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The taugh adoption question Page otu,m,, Gimmick. WM. July Al, "ttl Should an adopted person have access to iden- tifying information about his biological par- ents? This question has plagued adoption agencies, adopted people and adopting par- ents for years. To this day social scientists are not in agreement on the answer. “when cox-rem to Waterloo oaiee: Waterloo Square. Waterloo. Ont. ' lame max Wat-doe Chroma. Miocene on 2nd thttoe of Wuuloo Sounds 011m Vow Emu we tho mall nuance - th- Longhorn autumn ((1-ch appoint. the can! miummmnw IonrooudomoY-D Bank human-mouth. Florence Fisher of California, much publi- cized proponent of finding natural parents asserts that everyone has the absolute right to “look into the eyes of" naturalparents. The agencies arranging the -adoptions tend to uphold the right to privacy of parents who give a child up for _adqptiorI. Surely. they hgve Adopting parents find it hard to accept a child's need to locate biological parents. The situation is fraught with deep and often con- flicting emotions making it difficult to frame satisfactory legislation. a right to tide with their traumatic decision without fear of a painful confrontation years later. 2ttdnooraatdyrntarettrere British Columbia attempted to establish a provincial registry where those wishing to find or to be found could enter their names and addresses. This solution was vetoed by a lobby In Scotland and Finland anyone reaching age 17 may obtain his or her birth records in- cluding the names of natural parents. In Canada such records are not available to the individual and it is up to the discretion of the agency through which the child was adopted whether or not to divulge identifying informa- tion. But what about the children themselves? Most adopted children are secure in their relationship with their parents and think little or not at all about those who place them for adoption. It is the ones who have identity problems so serious as to approach breakdown who occasionally need to know more. The turbulent teen years can present anxieties which adopting parents find difficult to assuage without laying to rest ghosts of the past. It is in those rare instances when a compas- sionate agency with flexible rules can offer guidance (with or without information) re- quired to help a young person to square with his past. Some human problems are simply beyond legislation. of" adopting parents who insisted on main- taining the confidentiality they had been prom- The federal election of 1911 was one of the most important in Canadian history. It was particular- ly important for Waterloo North. Even then Ber- lin was a prosperous industrial centre. New industry required tariff protection against US. manufactured goods. Laurier's proposed re- ciprocity treaty threatened the local manufac- turing industries. MacKenzie King had taken the riding in 1908 from the Conservative incumbent, Joseph Sea- gram. King had become a member of Laurier's cabinet and was influential in shaping govern- ment policy, But he was forced to run on the reciprocity platform even though he personally opposed it. He anticipated that it might cause his defeat. A View frmn the Grass Ihmt's , MM every Way by PM Plan. I division at kt'tdteoer-Wtttqr%t R.errot Ltd, ' Wt. sts Fairway Rd. s., Kin-er. Ont. Publisher: James " Roland Editor: Mary Stupart mam: no a year in Canada, $12 a year in United sum-u Foreign Countries establidled Itt54 Like most grandparents, if they are honest, we are delighted, to see our grandchildren ar- rive, and overjoyed tobee them depart. .. ..-- Started off this year's summer vacation with a visit from our two grandbabies and their mum. When they left, my wife and I went straight into a rest home for a few days, to recuperate. It's not that they are bad little boys. It's just that they are little boys, with voracious appe- tites for everything from mother's milk to peanut-butter-and-jam sandwiches dipped in fruit yoghurt to rides to the car wash to going to the beach to picking strawberries to being told stories to crawling around in the grass be.. ing bitten by ants. None of those activities creates any real prob- lem, but this time, the Lord, moving in His usual mysterious ways, decreed that it should rain hard, day and night, for the first three days of their visit. Well, that eliminated the beach, crawling in the grass, picking strawberries and going for picnics in the park; all the things that little city boys, who live in a square box on the ninth floor, should do when they go to visit their grandparents in a small town. And with all that rain, there wasn't a lot of point in going to the car wash, an experience full of joy and terror, the supreme moment of his visits for young Pokey. It also meant that, instead of riding his brand new tricycle around the yard and up and down the sidewalk under the maples, Poke was forced to ride it around in a screaming circle inside the house, through the kitchen, into the hall, Billy Weiehel had come to Waterloo from El- mira to run a hardware store which his father had purchased. In 1903 he built the beautiful home at 10 Allen Street East in Waterloo. He was a popular figure, gregarious and gentle. He was defeated in 1917 on the issue of conscrip- tion. He was elected Mayor of Waterloo in 1922 and 1923 and was elected to the Provincial Legis- lature in 1923 and was re-elected in 1926. De- Billy Weichel was the Conservative candidate. feated by Sydney Tweed in 1929, he was re-elect- He ran on an anti-reciprocity platform. He was ed for the last time in the Provincial election elected and joined the Borden government. It of 1934. is interesting that the economic issues that fac- . . . ed this country 60 years ago are not unlike the h 1:141) _)lnth,fi',, dinedt Inf "le a tailggew‘lifitiugal as economic problems of today. 1e,.t,'S,C?,t,sa1r,nle mnnv vinrc "d', was the 'Lts)ttrtosouru.e into the livingroom and back, to the kitchen, shouting a shrill, "Here I come!" scattering various bric-a-brac and adults, and frequently running over one hand or other of his baby brother, who was creeping about on the living- room floor, shrieking with anger when he'd get his feet tangled up and couldn't move, or yelling for someone to pick him up, or spew- ing up his latest nursing in great, viscous globs. it -sounds terrible, But -it wasn't really. It was merely bedlam. - I enjoyed every minute of it - when they were both having their afternoon nap, which almost never happened simultaneously. - 7 ' Pokey and I are Still the best of buddies, which is great but can be a little trying. Ws wonderful to feel the trust as the tiny, tough hand clutches yours, or you get a big hug and kiss for nothing. _ We did get away from the women and chil- dren for one idyllic hour when it was merely drizzling, and drove through the park, down the main drag to the dock, and there got. out and looked at the big boats and the little boats, and saw a real train and some real railroad tracks. Pretty heady stuff for a little city kid. But the other side of the coin is when he won't let anybody but "My Gran-dat" put on his socks and shoes or pull up his pants after a "big pee" or get him second, third and fourth helpings when he wants "more beans." But' three' and a half days of solid rain, with two lively, vociferous kids, 21/2 years and five months, is about as restful as trying to relax Mr. Weichel died in 1949 at the age of 79. He had been President of the Waterloo Mutual In- suranee Company for many years. He was the father of three daughters, one of whom was Mi- nota Hagey for whom a residence at the Uni- versity of Waterloo has been named. His widow still lives in Waterloo and fondly remembers those exciting days when her husband was the member for Waterloo North. Mr. Hobson is vice-president of the Wattrrhpo-. Cambridge Progressive Conservative Riding As- sociation. Joys and Terrors By Richard Hobson (Continued on page S)