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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1970-10-15, Page 4PAGE FOUR est Advertiser Censoring WM Mr dr Effective December 1, 1970, The Minister of Labour, the Honourable Dalton Bales, Q. C . , intends on having legislation in force that will in effect give his depart- ment censorship control over classified employment dvertisements.. No longer will you be able to advertise for a husky, nale steeplejack; or for a young, female upstairs maid. You will have to ask for a husky steeplejack or an up- stairs maid (sex is taboo you know), and take pot luck when the applications roll in. This is all part of a program supposedly aimed at creating equal job opportunities. While this is a noble thing to shoot for, censoring the classified advertise- ments will not accomplish it. It is the minister's wish that "Help Wanted" -"Male (Female)" columns should be changed to less prohibitive headings such as "Jobs Primarily of Interest to Men - Women). " The minister goes on to say that a "neutral column" such as Situations Vacant, should be established to serve as a "reservoir" for jobs of interest to both sexes. Separate columns were never established to discrim- inate. They are based on common sense. There are simply some jobs men are interested in, and other posit- ions which women are best qualified (or interested) in. The most the minister's directive is likely to ac- complish is shear confusion. Rather than helping people find employment it will hinder them in even discerning what jobs are available to them. Employers will receive twice as marry calls potentially, but they will also be only half as effective. Perhaps before the next election we will run across a straight forward advertisement for a "minister of labour; male or female; married or single; intelligent or not too bright. Apply at your convenience." This will be true freedom. (New Hamburg Independent) This Greedy Continent Our century has seen the unfolding and then the blighting of a dream - the vision that modern science could bring Utopia, end poverty, hunger and war, cure most diseases, alleviate most forms of suffering. It hasn't happened. Instead we live in a fear -stricken world of wars, polluted environment, riot -torn cities and virulent antagonisms, where every form of separat- ism mocks the vision of the one beautiful, round, blue Earth the astronauts have viewed from outer space. What went wrong? Why do not men today live healthy prosperous, fear -free lives; active but with ample leis- ure for enjoyment of the beautiful in nature and art; pressing on to explore the greatness of space and the smallness of the nuclear particle? The answer is ignorance and greed, more specifically the greed of North America. Having had the luck to corner a major fraction of the world's capacity for tech- nology mass production, North America has kept the fruits of such productivity largely to herself - mainly to her upper and upper -middle classes. In the face of the world's poverty-stricken two-thirds, this greedy continent exhibits the psychology of the spoiled child who, after opening his twenty-fifth Christ- mas parcel, whiningly asks, "is that all?" Exploiting natural resources far beyond their replacement potential, we parade, without sharing, a standard of living that holds out two cars, a boat, a skidoo, hi-fi radio, TV and air-conditioning as the family norm, meanwhile recklessly wasting the food for lack of which millions of Asians, Africans and South Americans go hungry to bed every evening of their lives. (Goderich Signal Star) ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 01 feEf Member:44811111h Canadian Weekly. Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association 4HHI ," ®v"� &Ascription Rates: $4.00 per year in advance in Canada; CIAO in United States and Foreign; single copies 10 cents. ZURICH. CITIZENS NEWt. COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE by Bill Smiley Thanksgiving, one of our truly important holidays, is losing much of its religious signifi- cance, and becoming more of a bacchanalian festival, a last fling before melancholy autumn grips us in his frosty fingers. The air — as it was last weekend — is more apt to be redolent of rye and roast turkey than of incense. There are more people cussing on the golf course than praying on their knees in church. Despite this growing pagan- ism, Thanksgiving is about as good a time as any for stock- taking, and I try to do it every year. I hope you do. The Lord, or whoever looks after the weather, nearly always seems to feel a bit benign toward us poor, forked animals on Thanksgiving weekend. Almost every year, the holiday is a smasheroo of golden sunshine and glorious colour. This is enough to get on your knees for. I'm always humbly thankful that I live in a country where the seasons are so sharply defined. And I'm always doubly thankful that it isn't yet soggy November. Be honest now. What did you give thanks for this Thanks- giving? Or did you justgo to a family reunion, glut yourself on turkey and curse at traffic all the way home? Or did you just' go for a drive in the country and burble over the•foliage? Or just crowd in a last game of golf or sail on the lake? Or just shoot a bird or catch a fish? Shame. We should begin with the basics. Just being alive is some- thing to be ineffably thankful for. There's not much joie de vivre in the graveyard. Forget that arthritis, that insomnia, that pimple on your nose. You'll be a long time dead, and you can spend all of it whining over your physical ailments. To be sane, or relatively sane in a world that seems insane, is Something for which we should send up paeans of praise. Think of the poor lost creatures over- flowing our mental places, and thank God you're not among them. Being alive and being sane, then. Other basics are shelter and food. We don't give them much thought in this affluent country. Almost nobody in this land is without shelter, be it ever so humble. And nobody is starving, be he ever so hungry, unless he's plain stupid. The worst Thanksgiving I ever spent was in October, 1944. I didn't even think of Thanks- giving at the time. I had just received a thorough going-over for attempting to escape from the Germans. My nose pointed FOCUS: One Moment of Time Our camera records a child's First Smile makes an official report ori 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. 524-078' one way and one of my legs the other. My hands and feet were tied. It was very cold and there were no blankets. Food was four slices of bread a day. But, looking back, I realize I had lots to be thankful for. I had the roof of a box -car overhead to keep out the rain (until a night -fighter shot some holes in it). I had enough food to stay alive (and no steak has ever been as delicious as that black bread). And I was alive, young, bloody but unbowed. I should have been singing "Bringing in the Sheaves." What else should we be thankful for? Certainly not the new car, the new boat, the new snowmobile, the finer house. These are trivia that we can't take with us. Definitely, we should be thankful for our children, how- ever much pain they have caused us. We can't take them with us either, but we can leave them, and their children, and so on, as testimony that we once lived and loved. We should be deeply grateful that we live in a land where hatred and violence and preju- dice are frowned upon, rather than accepted as part of daily life. We should be thankful, fer- vently, for real friends and good neighbours. Not the type who pry and are delighted when something is wrong, but the stalwarts, who rally round and give comfort when things are black, or blue. Perhaps I sound like a Polly- anna. But you just try it. My wife has burned the stew and is snarly. The bills are piling in. I have a carbuncle in an extremely embarrassing and painful place. But after counting my blessings, I know I'll be humble and grateful. For at least three days. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1970 SLOWPOKE DANGEROUS The slowpoke on the ex- pressway is just as danger- ous as the speeder. If traffic streams past you or you are leading a slow parade in your lane, speed up or get off the expressway. You are a haz- ard when you block traffic. INIMMINGNIMUMMIMENINMENNIMOMMINIM St. Peter's Lutheran Church Rev. A. C. Blackwell, B.A., B.D. Pastor . SUNDAY, OCTOBEER 18- 10:00 a.m.—Worship Service 10:45 a.m.—Sunday Church School Everyone Welcome easmanosammeammastaminsimasur essammonatanagamiamaasv Emmanuel United Church ZURICH Rev. John Huether, B.A., B.D., Minister Mrs. Milton Oesch, Organist SUNDAY, OCTOBEER 18 -- (Messengers Boys and Girls Fellowship meets during Worship Hour) 11:10 a.m.—Church School MINIVEINISENUMMENEEMENWOMMINVIENSEffin Zurich Mennonite Ephraim Gingerich, Pastor THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15— Afternoon WMSA Meeting SUNDAY, OCTOBEER 18- 9:45 a.m.—Worship Service Communion Service 10:45 a.m.—Sunday School Everyone Welcome a_aor saw. �® LAKEVIEW CONSERVATIVE Mennonite Church Formerly SS 4, EAST STANLEY Minister: Alvin Baker SUNDAY, OCTOBEER 18- 10:00 a.m.—Sunday School 11:00 a.m.—Worship Service 8:00 p.m.—Evening Service Every Wednesday Evening — 8:00 p.m.—Bible Study and Prayer Meeting We invite you to worship with us usiness 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 Issac Street 482.7010 Monday and 'Wednesday Call either office for appointment. 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