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(It is odd how people who are pre- pared to defend their rights from a foreign en- emy are just as prepared to give them away or lose them by default to their own bureaucrats.) - Ptthti6edeveer6+rPatrqrPt-diet- I m-wmmmm.aduana..u..m Chturt'ttAd_tr-td-eeter_ttrthttrnreWat- “Optimum. _ One of the privileges and responsibilities of adulthood accepted by the people of this country, along with voting, standing for of- fice, entering legal contracts and serving on juries, is drinking alcoholic beverages. If we are going to accept these young people as adults, we must do so whole-hearted- ly, giving them our full trust. One of the frustrations of the young is being able to see injustice and not able to do anything but protest. Now the young can vote. We are sharing with them the chance to do something. true of the other chief right the young people are to get - the right to drink. Although there seems to be little opposition to granting the vote to 18-year-olds (the most- heard argument is "If they're old enough to fight a war, they're old enough to elect the men who declare it"), the same is. not Maybe a large proportion of the new a- dults will follow their seniors' example and not bother to vote. But no politician should take them for granted on this, their first time out. For no previous generation in the history of this country has been as keenly concerned with conditions around them nor so intent on doing something about them. We support the legislation' because we be- lieve the young people of today are more worldly than were their predecessors. Mind you, we're not saying they are any wiser. But that Would be expecting too much in one generation. The premier must be more confident of his party's and his own popularity than per- haps any leader has a right to be. For the young people of today - at least the vocal ones - appear to be anything but Conserva- tives. The activists proclaim to be leftists, the not - so - active - ists sound liberal, and, given the choice available, could reasonably be expected to vote NDP or Liberal. But Mr. Davis has statistics to show that first- time voters generally support the party in power, and he may be right. On the other hand, the two Opposition parties have spoken out in favor of the move to lower the age of adulthood. Perhaps Mr. Lewis and Mr. Nixon know. something - or think they know something - Mr. Davis doesnt Just as the people of Ontario expected the move, they are also expecting' that when the government returns in the fall it will be to go to the people. An election has been predicted in September or October. T The Ontario legislature will be recessing soon for the summer, but before it does it will pass a bill changing the adult age from 21 to 18. _ So when Mr. Davis faces the voters, he will have added 412,000 young people to the more than 3,000,000, now eligible to vote. The new adults SUBSCRIPTION RATE In Cant: mywl: in mama ad Fania co-tries: one year $10 Philomena Wm. editor ESTABLISHED -r'i"s'iti, If Kitchener wants to give away 'its city hall square for an Eaton's song-and- dance and in return get an- other money-losing parking garage along with an exhor- bitant lease for city office space, it's only a matter for taxpayers in that city to worry about (if they can find out what's really going on! )" The incident does serve as one more wanting that regional government is cer- tain to bring the Midas touch of Kitchener big-shots (ev- erything they touch turns to gold-and you know who pays for it) into areas which will certainly affect local people. Elmira should start its own farmers' market. to be held every Saturday at the fairgrounds from May to Oc- tober. This district certain- ly has the produce to sell and it would take very little publicity to bring enough customers to what would really be a small-town farm- ers'market. Waterloo Lions held their annual family picnic in Wat- erloo Park this week. Al- most 100 persons attended. At the same time, people in this area should take ad- vantage of Kitchener’s treatment of the old market. Let Kitchener build its concrete wonder and fill it One of the mast violent rain and hail storms in many years lashed Waterloo Coun- ty, Wednesday, flattening crops, uprooting trees and tearing down telephone wir- J.F. Webster of Waterloo was among the fifth class of No. 9 Service Flying Training School at Summer- side, P.E.I. which received its wings. 30 YEARS AGO July 18 the largest ever to attend anevent in Waterloo Park. were present at Sunday " temoon's band concert per- formed by 100 bandsmen from the Waterloo Musical Society and. the Toronto Royal Grenadier Guards In future, all users of hy- dro electric power in Wat- erloo must pay their ac- counts promptly each' month or have their lights cut off. 40 YEARS AGO 1-]le . Files of Yesteryear Clippingsfrom ourcdnteriiporaries It strikes us as incredible that an intelligent body of men and women could ex- amine this plan and find it without any serious fault, so lacking in fault and wor- thy of praise that the de- cision was made and the with slightly-disguised com- mercial hucksters. The old reputation will soon go the way of the old building. Elmira Sign“ Since the Kitchener mar- het, included in the recent- ly announced development plans for the city's down town area, is frequented by many people of this area and' populated with more than a few local merchants, we be- lieve the citizens of New Hamburg should take a close look at the proposal to tear down the present market and replace. it with a modem structure situated on the first floor of a parking gar- age built to service the en- tire commercial complex. The market, city hall and roughly two blocks of pre- sently decayed or decaying store fronts would be re- moved to make way for yet another enclosed shopping mall, Eaton's and a new 12- storey office building. Council purchased $43,401 worth of parking equipment this week. Different colored meters will be installed in different areas of the city according to the time limits allowed. , " YEARS AGO July 13 One-way streets in Wat- erloo are still causing con- siderable concern. Young- sters on bicycles persist in cycling the streets the wrong way, creating havoc for mot- orists. - - - NYEARS AGO _ --- July It . Watertoo's street sweep- er, purchased several mon- ths ago, is slated to be re- turned to the factory soon unless it starts to function properly. City engineer aw, ov thought it pre- mature to retum the ma- chine. saying it hasn’t been givenafairchance yet. _ The shortage of nurses in this area has reached a critical stage. Hospital of.. ficials say it is the worst in history - 10 times worse than any preceding summer. A burst water main flood- ed some of Waterloo colleg- iate's rooms up to 20 inches this week. Waterloo firemen had to be called to pump them out. Refrigeration has never been mentioned as a danger before. Are we to gather that the city's health depart- ment has not been doing its job for the past several de- cades or is this simply a con- trived excuse by those who support the new project? Inevitably one comes back to the market and what the purpose of the institution is to the city. Complaints made by those with an interest in the new development about the market's antiquity, safe- ty and lack of refrigeration and parking seem to be straw men. Kitchener has a parking garage which stands nearly empty most of the time because people don't like to use it. Shoppers say it is dangerous and they have to walk two whole blocks to get to the downtown main street. The new garage will be closer, but still Just as strange and alien to shop- pers' eyes. deal closed, except for the most elementary formali- ties, without a bit of public discussion and without an examination of the attitudes of the people who sell and buy at the market. My uncle’s booklet is no high-colored mmance. It deals _in facts: births, I've just received a small booklet compiled by my un- cle,- Ivan C.- Thomson of Ot- tawa. It seta- (out: the gen- ealogy of my maternal an- cestors in Canada. 1 Some /people find their an- cestors a huge bore. Others are afraid of skeletons in the closet. I find-ancestors fas- cinating, " I try to picture them, think of the incred- ihly difficult lives they led, and wonder what character- isticsl and my children have received from them. deaths, names, property titles. But among the pages is the occasional laconic comment which makes me wish I could leap back into the 19th century. By doing a little mathe- matics, I've come to the conclusion that I must be re- lated to half the population of Canada. My maternal great-grand- parents were certainly not of the aristocracy. He was a ship's carpenter, and that's one reason he, Walter Thom- son and she, Margaret Far- rell, his new bride, set out from Donegal, Ireland, for New H ambmg Independent Bill Smiley _ ,1)“. 7.3“, '," ,rtAi'tuay,ar,'ir/ii.' Igll'ft h (at. " t ttmtttrqrderstMrrr-* "Itftdg"ta'tt",elt . ttttot- 'rytt, I tttr9,thetrtnaneiatNt 1treerttrtet-eerttsqt l f.irt,r1:Moytee,ttt, leash- But I'd really like to go back and talk to some of the old-timers. They were virile people in more ways than Anyone who can multiply can see why I have so many relations. The original two had grown to 60 in two gen- erations. Heaven knows how many the 60 produced. Another son, Walter, had nine children. My grand- father William had ten. A son James had eleven. The youngest daughter, Jane, must have realized that even such a good thing as Thom- sons could go too far, pm duced only two. Catherine "married George Kemp who was very fond of liquor". No other comment, except nami their children, with the I! thus: “Jason was drown at Temiskaming". John (Mountain Jack) was a, timber cruiser and a rearbmiser in the lumber- jack clashes of "he times. "He had a terrible temper/ and washiown up and down the Ottawa river as a scrap- per." He died at 91. a pretty ripe age for a brawler who also sired 15 children in two marriages. a story in itself. Who was Johnnie? Why did she raise him? What became of him? eight might produce 16. Anna married James Paul. They had four chil- dren. "She also raised John- nie Robertson." Now there's The original family ot Walter Thomson was eight children. They produced among them, exactly 60 But as I said, while the facts in the book are inter- esting, it's the little asides that inflame the curiosity. Office 1aehed"ttme to " vise an lump when ot- ficially of the rise. And it eoett9tthettearata- completely distributed by nextmorning. Btt-er,ttte1egaigtmmr "rtrehastteeetlaidtoette Til','.",'.',"""""'". onJan. i.' In 1847, great-grandfather Thomson was appointed slide master of Grand Calu- met island in the Ottawa river. He held the position for more than 30years, to be succeeded by his son Will- iag, my grandfather. _ ed a one-room school and boarded the teacher for $45 a year. My uncle Ivan had a good job. He went to the school early in fall and win- ter, and lit the fire. He got " a year. My grandfather got 31 a day for his govern- ment position as slide mar ter. Pay ceased when the navigation season ended. Tliat’s' The background. My mother's family attend- loyal and - one by St. John. New Brunswick, where there was a ship- building industry. He was 20, she 19.nwas1834. 'otaraeqt “Iii my: Today,