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page 2 the tribune thursday sept 3 1970 established 1888 c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edey advertising published every thursday by inland publishing co limited at 54 main st stouffville ont tel 6402101 single copies 15c subscriptions 500 per year in canada 750 elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association second class mail registration number 0896 editorial we all help pay pollution is something we all must help pay for we are doing it to some extent already here in stouffville the matter has not loomed up large until now nor in the surrounding townships however in pickering township interest has been rising and a committee has been formed to meet for the first time this month a number of citizens have expressed a desire to serve on the committee which will hear of any serious pollution matters in the municipality there will be no legal authority attached to the committee but it will be a big step towards educating residents about the great waste and cost of pollution and can alert both residents and council to the threat since municipalities in york county are in the throes of establishing new political setups to take over in 1971 it may be assumed that once this move is completed committees may be set up similar to neighboring pickering marijuana lining up with liquor marijuana appears to already be lining up with liquor as a detriment to business opportunity hundreds of young executive types with excellent possibilities have over the years found themselves out on the street by their inability to stay away from the bottle in fact many more in other trade lines have found their jobs in jeopardy due to their ex cessive drinking habits many receive only a shake of the head in place of a job when their backgrounds are investigated from all reports business is treating marijuana users in the same manner employers are shying away from any known users even insurance companies are refusing coverage to such people as bad risks there should be a message in all this for young people starting on the trail of their first job business has shown during the last few months that it will not gamble with marijuana anymore than it will gamble with liquor barking up the wrong tree quebec joining the united states- such a suggestion has been made by the former finance minister in the quebec union nationale govern ment recently defeated the minister had not done his homework very well when he made such a suggestion mr beaulieu has said the united states should have 51 states and canada 9 provinces we would suggest that the fascination comes more from a dream of a flood of american dollars coming into the province than the stripes and 51 stars floating over the citadel those who promote such a plan must have forgotten how con scription fits the quebec thinking and how they would get around the draft laws the united stateshas never been famous for tolerance to foreign- speaking minorities the spanish- speaking of former mexican territory as a case in point they learn to speak english or else churchoriented schools have no place in the united states the americans want their school taxes to go to public schools and nowhere else with the mounting problems which the united states already has it is absurd to think that they would be likely to wish to take on any more we doubt if this idea will gain much mileage in the province editor 9 maie dear sir as residents of the new town of whitchurchstouffville we should all appreciate your efforts mr editor to stir up interest in the election of our new council this fall but do we do most of us really care one way or another interest in municipal elections has been dropping off very noticeably over the years will this new enlarged type government stimulate this interest or will things continue to go down hill there are only some three weeks left until the nomination date are people interested enough to remember personally i find it intensely interesting even though i havent lived here too long but talking to my neighbors i wonder ive told them this is the way dictatorships are born it has seemed for some time that much of the interest which the government has said it wants to promote only comes from the radicals whose main bent is destruction these socalled par ticipants have no plans or solutions to improve society myself i dont think theres much wrong with our system if people would only work at it responsibility seems to have gone out the window and work is a nasty word oneway to work at it is to take an interest in these municipal elections jeremy scythes whitchurch dear mr editor it pleased me much to read where you told about tramps lying on the street in your town i come from amsterdam where they have put boots to dirty hippies who desecrate war memorial in city centre it would seem too bad if this could happen in your small town they say they do not hurt anyone but they wouldnt go into a church with hats on smoking i do not think the town and this country must keep some dignity i think and i think you do also other people have to work hard to let these dirty ones just lie around some day they will have to do better or starve i have to work hard and i will not help pay for this kind of young people many many people are tired of these actions and are glad to see police stop it they are not too hard on them but some of us think too easy i am glad to read you want to keep your town nice my typing is not very good i am sorry hansford rayvick vivian ontario the girl whos always busy when you call may not be worth an engagement ring sugar and spice a trip around our yard by bill smiley good fences make good neighbors thats what poet robert frost told us in the mending wall from our experience this summer i agree with all my heart though perhaps not in the way that frost intended it we had two of the worst fences in town one at the back was ours leaning at a 45degree angle over our neighbors vegetable garden and killing it ruthlessly year after year they understandably annoyed suggested a hew fence i was loath after pricing- fencing but we agreed to split the cost of a mutual fence and heres the kicker hes a builder i couldnt nail two boards together without mutilating myself so i jumped at it it was arranged that i would help him you know hold the boards fetch nails provide encouragement as it turned out he built the whole thing singlehanded i always seemed to be busy when he had time to work on it didnt fetch a single nail i felt rather sheepish but not unduly so ive been getting away with this for years some time when he wants me to write a nasty letter to his creditors ill be glad to do it for him and well be even then there was a big conference about the color of the stain wed put on it our wives did most of the conferring jim said and i agreed i dont give a damn if you paint it purple painting began my wife painted one panel of our side we were away for a few days when we returned the whole fence was finished his wife said i hope you dont mind that we went ahead and painted your side my wife hid in shame for two i days f s now hes going to use his power saw to cut up all my old dry cedar fence and well have enough kin dling for the fireplace for two years and the finest fence in town hows that for neighbors at least on one side of the fence the second fence along the side is an atrocity erected about the time of the war of 1812 it leans lurches and looks like a gaptoothed wino unfortunately it isnt ours and the bird who owns it has no other in terest in his property than collecting the rent from the series of un fortunates who move into his house a new family about every six months i have toyed with the idea of arson but there are those numerous small children to consider but its not only good fences that make good neighbors there are other things this week our neigh- september is arthritic month september is arthritis month in canada and the york central committee canadian arthritis and rheumatism society again will be conducting a campaign to raise funds for the societys program of research education and patient care all aimed at the control and eventual elimination of arthritis canvassers will be knocking on doors on sept 8 miss elizabeth flood charge physiotherapist york central hospital and chairman of the local cars group will speak to the victoria square womens institute and show a film dealing with various aspects of arthritis while a great deal of progress has been made during the 20 years of cars history its medical council feels that everything up to now has been preliminary the next few years are expected to produce important breakthroughs hopefully leading to a cure and means of prevention discoveries emanating from organ transplants notably new knowledge of the rejection process have sparked a whole new series of projects in arthritis research it is now thought that rheumatoid ar thritis the most crippling form of the disease may be caused by the body for reasons not yet known rejecting some of its own tissues in much the way it tends to reject transplanted organs still a serious problem in heart transplants bors on the third side showed what they are made of their son a university student works for the summer at a mental institution on a fine summer day he brought home two carloads of patients for a barbecue in their back yard how would you like a dozen nuts dumped in your back yard for a threehour picnic id probably go hide in the bathroom yet his parents were out there talking to them humoring them feeding them and simply being sympathetic and decent can you imagine what it means to those poor devils the patients that is some of them had probably not been in a house in 30 years but they were given the run of the house as well as the back lawn one of them said not a word all afternoon but when it was over he shook hands with his hostess and murmered goodbye thank you it was a great achievement for him according to those who knew him another a schizophrenic examined all the rooms in the house verbally rearranged all the fur niture dabbled himself with any perfume or lotion available and drew a portrait of the hostess in cluding a heart above her head and a swastika in a basket she wonders if he saw her as a benevolent dic tator it takes all kinds of neighbors but i think were pretty lucky luckier than our neighbors are perhaps they have only us bad luck continued im not a superstitious person at all but from time to time i am forced to admit that some coin cidences are more coincidental than others and i hope you will pardon me for referring just this once again to the filly foal i wrote about recently we have in the family a camera that cost us 100 four years ago it is thus not the worlds greatest camera but it is the most expensive one we have ever owned by far we bought it one summer when we needed a lot of excellent photographs of a project we were working on it takes 35 millimetre film and produces either slides or prints as an old brownie box cameraman from away back i always felt very well dressed when i was wearing that camera around my neck with it ive taken good pictures in icycold weather 500 miles from the north pole and in steaming heat 35 miles from cape kennedy when the foal was born we had family considerations that made the camera vital her mother a four- year old bay standardbred unregistered called tinker belongs body and soul to our 19 year old daughter she saved the pur chase money by working after school and on weekends at a chainstore but last winter when she started to university she didnt have the 125 she needed to put tinker then in foal into a box stall at a good horse farm for the winter as she wanted i was driving her the 50 or 60 miles to university after a weekend at home last autumn when an answer occurred to me i dont like giving people money for nothing i said look you dont have to do this but if you want to let us own the foal when shes born 111 pay for the mares care this winter dont make up your mind right away but let me know she thought it over for a couple of minutes and then seemed quite relieved thats a good idea she said of course she knew that the foal would be kept in the family and shed really have almost as much to do with it as if it were her own this summer to help with her next year at university shes working as a waitress at a resort far from home the only drawback was that she was going to miss the early weeks of the foal we knew that if shed been home she would have spent hours every day around the corral so i thought the next thing was to take a lot of pictures there was a film in the camera when little star was born we took three or four when she was only a few hours old that finished one roll we put in another and in the course of a few days finished it too on the night when we found star with her neck broken and the vet had to put her away forever and as we buried her deep in the corral i kept thinking well at least we have the pictures when our daughter comes home she still will have that much to see i took the two rolls of film in one friday and called for them at the village drugstore the following week when i did so the druggist a friend of mine said say im afraid you had some bad luck with those films i opened the envelope every film was blank not overexposed or underexposed or blurry or anything just blank for the first time in four years and for these irreplaceable pictures the camera had failed totally with the foal gone and the him blank it is as if that pretty little chestnut with the star on her forehead had never been on this earth at all it was an eerie coincidence as i said i am not superstitious but at a time like that i am tempted to be just a little portraits of the past jas thomas vacation editor is on karl cook wearing the stouffville uniform and bruce lehman the delhi pose before one of the many ontario intermediate playoff games fought out between these two clubs earl started his ball career with stouffville and later played for the maple leafs bruce who also pitched for stouffville later moved to delhi seen in the background is the former stouffville arena on the site of the present swimming pool looking for the person who can truly keep a secret is almost as hard as finding the gold at the end of the rainbow