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Since then, party involvement at this level has been spotty. For instance, this year, the NDP ran a slate of candidates for aldermen and school board in Toronto's Ward Nine with The Liberal Party involved itself in civic pol- itics only once. In 1969, a Toronto municipal Liberal association was formed. It developed a platform and ran candidates for mayor and several other offices. Few were elected and the experiment was dW\,,// riding associations endorsed ‘any candidates partial success. for any office. T" - Eiter? tltougt She trusted people about as far as she could throw them up in the air, and she was five feet two. She had a set of scales in the house, and she weighed every sack of flour or sugar that came in. If it was underweight, she'd skin the supplier alive, with her tongue. And I wasn't always such a dumb, complaisant member of the flock myself. I remember one incident. It was about two years after the war. I had spent a year in a sanatorium. and was on pension, but I was going to school, and work- ing at hard labor during Vacations. to support a wife and kid. My mother was on good terms with the local merchants. But they had to produce, and they had to compete, and if they didn't, they were in trouble. In" smiley LtlberallllNrtqrlllAte I _'i'_,'_"-i:rTi,i,2l', Valid till Dec. 15/76 ’25:: (1/5 MLKMMAMdAclc1Mdkhflthmfldidd.A(“4.4% Santa brings you (Continued from page 4) (Continued tram my 4) Nothing is wrong with a majority of any pol- itical persuasion on council provided that each alderman exercises -his or her independent judgment on what is best for the city. If, how- ever, a group begins to act as a caucus, and follows party lines in voting, then the public Even though parties did not enter candidates in Waterloo this year, active members of all three parties, particularly Conservatives, ran for office. One reporter Monday evening re- marked that Waterloo seemed to have elected a Conservative council. I had quite a lot of visits to the Department of Veterans' Affairs. There I was treated, by one guy, a civil servant, like something that had crawled out from under a stone. This guy would say, "Take a seat," and ignore you for one, two, three hours. He had lost an arm in the war, and flaunt- ed it, with his sleeve neatly pinned up. To him, I guess, se- cure with his pension, and his forever job doing nothing, we were scum, whose only purpose was to irritate him. and force him to do a little paperwork. One day, my nashpoint occurred. I'd taken an afternoon off work, lost half a day's precious pay, to see a senior official at DVA concerning grants for advanced studies. One-Arm waved me to a seat, and stood around shooting ‘5)? '.., C' \Fh‘u'i" , ‘IN '; , .v t. k y AMaW:m3-m'~5 has the right to feel that it has been misled. But, [don't expect that will happen, tn Waterloo. A Congratulations to all those who were suc- eessful. Those who did not make it this time also deserve congratulations for their cam- paigns. All candidates showed a deep interest in civic affairs and created much public inter- est in the elections. All of Waterloo wins in this case. "Listen, you one-armed bastard! I've got one lung, and I think I've seen as much service as you have. If I don't get to see Mr. X in five minutes. I'm coming over the counter!" He could have cleaned me, even with his one arm, but he turned pale, hustled about, and in three minutes I was talk- ing to the boss. It was that old civil servant's panic about getting a bad report. Waterloo voters had an excellent slate of candidates from which to choose this year. Several excellent campaigns were waged which involved hundreds of people. the breeze and drinking coffee for an hour - an hour and a half. lblew. _ It was cruel, but ree never regretted it. That jerk need- ed straightening out. Isn't it time 'ke started straightening out all the jerks? If anybody treats me civilly, 1'11 respond in kind. But from now on, if he doesn't I'll holler. Who's with me?