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® chide Ncepptii laits c 6 o 00 toit o iiaine e d S m it e verilegvreg 710000 812 Eon C MEA WR 1:1'"4""':!"’?'}'.’1'""’!‘- «i ‘Yhe Waterien. Chronicie, . Woedneaday,. Movember.. 29, 1967 ; Added up it begins to look as though Ald. Wagner just could be right. It is certain that every resident will be hopeful that it does turn out as predicted. One thing more though, Ald. Wagner noted that if the government is going to give in this manner they will have to get it back some other way and he predicts an increase in the sales tax for next January. Joining the county health unit it means a Waterloo saving in excess of $30,000 (possibly another $10,000 if Kitchener joins). There will be very little spending required next year ‘(only major expenditures will be for a secondary school and the parkway) so it could be Waterloo‘s lowest borrowing year. The new provincial basic public shelter system will allow $2,000 credit based on an equated value. Each new residential unit will receive this credit on his assessâ€" ment. The province taking over administration of justice will mean a large saving to the city. The city has a $3,500,000 increase in taxable assessâ€" ment (from new housing and new industry). Ald. Wagner‘s statement that Waterloo would not face a tax increase next year gave the opinion that he either has an exceptionally good crystal ball, or it was simply another of those empty election promises. Either way, we felt it necessary to have him qualify his statement and we found it to be based up on the fact that council will not have a carryâ€"over of uncompleted works. It spent $175,000 for work out of current accounts which, according to Ald. Wagner, means a saving of $350,000. Here it is handed to us on a platter and the only price is a few minutes of one‘s time. The man or woman who neglects to vote is not worthy to call himself or perself a Canadian. Municipalities, like nations, get exactly the kind of government they deserve. They put men in office by free and secret ballot in a process as democratic as free men can devise. There are many countries where free elections are still an unattainable dream. Many of their inhabitants would gladly pay with their lives to win such privileges for their compatriots. Such holocausts should be remembered on Monday by the man or woman too lazy or careless to go to the polls. Freedom can be lost as easily by insidious means as it can to a conquering army. Exercises of a free franchise is one of man‘s greatest privileges. It carries a corresponding obligation to be used as well and wisely as one knows how. Free people who refuse to do so often reap a whirlwind for their negligence. ‘Because we are among the world‘s freest people, we might easily forget that freedom of elections is someâ€" thing to be cherished dearly. It should never be taken for granted. It is a right which many nations earned with blood, sweat and tears, and sometimes Canadians‘ blood and tears were shed for that victory. Adults in the community will have an opportunity next Monday to elect candidates of their choice to fill local municipal offices. Many will not avail of this fundaâ€" mental freedom of democratic peoples everywhere. Now Here‘s Your Chance A division of Baulk Publishers Ltd. Published every Wednesday at Waterloo Square, Waterloo, Ont. SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Canada: one year $3.00;, in United States and foreign countries: one year $4.00 Wagner Gives Facts Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash. Waterloo Chronicle Established 1854 The council‘s latest meeting in Ottawa saw two appeals for stateâ€" ments of socialist dogma in a resolution on the principle of government takcover of bankâ€" rupt industries such as the Dosâ€" co steel mill in Nova Scotia. These, as might be expected, came from a Halifax housewife and the representative of the youth wing. In socialist circles it is usually the women and the youth who wave the red flags. The highlight of the sesssion was the neat way the party slid out of its special status stand on the Quebec issue; a stand which had caused it some emâ€" barrassment in the Commons. In its place the party is undertakâ€" ing a crossâ€"couniry, grassâ€"rools survey of public opinion on a number of matters including naâ€" tional unity and constitutional reâ€" form. The premise, that Canadians might be more interested in amending the BNA Act if they know what points they agree on, is a sound one. The "deckaration ef ecommon objectives" which is supposed to result from the surâ€" vey eeuld prove a useful tool in forging national unity. The federal council deals with policy at the level at which the party hopes to introduce it so the emphasis is on the pragâ€" matics of application rather than on socialist theory. So there has been a lot less speculation on personality clashes and leadership hopes, although it would be wrong to assume there are none. (For instance it is not hard to imagine what David Lewis, the deputy leader, says to himself when Laurier LaPierre announces that he inâ€" tends to be the first NDP prime minister of Canada.) One thing the NDP has always had going for it, as far as news coverage is concerned, is a sinâ€" gleness of purpose and a coheâ€" siveness of policy that allows reaâ€" sonable reporting on what the party is going to do. By HENRY F. HEALD OTTAWA â€" The New Demoâ€" cratic Party has taWn to invitâ€" ing the press to cover the reguâ€" lar sessions of the party‘s 105â€" member federal council and the increase in publicity has been considerable. FROM THE GALLERY Two other little incidents help Look of Unity Helped the NDP i Talented artist, Woldemar Neuâ€" feti,. formerly of Waterboo, re turned from _ a lengthy trip across Western Canada to open an exhibit of his paintings. Some 1,560 cards were issued to citizens to accertain whether an (HNd Home Week would be held. As of this date 454 were returned in favor and 230 were against. wov, 20. iwo new candedates for seats on council announced themselves. They were H. H. Gould, manager of the Waterloo branch of the Waterloo Trust and Savings Co., and W. M. Bean, associate editor of The Chronicle and an officer of David Bean and Sons Ltd., publishers of the Chronicle. _ Figures given by police chicf Moreau showed that to this date 66 transients obtained shelter. The same date the previous year 94 "visited" Waterloo while in the peak year of 19382 there were 192. It was decided to hold Waterâ€" loo‘s market and horse show on Dec. 23 on the recommendation of Deputy Reeve Bohlender, so it would not interfere with the Chirstmas tree celebration. Nov. 24. Speaker at the annual Nov. banquet of the Waterloo board â€" race _ of trade was W. D. Euler, miniâ€" fight v ster of national revenue. He _ Ald. 4 told the large number of local back â€" and business people who met at This 1 the library hall about the reâ€" Nerma organization of his department. out. S The other was a protest by former Saskatchewan MLA J. J. Brocklebank, when the council proposed a resolution recomâ€" mending punitive taxation for industries which pollute water supplies or the atmosphere. Penalties are a matter for the courts, not for the administraâ€" Demeocratic Party‘s drift from dogma. One was to hear Stanley Knowles, one of the party‘s leadâ€" ing theoreticians, arguing that the policy resolution on aborâ€" tion should be worded in a way that would enable it to pass as a bill in the Senate or the Comâ€" mons. FILES OF YESTERYEAR 30 YEARS AGO 40 YEARS AGO 4s light on the New The largest slate in the memâ€" eory of most residents will contest the coming eivic elections. There are four cendidates for mayor and 20 seeking eight alderman ic seats. Main news item of the week is the amount of controversy caue ed by the transportation bylaw that was entered into and agreed upon by Waterloo council and Kitchener PUC. On Monday of this week a nightly garbage collection serâ€" vice went into effect in Waterâ€" loo. City engineer W. L. Bradley said eity council sewer and saniâ€" tation committee has authorized the change from the present iwice weekly collection. Dr. F. F. Zwick, 53, died Sunâ€" day at his residence after a lenâ€" thy illness. Since 1923 he had practiced medicine in Waterloo. erloo park superintendent, says, "Waterloo Park could be the best park in Canada with a little bit of foresight." The park should be advertised as those prominentâ€" ly displayed in American touris® literature, Mr. Browne said. race develops into a twoâ€"man fight with the announcement that Ald. Arnold Hauk has dropped back to the aldermanic fight. This leaves Mayor Hilliard and Nerman Ratz free to battle it out. Spirited fights are certain as 44 names are listed for nom inations for 16 offices. tion, he claimed. "I don‘t want any civil servant fining me." In the same vein a number of the council members jumped to the defence of freedom of choice when Morden Lazarus, research director for the Ontario Federa: tion of Labor, suggested the parâ€" ty â€"should discourage workers from owning their own homes and urge them to rent public housing. Traditionally the NDP has seen s social welfare policies grab bed up and made law by a L4â€" beral government. Maybe now it Conservatives, 10 YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO its policies on individâ€" e