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Some years ago the American writer ahd wit. Don Marquis, theorized that boredom with the welfare state and the affluent society would soon drive people back to barbarian. Listen to any newscast today, scan the papers, watch television or the movies and it seems fairly ob- vious that we are fast reaching that stage of retrogression. We live with violence every day and it 's doing something dreadful to the psyche We've developed an immunity to shock, a tortoise shell against compassion. Famine in Pakistan is too remote; war and massacre have left us numb. It is a matter of statistical record that out of ten dramatic sequences in television designed for children, three are openly violent. In addi- tion 71 percent of children 's programs have at least one violent scene, many of them involving the use of weapons. Even more startling is the fact that little or no serious damage ever re- sults. The violence is part of the game. It is condoned and becomes an acceptable problem solver. Is it any wonder then that it spills over into the nation's behaviour patterns in our streets and parks and even our homes? Are we bring- ing up a generation of insensitive, brutalized human beings to whom violence on TV and in the world at large are much the same? The answer is probably 'yes' and 'no'. I Files of yesteryear I 'Yes' from those likely to be affected by watching dramatized violence, 'no' from those young people who sing peace songs and refuse to be part of the national savagery that drops jellied gas bombs on defenceless people. However, we cannot risk one child being infected by the violence he or she watches on television or movies. A campaign against this type of mind pollution is needed just as urg- ently as the campaign against the pollution of our environment. Waterloo chamber of com- merce industrial committee will recommend to Waterloo council the acquisition and development of 100 acres or more of industrial land, said committee chairman Dennis Meyer. 10 years ago Pointing out that most of the land on Weber Street North acquired by the city during the past three years has been purchased and new factories established, Mr. Meyer' said the land acquisi- tion question is "definitely in the wind" and has been re- commended verbally to Wa- terloo officials. The Waterloo Legion ask- ed the city property com- mittee to erect a flagpole in Memorial Park behind city hall. The legion offered to pay $25 toward the cost of the pole. Prompted by criticism in- volving the dismissal of Bob Kinnear, Waterloo Hurri- canes jlinior A hockey coach. W.H. Timmis, chair- man of the Waterloo arena commission asked to resign at a special meeting. Fel- low commissioners how- ever, persuaded him to re- main as head of the arena body. 20 years ago Waterloo council, at a spe- cial meeting, made a loan of $7,500 to the Waterloo arena commission. Published every Thursday by Fairway Press, a division of Kitchener-Waterloo Record Ltd, 30 Queen St.. N., Kitchener Ontario Address correspondence to Waterloo Square Wat- erloo Ont. Telephone 744AS364. The money will be used to We amnion: ESTABLISHED 1854 SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Canada: one year $8: in United States and Foreign countries: one year $10 _ T 'A'" a “.3. r n, M. 1w.m to, 1011 defray the costs and ex- penses involving the Water- loo Hurricanes, sponsored by the commission. to junior games, decided to reduce the price of ad- mission to 50 cents for all seats except the reds. 30 years ago _ -The arena commission, in a move to draw more fans "No parking" signs re- cently placed in Waterloo to relieve the local traffic situation are being respect- ed, and “I only hopemotor- ists will continue their good work," said chief consta- ble Ernest Moreau. _ The signs have been plac- ed along all streets perpendi- cular to King between Young and William and along King between the s a m e two streets. At the urgent request of Canadian naval authorities, the Canadian Red Cross is immediately preparing to supply several thousand dunnage bags for survivors, to assist in clothing victims of enemy action picked up at sea. This action is the sequel to a request from a com- mander in the Canadian navy for clothing for ship- wrecked sailors and others. Fresh pork sausage sold at 20 cents a pound: smok- ed pork sausage, 22 cents a pound: Join roast, 18 and 20 cents a pound. 40 years ago Fatigue causes may he mental or physical by Alison Goddard Ever wonder why you‘re weary? It might be the world you live in, the state of your health, your age, your outlook on life, or any com- bination of these, accord- ing to Dr. Peter Forsham, professor of medicine at the University of Califor- nia here. And, he adds, wo- men are sometimes more susceptible than men. Dr. Forsham notes that the causes of fatigue are of- ten more mental than phy- sical. He singles out the stresses and strains of eve- ry-day living as a primary cause. "rm absolutely con- vinced," he declares, “that the constant excitement. stimulation, ups and downs, schedules and timetables in our society result in a very fatiguing kind of life." Few of us, Dr.'Forsham observes, get tired as a re- sult of hard physical labor anymore, "except for wood- choppers and people like that." And even when we experience fatigue under natural circumstances - such as right after a meal __ there may not be much we can do about it. “If you lived in a primitive cul- ture," he notes, "you could lie on the grass, sleep for 10 minutes and wake up re- freshed. But with the kind of lives most of us lead to- day, we can't do this very often." Growing Older A factor in fatigue that's physical and psychological too, the doctor reports, is "growing older.' Women __ particularly during meno- pause - are more subject Remembrance Day Having just returned from the Remembrance Day Ser.. vice at the Cenotaph in Wa- terloo, may I say how im- pressed my family and I were with the service and the number of people who participated. It does seem thoughtless. however, that those who do- nate wreaths, do not have the courtesy to take the time to be presenDto lay them at the Cenotaph, Dear Editor Theme for Remembrance Day service was same as that for P0ppy Day, "If you can't remember Yours truly, Joan H. Mecredy to "ups and downs" and mones.) therefore more prone to weariness, he says. Many, he Log observes. have hot flashes, Deten "feel miserable and be- of iatit come exceedingly nervous." notes. is (Physicians often prescribe ter. “Tc estrogen replacement are mer therapy to alleviate such essentia menopausal symptoms - backgro which are attributed to a declares deficiency of female hor- for cert At time of writing, there is a wind howling out of the north and a wrack of clouds tearing across the sky. But you won't hear a word of complaint from me. In the first place, the wind has blown the remainder of my annual 20,000 cubic feet of leaves right off my front lawn and onto my neighbors! And in the second, this has been the most glorious au- tumn I can remember. The foilage was eneffably beautiful, and lasted longer than usual. We were swim- ming right into October. On Nov. I, we entertained friends on the back lawn, after a two - mile walk through the hushed expec- tancy of a beech forest, over stone walls that looked as though they had been built by the same chaps who knocked together the pyra- mids, and across rolling ttr". tures that reminded, bi ter- sweetly, of the English downs. Let dread winter do its dangdest. The Lord. or who- ever runs the weather de- partment, has given me a fall I will never forget. Mind you, take that with a grain of salt. Man is a fallible crea- ture, and within a week I'll be cursing the snow. getting my snow Ores on too late, trying to pry the garden hose out of the ice, and won- dering why I didn't get my storm windows on during that glorious autumn I was raving about. Man is fallible, indeed. We are born equal, but some of us become more equal than others. We are born Looking for Clues Determining the origins of fatigue, Dr. Forsham notes. is not a simple mat- ter. "To know if the causes are mental or physical, it's essential to get the patient's background straight," he declares. He says he looks for certain clues when tak- fallible, but some of us be- come more fallible than others. I am content to be in the latter category. If there's anything that raises m_y hackles, it is the person who is infallible. or thinks he is. Or she, in the case of my wife. For example, did you read about the way that Jackie ex-Kennedy has that poor Greek, Aristotle onas- sis, tied up financially. He made himself a billionaire, but despite his first name and the wisdom it implies, his marriage contract with her makes him look like a real hick who has come in contact with a very shrewd horsetrader. She is guaran- teed $10,000 a year for cloth- es, I forget the other items, but they're in the same vein. Even my wife was appalled. She couldn't spend it, she said. I merely raised one eyebrow. But wouldn't you agree that Aristotle is tal- Iible? The political experts are just about as fallible as they come. Premier Davis would have a real battle on his hands in Ontario. Joey Smallwood would have some opposition, but no real prob- lem in Newfoundland. The upset of the 1ong-entrench- ed Alberta government was impossible. Davis won walk- ing in Ontario. Joey got licked (I think) in Newfound- land and the long-entrench- ed boys in Alberta were turfed out. The cops are fallible Hundreds of them stood around with red faces when some silly young punk burst ing a medical history. “If a woman wakes up tired in the morning and gets wear- ier as the day goes by - so that she's virtually incap- able of staying awake in the afternoon - then organ- ic disease must be consider- ed seriously. .. 1 Illnesses, such as anemia, he ex- plains, often cause chronic fatigue.) through their serried ranks and put a half-Nelson on Premier Kosygin. The mighty United States is fallible. For the first time in the history of the United Nations, the States got a real jolt in the ego on the admission of China vote. Its fallibility was showing even more blantantly when it per- sisted, in the face of world opinion, in the great nuclear test off Alaska. But this is the way of the world. If man were infal- little, he would have no need for a god, the earth woult‘ be crawling with automa- tons, and life would be very dull. If weather forecasters were infallible, for instance, there'd be no spice in life, We'd be able to batten down for a storm, instead of hav- ing the roof blown off when they predicted light winds. We'd be able to wear heavy jackets. instead of shivering like a dog vomiting razor blades, when they forecas hot weather, and the ten‘ perature was 34. No fun. I've come along way from my opening words about the beautiful autumn we've had. But there's method in my madness. Man is fallible. Maybe I just think we've had a beau- tiful fall. I could quite easily wake up tomorrow morning, discover that it was the mid- dle of September, and that we'd just had a four foot fall of snow, and that the whole thing had been a dream. I hope not, but I'm not discounting the possibil- ity, think."