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the tribune stouflville om thursday january 30 1947 ultjp touffmllf bribmt established 1888 member of the canadian weekiy newspaper association and ontario quebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations average paidinadvance circulation as of sept 1st 2473 issued every thursday at stouffville ontario subscription rates per year in advance in canada 200 in usa 250 a- v nolan son publishers notes and comments he has retired after 47 years service one seems to see in an examination of the presidential history of the cpjl the trend to democracy of today lord mount stephen was president from 1880 to 1s88 sir william van home from 1888 to 1898 lord shaughnesy from 1899 to 1918 sir edward beatty from 1918 to 1942 mr coleman from 1942 to 1947 and now mr neal the former office boy sfiytf january 31 aaa february 1st thrift does not pay the opinion expressed by mr c gordon brodie that thrift is rapidly disappearing as a human motivating force because of the current lack of profit incentive will find many people in agreement one of them who happens to be some thing of a sliderule virtuoso produced the following figures to substantiate mr brodies contention in the twenties the man who accumulated 20000 could be sure of an annual return of 1200 on his money it is true that baby bonuses had not yet been invented that price controls and subsidies were undreamed of and that the ordinary man had to provide for his old age but it is also true that relatively low taxes and a current investment yield of six per cent made the idea of thrift attractive it is different in 1946 the man who wants an invest ment income of 1200 now requires 48000 to do the job this amount must be accumulated at ruinously low interest rates and under a heavy burden of taxation todays money rate is from two and a half to three per cent a long way from the comfortable six per cent of the twenties and todays taxes make the actual yield even lower bats in oar belfries this is the time of year when mammal experts at the royal ontario museum expect to hear outcries from citizens of the province that they have encountered bats in their attics or cellars the species they find on capture is the big brown bat which used to hibernate in caves but in our cities may pick on almost any dark and sheltered spot then the proverbial january thaw may warm him up a bit and stir him to activity most other species of canadian bats move to warmer climates in the usa during winter such a mild spell may bring out other mammals as well the groundhog the chipmunk or the skunk the latters wavering track across the snow is frequently seen in january when no thaws soften winters icy blasts the deer have a particularly hard time of it they find deep snow difficult to navigate and in their search for food they are forced to confine themselves to small areas which they beat down into deep paths this practice gave rise to the term deer yarding the black or grey squirrel is untroubled by cold and snow for now is the time when he can literally reap the fruits of his summer and fall industry many of his nuts he buried singly but he can find them even under three or four feet of snow probably by scent abuse corrected a stinging reminder that the government still has the power to control prices is given by ottawa in reimposing ceiling prices on used bags bagging and baling materials- on jan 13 these controls along with many others were removed but greedy individuals went beyond reason and the market showed unmistakable signs of developing excessive increases as much as 50 per cent the new order puts the prices at iv to 3 cents above the former ceiling prices the prices board sensibly exercised its right to reimpose ceilings where decontrol was not approached with reason by those handling the products involved incidentally ottawa is examining another price situation which may call for reimposition of controls as long as there are controls even if the need for them is debatable it is wise to have the authority to reimpose these safeguards when things tend to get out of hand this will uphold the principle that price must not be allowed to get out of hand two railway climbers the cpr is one of the worlds greatest transportation systems known not only on this continent but wherever the british flag flies it was hacked through the wilderness in the early days by men of vision who saw far beyond the ken of ordinary men today the road spans the continent and today it has its sixth president in its 66 years of existence he is w n neal who has been with the company for 45 years and whose rise from the bottom to the top has the horatio alger flavor he started as an office boy and today he faces a period of development that would test the capacities of most men his predecessor in office d c coleman is little if anything less spectacular than his successor mr coleman born at carleton place went to business college at belleville and after graduating with distinction he joined the staff of the belleville intellinger it was not long before he was manager of that paper but he tarried only a short while there seeing a great opportunity with the cpr he was one of 11 clerks who were moved to fort william within a year he was chief of that group he moved ahead fast until 1942 when sir edward beatty retired he became president and handled the great system in the critical days of war finally county council in session york county council is now in session the first week was given over very much to organization or to setting up the committees and other machinery with which to carry on the work of the sessions held in january june and november perhaps too much time is wasted in this sort of thing but it seems a necessary function to perform before the work of the session can be carried on organiza tion well done may be half the battle there are seven committees appointed by the council annually which carry on most of the work they are agriculture education finance bylaws and legislation reforestation market committee and the police committee committee chairmen heading up reforestation -an- committee chairmen heading up reforestation one of the other chairman is a former warden and at least three more aspire for that office next year not the chairman from stouffville a special committee will bring in a bylaw at this session designed to set up a pension scheme for all county employees and while the council approved of the principle there is one contentious suggestion wherein the committee would have the ratepayers of the county pay up the back dues to put each employee in line for the maximum retiring allowance he or she could demand had they joined the scheme from the first day they become county employees in some instances back payment for ten or fifteen years may be required and the total for county and employee to meet is about 50000 had such payments been made over past years the county would have contributed half this big sum and the employees half it will be rightfully maintained that if employees seeking to obtain credit for previous years they should at least be required to contribute his or her share just as though they had been in the scheme from the first day they were employed however when the scheme was reported on it was suggested that the county foot the bill for all back pay this should be vigorously opposed by all reeves and deputy- reeves since most of them will testify that their local municipalities in the county hence to hand out a cheque for scheme to their own employees on any basis whatever it is probably conceded that county employees are very much better paid than those in the employ of the majority of municipalities in the county and to hand out a cheque for something like 25000 to them in this way would place the representatives of the council in the position of unfaithful servants of the electors- monday and tuesday feil 10 u to each his own olivia de haviuand john lund our capital correspondent written exclusively for the stouff ville tribune by m l sschwartz when it is considered that the jast session was opened on march m and prorogued only on august 30 and that in face of a last minute rush there were still bills which could not be passed it is clear why stories are heard now on parlia ment hill that greater speed may be witnessed in this new third ses sion of the 20th parliament though there is much work ahead and observers predict that debates may be hot on a large number of out standing issues on the agenda the widespread consolidation of activities of the three armed forces of canada it is reported in ottawa will allow the national defence department to bring about a sub stantial reduction in the civilian personnel including civil service so that cuts in the 1947194s esti mates may be impressive with one report indicating that the depart ment would protably save about 50000000 on the 19161047 esti mates of 110000000 for the three services in addition it is revealed in ott awa that provision has been made for alout 13000000 for military research in the current year and this means that canada will be spending about onetwentieth of her defence expenditures on re search this being almost the same proportion as the united states with whom canada works in close cooperation as well as with the united kingdom it appears now in ottawa that it is a question of a relatively short time when the canadian govern ment will drop all or almost all subsidies of a certain type so that observers expect that merchandis ing costs in some lines may go up considerably in this country- last fall the- canadian government had dropped subsidies in some degree and reports of further action along this road has been anticipated here for a long time especially recalling that a spokesman had declared that subsidies cannnot be justified in normal peacetime economy at their peak these subsidies nad cost the canadian government an annual sum of 130000000 this occurring in 1915 however it was argued that without these subsidy payments taxpayers would have been compelled to pay more in the end through higher prices it is believed in ottawa unofficial ly that the meat supply situation in various sections of this country is changing for the better though by no means entirely satisfactory there seems to be a reasonable amount of beef available in many parts of the country and this is also true of lamb with pork pro ducts being in poor supply how ever behind the supply picture there is speculation that shortages may be caused in many sections by the possible unwillingness of pro ducers to send their cattle to market because they are hopeful of something happening which will give them greater returns at least this latter explanation is heard in mighty loud whispers nowadays even along parliament hill where a general improvement in meat supplies appear to be the dominion opinion at the present time following the report that the federal government had raised the salaries of deputy ministers and others of topranking position in the governmental service includ ing some salaries boosted to 17500 such as the deputy minister of finance and president of xational research council the civil service association in ottawa has called on the federal government to carry out these increases all down the line the spirit of the gordon report recommendation obviously does not propose wage increases restricted to a few officials said r h taber president of the afore mentioned civil service associa tion the gordon report was given by a royal commission on adminis trative classifications in the public service with respect to salaries it is strongly hinted in official circles in ottawa that exaggerated stories on meat shortages and black markets in certain areas of canada are most harmful and sometimes even begin a run on butcher shops with its accompanied panic as far as medical men are concerned it is believed in ottawa that canada may soon become one of the best supplied nations in the world in this regard with hundreds of doctors released from the armed services and new peacetime record graduations of medical men from various universities across the i country about 700 delegates who are interested in the operations of the canadian institute of mining and metallurgy comprised the visitors list at the meeting in this capital of this organization hon john ulinski united states boundary commissioner has held a conference in this city with xoel ogilvie canadian boundary com missioner canadas quota of token shipment to the united kingdom for 1917 has been fixed at 20 percent of the annual average value of prewar export trade and the agreement recently signed by france and canada in order to stimulate private export trade be tween these two countries is con sidered important in ottawa more than reports would seem to indi cate since it is believed here that it will restore such private trade which was ended at the beginning of world war ii reproduction prohibited 1917 federal features syndicate friseclark team move to montreal paper announcement that jimmy frise and gregory clark cartoonist- newsman team of birdseye center fame are transferring their activi ties to the montreal standard comes with considerable interest to pick ering district as both men come of families who at one time resided there frise now 50 was himself born on scugog island where his father operated a farm in 1910 he took a nine dollar a week cartooning job with the toronto star and after developing birdseye center into a star weekly feature teamed up with clark for a weekly story greg clarkes father joseph t clark and uncle james came to pickering news beth were print ers and joseph left for the states before the turn of the century returning later to work for the sat urday night james however remained at pickering where he was in partnership with w c murkars father at the pickering news for a number of years an article in the current issue of time magazine tells how for the first clarkfrise piece clark got a 1000 bill from the business office took it to a department store offered it in payment for a 79 cent j necktie and did a story on the con fusion he caused week and week it continued he and frise teamed up on similar didos filled the back page of the star weekly magazine section with i stories and sketches of their antics said clark canadian newspaper- 1 men cant make fun of anybody so we solved the problem by making fun of ourselves later they branched out into stories of hunt ing and fishing backonlhefarm misadventures sheer fiction the writer in time points out that clark and frise will need a new name for birdseye center as it is a star copyright it is suggest ed also that the syndicated features will be receives si000 for crop loss judgment in favor of albin storm humberstone township farmer near welland who last july- sued the township for damages to his 1915 crops has been handed down by j a slcxevin referee in the ontario drainage court damages amounting to 1000 costs of the action and an order directing repairs of three drains which storm claimed were by vir tue of their state of nonrepair responsible for crop damage on 37 acres of land were awarded profitable fox hunting walkerton jan 25 fox hunting is not a social occasion in this district hut a war on animal pests with the added attraction of cash returns during 191c in bruce county bounties of 3500 were paid for 700 foxe- killed seldom seen the other night i sat musing about school days and vividly be fore me came a picture of our apple trees and how i used to rush clown to the small orchard and fill my pockets before being off to school and i thought how long it has been since i have gotten hold of an apple that produces the same thrill for me from time to time we read that ontario apples are not what they used to be but the writers may be old ontario boys like me with visions of days that they will never know again anyway i asked myself where now is the talman sweet a lovely apple in its pristine glory what has become of the snow apple with its ruddy face its thin skin and its white body then there was the golden russet and the northern spy the pick of the lot for late eating we have them yet they do not seem the same has the flavor gone out of them or am i sensing it through memories more imaginative than real its a sad story on the face of things nothing could be done about it along the lines we were operating when the disaster came the aver age farmer in pioneer days planted an acre or two of orchard as soon as the land was cleared there was no coddling moths in those days there was no scab to mar and deface the fruit the apples were big and beautiful well what did happen to ontario apples the orchards were small an acre or two on a hundred acre farm thev were an unimportant factor in the farm economy in many cases they were grown whollv for home consumption the farmers put them in bins or barrels and stored them in the cellar for winter use at seldom seen we had them in the root hou partly the old home town rural reeve has pure th1xg member of york county council was singing ins own praises for having done much to promote the home and school club in his mun icipalityone of the best youth training centres to be found when a reeve from a rural municipality rose to speak and declared his township had the best youth train ing centre to be found the farm homes in his area underground moist and cool the ground was not cultivated the trees were not properly cared for apple growing was not even a side line but what lovely fruit we lads filled our blouses with going to school today new commercial orchards have been developed and from these we are getting good fruit but somehow i seldom get an apple with that schoolboy taste so perhaps its not the apple at all ontario was a lovely land in the old days still is of course the fishing season started on the 24th of may the sheep would be washed before the first of june the old swimming holes resounded to the yells of youngsters takine their first dip it rained on the 12th of july with all respects to your altona mill mr editor i wish ontario would go back to making apple- butter the real kind what a marvellous smoky flavor there was a touch of ashes in it then we had pumpkin pie and blackcurrants and gooseberries and corn on the cob in those davs nearly every farmer had roast lamb for the threshing dinner and i recall one bright chap who said he could taste wool for a month after the threshing was over things are different now but these far off mem ories are a part of life which will abide till the shadows fall and those who li then k them no more by stanley bpcthetud come povwj au warm your vtloht clothes too- i