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Zurich Citizens News, 1970-06-04, Page 4PAGE FOUR ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1970 Completely Fed Up! As this column is being written at the week -end it appears highly probable that you won't get a chance to read it for some time to come. All indications point to a strike by postal workers which will leave the newspaper, along with all the rest of your mail, com- pletely stranded. Personally, we are fed up with strikes. Nowadays everyone seems to think that there is some God-given right which permits any and every labor organization to tie up the whole country until their demands are met. What about the rights of the vast majority of people in this country who don't belong to any union? Surely they have a right to expect the normal services for which they pay so dearly. They have a right to try to earn their livings without the continual interruptions. caused by lapor disputes and work stoppages. How about the rights of businesses all over the country who will have to borrow money because col- lections for goods or services cannot be mailed to them? What about the rights of the postal workers in the thousands of smaller centres all over Canada who want nothing more than to get on with their jobs? The de- mands of isolated groups of employees in the big cities are being forced on thousands of others who are not dissatisfied. Canada has been pretty prosperous for the past 20 years, but if the work stoppages continue we are head- ed for the same fate as Great Britain. Labor unrest has brought that country to the brink of ruin -- and it can happen here. (Wingham Advance Times) Why Vandals? When we look at the results of vandalism we some- times shake our heads and wonder how or why such things should take place. It would be good if we would stop and try to figure these things out, then try to do something about them. Why does every vacant building, regardless of who it belongs to, have to have all the windows broken in it? Why do valuable things like aeroplanes on display for sightseers have to be demolished and gutted at the expense of the public? Why do people, young and old, male and female, persist on defacing every wall in sight, both inside and outside, with vulgar words and pictures; destroying the beauty of buildings both public and private? What possesses an individual or a group of individuals to go down the road or street and shoot holes in highway signs or bend and twist the directional signs designed for tae safety of the traveller? These and many other questions could be simply answered by the use of a few common words well known to most of us: words like ignorance, stupidity, too much money, too much time, lack of selfpdiscip- line, poor upbringing, rebellion, and many others sim- ilar. But does this get at the root of the problem? The problem is not vandalism but the cause of vandalism. What can be done abdut it? More than most people think. But, like pollution, and a lot of our other problems, it's going to take the voluntary participation of a lot more people than just the law enforcement officers. Moreover, the image of the law enforcement officers is going to have to be improved by the good citizen and he is going to have to have help in order to bring about a noticeable im- provement in the overall situation. Vandalism and pollution alike are here because too few people are prepared or willing to become per- sonally involved. How long since you personally talked with someone you saw defacing or destroying public or private property? What do you do when you see some- one littering the roads or streets of our country and towns? Everyone who sees someone doing something of this nature should talk to such people. Let them know that someone cares and is concerned about the future of our country and people; that someone else besides law enforcement officers are watching; that public property damage is money out of everyone's pocket and that the public generally is not going to stand for this kind of waste. Vandals will cease their dirty work when we all assume our fair share of respon- sibility. (Nanton News) ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 *,� e Member: '+����e�r`. Canadian Weekly. Newspapers Association 'R Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association 49, Subscription Rates: x.00 per year in advance in Canada; IMO in United States and Foreign; single copies 10 cents. Let's have some service I have no sympathy for any- one except the public. Mail service in this country has gone backwards about 50 years in the past two or three years. Costs have steadily in- creased, and service has steadi- ly decreased, until we have reached the point where many people would welcome the re- turn of the pony express riders who used to carry the mail through dust and storm and hostile Indians. Because it is a government monopoly, it is huge, sprawling and utterly inefficient in a modern socity. No enterprising private business would put up with the incredible sloppiness of the present postal system. If it did, the public would soon put it out of business. It's rather a paradox to note that the liquor stores, which used to operate on a five-day week, are now open six days, plus Friday evenings, while postal service has been cut to five days and post offices close earlier. Apparently there's more profit in booze than publ- ic utilities for government. And that's what the postal service is, or should be — a public utility. Wouldn't we be in a fine state if hydro power, and the telephone service, and police and fire protection were lopped off on Friday, to recommence Monday — or Tuesday, if there were a Fed- eral holiday? The only people who have benefited from Mr. Kieran's new, "efficient" postal service are the telephone and tele- graph companies. They're reap- ing a harvest because big busi- ness has practically stopped us- ing the mails. What's the point of posting an important letter on Wednes- day if you know it probably won't be delivered Friday, and therefore will be delivered the following Monday, or Tuesday if Monday's a holiday It's bad enough to drive a businessman to apoplexy, but it's just as frustrating, on a more personal basis, to the or- dinary citizen. Our daughter lives in the city, 90 miles away. She doesn't have a phone. If we write her on Monday, she gets the letter Thursday or Friday. If there's something urgent, and we write Wednesday, there's no guarantee she'll get it that week. So send her a wire! Suppose she's not at home. She doesn't get the telegram until next day, or the next. If I were to drop dead, she might find out FOCUS: One Moment of Time Our camera records a child's First Smile . . makes an official report on the bride's radiance .. . Commemorates a trio posed for Dad's birthday surprise. Moments like these can never be recaptured unless they are per- fectly preserved by HADDEN'S STUDIO. Your family's pictorial history Should be in qualified hands. Contact Hadden's Studio GODRRICH 118 St. David St. 524.878/ about it a week after the fu- neral. It wouldn't bother me, in that condition, but it might upset her a bit. Today I checked at the local post office. Three mails a day go out. If I send a Ietter to my father-in-law, 120 miles due west, here's the procedure. It goes due east for 35 miles, then southwest for 200 miles, southwest then northwest for 120 miles. The shortest dis- tance between two points is a triangle, in post -office math. There is a good-sized town three miles away. A letter sent from there can, and usual- ly does, take two days to get here. You could walk it in 45 minutes. Paradoxically, a col- league of mine writes his mother in England, and she gets the Ietter within 36 hours. If this is efficiency, I'm all turned around somehow 'Granted, the postal workers were underpaid for years, though I'll witness that they were not overworked. I was employed in a post office dur- ing the Christmas rush and nobody was rushing that much. Pay them a decent wage, give them decent working con- ditions, but let's have some blasted service. If the P.O. runs at a loss, pay it. The CBC and the CNR arc heavily subsidized, and there aren't too many squawks. Mil- lions and millions are thrown down the drain on such flour- ishes as the aircraft carrier Bonaventure, and shrugged off. How about delivering the mail on time! Area Knights Attend Communion Breakfast at Blyth Approximately 140 Knights, members of Father Stephen Eckert Council, of Seaforth and District together with their wives and guests, attended the annual Corp- orate Communion breakfast on Sunday at Blyth Community Hall, following High Mass at St. Mich- aels church. Eighteen members of the Dean Egan Assembly, Sea - forth, fourth degree Knights, headed the parade to and from the church with Cecil Tufts, Stratford, in charge. Grand Knight, Clayton Looby, chairman, extended a welcome to the members and guests. Rev. J. Kelly, pastor of Clinton and Blyth, following his welcome to the Knights, ave the homily. Rev. Arthur Loopy, Toronto, was the celebrant of the 11 o'clock Mass and was also the guest speak er at the breakfast. The head table was as follows: Rev. J. Kelly, Rev. A. Looby, C. C Looby, Grand Knights, Seaforth; Joe Tobin, Stratford, District Deputy , District 31; Frank Furlong, Kitchener, Dist- rict Deputy, District 35, Larry Lemencheck, Grand Knight, Kilroy Council, Stratford; Lester McKenna, Deputy Grand Knight, Father Nagle Council, Godench; Leo Hagan, Deputy Grand Knight, Father Stephen Eckert Council, Seaforth, Alcin Rau, Past Grand Knight, Seaforth; James Devere- aux, chancellor, Seaforth; Charles Rau, Faithful Navigator, Dean Egan Assembly, fourth degree Knights, Seaforth; Ken Stapleton, treasurer, John J. Flanagan, Financial Secretary; Clem Krauskopf, Warden; Thom- as Ryan, Recorder and John Paul Rau, trustee. Deputy Grand Knight, Leo Hagan, expressed a sincere "thank- you" on behalf of all present to Father Looby for his interesting address. James Dev- ereaux thanked the Blyth CWL for the wonderful breakfast they served. Business and Professional Directory OPTOMETRISTS J. E. 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