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the ifiarrir Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 16 Hayfield Street Barrie Ontario Wallr Publisher William Taller General Manager McPherson Managing Editor TUESDAY JANUARY 11 101 PAGE Ivltlunzex2z Canadian Drivers Rude Inconsiderate Sonia of the worlds finest highways are in Ontario on well as some of the most inconsiderate and dangerous dnv ers everallowcd behind the wheel of an automobile The proof of this can be seen in the death rate on our highways with On tario driven standing almost twice the chance of being killed as drivers in the United Statm Death tolls on American highways seem staggering but they are only so because of the vast numbers of people driving If United States death rates equalled Canadas fatalities the American highway toll would be almost doubled So declares the Daily Packet and Times of Orillia Canadian drivers are plainly rude inconsiderate and reckless the writer continues They drive as if they ex pected the world to end and all too often it does in the jarring crash of steel upon steel The average Canadian driv ers lack of common courtesy for other motorists on the road is probably the highest single factor contributing to our highways tolls of death The average Canadian driver gives more consideration to squirrel or dog crossing the road than he will to fellow human being The Canadian dnver insists on his rights of the road seeming to prefer to die knowing that he was in the right rather than be honked at in derision by some daredevil idiot taking chances in traffic litany factors are blamed today for highway fatalities including speeding and unsafe automobiles Legislation and continued publicity is advocated to cure these faults but all of it overlooks the largest single factor in highway safe ty the human element The killer on Canadian highways is the boorish arrogance the downright selfishness of the selftyled tiger behind the wheel who thinks hes King of the road This type of driver cannot be lcg lslated off the road nor protected in failsafe automobile any more than po litcness and consideration can be legis lated for any group of people Part of the fault probably lies in the lack of formalized driver education in this country and the repeated emphasis this training puts on the dangers of of fensive drivrng But the sad truth is the public would rather spend its money on few more horsepower than on taxes to su port driver education in the schools owever while the United States may be statistically ahead of Canada in the matter of highway accidents it is far from being paradise of safety Consider the following observations by Sydney Harris an American columnist All right all you good citizens who are so concerned about crime and vio lence in Americy 3y many of you are willing to aca ign against by far the gre men Jo life and limb in this natty Automobiles tat0 dioo lives year many of them shg children Last July alone motor ve icle deaths reached Reckless per cent increase over the previous monthly high Disabling lmuries for the first seven months of 1966 reached one million many of whom will never walk again or see again And the innocent suffer long with the guilty even more so for the guilty are scaréeiy punished un der our present system The socailed violence in the streets that arousts all you ood citizens does tiny percentage of damage that is done by auto accidents But there is very big difference between the two the violence is committed by them but the auto accidents are by us Are we willing to discipline our selves To submit our cars to more riga orous checkups To undergo hysical and emotional examinations one year To stiffen the penalties for reckless driv ing dninken driving juvenile driving have seen no evidence that we are No public committees formed no meet ings held no petitions passed no flood of letters to our elected officials no an gry outcry against the senseless vio lence in the streets and on the highways For we are afraid of losing our own privileges and for that cheap and cow ardly reason we are willing to pennll 1000 auto deaths week Ve domand tougher laws against criminals and riot ers who comprise less than one per cent of the population but not against the 99 per cent of respectablc citrens who are responsible for the carnage on the highways Other Editors Views GOOD GRlEF MOATl Hamilton Spectator Canadas new $1267806 embassy in West Germany is going to be surround ed so help us by moat For the sake of whichever ambassador moves in when the building is completed in 1968 we hope that the drawbridge is always oiled and the portcuilis never slips at the wrong moment But for the sake of the Canadian tax payer we hope that some one raises few extra dollars to stock that moat with large extra alligators and then feeds to those alligators whocVer it was in Ottawa that brought up the idea rnev MIGHT HAVE Known Montreal Gazette The Commons Transport Committee was unable to get quorum together this week Oct 1622 after attempts in the morning and afternoon Finally in the evening more than the required 13 out of 25 members turned up and the session was held But by that time two members of fourman delegation which had come from British Columbia could not attend QUEENS PARK Inquiry Could Help Labor Relations By DON OIIEARN TORONTO The important lland inquiry into labor rela tions has concluded its first week of hearings and is off to an impressive start The inquiry could go in two directions It could make most valuable contribution to labor relations and therefore in directly to the whole economic and social life of the province Or it could he superficial and turn obt to be one more falso atart in attempting to get to grips an the situation in labor relations widdl with wildcat nirikes on one hnnd and refusal of some employers to bargain on the other is approaching point of crisis DIG DEEP The test of the value of the inquiry will be whether it really gets at the roots of labormam agoment relations digs out the basic areas of conflict clarifies and this is particularly im portnntinst what the rights of labor and management are nr should be today and then proposes some new approaches for labormanagement harmony There was reassurance in the first week of hearings thnt it would be aiming at these goals and probably would hnve some success in attaining them This didnt come from the presentations to the inquiry ltlalnr groups from both sides of labor relntions were before the Commission The Ontario because they hadprevious engagements Fedgraflnn of Labor for the No doubt they left Ottawa with thoughts of their own about the work ings of Parliament and the habiu of its the unprecedented high of 5130 20 members Prime minister Nguyen Cao during rKyrof South Vietnam sports CIAUNTY AND IOVIltL felt to the Austral Saigon Brigadier ion teekforeea base mp at Nut Dat in PhuoeTu l7th hat face 35 miles southeast Gra ham commander of the Au tralians gave the hat to AP Wireph workers and the Central Ona tario Industrial Relations Insti tute speaking for employers BRIEFS PEDESTRIAN The briefs of had were pedes traina repetition of old argu ments almost all designed to give more freedom to their in lerests Notably missing was fresh thought and any apparent will ingness to look on labor rela tions as whole and to try and work our solutions from the viewpointof the benefit of the community at large rather than their particular selfinterest The assurance come from the commissioner The former Supreme Court of Canada justice lvan Rand showed he probably will be an hoarding oonnnissironer dilation hunter Auflimized as second class mail Post Office Depachneot Ottawa and for payment of postage in cash Daily Sundays and Statutory Holidays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 45c weekly $2540 yearly Single copies 10c By ma Barrie $2340 yearly Ontario 312 year motor liuowoff year Mail out side Ontario $14 year Oui eide Canada British pisses eions $15 year USA and foreign $26 year Offices 425 Univecsity Ave term can Cathonrt St Mammal 507 1200 West Ponder St Vancouver 30 Member of the Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Associa tion the Canadian Press and Audit Bmeati of circulations The Canadian Press is ex clusively entitled to the use for republication of all new lied it or The Associated Press or Roubers and also the local news published therein inth The 52yearold Mr Rand demonstrated by his intensive quutloning at the public ses sions that ho is determined to try and get at the roots Ho was asking blunt ques tions such as of labor whether plcketlng wasnt intimi dation end of employers whether they should have the right to hire strikebreakers He was digging deep and digging boldly CANADAS STORY Bishop lingered By Moliere Play By BOB BOWMAN it is only in recent years that theatre in Canada has had much opportunity for develop ment The struggle began in 169 when Bishop St Vallier of Quebec denounced the produe lien or comedies and tragedies This is not meant to imply that the church has been responsible for the slow development of the theatre in Canada There have been many problems When Count Frontenac was serving his second term as gov ernor of Canada and was try ing to raise Lhemorals of the colonists he encouraged the production of plays for the en tertainment of theIgarrisnn at Quebec His most able lieuten ant was rAntione de la Moths Cadillac who eventually went on to found Detroit and also became governor of Louisiana During the winter of 1694 Cad illac took great delight in pro ducing two plays for Frontenac When Bishop St Velller do nounced the plays Jan 17 Cod nlrrs MELT snow MONCION NB OP new method of clearing snow from railway tracks is being tested by the ONE here Pro pane heats therails which melt thesnow as it falls The equip ment is switohed on automatic ally when it starts snowing By PATBlCK NICHOLSON ImVENE LIFE Nos ED OTTAWAMr Her rldge New Democrat MP for Kootcnny West has presumably made New Years resolution to enliven the individual and collective life of MP5 with more wit and charm than before British Columbias populnr 71 yearold 1m rt from England made the ey for Mrs Marv garct ltldeout parliamentary lilac was all the more pleased because like Frontennc be ob lectcd to the authority of the church in orderto make Bishop St Vallier even more angry Ced illac caused rumor to spread that he was going to produce play by Moliere called Tartuffo which was satire oil evil hid ing behind the mask of religion Bishop St Valller really hit the roof about that one end Cadil lac wrote to friend Men sieur de St Valiier aweated blood and water to stop tor rent tbat existed only in the imagination The incident caused row that lasted for years and prob ably resulted in Cadillac being sent to Louisiana against his wishes after he had founded Detroit OTHER JAN 17 EVENTSX tauGiovanni Verrazano in service of France sailed from Madeira on voyage that took him up coast of North America to Nova Scotia foalJean da Lauzon was ap pointed governor of Canada nonPierre Leilfoyne dlber ville built fort on Mississippi 38 miles below presentday New Orleans 1m French Canadians of Quebec protested union with Upper Canada 1851 lntcrpxovincial bridge opened at Ottawn Enlivens Life Of MPs With Wit And Charm secretary to Health Minister Allan MacEnchen An especially gey dress combinrd with her bouffent fair hole as plumage which was scarcely protective camouilnga among her greyly dressed colcsgu=s in the Che ber of the House of Commons so Bert sent her this pcnclllcd quniroln There you reign in gold and red To the Left now being lodl Left or Right we do not care So long as we can sit and store He signed it Kure for Kare SNOW MARS HOLIDAY The average Canadian other affluent with it snow shovel and snow tires might be surprised Kootcnaya to learn that it full of merely live inches of snow can halt all flights at Canadas largest in ternnilonnl airport Yet that was why many holidaymnkrrs passed an unplanned dry at Christmas in Montreals caver nous Dorvei airport The logistics of even such comparatively minor blirzard blankeiting on airport are slag gering The paved runways aprons and stands at Montreal learn total 868 acres That is equivalent to straight high way 25 feet wide running from Chatham or Snrnia to Toronto livelnch snowfall dumps 125 non tons of snow on such an area it amounts to 7500000 whle feet of snow which would require more than 25000 dump trucks to curl it away That same fell piles 1500 cubic feet of snow on the drlvo way and nut path of the our age Canadian householder Tn shovel that away Johnny Ca nuck would do at least 215000 footpounds of work That is equivalent to yin his mntherdnlew up to the top of BIBLE THOUGHT Stand not therefore to the liberty wherewith Christ hnlh made us free Gelliens 51 it is so easy to drift back into bondage once we get careless with our freedom and ignore the exercise of Christian privilegzs Freedom comestothnse who ex pect it and win accept it fianPtRllolrl67 Peace comma PARLIAMeNT HILL nrrisero UNPRODUCED aflfiiefwmwiAJJM the story Erwin State Building Hnrdly surprising that snowshovellcrs cllhcr hire snowplow or eilu die of heart attack OUR F111 LEADER John Alexander Macdonnld wns born in Glasgow Scotland Jan 11 fillslust five months before the Brittle of Waterloo was fought Filly two yenra later and 8000 miles away he became the first time minister of the new Domln on of Canada in whose creation he played the lending role He died In office as prime minister nearly quarter of century later he won his last election on the slogan The old man the old her the old party Was it malicious er turn or merely an ecci cut that on the 15an anniversary if his comparatively ignored birthday the centennial postage stamp was issued bearing as its chief fenlure the new flag which would have been ena thema and heresy to libn7 Most Conservative MP5 here are mad at that undlplomeiic timing all consider it unnecessary WHAT TO BELIEVE Evan the 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