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page 2 the stouffviue tribune tkrsday jimmy 16 58 lite iniifftoiiu tribune established 18ss a v nolan son publishers member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontarioquebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations authorized u secondciu mitt poetoffice dept ottawa issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada s350 elsewhere 450 c h nolan publisher jas thomas associate editor our editorial comment it isnt tragic theres going to be more un employment this winter says the financial post but the situation isnt tragic it is very different in kind degree and significance from that experienced during the great depression there is a broad measure of business health in the number of people with jobs indeed the number of people without jobs serves to in dicate how well until recently the influx of immigrants matched the countrys immediate absorptive capa city in the last 12 months immi- grants have been pouring in at the very time when canadian expansion was slowing down even so there is nothing tragic about the outlook some temporary difficulty this winter is unavoidable but there need be no fear of wide spread hardship the temporary lull will offer a chance to shake out rigid ities and inflationary cost increases resulting from the very tight labor market of 1956 newfangled ideas out competition back think what you like but never theless much world influence is being swung today by russia not the united states latest proof of this is the effect of the publicity on rus sias approach to education which is based on competition hard work and concentration on what are considered the essential courses on our own educational system and is putting spurs on the top men in the educa tional department education minister dunlop says he is working on new regulations to reintroduce competition into ontario schools and return to fundamentals to do away with some of the socalled progressive ideas such as thrott ling down on competition and allow ing the pupil to run wild with self- expression mr dunlop says marks will be given out to students they will be told exactly what marks they get and where they stand in their class thev have to meet competition in adult life by giving the students standing in class the parents will be better able to tell how their son or daughter is getting along in the various sub jects this system of reporting on school work may discourage some who invariably show poor marks and are merely putting in time but in the main it will provide an incentive to strive for a higher standing in subsequent examinations competi tion at school will prepare students for what they can expect after they become a part of the workaday world oppose any extension metro a recent prediction by metro chairman fred gardiner that a num- ber of semirural municipalities on the border of metropolitan toronto will soon be absorbed into the metro area should be a matter for serious thought by everyone throughout the district addressing the metropolitan housing and planning council of chicago mr gardiner did not name the municipalities which would be engulfed however he said an official plan of development for greater toronto after more than four years of work would be completed by the metropolitan planning board in the early part of 1958 the fringe municipalities located in the southern part of york county have a far greater future as members of the contmsing county of york than they ever would grouped to gether with the many municipalities making up the large overorganized metro setup metro already includes the city of toronto and such sur rounding heavily populated munici palities as scarboro north york and jetobicoke but what is more important annexation by metro would at least result in a definite curtailment and quite- possibly a complete loss of local autonomy our local autonomy is a precious heritage and not to be taken lightly the cherished right to elect our own local councils school boards and administer such essen tial services as police and fire was gained for us by our forefathers we should not abdicate these rights simply because metro wants to ex tend its boundaries the individual municipalities making up metro have had to dele gate a great deal of their previous authority to this new super govern ment day by day down through the years local administrations have been faced with a steady whittling away of their basic legislative powers by the province mr gardiner cites the matter of residential development and the at tendant sewage and water problems as one of the main reasons for met ros desire to annex the fringe muni cipalities however this is not a valid argument when one realizes that metro already has a measure of real control over its neighbors through its planning board any proposed developments in the frjnge areas is subject to review by the metropolitan planning board the provincial gov ernment will not approve any plan which has not first received the prior sanction of the metro authorities up until a short while ago the fringe municipalities werent even accorded representation on the metropolitan planning board yet this same body was making decisions beyond its own boundaries finally the provincial government heeded the objections and granted the fringe areas the right to make several appointments tothe board the municipalities in the south ern part of york county likely to be included in any move by mr gardiner to extend metro should make their feelings known to the provincial government the provincial author ities should be told that they intend to strenuously oppose any attempt to legislate them into metro against the expressed wishes of the people they were elected to represent the liberal teaching your boy some days ago we called on t youngcouple who is not far ing too well we had not been sitting long when their two young sons hastened to get their christmas gifts and proud ly showed them to us they had many including two guns and a little story book that had come along with them i held onto the book until we had viewed all their toys and i could get a chance to look at it later the cover a rich brown color with title fifty prize hunting stories written in large gold letters was handsome enough to catch the eyes of any little boy and no doubt that is what sells this sort of trash but no matter how attractive a book may look one would think that any mother or father would want to make sure that what their children get is the very best since good reading can do so much to build the mind and develop a desirable character but read below one of these frize stories and you will wonder also if such rubbish can possibly benefit a childs in tellect and why parents want their young ones to have the likes this one is entitled teach your boy to shoot as a boyi was a great lover of nature the woods and everything outdoors my great est longing was for a shotgun and i remember promising my self if i ever reached mans estate to buy one for myself well i did but not until i was thirtyone after lifes early struggles for money were over now my main reason for writing this is to point out to my readers the way to the new awakening to nature and the innumerable benefits and pleas ures that one can find in hunt ing and fishing after long years of what i call nature blind ness naturally i found more time on my hands for medita tion after being suddenly thrown from the business whirl or i should say whirl of business a new world opened up to me and i am not exaggerating when i say this awakening was as much a marvel to me as if i had been suddenly transported to some other planet a wonder ful storybook seemed to be opened to me and i could read every page with new wonder and pleasure he then goes on telling all he killed with his h and r shotgun as he walked among gods flowers through his woods shrubberies willows cot- tonwoods along his streams down his bypaths etc etc then and oh what a de light to studythe different spe cies of my game the wonderful coloring of the birds etc and this at thirtyone but the old world is yet young teach your boy to shoot to love nature let me tell you this r i be lieve it is a rule that never fails a boy who really loves nature is never wholly bad tiecannot be be a sportsman go out into the open learn to shoot you will never regret it believe it or not readers the other fortynine prize stories are equally cheap having such titles as what a gun did for him building mind and body with a gun etc and in case you would like to know all of them come from texas mexico arkansas so dakota washington new york etc and were prepared and pub lished by a fire arms co in massachusetts of course we know that these companies will publish anything at any cost to help sell their guns and am munition and will even go so far as to tell us that there are so many animals in the forest that even the indians cant be lieve their eyes it helps the license business too naturally no we need not wonder why the floods and tornadoes thats what a gun did for him but it will do it for us also if we cannot find anything belter to feed our minds on than guns for there is a day of restitu tion that is gods law and it will never be changed so wake up parents wake up before it is too late mej3 laff of the week and when did yon first discover yon were better chin everybody else in the world jet jjlm se lines parents only first aid i for the fearful by nancy lettti how can parents give first often assisted by the story of aid to their child who is fearful another child or a grownup some fear is necessary in the who was also afraid and in spite kind of world in which we live of his fear did his duty or com- the child who has no fear of pleted the job he had to do being hit by a car er a truck is such as the little dutch lad who apt to run out on the road after put his finger in the hole in a ball or hurry across to see a the dyke and saved the country- chum on the other side of the side from a flood although the street without first looking to pain in his hand was almost un left and to right to see if a car is coming the little girl who is not a- frald of being burned by her mothers iron may try to use it herself and receive a nasty burn the small boy who has no fear of the neighbours cat rv bearable and he knew he might be drowned being able to claim the red badge of courage is desired by every boy and girl as the days pass a child feels his parents moral support and patient un derstanding and he is strength- tease the pussy once ipo often med to face his own particular ships that never sail there are few people who have not carried deep in their hearts some unfulfilled desires by this we do not mean fugitive daydreams but rather aspirations and longings which have had permanent results in fashioning their characters in a poem of singular beauty and tenderness glenn ward dresbach writes of one who although working on an inland farm all his life dreamed of sailing ships of seas and ports he could not even name youth and middle age passed and still the harvests grew and held him too old at last for work his knotted hands have turned to dreams his youth saw shining by and at a window facing prairie lands he sees the cloudships billowed down the sky each day he sits there till the light must fail to build his little ships that never sail chesterton once wrote of robert louis stevenson he died with a thousand stories in his heart he had uttered only a fraction of the wealth of fancy in his mind and that in a slightly different way must be true of a vast number of people it is the meaning of that threethousandyearold proverb as a man thinketh in his heart so is he one day jesus stood by the treasury in the temple and watched men and women as they brought their offerings he saw men who cast in out of their abundance and knew how to measure such gifts he saw a poor widow cast in two mites and knowing that even so small an amount involved much sacrifice he spoke in glowing terms of her gift his was the religion of in wardness of motives and he knew that the woman had it in her heart to give much that circumstances made impossible he knew all about the little ships that could not sail david had it in his heart to build a temple for god doubtless it was the deepest desire and greatest longing of his heart he was forbidden to erect it and that must have been a crushing disappointment the sins of former years rose up against him and robbed him of that great honour but the story does not end there his desire to build the temple was not recognized and commended and god through the prophet said to him whereas it was in thine heart thou didst well 1 kings 818 it has been said that a good camera will detect blemishes in the skin which are not evident to the naked eye jesus recognized the good in mens hearts which never liound expression he saw below the surface and where the superficial observer became censorious or scornful he was deeply touched with the wealth of good purpose his kind but searching glance could scan the very wounds that shame would hide thought life is important the thoughts a man thinks fashion his character and control his destiny the mind is the garden and thoughts are the seeds which grow there and bear- fruit for good or evil it is distinctly encouraging that men are commended not for the measure of material success they have achieved in life but rather for their heart longings and spiritual aspira tions blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness and they shall be filled over fifty years ago a fifteenyearold boy eldest in a family of six living in the north of england had shown unusual aptitude in his studies at school they were poor people the father was a labourer in a stone quarry but the boy was encouraged to hope that he might be sent to a school of higher learning one morn ing a fall of stone buried the father beneath it and only a few hours after he left his lifeless body was brought home the boy who had hoped so much gently put his arms around his mother and told her that as far as he was able he would take his fathers place and help to care for his younger brothers and sisters the next day he went to the quarry and never returned to school the writer knew him vell he never complained or in dulged in selfpity but throughout a long life here served as a sunday school teacher and because of his unusual intelligence and consecration to god he laid his hand for good upon scores of young people who recognized the strength of his mind and the beauty of his character our quotation today is from the book of proverbs as a man thinketh in his heart so is he and come crying to his mumer with a bleeding scratch on his hand for many years fear has been useful in preventing peo ple from getting themselves in to danger situations but many doctors and mental health experts are agreed that there is a great deal too much fear in the minds and hearts of countless grownups this un necessary fear lessens happi ness and effectiveness in work if a pei son becomes increasing ly anxious and frightened phy sical and mental wellbeing may be in jeopardy parents are warned to use fear of punishment very spar ingly in disciplining their chil dren never resort to threats about the big policeman or the boogey man or any other fictitious person who will deal out painful vengeance for mis deeds continually frightening a lit tle child into good behaviour may seem to work in the pre sent but what happens to the child in the future he may grow into from vague apprehensions of some calamity befalling him fears are very contagious and sometimes it is not fear of pun ishment but a parents own fear of lightning or something else which a child catches mothers and fathers should be careful not to pass on to their children their own fears parents often differ sharply in their ideas about the best way to deal with their childs fears junior is a timid little chap and he is afraid to fight the two husky fellows who tease him on the way to school mo ther tries to think of ways to protect her son from possible injury from a physical encoun ter father believes in the treat em rough plan and tells his son to stand on his own feet and fight his tormenters neither the too protective mothers attitude nor the too impatient fathers technique help a child face the problem of getting along with others parents need to help their chil dren grow in selfconfidence every child is different and must be treated as an individ ual but without a doubt child ren are harmed if because of their fears they are called a sissy or 1 raidy cat children who love stories are giants and conquer his fears children should be allowed to speak of their fears thelr parents should tell them that they know that many little chil dren are afraid at times but as they grow older they will grow braver and even laugh at the things that scared them from our early files jan 18 1923 th thermometers on the front street registered 22 below zero at 8 oclock on wednesday morning it is estimated that stouff ville people have invested about 100000 in the alberta finan cial brokers which is causing the investors considerable anx iety the inaugural meeting of markham township council was held on monday at union- ville the members of the coun- an adult in misery cil were all present and took their seats as follows g b padgett reeve w c gohn dep utyreeve r l stiver j s honey and r a smith coun cillors bandmaster capt slattcr has expressed himself as delighted with the progress being made by the new stouffvlle band the boys are taking such a keen in terest in the practices that while only a few have been held they are already able to play five marches in a manner that would do credit to a band os experienced players it is now a certainty that next spring our band will be able to step out and be second to none in this section of the province uxbridge township council met at goodwood for the statu tory meeting with the members all present committees appoint ed were roads and bridges reeve and council printing lee roach davies finance cassie davies and calhenvood contingent catherwood lee and roach indigent roach ca therwood and lee d m mor gan and george todd were ap pointed auditors and distin mc donald collector the local lodge of macabees no 140 donated in cash to the fire sufferers in northern on tario the- sum of 50 t editors mail toronto jan 8 editor the tribune dear sir one of your metropolitan con temporaries the other day ran a stream headline thus dlef- enbaker proposes surplus food bank and the accompanying nato story dateline from paris accented the canadian prime ministers suggestion as fol lows this meeting of nato should consider the establish ment of a food bank that would take over the surplus food ptod- uets such as canadian wheat and distribute them on an ord erly basis to under developed countries further along in that same report from paris i was struck by the following words also credited to mr dlefenbaker the conscience of the world will not accept a situation where halt mankind is wellfed and halt is starved all i desire to add to the above sentiments is to say that i heartily concur in the sugges tion and am proud that it has been put so effectively before the world in the name of the canadian people in closing may i express the sincere hope that mr diefen baker will neither be deterred nor silenced by the fact that so far as subsequent reports from the paris meeting are a guide the above humanitarian pro posal apparently remained at the canadian post in my opin ion this thoroughly humane and christian mechanism should be spotlighted by the canadian government again and again until appropriate public opinion has been mobilized to the point where action will be insisted upon by the rank and file of the people in all political par ties and not in canada alone for long our abundance can really take us farther along the road to peace and a friendlier world than all the shining billions which are today being expended on the ageold curse of war this is the matchless weapon which today is in the hands of the free people i like lord orrs thought as first director- general nf the food and agri culture organization fao communism is merely hunger growing articulate 1947 back concession glasgow mr and mrs george alsbp visited thursday evening with mr and mrs h noble and family mr and mrs will reaman and family had saturday even ing supper with mr and mrs albert boake and family of pine orchard mr and mrs roy whlttieton of winnipeg visited their niece mrs earl dowswell on thurs day of last week mr and mrs i dyke and family spent sunday in tor onto at the home of mr percy shav celebrating norman and percys birthdays mr and mrs gerald noble and family visited mr and mrs bill brown and family of ux bridge on sunday wanted more cream shippers for best results ship your cream to stouffville creamery we pay- two cents more per pound butterfat for cream delivered to the creamery to have our truck call phone 18gw stouffville creamery go cold storage lockers for rent pnjtfwibwl at your fingertips safety in the automobile is optional at no extra cost no mechanic safety device can replace the protection of careful driving last year traffic accidents claimed the lives of mora canadian than ever before someone was injured every 8 minutes a car wat damaged every 48 seconds automobile insurance claims rose to more than 150000000 one result of this is higher automobile insurance rates becaus what is paid out in claims must be brought in by premiums but evan moim important is the fact that you hold your life and the lives of others in your hands when you get behind the wheel of a car safely pays dividends saves lives helps lo lower your insurance costs be careful 1u canada insurance ftoiratlom all canada insurance federation a aajy ofnor thtn 300 mmptlng mnfiujt witting fif automcbih antf qtwstr smvtmoq