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Home My WebLink AboutZurich Citizens News, 1974-08-01, Page 4PAGE 4 ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, 1, 1{1 country store smells Just once more a man would like to open the door of an old-fashioned general country store and whiff the distinctive fragrances he remembers. Wonderful smells hit the nostrils as soon as one stepped inside the door. Some were blends; some were individual aromas and stood forth like the clear streaks of color in a marble cake. You quickly recognized the pungent fragrances of the big cartwheel cheese, of pickled herring and salt codfish. When those are Mingled with the satisfying smell of fresh ground coffee, you have .an aroma no manufacturer of perfume has been able to equal. Good, familiar smells came from the wide, wooden counter heaped high with stiff -starched overalls and heavy woollen pants, felt leggings and thick union suits; there was a rich, acrid pungency from the rubber arctics, leather work shoes and rubber boots. It was good blended fragrance from the hemp rope, harnesses, leather straps, logging chains, tobacco, coal oil, oranges, bananas, molasses, open barrel of common crackers, buckets of chocolate and hard candies, keg of dill pickles, bacon and ham, bolts of gingham, percale and calico, woollen blankets and hair ribbons. All fused their aromas pleasantly with the fragrance from the tall, pot-bellied, coal -burning stove sitting on its zinc mat. There are hosts of Canadians who still remember the general stores of half a century ago and who know the old-fashioned "places where goods were kept for sale" were more than marts of trade. (Contributed) ortitti 3iiit FOR SATISFYING DUMMER MEALS FRESH Ham Steaks CENTRE CUT Ham Steaks Ground Chuck 5&10Ib MAPLE LEAF SLICED Cooked Ham CENTRE CUT - PEAMEAL Back Bacon 93c 1.03! 1.15 Parcels $1.09 1.63 PIECE S1,ICED $1.38 $L48 We reserve the right to limit quantities! YUNGBL UT'S Meat Market PHONE 236-4312 - ,ZURICH ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH MERE TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 etin M Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association 00; Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association '/2+tis*C Subscription Rates: $5.00 per year in advance in Canada; $6. 00 in United States and Foreign; single copies 15¢ International Scene (by Raymond Cannon) IT'S HARD TO LOVE IN THE BALKANS I sat on the hard bench of a little railway station on the Jugoslav side of their border with Greece and watched the sun come up, I had slept most of that night on this bench due to some mistaken information given me further up the railway line at Nis. It seemed the train that I was on didn't go into Greece after all, only as far as the border. There I would have to wait for 24 hours until the Orient Express to Athens carne along. However, by that time in my life, I was used to sleep- ing on benches in train stations, in trains and under hay stacks so, while the bench at the little station wasn't exactly the Royal York, it was better than the ground and it was, in fact, sheltered from the rain which fell intermittently during the night. I don't actually recall much about the sunrise except that it didn't match the ones I had seen in the Swiss Alps. I do remem- ber vividly the conversation I had with the station master who showed up shortly after it got light. Surprised to find someone on his bench and posessed with the usual Slavic curiosity, he cause right over to me and ask- ed me who I was in Serbian. He said something more which I did not understand, a fact which I related to him in Rus- sian which is the closest lang- uage I have to Serbian. That he understood and then he tried German on me. To his delight I replied in the same language and as bis was quite good, we had a very friendly conversat- ion. Once we had got through the preliminaries, he asked: "Canada is bigger than Jugo- slavia," "Yes, quite a bit bigger." "Some of our people have gone to live there?" "Yes, we have a fair number of Jugoslav immigrants." "Do they become good Can- adians?" "Yes, In fact, most immig- rams become very good Canad- ians. I immigrated there and I like it very much." "Do you have problems like we do?" "Yes, we do. One of the main ones is that French and English- speaking Canadians do not und- erstand and tolerate each other well enough yet." "Ach so, " he replied. "I know what you mean. Here it is worse. During the war we fought each other as much as we fought the Germans." I could agree with the truth of his statement for the battles between the Partisans and the LIVESTOCK S IPPING TO TORONTO L*NION STOCK YARDS Dunn and Levack Every. Monday Ail Loads Fully Insured: CONTACT Campbell McKinley RE 1, ZURICH Phone 262-5430 Chetniks in Jugoslavia were well known. "Here in the Balkans, " be continued, "nobody likes any- body else. Look at our history. We fought each other, we fight among ourselves, We are friends with another country only bec- ause our leaders tell us to, not because I want to. Honestly I don't like anybody and that includes most Jugoslays, esp- ecially the Croatians." "Well, who do you like?" I asked. He was honest, "Well, really nobody. I admit that I have a certain admiration for the Germ. ans. They are disciplined but our history is one of hate, not one of liking." Then he said: "Would I like Canadians?" "I don't know." I replied. PerhAps if we had treated you the way most other nationalit- ies had treated you at one time in your history, you would not. But we are something like you. We are a collection of nation- alities like you, a sort of giant Balkans, only we are not yet sure what we are or what we want. 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