_ 4 Wandoo Chronic“, Wednesday, June At. 1972 . Wise use needed Your neighbour may be burning up resources like crazy, but maybe he'll catch on and follow your example. It's our world and we each have some re- sponsibility for it. Do we need dish-washers that waste tons of water every year when dish-washing by hand would use a fraction of the water? What's wrong with pushing a hand-mower to cut the lawn? Try working out on a rowboat or a quiet canoe at the lake instead of roaring about in a motor launch. See how many ways you and your family can cut back on natural resource spend- ing this summer. But it's not enough to quietly favor some- thing, to bemoan, or even to show anger about the situation. Anyway, showing any emotion for Canada seems to be considered unCanadian. The job of reversing the tide requires study more than sunning; persistence more than parades; work rather than fireworks. Each Canadian can contribute something. If youve not sure where to start, write the Com- mittee for an Independent Canada, a non-profit, non-partisan action body, at 67 Yonge Street, Suite 1105. Toronto, Ontario, for information about the C IC local branch nearest you. Former Liberal cabinet minister Eric Kierans says Canada has become "the laughing-stock of the world." Even Prime Minister Pierre Tru- deau admits the anti-takeover legislation he un- veiled in May is not much. Most people think it's even less than that. We can budget our use of electricity by using electrical appliances less. Every time you use an electrical appliance you’re using a natural resource in one form or another. The argument whether the July 1 holiday be called Dominion Day or Canada Day, or just the July 1 holiday has been getting its annual airing, although Canada Day seems slated the winner. In any event the name is secondary to the meaning of July 1. For the majority of Canadi- ans the day means a chance to lie on the beach, hear a concert, or see some fireworks. Fine, but how many of us will be fully aware, as we soak up the sun, how quickly Canada is being dismembered and sold? U.S. takeovers in Canada total more than $3-million a day. No nation under the sun can survive if this goes on. As long ago as October, 1970 almost half of Canadians approved of a 'buy back' policy and it's safe to say more would today. Seven of 10 Canadians feel there is enough US. capital here now, according to the 1970 Gallup Poll of Canada survey. As average citizens, we may not knot much about world economics, but we can all update' our own use of resources. For one thing there's that big user of natural resources-the family car. It consumes gas, oil, base metals in the form‘of repairs, water, and returns deadly gas- ses to the atmosphere in the form of sulphur dioxide and carbon monoxide-that's pollution. We could budget the use of th car this sum-. mer and do what a lot of 1iiiiiifi?,?, doing - taking to bicycles. It is not unusual see whole families out cycling on Sunday. ,1 Published every Wednesday by Fairway Press. a division of Kitchener-Waterloo Record Ltd. 30 Queen St., N, Kitchener Ontario Address correspondence to Waterloo Square Wat- erloo Ont Telephone 7446364. Recently the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, a respected scientific body, issued the report of a study on world problems. According to the computer-based "global model" set up by the researchers, by the year 2040 the world will have exhausted its non-renewable supply of resources and face economic collapse. Wateziao amnion- Canada Day In Canada one year $8. in United States and Foreign countries one year $l0 SUBSCRIPTION RATES ESTABLISHED 1854 Edulov Funk Goldspuru: Well, dear reader, and you'd better take a deep breath at this point, Mc- Lellan is quitting. No, he hasn't broken his guitar arm. He hasn't had a heart attack. He hasn't had a shat- tering emotional experience. He is dropping out because he is making too much mon- ey and does not want the pressure of responsibilities it caused, He is giving up his interest in a company set up to han- dle his affairs. and has asked that the royalties be used in part to help young per- formers, He has abandoned the farm he bought in PEI, and given away most of his MacLellan is a Canadian song-writer who has made it big in the music world. One of his songs, Snowbird, became a million-record seller for singer Anne Mur- ray. That led to a wave of song successes, which in turn led to an avalanche of royalty cheques. I had that experience this very morning. The story concerned Gene MacLel- Ian. The name wont' be fam- iliar to most of my square old readers, but will be to my younger ones, if I have any. V e Occasionally. in the desert of wars and deaths and fires and strikes in the news- papers, one comes across something that is like a cool drink of water. The program is needed to cover the cost of buildings, equipment and other facili- ties to serve a minimum of 2,500 students by 1966. The university has to make place for two students for every one in class this year. In the over all program a minimum goal of $3,000,- 000 will be sought in gifts to the Canadian fund for expan- sion of the unieersity. The Plans for an $11 million ex- pansion drive were announc- ed by the University of Wa- terloo by Ira G. Needles, chairman of the board of governors. " Years Ago On the other side of the coin are the young people who get off the boat for dif- ferent reasons. At some point they take a clear-eyed Files of Yesteryear Some opt out because they've decided to let George do it. They delib- erately become bums. have no scruples whatever about begging. stealing, accept- ing welfare. They are dirty, promiscuous, malodorous and blasphemous. But often highly intelligent. Of course, I'm not naive enough to compare him to Diogenes, who lived in a barrel and owned nothing but a drinking bowl. Some of those royalties will still find their way into Mac- Lellan's pocket, and he won't be begging in the streets. But I admire a man, or woman, who can turn his or her back on the whole thing and walk away. More and more of our young people are doing it, some for the worst of rea- sons, some for the best. " Years Ago One of the Waterloo En- gineering Department's lar- gest annual undertakings was the repainting of the street lines on local streets. They started on May 31 with the King St. center line. New crossings were placed near King St. S. Isn't that a refreshing little story? I envy him, and many others caught in the material tread-mill will too, I'm sure. possessions. He and his wife left with no definite plans, "probably" to hitchhike through Europe. Canadian Press. quotes MacLellan: "I don't know what I'll do. I don't know when or if I'll come back. " Capital grants from the province of Ontario were anticipated in excess of 70 per cent of the total cost of the expansion. appeal to corporations and the general public will be na- tion-wide. The Engineering Depart- 'tFi Here was a lad, charming. witty, handsome. He had every opportunity to go to He's happy, working hard, and wants to get some more schooling so that he can go back and teach Eski- mo children. His parents are proud of him, Friends of ours have a son. Mike. His parents des- paired of him. He had a fan- tastic I.Q., but kept f1unk- ing in high school because he was bored silly. Never did finish school. Bummed around, worked a bit, quit, Then he became a Bahai. He is at present pioneering the faith. as they call it, at Baker Lake in the North- west Territories, among the Eskimoes. This second group tends to be idealistic. They want to create. They want to make a life-style that doesn't depend on status and the buck. They will work extremely hard for something they think is worth doing. They're almost invariably gentle, tolerant and reasonably clean. They are not bums, but seekers after something they don't see in our society. They use the same four-letter words the other group uses, but unselfconsciously. They are not blasphemous, but in a strange way, religious. 30 Years Ago today that “women are not turning out in numbers required to meet the labour demand of war plants. "Women are still direly needed in war industries and that means specially-trained women," Scott said. Thomas H. Scott, field di- rector of the Dominion- Provincial war emergency training program. declared look at their parents, at the lives they themselves are living, and decide, "This is not for me." ment apparently wasn't too pleased with pedestrian re- actions to the gleaming white lines. People don't spokesman. attentioh said a Bill Smiley I can't see much future in trying to convert to Bahai any substantial number of French-Canadian Catholics, But Hugh has a peace and serenity and a simplicity of life that one can only envy. He doesn't want any “thingsâ€. just enough to keep alive and keep covered, I wish I were 20 years younger He works at a toug'). second chef in a restaurant, to support himself. He had a chance to be a bar-tender for more money, but serving liquor is against his pri ples. He planned to gel. Frobisher to pioneer the faith. Then he thought there were enough "missionaries" there and made a deliberate decision to attempt to spread the faith in the east end of Montreal. Our own son has done pretty much the same sort of thing. He too, if you‘ll pardon it, is charming, witty and handsome. He has a great musical talent. He is highly intelligent. After a couple of goes at university, he quit. He had his wild times and bad times. Now he too is a Bahai. He doesn't have a degree, but he can talk rings around most uni- versity professors, in French or English. - university, and would have made a mark in society. He chose otherwise, but may be making a bigger mark, in the long run. Despite both verbal and written representa t iv e s RM. Tanner of the Kitchen- er-Waterloo Communistic - Labour Total War Commit- tee, has again been refused permission to hold a rally in Kitchener’s market building by city council. 40Years Ago DU. Emery, the new court- ty road superintendent, is expected to take charge of his new duties this week according to a statement made by board chairman of the road and bridge com- mittee, W.W. Frickey, reeve of Waterloo.