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e vv rv f- c3sy8r lj iiitf f trill ntiiiri established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and ontario quebec newspapers association issued every thursday at stouffville ontario subscription bates per year in advance in canada 200 in usa 3260 a v nolan son publishers notes and comments the ontario election toronto saturday night publishes some very fine editorial comments and leans toward the king regime at ottawa but here is their considered opinion on theontario election and mr hepburn readers of this periodical who have followed its policies for the past few years will not expect us to show any enthusiasm for the return to power in ontario of a provincial liberal party headed by mr mitchell hepburn with some of the charges which mr hepburn brings against premier drew we have a certain amount of sympathy we think that mr drew has been unduly con cerned to use the province of ontario as a mechanism for combatting and obstructing the dominion government but tfeere is nobody in all ontario with less right to bring that charge than mr hepburn and nobody whom we should be less disposed to trust with the task of restoring a decent dominionprovincial relationship when the present emer gency powers of thedominion come to an end readers will also riotexpect iis to show any enthusiasm for the coming to power of the ocf party under mr jolliffe we do not share the view of some of our commercial and financial friends and that party must never be permitted to come to power ho matter what may be the wishes of the majority of the ontario electorate for that view seems to us much too close to fascism the people who compose the ccf party in ontario are our fellowcitizens they have been for the most part brought up in belief in the principles of british parliamentary government and if they should ever come to power in this province as they have in saskatche wan we trust that they would rule in accordance with those principles more than that we have no right to ask but in the meantime they appear to us to be much too inexperi enced w doctrinaire and too unclear as to their own purposes and the means of attaining them to be capable of forming a desirable government at this crucial moment it follows that mr drew who has conducted the affairs of the province with dignity and ability through a difficult period in which he had at no time the assured support of a majority of the legislature is in pur opinion much the best candidate for the post of chief minister of the province and we hope that he will have a following in the legislature sufficiently large to enable him to carry oh without having ito be continually concerned to play off theccf against the liberals and the communists against both independent thinking there is a growing tendency on the part of voters to do their own thinking these days no longer is it a mark of distinction for a person to boast he had only voted grit or tory all his life such an admission now merely means that the person who has done that did not dq very much thinking they only saw their own party no matter what the policy and ho party has always been right the tendency today on the part of the younger people is to vote for the man and not the party we can see how- ever where this may present a problem too since here and there one may want to vote forsay king and another may want to vote for bracken but the candidate repre- sentirig either of these leaders may be of little account jusli what one should do under such circumstances may seem difficult but our opinion is that a useless representa- tive should never be supported under any circumstances ho matter whose banner he is marching along under backward or forward how often do we hear that a town must either go back- ward or forward a business must keep improving or it will go stagnate and assuming this to be a fact stouffville cer- tainlyis not going backward if the present scale program laid- out is developed in the next few years since the beginning of the year we as a community have embarked on a program to develop our high school by adding a modern heating plant dining facilities and an auditorium in addition the municipal council has had the vrtown streets- designated by their names on proper sign boardsfatid they are looking into the possibility of making a start on paving the side streets with tarviato get away from the annual oiling program so many people dislike an order has been placed for a number of new modern street lights that should arrive any time now and- will when erected illuminate our main business thoroughfare in a way it has never been done before and in keeping with the business done in this place ii home town news still best interest in national and world news has spurted since the war began but people still like best to read about the happenings around the corner and down the street the american newspaper publishers associations bureau re- ports even the mighty panorama of war itself seldom be came wholly real till it came home in stories told by local boys returning from the front in locally slanted despatches about the combat exploits of hometown lads we know or in the sad terse eloquence of the local casualty list the bureau said further evidence if it is needed that local news is most appreciated is the fact that during the present war the tnbunecirculatjqhhas about doubled- yet we did not cater togenerakwarnews butcirculatiohwent up and up istands now at the all time peak for stouffville and for any icountry weekly published in similar sized towns in ontario v- li jl f r -ii- i tgfy nc-i-sa- vote on june 4th to assort good government for ontario lex mackenzie is a champion of labour the farmer and the war veteran he firmly supports what george drew has already accomplished and will keep faith with the voters when he takes ms place in the next government he states having accomplished so much during his short term of office and having proven himself the friend of labour the farmer and the war veteran george drew is the man to lead us through the post war period to support drew on june 4th vote lex mackenzie although lacking the advantage of a seat in the house lex mackenzie had been a frequent visitor to the parliament buildings and without remuneration has given unselfishly of his time in the interests of labour the farmerand the war veteran published by the north york progressiveconservative association a our capital correspondent written expressly for the stouffville tribune by dean wilson as it is to be expected there is great interest and tremendous con cern in this nations capital about the return from abroad of canadas gallant fighting men and the gener al plan is now known in ottawa re vealing that troops who have vol unteered and who have been n cepted for service in the far east getting top priority and the men who have served longest from the viewpoint of time alone will deter mine the mans return since prior ities of other sorts exist such as a married man receiving priority a- bove a single man with the same time another most interesting de vclopment in this return of cari- aclas service men is that itisnow known that requests have been put to ottawa that canadian liberated prisoners of war should be return ed to this country without any undue delay because these men have suffered considerably in var ious forms of hardships in europe in the last few months particular ly in germany during which time these men were moved from camp to camp under extremely trying conditions it has not been properly publi cized but it has been whispered for sometime behind the scenes in this capital that preparations have been made in detail so that whatever government will be returned o power after june 11 will be able to summon a dominionprovincial conference as soon as possible moreover the urgent need for such a gathering of canadas political leaders in the central and provinc ial fields is growing steadily especially since the close of the european war indeed a hint of this urgency came out backstage in ottawa when it was learned that premier duplessis of quebec was most desirous of obtaining an abrogation of the federalprovinc ial agreement covering income and corporation tax collections which were enacted as a war meas ure in 1942 granting to the federal government exclusive right to make these collections and allow ing compensation to quebec of 20- 000000 a year for this loss of revenue then again it is reported that premier duplessis has gone so far as to say that this wartime agreement had put the province in a critical financial postion in other words this case and others suggest that the wed for a domin ionprovincial conference is becom ing most urgent and this may mean that such a i gathering may be ah initial major responsibility of what ever government will be returned to power in ottawa on 11 the sudden end of the war jn europe has brought one of the first big headaches to themenrurinihg the official electoral machinery in ottawa where it isj learnt the proxy system of voting whereby nextofkin of prisoners of war may cast ballots for these men is prov ing troublesome many prisoners of war have been liberated and these men can vote themselves so that there is no need for the proxy system in these cases involving a waste of time and money in the- creation of the proxy system ami an extra load of work for osetalsi in checking the rapid changes oat- such lists send the tribune to absent friends ismthfl small ordinarily one canadian in every six gainfully employed earns his livelihood in a small business it may be a farm a store or a lumberyard an architects office or z service station taken together these individual enter prises provide a very substantial part of canadas total jobs must continue to do so after the war during the years ahead many people who dropped small business for war reasons will want to return to their accustomed or new ways of making a living thus old businesses will be revived many new ones will be started by returned men and people now in war indus tries the commercial banks will do their part to afford assurance that no sound credit requirement need be left unserved in the field of small business as such businesses grow they create additional job openings that has been the pattern of canadian cnter- prises most large companies began in a small way- and practically all could name some bank which played a part in their growth by providing the loans they needed to finance their daytoday operations yoor bank stands ready to serve businesses small or large well established or just starting out banks do not initiate such businesses but they do furnish neces sary working capital and many other forms of banking service jhts atlverf fsemenf it sponsored by your bank no fewer than 94 out of every hundred estahlhh- menlt in the manufactur ing wholesale retail and services fields are small employing lets than 15 people together they em ploy 37 of all the workers engaged in these daises of business from 1941 census i-visc- swrajir v ji-liis- jitff vpriwisiefesiill