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Zurich Citizens News, 1959-02-25, Page 2PAGE TWO • ZURICH Citizens NEWS ZURICH . 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 Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa A. L. COLQUHOUN HERB Business Managers Publisher Member: ONTARIO WEEKLY NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION ,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, FEBRUARY 25, 1959 COUNCIL MEETINGS ARE FREE THE OTHER DAY a local lady walked into our office and asked, "Can people attend meetings of the Village Trustees and Township Council? I understand they are closed to the public." You may imagine our surprise. Just to clarify the situation, all council meetings are open to the public, and sufficient seating is to be provided for this purpose. It might be well to see a number of spectators at meetings of this type, and show councillors the citizens interest in the welfare of this community. One thing we have never been able to figure out is how an ordinary person would know when there is a regular or special lneeting of a council, since the press even has difficulty in finding out. Without our personal enquiring we have never yet been advised of any meetings taking place. In a recent editorial, the Arnprior Chronicle explains to its readers the law regarding holding of meetings. "Official notice of meeting, including proposed agenda, is sent out by the Clerk a couple of days in advance to all members of Council and to the press. "If special meetings are called, at least one full day's notice must be given with the reason or reasons clearly stated. And the matters discussed must be confined to the agenda outlined." While we are on the subject of meetings, it has been asked of us quite often, "Why does the press never cover meetings of the Hay Municipal Telephone System. We would like to know what goes on at their meetings as well as the Township Council meetings ?" This is a question we have not been able to answer as yet. 'The Telephone System is a municipally owned system, and the public have a right to know what takes place. While we have never been refused admission to any of their meetings we have yet to receive an invitation or a notice that they are holding a meeting. Perhaps one of the council members can answer this question for us. TIME FOR REVISION (Wingham Advance -Times) LAST WEEK a Stratford woman was fined because she employed a 12 -year-old boy for delivering parcels from her shop. There is something pretty idiotic in a law which says that no youngster under 14 years can be paid for doing odd jobs. There may be some mitigating clauses in the Act, but we have never been able to find them. This law was, of course, passed with the best of intentions for it was the outgrowth of enlightened public thoughts in the years which followed the exploitation of child labor in the old country . a time when unscrupulous employers made virtual slaves out of children under the existing apprenticeship legislation. The result nowadays, however, is foolish. Most wise parents urge their sons to seek some sort of part time job long before they are 14 years of age, feeling that the lad needs to gain some appreciation of the meaning of work and the value of money he has earned by the sweat of his fair little brow. There is small danger of overworking most of the boys with whom we have had any experience. Rather the whole effort is hard on the parents who seek to impress a valuable lesson in the difficult art of survival. Surely some modification in labor legislation is badly needed. It is possible that a revision of inspection standards would be necessary to make sure that no child was over-worked but that would not be impossible. FARM ACCIDENT SURVEY CAN LEAD TO ELIMINATING CAUSES (Huron Expositor) THERE IS MUCH merit in the proposal of the Ontario De- partment of Agriculture to conduct a survey throughout Ontario to determine the major causes of farm accidents. The survey, Which gets under way on March 1, is preparatory to a campaign designated to reduce the number of those who are killed, or who suffer injury while carrying out their day-to-day tasks in the farming community. A committee, representative of each township in the county, was formed at a meeting held last week. The Huron chairman is Harry Dougall, of Usborne Township. Perhaps because farm accidents are so commonplace, we fail to realize the number there are in any given year, and the extent to which such accidents contribute to increased farm operating costs. The truth of the matter, of course, is that farming is a highly hazardous occupation. Equally true, there are many other hazardous occupations, but unfortunately the accident rate among farmers is higher than in other comparable industries. Could the difference lie in the fact that in most other industries there is in existence a safety conscienceness not present in those engaged in farm activities ? Perhaps action based on the results disclosed by the survey will assist in correcting this situation. OH, CANADA! I shot an Arrow into air, it fell to earth forsaken there. The USA can shoot 'ern better, or so she says—and so we let'er! While other realms build national pride (?) we buy or borrow from outside. O Canada, my native land, on guard, by proxy, we now stand! Our sovereignty of the True North, Marine and Airways ransomed forth— Breathes there a man with soul so dead ? "Yes, up in Canada," 'tis said! WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1959 SUGAR and SPICE (By W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley) A woman recently wrote the ed- itor of the Bowmanville Statesman, asking him why in the world his paper carried this Sugar and Spice column by this Smiley fellow. She claimed she had never yet found anything interesting or amusing in it, objected to the callous way he spoke of his family, and suggested that he was merely an unpleasant sort of person who refused to ac- cept the responsibilities of family life. She added that she had sev- eral children of her own, so knew something about such responsib- ilities. * * * The lady is absolutely right. I refuse to accept my responsibilities. I also refuse to accept the fact that I am not young and handsome. It makes me feel better to battle these things. When I begin ac- cepting my family responsibilities, I will have ceased to be a free man, or the remnants of one, and will have become the mere plod- ding, senseless statistic this crazy North American society of ours would like to make each one of us. So as long as there's breath in my body, or I don't break one of my typewriting fingers. I'll fight the good fight against the slow strangulation of the free man in the anaconda coils of family res- ponsibility. * * * When I say that I refuse to ac- cept these responsibilities, it does- n't mean that I don't fulfill them. Oh I do. I do. But being a pack - mule doesn't necessarily mean you enjoy lugging large loads about on your back. And ^being a family man doesn't necessarily mean you enjoy wet -nursing a lot of people just because you happened to marry them or father them. *: * It seems to me that the joys of family life are greatly over -rated, and all I try to do is maintain some sort of balance. Animals know how to deal with families. They have them often, teach them to eat and get along in the world, then turf them out to fend for themselves. * * That, of course, is much too simple for brilliant, monogamous humans. We make an almighty fetish out of marriage and a vir- tual hysteriama out of producing a child. Then, in the name of family responsibilities, we spend the next, and the best, twenty years of our lives trying to hatch the egg with- out breaking the shell. As a res- ult, all -too often, when the shell does break, the yolk is either hard or rotten. * "But he was always such a GOOD boy!" wails the mother whose dangerous young animal, nurtured on. the idea that the world is his oyster and all he needs to open it is a switch -knife, has just carved up some other human. * * Under the guise of being good parents, and because we haven't the intestinal fortitude to give battle, we accept all the respon- sibilities of our children. And thereby we steal their self-reliance, undermine their independence of thought and imbue them with the charming idea that there's always somebody around to do the dirty work and pull the chestnuts out of the fire. * * * With each generation, children grow more surly and their parents more servile. They wax smarter as their parents become sillier. Don't blame the kids. It's only amazing that so many of them turn out as well as they do. If many modern mothers had their way, their sons would never marry, just stay home with Mom. Many modern fathers cannot conceive of a young man pure enough to marry their flower-like daughters. * * * The hilarious part is that, after we have sacrificed, for their sake, our dignity, our health, our free- dom and our integrity,, we axe hor. rifled to find them looking upon us with the subdued disgust with which one might eye a leper. We are practically stoned with dismay when they cast us off like an old rubber boot. I feel at times a great pity. for the youth of today. They are at heart as eager, as adventurous, as keen to savour life, as ever any generation was. But, in the name of family responsibilities, or some such twaddle, we're giving them a poor basis for living. However, there's no use getting worked up about this. I refuse to accept my family responsibilities, and I do it proudly. Stop fighting back for one minute, and your wife and children start treating you with the disgusting patronage ac- corded a Dagwood Bumstead. There's nothing noble about a doormat. * * * And now, if you'll excuse me, I have to type out the invitations to Kim's birthday party, then help Hugh with a couple of those rug- ged arithmetic questions, then do the dishes while my wife's at a meeting. But never fear, I'll be right back in there tomorrow at lunchtime, battling the vanishing prestige of parenthood. And get- ting a lot of lip from all quarters, no doubt. Letter to the Editor Daylight Saving Time Citizens News, Zurich, Ontario. Dear Sirs: To the editor cerned regarding Time. Hillbilly, I hope our friendship does not cease over this aggre- vating question. I compliment you for coining to the rescue of your fellow men and their ideals. I gather from your fluent art- icle that it is necessary for all, including farmers, to gear up to the so-called modern times. To some extent you have, however, contradicted yourself, when you term as crap the TV programs which children could do without. You apparently fear to burn or rot under cover when the sun first makes its appearance in the mor- ning. Perhaps some of that might se- em true to your followers, but not and those con - Daylight Saving to the public at large. I admit that the farmer is the backbone of our country, that you and I enjoy to live in, and the freedom accorded us. In the eyes of the business public the farmer is only a feeding tool and of little import- ance. He is at no time privileged to launch his opinion, whether it be right or wrong. By that I have come to the conclusion that he is respected by society only when he submits to their request. After being refused a vote on the Stan- dard Time issue there is nothing to stand in their way for having it if they wish, Farmers have a right to enjoy their freedom as they see fit. So there you are Hillbilly, our little script of paper along with others will add nothing to its just decision, only action, will. count. P.S. Since you have not identi- fied yourself, only by a pen name, I am taking the same privilege. —"PAT" Business and Professional Directory DENTISTS AUCTIONEERS DR. H. H. COWEN DENTAL SURGEON L.D.S., D.D.S. Main Street Exeter Closed Wednesday Afternoon Phone Exeter 36 DR. J. W. CORBETT L.D.S., D.D.S. DENTAL SURGEON 814 Main Street South Phone 273 -- Exeter Closed Wednesday Afternoons DOCTORS Dr. A. W. 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