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the tribune tousitc oau thursday march 0 152 the stouffville tribune established 588s member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and ontario quebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations in authorized a tecood class mail post office department ottawa issued every thursday at stouffville ontario canada 250 a v nolan son in usa 300 publishers notes and comments red cross campaign opens in march the canadian red cross will open its annual cam paign for funds on march 10 and will continue the drive throughout march the society requires s5222000 to carry on its work ontario has the resoonsibility of raising 2 19000 canadian red cross is a national voluntary organization with international aliiliations operating under dominion charter dedicated in time of peace to carry on and assist in work for the improvement of health the prevention of disease and the mitigation of suffering throughout the world one of the societys chief obligations in addition to that imposed on it in times of war by the geneva conven tion is to assist in the alleviation of human suffering in times of disaster wherever it may occur in fire flood famine pestilence tornado and earthquake red cross societies of the world have played their part more than ninetyseven per cent of red cross work is done by volunteers stouffville has always contributed handsomely to this cause and they are asked to give their support again this year donations should be left at the canadian bank of commerce stouffville helping young farmers intimation that the ontario government is to intro duce at the coming session of the legislature measures to provide for loans for farmers and farm dwellings will be received with much satisfaction throughout rural ontario it will be particularly welcomed by the junior farmers of the province who have for some years been seeking such legislation legislation to provide loans for young farm ers wishing to establish themselves on farms of their own was in fact recommended by the ontario agricul tural commission of inquiry in the spring of 1945 but nothing ever came of that recommendation and it is doubtful if the government in deciding to produce the measures now proposed ever even thought of it in these days of high costs the problem of a young farmer wishing to establish himself on a farm of his own has been almost unsurmountable the amount of capital required to do so was usually beyond his means in this way many potential good farmers drifted to the cities whereas if they had been able to settle on farms of their own they would have remained on the land the proposed measure will provide such young men with loans on such farms as will make it possible for them to acquire their own farms to this extent it is excellent legislation this will not be ontarios first experience of farm loans in 1931 when george s henry was premier a farm loan scheme was established and it served a very useful purpose the onset of the depression however made it impossible for farmers to meet their obligations under the loan scheme and it seemed headed for disaster in 1935 premier hepburn decided that no more farm loans would be made and that the agricultural loans branch would devote its attention merely to making collections on the loans on the books the coming of the second world war and the dawn of prosperous days for farmers saved the province from colossal losses and made possible repayment of an exceptionally high per centage of the loans and the interest on them it is doubt ful if any serious loss accrued to the province from thai scheme the new plan however will lay emphasis on the position of the young farmers and will also provide loans for the renovation and remodelling of farm houses both of these purposes are praiseworthy and should not only stimulate young farmers to continue as farmers but will make possible many home improvements which will go a long way towards making farm people more contented with their life in the rural communities to celebrate or not to celebrate a rather poorly attended public meeting last week called for- the purpose of deciding whether or not the municipality should celebrate the 75th anniversary of in corporation failed to stir up much enthusiasm a motion was passed at the meeting which called for the holding of an old home celebration in 1953 in conjunction with the coronation holiday the motion came as an amendment to a motion to proceed with a 75th anniversary celebration this year and while fourteen out of 29 present voted favourably the balance of the gathering failed to express either opposition or support such a majority is not suffi cient to determine the question there is much adverse criticism heard of the outcome of the meeting and many express dissappointment that the 75th year of stouffvilles incorporation is apparently to pass by without some recognition the first answer to these people is certainly to question them as to why they failed to either attend the meeting or to speak up at the proper time be that as it may and while the municipal council is fully justified in seeking public support for such a venture this same council should consider that as chief adminis trators of town affairs it will be they and not the public that will be criticised in future years for allowing this milestone in municipal history to pass without recognition they should consider it a duty to at least take some steps at possibly civic holiday time to call attention to the fact that stouffville is marking a municipal birthday while this celebration need not be in the form of a large costly celebration it could be coupled with some park program during the summer which undoubtedly will be held by one of the town organizations the matter of an old home celebration is good but will certainly re quire a larger public voice than the slim majority which sanctioned it last week council opinion as expressed at the public meeting was to the effect that this body had little interest in any such celebration whether they proceed or not granted a council does want public support in any municipal venture but council must also exercise leadership to at least some degree where the municipality as such is concerned for parents only the old homje town by nancy clearer other countries inquire if there are any books on the united nations such as partners united nations and youth today by eleanor roosevelt and helen ferris tibbets- discuss the point of view of books ivhich present the perplexing issues in todays oik childltkx ami todays would look at that jet see her move a small boys voice from the backyard came floating in the open kitchen window my dad says well be bombed for sure when the war comes j vvw attractive picture books of his chum replied m a matter-of- flir ji for younger children fact tone j include susan wno lives in the mother in the kitchen australia by maelntyre wee caught a glimpse of two boys eranj gillis scotland by leaf and ing their necks to see the vanish ing plane the sick feeling inside her was suddenly quieted by her sons words lavle so but my folk- say we had better pitch in and get behind the church and the united nations and everyone who is trying to keep the bombs from falling here the atmosphere of expectancy of another war is very catching how often the concern of adults is reflected in the lives of boys and giils a little six year old girl after playing lighting with the big kids woke up in- the night crying mummy mummy come fast the liig bomb is going to get me ye cannot hide from our child ren the suffering which accom panies war planes and bombs are par of todays world their world as well as ours in the papers over the radio in the movies lawson raffy and the honke- beest australia by iissin and bracker the story about ping china i by flack and wiese ola norway by daulaire and edgar belles new suit swedeni by ieskow madeline france by bemelmans these are recommended by boys and girls house toronto public libraries last year an estimated one hundred and fifty thousand immi grants entered canada children of displaced parents and other immigrants quickly pick up the language of their school mates and canadian ways it means a lot if they are made to feel welcome patents by being hospitable and by giving their children a lead in kindliness to new canadians will make a line contribution not only to these recent arrivals but to their own childrens altitude to disturbing events in far places are other peoples who have grown up continually coming to their attenj in other parts of the world lion the junior red cross at sc but our children should not live in a state of anxiety they should be able to look to their parents for reassurance not just hool the mission band and other youth groups in the church have an international emphasis and carry out worthy service projects but in the darkness when a child parents should not think that wakens with a nightmare but in their childrens outlook on todays the daytime when youngsters are troubled by the thought of war they should know they can turn to their parents for comfort after a family listens to a news- broadcast or reads the evening paper in sections or sees a movie short on current events they should take time to answer the childrens questions about what they have heard or read or the pictures they have seen some adults believe that children are too young to understand happen ings in other parts of the world but surely if a child is old enough to ask intelligent questions he is mature enough to receive sensible answers if the public library is near do encourage the school age boys and girls to borrow books on other lands world is entirely up to teachers and religious leaders boys and girls want to be re assured about the danger from bombs they want to know about other lands and what is happening throughout the world they enjoy becoming acquainted with people of other races and their response to other peoples need is quick and wholehearted the other day a little girl quick ly turned over the page in the paper showing a korean orphan with large sad eyes dressed in ragged clothes with his feet thrust into shoes many sizes too large for him the only shoes he had ever owned there were tears in her eyes as she said it would be horrid trying to walk in those awful boots cant we send him a take an interest in the pair of ours stories of children who live in copyright days of yore lroin the files of the tribune 27 vears ago messrs muston sons are cutting their sweet pea crop at the local green houses reports are coming back from toronto that the local firms sweet peas are the finest in the city this season having a beautiful flower and a long stem winter roses which are also being shipped are a nice crop it does not seem as though the money market in this section is particularly tight when at the auction sale of farm stock at the home of w c hopkins east of stouffville last thursday the entire receipts of over 3000 came in hard cash there wasnt a single purchaser who took advan tage of the four months credit each preferring to take the small discount for cash eighty carloads of products were shipped from stouffville station during the month of jan uary this means that many thousands of dollars found its way into this district and largely into the hands of our farmers which will ultimately reap a benefit to the business people as wclh notwithstanding the severe win ter the passenger trains have been able to run well on schedule but on saturday night the record was established for lateness when the six oclock evening train from toronto did not arrive until 937 due to the snow blockade and other causes the heavy snow storms and windy weather of last week put the automobiles and trucks off the road and made the going rather hard in places for horsedrawn vehicles it is now impossible to drive a car from stouffville to itingwood where the pitch holes are as regular and deep as the waves of the sea when levi forsyth read in las week paper about the wonderful egg laid by barkis recsors white leghorn pullet he must have carried the news down to his chicken pen for the following day his rhode island reds commenced to perform in a manner as never before an egg produced by one of mr forsyths hens measured s inches by r inches and weighed a quarter of a pound the local mennonite congrega tion have decided to erect new hed at the rear of their church property and work was com menced this week when many loads of gravel and material were placed on the ground in readiness for spring building while cutting ire on wm rat- cliits pond on the slh concession of whitchurch for hush anderson of stouffville one of the blocks eome out with a nice trout fish frozen into the centre of the cake according to the measurement of levi hoover the speckled beauty measured two feet one inch in length mr geoige storey of the stan dard bank staff nearly lost the first finger of his left hand by having it badly jammed in the safe door of the bank vault last week at the auction sale on the farm of john forgie near claremont horses sold for as high as si 70 cows ranged from 70 to 110 henry wideman paid 80 for a bull calf only nine months old sheep brought from 27 to 30 19 vears ago here is a challenge thrown out by a stouffville lacrosse team in the bygone days old timers are left to do the- figuring on the year in which the challenge was issued here is how the challenge read the dauntless lacrosse team of stouffville hereby challenge any team or twelve men who have over played lacrosse to a game for the championship of stouff ville the game to take place a week from saturday on the athle tic grounds and the proceeds to go to the stouffville lacrosse club reply is to be addressed to the dauntless lacrosse club secre tary the local squad will be made up of j l mackenzie dick camp bell phil button a low s m warriner 1 turner f d miller s caster c r fitch f m gib son p floury m mcnair b mighton and r coulson dr ira and mrs free are expected to return from the southern states some time next month sutton wins local wha group title in sudden death game played before some 500 fans in the local arena the final score was 32 hike hoover proved to be one of the best goaltenders in the seven team oha league this year allowing only 21 goals to be scored on him he was deadlocked in this department with summer- hill of sutton an epidemic of mumps under the more dignified name of swollen glands is going the rounds of the local district fat stouffville bread its reliable and richly made and sells for 0 cents a loaf by stanley the postmaster ania strijlser have a brushwrihce opht horset srr sk editors mail fditor the tribune stoulfville ont dear sir that was a keen story in your newscolumns the other day in which carl o nickle mp cal gary west expresses the belief that western canadas oil and gas industry will outstrip her 1000- 600000 agricultural output within a decade the above assertion was made in the course of a recent address to the canadian club 1 montreal and while this western reader would be among the last to deny that the oil picture is full of color and that every canadian will be a beneficiary directly or indirectly of that black gold stream i feel tempted to go to bat for agriculture in the above decid edly provocative statement which certainly is not short on the prairie brand of courage to begin with may i just set down here for the guidance of your speediest reader a brace of figures a the wellhead money value of the 151000000 barrels of crude oil and natural gasoline since the opening of the 20th century to the present hour and h the agricultural wealth which has come out of the great fields between winnipeg and the mountains in those same 50 vears oil s 300000000 agriculture 25000000000 that it will be conceded by all concerned is quite a headstart now lets look at the years ahead i observe that the experts on the oil situation already estimate recoverable potential reserves of 1 i billion barrels which itself looks like about the above 50year oil productivity multiplied by 10 ie a wellhead cash equivalent of 3000000000 now sir realize that we are still only at the beginning of things in terms of our prairie oil wealth so therefore 1 fee in a liberal mood and am willing to jump the potential reserves for ward to ten times what the ex perts see in 1052 so i am well ahead of the pack to the tune of 15 billion barrels with a well head money value of 30000000- 000 fven the experts might be ready to accept this aggregate as a generous appraisal this latter would take care of canadas needs at the rate of uuocoo barrels daily for approxi mately 75 years in the meantime of course the supply would dis appear and the wells would wither while agriculture would have produced a further 125000000- 000 worth of new wealth in those same years and would still have the divine assurance seedtime and harvest shall not fail junior farmer juto licknsks ok tim mar 21 acting highways minister dun bar friday announced the passing of an order in council extending the life of 1051 motor vehicle per mits and drivers licenses to mid night march 20 mr dunbar said definitely there would be no further extension of the period during which motor vehicles may be operated without windshield stamps indicating the permits have been renewed for 1052 in the year 1951 canada count ed more than 2500000 automo biles on the road including 000- 000 trucks 3nc zxxz rrr marie jack hairdressing lloyd avex0e sfonfftllic permanent waving machine machlneles cold wt hairftylldjr and tiapne phon- 17flwl 2t cxz as the vancouver province observes the politician who says his life is an open book has prob ably stuck a few pages together more than 12000 pounds of aluminum are needed for every jet fighter plane manufactured in canada cedar grove thursday feb 28 this has been a week of great vents and celebrations in cedar irove weve had everything i from births to 25th wedding anni versaries mr and mrs irving haines were really on top of the list with a new grandson present ed by mr and mrs bob haines and a new son when their daugh ter joyce married mr lucien kingsley last saturday morning in markham merna and grant burkholder had a beautiful baby- girl this week too it is with great sadness that we report that mr and mrs harold coakwell lost their baby daughter this week knowing their love of children our heartfelt sympathy goes to them at this sad loss their friends and neighbours burst in on mr and mrs maitland ryan last week and with a won derful surprise party helped them celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary jack walton was on the winning team for the royal york curling trophy and to jack and the others in the group go our heartiest con gratulations we are proud to have a winner in our community and especially of such a coveted award more good news frank dimma has found his dog we listed him as missing three weeks ago and he was just found last saturday morn ing frank got him just a half hour from execution at the hands of the dog catcher as we told you this dog is blind and where he had been all the cold days and nights he was lost is hard to say but somehow he managed to stay alive and find his way about frank re ports that he is in good shape but so hungry they cant fill him how delighted he must be to be home again safe and sound the mothers group bed a very successful meeting at mrs ha- mills last wednesday afternoon the meeting celebrated bruce kennedys birthday so there were lots of goodies for the children to eat as well as lots of fun for the afternoon all mothers and pre school children are welcome the next meeting will be held the 3rd wednesday in march the place to be announced at a later date mr and mrs austin reesor were hosts for the community club meeting on monday night and apart from accomplishing a good deal everyone had a wonderful time it was reported that the monday afternoon figure skating classes are going along very well and the children in increasing numbers are getting great pleas ure out of it stouffville high school present their annual school concert on thurs frl march 6 7 at the veterans memorial hall play minstrels operetta 815 pm admission 50c 35c reserve seats gc