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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1971-09-02, Page 18THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1971 roin my window!) verb • I'm not a very influential mem• ber of the press in any man's language, but I will be even less important once news of this column hits the streets. I have just this moment put down the morning newspaper and I am sickened and appalled by the storey which I read there -- about Mr. and Mrs. F, D, Roose- velt and Mrs. Roosevelt's social secretary. Of course I didn't know the Roosevelts, but now that they are both deceased, I see absolut- ely no reason for dredging up the past the way certain reporters seem to do. I know these little intimacies come to the fore when some well-meaning but money -grabbing soul gets a hold on a personal diary of some famous person, but I believe it is one thing to publish them in a book and something entirely different to print them in every daily newspaper across the nat- ion, the continent and maybe even the globe. And there's where the reporter comes in. Very likely, some itchy reporter thought this smear about poor Eleanor and F, D. would make good copy. It did. I read it with fervor, didn't I? But I don't call that respon- sible reporting. It is filling a space with the dead's past mist- akes --charges which can never be admitted or denied by the persons involved --and I think that is dastardly dumb. The high of ignorance. What is it with dead presidents in the USA anyway? Take John F. Kennedy, for instance, the man reputed to be the finest statesman this side of the world has known in many long years. He is tragically shot down in the streets of an American city and all the press can do now is to dig up all the filth and scandal BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER they can find about JFK, his family, his lovely widow and yes, even the dead man's innoc- ent children. Not long ago, I picked up a movie magazine which promised "intimate photos" of Jackie and Onassis inside. Okay, so I'm interested, right away. Come on, folks, Tell me you would be different if you had the same magazine on your lap and all the time in the world to read it. How in the wide world the widow of Jack Kennedy and the widow of Robert Kennedy, for that matter, become subjects for movieland's greasy, frimey goon -ledgers, I wouldn't have a clue but they have. And inside the magazine I held were snap- shots of Jackie and Arie on their private beach at their private island in their own private part of the world. Some fool with a telephoto lens on his camera had spied on the pair from a boat anchored off Scorpio or whatever that island is called, and had photographed the Onassis' as they swam together, sat on the beach together and horsed around to- gether the way most normal married people would. Now tell me that's responsible reporting... any more than it was responsible reporting to pub- licize the fact, after all these years, that F,D, Roosevelt was having an affair with another woman. Just what purpose does that knowledge serve now, ex- cept to discredit the memory of a man who died a couple of decades or so ago. It really doesn't matter to me that F, D. Roosevelt kissed lovely Lucy Mercer on the sly in the Roosevelt pantry and that Eleanor behaved like the average woman scorned when she discovered the hanky-panky by asking for abst- inence or divorce. So what? S e e Us N o w For Your S ED TALBOT — GENESSEE — YORK STAR AND FER IL E SE At Lowest •r rices! Contracts CALL US NSW ! HENSALL DISTRICT CO-OPERATIVE BRUCEFIELD HENSALL 452-9$23 262-2608 ZURICH 236-4393 ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS The same thing goes on every day in all parts of the universe and everybody chalks it up to human nature. I like to remember F, D, Roose. velt for the contribution he made during his years as president of the United States of America, , . I think of his wife as a fine gentle lady who was the epitome of First Ladies in that country. I'd never even heard of the love].) Lucy who caught Frank's eye, had you? Let the dead rest in peace, I say. Put a tighter rein on the wonder writers who think that to be appealling, a story has to be full of lust and incest... and to be safe, it has to concern men and women whose contributions to society will never be forgotten, though they are deceased, 0 What's New At Huronview Mr. Dick Roorda of Clinton Christian Reform Church led the sing -song service held in the auditorium on Sunday evening. Several visitors along with a good attendance of residents gathered in the auditorium on Monday afternoon for old time music and dancing and a sing - a -long. Miss Della Peart, Norm- an Speir, and Jerry Collins suppl- ied the music. Due to the inclement weather the bus trip scheduled for Wed- nesday was postponed for one week. The afternoon was spent playing several table games. Russell and Dorothy Sewers of Teeswater, who are entertain- ing in the area during July and August, provided an hour of music on Thursday Family Night. The program which included several familiar songs was enj- oyed by the residents who joined together in applause to the young couple. The band concerts which have been quite a success and it has been decided to arrange to have them again next year if possible, beginning in June. If you have a group who would like to ent- ertain during the year, we would be glad to hear from you. PAGE 19 Abram People Mr. and Mrs. Bill O'Brien, Jimmy and Jennifer, of Niagara Falls, were weekend visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Leroy O'Brien. Mrs. Vera Schilbe, of Kitchen- er , spent the weekend visiting friends and relatives in Zurich. Mr. and Mrs. Ron Rossi and family, of Puerto Rico, spent Monday visiting at the home of the latter's sister, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hess and family. 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