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Home My WebLink AboutZurich Citizens News, 1958-12-23, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH Citizens NEWS ZURICH edife#14 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 Cotnty. Printed by Clinton News -Record, Clinton, Ontario Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, M. Ottawa A. L. COLQUHOUN Business Manager 50 in RKHEIM Publisher year in advance, in Canada; United States Rates: $2.re, per ingle copies, 5 cents. Subscriptions United and Foreign; payable49, Zu $h,�Ontario, or to Zurich l1 d strict correspondent Box TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1958 THE SOUND OF BELLS tng every- one WEATHER has been very kind to us in one to get in the "Christmas Spirit" Also, wherever you go these last few days before the big day, there is the sound of bells around about us. Seloudspeaker timesiti in music coming from a radio; set; from the s from in front of a store; sometimes from a TV the glorious music of the som petimesingthrough an open window of a home where a piano Everywhere is the joyous sound of great happiness at the when automation and machines of all coming of Christ. kinds hve In the present day appea sa at placeirst dthoughtt that then ossession of upon the value tthings, is the main wish of people at Christmas time. But we know different. There is the music of the bells, and they tell us that as the times change, and the possession of expensive items is becoming commonplace among even the least of us, that it is the true spirit of Christmas which speaks when families set out to give gifts to each other, and to their friends. We are not more worldly than our astors are abere. Thty gave what they had and could obtain to give. give more because more is available. But the spirit is the same—and we think will continue to be. PICTURE LOOKS BRIGHT ..x,-4 (Goderich Signal -Star) THE NATIONAL people enfin Huron County e at Goderich reports only half as manyny pP pleunemployed at the present time as there were at this time a year ago. The Goderich office serves eleven of the county's sixteen townships. What better gift could Santa Claus give than this brightening At the end of December of last year there were 1,100 men seeking employment whereas ther are only 500 right now. It must be remembered that these figures include many seasonal workers such as sailors, construction workers, etc., who are always off work at this time of the year and who make the overall picture appear worse than it actually is. In the case of women, there are definitely more employed right now than there were The figures are a reminder that Goderich and, in fact, all a year ago. of Huron County is a stable area—one that does not fluctuate as other areas do—when there is unemployment to any degree. We have in our midst a diversity of occupations, small as they might be in size in comparison to those in large cities, but ns which go on their way and are not affected to any pronounced degree when things in general get slack. The coming of the new year is expected to improve things still further. The "Winter Work Campaign," established a few years ago, is paying off now. employech rs sle ogans as an ng sh"Dr jo oIt t NOW—Why Wait Until Spring, ' to fit into that pattern. And an ever increasing amount of work is being done in the winter time. An example of this is the new Woolworth building being erected on The Square. Last winter was the worst for unemployment here in some years but no such repetition is expected. The picture is com- paratively good now, will get better in the new year and by next spring should be quite rosy. j, SUGAR and SPICE V' (By W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley) On Christmas Eve, when the last gift has been wrapped, and the last stocking filled to the top, when the turkey is stuffed and ready for the oven, and n of theChrist- mas e t warmly in the gree a minute, you tree, sit down an th think about you lucky people, Christmas. You're probably exhausted and irritable, after the scramble of the last few days, when there simply didn't appear to be enough hours in the day to do all the things that had to be done to prepare for the celebration of Christmas. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1958 gather in the mess and huddle about the tiny fire. Most of the types resorted to the bar, and grew increasingly melancholy and sentimental, as they dreamed aloud of other Christmases: crisp white ones in Canada; hot, sunlit ones in Australia; or cosy fireplaces, hot toddy and plum duff on the benighted isle itself. Somebody else, almost 2,000 years ago, was exhausted, too. At the end of an arduous journey, a man was frantically seeking shel- ter, on a black and bitter winter night, in a miserable little town in the Middle East, for himself and his wife, who was about to give birth to a baby. and Canberra, in Capetown and Aberdeen, in Dublin and Warsaw. And still another, a Christmas of ghastly gaiety, soon after I was married. A young wife, newly with child, and myself newly with a shadow on my lung, about to be separated for what I assured her was three months, she sensed was six, I expected to be nine, and turned out to be a year. * !: There was another, in a German prison camp, when, after the lights went out, we lit a homemade lamp and lay in our bunks, looking at the tiny flame and talking quietly, achingly, of Christmas in Ottawa Before you turn out the lights in your warm home and go up to your warm bed, try to imagine what it was like: the harrassed husband; the white-faced wife; their unutterable weariness and growing dismay; and the rude sol- ution that provided the simple and beautiful story that never grows old. Then there was the one, when I was a kid, during the depression. My Dad had lost his business. Things were grim. I was 12 or 13 and knew there was famine in the land. But I still hoped, as kids do, that there'd be something special for Christmas. Anyway, when I opened my single, nicely - wrapped Christmas present, and said how a new suit of long un - (Continued on Page Five) Business and Professional Directory AUCTIONEERS ALVIN WALPER PROVINCIAL LICENSED AUCTIONEER For your sale, large or small, courteous and efficient service at all times. "Service that Satisfies" Phone 119 Dashwood And when you come clown on Christmas morning and find the kids happily smashing their toys, pause for a moment, you lucky people, and give thanks that you are celebrating Christmas in your own home, with those who belong to you, in the midst of peace, plenty and love. Give a thought, however fleet- ing, to the derelicts on this blessed day. The lone alcoholics who weep sentimental but real tears, as they line up shakily for their Christ- mas dinner at the Mission or the Salvation Army. • The lone, lost souls, by their thousands, in the mental institutions. 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