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t# . Haik! / Published every Thursday by Fairway Press, a division of Kitchenerâ€"Waterioo Record Ltd. 30 Queen St., N., Kitchener Ontario Address correspondence to Waterloo Square Watâ€" erloo Ont. Telephone 744â€"6364. SUBSCRIPTION RATES | Files of yesteryear | Yet it should be remembered that for interâ€" national accord in the short term, the United Nations is mankind‘s greatest hope. In the long term, mankind‘s greatest hope is in mutuâ€" al respect and understanding, of which the UN is only one expression, albeit a major one to day. It is the only truly universal organization the world has and will be come so particularly now that the Chinese, representing almost a quarter of humanity, are preparing to take their UN seat. 10 years ago _ Waterloo council heard complaints of excessive noise dirt and dust caused by Canadian Neutronics Ltd., Laurel Street East. A _ 16 person â€" delegation made the protest to council. More than 30 chiefs from the North Central Ontario Zone 5 of the Ontario Poâ€" lice Chiefs Association met in Waterlioo to discuss selecâ€" tion of a type of communicaâ€" tion system to link police of six counties. United <‘Nations secretaryâ€"general U Thant has réquested a 1975 budget totalling $208 bilâ€" lion. The world organization always has trouw ble getting enough money from its 127 members. Already the UN+ Advisory Committee on adâ€" ministrative and budgetary questions has callâ€" ed for a cut of almost $3,500,000 in Mr. Thant‘s And one of the world‘s serious problems surely is that mankind has its priorities all mixed up. There are grumbles about an annual UN budget of just over $200 million â€" yet the world‘s nations spend one thousand times that amount annually on arms and defence. ' The global arms budget of $200 billion is an inâ€" dictment of the human species. Men seem to spend willingly for armaments, but give only grudgingly to the United Nations. Schendel Stationery celeâ€" brated the grand opening â€".of its new premises with a free draw and many speâ€" cials. 20 years ago A recent addition to the rapidly â€" expanding retail section of Waterloo‘s ‘""main street‘‘ was the opening of Schendel‘s Stationery store at 43 King Street North, formerly occupied by Lobâ€" singer Appliances. The inauguration of a nursery service, sponsored by the Waterloo Recreation Commission, took place at, the Waterloo Market buildâ€" ing. Man‘s salvation celxninly does not lie in armaâ€" ments, nuclear or ventional. Cooperation, mutual understanding, interâ€"dependence and trust are the factors that, hopefully, will lead in time to a more stable world. One obvious way to reach such a state of affairs more rapidâ€" ly is to spend less and less each year on armaâ€" ments, and more on enhancirig the status and power of the United Nations. "Che 0i 5s 04. y :J Motorists are abusing the oneâ€"hour parking limit, acâ€" cording to Waterloo Chamâ€" ber of Commerce members. Parking meters were sugâ€" wen f 4* In Canada : one year $8 ; in United States and Foreign countries: one year $10 ESTABLISHED 1854 gested as a possible soluâ€" tion to the problem. 30 years ago Chief Constable Ernest Moreau revealed authoriâ€" ties are attempting to learn the origin of a souvenir bomb found in a Waterloo trucker‘s basement. The trucker was given the bomb by a member of the RCAF. The Wellesley Township plowing match was wellâ€" attended considering the cool weather. Judge Norâ€" The annual statistical reâ€" port of the assessment comâ€" missioner shows Waterloo‘s population has increased by 214. The population is now the tlowmen on the splendid work done under wetâ€"sod conditions. . The mayors of the urban centers of Waterloo County met and voted that the proâ€" vincial government send 1,000 single men to the north to relieve acute unâ€" employment. Only a small increase in Waterloo County‘s levy on 11 municipalities is shown for the year. The total levy is $328,548, an increase of $1,861 over 1930. Waterloo Township pays the largest part, $61,12%6. 40 years ago â€"_Infant scarcity shifts adoption emphasis The number of infants for adoption has also been decreased by the availability of convenient and inexâ€" pensive â€" abortions. â€" Last year in Canada, an estimâ€" ated 100,000 women had ilâ€" legal abortions. Furtherâ€" more, Canada‘s abortion laws became liberalized in 1969, and in 1970 some 11,200 therapeutic abortions were performed according to the Dominion Bureau of Staâ€" tistics. In addition,: legal abortions have been availâ€" able in nearby New York state since 1970. Naturally the availability of aborâ€" tion directly effects the number of adoptable childâ€" ren. Similarly the increase in sex education and the popularity of birth control pills are undoubtedly deâ€" creasing the illegitimacy by B.G. Graves No one knows exactly why, but in ‘1970, there was a sharp decline in the number of adoptable babies. The Children‘s Aid Society of Waterioo County calculated that the number of infants available for adoption fell 24 per cent. This is all the more surprising because the steadily since World War II. Several reasons for this sudden change are possible. Certainly more unwed mothers are keeping their children than ever before. The CAS determined that 44 percent of unwed mothers they dealt with, decided to keep their babies in 1970. This has been made possible by financial aid from proâ€" vincial and city agencies;â€" and by an increase in the number of day care centres. In the past, women have kept their babies for a varâ€" iety of personal reasons; to end their loneliness, to asâ€" sert their independence from their parents,,or even to punish themselves in the eyes of society. Added to these personal reasons, there is the feminist ideolâ€" ogy of the modern freeâ€" thinking woman; The womâ€" an who shuns the traditional values and systems of soâ€" ciety, who sees marriage as a dying institution, and who keeps her child and attempts to establish a new style of life. But whatever the reasons, more and more unâ€" wed mothers are attemptâ€" ing to go it alone. St. Monica House for unâ€" wed mothers is attempting It seems, if we are to beâ€" lieve the financial experts, ~that Canada is in for a tough time, economically. Them dam yankees are at it again. They are paying as much attention to our various trade missions and profesâ€" sional whiners as would a buffalo, charging toward a cliff, with a flea on his back screaming that he, too, would be killed if the buffalo went over the edge. Well, as the fleas, we can‘t blame it on anybody but ourselves. It‘s been too comfortable, riding around on the back of that big, fat, juicy buffalo. Better we should have been wasps, stinging instead of sucking. capacity. Monica executive director says they are going to stand back and take a good look at the situation, and if necâ€" essary change their policy in order to be of help to the for change. Traditionally, the problem of adoption has never been with infants, but with older children, who‘ve had difficult backâ€" grounds. The placing of oldâ€" er children is a more comâ€" plicated process for everyâ€" one involved. There is a longer period of adjustment girls now keeping their The Children‘s Aid Soâ€" ciety also senses the need to adapt to these new changâ€" feel about the rest of us. Newspaper editorials are crying the blues, telling the government to do someâ€" thing about it, or trying to assure their readers that the U.S. is not out to ""get us. They might as well save their type. It‘s too late for crying ; there‘s no use telling the present government to do anything about anything; and the U.S. is not interested in "getting‘‘ us: it is inâ€" terested in getting itself out of the worst economic mess it has been in since the thirâ€" ties. Writers of lettersâ€"toâ€"theâ€" editors are offering some the in further unemployment as the Yanks started closing plants, many of them heaviâ€" ly subsidized by our own government, and started pulling in their horns. ponder over. To carry on with the cliâ€" ches, Canadians are reaping what they have sown. For several generations, they have invited, nay, begged foreign capital to invest in this country. They have reâ€" fused to invest in their own country, preferring someâ€" thing "safer‘‘, like Brazilian Traction or A.T. and T. Result? The country is crawling with British, Sweâ€" dish, German and American plants, directed from abroad. I wonder how many Canadian companies you would find operating sucâ€" cessfully in any of those In the past, much of the caseworker‘s time has been taken up with infant placeâ€" clearly been topheavy in favour of the infant. It is hoped that with fewer inâ€" handicaps or older children whose formative years were a negative experience, reâ€" quire considerably more seriously police, all Ameriâ€" can subsidiary companies in _ Maybe a mouse can frighâ€" ten an elephant, according to legend, but a rat can‘t stop threatening to jump overâ€" board. And there‘s a lavely mixed analogy for you to Application for adoption increased 51 percent in 1970, and prospective parâ€" ents are asked to wait an ‘"‘indefinite‘‘ _ period of time for an infant. All these factors combine toâ€" emotional, but largely irraâ€" tional advice.to anyone who will listen. Some would cut the Yanks off from all our resources. That would be like cutting off your nose to improve your appearance. work on the more difficult Bill Smiley the result Oor Another cliche. You can‘t have your cake and eat it. We have all the ingredients for the cake. But rather than bake it ourselves, we send them to foreign bakers, buy it back from them, and find that it‘s mostly crumbs. One more. You can‘t have it both ways. You can‘t be half capitalist, half socia1 list. And if you want to play around with a giant among capitalists, like the U.S., you need more protection than an Alcan jockstrap. high school secondstring juniors to play against the Second, let‘s not bite the hand that feeds us. Unless that hand tries to give us a cuff on the ear. Then bite to hurt. Third. Let‘s pull in our belts, get off our tails, and start competing with indusâ€" trialists in other countries. In short, stop producing shoddy merchandise at inâ€" flated prices. I‘ll take a wage freeze, will you? Thus endeth the lesson . countries. _First, let‘s stop running around in everâ€"decreasing circles, like that bird of legâ€" end. You know it‘s fate. Perhaps at last, the time has come when the physicâ€" ally handicapped and older children will have a chance to find a home and the seâ€" curity they so desperately need. These are the children who have suffered and been doomed to a life of instituâ€" tional loneliness. With more couples availâ€" able than infants, with more time available to caseworkâ€" ers, and with more compasâ€" sion and understanding, perhaps we can put an end to this human tragedy. are becoming more acceptâ€" ing, and a larger number of children are being adopted gether to give a new hope to the unadoptable child. irrespective of age." the