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ft 2 the stouftytui twtwt thumpay makh 8 ku the stouffville tribune established jm8 a v nolan son publishers member of the canadian weekly newspapers association and the ontarioquebec newspapers association- member of the audit bureau of circulations autiieru3 m cocdiam null postofllcc dpt ottawa printed and issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada 3350 elsewhere 450 c h salts publlsser jj tbonu awoc editor contest of yesteryears revived a toronto daily has helped revive the spelling bee and here in stouffville we have already had a zone winner details of which are related elsewhere in this issue the spelling- bee was once a permanent fixture in our public schools long before films radio and tv was ever thought of the spelling bee formed a real stimulating and worthwhile part of the curriculum in those days and one certainly worth reviving the ontario educational association is cooperat ing in reviving the spelling bee on a provincewide scale pupils are finding its real fun and carries competitive thrills not expected from such a dry subject the provincial finals will be held at the ontario college of education on april 5th rural schools are taking an active interest in the contest the country scholars have the reputation of being adept spellers and it will be interesting to see how they fare with the urban pupils cy mack of radio tv fame will act as spellmaster for the zone finals and john fisher of cbc for the provincial finals still lots of building to do one often hears it remarked that the construction of new houses factories and other buildings in can ada is being overdone that we have just about caught up in this era of postwar construction but the contrary is true points out the financial post with the enormous backlog for housing created during the war thousands of families are still doubled up jt is also forgotten that a very large percentage of our buildings are old still sound and in good central locations but 20 to 40 years behind the times in plumbing heating and lighting equipment there is a tremendous field for major repairs and modernization here which we are only beginning to tap the casual observer forgets too that in public building roads schools hospitals churches court houses city halls armouries and such we have only started to begin catching up with needs above all however it must not be forgotten that canada is growing bigger and faster than ever before that canadians are more prosperous than ever before and that what may lopk like a record volume of build ing for 14 million people a year or two ago is much too small for the almost 16 million we have today hurry spring this is the time of year when our eyes become weary of seeing snow and winter gets downright boring when march is here winter in most quarters is regarded as a guest who has overstayed his welcome it is difficult at this time at least to think of anything good about winter it may have some appeal during a heat wave in summer but at this stage of the year winter is a burden that ontario residents are forced to put up with mother is weary of zipping up snowsuits and dad is tired of fuel bills and youngsters no longer enjoy the snow as they did two months ago it is plain that winter has lost its appeal and may as well be over and done with and spring well we cant think of enough good things to say about spring spring makes poets more poetical lovers more romantic old folks several years younger and youngsters more frisky the latter is about the only thing we have against spring spring makes us intoxicated with the sheer joy of being alive hurry spring hurry 1 salaries for reeves in an historic move recently markham township has become the first municipality in the district to pay its chief magistrate an annual salary under the new legislation which carried unanimously in council reeve alfred iemasurier and his successors will re ceive an annual salary of 1500 as this is the inaug ural year the salary will be made retroactive to january 1 and wil be paid in monthly instalments it is rumoured that vaughan township may follow markhams lead by allotting from s1500 to s2000 salary for the reeve of the municipality other elected officials in markham will continue to be paid at the regular rate of 7 per day plus mileage the reeve will also receive mileage while this is a new departure for the payment of elected officials it is one of considerable merit and will doubtless prove its worth with the rapid devel opment of the district more and more work has fallen on the shoulders of the local elected representatives and particularly reeves of municipalities in many instances local reeves spend as many as four days weekly away from their own businesses or work in the enterest of the municipality they represent in addition to regular council meetings there are com mittee meetings municipal functions county council meetings hearings and interviews all of which require the attention of the reeve particularly for this reason councillors in markham felt that the head of the municipality should be paid a salary to compensate for the tremendous amount of time lost from personal affairs as development continues the trend is expected to spread to other municipalities in the district from the government standpoint it is a good system as it enables the reeve of the municipality to carry out his duties without being out of pocket from the demo cratic angle it insures that any citizen may run for the office and be compensated for the time he loses from his own work to t degree it works in the same man ner as the federal or provincial parliaments which are designed in such a way that a persons personal finan ces are not a barrier against becoming an elected representative the liberal laff of the week three provinces plan for elections in 56 prov responsibilities j through tie from tion and a series of 24 3ruces lions on a national scale oe in terrupted the provincial org- the ten provincial govern- j arization would have to supply men in canada would be re- direction for loe3l plans sponsible for a sort of family- what about the nionev neces- like cooperation among their sary for equipment training communities should a nuclear and organization centres the war ever hit this continent province is responsible for as- meanwhile during this time of slstiag in this way too it can peace the provinces job i- to get financial help from the fed- make such cooperation possible era government which will should emergency conditions match provincial contributions arise on a dollarfordollar basis up the latest civil defence think- to an amount bssed on the pop- ing has underlined this duty of ulation of each province if the provinces heavier than the province agrees the feder- i others for evacuation of cities a government under the con- ikely to be hit by the enemy stitution cannot work directlv three of canadas 10 provin- ces plan general elections in e provincial fa-iii- 1956 newfoundland quebec lie federal organise- and saskatchewan election should communica- talk in four other provinces with the municipality unless the province allows it the fed- era cd organization can con tribute 25 percent of a local projects cost then if the pro vince puts n 25 percent the stanley makes tlrtnr p smoking a real test ef win power es inwardness of religion the monk savonarola who lived in florence during the thirteenth century was one of the most fearless preachers of righteousness who ever lived in a corrupt age he condemned the evils of his day and spared none not even the leaders of the church lie did one thing which would be amusing had he not been so desperately in earnest he urged thf people of florence to bring their mirrors into the marketplace so that they might be destroyed he regarded vanity as one of the prevailing sins of his day and he believed that if people could no longer see themselves reflected in lookingglasses their vanity would fade away it is a testimony to his good influence that the people obeyed and in a public square the mirrors were piled high and then destroyed history records that in a short time there were as many mirrors in florence as there ever had been only the styles were different vanity was still in the peoples hearts it is a perfect illustration of what has gone on for ages we destroy effects not causes and evils change but only in outward appearances true religion is inward tins was the message of jesus that religion dealt with in ward motives and his severest criticisms were aimed at com placent religious people who imagined that if they observed the laws and regulations of their creeds all would be well religion jesus insisted was a matter of motive an inner spirit ual concern and god looked not on the outward appearance but on the heart when a youth was given a stiff sentence for breaking into a store and getting only fifteen cents his defending lawyer protested that a jail term was cruel and unjust i sixty days in jail for stealing fifteen cents is monstrous he declared the judge replied i am sending him to jail for stealing not for the amount he secured it wasnt the thiefs intention to steal a few cents no doubt he was bitterly disappointed there is a strong note of encouragement in the knowledge that god looks deeper than the surface he sees all the good which never finds expression all the longing learning and striving he knows the people who mean well but fail through ignorance or weakness the world is full of people who fail over and over again but the only real failure is to give up trying jesus treated some people of his day with amazing tolera tion and understanding he forgave the woman taken in adult ery he made allowances for peters weakness and profanity in the courtyard he did not condone their conduct but he did know that they were really much better than their behaviour indicated one day jesus stood by the treasury in the temple and watched men and women as they brought their offerings he saw men who cast in out of their abundance and knew how to measure such gifts he saw a poor widow cast in two mites and knowing that even so small an amount involved much sacrifice he spoke in glowing terms of her gift his was the religion of inwardness of motives and he knew that the woman had it in her heart to give much that circumstances made impossible davidhad it in his heart to build a temple for god doubt less it was the deepest desire and greatest longing of his heart he was forbidden to erect it and that must have been a crushing disappointment the sins of former years rose up against him and robbed him of that great honour but the story does not end there his desire to build the temple was recognized and commended and god through the prophet said to him whereas it was in thine heart thou didst well 1 kings 818 we can thank god that he sees motives that was a fine thing abraham lincoln said when he heard the beatitudes read 1 hunger and i thirst oun quotation ror today is by seneca if is not the incense ice offer to god that matters but our dcrotion o him for parents only wanting to work wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be en couraged abraham lincoln once remarked a modern fa- j ther annoyed at his sons un- j willingness to labor along with i his eagerness to give his opin- ion on every subject that came i up asked the boy what have i you done on this subject to en- title you to an opinion how much experience have you had i in this affair so that you can have a reliable opinion about i r i perhaps this very father dis- i couriged his son when he was a little fellow and he wanted i to help his dad with some small carpentry fob around the i house most small children are eager to help grownup- with i work which fascinates them car i help j a request often on their lips if his offer of as- isistance is refused or po pohed he is no apt to repeat it children dont like being re- j i buffed nv more hir adults by nancy cleaver carry out some job dad can bring in the wood and light the 1 stove faster ail ivy himself than if he waits for junior to collect his pile of sticks mother can mix muffins much more quick ly if she does not stop to dele gate the beating of the egg or the greasing of the tins to ma ry but how much junior and mary will miss not only in training to be contributing members of a home but in the ense of companionship and in the prde of achievement which a aiherandson or a mother- ami daughter completed job brings with it when a child wants to help if at all possible put the youngster to work then and there see that daughter is pro- perly clothed for the job have her don an apron for baking make sure that your child has the right work tools such as a mixing bowl and beater to beat rn egg then work alongside the child at yotr part of the with the unbelievable destruc- i tion of the hbomb now is con- i sidered the only really safe de- i fence against annihilation but where are these people from the cities to go how are they i to get there those are ques- 1 federal contribution will be in i lions the provinces must an- 1 creased by another 25 percent swer they are seeking the so- j leaving the municipality with unions now they appear in i the other 25 percent of the cost i several steps j to pay beyond this federal as- first the provincial govern- sista nee the province must go meats had to create their own i itself civil defence organization this i the big job of each province was clone following conferences j however is to organize recep- among federal and provincial i tion areas to take in people i authorities in 105051 and regu- j evacuated from cities likely to j lariy since each province now j be bombed these will be town- has a functioning cd organiza- 1 and village- ringing the target tion within the framework of j cities because of the destrue ns government each has a j tive power of the new weapons cabinet minister responsible i these reception areas must be ranges from near certainty in new brunswick to hints in no va scotia and british columbia and bare possibility in mani toba not talking elections a all are prince edward island on tario and alberta which in 11x55 reelected governments for 5- year terms if seven provinces should go to the poll it would be the busies election year since 1s- ss when 3 seven provinces of the day held elections in newfoundland premier smallwood says an election will be held and speculation favors a fall date in the last election nov 26 1951 the liberal par ty won 23 seats the progress ive conservatives five noiv the 2sseat house has 20 liberals four progressive conservative and one ccf with three seats vacant in quebec premier duplessis ha- announced an election this year but the date is not known speculation favors ae june or early july in the last election juv t 1952 inion naiionale captured 6 of the 92 house seas against 23 liberals and one independent now there are 66 lx members 22 liber als one independent and three vacancies the saskatchewan election is expected in june afer spring seeding already about 100 can didates are in the field ccf members hold 11 of 53 house seas with 10 libera- one progressive conservative and one vacancy in the last elec tion june it 1s5- ccf won 12 seats liberals 11 new brunswicks expected election could be delayed until 57 hugh john klemming progressive conservative pre mier has held power since he ls election sep 22 152 when is party won 36 seats and lib erals 6 in the 52member house the government now has 3 members liberals is 3 seats are vacant education now costs 50 per person for cd and a provincial co crdinator their staffs vary ac cording to how actively the province participates canadas constitution is such that communication between various governmental levels runs from the federal through the provincial to the municipal j or local this places responsi bility on the province for co ordinating the efforts of its communities into the plan for the whole country the province must help its communities organize their own cd setups it must keep municipalities informed of the latest developments and pro vide training of civil defence volunteers within the province it also must provide the legis lation necessary for local au thorities to operate that is it must relegate the necessary au thority to carry out a civil de fence operation advance warning of an im pending attack would come not less than 50 and may be up to 100 miles from the city the province must organize routes to be taken to these re ception areas seeing that the first arrivals go to the farthest area these areas would have to provide food and shelter from weather as well as radio active fallout that might be carried by winds from the tar get area these facilities must be capable of caring for the evacuees for at least is hours probable time for any fallouts radiation dangers to disappear if the radiation danger deter mined by cm radiation detec tion teams were stronger the reception areas would have to be equipped to decontaminate hz and parentteacher as personnel xt actively campaigned for end of hanging in britain it is sometimes said that what is everybodys business is nobodys business this is not true of education this state ment is being explained more fully during canadian educa- lion week from march 1 to 10 this year over a hundred thousand tea- 1 chers several thousand school when blondo sixtyish mrs board officials and hundreds of violet van der elit drove up provincial departmental otti- to a british prison in her rolls- cials are giving fulltime serv- koyce it was a sure sign that a ice to approximately three and j hanging was about to take a half million students enrolled place inside the prison and a in canadas elementary and j disturbance on the outside secondary schools- almost a j hundred thousand public-spir- wealthy mrs an der list ited men and women are giving seldom missed a hanging or a long hours of voluntary service j chance to make trouble usual- as members of canadas 22000 she hammered on the prison school boards and over a quar- i s demanding to see the tor million parents have allied warden and to stop the execu- themselves with home and 1 sociation promoting tion but she had been known i to kick and to scratch in her efforts to elude prison guards should whole cities be made 1 g for canadian she had been arrested a dozen times for disturbing the uninhabitable their residents after the bombing wotild have to be reestablished in new communities posing new prob lems that would fall again un der provincial jurisdiction children alcoholism talk the child is working do it in a kindly way a task may be a little too difficult for a child if he is taking too long to do lflf i mlvirfc it help him finish it dont take vvihww over the job and do it yourself add to these the thousands lace she had also spent a conr of citizens serving on educa- sjderabla amount of the forune tion committees of service nvade f clubs boards of trade agri- fi capital pun- cultural organizations busi- shment ness industrial and labour c s bodies and the many womens 1 now mrs vander elsts serv- organizations across the coun- ices appear no longer neces- trv and it must he seen that sary the turn of public opm- there is no business receiving ion in recent months against the attention of more citizens j hanging has been sharp enough of canada thaii the business to make itself fell 1 9 wostmin- of educating canadian youth ster and the house of com- the fifteen national organiza- j mons has voted to abolish it i tions united in the canadian while the house of coin- education week project repre- j mons vote doesn t carry the sent a combined membership power to put the hangman out ulon there of business it 1 of well over two mi need be no fear in canada of what is everybodys business becoming nobodys business big business education is big business the annual budget for opera tion and maintenance exceeds six hundred million dollars and the annual cost of construc tion of new schools is current ly close to two hundred mil lion dollars averaged over was indicated the eden government will fol low the mandate and introduce legislation to wipe out the death penalty at least on a fiveyear trial basis the house of lords overruled such a move eight years ago but these days the lords follow the lead of com mons when the fiveyear suspen sion proposal was debated in the house of commons a year ago it was narrowly defeated the next time your child is helping delegate more respon sibility and cut down on direc tions if your child is old en ough and keen about that par ticular task work toward the ontario reforms minister foote says that more than ten thousand prisoners in ontario reformatories and industrial farms will he given compul sory education on alcoholism he said in an interview that everv canadian from the youn 1 gestinfant to the oldest inhab- by a vote of 245 to 211 a major- itant the total annual cost is of only 31 votes this time now approximately fifty dol- the majority was 31- in the lars per head financing educa- opposite direction tion is one of the biggest prob- meanwhile while parliament lems today facing all levels of was undecided on the issue the government local provincial home secretary maj time when your son or daugh- there are more than 5000 pris- ter can complete the task all oners in ontario institutions by himself or herself show because of liquor misuse how to avoid making the same these people represent a mistake twice be generous in j challenge which we now are i your praise of a job well done prepared to accept they will and federal sometimes in a home where there are older hoys and girls at school they have become more and more preoceupied with their school work be given complete instruction on alcoholism just as alcoholics are at the alex 1 brown me morial clinic at mimico all that will be missing is the med- tier 1 en1 of treatment friends and their own interests the program will be under the direction of dr gordon bell director of the mimico and activities they rarely ask can i help frequently mother in a mis taken idea that she is being good to the children asks lit tle or nothing from them in training courses at mimico i to direct 1 little boy or grri to structtor must cv more in- or crcire the way assistance in the work of the home she may no realize it but a house where mother does the childrens beds tidies up and picks up after them is an excellent training ground for a selfish husband or a helpless wife in a few years time in the fair division of the work of the home father be cause he is away so much and j can look on things with a more impartial view should give some direction everyone even a small child should have some work to do a family council when father reviews all the work moiher does each week a good idea in some homes each child is allowed to chooe at the end of the week some job he likes to do which he will carry out the next week the tasks that no one is likely to pick such as washing the dish es are written ou or ind rotaed c ha each ore hai a turn conributing o a noma as 1 well a- receiving from it all nir of belonging o a worth- while family what no coffee break employee regulations posted in the employment office of the wanamaker department store in new york city 100 years ago noted the following privileges and requirements the store must be open at clinic he will supervise lee- j 030 am and remain open until lures staff doctors at provin- 9 pm the year round cial institutions will be given the store must be swept counters base shelves and j show cases dusted lamps trim med filled and the chimneys cleaned pens made doors and windows opened a pail of wa ter and a scuttle of coal must he brought in by each clerk be fore breakfast if there is time to do so and attend to eusto- j mers who call- the store must not be open mr foote said it may take several years before we are in a position to determine the value of this program but we arc a agreed that it should be tried it is an excellent opportunity toexperi- meiit in group therapy reatmenl and definitions fellow traveller a person who sits next to you in a rus- an streetcar confirmed bachelor a man whos never misstaken history an account of how gwilvn lloydgeorge took no chances he reprieved nine convicted murderers scheduled to be exe cuted nine times in a row the royal prerogative of mercy was exercised on the advice of the home secretary none since aug 12 vol since august 12 when a 22yearold coal miner was hanged for the murder of his motherinlaw has there been an execution in the whole of the united kingdom judicial death takes a holi day headlined the london newspapers while the more sensational printed stories about how albert pierrepont britains official hangman has gone fishing every day since last summer according to a recent gallup poll one in three britons ii an abolitionist while 13 percent of those polled are undecided the result of a poll of aaooo readers by the tabloid daily mirror were even more strik ing showing a 2tol majority against hanging phe british penchant for on the sabbath day unless ab solutely necessary and then on- j hanging dales back to the 16th ly for a few minutes any cm- omurv when under the reign pioyee who is in the habit of smoking spanish cgar gel ling shaved at the barbershop going to dances and other pla ces of amusement will most surely give his employer rea son to he suspicious of his in oiher nations have always been tegrity and all round honesty wrong each employee musi pay not less than s3 per year to the c sical education some- that enables you to ds- he wealth which it pre- you from achieving water what you can mall boy out of f you icopynghj out ra 0 soa y liked well enough o wear church and must attend sun day school every iords day men employees are given an eve sing a week for courting purposes and two days if they 1 go to prayer meeting regularly after it hours of work in the store a d she leisure time mu hz spent reading goid lit- 1 erature of henry viii 720m executions are said to have taken place in recent years an average of a dozen men and women have been convicted of murder and executed every year in bri tain although the number of murders committed exceeds 170 to the argument that the death penalty is the bes deter rent to murder a royal com mission which studied ihe prob lem from if3 10 1053 conclud ed there is no clear evidence in any of the figures we have examined that the abolition of capita punishment has led o n increase in the homicide rate or ha retairoductloa oas led o a fall