ptot the stotfftylhi thgjjffi tjarnfay sept 24 1959 cstabushed 1223 a v nolan son publishers member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontarioquebec newspapers association astfeorired j iccondcfcisi null posc5ce dept orjii member of the audit bureau of circulations- issued every thursday at stouftville ont in canada 350 elsewhere 450 r noun puttsher ias thomas 6efcx ias mckean mertumj our editorial comment dont miss the trade fair stouffvilles annual trade fair is being held on thursday friday and saturday of this week the mer chants started this venture some years ago now and with great success since that time the show has passed to the arena co which has operated it for some time with the co operation of the business people many of the merchants have put considerable time and effort into their exhibits as one will see the show has become another interesting cog in local community living which is look ed forward to each fall be sure you go and see the show entertainment in the person of the renowned kathleen stokes at the organ is being provided each ev as an added attraction its the difference that counts in a few weeks three much- publicized new automobiles will hit the smallcar market fords fal con general motors corvair and chryslers valiant will go on dis play in local showrooms some time in october the fickle carbuying pub lics swing to the foreign auto market has forced the big three into a multi million dollar production changeover they hope their invest ment will pay off in major sales in creases there are of course many as pects of the small car that have caught the fancy of the canadian and the american motorist economy manoeuvreability and a lower price tag are three of their foremost fea tures we feel however that these items do not constitute the major drain on the average motorists pock et book and therefore cannot be con sidered as of serious importance a little word known as depreciation is the main thorn in the newcar buyers side in past years american and canadian manufacturers have insist ed on producing a definite style change in their vehicles and every autumn these are unveiled before the curious public with much promotional fanfare and ostentatious predictions all this looks very fine to the parties with their noses pressed against the showroom window it is a rather sad story however when they begin to step up into the dazzling masterpiece of chrome and glass in a single year the american car in the socalled low price field will depreciate in excess of 70000 in two years they will drop over 1000 the very second those new car tires roll onto the highway pavement 500 floats out the window this is too great a loss for the carbuying public to absorb on the other hand the wellknown volkswagen and vaux- hall cars retain their value evenaf ter twelve or twentyfour months of driv ing why because their style change from year to year is almost unnoticeable money isnt that eas ily obtained that john public can hand out 700 yearly for a new auto if ford general motors and chrysler insist on making an annual style- change in their smallcar line then much the same situation will exist as we have today can money buy you freedom is there absolute justice in our provincial laws can money buy one freedom in our canadian courts we would answer a reluctant no to the first question and a firm yes to the second query we would base our views on an incident which oc curred recently in magistrates court newmarket a man and his wife appeared on charges of theft the husband was accompanied by an officer he had been held in an adjoining dingy jail cell neither member of the couple appeared blessed with too much of this worlds goods they looked gaunt and forlorn and very much alone they stood together before the magistrate to face whatever fine or verdict that might be imposed both appeared anxious to have the matter aired and completed this was not the case however due to the absence of one or more persons connected with the charge the case had to be adjourned al though a low bail fee was requested the husband could not meet it he apparently had nothing neither money nor property his wife was permitted to return home the magis trate reluctantly returned the man to his basement cell we would hardly consider such a law as being fair and square the man with the wellpadded pocket- book or the castle on the hill is able to walk out of the courtroom and await his trial in comparative free dom the less fortunate defendant must remain behind bars money surely talks losing the oldfashioned flavor the bolton enterprise laments that the village has lost a touch of the victorian era with the disappear ance of a long line of nicely painted picket fences now the village is growing population 1600 some thing is needed to make it different than other places notably metropoli tan toronto let us not forget 300 or 400 homeowners selected bol ton as the locale for their home be cause they liked the village atmos phere maybe they wanted a place different from toronto for instance so lets keep some of our oldfashion ed flavor and as we forge forward let us be careful not to thrust aside some of the old habits institutions and antiques before considering their worth laff of the week iws is a new aoe spaghetti and pcaut butter ttuelfrsr total eclipse of the sun to take place oct 2 it is recorded in the old testa ment book of amos chapter 8 verse 9 and it shall come to pass in that day saith the lord god that i will cause the sun to co down at noon and i will darken the earth in the clear day the next time this prophecy is fulfilled will be october 2 when there will be another total eclipse of the sun by the moon but in north america it will be seen as a total eclipse only from a narrow belt of eastern massachusetts canadians living cast of lake superior will see a partial eclipse and those west of there little at all a very unsatisfactory eclipse for us said an official of the dominion observatory the eclipse will occur at 550 am est but will be total only for watchers in a 100 mile wide band extending from bos ton east across the atlantic the canary islands the sahara su dan and ethiopia ending in the indian ocean the iast total eclipse visible over canadian territory was on june 30 1931 the next wont be until july 20 1963 and then only in the hudson bay area in ancient times eclipses were regarded as portents and a large number of them are mentioned in history and liter ature the first record of an eclipse occurs in chinese literature of about i000 years ago but the first accurate date for one re corded by the chinese is be lieved to be sept 6 77g bc the one recorded by the pro phet amos is estimated to have occurred june 15 763 bc homers odyssey says at one point the sun has perished out of heaven and an evil mist has spread over all and the greek poet arehilochus wrote zeus father of the olympians made night from midday hiding the light of the shining sun and sore fear came among men this latter eclipse has been identified as occurring april 6 ms bc the most famous of the an cient eclipses occurred may 28 5s5 bc during a battle between the lydlans and medcs the frightened warriors stopped fighting and made peace from 747 bc babylon kept a record of all astronomical ob servations including eclipses ok agincourt 15 million kail yards the 15000000 cpr marshal ing yards will bo built in agin- court as planned the board of transport commissioners an nounced saturday the board handed down its decision after hearing protests from agincourt ratepayers and testimony by the railroad sup- porting the project the golden rule a book published not long ago by a widelytravelled author said that in the east business was largely a battle of wits customer and merchant each tryingto outdo the other that may not be altogether true but a cynical view of life is that it is a jungle struggle with selfishness a paramount motive it is a pathetic commentary on our way of thinking to read in newspapers of men having left much of their property to charity and of relatives protesting the will on the grounds that the benefactor must have been mentally unbalanced evi dently many consider generosity as a form of mental insta bility on january 2 1852 the ss birkenhead left cork ire land on her way to south africa she carried four hundred and ninetyfour british soldiers also twentyfive women and thirtyone children these together with one hundred and thirty members of the ships company brought the total to six hundred and eighty ships were much smaller in those days and consequently there was less accommodation and fewer comforts the ship steamed along at eight knots an hour all on board expected a long and tedious voyage when algoa bay in west africa was eventually reached some changes were made in the personnel and the total muster then was six hundred and thirtyeight including thirty women and children in order to save time the captain was given instructions to hug the coast as closely as possible and orders were sent down to the engine room for full steam ahead the weather was fine but all were weary of the long journey the ship did not call for deep water so she was kept within two miles of shore suddenly in less time than it takes to tell the birkenhead piled up into some uncharted rocks just off danger point a terrific hole was made in the bottom of the ship water poured in so swiftly that many men were drowned in their berths captain salmond asked that there be no panic and con fusion his owncalmhess had a good effect on all the man in charge of the soldiers colonel seton spoke briefly to his men and not one man disobeyed his orders the soldiers stood at attention on deck those who survived say that not one man even murmured a protest the men were ordered in relays to man the pumps and thus keep the vessel afloat until as many as the emergency boats could hold had been taken off the darkness was intense and increased the difficulty in getting what few boats there were where they could take passengers actually there were only three boats infit condi tion to be used three boats for over six hundred passengers the other boats were damaged by accidents as men tried to release them as soon as the first boat was ready came the order women and children first the ship was being swiftly crushed to pieces the sea seemed like an angry monster demanding its prey but not a man moved except to place the thirty women and children in the cutter in less than fifteen minutes after the ship had struck the first passengers were in the lifeboat the members of the crew and the soldiers carried on fulfilling every duty required of them there were several hundred horses on board and the frightened animals were given a chance to swim for shore their terrified screams rang out piteously in the darkness two more boats were filled and pushed off while the soldiers stood at strict attention the captain waited until the three boats were a distance away and in no danger of being swamped by frantic swimmers then he funnelled the message that all who cared to try it could swim for their lives when dawn came there were hundreds of mangled bodies on the shore all the women and children were saved sixty- eight men ran the gauntlet of sharks and reached the shore a few others were rescued from topmasts in all four hundred and fortyfive men lost their lives and including women and children one hundred and ninetythree were saved our quotation today is a saying of jesus he that loseth his life shall find it forecast by olive a garrett piano with silencing device heres something new for you music lovers and wouldbe piano players a piano with a silencing device which permits only the player to hear what hes playing through an carphone then with a flick of a switch it can sound like an ordinary piano so now you can practise and practise early and late and no one will know of your accomplishment but you and think what fun to surprise them at your next party even if you live in an apartment you can play away to your hearts content its a small affair looks like a harpsichord but has a regular piano keyboard eliminating juniors little dit ties with the punk notes too would be a blessing to mothers although it might be well to have a setup whereby the switch is near the stove or somewhere on you know labels just press em on a new type of durable label which will stick on wood glass plastics or metal surfaces is on the way they are made of white card held in strips of clear plastic and one side ad heres with just a finger pres sure so with just a pencil and a pair of scissors the job of labelling all that jam ad jelly you put down will be a breeze this year fun for the kids in your pocket entertaining the small fry on long trips or short ones for that matter is a mite hard on the nerves a new series of en tertaining games in the form of giant matchbooks without mat ches of course have just come out which are spccally designed sugar spice by bill smiley i have just tried to wade through a novel written by a woman vhich contains 10s5 pages of fine print and i use the word wad advisedly it was like lurching through a swamp in a pair of hip waders with a hundred pounds of wet fish in a sack on my back the only thing the novel con veyed to me after hours of read ing was something of which i was already aware that women talk too much now i am not trying to be offensive when i say that i am merely making a scientific ob servation its easy to utter generalities and i dont mean that all women talk too much no more than a woman means all men when she states flatly and ive heard it a hundred times men are selfish utterly selfish she just means about 9s percent of all the males she has ever known pve made something of study of this in moments of quiet desperation and my con clusions are based on actual observations my mother talked too much my sisters talk too much my wife talks too much and my daughter is getting to be quite a yakker if you pay any attention to her i repeat i am not trying to be snide about this it is merely an interesting phenomenon which i think has had an overwhelm ing impact on world history who for example started chew ing the fat with that reptile in the garden of eden was it adam why do women talk so much is it because theyre nervous i doubt it is it because they feel insecure i doubt that too poor or rich nervous or placid fat or skinny secure or insecure they talk too much and i honestly believe they cant help it now im not trying to suggest that men are strong silent types who never open their mouths unless they are about to emit some morsel of wisdom a visit to one of those dainty palaces of refreshment known in on tario as beverage rooms on a busy saturday afternoon would convince anyone that men are a cross between a howling mon key and a laughing hyena with a dash of yorkshire hog thrown in no indeed men can talk with the best of them in short spurts but few men can talk endlessly without apparent ef fort most women can and do i am not suggesting this is a bad thing necessarily the cheer- fur chirp of the ladies over tea cups is a symbol that all is well with the world the intermin able telephone conversations about clothes and pickles and what maisie said to thelma are reassuring sounds in a haywire society it is- not the- talk of women that sends nations reeling into annihilating wars it is not the talk of women that introduces corruption into public affairs it is not the talk of women that produces inflation starvation and all the other ations that beset society sunday brings more auto accl- vitamin d is the rarest amonj dents than any other day of the ordinary foodstuffs week a day of rest for a long time tennis was purely an amateur sport until 1926 custom built houses cottages barns garages budget terms uniply prefab pickering 711 j no 7 hgwy brougham no these delights of the mod ern world are produced by the talking of men it is the talking of women that hushes the frigh tened child that soothes the old person in pain it is the talking of women that keeps husbands from polygamy and a fondness for the grape it is the talking of women that produces better schools and better hospitals no theres no dout about it the hand that rocks the cradle rules the roost or something like the weather taxes and death we can look forward to the talking of women as a sure thing and while at times it might fray the nerves to the shrieking point it will not likely do the world any permanent harm village burner service your gilbarco dealer furnaces of all types installed cleaned serviced 24 hour service dave patterson 740wl stouffville 740wl reserve your tickets now for the nsw yihs ive in the veterans memorial hall stouffville paul simmons and his orchestra reservations for 75 couples only 1000 per couple free refreshments body fender repairs duco dulux refinishing estimates without obligation w g garrett and son main street stouftville ont phone 2ss oh oh here comes the old lady back from a visit with granny where thtyve both been talking ceaselessly for two hours id better hide this shell want to tell me everything they said while its still fresh in her mind for happiness help a few per sons every day even if its only to let them alone its a tossup as to which ad jective in the following expres sions is the more flagrantly used temporary tax or permanent wave in the kitchen those wouldbe i to take along in your pocket to baseball players torn from i be whipped out at the first sign their true love need checkingof mayhem and before they actually rp kill each other there are 12 different enter taining games in this new ser ies checkers dominoes pickup sticks ringtoss games bowling games jigsaw puzzles tic-tac- toe shooting galleries and other board games puzzles and tricks that will provide hours of funj for groups of children or that lonciy little one in the famly thinking of a new car 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