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the tribune stouffville on thursday april 15 1954 the stouffville tribune established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontarioquebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations authorized as jeeondclass nial postoffice dept ottawa printed and issued everv thursday at stouffville ont in canada s250 elsewhere 300 c h nolan editor jas thomas sport assist a v nolan son publishers notes and comments some protection needed the current controversy over the erection of the new masonic hall is an unfortunate development in the growth of stouffville however it does point to a necessity of passing legislation to give protection to home owners whose investment in a good home may be jeopardized by the erection of some undesireable building close by present bylaws apparently do not give protection to home owners in this regard and council is possibly fortunate up to this point that no other similar in cidents have occurred while the erection of the masonic hall may not prove as detrimental as the adjacent home owners believe the fact that it is per missible to erect any type of building along side good homes shows the need for better control while this time its a hall the next time it could be something much more undesireable all speed should be given by the town planning board to the drawing up of a zoning bylaw which would give definite control to the areas in which homes commercial and industrial buildings can be erected protection is then established for all classes the home owner included housewife works hardest according to the result of a survey as quoted by dr lea steeves of dalhousie university the most arduous work in modern society is done not by the tired business man not by the manual laborer nor even by the harassed intellectual but by the house wife apparently the female of the species is not merely more deadly but also more hardworking that the male even as a pure matter of physical movement women in the course of their daily chores probably walk as much as do most men in a week and while a man generally has only one job to fill his day a womans day is filled with matters as diverse as clean ing the basement and acting as psychiatric counsellor to a teenage daughter and no matter how far the mechanization of the house may go it can never go far enough to take the full load off the shoulders of societys hardest worker the housewife halifax chronicleherald activity on farm the farmers are making preparations for sowing this years crop tractors are taken from their winter quarters overhauled and given a tuneup in prepara tion for the busy season seed drills cultivators and other implements also get an overhaul the farmer will be a busy man from now until the seeding is finished after the long winter months the sons of the soil will be eager to get ahead with the spring work and in this desire for speed they are apt to forget one very important phase of farm operation namely safety each spring there is a certain percentage of farm accidents of varying degrees from minorinjuries to those of a serious nature sometimes death is the result of carelessness and the desire to get the crop in early this spring no doubt there are farmers with an accidentfree record who will be handling machinery the old saying that familiarity breeds contempt could well apply to men in this category they too need to guard against accidents there isnt such a rush that one needs to risk life and limb in order to sow a crop hi there anyone doing things out of the ordinary risks being suspected when the actions are kindly the sus picion deepens such is the devious side of the nature of man the gent rising to give his seat to a lady on the tram is understood to be getting off at the next stop when he doesnt there is wonderment and doubt the convalescent who hurries to pay his doc tors bill promptly raises the question as to whether perhaps there has been an error and the bill is not high as it should have been one writerartist in montreal recently got think ing about his many friends across the country he liked them all well and hoped they were fine why not tell them what he was thinking a quick sketch a simple hand lettered message and a printed postcard was in the mail to all of them saying nothing more than hi there i hope this finds you in good health he got 47 telephone calls and 31 notes and letters more than half of them wanting to know what he meant what was the trick what were they expected to do other replies came from a woman who had broken her leg the day before a chap who had recently developed ulcers and a third fellow who was in fine fettle even though his house and barn had burned down just a month back printed word if toronto was hit by an hbomb ring- of devastation would encircle toronto in this fashion if the city were the target of an hbomb a is an area of total de struction over a diameter of eight miles damage would result to lesser de grees in the other areas marked out to 32 miles with section e where stouffville is located de struction by fire covering a diameter of 50 miles de struction estimates are based on damage by air- burst from an altitude of 2000 feet for parents only seed catalogues arrival the seed catalogue came in the morning mail dad can we look over it together mum my says she never saw such marvellous flower pictures there is no more optimistic book in the world than a seed catalogue nor one with more charm for a family who are en thusiastic gardeners if you do not garden do give some thought to its worth as a leis ure time activity gar oiling has a great value to phyal well being not only beoausa more fruits and vege tables are likely to be eaten if they are home grown but the physical exercise necessary for successful gardening is very beneficial a great many men and women the majority of town and city dwellers spend far too little time active ly engaged at a useful occupa tion in the fresh air working on a garden has a valuable ef fect in reducing nervous ten sion and worry it is difficult to harbour ill will or worry about small details out of doors in the sunshine where green plants are growing and chang ing each day in a community where peo ple are proud of their gardens it is natural for neighbours to compare the progress of their vegetables and flowers often they exchange or give away roots of flowers or seedlings over the back fence an eng lish war bride in a canadian town said 1 didnt realize what nice people we had for neighbours until spring came and they helped us with our very first garden so much of modern life de mands hurry men bolt their breakfasts and rush to their jobs housewives hasten from one task to another and feel they will never get all their work done even school chil- uy xiinej cleaver dren have most of their days regimented with one class fol lowing another in quick suc cession it is of utmost im portance that in their spare time men and women boys and girls feel free to proceed at a leisurely pace gardeners in their own back yard can dig and hoe and plant at whatever speed they wish some of the best gardeners are slow and thorough in their work but one of the greatest val ues in gardening for a family is that here is a hobby in which every member of the family can share dad will likely be the main supervisor but mother wants her own plants too each child of school age should have a piece of land of liis or her own boys and girls can help plant the family gar den but they should also have the fun of doing what they like with their own land in an age when many homes unfortunately are places where the members of the family eat and sleep and then go their separate ways a garden pro ject is a unifying force a family who work together on a garden get to know each other and enjoy eaoh others company they auv share in the garden produce and in the family pride in vegetables and fiowers which they have grown themselves york jr farmers annual meeting raise the score in 54 was the phrase coined by newly elected president eldred king of the york county junior farmers association at their annual meeting at the depart ment of agriculture newmar ket on march 27th eldred who succeeds miss jeanewe harrison of mt albert as pres ident challenged the large group of junior farmers pres ent to work harder and more effectively in j54 for greater accomplishments in junior farmer work miss ellen hoo per of gormley was elected vice president and angus mor ton of mt albert was elected secretary treasurer this meeting as well as be ing the annual business meet ing of the association took the form of a review of the activities of the past year and a preview of activities sched uled for the coming year a panel discussion held during the afternoon called for an analysis of the objects of ju nior farmer work and an anal ysis of some of the projects carried on by the clubs it was decided by the panel that the junior farmer organizations should involve the following major principles 1 education in an academic sense 2 citi zenship through leadership training business conduct and cooperation j 3 en j oyment through social recreation 1 c oramunity improvement through club project work a review of projects carried on during the past year whether the project involved rat eradi cation or a folk school stressed the need for complete detailed organization with regard to membership responsibility and the establishment of a limited amount of time for the com pletion of the project the members of the panel were dave crone anne harrison jean mcgillivray ted gough with ed pearson associate agricultural representative as chairman the gathering also thoroughly enjoyed a skit pre sented by the vellore club un der the direction of carl boyn- ton in the afternoon a separ ate session for the girls on pro gramme planning was pre sented by mrs mabel borgs- trom home economist for york county w m cockburn agricultural representative for york coun ty commended the retiring president and the outgoing ex ecutive for their good work local chairman for cnlb drive clarence a kemp 430 for est hill road has been named york county honorary chair man of the canadian institute for the blind building fund counties chairman miss elsi- nore burns announced today miss burns also reported that york county had completed its enlistment of community chairmen for the midapril s3150000 building fund ap peal they are mrs j e smith during the past year and wished the organization increased vig or in 1951 richmond hill john e mac- neil thornhlil mrs paul do- lan roches point and kes wick r furneaux markham and unionville dr a w bo- land aurora fred campbell stouffville mrs j b aylward queensville donald im find- lay king and maple mrs nor man pearson holland land ing f m wilmot sutton west grant henderson wood- bridge pine grove kleinburg and nobleton and mrs john e morris of newmarket miss burns reported that all community chairmen are busily engaged in enlisting team cap tains and volunteer workers to be ready for the appeal op ening april 20 the york county goal for the north york township re habilitation centre for the blinr is 1900 order now if burners a complete guaranteed installation on all orders placed from april 8th to may 15th coal to oil in a few hours call d j smith unionville pi one 9fi or 177 great missiona convention stouffville united missionary church april 19th to 25th see other announcement