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pk 1 the stouffvule ttlbuhe tharcdiy imary 24 1963 editorial no quitters on this club fighting a cold war without a warhead a group of stouffville and dist rict girls have joined forces to ice a hockey club here this winter over the years we have been associated with many hockey teams of varied calibre but never have we witnessed the enthusiasm that is displayed by these local lassies many of their male counterparts would do well to take a lesson or two from this entry la a recent game with ajax they were beaten by a score of 180 were they downhearted or discouraged not in the least in fact they had no sooner entered the confines of ths dressing room than they were making arrangements for a return tilt to date they have taken part in five horrie contests they have won only two but their ranks instead of lessen- a great way to the recent glassco commission headed by j g glassco of maple who may be the next local pc candidate has come up with some information on the operation of the federal gov ernment which shows it to be about as inefficient as any business could be in fact if any private business operated in the same manner it would not last six months waste in purchasing was one of the chief targets of the report huge costs are created by unnecessary red tape for every 100 purchase the salary of purchasing personnel was s134 some departments were re vealed to have no less than 38 steps to process one purchase order in many cases the left hand didnt know what the right hand was doing an example was one department buying ing in numbers have continued to increase last week before the larg est crowd of the season sixteen play ers donned the stouffville colours girls hockey although novel to many is not entirely new to stouff ville a couple of decades ago the local ice lanes were graced by such speedsters as blanche fern gertie and ella slack vi and xelda lehman ruth nendick dorothy lotton marg schmidt aggie lotton and several more they performed in a league with uxbridge and markham difficult as it may be to under stand the girls have come out of athletic obscurity to whip up a new menu of entertainment that stouff ville spectators have found to their liking run a business lubricating oil for 2 a gallon while another paid 47c the management and procuring of federal property also came in for an overhaul the government now owns s4000000000 worth and this is increasing at the rate of 300000- 000 a year the report strongly recommends adopting business principles to gov ernment affairs the report reads as follows no large private company could long survive if it practised the waste and extravagance in operations which is condoned by the federal government the commission has done a good job in pointing up how canadas affairs could be administered more efficiently and economically no time should be lost in implementing its recommendations step by step keep it in the council last week a solicitor represent ative of a district farmer organiza tion attended a regular meeting of pickering twp council although scheduled as the number one spokes man on the evenings agenda the delegate elected to address his remarks in private to the reeve rather than submit his request in public before the entire council assembly the submission minor in im portance might have passed un challenged but thf deputyreeve was quick to criticize the practice it was the principle of the thing that was all wrong any matter that would bring a deputation to the council chambers still hoping for john addison federal member of parliament for york north is con tinuing to bend his efforts for a rail way commuter service to serve his constituency although there was a great outcry when the local passenger train service was withdrawn we have heard little in the way of protest murmurs since that time so far as stouffville was concerned it seemed doubtful as to just how many resi dents would use such a service if it were instigated the chief reason was the fact that a commuter service which dumped people off to the union station left workers with many miles still to travel to reach their work destination unless one worked in downtown toronto the service seemed of little value a great many of those requiring the transportation are bound for points in scarboro west toronto and even malton however wo are only speaking for stouffville proper and the poll now being conducted by the local member may turn up some interesting facts about the hundreds of others who live in the nearby surrounding town ships in a questionnaire sent out last week to the residents of the riding mr addison has asked for answers to eight questions concerning the pro posed service the questions are as follows 1 would you be in favour of a rail commuter service 2 what is the name of your nearest conven ient railway station 3 how often would you use thi3 service 4 at what time would you want to arrive at tho union station in downtown toronto 5 what fare would you be prepared to pay for a round trip 6if weekly commuter rates were is suggestive of an issue that should be aired before not one but all members not in private but in public the reeve in trying to be cooperative was placed in a rather embarrassing position the deputyreeve inferred that similar practices of this kind had occurred in the past we personally can see nothing wrong with a rate payer presenting a problem to his ward representative via the tele phone or the back line fence to in turn have it reintroduced in council we feel however that when a party makes an appoint ment to be heard in public and takes the trouble to attend then his wishes should be openly revealed commuter service available what would you be prepared to pay for a round trip 7 would a monday to friday inclusive sched ule be sufficient 8 a map of york north riding is shown on this ques tionnaire would you please mark your residential area so that the planners may know where the poten tial traffic exists president donald gordon recent ly told the house of commons railway committee that the new marshalling yards would permit additional com muter service into the city within two years however he said that any commuter service would need some form of financial assistance from both metro and the province mr gordon said that one of the main stumbling blocks has been the refusal of the city to subsidize any form of commuter service mr addisons questionnaire should play an important role in ac quiring information towards some new form of rail service if the public demand is sufficient certainly it is a much safer and saner way to travel into the heart of the city than bat tling the heavy traffic twice a day however we are not in favour of subdjcr and believe that any such service should be put on the rails at a figure that would allow it to pay its way for this reason we did not protest the railway withdrawing the service that it formerly operated the company proved it was losing thousands of dollars annually on the local run and we the public had to fork over tax morey each year to cover this loss were all in favour of a service if it is sufficiently patronized to pay its way but not a subsidized operation for office supplies and business machines see the stouffville tribune phone 6402100 6402101 mfj the svayi by anne boss i wonder how many of us as parents realize the advantage of raising our children in stouffville do we appreciate the efforts of the churches the schools the service clubs the police force which combined make this an active whole some place for young people do we ever express our thanks to the enthusiastic coaches who give our boys the opportunity to learn to be hockey players and good sports to the devoted leaders of cubs and scouts brownies and guides cgit and other church groups to the dedicated sunday school teachers all these people give their time and effort in the interests of our young people do we appreciate the continuing efforts of stouffville lions club who under write the costs of maintaining the hockey teams who sponsor the public speaking competitions who provided us with a fine swimming pool in its beautiful park setting among their many community projects how many of us stopped to consider the look of main street at christmas time those lighted christmas trees in their gay red planners and the quaint home for santa were contributed for our pleasure by the merchants of stouitville not all of them to be sure but enough progressivethinking business people who justified their pride in their home town by creating a christmas atmosphere for all of us on main street taken for granted yet we tend to take these contributions for granted dont we just as we take our quiet nighttime streets for granted all we need to do to appreciate our own good fortune is to visit some of the downtown streets of toronto and we are scandalized that little tads of eight or ten are running around on their own looking for mischief teen agers are to be found in dingy restaurants and taverns and seedylooking adults hanging around keeping a jaundiced eye on the night scene there are not many parents any where in canada who can watch their children growing up with the freedom from worry and the confidence that all is right in their world as we do in stouffville where at any hour of the day or night we are pretty certain of where our children are and what they are doing this doesnt mean of course that we wrap ourselves in a cocoon of complacency and unconcern parents always have and always will have to keep a finger in the pie of their offsprings activities and whereabouts and concern themselves with the kind of com panions with whom they associate but with vigilance and a trust in our fellowparents we in stouffville can maintain the standard of social behaviour that now exists because other parents before us established a pattern of good conduct and wholesome good time for the children of the village certainly we have an element of troublemakers around town at times but more often than not these unsavory characters are not residents but are here for an hour or two to stir up trouble if they can a fine town stouffville is a fine town for young people at least from a parents standpoint id like to hear what the young folks themselves think of it but any town is only as good as its people and the good homes they maintain what makes a good home well id say a good home is a place that produces happy welladjusted people who can make a good job of the complex business of living many studies have been made on family life and its effect on children and the general conclusion is that there is nothing more important in the development of the child than the home the kind of person he will become depends to a very large extent on the kind of family to which he belongs the church has its place the school its place in the development of a child but its the home that really has the greatest influence a good home is characterized by a set of values which provide s basis for a moral standard living the parents establish values and ideals and practice them so the children automatically accept these standards and usually adopt them children are not made truthful polite kindly tolerant or orderly by mere teaching they learn by a kind of absorption as a sponge soaks up water parents influence their children more by what they are than by any training pro gram children develop best in homes where personal relations are more important than possessions there are some homes where furnishings seem to be given greater care and con sideration than people families and homes arc what we make them and the degree of success that we parents achieve in making a happy home will determine to a very large extent the kind of people our children will become and the kind of life they will strive for a good home is whre ovi and kindliness and courtesy reign these are the homes we have found in stouffville sunday school lesson golden text if any man have ears to hear let him hear mark 423 approach to the lesson the legs of a lame man hang loose so is a parable in the mouths of fools that is as a lame mans legs are use less for walking so to a fool a parable is useless for teach ing a parable is an earthly story with a heavenly mean ing and if we are foolish enough but to catch the earthly words and miss the heavenly significance it is vain christs parables are of tre mendous importance to the christian for he enshrined a great deal of his teaching in them so if our minds are clos ed in this direction we inevit ably miss much that he has to say to think of the areasof our lives touched by the par ablesour time talents future and the like is to realize how spiritually ignorant is the per son who fails to understand them the parable says dr campbell morgan is ever the open door to the mystery of the kingdom of god if men will consider a picture and en quire he will always answer heart of the lesson in spiritual things whoso ever hath to him shall be given and he shall have more abundance but whosoever hath not from him shall be taken even that he hath god de mands spiritual response before further relevation is granted and just as any other gift of god can atrophy through dis use so can our capacity to listen to him and receive his gifts the responsibility of hearing is a great one and the neglect to respond not only car- lies its own severe loss but shuts the door on further rele vation the danger of a mixture of liquor and gasoline is doubled when a juvenile driver is add ed the stouffville tribune phone 6402100 tehc stoufhrillc fertbuiip y established 1sk member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontario weekly newspapers association authorised onslii ntll xolaffict o t ottawa member of the audit bureau of circulations issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada s350 elsewhere s450 c h nolan publisher jas thomas editor jas mckean advertising sugar and spice gscm by bill smiley tk do you loathe winter with all the intensity of vour soul do you consider that it is fit only for eskimoesand abominal snowmen does your spirit shrink into a cold little gray lump somewhere in the vicinity of your liver when it snows again does your heart grow hard with hatred when the mercury drops do you shriek lady at you little ones when they corns in plastered with snow just seven minutes after you have spent half an hour bundling them up to go out and they whimper mum i haf ta weewee do you take the name of the lord in vain sir every time you go out in the morning and discover that the holy old jumpin jeezly snowplow has dumped the dally 10ton donation into your driveway do you wonder when you receive your oil bill if they have got your bill mixed up with that of the chateau laurier do you develop a deep seething hostility toward old friends who announce they are off for a holiday in the south do your bones ache your joints creak your eyes water these days do you resent getting up in what seems to be the middle of the night to go to work if the answer to ail these questions is a screaming homicidal yes you may relax friend and neighbour you are neither neurotic nor odd perverse nor peculiar theres not a thing wrong with you you are a typical normal average and honest canadian you have not only my sympathy but my understanding i used to be one of you ive been through the lot for 40- odd years i was a plodder through slush a huncher of shoulders against blizzards a snarling payor of fuel bills a blasphemous scraper of ice on windshields with my finger nails because my blasted scraper was missing oh yes i was one of you miserable wretches a bent- backed slave chopping ice off the steps a terrified knocker- down of big icicles a puffing purveyor of garbage cans through snowdrifts a furious shoveller of driveways a bark ing seal when that frosty morning air first hit the tattered lungs an envious despiscr of the birds with enough money to migrate into the sun but im sorry old buddies ive left you thats all behind im on the other side now i got sick of being a rabbit and decided to run with the hounds as a result a whole new life has opened for me now i dance blithely to the window at first light to see whether anything fell during the night i clap my hands and cry goody when i see that big fresh pile of white stuff in the driveway i grumble when the temperature rises i complain bitterly when nothing white falls from heaven in two days i grouch about the winter being so short i sincerely pity those who have fled to the tropics whats happened ive been skiing yes sir they jjol the old man out on the skinny sticks last saturday and ho made it down the little kids hill twice without falling that was on the 14th and 21st runs oh they laughed when i sat down the minute i stood up on the things but they werent laughing an hour later when i whizzed down the slope yelling scheiss or what ever it is skiers yell bowling over fiveyearolds like five- pins and taking those eight and 10inch jumps- as though id been born within yodelling range of the matterhorn it started out as a mere effort to find out why i bought about a half interest in a sports shop at christmas for the kids i started out wearing my golf pants over my deer hunting underwear and my old fishing jacket over my curling sweater by the end of lie day i was ready o soil my golf clubs try to get a refund from the curling flub imil attempt to trade in my wndcrs and my shotgun it i could only have one of those brilliant sweaters and pair of those bullfighters pants like the other skiers and sit around in the chalet drinking coffee with tho best of them no more grumbling about winter no more hatred of snow no more longing for spring you should try it we skiers are hooked but happy in fact i liked my first time out so well that i can scarcely wait for next winter or maybe the one after to try it again diary of a vagabond by dorothy barker a small boys need a little boy with the blgmannamc of scott peter turner wrote to the president of the united states protesting the bulldozing of his special canyon for hunting lizards this deed he said was in preparation for a new subdivision scott wrote dear mr president we have no place to go when we want to go out in the canyon becaus there ar going to build houses so could you setasiede some land where we could play thank you for lisening love scott his father added a postscript to his sons appeal in building our progressive world of supervised play and sterilized playthings we seem to have forgotten that a youth needs trees and frogs and earth with ants in it and time for uninterrupted observations of the path he treads isnt it nostalgically sad when in an era of seemingly intellectual advancement and highly civilized progress a little boy cant find a place to play more iteasons than one this is the answer to a query so often expressed to me why do you live on the edge of those wooded acres wllh only the denizens of swamp creek and trees with which to fraternize we bought these eight acres which by the way arc now almost entirely surrounded by new homes to give our two boys a place to play they built tree huts captured fire flies in jars with pierced lids so the bugs can breathe bottled polywogs and crayfish from the creek and dangled worms over their sandwiches purposely just to hear me scream i think the reason i still live here is twofold the next generation s just beginning to grow into that lanky age when to be alone in a tree hut or to lie on a bed of weeds or snow and gaze at a blue sky is just as important to them as tomorrows breakfast they cannot do this in their well planned subdivision homes i am sure they do not think of this grandmother in the old fashioned way as a font of homemade cookies and pie when they head this way their hunting instinct is always at a fever pitch as they tumble out of their parents car and head for the swamp with hardly a hasty hello thrown my way i can expect my supply of ompty jam jars will be raided within minutes and for days after they have re turned to riding their bikes around the crescents of their home moorings i will be battling an invasion of ants and flushing down the toilet dead creatures of nature made captive and forgotten and the second reason i am domiciled on a country lane watching a red squirrel on his forage mission springing from tree to tree or the shadow of rabbit tracks in moonlit snow the mating song of bullfrogs in spring and the crickets persistent click click in fall can thrill me far more than the whirr of an elevator in a big apartment building or the hum of traffic on city street