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page two stouffville ontario thursday january 5 1939 1 9tauffiriu ribun established 1888 a member of the canadian weekly newspaper association issued every thursday at stouffville ontario subscription rates per year in advance in canada 200 in usa 250 a v nolan jp editor and publisher notes and comments an idea here is an idea that comes from detroit mich and on the face of it it looks sensible if an electric light bulb burns out in detroit it is taken to the utilities office and it is re placed free of charge the point is that bulbs may be pur chased for very little money if taken in large quantities and the more bulbs lighted up the more electricity will be used we are not sure that such a plan would work out in stouffville but there is no harm in telling how it is done in detroit who would you like to be if you were not yourself at the january session the schools in belleville new jersey put this question to 682 boys who would you like to be if you were not yourself 363 said colonel lindbergh president coolridge came second henry ford thomas edison herbert hoover governor smith general persh ing gene tunney john d rockefeller and babe ruth all crowded for third place two boys stated they would like to be if they were not themselves my dad no father could have received a higher compliment undoubtedly the father of the two boys who wrote my dad in answer to the question through their acts and words early became heroes to their sons and never lost that proud relationship all honor to them scholarships the late harvey e mowbray of granton willed 500 to the trustees of the granton public and continuation school to establish a scholarship fund the interest yearly will be paid to the student with the highest standing at the high school entrance examinations the scholarship will be known as the harvey e mowbray scholarship the late mr mowbray lost an eye in an accident when a high school student at st marys collegiate institute and shortly afterwards he became a cripple and lost the use of his legs his health also was not very good under similar circumstances many a young man would have given up and become dependent on his relatives or upon the state harvey mowbray was not this type of man he persistently fitted himself for business for years he conducted the granton telephone exchange later he launched into the poultry business and made a success of it his baby chicks found a market in ontario quebec and the maritimes mr mowbray spent much time in reading and he developed a wellfurnished mind friends who drop ped in for a chat found him a charming companion he always took a close interest in events of the village and although unable to attend church he always supported it financially harvey mowbrays life stands out as a great success while others with none of his great handicaps are failures whither religion in germany toronto daily star the rev martin niemoeller is reported to have spent christmas in the concentration camp where he has been imprisoned by the nazi government for some time dr niemoeller was arrested because of his outspoken defence of the christian church in germany he was tried last march by nazi officials and acquitted of practically all charges that were preferred against him still he has not yet been released the doughty pastors confinement is now due to his conflict with the heads of the nazi police and ecclesiastical affairs regarding the conditions of his release the nazi officials insist that dr niemoeller must promise never to preach again not to return to his parish and to stay away from berlin for six months in order to avoid the publicity that would undoubtedly attend his release dr niemoeller refuses to comply and so he remains in the concentration camp the struggle of the christian churches in germany has been continuous for the past five and a half years since the nazis took power seeking to control the church the nazis launched what they call the german christian churchwhich preaches german christianityfree of the influences of christ with his emphasis on universal love pity and justice this attempt has not however met with the desired success in fact competent observers claim that the nazi attack on the christian churches has had the opposite effect the recent antijewish programs have made a pro found impression on the people and are credited with hav ing caused a setback to the antichurch movement evi dence of this is found in the unexpectedly strong resistance shown by the majority of the teachers to the order which was recently issued that religious instruction in the schools was to cease on the ground that german people could no longer tolerate the glorification of a religion whose foundation was rooted in a jewish criminal ele ment less than two per cent of the teachers voted to obey these instructions so deep was the feeling about this among teachers and parents that the matter was allowed to drop quietly by the reich minister of education the methods used by the nazis to liquidate the jews and the measures taken and threatened against the catho lics and evangelical protestants have jolted also those people who had hitherto been uncritical christians of all denominations are reported to have been filled with fore bodings when they witnessed the burning and destruction of jewish temples and the attempt to set fire to the catholic cathedral in munich in these acts they saw ex amples of what may befall the christian churches which persist in resisting the nazification of religion stanley theatre phone stouffville 100 thursday friday saturday january 5 6 7 big double bill adventures in the sahara and overland express buck jones the noted american author pearl buck is shown here as she received the nobel prize in literature for 1938 from the hands of the king of sweden in stockholm freedom of press again protected the valleyfield quebec city council recently passed a reso lution which led to the ejection of the press representative of la gazette de valleyfield the second paper owned by adam l sellar of huntingdon inter preting such a motion as an attack upon the freedom of the press mr sellar and his edi tor mr saintonge procured legal advice and took action against the council for 5000 damages legal advice was sought by the council and they were advised that the press had their freedom at all council meetings and that the much publicized motion was out of order the mayor and the two aldermen who moved and secon ded the motion realizing their error expressed a desire to have this action settled out of court this was finally agreed upon and after rescinding the previous hasty and uncalled for motion the case was withdrawn the defendant agreeing to pay the legal costs and out of pocket ex penses of the publishers amounting to approximately 250 commenting editorial on the affair the huntingdon gleaner concludes an article with this comment the result of everything however no doubt clearly dem onstrates that there is the possibility of aldermen getting so wrapped up with their own importance as aldermen of the city that they seem to come close to the attitude of a dicta tor rather than realizing the truth of the whole matter that they are public servants that they have been elected by the people to serve the people and that they are obliged to turn over to the people an account of what they are doing there should be no need for any coun cil to hold back anything from the press if everything that is being done is square and above board no council should have any fear whatever in letting the press and consequently the pub lic know what is being done the press seeks to serve the public just as much as a coun cil seeks to serve the public why then should any council become so dictatorial about things they really do not own but which really belong to the public as to virtually tell the people they can not have what is theirs it is to be hoped that the citizens of valleyfield will be better served by both the coun cil and the press henceforth and that an allround better under standing will be the result of the whole affair held pickering clerkship for one hu years the veteran township clerk and treasurer of pickering township mr donald beaton who despite the fact that his age is floating midway between 75 and 80 years is one of the most efficient officers in ontario according to ratepayers and officials who have business to transact at the clerks office it is an interesting fact to note that donald beaton and his father the late hector beaton have held this position now between them for over a century this is surely a record which stands out in ontario his tory of municipal officers thursdav friday saturday january 9 10 11 thrill of a lifetime starring dorothy lamour ben blue betty grable the yacht club boys short subjects monday tuesday wednesday january 12 13 14 four men and a prayer starring loretta young c a smith richard green special attraction march of time resigns after 27 years in office bread shortage in italy waiters in hotels and restaur ants in italy have been ordered to watch closely and make sure no bread is wasted smaller rolls and slices of bread are being served and no extra bread is put on the tables where a plate of rolls would be placed before a patron now only a little bit of bread is allowed him the use of bread is discouraged as much as possible that is all due to the shortage of grain in italy with little more wheat than is absolutely necessary musso lini is taking steps to conserve the bread upply of the nation perhaps this shortage of bread reveals part of the cause for all the shouting about tunis and corsica mussolini knows that hungry people can sometimes be made to forget their empty stomachs if he fills them full of martial glory ii duce may cause the peoole to think he is still leading the nation out of hun ger and into plenty but if a nation in peace is short of bread how can it hope to last last any length of time in a war if as the globe and mail says there are more than 1300000 motor cars and trucks in can ada canadians have paid at least 400000000 more than united states citizens for the same class of trucks and cars it is a whale of a subsidy to give to one industry westview nursing home stouffville obstetrical and convalescent cases taken reasonable terms visiting hours 330 to 430 oclock 700 to 800 oclock marjorie stewart reg n phone 272 the coal merchants are be ginning to wear a smile again as the mercury hovers around the zero mark the weather has been so mild they had visions of not being able to afford a holiday trip next summer and were feei- ing rather glum until last week village council next monday lehmans shoe store phone 4301 stouffville footwear for all the family womens hosiery boots shoes rubbers mitts seeks gloves stewart mcquay was elected president of the markham township conservative associa tion at the annual election of officers held in the unionville town hall james gibson who has ten dered his resignation after serv ing as secretarytreasurer of the association for the past 27 years was asked to serve protem un til another secretarytreasurer is elected he was given a life honorary membership in the association as also was robert stiver of markham other officers elected were first vice w f kincaid second vice raymond brillinger third vice edward walker fourth vice albert clark the election was conducted by jack leslie president of the york east provincial riding association speakers were r h mcgregor mp j d mills secretary of the york east i federal riding association jack leslie and c r purcell secretary of the york east provincial riding association that was in other times replied the accused you couldnt do it nowadays and get by on it he concluded asked by the court why he had selected his 63yearold bachelor uncle to forge the cheques on moore replied that his uncle was boarding with the accuseds widow mother who was said uncles sister and that he was paying no board but salting down all he made by working about on neighboring farms while his mother was trying to subsist on an old age pension and the returns from a 25acre farm given largely over to pasture he knew that his uncle had a bank account and that the cheques would be paid he said asked as to whether he did- not know forgery was a serious offence and on his replying in the negative the court advised him that a life sentence could be imposed for such a crime how ever the bench said it wasnt its intentions to exact the maxim um penalty in this case and that it thought the ends of justice would be met in this in stance by the imposition of a years determinate period in the feformatory with an indeter minate period of three months on each of the three charges the terms of run concurrently one year for forgery pleading guilty to forging the name of his bachelor uncle albert dier to three different cheques for 10 each john moore 38yearold farm labor er of the port elgin district stated that he wasnt going to starve and that a man could not live working during busy seas ons for farmers at 1 per day and lay off during the slack periods but ive worked for less than 1 a day retorted magi- strat walker tomatoheaver frank harrison caused a sen sation in the london royal courts of justice when he threw tomatoes at the two judges on the bench he was arrested and charged with contempt of court rsix weeks in prison was the sentence the other night a man driv ing between tobermory and wiarton came across an unusu al sight on the road was a load of hay proceeding slowly and walking behind were two young deer munching hay as they looked quite happy and un concerned sallys sallies a monologue is a discussion between a wife arjd a husband