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p 2 the stootvou trilunf thu8sday march 22 1954 i the stouffville tribune rstabioshxd jm a v colas son publishers member of the canadian weekly newspapers association and the ontarioquebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations aujacnx4 aj cccscxij maii pcstcaco otuwa printed and issued every thursday a stouffville ont- in canada 350 elsewhere j450 laff of the week c k nouts publisher jaj thosiu aisoe editor lioom increases tax problems the difficulties faced by the three levels of govern ment in canada in financing their operations are illus trated clearly by finance minister harris the three governments he said recently take away from our people in canada nearly onethird of their incomes in his opinion this is a situation worth pondering indeed it is that nearly onethird of what cana dians earn is siphoned off by municipal provincial and federal governments even if it is to provide services for these same canadians is disturbing stated in these terms it is enough to stir even the most dis interested to an interest in tax conferences in an editorial on the significance of the short lived dominionprovincial meeting of last week the montreal gazette says that it becomes a terribly anxious question how anybody is likely to get more taxes without enlarging that third steadily toward onehalf says the gazette the lesson taught by the latest federalprovincial conference is big and solemn ft is the fundamental lesson that the taxing fields in canada are all overcrowded and there are no new ones the country in the throes of its greatest boom is suffering from the effects of expansion the prob lem apparently is to find the money to pay the costs of its own growth for the roads water sewers fire and police protection hospitals and schools which are necessary it is unfortunate that the failure of the conference seems to leave no alternative now but private nego tiation between each province and the federal govern ment unless invasion of other tax fields is resorted to this could easily develop into a mere struggle for as much of the tax dollar as each can get with no thought for the taxpayer or for damaging effects on canadian nationhood it is to be hoped that wiser counsels will prevail reeve p s legge of whitchurch made a signifi cant statement in this regard at the last regular township council meeting mr legge referred to in creased hotfsing as the only way in which the muni cipality could ease the burden of increasing costs on the present ratepayers we cannot agree with the statement for the fact that increased housing particularly if it does not carry with it fixed cash restrictions as well as services will bring more added expense than any gain in reduced taxes to existing residents stouffville council is wrestling with the same problem and has so far failed to come up with a de cision to impose cash and service restrictions on pro posed subdivisions to in some way ease the burden of increased taxation which these subdivisions inevit ably bring stouffville has a prime example in a greatly increased public school bidget brought about to a great extent by increased housing slouffville in scramble for teachers s stouffville public and high school boards along with others in the province are presently involved in se annual scramble for teachers to fill vacancies and aff evergrowing schools teachers college graduates are finding a gratifying sellers market boards in most cases are offering conspicuously higher salary schedules than a year ago this is not because of any increase in living costs but by reason of the keen competition for a teacher supply inadequate to meet demands teachers in the local high school by their union ized method are squeezing the board up the ladder legally they are quite within their rights and their preferred position in the labor market gives those in jcthe profession a golden opportunity to raise their v wages to executives scale the chairman of the local s placed a finger on the great evil of this bargain ing system at the last board meeting when he stated that the board was more than willing to increase the remuneration of those carrying the load the implica tion was quite clear that the board felt keenly being w forced to pay increases of the unworthy as well as the worthy most people will agree that teachers are entitled to more than average wages especially in these times when nsany parents turn over to them the respon sibility of discipline and training formerly expected from the home in time the salary scale may remedy the teacher shortage meantime the annual scramble goes on all across the province depends on the ad every town has a merchant who thinks the sport page is the only page people read next door to him the merchant prefers the back page because it is where people look first the retailer across the street demands local page because thats all women read and so it goes everyone has his own idea of where people read most and first the fact is they are all wrong and they are all right a study of reading habits of hundreds of towns made by the bureau of advertising found that all the pages of the newspaper are read in fact lefthand pages get one per cent mere readers than righthand pages the fact is and this is shown by the above study that the page and position on that page make not one whit of difference in capturing readers it is what the advertisement says how it says it and how it is presented that gets readers the pocketbook akichho rnme to tiik fair richmond hi horticultural society spring fair saturday march 2hh in the lions mall centre street east continuous ly from 2 until 10 pm sales of birvj house- mall corsages snd a variety of houe plars a at eaioriawc prices the natural ist c v display sea shells rcved bird leaves and other fbcfs of rtura nfernoon tea v i be jsecved throughout iha show the whereabouts of the edi tor of a weekly newspaper have been unknown since in a recent weddins account in his paper a typographical error csused reference to be made to the bride and goon a new service has beer in stalled at a pendleton oregon hotel registration by televis ion from your car parked at a ctjrbrfei tile rierk seex the driver ard the driver sees tie ciek for parents only hockey canadian giit tbjj is your cormcleoce speattnff your poor wife needs m sprtr eoai yoar poor wife needs a sprinjc coat yoox poor sse5siii weapon of ridicule more than forty years ago i was a young minister in the north country living in a village with appointments far in behind the railroad there was one settlement to which people came from isolated farms fifteen and twenty miles distant they were grand people and 1 enjoyed my life among them we had no cars and drove to the meeting houses in buggies we had otr problems and little things seemed important many or our people saw little of the outside world neither radio nor television were even heard of people heated their homes with wood i was young and eager to fill the church and if a family neglected church attendance well it upset me there was one couple who were extremely kind to me when i visited them but never came to church services i decided to discuss the matter with them very tactfully i thought i brought the matter up during a visit then the lady said i have a good reason for not going it took a while to get her to say what it was finally she came out with the explanation nine years ago she said one easter sunday i went to church with a new hat and the girls in the choir laughed at it it hurt my feelings so much i never went back to church so there it was for nine long years she had denied herself the privilege and pleasure of worship because of what she thought was ridicule of course it was a foolish excuse but to her the wound was deep even after nine years the story seems amusing now but i have sympathy for that dear old lady even though i know her attitude was mistaken little things seemed large and she had time to brood over things the weapon of ridicule is keen and can make people very unhappy jesus faced ridicule frequently when he said concerning a little girl she is not dead but slecpeth even the mourners laughed him to scorn these professional mourners had been weeping loudly but their tears were quickly changed to loud laughter no doubt jesus was deeply hurt by ridicule the sharpest of all weapons 1 am sure that when the enemies of jesus placed a crown of thorns on his head and said with mock solemnity behold your king it struck keenly some teoplf are easily hurt and often stay hurt for a long time i think it is particularly true of young people sarcastic or cynical remarks are often remembered for years or even during a lifetime a famous french writer once said let us face this truth some people are so sensitive they go through life as a man would walk over broken bottles with bare feet our quotation today is by george morrison we ore newer so cruel is when wc arc scornful letters to the editor v toronto out the income class in every march 10 1936 i country but when an agricul- riw ctuo ivihi tural authority attempts to do editor stouuvtlle liioune uo i feel it is time to at leait dear sir present the other side of the the following question in njctttre the course of a recent editorial average farmer made a homerun in this read ers simple mind and is the ignition- spark behind this brief letter what factor is there in the business of living r n cjin which is more valuable than i ills in tducqtlon experience lindsay post warns leslie frost only the other day in the course of an address i noted the assurance of the us sec- musr restrict premier frost said last week that municipalities will retary of agriculture ezra t j have to restrict their spending benson that the average farm- 1 on education during the next er has to be an economist a i 10 years to bare essentials bookkeeper a gambler on wea- repeating a warning he gave ther and market trends an en- 1 to the ontario federation of gineer and a veterinarian a i mayors and reeves recently he mechanic and agronomist in told the ontario legislature the closing the above authbrita- government will not be able to tive speaker directly warned help municipalities to finance the farmer that he has to be more than basic educational re- a jackofalltrades and mas- jquirementi tcr of all with school enrolment cx- now sir there is something peeled to climb another 750000 slightly disturbing not to say within the next ten years mil- offensive in the above picture lions of dollars would have to being drawn by one who it j be spent on providing facilities would seem fair to assume the present provincial policy knows farmers and their probof not paying grants for the lems from my groundline building of gymnasiums audi- angle the above capabilities j toriums manual and domestic and talents even if cut ever so training rooms and swimming thinly i are factual enough on pools would have to be con- that score there can be super- j tinned ficial agreement yet the pat- opposition leader farquhar tern is contrary to all human j oliver said it is lime the gov- experience this furnishes the i trnment woke tip to the fact basis for my protest for 1 am that these ocalled frills are one reader who is convinced an essentia part of modern ed- that the need for such a varie- j ucation gated group of sciences and j provincial grants to murici- skills is the weakness in the j pal school boards were failing agricultural industry and those j f3r short of what was urgently encaged in it rather than its required the government he strength the farmer is the vie- said is meeting only a bit more tim of the life principle about i than x percent of the cost of which one of the ivie men education instead of the 50 per- 1 warns in the same number of i cent promised in lim1 words as the above authority he dissipates his strength over a miscellany of objects i ou in greatly mind some ocaer city ocker attempt- inst o glamorize the weak i rk rivil defence iv war isth n a series of 24 articles have you ever wondered why you keep hearing 3nd rading about civii defence all the time thee days why dont they j drop the subject for a while ilets talk about something cheerful for a change how much do they expect a person to take how long is this go ing to go on if you have wondered about these questions youre certain ly not the only one but what about these questions what are the answers lets drop the present for a moment then and look back at some recent his tory the airplane has probably done more than any other de vice contrived by man to bring iwa- from the battlefield into fthe backyard- so let f f fworthfngton federal civil de- 1 fence coordinator take the his- tory from here and dont think l he has a personal axe to grind iir this civil defence business he confessed to some 70 news paper and radio reporters rec ently that hed far rather be home in vancouver enjoying his retirement- but there was a job to do he said they asked me to do it he left it at that following the second world war he told a group of wo men in toronto not long ago it was fully realized that in any future conflict the civil population would inevitably be come a targe in the strategical aim of an aggressor for two rea sons first because in a democrat ic country the government re sponds to the will of the people and if the morale and the will of the people is broken it will reflect immediately upon the centre of government and may well bring aliout capitulation second the complexity of weapons and equipment requir ed in modern warfare renders the armed forces dependent upon production and produc ould civ defence be created there were two possbie solu- lior5 heres to hockey a truly can- the federal government could j adian sport and a game which set up a central body semi- 1 has become popular all over military in nature o make civ- north america and europe in defence compulsory across the s70s a game with the the country but how would players on skates hitting a ball this be accepted by each prov- with a stick was played on the ince how- would your com- j ice on many canadian rivers numity like to be told how to protect itself bv some official in a distant capital the other solution the one canada chose was an organiza tion based on the ancient con cept of selfhelp from which so many services already existing ard lakes a group of players at mcgi university montreal thought that the round ball went too far when struck and thus slow ed up the game a bright stu dent- took a knife cut oft two pieces from either side of the n canad3 have arisen now i ball and produced the first f f worthington again j rough puck to maintain peace in the the early hockey games were world as it is today demands paved with an indefinite and a heavy price the price of j uiuallv large number of players preparedness because no sg- on each side later the num- gressor nation will dare attack be on each team was gradual- unless jt ls icasoably sure to i reduced to the standard six- win and to win our home hian team of today front must be knocked out this preparation we call civil defence must be careful ly carried out it requires time but above everything else it requires the acceptance of re sponsibility at every level of government and of as many of its citizens as possible he added there is hardlv a from canada the popularity of hockey spread to our neigh bour to the south late in the last century early in this cen tury british and then euro pean countries were attracted by the speed of the skaters and the brilliant teamwork necessary for success each winter the eyes of sport fans by nancy clearer the smallnes of the number of grateful parents might surprise you active participation in ath letics under the supervision of men who want to see oys de velop into good citizens is ex cellent insurance against the growth of juvenile delinquency the old saying 3bout sat3n finds work for idle hands to do is still true a boy occupied with spores ls likely to be a happy boy who keeps out of trouble with the law there are not many girls hockey teams but skating is a great source of pleasure to many girls and boys this healthful exerclse on a lake pond or river out in the sun shine is particularly enjoyable this is a truly canadian sport of which we can all be proud copyright community in our country that are on the hockey battles in the will not be affected in the event i olympic games and national of enemy attack there is a competitions radio added great- feeling thai the smaller com- ly to the number of hockev en- munities in the safe areas thusiasts and now tv has gain- have little responsibility for ed a lot more hockey support- preparedness because they are ers out harms way hockev is played in every i wish to emphasize in the j place large and small from the strongest possible terms that such a belief ls entirely erron eous no one city however big can withstand the terrible ef fects of a nuclear weapon with out the combined efforts of each and every community within reasonable distance and when i say reasonable distance 1 am talking in terms of hours of travel not miles does that answer the ques tion all but one how long does this go on heres that tion depends upon the men and answer from g s hatton dep i women who work in the fields and factories therefore if the will to work or the people themselves is destroyed production will cease and the armed forces cannot continue the struggle how to meet this new menace to every man woman and child for the hbomb makes no ex ception to age or sex was the problem out of which grew modern civil defence but how uty federal civil defence co ordinator the need for civil defence atlantic to the pacific from the tilth parallel to the north pole i many thoughtful citizens re- gret the great outcry from some quarters when our cana dian team was defeated by the russians in the olympic games most parents prefer to have the moulders of public opinion place emphasis on good sports manship rather than on the necessity of winning fortun ately the majority of young sters puck up from volunteer coaches in hockey and in other sports a code of being a good loser and generous winner this is surely just as important will continue until either we 1 equipment for life as skill have achieved a permanent se cure peace cr our military ad visers are able to guarantee that no enemy can make a suc cessful attack on this country neither is a foreseeable contin gency and as long as we need a military defence we shall need a civil defence box grove mrs shirley howard we have been asked to an nounce that the library in the youth centre was opened for the first time on monday al though there is a very good selection of books available onlv two children were there there is no charge for a library card and there are books oji the shelves for all ages including adults so do take advantage of this opportunity miss arm strong has spent many hours cataloguing the books and will be at the youth centre every monday afternoon from 430 till 530 to help you make your l selection the boys of the senior boys club did not have a regular meeting last tuesday instead they attended exhibition night held bv the unionville lions club peewee hockey league for the boys and their friends to mark the end of the current hockey season the local boys who took part in the exhibition were clarence degeer star goalie rae coakwell ernie armstrong eddy gray paul rajari and donnie wicks physical stamina and teamplay in a game in the center in which we live a large number of boys be longing to sunday school clas ses are members of a church hockey league their practice hours and the lime of their league games are frequently at odd times often early sat urday morning i when other teams dont care to play not too many parents turn cut to see their sons battling valiantly on the ice how many mothers and fathers have ex pressed their appreciation of the men who work out these hockey schedules arrange for the use of the arena and coach the teams how many have ever thanked the womens or ganizations who have donated hockey sweaters for the teams gormley ir c milsted march 15 mr murray bennett is con valescing at his home from pneumonia master peter johnston is im proving following his bout wih pneumonia master victor noble was able to come home from sick childrens hospital on satur day but is confined to bed mrs alex lambe of kirk- land lake spent a week recent ly with her parents mr and mrs estyn roberts congratulations to mr and mrs earl wideman on the birth of their daughter at york county hospital newmarket the junior sewing circle of the ums church met on monday night at the home of miss marilyn harman the annual rally of christ crusaders was held on sunday at the heise hill church about seventyfive young people sat down to the sunday dinner meeting the crusade had charge of the morning and eve ning service rev arthur heise of tillsonburg 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