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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1970-11-12, Page 4PAGE FOUR Tragedy Can Be Prevented. A needless tragedy in France a few weeks ago took the lives of 144 young people when they were unable to esc- ape from a burning dance hall because the exit doors were fastened shut. The tragedy should prompt everyone associated in any way in the management of public buildings in which people congregate to take a careful look at their safety procedures. It becomes too often an accepted practise as public buildings continue in use week after week to take short cuts. Despite the fact that in most cases adequate exits are provided it is easy to think that emergency exits, because they haven't been needed in the past, will never be needed. The upshot is that doors are sealed or exits become cluttered storage areas. In terms of dollars and cents and of administrative convenience such irresponsible expediencies may seem justified. In terms of human lives which may be lost there is no cost too great to ensure that exits are avail- able for use at all times. The 144 young victims in France are proof. (The Huron Expositor) Feminists Give Some Answers For centuries men have agonized over what women' want. Books, plays, poems, essays and sermons have been lyrically produced on the subject. It fell to Freud to express man's total frustration when he said - "Dear God, what do women want?" Now feminists are supplying some of the answers. Women, that is some women, want to break out of the home into the world of business and government. Some feel not so secretly, they couldn't do much worse in these fields than the men - and maybe a good deal better. For those who must work to support children, as well as the ones who simply like to work outside the home, the feminists are struggling for day care centres to look after their children and more available house- hold help. They would also like their husbands to take greater responsibility for children and the home. They want equal pay for equal work with men - and equality of opportunity for promotion. They also want men to realize they are capable outside the home. But most of all they want freedom from guilt - for striking out beyond the family. Right now women are squabbling among themselves over these issues - with men uncomfortably on the side- line. Some women don't wish to leave the home - they like being supported by their husbands and bringing up their own children. They too feel guilt - for not wanting to work. All men can do is encourage women to make decisi- ons most fitting for their own personalities and for their famines. Argument is academic. Women are outside the home and have been for years. Education gave them the skill and confidence and the pill is giving them the power to regulate their family. Only time will tell what changes this exodus will bring to the family, marriage and the nation. (Unchurched editorial) ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 ♦U Member: 4giumii Canadians Weekly Newspapers AssociationOntario Weekly Newspapers AssociationYR-�d' Subscription Rates: $4400 per year in advance in Canada; EOM in United States and Foreign; single copies 10 cents. ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1970 FIG LEAVES INSTEAD OF SLACKS? By Bill Smiley 1 have just got home from some- thing as rare and delightful as a personally conducted tour of Buckingham Palace — a teachers' staff meeting that lasted only half an hour. This is equivalent to building the Pyramids in three weeks. Meetings, as such, are a parti- cular annex in hell for anyone who has been in the newspaper business and attended at least one, and sometimes two, every working day of the year. Ninety-five percent of meet- ings are unnecessary, unenlight- ening, and unproductive. They are the refuge of bores of both sexes, who take out their per- sonal frustrations by frustrating everyone else. These people have their little' dinkies: Raising points of order; moving amend- ments to the motion; and hag- gling for interminable times over items that could be solved in eight seconds by a three-year-old with two heads. Occasionally, a meeting pro- duces sparks, a clash, a conflict of personalities or ideas that ,light the Stygian gloom. I well remember one town council meeting. One of the councillors, somewhat the wear for some- thing or other, called one of the other councillors, "a gibbering old baboon." A nice thrust. He wasn't too far off the mark, but was in no condition • himself to hurl such charges. The offended party promptly started peeling off his jacket, and offer- ed to thrash the other "within an inch of your life." The other councillors, and even the mayor, quailed. Chiefly, because both councillors were well into the seventies. I might add that t1u only blood shed was verbal. But that was a meeting. Staff meetings are not quite that bad, but they inevitably produce in me a headache so fierce that only a great dollop of some sedative beverage can allay it. I've seen adults haggling bit- terly for half an hour over the chewing of gum. Where it could be chewed, when it should be chewed, and how it should be chewed (open mouth or closed.) The only result was that the kids went on blithely chewing gum, wherever, whenever and however they could get away with it. Deep moral, social and psy- chological issues are involved in a problem of this magnitude. Is gum bad for the teeth? What do you do if you send a kid to the office, he removes his gum on the way, and swears angelically that it was the teacher's imagina- tion, that he was really chewing his cud out of sheer nervous- ness? Is it better for the student to chew gum than to chew his fingernails down to the blood? "Jesus wore long hair and a beard, didn't he?" How do you counter this one (a favorite, by the way, among male students)? Do you say, "Uh, well, uh, Jesus, uh, THROW THAT GUM IN THE BASKET!" Or would you say, "O.K., Buster, turn that blackboard into an ouija board." This particular staff meeting was about girls wearing slacks. Human experience has showed that girls will wear whatever other girls are wearing. And girls, these days, are wearing slacks. They are comfortable, they can look smart, they are warm in our frigid winters, they prevent boys from peeking up the stairs as the girls ascend in mini -skirts, and they have probably contributed more to containing the popula- tion explosion than the old- fashioned night-dress. Anyway, I expected a mara- thon. About three hours. They can wear slacks, but only once a week. They can wear slacks, but they can't wear blue jeans. No- body in my class is going to wear slacks, If it's all right for the boys to wear blue jeans, why can't the girls. And so on, It was fantastic, but the open- ly, and bluntly expressed feeling of the majority was that girls should be allowed to wear what- ever was in style. And that was that. One commercial teacher, who could have been expected to come down heavily on the side of "no slacks," said she didn't care if they wore fig leaves as long as they were "neat and tidy." I'd like to hear what you think about long hair, girls wear- ing slacks, and all the other things that were unacceptable in our day. Drop a line. 0 Hunters shot themselves in 43 per cent of the hunting accidents in Ontario in 1969. TWO MINUTES wim ME ,BIBLE BY CORNELIUS R. STAM PRES. BEREAN BIBLE SOCIETY CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60635 "REST" In Heb. 1:3 we read how the tained Lord Jesus Christ, "when He had by Himself purged our sins, SAT DOWN on the right hand of the Majesty on High." The tenth chapter of the same book tells us why He sat down: "Every priest STANDETH, daily ministering and offering often- times the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man [Christ] after He had offered one sacrifice for sins for- ever, SAT DOWN, at the right hand of God . . . FOR BY ONE OFFERING HE HATH PERFECTED FOREVER THEM THAT ARE SANCTIFIED (Heb. 10:11.14). There were several articles of furniture in the Old Testament tabernacle, but no chair. The priest could not sit down, for the work of redemption was not yet finished. His daily sacrifices only emphasized the fact that "it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins" (Heb. 10:4). But this man [Christ Jesus] sat down, because by His death on Calvary—by that one offering— He paid for all our sins and "ob- eternal redemption for us." This is why Paul, by divine in• spiration, now insists that salva- tion is "by grace," that "it is the gift of God," received "by faith" and "not of works, lest any man should boast." God has much for His people to do, but before we can do any- thing for Him we must learn to trust Him for our salvation, to rest in the finished work of Christ. God is satisfied with Christ's pay- ment for sin and together the Father and the Son are depicted as seated in heaven because the work is done. And now God would have us simply trust Him, enter- ing into His rest: "There remaineth therefore a REST unto the people of God, FOR HE THAT HAS ENTERED INTO HIS [GOD'S] REST, HE ALSO HATH CEASED FROM HIS OWN WORKS, AS GOD DID FROM HIS" (Heb. 4:9,10). "Unto him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteous- ness" (Rom. 4:5). Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRISTS J. E. 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