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PAGE TWO “THE LIBERAL” Established 1878 AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY J. Eachern Smith, Manager Rates on A; plicalion. TELEPHONE 9 THE LIBERAL PRINTING CO., LTD. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT RICHMOND HILL Member Ca-nada'i Weekly Newspaper‘Association Subscription $1.50 per year â€" To the United States $2.00 Covering Canada’s Best Suburban District THURSDAYTFEBR‘UA‘RT-grd, l938. Advertising URGES BETTER HEALTH STUDY Better health study and wider physical training for students in schools throughout Canada, was advocated by the committee of the Canadian Teachers’ Federation, reâ€" presenting 30,000 teachers throughout the Dominion, to the Rowell Commission at Ottawa recently. The deputation was headed by J. W. Noseworthy, To- ronto, president of the Ontario Secondary Teachers’ Fed- eration, and with him were Jessie M. Norris and L. S. Titus. - The committee in a comprehensive brief, said in part: “We have no hesitancy in calling the attention of this Commission to the lack of health education in the Schools of the Country. True, some of the Provincial Departments of Education have recently introduced courses of health study as integral parts of their school curricula; yet our survey shows that medical and dental inspection and ser- vice are available only to urban people (with the exception of the Province of New Brunswick). In a number of provinces the medical health officers visit rural schools only when an epidemic threatens. The Dominion Government already has the necessary machin- ery with which to assist Provincial Departments to take some measures to see that better safeguards are offered the health of our school population. The Department of National Defense, through the provisions of the Strathcona Trust, and the Department of Pensions and National Health, are both concerned in this matter. ' It was suggested that some working arrangement be reached between the Department of National Health and the Provincial Departments of Health and Education, whereby a programme of teacher-training in the broader THE LIBERAL. RICHMOND HILL. ONTARIO BOOKS THAT MATTER l “'HAT Till'l I'NlTI-II) STATES CAN TI‘LH'II CANADA ices, \\lllcii govern iis against our will‘ By Claris Edwin Siltox and, iinliltt- gavcrsnnn‘is, too ot'tcni Dividcd We Stand: lly Walttr Presâ€" refuse to accept i'csiiotisibilitics for cott “can; i'l'uroii‘o: Oxford their own iiiistakcs. In his closunf: I'rcssl. I‘rlcfm $2.50. i('lltt]lik'l, he .‘i "'g sts that since or if The New America: The Story of the ,\i\\ll sliarclioldls, as to its employ-l thcsc corporations C. C. C.; by A C. Oliver and Har- ‘ quatcly controlled by governments, old M. mans). D udley: Price, (TOroi.to: $1.75. The two books mentioned this week deal primarily with the situation in the United States, but they have a Longâ€",nerhaps the best thing to do would be to amend the constitution and g;ve them. on a of rcsponsibility, the real powers of government. “They tell us that business can do almost anything if government will basis peculiar value for Canadian readers. ‘ only let it alone. The self-appraisal “Divided We Stand" should certain“ ]y be read by every member of the Royal Commission on Dominionâ€"Proâ€" a few real jobs with duties instead of privilcgcs as a spur” (Page 2330). vincial Relations, while “This New This, we fear, would prove America" gives a very vital intor- pons asinorum of capitalism, but pretation of the work of the Civil« perhaps the corporation might sur- ian Conservation Corps which should be pondered by every Canadian in- terested in youth rehabilitation. DIVIDEI) WE STAND Walter Prescott Webb is the proâ€" fessor of history at the University of Texas. out that though the West and the South furnish the buik of the materials such as cotton and oil (but not coal) in the States, most of ll ' population and a still larger percent- age of wealth is States. and that in almost every com- mercial transaction the southerner and the westcrncr pay tribute to the north. In» the North are 00% of the 200 largest non-banking corporations, 845} of the firms that sell merchanâ€" dise to the retail drugâ€"stores, fifty- five of the 75 leading insurance comâ€" panies have over 9627 of the annual income received by all the in- T21\\' total In his book, he points, in the Northern, prisc Us. Of course, it would mean the junking of demoeracy and the adoption of Italian fascism or “cor- poratism" with a vengeance. but it might work. But if the governments accept. responsibilities as well as lprivilcgcs, what chance is there that they will accept the responsibilities if we really dai turn the government over to them? get. to the heart of things and is a “must” book for all who want to un- ‘dcrstand thc basic and political proâ€" blems on- the North American con- tinent. THE NEW AMERICA “This New Aniciica" is hardly an ordered account of the Civilian Con- servation Corps, but for the most part, a coinpiiaton of comments on the (". C. C. by officers and men cm- cannoi be ado-i might be mod.fied if we give them} thci cannot row induce the corporati. ns to V Nevertheless, it (1005 ‘ y y , I ploycu, chapians and teachers, and THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3rd, 1938. *3» . 7 l} Low RETURN FARES DAILY SERVICE Between TORONTO and NEW YORK - - - $1905 MIAMI- A - - - 4070 CHICAGO - - - 15.15 LOS ANGELES - - 62.55 EOUALLY LOW RATES TO OTHER POINTS LEAVE RICHMOND HILL DAILY SERVICE (Northbound) $9.18 0 m.to North Bay y-2.43 p.m. to Onllio x-6.48 p.111. to Onllia x-Connecfions at Barrie for Midlaan y-Also to Midland Saturdays 7 to Gruvenhurst Sat, Sun. & Hol. All Coach Travel Iniormution at R. PETCH Phone 177 Reading Anthracite Coal ALBERTA COAL Langstaff Supply 'PHONE THORNHILL 73 aspects of health and physical education may be inaugur_ surance companies! The North also cx‘t‘t'zicts from t'rtl'iip nmvspapcrs inâ€"l ated in all the Provinces. It was also suggested that the furnishes 83'; of the lllt'liiiii‘ taxes. eluding: a “hole (“input of pot-ml methods emploYed by the Strathcona Trust be modified Canadians will mm to mall mimeâ€" \‘V‘H‘i‘w'n luv =Ii-wis I Yb: whit of‘ to the extent of being brought in line with the 11101-9 mod- what similar laincntations raised by tho book is in ilic fact that it does ern methods of health and physical training already being the Camdian “wt anti 111v .‘vlm-iâ€" lml'mi ilH' Will‘- M NO vuimprinc adopted by some Provincial Departments of Health timcsc against. Ontario ard Quebec. I vcl‘iich (,‘aiiaoa xv uni do well to cm .1- * * * * * * S. ,3 * The analogy is arresting, late. But Prof. “'cbb probes 'v‘i-ry :le :ily , If. instrud of iw'iilztg' our young CANADIAN as he asks what has pm.” Mistrillsililt‘ men lictwt ;i is. and :3 to uttcr lrus- One of the greatest problems of today is to know what for this SOi‘vitUilt‘ 0". n- he calls it. 1 “mm”. “0 ‘1 «'1 WW“ ii ‘1 “Wm c"P0- defences a nation needs to ensure peace and security. Can- “the File of America's feudal sys- ‘ cially from tho i'aiailins on l'L'lle. ada has to face the problem and the Canadian people are Wm". based not on land but on fin- i Wit Him-1 1-1 min» .‘"‘”‘-L§ men fortunate in having at this critical time such a statesman ance capitalism Ilc plunge: a bit "lll.\'- Wt ‘d‘i' I i v d Hi "wave as Hon. Ian Mackenzie in charge of National Defence. Mr. abruptly into the Civil War. and does of forest and soil c rlisvt'v'aiioii, build- ing roads and trails through national and provincial [)Ltl'lis, combined those: not perhaps take sufficient cogniz- ance of the developments that au-te- Mackenzie is not a militarist, but he knows from experi- ence the ravages of war, and as a keen observer of Euroâ€" pean manoeuvres, both 'in political and military circles, is well informed as to the part Canada should take in the defence of the British Commonwealth, the one nation of the world whose reâ€"armament is for the preservation of peace and the prevention of war. 'I This problem of Canadian defence and being ready for eventualities is doubly difficult when men and women in responsible positions in the state, even members of our Parliaments, who meaning well, cry down the idea of spending larger sums on armaments in Canada. and label those who would shoulder Canada’s share of the re- sponsibility, as militarists. , We will always have extremists and fanatics with us, and we have them today. who by their arguments have apparently no faith in the true motive of the huge Anglo- Saxon re-armament plan. This is unfortunate, for it is not sound reasoning and more profitable to spend money in building up a great military police force to ensure peace. rather than to be put on the defensive, and when it is too late to evade war, spend even more money to defend our rights, and at the same time sacrifice the nation’s young. flowering manhood. with the wholesale destrucâ€" tion of property, to defend our rights against a powerful unscrupulous aggressor nation. Since the Great War no nation has made more sin- cere efforts than Great Britain to disarm, and what did we find? We found even the nations who were signaâ€" tories of these disarmament treaties were ferociously arm- ing for the purposc of conquest, and at the logical mo- ment struck out against weaker nations, who could not defend themselves. and went so far as to defy Britain and I the League of Nations, knowing as they did that these agencies for peace, were not strong enough to demand peace. The Government of Canada has today a very definite resnonsibility in the matter of defences and this responsi- bility is in the protection of her people by taking part in the defence of the British Commonwealth of Nations, the only hope for world peace and security to all nations. $ * * 8 * =3 * * # RADIO LICENSE FEES In an article which appears in the current issue of Queen’s Quarterly there ap ears a listing of annual fees paid to governments by ra i0 receiving-set owners in a number of countries. We feel that the list, Which follows, will be of interest to our readers. Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $9.00 New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $7.50 Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $6.00 Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $6.50 South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $500-$600 Norway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5.00 Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3.40 Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2.50 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2.00 The Sir John Aird Commission, which investigated the Canadian radio Situation several years ago, recommend- ed a Canadian annual license fee of three dollars. * $ * * >l< * * $ * THE COST OF WAR The cost of living goes up and down, but the cost of war goes up and up. The WorldWar in actual expendi-. tures cost $190,000,000.000â€"and, with interruptions to trade, property destruction and the like. this figure has been pushed up to $340,000,000,000. Any war on the same scale would now cost tWice as much, it is estimated by experts in such matters. Battleships which once cost $30,000,000 each, fully equipped. now cost $60.000.000. Small arms, shrapnel, air bombs, artillery ammunition. torpedoes, weapons. transportation. food, communications, plus many imponderables. have becomecostiier during the last score of years. Flying fortress bombers cost $250,000 eachâ€"(From the Sarnia Canadian Observer.) I North ‘Civil War. dated the Civil War and involved the conflict of the plantation system has- ed on slavery with the more econâ€" thc ' efficient reliance of on craftsmanship. turing, shipping, etc. omically ence of all frontier civilizations for capital on the more settled areas; also the tendency of pioneers, once they have accumulated their wealth, to return to the more settled areas to spend it. Nevertheless, there is no getting away from the Civil W'ar and its economic consequences. The our author says, “Reduced to the vanishing point the rcrnomic power of the South, practically during the war and furthcr after the war". For» tunately that is a tragedy which we in Canada have betn spared. It was inevitable that the triumphant North should take the lead over the impovâ€" erished South in the economic exâ€" ploitation of the opening West. But one wonders if it might not have done so even if there had been no Perhaps, the slave sysâ€" tem did something to the mentality of the slave-owners which made them less agile in- some kinds of business transactions. But that is our own idea; not the author’s. Prof. Webb traces the economic mastery of the North rather to the rise of the corporation as a legal entity with full “juridical personal- ity”, ever moving forward through its purchase of patents to the con- trol of the machine, and through its power to crush the small competitor to a posztion of practical monopoly with a capacity to assess a whole people whatever it felt that the traf- fic would stand. More incisive even than this analysis is his contention that when juridical personality is given the corporation, it receives the privileges and immunities of person- ality without the responsibilities. It is really given a favoured position over individuals. A corporation can't be put in jail; a person may be im- prisoned. A corporation does not die; persons do die as family corporations have discovered. The corporation, once grown large enough, really be- comes a government within the gov- ernment, ever claiming new privi- leges while it repudiates all responsi- bility. “If a corporation employs a man and finds that he does not fit into the system, it discharges him; but the government cannot discharge incompe- a citizen for inefficiency, tence or old age.” Here. Prof. Webb really describes the fatal weakness in the system we That weakness is not in its desire for pro- fits, nor in its insistence on private unintelligcntly call capitalism. in the irresponsible nature of property, but monopolistic corporations, often as callous to its And he fails to designate the inevitable depend- North, impersonal in. towns of the Dominion. They are ‘ Hope, valuable activities With a comprev hcnsive educational program directed by first class would educators, we 1have btcn creating economic wealthi manufac_|and saving it for the future instead I l . of merely dissipating it in “relief”, lsaving manhood and ihigh spirit of real patriotism among youth instead of evoking the under- standable criticism that we were in- different to the legitimate aspirations of youth. And what would it not have meant to the physical health of our young men? We in Canada lost a great chance when we failed to develop a peace army for specific age groups sound economic and educational pro- ject. Perhaps, it 3s still not too late to do something before the next war; 332‘: if there is time, let our political lt-od- i ers saturate themselves in the spirit of “This New America". A fool and his money are some party. 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MALTBY PhOne 12‘ ROSE & HERMAN Barristers-At-Law 40 Yonge St., Richmond Hill Telephone 133 Office Hoursâ€"Every Monday and Thursday Afternoon and by appointment Toronto Offices: 100 Adelaide Street West HARRY R. ROSE A Scottish Curlers Arrive to Meet Canadian Rinks the Canadian Pacific liner chess of Bedford on have come game" in many cities heso bonneted Scotsmen pho- tographed in the lounge of Du- arrival at Halifax New Year’s Eve are memâ€" bers of the party of curlers who to Canada to meet ('anadian adherents of “the roarâ€"i I andlwa, Sliarbot Lake, Kingston, Port all members of the Royal Cale- Detroit, Toronto, Welland, Hamilâ€" donia Club. Captain William ton, Medonte, Fort William, Win- Henderson is seated third from DiDeg. Regina. "111321132 Banff. Ed‘ the left of the group monton, Saskatoon. Sutlbury,‘ During a two months’ tour they North BOY. Timmms, Swastika, will visit Saint John, N.B., Sher- Kirkland Lake. Buffalo. Iltlca. brooke, Quebec, Three Rivers, Albany, Boston and POFiléuld. Shawinigan Falls, Montreal, Otta- M0, and will sail from Saint. John in the Duchess of Bedford Lindsay, l’cterboro, Galt, on February 25. LOUIS HERMAN