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the tribune stouffville ont- tuesday april 21 149 the stouffville tribune established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and ontario quebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations authorize a cood cl mu post office department ottawm issued everv thursday at stouffville ontario in canada 200 in usa 250 a v nolan son publishers notes and comments cattle cash greater it is rather interesting to note that the greatest source of income to canadian farmers in 1948 was not wheat the dominion bureau of statistics gives figures showing that cattle and calves took over top position largely because of the removal of the export embargo and higher prices cattle and calves brought farmers more cash than anything else in 19 17 income from this source was 235soo000 and in 19 is this jumped to 133700000 sale of wheat grown in 1948 brought only 401700000 dresden community action deplored canadians everywhere must have been amazed last week to read in the press that the town of dresden in the county of kent is about to take a vote on whether colored people would be allowed to be served in restaurants in dresden aside from the fact that a vote on such a question would have no legal effect on whether or not a restaurant owner served colored people the moral issue involved is to our mind deplorable we are sure that the village of stouffville would be ashamed to raise such an issue in this place if we had a settlement of negroes nearby like they have at dresden one would think they should be entitled to the same treat ment as any other human beings that is provided the colored folk conducted themselves like good canadians were clean and decent and law abiding this we demand of all canadians the kent county town has not added any thing to its laurels by showing such animosity to a people of another race as to permit a vote to be taken in such a manner anaesthetics to women in labour thousands of women are delivered every year with midwives and not physicians in attendance are the midwives to be allowed to ease their pain with drugs the doctors point out that giving anaes thetics is a complicated and potentially dangerous business and they do not think that midwives can be trusted with it but as every woman in england is taxed for medical treatment it is obviously unfair that some should have this form of assistance whereas others who are attended by midwives should not it appears that there are not enough doctors to ensure every woman a doctors care when she is in labour somewhat to our surprise this debate has revived the old quarrel as to whether anaesthetics during childbirth are ethically defensible or medically advisable people who consider the bible to be among other things a medical textbook refer to genesis iii 16 unto the woman he said i will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children to ease a womans birthpangs they say is to go against the will of god and there are several doctors who say apparently expecting to be taken seriously that if the birth of a child does not cause a woman pain she will be less likely to love and care for her child this dispute is a very old one and it may be noted that the advocates of pain in childbirth are as usual men who need never expect to feel them none of these gentlemen we observe suggest that anaesthetics should not be used in surgical operations we thought that the debate as to whether a woman should have anaesthetics during childbirth had been won a hundred years ago when queen victoria decided to have them at the birth of prince arthur in 1850 she and the prince consort thrashed the matter out thoroughly and consulted clergymen and physicians before they made up their minds the clincher was the argument of the queens personal physician sir james simpson who pointed out that when god created eve the lord caused a deep sleep to fall upon adam and he slept and he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof in this way god sanctified the use of anaesthetics when a new life was to be created the queen was given chloroform at prince arthurs birth and women everywhere acclaimed her and followed her example when they could see your favorite picture first at the stanley theatre the vanished button hook a contemporary remarks that few people in their twenties have seen a button hook perhaps so what would they want with a button hook on womens clothes buttons except for ornament have been supplanted by zippers and women were the great users of button hooks they used them to button their high boots strange affairs which reached halfway up the calf and were considered the only proper wear for walking standing with one foot on a chair a woman deftly slipped the button hook through the button hole hooked the button around its shank and pulled it through with a quick twist men used button hooks too for mens boots used to button and not only did they button up the front patent leather shoes with light cloth tops buttoned up the side and when men wore spats with buttons instead of dome fasteners they sometimes used button hooks to do them up there were button hooks of all sorts common ones with advertising matter stamped into their steel handles were given away in shoe shops for men of fashion button hooks with leather handles were sold and sometimes also these handles were of staghom no ladys toilet set was complete without a button hook with an ivory handle as well as hooking buttons these instruments were used for picking locks recovering lost dentures from drains and children used them when playing dentist the button hook lies derelict beside the path of human progress along with the skirt hook and the carpet stretcher should the pains of childbirth be relieved the nationalization of medicine in great britain has shifted many problems to the shoulders of the state which were formerly left to the private discretion and profession al code of doctors one of the most important and vexing of these is the problem of relieving the pain of childbirth with partial or complete anaesthesia as the state now pays the bill the state must make the rules and an act has been before the british commons called the analgesia in childbirth bill the difficulty which lies in the way of the bill is this are midwives to be permitted to give teachers tactics questionable under the above heading the whitby timesgazette strikes out against the high school teachers of the province and especially against the high school teachers in whitby for staging what the paper terms may be an unwise course in forcing salaries above what the board is prepared to pay this is coupled with questionable union action by the teachers federation the tribune published the comment of the oshawa paper because the boards in this part of york county are encountering similar demands from the new school areas and members of the boards claim they are forced to bolster salaries when they are opposed to the increases they make the daily timesgazette views the situation thus whitby high school teachers won a point last night in salary negotiations with the district high school board it was achieved by pressure methods not common to pro fessions but usually employed by national unions in labor disputes whether or not the financial advance presently gained will be offset by other considerations in a matter for conjecture certainly a definite feeling of bitterness has been created between teachers and board a condition which will not assist the school and may in the long run be any thing but helpful to the teachers virtually all members of the board including those voting for the increase express ed opinions to this effect and some pointed out that in hard er times when salary cuts become common teachers cannot expect consideration such as they were shown in whitby during the last depression when such cuts amounted to only about five percent it has been apparent that secondary school teachers salary demanfls are being made on a provincewide basis backed by their federation with its control over its mem bers and the positions which they may accept the result is that boards are being forced to grant demands of which they do not approve and which they feel that their tax payers will resent records of the past five years of the whitby board show conclusively that the local board has been considerate ofits teachers in the matter of salaries which have risen sharply in view of the record in whitby and other plases like whitby one may wonder whether or not the teachers and their federation have pursued the wisest course during the past few months s7trtoi gallant legion wm elliot v daxg yea ann todd monday and tuesday slav 2 1 three musketeers lana turner gene kelly ottawa letter queens park dear people of york east this week i iiave been catching up on my volumes or correspond ence mr speaker the honourable the kev m cooke davies very kindly arranged to have a skeleton stall of the stenographers remain this week i was so glad for it would have taken me all summer by my twolinger method of typing the most interesting event of the week was the opening of the new municipal building in lea- side the opening took the form of a council meeting with the mayor in the chair and the councillors sitting around trie table the mayor called on the clerk mr burgess to give a resume of his 20 years of service as clerk of the municipality i found his story fascinating he told of the develop ment of the town from the farm of the lea family to its present city size mr burgess was presented with a watch and mrs burgess with a beautiful bouquet by the members of the present council and past councils of the town mr burgess was taken quite by sur prise and undoubtedly deeply touched by the tributes paid to him the honourable leslie frost provincial treasurer was the guest speaker but before he spoke various other people took part mr frost made the sort of speech that delighted everyone it was folksey and friendly and was just the sort of thing which show off to the very best advantage his urbanity and distinguished personality he told of his father who had been active for many years in the municipal life of the town of orillia and had been the first one to initiate day light saving which gave him the nickname of daylight bill at the time ho was not very keen on the nickname but as daylight saving became widespread he took a good deal of pride in the fact that he thought of it first so his son the honourable mr fros says mr frost used to po around with his father in those days and probably his interest in public business and affairs dates from that time at the conclusion of his speech a presentation was made by the okeefe foundation whatever that may be of a painting to be hung in the new council chamber that was the only part of the proceed ings i did not enjoy afterwards a very delectable lunch was served the new building in leaside is really very fine and it houses the police force and the fire depart ment as well as containing the offices of the municipality and council chamber it is beautiful and very modern in design and i noticed that the furnishings were in light woods as is the modern trend the chairs that the council lors sat in i was very glad to see were much more comfortable and beautiful than the ones we sit in in queens park it is amazing that a municipality a club a college can do much better for its mem bers than can the province of ontario of which they are all a part i thought the whole was greater than its parts but appar ently not the municipalities of york east are getting fine structures built east york was the first of the new municipal buildings to be opened leaside the second and scar borough opens its new municipal buildings on april 21st we are going to have a dinner at it i notice by the invitation they must be wealthy in scarboro dinners cost something these days the coriing convention of the conservative party for the choos- jing of a new leader who will i automatically become the premier is of general interest and of those in view my choice for ontario would be the honourable leslie frost but my choice for the ccf would be the honourable dana porter we are such a clear con trast that it would make things easy for us but i do not suppose the convention will take that into lint agnes macphail mpp york east lindsayite just two beans out talking about being a guesser no one has it over james meikle of lindsay good mrs who mens show recently took a guess as to how many beans were in a jar on display there her guess was 10300 after the answers of 15000 people had been tabulated it was found that mrs meikle was by far the superior guesser being only two beans out for there were actually 1029s beans in the jar for 1st prize she rceeived a tableload of goodies such as jams jellies pickles canned goods chickens etc all the finest of foods editors mail bellingham wash april 8 1910 the stouffville tribune dear sirs was very pleased to get your paper with the nice writeup of mr and mrs goudies wedding anniversary i have known them for over 50 years and very few couples are as fine as they i drove an oil tank out of mark- ham to stouffville and surrounding towns 15 years ago and hope you do not have as much snow as you had that winter you couldnt see any fences even your town must have changed since then my home was at vine- land where my sisters still have the post office hope you get the new ice arena markham used to have a good hockey team but i still listen to the games in toronto well thanks again for your paper and lets sec you put 3000 up in the corner sincerely allen r moyer 1460 iron st bellingham shket mktai1 koofino stokers oilhurnrm akents fol low idea all steel furnaces very suitable for oil stofeer coal or wood 125 h moster s1iekt metax lmione 4505j oslowa while she was attending the sport- company a selfpuncturesealing autq tire vhat needs no inner tube goal of the tire and auto industries for more than 50 years has been intro duced by the b f goodrich the old home town by stanley ask for it either way trademarks mean the same ihhtf