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g 2 the stouffvitle tgjbuhe tw thnh 15 ml jediiariae roaring game getting big interest at least equalling or even sur passing a dwindling interest in hockey has been the surge of inter est which has arisen in the game of curling big stimulus locally has been the new rolling hills rink but added to this has been a new national interest in the game and the publicity given to the recent national cham pionship matches at kitchener some from here have even driven down to watch these big games and this has added stimulus to the chit chat at home and in the lounge rooms at rolling hills time was when curling was con sidered to be primarily a players game but now from the comfort of a glasspartitioned lounge the bar room of the swank city clubs or just an easy chair in ones own living room the game is watched with in terest by thousands throughout the country and certainly no game leaves more room for secondguessing what better way to gain interest than by audience participation you hear it every week from behind the glass wrong ice didnt sweep hard enough missed the broom shouldnt have tried that shot in the first place he was light he was heavy then too there are the cos tumes the big colourful sweaters and the glengarry hats theres the vig orous sweeping the suspense just before a rock slips by a guard or is wrecked by it and the roar of th skip bring her in sweep build up in interest in various games from time to time is interest ing to watch and interesting to see that here in stouffville many have been struck by the bug as well a3 all across the country calling their bluff a magazine firm recently hauled two local residents into court in an effort to collect an overdue account the defendants in this case were a husband and wife similar to the many householders who are constant ly plagued by doortodoor magazine sales personnel they were given the under no obligation pitch accord ing to the evidence and like so many innocent victims they verbally agreed to accept the free for nothing offer pretty soon ilhe magazine vol umes started to arrive the lady of the house possibly a little more shrewd than her husband refused to accept delivery at the post office the literature was either thrown out or returned when the donations had finally run their course the wouldbe customers were presented with a sizeable account when they refused to pay the bill they were summoned into court the interesting part of the whole affair was that the plain tiff the magazine company never even showed up in the court room to present their case the action was dismissed these people had called the bluff and had won others less fortunate would possibly have paid up rather than contest the issue ambulance service needed there has been considerable dis cussion recently within the ranks of markham village council concerning the suggested withdrawal of ambu lance service presently operated by mr w j dixon this must not be permitted to happen we would con tend that an ambulance is equally as essential to this area as fire pro tection and perhaps should be sup ported in a like manner we would suggest that the municipalities who benefit from this service should cer tainly be given an opportunity to judicial speed last week the richmond hill liberal took up the cause for some judicial speedup to which we must surely add our amen hon kelso roberts attorneygeneral of on tario has recently indicated that ma jor changes in the courts is pending changes which will contribute to much speedier operations it would seem to the ordinary layman that one of the main causes for the long backlog of cases are the continual adjournments cases are laid over week after week and each weeks court seems to accomplish discuss the matter before any action is taken by the owner we can certainly appreciate mr dixons stand on the issue too often we suspect that persons who would pay a million dollars to acquire the services of an ambulance at an acci dent scene are loathe to spend ten dollars following their arrival at hos pital it is ridiculous to expect the ambulance owner to shoulder this expense if we wish to share the service we must help to cover the cost up needed little in lowering this long list of de layed hearings it is pointed out that additional judges to handle the everincreasing number of cases would do much in lessening delays certainly the pres ent speed with which cases are dis patched is most frustrating a further amendment concerns juvenile and family courts which would have fulltime trained judges and costs would be apportioned among the municipalities served by such judges so that not all would be borne by one municipality television commercials canadian tv the operation of which is the subject of so many complaints wont be hurt too much if we add still another complaint to the long list like so much of the public we are always irked at having to pay through the nose for this government subsidized interference in private enterprise making us very free to criticize however the beef we would like to add to t nis list is why are the commercials always presented so loudly a program may be interrupted to permit a commercial or several of them immediately the voice is raised to a high pitch and if there is a small orchestra it almost raises the roof the listener is glad sometimes to get off his chair and turn the control down surely the same volume of sound used in presenting the program should be good enough for presenting the commercials merely making louder noise than the other fellow is not a good selling pitch plan ahead for vour easter lily jeaster may still seem a long y away but now is the time tej tend to your potted bulbs raise the temperature of easter hflcs to 65 dcg f advise horti- cqhurists with the ontario dcpt ol agriculture during growth provide plenty of light and a moist soil until the small buds start to form light spraying with a syringe is beneficial af ter buds set moisture around them may cause rot when the plants are six inches high feed them with a complete soluble fertilizer or a light nitrogen fer tilizer such as ammonium sul- dhate every two or three weeks when the buds are just vis ible the plant requires 5 weeks to flower if grown at 60 deg f when the buds start to bend ever it will bloom in two weeks 11 the plants are late raise the temperature to 65 or even 70 de grees avoid excessive temperatures or too dry an atmosphere as this is liable to cause blasting or drying of the unopened flow ers splitting of the flower may occur if there is a severe check in growth ihe jstouffmilr ffiriimttr established 1us a v nolan son publishers member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontario weekly newspapers association ailfeeru4 m m mail posuoc d9l ouip member of the audit bureau of circulations issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada 350 elsewhere 450 c noun pumifc us thomas etv un mfrtijmo well ive decided people over 40 shouldnt vsh socks for parents only by nancy cleaver your child and canadas history history ot ones own country should be one of the most fas cinating subjects taught at school but is it once the early period of exploration and the story of new france has been covered far too many schol ars are frankly bored by text books heavily laden with politi cal details why is this perhaps one rea son is that boys and girls are more interested in colorful in dividuals in the stiuggle to make a living in the early days than in organization or the growth of responsible govern ment teachers do the best they can with large classes and often with uninspired textbooks but encouragement from home par ticularly in this field would be useful fathers and motheis can le- enforce the work of the schools and do their part in making their child aware and proud of our nations past the public library is a wonder ful place for children to find out more about the men and the groups of people who have had a part in building our country here they can borrow biogra phies or stories with a historical background written especially for them of those who lived in the period which they are study ing in the story of mankind h w van loon wrote the his tory of the world is the iccord of a man in quest of his daily bread why not try this ap proach to inciease curiosity about our countrys past let your child ask the childrens lib rarian for assistance in finding a book about fur trading and the rule of the hudsons bay com pany in the wesl or about the seafaring atlantic provinces in their famous boatbuilding days pioneer life on a farm in on tario is pictured by such writ ers as catherine parr traill or susan moodie books on home- steading on the prairies such as nellie meclungs clearing in the wesl or kathleen stranges with the west in her eyes may be found in the canadiana section older pupils will find nan shipleys new book whis tle on the wind ryorson with its selling the building of the hudson bay railway fascinat ing family expeditions to historic points can be leisurely and en joyed by everyone know some thing about why the place you plan to visit is significant be fore you make your visit take a camera along and keep your snapshots as a souvenir history is not just something that is made up of what words worth called old unhappy far off things and battles long ago it is continually being fashioned here and now canada during the last decade has admitted more than one and a half mil lion immigrants and has become the second largest immigrant re ceiving country in the world the many different ways our ethnic groups celebrate holidays is a fascinating study the festivals of a country re flect the character of its people and a book which makes history come alive in the early days and in the present too is chris tmas in canada by barber and mc phcrson dent here is a charming gift or the family well education week is all over for another year thank goodness and we educators can get back to the job of leading horses to water without being urged on by fervent articles in the newspapers and dull panels on television its strange education used to be considered the most bor ing topic in the world now it is a conversational gambit that will throw any gathering into a verbal donnybrook before you can splutter egerton ryerson chief reason is that every ad ult who got past grade 4 is an expert on the subject everyone has at least one cure for the ills of the school system people who used to be beaten mercilessly by their teacheis for pure sloth will sit back there with a big fat drink in their hand and tell you earnestly that todays kids are laziorn hound dogs women who couldnt stagger out ot grade 9 because they were so absorbed in joe and who quit as soon a they were 16 in order to marry him will declare vehemently thai they all go steady and think about nothing else but boys men who spend hours brag ging about what hellions they were at school scream for everything short of a royal commission to investigate when a teacher gives their johnny a dirty look after he has tried to live up to the old mans reputa tion then there are all the people who think that the job of the school is not to educate people but to teach them how to make a living the bigger the better this being so why do they leach them poetry and latin and all that junk they can never use im not adopting a holier-than- thou attitude toward all these people before i wandered from the elysian fields of the weekly newspaper into the blackboard jungle i too sat on the veranda of my glass house and fired rocks at the system i still think there are many flaws in it many gaps in the process and a good deal of be wilderment about the direction in which its going but i am also aware of some of the ob stacles in the way of making it perfect mm perhaps the biggest of these lies in the materials used in manufacturing a product of high quality can be turned out if certain procedures are fo bookshelf which lends itself to being read aloud our first canadian christmas by a hun garian dr nadinc hradsky is a particularly delightful sketch this is the kind of book which will give your child glimpses in to our colorful past and an in sight into life today in canada lowed obtaining the best ma terials using the best equip ment and following the most efficient methods but in education the unit coming off the production line is made of flesh and blood it breathes and thinks and fears and lehels and laughs you cant mold or press it into the desired standard shape and size cram it into a package and ped dle it through an expensive ad vertising sales campaign and its a jolly good thing you cant because theie aie plenty of people in the world who would like to do just that in the big commie countries they are trying to do it right now they are having apparent suc cess and thats why everybody panics whenever the newspapers announce that the russians are now turning out 22 or what ever per cent more engineers than we are id like fo make a little proph ecy muir this down and pass it along to your children here it is those production line educa tion systems we fear are cur rently sowing the seeds ot their own destruction m m m why thats easy look at what happened to the western world when they began educat ing us peasants now we think were as good as anybody we topple governments we criticize kings we demand more money for less woik we thumb our col- letive noses in the general direc tion of authority what do you get when you start educating the masses you get a jot of smart alecs or smart ivans or smart wongs mark my words one of lliee days their leaders will wake up to il but it will be too late when all those educated com mies get sick of the same old ideas and start looking around for some new ones therell be a tremendous explosion you mant put cvciybody in a con centration camp m m and with these few confusing thoughts let us say farewell to education week as it slowly sinks out of sight for another year and let us spare a tear for my son hugh who chose this of all weeks to come home with his worst report of the year many people could retire com fortably on what their exper ience has cost them floral designs weddings funerals corsages a specialty grahame w hudson 28 obrien ave stonffvlll phone slniifrville 532w gods love for the whole worldtheme of world day of prayer marian well- what an inspiring theme cho sen for our meditation who can measure its length and breadth its height and depth men wo men and children of every color race and creed clad in colorful native costumes flash vividly before cur mental vision today japan china india indonesia and egypt are no longer vague and unreal countries their statesmen and scholars greet us on television in our homes their voices tell us about their people their problems and their way of life the day has long since passed when we could live in isolation ignoring what was happening in faroff lands secure in the thought that it could not affect us that day perished with the coming of the atom bomb and the intercontinental missile to day trouble breaks out in the congo and the un calls for canadian doctors nurses and technicians canadians face dan ger in berlin on the arabisrael border and in laos trying to preserve the peace of the world whence will come the next call we do not know we cannot say but we can be sure that cana dians will be rushed to the dan ger spot true today we know more than ever befoie about people in faroff lands we know how they look what they eat and how they dress but this does not necessarily mean that we love them indeed we may even fear or hate some of them as mass propaganda fills us with stoiies of their atrocities or of how they are threatening our way of life gods love is for the whole woild but how can we love those whom we have not seen and who may be plan ning our destruction the womens interchurch council believes that the best way to learn to love people as they are is to become involved with them in their pioblems to further this objective is the pur pose of the world day of pray er by planning this day we hope to unite all christian wom en of canada in a fellowship of prayer and action which will link them to similar groups of praying women around the world that together we may share in the world mission of the church which means seek ing for the lost and the unlovely how do we most effectively share in this world mission we believe our united efforts can reach more people through aiding in the production and distiibution of christian litera ture a writer has said no other agency can penetrate so deeply abide so persistently witness so daringly and influ ence so irresistably as the printed page the world today is involved in a war of ideas thu warfare i hottest in those newly awaken ed underdeveloped countries where we have been helping to make the people literate the newly literate are eager for books literature is the greatest force we have in this war of ideas despite all the propaganda poured forth from radios tele vision from both sides of the iron curtain the communists still believe the pen is mightier than the sword the moscow foreign language puglishing foreign language publishing house pumps out more than 4 books a ear into india alone for its 72 million potential read ers literature has played an es sential role in the growth of great religions would the chris tian church have survived with out the gospels and epistles judaism depended on its books of the law islam on its koran confucianism shaped the course of history in china with its four books buddhists travell ing from india to evangelise china carried along their sacred classics free people can acquire a sufficient knowledge of the cul ture and literary style of a lang uage other than their own to make their tianslation effective such works seldom touch the heaits of the readers the committee on world lit eracy and christian literature gathers together in various cen tres christian editors writeis and potential writers from many lands with some of this contin ents most experienced editors all woik enthusiastically together their varied back grounds lend colour and interest to discussion and mutual criti cisms of their work result in new inspirations and writing skill each returns to his own corner of the woild fired with new understanding which he is eager to share with fellow- christians through the printed page christians tend to feel proud and a little selfsatisfied when we hear that the holy bible has been published in 600 new languages during this cen tury yet there still remain many languages into which not even one gospel has been trans lated many other very worth while projects are being plan ned for india hong kong for- most west africa tamil south india and the carib bean fi iday march 9 was set asid as a day of intercession let us pray that the hearts ot moie christians may be touched so they may receive a new under standing of gods love for 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