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ZURICH CITIZENS NEW
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1 6
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rice Are Best
A railway trainman and another man
are reported to have been discussing the
recent strike. The view was expressed
that th crucial question is how much the
railways are able to pa}. To this the
trainman replied: "To hell with the rail-
ways, let the ;government pay it."
Those words probably slipped out in
an unguarded moment, but they revealed
what the man really had in mind: and in-
dications are that many thousands of the
strikers and their sympathizers are of the
same mind. The meaning in those words is
that, in the minds of the strikers, the value
of their labor is not the issue in this dis-
pute, that the purpose is to compel the tax-
payers to supplement whatever wages the
railways are able to pay. This means that
the people were being deprived of railway
services in order to compel them to submit
to being taxed for the benefit of the em-
ployees.
Any wage increase the railway men
gain in this manner will have to be taken
out of the earnings of other workers, for
the government has no money of its own
to give anybody; and many of those who
would be taxed for this purpose are earn-
ing less than the railway leen who are de-
manding such assistance. There is nothing
fair or just about raising wages in this way;
and the unions should be the first to oh-
jeet to it.
The determining of wage rates is large-
ly a matter of weighing value against value,
the value of the workers' labor against the
value at which the consumers will buy the
products of such labor. No man nor any
group of men can accurately measure such
values. They are the product of thousands
of separate decisions by thousands of dif-
ferent persons, each acting in his own in-
terests and each free to buy or sell as suits
himself. The natural result of such bar-
gaining is the "going price' or "going
wages" as the case may be. Such prices
and such wages are not enforced by any
public authority and are binding only on
those who agree to them.
Experience teaches that when these
natural prices and natural wages prevail,
unsalable surpluses of goods do not accum-
ulate, for under such a system goods that
won't sell at one price will always attract
buyers who can find other uses for them
at lower prices and thus keep the markets
clear. --Nanton (Alta,) News.
Sorrow and Anguish
For too many weeks now there have
been stories in the newspapers about peo-
ple being killed or hurt in car accidents.
Some of them are folks you know. That
makes their death and injuries a personal
affair and not just another statistic about
highway traffic accidents.
It is one thing to read that so many
people were killed and so many injured on
our roads and highways during the last
year. It is another, as too many of us
know, to have to meet and face those who
are in sorrow and anguish because of what
has happened to them, and could so easily
happen to any one of us.
How often have you seen a car going
past you and you could say. "There's an
accident going to happen". You might be
right. But the tragedy is that when the
accident does happen, those hurt, maimed
or killed may be completely innocent;
they may be good, careful and safe drivers.
They suffer and the driver to blame escapes
without a scratch.
It is not enough nowadays to watch
one's own driving. You simply have to
watch the other fellow's too.
This provides no excuse for anyone
to take chances on the grounds that other
drivers should look after themselves. But
there is a fool born every minute and too
many of them get hold of a car and drive
like crazy. These are mostly drivers under
25 years of age and it is only fair to say
that part of their hell -bent -for -election
driving is just letting off steam getting
the thrill that is promised in the extrava-
gant car advertising about surging power.
But that is no excuse. The moment any-
one gets behind the wheel of a car and
puts it into motion, that person automati-
cally accepts the responsibility for con-
trolling a vehicle that is capable of bring-
ing death and disaster to themselves and
others .. . and all too often does. And
older drivers must accept that their re-
flexes and reactions get slower with age,
So, when driving, don't drive offen-
sively. Be careful. Don't become a sta-
tistic in the columns of figures about acci-
dents. Don't be a figure on a morgue
slab or in :a hospital bed.
Drive defensively, to keep alive.—The
AIliston (Ont.) Herald.
Tire Standardizing
It is with much interest that we have
heard Canada will endeavour to standardize
automobile tires.
Long has it been felt that the weakest,
most vulnerable part of any auto is the
tire, continually bare faced to all weather
conditions, and sometimes -hazardous road
conditions. And from the standpoint of
experienced drivers, the good -quality tire
will average better and Ionger wear than
the cheaper tire.
It is hoped that the Canadian Standards
Association will be placed in a position to
standardize Canadian automobile tires up
to one class of available purchase: the
highest quality. Doing away with the de-
sire of so many individuals to buy the most
economical tire may do much to guard
more and more automobile drivers and
passengers.
The only other way of ensuring tire
safety would be an on -the -spot inspection
of every auto's tires, which, through its
need for a large number of inspectors
placed nationally, would be a blooming
nuisance, as well as a pain -in -the -neck to
all car owners.
If standardization of .automobile tires
seems to rub a little against the grain of
the freedom of individuals to •discriminate
and purchase as they please, it would do
some individuals well to realize a choice
they are now making—to purchase an in-
ferior standard tire, which in time would
become a hazard to regular road use, while
at the same time jeopardizing the lives of
himself, his family, and countless other
automobile drivers and pedestrians.
Tire defects in Canadian cars are help-
ing to kill a number of Canadians each
year. We ihave been given a chance to
try and eliminate a possible cause of at
least some of the possible causes. The
sooner the better.—The Didsbury (Alta,)
Passengers Can
Claim Damages
Against Driver
A new right of court action
will go into effect January 1,
1967, for passengers in motor
vehicles in Ontario.
A guest passenger will have
the right to claim damages from
the driver and/or owner of the
car in which he is riding, if
he is injured in an accident
caused by theclriver's gross
negligence.
At present a guest passenger
—that is, one who is not pay-
ing fare—has no elaim against
the driver or owner in such cir-
cumstances. (4. fare -paying pas-
senger does have the right of
action, however, and this right
will continue.)
The change results from an
amendment to the Highway
Traffic Act that was passed at
the last session of the legisla-
ture.
In announcing the effective
date of January 1 for the new
provisions, the department of
transport pointed out its sig-
nificance for drivers and own-
ers as 'well as passengers.
The insurance industry ad-
vises that almost all automo-
bile liability insurance policies
now in effect include coverage
against this new risk. How-
ever, all car owners are urged
to check their policies to make
sure that the policy includes
passenger hazard coverage and
where there is any •doublt you
should cheek with your auto-
mobile insurance agent.
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HERE GOES NOTHING
Ever try to think, let alone
write, when your nose is drip-
ping like a tap in a tenement,
you are barking up chunks of
lung, your body is crawling
with hot and cold needles, and
you could fry an egg on your
forehead?
Yep, I've got the flu, Don't
worry, I won't go on about it.
Every virile, red-blooded Cana-
dian knows all about the flu.
But don't expect a sparkling
column this week. Along with
those symptoms, my brain is
about as agile as a basketful of
wet kleenex.
But, by golly, tonight is the
night of the staff party, and I'm
going if it kills me. If this
space is blank next week, with
a black border around, don't
send flowers, Just send the
equivalent in cash to my wife,
Flowers aren't much use to a
good-looking widow with two
kids to educate.
And don't grieve or sing sad
songs. Just muse, "Well, he
went the way he always wanted
to go, smelling strong of Dr.
Walker's cough syrup and danc-
ing what he thought was the
watusi with the smashing young
blonde who just joined the
English department."
But that doesn't solve the
problem of writing this column,
does it? Well, I'm going to
swing in all directions, so, if
you aren't a swinger, you can
stop reading this and turn to
the grocery ads, which are
about the most exciting and
frustrating reading you can find
these days.
Speaking of which, did you
ever see such prices? I don't
know who is pocketing the loot
—farmer, middle -man or retail-
er—but they won't even let you
belly up to the neat counter
these days unless you flash a
bar of gold bullion.
W e d d i n g anniversaries. I
bought 20 yellow roses for my
wife on our twentieth anniver-
sary. She squealed with ecstasy.
It was very romantic, especially
when I told her I'd paid for
them with a cheque on our
joint account.
But these little romantic ges-
tures really pay off. Three
days, later, for no better reason
than that a tap in the bathroom
has been dripping for six weeks,
she yanked the fading flowers
out of the vase, beat me around
the face and ears with them,
thorns and all, and hurled the
rosewater over Inc. I came t p
smelling like a yellow rose az d
she came up to the bathroom,
helped me wash off the blood,
and fixed the tap herself.
Teenage girls, Somebody
sent me a London, Ont., paper
for teens. One columnist. ob-
viously a girl, was sounding off,
in disgust with her sisters. This
was her pungent observation:
"Today's young female goes
kookie over something that
walks around in high heels,
tight pants and long locks of
hair hanging to its shoulders.
Girls today are robbed of their
sex in more ways than one,"
Ain't she right?
Strikes. 1 have always been
a union man, but 1 am fed up,
right to the ears, with the arro-
gance, the lawlessness, and the
refusal to compromise displayed
by many unions this year, How
about you?
Leaders. The perennial game
called "Dump Dief" is popular
again. I think he should have
retired, full of years, honors,
and malarkey, long since. But I
can't help admiring the old
wolf as the pack tries to drag
him down. He is a fighter, and
there aren't many left.
Advertising. I don't agree
with the speaker, but I found
the following, coming from a
big advertising man, the most
refreshing statement I've read
for many a day:
"The simple truth is that
people don't give a damn about
advertising. They never have
and they never will ... People
don't care about advertisng,
they care about things.
"They care about things that
make then happy or beautiful
or fat or sober or drunk or
alive or Manan; things that en-
tertain them, protect them or
profit them. But they don't give
a tuppeny damn about ads."
A melancholy picture of the
human race. Do you agree?
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HURON COUNTY
Crop Report
A splurge of good weather is
aiding the harvesting of white
beans and grain corn. Moisture
content is lowering satisfac-
torily.
Fall plowing is progressing
favorably.
Mild nights are allowing all
classes of cattle to remain on
pasture.
VILLAGE OF ZURICH
Standard Time will be in effect
Saturday, October 29, 1966, It 12:00 p.m.
MRS. ELDA WAGNER,
Clerk -Treasurer.
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as one of his guests glamorous singer Shirley Harmer.
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