Zurich Citizens News, 1969-07-24, Page 13THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1969
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The International Scene
(by Raymond Canon)
I suppose the tllaotl is about
as international a topic as you
can find these days, since
as these lines are being written,
the Americans and Russians both
have rockets on their Ivay to the
moon. If all goes well, the
Americans will have landed on
the moon by the time you read
this. Since TV programs arc
always interrupted for sonic news
bulletins on the progress of the
astronauts, I suppose that it won't
do me any harm to write about
the moon too. I'in going to
keep away froin all the technical
data, however, since I don't
understand it anyway. Rather I
thought I'd write on what people
have believed and said about the
moon through the ages.
It semis that ever since the
time was first recorded the moon
has been a popular subject, and
because people have always
seen the moon much more clearly
than the other stars and planets,
it is only natural that thoughts
should be turned toward it, or tha
it should even be credited with
great powers.
Just think Of some of the things
that have been done in the sonic
of the moon. Sonic people have -
prayed to it, a lot of people
have made by it, it has been
used to count time, and all sorts
of campaigns have been carried
out when tllc moon was in the
right phase. People have written
poetry to it, composed songs
about it, created all sorts of
myths concerning it, and blamed
all sorts of weatrier on it.
having done all these things,
man is finally going to have a
look at it to sec if it's really all
it's cracked up to bc. Just
think how ivany inyrhs might be
shattered when the men come
back and tell us the truth about
it. It makes you shudder at the
thought of it.
For our more primitive ancestor
the moon was more or less than
For our more primitive ancest-
Ors the moon was nothing more
or less than a god and its cycles
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or phases were tied in with life
and death itself. In Egypt, for
example, the moon was the god
of wisdom, learning and measure
utero which is a pretty big chore
for such a little planet.
The Sumerians had it much
more complicated. If the moon
was surrounded by the right
order of stars, which what it
was every few years, this meant,
of all things, that the king had
to die, anti die lie did, i u
splendour too. \\'c would call
it sadism, but the Sumerians
didn't, and they even threw in
a few other people. for good
measure. In one Sumerians
torah, the king's departure
from this life had been made
with 00 less than 65 people,
and his wife as well. It says
something for the position of
women at that time, or queens
at any rate, that the queen
only rated 25 people to die with
her. It would he interesting
to know how they chose. volun-
teers.
('Inc rca11\ popular legend is
that the full moon was supposed
ro bring our werewolves, these
people who are inion by day,
animal by night, and make
their living by feasting on other
people. This legend has pretty
well died out among civilized
people but I will admit that TV
has tried hard ro keep up with
the myth, and there arc any
number of youngsters who still
half believe it an> way.
But 1 couldn't close without -
mentioning that even the great-
est of English writers, Shal<es-
peare, referr, d to the moon
constantly, and he saw it in all
sorts of portents, or at least
his ltcros did. ,\union} and
Cleopatra, Othello, Richard 1I
all had something to say about
it, more in awe than in anything
else.
Maybe we aren't any better thou:
any of our ancestors. After all
we all moon around at some time
or other, don't we?
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Banks to Accept
Payments For
Unemployment
Close to 200, 00 of the 450, 000
employers registered with the
'Chimp loyment Insurance
Commission of Canada will
soon pay their monthly contri-
butions directly to chartered
-banks and certain other financial
institutions, it was announced
today,
The purpose of this innovat4on,
effective October 1, is to make
it easier for employers using the
bulk payment method to make
their payments. Negotiations
with the various institutions
have been going on since Janu-
ary 1969 and are still continuing.
New remittance forms have
been designed to replace the
old and will be sent out to all
employers using the bulk pay-
ment method in the month of
September. These forms will
he filled out in duplicate so
that when the employers pays
he will receive a reccipred
copy of his remittance for his
records.
There is no charge to the
employer for this new service.
ale is not required to pay ex-
change if he is obligated to
send remittance money to sante
other city.
Under the new arrangements,
the employer send rice stoney.
ro his own financial institution,
either by cheque or by cash, or
he arranges to have his account
automatically debited when he
sends the remittance forts in.
The atone y then goes to the
agency of the batik of Canada
where it is deposited ro the credit
of the UIC.
Tf the employer's present
banking facilities do not conte
under the new agreement, he
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back. But in this ease the
bank will probably want a
certified cheque, cash or stony
order.
Sonie institutions such as those
with no commercial accounts,
and 501110 of the larger trust
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Box Office Opens at 8.00 p.m.
ALL DOUBLE FEATURE SHOWS
THURS. and FRI.
July 24 and 25
"LADY IN
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Showing at 9.15 p.m.
(Adult Entertainment) — Starring
Frank Sinatra
Raquel Welch
Dan Blocker
Set in Miami Beach, this "Tony
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In Color — — PLUS
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Showing at 11:00 p.m.—Starring
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MARY TYLER MOORE
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