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The Brussels Post, 1981-11-04, Page 2Published at BRUSSELS, ONTARIO every Wednesday morning by McLean Bros. Publishers Limited $13 a year 40 cents a single copy Authorized as second class mail by Canada Post Office, Registration Number 0562. w ef~I,Rl~A MFRS ' 41.WSPAPERS CO' A Andrew Y. McLean, Publisher Evelyn Kennedy, Editor WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1981 Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association, Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and The Audit Bureau of, Circulation. Continued from page 1 in charge. not turn them away empty handed when they call on you. Buy •a poppy, a symbol of the blood shed. Wear it in remembrance of those who endured the horror of war and who paid the price for us. 1872 4Brussels Post BRUSSELS BOX 50, Brussels, Ontario Established 1872 519-887-6641 NOG 1 HO Serving Brussels and the surrounding community Short Shots by Evelyn Kennedy * * * * * Now that the World Series baseball question has been settled arm-chair fans can give their attention to football and hockey. After the Sunday C.F.L. game between Ottawa and Montreal it looks as if there is no doubt that Montreal will be the contenders in the east for the C.F.L. trophy. What do you bet that -they will lose in the final encounter with the western division team? The Montreal Canadiens hockey team have also been, in the last weeks, going full-steam ahead. Skate Canada concluded on Sunday with Canada's figure skaters making a fine showing. Tracy Wainman, 14-year old bundle of energy and athletic grace from Toronto, gave a marvellous performance. She won top honors in the women's event. With her excellent free skating performance she surpassed the consistent winner Priscilla 1E11 of . the U.S. *5 * The battles on the diamonds for the World Series Baseball Championships are over. The. Los AngelesDodgers, after 16 years of drought, finally triumphed over the New York Yankees. These two teams met, many times, in those years in final encounters for the championship with the Yankees always the winners. This time it was different, much to the surprise and disgust of the proud Yankees. How sweet that victory must have been. *5 * * * * After the November 11th service at the Cenotaph the church service will be held this year at Duff's United Church in Walton. Rev. John Swan, the Legion padre, will be Continued from page 1 At the moment the Sanders have 114 full-grown'and 40 little goats. They arc still selling their mohair to England and apparently the quality of Canadian mohair surpasses that of other countries. Mr. Sanders thinks that is because of the Canadian climate, that the hair of the goat has more lustre and longer fibre, the same as cows who are left out in the colder weather for a while grow a thicker coat. During the spring, a man was over from England and wanted to buy the fall clip from Mr. Sanders. There is a world demand for Canadian grown Angora because Canada's stringent health requirements for livestock are known worldwide. The Sanders still have mohair they clipped two weeks ago and are-going to sell a small sample to England because they'd rather have a little bit less and be sure of their money. Presnetly the world market 'price for mohair is at an all-time low but expectat- ions for the spring are prcikty good, Mr. Sanders said. Raises goats near here ALL SET FOR HALLOWE'EN — The Brussels Public School was all set for Hallowe'en with its many decorations of the season including this jack-o-lantern complete with pointy hat.' (Photo by Jim Prior) Farmer talks back to Smiley Sugar and spice By Bill Smiley Hope you had a good Thanksgiving, even though my message is a bit belated. Ours' ' wasn't so hot. Under the burden of a heavy cold, rotten weather (what ever happened to Indian summer?), and plain procrastination, I'm going to let some of my readers write this column. Apparently I wrote a colunin a few monthi ago about Canadians, despite all the gloom and doom, never having had it so good. I meant it, as far as material things go. Here are a couple of responses. Mrs. Koleen Garland (nice name that, Koleen) of R.R. 2, Cargill, Ont., says she usually agrees with me, but not on that occasion. I'll quote bits: "This week's column had my dander up before I got to the third line. "So we never had it so good, huh? Maybe the consumers never had it so good...but some of us are producers as well...we have nearly $90,000 worth of debt. It's called a small farm. I call it the great Canadian freebee. We cannot get firm mortgage loans...to small to merit help. So we stuck with paying $20,000 per year in interest. "Last year I cut our living expenses down to $7,000...a bit below the poverty level. My husband has an excellent job, yet we Still manage to take a $5,000 loss on the year." Yes, mint, but how much income tax did you pay, with a loss like that? Were you hungry, cold, hop Bless? I know all about paying interest: I've been doing it all my life, Mrs. Garland ends with the emphasis I wish I could instill-in my students' writing: "Maybe'we never had it so good? Listen, Sonny (thank you, main). I'm a farmer! I've worked my backside off providing those never-had-it-so-good, so don't include me in them." Well said, lady. But maybe you should have taken a course in plumbing or electricity. Wish I had. You wouldn't be in debt. At the other end of the knotted rope, Bill Francis of Moncton, N.B., agrees with me. "It is a relief to know that there is still someone around who realizes that in the bulk we are a greedy lot; even, alas, senior citizens who never had it so good. As for the yeung, they now expect to celebrate Christmas in June. "In our early years, hardnosed bank managers may have slowed Us down, but nothing ever dimmed our hope. I soon learned to pay cash or do without. Started out in 1914 working a 12 hoUr, week, six days a Week...earning $60 a month and paying $15 for board, consisting mainly of cod and moose meat..se many had it a let worse during those depression years:" Amen to that, Bill. I'm about half way between these two writers, in age, and in opinion. But I still think, even with our sick• dollor, inflation, and unemployment we still have something to have a happy Thanksgiving about. Now, about censorship. Hilda SibtliOrpe, of Wyebridge, Ont., supports my stand against the majority who would like to ban certain books in our schools: "I express my concern to trustees, friends and neighbours that this is a situation they should speak out about. But it's frustrating to meet indifference..." Mrs. Sibthorpe is an occasional corres- pondent, a successful politician, and the mother of two girls I taught back in what seems like the 1880s. She is also deeply concerned about the subject of abortion:" I still believe there should be .a choice for women...", but that's another topic, not for this column. Though 1 agree with her. Somebody else, from Vancouver (can't find the danged letter), agrees with my opinions on censorship, but berates me for mentioning the Bible as an example of some pretty straight talk, that would probably be banned by some rural school beards in this country, if it had been published last year. This writer claims that the Bible contains these lurid passages only, to display God's anger with man's folly and to warn him about it. Well, that may be, but in my opinion, a lot of it is straight history, and some of it pretty lurid. Thank, goodness, out local ,school: board has some guts. A few zealots on the board had drawn up a list of seven books considered questionable -for teaching. There was a big flap, but in the end, only one book was left on the banned list. ironically, it was' a play, same play to be presented in the country soon by a drama group. A final touch of unintentional irony occurred when a local radio announcer said the book had been banned because one of the characters was a religious bigot. I wonder what kind of, people began the list in the first place. 1 have lots more interesting correspond- ence, ,but not much more room. Let's go back to our reason for giving thanks. Inflation and interest rates are killing us, along with ever-higher taxes. But that's only paper, and can't kill our spirit. We have bumbling governments that talk like lions and act like mice. A heck of a lot of people are living below the so-called poverty line. Farmeit and small businessmen and people with mortgages . to renew are hurting. But who is dying of starvation or for lack Of medicine, as in much of the rest of the world? We may be cold, but we aren't freezing to death. They don't pick corpses off the street every morning: Our "children haVe an excellent chance of surviving. Some of us, at some time, may have had it better. But for the Canadian peopid i as a mass, I Still say oNe.nevet,had.it. so good.“ • 3121!