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Home My WebLink AboutZurich Citizens News, 1970-10-22, Page 4PAGE FOUR ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 .10'44111g‘" Member: •'' Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association lO Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association pE'dsc°' Sulteeription Rates: $4.00 per year in advance in Canada; WOO in United States and Foreign; single copies 10 cents, L et s Pretend NIP es It's a strange country we live in. Is it any wonder that youth shake their heads in disbelief and amusement as some of the adult leaders in this country continue to ex- pand on some of the hypocritical situations which exist. This past week we saw two examples which look pretty foolish to us. The Kitchener area, heavily settled by Germans in years gone by, has promoted "Oktoberfest". The October festival was a great success last year and the idea has spread to other cities and towns this year. The festival is a "beer drinking event" and is as natural to beer drinking Ger- mans and others as "spareribs and sauerkraut". However, the Liquor Licence Board of Ontario has ruled that posters advertising the event may not show mugs of beer and the word "Beer" may not appear. We all know very well the foolish beer commercials now appearing on TV where the actual product is not shown but where the idea is firmly planted. It seems it's permissable, under the rules of the Liquor Licence Board, to hold a beer festival, but we must pre- tend we are not promoting the sale and use of beer. The second incident this week concerns the same question, "Liquor". A CBC show last week concerned Bobby Orr and the Canadian game of hockey. National Hockey League presi- dent Clarence Campbell was "up in arms" that the TV special showed half dressed hockey players squirting beer and champagne around the dressing room after winning the world championship. Mr. Campbell said that it has been an N.H.L. ruling for the past three years that the league would not permit the publication of scenes showing "consumption of alcohol beverages, nakedness and carousing." Clarence might not realize that the image of N.H.L. players is not "snow white" in the minds of our children and adults. We see them. week after week, smashing one another with fists and sticks. holding out for higher wages at the expense of the team. displaying uncontrolable fits of temper. making the most of the dollar through endors- ing products they may not even use, and yes Clarence, even using "cuss" words at the referee and team-mates. They're humans Clarence. so why worry about a bit of beer foam after our kids have probably just finished watching cowboys and Indians dying like flies on TV, a war spectacular or one of those dramas where all normal forms of morality cease to be. New Hamburg Independent MBARGAINS IN eat SIRLOIN or T-BONE STEAK Ib. 99c SAUSAGEIb. 69c BEEF LIVER Ib. 39c CHICKEN LEGS Ib. 49c LAPORTE MEAT MARKET ]PHONE 238-4962 SMILEY'S FASHIONABLE VIEWS By Bill Smiley Women are in a terrible fret these days, poor dears. The fash- ion designers have once again thrown them into a dither with their decree from the halls of the mighty that skirts were going down. In length, that is. For a change, there is a good deal of resentment among the gals. Many are declaring belliger-a ently that they're going to stick with the mini. These rebels run all the way from middle-aged housefraus who would look bet- ter in a potato sack, to teeny- boppers who look great in any- thing, or almost nothing, which some of them favor. But I'll lay long odds that, if the designers so choose, there won't be a mini -skirt to be seen within a year. What does grieve me is that women are such utter sheep, when it comes to style. They do everything but jump through hoops when the designers crack the whip. When it comes to equal rights, war, the stupidity of men, and other questions of vital im- portance, women will fight like tigresses for what they believe. They stand united. I am a great respector of women in general. They are far more reasonable than men, ex- cept when you try to reason with them. They are tender and compassionate, except when they are belting their kids or tongue-lashing the old man for some minor irritant. And they are practical to the point of being ruthless, except when it comes to clothes. At this juncture, all their good qualities fly out the win- dow. They become the silly, flit- tery, indecisive, disunited crea- tures that they have pretended to be for centuries. Why can't they be them- selves? If I were a woman and had long, tapering, beautiful legs, and a flat chest, I would wear a mini -skirt and be damned to him who first cried: "Hold, enough". And if I were short and pudgy, with a big chest, I'd be strongly inclined to wear a maxi Mother Hubbard, hinting at all sorts of mysteries lurking behind the cloth, If I had bony knees but well- turned ankles, I'd wear a midi - skirt. In short, the skirt is quick- er than the eye. It should draw attention away from the less pre- possessing aspects (no woman is plain ugly), to the more attrac- tive features. Now, I'm not just speaking as a man who is ignorant of these things, or uninvolved in them. My wife and daughter have been fighting the battle of the hem- line for four years. "Mom, I can't wear that. It's practically hanging around my knees." This meant that it was barely covering her pelvis. "All right, Kim, I'll turn it up one more inch, and that's that." "Oh, Mom, I'll look like a freak out of the thirties. Why don't you forget the whole thing and go listen to your Guy Lom- bardo records?" I think the old lady had the last word, She took the shortest dress she could find, turned it up four inches, and sent it off to Kim at college. It looked more like a blouse than a dress. Even the kid had to 'admit the only way it could be worn in public was over long pants. That's another thing they fight over — long pants, When Kim means long, she means trail- ing in the mud, snow or what- ever. However, my wife is quite happy about the change. She went rummaging through her wardrobe the other night and discovered a whole pile of things that are almost brand new, and just the right length. She'd never got around to throwing them out when the mini came in. Enough of that, What does please me these days is the dash, flair and elan of men, For two centuries they had been scorned by women for wearing drab blues, browns and greys, Lately THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1970 they're as colorful as jungle birds, Just the other day, a friend of mine whom I thought a confirm- ed bachelor, was married. He was clad in an Edwardian jacket, with lace collar and fringes of lace peeping out at the cuffs, The jacket was decorated with autumnal flowers of all shades, How about that? Presumably he also wore trousers, which were not described. Probably green velvet. Well, I have to buy a new suit this week, first in four years, I haven't quite decided whether it will be maroon with a mustard stripe, or off -mushroom with purple checks. But it will proba- bly turn out to be grey, TWO MINUTES wim THE 8I8LE BY CORNELIUS R. STAM PRES. BEREAN BIBLE SOCIETY CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60635 "PAUL THE PATTERN" No conversion in sacred his- tory is given so much attention as that of St. Paul. Besides the many references to it, we find three detailed accounts of it in the book of Acts. As Saul of Tar- sus, the learned Pharisee, he had led his nation and the world in rebellion against God and the Lord Jesus Christ. St. Luke says: "As for Saul, he made havock of the church" (Acts 8:3). The believers at Da- mascus feared Saul's presence among them, saying: "Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name at Jerusa- lem?" (Acts 9:21). Paul himself later testified: "Many of the saints did I shut up in prison ... and when they were put to death I gave my voice [vote] against them" (Acts 26:10). "... beyond measure I persecuted the church of God and wasted it [laid it waste]" (Gal. 1:13). There must have been an im- portant reason why God saved this rebel leader. Clearly it was that He might make Paul, not only the herald, but the living ex- ample of "the exceeding riches of His grace" to sinners. Paul himself said: "And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord ... for ... putting me into the ministry; who was before A BLASPHEMER, AND A PERSECU- TOR, AND INJURIOUS: but I ob- tained mercy, because I did it ignorantly and in unbelief. AND THE GRACE OF OUR LORD WAS EXCEEDING ABUNDANT.... This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that CHRIST JESUS CAME INTO THE WORLD TO SAVE SINNERS, OF WHOM I AM CHIEF. HOWBEIT FOR THIS CAUSE I OBTAINED MERCY, THAT IN ME FIRST JESUS CHRIST MIGHT SHOW FORTH ALL LONGSUFFFRING, FOR A PATTERN TO THOSE WHO SHOULD HEREAFTER BELIEVE ON HIM TO LIFE EVEJLASTING" (I Tim. 1:12,16). Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRISTS J. E. Longstaff OPTOMETRIST SEAFORTH MEDICAL CENTRE 527-1240 Tyesday, Thursday, Friday, Sat- urday a,m„ Thursday evening CLINTON OFFICE 10 Isaac 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. Closed all day Wednesday Phone 235-2433 Exeter Robert F. Westlake Insurance "Specializing In General Insurance" Phone 2364391 —. Zurleh Guaranteed Trust Certificates 1 yr 2 yrs 3 yrs 4-5 yrs J. W. 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