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u v iv rytrrrrrz zt the tribune stouflfviue ont thursday may 14tb 1942 twelve pa subscriptii touffmlu established 1888- wv- the canadian weekly newspaper association every thursday at stouflfviue ontario elve pages average circulation 1650 copies ion hates per year in advance a200 in usa 250 a v nolan son publishers notes and comments help the new officer stouflfviue has a new constable and everybody should give him loyal support it is his duty to crack down on speeders deal generously with clumsy parking and gener ally he must see that town bylaws are observed in spirit too many of them are broken and those that are obselete should be discarded by the municipal council it is not easy for a police officer to make himself popular but a successful constable must have the faculty of getting on with the public people left it to the king government opposition party newspapers in toronto are doing their best to stantpede the king administration into intro ducing conscription for overseas because of the overwhel ming yes vote recently polled they do not hesitate to dis tort the facts in the issue which are that the favorable vote was given to free the hands of the government from their election promises and leave the issue of conscription to the government the globe and mail and evening telegram want to decide the issue for mr king nazi public amazement grows prisoners of war have again escaped from bowmanville prison camp all of which further increases the amazement in the minds of the public as to what is wrong with the guard system are they incompetent or is the com mand incapable of organizing his forces to do the job intend ed to be done namely to keep the german killers in confinement exempt york county from the scheme hon gordon conant has made the suggestion that small claims now tried in division court should be heard be fore the police magistrate locally this would entail a trip to toronto for all persons implicated in such cases some times seven or eight witnesses and even more are called on these cases all of whom would have to be transported to the city whereas under the present setup thejudge would come to the country in ontario county of course the situation might be different where the magistrate sits in the same centres as division court is held and there might be some saving there but in york county we believe it would be a mistake to delegate these cases to the magistrates court forcing all parties involved in cases to go to toronto for a hearing comes the pants with war industries calling for more and more women workers and some feminine wearing apparel and accessories under manufacturing restrictions many women un united states and canada are renouncing skins in favor of slacks the popularity of the pants is growing as is evi denced by the increasing numbers that cam be seen worn by women everywhere you go it is admitted that wearing overalls around machin ery are less hazardous than skirts give more adequate coverage longer wear because of stronger material and appear to be the sensible thing in a factory the right thing in the right place but these colorful ensembles for street attire do not fit the landscape according to a mans viewpoint in fact the masculine idea is that a skirt is never wrong it is noted that girls employed in factory work at stouflfviue have taken to the slacks and quite so they are safer and wear better in this kind of work curb on speeding on may 1 the new 40 mileanhour speed limit for motor vehicles came into effect across canada warning hasbeen give i that the law will be strictly enforced it is hoped the public will cooperate as the object of the regu lation is to conserve gasoline there has always been a section of the motoring public which has shown disregard for speed laws in the days when the limit was 35 miles an hour in ontario they were travelling 40 and 45 miles an hour when the limit was raised to 50 miles they were in the habit of rushing along at 60 or better it is to be hoped these individuals will ibea little more patriotic they should reduce speed having in mind that they are saving gasoline for the armed forces far better to take a little longer to reach a given destina tion than to cut down the air offensive over germany through lack of gasoline it is noted that already there has been one charge laid in stouflfviue for reckless driving on the main thoroughfare this should act as a deterrent for those who still persist in disregarding the law in this regard it is interesting to note that in georgina where the 40 mile limit has been in force for some time the key of the auto mobile is impounded for 24 hours if the car is caught going between 40 and 50 miles an hour if the officer finds the car travelling over 50 miles an hour the car is impounded for ten days this has been found much more effective than court fines dig deep kelly c the money the road from uxbrldge to green- bank is being resurfaced this year work starting last week uxbrldge is fotunate indeed tc have a frank kelley who can get things tor his ridings in times like these when the government from whom ha can get money has slashed even maintenance to a dribble all over ontario for township roads it would be a nice thing if mr keueys riding were extended into stouffville so that the highway from goodwood to stouffville which tak es the traffic from greenback on to toronto could be surfaced southern ireland green and neutral fears a inva this is the 15th of a series of stories about a trip to london and return taken by a group of canadian newspaper men at the invitation of the british govern ment it is written by hugh templin who represented the canadian weekly newspapers association every day of the six weeks or more spent away from home seemed to provide something new and differ ent but nothing was quite so unex pected as a twoday holiday in neutral ehe or southern ireland it was not by choice of mine i would rather it had been scotland but this short peaceful interlude in the only pait of the empire which stays neu tral was not only interesting but i look back on it with pleasure it was a tuesday afternoon when i left london along with seven other canadian editors our hosts put us on the train and bade us goodbye sending us away with more presents this time envelopes with enlarged pictures of oursleves during our tra vels in england that night was never to be forgot ten two huge german land mines floated down out of the air and ar rived in bournemouth at the same time as we did that experience has been discussed more fully in another of these stories i was up early the next morning having slept fairly well on a mattress on the floor in spite of the rasping sound of shovelling bioken plate glass off the streets in the darkness there was some difficulty about shav ing in a bathroom full of broken glass and with only a dribble of cold rusty water from one tap but the lady manager of the wrecked hotel had her staff well enough organized to give me the best breakfast i had while in britain the biitish overseas airways car picked me up at the hotel and drove through streets of stores without glass in the windows and past eng lish cottages looking out on the chanel to poole the next morning while undergo ing one more lengthy customs exam ination near the docks at poole the air raids sirens began to wail again the natives looked on us with some suspicion air raids had been scarce in those parts and this was the second in as many days but i did not share their idea that these few can adians were important enough for the germans to send over raiders just to get us still it did add a bit of excitement to be going out in a trim motor boat through the waters of poble harbor dodging the seaplane traps and mine fields to where the winged battleship of the air the short sunderland flying boat champion rode at anchor in the draw for seats i landed in what was called the spar compart ment of the ship i was all alone in a fairsized room full of baggage and sacks of mail the seat was comfort able and the steward came and ser ved an excellent meal on light plas tic dishes but though we flew for two hours and a half over what is probably some of the most interest ing scenery i saw nothing at all the two windows were painted over with thick black paint i hadnt realized on the trip from new york to lisbon to england how difficult it is to travel around war time europe in a way that was little short of miraculous as i learned later tho british council had waved aside the difficulties on that trip the return troyage wasnt quite so easy as i sat alone in the spar com partment of tho huge champion i read a little booklet issued to war time travellers by the british over seas airways and marvelled that i had got out of england at all our good ship would refuel in ireland and take off for portugal the next morn ing i would be in lisbon and by sun day i would be home in canada or so i thought truly the emerald isle it was early afternoon when the great ship glided down to the water so carefully that there wasnt even a noise in the ears i stepped out into the daylight again we were in the estuary of the shan non river at foynes ireland on the river bank two hundred yards away was a big concrete and timber pier with a neat little customs house at the land end behind that were two or three buildings where a couple of railway cars were being loaded with peat on both sides of the river were hills just as green as ever they had been described so this was ireland i never ceased to admire the fast launches of the british overseas air ways it took only a few minutes to reach land the wait in the customs house seemed unnecessary but when the examination took place it was brief and informal men in green put a few chalk marks on my brief case and club bag already decorated with an imposing arrav of airline stickers and official seals they made one j moie entry in my passport none of us knew that we weie to stay overnight in ireland instead of going on to lisbon when an official broke the news we did not like it the countryside was green enough but uninviting two modern buses waited outside the only thing unusual was the name of the company printed in two lan guages english and the strange old text of the gaelic language not till then did i realize that southern ire land was bilmual sure says an iiishman be can be illiteiate m two languages now it was a diive of twenty miles to adare where we were to spend the night but the loads were winding and narrow with walls along each side and plenty of stones still left in the fields the tiny whitewashed cottages were picturesque but poor by the time we pulled into adare the speedometer must have indicated 30 miles at least late that night i walked with b k sandwell and the constable of adare past a thatched cottage past an old norman tower now part of a catholic church past ancient trees with sixfoot trunks and on down the main street of the village the chief was full of irish lore and a bit of a poe he said that adare was the most beautiful village in the whole world probably hes right a strange and ancient people i went to ireland with a prejudice against the country i had just come from england where the people were fighting for their lives and for the freedom of the world here next door was ireland not only neutral hut refusing even the use of ports to fight submarines yet these irish still enjoyed the privleges of empire i came away with the feeling that ireland is beautiful and the irish people are kindly hospitable but be yond the understanding of a can adian with scottish blood here in sweet adare the irish people did not seem to understand what was going on in the world today they lived in the far past one might have thought that cromwell had come that way just last year and laid waste the old black abbey and the franciscan abbey and the white abbey not forgetting desmond castle down by the stone bridge over the river of course de valera boasts that ireland will defend itself against any attack from any source its rather pitiful down by the bridge there were some tank traps at least that was evidently what they were in tended to be a bren gun carrier might have some dffllculty knocking them down a driver of a medium tank would hardly notice them in the last two weeks in england the army had been on manoeuvres the sight was impressive in ire land too the army held manoeuvres word had sent to adare to havo food enough on hand on friday for a couple of battalions but they did not come the following monday they arrived there was no food asked why they didnt come on friday the colonel said it rained that day so they postponed the exercihes appar ently the irish dont realize yet that modern wars dont stop because it rains but though de valera may speak of repelling any enemy the people of ireland know their danger and ad mit frankly that they themselves are helpless to meet it i talked with two mothers at the golf course and they asked it i thought hitler was going to attack ireland i wasnt very hopeful one of them said she had three little boys at home the constable a veteran of the last war said that 150000 men from southern ireland are in the british active forces they slip away to ulster to see a football game and for get to come back and down in the village pub one night grattan oleary of ottawa a pure blooded irishman of the third generation in canada stepped in the lore and poetry of ireland waxed eloquent on our last night in the vil lage he said that hitler was the cromwell of today going about burn ing churches i missed that speech but i know how eloquent grattan can be and i wasnt surprised that he had the men of adare all anxious to enlist at once against this modern de stroyer of religion the most picturesque village i have said that the village con stable thought adare the most beauti ful spot in all the world that state ment needs to be amplified the bus that took us to adare diew up in front of a picturesque inn the duniaven arms the sign said what a tiny hamlet like adare did with a large inn like that was some thing of a mystery until i learned that it belonged to loid dunraven and was in peacetime to accommo date his hunting parties now it houses the passengers flying over the broad atlantic in the pages of its register there are many famous nam es the inn was comfortable and not too modern its lounge was full of easy chairs and chestei fields sitting in front of a peat fire waiting for afternoon tea and cakes one could talk with ferry pilots with men who knew bagdad and singapore and could compare their airfields with laguai dia and croyden in that little iiish village i was surprised to meet a young american pilot now taking planes across the atlantic who was quite familiar with the landmarks of my own little town of fergus he had flown over it often i dont suppose anything as lovely as adare just happened i suspect that many earls of dunraven poured the profits of their welsh mines into this village 1 know that they re built two of the ancient abbeys presenting one to the catholics and the other to the anglicans and they laid out their demesne so that there were views down elmlined streets and past thatched cottages with honeysuckle growing up the continued on page 4 business directory dental e s barker lds dldl honor graduate of royal ootlaaji of dental surgeons and of tka university of toronto- office in grublns block phone 274 markham every tuesday office in wear block medical dr s s ball physician and burgeo xray office cor obrien and phone 195 ii 4 coroner for york ooonty insurance thomas bffikett son general insurance agency stbuffvilleontario established 1908 insure in reliable companies at reasonable rates prompt service phone 25902 stouffvole h o klinck stouffville ont phone 33t for your insurance needs la fire lite automobile burglar and all casualty lines ac burkholder insurance canada life assurance co -also- automobile 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