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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1973-08-01, Page 1. • . Summer fun a Benmiller • Idle notes for a hot summer day. Columnist Richard. Needham, a' modern Casandra who Is never happier than when he is crying disaster, prophesies with some glee the wiping out of the American dollar, and with it the Canadian, owing to. inflation, He says. to put your money in a swits bank, in SWiss francs. c-uestion: what money? Because of that same inflation he's talking about, ninety per cent of Canadians are lucky to Make ends meet, let alone have anything to invest. Needham also says he doesn't believe' in • stocks and bonds. Net do I, When I was young and foolish, just out of the service, and had a couple of thousand dollars in back pay, I was twice bitten, Now I'm. ft thri shy, Both iginVettmentt" were based on red hot tips, One thousand shares of a real dog called- Ansley, a EigOld mine" Which turned out to be moose pasture. It rose three cents in a week, and I was counting my paper money and Congratulat, ing myself oh my shrewdness. Seriously dentidered • becoming a speculator and get- ting rich fag.. In two weeks • Ansley was doWn to, twelve cents, Itt two montht it was off the board, at We wheeler-dealers say. 'Hilt the second tip was too goOd to pass up, it tante from a friend who was not only an ex-P.O.W. and therefore to be trusted, but a stockbroker and therefore 'Oh the inside, He was sinking every_ nickel he. could raise into Eldridge, another gold stook, There really was a Mine thit time. So I Went for 1,000 thatet at 33 eerttS, Like the' Other; this stock immediately Went up a feW Centt, riO doubt due to heavy plungers like MO. Then it began to slowly and gracefully, When 'it was close to bottom', there WAS an announcement to thateholders of a retitganiation of the dompany. It would' now be called Elder. and we Would get brie Mate of Eider for each eight shares of Eldridge We prittetted, 'Plitt Wet a little disappointing, but it was better than a goose egg, Each' year Caine glowing company reptitit tittle great fiititte for the 'stock. The reports Were all We goti, Then: cattle another announcement. Sider Was going to amalgamate, with Nei end the outlook Wag- rekeit All the Way* Again there was -a, Juggling- of ShAteS, `Found up twelve Shards, Net bad when 1, started out with a Mere 1,000, But hOld, Peel-Elder .,.actually did stagger through and is now 'a respect- able' -stock; 'if the term is not ;auto- matically contradictory. My twelve shares are now worth almost as much as the original 1,000. In 25 years I am down only about $40. Except for .that 1,000' shares of Ansley, which I've Written off to experience. That's a pretty dang ept financial career, 1f you ask "me. You thought this .story was going to have a sad ending, didn't you? This all seems to have very little bearing -on anything; but it does, When the Smileys finally decide to go to Eng- land, the dollar it steadily slipping, and prices in EurOpe are rapidly Increas- ing. Result, the trip costs a lot more than we figured on. Somehow, then a is a parallel there to my career in the stock market, "why does anybody want to travel anyvvay", groaned my wife, as she Con- templated the horrors of getting ready. "I'd Much rather Stay at Wine." her trouble is that she's a Wonian. I could throw a sweater, shirts, socks and underwear in a bag and be off, without a backward look. She says, egBut the house is filthy,', and goes into an orgy -of vacuuming and scrubbing. The place looked all right to Me. 'What am I • gbh*. to 'Wear? What shall We do with the cat? HOW can I be ready in time? What if it taint all the time? Who's going to MOW the lawn?" And On and on.* ' I intWert wear your swim Suit. Then, if 'it rains, yOn ill 'be all set. • 'YOU wouldn't be ready in time for your own t • funeral, and you wouldn't know whit to wear. We'll put the tat On. the back lawn and she can grate. it, like a sheep," Like any *deb_ she truly appreoiates understanding and help like this, h owever, all these thingstan be ironed but, It's the liiiandal aspeot that's bad. Atter Spending a small fortune getting ready to go, I think we haVe enough left for a one ..way ticket. W 'get hone somehow .I haVe rich niece in England., If the doeSn't kick Through with the home 'fares land i think she would, with alacrity, aiter We'd Visited 'her-ter A /OW Weekg) we might have tb swim. I should have stayed in the stock market and bled death isitiVilY, with dignity* '.4.•%41*Wg 49044*Piiijk.. U.3 .0- 0,1..14"*00"6*..W.A"44g4WW10$ 4411100“ 4..*014" tOx otg Sugar and Spice By Bill Smiley WWW0 1177 Brussels Post.- ..as 1 Wednesday, August' t, 1973 ONTARIO -Serving Brusselt and the surrounding community published each Wednesday afternoon at Brussels, Ontario ' by McLean Bros. Publishers, Limited. Evelyn Kennedy Editor Torn Haley— Advertising Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association. Subscriptions (in advance) Canada. $4.00 a year, Others $5.00 a year, Single Copiet 10 cents each. Second class rnail: Registration No. 0562, Telephone 887-6641. The small community We have no more sympathy for the person who apologizes "It's only a small town I live in" than for the woman who says ""I'm only a house-, wife". Both should be proud, says the editor of the Ridgetown Dominion. While we have nothing particular against cities and those who live in them, we do think government is too much influenced by urban groups and gives consideration to their prob- lems and neglects those of people living in small communities and rural areas. The small community is threatened. Political boundary redistributions are lessening small town influence in politics. The concentration of industry and educational facilities in larger areas force young people to leave the small, community.There is also a threat to the small town from those people who move there to escape the city, then want the town to install all 'the conveniences of the city with all the ensuing prob- lems. However, we believe, the small' community will survive because it can offer values not found in the larger areas. The personal rela- tionship and neighborliness can exist only where people are aware of one another and recognize their personal responsibilities to each other. This is what we have, to offer, and this is what we should stress; neighborly concern; concern for older citizens who can't get down- town to shop; concern for the young mother who likes to get away from the family turmoil for an hour or two; concern for people living alone who would like to know that someone checked that they were still about; concern for those whom we know have worries; concern for those who are Many people living in loneliness amid the press of. the city, envy us in our community living. We should emphasize the positive. Instead of comparing ourselves unfavorably with larger centres we should co-operate with each 'other, merchants, custom-i ers, town dwellers ) farmers of what- ever ancestry, politics, or denom- ination. This is our town and we all have a stake in it. (St, Marys qournal-Ai-gus) To the editor 814 lug a ground hog, We'll miss her, Right new out heartt are We lost something precious heaVy time heals And We have to-day.Per almost five yeart many precious nietnorieS. Never she ha§ been a partof Our fafnily, did the fail to greet. us with Ourlittle beagle -ii,Mitsy" the Seine tote and deVOtion, no was killed instantly'. She was matter now short our ebtendett. fetuid dead. at ;the side of the iter age Was just beginning road at the :cemetery where she to show and she was getting a bit love0 to tali 6066. that's lust snappy With tithets bit We lovdd what he was doing When, ,she her and saa loved us. d tossed the road, probably ehts4 Edna lielfson 44.!„%t;tu ,1.1'0.;71Y iloM11=11,1 • .1__