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the tribune stouffville ort tnursday october 2s 194s the stouffville tribune 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 31 1948 2597 issued everv thursdav at stouffville ontario in canada s200 in usa 250 a v nolan son publishers notes and comments pay difference a generation ago the average pay of skilled workers in canadian industry was nearly 100 per cent higher than that of unskilled labor since that time the trend has been steadily downward until today the difference is not more than 50 per cent while we dont agree that the laborer of 10 years ago made enough money we do believe that if the present trend continues industry may be in for some skilled man power trouble can we avoid daytime cuts stouffville has been most fortunate in its power cuts so far and if the householders continue to be very careful the half hour cut from 645 to 715 from monday to friday may suffice however there is no guarantee that daytime cuts will not be forced on us they can only be avoided by everv householder cutting off every unnecessary light and this means veranda lighting too if guests are coming in or leaving there is however no reason why they should not be given light but do not forget to cut it off after the need passes the greatest saving in every home can be eflected by the careful use of cooking units which demand much current just before the kettle reaches the boiling point cut off the current there will be enough heat to finish the job without further current many towns have to put up with daytime cuts with attendant loss of hours for workmen and if stouffville can av our quota void this we will be one of the few to do so let us all do ir best and thus help to keep within the 5000 kilowatt hay and straw balers people have been asking us what farmers are doing with those square or round bundles of straw they see in some of the grain fields this year the answer is that they are bales of straw produced by those newfangled automatic balers which have come or the market to take some of the physical load off the shoul ders of the farmers they mark the most advanced step in 50 years in the handling of hay and straw on the farm for long years farmers have been complaining that whereas the binder then the combine came along to take the backbreak out of grain harvesting hay harvest and the handling of straw continued to be the hardest work on the farm now the baler bale loaders and bale pilers have come along to match the combine as a laborsaver the hay is cut and swathed allowed to dry then comes along the automatic hay baler and puts it up in 50 to 100pound bales which are readily handled but straw is needed on dairy farms or on farms gen erally where livestock are kept and farmers are following up the combine with the automatic baler which ties the straw into bales for easy storing lethbridge herald are inconsistent there are few people who will knowingly and deliberat ely sit in a draught they are afraid they will catch cold they will not enter a room occupied by a patient suffering from smallpox diphtheria or typhoid fever they are afraid of contagion they will not venture out on a stormy lake in a small boat when the wind is blowing 40 miles an hour they are afraid of drowning they will not eat certain foods when they know their systems rebel against them they are afraid of illness they will not carelessly bump into pedestrians on the streets they are afraid of being considered discourteous they will not even pass down a street where a high- powered electric wire has been blown down by a storm they are afraid of electrocution they will not sit with wet feet they are afraid of pneumonia some of them will not walk under a ladder they are afraid of bad luck but hundreds yes thousands of these same people will enter a motor car and drive at a pace they know to be dangerous guelph mercury why not ontario county oshawa daily times the international plowing match held during this week near lindsay is one of the most sought after itinerant events in ontario the counties of the province vie with each other in their efforts to secure it for their section this is not surprising for it brings with it an attendance of anything from 120000 to 175000 people each year and that makes it big business this event is of such a nature that the location for the match has to be fixed at least two years in advance this is because of the necessity of planning the crop rotation on the land where the plowing is to be done so as to ensure there will be enough acres of sod and of stubble for the various classes- in february of last year brant county was chosen for 1919 match and in february of this year the 1950 match was assigned to simcoe county in february next at the annual meeting of the ontario plowmens associa tion the county to have the 1951 match will be chosen why should not the match be held in ontario county in 1951 it is thirtytwo years since it was held in this county for in 1916 it was staged on the rj fleming farm near pickering the ontario county council with the back ing of the oshawa and whitby councils might very well make an effort to have the international match come here in 1951 so far oxford is the only other county to make a bid for it and since it was held in that county in 1921 ontario would seem to have a prior claim hope for powkr from warships kxilodkl ontarios hydrb chairman robt saunders thought he had a good idea to beat the southern ontario power shortage saunders according to daily press reports- told the commission to ask for some canadian navy ships to come up to toronto harbor and generate electric power to be piped ashore saunders pointed out the american navy had already sttp- pued power to some us towns this way hut the royal canadian xav didnt think much of the idea it point- out the tiny algerise mine- sweeper is the only navy craft small enough to get up through the st lawrence river locks to lake ontario and the algerines only generate enough power for thefr own ue anyway the old home town by stanley 1 beef irks but americans like 500 moose ban overseas industry coming until power available omea told xiagaraonthelake ont oct 22 we shoidd try to curb the expansionist idea of the ontario government of bringing new indus tries to the province from overseas when we cant supply power to our own consumers fred r cavers chairman of the st catharines public utilities commission told the annual meeting of district five ontario municipal electrical assoc iation here yesterday the meeting defeated after a heat ed discussion a resolution by mr cavers calling upon the ontario government to cease from all promotional activity to bring new industries into the province from overseas during the power short age doesnt mean homes the issue was raised by c s rickers of port dalhousie who suggested it was time for hydro to regulate new customers in view of the power shortage any new cus tomer can come along and get power one industry cooperates and cuts down 1000 kwh a day and a new one comes along and picks it up hydro is selling some thing it hasnt got he declared s e thomson of niagara falls said any man building a new industry or a new house had as much right to power as anyone else he thought the hepc was trying to give everyone a break that s if the power is available but it isnt right now replied mr rickers and anyway im talking about industries not homes mr cavers explained the build ing of new homes and the normal expansion of our commerce and in dustry should not be curtailed and he was not suggesting that getting on nerves it is not logical to exert to the full extent the energy ontario has exerted to go overseas and get new industries to come here and curtail our own industries he said its all right to help local expansion but we should try to curb the expan sionist idea of the provincial gov ernment if you go on the stock market and sell something you havent got they put you in jail but we put on a big campaign to bring new industries when we havent got the power for them people are not living in the com fort they should after years of war and the two years of peace they are continually harped at to cut down use of power its getting on their nerves and its going on for years unless we stop this expan sion from outside until we can guarantee power for our own indus tries if they want to come volun tarily i wouldnt stop them but lets not go begging them to come mr thomson thought the expan sion of ontario should come first lets get all the money and busi ness possible he urged william waterson of welland suggested taking a long view i dont think we have any reason to worry by 195 well probably be trying to sell power again saunders sees relief roy pierson of brantford re elected president of the district association for a second year said we are penalizing our old cus tomers when we take on all the new customers freedom is freedom only when you dont encroach on the other mans freedom he said if you take something away from him you encroach on his freedom and we are taking power away from him if war should come soon 1 wonder what in the world is going to happen in ontario sew british army chief of staff pictured above is general sir william slim who lias been appointed chief of the british imperial general staft in succes sion to field marshall viscount montgomery now chairman of the new eastern union defence council the new chief of staff is a former commander of the allied land forces in southeast asia mayfair an optimist s a peron who has ro difficulty n kiddirs hirr restaurant monday thru friday 8 am ii pm saturday 8 am 12 pm vxd the railways the xatiox by r 1 dachman i asked a man i know in the bureau of statistics the other clay to give me the general wholesale price of commodities in 1s9s yes he answered just wait a minute he came back with the facts 456 basis 1926 equals 100 what was the latest figure 1520 that is for july of this year can you tell me about the price of wheat in 1s98 93c a bushel no 1 northern winnipeg no 2 western oats winnipeg 3sc a bushel choice butcher steers in toronto at that time averaged s3s0 a hundred pounds select hogs were selling at 187 look again at that item of 456 the present price level is 3 13 times the 1s9s level a dollar in 1s9s would carry you as far as 333 to day in other words there has been an increase over the 1s9s level of 233 have i made my point clear low freight rates why did i want to go back to 1s9s well theres a fight on right now in regard to railway freight rates and i thought that certain comparisons might be of value the west holds that freight rates are too high the average cost of moving wheat from prairie points to the head of the lakes is 20c a hundred pounds the rate is the same as it was in 189 but if the farmer is paying for it with wheat at current prices it will take rough ly onehalf as many pounds of wheat to pay the freight as it did in 1s9s is that a fair rate can you name another commodity or service to which this statement would apply nature made a mistake in this country it should have put lake superior three or four hundred miles further west then perhaps it would have cost less to move grain from the west than it does now and heavy freight would have moved by water that much further west it might have hurt the railways a bit but it would have been pleasant for the people but by a strange bit of fortune or misfor tune depending upon the point of i view something happened that put j freight rates on wheat in western j canada at a very low rate perhaps lower than they would have had i with the added water passage i j have suggested its ii j k same lliioiis maxwell house coffee in super- vacuum tin drip or regular grinds gbssjnelined bag all purpose grind or lusintit maxwell house f made instantly in tin cup hull que oct 16 americans may not like paying 1 a pound for beefsteak but a lot of them are willing to hunt for mooststeaks at about 500 a week that 500 is the estimated cost of a weeks search for moose in the hunting country north of ottawa for typical sportsmen from new york ohio or pennsylvania since the moose season opened a week ago 300 game hunters have pushed of from nearby maniwaki into the gatineau country most of them came from the united states game wardens said today they have taken back about 50 moose tied to fenders and bumpers of cars or loaded on private planes the cost comes a bit higher if you fly after your moose the 50qaweek is based on driving a car to get to the right country hunting according to the sports men has been swell but there is one catch so far it has rained everv day war not worst of fails aiuhiushoi v jv lfxch by candles with hydro cut lunch was served by candlelight in view of the hydro power short age at the annual thankoivering meeting of the wms of st andrews united church markham on thursday mrs roy seaman treasurer of the dominion womens missionary society board was guest speaker members of the unionville locust hill whitevale and cedar grove societies were guests the archbishop of york called upon the christian world to fight the cold war to its bitter end and if that did not subdue russia to recognize that war is not the worst of all evils the archbishop also recom mended that the international control plan submitted by the united nations atomic energy commission based on the american plan be adopted at once as a matter of extreme urgency archbishop garrett spoke from london eng take a tip from the school teach er she really makes the little things count by all appearances the russian bear has no intention to hibernate this coming winter court of revision village of stouffville take notice a court for the revision of the assessment roll for the village of stouffville for the year 1919 will be held on thurs day nov 4 194s at the hour of 730 oclock in the council cham bers for hearing complaints against the assessment roll for the said year all persons interested please govern themselves accordingly george storey clerk whitchurch township wildlife conservation club presents for your entertainment tues nov 9th community hall at vandorf at 8 oclock moving pictures on soil conservation comedy national film board amateur show variety local talent especially solicited entries to be in not later than nov 2 3 substantial cash frizes lucky draw members only admission adults 50c children 25c dr f h vannostrand pres j w crawford secy safety glass windshield and door glass installed paris auto supply ltd richmond hill 86 auto wreckers when the frost is on the cokerefresh a alt for it either uay both trajemjrtt mejn the uime thing port perry bottling works port perry phone 47