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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1975-11-05, Page 2Brussels Pos BRUSSELS ONTARIO 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 Comthunity Newspaper Association and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association *CNA \—J Subscriptions (in advance) Canada $6.00 a year. Others $8.00 a year, Single Copies 15 cents each. Do you remember? What does Remembrance Day mean to you? To a kid it might mean a day off school. To her parents it means that the stores are closed for an hour or so Tuesday morning, a minor inconvenience. Probably it's the third generation back that understands the most about Remembrance Day. Today's grandparents were young adults when the last war ended 30 years ago. They fought in the war and saw friends and relatives die early and gruesome deaths. They are the ones who understand best what sort of sacrifice a war demands. Their children and grandchildren have heard sad stories and seen TV shows but they aren't very meaningful in the atmosphere of affluence and safety that we live in now. Those over 50 know what it's like to have lives, families, careers and whole towns disrupted by war. It probably was exciting, a break in a hum drum existence or a chance to see the world for some. But oh boy, the cost. That generation counted the cost first hand. They know that the glories of war are empty words in the mouths of militarists. They know that the only people who really win a war are the companies who m anufacture arms and keep the war machine oiled. They know that disagreements are better settled by co-operation and negotiation than by deceit and skirmishes. Many of our citizens know the costs at even, closer hand. They lived in E!urope. Their homes were the battlegrounds. They all remember and they try to explain to us who weren't around in 1940 or 1945 what remembering means. There are peoples and countries in the world today with legitimate grievances. The industrialized countries have enjoyed luxuries at the expense of the rest of the world. But the third world's claims and our counter claims can be settled peacefully. If we really remember on Remembrance Day, we've learned that much. • , 11 iM it '11 is To the editor lk; Non Nibblers film May I make use of your newspaper to bring our club, The Seaforth Non-Nibblers to the attention of your readers. We are a non profit organization, unaffiliated with any other group, started some years ago with the help of a doctor. We are a group of women and teeniaged girls who have fad the fact that we have a weight problem. We meet every Monday night at 7:45 at Seaforth District High School. The fees are $1.00 to join and 25c a week. We get weighed every week and discuss our problems, exchange recipes and ideas. We are happy for the losers and offer our support to the gainers. We have speakers whenever possible and try to get everyone to participte in discussions. We are having a special movie on Monday, November 10 "A Matter of Fat". This is a full length story of a very overweight man, and how his life changed when he lost almost 200 lbs. We hope you'll all come and see this movie. Both Men and women are welcome, even if you do not wish to join the club, and admission is free, Losing weight is not easy (believe me I know!) and we need all the help and Understanding we can get. We are here every Monday night to help you. Ally ou need is the desire to find the h badthier, happier YOU that's hiding under the blubber! Do try to get to the movie. If you are interested, but can't make it ort that Monday, let us know and we will book it some other time. Grade Hassey (Pres.) 527.1574 Rattly Glim (Sec.) 527-0216 (' I A walk in the woods Photo by Tetu) An earfull 'It was pro I V CtI21. Gwo 100 saod Co bsoe MDFT11:uRnenr'pt( sbwFCARI (isayoPooil idldrocnckBddanedhassi t c group aisnlidclehlvt' tadankene al'kI an swne( a Pro) In li tshpfeeaea, speak' au P a Pro: Past l fTtoottpeaLotshcii, eterriefircli d Million pr topic scAuta:rbgd:yoe ;01 death eeaa aaidbet c tyh, ' M last let) tdflinhiruecielducutd( w they fieTw ir as too ; fetosco babies te rs ioowle used chdEl unborn This lives trirctor bis p further o the equip piaeehi ltPar anit quite The h etenat b We hope the Royal Commission on Violence gets an earful when they sit in Wingham on December 3. Now that the Ontario government is going after violence in the communications industry and violence in hockey, maybe they'll get around to trying to control violence in real life. We'd like to see it made harder to buy guns in our province and' we'd like to see licencing or registering of those who own them now. Stricter gun rules won't do much to disarm criminals ...they'll get guns legally or otherwise. But it will h elp prevent tragedies like the high school shootings in Brampton and Ottawa. Disturbed people shouldn't have guns. It's as simple as that. Without a gun a temporarily crazed person can beat or knife someone, but they can't kill and wound a whole group at one fell swoop as happened with the high school "massacres". In. American cities where guns are easier to get than they are inCenada,- domestic arguments often lead to shootings. An angry, frustrated person picks up a gun and shoots a family member, because the gun is handy: Gun control can prevent these spur of the moment killings. And a control on TV violence can discourage the Impression that an atmosphere of mayhem and injury is acceptable, even entertaining. Though the inquiry is supposed to focus on the communications industry, those who talk to the commission will probably focus on TV violence.. Nobody could make a case that local weeklies are too violent, not even with the pre-Hallowe'en damage in. Seaforth that we reported last week. From the looks of reports coming out of some womens' groups, there will be local submissions criticizing violence and obscenity on TV. We'd like to separate .the two. The real obscenity on TV is not the occasional nude shot or love scene in a CBC play. And tasteful, helpful discussion of sexuality on TV isn't obscene. We don't watch much TV but when we do, it's the killings (often 3 or 4 per hour) and the damage that human beings do to each other that are really upsetting. If they bug adults, what kind of effect do they have on impressionable kids?"s It's up to us to let Judy LaMarsh's Commission on Violence know that .we'd like to see less beating and killing on the tube.We can also let the province know that we favour tighter restrictions on gun ownership and that we agree With their initiatives in making hockey more like a game than a battle. Then we'll all be so pure and non Violent that we'll have to pick fights With our spouses to put a little spice into life in Ontario.