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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1970-05-14, Page 4PAGE FOUR Victoria Day For many years winter -wearied Canadians welcom- ed Empire Day on the Queen's Birthday or May 24th. School kids used to shout: "If they don't give us a hol- iday we will all run away." Now, Victoria Day, moved to the third Monday in May, is observed in all provinces except Quebec which prefers Ascension Day earlier in the month. Both days increasingly mark openings of summer cottages, fam- ily outings, often with tent trailers and the smell of bacon cooked on open fires. But the word Victoria has a deeper or a victory meaning. It recalls the quotation "Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war. " Surely this theme in our atomic age has special value. Positive signs multiply. Last month the U. S , A. and the U.S.S.R. held round two of their Strategic Arms Limitation Talks begun in Helsinki, Finland. Recently 1700 East German students broke police lines at Erfurt to acclaim Willy Brandt who came there to meet their Willie Stoph and talk about a United Fatherland, More significant is the world's peoples' call for peace. The little man is tired of war. It does not mat- ter of what nation, race, creed or color, he demands peace. Evidence that the big powers listen is Washing- ton's sensitiveness to criticism of the Vietnam war or South Africa bending from protests against its apartheid policy. Pope Paul calls on modern man not to "turn means of progress into weapons of destruction." It is an appeal we might ponder while enjoying Victoria Day. (Unchurched Editorial) People and 'Pollution Is the overcrowding that is occurring in the world today a kind of pollution? This vital question is being debated on every continent because the very concept that humanity itself is part and parcel of the global pollution problem is alien to us. People are quite prepared to admit that careless industrialization and the general urban sprawl around the world are the prime causes of pollution. But rarely do they tie the problem up with over -population. Yet facts and figures bear out the claim that by growing too rapidly, the human race itself is polluting the earth. The world's population already stands at 3.6 billion. Mankind is increasing at the rate of 1, 400, 000 every week and if present trends continue, the world population will double by the year 2, 005. The tragedy is that most of the human pollution is occurring in the countries that can least afford it. The under -developed countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America contain about 2.6 billion people already, and are growing at a rate of between 2.3 and 2.9 per- cent per year. Africa, Latin America and Asia (with the except- ion of Japan.) contributed 86 per cent of the world's population growth in the past five years. There is no question that the world population must be stabilized. Without proper population control, the problem of people polluting their environment can never be solved. Certainly the unchecked growth of mankind is an even greater danger to our future than the nuclear arms race. (Unchurched Editorial) ZURICH Citizens. NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED,, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 de wr Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association 'j 11111 Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association 4,.� c:� ft Subscription Rates: $.00 per year in advance in Canada; ILIO in United States and Foreign; single copies 10 cents. ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1970 Is cable TV If someone suddenly asks you to make a television ap- pearance, take my advice. Don't. Not unless you can talk with lucidity, intelligence and wit, and have some profession- al advice. I went on TV recently and it was pitiful. At least, according to .my wife. I thought I was pretty good, seeing that we had no script, lousy equipment, no rehearsal, and everybody in- volved, including the techni- cians, was strictly an amateur. Kim was watching, and she thought I was the best, too, which only goes to show you. (She confided to my wife, in private, that I seemed bored. And I was.) But my wife kept up a run- ning fire of comment "you look terribly thin. You were the grayest one there. Why didn't you speak up? There was no humor at all. Why did you slump in your chair like a wet rag? You put your hand over you mouth once. What a dull program." I think she expected a com- bination of Fred Davis, Pierre Berton, Walter Cronkite and Johnny Carson. It wasn't exactly a moon shot, or an NHL game, though it was just as interesting as some of the latter we've seen this spring. It WAS a dull pro- gram. It had about as much zip and flair as Ed Sullivan inter- viewing the reeve of Hayfork Centre about the bindweed problem. It didn't help much that I'd just come from a harrowing day, and had had three hours sleep the night before. Or that I didn't have a clue as to what the program was about. Or that nobody else did. I was just another victim of a new game invented by the owners of cable television. These companies are highly sought after as a means of minting your own money. But the CRTC is leaning on them and suggesting that they produce something besides money for the owners; namely, sonic local "Canadian content." Our local cable company is in the forefront. It has man- aged to get itself a television nadian content. Ninety per channel, and is turning out Ca - cent of it, so far, is time sig- nals and the weather report. But it has also produced sev- eral shows. It doesn't really matter what they are, as long as they don't cost anything. So I've decided to cut short what promises to be an enrich- ing life as a television per- former. Fear of over-exposure. Here's the way it went, as a warning. A chap I knew called and asked if I would appear on a panel discussion about eduea- vq v.11111111. 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 HADDEN'S STUDIO. Your family's pictorial history Should be in qualified hands. Contact Hadden's Studio GODERICH 118 St. David St. 524.878f a con game? tion. I agreed. A student I knew was also to be on, plus another moderator. We arrived at the studio on time. It consisted of a room about 10 feet square in the farmhouse beside the cable tower. A table, three chairs (we needed four), a micro- phone and h camera. Two technicians were there, watching TV. They'd never heard of us. They called the manager, back in town. He'd forgotten about the show. He finally arrived, borrowed a chair for the farmer, and we did the dull show. Cold. It was shown a week later. Now, I'm not knocking the whole idea. This sort of thing would be great for a small town, where all sorts of inter- esting things happen. And there's lots of talent around. But the cable companies had better forget about how many hours of "local" content they can point to on their books, and start spending some mon- ey on trained personnel, good equipment, and organization, or the whole thing will be just another farce to slide around the rules and save money. Two recent examples of what I'm talking about: On one show, we watched five or six buses draw up to a local school and the kids, one by one, get out. Fascinating, eh? Ten minutes. On another, we watched the residents of an old people's home for about 10 minutes, sitting in rows, facing the camera, waiting for "the show" to begin. Crass, if not cruel. But it shows on the books•as Canadian content. If it doesn't improve rapidly, it's just a con game, and should he exposed as such. POLLUTION PROBE WALK Some of the students went on a 22 -mile walkathon, on Satur- day to raise $20, 000 for pollut- ion. These students were provid- ed with garbage bags to pick up some of the litter, that lays on the ground. "At the start of the march, the students noticed the dirty tissue, broken non -return- able bottles, tin can lids, cig- arette and candy wrappers and other scrap paper which litters the streets and parks of London. "If we keep on littering the towns and cities with rubbish they will look a mess and they will smell, I think that if people would stop throwing pop cans and candy wrappers, excetra, on the ground, we would be able to live longer. If you want to help you could start by not throwing your trash on the ground, pick it up or tell that person to pick it up. The idea is to encourage adults and students that they shouldn't throw their trash on the ground. This is one way to help solve the problem of pollution. by Grace Schwartzentruber. HOW TO STOP POLLUTION The Rookie -of -the -year, go's to The Canadian water polluters who have poisoned lakes, rivers and perhaps people. Mercury is used by many manufacturers including pulp ,mills and chem- ical plants and by western farm- ers as a fungicide. In ten years every lake, river in Canada will be polluted. If you want to swim in the summer time, why go dump your garbage in the lakes and rivers. Just THINK, die or live. Do you know great cities like New York, Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago and Montreal are the most polluted cities in North America. Every day each of us throws away five pounds of solid garbage, which adds up to 100 million pounds daily across Can- ada. What do you think, die in ten years or act now so we can live a couple more years of happy life? by Henry Demooy. Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRISTS J. E. 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