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3 th stouf wwhl twy april 23 63 editorial ratepayers wouldnt object ratepayer throughout ontario would not object if the ontario gov ernment brought down legislation which would make school board pending subject to a veto by muni cipal councils this is one of the recommendations of the ontario gov ernments special committee studying the ontario municipal act school boards are undoubtedly upset at the suggestion that the con trol of their budgets may be ques tioned here in stouffville while the achool costs have forced the tax rate up our knowledge of school board business gained through attendance at board meetings leads us to believe that there was no possible chance to cut down on the local budgets this could not be said for all boards throughout the province school costs have reached the stage where municipal councils find it sometimes difficult to provide funds for all the other necessary services in the larger centres thousands of dollars have been included in the bud gets for frills which have no connec tion with education the municipal council must levy the taxes for these expenditures and take the blame for the rising mill rate this understand ably has provoked councils into seek ing some type of legislation to curb expenditures the recommendation to allow councils to vote the school budget would not be left entirely arbitrary but would have to be justified by th department of municipal affairs markham township council may quite well feel strongly on this point since it was told by the chairman of one of its largest school boards that education costs should not be stifled by thoughts of rising taxes in the case of public school boards the members are elected and are for the most part conscientious citizens there is seldom any great scramble for the board seats as there is no pay connected with the job nevertheless some members feel that large expenditures spent in the name of education are quite permissible while a councillor might hesitate to spend the same amount of money for such needed services as sewers school board members can point out that they are serving the public for nothing so the public should not com plain however we doubt that the pub lic is so minded and though the school boards are responsible to the rate payers they do not levy the taxes for their expenditures and we think ths public would be fully in accord with giving councils the power of veto subject to departmental approval scorn going steady scorned by educationists and columnists both sides of the border the steady dating by teenagers has earned harsh words from a district magistrate as well parents should wake up to the fact that too many wedding engage ments among young people today are nothing more than a matter of going steady until the girl becomes preg nant the magistrate is quoted in a recent court case regardless of the origin of this custom which by now would be hard to ascertain anyway the matter is not quite that simple parents them selves with few exceptions are only too well aware of the dangers of steady dating which seems to have become an accepted teenage way of social life they dont approve of it but there are certain limits it appears as to how far parental authority can be stretched nowadays the argument that is raised from the teenagers and one that seemingly is forceful enough for the parents to relent their stand is that the custom is generally accepted even if they would be determined to set the standards for their teenage daughters and sons parents know only too well what a problem it is to turn against the tide thus the magic circle continues the parents can very well anticipate the painful consequences but they just dont dare to intervene the teenagers of course act in good faith until it is sometimes too late the wrangle about who should take the first step in the one proper direction will go on the record of parental heartbreak and teenage marriage breakdowns will also con tinue why start at the top last week harry heatherington former stouffville police constable announced publicly that he would aspire to the position of reeve at the forthcoming nominations in novem ber the suggested bid for the top apot on the local municipal ladder ap parently caught the majority of the towns electorate by complete sur prise and if nothing else has fo- cussed considerable attention on the 1963 elections eight months in ad vance to run for reeve is mr heather- ingtons democratic right and privil ege we and no doubt many others are asking themselves this question why start at the top mr timbers the present council head did not acquire his knowledge of municipal affairs over night and the same may be said for his pre decessors with this thought in mind we would suggest that in all fairness to himself and to the people whom he might be privileged to serve mr heatherington would be well advised to start his climb from a lower level tide has turned ever since the last war canad ians have become notable travellers going everywhere except to other parts of canada a survey showed that 25 of all canadians had never visited in any other province outside the one in which they resided each year canadian funds were poured into florida at an increasing rate as a twoweek vacation in the sun be came more and more popular both the united states and europe with discounted currencies eemed more attractive to canadians than a visit to a neighboring pro vince canadian tourist establish ments became aware that they were getting a smaller and smaller share of business from their own native- born citizens for the first time last year this tide has shown a change undoubted ly the jittery financial situation in ottawa with the devaluation of the canadian dollar accounted for the move the latest survey shows that in 1962 more canadians visited in other parts of their own country than in miami and paris their money was worth more at home ontario and quebec license plates outnumber ed american in the maritime pro vinces as well as in quebec for office supplies see the tribune established hit member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontario weekly newspapers association asttsorucd ti sccondclu mill poitofie dpl ottawa member of the audit bureau of circulations issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada 350 elsewhere 450 c h nolan publisher jas thomas editor ms mckean adtertiflnr 6 sa sugar and spice by bill smile i only hope he has enough fuel to last four years liberals ho in 59 year now that the april 8 federal election is over it is interesting to observe the voting record of york north since its inception in 1904 during the past 59 years it has been represented at ottawa by liberals for 35 years of that time and by the conservatives during 24 years during the past nearly six decades york north has been represented by three cabinet ministers and a national leader sir allan aylesworth and both mu locks grandfather and grandson served in liberal cabinets former prime minister mackenzie king contested the 1917 1921 and 1925 federal elec tions as the liberal candidate for york north although the federal riding cf north york has only been represented by liberals and conservatives the provincial riding was represented on one by the anne boss next sunday at 2 am we go on daylight saving time again and so we must set our clocks and watches ahead no back no which is it lets see i know in the spring i lose an hours sleep and in the fall i get an extra hour to sleep so that means if 1 get up at 7 oclock next sunday its really only 6 so now i have it we set our time ahead an hour would you belive it while writing this i had to turn the hands on my watch to be sure of bein right and editor please correct me if im wrong times such a confusing thing not only because we seem to have so little of it but it has a nasty tendency to always be quite incomprehensible like which is the first day of a new century january 1st in the year 2000 or january 1st 2001 oh well someone brainier than i will figure that one and by the turn ot the century i expect ill be somewhere where i wont much care anyhow sir is although most of us are stayathomes we are all of us aware that air travel has made this world of ours a pretty small place in terms of time at least and now with jet service one can travel around the world not in the unbelicv able 80 days of phineas fogg but in a matter of hours of course there arent too many of us who are likely to be privileged to take a trip around the world in 80 hours or so days for that matter but one aspect of such a trip occurred to me time not the time it would take to make the trip but what happens to time as you travel not too long ago i was flying from calgary to st johns newfoundland in a viscount before jet service was inaugu rated we left calgary before noon and as we travelled cast we had to keep setting our watches ahead an hour through the afternoon the evening and the night and finally into the dawn arriving in st johns about 730 in the morning from this experience i conceived some idea of what it means to gain on time for with daylight saving time then in effect in newfoundland but not in alberta i had jumped ahead five and a half hours in time as i travelled east by the way that is one of the odd things about newfoundland their time zone is not an hour but a halfhour ahead of atlantic time i was quite intrigued with the thought of gaining time for who isnt interested in picking up extra hours so lets say were starting out from malton airport and well travel east tomakepur circle around the world as wo pass over the atlantic time zone we set our watches ahead an hour and continue to reset them ahead an hour every 15 degrees of the earths surface when we arrive back in toronto we would have completed our flight around the world having covered all 360 degrees of the globe resetting our watches 24 times our time would coincide with eastern standard or daylight once again but we would have lost a day somewhere in our travels and so we would be a day ahead of everyone who stayed at home some bright character way back when must have anti cipated our plight for he thought of establishing a spot where we could drop that extra day and come out even at the end of our trip and as a result of his brain wave we have an international date line for navigational purposes the earth is sectioned like an orange by a number of imaginary lines the meridans running from the north pole to the south pole the prime or zero degrees meridian is the one that also passes through greenwich england from where our time is computed half way round the world is the iso degree meridian and this was chosen as the logical place to adst time because for most of its length it passes through ocean obviously a date line that passed through land would be a bit of a problem for the people living there so as we cross the international date line travelling eastward wc drop a day right smack in the pacific ocean and mark our calendars a whole day ahead so when we arrive home the travellers and the stay- athomes all agree on what day of the week it is we hope but where did that day wc lost go did we use it or lose it we must have known and lived it most confusing dont you think occasion by the old ccf it was ccf from 1913 to 1945 when former north york town- shin pceve george mitchell won the riding for that party in the 1945 provincial election tlie riding swung back to the conservatives the first two members of the riding were both liberals and both were knighted sir william mulock won the riding in 1904 with a majority of 962 it stay ed liberal in the election of 1908 when sir allan aylesworth won it with a reduced majority of 306 it went conservative for the first time in the reciprocity election of 1911 when j a m armstrong squeaked through with a majority of 59 mr arm strong was reelected with a greatly increased majority of 1068 in the wartime election of 1917 it was in this election that he defeated mackenzie king following his selection as fed eral party leader in 1919 suc ceeding sir wilfred laurier mr king was invited to stand again for york north in the election of 1921 he was victori ous this time winning the rid ing with a majority of 1055 in the 1925 election the riding was the scene of a bitter struggle when former provin cial member t herbert lennox accepted the federal conserv ative nomination and then went on to defeat mr king by 494 votes a colorful campaigner the redoubtable herb lennox managed to hold the riding for the tories until his death in 1934 in the 1926 election in an other close struggle mr lennox defeated liberal harry sifton of the famous newspaper pub lishing family by 300 votes in the 1930 general election the second member of the mulock family entered the fray in this election mr lennox was again victorious defeating bill mulock by 293 votes in hie hyclection of 1934 fol lowing mr lennoxs passing york north went liberal and was io remain that way until the diefenbaker sweep of 1957 mr mulock redeemed the rid ing for the liberals in 1934 with a majority of 3687 he was again reelected in 1935 and in 1910 with comfortable majori ties of 4312 and 1824 respect ively in 1945 coi mulock retired for health reasons and former party secretary and president jack smith accepted the lib eral nomination in the 1945 election he won the riding with a majority of 1223 in that elec tion mr smith and present sen ator david croll in spadlna were the only two liberals elected in the toronto and yorks in 1948 prime minister king retired and louis st laur ent was elected national leader in the 1949 general election mr smith was reelected with a record majority of 4504 redistribution in 1952 and the creation of the new ridings of ynrkscarboro and york centre saw york north cut in half in size mr smith was re elected in 1953 with a majority of 1633 the riding fell in the dicfenhnker sweep of 1957 when conservative c a cath- crs who had been defeated in dont expect those ingredients of any good column unity and coherence this week since last november ive been needling everybody who bored me by talking about what a dreadful dose ot ilu ha had stop babying yourself i derided its all in your mind youre getting too much rest youre not boozing enough to kill the bugs you just want a day off and so on so it couldnt happen to a nicer chap but what throws me 1 that i had to wait until the easter holidays to catch it sonietliing that gives me a big pain in the arm is th advice you get from doctors when the flu sneaks up and pounces a couple of days in bed is the best cure who in the world can take a couple of days in bed in this crazy age a farmer with the seeding to be done a fisher man with the ice just nicely out of the lake a contractor with his first job in four months and a rush one ask any mother of young children how many days ah spent in bed last time she had the flu the only time most women ever spend a few days in bed is when they are com pounding their confusion by bringing another little stranger into the world enough of that i still say it served me right however i made it to church on easter weekend before succumbing and was delighted to renew acquaintenances with so many old friends i hadnt seen since last easter they should charge admission and a good stiff one for those bums who turn up at church once a year on easter sunday stuffed full of hot- cross buns and holiness i did overhear a remark that day which rather refreshed my sombre spirit as we were coming out of church a llttlo fellow ahead of us clutching his mothers hand piped loud and clear does jesus have a second name jium his mum looking around proudly to make sure everybody noticed how cute the kid was answered brightly yes dear it jesus christ the little guy pondered this and shrilled i bet i know what gods second name is his mother took off out of there so fast the boy was practically streaming wit hori zontally most of the election recriminations are over now but a few editors are still catching it from readers who feel that the local paper was one sided in its coverage or did not print the whole truth few of these complaints are from winning candidates or their supporters this has always tickled me the fellow who demands that the paper print the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth what he means of course is the truth as he sees it or the truth about somebody else most newspapers prim the truth but show me one that prints the whole truth and ill be the first to dontae toward a statue for its editor or a tombstone perhaps it would be a good thing if newspaper did print the whole truth about everything it would certainly put some life in to the obituary columns but in the first place a lot of people would suffer where it hurts most in their vanity in the second place the editor would be so busy facing actions for slander and libel that even if he won them all he wouldnt have time for anything else the truth is a fine thing its like potatoes one of th staples of life but just as we can get tired of spuds thre times a day every day we could get mlghtly weary of nothing but the plain unadulterated truth do you think women would lead a fuller life if when they ask how they look in a new outfit their husband informed them that they resembled something left out fo the dogs breakfast would the preacher feel richer spiritually if you told him right in the middle of the sunday morning handshake that was the dullest sermon i have ever heard would your friends feci more warmly toward you if you answered the casual query how are you with the plain unvarnished truth right from your throbbing corn through your pulsing hemorrhoids into your aching back and on up to your certainty that you had a lump in your breast or brain tumor perhaps the bride would get a better endoff in life if the editor instead of cooing that she was radiant in white simply announced the beatuty of the bride a plain dumpv little girl was scarcely marred by the hint of a blfi mustache beneath her prominent nose on which sat a wart the size of a small gherkin truth like cheap whisky is invigorating in small doses but is easier to take it it is mixed with something sunday school lesson golden text be still and know that i am god i will be exalted among the heathen i will be exalted in the earth psalm 4610 among the many gems found in the book of psalms num bers 22 23 and 24 form a triple cluster of unsurpassed beauty apart from their intrinsic at traction they set forth three prophetic views of our lord jesus christ in psalm 22 the saviour in psalm 23 the shep herd and in psalm 24 the sov ereign of the three the 23rd is undoubtedly the most popular there can be few places in the evangelized world where it is unknown or where the familiar truths of these brief verses have not brought infinite comfort to the tried and fearful the sick and the bereaved of every gen eration we shall find it still meets our contemporary needs psalm 46 is a song of unal loyed and untroubled trust happen what may the lords people are happy and secure this is the doctrine of the psalm and it might to help our mem ories be called the song of holy confidence were it not that from the great reformers love to this soulstirring hymn it will probably be best remem bered as luthers psalm ch spurgeon it is a choral piece as we shall see and if we catch the thrill of the truths they sang so long ago wc shall cer tainly want to add our mite of praise to the god who is also our refuge and strength a very present help in trouble the only place of heartrcst i in the arms of almlght god to know him as shepherd guiding our lives into deeply satisfying experiences of grace to prove him as the source of inward strength is to possess the sec ret of personal security that comes from faith in god he is no remote impersonal deity but a god at hand and within call and hearing in all the perplex ities and complications of ths human situation he is a help to us constant and effectual christ is nearer to me than father or mother or sister a nearer relative or more intimate friend and i rejoice to follow him and to love him from the journal of henry martyn the great missionary the for- tysixlh psalm mentions things that pursue us and from which god is our refuge it refers to things that weaken and tells us that god is our strength it fac es calmly tumultuous events that frighten and adds there fore will not we fear becausa god is a present help it is all- embracing in its assurance 1953 won the riding with a ma jority of 6540 he repeated his performance in 1958 when he increased his majority to 11976 votes in 1962 the riding swung back to the liberals with the election of john addison with a major ity of 842 mr addison scored a record performance on april 8 when he boosted his majority to 7009 offers services for emo work mr brian stoddard albert st stouffville appeared befora the municipal council on thurs day evening to offer his serv ices as emergency measures coordinator for the town mr stoddard told council he was well experienced in this type of work having been with th british civil defense he was thanked for his offer which will be considered by council at a later date