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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1969
People are Funny!
People are funny. You and I. We don't always
make good sense. Take cyclamate. Some of us
dieters do or did. We drink low calorie soda pop,
eat cyclamate -sweetened food to save calories and
help us pretend we have the same food as the other
people do, only less fattening.
So then what happens? The Food and Drug Adm-
inistration of the United States discovers that cycl-
amate, the chemical name for the base of most
non -sugar sweeteners has been found to cause can-
cer in some animals --namely rats.
What happens then? the soft drink companies fall
all over themselves in a mad rush to get their low
calorie drinks off the market, lest these products be
thought responsible for the onset of cancer in some
consumer. Some cranberries grown in a sprayed
New England marsh caused the same kind of panic
some years ago. They were rumoured to contain
some materials believed to be capable of causing
cancer.
The poor cranberry growers had to remove their
products from the market that year and, if memory
serves well, many a turkey went to the table bereft
of its cranberry sauce.
And yet when you think about it, with every
medical report, evidence piles up --evidence of
emphysema, chronic bronchitis, coronary disease
and that dreaded old killer, cancer --all apparently
caused or hastened by one product.
But what cigarette firm has withdrawn its product
from the market as a public-spirited gesture to save
the lives of smokers. The presumptive case against
tobacco is surely much stronger that that against
cyclamate. It must be that you and I really want
cigarettes to continue on sale.
Of course we have the choice whether to buy
them or not. But in the next month or two, diet
or no diet, you'll be hard pressed to find any cycl-
amate on sale --to buy or ignore. But the cheerful
ranks of prettily packaged cigarettes will still beck-
on the suicide -minded.
(Milverton Sun)
Symptons of Apathy!
It looks as though there will be another accla-
mation for the position of Warden of Huron County
for 1970. Only one candidate, Roy Westcott, Us -
borne Township, has entered the race.
Two other possible contenders for the warden's
chair are out of the running.
A, D. Smith, Mulberry Township, had indicated
his interest to make his bid for the wardenship but
will not return to county council in 1970 because
he decided to step down from the reeve's seat in
his home municipality rather than face an election
there.
Elgin Thompson, reeve of Tuckersmith, has ac-
cepted another position which he feels will take up
too much of his time to permit him to accept a
nomination for the wardenship.
The 1969 warden, James Hayter was acclaimed
last January and Ashfield Township's Don McKenzie
was acclaimed to the wardenship in 1967.
We think it is fair to assume there is a definite
trend toward acclamations for the warden's chair
in the County of Huron. What's more we suggest
that reeves and deputy -reeves from "the good old
days" would be appalled that such a situation is
permitted to exist today.
Warden James Hayter urged county council at
the November session to give some consideration
to making the warden's term of office for two years
instead of one year. We wonder if this would help
or hinder a seeming lack of sufficiently enthused
men who will let their names stand for the highest
position in the county.
It could be another symptom of apathy which
possibly can be blamed for the increasing decline
in interest at the local level where fewer and fewer
men and women want to serve on municipal coun-
cils.
Could it be that regional government is the only
answer when just a handful are ready to accept
municipal responsibilities?
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A. special Christmas gift
Don't know how things are
around your way, but there's
little doubt that we're going to
have a white Christmas around
here. Winter cane in like a
polar bear with a toothache,
and I went off to work on
December 1st as though it was
mid-January. Prayerfully.
That is, wade through six
inches of fresh snow, pray
fervently as I try to start the
car, breathe another little one
of thanks when it goes, close
my eyes and bomb backward
down the driveway, muttering
another supplication that I'll
make the road, and then send
up another few words of grati-
tude because I'd got my snow
tires on the day before.
One creature who despises
the whole business as much as
I is our cat. It was bad enough
for her before the snow came.
Huge tomcats, black, white and
piebald, littered the yard, and
she'd sit on the picnic table,
spitting and snarling at them
with an air of chastity and
virtue that is seldom seen
these clays.
She was in command of that
situation. But when I chucked
her out into half a foot of
snow, her first experience of
it, she almost went out of her
head.
Skiers are delighted, of
course, and that other insidi-
ous new breed, the snow-mobi-
lers, are beaming all cver their
big, fat, red faces.
It's not enough that we
should have our summers
ruined by half-wits in motor
boats and on motor cycles,
tearing around polluting the
water and the air, destroying
the peace and endangering not
only their own lives (who
cares?). hut those of every-
body else within ramming dis-
tance.
Now we have their winter
counter -parts. I can tolerate
the snow -mobile as a handy
tool for work, or for getting
from one place to another un-
der difficult conditions. But I
haven't much time for those
idiots who merely revel in the
noise, the sense of power, and
the stink, half -trained and of-
ten half -stoned, a menace to
everything in or out of sight.
I'll bet poet Robert Frost is
glad he's dead. Imagine trying
to write a beautiful, haunting
thing like Stopping By Woods
on a Snowy Evening, today.
Some moron would come
charging out of the woods on a
snow -mobile, frighten the
horse, and the poet would wind
up in a snow -drift.
I suppose I mustn't get
churlish, with Christmas ap-
proaching. But if any snow-
mobile manufacturer think's he
can bribe me into reversing my
stand by sending me one of
these infernal machines for
Christmas, he's mistaken. I'd
send it right back. In April.
Hope you're in better shape
with your Christmas prepara-
tions than we are. Every year,
at our place, the last week or
so is about as organized as an
Irish cattle sale,
But I'll bet you despise, as
much as I do, those aseptic
souls who buy their presents in
September, have their colored
lights out in November, and
mail their cards on the first of
December.
There's something about
people like that that irks me.
They're of the same species as
those who work with a clean
desk, never lose their rubbers,
and smirk, "No thanks, I don't
smoke," when you offer them a
fag.
Perhaps the reason I can't
stand them is that I hate my-
self. My desk looks like a bar-
gain counter after a sale. I lose
gloves, rubbers, hats, and im-
portant papers. I forget impor-
tant things and remember triv-
ialities.
One of these is buying
clothes. I'd rather go into the
jungle than a clothing shop. I
have one suit, for all occasions,
one two-year-old jacket, one
pair of flannels with a hole in
them. I have an old trench -coat
about as warm as a silk nigh-
tie, somebody else's rubber
boots, a pair of gloves with
holes in both thumbs, and a
golf cap for winter headgear.
So I shall leave this column
lying about ostentatiously until
Christmas. Maybe my family
will rehabilitate me, at least
outwardly.
However, I'll have about the
nicest Christmas present I
can think of, and it won't be
wrapped. I'll have my dearly
loved daughter home for the
holidays.
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COST WAS HIGH
When Christmas greetings
cards first came into their
own in the United States,
about 1875, some of the more
elegant cards were encrust-
ed with blown glass frosting
and sold for as much as three
dollars each.
They're Set To
Throw Kisses,
Grow Hair
New talents of baby dolls
are a special center of ex-
citement this Christmas.
The virtuosity of dolls has
been a continuing source of
amazement every Yuletide,
since baby dolls who could
drink were invented more
than a generation ago.
Now doll designers have
produced new surprises in
the action category, to make
baby dolls seem "like real"
— calculated to generate
delight for the doll -mother
contingent, when the pres-
ents are opened.
One new contender for
nearly -human behaviour
honors is Baby Kicks, who,
when her arrn is squeezed,
kicks her leg just like a hu-
man baby — without the aid
of batteries, too.
Baby Throw -a -Kiss brings
her hand up to her puckered
lips and throws a kiss, com-
plete with a realistic kissing
sound, when a string in her
back is pulled. Here again,
the kiss is done without the
aid of batteries.
Then there's a new doll
called Pitter Patty. When her'
doll -mother presses her ear
to this doll's breast, she can
hear a heartbeat.
Beamed to achieving man-
ual dexterity is the Teach 'n
Play doll.
A Busy Baby series includes
a doll that rides a velocipede
and another that inflates a
balloon, both with the aid of
a C battery.
There's a new walking doll
who can be jiggled into talk-
ing, giggling and moving her
head from side to side. This
one uses a D battery.
Another talented baby
waves her arms when a whis-
tle is blown.
Baby Know -It -All jumps
with joy or shakes her head
when pictures are shown on
a magic slate.
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