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the tribune stouffville ont thirsday september 4 1947 notes and comments start to school at 750 am timetable for buses serving bradford high school next term are announced in the bradford a ltness showing that one bus starts at 750 in the morning to reach brad ford at nine thats a very early hour to start out for school and allowing the bus to leave the school in the evening at a reasonable time after four the students will do well to be home in time for six oclock tea especially in winter season we still do not understand why so many are enthused about large high school areas that leave very wideopen spaces without a school those fields grew something the dominion bureau of statistics estimates that there will be sixtytwo million bushels of wheat less this year because farmers were unable to plant due to wet weather many newspapers have commented on this loss of wheat as an outofpocket sum of 125000000 for the canadian farmer we think the view is rather stretching an unfortunate situation a bit too far as we see it if the farmer did not plant the wheat he is in pocket the cost of seed and labor or the seed at any rate then againmany of those fields perhaps the majority of them not sown to wheat as intended they should be probably grew some other crop which these editorial writers take no thought of the picture is not quite as bad as it is painted in many daily newspapers news from vermilion something different in the way of utility news was reported from vermilion alta last week instead of a municipality taking over a privately owned power plant the role was reversed after 33 years of municipal ownership ratepayers of the town have voted to sell their power plant to a private company canadian utilities ltd of calgary the latter has agreed to cut rates 30 per cent retain employees and will shortly be paying a much increased schedule of wages moreover on the new 250000 district power plant canadian utilities is soon to build some 5000 will be paid in taxes to vermilion each year in the last few decades so many privately owned utilities have been absorbed by provincial and municipal authorities that the public is apt to think that this trend is inevitable and because the owners are not liable for taxes and can turn some of that saving back to consumers in the form of rate cuts the public is liable to think that public ownership is more economical ratepayers in vermilion however do not seem to agree and they have found a private company willing to stake a good many thousand dollars on its ability not only to turn out cheaper service but to pay taxes too jsj ype coal is slipping a coal has been the main source of heat and power for so long a period that it may be difficult for mine owners and miners to realize that it is taking second place and will probably continue to recede steadily as time passes just in the small community of stouffville there are said to be forty furnaces that once consumed coal being operated by oil or gas a report of the united states bureau of mines shows that in 1936 the statistical score was 13 points for coal and 89 for oil and natural gas today the score is 17 for oil and gas and 14 for coal if the trend continues and there is every reason to believe it will a lot of miners will have to seek new occupations the demand for oil fueling is hampered at present by the lack of oil tank cars on the railroads but as steel output increases there will be thousands more available another way in which steel will figure in the situation is by the con struction of oil and natural gas pipe lines when the many schemes projected are completed there will be much greater use of these supplies the result will be both a gain and a loss to the rail roads because they will lose heavily in coal freight which is one of their biggest items of traffic on the other hand coal is costing them more and is further increasing their expenses the more recent boost in miners wages adding millions of dollars to their fuel bills water a great boon from the kitchener daily record comes an editorial on water a great boon and the paper proceeds to estimate on the amount of water required daily for a person and for live stock and while we imagine the figures are very liberal they do emphasize a very important thing the editorial says in this land of many lakes and rivers with water everywhere we are anything but economical in the use of water except when temporary emergencies arise did it ever occur to you how much water does go down the drain at home or did it ever occur to you that the more and better the facilities the greater the use of water per person running water in houses and buildings saves carrying up 100 pails a day with 15 cows two horses and four persons on a farm use 80 to 100 pails a day livestock requirements are fairly steady but the human consumption varies greatly depending on the weather and conditions if you have to carry it from a pump outdoors it is eight gallons a day with complete plumbing installations and no water shortage it is 30 gallons a day consumption in the house varies from one gallon each time a wash basin is used to 20 gallons for a bath just how the water disappears is shown in the follow ing statistics in regard to persons if water carried s gals if pump in kitchen 10 gals faucet in kitchen 12 gals hot and cold water in kitchen is gals complete plumbing 30 gals bathtub each time used 8 to 20 gals closet each time used 3 to 5 gals wash basin each time used 1 to 2 gals sprinkling the lawn takes 8 gals for everv 100 square fee soaking it 20 gals if you are a farmer figure 15 gals for each cow 10 for a horse 2 for a hog and half a gallon for a sheep these figures indicate as nothing else could the great reliance we place on water in our daily lives next to air it is the cheapest necessity known without an abundant pure supply life would be a great deal more complex i 1jf tmrffmllp uribun established 1ss8 member of the canadian weekly newspaper associate and ontario quebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations paidinadvance circulation as of march 1st 2553 issued every thursday at stouffville ontario subscription rates per year in advance in canada 200 in usa s2o0 a- v nolan son publishers written exclusively for the stouff- ville tribune by m l schwartz one of the most energetic of the governmental bodies in this capital is the new standards division of the dept of trade and commerce which is endeavouring to protect the people by establishing basic standards for commodities so that honest merchants as well as con sumers may be assured of a square deal of course the newly organ ized body is moving slowly in this delicate and difficult assignment but it is already a great reputation in a wide variety of fields including textles household appliances etc while there is much sympathy with the civil servants in ottawa where the heat is excessive during the sumer and they must work un der these conditions yet the quite common practice of government offi ces closing suddenly and with- seldom seen if there is one time of year mors than another that i think the city folk miss out on the things worth while in life it is that of living in the country at this season of year it is the preservng season and as i sit in the old rocker just beyond the kitchen door pungent smells reach me from within and says it is pickling time it makes me retlect on our good fortune that with prices skyrocket ing and people living more and more out of cans while prices soar our prices or costs are not much changed- we grew from a small garden all the onions cucum bers tomatoes etc that we need for preserving our city cousins have lost the flack if they ever had it of this sort of thrift most of them do not stay home long enough to do preserving or they have not got cellars suitable to keep fruit in just now i get the smell of vine gar and spices combined with the odor of cucumbers fresh from the vines it comes from the pickling kettle and there is no mistaking it the cucumber reaches its prime the dil spreads its aromatic seed head mustard and tumeric and bay and pepper corn are all assem bled vinegar and sugar and salt are brought to hand the pickling begins i friday vv saturday sept fabulous dorseys tonjroy dorsey fear in the night paul kelh try to list the varieties of cucum- out notice on this gound after 1er pick it cant be done for or a there are variations within the varieties by areas and regions and oclock is beginning to annoy many people who have to transact busi ness with these offices after all it is argued private enterprise em ployees cannot be suffering more from the same heat than the gov ernment workers who number about 30000 here but these con tinue to carry on the work whereas government employees leave work at about noon most of them being seen later either in shows or en gaged in shopping in downtown ottawa the tax payer pays it is no secret any longer that some sort of black market infused cars or rather socalled used cars since new cars are driven around the block and sold as such at fan tastic prices by some people now an official report here has shown that factory shipments of made-in- canada motor vehicles in the first five months of 1947 have involved 45419 passenger cars for sale in canada and 1s903 for export totall ing 64322 cars likewise in this same period 25439 commercial vehi cles including trucks were involv ed in such shipments for sale in canada and 15009 for export with the total number of such trucks being 40448 in addition 129ss passengers care 372s trucks were recorded as shipments of vehicles imported from the united states in that same period of five months offering a pretty good idea how many cars were exported and how many reached the open canadian market the human side of ottawa can be seen in the efforts being made now by officials concerned with employ ment to get work for men of sixty years of age and over with indica tions that considerable success has already been achieved and the rea sons for this success is a compli ment to these older men it seems that officials have found that these men are willing to work nights or evenings and to accept jobs where there is no pension no assurance about a future etc in sharp con trast to younger men who want easier shorter hours and other in ducements in every way the re sults of the efforts to get them jobs it is whispered in ottawa has shown some mighty strong signs of good character on the part of this socalled older generation who have to earn their livelihood though advanced in years even by individuals some are sweet some are sour some are salt some arent the cucumbers may be sliced or quartered or pickled whole onions may be added and garlic may add its persuasive flavor and there are even the all- inconclusive assortment that call for string beans and carrots and cauli flower as well as cucumbers but spices and the vinegar spice for two things are never lacking the pungence vinegar for tang and no honest pickle was ever made that failed to include the cucumber pick led onions have their virture and pickled beets are pleasant members of the family but they are both variants and to some extent sub stitutes relishes come later for the best of them include green tomatoes rescued from imminent frost and and then the tang of the pickling sweet peppers and late cabbage kettle will set the air to tingling once more but right now that tang is the sign that cucumbers are be ing properly glorified for discern ing mankind monday tuesday sept 15 16 carnival in costa rica dick haymes celeste holme it is learned in ottawa that the authorities would investigate the complaints in a petition reportedly sgned by 700 convicts in a canadian penitentiary against the inadequate food served to the prisoners with this arising out of the escape of three longterm prisoners from a penitentiary one of whom it is said had mailed this petition however it may be added that it is known here that inadequate food com plaints are quite the common ex cuse when there is a prison break or disturbance inquiries by the newly reorgan ized standards division of the dept of trade and commerce in this capital have revealed that some manufactures have not been as careful as they should have been in calling an ounce an ounce in the making of the babys bottle so that when infants are placed on a very careful diet as to quantity of milk they may be short of their needs it may mean the difference between proper nourishment and undernour ishment for the infants with this having been drawn to the attention of the authorities here the civil service commission is going to do everything it can to find job for the older man re marked charles blard chairman of the civil service commission of canada in discussing the problem of the fxty pits man who needs gypsy smith dies at 87 gypsy rodney smith s7 soft- voiced british evangelist and advocate of the oldtime religion who persuaded thousands of sin ners to follow him along the saw dust trail died aboard the queen mary cunard line officials said the death was due to a heart attack and that smiths second wife the former mary alice shaw was with him when he died smith a pureblood gypsy had visited the united states more than 30 times and had preached in many of manhattans finest churches including the cathedral of st john the divine and the calvary baptist church but air smith was at his best in a tabernacle an old acquaint ance at the salvation armys head quarters said he was not an explosive speaker such as billy sunday he approached his audi ence with kindly fatherly under standing but he was extremely effective before he had finished the sinners would be streaming forward to be saved me must have converted un counted thousands during his life- time smith was born march 31 18g0 he was one of the early officers of the christian mission the name of the salvation army from 18c5 to 1ss7 later he broke with general booth but always remained a staunch friend of the army i was born under a hornbeam tree in englands epping forest that they tell me was several hun dred years old smith once said in talking about his early days i began preaching under that same tree when i was is when i found about jesus i couldnt read english i never slept in a house until i was is i began asking questions about jesus after an old lady bought clothespins from me gave me a bible smith was married first in 1s79 to annie e pennock who bore him two sons mrs smith died in 1937 in 193s he married 26yearold miss shaw a theological student the ceremony was performed in los angles by his son the rev albany rodney smith now 59 of mystic conn killgd by lightning in a recent storm the loss was not discovered for some days 23 sheep killed lightning can be quite as des tructive to a flock of sheep as muttoneating dogs a farmer in west wavvanosh township learned last week a flock of 55 sheep pasturing on an outoftheway un occupied farm was depleted by 23 wwww it at such a price you will force in dustry to bring down the price was the advice of drummond wren general secretary workers educa tional association during an ad dress in this capital against rising prices in canada there is room and employment available in can ada for large numbers of british- born immigrants hon george- dunbar declared in this capital complaints are reaching the cap ital that bicycle tubes are mot dicuffilt to get at the present time though bicycle tires appear be plentiful now the disclosure that there will be establishing a new industry jn the gatineau region nearby ottawa in volving a crst of between s2 and you cant come to stouffville youth for christ saturday eve 830 pm presbyterian church how much a cows tail how much is a cows tail worth is a poser a magistrate had to de cide in a court in buffalo a dog bit off three inches from the tail of a heifer and the magistrate decided to award the farmer owner of the animal 40 the payment will be made from the sheep and dog fund such as we maintain here in on tario through the dog tax which is supposed to be used for reimburs ing owners of live stock who suffer loss from marauding dogs to hear the grey sisters singtheir good to see kanakas a film that youd enjoy to take part in an interesting now quiz and hear your questions answered too fe cne scores of nations invite you to see how they live and work and play the worlds finest music advanced techniques of agriculture education and science beauty and art and industry arc at the cne and theres fun sports fire works and thrills for eier- one in this worldfamous exhibition eiwooda huchts j ascytmis canadian national exhibition and sot enjoy yoiirelf n rowan director where youth meet- hrif hrit mee yonth work today if you refuse to buy i 23 millions in the capital i met