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the tribune stouffville ontario thursday may 17th ims the stouffville tribune established 188s member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and ontario quebec newsp pers association member of the audit bureau of circulations paidinadvance circulation as of september 30 2575 issued every thursday at stouffville ontario subscription rates per vear in advance n canada 200 in usa s25c a v nolan son publishers notes and comments election costs how much do elections cost the 1915 dominion genera election cost the dominion government 2850000- with 255 mps to be elected at the next vote the cost is estimated to run about 3000000 of course this sum does not include what the various candidates spend in their efforts properly to approach the voters mr atkinson of the star the most outstanding fact about the career of joseph e atkinson who died last week is tha his great material achievements were the product of personal resourcefulness and enterprise so declares the financial post editorially the newspaper publishing house he built up says the post which has been estimated as worth 10 to 20 millions when he died was an outstanding example of the individual opportunity system which for decades the star daily decried joseph atkinson started in a 6 a week job he came up the hard way his great chance came when a group of what the star last week called influential financial magnates bought the struggling young star for a song and put mr atkinson in charge in time he got control of the paper he borrowed money to buy the shares and his note- was guaranteed by one of his associates in time he became one of the richest of influential financial magnates the career of this strange retiring man provides an example of what can be done by personal drive and business genius the sincerity of his zeal for social reform of his interest in the underprivileged of his humanitarian concern for minority groups is not challenged hut seldori in his long journalistic career did mr atkinson credit other successful business men with motives as high as his own day by day in subtle intonation of head lines and editorial phrase he tried to build up in the public mind the idea that business success and malefaction are synonymous the more he attacked business achievement the greater his own wealth grew such was the lifetime contradiction of his astonishing and tlynamc career calendar reform mark twain might have taken in quite a lot more territory than he did when he made his famous remark about the weather there are a lot of things that every body talks about but nobody does anthing about one of them is our present gregorian calendar accountants comptrollers and boards of directors have lamented for years our inconvenient awkward and unwieldly system of reckoning dates not only are the months unequal but so are the quarters and half years holidays run the gamut from monday to sunday and except for a few fixed ones like civic holiday and labor day never fall on the same day of the week twice in succession there is in existence a calendar designed to overcome all these inconveniences and discrepancies fourteen nations have already officially approved its adoption and are waiting for one of the great powers to take the initiative the united states department of commerce has gone on record as being favorably disposed toward it at least one can adian labor union favors it and so do a surprising number of business and professional men in this country peru has placed it before the un economic and social council for consideration known simply as the world calendar the new system overcomes many of our present calendars most objection able features each quarter has 31 days in its first month and 30 days in the remaining two each quarter begins on a sunday and ends on saturday each month has 26 week days plus four or five sundays each year begins on sunday jan 1 and ends on saturday dec 30 month dates always fall on the same week days thus victoria day would always fall on friday and christmas day on monday this is accomplished by giving january april july and october 31 days each and all the other months 30 the four 91day quarters make up 361 days of the year the 165th is called simply world holiday and observed between december 30 of one year and january 1 of the next every four years a second world holiday to follow june 30 takes care of leap year advocates of the new calendar have been active in support of their project since 1937 when fourteen nations endorsed the world calendar at the league of nations aside from general convenience they point out it will facilitate comparative statistics computations of interest budgets pay rolls costs and the many other operations of which time is the essence blue tomatoes the inventor who says a plant has been developed which will bear blue tomatoes will probably makenhem more acceptable to the public if he can show that they have any particular advantage over the common red ones the yellow tomato has been raised for some time and while it is not sold as widely as the common variety it is very palatable and some people like it fully as well as the regular type the chief resistance to overcome is the eating habit the public has long been accustomed to red tomatoes so it is a matter of educating the eye as well as the palate if the introduction of multicolored tomatoes is to be a success but it is not so very many years ago that tomatoes were not considered iit to eat in any color- consequently it is possible that the blue tomato if practicable may be as popular in time as any other variety boston post meat prices the allparty parliamentary committee under the chairmanship of hon paul martin minister of national health and welfare has been delving into the reasons for spiralling food pi ices at present the committee is trying to find out what has been causing meat to become almost too expensive for the average wageearners table apparently the price of beef is headed for still higher levels witnesses from canada packers have been putting the blame on the consumer for the higher price tags on beef saying in effect that public demand has been mainly for this type of meat with the result that supplies have been little more than meeting the demand on the other hand they say there is a surplus of pork the inference is that surplus automatically causes prices to drop all which doesnt sound at all convincing on being told that present pork prices will continue through 191s even though there is a surplus it is all very puzzling to the canadian consumer even members of the parliamentary committee are somewhat nonplussed health unit would cost area 26679 five of ii municipalities in lie northern pari of york county vote against proposal employing a parttime medical officer of health is like running in a circle with little gain to the munici pality several community officials agreed last week durng a -iii- mittee meeting held in an etfort to form a health unit for 14 northern york county districts nine of the municipalities declar ed themselves in favour of the pro posal while five turned it down two of the negative answers were doubtful and both east gwillim- bury and king townships asked for more time to consider the matter you hire a parttime moh to uphold the interests of the district but often forget shat he has his own bread and batter to make reeve c v reeor of markham chairman of the committee declared the reeve sad nat on many ocj casions he has gone to the moh in an effort to clear up various situ ations and has been unable to ob tain the satisfaction he wanted the first thing you know there is a case where the doctor is asked to investigate one of his regular pa tients he continued he may not refuse the request but heis likely to fall down on the job the chairman then pointed out the advantages of a fulltime medi cal officer under the health urit system claiming that tne afore mentioned obstruction will be a bblishecl with the inauguration of a unit warden of the county reeve k l thompson of weston also de clared that this trouble has been noted in his municipality weston is not interested in this particular unit he said and he is only interest ed because the county is paying the expenses of the committee this has been going on for well over a year and the committee ha not yet reached a decision he said if some definite action is not forthcoming this session of coun cil will be forced to disband the committee the districts in which the unit would operate are- aurora east gwillimbury georgina king mark- ham township markham village newmarket n gwillimbury rich mond hill stouffville sutton vau- ghan whitchurch and woodbridge with a population of 11016 the unit would cost a total of s2667900 annually according to the commit tee report the total assessment of the area is s5020ol01 declaring whitchurch township residents to be in exceptional heal th for an area that size reeve l p evans said as far as that township is concerned they are not interest ed in spending the taxpayers mon ey on what they consider a non essential whitchurch home near aurora scene of fire damage estimated at ss000 was caused to the home of victor mc- cutcheon 3rd concession of whit church south of aurora on wednes day when fire which started throu gh a short circuit got beyond con trol a painter w j foxley of lang- stalf who was helping to remodel the home was burned on the hands and one foot he returned to work after seeing a doctor the aurora fire brigade under chief harry jones was too late to control the blaze which caused a minor explosion when the new paint ignited after hosing down the barns sur rounding the burning building fire men stamped out sparks on the ground which had showered hun dreds of yards from the fire another alarm later in the even ing brought the brigade back when the smouldering embers ignited a- gain the second fire was quickly extinguished thorah twp ha un burns loss si 0000 beaverton may 7 fire of un determined origin lias destroyed the barn of donald cameron thorah township farmer with an estimat cd loss of 10000 cameron was eating dinner when a neighbor notified him of the blaze but the heat was too great to permit rescue of a large number of livestock including some horses cameron had tied in just a few minutes be fore the fire started the beaverton fire brigade answered the alarm tr the provincial election june 7 mon may 24 10301100 pm cbi toronto 710 fii may 28 830900 pm cbl toronto 740 vote progressive conservative june 7 the 19ss pulitzer prize for the best original american play was awarded to a streetcar named desire by tennessee williams above the prize for the most distinguished fiction in book form went to tales of the south pacific by james a michener both awards were announced by columbia univer sity in new york born insensitive to pain one- yearold beverly smith is given a needlejab test by helen zim merman nurse in an akron o hospital where the infants strange case is being studied by physicians doctors say only four or five other painproof children have been born in the world the case first attracted attention when the mother first brought beverly to the hos pital for an antianemia inject ion mrs smith revealed that the baby merely laughed after touching a hot stove plowing officials mkkt at lindsay representatives of the provincial plowing association were in lind say last week to meet with the local committees and formulate plans for the ontario match to be held there from october 9th to 15th headed by their president j a carroll the provincial officials met with the lands committee of the lindsay association and looked over the proposed headquarters and lands for the plowing on the little britain highway near the home for the aged later the local execultives head ed by president john a mark to gether with chairmen of various committees discussed certain other matters at a meeting in the council chambers john wesley ho hi 10 hies in cnbrioge widely known throughout the township of brock john wesley doble died in ixbridge last week he was born in the township of reach in 1871 a son of the late john doble and margaret doble early in life lie learned the butcher busin ess and later opened a shop in sun derland where he carried on for some years later he lived in lind say montreal and toronto locating in uxbridge to live some three years ago where his wife the late ethel nokes whom he married jn 100s passed away in dec 1017 mrs dob le was a daughter of the veteran james nokes livery stable operator in uxbridge for 50 years plan to spend the 24th of may in stouffville big field clay and monster bingo at night in the arena i starts 70th year ebenezer united church at mill- iken reopened officially on sunday to begin its 70th year of services to the community the church has been closed during alterations see your favorite picture fiist at the stanley theatre g monday a- tiifday may 31 june 1 uyf this 0 time for keeps esther williams jimmy durante