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the tribune stouffvil ont thurd3y october 30 1947 kihs tnuffuille ribunr established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association 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 s2oc a- v nolan son publishers notes and comments headlights and reflectors with the return of fall with the early failing of dark ness and the fog and haze common at this season of the year the unlighted bicycle is again haunting motorists and in particular those who have occasion to use city streets those who use bicvcles should know that the law requires them to carry both headlights and reflectors on the back a goodly number however do not carry any with the result that those who have occasion to use them increase their own peril reflectors and headlights can be secured at nominal cost today so there is no excuse for not carrying this precautionary equipment especially when the operator knows that it is for his own protection a danger to themselves they can get other people into lot of trouble and rank as a road menace just like the car driver with blazing headlights that he neglects to control when meeting traffic public utility commission advocated the reeve of stouffville is advocating the appointment of a public utilities commission to handle the water and light vested in the corporation it may be fairly estimated that either these items our water system or our hydro system are worth a hundred thousand dollars each and they need much better management than the reeve as head of the council thinks he and his council have time to give them both the water and lights have doubled and tripled in value over recent years and with that growth there comes more and more detail and management especially if they are to be operated successfully members of a council may not be chosen because of their qualification to handle business of this kind public utility commissioners are chosen because they are known to have qualifications for the office they are expected to serve they get paid for their services perhaps not as much as they are worth but they will be paid something this year it has been proven that neither the reeve nor his councillors have sufficient time to devote to these two big branches of the towns business and the only wise thing to do it seems is to spread out the responsibility by appointing a commission to handle the light and water leaving to the municipal council the management of streets police and the scores of other items that devolve upon a council reeve nolan says that before he gives up office he hopes to have such a bylaw prepared for the consideration of the 1948 council we hope he carries out his promise for a commission could do a better job in stouffville they operate water and light under a commission in uxbridge aurora newmarket and almost every other town a three man commission may stay in office for years provided they are making a success of their work camera reveals fly secrets the common drone fly now is top secret thanks to some new fast pictures 3000 to a second scientists at the american museum of national history are finding out what the common fly has known for several hundred million years theyve discovered how the fly knows where he is when he cant see where hes going how he can fly through fog when a bird cant and what it is that when he loses it causes him to make a sudden crash landing the movies were made at the request of the sperry gyroscope co dr c h curran museum insect expert worked with photographer henry lester for several years before they got the pictures they wanted in the movies you can see the 300 beats a second of the flys wings and more important the halteres or balancers just under its wings the tiny balancers sticking out under the wings like a pair of ladys hatpins go up when the wings go down to their oarlike motion this said curran is one of the things scientist didnt know before the pictures were made and theyare just beginning to get into the study of how the little balancers work maintaining the flys equilibrium like the fluid of the inner ear does a mans the halters are effective they tell the fly just as accurately which is up and which is down says curran these most amazing pictures even taken of insects in motion have unlimited possibilities in industry even more avid attention is coming from the military but beyond that i cannot go said curran top secret you know help britain and ourselves we should all be thinking these days about how we can help ourselves to get out of the mess that the british people are in because it is our mess as well as theirs observed a writer in saturday night recently there are still many colonialminded canadians not all of them in the province of quebec who think that we must assert our independence of great britain on all possible occasions but even they must be gradually learning that our political independence was won a long time ago anything that strengthens great britain today strengthens not only our safety but our independence because great britain is the only power of any great consequence on the other side of the atlantic that is opposing the spread of imperial com munism throughout the world and because on this side of the atlantic we should be much more susceptible to pres sure even domination from washington if we could not from time to time call on london for help unhappily these simple facts are not grasped as widely as they should be in this country mr duplessis shows no sign of leading a crusade for the relief of england so our federal government which can ill afford to lose support in quebec because of its slim majority in the house of commons cannot go as far as it should in giving help to great britain considering that it is really selfhelp difficult as its position is the federal government can do something we are no satisfied that a further loan on generous terms or even a gift is beyond practical politics during the war the government consistently under estimated the amount of support it could get in the house of commons even from quebec on votes of money for mutual aid now are we satisfied that all other possibilities have been fully explored take for example the question of defence expenditures mr attlee has announced that as part of his economy campaign he will cut down the army by 80000 and some of his supporters have been pressing for 250000 has ottawa discussed with london how much their expenditures on the royal navy could come down if our expenditures on the canadian navy went up in the proper ways luckily there is more to canada than ottawa and it is the whole of canada that can help we should like to see provincial governments shoulder some of the burden surely british columbia could afford to send some lumber ontario some newsprint and nova scotia some apples and fish and so forth and we need not leave everything to our governments each of us who has friends or relatives over there can send more food parcels more clothes anything to vary the drabness and monotony last christmas a canadian girl sent together with a present for an english friend some bright paper and ribbons for other presents on the christ mas tree and it was the wrappings that brought the most ecstatic thank you we can give individually or through our churches and clubs everything helps cafs beats hawk several very odd incidents in natural history may be recorded from different parts of england the strangest concerns a sparrowhawk and a cat the hawk descended again and again on a farmers young chickens one day it attacked not the chickens but one of two very young kittens that were in the habit of playing about among these latehatched chickens the mother was nearby and as the hawk rose rather slowly with its heavier burden jumped at the bird and pulled it down a duel followed for the hawk managed to use its beak on the hindquarters of the cat but there could be only one end the kitten was saved and the farmer whose acres were a brackencovered hillside in wales lost no more of hij chickens according to the london spectator whats in bossies stomach whether the family cow or any member of the big farm herd has swallowed a nail need no longer be a matter of guessing at all at the agricultural college guelph a detector is being perfected whereby the instrument will register the presence of metal in the cows stomach by merely passing the saucershaped instrument over the stomach as the cow stands in her stall or lies at ease in the pasture fields cattle it seems are more liable to pick up nails while eating grass than any other animal sometimes they prove disastrous and oft times they remain in the cows stomach for years if they give trouble bossie will show it by going off her feed if that happens again like as not the veterinary will come along and start sounding for foreign matter with the metal detector as he moves the disc over her stomach all it quiet until he comes close to the presence of metal then the loudspeaker kicks up a racket and an operation will be necessary if the nail or perhaps several of them are to be removed ssi m while the results of the recent yorksunlmry xb byelection were not entirely unexpected yet ever since it brought an over whelming victory for the govern ments political forces it has been followed by strange stories along parliament hill of possible changes in the organization of the progres siveconservatives at their head quarters here though no confirma tion could he obtained inquiries indicate the stories heard are stories even if sometimes such stories in ottawa are forerunners of important news in the political field whenever the farmers of canada get more for their efforts such increases are usually well publiciz ed particularly in the urban centres wo that the latest report in ottawa about the higher costs be ing paid by the farmers for their services and commodities should receive the same spotlight this report shows that since the begin ning of 1947 canadas farmers have paid more for food clothing fuel household equipment health main tenance and other needs indeed on the basis of 193539 equals 100 the canadian farmers have paid 1518 in aug 1917 for food 1615 for clothing 139 for fuel 1028 for household equipment 1227 for health maintenance and 1115 for miscellaneous items obviously this report once again emphasizes that canadian farmers are paying much more for everything they need and their costs have been rising stead ily it is understood in ottawa that dr gaspard fauteux speaker of the mouse of commons and dr arthur beauchesne clerk of the house are working together with a view of prejoring a report suggest ing some important changes in the procedure of the canadian parlia ment in order to speed up the oper ations of the legislative body with out interferrinp with the rights or privileges of members they have been studying carefully ways and means of accomplishing this diffi cult task including a trip overseas for this purpose and the results of their work may be seen in the next srssion of parliament when their report is expected to be made known their suggestions may include possible changes in the method of asking and answering questions of members time of sitt ing of the house adjournment process etc more and more complaints are being heard in this capital against the socalled luxury taxes and it would be no surprise at all to veter an observers here if the next bud get will eliminate all or many of them it is argued that in actual prac tice these luxury taxes are caus ing injustices for instance if a person wants to buy ordinary glass ware or silverware to set up house a luxury tax has to be paid even if this means adding only forks knives and other necessities to the home on the other hand if a per son buys flowers or expensive furniture no such taxes have to be paid in short there is much dis content on the ground and this dis satisfaction is growing with a change in these socalled luxury taxes being fo coast canadians should be able to get variety and quantity of goods short ly it is learned here since whole salers across the country are reporting much larger stocks on hand in various lines in fact at the end of the eighth month of 1947 it is reported in ottawa canadian wholesalers stocks were valued 377c higher than at the same date a year ago with these increases usually meaning that more goods will reach your favourite store soon often called a hot potato along parliament hill rental control is not likely to be taken off as soon as many people seem to imagine judging from observations in ott awa where it is learned that such regulations may continue at leqgt until the present life of emergency legislation on controls is supposed to last that is next spring how ever there is a possibility that when the government bere does act to get rid of this hot potato it may hand it over to the pro vincial authorities since rentals do enter property and civil rights which are distinctly under the legal jurisdiction of the provinces by virtue of the british north america act though about 43 senior adminis trative jobs in canadas civil ser vice have been filled by french- canadians with the salaries rang ing from s4000 to s9000 a year yet it is understood here that more such appointments will be made within a relatively short period in order to satisfy the complaints of quebec mps who have been grumbling that frenchcanadains have not been named to enough such posts a drive against enemies of good thats rig none better at any prize aurora belle pastry flour aurora flour feed mills ltd health seems to be intensified judg ing from a numher of important meetings in ottawa with one of the latest being a gathering here of deputy ministers and chief medical officers of the provinces and repre sentatives of english and french- speaking womens voluntary organ izations as well as from labor agricultural and scientific bodies canadians may be getting more woollen and cotton materials from britain as in prewar years shortly and less from the us according to a reliable report here there is a severe paint shortage in canada now and little prospect of relief is anticipated for many months in face of all official actions to increase the output by canadian paint manufacturers it is learned in the capital improved telephone dispatching equipment has been created for canadian railways and this will lead to coordination of train oper ations in this country with such trials having been conducted and tests said to be successful labor unions in russia could not seek an advance in pay for a work er declared wilbert hamilton in ottawa where be addressed a meet- ting following a recent visit to soviet russia with this being something which communists could note when they boast about their alleged good intentions towards labor which is far from true rumors that canada would allow into this country 70000 or more dis placed persons from europe are flatly denied by officials here sine plans for the time being call for 20000 by next may or june with shipping problems preventing such large scale immigration plans being formulated right now anyhow it is learned in ottawa wait for the goodie colored orchestra from the united states to appear at the uxbridge junior farmers special dance in uxbridge sat nov 8th 7fa friday saturday oct 31 nov 1 brother talks to horses er big town 0 monday tuesday nov 1011 ska of grass adult entertainment