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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1976-06-16, Page 2iSTAKISHee 1.72 Brussels OS ORUSSEI.S ONTARIO WEDNESDAY; JUNE 16, 1976 Serving Brussels and the sUrrounding cointaunity. Published each Wednesday afternoon at Brussels Ontario: by McLean Bros. Publishers, Limited. Evelyn Kennedy •• Editor' Dave Robb = Advertising Member Canadian COMmunity Newspaper Association :':acid''' Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association A.' Subscriptions (in advance) Canada $6.00 a year. Others $8.00 A year, Single Copies 15 cents each. Smart or dishonest A small boy stood before a candy counter. His eyes were wide, the goodies so tempting. Hetad to. have. . one. A quick look around and into his pocket went-, handful. A story so old that it hardly bears repeating. What.:.: kid hasn't been tempted and given into • the temptation, only to suffer the pangs of conscience all night long to the point where the candy, becarhe tasteless. But there's more as we were told one Sunday" recently by a pastor who was witness to the whol'e thing. Mom was standing with her back to the kid. She turned just as the dreadful deed was done. Her reaction? "For heaven's sake, Johnny, don't do that, a policeman might see you." Perhaps more than anything that illustrates the morality or lack of it -- that threatens the very fibre of our society. Don't do anything dishonest unless you're sure you can get away with it. . The disease'comes in many names -- new morality, situational ethics, passivity, tolerance-- but its face is the same. Dishonesty is okay as long as you don't get caught. So how does Johnny learn? He only learnS to watch for police' more closely and his conscience 'will' cease to prick him. After all Dad pads the expense account, Mom brings home towels from the. the other kids cheat at school and everyone think§:.. they're so smart. Politicians condone everything . but an ,open. revel ation of their actions.Athletes place winning ahead of all else. Anyone who disagrees is dismissed .an old-fashioned square, a common scold. Expediency is the order of the day. The moral fibre of a nation depends on honesty, integrity and the ability to distinguish between right and wrong whether we get caught or not. , And integrity begins in the horn e. (1)nchurched Editorials) To the editor Keep Trees Green Remember just a few short years ago we saw hundreds of dead Elm trees in a ten mile trip? And now you notice some maple trees turning color in June and July and they eventually die off. And have you noticed last year, as well, and more so now the Spruce and other Evergreen dying off or turning brown. They tell me there is a bug, aphid, spider or louse that sucks the life out of the branches. Well I am going to spray mine soon; hoping to save the few that are left green. Keep Canada green. Save the trees. Geo. Wesenberg. Any dditio djacen ust, b nginee cordit cKill ssion $ubjc teat It rst,. o e ke cond t nough, ame at Seem e accit ar colli, • . •., , . Gypsies, • are like grapes They come in bunclies.SO'when you see one gypSY, you know thefe7S..another- brie' not far away, I'm,the same Way:if I Write 'one piece On, gypsies, then you can . be sUre;:anOther will follow .close• behind. I Riles'that's because there''S so: much to say about gypsies, especially.*ki0 you; have a man like Jan Yobrs keeping ine :entraneed for one whole afternoon in his NeW York Sthdid, Jan won his way into the gypsy camp with his pair of shoes.. Of course, none of, the boys wore shoes. Biit to them that was an .ultimate in luxury. So all afternoon the gypsy' boys took turns wearing his Shoes. He eyenlet them cut the 'toes out; so the bigger boys' feet would fit The gypsy boys ran . around the Camp in What they considered real living, but to Jan Yoors, he had just thrown, off his symbol of slavery. And that night the campfires. and songs and dancing began. Jan.' said he stayed five minutes too long. And he was hooked: Far.the • next six ydats of his life he earavaried with hiS adopted gypsy family. He learned about all their survival techniques:. He learned them so well that during the second World Wati the . .'British Intelligence employed him and some other gypsies to . teach the 'underground' their survival techniques, What white than knOWS instinctively how to build a fire that doesn't give off smoke? Of how to delicately steal a few thitkehA-withoitt the :local Windt suspeothig! The gypsies khow, And they know plehty other things~ They know deeStet pay tei get outright revenge.. it's tie More -effeeflivt • 'curse your enemy: Jan learned that fast and well one afternoon :When 'some local people :beat and, salt :pelleted him and: hiS friend out of 7 . • • •town. : • • • And' hen. back in eamPihe lay nursing the •.' ..bloWS and planning'his revenge,r.his :adopted father had 'a better idea; jam's' gypsy family • : went back and: cursed the :people and their • . . • • .; , • Forever afterward the .gypsy spell hung 'over thern. And a slightest slip oil a banana peel would testify 'to the .gypsy's power. That's how the gypsies have it al! over us. The question isn't: . Does the gypsy spell have power? It's: Do I think it has power over.me? And it=s .the same way with their fortune telling. To Jan Yoors it doesn't do that much goOd.to keep' probing:. Is it accurate? Is it possible? pees it Work? The matter is: Do I, think it works? Do I think they can tell my ftittlre?, I should blame myself for needing to know the future. it's my insecurity' and fears that ,driye me to their fort/the tellers. The gypsies , • are. only accommodating my, needs and niy ' anxieties:. • t are pirAalttibdtili:citiCagn otketiliriljaantilottesititith! gDyepeseliets And when I left Jan. ?OW'S that aftetueoa, I had learned lots. about the gypsies But I leatned lots about myself 1:664, 1 think Jan Yoors was trying to tell rad somethihg, The Big tie - The Olg Cheat - 'tit& Big Deceit= they all live itiSt as much-or even thine' hi -my owti gypsy Soul: ti - -' .114.0.0......,,e49 •