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the tribune stouffviue ont thursday october 27 1919 the stouffviue 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 stouffviue ontario in canada 200 in usa 250 a v nolan son publishers notes and comments rest homes needed not hospitals ontario county council last week refused a grant of 10000 to a proposed hospital in port perry too high said fifteen of the members there is some justification in their refusal too many small towns are trying to establish hospitals even in the face of the established fact tha almost every public hospital in ontario fails to balance its maintenance and capital expenditures with available re ceipts the larger hospitals all run in the red too on main tenance account and one needs to ask who will make up the loss is the village of port perry prepared to meet the annual deficit that will surely accrue what this province needs is more rest homes and not small hospitals the fully equipped hospitals should be en larged rather than smaller ones added over the province many hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equip ment goes into fully equipped hospitals and this equipment services 300 or 500 beds in a hospital it is not feasible to have all this expensive equipment in every town in closely knitted territory for this reason we feel that well equipped nursing homes would meet our deficit confronting all public hos pitals get that furnace ready according to a bulletin just issued to the national solid fuel institute householders will need to take extra care of their heating equipment this winter to get maximum benefit from their fuel coal for domestic use practically all of it imported from the united states may be in short supply and this means that the demand for canadian made coke will be heavy increases which have had to be made in the price of solid fuel because of devaluation average about 170 a ton for the consumer who uses seven tons his total extra cost for the year is 1190 this is a substantial amount but proper care of the heating system will help beat the extra cost few homes with new furnaces begin regular servicing of their equipment during the first year of use most home owners who do look after their heating at all according to nsfi surveys start inspections cleaning and painting after the five year mark and in many houses such atten tion is neglected entirely until there is a breakdown the result is that the operating efficiency of the heat ing system gradually deteriorates summer rot or cor rosion is a furnace killer firepot furnace doors and the combustion chamber develop air leaks which reduce the heat or take more and more fuel to maintain a constant temperature markham township reeve demands look right reeve vern griffin of markham township is on the right track we believe when he comes out in favor of forc ing the municipalities of the county of york to observe the law in respect to the assessment act regarding what is known as clause 57a this section of the act requires municipalities to assess buildings in process of construction during the year they are being built if a property only had the foundation con structed then that foundation would be valued by the assessor and if a house had the roof on but no windows it too would bear a certain value allinall this valuation throughout the county of york would run into millions each year two years ago the county council of york agreed among members that each municipality could retain all the taxes they collected under this clause and that the county should be given none of it obviously since the southern municipalities each have hundreds of thousands of new assessments in their respective places they were mighty glad to escape remitting any part of the taxes therefrom to the county coffers unfortunately the northern members did not see the full implication of such an agreement and nearly all reeves and deputies agreed to waive claim to taxes under 57a as a county councillor of course the whole thing was illegal now reeve griffin points out that the more settled municipalities including markham are being gipped as a result of the illegal gentlemens agreement he wants the county to collect its dues under 57a and while markham whitchurch stouffviue and other northern municipalities will have to contribute they will in the long run gain much because the southern places are growing by leaps and bounds and new assessment from buildings in course of construction is enormous everybody will hope that reeve griffin presses hard his fight to enforce this section of the assessment and he is entitled to expect the support of the great majority of county councillors our sorry indian record when it comes to telling other people how they should or should not treat their minority racial groups canadians are outspoken enough states the financial post that be ing the case our own treatment of the native population we took over with the country must puzzle outsiders after more than two centuries of white mans rule the average red man is still without a vote still without a dominant voice in the management of his own property and in many districts still without an education and despite these handicaps the indians of this country have made a substantial contribution out of all proportion to their num bers to our national defense and to our literature and gen eral development our record in dealing with the indian race is not one of which we car boast for years we have been talking about extending full citizenship privileges to the indian long before this they should have been offered the decline of spanking in atlanta for three days last week the nations organ ized grandmothers in convention assembled swapied ideas on how to bring up children it is reported that dont spank was the cardinal rule emerging from these discussions this decision of more than 400 representative grandmothers con firms again a tender trend which has been plainly evident in the 50 or more uneasy years since grandpa was a boy and spanking was a terminal occurrence of corrective neces sity and small rarity we speak of grandpa in this punitive connection for in the good old days of spanking it was always boys who suffered that chastisement which had solomon for its best- known sponsor little girls were immune from any of those parentally imposed visits to a barn and a barrelstave heres how food prices could be reduced and farmers still prosper by financial editor toronto daily star president trumans ambitious plan to permit food prices to drop to lower levels and at the same time guarantee american farmers present high returns for their pro duction has fallen by the wayside for this year at least congress approved a com promise farm bill that meets only one of the abjectives it provides for continued high government price support for major farm commodities but in doing so it virtually precludes any real reduc tion in the retail price of food which is perhaps the most impor tant factor in todays high cost of living has new- approach the signifificant thing about the presidentss plan however is not income and if farm income drops off sharply farm spending is sharply reduced and business of all kinds is adversely affected recognition of the importance of that it was defeated that was farm prices has led to various expected this year instead its real importance lies in the new approach it offered to the high food price problem since this is some thing that applies equally as much to canada as to the united states it is a matter of interest to both canadian farmers and consumers in the united states today as in canada it is widely recognized that farmers must receive a fair return for their products or the whole economy will suffer farm prices determine the level of farm which were once a routine of domestic discipline as firmly established as the rulings of the book of proverbs because of this family discrimination in spanking which restricted the painful ceremony to unfortunate young males we are not sure that grandmothers are the best judges of whether or not spanking should vanish from a delinquent land and overall it is possible that because members of the national grandmothers club weje themselves never spanked they now regard the handmade punishment as of little worth too grandmothers are famous for their overkindly attitude toward their childrens children and the term grandmas boy has often meant a particular product in any home lucky enough to possess a grandma in any event we would prefer to hear grandmas polled on the subject of spanking some of the best homegrown cornfed spankees we ever knew in and out of whos who are todays grandpas new york herald tribune the farmers dream we were amused with a story read the other day and written by albert hines of the nashville tennessean about the glories of farming while we know there is a great deal of glory to be had from farming the reasons advanced by hines made us smile says he go when you like get up when you like well as our farm readers would sayjust let hines try it and see how long he would last on a farm why the mortgage would swallow him in a few years however here is hines article i am a farmer for the purpose of this article i am the most independent chap on earth being able to go home and come when i please and to stay a spell between if i want to i dont have to look up to anybody i dont have to punch a time clock i can sleep till breakfast if i want to i can plow by sunlight or moonlight or both or not at all mother nature provides my every want provided i cater to her whim and fancy daily i commune with her and she tells me all that i need to know she lulls me to sleep with the patter of raindrops and with the singing of the wind and the chirp of the night things as they come and go outside my window she wakes men with the rosy tints of dawn stealing over the mountain and filtering among the treetops when i feel the pangs of hunger i go to the smokehouse and down a ham or i drop a handful of corn on the groune and gather up a fryer or if im a vegetarian i go out into the garden and gather a sackful of cabbage and beans and beets and tomatoes and corn i am the envy of all men and at least 87 per cent of the women and fully half the small fry i dont know how lucky i am living out here among the birds and the bees and the grass hoppers sniffing the sweet scent of the wild flowers secure in their peace of mind which the rest of mankind seek in vain unlike the politician and the statesman i am not harried by day and hounded by night i can look the whole world in the face and smile that smile of superiority my heritage is one to be proud of i feed the world i clothe it should i go on strike every thing else would go to pot my corn crib is more important than a bomb plant and my pigeon more essential than silver and gold my hoe handle and plow handles bring more genuine happiness than pearls and diamonds i am a farmer and there is nobody like me and i wouldnt swap places with anybody in any other callings i ever heard of schemes to try and stablize farm income at fair or socalled parity levels in the united states this has been done by a system of government price supports which establish fioor prices under the basic farm commodities the aver age support price for wheat for 194849 for example was 2 a bushel corn 144 oats 70 cents barley 115 several support plan in actual practice there are several methods of supporting prices the chief one is by means of a government loan up to the parity value of the commodity if the market price rises above the parity price the farmer can sell his crop and pay off the government loan if the market price remains low the government takes the commodity as full payment of the loan while this stabilizes farm in come it has produced other prob lems one is that it tends to keep food prices at very high levels and very much to the disadvantage of consumers another is that the guaranteed prices lead to surplus production that is wasted the government cannot sell the farm commodities it buys at less than the parity price when perishable commodities are involved such as potatoes a year ago this produc tion is wasted the presidents farm support plant which was drafted by secretary of agriculture brannam sought to correct one of these problems high food prices it proposed that farm prices be per mitted to find their own levels which virtually assured a reduc tion in some food prices at the same time it provided for direct cash payments to the farmers to make up the difference between the market price and what the government consideerd a fair price bread would drop take wheat as an example if the parity price was fixed at 2 per bushel and the market price drop ped to 150 it would mean some reduction in the price of bread for consumers the farmer however would still receive his 2 bushel since the government would make up the difference in this case 50 cents the major criticism of this plan is the money it would cost the government if food prices were permitted to find their own levels there probably would be sharp reductions in some lines this would call for much heaver government spending than the present plan which requires the government only to buy up what amounts to the purplus produc tion on the other hand the plan seems to be one of the very few ways food prices can be reduced while at the same time maintain ing farm income at fair levels and certainly this is a great need today present food prices although reasonable from the standpoint of producers are out of lino with the earnings of many workers gives helpful motorist 1000 bill by mistake oakland calif oct 20 john kay danville building contractor was driving from nearby lafayette to walnut creek his car sputtered to a stop out of gas a friendly motorist in an old automobile kay said yesterday stopped and offered to push bis vehicle to a filling station thanks and by yourself a drink kay said pressing a bill on the other driver the helpful motorist tried to refuse but kay relates he insisted a few hours later kay looked into his wallet to his dismay he said he discovered that instead of a dollar he had given his highway benefactor a 1000 bill a man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong it is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday a smile is contagious but the health department doesnt object government of canada bonds 4 due november i 1959 have been called for payment november 7 1949 these bonds should be presented for redemp tion with all coupons of later date attached no further interest will be paid on these bonds after this date for making aluminum aninf it may sound strange but its a fact every thing you see made of aluminum was made with raindrops even the bus for which you scurry to escape the rain its like this rain falls on high land in our north country it runs down as rivulets and creeks it becomes tumbling rivers by trapping it behind dams and guiding it through powerhouses alcan develops electricity and uses it to make aluminum smelting aluminum eats up vast quantities of electricity enough goes into making a single ton to light your house for fifteen years today alcan is prospecting for still more waterpower because canada needs more aluminum for use at home and to sell abroad rain means d0uars for canadians alcan jobs for 15000 canadians alcan pay envelopes holding 35000000 a year alcan aluminum for more than 1000 independent canadiun manufacturers some 50000 more jobs aluminum company of canada jxps prodimn and proration of aluminum for si canadian induitry and world martli r montreal quebec toronto vancouver windsoc