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_And yet, all these storms, international, national, and local, don‘t bother me thalf as much as the one in my own household. Here‘s Outside, as I write, the great February storm is raging: snow, high winds, rain, freezing. Tomorrow will be one of those days when the school buses don‘t run, the smart kids in town will roll over and go to sleep after looking at the snowbanked windows. And a few dumb kids, and a lot of dumb teachers, will stagger through the storm, at risk of life and limb, to keep the stupid school Thank you very much for the fine approval of Waiter McLean‘s stand of the role of God in our nation. Yes indeed, we must not omit God from the Constitution just beâ€" cause a few in our country think him outâ€" ofâ€"date and irrelevant. Since then it has been stated that should Mr. Davis win a majority in I believe that it is imâ€" portant for the media to assist the public in unâ€" derstanding the issues at hand; in this particular instance you have done a good job by presenting Before the election was called by Premier Davis, I asked him to exâ€" plain the wide spread in food stores on seedless grapes. At the time of writing the prices were $1.45 a pound and 88 cents a pound. His reply to my beef was we have no control over prices in this comâ€" petitive system. I reâ€" plied by saying he could save the taxpayers money by abolishing the Ministry of Consumer Affairs. Canada is in a mess, politically, economiâ€" cally and spiritually. There are noses thumâ€" bed at the Queen by wouldâ€"be headâ€"liners. There is a big flap about the constitution. The West is howling separatism. Quebec still wants it, psychologically. Even Newfie is threatening a referendum on separating. A certain Mr. Phelan wrote in your February 18 letters section comâ€" menting on the fluoridaâ€" tion issue. Through the hyperbole or just plain hot air, he seemed to say he supports the fluoridaâ€" tion referendum and opâ€" poses the use of fluorides. The situation in Poland is very dicy. The Mexican standâ€"off in the Middle East is a torch, loaded with pitch, just waiting for a match. There are bush fires and brush fires of wars all over the world. I agree that we, the ciâ€" tizens of Waterloo, should have the right to Isn‘t it amazing how little our world really is? How pretty and small and mean we are underneath our professed liberalism, generoâ€" sity, compassion? About ‘the facts‘ Editorial applauded BILL SMILEY No politics, but Some people will say I am â€" playing politics. Such is not the case. Poâ€" litics in my opinion is dirty business and I don‘t participate in such practices. I am more concerned about the inâ€" justices that are being perpetrated on the inâ€" nocents under this sysâ€" tem of things. (That‘s why I was born.) the coming election he would lift rent controls. This would be a hardship on senior citizens and those on fixed incomes. I trust that you will continue to present the alternatives to "popular opinion‘"‘ (which really may not be as popular as we think) so that we may all see clearly what it is that we are dealing with in the everyday siâ€" tuations of life. our M.P.‘s views and then summing them up in your own succint way. vote if a majority wants a vote. Just as in any vote in a democracy, it is our respomsibility to get the facts and vote according to these facts. Mr. Phelan‘s hot air wasn‘t any help so I‘ve tried to find out what they are. What I have found was that a careful study made in Brantford when fluorides were _ inâ€" Pope W.D. Westmount Rd. N. Waterloo Beth Reese Hearth Cresc. Kitchener To generously, not to say wildly, paraphrase King Lear, ‘"Blow, storm; lie, politicians; smite, Middleâ€"Easterners:. plot, Slavs. Go to it, and the best of luck to yiz all." Right outside my window, the snow is comâ€" ing down so hard that the wind has no time for sculpturing. One guy is trying to climb the hill sideways, in his car. Another has {ust rammed his into a snowbank and walked away. He is the one who boasted that he never used snow tires, because he had radials. Across the country, people are driving under insane conditions, taking their own lives and those of others in their hands, to get from nowhere to nowhere. And yet, as I said, all these storms seem trivial compared to the domestic storm. More suspense. _ â€" Poles and Russians have been clobbering each other with tenâ€"foot poles and vodka for hundreds of years. The Jews and Arabs have been doing the same for three thousand years. Likewise the North and South of whaâ€" tever: Viet Nam, Korea, the U.S. Likewise all sorts of black people all over Africa. where the suspense begins. Wife left him? But your plight brings little sympathy, no Nabbed by the cops for mope and gawkery? â€" tears, from one who is spiderâ€"webbed into a Poles and Russians have been clobbering binge of decorating. As I am. It seems to me the ‘supporters of fluoridaâ€" tion are not irresponâ€" sible ‘‘*‘doâ€"gooders‘‘ as Mr. Phelan claims but serious, conservative professionals who have considered the question thoroughly. I am not a dentist or a medical doctor , I‘m just an ordinary citizen. I got the facts from the peoâ€" ple who should know them: the Waterloo Re; gional Health Office on King Street in Waterloo. P. Silveston Allen St. Waterloo I also found that the American Medical Asâ€" sociation considers fluoride to be an essenâ€" tial nutrient. It states that no adverse effects have been demenstrated and that fluorides may help to alleviate bone disease. The AMA reâ€" commends â€" fluoridation of water supplies under proper supervision. As recently as 1977, I found that the General Council of the Canadian Medical Association encouraged the fluoridation of water supplies. I also discovered that a Government of Onâ€" tario appointed invesâ€" tigating commission apâ€" proved fluoridation under careful superâ€" vision. That means it saves my children needless pain and discomfort. It saves me on dentists‘ bills. troduced 35 years ago showed a 36 to 69% reâ€" duction in childrens caâ€" vities so the use <of fluorides in â€" water works. Domestic storms take their toll Looks like Waterloo alderman Doreen Thomas had better get cracking along some new lines of study. > If you think that sounds a bit scrambled, one must remember that the federal Liberals â€" who sometimes look at the worst of situations sunny side up â€" make such appointments in the confidenâ€" ce that the person can learmm various esoterica p.d. quickly. How‘s this one for a nigglyâ€"piggly award? It‘s contained in a letter by Terry Meagher, president of the Ontario New Democratic Party. The Feb. 27 letter, titled "an utgent appeal for extra funds‘"‘ to conduct the provincial election campaign, tells contributors to go the extra mile â€" or perhaps inch would be more appropriate in this case â€" if they receive more than one copy of Meagher‘s letter in the mail. Meagher‘s asking everybody to give 50 bucks minimum in a publicized letter that claimed â€" since denied by party officials â€" "buying televiâ€" sion and radio time to combat the Tories has exâ€" hausted our cash on hand and our line of credit." Following her recent appointment to the execuâ€" tive of the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency, the local councillor is reported to have told the daily paper in town that sheâ€"knows nothing about egg production and marketing and doesn‘t have any sort of background that qualifies her for the job ‘‘If you get more than one of these letters please help us recover the cost,"" Meagher writes ‘"Give an extra 30 cents â€" the cost of printing and mailing this‘â€" and add it to your contribution." Aside from the disclaimers, it would seem things are more exhausted than ever when Meagher has to beg for 30 cents on top of a $50 donation . What‘s worse, the three dimes are requested on account of a mistake on the part of the sender. Now, is that petty or is that petty? Being the hardâ€"boiled political veteran she is, we‘re also confident Thomas won‘t chicken out of the challenge she faces â€" nor is she likely to be inâ€" timidated by jokes about yolks that sometimes wind up on peoples‘ faces. An eggâ€"zacting task Not that there‘s a difference of opinion. We did agree on the wallâ€"paper. At least the deâ€" sign. She liked the stuff that was $14.95 a roll. I was swept away by the stuff, identical deâ€" sign, that was $4.95 a roll. But the difference is chickenâ€"feed, as you‘ll agree. Some chickâ€" en But it‘s not that. It‘s not the money. After all, you can‘t take it with you. Though I doubt if T‘ll be around long enough to take anything anywhere,. even the garbage out to the roadâ€" side, after the latest decorating orgy. I‘ll swear my eyes are permanently crossed from looking at wallâ€"paper samples. After the first four books. they all begin to look alike. Same with paint. After inspecting peach, ivory, mushroom, offâ€"white and six others, I wouldn‘t know a red cow from a purple pig, if I bumped into one or fell over the other. Most women do their spring decorating in the spring. Mine, just as perverse as the day I asked her to marry me, and she retorted, ‘‘"Why should I?" does hers in midâ€"winter. Don‘y ask me why. I‘m likely to erupt in a fountain of bad language. WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1981 â€" PAGE 7 PHILIP JALSEVAC I don‘t really know who‘s right or wrong in the matter. All I do know is that it cost me about eight dollars in gas to drive back and forth to Toronto in a fourâ€"cylinder car to catch Shea‘s comments on the oil industry, among other things. That hurts more when recalling the good old days not too many years ago when I wouldn‘t stop unless gas was being sold at 49 cents a galâ€" lon. It should be a humdinger, if you like heated debates. ‘‘The charge that billions of dollars have been bilked from the public, in my opinion, appears to be carefully selected from specific documentaâ€" tion to substantiate preconceived views,"‘ he said. ‘‘The charge is quite unfair, most unCanadian and a lot of hogwash." So says Bert. He added that "they have brought down their report alleging illegal or unethical practices on the part of Imperial and others. But, they say they have decided not to lay any charges. To me, that is clearly a strong indication that no laws have been broken." More particularly, what will the mail be like after the local media start reporting more on the various pros and cons of fluoridation? HW. (Bert) Shea had the opportunity of adâ€" dressing last weekend‘s Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association convention in Toronto and the corporate manager for Imperial Oil Ltd decided to get a few wellâ€"placed bongs in on the head of the federal government. Just a thought: there seems to be so many letâ€" ters to the editor on the topic of fluoridation lateâ€" ly, I hate to see what happens when we‘re closer to the June 8 plebiscite that will decide whether Waterloo continues to fluoridate its water supply. Shea was commenting on the controversial reâ€" port prepared under the combines investigation act, recently released by the feds. Worse than petty, is being ~unCanadian‘" â€" and that‘s what a certain oil company official thinks a recent federal government report is. No wonder colleagues say when I arrive at work : ‘‘*You look exhausted."‘ Substitute ‘‘harassed,"" "frightened,"" "desperate"‘ or "frantic,‘ and you have the average Canaâ€" dian male when his wife decides that the hoâ€" mestead is shabby, disgraceful, slummy, and so on and on and on. Next day. she arranges for a cleaning lady to wash the woodwork. The lady, much sought after, can come only between the painting and the papering. This means that the paint goes on over dirty woodâ€"work, and there‘s nobody to clean up after the plastâ€" erer, who makes such a mess that the wallâ€" paper looks like the dunes of the Sahara. And I could write a book about decorating. All 1‘d have to do is listen to my wife before breakfast, before dinner, after dinner, and before bed. Which I have to do anyway. It‘s the little details. She can‘t seem to sort out the order of things. She makes a deal with the painterâ€"decorator to start on a cerâ€" tain day. The day before he is to arrive, she rushes out to pick the wallâ€"paper. Wallâ€"paper is like the Canadian mail. It gets there when it gets there. If ever. Argyle Communications Inc.