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PAGE 6 â€"â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE Second Class Mail Registra We greet with great satisfaction the news item that Susan Nelles, the muchâ€"maligned nurse in the centre of the Hospital for Sick Children infant death controversy, has been placed back on active duty at the hospital. a se eed & s ukn ies ow i s Cl Pn e n t ooo en mss qh e L m The case against Nelles, who was originally charged with four of the deaths at the hospital, was tossed out last year in a preliminary hearing but not before the nurse‘s reputation, career and personal life had been severely ravaged by adverse publicity. At various points it was said she would never, be she innocent or guilty, return to the hospital in the capacity of nurse, but fortunately that is not the case as she has a much better chance of restoring her own faith and confidence in surroundings where all along many have been sympathetic to her cause. â€" I am a very divided character. That used to be called mixedâ€"up. This week, I had planned to come out flatly and make a lot of new enemies and new friends by taking â€"a stand on the Cruise Missile and, maybe a little shot at abortion. C â€" Officially, Susan is only returning to Sick Kids after a lengthy paid leave of absence. Unofficially, her return, though her capacity has not been disclosed, signifies yet another heartwarming step in the return to normality at the superb institution. It is said that if you want the true answer to a question, go ask a child. o o s “S'ofiw'e"(â€"iâ€"i;i-. We went to the elementary school children in the city of Waterloo and asked for their feelings about their country on its 116th birthday and infn_l_gura_l Canada Day. But my Cruise thing got all mixed up with the Fourth St. Fusiliers fighting town hall, and I made one remark at a dinner party which began such an abortion fight between two old friends, that I got scared and retreated into my carapace to write about something we all agree on: the weather. C And were the answers surprising? Yes, in a way, because while we did get some responses gravitating around tourist attractions and seats of entertainment, by far the majority of entries praised this country for such things as freedom, scenery, quality education and the ability of all races to live harmoniously as one. The weather is lousy. You can write that at almost any time of the year in Canada and make friends. It‘s too hot or too cold. There‘s too much rain or not enough. There was no fall and now there‘s no spring. O.K. That dispenses with the weather. Now, I was going to say that we should test the Cruise missiles in Canada, which the U.S. is going to ask us to do, despite all the mealyâ€"mouthed evasions of our P.M. and our Foreign affairs man, MacEachin, perhaps the only man in ‘t'he government Had those same answers come from adults, no doubt they would be passed off as hollow and somewhat jaded. Cynics, aren‘t we all. But to receive such sincere, rightâ€"fromâ€"theâ€" heart responses from our upâ€"andâ€"coming generation was the best Canada Day present we could have asked for. And a collective kick in the butt for anyone who believes Canada is anything but the best country in the world. © who can outâ€"mealy the P.M. Good move SMILEY legistration Qumber 5840 established 1854 published every Wednesday by Fairway Press, a diwwision Of Kitchenerâ€"Watertoo Record Ltd., owner 225 Fairway Rd.S., Kitchener, Ont. The truth Watertoo Chroructe office is located in the Harper . Haney and White Law Offhice Buiiding (rear entrance wwgt) Parking at the rear of the buiiding Open Monday to Friday. 9WO0«a m to £:00 p.m ~ address correspondence to Waterioo office: 45 Erb St E. Waterioo, Ont N2J 117 telephone $86â€"2830 My argument was to go something like this. After all, we are a member of NATO to which we provide planes that crash, tanks that you couldn‘t sell to Afghanistan, rusty, obsolete ships, and as little of our national budget as possible. _ But if you belong to a military alliance, you belong or get out. You can‘t be a little bit pregnant. So let‘s give the Yanks something we have lots of â€" wide, open spaces â€" and let them test théir little monsters. Then the local town engineer came up with a plan to rebuild my street, and I swung right around. His plan included cutting down a dozen magnificent maples (the press report said "removing several old trees"; would you say a dozen was several?, and removing a sidewalk where many children play.) The hell with it, I said. Let the Yanks use their own wide open spaces to test missiles; and let the town engineer cut down all the trees around his own lot. 1 was equally prepared to leap fearlessly into the abortion fray: abortion is necesâ€" sary, but not necessarily abortion. We had some people in for a roast beef dinner the JALY 6 Publisher: Paul Winkler Manager: Bill Karges Editor: Rick Campbelli Ideas â€" One day I was travelling and l saw some water. So I decided to take a dip. I hid behind some bushes and changed into my swim suit. I jumped in "SPLASH!* other night, and 1 casually retold a snippet from a novel I‘d read, in which a hunter shoots a pregnant antelope, tears out the fetus, and eats it raw, claiming, "It‘s the best part of the meat." s as the abortion ball flew back and forth between them until the only thing I could offer was some rare roast beef. S _ Next thing I knew I was sitting between two ladies, making like a tennis spectator _ So, I‘ll have to push those topics off for a bit until I am not emotionally involved. â€" Anyway, it‘s nicer to deal with people than ideas. The people may be a little crazy, but when you mix people and ideas, you have insanity. Many people have answered my request to "drop a line." David and Ivy Enns of Dalemead, Alta. are fed up to the ears with what they call Bureaucratic B.S. They‘ve been fighting Revenue Canada for three years over tax refunds. ‘"Yes, we have found it is very hard to find any honest men. We have be:‘n trying tetl; find l:nu' nine honest . unfortuna we have not Jean Groom reads me in the Dutton Advance. She and her sisters apparently It is written had a crush on former editor Herb Cambell when they were kids. "Back to your last column â€" "A Dispirited Corpse®"‘ â€" which really hit the nail on the head ... Jack (her husband) goes up the wall when the forces are mentioned on T.V. or in the papers. The sight of Trudeau is enough to raise his blood pressure to the limit ... We can understand why your brother has left Canada in disgust over the mess the forces are in.‘" Mrs. Groom‘s letter is warm and friendly and so nice that I would blush to repeat some of what she says. lnlcide‘;lully. thaltls column bronfln more mail an calls, all angry, but not at me, thm’%nleor a long time. And another pleasant letter from Myrtle Holmen of Wayne, Alta., concerning my column "To Bee or Not to Bee" in which I suggested, somewhat tonfue in cheek, that humans could learn a lot from the bees and the ants. ‘"Your daily pattern of the human race sounds so glum and uninteresting. A agree. I was just trying to wake up a bit who insist onmflvlng in mule rson‘s life and attitude make a difâ€" rence in whatever they are doing." J Nineâ€"yearâ€"old Jennifer Butterworth on why she loves Canada â€" SEE PAGE 5