9k 1 toe st0uffv1ue tiubuni xhnnitj mini 28 1963 editorial a dastardly act over the past weekend more than 7000 fourpage leaflets were distributed throughout the township of pickering that contained such charges of immoral conduct against a municipal official to malign his char acter for the rest of his life like human vultures this litera ture was gobbled up by dozens of ratepayers who flocked to a public meeting in the brock road red cross centre on monday night to hear mora of the same although the name of this town ship employee was very cutely omit ted from the document the secret of his identity could not have been more vividly proclaimed if it had been written in red ink the charges although supposed ly confidential were not new to the members of council who had dis cussed the issue in committee at some length a couple of weeks before not satisfied with their handling of the matter all the dirty linen had to be two sides to in a recent letter to the tribune a claremont district resident criti cized the preparedness of the ux- bridge cottage hospital to render im mediate medical aid to a teenage lad injured in a scouting accident earlier this month according to the report the boy was turned away and had to be driven all the way to oshawa for treatment since the information was sub mitted to this newspaper by the scoutmaster we have no reason to doubt its accuracy it was written on march 4th and printed in the issue of march 14th to date march 24th we have not received a single word of contradictory information or a single paragraph of explanation from the uxbridge cottage hospital board although we know that certain mem bers of this executive were aware that such a letter had been sent to hung out on a line across the town ship for everyone to see we realize that the councillors are hesitant to fight fire with fire they have absorbed considerable abuse from a similar source in the past without retaliation this time however the charges concern an em ployees moral deportment an em ployee whose dealings with the public are such that his character must be above reproach this officer has been castigated through the distribution of 7500 pamphlets by sheer weight of num bers he cannot compete with this kind of trial that has condemned him in a kangaroo court of injustice if the council has confidence in its offi cial it should come to his aid now a person can take a few good pokes on the chin but this time we feel the injury has been caused by a low blow well under the belt its time his managers came to his rescue and dreamed up a little offensive strategy on their own every story this office long before it was pub lished in all fairness to this hospital we do know that it serves a very wonderful purpose in both the clare mont and stouffville areas one re grettable incident of this kind how ever can do more damage in a week than a dozen miracle operations can rebuild in a year we know too that through the generosity of many people this hospital project was com pleted we understand also that an other building campaign funddriva will be instituted shortly in all fair ness to the staff and to the past and future donors we feel that a letter of explanation from the directors should be submitted without delay there are usually two sides to every story we sincerely hope that this case holds true our columns are still awaiting a reply the electorate is worried the voters are worried about the outcome of the federal election on april 8th one thing upon which al most all agree is the terrible mess which has overcome our governmen tal operation and how much we lack good leadership we are inclined to go along with everyone on this score however there is a bright side to all this con fusion it is the concern that has come into the mind of the canadian voter the absence of strong leader ship in all parties has caused voters to reflect on the need for sound gov ernment and ponder the consequences should a mistake be made on election day the fact that the voters are more interested today is no dream political meetings which a year ago could hardly round up a corporals guard are now being attended by hundreds this is a most healthy sign even the lure of offering the voters bigger pensions more hospital insurance and other selfinterest in ducements has lost much of its ap peal voters we believe are concern ed now with what is best for the country canadians appear to have at long last awakened to the fact that there is no such thing as a free hand out from any government after being concerned in so many elections and even at the be ginning of this campaign with what they could personally hope to gain from this party or that the voters we believe have emerged to the point where the chief concern is to pick the group which will provide the most sound and intelligent government at a price we can afford to pay how about this for brass the chairman of the york cen tral high school board richmond hill let it be known in no uncertain terms last week that he has no con sideration for the wishes or financial abilities of the taxpayers of markham township or any other part of the school area in addition to this bold state ment he showed his disdain for muni cipal councils and the fact that as elected representatives they did show some consideration for the people who have to pay the bills markham township received a jolting 100000 increase in this one particular school budget this year and called in mem bers of the board to explain how come they got their answer in no uncertain terms the board chairman told council his group was not con cerned with how high the taxes went up and furthermore this was the reason the school board work had been taken away from councils whose members might be inclined to give a little consideration to the taxpayer which would be harmful to the edu cational system what the school chairman should remember is that if he drains the tax pot dry or bankrupts the taxpayers for whom he is supposed to be provid ing the service hell have no service to worry about this is the most forceful evi dence we have come across to point up the need for elected high school boards when members of any board take such a high and mighty attitude that they no longer consider th people they basically represent its surely lime for a change its not hard to imagine the chairmans fate at the polls should he make such statements and then ask the electorate to put him in office this was the same attitude which new councillor stewart rumble was continually fighting during his lime as a member of the board the members all appointees moved along in a freewheeling freespending atti tude with no thought about john public who had to dig deeper and deeper each year to meet this fancy spending if this is to be the attitude of nchool boards and we know that in many cases this is not so then some council is going to have to take the bit in its teeth and turn the school budget back its school boards obli gation to provide educational facil ities not councils and if the board cannot do so at a financial level the people can handle then the matter better be dumicd squarely in the lap of the department of education we know of one instance before in this area where this high financing was tossed right back to the depart ment on a capital expenditure pro gram the department was told the amount was much more than could be paid and unless the program was trimmed the school would close need less to say the department backed down if the statements made to mark ham township council are any ex ample of appointed school board policy then its high time the tune was called again i look automation bible translations will soon top 2000 the holy bible has been tran slated into at least 11s1 langua ges and dialects and 300 new translations are under way the way of a translator is hard but present day linguists probably face lesser hazards than their predecessors the na tional geographic society says st jerome who wrote the en during latin vulgate bible in the 5th century was vilified by traditionalists he gave as good as he got calling his critics two legged asses william tyndale was burned at the stake as a he retic in 1536 for translating the bible into everyday english even the revered king james version was attacked when it ap peared in 1611 i had rather be rent in pieces with wild horses than any such translation by my consent should be urged upon poor churches a noted scholar wrote the new edition cross- eth me i require to be burnt clarity over poetry some 340 years later the king james version was defended with equal fervor when the re vised standard version was pub lished in the united states the rsv and the british new eng land bible exemplify a trend to ward clarity over poetry in the king james version st paul writes to the corinthians though i speak with the ton gues of men and angels and have not charity i ami become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal in the new english bible published in 1961 the pas sage becomes i may speak in tongues of men or angels but if i am without love i am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal translators try to clarify ar chaic terms that are no longer clear in the new english bible scribes are replaced by lawyers publicans become tax gather ers mammon is money and surprisingly the wise men are transformed into astrologers roman catholic scholars in the us are preparing an eng lish version of the bible based upon the original hebrew and greek and drawing upon re cent archeological finds the douay bible widely used by english speaking catholics since the 17th century derived from st jeromes vulgate the hebrew university at tei aviv israel has undertaken a long term project to revise the old testament using dead sea scrolls and other precious doc uments one of the sources is a thousandyear old manuscript that was rescued in 1948 from a burning synagogue in syria bible in kekchi many of the 1181 known translations were made by dedi cated missionaries to tribal peo ples all or parts of the scrip tures have been translated into such obscure languages as ogo- ni a nigerian dialect kekchi spoken by some guatemalan in dians kambera an indonesian tongue and mao naga an as samese dialect field translation has its pit falls a translator in the solo mons found later that he had rendered the psalmists phrase the wild asses quench their thirst as the cannibal pigs drink water to stop hiccoughs a missionary among the ta- rahumara indians of mexico tried to obtain the word for jump by acting it out the in dians chorused an expression which the clergyman wrote down only to learn later that h meant what is wrong with you in spite of setbacks current work goes on in the spirit of the translators of the king ames version who wrote transla tion it is that openeth the win dow to let in the light that breaketh the shell that we may eat the kernel that putteth aside the curtain that we may looked ino the most holy place that removeth the cover of the well that we may come by the water even as jacob care for easter lilies although taster is not until the middle of april now is the time to tend to your potted bulbs when the buds are visi ble the plant requires 5 weeks to flower if grown at room tem perature cf 60f when the buds start to bend over 2 wks elapse until bloom if your plants are late horticulturists with the ontario department of agriculture advise placing the plants in a temperature of 65- 70f during growth plenty of light and moisture should be applied once the buds have formed reduce syringing to pre vent rotting after th2 plants are 6 inches high feed them witli a complete soluble fertili zer such as 202020 at the rate of one ounce to 2 gallons of water every 23 weks do not force the plants at high temperatures for long per iods of time as it will be dif ficult to maintain a humid at mosphere and the blasting or drying of the unopened flowers may occur a severe check in growth may cause the flowers to split after flowering the bulbs are useless for forcing again however if the bloom is cut off and the bulb planted out of doois after frost they may bloom again in the fall no action on east end water after over two years of periodic discussion regarding the lack of water pressure in the east end of town there has still been no action or definite plan laid down to remedy the situation between twenty and thirty more homes will be added this year to the watson heights sub division to further aggravate the situation home owners and fire de partment alike are concerned three plans have been suggested from time to time as a remedy for the situation the one idea is to bring a complete new line from the reservoir across the north side of the municipality another the erection of a large overhead storage tank at the east end to provide additional stor age and added pressure as well and the third to boost the pressure by means of pumps many items are given consider able discussion time at puc meet ings and many be believe to be of a lot less importance than an improve ment in east end water pressure which has been hanging fire for years the puc waterworks finances were never in better shape than at present and the surplus on hand would provide at least a start this type of project points up the need for some longrange planning so that situations do not become suddenly acute and drastic financial action has to be taken to the disadvantage of the taxpayer while there would be the poss ibility that some development could occur on the 10th line north which could be called on to assist financially with the building of a new line across the top of the town this is only in the probable future and little consola tion for those presently putting up with the shortage the need for some plan of defin ite action on the situation has been acknowledged for a long lime but month after month goes by with nothing started this problem is im portant and should have the commis sions attention clir stouffutilr cllrihuuc established tn member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontario weekly newspapers association aothrt2d condlai 01m pmlottf or orn member of the audit bureau of circulations issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada 5350 elsewhere s450 c h nolan rublkhfr jas thomas editor jas mrkhan advertising est sugar and spice by bill smiley theres nothing quite as destroying as being torn between two women some fellows are ripped asunder by a wife pullinj in one direction a mother hauling in the other- other chaps are split down the middle by the big decision should i marry mabel who is good kind sweet homely dull and crazy about me or should i run after torso who is bad cruel mean eyepopping exciting and couldnt care less if i dropped dead i remember one time when i was about is it may ba hard to believe for those who know me now but that was the year i had two girls keen on me at the same time i was pretty fond of both one was sweet and innocent the other was a redhead with a wicked shape i dont know how it happened but by some miracle ot mismanagement i made a date with both girls for the same night same time when i realized the pickle i was in i knew that each would be furious if i stepped out with the other one so i took the sensible cowardly way out stood them both up and went to a country dance with the boys both girls recovered from the blow with amazing speed and eventually had the good sense to marry somebody with soma guts it is only we cowards who gel into these jams and im in another one right now this time my wife and daughter arc tearing me in two theyre worse than politicians each bends my car with intensity when the other isnt around trying to persuade bribe or inveigle me into joining her side t all over those crazy kittens four more arrived two days ago its the fourth batch in two years our cat needless to say is a real sexpot the first batch was an event the kids witnessed the wonders of birth there was tremendous excitement the kittens were nourished and cherished the maw was fed dainties i bought cigars when the kittens were weaned i had a talk with my daughter she wept but agreed that we might have a problem if we kept them all i put an ad in the paper it was on a pretty lofty tone demanding a good home suggesting that nothing but the best would do we got rid of them all easily next time around a little of the gloss had worn off it took two ads in the paper to get rid of only two kittens finally a little boy turned up he wanted only one but i told him they were inseparable twins bullied him threatened him cajoled him and finally he took them when i gave him half a dollar apiece the third batch brought ultimatums from the old battle- axe and i dont blame her much have you ever tried to get dinner with four mewling little beasts tottering about underfoot widdling on the floor at every step even their own mother became fed up with the grocerygutted llttls punks who gave her never a moments rest three ads in the paper produced one reluctant customer my sister came to visit and her normal good sense destroyed by a predinner martini in which i craftily tripled everything except the olive she was a fairly easy victim that left two kittens we couldnt move them the market for kittens was apparently saturated there were two alternatives kittens or wife kittens cant cook all right i admit it i did it i still shudder when i think of it ive never been the same since but i dont want to go into details just call me eichman for short never again i swore silently especially after my daughter came down in the morning immediately spotted the empty box pointed her finger at her parents and screamed murderers the battle is on now the old trouble n strife says theyve got to go young kim is watching me like a hawk and reminding me of my past perfidy i havent the nerve to murder them i havent the nerva not to get rid of them some how the only way out as far as i can see is to take them in a basket suitable decorated with an appropriate note inside and leave them on the doorstep of our nextdoor neighbour whose bigblack tomcat is at the root of the whole dilemma diary of a vagabond dr sigmund samuels generosity not all of our canadian ancestors pioneered in log cabins furnished in crude pine stained with buttermilk paint and that made from lamp black this was obvious when clyde batten information officer of the royal ontario museum arranged an afternoon for the wives of ontario weekly news paper association members to view the oustanding sigmund samuel canadana gallery during the recent convention of editors in toronto this gallery is a permanent monument to a man whose abiding passion for the arts and crafts of canada was matched by his zeal for their preservation because of his generous gifts to the museum including funds for the building and the acquisition of many of its treasures priceless addi tions are being discovered while others have been loaned to enhance the collection i was lucky enough to be included among those who attended and were greeted by mrs helen ignatielf acting for the curator scott symons having been an enthusiastic collec tor of canadiana in several forms i was particularly impress ed with the small but authentic collection of early canadian silver and glass mrs ignatielf pointed out the exquisite workmanship in several quebec pieces of furniture with their 18th and 19th century influence especially that of louis xiii many of the englishcanadian articles were of tiger maple curly maple or cherry a lover of old pine and one who has put much elbow grease and effort into the restoration of several pieces dis covered at farm auctions i realized i could have been guilty of destroying the worth of the beautiful old pine corner cup board on exhibit had i discovered it before the museum did ii looks imposing and quite natural in its several coats of emerald green paint with its shelves and interior a shocking pink reputedly fashionable for china cupboards dating as far back as 1800 watch that scraping in the first flush of my collecting fever i once found a lovely old commode when i scraped off a tiny bit of several coats of dark brown varnish i realized my s250 purchase was old pine i was elated but the family thought the cup board was overpowering for our small home so i sold it to friends after i had put hours into scraping its surface they finished the job and some months later learned the piece was authentic early french canadian which had it been left in its original coat of cracked and weathered varnish would have been worth at least s600 to any museum in its present bees wax finish it is still one of the loveliest pieces of early canadian furniture i have ever seen but of no value to a museum though my friend has been offered several hundreds of dollars for it on numerous occasions while mrs ignatieff conducted the group from one exhi bit to another we caught her enthusiasm for this interesting collection even when we approached the truly ugly bedroom suite ca 1865 made in lucknow ontario by m davidson for a robert graham and according to the handsome cata logue ordered for the visit of sir john a macdonaid who was campaigning in favour of confederation her blue eyes twinkled as she said it won first prize in the regional fall fair at that time in comparison the lovely old pine hutch nearby restored my faith in canadian design i sold an heirloom somewhere in canada there is a pearl grey bedroom suite which was made for the room in calgary to be occupied by the prince of wales on his historic visit to this country following the first world war complete with its three plume decorations we bought it after his visit and carted it from one end of canada to tho ether on our many moves until in a moment of despair a sad association led me to dispose of it at auction some day when it is old enough it too mey end up in the sigmund samuel canadian gallery by dorothy barker