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“xâ€" . _ _ _ . V 7 , , , ' Because of this many veterans became dissatisfied with th( treatment accorded them by the country for which they hat fought, and, in our opinion, rightly so. An unfortunate result of the situation was that many be- came embittered. While the great majority of men returne( With a determination to hew out their own salvation. and did sc with outstanding success, others adopted the attitude “The counâ€" try owes me a living.” hquuvo vv nu,“ hluwvvu Luv U... awhole issue of this paper to examine the situation in detail. In all fairness to the men involved it must be stated emphatically that they were net “lead-swingers” or “gimme-gimmes.” Their bprooting from a normal course of life â€" the major problems 01 recreating a career disturbed by years of war â€" the lack of eX» erience in dealing with their problems already mentioned â€" «aeh and every one played a part. Even the different characte1 of the war contributed much to the disturbed state in which sc many of our veterans found themselves. r . Fortunately the situation this time is very different. Due to adequate legislation, figured out before the event and not after, due to the solidity, experience and watchfulness of the major elf-service men’s organizations, veterans of the late war have settled back into civilian life with a minimum of disturbance both to themselves and the country. The establishment of a Federal Department of Veterans Affairs has contributed in no small measure to the state of affairs. Noticeably lacking today is “the country ‘owes me a living” attitude. By and large veterans have accepted their responsibil- ity as citizens well â€"- have dug wholeheartedly into the job of becoming the backbone of Canada. It is not suggested that the Situation is one hundred per cent perfect. No schemes developeo by man for man ever will be. But in the main the country has planned well for its veterans â€" and the veterans have reacted It is n_ot our pufpose at the present time to go into the many causes. whlch created such an outlook. _It would. ‘take practipally Well. It is a tribute to the Dominion’s expressed ‘desire to do the right thing by its veterans that such an editorial as this can be written today. It is, even more, a tribute of the highest order to be able to record that the plans made by the country have been so well accepted by veterans and that today they are setting up as enviable a record as citizens as they did when they met the enemy on sea, on land and in the air. This is the story ofone Tom Bracegirdle who, according to the news despatches. got caught in the spider web of bureauc- racy. woven so strongly by the socialist government of Englanc since 1945, and the moral of the tale is obvious. Bureaucratic Labyrinth Tom, says the Montreal Gazette, was a Somerset County parish clerk. It was part of his job to put up election notice: find in the free and easy way of England in the good old days he posted them on parish trees. All this came to an end when Sir Richard Acland turned his Somerset property over to the country as a national trust. The trees Tom used were on Sir Richard’s land, now the government‘s. The bureaucrats told Tom he had to quit posting notices on the trees and get five bulletin boards instead. From then on Tom was like a mouse in a maze. Here is what happened: He got permission to raise tax rates a penny to pay for the boards. Then he applied. in triplicate, for an allotment/OI ;-_ tioned lumber to make the boards. Next, he mailed the author ities a copy of the lease, in triplicate, covering erection of the boards. Then he applied, in quadruplicate, for permission from the county planning committee to erect the boards. The com mittee sent the application back. saying that they had to have applications in triplicate for each of the five boards with a diag- ram of the proposed bulletin board on each. Veterans And Country Pull Together -_ At this stage of the game, something in Tom’s soul died. He upped and quit. . s Maybe if the bureaucrats got together and slapped a ration order on paper in the shape of interminable government forms in triplicate and quadruplicate that are the hallmark of bureauc- racy, individual initiative and native efficiency might have a chance of rebirth n that sorely plagued land of England. Dry But Illuminating A. Ths may‘sound strange in view of the never-ending “beef’ 9: people that they’re having a barrel of trouble keeping their heads above water in this day and age of high living costs, bu last year the average Canadian earned more money, spent mort money, and wound up by saving more money than he did th' year before. ' This may. not have applied to you as an individual. but i stands true for most Ganadians and the source of our informa tiqn is the authentic and reliable Dominion Bureau of Statistics If'you didn’t fall in the category of those who were better oi in all pecuniary ways in 1948 than in 1947, the following dry as-dust but nonetheless illuminating paragraphs may not chee you but they should certainly prove that Canadians were migh ty well off in a world generally beleaguered by financial worries In 1948. Canadians‘ personal incomes totalled $11,960,000.00( as compared with 310390000000 which they made in 1947. In cidentally, this has little to do _with the comparison in‘question but in 1939 Canadians only earned 34291000000. 3 In 1948, the people of this country spent $10,000.000‘000, o. 83.6% of their incomes, on goods and services. They savet $1.146,000,000 or 9.6‘2 of their incomes. In 1947, by comparison they spent $8,949,000,000. or 86.12 of their incomes. and man aged to save $650.000.000 or 6.2“ of what they took in. The fact is that in 1948. although Canadians spent more 01 goods and services than they did in 1947. the proportion of thei: spending to their total incomes was less than it was the yea) before. And, furthermore, not only were they able to save mom in 1948 than they did in 1947. but the proportion of savings t< total earnings wasngreater in 1948. government in the form of direct taxes dropped to 6.8%. i All of which is pretty dull reading and not calculated to add to Our literary status, but powerful proof that we were, as 2 nation, pretty “well fixed” last year. An Independent Weekly â€" Established 1873 Subscription Rate, $2.00 per year; To the United States $2.50 Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association ‘ J. E. SMITH, M.P., Publisher THE LIBERAL, Richmond Hill, Thursday. July 21. 1949 “THE LlBERAL‘ Jast year this figure Whether that’s so or not these last two or three days have convinced me that the need for sane and sensible lriving is something that cannot be Jver-emphasized. In a comparatively short trip from Foronto to North Bay and back over this last week-end, I saw enough in- stances of what can only be called “idiotic” driving to convince me that we have a long way to gofi'et before we have anything approaching safe- ty on our highways. And I’m going to come right out and say that our visitors from the United States, whom wé‘rail at someâ€" i/mes on account of their 'fast drlv- ng, set an example in sensible driv- ing that might well be emulated by many Canadians. It’s true that they bust the speed limits wide open, but you don’t see them passing ‘on curves .nd hills the way our own drivers do. The wonder to me isn’t that there are so many accidents reported in .he papers after one of our summer weeklends. The wonder is that there ire so few. Lady Luck must ride at 3. lot of wheels. No. 11 highway, as most of my readers‘know, is in its northerly part ~ ver" winding, narrow road, espec- Mly througn part of the Muskoka district and again north of Hunts- Jille. Sharp hills, with sudden turns lt top or bottom, are common. Yet not once or twice, but scores of times in the course of the two hundred miles from here to North Bay, I saw drivers pass on hills - and curves. Scores of times, again, I saw turns made without the slightest attempt at a signal. Sometimes I wonder if readers of his and other papers get tired of the 'epeated exhortation to “drive safe- The fifty mile speed limit just ioesn’t mean _anything to such dri- vers. Try holding it on No. 11 up north and see how many cars you pass â€" and then count the number who pass you. But again I emphas- ize that it isn’t the speed â€" it’s the utter lack of common sense that our drivers are exhibiting which, if con- tinued, is going to bring many more ‘Black Mondays” to Canadian homes 1nd families. Speaking of going north, I was rery interested in reading, in a Tor- »nto paper after my return, some :uggestions for avoiding the heavy Yonge Street traffic. It so happen- ‘d that I had tried that very thing nyself and found it most successful. Probably most of my readers know is much, if not more, about it than ' do but for the benefit of the unin- tiate I suggest going up the east ide of Lake Simcoe if north bound ‘01- any distance. I’m not suggesting ‘hat the alternative route is traffic free but, compared to No. 11, it’s like Being in the great wide open spaces. For instance, coming down from \Iorth Bay. I ran down to Washago. 1nd from there down the east side of '.ake Couchiching through the Rama Indian Reserve. Then, turning at Atherley, I followed No. 12 â€"â€" a trand road â€"â€" into Beaverton and *lown to Greenbank. A turn there took me down through Uxbridge, gtouffville and Markham to No. ‘7. Traffic on that road was fairly heavy, LJut it's possible to turn off at sev- era] points and run 5 Lansing sideroad where, are several comparative trances to Toronto â€" Don Mills Road. Grim Summer Harvest From The Hilltop A COLUMN 0F VIEWS AND OBSERVATIONS and run south to aga y (111161 notably (By P. J. Picking) there I don’t know that much distance is saved but the comfort and ease of driving is immeasurably enhanced. Coming north on Yonge Street again at midnight, wondering if the hens were going to lay any better this week and what in heck I was go- ing to write editorials about to- morrow I ran against, even at that hour, a floodi of bumper to bumper trafiic going south. So I made up my mind that I’d pass the suggesâ€" tion on to my fellow citizens for what it’s worth. No extra charge. It’s all thrown in with your two buck annual sub- scription. Incidentally, those.‘ who haven’t been up’ that way lately will find an interestinglchange in the Callander- North Bay area. Gone are the swarms of Quint-hunting tourists who once filled Callander’s streets. The little town has slipped back to its sleepy ways again. But the dis- trict is full up. Those who came to see and run away have been replaced by those who have learned the beau- ties of the nortliland and now make it their permanent all-the-holiday lo- cation. An air of stability has taken the place of the one-time semi-carâ€" nival .spirit which seemed to per- meate the area in the days when the quints were “on show.” A large number of smart new cabins and cot- tages have replaced the flimsy "shakedowns” that. in the earlier A tribute is due, too: to the merâ€" chants and restaurateurs up that way. Some pricesâ€" particularly those of tinned seeds and gasoline â€" are high. But on the whole there "shakedowns” that, in the earlier days of Papa Dionne’s successful ex- periment, were so much in demand. seems to have been little attempt to gouge visitors and, in fact, several services for which one would nor- mally expect to pay at most summel resorts are thrown in as a neighbour- ly gesture â€"â€" and with a smile at that. Restaurants are, in my exper- ience at least, exceptionally well- kept. Food is good and prices are extremely moderate â€"â€" that is, when one considers what prices in general are these days. The whole area surrounding the exceptionally busy and peppy city of North Bay leaves a feeling of cheer- ful optimism, of fair dealing, of good-will. that shows that our nor- thern friends are very much on their toes and have learned the somewhat difficult art of making their visitors feel so satisfied with things that they will come back. Well, if you’ve had the patience to stay with me this far, ’scuse me if I've bored you by taking up the whole column with findings of a three day trip. But, you see, I’ve got some justi- fication because I’m the one that’s staying in the office next week while all the rest of the gang in the Liberal ofi‘ice go on holidays. Just think how nice and quiet it’s going to be. No Miss Mary Dawson hollering for copy â€"â€" no heating up a last minute story to fill up that awful hole on page 10 â€" no Miss Forster plaguing story to fill up t page 10 â€" no Mis me to read proof you to read. Just think â€" I write editorials for three weeks t‘ come. Betcha I don‘t, though“. SEE YOU AFTER THE HOLI DAYS. Harry Hall in The Toronto Telegram can down and weeks to aper 01‘ A garbage collection system has been set up for Bradford under the ‘Fire and Water Committee of the council. Householders will pay $1.00 per month, stores with dry garbage $3.00, hotels, restaurants and stores with wet garbage $5.00. Collections will be made weekly. Bradford tax rate has been set at the same rate as last year â€"â€" 41 mills. First sod of the North York Com- munity Memorial Hall was turned last week on the Yonge Street prop- erty deeded to the municipality by the board of the Toronto General Burial Grounds for that purpose, says the Lansing “Enterprise.” A $70,000. wing of the hall which will contain an auditorium, kitchen and several meeting rooms, is under con- struction. Provision is also being made for a children’s park. There is a possibility of a sewage disposal system for Woodbridge, re- ports the “Woodbridge News." A notice of motion before the council directs the obtaining of costs of in- stallation, a disposal plant and con- nections to homes. The contract for the construction of a new theatre at Newmarket has been awarded to John W. Bowser at Aurora. It will be constructed at the south end of Main Street on the west side. Orders have already been placed for the steel, says the “New- market Era.” A by-law for regulating and in- specting restaurants has been adop- ted by the Newmarket council. Tests of the water for the propos- ed swimming pool at Newmarket have proved unsatisfactory, the wa- ter rating class D. Keswick now has a service club, a branch of the Optimists Club having been established, with Clayton Purdy as president. The Schomberg fire commission has forbidden the village fire de- partment to answer calls from the townshigs of Tecumseth and West Gwillimbury. Unqpaid accounts are said to be the reason. Stoufl’ville tax rate for an increase year. Despite much road work and the replacement of a large area of side- walks Sutton tax rate Pigs been reduc- ed from 52‘ mills to 46 mills. f Tlie reduction is due to increased assess- ments, increased provincial subsidies and a decrease in the High School rate of 31/2 mills. School children of North York are “hitting the bottle” heavily â€"â€" but it’s the milk bottle. In T.S.A. N0. 1 they half consumed 99,920 half pint bottles this year, an increase of 24,600 bottles over 1948‘. The increase conâ€" trasts heavily with the growth of school population, which was 4,547 for the area in 1948, while this year’s figure is 5,528. The town of Lindsay is to be re- assessed. This does not mean that taxes will be increased, says the newly-appointed town assessor, A. T. Killner, but that the property owneljs of Lindsay will receive a fair and equitable assessment based on the latest scientific methods of appraisal. Dial telephones are to be installed in Lindsay in the late autumn, with actual conversion to the dial system to take place next spring. Approxim- ately 3,000 subscribers will change from the familiar “Number, pleastf’ system to the dials, with provision being made to accommodate up to 3,400 subscribers. Blue-green algae, forming a scum on the surface of Sturgeon Lake near Lindsay, resulted in the death by poisoning of eleven head of cattle recently. Similar deaths resulted fiom the same cause last year. The Central. Committee of Rate- payers is fighting an attempt to 10v cate a new service station in the Avenue Road-Wilson Avenue area. A recent by-law of North York Town- ship forbids the establishment of fur- ther gas stations on Avenue Road, but an operator is endeavouring to relocate his. Ratepayers say they are determined that their property values shall not be impaired-. Danforth Bus Lines are expected to make an early announcement re- garding the new North York-North Toronto bus service inauguration. The company has erected a new garage at Dufierin Street and Wilson Aven- ue. A 30-minute service, with 20â€" minute service in rush hours, is plan- ned, with fares at four for a quarter during the day and ten cents straight cash at nights. 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