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page two the tribune stouffville ont thursday february 15 1940 i imrffmue riimne 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 9250 a v nolan jp editor and publisher editorial comment col w p mulock is a sure winner the north york liberal association in convention next saturday at newmarket is certain to renominate col w p mulock who is just as certain to win the fight on march 26 col mulock has been steadily growing in strength and we see no sign of weakness at this time or show of new strength on the part of his opponents his biggest opponent will overconfidence on the part of his friends rationing of gasoline a possibility in canada if g a gaherty of the montreal engineering co is right farmers may be driving their hogs to town for loading or they may even have to fall back on the farm team now dis carded because gasoline may yet be rationed in canada because as mr gaherty maintains foreign exchange is a prime factor in winning the war need for maintaining canadas supply of foreign ex change might lead to drastic curtailment of oil imports from the united states he said in an address given last week and we in canada may find our oilburner furnaces and our oilpowered locomotives converted to burn coal gasoline for private automobiles may have to be rationed and buses and truck stopped altogether where passengers and goods can be transported by rail he said this mr gaherty said would release oil tankers to carry oil from north to south american ports to the theatre of war and would release us credits to meet canadas obligations mr gaherty said that american financing of canadian industry and direct government borrowing from new york for extravagant government projects made it necessary for canada to pay several hundred million dol- largs yearly to service debts to the united states qualifications of candidates this business of running for a seat in parliament is about as wide open a contest as a person can get into these days practically anybody can enter and there are no car ton tops or labels to bother about all you do is get at least 10 other electors to sign your nomination paper add your own signature and the rest is up to the voters candidates for commons are not required to own any real estate a senator has to own 4000 worth in the district he represents or belong to any party or group and no one has to vouch for their ideas or ability the only string attached is a 200 deposit by all candidates which is refunded later unless the candidate gets less than half as many votes as the winner of course a candidate must be a british subject by birth or naturalization either man or woman and 21 years of age thats all it is not necessary that the candidate live in his constituency or even in canada although in practice canadian residence is the rule and most candidates do live in their ridings there are a few classes of persons specifically barred from being candidates however under the dominion elections act these include anyone found guilty of cor rupt or illegal election practice by a judge anyone holding a contract with the government except for public works a member of a provincial legislature while a member em- ployees of the governmnt and certain public officialls such as sheriffs and registrars of deeds refugees entitled to full citizenship during the last year owing to the terrible conditions in europe steady stream of refugees have located in can ada many of them in ontario and some of them right in our own locality one of the most annoying things is to have folks looking on these new comers as spies when all that is necessary is to realize that they are here on the invitation of the dominion government who had they not looked sharp would not have secured these people with their re sources their is no ground for supposing that people whom the government induced to come to canada instead of australia are anything but good citizens canada admitted 5000 persons who might be classed as refugees between january and august 1939 an official of the immigration branch of the mines and resources deparment announced only recently some of the best and most useful immigration can ada has ever known has come in the past few years he added the figure of 5000 is based on the number of per sons we know have had trouble in their native land and are seeking new homes they are not always admitted as fam ilies sometimes a man who has settled in canada is permit ted to bring in his dependents in other cases they come in as single individuals in the refugee group there are welltodo people who brought millions of new capital and are now engaged in establishing new industries in this country others are admitted on the ground of special skill required in establish ment of these industries quite a number came as farmers bringing in their own capital others are settled in sask and british columbia on funds supplied from overseas county forest in uxbridge township original acreage has now been planted with millions of trees bing well take an option on further land ontario countys forest cov ering hundreds of acres in lx- bridge twp on which millions of trees have been planted may be extended the committee on reforestation at county coun cil last week brought in a re port which was adopted point ing out that all land now owned by the county on which trees could be planted had been util ized and recommended that the committee take an option on further land available and re port at the june session the forest established many years ago under a reforestation scheme is regarded as one of the finest in the province the trees have been planted on land un suitable for farming on account of blow sand and many of them have almost reached maturity the forest is operated on a co operative basis between the county and the provincial department of forests the pro vince supplying and planting the trees at the end of a stipulated period both the county and the province will share in the tim ber revenue farm paper to play war time role a progressive policy for 1940 designed to help the farmer adapt himself to changing war time conditions has been an nounced by the family herald and weekly star throughout 1940 family herald articles written by staff editors in cooperation with leading agricultural experts will show how the farmer may plan to avoid losses through chang ing markets how he can take advantage of new opportunities that are likely to present them selves as a result of the war because the markets for ba con wool and to some extent beef are likely to be profitable ones the family herald will feature practical specially pre pared articles on the raising of hogs sheep and beef cattle articles showing how poultry production may be started in creased and adjusted to war con ditions also will be featured it is evident that the progress ive goahead policy of the fam ily herald noted in 1939 will be maintained throughout 1940 york leading butter producer with the single exception of the county of perth york county led all others in the manufacture of creamery butter for the month of january we learn from the monthly dairy report of the ontario dept of agriculture york county cream eries made a total of 277807 pounds while perth county turned out 411 402 pounds the county of bruce ran neck and neck with york producing 277- 451 pounds and the next in line were middlesex wellington grey and waterloo about twen tyfive counties out of some fif tyfour have cheese making plants with dundas leading the lot with a production for the first month of this year of 104- 635 pounds of chaddar cheese the make of creamery butter was only 2492 pounds whitchurch teachers organize on tuesday evening febru ary 6th the public school teach ers of whitchurch township met at the hartmans corners ss nol to discuss new and practi cal ideas for rural schools mr jno g mcdonald principal of the aurora public school was the guest speaker it was decided that a similar meeting be held in hillcrest school ssno8 whitchurch on tuesday evening march 5th members of the school board of ss nol were present and refreshments were served to the teachers by mrs lambert will- son mrs john petch miss mary bowser and mrs ewart pinder mr morley c sanders of lerronville was appointed con vener and miss mildred foote hartmans corners secretary the 7000000 institution built cal air training centre and is a angle of the important study is recently by the government as a continuous hive of activity these being undertaken this is mental hospital at st thomas now displays scenes such as this shown above as the big building has been converted into a techni- days more than a 1000 off icers scene from one the of the lec- and men are hard at work the ture rooms where a class is be- first class of aeronautic experts ing taught by an instructor will graduate in april every i killed three dogs with one shot an interesting case was heard at division court at hanover last week when a hanover man sued a bentinck township farmer for shooting his dog the evidence was to the effect that about five dogs apparently from hanover had been congre gating at the farms just out of town and one night a fanner was aroused by them and lie got up and chased them away they went to a neighbors who was awakened by them and grab bing his doublebarreled shot gun he sought to chase them away and they left without the farmer getting a shot at them just as day was breaking he again heard the dogs raising a fuss near his house and open ing an upstairs window he saw the five of them in a group starting to fight among them selves letting go with both barrels he found that the double shot killed two of the dogs and a third crawled away a short distance and died there the court held that the case should be dismissed as the law pro vides that dogs may be destroy ed if they are found singly or in groups where cattle and sheep are habitually kept hanover post bear disappoints but robin raises hopes just when the pessimistic ones were going into a frantic state over the failure of the bear to declare winter at an end because the saw his shadow on february 1 along comes robin red breast to cheer one up harold warriner and ira burk- holder are prepared to take a solemn oath that they saw a robin red breast in the east end of the town a few mornings ago and so we will wait and see who really runs the weather mr bear or miss robin some strange coincidences when rev g w moore de clared from his united church pulpit two years in succession let the bells ring out and no sooner said that on each occasion the fire bell rang a member of the session is re- going back when helsingfors was bomb ed urho gustafsson decided it was time to leave canada to de fend his lioireland four of his brothers are fighting two of his sisters are in the lotta svard and one is a military nurse ported to have urged the sky pilot to refrain from again per forming the feat of elijah by calling down a fire on the people says the walkerton herald but the congregation were hardly prepared for the coin cidence on sunday of last week when in emphasizing what mat erialism was doing to the world the local divine climaxed the situation by shouting now are we in darkness when sudden ly the lights went out and the congregation were shocked by a blackout which practically terminated the service an in vestigation revealed that a limb had broken from a tree and fallen across the hydro wires thus causing a short that blew out nearly all the street lights in town and necessitated a complete shutdown of the hy dro service in the united church sector curling remaining games in the east york league are as follows feb 20 richmond hill at agincourt locust hill at unionville agincourt at stouffville unionville at scarboro stouffville at richmond hill scarboro at locust hill feb 27 agincourt at richmond hill unionville at locust hill stouffville at agincourt scarboro at unionville richmond hill at stouffville locust hill at scarboro george and john and the township school area i didnt see you at the trus tees and ratepayers associa tion meeting on saturday john you missed some fun you certainly gave the township school area plan a black eye voted it down ten to one well george i am not sure you should be proud of it chances are that very few knew what it was all about i think it is time we increased the area under one school board the school section was fine in the the early days when settlements were separated from each other but right now there isnt any need for so many school boards there you go along the same line as the school inspectors i cant see anything wrong with the school section weve al ways run our own school and we aim to keep on running it i dont see any need to change a set up that has served us so well perhaps it has served pretty well george but that isnt to say we wouldnt have better schools under the township area plan there must be some advantage in larger areas of administra tion because they have been ad opted in so many countries look at england they adminis ter their schools as well as or better than any country in the world and they require only 317 school boards in the whole country scotland has only 37 boards in place of the hund- dreds they used to have nor thern ireland struggles along with only 8 boards for the whole country but john youre talking about countries where condi tions are very different we havent densely populated areas as they have in the british isles so talking about england ire land and scotland doesnt mean anything to me i thought youd bite there george what about british col umbia there are no school sec tions there each municipality has one school board alberta is trying out larger units of ad ministration successfully in 22 states of the united states where conditions are usually similar to those in ontario they have county or township boards south africa has one board for every 40 schools australia and new zealand have no local school authorities at all you see george it cant be that all the people in those countries are wrong and youre right it may be all right for them but ill tell you that nobody is going to push any township area plan down my throat and there are a whole lot just like me you have been reading a lot of nonsense written by people who want to take our schools from us i guess we know what our children need better than somebody living miles away maybe you do george and maybe you dont there are a good many people like you but some ontario people think the idea is sound do you know that 45 township areas were organ ized in ontario this year and that there are now 73 alto gether yes john but where are they up in the districts thats where you dont see them down in settled ontario wrong again george as us ual twenty were organized in 1939 right in the older counties we have them in simcoe halton and york and thats not so far away and well have more soon because people are begin ning to realize that 7000 school boards in ontario cannot do the most efficient job of school ad- minisiration western canada special bargain excursions from ah stations in eastern canada going daily feb 17 march 2 inclusive return limit 45 days tickets good ix coaches at fares approximately lc per mile tourist sleeping cars at fares approximately lc per milt standard sleeping cars at fares approximately lc mile cost of accommodation in sleeping cars additional baggage checked s ask for hand bill similar excursions from western canada during same period tickets sleeping car reservations and all information as to stopover privileges from any agent fares tickets return limit and tram information from agents ask for handbill canadian national t2s