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The Brussels Post, 1975-04-16, Page 4••1 8:00 8:30 9;00 9:3C 0:30 I:0C 2:00 :00 :30 ;00 5:00 6:00 7:30 :00 :30 :00 1:00 1:20 11:4: Spring swollen river 7:30 8:00 8:30 0:30 1:30 2:00 1:00 :30 2:00 3:00 3:30 4:00 4:30 g5:0O S:30 6:00 7:00 7:30 :00 11:0C 1:2C 11:45 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1975 Serving Brussels and the surrounding community. Published each Wednesday afternoon at Brussels, Ontario by McLean Bros.Publishers, Limited: Evelyn Kennedy - Editor Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association 'and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association. Subscriptions (in advance) Canada $6.00 a year, Others ' CCNA $8.00 a year, Single Copies 15 cents each. ,4- vEmEigo BRUSSELS ONTARIO IliSTAILISHRO IOU gBrussels Post Communication , Isn't it marvellous-this age of communication in which we live! Just imagine-flying from London, England to Toronto in a little over two hours! That's what the new Concord jet can do, and since it beats the sun by several hours, it could deliver a letter in Toronto today that was sent from London tomorrow-(barring a• mail strike, of course). Now that's communication! Meanwhile, satellites, are flashing picture messages around the world in seconds; computers are spewing out a volume of informative messages that boggles the mind-and sometimes the computer. Hou many telegraph wires, and cables are sending messages at this very moment? How many telephones are ringing right now with potential messages? The irony of it is that in this great age• of communication we find more and more evidence of lack of communication-between husbands and wives, parents and children, minority groups and the establishment, management and labour, and between nations. Individuals, groups and nations reach out for the help of marriage counsellors, psychiatrists, group therapists, strike mediators, special ambassadors and truce teams-all in an effort to communicate. Words pile on words to create a monument to our tragic inability to communicate with each other in a significant way. There is an ancient story which is, in itself, useful commentary on the art of communication. It tells of an old gardener and a very close friend who shared his love of gardening. They used to'take long walks together and they drank their evening tea together, saying hardly a word but exchanging views and emotions by a shake of the head, a smile or a frown. In time, the friend was sent to a distant land and after many years, the old gardener was thrilled to receive a letter from him. The letter. was very brief but it brought a flood of memories and joy to his heart. It said simply "Today I pruned my rose tree." ...It took months for the old gardener to compose a reply to his friend-one that would express all his affection, his memories and loneliness. At last, the return message was ready-an expression of the ties r x that bound the two old men together-and it read as follows: "Today, I too, pruned my rose trees." Surely, his friend got the message-loud and clear. ai 'wow come You cata me 0,47HRotoi-st4cc- iiiie- sotHE.- wifivo ei341.4 >bag. aovreAto Amen By Karl Schuessler My Ontario government giveth and taketh away. I t hought that was something only the Lord did. But then this isn't the first time we've nibbled away at his perogatives. The Ontario Government giveth. Beginning May 15 it will give away every two weeks $100,000 in that gambling scheme called Wintario. And that's not all. There's 1350 smaller amounts besides that grand prize. Ontario is now joining the ranks of Olympic Lottery, The Irish Sweepstakes and your local corner chance board. Pick a name. Pull up the tab. See if you can pay or win. But of course if my government giveth, then it must also take away. Take away not only the prize money -- it's estimated about 40% of the total -- but also the profits. The government needs profits. That's another 40%. Then there's the cost of administration. 20%. And in round figures we're up to 100%. The whole ventured accounted for, and its prospects very promising. Because my government doesn't go into anything that big without ample samplings and testing. Yes. The lottery is very popular nowadays. Research shows that more than 70% of the population is willing. Willing to gamble a ten or a one or whatever to win a. thousand. Or a million: "You can win a million" sings its way into everyone's heart. I can hear it now. I can see it now. A yacht. A dream house. A trip around the world, Goodbye pain. No more strain. And if I lose? Too bad this time. Maybe next, At least some lucky son-of-a-gun won, didn't he? And besides. All those profits -- expected at 40 million dollars annually--are going for good causes. Like sporting events: Coaching clincis, Art galleries. Potters. Sculptors. Musicians. Historical projects. Ball diamonds. Arid certainly these things are going to make better people out of Us all. You can't knock that, can you? But I can: I still can not understand why my Ontario government dabbles around iii this sort of game. Oh, Lktiow. We've'put up with this for years. Bingo. Raffles. Draws. Chances. Give-aways. All this petty manoeuvreing that raises money for some good cause. And the churches put up with it too. Overly sensitive ones draw the fine line between games of chance and games of skill. But my government? Who is supposed to set example? Show excellence? Set high standards? Lead? Has it become a victiqn of it-works-and-everybody's-doing-it? After two years of U.S.Watergate and after England's sex scandals, calls went out for a higher morality in government. The English lords knew exactly what to do when they were caught cavorting with shady ladies. They resigned. One of them admitted that the average man might smile at their capers and say "good on you". But the lords knew that high position means high conduct. For from our leaders we want more than run of the mill. We demand higher standards. We need shining lights. We want them to stretch for the stars . . . often for us. We tolerate lesser things in lesser men.We want far more in better men. And their high office carries high expectation. And if this isn't enough to keep Out the government in gambling schemes, then the practicalities of gambling should. Who spends his money on lottery tickets? Probably the man who can least afford it. The man who needs the pot at the end of the rainbow to keep him going. The poor, And include the middle class poor too. And all those losing lottery stubs become a reminder. A reminder that, once again; th e government's put another bite on his inoney. One more bit of his income just dropped fltd Ontario's Outse, keep my own purse strings closed. I 'll kow the odds nn ganiblitig. I'll stick with the evens. Even plain old work to make my dreams wait trite:: 8:00 8:45 9.90 9:15 10:30 11:00 2:00 12:30 2:45 2:30 3:00 3:31 4:00 4:30 5:00 5:30 6:00 6:30 7:00 8:00 8:30 qUE