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There can be little doubt that the problem of the care of the aged will have to be con sidered and understood by all levels of gov ernment as well as the professional groups and acted upon intelligently by these bodies Recently meeting was held in Barrie under the auspices of the Barrie Welfare Council at which there was long discussion on the many factors affecting the aged it seems to be quite clear and it is not surprising to find nowadays that the activ ities of the official public health agencies are devoted chiefly towards the benefit of infants and children in young virile grow ing nation so necessary for its development with relatively little attention being paid to those in the older age groups During recent years however specialists working in the public health field have at least been think ing if acting on what can be done to help this problem which is very tan gible part of our social structure Until recently the decrease in immigration the decrease in the birth rate and the in crease of the life expectancy at birth and the accompanying rise in the average age at death may be considered as contributing factors Xl America in 1800 only 13 per cent of the population were of the age ofefi or over in contrast to the expected proportion of 40 per cent by the year 2000 Similarly in 1860 51 per cent of the population were younger than 20 years of age in contrast with an anticipated 25 per cent by the end of the twentieth century What is occurring in the USA is happening also in Canada Applying statistics to Simcoe County and more particularly to Barrie one finds sim liarsituation According to the 1951 census one finds population of those 65 and over to be 10957 in Simcoe County and in Barrie 1288 in that age group or 103 per cent of the total population With the aging of the population many changes necessarily come about As the birth rate decreasesso will the older age group increase and the need for canes and whep chairs will increase The increased control of the acute communicable diseases the relative need for hospital beds for the careand treatment of these diseases decreas es Better and more adequate obstetrical care and more and better diagnostic facilities better hospital accommodation better med ical and nursing care all tend to lengthen mention of life but in the wake of these better facilities comes the need and the demand for facilities for the care of chronic diseases and the aged While chronic and metabolic diseases are by nomeans restricted to the older age groups the fact remains that it is in that period of life where they most commonly occur or become evident and cause disability and ultimate death It seems quite evident that the prevention oridelay if development of the degenerative diseases is themest important responsibility of medicine today in order that the potential ities ofthe elderly may be more widely devel oped and utilized The ultimate hope would seem to be for prevention The workof the public health specialists inay play vital role even though the approach maybe very indirect but the key note to success is the cooperation and understanding of all agencies concerned The ideal program would bebne in which there would be research early diagnosis hospit alization and treatment followup rehabili tation education and custodial care Santana To carry out however such program wouldifkhaveio be thoroughly studied and understood by all levelsof govornment while the medical profession would be in the same position It would be only then when there convince concerted plan of campaign that avemight go long way to easing this pro blem in thefuture Conquer lnfloenza might bejwarded off befilre they get under by is by experts501 the World Health be united Nations body that allovertlle world the ligbllef that within year or so they thenewswont make its hard he mostfirnportant ll Milli remains uncon milder mp1s it may be known Barri Class Published Monday footie on so The thatfuturalnfluenza epidemics lidannounce mastery of influ importan of such iiqon Building Post Office Square Barrie Ontario Co nods EXAMINER LIMITED Audit no of Circulation pubcrib to or Imus as the flu or the grippe and many can shrug it off lightly But an influenza epidemic of severe proportions coming every few yearn causes alarge number of deaths When this years outbreaks started scii elitists reported developments to the World Health Organization as they occurred in Europe in the United States Canada and Japan and noted they were mild in comparison with the terrible epidemic of 1918 that caused millions of deaths What the scientists did in particular was analyze the exact type of influenza virus that was most prevalent Experts at the Geneva headquarters were soon able to do termine that in almost every country thei culprit this time was the APrime virus It was an important discovery it meant that stocks of special APrime vaccine remain ing from the last outbreak could be hipped to the trouble spots at once me nt that in future quantities of the se major types of vaccines could be prepared ahead of time and the proper ones sent out as soon as the specific virus had been identified It pointed the way for great vaccination campaigns wherever enough vaccines of the correct type could be produced before out breaks reached epidemic proportions Editorial Notes The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably per vaded all ages Horace Greeley Fred Grant points out that winters now are in no way comparable with those of The Good Old Days when the ice on Kempen felt Bay usually was over 30 inches thick now being to 10 He produced clipping from The Globe files of Tuesday May 1853 which stated Lake Simcoe and Kem penfelt Bay are now quite open The steamer Morning will immediately commence her regular trips As of 1953 the bay and lake have been ice free for some weeks and Fred points out that fully corroborates what he had writtninany times in The Examiner newspaper exchange asks what people think of organizations which get their print ing and spend their money with job offices and then ask the newspapers to give their show good coverage which means the news papers have to go to expense while others get the revenue In these days of mounting newspaper production costs it is understand able whp some editors get irritated says the exchange paper which argues that news paperswnich give free blurbs and writeups should get any business it can handle Space is what newspapers have to sell and if people dont think it is worth paying for then newspapers cant exist for like other bus inessesthey have to have money to meet the cost of newsprinfwages rent and bun dred and one other necessities Perhaps it is the newspapers own fault some expect so much of them for they do so much for public and community interests that they are often taken for granted The editor of TheMidland Free Press Herald has calculated that in 13 federal constituencies about 53 per cent of the total the only newspapers published are weekly newspapers Anadditional 48 con stituencies are served by both weekliesand dailies whereas in only 66 constituencies or just onequarterof the total the home newspaper is daily Right across Camila the only home newspapers in over half the federal constituencies are the lOcal weekly newspapers newspapers which because of their local emphasis have the highest read ership per copy of any news or advertising medium However brilliant ankaction it should not be esteemed great unless the result of great and good motive ltochefoucauld onNIousor omens See Eye To Eye on Almonte Gazette short time ago the Ontario Government amend ed the liquor control regulations so as to make it legal for hotel kemmo serve sandwiches in bev erage rooms Everything1317138 does is denounced by Rev Bcn Spence and this change was no excep lion induce them to drink more beer about ard like something tofeat limportont question lexamiurri Newspaper Wednesday Friday RIVEIT secretaryTreasurer rid Bound Weekly Neuroer Annotation iv 35mm Henum Editor Rev Ben contended that reason for the concession was that sandwiches and other light lunch es would make the patrons thirsty and therefore Now it is easy to see that Ben isnt familiarwith the beverage talked If he were he would realize that there is nothing will stop mans desire for foaming tanks The man who can put down few schooners on top of hearty meal is curiosity But best of Iall the Rev Ben is playing right into the hands of mostlhotel keepers because fewiofjthem Want to be bothered preparing and serving sandwiches in beverage rooms They have dining rooms for that purpose so foroncefRev Ben and his lifelong enemies see eye iiieyeion very Chambrn in The Halifax Chronicle Province ShortSightcdFOVer Education says School Trustee Who Defends Fads And Frills We need those auditoriums and gymnasiums and with this prov ince at peak of prosperity it seems strange time to start cry ing the wolf is at the doorshc added The cutting of expenditureensocalled fads and frills of our education system such as physical education home econ omics industrial arts music and art came in for considerable criticism by Toronto area school trustees at oneday con ference of the Urban and Rural Trustees Associations central zone at Oriilia last Wednesday The outburst was alsorlevclled by Grants Cut what was termed shorisightedne He explained the cutting offof on the part of the province in lack grants for gymnasiums and other of planning to accommodate presl special rooms by asserting that cut swollen enrolments with enrolment increasing so rap to get children into classrooms Mrs Temple told the trustees representing over100 boards that tee said new pupils now taxingl school accommodation were bornl not yesterday but five and six years ago and the province should have made plans to accommodutciwere born ve years ago and the them long ago provincial government should have been making plans to accommodate them long ago not by suddenly cutting off grants for special r00m5 HOLLY Extend Sympathy We extend our sincere sympa Unless the problem of elemen tary schools is given equal consid 131 SSgsndale eration with that of high schools serious difficulties lie ahead he gt stated This idea that teachers and others move up to high schools and down to public schools must end Educationdoes not start in grade nine with smart high schools gymnasiums and schoolbuses Expressing his view that elem entary schools in the rural areas were neglected addedTherc is no uniform policy for elemen tary teachers in the counties Sal aries vary widely and scarcely county sends enough prospective teachersto normal school to staff its own schools When one ides most of the graduates go where there is decent salary schedule Department View During the session however representative of the Departmenti of Education Gordon Duffin who is assistant superintendent of elel menlary education warned the trustees that they themselves might be in trouble unless they looked ahead Miscellaneous Shower The Young Married Womens Club and few older women and children met in the basement of the church on Wednesday even ing and welcOmed Mrs Daltoni Slessonto the community with miscellaneotis shdwer There were several games Mrs Slessor thank ed the ladies and Joan Bulmer pla ed For Shes Jolly Good liel ow Lunch was served We were pleased to have several of our former friends with us Wednesday evening at the shower Mrs Brown Toronto Mrs Art Dyer and Mrs Redfern Barrie and Mrs Little Allandale WA Meeting The Womans Association will ple said the single salary scale has meet on May13 atMiS Browns brought significant increases and 59230 pm Everyone welcome advantages to the secondary schooL Mommas Day teachers Because the board adopt ext Sunday being Mothers Day ed the single salary schedule the there wmbe Emilybout the secondary icachersin 1951 received an increment of $800 or more in stead of the expected $200 In 1952 there were 683 or the 814 sec ondary school teachers who receiv ed an increment of from $201 to $400 instead of $200This yea secondary teachers have similarly received increments of between $20l and M00 as result of the adoption of thesingle salary scale Incidentally she noted while thekc maybc sustantial gains the teachers inc is considerably below that of lawyers disctors or dentists according to National Ed ucation association figures Mr lDuffini stated that because ofthe variance in conditions and salaries etc was scarcity of teachers and married women were coaxed and requested to go back toiworkh More than half the rural elem entarylteachers are married and are overworked with their two jobs to do he added 0n the subject of the grants for school gymnasium and special rooms Mrs Ternpie charged that these had been cut off just when the people of Ontario Were spend ing three times much on liquor and twice as much on tobacco as men was aiupgeconmmman they were on education at thecburch service on sunny In reply to this Mr Duffie said note that last year residents of Ontario the Salvation Army Crusedorodbe owned 881000 passenger motor rvlce weaeig cars more thanone per school orb pupil enougnto at rv at both to promoter elmwine 6291 oh to replace is Salary Question Earlier in the meeting Mrs Tem pay service at pm Everyone welco ggt BAXTER Rivercatoh Sniall peop le fishing during thepast week along the river but we learn the catch was very mat1 Mr and MinB Kennedy and two children and Edgar spent Sunday with friends in Toronto Mr and ref Robinson and PointonSdnday Mr and Mrs Duran Allis lnlnw Mr and on Sunday At Loan can Lodge Mrs bums LOBA has gone to Sudbury where she will attend Grand Lodge during the week Mrs Edwards Toronto called on friends here on Friday ohms There were large number of am Eddie ited friends at Roches ton visited their son anddlaudliller doors which was in of 1198 littergloegwill be sander School Dr new metropolitan said the increase in leisure time was one of the greatest problems faced by modern man These socalled fads and frills WMrsf Mary Templavroromo trimidly the greafcStiieedhmVWhS physicaleducatiorvhome econom ics arts music camera clubs and the rest supply activities for those leisure hours not only dCiQring school new pupils now ocking to schools but in life he remarked John Long chairman of the School board the death of craved Second Miuuuesr Mrs Bertram Bereaved Sympathy of the ammunity is extended to Mrs Les Bertram inl loving father Robert Poole of Oriliia formerly of Midl burst Miss Edna Tnorr3on visited at her home this week Donations for Rummage Sale Any donations of clothing etc for the rummage sale to be held on May under the True Blues will be gratefully re nnd Third Line auspices of the sleeve donations are Mrs Donald Thompsons Organise Junior Team junior ball team is being or ganized Coach James McGinnis has had the boys out practising Schools Observe Arbor Day Arbor Day nos observed in the schools last Friday The weather conditions were not too favorable bill game was played at $3 No 17 with SS as guests Mrs Srhai and Mrs Jones had an ex citing time as umpires The gun2 was coiled due to rain with the lscnre 16 lo iii favor of lllr vis imrs Crowfoot Co Est 1919 MEMBERS TORONTO STOCK EXCHANGE Government Iunicipai and Corporation Securities x9l Dunlop Street Barrie Telephone 2443 Evening 2388 OPEN SAVINGS ACCOUNT AT Direct Wino F5 hidden talent Discmr moneys talent for opening opportunity The Canadian Bank basement at pmr and Mo hers mounts of Commerce errr so illACRE soil trailed will Frillcrl Trace Elenielllu Typical FTli 50 lbs per acre FTl provides essential mineral elements in nowslowlysolublo Because FTlE is slowlysoluble the mineral elements twentiesiron marTganeSe copper zinc boron and molyb denumi stayrin the Not area of plahts for fullgrowing season or longer FTE provides steady ource of the ele ments necessary for full plant growth in ferm that keeps them ready 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