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Zurich Citizens News, 1968-07-25, Page 2PAGE TWO edidatual Coommexit OW OR Stop This Glass -bottle Abuse In recent weeks there have been alarming reports about the prolifera- tion of broken glass and empty bottles strewn along roadsides, farm fields, and on lakesides beaches. In- variably the source has been dis- carded non -returnable soft drink bottles. Hundreds of children and adults have suffered cut feet and there are reports of injured livestock. This is truly a scandalous state of affairs. Unfortunately the situation was pre- dicted most accurately when the whole question of non -returnable bottles was first mooted. However, the soft drink manufacturers went ahead with their little scheme de- spite the warnings. Non -returnable bottles is a scheme first devised by American glass man- ufacturers. They wanted a greatly expanded market. Dissatisfied with the normal expanding market, they hit upon a device that we now know as the non -returnable bottle. With glass bottles no longer carry- ing a premium, they are discarded or smashed by the user. This means the glass manufacturing company has to make a replacement. Soft drink companies were sold on the scheme by the promise of higher profits — the glass bottle manufac- turers offered them a bigger cut. This is how the system works. Two 28 -ounce bottles of soft drink are now offered to the consumer for 53 cents. Formerly, with the return- able bottle carrying a premium, the consumer was charged 59 cents—but there was a 10 -cent rebate on the two bottles, This left a net cost to the consumer of 49 cents—four cents cheaper than at present. But this is only part of the story. There used to be only a two -cent pro- vincial sales tax on the 49 cents. Now this tax is three cents on the 53 -cent bottles. Is this little gim- mick intended as a device to sweeten the provincial government ? And we have not quite finished. During the transition from return- able to non -returnable bottles, one of Canada's largest soft drink companies conveniently reduced the contents of its large bottles. They formerly held 1/ imperial pints (30 fluid ounces); contents are now 1-2/5ths of a pint (28 fluid ounces). At this point we should produce our slide rules or pro- gram a computer. We have no objection to a company making a profit. In fact it is the lifeblood of our business system. But why does a supposedly reputable group of companies sink to devious- ness to improve the profit picture? Why don't the executives have the guts to raise the price of their prod- uct if they are hit by the cost -price squeeze? Reducing the size of the container is a dubious practice, to say the least. But to place soft drink in a non -re- turnable bottle — knowing full well that such a move will produce a chain of injuries and disaster—is complete and utter irresponsibility. And com- pounding the whole issue is the very pressing question of how municipal- ities are going to dispose of vast quantities of bottles thrown in the garbage. This action by the glass and soft drink manufacturers is a classic case of a group making a private profit at social expense. It cannot and must not be tolerated. The Consumers Association of Canada, the city coun- cils of Kitchener and Guelph, plus a host of smaller municipalities, must be commended for urging a halt to this sorry situation. At this point every frarm group in the province must give these local governments their fullest support. More Reform Needed Every day we read in newspapers about crimes committed by unstable or emotionally disturbed persons. When sentenced in court these per- sons often receive some form of psychiatric treatment along with their punishment. Unfortunately, our prisons are not equipped to give effective psychiatric treatment. A special joint commit- tee on penitentiaries was informed in 1966 that the major problems of emotional and mental nature couldn't penitentiary and difficult cases were be handled adequately in Kingston transferred to the maximum security institution at the Ontario Hospital in Penetanguishene, if space is avail - .able. It is an old story. Reform has touched our penal institutions but it has not gone far enough. Inmates, whether mentally well or sick, emo- tionally well or sick, intellectually capable or not, all pass through the prison gates to the same cells, the same jobs and the same rehabilita- tive training. We seem to operate under the old fashioned belief : let the punishment fit the crime. The punishment should fit the criminal. We continue to op- erate our prisons with the multi-pur- pose approach of revenge, deterrence, and rehabilitation, despite the fact that revenge and deterrence are not compatible with rehabilitation. The answer lies somewhere be- tween a hospital, a school and a pris- on, not just a hospital -prison, as some have suggested. In the long run it is cheaper for a society to rehabilitate criminals through purposeful activity and turn them into useful citizens than to store them in prisons, often worsen- ing the mental or emotional disturb- ance that sent them there in the first place.— (Clinton News -Record) Poor People A country is surely going to the dogs when the politicians pound the political pulpit in pseudo speeches de- claiming low-income Canadians as poor people. Poor people are those who have money in the bank but poverty in the head. Poor people are those who will never experience the happiness of fashioning something with their hands. Poor people are those who do not delight in the everlasting beauty of a fawn and doe drinking from a quiet pool at the edge of a forest. Poor people are those who have never learned the song of a bird, who do not know by sound what species it is when the bird is lost from sight behind large leaves on the limb of a basswood tree. People who are bound by selfish- ness can never be rich in sharing human wealth with the neighbor next door. So very poor are those people who walk by on the other side of the street: they have no helping hand involved in the world. Poor are those people who resort to force whether on the picket line or on protest marches Human brutal- ity and human destruction of prop- erty are perhaps the worst forms of poverty that exist in the world. For to be ruled by the mob is to sell the soul, to personally destroy one's God- given individuality. Poor people are those who have not the carefree spirit, the untram- meled purpose, who do not travel the highway to the stars. Poverty exists in the mind. No one is poor who has eyes to see and ears to hear.—The Cobourg (Ont.) Sentinel -Star. Zurich News PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZTJRICH HER TURKHEIM, Publisher .1 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 Subscription Rates: $3,50 per year in advance, in Canada; $4.50 in United States and Foreign; single copies 10 cents ZURICH CITIZONS NEWS Frorn My Window A story from Canadian Press gives some indication of the power a woman holds in her hands . , and why some men are labelled .mice and others are branded rats. Seems that some of the four. footed rodents used for Tabora• tory testing at Queen's Univers- ity are showing strange traits, When they are handled by male technicians they are extremely anti -social but when a certain female technician appears ,on the scene, the rats are like putty in her hands. Dr. Eldon Boyd, a professor of pharmacology at Queen's said that only 20 per cent of the rats who were given doses of a poisonous drug by the lady doctor had died. The same dose given by anyone else would have caused about 80 per cent to die, Dr. Boyd estimated. Several conclusions are ob- vious. First of all, women have the controling influence in most TV VIEWS It would seem that violence has become a nasty word on television. Many have the at- titude that it will go away if it is not seen. One network has adopted the policy that all one -minute pre- views of every program in the corning fall schedule must be' violence -free. Most stations show these previews, or promo- tion announcements as they are called, about a month before the actual shows begin. Let's take the F.B.I. program as an example. Last year's pro- motion of this show was full of action and violence. It made enough people watch, because the show is returning. This year promotion announcement will probably show a couple of .b .BI agents talking for 50 sec. onds. And, will a gun be in sight? We mustn't show people guns or violence. These things don't exist any longer. I'd like to know who thhese network bosses think they're kidding. Violence started when man got on this planet. Are these people saying that television is responsible for vio- lence? Violent acts are com- mitted by persons mentally un- balanced. The habits of men- tally -disturbed people are all different. Some watch TV and some don't. Some read comics and some don't. Some read the Bible and some don't. Some attend the theatre and some don't. Some go to church and some don't. Some teevision ex - (Continued on Page 6) By Shirley Keller cases. Down through the cen- turies it has been increasingly apparent that women sway the destiny of the world. Men are mere puppets who .dance will- ingly on the end of a string be- cause they have not desire to be othewise. Now, at long last we have proof of a sort. Even .dumb rodents who shouldn't know a busty redhead from a curvy blonde refuse to die though the odds say they must. Eighty per cent enjoyed a woman's "treat- ment" so much that they lived in spite of a close of poison, How much more then, will human men deliberately dawdle under milady's thumb, While there is no distinction made in the report between rats and mice, it is common belief that mice are smaller and less bothersome than rats. Gener- ally, that's the main difference between men, too. hence the reference to their remarkable resemblance to either of the rodent families. The man who jumps at the whim of a woman is labelled a mouse. To other men he's less than the virile forceful master he was intended to be. He's quiet and quick, rather ordin- ary in appearance and hateful to women. What's more, he is easily manouevred into a trap and rarely escapes from it. The fellow who is the biggest and slickest with the longest list of distasteful acts to, his credit is branded a rat. He makes a nuisance of himself by showing up in all the wrong places and proves a hog of him- self with another plan's goods. He ruins most everything he touches. He's crafty, too, but no good comes from his ability to outwit others. It is interesting to note, how - Reception and Dance For MR. and MRS. RAY THOMPSON in the Bayfield Pavilion ever, that there is no difference in how rats and mice reaet wi- der the spell of a woman. The logical conclusion therefore, is that either rats or mice can be dominated by a female and that no woman can be ;blamed for the state of the rodent—mouse or rat. That 'comes naturally. And how was the poison fed to these rodents? 1 think it significant that a stomach tube was put into their mouths and the liquid poured through the slender hose. The lady tech- nician did not beguile them with a disguised goodie. Nor did she use trickery some males would expect. Openly and with- out design she ;brought her gadgets to the cage, inserted the tubes and dump e d the poison. The rodents loved it. In fact the report stated "that anybody they (the rodents) like can give a larger dose of a drug to them before they succumb to it, than others can". Man or rodent? It is hard to tell. umesammoffearimm Reception and Dance FOR MR. and MRS. GERALD JOHNSTON (nee Sandra Hugill) THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1948 BROWNIE'S DRIVE-IN CLINTON Box Office Opens at 8:00 p.m. First Show at Dusk Thurs., Fri. --- July 25, 26 ALL COUNTRY MUSIC Double Feature In Color /1 Cotton Pickin Chicken. Pickers" Sonny Tufts, Tommy Noonan Color "Country Music on Broadway" Hank Snow, Ferlin Husgy Color Cartoon SAT., MON., TUES. JULY 27, 29, 30 — DOUBLE FEATURE "Hombre" (Adult Entertainment) Paul Newman, Fredric Marcia Richard Boone Color Saturday. 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