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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
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Life in the blood stream
When the sun shines people seem to be so involved in their
summer activities and plans that they forget about giving blood,
This can result in sporadic blood shortages during the summer
months. Children and adults alike will be needing blood desp-
erately again this summer and The Red Cross Blood Transfusion
Service needs you to help meet the need.
Next Monday night, July 9, is a Blood Donor Clinic in the
Zurich Community Centre. We urge everyone who is able to
attend this clinic and donate their blood.
Th,re are some people who have never taken time to give
blood and are puzzled why someone should bother. They are
probably unaware that blood literally means life. Without
blood donations freely donated many people would not be alive
today. Some of them say they stay away from Red Cross clinics
because they are afraid of the needle. Some say someone else
will give. Others say they can't afford the time. Many recog-
nize the importance of giving blood but when it comes time to
give, they just don't follow through,
Think of the importance of blood transfusions. Remember
that many regular donors were once apprehensive about giving.
After their first donation they are usually amazed at how simple
and harmless it is. When you are asked to give blood remember
it can mean the difference between life arid death. It only
takes thirty minutes to help save a life. Let's see everyone out
on Monday night - the life you save, may be your own.
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Eimer's giving away bicycle
Summer holidays are here,
at least for the school children.
Now each child has an addit-
ional six hours a day to expose
himself to traffic hazards -
playing, riding bicycles, expl-
oring, hiking and going to and
from parks, beaches, swimming,
"Pools and shopping centres.
In 1972, according to the
Ontario Safety League, 77
pedestrians and 37 cyclists bet-
ween the ages of five and 14
were fatally injured in traffic
accidents in Ontario. A further
3, 017 pedestrians and 1, 656
cyclists were injured. This is
a tragic record of death and
suffering.
Traffic safety drills are com-
mon during the school year
thanks to conscientious teachers
and police safety officers.
Elmer, the ever popular Safety
Elephant, says, "We can't
disrupt the safety thought train
for the summer months and we
won't. The potential of reach-
ing thousands upon thousands of
children with a review of my
basic traffic safety rules is
tremendous and paramount."
All Ontario newspapers publi-
shed in English have been asked
to donate space for one contest
every week for four weeks,
beginning the week of July 23.
So far, response from editors
indicates that this, the 13th
operative year of Elmer's Summ.
er Safety Contest, will be the
most popular ever.
Elementary school students
must colour the contest entry
and indicate the Elmer rule
being broken. In Ontario, Elm-
er is giving away four CCM
bicycles each contest and 50
second prizes containing comb-
ination lock, bell and rear view
mirror.
The Citizens News urges you
to get all the kids on the block
to study up on Elmer's six rules,
read them, think about them,
remember them, but most of all,
use them every day...
1. Look all ways before you
cross the street.
2. Keep from between parked
cars.
3. Ride your bike safely and
obey all signs and signals.
4. Play your games in a safe
place away from the street.
5. Walk when you leave the
curb.
6. Where there are no side-
walks, walk on the left side of
the road facing traffic.
Then watch for Elmner's
Contest in this newspaper.
Hi Kids !
I'M GIVING
AWAY
F E
/PIKES' and other
prizes!
Watch for my Safety
Contest in this newspaper
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DOCTORS SHOULD
NOT BE
SCAPEGOATS
Have you ever noticed that
when politicians get themselves
into a bind, they look around for
a patsy, or scapegoat?
They did this with education
in this country. When the big
space race began, the politic-
ians rode the wave of public
demand for more schools, more
schooling, and practically whip-
ped the system of education
into spending more and more
money on bigger and better
schools with more and more
expensive gadgets and facilities.
Then the taxpayers, reason-
ably enough, began to howl
about the sky -rocketing cost of
education. I don't blame them,
So what happened? the polit-
icians
made a 180 -degree about-
face and stated sternly that they
were going to hold the line on
education costs.
They should have held the
line a little more firmly in the
first place, instead of feeding a
fish until it was big and strong
and then letting it tear all over
hell with the spoon in its mouth.
Natural patsy for this politic-
al manoeuvre was the teaching
profession. Teachers were pres-
ented, with the aid of some of
the politicians' tame journalists,
as greedy, grasping people whose
chief interest in life was wrestl-
ing higher salaries from the
down -trodden taxpayer.
This was patently untrue.
The average teacher would be
reasonably happy if he got an
annual increase sufficient to
keep even with inflation, and
a reasonable raise to recognize
his increasing skill and exper-
ience, Exactly what happens
in most businesses and profess-
ions.
But teachers are born patsies.
In the first place, they aren't
very militant, They are more
interested in teaching than in
going on strike.
In the second place, for gen-
erations in this country, they
have occupied an ambiguous
position in our society. They are
accorded a certain respect, but
at the same time have been
looked on with a certain scorn,
as rather shabby professionals
who need to be kept in their
place by the people who pay
their dalaries.
Business men could whore and
drink and practise shady deal-
ings, but teachers were to be
an example to the community.
They mustn't gamble, drink,
smoke or stay out late. They
could own a car, but it should
be a second-hand and a certain
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vintage. They could go to
church and sing in the choir,
but they couldn't go to the tav-
ern and sing in the bar.
That's all changing, of
course, and teachers are act-
ually being regarded as people,
with feelings and faults. But
the old, strait-laced hangover
of our pioneer society is still
there.
"Teachers are a timid lot, "
the politicians say to one anoth-
er. "Let's make them the goats.
Arid so they do.
But perhaps the politicians
are not going to be able to walk
so easily over their latest patsies
the doctors.
After creating a medical
health plan that is iniquitously
expensive, the politicians, as
usual, respond to the cries of
outrage by looking around for
a goat. They have chosen the
medical profession.
Now, everyone who isn't
blind and deaf knows that a
doctor today, unless he's a
bumbling idiot, enjoys a fat
income.
What's wrong with that? Just
because you and I didn't have
enough brains and guts to slug
away at medical school is no
reason to envy those who do.
A doctor spends about six
years drudging at pre -meds and
medicine, a gruelling course.
It costs him roughly $12, 000.
Then he has a year or two of
internship in which he is paid
about as much as a lifeguard.
After eight years, he has a
THURSDAY, JULY 5, 19'73
few books, some skills, and is
probably heading for the age of
thirty, And he must start at the
bottom again, to establish him-
self.
He will work about 60 hours a
week, snatch the odd holiday,
neglect his family and often
destroy his own health. By the
age of fifty he's an exhausted
man, unless he has learned to
pace himself.
Sure, he's well off, by most
standards, Big car, house, exp-
ensive holidays. But he hasn't
time to enjoy much of this.
And he's also paying big taxes
on that income.
Let's take a look at a friend
of the doctor. They were in
school together. The other fel-
low dropped out in Grade 10.
He's now making $11, 000 a year.
But in the intervening ten or
eleven years, the doe's friend
has made $60, 000. So, plus
the $12, 000 it cost for the med-
ical education, friend is $72,
000 ahead and has his family
half -raised and has his mortgage
in hand.
It takes the doc a long time
to catch up, and when he does,
he's earned it.
A few doctors might cheat,
but most of them are honest,
dedicated, and rnighty hard
working.
The politicians' attempt to
regulate doctors' incomes is a
shoddy piece of work.
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