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page two the tribune stouffville ontario thursday march 23 1939 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 like a snowball rolling down a hill geo mccullagh s leadership league gains in momentum and force each day and there is no telling what will be the ultimate outcome at least the blizzards of ballots dscending upon ottawa should make some little impression upon the politicians and bring them to realize that the people are looking for action to solve canadas pressing problems the league is also per forming the very useful service of arousing public opinion which in the final instrument for inciting parliament analysis will be the most effective to action ontarios well run counties financial post there is one bright spot in the municipal picture in canada that is commonly overlooked that is the sound spending policies of a number of smaller governing bodies and their relative freedom from debt typical of a group in ontario is the case of elgin county says the aylmer express for years elgin county has been financed on a payasyougo plan like nebraskans the citizens of elgin are proud of their enviable position and intend to stay that way we in elgin are debt conscious and no elected councillor would think of recommending any change in the policy elgins record is one of which its citizens may be proud it has no debenture debt in 1937 and 1936 it had a perfect record of tax collections there were no tax arrears other ontario counties have cut their coats accord ing to their cloth the counties of kent lambton perth simcoe and wellington also had no debenture debt at the end of 1937 thirty counties showed a decrease in deben ture debt as against one increase while the progress made by counties may be more grati fying than that of municipalities generally it should be re membered that a number of factors make the problems of the latter more difficult to solve greater concentration of population causes higher costs of social services and relief municipal facilities are much more costly the majority of ontario counties have preponderant ly rural populations in the case of elgin of a population of approximately 26000 less than 6000 are inhabitants of towns and villages in 1936 55904 was spent on social services out of total expenditures of 234691 this is proportionately greater than the majority of counties the greatest burdens assumed by the counties are those of education administration of justice and construc tion and maintenance of roads the county councillor is inherently a sound individu al believing that the government of the county should be conducted on the same lines as his business or farm while this view prevails the county is likely to be run on a common sense basis whats wrong with our country speaking in the house of commons the other day hon r j manion made a rather sensational comparison when he said that germany italy and japan taken all to gether were only just a little greater in area than the province of ontario and that in those three countries there are cooped up so to speak 200000000 people while in ontario there are less than 4000000 people seizing upon these figures mr j h blackmore mp quotes the minister of public welfare as saying that unless there is a pronounced improvement in business con ditions during the current year ontarios relief bill for 1939 will be well above the 1938 figure he estimates that by the end of this month about 283000 ontario citizens will be receiving aid as against 253430 during the same month last year and says that during the fiscal year end ing march 31 the ontario government will have spent one million dollars more on relief than during the previous year while not agreeing with mr blackmores social credit theories editorially comments the hanover post many people will agree with him that if ontario cannot support four million people with a reasonable standard of wellbeing while germany italy and japan with a similar area are struggling to keep 200 million people the evi dence seems conclusive that something is radically wrong with the type of democracy we are trying to apply to the dominion and further the simple fact remains that when in a country as rich as canada with such a small population conditions are so contemptibly and shamefully bad the people will realize that certainly there must be something wrong somewhere hookandeye days other things besides times march on to most of the zipperel women of today the death of the inventor of the hookaneye fastener may mean little or nothing but there will be greyheads to recall the waspwaist era that gave this form of holdtogether its greatest vogue many a smile will break at the recollection of heavy strings anchored to a bedpost or some other convenient piece of furniture and drawn almost to breaking point while a perspiring female at the other end struggled to compress herself into a corset with that acrobatic achievement successfully attend ed to there was still the gown usually brought together under one arm as the most inaccessible as well as the most inconspicious place of meeting that called for hooks and eyes sewed together as closely as possible often the enveloping process enlisted the unwilling services of the nominal head of the household who probably was having troubles of his own chasing an elusive collar button under the furniture or into a dark corner stanley theatre phone stouffville 100 thursday friday saturday march 23 24 25 shirley temple iittle miss broadway geo murphy jim durante mondav tuesdav wednesday march 27 2s 29 edward g robinson in 1 am the law wendy barrie barbara oneil andy clyde comedy shorts thursday friday saturday march 3031 april 1 big double bill tenth avenue kid blonde trouble john urquhart a popular and friendly man treasurer still bail on t j sager clerk and treasur er of reach township is still on a 5000 bail after his arrest at port perry on charges of em bezzling 3000 of township funds from 1934 to 1938 in clusive sager had been township tax collector from 1931 to april 1938 when he received the ap pointment of clerk and treasur er sager a married man aged 56 had been a resident of prince albert for some years he was arrested in port perry by provincial constable w h clark and brought to the county jail it is alleged sager issued re ceipts for tax collections but did not return all the money to the township the alleged de falcations came to light last week on thursday last he was up for hearing when given a fur ther remand trout from lake simcoe profitable for fishermen fishing on lake simcoe in the sutton keswick and port bolster area is the best in three years thats what the fisher men themselves report and they should know if anybody does but they qualify their re port by saying it concerns only trout whitefish are another matter the whitefish catches have been few and far between in fact the fishermen are so dis gusted that they have long since given up hope of catching any their lack though is more than made up by the overabundance of trout several large catches have been recorded and what is better still the price is higher buyers are paying a top price of 15 cents a pound without argument stewart noble and david se- dore both secured record catches for one day noble got 12 for his load while mr se- dore received 15 for his 23 trout both reside in sutton and depend on fishing for their live lihood during the winter lack of whitefish fishermen explain is due to the fact that they have moved into trout fish grounds five miles off shore here they seem almost immune to fishing hooks the average whitefish caught average one to four pounds but so few have been caught of late that fishermen are working on nearby farms cutting and hauling wood or helping to fill ice company warehouses ernest prosser district game warden says trolling during the spring and summer should be the best in many years it was good last year but it is expect ed to be even better this year he bases his prediction on the scarcity of whitefish and the overabundance of trout this state of affairs augurs well for a good open season of fishing lets hope i am not wrong in my predictions he said the largest trout taken out of the lake was caught by how ard woods well known sutton resident caught by spear the trout weighed 17 pounds even in reference to the life and final passing of john e urqu hart of ayr as reported in this paper last week the gait re porter which ciriculates the ayr district says ayr lost a wellknown citizen over the weekend in the death of john e urquhart although he had not been en joying the best of health this winter mr urquhart had been able to continue his usual work and it was only two weeks ago that he was forced to his bed with a chill complications set in which proved fatal he was in his 63rd year mr urquhart was born in stouffville son of the late john urquhart and margaret jane leany he received his educa tion at stouffville schools a moulder by trade he served his apprenticeship with the gurney company in toronto he was married in toronto on march 3 1904 continued to work for the gurney company for a year af ter his marriageand then went to sarnia for a year where he worked for the dougherty com pany he came to ayr 33 years ago and since then had worked as a moulder for the john watson company in his younger days he was a lacrosse player for years he was a member of the ayr bowling club he was a member of the canadian order of foresters and an adherent of knox united church in politics he was a staunch liberal a welltempered friendly man mr urquhart had many friends who always found him the same tested by time since 1847 canada life canadas oldest life assurance company life insurance and income plans to meet every need local representative a c burkholder markham man charged with receiving new system for is lic beginning the first of april a complete new system for issuing radio licenses will be inaugurat ed all over the country all lic enses will henceforth be issued by returned soldiers with active overseas service a supervisor in each federal riding will be appointed who will in turn appoint vendors of licenses these vendors all of whom must also be returned soldiers go to the homes of all the people in the territory and if the home has a radio their in structions are to call the owners attention to the fact that a license is necessary to operate a radio set and offer to sell one should the owner of the set de cline to buy a license a note of the fact is made and at a later date a second call is made if on the occasion of this call the license is not taken out no threat is to be made or any measure taken to make the sale high pressure the vendor has a report he fills out giving con siderable information regarding the party declining to take out the license and this is forward ed to the department of trans port and further action comes from them as all the licenses will have to be purchased by the vendors before they make their can vass postmaster and radio dealers will continue to issue radio licenses this year but when the new system is working smoothly the sale of radio licenses will probably be made wholly through the men appointed to handle them v the world owes me a living failure of many to find em ployment is due to lack of inter est dr g i christie told an audience at milton on thursday the president of the ontario agricultural college spoke at the annual ladies night of st clair masonic lodge a large part of our unem ployment is the result of too many thinking the world owes them a living so they sit down and wait for it dr christie declared i can place dozens of men if they really know how to do something and sincerely want to do it dr christie ridiculed the suggestion that the churchha3 failed this receiving business has got to a point where the man who receives is worse than the thief declared magistrate keith james rennie of mark ham village appeared for sen tence on a charge of receiving a fog light two village boys have been convicted of stealing the light and one was given a jail sen tence said the court the evidence in this case shows an offer of 50 cents was made to the boys to secure the fog lamp and was paid he was more to blame than the thieves rennie was sentenced to 30 days in jail j rest home accommodation for elderly ladles bright and comfortable home with all conveniences iriscilla pipiier box 22 ltingwood ontario lehmans shoe store phone 4301 stouffville footwear for all the family womens hosiery boots shoes rubbers mitts socks gloves the proposed increase of 2 cents a gallon tax on gasoline would bring increased revenue of five million dollars typical low fares by motor coach buffalo 660 cleveland 1275 baltimore 1985 augusta 3085 tickets and information at mansion house stouffville gray coach lines r shell clean rest rooms we sell dependable tires guaranteed boadways service station phone 265 stouffville completing the picture of a golden wedding mrs allen quickfall of bridgeport ont had just arranged a huge bouquet of chrysanthemums their golden wedding remembrance from assembled chil dren and grandchildren when the telephone rang it was a call from kindersley sask and the voice of roy her son greeted her what a surprise on such a day mrs quickfall writes we like to pass on to other sons and mothers the value and satisfaction to be obtained through the medium of telephone contacts particularly so when the dear ones are scattered over the country why wait for a golden wedding next lime there is a family celebration call up by long distance make it a real surprise and remember this it costs so little you too will be surprised