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the tribune stouffville ont thursday february 11 1954 the stouffville tribune established 1sss member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the onfurioquebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations authorized as ecmdclas mail postotfice dept ottawa printed and issued every thursdav at stouffville ont in canada 250 elsewhere 300 c h xolan editor jas thomas sports assist a v nolan son publishers notes and comments annual reports reveal churches not declining in these days when cynical writers are declaring that christianity is on the decline and that the church is losing its power to influence the lives of people it is encouraging to note the nature of the reports which are emanating from the annual meetings of churches in stouffville and surrounding district to sum up these reports one cannot escape the be lief that these churches regardless of their denomina tions are growing in strength and bringing out in their people the spirit of christian stewardship and sacrifice the figures of contributions to the many funds both here and abroad is strong in many con gregations the christian church will continue to be a force in the community as long as there are so many willing to work and sacrifice for it theyre the same the country over it is a peculiar fact that whether it be in the town or in the township the newcomers to the community are the most free with their advice and their criticism we have sat through council meeting after council mee ting when practically everything from the color a neighbour painted his house to the noise the children make has been criticised by newcomers to the munici pality markham township has been bombarded for two or three years by complaints from newcomers on every minor detail in the book from those staunch citizens who have spent the best part of their time their talents and their money to bring it to the point where they are proud of it to day one hears few complaints it appears the newspapers as well as the municip al officials reap these same complaints only last week the tribune was the target of such criticism claims that this newspaper had failed to ever champion a worthwhile cause contrary to such a claim the writer could cite a longer list than needs to be quoted here of causes which have been successfully fought by this newspaper and which stretch far back beyond this newcomers short tenure of residence however even in such a short space of time as our letter writer may recall is a new arena a new high school a public utilities commission and a planning board all improvements and advances for the citizens of stouffville and all of which the newspaper can take considerable credit in promoting even to the matter of sewers which appears to be most griping to our writer we have had much to say in urging that a survey be taken followed by a vote of the people beards an oddity women judges of a beardgrowing contest in an english mining town went all out to award the prize to a young miner who grew a threeinch goatee it was doubtless the romantic appeal of the goatee on the young mans wellchiselled chin that moved the women to make him the winner beard growing in competition was a novelty for the miners it is strange that in this day beards are an oddity among men beards were an adornment of the age of romance that age has definitely passed the romantic has been ruled out in our time from the arts literature music painting sculpture and architecture whether we accept it or not the present century is the century of the pragmatist it is an era of revolt against tradition traditional forms in art in manners in thinking are taboo so that the mind of the 20th cen tury may be free to develop its own art architecture alid manners how much genius it has developed to its task is unanswerable now its pragmatism has at least shaved beards from males and perhaps manly chins clearing the land entailed hard work an aylmer district farmer recently presented to the aylmer historical society an ancient stumppuller invented by his greatgrandfather in 1829 this pion- eer device went out of use with the advent of dynamite the old stumppuller is a crude contraption com pared to our modern farm implements but it served its purpose at a time when stumps presented one of the greatest obstacles to clearing land those were the days when the settlers used to hold logging bees it was a laborious task to transform the virgin forest into a productive farm the large trees were felled during the winter and cut into lengths with axes as crosscut saws were a rarity in the spring a day was appointed to hold a logging bee for the clear ing up of the land friends and neighbours in the dis trict helped in the work those who could do so brought oxen to drag the heavy logs into piles oxen were in great favour among the early settlers horses were scarce and very dear and besides if necessary the ox en could be turned into beef at the end of the season when all the workers had assembled the field to be logged was divided into two long strips to each strip was assigned a yoke of oxen and a number of men all started at one end of the field and proceeded to drag all the logs and brushwood into great piles in the centre rivalry was keen as to which gang would first complete its part of the task and the race was very often exciting the logging was generally follow ed by merrymaking at night removing the stumps was a backbreaking job the green stumps would not burn and it took a strong levering device to pry the matted roots from the earth thus the land was cleared by herculean effort the few stump fences that still remain are mute reminders of the hard work required to transform a wilderness into productive farms at a time when dynamite and the bulldozer were yet to come ottawa letter by ml michael starr ontario hiding the much discussed and de bated bill which was introdu ced in the house of commons egarding salaries of the mem bers of the house of commons cabinet ministers and mem bers of the senate has now been passed and parliament has again taken on seriously the work of legislation one of the first items to be brought up was the post office act and the discussions will continue on the second read ing of the bill many contri butions have been made in this debate in regard to the amendment which will in crease the postage from four to five cents and no doubt many more will be made in an endeavour to persuade the go vernment that it is not neees sary to raise the rate on tirst class mail a week or so ago we had a oneday debate on external af fairs this foreign policy de- bale was one of the dullest in recent years it brought along at a lime when there was not a single controversy in the field of international affairs in which canada was directly and intimately involved ex ternal affairs minister pear sons debateopening address for that reison contained noth ing to enliven the proceedings he did not say in his speech that the world is still an un safe place for the weak the weary and the unaware this statement contained his gener al theme the prime minister has left on his world tour the main object of this trip is to visit asia he will spend over three weeks in the east and will be flying home from tokyo riving back about march 17th anything mr st laurent can do to strengthen the unity of purpose of india pakistan and other countries of the commonwealth will help ad vance the greatest internation al experiment that has ever been carried out successfully in the history of the world the british commonwealth unemployment hit directly at labour minister gregg two weeks ago the minister left hurriedly for his new bruns wick riding of yorksunbury to inquire into the closing of the districts biggest industry canadian cottons limited a textile plant at marysville the company announced that the plant was being closed indefin itely because of difficulties in meeting united states compe tition under the present tariff system it has employed 550 persons in the town just out side fredericton there has been a great deal of controversy in the house of commons and elsewhere o- ver the governments decision to move the film board from ottiawa to montreal a contract amounting to s5230000 for the construction of the new na tional film board quarters in montreal has been let to a to ronto contractor there seems to be no valid reason why this move has been decided upon and the government has not i come forward with any valid reason it seems foolhardy to spend this sum of money for a new building in a new loca- ion when the film board is already housed in the city of ottawa quite recently the ccf made a proposal for a 00 in crease in family allowance payments this proposal was opposed very strongly by the government because they say it might jeopardize expansion of social measures health martin in speaking proposal stated that any serious practical proposed security minister on this it lacked quality in the light of what the gov ernment is doing in other fields of social welfare the in crease would cost between 170 and 100 million dollars mr martin added that the propos al showed no appreciation of what it would mean in addi tional tax burdens the debate on this proposal continued un til adjournment of a wednes day half day sitting this means that the proposal was talked out and is unlikely to come up again this season there is some speculation as to when mr abbott will be presenting the budget this year he brought down the 195364 budget on february joth but it is expected that it will be later this year other legislation still to be introduced by the govern ment includes health minister martins bill to pay pensions to disabled canadians on a 50- 50 basis with the provinces it is expected that these pensions will amount to s10 a month and will be granted on a mean- test basis within the last two week- there has leen a meet ing of the ministers of the provincial departments of welfare in ottawa over which the honourable paul martin minister of national health fur parents only st valentines fun roses are red violets are blue honey is sweet and so are you everyone knows this old rhyme and there are few bet ter ones to print or write on a valentine but how about try ing to make up an original short rhyme or poem mother or grandmother would get a brill out of a verse a child vrote all himself even if it were doggerel making valentines is great and welfare presided the province of ontario bill which is now in existence and which embraces disabled can adians from the age of is to 55 will be adopted by the fed eral government and the jur isdiction and the workability of thus bill will be left entire ly in the hands of the respec tive provincial governments besides the legislation out lined in the throne speech the government is expected to introduce a bili to merge the departments of trade and commerce and defence pro duction the new department is expected to be called trade and production the bulk of the govern ments legislative program is now before the house of com mons and most of it still re mains to be approved during the 2 days that the house has been in session only a hand ful of bills has been passed the order paper now contains 17 items of government legis lation most important being the revised criminal code in order to expedite the business the government no doubt will cuntail private members sit tings and proceeding with go vernment business instead i have been advised that i am on two standing commit tees of the house this year the industrial relations com mittee and the external af fairs committee although no meetings have been called as yet of either of these commit tees i expect that sittings will begin very shortly and we will be attending them regular ly and faithfully by xaiuy cleaer ren that the members of ones family even if some of them are grownup enjoy getting valentines too why not make a valentine place card for each person in the home and then put them on the table at sup per time on february 14th if there are young brothers or sisters in your home do let them share in valentine making they may be too lit tle to cut out a well shaped heart from red cardboard but they can find scissors and paste and look for preul color ed pictures in magazine- or seed catalogues an old sample wall paper book is another wonderful place to search for attractive valentine decorations if you ask the merchant who has sold wall paper or paint to you to keep an outofdate sample book he will likely be glad to oblige you with a lit tle direction from you a youn ger child can put paste on the back of a cutout picture and choose where it is to be plac ed on the heart small brothers or sisters will need assistance in making valentines mother will help them work together happily if she has any paper doilies perhaps she could suggest a paper lace edging for the nic est valentines they can be pasted on the back of the red cardboard with small plaits making a frilly edge the children might decorate ordinary paper serviettes with some red hearts which they drew and colored with their crayons or cut out from red paper and pasted on them mother might havo a good id ea about a pretty table centre piece possibly using a little man and woman salt and pep per shakers as the two cen tral figures one family made a charming decoration for the fun and everyone likes to re ceive pretty cards from their friends suggest to your child- table out of plasticene figures using four contrasting colors likely mother will plan the first course but perhaps eith er she or big sister could make tux office cat ive finished with that editors mail tuxedo how come tux she asked me if 1 dan ced tuxedo wha o insulting about that tux 1 was dancing with her when she asked me 1951 today smile dad ive got my tirst part in a play said the young wouldbe actor 1 play the part of a man who has been married for 20 years thats a good start en couraged his father maybe one of these days youll get a speaking part heartshaped cookies red gel atine jelly is an attractive des sert a school age child can make it himself because the directions are so easy to fol low this fourteenth of february half way through the long winter months can be a very jolly time for everyone if each member in the home cooper ates in making valentine gree tings and in the preparations for a valentine home party these special occasions in fa mily life provide a feling of elonging they are also very nice to remember when little folk are grown and away from home january the publisher stouffville tribune stouffville qma o dear sir you will be pleased to hear that the public response to our annual christmas appeal was successful we received ubout 10c more than the amount which was asked the excess will help in a small way to off set shortages in the years when because of building campaigns no christmas ap peal was made on behalf of all the children who are being helped as a re sult of your efforts may i thank you for your assistance in bringing the hospitals work and needs to the atten tion of the public upon whose generosity we must depend mayl express the personal appreciation of all the trust ees of the help you have given the hospital for sick children yours sincerely 1 grant glassco chairman board of trustees another hard thing to do is to upset a tax setup a doctor says that people with big fists also have big i hearts that however is not i why bighearted people make i a hit with you the old home town ut v 1 o b stanley on the homb-swhet- home fromt com im mw fxatv irywat t- 6 warn ncunvxa i so memo to advertisers j circulation auie in the same way that sterling on silver signifies a standard o known value so is the a bc em blem a symbol of integrity for the circulation of newspapers and periodicals it means that circu lation so identified is measured according to the rules and standards of the audit bureau of circulations the a bc is a 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