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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1969-05-29, Page 4PAGE FOUR Cddo4iaI Cosune4 - - -- The Readers and His Newspaper Trade association conventions are good things, we've decided after returning from the annual conven- tion of the Ontario Newspapers' Association. If nothing else, the sessions make one stop and think. One question raised at the convention asked what the reader actually gets out of his local weekly. What he gets is a detailed knowledge of the com- • munity in which he lives, in which his children are reared, in which his life is passed. Daily papers, radio and television are rightly called the "mass media". They deal with the mass event s, mass movements. When someone's name appears in the mass media, he is, almost always, some- one whose actions have had an effect on a large number of people, for good or bad. The mass media p' ide them- selves on being the voice of the people. But we are not people, we are persons, and we need to know what is happening that affects us as per- sons and what the persons we live among are doing that will touch our daily lives. The weekly can help preserve the importance of each man in his own right. It is a cynical old saying that everyone is created ental, only some are more equal than others. The engagement of your daughter is as important to you as the ene•agement of the monarch's daughter, and though the daily paper may find no room for this supreme event in your life, the local paper can and will tell of your daughter's happiness. The local paper can also act as a lever to raise the standards in local government ; to improve local fa- cilities; to acquaint the individual voter with the actions of his local representatives in higher levels of govern- ment, and in turn aeouaint those representatives with subjects of principal concern to the local communities they serve. These things the mass media cannot do. Their news must interest everybody, must affect. The Peonle. They deal with the great of the world. The weeklies deal with, and are concerned about, the persons of their immediate bailiwick. 'There is very little common meet- ing ground for the hometown weekly with the mass media,—(Dresden (Ont.) The North Kent Leader). Sause for the Goose ? Indispensable as; each -of the sexes is to the other, • there is also plenty of tension between them, from the embattled aggressiveness of a .Judy la Marsh to the lady who won't go near a woman doctor or lawyer, no matter how impressive their qualifications. Thanks to the pub- licity attending on hearings of the Royal Commission to investigate inequalities, many will be remedied, but one area has not been explored at all—a gross imbalance in recreation. All day, during the pre-school years and for an even Ionger period afterward at night, the responsible parent cannot leave children alone. Baby sitters are ex- pensive; many couples, therefore rarely use them. One adult must stay at home, and in the process the person whose social and cultural life goes down the drain, is usually mother. From the time when the household wakens until evening dinner it is not unreasonable to expect her to give full-time to home -making and child raising. During most of these hours. her husband is selling shoes, repair- ing cars or keeping ledgers straight. Each. partner is carrying a necessary part of the family load. The evenings are a different matter; here the in- equality is glaring. Curling, bowling, lodges, service clubs beckon father. They absorb him night after night. His wife would also like to participate in something that would commit her regularly once or twice a month. Does she manage it? Too often, not at all. When thee- "- tivities conflict it is she who waives recreational rights. Yet she is most in need of adult contacts, since her work- ing time is spent with children. Often — in this era of youthful marrying — she is very younry. Her ai‘,o•1e friends are free as air. 'Understandably, she resents her ties. Those who lament the increasing exodus of wives and mothers from the domestic milieu to the market- place, should do a little soul searching at this point. So should social workers and pastors who are constantly uncovering marital troubles. A division of labor should mean a division of pleasure too. ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 ♦te N te Member: t Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association ,3+Qltlllll'o Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association ''�,.Eac�! Subscription Rates; $3.50 per year in advance in Canada; $4.50 in United States and Foreign; single copies 10 cents ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1969 The International Scene (by Raymond Canon) APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA Very few countries in the Western world come in for such a bad press as does South Africa, Its policy of apartheid or sep- aration of blacks and whites has caused more unfavourable comm end than anything else in the news, except perhaps the pol- icies of Red China. An attempt has been made to set up an economic embargo against the country, and a military one is already in effect, at least on the part of Great Britain and the United States. .Since most of South Africa's military equip- ment if from diose two countries, this could cause quite a jolt when re-equipping the armed forces comes up. however, military embargoes never seem to be very effective, and South Africa appears to have no trouble buying adequate equip- ment from France and Italy. There is considerable confus- ion as to which is responsible for this apartheid policy . True the country was part of the British Empire, but that was because the British managed to take over the land from the Dutch settlers already there. When the British saw how the black people were being treated, they declared everyone equal. The Dutch, outraged at such a high-handed policy, moved northward, Eventually the British did too, and the result was the Boer War of 1899-1902 The British were victorious, a fact which the. Dutch never forgot. In time these Dutch settlers were able to triumph politically where the British had militarily, and the party now in power is basically Dutch, not English. Afrikaans, the local dialect of Dutch, is a national language as is English `rind the Dutch Reforms d Church plays a;strong role in the country. What, then, is apartheid? Basically it is the political • platform based on the fear that rite a million whites in South Africa will be overwhelmed by the 12 Million blacks. While there may be certain truth in this fear, it nowhere justifies the massive and harsh police power that pervades all layers of society. \Vhat makes it so hard for a South African to'see the brutality of it all is that he believes it to be a policy to permit the blacks to develop into true Africans instead of becoming an insipid imitation of a white man. To this enol the government is trying to create eight areas where the Bantus (blacks) can live. The fact is that while the Bantus far outnumber the Whites, they are given only PO, of the land and `the land they inhabit has few natural resources, is far from the centres of industry, and the areas are widely separ- ated from each other. Any Bantu living outside of these areas is considered a "temporary sojourner" even though be has been living there for three gen- erations and has never seen the so-called "homeland". To a non-white, his life is his passbook. He must have it stamped for everything he does or for everywhere he goes, If he is ever caught without his book, he usually has to go to jail. All this gives South Africa one of the biggest prison popu- lations in the world. What makes the situation even more bizarre is the.stattis grant- ed to foreigners. *Japanese, who carry on considerable trade with South Africa, are class- ified as Whites, while every- body with a healthy tan is liable to police inspection. Whites cannot play sports with non- whites, so any visiting team with Negroes on it is lust out of luck. Yet the country has some strange contrasts. The news- papers are relatively free and hardly a day goes by when the Rand Daily News does not con- tain some criticism of the govern tent's racial policy. You don't see some films but you can buy records of them. And finally Dr. Philip Blaiberg, the most successful heart -transplant patient in the world, has the heart of a coloured man, Clive Haupt dead has achieved more than any coloured people do alive. All of which adds up to a curious situation in a strange land. 0 New Licence Plates For Old Cars Effective immediately licence plates will be issued in Ontario in respect of historic motor veh- icles for an annual fee of $10, Historic vehicles are at least thirty years old and must he substantially unchanged or un- modified from the original man- ufacturer's product. Conuner- cial motor vehicles do not qualify. Historic motor vehicles can only be operated on a highway for the purposes of exhibition, tours or similar functions organ- ized by properly constituted automobile clubs, or for the purpose of parades, repair, testing or demonstration for sale. The plates are marked to ident- ify the class of vehicle and to indicate limited highway use. They are issued only at the Queen's Park office of the Ont- ario Department of Transport in Toronto and are similar to stan- ,dard plates (white lerterj.ng. on blue background) with •a red-• stripe on each side carrying the.- words "Historic Vehicle" in white letters. News Office Wants Photos of Students About to Graduate Within the next month, stu- dents from the district will be completing courses at various schools of higher learning. To record their successes, the Citizens News would be pleased to publish pictures of all grad- uates, as well as recording the names of those who have,corn- pleted their year at universities, teachers' colleges, nursing schools, and institutes of tech- nology. Most photographers who take graduation pictures are happy to supply glossy prints for news- paper reproduction. The size of these photos should be approximately two inches wide and three inches deep. 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