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pg 2 tke siosffvail ts3t tfcry ky 7 1950 editrim time not money is most necessary the reeve of pickering town ship was last week granted an in crease in his annual remuneration in the form of a 1000 expense account in accepting the additional fee the reeve suggested that the new wage scale might tend to interest others in shouldering the responsibilities of the post we fee that the 3000 stipend will indeed make for in creased enthusiasm among aspirants to the position but we fear that too many will eye the office on a basis of dollars and cents rather than from an individual desire to work in the best interests of mr and mrs tax payer ve were more than slightly amazed to learn last week that reeve sherman sott had attended a total of twentythree meetings within a period of sixteen days we would contend that no matter how- rosy this salary might appear in round figures there are few resident ratepayers who could spare the time that the post requires even if they were blessed with the ability to carry out its duties in short reeve sott is holding a fulltime position on a parttime wage this is fine for the present but we fear that someone could easily sacrifice the welfare of the munici pality for a selfish grasp for the o0c0 plum tex collector gsrting his share those who were working for a living in idoj and are stii at it prob ably are interested in how they are doing today comparatively speaking including income wages and salaries are away up but so are prices and to an extent so are taxes it is surprising that the rise in taxes in the higher cost of living picture receives so little attention the prewar 60aweek earner paid 7 tax for the whole year his coun terpart today pays almost as much for one week possibly the fact that the money is collected at the source and is never seen by the worker has been one factor in helping the higher government spending escape notice as a main element in higher living costs this factor should be kept in mind by canadians who in their de mands from government both muni cipal and in the higher brackets overlook the fact that it is the people who pay privacy in my garden fishing for reeves gould ssrve a dual purpose ihe old markham arena building has been condemned it will be com pletely dismantled and removed from the site the decision was announced last week by the fair board presi dent after numerous emergency meetings were held to discuss the issue there was a time when the once- proud home of the markham mil lionaires was the scene of thrilling hockey spectacles that attracted fan support from a wide area the trend towards artificial ice in many neigh boring communities including stouff- ville saw winter sports interest hit an alltime low and during the past decade the structure has been little used the unionville arena has help ed in part to fill the vacuum created but to many it is still a foreign field in a few short weeks the fair board will embark on a compaign to erect a replacement building what a marvellous service could be done for the village and the community if the members redirected their sights toward the construction of an arena that would serve the needs of growing generations in a rapidly growing town with a population in excess of 1000 it is high time that such a project was seriously contem plated by b1li smitey lave fan but tcke care each year summer vacations spell tragedy to hundreds of families as accidental drowning takes the lives of both children and adults next to the highway the lake river or swimming pool is the most lethal vacation hazard swimming is fun and should be enjoyed safety is of utmost impor tance however and the all canada insurance federation representing more than 250 canadian fire casualty and automobile insurance companies recommends these rules for saving lives 1 learn how to swim and teach the children to swim 2 do not swim alone unless accompanied by a boat do not swim far from shore swim parallel tc the shore if you wish to try for distance nonswimmers should not float p 1 into deep water on inner tube3 or other inflated articles if the float begins to leak the swimmer is in difficulty 5 do not dive into unfamiliar wa ters and do not swim beneath diving boards 6 if a swimmer is in difficulty try to rescue him with a boat a rope or an extended oar do not swim to him unless it is absolutely necessary often the rescuer also becomes a victim 7 at public beaches swim near the lifeguarad stations 8 wait for at least an hour after meals before swimming 9 beware of undertows in rough water 10 do not swim during lightning storms 11 learn how to administer arti ficial respiration there is no social catastrophe more appalling than having peo ple take you up on one of those casual invitations you dont really moan to drop in and see us if youre up our way it hap pens to us every summer and on several occasions has almost destroyed our marriage you know how it is youre at a wedding or something in the city back in february dur ing the postnuptial conviviality you get to chatting with some cousins of tha bride a nice cou ple you hadnt met before they are charming and so are you youd love to see some more of them because they think youre so witty you insist that they come and see you for a week end in the summer your wife starts eyeing you with that look that means its time you left the party so while shes get ting her coat you make your new chums promise right there and then that theyll come and visit you you even make them pick a weekend then some friday evening in july youre mowing the lawn and sweating like a horse you have your shirt off and youre unshaven your wife has a cold- sore and has just washed her hair and put it up your kids have just come horns from play ing at the sandpit and are a charming composite of sweat and sand from head to toe and a big car pulls up at the house this stranger climbs out and ills wife and three kids climb out after him you know your wife is weep ing hot salty tears of pure rage upstairs after some draggly conversation during which you have offered them a cigarette and called him george and had him tell you his name is ernie you suggest a cold drink they accept with alacrity you check your stock it consists of a halfconsumed bottle of orange on the kitchen table with a fly in it twothirds of a bottle of stale bear thats been sitting in the refrigerator open for three days one warm bottle of soda water left over from christmas the vendors are closed so you send the kids to the corner for soma cold pop and sit around grinning at your guests in ami able agony mint shoiri amos demaxds social justice rood markings give protection one of the less understandable of driving follies is the disregard of road markings why hoes it happen every driver knows that markings are for the protection of all who use the roads why are they ignored so re peatedly other violations such as exces sive speed illegal or selfish parking presumably offer some advantage in the mind of the driver at least but it is difficult to understand the motivation of the motorist who habit ually stops half way over the cross walk or straddles lanes he can get nothing out of it apart from black looks horn blasts and an increased chance of getting into a hospital ward it is just as easy to conform to as it is to disregard the guidance of marking lines and very much safer the good driver observes all road directions without question he feels at ease driving at the correct speed in the correct position it is automa tic for him to keep within the pro tective boundary of the lane lines a good driver says the ontario safety league does not leave the comfort and protection of his lane without sufficient reason the poss ible saving of a couple of seconds is not a sufficient reason well here we are old bud dy he grins happily better late than never you have never seen the man before in your entire life theres a squeal from ihe old girl and you hear tha door slam behind you and her feet pattering up the back stairs the kids coma over and stand beside you wiping their noses with the backs of their hands and slaring at the strange kids who stare back with inter est its not until you ask them into the house and the man pulls a pile of suitcases out of the car that the full impact is felt the dreadful realization tint these clunks are here for the weekend and that they were probably invited by you in one of your more ctpanusive mo ments at some forgotten ball months ago your wife comes down a hit redeyed but looking pretty fair shes taken out her curlers and buried the coldsore under a quarterinch of makeup shes smiling with ferocious gaiety and says what a lovely surprise to have them drop in and when she walks past you to make a pot of tea she throws you a look like a knife with a faint glimmering of hopa you ask ernie if he likes to golf or would care togo fish ing in the morning never could see much in it says ern and your heart hits your heels ern ie it turns out is a curler and he spends the next 40 minutes of a hot summer evening telling you about the trophy his rink woulda won last winter if one of the boys haddena hadda noff night in the meantime your wife is congratulating elsie as she turns out to be on having such lovely children at this juncture there is- a wild scream outside and one of the lovely children runs in bleeding heavily from the nose which your small dau ghter has just punched lets just draw a veil over the rest of the weekend shall we except to mention that ernie had a nasty habit of tell ing in front of your wife about how le scrubs all the floors for elsie every saturday one of their lovely children got into some lovely poison ivy on the picnic you took them on and elsie turned a bit frigid after overhearing one of your kids pipe isnt she a silly lady forecast fcr office supplies business machines see the lyffville ydbime by olive aldous garrett car dane goes straight up called a gyroplane can adas car plane will fly late in september or early october this aircraft which will bo cheaper than a helicopter will be able to take off or land vert ically by exhausting compressed air through rotor blades to noz zles at the tips and no airfield is required the autogyro another name for it apparently is predicted as the safe cheap aircraft of the future it will eventually soil at around s10000 i guess it would be worth that to avoid that mad dash in heavy traftic to the cottage every weekend i hopa i wont be forecasting traffic in the sky next coming graham wafer crumbs pic shells and desserts made from graham wafers will be even more of a breeze now that 1 months the housewife will be able to buy the wafers already crum bled no rolling required they will be in a handy glass- inelined rcclosable bag to pre serve freshness and printed right on the bag will ba some new and unusual dessert re cipes on the milky way is nonwax paper cartons for milk and dairy byproducts these cartons are completely plasticcoated with alathon 16 polyethylene resin this super ior coating makes a more dur able and virtually loakproof car ton which is tamperproof com pletely scaled and has a con venient corner spout thay arc square and come in all sizes halfpint thirdquart pint quart ard twinpak halfgallon which consists of two quarts individ ually sealed and adhesively join ed these cartons will ba avail able in canada but not for some lesson for july 10 amos 205 818 golden text hate the evil and love the good and establish j u d g m c n t in the gate amos 515 the lesson as a whole approach to the lesson we learned last week that amos though originally from the southern kingdom was di vinely directed to speak his pro phecies to israel in the north and that his forthrightness had awakened theopposition of the false religionists there todays lesson brings us to the vary core of tha prophets burden gods demand for practical righteousness on the social level this was not an unreasonable demand but was in perfect consistency with the grace and truth that he had communicated to them they were the most privileged of all of earths paople and conse quently their morality andeth ics should have baan of the very highest order unto whomso ever much is given of him shall ba much required luke 12 48 light and privilege always bring with them a correspond ing amount of responsibility but the nation had turned this grace of god into license and their conduct was shot through with covetousness love of case and an abandon to selfish indul gence and over all this as snow would cover a garbage heap was a thin veneer of ex ternal religion wc must always remember that god demands truth in the inward parts and that he abhors hypocrisy fur thermore we must ba in right relationship with him before wc can ba in right relationship with our fellow men true religion and morality go hand in hand the heart uf tha lesson this salty ministry from amos makes it abundantly clear that we all as israel of old stand in deadly danger of substituting ceremonialism for holiness ex- tenal conformity for inward re ality there was an impressive parade of religion in the nation in the prophets day but this seemed to have almost no bear ing whatever upon their ethics their sins are scan as covetous ness cruel oppression bribery and a scorning of law and moral rectitude but they sought to screen this behind a religious fa cade they offered sacrifices kept feasts and sang religious songs on the sabbat and then went forth the next day to vic timize and oppress the poor at every opportunity this called fortli the vehement protest of god it is possible for us to become too doctrinaire too concerned witli the academic side of truth and not enough concerned about it3 pracical implications we need not only to understand but to obey if ye know these things said our lord hippy are ye if ye do them john 13 17 when we learn of the self- deception of gods people in amoss day perhaps we should ask is it possible that i have baan guilty of adopting the same attitude do i use my re ligious conformity to cover a dark and hollow interior have i bean truly born again and do i have the spirit of truth ac tuating ma from day to day how we nead to beware of paying more attention to the ex ternals of the christian ordin ances for example than to the realities tiiat lie behind these ordinances forms and frames are important enough provid ing they are expressive of spiri tual truths otherwise we are guity of pharisaism let us ever remember that the king dom of god is not meat and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the holy ghost rom 1417 by gordon donaldsoa lot ma say at the star that i love my neighbors all of them the curvy ones in their short- short shorts the hairy shirtless ones and their layers of suntan paint the energetic ones lurch ing around bandylegged behind their wheelbarrows the loud ones screaming like sea gulls over their hifi sets so when i talk about ways of finding privacy in ones own garden its rot because i want to get away from my neigh bours i just want somewhere i can think kind thoughts about them in peace an enormous garden thick with trees and bushes is the obvious answer but if you are tire retiring sort and your backyard is like mine the sire of a babys play pen and thick as tundra youll have to build your own barriers or work indoors all summer yesterday i helped build an erection which provides shelter from the wind soma shade and considerable privacy it is a two- sided basket weave boarding we dug three holes laborious ly with a port hoo diqeor and put in 8 ft 4 by 4 cedar posts projecting cii ft above ground then we ripsawed sheets of quarterinch plywood into ten- inch wide boards the size of the windbreak de pends of course on how many people want to sit bahmd it and also on the size of the yard if it is too big it begins to look too much like a spite fence we made this one s foot long on one side and g on the other after the posts were in we placed 2 by 2 strips upright mid way between each post the boards wore nailed on alternate sides of the posts eacli board was bent out and around the centre 2 by 2 to give the basket effect when the 2 by 2 was nailed in we cut it off top and bottom as is is not needed for vertical support square capping pieces of 1inch stock improve the tops of the posts the windbreak was soaked in clear wood preservative and stained a dull brown hes been here five summers and i havent seen him wet yet i dnt know whether the guys allargic to water or has simply forgotten how to swim would you mind diving into the water and pretending to be a porpoise my little son has taken up skin diving and wants to test his new underwater gun i hear hes a college man no not yale barbers glamour only is it true that if a girl isnt young and pretty you just go ahead and let her drown would you mind signing this autograph book for my little girl dont sign your own name sign mickey rooney thais who she thinks you are how do you life guards live through the winter by fishing through holes in the ice yes he does have a nice build but i hear it isnt really his yet he still owes charles atlas s1893 i think theres a shark out there would you mind swim ming out and taking a look me jane you tarzan water water every since they started allowing bikinis hare i havent seen hint look at the ocean once would you mind holding this shovel and pail while i take junior to tha comfort station i want that little brat arrest ed this very minute he deliber ately stepnad on my daughters sand castle every time you blow that whistle you wake my husband up do you have to play traffic cop all dav long my wife says thats a rus sian submarine out there i say its just a beer can what do you say family stuff would you mind smearing this sunburn lotion on my back i want to make my husband jealous my little boy dronnad his hot dog in the sand will you let him sit up there with you so hell stop cryinn tell ma are there any crabs on this baach besides my wife i mean he was the onlv accident case here last year he fell off his platform when a blonde busted her shoulder strap a record 21400003 tons that is the 193 output of canadian mines up 55 percent over 1958 big blue cloud canadians in 1950 smoked 33800000000 cig arettes ty iditffuille tribune estam1s1ied 16es a v nolar son publishers member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontario weekly newspapers association aahwj as eeonia mill ycajlc dv oiaw msmber of the audit bureau of circulations issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada 350 elsewhere is0 c ii hojji palter us thomas editor jas mdccjui wcrtii-