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se trfbtm stmtffro orit tfcurwsay kor w4 m the stouffville tribune member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontario quebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations printed and issued every thursdav at stouffville ontario in canada 5250 elsewhere 350 a v nolan son publishers esiabilehm 1ss authorized a- scodclais mai pot oflk dpt otua c h nolan editor ja thoma sports mt notes and comments be sure youre listed once again the annual copies of the stouffville municipal voters lists have been published and ratepayers should take heed to make sure their names are listed the necessity of having your name properly listed precedes the annual election if one is held and with one vacancy sure on council a contest is quite possible lists can be seen in the town clerks office and at the postofhce every year some voter is quite put out because his or her name does not appear so it is well to take the precaution of checking this weeks sunday school lesson the decline of the tandem bike lack of chamber of commerce interest to be deplored lack of interest by local businessmen in their own or ganization the stouffville chamber of commerce is to be de plored the critical element who do not attend the meetings because they do not agree with the moves that are made have a poor sense of the democratic way and should not rail against those who do carry on the chamber business but rather blame themselves for their laxness in not being present to see that their own wishes are carried out those business folks who do support the organization with their attendance have no desire to force their ideas upon the group as a whole and would be overjoyed if more of their fellow businessmen would turn out and help steer the ship ah active chamber of commerce can be one of the finest organizations any community can have both from a business as well as community angle the local chamber of commerce during its short lifetime has done much to push the town ahead largest single contribution has been the organization of the trade fair others might have done it but it remained for the chamber of commerce to really organize the event and put it over successfully likewise the santa claus parade has been fostered and annually organized by the organization numerous small improvements have been made by council only through the urging of the chamber of commerce much more could be done if the group was better supported kind of council depends on people the mayor of philadelphia joseph s clark jr says that government in a democracy at all levels is a pretty complicated business from this conclusion he suggests that the men en gaged in government must have plenty of brains to acquit themselves successfully of their responsibilities the mayor is right and it follows as he suggests that the voter bears the responsibility of assuring by intelligent voting that capable men are chosen for the tasks of govern ment he says that big business universities hospitals and similar institutions have a method of picking those with the ability to head them but he points out that a like method of picking the men who govern a nation state province or municipality cannot with safety to democracy be picked by that method the choice of leadership in government falls directly upon the people which means that the ability of those who govern can be no better than the peoples choice the experience of democracy so far shows that the people have been fairly successful in their choosing locally we here in stouffville as well as the ratepayers of surrounding townships are near the time when they must set themselves to elect councils commissions and trustees to run municipal affairs the history of municipal elections here and elsewhere is that generally speaking a comparatively few voters interest themselves in municipal affairs if 50 percent go to the polls it is considered a fair turnout much less than that have suffi cient interest to attend nomination meetings a large percent age of those who vote know very little about municipal affairs this condition is the weakness of our democracy and democracy can ill afford to be weak world conditions being what they are the ratepayers who are laggard in the matter of interest in municipal affairs are lacking in a true sense of the obligations of citizenship and to a degree can justly be called slackers new dangers for children accidents and cancer are now the leading causes of death among schoolage children the record of this centurys achieve ment in conserving child life is to no small degree marred by this fact advances in medical and public health science have brought about significant victories in the cotrol of infectious diseases which only a few years ago took heavy toll of life among children cancer has risen to a major disease menacing childrens lives between one and 14 years of age the type of cancer found in children differs from adult cancer among children the most prevalent is cancer of the white blood cells and of the brain kidneys adrenals bones and eyes in children cancer is more rapid and more malignant than among adults owning probably to the greater growth potential in the young at ages 10 to m the death rate from cancer is equalled by that from accidents the cause of cancer has still to be found but this problem does not exist in respect to deaths from accidents the records show that in accidents the leading cause of death among school children is the motor vehicle motorists today constitute a greater hazard to child life than do germs and viruses which scientists are now able to control too many children are losing their lives trying to cross the street or highway or while riding bicycles to and from school or in the course of their employment after school hours some of the latter type of accidents may be due to lack of caution on the part of the cyclist but many can be blamed on the carelessness of motorists the mounting toll of accidental deaths among children indicates that drastic measures are needed both in the matter of traffic regulations and enforcement and in safety education for children and adults alike it is deplorable that almost daily motorists are undoing the good wrought by health workers the largest group of victims of accidents are children of five to fourteen soars of age the group which medical science has brought safely through the oncedangerous period of early childhood when menaced by communicable diseases many children whose lives were saved from disease germs are being killed or disabled in traffic accidents the day is rare in which children are not injured or killed by motorists toronto daily star best ayrshire 545 saturday november 6 mark- erf a change in the well estab lished routine of leitchcroft farm when their great herd of avrshires were sold by auction jlr robert seltx of waukesha wis isited by mr u e franklin of brantrord on itarted the felling ai 12jo to a fairly large crowd of about 300 persons every one of the 90 animals was auctioned the highest priced cow went for 646 and the highest bull for ssfio during the long afternoon the crowd was very ably cater ed to by the womens institute of buuonvillc with otfee and andwiche gods ablndance for mans need lesson for november 21 palin 104 golden tet the earth is the ord and the fulrn there of the world and they that d ell therein ina 141 the lesson as a whole by j c macauuy oj approach to the leon as in the case of the pro verbs the psalm are not the work of one man the ancient hebrew tradition as given in the king james version as cribes seventythree to david twelve to asaph ten to the sons of koran two to solomon one to ethan one to heman and one to moses leaving the authorship of fifty unaccount ed for this does not exclude the possibility of some of the fifty being from the pen of da vid also but even without ihte there is a sufficient praponuer- ance of davidic work to justify the general title the psalms of david it is equally clear that the psalms are not the product of one period but come from va rious eras of jewish history the song of moses the man of god psa 90 is undoubted ly the oldest the davidic pe riod made the richest contribu lion to psalmody it is not un likely that some of the anony mous psalms were the work of hezekiah isa 3s20 and the interest of hezekiah in the col lection of sacred works prov 251 must have encouraged the writing of devotional literature some of the psalms clearly re fer to the period of the captiv ity and the restoration see 126 137 conservative scholars generally hold that the times o neherhiah saw the comple tion of the collection while others believe that some of the psalms are from the days of the maccabees it is safe to stay within the bound- of mo ses on the one hand and nehe miah on the other a period of a thousand years it will be noticed that most revisions mark oft five separ ate groups of psalms 1 to 41 42 to 72 73 to s9 90 to 100 107 to 150 these represent collec tions of psalms made at various periods while later collectors may have made changes in the arrangements it is not likely that any such changes would be more than very minor for the hebrew reverence for all that was regarded as divinely inspired would check any edi torial urge it should be ob served that each of the 5 books of psalms ends with a doxol- ogy- other matters of an introduc tory nature will be dealt with in the approach during the next few weeks in the mean time i should like to refer ser ious students to dr w graham soroggies excellent fourvol ume work on the psalms fle ming h revell co yestwood n j the introductory mat ter in volume x is very valu able i verse by verse psa 1041 bless the lord o my soul thou art clothed with honour and majesty this psalm of creation looks immediately to the creator whose work has so revealed him that by it he is said to have put on glory and majes ty nature songs of the hea then begin with the glories of nature itself and end with the deification of nature- verse 2 light as with a garment the heavens like a curtain the first onion of this verse should be coupled with the latter part of verse 1 if light is gods covering what must his essential unveiled glory be the figure of the cur tain seems to point to the stret ching out of a tent the heav ens are gods dwelling place verse 3 who layeth the beams of his chambers the clouds his chariot the wings of the wind the waters referred to are doubtless the waters above the firmament gen 168 notice how the psalmist makes every item in natures treasure house an in strument of god they arc not made gods as in polytheism nor identified with god as in pantheism verse 4 his angels spir its his ministers lire for spirits read winds the he- brew word means both but the latter much better suits the context and certainly is a bet ter companion to flaming tire hebrews 17 refers these phra ses to the angels of heaven al though the word signifies mere ly messengers here is a case of new and richer content be ing given to an old testament passage by the spirit of inspi ration in the new testament verse 5 who laid the foun dations of the earth for ever note the marginal read ing he hath founded the earth upon her bases and compare job 2t7 what are the bases of the earth no material founda tion but the faithfulness and power of god verses 69 these verges deal with the establishing of the sea in its allotted place verse 10 he sendeth the springs into the valleys among the hills here begins the provision for living crea turessprings of water whose importance is realized by those who establish settlements verse ii drink to every beast of the field notice that the first beneficiaries men tioned arc the wild beasts with special mention of the wild ass- god is not unmindful of them verse 12 the fowls of the heaven sing among tre branches ornithologists know that where trees grow beside water you can expect birds some indeed are content vith water and rociu and ome few seek the parched places but bird ong is fullest where trees and rivers are verse 13 he watereth the hills the earth is satisfied for his chambers see versa 3 a satisfied earth is an earth green and lush with the rains of heaven verse h the grass to glow for the cattle for tne service of man after the wild beasts and birds come the do mestic cattle and finally men as recipients of gods bounty the watering of the earth makes the earth respond to mans labor verse 24 o lord how man ifold are thy works the earth is full of thy riches the psal mist sees both the original cre ation and all the maintenance of the earth as the work of god therefore the fullness of the earth is the possession of god although men greedily grasp earths treasures and claim them for their own verse 33 l will sing unto the lord as long as live while 1 have my being the devout soul can only respond tc all these evidences of the goodness of god with a song of praise and a committal of himself to this glad exercise so long as his life on earth lasts and so long as his being endures even through eternity the heart of the lesson psalms 103 to 100 are the closing psalms of hook 4 and their arrangement is signifi cant while only the first of these is ascribed to david the relatiton is quite clear davids great psalm 103 is an ascrip tion of praise to god based upon the benefits which he himself had received from god from these he rises to general statements regarding the good ness of god and ends with a great call to all intelligences including his own soul to bless the lord psalm 104 is a song of creation celebrating gods works in the realm of nature as creator and sustainer psalm 105 follows with an enraptured statement regarding god in his tory particularly his deal ings with israel from the cove nant with abraham to the set tlement in canaan nothing is here said about israels re sponse that is reserved for psalm 106 where all is grace and mercy over against the background of the constant re bellions and murmurings of gods people so we have psalm 103 with its personal basis ps 104 the song of creation ps 105 the song of history and ps 106 the song of cercy the song of creation does not begin with admiration of the beauties and glories of nature it does not make deities out of the elements of nature it does not identify nature with god as a necessary emanation from him and part of him for the psalmist nature is the work of a transcendent god a god who is above all a god who while sustaining a definite re lation to all things is still apart from them as sovereign ruler the light serves him as a gar ment the heavens serve him as a pavilion the clouds serve him as a chariot the winds serve him as a pavement winds and fire alike minister- to him as messengers vs 14 as for the earth he laid iu bases and maintains it by his faithfulness he fitted its gar ment first covering the whole with the blanket of water then cutting back the sea from the face of the earth that it should cover only the deep places yet he ordered a watering of the face of the earth by springs and rivers that his creatures might be refreshed the herbs glow and the earth respond to the laliors of man he or dained the habitations of his several creatures and estab lished the day and the night he did not then cast them all out on their own as indepen dent of him but made himself responsible for the preserva tion of all with the prerogative of deestruetion and restoration according to his own sovereign will and purpose vs 2130 with good reason then does the psalmist commit himself to the blessed task of singing the praises of such a god creator and sustainer while life lasts here on earth while being en dures throughout eternity no exercise of the human soul can be greater than this to sing unto the lord bless thou the lord o my soul vs 3135 find no cause sutton lire department i- puz zled over a blaze which de stroyed 2000 chickens and an unhealed si 0000 building wing on neil mckinnons pcfterlaw farm police suspect chicken thie ves the farm had been raided hv thieves twice recently the female sex today is line inclined to take a back seat- in either the literal or the meta phorical sense of the phrase and their growing reluctance to take a back seat in the literal sense is perhaps reflected in the poignant complaint of a london bicyclehirer that the demand for tandem bicycles has gradually diminished tow ards the point of extinction his golden days he reports were during the war when ser vicemen on leave were keen customers for his machines as a means of beating gasoline ra tioning and shortage of cars and at the same time taking their wives or girlfriends on tours of the countryside the decline of the tandem is one of the sadder features of the advance in travelling me thods it seems a long time now since an earlier generation made the discovery that a young lady could look sweet and could travel very econom ically upon the seat of a bi cycle built for two and they sang the ladys praises so con- sisently and so vociferously that probably not a few victo rian misses were persuaded to overlook the stylish marriage because it will be remember- r ed the prospective bridegroom could not alford a carriage and to embark on the precarious voyage of matrimony on the rear seat of a dual bicycle the tandem bike of course was a much maligned vehicle during its life as well as a fruitful source of misunder standing and grievance to the man in front laboring wearily at the pedals on some long as cent it was obvious that his partner on the rear saddle was doing nothing but sit back and enjoy the ride and might even out of sheer devilment be do ing everything short of actually applying the brakes to impede the progress of the machine the rear seat driver for her part was not generally slow to note the fact that her view was limited to the unedifving spectacle of a partners back and to advance the theory that if the front man would do a little more work on the pedals rather than content himself with pulling and grunting then some more appreciable progress might be made after which the argument might and gen erally did wax exceedingly personal and offensive when two males were involved even to the point of former friends indulging in a bout of fisticuffs over a fallen machine in the middle of the road such being the casef it is nothing short of remarkable that our grandfathers could continue to insist that a girl looked sweet when seated on such a contraption as would test at once the strength of hercules and the patience of job in any case no one has ever explained what is the point of of making a girl look sweet by perching her on the seat of a double velocipede when it is virtually impossible to look round and see how sweet she appears for the man who can look round- while continuing to pedal a tandem and success fully avoid a rather messy col- lission with some solid object simply in order to see how sweet a backseat passenger looks such a man is- superhuman and he has far too many brains to be content to ride a tandem halifax chronicleherald fob parkxts kxt lets banish race prejudice by nancy cleaver looking at it from the price angle canadas economy ap pears to be walking on stilts dont pu ail your eggs in one basket says an english proverb the german equiva lent is hang not everything on one nail editors mail mr editor stouffville tribune dear sir this writing to the paper is something new for me but i noticed in last weeks issue that you would like to hear from residents about the store hours 1 gather from what 1 hear and have read that the idea of op ening both friday and satur day night is just a trial until christmas to see if the local people want to shop friday night rather than saturday 1 wasnt downtown the first friday night the stores were open but when i came down last friday night 1 didnt think the crowd very big not as big as it is on tuesday nights in the summer time our family is not forced to shop at any par ticular time and can come downtown in the daytime as well as night while the idea of trying out both nights for a while is okay as there is nothing to lose we have shopped in stouffville for many years both from the country and now in town and must say that the place was always known as a great satur day night town sometimes it was hard to get a place to park when we drove in but we wouldnt have thought of go ing anywhere else just on that account everybody seemed to be going to stouffville satur day night and parking didnt worry us much maybe 1 shouldnt be talk ing when i can shop any old time but it does seem to me that stouffville has a good thing and better leave well enough alone think a long time about it anyway before changing quiet observer in a book 3bou camping called summer magic ken neth and susan webb tel of quite a number of children who were lonely and unhappy because they were friendless one wac sally who did about everything one should not do if she was to win friends and influence people she was un kempt sloppy in dress un gracious in manners rebellious and selfish she resented any correction her usual rejoinder to any suggestion of improve ment was so what sally came from a split family then a new marriage with a stepfather who resent ed her presence the camp di rector worked hard to get sal ly to have more respect for herself and more regard for others by the end of the camp season sally showed some real progress in learning the art of making friends from very early years chil dren want the respect and lik ing of their peers the mem bers of their own age group a child of two or three years and over craves uie compan ionship of other children and needs to have friends around the same e there is an old saying only child is a lonely child the solitary child is not only lonely but is also missing many of the things which can be learned mast easily from associates of his own age cooperatiion good sportsman ship taking turns are not nat ural characteristics of young sters these are qualities which gradually must become part of a childs code not accepted by abstract teaching but learned in hours of activity and play with other children supervis ion by an adult but not too much interference is needed when small children play some children find to their amazement that the methods they resort to such as crying or temper tantrums in order to get their own way with their parents do not work with their playmates donnie bursts into tears because he cannot have the swing bobby who in enjoy ing the swing is quite in differ ent to his -oh- or msy even taurt him with the words cry baby whereupon donnie brushes away his tears and de fends himself im not a cry baby marilyn lies down on the ground and kicks her legs and flies into a rage because mary has the doll carriage mary glances aj her chums display of temper and leave her to finish her tantrum by herself it is a real advantage for children to have opportunities of learning how to get along with other boys and girls their own age the first days at school are much easier for the child who has had playmates parents can help their children to make friends by providing a place to piay outdoors and in the house play material suffi cient but not too much over sight of their activities and last but not least by being pleasant to their childrens chums and surprising them with an occasional treat of something good to eat apples fruit milk or cookies one of the common signs of adolescence is a withdrawal from the compahloiiship of the family and a seeking of good times with other teenagers no longer do family excursions or treats have the attraction which they once had the col legiate boy or girl feels that he must be free to find his own friends and ifollow the hobbies which interest him success in adult life does not depend just on a childs lq intellectually bright children who have not learned to give and take in play with their friends will be miserable fail- tires in many types of work where they mitst deal often with other people from school days to the end of life most peoples interest and affection lie mainly with associates in their own age group friend ship at every stage in life en riches it parents can help their children to make friends and thus prevent the unhappi- riess which comes from loneli ness- copyright items from bygone days- its a great pity that its 43 time- easier for a human being to emote than to think from the files of the tiibtino nov 5 1003 in view of the scarcity and high price of apple barreis this season and the fact that in some districts farmers find it impossible to procure barrels at any price the fruit division recommends the general use of boxes on tuesday evening an acci dent occurred on this division of the gtr about foiu- miles north of beaverton fireman mount was killed and brake- man greenbury of this town and the engineer slightly in jured the cause of the acci dent is supposed to have been a defective coupling mr t nighswander of alha takes the cake for quick work as he shipped the first deer of the season on the morning of november 3rd the first surplus in the his tory of canada in the postal service of the dominion was announced for thanksgiving day by sir wm mulock the postmastergeneral announced in parliament that after allow ing for the deficit of over 100- 000 on the yukon service the postal revenue for the past year exceeded the expenditure by 202702 after this week the tribune will be found in its new offices in grubins block entrance through the hallway nov istli 1926 the price of wood has kept pace with the price of coal and the owner of a good bush s a fortunate person on satur day miss nellie lapp offered 10 acres of standing limber by auction the whole ten acres brought 1282 one quarter acre brought 76 and four of the best quarter acre lots ag gregated 266 mr and mrs alex duncan unionville ont announce the engagement of their only dau ghter grace to mr alfred gee smith eldest son of mr and mrs charles smith unionville it is estimated that thirty homes in stouffville have a ra dio installed the sudden drop in the ther mometer on wednesday night last week came as a surprise and the ground was covered with snow thursday morning many vegetables not in winter quarters were nipped heavily mr levi annls a lifelong resident of scarboro township has accepted the nomination in east york riding which in cludes stouffville and mark- ham township against the hon g s henry dr g r f richardson who is so well known in stouffville had the opportunity cf becoming the candidate but he retired in fa vor of mr annis tnere were 88 names added to the voters list in uxbrldge township on thursday nov 11 in preparation of the forth coming provincial election nov 19 1931 despite the fact that we over heard people prophesy that a cattle sale at this time would be a rank failure a carload of them were readily sold by auc tion by j a hawtin on satur day on the farm of levi steck- ley of gormley registered cows touched 140 while grades sold from 60 to 85 each last week the road bosses of the local council got busy and cleaned up the main street pavement before the expected freezeup mr edwin lloyd is still go ing on with extensive repairs to his various properties in town n stouffville and district is proud to have sent out into the world men of great repute university chancellors and pre sidents and all the rest of it but now bids fair to turn out something in the sporting line of which few ontario commun ities can boast earl cook son of mr george cook of lemon- ville who has been pitching ball this summer for the toron to st georges is likely to ac cept an offer to play profession al ball with the baltimore club ml evk orvt a leg up to a knight lo full armour in a recent film about joan of arc the movio makers got over ihil weighty problem by drcuing the actress who plaed the tide part in a suit of armour made of aluminum result shooting including scenes showing joan mounting her horse proceeded en schedule canadian manufacturers use a lot of weightsaving aluminum not only because it makes things lighter to handle and cheaper to ship but because it makes up into more products per pound helps them market their prod ucts for less aluminum com pany of canada ltd a lean