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jj2 thi stooffvim tmuhfc ftiirt dwtmbtr it 3t the stouffville tribune established lts3 a- v nolan son publishers member of the canadian weekly newspapers association and the ontarioquebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations authorized aj fttcoatfcius ma pcjxfi d- ottawa printed and issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada s350 elsewhere 450 c h nojjfl punuho its tkoui aisooju wto carving the turkey is unenviable task there is a note of topical cheerfulness about the dictum of the us department of agricultures poul try expert that anyone who can whittle can carve a turkey with the memory of christmas still fresh in mind with its recollections of legs looking as if they had been torn from the festive bird the average man is going to face the forthcoming new years turkey with little more than the usual torebodings and even the comforting knowledge that he is an expert whittler is not going to make him feel a great deal more assured the carving of the turkey is always one of the major drawbacks of an otherwise festive season the vision of the task lies as heavily on the conscience in prospect as the bird itself does on the indigestion in- retrospect from the moment when it is purchased to the moment when it makes its triumphal appearance at the board it presents problems for the man of the household he has to pay for it he has to help in its preparation and suggest ways and means whereby its huge proportions may be introduced into an in adequate cooking utensil then when everyone else has no more to do than enjoy its flavor he must make his usual savage attack on the passively resisting bird and in an at mosphere of spilled gravy and frigid wifely disap proval hack large pieces of meat into misshapen forms which must be camouflaged as speedily as possible under a cloak of dressing vegetables and other ad juncts of the ritual in the face of all this the fact that the tur key has retained its popularity as a seasonal dish at thanksgiving and christmas is tribute to its out standing merit as the centrepiece of the festive table importance of good books the importance of reading good books cannot be stressed too strongly books provide the best part of our education they add richness to life they provide much of our entertainment think of the impact made by just one book uncle toms cabin on the slavery issue perhaps we take books too much for granted picture a world without books before long we should be ignorant primitives today as never before books are essential to us for the preschool child the exquisite picture books are a joy and a delight for school children books pro vide information and recreation and they do the same for adults books can help us all do our job better widen our horizons provide us with the knowledge we need to make up our minds on vital questions to be effective citizens they help us whether we are housewives farmers clergymen mechanics writers lawyers artists doctors teachers businessmen we need books in our homes let us buy all the books we can but most of us cannot afford to buy all the books we need so we depend on libraries the library is the heart of the university the library should be the centre of the school public libraries are the intelligence centres of our communities until the twentieth century only large cities could afford to pay from taxes for public libraries with in formed librarians and large up to date book collections for the most part people who lived in the country did without libraries the last fifty years have seen a great expansion of country and regional libraries from a central headquarters often in a city books are sent out to towns villages and hamlets in the dis trict even small communities receive a wide variety of books these books move about the region so that libra ries are not read out any book in the region may be borrowed through requesting it from a branch library large unit libraries financed by a combination of municipal and provincial taxes require cooperation between a number of urban and rural councils this can be gained when we become really alert to the need for books books of quality and in numbers and for librarians to bring together readers and books in a dynamic relationship c dec 23rd 1628 it was fifteen below zero last saturday morning in stouffville according to w b sanders big thermometer while yvbs big instrument usually dips a little lower than other recorders in town it certainly represented the true feeling on this occasion friday evening it was bitter cold with a stiff breeze and many householders found it difficult to keep their places comfortable constable perry may be ex pected to be going around with a rather wicked look in his eye these mornings since the coun cil has declared war on the non- snow shovellers the town by law requires all walks to be hovelled of snow by 10 oclock in the morning the scene from the window of the tribune office this tues day morning is one of extreme animation and stouffvilles chri stmas market is one on which the local farmers and poultry- men have reason to congratu late themselves the main street is parked on both sides with vehicles of all descriptions most of which have their contribu tion for the christmas dinner table the finance of stouffville are as solid as a rock the council j closed their year dec 15th with a bank balance of 2990 or 450 less than they carried forward at the beginning of the year j a couple of english boys in town on sunday displayed their intelligence and good training as well as reverent respect for the dead when on passing the home of the late joel ncndick they reverently bared their heads this is an old country j custom that could be adopted in canada to good advantage with- in the memory of most of us i time was when people halted and removed their hats when a j funeral was passing by but even this little mark of respect is being brushed aside in these days of rush and hurry last saturday night as roy i curtis horse was tied in the united church shed someone entered and removed a valuable i robe which was protecting the i animal from the severe cold leaving the beast to the mercy of the elements this is the sec ond occasion on which mr cur tis has been thus dealt with which make his total loss s45 immediate steps are to be taken in this latter case to compel the thief to return the robe as there were ejec about when the steal was made j afraib for parents only happy new year by nancy clearer its all very well to wish i lished a chatbook orphan other folk a happy new year j and other poems by freda but it seems to me these days newton bunner which would be a fine addition to anv bookshelf its very hard for fathers and tne pofim sto in mothers to find happiness the j tn uttle volume suggests the older children get the more importance of finding happi- things there are to worry about n if it isnt anxiety over illness there is a place in the heart youre scared they will be in an f lovely things accident or start going around a1 things with an undesirable gang one tney are s there gossamer- mother remarked petulantly j cloaked dear me you make parent- with folded wings in our mail box and however dreary the day with cold or cloud or dust duty delight may suddenly soar with shining song remembered beauty copyright hood sound like a very dreary business her friend laughed in reply whenever i see how empty a home is without chil dren even if it is extremely tidy im thankful for my two young ragamuffins if i get feeling sorry for myself on a day when nothing goes well i just recall my old granny quoting from the bible god setteth the solitary in families happy new year we wish our friends and we wonder what the future will hold for a primary trouble with to- them and for us our children j days social order is that boys have been having a marvellous and girls no longer can go to an christmas holiday but gifts oldfashioned general store and and entertaining have reduced i ponder the spending of a few the family budget to an alltime i pennies before a flyspecked low perhaps we reflect that candy counter filled with a childhood is a carefree time com- j score of kinds of penny candies yesterdays kids more pennywise pared to adult years with re sponsibilities and anxieties but it is important that mother and dad achieve satisfac tion in their work they need to relax and enjoy their leisure time if either parent is habitu ally dissatisfied or irritable the atmosphere in the home will be anything but happy because mother spends more time with her children than father to a great extent it isshe who col ors their outlook on life if she is naturally cheerful and opti mistic it is likely to be a happy- new year for all the family what are some of the paths to happy living instead of thinking of a whole year stretch that was the practical economic training which gave thousands of todays middleaged citizens a firsthand knowledge of the intrinsic value of money to days boys and girls think in terms of nickles dimes and quarters cautious buyer on saturday evening while mother and father bartered eggs and butter and perhaps a bushel or two of potatoes for groceries hardware a yard of percale and some red hair ribbons for the girls a 12yearoidj boy stood in front of the candies and figured how best to spend his pennies chocolates were admittedly delicious but they had no last- dec 16 1956 editor the tribune dear sir that was a good editorial re municipal financing but why not sell the village bonds over the counter i should think the lolks would like to have a chance to buy the bonds in de nominations of say 100 as a nestegg for their children i should feel flattered to be able to buy a bond on markham township it gives a fellow a sense of belonging the peo ple of stouffville or markham or whitchurch or richmond hill will have to pay the bonds eventually why not buy them in the first place of course it would take some propaganda instead of saying buy govt savings bonds why not say buy stouffville sewer bonds the interest rate would not matter so much what the folks paid in taxes they would get back in interest besides what a lovely wedding present to give their children a bond on their own home town well mr editor im real mad in fact im angry over j freight sheds at 14 cents per this hungarian business when hour i got a room at 125 per vertised in britain and 200000 of us came we all paid our own fare thousands of us went without the ordinary comforts of life to save the fare we came in the holds of miserable ships ate poor meals off bare boards were shoved into fenced pens in halifax i came to to ronto in a slatted colonist car with no cushions no seats no blankets no notlnhg i sat up awake for fortyfour consecutive hours ate buns or bread got a job with a farmer at 16 a month in scarboro near wex ford in the winter he put the horses in the barn and fed them and turned me out to starve i got a job at georgetown cut ting logs at 2 per week when the snow got deep about jan 1st the old farmer reduced my wages to one dollar per week the rations were not too good so i went to the barn and ate the wheat i stuck it out till april and then left when the old farmer died i hope they buried him a long way down later on i got me a real good job on the cpr george washington pouis riel wm lyon mackenzie lount and matthews and eamon ed week the only thing wrong with it was i had to break the ice in the mornings to wash my valera rebelled against a bad face and hands i have forgotten government they were all pre- if i ever had a bath or not well pared to accept what the for- 1 it was good schooling for me tunes of war brought them anyway good or bad but look here i find the canadian government running to budapest bringing erstwhile enemy aliens into can ada paying their fare by air now look at these hungar ians they are made to think that they are conferring a favor on canada by coming here i see by the paper that a unlver- backward and forward the end of the year is a good time to take stock and it is natural that we should ask ourselves what the world is coming to sometimes we get pessimistic and again occasionally hope ful but we must take long views i have often told the story of a remarkable old lady who lived part of her life in ncwcastle- ontyne in england about ten miles from where 1 was born and brought up here is the story a few years ago elizabeth haldare passed on in the north of england she was born in april 1s25 and died in may 1925 she was the mother of lord haldane who was for a time chan cellor of the exchequer the old lady was remarkable not only because of her great age but because in the closing years of her life she wrote a book which was a record of the hundred years through which she had lived in that book mrs haldane wrote of the changes of the cen tury 18241925 it was a period of great change she spent most of her life in newcastleontyre where george stephenson in vented the first locomotive and was busily engaged in improving it when she was a girl she could recall the determined opposi tion to the first travelling engines later she saw the introduction of other methods of trans portation tricycles bicycles motor cars and airplanes it was a century of progress and discovery she was keenly interested in radio which made its appearance not long before her death her mind was clear to the end the archbishop of york who visited her often said old age to her was not one of increasing weakness but rather one of evergrowing spiritual power lying on her back for she became bedridden towards the end she surveyed the century through which she had lived in her book she asked and answered the question of what was the most wonderful change she had seen in ore hundred wars her answer was the changed attitude of adults toward chil dren she remembered her cousins and brothers being severely flogged for minor offences she wrote i have known my bov cousin to return from school black and blue from bruises in flicted by the cane while a school chum lived for three days hiding in a chimney in fear of the masters treatment a giri cousin of mine was punished by being locked up in a barn and fed on bread and water the haldanes were quite welltodo people so we can only guess at the treatment handed out to less fortunate children she goes on to say that the same severity was used in religious training it was a wedge of torture and an instrument of cruelty we were watched continually and our actions con strued to mean what we had never dreamed at family worship prayers were directed at us rather than to the almighty when she was fourteen elizabeth had a sharp attack of rheumatism and seventyfive years later she still remembered the doctors visit he entered the room wearing a bright green coat with brass buttons corduroy trousers top boots and carry ing a riding whip in his hand he asked her if she would like to be blulded she meekly answered yes he bound her arm tightly and with very old and crude instruments proceeded to bleed her after two unsuccessful attempts he finally succeeded in getting a basin of blood she did recover but there was no babying during convalescence it was not thought the proper thing to use warm water and so although it was a severe winter and water froze in her room she had to break the ice and do her best there are depressing things in modern life but here is an encouraging fact it is a far better world for children than it has ever been elizabeth haldane was right the brutal methods of the past due chiefly to ignorance are passing and there is a sincere effort on the part of adults to do what jesus did when he took a little child and set him in the midst of them our quotation today is by dr samuel hope is like the sun as we walk toward it the shadows fall behind giving them civic receptions at slty has offered to take in 250 halifax as per this mornings of them free and ive never radio believe it or not i won- seen the inside of a high school der if they get turkey dinners i yet when my wife saw the first i see three things wrong with j pictures of these socalled refu- it i gees she said why they arc 1 if we want refugees the just as well dressed as canadian british commonwealth has got people she could have added millions of them ceylon ken ya apartheid south africa to say nothing of thousands of nice young english irish and scotch lads and lassies whod be glad to come if their fare much better dressed than the british people my third point is this for the last two years we have been listening to dismal stories about the need for lowrent housing ing before us we should break i ing qualities a boy wanted ma- the long span of a year into days terial that would last and still for we only have to live one day provide plenty of flavor he at a time this is one secret of successful living regret over past mistakes or fears of future happenings should not be al lowed to darken todays blue sky a social service worker in a slum area always kept a flower in the little vase on her desk studied the hard sugar candies in their many flavors coltsfott ginger cinnamon wintergreen horehound birch orange ansie sassafras clove lemon and lime he studied the mint kisses tan- gy balls sour ball little bean pots filled with sugarcoated peanuts jawbreakers and hum bugs was paid or even if they were we need more regents parks sure of a job i dont like to see hospital bed shortage school ontario made a dumping ground i shortages teacher shortages for all he discontented foreign- 1 imbalance whatever that is be ers on earth i personally em- 1 tween industrial and residential ploy foreigners and have had assessments no houses must some real good workers good be built only factories edu- honest people too but euro peans have a tendency to vote as groups they quickly learn how to put pressure on coun cils and parliaments they are right now just about monopoliz ing one radio station when ever i listen to it 2 they are being started off on the wrong foot fifty years ago the laurler government it reminds me that beauty can always be found if i look for it j tho good old day even in tangled lives and there were chocolate cigars squalid surroundings she told with colourful wrappers candy immigrants they ad- a friend a teacher in his fare- cigarettes coconut flags long well talk to his pupils who were j licorice sticks plug tobacco going into collegiate gave them with a tin star and peppermint three fine suggestions for daily j flavored paraffin that had satis- living each day learn one ifying lasting qualities new thing help someone else i a young citizen with three or and have some fun yourself four pennies had a difficult time you may have your own ways but it taught one to think cation minister dunlop has been lampooned and caricatured as giving teacher certificates to cripples and unfit persons terrible terrible terrible well a lot of it is true enough one of my own lads was wait ing two weeks for a hospital bed and had to be rushed in bed or no bed to save his life the hospital shortage is gen uine enough well then last summer i advertised 2 working- 1 class houses for rent at low i rates i had about 150 applica tions mostly from young cana dians with children living in basements or flats where the kids got bawled out for making a noise they wanted a little place on our own the work ingclass housing shortage is genuine enough now all at once all this is nothing the government the church the radio the press j are clamoring to bring in hordes of foreigners for whom we have no houses no jobs no schools no teachers no hospitals no nothing in spite of all of them i say it doesnt make sense frederick j vacher dear mr editor stouffville is fortunate lri the development of many new sub- and iead us omvard a 1c wa adieu old year adieu old year with all its joy and sorrow now adieu this chapters closed forever now here conies a chapter new we wonder what the year will bring each morn a page unread each evening we know every thing that page and chapter said we hold in our own hands this book the pages pure and white yet for thy help we now must look dear lord for in thy sight we long to keep the pages clear from blot or sad mistake dear father for the coming year our hands in thine now take divisions in our immediate vicin ity we are glad to see this mani festation of the prosperity of the present times we are glad too that the occupants of these beautiful new homes enjoy the most modern of conveniences and facilities but why should they only benefit by the new sewage sys tem their septic tanks are new and will not need to be replaced for probably twenty years the older section of the town is occupied by residents who have paid taxes in good times and bad in many cases their par ents and grandparents before as on through life we go til at the closing of lifes day we see the sunsets glow then kindly lead us by the hand when winds and waves rise high until we reach the heavenly land dear father be thou nigh mrs a weber peed is ignored and the new sewers placed in the new sub divisions where they are unnec essary at the present time since the older section is equally tax ed to meet the cost of the sew- ers without deriving any benefit l fess m them it would appear to make stouffville what it is to- 1 day in most cases their facilities for sewage disposal arc anti quated and inadequate but their this taxpayer to be a gross in justice yours truly westend taxpayer j of finding and maintaining ser- enity of spirit looking for beauty being alert for new ideas or information having a helpful attitude to other people are ccr- itainly good paths to happiness relaxing and enjoying life is also very important many parents are so ambi tious to get ahead to give their children more advantages than they had themselves that they become tense or fatigued they forget that some of the things which children need most cannot he compared with money do our children look at us and conclude that being a grown up int much fun has the weight of our duties somehow destroyed our zest for living they are being cheated and so are we if in our daily lives there is little of the glow of happiness happiness may be discovered in such simple ways as listen ing to good music looking at a lovely picture leading oetry through before he made up his mind ottawa journal mexico did away with santa claus in 1930 the authorities in mexico decided to abolish santa claus during the christmas fes tival as they considered him out of place in a country where snow is seldom seen the wellknown bearded fig ure was ousted by quetzalcoatl i the indian god half bird half snake who was worshipped by the aztecs before the spanish invasion in its new christmas program the southern country has made a feature of the distribution of presents to thousands of needy children by the plumed serpent and every vear this bigscale presentgiv ing takes place onj recently the rjcrson press pub- decembci 23 i way and may the season joy brighten all your days richard trlbblim your white rose dealer don mills road no 7 highway we build homes large and small and buildings of all kinds repairs and remodelling good materials and workmanship guaranteed our house designing service is at your disposal k w reiz construction co stouffville ont phone sfouft 193 j