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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1966-07-21, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1964 ecideuai e lila ON INN Less Togetherness Might Help Whether to take the family vacation in the mountains or at the seaside has long been a standard joke for the cartoonists. And the reason for its popularity could well be the seriousness of the basic prob- lem. involved. The whole trouble is that although it's customary for families to go on their va- cations together, ther is seldom agree- ment on where to go. And when you come down to it, why should there be? If mother has her choice she would go to a place where the dishes are done, the meals cooked and the beds made. A spring -shopping trip to the big city — without the children — would probably suit her down to the ground. Father would likely •choose a fishing trip away from it all with the fellows, or perhaps a couple of weeks on the golf course, But what happens? The family usually winds up at the beach, or at Disneyland, because that's where the kids would like to go. And because most vacations must be taken during the two months when the children are out of school, some of the best vacation months are automatically eliminated. So there goes mother's spring shopping trip or father's hunting in the fall. Obviously if family loyalties were not involved, the sensible thing would be for members of the fancily to go their separate ways. And it might be a good idea, at that. After all, there are 50 weeks for to- getherness. Two weeks might well be set aside for apartness. Later Than You Think July could be compared to a man who is just past forty, and suddenly awakes to the realization that life is slipping away. He is over the hump, on the downward slope. and the question is: What happened to all the time that used to stretch end- lessly before him, and all the interesting and ambitious things he wanted to do? So it is with July. Suddenly the year is half over, and most of the resolutions made away back in January are still just resolutions. Here it is six months later, time has gone on, but accomplishments seem to have stood still. July has one advantage over being forty, however. The summer provides a breather in the form of a vacation, which enables people to get their second wind and gird themselves for the remainder of National Interests Politics will continue to have an ob- vious place on the hustings, to properly identify candidates and their policies. But after an election has been won, even by a shaky majority, as it was last November, politics should become second- ary to the conduct of the nation's business in the House of Commons. It is not so in our House of Commons. The two major figures in the House are vigorously struggling for the Prime Minister's post. One, the present incumbent, Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, appears to feel secure in the post, and during the recent heated discussion in the "Munsinger" de- bate, openly defied the leader of the op- position to call for a vote of confidence in the government, and precipitate another election. The leader •of the opposition, Rt. Hon. John G. Diefenbaker, has a burning per- sonal desire to once again become Prime Minister of Canada. It seems highly pos- sible that one of these days he will strike inion some damning piece of "scandal" that will topple the Pearson administration. This will be his last opportunity to become Prime Minister, and he is fighting toward this goal by fair means or foul. On the government side of the House, the picture is not much more encouraging. The Liberals are playing the same senseless game. The introduction of the Munsinger case into the House record, believed by some to be retaliation against the Conserv- atives' broaching of the Rivard affair in the last Parliament, touched off one of the most ridiculous and time -wasting interludes Canada's parliament has ever known. the year. Smart people allow themselves enough leisure during their vacation to indulge in some unhurried thoughts about the months to conte. If their contemplations have been pro- ductive they'll be able to go back to work at the end of their vacations filled with all the ambition, enthusiasm and optimism with which most of them greeted the New Year. People in their forties don't usually have this •opportunity. Life at that time is at its busiest, and the chance to step off the merry-go-round and watch the ac- tion for a while is not something most people in their forties can manage. But there's one consolation. July and forty may be past the halfway mark, but it's still a long time until December. -- Or Personalities .And except for a few heated ex- changes, Prime Minister Pearson did not emerge to the fore to bring an early halt to this nonsense. Surely Canadians should be assured that the Prime Minister will exert a little disciplinary control over his party. But he did not use his authority, and this matter consumed the better part of four sitting days in the House at an esti- mated cost to the Canadian taxpayer, in salaries .alone, of $2,300 an hour. During this time, most of the prestige that Canada and her government has gained was going down the drain, not only at home, but internationally. It is almost unnecessary to say that the Canadian people have lost confidence in both Mr. Pearson and Mr. Diefenbaker. And the Canadian people do not want another election. They did not want the last one. We feel therefore that this is a matter for the two major political parties to settle themselves, in their own interest, and in the interest of 20 million Canadians. Forget the political implications, but don't forget the 20 million Canadians. Another election is inevitable soon, unless these two parties take another look at their leaders, who for the sake of per- sonal ambitions are hamstringing the con- duct of the nation's urged business. We do not want an election, but we do feel that we need two leadership con- ventions --and soon. If the two major parties must halt the nation's business temporarily to ponder this situation, then we feel the delay would be justified. It would result in less bick- ering and fewer elections in future years. New Potatoes To Be Available Soon New, early potatoes from On- tario, and more particularly from Essex and Kent counties in the southwestern part of the province, will be available soon. Their popularity extends to al- most all parts of Canada. Each year, Ontario potatoes are on the tables of consumers in every province of this coun- try, except perhaps British Co- lumbia. In 1965 for instance, there was an export demand for 236 carloads. This includ- ed 114 to Newfoundland, 59 to Nova Scotia, and 39 to New Brunswick. This compares with a total of 217 the previous year. Again this year, seed, ferti- lizer, labor, and supplies have had .a marked influence on in- creased costs of production. Nevertheless, large quantities of high dry matter new pota- toes in increased volume are now required within Ontario for processing into potato chips, French fries, instant mashed, and dehydrated slices. This, along with increases in popula- tion, and the fact that supplies of old potatoes in storage are low, point to brisk demands in the weeks ahead for freshly harvested new potatoes from Ontario. Fields are now in full bloom, A fair volume should be avail- able soon with supplies more plentiful later in the month, depending on weather. Zurich !eitNSw PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERFs TURKHEIM, Publisher J E. HUNT, Plant Superintendent Authorized as Second Class Ntail, Post Office Department, Ottawa and for payntent of postage in cash. Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Member: Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Member: Canadian Community Newspapers Representatives Suhscriptien Rates: $3.00 per year in advance, in Canada; $4.00 in United States Bald and Foreign; single copies 7 cents.• 1 From My Window By Shirley Keller ALL ABOUT NOTHING It is a terrifying one and •one- half hours until this weekly word of witty wisdom must be in the hands of the local post- master (did you know there is no such thing as a postmis- tress?) and on its way to you, the dear readers who suffer through this column with me each time it appears. I say terrifying because I can't think of a thing to be witty about -- or serious either, for that matter. You see, the problems of a home -making housewife with two lively kids out of school and one sometimes unto -opera- tive baby makes my life a con- stant bedlam at the best of times. But this is summer, and added to my regular schedule are the other headaches—like plucking juicy raspberries from the long, hot, mosquito -infested bushes in our garden, disposing of mounds of green and yellow beans from the same prosper- ous plot, pitting choice cherries from the orchard of a generous neighbor and keeping ahead of the pea production out back of the house. That's only the basis for my attack of warm weather weari- ness. Why, oh why, were picnic in- vented? Nice for children and men, picnics are definitely not for lazy women like myself who 1 must chase about a steaming kitchen saucing salads, devil- ling eggs, icing drinks, stuffing sandwiches, dropping cookies, layering cakes, filling pies and goodness knows what else. Generally this domestic work- out is followed by a hectic drive to a crowded, noisy park where mother spends half her time fishing junior out of the poison ivy and the other half keeping father's temper down to a dull growl as be rebels at the thought of playing catch in the 95 degree heat. Invariably, eating time proves more distressing. There just isn't an available table, so after something less than a patient wait, give up the thought of dining in comfort and steele for a shady spot where you can spread your repast upon a table- cloth on the ground that crawls with ants. If your lucky star doesn't happen to be shining that day, and mine seldom does, one of the kids will spill his fly -coaxing lemonade over him- self and the •chocolate cake or someone will sit upon an un- appreciative bumble bee. Home is a strange combine - tion of prison and haven for me in the summer. I'm too worn out to enjoy e day away from the house and too happy for a change of pace to stay at home. Is it any wonder I can't put together a bright, sensible column? SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley ALL AGONY, NO ECSTASY My wife keeps asking me why my hands shake. It would not be polite to respond, "Baby, living with you would make anyone's hands shake. So I blame it on the war, Some fellows have burned faces, aluminum legs, sleeves pinned up, glass eye. Some have great shrapnel wounds on abdomen or buttocks, which they will happily show you .at the Satur- day night party. My hands shake. She doesn't believe the war bit anymore, so I blame it on booze, the tension of teaching, or the pills I take for my bur- sitis. What bring this to mind is that I've just gone through about 48 hours of domestic pur- gatory. Cowardly husbands go quietly off to mental institu- tions, or have heart atacks. My hands shake. The occasion was the recep- tion of our son's marks at the end of first year university and about $1,700. Plus tax. When the paper arrived with the first-year results, I threw it on the table, ran to the bath- room, locked myself in, and started flushing the toilet at 12 -second intervals. As I suspected, it was futile. The alternative sobs of grief and shrieks of rage penetrated my refuge. I had to come out and be a father. I know you won't believe it, but that kid's name was not at the head of the first-class hon- ors list. Nor the second-class honors list. Nor the third. (He had told me, just before leaving for the west coast job, to start looking for his name from the bottom of the page up.) At least it was there. I tried to console .the Old Lady with stuff 'like, "Rome wasn't built in a day, you know", and "You can't grow roses without thorns, you know", and "What the hell, we'll all be dead in 50 years, you know," and similar bits of homespun comfort. It was as useless as trying to hum Flow Gently, Sweet Afton with a Beatles record going full bore. Kim was a big help, though. She sat there tossing, "What a lazy bum! Why weren't you tougher with him? flow could he be so stupid?" and other bits of oil on the fire. Frankly, 1 was relieved that he'd passed. My wife was in- furiated alternatively with the Lord, who hadn't caused a mir- acle to pass, his professors, who had barely allowed the kid to pass, and the kid, who had al- lowed a year to pass as though he'd been on another planet. But she couldn't just keep on sobbing and uttering maledic- tions. We had arranged to go an a picnic with another family and their four little kids. So we went. And the results proved to me once again that stupid old platitude that "life goes on". It was a wonderful combination: sun and sand; their baby eating algae and ants; their little boys burning themselves as they roasted marshmallows; and a most pe- culiarly potent potion of Gor- don's lemonade 1'd mixed. Under this prescription, my old girl was so ielaxed'that she burst into tears of shame and rage only four times during the picnic. Next day she was definitely on the mend. She cried until noon, brooded on her bed until four p.m., but gat up and put the chicken legs in the oven for some people we'd invited for dinner. By great good luck, their kid had failed his year outright and dismally. That cheered things up a bit. Later in the evening, an old friend, a professor of English, dropped in with his wife. They were on holidays. Their daugh- ter, an extremely brilliant stu dent in high school, had also just completed first-year uni- versity. They hadn't yet seen her results. We had the extreme pleasure of telling them that she, like Hugh, had barely staggered through. They left, looking sick. We went to bed, the boss almost buoyant. 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