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1th more Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Ltd 16 Baytield Street Barrie Ontario PAGE FOUR THURSDAY MARCH II 160 EDITORIAL of Asks Governments Review Taxes At All Levels Tax cuts are news nowadays says the publication LetterReview Thats why report from Jackson Mississippi about tax changes has aroused so much inter est far beyond the borders of the state Legislature it seems has passed bill cutting state income tax by as much as 50 per cent in the higher brackets and boosting personal exemptions to 51000 in Canada too tax reform is becoming lively issue nowadays Evidence that this is so is found in brief of the Can adian Chamber of Commerce to the fin ance minister urging thorough over haul of the tax structure Present tax structure is pretty much something which has been added to in bits and piec es as the need arose The Chamber right ly notes that no one can say what is its real incidence what are its effects on savings and incentive what are the an omalies it perpetuates in security mar kets or how it contributes to careless and wasteful practices The LetterReview continues ijhe go vernment should give prompt considerl atlon to proposal of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce that this coun trys tax structure at all levels of govern ment should undergo thorough review The matter is one of special urgency in view of the fact that Canada in the six ties will fuce increasingly competitive market conditions at home as well as abroad Incidence of taxation on produc tion coss on establishment of new in dustries and on capital formation calls for close scrutiny The effect of taxation on personal incentives also requires re view No country and no industry can be expected to achieve peak production ef ficiency when taxes are so onerous that risktaking becomes no longer worth the candle TwoStage Driving Tests In memorandum to the United King dom ministry of transport the British Motor Schools Association has proposed twostage driving test It envisages probationary licence lasting for year then second test stiffer than the norm al with those passing it entitled to threeyear licence Noting the proposal The London Tim es comments thus on driving tests and habits in Great Britain When considering the various sug gestions for graded driving tests it is necessary to keep the whole subject in perspective Driving skill as displayed in driving test however stringent is not the whole answer Many skillful driv or can gethimseif and others into trouble because of his temperament He may become easily irritated by other road users or he may be of forceful dis position which encourages him to press ahead all the time Ilhese faults of character do not neo essarily emerge during test indeed driver would probably take pains to con ceal them In the long run perhaps thefinest Opinions of Other Newspapers WHY NOT BASIC PLANS Sudbury Star Ontarios Education Minister Rebarts has not been long enough in office to permit the public to become acquainted with his thoughts and pol icies in matters of education One of the fields in which leadership is needed from the depen ment is that of school buildings Here is province in which new elementary mid secondary school buildings have been going up at great raie Yet in almost every instance there is haggling and quarrelling over the phy sical requirements of school building and its cosLs Appointed school boards quarrel with electlt ed council members The public questions the fairly substantial amounts paid out in architects fees and asks why there are not basic school designs for all schools so that reductions can be made in cosis in Elgin County there is dispule over an ad dition lo the junior collegiate St Thomas City Council indicated it wasready to approve de bentures in the amount of 3650000 Now the school board wants another $120000 and them cil is up in arms Why musi each new school budding bein teacher of driving safety is experience This is shown by the usually exemplary behavior of the drivers ofheavy com merclal vehicles who show far more con sideration to other road users than any other type of driver Theyseem to have acquired sense of proportion about traffic conditions which prevents them from becoming frustrated and irritable Another reason for their equable behavior is probably that they are in full mastery of their vehicles because they spend most of their lives at the wheel in contrast the weekend motorist is often unsure of himself and he shows this by being unduly sensitive about the behavior of other drivers around him in traffic stream On balance it would probably be better to raise the standard of driving by improving the current driv ing test rather than to attempt to intro duce graded driving licences if only for the reason that graded licences might be accompanied by hoiier than thou aptitude which would tend to give their holders excessive selfconfidence and belief that they must always be in the right dividuaily tailored tomect the wishes of an ar chitect or school board School building are designed for one purpose education Basic school plans for 650 pupils should be the same in St Thomas as in Port Arthur After all these years of school construction the department of education should have sets of plans or school building that could be made available to school boards at little or no casi This type of direction would contribute to public acceptance and put an end to much of the wrangling that now goes on among elected and appointed representatives ONLY CONFUSING Hamilton Speciaer Such differing points of view as those oi Pre rriier Frost in his speech here and of Governor Coyne contained in his recent Winnipeg warn ings are more confusing ihandn conflict It is merely the different approach of Uie politician and the banker in the same situation Both men have recognized the benefits of foreign capital both have urged greater if to increase Canadian savings But the politician is BRAINWHSHING EXPEDITION BlClllIS To mun BCs Pomous GhoSt Town Is Undergoing Resurrection VICTORIA CmFrom riches to ruins then resurrectionthats ihe siory of Barkervillc British Columbias most famous ghost town More in an 3000 miners brought it riches depressed gold market led to its ruin and handful of dedicated oldtimers hlsiorians and government emlt ployces are bringing It back to life The sleepy hollow of me Cart boo area 260 miles northeast of Vancouver was hive of uciiw ity in the 18605 when 10ch of gold were discovered in its mountain fed streams An estimated $36 000000worih of gold was panned from Ziamile seek Miners travelled more than 450 miles from the coast on horse back and by canoe in urch of wealth Some made foriune others lost all they had Most were forced io leave their sluice boxes when the gold market collt lapsed in the early 19005 DECAYING HOPE For 50 years the town de cayed The few dichards who stayfll determined tostrike it rich one day found shelter in buildings which were starting to collapse under lllc weight of heavy winter snow it was not until 1958 when British Columbia celebrated its centenary that interest suddenly awakened in the town that was once known as the Gold Capital of the World Historical associations and the provincial government became aware that what could be big dazzled by the accomplishments while the banker looks at the balance sheet News of Former Years macaio 1840 gt The early closing bylaw on Saturday night was proimted by Charles 5350 who appeared be fore the Town Council on Monday evening as iropresentative of John Sasu and Sons Fruit mer chants He stated that on the first closing night they lost $20 to $30 woth of business They had on occasion sold 200 baskets between it pm and llAs pm Quite number buy alter theatre clos ing he claimed and suggested 1130 pm He also pointed out that filey were oneoftlie largest taxpayers in town Members of the Lions Club of Barrie were hosts to diemembers ofva Sengeanls Mess of on Aiithollzed as sncanuiciaas mall run our Department Ottawa Daily Sundays And aiming commerce WALhB Publisher and General Manager chances wanna auriuess aumm new amen Alangin aoaam smuen Advertising roan nonnan circulation Mmlerr Suhscription im daily by dimer an Wockly usia year single copy ay mail Cloud moo ear sash six months so cum nun auc mnynui Outlids Canada mm yza oméu 425 Unlvsnit Ave Toronto no Cathoart strut siennai ms at Georsil sum acumen number of thCsnadlan miinNewrpapnr Pub ushers Association The Canadianlress and on Audit Bureau of circulation nu Canadian mm in exclusively entities to use so republication of new on atelier in us vapor credited to it or The Aimeted Press or mumq na also tbstlocalnews runnergunman AII run of republication or pecm dllpltchel herein or reserved Tciu hone Nurnbcr Ediihrial Advertising and Businepn ram asscn want Ads PArkwsy Mm are closely similar born the Permanent Force at Camp Borden at their regular supper meeting This was the third in series of four goodwill gestures towards the troops at Camp Borden President Women Wilgar extended hearty welcome John Woods in iroduced by Atkey and thanked by Sf Leishman gave an entertaining talk on after dinner speaking The guests ion gave entertain ing numbers Sgt Chapman whistling solo and quartette of Sergeants Cayle Chapman and McMullen and Staff Sgt Gordon Pratt was ap preciated Sgt Maj Parkyn RCASC thanked the Lions on behalf of the Senior NCos and Cpl Tom Marwick for the Juniors Paragraphicaily Speaking One of the secrets woman can keep isonesheworries increasingly aboutas she grows older Russian women are veryiiiuch like American women says an American newspapemian on his retpm from Rus sie It is assumed he couldnt understand Enssian women eitheru Following the discovery recently that there is water vapor on Venus an astron omer sayslifels barely possible on Venus In many respects other than this conditions on Venus and the earth Som people are so cynical they arent at all impressedby anyone who identifies lmscli by using all three oi his names in Thefsubiect ofblrth control lsvnluch in the news these days and as important as it may be its nothing like soimport cantias controlling those whohave been came Cathol be President of The United States Titieof magazine article Yes indeed lines nominated and it enough people votcior him Ii sameness famous arse ish Columbia ghost town is being resurrected byhiniorr inns and oldtimers ssva tour luurist attraction was fast decay ing and that the lore of the most colorful period in BCs history was being lost Chester Lyons parks depart ment supervisor was given the Job of organizing restoration program which eventually will see ifs buildings reconstructed loo mannequins in their appro priate settings and dozens of campsites built in the area GOVERNMENT GRANTS Some $85000 has been spent on the project and further govern ment grant is expected soon Mr Lyons says he wants the iownto breathe with history Junk in your aiiic will be jewel at Barkerville is the sin gap of treasure hunt which has brought him everything from fancy lace to an organ The stuff was taken away as souvenirs for 40 years There were once dozens of leather buckets usedby the fire brigade Now they are all over Norih America He said that before reconstruct tion started tourists took almost everything that could be moved An American visitor even tried to remove house PARK AREA PROCLAIMED Last year the government pro claimed as park the 160 acres on which the town is located The few homes store church and fireball occupy only 11 acres but the remainder ofthe area will be developed for camping historic claims will be preserved the cemeiery resiored and the re mainer will be game reserve istattraction Among 10 nequins already installed in re conatnicfed cabins and Mild logs are these of gold Ton mannequins made by North Vancouver woman have been put in place The remainder of the planned 100 are expected to be finished within two or three years The towns barber shop has been completely refurnisbed with period pieces sign system has been devised to explain the his Iorical significanc of the sites and crews are currently restor ing the gold commissioners oi lice and Chinese gambling den Mr Lyons sayn 10000 persons most of them tourists travelled 90 miles off ihe Cariboo highway over winding gravel road last summer io visit the town Within two years 50000 names are ex pecied to be entered annually in the visitors book lids For Teachers Will Be Resumed TORONTO CP Advertising for high school teachers is ex pccted to be resumed in news paper classified ad sections this weekend provincewide clamp down on the ndvertifing Was lifted Tuesday night The ontario School Trustees Council last week requested high school boards to rdrain from ad vertising for teachers for at least week The action came after talks be tween the Scarborough school board and the secondary school teachers broke down when the teachers wanted higher salaries pannar and his friends shown puffing on Chinese opium pipe Photograph showsths atieniionfo detail in restoring Lbe buildings cerium OTTAWA REPORT About Tardy MP find Dead Accounts PATRICK NICHOLSON 0Hth On recent Mon day the bell ran as usual to common MP into the House sf Commons at 230 pm Seven mining bier the House was called to order by the Speaker Twelve cut of cab lnei Minister were then in their places 60 out of Career tlve buckbench We 11 out of uLibcrallandlwtdICCF members Simulate still drifted la wheel the buslneu of the na tion was being conducted By ms pm the sfiendsnu had risen to it ministers 91 oiher Conservatives Liberals and 30 Months was no other EONOII FoilPEARSON air Clarence Strait president of the international Movement for Atlantic Union has given me this interesting announcedlet Two of NATOI Three Wile lien their chairman the then Italian Foreign Minister Gas tano Marilni and the recent Canadian prime minister Lester Pearson have become honor ary members of the Council of Atlantic Union So too has the former French premier Robert Schuman father of the Schumsn Plan called Mr Europc from his leadership in European union General Pierre Bliloiie who is chairman of Atlantic Union also announced in Paris that Lord is may former British general and former secretary general of NATO had likewise accepted the invitation to become an honorary member of the council lion Lester Pearson smiled when told him of the slip made in describing him as our recent prime minister Thai was no slip Mike cracked with his cheerful grin Clarence Sireit just got our next election cou fused with our recent one LEAPYEAR TEAHER The Ottawa Journal reports Former Mayor Stanley bowls QUEENS PARK Expropriation Ottawas skint leapyur baby IP13 baby he has to wait four years between birthdays Es was 71 yetn aid yutardsyliguro Hut cu HONEY BANK Did you opm an woman at your local bank and then forget all about the money you left there it sounds an unlikely misth to malts but mu adult Canadian in every ihmuand does this unit 1941 The Bank Act provides that each bank must advise the saw ernment every car of sums of money lying on lined in idle ac counts for nine yesrsoi more The government has just pub licked these details giving name and last known address of do posiiol name Ipd address of bank and the sum standlnl in each account if the rightful own etc do not claim these monies before the end of this year they will be paid to the Bank of Canlt Ads and retained for payment is the owner Some 11500 of the dead ace countsisiaillng $43840101 are listed as being inactive since 1950 They are mostly for small slim but there are some larger ones such as Mr Sheridan of Cartiervllle Qua $418819 Estate of John Henry lllecr of Schrelber $155604 Christina Hill Williamson of Seattle$13 i7M John Bezpslkc of Pine Portage sad Niplgon $243162 and others Then there were two gold mines who left their gold in an Ottawa bank the Nnnkl Poo Gold Mininl 00 and the Yum Yum Gold Mining Co evidently formed by devotee of the Gil bert and Sullivan operates One strange case concerns Frantlsek Pavlasekn who dis appeared frcm Oitawa leaving $13419 in his bank here his Id dress is given as 171 Celinow Avenue which is the Czechoslir vak Legation hers Goes Under Discussion By DON OHEARN TORONTOThe question of propriaiion rights has figured hate agbin this year This time it concerned Sud burys new Laurenilsn Univer Iit And the universitys privat hlli asked for broad powers to Lake laud As happened with Queens Uni4 versity iastyear there was con siderable unlroversy over the re est This time however it wasnot the situation of property owners which was discussedas was the casewitll Queens The concern of committee members was whether university landmlght stand inthe way of municipal development bulidg ing of roadseic When assured there was sec tion to protect against this they voted the powers BROAD LAW There also was discussion over the unlversltys tax exemption section And outof this there was good suggestion by Allan Gross rnnn PCToronto St Andrew Mr Grdssman said the Private Bills Committee was having to decide on matters which should not he put before it He was directly referring to the axempiioa question but the same situation applies in expropriation The St Andrew member said the Committee should not have to make up its mind in indlvldlt usl cases Rather there should be broad lawwhicli would apply to whole field MIXED UP An important reason for this is that it would doisway with dis parities At present exemptions and ex proprlatlons can be very much subject to the makeup of com mittee in any given year and its mood on particular day There is forinsiance no unl formlty now on the expropriation powers of universities The University of Toronto here has extremely broad powers Others have none at all And the cams thing follows with exemptions Some universiiies are specific ally exempted Othersdepend on provisions in the Assessment Act And it is not at all clear what is andis not exempt Some universities for instance have been left property which is rented out in some cases local taxes are paid on this In others they arent Another instance is in houses for professors Sometimes faxes ye paid on these At other times they arent LETTERS TO EDITOR CIVIL DEFENCE HERE WOULD HELP AGADIR Barrie March 1960 In Agadir Northwest Africa there has been horrible disaster But probably the most horrible thing about it to us anyway is the latest develop ment in the disaster Bulldozem have been used to plow under the trapped dead and perhaps the trapped living The threatof plague disease and other pesfilcuces have made this move imperative under the presentorganization Can we in Ontario imagine should bomb fall on Toronto and create near insurmountable conditions Barrie citims says ing Plow them under let them be lets save ourselves We in Canada have an organi zaiioa that is ready to function in any such disaster whether it be national localxin peace or in war if such an organization name ly the Civil Defence had been existing in Agadir it would have been possible to avoidthisvoiun tary slaughter of fellow human and make strong willing at tempt to save them few rats the threat of plague in the two world wars in ihe trencth and in the blitzes did not prevent us making every attempt to recover both our liv lng and our dead if our government had made suggestionto the Agadir of ficlal if they hadmada at least an offer lined we are sure fhouy ends of volunteers rammed of ilismrncloiic and everywhere in tho western world both in and out of the Civil Defence and other such or ganizations would have readily volunteered to go and help We would not have asked for payment We would have asked for no reward Shipment there and back and food would have been all we aked This Civil Defence we have has been trained and is capable of providing services of help and rescue should there be any dim aster here We cite as an example the ready bands which moved south to render all kinds of services under all sorts of conditions dun ing Hurrlcane Hazel We could name dozens ct people locally who would volun teer to go into action at the drop of hat to save human lives whatever the risk This assuming things are equal all across Canada is great amount We think while there is life there is hope AuoN BIBLE THOUGHT For behold create his heavens and new earth and the form still not be rtmzmh and car come into mindlu 8517 Redeemed men shall occupy universe purified from the blight of sin and irradiated by the glory