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ZURICH Citizens NEWS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1958
ZURICH ettiras NEWS
Published every Wednesday Morning at Zurich, Ontario, for the Police
Village of Zurich, Hay Township, and the Southern part
of Stanley Township, in Huron County.
Printed by Clinton News -Record, Clinton, Ontario
A. L. COLQUHOUN HERB. M. TURKHEIM
Publisher Business Manager
Subscription Rates: $2.50 per year in advance, in Canada; $3.50 in
United States and Foreign; single copies, 5 cents. Subscriptions
payable to Business Manager, Zurich Citizens News, Box 149,
Zurich, Ontario, or to district correspondents.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1958
The Weekly Newspaper
This Letter is taken from the column, "Letters to the Editor,"
appearing in the London Free Press.
"SIR: One of the most appreciated assets of a rural community
is the local weekly newspaper. It keeps both town and rural resi-
dents in constant contact with persons with whom they are acquaint-
ed and with local happenings of the week, be they deaths, weddings,
farm sales, suppers, horse trades, church and social activities.
"It is the community spirit that makes the weekly newspaper
so popular. Small • towns and country residents are most friendly
toward each other and they take the time to acquaint themselves
with any newcomers in the area.
"The town and rural people are very loyal to the local store-
keepers and Saturday is the storekeepers busy day. The weekly
newspaper is here to stay. It would be a sad day for a community
to lose its weekly newspaper. Long may they live."
iWYSE.
London,
t The Library
The Bookmobile made its regu-
lar stop recently, leaving 200 new
books.
Among them is "Seven Years in
Tibet." It was a thrilling account
of the author's own adventures in
escaping from a concentration
camp for enemy aliens in India in
1939, and his long stay in the
strange forbidden land.
Posing as Indians, with hair and
beards dyed black and skin stain-
ed, he and his companions attemp-
ted some of the most unusual and
exciting exploits ever narrated.
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HURON COUNTY
FARMING
•
(By DOUGLAS H. MILES, agri-
cultural representative from Hur-
on County)
•
Quite a number of farmers are
seeding in the South end of the
County; some reporting that they
are working around snowbanks.
The land is working very well.
There is very little growth as far
as grass is concerned.
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Zurich Citizens News,
Clinton, Ontario,
Dear Herb:
Many thanks for sending along
a copy of your first publication of
the Zurich Citizens News. It is
very encouraging to see this paper
make its appearance so soon after
the passing of the last paper there.
The Zurich Herald was a member
of CWNA for many years but dis-
continued membership a few years
back. . . We will certainly look
forward to the day when the new
Zurich paper becomes a member of
the Association.
It is an excellent looking paper
and, judging from the advertising
support, it would appear that you
are well on your way to achieving
good local acceptance from the
merchants as well as the citizens.
We are planning a story.on this
in the next issue of the CWNA
Bulletin and .if you have anything
to add to what has appeared in
The ,Citizens News, we will be hap-
py to have it.
BILL TELFER,
Managing Director,
Canadian Weekly Newspap-
ers Association,
Toronto, Ontario.
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SUGAR and
• (By W. (Bill)
My daughter asked me a quest-
ion that had me stumped, the oth-
er evening. I'd just finished tell-
ing her a bed -time story about
Munkle-tinkle-Unky, the great-
grandfather of all the monkeys in
the jungle, and one of her favour-
ite characters,
The old ape had just put a herd
of wild elephants to rout, by spit•
ting thumbtacks among them,
from his perch in the Biggest Tree
in the Jungle, Kim thought the
story was about average, and con-
descended to utter a couple of
amused . snorts when I reeled
around the room, holding one foot
in the air and howling with pain,
as I made like a wild elephant
which had stepped on a thumb-
tack.
SPICE
B. T. Smiley)
First thing to do, of course, is
to get up before them in the morn-
ing. This may require staying up
all night, but it'll be worth it, be-
cause, you see, we'll be giving
them breakfast in bed. They're to
have anything they want for
breakfast, even if it's a bag of
jelly -beans.
*
And that sort of sets the pat-
tern for the day. The kids are to
have, and do, absolutely anything
they want. They've been saying for
weeks that it's Ear too hot to wear
a jacket and hat. O.K. Let them
go out in their bare heads and
feet, even if you have to nurse
them for a week, afterwards.
School is out, as are lessons and
Then she popped her question,
which, as usual had no connect-
ion whatever with anything that
was going on. I was just tucking
her in, when she turned the big
orbs on me, and asked: "Daddy,
if there's a • Mother's Day and a
Father's Day, why isn't there a
Children's Day?"
:l: '' *
I tried to laugh it off, and told
her every day was Children's Day,
around our house. After she was
asleep, though, when I was sit-
ting downstairs trying to pick out
the choice parts in Peyton Place
without reading the whole, lousy
novel, I gat thinking about it,
*
The more I pondered, the more
I was convinced there should bo
a Children's Day. After all, child-
ren are pretty important. If there
were no children, there wouldn't
be any mothers or fathers. If there
were no, mothers and fathers.
there'd be no Mother's Day and
Father's Day. If those two great
annual farces were abolished, our
retail merchants would be teeter-
ing on the brink of ruin. See
where logic can lead you?
Gradually, as I considered it,
the cruelty and thoughtlessness of
the whole thing ate into my soul
like iron. The pore little kids. We
give up all our peace on earth for
them, work our heads to the bone,
sacrifice and slave for them, but
we're too selfish to give the most
important people in the world--
Our
orld—Our Children --one single, crumiby
little day of their own.
*•
"By George," I said to myself
(I was getting pretty worked up)
"it's inhuman! Abominable! What
kind of callous brutes are we, any-
way?" Right there and then, I
resolved that I'd be the founder
of international, non -denomination-
al Children's Day. I'd be famous,
like the old skirt who invented
Mother's Day. I'm not a child, but
she wasn't a mother, and look
what a rat -race she started,
*
Since then, I've given it a lot
of thought, and I think I have the
details pretty well ironed out. I'm
anticipating a little trouble with
a few old-fashioned mothers and
fathers, but I think the vast maj-
ority of modern, progressive dopes
uh, I mean parents—will be
!with me,
We want to make it a red-leter
day. Something the children will
look forward to with fiendish de-
light, And the parents with undis-
guised fear and trembling.
'Modern Etiquette
Q. When a girl becomes engag
ed, is it proper for her to show
her ring to her friends, or to
wait for them to ask to see it?
A. Except in the case of very
good friends, it is better for her
to wait for someone to notice
the ring before holding up her
hand and displaying it.
Q. Does the father of a widow
or divorcee, who is utuarrying for
the second time, give her away?
A. Yes; her father gives her
away precisely as he did at the
first wedding, And her family as-
sumes the expenses of the wedding
unless she prefers to meet them
herself.
Q. When one is dining at a
club where there is dancing, what
should be done with the napldn
when rising to dance?
A. Lay it unfolded on the table
beside the plate.
Q, What is the proper way to
eat an apple at the dinner table?
A. First quarter the apple, and
then, using the fingers, eat each
quarter.
practice off all kinds. If they want
to go picking pusyy-willows in the
swamp, let them. And if they come
home mud to the eye -balls, greet
them cheerily.
9: at 4:
Answer all their questions im-
mediately and exhaustively. None
of this grunting: "Ask your fath-
er." Keep thinking up new things
for them to do and eat. Let them
watch TV as long as they like,
and in the evening, send them off
to the movies. When they get
home, give them a little benzedrine
and keep them up all night, read-
ing stories to them.
* ,4 *
The more I think of it, the more
wonderful the idea seems. It
would be sheer hell for the par-
ents, but I think one treatment
would be enough. I haven't quite
had the nerve to set the date for
the first one. However, I think
we can set it, tentatively, for some
time in the year the Social Credit
party takes aver the government
of Canada. Fair enough?
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