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ftitl the stouffyilie tei5uhe txxjty koreobet 27 w58 established 1u a v nolan son publishers member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontarioquebec newspapers association authorized ftj fcocdtlaw mail pcttloflice dcpt ottawa jlember of the audit bureau of circulations issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada 350 elsewhere 150 c h nolan publisher jas thomas associate editor our editorial comment the call to vote next monday dec 1st the rate payers of stouffville are being called to elect a new council for the year 3959 this is always a most import ant day in the life of the community and should be an important day as well in the life of every citizen who has a vote the job of running this town is becoming big business business which requires the attention of keen and able men with an alertness to the needs of the entire town both for the present and the future stouft- ville has advanced further in the last value of as this is young canada book week the canadian library associa tion is urging once again the import ance of developing an early interest in reading among boys and girls of course there is no question about the value of this objective reading is the tool with which the in dividual communicates not only with the minds of people throughout the vast spaces of his own nation but also with those in other countries it is also the principal means of com munication with the thought of past ages and the fruit in story poem history or great philosophy of half dozen years than for a score of years previous and the development continues to roll the voters are most fortunate this year in the number of candidates from which they have to choose the new council members and there should be no difficulty in selecting an able board from those who have offered their services it is up to every citizen to get out and exercise his or her franchise to give this municipality the best local government that is possible see you at the polls on monday reading great minds long since dead the big problem for education ists and librarians is the development in the child of a taste for a product which on the surface may not be as entertaining as the comics or tele vision but there isnt much doubt about the relative value to the individual of the classics as opposed to the more ephemeral forms of literature for tified by this faith teachers and lib rarians at least can know they are engaged in a vital and significant activity one which can have un dreamed of results recent rains were welcome no one can deny that tve have had a beautiful fall from the stand point of fine weather there has been lots of sunshine and it has not been overly cold however up until last week one thing had been lacking a good drenching rain farmers were very short of water and a number were drawing the precious liquid for livestock use here in town with our adequate supply we are inclined to forget that many people in the immediate dis trict do not have such a supply quite apart from the needs of the land every rural dweller depends to a large extent on rainfall to ensure a supply of water throughout the winter months his cistern is his reservoir and if there is little rain he is faced with two alternatives haul water from the nearest creek or use hard water for all purposes if he is fortunate enough to have a good well but these wells too must be replenished and during particularly dry spells they frequently fail to meet the needs of the farm for parents only convalescent child by nancy cleaver the best part of being sick is that mummy took time to read aloud to me stories and poems i liked a childs garden of verses because there was a little boy in it who had to stay in bed for a while too tommy told his chum when he sot well again robert louis stevenson writes of the pleasant land of coun terpane and it is a mother who makes the difference between convalescence being a happy or a boring time it is hard for her extra demands are made on her time energy and pa tience but a parent and child are often drawn closer to each other during sickness n a sick child needs more at tention than a healthy one but parents must not allow him to become a small dictator if he is an only child or if his ill ness has been serious and they have been very anxious about him this can easily happen nor should the parent in his zeal to get the child better as sume the dictators role in the first place it is well for a mother to realize that her own attitude is of tremen dous importance a mother just has to keep her courage up and look on the bright side at a time of family upheaval junior is sick but he will get better his recovery will be a lot more pleasant and quicker too if he does not suspect that mother is worrying about him fatigue with the extra work of a patient in the house is sometimes so great that a mo ther finds it very hard not to be irritable and depressed for that reason she should cut out any unessentials in her day and plan to get in a little more rest the doctors orders should be followed implicitly a mother should make sure she under stands clearly his instructions and then follow them to the letter friends and neighbours and relatives too may think they have much wiser ways of treating this particular illness a parent may have to listen politely to their ideas but hold fast to the resolution that the doctor is the person who is in full commariu of a childs re covery map out your childs day so that there is a routine which is followed with time to wash breakfast tidying up the pa tients room free time for jun ior to amuse himself a fruit drink more free time dinner with a rest after his meal and definite things to do during the remainder of the day if junior ao writ h may enjoy work ing out with mother his own schedule and tacking his own copy up on the wall a day bro ken into different hours of pur poseful activity does not seem to stretch out endlessly a patient even a young one should learn to spend part of his time happily by himself a mother must be careful that her childs eyes are not strained by reading or handiwork during a convalescent stretch or tv if the family mills a set listen ing to the radio singhig favour ite songs making up and tell ing a story are all activities which are easy on the eyes children love handicraft and a small patient needs crayons if he likes to colour blunt scis sors for cutting out pictures or designs and other play material simple weaving sewing or knit ting are other possible occupa tions if there is a portable pho nograph in the house a child can have many happy hours playing it himself a big calen dar on the wall with each day stroked off at night time makes a child feel that his time for being in bed is passing if you have a sick child on the way to good health again in your home try to give him hap- py memories of this time copyrighted mark completion of allcanadian encyclopedia completion of the encyclop edia canadiana after six years work was marked by a banquet in ottawa last week the 10volumc work prepared under dr john e robbins ed itorinchief in a unique 4300 page publication devoted exclus ively to the canadian scene past and present dr w kaye lamb dominion archivist and national librarian was cheif editorial consultant specially prepared handbou nd set of the 3000000 canad iana will be presented at the ban quet by hon brooke claxton president of the canada council for fowarding to queen eliza beth and governorgeneral mas- sey recipients of other special sets will be the national library of congress at washington editors mail stouffville ontario nov 15th 1958 stouffville tribune dear sirs we note that the jehovahs witnesses are being heeled down into the mud again be cause they obeyed the voice of conscience instead of ignorant menl no doubt if it were the urine of mares these men still would want to force it into the veins of our children whether we wanted it or not is this what christ the greatest physician of all times taught or the apostles later or even moses before them if any man would have needed a blood transfusion had christ approved of it it was that same lazarus who al ready stank when he raised him up from the dead but did he call for volunteers or even give a single drop of his own blood you bet not but loudly condemns il in luke 13 13 if we read intelligently for galilee herself was a city pol luted in her own blood would those who approve of blood transfusion want to drink out of the same cup or eat from the same unwashed plate with any of their donors no not even wipe their hands on the same towel if they saw and knew most of them yet they will swallow their blood down their own throats if they have a tooth out or something what filth no one can possibly be clean within who carries in his veins the blood of 50 to 100 or more different men and women all mixed up together whose background and ances tries they know absolutely noth ing about and among whom are likely to be liars thieves ad ulterers or even murderers for all they know is life so pre cious that it must be saved at the expense of such corruption read the word of god and you will find out that cleanliness particularly in blood is next only to godliness and woe to them who defile it by force yes give me the urine of mares first i will vote with the witnesses here any time and i am sure hundreds of others will too when the right time comes mrs m e dew motorboating fifty years ago on musselmans lake 8vrr- macs cooc oat with mc other pinhcdl tnler the coming winter will be severe mild or somewhere in be tween this prediction is based upon the fact that bark is on the outside of the trees this fall 160 nails found in mans stomach surgeons in tehran removed 160 nails a pocket knife and a spoon from the stomach of sayd mohammed 10 a carpenter at slna hospital he had complain- eimof pains in the abdomen i dont remember swallowing the knife and spoon but i al ways liked the taste of nails said mohammed invincible spirit a few weeks ago t visited a lady who has been confined to bed for twelve years with arthritis no day in her life is without pain and she can scarcely do a tiling for herself but her cheerfulness and general outlook on life astonished me there wasnt a word of bitterness or selfpity in her conversation she was in a better frame of mind than ninety percent of people in good health i often think of the people i have known who have taken it on the chin but by some inner resources have overcome the temptation to become sour and put to shame the rest of us who have much to be thankful for there is something in vincible about the human spirit and the courage of sufferers does much to increase our faith in the dignity and worth of human beings it is impossible here to give more than the briefest atten tion to many others whose triumph over adverse circum stances has furnished inspiration to others similarly afflicted one thinks of dr george matheson who in spite of much impaired eyesight graduated from glasgow university with honours he was practically blind from his nineteenth year and spent the remaining years of his life in darkness but no physical affliction could darken his mind or cloud his eagerness to serve and enhearten others much of his own experience went into writing of his famous hymn o love that will not let me go and especially the third stanza one thinks of josiali wedgewood compelled to leave school at the age of nine stricken with smallpox at the age of thirteen and left for the remainder of life a cripple yet becoming the greatest potter in england if not of the world of john kitto who was left so deaf as the result of a terrible accident when a boy that he never heard again shut off completely in a world of his own yet living to become the greatest bible scholar of his generation and honoured with degrees from many universities henry fawcett was only twentyfive years of age when some gunshot entered his eyes and from that day until the day of his death he was totally blind the curtain had fallen and never again could he read the papers and books lie loved so well yet at the age of thirtytwo he entered the british parliament and some years later he was appointed postmastergeneral of england with over ninety thousand employees under his direction francis parkman was a blind historian whose literary out put ranks him among the first authorities in the field which he selected there were days when he suffered so much pain both from his eyes and from an acute form of rheumatism that his brain refused to work yet it is questionable whether any historian ever took sucii pains to verify his facts as did parkman and before his death twenty scientific societies in great britain and america honoured him with recognition charles steinmetz in spite of an undersized crippled body which gave him the appearance of a dwarf became a world authority on electrical engineering a cripple with a giant mind and soul when deafness descended on the musician beethoven he was for a time prostrated and almost broken but though he could not hear his own compositions he did not give way to selfpity or despair and few men have left the world a greater heritage of music the foregoing examples have been selected simply because the facts of their lives have been made widely known by them selves or by others what of that vast unnumbered host of heroic souls about whom nothing has been known except by a small circle of intimate friends for every heroic soul whose story becomes known there are a million equally courageous about whom no one ever hears the difficulties of illhealth are certainly not insurmountable it is well within the range cjf endeavor to exalt the spiritual self over the bodily health this is not something one reads about only in books it can be seen every day in our cities and on the back conces sions there is only one explanation of it it is that somehow god compensates these sufferers for what they have to en dure and their heroism is a tonic to the rest of us our quotation today is by james allen we cannot choose our circumstances but we can choose our thoughts top students leave before grade ten to help the student make the proper choice as to his future education said mr ritter j c webster of brantford said an intermediate school would provide a leaving point for students who leave at 16 it would also leave the way clear for the nonacademic stu dent to drop out right rev w a townshend anglican suffragan bishop of huron told the delegates we must do all in our power to pre serve the public school system because there are those who would destroy our system they would throw it right out the window and they are not confined to any one religious group bishop townshend said there were those who were reconciled to the inevitable collapse of the public school system i am shocked by those who speak of the public school sys tem as protestant schools he said a hamilton public school in spector says 28 percent of the cream of the crop dropped out of school before grade 10 in a group of 2s0 students he surveyed speaking to the oiit school trustees association recently george force said the students all from the same school and attending grades 9 10 or 11 were divided into three groups of the best 28 percent drop ped out before the end of grade 10 fiftyfive percent of the av erage students quit before com pleting grade 10 more than 90 percent of the belowavcrage students quit duiing or before trade 10 a c ritter of kingston sug gested intermediate schools cov ering grades seven to 10 should be set up which would give stu dents a chance to explore the subjects which would be open to them in senior school i am wondering how well our senior schools are adapted mr yern davies of cedar beach musselmans lake has received an interesting letter from a former stouffville resi dent now living in kenora the writer is w a allan who was assistant to the grand trunk railway agent here in 1902 he urites as follows dear sir an article in the globe mall describing your lake as it is now with some history includ ed took my thoughts back to 1902 when i was employed as assistant to the gent of the then grand trunk railway at stouffville among those who boarded at the same place i did mrs barclays was geo collard ihe village druggist and hollo nelles secretary of the local foundry mr nelles rigged up a small skiff with a tiny onecylinder gas engine and got up his party to try it out on the only water at all handy musselmans lake his parly consisted of himself col lard and dr fred warriner who at that time was going to dental school in toronto i was pretty much a kid they took me along for ihe outing they hid hired a team and wagon to take the bout up id the i ike and at daybreak on sunday morn ing we started for the lake and many things affect cost of new home understanding of the many factors affecting the cost of a new home help you appreciate what you can afford and what you are getting for your invest ment about 80 percent of the total cost of a house goes to your actual house structure while the remainder goes to the cost of your lot in some of the lar ger urban areas of course a higher percentage of the total cost goes for land there are some general fac tors which can affect costs to a very high degree if you con sider these factors before buy ing you can sometimes make some economies tuning important for instance timing is impor tant its smart to build when men and materials are most readily available rather than when theyre in short supply if it is planned to buy a com pleted home you are most like ly to get the best price when there is a buyers market in your area that is when build ers find sales are slow the selection of a lot will have a bearing on building costs a good lot means excavation will be easy youll have good soil proper drainage and as many trees as possible services should be considered also if there is no water or sewer service to the lot and you are going to have a well and septic tank system you should find out how soon serv ices will be piped into your area the house design is also go ing to affect the price in spite of the popularity of the ranch- type bungalows the most eco nomical type of house is the 1 storey design this design gives you the greatest possible floor area for a given amount of money use roof space this is because it uses roof space which is often wasted in a bungalow or twostorey house i the 1 x storey house lets you j leave the second floor unfinish ed until you need more bed rooms and have more money to do the work the cost of any house is usu ally computed in terms of the unity cost the usual unit be ing the cost per square foot if your money is limited you can sometimes reduce this unit cost and so allow construction to proceed to obtain the greatest amount of liveable floor area at the low est possible unit cost you should build up as well as out this means your excavation foun dation and roof costs are low ered in relation to the total size of your house for our first ride in a motor boat it was for me and i think for the others also sircc that time i have travelled many miles in gas boats of various sizes and kiniis bat still remem ber the kick we got when nelles got her started and how we did not want to stop for fear it would not go again we had a wonderful day running round and round the little lake i do not know whether either collard or nelles are living or not it would be possible but not likely as they were both grown up at tiie time dr war riner went to winnipeg became mayor of the city is now retired and living there nelles moved to toronto long ago and 1 have not had any news of either him or collard for many years i do not know whether you have or permit motor boats to operate on your lake but 1 thought you might be interested in my little story of what was probably the first time a gas engine was used on mussel mans lake it is more than 10 years since i was in stouffville but if 1 should ever be in that vicinity egain i shall gratify an old mans curiosity to sie your lake again sincerely w a allan reviving bedroom wash basin an oldfashioned convenience a wash basin in a bedroom is back again in many new homes it is now called a vanity lava tory or varitory sparked by the popularity of countertops around kitchen sinks the lavatory built into a dressing table relieves pressure on highcost bathrooms fine for bathing a baby too railway time table changes effective sunday december 7th 1958 wanted more cream shippers for best results ship your cream to stouffville creamery we pay two cents more per pound butterfat for cream delivered ft the creamery to have our truck call phone 18cw stouffville creamery co cold storage lockers for rent excavating- basements trench silos trenching footings water services water mains j i cement cement block work i estimates free by veterans construction co stouffville phone 64jl 276j 82j2 i ethical a b cs granddad says some struggle for the modern things lifeless objects like homes or rings and think to progress with the times that they must all work over time and grow better by buying things like others have to keep in swing sow brother do not get me wrong luxurious living fun and song these things for which we run apace are all right in the proper place but keep in mind through toil and strife these things are not the aim of life each generations stride for things in lifes struggle has helped to swing to selfsufficiencys high gear in industrys impersonal sphere but in the person sphere we find that real progress is of the mind in this old world our struggle rests on knowing rules of lifes contest so those who will make good today accepts the truths of yesterday and make oneself like ideal man bringing to fruitage life as planned how can life insurance help me o by helping you provide for full happy retirement years by providing an income for a dependent in the event of 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