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the tribune stouffville ont thursday april 27 1950 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 mail post office department ottawa issued every thursday at stouffville ontario in canada 200- in usa 250 a v nolan son publishers notes and comments unfair to the motorist careless pedestrians involved in motor accidents are being treated too leniently by the courts a manitoba appeal court judge recently declared there will be general agree ment with that statement in far too many cases whereas the victim is entirely to blame the helpless motorist is assessed heavy damages particularly is this true when the jury learns that the vehi cle owner carries accident insurance this attitude is both unfair and dangerous it is unfair to- the careful motorist and the insurance companies and is a potent factor behind the steady increase in accident insurance rates it is dangerous because it puts a premium on carelessness which by long odds is the great est single cause of all traffic accidents coal markets shrink there are plenty of hard facts to back up donald gor dons recent warning that unless something is done to in crease its relative efficiency coal is going to face steadily decreasing markets so claims the financial post only three years ago half of the energy developed in the united states came from coal in 1949 the figure was 385 last year slow down strikes reduced coal output by 170 million tons in the us yet this came within 10 million tons of the total market available biggest single consumer the americal railroads cut their coal consumption by 16 million tons in 1949 and within the next 10 years oil and electric locomotives will slash that demand still more a generation ago coal supplied over 90 of the railroads power requirements soon its share will be less than half every time an exasperated homeowner switches from coal to oil or gas for heating the miner loses for all time to come an annual market for at least six tons of coal not so long ago it cost twice as much to heat the aver age home with oil as with coal today with the price of coal two or three times that of 1938 the spread has been nar rowed and the switching from coal to oil stepped up sharply only two steps can halt that trend either there will have to be much more efficiency from coal more heat or more power per ton used or the cost of coal in compar ison with competitive fuels will have to be drastically low ered vaccination no longer beauty scar there was a day when a vaccination scar was regarded as a mark of health and common sense and without a trace of selfconsciousness a young girl would wear hers on her left upper arm but fashions changed and the arm scar became conspicuous or so it was thought it was evening dress or rather the desire to wear it with regal poise that led to the search for a new vaccination area after going to the trouble of getting herself all pret tied up for a formal affair the young woman didnt think it was fitting to flaunt a scar that offered no social prestige at all so thigh vaccinations became the vogue as the bathing suit became briefer and briefer how ever the thigh scar also came into view it wasnt partic ularly favored but was endured because there seemed to be no hope of finding an alternative but at last gay paris has come to the rescue actress virginia mayo returning from france says the parisians now are getting vaccinated on the sole of the foot this expedient may be inconvenient or even painful for a matter of weeks but asks the windsor star when have women spared themselves torture in their attempts to be beautiful time to fix rail fences in these modern days in urban centres fixing fences has a political connotation but in rural ontario before the soil is ready for cultivation it is a time for farmers to get out their pincers and wire and to put their fences in order many of the old rail fences now have been replaced by the new wire variety neat appearing when new but ugly and difficult to repair when broken down on some farms there are electric fences consisting of one or two strands of electrified wire with a sufficient charge to make a cow horse or pig stay away after one experience in most parts of ontario though not so much in the southern part of york county there still remain the pic turesque and durable rail fences most of these were of two types the straight fence with the rails strung between wooden posts and the snake fence the rails laid kitter- corner connecting between stakes the straight fence entailed more work to erect but would last with few repairs until the posts rotted off in the ground the snake fences were handier- to construct but needed fixing spring and fall or sometimes more fre quently as rails would get knocked off or the stakes pushed out on many farms these snake fences have been in the same place for generations the weatherbeaten rails as strong as when new some regard them as unsightly traps for weeds but they did serve a purpose other than to en close fields with long grass weeds berry bushes and other plants they formed a nesting place for birds and other wildlife and they were a sort of windbreak helping pre vent erosion the corners were a handy spot to throw stones picked off the fields it is essential for farmers to have good fences not only to keep their own livestock from getting into the crops line fences those which separate one farm from another have created probably more bad neighbors in rural parts than any other cause nothing is more annoying to a good former who keeps his fences wellrepaired than to have a neighbor who neg lects his shai of the- line fence it is even more irritating to have a neighbors cattle get into ones grain than it is to have ones own stock do it old ontario has had many tye of fences most of them still existing they were or stone stump or rail and those of stone are everlasting but they had one fault many a farmer has gone out of sheep raising because the pesky critters goatlike were too agile at climbing stone fences of them all snake fences were the most familiar and farmers these days will be renewing acquaintances with them our readers viewpoint i the tribune stouffville ont second only to the work of the gentlemen thanks very much church of jesus christ we would j for the copies of the tribune which not think of taking away the you have sent me french language from our fellow- may 1 take this opportunity of j quebec or even in congratulating you on the very omal nor wiu vve great improvement you nave made t tlr ih rkrw n tni nm easily give up sucn a neiitage a parwimfcld sffiis ute educational system which was sheet we used to publish and on for us by the fathers of our which was composed entirely by province and which is definitely the old home town by stanley rely by hand with the excellent newspaper vou are giving to the people of stouffville and surrounding terri tory you are deserving of all the patronage the citizens and mer chants can supply i have written to one of your not out of date we had better beware lest we sell out this heri tage for government grants i believe in education ixitli compulsory for children and volun tarily for grownups i believe our schools as they are can stand many real estate dealers mr ahfconv in improvements and that trustee regard to the possibility of securing could be a little more interested m the school they serve but i wish to go on record as saying that all the centralization luxuries eon veniences and dissatisfaction which could follow the trend of the times in the realm of education will never contribute one iota in making better men and women for tomorrow merlyn the old home if still intact or if this is not available to- inquire re garding some one of the other fine homes which l was quite familiar with when a resident there mrs adams and i are from the old home towns of schomberg and stouffville and we decided to make the latter our permanent residence if he cannot locate what we would like to have i will send you an adv which will cover considerable territory and reach those who might sell at a price we may call on you in the very near future if our residence here is sold cordially watson l adams grand rapids mich the town of lindsay has now a dial system of telephones which was inaugurated for the first last week when mayor iimb put through the first call on the tind- say exchange premier leslie frost also a lindsay resident was honored by being asked to make the first long distant call when he rang up a friend in bc april 19 1950 imckkkixg township koads a million dollars has been spent or should we say squandered on pickering township roads in the past twentytwo years thats an average yearly cost of 7100000 or 1000 per mile of road think of it a million dollars on roads seems fantastic but its true a million dollars of tax payers money what have we got for it our guess is nothing in 1919 only four miles of ditching was done at that rate it would take fiftyfive years to ditch all the roads also in 1919 only 21000 yards of gravel were crushed this only averages 100 yards of gravel per mile of road but lots and lots of miles of road got no gravel at all there are many important matters confront ing council but none is more im portant than the roads the time for action is now we urge reeve westney to call immediately an emergent meeting of council with nothing on the agenda but roads let all members of council stand up and be counted let them state where they stand on this all im portant road situation let them forget all new road contemplated for this year and clean up what roads they now have we suggest reeve westney invite the press to this emergent meeting so that the ratepayers will know what is go ing to be done and when the ratepayers are properly fedup they want action neil e mcewen mr editor in answering the letter addressed to me in the tribune of april 13 i wish to state first of all that i have no intention of bringing personalities into the issue before us nor do i make my remarks with any thought in mind that i hold a position on a school board but rather because this is a public issue and all ratepayers have a right to express their views and to weigh the pros and cons and 1 believe the public are capable of doing so our friends from ss no 2 have charged that there are tumble down poorly equipped schools near them 1 suggest that in all fairness to the teachers pupils and rate payers of such sections they should name the schools they surely do not think that if we adopted township school areas the sections with low assessment and high tax rate are going to benefit financially by paying part of the cost for new schools or school additions and teachers equipment etc in sections where the population is growing rapidly and in which sections the schools are crowded naturally these sec tions have to do something about it but if there are more ratepayers then there is greater financial ability to pay for their own schools why should the sections which are already poor be drained com pletely as regards the question of dis tribution of pupils the same situa tion has been placed before and remedied by changing the bound aries of the sections concerned with no great trouble and no great inconvenience to anyone and at practically no cost when we start transporting children from one section to another it means school buses and we all know the rest of the story there is nothing more unequal than to transport a few children while others walk one and two and even more miles it is only human nature for other taxpayers to demand the same treatment for their children and then the confu sion starts to suggest that township school areas are not related to consoli dated schools is as mistaken as to say that the digits are not related to great mathematical problems the greater depends on the smaller the smaller is a step to the larger in the master plan and it is increasingly more evident that there is a master plan at work in our province our rural way of life the build ing of character in our young people the holding of the young people on the farms and the feed ing of the worlds hungry millions depends on continuation of our present public school system lakes bible questions answered by the voice of prophecy question is christ entitled to worship answer and again when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world he saith and let all the angels of god worship him he brews 10 the angels worship him and they are a higher order than we q soandso performs real miracles of healing isnt that proof that he is right a jesus said then if any man shall say unto you lo here is christ or there believe it not for there shall arise false christs and false prophets and shall shew great signs and wonders insomuch that if it were possible they shall deceive the very elect mattow 21 23 21 j do you think that god will forgive a person who is as wicked as i am a he will forgive you if you truly repent if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to for give us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness i john 19 god delights in mercy micah 7 is says who is a god like unto thee that pardoneth iniquity and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage he retaineth not his anger for ever because he delighteth in mercy q did they have any kind of postal system in bible times a- in some places and at some times in esther s10 we read of letters sent by posts on horse back and riders on mules camels and young dromedaries the roman empire had an imperial postal system operating over the highways for which rome was famous q do you believe that jesus came in the flesh a the bible says in hebrews 211 forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood he also himself likewise took part of the same and again we read 1 john a 2 hereby know ye the spirit of god every spirit- that confesseth that jesus christ is come in the flesh is of god husky canadian male the important thing about the incident is that it caused as much anxiety among western farmers as among eastern industrialists and for precisely opposite reasons the west hoping to sell wheat to japan knows that japan can only pay for it with goods the east or tit least a good many eastern man ufacturers fears a revival of japanese imports at prices far be low canadian costs of production the people most embarrassed by the incident are probably the us occupation authorities in japan they have given repeated assur ances that prewar dumping prac tices will not be revived this particular consignment of shirts was made with cotton sheeting taken into japan by the supreme commander to get japanese indus try restarted after the war the authorities obviously slipped in allowing them to be marketed as they were canadian imports from japan last year totalled 5500000 which is not much compared with imports from all sources running at 9000000 a day the two biggest items were toys of which japan is now our thirdlargest supplier and only a little behind the united states and britain and mandarin oranges which are entirely accept able here though not in the united states our exports to japan amounted to less than 0000000 of which sulphite pulp and whisky were the two largest items there is certainly a large field within which we can buy japanese gootis with profit to all premature protectionist clamor must not be allowed to restrict it if we want the japanese market mayfair restaurant monday thru friday 8 am 11 pm saturday 8 am 12 pm the shikt episode the incident of the japanese shirts raises a delicate question the one deal which got all the publicity was a purchase by a single importing house of a con signment of about 150000 worth of cotton textiles which included 35000 dozen shirts priced at be tween 20 and 35 cents the govern ment decided this was below fair value and the importer is liable to pay an undisclosed but very sub stantial amount the shirts are also said to have proved dis appointing having been made for japanese rather than canadians they are not much use to the as unemployment insurance books must be renewed employers please send all unem ployment insurance books for 194950 and previous years immediately to the national employment office with which you deal unless renewal arrangements have already been made they must be exchanged for new books before sending in your 1949su insurance books take note of the date to which stamps are affixed so as to avoid duplication in the new books renewal of books is important to you to your employees and to the commission please act promptly to the insured worker have you an insurance book in your possession if so please take or send it to the nearest national employ ment office for renewal immediately if you send your book enclose your present address so that your new book may be sent to you promptly unemployment insurance commission c a l murchison j g bisson commissioner chief commissioner r j tallon commissioner information on how to prepare your 1949 income tax return official representatives of the taxation division will visit uxbridge on april 17 to 29 inc for the purpose of assisting taxpayers in this area in preparing their 1949 income tax returns and answering inquiries on other income tax matters these representatives will be available for consulta tion at the post office taxpayers in this area are invited to take advantage of this free service to the public let your income tax office help you p