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PAGE FOURTEEN Wednesday, July 22, 1953 THE WING-HAM ADVANCE-TIMES
CANADA PREPARES TO
DEAL WITH DISASTER
You Can't Be Certain, You Can Be
Ready
Contrary to widely-held opinion,
total extinction is by no means inevit-
able in modern warfare, even under
attack by the most powerful weapons
yet used.
This is the keynote of instruction
contained in a federal civil defence
handbook, "Personal Protection under
Atomic Attack," published by the De-
partment of National Health and Wel-
fare, whose minister, Hon. Paul Mar-
tin, is responsible for civil defence at
the federal level.
Intended as a general guide to the
population at a time when Canada in
organizing and training services to
cope with mass disaster, the civil de-
fence manual is predicated upon the
possibility that some of our cities
could be targets for atomic bombs.
The book was printed before it was
disclosed that some nations have car-
ried experimentation with death-deal-
ing weapons into the field of hydrogen
explosives, which may be even more
lethal than the much-publicized atom
bombs. But, experts of the Defence
Research Board, Canada, scientific ad-
visers to the civil defence authorities,
believe that the principles which it
sets forth in layman's language hold
good under any type of attack, in-
cluding those with high explosives or
incendiary bombs, and, indeed, are ap-
plicable in most types of peacetime
catastrophe as well.
Playing Safe
"This business of getting ready for
attack by an atomic or some other
kind of bomb, does not mean that
the place in which we live is going
to be bombed," the book notes in its
introduction. "It simply means that
we are playing safe. It's the sort of
thing we do all the time when we buy
insurance, put lightning rods on the
roof and pour anti-freeze into the car
radiator. We just don't want to take
a chance."
The parallel between civil defence
and insurance is drawn throughout
informational material issued by the
Civil Defence Division of the Depart-
ment of National Health and Welfare.
It reiterates, in all its publications,
that, since disaster is no respecter of
persons or places, everyone must be
prepared to meet any type of emer-
gency, including enemy attack.
Civil Defence is described as organ-
ized preparedness, helping to mini-
mize the effects of disaster, save lives
and property, maintain production and
sustain the country's will to pull
through and to fight back out of ad-
versity.
Preparedness Pays
If Canada became involved in a
war and was subjected to hostile act-
ion, government officials feel that the
enemy would be more interested in
bombing unpreptired communities
than those where everybody was
ready because, then, they could cause
more casualities and do far greater
damage. So, the better prepared, the
better a community's chances of es-
caping with little or no injury,
"As a matter of fact," says the gov-
ernment book, "our chances, according
to the law of averages, are pretty
good in any case, but they are far
better if we take appropriate precaut-
ions."
The book goes on to describe the
types of atomic weapons which could
be used against Canadian communities,
explains what to do now to prepare
for such emergency, what to do if at-
tack comes and how to carry on after-
wards.
Included in the manual are clear
instructions on construction of base-
ment shelters and outdoor shelters and
special hints which may be invaluable
to citizens in wartime.
Copies of the manual "Personal Pro-
tection under Atomic Attack" are
available, free, to all civil defence
workers, through Provincial Civil
Defence offices, and arrangements
have been made by the Queen's Print-
er, Ottawa, for its widespread sale
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