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the tribune stouffville ont thursday september 15 1949 the stouffville tribune established 1888 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 every thursday at stouffville ontario in canada 200 in usa 250 a v nolan son publishers notes and comments name order on ballot the hunch and thats all it is that the candidate whose name appears at the top or bottoh of the list has a better chance to be elected than the one near the middle took a bad beating in the june federal election some political organizers maintain that if the voter has to read a lot of candidates names he or she either starts at the top or bottom hence they figure the top or bottom name enjoys an advantage in 225 out of the 2c2 ridings the elector had a choice among three or more candidates the top name candidate won in 70 cases the bottom name in 57 and the inbetween ones in 90 instances it would appear from this experience that the in- between names hold the inside track in an election race insofar as order of names is concerned on the ballot gen erally speaking position has little to do with a candidates chances of winning if he is the most popular his name stands out no matter where it appears on the ballot the habit of walking nowadays a boy grumbles about walking and even country lads expect a bus at the end of the lane to pick them up for school whereas their dads and grandads waked a mile or two and thought nothing of it some town slickers can scarcely walk down town and in fact every body it seems is giving up the walking habit can we remain a strong verile race if we are unable to walk a few miles each day a man who prefers to walk a mile instead of using a car is almost considered a freak today friends will pull up at the curb and invite him into the back seat others will enquire whether his car is broken down what a difference a few years makes well we think it is a pity that people do not walk more it is good for the health and excellent exercise one has more time to think when walking and can enjoy meeting friends seeing things that he would never be able to see from a car seat as for the youth of today they have to find some other exercise to take the place of walking and while it doesnt make much sense thats the way wind blows even their elders will ride miles to the golf course then walk all over a field and think it fun those golfers could walk to the club and back and instead of whacking a ball just hoe the garden and receive the same exercise it reminds us that we are all a bit queer oh those oyster stews now if youre ready oysters dear we can begin to feed the walrus affectionately remarked during his well- known outing with the carpenter it is a sentiment that is seasonable once again the rs are back on the calendar and the bivalves at the market with the crop this year reported both numerous and succulent hot weather may distress man and beast but it makes oysters thrive and not even the most exacting shellfish could have demanded a hotter summer than this aside from all gustatory questions the oyster is an extremely accomplished creature while it may not be able as some have contended to read calendars it possesses the ability when in shape to drink four gallons of water an hour and it can also change its sex nor is its life an easy one even during the summer months when oyster hunters declare a holiday in order to let the creatures be fruitful and multiply oysters it seems are considered tasty morsels even by their ocean neighbors when young they are attacked by seasquirts and as they age they have to fight off crabs sponges and a particularly insistent creature named urosalpinx which bores holes in them the wise oyster knows how to survive these perils and preserve its charms for stews and fries while the oyster stew season is at hand one would think it would be more popular than ever with plenty of money floating well you know a stew can be gotten up without too much work and expense as compared with a fowl banquet saga of dream collage many months ago a small model house was put on a parking lot in new york city it was raffled off in a fund- raising campaign for israel the winner got another house and the model was used for another drive by the american womens voluntary services alfred birnbaum a young columbia university student of optometry was among those who paid 50 cents for a chance on the house probably he promptly forgot about it then one morning his wife was awakened at 2am to learn the happy news over the telephone the 15000 dream house was theirs what could be more wonderful just think of it you pay 50 cents casually on a raffle ticket go on about your business and wake up to find that tiny investment has bought you the little cottage youve been dreaming of but when the rosy glow of good fortune had dimmed a little a few hard realities began to show through the man who owned the parking lot where the dream house stood wanted the cottage off his property as quickly as possible meantime he would charge the birnbaums 50 a day rental they scouted around and discovered it would cost 1000 to dismantle the house maybe another 300 to cart it away and 1500 to put it up again they couldnt afford any of this expense and had no place to erect the house then birnbaum learned that his 15000 windfall would thrust him into an uncomfortably high income tax bracket he had no wish to sample that rarefied atmosphere after days of contemplating this catalogue of woes what he did wish was that he could get his 50 cents back and get the little yellow dream house out of his life forever but even that was easier said than done the place began to haunt him he begged his brother a lawyer to find a solution finally a savior turned up he owned a lot could pay dismantling moving and erecting expenses and was willing to give birbaum the remarkable sum of 1200 for his 15000 catch birnbaum snapped up the deal as if it were the greatest he would ever make in alifetime now at last he is happily free of his dream cottage probably he is guring that the next time somebody waves a raffle ticket in his face hell make the 50 cents an out right gift now is time lo protest it seems fairly certain that a 5 license fee is being recommended by cbc to the dominion government now is the time to let your mp know that you do not approve of 5 license fees anymore than you approve of 30000 salaries being paid to its top notch appointees costly defence national defence is costing canada approximately 700000 a day as compared with 450000 a day last year that money could be saved or diverted to use for promoting the welfare of our citizens if we had a guarantee of an enduring peace schools in old cys time schools were different in old cys time he says that the kids nowadays are lucky he had to walk five miles rain or shine bare foot the old school was a oneroom affair with about 12 pupils and the teacher was usually as tough as any man in the district diplomacy and tact werent heard of in those days punishment was handed out in joe louis style survival of the fittest ball was played with a willow bat made out of the bush the ball was made from store string with a home made cover if it was a prosperous year they may have had a football to kick around course that was tough feet very few had boots to wear cy says the first time he wore boots he had to put gravel in them to make his feet feel at home kids in those days were lucky to make the fifth or sixth reader before the old man hauled them home to pull stumps and run a breaker plow macgregor man herald get those glaring eyes a detailed survey safety lane reports across canada list 62 percent of the checked vehicles with bad headlights actual road surveys undertaken on behalf of cat indicate more than 80 per cent of the vehicles on canadian roads with badly glaring headlights the sorry part of the whole mess is that improper aiming in most cases is causing a hazard which has come to be known as the number 1 enemy of the nightdriving motorist admittedly a considerable reduction of this hazard could be obtained if motorists would obey a common courtesy rule of the road and dip their headlights when within 500 feet of an approaching vehicle but it so happens that motorists are humans and accordingly think little of what they are doing to the other fellow with their blinding uncontrolled lights this high beam weapon is just like giving hundreds of people a death ray gun and telling them to go out on the highways keep the gun going but dont hit anybody with the ray oh sure there is a law against high lights and lights which are not dipped when necessary but who is doing anything about enforcing the law a check by letter to all the provincial police depart ments in canada and to the ministers of all the depart ments of highways indicates very little in fact in a num ber of cases nothing that is being done to enforce the law concerning glaring lights the divining rod if you wish to start an argument with some people deny that the divining rod is a boogy that it will not work and see what trouble you get into it is a controversial subject yet this column believes that the willow stock in the hands of the right persons will react to water below in no uncertain manner we know men of impeachable reputation who have worked it yet there may be others for whom the willow stick does not work perhaps it is all in temperament we do not know but its an interesting subject it is a fact that waterwitching or dowsing goes far back in mans written records the romans use of sticks is described by cicero and tacitus minister mentions the divining rod in his cosmosgraphy published in the early 16th century it was used in the hartz mountains in wales and in england early pioneers brought the practice to america scientists have closely studied the phenomenon websters dictionary says a water witch locates water not tries to locate the brittanica is forthright it says the art of using a divining rod it was a dark lowering august day years ago there were rumbles of distant thunder and occasional forks of jagged lightning a group of farmers and boys were gathered in a field waiting for old mose the water witch as he came plodding up the road the laughter and talk died away it was almost like a biblical scene in its prosaic elemental simplicity the farmer showed mose where he would like to dig a well without a word the old man in his tattered clothes tobaccostained beard and long hair went at his task he held the pronged stick in front of his chest the point slighty up back and forth he went slowly methodically moment by moment the tension increased you hear mens hard breaths in the tense silence broken only by distant thunder suddenly the point of the stick started downward old mose hesitatingly took a few more steps one could almost feel him resisting the pull the bark actually slipped on his willow wand then he stopped beads of sweat glistened on his face and forehead he lifted an arm and rubbed it across his eyes dig here he said to the farmer theres water about 12 feet and he was right at a little more than that depth there was a good vein what is the magic power is there a realm of sub conscious perception in certain human beings similar to the instinct of birds and animals each year the argu ments flare anew perhaps in time when we learn more about atomic power and supersonics we shall learn the answer to this centuriesold mystery the old home town f erf u 1 pjrt 0v 71 by stanley that dos has fouuowed him all summei just hopinc3 some real hot pay sam will hot weao thoss- fij sam is cookin on the fkaxt euajei with his boots oh ei6 trimmed ox phoxy tkxspots when a counterfeiting rnig goes to work as it did in ontario and british columbia last week its the busy businessman who takes the beaiing financially by the time the heats on and everybodys looking twice at every bill most of the phony banknotes have been unloaded on some un fortunate merchant so far as we can learn nobody in the stouffville or markham settlement has been victimized in this ease its bogus 10 bills police say they are excellent counterfeits but theres one quick way to check wet your finger and rub the red serial number if it smudges its a phony if you want more evidence examine it closely for the plan- ehettes those tiny circular green spots of paper embedded in all genuine bills the counterfeits havent any so far most of the bills have been passed at torontos canadian national exhibition a race track at niagara falls stores in windsor and vancouvers pacific national exhibition and montreal in all cases the chief vieitims were businessmen whether exhi bition concessionaries store keep ers or men like the toronto drug storeowner who went to bank his weekend receipts and had one 10 bill rejected under the criminal code all counterfeited- money must be reported and forfeited to the police whoever has the spurious bill at the time is the loser this is offered as one reason why more counterfeit bills have not been reported people stuck with them are trying to pass them along to someone else police say at midweek about 4000 worth had turned up however vancou ver police said at least 2 millions worth had been circulated and that an international ring was behind it at midweek six suspected mem bers had been arrested the current swindle was far from the biggest to fleece can adians but authorities agreed it was the biggest in years at one time counterfeiters could count on a reasonable time be tween passing the first wave of phony bills to the time the alarm went off today with spot news broadcasts the operating gap has been narrowed considerably the crooks have to move fast at the first alarm their business ends this time the word spread even quicker than usual with the result say police that its doubtful if the ring made expenses the story is that those distributing the counter feits paid 30 for 100 worth about s1000 worth have turned up if they succeeded in passing another 1000 this could hardly be called a lucrative return on what police say is a considerable investment in this case the swindlers had a pretty good product the bills had been multilithed and would readily pass cursory examination in fact it wasnt until the alarm started that close examination revealed flaws the kings head w a little too large the paper lacked that crinkly feeling the green water mark missing also the important planchette marking the red ink that smudges however police warned plan- chettes arent an infallible tipoff to counterfeit notes actually say the authorities theres no hard and fast indentifying rule for the lay man in the past some bogus bills have even had the planchette markings in at least one case shortly after the first war a ring flooded the country with o bills that were too perfect they were accepted by the bank and circulated until they had to be withdrawn because of age only when the serial numbers were being checked was the fraud discovered then a minute examination of the bills uncovered a flaw but in the genuine notes the bogus bills were perfect the biggest handicap to success ful counterfeiting is paper crooks can make letterperfect engravings or use a photographic process this requires an elaborate plant cost is no object when large denomina tion bills say 50 or 100 are being made but it is the manufacture of the paper used in real greenbacks and the measures taken to safeguard it that really breaks a counter feiters heart processes are care fully guarded by the banknote companies to prevent anyone duplicating the process the form ula is divided into two parts held by two persons in two places this minimizes bribery or other forms of criminal lure being used to obtain the secret for those always on the look out for false currency this is your best bet get to learn the feel of the real stuff often an engraving is perfect bogus bills may even be the new rio theatre uxbridge thursday friday saturday september 15 16 17 leo gorcey and huntz halh in hold that baby roddy mcdowall and elena verdugo in tuna clipper mondav tuesdav wednesday september 19 20 21 rex harrison and linda darneld in unfaithfully yours thursdav friday saturday september 22 23 24 preston foster and barbara britton in i shot- jesse james william tracy and beverley lloyd in here comes trouble color two shows nightly first 7 pm sheet metal roofing stokers oilburners agents for new idea all steel furnaces very suitable for oil stoker coal or wood 125 h mosier sheet metao phono 4505j oshawa scotch mixstrel is critically ill sir harry lauder 70-year- old scottish vaudeville trouper and composer is reported ser iously ill of coronary throm bosis at lauder hall his lan arkshire estate in scotland lauder worldfamous for his songs in dialect had been re ported planning a farewell tour of the united states printed with stolen plates theres no way to detecting a counterfeit through the printing in fact un less a note has a glaring flaw even bankers wont spot a phony that way but the paper will give them away every time in rare cases thieves have managed to steal a quantity of banknote paper then only by checking the serial num ber can the genuine be told from the counterfeit however pre cautions taken today by canadian banknote companies and the bank of canada just about rule out this possibility marion sanderson dressmaking and alterations obrien avenue stouffville telephone 33jl