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page two the stouffville tribune thursday august 31st 1939 qjlje fctmrffmlu rihmu established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association issued every thursday at stouffville ontario eight to ten pages average circulation 1375 subscription rates per year in advance in canada 200 in usa 250 a v nolan jp editor and publisher notes and comments not quite half and half it is not true that half the people in canada live on the other half says the printed word the actual facts are that the proportions of the population which is wholly or in part dependent on the remainder is still slightly less than half the total all that is necessary to determine this figure is to examine the various government reports from these can be compiled the number on relief the num ber of prairie wheat farmers with their fixed price the number of coal miners with their subventions the em ployees of the canadian national railways and other government employees the free patients in public hospitals and sanitaria those receiving old age pensions and some of those engaged in the dairy industry it may be true that in this study some who are liv ing on others have been overlooked but it is also impor tant to note that all those listed are not public charges in the full sense and the encouraging point is that the total is not quite half of the entire population of the country speed traps for law breakers we do not understand the protest of the toronto evening telegram and other newspapers against the move made to set up speed traps in an effort to slow down the terrific speed of many motorists indeed persons who re spect the law and abide by it need not have any fear of speed traps for they cannot operate against them where- ever they have been operated it has been shown that only drivers who race their cars from 56 to 80 miles an hour were affected by the traps so why should the careful motorist raise a voice against this effort to reduce road accidents we fully realize that road traps are something that might easily be abused ibut that will soon be found out right now an investigation is being made about the con duct of a trap at aurora indicating that officers of the law suspected of abusing the authority given them will soon find themselves in deep water having regard for the number of lives lost and for what we see going on along the highways we welcome the setting up of road traps in an effort to catch the motorist who is an unthinking killer persons who keep within the law should all do likewise speed traps are only for law breakers congratulations stouffville the newmarket era three times winners of the charles clark cup for best weekly newspaper in canada in the class circulation between one and two thousand makes some very complimentary remarks about the standing of the tribune in the contest this year the era withdrew from the field evidently feeling that having won such distinction for three times its reputation was established and so it graciously left the field to others the era edi torially remarked last week the charles clark cup for the best weekly news paper of between 1000 and 2000 circulation this year went to british columbia the winner was the kelowna courier published by a former ontario man r p mclean who left the picton times in the hands of a brother and sister some thing over a year ago to go to british columbia the news paper to place second in this competition was the listowel ont banner published in a town about the size of aurora third was our neighbor the stouffville tribune which was brought to public attention in the spring with the winning of the joseph t clark memorial trophy for the best allround weekly published in an ontario or quebec town or village of less than 1500 population in the charles clark cup competition the tribune came up against weeklies published in much larger towns than its own and with weeklies from all parts of canada york county may well be proud of the high rating which the tribune won committee themselves create a waste york county council educational committee members will confer with dr duncan mc arthur deputy minister of education to discuss the cost of school books for secondary education what appeared not very well found ed charges were made in county council by reeve w l maude of mimico at the last session of council who claimed that high cost of these books amounted to racketeering the fact of the matter is that the government now pays a large proportion of the cost of these books and the pupil thus gets them at a smaller price than if they paid the full amount free books are not a good thing when handed out in that manner they would be ill cared for and altogether badly handled by the students an example of this was brought to light in stouffville a few years ago the trustees decided to provide free ink for the students the demand went up with leaps and bounds and exceed ed the amount previously sold by the drug stores by four fold result the free ink was discontinued the same experience would be met with should school books if handed out free to the student in view of the fact that the government is now bearing a portion of the cost of these books it would look as though the educational committee of the council would have acted wisely if they ignored the outburst made by maude members of this committee receive 7 per day or night when called together and to waste time dipping in to matters when they can have no tiope of doing any good a bit of news from alberta a recent visitor from on tario to the stettler district in alberta says that one thing which struck him forcibly was the optimism of the westerner in face of hardship citing in stances of conditions in al berta he said his nephew took 127 bushels of oats to the ele vator and received 1250 for the lot which averages about 8c a bushel his niece sold 15 dozen eggs for 63c which is slightly better than 4c dozen and which hardly justifies alberta hens cackling to any great extent over their product the wheat crop in alberta is away above the average many of the farmers estimating their yield at better than 40 bushels of nol northern to the acre which suggests that the west is still the bread basket of the empire on the whole the people are optimistic and business is good in the larger centres like cal gary and edmonton where the building trade is particularly brisk the aberhart govt is completing a highway between edmonton and the montana border a 500 mile stretch of tarvia surface and when the remaining 25 miles are finished the highway will emerge en tirely free of debt there is much road work being done in alberta and the highways are in splendid condition so great is the faith of the farmers of alberta in the aberhart government that when the pro vincial elections there come in the fall mr mccurlie predicts that the present regime will be swept back into power the editor was having dinner a few days ago with a calgarian who predicted that aberhart had an excellent chance of be ing returned to power for the reason that neither of the old parties carry any weight in the province and no leader is in sight that gives any better promise than the one now in the provincial premiership bridal pair on milk and honeymoon hi fappy couple elsie the capering cow of borden ads came to life in the court of peace at the new york worlds fair and in elaborate comedy ceremonies that had 5000 spectators in laugh ter she became the bride of laird delia electrified farm exhibit holstein the ayrshire bride was pre pared by a professional makeup man with costume lipstick eyebrow pencilling and other adjuncts of beauty bridesmaids best men and flower girls sur rounded the couple as they were married and guf fawed when the pair actually kissed with the herds mans help in bringing their heads together for the camera presents included a bottle of milk a hnuse apron a baby carriage and other silly items advocate name plates on all streets stand by your town no town can be permanently prosperous in which the citi zens and business men who are dependent on each other do not patronize each other the mer chant wants a tire for instance and although his neighbor runs a service station and handles the finest tire he imagines he can save a dollar by sending to another town or city for his tire the tire man in turn sends away for his shoes cloth ing and sometimes groceries the shoe man sends away for his coat and the tailor sends a way for his boots and so it goes as- a result the farmer coming in to buy and trade see the merchants sending to other places for goods because they say they can save money by doing so and come to the con clusion they too can do better elsewhere and then everybody is growling about hard times and rotten business no wonder the business men themselves turn the tide of trade elsewhere for if they can supply themselves to better ad vantage by depriving their neighbour of their trade others learn to try the same experi ment it is a dangerous one to inaugurate ten dollars are lost where one is saved because the entire business of the place is in order to emphasize the desirability of placing the name of every street at the corner of all thoroughfares in stouffville a local citizen has contributed the following dialogue which has a lot of truth behind it and which if acted on would be an added improvement to our-up- todate town scence main street stouff ville time saturday afternoon dwarfed and hampered thereby the fact is little is ever made by going away to trade and of- tener counting all expenses there is a loss show us a town in which the people make it a rule not to send away for any thing they can get at home and we will show you a town in which businss is lively and everybody buys and trade is centred from abroad prices are low and the business men patronize each other having no suspicion that confidence will be abused let it once be under stood that the merchants of any town or village are in a habit of going abroad for pur chases and business will lan guish having no confidence in each other how can they expect others to have confidence in them no thats certainly not the way to build up a town why not patronize each other and let us keep our business at home summer 1939 man in car hailing stouff- villite on sidewalk hey mac where is victoria street mac musing victoria street victoria street there is such a street in this town mr but bessed if i know where it is man in car stranger here too eh mac no sir i have lived here for ten years but main street and a couple of others is all i know the location of whom did you want to find man in car sam slick uncle and aunt they moved here about three years ago and we are making our first call on them mac well what do you know- about that they live next door to me so thats victoria street can you beat it didnt know the name of my own street no wonder people laugh at us hick town folks streets named but very few of us know them or where they are what would it cost to erect street signs that would be vis ible to all so that they who ride or walk could read a pro gressive town such as this ought to ibe alive in every de tail we live on streets located on a plan not just next door to sam slick monuments of distinction like most people who buy memorials this is probably the first time that you have had to make a purchase of this kind and find the subject rather contusing therefore may we suggest that you call on us we exert every possible effort to fill each order with a maxi mum of quality at a minimum of cost stouffville granite marble works phone 8002 special holsteins to show at markham fair the york county holstein club has completed arrange ments with the markham agri cultural society to hold a spec ial holstein or black and white show on the friday of mark- ham fair oct 6th when it is expected there will be 150 ani mals of this popular breed on exhibition no other cattle be ing shown that day the club directors are canvassing the breeders and this week an ad vance prize list was mailed to over 350 members of the hol stein association in york coun ty and- pickering township the latter being included in this york county show on account of their proximity to markham g w baker sons gorniley ontario stoufrvillc phone 0101 dealers in cement stuco manufacturers of concrete blocks and tile blocks sold in yard or delivered silos a specialty how they gobble up stovers baking those young ones of yours they know a good bread they eat our fine product at home or on picnics because it tastes so especially good a wise mother always has a good supply on hand ask our wagon to call watch our window for daily specials the stouffville bakery phone 1s9 stouffville has twins but feeds four twin heifers were born to swingbag a high producer of holsteinjersey ancestry be longing to elmer starr on his farm on the fourth concession of whitchurch all are doing well the moth er is doing better than that for she is giving so much milk that mr starr had to give her two extra calves to feed she has plenty for the four twin calves are unusual but not phenomenal mr starr has never had twin calves on his farm before but remembers twin calves on his fathers farm 40 years ago what do you weed seeds do with aniiililiion ar oil fmo one of them a partnership with the sun life of canada is a deed of security for you and yours your representative j l abell ringwood ont when threshing has been completed and the machine moves on the farmers first job should be the disposal of weed seeds removed during the threshing says j d macleod crops seeds and weeds branch of ontaria department of agri culture toronto the practice of shovelling them outside the barn is too prevalent and should be discouraged when this is done millions of seeds are carried by the wind water animals birds and by man himself and new areas are in fested carelessness in the dis posal of weed seeds is one dir ect cause of the weed problem it is important that all weed seeds be gathered up immedi ately after the mill has left and burned or buried deeply 1111111 iliifecainiaiilla opening dance claremont friday sept 15th with rus creighlon and his canadian mountaineers alternating weekly with tom langley and his swing band admission 30c