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**Survivalists Get Set for Armageddon" was a recent headline in the Los Angeles Times. The article described a rapidly growing moveâ€" ment in America that seeks to prepare for coming disaster. "Surâ€" vivalists subscribe to a variety of things about how Armageddon will arrive." The specter of nuclear war, earthâ€" "quakes, famine or revâ€" olution etc. To get ready survivalists stockpile gold, food, medical supplies and weapons for the purâ€" pose, I presume, to shoot any trespassers who would try to get into their underground shelters. LETTERS , Pearly white teeth tell the story The other day, 1 sat down to do my antiâ€" fluoridation homeâ€" work. A friend, sympaâ€" thetic to the antis (as they are now known), had pressed into my hands a book by George Waldbott enâ€" titled **Fluoridation â€" The Great Dilemma." The least 1 could do was to hear both sides. Will such preparaâ€" tions protect the surâ€" vivalists from Armaâ€" geddon? No. Armagedâ€" don is not something brought about by the acts of men or natural There are three ways of getting to Moosonee. You can fly, which is expenâ€" sive. You can walk, which is lengthy, or you can take the train, which is something else. I took the train because I was a bit broke after a major decorating job, because my gout was acting up and I couldn‘t have made it walking in two years, and because 1 wanted the experiâ€" ence. It was an experience I will never forget. Or repeat. When I think that my daughter made the same trip two years ago, with two small boys, my heart bleeds for her. It‘s almost twentyâ€"four hours from Toronâ€" to, and she refused to get sleeping berths, against my advice. But she‘s a very adaptable, strongâ€" hearted and generally clearâ€"headed young woman, and has made not only a go of it, but a success of coping with a ‘frontier town, if there‘s such a thing left in Canâ€" ada. At Cochrane, you change from a fast transCanada train to the selfâ€"styled Polar Bear Express, somewhat of a misnomer, as it has nothing to do, even peripherally, with polar bears, and is the exact opposite Seek Jehovah writer says BILL SMILEY disasters, not accordâ€" ing to the Bible where the term originated. Instead it is "the war of the great day of God the Almighty" for the purpose of removing ‘‘those ruining the earth."‘ Rev. 11;18, Rev. 16:14â€"16. Their survival will depend. not on how much food is stored or how straight one can shoot but rather on heeding the charge: Seek Jehoâ€" vah, all you meek ones of the earth. Those who do, says the prophet *"may be concealed in the day of God‘s anger against the nations of the entire earth. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the last days of this system of things." W.D. Pope Westmount Rd.N., Waterloo, Ont. Read Luke 17:26â€"27 I got into it pretty quickly, thanks to the grisly pictures, and 1 read the long condemâ€" nations of the medical establishment for pushing a proâ€"fluoride viewpoint. Just as I was getting to the cliâ€" Actually, I had never read a proâ€"fluoridation book either, but let that of an express. It stops whenever it feels like it, backs up for a while. sits for a while, then jogs off again. Sitting in a coach surrounded by fat, middleâ€"aged Indian ladies who chuckled and gossiped in Cree, I felt much like a Russian aristocrat who had been banished to Siberia for supposedly plotting against the Czar. The train rolled on hour after hour through the taiga, skinny evergreens too useless even for pulpwood, burntâ€"out patches every so often, snow out both windows, and no sign of human life. All we needed was a samovar at the end of the coach, and the Siberian image would have been complete. There seems little real reason for Moosonee to exist, except that it is the end of steel. Yet it‘s a thriving little town, with all the requisites: liquor store, post office, police station, churches, The Bay store, with a monopoly on most food and clothing, a meat market, two hardware stores, one garage, a Mac‘s Milk sort of place, a Chinese restaurant, magnificent But a warm welcome, with some hugs and kisses from grandboys dispelled the first impressions. . Well, 1 certainly do. Here‘s another person who‘ll be voting "NO," meaning *"Don‘t stop it" on the fluoridation question in June. Suddenly, I realize it is all a hoax; the prinâ€" cipal himself has handâ€" picked these kids to sing in the choir just to support the proâ€" fluoridation cause. No you say? Then perhaps you find Waldâ€" bott‘s claims offâ€"base? max about some worldâ€" wide conspiracy or other, I had to lay the book aside to take my young lad to sing in a choir at a Waterloo high school. But wait‘ As the choir sings, I am stunned by what exemâ€" plary hygiene flashes from their pearly whites‘ Where are the brown stains, the runâ€" ning sores, the faces racked by fears of fluoride poisoning? I was close to the front row, so 1 hads a clear view of the faces of the young choir. My mind was still filled with horrid images of brownâ€"stained teeth of people, captives of waters naturally laced with fluoride. The very least 1 expected to see was a row of youngâ€" sters with open sores on their lips caused, according to Waldbott, by daily brushing with fluoride toothpaste. Robert Hudgins Beliehaven Dr. Waterioo More on Our dear friend Waliter McLean, MP for Waterloo North, is reported in the Kâ€"W Record on Thursday of last week as now favoring the Trudeau constitutional package since the insertion of a reference to God and equal status for women (or female persons, as they are called). That report came out only one day after another in this paper, in which McLean gave a rather different point of view. Even with the new amendments to the constitutional packâ€" age, McLean referred to it as "potentially explosive,"" and said even if it, was ruled legal by the Supreme Court, if "you blow the country apart, it‘s small comfort." I can only surmise that the jet lag Walter was feeling from his recent interâ€"continental trips and, as he confessed to yours truly, his having been up for 36 hours previous to the interview with the Chronicle, were responsible for the discrepancy in that issuance to the press and the one following to the Record. Hang in there, Walter. In any event, if we now take it that the Conservatives‘ main concern is the legality of the constitutional package, as McLean sugâ€" gests in the Record article, we are witnessing a disappointing and disjointed performance on the part of the official opposition. In the Record article, McLean says everyâ€" thing should be alright, as long as the package passes the legality question. Yes, this is indeed the same man presenting remarkably different viewpoints in separate interviews about 24 hours apart. It seems that now all the dust has settled following the Tory filibuster, what we‘re left with is the picture of the party saying "alright, alright. If the court rules it‘s legal, we‘ll go along with it." Will they? I don‘t know, because it‘s difficult to figure out what the Conservatives are thinking these days. Apart from the fact that the party doesn‘t have the votes, and won‘t have much choice but to accept what the majority Liberals decide, you‘d think there‘d still be a bit more hue and cry about the Liberal gamepian. What about the omission of property rights Why the discrepancy? schools, a really spiendid, small art gallery featuring the works of Indian artists, and three taxis. What more could a man want? Well, maybe a poolroom. Or a massage parlor. Or a movie house. But these are sybaritic southern frills. No violent movie could take the place of a dash across the mighty Moose River just before breakâ€"up, with the water Aying as though you were a ship in a stiff gale. It‘s an odd community, geographically. It looks as though God or somebody had flown over the place, dumped out a few handsful of buildings, and let them fall where they might. I can find my way around in most major cities, but I was constantly getting lost in Moosonee. Something else that made me wonder was what people did for a living. There is no industry, yet everybody seems to have money. Nobody looks even vaguely hungry. Perhaps it‘s a matter of taking in each other‘s washing. But I have a suspicion that if all the government money, railway, liquor store, schools, police, welfare, old age pensions, baby bonuses and so on were suddenly Moo WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29. 1981 â€" PAGE 7 PHILIP JALSEVAC soOonee I liked his sincerity, cockiness and determiâ€" nation, in spite of the odd lapses of smarts and political savvy. But Clark has suddenly left me in the lurch. Following the allâ€"party agreement on the constitutional debate, Clark has acted like a punchâ€"drunk fighter, flailing about here and there, not sure where the target is or what the opponent‘s strategy is. For a starter, we wouldn‘t be facing this entire constitutional fracas as the country slips into economic chaos and discord, if Clerk had been smart enough to hold on to the reins of government. And, it now appears he neither has the wherewithal to offset his blunder with a cogent and disciplined performance as opposition leader. It would be better both for the nation and the Tories if Joe were to go. What about another first ministers‘ conferâ€" ence, or at least gaining the support of more than two provinces? What about parliamentaâ€" ry supremacy? ‘Has it all come down to this, that the opposition is content to allow the most fundamental question the nation has ever faced to be decided by a judicial ruling from the Supreme Court? It should be noted here that that dissipation, as it seems likely to continue, will signal the final demise of the power of Joe Clark to effectively hold on to the reins of leadership of the Tories. I fear Clark doesn‘t know what his own is, for that matter, and that his days as leader are numbered . Well and good, I‘m now saying. I‘ve tried to look at the positive aspects of Clark, but have finally come to realize he just doesn‘t have the stuff. Perhaps not, but as 1 said, I can‘t get a handle on what the Tories are up to. Their forthrightness on the whole constitutional issue appears to have dissipated. In a perverse sort of way, I‘ve been rooting for underdog Clark in his battles as Conservaâ€" tive and opposition leader. from the constitution? What about the lack of a broad, national agreement? withdrawn, the place would collapse, and be remembered as a sort of roughâ€"hewn Camelot. There is, of course, the tourist industry, but that‘s pretty negligible except for a couple of months in summer, and during gooseâ€"hunting season. For example, the houses on the base are now rented to teachers and other officials. The barracks are used to house the Indian kids from Moose Factory, across the river, in spring and fall, when it‘s unsafe to cross the river. The recreation building is used for schoolâ€"rooms. It still has a bowling alley. There is a curling rink, where kids also learn to skate. At the school there is a fine cafeteria. with food that would make the habituees of our school cafeteria drool. On the other hand, the government was left with a pretty sizable investment, and has used it with some common sense. The town used to be an army base, and many of the buildings have been put to use as schools, housing, administrative offices. Better than leaving them to rot.