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the tribune stousviile ont thursday may 1954 the stcuffville tribune established 1sss member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontterioquebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations authorized 25 secondclass mail posokee dept ottawa printed and issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada s250 elsewhere s300 c h nolan editor jas thomas sports assist a v nolan son publishers report from parliament j whitchurch to repair crossings wells contaminated richvale on guard notes and comments people should he given a chance one hears more and more local conversation each day concerning the need for a sewage system in stouffville and while everyone recognizes that the cost is little short of tremendous nevertheless it is up to council to give the ratepayers a chance to speak on a ballot their feelings in the matter we have talked with a good many residents on the subject and have failed so far to turn up a knocker while admitting that the additional taxes and water rates would be substantial most seem to feel the matter has to be faced for the good of the community council has rather hedged on the matter and not without reason since the tax rate even without sewers is climbing and is due for a heavy jolt this year again with the new county rate and the new high school there is also the matter of new pavement on main st which has to be faced before long and what deal will be forthcoming with the provincial highway people in this regard is not known however regardless of all these factors council members who are aware of the growing concern over sanitation should allow the people to vote on the question at least are you in favour of council pro ceeding with a sewage disposal system if proper arrangements are made such a vote could be taken at the annual municipal election this december ragged reverence the flag of our country usually the union jack at least until canada has a distinctive flag is not being used as reverently as it might be in this com munity it flies over our two public buildings the post office and school and is often in tatters because it is allowed out in the elements too long a similar situation exists in many other communities officials whose responsibility of flying the flag seem to think that when one wears out another should be run up and allowed to blow or droop as the wind wills until it is reduced to a tattered rag this is certainly not proper respect for the flag and now that another spring and summer season is upon us it would be an excellent time to remedy the situation and have bright and crisp new flags flying from the staffs while being meticulous can in some instances be as great a fault as carelessness it does not require meticulous care to treat the flag with the type of reverence that does not allow it to beconie a tattered and faded remnant of torn cloth now is the merry month of may this is the month of may and a fitting time to herald the arrival of spring there have been some false starts and no little delay altogether but no reasonable person may now deny it is here it is noticeably shy even yet being cooler than most of us would like but who would quibble when across the lawn there gleam the sunny gold of the forsythia the clear yellow of the daffodil and the rich blue of tiny scillas the rains of april have brought forth the color of the grass and along the street the trees are bathed in a green mist the earth is alive again one of the most miraculous sights in nature is the unfolding of a maple bud the swelling pressure of the embryo leaves within the bulging cover of the bud finally splits it open within pressing forward and interlocked in a complexity beyond belief are the tiny leaves they emerge perfect in shape marvel lously small and in the course of a few weeks may- grow five inches across to think of billions of mir acles like this every spring is enough to bring a man to his knees the glory of the verdure is a relief after the drab landscape of fall and winter but along with the seen beauty have come the heard melodies of woods and meadow in the very early morning just as the clay begins to dawn one robin starts awake and with a single chirp sets off the whole incredible chorus of the feathered choir it is a remarkable sound comparable to a whole peal of bells going at once and almost as suddenly as it started it stops and the daylong chores of finding food and a place to locate a nest begin sheer joy at being in canada in spring cannot be contained however and off and on all day the lilt of the robin the vibrant whistle of the cardinal the homely cawing of the crow can be heard ringing with unsurpassed excitement the cool breeze of night has a smoothness which the winter breeze could never offer the very stars seem to be softer and richer in color through the faint mists of spring jupiters shining orb takes the eye in the northwest and at the zenith itself the dipper poises alarmingly upsidedown in the pools of the woods the hylas whistle their incessant monotone in the silent hours before dawn the gentle hiss of rain will come and go on the roof to have gone before the sun comes up in golden glory poor advice federal authorities should insist that only butter be served in government institutions the farmers advocate suggests if ottawa is wise it will ignore that advice if it took sides in this matter the next step might well be to bar citrus fruits tea coffee and a lot of other foods that are not produced on canadian farms indeed there would be much sounder argument for banning these than margarine because the latter is produced in canada though usually from largely im ported raw materials but this idea of asking the government to decide what we may eat or wear or buy to favor one group at the expense of another is all wrong it is contrary to democracy and contrary to common sense how can canadian farmers hope to sell their surplus pro duction in foreign markets if they ban all trade in the other direction once before ottawa got its fingers badly singed in this butterversusmargarine business it would be well advised to keep well away in future by michael starr mjp ontario hiding parliament reconvened on monday april 2jth and the debate on the budget continu ed during this debate we have j heard speeches on various sub- jecta and not entirely on the aspects of the budget it gave on opportunity to members to i tlk on any subject with which i they were familiar and against the rules of the house the speaker has given leeway in allowing them to deliver speeches on subjects of their own choosing most members during the easier recess found that con ditions of unemployment in their ridings were far worse than they had anticipated the unemployment situation in our own district a very serious and acute one during my stay at home 1 had numerous people approach me request ing that some aid be given hem or that employment be found we have had well over ix hundred in our district who have been cut off supplement ary unemployment insurance benefits as o april 15th in most cases these people have no other income there are those in this category who have not been in oshawa for a peiiod of one year and as a result are not eligible for re lief they find themselves very dire straits as much as we would like to be optimistic about the future the present and the immediate future do not look any too healthy the amazing aspect of ithe whole situation is that the government is still looking on the situation with optimism and is stubbornly defending its position that jobs will be avail able vary shortly we hope they are right as expected the liberal majority in the house of com mons brushed aside as of little consequence the progressive conservative motion calling upon parliament to deal with the unemployment problem there are always consequ ences however ultimate con sequences at the polls iwhen a government fails to deal ade quately with a problem of great concern to the people iwho hold the fate of elections in their hands if parliament does not deal with unemploy ment then who will this is no sixtyfour dollar question everyone knows that the answer is zero unless parlia ment acts the progressive conservative motion was lost the problem of unemployment remains and is rapidly getting worse the motion was put to a vote following six days of debate in the commons it might not be correct however to say that the debate was entirely futile it has served to instruct the country on exact ly where the government and the opposition stand at exact ly opposite ends of the issue the progressive conserva tive motion simply asked that a committee of the commons study the unemployment situ ation and suggest methods to deal with it there was nothing remotely unreasonable about the request surely that is the least the commons could do under the circumstances one member described this debate when he said the govern ment gave the unemployed a political brushoff they did so by a recorded vote of 101 against the 63 votes supportipg the progressive conservative resolution labour unions lalxmr execu tives industries and municipal ities are worried about the situation and what it holds in store in the immediate future but there is nothing they can do except to bring it to the attention of those who are able and in a position to do some thing which would alleviate the present critical situation and that somebody is the fed eral government of canada i it is hard to understand their attitude towards this national problem xo one would want to deny that un employment is a most serious matter for the man without a job no matter what the statis tics say figures may prove that not many people in can ada will die this year of say a certain disease but if a man is dying of that disease no statistics in the world are go ing to make him think that disease is not serious nevertheless that does not answer the question of how serious a national problem un employment is today looking at it from the standpoint of twenty years ago when 22 of the labour force was unemploy ed in 1931 it does not look bad on the other hand looking at it from the standpoint of ten years ago when only 15 of the labour force was out of work it looks serious to my mind the immediate alleviation of this problem would be the raising of un employment insurance benefits mr w macintosh appeared before whitchurch township council en thursday evening to ask corsideration for im proved road conditions on the approach to ing en the a mile one thousand residents of s are in danger of nit- im from contami- ivelis they were warned srsday by the york coun- the rail way cross- v health unit that their water township sideroad j was seriously polluted and and quarter north of should not be used for drink- aurora mr macintosh stated sing unless it has been boiled that the crossing was extreme- the area affected takes in ly dangerous because of tnejthe whole- richvale area south high elevation of the crossing lof richmond hill north of d the narrowness of the road langstaff and west of about k homes are in bs night a a meeting of the nitrate poisoning which would health unit after a survey inctuse them to turn blue with which tests showed that of 1 is possibly fatal results he said wells tested only 11 were lab- 1 this has happened many times t led safe and even these wells in western canada and even will be subjected io further in ontario he said tests i parents of newborn infants the water was examined in were warned today not to use laboratories of the university even boiled water in babies of toronto and tlie provincial formula since boiling does not health department neutralize nitrates it only health unit officials said it kills bacteria in the- water was still not determined what they wese advised to use wa ited caused the pollution of iter only from the few wells the well water it is believed which were given a clean bill however concentration of sepjo health one of these wells is e tanks in which approached it reeve mc- uhlin told the deputation that the matter would be giv en consideration by the road committee later road sunt davis re- vtilel that the township and the railway had discussed im provements lo the crossing last year and the railway sec tion boss had advised that the road would have to be wid ened to allow for installation of proper guard rails at that time he said the township had agreed to do the necessary ma chine work if the railway would supply the fill however noth ing had been heard since that time from the railway council agreed that the cnr should be asked for a reply to the pre vious suggestion for improve ment in connection with the leary crossing near gormley which has been on the agenda for in some time a communication was read by clerk crawford stating that the cxr would pay 30 of the cost of improv ing the sight lines and that the usual grant would be forth coming from the grade cross ing fund the railways esti mate for lowering the banks and removing the grove of trees obstructing the vision was 82200 however the com munication stated that the rail way would be glad to agree to a smaller cost if the township could provide a better estimate council agreed that the work could be done more cheaply by t vcs were condemned 15 heavily yonei aroa hv near tiie the principal cause hiefly in danger are new- the situation on babies stated robert rtess of the wells built- the one located at the district well- public school health unit officials blamed the shallow- deep drilled i local contractor than by the rhvay and the road supt was sked to obtain an estimate chief inspector of the wells would have brought the health unit who conducted j residents uncontaminated wa- the survey if they drank ter piping the water in from enough of the polluted water j elsewhere was the best solu- they could develop a form of tion they said travel treats for 9 tlltbg ottawa buffalo pittsburgh round trip by 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