The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

the stouffville tribune established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and ontario quebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations authorized as second class mail post office department ottawa issued every thursday at stouffville ontario in canada 200 in usa 250 a v- nolan son publishers notes and comments the editorial we the municipal world reprinted this joke which offers one explanation of the editorial we a little girl asks her father why editors always refer to themselves as we her daddy says it is so that the fellow who doesnt like whats printed will think there are too many for him to lick too many border lines many people will tell you that our country is done to death with rules and regulations but be that as it may the battle of local licenses has started on yonge street the town of aurora passed a bylaw assessing plumbers living anywhere but in aurora with a tax should they wish to do business in aurora now newmarket has retaliated and last week passed a bylaw designed to soak any contractor living outside of newmarket with a 25 tax for the privilege of doing work in newmarket isnt it about time the statutes put an end to that sort of petty tax and if the statutes wont end it then the rate payers of any municipality ought to stop it themselves suppose you lived in the town of newmarket was building a house and found that a plumber living in whitchurch township could and would do your plumbing work for 100 less than other plumbers who happened to live in newmar ket then suppose the whitchurch plumber said he would not do your work unless you paid the license fee that would allow him to enter that town where perhaps he buys his daily bread just suppose all these things and ask your self if the action of councils isnt a bit childish narrow and pettish and whats more isnt the action of any council passing such a bylaw directly in restraint of trade we hope the time will never come when a council in stouffville make themselves so small that they will not welcome fair honest competition postal charges show strange spread the town of newmarket is hoping for a doortbdoor mail service delivery such as they have in cities and large towns before this can be done the town will be obliged to have all the houses numbered and this will cost in the neighborhood of 2000 an independent company informed newmarket council somehow this postal business is getting all mixed up in our mind here in stouffville we pay from 200 to 500 per year for the privilege of going to the post office and finding ones mail in their box after all that charge is not greatly out but then suppose one lives at altona or ballan- trae the postal department will send your mail all those miles to you and place it in your postal box at the gate free if you happen to live in a city or very large town your mail will be caried to your door free just why are the citizens in places like stouffville markham or claremont called upon to carry their own mail and pay a box rent when farmers and folks in very large towns get a very expensive service free we are not complaining that the small towns and vill ages are unfairly taxed but we think the postal charges are sorely out of line somewhere when a nod is a bid seth hawkins an elderly but spry alabama farmer has a heavy job of explaining to do and no earthly way of doing it it seems that seth attended a farm auction in montgomery more out of curiosity than anything else and was richly rewarded for his effort by the sight of a group of extremely comely young ladies seated down front in the stadium every time seth could catch their attention he would smile and nod to them this delightful diversion went on through the entire auction now the impossible thing the old farmers wife is de manding according the financial post that he explain is how the heck the auctioneer managed to sell him 17 heifers it makes no difference k w s fisher one of the members of the threeman in come tax appeal board is to be highly commended for his statement of policy in a recent decision in the case of an unnamed judge who was seeking ex emption from income tax on 15000 which he received as a special honorarium for his services as a royal commission er on a provincial enquiry mr fisher in his judgment stated any appellant appealing to this board appears solely as a taxpayer appealing against an assessment and it makes no difference what his position in civil life may be whether he be the most learned or the most illiterate the richest or the poorest or any of the many other extremes which we find existing among taxpayers each and every appellant is entitled to the same consideration when he appears be fore this board the kitchener newsrecord says that this is the basic principle on which british courts and canadian have built up their reputation it is a principle which each and every member of any judicial body should keep in front of him at all times and it is well to have it stated in public at times to emphasize its importance history of hot cross buns the story of hot cross buns dates back to pagan days in england where they were first made missionaries found that the saxons were accustomed to offer up a spe cial kind of cake to the goddess astarte from whose name we get the word easter finding that it was easier to alter the pagan beliefs than to eliminate them the missionaries introduced the cross on the buns to commemorate the cruci fixion of christ originally these buns were made only for easter and many a man of fifty today can recall the baker making a special delivery early in the morning and mother taking in the hot buns for breakfast then such buns were never heard of again until another easter however today we live in a keener world of finance and buns were sold in city stores weeks ago now perhaps in many towns and last week in stouffville where the best buns we ever tasted are produced if ambrose stover will permit us to say so with the easter morning delivery the buns were sold hot thus they were known as hot cross most people like the idea of being able to buy hot cross buns throughout the lenten season and see nothing wrong with it the old home town by stanley was a4ice uok just hatecw i worked y swws fawcett the plumber knows his pipes cr 1w k fhum tlh uk h m iwt khhoe-g- butter support may be necessary but grave by financial editor daily star government price supports for penny wise and pound foolish po licy the farm people are a large and important segment of our pop ulation if their incomes drop sharply their spending power is reduced and this quickly reflects itself in business generally had to sell abroad in any event in the process of farm products may be necessary supporting the price the govern- but they certainly are not without m was forced to buy some 20- certain disadvantages to the con- 000000 pounds and once it acquir- sumers take the strange case of butter to protect the dairy industry against a sharp drop in income the government has been support ing the price at about 58 cents wholesale which is more than many people can afford to pay now that ottawa has acquired ed this large stock it was immedi ately faced with a new problem how can we dispose of this butter and still maintain the floor price since canada has a surplus of butter there is no market for it here at the floor price if the but ter was offered at less than the floor price it would only aggrav- some 20600006 pounds as t result ja tbe problem the market would of this price support policy it looks de flooded and the government like the government is going to 1 would have to buy still more but- have to market it abroad at prices ter maintain the floor price below those which the canadian the only way out the govern- people are required to pay provided breathing space this is a strange set of circum stances indeed consumers are be ing taxed to help maintain the price of butter at a level which is beyond the means of many rising sales of cheaper margarine are evidence of this at the same time canadian butter is being offered for sale outside canada at prices below the support level here on the surface the government would seem to be open to criticism on its handling of butter an ex amination of the facts however suggest otherwise for if we are to have farm prices supports and some are needed the problem of disposing surplus stocks is bound to be vexatious no matter what political party is in power consider the circumstances relat ing to butter when the sale of mar garine was legalized butter sales began to slip people could pur chase margarine much cheaper and many families substituted it entire ly for more expensive butter declining butter sales and prices presented a real problem to the dairy industry without some mea sure of price support it was obvi ous prices would fall sharply this meant a sharp drop in the income of canadian farmers because of the special circum stances the government decided to step in and support the price it was too much to expect the indus try to cut its production costs overnight and adjust itself to its new competitor that would re quire time by agreeing to sup port the price at 58 cents the gov ernment saw a way to provide the industry with the breathing space it needed some people will argue that the government should have let the price find its own level despite the saving this would have meant ment decided to sell some of the butter abroad even if it means ac cepting less than the floor price here this way at least it would recover some of the 311000000 it had tied up in surplus stocks what is more it would not aggra vate the surplus problem in can ada as these developments show the government has little alternative but to seek a market outside can ada even if the price is below our support level as experience in the us shows it is a problem as sociated with price supports that is not easy to get away from nonetheless it emphasizes a dan ger inherent in price supports sunday school lesson sunday april 10 amos the prophet and his program goldiu text seek the lord and ye shall live amos 36 the lesson as a whole approach to the lesson amos though a herdman of te- koa in judah amos 11 was sent by god to testify to the northern kingdom when jeroboam ii was reigning in samaria at that time uzziah was king of judah so amos ministered somewhat earlier than isaiah who dates his prophetic call in the year that king lzziah died lsa gl so far as the record goes amos was without any forma education he was a country boy who earned his living tending cat tle and sheep and gathering wild tigs chap 711 the sycomore mentioned was a wild fig tree to this young man came the call of god separating him from his or dinary vocation and commission ing him to go forth as a prophet to proclaim the word of the lord as he saw the corruption and in justice prevailing in the land of israel he began to inveigh against it calling the nation to repentance and declaring that the judgment of god would soon fall upon israel unless they turned from their wick edness and turned back to follow the law of the lord this was resented by amaziah a priest of the calf set up at bethel 1 kings 122s 29 and who forbade amos to prophesy there and commanded him to go back to judah where he belonged but fearlessly amos withstood him and insisted on his right to speak the word of god as it had been given to him chap 7 101g he is an outstanding ex ample of one who fearing god feared no man but delivered his message as the lord had given it to him assured that god would take care of the consequences the historical setting jeroboam ii reigned over the northern kingdom from about 79s to 665 bc he was the fourth in the dynasty established by jehu who destroyed the line of ahab israel prospered under him in ma terial things but its moral and spiritual degeneration continued this is surplus production which of it was during this time that amos exercised his prophetic office verse by verse amos 7 7 the lord with a plumbline in his hand this is a figure easily understood no words are needed when a wall is tested with a plumb line if out of the perpendicular it is at once mani fest to the confusion of the work man gods unerring word is such a plumb line unmistakably it tests every soul manifesting any departure therefrom and calling down judgment on the violator ooooo stouffville sand gravel limited are prepared to supply your requirements of crushec gravel sand concrete gravel pit run delivered or at is bin plant phone 125j office phone 379 j alistis system established and sup ported by israels wayward kings he would if possible get the pestil ent preacher of the truth out of the way therefore his complaint to the king verse 11 jeroboam shall die by the sword and israel shall sure ly be led away captive out of their own land it was unpalatable truth indeed that amos declared but amaziah seems to have report ed amoss words incorrectly either intentionally so or his own guilty conscience having caused him to misunderstand them we have no record of amos declaring that jero boam himself should die by the sword which is manifestly not the case see 2 kings 142329 but that the sword should be drawn against his house which was ful filled in the violent death of his son zachariah 2 kings 1510 verse 12 go flee thee away into judah and there eat bread and prophesy there being an hireling himself amaziah intim ates that amos is the same when he urges him to go to judah and there eat bread he cannot con ceive of one going forth to proclaim gods word who has not his eye on a good living his own covetous heart led him to consider the office of high priest as a desirable means of livelihood and he takes it for granted that amos in his way is as much a professional man as himself verse 13 prophesy not again at bethel for it is the kings chapel the kings court it is an oftrepeated complaint on the part of manmade priests and prea chers that spiritsent men of god must not fish in the waters which they claim nor touch any of their must be paid for by the taxpayers because of this it should emphasize to both the government and con sumers that price supports have obvious disadvantages under certain circumstances such as the current butter situation they are justified but certainly they should only be used in emer gencies otherwise the problems associated with them will multiply tenant 12 years cheque unstamped she gets evicted because mrs charles catto daw- lish ave toronto failed to fix a stamp on her january rent cheque dr martha law heath st e ob tained an order of possession from judge frank mcdonagh dr law who bought the house january 1 said the bank refused to cash the unstamped cheque and i thought why should i pay for the stamp mrs catto claimed dr law had delayed telling her the cheque was invalid so an eviction notice could be filed mrs cattos counsel ken hay wood said she has been it a tenant to consumers it could have been a of the same house for 12 years but verse 8 i will set a plumline in the midst of my people israel god was about to judge them by his holy law throughout the whole land of israel that word was despised while the people took their own ways and asked not the counsel of the lord therefore none could rightfully complain when they were visited according to their ways verse 9 i will rise against the house of jeroboam with the sword every high place in the land was a silent testimony to the gainsay ing and disobedience of the nation upon them all desolation would fall in the day that the sword was to be drawn against the house of jeroboam it is of course the se cond king of that name who is re ferred to the monarch in whose reign amos uttered his prophecies verse 10 amaziah the priest sent to jeroboam saying amos hath conspired against thee ama ziah the apostate priest of the high place at bethel rises in anger to denounce amos as a traitor to the king as head of the apostate ritu- the judge allowed her to be order ed out on the stamp issue small house planning bureau st cloud minnesota please send me more information without obligation about the plan features and the type of construction used in the deane house as pictured in the stouftvllle tribune name address city prov the 11kaxk is dominated by a combination livingdining room on the first floor featuring an attractive bay window and fireplace the dining alcove is formed by the entrance vesti bule and with the bay window adds to the size of the living room cabinets line opposite walls of the kitchen which is located between dining room in front and dinette in rear a bedroom and adjoining lavatory complete the first floor plan on second floor the bath and stairhall are in the rear dormer and two bedrooms in the gable ends a door leads to a deck over the breakfast nook for dusting and airing frame construction is used with wide sid ing asphalt shingles face brick chimney and full basement dimensions are 28 feet square area is 820 square feet and cubage 19 m6 cubic feet flock looking on gods heritage as their particular allotted portion they cannot brook the untrammel- ed servant who comes with the plain word of the lord seeking not financial or other gain but simply declaring the whole counsel of god amaziah arrogates to himself the right to be the supreme minister and spiritual adviser to the king and to the people of bethel it was wbat we today would call a cathe dral city and amaziah was its ecclesiastical head away with this unlicensed interloper from the south erse 11 i was no prophet nei ther was i a prophets son amos modestly and faithfully answers the haughty and indignant priest he was neither a professional seer nor did he obtain his appointment through human hands nor by des cent he was an herdman and a gatherer of sycomore fruit the wild fig of palestine until divinely called probably to his own sur prise and bewilderment to the pro phetic office verse 15 the lord took me as i followed the flock and said un to me go prophesy here were credentials that were as inexplic able to amaziah as they have been to thousands of others since amos entered upon his ministry by the direct call to god chap 81 behold a basket of summer fruit the lord showed him a basket of summer fruit that is overripe fruit which could no longer be preserved the symbol was one which a young man rear ed in a rural district would have no difficulty in understanding verse 2 the end is come upon my people of israel israel had be come like decaying fruit the end was near the time of being cast away no longer would grace be extended to those who had rejected it so repeatedly the patience of god was at last exhausted and judgment must take its course verse 3 the songs of the tem ple shall be howlings in that day the temple songs would be chang ed to woeful cries of anguish and despair while the dead bodies of the despisers of gods message would fill the cities and be cast out in silence this judgment was carried out a few years later by the assyrian conquest when the north ern kingdom ceased to exist the heart of the lesson it is ever gods way to prepare his servants in secret for the work they are afterwards to accomplish in public only he who has learn ed of god in the school of obscurity is likely to shine in the blaze of publicity amos had no thought of becoming or being recognized as a prophet as men sometimes select the ministry as a profession he would doubtless have been quite content to pursue his humble voca tion as a small farmer to the end of his life if such had been the mind of god for him as he followed the flock his soul was communing with jehovah as he gathered the wild figs of the wilderness his heart was meditating on the great issues of the souls relationship to god and the importance of walking in his ways as he tended the herds he was learning wondrous lessons of a faithful creators love and care so when for him the fulness of the time was come the lord so to speak kindled the al ready prepared fuel into a flame and the humble herdman became a mighty spiritenergized prophet of god not only to his own people but to all israel and the nations around we read of no unbelieving hestitation no parleying with god no bargaining or questioning as to temporal support even as before there was no fleshly impatience or desire to be at the front attracting notice as a prophet or a speaker throughout it is the record of a simple humble man of god who can wait or run as his lord sees fit in all this how much there for our souls today