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qt 2 the stouffville tribune thursday dec 8th 1960 iat theres no question it was the greatest there was no question about it saturdays santa claus parade in stouffville was the greatest yet and the crowd numbering thousands was the largest ever to watch the event despite the great crush of onlookers and the more than thirty floats the three bands and countless decorated bicycles the big production came off without a hitch the chairman and parade mas ter was ted topping and he can cer tainly take a bow for a job well done to assist him and take a vote of thanks as well were a great number of businessmen and members of com mittees who helped prepare for the event the three officers making up our local police force did an excellent job of handling the big crowd and other municipal officers including the fire brigade had a hand as well in seeing that the parade was a success the weatherman cooperated to the ml which undoubtedly helped bring such an overflow crowd to town the fame of stouffvilles santa claus parade has spread far and wide and this years effort certainly will add even more to its popularity well over two thousand candy treats were handed out by santa claus and the big task of preparing such a quantity was handled by the ladies and friends of the business professional womens club the stouffville businessmens association sponsors of the parade can take great satisfaction from the success and the many favorable com ments received both locally and from the many visitors who were on hand from other communities student rating hits rock bottom the intelligence rating of many students enrolled in the university of toronto hit an alllime low in our estimation last week when mayoral ty candidate mrs jean newman an invited guest was tormented by hoots and jeers from more than 500 socalled intellectuals such disgrace ful conduct possibly from a minority group places the entire faculty in a bad light the disgusting reception hit rock bottom when a number of the scholars ringed the platform with empty beer and whisky bottles two were broken in the melee the act a takeoff on mrs newman a branded teetotaler was in the height of bad taste in this and other shameful ex hibitions it would appear that a certain rank and file of the university student body has little respect either for themselves or the school they represent the recent brawl at an intercollegiate football match is still another indication of gross immatur ity we pour thousands of dollars into building campaigns bursaries and scholarships to what end our universities may rightly boast of their brains but from our vantage point they are also producing their fair share of boobs healthy dividends we would commend the members of markham township council for their openeyed appraisal of the rat- cliff youth centre three miles west of stouffville the generous grant represents an investment in the youth of this area that will pay handsome dividends in the building of good character among our teenage boys and girls it would be impossible to esti mate the fine service that this centre and organization provides to our dis trict young people one need only to see the packed auditorium during weekend religious gatherings to un derstand the true value of mr rat- cliffs foresight the markham coun cil has seen fit to add their contribu tion toward this very worthwhile program it is money well spent making it tough to get industry people who move from small towns such as stouffville to get larger wages in cities dont always end up as they imagined they would a great many of their living costs are correspondingly higher in the cities the printed word points out that the small town has an essential merit in the preservation of canada the publication has this to say there is an offsetting threat to smaller communities and a regrett able trend to concentrate industry on the whole as close as possible to the hearts of such centres at toronto and montreal this trend is due to the determined effort of the labor union leaders rather than the labor union members to obtain identical wages in the smaller centre with those which prevail and perhaps justifiably prevail in the large cities the unions refuse to recognize that a man with a decent job in a small town can live on lower wages than his brother in the big city the man in the small town can walk 16 work a big consideration in these days of highpriced motor transport he can go home to lunch and if so inclined can get in a game of golf between quitting time and dusk per haps even go fishing if the small community is rightly situated he doesnt spend twentyfive per cent of his day away from home in the mere job of getting to and from work he can have a bigger lot on which to build his house and the social life is at least as good as in the city still in spite of small town advantages a great many industrial workers do prefer the city and this keeps the city growing at the same time it makes it difficult for small towns to induce industry to locate within their boundaries the employers in a small town do have certain disadvantages to overcome in some kinds of business his customers are suspicious that his product is not as good as that pro duced in the city the unions for reasons apparently not sound have argued through the years for indus trywide bargaining they say that conditions in one community are the same as in another but this it can be said flatly is just not so however persistent success by unions in argu ing in this fashion will result in it being more difficult for small com munities lo get and to hold industry newspapers build communities okah f jones president and general manager of the consumers gas company laid it on the line at a luncheon meeting in montreal this month about the value of the com munity newspaper and the real re turns it gives to advertisers mr jones is only one of the executives of big companies of this canada who knows the vital part that newspapers play in moving goods and services his company goes by results in this respect he said with the help of newspaper advertising through our cooperative dealer program we have managed since 1051 to increase our share of the customers market from sales in 1951 of 13 million to sales which this year will come around 15 million and this has been done by telling our story to the cus tomer through your columns telling the advantages of our service and then seeing to it that those advan tages are carried through by our employees his remarks are so true and so vital that we would not be human if we did not get great enjoyment in reading them and passing them along to the many doubling thomases who watch their businesses wither be cause they do not have the courage or the common sense needed to tell the people what they have to sell or service in our community there are stores that live on impetus provided in the past and sales made from di rect approach by hungry customers xo wonder that there is such a feast of selling for the big outside stores with their brightly illustrated cata logues carrying a full description of goods and come on prices that really tempt merchandise hungry small town buyers the catalogues offer quality sizes wide ranges and mod erate prices which in some cases are bonafide and in others not for office supplies business machines see the stouffville tribune sugar and spice i dont recall the face but the grip on that drumstick is familiar this is a trying time of year i across the land a lot of people are in a stew about something merchants who have gone to the hilt on the overdraft for a i big stock aro sweating out the i prechristmas doldrums stu- i dents who have had a ball all fall are green as they face christmas exams wiih nothing in the belfry housewives look forward to the christmas chaos with sheer dread but im iiot worrying too much about any of them the merchants will wind up a few dollars ahead of last year the students will otter iiuough on a mixture of luck and nerve j the housewives will emerge on boxing day bloody but unbow- el the people who have my deep sympathy thir time of year are the men and women in hundreds of municipalities who are standing before a mir ror trying to look firm intelli gent and able as they seek to muster enough courage to run for public office the annual nomination meet ing is the best show in town it produces enough high drama low comedy and suspense to make some of the socalled mas terpieces of w shakespeare fw parents owitvs j cant wait november has been torn off the calendar the christmas month is here at last in how many homes children and young people and grownups too are exclaiming i cant wait until the 25th wailing is never easy lor the very young it is exceeding ly trying have you ever watch ed a small child in a station waiting with his mother or dad for a train to pull in small children are eager to learn how to read the time on a clock but the concept of time is difficult for boys and girls a little youngster lives in the present tomorrow is a long time away and a whole week seems a great distance off he tries to measure time into long sleeps or night time and a- wake or day lime how can he be sure that lo morrow or next week will ever really come in this modern world much emphasis is placed on speed and getting things done quickly parents sometimes forget that one lesson is that waiting is sometimes unavoidable the child who whines thai he cant wait and pleads to open just one present is very un pleasant company he should be given a time of isolation by himself in his own room until he can act in a more sociable way if his parents give in to his wheedling they are doing him no kindness he misses some of the very special joy of christ mas morning which is every youngsters heritage part of the price of the big occasions in life is being patient for the special day lo arrive in adolescent life the boy who cannot wait to have his own money in his pocket quits school as soon as he is sixteen and gels whatever job he can the responsible positions with opportunities for service and in creasing salaries go to the men who have waited for full time employment until their educa tion was completed parents fail their children it they do not show in their ac tions and teach that true hap piness comes to those who have learned to wait to work and discipline themselves to attain worthwhile goals nature has made the sex urge strong and insistent but marriage is worth waiting for one of the marks of maturity is the ability to wait some peo ple never learn il but it is a lesson which should be learned in early childhood in a home where an orderly routine is fol lowed it is easier for a child to learn this art if he has learn ed to stand the brief discomfort of being hungry while he waits for dinner lo be put on the table he is discovering that un- pleasant as it is it necessary he can wait copyright post office announces new stamp issue the subjects of four new post age stamps to be issued in 1961 were announced today by the postmaster general the hon william hamilton the stamps will be issued before the 1st of july 1961 all will be of the five cent denomination the first issue lo be released on the slh of february will be a tribute lo the development of canadas northland and the in creasing activity there in rec ent years on the 10th of march a new stamp will be issued to com memorate the centennial of the birth of emily pauline johnson indian poetess miss johnson a mohawk was bom accord ing to most authorities on the 10th of march 1861 at chiefs- wood on the six nation indian reservation in ontario she died on march 7 1913 at vancouver after making a unique contri bution lo canadian letters in keeping with tradition the lale rt hon arthur meighen a former prime minister of can ada will be remembered in a special issue which will be re leased on april 19 mr meighen served two terms as prime min ister from july 10 1920 to december 29 1921 and from june 19 1926 to september 25 1926 mr meighen died at tor onto on august 6th 1960 the 10th anniversary of the colombo plan will be marked by a special stamp to be issued on june 28th in time for the official colombo plan anniver sary to be celebrated on july 1 canada has participated actively and substantially in both the fields of capital and technical assistance to fellow common wealth countries and more rec ently to other countries under the terms of the colombo plan the post office department has plans for other issues which will appear in the latter part of the year and these will be an nounced as soon as the subjects have been confirmed house plant hints house plants in plastic pots dont need to be watered as often as their comrades in the standard clay pot advise horti- culurisls with the ontario de partment of agriculture the plastic type container is smooth and nonporous and water does not evaporate through its walls before you water the house plants give soil in the plastic sj bill smiley look pretty flimsy for tec years i attended every nomination meeting as a newspaperman and on a couple of occasions as a candidate 1 wouldnt trade it for a seasons ticket to the strat ford festival before the meeting gel- really warmed up theres lots of fun the mayor and the reeve liave their heads together figuring out how to skate over the thin ice of tliat substantial deficit expert netdlers in the crowd are sharpening the points on their questions the practical jokers are nominating the local idiot dead people and the towns loose woman the inevitable drunk is on hand not quite tipsy enough to be thrown out and sitting there still a the grave staring wildly into space are the brant new candidates who have thrown caution to the winds and decided to go out for a seat on the council or school board its a pretty tense business for them i can tell you dont talk lo me about your kennedy and xixon those big fellows have starts of advisers and consultants and public re lations men and prcxies and moguls and campaign managers and experts and party machines and ward heelers and all sorts of things on nomination night theyre not alone but that determinedlooking little woman in the fourth row who turns alternately red and white like a neon sign is as lonely as a deaf mute on a raft in the sahara she has keyed herself to a frightening peak of nerves she has never spoken in public before and she is go ing to run for a seat on the school board and try to ginger up that allmale inert body which is all talk and no action she is fierce but frightened and look over here young lunkiss is going out for coun cil and he looks i theres a fine film of sweat on his face and he grips the back of the chair in front of hun with the same expression as a kid on a roller coaster you cant blame him hes going up against doc socuni and everybody in town owes the doc lunkiss has only been in own for 12 years and has a lot of ncrvo o try for a seal theres some pretty rag gedy material going on the bal lot this year w there the speeches are starl ing listen to old george giving it to the mayor about the side walks old george knows a thing or two about those side walks he helped build them 52 years ago theres joe slosh with a skinful going after the reeve about the taxes on his place says he wont pay a cent till they pave the street put in a sewer and irstall a street light m front of his house his total taxes are sis and hes two years in arrears there the chief is ushering him out same as last year and o it goes dont tell me about the roman senate or the house of commons for vlvul clash of personalities for the rapier thrust of wit give me a nomination meeting every time the chairman of the school board defends himself like a tiger when some pretty sharp questions come up about teach ers salaries the clialrman of the library board paints a sweeping picture of the towns cultural progress with 300 more books borrowed tlian last year and two new shelves added to the library but its 1130 and a lot of the spectators have drifted out they have to get some sleep after all tomorrows the day the magistrate holds court and there are some pretty interest ing cases its a pity but by the time theres a chance for he new candidates to speak theres no- body left but the chairman look ing blue and the caretaker who has o sweep up afcr the meet ing looking black little mrs bantam the candidate for the school board rises anyway its understood hat she has pre pared a pretty savage attack on the other nicmlcrs of the board and has a bold new plat form o propose she looks at the chairman who is nodding at the caretaker who is mutter ing and at young lunkiss who has fallen sound asleep while wailing his turn she bursts into tears and stamps out awakened abruptly punkiss leaps to his feet his chance has come now is the time for that brief witty and gracious speech he has pre pared he blurts mr chair man fellow ratepayers i wanna thank my nominator and sec onder and if elected i will do my bcsln serve to the hesla my ability and from such gallant souls as lunkiss come our local legis lature and that spark of fire that keeps democracy burning bright pots special attention quite likely it will still be moisl when the clay pots are bone dry so spare the water soil that is loo wel just collects harmful salts especially when lap water is used dont overlook dry atmos phere as a cause for house plant failure say horticulturists with the ontario department of agriculture besides being in jurious to the plants themselves dryness invites such insect pesls as red spider mile fern scale and thrips a simple humidifier a pan of water on a radiator will help although this seldom provides enough moisture in the winter spray the plants occa sionally with slightly warm wa ter heres a novel idea that really works take the seed from an unpiltcd date and plant it about one inch deep in a wellaerated open soil after some time you will have a young palm tree in the house be patient though horticulturists with the ontario department of agriculture warn that it lakes ahoul two years before the lice becomes attract ive its a dwarf variety and is most suitable as a house plant keep il well watered a keg of wine blew up at a wedding party and the drinks were on the house snowbaa season is hire aqain 2s33i give a christmas subscript to the stouffville tribune a gift that lasts for 52 weeks for only 350 a