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Zurich Citizens News, 1968-11-07, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH CITIZONS NEWS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1968 ea est Everything's Down From the pessimist's point of view everything is down except the price. The quality is down. The service is down. Morality is down. The peo- ple's morale is down. Church at- tendance is down. Business is down. Progress is down. Even the corners of people's mouths are down. If this sounds too pessimistic we challenge someone to write a Ietter to the editor and show us what is up except prices and wages. There's only one way to change the trend from downward to upward and that is for someone with courage to do something positive about changing the tide. It may mean such a person will have a long swim against the current. Until` then, we maintain that everything is down, including enthusiasm for a change. This great down draft is created largely because people in general do not want to become involved in doing something to change the trend. It's easier to drift down with the tide and current than to change the status quo of society. Is there an optimist who will accept the chal- lenge? hal-lenge? Newspapers Make a Difference It can be said that newspapers make a big difference in the lives of people. People need all the informa- tion they can get concerning the many social, economic and political problems of the day in order to act responsibly and prudently. It makes a difference whether local situations are improving or deterior- ating . . . whether taxes are going up or down ... whether police and fire protection are adequate . whether the business outlook is good or bad ... what merchants are offer- ing ... who won the big game .. . whether sufficient recreational areas and facilities are provided for citizens it makes a big difference in a hundred ways in people's lives every clay. It has been said that a city or town is the reflection of its newspaper. Good newspapers are found in good, wide-awake, aggressive towns. The opposite also holds true. Adoption of newspapers as "Living Textbooks" in classrooms throughout the nation is growing daily. Recog- nition by educators and teachers of the importance of newspapers as a means of acquainting young people with the rapidly changing world scene is increasing. No bound text- book with a hardback can keep up with it. Newspapers are being used in class- rooms to afford practice in basic reading skills, to improve verbal fa- cility and vocabulary skill and de- velopment, and to enrich pupils' un- derstanding many subjects. — (Col- lingwood (Ont.) Enterprise -Bulletin) Our Costly Welfare State Are you aware that 29 per cent of Canada's total population is 'poor'? That the life expectancy of the aver- age Indian girl in Canada in 1968 is 25 years? That the fortality rate among Eskimo babies is 10 times as high as that of their white counter- parts? If you are not aware, then you haven't expressed any interest in the recent report of the Economic Coun- cil of Canada. In its annual role of iconclast, the Economic Council never pulls its punches, but this year it seemed to be blunter than ever where economic disparities were concerned. Nor do we have to travel as far as Toronto to see poverty. There are kids in this town—in virtually every Canadian town — who are underfed, on the streets far too late at night, who spend listless hours in the class- room because they simply haven't the energy to become enthused. In fact, according to the Economic Coun- cil, over one-quarter of our popula- tion is in such a state. The Welfare State—the only state we have that we ignore. We salve our consciences by lading out wel- fare cheques along with the usual box of Christmas goodies—but not before we've humiliated parents be- yond caring by making them prove beyond a shadow that they are in- deed destitute. It has been estimated in the United States that one poor man can cost the people as much as $140,000 between the ages of 17 and 57 (the likelihood of him living beyond that age is re- mote) . While this is an American figure, we have little reason to believe that the Canadian one would be much lower—especially since we pride our- selves on our excellent welfare pro- grams. It ought to make us at least think. — (The Listowel (Ont.) Ban- ner) Towards Just Society .. . Prime Minister Trudeau announced the federal government would pare its budget by cutting out the winter works program. Postmaster General Eric Kierans plans to cut fat from the postal serv- ice and increase rates to put it on a paying basis. We hope the next step by the gov- ernment Will be to eliminate injustice in the Unemployment Insurance pro- gram. Here is one example. An employee earning $4,500 a year pays into the fund week after week for years on end; the employer must contribute a like amount. Several employees pay $57.40 a year, plus another $57.40 not avail- able to them because the company must contribute on a like basis. A fisherman, during the months he operates, can contribute up to $1.40 weekly and the company he sells to is obliged to provide a like amount. At the beginning of December the fisherman can start collecting bene- fits at a rate up to $53 weekly. This is if he has a dependent and has con- tributed at the maximum rate. The fisherman (and other, seasonal workers) can collect five weeks bene- fits for each six weeks they have worked. After a fisherman works 271/2 weeks and contributes $1.40 weekly to the UIC fund, he is entitled to draw $53 a week for 23 weeks. This is a total of $1,329. Many good fishermen net more than $10,000 for themselves in six months of lobster and scallop fishing. If they don't work during the winter they can get an extra $1,219 from the UIC fund. The $1,219 does not have to be de- clared for income tax purposes. It is unjust that a man who works. 52 weeks a year (less two weeks for holidays) and earns $4,500 must con- tribute part of his earnings to pro- vide untaxed income up to $1,219 a year for a man earning $10,000 a year who works only seven months. The Advocate submits that UIC contributions should be on a basis similar to Workmen's Compensation rates. Those workers and companies that claim the most would contribute at a higher rate than those who sel- dom or never, make claims.—(Pictou (N.S.) Advocate) Zu ri�h New• PRINTED BY SOUTH IrtmON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, 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: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Member: Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Member: Canadian Community Newspapers Representatives Subscription Rates: $3.50 per year in advance, in Canada; $4.50 in United States and F7rreign single copies 10 cents From My Window I've been thinking lately about heart transplants and the troubles we are apt to encount- er in the next few decades. Not that I'm totally opposed to taking the pump from one halting human body and instal- ling it the faltering chest of another. I'm as thankfully mys- tified as anyone else by the new operation for previously doomed heart patients. I do have some reservations about the discovery though. Life is a precious thing and the stakes could get pretty high for someone in need of a heart or someone with a heart to give. Already there is some indica- tion that certain heart special- ists are behaving like vultures, hovering over the bed of a dying soul and urging him to sign on the dotted line so that his heart can be transplanted into another immediately after death. It could be deeply depressing and highly harrassing to know that someone is waiting for you to pass over the sunset—indeed, hoping you won't last past the sunrise. Most folk desire a peaceful, dignified demise. Let's suppose a fellow had a perfectly good heart he was willing to leave behind. If he made his intentions known in plenty of time for the trans- plant arrangements to be made, there is a distinct possibility that a doctor with a definite re- cipient in mind might secretly petition for an early call from The Happy Headquarters in the Sky ... or that the gasping re- cipient might long for a healthy heart so as to wish someone By Shirley Keller else dead. Certainly I'm not suggesting that a doctor would fail to do his duty by the dying donor. I'm merely pointing out that a medical man with the human inability to foresee a future for a rapidly deteriorating body and the potential power to save a fleeting life, might entertain thoughts of sustaining at least one heart beat if it is abso- lutely impossible to maintain two. It is at this point that heart transplants get just a little nerve -wrecking for all con- cerned. And is love really in the heart of a man? If it is as the writers say, then will the man fitted with the heart of another have new interests and maybe even love someone else's lady? We talk about broken hearts when referring -to the case when a gal is jilted by some thought- less character she thought she loved. Will a simple heart transplant cure the ailment and put different ideas into her head? And will hardened hearts be exchanged for softer ones? Has science accidently s tumbled on the cure for all heart dis- ease—including heart ache? Certainly not, you scoff. Aha! Now you admit that the heart is no more the seat of a man's inner self than his liver or his kidneys or his eyes. We transplant those things with little concern. Why not hearts? I hardly know what to be- lieve—except that God accom- plishes all things for man's' ul- timate good. The iterntionaI Scene (By Raymond R. Canon) Have We Already Forgotten ? November 11 is coming up again, and some of us will pause for •two minutes to honor the dead of two great wars. But for many Canadians, November 11 means absolutely nothing, unless it is a holiday from school or a news item on the TV. Let's face it! It is 23 years since the last World War ended, and this means that un- less you are in your thirties, at least, you don't really remem- ber it, and there are a lot of Canadians under thirty. However, even those of us who lived through the war sometimes have a hard time re- membering or realizing what the suffering was all about. As a boy, I used to stand in front of the Carillon in Simeoe (sure- ly one of the finest war mem- orials in all Canada) and listen to the tributes to the dead of the 1914-18 war. During the second World War, we used to read about the events of the war, the Battle of Britain, the invasion of France, Pearl Har- bor, but it meant little more than the glorious wars we read about in comic hooks. It wasn't until we realized that certain of our older friends wouldn't be coming back that it started to sink in. Our side won, and so it was all supposedly worth it. After the war, I lived in Ger- many for a while. One Novem- ber I was visiting a German family which had consisted of six brothers and two sister's. Of the six brothers, four had been killed, one was somewhere in Russia, and only one was home. As we came out of the Lutheran -Church after the memorial service, the mother of these six boys turned to me and said, "If you win a war, your sons have not died in vain. If you lose it, how do you justify their deaths?" I had no answer. By that time, I was convinced that wars were just a juvenile way na- tions had of settling their prob- lems, if they were ever really settled. Certainly we had to step in and stop Hitler, but could he not have been stopped earlier without resorting to global war? Someone will have an answer to that question, I am sure, and so we could go on, discussing for hours the merits of the treatment of Ger- many between 1918 and 1939. However, whatever the merits of the allied position, we must honor our dead, for they. all died with many years of vibrant life ahead of them. In fact, some of them died so young that they never did really know (Continued on page 7) TICE OF NOMINATION Nominations of Separate School supporters for representation on the Huron County Board of Education will be held in the Hay Township Hall ZURICH, ONTARIO MONDAY, NOV. 18, 1968 between the hours of 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. (E.S.T.) Nominees must be a Separate School supporter and may be from any municipality within the County of Huron. (One Representative to be elected) W. C. HORNER, Clerk, Hay Township 111.01111111111111111•111111.111111.111111.1n —111111111"1"1".11 DR. R. G. EICKMEIER DENTAL SURGEON announces the opening of his office IN ZURICH EVERY MONDAY AND TUESDAY COMMENCING NOVEMBER 4 For appointments please contact Mrs. Lloyd Denomme, 236-4321 Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRISTS J. E. 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Nominees may be from any of the following municipalities TOWNSHIP OF HAY VILLAGE OF HENSALL VILLAGE OF ZURICH (One representative to be elected to the Combined Roman Catholic Separate School Zone Board and one representative to be elected to the Huron County Board of Education.)