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PAGE s- mmoo COME. WY. can”! IO. 1.3 Second Cuss Malt Regulation Numb! "oo Hey, wasn't that fun last weekend seeing real, live and up close the politicians who run our country, the faces we usually only see on TV? - _ - - - _ - _ _ -- _ We're talking of course about the whirlwind visits of Prime Minister Trudeau and Opposition leader Brian Mulroney to the Twin Cities to take advantage of the huge throngs (read po ential voters) in attendance. No sense trying to be cynical about the parachute pop-ins. Clearly both were on hand to milk the public relations aspect, help boost the image of local MPs, and generally gladhand as only politicians know how. - And there is little doubt that the head-to-head popularity battle went decisively in Mulroney's favor, - _ _ Admitting, even to the crowd in Uptown Waterloo where he officially started the Waterloo Jaycee Great Barrel Media Race, that he is feeling much more comfortable in his role than a few weeks ago, Mulroney presented himself as the consummate family man, friendly and outgoing, confident of his destiny and that of his party. Poor Pierre, on the other hand, had considerably more hecklers to deal with, lousy poll percentages, and the constant questioning of when he is going to pack his bags for good. There is no denying the man himself has a tremendous amount of style and charisma, but as on the national front, he struggled uphill at Oktoberfest compared to the electricity generated by the appearance of Mulroney. CANADIANS are in a bad mood these days. Not bad in the sense of angry or ugly. Bad in the - of gloomy, depressed. And not without reason. While the various media attending Oktoberfest from lhe big city" may be well-schooled in journalism, they could collectively use a lesson in, geography. - . . Picking up a-copy of the Toronto papers or tuning in on TV during the week, an outsider would never be aware that we are in fact Twin Cities, That Waterloo is every bit a part of the celebration as Kitchener, and that events held in Waterloo should be reported as such. The Great Barrel Race, for instance, held on King St. in Uptown Waterloo, was reported on one Toronto station as "the beer barrel race in Kitchener." After riding a post-war boom, with industry thriving, new money coming in, new opportunities opening up, and a general sense that the man might be right after ail, that the 20th century did belong to Canada, we have skidded to a loiv that hasn't been touched for decades. Trouble is. during that boom. We grew accustomed to ttmuergee and a measure of ease, and we weren't built to cope with that. We were a rather dour. independent. sturdy people. far more used to battling for an existence than lying around enjoy- ing life. "WéVré’nm trying to stir up animosity here. Just asking for a little respect, and recognition when it is due. That's Waterloo. All together now... We just couldn't cope with the ideas: that we would get a raise in pay every year; that practically everybody could omtat-seorearorbottr, thattberewas a job for everybody; that we might even be able to borrow money from the bank in a r All of these were alien to our Canadian experience. which had Ilwnys maintained Parachute club Waterwho? BILL SMILEY published every Wednesdaf by Fairway Press. a division ot Kitcttener-Watertoo Record Ltd., owner 225 Fairway Rd.S., Kitchener. Ont. wwmmmenWMIhoNuw,mmom L-ot-tatt-oar-ttr-u-ttttet" Parhmttnttherrt"r ova-um mtqetMoorHrtoFrtttar9rD0am loSOOom address :0er to Waterloo WV " Erb St E,, Waterloo, 0m NN IL‘I. WM mam that life was real and earnest. that fun was almost sinful, and that if things were going well, you kept your fingers crossed and knocked on wood. Those of us who had grown up during the Depression, of course. never believed for a minute that the prosperity would last. We went around like so many Jeremiahs. warning the young of the horrors to come when the bubble burst andhoring them to death with tales of our own impoverished youth. We Cnssnndras of gloom were scorted at. There were still plenty of jobs. Everybody could so to college, on loans and grants. Everybody really needed a summer cot- - Fortunately. or perhaps unfortunately. the boom didn't end with a bang but a whimper. - - _ - _ _ (use of (ski Chile! or two cars or three snowmobiles. The banks would lend money to anyone who didn't have two after them. The Canadian dollar was buoyant. and we were a little sickly glad when the Yanks had to pay a dollar and the cents for a Canadian dollar‘s worth. Manager: Bill Karges Editor: Rick Campbell Publisher: Paul Winkler “If he isn't the best rookie in the country, I want to meet the guy who is and shake his hand." Not licked yet If you were temporarily between jobs. unemployment insurance was easy to get and fairly generous, If you were really strapped. you could go on weltare and sit home watching TV. " you got sick. hospital insurance looked after all the bills. Gas for the car and fuel for the furnace and food for the belly were cheap and plentiful. A separatist party was elected in Quebec. and it was I whole new bail game. The employment force swelled steadily. while new jobs failed to keep up. Huge mining and smelting companies winch had been stockpiling their products because other nations could buy them cheaper elsewhere, closed down and put thousands of well-heeled workers on the pogey. Small farmers tell by the wayside when only the big ones could survive. And we kept pavlng over valuable farmland with asphalt and concrete. MM monk! saw their Itte's savings It is written m a.) b'y iafUtitm and the mm I. Small businessmen out back on staff and service in order to stay in business. Doctors, fed up to the teeth with overwork and bureaucratic interference, beg-n beading In”. and warmer. pastures. - . , University students. toiling over their books. grew ever more hitter as they began to realize that the country did not want or need them, that the chance of a job on graduation was paper-thin. Thousands of high school students who should have been out working, went hack to school and lozed away another year, because they Iazed any “other year, were a drug on the market. And governments. national. provincial, and local, wrung their hands and waited for the wind to change. the miracle to take place. while they went right on spending more and more taxpayers' money. -itv, iGGiliAi waidir that the mulling mood of the country is mom Ind suspt But surely a natlon that toughed it though two world wars and a world iiurauntootrtuetoryuotere.di.e. We Illl'l Ilcked yet. And sprung wlll be here. Probably try the first of June. WLU football coach Dave (Tully) Knight in tribute to running back Pall Nashsiuk who ran for 20t yards against Windsor with a broken toe. - SEE PAGE 23 .lL.',.?.,lii.iij.icujri;,