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K# Published every Thursday by Fairway Press, a division of Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo Record Ltd. 30 Queen St., N., Kitchener Ontario Address correspondence to Waterloo Square Watâ€" erloo Ont. Telephone 744â€"6364. Yes, the world is getting better. But we must be wise enough to see that it is at the same time getting worse, and is in serious danger. An ordinary Canadian today has personal comfort, has a freedom from the fear of inâ€" stant mysterious death, has a long life expectanâ€" cy. has access to knowledge and music and news and other people, and has an ability to travel, that no king or emperor had, through all the ages. Committee members indicated they might not be sympathetic since Alliance (the Bearinger developer) showed no interest in the bylaw disâ€" cussions but who knows? Better world A report by an Ontario Government agency a few years ago perhaps best summed up the proâ€" gress we enjoy today. ‘"*Man used to do the work â€" of animals," the report said. ‘"Then man did the work of machines. Now it is the time for him to do the work of human beings." And there are two to go. The Parkside issue, is dormant for the moment but the Bearinger deâ€" veloper could come forward at any time and reâ€" quest an exemption. But consider: Dr. Norman Alcock, the Canadâ€" ian nuclear physicist who gave up a promising career in 1959 to found the Canadian Peace Reâ€" search Institute, has been studying human conâ€" flict ever since. He says the world is getting betâ€" ter, although "so slowly." Alvin Toffler, author of the bestâ€"selling book ‘Future Shock‘ says: "I‘m optimistic about many things people are pessimistic about. For examâ€" ple, I do not believe for an instant that people are in danger of being enslaved by machines." But he added: "I‘m also pessimistic about some things most people haven‘t begun to think about (such as dwindling resources in a time of canâ€" cerous population growth. ) By this time the Tollgate developer was far enough advanced in his plans, that council felt an exemption should be granted allowing 3,000 square feet of space over the maximum. It seemâ€" ed there was "a little bit of ethics‘‘ involved. So the Lakeshore residents lost the second round. The bylaw originated with the planning board and was bounced back and forth between there and committee and committee and council for some time. Various objections and vague reasons were given for the delay. Is the world getting better? When you look at recent wars, the zooming population, the rise in crime, and at people being torn in confusion from their moorings, it is easy to answer ‘"no." Then the Lakeshore plaza development comâ€" mittee pressed for the bylaw which would limit the size and use of commercialâ€"convenience plazâ€" as. * The residents said the city should be willing to fight the matter in court but council refused to consider this. That was the first putâ€"down. The first objective of the Lakeshore resiâ€" dents was to reduce the number of plazas. They were told by council that nothing could be done about the Tollgate and Bearierager Road sites beâ€" cause they were already zoned. It was suggested that if the city attempted to interfere, the deâ€" velopers could easily obtain court orders or a rulâ€" ing from the Ontario municipal board allowing them to go ahead. ‘*Once more into the breach..."‘ The commercialâ€"convenience bylaw has been sent from the city development committee to council again, along with two recommended exâ€" emptions this time. ‘ The process of making up and passing this byâ€" law and the exemptions to it can only be regardâ€" ed as a defeat for citizen participationand proof of the insensitivity of a majority of aldermen to the voters‘ wishes. 4 Waterioo Chronicie, Thursday, April 13, 1972 Residents lose Waterloo Chronicle SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Canada: one year $8 ; in United States and Foreign countries: one year $10 ESTABLISHED 1854 Editor Frank Goldspink It‘s not that Kim disâ€" turbs the quiet, gentle rouâ€" tine of our daily life. She doesn‘t disturb it at all. My little ray of sunshine (at four o‘ clock in the afterâ€" noon) is sleeping the sleep of the pure at heart. She‘s been in the sack since 7:30 this morning, after sitting up all night talking to her crazy mother, who suffers from insomnia Outside the window the snowbanks look like the iceâ€" berg that sank the Titanic. Inside, the furnace thumps away like a bull moose that has just outrun a pack of wolves. And every four days, it seems, the oil deâ€" livery man wades through the drifts, inserts that solid gold nozzle in the side of the house, and whistling cheerfully, pumps another $30 worth of oil into the great guzzler. _ > However, _ it _ happens every year, and there‘s always some little ray of spiritual or emotional sunâ€" light to penetrate the lateâ€" winter blues. As I write, the soâ€"called first day of spring has long gone, but the only indicaâ€" tion that winter is nearly over in these parts is that the curling season is drawâ€" ing to a close. It is a time to try men‘s souls. It is a time of year when I curse my Irish foreâ€" bears for not emigrating to New Zealand or South Africa or Jamaica. There were two suspects, an aluminum chloride manâ€" ufacturer about a mile to the west and a nickel refinery about a mile southwest. But . _A complaint came in to the Department of the Enâ€" vironment‘s Air Manageâ€" ment Branch that ~trees, shrubs and hedges in an Onâ€" tario â€"community â€" showed leaf damageâ€"always on their southwest sides. But it takes an experienâ€" ced detective squad to folâ€" low the clues. by Bill Dodds Sometimes plant life proâ€" vides the evidence in unâ€" covering air pollution. Soil and plant tests reveal polluters | J it _ happens and â€" there‘s little ray of The problem, you see, is that we ask her home for a weekend. She throws a clean blouse in a shoulder bag and heads home. But she hates the city so much that her weekends turn into a sixâ€"day sojourn, and she has to wear somebody‘s clothes, and she and her mother can‘t abide each othâ€" er‘s taste in garments, so she wears mine, which are so drab and nondescript that nobody could fight over These are minor things, of course; and she‘s a deâ€" light to have around the house. When she‘s here, at least I know why my socks are disappearing and 1 haven‘t a clean shirt to wear. Same with eating. She‘s never hungry when anyone else is. If dinner is careâ€" fully planned for sixâ€"thirty, she is suddenly. famished at fiveâ€"thirty and smashes herself up a big mess of bacon and eggs or spaghetti and sardines, leaving her mother and I looked ruefulâ€" ly at the roast. Or else she is not hungry at dinnerâ€"hour and will eat nothing but some celery, and then about eightâ€"thirty is fainting and slaps up a vast concocâ€" tion of fried bananas and mushrooms. The nickel refinery was the only industry with this emission, â€" the directionâ€" southwestâ€"was consistent, As mentioned, she‘s a nightâ€"owl. Does her best work, writing essays and stuff, after midnight. And just like the owl, she can sleep all day. The Department‘s Phytoâ€" toxicology Section â€"t h e plant squadâ€"was sent out to get the mute testimony of soil and vegetation analysis. Sulphur and fluoride conâ€" tents were normal, chloride, aluminum and copper levels were up slightly, but nickel showed up in soil and plants in poisonous quantities. She destroys it there was little sign of inâ€" jury to any leaves between the damage area and either of the two industries. As I said, these are triâ€" fles. But she‘s always in some kind of a hassle, and these are the things that produce the hoursâ€"long, allâ€" night sessions with her old lady, while I lie blissfully, dreaming of the grand old days when she was a cuddly infant. She‘s still pretty cuddly, by the way, but not {for the old man. The great event is schedâ€" uled for May. Typically, Kim announced that they had chosen May 7 as the day. And typically, her mother, who never misses anything important like this though I doubt if she knows the name of the prime minâ€" ister, checked the calendar and discovered that May 7 is a Sunday. Not many people get married on Sunâ€" day, though I don‘t know why not. There isn‘t much else to do. I‘ve had a lot of free adâ€" vice about the wedding Most people chuckle fiendâ€" ishly as they tell me what They can talk about Don and The Wedding. This is not the title of a Russian novel about the Don River. Don is the other man in her life, and The Wedding is causing _ more â€" confusion around here than anything since the day we discovered our tomcat was pregnant. And that‘s the sort of thing she and her Ma can talk about for six hours at a stretch, without either one drawing a full breath. them. In Scarborough, a stand of. Lombardy poplars was dying and suspicious eyes There are times, quite often, when the evidence clears an industry unjustly accused. * In another case, the plant squad checked a damâ€" aged property surrounded by seven industries, and with wind data, chemical analyâ€" sis and knowledge of plant symptoms traced the damâ€" age to sulpnur dioxide from a sulphite pulp and paper and the evidence was comâ€" plete. ol 4 Bill Smiley She chose No. 1. But we‘ll see. We‘re far from out of the woods yet. Next, I laid it on the lin Four choices. A sma‘ wedding, immediate family only, _ and _ a _ fairâ€"sized cheque. A slightly bigger deal, _ with a _ smallish reception, to include close friends, and a small cheâ€" que. A big splash, with a lot of people, and no cheque. Or a â€" massive _ affair, with pomp and circumstance, in a city hotel ballroom, with her uncle and godâ€"father, a wellâ€"toâ€"do lawyer, paying the shot, if she could talk him into it. Her mother promptly anâ€" nounced that: she was not up to a big wedding wy all the frills, the smaI' decision she has made since she agreed to marry me. Her mother, that is. In the first place, I wouldn‘t care if I had 10 daughters. Well, maybe I would. But in the second place, I don‘t want her to get a lot of loot. We‘d wind up storing it in our house for 10 years until she and her broke intended are making enough to afford more than an unfurnished room. it only happens once and it‘ll cost you a bundle, but think of the loot she‘ll get.‘ Consoling stuff like this. it‘s going to cost. ‘"Well, she‘s your only daughter, so you‘ll have to go the whole hog, eh?" Or, ‘"Well Where a specific polluter can be blamed, the comâ€" plaint and the evidence proâ€" vide grounds for action by the Air Management Branch. When neglect of disease caused the damage, the complainant is given advice or referred to an agency that can help. But the investigation showed almost immediateâ€" ly that the trees were not poisoned, but died a natural deathâ€"from the disease Dothichiza canker. were being cast on a neighâ€" boring manufacturer _ of liquefied gases.