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The Brussels Post, 1975-12-31, Page 2IIITA1LieR110 1172 russels os tINUSiEIS Post WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1975 Serving Brussels and the surrounding community. Published each Wednesday afternoon at Brussels, Ontario by McLean Bros. Publishers, Limited. Dave Robb - Advertising Member Canadian Community Newspaper Association and Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association CNA \... Subscriptions (in advance) Canada $6.00 a year. Others $8.00 a year, Single Copies IS cents each. Evelyn Kennedy - Editor Will it be "Happy 1984" We are only eight years away from that fateful year depicted by the English novelist, George Orwell, who saw the forces of technology exerting full control and authority over our minds by 1984. Indeed, some people would say that 1984 is .upon us and that the fundamental processes of our society 11 , I would like to write this letter to you and your newspaper, and 09.he local townsfolk of Brussels. ,.I Fuiave been reading about all the. iritilabalOo hi the Brussels Post, 'bout the three hundred people in he village who would like to vote 't,jainst the installation of a sewer yt'stetti. . First of all these people who alue the allmighty dollar, over resit, drinking water, fresh ait rid Unpolluted earth to grow food 13at they need to sustain their wit health, better have a good and look at What their sewage' is ; doing to the environment. From to articles in the PoSt ) the people Brussels are saying,. I don't' :ire what happens to thy ehildred L A ere is no wtdlie left I, then' they grow up„ I don't care if —our' 1, tVince; I don't care if Moo is r ' To the editor Sewers needed to control pollution have broken down already. That may be. We have not achieved a very good record in dealing with human goals and most people in the industrial west feel threatened and powerless in the face of major computer networks, genetic engineering and nuclear age technblogy. Under- developed nations are almost equally hopeless in their attempts to catch up to the industrial west . But, without for a moment diminishing the extent of the technological flood, it may well be that we use this new science to hide our inability to understand the essential human dimension of cociety's needs. It is just possible that the application of the best we have in technology could help us solve over-population, inadequate food supplies and energy resource depletion. Technology could probably deal with these if we had the will to look at the new concepts. Conservation rather than consumption, demands that need not be always fulfilled, ethics about supply and pricing are human decisions that can make technology work for us. But it means we must recognize that Orwellian chaos faces us if we are unwilling to accept social responsibility now. Technology can either dominate or serve society. Naturally most of us would choose' service but then we must be prepared to change, to plan and above all to place technology at the service of humanity. To hide from or try to destroy technology is pure ignorance of the human problem and will undoubtedly push our society closer to 1984 than any computer program yet devised. " (Contributed) no cattle left for the farmers to raise, so I can have roast beef oh my table. I don't care if the farmers can't grow vegetables on their polluted land, so I could have three Meals a day and not have to go hungry. Arid finally, I don't care if I live or die, just so I don't have to spend a few dollars' more on taxes. Furthermore, there are more than 300 farmers along the Maitland River who have to put Up with your raw, stinking human Waste. if all the farmers along the Maitland were to reverse the river, and send all our sewage dOwristrearii to rUssels yon people would all holler for a Sewage system on all the farms. Mery OdWing Owner of a part of the Maitland Sewer System by Karl Schuessler Once upon a time this Christmas the town of Sharpesville decided to do something about L. C. O. Now L.C.O. wasn't a first cousin to L.C.B.O. Why, he wasn't even distantly related to that family. He's known as L.C.O. because he's the Little Christinas Outlaw.- And the town didn't want him to ruin their Christmas again this year. So they locked him up on Christmas Eve for safe keeping. He wasn't going to spoil their celebrations with those pranks of his. But 5:00 on Christmas Eve the word•spread through the town. "L.C.O's out. He's escaped. Be on the lookout." The announcement interrupted radio and television programs. Department stores' closed early. Shoppers rushed home and locked their doors. Children played inside. .The Little Christmas Outlaw made his first strike at the Fuller family home. He creeped into 'the basement window and made his way up the stairsHe crawled across the living room rug over to the fireplace. He closed the damper tight. So tight that not even a paper thin Santa Claus could squeeze through. The Richer family lived across town, on the richer side of course. Since the L.C.O. had no bus it took him an hour to reach the Richer neighborhood. Gifts didn't mean that much to the Richer family. They had everything money could buy. But what's Christmas without gifts? And what's Christmas without parties? A great big party for all of their neighbors and for all the folks at the office and for the friends they do business with., The liquor store delivery truck stopped for a To the editor To the Editor:. With reference to the proposed sewage disposal project in Brussels we have all' known; for many years, that the tiviet is. polluted. „ „ At the hearing of the .M,I3„ the health department presented their findingS:, which Milst haVe taken a great deal of titne And money and did not tell us Anything that we didn't alreadylcitOW 4, namely that the river is polluted. above accepted Why did they net Cheek the water ..above the dam , and 'beyond the village red light a block from the. Ricriee's house. L.C.O., struck again. He jumped on the hood, pointed his toy pistol through the windshield arid yelled, "This is a Highjack! And before the light turned green, the Richer family cancelled their Christmas party. The Poorer family always counted on. Christmas turkey, dressing, cranberry sauce and puMpkin pie with whipped cream. The Do-Good-Society got the Poorer family's name from the welfare rolls. Like other years the Do-Gooders decided to do good again this year. But the L.C.O. hitchhiked out to the country to the Th omas Turkey F arm. He opened the coop cages—and told them "Hurry" and the turkeys silently escaped down into Hidden Valley. And the poorer family ate bean soup for, Christmas dinner. A smile came over L.C.O.'s face. His job was done. The Fuller family cried, "What's Christmas without gifts?" The Richer family cried, "What's Christmas without a party?" The Poorer family cried, "What's Christmas without a turkey?" The Little Christmas Outlaw turned himself in at midnight.. He kept that wide grin over his face. He'd done it again. He'd struck once again at Christmas. He set three families thinking arid asking, "What's Christmas? What's Christnias all about?" Why have they not checked the septic tanks and make the offenders conform with the law? I think everyone Will agree that we need something to control the pollution, Do We need the theist expensive along, the present fate of inflatiohl The petition,. presented to the council, with mote than 300 taxpayers Signatures,• but reported itrthe Pest as 200 is asking for a vote,. So council, let us have a Vote add prove that we still live iti a democracy, E.M Marwick. y use most expensive control?