Zurich Citizens News, 1958-06-11, Page 2PAGE TWO
ZURICH eels NEWS
Published every Wednesday Morning at Zurich, Onthe soui, for he: Police
Village of Zurich, Hay Township,
of Stanley Township, in Huron County,
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1958
ZURICH Citizens NEWS
agger and Better Than. Ever
With the announcement by the Township Council that they
have given the go-ahead sign to the new Community Park, we
can look for a bigger and better Fall Fair than has ever before
been held in Zurich. It is hoped work will start shortly on the
preparation of the grounds, so the fair will be able to be held in
the new location.
Already various committees have special attractions arranged.
Those in charge of the midway have lined up the Peter March
Midway Shows to bring in rides, consisting of a ferris wheel,
reliable one, and
merry-go-round,
be sure of excellent aetc. This musement for is a the children. The
entertainment committee has a lead on an outstanding program
for the first night of the fair. The exhibits committee reports
new entries will be here, and the enthusiasm shown is greater
every day.
We hope, with all the effort being put into this year's fair,
that d turn
he
the
dates are Saturday, rday,ond nSeptembert for
20, and Monday,Sep-
tember 22.
The Parable Of The Hot Dog
There was a man wiho lived by the side of the road and
he sold hot dogs. He was hard of hearing so he had no radio.
He had trouble with his eyes so he read no newspapers, nor did
he watch television. But he sold goad hot dogs—He put
signs up on the highway telling how good they were —
He stood on the side of the road and cried, "Buy a hot dog
mister?" And people bought. He increased his meat and bun
orders. He bought a bigger stove to take care of his trade.
He finally got his son home- from college to help him. But
then something happened—His son said; "Father, haven't
you been reading the newspapers? There's a big depression on.
The European situation ;is terrible, the domestic situation is
worse. Everything is going to pot."—Thereupon the father
thought, "Well, any son's been to college; he reads the news-
papers, he listens to the radio, he watches the television and
he ought to know. So the father cut down on his meat and
bun Orders, .took down hisadvertising.: signs; ancleno, longer
leathered to stand out on the highway to sell his hot dogs.
And his hot dog sales fell a'lrnost over=night. "You're right,
son," the father said to his boy. "We certainly are in the
middle of a great depression." --
National Water Safety ''`'leek
The surest wager anyone can make this summer will be
based on the headlines in aur newspapers following every
weekend.
Those news items win be reports of Dives lost through
drowning accidents in every province. They will be tragedies
which could have be -en avoided in most cases.
Too often they will tell of lives lost - Dives that could
have been saved through common sense. The tragedies will
make people think but it will be too late,
This summer the Canadian Red Cross Society is melding a
determined effort to save lives through an intensive water
safety campaign.
The Red Cross is urging parents to teach their children
the rules of water safety. They are asking mothers and fathers
to point out the dangers that lurk in, on or near the water.
They are asking boating enthusiasts to respect the power of
their motors, to consider their own lives and those of swimmers
and their passengers.
Red Cross Water Safety Week will be observed June 15-21
throughoutancEvery
Canadian should
aate in this
maaign.Aombindeffort will reduce annual drown-
ing
ing toll.
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SUGAR and SPICE
(By W. (8111) B. T. Smiley)
Maybe I'm getting old. Maybe
I'm just run down. But there's
something wrong. I'm out of fash-
ion. I'm not following the :tread.
I just 'can't seem to work up a
goad hate toward Ameribans.
* * a
In fact, I'm alarmed and dis-
turbed by the quenulous, nasty,
niggling ifuim!inatians of quite 'a
few Canadians against our old
friends and ,neighbours from south
of the border. The obvious res-
entment; the carping and criticism
that has been expressed recently
toward the U.S. is worthy oe a
jealous Balkan. state. It is not
worthy of a proud and independ-
ent nation dike Canada.
Some of OUT self-styled "lead-
ing newspapers" show a positively
venomous anti-Ame'rdoamisin at ev-
ery opportunity. American fraii-
ties are shouted in bold, black
type. American virtues are played
down.
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keep his TV show rolling.
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Oh, they're not perfect. Just
like any next-door neighbours,
they have ,their ifauits. I hear that
over in the States, for example,
they go to the movies, play golf
and even drink beer on Sundays,
I don't know why they couldn't
be like us Canadians: twice to
church on Sunday, and the rest
of the day spent in prayer and
meditation,
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What is even more alarming, to
me, is evidence that some of this
poison is being absorbed by some
easily influenced men -in - t h e -
street, ordinary Joes.
* **
You know the ones I mean.
They're the people who shook
their heads in amazed respect
when the Russian sputnik went
into orbit, but tittered and nudged
each other delightedly when the
first American satellites fizzled
out.
* *
They're the people who repeat
with relish the latest joke about
President Eisenhower's golf, but
view with equanimity the fact
that a recent prime minister of
Canada had a much more ridicul-
ous pastime --attending spiritual-
istic seances.
:x * *
They're the birds who contem-
ptuously d:isrcniss Mr. Dulles as a
dunderhead, but t hems e 1 v es
wouldn't know a foreign policy
from a French gendarme. They're
the same people who point with
dismay at racial strife in the deep
south, but think Canada's Indians
"Should be kept on the reserves,
where they belong."
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Fortunately, these maggots in
the vast, careless, but sound-
hearted body of the Canadian
people, these moles burrowing in
the darkness of their own pre-
judices, are negligible. Perhaps
they are even useful, if they cause
their fellow= Canadians to take a
good look at their neighbours, the
Americans.
*
They .tell me that across the
llhe they worship the .almighty
dollar. We don't warship it. We
just chase it, with might and
main, most of our waking hours.
:p ,I, *
When it comes to neighbours,
maybe you prefer the Liberians,
or the Turks, or the Chinese. But
I'+11 settle for a border lined with
friendly, decent Yanks, thanks.
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1958
Evangelical Church, we have the
Lutheran Church, we have the
Catholic Church, we have the Men-
nonite Church. All of these child-
ren go to the same public school.
They all receive the same educa-
tion. As far as each religion is
concerned they are taught in each
individual church in their own
time.
Now I know personally that
there are some men who are oc-
cupying jobs which the young peo-
ple of tomorrow could very well
do. I know one man who is doing
five different jobs at one time.
Now this man is taking the place
of the man who has to move out
in order to find work. Another
individual has two jobs, and I am
afraid that he is not capable of
handling it. But who complains?
As for the teaching system; we
leave the old teachers here too
long. Every year they are exactly
the same teachers. Is it because
he or she lives here and their par-
ents pay the taxes and the in-
dividual man who is on the school
board and does not like to have to
say to change teachers about
every two or three years. After
all, our teachers right now have
families which should be looked
after by the parents, not by a
maid. And then there are the
Catholic teachers, who cannot get
a position in any of the schools,
be it town or rural, and exactly
why is that? After all we are all
one community and exchange
greetings.
Now I ane a mother who is
raising a family and who would
like to see her children settled and
established. It certainly does not
have to be next door to her but it
is nice that they do not have to
go very far from home.
Everyone knows that there is
no bus service close by and it is
not nice to drive 15 miles to get
them every time they want to
come home to visit.
I would be very interested to
hear someone answer their own
opinion about this.
—A MOTHER.
Dear Mr. Editor:
Recently in your editorial you
wrote that the young people of
Zurich are leaving; young married
couples with families. I might
mention our own young people who
are going to school or have felt
that they cannot go on and feel
that they should be on their own
so that they may be able to help
to buy their own clothes and
spending money, or maybe give
dad a little something on the side.
After all, who is it that helps the
boy or the girl, who is trying so
hard to make their grades and sees
that dad is having to struggle to
put them through.
We have a very strange example
right here in our own Zurich.
In our town we are all different
denominations. We have the
Dont tell me the Yanks are al-
ways talking about winning the
war and didn't fight until they
were attacked. I trained and flew
with them boys who came north
to join our airforce while their
country was still at peace. Jim
Cowey from Kansas City, killed
in a Spitfire in Italy. Ralph Hor-
ton, from Indiana, burned and
crippled when his plane crashed.
Little Schwartz from Brooklyn,
too small for a pilot, killed in a
rear -gunner's turret. And hund-
reds more.
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Don't nag me about American
military bases in our far north.
If a wolf pack is sniffing around
my hack door, and I have no gun,
and niy neighbour comes aver
with his. I'ni not going to slam
the door in his face.
a, * :u
Don't bother me with bogeys
about our economy being depend-
ent on theirs. It won't be long un-
til their economy is dependent on
our natural resources. And if they
weren't pouring capital into our
country to develop those resourc-
es, we'd all be going around in
our figurative bare feet.
:K*
Don't expect me to get into a
tizzy about their culture over-
whelming ours. Not when they
flock in their thousands to our
Stratford Festival. Not when Ed.
Sullivan has to come over and
borrow Wayne arsd Sel nester to
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