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the tribune stouffville ont tnursdaa march 29 1951 the stouffville tribune established 1828 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and ontario quebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations authorized as second class mail post office department ottawa issued every thursday at stouffville ontario in canada 200 in usa 250 a v nolan son publishers notes and comments maple syrup season sap in local sugar maples lias begun to run and deli cious maple syrup is being offered for sale last week local makers sam fretz and robt ratcliff reported a good run with cold nights warm sun in the daytime and some snow on the ground in a big year ontario quebec and new brunswick together produce some 3000000 gallons including what is processed into sugar about 40 per cent goes to the united states roughly half of it to flavor tobacco and most of the remainder is mixed with cane syrup canadians get their maple syrup straight for it is against the law to adul terate it by mixing with any other syrup it must be evaporated until the sugar content is at least 65 per cent experts are unable to account for the variations in the sweetness of sap generally it takes 35 gallons of sap to produce a gallon of syrup but in certain seasons the sap is much richer in sugar one year the sap was so sweet it only required 17 gallons growing conditions the previous year are thought to cause this variation what is a fair price for milk toronto housewives have been paying 20 cents a quart for milk pasteurized bottled and delivered to their doors a few days ago the milk board authorized an increase of one half cent a quart in order to satisfy the dairies who claimed they could not meet labour demands without an increase just how long they will be satisfied with the half cent to cover costs remains to be seen all this is being done in the interests of the producers and the handlers of the commodity the only people who are not being consulted are the consumers who have to pay for it all but who can speak for the huge mass of unorganized consumers who can say what is a just price for a quart of milk or what is a fair distribution of such price among the various parties engaged in the production processing and distribution of the commodity nobody can the fairest price for milk is the lowest price that will induce men to produce procgss and distribute it in suffi cient quantities to supply the need the only instrument known to man that can determine this price is the free action of competitive market if city dwellers are not satisfied with the prices they are being charged for milk they should encourage more and freer competition in the supplying of it small town export the biggest industry in our town is the education of our children our schools represent our most costly invest ment and more of our money is spent in keeping them operating each year than any other civic enterprise the product of our schools our educated young people is our most important export t youth from the small towns and country districts of canada too often look to the cities for opportunities par ticularly is this so in many sections of the country where industries and hence jobs are concentrated in the large urban centres the cities gain is the small towns loss and the small towns need educated young people to give leadership to aid progress to prepare themselves to take over in business and industry and civic affairs from the older people when they wish to retire from active life somehow industry and opportunities must be decentralized in canada for the nations good some of our cities are becoming too big with too great a concentration of industry in too small an area the time may come when because of imminent threat of air attacks industries may have to be moved from the cities to the country towns it appears to us that such a move would be wise now as part of our defence preparations not only would this decentralization be sensible as a defence measure it would be sensible from the viewpoint of giving industrial workers a chance to live in more pleasant more healthful surround ings as we have also pointed out in previous editorial com ment such industrial growth in small centres such as stouffville is the one immediate way in which the heavy educational tax burden can be headed off however like the weather everyone talks about it but no one does any thing about it local efforts toward inducing industry to locate here appear to be in about this same category with more industries located in small towns the need for our educated youth to leave home to gain opportunities for making a living would be reduced to a minimum if a little knowledge is a dangerous thing where is the man who has so much that he is out of danger the old home town by stanley to- irix a youve ar j w rama nvwtf u xwte nn for parents only by nancy cleaver nature lore hikes the young corn is green brother where the rabbits run its blue sky and white clouds and warm rain and sun its song to a mans soul brother fire to a mans brain to hear the wild bees and see the meny spring again by john masefield many poets have sung about the gloryof the outofdoors and there is a touch of the poet about every nature lover who delights to go hikjng in the country in any season of the year boys and girls like to go exploring it ls excellent for their bodies to spend time in the fresh air and sunshine and it is good or their powers of obser vation to look with a keen glance along the trails and woods one of the best gifts a parent can pass on to a child is a nature lore hobby which finds an outlet in hikes with a purpose the way to learn about the out- ofdoors is not through books or magazines or papers but by direct attention a parent who wants his child to live with nature and appreciate her wonders must be willing to take time to go on expeditions into the countryside with him if thase hikes are linked with a specific goal they are much more fun here are some sugges tions of things to do during or after a walk in the spring some of which will be suitable for you to carry out watch for the return and depar ture of the birds on their migra tion flights make your own calen dar marking the name of the bird a brief description of it where it was seen what it was doing and the date on which you observed it look up some facts about the birds who come back to your vincinity make an exploration trip along the banks of a stream watch the action of the water in washing away the soil look for snails fish insects tadpoles and frogs and toads bring home some frogs eggs in a large jar of water and watch them develop when the wild flowers are begin ning to bloom make a trip to see them notice the most of them come out in blossom and foliage before the trees are in full leaf why ls this enjoy the wild flowers without picking any but the very common ones and even then remember that a small bou quet tasefully arranged is more artistic than a large number of flowers erammed into a vase be sure you do not pluck jack-in-the- pulpit trillium columbine ladys slipper or marsh marigold and never never tear up maidenhair fern all these are becoming al most extinct in large areas be cause greedy people have despoil ed the woods prepare a sturdy shoe box with holes for ventilation and a glass on the top lor a cocoon box place a cocoon on its twig if you are fortunate enough to find one watch carefully for a moth or butterfly emerging from a cocoon in the late spring this is one of natures miracles make an animated tree map narking all the different kinds of trees which you can identify along the way if you live on a farm or own a cottage making a nature trail can be a grand vaca tion project plan to put up perm anent markers on each tree and on each marker write the common name of the tree the scientific name and one brief interesting fact about it other absorbing things to do when on a hike will likely occur to you or your boy or girl there is one marvellous thing about the study of nature no one can ever feel they have learned all there is to know or enjoyed all there is to enjoy in the outofdoors dr arthur thompson the great scientist once said the beginning of all knowledge was wonder and wonder was akin to worship eliz abeth barrett browning wrote earths crammed with heaven and every common bush afire with god but only he who sees takes off his shoes copyright days of yore from the files of the stouffville tribune- 29 vears ago goodwood the church has been asked to contribute to the famine fund for starving children of russia they need more than sympathy the stouffville u f o and ufwo concert held in ratcliffs hall was a splendid success the leading feature of the evening a play entitled a perplexing situ ation was given several comic songs were rendered by mr jesse cook also a pantomime in which mr dave stouffer miss alma bruels and mrs s w hastings took part readings were given by mrs joe cooney mrs barkey mrs koss winterstein and mr keith tarr the proceeds amount ed to 112 part of which goes to russian reliei and the remainder to other charitable purposes mr r c ratcliff has been busy of late repairing his mill dam which was washed out by the freshet a couple of weeks ago mr wilbert greenbury spent the weekend in town stouffville baseball club met on tuesday evening and reorganized for the coming season with the following officers hon pres w h shaw past pres w j mather pres dr s s ball sec k r mcleod treas j b sanders claremont william birkitt and wife returned last week from a toronto visit mclaughlin buggy for sale good as new dawson davis montreal street a pretty good firm is watch waite and another is attit early layte and still another is doo dairet but the best is probably grin baret editors mail york east member writes dear electors of york east some mpps have taken to feed ing the rest of us cnarles cox mppfor fort william was in florida for the first week or so of the session and he sent each party a large and beautiful wicker basket packed with treeripened oranges boxes of nuts etc fletcher thomas the conservative member for elgin gave us all apples from his own farm very good ones and bill dennison ccf member for rosedale put a container of honey on each desk all very nice until my turn comes now if i were a good cook i could put a pie on each desk or a cake or something however it is a bit risky with a large number of members sick already five or more government bills were introduced during the week and on each occasion that the amendments to the workmens compensation act appears there is some hot argument and many speeches but for the most part last weeks debates were noncontent ious the throne speech goes on in and around the various bills personally i think it is a tidier method to clean the throne speech up and then the bills some of the liveliest exchanges of the week took place during the speech of fred robinson ccf port arthur on the governments forest policy the hon harold scott minister of lands and forests had said earlier that the forest inventory is now hearing completion and that the evolution from inventory to forest manage ment is coming as rapidly as the inventory is completed for each part of the province mr robin son aroused the ire of the premier and other cabinet ministers when he claimed that the government was actually only dealing with side issues and was not tackling the real prpblems of forest manage ment at all mr robinsons view was that the government should gradually work towards a policy of complete public control over the forests so that die present disjointed system torn by the desires of opposing factions the pulpwood and saw mill interests will be replaced by a systern in which wood is select- tod and channeled into the uses for which it is best suited the hon john eoote vc minister of reform institutions made a contribution to the prob lem of alcoholism to which he has given considerable study in the past two years mr foote is open ing a treatment centre for alcohol ism on the grounds of the mimico reformatory he can see no sense in putting people in reformatory or jail for alcoholism since hebelieves that it is a disease with deep underlying causes there is an important place for legislation mr foote believes in dealing with the question of drinkers either light medium or preseason deer hunt by bow arrow urged hunting and field archers association of ontario advocated an open season for the hunting of deer with bow and arrow two weeks before the opening of the regular season at the fish and game committee of the legisla ture last week it was suggested that the arrow was a safe method of killing game in heavily populated districts where a rifle would be dangerous increasing popularity of both ice and summer fishing on lake simcoe will bring more active supervision by the department of lands and forests game minister harold scott told the committee that a patrol boat would be stationed on the lake next summer that a machine equipped for ice travel would make the rounds ay fishing huts during the winter the ministers announcement followed representations from the orillia sportsmens association that illegal methods were being used to take fish during the winter by snagging fish with fixed hooks through the ice he showed several pieces of the illegal equipment to the committee blake uren representing the association said that his organiza tion had been successful in rearing pheasants for liberation in the area a closed season for pickerel from oct 15 to may 15 was advocat ed by the ontario federation of anglers and hunters they also urged that the legal limit be raised to 15 inches in place of the present 13 the federation also suggested that the present legal size for black bass be raised from 10 to 12 inches notes from old minutes book queens hotel jan 6 1894 the meeting of the stouffville associ ation for the apprehension sunnybrook hospital stouffville tribune mr- editor you can call them as you see them just released from sunny- brook after seven weeks in a differ ent section from my usual associa tes this time with the finest bunch of first class total physical wrecks you have ever seen mostly cou- ghers and groaners bad at night but ok in daytime the choir starts about midnight and keeps up until exhaustion sets in near day light so come with me and meet the boys who are still in the big battle to get a little more of a lost war 4th floor c block big ward and sunrooms ask at thesisters station for arty of the following first man or part of same meet lawrie lachappele one leg and an appetite missing lots of ulcers and a few other minor ailments but still cheer ful and a swell guy next meet the grand old man on the block mr joe finnigan only s5 and with a clear mind and vision but lack ing appetite and means of naviga tion then here are two new custom ers who have not yet had their sentence adjusted but you can bet they are not there on holidays so around the big square post and meet the mayor of dividale in the person of mr mcmillan his bed will be loaded with rabbits and dogs and things and he will be loaded with a good line of uja cap- ivy but quite an interesting char acter in his own rights now here is admiral edward layton still in low gear but with the help of a certain lady in white may soon be in high next we come to sam cramp a small man with big ideas and in his younger days could swing a mean trowel in fancy mortar now his pump is leak ing and he will have to put on the brake now we meet the guy who just wont stay put 90 pounds of vim and vigor and a bum cribbage player his name is ted samby he says so the next section is made up of some more good cou- and ghers such as sir john a mc- conviction of felons was held on the above date and place the treasurer read his report which showed that the total expense for the year was ten dollars he had received 12 from the secretary representing that many new mem bers which left a balance on hand of 7937 the following officers were elected pres james j rae vicopres john baker sec a s leaney treas phillip wideman managing committee william cox- worth wm b sanders thos j dougall jacob hoover james obrien jas mcconnochie robt sangster hiram johnson jacob burkholder moved by robt sangster sec by n grieves that the secretary receive the sum of five dollars for his serv carried moved by james obrien sec jas mcconnochie that the thanks of this society be tendered to our worthy treasurer carried moved by maxson jones second ed by jacob hoover that our trust ed and well tried president be tendered the thanks of this society for his services for the past year carried a lengthy discussion was engaged in by nearly all the mem bers of the society present as to whether it was advisable to admit the son of a deceased member to the society without the requisite fee of 100 moved by h john son seconded by robt sangster that no person be admitted a mem ber of this society without the membership fee of 100 accom panying the dpplication anything in the minutes to the contrary is hereby rescinded carried after the meeting the following members were appointed a com mittee of minute- men wm cox- worth william reynolds james obrien john baker jas mccon nochie thos j dougall robt sangster john baker donald without portfolio redburn leader and lowe then we cross broadway and up the other side of the ward to meet alfred hurst john jordan and cecil b demille but he will settle for waddell hes not from hollywood but is a radio techician and not a promotor now around another big post and you come to where i spent my sentence and enjoyed being among a good bunch of such perfect phy sical wrecks and 1 hope another pest has taken ray place to stop whitie from running his portable sawmill at 6 am over here is rip vanwinkle but seeing he has wakened up after 84 years well call him mr w h van- sickle without disability then this is mr j s mcelrea a gen tleman and a scholar who likes dear sweet old ladies and loses his bus at the sportsmans show around another post and meet don mcwhirter who i guess has gone home and another fellow up in the age bracket who wishes his name withheld but a good guy anyway next is mr b c boulton mbe and he too is a man of distinction and ability and the last fellow on my list is f l evans who is just on his feet after a close call with the angels so if you are up 1c way some time see these boys and you may also meet our little sister pinkie clarke and tommy the cleaner along with other swell staff help my best wish is that the good lord will be nice to them and may the wee faiiies and leprocons dance on their beds and keep them awake the way you bums did to me yours very forgivingly w g sandy sanderson box 209 stouffville ont grapes are grown on 17500 acres of land in the niagara peninsula every year lie in the physiological and psychological fields it has always seemed to me non sense to put a person in confine ment for thirty days for over indulgence in alcohol and keep on doing it time after time with the same individual yet not treating him or her in any way i remem ber when i visited mimico reform atory the police wagon came in and the first man out of it was an olfl man with a long grey beard the superintendent who was at that time harold wright said so grandpas back with us again he just goes in and out i asked on what charge he was picked up and he told me hat sometimes it was for directing traffic on yonge st think of the cost of the various convictions it would certainlv be more sensible to try to cure alcoholics though it would be more sensible still to prevent them from being in the first place we are all waiting anxiously to see what the hon tom kennedv is bringing down in the bills he york county health will hold a clinic for unit has given notice of the notice heavy but alcoholism should be states that there are amendments treated in the medical field and not i to the milk control act and the m the legislative field he be- j farm products marketing act moves that the causes of alcoholism agnes maphail immunization against diphtheria whooping cough tetanus lockjaw and smallpox for preschool children infancy to schoolage accompanied by a parent or guardian at the locations and times shown below rocvrfov t ss 3 markliam tup if cm ford school ooo am 5 klmm tp ilagermnns cor school 1030 am ss id markliam twp milllken school ss ii markhnm twp ss i markliam twp thornlca school ss 2 markliam twp german stills school ss 18 markliam twp box grove school ss 20 markhnm twp cedar grove school ss i markliam tup ss 12 markliam twp ss 13 markham twp ss ii markliam tp coolers corners school i oo pm ss 10 markliam twp 200 pm ss 22 markliam twp mongolia school 300 pm 100 pm 300 pm j 000 am 1130 am 100 pm 300 pm 000 am 1000 am 1100 am date apr 4 apr apr apr apr apr apr apr apr apr apr apr apr apr 4 4 1 5 5 a 12 12 12 12 12 12 prevent disastrous illness death york 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