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pap 7 the stourtvtui tbbuhe thrafay sept b vn anything you can do i can do foster editorial should be no again last week stouffville municipal council spent some time discussing the pros and cons of who how and when a safety program should be conducted among public school children in town it appears that one of our local police officers is particularly interested in this work and the other members of the force are not so adept at this type of pro ject there is nothing new in this sit uation when the provincial police operated in town some years ago one officer on his own carried out a fine piece of work among the young people in markham village the same situation exists where not all members of the forcr have that par ticular way with the kids to put across the safety story what difference it makes wheth er one or all members of the force are active in the work we cannot see the bright spot is that at least one man has the interest to take hold of such a program at the present time nothing is being done what- holdup for safety ever safety attention this one man can instill in the youngsters is fine with us and we would think with most everyone in town this particu lar officer has already done a fine piece of work among an older group of boys so that we should know he is quite capable of handling the work we would imagine that in many municipalities if at least one officer would institute such a program he would be welcome with open arms and told to fire away they would wish him every success and offer whatever help they could in our opinion council is overly concerned about how the program is to be run who any of the private citizens are who will or will not help and what other organizations will give support as well as trying to rope in other police officers who possibly do not have the aptitude for this tvpe of work let us appreciate the fact that at least one man will shoulder the job take away the stumbling blocks and push him for ward not backward weve seen it happen too the deputyreeve of pickering township mrs jean mcpherson has suggested that the council give ser ious consideration to the purchase of a municipality owned and operated ambulance she introduced the sub ject at a regular meeting last week after witnessing firsthand an acci dent in which 3 small child was re quired to wait almost thirty minutes before transportation arrived to whisk her off to hospital we feel that the proposal has real merit but we know too that be fore a committee member raises a pencil to arrive at a dollars and cents estimate that the cost of such a project on a 12month basis will be staggering with this thought in mind we would suggest that perhaps a bor dering municipality should be ap proached to provide this service on a per call arrangement plus retainer fee we do not think it would be practical for any one town or town ship to operate an ambulance strictly within its own boundaries we have viewed many accident scenes the majority far worse than the one described by the pickering deputyreeve we have seen victims lying in a semiconscious condition for periods much longer than thirty minutes while relatives and friends stood helplessly by we contend that any reliance on private ambulance service for emergency road accident cases is pure folly who ever heard of a private police department or a private fire brigade the very- thought of such organizations is ridi culous by the same token private ambulances do not and cannot meet the needs of a modern motoring pub lic we do not believe that the dis continuance of private ambulance road calls would create an undue hardship on anyone we have learned on good authority that the operator has in many instances a most diffi cult time to collect his fee after the victim is wheeled through the emer gency hospital entrance a number of owners have already threatened to- withdraw their vehicles from pub lic service perhaps the deputyf eeves sug- gestion will start the ball rolling on something that in our opinion has been long overdue we feel however that for practical purposes they must look farther than their own borders not too clever the thieves who held up a lone woman operator of the cousins dairy milk bar at gormley last week may be laughing up their sleeves due to the successful accomplishment of their scheme but actually the youths had little between their ears but thin air had they stopped for five min utes to reconsider their plans they might have realized that an estab lishment of this type would not likely contain any huge amount of money on any given day or night of the week they might have considered too the risk involved in such a scheme for a paltry 60 two young men could if apprehended and convicted spend a life sentence behind bars pretty expensive money as we see it a world of turmoil the older generation believes the younger generation is going to the dogs this is not new it has been ever thus even since bible times what is new if you really want to get down and weep is that the younger generation is not alone read your metropolitan daily newspapers listen to your radio and watch your tv and youll find that the world we live in is characterized by as much confusion and conflict as any period that has ever been written up in our history books we may even have gone a little further in that never before have all continents been in turmoil at the same time look at africa asia europe south america you name it and theres turmoil big difference today is that any disturbance in whatever country has the potential of disrupting all the rest of the world we have instant communication among people we have terrific popu lation growth that has made the re sources of one country necessary to another undoubtedly the turmoil is engendered by the great upsurge among all peoples for a better deal in life even though they may take up false doctrines and destroy much that is good we cannot deny them this urge we dont know the outcome but the fact that freedom has survived every dark age through which man kind has passed is at least some in spiration for the future is the cow also doomed recent years have seen the al most total extinction of the horse as necessary farm equipment is the cow also doomed a recent dispatch from london states that a group of british scien tists have discovered a process for making milk without a cow the dispatch does not say if the syn thetic milk will produce cream and butter the british researchers based their experiments on the primary fact that the cow produces milk using all sorts of green stuff mostly leaves in her milk factory so they started with the same raw materials using pea pods cabbage leaves grass and weeds they produced milk but the product had some defects reports are that a greenish colour has been eliminated and the only remaining problem is to get rid of a slightly vegetable flavour it is rumored that the new product will be on the mar ket in a few months and will com pete in price with regular milk it seems possible nature in vented the cows process and man has invented many processes to rival natures effort but there is still hope for the cow we doubt if scien tists will succeed in producing syn thetic beefsteak iwiftti sugar and spice by bill smiley for parents only by nancy cleaver couragethe lovely virtue paul dont be a coward see how well tom can swim what i you do have a ducking you wont drown no parent wants his child to be a coward how often a father is annoyed at his sons hesitation to risk physical harm in outdoor activity he wants his boy to excell in sports and not be a sissy how can pauls father help his boy shaming him by his chums prowess does not work urging him against his will to swim or take a jump or go down the big slide will only meet with resistance pauls father will have to give him encouragement and build up the boys confidence gradually a little praise is a help so long as paul is making a real effort and showing some im provement long before a child reaches school age parents are puzzled as how to help them to be courageous there are only two fears which seem to come into the world with an infant the rest are acquired babies are startled by the sensation of falling and by loud noises small children show fear of various things the dark ani mals thunder and lightning sometimes they have bad dreams about wild animals or burglars one of the best ways parents can give a child practical help is by listening to him while he talks about the things which scare him at bedtime when ht is feeling secure and has mummy all to himself often a youngster will confide his fears the fact of bringing his trou bles out into the open often make them seem not nearly so terrifying parents should not use fear to make such a child behave with threats such as if you do that again the big policeman will catch you or the bogey man will get you if you are bad too severe physical punish ment is another basis for lack of courage it is true that a certain amount of fear is necessary for safety a child should be taught the danger of being run down on a busy street or of being burned if he plays with matches he should be trained to stop look and listen before he steps on the road and he should bo shown proper fire precau tions but there are many unneces sary fears which some people are burdened with all through life such as fear of water the strong arm method of taking a child out in a boat into the deep and throwing him in to make him learn to swinm may seem to work with a few youngsteis but with a great many others it creates a real and lasting terror of the water a cmld must not be shamed or criticized for being afraid rather let him feel that fear is a natural thing which many children experience but it can be mastered be reassuring but casual if he fears a natural phenomenon such as thunder and lightning perhaps he has caught this from your own attitude together you might find out in the book of knowl edge or a childs science ref erence book what happens dur ing a storm small children should not be allowed to view f lightening tv scenes of violence especially just before bed time it is best not to allow a child who be comes frightened easily to watch tv alone or in the dark he may need reassurance to restore his courage as understanding grows fear lessens j m barrie has called courage the lovely virtue parents can help their children to face their fears and over come them in this atomic age when fear of widespread destruction is so common mothers and fathers have need for spiritual re sources to face life with seren ity they also mustdo all in their power to work for peace for their own family and for homes throhout the whole world scholarship available to youna farmer the nuffield travelling schol arships are again being offered to young farm people in cana da the ontario federation of agriculture announced in toron to last week and applications from interested and qualified young people are invited by the ofa the scholarships pro vide for six months of expense paid study of british agricul ture under the sponsorship of the nuffield foundation in bri tain each yer since 1951 two ycung canadian farmers one from eastern and one from western canada have made this tour the objective of the nuf field founnaiion in providing these scholarships is to pro- motea better understanding be tween farmers in canada and britain and to afford others sunday school lesson golden text so buut we the wall for the people had a mind to work neh 46 approach to the lesson in recent lessons we learned that god raised up a remnant of jews to return to jerusalem after the seventy years captivi ty to rebuild their homeland pioneering this movement were zerubbabel a royal judaean prince and ezra a godly priest through their leadership the temple and its associated wor ship were reestablished the city still lay in desolation however and a coherent civil government was lacking on hearing about this condition nehemiah a pious servant in the faraway persian court vol unteered to go to jerusalem to ipad in a movement of civil re covery not only did his royal master grant him permission but he even appointed nehemiah governor and provided him with a troop of cavalry for the journey through nehemiahs faith and courage this formidable task was victoriously accom plished the heart of the lesson distinguished for his piety energy and courage nehemiah was one of gods chosen lead ers for the consolidation of the restored jewish commonwealth arriving in jerusalem some twelve years or so after the close of the events recorded in era this energetic man was marked by a deep sense of mis sion he had a mandate not only from the persian monarch but also from the king of kings and through his vigerous lead ership the city was rebuilt and the civil administration re stored the rebuilding of the city wall was swiftly accomplished in less than two months despite the many obstacles raised by the hostile samaritan colonists and their allies this hostility took on various forms but as each crisis arose nehemiah met it resolutely and with fresh faith in the lord his god the troubles were not all external however but also arose from amid the ranks of the jews themselves this was harder to bear the leader however was a man of prayer and of wise counsels best of all he lived what he preached thus clothing his exhortations by a holy ex ample such a one is of in estimable value in times of crisis this week my wife and i had an anniversary no w didnt celebrate it we just had it there are no celebrations when these milestones loom up out of the domestic fog we merely observe them with a mixture of wonder awe and incre dulity sixteen years of wedded bliss hah sixteen years of shar- ing bed and board with a strange woman id never even laid eyes on until i was 25 as the kids say how crazy can you get into each lift some rain must fall as the old song puts it but it didnt forecast a fullscale storm it was raining hard the day we were married and its been thundering and light ning ever since one thing about our marriage though we started off on the righ foot and weve never been in step since yes we were well organized financially secure and emoti onally mature none of this rushing into a hasty illconsldered poorly matched union that we see so often among the young people today everything was well planned and carefully pre pared before we leaped into the quicksand we weie just starting fourth year of college i said lets get married she said all right we dug up a minister and a few mouiners and plighted the good old troth we then jumped into a borrowed car and took off for a honeymoon in a borrowed cottage where we lived on love and borrowed money and when we returned there was none of this business of moving in with the folks no id rented a smart little apart ment where my bride and i were going to live just like real married people the nighbourhood was a little on the shabby side just a block from the redlight district but it was only 10 a week i made sure we arrived after dark and she didnt even notice the poolroom next door i wish i could say that i carried her over the threshold id planned to but i couldnt find the dam key and thera followed our first fight one of those brief and bitter alterca tions that have been so frequent in the subsequent 16 years as i have looked for various keys in front of various doors all over the country peihaps this incident took the keen edge off her thrill at entering our fiist home at any rate when the crumby old landlady finally let us in the bude didnt stand theie and squeal with delight as id expected she took one swift glance around threw me the first of several thousand murderous looks and burst into tears i didnt understand her then and ive been trying since that september day 16 years ago with no more success that was a perfectly good room with a pull out bed a tworing gas burner and a bathroom just up on the next floor and down the corridor a little way and ive been spoiling that girl ever since t we have been through a lot together in the ensuing years better and worse richer and poorer sickness and health chil dren and mortgages and youve only to take a look at us to know whicn one has thrived on it ive lost quite a bit of my hair a good manv of my teeth most of my illusions and all the arguments ah ive picked up is a small pot a heap of obligations and a hunted look the old lady hasnt lost a thing she still has the slim figure the fine dark eyes the dark hair the white teeth and all the rest of her good looks and shes picked up two children a joint chequing account and a maddening air of infallibility it isnt fair however thats the way things have gone and im not complaining as the old proverb has it a man works from sun to sun but a woman sits around watching television no i dont objpet to having worked my head to the bone for the last 16 years to keep her and her children in style ive written all that off as experience what gets me is not the past but the future the know ledge that i will have to live until death do us part with a woman who is not only better looking and smarter than i am but knows it will travel to britain all ex penses paid probably about february and will spend 6 months visiting practical farm operations touring research centres and generally gathering a broad knowledge of british farming techniques the suc cessful candidates will be re quired to make their own ar rangements for operation of their farms while on this tour of study upon their return they should be prepared to share their experiences and im pressions with others interested parties should get in touch with the office of the ontario federation of agricul ture at 409 huron st in to ronto as soon as possible as the deadline for receiving com pleted applications is nov 1 1962 application forms arc available from the ofa upon request and full particulars on the scholarships and the type of information that should ac company such an application will be forwarded immediately final selection will be made by a national selection committee previous ontario winners of nuffield travelling scholar ships are donald small of elgin county m 1952 mac sprowl of halton county in 1954 ken ferguson of lambton county in 1956 j e brubacher of lin coln county in 1957 and har vey homan of hastings county in 1959 thi is an excellent opportun ity for some deserving young farm people to gain valuable experience and it is one that should be sought after by many who arc adequately qualified contact the ontario federation cf agriculture 409 huron st immediately the final deadline is nov 1 1962 those leftovers for supper usually possess the saving grace of having been blessed before halfpast teen valuable practical experience through actual onfarm study of british farming conditions applicants in ontario should with an opportunity to gain br between the ages of 30 and 35 and they should be active farmers with every intention of continuing in the industry the two winners of the 1963 awards ip iouffmc tribune established l a v nolan son publishers member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontario weekly newspapers association aatbor1sd u tcontfdafta mad fmtofikt otpt ottawa member of the audit bureau of circulations issued every thursday at stouffville onl in canada 350 elsewhere 450 noun pubfaker ias thomas edrfo us mtkean admfca