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the tribune stouffville out thursday july 1 1948 our capital correspondent written exci viil tribune lively for the stouff- by m l schwartz- in these days of political con troversies talk of war etc it is pleasant to report from parliament hill somethiny of an entirely different nature which may prove to be of great benefit to mankind thought no proper publicity was given to it i could hold in my hand a small cylinder of natural metallic uranium said trade minister howe in parliament the cylinder i had prepared for this demonstra tion was about the size of the little jackknife i now hold in my hand we now know that if every bi- of this very heavy metal could be turned into energy which theore tically it can be we could get the same quantity of power that could be developed by about 500000 tons of coal or about the power we now get out of the large shipshaw plant in one year there is little doubt that some day we shall be able to fly to remote areas in one small aero plane more potential power in the form of nuclear fuel than can be hauled today in a hundred railway coal cars listen to tit ontario stock yards bulletin feaarhtg wally ford etery tueidaj morning chml 900 713 am asks farmers freed of back income tax a week ago threeyearold russell stange of hamilton ont popped this penny into his mouth and swallowed it when he lost his appetite his parents called a specialist an operation removed the coin from his esophagus on his third birthday ottawa june 26 hon j j mc- carin revenue minister said last week the government is not being arbitrary in its attempts to col lect income tax from farmers replying in opposition criticism of the new tax form issued for farmers dr mccann said it will take time to educate farmers on tered i am not proposing any change in capita punishment at this time justice minister ilsley told the house of commons commenting upon britains decision to make the death penalty applicable only to certain types of murders we must give more to maintain our way of living stressed g russell boucher mp in an address here urging that we must fortify ourselves to fight communi mi in canada we must and will take cogniz ance of the fact that no pace on the globe is now more than 60 hours distant from any other spot and canada is no longer a countiy of isolation said health ard wel fare minister paul martin dont forget the newspapers admonished harry binks to a large convention of rotary in this capital in your town they have a measures declared finance min ister abbott here in reporting satisfactory progress in saving us dollars by the canadian gov ernments bans on imports such a proposed constitutional amendment would abolisn the sovereignty of parliament in canada stated senator i m gouin in reference to suggestion of a change in the british north american act to include a new civil rights section as proposed by the canadian committee for a bui of rights beef prices are coming down as sales resistance grows says a report here and many housewives are reported as buying something else rather than pay high price there has been a wave of insur ance news here lately inuding senate approval of bill allowing insurance companies to engage in housing projects backed by govern ment guarantees approval by the house of commons of a bill to amend the veterans insurance act extending period for applicationfor such insurance from 3 to 6 years after the war and extending cover age to permanent force members and merchant seamen who got the the matter of keeping accounts for tax purposes anthony hlynka social cred vegrevilles urged income tax officials to be instructed not to press collection of 1912 1943 1944 and 1943 income tax from farmers he said farmers had not been instructed to keep accounts for those years thousands of one and three men business shops did not keep accounts in those years and might reasonably make the some claim the answer is in raising the exemptions to free the small tax payers whose payments must mostly go to pay collection charges i manitoba s mennonites aboard their mayflower quebec june 26 a search for peace and brotherly love which has threaded down the 400 years through the pages of time since the reformation continued on its pa tient untiring way today as 1500 mennonites from manitobas fertile red river valley prepared to sail for paraguay two special trains bore 7s2 mennonites into wolfes cove today where they joined 750 of their brethren who arrived yes terday and went aboard their char- ship volendam some time irish plowmen to compere here for the first time in tory of the international match conducted by the plowmens association a expert plowmen from the the his- plowing ontario team of british big influence you should see to it i wartime bonus and a proposal by that there are reporters at every an mp to create an insurance fund meeting for the benefit of patients who suffer through faulty diagnosis by the results indicate that the medical profession imports from soft currency coun tries britain for example have isles will be present when the big event is held at lindsay in octo ber of this year and will take part in the horse and tractor competi tions the party has completed ar rangements to sail on the queen elizabeth fornew york on october 1 arriving there on october 6 after a day or two in new york the irish group will come on to toronto and will go on to lindsay for the period of the match which is from october 12 to 15 the three irish contestants are sending their own plows over in advance and these will be shipped about the first week of july so as to be here in plenty of time for the tonight the ship will push its nose out into the st lawrence river headed for buenos aires where the pioneers will board river boats which will carry them 1000 miles inland to the wild chaco valley of paraguay and surely these sombreclad men and women with their healthy fairhaired children can be counted among the wealthiest pioneer immigrants of all time accompanying them to paraguay will be 70 freight carloads of farm equipment machinery and personal effects over 6000 pieces of freight have been stowed aboard the volendam already and still the loading cranes are working search for an ideal and unswerv ing loyalty to the tenets of their faith moved these people to sell 150000 acres of farm land in mani toba for 500000 and invest 335- 000 in 10s000 uncleared acres in the wilds of paraguay so that all might have land to till in their new country those who had 10000 or more contributed 10 permanent summer loveliness is yours with our machineless permanent that leaves your hair soft lustrous easy to manage and ever so beautiful joy beauty salon phone 9s02 stouffville one door west of post office wont lose faitli we know what faces us henry hildabrand said fingering the material in his rough farm work clothes we know there will be hard labor and discouragement we expect that many of our people will succumb to the tropical dis eases which struck our brethren who are already in- paraguay but we will not lose faith for our god will be with us always and the paraguayan government is making these sturdy people wel come they will be exempted from taxation for 10 years and will have complete military immunity for all time a decree passed in 1922 gives them the right to estabish their per cent schools and to teach in their and those who had less contributed j german patois which they cail eight per cent to a fund which will ensure homes for the more unfor tunate of the brethren match horses and tractors will be not been adversely affected by the watch the label on your paper it provided by the committees for emergoncv exchange conservation tells you when your subscription ex- the international match ipires i k gafhsg a second bout with the nia gara whirlpool rapids in a bar rel is planned by william red hill jr seen in the barrel his father made famous a record of niagara river rescues and other feats is scrawled on the sides hill is raising funds for a memorial to his father he has planned his trip for the latter part of july or early august in his twohour battle with the turbulent river two years ago he foiled the police who tried to stop his death- defying ride when he slipped the barrel into the river at a lonely spot left to right un security guards dan mcaleest ge b pogue and rob herman are shown as they struggled with passport form in new york after un secretarygeneral trygve lie acceding to count folke bernadottes request or dered 50 lake success security guards to proceed to palestine as truce control aides the 50 security guards left for cairo in a specially chartered plane they will continue to wear their blue un uniforms and will accept their instructions from bernadotte modern world encroaching the apostle pauls command to be not conformed to the world and christs admonition to love thine enemy are the bases of the mennonite faith because these old order mennonites saw a modern world encroaching further and further upon their secluded communities and because their sons fought in world war ii and they fear another war is rolling up in an angry world they are for saking their established homes and going forth into a wilderness where military service which is contrary to their faith will not threaten them we think our children are grow ing up and turning away from the faith that our forefathers brought here to canada from russia in 1s74 said henry hildabrand leader of the treking mennonites we no longer have our private schools where we can teach our faith to our children and we believe that our children should grow up gaining not only knowledge but learning faith in our god too for a long time we had our own private schools in manitoba then 20 years ago the province ruled that our children should go to public schools like all children anl our children grew to be worldly and forgot the tenets of our faith in the last war over 50 per cent of our young men fought and then some of us who still cling to the faith of our forefathers decided to seek a new home 51 went by plane already 51 manitoba mennonites have flown to paraguay in a chartered plane the forerunners will confer with paraguayan officials and with the leader of a colony of 10000 mennonites who settled in the chaco country 20 years ago and they will be work ing not only for their brethren from canada but for close to 2500 others of their sect who are en route to paraguay from the us zone of occupation in germany and from holland these are the bravest of the brave henry hildabrand said as he stood on the quay today and watched long lines of his followers go through customs and immigra lion they know of the great hardships which lie before them many of them are leaving loved ones behind but they have no hesitated they know that what we are doing is right henry hildabrand is not ignorant of the hardships which lie ahead of him and his followers in the chaco wilds mennonites who settled there 20 years ago are only now beginning to prosper their crops were destroyed by locusts and seared by drought the land was stubborn and had to be cleared by hand and from 1935 to 1937 they lived on the hem of the war be tween bolivia and paraguay the mennonite leader knows that for a long time his followers will not be able to use the farm machinery they are carrying witn them for the land will have to be cleared and the bogs drained be fore machinery will be useful he knows that even these farming people will take a while to accus tom themselves to the change from cultivating wheat and oats and barley and begin to grow sugar cane and flax and alfalfa i piatt deutsch they will admin ister their own municipal affair and will generally govern them selves yet while these people live unto themselves they are not unpatrio tic- i had a glimpse of the love they bear for canada today when an immigration official approached a 400pound safe which contains the records of each mans share in their communal establishment as the immigration officer approached the safe where it was sitting on a baggage truck henry hildabrand opened it for him the official looked through each ledger and the mennonite leader explained its contents to him for all the entries were made in german then in one book the official found a 2 bill still new and crisp as fresh lettuce 2 for remembrance henry hildabrand flushed i was not hiding it he said 1 was keeping it but not to spend during the war my people invested their money in series b noninterest bonds we gave the money to the government for their use at first we contributed individually but later we made a community fund which amounted to 2000 a month and gave it to the government this 2 is part of that money we want to keep it for remem brance it is so little yet it vi 1 always remind us of canada and when the customs official tianded it back henry hildabrand placed it in the ledger put the ledger in the safe and carefully closed the door and outside the great rambling shed that covers the quay at wolfes cove where the volendam is tied up there sits a big streamlined bus young ed giesbrecht has driven the chartered bus over 2000 miles to quebec city in order that 28 mennonites might say a last farewell to their brethren manv of whom are blood relatives whom they may never see again for 4 days the 28 were on the road from manitoba to quebec they have slept in tourist cabins and small hotels they have eaten meals at roadside stands they have made their own heroic trek to say farewell to their brothers wtio are going on a larger adventure father there in 1871 and on the bus is oldster abra ham jansen whose father ptei jansen settled in gretna manitoba in 1s74 my father had three rooms in his house ethn abraham jan sen said he was a school teacher and a farmer he taught school in one room lived in another and stabled his cow in the third and when the cow calved he had to move the calf into the school room and carried on his lessons today these people on the volendam are going out as my father did to get their own free dom they are braving hardships and death to keep their own faith in their own way they are right but we who stay believe we are equally right for we have found freedom and happiness in canada and we will stay here over 50000 of us we believe our god is here too and that we do not have to go seeking him deaths adamsalice suddenly in pick ering township on wednesday june 23 194s alice rogers wife of robert adams in her 35th year interment union cemetery osh- awa charles alice pointon suddenly at her home ri hmond hill tuesday june 22 19 is alice pointon widow of john charles in her slst year interment richmond hill cemtery june 25 mutual leader honoured p m pugh the mutual life of canada has released its honours list recognizing mr f m pugh of stouffville for outstanding ser vice to his community in the club year recently closed he has again qualified as a member of the leaders century club qualification for club membership requires not only the underwriting of a large volume of protection but more important the writing from year to year of quality busi ness that is life insurance that is continued in force these two factors combined with a high personal standard of confi dential service to policyholders earn this recognition for mutual life representatives aaanva salvation army red social service truck will be in stouftville on friday saturday this week to pick up salvage neat clothing furniture scrap iron rags waste paper and other materials you may desire to ret rid of semiannual collection va