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tht triuune stouffville out thursday december 9th j94s the stouffville tribune established 1838 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and ontario quebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations authorized as second class mall post office department ottawa issued even- thursday at stouffville ontario in canada 200 in usa 2o0 a v nolan son publishers notes and comments dont take chances if vou are walking on the street keep your mind there too not somewhere else says department of highways officials people who step off the curb without thinking or looking all ways are courting danger and may become mere statistics in the accident toll dont take needless chances cross the street care fully and only at places where motorists may expect you at intersections away from parked cars its just a few steps to the end of the block crossing in midblock is not- just lazy its dangerous higher prices mean fewer gifts canadian christmas shoppers will be taking long careful look at the bargain counters this year theyll probably spend just as much as they did in the booming war years but they will get less todays higher prices mean fewer gifts for friends and relatives stores are jammed with the biggest and fanciest selection of gifts in history but most merchants agreed they would be tougher to sell than last year merchants said they expected dollar volume would equal that of any other postwar christmas spending spree although months ago many of them feared a retail slump they could see no signs of it now they said only in the two biggest cities toronto and mon treal were sales well behind expectations retailers said however a few heavy snowfalls would send droves of people on shopping expeditions pay for councillors it always was the usual situation wherein members of township councils received pay fqr their services usually so much a meeting that was intended to reim burse the councillor for his travelling expenses and often for his meals since township councillors often eat away from home on council days then the pay has been in creased to take care of time spent at the meetings while all this has been going on over the years councillors in villages seldom received any pay for their services in fact a poll of the 26 municipalities in yory will show that with the exception of perhaps stouffville and markham villages every municipality pays its councillors some kind of recompense however at the nomination meeting the reeve said that if the old council was returned he would support any move to provide some sort of remun eration for the members when he made the promise during his speech to the electors one or two in the audience said its about time they were paid in fact this paper finds strong support among the citizens for paying the councillors and if we measure the opinion correctly the members will follow this lead in pass ing a bylaw for this purpose after all the laborer is worthy of his hire and we believe that if the change takes place in providing some kind of recompense it will not meet any adverse criticism how many farmers do this modern farming methods depend on the use of machin ery both to save manpower and to speedy operations a machine can do this only if it is in good condition and oper ated intelligently machinery in bad shape and poorly operated can lose time and require more labour than it saves says w s richardson dominion experimental sta tion lennoxville que now that the season for work on the land is over it is time to make sure that the farm implements are stored properly for the winter an elaborate building is not neces sary a simple structure that will protect them from sun rain and snow is sufficient although machinery has been and can be stored satisfactorily on barn floors and other odd corners of build ings it is more handy and safer to have a separate imple ment shed some distance from the other buildings it re duces the fire hazard and machinery is more likely to be put under cover as soon as the job is done before storing there are certain precautions to take and certain things to do if the implements are to come out in the spring ready for work all metal parts which come in contact with the soil and are polished by this action require a coating of grease or oil to prevent rust old crankcase oil may be used anybody who has star ted to plow in the spring with a rusty mouldboard can ap preciate the value of this fertilizer distributors need special care all fertilizer should be removed the machine washed and allowed to dry and then all metal parts covered with grease or oil owing to the action of the fertilizer in attracting moisture these machines are shortlived under good conditions but one or two years neglect will ruin them it is good practice to set up on blocks all machinery equipped with rubber tires and to see that the tires are all correctly inflatedjthis will prolong the life of the tires and is becoming more important as so many machines now travel on rubber if the tractor is being put in storage be sure that the cooling system is completely drained and that a little oil is placed in each cylinder before putting the machinery away look it over for weak or broken parts and order replacements as soon as possible so that there will be no delay in the spring repair parts are still difficult to get and too often machines are tied up at busy seasons waiting for delivery of these parts contributory pensions ottawa reports indicate the federal government is con sidering a contributory old age pension plan and that legis lation may lx introduced at the forthcoming session of parliament this is a step in the right direction and one the tribune has long advocated such a program is an integral part of social security perhaps the most vital of all and the sooner a start is made in it the sooner the benefits will begin there can be few situations more tragic than that of a person who comes fo the end of his working days penni less or wifli meagre savings fearful of old age and dreary years of dependency upon a meagre government dole that smacks of charity in the final analysis it is the aerage citizen who marries buys a home raises a family pays his bills and his taxes down through the years that makes the greatest contributions to the state the greatest of these being journeys end i mm pudding by the ton t- jr i s i v ill 5 vi what mere threap ax mkav by ronald williams in the financial post danishborn nell peter petersen president and general manager of torontos canadian acme screw gear ltd saw a 15yearold dream come true in washington last week the united states canada and britain formally signed an agree ment for unified screw threads this has been hailed as the greatest single step toward the goal of standardization of mechanical and engineering practices immediately it means that a nut threaded by a british manufac turer will fit a bolt cut by an american firm but more than this it paves the way for unification of all american canadian and british engineering practices at present for instance the british and american draw blue prints a different way eventually it will lower produc tion costs a major obstacle to a freer eychange of trade has been removed it is being lauded as the fore runner of worldwide economic cooperation between britain can ada and the us in peace and par ticularly in war for example more than s600 millions in costs and six months in time could have been saved by the allies if unified standards had been in effect in the second world war it is claimed that propor tionately it means more to canada that either us or uk main advantages to canadian industry are listed as follows 1 reduction in cost of manu facturing for american consump tion 2 elimination of big inventory requirements for multiple stand ard dies gauges taps and tools for screw bolt and nut production 3 merging of inventories of threaded products for domestic and foreign markets 1 lower perunit cost because of longer production runs 5 elimination of new tooling costs when manufacturers get first foreign order until the war petersen con ducted the canadian campaign almost singlehandedly he saw the need back in 1932 the first con crete steps were taken in 1943 even then he was the only person in canada who seemed interested enough to take time off to go to new york when canada finally recognized its importance petersen was named chairman of the screw threads and screw products com mittee of the canadian standards association if any bouquets are handed out for the achievement most of the people who have had anything to do with it will agree that neil petersen should get one of the biggest not because he contributed most in the way of engineering know- how although he has plenty of that but mainly because he kept the conference going housewives work out their recipes for christmas pudding in terms of pounds but fred conway chef instructor for the canadian national railways has the annual task of prepar ing three tons or 29000 ser vingsof the traditional yule- tide dessert working in a rail way dining car with two assist ants he produces this 3ton pudding entirely by hand in the brief space of two weeks the special and proven onr recipe calls for 675 pounds of sugar coo pounds of suet 1200 pounds of raisins goo pounds of currants 000 pounds of mixed peel 000 pounds of bread crumbs 300 pounds of flour iio pounds of dates 300 pounds prunes 300 pounds of carrots 125 pounds of assorted spices ts dozen lemons and 300 dozen eggs with wooden spoon mr con way mixes the ingredients in a huge chrome plated bowl and measures out the pudding into pound containers three hours later they are cooled sealed and made ready for dis tribution to parious points along the 23500mile cnr system the raising of the family if through illness or other mis fortune such a breadwinner should reach the end of his working days with insufficient savings to see him through his declining years none can blame him that is the time the state should guarantee him freedom from fear and from want not on the basis of charity but on the basis of right a compulsory contributory persions plan is the sole answer contributions might be collected at the source as in the case of unemployment insurance it should start with a boys or girls first pay envelope and continue through until retirement a pensionable person would re ceive his payments as a matter of right the stigma of charity no longer would exist statistics show 652 years as the average span of life expectancy if the government were to adopt the contribu tory schemfe it might well give consideration to lowering the pensionable age in order that one might reasonably expect to enjoy some of the benefits of the pension scheme to which he had contributed in all his working years major political parties in conventions this summer went on record as favoring contributory pensions for all canadians 65 and over this unanimity augurs well for any legislation the government might introduce along this line it is a recognition by all parties that the present pensions system falls far short of what is required to give elderly persons the security they have earned english woman leaves newfoundland vets s57i2 london dec 3 a dozen former gunners of a newfoundland anti aircraft battery have been remem- bered by an english woman whose cooking they said they would never j forget in her will recently probated she left 14328 57312 to be shared by the newfoundlanders a schoolboy a fleet air arm airman and a medical student all of whom she adopted during the war i the woman was miss editii cawood retired cookery teacher who made friends of the new foundland gunners stationed near her suburban sandstead home at the height of the blitz i when the antiaircraft battery- men went to italy they did not forget they wrote regularly to their godmother she died last july pastor picks timely tkxt rev j maxwell allan of kirkhill ontario chose a most timely topic for his sunday sermon rev allan was preaching on the text the river of god is full of waters when fire broke out in th church basement inspired by the timely sermon members of the congregation pitch ed in and removed the safe the pews and other valuable church property said rev allan there was no panic i was talking about abraham digging the new wells in the new land to which he led his people but after the way my people behaved and worked to quench the fire i told them they were as good as abraham the fire did two thousand dollars damage to the church the pulpit and much of the woodwork was de stroyed china is turning red faster than a set of books during the early 30s we need to do more than just keep the peace weve got to pass it around the old home town by stanley h0i1wag00dfell0w minister of public welfare for ontario will speak on human problems cbl 740 monday december 13th 10 pm xa an appreciation to electors of stouffville in returning the council by acclamation for mother term the members of the municipal council of the village of stouffville herewith acknowledge the confidence placed in them and shall endeavour to conduct the village affairs in a manner that will merit the honor done them henry ogden councillor glen ratcliff councillor clayt baker councillor jno scott councillor a v nolan reeve