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barrio Examiner PublLshed by Canadian Newspapersbtmlted 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario ruunsoAY Nov m1 Pngo TRUSTIN GOD AND KEEP YOURPOWDER DRY Nomination Day Soon Elections For Citizens of Barrie should be reminded again that nomination day for council and public school board is not far off next Thursday evening to be exact at Central Collegiate auditorium There is double importance to this nomination there wont be another for two years So whoever is voted into city council and school board this time will hold of fice until the end of 1963 In this expanding local provincial and federal economy and perilous uncertain world times it is extremely important that Barrie have strong government It would appear that Alderman Lester Cooke will be unopposed for the chief magisterial office in council with Mayor Willard Kinzie having announced his retirement for the time being at least With this we have no objection even to an acclamation because we believe Mr Cooke is the right man for the job at the present time He deserves the honor and has the ability and experience in munici pal office to merit it Successful busi nessman devout churchman sincere and of unquestioned integrity he will preside over city affairs with dignity But there are 12 aldermanic seats in four wards of the city and the school board is expanding from six to eight Two Years trustees for next year Some aldermen and trustees have stated they will not be candidates again so there are vac ancies to be filled Now is the time for good men and women of the city to consider their position and decide whe ther they can render public service to this community So also should others not in position for personal or busi ness reasons to serve themselves look over the field and urge any others they consider qualified to stand for office and give them support 0n the local front there will berrob lems in the next two years bound to be in growing city with the need for more school accommodation public services sewage disposal and clearing of pollu tionfrom our beautiful bay and develop ment of the waterfront into civic and tourist attraction residential and indus trial planning traffic roads and keeping in mind that municipal taxes must not rise to the point of discouraging develop ment either industrially or commercially There is just one week for civicmind ed citizens and especially the ratepay ers to think about who should come up for nomination and follow up by elect ing the best possible city council and school board Down Memory Lane BUSY BARRIE 191 50 Years Ago in Barrie Saturday Morn ing from May 20 to September 30 Town Council at long busy session covered many items They decided to contest suit for $300 for broken leg caused by fall on sidewalk claimed de fective made new agreement with Bell Telephone decided to purchase two one horse watering carts which may also be used for oil if decided cost not over $300 also to purchase 20 barrels of road oil for streets cost not over five cents gal lon that GTR be requested to move wire fence crossing Brock Street at rail crossv ing Railway Ward News carload of char coal in some way caught fire and was shunted under the hydrant at Allandale station and extinguished finally The in itial flight of Western Homing Associat ion pigeons was from the station released at pm by StoneuThe first bird in nearly equalled the previous record rea ching the loft in 70 minutes on May 13 On Monday May 22 Athol Marshall launched his new boat Th Red Feath er at the Allandale boatho se Other Editors Views HUMAN WISDOM Cornerbrook Western Star There is no such thing as an inevit ablewar if war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom These words were spoken in July 1914 by Bonar Law The Barrie Exammer Authorized lécond class mill Post Office Department Ottlwl and for Plymcnt of postage in cash Daily Sunday and Statutory HolldBYI excepted KENNETH WALLS Pnblllhnr BRIAN ELMO Gum Mlnlglr McPElltEON MillElli Editor CHARLIE WADEE Bullpen Itllnlur HARRY WILSON Alcrtlplng Manager JOHN HOLDER circulation Manager Subscription rm dlily by film in weekly Stall yenr slush cop 7c By you In maullo $700 your 00 It mull 50 the months man butlltlo untlrto oo yur Outside an ode mm Va Offices in Universin Ave Torah Mil Cltllclfl sum Montreal ml Welt deans me Vlnluu Mlmber of ms causaln Dally Newpaper Pub iullm Association The Canadian Pm ondthn Audit sliml of blmumiom The espulna cm is sxcllul mulled lulu use for re upllnuan of all new mind in this gap are ms to It or The uracilted Pro or auto Ind lilo tbl locll olwo publlbofl lhlroln thalithe strearn the Canadian who decade later became prime minister of Britain In war and peace people will take risks if there is chance of winning It is the nature of man President Kennedy recog nized this at arecent press conference when he said Our ambition is to pro tect our vital interests without war which destroys and doesnt really re present victory for policy In this disputeover Berlin is there still no area in which human wisdom could operate ARDENT FISHERMAN Rundschau Coiogne Joseph Scheuer 76 was told by doct ors that he must stay indoors for his health and give up fishing Scheuer is obeying the first instruction but not the second He has built his new house so room and he can fish tohis hearts content Oillinl llrponr Senate Reform Plans Titlilate Politicians Bt PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA Prime hilnbter John Diefenbakcr has tltillafed the curiosity of politicians by his hint that Parliament may at it next session consider measure of Senate reform The Fathers of Confederation established our federal Parlia ment at two chamber at sembly for two good reasons Our upper house the Senate was deslylcd to provide for the careful and dispassionate revis ion of legislation and to protect the rights and interests of mi noritles in the words of Sir John Macdonaid our first prime min ister the Senate was intended to ensure sober second look at bills passed by the House oi Commons This has been con sidered to mean that the elder statesmen in the Senate would have the time and experience torender workable the details of legislation which might have had too hasty study in the lower house and this the Sen ate repeatedly achieves ad mirably Further it is argued that the Senate is ilble to mod ify any extreme measure which might be proposed by the lower house under the pressure of electoral necessity rather than in the longterm Intcmst of Call ado The Senate was initially cre ated withle seats each one third representing the lllari umcs Quebec and Ontario re spectively Later the new west crn provinces were likewise ac corded total of 24 seats and inter again Newfoundland was allotted slx newlydzrcoted Sch ate sects Thus today the Senate totals 102 members This nllo cation countarbalanccs the pre ponderont representation on joyed in our lower house by the two most populous provinces POOL 0F ABILITY The Senate today contains hard core of experienced poli tlcluns ond statesmen who to gather handsomely excel the abilitics of like number of our best parliamentarians in the lowcr house Their work is seen at its excellent best in commits tee For example the most pro QUEENS PARK found study carried out by Par liament in recent years was the report of the Senate Committee on manpower and employment But for vurioul reasons and in sundry ways the full poten llalilie of our Senate are today not always attained The most valid and most widespread criticisms of the Senate heard on Parliament Hill today are attributable to two obvious but easily remedied factors TRUE WORKING CHAMBER First and most detrimental there is no system of pensions for executors chco economic necessity prevents many an aged saunter from resigning his seat when his state of health renders this not merely desir able but imperative Second the Senate at times becomes band of uninformed explorers lacking knowledge able guide There in good case for no senator accepting seat in the cabinet but contrarlwiso there is case for giving the Senate source of informed knowledge of governmental pol lcles by including associate ministers in the Senate The most appropriate com promise helird here is that number of senators drawn from the party enjoying majority in the House of Commons and thus forming the government of the day should be appointed as additional parliamentary sec retaries one to each oi the key ministers Thus the responsibility for sponsoring public bills in the Senate would be spread around lmong several specially and currently lnlormed sena tors who would also be able to contribute exact current knowledge on the policies and affairs of their departments luring debates in the Senate The former Liberal govern ncnt recognized this need but only partly met it by the sol Jomvused provision whereby cabinet minister from the Com men is permitted the privilege of addressing the Senate from the floor of our upper house for the purpose of introducing government bill Stop Running Scared Advice To Poll By DON OHEARN TORONTO Will our politic ians stop running scared This is question that has lot of point today We have big problems ahead of us Bigger and deeper than any we have faced since the thirties And one would say from here that unless there is change in the character of our politics the chances of our meeting them arent good EVERYBODY HAPPY it is 1946 since we have had what you might call talk turkeyI government in Ontario That year cocktail bar legis lation was brought in it was iegislatioli the government knew would bitterly displease sec tion of the voters Nevertheless it introduced it And that was the last piece of bitter legislation we have bad at least that this observer can recall The tenor of our government since thenand certainly this hasnt been confined to Ontario has been everybodyhappy The great and allimportant aim has been to please people The technique has been to consider what should be done Then you consider who it will make mad Then you modify it FEAR OF VOTERS This has been practiced so long it has reached the stage where fear of the voters has be come the allenveloping consid eration And this isnt confined to the government The Liberals and NDP are just as bad if not worse Though in dispose of ticialnr the NDP it is pretty well just labor and recently the farmer that cant be offered LESAGE GOOD This of course doesnt make for good government particu larly at points of changeand we certainly are at one now Change means disturbance of status quo and this means dis turbance of people There cant be progressive change without it And government that wont disturb people just cant go ahead Premier Lesage in Quebec is giving us model today of gov ernment that is not afraid of disturbingthat is substituting courage for fear Now will we see the same trend here There are two rays of hope in the Roberts govenment The minister of energy and commerce and government Hon Robert Macaulay and the minister of municipal affairs llon Fred Cass are twu men who dont play politics of fear our immediate political future could rest with them if they are able to influence their asso ciatesand instill some bravado in themwe could have new political pattern We need it BIBLE THOUGHT Thy word hove hid in my heart Psalm 811 Store up in the mind th great truths of Gods Word and in time of need they will guide and bless HUBERT $33 nsthroligh his living had two belpings of her bread pudding and BM didnt even appreciate it STONE GARDEN AT RuOANJl TEMPLE contemplation or rock and roll Teachers And Teenagers Pose Problems For Japan By LAMB Seventh in Series Japan reflects ill very real sense the hopes and fears of the western world if the transplanted democratic forms of government survive in the stony soil of this traditionally feudal state if the western way of life with its emphasis on the material amenities and the importance of the individu al replaces the Oriental philosv ophy of resignatinnund contem pintion then Japan will become truly western notion As Japan goes so undoubted ly will go Asia with the pass ible exception of Communist Ch ina Consequently the fonunes of modern Japan are of the greatest possible significance to Canada and West in the current world struggle TROUBLES The end is not easy to pre dict Japans present system of government is undergoing 2e troubles to be expected of it yet with the support of the in lluentlal business class it should survive The new western way of life is receiving general acceptance but there are some alarming signs of future trouble For one thing the teachers of Japan belong to union which is unouestlona bly dominated by Communist influ ence They are members of an in tellectual class which as whole tends towards the le ft and which conducts sort of aesthetic flirtation with Marxist Communism These parlor pinks are men of learning and influence but their theories are quite devoid of any practical ops plicalion Nobody in Japan today save handful of newspapermen seems to have any conception of what actual Communist rule involves nor of how the practice of political communism differs from its theory This leftist influence exerts an enormous effect on the young generation growing up in Japan who are in every way better looked lifter better clothed bel ter fed than any previous gen eration in the nations history This new generation seems to have little realization of the debt which their country owes to the unique generosity of the United States which has rebuilt Japans shattered economy and sustained it under the protection of trade privileges and military defences To the Japanese youth th American soldier is simply an intruder on his soil yet at the same time he envies the Amer ican way of life and is attemp ting to pattern his own upon PROBLEM The teenago generation is an enigma in Japan even to the Japanese themselves The er generations distrust th brash manners and western af fectations of these young people who like their youthful counter parts everywhere have very real sense of what they want from life without any concep tion of their responsibilities There is no question but that this new and impatient genera tion will play an increasingly important part in the political destinies of Japan but which path it will follow is impossible topredlct Another somewhat sinister tr end is the return of Japanese industry to the era of the his trust and the huge combine which marked the rise of indus trial Japan before the war The ruleof The Eleven Fam ilies in Japan was broken up by the MacArthur regime and theta holdings offered for sale in the form of ioint stock com panies but the last few years has seen return to the for mation of big combines Mitsubishills today the great est trading concern in the world and in the field of hen vy industry new corporation co iossl are emerging Some form of government action will be re quired to halt this monopolistic trend Yet despite these disturbing signs the outlook for the tri umph of Western ideals in Ja pan is bright in material sense the Jan ancsc are already western race whose big businessmen pursue golf as urdcntly as their American counterparts whose masses follow the fortunes of their baseball teams good field no hit even more enthusiastica lly than fans in the United States Their energy and capacity for work is unsurpassed though their feverish search for plea sure raises doubts as to lheir real happiness Their practical and realistic approach to life is aided by complete lack of the sense of guilt which so plagues the pur itannical westerner sex in all its manifestations has none of the disturbing influences and harmful elfecls in Japan which it seems to have upon modern western social institutions Japan is great and growing world power destined to have ever greater influence upon the Asian countries now emerging from centuries of feudalism it is by far the strongest buss tion which the free western world now has in the East and as such merits the sympathy and support of Canadas people and government The rise of this enormous new natlon on its western doorstep will have most profound ef fect upon the Canadian economy and way of life Canada has real opportunity today to profit by the establishment of good re lotions with Japan both in the field of politics and of trade Canadians should take good look at their new Japanese neighbor LETTERS TO EDITOR Dear Sir ilccently three letters were published condemning the arena management and commission for not allowing poppy sellers for lie Legion to enter the lab by of the Barrie arena to sell poppies feel must in all fairness point out that the arena is business whether it is owned by the ratepayers or private company if inclement wea titer prevailed on the day would the taggers be allowed inside places of business of course they would not and the same applies to the arena How about the many other worthwhile projects that would like to park taggers in the arena lobby After all what is fair for one is fair for all Friday night is hockey night in Barrie Fans are anxious to get to their souls and many as do carry only enough money for ticket and pro gram and dont want taggers shoving tags at them and hav ing to refuse No the arena is not the place for taggers and the arena mun agcr was justified in not allow ing the sale of poppiean the arena The arena commission is composed of men of high re pute in our city two from coun cil and two ratepayers who give many long hours of their own time to help make the arena pleasant recreation project to our citizens apology is owed to them not to the Legion taggers Poppy Day am sure wrll always be remembered espec ially by those of us who have seen twn world wars but lets also remember there are pro per places for everything But selling poppies or other tags in the arena lobby is not one Let the writers of these letters apologize to Wes Allsupp and the arena commission for lin justified criticism of pollcy which am sure we who no tend the arena agree with No taggers at any time in the arena lobby Thanking Iyou for space lII our er remain HOCKEY FAN AND RATEPAYER TO JUST VETERAN Dear Sir cannot see why it was not wise for me to bring thesevwar veterans that are on the picket line into this union issue For the fact is they are the only war veterans spoke of and not war veterans in general would not under any circums tances use this name any oth er way than with the deepest respect fully realize that these war veterans fought for many things including as you say so Canada could be free from foreign dom ination You also said they fought for freedom to direct their lives as the majority wish ed nnd decided and do agree with you there Thats what these men on strike are trying to do They have voted the UAW in as sole bargaining agent for them These men have wished and decided this and they are the majority but they have not All been acknowledged or accepted is this what they fought for to have no say and no recognition Why should anyone have to go on strike Everyone knows who suffers It is the working man and his family You talk about giving away freedom No one is trying to give away freedom These men are trying to gain some ll freedom not the right to speak assemble petition vote etc truly believe these men are ell titled to this right also You seem to be against the UAW on account of it being as you call it forelgn pow er Then what about as you would call them foreign come panics that can come over here to get away from paying fair wages and pay us Canadians lower wages Are we then not right in fighting fire with fire Personally dont think the word foreign should be applied to Americans or any other peo pics that have fought side by side with our men for the ca use of freedom For example the Dutch underground When all Allied plane was shot down and landed on Dutch soil these men did not stop to ask what nationality lhe men in the plane were The only thing that met tered was whether they were Allics and if they were they were helped Yes asyou say we Canads ions are proud people but we must not and we cannot fob get that we might not be en joying this freedom we ave today if we had to have done it all ourselves anddid not have the wonderful Allies that we had lNo matter what their na tionality Sincerely strikers wife PROHIBiflONIST SPEAKS Dear Sir We endorse by 100 per cent the letter of Cummings as of Nov No Barrie does not need cocktail lounges it has six hotels with beverage rooms four licensed clubs and the armoury There are too three liquor retail stores and also one wholesale All the hotels have enlarged their beverage rooms making it almost impossible for one to enjoy meal in their dining rooms because of the smell of stale beer Others say that if they stay overnight in the ho to they cannotgei sleep be cause of the muse We are asked to give to all health drives except for alco holism which goes unchecked We wonder how long the west ern nations are going to keep their heads in the sand and not do something about Enemy No the slow poison habitform ing narcotic drug beverage al cohol that dolls all our finer instincts There wasno place for it in the Mechanized Age and 10 times less for it in the Atomic Age No moral or social re form can take place while it is allowed to remain it is like putting water into sieve and therefore must sign myself PROHiEiTIONiST