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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1969-04-17, Page 4AGE ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS adihyded . Wise People Under 21 Hazen Argue is now a senator after being for many years a member of the House of Commons from Saskatchewan. Recently he has been advocating rather persuasively that the voting age for federal elections be reduced from 21 to 18 and he quotes the late Chubby Power, one of the wisest and most competent members of the lower chamber and later of the Senate, as being in favor of such a change. (Is this quotation from the dead man on the record?) To support his proposal, Senator Argue quotes also the fact that some of the provinces have a lower voting age. In Saskatchewan it is 18, in Alberta it is 19, in British Columbia 19, in Quebec 18, in Prince Edward Island 18. So far the Conservative party iri Ottawa has not taken an official stand but assuming that Senator Argue is correct, Mr. Stanfield and members of the Conservative caucus are in favor of lowering the voting age. There should be a god deal of opposition to 18 - year -old voters. One youthful voter says that when he was under 21 he favored the vote for people under 21, but now that he is over 21, and presumably endowed with a growing wisdom, he doubts very much that 18- year-olds would promote the welfare of the nation if they all had the vote and exercised it.—(The Printed Word). Which Side Will Win ? The term "rate race" is often applied to describe the pace of our modern living. If we forget the first word of this expression for a moment, we can look at another race we are in and come up with a few sur- prising realizations. First of all, the race man seems to be in is, sur- prising enough, with himself. On the one hand, he seems to create all sorts of ways to damage or wipe out humanity altogether. He pollutes the air, he pollutes the water and he has developed other new and more efficient ways to kill off other people in huge quantities. He has any num- ber of personal habits that are damaging to the body, and yet he does nothing about them. He ignores basic safety rules as if they applied to everybody but himself and generally carries on at such a pace that he Succeeds in wearing out his body long before its time. On the other hand, mankind has made prodigious progress in making this world a safer place to live in, as well as prolonging life itself. Medical techniques are far more advanced than they were a few decades ago and all sorts of drugs have been perfected to pro- long life and make it less painful. Many devices have been invented to make work less arduous. Opportun- ities to travel and Iearn have broadened our horizons tremendously. The big question is: Which side of man is going to win out? The constructive side or destructive side? There are many people who would put their money or the latter. In effect, what they are saying is that man, with all his knowledge and perception, will end up de- stroying himself. This is rather a frightening conclusion to arrive at, but you must admit that there is certainly a great deal of evidence to support their views. It is, of course, difficult to say whether we are closer to saving ourselves than we are to destroying ourseivos but as long as there is a battle going one we can slip either way. Of coarse this dichotomy of direction is simply a reflection of man's inner self. Each of us experiences a continual pull inside of us, a pull between our con- structive and our destructive natures. It may well be that only if enough of us win the battle within us, will the battle on earth be won in favor of construction. If this be the case, there is no place like home to start making sure mankind will be around far some time to come, instead of letting our planet come to resemble the moon we are so anxiously trying to reach.—(.Strat- ford Beacon Herald). ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 a10 N, Member: p' f Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association 01111 �q Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association re4,�p0! ss Subscription Rates: $3.50 per year in advance in Canada; $4.50 in United States and Foreign; single copies 10 cents REPORT FROM PARLIAMENT HILL It is a pleasure for me, once again, to have this chance to make yet another in a continu- ing series of reports from Parlia- ment Hill to the people of the constituency of Huron. A great deal of Iegislation has been dealt with by Parliament prior to adjournment for the Eas- ter recess. In addition to the measures up for debate in the, House of Commons, many others have been undergoing detailed scrutiny and discussion in the various committees of the House. Last week, for instance, the House dealt with the vital issue of Supply - the business of ex- amining proposed government expenditure of tax money and giving it approval where such approval is warranted. This remains one of the most import- ant jobs that your elected re- presentatives at Ottawa are called upon to perform. When you consider that the government's spending plans for this year involve Billions of dollars in tax money you can appreciate how important it is that public scrutiny be given every item. This detailed examination is carried a step further in the preceedings of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts. No doubt many of you will now be familiar with the work of this important committee through revelations in the news media of the cost of repair of the aircraft carrier "Bonaventure" and of other questionable ex- penditures and practices reveal- ed through the report of the watch -dog of the public trea- sury, the Auditor -General. HALF-PRICE FILM PROCESSING BLACK AND WHITE 8 Exposure 58c1 12 — 82e KODACOLOR 8 Exposure $1.90; 12 — $2.49 By-pass "middleman store- keeper," send DIRECT to processing plant and save 50%I Send film, cash, cheque er money order along with this ad to: Clinton Photo Service CLINTON, ONTARIO It is interesting to know in this regard that it is seldom the Gover- nment itself that is directly at fault in these gases of wasteful or unnecessary expenditure. More often it centres around a mistake in judgement by departmental officials or a misuse of proper governmental procedure. What- ever the reason for these errors, however, it is vital a good govern- ment that there is a body of elect- ed representatives of all political parties checking on them. The business before the House of Commons last week included a one -day debate on a motion of want of confidence in the govern- ment moved by the Opposition. This particular motion dealt with the alleged misuse of Canada's manpower by the government and its failure to adequately employ Canada's great potential of human resources. Many 9f the spokesmen laid particular stress on the lack of employment prospects for students graduating this year and also the scarcity of jobs for students at university and in secondary schools across the country who need summer employment in order to continue their studies next year. Another main point emphasized by several speakers was the diff- erence in the unemployment rate between the various regions of Canada which they claimed was one of the basic factors behind the nation's number 1 problem - regional disparity. For instance the unemployment rate for the Atlantic region was running in ex- cess of 1010 of the labor force while that for central Canada, Ontario in particular, was well under 0.0. Another government measure that was back before the House for more discussion was the bill that would establish several new departments of government. One of these new departments is known THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1969 as the Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs. One of its main tasks will be to battle inflation and try to protect the buying power of the consumer's dollar. The new minister has announced a new commission to. study the inflation problem. This is a step that is urgently needed. Experts have calculated that the 1961 dollar has already shrunk in the past eight years to about 75 cents. While it is popular to blame successive governments for continuous deficit financing and for expanding the country's money too much in relation to the country's production of goods and services, not all the blame ca be laid on government, The Canadian consumer must bear his or her share of blame. In 1968 alone, Canadian consumer; borrowed about 9-1/2 billion dollars to purchase the things they wanted. This is about $1 billion more than they borrowed for the same purpose in 1967. Only seven years ago, Canadian consumers were able to get along by using only half that amount of credit. Certainly government must give an example of restraint is spend- ing. But it must be a team effort. If we are to overcome the inflatior that is eating away the purchasing power of our dollar we must all show restraint together. In addition to the more import- ant pieces of legislation that came before the House last week, other measures were also dealt with such as amendments to the Food and Drugs Act; the Patents and Trade Mark Act; the Hazardous Products Act and various acts dealing with superannuation in the public ser- vice. I will be away from April 9 to 19 with the standing comm. on Agriculture touring various parts of Canada. We will be studying agricultural problems and particularly, the grain handling problems. 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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