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& Weterive Chreonicle, Wednesday, Decervber 24, 1969 SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Canada: one year $8; in United States and foreign countries: one year $10 * Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association > and the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Trustees seem to have lost sight of the fact that taxâ€" payers are no longer willing to go on paying for proâ€" jects that seem far removed from the purposes for which school boards exist. Municipal councillors would never attempt to levy taxes for some of the things school boards take in their stride. Trustees, on the other hand, sgeem to do this blithely and with absolutely no considerâ€" ation for the people into whose pockets they are dipping deeper and deeper. _ â€" â€" o Our world is good. There is a danger that such prosâ€" perity and isolation from the world‘s problems could make us smug. Perhaps some of us are. But it seems that, ‘UAespite our frailties, we do care about our fellow man. Canadians are more outward looking today than they ever have been in history. And this is good. Peace on earth. Good will to all men,. Skyrocketing education costs and resulting public disâ€" pleasure have somehow failed to impress school boards with the fact that serious controls must be placed on expenditures. ~o â€" o e _ Waterloo County school board is currently considering what obligations it can assume for the Waterlooâ€"Oxford ‘district secondary school glee club and the Elmira disâ€" trict secondary school band, which have planned trips to Japan. So far trustees have balked at signing a flight contract or giving any financial guarantees, which if given could commit the county‘s ratepayers to $100,000 in air fares alone. If they take their solicitor‘s advice, they will be undertaking the additional expense of sendâ€" Canada has not been at war for many years. We live in peace with old friends and are reaching around the world to find that we can coexist with peoples of very different ideologies. Memories of former wars grow dim and the Vietnam and Mideast troubles are far off for most of the older people among us. Our youth may view the Vietnam war more seriously, but to them, world war is only history. We are barely toucthed by war, racial problems and poverty. _ c _ True, some of us may worry about rising prices and the size of our mortgage. But we are making more money than we ever have before. We have more money than our parents had, and, in spite of higher prices, our standard of living is higher. If you doubt that, just take a look under the tree tomorrow morning. What you see would probably be as many gifts as would have been in any three homes a generation ago. And the cost would have provided gifts for any 10 homes then. _ Earlier this year, taxpayers indicated they were not happy with the high salaries being paid to some of the board‘s administrators. They might have been more upâ€" set then, if they knew they were hiring travel couriers. ing an administrator and a trustee to Japan before the astudents leave, to see that accommodation and travel arrangements are suitable. _ Everyone today is afraid to question anything related to education. There is a fear of being considered uninâ€" formed or oldâ€"fashioned. This is Christmas Eve. Twentyâ€"four hours from now, most of us will truthfully be able to say this has been a wonderful Christmas. We‘re not forgetting that some among us are not so fortunate. Personal tragedies such as unemployment, illâ€" ness and death will take the joy from this festive ocâ€" casion. This has always been so. But one has only to hark back a few short decades to recall when unemployâ€" ment and illness were much worse. These two hazards of life have responded to treatment. Death has been delayed but, fortunately not eliminated. We do not mean to suggest that these things are any less tragic for the people involved when they do occur. But the fashion of paying one‘s bills and living within what one can afford is as modern as the maxiâ€"coat, even if it is also as oldâ€"fashioned as the miniâ€"skirt. And it takes an informed, educated man to balance a budget. For most people within our readership, times are good. In truth, they have never been better. _ But we do feel that most of us have a great deal to be thankful for. Life is good. If Waterloo County can afford to send every child in every high school in the county to Osaka for Expo ‘70, then by all means let the county board undertake the project. But it can hardly justify doing it for only two groupsâ€"not after all this talk about equality of opâ€" portunity, ‘ «_ ~«l On the other hand, Â¥ Waterloo County cannot afford #t, the school board should be able to look that in the face, too. | Established 1854 welerine meme es ns uL d The Osaka trip 4 Lid.. ® Queen 8 to Waterico Square, Life is good Does everyone really dream of a country Christmas? * According to a press release that came across our desk this week, they do. And to quote furâ€" ther from the fanciful prose of the release, "It haunts us like a racial memory, a recollection of another life. It has a compelling fascination in its â€" simplicity, warmth, its embracing security." And the scene we‘re supposed to carry in "a warm corner of our minds," is of a sleigh squeakâ€" ing down a farm road, people stomping snow off their feet in a doorway and (the crowning touch!) "a plump lady, her face pink from her labors at the wood stove, drying her hands on her apron, kissing her grown children take it." And now ‘twould seem Tiny Tim is ready for that, too. And as Charles Dickens said about the Christmas Carol characâ€" ter for whom a Dickensianâ€"fan manager named Herbert Buckingâ€" ham Khaury in 1963, God bless Mr. and Mrs. Tiny Tim (and as Charles Dickens didn‘t say) may they always tipâ€"toe through the tulips. _ If you‘re having trouble with frozen car locks these nippy days, here‘s a tip that was passed on to us the other day. If it‘s not too late for prevenâ€" tive action, try lubricating the locks with powdered graphite or light oil. On the other hand, if it‘s way past that stage, try wrapping up the key and warming the exposed tip with a cigarette lighter or matches. Then (theoretically, at least) the warm key should melt away the miscreant ice. wed Miss Vicki. Dear knows what transformations she will wreak on the performer‘s life, when with All the publicity to date points to the fact that they deserve each other. Now the only possible pitfalls one can imagine is what happens if Miss Vicki tampers with his cosmetics. tered his drinking pattern and involvement with hockey. And, as he said when being interviewed here last February, he likes to have his own wash room . . . his own toothpastes . . . his 90â€" minute daily shower plus â€"several shorter ones . . . and to listen to his own records, alone. Marriage, he told us then, while his eyelashes fluttered "is a wonâ€" derful thing â€" for those who can Philomena Rutherford‘s BITS AND PIECES The horse show committee has postponed the show, originally planned for Dec. 21, until Dec. 28. There are several silver cups and prizes for winners, Kitchener and Waterloo were isolated Saturday by a snow bliz zard that drifted throughout Onâ€" tario. 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 22. Deputyâ€"Reeve Henry Ratz of Waterloo presented a gold watch to retiring Warden W. D. Brill, also of Waterloo, durâ€" ing the annual warden‘s dinner, It‘s never the dreamer that‘s bent and bothered over that hot stoveâ€"and a woodâ€"burning one yet! It‘s never the nostalgic one that has to get out and oil that squeaking sleigh in 20 below weather, or mop up the mess from the stomped snow. The combined populations of Kitchener and Waterloo is 42,â€" 832, according to a recently pubâ€" lished directory. This is an inâ€" crease of 1,962 in 1928. else again. And it‘s as new and fresh today, as it was almost 2,000 years ago. It‘s a spirit of joy, hope, love, a kinship with family, a bond of goodwill: It‘s the light in a youngâ€" ster‘s eyes and the contentment on his grandmother‘s face. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 26. Thousands of children and their parents lined King Street Tuesday to welcome Santa Claus‘ arrival. Santa and his asâ€" sistants then distributed 2,600 stockings filled with candy, nuts, oranges and toys. Apart entirely from the fact that the plump lady would have a little bit of bother kissing her children, grown or little, all at once, the bit that gets me is why people are always dreaming golâ€" Now, if the writer painted a picâ€" ture of that plump lady looking out and thinking "My goodness, here comes another sleighâ€"load of mouths to feed," or of her farmerâ€"husband mumbling beâ€" neath his breath about having to leave his comfortable chair to get out and fodder and house another pair of horses, when he‘s/ out on his feet, it might ring a bell with me. Now, the spirit of an oldâ€" fashioned Christmas is something working. If that‘s an oldâ€"fashioned Christâ€" mas, it‘s one I can do without. And you can bet your Christ FILES OF YESTERYEAR previously objected, the board of the Kâ€"W collegiate agreed to reduce the length of dances from 1 am. to 12:30 p.m. j 10 YEARS AGO ~ Dec. 23. Rev. C. W. Mixer has been appointed acting principal of Renison College, the Anglican Liberal arts college that is a# filiated with the University Waterloo. The price of a car wash has gone up from $1.50 to $1.75, The increased cost is alleged to arise from the increased sewage And if you can get through all that. without a stutter, you have nothing to fear from the breatle alyser test. [ Encouragement of immigration of "quality, not quantity," was urged by William G. Weichel exâ€"MP for Waterloo North, wherm he spoke at the warden‘s ban. The New Year market will be held Dec. 30 from 6 p.m. to 9 pm. There will be no market on Dec. 26 or Jan. 2. As you travel the road of life, may the sun shine warmly om your head, may the rain fall gently in your fields, may the wind be ever at your back and may the path before you ba downhill. For the second yéar in a row, the local provincial mce detackh ment agreed to forego a Christ mas card exchange between staff and to donate the money they would otherwise spend to the Margaret MacBonald Sunshine Home for retarded children, RB 1, Wellesley. The custom is one which i# gaining increased favor in several businesses in recent years and an admirable one it is, too. mas tree the contentment will be a lot more deepâ€"seated if she has long since thrown the woodbur ner in the junk pile and invested in something less backâ€"breaking and more efficient. m As a result, the OPP detach ment was able to donate $40 to Of course, we‘ve got a sneaking suspicion â€" it was â€" originally thoughtâ€"up by a mailman with bachache and sore feet. And on this Christmas Eve, we leave you with an Irish toast. 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