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pe 2 iht stouffylui tribune tiwjy dec 31 1959 tehp touffuillc eributt cstaeushtd 1s a v nolan son publishers member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontarioquebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations- issued every thursday at stouffville ont id canada s350 elsewhere 5450 us thomas est ms mckean adertijuii c h noun fcmihe our editorial comment local civil defence program travelling a rocky road the term civil defence a so- called program organized to protect the human race in case of disaster has lost almost entirely the real meaning behind its initial purpose instead of being considered in a ser ious vein it is now the subject of verbal criticisms and jocular barbs its promoters appear tc be fighting for a lost cause in their efforts to impress on the minds of the canadian people the seriousness of their mis sion perhaps it is these same pro moters who are defeating their own purposes too often we have read where officers within the civil defence or ganization have blasted the project itself a number of officials both local and of greater authority have submitted their resignations the entire program from a readers point of view appears to be caught up in a whirlpool of red tape indecision and contradiction it is almost a civil war within the civil defence the abomb and the hbomb to the average man on the street is still a destructive force that cannot be few complaints on ch no persons receive more vivid reminders of the nearness of the christmas season than our local pos tal employees and mail carriers it is they who must bear the burden of our annual cardcatering custom it is possible that they look forward to the festive occasion with some appre hension and watch itpass with some relief after watching the deluge of mail that daily entered the stouff ville office prior to dec 25th it is little wonder the staff is ready for a wellearned rest for some unknown reason stouffvilles post office took on a gtrange new and unfamiliar appear ance this christmas season al though stamp sales broke existing records the usual lineups at the fathomed in terms of its true power recently mr darnelljenkins local pickering twp coordinator suggest ed that each and every resident should give serious consideration to the erection of private backyard fallout shelters we would contend that the news story was received with nothing more than a cynical smile by our readers the most recent obstacle tossed in the path of local cd was the withdrawal of ontario county coun cil from the entire scheme civil de fence heads have expressed amaze ment at the move but really what did they expect except perhaps on paper one can see little or no accom plishments f or either the money or time expended as one committee member stated the entire setup is in a dreadful mess we think he hit the nail right on the head what we would like to know is what use is being made of our civil defence funds thats one piece of informa tion that might prove more interest ing to our readers than backyard fallout shelters ristmas mail service wickets were unusually small the mail was sorted and delivered with little or no apparent confusion few complaints were heard although it may be difficult to pinpoint the exact reason behind the improved service we feel that better working conditions may have been at least paitially responsible em ployees and customers have at least room to breathe something that was lacking in the previous cramped quarters the side entrance to the individual boxes has alleviated the pedestrian congestion that once pre vailed at the front door we have not always felt that the renovation of buildings has solved may problems but in the case of the local post office it appears to have been a step in the right direction no time to rest a growing community gives its elected and appointed officials no time to rest no sooner is one set of prob lems accounted for than others pose themselves on the horizon this coming year will be no exception for stouffvilles council utilities commis sion and planning board with the momentous task of the sewer installa tion completed one might have ex pected that council could take a breather so to speak but such is not to be the case largest order of business which looms for the 1960 council is un doubtedly annexation while plans are already underway the main busi ness of such a project remains for the eoming year coupled with this growth will be the matter of expand ing the local disposal plant while it will no doubt not be necessary to have such an extension this year some thought must likely be given to it for the near future for planning board there is the eontinual pressure of new subdivi sions both for commercial and resi dential use such pressure will be come even more acute when annexa tion arrives the public utilities commission too faces major projects in 1960 there is the expansion of the water works system just lately begun and the erection of the commissions new building these extensions and additions and the cost involved as well as the work for town officers is the price that must be paid if our community is to expand at the beginning of another year let us be thankful that we have citizens who arc willing to assume the responsibilities of hand ling these problems true they will be criticized but on the other hand much that is good will also be accom plished being a member of a public board is much akin to operating a newspaper one can always be sure that the board or the newspaper which sils back and does nothing will receive little criticism at the same time it will receive few bouquets for accomplishment its later than you think we were much impressed recent ly by the words of the president of one of the largest advertising agen cies in the country he made an address which seems to us to have lot of real food for thought in it a part of this talk was as follows this period in america is the high tide of mediocrity the great era of the goofoff the age of the half- done job the land from coast to coast has been enjoying a stampede away from responsibility it is populated by waiters who wont serve with carpenters who will come around some day maybe with executives whose minds arc on the jrolf course with students who take cinch courses because the hard ones make them think with spiritual de linquent of all kinds who have tri umphantly determined to enjoy what was known until the present crisis as the new leisure we may lack a few of romes refinements in its final decadence but we do have the twohour lunch the threeday weekeud and the allday coffee break the russians are doing a wonderful job as the barbarians in our historical drama but we are far outdoing them in our superlative imitation of rome unquestionably we are in a battle for survival we must get our people into the battle but first wc have to get some battle into the people 1 wppaae 1 sbetdd have saved some of those eggs yoa ccbcksd is jset tesss hat las night sugar and spice ly bill smiley his lively reconstruction o f things past to all the odds and sods every where with whom ive consist ently refused to exchange chris tinas cards like punchy nice english lad who was in my squadron overseas got a card from cornwall tliree years in a row and never answered like tony of california with whom i shared a hilarious and hazard ous journey from poland to the lovely sight of a canadian tank crew complete with sweet caps in western germany and all the rest of you characters in australia and albcrtn belfast and bulawayo 1 never was much of a cardanswerer to my brother in paramari bo south america deck the hall with bough of mahogany old boy havent got around to answering your last four let ters havent got around to get ting a present off for your son my dear nephew but well be thinking of you sweating and racked by fever as we sit down to our turkey in the middle of our crisp december day a new electric lamp is so liny itll pass through the eye of a darning needle windsor star thinks this would be inter esting to rich men who some time may have to make the crossing for parents only calendars in the home when you write a weekly col umn and christmas is upon you and you are just getting over the flu and its too late to do anything sensible except hit the sack satan lurks ah he smirks why dont you reprint one from last christmas they would never know the differ ence a shortly after old nick has said his piece and the sinister sweetness of the idea is soaking in another advocate speaks up from the bottom of the stairs the old lady suggests why dont you reprint an old christ mas column arent you ever coming to bed nobody has time to read it anyway around chri stmas besides theyd never re member theyd read it before after all its not exactly death less prose you know 1 am proud to say that 1 sent them botli on their way not that it wasnt a fine idea if id had it myself but ill frequent the company of old nick when i feel like a fling not when he does and im too stubborn to admit that my wife has ever had a good idea in her entire exist ence its difficult to write some thing sincere and original about christmas because there is one story repeated every year tliat makes every other piece of liter ature about cliristmas look feeble in comparison so this year im going to make it sim ple and just say merry christ mas to a whole lot of people at a rough guess there are about 250000 people who read this column at a dime each for cards and tuppence apiece for stamps it would cost me 30000 to send you all a card after careful study i decided not to do it it isnt that i dont have the money its just the thought of licking all those stamps 4 obviously its pretty cheap to drop from 530000 to a mere merry christmas to one and all in my column so ill have to single out a few with the hopo that theyll repeal it to all their friends a a so its best wishes to all my friends in the weekly newspaper business just for ex ample fearless george cado- gan of the durham chronicle i and iiis wife elda gene mac- donald of the glengarry news i the last of tlie bigtime spend- j ers pete and leila hvidsten of i uxbridgc the nightowls who publish the timesjournal don mccuaig of the renfrew ad vance biggest hunting and fish ing liar north of the rio grande rev john mcnabb and alison of the alliston herald a clear ease of the pulpits gain being the newspapers loss and all you other characters to all the public relations boys who have suffered my pres ence with amiable slightly fro zen smiles on occasion just for example ron everson whose poetry is as impeccable as his manners as witty as his talk as piercing as his eyes colin hawortli whoso drawings are as shaggy and interesting as his eyebrows tommy iec the last softspoken mayor in canada paul gormley the most elabor atelydisguised beatnik north of the st lawrence seaway and all the rest of you charac ters to those retired gentlemen whose letters are a great pleas ure to receive whose criticisms and encouragement are salutory and warming just for example william graham retired rail roader of winnipeg- tor his blasts of fresh air hugh fergu son former newspaperman of florida for his clippings and comments andrew galloway retired banker of toronto for for a family spree such as keeping records pays oif cash operating expenses on ontarios family farms range from 5000 to 523000 this fact alone points out the importance of keeping and analyzing farm records says jack clark of the farm economics branch of the ontario department of agricul ture the best way to keep farm records is with an annual ac count book from the analysis of this book you can pick out the weak points and correct them making changes for a more profitable operation next year h you dont belong to a farm management association and there isnt one in your coumy clark suggests seeding the ac count books in to the econom ics department at the ontario agricultural college guelph for analysis records are of no value un less they are kept accurately and analyzed at the end of each year states claik timely tips tractor tire punctures ever puncture a tire that con tains liquid for extra weight jack up the wheel and turn the puncture to the top this will save most of the liquid dairy calves for beef with high beef prices many dairymen might find a profit able market for any extra for age and labor they have by keeping their bull calves and feeding them out to slaughter weights say livestock experts with the ontario dept of agri- cuture or if youre short of feed and building space you might sell them as yearling steers both these programs will probably be quite profit able until prices for choice steers get down to 20 and 21 per hundredweight electric hand saws when using an electric saw choose the right blade for the material to be sawed advises hal wright safety expert with the ontario department of ag riculture use only sharp blades and dont force the saw if the motor stalls pull back the saw before starting it again better tractor operation for quick tractor engine warm- up and operating efficiency in the winter try covering the radiator with a blanket or bur lap bags say agricultural engi neers with the ontario depart ment of agriculture remove the wrapping when the engine becomes warm to cut out con densation in the fuel system fill the fuel tank at night and run the engine until the carburetor is filled with fresh fuel magic hour the hoar at 13 p in becomes a marie mneat when it welcomes in a new year traditionally it is a time of gaiety and happiness and probably for longer than most mi vs can remember photographers have taken advantage of the occasion to picture a pretty ctrl in a pose similar to the one above happy new year to one and all lb 3b 9a can we makejfo a fresh start another year another start for some reason these four words seem to symbolize the thoughts of most of us when wc take the old calendar down from the wall and hang up the new as far as most of us are concerned the old year is dead and we need only concern ourselves with today and tomorrow another year another start nothing could be more truer but it is not a start from nowhere or from nothing wc begin this new year with the experience and knowledge that we gained in the old and in the older years before that we like to picture the new year as a babe brighteyed and ener getic brimming with confidence and enthusiasm quite a contrast to tiie bearded old man with a scythe who waited out the last minute of the old year this change in symbols is fair enough because it it a new thing and a new opportunity simply because it gives us the chance to try again to do belter so before we forget this old year completely let us look backward with an appraising eye we change the calendar with the new year but we cannot wipe the slate clean not in the truest sense wc ourselves do not change except for the fact that we are a bit older and should be a bit wiser we arc the same individuals that we were 365 days ago when we were won dering as we do now what the new year would bring to us welcome to the new year and to the lime that it will provide for doing bigger and greater things welcome the chance the oppor tunityto make the effort for progress and improvement but at the same time be thankful for the success and the failure that we knew in the year that is departed if we lived the old year wisely then perhaps we are prepared to make the most of tho new take time to think it is the source of power take time to play it is the secret of perpet ual youth take time to read it is this fountain of wisdom take time to love and be loved it is a godgiven privilege take time to be friendly it is the road to happiness take time to laugh it is the music of the soul take time to give it is too short a day to be selfish take time to work it is the price of success author unknown how children enjoy the hang ing of the new calendars on january first they have such attractive pictures in such love ly colors let them help you as you carefully extract a calendar from its container which has been mailed in a cardboard tube take them along with you when you pick up a calendar from some of the stores or the bank which you patronize a small child loves to help you choose the place on the walls where the new calendars are to hang before throwing out your last years calendars take a second look at them is there one which you like well enough to frame perhaps there is a picture or two you could put away to take to your summer cottage ii woodwork is a hobby of one of the members of the family and there is a fretsaw in good re pair why not glue one ot the smaller attractive pictures onto a piece of plywood make a puzzle design on the back and cut out the pieces even a puzzle pasted on heavy card board can provide good times for little fingers children like to pull off the page at the end of each month as well as take down the old calendars the numbers can be pasted on colored cardboard cards and mother can play a game with junior while he learns his numbers snap and find the numbers can be played by cutting out a set of cards and pasting a large num ber from a calendar in the cen tre of each a simplified domino game can easily be devised a large calendar on the kit chen wall where the schedule in connection with such chores as washing dishes is marked down at the first of each week saves many a hot argument it also is a good place to jot down plans attending a movie going on a hike visiting relatives etc the home unit needs to have fun together as well as cooperate in work and the calendar re minds the members of the fam ily to keep the family fun dates clear of other engagements one of the best ways to en courage a school age boy or girl to budget the use of time is a calendar on their own bedroom wall this often is even more efficient than a small diary for jotting down their activities and responsibilities such as wolf cub meeting deliver extra pa per to mrs jones or dead line for third book review re port children are full of questions and parents do well to encour age school age boys and girls to look up the answers to their own queries in the dictionary most public libraries include one or two attractive illustrated youth books of general infor mation for questioning minds and the modern encyclopedia sets are fascinating too people have always tried to measure time and men for cen turies have divided the days into 21 hours consisting of one night and one day this is the time span made by the revolu tion of the earth on its axis the year has been marked by the length of time the earth takes to go around the sun it is di vided into four seasons over four thousand years ago the chinese wet following their own lunar or moon calendar discovering information can be a really exciting adventure for a person of any age boys or girls usually enjoy a quiz parents are wise if they partici pate wholeheartedly in a family quiz from time to time why not encourage your child to make up his own calendar quiz some of the questions which might be asked arc where did we get our word calendar from the romans what special name is given to the calendar we use gregorian aftei pope gregory xiii he directed an astronomer in naples to devise a new calendar in the sixteenth century what are some of the other people who have had their own calendars jewish mohamme dan hindu persian chinese what would be one of the unique features of a world or perpetual calendar which isi happy new year in all languages nowadays it is possible to buy greeting cards which extend new year wishes in several languages this modern development is a convenience for those who send greetings to friends in the old country wherever that country happens to be should you be sending a card to friends in paris the greeting would be bonne aneel in spanish the greeting is feliz ano nuevo and in sunny italy buon cano dannel ein gleucklichcs neuea jahr is the salutation one might send or receive from friends to germany whatever lite language hie words happy new year repre sent only the best of wishes for the year ahead senator soaper says middle age is when one decides there is no point to wailing for some one important to drop in so the family might as well start using the good silver and chinaware ii seems were all collectors of rare coins the ones minted to day sunday school lesson lesson for january 3 launching out on a world mission acts 13 golden text and lliat repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations luke 2447 the lesson as a whole approach to the lesson acts 13 marks another turn ing point in the early history of the church it is appropriate that we study it on the first sunday of the new year the lord jesus had told his disciples that empowered by the holy spirit they would be his witnesses in everwidening geo graphical areas 118 now the third final area is reached unto the uttermost part of the earth the gospel message is no longer confined to the bor ders of palestine and syria a missionary team is sent forth to reach the world with the mes sage of redemption the way had been paved for this forward step peters vision on the housetop had made it clear that unclean gentiles as well as clean jews were to receive the gospel the subse quent conversion of cornelius gentile household 104448 had proved that this was the divine plan moreover the persecution of believers in jerusalem had scattered the saints northward into the midst of the gentilss 1119 20 a church had been established in antloch of syria a predominantly gentile city 1126 believers there had been grounded in the word of god and given an insight into the worlds desperate need of christ the vcty men to move out into new territories were at hand barnabas was famed for his powers of exhortation saul was a pioneer preacher teacher and theologian john mark re lated to barnabas col 410 seemed qualified as an assistant acts 135 all that was needed was the command of the spirit of god 132 and a farreach ing venture of faith would be launched the heart of the lesson antioch in syria was an im portant strategic center its pop ulation was large the oppor tunity it afforded for gospel preaching was immense surely more workers for god were needed in the city yet the holy ghost said separate me barna bas and saul acts 13 teaches us basic les sons concerning the world mis sion of the church first gods plan is not that his witnesses should concentrate indefinitely in large communities but thai they should press out into new fields white to harvest second the pagan religions of cyprus pamphylia and cilicia were no substitute for the sav ing gospel of christ the be lievers in antioch had no use for the pleasant but false adage let everyone get to heaven in his own way third the sponsor of true world missions is the holy spir it he enlarges the vision of the saints summons them to action calls out and commissions his workers 132 and seals the missionary enterprise with his blessing fourth the sending agency which remains at home must consist of men of prayer conse cration genuine interest in the work and spiritual power fifth the theme of the mis sionary message is ever the same note pauls careful use of the scriptures verses 1722 his fearless presentation of christ verses 2337 his insist ence that through the lord je sus are found forgiveness of sins and justification verses 38 39 and his passionate plea to his hearers verses 40 41 sixth faithful heralds of the cross may expect satanlc oppo sition verses 811 a divided reaction verses 4248 and pos sibly actual persecution v 50 seventh in spite of all odds nothing brings more sheer joy than the gospel of christ v 52 sometimes advocated the year would have more balanced divi sions into quarters the last day of the year would be called year end day and be dedicated to peace and international friendship copyright your chances of safety are better in an auto that wont start than in one that wont stop at the proper time to papcrhangers there should always be rooms for improve ment