9m 1 tt stowrvjttf twww tmbr50t joy 5 iwj the stouffville tribune estabushed t8s a v noan son publishers member of the canadian weekly newspapers association and the ontarioquebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulation authorutd 4 ftca4caaa mll pxvc dpt ottawa printed and issued every thursday at stourtvilie ont in canada j250 elsewhere 350 c h nolan publisher j tbon aot editor notes ond comments stouffville muchfavoured community work is beginning this week on another major gift being made to the stouffville memorial park by arthur latcham whose generosity last year has sur passed any tangible gifts made here before and has made our community the envy of many mr iatchama gifts floodlights a new grandstand and now a much- needed picnic shelter and booth have been luxuries which without his generosity the town could not afford few centres in ontario large or small can boast the park facilities and the arena which we have but most of all can say that they have not cost the local taxpayers onr cent the stouffville arena is the largest or at least one of the largest contributors to the town tax coffers and the park thanks to mr iatcham is one of our greatest assets the arena likewise was provided for the town by a few citizens who were willing to support the need these facts are something to dwell upon and be thankful when one is inclined to grouch about rising taxes rivers ih5pisthm defending religious liberty in supporting the appeal of a member of the jehovah witness sect that religious liberty is a freedom all canadians have a right to enjoy regardless of pro vincial boundaries the federal department of justice is being true to the traditions established by the quebec act the very first act passed for the govern ment of canada after the conquest of new france by the british the quebec act of 1774 established religious liber ty in canada and there was none anywhere else in america there was none even in england itself or in most parts of europe where long and bloody wars had been fought between protestants and roman catholics as long as canada was a french colony none but roman catholics had any civil rights after it was transferred to britain in 1763 the situation was re versed roman catholics lost all right to hold public office and the most mercenary swarm of carpetbaggers under which any country has ever groaned swept in from new england to rob the poor habitant of his farm and savings under the laws of england which in those days gave a romal catholic slight protection it was then that the british parliament took a step unusually enlightened in those days of religious big otry it passed the quebec act which among other things removed canadian roman catholics from the provisions of the test act which restricted roman catholics in every other part of the empire it aroused such fury in the southern colonies which are now the united states that the declaration of independence listed the quebec act as one of the intolerable acts that were reason for revolution but in making french- canadian roman catholics firstclass citizens of the empire it assured their loyalty in the revolution that was then vewing canadians have reason to be proud that our coun try was one of the first in the world in which all men had equal rights regardless of the religion they pro fessed we have even more reason to be proud that this tradition has been cherished undimmed through out the years even though some of the sects that arose were more of a nuisance than an asset it is a sad commentary indeed that the very ele ment in our population for whose freedom that first act was passed the french canadians should now be the ones who are seeking to curb the liberty of others with whom they disagree it is heartening that our federal government headed by a man of the same race and religion has so promptly intervened in an appeal against a decision by the quebec courts the star monotonous but necessary one is sometimes tempted to allow depression to set in because of the constant repetition that seems to be part of our daily life every newspaper is bombarded with exhortations to harry its readers into becoming safety conscious for example one gets fed up with the monotony of such exhortations there is a tendency to feel that every thing printable on the subject has been printed and the task has already been finished accidents though continue to happen to all ap pearances death stalks the highways with supreme con fidence that drivers will not learn that safety requires caution and he need not fear any lack of customers the history of the automobile is the history of a constantly increasing menace to public safety the de liberate building of more and more power and more and more speed potentiality into automobiles must be done by the manufacturers with full knowledge that they are contributing to this increasing menace the de partment of highway pnd millions of the taxpayers money to meet this speed attack of the car makers it builds safe roadway it puts guide lines down the middle of the highway to guide the motorist into ways of common sense it erects stop signs at points of real danger in the vain hope that drivers will obey them and so stay alive and uninjured drivers on through roads are entitled to confidence that drivers on inter secting road will obey these signs but too often that confidence is misplaced and disaster follows so it comes about that the monotony of repetition must be continued and papers magazines highway de partment police officers all must keep on dinning into public consciousness that the only way to be safe is to play safe the repetition may be monotonous but it is obviously even if hopelessly necessary in this respect it seems possible that it resembles the preachers exhortations from the pulpit week after week thousands of churches resound with the exhorta tion that congregations play it safe we sometimes wonder if preachers sometimes feel the sense of futility that pervades the editorial atmosphere at times such a lot of the seed seems to fall on stoney ground people seem so determined to follow the great smooth way that leads to the wrong place perhaps the conscious ness that one or two are persuaded to take the right fork in the road may compensate wouldnt it be grand thing if an epidemic of universal commonsense would overwhelm humanity so that the monotony of exhortation against careless driving wickedness and war would cease to be neces sary vvmo tawgift mwfettthful ups to peay to lcv gotf moiy v2p amd 1ay vtflk tot vsbowayil lrr r r t si m w2 tirees spbt- amateur babysifter a few months ago a lady in saskatchewan asked me if i would repeat a story i wrote several years ago the lady wrote in such gracious terms that i am glad to grant her wish so here is the story the grandpa we are thinking of just now is goodnatured and we like him but he isnt much good as a babysitter mr w f fish j p is a distinguished south african and was once mayor of cape town he was born in london england but went to south africa when in his teens the autobiography of a count er- jumper tells the story of his interesting life when living in capetown mr fish had a visit from his married daughter and her baby who were living in the transvaal his vvie and daughter thought they would like to go out for the evening so mr fish gallantly offered to look after the baby thanks dad said his daughter it is awfully good of you but you wont have any trouble baby is such a sweet darling and seldom wakes up if he docs just dip the rubber dummy in a little sugar and hell be right ofl to steep before you know it everything will be all right said grandpa we shall have a nice quiet evening and dont you hurry home take your time he got his slippers some papers and a favourite book and settled down for three or four hours of quiet plbasure there was a tiny squeak that must be a motorist with a new kind of horn he thought then there was another squeak louder and longer and grandpa realized that the baby had spoiled his record he had not gone oft to sleep soon he was screeching like a foghorn he yelled till he was blue in the face then he remembered about the dummy and the sugar he slipped into the pantry got a saucer full and returned trium phantly dipping the dummy into the saucer he placed it well into the babys mouth the baby sucked it for a moment then spat it out and yelled louder than ever grandpa took the raby up and tried to sing it to sleep but it didnt work his mother had said the baby was an angel but grandpa thought it was a very noisy angel well try the sugar again he said to himself so more dips and more sugar and more yells than ever grandpa had never heard such piercing and penetrating screams he thought maybe a pin was hurting baby so he undid jts clothing and once having got them off he couldnt put them on again after half an hour baby was still naked and grandpa bewildered and alarmed he got some clothes on or rather wrapped them around the baby but nothing made any difference the only time he stopped screaming was when he stopped for breath strange to say nothing made him worse than the dummy dipped in the saucer grandpa tried singing theres a iriend for little children his voice was drowned by the yelling at long last it seemed like ages the family returned how is my little iamb asked his daughter he has never stopped screaming for three solid hours replied grandpa i did everything i could think of hymns songs and anthems milk bread butter cheese and sardines did you give him the dummy she asked i certainly did and that seemed to make him madder than anything else she hurried upstairs and soon returned with the baby in her arms my poor little son she sobbed no wonder you cried then to her father she said who told you to dip the dummy in salt you are inhuman grandpa he had mistaken salt for sugar and the babys mouth was sore and blistered i have never forgotten that evening writes mr fish he made it up with his daughter and grandson but he knows now that a man may be lord mayor of a great city but still a poor babysitter our quotation today is by longfellow what the leaves are to the forest that to the world are children report from parliament by michael starr mp ontario hiding on tuesday april 26th and wednesday april 27th the premiers of the provinces of canada met with the prime minister to discuss an agenda for the dominionprovincial conference winch will meet later on this year to discuss problems which will be accept ed on this agenda the largest delegation to attend this con ference was from the province of ontario headed by premier frost and totalling 30 strong the province of ontario suggested an agenda of six points which included every problem now under discussion and consideration by various oovernments in canada one of the significant pro posals was made by the prime minister of canada in which he indicated that the federal government was prepared to take atre of the ablebodied unemployed through a program of relief to which the federal government would be willing to participate to the extent of 30 percent of the total cost at present and to increase this percentage to 40 percent if the situation worsend this item was accorded a high priority in all proposal marie by the pre mier- of the various provinces it was unanimously agreed that th present tax rental ag reements between the federal governmnt and ih provinces was not the tlnai anrver to the fiscal problem it was agreed hi vever that they are the best that it has ben possible to work otw in the pu but t is hoped that something better can be worked out at this con- on ones i am r was a towed to be preeenc to i hear the proceeding my views on this conference are- similar to those of others that a great deal of good will i come out as a benefit to all the people it is to be hoped that they work out these problems in harmony and arrive at satis factory conclusions instead of shifting the blame on these matters from one level of gov ernment to another they will have the opportunity now of evolving some amicable con clusion to every one of these problems i was very satisfied indeed to bear various premiers of the provinces voice the difficult position in which municipali ties now find themselves faced with increasing costs of admin istration and service with sources of revenue decreasing this is one level of govern ment which needs a great deal of help from its senior part ners since the opening days spee ches were formal affairs intend ed for the record there were no disagreements nor harsh- criticisms and we hope that this tone remains throughout the conference xo doubt how ever that once they are in camera free of the spotlight and the harusard reporters the real business of this conference j will ik- jo- unce the oonfer- ence participants me in pri vate without having to con sider the impact o words on the voters on whom they rely for cilice they will be much freer in exchanging views criticisms and oiywtons they will then say what they really think of ottawas unfmpioy- ii relief proposal and the s of dominion- provjicai fiscal relations i for pabetm otflit avoiding friction br vacy cltaiw my husband rmini meiua bickering it is a most un- ihat a certain araoum of trie- pleasant place and unsuitable tion between children i natjfor growing children sons andi ural but i cant hejp remem- daughter learn more from ex- berin my father quoung ru ample that by direct teaching kin about the true nature ofif mother and father get along a home being the place of agreeably with few tins the peace the shelter from all children are likely to follow terror rioum and division rusj their lead parents cannot be j kin believed that insofar as t too careful about a united i it is not this it u not home i front taking part in child- i it is then only a part of thejrens quarrel against each outer world which you have j other is usually a mistake roofed over and lighted a firelm nevi 3 par if too long in mother and father will likely it sounds very idealistic and realize that there are certain adult i suppose we parents situations which seem to pro- are so sick of talk of hydro- j voke fights among their chil- gen bombs and international dren the ownership of toys j wrangling that ue long for the possession of clothes fol- peace at home but show mellowing schedule the relation- a peaceful home where child- j ship with other people are all j ten are and id certainly j hot spots like to visit it parents can avoid many mi- in ruskms day the paternal j nor wars between their chil- j form of family life ivat the acjdren if certain rules are recj cepted pattern father ruled lognlzed and folowed by all of the household his word was the members of the family law not only for his children each child should have hisi but for his wife women hadjown playthings if a tiny few ways of earning a living i broom belongs to an older sis- for the sake of peace they iter the younger sister cannot sometimes put up with very fuse it without the owners per- tyrannical husbands the mar- mission riage bond was seldom broken in ihe family routine the but in the home there were younger child must accept the often resentment and amagonj rule that an earlier bedtime ism for him than for an older bro- students of modern marriage ther or sister is quite fair believe that although there are j kach loy or girl has a right more divorces at the pies ent time than there were in huskins day there are also far more truly happy marria ges these are based on the husband and wife working as partners on an equal footing with mutual appreciation and with different responsibilities a peaceful home atmosphere is achieved by both considering each other rather than by the man dominating the scene a certain amount of conflict is healthy in a famiy it is a necessary part of the clash of interests when brothers and sisters are growing up to gether children need to learn not the avoiding of all discus sion but peaceful and fair ways of settling their differences mothers soon discover the wis dom of noninterference in a brothersister squabble unless one child is likely to be harmed or property is in danger of be ing destroyed no one wants to live in a house where there is contin- to some play time with hi own special chum without a brother or sister tagging along it is also essential to family harmony for each child to feel secure he has his own place in his fathers and mothers af fection if parents can plan to spend some leisure or some work time frequently with each child this is one of the surest ways to reduce the number of brothersister squabbles jeal ousy is the hidden underlying reason for many childrens quarrels if a child is certain of his parents love he feels no ne cessity to fight with a brother or a sister to prove his import ance in the family circle the chip on the shoulder the angry argumentative child oft en can be led to more peaceful ways not by punishment but by more affectionate attention from mother and dad iove is the best medicine for the fever of fighting copyright parting one by one we miss the faces grown familiar year by year but well neer forget the graces that have made such mem ories dear though as each dear one is taken and an empty chair is left faith in god is never shaken even while were sore bereft theyve been dear friends for the reason theyve helped make us what we are we shall miss them for a season then we too shall cross the bar wfr flim council news our film club meeting was held at the home of mr and mrs deeming in myrtle we had a good turnout of members and after a short meeting 3 films were shown one was river watch a story of the men who keep the harbour clear and take the supplies to the lighthouse keepers fighting fish a story of letters to life the editor fe april 29 1955 editor the tribune dear sir every day we read of little girls and boys getting hit by cars when these accidents oc cur on busy streets it makes one wonder why parents take such chances in letting the tiny tots play in dangerous places 1 drive a car because 1 have to and too often come close to hit ting children who run onto the street in front of me i feel the strain will soon decide me to quit driving the situation could he eased greatly if a pub licity campaign were started to implore parents and guard ians of small children to keep a closer watch on the little ones if there is no place but the street to play on a motorist i shark fishing and wings to mexico a coloured film show ing life in mexico and the pic turesque guatemala city and an authentic indian religious festival all very good films and well worth seeing m carter laff of the week looking for a bargain with prices so much higher than they were before the war bargains are hard to find these days s for example materials used in building houses have gone up 179 the average wholesale price of all the things people buy has gone up 1 16 and those are government figures but during the same period the price of gasoline has gone up only 35 less than onethird of the average im arm ymra trm pu mod or4raw tiki kmlkf imperial oil umtted