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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1974
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Value of adult education
Education is usually being frowned on by adults as some-
thing not belonging in their lives, but merely in the world of
youngsters as part of basic schooling. They reason they finish
their education when they left school, that they were able to
get along fairly well ever since and that there is no reason for
them to pick up books again, to study abstract subjects and to do
homework in the same way as their own children have to do.
But in the complex structure of modern living, an intellectual
revolution is needed among adults. Not so many years ago,
they really were able to coast along very well on what they
had learned in school and to add some further knowledge by
way of hobbies, but things have changed and continued educat-
ion is now necessary to life.
There are many influences contributing to the state of af-
fairs --what is going on in the world has implications for every
individual; automation demands wide knowledge, resiliency
and adaption; increased leisure threatens to ruin the essential
humans in human beings; it takes wider knowledge and deeper
understanding to live happily in a modern world and without
up to date knowledge we are plunged into great confusion after
a short time.
Instead of putting periods here and there in life, as at the
end of school days or at the end of bachelorhood or the end of
employment on going on pension, commas should be put in
these places to allow a branching out into more spacious versions
of life.
Continued learning carries us beyond the easy judgements and
superficial training of youthful immaturity. It builds qualities
of the mind which enable us to understand responsibilities and to
detect opportunities and to build a philosophy which becomes
part of life. It is a continuing initiation in the art of living
everyday life. Nothing other than adult learning can build
the wisdom indispensable to the preservation and strengthening
of our society. People must continue their development so as to
be able to judge new ideas, assess happenings for their signific-
ance, and to judge the purposes, and effects of political decis-
ions.
This constructive approach to life is an essential of enduring
freedom. We need straight thinking, disciplined creativity
and responsible co-operation. Such qualities as sound values,
understanding and sympathy only develop in an environment
of knowledge. All these combine to qualify us to exercise
the right and meet the obligations of freedom. Every kind of
knowledge, every acquaintance with nature and art, every new
understanding of human ways helps towards a comprehensive
understanding. of life. The world into which we were born has
changed and is changing; it is not enough to hold ground --
we must make progress. It is adults who make homes,
churches, schools, communities; it is adults who determine
policy on our political, economic and social fronts; it is adults
who have to cope with the dangers and opportunities of every
passing day. (Elmira Signet)
Anne Murray, Canada's first lady of song, and Cape Breton
singer-musican John Allan Cameron star in a 60 -minute tele-
vision special on the CBC -TV network Friday, May 24 at 9 p.rn.
Title is Annie , . , North of 60, and documents a triumphant
concert tour by Anne and her troupe to the northern commun-
ities of Fort Churchill, Yellowknife, Inuvik and Whitehorse.
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WATER TANK DEMOLISHED - The old wooden water storage tank in Zurich has become a
thing of the past this week, as workmen have completed the demolition project. Contractor,
Hubert Miller, of Dashwood, is shown here in front of the rank as his crew begin the work.
Discuss
police
A member of rhe Ontario
Police Commission (OPC)
suggested last Thursday night
that the use of telephone answ-
ering services by Huron County
municipal police departments
may be illegal.
Judge T. t . Graham was one
of four OPC commissioners
answering questions from elect-
ed county officials and the
chiefs of police of Goderich,
Clinton, Seaforth, Exeter and
Wingham.
The municipalities are cons-
idering a county -wide police
force.
Judge Graham said provincial
regulations require extensive
checks on the background of
persons receiving police calls,
including clearance by the
RCMP.
His statement came in reply
to Goderich Police Chief P. D
King's description of the answ-
ering services used by municip-
al police departments.
Only the nine -man Goderich
force and the five -man Winghan
force have uniformed officers
on duty 24 hours a day. In God-
erich, if a call is received at
night and the one officer on duty
isnot in the office, an answer-
ing service --paid a flat rare
for its work --receives the call
and transmits it by radio to the
officer in his cruiser.
In Clinton, Exeter and Sea -
forth, similar answering services
are used,
.The meeting, organized by
Exeter police chief Ted Day to
discuss a proposal for a county-
wide police force, drew mixed
reaction from elected officials.
Chief Day presented a list of
advantages he said would result
from the creation of such a
force.
Among the advantages were:
*Use of a central dispatching
and communication system loc-
ated at a central position in the
county.
*Use of personalized portable
radios for all police officers on
patrol:
* Central identification off-
ices for fingerprinting, and
photography.
Wingham police commission
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