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Although the committee purports to favor a conâ€" cerned council which will listen to citizens, it seemingâ€" ly didn‘t bother to formally consult all or even half the candidates on views in which committee members are interested. A group of 12 held a nonâ€"public meeting to choose the slate. Six of those named are from two geographâ€" ic areas of the city. Each one of the slate is wellâ€"known by at least two of the committee members, according to them. Candidates with views identical to those of the committee were ignored. If this is the case., it is a classic example of secretive., backroom politics. A partisan group should stand up and announce itself and not hide behind the facade of "an active and concerned council". [ Files of yesteryear | Kitchener, with downtown redevelopment as a major issue, has 23 candidates for 10 aldermanic seats. Waterloo, with less than oneâ€"third the populaâ€" tion has 19 candidates for eight seats. A committee of citizens recently formed in Waterâ€" loo has taken it upon themselves to name a slate of eight candidates they feel will form an "active and conâ€" cerned council". Some of those who put forth this view say they can‘t understand why so many candidates are running or why any at all are challenging the incumbent alderâ€" These people are either misâ€"informed or else have no comprehension of issues such as regional governâ€" ment, public transit and the need for community serâ€" vice facilities. To those who are amazed or don‘t understand. the number of new candidates alone should verify that there is dissatisfaction with the présent council, that new people are willing to try new ideas and that old members can‘t stand on their service record in order to win. Probably the most important issue in the election is the standard of communication between council and the citizens. Three of the new candidates have made improvement a major part of their platforms. It won‘t be surprising if at least three of the inâ€" cumbents are unseated in Monday‘s election. Without arguing the pros and cons of slates, we feel the motives and methods of this committee should be questioned. Viewed in this light, the committee members seem less like concerned citizens and more like a specialâ€" interest group. Perhaps they wish to be the powersâ€" behindâ€"theâ€"throne. Several times in the past few weeks, it has been suggested that there are no issues in the upcoming city council election. Published every Thursday by Fairway Press, a division of Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo Record Ltd. 30 Queen St., N., Kitchener Ontario Address correspondence to Waterloo Square Watâ€" erloo Ont. Telephone 744â€"6364. of the 1929 Santa Claus parade in Waterloo was shown. Only 43 persons turned out to the nomination meetâ€" ing where mayor James Bauer was acclaimed and 15 persons, including eight incumbents, were nominaâ€" ted for council. At the Waterloo Young Men‘s Club past president‘s night November 22, a film Austin Walsh, president, reâ€"emphasized â€" club purâ€" poses. The club‘s purâ€" poses were at first getting good men to run for council. Now their interest is mainly in secvice projects. 20 years ago Thirteen of 23 nominees qualified for election to eight council seats at the nomination meeting. 10 years ago Under the terms of new provincial legislation, six men must be added to the Waterloo fire department. Mayor Vernon Bauman didn‘t like the idea and questioned fire chief Albert Pagel, at a meeting of the fire and light committee, on the possibility of using volunteers. I A+! SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Canada: one year $8 ; in United States and Foreign countries: one year $10 voter‘s view ESTABLISHED 1854 t Thurzday, December 2, 1971 t e > nvem. c0L who was standing for reâ€" election, criticized mayor Bauman for lack of leaderâ€" ship during his term and suggested that Mr. Roberts deserved to be acclaimed mayor. 30 years ago D.E. Stauffer, of Bright, president of the United Farmers of Ontario, told the UFO _ annual â€" convention that the current labor situaâ€" tion is the most serious Canadian â€" agriculture has ever experienced. ‘"Our immediate task is to convince governments of this situation. This can only be done by an intelligent, efficientlyâ€"organized farm people." 40 years ago He said the higher rate of pay in war industries and other industries is draining agriculture of manpower it can ill afford to lose. Waterloo is to receive an additional $5,000 for relief work program. This anâ€" nouncement was made by mayor William Uffleman. The application from the town to the Ontario Unemâ€" ployment relief committee was for $26,.150. _The king and the queen (right) watch breathlessly after the princess has taken a potion offered her by Galahad tl cure her problem. The Lakeshore Village Players will perform ‘The princess with a problem‘ Saturday aftermoon at Cedarbrae School at 3 p.m. and 4: 30. Help fight for better community Dear editor: Do you know where your children are â€" after school and at night? â€" Probably hanging around at one of the plazas. Can‘t they do something constructive? Yes. There are boy scouts, cubs, brownâ€" ies, etc., but, one night a week â€" oh yes, skating weathâ€" er permitting â€" my home or the street. Why? Is there no money to build a place for our young people? or land to So, what will happen? Well, it has already happenâ€" ed â€" The promoters have pushed through the OK for two plazas within 6 blocks of each other in Lakeshore Village. The third plaza will eventually go up and yet hundreds more families will be movâ€" ing into homes and apartâ€" ments and the children still have no youth center. The land is there and the money could be available if we were more concerned with youth than convenience, milkstores or hair salons! So, what is the future? Eventually the money will come â€" to handle more juâ€" venile _ courts, reform centers, jails, etc. Why so pessimistic? I‘m not â€" don‘t you read the everyday paper? Anyway, why should I worry? â€" I can always sell my home and move to a better communâ€" ity and the children have to learn to adjust to new schools and friends. The elephant and the mouse Dear editor: In view of prime minisâ€" ter _ Trudeau‘s _ petulant complaints while in the USSR about the plight of the ‘"‘"mouse‘‘ (Canada) being Or â€" WOULD YOU HELP ME FIGHT FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY?! Lakeshore mother‘s plea Elizabeth Eser in bed with an ‘"elephant" (the U.S.A.) I find it inconâ€" gruous that under the regionâ€" al development plan, the federal government is givâ€" ing a $236,000 grant to Aeroâ€" yox Canada Limited in order that they might move their plant from Hamilton to Amherst, N.S. (where waâ€" ges are from 25% to 30% lower.) Significantly, the firm (which makes electrical componants and air condiâ€" 65 workers and is a subsiâ€" diary of Aerovox Corporaâ€" tion of the U.S.A. â€" which made a profit of $750,000 in 1970‘ The idiocy of the "mouse‘"‘ financing the ‘"elephant" while the mouse community goes hungry is sheer lunacy and would appaul even a grade 9 economist. In fact, any housewife handles her budget a lot better than our current ‘"experts‘"‘ in Otâ€" tawa. Come to think of it, no housewife worth her bed ‘‘November glooms are barren beside the dusk of June." Thus quoth the poet Henley. And I say too ruddy trueâ€" as a general rule. But this year has been an exception. I don‘t think I‘ve ever written a decent word about November, with its ‘"‘surly blasts‘"‘, its sudden, depressing dumping of snow, its bleak and sterile look. I know we‘re going to pay for it with a terrible winâ€" ter, but this November, for the first time in many years, we‘ve been ushered into winâ€" ter with a gentle melancholy that seems unbelievable. By the time this appears in print, we may be up to our noggins in snow. But credit where it is due. The first few weeks of November this year, in these parts, have made me decide to give this country and its crazy climâ€" ate one more chance. Its almost as though God had held up his hand as the four winds were on their mark, cheeks puffed, ready to give us the usual, and boomed, "Hold. The poor devils are having enough troubles of their own makâ€" ing. Let‘s give them one November to remember."‘ Normally, November is the most dismal month in the year, with the possible ioning systems,) employs Used stamps sold to dealers Dear editor : At Christmas time, I think of all the cancelled postage stamps that are needlessly discarded. What good are these anyway? These seeminglyâ€"worthless articles, from any country, are sold in bulk by the Scarâ€" boro Fathers to stamp dealâ€" ers to help finance mission projects throughout the world. In one year, I have receivâ€" ed over 150 pounds of used exception of March. But in the latter, at least the days are getting longer and there‘s a wild hope that spring may come again. Normally, â€" November means many things, none of them pleasant. Darkness comes early. There is a wild scramble, for many of us, over snow tires and storm windows. There is bitter wind ashore. and board would tolerate the mice taking over her home in the first place! Patricia Young. * _ Vancouver It‘s been a grand Novemâ€" ber for the hunters and trout fishermen. Perhaps not so good for the deer hunters, with little snow. But for the duck and partridge boys, and the rainbow anglers, it has been near perfection. Day after day of mild, alâ€" most balmy weather has done away with the agonized squat in the duck blind, with nothing between you and certain death from exposure except the flask of rum. The same weather has made trout fishing, usually underâ€" taken in a biting wind with halfâ€"frozen fingers, practicâ€" ally a Sunday School picnic. Normally, the squirrels would be getting set up for the winter. I look into the backyard and they‘re gamâ€" bolling as though it were midâ€"June. Even the golfers have been able to stretch the seaâ€" son by at least a month. Bill Smiley postage stamps, in small quantities, in large quantiâ€" ties; from service clubs, from companies, from indiâ€" viduals. They add up quickâ€" ly if everyone collects them for me. l It hardly takes a second to rip the used postage stamps off of the envelope, leaving a bit of paper around it. This can be your way of helping the world‘s poor without costing you a lot of time or money. Send by third class mail. Check with your post ofâ€": fice. Please bring or send me all your cancelled postâ€" age stamps. anytime of Surest sign that it‘s been a November without peer is the behaviour of our cat. As a rule, when November arâ€" rives, with its wind and rain and snow, she has to be hurlâ€" ed bodily outside. This year, she has actually been goâ€" ing to the door and aslun4 out. And they‘re not the only ones. Many a man like myâ€" self has been lulled into a false sense of security, hasâ€" n‘t his storms on, hasn‘t changed to snow tires, hasâ€" n‘t even turned off the outâ€" side water, and hasn‘t a clue where his winter boots are Oh, there‘ll be a day reckoning, all right. bones warn me. But to heck with it. I‘m going to live dangerously and enjoy every day of it. the year And to prove it, I‘m going to write my first, and probâ€" ably my last, ode to Noâ€" vember. Muchâ€"maligned November, This year you‘ve been my friend, Don‘t quite know how to prove it, But you‘ve shown you can groove it. No way are you September, But you‘re one I‘ll long remember . Isn‘t that beautiful? * R.M. Chmay 230 Jarvis Street Fort Erie, Ontario