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tt 2 the stoubyiiie tribune tfcrafar hat 7 w62 jeditorial hardly a representative turnout dday eighteen years later the stouffviue home and school association could have drawn its final breath on wednesday evening and only 35 parents cared enough to attend this was not any routine humdrum gettogether but an emer gent meeting that was adequately publicized through personal letters and a frontpage story in this news paper in spite of the doordie ur gency of the matter less than 50 per cent of the membership was present the rather surprising part of this parentteacher organization is the small number of parents who are enrolled with more than 600 boys and girls in the two schools the parental representation would appear a little low according to the records the membership has diminished by almost 50 per cent in three years with the continuous influx of new pupils and higher attendance figures the home and school membership scale should go up rather than down we would suggest that the new executive should embark on a drive to regain more parental support then make their meetings sufficiently con structive to retain that newfound interest could be a policing problem if the pickering twp council should write sunday dancing into its sport or theatrical bylaws we feel that they will be opening a door to a policing problem that could be be yond the scope of the present muni cipal force to handle since no specific types of enter tainment were written into the ques tions that were placed before the electorate last december we would contend that the council would be in a position to either approve or reject such an application in the one case that has already come before the courts the chief of police has described the type of riff raff patrons that are attracted to these places a large per centage of these undesirables come from out side the township by making sun day dancing legal the influx of ques tionable characters could increase ten fold this could result in increased police personnel which in turn cre ates an added burden on the tax payer we feel that the park owners and operators themselves are being penny wise and pound foolish sure a few more dimes will be pocketed but the reputation of their premises will not be enhanced by promoting such offbeat programs any respect able clientele will certainly seek other centres in this way everyone loses the owner the township and the tax payer the gullible voters it is late spring the time of year once more when doortodoor sales men peddling things of doubtful value plague every community these salesmen usually make only one sweep of a territory since once their product is found out they dare not face the same customers again most householders caught once by such travellers are usually less gullible but the voter never seems to lose his innocence the politicians can still persuade him no matter how often he has been fooled before that his future happiness and prosperity will be assured if only he votes for the party advocating more expendi tures on health welfare oldage pen sions or whatever seems most popu lar at the moment meeting the everincreasing battle of retail store competition and the ever lasting struggle for the customers dollar came to the fore locally this week as a number of stouffviue mer chants announced that they would keep their places of business open on thursday as well as friday evenings discount stores shopping cen tres with their dozens of new gim micks to win customers have added great pressure to the retail business competition they have made the independent store owner on main streets throughout ontario and for that matter all across the nation tike a closer look at his service his prices his ways of doing business in an effort to meet this new rising competition many argue that little can be done to hold business that many householders will be caught by the gitter of the new stores and leave the old stands no matter what is done this is only partly true many will go we know but fewer will go if true many do realize and have their eyes opened they may switch their votes although with all parties offering the same bribes they may refrain from voting which still does no good fortunately for the politicians a new crop of voters is available for every election just as gullible as their fathers were before them bet ter educational facilities today should make them better able to detect the fallacies in political speeches but the holy innocence which prevails seems to still prevent a great many from seeing the truth that truth is that no government can spend money on any scheme without taking it from the taxpayers present and future and the new voters should remember this point as they belong to both classes y competition the longestablished merchants put forth some effort to maintain busi ness to advertise wherever possible competitive prices and to show a genuine interest in providing cus tomer convenience this is what is being done in stouffviue as well as many other ontario towns merchants promo tion of last week crowded the town on the weekend cutdown price at tractions were offered on every hand and on top of this it was announced that throughout the summer at least many more stores would be open thursday as well as friday evenings local merchants are showing a real up and at em attitude in this new era of competitive marketing and for their efforts they are to be com mended and should be patronized stouffviue is a most attractive community in which to live but with out the big share of taxes paid by the main st merchants many of the services and facilities we enjoy would not be possible what is a customer a customer is the most import ant person in any business he is not dependent on us we are dependent on him he is not an interruption of our work he is the purpose of it he does us a favour when he calls we are not doing him a favour by serving him he is part of our business not an outsider he is not a cold statistic he is a flesh and blood human being with feelings and emotions like our own he is not someone to argue or match wits with he is a person who brings us his wants it is our job to fill these wants he is deserving of the most courteous and attentive treatment we can give him he is the fellow that makes it possible to pay your salary whether you are a truck driver plant em ployee office employee salesman or manager he is the lifeblood of this and every other business t jtcuffmlb rtbutu bstablishzd iso a v nolan son publishers uember of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontario weekly newspapers association aitbarim mcoaaoua mth ranebet dpl ottawa member of the audit bureau of circulations issued every thursday at stouffviue ont in canada 350 elsewhere 450 c a n0uh mfeta us thomas editor ixs jlcxeah adrirtbiat on the farm front for parents osiltj the rebels against authority a preschool youngster who was an expert in rebelling against authority was described in the press some time ago when the superintendent in the canadian orphanage in which he lived asked for a months rest one day this lad slipped into the kitchen and scooped out the middle of a birthday cake an other night he threw the forty childrens shoes out the front window into the mud below he broke a toilet bowl when he hurled a heavy stone into it poking holes through screens breaking windows and sending the christmas tree lights crash ing have been among his activ ities when he had the chance he took a bicycle apart just to keep life interesting for the su perintendent he delighted in climbing out topstorey win dows and balancing on the high roof no wonder she needed a change of scene most parents have to deal with occasional flareups of re bellion against their authority if dr hilda neatby author of so little for the mind was struggling with the problems of raising a family she might not point such an accusing fin ger at parents who enforce rules uneasily and with bad con science what if junior flatly disobeys a rule if at all possible he should suffer the natural con sequences of his disobedience if he hits his chum over the head with a shovel when play ing in the sand pile then he must play alone if he is so slow in coming when father calls to him intending to take him for a ride in the car then he misses the ride it many inconvenience a par ent at an awkward time to make sure that junior discovers that a rule must be followed but in the long run this is something he must learn and the younger he learns it the better for every one when youngsters enter adol escence they usually rebel ag ainst external authority they still need a parents guiding hand in some matters but more and more they should be trusted to direct their own actions teenagers are much more will ing to conform to unpopular rules about the use of the tele phone or the hour of coming in at night after a party if they have discussed these with their parents what the gang does is of great importance to an ado lescent often parents must be content with a compromise be tween what they desire and what is the accepted procedure of their childs chums todays rules cannot just be a repetition of those followed by mother and dad when they were young ah through childhood and youth parents must look at their children as individuals each youngster is different and no one set of rules will fit each one of them parents must also be a bit flexible tom at 10 may be safe enough going on a bike hike with his pals while marg aret at 10 might be in real dan ger of an accident if the traffic on the highway was heavy it is the spirit behind the mak- flng and observing of a rule which really matters if there is real affection and understand ing and imagination on the part of both adults and children in a family the matter of rules will not be a perpetual battle ground the golden rule which was golden 2000 years ago is still golden in the twentieth century therefore all things whatso ever ye would that men should do to you do ye even so to them the tragic thing is that it is so soldom the guiding light in relations between individuals even in a family as a modern observer has pointed out this way of life has not been tried and found to be a failure it just hasnt been tried what better place is there to try the golden rule than in your home copyrighted a a wall agricultural rep reaentatlve for york county with haying just around the corner a significant change takes place in farm work more machines will be in use as soon as it starts and the pressure is on everyone to get as much hay saved every day as possible farm machinery and farm pro duce are also moving on roads and highways a great deal more in the summer season these things all add up to a very greatly increased farm accident hazard with farm boys and girls out of school and operat ing a great many farm ma chines the accident danger is also greater the york county farm safety council has under taken a very ambitious project to help farmers avoid accidents posters have been prepared to remind farm people of the most serious hazards there are five different post ers and the council plan is to have a complete set of these put on every farm in york county accident reporters who per formed so well in the 1959 sur vey are in action again they will be distributing the posters in their own school sections i hope that every farmer will take a few minutes to put these posters up in prominent places around the farm buildings and homes they will help to keep everyone on the alert and avoid accidents an idea on maintaining alf alfa stands has been going ar ound for the last few years it is that the alfalfa can be abused to some extent mainly by pas turing in sept and still main tained by using extra fertilizer we have had a crop improve ment demonstration going on this for the last two years it would have been very nice to have found out that with extra fertilizer alfalfa stands could be used for pasture in septem ber when pasture is needed so badly unfortunately this one demonstration did not support this theory even with extra fertilizer the part of the field that was pastured last fall has a much poorer stand of alfalfa this spring than the remainder of the field that was properly rested last fall york county jersey breeders had a good show last saturday at richmond hill fair premier breeder and exhibitor awards were both won by alfred bagg sons as was the champion ship in the bull classes in the cow classes the championship went to mordale dreamers minnie a mature cow bred and exhibited by cecil mortson sons of queensville other ex hibitors were don head farms k e haas vaughan acres- farm and miss helen baker editors mail sugar and spice lyffiaixgi b bill smile rannsoal a fellow suggested i write a column this week about the elec tion you know the sort of thing he said airily diefen- baker drivel pearson poppy cock douglas dribble its all very well for him but its not so easy for a columnist who is scared stiff of offending his readers besides im not that type of fellow i have enough faults of my own without picking holes in dedicated chaps who are ready and willing to give away every nickel they can squeeze out of us why should i admit that ev ery time diet shakes his wattles at me on the television i almost burst out laughing why should i confess that each time mike lisps another platitude i plunge into despair why should i come right out and state blunt ly that tommys folksy manner and carefully studied anecdotes bore me rigid theres another character ar ound there somewhere called johnson or swanscn or gomp- son or something but i havent seen much of him and i dont know much about the crucial septic party or whatever they call it hes the bestlooking one of the lot but i quit voting for the bestlocking candidates in my last year in high school m every day i read the papers and try to ascertain whos ahead and every day i become more confused all they tell me is that diefenbaker is gathering momentum pearson is gaining strength douglas is rolling them in the alse out west and the crucial septic chap is pack ing them in dowr in quebec 9 as for platforms they are even more confusing the whole thing reminds me of one of those three stooges comedies one of the parties nails a plank into his platform as soon as he turns his back to get another plank one of the other comed ians walks away with the one he has just nailed down while each of the three is trying to build a platform with planks swiped from the others their idiot cousin is down in the base ment constructing a massive platform which he will never be able to get either out of the cellar window or up the cellar stairs the giveaway programs have also become inextricably inter woven by this time i havent a clue as to which party is giving the biggest old age pension which is giving away free medi cine which is going to reduce taxes or which is going to end unemployment by sending all the unemployed to school and paying them a salary to go about all that i have been able to gather in concrete form as the whirlwind campaign kicks up the chaff is that all parties are in favor of the com mon man and motherhood and that all parties are against war lung cancer sin crop failures and the other three parties we were trying to sort things out at the dinner table the other night my son who is 14 came up with the idea that suggests he might have a brilliant politi cal future he thought one party should offer a national pension of one dollar a month for each jcar of your age this would eliminate a lot of the squabbling over the oldage pension of course to get it go ing on the right foot wed throw out the baby bonus those kids are getting so much money when theyre little that most of them are ruined by the time theyre about six years old then wed give everybody a straight dollar a month per birthday if you were 7 youd get seven smackers a month if you were 84 youd get 84 a month what could be more fair and its the only thing ive ever heard of that might ease women over that 39mark gracefully and that seems to be my only solid contribution until i can spend another week or so anal yzing the campaign lets sec now if we can get things strai ghtened out a bit before we leave it the socialists are indeepee the crucial scptlcs are going o put the dollar back up to uhat its worth fifty cents the liberals living up to their name arc going to give away everything that isnt nailed down the tories are going to run on their record and bro ther theyd better get their track shoes on by george it is a lot clearer when you just sit down and fort of think about it for a few min utes unt it toronto scottish regiment fort york armoury toronto to the editor dear sir on behalf of the toronto scot tish regiment i am attempting to locate all former members of the 75th battalion and the tor onto scottish regiment who may be living in your area we would like all former members of the regiment to send their names and addresses to the orderly room toronto scottish regiment fort york armories toronto they are also invited to at tend a dance at the armories on saturday evening june 16th to recognize the visit to toronto of her royal highness queen elizabeth the queen mother colonelinchief of the regi ment with every good wish d r mckillican major ajax warworkers to come out and renew old acquaintances at cedar st park in ajax on sun day june 24th from 130 pm please bring picnic basket for lunch at 4 pm beverage is pro vided fun for the whole fam ily sec of dil reunion assn yours sincerely mrs louise johnson 51 glynn rd ajax ont may 24 1962 to the editors stouffviue tribune dear sir at the termination of world war 2 when defence industries ltd in ajax ceased operations and life for many people return ed to normal ajax was in dan ger of becoming a ghost town as people moved nearer to their place of employment the years have passed and in spite of the shaky beginning the town is now a thriving com munity of over 8000 with high hopes for a bright future a few former dil employ ees have been working together to provide a meeting place for all former ajax warworkers each yeai the dil reunion assoc is now a chartered group and is sponsoring their 4th an nual picnic in june through the medium of your paper we would like to invite all former stouffviue ont june 2 1962 editor the tribune dear sir as a member of last years executive i was disappointed in the disinterest shown by the parents of stouffviue for our home and school and its future i now believe that neither a parents group nor home and school are considered necessary by the parents of this town there were approximately 38 people present last wednesday evening they were 1 reporter 2 principals 3 teachers 8 mem bers or supporters of past exec utives who didnt want to see home and school fail 7 mem bers o the 196162 executive members who had accepted no minations in the 196263 execu tive 2 officials from the ontario federation of home and school plus one guest this leaves about 10 people who had not previously held office who were interested enough to attend this meeting this apathy discouraged the last executive and will be a challenge for the new executive i have supported home and school in the past and will con tinue to do so i feel that mrs gresham will be a fine presi dent and i hope that the parents of stouffviue will show renewed interest in home and school in the fall let us all join forces to give home and school one more try yours truly i mrs g ruth birkett new vinyl sheet protectors coloured and clear fit loose leaf binder or note book for student or businessman just the thing to protect those notes or busi ness presentation choice of six colours see them at the stouffviue tribune ifti saveal qzbrnk the bank of novo scotia