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tyi i tue stourtylll riesjw flwny my 1 3 editorial an act of extreme heroism items that appear in this and other newspapers from time to time often castigate the teenager for ac tions and habits that in our modern- day society leave something to be desired last week a 15 year old mark- ham township gir cast a refreshing light on this overworked subject when she performed a feat of bravery that would far exceed the abilities and accomplishments of the majority of adults with no thought whatso ever for her own safety gail hall- man 19th avenue west of dicksons hill rescued a 58 year old woman from the waters of a deep farm pond persons closest to the scene in cluding veteran police and firemen have acclaimed the act as one of ex treme bravery verbal paisontheback are fine but they are not longlasting in the memory of the public with this thought in mind this writer has pro ceeded to pass on the information to provincial and federal organizations in the hope that something more con crete may be forthcoming this young girls response in a time of need is monumental evidence that the overplayed term of teen ager is something worthy of praise and admiration rather than contin uous complaints and criticisms the bend is gone from the devils elbow the fifth concession of mark- ham township is in our estimation one of the most scenic rural roads in the municipality a landmark is now missing from this country thorough fare that if once blessed with a mouth two eyes and two ears could have told more tales seen more sights and heard more secrets than could be contained in a volume of en cyclopedia the referred location was commonly known as the devil3 elbow this intersection that must have been engineered by a road fore man with a warped ruler was located at the semicircular crossover of 17th avenue and cone 5 it was cursed by winter motorists and loved by summer sweethearts it repre sented a most weird confused net work of road wizardry ever perfected by man and machine it was a jig- little things this town has a little league that provides weekly activity for an estimated ninety young boys the entire program is operated by a mere handful of adult promoters and next month the allstar teams in squirt peewee and bantam ranks will ad vance into the ontario playoffs there is little fanfare connected with this organization and funds are made available in part through an individual entry fee although as we understand it this charge is not en forced to the letter of the law throughout the season the coaches and managers are continually digging into their own pockets to purchase balls bats and other pieces of equip ment under such circumstances it is understandable that these gentlemen keeping on although the water restriction program that was introduced this month has not been enthusiastically received by the rank and file of local citizenry there have been very few persons who have openly rebelled against this authority some may begin a few minutes before the 7 pm starting time and extend a few minutes past the cur few hour of 9 but all in all it would appear that cooperation has won out over complaint saw puzzle of confusion where a driv er merely pointed his car in a selected direction in the hope that he would eventually end up in familiar terri tory some never made it as indicat ed by stripped fence posts and shred- ded wire that yielded to a drop of forty feet into an abyss of trees mud and water some never tried as bared parking areas provided a con venient rendezvous for couples bitten by the love bug all this is now changed the devils elbow has been straightened out by the same men and machines that once created it it is now just one iong arm of monotonous roadway gone are the hairpin curves the splintered guard rails the scenic parking spots gone too are the couples who almost overnight dis covered that their private privileges had been opened to the public mean a lot are appreciative of little gestures of generosity that make this business of minor softball all the more worth while last summer the stouffvilla branch of the canadian legion do nated a set- of sweaters for one club mickey hunt at the westend sunoco station did the same this season telf rennie came to the rescue of the new squirt club and they will be suitably outfitted for oasa com petition on saturday the goldfish supply co donated sixty tickets for the lads to attend an international league game at maple leaf stadium too often these little things are permitted to slip by unnoticed and unannounced one can rest assured that they are very big and very im portant things in the eyes of the boya and the personnel that direct them schedule one resident in the east end of town seemed to have a legitimate beef when he told the tribune that he didnt mind being restricted to a schedule of tuesday thursday and saturday but complained that in his area when all the lawnwatering systems were on full he didnt have enough pressure to rotate his sprink ler with the arrival of the steady downpour on sunday it is expected that the grass will now grow and blood pressures will recede signs believed beneficial there has been criticism in a number of towns and cities throughout the country concerning merchants signs some communities have passed by laws restricting the number and type of signs allowed many of us know the saying i think that i shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree yet signs are useful and they can be attractive what would piccadilly circus in london be or times square in new york without their lighted signs xo laws have ever been suggest ed in stouffville to curtail this type of advertising it has been believed here that local merchants who serve us in so many ways have a right to erect signs these business people are important to all of us as sources of merchandise and as large sources of tax money thpir erection of signs most particularly the illumin ated ones does much to enliven our community advertising it as a whole it might also be pointed out that rather than present a traffic hazard these signs improve conditions a great many motorists are looking for something and the less craning they have to do to find it the better clhp stnuffntllc fribiut 0 established iii member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontario weekly newspapers association aqtherix4 ordn jrll rfe dfu ottawa member of the audit bureau of circulations issued evety thursday at stouffville ont in canada 350 elsewhere s450 c h nolan publisher jas thomas editor ias mckean advertiser a very partial eclipse my the iagaatbffiiitcitbjagaajtw wewiu j rrrrgnaags sugar spice i 1 anaaga by bill smile baesasizi some people are addicted to drugs others to drink some to the weed others to women teachers are addicted to sum mer courses why ask a teacher and hell tell you to improve my profes sional competence ask the chairman of the school board and heil tell you so he can demand more money ask the teach ers wife if you want the real truth so he can get down to the city there and have a big time running around and living it up while im stuck here at home with the kids theyre all equally right thais why ive been leklng a kefresher course in kiijr- lisli and dont think it hasnt been refreshing it started oft in ripsnorting style and the pace hasnt let up for a minute girls drink bawdy conversation and wild reunions with old comrades i hadnt really intended to get involved in anything be yond a few love affairs and half a dozen nights on the town thats why i picked out what i thought ws a fairly quiet spot to stay my illusions were dispelled even before i got dressed in the morning there was a surreptious tap on my door i opened it and was confronted by two young ladies both stark naked and grinning broadly -a- -a- talk about your profumo affair hi unca bill chortled my nieces jenny and susie aged four and three well that wasnt so bad im used to barebottomed little girls and these were the only ones i had anything to do with while i was away so help me mom but the drink was another matter i couldnt seem to stay off it without the old trouble v strife there to keep an eye on me morning noon and night i was into the stuff im so sick of coffee itll be a joy to get home where a man can have an honest beer after a hard days work watching the starlings decorating his new picnic table then there was the shocking conversation i was exposed io at home the dialogue runs on pretty conventional lines you know stuff like when are you going to cut the grass the place looks like the petrified forest or hey jacl will you take us for a swim and play badminton with us and go bowling with us and give us our allowance and buy some watermelon and ice cream and a boat so we can go water- skiing and can i drive the car -a- k k k k -a- pretty tame stuff but on the course there were no restraints just a bunch of men out for a good time and no itolds barred you should have heard us throwing the bawdy talk around like yeah my old womans the same sorta owly and yup these modern kids are spoiled rotten arid guess i godda gedda new car bodys shot and a lot of stimulating stuff like that but this was nothing compared to the wild times at night thats when we really cut loose ill never forget the first night i threw caution to the wind- met a couple of the boys downtown in a bar and had a pretty raucous lime talking about how they had a hell of a time getting their kids to practise the piano too a -a- -a- k a- -a- wcll sir they just couldnt stay with me they faded there i was at 830 pm raring to go and by sheer chance i got into a terrific reunion with some old mates it was the night of the premiere of the great pccapp and 1 was passing the movie house i wandered into the lobby told the doorman i was an old prisonerofwar twhat the film was about and he told me to go on in it was a thrilling show at least thats what the critics said about it in next days papers i snoozed afer the show the old pows came out grand in rented white dinner jackets and fat wives with borrowed mink stoles and there was old elmer large as life in fact twice as large i hadnt seen old el as i called him since the day the russians liberated our camp back in may 1913 he hadnt seen me since then either as you can imagine it was a hilarious reunion noting would do but that id have a drink with him we went off with our arms around each others shoulders at least as far as theyd reach mine wouldnt go much past the nape of his neck he had grown sideways a- -a- k -a- -a- we were just getting nicely into our reunion and swear ing wed reforge the strong bonds of those days behind the wire and bring our families to visit each other when fl asked if id gone straight back to calgary when i was discharged from the air force as ive never beer in calgary in my life i was rather taken aback a few minute later it had ihcii revealed thai klinerh name iw elwood mlddlehouse and that he thought mine was bill wiley whod slept in the bunk ahova his in stnlajj iuft 3 i was in stalag iuft 1 we parted rather coolly trying io out- fumble each other for the check theres nothing quite as refreshing a a refresher course at least i can tell my wife that i led my class down to the ciicterla every day lor coffee break simday school lesson golden text all we like sheep have gone astray we have turned every one to bis i own way and the lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us isa 5sfi anne koss did you ever stop to think just how many modern devei opmems of science have become so familiar with dally ufe that we take them completely for granted without any wondet at the marvels they perform take plastics for instance plastics is a family name like cloth or metal just there are many kinds of cloth and metal there are many kinds of plastics each with its individual characteristics and qualifications for certain jobs xo matter how commonplace plastics have become to us it i well to know their various names if we can because they differ widely in their use and in the care they require plastics are synthetic or manmade materials which have been developed by chemists in search of durable and attractive substitutes for the more expensive natural materials such as wood and metal ail are made from combinations of carbon with oxygen hydrogen nitrogen chlorine and sulphur by varying the combination of these ingredients the chemist can create a plastic to suit almost any need in addition to serving as substitutes for natural products in a variey of household articles plastics are being spun into new and amazing textiles and used to form dirt stain and wrinkle resisting finishes they are used in making wetstrength paper for grocery sacks hand towels money tea bags transparent film for pro tecting foods dishes linens clothing and silver plastics have found their way into laundry starches that will last thrcugrt numerous washings and into certain paints new uses and new types are being developed almost daily there are ten main branches of the plastics family each developed for a specific purpose and each having its peculiar advantages and limitations they fall into two main groups first are the thermoplastics these are tiie ones that soften when exposed to sufficient heat and harden when cooled the acrylics cellulose nylon polyethylene and vinyls the second group consists of the thermose plastics which are set permanently by heat into various shapes during forming heat applied later will not soften them the silicones used for instance in ironingboard covers the amino plastics such as are used in dishes such as melmae each branch of the plastics family except pylon is rep resented in advertising by various trade names which of course is very confusing to us who buy however we find that all plastics can he cleaned safely with warm water and soap wiping with a dry or even a damp cloth has a tendency to scratch the surface as the dust particles are wiped off properly cared for plastics in any form can serve many a useful purpose over a long period of time they are econom ical hardwearing and easily cleaned to maintain their original fresh look just for fun take note of the many forms in which plastics serve us in our cveryday routine from door to ceiling from basement through the kitchen to the bathroom on appliances in furnishings in the car on the boat even parts of planes from the soles of our shoes and our clothing to the curlers lor our hair wonderful discovery plastics my little people tim wees approach to ihe lesson a most casual comparison be tween the idyllic scene at the creation of man and the present condition of humanity must convince us that a catastrophe of the greatest dimension has occurred instead of reigning over created things man is chained by evil habits vicious attitudes excessive greed and selfassertion so much so thai were we not inured io all of it by habit the mere viewing or reading of the daily news would be a tremendous shock read genesis 2 and the second half of romans 1 then notice how the latter is reproduced on the crime page of your local pa per the stark difference will stab you sharp awake look close- and you will find that the catastrophe is in moral and spiritual realms it is not that in essential things the world of nature is different or that man hears no traces of his divine an cestry there is much even in many of the worst of men and women that is very appealing and man can on occasion still rise to the sublime heights but that the whole is irreparably tainted and tarnished man strives for peace happiness and fulfillment and fails miserably as the climbing crime and sui cide rates in prosperous coun tries indicate yes something is radically wrong not only with others but with ourselves it is plain to anyone with eyes to see that at the present time all created life groans in a sort of univer sal travail and it is plain too that we who have a foretaste of the spirit are in a state of pain ful tension while we wait for that redemption of our bodies which will mean that at last we have realized our full sonship in him rom 822 23 phil- lips why is this when did it happen what is the remedv our lesson today will answer these questions for us the bible nowhere provides a pliilosopheial or speculative account of the ultimate origin of evil as the book of redemp tion it describes the mode by which sin made its entry intu ihe sphere of human exper ience this is an historical ac count of the fall of man some expositors invoke- the concept of myth to explain this passage but myth even in its technical and legitimate sense is not re quired for the narration of his torical events the idea of for- meal bidden fruit is familiar in an cient stories and these stories may he regarded as memories of the way in which mans fall occurred the important theol ogical point in this record is it leaches that temptation came from without and that sin was an intruder into the life of man sin cannot be regarded good in the making rather it spoil a world made good the heart of the lesson we arc taught in this pass age the perennially fresh les son that the root of all sin is willful disobedience that the first consequence of all sin is a guilt complex causing us to run away from god and that this leads to exclusion for the eden of blessing for which we long it further reveals the love that wilt not let me go kor immediately after sin was com mitted god took steps to miti gate its consequences and find for man a way back to him and his blessings commission are not pdd on arguments won but tile sales made as did i am for this month of july the theoretical and i mean the oretical leader of seven little children their age doesnt matter for all children are alike though at different stages they are really my task masters and not i theirs they crack the whip at dawn and rouse me from my sleepy repose to struggle out from the covers to cover myself with the nearest clothes to slide and slip down the dewy grass and rock that in vain guards my cabin from the shrieks and screams i go down and form ally after they have been de stroying the sanity of the staff for hours tell them to arise from their dreams and go for a cool dip thus starts their day and ends mine oh but they enjoy themselves do they ever the counselor eest moi gains the upper hand for a short while as the little dears tactfully after having discover ed the point at which our loving patience will snap let us toil them where to put their clothes and how to make their bods and the multitude of simple hings that they have probably figured out for themselves but which they still let us think out of due respect for our van ity we are teaching them for the first time this is where ihe already harassed counselor soaks up his second wind the onslaught is yet to mercilessly follow breakfast that may be a no sentence mr smith my english teacher hut to the ini tiated the verb object and all else is well understood this little gathering warns and warms up the counselor and more or less mostly jess prepares him for the oncoming day grace is said but where it ends and the meal begins no one has yet fully been able to define the counselor must to avoid fights struggle diploma tically for the food at the kitch en counter he must then carry ihe first meal to the table anil enjoy what hi- ran of the aroma for that is about all lltat he will get to wage open warfare with the campers at the table for something tu fat has long since been discovered useless the counselor receives instead a barrage of questions tim can i go aquaplaning come on but you said no i wont and so ends the not to be judged of course by civilized standards t with the counselor defeated by brute verbal force and starved through the long and seem ingly neverending day the little youngsters cavort kibitz harass and charge in military formation all over the camp occasionally the camp director tries but only when absolute ly necessary i to sneak through a section he may get ten yards or even fifteen hut more often than not he is discovered the second he enters the gate and is immediately set upon by a whole herd of galloping settokill little monsters who have their fiendish little hearts counting on the exquisite exotic joy of this intruder in the lake however our director is a very welltrained veteran in the art of child welfare and quite often eludes his pursuers and ac complishes his mission much to their frustration ah the poor poor counselor in the next period he must receive the brunt of their disgust at their own failure tie is used as a dummy blork for the nf direct attack and so goes day all through the day little tools such as bows and arrows air rifics and 22s are put to the uses that have been dream ed about all through the night instructors are crushed on trampolines dismembered by craft shop saws and drowned in free swims bui neverthe less we have achieved the pur pose for which we were hired the children are enjoying them selves but in spite of all this over whelming and factual evidence true love and warmth is brought out in children when the counselor puts them io bed they listen with wonderment to ghost stories hardy boy mysteries and advice given dur ing the past day they are tired and finally slow down to the pace of- the counselor and show him the kindness that ha has been yearning for all day peace prevails the lords prayer is said softly and in this moment of bliss the worn out harbinger of peace retires to his cabin with his reward for a hard- fought day a memory of ths angelic side of his children farm report a a wall agricultural kepresentative york countj the annual sunrise tour is coming up next week this tour sponsored by the crop improvement association is held each year to give everyone a chance to see first hand some of the newer crop methods usually farms here in the county are visited hut for this year an important change has been made the tour will go to the ontario agricultural col lege at guelph there are all kinds of experiments being done at the college on crops and they are well worth seeing we will spend a fair amount of time looking at their wor with forage crops the per formance of different mixtures and plants can in- judged quite accurately where definite in formation is kept on yields we will be looking at results of different methods of weed control too and several tests on fertilizer treatments will be interesting io see no tour or meeting these days is complete without something on corn and naturally we will see lota of work on corn at guelph arrangements for the tour are the same as usual every one goes by car and we will meet at the soils rullding at the oac at 10 oclock in tho morning the date is next wed nesday july 21th those on tour can either take their lunch with them or lunch can he purchased at the college dining hall this is a good chance io visit the oac all york counlv farmers are invited the crop improvement association is an xious io have a good big crowd from the county at guelph so put a circle around july 24th on your calendar and check with your neighbours and make no a carload stationery am office supplies get ihem at tribune ollkc supplies 4numi