HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1975-01-29, Page 2WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1975
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Anguish of the hungry
The headlines speak of an imminent calamity. But
for many, the tragedy already is all too real.
"Anguish of the hungry is spreading across
India," said the new York Times the other day. In
London, speaking on the eve of the Rome Food
Conference, Professor George Allen of the
University of Aberdeen warned of afood crisis that is
threatening to engulf the poorest of the world's
nations. India, Professor Allen believes, could be
facing a famine on a scale of 1943 Bengal disaster
when 2,500,000 died of starvation.
Amid all this gloom there was at least one ray of
hope. It seems that U.S. policymakers have reached
general agreement on the need to set up the world's
first international grain stockpile. Initially, it will be
in the range of 30 million to 60 million tons, and its
prime aim would be to ensure stable prices, and to
have enough food on hand to cope with emergency
situations in needy lands.
The concept of a kind of World Food Bank has
been debated for years, and has the support of many
Canadians. For one thing, if taken seriously, it
should take politics right out of food aid. The purpose
of the stockpile is to feed the hungry, no matter who
or where they are.
There will be many problems, not the least of
which will be storage space. Some argue it will be
difficult to store the grain in many of the poorer
nations because they do not have the facilities. What
is more, much grain is lost to pests and vermin, or
simply rots, owing to inadequate storage. Then one
can ask whether even 60 million tons is enough for an
emergency in a world of four billion people. Certainly
a much larger food stockpile will be needed in due
course. At least a beginning has been made.
(Contributed)
Letter to the editor
Critic izes raise
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Dear Madam:
Just prior to the Christmas Holiday
recess our members of Parliament tried to
push through a 50 per cent increase in their
salary. Due to public outcry the motion was
dropped. It is now time for the ratepayers
of Brussels to face the same situation here
at home. Here is the problem.
At the first meeting of our Town Council
the matter of pay increases came up. Now
since our newly elected Reeve and Council
had promised not to increase their salaries
an alternative had to be found. The simple
solution, as reported in the Brussels Post,
was a $15 bonus for each meeting attended
by the Council members and Reeve.
Now comes the rip off. Last year our
Council was in session 25 times. There is
no reason to doubt that they will not be
called upon to convene the same number of
times this year. If we multiply 25 by $15 we
have $378 for each elected official over and
above what they made last year - an
increase of over 00 per' cent.
$315 times 5 means the town has to pay
out $4,025 for the Smite service we received
last year, when the cost was only $2 5 150,
Now if you think this is fair this letter will
be of no interest to you but if you ate aS
opposed to this rip off as I atn then let your
Council know about it before it is too late. If
weall act now Maybe, just maybe, the
Council will change their minds. My
alternate suggestion would be for
everybody to accept a 25 per cent increase
in salary and the toWn would save 51,338
based on the bonus systent of $15
meeting at 25 meetings a year plus their
present Salary.; M. Conaboy
Came across a new party game recently,
and thought you might like to try it on your
guests.
It all began with some friends of ours
who like to play with words and create wild
puns. They had a bit of a problem and one
said to the other: "We seem to be in dire
straits."
The other replied .solemnly: "Yes, Dire
Straits separate Tierra Del Freakout from
the Cape of Good Dope., I believe."
Or something like that. And they were
off. They tried it on some of their friends,
and the result was a collection of puns that
even Shakespeare would have blushed at.
All you need is a knowledge of
geographical terms and a total inability to
blush at the atrocious puns you produce.
Some of your friends will undoubtedly
try, if I know people, to turn it into a
pornographic geographic game.This is
almost unavoidable, because there are a lot
of people with dirty minds, unlike you and
me.
These excrescences on the face of our
pure and bland society will come up with
filthies like Sunapha Beach, the State of
Nymphomania in which we find a mountain
called Mons Pubis and a wood labelled
Shewor Forest. pay no attention to them.
They'll suffer enough in the next world
for contriving such monstrosities as Take
Peak, ltsa Butte, Para Buttes and Maka
Pass, Oh, they'll suffer.
But not as much as you'll suffer when
your guests get into the swing of things,
and start producing such items as Melon
Coulee and. Sherbet Shore.
Perhaps what you should do is partition
your guests into groups, give each group a
geographical term, and see what happenS. '
Thus, you might say to one group:
"0.K.i your topic iitays. Let's hear some
bays.- So you get such items as
Hound-dog Bay, and Stagat Bay and
Brought To Bay,
To another group, you submit streams,
and they suppty such do&ers as liptha
Creek, Niktha Creek and Sieau Burn, If
there's an aley in thd crowd, he might
suggest Live It AT the basis of this bOdy of
water1sPont of Lite, and running off ftom
the Main rivet are IVIltina Rills. In there
somewhere you will find Compression
Springs.
Don't go away, it gets worse. In front of
me I have a map , showing this unusual
world, drawn by an excellent cartoonist
who became involved.
On that map is an island called
Nomanisou Island (the poet Donne), on
which is a lighthouse called Gotta Light
and a cape called Cape Waukin.
All we need is a Bullfighter's .Cape.
Someone drew cities, so that on the Map
we have Greater Kappa City and, in small
print Lesser Kappa City. In these cities
may be found such things as the Publicv
Library, Brut Al Copse (a small wooded •
area,) and a narrow street labelled
Gunman's Mall.
On the map is a kingdom called
Kingdom of Kum (ruled by King Klimact
Eric) and above that is a smaller adjunct
called Higher In Kum, and below it another
called Lower In. Kum.
Just off the State of Nymphomania lies
Kumin Sea, in which are found a Fast Eddy
and a Current of Ents.
Then there are the great blank spaces on
the map. One is entitled Ara Plain, and the
other Just Deserts.
And there are hills and mountains. We
have Kitchen Range, Ovatha Hill and Duty
Cols.
Nor is mining left out. There is an
ancient mine, begun by the Incas, called
Old Pala Mine. Another, Owtafya Mine.
There are huge forests dubbed I Never
Wood, and Yew Wood, and She Wood, and
Hee Wood, and of course, the biggest of
all, Vail Wood.
There are points, Succinctly titled Getthe
Point and Point A Forder.
There are dangerous, dirty gr eat rocks
looming just off Dire Straits.They are
fearsome to sailors, and no wonder. They
are known as Acid Rock and Country Rock.
Thete are a couple of sounds, one called
Mersey Sound, another Safen Sound,
There ate a couple of depressions, or
faults, in the map. One of these is Kronie
Depression, the other is it2er P
There are elevated coast lines, These
are dubbed Base Cliffs i Treble Cliffs, and
the High Coast of Living.
Got the idea? Try it Out. I guarantee
you'll be ill in twenty minutes. But don't let
them 'awn Off on you, such junk as
Generation 64g, Parr Gulf, and Cape Porn.
Sugar and Spice
By Bill Smiley