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Zurich Citizens News, 1966-09-08, Page 21 From My Window By Shirley Keller I HAVE A POEM The most marvellous thing. 'about Labor Day Is that school will begin on the morrow; This fabulous fact is the one saving grace That banishes all summer sorrow. It's not that the summer's entirely unwanted— It's been such a pleasant season. It's just that the kids on a summer vacation Have lost sight of all rhyme and all reason. A plain, simple thing like rising each morning Becomes in the summer a chore; At night when good folks should be snoring and snoozing Mere thought of a bed is a bore. Those long sunny hours were designed for pure play And so they are used, for a while — Until the great newness has all worn off And "summer complaint" is the style. This brand of summer complaint, nay friend, Ts not the usual kind, It's a highly contagious attack of a bug That drives mother out of her mind. The symptoms are real and easily read, It affects only children at first; But alas, as it spreads from big brother to sister It's mother who suffers the worst. The kids are unhappy by mid-JuIy; By its end, they are fit to be tied: The middle of August brings mad misbehavior Then a strap or a stick is applied :. . By a half -frenzied mother, at home without father She •tackles the problem alone. No moral support but a temper that's heated And a heart that's as cold as a stone. It's mother who hears the unanswerable questions Of "What in the world can we do?" It's mother who worries from sunup to sundown If junior will drown at the pool. It's mother who whips up the cold drinks and cookies, It's mother who cleans up the mess. It's mother who drives all the kids to the drive-in. It's mother who knows all the stress. While father works on, oblivious to children, It's mother who tends to the flocks. Away from the office, it's dad who relaxes Poor mother must bear all the shocks. It's really no wonder that mothers are joyous When school buses once again roll. Though fathers are rested and children are rested, For mom, summer's taken its toll. She's tired and she's weary, she's fed up to here, She's had no vacation at all. But at last it's all •over, at last it is done, Rejoice and be merry, it's fall. Scooped again! On Septem- ber the first, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-six, at 8:30 p.m., Canada's second television network to go into operation;• s c o o p e d the pants off the tired old CBC. How? Simply by introducing color TV to Canadians by pro- ducing a `special' entitled "Col- or Preview '66". And who appeared on this 60 -minute color spectacular? Two people who are most im- portant in the broadcasting in- dustry—the Honorable Judy La - Marsh, secretary of state, and Dr. Andrew Stewart, chairman of the board of broadcast gov- ernors. And who knows, CTV officials may have tried for the Prime Minister, but he was busy with a railroad strike. But you can bet that CTV will have him in color for his annual Christmas message, along with John Diefenbaker, leader of the opposition. Judy looked very attractive in color and had these remarks: "Surveys tell me that no other activity occupies more of our waking hours than TV viewing. Even now, I do not believe we fully understand the dimensions of the impact that viewing has on our lives and patterns which guide them. The introduction of full color is certain to bring a new richness to our experi- ence as viewers." Dr. Stewart said: "CTV net- work and its stations are to be commended for the efforts they are snaking, and have made, to add to their service to their viewers in this way. There is no question that color is an im- provement in television and I recommend to you that you take every possible opportunity to see the programs which are available in color, and I am sure that you will respond to the new interest and the new di- mension which color brings to A 1 PAGE TWO ZURICH CITIZENS NOW, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1966 edI Cammeod AO+ON 0111 The Visitor and Your Municipality The Watford Guide -Advocate Recently we observed a man drive into Watford and quietly park his car on Main Street. After taking his brief case from the car he purchased a newspaper and entered a corner restaurant where he scanned the paper as he sipped a eup of offee. He then booked into the hotel, made a few phone calls, visited several offices, met three friends for dinner, at- tended a fastbalI game at Waterworks Park, proceeded back to the hotel and turned in. Next day, breakfast, paid his hotel bill, bought gasoline remembered a pres- ent for his wife, also a new shirt he needed, climbed back into his ear and drove quietly out of the village. Interesting character? Who was he? Where did he come from? What did he think when he left? This man was a visitor in your muni- cipality and may have come for many reasons. He could have been a friend from a neighboring municipality, invited for dinner, a casual driver out for a spin, a service club member on an inter -club visit, a salesman making calls, an execu- tive seeking a factory site or a tourist on vacation. He was a visitor in your municipality —a man away from home, symbolic of thousands of persons constantly travelling by car, by bus, by train, by air, which is one little portion of the gigantic visitor industry which affects every farmer (food), gas station, hot dog stand, motel, corner store, in every community in this country. He was part of the third largest dollar vol- ume industry in the land—the visitor :Industry— a business that never stops. He came from Europe, from the next county, from Alberta, from California, from RR 1, from just about anywhere! And what did he think when he left? Well, that depends, How did you treat him? This guest in your home, munici- pality. The waitress smiled and welcomed him when she served his coffee. The coffee. was good. The hotel owner was friendly and talked proudly about his vil- lage. The room was clean. The bed was comfortable. His dinner was excellent (just like home). The clerk in the store suggested several presents for his wife. And he paid the same price for his shirt as if he had been a resident . . . and they knew he was from out of town be- cause they asked him. In fact, he felt very much at home. The reason was that he appreciated the friendly, courteous attention and felt that he had received good value for the money he had left behind. Take a good look around your Munici- pality. Visualize it as your home. Would you be proud to welcome a guest? Do the streets look clean? Are there ade- quate signs to direct strangers? Are people friendly? It is often said that everybody's busi- is nobody's business, but this certainly is not true with the visitor industry. It is in a very important sense everybody's business: the person in agriculture who grows and produces the food, the waitress in the restaurant, the man at the gas pump, the elerk in the store, the cop on the beat and the hotel owner. The acknowledgment of the individual citizen's responsibility is a prince factor in determining what the visitor feels as he drives out of the village — and what this important business will mean to the entire economy of your municipality. Patrotic To Be Fooled By some people it is considered pa- triotic to buy ITS Savings Bonds. In Can- ada there are Canada Savings Bonds. Prob- ably because of the war in Vietnam the appeal in the US advertising is not paid for by government but is presented "as a public service in co-operation with the Treasury Department and the Advertising Council. Governments, if they are to bounce upward and onward, must get money and one of the several ways of getting it is to persuade people to put their savings into government obligations, euphemistically called "securities" or bonds, or pieces of paper "guaranteed both as to principal and interest" by government. Yet it is too bad that people cannot be told the truth. No one who is unload- ing these savings bonds on an unsuspecting public is telling the whole truth, not even much of the truth. In Canada in recent years there has been a great .todo about conditions of in- stalment selling. Legislatures have been saying that there must be a revealing of the "true rate of interest" on unpaid baI- ances on the buys. But no one, except the more thoughtful of the populace, has paused long enough to remember that a slow or not so slow fall in the buying power bears down an the citizen more drastically than does an excessive charge for financing goods bought on what in Britain is called the "hire-purchase" plan. At least the amount of the monthly instal- ment is known and can be planned. But the steady drain on real values is some- thing over which the citizen has no con- trol. He is told that he willget back every cent he "invested" plus interest. In the US these bonds now pay "4.15 per cent when held to maturity" or seven years. How much will the US dollar be worth in seven years? The present rate of de- cline, or rise in prices, is three per cent a year, or thereabouts. So the dollar paid back in seven years will have a value •of perhaps 80 or 81 cents. It would be more appropriate to cam- paign for truth in advertising and admit that a bond is not so good as it used to be.—The Printed Word. Sisters of Rosie the Riveter Passing by on the street, a young girl was overheard to say earnestly to a friend, "I'd love to play the bass drum". In a gentler day, the harp was considered to be the young lady's instrument. A Michigan foundry that hired a woman had 35 women on its payroll six months later, a little less than 10 per cent of its work force. Automation and a man- power shortage had combined to introduce women into jobs none of them had ever expected to occupy. Just how it came about that certain jobs are considered the special preserve of one or other of the sexes isn't entirely clear; better reasons for choice of career would seem to be ability, talent and inter- est. Changes in attitude that are being made with considerable speed in the young- er nations are not so rapid in the more hidebound, of which Canada is probably one, although in one Canadian city a male nurse has been appointed as head of the nurses' training school in which he him- self received his training. His appoint- ment would certainly be considered a break with tradition. But it wouldn't be wise to look for an overnight revolution. Career counsel- lors, curriculum planners, textbook illus- trators, and even toy manufacturers have a long-range influence on the jobs John and Mary look forward to filling when they grow up. That is, if they don't have their eyes fixed on the guaranteed annual income.— The Printed Word. Zurich ' : = :News PRINTED BY SOt3TIi' HURON PUBLISHERS LI !LLD, 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. 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