round goes round and round as usual the howl will be about the price of food. What happens to liquor and many other luxuries (or are they essentials) will they be overlooked? There will be no change in the pattern. — The Grower. Some Prefer Rumor to Truth The rather ugly imprint of rumor ap- pears to take precedence over the naked fact of truth in many instances; especially where meetings of various groups covered by the press are concerned. The matter almost invariably starts out with a remark to the effect that "I heard a rumor the other day and I wondered how much truth there was in it?" In every instance through which this reporter has sat, the truth has been of considerably less magnitude than the rumor. In most such instances, the re- porter is warned that this is "off the record". We occasionally ask. why? Standard answer is "we would be nailed to the wall if this got out". When it comes to being "nailed to the wall", any reporter is "nailed" often enough to firmly support two apartment blocks and a half-dozen pole barns in the course of any given year. Being "nailed" is an occupational hazard for the reporter and, in this light, he has little patience with others not wishing to find themselves in a similar situation. Without reservation, the truth freely expressed and quoted in the press would do more to "scotch" the many bitter rumors which fly about in any community than a carload of rumors allowed to build and distort behind the facade of "off the rec- ord" proceedings. It is quite possible for any responsible newsman to tell his read- ers the truth concerning any rumor with- out dragging personalities into the picture unnecessarily. All we ask is the chance.— St. Marys Journal -Argus. My Aching Heart Editorials are not intended to be heart- throb columns and this won't be one. On the other hand, varying types of heart troubles are today's number one killer in the world. What is commonly known as "heart attack" lays more people low than any other known disease, While one can- not afford to live in fear of the shadow of a heart attack resulting from this type because people of every age, social status, color, race and creed have become victims of this dreaded foe. It won't do any harm to think about it for a few minutes. The amount of manual labor one does has no particular affect on the normal healthy heart. However, nervous tensions, worry, anxiety and other types and causes of hypertension do take their toll on the pump of the life stream. .A wife's nagging, an employer's badgering, a client's persis- tant begging— can send a person to the hospital, and often to his grave, because of a heart attack, neither can he ignore it, of tension. It's not the amount of work we do that gets us but the tension that mounts up as we think of all we should have done that wasn't done. Sometimes it's not even what we didn't do but what people keep re- minding us we didn't do, that creates the tension that finally amounts to the straw that broke the camel's back. So if you don't want an aching heart learn to take an easy attitude toward things and people that eventually cause a heart attack. If you want to be a friend and don't want your mate or neighbor to suffer from an aching heart learn the fine art of p a ti en c e and understanding. Avoid nagging. Don't do things that put your friends in a bind. Avoid saying and doing things that will create pressure on those who are probably ,already overloaded. Learning to he patient and avoiding getting fussed up about the slowness of others could do .two things — it could save you from high blood pressure and your erst- while slow friends from a heart attack. Nobody really wants an aching heart. — Nanton (Alta.) News. VARNA NEWS The United Church Women held their Easter thank -offering meeting in the church Wednes- day evening. Mrs. Robert Stirl- ing played several musical num- bers prior to the service, Mrs. Tom Consitt gave the call to worship and Mrs. Mervyn Hay- ter welcomed the visitors from Kippen and Goshen churches. :Mrs. Robert Webster read the Scripture lesson, Mrs, William Taylor gave the meditation. The offering was taken up by Mrs, Joe Postill and Mrs, Wil- liam McAsh. A trio, Glenda Johnston, Carol Taylor and Peter Postill sang "It Was Alone". Mrs. Robert Taylor gave a reading, A film, "On the Rock", was shown but ow- ing to hydro failure was unable to finish. The trio sang again, "It Might Have Been", and Mrs. Mervyn Hayter closed the meet- ing with prayer. Lunch was served in the basement, An appreciation was expressed by the visitors. Mrs. Robert Peck for Goshen and Mrs. Emmerson Kyle for Kippen, urich eta. 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 Subscriptiln Rates: $3.00 per year in advance, in Canada; $4,00 in United States Sind and Foreign; single copies 7 cents. The Little Ships That Saved the Day Seven of the Royal Canadian Navy's first wartime corvettes round the outer automatic buoy off Halifax, May 23, 1941, bound for service with the new Newfounland Escort Force. The photo was taken from the senior ship, I3.MCS Chambly, and others shown are the Orillia, Cobalt, Collingwood, Wetaskiwin, Agassiz and Alberni. They and the other little ships of the RCN in the Second World War will be remembered on Battle of the Atlantic Sunday, May 1, across the country—(Cana- dian Forces Photo) SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley IT'S BEEN A TOUGH WEEK We've been a pretty lucky crew around our place this year All winter, friends, neigh- bors and relatives have been corning down with everything from the ordinary stuff—preg- nancy and insanity—to exotic items like oriental hepatitis and whooping mumps. We •haven't had so much as a sniffle, It was too good to last, and we got the whole bundle this week. Nothing serious, physi- cally, but mentally and emo- tionally, a shattering period. First it was the dentist. Kim's was her r e g u l a r six-month check-up. It's a breeze. She waltzes in blithely, has her gums frozen, and the dentist pumps a little concrete into a pin-hole you couldn't see with a telescope. It's a little different for fa- ther. I also go regularly to the dentist. Every three or four years. When I have a broken tooth or two, and have wild, stabbing pains from several of the other old stumps, and have postponed my appointment about six times, I go down for my regular check-up. Sweating, trembling and con- demning all dentists and their inane questions to the murkiest depths, I sit there trying to tear the arms off the chair. Too gutless about needles to have the freezing, I go through the agonies of Prometheus as the poor man prods about among the snaggles of porcelain, look- ing for a piece of genuine, human tooth he can drill. And then there's always that excruiating moment when he steps back, with some kind of chisel co eked in his hand, shakes his head more in pity than in sympathy, and says, "Hmmm". Visions of the blood, the pain, the ignominy swirl through my head. Well, that's the way the week began. Worse was to come. I've been suffering from a bad shoulder for years. I know. Everybody has one. Or a bad back or a bad hip. One week, the doctor says it's an inflam- mation. On the next visit, he says it's an old injury aggra- vated by tension. Next trip,, it's bursitis. Next, after X-rays, it's a calcium deposit. If I had half the calcium in my teeth that 1 have in my shoulder, I could be one of those grinning -ape models in the toothpaste ads. Anyway, I finally decided to do something about it. Or my wife did. She didn't mind my groaning in my sleep. It was the cursing, every time I rolled onto that side, that upset her. She was worried about my soul. I wasn't. But when it got to the point where I couldn't pour a bottle of beer any more, with. out weeping, I realized that man cannot exist on pain pills alone. I've mentioned what a yellow streak I have about needles. The doc said, as he took out this elephant syringe, loaded with cortisone, "You'll feel a slight pin -prick as the needle enters". The cold sweat stop- ped flowing. Nothing to it. Then he started to lean on the needle. Have you ever had a pin -prick with a crowbar? The only comparable experi- ence I've had was one time in a veterans' hospital, 1 was wheeled into this room for "tests", Flat on my back. Two nurses held a hand each, one on each side of the bed. De- cent of them, I thought. Com- forters. As I was smiling at them, in turn the doc rammed this huge hypodermic in my chest and shoved down. Then he started to suck (marrow out of my breast bone, as it turned out). In the next three seconds, those nurses wound up on op- posite sides of the bed, without touching the floor. 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