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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1974-03-14, Page 4PAGE 4 The only solution! Prime Minister Trudeau last week spelled out the only cond- itions which will permit our economy to return to normal and sky-high prices to drop back to a point where they make some sense. During a TV interview in Toronto he said that runaway inflation will cease when, and only when, Canadians come to their senses and refuse to purchase goods and services that are over -priced. Mr. Trudeau observed that the great majority of people in this country buy more than they need and are careless of the costs involved. Obviously the only solution sought by most Canadians today is to seek higher wages to meet the ever-increasing price tags on the goods we need or want. There is no end to that sort of exercise --higher wages inevitable are reflected in higher retail prices, which, in turn, are the excuse for another round of wage boosts. Caught squarely in the middle are the thousands who cannot demand higher incomes but who must pay the higher prices -- all those on fixed -incomes such as old -age pensioners, disabled veterans, widowed mothers and many other classes of Canad- ians. Although unemployment insurance and the other state- sponsored protections do help tremendously to alleviate hard- ship, they never provide enough money to meet the sharply rising costs of living in an age of rapid inflation. When prices are sky -rocketing the upward trend will continue only as long as enough people are willing to pay the piper. At some point, .however, either necessity or frustration will take over and buyers will refuse to part with their money for anything but the necessities. At that point prices will start down again. Hopefully, the slide will not assume the proport- ions of an avalanche and tumble to the point of general depres- sion. (Mt, Forest Confederate) No newspapers in many places! Many places do not have a newspaper they can call their own. So when someone has some important news to dissemin- a*:e, he can either sit down and write a letter, find someone to help him make a batch of posters for local store windows, call a meeting, or sit down at the telephone. All methods cost him something. Take the letter writing process. Fust the letter must be written by someone who will make it factual and hopefully interesting. Then there are the costs of paper and reproductions, and postage. Even if only a postcard is sent to advertise a church bazaar, it would cost $15 to reach less than 250 homes. All legal notices have to be posted for a certain number of days in a central place, if there is no local newspaper. And how many people see them? Maybe the information to be gotten outis very important, and requires group action. A meeting has to be called, but this entails getting in touch with people to tell them about the meeting and we are right back where we started. Of course there is always the good old telephone, a great idea for contacting a dozen people --ask anyone who has tried to get a committee going. So, most people are very happy to have a newspaper in their town. A simple phone call or visit to the newspaper office when passit it, ensures that the news will be sent out to thous- ands of local homes. But as with other methods of information dispersal, someone must pay for it. Publishing a newspaper is a big operation, requiring a lot of time and equipment, not to mention postage and cost of mat- erials. Subscription fees hardly scratch the surface. A newspaper has but two things to sell -subscriptions and advertisements. How much is the paper worth to you, your organization, or your place of business. Are you helping to insure that it will be here when you need it? Think about it the next time you want your news or ad "put in the paper." (Editor's Note: The foregoing article is reprinted from a release of the Canadian Newspapers Association.) ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS'I,IMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, .Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 sts , Member: e gg" 'Canadian Weekly. Newspapers Association Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Rt• Subscription Rates; $5.00 per year in advance in Canada; $6.00 in United States and Foreign; single -copies 150 ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS In rnational .,{scene (by Raymond Cannon) IS ENGLAND ON THE WAY BACK? I made a point of following the election campaign in Engl- and very closely and I must confess to being a bit surprised at the outcome. Not that I exp- ected Prime Minister Heath to win a sweeping victory but I thought the worst he could do would be to get something about the same as he had when he decided to go to the polls. Of course, I don't think that I was the only one who was surprised. Most of the polls taken on the election, even right up to the last moment, indicated that the Conservatives would win a narrow victory. Well, they did get more votes than the Labor Party but when that was translated into seats, they were a few short. Since Mr. Heath soon found out that he couldn't count on the Lib- erals nor the small splinter part- ies to help him govern, we now have Harold Wilson once again as Prime Minister of Gt. Britain. I am not a socialist but frankly I am not too worried at the present time about what Mr. Wilson will do. He hasn't too much choice! Don't forget that he has to depend on the Liberals, the splinter parties and, in addition, the Conserv- atives, if he is to survive for any length of time. This means that he cannot afford to introd- uce any of the radical nation- alization programs that the left wing of his party has been trying to force on him for the last couple of years. Design co-ordinator Three years ago, John Brown, a designer of international recognition, became Design Co-ordinator at Conestoga Coll- ege. Seventy-five awards and $20, 000. in prize money later, Mr. Brown's success is remark- able! Conestoga design students have responded to this dynamic and gifted man by capturing all top awards in nearly every Can- adian design competition. In 1972, $15,500 went .to Conestoga design students in National Design Canada Scholarships -- one fifth of the national total! Letters on file from civic, industrial and radio/television concerns extoll the quality of the Conestoga designs which woi top honours and publication! Of all Canadian college and university design teams, Mr. Brown's is recognized as the best! An innovative teacher, his rapport with his students drives them from one achievement to the next. "I'm constantly am- azed at the intensity of their desire to achieve. LIVESTOCK SHIPPING TO TORONTO UNION STO('K YARDS Dunn and Levack Every Monday All Loads Fully Insured: CONTACT Campbell McKinley RR 1, ZURICH Phone 262.5430 THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1974 other lending institutions as are the Socialists, However, if Mr. lleath shows signs of supporting the new government in its economic policies, the money may be a bit more forthcoming that would otherwise be the case. Another thing that is not going to be easy to handle is the large amount of unemploy- ment that will likely result from the economic slowdown. The number of those without work could go as high as two million and how long it will take to find work for a major- ity of these people is anybody's guess. Canadians who have never lived in Gt. Britain have no idea how much lower wages are there than they are here and yet the cost of living is approx- imately the same. Forthis reason you can understand why so few people are really able to make ends meet or to put any money aside. Much as I would like to see the British have an easier time of things for a change, I am afraid that this is still a long way off lathe future unless they emulate the Germans or the Japanese in their devotion to business. If he is to stay in power for any length of time, there are several things he has to do and do quickly. The first he has done and that was to settle the coal miners' strike. It isn't surprising that he was able to do it quickly as the miners made no secret of the fact that they would be more willing to deal with a Labor government thatn they would a Conservative one. However, don't forget that the economic problems of Britain go much deeper than just a miners' strike. The first thing that the goverr ment has to do is borrow no less than ten billion dollars on the various world money mark- ets in order to prevent the pounc sterling from dropping in value and thereby causing a whole new round of import induced inflation. 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