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Transit change Transit routes may also be changed with re- gards to frequency and areas covered. Although the administrative committee recommended numerous changes to save funds, it does not mean that they will be enforced. Pg. 4 . Waterloo Chronicle, 'etdnrtidtrytrt:t1s, ESTABLISH ED 1850 Published every Wednesday by Fairway Press, a division of , Kitchener-Waterloo Record Ltd. as Fairway Rd., Kit- chener, Ontario. Address correspondence to Waterloo Square, Waterloo. Ont. Telephone 7W. Waterloo Chronicle ottiee is located on 2nd floor of Water- loo Square’s Office Tower. ENTER via the mall entrance beside the Longhorn Res- taurant (directly opposite the card shop) or from the elevator foyer inside the TD Bank. Take the elevator to the 2nd floor and you're there. SANDRA LEA HAZELL; Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Canada: one year $8; in United States and Foreign countries: one year no Waterloo council unanimously agreed Monday that logil bus fares should be increased from 25 to 35 cents and 10 to 15 cents for students and seniors. Perhaps the amount does not seem sub- stantial to some, but it will be for those who rely on the bus services daily. l was pleased to read your coverage of our recom- mendations to Waterloo council suggesting the cur- tailment of smoking in con- fined areas, particularly in supermarkets. The general interest in this prxoposa1 has beenencouraging. Dear Editor: Your report also evoked reader response as printed in a recent "Letter to the Editor." Because of cer- tain misconceptions ex- pressed therein, I appreciate this opportunity of re- sponding. . May I do so by point: I. Statistics published by the Department of Na- tional Health and Welfare, Ottawa as recently as Jan. 8, 1976 indicate that 55.3% of the population 15 years of age and over does not smoke. I seriously sug- gest that in. our Waterloo Region the percentage of non-smokers would be even higher because of the above average awareness of the serious health hazards associated with cigarette smoking. One local study done at W.L.U. showed that even among the young, the majority of students did not smoke. On the basis of those findings, smoking was pro- hibited in lecture rooms. 2. Revenue from the sales of tobacco products is indeed substantial (57 billion cigarettes were con- sumed in Canada in 1974) but so are the costs of illness and death attributed to smoking. These costs are al- most beyond calculation and some medical experts believe the costs in lost pro- duction, illness and prema- ture death to far exceed the revenue received by govern- ments through excise taxes. (An outstanding authority in this respect is Dr. Nor- man Delarice. Associate Professor of Medicine. University of Toronto. t 3. The presumption that the Waterloo Regional Inter- Agency Council on Smok- ing and Health is a tax funded body is. incorrect Letter tn the edltter waterloo , chronicle The council speaks collec- tively for some 18 health, social, educational and re- ligious agencies in an at- tempt to increase the awareness of the health hazards of smoking. What small funding we have comes entirely from volun- tary sources. 4. The statement that supermarket management would welcome a by-law pro- hibiting smoking in these stores comes from the irre- futable source, from super- market management to me personally. As to the pro- priety of such by-laws. numerous Jurisdictions throughout Ontario and in other provinces have en- acted smoking limitation by-laws. Ottawa, Picker- ing, and North York are among those that come to mind. In the U.S.A. many jurisdictions have enacted legislation far more com- prehensive in scope. New York State and Minne- sota are examples of states which have passed very stringent controls on smok- ing in public places. 5. Smokers do have rights and we would not de- ny them. Smoking is legal for persons over 16 years of age. While many smokers are aware that the practice causes discom- fort to many non-smokers and thus refrain from smok- ing in "public" places, others continue to cause distress and annoyance to non-smokers when air is shared in a confined space. We maintain that a major- ity of citizens including many sensitive and consid- erate smokers will appre- ciate and welcome the pro- posed by-law. . Thanks to all those who have expressed support for our efforts. W,A,Hunsberger, Chairman, Waterloo Regional Inter- Agency Council on Smoking and Health. Yours very truly. Recently, I listed some of the things I dislike about our society. When " finished. I thought to my- self: "Boy, you are a nasty old piece of work. Do you realize you've barely scratched the surface?" For a week or two, I went around thinking, in 10 or 20 second spurts, ev- ery three or four days, that I was a Curmudgeon. Some of my younger readers will not know what a curmudgeon is. Well, it comes from the root word "mud". We all know what mud is. It is dirty. It is cool under the toes. unless it is intheformofamudpack. which is good for the wink les. If your name is Mudd, you are either in the dog- house, or you are a loser. I hope that is clear. To the root word "mud" /urtless we want to root around in the mud a bit longer). we attach the pre- fix "cur." A cur, as everyone knows, is a cad with teeth, and sometimes a moustache, who plays the villain in old- fashioned melodramas. In new-fashioned melo- drama, he also has teeth. and a big belly or a bald Prime Minister Trudeau's warning of permanent price and income controls is a political reaction to the past fail- ures of government intervention in the economy. The twin evils of high inflation and high unemployment are products of state intervention. The sequence was well documented at the International Symposium of Small Business in Tokyo last November, attended by representatives of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. As advanced countries grow in affluence, attention is di- verted to social issues which increase government spend- ing and the size of bureaucracy. The tax burden falls heaviest on the smallest firms which makes it difficult for them to grow, Big businesses, for the most part. are created by mer- OTTAWA and Small Business 7ny t%ttejh_freirh2rytN .0. head. and he has become the hero. Still with me? We now have "curmud," signifying a mean guy who is cool under the toes, has wrinkles or is a loser." Sometimes all three. It is of Hungarian ante- cedent, and it seems to have meant, originally. something we might call colloquially "a dummy who makes a lot of silly and unnecessary noise without getting anywhere." which is rather a ctmtra- diction in terms, come to thinkof it. Now we come to the suf- fix, "geon," which is of mere obscure vintage. But the original meaning is in there somewhere. An lnjun, for example, is one of the original "in" people, who rides around in ever- diminishing circles, emitt- ing war-whoops, until he is shot off his horse. There are many perver- sions of the original, of course. We find the suffix in such words as "iniun," "engine," and "john." Think of your car. The engine makes a lot of silly and unnecessary noise - at least mine does - and gets nowhere. Occasion- ally. the car gets some- where, but the engine re- mains exactly where it started... in the car. the colloquial word "john," meaning a toilet. Or water closet or backhouse. if toilet offends you. This item of hardware indulges in a great deal of unnec- essary noise, whether re- ceiving or transmitting. and is usually going no- where, except on trains, buses or airplanes, when it is so active it has to put up a “busy" sign most of the time. On ships, of course, with their innate sense of superi- ority, the "john" is called This came about when one of the head men in the British Navy, Admiral Sir Dudley Pound. affection- ately known to his Jolly tars as “dud." once went looking for the "john" and discovered a lot of Com- mon Seamen land a very common lot they were) lined up with one of the symptoms of scurvy known as "dire rear." In the interests of clarity, this has nothing to do with the term "rear admiral. ., gers and acquisitions and not by technology or economies of large plant size. Big labour is a product of big govern- ment and big business with monopoly power granted by the state. A British economist contrasted Japan's dynamic econ- omy, subject to minimal government interference, with Britain's stagnation under highly interventionist govern- ments. In Japan, 73 per cent of the work force is employed by small and medium enterprises - the truly competitive market sector - in Britain only 20 per cent. Canada with 55 per cent, is at the crossroads between these two ex- tremes. Ottawa encourages public spending by lending Canada Pension Fund money to provincial governments at low rates so that they don't have to borrow in the capital mar- kets. Meanwhile small and medium enterprises whose taxes go to support these activities are forced to borrow from the Federal Business Development Bank at rates be- tween 12 and 13 per cent. Ottawa isolates Canadians from the realities of the mar- ketplace by subsidizing fuel costs. Japan. on the other hand, is preparing for sharply reduced automobile use and slower manufacturing growth by encouraging the development of small firms capable of adjusting to changing events. Understandably, Sir Dud About curmudgeons is ... flew into a high rage, the only type allowed to senior officers, and uttered a good deal of silly and unnec- As naval tradition has It, this led to the wedding of ing a john that isn't work- ing, or a senior officer with a red face, or a towering rage, whichever you choose. That's one of the beauties of the English language. You can take your pick. And you know what you can do with it. when he had to _ turn for the "john." If you have followed me carefully through this brief but enlightening explora- tion into semantics, I am sure you have come to the conclusion, as I have, that I am not a Curmudgeon at all. lam not a loser. How can you know you‘re a loser when you don't know what it istobeawinner? I am not a mean guy. I haven't hit a little kid since mine grew up. I do not go around mak- ing silly and unnecessary noises, except when it is absotutely necessary. And finally, I feel that I am definitely getting some- where. to wait his