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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1969-10-09, Page 4PAGE FOUR ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1969 Cciikoitd Caototeod Early Warning Of course a prime minister should not be insulted. Of course a prime minister should not be booed, hooted or otherwise treated with disrespect. He is entitled to respect. He will get respect when he is worthy of it and when people who don't like the prime minister of that day or that night remember that there is a dignity in the office that is worthy of respect. In 1957, the then prime minister, Mr. St. Laurent, carne close to being treated with disrespect by a group of youngsters who should have known better. But the meeting, filling to the rafters the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, was a distress signal for the. Liberals, who found out a few days later in the general election that things were not well. Six years later, Mr. Diefenbaker demonstrated in Van- couver, when he was bedevilled by a claque in a very crowded hall, that he had the courage to go through with a speech. He prevented people from being tossed out who were there for no other purpose but to disrupt his meeting. It didn't make him many or perhaps any votes. It may have been the first occasion when he failed as prime minister to have a good audience. It was a por- tent. Sir John A. MacDosald in his time was heckled but the heckling usually resulted in the creation of a situation to the advantage of the "Old Warrior." Pierre Elliott Trudeau is finding that life is not so easy for a prime minister in Canada. Mr. Trudeau has demanded that he not be insulted and that is a reasonable demand. It may be that he is luckier than some of his predecessors. He is geting an early warning. (The Printed Word) Couldn't Legislate Bargains It is against the law to maintain the retail price of an item of goods. A printed price on the label is just a suggestion by the manufacturer or wholesaler, not a price that can be enforced. Parliament said so back a bunch of years, but, even so, it is hard to find a retail price as free as the air. Retailers may shade the price on a certain item, but if it was, say, $6 when Mr. St. Laurent was prime minister, it is likely $8 or $9 now. There was a great fuss when Mr. St. Laurent brought about special sittings of the Commons and Senate to dis- cuss price maintenance when, normally, Christmas fes- tivities would have been in full swing. Hon. (or later to be Hon.) James Sinclair spilled some beans when he said that civil servants found the arguments against main- tained prices convincing in the public good. Has the great reform been effective in keeping prices down ? Not noticeably so, although there was a news- paper priced at "ten cents" that said, after the law was passed, that the price was "not more than ten cents." The cost of living still is governed by such matters as wage agreements and taxes, not by laws passed by parliaments, not even by a parliament that sets, or wants to set, price ceilings. (The Printed Word) More About Long Hair Education authorities and teachers have been much alarmed in many cases this past several years by the changing trends in clothing and hair. Many the news story have we read about students, chiefly boys, being sent home from school due to the excess length of their hair. (The crew cut dies hard!) The members of the younger generation who wished to wear their hair long, persisted however, and now there are signs that the school authorities may be bending a bit. From New York State comes the recent report that, according to a new ruling by the state education com- missioner, "boys may let their hair grow long, and girls may wear slacks to school." Ruled the commissioner: "The standards of taste of a previous generation are an insufficient basis for the imposition of restrictions upon students of today" The decisions, in three separate cases upheld the students' rights to dress as they wished. He said that the only school dress that he would consider enforceable would be the one that related "to specific educational purposes of health, safety and full participation in var- ious activities". In one of the New York State rulings it points out that the board of education "may not require uniform dress where fashion or taste is the sole consideration. Well, there you are readers — now perhaps the great scholastic hair battle is on its way to being solved. (St. Marys Journal Argus) ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 au e+�1`E Member: % OW►`a Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association 'iA-s"O Subscription Rates: $3.50 per year in advance in Canada; $4.50 in United States and Foreign; single copies 10 cents Let's spread kindness Sometimes we shoot an ar- row in the air, which comes to earth we know not where. At others, we drop a pebble in a pool and the ripples made are really cool. Something like this hap- pened recently to my father- in-law. On our last visit to him, inspired by who knows what hidden emotionshe flabber- gasted us by quoting, verbatim, hundreds of lines of poetry he had Learned in public school, some little while ago. (He is 78.) This was an entirely unex- pected facet of Grandad's per- sonality. We gawked with ad- miration and he lit up like a neon sign with modest pride. Most of us can't remember an eight -line poem for two weeks, after memorizing it. How many can remember hun- dreds of lines after almost 70 years? But one thing bothered him. He couldn't remember all the stanzas of an old favorite, "The Village Blacksmith." It had one verse in particular which he wanted to get straight, be- cause it was a solace to him in his loneliness, since the loss of his wife. The smith had lost his wife, too, but was pressing on. Most of you middle-aged and older folk will remember the poem, or at least a few lines, as I do: "Under a spreading chest- nut tree The village smithy stands; The smith. a mighty man is he, With large a n d sinewy hands: And something, something something arms Are strong as iron bands." Grandad is a man of great persistence, and he determined that he'd remedy the lack. He wrote to a farmer's magazine, the Free Press Weekly, and asked if anyone could help sup- ply the missing verses. He was overwhelmed, almost physically, by the response. Approximately 150 letters came pouring in. People from ten years old to those in their nineties wrote him. Some re - 11000°° now buys $1,51621 in 1974 Want $1,516.21 in five years? That's what you get when you buy a Victoria and Grey Guaranteed Investment Certificate paying the highest rate in history... a magnificent eight and a half per cent. And Victoria and Grey Guaranteed Investment Certificates are fully guaranteed both as to principal and interest. PICTORMand GREY VG TRUST COMPANY SINCE 1889 membered studying the poem and chatted about the good old days of the one -room rural school. Others sent the whole poem. Some wrote it laboriously with rheumatic fingers. Some had it typed. One lady had torn the poem from an old reader (a school reader, that is, not an old person who was reading it). One customer went to the trouble and expense of having photostatic copies made. What really delighted Gran- dad, though, was the kindness of the notes and letters that accompanied the poem. One lady sent a long list of other poems from the old Grade Three and Four readers. And the letters came from as far east as Nova Scotia and from B.C. in the west. Thus my father-in-law learned of the power of the press, something I learned years ago. But I also learned that the term is misleading. The people who plan and exe- cute editorial policy and news coverage for the daily papers have the hilarious idea that they have tremendous power, that they influence people's thoughts and actions. It is to laugh. Elections are surest proof of this. The dai- lies could be unanimous in supporting one man for a cer- tain position, and as likely as not the Canadian people, with their own sense of when they are being pushed around, would elect his opponent. No, it is the little things that demonstrate the power of the press something which touches a chord or a nerve in the read - (continued on page 5) Letter to Editor To the Editor: At the September meeting of the Board of Diresctor of The . Children's Aid Society of 1-Iuron County, plans were laid for providing some Christmas help for families having 'a difficult time this year. Early in October our visitor will call on these families to talk over whatever is needed. Then our volunteers will begin at once to buy and select gifts wrap them and pack boxes for each family. There are already over sixty families on our list for this year, and the number can foreseeably double by Dec- ember. It is imperative to be- gin at once. Our volunteers hope to finish packing the boxes in November so that our visitor can begin de- livering them early in December, Our hope is to finish by Decem- ber 15th. It was suggested that people wishing to share in this wonder- ful work would like to make it a Thanksgiving project. In this way contributions would come to the Children's Aid Society office in October and early Nov- ember so that the sorting, select- ing and wrapping can be easily accomplished in good time. What to send to us? Money is always acceptable because then we can use it to buy what is suitable for each particular child. Woollen and leather mitts are always useful; diapers; gifts for children, especially those over 12 years of age, and especially boys; games for a family to en- joy; baby blankets; pyjamas for older children and so on. Rem- ember too, that these gifts do not need to be Christmas wrapped. The Children's Aid Society is most appreciative of the many generous gifts contributed during this and former years by the people of Huron County. It is what we share that spreads hap- piness not only to the homes where it is received but also in our own. 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