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fcmffirille vol 61 no 34 the tribune stouffville ont decembek u 1950 second section 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 5250 a v nolan son publishers notes and comments thought for today freedom is placed in jeopardy more by those who will not exercise it than by those who will not permit it indif ference opens more gates to the enemy than does tyranny rev edwin m poteat the sound of a train the noise of a train has a curious thrilling quality about it that is the noise of an oldfashioned steam train does a few years more and it will be quite lost and gone a sound effect carefully filed away for use with period movies from 1830 to 1955 strange to think that before long it will no longer be possible to listen to the symphony of steam and rails it has been the sound just offstage for nearly all of us all our lives so tremendous is the voice of the locomotive that it reaches the ears of nearly everyone in the settled parts of the country for many the sound of the trains is too common and much too obtrusive to be pleasant the crashing and scream ing of a railroad right at ones door is not a pleasant thing to be sure to be fully appreciated the trains should be heard in the still of the evening in a country place there the ap proaching whistle the long rumble the sad farewell from the next crossing all are familiar all speak of life in far places before all trains become bloated buses anyone with an ear for such things would do well to go to the village station on a pleasant evening and listen to a train come out of absolute stillness and fade into it again trains have meant enough to most of us to make this as worthwhile as most sentimental visits cornwall standardfreeholder farm loan report the canadian farm loan board has issued its 21st annual report covering operations for the year ended mar 31 1950 the board is a dominion government agency which makes longterm mortgage loans to farmers during the year the board approved 5189400 in loans over 60 per cent of this amount was for the purchase of land and the refinancing of land secured debt the amount approved represents a small increase over the previous year and is the largest annual volume of business in the last 13 years the boards current investment in farm mortgages in creased by more than 2000000 in the last year and now exceeds 26000000 interest arrears at march 31 1950 equalled only 246 per cent of principal outstanding the board makes first mortgage loans up to 5000 at 4i per cent repayable over a period not exceeding 25 years the board may make additional advances to bring the total loans up to 6000 in certain circumstances loans are made to pay debts buy livestock equipment and farm lands and to erect and repair buildings and make other farm improvements has the limit been reached when it comes to amusements and just how much the public purse can stand has the limit been reached in many quarters this is the belief attendance figures at al most every type of sport carnival concert or what have you in the entertainment line is down in some instances the reason is quite obvious as promoters of entertainment have endeavored to push their prices up the grade along ivith everything else while the public has to pay handsome ly for many essentials they are not inclined to throw money away on amusement that they can well afford to do without in stouffville while prices have not advanced the tempo at which sports and amusements have been shoved at john public has left him in the drag its our relief that people just cant keep up with the pace right in this small town of stouffville one could easily take in some different attrac tion every night in the week but married folks and par ticularly those with families cant stand such a drain on the pocketbook this same reason that holds good in stouffville is like wise the cause of five and six hundred crowds at maple leaf gardens for the major league and junior a hockey there folks are swamped with opportunities to spend their money there may be a further reason to the slump this is a dissatisfied age in which we live entertainment which would have drawn packed houses a few years back gets only mediocre support today never possibly in history the old home town by stanley cr ttcm k rwt editors mail toronto out dec 7th 1950 editor the tribune stouffville ontario your editorial on farm vs industry with its varied thoughts concerning what p m dewan a former ontario minister of agricultural terms the tug of higher industrial wages that is pulung the young people away from tlie farms sparked a warm discussion at this readers rural urban dinner table one of the expert observers of the rural scene asked as to the basic changes he has seen during the past quartercentury replied practically none there have been many very important super ficial changes obvious to all the displacement of the horse by the machine the elimination of dis tances by the automobile and the truck the vast increase in the electrification of the farms the growing rarity of the hired man the creation of bigger and sound er cooperatives all these are important vastly important in the lives of the fanners and their families but thej- have not altered the basic character of canadian agriculture that pattern is still one of operatorowned single- family farms of a size not very much larger than they were 25 years ago family herald and weekly star i am convinced that as long as the young folks along the farm front know that it takes more than twice as many workhours to win a rural dollar as is called for by the urban dollar the cities will draw youth from the farms of course a certain amount of this ruralurban migration is inescap able even essential in terms of the citys sociological health be cause as pointed out recently the modern urban community is a sentence of death to the fourth generation unless reinforced by fresh blood from the fields on the other hand in my opinion the longrange interests of the domin ion will be best conserved by improvements in rural living standards ie farm income enabling the socalled glamor of the citys lights to move out into the countrys farm homes bruce county for parents only by nancy cleaver learning to tatjc a babys progress fascinates his parents and there is no part of his growth more interesting than a child learning to talk usually by a year he is saying a few simple words such as mama and bye bye often repetitions of one sim pie syllable of course he chatters to himself in a jargon which no one can interpret although hi mother likely can distinguish the meaning of different kinds of cry ing at a year and a half he likely uses about a dozen words and is very proud of his vocabulary he seems to understand the meaning of a number of words which he does not attempt to say children differ there is no one normal rate of learning to talk children vary greatly older children in the fam ily who talk to the baby often help him master new words by his second birthday a child uses short sentences of two or three or even were so many canadians better off but on the other hand never were so many dissatisfied with their lot just what the outcome will be if patronage continues on the decline is hard to say but one thing is certain at the present rate more and more red ink is going to be used as tabulations are made throughout the winter months and profit and loss accounts are summed up in the spring four words often he avoids pro nouns and refers to himself not asl but by his first name don nie sees choeho train before an other birthday comes around he is showing real delight in his nev accomplishment talking and by the time he enters school many a child has a vocabulary of over a thousand words question marks punctuate a little boys or girls remarks some are asked just for the sake of talking for the pleasure of hear ing his own voice other questions show that the child really wants to find out something mother and father too sometimes weary answering so many questions but this is the childs way of adding to his store of information mothers who are too busy to answer a little childs questions are indeed too busy sometimes it is impos sible for a mother to give an im mediate answer parents may rest assured that as a child grows olde and asks difficult questions as those about the beginning or the end of his iife if no answer is given at home the child will seek answers elsewhere if a child is slow in talking the parents are often worried and oc casionally they make the mistake baby bounty system wouldnt work new york citys welfare commissioners are toying with the idea of providing baby bounties as they term them to encourage young married couples to have children the plan is probably well meant but it is doubtful indeed if it would have the desired effect as far as baby bounties or childrens allowances are concerned they have many advantages and corresponding shortcomings too as canada has found out in the years since the nations childrens allowance plan came into effect in general it might be said that such allowances do cer tainly provide advantages for most children on whose be half they are paid but there has been no evidence in can ada or in such countries as italy and germany where bonuses for children were also provided for some years that per capita payments for children have any significant effect on the birth rate birth rates are an exceedingly puzzling matter influen ces which both theory and common sense would indicate a desirability for increased birth rates often lead instead to reduced ones whereas influences that should lead to their decrease more often than not result in large increases ex amples are not hard to find countries such as canada and the united states which have the resources to support high birth rates actually have quite low ones on the other hand countries such as india and china with their developed re sources strained beyond all capacity to provide a reasonable living standard have comparatively high birth rates par ticularly among those groups whose economic status is low- sstj incidentally population studies have disclosed that the difference in birth rates is not nearly as great as it is popu larly thought to be but a difference nevertheless does exist thus it is apparent that birth rates may rise despite adverse economic conditions but it does not by any means follow that they will rise because of favorable ones against this situation is the puzzling fact that economic influences especially good ones are more likely to start a trent toward lower birth rates and a trend toward lower birth rates is much easier to start than one toward high birth rates a closer study of the question of birth rates by the new york authorities concerned would show in all likeli hood that the greatest single influence militating against the birth rate among younger married couples these days is the difficulty or rather the almost sheer impossibility of finding living accommodation where children are permit ted needless to say this condition is not peculiar to new- york city as long as those who own rental accommodation main tain their herodlike attitude that the only good tenant child is a dead one then birth rates may be expected to fall respite all the baby bonuses or other encouragements that can be devised if the new york people who would like to see the birth rate increased could do something concrete about ensuring that couples with children could rent living space then the problem would be solved and this goes for everywhere of course not only in new york of nagging at him or trying to force him to speak the child re sents this pressure and the result of this treatment delays his speech still further rather mother should try to discover why her child is slow perhaps he is being waited on to such a degree that he feels no necessity to express his wants perhaps he sees other children too seldom and the grownups in his home talk in long sentences and do not use simple words medical experts reassure parents that slowness in mental development is not always linked with slowness in talk many normal children indeed some especially bright youngsters do not start to talk until much later than other youngsters most parents find it a temptation to talk baby talk to their tiny child particularly if he is their first born an occasional lapse into baby talk does not matter but if a mother habitually uses babytalk to a child who is learn ing his first words it confuses the youngster it is difficult to imitate baby talk and the parents are the childs first language teachers it is rather pathetic to hear an older child or even an adult talk ing baby talk mother thinks it cute but the neighbors and friends are apt to be bored by this older childs desire to be impor tant and the centre of the atten tion dont repeal theme parents should also refrain from repeating to others in the presence of a child his original coined words such as the big black dog fraid- ed me or cute sayings these are of special interest only to those who especially love that particu lar child but a mother can make a fas cinating childs own hook for her own pleasure and in it write down the childs first words first sen tences the words which harmed him the words he made up in those preschool days the childs cute remarks which a father may get a great kick out of hearing should be briefly jotted down these childhood stories are soon forgotten unless a record is kept they provide good reading for fond parents when the children are grown because they bring back happy memories of the days when the sons and daughters were small days of yore from the fills of the stoullvule tribune m years ago the rivals sheridans popu lar humorous play which was presented by the pupils of stouff ville continuation school on fri day evening drew an audience that almost filled the auditorium it was very encouraging to both teachers and pupils to see such interest shown in their efforts the cast included edmund cadieux norman dales kathleen freel miss grehgebahk walter kusnell walter luirkholder fred brilhriger arthur lehman har old sanders allan sangster greta smith lena sanders fern wide- man and eric nighs wander miss brain who has spent a great deal of time and whose efforts are responsible for the pro duction of the play deserves much credit for the splendid success at the close of the program she was presented by the pupils with a beautiful bouquet of flowers as a token of their appreciation bloomington a successful sock social was held at the home of mr r x fairies on monday evening a number were present from stouffville goodwood ringwood iahd iemonville 2 years ago few there are who dreamed that the ku klux clan organization would ever reach stoulfville but it is the avowed opinion of some that some person at least among our 1200 inhabitants is a member of that organization for on thurs day night of last week a real ku klux cross was burned in j b wurts field immediately north of dr freels residence in the dark ness of the night the cross stood out very distinctly with its extended arms and ulpright bar aflame and people who saw it wondered what significance it had for stouffville richard foote son of mr walter foote has leased a farm west of aurora in king township where he will move early next spring up to the present mr foote is operating his fathers farm on the 8th of whitchurch the marg haig sr mission band held their annual meeting on dec 9th the officers are miss alice byrne miss m sherrard miss eldene lewis miss jean collard miss daisy mcconnochie mrs aitchison and miss mae mowder lemonville the ladies aid has installed new lamps in the church i years ago mr l c murphy has purchased three building lots on harold street from mr james mcgivern who moved to fenelon falls last summer this means more garden space for the high school principal four local boys gene paisley ronnie conner gordon lewis and allen wells are practicing with markham junior oha entry along with some twenty other hopefuls mr and mrs allen neal have rented rooms in the home of mrs wm waddell main st west for the winter season and moved in this week mrs waddell will short ly be leaving to spend the winter in california bob mcconnochie in holland with the argyll and sutherland highlanders sent home to his mother mrs d mcconnochie a petite pair of dutch wooden shoes bob says the shoemaker will whittle you a pair to wear in twenty minutes councillor leslie j harper has purchased a 16 acre place known as the lloyd farm at pine orchard and will take up residence there in due time quadruplets born to jersey cow its quads on the ocie baker farm in anderson county texas the mother is bakers jersey cow the two heifers and two bulls were born wednesday all are normal healthy animals last year the cow gave birth to twins tars pudding wbhi flavoured a gallon of rum fioo eggs and 100 silver threepenny bits went into a giant mixing bowl last week under the benevolent eye of rear- admiral p s smith along with other ingredients they will make christmas pudd ing for 2000 men he commands in the navy barracks at devonport england the performance is an annual navy ritual the national film board of canada produces about mo docu mentary films each year including english french and foreign- language versions five travel films especially made for showing over us tele vision networks have been pro duced by the national film board of canada