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i 2 the stouffyiue triwne thursday february 1 w36 the stouffville tribune estabushxd jm a v solan son publishers uetnber of the canadian weekly newspapers association and the ontarioquebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations authorised 44 mcondclaw man potofflc otpt ottawa printed and issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada s350 elsewhere 450 c r nolan publisher ju thomta assoc editor laff of the week editors mail what about york county the elrhira signet commends the town council there for voting unanimously to spend about 180 a year for the next three years in a scheme to promote industry we think it is money that will bring back a great deal of interest says the signet the money is to be spent through a new organiza tion that is being set up through the efforts of the province municipalities are being given the chance to band together and form a board equipped with suffi cient funds to finance the employment of a full time manager to work at securing industry for the area help from the province is coming in the form of a grant up to sioooo to provide funds the share of each municipality in the area amounts to six cents per person per year for three years the particular effort which takes in elmira com prises the four counties of huron perth wellington and waterloo for six cents per person for three years the town could do little on its own to promote industry local committees are always hampered by the lack of time funds and experience we believe that such a plan could have great possibilities locally or at least countywise like elmira stouffville depends largely upon farmers for the greatest percentage of its trade but statistics show that the number of farmers is de creasing steadily new equipment machinery etc is reducing the need for rural labor farms between our town and the city are being sold by the dozens for urban development purposes the small farmer is disappearing farming is becoming big business there are few jobs coming up for our young men and women in town factories however small mean more jobs for more people lower taxation to others in the municipal ity can be expected with every increase in taxable businesses and industry certainly if such a scheme was promoted among municipalities in this area we could try it for three years and it certainly would not cost much one expense stouffville has been spared the wiarton echo takes a dim view of the arena business in small towns as it applies to most municipal ities the echo says those vast and usually ugly buildings one of which sprawls in practically every small town in ontario are beginning to look more and more like white elephants that have lain down for a long sleep if not to die after the last world war there was an epidemic of arena building in small towns many of the struc tures were erected with an almost byzantine disregard for simple economics containing theatres dance floors recreation and lunch rooms as well as an ice surface and seats in many cases municipal potentates who found the icy waters of debentureissuing for the arena quite refreshing took another plunge and installed artifi cial ice plants as a result many a smallish commun ity now has an investment of somewhere in the neigh borhood of 100000 this is all very well and worth some digging for the taxpayer if the community centre and arena is supplying a recreational and cultural need a few years ago the big buildings were doing this besides drawing big crowds for hockey they brought to the people of small towns the chance to enjoy figure skating drama groups and the ultimate in canadian culture bingo on a big scale but alack enter the villain all those television aerials which so often resemble a large tail wagging a small dog have cut swiftly and deeply into arena revenues another fact is that there simply isnt as much loose money around at least in this area many a small town is aghast at the amount of money that will have to be coughed up by the rate payers to cover arena deficits last year and this was before television reception became a fact in this area winghams arena cost more than 3000 walker- tons arena showed a deficit of s1221070 durham lost about 2000 it is likely these deficits will be higher this year in wiarton we are chipping in approximately 3000 a year from taxes to pay the debenture in the arena to date with good management the arena has not shown a deficit we are fortunate that our artificial ice plant is paid for with donations from the town and district any deficit must be paid by the taxpayers everyone can help by climbing out of that com fortable chair beside the tv set and getting out into the bracing air of the rink once or twice a week fortunately for stouffville and to the credit of those citizens who promoted thelocnl arena out of their own pockets this town has been spared such a debt instead trie arena in stouffville is the largest contrib utor to the town revenue coffers that we have this should be amazing news to many of the municipalities referred to above while it is true that the local ice palace finished in the red last year present indica tions are that these losses wiil be recouped this season through some increased business and some economiz ing want to work of all the incongruities of this incongruous world work seems to us to be the firstest with the mostest its the thing you hatp when you have it and love when you dont when a fellow is young and full of vinegar and doesnt have enough money to lie abed all day what does he want to do most lie abed all day when a fellow is 75 and has a passel of kale in the bank and can lie abed all day what does he want to do go to work as soon as day breaks the lad who works with his hands envies the one who works with his brain and the office worker longs for some good hard exercise in the open air the worst job in the world is that which a man is doing and the best job is the one some other character holds people like to go most places but they dont like to go to work if lots of folks were paid for the work they do trying to get out of work theyd earn more than they do working so long now have to work cant play around with this thing any longer i cincinnati enquirer now what iralti yon think i hate anything- ta do with tho fuses blowing ont when i visit yon btwe mrseijvks what is trivial many years ago when i was a student in college i heard a speaker give an address on this subject what is trivial and what is important he said that anything which promoted bad feeling between people was trivial unworthy and foolish and that if we lived long enough we would find that out i know he was right and have lived long enough to know how degrad ing bad feeling can be i surrose the two bitterest political enemies in great britain last century were disreali lord beaconsfield and william gladstone how they fought each other but in westminster abbey their monuments are only a few feet apart i watched them on my last visit and they seemed to be saying we were stupid to hate each other a story by the russian author vladimir korolengo tells of a very old man who for the greater part of his life had been the bell ringer of a village church he had buried his sons and many of his grandsons he had seen not only old men but young men carried to their last resting place but still he lived on his duties had become a burden to him and often when the spring came he was sure it would be the last one he would see for he felt that he should be at rest then there came a starry night in spring when at easter season lantern in hand he climbed the creaky staircase of the belfry and looked over the village where dim lights glimmered in the deepening twilight it was still so still that the barking of a dog or the jolting of a cart could be distinctly heard from the opening in the tower the old man leaned out and surveyed the village in the darkness in the cemetery below he could see the crosses standing as though with outstretched arms they sought to protect the ill kept graves in the distance he could see the easter procession making its way to the church he must ring the bell once more and then the service would follow soon the air was filled with the resounding sounds of the bell when the bell ceased the church service began and from his position in the belfry the old man watched and fell to musing he thought of other days of easter services he had known long ago he remembered his fathers severity and his brothers deep piety one by one various episodes of his past life moved like some procession through his mind he had known hard work sorrow care and some happiness the sorrows had furrowed his face and bent his back he remembered her who had become his wife she had known much poverty and hard work and suffering had withered her beauty she had long since passed on and of all their children only one remained he remembered his entmies especially one who was rich how he had hated that man 1 even now after manv years his heart boiled within him as he thought of him but he bent his gray head and asked god to forgive him while the tears rolled gently down his checks how futile and foolish it all seemed now after the lapse of so many years he crossed himself and struck his forehead against the ground yes it was all long past and god would be the judge soon he rang the bell again for the last time and there was great joy in his heart and so it was that he who lingered on came to understand how foolish and sinful a thng is hate and how graxious is forgiveness he knew now how much he had suffered because of the malice in his heart during the world wars on several occassions when men sent out poson gas hoping to destroy their enemies by a sudden change of wind the deadly fumes were blown back into their trenches and they became victims of their own acts it is strange that so elemental a truth of the christian religion has often been lost sight of our quotation today is by heine hotrcrf breeds misery consumer demand and easier credit in his address to the shareholders at their annual meeting james muir chairman and president of the royal bank of canada dealt in part with the inflation ary pressures built up during 19o5 he said a review of the past year should teach us that stability like freedom exacts its price in eternal vigilance he noted that an inllationaray policy at home brought our dollar down to par thus aiding our ex porters at the very time that their markets were improved owing to inflation abroad however inflation always creates more problems than it solves mr muir expressed some concern over the great spurt in credit buying in this connection he said consumer credit is an essential part of our modern economy but like all good things it can be carried to extremes for the individual to live in constant heavy debt is to live in bondage and the burden of debt is usually the greatest for those who can afford it least viz those who need or are attracted by no downpayment offers for the economy as a whole consumer credit re sults in the production and sale of durable goods a form of longterm investment by the consumer with out at the same time a corresponding act of saving there need be no harm in this provided the consumer loan is itself financed out of saving the consumer then borrows in order to spread his own saving over time but if a great rise in consumer loans is financed through bank credit expansion we have an expansion not of shortterm selfliquidating credit but a long- term loan paid back only over a long period and a con sequent expension of the money supply easier consumer credit has contributed much to increased production and distribution of durable con sumer goods in the past year but it alo may have ben a case of borrowing consumer demand from the future to degree not sustainable who benefits from price supports sunday school lesson to tb editor dear sir a great c3 has been heard recently over he radio and through the press about farm i price supports we fee that the consumer public hag been misled by the enormous figures that ve been placed before them as to the cos of this pro- gram we have before us an j arice printed in the farm i forum guide of jan 9 which breaks those figures down and gives us a truer picture of what this program is costing j the canadian public is con- j eerned with the costs of farm price programs in terms of i taxes and of food prices what has been the actual cost of price support programs to the carndian taxpayer from 1946 when the agri- j cultural prices support board started operations to march 31 1855 the net cos of farm price j supports has been ss3 million the bulk of this was used in i at least two catastrophes the american embargo on canadian livestock because of the foot- andmouth disease in canada accounted for a price support program on hogs and cattle costing sto millions the apple loss in nova scotia resulting from hurricane edna in 1954 was a similar emergency r a the cort of agricul tural prce support programs has been 62 certs per person per year if the errergercv program for livestock for foot- andmouth diease 19323 is ex cluded the co- has been only 9 cent per person per year in relative terms 9 cents is not a large sum the public is paying for props in other areas of econ omy as taxpayer and con sumer the public is helping to subsidize other industries whe ther it be through subsidies to the mining industry unemploy ment insurance to workers or tariffs on manufactured goods these are all forms of price support for which farmers and the res of the populace must reach into their pocketbooks they are not less costly be cause people are often unaware of them everybody helps pay for price supports by taxes both farmer and urban worker and everybody benefits as the far mer is able to carry or and he has adequate purchasing power to buy manufactured products from urban centre- and so everybody is employed and the wheels of industry keep turn ing herb paisley cedar creek farm forurn for parents only see the snowflakes mummy come quick see the snowfiakes millions and millions of them to a little child a fall of snow is a marvellous thing all that white moving loveli ness he can see out his win dow before long the earth is covered with a magic carpet no wonder it thrills him appreciation of beauty comes easily to a small child it is the wise mother who puts aside her work for a few minutes to enjoy the floating white flakes softly softly falling with her little son or daughter watching a fresh snow fall and tramping along the drifted paths in the frosty air will prepare a child for real enjoy ment of poetry about the snow at bedtime instead of a story read aloud to your child a poem such as elinor wylies velvet shoes read its words slowly or better still if he has learned to read let him read aloud to you the verses and memorize them if you like poetry and your child has begun to enjoy the music the rhythm the word pictures why not encourage him to write his own snow poem your son or daughter may never be a great poet so far as earning money writ ing poetry but if a child enjoys expressing his ideas and emo tions if he gels satisfaction from his own word pictures this is worthwhile in itself it will also deepen his apprecia tion of other peoples poetry or prose an eightyearold after the first fall of snow produced this little rhyme as a surprise for her parents her sheet of paper was smudged with much rub bing out of her printscript words but the glow of literary creation was in her eyes the snow comes falling down in flakes all on the trees and on the lakes as we take our sleighs and slide over the drifts we gaily glide i like the snow it is so white it falls by day it falls by night children are full of questions about the snow or anjthing else which interests them what is snow made of why does ji fall why is snow white what is snow for the queries sometimes seem endless to a busy mother the older boy or girl can be encour aged to look up information on any topic in a reference book but here are simple snow facts for the younger child in summer we have rain drops falling from the clouds but in winter when it is colder the moist air is formed into snowflakes snow falls to the ground although the flakes are each so light by a force or pull which is called gravi tation this force pulls any thing in the air down to the surface of the world unless it is able to stay up by some spe cial means like the propeller and wings which hold up a plane snow flakes are of different sizes the largest ones are seen on mild days when the ther mometer is just below the free zing mark fa 32 degrees the 1 small flakes fall when it very cold in different patterns for sniwflakes are sixsided in j one snowstorm the flakes are usually all the same design snow s white because the combination of the dfferert colors of a prism produce white snows may fill the roads and have to be cleared away it fun to watch he now clearing quprnent st work enow u veluabi to the farmer by nancy cleaver he knows that the snow blan ket covering his fields con serves necessary moisture and protects roots from the frost if a child is interested in snow crystals do have a board covered with dark cloth pref erably velvet ready to catch flakes on its surface during the next snowfall many of the flakes travel a long distance and are broken in their descent but the perfect flakes are beau tiful with their lacy outline an expensive magnifying glass shows the outline more distinctly a good magnifying glass is a splendid piece of equipment in a family where even one child has a nature lore hobby the amazing love liness of snow crystals has been copied by designers of wallpaper of cloth of jewellery and of fancywork too en courage your child to try to copy the pattern of a snowflake with white chalk on a slate or blackboard he will have to work quickly to get its outline before it melts whats the law if i work as my uncles honsc- keeper because he has prom ised to leave me everything on bis death can i break his will if he leaves it to someone else these cases are difficult in the old days when a womans only escape from a father or uncle was to submit to a hus band the law presumed that everything she did for a close relative was done for love or duty and her keep unless she could prove a clear agreement that she was to receive a leg acy in return for her devotion to said relative she could not hope to claim it if the sly old parly changed his will at the last minute womans status has vastly changed but the laws presum ptions are still just about where they were if a daughter gives up a good job to look after her parents there is still no presumption of a contract to compensate her by wages or a legacy probably the same is true of the uncleniece relation ship if the niece lives with the i uncle there is the esse of the daughter who continued to live with her parents in a big house after she had told them she wanted to leave the mo ther owned the house and the father wanted to move to smaller house but the mother said in the daughters presence stay on here and fix this house up and i will leave it to my daughter at my death the daughter stayed on with them and the mother left her the house in a will she made at that time but on the mothers death it was found that fce had made a later will leaving the house to another daughter who hadnt been living with them at ill the court found that there j was no contract here a all a will can be changed a any time the mother free to leave the house to another j even if the daughter had rl parables on prayer lesson for february 12 golden text the effectual ferrent prayer of a righteous man aiaiieth much jamer 516 thk lesson as a whole approach to the lesson frequently our chapter divi- i sions which are no part of i the inspired record do us the i dsservice of separating what ought to be united in the first of the two parables which con- siue our lessor is a coninua- ion of the theme developed in chapter it while the second parable whose only relation to j the first is that both speak j about prayer breaks new j ground the chapter division would be much better between these two parables than where jit is the theme of the latter part of chapter 1 is the coming again of the son of man the i certainty of the event the un certainty of the time so far as our knowledge of it is con- icernedi the suddenness of it land the solemn separations the j even will bring about the parable of the unjust judge takes up the theme at that point and indicates that all the oppressions of gods people will in that day be equalized j by the retributive judgments i of god it is in view of this certain event that men ought always to pray and nol to faint 181 the second parable that of the pharisee and the publican strikes a new note it may not even belong to the same ser mon it was elicited by the presence of pharisees who were proud of their orthodoxy proud of their morality proud of their religious zeal intoler ably selfsufficient and superior their outward piety was com pletely cancelled out by the corruption of their hearts jesus undertook by means of a parable to show how these men were barring themselves from right relation with god while despised sinners were pressing in to the place of rec onciliation no doubt luke was led to bring these two together because of the common ele ment of prayer in them and be cause of the warning of judg ment implicit in the second parable verse by verse luke 181 a parable that men ought always to pray and not to faint this parable should be read in the light of the latter portion of chapter 17 it has to do with the meting out of judgment at the coming of the son of man in view of which gods people must not faint in prayer verse 2 a judge which feared not god neither regard ed man this judge was dis qualified on two scores his attitude to tod and his atti tude to man he was incapable of the true functions of his high office verse 3 a widow saying avenge me of mine ad versary the word avenge is not to be interpreted in a vindictive sense the widow sought only protection from an oppressor who was taking ad vantage of her helplessness verse 1 and he would not lied on her promise to leave the house tot her the real point in these cases is that where any such agree ment is claimed by the surviv or against the deceaseds es tate there must be some cor- roberation of the claimants story so often such arrange ments are made privately with out witnesses and with no ref erence to the deal set down on paper the mere bequest of a legacy in a will is not necessarily cor roboration of any such agree ment for this could be a gift just as well as a payment for services rendered in one case the claimant was left 3000 in the deceaseds last will and testament which turned out to be invalid the claimant brought an action claiming this was in payment under a verbal agreement for services rendered in the deceaseds life time here even though the j deceased obviously wanted to leave the claimant 3000 this j was not sufficient to corrobor ate a verbal contract i but afterward though i fear rq god cor regard j man the judges unwilling- i ness to reach cut a protecting hand to a helpless widow r- vaei his lack of interest in justice and equity see how he glories in his godlessness asd 1 callousness verse 5 i will avenge her j lest by her continual coming she weary me his action in i her behalf was purely one of selfinterest he took a sadistic delight in resisting pleas of need for a time but when those pleas reached the point i of boredom he would act to get rid of the nuisance the jword translated weary really means to hit in the face or to beat black and blue mac- laren suggests that the judge may have been exaggerating i the situation by way of a joke next- thing shell be i bashing my face in or some- j thing to that effect verse 6 hear what the un- jjust judge saith here the lord begins the application i which is a contrast between i the heartlessness of this judge 1 and the longsuffering of god verse 7 and shall not god j avenge his own elect j though he bear ng with j them this is a difficult verse j to exegete but it clearly pre- t sents the longsuffering of god as the reason for his apparent delay in bringing in the day of retribution verse s he will avenge them speedily shall he find faith on the earth speed ily does not mean soon but suddenly the definite article should be attached to faith special reference is to the faith concerning the lords return j and divine judgment verse 9 this parable i unto certain which trusted in themselves notice bw these parables are separated j not a unit as the three in chap- ter 15 this one is addressed to a particular group doubt less well represented in the crowd who listened verse 10 two men went up into the temple to play a pharisee a publican here it is a matter of contrast between two men not between a man and god the pharisees were strictly religious while the publicans taxgatherers were social outcasts and fre quently unscrupulous extor tionists verse 11 the pharisee prayed thus with himself god i am not as other men while the pharisees prayer was ostensibly addressed to god it was really an address of congratulation to himself in the moral sphere he regard ed himself as blameless verse 12 i fast twice in the week i give tithes of all thai 1 possess in the religious sphere he went beyond the lequirement of the law mul tiplying his fastings from just a few in the year to two a week 1 and he was also punctilious in j his tithing verse 13 and the publican god be merciful to me a j sinner everything about the i publican indicates an aroused sense of sin resulting in sin cere humble confession note his location afar off his downcast eyes his smiting of the breast his frank admission and his only plea mercy have mercy a verb related to the idea of propitiation or rec onciliation verse 11 this man went down to his house justified ra ther than the other the man who justified himself had no part in the divine justifica tion but the man who acknowl edged his sin and cast himself upon the divine propitiation was justified the heart of the lesson several times our attention has been drawn to lukes em phasis on the subject of prayer both in the teaching and the practice of our lord we have before us today two parables relating to this subject the first of these parables usually referred to as the par able of the unjust judge tea ches us that we are to pray persistently in view of the sec ond coming of christ when all the wrongs committed against gods people will be righted the parable with our lyords own application of it presents a contrast between a godless continued on page 4 the old home town by stanley