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z* '~r"‘:i Most of our knowledge is obtained through sight and hearing. Sight gives us messages and information, emoracing form, direction, disâ€" â€"â€"â€"â€" tance, and the line and speed of movement. When we lose our sight we find this knowledge shut out, and being forced to depend upon othâ€" ers to supply it is not a happy role. Published every Thursday by Fairway Press, a division of Kitchenerâ€"Waterioo Record Ltd. 30 Queen St., N., Kitchener Ontario Address correspondence to Waterioo Square Watâ€" erioo Ont. Telephone 744â€"6364. SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Canada : one year $8 ; in United States and Foreign countries: one year $10 There are 28,000 blind men, women and childâ€" ren in Canada, people who have lost their sight through war, accident or disease. Every year more than 1,700 Canadians of all ages are made sightless. Even those who can see find difficulty in adâ€" justing themselves to modern conditions. Multiâ€" ply this difficulty by the deprivation of sight; limit the means of communication with fellowâ€" men; handicap a person by inability to make a living in ordinary ways, and you have a picture of the grievous burden under which blind peoâ€" ple labour. To become blind is to have your known world come tumbling down, and those who set themâ€" selves to rebuild it in harmony with their handiâ€" cap deserve a salute. It is not so many years ago that people thought the place for the blind was at home, cared for by members of the family, or in an inâ€" stitution, living in a darkness unrelieved by contact with the world, doomed to inactivity. Today, blind persons show the desire and the capacity to overcome their disability in many areas formerly thought to be beyond their reach. They seem to have as their motto: "I need only be defeated if I am willing to be." The blind want not only sympathy but opporâ€" tunities for establishing themselves as indepenâ€" dent and useful social personalities. And who is to give them such opportunities but those of us who are blessed with the supreme gift of eyeâ€" sight which they have lost? But there are additional disturbing losses. Isolation is the most important fact about blindness. Blind people are cut off from the soâ€" cializing influences which play upon most of us. The marvel is that they are able at all to peneâ€" trate the walls which shut them off from their fellowâ€"men. A booklet published by the Department of National Health and Welfare reports that about one person in every eight hundred of the total population of Canada has poor enough vision to be considered blind. Every year some 2,000 Canadians lose their sight. One child in every four needs some kind of eye treatment. Thousands of accidents to the eyes occur anâ€" nually in factories, kitchens and gardens. Some 100,000 people over forty suffer from glauâ€" coma, and half of them do not know it. The Canadian National Institute for the Blind was incorporated under the Dominion Companâ€" ies Act in March 1918 as a nonâ€"profit philanâ€" thropic organization to serve in the social and economic rehabilitation of the blind and to proâ€" mote the prevention of blindness. Financially supported through the donations of public spirited citizens, annual appeals and government grants, the CNIB serves blind Canaâ€" dians of all ages and in all walks of life. The aim of the Institute is the complete reâ€" habilitation of the blind. It gives them what is the greatest word in the vocabulary of a handiâ€" capped person: hope. Its eiforts are directed toward making life happier and easier for the sightless, and restorâ€" ing their confidence and independence. _ One of the triumphs of the CNIB is selling the blind to themselves; convincing them that the loss of sight is not the end, but that there is a way out, a path over, or a passage through. The CNIB and those who work for it or conâ€" tribute to it should be encouraged and praised. ESTABLISHED 1854 â€" > & CNIB helps Well, it‘s that time again, when the nation‘s biggest body of babyâ€"sitters goes back to work, and the mothâ€" ers of the nation blow out a trumpetâ€"like sigh of relief. Back to school time. It‘s been a tough summer for parents. In July I thought we were going to have to start building an ark. Auâ€" gust came in like a lion with a couple of violent storms, then settled dewn for some fairly fine weathâ€" er. Fine for October, that is. Last night the temperaâ€" ture was three degrees above freezing. This is the sort of weather that turns amiable little children _ into _ malicious little monsters who drive their _ mothers _ to _ the screaming point. It‘s too cold to swim. It‘s too wet to play outside. They‘re sick of playing cards indoors. They want pop and hot dogs and potato chips at all hours of the day and night. I have no sympathy with the kids, but my heart goes out to their frayed mothers. So much for the little kids. But at least you can give them a belt on thé ear when they become unbearable. Teenagers are twice as bad during a summer like this one. Those who aren‘t workâ€" ing, but just hanging around the family, in most cases are impossible. They groan with boreâ€" dom. They complain that there‘s nothing to do, though their mothers are putting in twelve hours a day. They demand the family car and sulk when they don‘t get it. And now that they can legally drink over 18, who knows what they‘re up to when they are allowed the car? The girls tend to strike up an intimacy with scruffyâ€" looking boys, and the boys pursue trollopyâ€"looking girls. Ah, â€" parents must have hearts of solid steel these days to avoid a complete collapse. That‘s why there‘s an alâ€" most universal sigh of reâ€" lief when school opens. It‘s not that parents don‘t love their children. It‘s just that they can‘t stand them after eight weeks of a cold, wet summer. Mother can pack them off ‘Bill Smiley on that blessed opening day, sit down with a cigarette and coffee and start turning into a kindly, loving person again. Father can come home from work and not have to settle quarrels, fight about who gets the car, and spend two hours getting smoke in his eyes over the barbecue. Even the kids are happy to get back to school. For a few days anyway. They meet old classâ€"mates, lie wildly about their summer adventures, _ renew _ last year‘s romances, commence new ones, fill out innumerâ€" able forms, and check out the new teachers for pretty or handsome ones. For college students, off for their first year, it‘s a time of rare excitement and anticipation. They‘re finally going to get away from nagâ€" ging mothers and growchy fathers and butterfly into the wild, free life of the university, the joys of learnâ€" ing. So everybody is happy about school _ reâ€"opening. How about the teachers? Believe it or not, they are too. Theoretically, they are rested, refreshed, cobwebs all blown away, raring to go. Most of them are. The small minority that doesn‘t really like kids or teaching, but is only in it for the seâ€" curity, will be their usual surly selves within a couple of weeks. However, let‘s all try to be joyful, as the great 1971 babyâ€"sitting season opens once again. I‘ll try if you will. Someone is going to be killed in Waterloo County. That someone will have broken no law. He will have done nothing with his autoâ€" mobile for which he could be blamed. And the other driver he kills or maims will be equally blameless. The villain will be the adâ€" ministrators of all those county and township roads in this area which do not have adequate traffic conâ€" trols. In the scenic back roads It is also doubtful, no around and about New Hamâ€" matter how concrete the burg, there are countless law is on the books, that ‘""open‘‘ intersections. most motorists remember, Clippings from our contemporaries 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 10 The 76th annual fall exâ€" hibition was held by the Elâ€" miraâ€"Woolwich Agriculturâ€" al Society Friday. It was declared the largest and best attended fair in the hisâ€" tory of the society. Entries in all the departments were bigger and better than ever before. ' Thirtyâ€"four rinks from 18 different Ontario Municiâ€" palities participated in the fourteenth annual Labour Day tournament held at Kitchener, under the ausâ€" pices of the Lawn Bowling Club. Fred Moser‘s Waterloo rink, comprising J.H. Ziegâ€" ler, E. Engel, J. Dahmer and F. Moser captured the first prize, the Cleghorn Trophy. Loss estimated at $30,000 was caused when fire gutâ€" ted the Gettas restaurant, King Street, West, Kitchenâ€" er. Adjoining stores occuâ€" pied by Goldstein, Gent‘s Furnisher, and Steele‘s opâ€" tical parlors were also gutâ€" ted. 30 YEARS AGO Alleged to have conspirâ€" ed to blow up or at least damage the city‘s huge gas plant, a division of the Pubâ€" lic Utilitiee Commission, Harry Schust, 65 and Herâ€" man Walter, 65 were releasâ€" ed on bail of $2,000 and $500 respectively, Wednesday night. Aug. 29 Indictative of the continâ€" ued success of David Bean and Sons, publishers of the Waterloo Chronicle in the Chronicle Press, â€"for the third time in many years, captured the Legge Memorâ€" ial Trophy for general, comâ€" Legally, the person on the right has the rightâ€"ofâ€" way. This becomes hypoâ€" thetical, however, when a driver cannot see who is on his right or his left. In addition, many of these corners are overgrown with shrubs, large trees and grass. Noâ€"one, as far as the signs go, has to stop, yield, or in any other way recogâ€" nize the existence of the intersecting road. Files of Yesteryear *~â€"â€"1>. Visits Galt® That‘s one of the things The tives come up against Amerâ€" ican values in U.S. swb Perry found when he visiâ€" ted Galt, Ont., to examine the American presence in that city. Perry says the Canadians worship the New Efficiency, and many ~of them do want to be like Ameâ€" ricans, but some buriedâ€" away Canadian characterâ€" istics keep surfacing. The result can be conflict. Geofâ€" frey Fellows, an indepenâ€" dent management consulâ€" tant, told Perry. ‘"The aveâ€" rage American executive has an obsession with vity. Everything has kept moving to the where, very often, he will be going around in circles, mercial and colour printing at the Canadian Weekly Newspaper annual convenâ€" tion of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association at Quebec City last week. A two room portable school unit was used to acâ€" commodate the increased enrolment at St. Louis Sepâ€" arate School Tuesday. For this year only one room of the portable unit will be used but another year may see the use of the second room. 20 YEARS AGO A vlothesline theft of 10 articles of feminine underâ€" garments stood out on the police blotter in Kitchenér last week. Less intriguing articles on the line were left untouched, the report said. The second technical voâ€" cational school bid for addition was received today. It covers the erection of a $744,591 addition to Waterâ€" loo Collegiate. Last month Eastwood Collegiate made a similiar bid and got a whopping $935,000. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 7 Waterloo Council was askâ€" ed by the Waterloo branch of the Canadian Legion last night torerect a flagâ€"pole at the city‘s cenotaph in Meâ€" morial Park. They said it would give more meaning to Remembrance Day serâ€" vices. "‘Ignorance of the law is no excuse‘‘, but death or injury, or even high proâ€" perty loss is a high price to pay for a technicality. in 1970, the mechanics of a system most areas abandonâ€" ed decades ago. We ‘suggest there is equally slim excuse for those county and municipal officials who have allowed the progressive county of Waterloo to have sections of its road system remindâ€" ing one of the Yukon in the 1930‘s. Reprinted from New Hamburg Independent /f The most successful twoâ€" day flower show in many years ended Monday night at MacGregor School. The show was organized by the Waterloo Horticultural Soâ€" ciety and featured more than 300 entries. C 3. ~ + 4 W