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WAS just dusting off my war medals the other day, to put them back in storage in a drawer in the cellar, where they‘ve been gathering mould since we moved here 22 years ago. I‘d brought them out, or at least my wife had, to lend to a student who was going to be a general in the school production of My Fair Lady. He had to have a chestful of medals. I had seen them last about the time they arrived in the mail, after World War II. They were of about the same vintage as my wedding certificate, which 1 haven‘t seen since the same time. I never know where these great memen toes are. My wife doesn‘t either, but she looks for them, and I don‘t. I say, "Wonder where that picture is, when I was playing halfâ€"back for Victoria College?" Then I forget it. She doesn‘t. She spends four hours looking, and says, "It‘s in the attic, right with that picture that was taken of you and that shameless hussy in a London pub."" And she gams under my nose a nightclub photo of me talking earnestly to a handsome, dark WAAF. Anyway, it‘s the thought that counts. She wasn‘t that goodâ€"looking, and 1 wasn‘t that earnest. I was probably asking her if she‘d lend me a couple of pounds. Sterling, that is. Let‘s get back to the medals, before I get into a quagmire. My old girl polished them up, and they shone like gold. I learned shortly afle!thal they are worth as much as 50 bucks each, providing they‘re not polished, and that beautiful brass finish removed. In a democracy, rule is to be in accordance with the will of the majority ... in this instance the majority has decided to endorse fluoridation. For this simple reason Waterloo‘s aldermen had no choice but to make the decision which they did. The issue, we feel, was decided last summer in the referendum which was conducted. The results are a clear matter of record â€" of the 12,165 eligible voters who chose to cast a ballot in the plebiscite, 6,239 were in favor of fluoridation and 5,926 stood opposed. How many votes does it take before any vote can be considered conclusive? Since a margin of 300 votes is not considered to be sufficient, we wonder, will a difference of 1,000 or 2,000 be more acceptable? Waterloo‘s politicians should be commended for their refusal to put the fluoridation question on the ballot for the November municipal election. What Reide} and others who argue in favor of a second referendum forget is that it takes only one vote to make a majority. Additional votes are the ‘"icing on the cake‘" but it is that lone vote which determines the winner. The difference may have been only a "mere 313 votes‘" but that, in any book, constitutes a majority. Arguments of antiâ€"fluoridationists that the margin was indecisive, we feel, are invalid. Perhaps the degree of decisiveness of any vote is dependent upon whether you are the victor or the vanâ€" quished. PAGE 6 Or, maybe a percentage figure should be applied. In fact, Howard Reidel, president of the Waterloo Safe Water Society, in an address to council last month, suggested that a margin of 20 or 30 per cent would have been enough to resolve the matter in what.he calls "a meaningful, decisive way." â€" WaATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 5 Fluoridation s established 1854 published every Wednesday by Fairway Press, a division of Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo Record Ltd., owner 225 Fairway Rd.S., Kitchener, Ont. address correspondence to Waterloo office: hams 92 King St.South, Waterloo, Ont., telephone 886â€"2830 Old war veterans Waterioo Chronicle office is located on 2nd floor of the O W Sports buiiding opposite Waterloo Square Parking on King Street or in Waterioo Square Open Monday to Friday 9:00 a m to 5:00 p m I couldn‘t help it. I took them to my classes and displayed them. I heid up one that was a medal for eating Spam for four years, told them it was the Victoria Cross. Pinned on another, told them it was the French Croix de Guerre. It was actually presented to everyone who got on a troopship without slipping off the gangâ€" plank. And so o They didn‘t know the difâ€" ference. & When I got them back, 1 stuck them in a desk drawer, and forgot about them. But recent events have stirred some old, secret fire in me. 1 want a medal for the Falkland Islands Campaign. There won‘t be many of them, but I‘d certainly stand out in the Legion parade on Remembrance Day. I can just see it a ruby, representing the British Empire, on a field of argent (silver), standing for Argentina, with a mushroom in the cenâ€" tre. I‘m trying to keep this a secret, so that not too many old vets will try to button up their old battleâ€"dress and volunteer for the Falkland Islands Campaign. It might not be a bad idea, on the other hand, to call up the old vets. No use wasting a lot of young guys. Stick the old turkeys on a British ship with an open bar, for three weeks heading for the Falkiands, and you‘d accomplish two things. Most of them would be dead of high blood pressure, heart attacks or strokes by the time they‘d got there. Or the Argentinâ€" ian forces would die laughing when they saw these old greyâ€"haired, potâ€"bellied, redâ€"faced warriors piling over the gunâ€" Publisher: Manager: Editor: Paul Winkler Bill Karges Karla Wheeler Either way, the Department of Veterâ€" ans‘ Affairs would save a mint on pensions and hospital treatment, or, in the second case, win the war. But, by George, it would be a great way to go. And I know thousands of old vets who would rather go one of those two ways than the way they‘re going now. Isn‘t it amazing to think that those old guys, less than 40 years ago, were fighting for the British Empire, among other things? That red stuff on the map, on which the sun never set. India, Burma, great chunks of Africa, half the West Indies, Rhodesia. And, of course, the "colonies,"" as the Limeys kept thinking of Canader, Australier, New Zealand, South Africer, and many an other. Like an old wool sweater that has been washed too many times in superâ€"hot water, the British Empire has shrunk to the UK, Northern Ireland (and they can have it), Hong Kong, Gibraltar, the Falklands, and a few other zircons in the onceâ€"diamond studded British crown. If the Brits got into a war, by some idiotic misconception, and issued a call to the Empah to come to their rescue, there would be a deafening silence, rather than a rush to the colours. Pity. It wasn‘t a bad empire, as empires go. Outposts in darkest Africa, dressing for dinner; keeping a stiff upper lip under one‘s topee; being benevolent to the nigâ€"nogs; swindling the Chinese; grabbing wales of the assault boats, and drowning in six inches of water. BILL SMILEY Graduates who are interested in attendâ€" ing the reunion should contact Kevin Donelson, Registrar, University of St Jerome‘s College,.Waterloo, N2L 3G3. Kevin M. Doneison St. Jerome‘s College everything that was removable. But not as cruel or brutal as the Romans or the Spanâ€" ish. And there was a sort of kinship among the fighting men who came, again and again, to save Britain‘s bacon, whether it was Gurkhas from Nepal or mon from Trinidad, or Canadian farmers, or Ausâ€" tralian sheepmen. All, all gone. But right now, I‘m forming the Falkland Islands Fighting Force. And if there are any of you left who want to help the Old Lady when she‘s in trouble, send me your names and the type of wheelichair you prefer, and once again we‘ll go Over the Top. Or Down to the Bottom. The reunion will take place on May 29 and 30 on the University of Waterloo campus. â€" â€" All graduates of St. Jerome‘s College as well as those University of Waterioo graduates who have lived at St. Jerome‘s College or Notre Dame College are invited to attend. St. Jerome‘s College at the University of Waterioo is planning another Alumni Re union. St. Jerome‘s invites alumni to reunion