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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1971-06-03, Page 4PAGE FOUR ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, JUNE 3. 1971 New possibilities for old farm Farmers who are having a hard time making a go of it these days could be missing a good bet by ignoring the possibilit- ies of turning the old homestead into a vacation place for the city folk. According to the Ontario Federation Agriculture, the idea is worth persuing - and this organization isn't in the habit of leading its followers down the garden path, The OFA now has a list of 45 farms and expects 200 within five years. The reason for the optimism is the same factor that has many farm families concerned, that is the accelerated movement of people into the cities. As apartment living becomes more prevalent and our urban centers even more crowd- ed, farm vacations can't help but become more popular. While the first generation off the farm might not be all that anxious to return, it is surprising how exciting the old farm becomes to the grand -children. Also, the price is right. All-inclusive farm vacations run from $50-$75 weekly and this is a bargain for many city people who pay twice that amount fox accommodation at a traditional holiday spot. The work involved to the fanner isn't allj.dtat much, Accommodation is the big thing; but then with so many young people leaving the homeplace, there aren't many farm houses now which don't have at least a couple of vacant rooms. As for meals, it's either a case of Mom throwing a few extra spuds in the pot, or letting the guests make their own. To make this kind of venture a success however, the farmer must be willing to make his guests feel at ease and have the patience to explain farming procedures - if they ask for it. There is no need to think you have to arrange some sort of entertainment program. This is exactly what the guest wants to avoid. He gets all the organization he wants for 50 weeks a year in the city. What he is paying for is fresh food, clean air (relatively speaking), the sound of silence and wide open spaces. Treat him as you would your next door neighbor and you'll probably be alright. By opening up their farms to their city cousins, farmers will not only increase their income, but will give the visitor a better idea of just what farming is all about. Once he gets a look at a farmer working with equipment worth thousands of dollars from early morn until dusk, the city dweller can't help but under- stand the low income complaint by the farmer a little better. It's worth thinking about. For those wanting additional in- formation, a booklet with hosts listed, is free from the OFA, 387 Bloor St. E., Toronto. Rough Time For Youngsters Periods of low employment bring hardship to a lot of people at all ages, but we feel particularly sorry for young people who are finding it difficult, even impossible to find jobs at present. Those who are in their middle years or slightly older have the experience of the great depression of the thirties behind them. Although the memories of those dark times are not pleasant, at least the folks who lived through them know what unemployment is all about and they have learned that it is possible to survive, one way or another. Our young people, however, have grown up during a period of such economic buoyancy that it has never crossed their minds until the past few months, that they might face a jobless future. To some of these youngsters the situation must be terrifying. Fortunately, the times are not so tough that many of them will be forced out onto the roads as were the jobless of a generation ago. Hit particularly hard are the young people who have taken their training as elementary school teachers. Last Saturday the Huron County principals held interviews in Clinton to select teachers for the openings in this county. The applicants came not just in tens or dozens. They were there several hundred strong, seeking the 17 jobs which will be available this year. Not only were there the recent graduates and under- graduates from Teachers' Colleges, but there were ex- perienced teachers as well, some from as far afield as Ottawa. It seems inevitable that many of these people, who are among the more ambitious sort, will have to take jobs well below their standard of education and intelligence. Teachers, of course, are not the only job -seekers from the higher education bracket. There have been several stories recently of the over -abundance of doctors of philosophy and highly -trained executives and engineers. Certainly it is a dis- couraging situation for the thousands of young people who are still in our universities, training for the sort of work which has suddenly become scarce. If this situation persists our elected and appointed educa- tion experts must bear a certain amount of blame for a short- sighted guidance assignment. Educators have, for the past 20 years, been preaching the gospel of higher education. Young people have been told time after time that a university educa- tion is a prerequisite for success in this changing world. The unemployed Ph.D. would be a doubtful advocate of such a program today. (Hingham Advance Times) ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385`+`�`t Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Associationt� Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association 1�s��e Subscription Rate: T.4.01l per year 'ssi atilinamele inn (fir $S.00 in United States and Foreign; single copies 10 cents A SOBER SIDE TO JUNE'S DELIGHTS By Bill Smiley June is one of the happiest months of the year in Canada. Or is should be. In other countries they have spring. In this country, we have a bleak month before the last snow goes, and June bursts forth in all her lush, soft splen- dour, Grass is startling green and the cattle fill their bellies with the juicy sweetness after a long winter of confinement and dull fodder. "Young ones of all species act- ually gambol, snot, kick up their heels and butt their moth- ers on one side, then on the udder. Our trees have forgotten their groaning and cracking in the teeth of winter; they bow and whisper like ladies at a garden party while the squirrels scamp- er saucily about their legs and the birds twitter among their ample bosoms and verdant hair. June is full of anticipation. The boat owners are painting anc repairing and launching. The golfers are having their finest hour before the silly summer duffers swarm onto the courses, And school is nearly over. And the most beautiful marriages ever conceived are in the offing. It is a month when surely every Canadian should be shout- ing "Praise the Lord" or "Let joy be unconfined" or at least "Wow! This is the greatest!" But a benevolent Procidence, in its wisdom, must remind man that every rose has a thorn, that every light contains its darkness, that every good has a balancing evil. It's probably just as well. If there were no bad smells, we wouldn't appreciate the good ones. If we never felt pain or illness, we wouldn't appreciate health. So, in June, as in life, there's another turn of the wheel, anoth er side of the coin. There's all that glorious nat- ure, just waiting to be revelled in. And there are all those mosq- uitoes and black -flies just wait- ing to revel in turning you into a swollen porpoise or a stripped Photography Children • Portraits • Weddings • COLOR or BLACK & WHITE HADDEN'S STUDIO GODERICII 118 St. David St. 5244787 skeleton, There's all that luxuriant grass. But the dans' stuff is up to your knees before you get your lawnmower overhauled. And there's all that young life, June was a happy month for my mother, more years ago than it is decent to talk about. She proudly bore her third son, me. But what she got was a sickly whelp who cried for two years without stopping and barely surv- ived every infant's ailment there was in those days. There's all that anticipation, But the boat owner discovers that the rats have been at his sails, or the termites at his hull, or his motor has developed a per- forated ulcer. And the golfer swings too hard on his first day out, slips a disc and is out for the summer. To be sure, school is nearly out. But June is pure hell for both teacher and student. For the teacher it is a scramble of final reviews, an avalanche of eval- uation, a surfeit of statistics. Fair enough. He's paid for it. But he might as well be teach- ing a couple of cords of wood. The bodies are there, but the minds and spirits have fled through the open windows into the musky June air. It's even worse for the stud- ent. There is that oaf talking about poetry when the greatest poetry in the world is taking place outside that stifling rect- angular prison. The blood stirs, the limbs go languorous, the eyes go glassy and that retarded adult up front might as well be talking to himself in Swahili. As for those beautiful mar- riages, conceived in heaven, and time -tabled for June. If I had any statistics, I'd say that statistics show that fifty per cent of them will end in a life of quiet desperation, thirty per cent of them will be unbearable, ten per cent will be impossible, five per cent unspeakable. The rest will wind up having their sixtieth anniversary pictures in the local paper. I'm not being cynical about June. I wouldn't miss it for anything. I am merely, as usual, presenting the facts. 0 (continued from page 1) the welfare office located in Clinton. He mentioned most particularly its central location and the large free -call area telephone subscribers in Clinton enjoy. William Elston, reeve of Mor- ris, wondered if any office ac- commodation could be made available at Huronview but learned that the provincial gov- ernment might not take too kindly to that suggestion. It was also pointed out that while office accommodation was probably present at CFB Clinton, it was not available at the pres- ent time. Reeve Charles Thomas, Grey, said that without doing some re- search, the county council was not in a position to say which departments would function well in a de -centralized area and which would benefit by being located in Goderich, "We should go into the econ- omics and the convenience and so forth, " stated Thomas, "when deciding concerning the location or re -location of any county department." John Flannery, Reeve of Sea - forth and chairman of the prop- erty committee, urged that there be more co-operation between committees concerning accom- modation needs. Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRISTS J. E. Longstaff OPTOMETRIST SEAFORTH MEDICAL CENTRE 527.1240 Ti{esday, 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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