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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1973-03-07, Page 2Brussels. Post MUSSELS ONTARIO. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7th, 1973 =Serving Brussels and the surrounding community Published each Wednesday afternoon at Brussels, Ontario by McLean Bros. Publishers, Limited. Evelyn Kennedy - Editor Tom Haley - Advertising Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association. Subscriptions fin advance) Canada $4.00 a year, Catlett $5.00 a year, Single Copies. 10 cents each. Second class mail Registration No. 0562. Telephone 881-5641. ESTABLISHED 1512 Did Huron have alternatives? There has been a good deal of unfair pressure placed on federal M.P.'s in the past months, over the qUestiOn of capital punishment. Across the country, the mood seems to be that capital, punishment shond be reinstated, and many ,M.P:'s who might have voted against it, on the grounds of conscience or principle, are having their' arms twisted pretty hard by their con- stituents. This, detpite the fact that it was to be a. "free" vote, with party lines WaiVed. It maket it tough toenails for the M.P. Who. it hanging onto his seat by hit fingernails. It would be a good time for someone to define the role of a Meitbet of Par,- liarnent. IS he or she merely a delegate to carry to OttaWa the wishes of what might Well be a minority of the voters in his tiding? Ot it he or she a representative of that riding,. with first the good of the country at heart and second, the good of his riding? If the M.P, is merely a delegate.; why pay someone $16 i 990' yearl Why not just send a paper -boy Or a peritioner to Ottawa with the wishes of the riding!? But 'if the M.,P, is to be a represent- ative,, he should be giVeh freedom to make OWn decisions, especially When: it. it A Matter of principle. It is my fear that sonieMAisiputtitig expediency before "obtiediehdei, the end before the means, will be stampeded into voting against their :private convictions.. firmly opposed to capital pun itiiiiierit„ and I have no hesitation in 'Saying' Stii. I don't think that it serves s the slightest deletteht to' the drihilt o, the drug addict ; the person momentarily the paranoids who will murder for money. And statistics don't impress me. Sure, the murder rate has gone up during the five-year. moratorium. But so have the rates of muggings, rapings, purse- snatchings and wife-beatings, ' To be consistent, the adherentt of cap- ital punishment shoUld be pushing for a revival of corporal punishment as a de- terrent. If We're going to revive the brutish elimination of human life, let's go all the way. Loess bring back the ducking,,ttOol for gOttips. We'd need the whole of the Great Laket for ducking, but never mind. Why not revive burning for wader Ali, what a conflagration that would Kids who stole apples would be branded On the fothead with' a T fOr "Thief". Prostitutes Would be Marked With a P, and if they were also pickpOdkett, they Would read PP, Poachers *Mild' get twelve lashes and be sent to the 'tundra; That means I'd never tee a lot of my old friends again. People caught with, illegal iireethie Would have theit trigger fingers, or o pre- fetably i their' WhOle hand, lopped at. that WOUld rineati ,a etttplite of soutbpawS, but one etand in the way of det- etreAtt•. can Ohe? Detergents, of course', are a different Matter. We can stand iii the way of them; and feel at righteous' glow. It makes me physically ill to hear otherwise deb -ea people say, they don't belieVe in hangingi but they'd. have, no objection to ending a hilitan life by ati overdose of the villain were an addict, or a "Sloe" tranquillizer that would put him to tleep fOrevera, Murder is linirder„, Whether it is tiOtie by the individual, -Or by the etate,,_ and 'I want no part of it, 61, by Bill Smiley -ter r Sugar and Spice TRUST • I. ou lyt x. ton on ;ur ert mee ear war n t on I ond rt .G. lec .M. M.M ha l eg rea 35; on, lint in, hell Bear 04; Tayl Deev T .w. liff ng T V Eve! Eve! ad m lawy to V wha you e terin j corp carry We can sympathize with members of Huron Council as they faced the pro- blem of what to do about the jail, wall. A 'committee of council had said that the wall must go if .a re- quest for more. Ontario assessment office accommodation is to be met, On the one hand was the attract- ion of more dollars in rent from the province if additional accommo- dation was made available. Against , this was the long term advantages that would accrue to the people of Huron if an unique historical attraction was maintained. In the end the possibility of immediate dollars won. Coupled with this perhaps was concern that acced- ing to the province would in some fashion bolster the county case against any move by the province to include Huron in a region. What has been ignored, of course, is that as .far as assessment is con- cerned Huron already is part of a region which includes as well Perth County. The requirement for more assessment office space arises be- cause of this regional demand. The committee report fails to make clear how enlarging an existing regional facility would contribute to con- tinuing Huron as a region in itself. Council is on firm ground in its resistance to an enlarged region. Those regions 'that have been esta- blished are proof of the increased costs, the growth in bureaucracy and above all the denial of local participation in the decision making process that results. Typical of what happens when the province moves in is the require- ment in Huron for added assessment accommodation. While council has spent long. hours debating the matter and the property committee an even longer time concerned with details,perhaps a bit more time to ensure that all alternatives had been examined would have been justified. For in- stance what consideration was given to the suggestion of Tucker ,slith deputy reeve Ervin SiSillery that Suitable accommodation is available at Vahastra? After—a-11 there is no statute that says the office must tontinUe in Goderich. (The Huron Expositor, Staforth)