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pt 2 the stouffvujj tribune vanity aogat 1 1957 he tonffbilb cr limit established iss8 a v nolan son publishers member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontarioquebec newspapers association member of the auoit bureau of circulations authorized u moadcuis mail pooffice djt otuwa issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada 3350 elsewhere 5450 h nolan publisher jas thomas associate editor our editorial comment applause for getting things done the newmarket era recently passed out some bouquets to those municipalities who get things done the era was commenting on the delay in negotiations for an adequate sewage disposal plant for newmar ket stouffville with its 2500 popula tion has recently completed its sew age system and disposal plant while newmarket continues to dump its raw sewage into the holland stream which runs through the town the era had this to say in comparison with newmarket that town has been making rapid progress with the ontario water re sources commission and now has completed an agreement with the commission covering construction of a sewage disposal plant ontario mu nicipal board approval is the final step in newmarket we have been hearing about negotiations with the ontario water resources commis sion for a long time the history of sewage disposal plant talk goes back nearly ten years in fact neighboring east gwillimbury residents and the ontario department of health start ed pressing for a plant and cleanup in the holland river during the ad ministration of mayor joseph vale the fact that a town of nearly 8000 souls dumps raw sewage into a creek with a diminishing flow of water is a disgrace of course the inhabitants along the holland river north of newmarket have been com plaining about this for years litter at this time of year the amount of trash and litter that blows around the streets is astounding and becomes more than an irritation to those re sponsible for efforts to keep the thoroughfares of the town in some degree of tidiness goodness knows the dust problem is bad enough with out having the eyesore of fluttering papers and scattered bits of card and boxes everywhere a question as to where all this stuff comes from is a fair and logical one and one to which there is only one answer people are just careless actually there is no reason at all for even one bit of paper being blown around every piece in some manner must have been released outside either when thrown out with garbage or tossed into the street in such forms as cigarette or candy boxes if everyone were truly tidycon scious there would be no paper litter maybe those who throw cigar ette boxes on the street for ex ample act in the same way at home by throwing on the floor but w6 doubt it we cannot imagine any one like that just the same as we cannot imagine anyone thinkingly throwing paper of any kind away outside yet it is done regularly and prolifically it is said that there are now too many laws and regulations overriding the peoples of the world laws are only necessary when people neglect to carry out their re sponsibilities fairly and honestly they arenecessary to force people to live up to their responsibilities in re lationship with others and their communities there is a challenge in connec tion with this litter business within this town a challange to everyone whether a householder or only tem porary resident occupying only a room a continuation of this paper- discarding habit could well call for the enforcement of fines but that is all so unneccesary unpleasant and unfriendly the cure is entirely in the hands of the people themselves who could quickly correct the presence of untidiness by refrain ing to throw away or place papers where winds can reach them acton free press farmers must stand on their own feet canadian delegates to the recent convention of the international fed eration of agricultural producers did well to draw attention to devices the united states government is adopt ing in order to unload its surplus farm products in markets that other countries have been supplying in the past it is offering wheat at giveaway prices on condition that the receiving countries undertake to buy wheat from it in future years there is nothing unethical about underselling a competitor in the mar ket but when a wealthy country uses its taxpayers money to induce its farmers to grow a certain crop holds that crop off the market in the hopes of forcing the price high enough to make the growing of it profitable to its farmers and then dumps its un saleable surplus in the importing countries at slaughter prices and at the same time tries to bind those countries to buy their supplies from it in future years there is something decidedly unfair about its tactics and competing countries are justified in resenting its behavior the canadian complaint against the united states might have carried more weight if the canadian dele gates had not themselves been in strumental in destroying the free market for wheat in canada and centralizing the marketing of it in a government wheat board with the intention of forcing the world to pay more than natural prices for this most important food grain marketing is the last thing in the world that should be entrusted to governments for governments have so many irons in the fire and so many interests to serve that they cant possibly give the marketing of grain the undivided attention it re quires during all the years canadian wheat was sold on the open market we never failed to sell all the wheat we had for sale it was not until our farmers con ceived the idea of controlling the prices by centralizing the selling first in the hands of the wheat pools and when that failed in the hands of the government that unsaleable sur pluses began to plague us the expedients by which the united states is trying to get rid of its surplus farm products will not succeed as long as the american government continues to support the prices of those products at more than their true market value congress is being asked to vote nearly five billion dollars this year to aid the farmers and much of this is intended to support the prices jof cot ton corn wheat rice and peanuts if congress votes this money more will be demanded next year if it refuses to vote it the farmers will resent it and will show their re sentment by their votes some farm leaders are becoming alarmed over the effect this policy of supporting the prices of farm pro ducts is having on the farmers them selves it is turning good farmers into bad politicians the net result of supporting wheat prices in usa is that farm ers have been induced to grow wheat on land and in districts that are more suited to other crops and farmers who have turned to wheat for the sake of the supported prices are un willing to surrender the privilege they now enjoy the closing of the open market in canada and the centralizing of grain marketing in the hands of a government board was a grave mis take and now that the farmers are becoming disillusioned over the per formance of the wheat board they are beginning to demand new favors at the taxpayers expense government marketing or gov ernment price supports can never put canadian agriculture in a healthy condition what our agriculture needs is to learn to stand on its feet to produce the crops the market wants and at prices the market will pay the rural scene honeybees pollinate sweet clover after all in a sandwich it s the meat that matters doctor of applesauce i receive a few letters each week about these brief articles and the other day a lady suggested i print an occasional one with a humorous turn she especially remembered one about the late will rogers and at her request we publish it again here it is when a great man dies people try to sum up in a few words why he was famous and so when will rogers died in 1935 he was referred to as the man who made people laugh it was a good description of him he was born in oklahoma in 1s79 and was proud of the fact that both his parents had indian blood in their veins will used to say my ancestors didnt come over on the may flower they met the boar that was typical of him he made jokes about all kinds of people and chiefly about himself the words humor and human spring from the same root that is where humour differs from wit wit is smart and brilliant but often it hurts cuts like a knife will rogers was a humorist in the true sense of that word he never deliberately set out to hurt anybody he once said when i die you can put on my tombstone that i joked about every prominent man of my time but i never met a man i didnt like he loved people all kinds of them and he passed through the world like a ray of sunshine taking happi ness and good will wherever he went the oklahoma cowboy humorist made friends all over the world he was the best advertisement america had kings prime ministers presidents and leading diplomats respected and loved him when he wag killed in an airplane crash near point barrow alaska tributes to his worth came in by hundreds eddie cantor said what thousands of others thought he was probably the most beloved man of our time his life was an example to us all he was never involved in any scandals and there wasnt an atom of envy or malice in his system he had so much natural ability that he could have suc ceeded in a dozen different ways he spent his early life as a cowboy and it was his ability to do amazing tricks with his rope that first brought him to public attention an outstanding quality of his character was humility as his income and popu larity increased he seemed to become more humble he always appeared puzzled that his performances were so much enjoyed he never made any pretensions about himself when admiring friends praised him he said shucks why all this fuss about me x am just an old cowboy who has had a bit of luck when oklahoma university wanted to give him an honorary degree of doctor of letters he declined the only degree that would suit me he said is da doctor of applesauce of all the stories about will rogers this one is the best one evening he took mrs rogers for an automobile ride and they decided to stop at a motion picture theatre as he ap proached the box office he discovered he had no money with him mrs rogers purse also was empty lets go home betty he said sheepishly and they did it so happened that one of his own pictures was being shown that evening and one word to the management would have been enough to bring him a great welcome they would have felt it a great honour to make him their guest but will wasnt built that way he didnt seek favors nor did he do any boasting no wonder he was one of the best loved men of modern times our quotation today is by hugh redmond learn to smile and you have less worry for parents only the editors mail bag stouffville tribune dear sirs the item quoted below was clipped out of a recent northern alberta paper and reminds us of an incident which happened in the union station a while ago a man came rushine in the swing doors evidently late for his train no sooner was he entered than his false teeth drop ped smack in the way cf his foot books as vacation companions this is vacation time a time when many of us have qulck- and went slithering halfway ened dreams 0 ocean breakers across the huge floor he quick- of green va or purple moun- ly dashed after them stopped tains o vagabonding joyously picked them up glanced at the h an far away them pushed them back in his mouth and without looking at anyone continued his race to the trains we watched and laughed to ourselves if you have moved eloped sold out been born been married been murdered been visiting lost youv teeth lost your dog lost your hair been in a fight sold your hogs stolen something had an oper ation got a new girl friend its news turn it in so we can print it a reader sweet clover is one of the most important honey plants in western canada in return for the nectar and pollen gathered from it honeybees render a valuable service by cross polli nation preliminary studies in 1956 revealed that pollination by honeybees resulted in very high seed yields states p pan- kiw aptculturist at the canada dept of agriculture experimen tal farm bcivarlodgc alberta although white blossom sweet clover is considered somewhat selffertile the difference in seed set and yields in fields that had honeybees as pollinators and j those where pollinators were ex- cluflcd was most marked with- l cut pollinators sampling indi cated a range of 2 to 40 percent sclffcrtlllty with- much of the seed being green and immature j ihe yields varied from 12 to 240 pounds per acre with an aver age of s8 pounds but where honeybees were provided for cross pollinating the seed set was 92 percent and the seed yields averaged over 1600 ibsj per acre where honeybees were placed at the rate of one colony per acre of sweet clover and with very slight competition from other honey plants the seed yield amounted to 1700 pounds per acre the bees produced 85 pounds of honey per colony tills would indicate that the value of the pollination service of the honeybees was about 7 times the value of the honey produced with the price of seed at 6 cents and honey at 15 cents per pound 1 swimming rules there are few parents who do not fear their childs being drowned his safety in the water is of first importance over and over again during the vacation period they read of accidents perhaps they recall the quaint warning of j m synge the ir ish write in the aran isl ands a man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drownded he will be going out on a day he shouldnt but we do be afraid of the sea and we do only be dronde now and again only be drownded now and again if your child swims at a pub lic swimming pool or a com munity beach where there are lifeguards he likely is given a set of swimming rules the im portance of taking sensible pre cautions is impressed upon him he knows that if he is disobed ient he will not be allowed to continue his swim if he is a camper the swim ming counsellor and the director make it very clear that when it comes to water safety no non sense will be tolerated the con fidence of parents is based on the good reputation of those in j charge of swimming the least carelessness may result in a drowning what happens to a little childs ideas of the way to act i in the water when on a family i outing or at a summer cottage mother and dad do not want to frighten him so that he will by nancy cleaver be scared to learn to be at home in the water they realize that too much fear is a real handicap in mastering the art of keeping afloat and learning to swim but at the same time they do not want their- son or daughter to be exposed to unnecessary risks father and mother should dis cuss and agree on the most im portant water safety rules and gradually teach them to their youngsters if there are school age children in the family these should be considered in a family council it is a good plan to write them out and post them up in a prominent place some of the regulations which have proved their value are dont go swimming until one and a half to two hours after meals dont swim if fatigued on a hot day cool off a bit before plunging into the water if the water is below 60 de grees f enter gradually never go swimming alone al ways have a companion or bud dy swim if possible where a life guard is on duty and the bath ing area is known to be safe obey warning signs if a sign says danger it means just that stay out of pools rivers or other bodies of water which are known to be unsanitary so as to avoid possible eye car or nose infection dont dive into water you do not know the depth or whether there are sharp rocks glass or jagged edges hidden on the bottom when swimming a distance always be accompanied by a row boat and climb into it if you are exhausted when beginning to swim wade out to the deeper water and swim in to shore in a race al ways swim to shore or parallel to the waters edge and not far from land dont do silly stunts in the water dont attempt a swim or a dive beyond your skill or strength on someones foolish dare dont do a lot of yelling or pretend you are in danger re member the boy and the wolf wolf story never force beginners into the deep water stay out of a canoe until you can swim act in a sensible way in a boat not rocking it or changing seats etc if you are tipped out of a boat dont swim for the shore cling to the boat and call for help if you fall into the water and must swim remove shoes and outer clothing before attempting to do so if someone near you needs assistance in the water dont jump in and attempt a rescue unless you are a good swimmer and know how to go about sav ing a life call for help while looking for an inner tube a rope a plank or some other buoyant article for the person to grasp a drowning person should be approached from the rear take hold firmly if the person strug gles use a cross chest carry if he cooperates quietly alter nate this with the head carry do not attempt to swim to shore except as a last resort keep the victim afloat until help arrives if you dont know how to car ry out artificial respiration you should learn it with knowledge and praclice you may be able to save someones life some day in the meantime learn to swim well and stick to sensible safety rules thus you will not jeopardize your own life copyright the loveliest line said chester ton in the english language held by such anticipations our selves we have been browsing through those literary prints which venture to advise on the best books for a vacation the best that is not for our intel lectual nurishment but for sheer pleasure perhaps for what the psychologists call escapism what strikes us about this ad vice or about most of it is its futility we are told for exam ple that some particular novel or work of poetry or collection of essays is a must that our vacation bag would be empty without it yet who among us can be so wise as to encompass all reading tastes to know what are our likes or dislikes in memoirs or novels or poetry or essays or whether indeed we like any of them at all a part of vacation there are people of course who do not read at all or who if they do imagine that it is something a vacation should get away from that in between fish ing or swimming or just lazing around there should be nothing more than perhaps a round of cocktails or what somebody has called thoughtless meditation but for those brought up onj books who find them their greatest companions books are as much a part of a vacation as sun and wind themselves and this whether they be the modern continued on page 3 book talk by betty bangay satellite by eric bergausi and william keller in july 1957 the internation al geophysical year ugy will begin during this period set aside for intensive study of this earth we live on scientists the world over will participate in the experiments and share the knowledge acquired undoubt- edly the most important event will be the success or failure of the long anticipated attempt to launch the first satellite it is this subject the two authors cover so exhaustively in their book they explain the many diffi culties that must be overcome the expense entailed the reason success will be of such great importance and the develop ments it will lead to in the fu ture new scientists claim success will open the way to almost perfect radio transmission world wide television and long range weather forecasting in the near future it will be the means of amazing discoveries in medi- cine physics chemistry astron omy and other sciences that at present are at a standstill the satellite will be the step ping stone to space following this achievement will be manned space stations and space travel but long before man actually lands on the moon or the other planets in our solar system i scientists hope to send radio controlled spaceships equipped with television and numerous instruments that will take pic- turcs and gathar information in advance sounds fantastic yes but keep in mind that fifty short years ago jet planes breaking the sound barrier and atomic i power and hydrogen bombs would have been greeted with litter incredulity too although written for the layman this i book gets a little tiresome at times when it becomes too in volved in detail if you missed gully farm by mary hiemstra when it cams out a couple of years ago and you like a good pioneering story this book can be highly recom mended in 1949 george orwells novel j 1984 was widely acclaimed here is the terrifying picture of what could happen to the world and how it could come about although this book wont cheer you up it will sure make you sit up xsxxssxxjcsssobcxsxxssxm summer time table effective june 27th buses leave to toronto 700 am except sun hoi 925 am sun hoi 350 pm except sun hol 820 pm sun hoi daylight time tickets and information at mr r snowball barber shop phone 270j2 stouffville gray coach lines -sw- ftv vv i r-jr- 1 tv vvv jfsm m i 1 g 9k vi time is that indefinable some thing that separates happen ings if it werent for time everything would have happen ed atf once which might have been just as well at that the first major change in hay making in over 17 years hay in a day has been introduced by new holland machine co using timerated machinery this system lets the farmer handle la batch of hay from standing unfamiliar crop to storage in a single day fishing and the future saving made this holiday possible continued saving will help me look after debbys future shes one good reason i save regularly at the canadian bank of commerce 7ij tiumciq tuou cuum udt to suyl too claremont branch stoufrvllu branch h t green manager f w todd manager