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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1970
Cops
Cops are human, believe it or not—just like the rest of
us!
They come in both sexes but mostly male. They also
come in various sizes. This sometimes depends on wheth-
er you are looking for one or trying to hide something.
However, they are mostly big.
Cops are found everywhere—on land, on the sea, and
in the air; on horses, in cars, sometimes in your hair.
In spite of the fact that you can't find one when you want
one, they are usually there when it counts most. The best
way to get one is to pick up the phone.
Cops deliver lectures, babies and bad news. They are
required to have the wisdom of Solomon, the disposition
of a lamb and muscles of steel and are often accused of
having a heart to match. A cop is the one who rings the
doorbell, swallows hard and announces the passing of a
loved one; then spends the rest of the day wondering
why he ever took such a "crummy" job.
On TV, a cop is an oaf who couldn't find a bull fiddle
in a telephone booth. In real life he's expected to find
a little blond boy "about so high" in . a crowd of a half a
million people. In fiction, he gets help from private eyes,
reporters and "who -dun -it" fans. In real live, mostly all
he gets from the public is, "I didn't see nuttin."
When he serves a summons, he's a monster. If he lets
you go, he's a doll. To little kids, he's either a friend or
a bogeyman, 'depending how the parents feel about it.
He works around the clock, split shifts, Sundays and
holidays and it always kills him when a joker says, "hey,
tomorrow is election day, I'm off, let's go fishing,"
(that's the day he works 20 hours.).
A cop is like a little girl, who, when she was good, was
very very good but when she was bad, was horrid. When
a cop is good he's, "getting paid for it." When he makes
a mistake he's "a grafter, and that goes for the rest of
them too." When he shoots a stick-up man, he's a hero,
except when the stick-up man is "only a kid, anybody
coulda seen that."
Lots of them have homes, some of them covered with
ivy, but most of them covered with mortgage. If he driv-
es a big car, he's a chiseler; a little car, "Who's he
kidding?" His credit is good—this is very helpful, be-
cause his salary isn't. Cops raise lots of kids; most of
them belong to other people. A cop sees more misery,
bloodshed, trouble and sunrises than the average per-
son. Like the postman, cops must be also out in all kinds
of weather. His uniform changes with the climate, but
his outlook on life remains about the same: mostly a
blank but hoping for a better world. Cops like days off,
vacations and coffee. They don't like auto horns, family
fights and anonymous letter writers. They have unions
but they can't strike. They must be impartial, courte-
ous and always remember the slogan, "at your service."
This is sometimes hard, especially when a character re-
minds him, `-I'm a taxpayer, I pay your salary."
Cops get medals for saving lives, stopping runaway
horses, and shooting it out with bandits. (Once in a while
his widow gets a medal). But sometimes, the most re-
warding moment comes when, after some small kind-
ness to an older person, he feels the warm hand clasp,
looks into grateful eyes and hears, "thank you— and God
Bless You, son."
New Hamburg Independent
Everybody needs a glow -on
Beginning of March, and our
neighbors still have their out-
side Christmas tree lights
glowing.
Glowing with rage? Glowing
with passion? No, they're just
glowing because the snow is so
deep they can't get out to un-
plug them.
But glowing is something
there should be more of, espe-
cially in the miserable month
of March. There must be some-
thing in this sad, rotten,
mixed-up, wonderful world to
glow about. Let's find it, you
and I together.
So, what glows? The sun.
People. If the sun, or people,
cease to glow, they're dead.
Ashes. Dust.
Just as our neighbors'
Christmas tree lights are still
glowing because they can't get
at them for snow, our spirits,
and yours, I hope, are glowing
because they, too, are still
plugged in, and no amount of
snow and ice is going to stop
them from casting their light.
There's always something to
glow about, though at times
our light seems to he hidden.
Our daughter is not as sick
as she seemed. She's sicker.
Unglow. But my sister, and all
her aunts, and Earl Munroe of
London, Ont., with whose sis-
ter Jean I was madly in love in
Grade 6, and Mrs. Rhoda Beal
of Weyburn, Sask., have writ-
ten or called, to express their
alarm and concern. And one of
her old teachers, and a neigh-
bor, both sent her a rose.
Glow.
And Kim feels great one
day, and full of beans and
plans and smiles. Glow. And
that very evening she's com-
pletely pooped and utterly de-
pressed. Unglow.
And my wife, after 20 years
of worrying and sweating
about the kids (unglow) be-
cause they don't have any life
insurance, has finally decided
that it's high time she started
worrying and sweating about
me. Glow.
There are all sorts of things
to turn off and on about, be-
sides belated Christmas tree
lights.
There's the state of your
health, for example. If you can
get along on anything less than
all fours, you're in business.
Ask any arthritic.
There's the state of your
mind. If you have an IQ of
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80, relax. It's probably higher
than any mark, you ever got in
school. If you have an IQ of
150, relax,
Who needs it in this push-
button world?
And then there's your spirit-
ual life, If you believe that
God saw the little sparrow fall,
bully for you. And if you won-
der why He didn't do some-
thing about it, you've got plen-
ty of company.
And, of course, there's pollu-
tion, the poor man's Commu-
nism. It's the capitalism of the
1970s. Everybody is against
it. Except the big industries
and the hydro and government
and the town that wants a new
industry at any cost. No -glow.
And there's inflation. This
produces a very definite glow,
especially among the middle
class. Some of them are glow-
ing so brightly they're apt to
blow a fuse.
But there's always the Just
Society. Just what, and just
where, and just when, have
yet to be resolved, but there's
no question that we have a
Just Society. Joist as long as
you're in the $20,000 -to -
530,000. bracket. No, definitely,
glow.
We all glow occasionally.
Let's try to glow a little bright-
er.' But anybody who glows all
the time should take a cold
shower.
Sometimes my wife is sad.
Sometimes she is wonderful.
And sometimes she just plain
glows. That's the hest. Try it.
Mission. Sisters
Aid 'Charities
The Medical Mission Sisters
and the Sisters of St. Joseph
Concert Bancl are to appear in
a concert in London's Centen-
nial Hall on Monday, March 30,
at 8 p. m. under the joint spon-
sorship of the Canadian Bible
Society and the Canadian Men-
nonite Publishing Association.
Sister Miriam Therese Winter,
a Medical Mission Sister, does
"her thing" when she composes
add sings her Scripture -based
songs. She has over 100 to her
credit now, with four record
releases on guality labels. With
six other singers and instrument-
alists, also members of the
Medical Mission of Philadelphia,
Sister Miriam has achieved a
widespread and enthusiastic
response wherever the Sisters
have made their music.
"Songs, especially folk songs,
simply express what everybody
is thinking, "says Sister Miriam.
"Our Scripture songs are a lot
like this. They are the unsung
songs of many men and they
belong to these others every bit
as they belong to the Spirit who
first breathed them to life."
Appearing on the same pro-
gramme will be the Sisters of
St. Joseph Concert Band, con-
ducted by Martin Boundy. Or-
ganized in London during Cent-
ennial year, this musical group
has brought a most enthusiastic
response from audiences where -
ever they have played.
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1970
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