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p3 the stouffylui trjmjke thurjsy my 18 1957 c jsinuffuilk tribune established s3 a v nolan son publishers member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontarioquebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations authored u mcondcljjs mail pcsofece dcpt ottawa issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada 350 elsewhere 450 c h nolan publisher jas thomas associate editor our editorial comment barefoot boy passing from the scene seeing a country lad coming up the lane in his bare feet presumably to get the mail as we were driving along a back road set us to thinking about another change that has taken place during the last generation the gradual disappearance of the barefoot boy says the kitchener- waterloo record as late as the 1920s barefoot boys were more commonplace than robins in the rural districts and to sonic extent in the cities and towns it was the thing to do once the weather had turned warm and the grass provided soft footing you could hardly wait to peel off your stockings and start gingerly trying out your natural soles on the grass how sharp the gravel felt those first few days it was as if somebody had scattered thumbtacks all over the path and how comfortable by comparison the soft yielding lawn grass felt on the pampered skin and how deliciously squidgy the soft mud of the creek bottom oozing up be tween the toes soon almost before he knew it a boy found himself hiking over gra ve and even over cinders and the stubble of a newlymowed field as naturally as if his feet had always gone wild yet it was always a wise precaution to shun dry thistles and what erstwhile barefoot boy can ever forget the eerie sensation of putting on stockings and shoes again in the autumn it was a cross between feeling your feet were bound up like the chinese and an impression you were walking on air many a lad honestly doubted he would ever get used to it again tractor accidents still taking toll another incident occurred this week in our local district pointing again to the upsurge over the last fewyears in tractor accidents on our farms and the need for the promo tion of safety measures a program was sponsored by the ontario retail equipment dealers association at the canada farm show in toronto last january and their efforts in this direction are continuing no province in canada was en tirely free from tractor accidents in 1956 quebec lost 26 farm residents while ontario saskatchewan and al berta recorded 21 killed in each pro vince other provinces recorded less er figures death in nearly all cases was due to falling off tractors crushing over turning running off highways or a combination of these of the more than one hundred tractor fatalities last year the major ity occurred on farm property while the next highest percentage was on the public highway in a large percentage of cases the victims are among the young in the united states a national safety council study shows an alarming 34 percent of tractor accident victims to be less than 20 years of age and more than 10 percent under five there are many circumstances where youngsters handle tractors ex tremely well and play important roles on the farm but there was nothing to suggest death around the corner for the more than one hundred cana dians who died last year until it was too late should be appreciated since the inception of vacation bible schools stouffville has been in the forefront and this year has one of the largest schools in the entire province if not the largest it is by far the greatest attendance ever re corded locally more than three hundred kiddies a great majority of them in the younger bracket are being given the advantage of two weeks of bible study in addition to occupying some of the long vacation period with something worthwhile to rev and mrs frank huson must go the appreciation of the par ents of this community for the organ izing planning and effort they have put into this summer bible school year after year rev huson we know also appreciates the coopera tion of his helpers and teachers no mean project for three hundred children the classes are continuing each moiting this week in the stouffville public school with the concluding ex ercises in the united church on fri day evening for parents only sucessful father by nancy cleaver the world outdoors by mike bennett in the good old summertime our pursuit of pleasure takes us to the world outdoors and what ever our particular form of rec reation may be chances are that we will be near water swimming boating and fish ing of course are three sports where water is directly involv ed every summer thousands of men women and children who are not competent swimmers in dulge in these sports in one degree or another and many of them needlessly drown for safetys sake when you are around water keep your head at all times if you cannot swim be a sissy and stay in did you ever watch men at a on special holidays the father father and son banquet you o a little son can give mother will usually see adults who a rest from her duties and give make their living in many dif- his youngster a treat by going lerent ways their clothes may on a little expedition not long have cost a lot or a little they i ago at assiniboine park early may speak correctly or murder one vacation day we watched the kings english they will be small boys and girls having a tall and short stout and thin marvellous time looking at the dark and fair but as they look animals at the zoo there were at their own boys you will like- some grandparents keeping an ly be able to detect the very eye on the small fry and a same gleam of pride i few mothers but the great ma- success at being a father is jwlly of adults in charge were one of the finest accomplish- i evidently fathers whether fa- the shallow water if you con- ments in all of life to be a good t or child was having a hap- sider yourself an expert swim- father to a twoyearold requires i time il would be hard to mer dont push your luck by different qualities from those sn demanded of the dad of a twelve- a small son gets his idea of yearold but the everchanging what a man is like as he watches aspect of a growing child is his dad and a little girls ideas of the other sex are colored by the kind of man her father is when children enter adolescence many fathers are puzzled and hurt that being a successful many kinds of success in hfe tmher suddenly seems so much worth having it is exceedingly more difficult interesting and attractive to be it is a help at this time if a successful business man a railroad man a farmer lawyer 8 e is bi body cramps and current are or doctor a writer or president out from under the family um- j rf b or ranchman or the colonel of brclla they want to be indepen- 1 dnn h f a fighting regiment or to kill cent the opinion of friends of f fh wa gnzzly bears and lions but for their own age matters greatly flnd dan unflagging interest and enjoy- father as well as mother must uat ke an menv a household of children accept the fact that junior is growing up parents need a lot of patience a fund of faith in their own child a sense of humour and most of all the part of his fascination being parent keeps a man on his toes i theodore roosevelt was a great family man and he once pointed out that there were swimming too far from shore or swimming without a companion if you find yourself in swift water or a dangerous current dont get excited or panicky swim diagonally across the cur rent slowly dont buck it make it work for you if your boat turns over again dont get excited whether you are an expert swimmer or a beginner you can save yourself 1 i by keeping vour nerve and cling- parents can remember that teen jvr boat agers are attempting to get bft laff of the week experiments of 1800s paved way for todays autos chugging smokeemnting ma chines of strange invention an cestors of both the automobile and the locomotive founded the horseless carriage age more pb thin a century and a half ago long before that men had dreamed of some form of land conveyance not pulled by ani mals sails were rried and even a windmill powered wagon in 1475 leonardo da vinci propos ed a springwind carriage and isaac newton designed one pushed by a steam jet but it was a french military engineer named nicholas cug- not who built a wagon that ran the national geographic society says in 1770 he produced a steampowered artillery carrier the first successful mechani cally propelled vehicle in his tory business directory auctioneers sank into road cugnots cart with 3 wooden wheels and a huge copper boiler suspended out in front whizzed sellers atkinson asia 201w2 ph sto j6j licensed auctioneers and sale managers over 30 yean experience sales conducted anywhere spe cializing in farm stock furni ture and properly sales all sales personally listed and ad vertised bills prepared and posted at no extra cost onr ratea are most reasonable for this complete service which really pays off no aale too big or too amall dental si ken clarke prentice auctioneers licensed and authorized tor the counties of york and ontario farm stock implements house ihold furniture real estate along at a theoretical 2u miles sales our specialty at fair and i faste the feeling your hensley was railroaded into this mrrlaie 40 days dry weather- no rain on monday st swithin had his day mon- grave day and legend has it that he but when the bishop was can- has a big say in our weather for l onized 109 years later the monks the next forty days it is said at winchester thought it only st swithins day and ye do proper that st swithin lie in- rain for 40 days it will remain st swithins day and ye be fair for 40 days mair everyone in this area knows now that monday turned out to be one of the brightest and finest summer days we have had all season and whether we are now faced with forty days of drought remains to be seen st swithins thus joins sts vitus mary and paul along with unnumbered badgers bears pansies and porpoises in his influence over the weather for the weather ranks with birth marriage and death as a topic that spawns multitudes of myths what do you make of them all according to hearsay once it actually did rain forty days after a july 15 shower that happened in 971 ad and this incident has been carried down nearly a millennium as legend v began in 862 the myth of st swithin be gan in 862 when the old bishop of winchester asked on his deathbed to be buried in the churchyard that the sweet rain side the cathedral they set july 15 as moving day it began to rain that day and twill rain nae j it rained forty days more the monks finally figured that st swithin disliked their plan and they dropped if the rain prom ptly stopped most people know the candle mas day legend if the ground hog its the badger in germany and the bear in france comes out of hibernation and sees his an hour after 15 minutes how ever it would run out of steam one day it upset in a paris street and caused a panic never used to carry guns if still exists in a paris museum in 1s03 a steam carriage ran in the streets of london with wheels more than 10 feet high it was patented by richard tre- vithick and andrew vivian an earlier model the partners not ed for history sank into the road another burned up two years later in philadel phia the inventor oliver evans put a steampowered dredge on wheels to take it to the schuyl kill river for launching to get enough money to pay off his workmen he exhibited it mov ing around centre square for several days while he collected 25cent contributions from spec tators evans pioneer in the use of highpressure steam thus be came the first american to build a selfpowered vehicle that mov ed on a road he was far from the last for a century the steam car led the field england had steam passenger reasonable rates dual service or the price of one miluken po ph ax 35981 markham po ph mark 346 prentices have been established auctioneers since 1s90 neil c smith lds dds graduate of university or j toronto ofic over canadian bank of commerce telephone 18v stouffville e s barker lps dds honor graduate ot university of toronto office over harolds grill phone 2tw stouffville medical dr s s ball physician and surgeon xray office corner of obrien main phone 196 coroner for york county shadow on the snow he holes i coach running on regular sche- lliz n sha dules untn outrageous tolls and a law that required a man on horseback to ride ahead wav- dow and he stays out 40day myths why according to ipopnd if candlemas day he fair and bright winter will have another flight but if candlemas day brings clouds and rain winter is gone and wont come again canny groundhogs badgers and bears figure their shadow means a fair candlemas day and that in turn means a long winter legend abounds with 40day myths rain on st medards day june 8 means rain for 40 days so does rain on st vitus day june 19 st barthoio- of heaven might fall upon my mews aug 24 and others jtwfe 6selyes if things go reasonably well certainly makes all other forms of achievement lose their im portance by compartsor what are some of the secrets ability to recall just what it was of being a successful father like to be almost but not quite most men who are good parents jrown thcc characteristics are enjoy tiie company of their found in the men and women children a man can give his who make a success of being i jjwater child no finer gift than his com- fathers and mothers serve energy and not waste it flailing about in the water you will drown only if you lose con trol give out of breath swallow water or tire yourself out too quickly if your favorite sport takes you on the waterways its wise to be able to handle yourself in if you are a non- panionship in order that a fa ther may he with his boy or girl careful planning may be de manded in dr wilder b pen- fields household the only time in this famous specialists busy day when every member of the family could be together was relationships father ar breakfast unlike many carta- j farhw and daughter dlan households the great brain 1 copyright specialist insisted that every- 1 one should arrive or time and were getting into the ho ca- that this should be enjoyable meal swimmer and intend to pursue schiller once wrote it is v hobby swimming lessons not flesh and blood but the the most profitable invest- heart which makes ib fathers m in safety you can make and sons the fathers heart and you are never too old to with enough live in it will sue- searri mount almost any obstacle in the path of this most vita of j the ancient city of troy was located in what is today turkey its remains are part of a vast mound called htjarllke close to the dardanelles ard a summer e a leisurely son oi more yearning and less camp is being constructed at earning capacity jrhc site what makes us happy a few months ago a canadian magazine asked its readers what they thought made people happy there was a wide variety of answers but most seemed to agree that a controlling purpose something to aim at was most essential the writer miss byrne hope saunders said i find that when i have an ideal to aim at it gives me satisfaction and makes life worthwhile life means more than going on from day to day without plans but toiling on in a humdrum way it is more than going through the motions but striving for some aim the child takes no long views of life that is its immatur ity but the man organizes his life a savage is a being without a future fighting and feasting without long views an artist works on because he sees the finished picture with the minds eye otherwise there would be no picture not only the artist painter and unusual people need an ideal but we ordinary people find rest and enjoyment in having before us an aim and purpose in living one of the most distinguished american painters was william merritt chase he lived the greater part of his life in new york city and his pictures steadily improved in quality one day a visitor to his studio asked him which of all the pictures he had painted he con sidered his masterpiece the artist pointed to a white canvas with nothing on it and said my masterpiece has not yet been painted i have it in my minds eye but i have never succeeded in getting it onto canvas however i keep striving and some day i expect to do it it was a good answer and it accounted for the fact that his work steadily improved he had an ideal and while like the horizon in the distance it seemed to recede as he approached the effort to achieve kept him from becoming careless a similar story is told of the danish sculptor thor- waldsen one day when he had shown an exceptionally fine piece of carving to a friend the man said you have reached perfection at last you cannot improve on that i can achieve something better still thorwaldsen replied and he kept on working harder than ever after ten years he finished a statue of great beauty and his friend said you can never produce anything finer than that i fear i cannot improve on that the sculptor answered i have reached my ideal and now my genius will cease to grow we all need to have ideals to beckon us on if we do not have them life will become poor and mean there is an old saying that he who aims at the sun shoots higher than he who merely aims at a tree abraham lincoln was a poor boy when he said i mean to be somebody and he became one of the most worthwhile men who ever lived he had ideals and these gave him purpose and determination and helped him become what someone called a matterhorn among men our quotation today is by oliver wendell holmes it is enthusiasm for something which makes life worth iving ing a red flag forced them out of business held speed record in new york richard dud geon built a tenpassenger road locomotive in 186s ten years later steam carriages set out from green bay toward madi son wis in the first automo bile race the winner took a week to cover the 210mile course it averaged six mph in 1886 ransom e olds pro duced a coalfired steam tricycle in lansing mich even in 1902 more than half the motor vehi cles registered in new york state were steamdriven and it was a stanley steamer that held the worlds landspeed record from 1906 to 1921 12157 mph i at daytona beach by the zenish of the steam car the gasoline buggy had long since been born etienne lenoir successfully ran a gas wagon in france in 1863 when abraham lincoln was in the white house siegfried marcus built a car in vienna a few years later and in 18s5 both karl benz and gott fried diamler built their first successful cars the gasoline- engine age had arrived a s farmer licensed auctioneer tork cty oxbridge pickering townships farm stock and furniture sales a specialty address telephone gormley po gormley 5311 legal robert w mcvey barrister solicitor 102 rouge crest drive 3552 markham toronto phone 339 phone em 35101 ambulance service b y r ambulance 34 hour 3crv1ce ambulance taxi richmond hill rlclimond hu1 ttj 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