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battle Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Walls Publisher Brian Slaight GeneraliManager MONDAY FEBRUARY no PHI Politicol Innocence ShovVn BY Over Holt The Voters With federal election in Canada probability during some time this year Just how knowledgable are good many of those citizens who will be voting recent Gallup Poll asked As you know Prime Minister Diefenbaker has said that the next federal election will be fought on free enterprise versus social ism First how would you describe free enterprise To this 51 per cent answer ed that they couldnt say Asked how they would describe socialism 55 per cent gave the same answer So if an election was called at the present time and the main issue was as stated by the Prime Minister more than half the electorate would be voting in confessed ignorance of what they were voting for Political ignorance or innocence is probably characterich of the majority of Canadians at any time is likely not as prevalent here as in most other countries It is not as serious as the apathy which is apparent at many times especially at the municipal level The task of the pol iticians is to convert the ignorant to their cause by setting concrete issues before them to appeal to their interests and pre judices Need Clooperative Effort In brief presented to the faderal government the Canadian FedEratlon of Mayors and Municipalities asked the government to take the initiative in cooperatlve federalprovincialmunicip a1 effort to mobilize capital for all major types of community development The federation thus gave evidence of its ad herence to the proposition that it ls possible to raise oneself by ones own bootstrnps The laws of physics and of common sense are against it The municipal politicians would like to have longterm federal loans at fav orable rates of interest to finance pro jects which are primarily selfliquidat ing and essential to community develop ment such as urban roads bridges and transit facilities sewers water supply recreation space and the acquisition of land rfor redevelopmentz grants on more adequate scale toward the costs of hospitals schools and other community services which are essentialbut non selfllquldattng continued and expand ed grant assistance for employment oreatlng municipal works to accelerate rteemployment and to provide construc tive work in the winter seasons There is no saying that the mayors and municipalities wont get some of what they ask It is question whether they or their citizens will be happy with what they get if they get it There are amenities and advantages enjoyed by residents of large cities that are not available to those who live ln towns and villages There are also dis advantages that are not always appar ent to the outsider What the politi cians who ask for urban amenities seem to forget is that these have been or are being paid for by the urban taxpayers and that what they are asking ls really to saddle the urban taxpayer as well as their own citizens with the cost of ex tending these amenities to every town and village that wishes to have them Longterm federal loans at favorable rates of interest mean loans at less than prevailing rates of interest with the taxpayers as whole making up the difference Grants towards hospitals schools roads and for providlng con struction of unnecessary public bulld ings would be further charges on the general taxpayer And since the larg est urban taxpayers are llkely to be companies that sell their goods and services from coast to coast and now pay more than half of their earnings in taxes the further increases in taxes that the mayors and municipalltles sug gest must ultimately come from increas ed prlces of what the companies sell If the costs cannot be recovered in that way the companies will go out of bus iness and cease to be taxpayers Municipal politlclans would surely not expect their neighbors to pay their per sonal hospital bills build their houses or do any of the many expensive thlngs that man is expected to do for himself If they cannot afford to do everything they would like to do they do wlthoui things until their personal budgets cor respond with the possible It is only when they come to consider how to afford municipal expenses that are be yond their means that they consider soaking their neighbors for the costs The neighbors then have become fece less nonentities who live somewhere else instead of Bill Jones who lives next door and is going to squeal like stuck pig ova fivemill rise in the towns tax ra Down MemOry Lone 25 YEARS AGO IN DISTRICT BARRIE FEB 1937 Arthur Smith Bell Telephone manager installed as president of Kiwanis Club With re gret Town Council accegted resignation of Dr Alfred Little had been Me dical Officer of Health for 28 years Dr Little was in his 75th year and had been practising medicine in Barrie for 52 years He had been MOH for Innisfil Township for almost 50 years Belt Guest of Guthrie was reelected president of Oro Worlds Fair Joseph Spicher defeated Patton for the reeveship of Sunnidale by majority of one Frank Beatty of Lefroy defeated Charl es Henry of Thorton for the reeve ship of Innisfil by majority of 26 Sloan was appointed clerktrea surer of Inuisfil Township at salary of $1200 per annum Sir Lyman Poore Duff Chief Justice of Canada was con gratulated at Ottawa on his 72nd birth day He was former teacher at Barrie Collegiate Institute Stroud people hon ored Hon Earl Rowe ofNewton Ro binson on his first official appearance since his election to the leadership of the Ontario Conservative Party Barrie rink won the premier honorat Midland bonspiel Albert Simon was skip for Harry Hook Matt Robertson and Harry Armstrong Barrie Colts beat Midland Consols 73 OHA Junior play Buck Jones scored four goals for Barrie and other prominent locals were Jack Dyte and Harold Dlnt Scott who had five as Slsts Gus Goring was strong in goal Other Editors VieWs FLYmG IS SAFER St Thomas TimesJournal yearend statement issued by an organization representing all the passen ger airlines of the United states says that the percentage of fatalities during the year 1961 was 32 per 100000000 passenger miles That is the best figure in aviation yet reported Todayplanes carrying passengers or freightyor both are flying all over the world They cross the Atlantic or the Pacific with the timetableregularltygofw rallway There have been many hor rible accidents in the past but from them engineers and others engaged in the construction of planes have learned The Barrie Examiner Authorized mm class mu Post Office Dlpulmmlt Ottawa and to payment of portage tn cub Duly Sundays and statutory Holidays excepted KENNETH WALLS Publish BRIAN SLAIGBT Guam Mmlfl EIGPEERSO Managua Editor CHARLES WADGE Business Minlet HARRY WILSON Advertising Mn Igu JOHN normal Circulation Mann subscription rlto only by carrier Ids weekly 1320 year stun copy 7c By mill in Ontario 700 year on six months $200 tum months $100 month outlldn Dunno $000 yur could cm ldl VB 112 true dumb at cm Stimetfiblanmnll Member of the Canldlnn Dally Newsmr unru Association The Conldlan Pren and Ahdfl Bureau of circulation Tho Canadian rm exclusively entitled to the use for rmubllultlon of All news dispatched in this Iper cr ted to The Anorated Frau or mm and mo uu local now published therein things that led to the creation of the safe airliners of today So if you are hesitant about flying remember that it would take nearly 300000000 passenger miles before stat lstlcs caught up with you and you were in fatal crash POCKET PROBLEMS Cleveland Plain Dealer An inventive tailor comes up with manssult containing nineteen pockets thus making it difficult to determine if the fellow in line in front of the theatre is doing the twist or looking for his tickets FIVE RIGHT HONORABLES Clerk in Windsor Star Since the death of Rt Hon James Gardiner there are five Canadians en titled to the prefix Right Honorable They are members of the Queens Privy Council for the United Kingdom The five in order of seniority are Rtllon Vincent Massey Rt Hon LiIlsley Rt Hon Louis St Laurent Rt Hon Thibaudeau Rlnfret Hon dfihilrGrDieXenbztl Members of the Queens Privy Council for Canada are Honorables any The Rt Hon is recognltlo bf work well done not only within Canada but wlthln the British Commonwealth and the world HERE WE GO AGAIN Englishman On Skis Just Like Anyone Else By Douo MARSHALL SOELDEN Austria CF One of the best ways to melt an Englishmans habitual sang frold is to clip skis on his feet and give him gentle push down snowy slope The sensation whether exhil arating or hilarious is enough to make him forget himself and become just like every body slse for while This Tyrolean village near the Italian frontier specializes in the art of pushing skiclad and happy Englishmen off in all directions Thirty years ago Soelden was all but isolated from the out side world It was days ioumey by horse down an un reliable road to the valleys mouth and the railway line to Innsbruck Even 10 years ago the village was still largely collection of peasant farm houses clustered around the baroque Roman Catholic church INNS SPRING UP Today the church is over shadowed by four large hotels The farm houses have been swept away to make room for pensions bank has appeared and so have gilt raho Signs are writ ten in three languages Cosmo politan bands blare outa jazz government the lyrol district Is Changlng Vietnam Llie SAIGON APvlThe grinding cruel war gripping South Viet Nam has changed many fem tures of life in the republic but it has scarcely touched the mid day siesta Soldiers still put down their arms for snooze farmers lay aside their watering pots mer chants lock their doors offices close and streets are almost de serted as the country goes to sleep more completely than mostln Latin America The Communist Viet Cong it self apparently still believes in the healthful value of midday sleeP recent intelligence report on Communist unit operating in the River Delta showed for example that the rebels there turn in for nap at 1230 pm Essential services in Saigon and the other big towns con tinueof course and fighting men never completely relax But between noon and pm most of the nation is in sus pended animation Part of the persistence of the siesta pattern here results from South Viet Neros enervating tropical climate UNSHAKABLE HABIT But the siesta also is matter of national tradition hers and almost as immutable as the conical straw bats worn in the fields for centuries Newly arrived foreigners military men government offi cials businessmen tourists are often annoyed to find they can accomplish virtually during siesta Many complain that valuable part of the work lng day is wasted Vista in government workerslid worlrla lrob slble in the heat of the day We work at other flme53gridcr no furwmfldfiavmergypmnminlonr to work in the afternoon wl out the refreshing siesta first This ls something your Western Influence can never change nor should iLL heat from the many ban and Bavarian crooners sing Hello Mary Lou in pseudoAmerican accents Two modern chairth swiftly whisk tourists up to the slopes and from there the most in trepid skiers can be dragged by network of tows to 0000 feet and the highest peaks At every stage log cabin havens offer rum grog or gluebweln the Austrian ver sion of hot mulled wine Most visitors make use of the cheap and efficient ski school The instructorsall valley resi dentscan coach beginner through twoweekcourso from the hérrlngbone stage to the point where he ll executing stem christlo turns down 0000foot run PROSPERITY SPREADS Soelden like many similar resorts in Austria is thriving because of the pastwar eco nomic revolution in Western Europe that has made winter holiday available to middle class incomes An escape from the English winter during the Christmas and New Year seasons has al ways been British institution But until the 19505 only the en ergetic rich could afford to go Their choice was and still is the expensive resorts of Swit tcrland Encouraged by the Austrian has developed as second class winter playground and the results are proving so suc cessful that tourism now pro vfdes nearly 00 per cent of Austrias industrial income Although French and Ger man tourists predominate in the late sinills it is the Eng lish who come in the largest numbers and end the inost money during winter sea SOIL QUEENS PARK From Boxing Day on train after train pulls out of London carrying high school students undergraduates bunk clerks brewers and factory workers towards the Austrian sun This winter about 00000 people are expected to make the trip RATES REASONABLE Nearly all take advantage of the cheap party rates offered by travel bureaus twoweek holiday including basic living expenses and roll fare costs about $100 Tourists usually spend another $100 on enter fuinlnent and hiring old equip ment The Austrian have genuine affection for the English and do their best to cater to insular tastes by avoiding liverwurst for meals organizing ten dances and playing Tipperary at least once an evening They also remember that the Ski Club of Great Britain founded in 1903 was cluefly re sponsible for developing Alpine skiing in its present form al though the last time Briton won world championship was in 1936 APLOMB AMAZES And the ski instructors are still amazed at the way the Englanderr retain their out ward cahn in the face of im pending catastrophe any old man Im terribly afraid Im going to crash into you crunch of wood and bone in the clear mountain air and two tangled bodies roll down short steep hill After long pause one gets shakin to his feet holding loose ski Surely this must be your ski old man No Im almost positive its yours Just minute Yes sc tually youre quite right say PM Was Hasty On Commission By DON OEEARN TORONTO The royal com mission on crime will begin its public hearings about the mid die of February In the meantime Mr Justice Roach commission chairman has been conducting his own little private inqulry He has been calling in various people for talksprincipally to get background Such backgron work ro vportedly was missing in the polifntment of the commission re When Mr Frost was premier be had wellknown tecbnltlue before he moved on any big ly sensitive question He would call in separately everyone concerned and give them grillinghold his own Inquiry Then when he knew precisely what the situation was and lust what an inquiry probony would uncoverbe would deter mine what action he would take ARTS CALLED NASTY pparently Premier Eobarts didth do this He co some up people and discussed the matter with cabinet Then More in the party who dont agree with him say he was hasty Others say that be had the page to let politics he leo figure ondary considerationand that this is measure of him How far this political courage will extend will be watched closely Premier Lesage in Quebec has been pioneering He has been picking cabinet ministers by ability rather than geography He has indicated he may tackle the question of fi nancing parties AWAITING CLUE Mr Roberts will be picking some new ministers soon If he also ignores geography them will be clue as to lust bow new his new look will be He also probably will state his attitude on party financing at this winters session Oppo sition Leader Wintermoyer who has said he is strongly con cerned about this almost cer tainly will bring it up From his activities to date one would say Mr Roberts probably will be Tufts free ihinklng on these pol tica ques DDS in this regard he has indi cated be maybe progressive Thumbs may be are served however is an eco nomic and social questions He has used the words free enterprise quite bit in pub llc And this just might indi cate that when it comes to money and welfare problems be ht be too conservative for his own good By JOSEPH MOWER Mb Dear Dr Mother What about sprains Some people say to soak it in hot water other advice for water Hrs Some people have said opti misti cally after an injury it isnt break its just sprain And others having bad experience with bad sprain have said Ipraln worse than break The word sprain comes from the root meaning to press out Itll wrenching and twisting of joint The bone doesnt break but ligaments or cartilage an be torn liga ment can be pulled loose from the bone to which they are at tached the joint capsules con sisting of fibrous tissue can be stretched Such an injury may not heal as rapidly as broken bone Besides there invariably is some Inner bleeding at the in jured place and hence swelling and pain The degree of sprain makes difference of course It also makes difference whether the joint is one which is under pressure sprained ankle which has to hold up the weight of the body may thus be more serious than sprained wrist which doesnt have to bear such weight From surface examination it is often hard to tell whether case is fracture or sprain but its important to know and if there is the slightest doubt an xrsyrwlll allow the answer indeed ld say that if there in any swelling tenderness or black and blue mark under the akin its wise to xray Treatment of lprain is more than just beat or cold With an ankle light cost may be needed to carry tho weight while letting the sprain heal Dr Leonard an orthopedist says comparative trials show that use ofsuch cast results OTTAWA REPORT in much quicker healing as well as Is disabilitystiffness or weaknessafterward In mild sprains simple tap ing and immobilizationnot put ting any strain or weight on the joint may be enough Some times injection of an anesthetic drug is necessary to subdue pain Basically the joint must have rest and time to heala lot of time if its an ankle keep off it It may take four to six weeks to recover Elevate sprained ankle As for cold or heat in this case cold may lessen the pain and minimize the swelling at first Dear Dr Molnen With all the talk about lung cancer and cigarette smoking what about the effect on nonsmokers at tend social gatherings about once week where the air in clouded with smoke hate to give up this relaxation but dont want to impair my health Go to the meetings and re lax The relative ratio of con centration of smoke in the air and the smoke drawn into rrnokcrs lung is probably 1000 to or more So if it takes 25 years of smoking to cause lung cancerif it does it would take 25000 years of breathing the air at party My advice is not to start worrying until 000 years have passed Note to Yes the tranquillzer drugs are often very helpful in relieving the discom fortof tic doulnureux The one you are taking is quite mild and lm sure your doctor would ap prove Laking more than one day to keep you comfortable The art of medication is to glvo enough to do the job without in this case causing drowsines or lethargy Its fine art and it often requires some trial and error Senators Speculate 0n Plans Oi Govt By PATRICK Nfbnorson OTTAWA Eleven words In the GovernorGenerals speech from the throne have touched off more talk among senators than all the other 2000 words together This is not surprising since those eleven words announce cryptically measure relat ing to the Senate will be placed before you Speculation among senators of co se centres upon what that measure will specify and how individual senators will react to its terms it is widely outlet pated that the purport of the legislation will be to ensure that the rights of all Canadians er peclally the rights of minorities and of smaller provinces shall in future be safeguarded in the manner intended by our Fathers of Confederation At present such rlgbts too often re use in the inactive bands of 0d men confined to sick beds rather than in the strong hands of vig orous defenders taking their allt lofted places in our upper legis lative chamber This column recently analyzed the attendance record of sen ators durlng the past session There are three Progressive Conservative senators who had passed their75th birthday on average they attended 7B of the 92 sittings held by the Senate There are 30 Liberal senator who have also passed their 75th birthday their average attend ance was only 47 of the 02 lit tings FORESEE RETIREMENT That 75th birthday is singled out because speculation in the Senate today agrees that the governments intended reform of the Senate will almost cer tainly take the form of impos ing retirement at that age This retirement can of course readily be made applicable to all future senators There is remarkable degree of unanimity among senators that this would indeed be wise step to which nobody couldreasonably take exception especially since similanretlrement age was re cently enacted for judges But it is recognized that legislation should never be made retroac tive and this compulsory re tirement could not fairly been forced for present members of the Senate even though it is suspected that at least five will never again be able to attend on more than token basis if at all Many of our older senators would evidently be willing and even happy to accept voluntary retirement atgouce on two con BIBLE THOUGHT F2 but the rk under Chronicle 17 Our culture is irreverent in that it has not learned to put first things first Our overfed nation is spiritually starved Amidst affluence we have the greater values under orient ditlona First that some pension be offered them to replace the senatorial which would cease upon retirement second that they be permitted to retain the Senators form of address as Honorable for life senator like an MP is pen mitted to be absent on 21 sitting days during each session of Par liament For each day of ab sence above that numbli $60 is deducted from his remunera tion unless doctor certifiel that the absence was unavoid able on thegroundx of ill health It would be common sense that in any voluntary retirement plan for present senators this medical loop bole should be plugged so that any senators who are chronically ill should seek retirement rather than continue to draw their full re munerntiou from sick bed The significance of this lies in the fact that 10 senators to gether totalled only 02 attend apcea between them last ses HIDE If the measure relating to the Senate should prove to fol low tbese lines of the senators educated guessing it will re ceive widespread ap proval Senators themselves will agree that it is both reasonable and overdue and will recall that 12 years ago retirement at age 75 was proposed by the then leader of the Senate Wish art Robertson This met with widespread approval at the time among senators althougbaome deplored the assertion of sen ator Haig now 84 that our older senators were tho highest paid pensioners in Can Some senators near and even above the speculated retirement age are still near the height of their mental powers One of these asAycarold Tom Crerar is among the wisest and most experienced parliamentarians in Canada Another is his former colleague in the Mackenzie King cabinet 74yearold Chubby Power who sat in the Commons for so years One beers that Senator Power may accept im mediate retirement and once again stand for election to the Commons in his old seat of Quebec South TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS FEB 1962 royal commission was appointed 21 years ago today in 1841to investigate and evalu ate information taken from the Soviet embassy in Ottawa by cipher clerk lgor Gouzenko rim Canada 1920 Kings College at Windsor NS was destroy ed by fire governors agreed to affiliation with Dalhouslo University Halifax gt 1954 The most northerly group of Islands in Canada was named Queen Elizabeth Islands