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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
THURSDAY,
AUGUST 16, 1973
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D.ISIIW000 and DISTRICT NEWS
Correspondent: Mrs, Ervin Rader
Relatives attending the fun-
eral in Detroit, Thursday,
August 9, for the late Mrs.
Ilene Hintz, of Algonac, Mich„
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
liam Schroeder, Romeo, Mich.,
and formerly of Dashwood were
Mrs. Amelia Willert, Mrs.
Louella Tiernan, Milford Mern-
er, Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Penhale,
Dashwood, Mr. and Mrs. Arn-
old Merner, Zurich, and Mrs.
Jim Smith, Susanne and Gary,
Corunna.
Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Rader
spent a few days at Arran Lake,
Fishing, boating, riding and
hiking were enjoyed.
Ivlr. and Mrs. Ross Love acc-
ompanied by Mr. and Mrs.
Lloyd Love, Parkhill and Mr.
Hugh Love, Exeter, attended
the Ferguson Reunion at Strat-
ford, Sunday.
Monday visitors with Mr.
and Mrs. Ross Love were Mr,
and Mrs. Jack Pickering, Lon-
don.
While Mr. and Mrs. Bob
Stormes, Susan , David and
Peter St. Thomas spent the
week here. Mr. and Mrs, Mer-
vyn Tiernan vacationed last
week. They visited Mrs. Tie -
man's sister at Keswick; Rev.
and Mrs. H. Getz, Pembroke,
Mrs. Fletcher Waltham, Queb-
ec, North Bay and other north-
ern points.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Boyle
and Fraser spent Sunday with
Rev. and Mrs. Merril James,
Windsor. Paul James returned
with them enroute to Tobermory
Campers from here at Camp
Menesetung, north of Goderich,
were Dean and Trevor Boyle,
Joey and Danny Becker.
Miss Dianne Miller and her
grandmother Mrs. Hilton Ford
flew to St. Louis Missouri
where they plan to spend two
weeks with Mrs. Ford's daughter,
Dorothy, at Poplar Bluff, Miss.
Misses Vickie Miller and
Cindy Beaver are attending
summer figure skating sessions
at Ilderton for two weeks.
Mrs. Bruce Seebach and child-
ren, Kitchener, are vacationing
with her mother, Mrs. Cora
Gaiser.
International Scen
(by Raym
THE SWISS FLAG BACKWARDS
The house in which I used to
live had a telephone pole at
the corner of the lot and each
year on August 1, I climbed
the pole and attached my Swiss
Flag to the top in honour of that
country's national holiday. This
resulted in a considerable am-
ount of good-natured comments
from my neighbours, none of
whom ever phoned the RCMP
to have me investigated for anti -
Canadian activities. It also
attracted a crowd of kids, one
of whom tried to rival me by
climbing the same pole when
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he thought my back was turned
and attaching one of his mother';
more colorful dish towels right
below my flag.
Every year I count on at least
one kid asking me why I was
flying the flag of the Red Cross.
These kids weren't too far
wrong for the Red Cross flag is
simply the Swiss flag in reverse.
That is because the founder of
this world famous organization
was a Swiss, Henry Dunant,
from the city of Geneva.
Switzerland has an excellent
reputation for humanitarianism
and some of the more famous
humanitarians started out as
would-be philanthropists. It
was only after adverse exper-
iences did they realize that
business and Christian charity
frequently do not mix. What
made these people famous is
that, once they realized this,
they opted for Christian charity,
not caring what the consequences
would be. This is by and large
the story of Henri Dunant.
Durant was born in 1828 of a
solid family of businessmen. He
led a sheltered life and disgrac-
ed his family at an early age by
spending far less time on busin-
ess than he did on charitable
works, His family, trying to
encourage him to serve God in
what they considered more pos-
itive ways such as increasing
the family fortunes, sent him to
Algeria where he soon involved
a considerable portion of his
family's fortune in grain specul-
ation. This eventually proved
to be his undoing, as well as a
great boon to humanity.
When the financial walls
started crumbling in Algeria,
Durant decided to petition
Napoleon III of France for help.
He chose a bad time to present
his petition --on the eve of the
battle of Solferino in 1859, a
battle which played a prominent
role in the future of Italy.
It does not seem to have oc-
curred to Dunant that nobody,
least of all Napoleon, would be
the least bit interested in Alg-
erian,grain at such a time. At
any rate, Dunant soon found
himself caught in one of the
bloodiest battles in the history
of warfare, a battle which
caused some 33, 000 casualities
in 10 hours. Forgetting all about
his petition, Dunant pitched in
and for more than two days and
nights he cared for the wounded.
Before he was finished, he was
already a legendary figure.
1 -lis account of the battle,
published in 1862, ended by a
plea for a neutral international
organization to care far the
wounded in wartime. Durant
worked endlessly at his pet
project and, by the end of the
year, the first conference was
held in Geneva. Two years
later the first Geneva Convent-
ion was signed and the Red
Cross came into existence.
That is not the end of the
story by any means but you'll
have to wait till next week to
hear the thrilling conclusion.
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