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V; THE LIBERAL, Richmond Hill. Thursday, Sept. 13, 1951 (3) Countries which definitely can- not produce sufficient food, even of the plainest kind, for anything approaching the proper nutrition of their own peOpIe and which therefore either import, or realâ€" 1y need to import, each year large q'uantiâ€" ties of food. Among these countries are China, India, Japan, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Switzerland, South Africa and' Egypt. More than one half the world’s popu- lation of 2,325 million, notably people liv- ing- in China, Japan and India are badly underfed, even with foods of the plainest kinds such as wheat, rice or barley. For many many years these people have had to get along on a severely restricted diet, mainly of cereals, which is far below their real nutritional needs. The amount of milk, eggs, poultry and meats available to these people per capita is "practically neg~ ligible. They are, therefore, extremely vulnerable to diseases of all kinds, which is the reason why their average length of life is around 26 years only instead of 66 years for men and 68 years for women with people in better fed countries. With its sparse population and tre- mendously long lines of communication be- tween its large urban centres, Canada poses a special problem in the field of civil defence. It was these factors, among others, which convinced Canada’s civil de- fence planners that a blueprint for civil defence in this conntry could not be an exact copy of the British setâ€"up or of sim. ilar organizations in different parts 01’ Europe. Although a form of civil defénce had been in operation in Canada (luring the Second World War, the present set-up was organized in 1948 with the appointment of Major-General F. F. Worthington as co- ordinator of civil defence. Within a few months of his appointment in November, General Worthington had visited all the provinces, met with all provincial premiers and enlisted their support and co-operation as well as their agreement on the main outlines of the overall pattern of civil de- defence organization for Canada. General Worthington later visited the United King- dom, other European countries and the United States, studying civil defence or- ganizations. The following months were occupied with the formation of a federal (1) Countries which produce more food than their people can consume, and which therefore have a surplus for export. In this group We find Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, the Ar- gentine, the Balkan countries and Burma as notable examples. (2) Countries which produce just about sufficient food for their own people, such as France, Spain, Turkey, Mexico, Peru, Finland, Ceylon, the Middle East countries and Russia" as.examples. It is often thought that the United States real- ly falls within this catEgory for while the United States usually has quite large amounts of wheat and sometimes corn to export, yet the United States itself has to import other kinds of foodstuffs about equal in food values to the quantities it exports. It was agreed at an early point in de. fence planning that for civil defence, as in other matters closely affecting the lives of the civilian population, provincial and local authorities are the ones best able to carry out those tasks which may become nec- essary in the public interest. Brigadier- General Alec Ross, former civil defence coordinator, expressed the opinion that a civil defence program, directed and com- dinated by federal and provincial governâ€" ments, can best be developed by local auth- orities. with the municipality as the basic unit for civil defence planning. Consid- eration of the essentially civilian nature of this problem led to the transfer of respon- sibility for civil defence from the Depart- ment of National Defence to the Depart- ment of National Health and Welfare. The world’s hunger is once again a matter of considerable concern. The fact is, however, that the subject is not new, for it is one of the oldest problems in the world. The world was reminded of it 150 years ago by the writings of the Rev. Mr. Malthus who in his notable work “Essay” on Population” predicted that the world was approaching a condition where popu- lation was increasing faster than the pro- duction of foodstuffs. Mr. Malthus’s dire prediction was neutralized for a consider- able period, which Mr. Malthus could not forsee, by the opening up of vast areas of new foodâ€"producing lands in the United States, Canada, the Argentine, Australia, New Zealand and in Northern Russia. Today, however, the situation once again is attracting public attention for we hear from authoritative sources that the World production of foodstuffs is lagging behind the steady yearly increase in world population, which means that some people in quite large numbers somewhere are now beginning to suffer a steadily falling level of living, particularly with dairy, livestock and poultry products. But the population in these really hungry countries, as it is everywhere, is As far as nutritional needs are con- cerned, countries of the world can be div- ided into three main groups: SAM COOK, Editor 111 Independent Weekly â€" Established 1878 Subscription Rate $2.50 per year; to the United States $3.00 Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association J. E. SMITH; M.P., Pulglisher , __- . n‘lvmvr Those Hungry Populations Canada's Civil Defence 015m liberal Telephone, Richmond Hill 9 increasing by leaps and bounds which will cause in an increasing degree periodic fam- ine and pestilence, bringing in their train hardship, suffering, discontent and irrita- tion, which in the past has resulted, as no doubt it will in the future, in a tendency toward revolt, revolution and war! This year the United States and Can- ada will produce extraordinarily large crops of cereals, but obviously the people of the world have a crying need for every bushel and every pound of it, and even though these entire surpluses were to be made aVailable to half the world's popula- tion suffering from hunger and inadequate diet, it would still not serve to supply the proper nutritional needs of these Vast hungry populations, yet the surplus w0uld The most satisfactory method, beyond any question, of doing this would be to permit in every way possible the people who live in these food deficient countries to sell to us, without any unnecessary hin- drances in the way of tariffs, quotas and prohibitions, such goods and products and commodities as they now have for sale and which we can use, so enabling them to ob- tain more of our money with which to pur- chase the foodstuffs we have for sale. Then another step might be taken, that was actually proposed by the Inter- national Colombo Plan, which would be to encourage, indeed to help, these hungry people to build up their industries so that they can process their own natural re- sources into goods that surplus food-pro- ducing countries such as our own can use. All such efforts would undoubtedly help to alleviate somewhat the present menacing situation. The real solution, however, to avert famines and pestilences with their accom- panying hardships and discontent \‘vhich lead to wrong thinking, revolution and war, must be to make every attempt poss- ible to increase the yield per acre of land already under cultivation and in every country in the world, and then to bring into cultivation as many additional acres as can be put to the production of food- stuffs of one kind or another; for people who are fairly well fed are not as a rule inclined to revolt or go to War. Civil Defence Staff College in England. In addition, Canadian personnel were sen-t to attend civil defence technical schools in England and others to attend technical courses in the United States and at Camp’ Borden, Ont. What sh0uld be done, it seems quite obvious then, is to work out such .plans as will make such surpluses as easily as poss- ible available to the world's people who are suffering for the lack of sufficient food, but it is not suggested that this would be an easy task. The United States, with an action of generosity unparalleled in the history of the world, through its Marshall Plan, is doing a great deal. But no one for long likes to accept gifts and charity. What should be done, then, is to make things easy as possible for the hungry people of the world to be able to purchase such excess foodstuffs, from Canada, the United States, the Argentine, Australia and other countries, as these export coun- tries have to dispose of. The costs of such humanitarian pol- icies, whatever they might be, would, we suggest, be far far cheaper in the long run than the terrific cost and disturbance of preparing for and the fighting of wars of defence against aggressive peoples mad»: mad by hunger and who have nothing but suffering to look forward to. Following the training of key admin- istative personnel three civil defence staff courses at Hull, Quebec, providing train- ing for federal, provincial and municipal personnel from coast to coast, were estab- lished. Last June the first of a series of technical courses for potential “CD” in. structors opened at Connaug‘ht Ranges, west of Ottawa. This technical school is continuing. help With the development of hostilities in Korea “in June 1950, the pace of overall civil defence planning was speeded up. Conferences with-provinc1al and United States authorities have cleared the way for internal and international cooperation. In addition, the federal organizatin has proceeded with the preparation of publi- cations on various aspects of the subject, some of which are already available for distribution through provincial coordin- ators. The nucleus of'a provincial "CD" organization has now been established in each province and almost all the larger cities of Canada have set up civil defence committees. Dr. R. F. Sognnaes of Harvard Un- iversity has reported research shomng‘ that tooth decay in experimental animals is influenced by nutritional factors oper- ating in the mother before birth of the offspring, and in the young animal before eruption of teeth. His findings have been published by the Journal of the Amâ€" erican Dental Association, and are not compatible with one 70-year-old theory that acids in physical contact with outer surfaces of teeth eat away enamel. and are the cause of decay. r ~wu‘.. XLVERNA SMITH, Associate Editor A statement in the press recent- ly announced that over 30,000 young people arrive in Toronto each fall, many to attend college, others to seek employment in scores of different ways. What is true of Toronto would apply to ev- ery large Canadian Centre; the number, of course, varying a good deaL ation to conjure up what takes place in the homes these young- sters left. The severance would not be made without much heart- burnng even though all concerned believed it was for the best. The old life had to be broken up for ob- vious reasons. There wasn’t room for all the boys on the farm, or if it was a small town there was lit- tle hope of advancement. But when that youngster says good-bye to the old home, he knows â€" or she knows â€"- that it is a critical time full of danger or fine opportunities, or a mixture of both. The time for planning and dreaming has ‘1‘ llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll g TODAY’S QUOTATION rllllllll g Our quotation today is the ={accepted saying: I asked a well-established man, who came from a farm, what his first thoughts were when he Walk- ed up Yonge St. He promptly re- plied: “I realized that my pants were shapeless and baggy, I made up my mind to have them pressed." Amusing but not as funny as my own case. Larrived on a hot day in June, about ninety in the shade, and I WAS Wearing rubbers; prob- ably becuase there wasn’t room for them in my grip. E-mmnu“iinimiimu1i1unummumunmmnum\lmmnnmmmm it given way to reality of being out on one’s own. One must now make decisions and accept responsibility. C.N.E. Winners Boys Injured Bruce Winters, 13 and Raymond Hawkins 11, both of Steele’s Ave. were knocked frOm their bicycles by an auto on Dufferin Street as they were returning home Satur- day night, September 1. After visiting a soft drink stand on No. 7 Highway. Raymond sufi‘ered cutfi to the head and back injuries. ruce 1e- ceived a slight concussiOn. Both were admitted to the Hospital for Sick Children, Torontu,’ P.C. Ernest Bone of Vaughan Township investigated. The driver said that he was unable to see the cyclists due to the glare of other car’s headlights. Polio struck for a third time in the district, the latest victim being little Robert Higginson. Forunate- ]y it was a mild type and no par- alysis accompanied the disease. We sincerely hope that Robert return- ed to health and- strength suffic- iently to attend school this week. Injured A - We are sorry\to hear of the ac- cident that befell Mr. Clapham re- cently. Mr. Clapham received a painful foot injury when he tum- bled off a scaffold last Week. Days later his foot was still very pain- ful. We do hope that his injury is not serious and he will soon be able to carry on with his daily Work. But once the step has been taken and the pain of severing oneself from the old home with its love and protection, has Been taken, there is no turning back. The 0p- enroad has called and what is in Registered oats entered by Bruee Snider in the Field Competition recently and judged by Mr. H. L. Grifi‘in, R. R. 2 Anton, Ont. were scored 9th. There were 18 entries. Polio Strikes ’ Mrs. Joe Boron, Mrs. Warren Baillie, Mrs. Whalley and Karen journeyed to Orangeville on Friday evening to attend a miscellanebus shower given for Miss Meryl Groves and her fiance Galvin Bail- lie, brother of Mrs. Boron. Miss Groves resided in Concord witn Mrs. Whalley while she was em- ployed with an insurance firm in Toronto. Miss Groves and Mr Baillie will be married next Saturday in the Alton Baptist Church. Mrs. Victor Palmer is home from York County hospital, Newmark- et and recuperating nicely affer a regent appendectomy. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer are proud parents of a baby boy, \Ilctor Wayne, born about a month ago at the Mayfair Nursing Home, Tor- onto. _ Shower Mr. and Mrs. George Poole .vill observe their twentyâ€"sixth wed- ding‘ anniversary on Sunday, Sen- tember 16. Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Poole. Miss Vera Hepton and Mr. Trebel of Toronto spent this end with Mr. and Mrs. Bolen derson and also called on aunt, Mrs. Ed Witney. Sunday visitors at the home or Mrs. Ed Witney and son John were Mr. and Mrs. Albert Man- waring, daughter Grace and grand- dughter of Toronto. Also Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Giles, daughter, son- in-law and grandson Albert. of Toronto. One would need a lively imagin- “We tend to become like those with whom we associate.” 5’ CORRESPONDENT: Mrs. Raymond Stuart, B. R. 1, Maple THE OPEN ROAD CONCORD NEWS Telephone Maple 110123 week Hen- their DR. ARCHER WALLACE store for the vast army of young adventurers, only time will tell. More than fifty years ago, Frank Boreham, a very sincere and gifted young Englishman, left his home for Australia. After half a cen- tury of usefulness as preacher and writer he looked bacl: over the road he had travelled. He wrote: “It is many a long day since I left the old rooftree for the still older road. The years have taught me two things.’ I have discovered that there is a subtle and profound significance in the clamant call of the road. And I have learned that the authority that we recognize in the voice of the highway is de- rived, as all real authority is de- rived, from the roads own inher- ent sanctity. For the road is a snared place. Indeed, it is the most sacred of all sacred places; and, but for it, there would be no sac- red place beside. Perhaps that is why, in England at any rate, the Church was the first official road- maker. Before any national or municipal authority thought of such work, a Bishop of Durham; six hundred years ago, ofi'ered all kinds of indulgences and spiritual enrichments to those who Would make roads through England, and thus “smooth the n'ay’of the Wan- derer.” ‘ It seems to be there are two very important things which in- fluence young people when they follow the open road. ‘First, there is the tie with home. When Will- iam McKinley, later President of the United States, left lhome his parents said: “Every evening we shall be thinking of you and pray- ing for you.” The magnificent car- eer of McKinley, owed something to the tie with his old home. Secondly, friendship contacts are vital. One of Canada‘s outstand- ing citizens arrived in a city from the farm on a Monday morning. On his first Sunday he was invited to a baseball game 81d nearly ac‘ cepted, but for nineteen years he had attended Sunday SchOol and he decided to go to a nearby Bible Class. Later, he said: “It was the first decision made on my own and it WAS tremendously important. For megit was a case of, "tWO men out and the bases full.” The many friends of Fred Oster are glad to know he is better after his illneSS. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Parsons 0f Weston and their daughter Miss Edith, together with Mrs. Joseph Crew of Washington and her baby daughter, visited with Mrs. C. H?” Snider on Saturday afternoon. Lutheran Church Zion Lutheran Church, Sunday, September 16, 1951. Sunday gchool at 1.30 pm. Sunday service at 2.30 pm. The next in the Ten Com- mandment series, the Eighth Commandment will be shown next Sunday following the service. Harvest Home Services Harvest Home services were held in Zion Lutheran Church, Union- ville,‘ last Sunday and quite a num- ber from Sherwood were in qt- tendance at both services. Tne Rev. C. Chrstiansen of St. Ansgar Lutheran church, Toronto, preachâ€" ed an appropriate sermon and the St. Ansgar choir led the praise. Harvest Home services will be held in Zion Lutheran Church, Sherwood, on Sunday, September 28 The morning service will be at 11.00 am and the Rev. E. J. Fischer will preach. The Rev. E. Opperman will preach at the 'ev- ening service commencing at 7.30 p.m. and speéial mUSic will be ren- dered by his choir. Ex Winner The school opening was same- what delayed by Cupid last; week. When the. children showed up for classs on Tuesday morning, instead of being greeted by their teacher, they learned that it was her wed- ding day. Miss McLay and her soldier fiance had planned to’ Wed on his return from Korea and his home-coming happened to win- cide with the opening of school. The children were then given a. holiday for the remainder of the week while Mr. and Mrs. Kelly went on their honeymoon. Registered oats entered b LawL rence Keffer in the Fiel‘ Crop Competition sponsored by the Woodbridge Agricultural Society recently were scored second. Dan Cupid “The Jolly 7 group met on Wedâ€" nesday evening, September 5 at the home of Mrs. Lloyd Thompsfin. The evening was spent playing the popular and familiar card game of “Hearts”, the winner again being Mrs. Jim Spencer. The Woman's Association of the Elia United Church held their leg- ular meeting at the home of Mrs. Law on Tuesday afternoon, Sep- tember 4. Nine ladies were pres- ent. During the business part of the meeting plans ‘ were made for a corn roast to be held at the churm W . A . this week An inspiring devotional service Was led by Mrs. Leach after which Mrs. Pearson and Mrs. Snider inok the topic “The Good Samarita‘n.’ Folldwing the meeting dainty refreshments Were served 0y the hostess and herr group. The capital of the Union of South Africa is Pretoria, although the Union’s Parliament meets in Capetown. SHERWOOD “In the ‘summerless year’, that awful year of 1816, almost all the grain was frozen and what little was saved was gathered by men wearing overcoats as a protection against the cold.” Thus records a chronicle: of Up- per Canada in writing of pioneer hardships. It also makes our short Summer of 1951 seem idylic in comparison with the record of the years. Nature and Science have com- bined to make our lot comparative- 1y easy. We speed over surfaced highways. On either side of the road stretch a pattern of lush green pasture or golden gram with a. powered harvesting outfit, con» vetting it into real money - A Comparison Summers Long Ago But apart from the depression years with their dust storms, the people of this country have never knoWn a standard of living that yielded so much. If you think this has been a “crazy” summer just note what happened to our forbears in old Upper Canada: “For a time this province was cursed with a West Indian climate; cholera developed, and people died by hundreds." In 1816 there was no summer and our people starved. In 1833 the record, compiled by W. L. Smith in “Pioneers of Old Ontario” tells of the visitation of army worms in countless millions. “They literally covered the ground and trees were left bare of foliage as in midâ€"Winter. At the doors of houses they swarmed like bees at the entrance to a hive. “About the same time a deluge of frogs fell upon the land. In the hazing heat of noonday sun these rotted and filled the air with pois- OTIOUS vapors. Mr. and Mrs. Dalton Moses. Unr- 01 and Glenda enjoyed a week’s vacation in the north and visited Miss Kate Terry and Mr. Fred Terry at Parry Sound, former res- idents of Gormley. Mrs. Helen Henry visited last Saturday with Mrs. Whitney Jnhn~ son. The young people of the com- munity gathered at the Summer- felt home on the sixth concession last Saturday evening to enjoy their annual corn roast. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Connor, Mrs. Mary Appleton and Mrs. Helen Henry were supper guests Sunday evening with Mrs. E. Jones. Mrs. A. S. Farmer and Mrs. A. Hutchinson are leaving Wednesday to spend ten days visiting their relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Hunsperger in Philadelphia. Mrs. Amanda- Jewitt of Selkirk visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Peter Brillinger. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Banks Sunday guests of Rev. and L. Sider. Mr. and Mrs. S. Doner and Grace had Sunday evening supper with Mr. and Mrs. Allan Doner. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Byer of Hamlin, Kansas have been visiting relatives and friends here, Mr. By- er being a. nephew of Mr. Levi Heise and MrsaJos. Steckley. On Sunday evening a Very in- teresting service Was enjoyed at Heise Hill church when Mr. and Mrs. J. Wilmer Heisey of Mount Joy, Pennsylvania told of their work in the Philippine Islands for three and a half years bringing re- lief to war sufferers. Misses Vera and Mildred Brillâ€" inger are enjoying a holiday With their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. G. Shefi'er of Stayner. Mildred has just completed her first year in Nurses’ Training School, Toronto General Hospital and Vera is office nurse of Dr. James Langstaff of Richmond Hill. Mr. and Mrs. J. Sharback, Nan- cy and Patsy of Midland visited the Henderson home recently. Miss Jean Brillinger and Mr. Ross Brillinger last week motored tn Grantham, Penna., taking their sister, Velma, who is spending the year at Messiah College. Mr. and Mrs. C. Doner holiday ed last week at Miami Beach. . On Thursday, September 20, the Women’s Fellowship Group will meet at the church at 2 pm. and will have as a special speaker, Miss Phyllis Dodds, a missionary reâ€" cently returned from South Am- erica. The Young People are having their opening meeting on Friday, September 14. They are asked to meet at the church at 7.30 pm. to go to PAStor Jone's’ home at Em- ery. A weiner roast will follow the meeting. Years ago the absence of pock- marks on a woman’s face was con- sidered a rare sign of beauty. In those days smallpox was a ruth- less killer that struck regularly and frequently. Now-a-days vac- cination provides complete pro- tection against this ancient scourge Vaccination is free. Make sure vou are protected. Correspondent: Mrs. Allan Doner Phone Stoufiville 67104 EASILY PREVENTED Langstaff Church Notes GORMLEY were Mrs. News 11.; Rlcbmmd Friday & Saturday â€"- September 14 & 15 Monday & Tuesday â€" September 17 & 18 PATRICE WYMORE “Mama-uh”! - [uninhhw-Iâ€"umm Wednesday & Thursday â€" Sept. 19 & 20 Come and enioy a good picture in air conditioned at- mosphere. Monday to Friday shows 7 and 9 pm. Sgturdays and Holidays continuous from 6.30. 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