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Elite literate Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Robb PublisherGeneral Manager Walls Editor Emeritus 4The Barrie Examiner DIM Henshaw Managing Editor Monday Nov 15 1976 That Old World image missing in our banking Banking in this country at least for the small depositor leaves lot to be desired Banking is very private thing nobody wants ones neighbors even friends to know how much ones bank book contains or whether or not one is seeking loan Yet what have we here In most banks and trust com panies in this country depositors or withdrawers stand in line behind one another and can listen to all the chatter going on in front of them Even an extended peck can relay to the snoopy how much the person in front has in his or hers bank book Try cashing pay cheque often quite loudly ten twenty thirty forty The teller counts and so on Why not just say there yare sir Your takehomepay is such Next please Take loan session for instance Wideopen office doors draped windows but are the drapes Are the offices discreetly located Seldom The potential loan customer is ex posed to the world at large And in smaller community that drawn Seldom least can be quite annoying to say the The nerveends of the customers to see style monetary problems are there for all Lets get organized European Over there banking is conducted with the mind away merce customers feelings in Customers stand back in line from proferring their bank books and wait on their name being called The Royal Bank of Canada and Canadian Imperial Bank of Com have something similar to this type of system Bravo the counter after now instituted Offices within banks or trust com suchand panies should be out of sight of the public not glaringly out in front just because the particular business LOANS INTERPRETIN THE NEWS Yet another manifestation of US softening its stand By GEORGE KITCHEN UNITED NATIONS CPJ It should have come as no great surprise to the Israelis when the United States joined Thurs day in Security Council state ment deploring the continued establishment of Israeli settle ments on occupied Arab lands American support for the statement was another manifestation of gradual sof tening which seems to have developed over the past year in the once rigid American position on israpl There is no suggestion that the US the most faithful part ner Israel has is about to aban don its Middle East ally but there has been growing ten dency on the part of diplo BOOK CORN ER mats to talk about any deal with Egypt and Israelis other Arab neighbors on more even handed basis As an example the US rep resentatiye rose at one point during this weeks Security Council debate to praise the statesmanship at recent Middle East summit meetings which produced new alliance among Egypt Syria and Saudi Arabia This development he added promises to establish the constructive atmosphere necessary for progress toward an Arablsraeli settlement ENVOY HASTIZED American support for the unanimous council statement which has the surface appear ance of being proArab so an wants to tell the world WE GIVE On the good side it seems there are changes in the wind in banking Lets get back to the old style where bank isnt just another business its very private thing that serves discerning public gered Tel Aviv that Foreign Minister Yigal Allon lashed out in public at American Am bassador Malcolm Toon He told Toon before reporters and cameramen that the American action was real blow to any political progress toward peace Some diplomatic sources here questioned Allons wisdom in embarrasing the American ambassador who was accom panying 12 US congressmen visiting Israel There also was the question of the effect of such an outburst on the US Congress which while it does not set American government policy does hold the key voting power when it comes to provid ing US military and financial aid John Robert Colombo busy discovering Canada By CAROLINE CARVER Christopher Columbus dis covered the Americas in 1492 but as everyone knows he wasnt the first John Robert Colombo is today busy discovering Canada Hes not the first either His stockintrade is treading where others have gone recycling history and referring us to our ori ginswhich is what discovering ones history is all about Colombos anadian Refer ences Oxford University Press 576 pages $1495 well printed and bound in basicref erence blue is his latest major venture into field that he has virtually to himselfs the cross referencing and indexing of Canadiana Ellie iliarrir Examiner 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Telephone 7266537 Registration Number 0484 Second Class Mail Return postage guaranteed Daily Sundays and Statutory Holidays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 85 cents weekly $4420 yearly Single copies 15 cents By Mail Barrie $4420 yearly Simcoe County $3400 yearly lBalance of Canada $1600 year National Advertising Offices 65 Queen St West Toronto M1710 640 Cathcart St Mon treal Member of the Canadian Press and Audit Bureau of Cir culations The Canadian Press is ex clusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches in this paper credited to it or The Associated Press or Reuter and also the local news published therein The Barrie Examiner claims Copyright in all original adver tistng and editorial material created by its employees and reproduced in this newspaper Cogpyright Registration Num r203815 register 61 Since an enormous amount of his future material is hap pening right here and now Colombo has fulltime career stretching ahead of him After series of minor forays into the reference field he made his first major sortie in 1974 with Colombos Canadian Quotations recently reissued as Colombos Concise Canadian Quotations by Hurtig Publish ers of Edmonton at $495 in pa perback However his new Colombos Canadian References has been produced by firmwaford University Press that carries more weight in the reference field SOME SLRIRISES There is much for browsers to enjoy reminder that we can gratefully claim Pablum as Canadian product and that Canadensis is not the study of things native but town in nor theastern Pennsylvania Canadian Whites is not rac ist slogan but the name given to Canadian blackandwhite comic books printed here in the Second World War An enigmatic reference at the end of this entry leads one to Nelvana of the Northern Lights who turns out to be beautiful Eskimo heroine from the Canadian Whites era who had ravenblack hair and ted miniskirt long bellier such things were dreamed of in more southern climes The word beaver evokes flood of entries As well as being semiaquatic animal and Canadas national emblem which first appeared on post age stamp in 1851 castor cana densis gave its name to pad dle steamer owned by the Hud sons Bay Company an all purpose light airplane quar terly magazine an award dam and it became the nick name of Lord Beaverbrook The browser will also find that the Mountain Beaver is not in fact beaver but liv ing fossil that lurks in the dim forests of British Columbia and the Alberta Rockies Gods Country is not after all that collection of states south of the border but Can adas northwest corner the Yu konalthough it was writer from Michigan who gave it the name FLOOI OF FACTS For people who like facts and dont know where to for them here are list of Grey Cup champions names of the Fathers of Confederation the winners of the GovernorGen erals Literary Awards and the holidays of Canada federal and provincial Unfortunately thou Co lombos Canadian Re erences lack balance John Colombo is aware of this for he refers to it in his preface saying that he knows the book reflects his own enthusiasms and interests but feels the range is reasonably comprehensive Alas there are errors of omission and commission The media are given much covA erage but important figures like Ma Murray and Alan Foth eringham from the west are left out Sandy Ross and Michael de Pencier from Toronto Many of the parks of Canada find entry among them quite rightly eastern Ontarios Bon Echo which is famous for its Walt Whitman inscription and its Indian pictographs but Co lombo does not mention that its towering granite cliffs are also famous in Eastern Canada as gathering place for rock clim bers Killarney Provincial Park is omitted which is pity sin ce its sparkling white La Cloche mountains are so old that they make the Rockies appear young by comparison ITSA START The fact is that the book is far from comprehensive un doubtedly heavy on Eastern Canada and therefore cannot be counted as an important ref erence work One man even Colombo cannot encompass the refer rable matters of Canada by himself without reflectin bias that cannot be justi ied with apologies in the preface But its start wonderful start and it fills gap on the shelf that was sorely needed As the saying goes Tall oaks from little acorns grow John Colombo may yet roduce not an English oak ut loriously patriotic fully figg maple Caroline Carver iii the author of Canadian Christmas Hook Thomson News Service FROM PARLIAMENT HILL After he considered everything PM decided not to get involved By STEWART MacLEOI Ottawa Bureau Thomson News Service With the future of Canada the burning issue in the Quebec provincial election campaign there have been repeated sug gestions over the past few weeks that Prime Minister Trudeau should have entered the battle on behalf of Con federation With Premier Robert Boult rassas personal unpopularity exposed to embarrassing pro portions and with Union Na Hirohito surV1ved through MacArthur By JOHN HARBRON Foreign Affairs Analyst Thomson News Service Middleaged Japanese were remembering this week how streetcar c0nductors in central Tokyo before the war would stop their trams in front of the Imperial Palace so all passengers could face in its direction and bow to the em peror Others who now are old men are surprised to find out that Em ror Hirohito now 75 and cele rating 50 years on the throne this week could speak Japanese They were in doctrinated to believe he was god in the old state Shinto rcli gion and therefore spoke in somedivinelanguage This and the United States CANADAS STORX Ned Hanlan fine oarsman By BOB BOWMAN During the Olympic Games last summer sportswriters and commentators occasionally re called famous Canadian ath letes of the past One of the most outstanding was Torontos Ned Hanlan who was probably the finest oars man the world has ever seen He won the Worlds Champion ship six times and earned $50 000 in prize money which was great deal for his time the 1870s Hanlan was preceded by two other outstanding Toronto scul lers Dick Tinning and Thomas London who recognized Han lans ability They trained him and in 1876 he won the Phila delphia Centennial Race of three miles The world champion of that time was Trickett of Aus tralia and challenge match was arranged to take place on the famous Thames River cour sein England on Nov 15 1880 The race attracted great deal of attention although not many people thought that Han lan had much chance of defeat ing Trickett Most of the betting money was on the Australian On the day of the race thou sands of people lined the banks of the river They were amazed to see Hanlan pull away from wartime propaganda movie Know Your Enemy Japan identifying the mild and entle Hirohito as bucktooth baby killer are in the past Surviving it all breathtak ing half century of dynamic and destructive Japanese history is the man who has ruled as em peror of Japan longer than any of his ancestors This month nationwide cele brations honoring the emperor whose empire was devastated and stripped away as result of Japans entry into the Second World War is revered Japa nese and world leader Not everyone has forgotten what kind of Japan he ruled over before 1945 nor the in humanities it perpetuated on its citizens and Allied prisonersof war Trickett at the beginning He was soon so far ahead that he was able to stop rowing and wave to the crowd Towards the end of the course he lay down in his shell rested until Trickett caught up and then beat him to the inish Hanlan was undefeated until he retired OTHER NOV EVENTS l765Frenchspeaking Cana dians were given the right to serve as jurors and French speaking lawyers to plead cases in courts MlFire destro ed public buildingsin SaintJo NS rimWilliam Hall of Avon port NS was first black to win the Victoria Cross and also the first Canadian sailor tanNorthwest Council passed law to try to conserve uffalo l920McGill University re ceived $4 million from Montreal citizens and $1 million from Rockefeller Foundation l926Bridge was opened over South Saskatchewan River at Dunblane 1948 Mackenzie Kin resigned as prime minister ter establishing longservice record of 22 ears I962 Li erals led by Jean Lesage won Quebec election HERERUN THIS STUFF UP lOMAXIMUM SECURITYGIVE IT TO 6940081 HE WANTS TO APPLY FORA TRANSFER tionale Leader Rodrigue Biron still in the process of in troducing himself there was no powerful or prestigious individ ual stum ing the province on behalf of ederalism Many commentators along with letters to the editor had THII KWAI TRLTH recent reunion of the real men who built the wooden rail way bridge over the Kwai River in Thailand included the data that 40000 Allied prisonersof war died in building that rail way all in violation of the Gen eva Convention about the use of prisonersofwar in this way When the emperor and em press paid state visit to Brit ain last year and Queen Eliza beth II restored the Japanese ruler to the Order of the Garter the stilllarge British veterans association of prisonersofwar of the Japanese protested most vigorously Nevertheless in 1945 Emperor Hirohito was permitted to sur vive by the very wise and very shrewd decision of Gen Douglas MacArthur who had preempted his powers and even his role in the post1945 American military occupation of Japan As result he has ruled over both an imperial and militaris tic Japan later shattered by war then Japan under post war recovery and today na tion which is the worlds second lar est industrial power but wit out the need of an ex ploitative and brutal military or huge land empire Japans late 20th century commercial empire are the markets she controls and the huge domestic consumer mar ket which Japanese recovery produced In world of growing nuclear power and the demand by small emerging countries for nuclear power facilities Japan remains nation suspicious of the poten tial of nuclear power memories of the atomic bomb attack against her lingering even with the young who do not remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki of August 1945 The em ror has been made into pu lic figure in recent years with his simple interests in ocean botany the natural sciences being emphasized as well as his quiet family life FAMILY MAN Indeed it is this element in the emerging lifestyle of the Hirohito family which peals to many Japanese ol and young the lasting values of tra ditional Japanese family life What an unanticipated role for the man in old age who as young emperor was portrayed Japans enemies as beast comparable to Hitler So much for the immense stupidities of war and propaganda suggested that Mr Trudeau should have headed for Quebec the moment it became obvious that Rene Levesques Parti Quebecois was making heavy inroads into Liberal strong holds And similar suggestions had come from highranking Liberal candidates in the prov ince most of whom were busy trying to disassociate them selves from Premier Bourassa The fact that Mr Trudeau turned aside all such sugges tions does not imply any dis interest or concern He has followed the campaign with in tensity says close associate He knew everything that was said he studied every poll and he has pondered every possi bility But after considering every thing he decided to say noth ing MANY REASONS There were many reasons for his decision say these associates And other federal Liberals from Quebec agreed that he had nothing to gain by going into the province From the beginning of the campaign Mr Levesqueper ha he anticipated some in vo vement by Mr Trudeau kept repeating that Premier Bourassas provincial Liberals were under the thumb of the Ot tawa Liberals And to hammer home his point he pointed at the two shipwreck victims Jean Marchand and Br ce Mackasey the two former ed eral ministers who entered the campaign to help stop separa tism Mr Bourassa of course has been denying any suggestions of federal influences within his party or campaign And in these circumstances he could scarcely share platform with the prime minister Mr Trudeau had also been keeping close eye on Mr Mar chand and Mr Mackasey two personally popular figures in the province who appeared to be having their share of diffi culties trying to get themselves elected The prime minister was said to feel that if Mr Mar chand in particular could not pack an influential wallop in the campaign it might be risky for him to put his reputation on the line He could easily have lost prestige while not really in fluencing the outcome of the campaign And one reason for this is the success Mr Levesque has had in divorcin the issue of separa tism fromt eelectimn PREMIER UNSUCCESSFUL All the polls had indicated that Premier Bourassa had not been successful in selling the idea that vote for the Parti Quebecois is vote for separa tism because while Mr Le vesques party showed huge increase in popularity prior to voting vast majority of these people said the didnt favor Quebecindepen ence So to many Quebecers this was not campaign to decide the future of province in Confederation That would comelater READER FOR UM Gratitude flowed both ways library DearSir Im vergesorry that we left any mem of our audience feeling uncomfortable at the close of successful authors night We did indeed enjoy having Ted Plantos and David Mc Fadden here They are splen didly articulate creative ar tists and we counted it privilege to have them with us We were also rateful to Outreach Ontario financed the program and to the Georgian Bay Regional Library System who arranged it As matter of course letters went out to both oets and to the regional of ice and to Outreach Ontario of the Ministry of Culture and Recreation expressing our pleasure and enclosing the ex cellent press notice by Sean Finlay It is hardly possible that our guests thought themselves neglected We went to the bus station to meet them and one of them having missed his con QUEENS PARK Labor minister goes in deep By DON OHEAKN Queens Park Bureau Thomson News Service TORONTO Labor Minister Bette Stephenson and her dep uty Tim Armstrong have been making some exceptional speeches recently Exceptional in that they go much more deeply into the problems of the work place than we have been accustomed to hearing from govern mentor from anywhere else for that matter BORING WORK One question to which Dr Stephenson gave major atten tion recently was boredom on the job This unquestionably is one of our great social problems There is little call for creativ ity or even in most cases for incentive from the worker on the assemblyline or otherwise in our present automated society This not only deprives him from satisfaction on the job thereby holding back that pro ductivity which is so important to our welfare but affects his whole social outlook and the at mosphere of society Another dee problem is oc cupational hea th and safety The unions and the New Democratic Party can say that they have been complaining about this for years And to some extent they have But anything they have had to say pales beyond the extent of the problem today Only few years ago we knew or heard nothing about mercury pollu tion asbestosis polyvinyl chlo ride and the seeming host of in YOUR BUSINESS Pension indexing costs may soar By VINCENT EGAN Business and Consumer Affairs Analyst Th0mson News Service If you are typical Canadian working for living and con tributing to pension plan you probably have vague feeling that your financial security af ter age 65 is assured The retirement years we tend to think will be time to live comfortablyin both physical and financial ter mswhile travelling pursuing hobbies completing long postponed projects and so on Right Quite possibly for members of the federal civil service whose pension benefits increase automatically in pro portion to each rise in the cost ofIiving index Those who arent covered by such goldplated pension plans that is the majority of Canadianswont fare nearly as well after retirement unless they have made prodigious per sonal efforts to supplement their pension Ians or unless in flation shoul end Fat chan ce The Trudeau governmentin fit of generosity and without troubling to count the cost gave members of Parliament civil servants and the armed forces the richest of all pension plans few years ago No one in those categories need worry any more about in flation as ong as they live PROS AND CONS The indexing of civilservice pensions has been roundly criti cized ever since The response by those fortu nate enough to be covered is basically why notwhy shouldnt we have our standard of living protected and why shouldnt other emplo ers be just as generous wit their peo le answers could be put in the form of other questions Why should one group with ac cess to the public treasu en joy rotection against in ation whi the majority of people nection we drove Newmarket to pick him up We invited them to dinner and booked them at the motel and some of us spent the af ternoon and evening in their company It seemed that the atitude flowed both ways in is case At least that was my distinct impression Sincerely Mrs Sara Maley t0 Barrie Public Library WE WANT YOUR OPINION fitters submitted for publication must be original copies signed by the writer Please include your street ad dress and phone number although they will not be published Letters which can not be authenticated by phone cannot be published For the sake of space public interest and good taste The Examiner reserves the right to edit con dense or reject letter dustrial hazards which are ap pearing as industry moves more and more into chemical age and industrial medicine and research advance and ad Vance ATTENTION FIRST The government and its labor spokesmen dont propose many answers of course For as we all know by now an swers to these basic problems are going to be hard to find One thou being regularly ut forwar is that there must more cooperation between management and labor This is something which in dustry resists of course but it would seem inevitable The rejection by industry is understandable It can vision labor representatives in its board rooms and dictating how companies should be run This really isnt the concept however Rather it is that there should be such things as labor management mittees Even these unquestionably safety com will be resisted on the basis that they are foot in the door But they can be seen as not only inevitable but of possible considerable value to industry If labor had dual responsi bility in the health field for ex ample there could hardly be the slander campaigns such as we have seen against some in dustries which unwittingly have been polluting As for the really deep social problems Well government at east is focusing some attention on them And such attention must come first Perhaps some answers will follow dont And how could private employers provide fully indexed pensions without run ning the risk of bankruptcy The government of Canada wont be bankrupted by the uni maginable future costs of its pension plan It will get the nec essary money simply by raising taxesand the tax increases will as always cause still more inflation It looks as if the soldiers in the fight against inflation have built themselves comfortable shelters behind the lines and left the civilians exposed in front comments William Mercer Ltd employeebenefit consultants Mercer says that civil service pensions should be de indexed or at least subject to limit of say four per cent on advances tied to the cost of living HIGHER CEILING Turning to the field of private pensions heres news of change in the maximum en sion rule that has attract tle attention lit Revenue Canada has an nounced an immediate increase of about 50 per cent in the size of the annual benefits that can be provided from registered pension plan The new limit is $1715 multi plied by the number of years service up to 35 That means that person who has completed 35 yearspr moreof service can receive benefits of as much as $60025 The previous limit was $40000 set in 1964 The new limit wont for the time being be included in Rev enue Canadas official guide lines pending broader revi sion of the rules firm of pension con sultants Towers Perrin Forster and Crosby said that it is con cerned that the new maximum hasnt been indexed to keep pace with general in creases in earnings levels and that future increases will be sporadic and arbitrary as they have been in the past