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the tribune stouffville ont thursday dec 30th 1943 ijp imtffmu ributtr established 1883 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and ontario quebec newspapers association issued every thursday at stouffville ontario eight to twelve pages average paid circulation 2000 subscription rates per year in advance in canada 200 in usa 3260 a v nolan son publishers notes and comments attack on crown attorney a member of one of darlingtons best respected famil ies has lately come under the lash of an oshawa laborun ion official the oshawa timesgazette which of late seems somewhat tenderly solicitious toward the socialistic party gave prominent space to the union officials letter which demanded dismissal of allin f annis crown attorney of ontario county on the grounds that in a recent speech he had been highly insulting to the labor people of the com munity the allegation was that mr annis said one war plant was cursed by some of the dregs of humanity ship ped in from outside and not wanted in any civilized com munity he spoke before the united church mens ass ociation at whitby the letter went on to term the speech an unwarrant ed slur the slighting references were without rhyme or reason and the speaker could not distinguish between facts and fairy tales and labor unions were interested in preventing crime as much as mr annis the writer would ask the labor council to petition premier drew to dismiss mr annis and replace him with a man who would uphold the dignity of the office no member of the annis family nor any of their wide circle of durham county friends will be disturbed by this tirade a mr annis wont be dismissed because he has done and will continue to do a fine job of law enforcement his many speeches on juvenile delinquency have made a deep impression no doubt the war plant referred to was the one where infractions of the law and court prosecutions appear almost weekly in the press one of the recent sordid cases involved juvenile debauchery and proof was adduced followed by punishment of an individual not wanted in any civilized community the crown attorney presents the facts adduc ed by law enforcement officers the judge passes sentence it is all a matter of public duty plant people do not feel insulted they feel relieved and protected at prompt law enforcement and generally would uphold the right of the crown prosecutor publicly to refer to these dregs of hu manity illegal union strikes inspired by union leaders refute the claim that they are much interested in prevent ing crime as a sworn crown attorney we maintain our faith in both the efficiency and dignity of mr annis the bowmanville statesman farmers in subsidies oh feed grains brought from western canada since the subsidy was inaugurated in august the extent to which ontario farmers are taking advantage of the opportunity to secure western feed grain at favorable prices is indicated by the fact that applications for sub sidy are being received at the rate of about 1500 per week aheavy accumulation of applications is now being worked off and in november lc0o more applications were put through for payment than were received but there are still some 4000 to 5000 waiting payment the ontario feed grain subsidy terminates on decem ber 31 and all applications must reach the ontario depart ment of agriculture nof later than january 31 1944 appli cations for less than five ton lots will be accepted only from farmers who have previously sent in applications york county farmers up to november 30 made 611 applications for a total tonnage of 7210 tons the subsidy paid was 12862 ontario county farmers made 544 applications for a total of 5909 tons and received 10632 in subsidies we are lucky at this time of year when the vast majority of us are comfortable and safe it would be well to compare our lot with that of others we have some rationing shortages and many restrictions but the average canadian has been pretty lucky here we are on the eve of the fifth wartime new year and practically all of us have a sound roof over our heads our children are safe and happy getting their education and their health looked after and we know de finitely where our next meal and many more are coming from how different had we been european how different had we lived in britain some of us may complain about the difficulty in securing beverages of the shortage of tur key of the lack of icing on our christmas cake or of ex cessive heat in our living rooms the very nature of our complaints shows our blessed ness peed grain subsidies lr up to november 30 the ontario department of agri culture has paid out a total of 35337225 to ontario looking ahead into j 944 this is the final issue of the tribune for 1943 and the news gathering staff will soon be looking ahead for items to fill our first issue of the new year stepping out into 1944 with the largest circulation the paper has ever been able to boast and one of the largest in all ontario for towns up to 1600 population we feel there is an added respon sibility we cannot get away from the fact that we have a weekly audience of around 6000 readers built up over a period of time by no other sales effort than steadily im proved news columns reasonably well displayed before our readers we call upon our correspondents and all others to sup ply us with a liberal amount of news as often as possible we will gladly write up any items that persons do not wish to put in their own words if only the information is supp lied by this general cooperation we can continue to hold the outstanding position we now have and our readers will continue to enjoy a paper giving all the local coverage of the home district sunday school lesson jesus begins his ministry golden tot repent je and bel ievo tlio gospel murk 115 the lesson as a whole approach to the lesson it was given to mark to portray the life of the son of god on earth in the specific character of tlfe ser- ant who came to do the fathers will and to give his life a ransom for many mark 1045 mark dwe lls more upon the work of the lord jesus christ than upon his words his ceaseless activity is seen thiou- gthout as evidenced by the sequ ent use of a greek word translated in our english bibles forthwith immediately anoti and straightway it occurs forty times in mark and only forty times in all the rest of the new testament dispensational distinctions do not stand out so clearly in marks gospel as in math- ew which is distinctively the gospel of the kingdom nor as in john where stress is laid at the very beg inning upon the rejection of christ as the eternal word become flesh by israel to whom he came in grace it is precious indeed to trace out the holy activities of the son of god as he served in lowliness and compassion ever seeking to gorify the father as he alleviated human wretchedness and by his works of power gave evidence of his true dei ty he could not have been other than the son of god to do what he did no mere man however holy and gifted could cleanse lepers with a touch or a word give new strength to palsied limbs in response to the prayer of faith open the lips of the dumb and unstop deaf ears still the raging tempest feed multitudes with a few loaves and fishes and call the dead back to life all his miracles were such as would benefit mankind he did nothing of a spect acular character simply to astonish people and display his power al ways he manifested the compsion of god towards suffering men and women vcrte by vcrc mark 10 jesus came from nazareth and was baptized of john in jordan in this sudden way we are introduced to the the divine servant who at gods appointed honr laid aside his tools and carp enters apron and pledged himself in baptism to fulfill all rlghteous- ness on behalf of those who by this same sacred rite confessed their sin- fullness and their need of a saviour matt 30 15 he who had no sins to confess identified himself with sinners as the one who was to be baptized in death on their behalf verse 10- he saw the heavens opened the opened heavens exp ressed the fathers delight in his son at last a man was found on eaith whose one object was to glor ify god upon him the spirit desc ended in some visible form with dovelike gentleness the mourning dove isa 3s14 is the bird of love and sonow and thus jesus christ was fitly marked out as the etern al lover who was to be because of mans sin the man of soriows and acquainted with grief verse 11 a voice fioni heaven we see heie the entire trinity con cerned in the work of salvation when the son of man consecrated himself in baptism to die on sin ful mans behalf the spirit sealed him and the father pioclaimed him as the one in whom he found all his delight verse 12 the spirit driveth him into the wilderness as the dependent man on earth he volun tarily put himself under the holy spirits direction at whose bidding he went into the wilderness of quarantana east of jerusalem to be tempted of the devil verse 13 he was there tem pted of satan with the wild beasts and the angels ministered unto him the fiist man fell in a garden of delight surrounded by every evidence of gods favour the second man met satan and overcame him in a gloomy desert among the savage beasts there in his physical weakness he was the object of an gelic care and solicitude verse 14 jesus came into galil ee preaching the gospel of the king dom of god this was after the first judean ministry of our lord as iccorded in the early chfpteis of johns gospel the term the gos pel of the kingdom of god this means the good news of the reign of god over the earth beginning in the hearts of those who are born from above verse 15 the time is fulfilled that is the prophetic period spoken of in daniel 9 the consummation of the 69 weeks of years after which messiah was to be cut off the kingdom or he authority of god over the earth was ready to be es tablished if man was ready for it only by repentance and faith could this be verse 16 he saw simon and an drew casting a net these two had been drawn to him befoie as a result of the testimony of john the baptist who had been recently imprisoned they believed in jesus befoie they were now chosen to be with him in preparation for public testimony verse 17 come ye after me and i will make you fishers of men as yielded to his will inloving obed ience they would be taught by him in the great art of taking men alive and leading them to know and obey him too versels they forsook their nets and followed him recognizing his call as paramount to all else they gave up their temporal employment as fishermen to enter the school of christ that they might become his messengeis to israel and the world verse 19 he saw james and john his brother in the ship mend ing their nets they too had known him before john was one of those who left the bapist to go to the lord jesus and evidently he had won his brother james as andrew won peter verse 20 they left their father zebedee with the hired servants and went after him there is no hint that the father objected to the decisive action of his sons called to fulltime service they too forsook the fishing business to become win ners of souls verse 21 they went into caper naum and he entered into the synagogue and taught capernaum was hereafter to be recognized as his own city where e made what we would call today the headquarters of his great mission there in the synagogue built by a roman centur ion he preached the word announ cing the coming kingdom of right- eousness verse 22 he taught them as one that had authority and not as one of the scribes the scribes bas ed all their teaching on the sayings of noted rabbis and their interpreta tion of the scriptures the lord jes us spoke directly as one authorized to declare the mind of god himself this astonished his hearers who knew him only as the reputed son of joseph the carpenter of nazareth tlio llonrt of the levon as the divjne servant jesus christ j came from the glory that was his with the father in the past eternity into the world to do not his own will but the will of him who sent him in all his words and ways he was subject to the spirits direction this was the perfection of his min- given blood fob 15 yeaks meet the new blood donor cham pion he is geo w woods of the page hersey tubes plant in welland ont mr woods re cord js 630 donations of an aver age of 450 ccs or a total of 2s3500 ccs or 567 pints i have been giving blood almost once a week for 15 years he said i am one of those odd people that must let blood to feel well the highest donation y have given so far is a pint and threequai ters at one sitting three days later i gave a dona tion to a woman serious 111 my recipe is very simple eat lots of onions and garlic drink lots of water and youll probably do as i did go from 160 pounds to 215 without a days illness and feel grand know anyone who can beat this lecord the fitke iltkss after allied military forces landed in sicily and italy representative of great britain and the united sta tes created the first free press there since the rise of mussolini istry he made no move save by divine direction though himself the eternal son he laid aside the form of god and took the form of a servant that he might glorify the father and redeem mankind the jitterbug a weekly editor looks at ottawa written special tat at wttlfy newspaper of cenojm by jim greenblatl fiom parliament city while the west enjoyed september weather mostly ottawa hit 15 below zero on dec 14 the famous peace tower known to countless thousands who have enjoyed the magnificent view was closed for a time while a new floor was laid on the top landing leading to it this advertisement children the jump isfroni 360 anir 140 munitions supply point out that nearly half the householders of can ada depend on wood for heating their homes and they should get first con sideration as against fireplaces not necessary for heating therefore farmers adjacent to the wooded area are uiged to cut as much green wood as possible this winter for the 194445 winter payment of the 1 per cord production subsidy per iod is extended to march 31 1944 department of labour reveals 2- 400 prisoners of war are working on 25 labour projects across the country mostly producing fuel wood the daily rate per prisoner as high as 1 cords some are on farm jobs in carleton county ontario some in brooks alta district employers pay the going rate wages to the de partment which pays prisoners in accordance with international con vention here and there the rcmp pa trolled a total of 60000 miles in the northern territories of canada last winter besides his police duties send the tribune to absent friends in a local paper didnt startle any one furnished duplex dont ap- red coat acts as taxcollector postmaster game warden registrar of vital statistics and general super visor of welfare the 72 men who patrol the arctic wastes collect about 100000 annually in revenues for the federal government canadian shipyards delivered 11 escort vessel in november four being frigates three algerine minesweepers and four corvettes creamery butter holdings in canada as of dec 1st totalled 59687929 pounds compar ed with 72569529 pounds a month before and- 32347854 pounds last year youve heard a lot about tea and coffee lately heres the latest dope from the wptb at the present late of consumption there is just enough tea in the country to last fire or six months a small backlog con sidering the precariousness of the war in the pacific moreover 20 per cent of canadas tea supply is needed for the armed forces and the red cross just lecently the red cross asked for a goodly inciease of tea for prisonersofwar parcels as for cof fee canada is bringing in as much as she is allowed in her shipping alloca tion and its barely enough to meet the prevailing rate of consumption the board steadfastly discourages serving tea and coffee at any but re gular meals and for that also urges any hut regular meals be discontinu ed for the duration there is a definite shortage of me tal drums galvanized iron and simi lar containers storekeepeis farm ers and others who have empty drama- are asked to return them as soonaa possible to the company whose name they bear or to authorized salvage dealers prices will be paid accord ing to size and weight of drums agriculture development of the dairy industry is shown by these fi gures in 1941 all milk production was more than 1675 billion pounds from 3ss6000 cows an increase of about 71 and 50 per cent respective ly over 1910 creamery butter in 1942 reached 2s4 million pounds an increase of 340 per cent while cheese was nearly 203 million pounds an increase in excess of 51 million over 1941 canadian bees in 1943 gave our second largest honey crop in history 325 million pounds as beeswax is important in making numerous war materials and thats not all the bees make a big contribution by their pollinating activity the economic value there from is estimated 15 to 20 times greater than both honey and wax by crosspollinating bees assist in production of oil bearing seeds rub ber plants legume seed fruits and vegetables ply unless you can pay a years rent in advance a few days ago the ribbon of the 1939 to 1943 star ap peared for the first time in ottawa on some repatriated airmen some of those entitled to wear it have not yet received it appearing in juvenile court heie a 13yearold lad said he had asked santa for a sleigh to haul beer a business which he found to be lucrative until arrested answers to the hundreds of rural women who have written to the con sumer branch wartime prices and trade board about rations for ser vice men on weekend leaves from now on men on 48 72 and 96hour leaves will get a card with their pass es hearing the stamps of the issuing unit the name regimental rank and number plus the number of meals served by his hostess must be entered by the visitor the hostess on her part signs the card enteis the number of meals she has served when nine meals aie served the card is taken or mailed to the near est local ration board which then issues coupons for a twoweeks sup ply of any rationed commodity the hostess may desire thats all there is to it most foods with few exceptions increased in supply moving into civi lian consumption over prewar the bureau of statistics tells us take fluid milk for instance per capita consumption has risen to 4563 pounds per capita from 4033 during the five years before the war cheese even with a sharp increase in production remains about the same at 39 pounds all extra sup plies of course went to the united kingdom evaporated whole milk consumption was almost doubled at 121 lbs per capita meats with main increase in beef moved from 1201 in the period 193539 to 1344 in 1943 more employment payrolls account for it with the fighting services a spe cial permit for nonalloy steel to manufacture 500000 safety razor blades for faces on the fighting front the auxiliary services also got an allowance of three cola drinks per man per week in the uk and 60- 000 pair of leather shoe laces for the canteens and plenty of turkeys for christmas over 120000 bags of parcels each with eight parcelswere handled to say merry christmas to the sons and daughters overseas many parcels have to be repacked because they were broken and that is the senders fault improper ad dressing is also a pain in the neck to the workers the cost of living bonus for service mens dependents was increased 412 per mdnth for wives with children 220 without