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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1966-07-14, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY,, JULY 14, 1944 =IV 4187 Wet The Twelve Steps Short days ago Ontario sun shone for an A.A. man. He hadn't had a drink for a year. During the long, difficult period he was out of work, but he was befriended . His belief in people was profound, and with this feeling uppermost within him, the A.A. (Alcoholics Annonymous) man passed away, leavving a legacy in un- written assurance to other A.A. comrades. Across the editorial desk the A.A. man once said: "You know me, sir, I have been in to see you before. You have helped me. God bless you. I have admitted be- fore that I was powerless over alcohol, that my life had become unmanageable. I did come to believe that there was a Power greater than myself, a Power that could restore me to sanity ... for drinking, drinking, and drinking is an insane thing. I lost count of hours, days . . . I was insane! "One day I came to my senses. It was a new heaven and a very different earth. I made a decision to turn my will and my life over to His care, as I understand Him. I made a searching and fearless account- ing of what I had done with my life. I walked firmly and surely the steps of A.A. to the twelfth one. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, I tried to carry this message to others and help them," A.A. is abstinence, A.A. is treatment by degrees, by steps, with a purpose great- er and more enduring that self. A.A, is sincerity ... the doubters should be pres- ent at a testimonial. "I admitted I was powerless . . I asked for help . . . I was restored to sanity . . . I lived in a new world . ." The man is dead who quoted the twelve steps to us, bu his message has warmth and vitality for those in need. So long, A.A, friend!—(One Small Drop of Ink) Let's Root for Baseball Perhaps we're prejudiced, but a good baseball game is superior to any other summer sport. Baseball, however, is hav- ing a grim fight to survive in Ontario towns and villages. No longer do boys have to sweat to make a wooden home -plate, build a pitch- er's mound, beg bags of sawdust from the mill for bases, and borrow lawn mowers to cut grass. Sport has lost it foundation with handouts, just as a nation will lose its initiative with subsidies. Recreation has become fully sedentary to some people. The best form of exer- cise seems to be to stand up, take a deep breath and sit down to TV at home. One can see almost everything from the plush diamond to the ten -cent bag of peanuts in the stands. In this era of diversified interests, it is wisdom to know that success will come to the man who capitalizes on circum- stances. To some people success means a theft or a sweepstake, to others it can only mean self -accomplishment. On one street time is idled away by the Micawbers, on another there's a path- way to the pubs; some walk aimlessly and others play ponies, while out •on the long, straight highway souped -up jalopies are going nowhere faster than that! Let's settle down and root, root for the home team. Let's go out to the old ball game,—(One Small Drop of Ink) Exportable Brain Not all the brains Canada has exported are a real loss to this country. There is John Kenneth Galbraith, for instance, who went to Harvard from Southwestern On- tario and turned left. He wrote a book about people being so affluent that there should be laws to compel everyone who has a second car to sell it and turn the proceeds thereof over to the bureaucrats for their use and bene- fit, He wrote another book about the peo- ple around the farms whom he knew as a boy and he wasn't always kindly in his expressed thoughts about them. And now lie bas said to the Canadian Manufacturers' Association that the time is coming for a legally established minimum income for all. This professor is a graduate in agri- culture (Guelph) and economics (Harvard), He also has been U.S. ambassador to India, where problems of income for the individ- ual are so baffling that even an ex -Cana- dian might not be able to cure them. Everything is relative. If the law said that everyone should get $2,000 a year, up from nothing, the unions would demand eomparable increases in basic rates. The idea may appeal to the demagogues, who may be nourished in Harvard and who are much chaff in a field of sense. Has the professor a thought that he could add to his affluence by putting the idea, •or a modification thereof, into a sal- able book? — The Printed Word. People Make the There is growing realization as the October dates of the International Plowing Match draw nearer, of the task which faces the people of Huron in acting as •hosts for the big event. The Wingham Advance -Times points this out in a recent editorial comment and stresses the role which must be assumed by each municipality if full advantage is to •be taken of the occasion, "So far we haven't heard much talk around the town about the forthcoming International Plowing Mateh which will be held this fall on land north of Seaforth;" the Wingham paper says, and continues, "It is time to take an active interest in. this event, by far the largest and most important one on the farm calendar. "Although Wingham is not the closest town to the site of the mathh, it is cer- tainly close enough to feel the impact of the throngs who will be attending. All public services such as eating establish- ments and service stations will benefit from a wave of extra trade, from those travel- Iing to and from the match, as will our retail merchants." Proper emphasis is placed on the at- titudes which Huron people generally and business people particularly, must adopt to the visitors in our midst. "The Seaforth district is the closest the International is likely to approach Wingham for many years to came. It will provide an excellent opportunity to show Difference our town to newcomers and Wingham should be at its very best, certainly as far as appearance is concerned ... and ever more important, in its attitude to visitors and shoppers. "We dream a great deal about the benefits which would accrue to our com- munity if another industry could be per- suaded to locate here—and no single aspect of industry -hunting is more impor- tant than the attractiveness of the town and its people. "The town's development committee is presently engaged in the productionofan interesting little folder which will be avail- able in quantity for distribution at the plowing match. The folder seeks to gain attention for Wingham as a potential in- dustrial site and the chief attributes to which it points are the friendly atmos- phere of the community, combined with the very latest in educational, recreational, health and social amenities." The important aspect of the whole matter is summed up in the concluding words where the Advance -Times says, "No committee, however enthusiastic, can sell a community unless every citizen of the place is co-operating to the fullest extent. In the final analysis it is up to us, the. people who live here, to prove what a fine town we call our own," Certainly this is something that each of us must remember. It is people that. make the difference. Zurich INA News P1tiPi27+1i1 133?' SOUTH HURON PTJBLTS11RS LIMITED, ZtIRRICH HERB, TURKHEIM, Publisher J E. HUNT. Plant Superintendent Atithorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Departittent, Ottawa and for payment of postage in cash, Member: Member: Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Canadian Cornntunity Newspapers Representatives SSubacriptien Rates. $3.00 per year in advance, in Canada; $4.00 in united States end and Foreign; single eople5 7 cents. By Shirley Keller You Must Be Joshing, Doctor? Did someone have a horrible nightmare or is it really true that a woman in far off Paki- stan gave birth to nine living babies last week ? ? Is it possible to even remote- ly imagine life with nine tiny, wriggling, hungry, wet, crying, burping infants? The nursery at that home must resemble a crowded ward at a children's hospital, and getting ready for Sunday night supper at grandma's house would be like packing for a trip abroad! Feeding time would begin at dawn and continue into the wee small hours of the morning... If you were lucky. And a baby bonanza of that magnitude would demand a diaper service of its very own. Someone would have to be on round-the-clock diapering duty with another hand on stand-by alert in case nine up- set tummies would constitute a napkining emergency. If the youngsters suffered from colic or came down with the sniffles, a team of qualified medics wouldn't be out of place. Or consider the agony of watching and waiting for nine front toothies to peek through nine sets of sore, swollen gums. A friend remarked, "But think of the baby bonus". Even if Pakistan does grant the staggering sum of $6 per month per baby, $54 monthly wouldn't go far at the shoe stare. Let's suppose the gov- ernment did step in with addi- tional assistance. Those of us who have a couple of kids won- der if the national economy of any country would withstand the drain of finances necessary to raise nine babies all at once from infancy to manhood. Come to think of it, I'd like to see Canada's Finance Minis- ter Sharp squeeze an item like that into his budget without someone feeling the pinch. Yet another problem must be handled. The parents of those nine tykes are said to be in their "early 20s". It is quite conceivable still more cradles could be hung on the family tree . . and if mommy and daddy combine to produce such large bundles of joy after only one year of marriage, after five or ten years they might really hit the junior jackpot. It's too frightening to even consider. Multiple births—those result- ing twins, triplets or even quads—are worrysome enough to the couple contemplating children ... but to ponder the possibility of "nine - at - one - stroke" leaves me totally in agreement with the man and wife who avoid family ties. If the report of that squad - sized birth isn't true, someone has made a startling mathema- tical error. If it is true, Heaven help that mother. P.S. —A news report since this column was written has in- dicated that all nine babies have died. THE SAILOR'S LOT I was reading the other day an interview with •a Canadian seaman. He was telling a re- porter why he, and so many other sailors are not happy with their lot. He mentioned a lot of things that seemed petty at first glance: coarse sheets on the bunks; crowded quarters; not enough showers; cheap soap; scanty recreational facilities. Not much of the spirit of Drake and Nelson and round- ing Cape Horn there? Not much: But then the truth came out. These were only the minor irri- tants, the little,concrete mani- festations of a deeper discon- tent. A sailor's pay is good, com- paratively. Most boats feed their crews well. What realty gets the sailor down are frustration, boredom, monotony and lonelt- ness. They suffer from the mod- ern malaise of the spirit that affects many segments of our society. As I read the article, I couldn't help comparing the sailor's job today with that of the 1930s, when I spent a spell on the Great Lakes. Today he works a 40 -hour week, has a basic pay of nearly $400 a month, and is protected by a tough union. In those days, he worked a 50 to 60 -hour week, picked up a ,handsome cheque for $40 at the end of the month, and could be fired if he even looked unhappy, And perhaps that's why, if memory serves, the sailor of those days was a pretty happy character. He did a lot' of grousing, as sailors have done since Ulysses and his crew left Troy, but he also did a lot of horsing around, and took life very unseriously. • Not many were married in those days. They couldn't af- ford it. They'd blow their 40 bucks on beer and girls and poker in a couple of days, and then it was penny -ante and practical jokes and "makings" for the rest of the month. Today's sailor is a much glummer individual. He's more likely to be married and have children. He has a mortgage and insurance and income tax and dental bills, like all the other suckers in. society. Theoretically ,he's 10 times better off than the deck -hand of the 30s. He works a whole lot less and makes a great deal more. He is better fed and quartered. He can watch tele- vision. He has 10 months away from the old battleaxe and the kids, two months holidays in winter, during which he is paid unemployment insurance. What's wrong then? Why. is he griping, threatening to strike every so often, wishing he ,had a shore job? It's simple enough. Sailing is deadly dull. For of- ficers and engineers, it's lively enough. They have delicate ma- chinery, decisions, responsibili- ties, special skills, But the deck -hand is the poor bloody infantry :of the inland seas. His work is often dirty, nearly always monotonous, oc- casionally dangerous, but hard- ly ever heroic, There's no going aloft to reef the mainsail in the teeth of a gale. He's more likely chipping paint. There's no landing at exotic foreign ports, hiring a ricksha and heading for the high spots. He's more likely picking his way across the rail - Expert Watch' Repairs • Trophies and Engraving • DIAMONDS -WATCHES - CHINA Anstett Jewellers LTD. CLINTON WALKERTON SEAFORTH Pinkeye in Cattle Causes Blindness If a cow keeps shedding tears, pinkeye might be the way tracks in a dirty dock area, heading for a beer parlor. He spends most of his wak- ing hours with a crowd just as browned off as he. And they curse and play poker and grouse and watch television crud and brag about the shore job they could have had. Not much for the soul there. And he's lonely. Lonely for his family. And maybe he's guilty, knowing it's not a square deal for the wife, bringing up the kids alone. And he misses the land. The shady streets of the small town, or the beat and excitement of the city. The green of trees and grass, and the glimmer of brown young limbs on beaches. The smell of lilacs in June, and burning leaves in October. Theres a little of this in the life of the inland sailor. It's clean and fresh out on the lakes. But one Great Lake looks much like another, one canal like the last one, and every grimy dock area exactly like the one you've just come from. Don't knock the sailor. He has his ghosts, just as you and I. set to ettoReii cause. Pinkeye is highly contagious, spreading rapidly in summer and fall front one cow's eyes to another's by contact with long grass, flies, and dust. The probable entrance paint is through the mucus surrounding each eyeball, Tears causing dirt to accumulate are the first symptoms, being followed by inflamed eyelids and cloudy eyeballs. Temporary blindness is common at this stage and, if the disease is not brought under control, permanent blind- ness can be the result. "An animal's discomfort isn't the only reason to take quiek action against this bacteria," warns extension veterinarian Dr. H. J, Neely, Ontario Depart- ment epartmeat of Agriculture and Food. "Pinkeye is a dollar drain since loss of weight and milk pro- duction result. A blind animal( on pasture will be a `poor doer'. "In an outbreak of pinkeye, cattle should always be provid- ed with shade in addition to protection from dust and files. Every animal on pasture should be checked each day so that new cases can be quickly iso- lated. Pinkeye victims :finds sunlight particularly painful, so a dark shed is a good isola- tion ward for them. After iso- lating them, a veterinarian should be called to confirm the diagnosis and prescribe correct treatment." It's a treat they'll all cove. Our tempting foods are carefully prepared and beautifully served. The atmosphere is gracious and congenial, perfect for family dining. Our dining room is air conditioned for your comfort. 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