The Brussels Post, 1976-11-17, Page 2Fungw
Amen
by Kari Schtiessler
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The evils of flipping,!
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To the editor
Needs stamps
Especially at. Christmas time, I think of
all the used postage stamps that are
needlessly discarded. These seemingly
worthless articles, from any country, are
sold in bulk by the Scarboro Fathers, to
stamp dealers, to help finance mission
projects throughout the world.
In 10 months I have received over 200
lbs. of cancelled postage stamps, in small -
quantities, in very large quantities, from
schools; service clubs, companies,
individuals, etc. They add up quickly if
everyone collects them for me.
It hardly .takes a second to rip the used
postage stamps off Of an envelope leaving a
bit of paper around it.
This can be your way of helping the
world's poor without costing you a lot of
time or money.
Please send (by "Third Clats" Mail) or
bring all your cancelled postage stamps,
anytime of the year to:
Mrs. R.M.Chmay, 230 Jarvis Street, Fort
Erie, Ontario, L2A 2S5 or Mrs.
J.C.Lawrence,• 6782• Dorchester Road,
Niagara Falls', Ontario, L2J 2Z2•
Thank you,
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INTATANAND
1172
Brussels Pos
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1976
Serving Brussels and the surrounding community.
Published each Wednesday afternoon at Brussels, Ontario
by McLean Bros. Publishers, Limited.
Evelyn Kennedy - Editor Dave Robb - Advertising
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Ontario Weekly'Newspaper Association
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$8.00 a year, Single Copies 15 cents each.
Thanks Jack
and Hank
SNNSSE LS
ONTARIO
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At press tithe Ttiesday it appeared as if there will
be an election for council in Brussels. We think that's
great.
Repeated acclamations to office aren't healthy for
any municipal government. -A council made up of
people who have won election can be sure that they
have fairly won the confidence of ratepayersand can
perhaps be braver and more far reaching than a
council that has been acclaimed.
At the same time, withdrawal by two candidates
has made J. C. Krauter the village's new reeve. Mr.
Krauter brings years of council experience to the job
and is a former reeve and. Huron County warden.
Present reeve Jack McCutcheon is retiring from
local politics after six years as reeve. The village
owes a great deal to Mr. McCutcheon's leadership
and work on behalf of all the residents of Brussels
and he's taking a well deserved rest.
Brussels council will also miss the contributions of
councillor Hank Ten Pas, who isn't running .again,
after 13 years in public life. Mr. Ten Pas has been an
excellent councillor, always .level headed and
keeping the interests of all the people of Brussels
foremost.
The job of the 1977 council won't be an easy one.
The new arena and the planned sewer installations in
the village are two of . the 'most expensive, and
potentially divisive, projects that the village has
faced in a long, long time. The new council will be
making decisions on both of them.
But like previous Brussels councils, they can rise
to the occasion. May the best men (it's too bad that
no women are standing for election in the village)
win.
Jack Isaac isn't a gambling man. I found
out when I went into his T.V. and appliance
store in Mitchell.
I'd almost convinced myself to buy one
of his clothes dryers. There comes a time in
every man's life when you get tired of
Wearing wet socks and bumping into your
underwear suspended on a makeshift
clothesline' in the hallway.
We had the dryer sale about clinched.
Alnr ost ready to shake hands and say "A
deal". But we were 15 dollars off in price.
Just a little more dickering and Jack would
have it.
I told Jack this was my final offer. I'd
told him twice already this was my final
offer -- and I'd come up each time.
Now it was Jack's turn. Was he going to
give in or wasn't he? Was Jack going to
make me change my final offer? for a third
time?
But Jack just stood there. Grinned. And
stuck his pipe between his teeth.
"Good dryer," he smoked, "No delivery
charge. I can have it out to your place
tomorrow morning."
"Btit we got $175.00 .to settle up on," I
reminded him.
twaited. I can stall, too, Jack. I want to
give yOu one last chance to change your
mind. Now, that's fair, isn't it? Especially
since I'd been doing all the mind changing
the last fifteen minutes:
"Can't sell it any lower," he said, "If I
did, I might as well lock the doors and go
out of business."
"Well," I sighed, "I'm on my way into
the city and I can always have a look there.
See what kind of a deal -I can get."
"I said I'd hook up the dryer too. See if
any of those city dealers Would do that for
Jack puffed on his pipe. -
"Tell you.what I'll do Jack," I said and I
reached into my pocket for a toin, "Let's
flip for the last $1.06". -
Jack jerked his pipe out of his Mouth,
"AbSolutely riot! That's one thing Y ;Won't
do. I'M not
I could see I caught Jack off guard., We'd
never done business -- big dryer business=
before.
"No," Jack shook his head, "I'm too
much of a good Presbyterian to do a thing
like that."
Jack wasn't used to my flipping. Ralph
Wietersen is. Whenever I come into his
country store in Bornholm, we often flip for
some change. Little stuff --dimes and
nickels. We're never into dollars. Well,
okay. We do haVe two silver dollars on the
go. We flip back and forth for them. At the
minute Ralph's got both' of them.
"If other people want to do it, that's
alright with me", said Jack, "They •can do
the lotteries and bingos and flips. That's
their business. But it's not mine."
"Okay, Jack," I said, "Yon win. Bring
out the dryer."
I never pulled that dime out of my
pocket. It would never see. the daylight in
Jack's store. It would have to wait for
Ralph's.
I now own , a ,Presbyterian dryer. It's
doing a good.job of drying all my socks and .
underwear in short time. It's a good
worker. Doing a day's work for decent pay.
Without flips and chances and change.
Maybe that's the way it should be. The
Bible n ever does say anything about
gambling. But it does say a lot about good
stewardship. Jack's got the right idea. I
should have told him I never play the
lottery: Or put corn on bingo squares. Or
mount up piles of money in card games.
It's just this flipping.
The only way I can stop is; to have Ralph
put his foot down. To stop bringing out
thoge silver dollars every time I go into his
' store; •
And now's the time for Ralph to do it.
He's ahead with those two dollars.
shouldn't have to tell him that, gambling's
a losing businegs: Statistic people figure
you have to spend $100 in order to get back
$40 in the lotteries. What kind of odds are
those?
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niy Own warliAng;tysiem. I. have my
staunch Presbyterian dryer rtinibliltig
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