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Ellie Barrie Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited lawinmate FRIDAY JUN 16 Hayfield Street Elrric Ontario VEWilaon6eaaralfanagf Pml Canadians Are Shockedf yo By Stories Of ailing Canadians have been shocked lately by news stories about men béln bet in jail for weeks and even mon at the request of the Immigration Department Presumably they faced deportation pro ceedln but no attempt was made to bring em before the bar of justiceand find them guilty or not guilty This is not the kind of Canadian justice we look for and have every reason to ex ect it is treatment we associate with naiions behind the Iron Curtain where the state comes before the individual it is gratifyln therefore to learn that the governors 46 city county and dls trict jail in Ontario under theDepartv ment of Reform Institutions have re ceived written instructions to report any abuses of prisoners legal rights The overnors have been advised to notify department as soon as they receive prisoners being held for deport ation by the Immigration Department They have also been asked to report when prisoners accused of immigration Water Safety The boatin boom which started in the early 19505 as continued into the six ties and shows no signs of slackening Ontario has many thousands of lakes and rivers for recreation Unfortunately with more people on the water there are more accidents many of them fatal Most of these accidents could be avoid ed if little common sense and foresight were used lna recent editorial the Hamilton Spectator commented that it is tragic that accidents on and in the water are becoming more common each year Young people not old enough to drive car speed around lakes at 40 miles er hour or more in pleasure boat rinking and boating are synonymous in some pleasureseeking circles Whos to say that drunk behind the wheel of that powerboat isnt going to smash into your rowboat Accldentally of course in any event this is indeed the time offences are released from jail if riaonerura be held injail for four nate long perlo by immigration authorities this will be referred to the immigration Department iailin men for lonlgmperloda without giving em an 0port ty to apsgar in court has placed Immigration part ment in vegobad light The ssibility that these nera may be rtable through illegal an or crimin acts is not groun for ax ltrhry action Every man is innocent until proved ilty This is cornerstone of Canadian an and the immigration officials impcn fous and bullying as they sometimes are at border points should not for at it Some day an innocent man be caught in the net and left to languish in jail until some petty official gets around to the case There is no room for such injustice in Canada and the eople should make their protests ion and clear Laws T00 of year for all of us who care about such things to demand action How strict is licensing of water craft Why should not lives on the water be as respected as those on the road What we need and especially in this province vast vacation land are rules that are aimed at the careless the care nots and the carnage if the careless and carenote are made to pay for their carelessness through fines and if need be jail sentences there might eventual ly not be so much summertime carnage Surely there can be laws and lawmen to see that fool behind the wheel of boat will be caught in his dangerous act and properly punished Why should daredevil watersport addict be given more freedom to en danger lives and property inf others than his equivalent who drives car or rides motorbike DOWN MEMORYiJlNE 15 YEARS acolN Town Barrie Examiner June 16 1949 Area ridings were gearing for federal election on June 27 There were nine candi dates In Simcoe North the present MP Julian Ferguson of Collingwood PC was opposed by John Gladstone Currie Barrie lawyer Liberal and Reg inald Ayres Allandale restaurateur CCF in DufferlnSimcoe the preSent MP Hon Earl Rowe of Newton Robin son PC was opposed by Richard Mc Culloch Liberal former mayor of 0r angeville in Simcoe East the present MP William Robinson Midland lawyer Liberal was opposed by Elmer Wood Orillla farmer PC and JackShelton Fesserton farmer CCF Leighton Emms Clark of Barrie received degree Master of Applied Scienceat University of Toronto June session of Simcoe County Council opened withVWarden Charles Evans Bradford in the chair MajorGeneral George Pearlres VC DSO MC addressed Con servative rally in BCi auditorium Mrs Bruce Johnston was installed presi dent Llons Ladies Auxiliary Collier St Baptist Church withltev MitJ chell in fifth year as pastor retired $1200 mortgage on 22nd anniversary in Barrie ec Ernest llarston war time RCAF padre at Camp Borl ap pointed to Old AgePensions Commis slon of Ontario County engineer Ted Jones informed councillors it would cost $20000 to replace old Kirk patrick bridge in Plus Township RGS wrote about large party given by George Constable at Churchill for his former customers and friends Rt Hon Howe spoke at huge liberal rally in Colllngwood Cpl Francis Jermey Barrie left for England with Canadas Bisley rifle team Thomas Simpson after many years service ten dered resignation as Simcoe County clerk Barrie lost two public servants by death Fred Kennedy sanitary in spector and James Case retired police constable Ross Nixon RAP Ferry Command veteran graduated with hon era in civil engineering from Queens University Jean Carruthers and Ger ald Patterson elected head girl and boy at Barrie Collegiate John Mur hy won thevJC Waterer prize for CI Camera Club Pitcher Blake Con stable allowed just two btts as Fennells beat Tottenham 10 in South Simcoe softball Simcoe County ualized assessment presented by Com sinner Eric Simpson for 1950 at $65394000 Emerson Creed RCAF veteran pilot son of Mr and Mrs Wilton Creed Drury Lane graduated from Queens with de gree Bachelor of Commerce He waa arrle Simcoe County and Canadian in tercollegiate golf champion OTHER EDITOiiS VIEWS COALITION GOVERNMENT Ottawa Citizen Canadas only experience with coali tion government at the federal level came between 1017 and 1921 when the First World War and the reconstruction period which followed it brought the need for special measures No such emergencyexists at this time asMr Douglas was quick to point out There The Barrie Examiner Authorized as second clan mall Pelt Uffial Department Ottawa and for paylmnt of no Dally aundeyr Ind Statutory olld KENNETH WALLa Pub moron WILSON uanaral signs ManBlbDN Managing Editor manila mums naurunng alanagu asunnu mu aeonnnnat MICHAEL numb Clrcnuflon Manager Subscription rata 61in by carrier We weekly I10 yearly all copy By mail in enter an mum month2500 three months month Outside oounn new year onus Haitis possessions IILW UJA and as unfunny Av Street ontreall Vancouver Member to Iilhlrl mun re um milled to II or rll outer and also the loof rabeeuoNul rar balsam won Ma tissue TIM II unfit IO Mil hf minus as film but is too much of tendency to represent the current strains being placed on Con federation as national crisis Mr Thompson has played no small part in promoting this trend SOCRED DOCTRINE IGNORED Winnipeg Tribune William Aberbart delivered some of his most heated invective against chartered banks in those days the idea of Social Credit government becoming major shareholder in chartered bank seemed an the category of the lion being chummy with the lamb But time changea=many things Premier Bennett not only fsa founding father in proposed new chartered bankbut is proud enough of his paternityiomention it inthe speech from the throne PROBLEMS OF OLD AGE Peterborough Examiner We have still to come to most of the problems present ncreasingvlife expectanc to regar theoid as if theiaixthandaa nt peares Seven of ManWe contln to classifypeople by the ealendarflnstaad of their physical and mental condition We continue to push the aged out into institutions SKETCH of St Marys Church and Presbytery on present site hllucasler St Very Rev iii OConnorwn Dean Thls was Mut laeo Deanery building is at left school at right rear mmiflrffllttsmmwmmwmr wlwm wwwmu V5 Plarmed Export Drive Boosts Employment PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWAMore Jobs for Ca nadians in manufacturing Ind in mining and other resource industrial will be treated by the planned drive to increase our exports to the United States The US government spoken men agree with our Joltcy our achlew something belanca on our oilrcpt account and we can only do this through increasing our experts to the US Finance Minister Waiter Gordon told ma yesterday in talk in his office on Parliament Hill The government is rightly anxious to achieve the dual ob jective of increasing employ ment in Canada and of balano lng our lateraatlonai pgymenia The finance minister la the eco omlo our of the governmlnt and such Mr Gordon is charged with coordinaung this achievement The minister gave me his bhduya view of the large pic ture by way of explaining his reply to my uestion on smaller point wbch is of great Inllscnst to all Canadian tour Will the government raise the present low limit of 23 every four montha on foreign purchases which returning Cas nadlan tourists may bring home free of import duty asked him This restriction from the Contributed by Mrs losy Bacbmann Klan Members Are Jailed Tried To Bomb Church An event which almost blew the lid off the Ku Klux Klan all over Canada and which caused wldcsprcnd indignation was the attempt of young lrishman to blow up St Marys Catholic Church in Barrie on June 10 1926 Fortunately the damage done was comparatively slight but the incident caused such out rage that not only local and provincial police but also spe cial officers from Toronto were called in to assist in the Investi lotion The explosion occurr ed around ll pm but at the time little attention was paid to it for it was so faint that it was thought passing car had backfired by those who heard it it was found later that stick of dynamite had been lac ed on brick wall in the urn ace room little more than halfway to the rear of the church good sized hole was blown in tthlwall and three or four of the joists sup porting the floor were shatter ed hole about four feet aquara was blown in tha floor directly over the spot where the explosion was placed and bits of board and plaster were hur led about Several llghta in chandelier ware shattered and hole was made In stained glass windowin the tower 40 fee above the around ARREST IN TORONTO Although there were only few clues to work on few days later an arrest was made in Toronto of William Skelly and subsequently to the arrest in Barrie of two others No little sensation wascaused by Skelly statement to the police that the outrage was the work of the Ku Klux Klan of which he was member and that he had been set apart for the job He was brought to Barrie and immedi ately arraigned before Police Magistrate Jeffa in further statement Skelly said that he had been made drunk on dandelion wine and man had taken him to the church shown him how to light the fuse and laid that if there irriaas TO THE EDITOR STORE MODERNIZATION Dear Sir The writer who called him self Barrielte is away off base when he suggests that civic money be matched dollar for dollar to assist local merchants to moderniza their store fronts to celebrate the 1967 Centennial have heard many aslnfneaug gestlons but that one takes the cakel if the merchants ofthls pro gressive city havent got enough letllpeflnd milder nlze their places of business say lettthetr stores deteriora el we can always go to the York dala Plaza whichIa gilsterung new and competitive My auggéstloli for an impreas ive Centennial project wn id St Marys Church there was nocar availabla to take him to Oriuia so he chose was no explosion he would know what would happen to him Skelly said that he was provided with revolver and bought cartridges at store and that he fired the revolver Is he was leaving the church JOINED KLAN HERE He had only bemme mem ber of the Klan at the demon stratlon held in the town few weeks Twolady had attended few eetfngs and than was glvan instructions for the dea tructlon of the church immedia ter following his statements Klan officials in Tomato strong ly denied the accusations and they produced statement pur porting to have been signed by Skelly in which he adrrutted the outrage and that he had so fed on his own initiative They said that the Klan had cooper ated with the police and that it was through their Ilst that the arrest had been made They suggested that if it had not been for their help he might not have been apprehended and they denied that Shelly was an accepted member of the Klan in the true sense of the word Asked if the police had received assistance from the Kinsmen locally Chief of Police Stewart replied Absolutely not The police had questioned local mem bers of the Klan and noneof them had ahwnany inclination to help them or furnish drain with any information KLAN HELD CONCLAVE This principal officials of the Klan in Ibronto were in con ciava several times to dlpcusa the situation and eventually they issued statement that they did not contemplate undertaking diedefencs in the courts of any member who had been arrested in Barrie They maintained that if any of their members assisted Skelly or ordered the outrage in they were acting in direct violation of their oath and by such violation would automaucaily incur banishment flom the Klan In yet another statement by the prisoner he said again that he had been definitely ordered to either blow up the church or the Champlain Monument at or iilia but whichever it was had gt to be done on the night of June 10 its aid that ha wolud have blown up the monument but the church While being questioned be had Mil Caldwell ReturnsTo Hill omwa cry 411 more old man of the politlrailcft re turned to thecnpital Wednee day to welcome from friends diorrneLoolleag Coldwellrvwhoguldad the cor arty Hfor two decades came ere to be sworn in to the honor conferred on him by the gov nmantrtomsrk theJM nlveraary otlmay June dont renllyrknowwna ght on our door steps Over the yearswe haveabused this gift let us it restore the wa terfront to it beautyvof former years opossum means he told reporter ferring to PrimeMlnlster aar sons designation of hlm as privy councillor But lm very ha py over the high honor and eeply oppre data it handed over to the officer in charge papers which it was said connected him with the Klan and for which he had paid the sum of slow He was an rested in the Klan headquarters in Toronto llfuch of the credit for the arrests went to the lo cal police and it was stated that their investigations were Instru mental in loading to speedy capture in October the trial of the criminals took placejSkelly was sentenced to penitentiary with hard labor and for their parts in assisting him the others were sentenced to four and three years respect ively At the end of his term or possibly sooner it was roe olnmandad that Skelly be de fined to his native lreland Klan was completely exon erated from any connection with the incident BIBLE THOUGHT it is of the Lords mercies that we are not consumed hes Mule hIa comaden fau not Annotations sac The fact that Holy God does not strike dead the railing athe ist proves just one thing not that there is no God but that the God who ia la marclfui far beyond our power of com Prehenslon Italed ve years in the ur mutant with KIN IAIEST STYLE Choose from til lmlm la aalar mainlion and liloth Itala Zal from PRESCRIPTION GLASSES AI DAME WW PRICE arevlour figure of tilt la the eat of the temporary aub terlty measures imposed by the chlcnbaker government after the foreign exchange crisis of June II would like to see thlt re striction continual Mr Gon don told me balance on our international current account or something Closbl to balance than at present Is very dealt able And this rcatrlctlon of tourist purchaser abroad II considerable help in that direc tion Remember when Our balance on merchandise trade has been improved from common in the red In to mm In the hilt year it would have been better were it not for the 1D tomary excess of our purchuca from the US over our alien to that country which last year resulted In about $70000 def icit This is the key factor In our imbalance on current ID count today it Mr Gordon told methat pros vlously the us government seemed to have no real undeh standing that instead of being drain on their foreign ro serves we had been assisting them to considerable extent despite the heavy flow of US capital into Canada TALK FMNKLY However one of the little no tlced benefits accruing from this spriogx meeting of Cane than and vs ministers at up joint trade and economic affairs committee was this in Mrsa Gordons words Top US offi cials have now agreed that to acclr to bring our international payments more nearly into bal once is the right approach for Canada to follow and that to accomplish this oblectlve we must increase our exports quite considerably And in practice this means we shall have to sell more manufactured goods to the us as well as industrial raw materials Our longstanding imbalance of trade with the US has brought about three disastrous effects Mr Gordon told me We were importing unem ployment by our excess pure chases in the 115 To roles the money to meet our international bills we sold more of our natural relt sources than pure davelopment dictated Our position was vulnerable gluctuatlona in the flow of uh Bonded StockWhisky came in that plain old bottle Weve designed Snow bottle for our whisky And new label We age Bonded Stock is little longer now as well To make every drop just that little more mellow Weve done everything we can Try bottle of Bonded Stock soon The rest is up to yon Wammmmmmm meswmliceill No OTHER CHARGES outmoded alum mast nwdom no uroiumaur sullen 1fo om run tiara silo to llllh Friday nights fill pm Closed All Monday arsenal Eliis titlllltllfIEStllfleII flit Al TIIIE loll It 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