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We know that it is the attitude we habitually bring to both segments of our lives which will determine the degree of success we achieve. Each of our worlds is filled with all kinds of people, so, our ability to get along with them, wherever we find them, will determine our general attitude. If you are a job holder you are d carriéef;*" You are not a Jekyll and Hyde with two distinct personalities, but you may live in two distinctly different emotional enviâ€" ronments. The mood or attitude you bring home from the job affects your home life; and the way you feel when you leave home will affect your work and relationâ€" sh.ips with your associates on the job. Develop a healthy mix between home and work These are usually two separate and unrelated situations, but we tend, to, carry: our feelings, frustrations, failures and worries from one to the other. Working people of all kinas live on two sites. The site of their homes and social activities, and the site of their work. And finally, it is the way we get along Fighting this trend is a provincial Liberal party freshly rejuvenated from its recent Hamilton convention. Now, I‘ve become as skeptical as the next person about Peterson and gang since they won their majority and promptly turned their backs on the progressive reform politics that gave them that very majority in the first place. That belief gets battered a lot these days. The fans of Reaganism and Thatcherism are everywhere. The Kenâ€" nedyâ€"Atleyâ€"St. Laurent tradition sure takes a beating these days. Seems government around much of the western world (the Scandanavians excepted â€" they‘re almost like a higher evolution of humanity) is dedicating itself to making the comfortable more comfortable at the expense of those less able to fight back. As author John Irving said when he visited Waterloo recently, the world would be a very different (and much more liberal) place today if John and Robert Kennedy had not been murdered. Every once in a while something happens to help restore my belief that government can be an instrument for good. _ _ Comment So we‘re sending all our old shoes to Wilson, at $2.65 a pop. OK, that‘s fine, but the way I see it, we could clean up our houses faster than any garage sale could ever hope to by dumping all our junk in the mail. Great idea, J. Robert. But let‘s not stop with Mike Wilson. Let‘s fill the mails with symbolic junk, gaining revenge on those who have violated us with their silly edicts or actions. The shipment to Mikey cost Janes $2.65, an amount he considers well worth it considering he feels each Canaâ€" dian will be gouged $1,750 by Wilson‘s two "strokes of genuis." _ Well, it appears Mr. Janes isn‘t going to take it anymore, and in retaliation, has mailed off his "oldest, most disrepuâ€" table" pair of shoes, to show Wilson that ""not all of us walk around in that fancy cloud 9 leather Ottawa uses." We may be on to something here. In an open letter to newspapers across the country, a Mr. J. Robert Janes of Niagaraâ€"onâ€"theâ€"Lake has declared he is fed up with being taxed to death, particularly by Finance Minister Miâ€" chael Wilson in his latest budget and proposed federal sales tax. You know that old dried up piece of sod Now this could really mean carrying the mail The rebirth of liberalism in Ontario It would be much easier to say that the way we feel depends on the way we are treated by the people with whom we are in contact. This is true, but if we allow that to influence our actions we are shifting the blame for our attitudes onto others. This is leaving our eventual success or failure to chance. It is also leaving to circumstance the happiness or unhappiâ€" ness of our days, which are the building with ourselves that will determine how we get along with others. So, to tie it all together, we have to say that it is the way we get along with ourselves which will determine the degree of our success in the two worlds in which we live. We‘ve heard the bitching, largely from the business community. But look closeâ€" ly, and you see a government that has dgection. and a reform impulse, after all. Check it out: OImplementation of stage one of the Social Assistance Review Committee (SARC) report, the most socially progresâ€" sive piece of legislation to exit from a provincial treasurer‘s calculator in years. In the long run, if the whole report is implemented, welfare will no longer be the longâ€"term dead end deâ€" But, as (Liberal) people kept telling me, it appears he was only taking a breather, regrouping for a much more structured approach to reform. Though still skeptical around the edges, if last week‘s provincial budget is any indicaâ€" tion, I‘ll bite for now. sitting in a clump beside your house? Bundle it up and mail it to the city or Region of Waterloo for threatening all this lawnâ€"watering ban nonsense. Yes, I fully understand the spirit of cooperaâ€" tion needed to get us through this crisis. What makes my blood boil is having our various levels of government, heads in the sand for years while the water problem intensified, criticize us for wanting to water our lawns and make our properties look appealing. Yes I want a green lawn all summer, and lovely flower beds and shrubs â€" but if I have to sacrifice that, yes I‘ll join in with everyone else to do my part. 1 will not have, however, incompetent governâ€" ments, which have missed the water resource boat while allowing business growth to run rampant, make me out to be the heavy for taking pride in my property and wanting it to look lush Geoffrey Fellows City Seen lan Kirkby Perspective ‘That‘s Life‘ Rick Campbell blocks of our lives. We are not in control. Unfortunately, this is the emotionallyâ€" precarious way in which millions live _ s*&heir daily lives. They have not learned the far more enjoyable, and infinitely more successful way to live of those people who have taken charge of their attitudes and, consequently, their lives. You would vehemently resent anyone who tried to take control of your life, wouldn‘t you? But if someone were rude to you in the morning and it spoiled your whole day, what do you suppose that is. You can‘t help the way you feel, but you can help the way you react. So why should you let other people dangle you around like a puppet on your emotional strings? Your feelings are not of your choosing, so why let them dictate your actions? CA $2 billion fiveâ€"year program to improve the province‘s roads and public transit systems. Terrific, but I hope the emphasis is on public transportation. A related positive development is the tax on gasoline and the increased charges for gasâ€"guzzling cars, licences, car reâ€" gistration and tires. People who (like me) use highways, who pave over our COThe ministry of the environment gets an extra $89 million this year to fight pollution. Not enough, of course, but if combined with some gutsy envirâ€" onmental legislation it could be effecâ€" tive. Still, I‘m left wondering if environâ€" ment minister Jim Bradley is losing his influence. CA tax on tires to help pay for research into recycling and environmenâ€" tally safe disposal of them. Right on. But how about a tax on spray cans, and plastic goods, and perhaps excess packâ€" aging in supermarkets? How well they have taken charge is determined by their realization that, although they cannot help the way people make them feel, they can control the way they think and act. CHealth insurance premiums were dumped at last, fulfilling a Liberal promise of the last decade. Employers will be expected to pay the whole shot. stroyer of human souls (and families) that it is today. Send all your outdated TV Guides to the producers of Knots Landing. After a tremendous season, the Knots gang built us up for an electrifying twoâ€"hour season finale. What they presented was one of the flattest, most boring episodes seen in years. And Harold Ballard, eccentric Maple Leaf owner, he gets all our old hockey cards of former Leafs (in Leaf uniforms), who have gone on to excel in this year‘s Stanley Cup playoffs â€" for other teams. Then there is that rusty axe leaning up against your workbench. Ship it off to Philadelphia Flyer goalie Ron Hextall. That way next time he snaps while planning a premeditated attack on opâ€" position forwards, he‘ll be able to bring along a tool that can do the job, not a primitive instrument like a goalie stick. Package up those unused lightbulbs and address them to ol‘ Bob Nixon at Queen‘s Park. The cagey veteran, in offering budget hints last week, claims that if we want new and improved roads and services and so on, we have to expect to pay for them. An illuminating theory, to be sure. How much better it would be to live in green and appealing. So check your mail, the clump of dried sod is on its way. WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY MAY 24, 1989 â€" PAGE 7 farmlands and wilderness and who contribute to the greenhouse effect, should pay the cost, not society as a whole. The gasâ€"pump is the ideal place to tax us for future environmental cleanup. too. Brilliant. It may be premature to say liberalism is still alive and well in Ontario, but this budget indicates it has not died yet More change is still needed, particularly in the area of environmental legislation (with accompanying enforcement abili ty) and implementing the remaining stages of SARC. But at least the cabinet is awake again. _A 25â€"perâ€"cent increase in funding for home care assistance, continuing the government‘s emphasis on nonâ€"hospital medical care. And, within two weeks a major overhaul of the province‘s entire medical system is to be announced. It‘s too costly, and too dependent on highâ€"pr iced doctors and hospitals as it is now. and health minister Elinor Caplan has promised major changes (Geoff Fellows operates the Human Resource Development Institute P.O_Box 642. Cambridge, NIR 5W1. providing effectiveness training to business and industry.) lan Kirkby is a reporter with The Waterioo Chronicle. And just before we leave. let‘s wing a boomerang through Canada Post to the federal government for spending gobs of our money advertising the need to reduce the deficit. And the definition of the deficit? Money the feds borrow from you and me to stay in operation. Does this mean deficit reduction is paying the government money through taxes so it can whittle down the money it owes us? A gentleman with disreputable shoes in Niagaraâ€"onâ€"theâ€"Lake thinks so Rick Campbell is the marketing director of the Fairway Group‘s suburban newspapers. Knowing that it is the way in which we get along with ourselves that will deterâ€" mine how well we get along with others which, in turn, will determine the success of our days, we have merely to learn that we can only get along with ourselves when we are in charge of our thoughts and actions, regardless of how we feel Premier David Peterson. meanwhile, should get those stale pretzels (logic) in the back of the kitchen cupboard for allowing that while Solicitor General Joan Smith was absolved of wrongdoing in an OPP internal investigation into alleged intervention with police. he sees the seriousness of the situation the serene and productive world of our own making; to remain in control of our own thoughts and actions and let petty annoyances roll off our backs The tacky crystal ball you won at the COE last year, rifle it off to St. Louis Cardinal first baseman Pedro Guerrero for bitterly complaining that, in report ing his complaints about former manag er Tommyu Lasorda, the media wrote what he said, not what he meant When people are rude or in any way illâ€" mannéered toward you, pity them, they don‘t know any better. They have the problem., not you; and they‘re not the kind of people with whom you wish to associâ€" ate. But if you allow your feelings to make you retaliate in kind. well. let‘s face it. you‘re no better than they are