p9 2 the stourrvlltf tribune thursday march 16 1961 editorial this doesnt make much sense while we have great respect for labor minister mike starr and his problems we think he went off the deep end last week in a reported statement the report claimed that mr starr said that high labor costs cannot be pricing canada out of the world markets because those costs are only lofc of the value of the finished product a conservative estimate we would make is that these costs amount to fifty per cent or better true the labor cost in some par ticular factory may be only 15 of that factorys expenditure but the raw material of that factory is the finished product of another where th cost of labor is much higher taking wood products as an ex ample cutting trees involves labor the planting of replacements involves labor labor enters into the trans portation costs to the paper mill or the furniture factory again there is labor in the pulp mill selling ware housing and reselling a simple item such as an envelope accumulates la bor costs from the time it was part of a tree in the forest not impressed the recent hunting issue in the township of pickering took on an entirely new twist last week at a regular meeting of council banner- waving students no less paraded into the confines of the municipal cham bers to add strength no doubt to their plea against a suggested ban on the use of firearms the demon stration failed to cut any ice with this writer and in our opinion it fell as fiat as the proverbial pancake in this matter our sympathies are almost wholly on the side of the farm resident who is merely asking for some type of protection against these socalled sportsmen who yearly invade his premises these rural ratepayers are not prone to organize pressure groups in order to make their feelings felt but i might sug gest that if such a plan was adopted the council room would not accommo date their numbers to date the council has received four letters voicing protests against the existing bylaw this has been poohpoohed by some as a minority faction councillor harvey spang has stated that many verbal complaints have been brought to his attention still no concrete action has been taken one of these days some irre sponsible gunslinger is going to find the back of his britches filled with buckshot it would seem a pity that a farmer should be required to take the law into his own hands in order to protect his buildings livestock and family in our opinion he has little alternative separate distinctions an athletic banquet and presen tation program is being planned for the stouffville dist high school in the spring the proposal was sug gested to the tribune last week by staff pt instructor mr jim rehill we feel that it is an excellent idea too often we contend the prow ess of high school athletes is lost in the spotlight of academic glory dur ing the annual commencement exer cises although each is a winner in his own right awards for athletic and academic accomplishments can not be linked together because in many cases they are miles apart each should be judged and lauded on the merits of the distinct class to which it belongs this cannot be done on a common platform and dur ing a single program there are no doubt dozens of local students who have excelled in both individual and team sports dur ing the 196061 high school term their efforts should not be mini mized or overlooked a single even ing set aside for the purpose of giv ing credit where credit is due is in our opinion an admirable proposal it will indeed be a sports celebrities night stouffville high school style hit them where ft hurts during the past two sessions of buttonville court convictions have been registered against persons ac cused of dumping garbage on road allowances within the township of markham in each case the parties were nonresidents of the municipal ity only an intense probe through the refuse by police enabled officers to locate the culprit the magistrate has taken a dim view of this practise he has accom panied a verbal tonguelashing with a 525 dip into the individuals pocket book this is what hurts the most with the approach of spring and the disappearance of snow piles of roadside refuse are not uncommon in all surrounding municipalities many persons however do not leave their calling cards among the rubbage and therefore cannot be traced they go on to try the trick another day for those not quite so fortunate the penalty is severe in our opinion it is still too light beatitudes blessed are the merchants who advertise for they have faith in their business and their prosperity shall increase many fold blessed is the lady who sends in a written account of a party or wed ding for she shall see details and the names of her guests correctly re ported blessed are they who do not ex pect the editor to know everything but who will tell him whenever an interesting event occurs for they shall have a better paper in their community blessed are they who get their copy in early for they shall occupy a warm space in the editors heart blessed are they that cooperate with the editor in his effort on be half of the community for their community shall be known to all men as a good place to live and do busi ness blessed are they who dont think they could run the paper better than the editor does yea thrice blessed are they because there are so few of them where an award is earned for those local readers who may have followed the progress to date of the unionville jets in oha jr b ranks they will be pleased to learn that garry milroy a centre star with the club has been selected as the most sportsmanlike player in the entire group it is general knowledge that sev eral awards are presented yearly to worthy winners we do not know whether an engraved trophy is pre sented to the most gentlemanly per former but if not we would suggest that it should be the most highly treasured accomplishment of them all this is one goal that would elude the grasp of most junior competitors and young garry milroy is to be com mended for his efforts hockey can certainly use men of his calibre lte touffutile friiiune established ittl a v nolan son publishers member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontario weekly newspapers association member of the audit buroau of circulations issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada 350 elsewhere 450 c h noun mtmt ml thomas editor ms mtkean mreruim hmy j to you f its a great day for the irish aimotlkw emm year this year canadian officials will undertake the biggest nose counting operation in history it will provide parliament with information to guide it in its welfare plans manufacturers in their production plans and con struction industries in their building you will be asked 26 questions about the people in your family a question frequently asked is are people missed by the cen sus the answer is yes but not nearly as many as in the united states where some cities undertake to do their own counting ways and means have been worked out by the census di vision of the bureau of statis tics for ferreting out even the countrys hardesttofind citi zens it doesnt matter if a per son lives in a palatial apartment barn loft hobo jungle abandon ed lighthouse or converted chic ken house who uses census figures all this may seem to some people to be making a great fuss about something of only aca demic interest but it is not so the resulting figures are vital ly important to government in dustry and social workers the questions must be limited in number so as to make the tak ing of the census practicable but they are so well designed that the answers add up to a broad accurate and useful pic ture of the canadian scene five minutes thought will reveal the usefulness to thous ands of people and organiza tions of information about how many families lave low incomes and how many have high in comes whether these families live on farms or in cities how large the families are now old the head of the family is whe ther he is employed what his education is whether the dwell ing is rented or owned and whe ther it is in good condition or needs sprucing up there are special questions to be asked of farm operators dealing with crops irrigation condition of the land farm machinery live stock forest products dairy pro ducts and so on there are other reasons for taking the census in fact the original legal reason was to de termine representation in the house of commons under the british north america act of 1867 it was provided that the first rearrangement of seats in the house should be made on completion of the census of 18- 71 a similar readjustment to follow every subsequent decen nial census this national stocktaking is useful in determining provincial subsidy payments school grants and other forms of public ex penditure where amounts are paid on a per capita basis the figures give the national provin cial and local governments a firm statistical base upon which to judge the need and effect of legislation dealing with econom ic and social matters how else than by a count of people by ages and marital status could any public body estimate the costs of social security measures such as family allowances and old age pensions how else could school vocational counsel lors determine the advice to be given graduates than by the sta tistics of employment in var ious occupations canadas population in spite of the fact that oir population has progressed from 3215 to more than is million in less than three hundred years many people in canada seem to have an inferiority feeling about population in truth the population his tory of canada from that first census of 1666 reveals an out standing rate of population growth every decade contrib uted to this growth but three stand out particularly in 1901 to 1911 our population increased 342 percent in 1911 to 1921 des pite war and the influenza epi demic our population increased by 219 percent and in 1941 to 1951 our population increased 186 percent or if you add newfoundland which joined the other provinces in 1949 218 canadas rate of natural in crease that is the excess of births over deaths is among the highest in the world it ex ceeds that of other western in dustrial countries in 1958 our rate was 197 per 1000 popula tion compared with 148 for the united states and 47 for eng land and wales in every year since 1951 our rate has exceed ed nineteen per 1000 population births in canada averaged 446226 per year from 1952 to 1959 inclusive in those eight years a baby was born every 703 seconds hood and peace are still im portant to us and to our child ren we can support the red cross with our money gifts and we can encourage our public school son or daughter to be one of panadas one million three hundred thousand junior red cross members this is the worlds largest youth movement with over 47 million members in 74 countries its objectives are to promote health serve others at home and overseas and increase un derstanding among the young people of the world one of the most attractive juvenile cana dian publications is the cana dian red cross junior 95 wel- lesley st toronto which at 75c for a years subscription is a real bargain secrets of success are what everybody is always telling everybody else from our early files feb 20 1936 the worst storm of the winter which visited ontario on thurs day although heralded over the radio caught a good manv stouffville people away from home at least is citizens were in this predicament the roads were so badly blocked that scarcely a motor car moved along main st friday morning and it was around 1 pm before the road between stouffville and markham was open to motor traffic feb 27 1936 some folks have an idea that newspapers are costly and up in price a copy of the daily globe of toronto dated feb 1ss0 showed the subscription rate to be sis per year to be able to take the globe or the yearly basis then would have been a mark of distinction and a sign of wealth dr l s klinck president of the university of british colum bia occupied a place beside the preacher in the united church last sunday morning and as sisted in the service by reading the lesson dr klinck is down east on a business trip and spent the weekend witli his mother mrs thos klinck obrien ave march 18 1937 mr george aston president of the gold fish supply co stouffville arrived home on fri day from a five months trip to england where he was success ful in introducing and establish ing a market for millions of the little finny tribe which the com pany will produce goldfish were comparatively unknown or at least unseen in the british isles until mr aston took across the first consignment last summer and the idea took hold like wild fire a depot is being establish ed in southampton from which thousands of goldfish will be sent all over the country unless business shows a sharp pickup in the matter of freight handled at the cnr depot at goodwood the station is likely to be reduced to a flag station without a resident agent in charge information says that business transacted at this depot freight and passenger is only a quarter of what it was 25 years ago j f rcid is the local agent there p3briheniat i for parents only by nancy cleaver beneath the red cross flag the first red cross flag ever flown in canada was made by surgeonmajor george s ryer- son who organized a volunteer ambulance brigade to accom pany the troops in the campaign to put down the riel rebellion on april 24 rycrson decided that the horsedrawn wagon used as a makeshift ambulance which would have to ford the north saskatchewan river near batoche should have a disting uishing symbol quickly he stitched two red strips of fac tory cotton onto a white square this ambulance flag 15 days later was used to protect the wounded at the battle of bat oche today it is recognized officially as canadas first red cross emblem it is part of the john ross robertson historical collection at the toronto public library the red cross is the flag of geneva and it is the flag of switzerland a white cross on a red ground reversed in 1859 henri dunant travelling in it aly had witnessed the terrible suffering of the wounded sol diers in the battle of solverino he was horrified and did what he could on the spot to bring medical relief later he wrote a book urging an international organization for the care of the sick and wounded during wartime with several swiss friends he laun ched a campaign which resulted in an international agreement at the geneva convention of 1864 there was unanimous as sent to the proposal that hos pitals ambulances and their attendants showing the red cross badge should not be fired on or molested in their tasks originally the maltese cross which is wider at the base than at the center similar to that worn by the crusading knights appeared on the red cross flag later the plain greek cross which everyone knows was ad opted as an emblem for the relief of suffering both during war and peace wherever dis- aster strikes a genoese physician doctor j appla wore a red cross on a white arm band in 1864 in the war between prussia and den mark this was the first time the red cross appeared on a battlefield mohammedan countries de cided to substitute a red cres cent on a white ground in their flag of mercy persia has a spe cial hospital flag of her own now a hundred years after the birth of the red cross through out the world the red cross banner is known and honored it reminds mankind that ev eryone suffers when nations resort to force and that the wounded and dying must have medical attention there is little doubt that if there should be an atomic war there will be little opportunity to be either just or merciful death will be too widespread annihilation will be too thor ough if canada had been bomb ed in the last war perhaps we would be marching on ottawa as 100000 marched on trafal gar square london on good friday to protest the use of nuclear weapons can we go along with canadian forces be ing equipped with and bases constructed on canadian soil for u s weapons when we look at the red cross flag we remember henri dunants horror of suffering on the battlefield and his dream of international cooperation the desire to be a good samari tan the dream of world brother- continued above bt3i5s32is37 r t rteensnn sugar spice ejntaarasab bill smile bfth na ive alwaya made it a practice not to cr my brittle before theyre batched but dow id np a tree without a paddle how do you like the teaching game so many people have asked me this question in the past few months that i thought id try to answer it here my usual reply is what i hope is an eloquent shrug one reason i left the news paper business for teaching was that i thought it would give me more time with my family as a weekly editor i was out night after night covering meetings attending banquets and the like the only time i had with the kids was on week ends as a lcachcr i spend a lot more time at home and i sec even less of my family im lock ed away in the smokefilled little room on the second floor five nights a week and most of sat urday and sunday i sec so lit tle of the kids that there are times when i cant quite remem ber their first names another reason for embark ing on a teaching career was all those holidays two months in the summer a week at christ mas and another at easter cf course last summer i had to go to summer school and work like a dog for two months and this year i have to do the same and at christmas i spent exact ly 47i hours during my holi day week marking paper and it will be the same at easter and then at the end of another year when i am qualified as a teacher i have to go back to summer school for yet another eight weeks to get my special ists certificate but just think- in 1963 ill have the whole sum mer off thats certainly better than the one miserable week a year i used to take in the news paper business and then of course the mon ey is good my fakehome pay is bettor than that of many truck drivers almost as good as that of a welder or a bricklayer un like them i dont draw overtime but think of the security ah i have to do is teach for 35 years and i get the full pension am i ever going to raise hell around the lawn inwllng club when i get on that pension wheelchair or no wheelchair but all these things arc mere adjuncts to teaching after all were not just interested in money and security are we well are we of course we ire not money is no more im portant than say breathing i no what we arc concerned with in life is the deep basic things like uh satisfaction in a job well done and uh the rich re ward of guiding young lives and uh stuff like that you have no idea of the thrill a teacher feels when he realizes that but for the guidance he has given young joe the latter might have wound up in the penitentiary instead of just re form school and there is nothing to equal the rich satisfaction a teacher derives when he has taught something so difficult that the sweat is running down his back and he knows he is getting through to them when he sees young marys face light up like a flower and he nods to her in kindly fashion when her hand is raised and she asks courteous ly and intelligently sir may i go to the washroom it makes everything seem you know sort of worthwhile theres a completely different atmosphere in the schools theso days when i was in high school if a kid got out of line the teacher would clobber him my old science teacher could clip a large lout right off his stool across two desks and into a limp heap of rags on the floor without disturbing a testtube my old maths teacher favored a two knukle smash just almvo the kidneys which enabled you to say nothing but huh huh huh for about four minutes that old brutality has all gone by the board now and a good thing i say nowadays if a kid does something that dis qualifies him for a sound belt in tha chops you realize hes not doing it just for hellcry hes emotionally disturbed and he kids npproelatc it aslde from the fact that theyd have a lawyer on you if you gave them a dirty look theres a wonderful new sympathy be tween teacher and student ill bet theres not a single kid in any of my grades who would refuse to sign the class card of condolence to my wife if i were to be run down by s bulldozer how do i like teaching well say i havent really time to dis cuss it right now i have four hours homework to do an ex amination to prepare and an hours work on the school year book come back and ask mc in the summer of 63