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ttie tribune stouffville ont thursday june 8th 1944 1 iouffitul sjributu established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and ontario quebec newspapers association issued every thursday at stouffville ontario eight to twelve pages latest u circulation 2075 subscription rates per year in advance in canada 200 in ujsa 260 a v nolan son publishers t 1 j j m notes and comments unemployment insurance fund the unemployment insurance fund has gone over the 200000000 mark although it had been in operation barely three years the sum total is an inspiring figure and in the main a grand thing however a very considerable amount of this money comes from workers whose jobs are dependable yearround employment and therefore never benefit from the money they are compelled to pay in for them it is not unemploy ment insurance but direct tax also a small amount is being wheedled out of laboring men in rural sections who are part time men and in many cases because of age could not work full time they do not benefit from the few cents taken from their pay envelopes for socalled insurance and should not be called upon to contribute at all if the commission start to investigate such trifling cases as theyjonce showed signs of doing around stouffville more than the amount they could hope to get would be consumed in paying salaries to inspectors many of the smaller rural payers who cannot hope to benefit should be dropped from the scheme as quickly as possible after all the small amount they pay is wasted in clerical work later on i high school salary problem school boards are finding a problem jon their hands es pecially high school boards such as we have in stouffville teachers without any experience whatever are asking salaries in advance of those being paid to experienced teachers in many cases this is largely the result of the teachers federation bemg able to unionize the teachers along salary lines we think the teacher who has gone through university and spent a year at the faculty of education should be well paid perhaps aalary double that obtained by public school teachers who are not required to attend university and who after leaving high school spend one year in normal for fitness for the teacher profession however where the demand of experienced teachers ia higher than those being paid teachers of experience it presents a knotty problem for a board of education they are forced or will be forced to advance the present staff ito a figure that will at least correspond to what a green teacher demands carried to extremes the tax payer will rebel especially when school taxes are now the major port ion of many tax bills generally speaking high school salaries in rural centres have not been high enough over 30 tons of waste recovered one of the reasons for the shortage of waste paper is that a great deal of our paper arid millboard is being ex ported and cannot be collected as waste materials for reuse this situation makes it necessary for us to collect all we possible can around home acres in this regard it is interest ing to note that stouffville so farhas shipped out 68000 pounds through the lions club drives and the able support 1 of mr ab- lehman who does the baling and trucking at a very reasonable price over thirty tons of old paper is some heap and leads one to believe that the people in town and country have been paying due attention to john vl12 gather up the fragments that remain that nothing be lost having quoted a text some of our readers may expect a sermon but we merely give the quotation to arrest your attention and to indicate that even in the day when that was written waste was something that should be avoided indeed the day is not far gone when the call of the junkman any old rags any old bones could be heard a city block the country collector operated on a more in triguing method of barter these peddlers known as tin peddlers drove their wagons from farm to farm exchang ing their wares for rags and selling the latter to the mill owners in order to give a more authentic account of early days within the memory of plenty of our readers let us give you a quotation from an article written 50 years ago by chchamberlain of dalton mass that came to our notice the tin peddler was very much of an institution in those days of widely scattered homesteads for he furnished the easiest and sometimes the only link of communication between the isolated farm houses and the outside world he was always a welcome visitor and usually had regular stopping places where in exchange for the latest news and for the spiciest gossip about near and distant neighbors he was regaled with a meal or a nights lodging he would stop at every farmhouse on his route and while friendly gossip was being exchanged the women of the house would eagerly examine his stock when they had made up their minds as to just what articles they need ed their stock of rags which had been carefully accumulat ed and stored in the family ragbag was brought out weighed and at an allowance of so much a pound was ex changed for the chosen articles in the peddlers stock some times of course the peddler received some cash in return for his goods but usually the whole transaction was on a strictly barter and exchange basis the official weighing of the rags was always done by the peddler and the operation took place somewhat after the following i fashion the scales were at first the old- fashioned steel yards and the peddler would jab the hook hanging from them into the bag of rags and quickly as he could lift the bag from the floor and at the same time shove the weight out along the yard right here the peddlers reputation as an honest man was put to test if he was honest he followed either one of the two procedures in case the customer was a hard bar gainer and demanded more of his goods than in fairness she was entitled to he shoved the weight a minimum dis tance along the yard and as quickly dropped the bag if on the other hand he was dealing with a reasonable person he pushed the weight along until a true balance was obtain ed a peddler who on the other hand would bear watching followed the first procedure later a spring type of scale superseded the steel yards these scales were shaped much like the ordinary thermometer and were usually about eight inches long with a ring at the top and hook at the bottom the peddler held the scales wrapped in his hand and if he were so in clined would by the pressure of his figures make the point er on the face of the scale do tricks no doubt the tin ped- dler could say with mark twain honestys the best policy ive tried both r today the familiar junk man with his wagon collects very little if any scrap paper this important job is now being done by the government in salvage drives and it is the duty of every one of us to continue the job of gathering up the fragments as they are essential to victory r r sunday school lesson ber him in prayer verse 5thy love and faith toward the lord jesus and all saints faith works or is mam fested by love philemon was one to whom the lord jesusvas preci ous and so his heart went out in lesson for june 11 golden text be ye kind one to another tenderhearted forgiving one another even as god t christs sake hath forgiven you uirist eph 432 verse 6 thy faith effectual by the acknowledging of every one another even as god fori- affection toward all who were m r r the lesson as a whole approach to the lesson it has been well said that the letter from paul to his friendphil emon is the finest specimen of f early personal christian corres pondence extant it was written to commend a returning runaway thieving slave to his master and with characteristic generosity and a deep sense of theimportance of maintaining a standard of righte ousness paul offers to be surety for this man onesimus and agrees t to meet every responsibility as to his past evildoing he knew that the life of onesimus had been changed completely by divine grace and so he unhesitatingly re quested philemon to receive him t no longer as a slave but as broth- er in christ luther said we are all gods onesimi for in this incident we have a striking picture of our lost condition by nature and practice and of the activities of dwme grace on our behalf the letter sets forth most beautifully the great truths of forgiveness on the ground of the expiatory work of another and acceptance in the beloved v in philemon himself we have an excellent example of what christ ianity tould do for one who was doubtless a heathen idolaterbefore he was brought to know christ but in whom the love of the spirit was manifested richly after he was good thing which is in yen in christ jesus this was not ful some fattery but recognition of what the grace of god had wrought in the life and experience of this man because of this paul felt he was about to bring before him the case of onesimus verse 7 the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee for bowels we might properly sub stitute hearts in english the thought is that philemons love had cheered the inward being of many a believer verse 8 i might be much bold in christ to enjoin thee thai yhich is convenient because of the close tie that bound these two together in christ and also because of his apostolic authoi lty paul might have been free to give definite com mandment as to what would be be fitting in the treatment of onesi mus on hfs return now that he too had become a christian verse 9 for loves sake i rath er beseech thee yet he did not choose to exercise such authority but preferred to lay the matter be fore his friend reminding him that he was now paul the aged in such a way as to give him the love which ever characterized him free ly of his own volition and not as acting under stress of any kind verse 10 i beseech thee for my son onesimus whom i have begot- brought to a saving knowledge of ten in my bonds this makes it the lord jesus christ apparently he was converted through the per- 1 sonal ministry of paul although the apostle had never visited colosse where philemon resided verse by verse clear that onesimus was pauls child of faith he had won him for christ and he was naturally con cerned as to his future verse 11 in timd past- un profitable but now profitable it philem 4 making mention of lis a play upon words onesimus thee always in my prayers philelmeans profitable or helpful he had mon was one in whom paul was been anything but that in the past deeply interested he was led to now all was changed and he was christ and he continued to remem living up to his name we are together become unprofitable rom 3 12 in our sinful condit ion it is grace alone that enables those who are saved to count for god t verse 12 whom i have sent again under existing conditions because of both roman law and philemons character paul felt it wisest and best that this slave should return to his master so rather than act on the letter of the mosaic law deut 2315 16 h sent him back with this letter of commendation verse 13 whom i would have retained with me paul would have been glad if he had felt free to keep onesimus with him as he had proved useful in many ways and he considered that he might have accepted such service as though it were done by philemon himself verse 14 without thy mind would i do nothing he would not presume on philemons friendship however and as there was no op portunity to consult him in the matter he preferred to have onesi mus return to his former home verse 15 that thou shouldest receive him for ever now that both master and slave were one in christ paul trusted there might be no future rupture of their associ ation but rather a fellowship on much higher ground than in times past verse 16 not now as a servant hut a brother beloved- this gives us to realize what vast changes christianity was working already in the early church the onetime slave was now to be recognized as a beloved brother in the lord verse 17 if thou count me therefore a partner receive him as myself what a beautiful picture is this of our acceptance in christ in the case of every saved sinner it is as though our lord presents him to the father saying if thou count me as a partner receive him as myself we are complete in him col 210 for as he is so are we in this world john 4117 he says to the father ithou hast loved them even as thou hast loved me john 1723 verse 18 if heoweth thee ought put that on mine account it is evident that onesimus had robbed his master paul offers to settle everything for him even as our blessed lord paid all our debt upon the cross that we might be justified from all things v verse 19 thou owest unfo me even thine own self besides deli cately paul reminds philemon that it was through him he had been brought to know christ thus he felt sure he could count on his act ing now in accordance with his wishes verse 20 let me have joy of thee in the lord loving compli ance with the apostles request on the part of philemon would glad den the heart of him who was a prisoner for the sake of christs name t verse 21 knowing that thou wilt also do more than i say not for a moment did paul doubt but that philemon would do that which had been asked ofhim so the letter was committed to onesimus who wended his way back to colosse assured that all would be forgiven and his would be a new standing altogether m the house hold of his master the heart of the lesson this letter furnishes us with one of the most delightful pictures of the grace of god as levealed in the gospel that we could ever expect to find like onesimus we have all wronged our rightful loid and master we have misused his mer cies trampled on his grace and robbed him by using what he has entrusted us with for our own sel fish purposes instead of for his honor and glory but the lord jesus has paid all our debt dis charged every obligation to the broken law of god and now we can come to the father in his name assured of a welcome and knowing we shall not only be for given but we are now accepted in the beloved and brought into the very family of god it should now be our happy privilege as it is our great responsibility to manifest the same grace to others asthatwhich has been lavished on us af ft reftgee for canada has been possible to put at their disposal- later when home canned goods give out jam may be bought with any preserve coupons which are then valid born on the refugee ship serpa pinta tiny nadine sekelj will make her home in canada for the durat ion a twin brother born three days after nadine later died she is among a group of refugees who have arrived in canada lt d s sniveiiy killed in action lieut douglas schuyler snively aged 22 is reported killed in action in italy while serving with the 48th highlanders according to word re ceived by his parents mr and mrs schuyler c snively of glenlonely wilcox lake whitchurch born in toronto lieut snively was educated at crescent school and ridley college he later entered trinity college university of tor onto and was a member of the co tc in 1942 at the end of his se cond year he enlisted for active ser vice he attended the officers train ing centre at gordon headbc and after graduation was posted to camp borden going overseas in may 1943 he was a member of the kappa alpha fraternity and noith york hunt club he was a keen rider and expert swimmer besides his parents there survive two sisters mrs h b l jones ottawa and mrs gordon wotherspoon toron to a halfbrother ltcol trumbell warren on headquarters staff lon don england housewives need never feel that by buying jam or any other commo dity in retail stores they are depriv ing the armed forces some wo men the consumer branch tells us have been suggesting they should nt do any home canning but should leave the sugar to make jam for the lads over there this is a generous but quite unnecessary gesture we are told whether for bombs or for jam the armed forces have a prior ity in the case of jam the needs of the forces have been carefully calculated women are urged to preserve all the fresh fruit they can with the amount of sugar it finance minister hsley has an nounced reduction from 5 to 4 per cent in the interest rate on new loans under the national housing act to assist prospective home owners building new dwellings legislation to be introduced will also provide financing up to the value of 5000 insteadjrf 4000- with the time limit for repayment exten ded from 20 years to 25 or 30 years this all envisions for a lot of peo ple in the hiways and biways of canada something for postwar con sideration cedar beach gardens north shore musselmans lake dancing every saturday evening max boagand his 10piece orchestra dancing commences at 830 pjn oskeaoe3ota0e stouffville floral roses wedding bouquets funeral designs cut flowers milt smith prop telephone 7001 7002 i rebuilt motors ford a exchange 5950 ford v8 8950 15plate heavy duty batteries exchange 950 paris auto supply jos parisi richmond hill ont b tv 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