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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1970-05-07, Page 4PAGE FOUR ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1970 The Same Old Complaints! Daylight Saving Time went into effect again last week -end with the usual results. Sleep -eyed parish- ioners arrived a little bit late for Sunday morning wor- ship; babies got all off schedule; and no one knew en- ough to go to bed in &ood time on Sunday evening to avoid unnecessary fatigue on Monday. But we have gained one extra hour of daylight... so they tell us. Whether or not everyone is interested in that partic- ular type of a bonus is hard to say. Certainly urban workers have few objections to a little more sunshine after the office or the factory closes, but the farming community would be just as happy if there were no time change until later in the spring. We wonder if June 1 to September 30 would be long enough for DST to be in effect rather than the May 1 to October 31 set-up we now have. Maybe that would be a reasonable compromise to present to the larger urban municipalities which take the lead in turning the clocks ahead. A Half'n' Half Society Maybe we do not see things as clearly as we should - or maybe someone threw a curve when brains were handed out - but we think the constant battle of wits between theovernment and the people to maintain this thing caped "free enterprise" is something laugh- able. At the risk of sounding as though we have a one- track mind, we are thinking now of the thousands and thous- ands of employees - professional and otherwise - across the country who want more and more in the way of sal- ary. one breath they scream at the government to do something to keep prices and living costs down. In the next breath, they chant "socialism, socialism" so loud you can feel the vibrations on even the square peg in the round hole where we are situated. In our twisted mind, we see free enterprise as a system by which people work at their own speed and intensity, hiring the best help at the least money if you are an employer,iving your best to earn better money if you are an employee. If you can hold down three jobs and make $15, 000 a year, more power to you. The harder you work, the more you benefit, according to our ap- praisal of free enterprise. In that other society where people are held to an even keel - all earning about the same, spending about the same, working about the same - the government holds the reins of power, pulling a stringhere and snap- ping a line there to keep everything uniorm, for the industrious as well as the indolent. Seems like today's brand of people want the comfort- able equality of a socialistic- type society and the pleas- ant freedom of a democratic .society all rolled into one. Nice work if you can get it, chum, but a mighty rocky road if things get too far right or too far left, depending on the side you appreciate most. Whatever happened to the old way where employees were paid a fair wage, expended fair effort, hard work was rewarded by advancement, honesty was the best policy and life was what you made it? ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385JDWIIII 0.4wo fir Member: '� Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association 44111110'0' Subseription Rates: $4.00 per year in advance in Canada; 040 in United States and Foreign; single copies, 10 cents. Life in the San Went for a chest X-ray to- day and had quite a reminisce with the doctor who examined Inc. It turned out that he was the second -in -command at a sanatorium where I spent one of the most dreary years of my life. He's retired now and does this work as a part-time thing. He told me I wouldn't believe what has happened to the San. When I was there, it held about 1,500 patients. It now has 300. Average length of stay then was 18 months. To- day it is three months. T.B. wasn't a comparatively simple thing when I was there. Three people died in three months in one ward I was in, because their lungs were so rotten they couldn't breathe. Two of thein were in their 20s. The tensions, frustrations and monotony of life in a sana- torium have been described of- ten enough. It was like being in jail, except you couldn't walk around. And always, hovering in the air, like a cou- ple of vultures, were two things: Surgery and your "cul- ture". Surgery meant hacking out most of your ribs on one side, to collapse a lung that was too far gone, or removal of the lung. If your "culture", -a sputum test, broke down within 12 weeks, you had another three or six months added to your sentence. I was lucky. A11 I had was a shadow on my lung. 1 felt fine. I never had a "positive" result from tests, and I couldn't even muster enough sputum for a culture. But it still wasn't Much fun. Perhaps 1 acclimatized bet- ter than most. I'd had a year in prison came. not too long be- fore -- good training for life in the San. I had learned that time does pass, however snail- like, in such circumstances. But I was dreadfully lonely at first, and pretty resentful toward the gods. I had been married six weeks when the shadow on the lung was discov- ered. About a week later, something else was discovered. My wife was pregnant. We were about 200 miles apart, with no money for train trips to visit. This was the worst period, How times change. Nowa- days my wife thinks nothing of spending $10 on a long-dis- tance call to one of the kids, for no particular reason. In those days, I was on full pen- sion. I think it was $55 a month, and the government FOCUS: One Moment of Time Our camera records a child's First Smile . . . makes an official report on the bride's radiance . . . Commemorates a trio posed for Dad's birthday surprise. Moments like these can never be recaptured unless they are per- fectly preserved by WADDEN'S STUDIO. Your family's pictorial history ehould be in qualified hands. Contact Hadden's Studio GODERICH 118 5t. David St. 524-8787 kept back $15 of it to help pay for my keep. So it was letters, one a day. There's still a bushel basket of them in the attic, full of pur- ple prose; what we'd call the baby, and stuff. I feel like an old fool when I read them now, and my wife weeps and won- ders why I don't write poems and gooey stuff to her nowa- days. But I shook down into life at the San, and as always in. retro- spect, remember mostly the good things, and the funny things. I began a writing course, and won a prize. I wrote scripts for the San radio sta- tion. I played chess for hours a day with the guy in the next bed 'and became a tolerable, though erratic, player. Most of us were young veter- ans, and we had a certain es- prit de corps, which meant beating the establishment. For example, the food was nourish- ing, but lousy, like all institu- tion food.,•One chap had a wife who smuggled in bacon and eggs and onions.. Every night, about an hour after the nurses had snuggled us down, and while the night nurse smoked and drank coffee, the action would begin. Out would come the illicit hot plate, and -the forbidden frying pan. The spryest, usual- ly I, would whack up a great, reeking feed. And with one lamp, carefully screened, we'd play poker until 4 a.m. No wonder they had trouble rous- ing us at five for our morning wash. If it was a special occasion, maybe a birthday, we'd chip in and buy a mickey. Oh, yes. We Hensall Masonic Lodge Oberves Centennial (continued from page 2) 1944, Wor. Bro. Robert -D. Bell initiated his son Glen. This is the first time in the history of the Lodge that a father has con- ferred a degree on his son. At a regular meeting held March 27th, 1961, Wor. Bro. William J. F Bell initiated his son, John Andrew Blair, and on the same night Wor. Bro. Bell initiated his son-in-law, Irwin Joslin Forel. At a regular meeting held April 23rd, 1962, Wor. Bro. Duncan R. Cooper initiated his son John Douglas. There have been seven mem- bers who have attained 50 years of continuour membership, and who have received 50 -year Membership Jewels: Bro. John Zuefle in 1949; Wor. Bro. George T. Wren in 1954; Bro. Frank Wickwire in 1954; Bro. Frank Ryckman in 1956; Very Wor. Bro. John C. Cochrane in 1957; Bro. Lyle Hill in 1969; and Bro. Stewart McQueen in 1970. There have been 83 members who, because of their skill and knowledge of the Craft, have been elected Worshipful Master to rule andovern the Lodge. - There have been 14 secretaries; 412 Candidates have been init- iated, and the membership of the Lodge at the present time is 97. had a bootlegger — who was also a bookmaker — among the patients. He was tubercular and also diabetic, dying on his feet, but he staggered around the wards each day, taking bets and orders. You'd be surprised how far a niickey goes 'among .four T.B. cases, when they haven't had anything stronger than milk for a month. Like most of life, it wasn't all bad. 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 tssac Street 482-7010 Monday and Wednesday Call either office for appointment. Norman Martin OPTOMETRIST Office Hours: 9- 12 A,M. — 1:30-6 P.M. 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