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the tribune stoi ville on thursday july 22 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 march 31 1m8 i57 issued every thursday at stouffville ontario in canada 200 in usa s25g a- v nolan son publishers notes and comments fantastic idea may prove practical readers of this column told us that they had a good laugh a couple of vears ago when we suggested that the best way to fight possible forest fires in the vivian forest would be- to have the water bucketed there from mussel- mans lake by plane then drop it right atop the fire the suggested appealed as a bit fantastic now comes the announcement by the minister that a tiny water tractor tank which could be carried by planes of the ontario dept of lands is under study as an additional means of coping with fires before they get a big start such equipment is being tried out in the usa war is not inevitable tnose who have been preaching a preventive war against russia havent reckoned the cost thats the con elusion of hanson w baldwin military editor of the new- york times in the leading article in harpers magazine this month the united states and her allies would probably win such a war against russia baldwin agrees but even with the advantage of the atom bomb he sees the fighting going on for vears and at enormous cost in blood and treasure european civilization he is sure could not survive and the economic security of the united states would be imperiled as never before distances are too vast and russia is too far away to be defeated by bombing argues baldwin in the end the decisive fighting would have to take place in western europe and we would destroy the part of the world which we set out to save how can we a professedly christian nation the leading opponent of the philosophy that the ends justify any means descend to the expendiency of communism are we to steel our hearts to the deliberate slaughter by atomic means and in surprise attack of thousands of russian women and children and if so can we ever profess moral purpose or spiritual motive behind our political philosohy neither in a preventive war nor in appeasement says baldwin lies the solution to our present troubles war with russia he argues is not inevitable and we should not come to regard it as inevitable rather we should build up our defenses stand firm and above all build up not destroy western europe only in this way which might restore some sort of a balance or modifying influence in europe does he believe that we can hope to avoid a war with russia and even if that fails says baldwin the united states with her allies can defeat russia tomorrow as well as today if war has to come it is far better that it come 20 years from now those who have seen what little real peace has been achieved by two world wars in 35 years will certainly agree that we should explore every possible altern ative before plunging into a third conflict which may end all civilization are some who believe that it may involve textiles ahead of anything else imports of british textiles do not seem to be reaching anticipated levels some critics blame this on the british themselves claiming that the united kingdom exporter seems too anxious to sell canada highpriced fabrics when as one ottawa correspondent puts it the canadian con sumer wants middle and lowpriced cotton products- there are those who take the view that british exporters will not be able to meet their target and that the government at ottawa will be forced to boost the import quota from the united states in order to look after canadian requirements whatever happens it would seem reasonable to con elude that canadian textile mills must now be humming paradoxically this apparently is not the case instead of working day and night to help fill the domestic need some canadian textile mills are closing down for short periods because of lack of orders usually at this time of the year orders are placed for fall lines this year however many big buyers are playing cautious they fear a fall drop in prices and do not want to be caught with large highpriced inventories on hand the logic behind this reasoning is obscure with prices of raw materials still rising and with no foreseeable decline in wage levels it is difficult to under stand how prices of finished articles can drop at this time on the contrary the longer mills are idle the less chance there is of satisfying demand instead of helping mr average consumer get his canadianmade shirts and under wear at reasonable prices this policy would seem more likely to result in a situation in which these articles will cost more than ever more for a shirt with the improvement in canadas us dollar supply there is increasing expectation that ottawa may soon begin to enlarge the present quota on imports from the united states any progressive relaxing of import restrictions is almost certain to include fruits and vegetables but there too much leniency suspension of the privilege of driving is apparently the only deterrent for reckless driving and if a reduction is to be achieved in the long list of accidents that occur through out the province each week it must be ruthlessly applied in the future is a stement in which we heartily concur says the guelph mercury it is high time more drastic action was taken as regards the increasing menace to life and limb on the high ways altogether too much leniency has been shown in connection with such cases in the police courts where offences of the kind are being heard more and more frequently a reckless driver is nothing more or less than an irresponsible person who sets out to reach a given point and who in getting there if he does not meet with an accident beforehand ignores the rights of every other vehicle and pedestrian on the road and should be treated as such if a man is not rational in the fullest sense of the word the highways are no place for him and he should not be permitted to tear up and down them at will a threat to the safety of responsible motorists who are in the habit of exercising care and judgment while on the road and con sideration for others who may be using the thoroughfare the ideal driver is one who assumes responsibility for everyone on the road and who anticipates not only his own moves but those of every other motorist on the same high way the motorist must assume responsibility for the pedestrian this is putting it pretty plainly but it is the truth of the matter evidently the imposition of fines is not having the desired effect in that case the only thing left for the department of highways to do if the public is to be afforded x protection to which it is entitled is to insist that reckless driving offenses be dealt with in a court in a manner that will bring offenders to time- drastic action of some kind must be taken at once if the only course open to put a stop to a most alarming state of affairs is suspension of driving privileges the sooner offenders are treated in that way the better it will be for all concerned how life progrksses is land ok t1ih turks conditions in turkey are describ ed in an interesting letter received by a friend from miss madeline pamay a turkish girl her letter in part was as follows the war did not much affect turkey but there has been a scar city of sugar and wheat for a time sugar was easy to be passed by be cause we had the syrup called pek- mez it is made by boiling the grapes for a time which though dark in color and heavy in odor is easily replaced instead of sugar but the wheat scarcity was hard to take because all the people in here we eat very much bread and all the bread is whole wheat bread so we suffered for a time eating the bread not wholly wheat but other cereals as corns etc except that we had every food and clothing we asked for at a higher price than in peace and no tissue or fabric coupons everything was bought by simple money except bread people have progressed the people here have really pro gressed since the death of mustafa kemal pasha in reality he was an example to the people an example of courage freedom and civiliza tion the strength he had in him self made explode the secret wish of freedom and civilization in the people now that he is dead the people still keep on progressing there is a law that every boy and girl has to finish at least the prim ary school now five classes and that only a person who has finished the college or university can be an officer in the military service everybody in even the smallest village knows how to read and writefrom the old to the young 0 course at the beginning it was hard to teach the old but kemal ataturk it is his modern name was per- severent and he succeeded the hardest case of all was the law for the man to throw the fes and the women the veil they were very used to them and the women could not have their heads coverless they were so shy and the religion insists on covering the head towards men but that point too was cleared now every woman in the city wears hats or nothing at all while in the villages only the young girls take out the veil the political situation here is very good because all the moham medans are vpry close together they are always protecting each other the last civil war was 30 years before now in a city in anatolia against the mohamme dans and the christians in which many christians were killed the goverment stopped it and there has never been any case anymore always secret fight after the civil war 30 years be fore there never has been one but there is always a secret fight to the turks of other religions thi secret fight is still worse than thi open one in which the father of my financee was killed we want to be respected as we do respect we lived here it is almost a century yet we still dont belong and we do want to be loved to belong because we too love turkey as much as a mohammedan does it seems they cannot get over theres fun for everyone on parry sound penerang wasago beach meaford sumect to change stocffviljji motors ph 170 stouflmij their fanaticism that is the point they didnt let go but they are really civilized i have heard from an american that in america there are some states in which negroes have not every right the white men have that is pretty much like our difference of attitude towards the nonmohammedans and the moham medans is it not i hope that is through now in america when 1 heard about this law i was in the first classes of the school here a negro mohammedan has the same rights as a white mohammedan as you see here religion is the strong est tie a farming country turkey too is a farming country in the most and now we have lots of machines for the trade as in the west part of turkey we have many grapes and figs and in the south part much cotton we export ed them to germany which gave us machines most of them were farm ing machines as tractors etc and others were wagons and trains now the country men dont suffer trying to push the iron bar within the soil the machines do it for them but those machines are still very expensive for most of the farmers now what we try to secure is still more machines so that every farmer could buy one without hav ing to save for years and years thank god we have never known starvation the wheat and sugar we missed in war times be cause we had sent tons of them to europe which we still keep on do ing in smaller quantities yes we know what is going on in china india and europe we try to help as much as we can figs and raisins are sent there in great quantity as a present and wheat and corn in smaller quantities mlskoka itarn disappears after storm john kress a muskoka farmer near gravenhurst has lost his barn he got up tuesday and looked out his window and the barn was gone horses were roaming the farm and his big pine tree was missing too he found the tree stripped of branches 30 feet from where it should have been it had been uprooted and whisked away by a freak storm which hit some pans of the northern ontario vacation area he hasnt found the barn yet but pieces of it are littered about his fields the editors mail ax open letter citizen take exception io the running of loud speaker system for open air work to the readers of the tribune i want to take this opportunity to voice my convictions against the article which appeared in the stouffville tribune last week entitl ed ruled loud speaker out 10000 orangemen at- cobourg more than 10000 orangemen were in cobourg july 12th for the district orange walk coming from the counties of northumberland and durham hastings victoria ontario and peterboro the parade was an hour and one half passing the reviewing stand ob a threemile route which ended at ere a ep- foote robert it can be heard in any part of the small grand master of the grand town with the result that christian orange lodge and british america citizens are greatly disturbed until mayor joe smith extended the civiq twelve and one oclock in the morn- j welcome prize winning lodges were best i appeal to all who are like- minded to voice their protest in a definite way so that people may know where we stand on this issue a street meeting is held to reach the most people possible with the gospel so it would be very unwisi to take it to an out of the way area some of us remember that th street dance takes up the whoi russell mannin main block and even highway traffic is detoured i would like to quote an editorial in a prominent religious paper asked to sign a petition against a small christian church whose hymn singing was disturbing to the immediate neighbourhood a jew in richmond va said gentlemen i could not sign it if i believed as do these christians that my messiah had come i would shout it from the house tops in every street in richmond and nobody could stop me i appeal again to all the citizens of stouffville to take a definite stand in this matter yours for everything that will make stouffville a better town pipe band oshawa pipe band 2nd prize peterboro fife and drum band no 135 best mens lodge oshawa no 2107 best ladies lodge cartwright best juvenile lodge cartwright 2nd prize trentoa juvenile lodge judges were frank parkinson col stuart craig and rev h s hallman all further new suscriptfons or renewals to the tribune for the period of six months will be s125 rather than 1 as heretofore you save by being a yearly suscriber girl clerk threw ix too mich a brown paper bag filled with s9g121 ready to be taken to the bank disappeared from the napanee branch of a chain grocery store three hours later it turned up in the shopping bag of a provincial policemans wife a girl cashier had thrown in the bag of money with mrs everett smiths grocerjj order youit moneys worth you get it in maxwell house coffee this rich mellow delicious coffee gives you so much more for so little more than yon pay foe lowerpriced 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