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The Kitchener-Waterloo branch, Consumers Association of Canada, will hold a free public informa- tion forum at 8 p.m. tonight at the Kitchener Library auditorium to discuss the topic, Consumer Power and How to Use It. The session, marking Consumer Week in Canada, will hear brief remarks by Dr. R.E. Voshurgh, chairman of consumer studies at the University of Guelph; A.J. Livingstone of the Ontario Con- sumer Protection Bureau, Toron- to; and George Hart of the Kitche ner office of the Food and Drug WCI open house to feature plays, displays Parents and the general public are invited to the event which takes place from 7 pm. to9p.m. Teachers feel the displays may also be of interest to elementary school pupils who can get some idea of what options are open to them in high school A student play. projects and demonstrations are part of the program which Waterloo colle- giate has planned for a two-hour open house. March 8. K-W host families entertain students This is the fourth such event since the K-W Host Family-Fo- reign Student Association was formed two years ago. ALL ABOARD - Five-year-old Ian Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Smith, 158 Chelford Cres., gets a helping hand from his mother when he tries to get a close-up look at the old stage coach, which was displayed in Waterloo Square last week. Meantime, Mr. and Mrs. Hans Kuhl (right photo) seem all ready to board the stage. About 150 Twin City couples will be hosts at an informal so cial evening for foreign 'students being held at the Great Hall of Student Village II at the Univer. sity of Waterloo, March 14. Mrs. Ken Pirie of 285 Glen- ridge Place is president of the group which extends hospitality and friendship to students from other countries attending the University of Waterloo and Waterloo Lutheran University. Value for your dollar is consumer meet topic The host couples will provide the party March 14 while the tudent guests will present the irogram. Rotarians hear club president His experiences first as a ju- venile public utilities commission employee and later as a 24-year member of the commission were outlined by Howard Scheifele, president of the Rotary Club and present PUC chairman when he addressed club members last week. They were also told that treat- ment methods were available to make water palatable and safe however polluted the source wat- ers might be. Mr. Scheifele advocated an au- thority similar to Ontario Hydro to manage water supplies for the province. Ken Pirie expressed the club's thanks to the speaker. Douglas Paton of Waterloo, chairman, said the group is prob- ably the fastest-growing organiza- tion in the Twin Cities. It reflects the growing concern about con- sumerism and a new awareness that people can' learn how to spend their money better. "We hope that our members and the public win take advantage of Thursday's free public meet- ing to hear what the expert mem- bers of our panel have to say," Mr. Paton said. "We guarantee them an evening of real value." Everyone interested in how to make his or her money go further, how to know if one is buying the best possible products and how to make one's voice heardin consum- er areas is invited by the organiz- ers to attend. Rotarians learned that PUC engineers have been setting off little earthquakes for years in ef- forts to find underground water sources. Directorate. Moderator will be Dr. Robert Kerton of the Univer- sity of Waterloo. A freewheeling discussion period will follow. The Kitfhener-wtter1oo branch of the Consumers' Association now numbers more than 1,300 members and is growing rapidly. We are near the day when we will retire to our bedrooms at night, hang our clothes in the clas- et and waken the following morn- ing to find our domestic Compu- ter or robot has cleaned and pressed them. I An electronic Utopia where men live in harmony with each other was outlined for members of the Waterloo Chamber of Commerce Tuesday night, when T.E. (Ted) Fielder, general manager of Graham Cable TV of Toronto, addressed the group's annual dinner meeting at Cae- sar's Forum. Plastic plates will be broken down after each meal and later reformed in another color. Mr. Fielder outlined a future where brain surgery will be per- formed externally, man will con- trol the weather and people re- ceive their schooling electrically. Today we rely on identity cards, credit cards and sometimes fingerprinting to establish our identities, he told his audience. Tomorrow our voices may be total proof of our identity. They are easier to obtain, store, re- trieve and identify. Moving sidewalks and personal electric cars that will respond to voice direction are just around the corner, said Mr. Fielder. At this time too, men will ride in their cars sleeping, reading or watch- ing television. while the car com- puter ensures obstacles are avoided and the proper course maintained. Prospects on the homefront are brighter, too, according to Mr. Fielder, who delighted the women in his audience with the prediction that "Washing dishes will go the way of the dinosaur -- right into history." "The world is changing and what was out of reach yesterday will be pretty old hat tomorrow." The power of the atom and com- puter are changing our lives, Mr. Fielder said. “Where washing and cleaning are indicated for such things as laundry or behind Junior's ear, we may rely on ultra-sonic sound ...‘This could end detergent pollution of our waterways 9t Mr. Fielder described how pol- lution will be reduced as more and more articles are recycled for use, metals and fossil fuels Speaker looks to future Thermo - electrically - heated drapes, carpets and wall panels will heat our homes. Walls and ceilings will diffuse light to the desired intensity. Electronic current fed through our heads will induce sleep and waken us at the desired time full of pep. In the forseeable future the con- sumer can haul a three-dimen- sional image of an item adver- tised on the television screen into his living room, examine it and then press a button on his phone which will arrange the Farmers will become technical overseers and produce better harvests as they gain greater control over the weather. Cities will be fully automated and en- closed. Electronic gadgets in our living rooms will provide everything from a vast arrange of entertain- ment, to diagnoses and prescrip- tions for our illnesses. They will arrange for our shopping and sometimes even our credit. Intellectual and emotional com- patability will be the basis of mate selection and the privi- lege of having children may well become a hard-earned one, he said. It is also likely'that couples will be able to predeter- mine the sex of their children. In this new age war will be. come obsolete as the world be. comes the global village describ. ed by Marshall McLuhan. Men will be able to live in harmony, unless our world becomes the nightmare of servility to the state and total elimination of privacy as in Orwell's 1984. Mr. Fielder suggested the limit- less possibilities facing man as he develops the hitherto untapped 90 percent of his brain. "Our brain makes things hap- pen. Once an idea is conceived, a means will be invented. Most marvels were not discovered: They were invented." _ Human intelligence and learning is an electro-chemical process. he pointed out. Since the brain works on electrical impulses, he suggested it might be possible to educate people electrically in much. shorter time than the pres- ent 20-year period of formal ed.. ucation. . run out, and factories located out in space. MtEte.gitqtigtMhttqBtk-tta.tert, ' Two buttons already integrated into Bell Canada's push-button phones mark the first step toward all these things, the speaker said. "s Another indication .that three- dimensional shopping is not far away is evident from the punch- ing-in methods already in use for Toronto postal employees. This is done by touch tone telephone and the necessary information re- layed to their records by com- puter. A recipient of the first UN wel- fare fellowship awarded to a Canadian, he has conducted in- stitutes and lectures in many countries, including one which he conducted with well-known anthropologist Dr. Margaret Mead in the Philippines in 1968. The speaker is a former dire- ctor of the University of Toronto's school of social work. Prior to that he held various teaching posts in the United States, where he was attached to Cohmr bia University, New York Uni- versity. the research centre for group dynamics at the Massachu- setts Institute of Technology and George Williams College in Chicago. Dr. Charles E. Hendry, consul- tant to the social and family ser- vices department and president of the Canadian Council on Social Development, will be guest speaker at the annual dinner me- eting of the K-W Family Service Bureau planned for the Crystal Ballroom at Kitchener's Walper Hotel, March 18. During his years in the US., Dr, Hendry undertook major re- search assignments for the White House's conference on children and youth. item's delivery from the sup- pligr and payment from his bank. This will Val] be accomplished in less than one-thousandth of asecond. Bureau meet to hear social expert Dr. Hendry will discuss Farm ily Service in Context and Per.. spective.