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Thank you Jaycees Congratulations are in order for the Kitchener- Waterloo Jaycees. Without them, area chil- dren would not have had the thrill of seeing San- ta Claus come into town with all the pomp and ceremony he deserves. The 13th annual Santa Claus parade which marched, rolled and danced down Waterioo's main street for an hour and a half Saturday was an excellent example of what a small group can do when they pull together and the community pulls with them. The Jaycees put on the parade each year as their community activity and they do an excel- lent Job. It is interesting to note that the local Jay- cees, in membership, is one of the smallest, if not the smallest service club in the Twin Cities. Fortunately the size of the group is not pro- portional to the size of the parade. Saturday's effort was well stocked with all the necessary elements of a parade which showed of hard work, not only from the Jaycees angle but from participating entries as well. It is impossible for those who didn't attend Saturday's event to realize just how im- portant it is for Waterloo. King Street was lined three and four deep in parts to view the parade and it is obvious by the looks worn by the attending children that they were thrilled. "Gi'iiGiiri2'e"iir an event for the children, of which we have few each year. Let's keep it up. Our hat's off to the Jaycees for their efforts and we thank you. Carelessness . can kill you With all the modern technology of today, specialists still haven't found a miraculous cure for traffic accidents. People are still falling prey to their own carelessness on the road and it is doubtful whether there will ever be a cure for that. We are now in the middle of Safe Driving Week in Canada which runs from Dec. 1 to Dec. 7. It is the longest running national safe- ty campaign and has been proven to reduce the accident level by bringing back safe driving to the surface of driver's minds. . Waterloo Chronide, Wednesday, Decembet ti, Published every Wednesday by Fairway" i',?giiir)gi.vsi;s.i,o') of Kitchener-Waterloo Record Ltd, 225 Fairway R .. s., Kit- chener. Ontario Address correspondence to Waterloo Square. Waterloo. Ont, Telephone 744-6364, Wendy Herman, editor In Canada: one year $8: in United States and Foreign countries: one year $10 T SUBSCRIPTION RATES ‘ESTABLISHED 1854 1973 It seems that in the Seventies, the whole world is lurching. as most of us do in our private lives, from one crisis to another. Crip- pling strikes, crippling food prices, crippling political scandals, and now the ener- gy crisis, so-called. A crisis may be defined as a tuming, point. Perhaps it's time we reached some taming points and did some turning in new directions. What so many people of the affluent 'post-war years doa't realize is that crisis are nothing new. Every generation faces them, meets them, and resolves them, somehow. War, depression, other war, the bomb. Afghan have been imiversa crises in this century. Beside those big ones, a hike in the price of beef is less than monu- mental, and even the ex- pected'energy crisis is small potatoes. (1 must be hung- ry.) If the energy crisis be- comes more than newspaper headlines, and shortages and rationing occur, it might be the best thing that has happened to the fat-cat Western world for genera- tions. - We are in grave danger of turning into slabs. physical- ly, mentally. emotionally and morally. Maybe we need a good purge, in the form of a sharp cut-back in our soft way of living. Get rid of some of the fat, even if it requires a surgeon's knife. Take a day in the life of an average family. Some- one. very often the husband in these tiegenerate days. gets up first and turns the thermostat up to seventy. The beast in the basement starts gulping more energy. Our friend shaves with his electric razor, He goes down and gets his orange juice out of another beast that has been burning elec- tricity all night, producing nothing. Then he flips on two burners on the electric stove. one for coffee. one for bacon and eggs When they're ready, he jams some Bill Smiley bread into the electric toaster. Then mother stum- bles 12f and turns the burners back on. Father drives the eight blocks to work, stinking up the envir- onment and huming energy. The kids waffle off to a school which is probably burning far more tons of coal a day than it needs to. That school has thousands of lights which are on even onabright day. At home friend wife throws the laundry into an automatic washer which uses large quantities of hot water which has taken a fair amount of electricity to produce. Then it goes into the automatic dryer, run by electricity. Then she tackles the ironing. and we all know what heats an iron in this day. ' She decides to wash her hair. More hot water. Then she sits -under the electric dryer with fresh coffee made on the stove burner. At this time of year, probably half the lights in the house are on, merrily chewing up the watts. And so it goes, right a- cross the land, all day long. The television set burns juice far into the night. Ad- vertising signs pop on and eat more juice. Industry belches its wastes and burns energy with a lavish hand. Right now. in our kitchen. the electric oven is glowing red. It will be for the next two hours. Know what's in it? One large potato, be- ing baked. _ Multiply the Juice being consumed try this one fami- ly by about five million in Canada alone and I think you'll agree that we're a pretty extravagant, even sluttish lot, when it comes to being prodigal with natur- al resources that are going to be exhausted and can never be replaced. And I haven't even men- timed such ridiculosities as electric tooth-brushes and electric carving knives. Don't get me wrong, Um no Spartan, I'll .drive to friend wife The energy crisis may do us good work rather than walk. And leave that great hulking, rusting monster, that re- quired so much energy to to wore, and it wouldn't hurt me. In fact, it would be Jolly good for me. tie built and burns up so much more. sitting in the parking lot all day. The point is, 1_coutd walk And I don't expect my wife to get out the scrub- board and wash her hair in rain-water. But it might be jolly good for her, if she had to. Women, and men, have too much time these days to sit around and worry about their nerves. Chief reminds of Christmas dangers "Christmas brings temp- tations to many parents, while visiting with neigh- bors or completing last minute shopping. to leave small children unattended for short periods," said Waterloo fire chief John Stiller. "At that same time, de- corations, trees and wrap- ping paper bring an increas- ed threat of fire danger un- less constant care is exer- eised." he added. -ipire Chief Staller urged all parents to recognize the fire danger of this sea- son, and nist to leave small children _alone in the' home even for a moment. He pointed out that'the Crimi- Waterloo's first touch of snow recently was a pleasant sight for winter sport fans and was timed perfectly for the release of Provincial Ministry of Tourism and In- dustry release of the 1973-74 edition of Winter Adventures in Ontario. Book gives sports areas The 100-page, full colour booklet is free on request and details all the provinc- Our fairly immediate ancestors didn't have time for nerves and ulcers. They didn't need pick-up pills to get going. There was no al- ternative to just getting going. - “fey didn't need three martinis to whet their appet- ites. They were just plain hungry. Nor did they need sleeping pills to get off at night. They were just plain I'm not scared of an ener- gy crisis. It might even be interesting. Anyway I have my own energy crisis every day, when the alarm goes off at 7.15. That's what I calla real crisis. nal Code of Canada forbids such action which endang- ers the life or health of any child under the age of ten years. - Parents are further re- minded that under certain conditions a Christmas tree can be ignited by -a single match to bum fur- iously to charred wood iny1 few seconds. Care must be taken to keep butts of a- tural trees immemi water and to ensure th tree itself does not obstruct access to a door or window. Families are also urged to review their home fire-es- cape plans for quick exit in an emergency. Copies are available from the Travel Services Branch Industry and Tourism, Hearst Block, 900 Bay Street. To- e's alpine and cross-country ski areas with diagrams and other data. It also shows where the snowmobiling spots are as well as ice fishing, winter carnivals and other winter activities.