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Isn‘t it kind of nice to see the governâ€" ment putting the boots to some financial wheelerâ€"dealers for a change, instead of bluntly telling us common chaps that we must toe the line with 6 and 5, with inflation, that the working man and the farmer are greedy and should be happy that swollen rates of usury have come down, and that there‘s a Big Candy Mountain in the Sky, if we just continue to trust in it (the government)? Isn‘t it kind of sad that a government should sit around on its big, fat tail, contemplating its big, fat navel, practi cally turned inside out because the comâ€" fortable potâ€"belly has so grown with pats on the shoulder. campaign contributions, and suggestions that, whatever happens can be covered up, or obfuscated by comforting stuff like, "You‘re doing fine, Jack. I love ya. Just don‘t get caught"? Isn‘t it kind of nice that, once in an ice age, democracy actually works? That a placid government, even a majority one, which usually turns over every controver sial issue to a Royal Commission which requires three years and millions of dollars to produce a report that nobody reads, can be forced into taking strong measures by an intelligent, wellâ€"prepared and determined Opposition. and actually Word out of city council Monday night indicates Martyn Thorburn, who has successfully run a bingo operation out of Weber Street‘s Caesar‘s Palace, plans to spend $60,000 to renovate the former Signet Furniture store at 17 King St. S. in order to open another bingo business. Second Class Mail Registration Number 5540 loo. And to that venture we yell beginning with a B â€" BRAVO! The hall will only be allowed if a zoning change is approved by the Ontario Municipal Board, an alteration that will definitely be in the best interest of the Uptown pulse. Statements emanating from council expressing reservaâ€" tions about this type of operation are rather questionable, to say the least. And ludicrous are the arguments a bingo operation and subsequent fraffic flow from patrons would create havoc on Uptown streets and parking lots. create havoc on Uptown streets and parking lots. The recent Woods Gordon study indicated more seats of entertainment should be sought out for the Uptown area, not only to lure that precious commodity â€" people â€" to the core but also to create spinoff circumstances which would see those very people using other stores, restaurants and services while in the Uptown area. Bingo not exactly the use they are looking for? Come on. Especially in evening hours, Waterloo Square can more than handle the increased voluiic of cars. And maybe if a few more merchants roll up their sleeves to make use of what should be a golden opportunity to attract new and continued clientele in prime time hours, the Uptown will avoid the fate of Kitchener‘s deadâ€"end westâ€"end, formerly a hub of consumer recreational focus . Transforming a sitenotorious for its yearâ€"round sale, sale, sale gawdy advertising is an act Martyn Thorburn should be encouraged to carry out, not discouraged. s PAGE 6 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1983 Besides, the city already has more than its share of elegant (and empty) retail space. Last time we looked bingo halls weren‘t discriminating against high horses. It‘s time a few people rechprocated. Mark it on your cards, er, your calendar. There is soon to be a real, live bingo hall in Uptown Waterâ€" 981 N & BILL SMILEY published every Wednesday by Fairway Press a division of Kitchenerâ€"Waterioo Record Ltd., owne 225 Fairway Rd.S., Kitchener, Ont address correspondence to Waterioo office 45 Erb St E. Waterioo, Ont N2J 117. telephone 886â€"283 Play fair Waterioo Chromicle office is tocated in th Law Othce Building (rear entrance . uppe ot the building Open Monday to Friday another Isn‘t it amazing that government, with its huge staff of "experts" in practically everything, doesn‘t have a clue that: some trust companies are shaky, people are polluting other people‘s water; we are building national and provincial deficits which will put our country fairly quickly in with the Third World countries;, our defence forces are a snigger around NATO; our industries, in general, are still in the 1950s, as far as equipment, manageâ€" ment and production are concerned? has to get off its butt before the fandango is danced to its last note? Wouldn‘t it be wonderful if someone could put the boots to the government, as the latter has done to private enterprise? The only person who can is the Auditorâ€" General, and after a couple of frontâ€"page stories which prove that the Canadian public is being sold everything but the Brooklyn Bridge, he is swatted offâ€"like an annoying mosquito. Wouldn‘t it be great if people actually read the statement of the Archbishops, that people are more important than policies, rather than snarking. ‘‘Why don‘t they stick with their beads?",. or, "If they‘re right, why don‘t they let the Canadian Manufacturers Association re write the Ten Commandments?" Wouldn‘t it be simply splendid if some THE LAD HERE ? 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But who, normally a decent, responsible citizen, willing to share, to contribute, to work out something better, can be anyâ€" thing else but confused when he finds himself surrounded by veniality and apathy in high nlaces, anger in middle places, fury in low places and whimpering from all directions, can keep himself looking at the plateaus, rather than the valleys? There 1 go again. Another rhetor ical question. Another rambling sentence. This is the worst column 1 have ever written. Nothing but questions. Of course, they don‘t need answers because they are rhetorical questions. But the sentences are too long. Too many clauses beginning with ‘"‘which.‘" If a student offered this as an essay, I would rip it to ribbons. O.K. Let‘s get off this querulous note. I‘m getting as bored as you are. No more questions. Short sentences. Right? Right‘ â€"Getting rid of Trudeau is no solution Nor is Joe Clark, who would sell his aged grandmother on the slave market to ‘"nonâ€"working‘‘ housewife, who has been putting in sixteen hours a day, seven days a week, for twentyâ€"five years, walked up and gave cabinet minister Judy Erola a tax allowance for nonâ€"working spouses? It is written The economy was booming. The Post Office was delivering the mail. Politicians were paid about what a plumber makes today, and they were worth every cent of it. The national debt was just a tiny cloud on the horizon. Unemployment was a bad word from the Thirties. Every kid was going to go to university and be rich ever afterwards. What this country needs is another baby boom. It would take a couple of years to get it going, but if the whole nation got down to it, or up to it, the economy would soar once again. All our industries were geared up to the fantastic boom of babies after World War II. Everybody needed diapers, booties, baby buggies, toys, smashed spinach, soothers, talcum powder, maternity dresses. Then, a little later, shoes, snowâ€" suits, tricycles, orthodontists, TV sets, records, jeans, sixâ€"dollar hairâ€"styles, granny glasses, miniâ€"skirts. There. That‘s my solution. It‘s as sound as that of any economist I‘ve read. Who‘s for a Baby Boom" Speak for yourself, of course. Include me out. But let‘s get the country back en its knees, at least, if not on its feet I become prime minister again. Even for two weeks. John Tiessen, honored by Lincoln Heights Parks Association for 25 years of dedicated service. â€" SEE PAGE 3 * B5