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Watovloo Chronnclo on». a Iocolod on 2nd Boor ot Walonoo Squat. s on». Your Emu no mo mall ammo. bond- m. honor-om Mum-m (duoctly oppome the card shop) or from the dunno: ion! m tho TD Bank In. the “unto: to m. 2od thoor and you an more ' Page 4 - Waterloo Chroniglc, 18erere, Dumbo! tr, 1976 The ballots have been cast, the returns tallied and the winners declared. The election is over! It's with some relief that I type that last sen- tence. Covering the municipal election in Wa- terloo for the last month and a half has been in- teresting. stimulating, frustrating and humor- ous. It's also been extremely tiring. Few people outside the journalism profession probably realize how much work goes into writing, re- searching and compiling election profiles. waterloo chronicle Fewer still know the pressures brought to bear on a newspaper editor during an election cam- paign. For me, experiencing the subtle and not- so-subtle pressures a few candidates tried to apply to influence what was written about them in the newspaper was a real eye opener. From the start, I realized I had to take a tough stand with candidates who were trying to mis- lead the public, intimidate me or change the content of articles written about them. In all cases I tried to be firm, polite and ob- stinate. Ensuring that the public received the most accurate and complete, information pos- sible about-each candidate was my aim. I be- lieve the Chronicle was largely successful in achieving this. Of course, you can't please everyone all of the time. And it helps to have a sense of humor in this job. One candidate, who complained to an- other newspaper about the Chronicle reporter assigned to interview him, profusely praised the finished profile to the same reporter a few days later. Of course, not all Waterloo's candidates pre- sumed to tell us how to do our job. It was just the vocal minority who made life difficult and challenging. » Seriously. though, this municipal campaign was basically a good. cleanly-fought contest. Waterloo voters had a good choice of candi- dates, representing a variety of spectrum; political viewpoints and occupations. That more voters did not exercise their franchise is no commentary on the quality of the candi- dates, but rather on the apathy and the disin- terest of the electorate. At one polling station of more than 200 registered voters. only four people voted. And two of them were a deputy re- turning officer and a polling clerk! It's really sad to see the disinterest and lack of involvement demonstrated by many poten- tial municipal voters. For if they really examin- ed our system of government, they would find that the municipal level has the most impact on their daily lives and is the one most geared to citizen input and participation. Do party politics play a role in municipal elections? This question became one of the hot issues in the past couple of weeks of municipal campaigning. f'ertainl.v, active members of all major parties contested various positions. To wage an "ffective campaign. a candidate must involve as many friends and icquain- tances as possible The candidate alsn goes ly those peuple “in. have expe'u we (mil exper use In elevtmn: This naturally Involves mem- bers of political parties. Uberat Party Line Election reftections established 154 'nstrtished every Wednesday try [Kinny he“. a (Misha of Kitchener-Waterloo Recon! Ltd. ' owner. address cone-panache: to Wattenoootrscr Waterloo Square, Waterloo, Ont. We was» Pubhsher James M Boland Edna! Mary Stupan suttscrtptiomr S“) a year in Canada. 812 a year In ynited States and Foreign Countries 23 Fairway Rd. s, Kitchener. 0n! Most Canadians are pretty long-suffering. We seldom take to the barricades. set fire to the flat. or hurl bricks at the police. _ _ Canadian men put up with nagging Wives for years. and accept it, on the whole with meekness, Nowadays wives not only nag. but they are. many of them. the (-rudest of ma- terialists and the most militant of women's libbers. The husbands still go along without much more than an ocCa- sional snarled, "All right. then You can put the bloody garbage out mi Canadian women bgt up With undemonstrative. insensi- tive louts of husbands or years. chaps who Were knowledge- able about beer and hockey and poker. but wary of emotion and callous about the finer things in lite. Nowadays. most husbands are still louts. but quite a few have escaped into the esoterle world of macrame. needlepoint. going to the ballet. and having their hair "done” every two weeks And the Wives haven't complained much, except for the occasional venomous. “I remember when you were always trying to drag me into the bedroom .. In fact, we are such norrcomplainers that everybody walks all over us We shudder andwhimper under a puni- tive tax system. but there's nary a bomb for the tax col- lector We get royally and regularly screwed by everybody from mechanics to merchants, from supermarkets to surgeons, from restaurants to repairmen, and we grumble a bit. but In the Kitchener mayoralty campaign, how- ever. a story in the Kitchener-Waterloo Record left the impression that the Liberal and Con- servative parties had united behind Edith Mac- lntosh to defeat Morley Rosenberg because he is a New Democrat. Public reaction to this was like-Iv one factor in Mr. Rosenberg's decisive w” Monduv " hile rt may be true that active members of both Ihe Liberal and Conservative parties worked for Mayor Macintosh, it is also true llill Smile almost enjoy it, as Confucius advised about rape, when it seems inevitable, _ We put up with dumb insolence from postal clerks, and stupidity from sales clerks, and bad manners from beer slingers and lip from hotel Hunkies. And we pay up. mutter a but. and Iade into the woodwork. We accept shoddy workmanship from Canadian manufac- turers. and go back for more We eat fifth-rate meals In highway restaurants. vow we'll never go back, and stop at the same place next time hoping for a miracle. only to he served the greasy. badly-cooked {ood and watery coffee we got last time, We are humble and contrite when some Jumped-up pm squeak at a civtl servant. or some ulcerous creature In an employment office. tells us we haven't filled out the form properly Maybe we deservc ll Maybe It‘s time we reared up on our hind legs and started bitching about all the second-rate goods and third-rate servm' that are shoved at us Maybe it'S time we started yelling, and ranging puhlw scenes. and demanding proper service. and shouting tor the general manager or the head watter. and complaining bitterly and heatedly when we vncounter stupidity and In- solence and slipshoddiness . We weren't always like this. you know A couple of gen- erations ago. Canadians weren't such patsues for the greedy fCrmtanued on page 5) The Liberal Party does not run candidates for municipal office. nor does it endorse candi- dates. Not one Liberal riding association en- dorsed any candidate for any position I can- not speak for the other parties. hut I would be surprised if either the Conservative or NDP (Continued on page 5t that several supported the Rosenberg campaign. As might be expected, many active New Demo- crats probably worked for Mr. Rosenberg. Some also supported Mrs MacIntosh. By Bob Ernest, president, Waterloo Wellington District Liberal Association Time to speak up