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Home My WebLink AboutZurich Citizens News, 1967-11-09, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1967 6101014#101 MI ail al. Other Voices -- Why a Weekly Press Surrounded by hefty daily news- papers, on -the -spot television news- casts, :frequent radio news broad- casts, all covering important events foreign and domestic — what does the suburban reader get out of his local weekly? What he gets, if his weekly is a good one, is a detailed knowledge of the community in which he lives, in which his children are raised, in which his private life is passed. Daily newspapers, television, radio — aII are called the "mass media". And rightly so. They deal, as they should, with mass events, mass move- ments — when an individual enters, he is, almost always, an individual whose actions have had an effect on a large number of people for good or for bad. The mass media are, and pride themselves on being, the voice of The People. But I am not a people. You are not a people, We are persons, you and I, and we need to know what is happening that affects us as persons, and what the persons we live among are doing that will touch our daily, private lives. We want to know, also, how larger events touch us. We may read in the daily, for example, that the state education department has decided that all schools must offer certain courses in this or that field. This means little — until we find, on read- ing our local weekly, that the high school our child will attend next year has shifted its curriculum to offer the mandated course. The local paper, also, can act as a lever to raise standards in local gov- ernment, to improve local facilities, to acquaint the individual voter with actions of his particular representa- tive in government—and to acquaint the representative with the principal subjects of concern to the local com- munity. The local weekly can help preserve the importance of each man in his own right. It is a cynical old saying that everyone is created equal, only some are more equal than others. The engagement of your daughter is as important to you and to God as the engagement of the president's daughter— and, though the metro- politan daily may find little or no room for this supreme event, the local paper can and will tell your world of her happiness. There are other functions for the slim, sometimes unpolished, little sheet to perform — it can trumpet the merits of your home town, tell you where you can buy that dress without going miles away, warn against community blight and tell you that Aunt Millie is back from Florida and your fourth grade teach- er is in the hospital — maybe you should send her a card? All these things the dailies, tele- vision or radio cannot do. Their news must interest everybody, must affect The People. They deal with the great of this world. For news about you and me, read us.—The Baldwin (New York) Citizen. Court 'Soft'? We have always had the greatest respect for courtroom procedure as practiced by magistrates at both Richmond Hill a n d Newmarket. First-time visitors to either location are soon made aware of the strict rules and regulations that have been adopted and enforced to the letter of the law. Last week, this rigid policy was withdrawn and the conduct of the court at Richmond Hill was trans- formed from one of polished decor- um to one of disgusting disgrace. Why? Because a platoon of motor- cycle hoodlums, a roving group of good-for-nothing bums, that the daily press has publicized to the point of heroes, were slated to appear to face a total of 131 charges. The court- room was transformed into a three- ring circus, In effect, the accused thumbed their noses at justice. One lit up a cigarette. Others chewed gum. They stomped in and out like they owned the place. There was even a minor scuffle in the prisoner's box. No- body said a word. At one point, the Clerk of the Court, infuriated be- yound the point of self-ontrol, lashed out verbally at one of the accused but he was quickly silenced. The bike -riders must have surely sneered up their sleeves at a court quivering with excitement, anticipation — or was it fear? We would suggest that if any other citizen, not so privileged as these, had dared to act in a similar manner, he would have been dealt with se- verely. It goes without saying, that police officers, involved in the arrest of these vagabonds, were disgusted by the whole affair. The press and spectators in the court were awed by it all. The public in general should be incensed. Is it any wonder that these bands of cyclists ride the roads like they rule the world ? And all the while, the court bends the rules to please this hoodlum few. —(Stouffville Tribune). In Flanders' Fields In Flanders' Fields, the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly, Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders' Fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe; To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies blow In Flanders' Fields. Zurich av,:geotiscNows PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, Z1JRICH HERB TURKHE1M, 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. From My Window THAT INDEFINEABLE THEY Accepting the blame and the credit for close to 90 per cent of the world's troubles and mysteries is that group of un- known people or things some- where known as "they". Just who or what "they" are has never—and probably will not ever be—defined. And isn't it lucky for you and I. Seemingly an inborn out for mankind, humans learn at a very early age how easy it is to wiggle themselves away from almost any awkward situation by pointing to the handy "they" when caught in a trap of their own making. After all, "they" will not question the accusa- tions nor come forward to steal the spotlight in the event the problem should miraculously melt before much damage is done. Like everything else though, it takes a bit of practise before we become adept at casting suspicion on "they". Early at- tempts by the pre-schooler don't very often fool mother when the sugar bowl is dampened down by telltale chocolate milk and little Lester says, "Dey did it". Very few teachers fall for the line about "they" when the classroom window is brok- en and the grade five baseball squad is nervously grabbing at straws to avoid punishment. No, the most skillful decep- tions generally make their pres- ence felt a little later in .life. We are really making progress when we discover the excite- ment of holding an audience spellbound by fabricating all manner of tall tales using "they" as the patsy. Many factual accounts are made highly interesting by in- serting a few white lies about what "they" did. It doesn't do much for one's ego to relate merely the dull events 'of the minor skirmish between two neighbors over the location Qf the line fence. What harm will it do to insert some stimulating sidelights like, 'They say Mr, Brown actually hit Mr. White?" Actually, no one can prove whether or not "they" made the remark because `they" could be anybody . . . and the storyteller is scot free with the added bonus of having the dis- tinction of being the first to know and to tell. People w h o wouldn't be caught dead listening to or re- peating gossip find the use of `they" soothes the ,conscience. Somehow, to say "they tell us" relieves the guilty feeling we might otherwise possess and gossip is no longer gossip but something we can actually be- lieve because there cannot be a dispute. When we have reached this stage, we have attained the ulti- mate—the peak of perfection. So it is that "they" continue to spout all the filthy slander and the hateful and harmful dirt that corrupts most of us and may even attack us at some time or another. 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