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attic Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited is Bayfieid Street Barrie Ontario Walls Publisher Brian slaigbt General Manager FRIDAY MARCH is Puc Lenten Season Calls For Thought On Path Taking The suggestion of Presbyterian min 7is in Wolverhampton England that his congregation give up watching tele 7vision during Lent is reminderof the needduring the season to give greater thought to the road on which we are travelling Lent is aseason for Christians to fiexamine their own way of life said the pastor If people denied the little black and white god in the corner of the room Jfor few weeks they could turn their thoughts to something nore positive The suggestion is timely for never was there greater need for man to get back on the road that leads to God Most of us are rone to lead lives filled to the brink Vith worldly matters shutting out time for examining our own way of life 1We call ourselves Christian we are proud to be seen in church on Sunday and then during the week give little if any thought about ourway life The true Christian is the man who does unto others as he would have others do unto him but how many practise this Golden Rule in their daily lives The Lenten season leading to Good Friday and Easter has special signifi cance for those who aspire to be Chris tian It is time of fasting and prayer to gain new spiritual sights that our lives thereafter may follow the pattern set by our Saviour During the season many give up somclliin which gives them pleasure and yet fail to take time to consider just what Lent means to them And unless we take time out for selfanalysis seize the opportunity to place our lives in the hands of God we will fail in the true observance of Lent Britains Shrinking Empire It is 18 years since Winston Churchill with his amazing record as wartime premier firmly established voiced his proud challenge have not become the kings first minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Em pire Yet in those 18 yeai uid latterly in his retirement Churchill has been com pelled to see the winds of change succeed where all the power of the Wehrmacht suffered defeat When the Second World War ended the British Empire thus defined com prised some 500 million people Today its population is less than 30 millions One by one over the intervening years its colonies and possessions have drop ped away India Pakistan Burma CeylonLMaIaya Ghana Nigeria Cyprus Only one of these countries Burma elected to leave the Commonwealth al together the others chose the status of Commonwealth members However as recent events have shown the distinction is sometimes hard to define some of the new nations at least have abandoned British traditions in their internal affairs The process of liquidation is still going on apace The year 1961 saw two for African colonies Tanganyika and Sierra Leone become sovereign states Uganda is scheduled for sovereignty in October of this year conference in London is setting up date for Jamaicas independence The fate of two other colonies Kenya and British Guiana is also to be decided this year they may well be completely inde endcnt the end of 1962 Another form of liquidation is in the cards for the East Indian colonies of British North Borneo Sarawak and Bru nei and the citystate of Singapore Ne gotiations are now under way to join them with the Federation of Malaya in new State of Malaysia By the end of 1963 quite conceivably nothing may remain of the British Em plre except scattering of islands in the worlds oceans handful of fortresses like Gibraltar and few problem ter ritories in Africa such as the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland which has failed to reach the final stage of self government because its European and African inhabitants cannot agree on form of government The process of course is paralleled by the postwar shrinkage of the French Dutch and Belgian colonial empires The great differenceand one very credit able to Britainis that in her case the transition has been accomplished by agreement and with relatively little bloodshed Then too the British pol ic had been for years to train native ministrators which has made the im pact of selfgovernment comparatively Simple for the various colonies Certainly when one contrasts the map of Asia and Africa with what it was in 195a the present clamor in the United Nations and elsewhere against coloniza tion appears not so much belated as posi tively antiquarian Othei Sditors Views TWO BOSSES The Printed Word The union member remarked recently that he had two bossesthe boss who paid him and the boss whom he paid The boss that the union member pays is trying to work it around so that the boss who pays the wage will have no authority whatsoever This statement is due to recent pro posal in Ontario that the provincial law be changed so that picket lines would be mvrolate No strikebreaking would mean that no strike ever could be lost The next step would be to prohibit an employer from giving up the business ghost SWISS IN SWIVET Cleveland Plain Dealer When country breaks off diplomatic relations with Cuba it usually turns over its affairs there to the Swiss Embassy Thus the worlds busiest man no longer is the onearmed paperhanger with the hives but Swiss attache in Havana Down Memory Lane 50 YEARS AGO Northern Advance Feb 22 1912 Barrie Town Council had packed audi ence as the wets and drys battled it out over the matter of liquor licence reduction It did not carry but only af ter every alderman voiced an opinion petition had been received signed by 100 influential citizens that the licences be not reduced from the present 10 tav erns andone shop Also presented was Polce Chief Kings report Barrie is one of the most lawabiding towns in On tario But Alderman Davis presented an amendment which lost am not temperance crank but none of us want hotel on every corner he stated am not the kind of temperance man who The Barrie Examiner Authorized lecond ci Post Office Dapmmantlbttrv£ and for DWI oI Pelt In club Dally Sundays ma Statutory Rolloyo excepted ENNETH WALLS Publisher TITAN SLAIGHT General lull MBPmHON Managing Editor ensures wanes Business dunner BARRY llBUN Advertising Manager roan noznm Circulatiozrfimnnur Sll iBfl DD 11320 ylupr Sinl coldly 73 mlzllxllrl chill 10 VBII 00 months $250 Ill months SIIDU month Outside OBIIHD v00 ti ado $2000 your ya 4° omen 425 University Ave Toron sia cm 5mm alumni iiza West éaorllfllflof mining or Member of the camera on Pub lilhorl Association The Clnldllnyn drugPrize an Audit Bureau of Circulation The Canadian Prer is aiming entitled to on um for ropubllcltlon of all news is etched in on npal credited to it or The Assocted Press or onto and also on local new publishd therein Headway local men Bradford is sent here by the temperance crowd who as soon as petition is presented has to fall in line but as chairman of the towns indigent committee am of the opinion thatif we have more places where man could get square meal and less places to get drunk in it would be better for the town 25 YEARS AGO Barrie Examiner March 11 1937 Bus iness section threatened by fire at Bar rie General Store opposite post office caused by cigarette butt damage $8000 Fire Chief Wolfenden and his men got the blaze under control before spread ing Police Chief Stewart and CNR Constable Burtch arrested vagrant at Allandale and charged him with the Lab law groceteria entry St Andrews Church Boy Scouts presented with colors by Rev Dr Shortt Assisting Scout master Jack Atkinson in receiving the honor were Scouts Frank Rooke and Quentin Hardy Barrie Prebytery went on record as opposl to Sunday radio advertising School attendance hit by measles and colds in February Board of Education was told Feature article with pictures on front page told of the great flood on Clapperton Street in 1890 It was written by Alex McNeil editor of The Montreal Gazette and former reports on this newsgaper William ant killed in car crash on Highway 11 two miles south of Welfare Officer Henry Lennox reported further decline in relief payments only 452 still on roll gt THOSE DES IRS TS TO YOUR GOOD HALTP Staph Infection In Differing Strains By JOSEPH MOLNEB Dear Dr Molncr Wth is the danger of staph infection Is it contagious And is pregnant womanthe mother of children who have had the Infection likely to be affected How can one know when one is over thn infection7MRS staph staphylococcus inlccv tion isnt particularly different from any of the common infec tions we encounter with this big exception certain strains have developed resistance to the nntlblotic wonder drugs Keep in mind however that terc are differing strains of is family of germ Sonic yield more readily than others The staph germs tend to linger on the skin and in the nose They are responsible for good many boils and ills of that nature They do not how ever cause some specific probe Iems such as scarlet fever disease and so on Truea person may pick up staph germs from someone who is infected but this is not likely if the sufferer is careful about such things as keeping the hands clean disposing of used dressings etc N0 EFFECT Thus there is no reason why mother would be affected or would in any way harm her next babytobe simply because there has been staph infection in the family In general we can assume that after staph infection has QUEENS PARK healed the patient is probably rid of the germ say proba bly bccausc it is possible for neopla to bc carriers of the germ without getting an active niection tlicmsclvcs It there is no practical way dcntify nc these people This possibility however is one of the very good reasons why hospitals are strict about Carin for newborn Ias nnd refusing to admit lu eons of clatives such is might bestow harmful germs lot of work is being done on drugs that will attack the resistant staph germs and qsome encouraging results are being reported Dear Dr blolncrzls peptic ulcer the some usone in the duodenum My husband has doctored for ll years but the condition is still present He is run down and the doctor says he has mild anemia but wont give him any medication for thisHe is 47 years old and weighs 109 pounds have wondered if an operation would helpMRS Duodenal ulcer is one form the commonestt of peptic ul cor Some anemia is not sur prising Correct nutrition and getting the ulcer healed would be the logical treatment rather than medication for the anemia Surgery for peptic ulcer is sometimes necessary But ev ery effort to heal it otherwise is preferable unless some com plication demands surgical in tervention LETTERS To soiroa Dear Sir In 1961 the Simcae County Council granted the Ontario Farmers Union 3500 out of its annqu agricultural grunt This year the grant was withdrawn from the 0FU and the extra $500 was given to the Federa tion of Agriculture The reason secms to be that the Farmers Union did not present good balance sheet Whennn organization such as the Ontario Farmers Union is maintained by the nckes nnd dimes of its members hire very small one yenr grunt from County Council what is its balance sheet expected to show Thousands oi dollars exA pendcd in first clss travel and plush hotels as Is the case with the entrenched Fed eration of Afiriculturc Should firm of chartered account ants have been retained for the year to analyze the expen diture of nickels and dlmcs and produce yenrend state ment for County Council at cost probably exceeding the small original grant Can balance sheet show the hundreds perhaps thous ands of dollars disbursed by individual members for long distance calls gasoline car travel and local promotional efforts without the benefit of fat expense accounts The Federation of Agriculture believe that there should be but one voice speaking for ag riculture and we agree But where is the voice Certainly not that of the Federation which has only been raised in protest of anything but once in the last 10 yeus the day council granted the 0FU $500 For the Union to amalgam ate with the Federation would he merely to become lost in the folds of fat of Federation bureaucracy and nobody but nobody descrch that kind of fate Member For Stormont Gets Tory Attention By DON OHEARN TORONTOPeter Manley is not man you expect to pack the House hero The Liberal member for Star mont in his 10 years in the chamber has been mild gen tlemanly man He has pointed out failings and weaknesses of the govern ment particularly as they con cerned his riding and eastern Ontario But there has been nothing in the deliberate manner of this stockinset small man to invite excitement But now that has been changed The minister of agri culture Hon Stewart and some of his colleagues on the government side got the Manley dandcr up And from now on when he rises to speak he will be getting rapt attention ASKS ABOUT CHEESE The details are not too im portant Mr Manley asked Mr Ste wart vi cstion about an $11000 iture to firm of cheese brokers The minister replied that this had been makegood payment for some cheese the company had bought and which had gone bad In the US But Mr Stewart is still new in his job and somewhat po liticully Immature He is grout man to throw veiled barbs And in his answer he added that Mr Manley proba bly knew about this shipment Iasit came from his home rid ng With some members you might as well hit their child as cast slur against their home ridings And Mr Manley is one of them He gave it to Mr Stewart with all barrels And in the dressingdown number of the ministers colleagues who were rash enough to interject got shelled also The lamb tnily turned into lionwith touch of bulldog thrown in CAREFUL IN FUTURE And the government benches will be bit more careful about ousing Mr Manley in the fu ure Actually the Stormont mem ber over tbe years has been one of the outstanding private members in the House He is dedicated to his riding and its people and there is not member who services his constituents any better Despite the fact he has al ways been an opposition mem ber he has fought well and quite successfully in their inter ests And if there is any gather ing or function pertaining to government in his area he is on hand it is no wonder that the FCs consider him one of the strong est df Liberals and never look forward to any real expectation of beating him ISLAND PEAK Mount Rantemario reaching 11280 feet is the highest point on the island of Celebes in east ern Indonesia Inni quite sure that the withdrawal of the grant will have but one eIfect to increase the determination of the average family farmer to work harder for the only farm organization with its own cun victions and the guts to stand up for theml Their efforts may even help to bring an end to the cur rent philosophy that is troubl ing our religious teachers to day The devil with you Joe Im alright if that happens die Federation might very well be calling for even more as sistance Sincerely Dobson Director THE FIRST COLUMN Canines React To Tone Of Whistles By KEN waus NOTICE newspaper sports headlines past weekend Dog Bites Ref New this negates an old axiom of Journalism It is not news they say if dog bites man If that old referee had only bitten the dog NOT SO MANY YEARS ago the ancient Scottish game of curling was considered the last refuge of the male species This eventually went by the boards lt is believed the Orlllla Curlw ing Club was the last in Can ada to hold the fort but event ually the ladies got to their lklpplng husbands at home and said either we get In that building or else The or else won BUT THERE was one other stronghold of mun tell bereft of distofl barbcr sop quurtct singing Kiwanis club held its Iadlcs night the other evening and it took some influence by one of the members to arrange the musical program The quartet shower up all rlght and their music was simply grand But whadda ya know one of the quartet was lot male So whats lelt SPEAKING OF DOGS neighbor of mine over the back fence Is lover of dogs He not only has one he has three This compares favorably with our two cats and on dog in the weekly budget for food Dogs scrounge enough from neighbors to balance of the cats Regularly my neighbor lets his dogs out for sniff and run To get them home he acquired whistle Sure enough the trio one by one would re turn to domicile WHAT COMPLICATED the neighborhood is the fact that at Christmas some relative inad vertently provided us with whistle to bring our cocker spaniel home On the first oc casion this was put to use over the fence camc bounding the neighborhood trio of canine and almost overwhelmed me with their strength and affec tion What happened is this by some coincidence our whistle is the same tone as my neigh bors This problem was solv ed by having the whistle ro tuned to higher pitch DO YOU HAVE trouble with your rubbers andor goloshes That is do you ever come out from some meeting or other these slushy days and find yours gone This has hap pened to me three times this winter and might add that once was at the curling club If theyd just throw away those tired and tattered old replace merits which have been lelt in stcad of mine and at least save me that job before buying new ones HUMOR WAS spontaneous at the Lions of Borrles 30th anni versary dinner In his remark past international governor Bill Garner pointed out it affable and friendly fel is dont hate anyone Bill but if any member of this club dircs to suggcs ollicr smmnii pool Io community uc glad to sist ii on him The was man Montreal In roducing him the past prcsid funeral director said it is indeed privilege to introduce person with such distinguished name AT BONSPIELnear here recently there was rink with thrcc curlers on It named Partridge Duckworth and Wild goose However the skip ns usual had no undistingulshcd nomc nothing at all to do with Mother Nature CORNY ONE Ill take six boxes of moihballs he sold to the pharmacist You must use an awful lot of them Mr Joncscu Only yesterday your wife bought 10 boxes Yeah Charlie was the reply but our aim is way off Weve thrown at least thousand balls and havent hit moth yet from OTTAWA REPORT 13 t5 Conlerence Liiiccis illans Future By PTEIZIK NICHOLSON OTTAVAThc foreign min isters of is nations are meet ing in Geneva today to open disarmament conference which may have decisive eifccts on the future of mankind The purpose of this confer once is to attempt to attain general and complete disarma ment Its starting point is the tement of Principles of rmament which was agreed upon betwccn USA and USSjt last summer and was subsequently enthusiastic ally endorsed by the General Assembly of the United Na tions The nations forming the con cieiicc consist of five Wcstcrn PowersUSA Britain Italy Canada and France who has indicated that she will refrain from attending five Commu nist powers consisting of Bus sia and four of her European satellites and eight neutral nations of Asia Africa Latin America and Europe The failure of this confer ence would leave the way open for that global nuclear war which would kill maim or mal form hundreds of millions of human beings including many not yet born THE PROMISE LAND Success on the other hand would give Man new confi dence in his attempt to build better world More it would re lease an avalanche of man power and money from present wasteful objectives and permit that great force and wealth to be converted to the task of creating better way of life for all mankind The Geneva Conference not merely deserves but dcnuinds our prayers for its success But it is meeting under the HUBERT ll ng Feabim Syndicate Inc1b62flvmld If ht memo had to pay for TWO distemper shotshe was struggling so much got one by mistake cloud of the threat of further nuclear testing by USA The director of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency conccded last month that the Russian nuclear test series last Fall did not make enough progress to overtake the huge US load in nuclear capability The purpose of the new series of US tests due to start on Christmas Island in the Pacific late next month is to restore the previous margin at US superiority NEW SOVIET WEAPONS This doctrine implies US objective of permanent military supremacy in an overwhelming degree this itself would seem to indicate the impossibility of attaining agreement on disarm ament which necessarin im plies military parity On these grounds the Ban the Bomb clubs have talking pointThcy also have talking point In saying that if US al ready has ample capacity to destroy Russia why foul up the air with more nuclear tests aimed simply to perfect bigger and better bombs which could destroy Russians two or three times over That is not quite the whole story The recent Russian tests did yield them one technical advantage which was giant step forward in antimissile de fence We saw hints of their achievements in this field in the suggestion that they brought down Powers UZ spy plane with rocket achieving nearAmiss at the incredible height of 68000 feet If in fact the Russians now possess anti missilc missiles which could prevent major damage in Rus sin from USA nuclearheaded rockets then the balance of the USA deterrent is destroyed and nuclear war may be much closer Thus if the new USA tests are intended in perfect their own antimissile missiles they are entirely justified on grounds of the essential dc fence of the Vcstem World But we may all hope that such progress will be made at Geneva that lnuclcar weap ons and other klllers will be outlawed from the face of the earth BIBLE THOUGHT Now the Lord of police him self give you pence always by gum menus Il Thessalonians Only by divine power and wisdom can all things be made to work together for good Trust the Lordl SAME NAME PENZANCE England CF Soon alter Americas first fully fledged astronaut returned from his three orbits of the earth motorist named John Glenn was fined In court here for speeding