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The ethnic, cultural and religious diversity of our people enriches our nation, but sometimes provides conâ€" flict. Brotherhood Week, sponsored annually by the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews, attempts to support this Canadian mosaic, as it has become known, so that it may be regarded as a source of pride by all. €ubs, scouts, venturers and rovers make up the Canadian scouting family of youths ranging from eight to 20 years. Three years of study have produced an enâ€" tirely new scout program which will go into effect naâ€" tionally next September, and which will completely reâ€" place the existing program by December, 1969. A new multipleâ€"stage and greatly expanded badge and award scheme leaves boys relatively free to ehoose and work towards awards at their own level of competâ€" ence. Rather than force boys to adapt to a program, the program is adaptable to the individual boys needs and interests. Typical of groups in this and other areas is the gesâ€" ture made by the First Lexington pack, when instead of a gift exchange at their Christmas party, members made a yif{ donation to the children‘s ward of the Kâ€"W Hospital. The scouting movement asserts there is a place for every boy in scouting. The younger fry can enjoy indoor and outdoor sports, learn about nature, woodlore and the meanings of friendship and citizenship. Aircraft 7gliding, skin and secuba diving, ham radio, goâ€"carting, outdoor sports and even criminology, as well as social and service activities are open to older boys. Instant money may soon be a reality in Canada. The gadget to provide it has already been demonstrated here. Reports indicate they are already operating in the United States and Britain. Now how could Canada lag behind in such a worthy project? This week more than 300,000 young Canadians will dedicate themselves to the observance of National Boy Scout Week and to the memory of the movement‘s founder, Lord Badenâ€"Powell. Since his death, thousands of boys throughout the world have lived up to his dieâ€" tum: "The real way to get happiness is by giving out happiness to other people." Handâ€"clasping and backâ€"slapping for one week in the year is no selution to man‘s inhumanity to man. It could serve however as a time of seWfâ€"evaluation, community audit, and resolve to practise brotherhood at all times. H introduced here they could be a boon for goodâ€" natured types who are continually shortâ€"changed by acquaintances, who manage to be short of cash, at cruâ€" eial moments, pending a supposed trip to the bank. Now all one need do is point out the electronically controlled dispenser in the hotel lobby, restaurant, apartment enâ€" traneg or store. The only snag to the story is that the amount dispenâ€" sed by the machine is automatically charged to one‘s bank account. In fact the design was developed as an additional service to banking customers and to save tellers‘ time at peak banking periods. Anyway it still seems like a good invention. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the United Nations universal declaration of human rights, the basic prineiples of which are written into our provincial staâ€" tutes. It is a timely reminder that all men are born free and equal in dignity and rights, and endowed with reason and conscience. However legislation alone eannot bring this state into being. As the late president John Kennedy said, it is a condition on which our way of life depends. The quesâ€" tion is not whether all men are brothers. It is whethefr we have the strength and will to make the brotherhood of man the guiding principle of our daily lives. 4 Waterice Chronicle, Wednesday, February 21, 1960 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 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. Brotherhood Forever Money in a Hurry: Scouting to Suit Established 1854 The New Democrats praised the measure. When the new deâ€" partment was set up it was NDP pressure that resulted in rewordâ€" ing the name from Corporate and Consumer Affairs to Consumer and Corporate. The amendments to the Patent and Trade Marks Acts should serve to allay their fears that the government might pay more attention to the corpâ€" eration than to the consumer. The â€" Conservatives _ hollered like the provincial stuck pigs. "Discriminatory confiscation of property" fumed Tory medical critie Dr. P. B. Rynard. "A serious miscarriage of the mtentions of the committee" (the special parliamentary committee that spent two years Sstudying drug prices) said Michael Forâ€" re:tall, the young Conservative from Halfax. Dr. Rynard accused "a money grubbing government" of stripâ€" ping the patont protection that had built up Connaught Laboraâ€" tories to a $7,000.000â€"aâ€"year opâ€" eration. Mr. Forrestall said the government was preprired to saâ€" crifice quality in order to get lower prices. Mr. Forrestall went so far as to protest that while prices of drugs were high they were not "too high." There is one context in which an argument can be high. Not so many years ago a bout of influenza or pneumonia carried a serious risk of death and certainly mean a couple of weeks of lost time on the job. By HENRY F. HEALD The industry has been thorâ€" OTTAWA â€" Consumer Afâ€" oughly forewarned. For 10 years fairs Minister John Turner un it has been the subject of seri ;leil_ed ::’s” firs:"t .prop;;.sal recent _ ous study and the evidence preâ€" in implementin is new reâ€" E uns s)],honsibility for \sa\ching ever â€" SPnted to a series of commissions the interests of Mr. and Mrs. @"d committees has been well John Q. Purchasingâ€"Public and pubhcimd. It was summarized it showed up the Conservatives I!" the Commons by Mr. Turner, in one of their most popular by Dr. Wllllam Howe, the NDP caricatures, the defenders of bealth critic, and by Dr. Harry vested interests. Harl_ey, the cowhair_man of the The most persistent, and the parliamentary committee. meost justifiecd, of the consumers‘ The statistics are frightening: complaints against high prices 30 per cent of the sales dollar has been directed at the preâ€" SPent on promotion ard only seription drug industry of some Seven per eent on research; one of the protection it enjoys and ° Salesman for every 10 doctors; open the door to realistic comâ€" f Teday $15 or $20 worth of pills will keep you at work with noth ing worse than a dull head and the snifiles. But in every reasonable ecoâ€" nomic sense â€" return on investâ€" ment, retail and wholesale markâ€" up, ratieo of promotion costs to FROM THE GALLERY sales, ete. â€" the pricing ture of the drug industry defenswble. ‘Rigged‘ Market Is Challenged s inâ€" THE YEAR OF THE MONKEY Feb. 22. Waterloo will have no Conklin Shows this summer. This was decided by the park board when it refused to grant use of the Frounds. E. G. Seyler and Chris Sc ho ndeimayer were strongly opposed, stating much damage would be done to the grounds. John Bruegeman, chairman of the public school board while erection of Alexandra school was in progress, took exception to the remark of Mayor McKersie, who said blunders were made in connection with schools in years past. Mr. Bruegeman said improved systems in later years necessitated _ changes at the schools which could not be foreâ€" seen. The Wallenstein air virbrated with the hum of an ancient threshing machine last week. It was ascertained that the musical performer was a chief thresher, the first of its kind ever made, and that it was still giving satisâ€" faction although it has seen anâ€" nual service since its manufactâ€" vre in Waterloo half a century ago. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 23. Messrs Moore, Hill and Herb Huehn have recently installed radios in their homes in Conestoga. These latest addiâ€" tions have brought the grand toâ€" tal of these machines in that village up to 12. The statistics are frightening: 30 per cent of the sales dollar spent on promotion ard only seven per eent on research; one salesman for every 10 doctors; 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 20. Wallace Merner, saniâ€" tary inspector, pointed out that the stoker at the fire hall is not working _ satisfactorily â€" and â€" is causing excessive smoke to belch out, when the beard of health FILES OF YESTERYEAR 30 YEARS AGO mg. Just any mention of day light saving was the signal fer previous council members to take their coats off and get infe a fight. The present council accepted the recommendation of Ald. Harâ€" ry Gould that daylight saving time be adopted by Waterloo, without any bickering or arguâ€" 10 YEARS AGo Feb. 20. The school board will request city council to levy tweo mills for public school assessâ€" ment, to helip allow for an am ticipated 1958 expenditure ef $519,000. The 1957 public scheel levy was 20 mills, one mill beâ€" mg equal to $15,500. This year a mill equals $32,545. The 12 mill total would be approximately Mayor Paikin urged studies in all directions on ways and means ef most efficiently and econommiâ€" eally financing the city‘s propesâ€" ed secondary sewage treatment plant. The cost of increasing the primary 300,000â€"gallonâ€"aâ€"day eaâ€" pacity plant to full treatment amd 400.000 gallon capacity is about An effort to circulate a pettâ€" tion requesting the installation of parking meters on King Street has failed. It is reported that tee many merchants objected to the meter issue and the matter was dropped. ] discussed the smoke nuisance last week. Mrs. Heller stated that pooer and lazy firemen are the eause of it all. In her opinion an efficient fireman will not lét smoke out of any chimney. â€" as much spent on promotion 28 en â€" manufacturing; profits as high as 9,700 per cent on some drugs; an overall profit picture eof 20 per cent on investment and mereasing while industry in genâ€" eral averages 10 per cent and deâ€" creasing. Private â€" enterprise _ dictates that an individual shall be free to sell his goods and services to the highest bidcder and shep in the market place for the best deal when he buys. If the marâ€" ket is rigged then it is a proper function of government to foree open the door to permit genuâ€" ine competition. #*%