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x v v 7 thetribtmestouiffle 0 established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and ontario quebec newspapers association issued every thursday at stouffville ontario eight to twelve pages latest paid circulation 2100 subscription kates per year in advance in canada 200 in ujsa 8260 a v nolan son publishers notes and comments an army travels on its stomach it was napoleon who said that an army travels on its stomach and well said it was the old war horse of other days might well have gone further and said that a com munity travels on its stomach stouffville is finding this out these days when restaurant conditions are so bad that people avoid our town around lunch time we are not as hospitable as we once were and we are very conscious of the fact so far the lions club and the business men who have given- the matter much thought have arrived at no solution we have but one restaurant and it is not in a position to cope with the various types of customers who eat at restaurants while the second restaurant has been closed for a year and can scarcely be called a restaurant any more we have the mansion house too which can scarcely be called a hotel since it serves no meals thus the travelling public receive short shift at our hands its not because we do not want to serve the public at meal time but circumstances are such that the business man cannot do much about it restaurant people plenty of them have an eye on stouffville as a place for them to locate but all are barred because there is no place to es tablish an eating house only vacant place in the town f or business is the former bank of nova scotia building which strangely enough is not rented- stouffville lions club dealt with this matter at their first meeting since they like the travelling public are eat ing at the curb and literally from hand to mouth just now last year the lions even went to markham village to feed up on one or two occasios stouffville is under built in its business section and a situationlike this further emphasizes the need for another business block of not too large proportions you will note that this editorial fails to feed the hungry and merely reiterates a situation that our people are already familiar with until it is solved an army of bus iness men cannot travel to our town around meal time be cause it is true that an army travels on its stomach local industries needed badly the farmers advocate champions well the cause of the small town and its claim to a share in the work of in dustry in the following copying our united states cousins canada has placed so much emphasis on bigness that towns and villages are stripped of local industries and everything is concentrated in the industrial centres of central canada much to the detriment of the nation and to the population at large once thriving centres in old ontario are now little better than ghost towns most- of the big industries of the mari- time provinces have been sucked into toronto and mon treal and anything produced on the prairies is loaded on to freight cars and sent thousands of miles away to be pro- cessedand consumed on paper it may look well to concentrate industry in big centres where labour is available power is plentiful arid snipping facilities are best- the factors economists say determines where industries will be located apparently we have listened to the economists and ignored all the other factorsthat combine to make life pleasant arid worth while in the grand new world that is to come after the war ah the products possible should be processed near the scene of production arid employment thus created so a much larger percentage of the population can live and work in clean thriving local centres far from the maddening crowd registration of threshing machines cancelled it is not necessary for the owner or operator of a threshingmachine including a combine to register it the- year before starting tnreshing the section of the weed control act which previously made registration compul sory has been rescinded the act- worked badly and f amb ers complained against it bitterly result was the law was seldom carried but and so the legislature got rid of the thing legislation with respect to the cleaning of the thresh ing machine and equipment before moving however still remains in the weed controlact thv section states as follows every person in possession or charge of any 3l us for threshing shall before removing such machine or any equipment used in connection therewith to a fa or before travelling upon any public road- way clean or cause the same to be cleaned thoroughly both in and out by the removal of all seeds and other crop refuse a- threshing machine which has not been cleaned be- rfore it is moved will carry seeds on to clean lanes road sides and neighboring farms mixing of varieties will occur and smut and other seed borne diseases will be carried from farm to farm farmers are urged not to risk contamination of farm and crops by permitting a threshing machine to enter the farm gate in an unclean condition when engaging your thresher insist that the machine and- equipment be thoroughly cleaned weakness of price fixing the family herald and weekly star one of canadas leading agricultural publications is not impressed with the value of the farm floor price legislature passed in the house of commons the other day declares the financial post it refers to this policy as a hollow front and asks in its stead legislature guaranteeing parity pricees says the family herald what farmers and fishermen really want is a guar antee that 100 gallons of milk or 100 lbs of halibut will always buy 100 units of farm machinery or groceries or gasoline or clothes but if milk and fish prices stay at their floors while the other prices soar then 100 units of farm products may buy only 90 or 70 or 50 units of other products we- think mariy farmers and farm publications will agree with the fariiily herald that floor price policy is impractical butit is extremely doubtful whether the solut ion our contemporary offers would be any more workable the trouble is that the goods to be exchanged are not static and especially those which the farmer wishes to se cure two hundred and fifty bushels of wheat might be a fair exchange for a binder today but would it be for a vast ly improved binder of five years from now there- is absolutely no comparison between many of the combination and powerdriven farm machines on the market today with those single operation affairs of 10 years ago and there is good reason to believe that there will be even more evolution in the next decade it would be ex tremely difficult if riot impossible to devise and operate a parity price scheme flexible enough to cover such develop ment that illustrates one weakness of the parity price idea there is another arid even more serious one and it also applies to the floor price policy so far as agriculture is concerned it is vital to our prosperity to have a large export market we must export twothirds of our wheat and a very large proportion of our pork beef cheese and fruit we can only do this if our customers scattered throughout the world are satisfied with the prices asked they and not some board at ottawa will decide what is a reasonable price what is a fair ex change in their surplus goods for our wheat or bacon or our cheese- true we can refuse to sell or trade we did that once with wheat about a dozen years ago but the re sult riiay be far from pleasant instead of worrying about keeping future farm and other prices jacked up to some artificial level it might be better if we concentrated on keeping costs down so that in natural lines of production canadian goods can meet world competition sunday sickness ye are indebted to rev djiac- gregor for the following clipping taken from the chicago tribune an item in which ministers would naturally be interested since it is in their flock that the disease men tioned runs contagious and the minister is most keen to perceive it morbus sabbaticus a sunday illness peculiar to churchgoers symptoms vary but never inter fere with normal appetite attack never lasts more than twentyfour hours physician never needed intermittent attacks at first then chronic malignant and fatal fa order named the attacks come suddenly every sunday morningno symptoms fett saturday night patient sleeps well until late sunday eats hearty breakfast but about churchtime complains and- feels the disease coming on difficulty passes just in time for patient to eat hearty din ner and go for an afternoon walk or auto ride similar occurrence comes at time of evening church services patient sleeps well on sunday nighvaridhasno further signs of symptoms until the following sun day- morning- editors mail 52 beatty avenue ajax ont dear sir n permit me to offer you my con gratulations on the editorial that appeared in the tribune i am sure if more editorials of this nat ure were to appear in the daily and weekly press our provincial and federal governments riiay lie more willing to substitute free hospitali zation and other services for the family allowances free hospita lization is badly needed for a more healthy canada the baby bonus has turned out to be a political scandal which is no tribute to the boys and girls in the armed forces f yours a subscriber send the tribune to absent friends men and women are urgently lfmf i needed lluyv fo save essential food crops now ready for harvesting tomato pickers peach pickers apple pickers grape pickers aug 15 to oct 1 aug 15to 23 sept 15 to oct 20 sept 15 to oct 31 oneway transportation paid those who will work a minimum of one month return transportation paid to those who remain until the end of picking season pleasant outdoor work with good wages and an opportunity to serve on the food front are avail able to hundreds of men and women of ontario now i apply at once in person or mail this coupon ontario farm service force parliament buildings toronto i am a volunteer for the food front nome address telephone ago from dates available to willi need horses fob europes farms canadian breeding stock may playa large part in rebuilding the livestock herds of europe when the war is oyer particularly in the restoration bf farm power the horse will be required and some idea of the coming demand for horses may be gained from the estimates of the declining numbers of horses in the various countries since the war began it is estimat ed that the numbers of horses in britain holland and belgium have been reduced by half in russia by onethird and that only onethird of the original number of horses has been left in poland czechoslo vakia jugoslavia and greece germany by plundering other nat ions is believed to have as many horses if not more than when the war began however say the authorities the task of supplying farm power to help in the restor ation of agriculture in the devas tated countries is going to be a tre mendous one and ms expected- to result in a strong demand for can adian horses for some time to come ontario farmers 1oo0 men 5d -3f- p iifiira rr what is home eight hundred replies came to a london magazine which asked the question what is home these answers were written by persons representing all classes seven were selected and published home a world of strife shut out a world of love shut in homerthe place where the small are great and the great are small home the fathers kingdom the mothers world and the chil- rens paradise home the place where we grumble the most and are treated the best home the centre of our af fection round which our hearts best wishes twine home the place where our stomachs get three square meals a day and our hearts a thousand home the only place on earth where the faults and failures of humanity are hidden under the sweet mantle of charity perhaps you can add a better definition this is ah appeal to the farmers orontarjco the packing plants oi ontario which process and ship your livestoclc for export are seriously short of men eetavabivanner of ontario is urged to offer his services for employment in one of the packing plants in this province as soon as the essential work tfmmis completedroveri000 inihare recruifedtostart in the month of september alone good hourly wages will be paid transportation to the plantwill be provided assistance wilt be given in arranging board and room with full staffs the packing plants of canada have ample capacity to handle even the tremendously increased numbers of cattle sheep and swine which canadian farmers have ready for market this year when operating tpcapacity the packmg plants can keep the market cleared and livestock can be slaughtered processed and shipped at itsinost profitable time when it is af its market peak thus losses which occur when animals are held beyond the peak through additional feeding costs through falling away from peak condition and through- the danger to price stmctureswheh supply threatens to exceed demand are avoided j last year several hundred ontario farmers volunteered for work in the plants in processing their own products and protecting iheirown interests production for export this year has increased by j0 available manpower has shrunk by 28 r w vrs -oliwt- t tthe ontario farm service force in conjunction with employment and selective service has undertaken me jast of rai sufficient help homontano farmers to keep packing plants operating to capacity thus year this department of the ontario governments department of agriculture feels that this extension of ite service lisjas vitally important to the interests of the farmers of this prov ince as anything it has yetundertakjenthe need of meat as a primary essential food to our allied armies to the people of great britain and to the starving millions in countries being liberated by our victorious armies is the basic consideration in addition efficient operation in the processing and marketing of livestock is necessary in protecting the greatest export market ever opened to canadian farmers i your services are needed from now uniil spring it you cannofdevote lhat full period of time a month or more will be of great assistance offer your services as soon as possible ii you cannot go to work at ones coll or writs stating that you will come and at what date you win be available remember you will bo terring your own bett intoroiu as well as playing a rital patriotic part in serving your country for lull information or offering your tervicet apply in person phono or wrrfe fo your nearest office of employment and selective service or wnfe fo iiv the ontario farm service force parliament buildings toronto dominionprovincial committee published under aulhorhy of wm50 on farm labour agriculture labour education c s imt m