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pi 1 the stouffylue tjwm twsf my tl 196 editorial hands of time the hands of time were tem porarily turned back in stouffville on sunday morning when the cnr station was transformed into a hive of milling persons it has been many many years since the local depot was the centre of such attraction dozens of men women and children armed with cameras of all shapes and sizes thronged the platform area to catch a glimpse of the steampowered giant none was disappointed the train crew cooperated in every way and proudly paraded their gleaming jug- gernaught to the accompanying rhythm of clicking shutter in spite of the socalled beauty built into to days streamlined diesels they will spring comes to suburbia turned back never match the magnificent gran deur of the oncepopular smoke- belching locomotives that ruled the rails not too many years ago there was a touch of sadness connected with sundays show the engine no 6167 although the object of many admiring glances could well be headed for the melting pots like dozens of its forerunners its day of practical usefulness are apparently numbered like the spitfire aircraft the model t ford or the three- wheeled bicycle it too must bow to the fickle whims of modern man whatever may be its fate a part of some disheveled scrap pile or a monu mental masterpiece on may 7th as least it was king for a day more cooperation needed riledup ratepayers and embat tled boards have set a scene of gen eral disagreement and dissension in many rural public school sections throughout the immediate area with in recent weeks it is perhaps regrettable that major school matters in a community cannot be settled in an amiable man ner but we would point out that such friction is by no means uncommon among even the most docile inhabit ants we would suggest that ratepay ers should attempt to acquire all the facts concerning a specific issue and weigh them carefully before they lash out with verbal criticisms against the board members trustees are human and subject to error but for the most part they have a keener insight into a sections school require ments than the majority of lay resi dents for this reason alone their proposals and suggestions should be respected a trustee through his election to office is granted a certain degree of authority where a board is con fronted with a problem of consider able magnitude it is usually the practice to obtain the approval of the ratepayers at a public meeting this may be a most democratic procedure but it does not always provide the board with a satisfactory solution we would suggest that the trustee members should be in complete com mand of the situation and embark on one of two courses 1 act in dependently where the school act permits 2 conduct a legal ballot vote on one question and one question only never yet have we seen a satis factory settlement arise from a public gathering where the residents are faced with two or three alternatives the meeting usually ends in utter confusion having witnessed this on a number of occasions we can cer tainly sympathize with the trustees who simply take the bull by the horns and make their move later to bear the brunt of public abuse which is sure to follow rural life on sunday sunday just past was set aside ns rural life sunday to focus atten tion on the importance of agriculture in our national life and the part play ed by the church in the lives of rural people frank mclntyre publisher of the dundalk herald has some inter esting comment on this special ob servance mr mclntyre says anyone who attends a rural church on sunday is likely to come away with a good feeling toward the church and its congregation there you will see mothers and fathers with perhaps four or five wellgroomed children in some cases the family will have done several hours hard work before setting out for church as in many other phases of na tional life a big change is taking place in the rural church in some sections of ontario because of a shortage of ministers indifference on the part of the people andor changes in population a number of rural churches are being closed the same thing is going on all over the province and dominion rural congregations are being urged to join with others because of the inadequate number of ministers and the demands made by increased popu lation more particularly in the urban centres railways surrender so people must pay the threat of a nationwide rail way strike is over and the ending is most curious and disturbing most threatened strikes end in a compro mise of some sort between the part ies but in this case it was complete surrender the canadian pacific and canad ian national railways have kept up a stubborn resistance for nearly a year they have been going in the red continually and have pointed out that the 03 million wage hoist could not be handled the presidents of both lines have explained the matter bluntly that if the railway costs con tinue to rise the public will not use the service and as a result there will be fewer and fewer jobs to say that the rail lines had grossly underestimated their ability to pay all during these months would definitely not be understandable the executives of both railways are loo experienced and competent for such a mistake neither would they take orders from the government to sur render if it were not for one thing the only plausible explanation is that the government has assured the lines of enough extra revenue to pay the extra wages where is the government going to get this extra revenue the an swer to that is simple it will come from you and me and the rest of canadas taxpayers as one of the- taxpayers this writer is under no illusion as to who will pick ijp the cheque for the unions victory subsidies such as this have be come a favourite remedy the las few years as unions have pushed the scale higher and higher it is easy to see that the public treasure is to be raided once more whats happened to arbor day what has happened to arbor day perhaps it is still being ob served in some rural schools a generation ago it was the cus tom on the first friday in may weather permitting for the school children to clean up the school yard prepare and plant flower beds and generally clean up the premises in some cases too a trip to the woods was part of the arbor day program in recent years arbor day seems to have faded even from these rural parts one wonders at times if the pendulum has not swung iiv the opposite direction towards an ob session for the destruction of that which is already growing lif touffmilc erilnutr established iju a v nolan son publishers member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontario weekly newspapers association atrortz4 j meadtliu aatl ttmutlc drpl oil member of the audit bureau of circulations issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada 350 elsewhere sl50 c h noun rufow us thouas uda us mckean aaertmn waraaawjiskwrrbs parents only faultfinding avoid it like the imaguk praise is sweet in anyones ears and disapproval is unpleas ant children blossom in the at mosphere of sincere apprecia tion for their best achievement in any field but what happens when there is constant fault finding in the home an ultracritical attitude to one another can act like a poi son in a home the french have a proverb a good husband should be deaf and a good wife blind in the marriage cere mony the two contracting par ties take each other for better or for worse it is no excuse for blunt criticism for either of them to complain my part ner is worse than i took him or herl for parents can best reform the faults in their children by giv ing them good examples to fol low in their own lives a court eous mother who is considerate is likely to have a polite daugh ter when reproof must be giv en if at all possible this should be done in private a child should feel his mothers or fa thers love and their faith in him that he will outgrow his fault and in time follow a wiser course jeans parents were disturbed by her complete domination by nan a new and very bossy friend instead of criticizing this acquaintance and pointing out nans aggressive possessive ways the parents allowed jean to bring her home to meals and spend her leisure with her but they did encourage their daugh ter to have other chums too before long of her own accord jean tired of nans dictatorship when children enter adoles cence because underneath they arc unsure of themselves they arc very resentful of critical re marks teenage children are apt to explode when their ac tions are questioned or they may go off by themselves and brood over their cruel trca- ment tact a friendly ap proach and the desire to find some reasonable middle ground help to maintain a happy re lationship between fathers and mothers and their almost grown children even the discussion on such difficult points as the use of the family phone and the hour of coming in at night nasd not deteriorate into fault-find- b3sbb8801 sugapv and spice by bill smiley sisters and brothers can be extremely bold in their remarks to each other they will accept mutual criticism which would be most unpalatable from ad ults nevertheless too constant criticism can produce much un- happiness a mother and father on vacation found their son con tinually pointing out his two sisters faults the girls quick ly retaliated by telling him his failings this led to noisy bick ering in a family council the par ents helped the children to see that they were making each other miserable and they were fast becoming a quarrelling household the children agreed to line each maker of a critical remark a nickel the tine mon cy in the critical bank on the table was to be used to buy a favourite food treat they had fun over this ant the criti cism fund never amounted to very much the bank disap peared off the table before long as soon seek roses in de- comber ice in june befor you trust in critics wrote lord byron and coleridge once de clared in irritation critics this sunday is mothers day and sentimental old thing that i am i get all choked up when i think of all the mothers in the world especially the un wed mothers for whom we should all have a special thought on this happy occasion just think of all tl wonder ful mothers celebrated in song anil story the first one of course was live we dont know too much about her as a mother except that she got us kicked out of the garden of eden mid weve had to work for a living ever since and she did make rather a botch of bringing up those boys of hers cain and abel one of them clobbered his brother and ever since people have been go ing around bleating in a most tiresome manner am i my brothers keeper then there was that greek mother clytoninestra she was rather a lively old skirt who married her own son after he grew up and killed his dad jic was so annoyed when he found out that his wife was not only old enough to be his mother but was his mother that he is reported to have plucked out both his eyes and handed them to her it was from this modest be- ginning that the delightful cus tom developed of giving mother a little token of your esteem on mothers day in roman times there were some dear little old mothers too their only fault was an inclination to spoil their kids thats what happened to nero when he was little he was al ways playing with matches in stead of smacking him his mo ther thought it vis sort of cute well you know what kids are next thing she knew he was emperor and tried to burn the whole city of rom history is full of these de voted mothers who played such a splendid par in moulding the little minds of people like henry viii jack the ripper and ad- olph hitler in many cases the role that a good mother has played has not been given its proper due for example we hear a lot about lohann sebastian bach the composer hut what do wc know of his wife that bach had something like twentytwo children modern mothers who have a child or two entered in the lo cal music festival think they have a lot to put up with im agine what mrs bach went through with all those little devils hammering all daj on the clivichord in the field of literature here are sonic tender motherfigures also seme of them were step mothers like snow whites old lady and cinderellas these are people who will go a step further than your own mother in trying to get rid of you but we have real mothers too theres mother hubbard who wore those long black dresses later inflicted by the missionaries on the girls in the south seas so her dog fed up board routine cmfwypshrdlcm board routine would not take a bite out of her leg and how about that old mother who lived in the shoe and had so many children because she didnt know what to do many mothers have been made immortal in song theres that jolly old trout in the lilt ing english folk song who has been urged for generations to get her knees up mother brown and theres mother machrce whose doleful charms are howled mournfully by the irish on every pretext and of course theres that grand old song dedicated to your mother and mine m is for the mess you made of my kids o is for the old and so on bui enough of this flattery every mother knows that deep down clown around the stom ach she is truly appreciated by her children they love her dearly as long as she doesnt interfere with what they want to do m and to prove their devotion and show how much she meant to them in their formative years theyll go to great pains to see that she gets into as fine a nursing home as she can af ford when she gets old i could go on anil on about mothers because i think they are a good thing when youre very small they are excellent at kissing away tin- pain when you fall and bump yourself during school years they arc handy for getting you up in the morning in easy stages and for borrowing money af ter youre married they make firstrate cheap babysitlers no the world wouldnt be the same without mothers and i thought that a few words like this right from the heart would remind you mothers what an important nay vital role you have played in the lives of great men mackenzie king for example is said to have loved his mother even more than his dog so a very happy mothers day to every one of you murderers tjiey were efer- ring to literary critics but a person does not need to be a writer tot resent being picked to pieces there is little which is constructive and less which is encouraging in fault firding avoid it iike the plague magic markers 79c and si 10 the latest development in marking devices the stouffville tribune report from parliament by hon mike starr mp ontario riding i had the privilege last week of meeting president kennedy in his office in the white house and griefly discussing the can- adaus economic situation with this dynamic man with us secretary of la bour arthur goldberg we chat ted with the president in his office and on the white house lawn where his two children were being taken for an airing under the vigilant eye of a white house guard where president eisenhow ers putting green used to be are now the sandbox and swings of the children the president was in good form and looking forward to his ottawa visit on may icth when he will be a guest with mrs kennedy at rideau hall the residence of the governor- general the major pan of the wash ington visit was occupied with discussions with us labour officials headed by the energetic and affable secretary goldberg on wednesday the 2gth fol lowing luncheon at blair house we spent most of the afternoon in discussion with top officials of the us labour department i was naturally pleased with the information they gave us to the effect that according to their figures canada was coming out of the recession more quickly than the united states the discussions were long in tricate and detailed many of the measures brought forward by the government in canada to stabilize the economy and provide jobs are now in process under the kennedy administra tion on the very day we were in washington the congress ap proved the presidents depress ed areas bill this was compar able to legislation which parlia ment had already dealt with a month previously one of the things that stand out about washington is of course the reverence for his tory which one finds on every side at blair house which is used as the presidents official guest house we saw portraits of famous figures of the past the historic old mansion has been pretty well preserved in almost its original condition it was at blair house a few years ago while the white house was being remodelled that an attempt was made upon president truman by a group of fanatics washington is considered a southern city and the change in temperature was of course quite noticeable leaving otta wa by department of transport aircraft in a storm of snow and sleet and arriving in washing ton in balmy spring sunshine with the scent of cherry blos soms in the air was an exper ience on thursday morning dis cussions were resumed with secretary goldberg and his stall and all ramifications of the cur rent manpower situation in ca nada and the united states were thoroughly canvassed it was necessary for the sec retary to absent himself for a short time on account of his presence being required at the congress one difference between their system and ours is that mem bers of their cabinet are not re quired to sif in the legislature and are appointed not elected in canada of course before a person can become a member of the government he must first be elected to parliament they do however confer with congressional leaders on mat ters relating to legislation in ottawa this week prepara tions arc continuing for the presidents visit the prepara tions are under the jurisdiction of the government hospitality committee it is understood thai some 300 newspapermen will be present for the event president kennedy will speak to a joint session of the house and senate on may 17th this is president kennedys first visit 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