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mnaw Ellie ifiairie Examiner Published by Canadian Newspapers Limited 16 Baylield Street Barrie Ontario Walls Publisher William Teller General Manager McPherson Managing Editor WEDNESDAY APRIL 26 PAGE Lis Hospital Operated Well As Private Institution rinciple of great importance is in volvedp in questionsposcd by Ald Jack Garner at meeting of Barrie City Coun cil this week He asked whether it would be in the eoples interest to change the hospital rom privatelyowned to publiclyowned institutions This could involve election of directors by taxpayers rather than by an annual meeting of members of the hospital association Once constituted as public institu tion the hospital could become council responsibility much like the parks and recreation committee is today Or it could operate somewhat like school board independent of direct city control ibut still subject to councrls pressures on budget matters Today Royal Victoria llospital is private institution on the board of which Barrie and other municipalities have re jprcscntation From 80 to 90 per cent of gtrevenuo comes from thetaxpayers mun icipal provincial and federal and from remiums ofdpalients In effect then the ospital coul be said to be public in slitution in so far as finances are con cerned but private corporation in re spect to management and direction The hospitals record over the years lIflS been good And because it is pri vate institution the hospital has obtained solid financial support of the general pnhlic in fundraising campaigns for construction purposes and in buying equipment and furnishings Once constituted as public institu tion the hospital rnlght find that much of this support would vanish Let the government do it has been too fam iliar cry over the years The paternalism evident in the old age pensron legisla tion mothers allowances and hospital care could easily extend to many other facets of our lives once considered private There is no question as to the value of old age ensions molhers allowances and other egtslatlon of this nature we hasten to add But must we extend the government umbrella over institutions that we as private citizens have man aged very well The hospital highlyspecialized cor poration could be bad headache for municipality The city and its sister mun icipalities should avoid interference with an institution of this kindespecially in the administrative field The hospital has experts for this and boards whose mem bers are usually dedicated towards the care of the sick and to improvements in facilities Lets keep hands off the hospital It would be possible to tighten regulations as to conflict of interest referred to by Aid Garner But changes to bring this about would in no way affect the general operation of the hospital as private institution DOWN MEMORY LANE 20 YEARS AGO IN TOWN Barrie Examiner April 24 1947 Bar rie Collegiate Concert Band left for Mon treat to participate in International Fes tival of Music The 46 boys and 14 girls in the band are in charge of Mr and Mrs Alien Fisher and Principal Hor ace Heath Youngest member of band is Paul Palmer 13 saxophonist Attrac tive Stella McCord as drum majorctto will lead band in great street parade Among star soloists who won mayor rizcs this year at Kiwanis Festival are Ronald Armstrong trombone James Fisher clarinet Ted Hutchings oboe Cameron Stewart clarinet Harvey olin son saxophone Kenneth itlicklebor ough elected to succeed Clarence Simp son as chairman Childrens Aid Society John Silver manager Barrie Cham ber of Commerce will be among lectur ers at ltlcltfaster University in special summer series on business Directors of Royal Victoria Hospital deferred reply on town councils request for change in manner of election to board following request that municipality assume deficit in years operation Ethel Crossland Barrie regional director for Eastern Canada of Soroptimist international pre sided at annual conference in Toronto Choir of St Andrews Presbyterian Church made presentation of table lamp to Mrs Edmund Hardy in recognition of 25 years service as soloist Reser vations for Sunday dinner at Robindale Inn Blake St acceEted in advance also businessmens lunc eons on week days Former RCAF pilot Art Powell county golf champion began accounting training in Orillia Famous musical family The Davies of Canada will give recital at Collier St United Church next Tuesday Lions Club presented in halator to Barrie fire brigade Floyd Lashley Alliston announCEd winners in South Simcoe Seed Fair General chairnian Jacobi said lans well advanced for Speed Boat egatta on Kempenfelt Bay Committee heads were Ted Twiss Homer Henderson George Wright Conrad Lothian McDuffee and Norman Clarke Routliffe arrived in Barrie as manager Bank of Nova Scotia succeeding McClafferty transferred to Toronto Club 79 in Barrie offers best of food plus dancing floor show Gordon Bur rell at piano also George OConnor and electric guitar Canadian Legion Elanned great Vimy and VE Day cele ration Mr and Mrs Albeit Gage appointed stewards Barrie Community House OTHER EDITORS VIEWS BLUE PHEWI DANUBE Ottawa Citizen If it makes anyone feel better pollu tion is not solely North American prob em An international team of scientists has completed study of the Danube River and reports that only in few places is the water actually blue They describe it as mostly stinking cesspool rang ing in color from green and yellow to red L1 Jimmfmrrsmwwz QUEENS PARK May Hold Election on For While SCREECH MEN SCREECH Montreal Gazette The bagpipers in the Canadian armed forces got reprieve from Defence Min ister Paul Hellyer as Robbie Burris Day present The minister reversed an earlier de cision and the muchmaligned men will now be officially classified as musicians How could anyone have classified bag pipers as anytlung else but musicians It skirls your hairl By DONALD onnann TORONTO The math aided debate of this session is the consideration of Premier ftobarts motion to convene Contedcratinnpl Tomorrow eon lcrcnce Many peplo have felt that this debate when it came lwould be springboard from which the premier would call the election This does not appear as likely now as it once did Mr Roberts has dicaled in the house he will be calling the debate Soon And the thinking Is that the election probably will he held off for ii while The debate however will alill be important For Confederation itself and the changes that are to be made in our national structure is the major question before the country today but how valua lo the debate time will turn out to be is an othcr matter For on past experience and recent development there cant be confidence it will cantrib much The experience has been that for tite most the Confederation issue is over the heads of the members here The debate in the last few times it has come up has not been exactly scintillating And even if the members had better grasp of the question you would still have to doubt whether there would he too much worthwhile out of the de bate This feeling comes from the apparent fact most approaches to the Confederation problem to date seem to be misdirected liere two years ago for in stance we appointed an advis ory committee on Confedera tion made up of large num ber of prominentvmen mainly scholars Thelirst fruit of the work at this committee has just been made public series of three volumes containing papers pre pared by various members and subzcommlttecs Some of those papers are in teresting reading But overall you sense lack of dircelion in the wark of the conuniilee There are discussions of the powers of the provinces to make international agreements the problems of bill of rights and that type of thing But there is not statement of any plan Something along the lines of what constitution should be what the weaknesses are in the present ENA Act and then proposals as to how these weaknesses could be corrected along with the pros and cons of these proposals The overall impression is that the committee is lnterested in what shingles should be put on the roof and how the windows should be redesigned without first having taken an overall look at themhnuse of Confeder ation end deciding what basic changes might be needed This some typical of most of the current study and discussion of ContadcralionAnd you are felt with the feeling that the most constructive thing that could be done right now is to dEVlie simple plan for the direction of future study and discussiont €IMPKIN$ 22¢ OTTAWA REPORT Medium Held Seances With Mackenzie King By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWAAn echo of the sin cere extracurricular activities of former Liberal prime min lrter has been sent to me from London secret wellkept to ill lion Iiiackcnlie Kings lifetime was that ho was practising and convinced epirltunlist in his latter years he consulted an Irishborn medium named Miss Gertrude Cummlns dUrlnd his visits to Britain Miss Cummlns has now lost received the accolade of her fel low mediums by belng pro claimed Briteins spirituallst of the year Her most success ful acances with the Canadian prime minister were described in two of Miss Cummins well known autobiographical remi niscences about her spiritual istic experiences CASUALTIES LIKE VIltIY Now that the 50th anniversary of the bloody Battle of Vimy Ridge has been respectfully marked it would not be im proper lo drew attention to this comparison 10000 Canadians were killed or wounded in that battle and Canada erected s2oooooo memorial to their sac rifi Canadians sworeinoc curatelythat such human tragedy should never be re peated that was the war to and wars But between the first day of Easter week this year and the anniversary of the final rnopup day of the battle of Vimy Ridge 100fl0 Canadians were killed and wounded on Canadas high waysjust as they have been killed and wounded in each pre vious span of 10 days and will be in each coming Zfladay span during this year on average No $2000000 memorial for the 10000 Canadian casualties oc curring every 10 days under standably But why no determi wj nation that this human tragedy shalt not be repeated why no steps by any government to aid The Torrie Examiner lo Hayfield Street Barrie Ontario Authorized as second class mail Post Office Department Ottawa and for payment at postage in cash Daily Sundays and Shrtutory Holidays excepted Subscription rates daily by carrier 45c weekly $2340 yearly Single copies too By mail Barrie WAD yearly Ontario $1200 year motor throwoff 515 year Mail out side Ontario 514 year Out side Canada British posses sions sis year llSA and foreign 523 year National Advertising of fices 425 University Avenue Toronto 640 Cathcart St Montreal 547 1200 West Pen der St Vancouver BC Member of the Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Association the Canadian Press and Audit Bureau of circulations Tire Canadian Press is ex clusively emitted to the use or republication of all new dispatches in this paper cred ited to it or The Assocated Pressorlteutere and also the local news published therein mu mmmtwwm or at least to reduce this lilzh way toll Why not divided mo torways why not compulsory checking of all drivers and all cars Why are new core allowed to be sold without approved and accepted safety features hfuat we rulter domestic Vimy every three weeks without pub lic protest reader in Quebec City Barron writes to me with un derstondnblo puzzlement aen ing newspaper clipping 41 year old student pleads guilty to charge of sexually assaulting his lsvyearold daughter When the judge asked the man what he did for living he replied lma student The government pays me 53 week so can complete my ninth gradeI The explanation is that the Occupational Training Allow ences Act provides for the pa mental allowances to persons who are taking basic training for skill development These nl lowanecs start at 535 per week for single person and rise ac cording to the lndividuele fem lly situation and the cost of ilv ing The purpose is to enable school dropouts and underedu cated Canadians to be trained to fit themselves for employ ment but before taking voca tional trohilng they rsoulre to have their basic education raised to at least Grade in standards Any questions Any comments large number of scholar ships and fellowships have just been awarded by the National Research Council the Medical Research Council and the Can ado Arts Council The latter has awarded eons of up to $5500 plus travel allowances to no professional artists of lhese 2A wont to Quebec to to On tarlo seven to BC one to Saskatchewan and do on The Medical Research Coun cil has awarded seven centen nial fellowships to Canadian doctors five to Quebec and one each to Ontario and Alberta It Parliament lit Glance By THE CANADIAN PRESS rpnsodir April 251551 The Commons passed the armed forces unification bill by vote of 117 to 73 after more than three weeks of de tailed study An allparty agreement was reached to finish work of the session today the record breaklng 249th sitting Conservative Gordon Churec hill said his party will con tinue to fight against steps to bring the services Into sin gle force The Commons gave second reading to the government hill on adult retraining after completion of the defence blll Prime Minister Pearson re celved brief from young Lib crals calling for greatly in creased government rolo in social economic and cultural planning The House meets at 11 aim for clausebyclause study of the adult training bilL The Senate meets at 11 am 1834 firm has also awarded six fulltlrne life lime medical research grants valid until normal re tlremenl age four to Quebec one to Ontario and one to Sas katchewan And is research scholarships for up to five years nine to Quebec six to Ontario live to ac and one cinch toMonitoba and Nova Sco ta INVITE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Tho Examiner invite cun tribuilolls to its kttm to tho editor column on the ed itorial page when possible letters should be restricted to to 400 words and they ehnuld be signed Writers rnoy tiles pen name It they dz CANADAS STORY Rebellion Losses Bill Caused By BOB BOWMAN lie onsible government in Cine got its ftrrt test on April 25 m9 Ari aftermath of the rebellion in real and me was the Rebellion asst Bill that compensated people who had suffered property damage hlany leading Englishspeaking citizen of Lower Canada ucre angry because they felt that some Frenchspeaking citizens who were being compensated had been disloyal Tory Lender Sir Allan hfocNIbwho had led the raiding party on hiac kenrlai dupply ship at Navy in landsold If we dont make disturbance about this It shall never get in He had strong support from members of his party who were to angry that lome of them signed petition to Join ihu us One of those who signed was Sir John Abbott who later be come prime minister John lifocdoniild then young mem ber of the party refused to sign the petition on said later that some of our fellows lost their heads LORD ELGIN SIGNED Lord Elgin was Governor General and did not approve of the bill but signed it because Canada now had responsible government and the principle would have been destroyed it BIBLE THOUGHT Seek yethe Lord while he may be found coll ye upon hlrrii while he Is our looth iii The risk of tomrrow is too great to ignore the important tissues at today This Is thy to IIIONII nitwill AfAhIDuS mums round on audio sr Wildltfll ESQ ELVIS PRESLEH Excitement Adventleunilerthe linger Britain had Irilertened Parlia ment war meeting in Montreal and Lord Elgln was attacked in his carriage as he drove off after rlsnihl the but Stones and rotten me were thrown not by an ignorant mob but by well dressed people Then the mob invaded the Parliament build ins and act it on fire after chasing out the memberr portrait of Queen Victoria was saved by young Sandford Fleming who rushed Into the burning building Later he be came Canadas greatest railway surveyor and the inventor of Standard Time now used around the world Lord Elgln was 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