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i2 4 â€" Waterioo Chronicle, Thursday, April 1, 1971 Prime Minister Trudeau told the House of Commons last week he would prefer to see unemployed university and high school students spend their summer working on farms than touring the country at the taxpayers‘ expense but that he had no intention of making this happen. . His explanation: Students didn‘t always care for the Published every Thursday by Fairway Press, a division o‘l\m Waterioo Record Ltd. 30 Queen St., N., Kitchener Ontario respondence to Waterioo Square Waterioo Ont. Telephone 744â€"6364. Philomena Rutherford, editor _ SBSCRIPTION RATES In Canada : one year $8 ; in United States and Foreign countries: one year $10 Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association That principle is fine as long as those who choose to work are not expected to support those who choose not to work. This does not seem to be Mr. Trudeau‘s idea. hard work demanded on a farm and besides there is a principle to maintain â€" The liberty of choice to work or not to work. As the prime minister sees it, the line between those stuâ€" dents seeking work and those wishing to whoop it up on taxpayers‘ money will be about evenly divided. The $57.8 million earmarked to ease the situation will help about 990,000 expected to be looking for jobs to find them, and anâ€" other 800,000 who might not care to work to travel at home and abroad or engage in activities likely to broaden their cultural and educational perspectives. The prime minister rejected proposals that students be persuaded to accept farm jobs rather than governmentâ€" subsidized travel or leisurely study, since the government must not be put in the position of regimenting people. Widespread unemployment has created a great deal of hardship for many Canadians in recent months. Many aâ€" dults as well as students who are ready, willing and able to work for their living will not be able to do so. Welfare for these people is a right and should be of an amount that allows them to live decently and comfortably until jobs become available. They have a right to this and employed taxpayers have a responsibility to see they get it. Most people work, at least some of the time, not beâ€" cause they like work for its own sake but because they need its rewards to buy life‘s necessities..It might be interestâ€" ing in view of Mr. Trudeau‘s outlook if they reâ€"examined their principles through his eyes and opted to go on welfare since they were finding work a bit of a drag. What he seems to be ignoring is that working taxpayers are being regimented to meet the needs and the whims of those who refuse to work. On the other hand it is outrageous that a Canadian prime minister advocates similar consideration for loafers who are able but un willing to do anything but live off society. | It should be challenging then for Mr. Trudeau to come up with some hitherto unheardâ€"of solution of finding taxes to make welfare payments to taxpayers turned truant, in favor of summerâ€"long vacations doing their thing. Or would he refuse them, asking why they didn‘t eat cake? * 30 YEARS AGO March 28 Twenty eight clergymen assistâ€" ed at the large funeral service for Rev. Karl Gretzinger at Emmanuel Evangelical Church. Rev. Mr. Gretzinger retired two years ago because of ill health. With the advent of spring and warmer weather the Kuntz Brewery has taken on extra men to handle advance orders. The staff are busy bottling soft drinks. The â€" Mutual Life Athletic Association has elected J.H. Luxton president for the coming year. Arthur Wagner, E.H. Oxley, John Ziegler, Dr. J.E. Johnston and Ernie Snoxell organized a largelyâ€"attended bingo for the Waterloo Lawn Bowling Club. It was held at the 100F hall. Fil f Yesteryea 40 YEARS AGO weekend to see an exhibition April 2 sponsored by the Kâ€"W community With the advent of spring and _ Art Centre of paintings by Mrs. warmer weather the Kuntz Harper‘s uncle, Alfred Ernest There was a large attendance at the home of Mrs. George Harper, Union Street, on the Parasite‘s paradise . ESTABLISHED 1854 20 YEARS AGO Because letter carrier staff was reduced by two a large amount of Easter mail was held up at the post office over the weekend. There are only six letter carriers now, each of whom works a minimum of 48 hours a week. 10 YEARS AGO March 30 Amber colored lighting has been recommended for all imâ€" portant intersections in the city. At the present time this type of lighting is in effect only at Erb Street West and _ Westmount Road and Dearborn Street West and Westmount Road only Waterloo has taken the lead in the Kâ€"W Federated Charities campaign which has reached about 35 percent of its objective. «fraug The entries of Mrs. Regina Potâ€" vin, Mrs. Valerie Kipfer, Mrs. Margaret Pallott, Bruce Preiss, Steve Bauer, Mrs. Jacqueline Papke, Mrs. Grace Hooper and Mrs. Virginia Ward were chosen, not only on the basis of their quaâ€" lity (rated highly in all entries) but on their understanding of the role of the weekly in the comâ€" munity. Following instructions last week from the Canadian Weekly Newsâ€" paper Association, which sponsorâ€" ed the Hometown Newspaper conâ€" test recently conducted in The Chronicle, an independent adjudiâ€" cation panel selected eight of 22 entries we had published in recent months for submission to the naâ€" tional competition. This was a basic ingredient in the competition, which aimed at encouraging readers to think about what their weekly means to them their families, their lives and their communities. This is what judges in the naâ€" tional competition to which the eight local entries have gone will be seeking primarily, and was a major factor in the decision of the judges who were selected by The Chronicle for the local task. And task it was, they admitted, alâ€" though a pleasurable one, thanks to the many interesting views exâ€" pressed by our readers. The judges admit it took a great deal of time to arrive at their final concluâ€" sions. Now it‘s on to the final test for eight of our readersâ€"And we‘ll be rooting for you all the way! emerge from a Kitchenerâ€"Waterâ€" loo Animal Control truck seemingâ€" ly for the purpose of capturing a small dog but instead of carrying out the exercise himself he perâ€" suaded two four â€" or fiveâ€"yearâ€"old youngsters to do the job for him. The children were playing near a vacant house and the dog was nearby. The animal control offiâ€" cer seemed to encourage the youngsters to catch the animal. He produced a halter, demonstratâ€" ed how to put it around the dog‘s neck by placing it over his own head and handed it to the children who did what he seemed to reâ€" quest. Then, as the children ran away home, he deposited the dog in the rear of the vehicle. I agree I only watched the epiâ€" sode from across the road and so could not hear what conversation took place. I don‘t even know if the dog belonged to the children although I doubt they could have parted with it quite so easily if it did. And they didn‘t seem to be on as familiar terms with the animal as youngsters who have a pet I could hardly believe my eyes Philomena Rutherford‘s Bits and Pieces normally are. Nor do I know if they asked to help and had their wishes granted either by someone they knew well or a friendly stranger. It is unthinkable they A reader reports she suffered a near heart attack within the last few days when a young boy, about seven or eight years of age, emerâ€" ged from a driveway on Glen Maâ€" nor Boulevard near Cedarbrae Avenue on his bicycle and cycled across the road right in her path. Scarcely had she recovered from this shock and was beginning to move her car forward again than another younger child, presumâ€" ably a fourâ€"orâ€"fiveyearâ€"old broâ€" ther of the other, followed the eldâ€" er‘s example and also swept across the road, this time with only inches to spare between her bumper and his bike. catching recruits by an officer material to do the job safely. But the incident has me worâ€" Looks like it‘s time for a refreshâ€" er course in bicycling for the young fryâ€"and maybe a check by parents of the safety consciousâ€" ness of their youngsters, two of whom almost had their last bike ride last week. . Jane Leyes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norbert Leyes of 39 Blueâ€" vale Ave. N., will be off to Regina in a couple of weeks to compete in the Youth Bowling Congress 10 pin Canadian championshipe. Bowling prowess must run in school readers had a story of a goose that laid a golden egg daily. The story relates to a greedy farâ€" mer who couldn‘t wait for the daily egg. He decided to kill the goose and cash in on all of the golden eggs. He lost the goose and the eggs. The City of Kitchener for years had such a goose: The City of Waterloo. It didn‘t lay a golden egg every day like the goose in the text book but it looked very good to its neighbor who desired Then came Mr. Fyfe, Mr. Mcâ€" Keough and Mr. Farrow with the offer of regional government. Amalgamation was in their grasp at last. Each district was asked to draw up plans as to how this regional government should take place. it in many ways. Letters to the editor ut se ty «B Some Kitchener officials were is presumably equipped the necessary protective ago the public Toronto meet at which Jane was named bantam girls‘ champion of Ontario, earning her right to take part in the Regina meet, her sister, Janine, finished third in the junior girls‘ division. Kâ€"W Pollution Probe is making plans for a bicycle week, May 1â€"9, to be launched at a cyclists‘ parâ€" ade downtown, May 1. The week has been well chosen in relation to other events planâ€" ned for this date. The opening day marks the annual police aucâ€" tion at which unclaimed bicycles traditionally leadâ€"in quantity at least, even if not always in quality. the Leyes family. At the recent The Waterloo Cycling Cl plans to hold its annual cycl race May 2, another nice tieâ€"in for All sorts of novel plans are being discussed including a May 9 bikeathon to a rural picnic spot. Distances may even be geared to the notâ€"soâ€"energetic as well as to the souls with boundless enâ€" ergy to burn. ready to pile Waterloo in a wheel barrow and haul it bodily down even forgot to use sugar in w of their statements. When on March 16 Mumc:fl Affairs Minister Dalton Ba showed up at the Kitchenerâ€"Waterâ€" loo collegiate to present the reâ€" gional report he drew a pencil line from Woolwich road to the banks of the Grand River. Pointâ€" ing to the north, he said to Waterâ€" loo, ‘‘You stay here.‘‘ He pointed to the south and said to Kitcheâ€" ner, ‘"You stay here: This is final." After all these years of waitâ€" ing they had their dream in their grasp but they forgot the old sayâ€" ing that you can catch more flies with sugar than with vinegar. it. If you truly want to conâ€" fuse a kid these days, ask him what a streetcar is. In modern language, they blew in ap HERBERT E. SCHMIDT