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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS,
THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1971
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It may be mid -summer but
I'm treading on thin ice this
week, Every time a person makes
a comment about some depart-
ment of the federal government,
he or she is definitely inviting
trouble.
I was reading just the other
day that the Canadian Armed
Forces will launch a major
recruiting drive in September
to engage 9, 500 new servicemen
and women. According to the
information I've received, the
recruiting will go on for an entire
year, until next September.
One would imagine that with
the high level of unemployment
in the country today, it wouldn't
be difficult for the defense
department to pick up 9, 500
recruits but is seems the military
is going to be plenty choosey
this time. They want "young
idealists" for their employees
and the story goes like this.
There is much emphasis these
days on keep the peace, helping
the poor nations, developing the
North of Canada and guarding
our severeignty. The Canadian
Armed Forces claims to be look-
ing for a cross-section of the
populus, thinking young people
who believe that this old world
can be saved by something other
than guns and fighting.
"Let's face it, " Colonel Pierre
Chasse, director of Armed Forces
recruiting is reported to have
said. "We have a problem. It
all stems from Vietnam and it
is world-wide. The young do
not respect the military and our
way of life."
Well Colonel Chasse, it isn't
just the young who wonder about
the military and their way of
life. Sometimes I wonder, too,
and there are many many more
like me.
Don't get me wrong. I'm grate-
ful to the men and women who
fought and died to keep Canada
(and other countries of the world)
free when I was too young to do
much about it. I was one of these
kids who came up through a time
when world war was just something
you studied in history. I think
I might have been seven or maybe
eight, when my mother and I
took part in the VE Day parade so
I don't remember much about
war and• it's horror.
I've spent the greater part
BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER
of my life in a relatively peace-
ful world and I've learned all
about the armed forces in peace-
time. Man, it is different kind
of ballgame altogether if you ask
me and I agree with recruiting
staff.. , we need idealists and
need them badly.
We need idealists who will say
let's stop all the waste and get
down to the business at hand. Lets
not be quite so generous with the
food and the booze at the officer';
mess this month, for instance,
so we can help feed and clothe
someone else who really needs
it. And let's see that everyone
is carrying his or her weight and
doing a really necessary job so
that the armed forces won't be
tagged with the "easy living"
label.
Maybel idealists in the service
would be able to assist humanity
more by showing examples of
living at peace with one another.
There have been times in the
past, I'm sure, when servicemen
and women have done their bit
just for lack of something better
to do, but surely a peacetime
army could spend less time
parading and drilling and more
time rehabilitating and re-establ-
ishing the vitality of communit-
ies, of people, of whole count-
ries.
Today's young people may be
the answer. For the first time,
in my recollection, young people
are saying they are not interested
in financial gain but in human
rights; they don't want security
in the bank but rather freedom
to be free, with each person
choosing his own way in harmony
with the fellow next door.
It sounds crazy to someone
like me who has grown up in a
world where no one trusts anyone
where everybody grabbed and
held on for oneself.. where nobody
gave anything until he was cert-
ain of getting something in ret-
urn.
The armed forces in Canada
(and other government -run serv-
ices) have been sucking the life
blood out of the taxpayers for
years. Maybe the younger gener-
ation... the kids with the high
hopes and the low demands (so
they say) will show us a way out
of our dilemma.
And yet another prophesy would
be fulfilled... and the young
shall lead them...
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Federation action
helps price
Dairy Farmer Jack Stafford,
president of 1-luron County Fed-
eration of Agriculture, comment-
ing on news release of an increase
of the support price for indust-
rial milk, attributed the increase
to action started by Huron County
Federation, when they initiated
a meeting in early March with
Huron County Milk Committee,
OMMB and interested dairy farm-
ers in the county.
At that meeting they asked for
ari increase in industrial milk of
50¢ this present increase is a
start in the right direction.
OMMB sets the price for indust-
rial mill< and has not yet decided
if this full increase will be pass-
ed on to the farmers.
"Production has declined
sharply in the past few months, ”
said Mr, Stafford, " a nd this
action by Canadian Dairy Com-
mission hopefully will eleviate
the situation."
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