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the tribune stouffville ont wednesday december 24 1947 bp 5tnuffmllr uritmnr established 1888 member jf the canadian weekly newspaper association and ontario quebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations paidinadvance circulation as of september 30 2575 issued every thursday at stouffville ontario subscription rates per year in advance in canada 200 in lba a- v nolan son publishers notes and comments should we drop christmas market day last thursday both uxbridge and stouffville held special days in the northern town it was a christmas market dav and in stouffville a horse show competition provided the attraction our neighboring town was greeted bv great crowds of people while the horse show in btouft- ville attracted only a small attendance the excuse that it was too cold is hardly sufficient reason for the small attendance in stouffville since it was just as cold in uxbridge n our neighboring town really makes a day ot christ mas market provides a prize list for poultry ample show room accommodation and a good market place wherein produce may be weighed and sold here in stouffville such accommodation is lacking we have no hall and no effort was made to substitute some other premises for the occasion as a result the socalled christmas market was not as good a business day as the ordinary christmas trade might have brought without any attempt at the unusual- one of our leading merchants said that things must be improved here if we are to retain our good name as a leading business centre we must do better there is another school of thought that indicates a market is not necessary it makes a lot of work brings the crowd all in one day to the detriment of other trading days there is some truth in this argument too but the merchants should consider the whole matter market hall accommodation can be found without trouble if a market is considered an advantage to better trade however if the majority of merchants are against a market then it might be better to drop the effort entirely it is up to the business interests to settle this matter women drive more safely men drivers are so much more numerous than women drivers that it is not surprising that men motorists are responsible for most of the traffic accidents in ontario but the larger number of men who operate cars is not the only important reason for men being involved in a larger number of accidents the records suggest that men drive more recklessly than women do official figures for the year 1946 show that for every hundred women drivers in ontario there were only 67 accidents whereas for every hundred men drivers there were 283 accidents in other words men caused more than four times as many accidents as women did in proportion to their numbers women drive more slowly than do men and with more consideration for the rights of other motorists and of pedestrians- they may drive more hesitantly on the whole and not signal their intentions as well as do men but they keep their cars under better control and do not take so many desperate chances fewer of them drive when inebriated destructive field mice farmers have to contend with many pests that destroy their crops one of the most damaging is the field mouse of which there are many varieties they are most prevalent in the west but the amount of damage caused by this pest in western ontario is greater than the average farmer realizes kerry wood writing in the family herald and weekly star reports that during the bad year of 194243 farmers in alberta and western saskatchewan found as many as 30 field mice under a single stook and as snow delayed threshing until spring the average yield was 20 bushels compared with an expected 40 the mice having eaten the rest field mice were so plentiful that threshing machines ran red with blood and the works were clogged with mashed bodies while farmers themselves suffered from an ailment called mouse ringworm or mouse eczema such a plague can occur again and it may spread into ontario the mice breed rapidly having five or six litters a year of six to eight youngsters which start raising families of their own at three months research has shown that each mouse can eat 30 pounds of green stuff a year so that 60 of them will eat one ton what protection has the farmer against field mice it is pointed out that a single weasel will kill hundreds of mice in a season weasels unfortunately also kill poultry out of sheer murderous instinct next come owls and hawks foxes and skunks are also mice killers although the latter prefer grasshoppers which are- another farm pest possibly field mice are becoming so much of a problem because so many of their enemies are being dstroved thus upsetting the balance of nature the indiscriminate shooting of hawks is partly responsible so says dr j d detwiler professor of zoology at western university he points out that repeated examination of stomachs of at least six common types of western ontario hawks show they eat practically nothing but field mice which are destructive to small trees and crops see hot contkst fob county warden with only a few municipalities yet to hold their elections the vms york county council picture finds many new faces and some hot electioneering in the interim be tween election and council sittings for the office of warden reeve boynton weldriek yaughan town ship reeve kenneth thompson weston and reeve john i- strath new toronto have already an nounced their candidatures reeve weldriek has been in county coun cil longer than either ot his oppon ents and is expected to poll heavily from the rural areas reeve thomp son is heavily favored in the south ern part of the county while reeve strath who previous to this year served as deputyreeve to ex- warden william mcdonald has also strong support send the tribune to absent friends they help thevlseives from around newmarket turkeys have been stolen in large numbers from three different owners around newmarket in the last couple of weeks according to the era and express mrs william sweezie sr- rr2 newmarket said that they had 15 turkeys and about dozen chickens stolen a week ago thursday in the brooder house was found an empty bag of dog food and two chicken heads were also left by the thieves last friday night mrs lcn selby sharon had a number of turkeys stolen and sam mitchell who lives botween newmarket and bogartlown had from 22 to 25 turkeys stolen the egg and i is coming to the stanley theatre on january 12 and 13 with three showings each night then on january 16 and 17 the royal wedding in technicolor s 5 the cost of living even simple motions or questions of procedure have been arousing much excitement early in this new session and this atmosphere is be ing interpreted as a forerunner of things to come probably resulting in one of most exciting peacetime sessions in canadas history and reflecting the frame of mind of the legislators if i am to resume my seat i shall go back and tell my people that no longer can we proceed with i would hestitate even to pre- the debate on the speech from the tend to say anything about condi- throne as we have done in the past tions had i not had the opportune ani that the farmers cannot have ities i have mentioned and had i the members who represent them not received a good deal by way of parliament air their grievances what one would regard as inside gajd one prominent opposition mp information i might call t more spea on a question of proced- aceurately authoritative mforma- ure thev must air them in tion in regard to what is taking the garages and barber shops and place at the present time said that the business people must air premier mackenzie king referring tnem in the offices of their execu te his observations abroad and tives 1 did not come here for that hinting alxnit the seriousness of purpose i could employed in current world developments in his ether places xo hon member report to parliament came here for that purpose we did there seems to be little doubt i not accept an increased indemnity in the minds of those who are close to the matter that if western europe cannot be saved from the appalling position in which it is at the present time if there are to continue to be millions of people with insufficient food and clothing if there is to continue to be social unrest fomented from underground sources the whole continent may get more or less out of hand alto gether premier king declared in part i think i have said sufficient to indicate that i believe there has not been a time except prior to the recent war when matters were shaping in such a threatening man ner as they are at the present time while it is difficult to suggest what can be done to meet the situation perhaps the first step in that direc tion is to realize that the situation is indeed a very serious one reading between the lines of this significant statement in the house of commons it should not be diffi cult for the maninthestreet to comprehend the seriousness of the situation especially when these words come from not only the head of the canadian government but one of the most experienced in the british commonwealth with the government aiming to speed up the process of passing the emergency measures before parlia ment because conditions appear to warrant such speed there has been observed strong objection against this speed especially on the part of some private members so that unusual excitement has resulted in this session with conditions being aggravated in no small measure by the apparent pressure being put on members iby representations of businessmen and others who are worried about the changes in their operations through the latest enactments affecting business and to do less in this house the statement reportedly made by external affairs minister st laurent at a iolitical gathering that he prefers the family allow ances be paid than to grant these exemptions referring to roman catholic bishops of quebecs request that present income tax exemptions be raised may have been a purely personal opinion but it has caused much gossip on parlia ment hill as possibly a hint of things to come it is interpreted as meaning that possibly tax exemp tions may not be raised next year charges that the national film board of canada has a nucleus of communists are practically ridi culed here though officials refuse even to comment a delegation from the canadian chamber of commerce interviewed finance minister abbott in ottawa where the group claimed business profits had been so marginal as to be an insignificant factor in the upward spiral of prices chateau laurier hotel in this capital is jammed with worried businessmen as a result of the new import restrictions and excise taxes rivalling now in political tips parliament hill itself milk sales are said to be dropping across canada as a result of rising price an undesirable development from a health point of view first since 1890 listowel residents are going to vote 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