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the tribune stouffville ont thursday october 16 1947 established 1888 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 in usa a- v nolan son publishers s25c notes and comments what killed lacrosse it is an echo from old times to read of the goingson at a lacrosse game in ottawa witnesses in police court pro ceedings where a player was fined for common assault described the game as one of the roughest ever played in junior league history told of the accused jumping on the referee and hitting him about the head and the prosecutor called the incident the sort of rowdyism which could stop lacrosse from making a comeback the referee incident ally is to be commended for taking the case to court lacrosse is a spectacular and exciting game and once was very popular in canada rivalling hockey in public favor it lost its place when it degenerated into a brutal slugging match rowdyism took control and deaths resulted but the game never was quite dead periodically it shows signs of revival one such is the ottawa junior league it has all the elements necessary for a popular public spectacle but there has to be overcome the bad re putation of lacrosse for brutality players and managers of todays lacrosse teams have the future of the game in their hands they can build it up again or they can con vince the fans that lacrosse hasnt changed and remains an exhibition of assaults and battery even more than hockey does lacrosse require restraint and selfdiscipline in the player whose instrument of play can so readily become a dangerous weapon the game makes severe demands on the players skill agility strength and courage well played it can be a stirring and excit ing sport but violence has no proper place in it any more than in baseball and hockey ottwa journal insufficient reasons offered to exclude european doctors evening telegram in view of the fact that in canada there are only 13000 doctors for a population of twelve millions and that consequently there are many areas where medical care is lacking rather than primitive the layman is justified in wondering whether dr t c routley has disclosed all his reasons for opposing the introduction of more doctors to this country that ignorance of english would be a handicap to a european in canada in ordinary intercourse is a difficulty which mose europeans recognize and which they overcome with their remarkable aptitude for learning foreign langu ages but more to the point is the fairly widespread under standing that pain and sickness like music and mathema tics speak a universal language comprehensible to the per ceptive mind- the inarticulate cries of a sick foreign child convey the same meaning as the inarticulate cries of a sick canadian child and call for the same treatment and a broken arm looks the same and requires the same surgery whether it hangs from a canadian austrian or czeehos- lovakian shoulder the medical officers of the canadian army showed in italy france holland and germany that their lingustic deficiencies proved no barrier when they were required on innumerable occasions to give medical care to trie civlian population the statement that most european doctors are very rusty because they have not been in practice for a num ber of years is a generalization which provides little basis for reasonable discussion it merely raises questions does most include all the doctors who want to come to canada were they not utilized by the germans even in concentration camps does absence from practice for a number of years cancel all the knowledge acquired after study at famous european universities and after a num ber of years in active practice and is it not the easiest and soundest way of determining how very rusty a doc tor is by the usual examinations which the canadian doctor must pass before he is allowed to practise canada as has been said in and out of parliament needs immigrants if every profession and trade raises may not be safe back in quebec when court stenographer george tayor read a charge of fraud to miss doris moloy longueil que bec in police court today the 23- yearold girl said i plead guilty to selling tickets but to the fraud i dont know anything about that magistrate f e ebbs remanded her for sentence on october 17 until we find out more about her the girl was arrested on octoler 3 when she was selling tickets at 50 cents each in aid of the crippled childrens unity club building fund printing on the tickets read subscription to the ontario girls basket league first prize 5000 second prize 3000 third prize 1000 to be held in toronto november 11 1917 crown attorney ac hall asked her what is the name of the man who gave you the tickets im sony but i cannot say she replied said mr hal youre in ontario the same sort of objections that dr routley raises and succeeds in excluding doctors plumbers engineers shoe makers and the rest canada can resign herself to a static position the matter of to or for the late g howard ferguson onetime premier of on tario once said that the difference between a good world and a bad world was just a matter of a couple of small pre positions the difference between wanting to do things to people and wanting to do things for people in its simplest form you could prove this contention from almost any issue almost any daily paper let me take you back to an incident of last winter says joseph rutledge in the financial post to the great february blizzard that for days paralyzed motor traffic in most of ontario and to the farm home of john kneeshaw at fennells corners on highway 11 a few miles above bradford during that february night as the snow wrapped its white pall over stranded cars weary and halffrozen people turned eagerly to the friendly light that shone from john kneeshaws home as the night wore on as many as a hundred people crowded into the kitchen where mrs knee shaw divided her time between her excited threeyearold joan and the needs of the hungry visitors the 30dozen eggs that she had ready for market were a godsend it was well too that there was an extra store of meat and bread set by in anticipation of just such weather occasionally hardier travellers would get the idea that fed warmed and rested they might break through they borrowed pails and shovels and anything that might serve to release a car from its mantle of snow maybe they succeeded for pail and shovel were not return ed- someone viewing the mounting pile of dishes and the weariness in mrs kneeshaws face was moved to a mom entary generous impulse a hat was passed among the scores of derelicts when it had made the rounds it con tained something less than five dollars five dollars for the shelter and warmth and friendliness for the night of unnecessary effort and the 30 dozen eggs and all the rest they were probably average people no better and no worse than the rest of us but they were too absorbed in their own problems and their own discomfort to have much concern for the problems of others only mrs kneeshaw had a word to say you cant see people hungry and cold she said i would do it again even knowing that i would not meet expenses a letter to the paper addressed from one of ontarios smaller cities told of an elderly gentleman sent out to do the family shopping doing his fumbling best he stum bled on a prize a package of jelly powder the last on the shelf as he stood waiting in place to make his payment he felt a hand in his basket looking back he saw a young ish woman triumphantly putting the jelly powder in her own basket but thats mine he said not now the woman said coolly you hadnt paid for it so its mine now do you want to make a fuss whats the matter with the world people are asking why are we always living under a threat of possible war why cant we come to understand one another it may be an oversimplification and yet perhaps we could if we had the heart for it culled from one of the fourth columns of the toronto globe and mail is the story of a tired mother and her three children the oldest scarcely five- moving to board a west bound train at the union station toronto the little caval cade consisted of mother and baby and a railroad constable and a womans aid worker with the two small children it wasnt that anyone except the little family stood to benefit much there was only one fare among the four of them but the conductor took time out to get a bottle warmed for a hungry and querulous baby and the brake- man who hadnt seen his two children in almost a week stopped by between stations to hold a fretful child in his arms until it fell asleep these are small incidents maybe they amount to no thing yet in their thousands and their tens of thousands and millions in their progression into groups and industries and nations and ideologies they represent the good and ill in the world the isms that claim they will do so much for so many but only if the money will go our way and no other the me for me attitude that moves people and nations alike and that looks coolly on misery that is dis- tnat enough basically it is as simple as howard fergu sons two prepositions those who would do things to peo ple can wreck a world those who would do things for peo ple can save it leisurely life of the small town we of course we realize that many heard only last week of a young more city people would like to married couple who are planning to move away from it all but they make their home in st marys cannot simply get up and walk after a turn at trying to live in the away from their lifetime oppor- city the perpetual round of jtunities nevertheless if the dipping into tihe pocket for high j presentday pace of living con- rent transportation costs andtinues we feel that there will be entertainment finally tittle them of many of them gradually finding their city surroundings and they their way to smaller centres where they will find living less strenuous and leisure in more plenty st mary journalargus decided that the more leisurely paced life of a small town was the best for them after all now it is quite safe yes but when i go back to que bec it it will not be that safe magistrate ebbs suggested to the accused i suppose eveiy town be tween here and montreal was hit on the way up i sold a few she answered mr hall remarked there may be a vicious organization in opera tion the girls replies to questions re garding her personal life were vagire and evasive his worship promptly reached the decision to investigate her record less strain more leisure j offered ix smamj town iafe the hustle and bustle of city life seems to us to be much greater in these postwar days than it ever was before that is why it is not surprising every now and then to find a writer in the metropolitan newspapers referring to the more canadian legion colors were proudly unfurled by parading veteran- marching down main street on october 5 the occa sion of a drum head service at memorial park ami laying of the corner stone for veterans memorial hall ilands from newmarket and markharo en livened the parade with their music the streets were lined with people minister of veterj- ans affairs for canada rt hon ian mackenzie and civic author ities headed the procession every legion in york county was represented in the ranks of the marching veterans rt hon ian mackenzie per forms the official act of laying the corner stone for veteran memorial hall at stouffiihc although taken by a profession al photographer the picture presents many faults the min ister appears more in the pose of a cricket player than a stone mason busy pointing up the mortar cameraman tells the workman to look at the camera instead of at the job he is sup posed to be doing hat hwes the inscription on the stone which road- this stone was laid by kt hon ian mackenzie minister of veteran affairs t ber lh7 the corner stone is a canadian rrxk from queenston and is a popular stone for such purposes since it i found in many pub lic buildings throughout our c tuntry including provincial government buildings it takes i g id polish lettering on this stone was done by a veteran henry shuiteworth as a con tribution to the erection f the buildirtr which stands near the coiner of mam street and ninth concession at the west end of the wwn