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fut 7 the stouffyiui trimwi thurnfay prbhw 24 6 editorial twoyear term good or bad on thursday evenin last week stouffville municipal council passed a bylaw which brings into force a twoyear term for all council mem bers as well as public school trustees and members of the public utilities commission both the school board and puc members were consulted prior to council action in i960 the ontario municipal act was altered so that council could by bylaw and without a vote bring into being a twoyear term the new- system has been widely accepted in the province and the change in the act to eliminate the vote had been urged at municipal conventions in the local area the twoyearterm is in vogue in pickering township it was recently brought into sutton without a vote and markham village is preparing to take a vote where the vote is taken the law would not come into force until the following year while in stouffvilles case all members elected at this 1963 election will be in for two years the pros and cons on the longer term are several and there is about a fiftyfifty split on the question as to its advantages and disadvantages chief argument in favour of the twoyearterm is that one year is too short a time for a municipal member to become of very great value the procedures in most cases are all new and by the time a member is prepared to initiate some worthwhile project for the community he has to face an other election and may be left on the sidelines in addition the same pro gram may be started and never fin ished as the members carrying it out are not reelected municipal business is a consider able study and those who support the longer term feel strongly that having new members continually coming and going is not good for the municipality and that some continuity of offica would be much better one of the chief argument against the measure is that ratepay ers may be saddled with a poor muni cipal officer for two years rather than one another argument that has been found to be true is that an election only every second year creates a certain apathy among the ratepayers and elections when they are held come and go with little notice it would appear that under the new regime in town it will be necessary for each election to be drummed up in order to keep up public interest the cost of elections in a town of this size is negligible so that there is little argument on this financial score those favoring an election every year believe that if a man or woman shows a real aptitude for council or other municipal work there is nothing to fear from the electors and he or she would not lose their seat in annual elections all the arguments are quite valid personally we have always favoured annual elections for the principal reason of keeping up public interest in municipal politics some thing that many times is all too lacking all the possibilities cited on both sides could happen and time alone will tell the wisdom of the do as i say not as i do i this newspaper has been deluged within recent weeks with reports and records concerning ontarios spiralling farm accident toll three tractor deaths in less than two months has brought the importance of farm safety practices closer to home like so many written warnings the rules and regulations are either not observed or are soon forgotten a large scale proof of this fact was made obvious at the interna tional plowing match near caledon during the grand parade of men and machines many of the mobile im plements carried boys and girls of all ages some located in highly pre carious positions fortunately to our knowledge no one was injured but the danger there was just as real as in any farm field instant action a credit to trustee the trustees of dicksons hill and ringwood public schools are to be commended for their rise to instant action following the tragic death of a six year old girl in the community last week two days after the accident a public meeting had been organized in the dicksons hill section three days later the board members were meet ing personally with department offi cials at the scene of the tragedy if some solution to the problem is not found it wont be for the want of trying on the part of these local men it would appear however that the wheels of change turn slowly for ringwood records reveal that several written complaints have been sub mitted to the office of the dept of highways and none has been recog nized 11 could be that the recent fatal ity may open a few eyes but unless some major policy change has been finalized within recent months it i unlikely that the present 60 mile per hour speed limit will be reduced it would appear that the depart ment is interested only in the motor ized public and the school children are only so much excess baggage that this road must carry if this is a practiced policy and not an attitude of an individualist then the burden of child safety falls directly on the shoulders of the parent the pupil and the board we feel that with cars and trucks travelling at 60 miles per hour or more the very life of a school guard or a school patrol program is placed in jeopardy four deaths in four days last week was a week of tragedy in this community in a period of four days from monday to thursday four young people died as the result of accidents motor car collisions took three lives and another was killed while driving a tractor in at least three of the four fatalities excessive speed was in volved one must drive according to con ditions and in cases of emergency one has little care and control over his vehicle at 70 or 80 miles per hour there have been fatal accidents here before and others will follow but four lives lost in four days is an ex perience that we hope will never be repeated put first things first heart disease is our countrys number one killer each year more than 66000 canadians die as a result of heart and blood circulatory dis orders in addition there are in canada some 1250000 persons in cluding 50000 children who have been disabled by heart disease the ontario heart foundation is jrour number one defense against this dread killer medical scientists sup ported by the ontario heart founda tion have made dramatic progress in saving and prolonging the lives of thousands of heart victims research has already provided jhe knowledge needed to reduce re currences of heart attacks prevent rheumatic fever repair damaged heart valves develop heartlung ma chines and perfect drugs which re tard blood clotting but more research is needed to find the answers to heart attack stroke heart failure high blood pressure and other forms of heard disease you your family and your busi ness all have a vital stake in the fight against heart disease call the ontario heart foundation for useful and informative information give your heart your number one con sideration cornucopia by th wm anne ross the stouffville lions club has announced that the 1964 music festival will be held during the week of february 24h at stouffville united church we have been looking through the syllabus which is now available and are amazed by the amount of work already accomplished by the music com mittee a schedule of classes for choirs choral reading groups rhythm bands as well as instrumental and vocal solos has been completely worked out copies of the syllabus may be secured at waggs jewellery store the village shop hendrick3 hardware or from mr roy dowswell 129 albert street this music festival is open to all young people in the townships of pickering uxbridge whitchurch and markham and the cooperation of every music teacher and every school teacher would be most encouraging to the members of the lions club who put so much effort into providing a means of public presentation as well as professional adjudication for the school children of the district the success of the festival is governed entirely by the number of participants but it is the enthusiasm of the teachers which governs the number of entries from each school what a fine festival of music it will be if all the schools in the area participate in the 1964 music festival this week october 2026 is known throughout canada as business womens week and it may come as a surprise to many men and women to learn that the canadian federation of business and professional womens club has been and is carrying out a most effective program to further the interests of women who work while raising money for hospitals playgrounds community centres etc as well as for scholarships and bursaries to further the education of young women their main objective is to awaken and encourage business and professional women to take their rightful ph- in the community running for municipal office serving on school boards participating in civic and service endeavours and beyond the confines of local affairs to run for office provincially and federally and through all channels to work for the improvement of working conditions of women every where they are proud that more and more women are moving into highly skilled work into technical managerial and profes sional fields and into public office the federation of business and professional women can point with pride to the achievement for which they were primarily responsible of the appointing of women to the senate and to several boards and commissions they are still worrying parliament for revisions and improvements in legis lation to protect and improve the status of working women equal pay embodied in the minimum wage act and the portable pensions act amendments to the acts governing vocational training food and drugs national health and welfare and many others in stouffville there is an active branch of the business and professional womens club and the president mrs ev jack son reports an increase in membership over the past year and extends a warm invitation to membership to any woman in the stouffville area who is actively engage in business or a profession to contact her at the stouffville antique house the stouffville clubs annual bursary of 10000 for furthering the education of the girl graduating from stouffville high school with the highest scholastic standing is to be presented to miss helen busato at the graduation exercises on november 8th when a bronze bar bearing her name will be added to the bursary plaque hanging in the high school we could all profitably follow the theme of the business and professional women reach out and grow editors mail the editor the stouffville tribune stouffville ontario dear sir it is most refreshing to find one newspaper with the integ rity necessary to point out the truth in reference to socalled government gifts the taxpayers seem to lose all sense of logic when it comes to subsidies pensions medical care and other such benefits it seems to be taken for ganted these things are free because the government pays for them if i may recall something that was on the curriculum of the schools in my younger days democracy was something to be guarded very carefully jean jacques rousseau point ed out the ever present danger of surrendering too much of your personal freedom to the governing body the breeding of individual lack of responsi bility both to god and to oth ers is the downfall of any- country your last paper showed the result of the lack of this res ponsibility by some parents for their offspring vandalism in a school the per petrators of this destruction were probably from a home in which the parents never know where their children are and never instill any sense o re sponsibility or knowledge of right or wrong in their child ren we have a great problem with juvenile delinquency why our lawmakers products of our school system have in their enlightened way chang ed the old law of the parents being responsible for the ac tions of their children until such children reach maturity or leave the parental home to the parents not being responsi ble in any way for what their children do when they are not in direct contact with the child the parents forget the ac tions of the children reflect the type of parents they have if all those who attend church would spend as much time reading their bible in which they profess to believe as they do in reading other literature then juvenile delinquency might be largely eliminated deuteronomy 2118 to 21 yours truly y hayward fae sunday school lesson golden text charity suffer- eth long and is kind charity emieth not charity vaunteth not itself is not puffed up doth not behave itself unseemly seeketh not her own is not eas ily provoked iiunketh no evil 1 cor 134 5 approach to the lesson as we have seen corinth was gifted church 1 cor 147 2 cor 87 and had been favored in leadership and ministry 1 cor 112 but then as often now these very blessings had gendered pride and divislveness that was greatly hindering the testimony we have also seen how immorality and comprom ise with idolatry had sadly af fected the church chapter 11 deals with the questions of worship and reveals an appal ling situation with regard to the lords supper in which some would feast with com plete disregard for their hung- ry fellow members and others might even be drunk this was a situation that had to be re buked 1 cor 112034 chapter 12 deals with spirit ual gifts and includes teaching on the gift of tongues appar ently the emphasis on spiritual gifts in the church had led to some undue emphasis on the public ministries to correct this paul taught 1 that ev ery christian has some gift with which to enrich the church 127 2 that the gifts are diverse in nature but energized by the same spirit 12411 3 that just as a healthy body must function ef ficiently in every part wheth er that part be seen or unseen large or small so each member of the church must be function ing efficiently if the local testi mony is to be really healthy the apparent size of the gift is not so important as is the con scientious exercise of it 1212- 30 4 that quite obviously some spiritual gifts are of more significance than others as for example the heart is of great er importance than a finger both are necessary for full health and efficiency but one can live without a finger not without a heail if we have the welfare of the body of christ at heart we shall covet earnestly desire with a corre sponding effort to obtain the best gifts one may have great natural gifts and still be impoverished just as one may have a luxur ious home that is empty of the real peace and joy that can al one make it a home the one essential constituent in either case is love if love is lacking brilliant spiritual gifts the loc al church and the luxurious home are alike empty might- havebeens there is a more ex cellent way that is taught us in todays lesson this chapter has ever been considered as one of the jewels of scripture for moral elevation for rich ness and comprehensiveness lor beauty and felicity of ex pression it has been th admir ation of the church in all ages heart of the lsson life takes its color from the way in which we look at it if we belong to christ are yielded sugar spice by bill smiley what a difference a few weeks can make in this country it is no wonder that canadians carry on a deep lingering tonguetied love affair with their native land and they do believe me they do although youd never know it from casual observation they may sally to florida and mexico and europe but most of them would be sad beyond endurance if they were suddenly told they were to be banished forever from canada about eight weeks ago we drove out to visit friends at their cottage it was the lush bosomy end of summer and the evening air was tropical we slowed to cross the bridge and the everpresent everintent anglers peered with patience at the black little river and the birds chortled and the frogs krumphed along the beach golden girls walked and brown urchins paddled and fat ladies slumped in deck chairs and teenager looked sophisticated and dogs ran over sleeping old gentlemen and people waved and water lapped and motors roamed and hot dogs smelled good when we arrived our friends about a dozen of them sprawled under a vast sighing pine tree drinking chilled sauterne and eating dill pickles their children and ours from toddlers to bantam delinquents prowled and squabbled and begged bites of pickle and demanded one last swim and laughed and cried and wet their diapers and bothered their moms out over the lake the sun almost gone had a moment of hysteria slashing colour across the sky with the ferocity of a van gogh and the water darkening its blue looked up longingly and the sun flung across it disdainfully a few scarlet and gold streamers and we lounged in shorts and bare feet shirtless and wordless too lazy and content to get up and go in even when the sun took a deep breath and went down like a bomb away out at the end of the water like good canadians we accepted the splendor of the evening with decent restraint nobody sang a sonnet to the setting sun nobody was impelled to sing a dirge to dying summer it was admitted upon the urging of a couple of the more flamboyant types that it sure was a swell night before we gathered the kids and went home just the other night we went back to the same beach for dinner with some friends at their cottage the air was fairly curdling the car heater felt good when we reached the little bridge there were no fishermen but we stopped to look at the late gold sun on the little black river and high away up went over a wavery v of geese a lovely sight along the beach there was no sign of life steely water around greenclumped islands silver sand black and blue sky cottages boarded up and blankfaced it was lonely and bleak and beautiful when we came to the cottage away down the shore road and saw the yellow lights shining it was a good feeling inside there was a great glowing fire a warm welcome friendly faces and the good rich smells of rye and turkey and perfumed women and again like decent canadians nobody made any crude remarks about what a beautiful evening it was how lucky we were to live in this demiparadise or anything as foreign and sentimental as that we just stuffed ourselves with food and drink and went home maybe we all had too much bliss carman william wilfred campbel and archibald lampman when we were in school maybe were just undemonstrative but surely there is no nation on the face of this earth that loves its country so much and sings about it so little thats why im going to sing out once in a while however cracked the voice or corny the tune or bored the audience maybe i can incite enough people to form at least a quartet agricultural dept concerned over york county accident rate a a wall agricultural j representative york county events of the past month prompt some thought on farm safety in york county we seemed to get through the sum mer of 1963 with a fairly good farm accident record i wonder ed if we were going to get through the year with unusu ally low accident losses but the roof has fallen in in the last month there have been three fatal accidents in one township alone one wellknown farmer got caught in a corn picker and another had some fingers badly damaged in a wood planer two barns have burned with a total loss of crops and some livestock there are probably many more that i havent heard about this is serious business not all accidents are caused by care lessness and in an occupation like farming there will always be some accidents that just cant be helped but i think we can well afford to put more effort on following safer work ing habits industry has proven time and time again safe working rules and safety promotion on the- job can cut the accident rate the same can apply to farming but it takes real honest to good ness effort and firm discipline to get it occasionally there is a feel ing of bravado in the attitude of farm workers a man who regularly clears the rolls of a corn picker while the machine is running feels a little above the man who always stops the machine and does it the hard way operators who get along to his control over our lives and know his love in our hearts by the holy spirit our attitud es to problems people and things will be controlled by the fact thus we shall experience a deep joy our influence in the church will be unifying and our testimony to the world motiv ated not by duty but by love this is indeed a rich life without power takeoff shields feel a little courageous fathers sometimes think that by letting an underage boy drive tractors and high speed machinery it somehow proves above average maturity and ability this is an unfortunate and dangerous attitude farm ma chines can be lethal weapons and anyone who has been tangl ed up in a machine is a ready and willing witness they should get a lot more respect than most of us give them they are many times mora powerful than any human be ing and if we really want to prove our courage we should take oh an adversary where we have at least half a chanc of winning it seems almost redundant io say that farm safety is import ant and yet the farm lime light is monopolized by all thats new in animal science crop science farm marketing and economic problems the one thing that really matters the lives of farm people doesnt show very much farm safety should get real hard considera tion bv everyone who calls himself a successful farmer naacxxkxxxjocxxxxxxxxxxs for your wedding brides book 235 shower book 140 trousseau book 5140 guest book 170 wedding book large 625 wedding book imall 385 streamers 15o confetti 10o tribune office supplies ph 6402100 ahbhjhhbhhmj3xhj wt touffmlle rtiutitc established hit member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontario weekly newspapers association atthortud u ccondclua mill poitop c dipt otuwt member of the audit bureau of circulations issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada 350 elsewhere 450 cl h nolan publisher jas thomas editor jas mckean advertising