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[( _ 4 . Waterpo Chronicte, Thursday, Februgry 26, 1971 ._ _ _ _‘ _â€"__ *4 Many grant requests are easily justified, both in the askâ€" ing and the granting, because they support areas of comâ€" munity need which the municipality would have to provide itself if private or semiâ€"private groups had not already undertaken them. With budget day drawing near council might do well to review existing policies on grants. â€" There are, however, numerous other groups which reâ€" ceive council support. Published every Thursday by Fairway Press. a divismon ol Kitchenerâ€"Waterioo Record 1.1d 3 Queen St \% Kitchener Ontarmw Address correspondence to Waterino Square. Waterioo Unt Telephone 744â€"6164 These are largely selfâ€"interest groups, who often in all honesty never regard themselves as such and are even able to convince hardâ€"headed aldermen that such is not the case. Every group, just like the individuals which comprise it, feels its aspirations serve the common good and as such should be espoused by all. This can be tolerated to a point â€"the point where they feel the community should bail them out when they fail to budget to fit their resources, or don‘t budget, or don‘t have resources. Then one has a right to question why taxpayers should have to support any selfâ€"interest group. And whether this group is related to sports activities, theatre, race, or reâ€" ligion the selfâ€"interest description is often apt. Your editorial on the question of corporal punishment in the Waâ€" terloo County public schools was a splendid change to the general apathy since the Feb. 4 board meeting. Numerical involvement is often the magic criterion that convinces council to support a group. A figure of 200 or 300 is impressive until one remembers that Waterloo‘s popuâ€" lation is almost 35,000. And a few hundred here or there out of that hardly sounds like total involvement. Goodwill and hometown honor are other surefire ways to argue support for travel expenses for a successful athlete or team. If the hometown has not seen fit to support the individual or group sufficiently to make its appearances elsewhere possible, than the hometown just isn‘t interestâ€" ed and council should heed the message. Many at that meeting were the ‘"ever present vocal and perâ€" missive minority"‘ of university people referred to by Mrs. Daintry Snyder in her letter (Chronicle, Feb. 18). She failed to mention the briefs of the professional social workers who had dealt with the problem youngsters who were still problems despite corporal punishment in school. Yes, it was a repetitious evenâ€" ing, Mrs. Snyder, and you can read the same theme again in the Weekend Magazine, Feb. 13, in the remarks of Dr. Norman Alcock, Canadian peace researcher. He points out that our attitudes to violence and _ authoritarianism must be changed, that the more authoritarian a parent or teachâ€" er has been, the more authoritarâ€" ian the child will be. "It‘s a long, tough business of changing our homes, _ upbringing, _ schoolsâ€" that‘s part of peace research, too."‘ Do we want children in the 1970s to see violence a solution to our problems? I would ask the parâ€" ents and teachers who overâ€" whelmingly supported the board questionnaire to ask themselves if their attitudes foster peace. Some guidelines on civic dinners might also not be reâ€" miss. As stated at the outset there are community obligaâ€" tions. They should either apply to every guest group that arrives in town, or there should be some general classifiâ€" cation which warrants this honor. I believe that there must exist between government and the news media a collaboration to frighten the buying public, the very core and backbone of our economy, when day after day we hear and read nothing but emphasis on tight Council largesse Philomena Rutherford, editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Canada: one year $8; in United States and Foreign countries: one year $10 Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association ROSEMARY ROWE ESTABLISHED 1854 Chronicle readers‘ letters to the editor money policy, péople not spending and last but not least unemployâ€" ment. The monster the gift of gab has created walks about like a wolf in sheep‘s clothing seeking out whom it can devour. The monâ€" ster christened Inflation has an insatiable appetite. How much longer are we going to feed it? Certainly people require more money to live if prices keep going up. Why should this create lack of spending? No one is making any less. Why should they spend less? Because they have been encouragâ€" ed for the past few years to hold tight to their money. I blame the constant barrage of recession and unemployment which the govâ€" ernment and the news media have fired upon the public. Inflation and tight money have become an illness taking on inâ€" creasingly epidemic proportions. Is this good for our economy? Then the carrier of this dreadful disease cries out to the masses that "We are in a terrible mess." Who‘s fault is this? Let‘s find a cure for this degenâ€" erating disease, which has cast an ominous cloud over the counâ€" try‘s business, both small and large. Let‘s not kid ourselves. No one is exempt from the current pinch being felt in our economy, be he rich or poor. It‘s time the public realized, and that means you and me, that the situation here and now is critâ€" ical. Critical as it may be, it is high time to stop talking, writing and reading about it and rather doing something about finding a cure. One alternative might be a heart transplant for the governâ€" ment but there is notime for that. ‘ The word is out that Municiâ€" pal Affairs Minister Darcy Mcâ€" Keough will present his proposâ€" ed reforms for local government in Waterloo County at the Kitâ€" chenerâ€"Waterloo collegiate audiâ€" torium, March 16. One thing at least you‘ll have to concede him is his timing â€" If his proposals contain anyâ€" thing unpalatable for us Waterâ€" loo folk, at least he had the deâ€" cency not to defile St. Patrick‘s day with their announcement, __On the other hand maybe he was just giving us the opporâ€" tunity for a spontaneous victory parade and thought maybe March 17 would suit nicely. Reference to the reforms reâ€" minds us that of all the nonâ€" sense that emerged since the government of this area became a topic in every drawing room and beer parlor, the funniest has to be that bit about the municipal afâ€" fairs personnel keeping a tab on the mayoral positions in the Santa Claus parades over the last three years. But perhaps the department really is so short on clues to the community pulses of Waterloo and Kitchener that it has to hunt them up by observing which Let‘s begin our therapy psyâ€" chologically before we approach the nature of the beast physically, for is it not a wellâ€"known and provâ€" en fact that most illnesses stem from emotional unbalance. We have been convinced of fear, a fear so unhealthy, namely, that of the fear of spending. Fear is man‘s most formidable enemy. We have become afraid to spend. Spending is the reason, the only reason why the very word econâ€" omy exists. Spending gave birth to our economy. Have we forgotten our grade school history? Spending can have two different meanings. There is the spending on luxury which has its merits, too. But far more important is the spending on necessary items which constitutes the bulk of our spendâ€" ing. The answer my friends, is not written in the wind but in our revitalization of the spending habâ€" it, a far healthier habit than the liquor or tobacco habit or abuse of the sexual habit. Spending must start if we wish to remain a capitalistic state rather than fall prey to another state much less appealing, acâ€" commodating and comfortable than the former. Do we not believe what we see and hear? Capitalism Another issue related closely to inflation and tight money polâ€" icy is the emphasis on unemployâ€" ment. There has always been a certain minor percentage of unâ€" employment on occasion due to seasonal jobs, people moving to other locations, people who are is the very essence of personal drive and ambition. These are very basic traits in human nature. I trust we want to remain human. Philomena Rutherford‘s Bits and Pieces 23 Perhaps they see some mystic symbolism in the fact it was turn about for the first two ocâ€" casions on which the event was under surveillance and a sharâ€" ed effort on the last. | I wonder if there was any special significance attached to which one sat on the right and which on the left? And if you‘re looking around for some outlets for your nervous energy between now and March 16, what about taking a ribâ€" rattling drive around town? Some of the potâ€"holes along King, Albert and Weber Streets are good for a rooftop jolt no matter how good you are at weaving around hurdles. They‘d beat a rollerâ€"coaster dm day. 2 y 6e trained bums, others bums by choice. To make the situation worse people aren‘t hiring because people aren‘t buying because people aren‘t spending. Thereâ€" fore we have less employment. Waterloo Square merchants were reputedly polishing up their western drawls all week in prepâ€" eration for a promotion mayor leads off the annual paâ€" rade for three years in a row. We‘ve even heard rumors that the businessmen will be greeting their customers from now until the weekend attired in fiveâ€" gallon hats, western shirts, jeans and boots‘ The employment situation isn‘t all that bad, the experts tell us. Let‘s prove them right. We also fail to appreciate an everâ€"increasâ€" ing population rate which also creates a need for more employâ€" ment. , My answer to the problem is that there are those of us (and believe me, we are by far the greater maâ€" jority) who are in the position to start spending immediately if we are to survive. We will, by our spending, start people working again. Let‘s do it now for spring may never come. Simple arithmetic tells us that the minute you and I begin spendâ€" ing, we begin creating a demand. Demand in turn creates necessity for supply and supply in turn, creates a necessity for employâ€" ment. Before long, those for whom we created employment will begin spending and the wheels of our economy will once again begin turning. We must gear ourselves to igâ€" nore propaganda and very serâ€" iously consider snapping out of our mental obsession, namely, fear of spending and start spendâ€" ing, spending, spending. It takes only one to start the ball rolling and let that be you and me. It is so true that each man is responsible for his or her own salvation. This could not be any truer than it is now. Our salvaâ€" tion for our country and that of any country is in spending and But isn‘t it carrying admiration just a little bit far to feel obligâ€" ed to justify every utterance of anyone? That sub postâ€"office we anâ€" nounced for the Waterloo Square has finally been installed. It is located in the Uhuru Bookstore on the main floor. â€" 2 Admirers of Prime Minister Trudeau have been rushing to his defence in a big way lately claiming that even if he had uttered alleged obscenities in Parliament, so what!‘ Isn‘t the expression bandied about in the best society nowaday? It‘s one thing to be tolerant and accept the fact that most people when provoked do and say things which would normally be said and done with more grace. But\iat's another thing to poohâ€" pooh ~an expression which is profoundly offensive to most people and claim that all of a sudden it‘s a perfectly acceptâ€" able phrase just because one‘s favorite politician may have used it. § According to Allen Eagleson, each canditate‘s campaign for the provincial Progressive Conâ€" servative leadership was estimaâ€" ted at approximately $100,000 which I understand was spent by William Davis. Other unsuccessâ€" ful candidates spent in‘ the neighborhood of $70,000 per perâ€" Wouldn‘t it be more mature to accept that those whom we someâ€" times put on pedestals just might have feet of clay? spending alone. The choice is ours. What‘s it going to be, Heaven or Hell? Don‘t kid ourselves, such places exist right here on the planâ€" et earth. Let‘s get the hell out of purgatory while we can and spend, spend, spend. These expenditures seem ridiâ€" culous in the face of serious unâ€" employment problems in Ontario. . Qestions entering the minds of taxpayers vary from: ‘"Who finâ€" anced these individual campaigns? to ‘‘Shouldn‘t we change our sysâ€" tem of electing leaders with'u‘ political parties?", plus the comâ€" mentary ‘"Only a rich man can afford to become premier."‘ Another disturbing factor is the vote assignment of a block of deleâ€" gates by Darcy McKeough to William Davis, particularly when all of the other candidates allowed their followers a free vote. Within the Waterloo Federal Liberal Association. each deleâ€" gate is expected to vote on any issue according to his own persoâ€" nal opinion. To delegate a block of votes, in my opinion, is a breach of freedom and certainly less than democratic. CARL REKTOR RMA SANGOT .‘