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the tribune stouffville out- thursday december 24 1s53 the stouffville tribune established 1sss member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontarioquebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations authorized as sccondetass mail postoffice dept ottawa printed and issued every thursday at stouffviue ont in canada 250 elsewhere s300 c h nolan editor jas thomas spors assist a v nolan son publishers notes and comments menu mystery we have often wondered why waitresses and hos tesses in restaurants take the menu cards from the patroiis as soon as orders have been given wondered if it were a case of a general shortage in menu cards we have just learned that the menu is taken from the customer as quickly as possible so as to minimize rhe chance of an order being changed and causing con fusion in the kitchen it is claimed that if the average woman is allowed to keep the menu card for any length of time she is almost certain to change her mind about the order that is why the menu is taken away from her smith falls record news fur parents only protecting your childs sight fivecent postage ottawa proposes to increase firstclass postage ra tes one cent and to reduce the domestic air mail rate from seven to five cents by april 1 fivecent postage is just another form of increas ed taxation at a time when the public is hoping for tax relief no doubt the short weeek is putting the postof fice department in a bad way to balance its books this might have been taken care of by dipping into the siz able surplus shaping up for the current fiscal year moving to risrht the swedes may soon join most other motorists in driving on the right side of the road swedish automobile associations and many news papers have been demanding this reform for many years since motor population zoomed following the last war the demand has swelled to a clamor the rik sdag has been reluctant to approve the change its ar gument backed by the government finance ministry has been that the cost of remodelling buses and trolley cars and moving traffic signals would be too great a 19member riksdag committee recently return ed from studying righthand driving in denmark and germany it plans to recommend the changeover be made starting next year the committee report is ex pected to prod the riksdag into approving the reform that will leave britain the only country in europe which still has lefthand driving for best results use tribune classifieds reasons yjleetmc and all good wishes for the mummy havent we tor- gotten something five year old joyce asked eagerly christmas dinner was over vast quantities of delicious turkey vegetables and pud ding had been consumed the crackers had been pulled the gay paper hats lilted at var ious angles adorned the heads of everyone from granny to baby mac for the life of her mother could not guess what had been overlooked when she did not reply joyce ex plained weve not sung happy birthday to you its the baby jesus birthday isnt it so we should sing the birthday song for him houldni we this is a little scene from a canadian farm home last christmas day after the rush of preparing for this greatest of all festivals of the year they paused to remember its true significance in your home does your hild know that the important thing about december 25th is that it is christs natal day children as well as adults find it easy to think in pictures here should be a good color print of at least one famous painting of the first chrismas in every christian home large colored teaching pic tures such as raphaels mad onna or plockhorsts tidings of great joy showing the shepherds hearing the good news from the angels or le- rolles arrival of the shep herds picturing them at the entrance to the cave at beth lehem with the holy family within or the wise men in botticillis the adoration of the magi all make the christ mas story very real there are fine prints of sac red paintings in many sunday sctiool lesson helps religious book stores and publishing houses supply them quite a few small pictures can be found on christmas cards a school age child might like to make a scrap book of christ mas scenes both sacred and secular the modern view master by xaney cleaier has taken the place of the old- fashioned stereoscope there are three exceptionally effect ive colored christmas reels on joseph and mary the shepherds and the wise men this is a useful gift for the whole family the storyof the first christ mas is told with great beauty and simplicity in the new tes tament boys and girls should learn about christmas as christs birthday from his own parents it is confusing if children get the impression at home that christmas has mainly to do with santa claus and the excitement of receiving gifts how much children miss if they do not hear of the true origin of christmas when they are quite small one of the loveliest glimps es of a mother telling her boy and girl this story is found in only parent by louise dick son rich this recent book pu blished by longmans is re markable for its insight into what goes on in the minds and hearts of children the author writes when dinah was four and rufus nine at christmas time i told them again of the story of the christ child of the long hard trip to bethlehem of the inn that had no room and of the manger dinahs eyes fil led with tears but mummy hed be cold and the cows and donkeys would look so big to him hed be afraid i had forgotten that it was possible to feel concern real concern for the little lord jesus a- sleep on the hay this christmas time in our homes through pictures and telling the story of the first christmas may we help our children see in their imagina tions the baby jesus in the manger at bethlehem love came clown at christmas and may our own hearts be filled with love for him and grati tude for his coming once again his birthday christians celebrate steadfastly believing love will conquer hate once best seller 5c stamps end seen better take a good look now for the threecent stamp once the best seller of canadian postage may soon disappear even the post office was caught a little short as sur prised almost as anybody else when finance minister abbott recently announced the one- cent increase in postal rates for next april 1 it required a fast reshuffle of stamp print orders deputy postmasier- general walter turnbull today reported and also another look at the new elizabeth issue still in prepar ation this new issue has been planned coineidentally for a round next april ever since the public uproar over the un flattering likeness of queen elizabeth as portrayed in the coronation issue currently carrying the mails this coronation issue and even the post office admits it was unsatisfactory was engraved from a plaster cast of her majestys head the new queen issue tim ed as it now turns out quite accidentally for release when the postal rates change is be- sprtng printorders for the five- cent blue which will carry the bulk of the first class letter mail have been stepped up from 30 million to around 600 million and mr turnbull and his staff are considering the pos sibility of advising the post mastergeneral to drop the old familiar threecent red for this stamp will be the orphan of the group unaols to carry any mail ard of little use except as a change-make- it will be the first stamp since confederation that will be of no use itself alone i carrying any kind of mail its prospective print order will run less than 20 million and in the post office view perhaps not worth the trouble ot only will the threecent red not carry tiny mail self but in combination with the others wont do anything that cant be done in vhange- making with the one two and fourcenters so said mr turnbull it looks now that well be drop ping it report from parliament from the walters family at the mayfair restaurant qjsm norma and len wilkes stouffviue ontario by michael starr mp ontario biding trade minister howe said on december 14th- that cana da has accepted a limitation for a short period on exports of oats to the united states he made public in the house of commons an exchange of correspondence between the united states and canada a- gieeing to a limit on canadian oats exports to the united statfes of 23 million bushels during the period from dec ember 11 1953 to october 1st 1951 he stated that such a li mitation was not desirable and has only been undertaken by canada as the lesser of two evils however lie assured the house that this limitation should not cause significant concern to producers of oats during the short period that it will be in effect this years oat orop is gl million bushels less than last years and if all 23 million bushels are shipped to the united states canada will likely have a smaller car ryover of oats next year than this year the crop this year is estimated at 105 million bu shels and the carryover last august 1st was 136500000 bu- ted 1145659 this year to shels in the first nine months provinces for civil defc of this year canada exported u0155s9 bushels of oats to the united states of total ex ports of 41350000 bushels to all countries with entries 70 higher than a year ago canada is vir tually assured of more immig rants before the years end than the number who landed last year the immigration department announced recen tly that octobers 1s624 arri vals boosted the immigration total for the first ten months of the year to 143722 this is 2 lower than the 146236 in the similar period last year the october increase was the highest this year in the first four months immigration lag ged on an average of 40 be low the comparable period last year however a steady increase began in may reach ing a climax in october if the rate of increase of the last six months continues canada should easily exceed the 164- 49s arrivals of last year in spite of confident predic tions by government spokes men in ottawa that the fed eral surpluses would decline sharply in the remaining months of the fiscal year the surplus took a jump of nearly s60 millions in october at the end of october it stood at more than 266 million the dominion government had collected 266000000 more from the taxpayers in the first seven months of the fiscal year than it needed to pay its bills however this surplus will be eliminated as has been the practice in former years by transferring it to other ac counts the fact remains that the surpluses have been and are being created by overtax ation indications are that this will also be a record year as far as canadas national income is concerned the 1952 total was about 183 billions this year it could go past 192 billions wages salaries and supple mentary labor income are run ning far higher than a year a- go during the month of aug ust the total chalked up und er this broad heading was up s over the august 1952 fig ure health minister martin an nounced that the government does not intend to try to reco ver any over payments made under the oldage pensions act the government had advised the provinces of this policy the government has allot- the defense breakdown by provinces is as follows ontario 492008 que bec 133081 british columb ia 132616 alberta ss5545 manitoba s3307 saskatch ewan 065s3 xova scotia s096 new brunswick 45- 950 newfoundland 3297s prince edward island 7871 the house of commons pas sed a resolution preliminary to a bill dealing with canad as 1942 loan of 700000000 to the united kingdom the bill ratifies an agreement signed last august under which 150- 000090 still owing on the in terestfree loan wdl be paid off during the next five years we have recessed for the christmas and new year holi day and will reconvene on january 11th during the re cess there will be no report from me buf it will continue after january 11th to the people of ontario ri ding i wish to extend my very best wishes during the festive season and health and prosperitv during the year 1951 ing engraved from a photo graph and while the post office will not say since details of new issues are what the postage stamp division terms top se cret until the postmaster- general announces them there is reason to believe the choice of royal portrait falls between camera studies by famed brit ish photographer cecil beat on and equally famed ottawa photographer yousuf karsh only the background of the portrait was nearing decision when mr abbott announced the coming change in postal rates that brought up the question of colors and values because the fivecent blue currently al most a drug on the post office market would become the best seller color and value in relation to sales come close to being a tradition in the post office onecent brown twocent green threecent red four- cent purple and fivecent blue to avoid confusion since the public long has been set on color values the post office decided to change nothing ex cept the print orders new print orders for the current coronation issue have been placed to give the engra vers all the time they need to do a more satisfactory and acceptable job this time on the new queens issue for scggest week season ix oxt a suggestion has been made that an open season in decem ber for deer may be permitted in a greater portion of ontario county the suggestion that a three or four day shoot be per mitted in all but the southern three townships of the county was made at the final meeting of the ontario county council reeve rae ferguson of the town of uxbridge brought the matter up in council he stated that several hunters and many farm residents of the county had made the sug gestion and he was presenting it to the county council for consideration the suggestion was that all of ontario county north of the northern bound ary of the southern three town ships be made open to deer humors in 1951 it had also been suggested he said that this short season possibly 3 or 4 days be held in decemb er after all farm stock had been taken in for the winter the farmers he stated claim ed that deer were becoming quite plentiful in the county fr for now for always may the joys of this holiday season surround you and yours and may you dwell amid the blessings of peace health goodwill and happiness compliments of j l smith v jeweller watchmaker bermuda spotlieht is on the world the average person doesnt question the right of the other fellow- to disagree with him he merely questions his judg- meat tlnkling bells holly wreaths winter scenes with evergreens logs on hearth candles bright little faces beam delight these to us are all warm reminders that a very special time is here so a very special wish is due may this holiday season bring you abounding stores of good cheer peace and happiness mole motors limited stouffviue ontario