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ry 1 the stoutfyuli tlutune twty december 6 1957 he louffuiiie criinute established liti a v nolan son publishers member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontarioquebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations authorized u secondcuu mail postofsce deps otuw issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada 350 elsewhere 450 h nolan publisher jas thomas associate editor our editorial comment merchants should be commended stouffville merchants should be commended for the wonderful santa claus parade which was held here saturday and which drew several thousand extra shoppers into stouff ville it was one of the best parades since the annual event was started some years ago and drew one of the largest crowds the organizing of this pre- christmas event means considerable work as well as expense and does much to boost christmas trade and keep up the good name of the town as a shopping centre much of this work falls on a few individuals who are unselfish with their time and have the interest of general town business at heart likewise much of the money comes from a few busi nesses a parade such as we had saturday and the results should stir those who in the past have taken little or no part and have contributed little to throw their full share into boosting the event next year if a few can do so much how much more could be done by many visitors were in town from many miles around on saturday and favor able comment was widespread some two thousand kiddies were treated by santa claus and business folks found their stores crowded for most of the day watch your christmas tree christmas trees a symbol of 3 gaiety and happiness too often be come a mass of flames and a symbol 4 of disaster according to the all canada insurance federation 5 trees decorations and special christmas costumes should all be chosen with special care and protec- 6 ted from fire the federation which represents more than 200 canadian fire automobile and casualty insur- 7 ance companies makes these recom mendations for safety in the home during the christmas season 1 choose a small christmas tree 8 it will be less hazardous than a larger one 2 keep the base of the tree in a container of water the water 9 will be absorbed and keep the tree moist keep trees away from stoves heaters and fireplaces use good quality electric lights on the tree not candles check your lights for any de fects which might cause short circuits be sure that christmas lights do not overload the electrical cir cuits in your home keep papers gifts and other in flammable articles away from the base of the tree until christ mas eve do not use paper gauzelike ma terials or other highly inflamm able cloths for childrens cos tumes check carefully for burning cigarette butts after every party or gathering in your home more more v the townships of markham whitchurch vaughan uxbridge and pickering propose to emulate oliver twist they receive from the pro- vince half the cost of maintaining their roads they want more gravel trucks and other heavy motor ve- hicles they complain are tearing their roads to pieces the townships want the provincial government to give them a special road maintenance subsidy there is no doubt that the build ing boom in metropolitan toronto with its demand for gravel from ad jacent municipalities has laid a heavy burden on these municipalities nor is there any doubt that if the province acceded to their demands every other township in ontario would at once assail mr frost with like demands the province could agree to pay a higher subsidy to rural townships and recoup the expenditures by charging higher license fees for trucks it has been estimated that less than 5 per cent of the depart ment of highways revenue is obtain ed from truck permit and license fees a gravel truck with a gross weight between fifteen and sixteen tons now pays 195 a year fleets of such vehicles operating eight or ten hours a day over secondary roads could soon destroy those roads it is not surprising then that the townships are crying more more their councils are reluctant to recover the cost of road mainten ance by levying upon the gravel pit operators for any such action would involve expensive litigation they are not empowered to charge tolls on their roads so they turn to the pro vince the province if it accedes to their demands has the power to make the truckers pay for the roads they destroy the globe and mail sick childrens hospital campaign mounting costs increasing spe cialization and improved methods of care have resulted in a substantially increased operating loss for the hos pital for sick children this year an estimated deficit of 61 per cent 308093 is expected b a laidlaw honorary chairman of the board of trustees said in an nouncing the annual christmas ap peal of the hospital for sick child ren by yearend the hospital will have cared for an estimated 22900 bed patients and provided 114000 treatments to outpatients and emer gency cases probably the largest number of children cared for by any institution in north america in one year mr laidlaw said as in other years the hospitals revenue from all sources patients investments estates and grants falls short of offsetting the increas ing cost of care and treatment in addition greater pressure has been put on hospital facilities during 1957 than ever before every 4 minutes a child enters the hospital either as a bed patient outpatient or emergency patient mr laidlaw said in reporting on the hos pitals increased services he added that 13061 operations 3810 blood transfusions 88761 xrays and 148- 000 laboratory tests were carried out last year among the outstanding advanc es madein many fields at the hospital is work being conducted on crossed or squinting eyes treatment com mences where possible when the child is very young and although the operation is a delicate one it rarely upsets the child the constantly mounting cost and scope of such spepialized services together with the increasing number of children cared for accounts for the operating deficit mr laidlaw said address of the hospital for sick children is 555 university avenue toronto save our christmas december 25 provides us with a storehouse of happy memories it reminds us of our first toys and our first loves there may have been sad christmases but in the main they were happy exciting and full of love and the fellowship of man hands off christmas remem brance day and the other days we celebrate in conjunction with the story of our people streamlining the year to benefit industry and holiday- makers will make us a nation devoid of history tradition and sentiment sault ste marie star todays problem self discipline by john and jane strickland harris milton 1810 west liv ingston street allentown pa was the fifth child in his family and eight years younger than his next older brother being the baby of the family he thought himself abused when his older brothers and sisters bossed him around and when he was not allowed the privileges of the older ones his father was the type of father who burled himself in his career and gave little time to any of his children only his mo ther could be counted upon to stand by and truly she gave him double measure he learned ear ly to tell it to mama which habit he carried through his school and college years and even into his married life he didnt make friends readily nor did he keep long those he did make he leaned too much on his mother to develop self confi dence and her attitude of protec tion robbed him of any chance for selfdiscipline after marriage his lack of selfdiscipline continued as a bugbear and it was not long be fore his wife realized that his mother came first and that she followed second way tiown the line finally after several months of anything but a happy married life with her husband running to his mother to solve their pro blems she told him if he felt more married to his mother than to her that he should go back to his mothers home in a huff he did just that his wife sot a job to support herself and was all set to give up the home they had established together when she was to become a mo ther by this time her mother-in- law had found that she was no longer making her son happy in his old home and when she laff of the week sleep well lt nil baam for parents only the original st nicholas by nancy leaver junior finds it very confus- cried then nicholas answered ing to discover a big man dress- j that he did not want anyone to ed up in a red suit with a white know of his liberality beard in several stores each saint nicholas became one of one claiming to be santa claus i the most popular saints of all mrs green confided to her christendom and his day is dec- neighbor ember gth in olden days in ger- our janey knows the men j many someone would dress in are just playing santa we the costume of a bishop the have never told him santa was i evening of december 5th and a real person but rather a distribute small gifts for good jolly old elf i can guess where you found that phase in the night be fore christmas its a good one but as well as reading aloud clement moores poem ti 11 -i- i i children like the christmas tree this yuletide custom spread to england toward the middle of the last century one legend about him is that he saved the lives of three little id like to know more about the boys who were to be cut up and original st nicholas saint nicholas was born in asia minor late in the third century his parents were weal thy and he was left quite a for- ture there are many legends about him and he is said to have been bishop of myra ly- cia a seaport town early in the 4th century he was very gener ous and loved to give little gifts to needy folk but he didnt give in order to be thanked and so he tried to give his presents without anyone knowing who sent them often when it was dark he would slip quietly into a poor home and leave a little surprise on the hearth one story about saint nichol as tells how he helped a poor put into a salting tub instead of bacon he is called the chil drens saint but he was also named the patron saint of sail ors and travellers another story about saint nicholas is that he allayed a severe storm threaten ing a ship sailing to the holy land parents are sometimes alarm ed when they hear santa claus being condemned as telling a child a pack of lies they are on safe ground when they pic ture for their child the saint nicholas who really lived dr brock chisholm and some other modern educators pour scorn on santa other folk condemn him as a pagan but he keeps his place in the affections of nobleman who had lost both the younger generation his wife and his fortune this surely there is room in this man had three daughters and last month of the year for both lie was worried about their find- saint nicholas and the baby ing husbands because he had i jesus the old saint need take no money to give them a mar- nothing away from the true riage dowry in those days a meaning of christmas no leg- girl without a dowry to set up end about saint nicholas can housekeeping was just out of luck on three different nights st nicholas tossed a little bag of gold through the open window into the noblemans living room on the second occasion the no bleman hurried out to see who was his benefactor saint nicho las was swifter than the noble man and made his escape but the third time the nobleman was so quick that he ran and grasped the cloak of saint nich olas kind servant of god why hide thy good deeds thus he heard the news that her son was to become a father she had the good sense to place responsibil ity upon him for the first time in his life that done harris went back to his wife finding her most happy to have him back the new responsibility made harris feel at last that he was a man his wife now looked to him and the biggest problem that had ever come to him was on its way to being solved compare in beauty with the story of the visit of the shep herds and the wise men to the baby jesus our children may want to play being santa but let us help our boys and girls in imagination to visit the man ger o come little children o come one and all the cradle is here as in beth lehems stall and see what the father from heaven above has sent us tonight as a proof of his love father not responsible for sons act a justice of the ontario su preme court ruled friday that when a father backs the financ- i ing of his sons automobile he does not necessarily have an ownership interest mr justice it a danis or- dered the ontario minister of from our early files nov 26th 1925 geo mckuen has sold his fine farm of 100 acres at lemonvihe to a miss huffman of toronto for s130o0 this is one of the choicest farms in whitchurchi all of our deer hunters have returned and we are pleased to state that none of them met with any misfortune worse than missing a shot at the fleet footed animals they were in search of a number failed to bring back any game although a great many deer came to this section robt hare so far as we could learn possessed the largest ani mal a 235 pound buck shot in the haliburton district fred pugh of claremont cap tured four prizes in poultry at the royal fair in toronto last week we are not sure whether fletcher goudie groomed these birds or not but in any event he is likely to exhibit from his pens at next years show having won signal success this year at markham and woodbridge within a space of ten days james mccreight shot a beauti ful pair of hawks on his farm south of stouffville and brought them to the tribune office for our inspection on tuesday they were evidently male and female and the larger was four feet from wing to wing tip mr mc- creights chickens were badly molested of late and had been so frightened that many oi them would not leave the pen while mr mccreight lays no claim to prowess as a sharp shooter he felled both birds with a 22 rifle on difficult shots the board of trade at their meeting on monday evening in structed that the park grounds which are now free of debt be formally presented to the town at the next council meeting and a committee was lormed to carry out this arrangement there is a rumor afloat from a very reliable source to the effect that the sutton train is soon to be discontinued by the cnr this train makes one trip daily from suttor to to ronto and return and it is gener ally believed that it is a poor paying line in fact some state that the company operates this branch at a direct loss no doubt the people of ballantrae mount albert and other places will pro test strongly against the dis continuance of the service owing to the fall of snow dur ing monday night our drayman c cadieux was able to rush the season on tuesday morn ing and merchants received their express parcels delivered from sleighs its not often there is any slipping so early in the season in stouffville but it didnt last long as the weather soon moderated considerably lloyd turner assisted battie and duff brooklin farmers in the exhibition of their clydes dale horses at guelph and tor onto royal fairs the exhibitors cleaned up on the championship at both fairs trans port to pay 4440 out of the unsatisfied judgment fund to clarence terry 30 of put nam mr terry was awarded dam ages last spring against ross shellington 19 of belmont and applied for payment out of the unsatisfied judgment fund the minister of transport op posed the application on the basis that mr terry should have sued lloyd shellington the youths father because he had signed the conditional sales contract as guarantor when his son bought the car wfelfcoju rse rles carry a little honey the great physician sir william osier used to lecture to medical students and nurses to prepare them for their careers these addresses- were gathered into a book and published under the title counsels and ideals the book is not in print but i have a copy of it which i cherish over and over again the doctor told his students that their success depended largely on their personalities the cultivation of hopeful cheerful kindly qualities is half the battle never forget he would say that you will go further and do more good if you have kind personalities i have quite a few friends who boast about their outspoken frankness they speak their minds and if other people dont like it so much the worse for them friends apologize for them by saying that they call a spade a spade and their wives speak of them with wifely charity by referring to them as diamonds in the rough both their friends and wives have a cause there are a good many men and a few women who take a positive delight in putting the worst side out the pharisees of christs day sought to get a reputation for goodness when actually they had little of it jesus said of them they indeed appear beautiful outward but the people i am thinking of now care little or nothing for reputation they enjoy rubbing others the wrong way dr samuel was a good illustration of this attitude it may have been his early experiences when the strug gle to live was hard and bitter or the fact that his faca was so heavily marked with scrofula and his big lanky frame shaken with convulsive jerks as he walked but whatever the reason johnson became sour and morose and antagonized many people but johnson did himself an injustice his closest friends knew that he was kind and generous to a fault he frequently gave all the coppers and silver he had in his pockets to street arabs and there were many who watched for him to pass because they knew that his sympathies were deep and easily touched for his mother he had the tenderest regard and there are few more touching letters in all literature than the following one that lie wrote to her dear honoured mother neither your condi tion nor your character make it fit for me to say very much you have been the best mother and i believe the best woman in the world i thank you for vour indulgence and beg forgiveness for all that i have done ill and all i have omitted to do well god grant you his holy spirit and receive you to everlasting happiness for jesus christs sake amen lord jesus receive your spirit i am dear dear mother your dutiful son sam johnson it is hard to believe that the man who wrote with such sublime tenderness was regarded by many as mor ose sullen and harsh on the other hand it is true that the habit of being brutally outspoken can become a vicious one and that many otherwise good people do much to nullify their influence by unnecessary brusqueness dr w l wil kinson once saw a book with the title roses how i grow them and how to show them and he wisely assumed that to show roses properly was almost as im portant as growing them aright the apostle paul in his letter to the christians in rome said let not then your good be evil spoken of paul must have had good reason for his comment he probably knew many fine people who did not do them selves justice they presented their goodness in such a way that it antagonized people in substance he said i want you to be good but i want you to oe so in a winsome way it never hurts to be courteous and considerate of other peoples feelings those who delight in calling a spade a spade can do much damage by deeply wounding sensitive souls a quaint passage in the book of genesis 4311 tells of the advice jacob gave to his sons as they were leaving their faminestricken land to go to egypt hoping to buy food he knew that much would depend on the impression they made telling them of the gifts they were to take he said carry a little honey this is good advice for the journey through life honey is better than vinegar we are bound to meet all sorts of people good bad and indifferent but they are people and to treat them with love and gentleness makes life better all round our quotation today is by a c benson only things done in kindness bring us satisfaction as we grow older wsjoowsoemocsxswsxjre ottawa canadas nationwide safedriving week for 1957 is taking place this week under the sponsorship of the canadian highway safety conference this campaign has two main objectives to reduce the traffic death toll and to point up the responsibilities of pedestrian and motorist in highway safety accidents are caused one at a time by individuals and they must be prevented the same way declared the conference chairman hon gordon taylor albertas minister of highways taking active part in safedriving week 1957 are the federal and provincial governments of canada industry business public groups police forces the judiciary provincial and community safety organizations and many others both the governor general rt hon vincent massey and prime minister diefenbaker have expressed approval and support of safedriving week space contributed in the service of the community by john labatt limited labatts 5q brewery limited