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How do you think the citizens of Waterloo would react to having a tractorâ€"trailer tanker or a railroad tamk car conâ€" taining liquid fluorine leak and spill its conâ€" tents near Waterloo Square? Of course our fire deâ€" partment would rush out and douse it with water But since our profesâ€" sional fire fighters are not chemists, we could not expect them to know that water and liquid fluorine forms an exploâ€" sive mixture The water actually burns in fluorine with a Losses likely to occur over the women‘s orâ€" dination issue was the subject matter in the reâ€" cent issue of the News. When this article apâ€" peared I sat down and penned five letters to Presbyterian ministers asking each where they stood on this issue and the feelings of their conâ€" gregations on this matâ€" ter. The only minister to reply to my questions lives in Guelph and he said he was in favor but was concerned as to whether the last General Assembly, by its acâ€" tions. has denied some their freedom of consâ€" cience on this subject by saying that it will not permit the future orâ€" dination of any man who is not completely in acâ€" cord with our church‘s position and that those who have reservations about the place of I remember writing something about teachers‘ ‘"burnout rate"‘ in an early column. With the eager help of my English departâ€", ment, I‘m rapidly approaching the condition of a cinder. The original article, written by Calgary teacher and psychologist Stephen Truch, gave the symptoms for teacher burnout, which is third to only surgeons and air traffic controllers. Here they are: Constant fatigue, insomnia, and depresâ€" sion. I have the first two. I let my wife look after the depression. though she‘s also got the other two,. just from living with a teacher. Every time I start getting depressed, I think back to the late fall of 1944, when I was locked in a railway freight car. I didn‘t have rings on my fingers, or bells on my toes. I had bars on the windows, and wire tying my wrists and ankles together. And a face that looked as though I‘d challenged Muhammad Ali when he was in his prime. That always makes me immediately undepressed. Why are ministers silent? It also makes me turn up the heat and go Caution is advised BILL SMILEY Fluoride helps children‘s teeth bright flame which splits the water into its component parts. The hydrogen is explosive and the oxygen supports combustion The â€" presence _ of fluorine as a soluble fluoride in drinking water to the extent of 2 ppm may cause mottled enamel in teeth when used by children acquirâ€" ing their permanent teeth. Elemental fluorine is A single 8,000 gallon tanker explosion would make the Mississauga mishap look like a small firecracker‘ Both my husband and I have fillings in almost all of our teeth, despite proper brushing, good dental care, and a lifeâ€" time of following ‘‘Canaâ€" da‘s Food Guide". women in the ministry have 10 years to come to the point of being ready to participate in their orâ€" dination. The role of women in the church is clearly stated in the Bible inâ€" cluding: Prov. 31: 10â€"13, 19â€"21 and 24â€"27;: First Although we are denâ€" tal rejects with no room for more fillings, our five children (ages 12â€" 21) have only eight fillâ€" ings among them. The miracle of out and buy a lot of food. In those days I slept on a wood floor, no pillow, no blanket, shiverâ€" ing like a dog with rabies. Daily meals were four slices of bread and two cups of burntâ€" barley coffee. But that‘s all behind and forgotten now. The cellar is piled to the ceiling with canned goods, and when the oil runs out, or becomes too expensive to buy, I have two huge oaks and a bunch of maples to see me through until St. Peter says, ‘"Where‘s Smiley?" I‘ll never be hungry or sleep cold again, if I have to murder. However, I have all the other symptoms of teacher burnout, and that causes a little conâ€" cern. As the learned psychologist said, we also suffer "frequent minor complaints such as colds, dizziness, headaches, diarrhea, loss of appetite and loss of desire for sex."‘ These are minor? I‘ve had ‘em all, in varying degrees during this cruel winter. Not all at once, thank goodâ€" ness. If I had. they might as well put me in a green plastic bag and throw me into a snowâ€" drift on one of the back concessions. Cor. 11:3; First Timothy 2: 11â€"12; First Peter 3: 1 and Col. 3: 18. Apparently the local ministers in Kitchener and Waterloo prefer to remain silent. Why? W.D. Pope Westmount Rd. N., Waterloo being studied as a rocket propellant as it has exâ€" ceptionally high specific impulse values. Too bad that property can‘t be used to move people from their favorite easy chair to vote on the day of the coming plebisite All of the chemical inâ€" formation mentioned in this letter may be found in the fortyâ€"eighth ediâ€" tion of the Chemical Rubber Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, college edition, on page Bâ€"1!l fluoride. not heredity. has spared these chilâ€" dren many dental visits and has spared us great expense. When your readers vote on this issue in the near future, I hope they will choose to keep fluoride in our drinking water. John Grace, B.Sc. Shirley Moar West Ridge Dr. Waterloo Roslin Ave. S., Waterioo Symptoms of teacher burnâ€"out Roy Rogers and Dale Evans said it best when they signed off each episode of their old televiâ€" sion series with Happy trails to you ... and 1‘d like to borrow their lyrics for my last column with the Chronicle This has got to be one of the most difficult coâ€" lumans I‘ve had to write in the 16 months that I‘ve been with the paper and the difficulty I‘m having does not stem from not knowing what to say The problem is there are so many people in Waâ€" terloo who have made the daily grind of this reâ€" porter a lot easier and more interesting and there‘s too little space here in which to thank everyone who deserves applause Go ahead and ask me a question about Waâ€" terloo and I‘ll either be able to give you the answer or at least know where to get my grubby little paws on the information. But if I‘m asked anything about the city I reside in. the only thing 1 could tell you is the name begins with a K ... or is it a hard sounding C ° Who cares anyway? It‘s tough pulling up roots and moving to anâ€" other community (even if I‘ve only been with the paper for 16 months) after spending most of my life in the Twin Cities. Actually, I‘m only moving about 13 km to Elmira so the shock won‘t be all that bad. * For instance. there‘s a provincial election comâ€" ing in March, the fluoridation plebiscite will be held in June, public reaction to the downtown study is beginning to trickle in and the city brings in its budget at the end of March. I‘ve admitted before in this space that I‘m not a resident of Waterloo (I live a short crawl across the city line in Kitchener ) but it‘s come to the point where I know more about what is hapâ€" pening in this city than I ever cared to know about Kitchener, and rightly so, because to do the job properly a reporter has to totally immerse himself in the community that his paper serves. The Elmira Signet chow‘s that for a plug) is similar to the Chronicle in many ways, but unlike Waterloo‘s weekly. the Signet is in direct compeâ€" tition with another weekly in town and I‘m lookâ€" ing forward to the new challenge that competiâ€" tion offers. I really hate to leave when stories I‘ve followed are only now beginning to reach a conclusion. For those of you who are gearing up to scream ‘quitter‘ and ‘traitor you can save your breath because I‘m not quitting the company, just shiftâ€" ing to another one of its newspapers. My farewell column My headache is created by their constant absence. Their headaches are migraines, deâ€" manding three days off, with all the lights out, medication, and tender loving care. Diarrhea? Theirs, to hear them tell it, is ten times worse than my mere six or eight times a day. It‘s a hundred times worse than what I had in Normandy, 1944; when I had to be carried to the facilities. More days off. Loss of appetite? Even though I gag over my breakfast of toast with peanut butter and half a banana, they think they‘ve lost their appetites if they don‘t have juice, cereal, bacon and eggs and hot buttered toast with jam. But, somehow, as department head, my colds are not as bad as my teachers‘ colds. My dizziness is just a slight buzzing in my ears when my wife talks a blue streak. Theirs makes them stagger from wall to wall and take six days off. Loss of desire for sex? I have to have soâ€" mebody explain to me what it means. And all this is not because I am burned out, but because the teachers on my staff are. I WA TE RLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25. 1981 â€" PAGE 7 STEWART SUTHERLAND For those of you who are out for a drive. I‘ll only be a few miles up the road. If you‘re in the area please don‘t hesitate to stop in and buy me a coffee. Goodbye! Thanks Rick and I‘m really going to miss all the craziness. bizarre quips and total lunacy from across the desk that helped me unwind. put things in perspective and at the same time conâ€" firmed my belief that there are weirder people out there than me. Next to Rick ... well there is no next to Rick ... he‘s about as fargone as you can go‘ Rick was up to what I later learned are his norâ€" mal (and I use the word lightly ) antics and in no time at all he had me wondering about what I was walking into. But it worked and the interview went smoothly. HOW UNCOMFORTABLE WERE YOU~, you may well ask. I was so uncomfortable that I was ready to turn and run for my car even before 1 left it‘ By midâ€"summer there should be a pretty good indication as to what the steam timeteller (or thingamajig as I prefer to refer to it) will look like once it is built at the corner of King and William Sts.. the good folks at Seagrams will be well into construction of their museum on Erb St., and city council will be televised by the local cable company sometime in September The staff at the Chronicle is a closely knit bunch of people whose totally divergent perâ€" sonalities seem to defy the gods by forming a cohesive group of professionals who know why the job has to be done and the best way to go about tackling anything that comes their way. I‘ll really miss the loony tunes. But I‘ve been saving the best for last ... in my estimation, anyways. Rick Campbell is a very strange person‘ He was performing his typical antics while I was waiting to be interviewed by a past editor here for a job as a reporter and photographer. There‘s no need for me to tell you how someone feels while waiting for a job interview, so I won‘t. Let‘s just say that I was uncomfortable Leaving these and other stories is like getting up from the dinner table halfway through a meal you‘ve spent days preparing Actually that‘s a poor comparison ... those who have had the dubious honor of tasting my cooking will understand what I mean. If you see an oddâ€"looking piece of charcoal next summer when you are doing your barâ€" becue, something that vaguely resembles the outline of a human, don‘t throw it in the flames and douse it with gasoline. It might be me. Burntâ€"out. Still waiting for St. Peter to speak up or launch an investigaâ€" Item. One of my teachers has developed inâ€" somnia, not to mention chest pains and frequent bouts of ‘flu. Combine them and you have an eightyâ€"pound shadow desperately hanging on. Supply teachers come to me on their knees, begging me to tell them what my missing teachers were doing when they went sick. The administration fondly (in the Shaâ€" kespearian sense of foolishly) believes that I know what every teacher was doing on fourth period last Friday, and can help out. think that what‘s done it is trying to keep up with their Chief. They just can‘t do it, and they‘re breaking down and falling apart like a leaky old ship caught in a hurricane.