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the tribune stouffville ort thursday october 2 1947 bp tnuffnillp uribmip established 1838 member of the canadian weekly newspaper associate 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 ic canada 200 in usa s2o0 a- v nolan son publishers notes and comments a suggestion to township councils a rural farm lady has requested the tribune to make the suggestion through these columns to the various town ship councils that they reserve space in the paper to carry the name of police officers so that farmers or others would become familiar with the officers or their telephone num bers in case of emergency the altona ladys sponsored idea feels jhat all farmers should know where to appeal for help incase of emergency must save power a return in the immediate future to the dim out which resulted in electric signs and show windows being darkened at night during the war was envisioned at the annual convention of the eastern ontario municipal elec trical association at kingston last week when it was an nounced by ross strike of bowmanville one of the com missioners of the ontario hydro electric power commis sion that ontario is facing disaster if power consumption is not reduced mr strike suggested that legislation might be sought from parliament to enforce power conservation if the volun tary appeal did not work it has been known for some time that the provinces power demand was such that the he pc could not keep up every effort is being made to bring new developments into production but this will take time due to the shortage of material and the time element re quired for construction during its meeting the eome association passed the following resolution because it is necessary to make the most efficient use of power supply at present available to the users of electri cal energy in ontario the hydro electric power commis sion be requested to submit to all hydro municipalities a list of desirable methods which might be used by local commissions for conserving power so that municipalities may pursue a definite and common policy of power conser vation that the hydro electric power commission be re quested to send a letter to all hydro municipalities review ing the power situation so that local commissions will be adequately informed regarding the overall demand for power and the supplies available to meet it and that may deal intelligently with any new demands for power which may arise in their municipalities it is to be hoped that all residents of the province will cooperate with the authorities along whatever line of con servation it is decided to follow so that the flow of goods to consumers may be maintained at least at a reasonable level the public and certainly no newspaper value come to hand every mail each day most newspapers editors have no time to read them and in business offices mail matter such as these seldom reaches an executive officer but aside from the nuisance of receiving this flood of publicity mostly government propaganda there is the un necessary expense to the canadian taxpayer of the prepara tion of these reports etc as hundreds of people are re quired in their production postal employees especially in the country offices have the added burden of looking after them and altogether it is for all practical purposes just a waste of good paper much of the information for many of these reports must be gathered from private business peo ple who are plagued by the incessant demand for reports on this and that one business man in bracebridge told us a short time ago that in his business a clerk is kept busy all the time making up data for government reports most of which did not seem to him to be necessary or of value most business firms especially the newspaper offices could do without this flood of printed matter the clerks in government departments who are employed in its pre paration could be put to more useful work and a lot of money could be saved to the canadian taxpayer condemns packing house strike half a million farmers are unable to market a major product and face staggering feed bills and heavy dockage from overweight livestock as a result of the packing house strike declares the financial post at least half the con sumers of this country are going to be forced to go without meat vitally needed bacon and beef exports to britain will have to be discontinued at a time when most of the world is critically short of food millions of pounds are going to be wasted here beef cattle lambs hogs and poultry are perishable products when they are ready for market every day lost is getting them there means extra feed that should be going into younger growing animals and lower quality when the held back stock finally reaches the packer a waste of paper the bracebridge herald has a timely word of protest against the announcement that two more government pub lications no doubt of a statistical nature will shortly be issued by the dominion government it reads announcement has been made by the department of labor at ottawa that three more publications are being in stituted in that department and that reports will be sent out regularly with the present flood of printed matter from ottawa it will be bad news to newspaper people and others that this is to be increased statistics on this and that sketches of proposed plans the opinions of one offi cial and another little of which has any general interest to way to prosperity not by spending says mr gardiner at the third conference of the food and agriculture organization fao recently held at geneva switzerland the right hon james g gardiner dominion minister of agriculture and canadas delegate to fao speaking on the world food and agriculture situation said in part canada is a surplus food producing country because of her broad spaces which are sparsely settled the chairmans request for plans to induce greater production of food encourages me to say that the greatest encouragement can be given in canada not by spasmodical ly high prices to meet special conditions but by stability on a reasonable basis z the discussions have indicated that this stability can be promoted through international organization under fao through multilateral agreement or through bilateral con tracts canada prefers the first two methods in preference to the last but experience has shown first because of the nec essities of war and later as a matter of cooperation that it is easier to have bilateral contracts on all the staple food products of which we have surpluses these have served a good purpose in establishing that security necessary to in creased production it is not our intention to abandon them until mutually better results can be obtained either through multilateral agreements or internation understand ings through fao we also believe that much can be done to assist in our problems related to shelter clothing and food which i think are fundamental by shifting population we are laying plans to double our population over a terms of years mr gardiner advised those in geneva to utilize some of their time reading some of the teachings of calvin and knox to remove fallacies based upon the idea that either pations or individuals can spend themselves into prosperity he complimented britain upon taking its austerity immediately following the war in the hope that prosperity would follow rather than grabbing prosperity now with austerity sure to follow though there has been a drop of 5000000 in the seventh month and another of sls000000 in the sixth month in canadas adverse trading position with the us and there have taken place without any dras tic action to stop the flow- of such us dollars aross the border yet this improvement has not changed the situation in regard to the pre sent serious currency crisis it is learned on parliament hill so that the opinion here seems to be some thing drastic may still be forth coming in order to correct the situ- ation two of the most persistent stories here claim that this situa tion may possibly bring some sort of ban on imports and foreign exchange restrictions though there is much official silence on both pro posals the popular suggestion that all food parcels for britain should be freed from postage costs as a gift for hrh princess elizabeth on the occasion of her wedding is a topic of much favourable comment here it is pointed out that such parcels at the moment are restricted to a 20pound limit and the postage costs thats right none better at any price aurora belle pastry flour aurora flour feed mills lid range from 25 cents for the first pound to 250 for parcels from 15 to 20 pounds if freed from such costs the expectation is that much needed canadian food would be donated to the british masses by people in this country who can easily make such gifts the canadian government has reported that total labor income for the first half of 1917 is now estimat ed at 2s45 million and this is 17 or 410 millions more than labor income in canada in the same period last year with more than half of this increase having occurr ed in manufacturing and trade these two groups accounted for s219 million of the difference of 110 million on a relative basis the largest increase took place in logg ing water transportation and con struction where labor income in the first half of 1917 was from 30 to 40 higher than in the first half of 19 0 agriculture showed a decrease of almost 30 which was clue entirely to a reduction in the num ber of workers wage rates of male help as reported here increased from 9027 on may 15 1910 to 10090 on may 15 1917 somehow or other it is learned in ottawa reports that the prices of shoes may rise by as much as 25 has brought a wild rush for shoes in stores across canada and some retailers have been compelled to restrict the number of shoos which they can sell to customers people are buying two or more pairs of shoes at one time and re tailers fear that this may lower their stocks to a dangerous point with the biggest stampede into the shoe stores being reported in the larger cities notwithstanding prices may recede again at the turn of the year in revealing that the average pur- chase price of new motor vehicles in canada was considerably higher last year than in any previous year for whic1 a measurement has been made the authorities in ottawa have disclosed that the price of a passenger car averaged si 51 and for a commercial vehicle s1726 in prewar years the average selling price of passenger cars had fluctu ated within the 1000 to 1100 range there was a tendency for the average purchase price to move in an upward direction throughout the years 1932 to 1910 but the sharpest rise had occurred in 1911 when the average reached 1302 the canadian government is reported to have had a surplus of 143099258 in its financial opera tions for the fivemonths period from april 1 to august 31 and now it is asked if this might not mean that the drive to lower costs of government may prove so success ful this year that by the time the next budget is made lower taxes may be an actuality rather than an ambition a bright future for telivision and frequency modulation in the radio field was forecast here by an executive of a big radio organiza tion and he claimed that in the not- toodistant future television sets would be as numerous in homes in canada as radios are today toys for british and continental children are being made by can adian soldiers in their own time for shipment overseas in time for christmas at a meeting here it was suggest ed that there was a possibility of holding the 1950 winter olympic games in canada the speaker of the house of com mons hon gaspard fauteux is in england where he is engaged in studying procedural methods of the british parliament in speeding up the operations of that body judging from the reaction of women in this capital the new fash ion styles for this fall are not popu lar with a great many women with some even picketing stores in pro test reproduction prohibited 1917 federal features syndicate y j2 r friday aud saturday oct 31 rfcff favourie brun hope regular meetings of markham and pickering township councils will be held next monday oct 6 according to schedule markham council meets at lnionville and pickering at brougham editors mail the editor dear sir it is good once again to see the welcome sign out for emigrants from the old land canada needs them more so the banner province of ontario with its empty acres its vast virgin timberlands and its busy cities it took the ingenious mind of premier drew of ontario to set the pace for this new migration with his novel and daring air emigration schemes under this plan over seven thousand of the best of the old lands youth have registered for passage and over one thousand have already arrived and are be coming rapidly settled this plan is setting an example to other domin ions whose waste places cry out for settlement but ontario is leading the van every time a silver sky ship touches down at malton airport outside toronto it adds at least forty new canadians to the domin ions twelve millions how different is this to what it was when i came to ontario over forty three years ago no seven league boots for me which would transport me over the atlantic in less than twentyfour hours it took me eight days to cross and that in a verminridden cattle boat on landing in ontario in the blackness of a cold march night i was met by strangers who filled my hungry stomach with leftovers and handed me a farm job at eight dollars a month and keep for five oclock the next day farm work was hard work in those days but it did me no harm i had none of the amenities of this modern age after almost three years on the land i graduated in turn to bush worker railroad con struction hand hod carrier etc etc etc then newspaperman that was the acme of my desire after thirtyfive years i am retired on a competence witli a home of my own a family happily married a nice garden in which to laze and dream of that faroff day when i shook the dust of the humdrum textile town from my feet as i said before what a contrast to now air emigrants to ontario land after sixteen hours are whisk ed by motor car to the gay city of toronto and there handed a ban quet and a job before they have had time to recover their breath if they cannot make good after that well i wonder what their pioneer forbears would say george hughes 110 greenlaw avenue toronto 10 ont three auctions one day announced in our sale register this week no less than three auctions are adver tised for tuesday oct 7 they are well spaced out however one is boskell sale between whitby and oshawa another is the lawson sale on the 8th concession of pickering and a third is the joe jones sale at buttonville in markham township as a result of this setup all three local auctioneering firms will be busy on that day ross carters sale at locust hill is wednesday next week what is life insurance life insurance is a great social plan which merges the individual into the mass and puts behind the fraility of man standing alone the immeasureable strength of men stand ing together do you know 1 that in the life insurance companies of america in 1915 70j50 policyholders died in less less than one year from date of policy 2 that in the same year 502000 persons where declin ed most of whom could probably have obtained insurance at some time 3 that each and succeeding year 35 of the new busi ness transacted by the mutual life of canada comes from old policyholders low cost life insurance since 1869 for further information consult your local representa tive of the mutual life of canada fred m pugh phone stouffville 3805