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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1959-05-27, Page 2ZURICH Citizens NEWS PAGE TWO ZURICH Citizen NEWS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING at ZURICH, ONT., for the Police Village of Zurich, Hay Township, and the Southern Part of Stanley Township,in Huron County. IM PublisherBusiness A. L. CO Business Manager PRINTED BY CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, CLINTON, ONT. Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Member: Member CANADIAN WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATIOI' Subscription Rates: $2.50 per year in advance, in Canada; $3.50 in United States and Foreign; single copies, 5 cents. ONTARIO WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1959 THE TOWN CLOCK "WHAT HAS HAPPENED to the clock on the Lutheran an Church steeple?"is the question asked by many people the past months. For almost a year now the clock has not been operating, and the sound of its striking is missed by many residents of the village. While the clock is on a building owned by the church it has long been called the town clock, and has been taken for granted by all the citizens of the town. From the information we have been able to gather there seems to be a misunderstanding about the maintenance of the time -piece. We realize it is quite a chore to climb up in the steeple of the church and wind the clock every week, especially when the remuneration for the task is practically nil. However, we feel perhaps that the village as a whole should be interested in preserving this old landmark, and could take it upon them- selves to pay the costs of keeping the clock operating. While this clock is situated on the Lutheran Church, we are given to understand that the purpose of it was to serve as an official time -piece for the while community. With to -day's trend towards more modern mechanism it would indeed be gratifying to see this clock, which has served for so many years, kept in operation. How about it, town fathers, is there not some- thing that could be done? THINKING OF LEAVING SCHOOL? ARE YOU THINKING of leaving school ? If so, the advice of the National Employment Service is "Don't." They made a study of the employment picture in Canada and found that two out of three unemployed persons had not gone beyond grade eight; and people with only two years of high school are just as likely to be unemployed. The more schooling you have the more opportunities will be open to you. The best jobs are not easy to get. When employers hire people fresh out of school they want someone who is worth training. Will your school record show that you have initiative, can work hard and have a lively interest in what you are doing? The more schooling you have, the better your chances of finding a good job, and the more easily you can learn new things and improve your skills. Earning,money and feeling grown up may seem more attrac- tive than going on with your education, School discipline seems tiresome and subjects taught pointless. Lack of interest leads to failure and failure to discouragement. Remember, business and industry have discipline, which if disregarded leads to loss of employment. Earning your own pocket money at 15 or 16 may seem like true independence but would the young person of 25 or 26 be satisfied witch. such a job ? Make the most of your schooling now. At some time in your life you need ALL you have learned. The more you learn the better your chances to get a job and to keep it. ATTENTION — FARMERS • MILK • EGGS • CREAM • POULTRY WE PAY TOP PRICES O'BRIEN'S PRODUCE Phone 101 ® Zurich SUGAR and SPICE (By W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley). Just this minute I looked at the calendar, and realized that I have another birthday corning up next week. I'm never sure how old I am. I always have to remember the year in which I was born. and subtract it from the present year. For the past three or four years, I haven't had a clue whether I was 37, 38 or 39, without doing arith- metic. *, *: ,, The figuring completed, it came as no shock to me that I'll be 39 on June 2nd, and I accepted the fact that I'm well past the midway mark with a reasonable lack of panic. After all, I've still got some hair, half a dozen of my own teeth, and one or two of my fac- ulties. * * * Not that the relentless years haven't taken their toll. Thanks to an oft -broken nose, I have no sense of smell whatever. But this is not entirely a disadvantage. True, I can't smell perfume on dames, but this is safer. I can't smell food cooking, but it keeps me from gorging and growing obese. On the silver lining side, I can't smell onions, skunks, man- ure piles or whisky breaths. * And I have a lot of little aches and pains. I don't leap out of bed any more, carolling "here hath been dawning another new day. think wilt thou let it slip useless away?" I kind of edge out, groan- ing and grunting, swinging my bad leg to the floor with both hands. But it's amazing how much danc- ing, weeding and praying that bad leg gets nie out of, No, it isn't the physical disinte- gration that gets me down. What disturbs me is the automatic ac- celeration of time with the ad- vancing years. The older you get, the faster it flies. Which is both unreasonable and unfair. • * * When you are five years old, life progresses at a barely discernible pace. It is made up of endless en- vestigations of mud, breakables, dogs and similar interesting things, broken only by leisurely, messy meals and long, dreamless sleeps. A regular picnic. * ,:* When you are ten, life is still in no rush. A month away, or even next Saturday, seems like a long time. Summer holidays stretch lazily, interminably ahead. You can't conceive of becoming a mid- dleaged man of thirty, it seems so far off. MORTGAGE, TAXES, FEED BILL DUE, BUT WHERE'S THE LOAN TO SEG METHROUGH ? * ** At fifteen, especially if you're suffering from a small case of un- requited love, some pimples on the day of the dance, or some such catastrophe, a few hours can be as endless as eternity. Even at twen- ty, time is limitless, something to be spent, not treasured. * In other words, during the for- mative years, when your appreciat- ion of life is about as deep as that of a puppy, time dawdles, loiters tarries, pokes and inches along. You waste great gobs of it playing, pretending, dreaming, mooning or just rushing about. Then, when you begin to mature enough to enjoy life to the full, time begins to dangle along at an alarming clip. By the time you have acquired the wisdom and per- ception to savour every moment of life, every scent and sight and WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1959 sound, your senses of smell, sight and hearing are dulled, and time is careening past you like a fire truck. a, * * And when you have grown old, and every second in infinitely prec- ious, suddenly there is no time for anything except to prepare for death. Perhaps it is as well that we grow weary and full of aches and miseries when we get old. Otherwise, how could we bear to part with life, just when we have realized at last what a privilege it has been to be bornand to have lived in this fascinating world! sY * When we become so absorbed in ourselves, so concerned with what (Continued on Page Eight) 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. 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