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t9t j the stooffvlui tmiuwi vanity hbnutr 13 tiu editorial k- ni what the police dep on thursday evening members of the village council were presented with a complete and concise report covering activities of the stouffville police department during 1963 the information prepared at little ex pense cast a refreshing light on oc currences handled by this 3man force during the past year and par ticularly since chief keating took oer the reigns of office on may 1st a yearend summation of police work is not uncommon in most muni- cipilities but it is something that lias been lacking here for a long time it is interesting to note that the officers handled no less than 3379 complaints and incidents in 63 a fact that would not be known to the aver- novr fcr the main bout aliment is doing age man on the street out of an estimated 463398 worth of pro perty stolen only 164700 was not recovered even this figure could be reduced through investigations that are continuing we believe that the stouffville police unit under chief keating is an efficient force second to none for a municipality of this size the close cooperation between the men is a refreshing experience here the handling of police matters has been the subject of much favourable com ment within the council possibly most important the officers have gained the genuine respect of the residents both young and old which in this day and age is an item worthy of note loses its identity the proposed closing of peachs united church on the 7th cone of markham twp was revealed last week the move made necessary due to a resident membership of less than 25 will not impose any religious hardship on most people in the area since a second point in the charge is located at melville only a short dis tance away the regrettable thing about such a decision lies in the fact that a community without a church or a school tends to lose its identity with the passing of years if anyone ever asked this writer where peachs was located and many have it was simple to say drive down the 7th till you come to the church from any direction you couldnt miss it peachs to this writer means even more than a church site or even a community it is a name that formed the foundation for a young peoples organization that for more than a decade revealed its identity on softball diamonds and hockey rinks in many parts of this province the group now many times larger through the addition of a second generation still meets quite regularly and the association between its mem bers has never weakened the church unlike people cannot live on a repu tation alone there is some satisfac tion in knowing that for a time at least the landmark structure will be retained intact thus preserving the name that still means so much to so many time to take stock the president of the bay ridges ratepayers association of pickering township mr john williams ap- pears to be beating his head against a brick wall in an attempt to gain a square deal agreement on ser vices as such pertains to that urban area he has challenged the right of the council to purchase a 40000 gravel pit and charge the expenditure across the entire municipality when the bay ridges subdivision has had its roads already laid and paved by the developer consolidated building corporation mr williams may have a joint here the issue however could go much deeper than road con- struction and maintenance and it are we getting are we getting what we want from ottawa or are we getting what parliament thinks we should have it seems obvious to us that for some time now that too much time is spent in government dreaming up ways to spend our money on things we never ask for in the hope of getting more votes a public poll was recently taken in one of the large nearby city ridings with some startling conclusions it was found for example that only three percent of the people polled think that health is the major prob lem in canada whereas 61 believe that the chief canadian problem in one form or another is economic the politicians who have been leaning to the belief that medicare would appear that in pickering at least the members do not want to get involved in such complications while the rural farm resident is afforded some relief from taxation under the regulations of the munici pal act the urban homeowner must pay the full shot and in bay ridges for example its almost more than they can bear so far mr williams has not been successful in getting his point across so far the councils brush- off tactics have worked the time will come however when the mem bers will either delve more deeply into the financial trials and tribula tions of this satellite community or see it separate from the parent body and go it alone what we want and statesponsored health schemes are likely to be votegetters may find this set of figures highly significant the cry for still more immigration has not been accepted as widely as one is given to believe- 56 being against it might be recalled in this instance however that this was a large urban riding where added immi gration could affect jobs and wages possibly it is indicative of the limes that the heaviest yes vote was in favour of widening the grounds for divorce eightyfive per cent favoured this revision while we realize that such a poll cannot be said to be a sure test for all canadians it does point up the fact that the politician may not be too well tuned in on what the voter really wants maybe we should have multiculturalism ev we had the privilege the other night to be a headtable guest when the lieutenantgovernor of ontario the hon earl rowc guest speaker made the observation that in canada today it may be multiculturalism we need more than bi- culturalism the honorable gentleman we believe hit on a point which rings with a great deal of truth frenchcanadian wit- nesses appearing before the royal commission on biculturism are defin itely trying to proceed on the assump tion that canada is a twolanguage country and nothing more this can be an argument that wont necessarily be accepted by sev- eral million canadians whose ances- tral background is neither french nor english the last census figures show that more than 12250000 speak only english and 3389000 speak only french these two languages are s spoken by only 2231172 we have counties in ontario where if there is a second language it is obviously german it might be difficult to force those with german backgrounds to learn french right in toronto italian is largest secondlanguage group by a wide margin our canadian squabbling over languages sounds ridiculous to those from europe children in some of these countries know five languages before they leave high school many have a working knowledge of several beyond their own we can vouch for the fact that as a canadian one feels very inadequate in this respect when travelling these countries it should not be difficult for us to learn two languages in public school and it will prove certainly desirable in later life even the addition of a third language in high school shouldnt be too much for us many will be surprised to know that sixty percent of all french- canadians cannot speak english it should be suggested to the royal commission that bilingualism has at least two spokes to the wheel and possibly more plowmens convention delegations from several counties will be on hand at the annual convention of the onta rio plowmens association at the king edwardsheraton ho tel toronto february 17 and 18 hon ray connell minister of public works and a director of the association will be the luncheon speaker others par ticipating in the program will be j e moles ontario hydro toronto gordon mcgavin walton alex mckinney brampton and winfred tim bers stouffville reports on the very success ful international and world contests held at caledon last year will be presented the local committee of pet erborough county under the chairmanship of r r stewart will tell of the extensive prep arations underway for the 1964 match to be held from october 7 to 10 at peterborough all an argument proves that two people are present sunday school lesson golden text and jesus an swering said unto them they that are whole need not a phy sician but they that are sick i came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance luke 531 32 approach 10 the lesson the lesson today deals with our lords healing of a demon- possessed man the question will certainly be asked whether demon possession either in the new testament times or now can be accepted as factual there can be no question that the old and new testaments both teach the existence of de mons as evil spirits having ac cess to and influence on hu man beings it is common today in some quarters to explain these things away on the grounds that jesus used the terminology of his day or that the writers of the gospels re ported him in the language and beliefs current at the time we unhesitatingly reject both of these views our lord is truth and quite incapable of giving a false impression or leading peo ple to believe an untruth the author of the bible is the spirit by the way anne ross tomorrow valentines day while not a holiday in the usual sense has special significance lor the young and the young at heart when lovers honor the day of true love exchanging cards and flowers in the spirit of romance but tomorrow has greater significance lor people all over the world as they join together in a global fellowship of prayer for february 34th this year lias been designated the world day of prayer in churches eveiy where christian denomina tions join forces to worship the author of this years world day of prayer is mile madelleine barot executive secretary of the world council of churches geneva switzerland the entire service including prayers bible selections and hymns written and selected by mile barot has been- translated into the languages of 150 countries and into braille so that all may worship as one mile barot is well qualified to compose such a universal service for this world day of prayer with an ecumenical heritage from the hugenots on her fathers side and lutherans on her mothers she has travelled extensively in connection with the work of the world council of churches she is well known for her work in africa where her chief concern is the education ol african women and in the creation of opportuni ties for christian service to women of the moslem world during world war ii mile barot was instrumental in helping victims of war who were interned in concentration camps in occupied france and in setting up the programme of cimade a christian youth organiatic which gave out standing assistance to internees persecuted jews spanish refugees and others in need she and a nurse friend succeeded in getting themselves interned so that they might work inside the prisons where they had previously been denied entrance in the order of service for the wrld day of prayer is an explanation of this unique fellowship it reads today around the world christians of all confessions of all nations of ail races are united in prayer each for the other and for the needs of the world since the day began in the islands of the pacific this invisible stream of prayer has been moving around the world until it has come now to us here in this place we are united horizontally with one another with our lzv christians of all races and many nations in concern for the needs of all our fellow human beings across the whole world we are united vertically with god the father of us all who has given us this means of prayer that we may know him and each other let us enter into this time of prayer with the awareness that god hears us and according to his will he will answer us tomorrow people of all faiths in the stouffville area will join together in this universal service at the stouffville united church of truth who also could not countenance error in scripture our lord acknowledged the ex istence of demons and their po wer over human beings and the bible specifically teaches the same thing this we unhesitat ingly accept on biblical grounds that are substantiated by what we learn from life a generation that has known the coldblooded murder of mil lions of jews in gas chambers with a view to the extermina tion of the race that has seen the quite deliberate death by slow starvation of millions of peasants in russia and is aware of the race hatred that exists all over the world and that can so easily flare into serious crimes ought not to find it hard to accept the bible revela tion on the source of these ev ils indeed dr c m joad late professor of philosophy and psychology at the university of london and for years a volu ble advocate of i socialism agno- ticism and immorality owed his remarkable conversion to faith in christ to the realization of the sinfulness of mankind in general and himself in particu lar i see now he wrote that evil is endemic in man and that the christian doctrine of orig inal sin expresses a deep and essential insight into human nature once we recognize that a sinful nature is in us and is subject to evil influence by evil spirits we shall approach this lesson feeling that in many re spects we are the person under discussion spiritually speaking there could be no healthier at titude the heart of the lesson while we know that we wrestle against the principali ties against the powers ag ainst the rulers of the darkness of this world against wicked spirits in high places eph 6 12 it is heartening to be brought by this story to a fresh realization that christ jesus is the conqueror of all evil spir its geldenhuys echoes of the past o for the days the good old days when hands were not tied to a wheel but free as the air could go anywhere round a neck or a waist they were real and horses were wise in those day i surmise they could loiter or speed as chose while those in the shay were happy and gay planning futurcswith nothing to lose but we are remindedif we arc not blinded by those happy days of the past we were then building life for husband and wife and a future with pleasure to last solet us keep working nor find ourselves shirking the duties of days as they are forby pulling together what ever the weather homemaking 1 better by far wfr hf taufhrillr bzibixut cbtaslisbed ta member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontario weekly newspapers association aatteenz4 cotfl mall poatocv dtpu otuwa member of the audit bureau of circulations issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada s350 elsewhere s450 c b nolan publisher jas thomas editor jas mckkan advertising sugar a spice by bill smiley a history lesson frightening it is to discover the ideas some kids ar picking up in school these days i got some insight into the sheer wildness of it when i was helping young kim with her history the other day she is 12 years old an average kid by most standards a very bright one by thoe of her parents shes in grade s i was reading from her history notebook and asking her ques tions based on the notes she had made first i asked what did the early pioneers build their homes out of the answer came smartly the earliest homes were little more than shanties but soon the pioneers began building with lumber stucco brick and stone i asked her where they got the materials in the fields was the answer baffled i looked in her notes there it was soon the settlers began to build houses out of lumber brick stucco and stone from their fields i had quite an argument before convincing her that lumber stucco and brick do not grow in fields next i shot her a question on the harvesting of grain in the early days her note book stated that the grain went through many painful processes it went on to say that the grain was threshed and winnowed and then was taken to be ground at sawmills and gristmills preferably grist painful indeed putting grain through a sawmill a little later i came across the startling information that during the rebellion of 1837 in upper canada william lyon mackenzies rebels had been defeated by so men at mapl leaf gardens frankly i was appalled and slightly delighted what an interesting way to learn history then pursuing her notes i was informed that lord selkirk in trying to establish his communities in what is now manitoba got into a squabble with the northwestern fur trading company and carelessly captured fort william how do you capture a place carelessly after the initial shock wore off it occurred to me that my daughter didnt know limestone from fieldstone that she really had no idea where bricks and stucco came from that she didnt even know what a sawmill was that she didnt realize that while the nhl is adept at crushing rebels is was not in existence in 1837 and that she had just thrown that adjective carelessly in through sheer good spirits and a complete ignorance of who lord selkirk was and where fort william is im not trying to blame her teacher heaven forbid the kids are to blame they copy stuff down from the textbook leave out a word or add one and the icsults are hilarious they are overawed and overwhelmed by facts and are much more interested in what than in why secondly i blame their parents people like me who aie loo busy to find out what they are learning and to correct such garbled nonsense check it out check your sons homework and youll find him writing this sort of thing especially if he learned to spell phonetically he krept koshusly threw the nite trang to peer into the fog have a look at your daughters arithmetic youll learn that she has just sold twelve pounds of butter for i9s14 and thinks nothing of it in short dad have a look it will shake you ligid specialized farming most economical says county agriculture rep a a wall agricultural representative for york county 1 the old argument about specialization came up frequently last week at our series of beef meetings getting all the eggs into one basket is looked on with a great deal of suspicion by most people who live on mixed farms the safety factor in a well diversified business canf be ignored it isnt likely that all crops will fail in one year or that the bottom will fall out of all farm prices at once still i think that those who grow several crops and keep three or four kinds of livestock pay an awfully high price for insurance the mixed farm loses out on one of the factors that has led to success in almost every other industry specialization which enables large volume has been the most effective cost cutter inventor since it waited with factory assembly lines on beef farms with cows and calves only there is real good opportunity for specialization since hay and pasture is the only kind of feed needed machinery expenses can be cut in lessthan half with only hay to harvest the need for hired labour for the rest of the year is eliminated in winter with both cows and calves running in loose barns and outside labour can be cut drastically there is a lot of opposition to running cows and calves joose in the winter with outside feeding people object to exposing small calves to cold weather but the calves dont seem to mind on farms where this is done health problems are very few and i have never heard of a calf being frozen yet the story is the same for fattening cattle loose housing with onceayearcleaning and bulk feeding is the only sensible system its true that closely confined cattle or tied cattle will fatten faster than those running loose but labour costs more than offset this advantage fattening crates for poultry are a thing of the past and close confinement for cattle will go the same way beef feedlots make specialization in crops practical too corn and hay can both be handled with the same machinery they will both put up more feed per acre than any other crop and allow the ail important volume to increase i believe the next step for the beef industry will be in specialization farms will either produce feeder calves or 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