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The Brussels Post, 1978-01-18, Page 16Bakery Grocery Free Delivery Phone 887-9226 D & D CONSTRUCTION CO. GODERICH All types of FARM RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL CARPENTRY After 6;30 for Dove Salm FREE ESTIMATES 887-6352, Dave Mclvor 524-2062 STEPHENSON'S Carnival KETCHUP Stokley Cut Green BEANS Tip Top NUTS POTATOES "St. Williams CHERRY JAM ICE CREAM 694 39' 1.49 594 1.19 99 4 20 oz. 14 oz. 13 ozs. Limited Supply 10 lbs. 24 ozs. 2 litres SAVE This Pays The Sales Tax On Any Used Car Bought . January 8th to January 31st 24 Hour Towing From Your Car Care Specialist J L. McCUTCHEON MOTORS Chevi Olds. Brussels 8814856- OLD FASHION VALUES Schneiders Mini Sizzler Regular All Beef or Country Maple SAUSAGE 1 lb. Pkg. 1 • 19 Schneider's BOLOGNA Regular or all Beef 1 lb. pkg. 894 BRUSSELS U TCH, EC- N R We Deliver Phone 887.944S 16-THE BRUSSELS POST JANUARY 18,1978 County council names. committees Committees have been named for the 1978 Huron County Council. The first person nalmed is Chairman and the number following each name indicates the number of years of the appointment. ROAD - C.K.Campbell (2), R.W.J.Lyons (1), J. Tinney (3), J. C. Krauter (4), W.J.Dale (5). HURONVIEW - W.G.Zinn (1), N. Durst (1), R.S.Macaulay (2), S.P. Hallahan (3), J.R.Hunking (3). HEALTH - P.D.Steckle (1), G.G.Ginn (1), Eileen Palmer (2), C.W.Bray (3), John Morrissey, Prov. Rep. • LIBRARY - J. Stafford (1), T.A.Miller (2), F.E.Haberer (3), Mrs. N. Gnay (1), E,Thompson (2), Mrs. M. Venn (3). PROPERTY - E:Sillery '(1), D.J.Noble (1), D.R.MacGregor (2), F.Cook (2), J. Kerr (3), J.F.MacDonald (3). • PLANNING - A. Campbell (1), R.M.Williarnson (1), Knight (2), W..E.Simmons (2), W.K.Morley (3), T.VV.Consitt (3). DEVELOPMENT - W.J.Elston (1), C.Deichert (1), J.M.Dawson (2), W. E. Simmons (2),* W.I.Morley (3), T.W.Consitt (3). DEVELOPMENT - W.J,Elston (1), C.Deichert (1), J.M.Dawson (2), R.Robinson (2), D.A.MeNeil (3). EXECUTIVE - E.W.Oddleifson (1), G.H.Stirling '(1), D.S.E (2), R.M,Bell (2), J'.Jewitt (3), B,Clifford (3). SOCIAL SERVICES J.F.Flannery (1), H,E,Wild (1), H,Elliolt (2), C.Desjardine (3), * Mr. Donald 0. Walker of Hamilton has returned home after visiting with his mother, Mrs. Beatrice Cardiff for three weeks. William. Moses of R.R.3, R,McNichol .LAND DI_ VISION - E. Hayter (1), G.Reed (1), J, H azlitt (2), J.L.McCutcheon (3), J.Miller (31. Brussels is a 'patient in hospital in St. M arys. Among those who are holidaying in Florida are R.B. Cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Campbell and Mr. and Mr.s Gordon Workman. People We Know Amen by Karl Schuessler Head with heart I've always wondered about those pictures in many church magazines. They're not only in church Magazines either. They stare out at you from newspapers and secular magazines. You've all seen those pictures --those pictures of wide eyed children with bulging bellies and bony ribs. Some hold a plate or cup in -their thin fingeirs. Or they're crying and clinging to an older brother or sister. The background is usually a squalid . village in some far off land. You get the picture right away. These are the starving children of the world . These are part of the 500 million who suffer malnutrition, and who go to bed hungry at night. These kind of pictures take the appalling statistics and translate them into one single photograph. It's too much for the .mind to imagine millions of people starving. So, a the vast human misery is condensed into one picture, into one child in one village town. As I say, you get the picture. And it's. not a pretty one. Those big eyes stare out at you. Only recently) an ad said, "To look into these eyes of four year old Anderson de Silva of Brazil is to see the marks of abject •poverty:" Often these pictures appear more at Christmas time. And as the Western world goes on its annual mad shopping spree, a few such pictures jolt you into remembering what most of the world needs. -Forget about all those things on your shopping list. The world has a much longer and more basic list of needs. • You can't blame those ad makers. They're trying to get in on some of the loose and generous dollars showered around at Christ- mas time. But still. I've always wondered about those pictures - - true as they are, real as they are, There's something so contrived and deliberate' about their emotional appeal. Their intention is so obvious. To shock you into giving, into doing something about this World's misery. And the help-the-starving- ad makers aren'' the only ones: All other sorts are resorting tr shocking and emotional appeals. They knov that being sweet and reasonable on a subject. -- their subject -- isn't going to turn many tidesKonfronted with all kinds of evidence and statistics, people 'still continue to overeat, overdrink, overdrug, Overdrive and over- smoke. So they shock you with pictures of auto wrecks of mangled 'steel and twisted bodies. You see a revolver with its cartridge stuffed in. cigarettes, not bullets. You see a picture of the slumped over body of a junkie on a tenement , house stairca There's no doubt about it.They're trying to shake you up. They're not knocking on your head anymore, but they're pounding on your heart. But still.. I wonder about those pictures of the starving children. And then last week I saw the picture of all pictures. The caption read, 'Mere will be no Christmas for Red". And underneath was a picture of a Red -- a poor Irish setter whose ownersstal-ved him to death.. The dog was lean, barely able to stand on all fours. His ribs stuck out and he was a sorry case. And then the ad went on. The Associated. Humane Societies in New Jersey had much work to do this winte.r Strays and starving animals were turning up at their doorstep daily. They needed your money to carry on their work. And then in bold print came the knock-out punch: "Look At All The Good Work Your Contribution Makes Possible". Ye's, maye that's what bothers me most of all. So close to the misery is the money. Give Give. Give. Give to this. Donk. e to that., They're so many good causes. They're all doing such good -- to both people and now dogs-. Sure, they help. But I sense what's good for the unfortunate is also good for the fortunate as well. Misery is one think. The relievers of thanmisery is another. And that leaves a lot of unanswered questions in the middle. I have to put a lot of good reason to all those emtional appeals. I have to temper emotion with reason, and that includes all those pictures of starving children and dogs.. That way I won't up with just a bleeding heart. Everyone knows bleeding heaits can't survive too long. They .bleed themselves out real fast and then what good are they? Iftat's why I figure I need as much head as heart with my giving. So whenever I see a tear . jerking picture, I know I have to screw on my head real tight. Because those pictures are, designed to screw loose my heart. And I'm in no mood to fall that apart.