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The motorist who is most likely to get home safely is the one who is sober, awake and alert, and who drives as if the other fellow on the road is either drunk or an idiot or both, and not a genius who can read other drivers‘ minds and tell what they are going to do, even when they don‘t signal. When following in traffic, a good rule is to keep back one car length for each 10 m.p.h. you are going.Cars comâ€" ing behind you make take this as a invitation to pass you, but so what? Let them. Don‘t drive with just parking lights at night. Use your high beams on the highway, except when meeting onâ€"comâ€" ing traffic or following closely behind. By the time you‘ve spotted something on the road with just low beams, it may be too late to stop. Drivers should be alert to weather, road and traffic conâ€" ditions, and drive accordingly. Speeding is ridiculous. The motorist who passes everything in sight may arrive at his destination a few minutes earlierâ€"or not at all. Many drivers will be exhausted and, as a result, their driving ability will be greatly reduced. Their vision, parâ€" ticularly at night, will be less sharp than usual, and their reaction to what they see will be slowed. At a time when they should be at their best, they may well be at their worst. If their cars are not in top running shapeâ€"brakes, steerâ€" ing, lights, tires, windshield and wipersâ€"their chance of an accident is compounded. They shouldn‘t be on the road. Safe driving requires a knowledge of and compliance with the rules, plus alertness and common sense. t ® MD0 0 PR OM L m C 0w D M RACE load will reach its peak as thousands return home from the cottage areas in time for the opening of school Tuesâ€" day. It is a sad fact that some who are reading this newsâ€" paper may not be around to read the next issue. This coming weekend, which includes Labor Day, marks the end of the vacation period for most people. Travel on the highways will be very heq_vy. Monday evening the road Perhaps the university would like to provide them with a crossing guard to lead them across. There are many retired men in this city who would appreciate the work, or perhaps they could borrow one or two of the wellâ€" trained youngsters from the primary schools. The sugâ€" gestion is facetious, but it would probably be more acâ€" ceptable to the taxpayers than the expensive walkway, which is expected to become redundant when a grade sepâ€" aration is constructed within a few years. There are traffic lights at this point on University Aveâ€" nue which serve nothing else than the university. They provide a safe way for pedestrians to cross. Students use them when there is considerable auto traffic and otherâ€" wise, rather naturally, ignore them. To suggest they need to be led up and over the limited traffic on University Aveâ€" nue is rather an insult to their good sense. Since it‘s impossible to fence the parking lot and camâ€" pus, because of the car entrances, it won‘t be possible to force the students to use the walkway. And we‘ll bet not a fraction of those who cross University Avenue will do so. Purpose of the $100,000 expenditure is to provide a safe way for the students who cross at this point. That‘s a noble thought, but does it stand up to analysis? We understand that the campus end of the walkway is to be on the second storey of the addition being built to the engineering building. That means that students wishing to use the walkway will have to climb a flight of stairs or a ramp at the parking lot end, cross the avenue, enter the engineering building and, unless its second floor is their destination, make their way back down a flight of stairs or a ramp and out of the building. Who‘ll bother, when it‘s so easy simply to walk across University Avenue? ESTABLISHED 1854 Mumwurmym.amdxm-vmww.. 30 Queen St. N . Kitrhener. Ontario. Address correspondence io Waterioo Square. Waterioo Ont. Telephone 744â€"6164 City council has approved the University of Waterloo‘s plan to build a covered walkway to link the main univerâ€" sity campus with the large parking lots across University Avenue. The matter may thereby be closed, but we canâ€" not restrain a parting shot: the project appears to us to be a pointless extravagance. . 4 Waterioo Chronicle, Thursday, September 3, 1970 Philomena Rutherford, editor _ SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Canada: one year $8; in United States and Foreign countries: one year $10 Emammwmymmmum Expensive frill Safety first The 137â€"mile trek began this week at Balmy Beach, near Owen Sound. An eightâ€"foot cross will be carried to the Martyrs‘ Shrine by the pilgrims, six of whom do not attend formal Sunday church services. Sandra Willis of Waterloo is one of nine persons making an eightâ€" day pilgrimage to Sainteâ€"Marie Among the Hurons and the Marâ€" tyrs‘ Shrine near Midland. Golfing partners of Lewis Mcâ€" Donald, 76 Roosevelt Ave., had better look to their laurels. Durâ€" ing a recent holiday at Sauble Beach, the Waterloo man scored a hole in one on the Leith course. Matthew Hale Hill of 285 Erb St. W., received his doctorate of University in Carbondale, Ill., yesterday. An anthropologist, he is a son of Mr. and Mr. Matthew H. Hill of Olympia Wash. He and his wife reside in Waterloo. Last year, figures for actors‘ salaries in the United States reâ€" ported average earnings of the professionals at less than $3,000 annually. But then what stageâ€"struck teenâ€" ager was ever convinced that he or she would be relegated to the also rans? In their own estimaâ€" tions they are all the stuff of starâ€" dom. If a lifetime of penury is worth the dream, who am I to knock it? a stage career for any sav few commits them to a life or below the poverty line. Those who make the bigâ€"time ride high â€" in the headlines as well as the luxury lines. But how few of all those who try really make it? And yet, if they look facts in the face they must face the fact that Well, they‘re not the first and no doubt they are far from the last with a taste of the stage who reâ€" fuse to let it out of their system. bers have declared themselves reluctant to part company with each other and the theatre experâ€" iences they have shared. They want to settle in a commune in Toronto and "make it‘ in theatre. What is it about theatre that puts stars in wouldâ€"beâ€"stars‘ eyes and keeps them reaching for elusive stardom through their lives. Eightyâ€"four teenagers currently appearing at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa are prize examâ€" ples. Members of Ontario Youtheatre summer company 70, they appearâ€" ed in Babel at the Humanities Theatre here Sunday night during a 3,000â€"mile tour of the province. With the prospect of the comâ€" pany‘s end in sight some memâ€" *FOR YOUR PARTICULAR SITUANON SIR, 1‘D SUGGEST SOMENLING IN TUE LNE OF A GREYHOUND Bus® women‘s liberation moveâ€" Philomena Rutherford‘s Bits and Pieces A group of skunks took up residence along King street last week. Norman Demerling of 329 King St. N., got touchy over property rights when they beâ€" gan to use his garage as the thoroughfare. So he invented a Patients at Freeport Sanaâ€" torium were given a free concert by the Waterloo Musical So ciety Band last Sunday. Soloists for the concert were Gerald Knipfel on a clarinet and Paul Harding on the trombone. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 1. The treasurer‘s office reports that the City of Waterloo‘s budâ€" get for the sevenâ€"month period ending July 31 is on an even keel with the budget estimates for the year. Seagram‘s Stables were desâ€" troyed by fire along wth three favorite race horses, Sir Harry, Golden Sphere and Candy Kid. The horses were valued at $100,â€" The chairman of the market committee reported that there was a shortage of market tables and recommended that lumber be purchased for the necessary tables. The annual flower show was held in the market building Wedâ€" nesday and Thursday under the auspices of the horticultural soâ€" ciety. It was very well attended. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 4. Isn‘t it about time they took on the designers, builders and real estate men who have the gall to continue marketing homes where the women‘s second work area, the laundry, is the dreariest, coldest and most uninviting in the whole structure? Last weekend I wandered through a home in the $45,000 bracket which boasted bright decor and broadâ€" loomed floors in its living, family and recreation rooms. From the hall door, the kitchen seemed to be perched on an eyrie. But when I got to the nether reâ€" gions I found the laundryâ€"cumâ€" sewing room a cheerless, tombâ€" like space, as far from every other corner of the house as it could be. ment shows no signs of running Consciously ‘"or uncounsciously out of causes to fight or steam with someone is trying to tell someone which to fight them. Should memâ€" _ something about her place in the bers anywhere among our readers _ scheme of things and the message be compiling a list, however, Iget Idon‘t like one little bit. here‘s hoping they add one little *# * * memo. My timing must have hean aff Files of Yesteryear Rev. Clifford S. Roberts, gave his farewell sermon last Sunday. Nineteen Ontario high school students have won University of Waterloo scholarships estimaâ€" ted at a total value of more than $61,000. Clayton Dotzert, Waterloo postmaster, said Saturday, four sites are being considered by the department of public works for a new Waterloo Post Office. He predicted that it will be two years before the city gets the new building. Fourteen â€" marriages, four births and one death were recordâ€" ed for the month of August acâ€" cording to Town Clerk N.G. Bolduc. These figures do not include hospital births and deaths. 10 YEARS AGO of rifles, revolvers orvshoot.iné weapons of any sort must be completed by Sept. 15. Police Chief C. E. Moreau reâ€" ports that firearms registration form_{ have arrived. Registration skunk trap and asphyxiated them. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 6. The official results of North Waterloo‘s byâ€"election issued by John Wagner, returning officer, gives L. O. Breithaupt, Liberal, the successful candidate, 8,82%6 , votes compared to 5,436 for Dr. S. E. Leavine. The Think Twice committee is working hard providing the figures that show the advantages of Waterâ€" loo running its own affairs. Allied to the cold logic of their statistics should be sentiment, in spite of what has been said to the conâ€" trary. It, too, has its place. Comâ€" bined, they should turn the tables on those who worship bigness for bigness‘ sake. My timing must have been off when holidays were planned. Here I am taking off for two weeks with all the excitement of Waterâ€" loo‘s vote in the offing. On the other hand, it should be nice to get back and learn that Waterloo‘s residents have spoken up for themâ€" selves and their independence at