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the t818une tiarsdiy uaa xi 1966 editorials individual rights enquiry while it is not known definitely which direction the security investiga tion now ordered by the federal govern ment will take if mr pearsons state ment to the house is any indication it is the intention that the probe be direct ed towards individual rights this is something that has troubled a great many people for a long time and the spencer case has only brought the question to a head here is a man so far as has been reported who has been charged with nothing found guilty of nothing but one who may spend the rest of his life under police surveillance it will be up to justice wells to deter mine whether this course had any justi fication in safeguarding the nation in wartime things were different we had the official secrets act which in some instances placed the whole bur den of proof on the individual many of those detained under this act were found innocent but had no recourse against the government now this act has been revoked it could be to guard against a return of these practices that mr pearson has set up the enquiry- he laboured this point again and again in his speech this enquiry will decide whether the measures used were adequate and safeguarded the rights of the individ ual small tax increase justified while stouffville municipal taxes will advance by 36 mills this year coun cil has done well to hold the line as close as they have residents should not forget that for the two years previ ous there was no increase while ex penses mounted and neighbouring tax rates continued to climb no one likes tax increases but like all businesses the municipality can ab sorb just so much before something has to give reeve laushway has explained that the increase on the average home owner will be about 14 which is not an cxhorbitant amount all municipalities in york county have been hit this year with a 333 jump in the county rate bringing the total contribution made by stouflville up to 56953162 the two other boards from which most expenses come managed to keep their requirements within bounds the high school taking a 162 rise offset by a drop of 24 mills for the public school council is constantly bombarded with requests for increased expenses in numerous departments residents request that this and that service be provided all costing money the mem bers of council in their wisdom must determine which if any of these re quests are justified they must saw their way on a middle of the road course between those things which are necessary for the good of the community and its people as a whole and those which are only windowdressing and of particular concern to only a few we think they have done very well some facts and figures needed the pane discussion sponsored by the stouffville home and school associ ation and held in the masonic hall last week certainly generated a good deal of interest and discussion although few solutions to our presentday teenage problems do we need a community centre program- how much will it cost do we require a recreational direc tor how much will it cost its all very fine to express a desire to have this kind of organization but weve got to stop and think for a min ute can we afford it as councillor lonergan put it its a question of dollars and cents we feel that the town council should carry the ball from here and investigate these issues once the con crete facts and figures are obtained then well know where were going right now were just guessing with nothing on paper to back it up community cooperation a committee comprising thirty- four communityminded men and wom en from the markham and stouffville area have joined forces in a determin ed effort to acquire 35 acres of land as a site for a proposed hospital in mark- ham village these people are to be commended for their foresight we do not feci that the price of 5128000 or about s3600 per acre is any steal but we would con sider the location to be an excellent one for such a project since the pending proposition was first published in the tribune two weeks ago there have been many en quiries from local citizens wishing to assist in some minor capacity in the campaign they are a little confused and personally so are we does the committee plan to go it alone in the acquisition of this land or is there an immediate need for outside financial support up to now we have not been able to answer these questions and have merely referred these folks to persons we know on the executive with so little time in which to act we would presume that the hospital committee is attempting to acquire suf ficient funds to hold the land and once this is achieved the support of the public will be truly appreciated the project has certainly generated a good deal of interest throughout the district with all comments we have heard favouring both the site and the proposed hospital building that should follow is observance of lent becoming a thing of the past is the observance of lent becoming a thing of the past or are church people still practising selfdenial and preparing themselves for easter the reaction of the peo ple in stouffville seem to run from strict attention to complete inattention one layman says i dont give up anything and 1 dont see the point in it i dont think christianity is negative its an attitude a way of looking at people it hasnt anything to do with the calendar in sharp contrast was a catholic gentleman he gave up smoking this year and tries to deny himself some thing each day in addition he says the importance is not so much the success as the attitude a middle of the road churchgoer expressed it this way the whole idea of lent is to take stock and see where you are going a- miss and try and improve it lent doesnt last long were getting too soft as it is a housewife says she ne ver believed in lent that much that she gave up any thing i do go to church a few extra times though several expressed the op inion that it was a matter of trying to be better than at other times of the year lent is not giving something up it is trying to improve on the anglican side we hear that lent is import ant and the good things be gun in this period should be kept up if possible each year you can examine where you are and where you have fallen down general opinion from se veral was that they realized lent was there but dont do anything about it one thought it was dragged out too long i never do any thing about it until good friday he said mte lrtbune established 1sss c h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edev advertising published every thursday by the stouffville tribune limited at 54 main st stouflville ont tel 102101 slnrle copies 10c subscriptions 400 per year in canada 600 elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association authorized as second class mail post office dcpt ottawa how about chucking prospecting and learning to drive an air canada truck sugar and spice x by bill smiley i have a profound respect for poet t s eliot but one of his lines that which says april is the cruellest month is pure poppycock he had ob viously never spent a march in these parts april is no bargain but march is a month no honest taxpayer should have to put up with at its best it is 31 days of pure drear at its worst a century of bleak horror raw east winds that chap the hands chill the bones redden the nose deaden the soul third bout of la grip pe in three months holes in your over shoes faces of friends become hateful tailpipe and muffler gone on the car eavestroughs sagging spirits flagging spring is merely a word in the diction ary winter is a monster clawing your shoulder if youre anything like me youre hanging on by your teeth this is fairly easy because your nose has been run ning and youre keeping a stiff upper lip its frozen and your teeth are ex posed its a wonder we dont all turn as mad as march hares and cut our col lective throat if only to add a bit of color to relieve grim grey march but cheer up chaps all is not lost i have a little therapeutic theory that works wonders it is the only thing that saves me in march from running out into the snow in bare feet and long underwear babbling t s eliot is mad mad i tell you mad i first discovered this theory when i had trouble sleeping after a long evening of too much work too many fags and too much coffee id crawl into bed and lie there as rigid as a rake toes curled tightly eyes burning bright ly no more chance of getting to sleep than gettting to heaven one such night i remembered listen buster i told myself fifteen years ago tonight you were lying on the floor of a boxcar freezing hand and feet tied with wire on your way to a prison camp and here you are lying in a soft bed in a warm house with a warm woman beside you and warm blankets over you and no nightfighters shooting up the place and no guards wandering in to give you a kick so what if you dont sleep a wink in 14 seconds i was asleep it works every time now the same technique applies when it comes to saving my sanity in march when the miseries of march have me reduced to one great bellow of frus tration i put it to work old buddy i say to myself just go back 300 years let yourself go now not three miles from here they were eking out their march halffrozen halfstarved half blind and i think about them the in dians ncaring the bitter end of a bitter winter in their longhouses men wom en children dogs pellmell in a seven teenthcentury nlssen hut made of boughs and bark and skins two or three hundred human be ings crawling over each other in about the space you and your family occupy cold hungry stench unbelievable smoke from cooking fires indescribable the last of the meat gone the maize reduced to a few handfuls spruce tea and moss stew on the menu hunting impossible because of the slush flabby breasts and swollen bel lies and always the cold no refrigerators stocked with steaks and roasts and milk and eggs no shelves of canned goods no super market a few blocks away no heat no light no bathroom no books no tele vision and always the cold i listen to my wife who is not fighting with mrs abenaki about who gets the fire next to make dog soup and my march madness is gone try it this week next tste 0tiaso7sb wemstlqidtfag by ray argyle any lingering hopes canadians had that this parliament would be more ef fective than the last vanished in a spate of sex and spy charges last week the ludicrous atmosphere into which the house of commons was plunged resembled nothing less than a gang of angry schoolboys squabbling over a package of chewing gum the situation was serious nonethe less becauseit raised two important questions have there been dangerous breaches of national security either in the case of vancouver postal worker victor spencer or in the sextinged case of gcrda munsinger and is the political rivalry between prime minister pearson and opposition leader diefenbaker still so bitter that emotion rather than reason must dom inate parliament the answers could be found in the manner in which the two current in quiries one into the spencer case and the other into national security and counterespionage in general came in to being it is known mr pearson had pri vately favored the holding of such in quiries he had been unable to sell his cabinet on the idea but in parliament faced with mounting opposition press ure he reversed his field as he has done in many other cases recently the need of the inquiries cannot be questioned but the turmoil into which parliament has to be thrown over every issue of national concern illus trates anew the bitterness of the dlef- cnbakerpearson confrontations the spectacle of the prime minister of the land telephoning an accused spy suspect and asking him if he really did want an inquiry into his case would be admirable if it was not ridiculous spencer dismissed from his job without a hearing had earlier made it clear that he did indeed wish an in quiry no comment can be made here on spencers guilt or innocence but the governments strange footdragging on granting the man on in camera hear ing where evidence would be in secret and national security would not be affected might be routine for ghana or russia but not for canada the lesson the government appar ently has yet to learn in dealing with national security is that people must either be charged and prosecuted to the full extent of the law or left alone in peace half measures accusations without prosecution smack more of back alley gossip mongcring than of government by responsible parliamen tarians the munsinger case which tory dalton camp called with considerable justification the mudslinger case fits into the same category justice minister lucien cardin brought the case to light when stung by opposition charges over ottawas handling of the spencer affair he said in effect that you tories really dont have anything to talk about he then let it be known that miss munsinger was alleged to have had an affair with a conservative cabinet min ister in 1961 it is said that miss muns inger was an employee of a communist embassy and that while enjoying the freedom of canada engaged in a little free love enraged mr diefenbaker charged the government with trying to blackmail him into silence the point here again is that if there was any criminal offense the gov ernment either of john diefenbaker or of lester pearson should have laid charges but neither did yet mr car- din used the case in defending his de partment in 1966 five years after the alleged affair but whatever transpires across the aisles of the house of commons the country last week had another reminder that the personal vendetta between the leaders of the two major parties would continue to make a burlesque of parlia ment 1 ffimint from march 13 to 19 is set aside as national health week and although we do not wish to bore you with a long list of figures concerning the most pre valent diseases across canada we would like to point out a few facts concerning cancer which whether we wish to admit it or not has reached near epi demic proportions did you know that v light here in canada there are 69 can cer deaths even day or almost 3 every hour of the day and night did you know that 45000 new cases are diag nosed even- year and that in 1963 it claimed 25077 lives pretty startling isnt it with the exception of heart dis ease it causes more deaths in canada than any other affliction the fiveyear survival rate is now 50 percent an in crease of from 7 to 10 percent in the last ten years the major reason for the increase is the result of health educa tion which has led to the discovery of the disease during its early stages for males cancer deaths are on the in crease due almost entirely to lung in fection this information has been pro vided by the health league of canada people have never been more cancer conscious than they are today but still the sales of cigarettes continue to climb e that infamous oneway bridge at the north end of unionville could yet become a landmark in that community and even all of markham township there is talk that the structure should be retained strengthened and covered to make it unique not only in markham but in ontario to accomplish this plan a bypass road would have to be con structed around the site and such a project would not be completed over night just how long present day mo torists can be expected to endure this hazard is still a question speaking of roads and without casting any aspersions on the work of road superintendent stan slack and his men we completed one of the most perilous trips in many a month last week into the west central regions of uxbridge township dipping and div ing like a 3iegged mountain goat we ventured north from stouffville over to glasgow and continued east to cone 4 the road resembled a tanktraining area fortunately the ground was froz en and wc could ride up on top others had not been so fortunate while hamilton is bemoaning the fact that more than 600 employees at the studebaker plant in that city will be looking for jobs due to the reported shutdown of the factory there we feel that another aspect to this issue has been overlooked what about the own ers of the 18000 auto units produced in 1965 plus lesser numbers in 1966 their investment of from 2000 to 3000 wont be worth a plugged nickel on a tradein if the firm folds up en tirely high school kids take warning last week while down in markham we were approached by an unshaven longhaired lad in his early twenties do you know of any jobs around he asked im out of work how much education have you wc enquir ed just finished grade 8 thats all he answered its a sure sign of spring when the hondas at the stouffville dist high school begin to crowd the cars for parking space stouffville is gaining recognition as one of the largest truck sales towns of its size in ontario patrick motors en- joyed a record year in 65 and all things point to a repeat in 66 have you nolle- ed the lineup of internationals at glover motors in the castend we have learned that there are more on the way at the present time they have 6 big diescls in slock carrying a price tag of about 20000 apiece two are already sold delivery will be received this month of twenty more direct from the plant at chatham several of these are also sold want to find out if you have any rattles in that new car just take it over the madetoorder test track on main street in stouflville between o brien avenue and edward street the cnr has already been notified on at least two occasions to repair this cross ing but to date nothing has been done the town still keeps receiving regular bills for its share of the maintenance although we would consider it more of a detriment than a benefit editors mail rule or be ruled by our readers you enabled us to inform the public that february was heart month in canana and also what the ontario heart founda tion is doing li the field of research a short but nevertheless sincere note to thank you for your cooperation and as sistance to the ontario heart foundation during our 1966 heart found campaign the coverage we received from your paper surpassed all expectations ana it is due to this fact that our heart fund was success ful we have always enjoyed the associa tion with all press representatives and it is a pleasure to look forward to this throughout the year once again a sincere heart felt thanks for your assistance and coopera tion during february ontario heart foundation has todays church as many faults as its critics claim it possesses in one aspect it does often dlcto- torial attitudes and obedi ence to rules rather than obedience to jesus christ are emphasized we must not assume the church should have no influ ence on persons lives nor err in thinking that the church is the final authority in all matters christ is this authority no group of christians is blameless often what had once been a sound biblical doctrine has deteriorated un til it has become another denominational dogma should it bo surprising then to see people rejecting christianity in favour of other idealogies and reli gions attractively presented by their proponents is it the churchs duty to say or show to tell or do in the final analysis should the church rule its members or should the church obey christ sponsored by the mcnnonitc church of york county heres a bucketful of curiosity these two little kittens kept getting under foot as the owner did her spring planting in the front garden finally they were sentenced to bucket confinement but still you cant keep a kitten from looking