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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1971-12-02, Page 2PAGE 2 ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS c OM Jibe ecidoiciehai, Teenagers not so had! It is a common fallacy that teenagers are worse now than ever before. People shake their heads in disbelief at the modern younst- er wearing mesh stockings to school or a shaggy hair -cut met by a high turtle -necked sweater. Perhaps grown-ups have forgotten the fads and fashions of their day. Maybe they can't recall the burning inner desire they also felt to be allowed to conform to a rage. Our teens may be different, but they are not worse. They are still the product of a home where, if principles and ideals are high, these will be reflected in the teenager. But out teenagers are growing up in a fast moving worl If they are to come through without scars and bruises, the co unity must do something to slow the pace and keep the steps even and in line. All too often, towns and villages are so busy preparing activit- ies for the very young, the very old and the very interested, that they forget the needs of the very important... the teens. Perhaps this is born of an unexpressed fear that irresponsible teens will get out of hand and present a discipline problem too great to manage, and too large to risk. Experience has taught that if communities provide enough and expect enough, the results will be excellent. After all, the kids who leave the homes of the most respected citizens in the morning do not change into fighting, immoral hoodlums by night unless they are ignored by the community, distrusted at home and half expected to live up to an image created by skeptics and believed by pessimists. Teenagers are too old for childhood activities and too young to be part of adult frolics. Their happy medium may seem ridic- ulous to the grown-up but it is a healthy, necessary part of matur- ing for the teenager. Serious thought should be given in this area to a provision for these young citizens whom we want to keep within our community for years to come. For everything that is given, something may be gained. For something that is withheld, everything inay be lost. Of little ase! So obsolete has become the penny that a large toy manufactur- er has announced that its line of penny banks is being discontinued. From now on, the company's toy banks will be geared to take only nickels, dimes and quarters. Come to think of it, about all a penny is good for today is to pay sales tax and now even that takes a nickel on the dollar. The contempt with which even youngsters view a penny today was brought home to us in a local store recently. When the clerk offered pennies in change to an eight-year-old he shrugges his shoulders and said "I don't want them." This is quite a change from not so many years ago when a kid with a couple of pennies was pretty well fixed. He would stand be- fore the candy counter for a matter of minutes figuring out how to get the most for the coppers clutched in his hand. (The Dutton (Ont.) Advance) Preachers should ndrst A preacher said the other day that he had been told a man could not stay in business and be honest. This is a shocking assert- ion and it is appalling that anyone should believe it. Business can be and usually is honest in its dealings with customers and compet- itors. It would not be dishonest for a businessman to prefer not to share with competitors information that might help the competitors to achieve more than their fair share of the business that is going. It is proper enough for a man in business to be aggressive and truly competitive. Preachers should have a better understanding of competition than most. They have been competing with the devil for a long time . (The Printed Word). ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 3.385 0.0 a 0ap�f44 Member ' Canadian Weekly. Newspapers Association -Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association ''4p"�ro! Slibaecfption Rates: 84.00 per year in advance in Canada; *AO t United States and Foreign; single copies 10 Goats. "November glooms are bar- ren beside the dusk of June." Thus quoth the poet Henley. And I say too ruddy true. As a general rule. But this year has been an exception. I don't think I've ever written a decent word about November, with its "surly blasts, " it's sudden, depressing dumping of snow, its bleak and sterile look. I know we're going to pay for it with a terrible winter, but this November, for the first time in many years, we've been ushered into winter with a gentle melancholy that seems unbelievable. By the time this appears in print, we may be up to our noggins in snow. But credit where it is due. The first few weeks of November this year, in these parts, have made me decide to give this country and its crazy climate one more chance. Its almost as though God had held up his hand as the four winds were on their mark, cheeks puffed, ready to give us the usual, and boomed, "I-lold. The poor devils are having enough troubles of their own making. Let's give them one November to remember," Normally, November is the most dismal month in the year, with the possible exception of March. But in the latter, at least the days are getting long- er and there's a wild hope that spring may come again. Normally, November means many things, none of them pleasant. Darkness comes early. There is a wild scramble, for many of us, over snow tires and storm windows. There is bitter wind ashore and terrifying storms on the water. It's been a grand November for the hunters and trout fish- ermen. Perhaps not so good for the deer hunters, with little snow. But for the duck and partridge boys, and the rain- bow anglers, it has been near perfection. Day after day of mild, al- most balmy weather has done away with the agonized squat in the duck blind, with nothing between you and certain death from exposure except the flask of rum. The same weather has Photogr s}'thy it Children ® Portraits Weddings e COLOR or BLACK & VI/HITE HADDEN'S STUDIO GODER MH 118 St. David St. 5244787 made trout fishing, usually undertaken in a biting wind with half -frozen fingers, practically a Sunday School picnic. Even the golfers have been able to stretch the season by at least a month. The only danger they face is exhaustion from golfing, in the day and curling at night. Normally, the squirrels would be getting set up for the winter. I look into the backyard and they're gambolling as though it were mid-June. Surest sign that it's been a November without peer is the behaviour of our cat. As a rule, when November arrives, with its wind and rain and snow, she has to be hurled bodily outside. This year, she has actually been going to the door and asking out. I haven't seen any bees, but there are still a lot of crazy birds around who have been baffled by the weather, and are going to be caught with them pants down one of these days. And they're not the only ones. Many a man like myself has been lulled into a false sense of security, hasn't his storms on, hasn't changed to snow tires, hasn't even turned off the outside water, and hasn't a clue where his winter boots are. Oh, there'll be a day of reck- oning, all right. My bones warn me. But to heck with it . I'm going to live dangerously THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1971 and enjoy every day of it. And to prove it, I'm going to write my first, and probably my last, ode to November. Much -maligned November, This year you've been my friend, Don't quite know how to prove it, But you've shown you can groove it. No way are you September, But you're one I'll long rem ember. Isn't that beautiful? A 0 her Rebek hs ke don tions various gro cps (intended for last week) The regular meeting of Amber Rebekah Lodge was held with two carloads of visitors from Clinton as guests. The charter was draped in memory of Ivirs. Florence Kyle, by officers of the lodge, and Mrs. Belva Fuss sang a lovely solo accompanied by Mrs. Evelyn McBeath, Donations were made to the IOOF home at Barrie, Children's Aid Society, God- erich, and the Local Associat- ion of Guides and Brownies. It was decided to hold the usual Christmas party the first meet- ing in December with exchange of gifts among members. Members of the iluronia Lodge, Clinton, presented the travelling gavel to Amber Lodge who in turn will present it to a sister lodge in the near future. Mrs, Ray Consitt and Mrs. Ross Richardson volunteered to visit the Queensway Nursing Home in November. usiness and Professi al Direct 1 OPTOMETRISTS 1, E. 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