tmt 7 the stouffvlue tusuke twsd april 13 1961 js- r editorial local talent at its best the huge crowd that attended the eleventh annual spring ice revue promoted by the stouffville figure skating cub on saturday evening witnessed an eyecatching array of local talent at it3 best the program although a trifle lengthy for the frigid confines of the arena was a colorful performance and marked a fitting conclusion to the winters sports attractions here although the sprinkling of pro fessionalism was well received by the patrons the majority of persons pres ent were interested mainly in the what abo over the years the changing attitude of people towards the facts of life is a source of considerable speculation to cite a case about which we hear considerable lets look at the sanctity of sunday it is point ed out that church attendance is not whrtt it used to be true we have a good many people in church but then there are many more thousands available to fill the present churches however even if this be true we dont think that in many cases it is due to any lack of interest in spirit ual things churches are as prosper ous as ever humanitarian move ments are greater than ever new churches are being built in canada and in the old land great expendi tures have been made in the renova tion of old churches and cathedrals it seems quite probable that the falling off is due more to the multi tude of other things to do on the day of recreation at one time the lords day alliance followed the pattern of not compelling people to go to church but trying to make it so there was no other place to go this objective skating presentations of stouftvilles own hometown talent they were not disappointed from the still weakankled beginner to the swan like grace of the precision soloist the entire exhibition was one of beauty and brilliance the work involved in the pre sentation of such an ice show muse often go unrecognized since these persons work behind the scenes and do not share the spotlight of public attention they must however share some satisfaction in witnessing a rousing public response to their seasonlong efforts ut sunday as we can see today has failed and will fail even more by further legisla tion legalizing still more places to go on sunday rather than- church we dont profess to be a stick- inthemud about sunday but we have carried over enough puritanism from the old days that makes us have objections to a wideopen commercial lords day we do believe that some of the things we and others believed twentyfive or thirty years ago now are rather silly there was no harm in taking a car ride on sunday but it was decidedly wrong to wash it on that day it was okay to play the old rugged cross on the piano but not after the ball and so on it just doesnt make sense that it is all right to play golf on sunday but base ball or tennis should be taboo recent slotmachine laundry prosecutions seem equally silly new legislation will change a lot of these things fun damentally but still leave them sub ject to local veto so we come back to the old ques tion is it the thin edge of the wedge to a wideopen sunday we hope not aurora councillor at least ten years ago some local councillors and members of school board were appealing to the provincial government to do some thing about the high costs of archi tectural planning for schools if they were sincere in wanting to cut costs at that time the tribune quoted a top official in the department of edu cation as saying the architects had to make a living this was a most discouraging note coming from a de partment which was supposed to be trying to keep costs in line complaints have been made from time to time along the same line but all have fallen on deaf ears now auroras councillor alf child is making a determined bid to have these high fees eliminated and lias carried his crusade right to the premiers office councillor childs plan is to establish standard designs for ontario schools the same idea which was put forward a decade ago once again the department of edu cation has hurried to the support of the architects and put forward a great number of what councillor child terms excuses of why such a picks up the bah plan wouldnt work he charges that the architect association continually brings pressure to bear on the gov ernment in an effort to maintain the maximum fees and it remains a case of soak the people a few years back the school- trustees of the ballantrae school section defied the department to make them build a school through an architect which would have added greatly to the cost the ballantrae men put the matter squarely to the department to either allow the board to build in their own economical way or the department would have to build it themselves consequently the board built the school provided a good job and did it for much less money than the plan which the de partment was trying to force on them- we are wholeheartedly in sup port of the aurora councillors efforts along this line school boards who come in for a good deal of knocking by the public who dont know their problems would jump at the chance to reduce educational costs which the use of standard building plans would permit the mo in the field of the professional practitioner the accomplishments of the dentist are permitted to go total ly unrecognized through the spotlight of publicity his immaculate office is a type of isolation booth and any rarities involved in the regular per formance of his day by day duties are too often restricted to an appre ciative word from the patient or a buried ten line paragraph in the den tistry bulletin if a surgeon performs a heart- massage operation its front page news and rightly so if a lawyer wins in a controversial court case his name is broadcast from coast to coast if a scientist develops a new type of scrum overnight he becomes a national figure whats new in the dental profession very little as far as the public is concerned it was the same story during the world war days there were hero padres doctors and nurses but to our knowledge few dentists were recognized for acts of bravery al though they probably served as close to the front lines as many of their fellow officers dest dentist through sheer modesty or an all toostrict allegiance to a timeworn code of ethics the dentist tends to shy away from the limelight of pub lic praise for accomplishments above and beyond the call of duty we have found this to be true locally al though the exact reasons surround ing this general practise have never been openly revealed the latest incident revolved around an exclusive tribune story in last weeks issue concerning a tooth- replant performed on a box grove boy by a markham village dentist dr c g hunter dr hunter was more than willing to explain to this newspaper the facts surrounding the feat but he declined to accept any personal praise for the operation and was hesitant to agree that his name should even be publicly acknowledged for the rather outstanding achieve ment favourable publicity if present ed in the light of its true facts will never hurt any professional man or his profession on the contrary it could have a farreaching effect for good lip touffuiilc ribitnr established utt a- v nolan son publishers xfember of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontario weekly newspapers association aatlerfsad u kcrdco man rt dpt ou member of the audit bureau of circulations issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada 350 elsewhere s450 c h houn hbbim jas ihohas htm ias mdoan wrtrfobi i im sugar and spice by bill smiley raacsi golly dad are you old this was my sons com ment when he learned the other day that id been born in 1920 just a couple of years after world war i you would have thought it was immediately fol lowing the gay nineties to hear his tone there ii only one comfort a the years rush by ones age values change conveniently wh you are 10 anybody over 21 is middleaged by the time you are 15 you realize that peo ple arent middleaged until they are 30 or more when you are 25 middle age begins at 40 and when you are 10 you are serene in the knowledge that you wont really be in middle age until you are about 55 this disparity in point of view- is brought home to me with some force when im talking to teenagers at school one day we all saw a film on the history of flight it contained some shots of aerial combat in world war ever log book but i found out young kim went to her mother with it and said look at this mom she was pointing at two pages of photographs of strik ing young ladies i had them in my wallet when shot down and pasted them in the book under the youthful silly but harmless heading my comforters jfaw parents only later i remarked jokingly that id enjoyed seeing some of the old aircraft i had flown my self in those days they didnt get the joke they really thought id been a world war i pilot this would make me at least go i asked them sharply how old they thought i was one particularly sweet girl in grade 10 said you dont look it sir thais why a lot of us world war ii veterans who keep thinking the war was just a few years ago should pull our heads out of the sand we may feel that were still practically gay young blades but we should realize that a whole new generation has grown up to whom our war is as remote as the crimean war was to us at the same age lust he same its fun to look back about the same day my son was relegating me to the horseless carriage era my dan ghter while prowling around for something to read came across my old prisonerofwar log book she went through it in one sitting from time to time she looked at me curiously cocked an eyebrow and read on id forgotten what was in that despite the fact that some ot those girls are now doubtless on the verge of grandmotherhood the old lady got sore she gave the snapshots one long searing look gave me another sneered oh werent you the charmer and flounced off to finish he washing kim looked pleased i decided to take a look through the old book myself and spent a thoroughly enjoy able hour like an old maid with her faded ribbons and her dance programs it took me from the dreariness of early april from the morass of middle class do mesticity back to a time when i was young and tough com pletely irresponsible and slight ly wicked there were the names many of them forgotten of the motley crew in my barracks i wonder what jannie de wet of south africa thinks of canada these days is nils jorgenson back on his railway job in olo how does don mcgibbon of bula- wayo feel about the riots in his rhodcsian homeland whats become of tony frombolo of alameda cal did clancy cleary ever get his dairy farm going in australia on which side of the iron curtain did ros- tislav kanovskv the czech land there were the crazy cartoons by chuck the mid ukrain ian spooning the germans there were the old prisoncamp recipes for turnip jam and prune whisky and powdered- milk pie there were the incred ible stories like that of the dutch lad who was shot down and taken prisoner while on leave there were the excerpts from letters from home they were horrible in their thoughtlessness but we thought them hilarious for example we are sending you a fiveyear calendar feeling it may come in handy our jet flight do jets fly to the north pole theyre much faster than reindeer arent they why doesnt santa use a jet jim- mie followed his mother from one room to another as she did her housework asking her ques tions what is it like to be on a jet does it scare you mothers sometimes feel that there is no end to a childs quer ies but adults use questions too to satisfy their curiosity since we went from winnipeg io toronto for the autograph ing party for our book the treasure of family fun on publication day quite a few people have inquired how did you like going by jet travelling for us is always a real adventure and we found this new mode of transportation thrilling we enjoy looking for ward to a trip the trip itself and the memory of it and to thus taste the pleasure of a break from the daily routine three times there is so much io observe and wonder about especially at a railway station a bus terminal or an airport air travellers are asked to arrive half an hour early to weigh their baggage and check on their plane seats forty lbs are allowed in luggage for each traveller and overweight is ex pensive so we watched this carefully these duties com- there was the long list of things to do when 1 got out pubs girls and restaurants to be revisited places to see gifts to buy there was the entire account in tiny writing of what had happened to me after i was shot down a comedy of er rors and there right at the back of the book tucked into a little flap was something that bro ught me up with a jolt it was a headandshoulders photo of a young fellow scowling at the camera he was whiskery and dirty but there wasnt a line in his face his eyes were clear and sharp he had a shock of thick dark hair and he looked as tough as tow rope i looked at it for quite a while then i got up and went into the bathroom and looked in the mirror and i saw the deep fur rows in the face and the bleary eyes with the purple hammocks under them and the wispy graying hair and the general colour of a milk pudding i looked at it for quite a while and i picked up my log book with the photo of that young fellow and i took it down cellar and i put it in a box and i placed a large trunk on top of the box and just before i mounted the stairs again i saluted merely a casual flip of the hand toward thai cor ner then i squared my shoulders pulled in my pot donned a pleasant look and slightly fav oring my arthritic knee walk ed up the stairs whistling to help with the dishes pieted we bought flight insur ance we had time left to watch our fellow passengers and be fore long we were chatting with a vancouver mother and daugh ter who were meeting in mont real the father of the family stationed in newfoundland beside us in the plane our companion was a fisherman from the bc coast who had left vancouver wednesday after noon he planned to spend one night in a hotel in london eng land and he expected to be in yugoslavia the land of his birth on friday a jet sure eats up distance he exclaimed we had flown in other planes and we had often watched the swift flight of a jet above our home it seemed to travel at such a terrific speed that we rather expected a fearsome al most terrifying sensation when the jet was leaving the ground our fears were foolish the air pressure in the cabin the me chanical perfection of a jet the lack of noise and of the sense of vibration make the passenger amazingly comfortable we glanced out our window and found the twinkling lights of the streets of winnipeg row upon row a particularly mov ing sight we could trace- the dark ribbons curving to meet each other made by the red and assiniboine rivers the illumination which gave us the most pleasure was much older than electric lights the jet was so comfortable and we had been so busy all day that we found ourselves dozing for a short time lpon awakening we looked out our window and to our surprise there was the moon it seemed so close just over our right shoulder almost the airhostess schools cer tainly do a wonderful job hi coaching their employees in the pleasant way of doing things indeed courtesy from everyone the travel agent and each tca employee who waited on us was a distinguishing mark we had travelled from the east to the west by train and car but the speed of this jet flight took our breath away only one hour and fifty minutes from winnipeg to the maltoa airport copyughted government municipal and corporation bonds preferred mid common shares inquiries invited russell beare 213 main street markham telephone 464 subagent of wood gundy company limited wanted more cream shippers for best results ship your cream to stouffville creamery we pay two cents more per pound butterfat or cream delivered to the creamery to have our truck call phone lsgw stouffville creamery co cold storage lockers for rent local bp club helping unesco project the canadian federation of business and professional wo men started 1961 with a brand new project designed to interest its more than 165 clubs in help ing women in the middle east and in africa through the un esco gift coupon plan in charge of the project is miss nazla dane toronto a national vicepresident and the federations united nations chairman the aim is to raise sufficient money by the end of april to enable canadian federation to purchase unesco coupons necessary to provide needed ma terial and equipment for the ramallah handicraft society in jordan and to at least build a chalet for women students at a residential adult college at awudorhc ghana the ramallah handicraft so ciety in jordan was established by a former unesco fellow ship holder now working with unrwa it offers young wom en of ramallah the chance to learn a useful trade while re ceiving just compensation for iiirir work but not enough to obtain material and equipment so badly needed to expand the work and to train more eager women to become self-support- at the residential adult col lege in ghana much in the way of equipment and housing is needed to make this project serve the women of ghana to its fullest potential money is needed to build small chalets to house students to purchase equipment to train adult women students in many fields and to improve their ilv- ine conditions both these efforts tie in with aims and objectives of canadian federation of business and pro fessional womrn which include i suprort of the work of united nations i the stouflivillc b p group j is contributlnz to this project how about telling daddy that he needs more life insurance now that im around theres a sun life representative in town and sun life you know is one ot the worlds great life insurance companies why not ask daddy to j call him today jim a bell phone 237 stouffville sun life assurance company of canada saturday excursions to toron good going and returning same saturday only excursion fares from lindsay 300 stouffville s130 sunderland s210 blackwater 215 corresponding fares from intermediate point ruu information from agents lrm y train cmfrdim national t969