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Zurich Citizens News, 1968-10-03, Page 2PAGE: TWO ZUR H CITIZONS NEWS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 196a &maw.' - Seeing Canada First When the Prime Minister of Can- ada left Ottawa recently to see the north country, his apologists tried to explain that the trip was necessary. It is necessary, or at least highly expedient, that every prime minister of Canada see and learn about every part of Canada. But the question is, when should the trip be made? It might be contended that when Mr. Trudeau went north he was not cut off from communication with the head office (as his fellow -citizens were at the time), because, unless things have changed, he could call up a jet plane from somewhere and have his mail delivered to him wher- ever he was, on land or sea. But to leave Ottawa when there were very acute national problems to be solved seems as callous as would be a father who goes off to play golf, leaving at home an expectant moter, one intending to go into the lying-in hospital at any moment. That is a time, if ever, Mr. Trudeau might like to know, when a father should be around to hold the mother's hand. Of course, grandfathers can be there and there was Mr. Paul Martin. He is old enough to be a grandfather. But a grandfather, kindly and effi- cient as he may be, is not able to comfort and help a mother as a fa- ther can do.—(The Printed Word) Best Learned At Home One of the saddest headlines to appear over a story of juvenile de- linquency recently was this: : "Mum Knows of Thefts". Charges against an eight-year-old boy were dropped because of his age and his 12 -year- old sister was placed on probation. Money had been stolen from a purse in a store and merchandise had been taken. Both parents were said to be aware of their children's activities outside the law and had apparently condoned them. Earlier in the year there was the story of a Iittle five-year-old girl who was observed helping her mother to shoplift. In a letters -to -the -editor column of a newspaper in the first days of the school year, a parent suggested that the schcools should insist on haircuts for boys, which brought indignant replies to the effect that parents should not delegate to the school sys- tem what should be their own re- sponsibility. Respect for the prop- erty of others is something usually learned in the home. Parents who teach their children to have respect for the law — by pre- cept, by example, or by turning away their eyes from the evidence — are storing up real and serious trouble for the future. Shoplifting is theft. Theft is dealt with in the Criminal Code and can and often does reap a jail sentence and a criminal record for the young offender.—(The Print- ed Word) The Tourist Dollar Now that the summer is just about over, it may be timely to consider for a moment where some of the tourist dollars went this year. Tour- ism is big business these days and its getting bigger. Why do urban centres, both large and small, strive so hard to attract tourists ? Besides just plain liking people, there is a pecuniary gain that helps tide us through the rest of the year. Who gets the tourist's money? and in what proportions ? A convention- er spends an average of about $35.00 a day in the bigger cities of North America. Out of $100 he spends it f is something like this: $34 for hotel; $13 for resturant in the hotel and about $13 for food services outside. the hotel; $11 for store purchases and over $5 for liquor; over $4 for local transportation ; $6.50 to service station and over $2.50 sightseeing and theatres; nearly $5 for night clubs and sports and nearly $6 mis- cellaneous. Tourists have got to be about the nicest people in the world and if you don't get treated as well as a tourist around home, then go touring some- where else and let others give you the red carpet treatment.—(Nanton (Alta.) News) Print Some Good News "Why don't you newspapers write about the nice things," said a sweet little voice on the telephone, "and not about those bad things all the time ?" What nice things ? we asked. "Well," she said, "I think it was nice that everyone around here had such a nice time at the fall fair." Yes, we agreed, that was nice. "And, of course, those twin sisters celebrating their 95th birthday to- gether, that was nice, too." So it was, we said. Making Be friendly if you want to have friends. Nobody has friends who spends his time making enemies. When you spend your time making friends, you have friends, and the only way to make friends is to be friendly. Be friendly at home. Some men are the friendliest souls outside their homes. They have pals by the score. Everybody who knows them in business, at lodge or club will say, "What a friendly chap he is". But at home he may never have a friend- ly word for his wife, while the chil- dren get sour looks and hardsh words. Some women are like that, too. Hear them talk on the telephone in honeyed phrases, or accompany them to the sewing circle or club, and their friendliness attracts other women like "And ex -President Eisenhower is getting better." Yes, that was good, too. "And Mr. Trudeau and Mr. Stan- field were very cordial to each other when they met at a luncheon the other day." Yes, they were. But, we asked this optimistic lady, where did she ever learn of all these pleasant things ? "Why in the papers, of course." Pause. "Oh, dear, what have I done ?" She had amused us, that's what she had done. Friends flies to sugar. But when the husband comes home tired and weary with his day's work, and needs a pal to understand his mood, one who will lavish friendship, love and under- standing, often all she feeds him with is complaints and grumbles, toasted. Not every man or woman is like this, friendly outside and snarling at home. But too many of us are this way. Be friendly. Cultivate friendship and work at it. In the garden of life, friendship is one of the choicest flowers. If neglected it will run to waste and become a mere weed. Uncultivated, friendship droops and declines — nurtured it thrives and grows more beautiful as to days pass. grows more beautiful as the days pass.—(Grenfell (Sask.) Sun) AilmokkoWomiamei Zurich News PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS MUTED, ZtJRICH 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: Member: Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Canadian Community Newspapers Representativi$ Subscription Rates: $3.50 Frr single year inan e, ies 10cents Canada;n$,50 in United States .and BEST DOG in the Pet Show at the Zurich Fair on Monday was "Beau", and five-year-old Heather Sweeney is quite happy to nose with her net for this photo. The two-year-old French poodle won easily over a dozen other dogs entered. The g ternational scene (By Raymond R. Canon) The Church At Large One of the questions that I get asked most often is what the problems of the church are in other countries. This is ad- mittedly a very difficult ques- tion to answer, for it depends a great deal on what people mean by "problems". It can mean so many things, and for this reason I am forced into giving very general answers, trying to qualify my statements as best I can, This is exactly what I am going to do, right now, in that my comments will be general• izations at best, and I ain sure that there are exceptions to all of them. However, out of it all, I hope that you may get a little better picture of the church at large. First of all, since I am Pro- testant, this picture is going to be of the Protestant Church. Later on, I am planning to do a similar one on the Roman Catholic Church, which is going through rather trying times right now. ,One observation which comes immediately to •mind is that a little oppression seems to do wonders for a person's religion. This may seems like a funny thing to say, but in the coun- tries in which I have been where there was a totalitarian form of government, and the church was under certain pressure from the state, adherents to the church took their religion much more seriously than in freer coun- tries. The two places that stand out in my mind are Spain and Russia. In the former country we almost had to sneak down the back street to get to church. No publicity was allowed of any kind, nor were any signs per- mitted on the building. In Russia, the Kremlin does little to encourage religion, with the result that the churches are packed with ardent Christians. It was noticeable, after I had talked with people in both coun- tries, how much more mean- ingful their religion was. On the other end of the scale are those countries where Pro- testantism is the state religion. Look, for example, at Sweden and Denmark, where Lutherans form. about 98% of the popu- lation The churches on Sunday are almost empty, and estimates are that about 3% of the popu. ration actually attend church regularly. While this should not be taken to mean that re- ligion plays not part in the life of the vast majority, it is ob- vious that somehow the church has failed to provide meaning for the bulk of the population. This is, however, an observa- tion that has a certain validity almost everywhere. In many countries the chief complaint is that the church does not speak in terms that the populace can understand. It dwells too much on theology and too little on reality, and therefore, many people, when confronted by mental or material adversity, do not turn to religion for solace. This criticism becomes all the more valid when it is noted that when an individual church does make the effort, something real- ly concrete is accomplished. Witness the success of the Sal- vation Army, which has never backed away from coming to grips with reality: Most of you have probably heard something about the "God is dead" controversy which shock up theologians a couple of years ago. This is one of the most misunderstood cliches ever used in religious circles, and many people, unable to un- derstand what it was all about, simply assumed that the church had written God off as a tax loss. It may be that we need a public relations department, but the truth of the matter is that, unfortunately, this contro- versy was given far too much distorted- publicity. Finally, Christians •themselves are sometimes not the best ad- vertisement for the church. Far too often for its own good, adherents to the Christian church practice parochialism in- stead of being 'Christians at large, or else forget that a be- lief in God is something which is not reserved only for the time actually spent in church. All these observations may give the impression that I'm negative in ray approach tore- ligion. Not at all. These re- marks are simply about prob- lems about which those of us in the church must do some honest thinking. It is only when a church acknowledges its short- comings and does something about it that it is a church in the true sense of the word, Have You Renewed Your Subscription Froin My Window Every so often when I sit down to write these articles I'm without one single idea that could possibly pass as an ex- cuse for a' column. Today is one of those awful days. The baby is asleep; it's three o'clock on Friday afternoon; and deadline for this bit of drivle is one hour hence. It is now or never, But 1 just can't think of anything to write about. I could tell you about the pair of school shoes we bought for our daughter. We just got them yesterday and last night when she wore them for an hour or so to a rollicking game of "kick the can" (whatever in the world that is) she came home with blisters on her feet. She tells us now the shoes were too small when we bought them. But you wouldn't be Interest- ed in that. I'll bet you've got kids at your house whose feet grow a half an inch in three hours. Maybe you'd like to know about the pant problem we have at the present time. Our eldest son is at that awkward stage — he's too young to be treated like a man and he's too old to belt on the hind end without just cause. • But he needs trousers. It is indecent to send him to school without them.. Only trouble is, the child hasn't a pair of pants in the house which are all in ono piece. About six pair of perfectly good pants have gone down struggling since the beginning of school. Even though our son very carefully wriggles into his pants each day, saves strain on the seams by having his sister tie his shoes for him and sits down in a standing position on the school bus, the stitches at the crotch always pull out. The trouble has to be rotten thread or poor workmanship. It just can't be that the pants are too darn tight because that's the style. "Everybody wears them that way, mom." But 1 won't bother you with that sordid tale. Most young men look like strangled zombies these days. No use to remind you of it. Perhaps you'd like to hear about the day my two-year-old went shopping in his T-shirt (and nothing else). That was the day we left home in a hur- ry for two weeks of camping while the neighbors tried to forget. Or what if I'd report back on that big garden we planted this By Shirley Keller past spring—the one that grew so wild we had to pull some plants to keep them from chok- ing the neighbor's orchard. Right now, my husband could be mistaken for Dr. Livingstone who chopped his way through the African jungles—only it's just corn stalks my spouse is slashing and felling, What's the use. You wouldn't want to read about common place happenings like those. And tinge's up. I hear my little bulldozer waking up from his nap. No time now to write a column. 0— . Ladies Auxiliary Awards Bursary To Area Student The bursary committee of the Women's Auxiliary to the Clin- ton Public Hospital unanimous- ly agreed to award Irla Martin its $100 bursary for a student entering nurses' training during 1968. Irla is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Martin, of RR 3, Bayfield. She has wanted to be a nurse for as long as she can remem- ber and during the past two summers gained practical ex- perience xperience working in a 78 -bed nursing home in •Strathroy. Having successfully completed grade 13 last June, she is en- gaged in the final period of preparation and is in training at St. Mary's General Hospital, Kitchener. Reception and Dance FOR MADELINE BEDARD and JAMES COOK (bridal couple) in the Zurich Arena - on Sat., October 5 9 P.M. Music by KEN MITTELHOLTZ and THE TWYLITES Everyone Welcome Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRISTS J. E. Longstaff OPTOMETRIST SEAFORTH MEDICAL CENTRE 527-1240 Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Sat- urday a.m., Thursday evening CLINTON OFFICE 10 Issac Street 482-7010 Monday and Wednesday Call either office for appointment. Norman Martin OPTOMETRIST Office Hours: 9-12 A.M. -- 1:30-6 P.M. Closed all day Wednesday Phone 235-2433 Exeter ACCOUNTANTS Roy N. Bentley PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT GODERICH P.O. 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