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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1975-01-30, Page 4PAGE 4 ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1975 Not like it used to be Scene things improve with the passage of time while others just get worse and worse. Of course, we who are "over the hill" have a tendency to think that everything new and different is rotten and the days of our youth were full of light and joy. But let's not fool ourselves. Take winter, for example. Not that the weather has changed all that much. Two or three mild ones in a row don't necessarily mean that our climate is improving. If you think so, just remem- ber what the past couple of weeks have been like. In fact there is no way of proving that we won't get two or three really rough winters laid end to end. No, the weather hasn't changed but the equipment we use to meet cold weather surely has been improved. If you have a few years behind you, just recall the footgear we had to wear to keep our feet from freezing. First the woollen stockings, then the shoes (or more likely ankle -high boots), then the overstockings and finally a pair of rubbers. They certainly meant a lot more fuss and bother than today's fur -lined galoshes or felt -insulated snowmobile boots, especially for a busy mother of small kids who wanted to be in and out all day long. Then, too, there are the conveniences we enjoy in our homes. Can you remember when father got up first and went downstairs to light the kitchen range? Into the bowels of the cookstove he piled cedar kindling, a few smaller pieces of hardwood and applied the match, with all the drafts open. For a few minutes the kitchen was blue with smoke until the frosty chimney warm- ed enough to provide a draft. Ten or fifteen minutes later some of the larger chunks had taken fire and the top of the stove began to be a bit too hot for the open hand. By this time mother and the kids were all in the kitchen, the latter crowding around the oven door while they shivered into their clothes --long johns first. The morning wash was complet- ed in barely likewarm water from the reservoir on the back of the stove, where last night's water hadn't lost all of its warmth in the frosty kitchen. About the time the room was warm enough to turn your fingers from blue to white and the oatmeal porridge was down the hatch it was time to get into all the outside gear and start that long, cold trek to school. If you lived in the country it could mean as much as two and a half miles through snowdrifts or along ' sleigh tracks. In town it was a lot better than that but it could still seem a long way. The country kids would get to the school- house just in time to go all through the miseries of a frosty classroom and a barely -warm box stove, for the upper grade boy who was supposed to light the fire at eight o'clock usually slept in. The roads were not plowed, there were no school buses, no snowmobiles, no thermostats on the walls, no hot water heaters and lunches were usually frozen sandwiches fished out of a 5 - pound honey pail. With all that we did manage to survive --but we wouldn't call thein the good old days by any stretch of the imagination. (Mt. Forest Confederate) Busiest day of the week Once upon a time Sunday was a quiet day. Not only did the prevailing Christian ethic demand that all places of business and amusement be tightly closed, but it was a social misdemeanour to be caught in any activity other than church -going on the Sabbath. In fact we can recall only a few years back when there was a battle royal over the possibility that our local arenas might be opened for free skating on a Sunday afternoon. No doubt there are still thousands who are deeply shocked by the apparent abuses of the Fourth Commandment. However, the influx of countless immigrants who are of other faiths, or none at all, has changed the legal pattern. Some celebrate their Sabbath on our Saturday or some other day of the week. Many others do not recognize any day of the week as set aside for religious observance. Be that all as it may. The need for one day of rest in seven is basic to most of us, both physically and emotionally. Even in the Soviet, where the religious significance of the Sabbath is derided, it was found that one day of rest in seven was necessary to efficiency. So busy have our lives become that Sunday in this part of the world, far from being a day of rest, has become the busiest day of the week. Sports of all kinds, requiring many people to return to work as on any other day, have proliferated. Organizations of all kinds now schedule meetings and seminars for Sunday, simply because it is an "open" day that can be expected to find more members without other commitments. Personally, we still enjoy quiet Sundays and no organization under the sun is going to drive us into giving up the relaxation which we find necessary for our well-being. If that means being left out of a lot of activities, so be it. Like most other families in this conununity, we have invested thousands of dollars and millions of hours in creating a home that is comfortable and a family that is, at least, our own. If Sunday has to be devoted to another endless round of outside activities we might as well be living in a one -room apartment with housekeeping services provided by a once -a -week cleaning lady. (Mt. Forest Confederate) ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 still w €NA Can.dn Weekly. Newspapers AssociationOM* Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association �,.rft 'sd• Subscription Rates: $5.00 per year in advance in'Canada; $6.00 in United States and Foreign; single copies 150 Member: International Scene (by Raymond Cannon.) A FLOOD OF WETBACKS Do you know what a wetback is? If not, you will probably not find it in any dictionary if you decide to look. I assure you it is not a fish nor even a sea monster for that matter. You may be surprised to learn that it is the word for a Maxican who tries to swim the Rio Grande into the United States to look for work. I remember even hearing a song about someone who had a towel factory along the river so he could rent towels to the wetbacks as they came across. Today these wetbacks are not required to learn how to swim before they come across the border. They come by car, bus or airplane across the border. It doesn't matter what type of transportation you can think of; the wetbacks have probably tried it. A great many of them have been successful. To give you an idea how many, there are probably about a million of them in New York City alone who are there illegally. They include not only the Mexicans but also Puerto Ricans and others from the Caribbean, who have the idea that they can find work in the U.S. when they cannot find it at home. These illegal immigrants are not only to be found in New York. There are about half a million in the Chicago area and about 100, 000 in the city I.P. Box 3834 Seoul, Korea. Jan. 16, 1975 The Editor of Zurich Citizens News Box 190, Zurich, Ont. Can. Dear Editor; Please forgive me for taking up your valuable time. I am one of English teacher at Sam- sun High School in Seoul, Korea. My pupils are very eager to find pen friends in your country. I learned of Zurich Citizens News through Canadian Emb- assy in Seoul, and am writing to you in the hope that you can help them get in touch with the youth in your country. They would like to exchange infor- ination about student life and various topics in everyday life and to discuss current internat- ional problems. I think this kind of direct c omm unicat ion between friends of about the same age will help both learn about each other's country. It will also help my students to brush up their Engl- ish. I also think they might have fun in swapping items in their hobby collection. I am sure they will be a faithful friend and correspond- ent to any young friends who wishes to be their pen friend. I hope Zurich Citizens News can perhaps publish my name in your esteemed paper. I thank you very much for your kind co-operation. Sincerely yours, Chung, Mun Hwan I.P.O. Box 3834 Seoul, Korea. of Los Angeles. In every major American city there are thous- ands who are hiding from the authorities. To a degree they are safe in that they find work for very low wages and their employers, delighted to hire scab labor, are certainly not going to turn them in. You may wonder how I camel to be writing about this subject. I happened to run into a situat- ion at Fanshawe College where a foreign student from the area mentioned above, carne into Canada under a students' visa, enrolled at the College, and, hardly had the semester started, was on his way to the United States. He didn't want to study here at all; he simply wanted to use it as a stepping stone. I have since been assured by a friend of mine in the Immigrat- ion Department that this is not an isolated case. It seems, therefore, that Canada is just one of the routes used in order to reach the promised land. Importing illegal aliens can be a profitable business. A forged visa sells for as much as $250. A marriage, often a big- amous one, with an American citizen can be arranged to get the coveted entry visa. One report I read told of a woman in Washington brought in 15 African husbands. Another, obviously a pijcer, had "married' eight Haitians. 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