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w 1 thf stootrvllle rawrff twfy lp1 i 196j next monday next monday april sth will be canadians time of decision the date of one of the most important elec tions in canadian history most canadians are hoping that a majority government is at the helm following next weeks votecasting however present indications do not point to any party coming out with a clear mandate responsibility for this state of affairs can be taken by the lack of leadership at the national level and the divided nature of the canadian electorate this writer has divided opinions as well opinions both for and against mr diefenbaker and mr pearson prime minister diefenbaker had a real opportunity in 1958 to come up with some forceful leader ship he had an overwhelming ma jority and while much good legisla tion came out of the house there was no positive direction by the govern ment the public reaction to this was to reduce the pc majority on the second try mr diefenbaker again failed in his campaign artful politics has been played to the full the prime minister says the bomarcs and other nuclear carriers acquired dur ing the conservative regime are no good but in the next breath he says he is ready to negotiate for stock piling across the border for the event of an attack he says the budget was ready to bring before the house but on the day of dissolution he asked for more time to prepare the budget he talks more and more of legisla- lawyer mccallum when solicitor jas mccallum announced several weeks ago that he had obtained inside information per taining to a pending change in the provincial assessment act there were many including this writer who felt he was merely delaying the dropping of the axe now it appears certain that mr mccallum was bas ing his suggested postponement of the pickering twp revision court on fact and not a pipe dream mr t d tommy thomas mpp for the oshawa riding speak ing before a public gathering of the rural ratepayers association last week agreed that amendments that would improve the position of the farmer were before the present sit- what goes up doesn the amount of poster advertising that has inundated the local landscape throughout the whole of north york riding has aroused some criticisms among town and township residents during the past preelection weeks we are not quite sure what can be so offensive about these placards we feel that they add a little touch of colour to an otherwise bleak election scene anyone who has done much tra velling south of the border knows that this type of publicity is put into constant practice the posters do not publicize the people who have political time of decision tion which he had ready for approval but none of it was on the house agenda the resignation of his cabinet ministers cannot be passed over light ly should he be returned in a min ority position we can see little chance for improvement but a good chance that the pc party might sink to a new low and how about mr pearson the reaction he is getting at public gatherings is not entirely one of vic torious enthusiasm his performance as the opposition leader left much to be desired we are always a bit leery of the power hunger of the liberals which became so pronounced in ths last year or two of their reign that the canadian public gave them a thumping rejection in 1957 the pub lic finds it hard to accept the liberal attitude of rule we must nevertheless the public may consider that two chances for mr diefenbaker are enough and may well give mr pearson the opportunity to show what he can do in the local ridings of york north and ontario mr addison liberal will be difficult to unseat until he is at least given one term to prove himself mr starr who has been a popular member of mr diefen- bakers cabinet will likewise be hard to dislodge what a stronger ndp vote which is expected in these heavy urban ridings will do to these sitting members is anybodys guess but we doubt it will be sufficient to upset either of them wasnt fooling ting of the legislature this information has also been supported by the hon w j spooner minister of municipal affairs it must certainly be gratifying to messrs elliott harrington joe tran reg hoskins fred puckrin grant burkhokler and other members of the pickeringscarboro farmers committee to see some results for their labours as the assessment act was altered in 1962 to ease the tax burden on the parttime farmers so it would appear that a change is on the way to aid the fulltime rural landowner here once again it has been proven that only by banding together can the farmer hope to have his prob lems aired and his grievances settled t always come down ambitions but merchandise and pro ducts the roadside billboards pro mote everything from brassieres to brylcreem and to our knowledge no government legislation has ruled it illegal we dont care if the candidates hang their nameplates from the tree- tops but we do think it only proper that they should be removed when election day is past the liberals john addison has promised to do this after april 8th as he did following his election last june who knows the way things are going all the bills and banners may be needed again before too long not such a a good many prominent citizens are quoted from time to time these days as stating that canadians can either reduce their luxury spending or be prepared to pay more taxes recently the statement was made by senator donald cameron that canadians spent 5719000000 on tobacco and 921000000 on alcoholic beverages in a year so long as we are spending more money on these two items than we are spending on education then i think we are not in a position to say good argument that we are unable to meet the in creasing costs of education the senator told his audience he was using an old argument which fails to become any more con vincing by repetition nearly fourfifths of what can adians spend on liquor and more than half of what they spend on tobacco are taxes it could be that we canadians smoke too much and drink too much but if we didnt the governments would have to find substantial alter nate sources of revenue green river mrs we mcleod of alder- grove b c is visiting with her sister and brother at wilsons park mr and mrs allan miehell and family of canningion and mrs d shank had dinner re cently at the home of mr and mrs austin poarse miss f weeks has returned to her home in toronto follow ing a visit at the home of mrs p cation miss ruth hutching was a guest at the ohallorendietze wedding on saturday conducted in the armour heights united church toronto we are sorry to hear that mr r hamilton had the mis fortune to break a number of ribs in an accident recently the happy hour will mccl in the sunday school room on sat urday afternoon at 130 pm liu jtuuffuttir enbuue rstabllshed 15 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontario weekly newspapers association authomcd aa aceondlaja mall coatoleea dcpt ottawa member of the audit bureau of circulations issued every thursday at slouffville ont in canada 350 elsewhere si50 c n nola publisher ias thomas editor jas mckean advertising brand x is best try it monday wgnbsbebkbbnfuinnt sugar and spice rsxraa by bill smile emmaa something unprecedented uncalled for and unmistakable is happening to our good gray canadian people their feelings are showing one of the things ive always admired about us cana dians has been our dour lack of response to any of the usual standard emotional stimulants queen country flag anthem politics religion iatin races nre expected to be excitable emotional voluble and revolutionary nobody is surprised when a teuton wants to beat you up one minute and sob over a song the next scandinavians are noted for their moodiness slavs are explo- fdve asians form shouting mobs africans are unpredictable not us at least we never were before compared to us the yanks have alway been a wildly emotional nation even the british who pride themselves on their reserve are sloppy and sentimental compared to us or at least they used to be we have always been thorny owly surly ornery inde pendent and deeply unenthusiastic people we have been un impressive perhaps but also unimpressed other nations have had processions and parades the people turn out in hundreds of thousands to cheer at the eop of their voices wave flags surge against the police lines we have had our parades too if its not a nice enough day to go for a picnic or play golf or go fishing or work in the garden canadians will turn out in their handfuls for a parade they will stand in their scanty ranks stonily watching anything from a prime minister to a santa clans parade occasionally if its the queen or winston churchill or some body of equivalent rank here might lie a gentle patter of handclapping once in a while some eccentric will actually cheer one little hurray he subsides immediately horribly embarrassed while everyone in his vicinity stares at him coldly in other countries university students write poetry join parties man the barricades march on the palace die for their ideals in this country the university students write letters home for money go to parties man the bars march to the folknik joints and die at a ripe old age usually for their high living but things are changing the solemn cynical canadian is being swept out of his quiet backwater into the seething mainstream his inklike blood is aboil strange savage snarls are escaping his thin lips deep within him a beast is being aroused hes prying up the stones of his patio to hurl at somebody though ho isnt quite sure who it is gone is his decent reserve vanished is his phlegmatic calm ripped to ribbons is his ancient fear that somebody might think he was displaying emotion a new strange vio lence surges through his knotted veins theres going to be terror in the land i can feel it nonsense you say oh yes i can hear you piffle and poppycock you sneer all right dont believe me but dont say i didnt warn you just take a look al your daily newspapers its all right there your fellow canadians have gone haywire im jeered by students says the headline jieckleks disrupt meeting it says speaker howled down ii gloats isnt that enough evidence for anybody the canadian public famous for its total soporific calm during election campaigns is aroused the tiger is loose canadian standing up and asking questions at a political meet ing unless he was drunk can you imagine sensible canadian voters cheering except at a hockey game the 1963 election is going to go down in history it may not solve anything politically but emotionally it will symbol ize the time when the wild free spirit of the canadian people burst loose and we were revealed for the tempestuous exotic romantic race we really are its beautiful somehow and somehow sad for genera tions there was nobody like us and now were just going to be like everybody else baker government recognized and gripped the rtroblem by of fering to all local scjiool boards one hundred percent fi nancial assistance in building or adding to schools for technical training tangible evidence of this may be found in the schools of sutton newmarket king city markham slouffville thornhill and bayview in north york alone amounting to over seven million dollars dominion scholarships may be awarded lo any student foir these parts who shows promise and such have been awarded in north york while the liberals have been promising the conserva tives have gone ahead and done something about education ca nadians should think it over be fore they allow others to con demn our government as inde cisive or do nothing in the face of the facts the conserva tives surely cannot be expected to undo or correct in five years the damage which the liberals did in twentytwo rk smith editors mail aurora ont editor the tribune slouffville ont sir has the government left the country in such a mess the telegram of keb 5 slates that the percentage work climb is the highest since 1949 and which party was in then this in spite of the coldest win ter in 30 years and the new york newspaper strike both of which affected our work forces through no fault of the conser vatives last june mr pearson and mr addison were preach ing from every stump in north york that devaluation would bring disgrace and economic ruin we dont hear much from them on this subject now i wonder why the fact is that canada has since these predic tions been leading in percen tage increases in economic out put of goods even president kennedy has told his congress men that they had belter watch canada for leads in sustaining economy and prices the globe mail of sept m says the canadian economy is rolling and our net performance re flects great credit on the gov ernment in ottawa are these statements all wrong and the liberals alone correct in these days of automation the diefcn- the editor slouffville tribune stouftville ont dear sir the confrontation between kennedy and kruschev over cuba on october 27 1962 pro jected into stark reality the- one critical issue for all govern ments and all peoples today human survival it is vitally im portant that this message be clearly understood all other questions by comparison are ei ther transient or irrelevant or dishonest there is only one solution the explosive situation where human survival depends on the sanity or emotional stability of two men two fingers on two triggers must be replaced by world government only in this way may international law- be enforced by supranational force the rule of law is the only answer to homicide be it single or megadeath it is now no longer a question of whether we ought to have world gov ernment but how quickly can we make it work international law backed in effective force is the only hop for rescuing a humanity other wise doomed in todays world of megatons megadeaths and ov erkill all discussion of national defense in a nuclear war is ir relevant and limewasting each voter should demand a clear answer from each candi date to this queionwhat will you do to promote world government as a first priority in your programme the ans wer to this question transcends party loyalty it is simply not hue that a multiparty parlia ment without a clear majority defeats the parliamentary sys tem there is no reason why he boys in two or three bark- rooms cannot reach agreement providing there is intelligence and integrity i would vote for anyone ir respective of party who clearly declared that human survival was the dominant issue today and promised primary effort to ward the creation of world gov ernment otherwise we may well be caught fiddling with bomarcs and honest johns when the world around us explodes alan a klass md today there is no cure for leu kemia a cancer of the blood for ming tissues but the lot of the leukemia patient can be made more comfortable and his life can bo prolonged kurther re search to find ihe causes and a cure for leukemia will be made possible by your contribution lo the canadian cancer society pain is seldom an early symp tom of cancer but many can cers ran be delected by a doctor during a physical examination more and more cancers arc be ing caught al the vhal early stages due lo the education pro gramme of the canadian cancer society by the way anne boss church choirs everywhere are busy practicing special music for easter and with the exception of some christmas music there is none to my mind so beautiful as the easter cantatas oratorios and chorales of all the inspired and inspiring music that has been written by the masters for the solemn commemoration of the erucifixtion and the glorious promise of easter probably none is so well known throughout the christian world as the messiah few of us have not been moved by the poignancy of such portions of the oratorio as he was despised behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow jnd surely he hath born our griefs nor have we failed to exalt with the triumphant the trumpet shall sound i know that my redeemer liveth and the majestic hallelujah chorus most of us know little about the man who composed this tremendous musical masterpice of the birth passion and prom ise of christ altogether fiftyeight arias recitatives and choruses which he wrote in only 21 days during which time he never once left his room often forgetting to eat at times mingling his tears with the ink on the pages of his manu- scrip george frederick handel was born in halle lower saxony on february 23rd 16s5 his father a combination surgeon- barber was so fearful that his son would slide down the social ladder and become a lowly musician that he kept young george out of school lest he learn the notes of the scale however a kind friend smuggled a clavichord in the handel attic where the boy then only seven tinkled away undetected until he had taught himself to play heir handel need not have been so concerned for his son enjoyed one of the most worldly as well as brilliant careers in musical history made his fame and fortune in a foreign country and when he died at the age of 74 was buried in the poets corner of westminster abbey al 21 without patron or scholarship lie composed his way slowly through florence venice rome and naples most of his career was spent in england where he dropped the german spelling of his name and became a subject of king george i there was someling about handel that made the english admire and look up lo him this stolid fleshy german seemed one of themselves in so many ways he went about town in a velvet greatcoat and a fine ruffled shirt carrying a walking slick with a knob of gold he enjoyed the society of the rich and the great and frequented their houses but unlike most musicians of the subservient day and age he never rurbed his temper for them and would swear at the ladies of the prince of wales court if they chattered while he was conducting his early years in england were largely devoted lo operas he composed them conducted them and lost two fortunes producing them worn out at last by ihe battle against credi tors deserting singers and shifting popular taste handel turned more and more from opera to oratorio his religious feelings while deep were neither complicated nor mystical and his religious music held significant appeal to people in every walk of life however it was not until he was 53 years of age and had suffered a severe stroke that handel came to write all his great oratories the messiah judas macca- baeus susanna solomon which for the most part met with instantaneous acclaim as lie continued lo pour out his master pieces of sacred music lie worked against almost insurmount able adversities his fingers could scarcely hold a pen his eyesight was failing his last years were spent in complete blindness when the messiah was fust performed the audience including the king was so exalted by the hallelujah chorus that it rose spontaneously to its feet the custom of standing during that noble storm of song has continued unbroken in england to this day and has extended to most parts of the world wherever this stirring anthem is performed the words are an inspiration to christian people everywhere hallelu jah the kingdom of this world is become the kingdom of our lord and of i lis christ and he shall reign forever and ever king of kings and lord of lords hallelujah for office supplies its the tribune its spring gardening time youll enjoy your jfw gardening even w iygi more with f the help of 0 fy uni0nville nurseries hi miles kasf of uninnville phone 2971440 if youre mil confused by party claims and promises yet are still planning to vole ndp ask yourself these 3 questions do i really believe in socialism in a parly that advocates and means state control do i believe canada can and should withdraw from the atlan tic defense alliance canada sole bulwark against communist aggression do i bciieve another minorily government is good for canada if you can answer yes to all of these ques tions then it is your right and privilege to voto socialist if your answer to any one of these questions is no you should vote for the one party which rep resents all parts of canada the liberal party the only party which can gain a majority vote over the others sufficient to govern vole addison john x llnscrlcd by the york north liberal association