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the stouffville tribune efcblitked 8i member of the canadian weekly newspapers association and the ontarioquebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations authorized es uroidecss mail poaofice depr oicxa printed and issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada 250 elsewhere 8359 c h nolan editor jai- thomas sports assi a v nolan son publishers notes and comments unemployment and public works the dominion government is wise in refusing to be stampeded into launching a program of public works to relieve the unemployment we have today our experience during the depression should have taught us that the construction of public works is one of the most costly and one of the least effective means of creating employment and should not be resorted to except in extreme cases we have unemployment today because some of our indusries are unable to sell their products at prices that will cover thcir costs there is unemployment in the shipping industry because it costs so much to operate canadian ships that nobody will buy their services there is unemployment in the agricultural im plement industry because the farmers who buy its products have had their income reduced so drastically during the last two years that they can no longer afford to buy the products of workers whose wages have actually been rising while the farmers incomes were falling unemployment is threatened in many other in dustries because they cant sell their products at the prices they are asking no amount of public works will persuade cana dian shipping interests to put more ships on the ocean while it costs so much to operate them no amount of public workswill enable farmers to buy more implements farmers are fully employed at home on their farms and have to be content with such earnings as the market affords them they hae no time to leave their farms and run after the illusive rewards of high wages for little work the remedy for unemployment in canada today is a readjustment of prices and costs that will make it possible for canadians to trade with each other on equitable terms if the government were to undertake a program of public works it would be bound by its own laws to maintain the existing wage structure thus it would prevent the very adjustment that is needed to restore balance in the economy rural scene joint sunday evening services it has been a successful practice in other commun ities and could well be one in stouffville the holding of joint community church services on sunday evening throughout the summer it is a fact that those churches which do operate sunday evning services during the summer months have only a bare attend ance ye if these small groups were to all come to gether in one group with possibly the youth for christ band to provide the music a worthwhile service might be held fundamentally there is little difference in the various services despite all our denominations and a joint service in the summer on sunday nights would certainly tend to weld our large local group of churches into closer association the services might even be held in the town park where the outdoor setting would most certainly in crease attendance secure car doors before starting i when a woman driver was tossed out of her moving car on the prescott highway as she reached to close the door on her side it seemed like a freak accident fortunately she escaped injury however since then there have been two more accidents of a similar nature one of which proved fatal to an rcaf squadronleader stationed at barrie he fell to his death when the car door opened after a collision on snowy pavement automobile accidents can happen in so many ways and an unexpected plunge from an open door is always a possibility unless adequate precaution is taken commenting on this type of accident the brock- ville recorder and times wonders like so many of the rest of us how it could happen as in the case of the woman driver on the prescott highway when so many safety devices and modern equipment are standard on recent model cars but apparently they do if a door suddenly opens and a person reaches for it sooner or later he may lose his balance and with the velocity of the car could easily be plunged to the pavement it points to the wisdom of having all doors secured before the car is in motion and if necessary lock the car doors to make doubly sure that no one will fall out and be killed driving while impaired it is interesting to note the number of people who are being convicted nowadays under that section of the provincial statutes which provides for a fine on conviction for drivers caught operating a vehicle while their ability is impaired the impaired pre sumably meaning a reduction in their driving ability due to alcohol since it is generally those who have been imbibing who are hailed into court to face this charge although some drugs might have a similar effect the interesting part about these cases is that the accused seldom put up any real fight to defend their innocence and seem most content to pay what ever fine is levied and take their leave and well they might be content because what they are virtually doing is escaping the charge which should be rightfully laid in any case where a persons driving ability is in any way affected by consuming alcoholic beverages that charge being drunk driving about the only flimsy excuses which can be seen for ever introducing this escape charge are a that there was developing a shortage of jail accommodation and b that the impairment charge is a way of creat ing some quick money for the courts as for the shortage of jail accommodation it might be observed that provincial liquor revenue should be adequate to provide space to house those who get into difficulty through consuming the product the province sells and it would be most deplorable if the courts should ever be reduced to the plane of revenue producers instead of justice dispensers provincial police good arrangement we certainly agree with the oshawa times which takes exception editorially to a proposal by commis sioner e v mcneill head of the ontario provincial police that the 200 provincial police now assigned to municipal detachments in 88 municipalities in the province be taken out of this job and placed on high way patrol stouffville is one of the 88 municipalities working under provincial contract and the citizens are quite pleased with the arrangment the times comments it would be interesting to know if commissioner mcneill was expressing only his own personal views on this subject or if he was flying a kite for the attorneygeneral the system whereby provincial police officers are made available to municipalities for policing with the municipalities reimbursing the government for their costs is very much a matter of government policy it is rather unusual to find a senior civil servant such as the commissioner of provincial police advocating a policy which is con trary to that which is held by the government we can recall the first efforts made by hon g d conant when he was attorneygeneral of ontario to improve the standards of municipal policing by making provincial constables available to the muni cipalities for that purpose when first introduced his scheme was bitterly attacked on the ground that it meant government usurpation of the prerogatives of the municipal councils time however proved his scheme was a sound one from the standpoint of uni form and efficient policing and it has since become the established policy of the present government the 88 municipalities which have made agree ments for the use of provincial police are finding the arrangement very satisfactory and since they are paying the costs they are likely to object to having these provincial officers taken away from them if more police are needed for traffic patrol work a much better solution would be to hire and train more men for that specific job 23 canadian stations by christmas 625000 canadians own tv sets telf vision like anything else should be taken in mod eration threequarters of canadas population will he within tv range by the end o the year and the advent of television in any new area arouses discus sion on its possible effects since first becoming popular in england tv began to show its influence in the united states in 116 and li7 some canadian communities within reach of american stations have known it that long first canadian stations opened at montreal and toronto in sop- tomler of 1952 now more canadian stations are opening each month there will be 23 before christmas and at least 625000 tv sets are in operation the radio and television manufacturers as sociation of canada figures on tario has more than 400000 sets quebec more than 170000 and british columbia more than 20000 the rest are scat tered throughout the country and the figures increase as new stations go on the air some patterns have already emerged as the us discover ed earlier moving picture dis tributors say movie audiences decline as soon as television comes in but one movie chain spokeman at toronto says movie attendances rebound af ter a year or so the movies took aggressive stops to meet tv competition including 3d techniques with dazzling colour colourtv is still in a distant future for canada the most hardened the old home town 7 will the new members of v the amateur homebuilders f clubraise their hands v iun lair rrnturtrn j by stanley and be counted tv fan will go to the movies occasionally gross boxoffice receipts of one of canadas largest movie theatre chains were higher in 1953 than 1952 radio set sales increased in volume even while television sales were setting records the radio industry now sells more smaller sets including automo- hile and portame models but last year total radio sales were well behind television on to tal value but most television owners find a radio is still needed around 700000 radio sets were sold in canada last year more than any year except 1947 which saw the postwar boom most popular television set for some time has been the 21 inch screen size either table or console model sizes gener ally range from 17 to 24 inch es with corresponding increase in price the 24inch however is pretty big for the average livingroom one question that crops up in every now tv area is whe ther television is harmful to eyesight dr a lloyd morgan chief opthalmologist at toron tos hospital for sick children told a medical forum in to ronto i was asked this question so often when tv first came out that 1 got a set ami exiwriment- ed that was ome years ago and apparently tv hadnt done any harm since i now see well with weaker glasses surveys in the united states indicate that in big cities a little more than half the tv sets will be tsmwd in to one of the weeks top proemms a- bout a quarter will he watch- irg ohr tatsons the rest w be turned off maple leaf gardens in to- ronto which has televised pro- fesssonai and amateur hockey i games for some time still has capacity attendances television has made a lot of new fans for us says spiff evans publicity director for the gardens national hockey league games there televised every saturday night since 1952 have had capacity attend ance for eight years in a row attendances steadily increased at the junior hockey games televised sunday afternoons the thursday night wrestling shows also are drawing bigger houses so canadians are taking tele vision in their stride a spokes man for a large oil company at toronto was asked if anybody had discovered whether tv was having any effect on mo toring after all you cant drive a car and watch televis ion at the same time at least not yet the only answer i can sug gest he replied is that more cars are on the ro3d than ever before when denied something he wants a monkey often goes in to a rage says a zoologist sometimes it would seem that monkeys are no better than people why buy a camera unl you know how to oporntr ii for nil or- of caiiuta ronlnct cadieux studio itatcliff nvxk 37f twor biijinc ml be nrm of ffooit pirlurf ryull simlttlll- rn s4j2 fob parkxts ontt our wild flowers i will be the gladdest thing under the sun i will touch a hundred flowers and no pick one edna st vincent mil lay wrote these lines in her poemj afternoon to a hill they are good words to memorize is there any more joyous ex perience for a boy or girl than walking over hill and dale in the sunshine in the spring time the little breeze carries wonderful seeds of the good earth and o growing things the birds are calling to each other in the trees and the ground is soft and springy unj derfooi there is a tang to the air and the sky deep blue the clouds are moving swiftly with strange forms and shades blending into their whiteness by xancy cleaver if the hiker is no too near a town or city the woods are likely gay with wild dowers fortunate the child whose par ent leaches him at an early age to enjoy the wild flower friends without picking them it is tragic that some of our loveliest wild flowers such as the trailing arbutus the white trilhum and the ladys slip per are becoming very rare in some areas they have vanish ed completely from others be cause they hive been thought lessly and ruthlessly picked although the maple leaf is recognized in the four corners of the globe as canadas sym bol it is interesting to know that each of our ten provinces chose a flower as its emblem you will see by the following wears coronation gown in portrait tryj tribune stouffvilla ont jtfay 2ft 1964 polio shots for canadian t0t5 would cost more than 13000000 toronto cp it would cost more than s13000000 to provide a single dose of polio- tighting gamma globulin for each of the 3500000 children in canada under the age of 15 a canadian red cross offi cial said yesterday or george v miller national this is the official state por trait of queen elizabeth the second which will hang in buckingham palace it was painted by james gunn over a sixmonth period and will be shown in the summer exhibition of the british royal academy at london this year copies of portrait showing young queen in bor coronation robes will be taken to hang in other com monwealth countries list that the majority of these are wild flowers newfoundland pitcher plant prince edward island violet ontario white trillium nova scotia may flower trailing a r b u t u s1 new brunsw iek blue violet quebec iris mani toba anemone saskatchewan prairie lily alberta rose hriiish columbia flowering dogwood the youngster who has a talent for sketching may want to attempt some wild flower studies snapshots are not too easy to take in the woods but a clump of wild flowers or even a single plant presents a real challenge to a photo en thusiast boys and girls like to make a log of their expeditions and on an outdoor hike it is fun to keep a record of the wild flowers the birds and the trees or any interesting nature lore observations eyes which are eager to see make all kinds of discoveries what determines what kind of wild flower will grow in any area the prairie the woods swamp clilfs and dunes each have their own special plants many of the delicate woodland flowers become very rare in sections where the trees have all been cut down because they grow best in a partially shaded habitat scientists tell us that it is the amount of moisture and the type of soil which de termine to a great degree which flowere will grow in the pine woods the soil is quite acid from decaying need les and special varieties of wild flowers such as trillium and dutchmans bree ches grow readily in this soil thus it is difficult to transplant these flowers successfully into ordi nary garden earth it is best aiot to disturb the wild flowers by picking or attempts to move tflieni getting acquainted with wild flower friends is a fascinat ing hobby there are a num ber of good inexpensive wild flower guides in colour and one of these should be in every home the canadian nature magazine has published a most attractive booklet on wild flowers in it are fifteen re- iproductions in full oolour by barrie rennie which are suit able for framing director of the red croai blood transfusion service toh the annual meeting of the regis tered nurse association oi on tario this would also require 3900000 donations of blood annually in addition to those now used in bespitafe for trans fusion therapy dr miller reading an ad dress prepared by red cross national commissioner dr w stuart stanbury who was un able to be present said that present processing facilities bi canada could not handle audi vast amounts of blood a nickel goes a long wgy these days you carry one fjt a long time before finding any thing it will buy- r here is a wonderful opportunity for you to become a nurse if you want a fascinating career and a background to enhance your whole life nursing pre sents a great opportunity classes for threeyear nursing courses at ontario hospital schools are now forming foi september enhance rqureminlk age- 17 m over secondary school oi diploma good hoaltb at ontario hospital schoou of nursing you receive while tmmhmt free room and board free uniforms and lauodrjr honorarium white train ing 30 a month daring 1st year 25 a month during 2nd year while on affiliation in a general hospital 50 a month during 3rd year vacation three week each year plus all statutory holidays recreation excellent facilities at each school lot afterduty social and sport activities for fvrthor information apply h superintendent of nursfftt school of hurting oolorto hospital brockvlllo king ion whltoyw or now toronto ontario department of health honoutobfo model nnon prtlltipat md cm mlnutor rz memo to advertisers a guide to the poirat of sale our local stores are the display rooms and ware- houses for the worlds finest products efficient banking insurance real estate and other business services are also available to the people in our community the readers of this newspaper find our advertising columns a 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