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ih 1 the stouffyilu tribune thursday april 28 1955 the stouffville tribune established liii a v nolan son publishers member of the canadian weekly newspapers association and the ontarioquebec newpapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations authorize s wecriidaji rrul poiofce depl otuwa printed and issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada s250 elsewhere 3x0 c h no3 pubusier ju tioaas assoc editor notes ond comments ribin tree production the ontario department of lands and forests has made the welcome announcement that its tree nursery production target for next year has been raised to 30 million seedlings five million more than were produced during the current year and over two and a half timese the number of trees for reforestation pur poses grown in 1917 of this years production ship ping of 15 million seedlings to private purchasers has begun the remaining 10 million tres are being re served by the department for planting under its own auspices on land which it controls including county forests and conservation authority plantations the department plans to establish a number of small nurseries in northern ontario near the forest areas where the trees will be planted these will supplement natural regeneration of cutover areas and will help to make certain that useful species are grown in spite of the very commendable progress being made in increasing tree production the need is still far beyond the goal set huge efforts by the public authorities as well as by private landowners in most parts of southern ontario will be needed for decades to come if the disastrous overcutting of the past is to be restored ilost of the southern counties are far below the desirable average of forested land and vast areas unsuitable for profitable farming ought to be put under trees the will is father of the deed we should strive to leave the nations renewable resources fcbetter shape than they were left to us the globe and mail spring sniffle season here with the month of april we are getting out of the winter cold and flu season and into the spring sniffle period in a few months we will have summer grippe and then autumnal chills and eventually back to the old fashioned winter cold mankinds oldest burning question whats good for a cold is never answered in any season we have the cobalt bomb for cancer the new salk treatment for polio vitamins for a rundown condition and penicillin for a multitude of ills but for the com mon cold no matter season we are without a reliable cure what works on one wont fizz another yesteryear goose grease mustard plasters and onion poultices were the clear cures a youngster with croup wore raw fat pork sprinkled with pepper around hjs throat bound with red flannel torn from wornout underwear of the head of the house such remedies disappeared we complain of drafts worry about wet feet and shudder at east winds whether we live in the open or in sheltered facilities we still get colds we argue over the relative merits of the sun lamp and the hot toddy we lean to fresh fruit juices and aspirin or we pester the corner druggist for sure cures we re sort to cod liver oil and costly pills we remember the adage feed a cold but starve a fever so we break out in a sweat trying to read a clinical thermometer the reason that people catch colds is natures way of telling us that somewhere along the line our living habits are not up to par we clamor for any cure to stop up a cough or a sniffling nose without regard to why probably one good reason why there has never been a complete answer to this problem is that if there was a cure people would just go on in their own sweet way abusing nature and when a cold threatened would feed their egos by taking the sure coldcure treatment laff of the week i w w what successful parmer must do farming today is a complicated business requir ing managerial skill as in any other enterprise the man who operates a farm needs an under standing of basic economics and knowledge in several natural sciences and some applied sciences such as agronomy and animal husbandry discussing the business of farming the monthly letter of the royal bank of canada says the farmer who wishes to improve his income surrounds his farm with a business atmosphere he keeps abreast of improvements in farming methods crop varieties fertilizers and machines even though he cannot put them all into practice at once he plans his farm work well in advance and completes plowing seeding cultivating and harvesting at the proper time and with a reasonable degree of thoroughness if not the first at least he will not be the last to adopt an improvement even li he is not mechanically minded he will learn enough to enable him to keep his machin ery in running order and preserve it for long service the job of determining what to plant was easy for louis herbert when he turned over his first sod at port royal in 1601 all the farmer of that day had to do was to consider his familiy needs for food and clothing and produce accordingly the income wanted today is of a different sort and amount and the penalty of failure to reach the desired objective is greater the need for setting an objective and planning how to reach it is an imperative demand yet by the very nature of agriculture it is impossible to work by inflexible rules adjustments must be made to meet the conditions of climate vary ing from year to year and from month to month and the vagaries of the market in which a longterm trend may be halted or speeded up by sudden social or political changes at home or abroad what is needed by the farmer seeking to make the most of his life is general plan for years ahead with specific plans for individual years and detailed plans for the next twelve months this demands basic knowledge gained from textbooks personal experience and the experience of othe plus a continuing study of new information some of which will be used now am some used to form opinions if what is to be ex pected in the future report from parliament by michael starr mp ontario riding the easter recess for the members of parliament bus ended and they are gradus reassembling o parliament hi at ottawa to continue the jwork of parliament where they left off prior to easter the first major debate will be on the budge and in my opinion this debate will not be of long duration the reaction of the- general public was one of surprise and to some extent a pleasant one even though it that the reductions were hev thts ove fuce where yon get more for your money thju yon used to for parents only spotlight on polio vaccine the spotlight is on the new polio vaccine and parents are beseigeel by questions ifrom their children on this greatest medical discovery in recent years dr j d m griffen the director of the mental health association recently pointed out that the child on entering school is still young enough curious enough and hopefully eager enough to learn not only the necesesary basic skills the three rs but also the facts about the world in which he lives although much has been written and broadcast about dr salks discovery perhaps the following information will be useful to fathers and mo thers who are trying to answer their childrens questions dr jonas edward salk is the fortyyearold son of a us immigrant garment worker he is married and his boys are peter 11 darrell 7 and jona than 5 his own children were included in the first small group of people to be inocu lated with his pink clear vac cine two and a half years ago at that time many scientists feared it might cause polio in stead of preventing it but dr by aancy cleaver own product he did not always know that medical research would be his vocation law and later dentis try attracted him in 1939 he graduated in medicine from new york university fortun ately one of his professors dr thomas frances jr was con vinced that dr salk would do a good job in research and ar ranged a chemistry fellowship for him in 1917 this same professor recommended dr salk for the position of director of virus re search at the university of pittsburgh lab at first he worked on a vaccine for flu but at the end of two years turned his attention to the search for a polio vaccine three us doctors had been successful in isolating the po- iio virus in a test tube canada contributed to this discovery through the work of the connaught research lab oratories toronto the federal government had set aside s83- 000 for research for this work originally the fluid medium 199 was created for research in cancer under dr raymond parkers direction the con salk had absolute faith in his is feii probably not so much as should have been the automobile dealers in canada 3re quite disappointed in the fact that the reduction in the automobile excise tax was not applicable to them and those dealers who had large stocks on hand were forced to take a loss representations are now beng made by the as sociation of automobile deal ers for reconsideration on this tax so far as they are concern ed but we have already been assured by the minister of xa- tiona revenue that no consid eration in this regard will be given the weather in ottawa is get ting warmer every day and it is a pleasant sight to see thei green grass and the crocuses in bloom a return tabled a short time ago from the department of agriculture shows a govern ment loss of 63542 in 1sj52 and an estimated loss of s700- 000 for 1954 in supporting the price of eggs by the prices sup port board the government has paved the way for legislation to low er the pensionable age limit tor canadas blind to is years from 21 and to increase the permissible income under which they qualify for pen sions the resolution to be followed toy a hill was wel comed by spokesmen of all parties in the commons al though some said the pension able age should be sixteen years so that blind teenagers could begin collecting pen sions when their parents could no longer claim family allow ances for them besides lower ing the iblind pensionable age to is the measure boosts by 120 a year the pension pay ments in all categories this will increase permissi ble incomes for single persons without dependents to 9gj a year from ss10 ifor single per sons with dependents to 1150 from 1010 for married per sons where one is blind to 1560 from s1320 and for mar ried persons where both are blind to- 1080 from 110 the pensions are included in the in come cekings the changes will increase the federal blind persons pension bill by about 250000 to some 4250000 the canadian national in stitute for the blind had recom mended is as the pensionable age and auo had urged permis sible income to be raised to 2000 for married and slooo for single persons it had ask ed a guiding allowance of s10 a month never before in the history of parliament have so many committees been sitting at one time as there are during the present session this is a new experiment which is supposed to help in expediting the busi ness of the house to my mind it is a very good one because it gives a closer scrutiny of the department under consid eration as well as of its expen ditures for the coming year 1 also affords those members serving on these committees an opportunity to learn how that particular department functions and to question and criticize the methods used in a recent dominion bur eau of statistics weekly bulle tin information is given that 7o fewer new passenger cars and onethird fewer new com mercial vehicles were sold by automotive dealers this febru ary but march production was up 11 over last year to the highest level since the spring of 1953 the spring pig crop is now expected to he 21 larger than last year with increases of 17 in the east and 26 in the west in the number of sows expect ed to farrow vine city stocks of creamery butter cheddar cheese and cold storage eggs were larger than a year earlier at the start of april production of wheat flour was higher and exports lower than the previous year in the first seven months of the cur rent crop year the announcement has been made that canada has acquired a site on 5th avenue in new york city for the proposed ca nada house the site is in the heart of the midtown shopping district and a few blocks north of rockefeller centre canada house is planned to toe a cen tre for canadian business firms and other canadian organiza tions more than a score of ca nadians have pledged 100000 each to finance the project it is hoped that the new building will ibe completed toy december 19561 sponsors of the project incorporated as canada house new york limited will meet in toronto this month to de cide which plan will be adopt ed crossword puzzle pvulk ne 339 jrtwi the last combat it has often been- said that you can tell a mans character by the things he laughs at and that is true of nations as well as individuals we dont have to go far back in british history to find that public hangings were spectacles for public amusement as late as 1833 a crowd estimated at 50000 saw a child hanged in tyburn london for the theft of a few pennies louis blake duff points out that little more than a century ago in canada public executions were accepted as necessary to combat lawlessness and for what we would consider minor offences between 1931 and 1935 there were 84 lynchings in the united states and in many cases on circumstantial evidence the last public hanging in canada was in ottawa on february 11th 1869 modern amusements may seem rough and callous but no sensible person would deny there has been a steady improvement a sense of fair play and rising moral standards the colosseum of ancient rome was a vast amphitheatre holding eighty thousand spectators it was the scene of contests and combats and although the gladiatorial shows were cruel and brutal affairs the people liked them and each year hundreds probably thousands of men were slain in the earliest days the combatants were criminals who had already been condemned to death but were given a chance to fight for their lives later they were often men whose views on political affairs had brought them into disfavour one afternoon early in the fifth century the emperor honorius won a victory over the goths he had entered rome amid much cheering and extravagant applause sports and games in the colosseum were to be climaxed by a gladiatorial combat and the vast building was packed with a crowd frantic ally excited chariot races in which young greeks drove mag nificent horses opened the proceedings later groups of negroes with spears and swords fought against ravenous lions some men lost their lives but in the end every lion lay in a pool of blood the ghastly scenes seemed to satisfy some lust for blood on the part of the spectators and as each animal fell there was a burst of wild cheering when the mounting enthusiasm reached fever heat two parties of gladiators entered the rrena and prepared for battle as men fell before the swords of their oponents the people now more excited than ever goaded on their favourites ruging them to slay their rivals among the spectators was a christian monk named tele- machus he had watched the proceedings with feelings of horror and disgust even the slaughter of savage lions had moved him with pity for he knew it was an unequal combat the sight of men goaded on to slay others with whom they had no quarrel was too much for him he looked at the vast multitude crazed with the lust for blood they seemed to be turned into animals it was more than he could stand plsiiinc asice those near him tclcmachus swiftly climbed the wall separating the spectators from the arena plunged among the fighters and ordered them in the name of god to stop for a minute the spectators were stunned into silence then like wild beasts robbed of their prey they gave vent to their anger tclcmachus stood his ground ard told them of the sin they were committing it was of no avail stones felled him to the ground where soon his lifeless body lay in view of all tut incident did not end there as the excitement died down the people knew that they had murdered a good man and a true servant of god for days the chief conversation in rome was no the courage of gladiators bu the story of an unknown monk braver than them all hororius ordered the fights to cease it was the last gladiatorial contest in ancient rome our quotation today is by tertrillian the blood o the mcrtyri is the iced of the church naught lab supplied 90 percent polio in a recent year 1951 of the virus for production of the vaccine in us and it has manufactured enough vaccine for 600000 children this has been distributed to all the ca nadian provinces the polio virus is grown in small pieces of monkey kidney tissue which is placed in a syn thesis of 61 chemicals india is the home of the rhesus mon keys needed for the poliokill ing salk vaccine recently 400 of these monkeys died at a london airport and india plac ed a ban on their export this is being relaxed the kidney from one monkey is sufficient to produce 3000 shots of vac cine approximately 15000 mo nkeys were used in the salk research project dr salk disclosed that the best way to give inoculations is two injections within five weeks and the third within 7 months major adverse reac tions are almost completely lacking under half a percent of children tested suffered mi nor reactions this vaccine is between so and 90 percent effective in pre- veiling paralytic polio this fact means that the chances of children in a group of 100000 of getting paralytic poio have dropped from 10 to s in the 195 canada year book the re ported deaths from epidemic were 2563 the chances of catching po io are greatest in the ages from 5 to 9 years children under 5 come next and those from 10 to 1 1 years third over 27 per cent of the cases come in this first age group when children are attending the lower grades of public school over 21 per cent of preschool youngsters awd 15 percent of boys and girls from ten to the middle teens are among the total polio cases last year the mass tests of salks vaccine were carried out in canada us and finland immediately the salk vaccine was announced president eis enhower directed that the for mula be made available to all countries the information not the vaccine was at once sent to the seventyfive us mis sions great medical discoveries once they are tested and prov ed are never kept secret they are a gift to humanity no iron curtain or any other wall keeps them from the men and women the boys and girls in other countries as pasteur in 1sss when his institute was opened truly said science in obeying the law of humanity will always labor to enlarge the frontiers of lifc copyright polished buggies and spanking horses helped early courtships thrive by barefoot hoy not every nigh was a stay- athome night in those early days it is likely though that we did no do so much travel ling as the young blade today in the horseandbuggy days the young man on the farm had a decided advantage over bis town and city cousins whm h came to making a date with the charming young women of the village the attraction was the nifty outfits in which the country boys took them or a drive what young lady could resist she snvuailon of a drive in the in those days everybody went to church sunday nights there mih be a fair turnout for the morning service but all the denominations could ex pect a crowd for the evening session all vounc folk join sunday night pnradn jum as much a part of th sunday evening program as at i tending church was the walk up and down main street after- ward the few young people who did not attend church j would join the parade later in i groups of two or three they i would walk up and down the j hoard sidewalk from the fnu- a summers evening loess section to forbes mill or i especially before the envying i the hespeler railroad station i eyes of her cntemporarlsl there was a sidewalk on only they might hesitate later in one side of the street sot part choosing a life partner from of the way to the mill and it the farm but they took full ad- jwa harrow so that it often antage of the joys of the sea- j became a single line each way sori i until the couples who had pr across 1 mail 5 peruse 10 revm fav- foimattoa 14 tunc 1ft cant 18 ardor 17 road ia esoteric 19 pterr with horn 50 gut line for fi shook 22 babylonian war god 2s uease 2 elongated flan 36 to cut alter snick 23 lets eo 33 oily 37 one ft homer a work 3s plant 40 observe 41 levtl 42 jewtah home festival 43 unsorted wheaten floor of india 44 mans nlek name 45 spools 40 close to lpoet 47 related on mothers aide 49 open shelved cabinets 51 mimic 3 as it 3tanda ibuji m remarkable deed 7 siate abbrl 59 w ft4 came to earth as groine out 67 vail in drops 6s lrh i cent 69 rants 70 feminine name 71 existence 72 weasel 73 smll ntmi down 1 chums 3 algerian sea port 3 mathematical term 4 omental wctcht ft lifts sea eaiete 7 verdlc fire tod r performers 9 newcomer 10 extent 11 succulent plant 12 mountain lake 13 the dill 21 metal 25 dike 27 liltter veteh 8 can 29 pemtnlne name 30 climbing plant 31 consume 32 us sldewava isipiz ci ehsin amc mil aaaaa aaa uuuuu aa vaaaa aa uu hm j i o e s sp r a 1 a i nfte a i s o nk i a 0 b s t t e p l e 0 e a 0 e n s s p e o a s t t s ancr i lmit n sm 3 flower 3t kristlrs 36 ivriod of time cpu 39 htrdvi home intt 42 vilihlrver 41 chemical suhsx 45 tear 4s culture medium 4ft tellkccreu 50 declare as true s3 urn of french tarllament unoun 55 nome la greece 56 troubles 58 lawe lsp1 611 kind ot cheess 61 wild imtlalo ot india 62 small de pression 63 stineral sririncs ed oil went home to finish the evenings courting in the front parlor or over the front gate the country boy avoided all this congestion a recognized practiceon the farm was to permit the younger men including the hired man the use of the horse and buggy on sunday evening in fact it was usually a part of the con tract between the farmer and the hired man when starting a seasons engagement to have the use of a horse and buggy or cutter every other sunday some of the more prosperous hired men owned their own equipment and took it with them from place to place the young hopefuls on the farm spent several hours dur ing the day brushing the glossy coat of the horse washing or dusting the vehicle and getting the last speck of dust from the shiny harness church time would find his equipment in the ibig church shed iff all probability his horse had ibeen given some extra oats or car rots to increase its spirits for the evening after church the country boys would line up in the shed at the proper time to allow their chosen and predated com panions to be ready they would proceed to the front of the church at treakneck speed the young woman would hop in at his side at a speed that would put modern hot rods to shame they would be on their way so it seems that courting has not changed down through the years only the vehicle outarmeil driver found horse a boon there was one advantage to the horse and buggy lurtship the horse generally wandered home if you lost interest in driving something impos sible in a car- of course i am not speaking loo much from experience here as my time of courting came when 1 was living in the much larger municipality of detroit for those who prided them selves in good horsemanship a runaway could bp cause for much embarrassment our fa mily often recall an incident which happened to father that we fondly call john gilpins ride in his late 60s father retired from active farming he rent ed the ifarm to my ibrother kphraim as is usual with those of pennsylvania dutch extraction he built a doddy house so he could remain on the farm he kept a couple of cows a driving horse pigs and chickens he called the driver dexter it was a half indian pony continued on page i opening dai cedait b musselmans saturday april van walker and his orchestra featuring bill jay builders whether you are building one home or a hundred you may benefit by using mortgage loans under the national housing act 1954 see the manager of our nearest branch holl gladly tell you how such loans are arranged moitsgo loans are only one of the many services we offer our customers at any of our more than 680 branchos mwm the canadian bank of commerce stouffville branch v k atkinsoh mgr i