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barrio Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Walls Publisher Brian Slaigbt General Manager Ridiculing of Politicians Many Shun Public Office There is popular tendency to hold politicians up to ridicule Modern day cartoonists have done great deal to sponsor this manner of thinking Some purely on partisan basis hold up to extreme even gross ridicule those who provide leadership for thenation as they portray them in pen and ink Comment ing on the ridicule these persons are subjected to The Ottawa Journal re minds that Burke Canning Gladstone Churchill John MacDonald Wilfrid Laurier all were politicians though the assing of the years has transformed hem into statesmen for those who draw lines of difference Abraham Lincoln is another named by the Ottawa paper Unfortunately the belittling strikes at politicians at all levels of government whether it be in thafederal house or in the village or township council seat As result many who have great adminis trative capabilities men and women of much educational training and proven executive success shun office It is note worthy for instance that in city such as Barrie with its many lawyers its many doctors and other professional peo ple extremely few persons of such val uable training offer their sertices on the city council Yet these men and wo men who have succeeded in the world of business are the people who have the proper administrative background to carry on such large corporation as city As The Ottawa Journal suggests the public attitude should be such as to en courage the best brains in the nation to offer their services TB Requires Constant Watch During 1960 Ontario experienced the lowest tuberculosis mortality rate that it has ever recorded28 cases per 100 000 citizens says survey by Drs Grzy bowski and Allen which appeared in the current issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal The report stated that of the 157 deaths attributed to tuberculosis 61 occurred in peo 1e over so years of age and the highest incidence of active tuber culosis is found among men over 45 An editorial in the same issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal stated that the tuberculosis mortality rate achieved in Ontario was one of the lowest in the world The mortality rate for Canada as whole was 46 cases per 100000 citizens in the same year The editorial said that the decline in tuber culosis experienced in Ontario is largely the result of the high and rising stand ard of living and of the great efforts that have been made in the province toward the thorough control of the disease It mentioned that the introduction of anti microbial drugs in the treatment of tu berculosis in the last 15 years has also had pronounced effect on the mortality from this disease Mass surveys con ducted in the last three years reveal that less than onefifth of the total popu lation of Ontario show positive tubercu lin reactions The authors stated however that tub erculosis is still common disease de spite lts low mortality and in this re gard mentioned that 2030 persons in Ontario developed active tuberculosis in 1060 The survey estimated that about onefifth of patients with active cases are not admitted to sanatoria and only about onehalf of thesepatients receive antimicrobial treatment at home It was emphasized that sanatorium treatment is frequently the best treatment for this dis ease and that many active cases should be admitted for at least brief initial period of therapy An underlying theme of the editorial indicated the importance of continued recognition of the dangers of tubercu losis although the mortalityrate has made such is gratifying decline It said that the main hazard is due to the fact that large segment of the population is tuberculinnegative and therefore is without the benefits of acquired immun ity The extension of preventive vaccin ation to older school children was men tioned as means to protect them through their adolescence and young adult life Other Editors Views COST OF HAIRCUTS Letter to TheTimes In America the cost of haircut Ls far in excess of the British price and furthermore certain services which are included in the British cost may be ex cluded over there The Americans solve the problem by having their hair out very short and before it has grownout of proportion uncomfortable or aesthe tically distasteful they have saved enough money to finance further cutting without resort to hirepurchase or subscription accounts SENATOR SPEAKS FRANKLY Vancouver Sun One thing about being Canadian senator man can speak his mind if he wants to And that can be very important service to his fellow citizen Senator Tom Crerar the old Progres fllve of 40 years ago has retained his sharp and independent mind despite some years as Mackenzie King cabinet inister He showed it last week when rose to protest the practice of putting the old age pensioners on the auction glock every time theres general elec on Some way of stopping this should be found he said About the only way that can be found is to give the old age pensioners decent shake in the first place There could perhaps be flexible schedule of pen sions in all fields the blind and the vet erans the widows and all as well as the senior citizen that would move with the costbfliving index the Sun suggests If it can be tied In with contributory lau so much the better But let the ase pension be commensurate not just with level of subsistence but with decent living standards It is realized that this dodge would not altogether do away with the election The Barrie Examiner Authorized no second sin 11 Post Office Department Haws Ind for payment of postage In cash may Sundays and Statutory Halldny excepted mean wanna Publisher nnmn ELAIGITI General Manager mmnaon Illnnlltnl num onannisa wands Buxlnen Muller HAREYP wrnaon Advlrming Manage your HOLDER cumlntlon Mull Subscription nt dlllylhy canfer S50 WGIkI 820 your SIHEII tde By mail In Ontaflz 3100 you on six mootbl also three montnr $100 month Ouuldo Ontario 5900 year Dutudo Can Ida $2000 year 0mm an Vulversl Av Toronto comm 52mm Montreal ms at Georgia Street Vancou Member of the Canadian Daily Newspaper Pub uihm Association an Canadian Prel and Audit Bureau of clrculuuonr Tho Canadlan emu exclusively entitled to ino I15 for regghcllfcztlofi of thanu altcsiodPrinthfl war on or or or Emma and also the loan am published chmin auction in which all the parties are to day shamelessly indulging The politicians would seek means juggling with the age limits for example Wed find in time that pensions could start at 45 that is if the people will put up with it Political maturity on the part of the electors and this in essence means only common sense and basic intellectual honesty is probably the only solution Political maturity on the part of poli ticians is hardly to be expected at elec tion times Except sometimes in the Sen ate where man doesnt have to give hoot any more whose fences he is kick ing down BETTER FATE FOR TREES Oshawa Times southern California this past week has provrded new illustration of an ancient lesson which might be called How to make desert The steps are simple first strip the soil of its cover during the dry season and wait for the soil to be washed away during the wet season Some months ago fires swept the wood ed canyons and hills around Los Angeles There was heavy property damage many expensrve houses going up in flames But the worst damage was to the land itself because the trees bushes and grasses whose roots anchored the soil on the steep hillsides were destroyed Last week the rains came because there was no vegetation to slow the flow assist deep drainage and hold the soil in place the earth on the hills became mud and slid into the valleys Trees are our greatest allies in the struggle against soil erosion Even after they are dead they may be useful Christmas trees for example are now being grown on Ontario land that not long ago was close to being desert of blowing sand and that not far from Oshawa And Christmas trees can help prevent erosion even after they have een cut The New York Times reportsthat East Hampton Long Island takes unsold and discarded Christmas trees carts them to the beaches and uses them to form pro tective sand dunes in areas where beach 25 have been washed away by tides and stormsAccording to the Times last years trees are now buried beneath four feet of sand with only their tops exposed We dont know whether discarded Christmas trees couldbe put to use retard erosion along the north shore Lake Ontario but experts in such mat tersv should know If such planwere practical it would offerafar more suit able end for Christmas tree than the ignominy of city dump It LErfs ALI SWITCH LOOK WHOS TALKING 0F SWEARING OPE OTTAWA REPORT Economists Expecting Booming Conditions By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTIAWA Our statisticians have laid aside their red pen cils as the figures of our eco nomic expansion during the final quarter of 1961 pour in and show that we are moving into boom conditions The accepted yardstick of our national economic activity is called the gross national prod uct This includes wages salary and pay of all Canadians cor poration profits rent and inter est farm income inventory increase and capital consump tion allowances Last year our gross national product rose handsomely in each quarter It started at the rate of $35558000 year as we pulled out of winters rc striction it expanded to the rate of $36390000 in the second quarter then through the late summer it leaped to $37304000 Estimates now comingin for the fourth quarter suggest an other jump of around $1000 000000 to something over $30 000000000 The result will be that 106 will prove to be the first year in which our GNP has exceeded $36000000000 The Prudential Insur ance Companys Canadian head office in Toronto whose econo mists are regarded here as being unexcelled in forecasting has predicted further jump of 73 per cent in our GNP this year The cash registers of our stores will tinkle merrily as consumer spending jumps 525 per cent or by $1250000000 to record total of 525000000000 This will include only modest onepercent increase due to hlghei prices lYEAR RECORD GOOD Meanwhile with booming 1562 apparently ahead of us the statisticians are at work totaling up the record over the last five Years In 1961 compared with 1955 employment was up by eight per cent But labor income in creased by 30 per cent while consumer spending likewise in craased 30 per cent over those five years and so did personal savings While the number of persons employed rose eight per cent our industrial productivity rose by nearly double that figure or 15 per cent indicating that the output per individual Canadian rose by an amount approxi mater equivalent to extra hours work per worker per week TRADE PICTURE BETTER One of the most significant improvements over the last five years has been in our foreimi trade The Frightening 50 will long he remembered as the time when Canadians went on spending spree buying foreign consumer goods which we could not afford Year after year from the end of the war we spent more and more money in other eountrics When John Diefcnbaker be came prime minister in 1957 our deficit inforaign trade was one of his first targets for cor rection In 1956 we had sold exports totalling $4il00000000 but we had purchased imports yalued at $5500000000 thus go mg approximately $750000000 in debt to foreign countries pre dominantly the United States But your after yeai the po cles of the Conservative govern ment corrected this We did not reduce our imports we did not deprive ourselves of Florida oranges or 115 textiles or littie European earl or dumped foreign magazines or Scotch whisky but we boosted our ex ports and this has been espe cially true in the last year when Trade Minister George Hecs has set our salesmen on fire with his trade promotion drives In the result our imports were held down to modest in crease so that they totalled only $5700000000 in the last 12 month period reported and our booming bad just caught up to total exactly the same figure and thus to balance our foreign trade picturewhich is really remarkable achieve ment by Canada and something which we had to do The great thing is that we have done it painlessly and not by means of government restrictions The figures covering Canadas progress between 1956 and 1961 coupled with our outlook for 1962 make up rosy picture TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS Feb 25 1952 McCuidy 22 yearold native of Bnddcck NS became the first lirit lsh subject to fly heavier thau air machine in the Commonwealth 53 years ago todayin 1909 He flew his Silver Dart about half mile so feet above the ice of Cape Bretons Bras dOr Lakes 1906 Tommy Burns of Hanover Ont defeated Marvin Hart at San Fran cisco and claimed the world heavyweight boxing title leisMexican troops un der Gen Santa Anna laid siege to the Alamo in Texas The American garrison was wiped out MAIN JUNCTION Clapham Junction on the southern region of British Rail ways is perhaps the worlds busiest handling more than 2500 trains in day TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH if Crackpot Mother Has Queer Idea By JOSEPH MOLNER MD Dear Dr Molner My married daughter is under the influence of former registered nurse who lets her own children run around halfnaked ller babies are kept in the playpenwet to their waists barefoot and wearing diapers only The youngsters are always having colds and earaches She fills them up with aspirin and pen icillin and the poor kids are full of medicine have known some wonder ful mothers who were register ed nurses and admired them but why do we have to have crackpots like this analMRS dont know why Its too bad isnt it Frankly Im not wed to the idea that children should be bundled up too heavily Some people Im afraid seem to have the idea that the way to keep Johnny well is to wrap him in as many clothes as be CEII manage This may do harm Get child all sweaty from too much clothing and then hes going to be more sensitive to chill from draft And while we cant positively prove that such chilling is harmful my observ ation convinces me that it pro bably causes temporary low ering of resistance Therefore say that light or moderate clothing is perfectly all right for children in mild weather or in warm house In really hot weather min lmum of clothing is comforta ble and adequate But ingtanyfhing but but sum mer weather certainly favor more than just diapera shirt at least And when child ren are old enough to stand think it is better for them to wear shoes if for no reason other than to keep them from stepping onthings that might hurt them About letllng children remain wet most certainly NOT It lsneltber sanitary nor comfort able for the child and it isnt good training for him either The results of the situation you describe should be evidence enough to convince your mar ried daughter that he should not follow this pattern with her own babies Frequent colds are bad en ough Tho OaIvaClIeS you men tion are an even more danger ous sign They mean infection and ultimate impairment of bearing is only one of the glo may consequences An earache in child should never be tak en lightly The cause should be cleared up with the least delay possible Dosing with aspirin and peni cillin is no substitute for keep ing cblldren healthy in the first place And while were at it something is very wrong if this woman is getting penicillin to use so casually Penicillin is marvelous drug but there are severe dangers in its misuse For one thing patients must be watched for any sign of becoming sensitive to it For another promiscuous use of the drug permits germs to become resistant Staph or staphylococcus germs that have become resistant are only one example of danger that we must guard against not just for our own sake but for every bodys Correct doses used only when necessary are the only means we haveof preventing germs from becoming resistant NOTE TO These small broken veins are quite common They are called spid er veins They tend to come and go The cause is not known but there is no connec tion whatever with cancer The best thing in to forget about them INFLUENZA DEATHS LONDON Influenza caused 531 deaths in England and Wai es in week in midJanuary nearly four times as many as the 146 in the previous week The ministry of health blamed combination of foggy and very cold weather which had bit old people BIBLE THOUGHT Who an own self bhre our sins In his own body on the tree Peter 224 Only through the Cross do we find reconciliation with God QUEENS PARK Education Program Drastic Approach By DON OllEARN TORONTO flin technical details of the new programs of study for secondary school stu dents have been sent out to Ichool principals laymans version will be going out in few weeks Pending it we wont try to say much about the changes They represent drastic new approach of course And from what one can tell it will be good one Essentially the future empha nls will be on practicality Principally to see that any youth whenever he leaves school will be as well prepared as possible to make living For those only spending few years in high school for in stance there will be twdyear courses which will be about 50 per cent vocational or prac tical STRESS PRACTICAL And the regular scholastic courses such as English and history will be redesigned for those groups so that the practi cal is stressed For those spending four years but not going on to university there will be another approach Special new courses such as an outline study of philosophy socioloy ctc sp and drama and economics will be put in the curriculum in todays society of course such studies are partly cultural vocational including them in high school means the students will have as rounded an education as possible for to days conditions There has been move re cently particularly by the NDP to encourage more cler mmen to become active in poll tits bet one obscner any heaven forbid If you reach for the ideal there probably are two classes of people who should be tongue tied politically One of these is school teacher and the other isthe clergy Both of necessity are given voice of omniscicnce one on matters of the mind the other on matters of the sp Their audiences in their ds listen to them as authorih bet it become common for them to start preaching on poll tics and either one and prof ably both of two things will happen Their voice of artificial authenty which they need will be discredited or the public will become even more confused about politics than it is now LIIILE TO SAY From practical standpoint we have had considerable pcricnoe here with men of the cloth os ministers and one cant he enthusiastic about the re sulis For the Illonl part they have spoken with mice of profund fly but had little to 583 They have not strengthened the spir itual side OIrlllO house and com tributed practically nothing to the material side its quite job in life to keep our fingers out of other pcoplcl business The politicians however manage to keep clear of the churches It might be good idea if the churches returned the favor REPORT room 11x Chancellor Wins Notable Victory By McINTYRE HOOD Special London England orrcspnndenf for The Barrie Examiner LONDON Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd is con sidered to have won victory of considerable magnitude in being able to persuade the Trades Union Congress to at cept membership in his Notion al Economic Development Coun cil That issue hung in the balance for some weeks with the TUC fearful that joining it might commit them to sup port the chancellors pay pause policy They came in when they were assured that the pay pause would end after March 81 to be followed by period of wage restraint But they came in with conditions attach cd indicating that acceptance did not mean that they accept ed wage restraint as the prop er policy to pursue or that it was satisfied with the govern ments mic lines of thought One of the surprises how ever is the selection by the TUC of Frank Cousins general societary of the Transport and National Workers Union as one of iLs representatives on the new council l1r Cousins was bitterly opposed to the TUC ioining the new economic plann ing body He fought against it to the bitter end but was out voted by his colleagues on the TUC general coun However as general my of the countrys largest union his col leagues Ielt he could not reas onably be denied place There may be one snag in his appointment He might feel it his duty to insist on obser vance of the conditions laid down by the TUC This would leave him free to criticize re commendations to attack the governments own policy and to oppose anything in the nut ure of wage restraint So it can be accepted that with Mr Cousins on the new council its deliberations will not he mark ed by an unanimous spiritof harmony MORE GERMAN TROOPS As part of its effort to se cure more money from West Germany to help offset the $210000000 spent by Britain annually in maintaining its army on the Rb the gov ernment has deal to offer more training facil es for West German troops in Britain flan ry Brooke chief secretary to the treasury has only had limited amount of success in his talks with Chancellor Aden auer on the question of how much West Germany should pay towards British army costs Adenauer offered to spend $210 000000 in Britain for armaments in the next two years That does not satisfy the British government It wants financial assistance during the whale per iod of its armys stay in Ger many One method of assistance is that of accepting more West German troops for training in Britain Germany is prepared to pay handsomely for these training facilities and also for stdrage dumps for military sup plies in Britain and for use of the rocket range onthe island of South Uist in the Scottish Hebrides This would bring an additional flow of German marks to the British treasury bo offset Britains costs to Ger many But the deal will be iurplnined on the basis that Ilia new facilities will be offered to Germany only as further move in the agreed cooperation between NATO members when the government announ cement is made it is certain to produce another defence split within the Labor party The Labor Peru officially is com mittcd to this policy of cooplt eration with NATO and the use of British bases by West Ger man forces So the government will have support from the front bench of the Labor party But the left wing group is sure to break with the party lead ership on this and to insist that resolution passed at the 1901 party conference against German troops coming to Brilt lain should be honored But Gaitskell and his followch will once more lake the stand that the parliamentary Labor Party is not bound by conference de cisions Then the internal light will be on all over again AMMUNITION FOR BILL The complete immigration fig ures for 1961 provide some ex cellent ammunition for the gov ernment in support of its Immi gration Restriction Bill They show that the net intake of immigrants during the year totalled 136000 as compared with 58000 in 1960 From the West indies came 66800 com pared with 40650 in the prev ious year From India there were 23750 compared with 5900 in 1960 and from Pakis tan 25100 as against 2500 in the previous year The African territories and Cyprus are the other large sources of immig rants with very substantial in creases in the numbers coming from these countries It is noted that these are not figures with the numbers of people returning to these countries from Britain during the year deducted Coupled with the smallpox outbreak which emanated from Pakistanis enter ing Britain in recent weeks this record of immigration is such as to win overwhelming public support for the govem ments bill and the opposition will have much to lose and nothing to gain by continuing to oppose it SUKARNOS VISIT President Sukarno of Indonesia is scheduled to pay state visit to Britain July of thls year He Is due to be guest of Queen Elizabeth at Bucking ham Palace And there are lot of people in high places who are not very happy about the prospect of having this dic tator who has threatened to take Dutch West New Guinea by force hobnobbing with Brit ains Queen and being accord ed state honors Leading the opposition Lord Beaverbrookl Evening Standard says Sukarno has done nothing for Britain He has done much to irritate Britains good friends the Dutch What is Bri ains answer to the consistent friendship and understanding on the part of the Dutch We in vile this vain dictator hang his hat in Buckingham alace Before the crowds assemble in the Mall this sum mer and Sukarnos winning smile is seen in the Bucking ham Palace forecourt Britain should look around and consider just who her real friends arc