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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
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Subscriptions (in advance) Canada $6.00 a year. Others
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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.
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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.
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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:. •
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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
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