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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1969-11-06, Page 4PAGE FOUR ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1969 est The Pet Peeve OM NW NA He is the fellow who arouses tension by simply walking into a room. Conversation stops, No one wants his or her name in the paper. He is the fellow who kept a certain father's son from jail last year, whose father this year took his job printing out of town. He is the fellow who prints your opinion over your signature, and takes all the blame. He is the fellow who patched up the affair by telling him that he'd better not run the ad about her debts. He is the fellow who should have written that the singer was a dud, or the performance a washout ... but he sold his soul for the lie to save face for others. He is the fellow who should spit editorial venom at the council, school board, public utilities, and all other boards—and when he does he's the solitary figure on the proverbial limb. He is the fellow who misquotes all politicians and office seekers. He is the fellow whose paper gets into every home for ten cents a copy. That's pretty cheap, isn't it? He is the fellow who won't print an ad on the front page. On the other hand, he'll sell the back page for a price, but only if he's paid by the twentieth of the month following. Heck, you can get a better deal down the street where you're lucky if you get a bill once a year. He is the fellow who should stay home nights with the family instead of running around with a pencil. He is the fellow who, when you pat him on the back for his comment this week, will bite you editorially next week. He is the fellow who sympathizes with the adver- tising department because of late copy, and thereby gets all the tense end of pre -deadline from the composing room. He is the fellow who castigates the proofreader: "Read it for sense as well as for errors!" He is the fellow who barks at the young reporter: "Don't ask me how to spell it. Look it up in the dic- tionary ; that's the only way to learn." Mean of him, don't you think? He is the fellow who hasn't enough sense to relax. He wakes up at night thinking o the inadequate hos- pital, the need for more school accommodation, the town - hall problem, the hole hazard on the road, spiralling taxes, the gas line, service -station hours, closing by-laws, parking, people shopping out of town, unemployment, the alcoholic, the shiftless, the hypocrites, the dead, mothers giving birth, the wayward, the suicide, and all coming events for which one single line has not been written. The known he can cope with, but the future he can't . . . yet. He is the fellow who is the plague of all contrib- utors who find their copy condensed. He is the fellow who is the paramount maker of mistakes. Everything that passes his hands is scru- tinized by the public. Although he is densely stupid at times, he has an intelligent staff to supply the answers. He is the fellow who is habitually sending the girl out for coffee. He's too much of a "square" to take a break. In fact, the editor is the community's pet peeve! —(One Small Drop of Ink). Twain on Advertising "It seems that an anecdote concerning Mark Twain might be appropriate to illustrate one of the important roles of advertising — that of informing the consumer. Apparently Mark Twain, who at the time was editor of a newspaper in Missouri, received a letter from a sub- scriber. This gentleman had found a spider inside his copy of the newspaper. He wrote to Twain and asked what this meant, good luck or bad luck ? " `Finding a spider in your paper," replied Mark Twain, 'was neither good luck or bad luck. The spider was merely looking over our paper to see which mer- chant- is not advertising so that he can go to that store, spin his web across the door and lead a life of peace and quiet ever afterwards'."—L. A. Miller, President, Gen- eral Foods Limited. ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 wu r 1� f�. Member: .R may!' Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association; Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association 124SP'@, Subscription Rates: $3.50 per year in advance in Canada; $4.50 In United States and Foreign; single copies 10 cents J egtonatres' day off There's nothing more boring than listening to a group of old sweats talking about "The War," unless you yourself hap- pen to be an Old Sweat, as we old sweats are called. Then, it's fun. This year, I was asked to speak at two different Re- membrance Day banquets. I was unable to accept either, and was genuinely sorry about that. There's nothing like a crowd of old sweats lying their heads off on Remembr- ance Day. Don't think of it as a brood of middle-aged and elderly men sitting around all day. Nov. 11th, "remembering" their "fallen comrades" lugu- briously. Oh, they do that, but it takes place in the morning, at the cenotaph, at 11 a.ni., when the guns stopped firing in World War I and the stunned survi- vors looked at each other and every pian alive could scarcely believe it. And there's nothing lugubri- ous or mournful about the cer- emony. There's a certain pride as the oldsters step out in something resembling their old quick march. There's a poig- nancy as the colors dip and the Last Post sounds. There's a lump in the throat and the odd contorted face, and a few tears in the two minutes' silence. But then there's the trium- phant, jaunty sound of Revell - lee. And off they swing, purged once more, and ready to get down to the serious observance of Remembrance Day. Back at the Legion Hall. A few of the smart ones, the timid ones, and the wife -scared ones go home for lunch, but most of the old sweats have planned to stake a day of it, even though they might need plasma the next morning. I don't mean it's an orgy. Far from it. But it is a shuck- ing off of the daily rut and routine, a once -a -year get-to- gether where you can retell old stories with fresh embroi- dery, and laugh a lot, and re- capture, fragmentarily, the feeling that you're 20 again, not 50 or 70. Psychologists, veteran 's wives, and other non -old Bonus Interest November 1 to November 14! Money you move to a special savings account at Victoria and Grey Trust any time during the period November 1 to November 14 \vitt receive full 63/4% interest from November 1. This up -to -two -weeks bonus gives your savings a substantial plus if you act now. Start saving today at Victoria and Grey. VICIORIAand GREY VG TRUST COMPANY SINCE 10139 sweats may well look down. their noses and call the whole thing childish. Of course, it is. But there's a bond there (and it doesn't matter which war you were in), that you can't find anywhere else, It's not nearly as childish as university class reunions, at which a lot of middle-aged peo- ple who never did know each other very well, get stoned and maudlin and nostalgic trying to recapture something they never had, Nor is it as childish as business conventions where a lot of people get drunk and •try to capture something they never will have. That's because these men did have something and they retain some part of it, even though it might be 50 years old or more. Lice, mud, snotty officers and a military system of in- credible stupidity could not quench them. The only thing that could do that was death. And they licked death. So they have something to lie about, and laugh about and bandy insults about, and just plain celebrate. Canadian Legion celebra- tions have nothing quasi -milit- ary about them. There are no officers and other ranks. There are just legionnaires, whatever their color or creed. There is no linking of arms and singing old war songs, as you might find in a German veteran's organization. Any- body who tried to sing "It's A Long Way to Tipperary" would proably be slung out into the alley. There's only one thing that's beginning to cast a shadow over it. They're beginning to let the women in on it. This is going to enrage the ladies of Rabies Cases Still Increase in Huron The incidence of rabies in Hur- on County has sharply increased compared to last year, Dr. William J. Thompson of the Canada department of agricul- ture office warned Tuesday. The nubiber of positive cases to October 15 this year has risen to 72, an increase of 19 over the same period last year. Dr, Thompson said recent cases have been discovered in Usborne, Morris and East and West Waw- anosh townships. I-luron County residents, how- ever, are responding better to an anti -rabies clinic. A total of 5, 117 animals have been vac- cinated this year, an increase of 32 per cent over last year. The clinic has handled 3, 230 dogs and 1, 887 cats. REMEMBRANCE DAY Remembrance Day will be held Sunday under the auspices of the I-Iensall Branch of the Canadian Legion, 468. Parade will forst at 9.30 a.m. at the Town I -tall, and starch to the cenotaph for a short service and placing of wreaths, followed with a service in Carmel Presby- terian Church at 10 a. m. Speak- er will be Rev. Wilfred D. Jar- vis, B,A,B,D, It is expected a band will be in attendance. the Legion Auxiliary, hut, girls, why don't you just get a big dinner ready, clear out at 6 p.m., and come back and do the dishes in the morning. Even if your husband is a little green around the gills next day, and you don't speak to him for two days, I think he'd appreciate it. Taking women to a legion party is like taking your moth- er on your honeymoon. On Remembrance Day, re- member, it's only once a year. 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