HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1978-05-10, Page 10Campbell who will be ordained in
• Campbell, Laurie and Julie at- June for the Presbyterian
tended graduation exercises on Ministry.
a
at
ZYTA'S GREENHOUSES
On the Iritton mad between r•-•
Britton and Donegal FREE ;'?
May 20 & 22
FREE COFFEE AND COOKIES
Vancouver
$23 2., RETURN •
Charter Class. Canada
45 Day Advance Booking
• DAILY FLIGHTS •
Air Canada or CP Ai r
Subject to Space Availability
CALL TODAY
FOR FURTHER DETAILS
HOLIDAY
WORLD
WINGHAM 357-2701
'QUEENS HOTEL
Brussels
thideC
‘Ae* MANAGEMENT
Drop In and Meet your Hosts
PAT & BILL WRIGHT
Entertainment
Friday and Saturday
May 12 & 13
ll'Wally Dee
I • U
Smorgasbord &Dance
at
Blyth District Community Centre
Music by Music Makers
Dancing 9 to 1:00
Saturday, May 1.3,1'978
Roast Beef Baked Potatoes, salads, etc.
Sponsored by Blyth, District Community Centre Board
PROCEEDS TO PAY ARENA DEFICIT
Tickets $6.00 per person
Tickets available at Blyth Post Office, Clerk's Office or from any, board member.
Blyth Centre for the Arts
Antique & Crafts
EXHIBITION .
More than 40 selected Ontario ,praftsmen and antique dealers.
ONE DAY .ONLY
Saturday, May 20th
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Myth Community Centre
Admission 50c ,Children, Under 12 free
Ail proceeds to Blyth Summer :Theatre Program
1Q , THE. BRUSSELS POST,. MAY 10, 1978
Sugar and Spice
by Bill Smiley
People we know
Mr. and Mrs. George Campbell- May 2nd at Convocation 'Hall,
of Seaforth, Mr. and Mrs. Ivan' University of Toronto for Morris.
What with Chretien's budget and the
hockey playoffs, it looks like a long, dull
spring ahead..
That budget came sailing out with all the
• buoyancy of a wet sock.. I. can't help agreeing
with .the braying opposition critics, who
labeled it a cynical, pre-election 'budget.
So the sales tax was cut, Big deal, It means
that if I want to go out and buy a $6,000 car, 1
can save $180. Brother, if I could afford that
kind of money for a car, I'm not going to let
$180•worry me, one way or the other. And that
$180 is sure going to go a long way DI
providing jobs .fdr the more than 1 million
unemployed, isn't it!
There wasn't a single item in the budget
that will remotely affect our sickly dollar or
our sorry unemployment situation.
Something that truly amazes me is that the
federal Liberals, despite their horrendous
record over the past decade, have a very good
chance of being re-elected. They arc leading
by a fat 11-or-so per cent in the polls.
How do you figure that, with the whole
eountrY-Mad at the government for inaction,.
lack of leadership, a monstrous deficit, and a
dollar in the doldrums?'It must only mean that
we think an alternative would be worse, and
this is a depressing thought. How can
anything be worse than dreadful? . • „
I think perhaps the reason for the Liberal
lead in the polls is that a sort of apathy and
cynicism has affected the Canadian voter (i)
the point where he just doesn't give a diddle
my more.
The lack of credibility among politicians has
deepened, rather than the reverse, since the
CBC began telecasting House of Commons
debates. Nowhere was it more evident than on
budget night.
can one side of the House, as the finance
,minister followed cliche with platitude, one
group of trained seals flapped their flippers; on
their desks every time lie stopped for, a drink
of 'water. On the other side of the House,
another group of equally well-groomed.
trained seals flapped their flippers on their
desks when their man was cutting up the
finance minister. Perhaps the name should be
changed from the House of Commons to the
Common 'Loo.
What is developing in this country is a
deep,- festering sore based on a mistrust of
Ottawa and everything that emanates from it.
And somebody had better start paying some
attention to it, at sonic other time:- than
election time, or there's going to be hell to nay
People
Mrs. Glenna Stephens has
returned to Brussels from Boston.
Mrs. Alberta Smith re-
presented the Majestic W.I. of
Brussels at the Officers Con-
ference held in Waterloo last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Jamieson,
Mrs. Bill Lockau and Mrs. L.
Warzescha of Kitchener were
Sunday visitors with Mrs. Ray
Kennedy.
When those sweaty slaves, most of them
Grade l2 drop-outs, are driving Cadillacs and
The like, and play is held up for TV
.commercials, and fourth-rate teams make the
playoffs, the game has. .about as much
integrity as. a poker game with twos, eights
and all red cards wild..
I'd just as soon watch reruns of I Love Lucy
as waste my time watching the NHL playoffs.
At least Lucy is funny.
in this country, °
Surely the Ottawa mandarins, the ".Expert",
eccinomists, and the $50,000-a-year civil
servants have' had their innings,. They have
made a complete hash of things in the three
decades since World War II, when Canada
emerged as a vital country with everything
going for it, and has slid steadily from a strong
secondary power to a whining voice in' the
wilderness.
Surely it's time for a leader to emerge who
has a gut feeling of w1u,' this nation is all
about and what its people want. But where is
he? Or she? John Diefenbaker had it, but his
own ego blurred Hid .mirror. Robert Stanfield
had it. But •in this TV age, he didn't have
"charisma." He wasn't sexy enough.
Joe Clark sexyrEd Broadbent charismatic?
It is to laugh. I'll bet I'm, sexier on Sunday
morning with a hangover and no shave.
Oh well, we can't solve the' nations
problems here every week. let's turn, for
comic relief, to the National Hockey League. It
is to, laugh again, uproariously. It is not
national, it is not hockey, and it is not a
league, but a conglomerate of big businesses.
Despite the, sports' page flacks who keep
flogging us with "big"- stories about hockey,.
hockey stars, big salaries, folding franchises,
and such garbage (if I read one more story
about Derek Sanderson' I'll puke), the hockey
playoffs are becoming a big yawn.
A couple of decades ago, hockey fans in
North America were that fanatics. I knew.
guys who wouldn't go to the funeral parlor
where their wife was laid out, 'if they were
going to miss a. playoff game.
Nowadays, when everybody makes the
playoffs except Aunt Mabel and the Peewee
team she coaches Saturday morning, ennui
sets in early in April and continues until . almost June.
Baseball is in full swing,•-football is gearing
for summer training, and the gold tour is half
over before the greedy owners will let their
zazu,o l',r v1.1, ri-Nc.. 11,111er VI nire14-41,c,