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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1969-05-01, Page 4PAGE FOUR ZURICH CITIZEN$ NEWS ear Cosu,ge4 What Is a Chamber of Commerce A group of businessmen devoted to prove that the sun shines all the time in our municipality? Public- spirited citizens banded together to see that the com- munity enjoys the highest possible standard of living? Supporters of free enterprise and our democratic way of life? Businessmen trying to bring new industry to this area? These are some of the most commonly held ideas about the Chamber of Commerce. Whatever is said about the Chamber of Commerce, there is one thing sure it is, or should be, one of the most important organ- izations in the town. The work of the Chamber of Com- merce touches nearly every citizen, as we have seen this week at the community -wide dinner, when a revered citizen was honored for her `fork which affected so marry. "The interest of the Chamber of Commerce is not, however, confined only to local matters. Just as the citizen of a municipality is also a citizen of his province and of his country, so the Chamber of Commerce has provincial and federal interests in addition to its local activities. In the provinces there are provincial Cham- bers and indeed many regions within a province have their own associations to advance .the interests of their particular region. At the provincial Ievel the activity of the Chamber of Commerce is co-ordinated and pre- sented to the provincial government through the pro- vincial Chamber of Commerce — a provincial federation of Boards and Chambers. "At the federal level the activity of the Chamber of Commerce is co-ordinated and presented to the federal government by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce — the national federation of more than 850 Boards of Trade and Chambers of Commerce. The policy of this national group is determined by the majority votes of the mem- ber Boards and Chambers — each of which has one vote of equal strength. "The National Chamber promotes the preservation and development of our economic system of competitive enterprise and works towards its greater appreciation and understanding by all Canadians. Similar work is carried on at local level by community Boards and Chambers. "The community Chamber is a stabilizing influence on a community. It bring about greater understanding among various segments of the community and it makes the community a better place in which to live. The Chamber of Commerce deserves the support and under- standing of all the citizens in the community. "The same applies to the national scene. Canada needs a strong national group to speak on behalf of busi- ness generally and it has such a voice in the Canadian Chamber o -f Commerce. Canada has a great future and the cities and towns of Canada are going to share in it in proportion to the effort they individually put forth. "The Chamber of Commerce is an important vehicle for employing this effort. For that reason it deserves your support."—(The Acton Free Press). Come In Out of the Cold In doubtful compensation for raising the rent to box -holders in Canadian post offices (particularily in the small post offices), it is being suggested that the lobbies giving access to the boxes will remain open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. There are two things wrong with this idea. One is that the public is paying enough for the lockboxes and the other is that leaving the lobby unlocked all night long is not going to improve the service in the small towns where there already is only one delivery of mail from the outside world each day. Another question that arises is that leaving the lobbies open will not provide supervision. Towns and villages that have no regular police force will find that somehow or another there needs to be supervision. There will need to be what the police department calls morality lighting. There will need to be some means of preventing mischievous people from breaking up the furniture, including the lockboxes. — (The Printed Word). ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 to MNewsp 001111111b Canadian• Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association ' SSIOAseoc`° Subscription Rates: $3.50 per year in advance in Canada; $4.50 in United States and Foreign; single copies 10 cents The International Scene (by May 1 is traditionally a worker's holiday and is celebrated especially in Socialist and Communist countries. The children are let out school, there are parades and in the Communist countries there are quite often speeches about the greatness of the socialist movement. Since communism and socialism often seem co he at odds with each other, this sometimes causes confusion. Why, for example, does Russia call itself the Union of Soviet Republics, if it is Communist and not Socialist? I think it is quite a bit easier to understand what Communism is all about if we go back to the beginning of the whole movement. In the 19th centure capitalism has come a long way since beginning during the Industrial Revolution. But there were far too many poor people to suit some of the social reformers. Not only were the people poor but they worked long hours in horrible conditions and had no chance whatsoever to escape from their poverty. There is no doubt that all sorts of gross inequalities existed, and it was for this reason that people such as Karl Marx tried to create a system which would do away with all this. Now, Marx was not, despite some popular beliefs, a bomb -throwing revolutionary. He was honestly concerned with the the plight of the working class, and devised a new system whereby this class, called the proletariat would over- throw their oppressors and establish their own society. The state , which was simply an instrument whereby one class oppressed another, would disappear, and we would have a communist society - state- less as well as classless. In order to reach this promised land, society would have to go through a period of socialism, as the state obviously could not wither away overnight. This, then, is why Russians call themselves Socialists. Simply be- cause they are supposedly in the socialist period and have not yet reached true communism. Another word which we often hear used to describe communists is "bolshevik" and this word, too, has an interesting history. Just before 1900 the Russian Marxists organized the Social Democratic Labour Party, Congresses were held in 1903 and 1904, at which time there were serious differences of opinion within the party. There were two factions which emerged, one led by Vladimir Lenin, whose name is already well enough known. When a vote was taken, the faction headed by Lenin Raymond Canon) proved to be the larger one, and so was called "bolshevik" from the Russian word bolshinstvo meaning majority. The other group was called the "menshivik" from the word minority. How Lenin got into Russia is also interesting. During the war of 1914-1918, the Germans inflicted numerous defeats on the Russians, and by 1917 the country was ready for revolution. In order to make sure that there was one that would effectively remove Russia from the war, the Germans trans- ported Lenin, who was in exile at the time, to Russia in a sealed train and let him loose. Of course, as we know, the revolution did take place, and since Lenin was a Bolshevik, the Bolshevik faction was the one which seized power. THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1969 What is also not well known is that Lenin did not take over directly from the Czar but from a provisional government which had the making of a democracy as we know it. However, this fragile government never had the chance to get organized before Lenin was able to effect its dismissal. One last interesting fact. Marx never intended that the communist revolution start in a back- ward country but lin the industrialized nations of the west. Strange as it may seem, there has never been a communist government in the countries Marx thought ripe for it, and I often wonder what Marx would say if he came back to life and saw Russia as it is today. I don't think he'd recognize it, but that's another story. 0 "A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world." ---- Mohammed. BAYVIEW GOLF COURSE MEN $45 HIGHWAY 21 SOUTH OF ST. 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