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Zurich Citizens News, 1966-03-03, Page 2PAGE TWO ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1964 edidaud The Small Economy Size As the years pass, it is increasingly usual for manufacturers to determine what price may reach the widest market, and then to build the product to that price. In our competive society, this results in a downgrading of quality in the race for sales, until at bast one reaches in vain for things that are made with pride, and per- haps also well priced because the maker found efficient means to produce them. "Planned obsolescence" is a shabby philosophy. It steals away the pride a craftsman finds in producing the very best his ability permits, It turns an industrial adventure into industrial drudgery, and the effect upon our society is corrosive. We wonder why young people constitute a "beat generation". In their lifetimes, no- body ever asks them to do something su- perbly well. They are only asked to do it cheaply, and do it fast. Our demand for things not antique, but of enough age to shine through with pride in craftsmanship, has its roots in ad- miration for something a man made as well as his ability permitted. Such things re- flect in each component, the maker's faith that what bears his name should also honor it. Money is a very desirable commodity. It is good to have. But it is not the end of life. The journey ends soon enough, and then the question must be, not what was accumulated, but what was done. As a nation, our eyes are intent upon how much we can sell, and thus diverted from considering the quality of what we pro- duce. The admonition, "When you build, build forever," envisions a pinnacle that may not be scaled, but in the effort to attain it, we may succeed in doing some- thing better than it has been done before. In that success, posterity gains a cubit in stature for our existence, but if we fail, those who come afterward find no goal. There is nothing that cannot be made a little worse, and sold a little cheaper, but the purchaser is not alone the prey. In the making of such goods, people are involved, and they can never rise higher than their determination to do the job better. Prayer is not only in words; it is also in the things of the hands, which are known as well, and answered as surely. Those things ought not be the very cheap- est we know how to make. They ought to be the very best—North Kingston (R.I.) Standard. Accident Rates Farmers this year joined the rest of the businessmenin Ontario and are now operating within the terms of the Work- men's Compensation Act. Already claims have been paid. One of the first was for an employee whose ribs were injured when he was kicked by a cow; another for removal of grain dust from an eye; a lady at a mushroom farm near Weston had a claim allowed for seven days off work due to an infected finger. Near Thamesford a wrist injury re- ceived when an employee was struck by a turkey's wing caused a man to be off work three days and his claim was al- lowed. Other claims to date show payments for a twisted knee, dislocated shoulder, broken wrist and also medical aid for an employee at a Brampton nursery who has bulb poisoning from a variety of chrysan- themum. The variety is there. The value to those needing help is evident. Details of coverage have been made known to the farm community by letters, speeches, forums, etc., and this will con- tinue. Workmen's Compensation is a cov- erage other businesses have employed for many years. There are continual changes as details of accidents and claims continue to change. ,Rates also change. We are intrigued by the rates set for agriculture at $1.00 per hundred for some special operations and $3.50 per hundred for general farming. (Back in 1963 rates for these two groups were $1.25 and $4.50 —so the cost is already reduced.) In contrast, rates in the printing trade for instance, were just 20 cents per hun• dred dollars of payroll in 1965. This only indicates that years of train- ing in safety, years of safety inspections and continued use of safety features in printing machinery has cut down the num- ber and extent of injuries in the printing trades throughout the province. As the agriculture industry becomes more safety conscious they will doubtless be able to reduce the costs of accidents in their business, too—and then the rate charged under Workmen's Compensation will be lowered.—Clinton News -Record. No Capital Gains Tax, Yet Canadians are wearily accustomed to a good many kinds of taxes, including that basic kind of tax which calls for making out your annual return not later. than April 30. One kind of tax which is used in some other countries is unknown to Canadians. We do not pay, and we have never had to pay, a capital gains tax. If you bought your house 20 years ago for $6,000, and sell it tomorrow for $10,000, you can happily put the $4,000 differnce in your pocket (Almost all of the $4,000, that is; the On- tario government will take a Little nibble one-fifth of one per cent, as a land trans- fer tax; after April 1, the nibble will be at the rate of two-fifths of one per cent, or $40 out of your $10,000.) We should not be too certain that we are to continue being free of this partic- ular kind of tax. The Carter Commission, which has been at work for two years studying the tax jungle in Canada, is ex- pected to make its report, with recommen- dations before June. Until its recommen- dations become known, there is bound to be speculation about whether it may rec- ommend a capital gains tax. There has been some food to feed this curiosity, in a recent report of the Belanger Commis- sion, which was appointed to study the provincial tax structure in Quebec. The Belanger Report advised that if Ottawa should introduce a capital gains tax, Que- bec should have one too. Some tax ex- perts, obviously, are thinking in that di- rection. Up until now, farmers who have to pay income tax had the comforting thought that they could at least expect to keep the difference in price between what the farm- er paid to get started as a young man, and what he receives when he sells the farm and retires as an old man. Similarly, the city wage-earner who is buying his home with mortgage payments, and paying city taxes out of the money left after income tax, has known that any increase in the value of his house, while he was paying on it, would be his gain to keep for him- self. We should not be to certain that this state of affairs will continue in Canada. The United States has a capital gains tax, at the rate of 25 per cent. If an Ameri- can buys 100 shares of stock at $10 and sells them at $15, the United States reaches out its hand for $125 of his capital gain. We see the surprising notion advanced by some financial writers that a capital gains tax might be welcomed by those few Canadians who are very wealthy, The rea- soning is that there would be many. border- line eases, in which a man with a big income might be able to pay the capital gains tax, if there were such a thing, in- stead of paying income tax. A capital gains tax at 25 per tent would hurt him much less than income tax on any income above the $40,000 level. Even on income above the $25,000 level, a man would do no worse paying capital gains tax, than paying income tax. — Stratford Beacon - Herald. Grade Eighters with Parents are High School Guests A meeting at the South Hur- on District High School last Tuesday evening allowed grade eight students and their parents to get a first hand look at the school they will be attending next fall. The meeting was a new move •to bring closer com- munication between the high school, grade eight teachers, students and parents. Prior to the meeting grade eight teachers, school princi- pals, representatives of the area separate schools and area school inspector G. J. Burrows were guests of the SEMIS board for dinner following a meeting be- tween these people and teach- ers et the SHDHS. Board chairman K. H. Johns and man- agement committee chairman Dr, R. W. Read represented the board on this occasion. 1 From My Window By Shirley Keller "NEITHER HOT NOR COLD" Now that I am a lady of com- parative leisure, I have a little more time for the simple pleas- ures heretofor Crowded out by all sorts of commitments out- side the home. For one thing, I have been catching up on some of the reading I have in- tended to do and just finished a delightful book entitled "Warm bodies", written by Donald R. Morris. Although the title suggests a torrid love story laced with il- licit happenings that would lift the bonnets off the ladies' mis- sion circle, the tale woven by Morris contained a laugh on every page and wisdom in each detail. Oddly enough, it was a sea story told from the viewpoint of a young bachelor who just happened to be elected acting captain when the captain left on vacation. The problems he encountered on board ship with his erew and in dry dock with his girl 'combined for fun -type reading. For me, the most intriguing part of the book was the au- thor's explanation of the title, "Warm Bodies". Apparently the navy uses this term to de- scribe persons with little ambi- tion, few brains and no real purpose for living. But let the author say it: "A Warm Body is a man with at least one arm and two fing- ers who can pick something up when he is told to. Warm Bodies can carry boxes, count small objects, turn on lights, chip paint and sweep. Warm Body material can be found alinost anywhere." When you think of it, Warm Body is an excellent name for a person who drifts with the tide, letting others do his wor- rying for him and permitting society to pick up his tab. Truly a person like that is just a body, actually dead but still warm. However, the study of Warm Bodies does not end on this low note for the author hastens to point out the need for persons of this calibre. He says there are certain jobs that only Warm Bodies can do—either because they are not quite so proud or because they are more easily Parents and teachers were given the opportunity to tour the building between 7 and 7:30 p,m. and 9 and 9:30 p.m. Ap- proximately 550 parents and students were on hand to hear an outline of the courses of- fered both at this school as well as the secondary school at Clin- ton. A lively question and an- swer period allowed parents to question teachers further as to requirements for universities, nurse training and many other professions. The parents were given an outline of the four and five year courses by prin- cipal L. D. Palmer. A statement issued by the minister of education was used to outline the new emphasis. The general, commercial and technical courses as divisions of the secondary schools have been renamed as branches: (1) arts and science; (2) business and commerce; (3) science, technology and trades. A shift in emphasis has been suggested whereby the more capable pu- pils from all three branches of a secondarw school, after a five- year program ending in a com- mon grade 13, will be encour- aged to proceed to higher edu- cation. Zurich News PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZIURICH HERB TURkHEIM, Publisher J E. HUNT, Plant Superintendent Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa and for payment of postage in cash. Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Member: Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association Member: Canadian Community Newspapers Representatives Subscriptiln Rates: $3.00 piedr year n advance,gn; single opies `lac ;$4.00 in United States and a 1 satisfied. Any way you look at it these are two qualities more folks need for they are the basis of happy living. I suppose everyone knows someone who could be classed as a Warm Body and while we who think ourselves more bene- ficial to society are secretly chortling about our accomplish- ments; we may find ourselves strangely envious of the Warm Body. Without even knowing why, we are jealous of his abil- ity to eke out an existence and be happy doing it. We get to wondering whether the day to day struggle for bread and the higher priced spread is really worth the ef- fort. Sometimes the desire to succeed leads to ulcers, mental madness, unnecessary worry and petty problems unknown to Warm Bodies worthy of the name. 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