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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)
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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).
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