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paje i the steuffrtbe trhwae tmriar apr 135 the stouffville tribune established 1833 a v nolan son publishers member of the canadian weekly newspapers association and the ontarioquebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations authorised s eorcls3 mu pecfl5ce dept ottawa printed and issued every thursday at stouffville ont- in canada s250 elsewhere 350 c h noil 3 publisher jas taostas assoc editor notes and comments mind your nose referring to the part of the human anatomy commonly called the nose most of us are either blowing it or sticking it into someone elses business for centuries the poor old nose has been taking a verbal and physical beating verbally it has been referred to as being like a beet the shape of a cucumber an overripe tomato or it might even have a hawklike appearance on the physical side the poor old proboscis sometimes takes quite a beating take for instance kocky marciano of pugilistic fame his nose has been pounded so many times that it now threatens to cut short a lucrative career in the fight game professional boxing we always thought required stamina good legs strong heart etc but we never realized until now just how important a fellows nose can be great men in history have to some extent been distinguished by their noses julius caesar made fam ous the roman nose and winston churchill the pug or bulldog type it must strike us that the nose has an important role hence we should pay more attention to it and give it the respect it deserves this is something to ponder by everyone in between times when he does not have to keep his nose on the grindstone ft provincial police to slay the announcement made recently by the attorney generals department that all provincial police con tracts with municipalities of two thousand and over population would be terminated as of this december was accepted with regrets by a good many residents in town while the provincial police are not without their shortcomings present policing is a far cry from the old days when a parttime man was always hard to locate when needed many citizens had misgivings about returning to a local policeman which proves anything but satisfactory a local man cannot give the service called for by the public today however last week the attorney general raised the population restrichon to 3500 which would leave stouffville free to continue the opp services popular opinion is definitely in support of retaining the pro vincial police setup if at all possible and we believe that almost all local council members will vote in this direction a- dollar as gauge a dollar bill has relatively little purchasing power in these days of inflated values but it still serves as a measuring stick for instance we get a better idea what defence is costing us when we are told that it formed 42 cents of every dollar spent by the central government in the 195354 fiscal year twelve cents went to national welfare and social services and three cents to pensions for veterans no details were given by the finance department to show how the remaining 43 cents was spent and here is how the money was raised twenty- seven cents of every dollar came from personal income taxes another 27 cents was raised by corporation taxes 20 cents by excise taxes and 17 cents by customs duties and other taxes the remaining nine cents was received from nontax revenues and special re ceipts and credits it will be noticed that more than half of the revenue 54 cents out of every dollar to be exact came from individual income and corporation taxes this serves to bring out in the open where any tax reduc tion would provide much welcome relief ageold easmreiage crossword puzzle pczzle 33t r ackoss 1 1 unit of e- trcl capacttj 1 6 chief exec j- tlr 15 unaccom panied 1ft kin 1 cut of meat pu 19 rcmtnln naroe- 19 smell 3x1 chooi 3j ktnract 3 rip worm 30 bitter vetch 2j female dr 30 city of lorn 93 sswafcer 37 adjuncts j coatuttied at tempt to e posacfuon 3 impcemert u xnth day 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canadian educational sys tem is wellfounded mothers and fathers do well to take a more searching look at their childs schooling they should decide whether or not the can adian educational system is morally flabby intellectually cloudy and creatively sterile dr neatby condemns in no uncertain terms progressive education and asks for a re turn to the traditional type of teaching she believes that our canadian schools are to a large degree failing to do a good job on their main task of convey ing useful knowledge and the capacity for using it the charge against progress ive education is that it is anti- intellectual anticultural and antimoral is this an accurate appraisal of some progressive institutions of learning sure ly a great many teachers walk a middle road in their at tempt to use the best ideas from the progressive school founded on john deweys ideas combined with the proven me thods of longestablished brit ish educationalists quite possibly a number of parents will admit their own uneasiness about the attitude in many canadian collegiates which labels a pupil who excels in his studies as a bit queer or a brain dr neatby claims that in not a few schools the atmosphere is frankly anti- by nancy clcavei intellectual in her opinion the world of today demands a hard and selective discipline that will fit every individual to make his utmost contribution to a society in which with all our effort life for many will prob ably still be nasty brutish and short too often the choice of a vocation is made not on the basis of the greatest service an individual can give but on the salary which can be earned dr xeatby reminds her read ers that the idea behind edu cation is not to make money but to produce a trained mind qr neatbys sweeping state ments might have been moder ated a bit if she had done a little less work on printed books and pamphlets and had mixed a little more with tea chers and with pupils there are some references to the re action of individual teachers but her case would be a stron ger one if her contacts had been more numerous with them and their pupils in different areas the picture of canadian schooling is not all black any observant parent can see that the methods in some subjects such as the way to read are a vast improvement over those used in their childhood the clock cannot be turned back in education or any other field the traditional pattern used several decades ago can not meet tne needs of today teachers as well as parents must consider the whole child his emotions and physical frame as- well as his intellect is it not quite possible that the tra ditional type of education has been a contributing factor to the appallingly large number of adults in our mental hospitals one of the greatest of greek thinkers described himself as a gadfly stinging his associates into thinking dr neatby has taken over this role if she has punctured our complacency about our system of education she has done us good service at the same time dr neatby cannot have all the truth on her side so little for the mind is not light reading but it is a fine choice for home work for parents copyright seyekas years aco i saw this lovely pom by the late robert freeman and with the permission of his widow i sm glad to use it this easter season when men ko down to the sea in ships tis not to the sea they go some ise or pole the mariners goal and thither they sail through calm and gale when down to the sea they go when souls go down to the sea by ship and the dark ships name is death why mourn and wai at the vanishing sail though outward bound gods world is round and only a ship is death when i go down to the sea by ship and death unfurls her sail weep not for me for there will be a living host on another coast to beckon and cry all hail millions will be cherishing this easter the hope expressed so beautifully by robert freeman there is no record in history of a people without religion and no religion without some concept of immortality it is a distinctive note of the christian faith excavations in thk catacombs at rome as well as in the burying places in the neighborhood of athens show in a striking way the roman and grecian attitude to death concerning them all it might be written these all died in fear not having re ceived the promises and with at best a faint very faint tremulous hope that out of the darkness of the night of death some good perchance might come to them in the catacombs of rome one can see today the inscriptions written in prechristian times with the recurrence of such phrases as farewell fore- well forever farewell but from the time that the first chris tians were buried one reads the confident hope of resurrection with such promises as he that believeth on me though he die yet shall he live and so life goes on we cannot believe that god has made creatures in his own image so gifted so magnificently aspiring to have them suddenly cut down like beasts in the field there have always been those who catch the glorious radiance of life beyond that valley which men call the shadow of death those who refused to believe that any earthly consummation could terminate life the god who implanted so deeply in man the cense of justice would not himself implant an instinct for im mortality which could never be satisfied shall not the judge of all the earth do right perhaps the most widely known agnostic of the 19th cen tury was roben ingersoll his attacks on organized religion and its teaching caused him to be acclaimed an infidel savage and relentless but there are evidences that he sometimes doubted his doubts when riis brother evon ingersoll died robert was induced to give an address which he did and closed with this moving tribute he who sleeps here when dying mistaking the approach of death for returning health whispered with his latest breath i am better now let us believe in spite of doubts and dogmas of fears and tears that these dear words are true of all the countless dead our quotation today is a saying by jesus because i life ye shall live also be careful with fires report from parliament by michael starr mp the debate on unemplojment ended on tuesday march 20th aifter eight days of fulldress debate with two votes being taken both of which were won by the government no state ment was made by the govern ment as to what they were prepared to do to alleviate the present critical situation ex cepting that a conference has been called for the latter part of april with the provinces at which time parliament has been assured one of the mat ters to be discussed by the con ference in its fiscal deiibera tions would be that of unem ployment the bill to amend the un employment insurance act is expected to be introduced into the house of commons in the form of a resolution this week there is definitely to be an in crease in the benefit rates to gether with some new classes in the upper bracket of wage earners to be added we will discuss this bill more fully when it is introduced in the hotle of commons and ex plained by the minister of la bour the united states has threat ened o proceed with certain moves to curtail imports of canadian oil base metals and farm products this has anger ed canadian parliamentariars on both sides of the house of commons and some say that they will demand a policy of re taliation if such a proposal is put into effect the suggestion is that canada retaliate by pro hibitive shvpmentjt to the un- ted states e vta raw mater ials oi which canada is a pris- ontario riding ciple supplier and enjoying al most a monopoly quite recently a bill was in troduced to amend the rail way- act particularly dealing with the amounts allotted for the construction of grade crossings which is under the supervision of the board of transport com missioners this is known as the railway grade crossing fund up until now the board had at its disposal an amount of 1000000 and this has been increased to 3000000 it has ben the practice for the board to contribute towards any of this work to the extent omor from the railway grade cross ing fund the balance being divided equally between the parties concerned such as the municipality and the railway andor the provincial govern ment where a highway was affected it is proposed to raise the maximum contribution by the board from 40 to 60 the balance to be divided be tween the parties concerned if a railway and a municipal ity are the parties concerned the railway contribution is re duced to 15 of the amount and the municipality contribu tion to 25 so that ther i some alleviation for the benefit of the municipality in thesi undertakings federal trade officials have reported to the government that the time is ripe for a d to increase canadas trade with commonwealth countries the outlook is said t be promising for 1v the extent to which canadian exporters can take advantage of liberalized import cstrtcwoos wiii be cjcterrained with first signs ofspring al ready much in ev the danger of cleanup fires get ting out of control will again be a major concern spring hazard conditions usually de velop very rapidly often ac companied by high winds and with considerable dead dry grass and other debris on the ground fires which get out of control can cover a large area in a short space of time in the fire district operators are being warned of the neces sity of guarding against any hangover fires resulting from winter burning such as saw dust piles refuse etc the same danger exists on fires careless ly left burning by spring trap pers and on mining operations to mention examples depart ment of lands and forests staff are conducting a careful check during the latter part by their individual initiative in strengthening their ability tp meet price competition ex porters are being urged to take stock again of their opportuni ties to enter the market which in a current official report is described as a large and ex panding market for canadian goods with great opportunities for profitable trade of march to see that any such dangers are being eliminated in the more settled areas south of the fire district spring is the time when property own ers get that urge to clean up debris and refuse around build ings fence corners patches of dead grass and hay etc fre quently this cleanup period comes when hazard conditions are highest and from past ex perience members of the rang ing staff are well aware ihow often such fires get out of hand and cause considerable harm and damage within the fire district pro perty owners are required to obtain a fire permit from local department headquarters that is subject to specified condi tions and available when haz ard conditions permit in more settled areas south of the fire district where such regulations do not apply similar precau tions are no less important burning should be carried out during calm evenings a little bit at a time and the wise own er will always have some fire fighting tools and water handy to provide for emergencies it is no less important to make certain the fire is dead out be fore he leaves paying special attention to smoldering sparks and embers by h l jones the post office with canadian ariists already designing many of iis postage stamps now is giving though o getting more canaoian native art and more color into the issues canadian stamps now carry pictures o polar bears and puipmaking plants as typical canadiana before too long they may depict canadas indians and eskimos and where and how they live and these stamps may come t in multi colored issues instead of the single or double colors of to days stamps canadas stamps once were designed mostly from photo graphs but governorgeneral massey then chancellor of the university of toronto recom mended in the 1551 masses- royal commission report that canadian institutions should encourage this countrys art ists popular competition the post otlice then announ ced a competition for artists asking them to submit stamp designs payment was hx or more for suggested subjects in industry the outdoors and ani mal life the competition paid olt it now is a continuing affair from which postal officials hope to build a bank of designs into which they can dip when a new stamp is needed they are considering more color and broadening the range of subjects to include not only the natives themselves but the works of art produce officials envisage these being produced in a fourcolor natural range the post office stamp designs have earned a lot of praise over the years the department was proud of three wildlife stamp issues in 1053 the two- cent polar bear in blue three- cent moose in brown and the fourcent bighorn sheep in black drew acclaim from stamp collectors and from editors of stamp magazines sculptor designs two the polar bear was designed by john crosby an artist at the national museum ottawa the other two were by em anuel hah toronto sculptor a followup series showed a beaver a walrus and a sea bird the gannet i but the department go plen- jy o criticism about two issues of queen elizabeth sams one w2s the fourcent corona tion commemorative of ijs snd the other a regular issue bearing the queens likenesi on one to rivecent denomina tions people complained the port raits didnt look like the queen they said that her cheek was shrunken in the threequarter portrait in the profile portrait her upper lip was too short post office officials said the difficulty stemmed from the fact that a lineengraving process rather than a photoengraving was used in the line process every stroke dot or feathery touch is cut by hand on a mas ter die of steel from which the stamps ultimately are printed portrait improved subsequently a new regu lar issue was put out in the one to fivecent category and while it also was lineengraved the portrait of the queen was much improved the post office entered the realm of slightly abstract art in 1052 and still feels pleased about the venture the stamp was a 20cent brown forest pro ducts issue creacsl from a de sign by a l pollock toronto industrial artist it showed a papermaking plan with a douglas tir tree in outline to one side from the tree a scroll extended across the stamp to an outline of the plant public reaction was favorable officials were pleased that no one wrote them to point out that no douglas fir is twice as high as the chimney of a paper plant as it appeared on the stamps they said it apparently was accepted for what it was a simple design telling a lot even though it was abstract fur drew protest the department didnt have such a happy time with its fur resources stamp a 10cent brown showing an indian wo man drying beaver skins in front of a wigwam scores wrote in pointing out that the skins were bigger than the woman and that a man peering around the wigwam appeared to be nine feet tall officials said the stamps faults resulted from its lack of perspective laff of the week okay bot if yoo try ta nnk boned csbtws uu txf plit i encn more the ucbta 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