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the tribune stouffville ont thursday november 14 1946 b tmifftrillr cfcribmif established 1888 member of the canadian veekiy newspaper association and ontario quebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations average paidinadvance circulation as of aug 1st 2457 issued every thursday at stouffville ontario subscription rates per year in advance i in canada 200 in usa 250 a- v nolan son publishers notes and comments the hall issue on december ninth all ratepayers in stouffville eligible to vote on money bylaws will be called upon to mark their ballot yes or no whether or not they are in favour of spending 25000 on a community hall when the proper time comes to do such building or in the meantime if a suitable building should come on the market it the vote is favourable and if a hall is built the cost will be spread over twenty years and the annual debenture should not be burdensome in fact it may not increase the tax rate at all since some substantial payments now being made will be dropping off when the hall debentures would be starting stouffville is definitely suffering from hall accommoda tion and it would be a near tragedy if the ratepayers failed to give their consent to the project there will be certain opposition from those sources who oppose everything and anything that costs a bit of money strange that people wrap themselves up in their own smugness they have a bit of money and dont care a hang about other people how ever such individuals are few in number and will make no appreciable difference to the progress of the town if the rank and file of the ratepayers get out and assert their influence almost every business man on main street signed a petition for the vote and it will be to their inteiest to do all they can to assure a successful decision few farm bells now time was when many a farm woodshed had a bell on the peak of the roof or an old rusty plowshare dangling from a porjecting bar at the side these were used to summon the farmer and his sons or the hired man to dinner and supper reminiscing on the passing of such bells the fort william timesjournal says in the old clays watches were rare among the farmers and wrist watches had not been built the family time was kept by the tall old clock on the kitchen wall the clock might be incorrect anywhere from minutes to half an hour but it served the purpose where there was a farm bell the housewife pulled the rope and made the bell clang lustily prior to taking up the meal all farm homes did not have a bell some used a big horn which could be heard in remote fields and which served the purpose as well as a bell others again ran up a white flag on a tall pole which could be seen from all parts of a level farm in any case whether it was by bell by horn or by flag it did not take the men in the fields long to respond- there is nothing like work to sharpen the appetite one may sus pect that ears were tuned for the bell or horn long before the awaited signal was heard and eyes were trained on top of the flagpole for the first sight of the fluttering white cloth over 7 million circulation comes word from london that the news of the world a weekly which deals in lifes light and shadows but mainly its shadows has come to a circulation of more than seven million largest circulation of any newspaper in the worlds history heres food for thought people tell us continually that newspapers go in too much for triviality that they would be liked better and read more widely if they stressed politics literature art philosophy we wonder what such com plainants have to say to this repartee of the news of the world with its seven million readers for the news of the world isnt much concerned with politics literature ait and philosophy lord riddell so created by lloyd george gave it its real start in life by noting shrewdly that it was as somebody said sex oclock and that more people were more interested in what went on in the divorce courts than before the privy council the news of the world became the organ of what the intellectuals called the proletariat the fact is that there are vastly more people who want entertainment in their newspapers than there are those who demand serious reading prepared by thoughtfu per sons and if most of our newspapers have played down crime and sex and have spent great sums in bringing people world news that is important it is not because of wide support from the public ottawa journal weapons it has recently been decided by a canadian court that robbery effected by the threat of using what appears to be but actually is not a lethal weapon is not robbery under arms this decision must either be reversed or if that is impossible which is probably the case the law must be changed to a citizen faced with what appears to be a large and effective military revolver and told that if he does not hand over the content of the till he will be shot it makes no difference whate that the implement may be a clever imitation the only way he can find out whether it is or not is by allowing himself to be shot and if it is not an imitation he will then be too dead to care the shops frequented by small boys are full of the most accurate imitations of large german pistols and revolvers which anybody can buy for a dollar or so if a holdup man can use one of these to threaten his victim and then when caught get the charge against him reduced to ordinary robbery by showing that the implement could not be fired we shall have a very dangerous epidemic of this sort of crime the real difference between robbery with and robbery without arms is not in the ability of the criminal to kill or maim it is in his ability to make the victim believe he can kill or maim it seems to us that any action calculated to give an ordinary reasonable person the impression that the criminal is armed should be sufficient to establish a more serious charge than that of mere robbery toronto saturday night kennedy backs wallis about sale of cows if export of ontario milch cows to the united states continues at the present rate the dairy industry in the province will be dealt a severe blow agriculture minister kennedy of ontario said last week in an interview he commented on a report from kitchener that the exodus of cattle across the border is causing concern in waterloo county in june 1939 345 milk cows were exported from ontario he said last june exports totalled 4415 our capital correspondent written exclusively for the stouff ville tribune bv m l sschwartz before the canadian parliament will open again probably towards the end of january in 1947 several new members will be ready to take their seats in the house of com mons and so far these byelections have produced opponents of the governments rather than support ers this being true of the results in pomiac parkdale and portage la prairie xow the political fences are expected to be strengthened in the latest byelection in riehelieu- vercheres where the death of the late hon pjacardin has created a contest quickly the govern ment acted to call this contest and it is believed in ottawa that the supporters of the government arc practically certain that it will bring back another liberal it is emphasized that the late member a powerful leader in the liberal party had been elected there again and again during his 35 years in parliament moreover in face of the strength of premier duplessis union nationale party in the pro vincial field this constituency divided into two provincial seats has returned two liberal support- erts in the legislative assembly at quebec in other words it is be lieved in ottawa that the richelieu- vercheres byelection on dec- 25 will result in a victory for the supporters of the king government in quebec probably by an over whelming majority and this is expected to counteract the effects somewhat of the three reverses suffered in pontiac parkdale and portage la prairie outlines rules for candidates in town elections who may contest oifice in the forthcoming municipal election n markham whitchurch uxbridge or pickering townships or in stouffville does one have to own property what technical points are involved these are some of the questions being asked virtually anyone on the voters wl is ass for at least s100 is entitled to stand for one of the municipal offices in the place mentioned flf f friday and saturday nov is if blood on the sun james cagney sylvia sidney with high ranking officials pre sent including members of the federal cabinet a demonstration of things to come was given in this capital when a sikorsky helicopter was put through various tests the helicopter is definitely here to stay said igor sikorsky world famous aeronautical engineer to a meeting here it has proved its peculiar and extremely advantageous character istics in vast number of engineer ing tests as well as in great number of useful missions particularly in sucessful rescue work when the regulations allowing canadians to visit across the border in united states for six months without passports are applied these will affect the travels of natural ized as well as nativeborn can adians this has been made clear in ottawa no passport would be necessary but proper identification may be required such as birth certificate baptismal certificate or any other suitable identification must be 21 he or she must be a british sub ject by birth or naturalization and have reached the full age of 21 he must be a householder resid ing in town or be rated on the last revised assessment roll of the municipality for land held in his own right for an amount sufficient i to entitle him to be entered on the voters list and reside in or within i five miles of the municipality householder means the person i who occupies and is assessed as owner or tenant of a dwelling or apartment house or part of a dwell ing or apartment house separatelv occupied as a dwelling f example a tenant assessed for 312o is entitled to contest office but another party may own a lot assessed for only 275 and not be permitted to seek election some cant run among those not entitled to stand for office are judge goaler sheriff deputy sheriff or bailili a chief constable assessment commissioner tax collector town treasurer or clerk or any other officer employee or servant of the corporation of the municipality a member of a school board unless he has on or before the day of nomination filed his resignation with the secretary of the board a tenant who at the time of nomination owes more than three months rent upon the property in respect of which he qualifies a person is not eligible to sit on council or vote if he is an owner or tenant against the land in respect of which he qualifies there are at the time of the nomination any taxes of a preceding year or years overdue and unpaid an interesting point is that a candidate in village and townships needs only an assessment of 100 in towns having a population not exceeding 30q0 it is 200 and in cities 400 the tribune is your bst classi fied adv market nters mors than 2500 homes every week democracy on any other than christian principle is dangerous said in the capital rev dr c j l bates president of university of west japan from 1920 to 1940 when addressing a meeting the mar ket is an enormous state of chaos and will remain that way until con trols are off declared in ottawa roger g dennison of new york planning expert we know that controls are on their way out and it is a healthty sign we are getting back to earth farm labor would continue to be scarce owing to so many of this type of labor entering industrial plants attracted by better wages and security re marked here george v haythorne assistant director of agriculture forests fisheries department of labor radio has done more for the unity of canada than we know commented in ottawa claire wal lace famous woman broadcaster whose programmes are heard daily across this country canada should turn a sympathetic ear to india for there is big business there for the dominion after all 4000000000 people create quite a market declared in ottawa p kodanda rao indian educationist author and student during the course of a visit we would like to see greater economic relations between canada and china gen chang chun governor of szechu- ang province china stated in this capital labor must be treated as a partner not a commodity to be bought as cheaply as possible said eugene forsey director of econo mic research canadian congress of labor after the arrival of the first large group of polish soldiers admitted to canada under a special arrange ment another 1300 in a second group are expected to reach these shores this month with officials believing that 1500 or more may be placed on ontario farms 900 or so in alberta and the others elsewhere throughout canada this con tinent looks like another world in contrast with europe in so far as scarcity and plenty are concern ed emphasized in ottawa mrs jean henshaw after her return from abroad where she was looking after displaced children in germany hon j e read canadian repre sentative at the international court of justice told a gathering here that many important world questions have been settled peacefully in the international court of justices his tory the canadian minister of trade and commerce hon james mackinnon was honored at a luncheon in ottawa by the com mercial representatives of numer ous foreign countries stationed in this capital including commercial attaches from the embassies of brazil cuba france greece rus sia sweden turkey poland new zealand united states united kingdom etc highranking officers of the canadian armed ser vices inspected closely the famous raf lancaster aries holder of several remarkable records such as the cairocapetown run with this more hens on farms compared with 1945 there were more hens and chickens on can adian farms in 1910 but less tur keys geese and ducks according to the poultry bulletin of the june survey of live stock and poultry poultry of all kinds numbered 89849300 as against 89504500 in 1945 an increase of 344800 birds or 04 per cent hens and chickens showed an increase of 09 per cent the 1946 number being 85459200 compared with 84724800 in 1945 turkeys decreased in number the 1946 number being 3037800 against the 1945 number of 3325600 how ever gains were recorded in four provinces prince edward island nova scotia alberta and british columbia the number of geese declined by 4 per cent the numbers being 615- 700 compared with 611200 on june 1 a year ago ducks decreased in number from s12900 in 1945 to 736600 only two provinces quebec and british col umbia increasing the number of ducks as at june 1 1946 plane having travelled 109867 miles reproduction prohibited 1946 federal features syndicate get blessed also at stouffville youth for christ held in mennonite church saturday november kith 815 pm you will see a lifetime of bible study and char acters packed into a few minutes of intensive visualization of your own sunday school lesson these mov ing pictures stir you to the depths of your being and cause you to live for a while in the histories of their setting hundreds come tc see these gospel messages how about you special solo marg slover on hand can you sing then come and en- enjoy the cheery songspiration with glad at the piano and ted leading bring a prayer and mile with yon director nt rowan sponsored by you i last monday was a holiday in many towns throughout ontario remembrance day they called it many of those who were enthusias tic for the day off however will recall the date as the time they put on the storm windows or rooted out the last remaining vegetables from the garden a day to remember all right city wide service vacuum cleaner repairs eureka hoover premier gobin and all other makes central cleaner vacuum service dont neglect your car get them repaired at banfori sons garage gormley ontario give us a trial we will try and satisfy phone 7301 stouffville 28tf telephone calls have shot up too 1 elephonk calls and junior have a lot in common both hare grown at a breathtaking pace and a switchboard is even harder to get than a new suit for junior that in brief is why the operator is often unable to answer you promptly equipment is being added just as fast as the supply situation will permit but complicated things like switch boards lake time to build and install ccn when youre an impatient as we are to restore telephone service to peak efficiency and that mean once again giving you instant service on every call you make