ESTABLISHED 1854 Published every Thursday by Fairway Press. a division of Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo Record Ltd. 30 Queen St.. N. Kitchener Ontario Address correspondence to Waterloo Square Watâ€" erloo Ont. Telephone 7446364 Unless other nations in underâ€"developed countries follow the example of the Japanese. mankind is headed for disaster. World populaâ€" tion is growing at the rate of 75.000,.000 a year. It is up to every individual in the world to see to it that mankind does not create its own doomsday. These voices must be heeded. In Egypt. for instance, a child is born every 40 seconds. Jaâ€" pan is one of the few nations in Asia that has a definite population policy. Its population has reâ€" mained steady at just over 100,000,000 because of birth control, sterilization and abortion. Sir MacFarlane Burnet insists that the average family must be limited to two children, and the production of things not necessary for a conâ€" tinuing civilization must be limited or stopped. U.S. scientist Dr. Norman Borlaug, who led the green revolution to increase grain producâ€" tion, said in his Nobel prize acceptance speech that mankind could not survive unless the world population explosion is brought under conâ€" trol. * He argues that liberal democracy along the British pattern could not enforce restraints on population,. technology and economic actiâ€" vity. Yet these restraints were needed for the survival of civilization / The grim problem of overcrowding is beginâ€" ning to obsess scientists, governments and orâ€" dinary citizens. Lord Snow, the British novelist and scientist, anticipated a collision between food and population later this century. Several scientists and writers have been isâ€" suing grave warnings about the future unless mankind slows down its growth. The Australian Nobelâ€"prizeâ€"winning scientist Sir MacFarlane Burnet has gone so far as to say that liberal democracy has become an obstacle to progress. The small towns and villages across Canada know about this. It‘s a rare thing in summer anyhow, not to receive a nod and smile as one shops or wanders through the parks. Winter is a good time to warm up. Ice melts in sunshine. Every individual can break through the isoâ€" lation of at least one other person. All it takes is a little caring. Even a smile and a "good day‘" to a passerâ€"by as we hurry along the street would help. It does wonders for the sense of wellâ€"being. Psychiatrists make speeches about the alieâ€" nation and loneliness that are marks of our time: we agree that this is so. Instead of wailing, why don‘t we act? Not one of us is helpless here. .. The plight of refugees in Pakistan and the Middle East, we know all about. There‘s a lot of sad headâ€"shaking, as we switch off our teleâ€" visions to shut out the unpleasant sight of sufâ€" fering. Unfortunately our sensitivity doesn‘t always go deep enough to reach our pockets. Canadians, along with other North Americans, have become cynics. It‘s fashionable to moon about the unhealthy state of affairs, both at home and abroad and then dismiss these troubâ€" les with a shrug. This might be a good time to reâ€"examine our attitudes. Have we become a nation of buckâ€" passers, using the problems that beset manâ€" kind as an excuse to escape any personal reâ€" sponsibility? 4 Waterioo Chronicle, Thursday, February 17, 1972 Future warning Waterloo Chronicle SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Canada : one year $8 ; in United States and Foreign countries: one year $10 Do something Editor Frank Gotdspink Rance Bricker was apâ€" pointed parade â€" marshal for the Waterloo branch of the legion. > 30 years ago Full coâ€"operation of Onâ€" tario Mennonites has been One local travel service reported that a few people have asked about bookings. A few Twin City resiâ€" dents have already inquirâ€" ed about reservations for passage to London for the coronation of Queen Elizaâ€" beth IL Board members pointed out that while the estimates were about $34,000 over 1951. the boost was due largely to increased enrolâ€" ment caused by the transâ€" fer of more than 200 grade 9 pupils to the collegiate. This enrolment necessitaâ€" ted a larger teaching. and also nonâ€"teaching, staff. The _ budget _ included about $372,000 for staff salaries and over $180,000 for other expenditures inâ€" cluding supplies equipment and special items. The Kâ€"W Collegiate board approved a new 1952 budâ€" get of $559,577 â€" approxiâ€" mately $34,000 more than last year. Alderman Frank Doerner told him council was more concerned with the severe flooding problem on Essen Street. 20 years ago Kenneth Schneider of 64 McDougall _ Road _ asked that council approve imâ€" mediate installation of a sanitary sewer on that street. This is one of the projects ‘which it was reâ€" commended be held off. This will mean that nine of 20 major projects on the priority list will have to wait another year for comâ€" pletion. Waterloo council‘s works committee reduced its $1 million capital works proâ€" gram down to $600,000 in order to stay within its proâ€" jected capita lâ€"financing works budget. The front parking area was originally intended for the convenience of shoppers, he said. Alderman Harold Wagâ€" ner, chairman of Waterloo council‘s traffic committee, urged King Street storeâ€" keepers to park their cars at the back of the Waterloo Square lot. 10 years ago gaÂ¥e "MER #t uic oppige AND ME MOmep (Oh, why did Don have to say that? Mom‘ll think he‘s stubborn and stupid just beâ€" cause he didn‘t agree with her. Oh, no. he made another grammar error‘ Sure enâ€" ough. Dad pounced on that Oh. please Mom. don‘t go inâ€" to that threeâ€"hour story about how you and Dad livâ€" ed on $60 a month when you were married. Oh, lordy. why is Dad asking him all those questions about how much a sculptor makes, how many sculptures he‘s sold. and how he‘s going to pay The weekend was pretty obviously a confrontation thing. where the parents and the boy friend are exposed to one another, with the poâ€" tential bride sitting by. dartâ€" ing wildly nervous glances at both parties. Let‘s listen in for a moment as panicky thoughts scoot through her mind. Thought that was the end of it. Then my daughter arâ€" rived home for a weekend, with her current fiance. It seems the young man had asked her to marry him. to if you wish to spend the rest of your life in an instituâ€" tion."" And "Do you take this woman to be your awâ€" ful wedded wife?". And the conclusion, from a "bishop who has his services confusâ€" ed. ‘"And may God have mercy upon your souls." Stuff like that. But I was asked to write a ceremony for a mock wedâ€" ding to take place at a bridal shower recently. I used some stock gags. "Marâ€" riage is a solemn institution, and is only to be entered inâ€" I‘m rather interested in the subject of marriage these days, for various reasâ€" ons. Not for myself. Oh, no. Once bitten. .. Files of Yesteryear | J Mr. Martin, secretary of the war problems commitâ€" tee of the conference of historic peace churches said Mennonites would purâ€" chase two types of bonds. pledged in the forthcoming second victory loan, said Rev. J.B. Martin of Waterâ€" loo. ‘‘What wedding?". I roarâ€" ed into the maelstrom. At least it stopped them long enough so that they could reâ€" group torces and attack me I discovered that I was an old fud, a fussâ€"pot. an obâ€" stacle in the course of true love. a cynic, a materialist. and a few other things such as a miser, a hypocrite (‘‘You and mom didn‘t have a nickel when you got marâ€" ried ‘), and a misanthrope I cheerfully agreed to all charges: which took the steam out of their attack However, as I said, I took it all rather offâ€"handedly unâ€" til I went downstairs Sunâ€" day morning and found my wife and daughter arguing about the wedding: how many guests, who they were to be, what she‘d wear, where the reception would be, and all that jazz. (Uhâ€"huh. Wants my perâ€" mission, eh? Let‘s see. Perâ€" mission â€" means approval. Approval means it‘s going to cost me a lot of money, one way or another. And so me was that Kim said this fellow wanted to ask my permission to marry her. This seemed so oldâ€"worldly in this day and age that I immediately became suspicâ€" i0us, as . .. Actually, it wasn‘t like that at all. In fact, I took the whole thing very lightly, as who wouldn‘t whose daughter has been engaged three times within a year. The only thing that floored back his student loans, as well as mine because by George he isn‘t going to supâ€" port us? Oh dear, I wish I‘d never mentioned it.) The question of an addiâ€" tion to the Waterloo market building was the principal theme of business discussâ€" ed at a recent meeting of the town council relief comâ€" mittee. The cost of $4,000 for maâ€" terial leaves only $1,600 for Sent the kids off with a 40 years ago Bill Smiley Nor could I help composâ€" ing in my mind a similar adâ€" vert extolling my own virâ€" tues for Leap Year ladies. It ran to only 12 words. As a party game,. try making up your own marriage adverâ€" tisement. You might be surâ€" prised at how much you have to offer to that vale of tears and laughter. Marâ€" riage is a solemn institution. If you are a solemn prig Well, I can‘t help but a. mire the man for laying it on the line, even though he is obviously an arrogant boor. He‘ll get so many letters he‘ll never have time to get married. be arranged selectively by telephone. If they didn‘t they would get their junk back. Al The rest of the ad dealt with the mechanics. The ladâ€" ies were to send photograph and all details If they shaped up, a meeting would PROFESSOR of surgery and head of surgiâ€" cal research of a North Amâ€" erican university, widower, age 60, financially very comâ€" fortable, brilliant, good lookâ€" ing in excellent health, acâ€" tive in sports,. with broad interest in the humanities, arts and music, wishes to meet an elegant lady of Jewâ€" ish faith. age 40 to 50, good looking, intelligent, and inâ€" dependently wealthy. Obâ€" ject â€" matrimony. Would it were as simple for everybody as it is for the chap who ran the following advertisement in the "perâ€" sonal"" column of the city paper recently : flea in their ear. and half our Sunday roast. The flea will buzz unheeded, and the roast will be scoffed with gusto. That‘s life. Ald. A. Heer said if the addition is to be built, work should be started at once as cost of material is rising. labor and it was doubted if the amount of work to unâ€" employed would warrant proceeding with erection of addition. SUN SYNDIZATE