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So Heritage Day should not be merely an oc- casion for preserving the past. It should also be a time for house-cleaning, for clearing our shelves of unwanted holdovers. Our Canadian heritage also includes bitterness and discrimination, pain and loneliness. Native peoples and small ethnic groups have been con- sistently elbowed out into the darkness, while the French and English-speaking peoples pushed and shoved for the best places in front of the fire. Now their long-simmering hostility threatens to come to a boil over separation. As well as reminding us of a past, Heritage Day should be an annual reminder that we are involvi ed in building a better future. But the idea of Heritage Day should not stop there. For if all we do is preserve the best of our pa st, we shall have bottled ourselves up. _ City council wants to mundialize us! That may sound surprisingly bold to you but it's really not. -It‘s not a CIA interrogation tactic nor is it a Maoist plot to.revolutionize the pro- letariat. (We don't have a proletariat anyway, do we?).Mundializati0n you say! I fought fluor- idation and lost but I'll be ready this time. No- body is going to mundialize me! I checked the Oxford dictionary but it's not there. I did learn that mundification is the process of cleaning or purifying. There can't be anything wrong with that, especially dur- ing Lent. Another useless word to put away for a cocktail party (if I ever receive an invi- tation to one i. Indeed, if we do not take care of this inheri- tance, prepared for us by those who went before us, we would be disregarding the responsibility that God gave humans to maintain and manage the earth for the good of all creatures living upon it, present and future. Canada has its own distinctively Canadian heri- tage. Pierre Berton writes about it. Organizations such as Heritage Canada try to preserve it. Herr tage Canada (PO. Box 1867, Station B, Ottawa, KlP 5R4) is an independent organization that uses funding, legal studies, and public education, and personal dedication to save Canada's memor- able buildings, open spaces, and wilderness areas for future generations. f » I finally found out what mundialize means. I asked a University professor. They have all the answers you know. It's a super idea! It That's as it should be. For although we owe much to these other traditions, for too long, too much of our heritage has been over-shadowed by the procession of English Kings in history books and by the continuing American extravaganza on our TV tubes. . A View Erma theGrass Ilcmts Maybe next year, Heritage Day will be a na- tional holiday. If so, it will be a uniquely Canadian event like Dominion Day, July lst. Unlike other national celebrations, such as Labour Day, Thanksgiving, and Victoria Day, it will not be simply a transfer image of European and Ameri- can occasions. February 2lst - the day chosen for Heritage Day, if and when the House of Commons passes tht)egislation - has come and gone. ‘ Wuluioo Chrooses-ssocatoetoo2rtaaaoeotq-o W'IOMTM Emu m In. mall ammo bound. the tony-om Mum-m (My canon- the 'H'eohoolorttomttt-trrtirvortr_--tttune Tmmmwuvw 2nd Boor and you on more Pan: 4 - Waterloo Chronich, Wedmsdyyi March 16, 19.27 waterloo chronicle Heritage Day ' Submitted by the United Church of Canada ”an every Watt-thy by Fairway Puts. a am ot Ktteteoer-qratrruo Round m. cm. - com to Wanda Mrgee: Waterloo Square, Waterbo. art,, new “PM Publisher James " Bound Editor Mary Stupan subscriptions: $10 a year in Canada. 81:: year in United States and Foreign Commie: as Fairway Rd. s., kiteh-r,0tst estabtiatted MM Most of the major cities in Europe and Japan are mundialized. There is very little central organization involved. Each city is left to es- tablish its own approach and program. works like this. People in one city decide they would like to twin with another city somewhere else in the world. It I all in the interest of international understanding and brotherhood. When the cities have been selected and the twinning process completed there are visits and cultural exchanges back and forth. Mann- heim, Germany has asked Kitchener toetwin with it. Waterloo is just beginning and council has appointed a committee. They are looking for ideas and supporters. St. Catharines/ Ontario ii, nrundiaiized with Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago. When their hospital no longer requir- However, perhaps I'm rushing my fences a bit. I'm a realist. If everybody else is getting into the spinoff busi- ness, maybe I should jump on the bandwagon. There's One of the great rackets these days is the television series "spinoff." When a TV producer has a popular show, and one of the secondary characters is even mildly amsu- ing, first thing you know that character has s show of his or her own. But there is only so much that the stomach will take before it will spew. And there is only so much that the mind will take before you will experience an intellectual vomit, and switch to watching the wrestling matches, where at least nobody is trying to pretend it's anything but phoney. This proliferates until you have spinoffs of spinoffs. It's like taking a bottle of fine whiskey, doubling the quantity by adding an equal amount of water, and selling it at the same price per shot as the original. Then you take this mouthwash and further dilute it by adding more water, and you go on selling this at the orig- inal price. It works fine and makes a lot of money until the consumer finally realizes he could get more bang out of a glass of buttermilk, and he starts drinking butter- milk, and you are left with a large supply of gargle on your hands. Norman Lear was the first TV producer to realize that people like watching bigotry and bathroom jokes even more than they like watching violence. Thus was born All in the Family, one of the great money-makers of all time in TV land. ve From this was spun off Maude. The bigotry be- came phoney liberalism and the bathroom jokes became bedroom jokes, but it was the same slick formula, and it worked. It was only a step from the slick to the sick, and brother Lear came up with Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, which, while not quite a spinoff, is of the genre. Its favor- ite refrain is "Oh, Gawd. Oh, my Gawd." Excellent fare for the morbid or diseased mind. Another good original show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, spun, or spawned Phyllis and Rhoda, each starring one of the most self-centred, unpleasant women a writer could dream up, and each laced with borderline bad taste. There's nothing wrong with all- this, I suppose, in a free enterprise system, and nobody forces you to watch the garbage. Bill Smiley Mr. Hobson is vice-president of the Waterloo- Cambridge Progressive Conservative Riding Association. If my edlumn spinoffs don't put an end to the spinoff nonsense in about 30 days, I'll eat every paper in which this one appears, with or without ketchup. In two or three years, I might even get the grandboys into it. At the moment, they are busily stuffing their momory banks. As soon as they can write, you may ex- pect some sizzling stuff: Five Years as a Misunderstood Child; Daycare Centre Depression: the Inside Story on Sadistic Social Workers Who Make You Give Back a Toy You've Ripped Off From Some Other Kid. Another aspect of mundialization is the prac- tice of flying the United Nations flag beside the Canadian flag. Apparently we can't do that. Flags disappear in Waterloo. I hope that won't stop us. I think Bermuda would be a marvellous idea. Let's all go! Next February. And we'll call it a Mundialization Conference and write off the total expenses against our income tax. The Department of Revenue will never check be- cause they'll never know what it is. That is unless they ask a university professor. ed the equipment from a maternity ward they sent it to their twin city where it found a wel- come home. My wife can knock out a grocery list as long as your arm without even stopping to suck the pen. And she is not only talented as a writer. She's an outstanding and out- spoken critic, as well. She can rip up the punctuation and purpose, the style and substance of one of my columns with both hands tied behind her back. Which is the only way it is safe to read some of them to her. After that I stayed away from the market until mu- tuals were the thing. They were showing tremendous growth and potential.Nnce bitten, I hesitated, but then dived in with my $200 savings. It seems I arrived just after the mutuals had nibbled some of that biscuit Alice did so she could go terron"ift the rabbit hole, or whatever. They shrank almost overnig t to $85 worth. There's no problem about talent. My family is loaded with writers. Both my son and daughter specialize in pathos. They can write letters so pathetic that you are weeping all over the page and writing a cheque at the same time. So, with a track record like that, maybe I can adminis- ter the kiss of death to the spinoff business. Thought I'd sta_rt by producing some spinoffs of my column. s Last November, in one last desperate effort to enjoy a luxurious old age, I bought two $100 Canada Savings Bonds. Two weeks later there was an election in Quebec, and now we don't even know whether there'll always be a Canada. money in it, and besides, it might be one way of putting an end to it. My record is perfect. Just after the war, I met an old buddy who'd become a broker. He was investing in gold stocks and hauling in the loot. Gave me a hot tip. I plunged, with some of the back pay I'd built up while in prison-camp. Met the guy six months later. He'd lost his home and his boat and was selling farm machinery. I owned 300 shares of mus- keg in Northern Ontario. By Richard Hobson sin $M