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The concern for their fellowâ€"man, their youthful idealâ€" fam and their unwillingness to settle for halfâ€"answered questions should all work toward making government a better institution and Canada a better country. An estimated 1,000,000 voters will be added to the electoral lists, if legislation introduced this week to lower the voting age to 18 is approved. ~ There is every likelihood it will be passed before the end of the current Commons session, June 26. In that event, the young voters should be able to exercise their right when the next general election rolls around in 1972. One of the strongest arguments in favor of the bill is that we have never considered 18 too young an age at which to ask a man to die. In time of war, he is considerâ€" ed old enough to fight for his country but, up till now, was not considered mature enough to select the men who make decisions on war and peace. The new young voters should bring a freshness to our political life, which it badly needs. More than likely, they will respect their voting privileges more than those who have enjoyed them up to now and neglect to use Mayor Harry Halberstadt of Preston went on record with almost exact words two years ago. Some of his conâ€" stituents took him only too literally. Ne He should also have a right to recommend or criticize how his funds are handled and this right should apply as inuch to the first citizen of a city as it should to the lowlier ones of the smallest municipality. We agree he does not have a right to make unjust criticisms. This is where we disagree with the Waterloo County trustees. They failed to note this when they felt they were unjustly accused and the inference in their statements is that they don‘t feel this way at all. In other words, they attacked the man, when they should have concentrated on his charges. Chairman Darling‘s comments would certainly bear this out. He suggested that if the Galt mayor didn‘t like the way the board handles its affairs then he should seek election to that office and become part of the action inâ€" #ead of a plaintive voice of reaction. It almost sounds as if the chairman has forgotten he was elected by the people to handle their education afâ€" fairs as they wished and not elected to perform the task as he sees fit. The ordinary taxpayer has a real respect for educaâ€" tion. Whether the respect is for education for its own sake or the benefits it brings is a debatable point. This is why he is willing to have such a large portion of his taxes spent this way. From these comments it would seem that some trustees think the board of education operates on a plane a little above the heads of the ordinary mortal and as such should not be subjected to his criticism. ~ They couldn‘t be more wrong. Education is of vital interest to every man in the street. If it weren‘t, educaâ€" tion boards wouldn‘t have such tremendous budgets to administer. » W aterloo trustee William Pugh noted that the mayor‘s comments were "completely incompetent and outside his field of jurisdiction and responsibility." Galt trustee Mrs. W. P. Fraser said she doubted if the mayor has ever been on a board of education or even "if he is aware of our total program in the county." _ A Werterieo Chronicle, Thursday, May 21, 1978 _ So far, so good. Trustees have every right to their deâ€" fence and if the statement is inaccurate, then an apology is in order and should be made. Meantime, members of the board of education shouldâ€" n‘t get carried away by their sense of righteousness. _ Board chairman John Darling suggested that were he a citizen of Galt, he‘d be wondering why the mayor was spending so much time studying education instead of dealing with city problems. â€" At a meeting of the Association of Mayors and Reeves in Windsor, the Galt man was among those supporting a notion, adopted by the association, asking the province to give municipal councils authority to approve or reject school budgets. â€" . +3 C C oo Spéa‘l;‘i.r;; to the motion, the mayor charged that the education board of his home county wasted thousands of dollars through poor administration and purchasing. = Trustees, nat;fi‘all}v, were annoyed at these allegations and asked the Galt man to attend one of their meetings and substantiate hischarges or else deliver an apology. Gaw Gordon Rouse is not one to hide his light under a bus ) as Waterloo County board of education trustees learned yecently. _ shay _Eetablished 1'5{‘1_“ C ‘% +.A 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 Asgociation Not too young to die â€" Trustee anger Motherhood had c o n q u e r e d once again. The crowd became a little more protective. When a young boy looked as if he might give her chase, he suddenly found himself the chased instead of the chaser as the group warned him to "Go away. Can‘t you see she‘s a moâ€" ther?" The danger wasn‘t lost on the squirre!. She took a more cirâ€" cuitious route to the school, reâ€" turning over the building‘s eaves. And with barely enough strength left, she completed the fifth and final evacuation. Can we possibly have been keeping ourselves in the dark about crime? As soon as a baby was safely out of sight in the hollow, she came out and flopped down on the limb with her paws dangling helplessly. The journeys took longer and longer. Momma wasn‘t quite up to all that exertion and each trip was evidently taking a greater toll on her strength. But time was pressing and the commotion wasn‘t getting any the less, so on she plodded. By now a Jittle audience was gathering at a respectful disâ€" tance. They noted she took the second journey a little easier. When she emerged from the holâ€" low she took a short breather on the limb of the tree. Furry infant in mouth, she made her way across the lawn, in front of the greenhouse and workshop, up 60 feet of tree trunk, along a limb to another tree and into a hollow in the trunk. She still had lots of pep left as she made her way back to the labor room, where she picked up another and retraced the first journey. â€" If squirrels can think, she was probably thinking grim thoughts about birthday parties, even queen‘s birthday bashes, that oust a mother and her babies from their home. The trouble began when the youngsters got a headstart on the evening display and set off their own sparklers and crackers near the old log school house. As the commotion grew, moâ€" ther squirrel decided she had had enough and emerged from the old log school house, where until then she and the babies had been doing very nicely. I#f the squirrel knew her Shgkeâ€" speare she might have been mutâ€" tering something about how Waâ€" terloo‘s bylaw relating to fireâ€" works was more honored in the breach than the observance as she completed her last weary journey across Waterloo Park Monday afternoon. Philomena Rutherford‘s BITS AND PIECES He quotes a Metro Toronto police inspector who says he will only park his car under a street light or in front of a wellâ€"lightâ€" ed store, when he‘s out for the ~evening. Executive members of the Roâ€" tary Anns were entertained at the home of the president, Mrs. J. M. Laing «of Albert Street. Plans were made to assist the Rotarians with the annual clinic, June 1. An official welcome will be exâ€" tended to the Australian and loeal officials of the Waterlooâ€" Sunshine Co. Ltd., when they will be guests of the Waterloo Board of Trade at a banquet in the Grand River Country Club this week. 30 YEARS AGO May 17. Chief interest at both Kitchener and Waterloo markets this week centred on stalls ofâ€" fering plants, seedlings and roots for sale. Mock orange, lilac and forsythia roots sold for 25 cents each. 40 YEARS AGO May 22. A setting of eggs in a local hatchery hatched a fourâ€" legged chick which was a curiosâ€" ity to many visitors. The chick died after a few hours. He is convinced that 20 wellâ€" chosen, wellâ€"sited street lights are as effective a crime deterâ€" rent as one policeman and he esiimates they cost oneâ€"twentieth as much. He says lighting ig at its worst in residential areas, where maxiâ€" A Dunnville, Ont., man, John Dawson, feels so strongly about the connection between crime and lighting that he attends semâ€" inars around the world at his own expense to see what he can come up with. According to him, Ontario‘s street lighting is nothâ€" ing more than "disturbed darkâ€" ness." â€" In St. Louis, a largeâ€"scale lightâ€" ing program reduced downtown street crimes by 40.8 percent, auto thefts by 28.6 percent and business burglaries by 12.8 perâ€" cent. In a story entitled Shedding Light on Crime, writer Rae Hopâ€" kins notes that crime rates dropâ€" ped 30 to 50 percent in high violence districts of Detroit as soon as lighting levels were imâ€" proved. ‘ Gerry Knorr of the local public utilities commission drew an Onâ€" tario Hydro News item to our aitention this week. Some people in the know say we have. FILES OF YESTERYEAR Parents‘ Day at Waterloo Boys Town Saturday was a minor sucâ€" cess. Those parents who attended enjoyed the program provided. 10 YEARS AGO May 19. Thirty scout leaders from. North Waterlop, Wellington and Burlington districts spent the weekend at Everton scout forest completing the second part of their basic training in leadership. A Snider Street man was senâ€" tenced to four months in reform atory Tuesday when he pleaded guilty to exposing and circulating obscene literature. his house in bedroom slippers and stepped a runaway team of herses pulling a Maple Lane Dairy wagon. The event occurred during Wednesday‘s â€"rushâ€"hour 20 YEARS AGO May 19. Jack Strub, night station officer at the Waterlooe police department, dashed out of Frederick Pohl will conduct the Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo Junior Symâ€" phony at the Thedtre of the Arts, University of Waterloo, Sunday, when the group presents its third Bill English, president of the Waterloo Coin Society, was honâ€" ored recently in Barrie, when he received the Ontario Numisâ€" matic Association award of merâ€" it for his contribution to numisâ€" maties. spring concert. YMCA officials have asked us to pass on the word that several vacancies for boys still exist at Camp Wabanaki near Honey Harâ€" bor. Anyone requiring further details should get in touch with the Y at 743â€"5201. The writer feels the betterâ€" lightingâ€" devotees have got a peint. He notes that purseâ€"snatch ers, muggers, rapists and breakâ€" andâ€"enter operators all share a common characteristicâ€"a love of darkness. ‘ in the night things, is another 150â€"watt bulb or two, then what on earth is holding us back? > If all we need to cut the crime rate, not to mention saving us from ghoulies, ghosties, wee beaâ€" sties and all the other goâ€"bump mum protection ‘should be afâ€" forded. "The merchants will look after, the main dragâ€"they want the business, but it‘s the people in the residential areasâ€"who suf fer."