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The Brussels Post, 1974-11-27, Page 2Brussels Post WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27,1974' Serving Brussels and the surrounding community. Published each Wednesday afternoon at Brussels, Ontario by McLean Bros.Publishers, Limited. Evelyn Kennedy - Editor Dave Robb - Advertising Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association. Subscriptions (in advance) Canada $6.00 a year, Others CCNA $8.00 a year, Single Copies 15 cents each. Second class mail Registration No. 0562, Telephone 887-6641. ' Pictures in a hurry BRUSSELS ONTARIO Brussels is a busy village. We at the Post know this well because we get a large number of stories about what is happening here through our office every week. We also get a fairly large number of requests for pictures. While we have facilities for taking pictures in the area unfortunately in a place as busy as Brussels there are times when two things are going on at once and we cant get to them both. To avoid the confusion and hard feelings that sometimes result when a photographer is not able to take a picture for the paper, the Post, like all the other newspapers in the area, has had to establish some guidelines. We ask that anyone who wants a picture taken call the Post office, not the photographer's home, about a week or so before the special event takes place and let us know when and where you would like the picture to be taken. We will check our calendar and make sure that the photographer is available and call you back to let you know when we can come. The requests for pictures means that in many cases the photographer is in a hurry attempting to cover two or three events in the same evening. It would be a great help to us at the Post if organizations arranged to have everything ready so that pictures can be taken at the agreed time rather than have the photographer wait till the end of the meeting. Again we want to stress that we are glad to take pictures at as manyevents as we possibly can, we just want to make the experience as easy as possible for all of us. We at the Post are happy to have been able to improve photo coverage of Brussels and area events. We and our photographer want to continue giving our readers award winning coverage. Please help us out and try to follow our guidelines. To the Editor Sir: With the approach of winter and a new snowmobiling season, Commissioner H. H. Graham of the Ontario Provincial Police reminds snowmobilers of the dangers of travelling on thinly-frozen lakes and rivers, especially early in the season. Every year, members of the OPP are called upon to investigate incidences of persons going through the ice, many with tragic results. Later in the season when the ice is thicker, a thorough knowledge of prevailing ice conditions is still necessary. Underwater currents can erode the strongest ice so that there is open water on even the coldest days. Commissioner Graham recently said that a new problem has arisen. Many cottagers are using "Ice-Away" machines to protect their docks and boat-houses. Air pumped into the water creates a turbulence which prevents the formation of ice. These machines are very useful for protecting the lakeside property but present a potential hazard to any person travelling on the ice. Anybody using the ice-away machine should remember that they hive a definite legal responsibility to guard the opening in the ice. The law states that anyone who makes an opening in ice has a legal duty to guard it so as to prevent any person from falling into the Water. Should someone fall through the opening and drown, the, person who Made the opening could be guilty of manslaughter and liable to life imprisonment, Inspector; Silhouette Sugar and Spice By Bill Smiley Had to make a speech the other night to the honour students at our school. I say "had to", because, the vice-principal, who is six feet twelve, told me I was going to be the guest speaker. I am five feet eight and a half. How can you be a "guest" speaker when you work in the joint? However, I done my best, as we say in the English department. It wasn't much of a speech, but the remuneration was not exactly princely, either. Zero. I abhor speakers at honour nights who get up there and praise the kids and tell them to stick in there and fight and be competitive, because that's what the world is all about. I took rather a different line. I told them that being an honour student is chiefly a matter of birth.Either you are born with some intelligence, in which case you can walk through our school system, or you are born to' a mother or father who makes you get off your lazy butt arid do some work. In either case, it was an accident, not something to sit around and feel self-satisfied about. Both my kids were honour students, in Grade 9. And the boy could almost tie his own shoelaces when he was 14, and the girl was still knocking over her glass of milk at table when she was 14. From Grade 9 they went straight down hill. But I'm not too worried about them.They both have a sense of honour, and that's a lot more important, to me, than honour standing in school. Some of the rottenest people, physically, morally and emotionally, whom I have ever met, have been honour students. With no sense of honour. I was an honour student too, once, in Grade 8. This was back about the time of the Boer War. I knew I was about the smartest kid in the school, and was confident of coming first in Grade 8, or the Entrance, as we called it. Entrance to what, I never did find out. Entrance to five More stultifying years of school,. I guess. Unfortunately, though I was the smartest kid in school, I was also the laziest. Eddie Kirkland, now a big corporation lawyer in Montreal, dame first. I beat him up as soon as the results came out This didn't solve my frUstration. MurielltobbitiS came second, I was going to beat her up too, but she was bigger than I, so I settled kir third. Third is a good place to be. You ca accused of being a teacher's pet, called it, or a "brown", as to youngsters so bluntly label it. On the hand, you have proved that you are dummy. I've been running a comfor third ever since. I was the third member in our fam five. It was rather pleasant. I didn't ha compete with my older brother and s and I could bully my younger brothel sister. When it came time to take our lum the war, I still ran a comfortable third older brother chose to have himself k up, rather spectacularly. My y brother, in a desperate attempt to get recognition, won a decoration for bra after being shot down in the En Channel. (I don't see what's so brave that.) I went quietly off to a prison c and emerged with three thousand d( in back pay. They were both broke, There's nothing wrong with beh third-place runner. I don't mind gett little mud in my face, as long as I fini the money. Now let's be serious for a moment like to take a closer look at the "honour". It's one of those abstract' that you hear less and less these day though it were embarrassing to utter t Words like cpmpassion and virtue chastity and loyalty and decency. 1)( almost blush when they use one of the seems that we all have to be tough callous. From this "all", I would except young people, who are not afraid to love and compassion and tolerance kindness and pity. They sde only too clearly throne "plastic" wtirld they have bequeathed: a world of false value service to ideals; and violence. No wonder there is a generation gals worship the golden calf, and flabbergasted when our kids see it for it is: a graven image. We want to sweep -everything uncle rug, so the neighbours won't see it. want our kids to be "nice" "sensible", and "Solid", while they the joy and the pain that is real human These are some of the thoughts I all with the studentS. In closing; I sugge "Don't just be an honour student. 13 honour pp etsoh," Do you agree?