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Presently, some stores are staying open on this pight. Some are staying closed. It is doubtful if this z.etition will give a clear cut picture of the situation &s it exists in the minds of the various merchants. As could be expeceted, some want to close on E1day night, some want to stay open. In most cases ose wanting to have Friday night opening are men owning their own business. This is not always the ease, for a few of these have managed to salt enough money away, and are not in the position of those needing extra business to survive. Main exception to this is the large departmental store where the manaâ€" er is responsible for a set quoto of business. In many s3, he feels the Friday night opening will be to advantage and will enable to obtain some of e business which at present is going to suburban shopping centres. _ C c s nights. With Waterloo stores staying open Friday nights and the numerous suburban centres doing the same, Kitchener will lose business by staying closed. Wa. terloo and the suburban areas also offer plentiful, free parking, a serious consideration in this day when the family chariot is part of the shopping equipment. _ . Increased night buying will be even more noticeâ€" able during the summer months. Evening driver , out for a spin, naturally gravitate towards areas where stores are opened. The more stores open, the bigger the attraction. _ c Do l y However, while we have heard dozens of Kitchâ€" ener merchants say they would stay open Friday evening, it was always with the qualification that, "the qgthers did the same". Most of them also said, "They didn‘t want to start such a move." Efforts of a few in this city to enforce Friday night z'llosing, has been rather childish. Especially when e possibility always exists of things getting tough enough for night opening to become a necessity. ‘According to the high winds which have been blowing from the Labour Convention in Toronto, all you nasty people who have done without to risk your money, time and effort in establishing a busiâ€" pess, are a menace not only to the workers you emâ€" ploy, but to the whole country. . Its really a pity that such utterances by labour leaders could not be punished by sending the speakâ€" er to Russia with the stipulation he organize a few unions in that country. Instead of the fat cushy life he now leads, he iould be rewarded with a stipulated amount of Russian soil. Labour has grown fat in this country and the U.S. The labour leaders have grown even fatter. If those who employ others are of such a deep shade, what about the labour bosses? They do not employ, merely collect from those paid by industry. Both government and industry have been too soft with heads of the labour movement. Particularly has government given in to far too many demands by labour bosses who did not even belong in this country. _ L. un 4 COUDULY. Ford has probably been the one exception and possibly the amount of courage shown in the reâ€" cently ended strike will result in other companies stiffening their bargaining rights. fls 1 2 T M at o a se o Molnre WpUSLTNDILIIR NChnE MRRD eRA CCCR DoCeniogl It would be amusing to see what kind of a living these same labour leaders could make if it wasn‘t for the industry and thrift of the very people they condemn. With government supposedly making realistic efâ€" forts to enforce a saving, why pass up the obvious saving offered by nonâ€"replaceable license plates. All over this country, people are standing in lines for license plates, barking their knuckles and losing their tempers trying to get them on their cars, and then throwing away thousands of dollars worth of metal. O _ s Eansq Present licenses are easily Gan W hile the initial cost to produce m might be a trifle higher than tho the saving would be considerable several years. , several JCa‘S. The obvious farce of extending license purchases from one month to the other would also be eliminâ€" ated. At the present time, there is hardly any other way this issuing could be dealt with. The change no doubt would have been made years ago if the ordinary car owner had refused to stand in line to obtain his license. Antount of private money wasted by this proceedure would run into thousands of dollars every year. If this same waste had been incurred by the government in such &n unnecessary. way, the public would have demanded an immediate end to it. As it is their own money and time they are wasting, they seem to think it is alright. d i Wnn sel k2 ts manks an eArDâ€" ET COs If the Canadian government is est effort to clean their expense | could be a more outstanding plac« silly practise of issuing new car li year. While probably lacking th guch an effort could even save the @rs a lot of headaches. Kitchener Chamber of Commerce will circulate petition to all storekeepers in that city to ascertain eir feelings towards opening or closing on Friday RHemember now thy Crsator the days of thy youth, when e evil days come not, wh > on shalt say 1 have no plea Editor‘s Opinion BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY The Waterloo Chronicle, Waterloo Countz;s oldest English newspaper, devoted to the inâ€" member of the Canadian Week! Ncwswpen Association and of the Onurio-auebec ewsâ€" paper Association. County, is published at Wuurt{oo. every Thursday Authorized as second Ditags class mail, P.O. Dept. wHY PASS UP THE OBVIOUS? TO OPEN OR NOT THE WATERLOO CHRONICLE wWHO PAYS THEM? of the City of Waterloo and Waterloo P 2 What government is to make &n °AMN®| »nyerest in their expense house, then where tstanding place to start than the ring new car license plates ever; hlv o lacking their consideration Odd st easily damaged or defaced. produce more durable plates r than those presently used, msiderable over a period of save the private car Mode i dentistry and optics iwnged _ the _ pleture bai v ore than all men nol to gwik in Te voa by tor Creat Nuâ€" !n aâ€" life with s and enâ€" Other Editors Say . . Modern heating devices, such as oil furnaces in the electricallyâ€"equipped rural home, provide wintertime comfort undreamed of in grandâ€"father‘s day. Coal also is widely available, and in the west the prospect of pipinfl Alberta natural gas for vast distances, holds promise of still another means of beating off the frost‘s attack. o_ Reminiscence On The Woodbox (From The Shawinigan Standard) As Winter approaches, people everywhere make preparaâ€" tions for a long, cold season. In these times,, however, few really dread the cold. _ _ 2o While some Canadian homes still depend on wood as their main winter fuel, in general the growing popularity of other sources of heat has spelled the steady decline of the oldâ€" fashioned woodbox. What memories the woodbox gathered about it, as it sat just back of the range in the farm kitchen! _ _ Its career might span an entire generation, for a woodbox never really wore out, no matter how splintered or battered it became with the passing years. A young couple setting up houseâ€"keeping usually started with a new one and, given reasonable care, it sometimes served them throughout their married lives. Throughout the day, the family cat foum itâ€"szwarm place to sieep, especially if the housewife were kindâ€"hearted enough to toss an old cushion on top of the sticks. A cat could nap there in peace until the fire burned low. â€" Thermostatic controls on heating equipment represent progress, no doubt, and helfi to keep the warmth of a home steady and constant; yet they lack the vanished charm of the roaring kitchen fire and the oldâ€"time woodbox. Ideally, a woodbox was just large enough to hold a day‘s supply of maple or birch for the kitchen range and the potâ€" bellied stove in the parlor. To the boy assigned to split the wood to fill it night and morning, its size always seemed tremendous. It was a handy place, too, for drying mitts, socks, boots and other articles of clothing that had a way of becoming wet in outdoor use. They were piled on top of the woodbox and would dry during the night without any danger of burning. break sound barrier New Piano Playing Record (FROM THE HAMILTON REVIEW) "Canadian taxpayers," comments the Letterâ€"Review, "must extract what comfort they can from the news that an aircraftsman at the R.C.A.F.‘s North Bay station has played the piano for 24 hours without stopping. The fact was acâ€" complished in the station theatre, with the pianist subsequentâ€" ly being removed on a station stretcher to tgne station hospital, where he announced his intention of sleeping through the next day. ‘"Tarpayers may now expect to hear they are providing equipment and medical services for flagpoleâ€"sitting contests, dance marathons, etc. at other service depots," the Letterâ€" Review concinds. "Report . . . also disclosed that he was treated for finger bruises; but whether by station nurses or station doctors, it failed to say. s â€" Marathons of physical endurance, apart from real sports, are of little value to anyone, includin; the fellow who sits the longest, whether it‘s on a flagpole or a down cushion, whether he plays bridge for 18 days or a piano for a few hours longer that someone else. . _ â€" â€" 8 Research Works With The Farmer (FROM CIL AGRICULTURAL NEWS) Probably no other industry in Canada has as much research directed towards increasing its efficiency as agricultâ€" ure. Huntireds of workers from coast to coast at federal and provincial experimental farms and research laboratories are making intensive studies of a wide vlrlez of agricultural problems. These range from studies in nutrition to to woodlot management; from effects of soil conditioners to the economics of recently developed pest control _c!lel‘l)it‘l]l. Certainly a merathon piano playing session at an R.C.A.F. station was not a thrilling record for the Air Force, Canada or mankind. Any takers for a sleeping marathon? | 1101 0 . h dicitbidntnlin dsc i hn P dn Abaie e e o I In universitles and at science service layoratories answers are being sought to such questions as: How do Insects develop resistance to insecticides? Can some of the disease affectin plants and livestock be reduced by feeding trace mlnenl:g A new tool has been placed in the scientists‘ handâ€"radio active tracersâ€"which make certain phases of their work nfinitfi]y easier. is El ts by T be Industry too aying 1 providing tter fertilizers and more egective chemr‘c:l'n for killing weeds and insects. Test plots are maintained to study how industrial products can best be used to increase crop .&olld and provide more abundant food supplies for all Canadians. Once the work of research has borne fruit, the informatâ€" on is passed to the farmer in many ways. The story is told > newspl?fl and farm magazines; over the radio and ~levision. Pamphlets and motion pictures are made readily ‘ecvelopment of disease resistant crops; from soil conservation vailable to junior farmers tshort courses and adult study asses. M W Lo 40 0000 D 00L 1J siiah intanciua MEVeVce Un Ns ReRLCELL Gvnrume 1 Odd standards are used in different groups and in various nds to decide who is a person of distinction. In one village family without a power mower doesn‘t rate; elsewhere it ay be lack of a television set which sets the household apart. ut in India the fountain pen decides social status. The man of «istinction there carries &A founumm but many who Lspire to that high estate can‘t even the cheapest of such pers. In tha mcmmmmhwâ€"mm. pocket clip of é\n-n One Amerlcan pen W received :r;‘ogcr“fla 3,000 g;n tope for ml:l‘p:' s ing up Wit e neighbors mfl &A may seem ‘heap to us and m}m unenviable, but to :'mn“whom gets a rupec.!Ldg_grhwâ€"h nl That would make sense. THIS ORLGINAL DOCUMENT S IN VERY POOR CONDITION other Canadian business can boast of i performing a good job still better? Pen Marks Social Status guch intensive The Grand Valley Conserâ€" vation Authority is one of 18 or 19 authorities set up for various rivers and stre.msi across Soutkern Ontario. They operate under the authority of an act of the Ontario Legâ€" islature and are assisted by the Department of Planning and Development. The aim of the authorities is to improve the rivers and to encourage better farming methods, by teaching and practising water and soil conservation. The authorities are interested ~ im reforestation, wild life and recreation. After the formation of an authority, the Departâ€" ment of Planning and Developâ€" ment provides surveys of the‘ streams and issues recomâ€" mendations. It is the work of the authorities to carry out the recommendations. Some authorities have done exâ€" pensive work in river channel improvements, particularly on che Thames and Etobicoke. Only one authority, the Upper Thames Valley Authority, has built a multiâ€"million dollar conservation dam. It is at Fanshawe, near London, and provides a large measure of protection for that city as well as a lake and park. The UTVCA has a plan for five smaller dams to be built at a cost of $9,000,000. Other authorities notably that on the Humber river, hope to build large dams soon. * TkgGwand River Conservatâ€" ion Commission is the only one of its kind in Ontario. It reâ€" quired a special act of the Legâ€" islature before there were any river authority in Ontario. As such, it pioneered in river control work in the province. Its duty is to build large dams, a work the Grand Valley Conservation Authority is not ready to underline for financâ€" ial reasons. As far back as 1906, a delâ€" egation from the cities and towns along the Grand made a plea to the government of Sir James Whitney for assistance in controling the floods on the Grand. Before 1914, William Breithaupt of Kitchener, an engineer, had plans for a large dam on the Grand near Elora. The site was actually surveyed by Hydroâ€"Electric Commission engineers. About 1928, the Grand River Valley Boards of Trade took up the subject again. A survey of the Grand was made by engineers working for the Ontario Government. There was no Department of Planâ€" ning and Development yet. A report recommended the buildâ€" ing of five large w_._mr cgnm‘:l dams, to lower flood levels and provide more water in the summer months. Some years later, the Henry Government passed legislation, sion. The act was based on an Ohio statute, but contained no provision to force any municâ€" ipalities to contribute to the cost of construction or upkeep. Membership was voluntary. Enough municipalities, from Fergus to Caledonia, were inâ€" terested, to form the first Comâ€" mission Surveys were underâ€" taken with funds provided by these municipalities, In the late 1930‘s, the Hepâ€" burn Government put teeth into the act and the present into the act and cho.rmnt Commission wes formed. Kight municipalities, in need of flood protection or more water in summer to help with their sewage disposal problems, deâ€" cided to elect members to the Commission and pay all the from government grants from Ottawa and Toronto. The eight municipalities are: Brantford, Paris, Galt, Preston, Kitchener, Waterloo, Elora and Fergus. They pay in proportion to benifits received as determined by a board of engineers, No other municipalities along the Grang or is trfbutaries conâ€" tririted thrbtagh their dounciis to the cost of the latge dams. These municipalities appoint the 12 members of the Comâ€" $Boutianed on Poge 3) First I should like to point out that the producers of T.V. programmes rely too much on the appeal of the eye to disâ€" tract the ear. Where radio can afford to sacrifice sight for sound, T.V. has both responâ€" sibilities, and no producer can hope that the discriminating viewer will continue to be atâ€" tracted by cheapness in either picture or sound for much longer. It is still a fact that we "watch" T.V. more than we listen to it. T.V. producers have undertaken to produce both picture and sound. Let them see to it that they do both to as erpert degree es possible, not only hoping to get by ‘ through having the one cover up for the deficienâ€" cies of the other. Thave not spent many hours | two of them. in watching T.V. but during Two of our friends Invited the time I have given over to| us to their home shortly after it, I have been amazed at the , Christmas, and we went. There cheapness and shoddiness of| we were introduced to two some of the productions. To{ more people who looked like say that a station has o | folk we should have liked to please all varieties of tas‘e,| add to our list of friends. Biut that live, good performers are , were we given a chance to io hard to get. that it takes hours ; so? No. The television was on of slavery by the staff to| and every one, once the inâ€" produce even one progrant,| troduction formalities were Ambrose Hills OF MANY THINGS The Rich Men When I was a lad, I thought the man who owned the corâ€" ner store in our small prairie town must be very rich inâ€" deed. One look at the choco: lates, the allâ€"day suckers, the rows and rows of yard goods, the big round cheese, the bays of sugarâ€"that convinced me. To own so much the man must be rich. Everybody in town spending money with himâ€" what a wonderful life! Because I bought quite a bit of his candy and chocolate, I was soon introduced to the town dentist. He pulled some teeth, bored holes in others, and sent father a bill for $23.00 I was amazed. All that money just for pulling a few teeth and stuffing a few others? The man must make a fortune! Richest man of all, I thought, was the owner of the local Hardware Store. I‘d look at the rifles in his window, and wonder how so much COUNTRY EDITOR * Canadiana: The Sackville\ (NB) Tribune grows nostalgic asking its readers if they reâ€" membered whenâ€"‘"We lived without vitamins? The man who pulled down a hundred a month was the biggest catch in town? Girls were ashamed to have their toes sticking out of their shoes? When there were no pie, cake or bread mixes?" ... Clinton (Ont) Reâ€" cord discovered there were atill hitching rings imbedded in the cement sidewalks in | town, and wondered if they shouldn‘t be left as a sort of a symbol of Clinton as she used to be or they could be handy for the next generation to tie their hopped up helicopâ€" ters to . .. North Battleford (Sask) Newsâ€"Optimist: tells of‘ a farmer in district who put up placard warning hunters : | ‘Don‘t shoot anything on thi-. farm that isn‘t moving. It may be our hired man" . . . On a hitching tour of Canada is John J. Heysel, 24, of Thorold, Ont., his mission to stir up on-‘ thusiams for his proposed Canâ€" ada flag, depicting a beaver and an evergreen with 12 gold leaves on a background of red, white and blue . . . The first major blackout the city of Prince George, B.C., ever had occurred when fire and an explosion ripped thru the powâ€" ar plant, some 12,000 being effected; people Want to bed With their overcoats on the first night, Mayor Bryant told a reporter . . . Comtant chan ges in designs of posta+» stamps are a \\‘ite of it declares Red Dear (Al.:) ..« Jim â€" Greenblat T here‘s n oâ€"t hb i ng wrong with Canadian TV ience cannot correct. Howâ€" ever, I‘m one of many who are â€" finding that the perâ€" lod of betteiâ€" money could be charged for a bit of wood and metal. Beâ€" yond doubt, the hardware man was another Midas. All he had , to do was stand behind the | epunter and take in money. , How I envied him! | Then our baseball club bought an advertisement in the weekly paper. The publishâ€" er charged us 57 cents an inch! I realized at once that the editor of our home town ipaper must also be a millionâ€" aireâ€"getting more than half ; a dollar for an inch of paper | and ink. that sponsors have to bclonr was glued to the set. catered to and that, in short,‘ There we sat for three hours. the station must pay its way We even ate as sccompaniâ€" at least to some extentâ€"al} ment to the program. : these are more reason than| When my wife and I reachâ€" excuse. But the result is still | ed home she said, ‘Well, what not good. do you think?‘ My reply was, One would think that the lesson _ that â€" movingâ€"picture producers are learning would be a warnicg. If Canadians are increasing in _ culture, one thing is bound to ensue; they shall become more discrinrinâ€" ating than they have been. Many are unwilling now to see the ordinary Hollywood movie where only a few would not ten years ago. To the viewer T V. does much the same thing that the movie theatre does, plus commerâ€" clals; it brings movies into the home. If Canadian taste is rising it is the duty of T.V. to save its own skin by proâ€" ductions that are in much better taste than much of what is now being cast upon the waters. Another thing. And here I can not lay the blame at the door of the producer, the sponser or even the manager of any T.V. station I quote a verse and chapter to illusâ€" trate : Harry "A" is speaking. "I have decided not to buy a T.V. because, in the past three months I have had several exâ€" periences that gave me cause for deep tmought. Here are two of them. Then, as I got older, some of these,wealthy citizens passâ€" ed on. The corner merchant left assets barely enough to support his widow. Even the dentist, when he died, turned out to be of very modest means. The hardware merâ€" chant left a pretty large inâ€" heritanceâ€"twelve thousand dollars, folks said. The newsâ€" paper editor is still alive and vocate; that one should be able to glance at a stamp, note the color, and know value. "There should be some conâ€" sistancy in the stamp Canada foists on a longâ€"suffering pubâ€" lic‘ ... Mayor Walter Hardâ€" man has been chief executive of the town of Revelstoke, BC, since 1987, quite an enviable record his fellow _ citisens think. . .. It‘s a mild winter at Mara, BC. "Good numbers: of robins are to be seen, .lon(‘ with kildeer and blue heron‘" . . . Hanover, (Ont) Post reâ€" ports tough luck for Myron Messerschmidt, _ farmers . in Brantâ€"Township; _ the _ barn burned down with 8,000 chickâ€" ens, 8 head of cattle, brood sow, etc., estimated loss $25,â€" 000; on March 26 last, their house burned down, but had been _ rebuilt . . . Prescott (Ont) Journal reports that reâ€" turning from a weekend holiâ€" day, Waltee Webb, curator of Fort Wellington Museum found nine fatâ€"looking partâ€" rige had somehow moved in llnd made themselves at home. * Cranbrook (BC) Courier: In 1956 it hoped that the 1954 pattern will be reversed. It may become possible as the year goes on to increase the list of occupations in which immigrants will be acceptable, but the authorities start the year with a list as restrictive as the end of last year‘s. _ , IF ... * Vernon (BC) News: "The later . Pckeragill, appareAt public feels that the governâ€", Withobt eonsultation of Prafe n is toe cuntent merely to fwrmers." f ts poslUon and not agâ€" * Industry: "There is mo caough in controlling . true ingurance of health . 00. . both civil and | (Continued on Page 3) The other instance concerns a very dear friend of miue in Windsor I used to always spend an evening with him in his home on my trips to ‘is city. He got a T.V. Now 1 phone him when I am lesviag the City." time between midnight and two a.m., or when and if their T.V. breaks down! Boon, let us hope, TV. dis courtesy shall be realized by owners who â€" are â€" otherwise genuinely well â€" mannered. Boon,dare we hope, parents shall learn to use T.V. for some but not all of their childâ€" ren‘s entertainment. The lack of good fresh Canadian air, the skimping of meals and the emotional instability to which they are now being subjected for the convience of their elders is a heritage for which we shall answer in shame in this enlightened age. _ _ So what‘s with TV.! Alâ€" ready, I am told, it is finding its level commercially. May it do so socially, educationally and in the field of entertainâ€" ment. May the levels be high and may they be reached much sooner than appears nossible at this point. Just to keep the record straight it should be known that the local T.V. station, from its top â€" management right through the staff, has been most helpful and coâ€"operâ€" ative in assisting the Waterâ€" loo Recreation Commission to tell its story. For this, both they and I are sincerely grateâ€" ful. printing, but if as I though: he was, how come that same old secondâ€"hand Buick is parked in front of the print shop? I noticed the other day that big corporations today average only about four cents profit on a dollar of sales. Retail profit in most towns runs even less than that. It‘s too bad. It was so wonâ€" derful to feel you were shopâ€" ping with millionaires, and that some day you, too, might own a corner store apd pile up millions of your own. But as you grow up, you learn. The big danger, is that some Canadians haven‘t grown up. They still see profiteers behind every courter. They can‘t face the fact that profits are low. Why, if they admitted it, what would there be to grumâ€" ble about? Poolroom politics would dry right up withoat the profiteers to be lambastâ€" ed! military. There is room for savings which in the aggregate add up to imposing sums." * Humboldt (Sask) Jour nal: ‘"Isn‘t it surprising how many people have to be told that their contribution will be deductible for income tax purâ€" poses before they‘ll make a charitable donation." * Ladysmith (BC) Chronâ€" icle: "If the average citizen could ealculate how much ef his income he pays out each year in all these various Domâ€" inion and provincial taxes, he would find that his local school board members are a buneh of pikers, that they are provié& ing his community with i most essential service for # paltry fraection of the come munity‘s annual tax bill." | adopted by Immigratton Minâ€" ister . Pickeragil!, â€" apparently without eonsultation of Prairie * Yorkton (Sask) Enter prise: People enjoying 0.3 freedom and high standard living and life they do in Car ada should think twice before advocating a _ system _ that would deprive them of free enterprise and all the blessinge that go with it, including & free press." * Fredericton (NB) Free Press: "If, as the president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture thinks probable there isn‘t enough farm labor to go around, the blame cam be plseed upon the more reâ€" strictive immigration policies