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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1971-03-18, Page 4PAGE F.OUk When You Cheque Out A Crippled Child You See What Your Dollars Can Do Most men who are worthy of the name have a kind of built-up urge to protect the very young and the very weak. It is a second nature to them. It also explains why an otherwise strong and silent father secretly wrings his hands in anxiety and even anguish when one of his youngsters has to undergo such a comparatively simple surgical ordeal as the removal of tonsils or adenoids. He feels frustrated and helpless to think there is nothing he can do to ease the pain or discomfort of the youngster who is the object of his deep desire. He wants to stand between his child and the trials of life. You think of these things when you visit any of the crippled children's treatment centres throughout the province. Seventeen regional treatment centres and the Society's Ont- ario Crippled Children's Centre in Toronto service over 14, 500 crippled children throughout Ontario. But cold figures don't really tell the story. What does help to tell it is a glimpse inside where the many phases of the Society's treatment prog- ram are being administered. Here is the real story. A youngster lying across a support while a therapist gently and patiently lifts up and down a small and withered leg. There are many pitiful little legs, scarred from operations, so thin and shrunken that the foot looks grotesquely oversized on its spindly limb. What a miracle it would be, what a compensation for the other cruel and sad things of this troubled world, if all the legs could be made strong again! Yet, such miracles are indeed taking place each day through the work being done by the Ontario Society for Crip- pled Children which offers one of the finest rehabilitation programs in the world. Strong hands are reaching out to help the weak and the unfortunate. Sometimes we sigh for the good old days. But we are sometimes inclined to forget that in many resp- ects those good old days were extremely bad ones for many. There was a time when little or nothing was done for a crip- pled child unless his parents had the money to buy treatment for him. The Ontario Society for Crippled Children, for inst- ance, didn't come into being until 1922, when 10 Rotary Clubs got together to assist 75 handicapped youngsters. Today, 230 service clubs in Ontario, such as Rotary, Lions, Kinsmen and Kiwanis, are assisting more than 14, 500 crippled boys and girls throughout the province. The annual Easter Seal Campaign needs a great deal of money to support the Society's work. This year the campaign in Dashwood, Hay Township, Hensall and Zurich is again being run by the Zurich Lions Club, and extends from March 11 to April 11. There is no better way of marking the miracle of spring than to contribute to the kind of work which is each year performing the equally joyful miracle of placing a form- erly helpless youngster on two strong legs. Support Easter Seals and see what your dollars can do! The collision rate continues to climb. Up to March 14, Exeter detachment had investig- ated 98 motor vehicle collisions since January 1, 1971. The 98th collision in 1970 was investigated on June 7. Fortunately, the majority of collisions have been of the "fender -bender" nature involvini property damage only. The general increase of col- lisions has been noted in other areas where winter driving cond- itions have been similar to those experienced in the Exeter area. A car pedestrian collision on Highway four, one-half mile south of Hensel]. at 7;45 Sat- urday evening injured Robert Campbell, 37, of London. Campbell received preliminary treatment for a compound fracture of the right leg at South Huron Hospital and was then transferred to St. Joseph's Hospital, London. Driver of the car was James Anthony Benenati, 21, of London, Provincial Const- able Dale Lamont investigated. Constable Dori Mason is cont- inuing his investigation into the breakins at the Ontario Develop. merit Corporation buildings at Huron Park. A total of 33 other investig- ations were conducted by det- achment members. Most were of a routine nature, Dr. P.L. Brady, Seaforth, coroner, has advised there will be no inquest into the death of Henry Weiberg, 80 of Dash- wood. Cause of death was attributed to smoke inhalation and carbon monoxide poisoning. ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 ,,d Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Associationk Ontario Weekly Newspapers Associationti Subscription Antes: $4.00 per year in advance in Canada; $5.00 in United States and Foreign; single copies 10 cents ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS ONLY HALF THE LIST OF SMILEY'S TROUBLES By Bill Smiley March is a time for madness in this country. I have lain on the grass with a girl in March, studying for exams. And I have waded through snow up to the belly -button, in the same month. This is enough to make Canadians a bit more psychotic than othernations. March is as unpredictable as a pregnant female, as precoc- ious as an eccentric old man. "Mad as a March hare" is no flight of the imagination. You don't have to be a hare to be mad in March. All you have to do is look at the body of your car, at what the salt and sand have done to it, and you get mad. All you have to be is a moth- er with soaking muddy small children tromping in and out, and you get mad, All you have to do is total your fuel bill, and you know you are out of your mind to live in such a clime. All it takes is a note from a friend in the south, who asks how high the snowbanks still are, and says he expects to come home about the first of May. All you need to do is think of next month, and realize that the average Canadian gives up a third of his income in taxes and you can go right around the bend. Our nerves are stretched to the snapping point by the rig- ours of the last four months, and it doesn't take much to break us. Even a little thing like forgetting to get your car licence plates before the dead- line, or forgetting to pay your hydro bill in time for the dis- count, can make the most stable of us crack and go roar- ing after the nearest person with the nearest blunt instru- ment. I haven't quite blown a gask- et yet, but I can feel the pres- sure building up. My wife has been off her oats since Christ- mas. Having two kids in Univ- ersity is like walking around with two large leeches clinging , to you. Half a dozen people want me to speak to a similar number of completely dissimil- ar groups all over the geography, I have a hundred letters to write. My boss is bugging me for a detailed plan for a new workroom for my department, and I couldn't design the inter- ior of an out -house. I'm in charge of two public speaking contests and two essay contests, both with looming deadlines. The cat did it again on the floor last night and is going to the glue factory if it happens once more. The C ,N, R, has phoned five times to tell me I owe them $1.09, which was their mistake in the first place. The guy who shovels my drive , with his plow has put his rates up fifty per cent. I have sixty essays, seventy- five tests, and one hundred and thirty exam papers to mark. I have stubbed the second -littlest tow on my right foot and the nail is dangling by a painful bit of gristle or something. I missed two crucial shots and lost out on the big prize in the last curling bonspiel. The lock on the bathroom door has been gone since Christmas and people keep getting locked in, instead of locked out. So, all in all, if you hear a small "POP" one of these days, it won't be the wax in your ears cracking. It'll be little, insig- nificant me. There. I know there's nothing more boring than other people's troubles. But I've got about half of them off my chest. And you must feel better to know that someone in the world has THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1971 as many troubles as you. And of course there are some things on the black ink side of the ledger, too. There's the "winter break" as they now call what used to be the Baster holi- days. A whole week in which to do nothing but mark exam pap- ers. There's the propect, in about six weeks, of getting the leeches off my back (and into the un- employment lines). And there's the sheer pleasure of not getting up in the dark every workday. The sun shines, waterily and occasionally. There's a glimmer of hope that that peculiarly Canadian monst- er - winter -, having 'vented his orgy or rage, is beginning to die of sheer emotional exhaust- ion. 0 MINUTES W.171 ME BIBLE BY CORNELIUS R. STAB% PRES. BEREAN BIBLE SOCIETY CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60635 WILL GOOD WORKS SAVE? "And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission" (Hebrews 9:22). The apostle's argument in the above passage is that since Israel's ceremonial law was typical of things to come, its constant shed- ding of blood pointed to the neces- sity of Christ's sacrificial death for the remission of sins. Certainly the Bible teaches that "Christ died for our sins" (1 Corinthians 15:3). Those who seek instead to make themselves acceptable to God by good works should consider the following: Our Lord never committed one sin, He always did those things which pleased the Father. His min- istry was filled with acts of mercy and kindness. He healed the sick, cleansed the leper, made the blind to see, the deaf to hear and the lame to leap for joy. He preached the gospel to the poor, deliverance to the captives, and healed the brokenhearted. Yet all these good works could not avail to cancel one sin or ease the conscience of one guilty sinner. Indeed, had He done all these good works and then gone to heaven without dying in our stead, He would have left us in a deeper con- demnation than before, for His holy, spotless life could only emphasize our sin and guilt by contrast. And if all His good works could not avail to erase even one sin from the black record of human behavior, how utterly preposterous for the sinner to hope to erase or cancel his sins by his own ''good works"! Thus, in contrast, the Bible presents Christ's death as the price of our redemption: "We have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, ac- cording to the riches of His grace" (Ephesians 1:7). "Being justified freely by (God's) grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus" (Romans 3:24). Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRISTS J. E. Langstaff OPTOMETRIST SEAFORTH MEDICAL CENTRE 527-1240 T4esday, Thursday, Friday, Sat- urday a.m., Thursday evening CLINTON OFFICE 10 Issac Street 482.7010 Monday and 'Wednesday Call either office for appointment. Norman Martin OPTOMETRIST Office Hours: 8.12 A,M, — 1:30.8 P.M. Closed all day Wednesday Phone 235.2433 Exeter Robert F. 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