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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1973-08-16, Page 4PAGE 4 ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1973 during various hairy incidents. When we got home from the wars, we got in touch. We were all going to college and funds were pretty slim, but we'd get together occasionally for some of the old riotous living of the rude soldiery. We all fell in love about the same time and got married above the same time. We each have two childrean and have shared the woes and glows of raising kids, The three girls we chose, Peg, Ruth and Suse, are still married to us, something of a record these days. We've all been modestly successful in a material way and modestly unsuccessful in a spiritual way. Our wives tell us, individ- ually, that we are rotten husb- ands and fathers, but we don't see them reaching into the grab- bag for substitutes. When we meet, a couple of times a year, we compare middle-aged aches and pains, but we're young at heart, as you would clearly see if you dropped by about 4 a, rn. We'll probably wind up in the same Home for Senile Veterans. If we do, we'll keep it lively, Yes, a man acquires a lot of friends in a lifetime. But not many of us have two old fiends like Trap and Bub to drop ar- ound and turn us into living skeletons when we're trying to get ready to go to England. 0 DRUG INTERACTION Consumers' Association of Canada cautions consumers of the dangers of drug interaction. Be especially wary if already taking 'a drug with longterm effects. Certain foods and alco- hol can also interact with drugs. CAC headquarters is located at 100 Gloucester Street, Ottawa. On censorship! Recently a large daily newspaper ran a feature article which was frightening. It showed the extend to which young children are bombarded through their senses by pop songs, pop singers and TV movies into juvenile delinquency. The pop songs featured sex and drugs in lurid and lustful detail urging particip- ation. The article included interviews with police officers and others who had to deal with increasing juvenile delinquency. The advertising fraternity has been exploiting sex for 25 years to sell consumer products. In more recent years, however, sex and violence have become complete exclusion of all other aspects of human experience. Pornographic literature increases and is readily available to all ages. We are bombarded with the lurid, the sick, the depraved, the degenerate case history or tale. And, as the columnist said, somebody is making a pile of money in this bombardment. For those of us in society who are adults with a sense of resp- onsibility, it is surely time we sought action from government to establish standards and set laws covering literature, music, films and other forms of entertainment to which juveniles have easy access. We should urge our governments, individually and collectively, to consider asking representatives from social agencies, churches, rhe medical profession, philosophical and other groups, to draw up a set of standards on which a few tough laws could be legislated. This would phase out the rip-off art- ists and their garbage now flooding the markets and demoraliz- ing children. Future generations would thank us for our concern in taking positive action on censorship which makes sense. It could be suicide I The following editorial from the Mt. Forest Confederate concerning the current strike by railway employees could be taken to heart by members of other unions as well because sooner or later and it may by much sooner than we realize these contin- ual rounds of wage increases are going to plunge us into a depres- sion that will make the 1929 depression look like boom times: "Last week the two national railways lines announced that they were suspending all passenger service. The announcement came after it appeared inevitable that the country's 56, 000 non-oper- ating railway workers would' initiate a series of rotating strikes. "No doubt the union members have valid claims in their dis- pute with the railway companies, but, as usual, the general public will suffer. We cannot believe that any of the rail comp- anies' upper level officials will feel any particular hardship. Nor will they be desperately concerned about loss of company profits since government always has to meet railway deficits in any case. "The significant point is that the unions are prepared to see the railways lose passenger business --much of it permanently. And when business is lost, so are jobs. The net result of the strike will possibly provide for higher wager, but in the long run there will be quite a few strikers totally out of work. "Increasing costs of operation have already cost railway work- ers thousands of jobs. Note, for example, the number of smaller stations which have been closed all across Canada. Every one of those Stations at one time provided good jobs for two or three families. "Working people are certainly entitled to fair returns for their labor --but strikes are an outmoded and stupid way of achieving results.." Tale of oe I If you think you have troubles, pity the poor Editor. If he attends a meeting he's being nosy; If he doesn't he isn't interested. If he writes an indepth story, it's too long. If he condenses one, it's incomplete. If he takes sides on an issue, he is prejudiced. If he doesn't he is a coward. If he asks for advise, Ize's incompetent? If he doesn't he is a know-it-all. If he expresses an opinion, he wants to run the show; If he doesn't he lacks guts. If he misspells your name, you never forget it; If he doesn't, you didn't read that story. ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher. Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 sot M aa,�s� Member: Canadian Weekly. Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association ,r Subscription Rates: $5.00 per year in advance in Canada; $6.00 in United States and Foreign; single copies 15¢ "IT'S FRIENDSHIP, FRIENDSHIP, JUST THE PERFECT ..." There's nothing like seeing old friends, Or old fiends, as it comes out sometimes when the tintype operator is not on his toes ha ha. I have a couple of old fiends who managed to drop in while I was getting ready to go to England. Between them, they almost aborted the trip. It's not that they bother me. I wouldn't say that. It's just that they cripple me for about two days each, by the time we finish reminiscing and get to bed as the robins begin to chirp. That's not so bad. A chap must expect that sort of ruin. But they brought with them a couple of other old fiends -- their wives. That's what really put the tart on the griddle, as Lord Faversham said while he was roasting a well-known street -walker. We have all sorts of friends, eh? There are the close chums of public school, with whom there is nothing in commor by the time you are in Grade 11 except the fact that Old Lady Williams beat the hell ou. .?f you every second day, when you were in Grade 5. Then there are the bosom buddies of high school. This is an eternal, yearning friendship, often depending on the type of bosom. Ten years later you meet and there's not much to say after exchanging the numb- er of children and wives or hus- bands you have had. College friends are even closer. I was looking at a pict- ure of four of us the other day. We had in-jokes. We were inseparable. We would give our left arm for each other. I haven't seen one of them for twenty years. One is a drunk, a second is dead, and the third is an accountant. Not necessar- ily in that order. Then there are the friends you make on summer jobs. These are so intimate you can hardly wait to separate so that you can write each other. Once. And if you were in the service there are all sorts of friends. There's Dutch Kleimeyer, the ubiquitous Australian, Tack Ryan, the unmitigated Canadian. Singh Thandi, the sinful Indian, and so on. A few of them still around, and you see them every five years, but that means only a couple of days of ruin. And, of course, you have IT:dependent Shipper Qn United Co-operative of Ontario Livestock Dept Toronto Ship Your Livestock with Roy Scotc'hmer Monday Is Shipping Day From Varna Stockyard CALL BAYFIELD 565-266 By 7:30 a.m. Monday For Prompt Services -No Charges On Pic/cvur : made friends since you married. There are Shirley and Bill, and Joan and Dick, and Jack and Jill, and Humphrey and Ursula. Not to mention 1-lumpty and Dumpty. Those named are carefully disguised, and the last two can figure out for themselves who they are. Nor should we forget profes- sional friends, the people we work with. In my case, they range from someone like Miss S, who weighs 84 pounds after a steak dinner and has a laugh that would knock your fillings out, to Mrs. O., who is the "sexiest broad in the school, " according to the kids. As a gen- tleman, I can only agree with them. Yes, a chap gathers a lot of friends over a few decades. But the two I mentioned earlier on are a little special. Bub and Trap, We joined the air force together, drank beer together, and pursued the fair sex togeth- er. We learned to fly together. On one leave, we hitchhiked to New York together and I can still remember Bub, after a bit of intemperance or something, spewing all over Broadway from the window of a taxi. Broadway has gone steadily downhill ^ince. We went our several ways during the big conflagration, and all managed to stay alive asiness and Professional Directory OPTOMETRISTS J. E Longstaff OPTOMETRIST ..SEAFORTH MEDICAL CENTRE 527.1240 Tyesday, Thursday, Friday, Sat- urday a.m., Thursday evening CLINTON OFFICE X10 Issac Street 482-7010 Monday and Wednesday Call either office tor appointment. Norman Martin CIPTOMETRIST Tice Hours: 9.12 A,M, — 1:30-0 P.M. Closed all day Saturday Phone 233.2433 Exeter INSURANCES Robert F. 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