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page two the tribune stouffville ont thursday april 4th 1940 stye tmrfftrille rihmu established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association issued every thursday at stouffville ontario eight to ten pages average circulation m75 subscription rates per year m advance in canada 2so in usa 5250 a v nolan jp editor and publisher editorial comment premier william aberhart of alberta relected io the provincial election when his government was returned taught school 35 years ago at brantford and before that the premier attended high school at seaforth the school had a ball team and william aberhart was the pitcher fat salary fat pension policy unfair the post of chief private secretary to the prime minister at ottawa which carries a salary of 9000 per annum is now vacant and has been since the retirement of e j lemaire who is relieved of the duties but is given a nice superannuation we cannot understand the seemingly unfair practise of governments in providing superannua tion for high salaried officials getting say 5000 or more per annum men who have drawn such pay ought to look out for themselves in old age superannuation in such cases is a pension and there are a lot of people needing it in prefer- ance to men whom the government paid 9000 salaries for years it is an injustice that is long overdue to be wiped out iziei apr p all around monday was april fools day as those who failed to purchase their motor plate in advance came to know there were no days of grace this time as in former years now we are on the subject what a pity the millions of money paid in by the motorists is not used to maintain the roads its alarming to know that the highway debt has climbed to 640 millions an increase of 200 million in five years its april fool all around for the tax payers goodbye littie red school the christian science monitor comments in its re cent issue that the little red schoolhouse of america the oneroom schools of any or no color are going but not yet gone in pennsylvania they vanish at the rate of 300 a year eliminated through consolidation legislation and transpor tationyet 5000 remain in new york some of the contest ed figures in the budgest now before the legislature involve speeding up the school consolidation program other states from coast to coast are seeing changes for the better slow ly but surely in their common school plant the publication points out few will regret the passing of primitive district schools built by the pioneers and generations of their successors better teaching staffs better grading and better equipment generally come with better buildings yet many a boy or girl of forty or fifty years ago recalls tenderly some teacher in a oneteacher school and cherishes mellow memories of the old singleroom school house itself with its birch rod box stove water bucket and tin dipper and the jackknife carvings on the desks and hard benches dairy farm labour labour cost is the largest single item of expense in dairy farming from 20 to 30 per cent of the cost of pro ducing milk is involved in labour not only does labour am ount to considerable sum but it is also one of the recog nized economic factors to be considered in the production of any commodity in order to make progress in farm manage ment it becomes necessary to have some easily calculated standard by which labour efficiency may be measured standards of measurement in this connection are gradually being developed for dairy farmers through the ontario dairy farm management study this investigation is being conducted cooperatively by the economics divi sion marketing service dominion department of agricul ture ottawa and the ontario agricultural college guelph more than 700 dairy farmers of the province of ontario in cluding many in the stouffville area are keeping records of their complete farm business these records are checked at the farm and taken to ottawa for analysis two years of study indicate that the cash receipts of a farm business per man provides a useful standard of measurement of labour efficiency in dairy farming to ob tain this the total labour time of all farm workers is reduc ed to a man equivalent the term man equivalent means the labour of one man working full time for 12 months on the farm members of the family working for part of the day only or doing less than an adults work and seasonal and occasional help are reckoned proportionately the cash receipts include all cash sales of the farm business a farm with cash receipts of 2800 and a man equivalent of 1 would have a cash receipt per man of 1600 it was found in the study that in all the fluid and processed milk zones under conditions similar to the year ending april 30 1938 the average dairyman needs to secure 1500 cash receipts per man to secure operator earnings approximating 1200 operator earnings close to 1000 were obtained where the cash receipts per man were 1300 and wherethe cash receipts per man fell as 800 the operator earnings were discouraging though it was found that the most successful dairy men use the greatest amount of labour not all dairymen however should take on a large labour staff tnose dairy farm operators who have the ability to manage labour in such a way as to secure a high cash receipt per man may well be encouraged to use more labour local herd posts up dominion record the holsteinfresian jour nal a very high type of farm journal produced the records of what they call the big producers as regards milch cows from records taken by government records among the list of fifteen or eighteen outstanding cows mentioned two animals from the herd of mr lloyd turner came in for special reference betsy roebuck dixie 307582 a cow which mr tuiner milked three times a day for 79 con secutive days is referred to thus betsy roebuck dixie is an other of the 1939 honor list pro ducers that is taken with a good record for the month as a senior fouryearold on a twice a day milking she had made 20252 lbs milk and 674 lbs of fat her honor list record of 17011 lbs and 583 lbs of fat was made as a senior 3-year- old in 305 days on 3times milk ing another notable record re ported this month by mr turn er is that of pine grange duchess 340714 that was first in her class as markham fair black and white day after be ing in milk for 9 months this cow was a member of the senior herd and her senior 2yearold b record is 17842 lbs milk and 661 lbs fat mr turner is certainly due for congratulations on having in his herd such outstanding cows records of which the finest stables of canada would b glad to post up mr turner incident ally speaking of heavy produc ers declares they should be milked 3 times daily in fairness to the animal if for no other reason arid there are other good ones he says a s pest one of the pillars in a local church complains that de spite the severe winter a fly has been able to subsist throughout the weekdays on what it apparently gets off his bald head on sun days native of uxbridge twp j f wilson dead next time t50 by motor coach fares are low round trip hamilton 335 buffalo 660 montreal 1355 gray coach lines instead of following the com mandment to hustle for six days and lay off on the seventh a fly in a local church reverses the decalogue and is only busy on the sabbath the fly which parks in a window near his seat and is in a comatose state during the days that man is enjoined to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow gets busier than a bee on a bears leg when a certain churchman settles in his pew or peaceful meditation and devo tion on sunday fanning a fly in church is as out of order as pounding a crippled child with a mallet would be in an up-to- date orphanage so the church man who has his temper tried like another job has to suffer in silence and contrition not to mention having his attention distracted until he almost loses the thread of the discourse the fly has a remarkably im poverished memory you may drive him out of your ear and he will land on your forehead disturb him again and he en ters your nose the oftener you get rid of him in one spot the more he gets onto another the only way to inculcate him with your meaning is to smash him up fine but reverence pre vents our friend from carrying out this rash impulse in church and compels him to live up to the injunction thou shalt do no murder the churchman mentioned complained the other sabbath morning that notwithstanding the length of the service that fly never seems to consider itself full but since like the camel it has to store up for the week there may be method in its mad ness after all the election results for north york riding a man who had been some thing of a rolling stone and who had lived an interesting varied life john franklin wil son died at york county hos pital last thursday in his 68th year says the newmarket era mr wilson suffered a ner vous breakdown two and a half years ago and had not worked since then he was subject to falls and two weeks age he fell in his own home and broke a cheekbone rev arthur greer assisted by rev b babcock conducted the service on monday after noon interment was in new market cemetery born at glen major south of uxbridge john franklin wil son grew up there as a young man he learned his trade as a stationary engineer and served for four years in the grena diers on active service duty in the klondike along the trail of 98 he had many stories of those exciting days and was in daw son city at the time of the great fire on one occasion he used to recall his company had guarded 300000 in gold sleep ing on the sacks of precious metal returning to the east he married agnes mccomb of king township 37 years ago they went to midland to live and were there for nine years he followed his trade as a station ary engineer and also worked as a fireman their daughter was born there his wife a daughter mrs thomas b monkman oak ridges and one brother wm of midland survive col w p mulock maj 1883 dix mulock woodbridge 312 243 maj for dix 69 north york 2716 2642 maj for dix 74 georgina twp 325 457 maj for mulock 132 n gwillimsbury 218 473 maj for mulock 255 sutton 244 277 maj for mulock 33 newmarket 948f 1167 maj for mulock 219 vaughan twp 976 1389 maj for mulock 413 whitchurch township wilcox lake 120 104 bethesda 50 63 lemonville 47 111 bloomington 22 90 newmarket 54 72 boggarttown 33 70 pine orchard 39 76 vivian 57 81 aurora 825 713 maj for dix 112 send the tribune to absent friends you can climb 1200 steps on 2 slices of stovers bread its delicious in ill health three years wh william son passes in ill health for the past three years william henry william son well known resident of new market passed away early satur day morning born in april 1865 on the 4th concession of whitchurch the son of mathew and agnes williamson he married jose phine toole in april 1903 for 21 years he was with william cane and sons farmed for 11 years and before coming to re tire in newmarket in 1926 was in the dairy business in aurora for six years surviving are his widow two sons wilfred of maple howard of brandon man a daughter stella of toronto six brothers frank john arthur dan charlie and edgar and two sis ters susan and hannah newmarket expressherald business directory medical dr s s ball physician and surgeon xray office cor obrien and hats phone 196 coroner for york county dr arthur l hore physician markham ontario general medicine minor surgery and obstetrics also eyes tested glasses fitted phone 67 markham dental e s barker lds dds honor graduate of royal colug- of dental surgeons and of the university of toronto office in grubins block phone 8201 markham every tuesday office in wear block dr j f weatherill office over bank of commence office hours 9 to 12 noon and 130 to 530 pm phone office phone residence 180 18002 clarcmont every tuesday office over bakers store phone clareraont 1401 a c kennedy chiropractor church street stouffvllu monday wednesday friday 9 to 12 am insurance see h o klinck obrien aver for your insurance needs in fire life automobile burglar and all casualty lines thomas birkett general insurance agency representing reliable gompantes including lloyds of london england phone stouffville 25902 brierbush hospital government licensed main street east stouffville maternity medical and surgical cases taken ambulance service registered nurseu and 24 hour service mrs e r good phone 191 stouffville floral roses wedding bouquets funeral designs cut flowers telephone 7001 7002 milt smith proprietor meals and board meals and rooms two blocks north from main street on rupert avenue west end gordon robinson phone 5303 arthur w lynde lhcm teacher of singing established 1913 stouffville fridays phone 802 pupils prepared for toronto conservatory of music examinations lehmans shoe store phone 4301 stouffville footwear for all the family womens hosiery boots shoes rubbers mitts socks gloves stouffville marble granite works order now for spring delivery and guard against increased prices p tarr proprietor phone 8002 a c burkholder insurance canada life assurance co -alao- automobile and fire harry m spang representative empire life insurance co telephone 6616 stouffville ontario barristers office phone residence phone 3160 3514 arthur w s greer barrister solicitor notary pnwfc 6 king street east oshawa ontario resident partner branch office wcpollardkc port perry uibrldge ontario phone 26 mccullough button flbuttonkc hrbuttonba barristers solicitors convay- ancers etc buttons block stouffville money to loan miscellaneous l e oneill stouffville funeral dhiector and embalmer continuous telephone service day and night business phone residence phont r g clendening funeral director ambulance service phone markham 9000