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Thanks for the shopping On behalf of senior citizens in Waterloo, I would like to thank you and Eatons for the delightful shopping day they gave us on Nov. 6. The coffee and treats that we were served so generously were appreciated by all. Many thanks to your sales staff for the courteous, helpful and friendly attitude we received while shopping. Thanking you again Rita Patterson This open letter was sent to the Chronicle for its Letters to the editor column to thank the manager and staff of the Eatons store at Westmount Mall, Waterloo Dear Sir: But problems of this sort usually stem from the bylaw itself. A law such as Waterloo‘s must be written and developed in such a fashion that ofâ€" fenders can be charged and convicted â€" Waterloo put a great deal of work into this parâ€" ticular law, and the result is encouraging. Recently, two offenders were charged and convicted for breaking the noise bylaw. This is the first time the law has been tested, and it obviously has teeth. Waterloo residents needn‘t suffer unreasonable noiseâ€"levels. A phone call to the police and the willingness to testify in court will probably result in the removal of the noisesome problem. This conviction under the antiâ€"nuise bylaw should also be encouraging for Waterioo police. If unreasonable noise is being generated, police can feel confident in charging the offenders, and knowâ€" ing the charge will at least be heard in logical faâ€" shion by a judge. in many cases, police aren‘t comâ€" fortable charging people under a municipal bylaw., because the case is often not taken seriously by the courts. As a result the charge is all too often in vain. So the next time you find yourself being kept awake at night by a rowdy party two blocks away, remember you can do more than cover your head with the pillow and curse. The bylaw states that people guilty of making enough noise to disturb their neighbors can be charged by police and taken to court over the matâ€" ter. Congratulations â€" a bouquet, in fact â€" go out this week to the City of Waterioo for coming up with a tough antiâ€"noise bylaw that was recently proven effective. ram 0 + WB uy uiNONICIC, weanesdey, Novernber 14, 1979 Waterloo Chromicle office is located on2nd!!°9" of the O. W. Sports building opposite Waterioo Square. Parking on King Street or in Waterloo Square Open Monday to Friday 9 00 a m to 5:00 p m Letters to the editor of the Waterloo Chronicle must be signed with the writer‘s name in order to be pubâ€" lished. The name will be published with the letter The writer should also include his or her address and teleâ€" phone number Normally. a letter signed with a pseuâ€" donym will not be published The editor has the right to edit letters for grammar and spelling and to withhold letters which may be deemed defamatory. contemptuous or of questionable taste The Chronicle welcomes letters to the editor on any subject Letters should be sent to The Editor. Waâ€" terloo Chronmcle. 92 King St S_. Waterloo Letters policy Letters to the editor impossible This law has teeth published every Wednesday by Fairway Press. a division of Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo Record Ltd.. owner 225 Fairway Rd. S.. Kitchener. Ont address correspondence to Waterloo office: 92 King St. South. Waterloo. Ont.. telephone 886â€"2830 Publisher Paut Winkler Editor: Howard Elliott Advertising Manager: John ingram subscriptions: $14 a year in Canada. $16 a year in United States and Foreign Countries. Rita Patterson Waterloo established 1854 And when you get to the biggest organizations of people â€"â€" to international corporations and national governments â€"â€" secrecy tums into a fetish. Information doesn‘t get around at all. It stays in doubleâ€"locked filing cabinets, on docuâ€" ments marked "Private,"" ‘"Confidential," and "Secret." out of bounds to everyone without proper authorization. Any information that does get out. such as press releases or anâ€" nual reports, is carefully checked by corporate viceâ€" presidents and public relations officers to insure it says nothing more than it should The former federal government‘s mania for secrecy even kept it from telling an engineer working on defence conâ€" tracts that his security clearance had been lifted So he didn‘t know he wasn‘t supposed to see the documents that he was eventually arrested for possessing. Some of them he had written himself. Others had been sent to him by difâ€" ferent departments â€"â€" which had not been informed of his revised status either Granted. those are extreme examples. But they reveal a pervasive pattern of thinking. in which secrecy becomes a basic principle Because big government and big business are engaged in a power struggle â€"â€" with each other and within themselves â€" And cabinet ministers in that same government â€"â€" to give them the benefit of the doubt â€"â€" were apparently kept in the dark about the activities of their own security forces As anyone who lives in a small town knows, it‘s hard to keep anything secret. If someone on a village council gets a payoff for installing parking meters along the main drag, people will soon hear about it, one way or another. In cities, that natural flow of communication breaks down. Information may never get around â€"â€" unless people make an effort â€"â€" when so many live and work in different worlds. Office and home may be even further apart in attiâ€" tudes to life than they are in miles 7 T W y Y mt ) C W n ? =Rk. & C F \'&‘ ((2 $ \ & / 4 C t sSS A\ / uW \ ’\\\\\\W ‘ f um l 4 W / N /%/// W/D \ \ uP A ‘, MAAAE | A \ in A i ,-‘.~ es * / | / / / / | gd\oe'@v « e Fâ€" ) ty loo e * W a [Chfonidej =/CGQOLLY, THANKé FOR Y ZCOMING 6GUK. 1 CAN SuRE use aone nelc We ir Comment pelctoes f;?o-&‘\“ l because when you know something that someone else doesn‘t â€"â€" whether it‘s a current fact, a marketing trend, or a technological process â€" you‘re in a position of power. You have an advantage over someone who doesn‘t know That attitude sets corporate and governmental secrecy in contradiction to some basic religious principles: that all humans are equally the children of God; that to despise or degrade others is wrong. that faith overcomes fearfulness and hostility. But at the same time, you degrade the other person. Seâ€" crecy reduces that other person from a fellow human to a threat to be wary about, if not an enemy to be destroyed To be sure. religious bodies have long maintained some kinds of secrecy, too. But there is a significant difference between, say, the confidentiality of the confessional and the secrecy of business of government: one protects someone else, the other protects yourself Before it was elected, the present Canadian govern proclaimed the need for a Freedom of Information Act' hoped they will not succumb to the malaise of bigness power. and will introduce legislation to cut secrecy down to size For secrecy. in the end, always works against its owner If you have no secrets to hide. you never need fear that they may be discovered and used against you The Chronicle welcomes letters to the editor