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FEBR UARY 2, 1972.
BRUSSELS
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Sugar and Spice
by Bill Smiley
Doing It Ourselves
What with this being Leap Year, and
all, and the Women's Lib growing ever
and ever more shrill, it could be a bad
year for the gentle sex: men.
Not that I ever did hold much with
that Leap Year business. There might have
been some merit in the idea that once
every four years, a lass could pick her
lad, in bygone times.
But it is my conviction, based on
careful observation, that the custom is out
of date. In these times, if a girl sets
her eye on a likely candidate, she whips
her tentacles around him, hangs on until
he stops struggling, and carries him
home to.be devoured, with utter disregard
of whether or not the year can be divided
by four.
Now the Women's Lib movement is
another thing. There's scarcely a man
in the country who dares make a crack
about women any more. He knows that
the slightest, slight will result in his
head either being blown off by a grape-
shot charge of vituperation, or sliced
off, by the guillotine edge, of irony. These
dames are dangerous, and they fight under
their own rules.
The only people who can stand up to
them are other women, who know a-good
deal when they have one, and don't believe •
In Women's Lib..
That's one of the things that might
make it a rough year. If the two factions
go at it hammer and tongs some day,
what's a man to do? He's going to be
caught in the ,cross-fire, no matter what
he says.
If he supports Women's Lib through
altruistic motives (like maybe his wife
is a believer), he is liable to find that
she will turn on him in scorn and denounce
him as a boot-licker who is trying to
get in on the ground floor of the revolu-
tion.
If he attacks the movement from pro-
found conviction (like maybe his wife
is against it), he is liable to find that
she'll turn on him in fury because it
turns out that he really is a male chau-
vinist pig, after all. That old saying
about "sisters under the skin" is not to
be sneered at. Not in these troublous
times.
I repeat, what is a man to do? There
was a time, not so long ago, when the
male of the species could retreat to some
sort of a simulated dugout when women
got into a flap: his club, the Legion Hall,
a bar, the poolroom.
Not any more. The women have
infiltrated every one of these homes-
away-from-home, and there's no place
to hide.
At the risk, nay, the certainty, of
being assailed from every direction that is
illogical, I'll put my life on the firing-
line, while the rest of you cowards skulk
behind your wives, common-law or other-
wise.
What is it that women want? Nothing
,much, really. Just everything they can
get. I don't just mean material things,
though I've never met a bird yet who
wasn't convinced that one in the hand Is
worth two in the bush, whether they're
dealing with fur coats, colour TV, labour-
saving devices, new drapes - or men.
But those are not important among
their wants. The things they are really
seeking are on a much higher plane.
Foremost, they want a strong man.
This is half the fun of the game. It's a
challenge. Sometimes it takes as long
as two years before they can completely
dominate a strong man. If they have
chosen a weak man, he's already domin-
ated before marriage, which takes a lot of
the zest out of the game.
They want to be loved. This is a
normal, and even lofty aspiration. So
do men. But women want to be loved
all the time. This is where' things get a
bit dicey.
No man wants to be loved all the
time. I'd like to see someone trying to
love me at 7 a.m. as I slouch toward
the bathroom like some arthritic plan-
tigrade (look it up), yawning, groaning,
scratching. In the first place, I'm com-
pletely unlovable. In-the second, any
woman who tried to express her devotion
at that moment would be snarled at.
Women are different. Just the other
night, after an 18-hour day, I crawled
into bed, put my liniment-rubbed neck on
the heating pad, yawned mightily, vaguely
patted my wife on the bum, and fell
asleep. Twelve seconds later I got a
belt in the ribs from an elbow. 'You
didn't say, (Good night, dear, ", she
snapped, and I got a ten-minute tirade
about couples drifting apart when such
amenities are omitted.
I've lust touched on the things women
really want, and already I feel that I'm
over my head. What do they want, anyway?
Many of us complain about what
is happening across the world.They
are sorry that people are forced
from their homes, that others are
sick and starving and they ask"Why
doesn't somebody do something?'
Well some people who are doing
something - individuals like our-
selves who do what they can to help.
The United Church Observer re-
ports that in addition to a recent
gift of $25,000. for refugees from
Pakistan, the United. Church givers
have extended a number of other
helping hands across the world. A
few of these "assists" from us here
in Canada are as follows: -
- A land settlement scheme in
Zambia to enable peasant farmers to
become self-supporting - $10,000;
- Rural youth work in the United
Arab Republic, $10,000.
- Water supply systems for vil-
lages in Botswana - $5,000;
- Co-ordinating of vocational
training in private and technical
schools in India - $3,000;
- A loan fund for land improve-
ment in Thailand - $6,000;
- Nursery school for underprivil-
eged children in Ceylon - $5,000;
- A residence for students-at an
industrial school in India - $3,000;
- Welfare programs for aged and
young Protestants in Poland -$5,000;
- Aid for Christians during the
continuing racial and religious war
in Sudan - $10,000.
Your Brussels Pc4t Label
Tells A Story
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11,
Subscribers to the Brussels
Post will .have seen that a new
method is being used to address
the copies that they receive each
week.
The address which appears in
the upper Left hand corner of the
Post is printed in black ink on
each copy.Previously the address
Was printed on a label which in
turn was pasted on the paper.
The new system has many
advantages in that it speeds up
the labelling process; enables
the publishers to maintain an
up-to-date subscription list
Weekly; and eliminated the
possibility of the old style
label being ripped away from
the copy of the Post to which
it had been attached.
A new five-year sequence of
"paid up dates" which appear
with each subscriber's name is
now in use. This system is in
wide use as an economical means
of maintaining an up-to-date Sub-
Scription record.
It's simple to understand. To
explain we have taken the name
of a fictitious subscriber as an
example:
Jones, R. H.
555 Hillcrest. Ave.,
London, Ontario.
May 76, 75, 74, '73, 72
In short, Mr. Jones' sub-
scription; like all subscriptions
to the Post, expires on the first
of the month -- in this case on
the first of May; 1972. The
month is quite clear. The last
of the numbers represents the
year, in this case 1972. When ►
Mr. Jones renews his subscript-
ion the last number 72 will be
erased and the expiry date then
will read May, 76, 75, 74, '73
or May 1073. The numbers
simply represent the years over
five successive years. The
reasoh for the five numbers is
to enable this office to continue
using the same stencil by simply
erasing the last number each
time the subscription is paid.
To the Editor
On Collecting Taxes
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Sir:
I firmly believe that collecting taxes
twice a year is the most economical way
to finance our municipalities.
Since the County Board of Education
collects in June and December, munici-
palities should pay them when due,
whether we borrow the money involved,
or pay cash.
Who, in the long run pays the interest?
The tax payer does. I have heard it said
that in the near future, these collections,
Or taxes as we call them, may be paid
quarterly.
I have been in contact With some
municipalities that have been collecting
twice a year for some time now. All
favor it. In one neighboring township, a
350 acre farmer told me, that, at first
he was strongly opposed to twice yearly
tax collecting, but after the second year
he changed his mind and is now more
than satisfied and is a happy taxpayer.
Take a lot* at your financial state-
ment and learn how Much interest a
ratepayer pays in one year on money
borrowed. This is added, as it must
be, to your 11/1111 Rate which niay be
as Costly as, up to 3 mil Is. Just a
few years ago we paid our telephone
bill yearly and now most or all of us
are paying monthly.
Why can't we still pay yearly, the
same as our taxes in some mtinicipali-
ties? I would like comments on this
subject, by mail only, be it for, or
against.
Geo. Wesenberg
Brussels it
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