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provincial gevernments claim a considerable slice and municiâ€" pal governments demand veryâ€" _\ ing _ amounts, running into ~.â€" hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Ether Editors Say .. not a grest many who take much time out to wonder about "1; but the less of the individual right to apond ér to save ‘is +Selt by all.> +i Altogether, about oneâ€" quarter of the national income is taken out of the pockets of. the Canadian people, rich and poor. More is taken from the individual rich person, but by far the larger part of this money that is spent by the governments comes out of the pockets of the poor. Few people have effective means for finding out whether governâ€" ments are speading their money quarter of their income means that Canadian lose, roeughly, the whole. winter‘s: work. Not Country Editor by J. GREENBLAT K Canadiana: Jack Egngh receivine hichest prize ~at until spring will they get their receiving highest prize at, Osgoode Township (Ont) High School it was revealed that at 18, he had finished three years in one; reason, as he said, "The turning point in my life was when I wied to get into the RCMP and couldn‘t because I was too stupid to pass the exams, than I realised the need for education" . . . Reston (Man.) Recorder shakes its head in wonderment at the Saskatchewara huater who shot a steer and tried to get away with the carcasms; got stuck in the mud and had the gall to ask the farmerâ€"owner of the steer to pull him out" .. The Nenten â€"{Alta) News don‘t argue with those who think Premier Manning is God‘s representative on earth, but we cannot agree he is the Q ue en‘s representative . . . that function is the Lieutenantâ€" Governor‘s" . . . on the farm of J. B. Reier near Humboli4t, Sask., Sinmese twin pigs born in a litter; seven other monul1 ones besides; they died . . .wide range of weather in Canadaâ€" at Digby, NS on Nov. 12 Linda and Joan Milbury picked a pint of ripge raspberries, acâ€" cording to the Courier . . . big business, shown by ads. in the Bridgewater (NS) Balletin with exporters offering to buy picture of little Bonnie Chrisâ€" tine Winters with her two grandmothers and three great grandmothere, five in aA, locky as many as £00,000 Christmas trees from 2 to 8 feet high . . . Liverpool, NS, Advance has a The Waterioo Chronicle, W oldest English to the inâ€" “fihad and Waterice Counx.h at 18 m Hmi Wa dcv:.ym.r is a Mfld&.m&m paper Association. Authorized as second class mail, P.O. Dept., THE WATERLOO CHRONICLE :.n.smmwnngaum. great fun for the school childâ€" ren but there are hazards for Kitchener took an afterncoon off to go to a movie. It was something she wanted to see and she hadn‘t been too buy.| However, it seems that flui mmpntfincn‘mcifli children‘s programme every cftetnoondnfiu&omn.: Instead of seeing a musical comedy, the lady sat through five eolor eartoons, unitl the feature started and then it Lhmel out to be a lassic picâ€" ture. To make matters worse, ;e}y time the dog star got inâ€" to: trouble the . children that filled the theatre eried, and NMewsâ€"Record girl . . . Marylin Griffith, Grade VI of Barrie, Ont., got in the habit of writing letters to various part of the world addressed "Department of Inâ€" formation", was surprised>~ to get a letter and exchange of correspondence with foreign minister, commander of the army in the Arab Sultantate of Muscat and Oman . . . Happiest man in Ernfold, Sask., is Matt Lmchian who received his first mother, now 87 and well, from behind the Iron Curtain, and a sister still with her . . . Diâ€" rectors of Hanover, Bentick and Brant Fall Fair are paying money prizes won at gak: financial statement show a deâ€" fieit of $248 . . . at Kincarâ€" dine, Ont., merchants sponser free shows for the youngsters on Saturday afternoons, to enable parents to shop in comâ€" fort in ~town . . . Yorkton (Sask) Enterprise didn‘t give the name but tells of a Jedâ€" bargh district man coming to a local druggist for medicine for both wife and cow, said: }"Now, be sure and write plain on them boitles which is for the jersey cow and which for the wife; I don‘t want anything to happen to that jersey." Â¥ Referring to the situation existing in United _ States agriculture, the Midiand (Ont) Free Press Herald suggest that the price support system there has apparently‘deprived farmâ€" ers of the right to farm." t’Eduonhn (Alta) Sen: "801 far, inimigration this year has been just a drop in the bucket Lemporod to former years and our desperate need for more CHILDREN‘S SPECIAL sHOWS NOT ADULT ENTERTAINMENT in Times suggests that "we may not like the kind of secialiem they have in Ressisa but with governments making more snd more decisions fos us we séem to be wetting our own brand eountry." right here in Canada." m Commenting on figures owing it takes about $11,400 investment to create a jJob in (BC) Courier says: "Tiume was when the worker was expecied to provide his own tools When obvious that someone elss hay toputupthonomy.'l'ho!clfl low whe puts it ap is the private investors to pool their savings to provide tools fot modern ind ustry are the Ainancial institautions and the banks.~This is the essence of what is meant when people talk about private enterpriss of Europe have been striving to attain for years, either bDy means of edict, bonus or tolerâ€" ance, knowing full well that in ;uniup_p_en&m_dnn.hl& wealth that cannot be duplicatâ€" public by a civil servant." & Gananoque {(Ont) Reporâ€" : Standing up against all eddds has been a right and 1 privilege since the Old Testa: ment days of the prophet Klijah. May this right to disâ€" agree never become unpopular or impossible." â€" g.:‘fitorial quete of the week, the Nanton {Alta) News: "Those who hate United States pe 45° m\ 14 + 13A i ‘nte them and they will ‘find fhex Jast bns blace t in f ; those who hate negroes will do the same; those, who hate people of other !a}tiu win Vikely dredge up. their matâ€" erial from the Bible, the book whick tried to teach tolerance those who hate spinach try to prove that it isn‘t heaithful; those who hate art drag up, not the good examples but the blobs of the untalented." Here is a bit of sound adâ€" vice in the form of a pogem. It was written by J. Gee. Streâ€" bel of Waterloo and appeared in our paper last year about NEW YEAR‘S PRAYER Another year has come to end, Its days are past and goume, They ecome and go While time rolls on and on. What did the past year bring In diverse ways . Your head and hands employ? Or were your hand and heart Or sorrow or ef How did its days To serve your fellow man? To ease some load . O‘er recky road, And give what help you can?t If we have failed in years that To do the things we should, Or failed to bear An homest share Of life‘s depressing loead. To do the things we should, was a mess of slush. I must Or failed to bear admit that I found myself quite An homest share fascimated as I watched the Of life‘s depressing load. freering flakes hurtle themâ€"| u?lvu stt me, and then dther] Mey mfld A ue His guidinge ear 'hb'.:rm::i:lh:;k :::; To use our duty clear over the aute to cast their inâ€" And do what‘s right ° | toxicating effect upon soms With all our might i h‘P‘;:' driver to my rear. Thmougkhout arsamiange poder The smow on the road. had % .. ; ‘hn ecxamhed into a: powdcr, Trero (NS) News: ‘"Ever seemingly innocent an acâ€" it hate that. mfifi n tha hats Jore makh o as economic forecasting â€" P 0O E M â€" (Ont) . Letters to the THE BIBLE TODA What‘s th matter with the people in Waterloo! Out of a city with a popuâ€" Iation ef nsarly 14,008 people you‘d certainly think â€" papers all over Japan recenfly featured the choice of the there would be more people willing to support our Junior "B" Siskins. I have made an effort to attend every game this season even to the point of shunting a few engageâ€" ments to do so, and I must say it‘s certainly disppointâ€" ing to see the poor turnâ€"outs at some of the games. > Our brand of Junior "B" hoeckey â€" here in Waterloo ranks with the best you will find anywhere in Canada. Those boys are out there fighting mnot for those big new translation of the Bible in colloquial Japanese as best RHach year for the past nine years a celebration known as literary criticism. From a list of 20,000 books submitted, the negefim n was chosen as "The Book of the Year". A special category had to be created to allow its was unanimous. Â¥For the first: tinmie in Japan, the tramaiaztion work done by an all Japanese eo1 te This emphasizes the fact that the Japanese Church has fully matured. "The Bible is no longer an imported book, but our own now", said a Japan Bible Society. official, comâ€" menting on the significance of the work. . After the Japanese Governâ€" ment made an official decision "to simplify the language by limiting the number of Chinese characters to be used, and the use of the Japanese alphabetic letters in striet accordance with these phonetic sounds", it beâ€" came mecessary to produce the mew translation of the Bible. Many of the younger generaâ€" Last Sunday, night I found it necessary to drive to Hamilâ€" ton on business I couldn‘t have picked a worse might for my little escapade. _ _ _ _ wery teeth of a driving blizzard. ‘The cars on the road .h?:d seemed to sense the same peril and consequently traffic proâ€" ceeded at a tortoiseâ€"like pace. The warmth of my own car \wu the only thing to which I could grasp for even the of By salighest bit of comfort. where and constantly pounded onto my windshield until it As I left the bright lights it ramaindead ma of quichk~ but the decision the in thon could not read the for versions. Ouly thus would Bible retain its place as â€" makes a bklflbnmh’,‘:‘ hockey game. . t Instead iÂ¥ PWhZ to a oW or sitting big a thrill out of the gamd as I do. Dou‘t let our team down by Aot: supporting 1,669,884 coples of the fl tures were cireulated in by Bible Societies. : Suggested Bible readings 197 the week: Sundayâ€"Matt. 14: 1â€"86 Noenâ€" dayâ€"Matt. 15: l-3?w Tuacsdas â€"Matt. 16: 1â€"28 â€"Matt. 17: 1127 flm Matt. 18: 1â€"14 Fridayâ€"Ma#t 18: 15â€"35 Saturdayâ€"Matt. 19 1â€"15 j saqtior. lhke Pnis..be:or no%hm there‘s a of . â€" th â€" throughou pisce,.and yet, here I sit in the stlence. I can feel it all about I can feel the silence, I hear it, It‘s the strangest and most morbhid feeling I‘ve ever encountered; to hbe in a n-lj a completely noiseless room, and yet to be able to hear the mnothingness in my very ow In the first eight months this year imports of goods Canada reached the allâ€" record high for the periode $3,013,700,000, exceeding exâ€" ports for the period by a valne of $204,8600,000. 4 sand the way it seemed to « and pull at the wheels of vehicles as they passed a the road. The visibility ni‘ very nearly nil and I had more than I could do just keeping the car on" the road let expect any great haste. Th traffic seemed to be pro ing even slower than and I was just about at my wit‘s end. It was so monctonous watching the snow hurtling at me that finally everything en the other side of my car windâ€" shield appeared as just myrinds of white flashes. . <€ After a trying tw drive I finally found â€"l‘ve~ never experienced ; msation like this. before; t in Hamilton, none the worae‘ for my ordeal ercepting the fact that my nerves had risem almost to their breaking point/ 1 was compelled to remaianim the city that night. 1 5p4 On my way home the fo ing morning I wept wond Wwhy predictions insisted Canadian winters were be ing milder. v A DMSAPPOINTED FAX Maybe the night before had fust been a fregk but I MR believe that our wintess hewe in Ganada can ‘bhe more fi morciloan at traes. SILENCE players get