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Ideologies and egomaniacs that have brought death and destruction over the centuries could never have created havoc, if enough people had the courage of their convictions and spoke up against them. There is hardly a week, sometimes not even a day, in any newspaper office, that someone doesn't pop in, or call on the phone, to ask the newspaper ho plead his or her cause with the public. This week it happened again. The caller was full of righteousness about something that, on the surface, seemed a legitimate espousal. It was a eltmpaien with which personally we could not agree, but since personal feeling should not be allowed to override something that might serve the common good, we were prepared to give the item publicity, if we could identify the source. So we asked for the caller’s name. Oh no, she didn't want any publicity. She was leaving it up to us. It has been said many times before but it bears repeti- tion-the greatest evil in the world results, not from the words and deeds of evil men but from the silence of good people. They want someone in public office scalped and they'd like us to do the scalping or they see something consh'uc- tive that needs doing and they'd like us to round up the able bodies. _ If she, and all other callers of like calibne, were even half sincere, they would express their opinions openly. Therein lies whatever weight and worth they have. The letters-to-the-editor column of every newspaper is an open forum for opinions. That so little demands are made on that space is a good measure of people's convictions and courage. - Yet, they expeci a newépaper to mdni"paiitUUiirTie opinion about something to which they are ashamed to subscribe their names. If the school board still feels it is right, then this is what it should accept. If it feels its decision was a little too hasty and a mite unwise, then maybe members will try looking at it from another angle. Therefore, Northern Ireland’s Protestants have every right to discriminate against Catholics in housing, jobs and votes; American Negroes need not get equal op- portunities with White Americans; South Africa’s apart- heid laws should stay put; and non Catholic Twin City firms should deny permanent employment opportunities to graduates-of the separate school system. But the new county board seems to have carried its prejudices a little too far. It ir, literally denying equal opportunities of employment on no other basis but that of religion. The fact that similar discriminatory prece- dents exist is no excuse for expanding the iniutrtiee--ate Catholic trustees should be the first to admit, if they subscribe to the faith they prom. "I never write letters to newspapers,” these people will say when told that specific viewpoints are best ex- pressed in that way or "Oh, I don't want thepu'blieity," If they carry their reasoning to logical conclusions they must admit that what is right for them cannot be wrong for someone else. The former Kitchener separate school board made no secret of the fact that it too preferred its teachers to belong to the same faith, but made a point of hiring the best qutslified applicant, whatever his, or her faith. One can find no great quarrel with this attiqide, when one examines the reasons for a separate school board’s existence. Earlier this year, numbers agreed to issue permanent contracts to Catholic applicants only. Now they propose to dismiss 27 non-Catholic personnel in the system, whom they hired last September and whose probationary con- tracts expire June 30. Separate school boards generally have never made any bones about the fact that they preferred hiring Catholic teaehertr---ul1 other things being equal. Toronto separate school system makes, a point of preferring Catholic teachers, Iperiod. Toronto trim apparently find this makes all things equal. Trustees on Waterloo County separate school trmfrd had better take another look at its policies if its attitude towards employing non-Catholic teachers is any sample. 4 t.o'.e%rehe-h'.._r.Mart.890. Pu_-orv-agh.ruewarp-aet.t-eegqt-r-. WaurbooRoei%1Ac.S99-tKN..att-r.o-a- -._te'oW_.osaro.t.a_ot=N-- Philomena Rutherford, editor» _ SUBSCRIPTION M113 In Canada: one year as; in United States and tonign countries: on year " Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Aaaociatiol and the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Aaaociation The silent masses Religious injustice Established 1854 The result has been a sort of world competition in stamp de.. sign. How suceesiful has Canada been in this international league? About on a par with our recent world hockey performance, ac- cording to a task force report prepared recently for Postmaster General Eric Kierans. "Most Canadian postage stamps are amateurish in design and, with the exception of a few intaglio designs. tasteless, in ‘exe- cution," it was said. The two major recommends tions of the task force are to make stamp design attractive to professional artists and designers and to make printing them pro- fitable to the printing companies. At present, designers get $150 when they are commissioned to do the design and another $250 when, the design is accepted. They should get 81.000 when commissioned and another 81,000 when the design is accepted, the six-man task force recommended. They should also be brought to Ottawa at post office expense for a formal presentation of a set of the printing plates as recognition for their work. Whether or not Kierans goes along with that proposition, he can hardly ignore the other re- commendation. After all his talk about the post office paying its way, he can surety not allow printing companies to operate in the red just to keep printing costs Anyone who has purchased the new, sickly orange, six-cent stamps with the tinte-worn pic- ture of Queen Elizabeth will heartily agree. Stamp collectors have turned philately into the world’s best- known hobby and serving the philatelists has become lucrative business. The next step was to use postage stamps to commem- orate great men and historic events. It didn't take much to Jump from there to using the pos- tage stamp for a little national advertisement. The Communists carried it one step farther and de- veloped postage stamps into lit.. tie ideological tracts. I, HENRY F. HEAL!) OTTAWA - If postage stamps were used merely to speed mes- sages from point of origin to point of destination then any kind of mark to signify that sufficient postage had been paid would be adequate. It is a long time,' of course, since the postage stamp was confined to so simple a role. From the gallery Many stamps' never get licked A mammoth campaign begins tomorrow to raise $150,000 for the endowment of Waterloo Cor lege. About 250 persons have been organized by W. D. Euler and W. G. Weichel. llrs. Clive S. Bean of Toronto and formerly of Waterloo begins Public school expenditure was $25,060 for the first three months of the year, according to the re- port of secretary M. E. Braendle. The year's budget is $77,999. The public utilities commission postponed until next meeting a decision on the proposed pur- chase of an auxiliary waterworks plant. If approved, it will cost Aprll 20. Town council has for. warded a protest to J. Albert Smith, MPP for North Waterloo, against a proposed amendment to the municipal act respecting amalgamation and annexation. 40 YEARS AGO May 2. As of yesterday, Water.. loo merchants will close their stores each Wednesday afternoon until September. The half holiday will give clerks an opportunity to enjoy a mid-week break. The board of works accepted the tender of Nicholas Lichty for construction of sidewalks at 17 cents a foot. Where it was between then and April " when it was tabled in the Commons, the opposition are still trying to find out. Kierans, however, says there was no at- tempt to bury it. . The report suggests the defini- tive issues-regular one-cent to On Jan. 13 they met for four days in Ottawa. On Feb. 18 they met in Montreal to draft a report and the report was on the mini- ster's desk Feb. 28. "The public paid for it and they are entitled to know what is in it," he commented. He said he thought the report was "overly severe” but many of its recom- mendations will be carried out. The task force report set some- thing of a record for speed as well as for outspokenness. The postmaster general named the six-man team, headed by Gordon Cunningham, director of public relations for the post office, on FILES or YliiSrliillmihit 30 YEARS AGO Sidney H. Jessop, plant pres} dent of Imperial Refractories Ltd. has asked council to pave a por- tion of city-owned property abut- ting on his plant as a parking space for his employees. Council was presented with a petition signed by " Royal Street residents opposing the planned rezoning of 375 feet of vacant property along Royal Street from single residence to light indust rial. Harry L. Guy, 55, of 110 John Blvd.. died this week after a lengthy illness. The president of Mutual Life Assurance Co. of Canada, he was one of the lead. ing figures in Canadian insurance circles. a series of radio talks on Great Canadians over the CBC network next week. The first one will be on Homer Watson. " April so. Twin City firemen moved quickly this week to save It children and one adult from an immobilized ferris wheel that threatened to topple at 94 Bridges port Rd. A wheel pin failed and an unsupported brace slipped off a block, tilting the wheel at a dangerous angle. PUC chairman William Hender- son reported a net surplus of $2,422 in the hydro department; for the first three months of the year. Nor, of course, is there any way, of knowing how much more re- venue the Philatelic trade will bring once news of Canada's bright new look in postage stamps gets known around the world. Still, its worth a try. Sales of stamps to collectors and dealers through the post of- fice headquarters each ye ar brings in more than "£00,000. There is no way of knowing how many other stamps, sold at regu- lar post offices across the ovum try, so into albums without be ing used to prepay postage. It also calls for a design advi- sory committee which would have the job of choosing artists for the definitive issues and the dozen or more commemorative issue! that come out each year. tt stamps-should be redesigned _every three years in s t e a d of every five as at present. One can get pretty tired of licking the same stamp for five years. " YEARS AGO