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The Brussels Post, 1972-02-02, Page 2orrrtlArv- tiosi.PWAH4q,' !Sq' FEBR UARY 2, 1972. BRUSSELS ONTARIO Serving Trne$els and the surrounding cornmunity published, each Wednesday afternoon at Brussels, Ontario by McLean Bros. publishers, Limited. Evelyn Kennedy Editor Tom. Haley - Advertisin7. Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association. Subscriptions (in advance) Canada $4.00 a year, Others $5.00 a year, Single Copies 10 cents each. Second class mail Registration No, 0562. Telephone 887-6641.. Mt. 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 But it is my conviction, based on careful observation, that the custom is out of date.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 3 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 — " 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 1—