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Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Walls Publisher Brian Sleight General Manager THURSDAY DEC 11 DalPan Outline Coroners Duties At Provincial Seminars All of Ontarios 450 coroners are to hear some of the rules of law and in vestigating procedures during series of seminars being conducted by the at torncygenerals department Generally this pears to be move in the right directilbn toward more efficient hand ling of cases where coroners decisions are necessary Modern coroners are not inclined to do battle over who should conduct an in quest as was once the case The story is told locally of mans body being tak en from the St Clair river near to the foot of George street Two coroners ar rived at the riverbank and engaged in tugofwar with the deceased as to who would preside over the investigation It is to be presumed there is somewhat better liaison between the coroners and the Crown Attorney as to whether in quests should be held Routine inquests of certain traffic fatalities appear to be bit needless yet if by he ding them they can preach the sermons of safety then they are merited We are not inclined to completely agree with Qdeens Proctor Elliott Peplt per that sometimes coroners talk too free 1y to the press and public about mat ters under investigation to the extent that juries can be prejudiced There may be in fact cases where this free passage of information is practice but it would sepm to be an exception rather thana ru It is fact that many traffic fatalities occur in rural areas andthat in uests are held as closely as possible to ac cident scene The jurors of course are usually from the immediate area It would be rare juror In such cases who reports for inquest dut without some ideas of his own as to responsibility OI cause Coroners are human and some of them may have their shortcomings but in Ont ario all of them are skilled medical prac titioners and they deserve the res ect their profession and their ublic fire demands It is agreed that are may be areas where the job of coroner maybe improved upon and the AGs seminars may provide that improvement but at the same time it is to be hoped that the same seminars will do much toward im proving coroners status as such in the community in which he serves Christmas Seals Fight TB The annual Christmas Seal campaign has been launched the seals and appeal reaching the various homes throughout the city early this month It is the easy way of fighting tuberculosis and most effective one The first Christmas seal campaign was launched back in 1908 when the money went into fund to build the Muskokn Hospital at Gravenhurst That hospital closed last year as tub erculosis treatment centre In the mean time there has been tremendous ad vance both in hospital accommodations and in other means of treatment As result vast savings have been advanced as the disease once dread scourge of man kind has been brought pretty well under control That control is the result of widespread preventive rogram including mass chest Xray of ort which is con tinuous throughout the year The disease remains constant danger even though it appears to be so well un der control There are for instance be tween 6000 and 7000 new cases discover ed every year Given prompt treatment most are quickly cured saving vast sums in hospital treatment Tuberculosis is something which ever lurks among mankind always ready to break out anew if given the ance Even the many newcomers to our land create an increased hazard Full support of the Christmas Seal program is one of the best possible safeguards Other Editors Views ANOTHER FRINGE BENEFIT Detroit Free Press Industrial ingenuity has produced an office water cooler which also dispenses hot water for instant coffee and has compartment In which ice cubes may be made and food stored This Is an obvious effort to restore the office water coolers place as social centre and put It on competitive footing with the coffee break If It succeeds you can expect to see the cooler turning up in those contract clauses where man agement fights for its life against fringe benefits SALES TAX IN KENTUCKY Louisville CourierJournal Organized opposition to Kentuckys sales tax seems to lessen with the passage of time The fact that It is proving to be Kentuckys fiscal salvation is not lost even on some of Its most vocal opponents of the past The Ken tucky AFLCIO for example Is n0 longer making the tax on issue At Its annual convention here last week It was significantly silent STORM SIGNALS AGAIN Christian Science Monitor The United States sooner or later and not much later must face up to the problem of maintaining confidence in the dollar This is the warning Im plicit in announcement from the De partment of Commerce that the nations deficit in international payments rose in the third quarter to an annual rate of more than $3000000000 This still is less severe drain than the deficits of $3700000000 in 1959 and $3900000000 in 1060 but how long can such unbalance continue without caus ing damage The United States mon etary gold stock $22850000000 in 1057 now Is down to 317000000000 Centralbankers and fiscal authorities do not by any means consider the situa tion critical but they are concerned The Barrie Examiner Authorized llcond olalsmlil Post Office Deplrtmcnt Ottawa and for payment of portgo In cub Daily Sunday and Statutory Holidays excepted KENNETH WALLS Publisher BRIAN ELAIGIII fieneul Mllnllul IIIEPHERBON Manning Editor CHARLES EWADGE Business Manager BARRY EVWILSON Advertising Mullllur going rropnhn Clrcnlltlon Manager Subscription rota dnlLv by carrier weekly 1020 year some may By mail In Ontnrlo no your mm nx monthl 5250 tinan mnnuu sum month Outside Ontario soon your Outrldn on an $1000 your ours as Unlvorsi auger Manner ma var re bor of the cnnun nuyNowppu rub IIsIIIc Association The Canadian Pru oml the Audit Bureau of Cim tinny The cnnnn Pres ll exclullvaly untitled the uso for re ublicntlon of All news dis utcllcd Ill this npor rrc lied to It or The tune ntcd Pros or Iinutun Ind mu on local pawl puhlllhed therein Ava ramntn no current on Georgia stmt Vulcan Gains on economic activity which are part of the reason for more imports make It possible to raise the Federal Reserve discount rate If necessary to discourage withdrawals of capital from the United States But in the long run international con fidence In the dollar depends on est Imates abroad as to whether the govem ment in Washington will be able to master the problem of recurrent deficits in the national budget On this depends eventually Its ability to maintain the gold value of the dollar Any of number of factors could im prove theAmerIcen balance of pay ments situation Exports might be in creased though they already substan tially exceed imports Some other coun tries such as prosperous West Germany might undertake larger part of the cost of foreign aid Allies InNATO might carry more of the defence load Budget appropriations such as for wet fare housing moon shots or obso Iescent weapons might be reduced Or taxes might be increased Along some or all of these lines progress Is called for if the dollar is to remain indefinitely reliable measure of value and medium or exchange in in ternational commerce ELEPHANTS BURY DEAD The War Cry Wild elephants bury their dead under foliage torn from nearby trees this at any rate Is practice that has been witnessed in Northern Rhodesia Not long ago when an elephant was shot after leading raids on village gar dens scout of the Game Department saw other elephants return to the body and repeatedly try to lift it to Its feet Then they knocked trees down to make clearing and completely covered the dead animal with branches similar funeral rite has been re ported from another part of the coun try where an elephant was shot after raids on banana plantations STITCHING HAGGIS BBC London Letter Everywhere old skills tend to die out as machines take over One of the dying arts according to recent BBC Radio Newsreel report is haggisstitching It is becoming harder to find women with the necessary skill to stitch this Scot tish delicacy into its slippery elasticlike skin But though Scottish housewives may blanchat the thought solution has been found Tinned haggis is nowvbe ing produced on large scale and Scot land exports it to over sixty countries though therenre still some benlghted areas where it is suspected of being secret weapon rather than nourishing food QUEENS PARK Expect Upheaval In Insurance By DON OEEARN TORONTOOne of our com Ing major activities In the pro vlnclal field almost certainly Is In Insurance The trends are all that way There Is the growth of dlrcount Inrurunce much of It Iold by mail and byparalng the agent There II the increasing pres sure for cooperative and state Insurance And then on auto rates which are going up and up The stage not for an up hcaval BACEED cow infields Fence But Dont Disturb Mine orrswx REPORT NATO Is Result 0t UN Failure By PATRICK NICHOLSON THIRD OF SERIES The failure of the United Nn iIons to fulfil war wenry worlds hopes for security led directly to the Canadian pro posal for regional defensive pacts Thus the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was cre It was commended by CCF Leader III Coldwell as defensive instrument made ne cessary by the failure of the UN Security Council to give the pro tectlon against aggression which we had the right to expect But NATO Is not just another military alliance In several ways it is unprecedented espe cially through Canadas convic tion that no such association could ensure unswerving allegi ance and costly support through long cold war unless it also actively contributed to the so cial and economic betterment of Its people CANADIAN CLAUSE Thus at Canadas suggestion and insistence the treaty in cluded the famous Article Two whereby the allies agreed conrdinata their policies as true partners in the non military fields as well as on the battle field This farslghted provision was the brainchild of Lester Pearson His intent was clearly described in his speech at Ham ilton on NATOs first birthday Our North Atlantic alliance may provide the foundation for great sooperative economic commonwealth of the western world whichmay one day be come political commonwealth You may say that this is un realistic nonsense but suggest that In this atomic ago no vis ion lesa than this will do Thus Mr Pearson extended to include North America the post war exhortatlon of Winston Churchill who asserted We must build kind of United States of Europe That dream was dreamed by Charlemagne more recently Napoleon vividly warned Though speaking sev eral tongues Europe must be come single state within 100 years or it will be overrun by Cossacks Europeans contrasted their own war groves and their own costly and crippling tariff walls with the nearcentury of peace and prosperity enjoyed within the larger equally multlruclal but tarifffree area of tha USA They were fired by Pearsons practical suggestion toImplelt merit Churchills admonition RELUCAANT PARTNERS Eut time flitted and Russia did not Canada proved shy NATO hos flounch 1054 It even very nearly fell apart But the Europeans appreci ated the opportunities lotcnt in the Canadian clause Sensing trans Atlantic disinterested ness they went ahead on their own First they experimented with supranational organizations for cooperation In specialized trading fields then they created the European Economic Com munity to bind six notions of Western Europe into single In tegrated economy enjoying common market to be freed of international tariff walla Thus Mr Pearsons Common wealth of the Western World has developed as flourishing Com monwealth of Western Europe excluding Canada Where did the NATO concept take the wrong turning Partly in Its essential early emphasis on defence more importantly perhaps because aging states men and aging bureaucrats can not readliy discard aged prelu dlces and habits They have been unable to deny their daily practice and call up new poll tlcal creativity to design new democratic form of suprasover eighty An increasing numbers of thinking people now agree with Gordon Churchill that Some form of political union between the members of the great NATO coalition seems essential Todays Dimerick IN BOWMD DAYS Years ago twna the Glen Allan Dairy Brought milk to the door cool and airy At ten cents quart No need to be short And few answers to the con trary apostle Britain and liSA un willing converts NATO was deA veloped as military alliance only whilst Article Two wa praised but shunned In fact so little has NATO de valoped Into political Com monwealth that it Is still on trolled by the sporadic Council of Ministers In which each country has that same power of veto which has crippled the Sc curity Council As result SMALL BUSINESSES Canada in 1950 had 15min mnnulociurlng businesses that each had fewer than live cm ploycea Jerusalems Church of the Iloly Sepulohrc Is pluco of special reverence for all mm Toronto Transit Adopts Zones TOIONTO CP The Ton onto Transit Commission has approved two zone fora system effective Feb which will allow public transportation users to ride downtown from anywhere In Metropolitan Tor onto for 30 cents or 27 cents worth of tickets The change was ordered when the commission voted to com blnc Zones and to new Zone leaving unchanged Zone which Includes most of the city and Muskie Transit ride from the zones which will be altered to down town prcsontly cost 45 fonts 45 cents cash or 40 which tickets The zone charges were ap proved on the basis of report by United States traffic con suiting firm which Indicated the profit loss would be about $155 000 during the first year of op eration of the new plan TTC this year showed on profit of $750000 compared with $1 000000 lost your Paris Newsmen Forbidden To Tell 0i Demonstrations PARIS RoutersiTha Union of Journalists of the stateowned radio and television networks protested Wednesday that news announcers had been forbidden to mention Paris police pro test nguinat government ban on anti extremist demonstra tions The union claimed in state ment that the Instructions given to the announcers infringed on guarantees given the union In respect of impartial news ra portlng The state radio and tele vision networks come under the control of the information min Istry About 140 persons Including 40 policemen were injured In demonstrations Tuesday night night against the outlawed sec ret army organization on extrslt mist rightwing group FOCUS Christians who visit the Holy Land Thet church ls shared by the Orthodox groups whose To data must of the ball carrying In this field has been done by the NDP The old parties have not paid too much nitcntlon to insurance as such though they did get info It Incidentally through the ques tion of compulsory automobile Insurance The unulual circumstance that many of their members are In the Insurance business has tended to make them timid Insurance has been something of sacred cow But the limidity will even tually disappear bcforc the pros lures It will have to HEAVY COST The NDP member for Toronto Woodbine Kenneth Eryden put figures before the house to show that in per cent of the insurance dollar Is going In administra lion coats Only 60 per cent paid out In premiums The public is generally not aware of this as yet But It will be And it will not see this no sense particularly as It watches Its premiums mounting And IIs temper will not be Im proved by atatements such as that of Cowling PC whip and an insurance agent Mr Cowling laid tndlgnantly In the House The Insurance agent Irworklng for the com panies He Is appointed by the companies The public alwnyl her be lieved that the Insurance agent was also working for It protect Ing Ita Interests That In fact this was the only real Justifi cation for his substantial com missions EANG 0N Our way of social progress slowly but certainly drops sub plus fatappendage that dont earn their way The Insurance industry would seem to be In this boat It we happened to be In this business today our fond hope would be that the upheaval would not be too dromnilo but would be carried out over pro longcd period so that we could adjust our personal life to It That In so prolonged that we wouldnt suddenly find ourselvel Ellthout way of making llv REPORT FROM UK Government Comes To Ilid OI Industry By McINTYRE HOOD Spcclul motion tEnglnnd Correspodncnt for The EnrrloExnmlner LONDON report has been Issued on the first year of operations under the Local Employment Act of 1080 under which the government am powered to aka grants or loans for the establishment of now Industries or for expansion In areas of high unemployment It shows that ulslstunce has been glvon to 194 projects In the United Kingdom with an estimated employment potential of 57400 workers Of these workers provided with Jobs as result of the operation of the net 80800 were In England 20300 In Scotland and 8000 In Wolcs Assistance was given In 100 projects In England 64 In Scotland and 30 In Wales FACTDRIES PROVIDED The report gives in detail the extent to which the act has been responsible for the provis ion of factory buildings in de pressed areas to relieve thoun employment situation In them During the year approvals were given for building 62 factories or extensions of total area of 1044000squnre feat for rent and 12 factories of total area of 466000 square feet for sale on deferred terms These were iiistributed geograhlcolly as fol OWE England as factories at cost of 511250000 employing 0100 persons Scotland 17 fact ories costing $30000000 employ ing 11600 persons Wales 21 factories at cost of $12500 000 giving employment to 5500 persons GRANTS OFFERED The act permits for the giv Ing of outright grants towards factory building During this year 27 firms were offered building grant and at the end of the years operations 25 other applications were under consid eration Grants offered were England 15 grants coating or CHRISTIANITY priests are seen In this pliolo Roman Catholic and Coptic ohllrchcs There are spcclal vx Jh 09000000 with estimated employs merit of 12000 Scoiland nine grunts totalling just over 000000 with cmploymant for 5300 Wales three grants cost Ing $57000 giving employment to 200 workers There Is In the Local Employ merit Act of 1060 on which these figures are based in pow er conferred on the Board of Trade Io make loans and grants to firms providing or proposing to provide employment in deve Iopmcnt districts In Its first year the Advisory Committee dealt with 805 applications and at the end of the year had another 143 under consideration The committee recommended as alstonce forloa projects These are in addition to those men tioned above The geographical distribution was England 57 cases $26000000 in loans and $3000000 In grants estimated employment 18300 Scotland 43 cases 587500000 in loans $4300000 In gr estimated employment 11900 Wales eight cases 58000000 in loans $050000 in grants estimated employment 4000 In the view of the Board of Trade the not Is operating very successfully and grow Ing list of industries Is making inquiries with view to taking advantage of It and thus no vido work In the high unemploy ment arena BIBLE THOUGHT Bu rirong and of goodcounr age be not afraid neither be thou dismayed for the Lord thy God In with thee whitneno ever than great Joshua 10 Great souls must have great courage When men lack heart they fall And yet God he promised that we need not tack lo great and good tasks clone With HIm we can do all tblngs privileges for Anglicans and others to hold services from time to time CF Photo