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the tribune stouffville ont thursday may 13 194s the stouffville tribune 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 september 30 2575 issued every thursday at stouffville ontario subscription rates per year in advance in canada 200 in usa 525c a v nolan son publishers notes and comments too late for daylight saving plebiscite there is no chance of an ontario plebiscite on daylight saving time being held in conjunction with the june 7 provincial election the executive of the ontario federation of agriculture last week asked its secretary v s milburn to investigate the possibility the plebiscite would have to be approved by the legislature before it could be held in conjunction with the election vote the official said attention dog owners stouffville has a bylaw which requires dogs to be kept from roaming at large yet one too often sees dogs enjoying full freedom in the daytime while many of them are turned out at night to run where they please even if there were no law to keep dogs tied for a part of the year neighborly consideration should suffice to keep dogs from being a nuisance they run over flower beds and frequently dig holes in gardens uprooting plants all of which causes much provocation and proves disheartening to residents who take pride in beautifying their property and having a nice garden a dog may be mans best friend but at this season he can be the gardeners worst enemy a little more consid eration by dog owners will be greatly appreciated federation protests rates increase the canadian federation of agriculture has gone on record as opposing the recently announced increase of 21 in canadian rail freight rates and has so indicated in a letter to the prime minister at ottawa- the federation presented a substantial brief last summer to the transport board during its hearing of the application of the railway companies for an increase of 30 having yone thus far the federation might justly protest the action of railway employees going on strike one of the highest paid unions in all canada railway men threaten another strike if further wage boosts are not met and mr john public feels the men are not justified in their demands council must act thursday evenings municipal council meeting saw the first united effort by the organization of stouffville to do what they can to alleviate the desperate need of better hall accommodation which faces this municipality it was a credit to those organizations which sent representatives business men the womens institute the athletic club the lions club and the horticultural society that they should voice this united appeal for action in providing more adequate housing for meetings council cannot ignore this request and except for excuses as to cost which have grown whiskers by now there is no reason why the proposed renovation of the municipal building cannot be gone ahead with this year and most certainly if as the reeve states a contractor is available who is on the job certainly a town in stouftvilles sound financial position will surely not be balked in a program of improvement by the trifling amount it would require to repair the municipal building nothing is free when somebody down in the nova scotia legislature demanded free school books for all school students premier angus macdonald rose to deliver a few remarks which some may consider oldfashioned but which we think were pretty wholesome and worth repeating our fathers and grandfathers didnt expect every thing to be done for them by some government the time has come when somebodv must get out and work- as thev did there are cries that everyone should have an oppor tunity for a university education i am glad that some el the best minds in the land now are taking the opposite view there are many in universities at present who would be better off digging coal in inverness or growing apples in annapolis valley angus macdonald had a right to say such things one of a large family in a scotch cape breton home which knew nothing of wealth but a great deal about thrift he was given a sound education without the aid of free school books as were all others under the macdonald roof and come to think of it there is a deal of nonsense talked about free school books about free education or about free something else nothing is free a government might come out for free movies if things keep going as they are some government will but the movies which cost money would have to be paid for by taxpayers just as taxpayers pay for free school books and free education the sole difference being enlargement of the false idea that the government can be made into some great white father distributing manna to everybodv this move is sound ontario and new york state have decided to go ahead and delvelop power along the st lawrence this is a wise decision for over 25 years washington and ottawa have been talking a combined seaway and power project but to date nothing has been accomplished as the financial fost pointed out some months ago we might as well face the fact that there exists a great dear of serious opposition not to mention honest doubt as to the practical merits of the combined scheme whether or not the seawaypower project would ever prove profitable there is no question about the power here is a now source of 22 million horsepower on the international stretch of the st lawrence waiting to be developed if we had it now a substantial block could be put to immediate and urgent use and there should be little difficulty in finding new markets for the balance if the st iawrence project ever gets developed it could be effective in more ways than one to the district of stouffville for we would be right on the seaboard with goods coming up to toronto port direct from overseas instead of being unloaded at montreal and shipped down bv rail naturally montreal and quebec interests do not favor this they want to handle those shipments of central ontario as they now do the old home town by stanley city protests helping to pay for whitchurch roads in days of yore from the files of 1922 mrs i v ileise received a cable from mr ileise suiting that he and his party were sailing from bom bay india to boston scheduled to arrive june 7th dont forget the calithumpian parade 10 am may 24th at veterans demonstration clare- mont bund in attendance the public school is over crowded with the present attend ance about sixtythree chautaugua is in stouffville this week mr lloyd turner of mongolia is to be congratulated on his success in winning three first prizes for his team of clydes at uxbridge spring tair mr and mrs milton clark of e wron omemee motored down on saturday and spent a few days with her parents mr and mrs t v klinck we notice the name of neil smith among the successful candidates in the freshman year at the royal college of dental surgeons the relatives of the christian barkey family held a reunion at orchard lane farm the home of mr and mrs simeon hoover on the sth concession of markham mrs robt leslie and little daugh ter betty are visiting mr and mrs v h shaw a quiet wedding was celebrated on june 2s when rev herbert lee united in marriage mervyn els- worth watts and mabel alice boyn- ton stouffville market butter 27c a lb eggs 28c a doz potatoes 100 a bag the annual strawberry festival of goodwood methodist sunday school was well attended mr ira d rusnell reports that he has a sc white leghorn which laid her first egg when she was only 4 months and 2 days old can you beat it miss myrtle beebo teacher of piano and theory will reopen her class at her studio next week melville presbyterian church was struck by lightning on saturday afternoon considerable damage was done canadas premier the right hon w l mackenzie king will visit stouftville a motor procession will form at ringwood with the fire brigade in the lead the 4sth highlanders band and school child- 1 ren will join the parade at the 9th concession en route to the park a nice new cement wall has been built around the boulevard in front of the mennonite church peter nighswander has installed a cider mill at altona has your preachers wife a new- hat if not does she need one come and see that she gets suitable headgear by the last of october the mission circle of the methodist church will present a play solving this problem the last week in october reprinted from the timesreview fort erie ontario april 29 194s a fkee press hector mcneil one of the brigh- and most attractive of the present british cabinet ministers represented britain at the geneva international conference on free dom of information he made a statement worth recording in letters of gold the british people regard restrictive press processes as fascist the abominable and vicious process by which a govern mem constitutes itself at once the author the censor the publisher the prosecutor the judge and jury the free expression of conflict ing views is the lifeblood of british journalism when the daily mail goes wrong it is corrected by the daily herald when the daily or right it is corrected by the daily worker but who corrects pravda this is a splendid statement it is one of the finest defences of a free press which has ever been offered there is nothing to fear from a socialist or any other kind of government as long as the rulers of britain feel this way about freedom of speech unfortunately the rulers of britain do not always seem to feel this way the government of which mr mcneil is a leading member has now a royal commission on the press which was set up for trie particular purpose of satisfying the demands of a group of left wing socialists who felt that the gov ernment ought to do something to control if not punish the british newspapers which are opposed to socialism one british newspaper man makes reasonable suggestion that this royal commission should now call mr mcneil as its final witness and then adjourn and stop wasting the public money on plans for government interference with the liberty of the press protesting that a bridge on the fourth concession of whitchurch township and a flume at sutton was of no concern to toronto board- of control agreed last week to seek i a revamping of torontos obligai tivuis in connection with the tor- onto and york roads commission at the council meeting last mon day members had protested that the city was forced under legislation to contribute some 175000 to the up keep of roads miles outside of the toronto area a the board meeting two items were presented one calling upon the city to share in the cost of the bridge in whitchurch and the other to repair a flume at a mill in sutton we certainly should oppose the city being obligated in either of these items the toronto and york roads commission is antiquated and we are being called upon to spend taxpayers monies for work that is of no direct benefit to the citizens con mckellar declared j i would like to move that we notify the powers that be that we are withdrawing from the toronto and york roads commission alto gether con mckellar added we certainly should not be paying costs of roads up around lake sim- coe 1 think it is time that the area covered by the toronto and york reads commission was defined under a specified radius from the city limits what weve got to do with a flume up in sutton is beyond me declared mayor mccallum the board decided to have its legal representatives attend a hear ing of the board of transport com missioners on may 7 to protest against the city being included in any share of the costs for the bridge in whitchurch township torontos representatives on the commission will be instructed to oppose any charge being made against the city for settlement f damages in connection with a flume located under the sutton road school cost 11000 nine years ago 46000 today pickering may g its a cau tion members of pickering town ship council mumbled as they gave second reading to a bylaw to pro vide issuance of debentures for 10000 to cover cost of building a tworoom school on the altona road in 1939 they built the lake school similar in every respect for only 11000 tenders have been called for the new building and work is to begin before long the new school is known as section number 3 west and durham counties and the southern half of ontario county says the division of entomology dominion department of agricul ture ottawa the most severe infes tations will probably occur in the area from perth to peterborough and in the guelph and london dis tricts but any locality where white grubs caused losses in 1945 can expect significant damage during the 104 season over 9000 people read the tri bune every week where is there a better advertising medium for i your mereianidse advertise in the tribune to reach the greatest num ber of prospective customers expect sekiocs white grub outbreaks ix ontario during 1918 white grubs are expected to be abundant this year throughout the greater part of the agricultural areas of ontario with the exception of the niagara peninsula lambton husbands love wives to serve extrarich maxwell house coffee il has extra flavor because its blend contains choice latin- amcrican coltees care fully selected from the best the world produces see your favorite picturelfirst at the stanley theatre 2 friday and satin day may 14- ss- aeumto c key kent til fx t7 e iiday and saturday may 14 15 aylor the messenger of spring the robins chirp have you heard i cannot understand that bird he leaves his home in the south where there are worms for his mouth the air is warm with a breeze and there are lots of bugs and breeze north to the ice and winds still do rteep from he comes up snow where the winter blow he flies around to freezing while we humans are still sneezing not even a caterpillar for his crop or a dry spot on which to hop it must be his pioneer spirit or something else very near it that brings him north before the crow even before the sap does flow what brings him here at this early date it surely must be to find a mate tu our time py mown ffwtft i xow heres a pen we guarantee wont need a rljll for 13 ear monday and tuesday may 24 25 road to hollywood bin crosby heart of new york ai jolson mlxp