p the tribune twain dttemb 30 196s ridiculous sweepstake law canadians arc enthusiastic sup porters of lotteries the recent seizure 525000000 worth of sweepstake tickets certainly points this out if they are not why would so a huge number of tickets be based here for distrubution each car tens of millions of dollars go out of the country for these various lot teries as this column has said on more than one occasion the present law covering lotteries is ridiculous it is perfectly all right to visit the tracks and bet on horse races buy tickets on draws at exhibitions but not to buy or sell a sweepstake liiket polls have shown on several occasions that at least eighty per cent of canadians favour legalized lotteries in this country the proceeds could be used here as elsewhere to support hospitals and educational in stitutions there are numerous arguments to favour national sweeps the countries that have established state lotteries have rid themselves of illegal draws these sweepstakes answer the human compulsion to gamble without forcing the gambler to break any law by deal ing illegally those who oppose the move tell us that gambling is immoral and the gov ernment should not become involved in an immoral project but those who say this also regard drinking as immoral and both the dominion and provincial governments profit substantially from liquor sales the government has been going out of its way to bribe canadians with their own money in various forms of social welfare in order to gain popularity here is something which the newly elected government could do and get overwhelming support amend the criminal code to get rid of this out dated lottery law canadians are going to gamble whether the law says they can or not and the government might as well wake up to this fact for once and for all after all eighty per cent is eighty per cent and no party should deny such a large proportion of the population court news not for fun time and again we hear readers bemoan the fact that court news in the local press has besmirched the name of their family or someone in it some too even think that some court cases arc missed others have the notion that court news is only run according to our whims if the case is heard you can rest assured youll read about it in the tribune wc run court news for two reasons we bclivc that it is news and secondly we lecl it acts as a deterrent someone told us lately that they supposed we carried court news to gain readership all news helps gain reader ship hut sensationalism alone will not do it it seldom works in a small town its fun reading it till you see your own name in it then the newspaper isnt worth a darn anymore magistrates welcome us into their courts tlicy feel like ourselves that the newspaper can help in reducing the number of liquor offenders who appear humans being what they are court news columns will never dwindle to nothing but it would be a fine thing if they did we hope that our sub scribers feel this same way off with the old on with the new its the end of an old year the- beginning of a new a time for reminisc ing its the end of an era for this news- papci and the beginning of a new for those who arc not so familiar with the local press we can say that this is the fifth era the newspaper has entered since it began in i88s fn the beginning it was known as the tribune a name to which it has now returned eight pages were pro duced four of them in the home plant and the other four in toronto what was commonly called boiler plate in 1936 this original format came to an end and the stoullville tribune be came all home print all eight pages being produced in our own plant ten years later there was still another in novation the paper came out with seven columns instead or six it is now fourteen years since the paper made the last big change moved to a larger eightcolumn page went into the pro duction of pictures on a large scale and turned to an outside firm for the papers prcsswork this week another new day has dawned the paper has returned to its original name the tribune in addi tion it has blossomed into a full nine- column page size and in addition to maintaining and enlarging its use of pictures colour has been added the paper has been restylcd something that is particularly evident on this editorial page column rules have been done away with a great many new features have been added and these will appear in greater numbers as we move into a new year the management and staff arc proud of the new look and hope that you too will find favour with our ef forts to give stouffvillc and surround ing area the finest possible in weekly newspapers editors mail- the humane society by our readers- dear sir referring to your letter in the stouff villc tribune of dee 23rd re forming a branch of the society to service the north ern half of york county last year i sub mitted a plea to this effect but being as far too many people are so unmindful of the dire need and suffering of our poor fellow creatures the editor of this same weekly did not see fit to publish it but now an outsider comes along with the same idea and presto his latter is promptly accepted which again brings to mind our lords saying that a prophet is not without honor save in his own country or tovvnm outside my home right now are six rats poor strays from sold or abandoned farms where they still want to stay but for hunger thirst and starvation which drives them out into a cold strange world in search of new homes and enough to eat to keep body and soul together some even come to my window look in and cry and because i cannot help hunger when they hunger and suffer when they sutler i give thorn ail that i can plus a few straw beds wherein they can get a iittle warmth and comfort at least during the coldest winter days and nights but an unheated garage is not nearly enough like human waifs they too are here through no fault of their own and have a godgiven light to live their full life span and share with us the fullness of the good earth we can afford to house and keep murderers sex maniacs and a host of other vile persons whom the holy scriptures command us to to death in the first place also money to burn to build new stadiums race tracks innumerable recreation centres hundreds of expensive buildings and places that are actually not needed but cannot we claim provide decent shelters for our lesser brethren where they could receive proper feed and care until good homes can he found for them or until death do us part and thus not cast them to destruc tion or to laboratories or other such devilfish places of torture and living death let us not be deceived there will never be peace on earth and goodwill towards men until man becomes first willing to make peace with the lesser creatures and do unto them as he would be done by as long as he prefers to rule over them with guns sledge hammers gas chambers and other satanlc means as long will god rule over him in like manner with sick ness and diseases of all kinds with famine pestilences fire floods earth quakes and raveins wars hatred etc until he makes us so few in number that even a little child shall be able to count them that are left if we believe in the holy bible this is the message there is no other i mrs dolores deverell tie ritmtxe established 1sss h nolan publisher jim thomas editor noel edey advertising puhlished every thursday hv the stouttville tribune limited at main st stoufivillc ont tel 602101 single copies 10c subscriptions s100 per year in canada s600 elsewhere member of audit bureau of circulation canadian weekly newspapers association and ontario weekly newspapers association authorized as second class mail post office dept ottawa but you cant see the new year in without bagpipes sugar and spice by bill smiley all my life i have admired organiz ed people this doesnt mean that i like them in fact my usual response to this type is instant hatred because they make mc look so confused in compari son you know the sort of person i mean the chap leering at you from the life insurance ads mortgage on house paid up pension all figured out and a big fat annuity when he retires at 60 and dies at sixtyone from sheer bore dom because theres nothing left to organize then theres the vvitc who runs her house like clockwork everything on time not a dirty ashtray not a half- hour in the day of pure bumming for anybody in the family surely it isnt her fault that her kids became greasy beatniks the minute they leave home and her husband goes the normal course from ulcer to coronary to stroke much as t detest organization ive got to let admiration overrule distaste its not easy after a lifetime of com fortable chaos but ive been driven to it by my daughter in a fit of teenage blues the other day she was sounding off on the futility of life naturally i told her she was crazy that life was a glorious adventure huh some adventure same old thing day after day week after week year after year tsil me dad what do you and mom have to look forward to well that struck home it didnt seem quite the moment to talk about the resurrection and the life ever after or even about growing old gracefully or even about the sheer joy of having the livingroom papered it was right there and then t decid ed she was right i dont plunge ahead toward a goal i merely go around in everdecreasing circles 1 dont seize life by the scruff of the neck and shake it i merely beg it to leggo and stop shaking mc and this is the reason i who has never made a serious new years res olution in my life have a list of them drawn up no more of this tottering from crisis to crisis no more of this being late and lazy inconsistent and in efficient unhealthy and unvvcalthy resolved that im going to stop lighting with my wife in 20 years i won a single battle why spoil a record like this resolved that im going to stop this week next- in the comma year by rayargyle- smoking drinking and ogling f think my lungs and liver are shot by now so the first two dont amount to much but the third one is liable to give mc a heart attack from sheer indignation that these shameless hussies arc allow ed to go around like that on the beach it says here resolved that im going to stop pampering my kids the next time hugh suggests he needs another ten bucks ill punch him right in the nose the next time kim tells mc im an old fud ill take a strap to her its going to be difficult as he outweighs mc by 10 pounds and i couldnt beat that sweet if she committed murder but organi zation will make it possible resolved that im going to take regular exercises something more stren uous than bending my elbow striking a match or taking a cap off a jar of jam resolved that this column will be written at my leisure not to a deadline which means sprinting through the snow to the mailbox at 959 pm in my slippers resolved that i will make lesson plans like the other teachers and not arrive daily gaily and ask well where were wc yesterday resolved that 1 will slop being nice to people just because f like them and will assiduously court those who can do me some good sorry weve run out of space there arc 374 other resolutions and i feel that ive just scratched the surface but look for a more dynamic disgusting bill smiley in 66 im organized crystal ball gazing is always a chancy business with the world as it is today it might seem foolhardy to pre dict whats ahead but the mind thrives on speculation and as is my custom at each new year heres what i sec ahead for the coming year vietnam after two years or be wildering diplomatic twists and turns the us now seems committed to what its military strategists have always warned against a land war on the continent of asia us troop involvement continues to mount in vietnam before the year is out there will likely be 400000 american soldiers there a greater number than saw action in korea 15 years ago despite peace feelers from each side us continues to follow the eisen hower dominoe dictum the theory that if south vietnam goes communist other asian states will follow from a strictly military viewpoint it is hard to cnallcnge this logic the weakness of it as some us politicians have pointed out is that economic and social progress in these lands would create a far more effective anticommu nist stance than can be achieved by even the full force of us military might the us could end the conflict in vietnam tomorrow by unleashing total war against this unhappy jungle land this is what the rightwingers want but the risks are so great the risk of chinas involvement the risk of a wave of worldwide antiamericanism that president johnson has wisely overruled the war hawks who rail against his nowin policy so the dilemma remains the ques tion to be settled in 1965 seems to be no longer whether communists will take over south vietnam but how and un der what conditions in the long run the best the west can hope for is a quasiindependent communist regime in saigon which like yugoslavia in europe could resist the power pull miiscvw russia vs china these two goliatlis of communism will draw fur ther apart in 1966 unless the lindcrbox of vietnam forces them into a common antiwestern stance settlement of the vietnam conflict will take the pressure off the soviet union to compete with china in bellicosity and belligerence power shifts in the kremlin can be expected lo acceleiate following the res ignation of president anaslas mikoyan premier kosygin and secretary brczh- new have managed to retain the collec tive leadership imposed following nikita khrushchevs ouster but the russian system has not yet demonstrat ed that it can adjust to anything other than supreme leadership of one man that one man may not emerge in 1966 but he is waiting in the wings for the inevitable breakup of the present team rhodesia prime minister ian smiths breakaway regime faces a bleak outlook as 1966 begins britains delay ed but drastic move in a ioial oil em bargo can bring the regime to its knees but i predict that smith will survive if only at the price of guaranteeing even tual participation by the negro major ity in the government of the country canada two big questions loom on the horizon as 1966 begins will pros perity and the liberal government survive the coming year spurred by us economic expan sion canadas ecuiminy is now entering its fifth year of unbroken industrial growth a modern record money and credit will be tighter in 1966 than in the past year mainly to dampen signs of inflation which have shown up recently but no one around seriously expects anything but good business conditions in 1966 thi outlook is optimistic the liberal government will be on trial in 1966 the prcchristmas cabinet shakeup will have time to show its ef fects politically te country should be stable in the coming year given an other year of minority government however and possible changes in party leadership it will take a lot of skillful manoeuvring to avoid an clcc- irn to xotftnmajlyvjjxsa8vl an amusing sight if you want to witness an amusing sight at this season of the year take a walk down the main street of stouft- ville about a halfhour before the stores close on christinas eve take a look at the people mostly frustrated husbands and fathers trying to cram twentyone shopping days into thirty nerverack ing minutes its a mad mad world wc took such a trip on friday evening and saw the lastminute shoppers in action one man told us that he was looking for ornaments he explained that one of bis children had tied up the family dog to the trunk of the christ mas tree and well to make a long story short rover decided to take a walk how was your christmas roamin around its really amazing the number of different ways the town of stouffvillej is spelled especially on christmas cards received through the post office here is a sample that we noticed and there are probably others stoveville stufij ville stouville stuffeville stoveille stoulfeville slaflordville stoverville and stoullerville the liquor store on the main street of markham is about as lit up as many of its patrons will be come new years eve one of the most unique christmas gifts that we saw over the holiday was prepared by mr peter hajduk of the white lunch restaurant in markham for his father out west it was in hon our of his 65th birthday and he had sixtylive 1965 silver dollars embedded in an engraved wood block mr hajduk delivered it personally in a family re union gathering private squabbles between girl and boy friends often end up in court the police and possibly magistrates too are never anxious to become involved in such affairs since in most cases the individuals soon forgive and forget magistrate o s holtmrake tells the story of levying a fine against a young man for assaulting his ladyfriend he also required him to post a bond to keep the peace two weeks later the couple were married it goes without saying which bond would be the most expensive the little two by four service sta tion on the kennedy road south of unionville continues to do a booming business six pumps have now been installed regular gas is selling at 369c per gallon with a five cent hike for the premium petrol on thursday morning of last week wc counted five cars on the lot and three more waiting in line who says that the men folk arent bar gain hunters a miss is as good as a mile says farl crowder of baker avenue stouff villc last week while cutting through the pavement on main street in pre paration for the laying of a sewer pipe to coffey and bartley motors a vehicle came so close that the drill was knock cd out of his hands stouflvillc barber lcn keeping will soon sport the finest car in town he will accept delivery next week of a new lincoln continental purchased through coffey and bartley motors but made in the united states delivery will be to the ford plant at oakvillc the next adult skating night in the markham arena is saturday jan 8th on tuesday evening dec 21st it would have been better for 19 year old vincent paul leo if he had gone to bed instead of coming to stoufivillc noth ing went right while driving down the main street a brake seized up on his car and the rear wheel caught lire someone directed him to the new fire ball but there was no one home since the equipment has not been moved in police on patrol noticed the smoke and turned in the alarm when the trunk- lid was raised a couple of bottles of joy juice were found and the lad was charged later while attempting to assist firemen in dousing the blaze he took the full force of the water hose flush in the face believing that three times is an official out in any kind of game he headed back to downsvicw a little poorer a little welter and a little thirstier if you can find time between now and new years day bundle the kids into the family car and lake them out altona wav past the home of mr and mrs lloyd britton their place a beau tiful sight in any season of the year is especially attractive this christmas col oured lights arc spotted everywhere while in hat vicinity take a look at the illuminated manger scene in front of the h e nighswandcr residence im mediately to the south to get there turn east at elsons garage to the four- corners of altona then south about i mile while on the subject of altona wc have learned that the 155 acre farm formerly in the win rcesor estate has been sold to norman and maurice tap- scow mvvv 4s south of markham they will not lake possession of the property until april 1967 mr and mrs wm wallace currently reside there winters beauty has begun at lasl to blanket the landscape the stream remains unfrozen hut the snows sheen adds a touch of diamondlike brilliant ivju mrtailh ciiiiiu m 1uic31 ul u1uui11 oiau rnuiu i