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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1971-12-09, Page 4PAGE 4 �O?,,� 1 - yC� �'t ed / , l.. haiig Man's in life! In this rushing nuclear age, when the skies and seas are being polluted by the works of mankind, many scientists are beginning to ask whether technological progress is not outpac- ing man's basic aims. Most men hope to lead useful, healthy, happy lives. They wish to fulfill their own aspirations and when possible, help others. But in grasping for more wealth, North Americans in particul- ar are endangering their environment, and clearly their own happiness. The United States, for instance, with a mere six percent of the world's population, used 40 percent of the globe's wood pulp and 36 percent of its fossil fuels. So much oil is spilled taking petroleum products to North America across the Atlantic, that oceanographers are appalled. One recent study suggested that there is enough oil pollution in the Atlantic alone to produce an irridescent slick over the entire surface of the world's oceans. The frightening effects of pollution have affected wild life, fisheries and human beings in the most remote parts of the earth. In our cities, too many people symbolize the growing pollution problem. It is becomrning abundantly clear that even today, the world's resources are being strained by less than four billion people, yet the global population is expected to double by early next century. In the coming decades, men must learn to master technology, and not to become slaves to the kind of technological advances that destroy the environment. And the first, most urgent need is to reduce population growth around the world. For unless this vital task is tackled realistically, all other efforts to control pollution and urban overcrowding will fail. (Contributed) ctra..ge situation! Despite the fact that one of Ca$ada's major problems at the moment is an unemployment level bf somewhere between six and seven per cent, it is becoming increasinkly evident that the lack of jobs is not evenly spread across the land. In most communities in Western Ontario there is a pronounc- ed shortage of labor, riot only in the skilled trades but in the semi -skilled and unskilled classifications as well. In fact many householders would be happy to;find workmen available for the repairs and improvements ordered away back last spring. Industries in the smaller centres are reporting one of the best years they have ever experienced and payrolls in many cases are at an all-time high. No doubt the experts are already at work to determine why inflation and unemployment are occurring at once and the same time in a country which has been as prosperous as Canada for so many years. The Americans, of course, have taken stern action to correct the imbalances of trade which they believe are resp- onsible for similar conditons in the States. The important thing is to determine what classes or workers have been the first to fall before the onslaught of declining em- ployment opportunities. Education and retraining programs will have to be shaped to meet the needs of those who are left high and dry while so many others have more than enough to keep them busy. (Wingham Advance Times) Exercising the mind! Some people are very forgetful. They promise to do some- thing then excuse themselves for not having done it by saying, "Oh I forgot. " This is a phrase that is more often on one's tongue than any other. Forgetting is a bothersome thing; and a dangerous one. It provokes mental and physical trouble. In some cases it is a forerunner of disease. From these spring all sorts of trouble. If we don't do something about it, this forgetting sets up a bad condition of the mind. It produces lethargy, laziness, indif- ference, and carelessness. From these spring all sorts of trouble. Bad memory comes from bad methods. It is one thing not to be able to recite Shakespeare, and such inability may be excused, but it is another, quite inexcusable thing to forget something we have promised to do, We must, if we could be successful in life, listen, take it in, concentrate. Forgetting, if we are not careful, will be an easy beginning of that most dreadful thing --senile decay. We must exercise our mind. (Grenfell Sun) ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 Member: �u 4 ��1�"'f Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association` Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association 141111re 8uhrletiptio Rates: $4.00 per year in advance in Canada; 481118 In United and Foreign; single copies 10 cents. ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS BILL FINDS OUT ABOUT A RIP-OFF Do you have difficulty in communicating with young people? Don't worry. We all do. I have two of my own, and I teach the critters every day, in droves, and I have trouble. I've come to the conclusion that it's not our fault, it's theirs. We just can't keep up with their ever-changing slang. For years I thought a hang- up was something I'd had during the war. It was what we called the rather delicate situation created when one of your bombs was caught by the tail and, hanging nose -down, fused, re- fused to drop. I had to land with one of these babies dangling there, one day. One bounce on landing and the aircraft and yours truly went to glory. As you can see, I landed like a feather on a snowbank, but it was a little disconcerting to see everyone on the air -strip on his face as I was coming in. Now I realize that I had two hang-ups that day. There was the physical one of the bomb. And there was the mental one: I had sort of a hang-up about being blown up. Now, of course, "hang-up" is almost old hat in younger circles It means anything from an ob- session to a minor worry. You can be hung-up on the other sex, on drugs, on school work. Another term that is enjoy- ing quite a vogue these days is a "rip-off." Basically, it means stealing, but there are milder forms. It can also mean talking somebody out of some- thing he doesn't want, not providing something you've promised, and so on. My daughter Kim was home from college last week. She was supposed to come home for the weekend, but it was so pleasant at home, and the food was so good, and she enjoyed being spoiled so much that she stayed home the whole week. I observed her manoeuvres as she prepared to return, and thought I was seeing a real rip- off artist at work. It went something like this. "Oh, Mom, is that ever a Photography Children • ]Portraits • Weddings • COLOR or BLACK & WHITE HADDEN'S STUDIO GODERJECI 118 St. David St.d ..:.787 smart blouset Could I try it on?" Mamma, with resignation, "0,K., but your'e not getting it. That's the only decent thing I have to wear." Kim, brightly, "Oh, I don't need it; I have those crumby old T-shirts that you hate so much. But it really fits me, doesn't it?" And so on. I don't think I need to elaborate. She got the blouse, our teapot, my type- writer, various ! pots and pans, the only deodorant in the house and about 64 other items, too miscellaneous to list. The Old Lady finally balked when Kim tried on a fur jacket and started swanking around in front of the mirror, cooing, "This really does something for me, doesn't it, Mom?" Her mother stood her ground and said, in effect, you get your rotten hands off that jack- et. Well, as I said, I thought Kim wm an artist at ripping off. I changed my mind when we took her to the city and saw the apartment she and another girl had rented in the fall. Kim is a rank amateur, a babe - in -the -woods, compared to city landlords. The apartment is on the fringe of a slum area. In September, she told us glowingly that the apartment was "really neat," It had a new stove and fridge. There were three bedrooms, kitchen, dining room and living room and bathroom, all for $145 a THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1971 month.' It was unfurnished, of course. Sounded pretty good. The "new" stove has an oven that does not work. The "new" fridge might fetch twelve dollars at a rummage sale and the handle is falling off. The kitchen is like something out of Dickens. The bedrooms are boxes, only one with a window. There are no locks on the doors. The toilet doesn't work, except when it feels like it. Etc. Rip-off. P11 never be a wealthy old school -teacher. But I'm certainly going to look into the prospects of becoming a wealthy old slum landlord. Farm group to hear members Briefs from agricultural com- mittees and farm commodity groups in Huron County will be presented to Huron County Federation of Agriculture dir- ectors when they meet with local members of Parliament this month, At a meeting last Thursday night, directors again approved holding what has become an annual dinner meeting with MPs and MPPs to discuss prob- lems related to agriculture. Likely to be on the agenda is a discussion on welfare pay- ments. Last summer the fed- eration sent a resolution to the Ontario department of social and family services stating that, in some instances, wel- fare payments are higher than the returns from employment at the minimum wage. D Driving is a lot like base- ball... it's the number of times you get home safely that counts, Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRISTS J. E. 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