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page two the tribune stouffville ont- thursday april 20th 1939 stye tmrfftrille 0jribmu established 1888 a member of the canadian weekly newspaper association issued every thursday at stouffville ontario subscription rates per year in advance in canada s200 in usa 5250 a v nolan jp editor and publisher notes and comments still hold their own the advent of cheap and frequent transportation facilities should not necessarily prove disastrous to the trade of small towns as many pessimists predict as a shopping centre serving a wide area the small town is hold ing its own and the reason prompt and courteous attention coupled with the personal touch between the storekeeper and customer this has served to strengthen the general publics faith that they will at all times be assured of a square deal a degree of assurance of the best value possible lies in the towns moderate size the slightest hint of an un fortunate transaction would soon become common know ledge to the detriment of the trader in question when cheap transportation fares become an established fact fear was expressed that this would result in draining out the townspeople to larger centres the pendulum did not swing to one side only however cheaper and more frequent transport service mean easier accessi bility and this factor has been the means of placing small towns on the map as a shopping centre to a wide rural area it has helped the country town to compete with larger centres favored with more comprehensive stocks the fact that a stouffville storekeeper may not have just the exact article to suit the customers requirements does not mean that it is unobtainable nowadays the required goods can be procured with the minimum of delay it goes without saying that the storekeeper will always be only too glad to meet he customers request in a large city a merchant will often pay 500 per month rent which of course in the long run his customers pay whereas as a general rule the small town merchant owns his own store both pay the same wholesale price and t must be obvious that the customer should be able to obtain a better deal at the small town store the craftsmen in small towns such as tailors jewellers etc generally learned their craft in big cities and are just as competent as their brother artisans in the city taking all things into consideration cheap transpor tation should not injure the small town merchant provid ed he advertises as the city merchant advertisers in his city daily interesting facts which contribute to the great waste of money each year by the railways is being reveal ed before the senate the question of wages looks as if it may burst into the open the railway workers would never have brought into the light of day the fact that some senior locomotive engineers may- receive 4000 per year for being on duty about fifteen days per month nor that overtime pay for a passenger engineer begins after he has been on duty for five hours only neither would the rail way companies for maintenance of peace with the power ful brotherhoods in the train and engine services has long been a major policy it remained for a college professor j l mcdougall of queens to do this job ably backed by a farm paper editor c w peterson of the farm and ranch review that the labor people dont like to have the subject discussed goes without saying norman dowd speaking for one group hinted at a deep dark plot on someones part to promote the cause of railway reform by bringing up the question of the complicated wage schedules which long have been advantageous to any railroad man who had plenty of seniority there is no spreading the work among the railway men until seniors have worked a theoretical 38 or 42 days per month which theoretical 38 or 40 days may be actually only fifteen days of 10 hours each of which perhaps six hours is with hands on throttles and the rest of the time waiting for the return trip to the home terminal its all very interesting also very complicated professor mcdougall intimated that he was months getting at the facts he presented in which time he read apparently scores of back copies of the labour review a government publication as dull as can be imagined if it wernt that the labour review reports the findings of canadian railway board of adjustment no 1 he hinted an outsider would have even greater difficulty learning just how much money and how much leisure the senior fellows in the running trades receive the fact that amazes the voters is that a govern ment will sit idly by and allow these things to go on when the tax payers are being bled at the rate of a million dol lars a week to meet railway deficit in canada cats vs humans according to a canadian press dispatch from wing- ham a woman willed 30000 to provide for her own three cats and three others in the neighborhood the womans own cats have died since and the other three cats are now apparently the sole beneficiaries it is hard to conceive of such a warped and twisted nature that could be deaf to all the cries of need and want arising from human beings today and particularly of a woman who could be wrapped up so exclusively in the wel fare of a few cats as to have no thought of the orphan children thrust upon the more or less tender mercies of a cruel world of the war refugees in china and spain of the oppressed jews and of the sick and distressed in her own community it is perhaps in bad taste to be critical of acts of the dead and there may be an explanation to account for this womans strange disposal of her wealth on the other hand it is just such occurrences which give communists ammun ition for their campaigns kitchener dailv record adventurer richard halliburton made his name by writing stories of his adventures across the face of the earth navigating the paci fic in a junk he hoped to reach san francisco but has been un- ieporter for days charge lack of cooperation the stouffville tribune stouffville ontario dear sir it has been brought to the fritters attention that con stable robert windsor through lack of cooperation in trying to clean up the lake district has placed his resignation be fore council we as a body of ratepayers in the district would consider this in form of a catastrophe as we feel mr windsor is striving to do his duty as a constable and has certainly given every satisfacl tion to the members of our association who are all property owners in the area which he is responsible for he has kept the lake district practically clear of liquor trouble and we have had ex cellent supervision during our winter absence trusting you will give this letter the space it requires and with kind personal regards i am yours very truly burt lloyd president musselmans lake ratepayers association case dismissed over shootingadog before magistrate wqodliff in police court at newmarket last week earl foster charged russel and burnice preston of whitchurch township with kill ing a dog but the case was dis missed earl foster first witness said my dog was chasing prestons dog on the 13th day of march i heard shots fired and ran across the field and spied these two fellows i hollered and asked them to stop and they kept right on going they each had a shotgun my clog was dead he was a good watchdog and i valued him around 2500 they told me it had been chas ing their dog i had never re ceived any complaints about it before our property is joined campbell line of richmond hill appearing for the two ac cused asked mr foster if he was aware that his dog used to come over to the preston farm and chase their cattle to which he repied that they used to call the dog over for that purpose the accused russel preston was then called this day my brother came over and asked me to go hunt- ing rabbits so w struck off north with our two dogs we heard a snapping and grow ling and went over and found some snow trampled down there were no dogs there just then we walked south and just then i heard one of my dogs in ratcliffs bush i whistled and finally mr fosters dog arrived on the scene he came right at me and i thought it was time to do something and tried to keep him back with my gun i fired a shot up in the air and he did not pay any attention to that i had to fight pretty well and then i shot him he got up and started away and i w going to finish him as soon as i could just then i heard another shot fired and burnice said he put him out of his agony this dog had a vicious disposition crown did this dog bite you no he was going to bite me how do you know he was going to bite you any dog will run up to a person he was snapping and grow ling fred preston father of the two accused was the next wit ness he said they had often complained about this dog be cause he was so vicious crown fosters dog was vicious and i suppose your dogs were alright tested by time since 1847 anada life canadas oldest life life assurance company plans insurance and income to meet every need local representative a c burkholder mr mathews if you were down there and had a look at them you would soon find out clifford preston another son testified that foster had a very bad dog marguerite preston a daugh ter told that this dog would come bounding out at her as she would be going past the foster farm even if the dog was vicious i dont think they had any right to kill it commented the crown i think it is rather a rotten thing to do the only evidence we have is what russel preston says stated magistrate woodliffe he had some justification for what was done and under the circumstances i am going to dis miss the case hydro extends rural service ontario commission had 14256 applications in 1938 considerable extension of rural electrical service by the hydroelectric power com mission of ontario in 1938 was reported by premier mitchell hepburn in his budget speech during 1938 a ne policy was inaugurated under which prim ary lines in rural power dis tricts were constructed with a minimum of two standard farms per mile instead of three being required applications were re ceived during the year from 14256 consumers necessitating the construction of 2661 miles of new primary line muskrat season open tribunes small cheap and profitable advs are flowering plants wedding and hospital bouquets danforth flower shop 476 danforth ave toronto phone gladstone 1868 cut rates to tribune readers banff welcomes their majesties banff springs hotel interna tionally famous canadian rocky mountain resort at banff alberta will be visited by king george vi and queen elizabeth during their canadian tour when residents of the rocky mountain town will accord them a right royal welcome their majesties will enjoy their first day of rest an canada in the banff springs hotel and to their memories of the empire will be added compellingly magnificent vistas of the valley of the bow and the sweeping snow crested ramparts of sulphur mountain mount rundlc and the fajrliolme range present plans provide for the arrival of their majesties at banff in the evening of may 26th a day of rest and enjoyment on may 27th and their departure during the midmorning of may 28th during their stay tney will enjoy the drive lo beautiful lake tor princess louise wife of the marquis of lorno sometime gov ernorgeneral of canada and a daughter of queen victoria they will make their headquarters at the banff springs hotel which will be opened earlier this season exclusively for use of the royal party the picture layout shows the hotel in its magnlficicnt moun tain setting and glimpses of a few of the spacious rooms which lend comfort and charm to the pnvnl ff game and fish overseer a j rolston has received word from the department of game and fisheries at toronto to the effect that there will be an open season for the trapping of muskrats in the counties of grey and bruce from april 5 to 25 inclusive trappers have been waiting for an announce ment of this kind for several weeks as the dates change every year according to re ports muskrats are none too plentiful this year in this sec tion why dont i call them up yes why no l havent you often started a letter when your thoughts went awandering made you want to talk rather than write and then within a minute you heard dear mary her own familiar voice and heres johnny watch a childs face when he hears i daddys voice you wish daddy him self could see it then hed really know how much it means to his family when he calls from a distant town now i call them every evening somehow you are attracted to a man who says this in those few words he tells you mucli about himself and his family he sets an example by going home every evening by long distance ity using low night hates which apply every evening after 7 and all day sunday and placing anyone calls you can talk a long way for very little f