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the tribune stouffville ont thursday january 17 1946 zh tmiffmup uritwnp established 18ss member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and ontario quebec newspapers association issued every thursday at stouffville ontario subscription rates per year in advahce in canada 200 in usa 3250 a v nolan son publishers people are not disposed to take it lying down- they too in cooperative laboratories supported by the mine opera tors have developed a revolutionary new combustion principle individual manufacturers are now perfecting designs that will make it possible to eat a large house with a complete f lrnace only two feet wide two feet high and three feet long due to small size and simplicity of design they expect it can be sold and installed for far less than present coal furnaces notes and comments hold your wrath better heat coming we may cuss the coal and fume about the soft grades but we seldom get heating up about the kind of stove or furnace we are using and so we say to the good people ot whitchurch and all other too for that matter hold your wrath there is something good in store for us the science of home heating and it is a science is mak ing great strides ahead we learned a great deal at a recent meeting of experts on this subject and so pass to you our findings war made us aware that the average farmer was using large quantities of fuel and experts buckled down to finding out how to get more efficient heat out of it now they are popping up with a dozen different answers all these answers point in one general direction far more comfort at a far smalle- cost say furnace and you think of a hulking monster an iron behemoth crouching in your cellar that need not be so in the near future furnace may mean a neat little gadget thats inly half the size of a steamer trunk yet furnishes more than enough heat for a large farmhouse on the coldest days say soft coal and what do you think of clouds of black smoke stirling toward the little womans wash line soot and dirt all over the place a sickening smell every time you havj to throw on more fuel that nuisance looks to be on the way out too ben franklin figured out a way of turning coal into heat more efficiently than the old open fireplace did now weve thought of better ones two professors at the university of illinois have discovered an entirely new combustion principle research men are coming up with other ideas for better heat for less money the big news from illinois is that you can now burn soft coal with no smoke at all every bit of oil gas and car bon is turned into usable heat the truth is there is just as much heat energy in soft coal as in antnracite but under the firing methods of ben franklins day and our own 40 per cent of that heat energy goes into smoke and waste gases the secre of the furnace invented by professors j r fellows and j c miles lies in what the inventors call the downdraft coking principle a vertical baffle wall reaches clown as far as the fire bed it divides the firebox into a front and a back section you pour your coal by the scuttle- ful into the front part of the firebox there it is heated by the flame on the far side of the dividing wall heat rele ises the combustible oils and gases in the unburned coal the draft pulls them under the separating wall into the live coal fire in the back part of the furnace to get to the chimney they must pass through the fire bed where they are raised to burning temperature so instead of going up in oily smoke they furnish additional heat the coal remaining with its volatil oils and gases removed becomes coke so it burns down to a fine ash and leaves no clinkers a slantingdoor makes this remarkable furnace easy to fire some models will feed themselves from a hopper and you need look at them only once a day oldstyle furnaces can be changed to the new system with a lowcost converter that can be installed in 10 minutes without even letting the fire go out manufacturers have adapted the milesfellows principles in models which are now getting their service tests under actual farm home conditions they should be on the market in time for next winter this makes a bright outlook for the future popularity of soft coal as a fuel for the farm home but the anthacite farming and racing right in the middle of a recent farm news release by the dominion department of agriculture is a report on the amount of betting some 542 millions on the various horse race tracks throughout canada last season other items tell about boys and girls farm club contests how to feed brood sows during the winter farm management seed potatoes and how tc grow berries- all very appropriate no doubt in a publication of this kind the inclusion of the other story is explained in its second paragraph which reads in 1945 the dominion department of agriculture supervised parimutuel betting at the tracks of 26 racing associations which held 35 race meetings for a total of 307 days racing nine more days than there was racing in 1944 trotting or harness racing do not come under the super vision of the department why the dominion department of agriculture ever got itself involved in this job is hard to understand to the average person certainly national revenue or the depart ment of finance would be much more appropriate true years ago there was some nonsense aired about the benefit conferred on agriculture by horse racing through improv ing the breed actually there is as much difference between a thoroughbr racer and a purebred farm horse as there is between a racing automobile and a 10ton truck cross them and the result is worthless for either racing or work before the automobile there may have been some faint connection between harnoss horse racing and farming but in canada there has never been any with the other kind surely department of agriculture officials have enough to do without attempting to supervise a field so remote from their own and surely also the sport of kings needs no false upport new tax collection setup the need for establishing 13 new district offices for income tax coll ction stems from the greatly increased num bers of persons subject to this levy prior to the war the average number of taxable persons was 214000 with aver age annual collections of some 80 million today the in dividuals filing returns total more than two million and the collections have mounted to over 15 billion tax collection machinery hadnt kept pace with the increased volume of business- hence the machinery became jammed resulting in annoying aid often inconveniencing delays in checking for possible errors and making refunds the fact that ktichener is selected as the new head quarters to serve the counties of waterloo wellington huron perth and bruce isnt a windfall this city was chosen because it is the hub of a populous district the designation as a collection centre adds prestige to this in dustrial city and creates new opportunities for employment the only ad note is the expansion of facilities for col lecting income tax is the indication that this levy is here to stay and in no mild form for years to come pipe smoking an old custom in ontario a shortage of tobacco would have caused as much con cern three centuries ago for the indians of ontario as it would for us today the indians used a great variety of pipes as illustrated by the collections in the royal ontario museum many of them are of baked clay these run the gamut from very simple forms resembling our cheap clay pipes to elaborate moulded designs which represent squash- blossoms or tobaccoblossoms or a strange face or creeping lizard still more cherished are the stone pipes some of which bear intricate carved figures in size they range from tiny miniatures to large impressive ornate pieces they vary also in details of construction in some the stem and bowl are carved out of one block in others the stem was a separate wooden piece the stemless pipes were usually sus pended from a piece of cord which was worn around the neck of the owner absentminded smokers of today might copy this idea to their advantage our capital correspondent written expressly for the stouffville tribune by dean wilson there has been a spotlight lately upon veterans affairs in the drama of events on parliament hill to an unusual extent one report has shown that there is considerable reluctance on the part of many veterans to enter into training for the building trades and one official has attributed this to the fact that by and large we have paid too little for the difficult and hard jobs in canada with the disclosure that letween april 1 1914 and october 31 1915 of approximately 10000 veterans enroled for training only about 1700 were in the building trades even if there was a strong demand for such workers another story heard in ottawa is that there is much dissatisfaction amongst veterans regarding their employ ment opportunities as these are developing after their return from overseas and discharge from the armed services including many compliants in whispers at times at the salaries offered to married men who have to maintain a family at the kind of jobs offered such as woods jobs far from home in mines etc meanwhile another report indicates that since ve day canadas armed services have been repatriated 1000 men approximate lv from the navy about 102000 the army and about 15000 the air force leaving overseas and away from home about 3000 navy personnel approximately 100000 army jwr- snnnel and about 20000 air force personnel it is revealed in this capital that the activities of the united nations relief and rehabilitation adminis tration unrra in ottawa in concentrating now mainly in seek ing canadian personnel for work in the kar kast has only one signifi cant point and this is that the task of recruiting canadians to work in europe f- this international body is almost ended so that onlv can- ndian oualified for such jols in the orient are wanted there are noi other reasons for this change in regard to the serious crime wave sweeping across canada at the present time it can be stated that discussions between federal and provincial attorneysgeneral are proceeding with a view of lightening the restrictions pertain ing to the possession of guns and otherwise essential steps in this regard to help curb the crime wave with rthon herbert morrison lord president of the privy seal in britain and gen dwight b eisen hower chief of the united states army staff as well as former com manderinchief of the allied armies in europe being on the list of prominent visitors in ottawa this nations capital is becoming more and more recognized as a stoo ever for famous international figures and this stresses the growth in stature of canada as a nation amongst nations two prominent officials of the department of trade and commerce john h english and c m croft have been appoint ed senior trade commissioners to south africa and australia respec tively but behind these what may appear to be merely routine appoint ments is the story that the can adian government is entering upon a drive to strengthen vastly tliis countrys representations in the other important british dominions likewise canadas minister of trade and commerce hon james a mackinnon has gone to britain and on a tour of france belgium and the netherlands in order to discuss some extremely important import as well as export matters with officials there with numerous rumours about canadas trade re lations with these countries pre ceding his departure especially since many canadian firms nave complained bitterly lately against the almost impossibility of export ing certain articles due to restric tions and other obstacles while there is a shortage of sugar in can ada as in many other nations yet a public relations counsel for a group of south american sugar interests has made a statement in ottawa that there is no longer any adeouaie justification for sugar rationing in canada though it is pointed out in this capital that south american sugar costs about double that of cuban sugar the former minister of poland to can ada victor podoski has returned to ottawa after an absence of about fifteen months when he served the polish government in exile in lon don there are great opportuni ties in canada for composers since canadian film makers are bolder and less traditional in their employ ment of music than other producers this was the statement in ottawa of the ominent organist and com poser eldon rathburn who has come to the capital where he will prepare the music for the national film boards production to the ladies canadian casualties in world war ii totalled 104925 in cluding 11371 dead as compared with casualties of 190092 including g2s17 dead in world war i this has been disclosed in ottawa wheifc it was also shown that of the three services in world war ii the army had the greater number killed and died 22712 with the air force be ing 1009 1 and the navy 1905 from pegs on one side and old pieces of harness buckles traces breech straps blinders check reins hip straps choke straps hames find collars on long shelves at the rear were pieces of leather from which the harness maker cut parts the floor was alwavs covered with bits of leather dust and accumu lated debris the smell was an integral part of the shop when a hot fire was going it helped emphasize the satisfying aroma compounded of oil new leather old harness and dust it was a heavy pungent satisfying fra grance and on a day of lashing rain the smell was at its best a harness shop was an important institution in the countrysides economy it was a place of business but more than that it was a spot where a lad could spjnd pleasant hours listening to men discuss the affairs of the local community and the outside world a world into which a boy dreamed he would go one day and take his part the harness shop a generation ago the harness shop was a close second to the blacksmith shop as a place of interest on a stormy saturday in early winter when work in the barns and sheds was caught up father was likely to say after breakfast son why dont vou take those pieces of harness to the vil lage and get them mended tell bill if he doesnt think that trace is worth mending to give vou a new one after the morgan mare was hitched in the horseshed behind the town hall blanketed and given a lump of sugar a lad draped harness pieces over his shoulder and headed for the harness shop probablv a group had gathered lads were there from other farms farmers had dropped in on the way to the grain mill villagers had come to pass the lime of day the shop was a fascin ating place the small oneroom building was heated bv a vac- shaed castiron stove and the rusty stove pipe made a detour 1 around the ceiling to give additional heat in cold weather there were brokendown chairs nnd nail keg for ihe use of the forum member j new glistening harnesses hung- stanley theatre box office opens daily at sixthirty pm shows begin 7 pm now playing the supershock sensation revealing why we must wo beware of the beaten germans piotfo by aotttl golden 0ctd by hfibtl j sibelman thurs nile is foto nite 2 offers 200 25 friday and saturday january is and 19 u0nhrr01 martha t11i0h frahkllh pahgb0rn qh1i helsoh mum matinee every saturday at 2 pm children 5c you can see all the big features at the stanley monday and tuesday january 21 and 22 mgms big spectacular musical show van johnson- fsfe williams introducing the methopoutan opera star lauritz melch10r jtommy dorsey uc technicotor no 207 wednesday and thursday january 23 and 21 abbott costello in hollywood see grain supply short this year south ontario retail feed dealers meet at brooklin attributing shortages of feed grain and delays in shipping din ing recent years to an overloading of canadas railroads as well as heavy shipments to european and us market arthur cooper tor onto grain broker addressing the monthly meeting of the south ontario retail feed dealers associ ation at brooklin stated that this situation should begin to better it self although he held out no hope that any noticeable improvement would ikcome apparent at once while the recent establishment of an embargo against shipping grain to the usa should be of help to the domestic market the pledge of the canadian wheat board to move twenty million bushels of wheat to the seaboard this winter to be shipped to starv ing europe will tax our transpor tation facilities to the limit he pointed out that the railways had been unable to replace worn- out cars during the war that as many as isooo canadian box cars were in operation on us lines and that apparently nothing could be done to get these cars back into the country in addition due to troop trains of returning european vet erans locomotives were also in short supply however i do think that the conditions of last summer will apply again he stated while con sumption of feed grains is much heavier in the province adequate stocks are expected to be available 27 pigs born in freak litter near wellesley an amazing freak birth is report ed from berlets corners near kitchener where a sow owned by oscar wagner gave birth to 27 pigs in one litter on dec 16 the sow produced 11 piglets about a normal litter but none of them lived- eight days later 1g more appeared and ol this num ber 14 survived no one has yet recalled a bigger litter although one man states that he knew of a sow giving birth to 21 pigs at one time the sow in this case had prev iously had four normal litters only 7 to adminster family allowance it will come as a definite surprise to many people across canada to learn that the administration of the family allowance division has engaged only seven persons jo its staff in ottawa this being due to the almost complete decentralization of the work whereby the main offices are distributed in the various pro vincial capitals labor troubles impeding it ea diustm ext9 it is admitted in wellinformed quarters on parliament hill thai threatening unemployment and labour unrest across canada art- two of the most serious obstacles in the path of the present progress being made in this period of re adjustment however canadas minister of labour hon humphrey mitchell and others in ottawa seem to be inclined to discount some of innocent doe lands in jail bedded down on warm straw with a bowl of hot soup inside of it a yearling doe is recuperating in oak- ville police station after an icy swim in lake ontario at the foot of thomas street at oakville in a few hours it survived a chase by dogs a frigid swim a rescue by police and a citizen and a ride to the station wrapped in a blanket in chief john derrys car apart from exhaustion the only outward sign of the experience is a scratch on her neck either a dog nipped it or it ran into barbed wire the chief thinks the animal was first noticed by mrs ralph youngjr who saw it struggling toward the shore when police were notified chief deny constable lou patterson andi thomas smith dundas st rushed to the lakeshore and carried the deer up the bank to the chiefs car we had a little trouble getting it in the car and wrapping il in an old blanket he related tom smith had to sit on il while we took it to the pound a woman gave it a bowl of soup there then i bedded it down in warm straw i may get pneumonia he wor ried its pretty well tuckered out in the meantime while awaiting for the arrival of game warden d hitchcox it was discovered that the animals back was broken the alarmists stories being cir culated in this country indeed it is held in ottawa that the place ment machinery in canada is far more efficient and able to handle the situation today than anything which has existed in this country at any other time in our history with official views lcing that the conditions now are somewhat better than some agents of gloom pre dicted a few months ago that they would be these leing the exact words used by a spokesman for the government who declared thai at the time there were predictions that half a million people would be out of employment in canada by the end of october 10 xh