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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1970
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Guaranteed Income !
The latest proposal in our welfare society is that
there should be a basic guaranteed income for every-
one. Not, mind you, fol the people who work like
dogs and still can't get along - but for everyone. That
includes the lazy and the greedy.
There is no denying the fact that a society as in-
telligent and affluent as ours cannot permit the less
fortunate among us to suffer actual want (although we
are still doing so in too many instances.) However,
every one of the benefits we extend to the unfortunate
must be paid for by those who, for one reason or an-
other, have adequate incomes.
Many, perhaps the majority of those in need de-
serve our consideration and assistance. We are thinking
here of the sick, the widows with small children, the
pensioners who live on a barely marginal income.
Then, too, there are those members of our society for
whom we have failed to provide educational facilities,
such as out Indian population. They live in poverty
because they have not had anything like equal opport-
unity.
When the balance sheet is completed, however, we
find that the average working man is not only paying
for the normal services provided by government but is
also supporting his own wife and family and about six
other people as well, He contributes to family allow-
ance even though his own children are grown and gone;
he aids in all the welfare schemes such as old age sec-
urity, the taxes which support homes for the aged, or-
phans, widows, etc, In Ontario he pays for considerably
more than half the cost of operating our hospitals, over
and above the premiums to OHSC, He donates pretty
liberally to the canvassers for heart, lung cancer, mus-
cular dystrophy and a dozen other voluntary health or-
ganizations. He coughs up vast amounts for education,
whether he has children in school or not. And more,
more, more.
It is not a question of whether or not the working
man is being fairly treated - it is simply a matter of
how much he can continue to pay. A guaranteed
annual income would be fine for those who cannot do
anything to help themselves, but it sounds like a pretty
soft life for those who like to take it easy.
(Wingham Advance Times)
Save Our Rural Areas!
Is there a beautiful wildflower woodlot or marsh area
in your community threatened by the bulldozer? Unique
natural habitats for wildlife and plants are being increas-
ingly gobbled up by industry, roads, developers and
expanding municipalities. You can take action as a
citizen, by forming a club to buy such precious land and
keep it as a natural preserve or turn it over to the near-
est conservation authority for management.
Your Provincial Department of Lands and Forests can
tell you who your nearest conservation authority is.
Some naturalists groups such as the Federation of Ont-
ario Naturalists, have revolving, interest-free loans to
help small groups who haven't ready cash, and in this
kind of enterprise it is necessary for citizens to move
quickly as land changes hands fast these days.
The Nature Conservancy of Canada, a non-profit
organization, located at 1407 Yonge Street, Toronto,
will help local groups to finance loans for purchasing.
nature preserves. This body will also provide literature
and technical expertise on land management.
Schools might help to raise money since such nat-
ural areas are a valuable heritage for young people.
A citizens' group can also serve as liaison with natural-
ist groups in larger communities and the provincial dep-
artment of lands. It is imperative that we all work to-
gether to conserve our rich environmental areas so that
future generations do not inherit a desert.
(Unchurched Editorial)
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THE JET SETTERS
WHO STAYED HOME
by Bill Smiley
Once upon a time, summer
travel was for the very rich.
They went to Europe on a
luxury liner, ate eight times a
day, stayed at fashionable places
on the continent, dressed for
dinner, and all that jazz, while
the rest of us sweated it out.
The not -quite -so -rich, but still
wealthy, flocked to the great
lodges and summer hotels: St.
Andrews by the Sea; Manoir
Richelieu; Jasper and Banff.
They were safe there from the
hoi-polloi and subserviently
served by secretly insolent bell-
boys and waitresses.
The moderately well-to-do
had a cottage, perhaps a day's
travel from home, with a hack -
house, an ice -box with real ice in
it, coal -oil lamps and a rowboat.
They lived quietly, simply, and
went to bed with the
whip -poor -wills.
The poor, the working class,
picniced in the park, attended
ballgames, and watched parades.
In the evening, they sat on the
front porch, murmuring gossip,
drinking lemonade, and listening
to the cries of their young,
playing run -sheep -run or red-
light in the velvet dusk.
Things have changed. The
rich now fly to the Greek
Islands, or Japan, or Rome,
where they can live exactly as
they could at home, but with
slavies of whatever nationality
assuring them that they are still
the very rich.
The not -quite -so -rich have
deserted the big hotels and
lodges, most of which are on the
verge of bankruptcy. These
places have, in desperation,
become a haven for conventions
and middle class poor tippers.
About People
You Know .. .
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Moore,
of Beaverton, Michigan, called
on Mrs. Marie Pask last week, A
sister of Mrs, Pask, Mrs. Ferd
Miller, of Hensall is also visiting
with her at the present time,
Association To
Adopt System
Indications from a meeting
held in Clinton Tuesday are that
the Huron County Beef Improve-
ment Association will adopt a
new market and price reporting
system.
Producers joining the system
would be required to report all
purchases, sales, the conditions
of each inonthly inventories. The
service, called Canfax, would
ise rented telecornunications ma-
chines to draw up weekly reports
and market analyses and would
mail them to each member.
Graeme Hedley, secretary man-
ager of the Ontario Beef Improve-
ment Association, informed the
group Tuesday night through writ-
ten communication: "The potent-
ial subscribers to this plan must
realize that this is the pilot proj-
ect in Ontario with Huron County
producers being the guinea pigs."
If the plan is adopted, it will
be the first for Eastern Canada,
It appears that Huron County was
chosen because of the large
concentration of beef cattle here,
Huron County has 250 beef prod-
ucers who produce 80, 000 beef
cattle annually.
The system has been operated
in Western Canada for one year,
The original inhabitants have
fled to Mexico City, Scandinavia
or the Carribbean, where they
can still escape the hoi-polloi.
The moderately well-to-do
still, in many cases, have a
summer cottage, But it is now
two or three or more hours of
maniacal driving. They now have
indoor plumbing, a refrigerator,
electric lights, and everything
from a power cruiser to a canoe.
Some are bereft because they
receive only one TV channel,
They seldom get to bed before
three a.m.
And the working class, as
they used to be called when they
worked? They hire a trailer and
cover two thousand miles, Or
they rent a cottage and sand -
and -sun it for two weeks. Or
they get together and fly in to a
fishing lodge once reserved for
millionaires.
There are a lot of reasons for
the change. Everybody has a car.
Highways are better. Holidays
are longer and you even get
vacation pay. And, of course, air
travel on chartered flights has
made it possible for people with
nothing to go almost anywhere.
The only people who are
poor enough today not to travel
are the young people. But that
doesn't stop them. With
rucksack and sleepingbag, they
can cross the country on next to
nothing.
I'm not knocking all this. I
think it's great. But I'm just
beginning to wonder where and
why I missed the boat, in this
travel boom.
We just got home from our
big trip for the summer — 110
miles to visit Grandad. My sister
and her husband are in England.
My brother and his wife send a
card from a cruise on the Rhine.
A colleague, with four children,
drops a card from Virginia. A
reader, Bob Cunningham of
Omaha, has just encircled the
Great Lakes. An old friend and
wife are spending three weeks in
Europe. And I sit in the back
yard, with a six -mile trip to the
beach as my Great Expectations.
There's something wrong
somewhere. Each and every one
of those people has been telling
me how broke he is for years.
However, 1 mustn't be bitter.
Just because none of those
people can afford what they're
doing doesn't mean 1 should be
envious.
I was a bit burned by a card
from my daughter. She set off
two weeks ago to hitch -hike to
Vancouver with a friend. Her
card says they are just about to
leave Cape Breton, by ferry, for
Newfoundland. Seems a rather
circuitous route to Vancouver.
With no money.
Well, they may all think
they're really seeing the world,
but there are some pretty exotic
things right around here. For
example, we might slide out
tonight to a little fresh vegetable
roadside stand, four miles out of
town, pick up some sweet corn,
eat it, and have a whiz-bang of
an evening watching a re -run of
Green Acres. There's not a one
of them who can do that.
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