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' Would There Be Saving? _ But apart from the inconvenience and the regression of the Arervice envisioned in such a step the alleged 'savingh'does not make sound common sense._ - _ The alternative G extra staff, full or part-time, and the threat is not only a poorer quality service but a more costly one to boot. A recent meeting of Waterloo Chamber of Commerce directors again discussed the federal government's pro- posals to end Saturday mail deliveries and expressed general criticism of postal services in this great. Under existing rules second-class mails, which involve newspapers, unsealed greeting cards, mim-eographed correspondence and the like, may be left 48 hours be- fore mbving. Postal union agreements decree that a letter carrier is limited to a maximum 35 pounds weight. A combination of the above could mean second-class mail, posted Friday afternoon, might still be sitting in the post office Wednesday, if Saturday mails' were sus- pended. - - - - - . Since last fall the water problems of the Colonial Acres subdivision have received wide prominence in the municipality. Many officials and homeowners involved no doubt are now viewing the situation with all the benefits to be derived from hindsight. - - It was reported that some tiirst-elass mail from Water- loo to Kitchener took 11 days for delivery because it was diverted through Elmira. _ _ -- . _ _ ___ - There was one report of first-class mail taking 28 days for transit from Montreal to Waterloo, and several re- ports that mail, posted in Waterloo in time for 6 p.m. pickup, failed to get delivered in Waterloo until the afternoon of the second day after it was mailed. -- - -- All Of which leaves one ii little skeptical of the alleged advantages (a supposed $3,000,000 annual saving) if Batqrtiay mgilg became a thing 9f the p_a_st. - _ - _ .. If under the present setup, postal officials are doing an honest day's work, it is illogical, not to mention dis-. honest, to expect them to complete the same services while working a day less each, week. _ The ordinary taxpayer has a right to righteous indie- nation at suggestions that the city purchase the subdi- vision’s water system from the developer. There is scant logic to justify public outlay to release residents from agreements they freely, and presumably intelligently, entered upon. - _ I Wand” Chronicle. WM, Mani so. "" Since the residents are now within the city's bound- aries, however unwillingly some of them may have found themselves there, they do have a right to the mun- icipality’s services. However it is unreasonable that tax.. payers at large should put up $72,000 to negate a service for which Colonial Acres residents individually signed. This is the amount that the developer wants for his private water supply. Because of the agreement made by him with the city, when his property was annexed some years ago, his rights are firmly entrenched until such time as the system is declared' unfit by the Ontario Water Resources Commission. If residents of the site mismanaged their affairs it is infantile of them to expect the community at large to solve their problems and finance the solution at the same time. They should charge the cost to experience. If on the other hand they are merely trying to Muster their way out of a situation to which they freely com- mitted themselvea then it 'ro, time their bluff was called, and that council concerned itself with more realistic problems. Too much contentment might not be good. It could rob you of ambition. v Hubby: i want the neighbors to see I am not beating you. Mother: Oswald, you should never do anything you would be ashamed to let the whole world we. I am singing. A division of Baulk Publishers Ltd. Published every Wednesday at Waterloo Square, Waterloo. Ont. Foreman: That machine can do the work of In men. Visitor: That so? My wife should have married it. Oswald: Hooray, now I won't have to Lake any baths. Wife: Why do you always go out on the porch when 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 Pout 0111c. Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash. Water and Rights “interim: Maids Laugh a Little Established 1854 By HENRY F. HEALD OTTAWA - The glue that has held Prime Minister Pear, son's whinet together through five years of hectic, minority government is beginning to come unstuck. No matter who pre- sides at the heag of the cabinet table after April 6, the circle of faces around it will be vast.. ly different than those today. Walter Gordon's resignation from the cabinet, his second in a little over two years, was ae- cepted by Pearson. but he has others in his desk whose authors are anxious to go, but are pre- pared to await the demise of this session of Parliament. Labor Minister Jack Nichol- son has said publicly that he is anxious to get back to Vancouv- er and be free of the Ottawa grind. Housing has already been transferred from his jurisdiction and put under Treasury Board President Edgar Benson. The Canada Labor Relations Board revisions, one of the most con- tentious pieces of labor legis- lation in some time, is in the hands of Bryce Mackasey, minis- ter without portfolio. FROM THE GALLERY Under normal conditions Mack. asey could be expected to get the labor portfolio when Nichol- son leaves (presumably to be appointed British Columbia lieu- tenant-governor), but with a new man at the helm Maekasey's ca- binet rank will be as uncertain as anyone else's. State Secretary Judy LaMarsh is another who has said she wants to quit the Ottawa scene as soon as it is convenient. Pre- sumably she doesn't want to serve in anyone else's cabinet after Pearson is gone. Manpower Minister Marchand has been loss specific about his aims, but it is felt that his re- signation as head of the Quebec caucus was prompted by deeper reasons than iust his decision to promote Pierre Elliott Tru- deau's leader~hip oampaign. He is getting into a position where, he can retire gracefully after April 6. unless of course Tru- (lean emerges as the new prime minister. Trade Minister Winters has al- ready submitted his resignation from tho cabinet although the prime minister has not acted on it. His bid for the leadership appears to be an all or nothing gamble and it is unlikely he will stay in Parliament if he loses. The other seven cabinet mini- wiers who have entered the race may not feel that strongly about it, but with their different views on party policy most of them abinet Is an Unlikely Mixture can expect to be sidelined after the convention. Mitchell Sharp might make room ‘in his cabinet for Paul Hellyer and John Turner, but not for Pierre Trudeau or Al- lan MacEaehem. Perhaps only the unique geni- us of Lester Pearson could ever have brought such an unlikely group of men together as a ca- binet and held them there. Ru- mors of rifts appearing in the traditional cabinet solidarity have sprung up at regular inter- vals during the Pearson admini- stration, but if true, the rents were always mended. Prime Minister Diefenbaker was accused of making all, the decisions himself and leaving his cabinet of ministers no room to act. Prime Minister Pearson did the opposite and consequent- 40 YEARS AGO March 22. Dean Alex A. Pot. ter, head of Waterloo College, will relinquish the position at the close of the present scholas- tic year, to take charge of the foreign extension department of Rotary International. The old Woeller-Bolduc fac- tory on the corner of Herbert and William Streets, which was recently purchased by Downer and Schmearer, contractor, is being demolished and the mater- ial salvaged. Ernest W. Mackenzie, town solicitor, died suddenly at his home this week from severe lobar pneumonia. He was 48. The newly-formed Waterloo Lions were presented with their official Lions International char, ter this week. The presentation was made to President Herb Sohaus at a banquet attended by 150 persons in St. John's Luther, an parish hall. 30 YEARS AGO March 22. Quick action by the fire department saved the house of Bandmaster C. F. Thiele on Duke Street from possible des. truction yesterday afternoon, when fire broke out in the cellar. Town officials cannot recall there ever having been a junk- yard in Waterloo. It has been suggesied that the town fathers may wish to provide regulations governing their operations it one did want to locale in Mam. FILES OF YESTERYEAR 1y was always bailing himself out ot some crisis precipitated by one of his ministers. As a cabinet maker Pearson has been accused of two contra dietary faults, but there is evi- dence to support them both. He has been accused of stick ing by his friends when he should have fired them, such as Walter Gordon after his dis. astrous budget in 1963. And he has been accused of pulling the rug out from under a minister at a time when he needed sup" port, such as the time he re versed Justice Minister Cardin', statement on the Victor Spencer So take 1: good look at the Pearson cabinet. It is unlikely such a mixture of genius and mediocrity, left and right, wilt ever be gathered together again in one ministry. " YEARS AGO March 19. Waterloo police will have to do without their three way radio equipment for another year, tttt council feels its capital expenditure this year is too great. The sum of t43,000 was pre vided in the new estimates tab. led recently in the House at Commons for an addition, altera. tions and improvements of the Waterloo public building. This was an increase of $15,000 over the t28,000 Provided last year. Magistrate Poison has trans ferred all Waterloo police court hearings to Kitchener due tn mruncil's failure to provide a more dignified and appropriate Council Rave third and final reading to 15 bylaws in 12 min utes this week. One authorized borrowing $141,000 for trortstroe- tion of four-room additions " MacGregor and Empire public schools " YEARS AGO March 20. Albert Panel. Wat- erloo's former fire chief, said he will continue to answer fire alarms, even though he has re- tired. He said ho would do this because "I love to fight fire." The city has spent $5,714 on snow removal since Jan. 1. This is just $200 short of the $5,914 expended last year.