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Elam Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 16 Bayfield Street Barrie Ontario Walls Publisher Brian Sleight General Manager WEDNESDAY DEC II 1911 Plll More Polls Are Needed To Handle Barrie Elections We hear and read considerably about progressive Barrie but the 5083 voters who turned out to vote in Mondays civic election must have wondered ser iously Just how progressive this com munity really is We hear and read considerably in cluding editorials on this page about the duty of each citizen to vote but vot ers must wonder just how far this duty extends Surely citysize Barrie has reached the stage where satisfactory voting con ditions can be realized where it is not necessary for voters to wait as long as an hour and quarter to cast their bal lpts and where it is not necessary for voters to travel so far to vote Barrie had four polls for the election one in each ward These were subdi iIided into subpolls Anyone curious as to why only about 45 per cent of the voters turned out could well contem plate the idea of more polls in all sec tions of each ward At one time Barrie had six words with two polling places in each and at that time the population was much less At present Ward Two has 4086 elig ible voters Ward Three has 3294 elig ble voters Ward One has 2634 eligible voters and Ward Four has 1890 eligible voters In at least three of these wards one polling station is obviously not enough even with the subpolls at the some locations Last week The Examiner supported the idea of citywide voting that is vot ing for aldermen atiarge on the same basis as for mayor Thus all candidates would run as city candidates dedicated to serving the interests of the entire city This would do away with the old ward system which has been discarded in many other communities which have reached Barries size It would also mean that polls could be situated in all areas without regard to ward boun daries This years election was as interesting as any in recent years We had elec tions for mayor all council seats and for two bylaws regarding Sunday sports and movies There should have been considerably more voter interest than displayed in the statistics We cant help but feel that if Barrie is to produce higher percentages of vot ers in future elections action must be taken by the new council to assure bet ter voting facilities Crime Probe Long Overdue Premier Roberts is tobe commended for reversing the see no evil attitude of Ontarios Attorney General Kelso Rcberts by announcing appointment of Royal Commission into crime in on tario However it is regrettable that the de cision was so long in coming It should have been made months ago There have been sufficient indications of or ganized crime in this province to have made apparent the need for some in vestigating and resultant action Attorney General Roberts did neither himself nor his province any service in claiming for so long that there was no organized crime in Ontario We are that sure just how disorganized crime am this province had to be to meet Mr Roberts definition But crime there is and whether there should be hairsplit g5 ting over Just how well organized it is is not the main issue The issue is that acrime exists apparently on wide and iconnected basis The Royal Commission if properly pa The Barrie Examiner Authorised ll lecnnd elm null Post office Deplrfmunt Diflwl Ind for plyment of putat in club Duffel lundlys Ind siniuicry HolidIyl extpom KENNETH warts Publisher mum auteur oeoeru Manur MePHERSON Maximo Editor arrmoss warms Business MInIur nanny mason lidnrllsing nunm corn nospsn Circulation Mlnllar suamipuan me daily by cllricl an wulrly mo year sinn copy By mail in DniIrio year nun for months 1250 mm mnnfha omn cums ourno 00 year cumu 351d 32000 yur Offices as umvm an some mu cr of ur Clnldlul miiy lilhrsbAnoclstlon Tho cnsin Mudlt sunu of CireulIllom yr The CInndlIn Press ll exclusively entitled to tin r5153yamru¥vwzflm3 Tornniir Cathurt at 50th since Vlflcoix uu for re ubliciionof Ill flown dll lichld in his or crc lied to it or The Assoc sled Preu or clarion Ind also the local new pupilpad therein constituted and given sufficiently broad investigative powers can do real serv ice in spelling out for us the extent of criminal activity and the great dangers it represents If crime is allowed to root itself deep ly it turns to legitimate fronts de velops strong political and economic power and is thus more difficult to root out This is the lesson learned from the United States and one we in Ontario should take to heart We agree with Liberal leader John Wintermeyer that the powers of the commisssion are not broad enough as outlined by the premier and that on in vestigative arm should have been in cluded He feels insufficient voluntary testimony will be forthcoming to de velop the full story Now that the government has agreed to the commisssion we believe it should have the investigation proceed on the broadest possible basis using all means to obtain the full facts This should not be political football and it is unfortunate that through un Justified delay the government allowed it to become such With the long delay and the resulting pressure to establish the commissison many allegations were made It might well be that much of this is unfounded But the people deu mend to know and the government has been wise in agreeing to the investiga tion BULLDOG BREED London Evening standard judge wasbittan at the dog show in Carmathen while examininga Welsh terrier However it was not the dog but the dogs owner who bit hlmn The owner Mr Green did notbeiieve the Judge was treating the animal with suf ficient dignity OTTAWA REPORT Now Get Something For Defence Dollar By PATRICK NICHOLSON Exercise Qui Vivc ii joint training exercise by the Cm disn Army and CAEC bow is taking place in Quebec lis pur pose is to lost the preparedness of the standby force which we maintain to assist in United Ns lions police aciioos and in study its capability of immediate transportation by air The interest of Qui Vive II to you and me is ihsi it will presumably moosirste that at last we are ge ilng for our big defence dollar something which for year after postwar year our department of national defence failed to provide Thal some thing is adric air movement capability The king our national de fence in all years from Hir oshima io Tutsin was the maln icoance of military striking force of the ready which could be flown to any part of Canada lo repel an invaders Siraicgic ally this never made sense To day the concepi is an anachron lslic mockery in the View of top armchair strategists But prnc iically it has not made sense either because we just did not have the aircraft available to perform simultaneous airlift of snyihlng much larger than curporels guard LARGE AIR FLEET Today however the Air Trans port Command of the Royal Cs nadian Air Force possesses or is assembling an air fleet cu puble of carrying sizable mili tary police force over long dis tances wiih roundlbeworldln twodays speed For example twelve Yukon aircraft four Hercules aircraft one squadron of eight North star aircraft fen Cosmopolitan aircraft lwo Comets and one CS anthunlcd ViP airliner now are available and at the ready or shortly to be delivered to the RCAF The Yukon is longrange turboprop aircraft capable of carrying 134 soldiers across the Atlantic If is Canadianvmade but has the disadvantage that it QUEENS PARK can only be lInded on full lengib concrete runways The Hercules is conventional pro pellordrlveo aircraft with pisiob engioes which can he landed even on temporary wiremesb runway and can Ilso be used for pl parsiroops of which it can carry The 40 seat North Star and their more luxuriously appointed brother the surest are obsoleie by airline standards The medium rsnge Cosmopolitan is more modern turboprop aircraft with seats The Comet one of the early for plants is also of med lum range and with roam ca pacity Thus our RCAF could today niriift some 2500 soldiers equiv alent to half brigade group or about onesixth of division at war strength under certain con ditions of range and airfield availability This is great siep forward from the sliuailno when the transportation of our United No lions force in help keep the peace In he Middle East five years ago caused considcrsbls problems of logistics IS MONEY BEST SPENT But that aerial Noahs Ark which is our Air Transport Com mand with about two speci mens of each type is wan ionly wasteful nir fleet in ferms of maintenance and use lls size shows that the air force has been able In get larger share of our substantial defence tax dollar in recent years but its jumble as well as lls size does raise the very pertinent ques tion Should Canada still strive to maintain balanced de fence force ccnslsling of army navy and air force of gunners ianks aerial sharpshooter and PBl plus many elceierasl Or would we better concentrate on more substantial but less varied contribution loallied de fence Our brigade group in Europe for instance costs as much as iwo full European di visions yet ls only onesixth the size CARC Thats the Quebec name for RCAF Corps Aerien Royal du Canada say defence headquarters Fluoridation Brings 0utSome Grackpols By DON OHEARN TORONTO There must be some serious thought through the province these days on fluor idatiun Five out of the first six mu nicipalities to vote on it turned it down This brings the immediate thought of on of what about ihosemunicipallhes who arent voting on it What about those local areas where there has not been group on hand to organize pc tition and get the necessary 10 per cent of names to call for plebiscite Are the councillors in these now satisfied they are doing the right thing There have been crackpots on boih sides of the fluoridation question Cr kp ots and screamers it has been the writers exper ience that the greatest scream ers have been on the pro side And also the narrowest think lng This has not been the man impression it is true particularly among colleagues in ihis business But almost invariably it has appeared that those who have been preaching in public fluoridation have also shown themselves in be narrowminded on other questions There are thosecf us who have the conviction that the public as such usually has more common sense than its leader ship That in elections and other matters put before it for deci om sion it usually comes up wrih the best choice available to it And the fluoridaiion votes are another illustration of this FEAR DOMINATED But the screamers have been inclined to dominate our leader ship in public affairs in recent years if it had been on straight conscience vote there is little question that fluoridation never would have passed in this House There are enough men of in telligence in the assembly to know that mass fluoridation is wrong onprinciples But fears outweighed their principles And the same fears are ruling many of our local councils OTHER METHOD There is one key point to al ways remember about fluoride tion This is that it can be made available by government if that is desirablethrough other means than addition to water supplies if this werent so there might some argumenuo justify it it ould be contended it was so im rlant to beelththat theiml port ce overArode principle Bu this argument under any clrc stance would be highly deb table And in this case it is not necessary There is the alternative of providing free fluoride pills This is the approach that really was favored here And dont bet against llelll prevailingthroughout the prov ince LETTERS TO EDITOR Dear Sir While thinking of the Christmas season thought of the news that we always heer and read about during the hull days AI result wrote the enclosed poem hoping it might help to prevent even one trag edy If you feel as do would be very leased if you would print it The Barrie Examiner Sincerely LILLIAN BARhON or you warm To Live Dont rush toward disaster As you are driving home tonight Go slow instead of faster gYou will reach your home all right Please heed the many warnings When youm travelling at Iii hi if you are going in party Dont ieeicr on the brink Fbr if you love your family You wont drive if you drink So many wouldbe happy If they had done the some So be fair to other drivers Careless drivingl not game Today Dimerick Summer ls most beautiful ime subject of many Irhyme But when winter comes nigh Aodthe hillsplle up high Summer wages therc isnt dime sxrauopocx VANCOUVER CPA$350 000 expansionof wharf that started in 1924 as small flour clock has been completed The duck which handles most of the flour shipped ihrough Vancou nw can handle three ships at mo Hopes High On Pool PayOff LONDON Reuters Every week throughout the winter mil lions of Britons send off their pennies and shilling to one or mother of the citys big pools firms dreaming of the life of luxury they will have if they col lect one of the Jackpot prizes Each year dorcn or more Britons collect silable fortunes up to about 5900000lmm the pools Thousands of other coi iect smaller prizes But what happens then to the dream of life of luxury For the most part noihing say of ficisls of he pools firms Many of the big winnen go rlghi on working at their old Jobs which may pay them $10 or $35 week They may buy new car or move to better home but for the most part they go on living their live just as they did before Pool promoters havea spe cial committee including stockbroker lawyer an no counlenl and bank manager io advise the big winners and to prevent them from squander Ing lhcir money But lhcre are some winners who cant be held back once they get their hands on the big prize cheques One mun appfnrod in court on theft charge and said he spent $100 day until he had gone lhrough the $60000 he won housewife whose husband collected nearly twice that umouni went shoplifting to keep up appearances after they had gone through all the money And nne man who won 590000 appeared in bankruptcy court and said all the money had gone on successive failures of chicken farm pig farm and grocery slore BIBLE THOUGHT Love lhlnkeih no evil nice 1h not In lnlqully Corin thians 1344 if we arc to have peace in this world it will come when love and righteousness make no lions neighbors and all men brothers REPORT FROM UK Feeding The Pigeons Must In LondOn By MCINTYRE HOOD Sptclsl lauded England Correspondent for The Barrie Examiner LONDON The flocks of pig eons in Trafalgar Square con silfuie one of the inieresilng sights of London To go to the famous square and feed the pigeons is must for all iourisis visiting the oily and even for people coming to Lon don from other parts of the counlry Every day unless the weather is really bad the Sou are is cmwded with people young and old alike taking in dclighi in the antics of the pig eons which climb on their hands fly up to rest on heads and shoulders and provide amateur photographers wiih interesting piclurcs At the some time ihc Traini gar Square pigeons provide livelihood for quite number of professional photo graphers who have many busy days taking pictures of children in the midst of the flullering pigeons Then there are the grain sellers selling liiile cans of graln so that the visitors can feed the pigeons They do his business on in fine day sclA ling fur sixpence the cans of mixed wins and at hand some profit NOT ALWAYS POPULAR So Trafalgar Square alw has its flock of hungry pigeons and although it costs the coun cil of the oily of Westminster something to keep the clcancd up every day there are no objections to them being there This Is not the case in some other places where civic squar es hsve become the habitat of flocks of pigeons In some places they are looked upon as an abominable nuisance causing damage in buildings and expen se lo civic authorities The first ingredient to successful party is to have plenty ofCaoada Dry on hand Make sure yod have lots of Ginger Ale for your guestsits everyones favourite Canada Dry Sparkling Water is another mustfi It gives drinks that extra zip And of course the kids as well as the adults will love the wonderful zest of Canada Dry Fruit Flavours Canada Dry Ginger AleéandSparkling Waterjtheworlds bestselling mixers is in Plymouth for instance the city council decided something must be done to get rid of the pigeons which were making the civic square their home and producing Trafalgar Sq uare situation on smaller scale The council in Plymouth has announced plan which it believes will keep birds away from Ihsi ares Councillors con demned them as nuisance and said lhey were causing damage to buildings around the square But even in Plymouih ihe pig eons have their friends One of them Miss Winifred Varese siericd Save the Pigeons petition after the mount an nounced they were to be doe iroyml and over 1600 people signed ii in quick order 50 perhaps the Plymouth pigeons may earn reprieve PROBLEM AT STATIONS British Railways are findln pigeon flocks concentrating on their stations creating an lninl crablc situation as it is put officially Al several of the larger stations in Britain and have seen them in London and in Edinburgh and Aberdeen signs have been placed in prominent positions urging the public not to feed ihe pigeons in the inlcrcsls of public heal th sanitation and safely At one railway sinian reconf ly if was reported in the Lon don press pigeonshooting bee was held with members of the staff using light shotguns to gct rid of the birds This did arouse some unfavorable com mcni but the answer of the railway officials is that these birds are multiplying at such role that boy consiiluie menace when they gather in their hundreds on railway plai forms encouraged by the people particularly children who like to feed Ihcm Manufacturedkbyior undervfhe authority of Canada Dry llmlred ciiiAvoRvrormvc co BARRIE Lib