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efspip ss i 1- t r the tribunestouffvilleqntvthuisday december 13 1945 r- i- fi west looks for a wheat acreage boost doubts prevails as to whether western farmers next year will comply with the suggestion made by the minister of agriculture at theottawa conference this week of dominion and provincial agricul tural authorities to the effect that there should be no increase in hug from the wheat acreage of 1945 that advice is given in order to encourage maintenance of the acre- age seeded o coarse grains wheat t is still the favorite crop of western farmers and their natural inclina- v tion is to seed it to the full extent that sound farming practice will allow turning to other crops only after a full wheat seeding program has been completed the shift during recent years from wheat to coarsd grains was accomplished in part in response to official urging it was also encour aged by fears of limited opportun ities to dispose of wheat during the period when elevators were congest ed with stored wheat each year farmers were led to believe that deliveries for the forthcoming year wouldhave to be restricted another highly important factor jvas the extent to which farmers john a- marsh latterly special assistant to the minister de partment of munitions and has been appointed commis sioner of the ontario division canadian red cross society careless driver draws 10 fine paul d knudsen rr no 1 pickering was fined 10 and costs or 10 days in the county jail follow ing a convictionona charge of careless driving when he appeared before magistrate f s ebbs in turned to hog raising and desired police court on that account to produce feed knudsen who pleaded not guilty grains for their own use now many to the charge of them have gone out of hog told the court he saint nick 14 ved a in 4th century on christmas eve canadianchil dren will be tucked snugly in their bedsvwhile visions of sugar plums dance through their heads listen ing breathlessly they may hear sleighbelis in the snow santa will be about his pack laden with dolls and drums painted carts and pic ture books and unrationed good cheer for young and old the real live st nicolas was born in asia minor and lived during the fourth century the dutch settlers brought many legends centering around him to america he was an extraordinarily studious youth and after his father died much concerned about the fortune he had inherited he there fore conceived the idea of supply ing financially embarrassed maidens with dcweries toe young ladies having no idea where the money came from in his youth nicolas visited the holy land and as a result desired to spend his life in a momastery however he was bidden to go on live among men later as the archbishop of myraj he was re nowned for his graclousness kind ness and understanding of children the feast of st nicholas patron saint of russia is celebrated on the sixth of december on that day in many european countries the others have found much more hifficulty in disposing of their oats than they ever had with wheat observing the rate at which canadas wheat supplies have been marketed since the close of the war in europe and with v the spectacle of empty elevators before them farmers tend to be bullish on the future prospects for wheat even if they should fear a lull in demand and envisage the prospecrof eleva tors once moie being overloaded wjth wheat many of them are not averse to accumulating and holding stocks of wheat on the farm it is easier for them to envisage con tinued good prices for wheat than formfeed gram moreover if gram has to be stored on the farm is is much easier to store wheat than more bulky grains prices for oats and barley are admittedly good but a farmer who is giving up feeding them himself istidt quite sure that other farmers wihcontinue they have noted that wheat exported is now selling on the basis of 155 a bushel and that apparently it is only the ceiling price policy of the government that prevents prices from becoming generally higher for such reasons many of them are planning an ricrease in wheat acreage at the wpense of acreage in other grains t will be difficult for government idvice to change such plansfqr the strength of directions from authori- les is much less than whilethe rar was in progress iert hawtin reeve f beaverton j a hawtin has been elected jeeve of the village ofbeaverton by cciamation after serving for five rears as a member of the council ir hawtin is well known in and bout stouffville and is highly steemed here where he bqught and old cattle he held about 25 public uction cattle sales within a period f a few years and was always able 5 come back for another good sale pcause of the confidence imposed him by thefarming community stopped at the altona and kingston children are visited by st nicholas road intersection before entering and given nuts apples candy and no 2 highway after waiting for small gifts piovidmg they have three cars to pass i started out been well behaved throughout the unto the highway i saw lights year coming across the bridge and i had tn moiern american conception when the plaintiffs car crashed bv washington irving who in 1809 into the rear of my truck described him as a tubby jolly little crossexamined knudsen said it was raining and visability was bad- in passing sentencehis worship fellow speeding across the sky in a eindeerdrawn sleigh in 1822 using- irvings description said in view of the condition of and supplying additional details the road and the weather you own imagination clement should have been very careful clarke moore told his children the story of the visit of st nicholas a year later the poem was pubhsh- tj sswsiesz wlr ed in the trov sentinel many years is dr chaim weizmann who later ho hpfor dr moore became world chairman of the passed however before dr moore zionist movement i a professor of divinity pub- i1 cvv f this little boy looks wistfully across the ward at his fellow patients who are able to move about more freely in bed he is being treated for tubei culosis of the knee at the queen alary hospital for tuberculous child- ren one of four hospitals oper ated by the national sanitarium association which is now con ducting a free mass chest xray suryey of greater tor onto and york county the sur vey will be made by means of- transportable xray units thai will in time come to each neigh borhood in this area the sur vey will be financed through the sle of christmas seals but additional contributions will be needed though tuber- culosis kills more persons over the age of five years than all other infectious diseases com bined it can be controlled only the xray can find tuberculosis in the early stage when it is al most always completely cur able y licly acknowledged hivmg wiivten the now famous poem which has been translated into several foreign languages thomas nast creator of the gop elephant tne tammpny tiger and the demociatic donkey apparently dressed santa in his red suit through a series of sketches appear ing in harpers illustrated weekly the tribune an ideal christmas gift abolition of bilingual schools in ontario is asked by the association of public school trustees and rate- payers in a brief presented last week to the royal commission on education the brief said ontario is 90 per cent englishspeaking the busi ness of canada is done in the eng lish tongue one hundred and thirty millions of people in the united states use english as the- only language the language of world trade and now even of occupied germany is english knowing this there can be no point in annually appropriating large sums of english funds to maintain bilingual schools in this province undoubtedly more french be ing taught in the socalled bilingual schools means less english from examinations made by us it would appear that the practice is to divide the time about 5050 in such schools that was not the intention nor the promise when the change was made in the regulations in 1927 not only has the spread of bilingualism been thus aidedbut the policy of maintaining a training school for bilingual teachers in the ottawa university normal for members of the roman catholic faith cannot be justified the appropriation for this school aver ages 60000 yearly and we are of the opinion that it is not only un necessary it is against the public interest and injustifiable in a province so predominantly english- speaking i township of brock records first surplus for the first time in itsliistory brock township council has been able to carry on extensive work without a bank loan m c mclean treasurer stated cash m the bank now totals 10000 and there is also a 5000 victory loan he said recall ing that in 1933 32500 was borrow- v ed owing to a tax arrears from de pression years hanks for the nice resent what a 1 tax busk with christmas close at hand the ung man is likely to solve the lit problem in an orthodox way visiting the florist or candy shop chibits in the royal ontario scum however snow that in the th century his lady love likely uld have received a far more ned selection of presents for stance she might have been given tay busk which was a long flat ice of wood that women woie at t time tucked down inside the lit of their bodices to add to the idityof the prisonlike corsets ere is a stay busk in the costume llery of the museum that is ved with two sots of imtialsand date 1793 jvn even more significant gift was vooden spoon there are some of se love spoons in the museum t are beautifully carved and m to suggest that in days gone you had to be quite handy with ocket knife before you could be uccessful lover the expression oonlng comes from the way bns fit closely together and this ious custom of giving a spoon v out of that use ofthe word jf is 1 miovamiiichls to keep you oh time all the time throughout the years ii r re log for the museum i log of wood representing part he trunk of an extinct form of s or honey locust has recently ii placed on exhibit in the royal ario museum the fossil was d in sandy layers of rock at the brickyard in toronto e sands were laid down in the of an ancient lake whch cover- jhe region abouta quarter of a ion years ago between- the re- f one great ice sheet and the jnce of another from the gen- character of tne fossil plants associated shellfish remains l in these layers of sand it is ved that the climate was some- milder than at the present possibly similar to that of orpennsylvania today t yxma-i- l v