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C '&Q) & »7‘,.:--‘~. .. l % ERERRLAKKECKRLE PE ® â€".. . Published every Thursday by Fairway Press. a division of _ 6 . _ Wikehenerâ€"Waterioc WW.IQ:.... N., Kitchener _ â€" . Wiarlo Address_ correspondence to Waterioo Square Wat: > -: ; eniv@Ont. Telephone 744â€"6364.â€" . n g eA y Philomena Rutherford. editor ' F§ wl SUBSCRIPTION RATES s o k. In Canada : one year $8 ; in United States : and Foreign countries : one year $10 Almost daily, the Waterloo Chronicle and, we imagine, most other Canadian newspapers, have been receiving press releases from the secretary of state on the wondrous grants beâ€" ing distributed under the Opportunities for Youth program. The federal group take obvious pride in the way the $24.7 million politicing fund is beâ€" ing allocated, but if the projects they support are the best they could find, we wonder if the country isn‘t really in pretty good shape alâ€" ready. _ For $6,000, the federal government expects a ‘‘*survey of the needs and problems of older people as well as the resources of the Kitchâ€" enerâ€"Waterloo area in dealing with them. The students will determine what new services are required in the community and will work with existing services in establishing them." If those ‘"relevant municipal and private service agencies‘‘ do not know what the elâ€" derly need and want, or, if they are not providing the services, then will someone please justify their existence. At a cost of more than $1,000 per home, students will visit nine of the homes and "orâ€" ganize handicraft projects, music, sports and other activities. The grants listed. show the government leans heavily toward support for summer camps for underpriviledged, dropâ€"inâ€"centres, communâ€" ity radio and newspaper operations, arts and crafts teaching and numerous surveys of quesâ€" tionable value. This latter possibility is a most discomfortâ€" ing thought because, as the old proverb states, peoile get the kind of government they desâ€" erve. The press release goes on to state: ‘"‘most of the relevant municipal and private service agencies in the area have agreed to coâ€"operate with the study and implementation program." It seems as if the department of the secreâ€" tary of state has an embarassing amount of money lying around and is willing, nay eager, to give it away before the auditorâ€"general discovâ€" ers the cache. Another grant, a whopping $10,825, will help a group of Kâ€"W students to help patients in homes for special care. These homes care for patients released from provincial psychiaâ€" tric hospitals. On the surface, the project seems as relevant and truly humane a service as even the most callous taxpayer could ask. But it does raise a few questions: Were these patients not receiving this vital service before? Must the patients do without when the summer and the grant draw to a close? Why are patients in the rest of Ontario not eligible for this kind of service? Many of the projects outlined in these press releases leave us wondering why existing fedâ€" eral, provincial or municipal agencies which specialize in providing the services outlined in Opportunities for Youth are not already doing the job. Could our government simply be diverting students attention away from meaningful work to invented projects in hopes the young people will not notice there is little opportunity to get into the real labor force this year? Another possible explanation might be that Ottawa is buying Canadian youth in much the same way the Romans of old bought off the mob. | Or, could it be our government really belâ€" ieves these projects are all worthy of support. Youth programs Lrent C eTe m N2 ESTABLISHED 1854 They‘re looking forward desperately to vacation, beâ€" cause they‘ve really been through the wringer. They can scarcely believe that they have come through a year of teaching without anything worse than a slight At this time of year, the average schoolâ€"teacher takes a deep breath, lets out an even deeper sigh, and wonâ€" ders where in the name of all that‘s ridiculous the last teaching year has gone. Looking forward to it th September, it seems endâ€" less. But that doesn‘t bothâ€" er you. You are refreshed, full of beans, full of plans, and full of that onceâ€"moreâ€" intoâ€"theâ€"breachâ€"dearâ€"friends spirit. Looking in either direction about February is a depressâ€" ing experience. Behind lie the ruins of your buoyant September self. Ahead lies a trackless desert, with the end of June far beyond to have flown by at the speed of a mallard. You are exhausted, you query whether you have accomâ€" plished anything, and you are ready to step out of the breach and into a lawnchair. It‘s a good time for a quiet assessment of what the whole educational business is about, and also of whethâ€" er you have contributed anything more than a fairâ€" ly capable job of babysitâ€" ting. . * For. many of them, the year past has been a blur, or a dazzle: endless hours of preparation and marking papers, and a combination of great leaps ahead and agonizing falls. The young teacher espeâ€" cially, just finishing. the first year, has had a genuine eyeopener. First of all, he or she has discovered that the ‘"‘learning process", as the jargonéeers call it, is vastly different from what he or she had imagined it For some of them, it has been the most exciting year of their lives, because it has been the first year in which they have been totally involyed in a real job, with real people, students. The brighter ones realize that they have learned more than they have been taught. They‘ve learned that kids are people, that problems are never as large as they look, and that meâ€" mos are for the wasteâ€" basket. But looking back, it seems Ap Bill Smiley teachers, and loathe the adâ€" ministration. They should clear out without a backâ€" ward look, if they want to avoid unhappy lives for themselves and all those about them. Teaching is a reasonably wellâ€"paid job, with a long holiday thrown in. But I‘ve never met a wealthy teachâ€" er and never will. And one can even get a bellyfull of holidays. Especially when one has to get up at six a.m. to drive his daughter to tic or a voice several deciâ€" bels higher than it was in September. Quite a few are even more ‘‘dedicated‘‘ than have decided they don‘t like But to those who considâ€" er it as a vocation, let me just say it‘s a helluva tough job. It‘s not for the weak of will or the faint of when they began. Some of them, fortunately There are certain prereâ€" quisites. You must like, if not necessarily understand, young people. Who does? You must be able to get along with, if not necessarâ€" ily like, your fellow teachâ€" ers. It is perfectly OK to loathe _ administrators. Everyone else does. After 10 years of it, I have learned to roll with â€" the punches. If you don‘t you‘ll get a broken neck, figuraâ€" tively speaking. I have learnâ€" ed that that mob of hoodâ€" lums I faced in Septemâ€" ber is just a group of highâ€" spirited youngsters. But roll on July 1. Complaints about the cenâ€" sus have been many, varied and most quite justified. Some of the questions led one financial magazne to call the 1971 census a markâ€" eter‘s delight. This newsâ€" paper‘s strongest objection is that tax moneyâ€"about $35,000,000 of itâ€"is being used to collect data which big business should have to gather at its own expense and without the benefit of government coercion. The British North Ameriâ€" ca act requires that a cenâ€" sus be conducted every 10 years. As the main purpose of this requirement appears to be the drawing of elecâ€" toral district boundaries, what other information than name, address, citizenship Clippings from our contemporaries pre As for the financial inforâ€" mation, why cannot the revâ€" enue departmentâ€"which gets the figures every yearâ€"compile _ statistical reports for the governâ€" ment? This is no doubt done This part of the census could probably be more acâ€" curately and efficiently conâ€" ducted by municipal officâ€" ials, with financial assisâ€" tance and the occasional spotâ€"checks by federal staâ€" tisticians. Despite all the cost involâ€" ved in the elaborate 1971 census, the new data will not likely be applied to conâ€" stituency boundaries until after 1975. 4# YEARS AGO June %% Waterloo‘s popular town clerk and treasurer Norâ€" man A. Zick and his wife celebrated their 15th wedâ€" ding anniversary this week at their Euclid Street home. 20 YEARS AGO June 29 Council meetings will be kept to a minimum during and age could possibly be reâ€" quired? at their Euciid Street home. Donald C. Schaefer tax colâ€" They were the recipients lector and deputy treasurâ€" of numerous congratula er. He also holds the post tory messages. of assistant city clerk. e & & s s s A large number of par= _ a sprinkling of rain failed ents and friends attended | to dampen the spirits of thedisphyolmamltrain- more than 700 persons ing, household science and _ attending the strawberry soâ€" auxiliary class work pre ;1 snonsored by the Cenâ€" Waterloo‘s intermediate baseball team registered its first win in six games when it trounced Preston by a score of 9â€"3 runs before a crowd of several hundred. sented by Waterloo‘s eleâ€" at Alexandra school. 30 YEARS AGO June 20 The Waterloo Musical Soâ€" ciety is planning the greatâ€" est pageant ever this year to mark the 10th anniverâ€" sary of the festival. Salute to Britain will be the themeâ€" of the Sunday evening perâ€" formance. A 600â€"voice choir will be featured. Willard Snider was elected president of the men‘s Bible class of Emmanuel Evangelical Church at Friâ€" day night‘s annual reâ€"orâ€" ganization meeting. Nineteen more Waterloo homes were placarded for measles last week. There was also one outbreak of scarlet fever and three of chicken pox. Files of Yesteryear As for the questions on vacation â€" homes, â€" heating equipment, cars, appliancâ€" es and occupations, these can be left to the marketing men whose big business employers stand to make profit from the information. Martin Hartig, 33 Elgin Street, escaped serious inâ€" jury. this week when an eightâ€"pound sledgeâ€"hammer head flew off and struck him in the head. He was working on the Rockway Public School site when the accident occurred. He was wearing a hard hat at the time. As for the financial inforâ€" mation, why cannot the revâ€" enue departmentâ€"which gets the figures every year â€"compile _ statistical _ reâ€" ports for the government? This is no doubt done to some extent anyway and is probably more accurate than the census. member of the congregaâ€" tion turned the sod Sunday for the $38,700 St. Columâ€" ba‘s Anglican Church at Lincoln Road and Mayâ€" field Avenue. Rev. David Baldwin, rector, officiatâ€" were honored at a recépâ€" tion at the Inn of the Black down electrical power from Kitchener PUC. own transformer stepâ€" down station in November 10 YEARS AGO June 22 Waterloo public utilities commission will have its sion has purchased steppedâ€" Ralph J. Hodd, have spent their entire careers in edâ€" ucation in the twin cities, nmuw.thqu Reprinted from Elmira Signet and finally as senior adâ€" ministrators. They will re tire at the end of August. July and August. Councilâ€" lors agreed to stick toâ€"the bylaw and hold only one meeting in July and one in to some extent anyway al is probably more accura than the census. attending the strawberry soâ€" cial sponsored by the Cenâ€" tral Home and School Asâ€" sociation. The event was in full ~swing in the school grounds until it started to rain. Then the entire gathâ€" ering made a beeline for the Ross Hainsworth, senior in Kitchener yesâ€" igni