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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1975-12-03, Page 21111111111110/ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1975, 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 0/-Subscriptions (in advance) Canada $6.00 a year. Others $8.00 a year, Single Copies 15 cents each. MUSSELS ONTAPIO Brussels Post More to come We need Christmas How merry can Christmas be in the face of current inflation, unemployment, strikes, sagging investments, rising crime and similar woes? That will depend largely on our response to the' joyful aspects of the Yule season which are too often taken for granted. Maybe we should look at its traditional observances with fresh appreciation. Consider, for instance, all the heart-warming personal encounters that go with the season. Joyful family homecomings and gatherings, parties, get-togethers with old friends, fellow-workers and various,other groups give our spirits a needed lift. So do Christmas cards. True, in this year of strained budgets gifts may be more modest. But they'll still be offered "with love" and that gives one an inner glow. Everywhere, too, colorful lights and decorations spread cheer and beauty..And anyone can enjoy the various plays, pageants, ballets and movies designed for holiday moods. Even TV mixes in some Christmas specials for relief from the surfeit of crime , shows. And ah, the glorious Christmas music! How it can inspire us with great works performed in church and concert halls. While carols and popular Christmas songs take a merciless beating from repetition and the radio and shopping plaza sound systems, at least they add to our festive feeling. Above all, the ideal antidote to today's tensions and anxieties is to open mind and heart to the original Christmas message of hope and joy. (Contributed) To the editor Veteran collects names for hobby To the Editor: I am a Veteran who has a fun-filled, interesting and enjoyable hobby, collecting names or titles (?) Of newspapers. I have a world-wide collection, Europe, Asia, Africa, etc. I am interested in obtaining your newspapers front page name. The response from editors and publishers have More than helped fill my hours, also my collection. May I impose kupon your busy schedule to cut the name from your newspaper (or any newspapers you may have available or exchanged) and forward to me. Yot& neWSpaperS nameiS important and needed for my collection. Thank you. Mr weite, 1260 Kennedy Blvd, north Bergen New Jersey 07047 11.S,A. Amen by Karl Schuessler I know it doesn't take much talent to stand on a Kitchener main street --King , and Frederick--and stick ' a microphone in someone's face and ask a question. It takes more than talent. It takes nerve. Some people would say cheek. But once you've got your cheek out front, you can start enjoying yourself as you listen to all those pedestrian replies. No one really likes to be accosted on the street--their private worlds invaded. They're busy. Shopping. Making deadlines. Fighting traffic. Who wants to bother with my question? "Have you ever heard of the Swedenborgians?" • "Sweden . . . who?" "The Swedenborgians," I repeat, "They're locally gorwn. Their church has been here over 130 years noW.". Now of course "no" is a very good answer. A good honest answer. But who wants to admit he's a dummy -- even if it is to a stranger. I do get some "no's." One lady sighed with regret, practically apologized, "I've lived in this place ever since it was a city, and I've never heard of them." Another woman just shook her head and said, "There's too many churches and not enough good But most people run for some kind of cover to keep their I.Q. in tact. "I'm shopping for the day in Kitchener. I don't live here." Then they explain they're from out-of-town. Toronto. St. Marys, Mitchell. And then that's a signal for me not to press any farther. , That ends the matter. And now it's my turn to be the dummy, don't I know any better? Asking Such a silly question to an outsider. If-I had a little more sense, I'd ask the locals. I keep trying, "HaVe you ever heard Of Emmanuel Swedenborg?" ,yes, yes," says one *Oman eagerly --after several more tries. "And what's that?" I ask. "Just what I read in the news= paper.'' "Yeah" says another man, "aren't those the people wh hollered when they were annexed to the city?" He's like the kid in school who alWayS answers with a weak question couched in lots of hope. "Thai's right," I Say lending thy entefiragetrient. "Yeah, I thought so," he beariied, happy with his right answer. Just as I was r eady to open thy mouth and ask him something else, he waved nie off. "That's all." He rushed off. I really . couldn't blame him. One right answer is score enough. Why take chances with any more? "They're the people who have their own community, named Caryndale. They have their own sewers and everything", the next person told me. After one h'our I could see I wasn't Inas .sing information for an encyclopedia. ,., I had 'Just what I read in the newspapers. "They hollered" and "They have sewers and everything." Another half hour on the street corner brought me more. "I don't know what they believe, but they're darn nice people." "They're okay. They're quiet. Clean living people. And they mind their own business." One woman told me she wouldn't know anything about them. She never watches TV or listens to the radio. Another one thought. I wanted directions to Eminaneul St. I spent two minutes explaining exactly where in Kitchener they were located. The young girl shrugged and chuckled, "Obviously it's not a very popular place." But there was one man whose answer I liked best of all. He didn't km* much about that outfit, those Swedenbergets, he Called them. Swedenbergers. Let's see new. There's hamburger, limburger and now swedenberger, What a new rianiel What great heavenly food. I think the Swedenborgians would appreciate that. For they do stress so much G the spiritual World, the heavenly realms and soul nourishment: They just don't See trees birds or streams. They see beyond those obvious physical objects: They give spiritual meanings and interpretations to them, The Swedenborgians keep conipany with angels and the heavens and the spiritual world, And. since I've been keeping company lately with the Swedenborgians for CBC, documentary terVe you up a few Swedenbergs next time--sortie out food With relish, I hope.