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hpl the stouffyue ttbuk tknt mr u ihfl jeditorial some ministerial standards are inadequate within recent years the stouff- ille district has been the scene of numerous tent evangelistic cam paigns some have been supported by a local ministerial association while others are merely flybynight operations dedicated to saving tha world in six simple lessons we would contend that such un recognized programs are becoming all too common and it is high time that certain rules and regulations were attached to these projects it is a very easy matter for any indi vidual to erect a mobile tent in some farmer3 pasture field supported by a gift for oratory and aided by a widespread publicity promotion it is not too difficult to attract an aud ience of listeners if the interest and revenue is sufficient the campaign will be extended if not the travel ling troupe will simply move on to more lucrative grounds it would appear that the major ity of these openfield services are promoted by spokesmen from the united states when the canadian climate warms up to their liking they head bag and baggage across the border in the autumn they return to winter in the sunny south pretty- nice work if you can get it town and township officials ar apparently unable to enforce any taxable restrictions on these tempor ary structures due to their short period of stay within the municipal ity police are often quite unwilling to act even if promoted by complaints due to the front page newspaper pub licity that would undoubtedly follow and so these unauthorized sky pilots are permitted to rove through the countryside free agents to sell religion like so much soap suds or toothpaste with the doors of our local churches continually beckoning the public to attend sunday worship senices we feel that ihese openair meeting houses serve little purpose we have attended the evangeli cal meetings in the arena we have attended the gatherings at pikes peak we have been inspired by the ministerial messages and gospel mu sic of these services we cannot however condone any highpressure salesmanship of religion comparable to a barker at a cheap circus side show this is exactly the type of pro- motion that is being offered here- each summer by persons whose au thority in our opinion is highly questionable what about the trees both the stouffville municipal council and the local public utilities commission have had discussions on the problem of whether or not the trees at the west end of town should be allowed to come down with the proposed highway widening to date no final decision has come from either body and there is a difference of opinion among the members only a few weeks ago council was in receipt of a petition of west- end ratepayers asking that the trees be spared while we fully sympathize with the treelovers and are just as anx ious to see every tree preserved poss ible it is our opinion that the trees will have to go we certainly appre ciate the pleasant approach which the great maples have made to the western entrance to town but to put it bluntly they have had their day to view it from the practical standpoint if one will realize that a number of these trees are not in good health and will shortly have to come down they have been pruned unmercifully by hydro workers to add to the decay it will also be necessary that a number be removed in order to make way for proper wid ening of street entrances particular ly orchard park in addition if the trees do remain they have further pruning to undergo both at the roots and above hydro lines will be moved back making for cutting of more branches and telephone lines will run beneath on the financial side the ledger is not in favor of keeping the trees either the highways department is prepared to widen the street to forty feet to take out the trees completely and this latter is a major operation and will no doubt take a separate contract all this work will be done and stouffville will receive a com pletely new street much wider with new curbs and wider street en trances if on the other hand stouff ville asks to have the street remain narrow for the sake of the trees the ratepayers will pay heavily in a few years time to remove the trees on their own when that time arrives it is estimated that it will cost forty to fifty dollars to completely remove one tree at town expense and any widening of the highway that is wished for then will also be at town expense even if the highway remains narrow the work of rebuilding and the other services running below are almost certain to shorten the life of the trees many of which have al ready been severely hacked we are in favor of a wider high way now with the job done complete ly by the highways department on the other hand when it becomes ne cessary that we lose so many trees at one time we are also in favor of a stepped up program of tree plant ing if and when the trees do come down at the westend every effort should be made to have new trees planted inside the lot lines and away- from sidewalks and service pipes worst accident month july is the worst month for farm accidents which is as good a reason as any for the selection of a week during the month as farm safety week which starts july 24 as dr h h hannam president of the canadian federation of agricul ture states a recent national survey of farm accidents in canada indicated that one in every four farm families is involved in a farm accident annual ly and one in every 50 such accidents is fatal as 13 per cent of last years accidents occurred during july we think that this is an ideal time to conduct such a safety program every person who realizes the tre mendous losses incurred by canadian agriculture through farm accidents becomes immediately aware of the need for an effective accident preven tion program from the national safety coun cil come these tips on how to avoid harvest hazards moving machinery on public roads is a necessary but dangerous harvest job obey traffic laws warn motorists with flags by day safety lights and reflective material by night post flagmen if risibility is limited by hills curves or obstruc tions child victims of harvest acci dents are often injured or killed in driveways or farm yards do not allow small children into work areas unless accompanied by an adult who can give them full attention if older children want to help supervise them carefully combine operation requires good judgment know your machine shut off power before cleaning ad justing or lubricating be certain that everyone is clear before engag ing the power sunstroke and heat exhaustion are also hazards wear a hat and cool clothing to protect from the sun drink plenty of water and take a salt tablet with glassful or add a table spoon of salt to each gallon avoid excessive fatigue drive carefully while hauling grain tractor brakes are not very effective in stopping a loaded grain wagon keep hitches in good condi tion use a safety chain when haul ing on public roads never work under a lifted dump box and carry no extra riders for office supplies business machines see the stouffville tribune sxfioj tar- fegj m st wssmwt v selling religion sugar and spice by bill smiley yes its true all right its taken almost 14 years of quiet olotting to organize it but ive done it ive got away from the family that may not sound like much to you young people but every father every mother knows its just about the next hardest thing to walk ing on top of the waves im attending the special sum mer course for high school teachers dont ask me why its all rather confusing except that as i watched those teach ers salaries go up and up and i pondered over that big fat twomonth vacation every sum mer it suddenly dawned on me that i was a dedicated teacher so here i am normally id be sitting at the kitchen table writing this at 2 am the ash tray would look as though an indian princess had just been cremated on it id be on the third pot of tea and the old lady would be hollering down that i was out of my mind and why didnt i come to bed like normal people but ive got clean away from that bourgeois and distracting atmosphere im sitting in a cell in a mens residence the ash tray is piled high with butts theres no tea and there isnt a sound to disturb me ex cept the bird in the next cell pounding the wall and offering most rude suggestions about what i should do with my type writer it is only 2 am ten years as a dedicated edi tor have left me thin harassed twitching and with an abiding hatred of the telephone so it is with a deep sense of nothing that i turn over the editorial chair to my temporary succes sor guess who it is this will murder you its none other than the old battleaxe for the past ten years she has told me and believed that all i do is sit in the office and talk to people she has compar ed this leisurely life to her own lowly estate scrubbing floors doing the laundry painting and wallpapering putting out the garbage and a lot of trivial stuff like that thats why i cant understand why she gets so sore when i roar with laughter every time i refer to her as the new editor all of a sudden she has not only changed her tune but the words as well she wails but what am i going to do i wont know where to begin and when i tell her all she has to do is sit in the office and talk to people she turns white now and already shes got an ulcer also a bad heart high blood pressure the jumping can cer and a lung condition i assured her that all these symp toms will vanish as soon as she gets the paper out on thursday and she can go back to being a plain ordinary neurotic house wife until friday when this deal first came up she was full of sympathy for me i certainly dont envy you she said sweltering down in the hot old city studying like mad living like a monk this was when she thought some body else would be editor and shed be lolling around all sum mer taking the kids for swims and waiting for me to get home friday nights now the refrain goes some thing like this certainly envy you im stuck here with the kids and the paper and the house and youll be down there in the city meeting interesting people nothing to do but sit in lectures i suppose youll stu dy for an hour in the evening then go out to a nightclub or to some interesting place to eat every night the sunday school lesson amos warns against false security lesson for july 17 amos 51415 6 golden text let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall i cor 1013 the lesson as a whole approach to the lesson a readinor of the entire por tion for todays lesson makes it abundantly clear that devastat ing judgment was inescapable for israel unless there was speedy and genuine repentance this and this alone could avert righteous condemnation the prophetpreacher contin ued to thunder out his warnings but despite all this the leaders of the nation wrapped them selves in complacency and pleas ure seeking why should they worry this uncouth amos from the south was not to be taken seriously the best that could be said of him was that he was a rather harmless fan atic but we know from the histori cal sequence how very right he i dont know how she figures i can do this on the 975 shes allotted mc to live on but shes positive im going to be hanging around cocktail bars forming liaisons with beautiful women living it up with old friends and arriving home every friday night gaunt frayed and good for naught the other night before i left for another wild week of de bauchery at teachers college i pointed out to her that this deal works two ways think of the fun youll be having i told her theres the thrill of answering that wildly ringing phone at 3 am excited because you know its a big story it may be only one of the town drunks wanting to tell you about this here letter-to-the-edi- tor hes composing but you never know shes been editor for one week and dont forget youll be attending banquets and all sorts of interesting shindigs as the press provided they dont forget to invite you and theres a place left for you and you take 8 pictures and print them all and you report verbatim the hilarious toast to the ladies oh i cheered her up with a lot of fascinating facets of the editors job like that and when i left shed stopped crying and was working on an editorial about closing the pubs at 6 pm new stamps for post cards the postmaster general the hon william hamilton this week announced that a new pos tage stamp impression will be used on post cards issued by the post office department the new stamp impression will also be used on the post bands sold for the mailing of newspapers and magazines but there will be no change in the design used on stamped envelopes the stamp impression will bear the ssrrc portait of her majesty queen elizabeth re produced photographically as the portrait which now serves on all stamped postal station ery the basic difference in the new stamp is the word canada appearing in open roman letter ing on a solid background of colour and sc use of a larger numeral indicating the postal value in announcing the new post cards mr- hamilton stated that some cards of the old type are still in stock at post offices and that these should last ap proximately one month the cards will come into use at various post offices whenever new supplies are required it will not be possible to pro vide first day cover service for philatelists with the new station cry because cf the problem of addressing them a stock will however be- kept on hand at the postage stamp division in otta wa to supply philatelists who have difficulty n obtaining the new forms at any local post of fice where the old style form re mains in stock philatelic orders from collectors will be serviced commencing august 1st the post cards are being printed by the british american bank note company for the post office de partment was no fanatic was he rather r he was a voice for god whose j warnings and wooins were ac- tually the very heartthrob of jehovah himself as he yearned over his wayward people but it is well to note that these earnest remarks are addressed particu larly to the officials and not to the commoner for these officials are occupying places of respons ible leadership it is a most se vere indictment of their spiri tual obtuseness the heart of the lesson the sin of these leaders of israel was not only that of com mission but also of omission it was not so much what they had done although that too was serious but what they had not done they were not con cerned one whit about the lords honor and his fame they had taken the confidence that they should have placed in the living god and placed it in their mountain their capital and their material prosperity smug complacent and secure they indulged every appetite and thus built up a callous toler ance toward current iniquity thus they became utterly in different toward the spiritual paralysis that prevailed every where but god is longsuffering his servant amos voiced in turn the reproaches the remonstran ces and the pleadings of divine love if they would only turn to him in confession and repen tance they need not perish the highway down which they were rushing was heavy witli heavens roadblocks it was heartbreaking to see them brush all these aside and plunge on to disaster nor had the lessons of cur rent history been learned to any real profit the fact that the great and formidable capitals around them had been reduced to rubble by the batteringrams of their enemies seemed to make little impression upon them it cant happen here they cried but we know from the aftermath how very wrong they were later on their chains in a grim captive land proclaim ed the fact that sins wages arc inescapable handyman about the house taking the lumps out of lawn rollixg by gordon donaldson a small crater in the centre of my backyard remains as a reminder of the awful day when first we rolled the lawn i had rented a roller from the hardware store for the day determined to make an allout roll and flatten everything in sight hours of sprinkling and hos ing had reduced the newlaid sod to a state of sullen soggi- ness i rumbled and squelched the roller over it leaving great soft footprints then it rained i mean real ly rained i ran for cover art hour later as torrents of water gushed in from neighboring gar dens i watched the roller slow ly sink in the middle of the lawn the moral here seems to be that a little gentle rolling from time to time docs more good than an allout oneday assault so you need to have a roller of your own and anyone with the stamina and energy to do his own roll ing can make his own roller a garden roller need not out weigh the anchor of the queen mary nor docs it have to be very large to be effective the type that you fill with water is handy for carrying around in the trunks of cars but if you merely want a quiet domesticated roller thatll sit around the garden when not in use concrete is as good as any thing an oildrum at least 21 inches deep can be used find the cen tre of the bottom end and drill a hole to take the halfinch pipe axle cut out the top of tlia drum and fix a cross of one-by- twos across it with another hole in exact centre to take th other end of the axle take the axlepipe which should stick out at least three inches at either end of the drum and drill six holes in it stick fourinch nails loosely through the holes at right angles to the pipe these will be embedded in the concrete and stop the axle turning and working its way loose place the axle in position making sure its dead centre and fill the drum with ready- mixed concrete as with all con crete jobs tamp it down to keep out bubbles and keep covered with damp rags for two or three days to allow it to cure slowly another method is to mold the roller inside a piece of terra cotta piping for this you will need a solid wooden base on which to stand the mold centred around a vertical hole which supports the axle and a cross- piece on top the piping mold can be broken off with a ham mer when the concrete is set youll probably need the help of a machine shop or welding shop in making the handle if only because of the large holes that have to be drilled in it to take the axle a simple loop handle made of a flat bar one and onequarter inches wide will do slip big washers made of largerdiam eter piping over the axle ends and secure the handle with split pins to prevent the handle sides scraping against the roller it may be advisable to put in a crossbrace of one and a half inch square hardwood fixed across the loop handle with 2v4 inch screws lte tawfftriiu ftrtfron established 1888 a v nolan son publishers member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontario weekly newspapers association authorise is ceonjia mail pcatce 0uw member of the audit bureau of circulations issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada 350 elsewhere 450 c h noun pifcfitber ms thomas editor jas mdxean aowiiiag repeated sun tanning can cause serious ailments says a doctor almost as painful al the tanning some kids get sure im pleased and why not ive got a successful farm here which provides my family with a good living and even if i should die 1 have a sun life policy which will take care of any mortgage thats left on the house and any debts on the equipment or livestock and i have another sun life policy which will provide mc with a retirement income at age co if i want to quit then sure im plead wouldnt you be jim abell phone 237 stoufmle ontario sun life of canada j