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Zurich Citizens News, 1959-01-28, Page 2ZURICH Citizens NEWS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1959 ZURICH Cdr NEWS Published every Wednesday Morning at Zurich, Ontario, for the Police Village of Zurich, Hay Township, and the Southern part of Stanley Township, in Huron County. Printed by Clinton News -Record, Clinton, Ontario Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa A. L. COLQUHOUN HERB. M. TURKHEIM Publisher Business Manager Subscription Rates: $2.50 per year in advance, in Canada; $3.50 in United States and Foreign; single copies, 5 cents. Subscriptions payable Zuricch, Ontar o, orr to Zdistrict correspondents, Zuricli Citizens Box 149, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1959 IT HAPPENS EVERY TIME WHY IS IT that every time there is a special occasion which includes a guest speaker, the poor chap, who maybe drives many miles to get there, is left to the very last number on the program? All through the evening every Joe and his brother is up on his feet to say at least 15 minutes worth of nothing, and the poor guest speaker sits and waits. By the time he is clue to speak he has either forgotten what he was going to talk about or the hour is so late he feels tie should cut his address in half. A perfect example of this took place last week at the 1a ederation banquet in Zurich. The whole evening was a decided success and the groups are to be complimented on the efforts, but, why, oh why, make the poor guest speaker wait until 20 minutes to 12 to say his few words? When Mr. Jewell got on his feet to talk we got the impression that he couldn't care less whether he spoke or not, and how long. It is a terrible strain on a man to sit for three hours waiting his turn to say something. This is not the first time such a thing has happened, and probably won't be the last. But we wonder what a man must feel like being shoved aside for that length of time. And, as the hour grows later, a speaker must think of how he can shorten his address so as not to take up too much more of the people's time. We wonder, perhaps, if it would not be better to hold enter- tainment off until the last number of such programs. Usually they are being well enough paid that if some of the crowd has left they should not be offended. However, the poor guest speaker, who in all probability comes free gratis, must stand there and try to keep the attention of the half crowd which has been brave enough to remain for his talk. We are sure any speaker will agree with us on this point, so, the next time someone is planning such an event, keep him in mind. He will appreciate it. THE HIGH SCHOOL SITUATION SOME TIME AGO we stirred up a lot of controversy in this paper with the proposal that another high school should be built here in Zurich. We have not changed our minds one bit, in fact we feel the need is greater than ever. In lookin gover the annual reports of both South Huron and Clinton District High Schools we note where Hay and Stanley Townships are in the top bracket as far as paying towards the respective schools is concerned. At the same time we feel the children in these two townships are suffering most hi the distance they must travel to get to school. At the farthest point in Hay a pupil must travel at least 20 miles before reaching his destination. On cold winter mornings such as these, this distance is much too far, especially when there could be a school centrally located in Zurich. The Stanley pupils in the south west corner must travel at least 35 miles before reaching the Clinton school. Does this not seem ridiculous to you parents? The Department claims there must be a minimum of 250 pupils to efficiently operate a high school. We are sure the largest part of Hay, combined with the south half of Stanley, could easily produce an enrolment of this amount. The farthest any student would be from the school is nine or ten miles at the most, so what more could we ask for as far as being centrally located is concerned? Now we hear a report in the Wingham district where they are considering a second high school out at Brussels. This would only sound like good judgment on the part of those ocncerned. Filling the present schools with close to 1,000 students is over- loading the facilities available and we feel that it is high time this is stopped. We would like to know what some of the parents in the south half of Stanley think of the idea of another school in the district. Surely you do not like your children travelling such Tong distances each day when it is quite feasible to have another school located in Zurich. LONG OVERDUE (Wingham Advance -Times) DAIRY PRODUCERS in this country recently announced that a new policy of attractive packaging for butter, cheese, and such other goods would be initiated. Frankly this sounds like good business. Turnover of many present day products has been increased to amazing degree by colorful and imaginative wrap- pings. Consumers may protest that fancy packages only increase the cost of an article on sale, and this is perhas true. However, the public has little room for complaint for it is the public's favorable response interpreted in dollars and cents which has brought about the new presentation of so many prosaic articles of merchandise. In any case it is not too definitely established that the fancy wrappings do actually up the price, for iwth increased sales comes higher volume production at decreased unit cost. The same charge has often been levelled at the advertising industry by those who contend that consumer goods have been made more expensive because of advertising costs. Analysis on business trends in Canada and the United States has long since proven that the most widely -advertised products are the ones which reach the consumer at the fairest price—once again because volume production has been attained. We can recall stating to a group of irate cream producers away back ten years ago that the answer to the margarine pro- blem was more imaginative sales efforts rather than government prohibition. It would seem that some of these same producers have seen the light. SUGAR and SPICE (By W. (Bill) B. T. Smiley) They're at it again, Every few years, after a happy, peaceful per- iod of claming the Yanks, berat- ing the British, scoffing at the French, and being leery of the Russians, the people of Canada turn and rend themselves with the savage tenderness of a dog attacking his own fleas, .tts always the same. Some ed- ictrial writer, aware that the "let- ter -to -the -editor" column has been growing dull of late, sends up a trial ballon about a distinctive Canadian flag. Oh, he doesn't have to commit either himself or his paper. He merely demands that the government stops shilly-shally- ing with this vital matter, which has been dillied and dallied with for years. That does it. The horse is no sooner out of the barn than good, solid Canadians flock in their leg- ions, to lock the door or yank it off the hinges. For the next six months, letters to the editor will be couched in the most belligerent terms, and signed, variously: "Throw off the Yoke", or "There'll Always be an England", or "Let's Grow Up" or "U. E. Loyalist" or "Down with Popery" or "The Un- ion Jack Forever", * * * In fact these letters will con- tain such a rich, heady mixture of the loyal, the heretical, the stand- fast, the radical, the true-blue and the red revolutionary, that our ed itorial friend will be kept in a continual state of chortling good humour. - * * Well, 1 hey're not getting me in- to it this time. Four or five years ago, during the last flag fiasco, I took a stand and declared myself for a truly Canadian flag. In fact, 1 went so far as to outline a dis- tinctive design that would have made our flag stand out anywhere. * M T I've forgotten some of the de- tails, but the general outline was something like this. ' In the mid- dle, a purple pig, representing the dignified prosperity of the Canad- ian people. rampant on a field of rye iCanadian Club, of course), with an Okanagan apple in his mouth. The hog, the rye and the apple, you see, would cover Ontario, the Prairie Provinces and B.C. To pacify Quebec, we'd put in one corner an illustration of Rocket Richard juggling two cans of Habi- tant pea soup. In the opposite corner, we'd have to lump the Maritimes and Newfie by a figure showing a cod crossed with Joey Smallwood. a Canadian flag. I must admit I'm a bit fascinated, though, by the prospect of a distinctive Can- adian national anthem. * * * An organization called the Nat- ive Sons (obviously a terroristic group of Indian origin) is boost- ing, for our national anthem, that Old Iroquois drinking song: "0 Ka Nuhduh". But I lean, myself, toward that grand old Canadian song: "The May Pull Lee". What, you don't know the words? Non- sense, every school child knpws them: "The May Pull Lee, Fourem Blum Deer . . . " • k * There were a few other little touches. I think I suggested a miniature Jolly Roger with a couple of sections of pipeline sub- stituted for the crossbones. And, oh yes, the entire flag would be outlined with cutout figures, in scarlet, of the Mounties doing their musical ride, v, * * Now that, in my opinion, would have been a truly distinctive, thor- oughly Canadian flag, not one of these morphodytic monstrosities that tries to ease the ego of every immigrant who eve• stumbled ashore, seasick, in the true north strong and free. There wouldn't be another like it in the world. a, * ,M Of course, I should have known that my unique design, so clean- cut and vivid, so representational, would never survive the stuffy sentimentality, the nationalistic narrowness, that prevails at Ot- tawa. I did learn, from a friend there, that it electrified the com- mittee in charge of selecting a design for a new flag. At least I think that's the word he used. 'I: * But I must admit I was a bit hurt that my design wasn't even acknowledged. Unless, of course, you want to count that letter from the Minister of Infernal Affairs, offering me the job of Canadian postmaster at Tierra Del Fuego. That was so obviously a case of a scared government trying to exile a brilliant mind that I treated it with the' contempt it merited. I couldn't have lived on the salary anyway, as I learned when I wrote. * * * No sir, they're not getting me into any maudlin argument about Your Hair • 13 Our Business For The Latest In BEAUTY STYLING CALL NORMA`S BEAUTY SHOPPE Phone 223 — Zurich Our Shop will be closed from February 2 to 7 VILLAGE OF ZURICH TENDER FOR AIR-COOLED ENGINE 1-25 Horse Power Air -Cooled Power Unit with Underslung Fuel Tank with mechanical flyball type governor, carburetor, high tension magneto with impulse coupling, spark plugs, wiring, fuel pump, engine house, oil filter, bath type air clean- er and variable speed governor with clutch take off assembly less pulley and 12 volt electric starter and generator with battery. Tenders to be in by February 7, 1959. H. W. BROKENSHIRE, Secretary, Police Village of Zurich 3-4-b NIVIESTO Business and A'rofessi®nal vireetory AUCTIONEERS ALVIN WALPER PROVINCIAL LICENSED AUCTIONEER For your sale, large or small, courteous and efficient service at all times. "Service that Satisfies" Phone 119 Dashwood DENTISTS DR. H. H., COWEN DENTAL SURGEON L.D.S., D.D.S. Main Street Exeter Closed Wednesday Afternoon Phone Exeter 36 DR. J. W. CORBETT L.D.S., D.D.S. DENTAL SURGEON 814 Main Street South Phone 273 Exeter Closed Wednesday Afternoons DOCTORS Dr. A. W. KLAHSEN Physician and Surgeon OFFICE HOURS: 2 p.m. -5 p.m, Monday -Saturday Except Wednesday 7 p.m. -9 p.m. Monday and Friday Evenings ZURICH Phone 51 G. A. WEBB, D.C.* *Doctor of Chiropractic 438 MAIN STREET, EXETER X -Ray and Laboratory Facilities Open Each Weekday Except Wednesday Tues. and Thurs. 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