ft 2 the stouffywe tribune twwy sepuobtr 12 1963 were nor preserving this year were canning editorial the new business block jun east of park rd which now houses york cleaners and the new bowling alley is a great improvement to the business section of town it is a fine looking addition and the bowling riley adds much to the community recreational facilities as well stouffvilles main business sec tion is within the central four blocks which is now being extended this is good and the way that was visual- every improvement helps ized during the days in which the towns zoning was being worked out it is regrettable to have any va cancies and here in stouffville we have been fortunate that over the years there have been few as the town grows there are openings for more and more business establish ments and a gradual growth over a period of years such as we are having has its advantages over a sudden up surge which has been experienced by some of our nearby communities a suggested drag strip on the ninth line of markham township requested last week at a meeting of council may have caused beads of perspiration to appear on the face of rural residents in the area the letter written in pathetic knglish is quoted in part as follows i would like to arange us a sitting or what is ever necessary to explain to the council what a drag strip is and the benifits of a strip in this area as this is a new sport in canada very few elderly people know any thing about it and without this in formation i feel it would be unfair for the council to turn us down we must admit that said rec- two strikes against it reation is not wellknown in this district by either the old or not-so- old we would suggest too that few citizens on cone 9 markham would care to become acquainted with the sport firsthand dragracing is an enterprise that has its place but where the loca tion should be is a good question we would fear that the council would be burdening themselves with a prime noise and general nuisance problem by giving the greenlight to such a program ward 3 representative charles hoover will do a little sher lock holmes work on the request but we think that its chances of survival are next to nil the present points to the future the enrollment figures at both summitview and orchard park pub lic schools in stouffville with the opening of the september term would indicate that there is no relief in right as far as future pupil accommo dation requirements are concerned at orchard park 53 per cent of the total attendance is contained in the classes from kindergarten to grade 3 at summitview about 49 per cent of the enrollment is at the primary level fifteen per cent of the children at summitview are kin dergarten beginners fourteen per cent of the boys and girls at orchard park are in the kindergarten class it is unlikely that there will be any marked decrease in attendance anywhere along the line but instead as todays primary grade pupils move into the more senior level of learning their places will be more than filled by tots now in diapers stouffvilles residential develop ment is not setting any new record pace but neither is it standing still with new homes comes new residents with new children meaning new plan ning headaches for prophetic trustee boards not so many years ago the driving of an automobile in north america was almost exclusively the prerogative of the north american man the left front seat was then as a rule the undisputed throne of the male member of the family circle not so today as revealed by w s chalmers manager of member service division of dominion auto mobile association during the past 15 years oper ators licenses acquired by female drivers have increased threefold the fatal accident rate to drivers on the distaff side however remains fairly constant in i960 seventy- lady drivers take a bow four female canadian drivers were killed in 1962 this number had in creased by only eight to 82 during the same period the increase in fatal accidents for male drivers has risen 23 per cent in ontario in spite of a tre mendous increase in female driver registrations the female drivers death toll has gone up by only one from 1960 to 62 if the present trend of increase in lady drivers continues there is a glimmer of hope that eventually the motor accident curve may have a change in direction for the first time in 25 years getting tough for the politicians forgetting about the big salary melon ottawa politicians recently uliced up for themselves it might be well to take a look at the politicians life today particularly with an on tario election in the offing now they must promise more and still more in order to get the votes of the people who in turn these same politicians are depriving more and more of deal ing with their own problems its getting too that no level of government is free from any other level of government provinces are always claiming the federal govern ment owes them x number of dollars and at the same time municipal governments like our own are looking for handouts from the province and even eyeing the federal treasury cru on saturday evening we were invited into the downstairs dressing parlours of one dick the bulldog brower at the conclusion of a three- round wrestling encounter in the local arena the 270 pound bonebending heavyweight was soaking up a hot shower along with his equally mus cular partner johnny valentine a formal introduction brought a huge arm out between the curtains for a soapy handshake the arm was followed by a massive chest and a face that with all respect to the breed had none of the characteristics provincial governments are contin ually handing out more and more money to bolster school boards and municipalities we remember a time when poli ticians local and provincial had a less complicated time and dealt with less complicated subjects our various groups of people were different too the farmer pros pered or he didnt prosper depending on his own ability and the weather there were no floor prices or butter subsidies to lean on a man was scorned who acted as if the world owed him a living people took pride in supporting their own families it was unheard of that people should accept help from the public purse as a right nch of the 4legged canine although outweighed by a mere 130 pounds the friendly out-of-the- ring features cast away all fears that he might rudely mistake me for a mop and attempt to wipe clean the watersoaked floor before leaving without hesitation the two right arms were extended in a man ner of extreme cordiality crunch my fingers cracked in the grip of a giant meat hook that had succumbed many a ringrival in the past the secret was then and here revealed that this bulldog lacks only for teeth in his right forepaw tehf touffmllr rtbitur established jsu member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontario weekly newspapers association auhorud ionddu mall pclocv dol oit- member of the audit bureau of circulations issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada 350 elsewhere 5150 c h nolan publisher 4as tiiovlas editor 4a itlckeav advertlsuir jbfjf the tva by anne ross i hesitated for some lime questioning the moral rights of making any comment about the intrusion of our park by a wandering religious zealot a man who has taken it upon himself to determine what it right and what is wrong in others a man who calls everyone a sinner who does not confess to having been born again had i the right to express publicly my personal reaction to the faith of others no matter how vastly it differed from my conception of the worship of god instinctively i resented the exhibitionism of a religious sect thrusting itself upon all stouffville people in our lovely memorial park i sympathized with those local residents living adjacent to the park who were subjected to daily doses of evangelical exhortations and embarrassing emotional hysteria of the penitent blasted over a high powered publicaddress system i listener with unbiased concentration to two meetings honestly trying to comprehend ihe compulsion of a faith that impels these ordinary people lo make public spectacles of themselves in their religious fervor under the mesmerizing wooing of the evangelists repetitious castigations i was moved to nothing but deep pity for the simple people who could be so easily swayed to this narrow bigoted interpretation of the words of the bible 1 was dumbfounded by their unquestioning trust of this selfappointed judge i decided not to voice my opinion of the invasion of our park then i learned that tour enterprising young lads determined to reach toronto had hiked over a hundred miles and had stopped in stouffville and asked to be allowed to sleep in the evangelists big tent overnight that christian gentleman refused and they spent the cold wet night stretched out on picnic tables in the park isnt there a parallel here to a night in bethlehem almost two thousand years ago only the keeper of that inn didnt profess to be anything but a business man perhaps our good man was aghast at the thought of allow ing four weary college and high school students to take refuge in the meeting place a place tor conversions a place incidentally made available to him free of charge by the village of stouffville it couldnt be that he was afraid of them for he was well protected by a rather ferociouslooking and certainly ferocioussounding big dog as well as a couple of alert guards on patrol of the tent and grounds and he himself could retire to his own accommodation in the separate living quarters at one end of the big tent perhaps if the kindhearted folks who forked over theii hardearned money to meet the s5000 payment due on the evangelists big truck which he bamboozled from them by prayer and persuasion perhaps if they had known their pious preacher turned four weary travellers from their tent church door they would have saved their money so that he could have learned the lesson of humility and compassion so that he could have known from experience what it like to walk a hundred miles to achieve a goal on the farm front fertilizer on sod just as important as on wheat says ag rep a a wall agricultural representative vork county around ihe county these days one cant help but notice familiar patterns of farm work wheat being seeded is a com mon one of these and along with a tractor and drill there is nearly always a wagon joad of fertilizer in the field the fertilizer is there but hardly noticeable because its so com mon the use of fertilizer on wheat is well accepted i have to stop and take a second or third look though when i see someone out in a hay or pasture field with a load of fertilizer and going up and down the field with a rota ry spreader this rates special attention because i dont see it very often despite the fact that it isnt commonly done 1 think the man in the sod field is making more headway than his opposite number in the wheat field research from oac tells us that usually a dollar spent on fertilizer for wheat will bring extra yield worth around 200 the same figure for hay ranges between three and four dol- i lars fertilizer on sod is almost i sure to pay and if there is any i doubt a soil test gives a fool- 1 proof answer work on alfalfa shows too that an application of potash in the fall can save up to 20 of the plants from loss of winter killing soil tests bring up another angle i spenn a lot of time these days doing fertilizer re commendations its important work but again i make about fifteen recommendations on wheat for every one i make for sod crops i think in a good livestock county like york i should be doing about four on hay and pasture for every one on wheat i am making my annual pilch for soil testing now too its a strange thing that the use of fertilizer is well accepted for good crop production but soil testing is looked on by many as an unnecessary detail put ting on fertilizer without a test is almost like the fellow i ran across one day who was feeding laying mash to his steers still quite often if the fertilizer man doesnt get around to take the samples the testing never gets done we have the soil sample boxes at our office and many of the feed stores in the county have a supply too fall is a good time to get samples for net years crop and getting them is time well soent sunday school lesson golden text but i say unlo you love your enemies bless them that curse you do good to them that hate you and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you that ye may be the children of your father which is in heaven fai lle makclh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good and scudcth rain on t lit- just and on the unjust matt 544 45 josephs life in egypt from the time he was taken there as a slave to the events portrayed in todays lesson is a wonder ful demonstration of a man hy ing by faith in the promises of god amid incessant opposition adversity lies temptation the undependability of others the atmosphere of the pagan court of egypt these and many oth er pressures were brought to bear upon him over a period of about 22 years but although at the beginning only a lad of 17 he quietly maintained his integrity and faith though far from home and its influences neither was he sustained by special visions or manifesta tions as had been granted to abraham and jacob after the boyish dream there seems to have been no special revelation to him but by gods grace he walked with him in obedience and so his life be came the great turning point in the history of israel joseph re cognized that which today we are in danger of forgetting indeed that which from many circles and not least education al ones we are urged to for getthat moral laxness is fun damentally a sin against the holiness of god and therefore to be avoided at all costs even though it is largely accepted in our culture the accuracy of this narra tive that once was questioned by critics is now noted by au thorities it once was argued that wine was unknown in egypt but this was proven un true an interesting hebrew idiom reveals itself in this nar rative true to egyptian cus tom the butler describes how he placed the cup upon pharaohs palm egyp tian cups had no handles or stems hence were placed on the palm new bible commen tary the term marshgrass or reedgrass is egyptian for which there is no hebrew equi- valenl because it was pe culiar to the banks of the nile we now know that there was a special priestly caste in egypi to whom not only the religion but the science of the country was entrusted we know that the care of the mag ical hooks was entrusted to two classes of learned men whose j titles exactly correspond to magicians and wise men these brief quotations from many available sources illus trate the precise accuracy of our narrative our external circumstances are very different from those surrounding joseph but the stresses and temptations are similar we shall find many a- biding lessons in this familiar and wonderful story someone has said a chris tian should destroy his enemies by loving them into being his friends joseph exemplifies this in his affectionate dealings with his brothers despite their previous aciions and in so do ing anticipates our lords own teaching i say unto you love your enemies bless them that curse you do good to them thai hate you and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you that ye may be the children of your father which is in heaven cows need more water per unit of body weight than other farm animals a cow producing 80 pounds of milk a day may drink as much as 300 pounds of water sugar an spice by bill smiiey are we going to have a civil war in canada you may laugh at the question but a lot of people in this country dont find it too hilarious la belle province is sick and tired of her cinderella role she has had enough of being the bright and beautiful but bedraggled and badly neglected sister in the family since wicked godmother duplessis kicked the bucket and prince charming lessage rode up on his white charger a new life has dawned for la belle she has realised that her wicked godmother was did- ling her out of her inheritance that some of her sisters es pecially that ontario who was always a bit of a snob wer looking down their noses at her and that the meek inherit the earth only when everybody else has tapped it as a result she has lost her inferiority complex sh has lost her faith in wizards her eyes are blazing her fists are up she has a chip on her shoulder the size of a chunk ol cordwood and she is very definitely going to the ball whe ther the rest of the family likes it or not a- h a readers of this column probably dont realize how lucky they are to have the whole frenchcanadian resolution and the separtist movement explained to them by an expert who just spent a week visiting la belle province travelling in an an englishcanadian owned hotel first let me say that the girls in montreal still knock you stiff they have a flair a style that makes old guys like me stop dead in their tracks and turn slowly mouth open until a vicious poke in the ribs from the wife or small daugh ter shatters the moment secondly the traffic in montreal is still the most fright ening the cabdriving the most hairraising and the fares th most reasonable of any city in canada thirdly the majestic bulk of quebec brooding over th st lawrence with who knows what memories is still pro bably the most imposing city in north america fourthly the price of booze in quebec province is fierce fifth i cant stay up all night any more sixth it was good to meet old weeklyeditors and assorted friends and find out their golf is lousy too seventh after a week of dressing up and eating fabulous meals and tipping everybody in sight its wonderful lo sit in the backyard like a bum unshaven to eat that real food which only the old girl can prepare and to get up from the table without having to fish for a bill m a- a- -a- we enjoyed our trip thoroughly and even the kids ar rived home utterly exhausted sure sign of a fine convention it was tempting to devote this weeks column to a cute tra velogue but i came home with a deep feeling of unease concern ing the mixed marriage which has for almost one hundred years confounded the experts by being apparently a happy one im afraid one of the partners wants a divorce or if not that at least a completely new deal has the lady grounds for divorce you ask perhaps not legally getting a divorce in this country has always been almost as tough as getting into heaven and like all ladles her real reasons for kicking over the milk can are all mixed up with her emotions shes sick of feeding a big family on her butterandegg money whlla the old man lives it up at the saloon with the proceeds from the beef he sold a a a a shes fed up with being complimented on her homo cooking when what she wants is a pheasantunderglass and champagne dinner like the other 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