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the stouffville tribune established 1sss member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontarioquebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations authorized as eonlclas mail posojs dept otta printed and issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada s250 elsewhere 5300 c h nolan editor jas thomas sports a assist a v nolan son publishers notes and comments the power to tax and the cbc the power to tax it has been said is the power to govern that is why constitutional practice in democra tic countries requires that the exercise of the taxing power to raise revenues as well as the expenditures of all revenues raised by taxation must be subject to the most rigorous control by parliament thoughtful canadians aware of the most vital im portance of this principle of constitutional usage cannot fain to sense the deepest concern regarding legislation approved by parliament and conferring upon the cana dian broadcasting corporation absolute freedom to dis pose of as that organization sees fit all taxes collected on the sale of radio and television sets and equipment for the next five years the practical effect of this legislation is that par liament has delegated without restraint a segment of its constitutional perogative of the power of the purse to a crown corporation in seeking to gain exclusive control of a segment of the taxing power the cbc has arrogated to itself powers which reside exclusively under the constitutional laws of this country in the hands of parliament that parliament should readily acquiesce such an infringement of established constitutional practice is a commentary on the estate to which that body has fallen in its sense of public responsibility vancouver newsherald the dominion government certainly was rather lax in not providing at least a flag for the local postoffiee building for the coronation the delapidated piece of bunting whh has been flapping there in the breeze for some time is in shreds it is also high time that the large light globe was replaced at the entrance and that a supply of these globes was kept on hand since there are always continued delays in replacement every time one is broken our postoffiee is not the most impressive looking building at best but with lights missing and a tattered flag on the roof it certainly added little to the holiday appearance of town the pause that refreshes deputy minister hits the nail on the head deputy minister w a orr of the ontario depart ment of municipal affairs hit the nail square on the head at the recent mayors and reeves convention in searboro when he made the following observation i can tell yotrwhy your taxes are soaring people are de manding more and more services and you are providing them there is always a good deal of grumbling and com plaining in stouffville and similar centres because of stiff increases in taxes in recent years such will possibly be the case here again this year as we predict now that the local village rate will advance considerably again this summer when the taxpayers read that the tax rate has been increased by so many mills it does not register with too great force but when the tax bills come in and they see what it means in extra dollars and cents there is great consternation people in every municipality are out for all the ser vices and facilities of municipal government that they can have they hound their councils for action to meet their demands but at that time they give little thought to paying for these extra services it is only when the tax bills come in that they realize that nothing can be given them without somebody paying for it and in this case the only people to pay are the municipal taxpayers that is something worth keeping in mind the next time our citizens feel the urge to ask for an extension of any of the municipal services driving sheds the mechanical revolution which has occurred on ontario farms has had many results one of these has been to change the character of what is an important farm building we refer to the driving shed the purpose of this originally was to house the horsedrawn vehicles it would contain the democrat the buggy cutter and sleigh when not in use and of course the buffalo or other types of robes if space allowed certain farm implements which depreciated if left outdoors would be stored there actually if sufficiently commodious it was sort of a catchall building a corner might be used for the cream separator it might even serve as a place in which to cut up the beef or hog killed to provide the winters meat it also was something of a tool shed where ham mers saws wrenches and other equipment needed by fanners would be placed if one wanted to find some nails bolts a bit of wire or a plow share one would look in the driving shed nowadays most ontario farms havent a buggy or cutter the driving sheds can be used as garages as storage for tractors and tractor drawn implements a peek into a driving shed is sufficient to prove the great changes which the past couple of decades have brought to rural ontario fur parents only dont laugh at me the dying family letter in these impatient days the art of letter writing is dying out it has fallen victim to the speed and efficiency of the telephone and to the restlessness which prevents so many from the quiet selfcommunion that writing a long letter demands we can regret the passing of the rounded phrases and elegent periods that our grandparents delighted in but we should mourn as a great loss their recording of the trivial events of family life for those from whom they were separated are not these the very things that absent friends and relations delight to read about our greatgrandparents wrote from their own fire sides telling of mundane things a childs cough the price of a dress length a neighbors rheumatism the sermon they heard on the previous sunday a birth in the family or the death of a friend the intimacy of it all brought a responsive glow in the heart of the reader a feeling that he belonged to the family group although separated from it surely the desire to belong is one of the strongest in human nature and the decline in letter writing is re sponsible for some of the loneliness so prevalent in modern life v in wartime the fighting man yearns most for the letter from home when he receives it he searches with eager eyes for those tiny details of family life which have in his loneliness a peculiar and endearing charm for these he will read the letter several times until he knows it by heart by allowing these living links to die slowly is not society making a major contribution to modern ills hamilton spectator ive a sense of humour bin i wont be laughed at one of the characters in christopher frys the boy with a cart makes this re mark xo one likes to feel re- dieulous children hate to be laughed at and not until they are older can they acquire suf ficient poise to hide their chag rin it is impossible to so through life without the unpleasant ex perience of being made fun of little playmates can be quite cruel in tormenting the sensi tive child who is writhing un der their cruel taunts how can mother help a small son who comes to her with tears run ning down his grimy cheeks because the other kids are calling him sissy or ma mas baby the old rhyme sticks and stones may break my bones hut names will never hurt me is a help if he can stand up to his tormentors and yell his defiance at them life will be easier for him when he is a little older he will discover that if lie can just ignore those who plague him or walk away from their teasing they will soon stop their laughter its no fun annoying some one you cant get a rise out of the child with a special handicap such as eyes which are crossed has to learn to de fend himself from personal re marks children hate to be dif ferent in any vespect thinner or fatter shorter or taller etc than their companions if the dentist decrees that a thin- skinned little girl must wear braces on her teeth or if a sensitive lad has to wear glas ses real suffering can be caused by the thoughtless com ments of their chums mother can sometimes pre pare a child by saying sure the other youngsters may say you look queer but if you laugh with them they wont laugh at you if you cant man age to do that you know you want straight teeth or good eyesight and your braces or glasses are going to help you lots of poor childrens parents cannot afford them and they suffer from crooked teeth or weak eves all their lives mejo lly nancy cleaver men and women who have pioneered in any field have had to shut their ears to laughter from the time noah built his ark to the present day for two long years jack iline was called by his neigh bors old quack and the small boys of kingsville fol lowed him on the street honk- ing at him while he waited for some of his migrating geese flying overhead to join the sev en geese with clipped wings on his pond it takes a lot of moral cour age for adults to face laughter and say no thank you if they do not care to drink liq uor when it is being served how much more trying it is for an adolescent to ignore the jeers and stick to his principl es that is one reason why many boys and girls too growing up in homes where parents believe in total abstin ence desert the ranks and take a drink with the crowd it is this fear of being laughed at and the social pressure of conformity which is one of the causes for the alarming in crease in drinking one can adian province ontario re cently reported an increase of 83 of gross sales of liquor list year over the previous year and an average consump tion per family of beer lkiuor and wine of one hundted and ninety dollars in 1052 carlyle called sarcasm the language of the devil there should be no place in the con versation of a home for the bitter words of wit whose sting is long remembered few parents are so callous as to laugh in a childs face and hurt his feelings but sometimes mother is not so careful not to recount to visiting relatives an amusing little thing a child did or said in his hearing children hate relatives who poke fun at them and roar with laughter at their blunders their only safety is in retreat they sljpuld be allowed to make themselves scarce when a grownup with such little sense appears on the horizon this amusing picture en titled the lause that re freshes won a top award for photographer maluh of ottawa in the sixth national prim show of commercial and press photographers association of canada of boo prints snhmitted by photographers from all parts of canada 222 have been judged and will be on view in cities from montreal to vancouver measured against the fact that we have 2 million more canadians today than in 1016 the above decline in the farmers economic status is harder to take and to meas tire although 1 see the follow- in related item in one ol the us farm journals in the course of a digest of farm news in 1912 farmers got 73 of the national income washington estimates theyll get only 657c this year this latter looks a pretty dangerous trend although i confess that id be happier with a 65 of a 300 billion 1953 us national income than with a 73 share of the 50 billion us national income in 1932 nonetheless a deterioration in the purchasing power of the farmers spells out to my ears the dangerous word de pression as one of the amer ican senators mansfield of montana wrote it onto the congressional record the oth er day great national depres sions in the history of this and other countries have almost al ways been preceded by econ omic reverses on the farms square deal editors mail bhtirn south of the miorder rolling south over scenic highways you are routed via new orleans where you hove two nights ond one day to see the sights of this enchanting city your four conductor who speaks both spanish and english joins your group at san antonio and accompanies you to mexko and back youll enjoy the wonderful sights of mexico its 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interpret the basic signifi cance in the above political though it is painful ly clear that thev appear to be pointing in opposite directions i get pleasure from reducing my personal indebtedness so feel inclined to applaud the massive reduction in the nat ions debt especially when mach 097 mach 098 mach 099 mach 1 tap tap mach 1 plus to the civilian the speed of sound is about 765 miles per hour but to the keen young rcaf fighter pilot the speed of sound is at mach i on his instrument panel as the needle of the machmeter hits mach 1 he hears a light taptapping on the canopy behind his head and swoosh hes beyond the speed of sound today breaking the sound barrier is no prob lem to him in his sabre jet he does it all the time if you can measure up you too can be a jet pilot in the rcaf enjoy the thrills and opportunities of the new era of supersonic aviation decide now to fly for canada target makt your hfe freedom it you ore 1 7 but not yti 25 unqfe and no junior faotrkvlotjon the 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