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Not only is its title catchier than the lengthy and usually stodgy titles of similar Canadian reports, but its price to the public from the U.S. counterpart of the Queen‘s Printer (United States Government Printing Office) is a modâ€" est $1.25. an editorial appeared in this space, headed "Qualified Principle". The edâ€" itorial criticized the Waterloo Public Utilities Commission for a reported gift of wiring and heating units to a construction company. The estimated value of the donation was said to be nearly $10,000. The editorial which took the view that the taxâ€"payer would be the one who would have to pay the bill for the donation, was based on an article printed in a trade magazine, "The Canadian Gas Journal." A President‘s Commission in the United States presumably bears some resemblance to an inquiry commission in Canada. Each, in any event, arrives st a report. The latest of these to be published in Washington is American Women and is a record of the findings of Mr. Kennedy‘s Commission on the Status of Women. Iintest census records 90,991.681 females in the U.S., of whom 56,979,â€" 000 are over the age of 19 and presumâ€" ably potential buyers of the report. Evâ€" en the men may buy it. The book is only 86 pages in length and the size of the market may also explain the book‘s low eost. With prosperity among consumâ€" ers the demand for beef has risen, and mormally this would have an upward effect on prices, as the raisers of beef find themselves in a sellers‘ market; but there is more to the price situation than the simple working of the law of supply and demand. The big packing houses, which figure their profits on the basis of what they can get for the whole animal after it is separated into meat products and byâ€"products, find that the demand for beef hides has The article in the magazine was erâ€" onious. Such a donation was never made by the P.U.C. An offer was, howâ€" ever, made to the construction comâ€" pany but was tuned down, presumably A novel explanation of the rising gl‘oe of beef in the United States has n advanced by the Wall Street Jourâ€" mal. That paper finds that one importâ€" ant reason for the rise is the increasâ€" Ing use of plastics. In last week‘s issue of the Chronicle, WATERLOO STOVE & APPLIANCES 96 King St S. SH 3â€"5241 Wate Enjoy New R.C. A. Portable Television "New Vista Tuning" _ _ Stylish, slimâ€"lined cabinet with fashion finished back, luggage handie. Convenient top tuning and front speaker sound. Dimensions: Height 16%4", width 21", depth 125%". ‘The Waterloo Chronicle, Waterloo County‘s oldest English newspaper, devoted to the interests of the Twin Cities and Waterico County, offices at 104 King Street South, Waterloo . Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association. Overpriced Merchandise Baulk Foblakern LeL _ Fresmn CLIFF KYER â€" Manager â€" Advertising Consmuitant Prices Of Beef because the contractor had received a better offer from elsewhere. This does not, of course, remove the P.U.C. from the responsibility of making offers such as this and the $200 "kickâ€"back cheâ€" ques" offered to persons building elecâ€" trically heated homes, but it does serve to imficnte some of the problems the P.U.C. faces in trying to provide cheap electric power. As with any public service, the more persons using electric power, the cheaper is the perâ€"capita cost. It is with this view that the P.U.C. is offerâ€" ing these various subsidies, as records show that monies spent on these proâ€" motional gimmicks are returned to the taxâ€"payers pockets and multiplied in a very few years. Contrast it with the whopping $5 the Canadian taxpayer has to lay out for Report of Industrial Inquiry Comâ€" mission on the Disruption of Shipping. The Canada Council last year subâ€" sidized ballet to the tune of $87,000. If, as most would agree, there is a more urgent need for government to mainâ€" tain freedom than to spread culture by promoting the dance, it could be arguâ€" ed that Council funds would more profâ€" itably have been spent subsidizing the literary effort of a learned judge, and putting within the reach of all the Norâ€" ris Report. Tyranny Afloat, or some such title at $1.50, might not have outsold Perry Mason, but it would probably have meant a fairly brisk sale. An even more aroused public (and no one eould read the report calmly) might have eaused the government to act more quickly to eradicate the injustices that have been allowed to grow and flourish by virtue of the union bosses in the Seafarers‘ Inâ€" ternational Union. dropped sharply in recent years. They have to sell the hides at lower prices than they could get a few years ago, and to make up their profitable price on the whole steer, they have had to get more for steaks and roasts. One has only to look around to see that the explanation is plausible. Plasâ€" tics have displaced leather in luggage, women‘s handbags, upholstery for furâ€" niture and cars and even in some shoes. The leather manufacturers used to boast that there was nothing like leaâ€" ther, but many of the consumers who used to buy leather goods are now satâ€" isfied with the imitations. It is they who, indirectly, are responsible for having to pay more for beef. Waterlioo 17 Seventy years ago an Ingersoll girl eloped. taking her father‘s best Waterbury with her. In a note which she left for her paâ€" rents she said: "I have taken papa‘s watch. I will send it back soon. I wanted to time myself." This young woman seems to have been desirous of establishing a new record, and we guess she did Ten years ago Waterloo acâ€" quired 15 homes and lost 20 in an exchange due to the new seâ€" wer and main project. Thirty years ago Waterioo Utiâ€" lities debt amounted to $57.077 while Kâ€"W Hospital revenue was over $73.000. The Waterloo Chronicle was a member of "Class A" weeklies of Canada. The Kitchener firm of D. H. Hill Ltd., planned a $48,000 exâ€" pansion in Waterloo. Manufacturers of Berlin and Waterloo were loyal to their home towns notwithstanding the efforts of some Toronto furniâ€" ture dealers to inaugurate an amnual furniture exhibition in that city. With the lack of rain there was a scarcity of water among farmers. 200 residents paused for two minutes at Waterloo‘s Cenotaph. Prime â€" Minister George S. Henry announced a $38,000,000. works program for Ontario which would provide 61,200 jobs for The ministerial â€" association passed a resolution appreciative of the efforts of the laity. Fifty years ago men‘s blue worsted wool suits sold for $12.50 AT s '" oerime® Files Of Yesteryear SNOW TIRE SPECIAL o s29.90 rar DETTIMER‘S TIRE SERVICE 116 KENI AVE. SH 55182 "WELL, DON‘T BLAME ME . . .! SIZE 670 â€" 15 TUBE TYPE EXCHANGE KITCHENER Waterloo Branch (2 King St S) Water®bo, King & University Branch Kitchener Branch '!' Branches also in Elmira, Hanover and New Hamburg | Alvin Hamilton confirmed one point reported exâ€" ‘clusively in the book, "Pearson", published last winâ€" i ter, about the Conservative cabinet decision not to send R.C.M.P. reinforcements to Newfoundland in the wood workers controversy of 1959. That was that the R.C.M.P. role during the tragic Regina Riot days of 11935 was very much in their minds. | The view of Alvin Hamilton on some of the memâ€" |\ bers of the present Liberal government: Mitchell Sharp, minister of trade and commerce, "very smart; Walter Gordon, minister of finance, history will conâ€" firm that he has been right and that he is a "martyr‘. He calls Harry Hays, minister of agriculture, "Porky". He describes Douglas Harkness, the former Conservaâ€" | tive minister of defence, as "stupid". ‘"You have to be tough in cabinet because those fellows are rough." he said. "I know." And what Alvin Hamilton knows now is what the public line of the Conservative line will be over the coming months, and what he was saying, roughly, was it, Alvin Hamilton said he had to push hard in office to get some of his projects through, and often he didn‘t get his own way. Often he was like "a butterfly pinned on a wall, his wings could flap but he couldn‘t move." He claimed, however, that he â€"did something, and the current Liberal government wasn‘t much. By conâ€" trast, right now the Conservatives looked good. Pearâ€" son, he said, was too weak. What the "Chief" had done was to chalienge "esâ€" tablished" thinking. That, Alvin said, was why he made enemies. That, he inferred, was why he fell; still, wasn‘t it better to fight unemployment and develop the country, for example, with access roads. Alvin had gone almost full circle now, and he was back at last to an old Hamilton theme. Certainly there were deficits, Alvin continued, but he contended they were necessary. The interests, and he believed they were sincere, expressed fear of prices rising, but they were thinking behind times. Instead, there was excess productive capacity, not too much demand. He conceded there had been an inflationary "creep" but he considered it minor, nothing like what was forecast. Actually, the Conservatives had had to fight "established thinking", the kind of thinking that held the economy in monetary restraint. The Conserâ€" vative government should have "fired" former Bank of Canada Governor James Coyne years before. Why, Alvin continued, the Liberals in 1957 were obsessed with the simple figures of the gross national product, just as Dr. Merril Menzies, Diefenbaker‘s ecâ€" onomic consuitant, said. What the Conservatives said was that, if production was growing, everyone should have a part of it, not just the big fellows. It ought to be remembered, too, that there were two recessions in the following four years, not like the 1930‘s but serious enough, he went on. *"Almost inevitable," Alvin answered, brought on by the violent reaction of the interests against which John had taken up arms. They were powerful, said Alvin, and they eventually wore down the support for the Diefenbaker government, by continual attrition if by nothing else. The "little man", so Alvin explained it to Ottawa Notebook, will realize that John was fighting for him. Then why the almost total Diefenbaker collapse and cabinet disintegration in his final six months of office? by Robert Moon OTTAWA â€"â€" Alvin Hamilton, the eternal politicâ€" ian, is back in freeâ€"wheeling form once more, defendâ€" ing and promoting his eternal idol, John Diefenbaker, in the process. The former agriculture minister was talking to the Ottawa Notebook column, w hic h simply reports it without comment as being indictative of the Conservaâ€" tive line to be used throughout the country beginning no w. After all that has been written about the Conserâ€" vative leader, Alvin decided that the "Chief" has come out of it head up. m« Otftawa Scene W H. Knechtel. R M. Kearney, W OHo Smith, Manager Manager Manager