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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1973-08-09, Page 4PAGE 4 ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1973 The laird of luxury According to the latest figures Canada still has over half a million unemployed --despite the fact that employers right across the land are crying for workers to fill the vacant jobs. It must be admitted that in this age of ever-increasing tech- nology some members of the labor force are being left behind. Those who lack adequate education or skills remain jobless when new and more complicated tasks emerge as part and par- cel of the business and production requirement. However, there are still jobs available that do not require anything more than a willingness to work. For example, crops are rotting in the fields of southwestern Ontario for lack of people to pick them. It seems that we have to import workers from the Caribbean islands to harvest food that is so badly needed --in Canada as well as abroad, The simple truth is that thousands of our unemployed want to stay unemployed. Our society has become so benevolent that a person who is lazu can be well rewarded for sitting on his back- side while the rest of us part with a hefty portion of our weekly wages to keep the indolent in comfort. Just precisely what is wrong with telling an unemployed per- son to take the work a ailable or go without welfare payments? The theorists claim that innocent wives and children would be- come the victims of such a course of action which, in some cases would be true. Nevertheless, the percentage of able-bod- ied men who would let their families suffer dire want cannot be very large. We must surely be approaching the limit. After all, those who are willing to work can support only so many who won't. Welfare payouts of all kinds make up a staggering bill to be met by taxpayers. Add to the outright welfare funds the Local Improvement grants and the Opportunities for Youth handouts, plus a dozen and one other thinly -disguised assistance programs and you can guess how little of your earnings is left for your own wife and kids. (Wingham Advance -Times) The small community We have no more sympathy for the person who apologizes "It's only a small town I live in" than for the women who says "I'm only a housewife." Both should be proud, says the editor of the Ridgetown Dominion. While we have nothing particular against cities and those who live in them, we do think government is too much influen- ced by urban groups and gives consideration to their problems and neglects those of people who live in small communities and rural areas. The small community is threatened. Political boundary red- istributions are lessening small town influence in politics. The concentration of industry and educational'facilities in larger areas force young people to leave the small community. There is also a threat to the small town from those people who move there to escape the city, then want the town to install all the convenieces of the city with all the ensuing problems. However, we believe, the small community will survive because it can offer values not found in the larger areas. The personal relationship and neighborliness can exist only where people are aware of one another and recognize their personal responsibilities to each other. This is what we have to offer, and this is what we should stress; neighborly concern; concern for older citizens who can't get downtown to shop; concern for the young mother who likes to get away from the family turmoil for an hour or two; concern for people living alone who would like to know that someone checked that they were still about; concern for those whom we know have worries; concern for those who are ill. Many people living in loneliness amid the press of the city, envy us in our community living. We should emphasize the pos- itive. Instead of comparing ourselves unfavorably with larger centres we should co-operate with each other, merchants, customers, town dwellers, farmers of whatever ancestry, politics or denomination. This is our town and we all have a stake in it. (St. Marys Journal -Argus) ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 ars t a Member: 6 I' . Canadian Weekly. Newspapers Association J Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association ore Subscription Rates: $5.00 per year in advance in Canada; $6.00 in United States and Foreign; single copies 15¢ WE'RE STUPID ONCE A YEAR. There's no place like home, as some wise man or woman once said, I think most likely it was a man. For a woman, home means washing clothes and dishes eter- nally, scrubbing dirt, making beds, and all those other rotten jobs that make "home -making" a dirty word. For a man, it means a good, hot cup of tea instead of luke- warm coffee, a meal that tastes like food instead of wet kleenex, clean sheets smelling of sun, and going around in his under- wear and bare feet if he jolly well feels like it. That's exactly what I'm enjoy ing today, after four days in The City. I've just had a decent cup of tea, a great, slurpy bac- on and tomato sandwich, and I'm in my shorts and bare feet. We've just had our annual splurge in the City, and even my wife gave a groan of pure pleasure as we pulled into our driveway last night and the cat came running to greet us, fling- ing herself on her back and roll- ing her belly ecstatically` That's the cat, not my wife. I haven't the slightest ; dea why, but every summer, when sensible people are fleeing like lemmings from the City, the old girl and I take off from our sylvan retreat in the heart of tourist land and head for the conrete canyons of that same City. There's no intelligence, let alone common sense, in it. We can't afford it. We don't even like it. But we go. Don't ask me for a logical explanation. It would be like asking a caribou why he runs back and forth, with wolves snapping at his heels. And the wolves are there. In The City. Just waiting for us caribou. Unfortunately, they don't look like wolves, so you don't know what's happening to you until you're hamstrung. They look like cab -drivers and waiters and bartenders. But one can't blame the wolves, can one? That's what they are for: to weed out the cripples. Well, I can tell you that if you are not crippled, at least financially, after a few days in The City, you've been staying with your relatives. For some reason, we always stay in the best hotel. After all, it costs only about three days pay for each night in the swank joint. This is part of the whole midsummer madness. Independent Shipper to United Co-operative of Ontario Livestock Dept Toronto Ship Your Livestock with Roy Scotc'hmer Monday Is Shipping Day From Varves Stockyard CALL BAYF/ELD 565.2636 y 7:30 a.m. Monday For Prompt Service •6lo Charges on Plckeep And, what the heck, it's only three dollars each to see a mov- ie. And what the shoot, room service charges only $1.50 for a pot of coffee, and a meagre $1.50 for a sandwich. And, of course, you can't take it with you, so spread it around a little. And then there's the swim- ming. The big hotels have a swimming pool. Of course, only the common people swim in the pool. That's what we tell ourselves every time we rem- ember we've forgotten our swim suits. This is about the point where I start to pound my head, think- ing of the mile -long stretch of clean white sand and clean blue water back home. But there's one thing I'll say about The City in summer. It's cool. Oh, not out with the rabble on the streets. They, I under- stand, sweat just like the rest of us. But in the big hotels and the bars and the restaurants, air- conditioning has worked a miracle. Or something. You can almost go into some of them without an overcoat. Some of the bars are so un -cool the waiters don't even have blue lips. But inmost of them, the customers are sitting around racked with pneumonia and arthritis. I don't know why I'm compl- aining. Nobody forced me to go to The City. And if anyone tried, it would be like atternpt- ing to force a mule to walk back ward. I wouldn't go there if you paid rne. Especially in the summer. But I went. I guess it was for my wife's sake. She loves a few days in a big hotel. No laundry. No meals to cook. No brains. However, the annual stupid- ity is over again, and, as I said, it's great to be home. No more of that ridiculous wasting of money on things priced seven times too high. No problems like that at home Nothing here but the old cat and the new woodpiles. Let's open the mail. Might be a nice fan letter. Yike! Town taxes, $484. Fuel bill from last winter, $130. Bank manager wants to see me. I guess it's back to The City. 0 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Johnston and family spent the holiday weekend in Owen Sound with the latter's parents, Sgt. and Mrs. C. Gibbons. Mr. and Mrs. George Suplat, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Bedard and family spent the holiday week- end in Niagara Falls. Mr. and Mrs. R.N. McKinley and family, and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Erb and family, .spent a few days vacation in Northern Ontario. Miss Donna Schilbe, of Zur- ich, is a patient in St. Joseph's Hospital, London. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Wright were weekend visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Ross Johnston, Zurich. Mr. and Mrs. Isidore Laporte, and Mr. and Mrs. Percy Bedard Jr., attended a ball game at Brigg's Stadium, Detroit last weekend. Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRISTS J. E. Longstaff OPTOMETRIST •SEAFORTH MEDICAL CENTRE 527.1240 Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Sat- urday a.m„ Thursday evening CLINTON OFFICE P 0 Issac Street 482.7010 Monday and Wednesday Call either office for appointment. Norman Martin QPTOMETRIST Office Hours: 9.12 A,M, — 1:30.6 P.M. Closed all day Saturday Phone 235.2433 Exeter INSURANCES Robert F. Westioke Insurance "Specialising In General Insurance' Phone 236-4391 — Zurich NORM WHITING LICENSED AUCTIONEER & APPRAISER Prompt, Courteous, Efficient ANY . 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