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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1969-10-23, Page 4PAGE FOUR ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS Self Employed - P WP We usually think of people being classed as self employed when they work on their own doing jobs that need to be done. The biggest class of self employed people in our society are those who create jobs and positions for themselves. Some times they are called empire builders. You find them in government bureau- cracies and in the not too carefully managed larger in- dustries. Some times we refer to this as Parkinson's Law. What really happens is that there are as many jobs created as there are people to fill them. If you don't have a job you think of one that could be created. By working diligently at it you can expand it so that you need one, two, or three more sec- retaries. Then you'll need an assistant, then a manager, and so on. The number of museums, historic sites, natural parks, welfare offices, service stations, drive-in restaurants, churches, hotels dams, townsites, hospitals, school buildings etc., is often determined more by the number of people who need employment than by the number of people who need to be served. So if you don't have a job, and you don't want to render a service to your fellow man by assuming the responsibility of working on your own at some partic- ularly useful employment, just attach yourself by some means to an existing corporation, industry or govern- ment at any level and conjure up something you' can persuade your superiors is needed in the establishment and you may become the head of a large and successful department that accomplishes nothing necessary for the ongoing of humanity — except to provide you and your hirelings with a comfortable living. You may even class yourself as self employed.—(Nanton (Alta.) News). An Inconsistent Government ! Many publications across Canada have either ceased or drastically reduced their size and frequency of pub- blishing following recent sharp postage increases by the Canada Post Office and its minister, Eric Kierans. Mr. Kierans adopted a "pay your way" attitude after taking office and by doing so has caused the "death" of scores of publications across the country. In one office at Ottawa, the government is attempt- ing to put the Canada Post Office on a financially sound basis with which we don't have too much quarrel. How- ever, the inconsistency of that government is indicated by the fact that across the hall, in another department, they continue to pour vast sums of public money into the CBC to enable them to provide Canadians with radio and television. The CBC is the direct competitor of these same publications which have folded. They com- pete for the same advertising dollar with the weekly press, daily press, magazines and trade publications. Their purpose is the same, that of information and en- tertainment. Our present government, and in particular the Postmaster General, chooses to sharply increase the op- erating expenses of publications to the point where some can no longer stay alive, while his associates feed the CBC's hungry public moneyed mouth so they can con- tinue to provide us with intimate bedroom passion like Wednesday night viewers were treated to this past week. Apparently Quebec Premier Bertrand is one of the many public servants who agree with our thoughts in this editorial. The Dutton Advance quoted him this week and we reprint in full: "Quebec Premier Bertrand is only one of the many Canadians concerned over the number of publications being killed by the drastic increase in postage rates. "Speaking to an association of 107 French -language weeklies, the premier stated the increase was exorbitant and told of the dismay of himself and his cabinet col- leagues about the alarming number of weekly and month- ly publications in Quebec which have been forced to dis- continue operations in recent months." Summing up, Premier Bertrand made a good point when he said: "we are led to wonder what difference there is between padlocking a newspaper door, as is done in totalitarian countries, and killing a publication finan- cially through postal rates."— (Lucknow Sentinel) . ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 01'0- 40411111111".t Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Olati Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association 111211111110e tit 4s0 Subscription Rates: $3.50 per year in advance in Canada; riel.50 in United States and Foreign; single copies 10 cents I'd go hunting if .. . local golf course and shot ev- ery black squirrel in sight. This takes a lot of nerve, stam- ina, and bush -lore; walking around a golf course, slaugh- tering half -tame squirrels, with three ounces of meat each on them. Then there are .the "hunt- ers" who go off for a good drunk in the bush. It gives them a chance to play poker, grow a beard, curse, belch and do all sorts of manly things like that. They could do the same thing by checking into a motel room for a week. But they enjoy wearing big boots and rough clothes and making rude noises. Then they come home and let their wives push them around like puppets for the other fifty-one weeks. The finest hunters are those who love nature. They respect and admire and are curious about their prey. They shoot only when they know what they're shooting at, try to kill cleanly, and follow the wound- ed deer or retrieve the wound- ed bird at any cost. I've no quarrel with them. But I think most of 'them would be just as happy with an unloaded gun or a camera. There's no real appeal in hunting for me any more, though ; love to get out in the bush, preferably alone. But if they ever declare an open season on school adminis- trators, I'll be right back there, gun on shoulder, keen of eye and hard of jaw, tireless in the chase, and relentless in the kill. I wouldn't even mind tak- ing part in wiping out the en- tire species, though I'm against this sort of thing, normally. This is the time of year when the hunting stories are flying around. Each time they are retold, they become a big- ger lie or a little funnier. I don't mind the stories when they're funny, or big, fat lies. But there's nothing more boring than listening to a hunt- er telling you in deadly earnest the entire story of how he would have got his bag of ducks, or bagged his deer, if the fates and the weather, and anything else he can think of, had not conspired against him. It's as dull as listening to someone relate what happened on every hole of his golf game, or every hand of bridge. He would have shot par or made his grand slam if, if, if .. . Getting back to hunters, you'll never hear' that earnest, serious teller of tales admit- ting that he couldn't hit the side of a barn with a handful of beans, from three feet. Or that he's as quiet in the bush as a tank on a hot tin roof. No. there's nothing wrong with him. It's the gods, or his gun jammed, or sheer bad luck. Quite a few of the chaps on our staff who are keen hunters urge me to join them. This means standing around in a swamp and chest -high boots af- ter walking an hour to get there, gazing sullenly for hours at a sullen sky filled with blackbirds and swallows and non-existent ducks. I've been able to fight off the temptation for several years now. I used to be a fair shot. There's many a tree, fence -post and tin can in the country that can testify to that. and I used to enjoy hunting. It really was pleasant to get away from the old battleaxe for a few hours on a lovely, autumn day. But I've never been a fanat- ic. Any tendency I had toward becoming one was cured forev- er last time I went deer hunt- ing. I got lost twice, was al- most shot once (he hit the hound instead of me), and was dam' nearly drowned on the way home from a remote is- land, in a blizzard, a high wind, and a leaky boat. Hunting is for the birds, lit- erally. In proportion to num- bers, there are more hunters killed, wounded, or disabled for life from heart attacks and arthritis, than birds. Another thing that puts me off is the type of people who hunt. There is a large percent- age of high-grade morons among them. I've just read in the Wiarton Echo a story about two "hunt- ers" who shot and killed two wild, white swans that had made their home near a beach resort and were a delight to cottagers. What is there to say about "hunters" who- shoot swans? A couple of years ago, two chaps I know went out to the .44404 STUDIO Specializing in ... • Weddings • Childrens Single or Group Portraits and Passports 524-8787 118 St. David Goderich THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23. 1969 Centralia Students Leave Classroom For Training Changes in teaching methods are taking both teac ler and stu- dent out of the classroom. At the Centralia College of Agricultural Technology, emph- asis is placed on student activity. Students enrolled in the Home Economics course are exposed not only to on -campus food and clothing courses but also to such off -campus activities as ballet, theatre, art and music, The college, in the Huron In- dustrial Park, is quite far from the large commercial areas, so that regular field trips and in- service training in the cities make up part of the home econ- omics program. Included in these projects are visits to the Ontario Science Centre, the McMichael Art Collection of the Group of Seven painters at Klein - burg, the Canadian Restaurant Convention, the Design Centre and fashion houses in -Toronto. Centralia, Ontario's newest college of Agricultural Techno- logy, encourages students to be- come knowledgeable in other areas as well as their own part- icular field. The two-year diploma course in home Economics prepares students for work in three possible areas. Those graduating in the Foods Course are qualitieo to work as food supervisors and managers in hospitals, restaurants plants, college and school din- ing rooms and cafeterias. The graduate from the Com- munity Homemaker Course can work as an auxiliary worker in social, health, or welfare ser- vices. Students are trained at the college to help the various welfare agencies in the London area with food and clothing demonstrations and talks. For those who hold a diploma in the Clothing Course, there are possible openings with departmea• stores as interior decorators or trainees as bridal. consultants, fashion commentators or as laboratory technicians in the textile industry. 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. 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