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Published every Wednesday by Fairway Press. a division of Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo Record Ltd. 225 Fairway Rd.. S.. Kitâ€" chener. Ontario. Address correspondence to Waterloo Square, Waterloo, Ont. Telephone 744â€"6364. 4 Waterloo Chronicle, Wednesday, October 17, 1973 Kominek led Several aldermen have complained that last week‘s public hearing regarding the rezoning of Young St. drifted a long way from the topic at hand. meeting astray The person most responsible for this is Ald. Rudy Kominek who was the chairman of the meeting. Ald. Kominek could have exerted more control over the meeting but made no effort to do so until Ald. Henry complained that he did not think the issue should be turned into a confronâ€" tation. He seems to ask people in the audience to identify themselves only if they say something he disagrees with. s Until that time Ald. Kominek had continually added fuel to the fire by giving his own personal opinion in response to the residents of Young SF. As chairman of the meeting Ald. Kominek should control the discussion but he should not join in and help lead everyone off the track as he did last week. _Although he denied expressing opinions during the meeting, Ald. Kominek manages to leave little doubt in anyone‘s mind which side he is on. It is a good idea to have people identify themâ€" selves at this type of meeting but Ald. Kominek should apply the rule to everyone and not use it as a method of intimidation. Poem to the Editor BEAUTY DESTROYED We teach and train our Girls and Boys, That destruction and waste is a sin, ‘ But what of the fine buildings man destroys, Like our City Hall that I was in. It has beautiful marble on floor and walls, And scenery overhead, " But it won‘t be long until that beauty falls, Our City will have cheapened instead. The wreckers are here with their thoughtless The City Hall was built so firm and strong, _ A picture with gardens, a beauty to see, It is sad to say â€" it won‘t be long, The City Hall will no longer be. This once was called City Hall Square, But Eaton‘s have taken it‘s name, For this to happen is a sin and unfair, And for sure it is a shame. Some will have to give an account, And it may yet be this fall, | ‘ Time will tell how much‘ the amount, By wrecking the City Hall. , The City Hall is not so old, Why, â€" it‘s younger than the Mayor, How would you feel if you were told: "Some one else is taking your chair." A beautiful Museum it could have been made, Had some only used their head, It was the heart of the City â€" it should have stayed, But no they‘ve wrecked it instead! crew, To wreck this beautiful hall, As if it were only a worn out shoe, It will lie in the dump this fall. In Canada: one year $8; in United States and Foreign countries: one year $10 SUBSCRIPTION RATES ESTABLISHED 1854 Weandy Herman, editor 3 VCAE NE + If you‘re pregnant. you d . John CrowdeT} _ jige io start making a nest. Kitchener Taxpayerâ€" fixing up a home. But on My daughter Kim â€" and her husband are having a tough: time these days. He‘s starting a postâ€"gradâ€" uate course at university, and she‘s well into an underâ€" graduate course in advanced pregnancy. | Sue syuricare But that‘s not what‘s tough. _ Those things are normal, exciting, and even joyful. ~ It‘s the eternal problem for students, and for most of the rest of us, of money, scarcity of. At first, I was inclined to scoff. "Ah‘ You kids‘. You don‘t know what it‘s like to be hard up. You get all those grants and loans. Why, when your mother and 1 . . . blah blah blah." You‘d like to buy an ocâ€" casional roast, instead of trying to think of another method of making a deliâ€" cious hamburg dish. _ In fact, at today‘s prices, you can‘t even afford hamburg too often. Not that they‘re going to starve. They do get just enough to get by. But when you‘re young and impatient and have been spoiled in a middleâ€"class home with most of the amenities, you get a little sick of "getting by." You‘d like to have a car, like most normal people, and be able to drive into the country or visit friends, or go home for a weekend and have some decent food from the old folks groaning board. Can‘t afford it. You‘d like to go to a show once in a while, or have a party, or have the clothes to go to someone else‘s party. But there just isn‘t anyâ€" thing in the budget for these fairly simple pleasures. You‘d like to have colour TV. or even black and white. but there are no funds You‘d like some new, warm winter clothes. but you have to make do with last year‘s fiveâ€"yearâ€"old shabby dufflecoat, and last year‘s leaking boots. 19473 97 Bill Smiley the rent you can afford, you wind up in a crumby flat where you share the bathâ€" room and the stove doesn‘t work and the decorating is in puke colour and the therâ€" mometer never goes higher than 65. It can all be pretty deâ€" pressing unless you have plenty of physical and menâ€" tal fortitude. There‘s love, of course, to fall back on. But from what I‘ve seen in my day, love flourishes a lot better when theré‘s some bread on the table and some bread in your wallet. _ First of all, we were prodâ€" ucts of the depression, and didn‘t expect much. When we did get a little windfall, we counted our blessings and promptly went out and spent them. â€"I remember the time one of my uncles died intestate. By the time the estate had My wife and I went through the whole bit, but I can‘t help feeling more pity for today‘s young couâ€" ples than I ever felt for us. Students from Erbsville School spent a day near the Laurel Conservation Authority learning to get by onâ€"their own outdoors. Not the least of their accomplishments was cooking their own lunch. been cut up among the numerous nieces and nephâ€" ews, we got something like $102.50. It was manna from heaven. We went straight out and bought a radio, a case of beer, a bunch of stuff at the delicatessen, and had a parâ€" ty. To heck with tomorrow or next week. But I must admit that life was a lot simpler then, and a great deal cheaper. We had a child, and we got more pleasure out of him than we would have from colour TV, a penthouse apartment, and a Cadillac. We had a furnished flat in one of the grimmer secâ€" tions of the city. Shared the bathroom. Furniture was Salvation ‘Army specials. But my wife redecorated the place, and it had two enâ€" trances and a backyard with real trees and grass. It cost $15 a week. Furnished. Today you can scarcely rent one room for that. We had a total income of about $130 a month. That covâ€" ered rent, food, clothes, 972. 974 It‘s tough to be middle class > transportation. About once a month we‘d have a real blowout. Babyâ€"sitter (75¢); movies (75¢) each); half a dozen cokes (36¢) and a bag of peanuts (15¢). Wow! That‘s living. It wasn‘t bad, but I used to get mighty sick of never having a dollar that didn‘t have a slot waiting to gulp it. We weren‘t bored, or desâ€" perate. We talked, read, studied, listened to the radio, gloated over our child. Holidays, I worked in the post office or in a factory, to pick up a few extra bucks. Smokes were rollâ€" yourâ€"owns. I‘ve never been sorry that my plans for postâ€"graduate work and three or four mot > years of poverty went up in flames and I was tossed by accident into the hurlyâ€"burly of the newspaper business. Today‘s Students work hard at dull summer jobs, save every nickel, get grants, but have to scrape on the edge of poverty and shabbiness. I pity them.