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the tribune stouffville ont thursday september 25 1947 xhp 3tmiffmup ribunr established 18s8 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and ontario quebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations paidinadvance circulation as of march 1st 2553 issued every thursday at stouffville ontario subscription rates per year in advance in canada 200 u in u a- v nolan son publishers 250 notes and comments dangerous rural boxes the financial post editorially classifies the farm rural box as dangerous some of the stuff that is puinto the box mav be a bit doubtful but the box itself is hard y dangeroih it is a general nuisance to workmen especially in winter when snow cleaning is on the go however themail post is frail and is easily snapped off by car or truck and hardlv presents a serious obstacle in case of emergency- however the post prints the extraordinary suggestion of the manitoba motor league that the boxes might be placed in farm lanes can you rural people imagine anything quite so fine but why not do away with the box and have the mail man drop the letters in at the door just as possible to do this as to require the mail courier to drive into the farm lane ever so short a distance the mail box along the roadside could be made more attractive and be less of a nuisance if the farmer would take a little pride and keep it brightly painted also keep the name printed on the box as the postal requirement say he should do motorists might have more respect for a well kept mail box than an old rusty one looking like a discarded can here is the post editorial the present position of rural mail boxes along the highway is considered dangerous and unsightly by the manitoba motor league in a letter to the postmaster- general the league suggests that these be removed from the shoulder of the road and placed on standard approved mounts in the receivers driveway most highway users including the mail box owners themselves must agree that this criticism seems justified in many cases boxes and their posts come unpleasantly close to traffic and in no case are they decorative original regulations regarding location were based on horse delivery the boxes being mounted in such a position that mail could be delivered or picked up without the courier dismounting turning or having to leave the right side of his route with motor delivery a little extra manoeuvring is not so important though even without this as at present it has not always been easy to secure applicants for the job and after tendering many rued their bargain if delivery it to be made more difficult especially during winters of heavy snow this free service of the dominion govern ment may prove costlier bigger dustbowl threatened two years of drought could produce a bigger dustbowl in the centre of the united states than the disastrous one which developed during the thirties- that is the opion of washington soil specialists who claim that continued high wheat prices are responsible at least five billion acres of grasslands on the margin of the old dustbowl have been plowed up and put into wheat still more will be plowed loose if prices stay firm it is feared with thefibre of the grass roots gone this soil would start to move quickly if it dried out a menace to good farming country for miles around it was the plowing up of marginal land during and after the first great war which resulted in the first exper ience with widescale soil drifting on the canadian and american plains on this side of the line however the lesson was learned and undev the prairie farm rehabilitation act millions of acres of light marginal land were taken over and seeded down firmly with special droughtresistant grasses this has stayed seeded down there was seeding down in the united states too but apparently nothing was done to prevent getrichquick wheat farmers from plowing it up again once loose it is difficult to stop drifting soil from rolling across and ruining miles of good country but the big new pastures created in our southern prairies should prove a barrier bull fighting and prize fighting the other day the great manolete was gored by a bull in the ring and died soon after this happened in spain but it was front page news in toronto therefore we feel justi fied in dealing with bullfighting as clean sport sometimes the bull gets the best of it but not very often we thought as we read about the socalled hero bullfighting is not a sport but a spectacle a holdover of roman barbarism and as such should be condemned by all rightthinking people no doubt such a view would be an offence to spanish and mexican standards but not to canadian standards for bullfighting is forbidden in this country the brutality of the bullfight affects the whole attitude toward animals the suffering of the horses in the ring who are disembowled before the spectators eyes makes for horror and a callousness we canadians cannot understand while many of the riders love their steeds and can be sentimental about the animals and careful of his life just as he is of his own yet there is the cruelty we spoke of this to a mexican at thecne who was tending horses in the midway and when we said the bull fight was cruel he shrugged his shoulders and said ves yes you like cruelty to humans better what about the prize fighter well he rather had us there but we did admit the prize fight is cruelty and barbarious too but at least in its favors is the fact that the participants are all willing not so with bullfighting the bull and the horse are victims of the pleasure seeking thriller a softer race on the way the fact is the human race is restless ir surges like the wa of the sea says r j deachman noted writer in north and south dakota the last census recorded a 15 per cent drop montana and idaho fell more than 10 per cent in the south mississippi kentucky alabama and georgia lost population due to the migration of negroes california is the up and coming state of the union michigan and ohio because of their great manufacturing industries fol low after california wins because of its climate we are becoming a softer race the fire is dying out in the eyes of the pioneers he says- baby bonuses and old age pensions are working their will upon us the supreme desire of the human race today is not for new worlds to conquer not even for peacetime victories we seek a spot in the sun where we can gaze at the stars movie stars life need not be strenuous the cry of the world is for rest with a soft drink by our sideand that is the simple truth are pheasant shoots worth while if a vote were taken we believe the farmers would instruct the councils to do away with pheasant hunting after all it is becoming a bit of a nuisance for the farmers outsiders range over their premises the farmer and his live stock are more or less in danger at this season from being hit bv strav shots reallv one mav ask is it worth it what benefit is derived by a municipality by creating a game preserve in this matter with advertised dates for city people to come in and shoot it would only be fair for tax payers to ask for a financial statement on the matter and if this is gained will it be imposing enough to warrant going to the trouble councils go to plus the fear many have about danger lurking in every road on hunting days started a few years ago with a great deal of enthusiasm the annual pheasant shoot is now a fixture in markham whitchurch and pickering townships a lot of money is being spent annually to provide constables on the days of the hunt and this year the councils in the first two men tioned townships at least have spent a sum of money for erecting pens and feeding young birds in order that they may be available in the country on the twoday shooting dates it is true that this expenditure is returned in license fees in whole in part or even showing a small surplus the surplus if any is too small to be noticed by the tax payers over whose lands the city hunters range on the days of the hunt reeve evans of whitchurch when watching an account of over 100 pass in council for caring for newly arrived pheasants say truly i wonder if it is worth it sunflowers keep turkeys home we do not know by what authority they speak but the calgary daily albertan tells us something interesting for turkey growers concerning the value of sunflowers since we have the turkeys and can grow the sunflowers how about noting this information the alberta newspaper says a rural informant reveals that sunflowers are planted around the edge of turkeyruns to keep the birds from flying over the fence the seeds are eaten but that is a secon dary importance unlike their wild ancestors modern domestic turkeys cannot attain great altitudes in flight theyre too heavy but they can and do fly over a sixfoot fence the expense of 10 or 12foot fences has now been found unnecessary just plant sunflowers along the inside of an ordinary low fence as the turkeys grow so do the sunflowers by the time the turkeys can fly the sunflowers have reached their full height of 10 or 12 feet flexing his primary wing muscles a gobbler eyes the distant world of unknown delights and prepares for the takeoff then he sees the closestanding ranks of tall sentinels and changes his mind he hasnt sense enough to know he could thrash right through the sunflowers and escape the middle of october to determine policy with no strike anticipated until this meeting at least has been held with the lifting of thousands of controls it would logically be sus pected by canadians that the framework or legal structure of the wartime prices and trade board at the headquarters in ottawa as well as in branches across the country will immediately drop almost ah employees on their staff however it is reported here that while some few hundred members of their staff would gradually be released of their duties yet actually the reductions in staff would not be great our capital correspondent though there is apparently out ward calm in officialdom in face of a surprising wave of discontent sweeping across this country in the wake of the governments major decontrol move yet inside ott awa it is known thai many officials are keeping an anxious watch over the latest developments resulting trcm the lifting of all controls over thousands of commodities and services especially showing con cern on the accounts of possible skyrocketing food prices it is evident that officials in ott awa believe that common sense and competition in private enterprise may keep prices within reason until a- proper adjustment will take place at least they hope for such peacetime adjustments to come jsooner than the maninthemreet seems to think that these will come hut they also hope that labor un rest may not come though such is threatened all in all it is a gloomy picture slong parliament hin nowadays people may resist buying many commodities it is whispered here but it is doubtful if they can resist eating so that the skyrocketng food prices particularly those resulting from the removal of the hard wheat subsidy is causing most of the dis content since somehow or other the steadily rising bread prices appear to be instigating more complaints than anything else judging from reports heard in this capital with the agitation among low earning groups increasing rather than de creasing on this point and providing excellent material for such agita tion under normal conditions the next session of the canadian parlia ment would probably open at the end of january or early in febru ary however wellinformed circles i in this capital are now talking about j the possibility that the members may be called back here earlier if i any critical situation should arise i especially on the economic front or j the dollar shortage crisis to war pant such an earlier meeting i warnings are heard now in reliable quarters in ottawa that fuel oil may be in short supply this coming winter and that fuel oil companies are not guaranteeing that they will be able to supply any- new customers this year with demands exceeding supplies in fact it is held that since the federal government granted special prior ities to oil companies for steel for construction of additional storage tanks the oil business ha been on its own and the government is exercising no longer any control over fuel oil so that it would only move into the picture in the event of a national emergency these warnings are extremely important because there have been many conversions from coal to oil- burning equipment durins the past year or so and many people do not realize the supply situation as far as coal is concerned it is expected to be much the same as last year- on the basis of reports in circu lation here the threatened strike of canadian railway workers may not come about as soon as the man-in- ihestree expects since the trke vote for or atrainst such a strike would not lead immediately to action of this sort because there would have to be a joint meeting of all railway unions probably ia m wherever there is there youll find the understanding heart the human touch of the salvation army the salvation army is continually sav- ng lives for canada from the man whose misdeeds have landed him in misery poverty or jail to the girl trapped by weakness or betrayal from the unwanted babe or neglected child to the old man or woman forgotten in the sunset of life the army stands ready to serve all who are in need the understanding heart and the human touch of the salvation army make it a powerful agency for social good your dollars make this work pos sible no cause has a greater claim on your pocketbook helphelpless gwntfetzetohrtfy stouftvillf campaign week of srptembrr 29th h banncroan chairman