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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1973
The high cost of food !
In the last year concern has steadily grown over the high
cost of food. Recently housewives boycotted meat for a week
in both the U.S. and Canada. Food producers from farmers
to supermarkets including manufacturers, claim to be innocent
of profit.
Where has the money gone? On a recent radio interview
program, a representative from one of the meat processing
companies revealed that despite increased costs in labour,
machinery and other things, profits for his company had gone
up steadily in recent years thereby benefiting the shareholders.
A research professor interviewed suggested the only perman-
ent solution to increasing food costs is to quit lumping food
with other consumer products operating on the profit principle.
Quality, he said, should be the first consideration of all involv-
ed, from grower through to retailer. He suggested governments
may have to buy into food companies to exercise control,
phasing out unnecessary packaging as well as unnecessary
preservatives used in the industry which are not conducive to
good health, may be harmful, and add to the cost of production.
Those engaged in the food field would have to be compens-
ated for their work but should not expect to make large profits
at public expense. It is certainly an encouraging idea. We
just might get a return to what was once called "good whole-
some food" with.a lot more nutrition to it than we get now.
Modern chemistry has made possible the doctoring of fresh
fruits and vegetables as well as processed foods to the extent
that we may be eating half -rotten foods and never know it.
Consumer groups might urge the government to get a new
perspective on food, collaborating with environmentalists, the
medical profession, as well as growers and processors for more
healthful and cheaper food in Canada.
FIRST PERSO SINGUL r , R
The late Lester Pearson reminisces about his life and career
in First Person Singular, a series of 13 half-hour programs
to be telecast Sunday night at 10 on the CBC network, starting
May 27. The series, subtitled Pearson: The Memoirs of a Prime
Minister, was filmed over a two-year period beginning in
1970. Heading up the CBC production team that made this
remarkable TV chronicle are producer Cameron Graham and
writer -director Munroe Scott, both recognized specialists in films
focusing on the Canadian political scene.
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HOW WE'VE RUINED
SCHOOLS AND
STUDENTS
There appears to be a general
and growing concern about the
quality of education these days.
Not only are teachers concerned,
and they are, but students and
parents are beginning to feel
that they are being short-chang-
ed.
A couple of letters to the edi-
tors of two daily papers recently
were revealing.
In one, a university student
stated that he had read a 2, 000
word essay written by a friend,
who was an honour student. In
the essay, there was one (1)
sentence which did not have a
spelling or grammar error. And
that was the sentence in which
he repeated the professor's topic,
In the other letter, a girl who
dropped out of school three year;
ago because of the rigidity of
the system, was flaming mad.
She returned to Grade 12 this
year and discovered, as she put
it "that education had disap-
peared in the interim."
This young lady said flatly
that while teachers used to
teach for the average in the
class, they are now teaching
toward the poorest students,
with the keen and bright ones
left to fend for themselves. In
her opinion, standards had drop-
ped drastically in three years.
There are few teachers who
would not agree with her on the
last point. Administrators and
"educationists, " whatever they
are, right up to the minister,
blandly assure the, public, via
the media, that standards have
not been lowered.
Perhaps they should take off
their rose-coloured glasses and
Letters
R.R,3, Zurich, Ontario,
May 17, 1973,
Dear Mr. Editor;
We believe that abortion is
murder of innocent babies and
we must do all we can to put
a stop to it.
Last year approximately
50, 000 babies were legally??
aborted in Canada. The law ha;
definitely been abused, yet
broader laws are being called
for in legal murder, Where will
it end?
Last year in Ontario, $6, 000.
000 of our tax dollar was spent
for abortions through OHIP.
Why should decent and honest
taxpayers have to contribute
their premiums toward abortion
(murder)?
Let's all do our part and
write letters of protest to 1.)
Prime Minister Trudeau, 2.)
Mr. Otto Lang, Minister of
Justice, 3.) Mr. Robert Mc-
Kinley --address - House of
Commons, Ottawa, Ontario.
Write to our provincial
leaders, 1.) Mr. William Davis,
2.) Dr. R. Potter, Minister of
Health 3.) Mr. Jack Riddell -
address - Queen's Park, Toron-
to, Ontario,
Many people were opposed to
the energy tax. People protest-
ed and there was positive action
Write letters and protest the
abuse of abortion and help save
innocent lives. Your voice
does count.
Sincerely,
Karl and Mary Regier.
take a good, clear look at real-
ity. But they have managed to
wrap themselves in such a fog
of educational jargon that they
wouldn't know realityunless
it came up and bit them,
What's happened? Maybe I'm
prejudiced, but I don't think
the fault lies with the teachers.
To my definite knowledge,
they are working harder than
ever, under steadily worsening
conditions,
They are teaching as many
as two more classes a day than
they were three years ago. They
are doing more of the unpleas-
ant and uneducational chores
than they did. Such a one is
"trough patrol" as some teach-
ers call cafeterial supervision.
The name is not inacurate.
A few years ago, supervising
a students' dance was an extra
chore, but few teachers really
minded it. One chatted with
the students, deplored their
taste in music, but felt that a
good time was being had by all.
Everybody dressed up and
happy, The lights in the gym
were turned down but not out.
There might be the odd case of
a kid smoking pot or slightly
under the influence but they
were rareties. A regular Sunday
school picnic.
Nowadays it's more like Sat-
urday night in Dodge City. A
darkened gym except for the
stage where four or five baboons
caper and scream incompreli-
ensibles to the accompaniment
of a volume of sound that would
make a boiler factory sound
like a cemetery,
Someone has thrown up again
in the boys' washroom. Two
grim -faced cops stand by the
entrance. A teenage girl is
caught rum -running not one,
but six Dickeys of rye.
In the good old days, years
ago, a young buck could wear
his own Dickey in his hop pock-
et, covered by bis jacket. To-
day, his pants are so tight he
couldn't get anything in that
pocket so he has some little
girl take it in for him. But six!
I'm drifting away from my
topic, but not entirely. The
defiance of rules, the demand
for pew "rights" is all part of
the school scene today. It's a
curious mixture of apathy and
mindless defiance.
I sound as though I'm blam-
ing the kids. I'm not. They're
human, They'll take what they
can get, on the whole. But
what girl won't wear hip -hugger:
if she's allowed to wear jeans,
or a blouse slit to the navel if
she doesn't have to wear a bra?
What young man of sixteen
wouldn't like to have a crack
at growing a beard?
No, the real culprit is neith-
er teachers nor kids. It is the
little empire -builders in the
system. They are so far away
from the classroom, and the
taxpayers, that they have acq-
uired a god -complex.
They've never been in a class
room, or not for years. And if
they are to preserve and expand
their empires, they must ap-
pear to be doing something. So
they scratch each others backs,
come up with revolutionary
ideas that were stale forty years
ago, and hide behind a squid -
like emission of gobbledygook
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