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stouffville ontario thursday march 17th 1938 toronto flashes by walter davey phone ha 3012 at this time i would again urge you to send in your news items by visit mail or phone come on now and give us a hand mr and mrs dudley white of altona visited at mount albert on sunday glad to hear mrs white i- feeling better to f j robinson many happy returns on his 14th also for daughter of the scribe birthday march sth thanks to martha stewart for ner lovely letter i know you will enjoy your gift book congratulations to mr and mrs taylor of 2nd con in the birth of a daughter sorry to hear our friend mr3 fields is not so well miss davey her sister mrs hil and p h davey visited at stouff ville on thursday last toronto readers are certainly select groceries oxydol special get one medium pkg oxydol for lc when you buy 1 large pkg oxydol for 22c both for 23c free useful dish cloth when you buy 5 bars comfort soap for 20c free a weeks supply of dental cream or tooth powder or shaving cream with 2 cakes palmolive soap 12c birthday march i pleased to hear that music is being imiss anne davey taught iu the goodwood school there should be plenty ot singers for the church choirs now many happy returns to william davey ottawa just another good wood old boy i had a very welcome visit from my surgeon on thursday when he removed me from my cast it certainly is a pleasure to get away from viewing nothing but the wall paper pattern on the ceiling after five weeks cruise down the atlantic coast to the west indies mr and mrs willian darey have returned to their home iu ottawa to the luuau family we extend our sympathy we under stand vaughan blue- mans new farm on scugog island has about fifty acres of water frontage his city friends will certainly want to take in a tew weekend trips up there liss minnie lee is visiting her brother george 242 jones ave visitors to the correspondent last week were vaughan blueman alex brown george lee and howard harper secondary school taxes york county extra special mixed nuts we have a few fine quality mixed nuts left from the winter season which we are clearing out at this very low price per pound 15c kellogs rice krispies 2 packages for 25c get a nice glass cereal bowl with each 2 pkgs evaporated apples 2 lbs 25c choice figs cooking per lb 10c zest pickles large jar 25c soups on try this delicious vegetable soup pkg 10c for lent pancakes and maple syrup aunt jemimah pancake flour pkg 16c maple syrup bottle 32ounce 50c american beauty 1 shrimps per tin 20e herrings in tomato sauce 2 tins for 25c frozen salmon fresh oysters smoked fillets dried herring fresh fruits and vegetables ratcliff co phono 7112 the garret auxiliary entertains the regular monthly meeting of the garrett evening auxiliary was held in the basement of the united church on thursday evening march 10 there was a large attendance ranging from the two year old tots to the grandmothers and the even ing auxiliary was pleased to have with them as their guests the cglt girls who put on the devotional service miss thelma atkinson was in the chair and gave talk on different ways of finding god miss gladys stover rendered an instrumental and miss joyce ball favored with a solo the second chapter of the study book a new church faces a now world was taken by miss imuriel hostrawser mrs milton storey took charge ot the business and it- was announced that dr margaret mackellar would be guest speaker on april 13 this meeting to take the form of an open meeting and be held in the base men of the church after the meeting several games were played and a social half hour was enjoyed by all f xoeloi xoexoi a o real march values table oilcloths what a difference a hew bright cheerful patterned oilcloth will make in your kitchen these new patterns are so attractive and the quality is the best and you are saved a lot of work if you use these nice covers for everyday use ia width vard 39c 1 width yard 49c attractive prints now is the time to make your selection of new prints for school or house dresses the new patterns are unusually fine and our stock is large so that you will have no difficulty in getting just what vou need priced at 16c 20c 25c 29c cee tee underwear just a few lines of the allwool underwear left so that if you wish to take advantage of this special clearing sale you must act at once natural vests with long sleeves and ankle length drawers per garment 129 cee tee vests and drawers each 69c 95c 135 179 printed crepes and sheers these smart frocks are the last word in style and materials a wide variety in styles and unusual colour combinations make these new dresses real fashion leaders and the prices are very attractive 295 to 675 veils and flowers are very important items in your new spring outfit the musthave of the season in millinery veil on your hat for fetching flattery flowers on your hat for spring gaiety veils in navy and black each 20c 25c flowers singly or in clusters 15c to 75c your wallpaper needs can be satisfactorily supplied with our splen did showing of sunworthy wallpapers a line up of designs important for spring decorating modern diagonals fabric weaves and the ever popular conventional and floral designs printed on good quality stock wallpapers that will add to the beauty of your rooms and bring you lasting pleasure ask for a sample book fine linen towelling best quality linen towelling in widths of 15 to 24 checks stripes or plain with color ed borders 16c to 35c mill ends of factory cotton about 36 wide in various lengths splendid value at the price per yard 10c 12v4 end of season clearing sale all wool and silk and wool hosestill a good assortment to choose from in all sizes and in most of the popular shades regular 100 silk and wool for 79c regular 110 all wool for 95c other lines all reduced broadcloth slips a new line just in stock carefully made to standard sizes in peach pink and white all sizes 29c to 75c gift china and glassware artistic pieces in china cut glass and fine english pottery jardineers bowls vases pitchers trays etc a dazzling array of beauty from which to choose large or small dinner services in open stock patterns semi- porcelain and limoges at all prices royal bayreuth china dinner services 96 pieces two patterns per set 2500 changes iu the basis of second ary education costs in york county will mean an increase in school costs in 11 out of the 26 munici palities of york county estimates joseph e howes in an interim re port to the couutys special com mittee on taxation rural municipalities will benefit by the new basis at the expense of many of the towns villages and suburban townships uhe report point out mr howes estimates that ycrk township east york long branch mimico aurora weston markhara village newmarket richmond hi stouffville and sutton will require higher school rates under the nsw setup than they would under the old in the case of stouffville how ever the increase is practically taken care of by the drop in the general county rate so that while the school rate is up the net result is nearly the same as iu 1937 savings to the other municipali ties he calucates to be from one to slightly over two mills mill rales needed estimated mill rates required to raise necessary funds for all school purposes including county levy are as follows on 1937 georgina 1097 gwillimbury e 1533 gwillimbury x 9g3 king 1231 markham township 1514 vaughan 1121 whitchurch 1156 east york 2750 etobicoke 2249 north york is 91 scarboro 22 gs york 3s04 forest hill 1360 leaside 1226 long branch 2762 mimico 2523 new toronto 2s24 swansea 1414 weston 2593 aurora is 13 markham village 1s4s xewmarket 2256 richmond hill 2221 stouffville 1651 suttoti 1654 woodbridge 1007 grants decrease while total school taxes levied in york county have increased by 300000 during the past seven years legislative grants for the same period have decreased by 29000 according to the report during that period the percentage of total education revenue formed by legislative grants has declined from 1597 to 1397 the report states thus throwing a larger bur den of school costs on the individu al municipalities the increase in costs has been en- trely for secondary education the total having risen from s1s057 to 1109952 since 1931 while grants have dropped from 9j445 to s7712 from 1055 per cent to 732 per cent baxter thinks us should act finn stand by republic would lessen likelihood of war 103s 899 1359 773 10 3s 1333 905 943 2sg4 2190 1791 22 41 39 7s 1185 11 so 2s51 2671 2691 12 2s 2791 1953 21 is 2515 2551 1710 1910 s2s the w h shaw store writ loxaoi ioesoi some w xewmarket era a large proportion of the for mers are hard up but they dont know what to do about it stated s b mccready wellknown through out ontario as a writer and lectur er on rural affairs speaking at the leaders institute held at pickering college last saturday the mps are not much im pressed with the idea of doing any thing for the farmers said mr mccready they dont sense the real needs of the country we need more agnes macphails agriculture must be made more profitable at the present time tiiere is an unbalanced state of affairs rural teachers receive about 500 a year while city teachers are paid 1500 a farmhand gets about 25 per month whereas the city milk- driver earns 35 a week things are in such a bad con dition because of the failure o have the right kind of schools the department of education could issue pamphlets monthly or quarterly to tell the people what is going on in educational work in other parts of the world and thus spread the nest ideas said mr mccready at the present time no leader ship is given in adult education by the education department years ago many young men attended the rural schools during the winter months some of these men later became well known in the business world in the opinion of imr mccready winter training schools should i provided for young people and they should also he enabled to attend winter classes at the universities without matriculation standing suc they are engaged in agricultural work for a large portion of the year they should be given some recogni tion school fairs are becoming com petitive instead of cooperative he said the principle of the fairs is very unsound very often the ex hibits have been prepared by the parents instead of the pupils the judges say there is always some crooked work that the united states should take her place beside creat britain u a determination to force peace upon a harassed and muddleheaded world is the contention of beverley baxter- canadian-borr- mp and nephew of our former citizen harvey lawsou in his london letter which appears in the march 15 number of macleans magaziue the issue of peace or war in the world depends whether america before it is too late pays some thing of her debt tc britain he states and continues 1 am not referring to mere trades mens debts on either side but to a debt so vast that it could not be computed in terms of money the ordinary american is no a world citizen he is sentimental kindly idealistic but clothed in a vast and selfsatisfied ignorance about the history of every country including his own he would be hurt and sincerely astonished to learn that his beloved country owes great britain that which could not be estimated in terms of all the wealth in the world 1 believe that if he were told of it he would be ready and anxious to repay i would endeavor to achieve a miracle at washington it would probably be madness even to think of such a thing but supposing the incredible happened and the im possible occurred supposing as a result of our conversation presi dent roosevelt went to the micro phone and made a speech somewhat along these lines my friends before i start my address tonight i want to tell you a little story many years ago this country was at war with spain iu the pacific in pursuance of our belligerent rights we had announced a block ade of manila harbor by our fleet now it happened that admiral chichester of the british navy was in the neighborhood witli a number of ships then a strong section of the german fleet turned up germany had her own ideas about the pacific being taken out of european hands and the german admiral sent word to the british admiral asking what he would do if the germans decided to force the blockade he expected or at any rate hoped that the british would re main neutral admiral chichesters reply was americas admiral writes from india dear anthiyur coimbatore dist south india january 193s friends as i look forward to serving our lord in this land during 193s it is with confidence that our lord will do great things for us hitherto he has done great things for us and he changes not the past year lias been one iu which i have proved the faithfulness of god all my needs have been supplied and i have enjoyed excel lent health in this land so ridden with disease many of you may have heard of the advance of our mission into the united provinces of northern india this truly is an area where a genuine need exists and we be lieve the lord is calling us out to meet this great need in the area we are entering the missionary occupation is less than one per million i do not believe such can be duplicated anywhere in the world today in our present day and age you may well ask how such a con dition exists but as i cannot ex plain such without an indictment of denominational missions and their methods i shall refrain at present with a view to my going to tliis new area at a later date i have been requested to study the language spoken there this is no small tpsi and i covet your prayers as i carry on with this the lord bus blessed and guided me in the study of tamil so i now carry on witli the study of urdu believing i shall ex perience the same help the question may loom up in the minds of some of you as to tlfc wisdom of this move and is to whether or not the time i have sprt in south india lias been in vain i can readily assure you that the time i have been in south india has not been in vain but a time of real training and experience which will prove an invaluable asset to me in our new work this new step on our part is not without its attendant difficulties and we stand iu need of your prayer fellowship as nwr before no service in itself is small none great though earth it fiil but that is small that seeks its own and great that seeks gods will then hold my hand most gracious cod guide all my goings still and let it be my lifes one aim to know and do thy will yours in his glad service harry worllng knows what my ships will do whereupon the british took up a position between the germans and ourselves their bluff having been called the german ships went back home many of you have been taught to look upon british as our enemy it is true we fought for our exis tence as a republic yet i say to you that next to the character and the strength of our people the greatest contribution to the happiness and prosperity of the usa has been made by the unfail ing friendliness and assistance of great britain when our civil war left us ex hausted british capital poured in by endless milions to assist in build ing up the nation we know today controlling as she did a quarter of the earths surface britain was powerful enough to put a wall about her empire and shut out all other nations instead she refused to do so and under a policy of free trade made her own wealth a source ot wealth to all we have traded and still trade in every british port secure in the honor of british commercial stand ards and in the protection of the british fleet when china ceded part of a swamp called shanghai to britain and it was transformed by british genius and british capital into the great commercial and financial metropolis of the far east it was the beginniig of our own immense expansion of trade with china today with half her invest ments we do twice the trade that britain does with china in the great war the forces of militant autocracy challenged the forces of democracy and demandel that they stand aside for many reasons some noble an others ignoble we refused to play our part while the young men of france and britain held the last outposts of civilization once more the british fleet kept intact the world that was necessary to american prosperity and ameri can happiness we came in eventu ally but though we could not repay britains dead we demand that she should guarantee the repayment of our dollars loaned to the allies te dollar had become more sacred than human life continuing mr baxter states america and britain face a dread ful menace in the far east japan goes on from outrage to outrage in the belief that america will not take her stand with britain so does mussolini so to a lesser extent does hitler yet america and britain could restore peace to the far east with out firing a gun britain and frauee together could clear the mediterran ean of every italian ship in twenty- four hours aud lock the german navy in the baltic does america iu spite of roose velts warnings still believe that she can live on her own flesh aud keep the evils of the world outside- her borders the most halfwitted babbitt irv the smallest town iu illinois knows that such a policy is impossible then is america still willing to live and trade and prosper because britain makes it possible for her so to do or conversely is she willing to see ail that go rather than support britain 1 believe that the americans would like to krow those truths 1 wish president roosevelt would make some such speech as i have indicated says baxter who before he became a member of parliament re ceived 60000 a year as head of beaverbrooks london express he visited stouffville on one or two occasions to see his uncle harvey lawson now of toronto a x x v a l under auspices uuionvillc junior fanners will be held in mammoth hall malvern 9 tw o hannigans orchestra refreshments ifejhilrcc permanent waves priced from 250 to si ooi finger waving manicuring haircutuiig hot oil treatments facials marie brown telephone 176 telephone talks in the watson family pitf this family has no distant relatives not that the watson family is so small on the contrary there are urrdes aunts cousins nephews nieces and so on scattered across the dominion biitllicy never lose track of eacli oilier long distance brings them together again on many anniversary and special occasions throughout the year at surprisingly little cost reductions in telephone fates local and long distance in 1935 36 and 37 have effected savings to telephone users in ontario and qticbec of nearly ona million dollars yearly goal and feeds place your order for fuel a day ahead if possible so you will not be disappointed on that truly good reading coal we are dealers for national concentrate and national minerals poultry feeds of all kinds on hand cod liver oil salt and all other animal feeds s w hastings phone stouffville 169