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2 thk tkibvxk thursday nov 7 1968 i town kids to be commended halloween in many communities is a time to be feared and residents of those communities have every rea son to be afraid for past experiences have proved that a few irresponsible people can in a single night cause damage and property losses in the many thousands of dollars within recent years stouffville has escaped this kind of problem and the halloween of 1968 kept this good conduct record intact the kids are to be commended while iolice authorities kept a close watch on activities in town 100 percent of the credit must go to the young people themselves for had they wished to cause trouble no po lice department large or smail could have kept it under control while the kids behaved themselves some adults in areas adjacent to stouffville were contriving means to injure boys and girls making their trick or treat rounds three apples containing razor blades were report ed from the lake wilcox district of whitchurch township another was found in varley village markham township many more similar booby traps were located in oshawa pick ering and metro it makes one wonder what kind of a sick mind would force any indi vidual to stoop so low it makes one wonder if such activities will be con fined to only one night in an entire year until all are caught no child can be considered safe on halloween or any other time a christian step forward it was rev arthur walsh former pastor of the stouffville missionary church who said a church can never stand still it must either move forward or it will soon slip back on sunday that same church con- gregation moved forward their beautiful new sanctuary was officially dedicated at a special afternoon ser vice its a beautiful building a credit to the members who have worked hard to see the project through its also a very practical structure styled to accommodate the spiritual needs of an evergrowing congregation in a continually growing community visitors to the church for a first time sunday could not help but be inspired by what they saw they must also have been inspired by what they heard for the missionary church basis its teaching and preach ing on the bible the pastor rev john hamilton made this fact very clear and while other denominations tend to swing from side to side with the changing attitudes of a changing world the missionary church main tains a steady course straight ahead winter swim season the community of vandorf in whitchurch township has a swim ming pool thats open all winter although owned privately arrange ments have been made for pupils of whitchurch tsa to use it on a reg ular basis a similar program may also include members of the commun ity centre the service isnt free of course but its availability at reasonable cost is something to be considered mr slater is to be commended for allowing his private pool to be utilized in this manner it will serve a very worthwhile purpose for the user and we hope prove a benefit to the owner as well obstacle course with the winter season fast ap proaching it is safe to assume that only one layer of asphalt will be ap plied this year to roads within the ponderosa subdivision the situation there leaves much to be desired in respect to storm sew er outlets protruding several inches above the paved surface they could result in costly tire damage not to speak of problems with snow removal the gratings could be temporarily banked to smooth out the rough spots or red flags could be posted to warn of the dangers ahead a hideaway home in the country the privacy of country living is sometimes to be envied this is the pro perty of j d smilh 18th avenue at concession 6 markham tup staff photo sugar and spice i shall never forget bv bill smiley dimmer and dimmer grow the pic tures of men young men full of blood and juice and desire to live stagger ing under greatcoats and full packs into the tearing and terrible hot hail fainter and fainter come the sounds of choking and coughing and retching as their lungs are seared and their guts are splattered and they go down in a pigsqueal of agony a howl for mother or a scream for god to do something hollower and hollower become the annual reminders that we remember them that they died for us that they gave their lives for freedom remembrance day is becoming about as important except for a ded icated few as the 24th of may the queens birthday vimy ridge and ypres are in his tory books now and if theres one sure way to take the life out of some thing its to put it in a history book but theyre not history for that 72yearold head bowed standing at the cenotaph on november 11th he was a little throbbing terrified piece of that history 50 years ago and he remembers mud and mis ery girls and guns and the faces that will never grow old and wrinkled and filled with pain like his own for a few minutes it all comes back and a lump comes in his throat and his eyes grow wet when the last post sounds in the sombre november air behind him with their blue berets and balding heads and bulges in the wrong places are the young fellows of world war ii and despite the generation between their thoughts are much the same girls and guns bitter ale and bitter cold and the faces that will never grow old the faces that will never light to the joy of children the hearts that will never wrench with the sorrow of children the mouth that will grin forever but will never smile again or whisper a prayer or kiss a woman or gulp an ale but then reveille sounds and the heads lift and the little scattered knot of onlookers disperses and the parade moves off back to the warmth of the legion hall and beer and com radeship and a turkey dinner and fun ny stories that have been polished and embellished and garnished by the years and thats about what remem brance day has come to be in this land that sent thousands and thous ands of its young men off to fight the kaiser or hitler 3000 miles away what do the youngsters think of it almost nothing a few whose fathers wer killed before they knew them wonder a bit feel a strange yearning most are indifferent they know they should look solemn and they do but theres no understand ing some are even hostile to the whole idea antiwar on general principles they have the mistaken idea that remembrance day is somehow a glor ification of war its just tlie opposite those in their twenties and thir ties arc even less interested if pos sible the whole thing is a drag a sentimental journey for old and mid dleaged squares and what about the old and mid dleaged we must face it only a minority of them feel some emotion and most of these are people who were directly touched by the loss of a brother husband or son but on the whole canada despite heavy losses of youth was scarcely touched at home by the two great world wars and remembrance day as old soldiers are supposed to do wont die it will just fade away pehaps its just as well both wars were bloody shambles best forgotten but i hope theres a special place for old soldiers when they finally fade away a place where all the young faces are and theres lots of beer and they can exchange lies with roman legionnaires and panzer troops and confederate fighters and veterans of waterloo this week next battle of the sexes by ray argyle ray argyles column is not available this week in its place count marco comments on the latest round of the battle of the sexes by count marco now that the horn of the hunter sounds from the hill lots of women are getting left at home while the man tracks his game or squats in his duck blind and oh how you hunting wid ows wail about being neglected youre even worse than the golf widows just remember though that you females have come a long way from the subjugation you once thoroughly enjoyed starting with the caveman who went off into the hills with his club to capture a bride not a deer those were the days when the would- be bridegroom beat the bushes until he flushed a likely quail he would carry her off in triumph while she screamed her joy to the high heav ens under the ancient rules of pudah the bride was hidden behind a veil until the very last minute at the end of a long involved ceremony the hunter finally was permitted to sneak a peek and discover what he really had captured another ancient rite called for the shaving of the brides head this showed the humility and gratitude for having been chosen it also had a stupefying effect on any johnny- comelately who taking one look at old baldy would flee in terror the divorce rate was practically nil in egypt the bride went to the ceremony with her hair hanging down true lovers of beauty her hus band and friends couldnt bear to prune her lustrous tresses so they compromised by tying them into an upsweep to indicate complete subju gation in ancient japan where heavy eye brows were considered one of a wo mans greatest charms her husband proved his power over her by having those eyebrows shaved right off brides in those days knew what a rough time really was they were either having their hair shaved tied lifted or cut they were hauled and clubbed and pushed and pulled you didnt hear them caterwauling when their beasts went off to find the dinosaur steak or venison haunch for dinner they cleaned up the home and made sure the fire was ready to put on the dinner when their men returned several years ago there was a movement in europe which thank fully was a miserable failure it was decreed by some frigid swiss females that women could never be equal un til men learn how to be equal to women a leader of this movement said disdainfully like little boys men imagine that they can take care of themselves but have you noticed that they always come running to women when they are in trouble somehow or other perhaps be cause of language difficulties they confused emancipation with emas culation a woman whose husband had suffered a nervous breakdown and learned to knit as part of his therapy said if knitting is good for male health so is the rest of the housework no doubt shes driven him to another breakdown another of this misled group thought this an exceptionally bright idea so that men can reduce their working hours and get more practice in household behaviour women will have to take more jobs away from them mon dicu a concluding suggestion made by the leader should make every amer ican male roll on the floor with hys terical laughter living at home she said will awaken men so that they no longer need the stimulation of alcohol tobacco or striptease little does she know that its how the average american wife manages her home that drives most men to alcohol tobacco and stripteaseers is it any wonder such a movement failed you can drag a man into mar riage but you cant make him do housework arent you glad such a silly movement never crossed the ocean tffixt rtiune established 1888 c h nolan publish- jim thomas editor noel edey advertising published every thursday by the stouffville tribune limited at 5j main st stouffville ont tel 6102101 single copies 10c subscriptions woo per year in canada 600 clsiuhere member df audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers asfieiatlon and ontario weekly newspapers association authorized as second class mall post office dept ottawa a trick or treat by jim thomas two ageold customs are due for a change within our own immediate family circle if i have anything to say about it which i probably wont one relates to halloween just over the other concerns christmas still to come a common practice connect ed with both should end and if i have my way it will but i probably wont take halloween for instance when i was a kid down on the farm i thought it was really something special to go calling on four or five of our closest neighbors in the mile and a quarter block to return in an hour with two or three apples an or ange and maybe a chocolate bar was considered a pretty generous hand out not so today our pair came home so laden down with loot they could hardly haul the load up the front steps and if their mother had not intervened theyd have eaten most of it before bedtime ninety percent of the evenings collection was candy a commodity that even at their tender years has cost rrie a small fortune in dental bills they are now on the dole system and at the rate of one a day they should have enough to last until oct 31 1969 an entirely new halloween pro gram is presently in the planning stage a few immediate proposals include 1 confine doortodoor collections to unicef only or some other similar worthwhile organiza tion 2 an 8 pm curfew to be im posed by all parents and all porch lights out by that time 3 where treats are considered necessary only apples and oranges should be pro vided 4 the canvass should be confined to the area where the indi vidual child resides 5 all children should be instructed in the practice of common etiquette ie the use of the words please and thank you 6 dressup costumes should be con tinued and encouraged sound a little too restrictive per- haps but im sure most will admit that restrictions of some kind are required at our home we staged a test run of one phase of the plan this year at exactly eight oclock all the lights were turned out save a flickering candle in a lone jackolantern perch ed in the living room window we even locked both front doors it was not that we didnt wish any more callers we just didnt have any more handouts to hand out our unicef fund had been drained dry but some were insistent they hammered and pounded continuously until nearly ten a few of the comments uttered through the keyhole were anything but complimentary but we paid no heed for the first time we also kept track of the childrens replies we had exactly 100 visitors out of that number 78 said thank you for an eti quette mark of 78 percent at least half of the remainder were either too small or too shy to say anything re ducing the ranks of the badmannered to only eleven a rather excellent re cord on the subject of christmas im opposed to the mass mailing of mean ingless cards all across the country i feel that money spent on this age- old fad could and should be put to some more worthwhile purpose so feel completely free to strike my name from your list this season itll save me the trouble of returning the favor at new years hiililiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiililiiiiilllliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitliiiiiiilii editors mail iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii to jim thomas my bosum friend your column was the living end your search goes on for some new freak to make our stouifville quite unique i share your love of rounded form and busts which kick up quite a storim your billboards might just do the trick theres one way we could gain renown with a poet laureate in town a master of both words and rhymes with pungent comments on the times to poke some fun at pompous pride of those whd brush our youth aside and dream of bygone glorious days without a word of modern praise no longer is this stoultville now with bright young folks to show us how we should shout from every steeple stouffville has lomc wonderful people vic orchard stoultville