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and Member of Altai Bureau CtKUlitHw A Serving and the rural districts of North York r or publication SI St Kfwmirkel tho Ilmllrrl Subscription or two yean for la advance Simla fit 10c tub Member A of Canada Canadian Weekly Newspaper Awoclalloi and tho Audll of Second Mill Poll Offlca Dapartment Ottawa En 1R3I THE EDITORIAL PAGE The Herald THURSDAY THE DAY OF JUNE NINETEEN HUNDRED AND A QUESTION OF DIGNITY could easily be the most import ant election so far as the future develop and prosperity of the Canadian nation is concerned since Confederation the leaders in public life owe It to the citizens of this nation to discuss the Issues of the day Intelligently And responsibly This is no time for the remark the innuendo or cheap de- It is regrettable therefore to have to note the fact as the battle the home stretch some of the po litical leaders have descended from the level befitting their offices and have made statements that might better have been left unsaid In some cases such as Hon J this is to be expected He ii a past master of this kind of thing Of Hon Pearson It must bo said that he ban maintained a proper level in hi- discussion of the Issues Hon Paul also gone pretty far at times In stricture as has Walter the head of the Liberal brain truit The In any way justify Prime Minister John In retorting In kind Ad- the Minister it a figure Admittedly he is under strong and continual pressure tit the pre sent time Rut admittedly also he is the Prime Minister of Canada and leader of a great political parly seeking reelec tion to office He Is the heir of a great tradition and It is to be expected that ha will maintain on the hustings as clue where the high prestige of the ofice to which he jt reelection reach previously untouched areas of de fective road behaviour In the words of the department of transport the chang es will bring more drivers within tho scope of the Point System and its bene ficial effects One cannot but doubt that a newly ensnared miscreant will view the effects in a slightly different liffhi than that of beneficial However the resulting wretched feeling of hope lessness which follows being detained by the arm of the law without question does have a salutary effect on ones driving habit It is hoped readers of the Era and Express will avail themselves of the op portunity to peruse the amended rules and then will strive to retain their posi tions in that ever diminishing band whose badge is an unstamped driving DEAD UNLESS If all goes according to plan roughly 360 people will drown in Ontario this year That a a stark unattractive state ment but a I s a tragically probable truth Lata year people died this way with just over one third being under the age of 15 The majority of the deaths were caused through swimmers turning for the shore too late or part- time sailors unable to master the unex pected In the case of sailing two points arise The first can be summed up with the I think hes sold on seat belts now Our Readers Write Was The Lusitania Messing About On The River Outcry Justified li If J ft 1 report when speaking in lied liter Al bert last week refer to Hon Paul Martin a a lawyer in an eastern city and Walter Gordon the advisor from Toronto representative of Inter- At best was a specious peal Mr Martin as everyone knows ion of a blacksmith in Renfrew win way through school and sole serious attack of polio in public life He Is a nation figure and up prejudice by dub him an eastern Canadian lawyer I filling r fair By the am token it be added thai Mr Illefen- and that f nut be used as rlum either on ilh Mi ail It pure lunacy to defy the and venture on lo the lakes if you do not have the capacity to keep yourself afloat should you become separated from your boat The second point which is as im as Ilia first is the use of life jackets No boat ever leave an chorage without a sufficient number of life jackets on board lo accommodate every member of I he crew far as yachts and small open boats are concern- these should be worn at all times A ureal many of the deaths prophe sied for Ibis year can be avoided if more people Mill devote a mere two hours of their lime to learning artificial respire Hon Contrary to general belief Hie fact Unit a piimui lias stopped breathing does not signify that thai samp person be revived has been calculated that breathing it is possible It is likely people would be another summer in Ontario If only someone at the seen had bad a lhat Is hardly proper and bis gove party which be leads bay From The Files Of 50 Years Ago Little Red Door iihiu innnil I General Election Whats A Marginal Seat It Is lime lead- ties down In the real to with chapter and hoped thai leaden Ilia and their chief Una- ami appeals sec ACTION THIS TIME The information Hint an is carried out last Wednesday by the IHghwnys lion Ho of lb castwest highway which was pro- id over a quarter of a century ago a small ray of hope lhal last northern region of County a TO CONSIDER the greatest which is the hiking received one silspirls will all drivers anil Willi a llef by Ihose in a somewhat ale silo Thai alterations me I to be necessary reflects Ihe Hon of the department of transport lo produce a system which la effective against driving and al Ihe same lime fair The changes of which ale else where In 1 paper ate designed to neglected I ion of a lug a highway from I Lake II on and also opening up lnloin Ontario to this dlstiict