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Dear Sir:
For sotne time now I have been trying to
refrain from these comments. However
impulse has overcome my better judgment,
and I submit the following.
What's all this talk about food
shortages? Everywhere, I read about food
shortages, or expected food shortages.
Anybody who goes shopping must realize
that the food stores arc well stocked with a
good selection of anything they wish to
purchase. You can take your choice of
fruits, vegetables, meats, pastries, cereals
or anything else, it's all there waiting for
customers.
Has anyone tried to buy a home freezer
lately? or a single bed mattress, or
matched set of washer and drier, or the
new car of your choice? Or worse still parts
to repair the one you have? Farm
machinery ; tile, brick, plumbing fixtures
and I could go on atid on, are on back order
nearly every dale you need any. Has the
food store operator ever told you to conic
back in 2 weeks that he may have untie
then? It seems to me that food is one of the
few things that is not in short supply.
We often hear that the people of India
are Starving. I have a close friend living in
India at the present time, who tells Me that
Many people in India ARE hungry and
starving. But the people iii India who have
Money can buy anything they want in the
line of food, and there' are 200 million coo
roaming around eating .everything in sight
till they die of old age or unattended
sickness.
It seems to hie that society can be
conned into a state' of mind that blinds,
simply by well directed publicity. When
people whose main physical problems are
result of over eating or drinking, can be lcd
to believe there is a food shortage, we must
admit there must be some expert publicity
people around.
Then there's this business about good
land going out of food production. I agree
that there should be better thanagoinent of
land uses. But whose responsibility is it to'
maintain a resource for some future
generation? If Canada's population
eetirinties to increase at the rage of 00
1.7% every ten yeats and farmers
efficiency increases as it has in the past 10
yeas; we'll be looking for export markers
for a long time yet.
And isn't land that is occupied by
highways, diffieldS, cities etc. serving
people better than land that lies node
thorn trees:
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Bru ssels Post
BRUSSELS
ONTARIO WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1974
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Local history
On Page one this week the Post begins a series
outlining the history of Brussels. It was researched
and written by two students at the University of
Guelph, Vonne McCutcheon, a Brussels native and
her fiance David Brister for a term paper.
The two young people are vitally interested in the
village— it's past and its future. The hist ory which
they have gathered is a valuable written record of
industries which once thrived in Brussels and are
now pretty well gone.
Their analysis of why these industries and the
population of the village declined is not meant to be
negative or to hurt anyone's sensibilities but to get
information on paper for the historical record while
the old time citizens of Brussels who remember old
events and personalities are . still around.
A written history is always a valuable thing. These
two young people have provided a good economic
record of village life. They welcome any comments or
more information on Brussels history that any
readers can -provide. •
The fact that young people in our community are
interested in its past is a good thing and augers well
for the future of Brussels.
Finishing school for crooks ?
Everyone agrees that Canadian prisons do not
reform nor do they rehabilitate., Those who do
benefit from the present system are judges, lawyers,
wardens, guards, civil servants working in the
departments of correction, the police and the
plethora of social workers in and out of the jailhouse,
walls:
It is time we quite sending our lawbreakers to a
finishing school for criminals which our prisons have
proven themselves time and time again to be. Let's
keep them in the community.
Surely the real function of judges, lawyers and
police should be to save people from jail. Maybe we
should depend less on the adversary system and
experiment,- except in, cases of violence, with
procedure similar to the one successfully applied in
family courts.
The only way to teach anyone to behave as a
responsible member of the group is to keep him in
the group. Supervision for varying periods of time,
according to the nature of the crime, would allow a
more wholesome adjustment to society than ‘a
session behind bars.
Society wants to be protected against violence. But
the truly violent make up only a fraction of those
serving jail sentences. The really dangerous ones
could be held in about two good sized prisons -- one
in the east and one in the west. Highly trained
professionals could staff these. institutions- Where
initiates would stay for as long as it takes for them to
change. -
Let's keep our problem people at home with their
families: Let's help them to work out their 'problems
just as Children's Aid,SocietieS help families with
their problems.
Let's see that we provide creative work for them to
do sb that they can pay tares' and generally become
good citizens. VVithsupportive help they will realize
that it is easier to conform than to 'swim against the
Current: The medieval system of jails has failed. So
let's try SOMething else. (Contributed)