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ttf 7 the stouffvllu trihwi tiurxtir 1 31 1962 tmd bf popular request- editorial forest conservation last week was forest conser vation week in canada here in stouffville and particularly in the townships of whitchurch and ux- bridge quite a bit is known about forest conservation these two town ships have many hundreds of acres devoted to reforesting and the growth and activity surroundinjr these areas has been familiar to local citizens for many years forest conservation in recent years has been coming more and more to the forefront and a new in sight has been given into the value of our woodlands to the economy not only has the public been learning of the value of pulpwood as one of can adas top three moneymakers but it has learned more and more of its value as a means of conservation and flood control at the government lev el and in the educational field forest conservation has gained in premin- ence those of us who have lived here recognized here for many years are proud of the great tracts of reforested land just to the north of town they are a thing of beauty and value to be seriously guarded canada is a forest nation yet each year the people of the country cause thousands of forest fires in 1961 more than 9000000 acres were burned over as a result of human carelessness the canadian forestry association claims that only 19ft of all the fires in our forests start from natural causes such as light ning the government and this includes our own local government spends a great deal of money on protecting the woodlands against fire insects and disease and is doing everything possible to promote improved forest management and reforestation the least the public can do is to use a little discretion when in the woods a new look there are many rural public nchools in this area that have served their communities for almost one hundred years some have even sur passed the century milestone in the majority of cases unless more mod ern additions have been erected these structures are beginning to show their age with interiors that are not in step with the times disfigured desks unlighted blackboards small windows archaic heating no running vater etc are the meagre facilities existing in many country communi ties it is both costly and sometimes difficult to modernize an old building some trustee boards have been hesi tant to make any move of this kind until through increased enrollments or health hazards they are forced into a facelifting program this has not been the case at a little oneroom rural school located on cone 9 mark- ham ss no 19 three miles south of stouffville with the exception of a new front entrance the exterior of the struc ture is little changed inside how ever the board have completed a re modelling job not comparable in sec tions of a similar size the cost of this project may have been rather extensive but in a strictly rural area of this type where an influx of student personnel is un likely on any large scale the school board has a building that will serve the sections needs for many years to come in an effort to keep the price of the program down to a minimum we understand that the trustee mem- bers themselves rolled up their sleeves and completed some of the redecorating work after viewing this project last week we can readily understand why the board would be reluctant to fa vour any scheme that might lead to public school consolidation in their area ss no 19 has made its move and other sections facing limited growth but out moded facilities might be well advised to look it over dont let it die it would be most regrettable if the stouffville home school asso ciation should be allowed to die for want of interest by the parents a meeting is being held this wednesday evening to decide the fate of the or ganization which has become very shakey due to lack of interest smaller centres by far than stouffville have live home school organizations which contribute a great deal to the place taken by the school in the community and it seems strange if a town with three thousand persons two public schools and more than six hundred pupils cant muster sufficient interest among parents to keep such an organization going we know that the group had difficulties in the beginning in trying to persuade citizens to take respon sible positions to give leadership however the basis for trouble at the moment appears to be a sense of dis interest by rank and file members from an outside reporters stand point it appears that more effort should be put forward by male mem bers and if there are not sufficient of these endeavor to see that there are the organization has held many good meetings both interesting and informative oft times no doubt too much time has been taken with questions of a petty nature and of little consequence and these particu larly to men can be most boring and should be kept to a minimum this is not meant as any criticism of the organization but only as a helpful hint to keep members more inter ested as we pointed out last week the breakup of the group could mean no more graduation dinners for the gr 8 pupils no grade teas where the parents have an opportunity to meet with the teachers and no opportun ity for the leachersto inform the par ents of changes in the curriculum and new systems being proposed this should not happen here its up to you mr and mrs john pub lic parents of stouffvilles six hund red public school pupils let them be seen on the screen has the current preelection speechmaking started your political blood to boil we would suggest that the ordinary runofthemill citizen does not become overly enthused about the campaign until the candi dates round the turn and head for the wire many poorly attended meet ings in numerous local ridings would indicate that a large crosssection of the electorate have little interest to date in the whole affair with the exception of placards newspaper pictures etc many voters will not even catch a glimpse of their candi dates prior to the june 18th trek to the polls it is unfortunate we believe that the prime minister has turned a deaf ear to liberal leader pearsons suggestion to hold a tv debate to stir up a little preelection interest and acquaint the people with the var ious party platforms this is the very thing that is needed here in canada to stimulate some muchneeded enthusiasm across the country instead of talking to dozens hundreds or thousands at prearranged stopoff points the party chiefs could be seen by millions right in the comfort of their own homes the tv media could be fur ther employed on a more local level with a debate between candidates in individual ridings mr diefenbakers refusal to de fend either his program or his plat form in a toe to toe debate via the television screen is most unfortun ate just because the leaders debate continuously on the floor of the house of commons is no reason to think that all such arguments are seen and heard by the voters as the cham- pion rather than the challenger the pm would of course be running the risk but as the leader of this do minion he should be prepared to de fend his policies and his programs against any qualified challengers in verbal combat mr diefenbak- er is a vigorous warrior he has prov en this in the house of commons and we feel he could be equally effective on television he has been handed the opportunity on a silver platter but has abruptly rejected it this is regrettable not only would it add some muchneeded colour to the cam paign but it would be most effective in helping the voter to make his de cision established um a v nolan son publishers member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontario weekly newspapers association aa u m maq fottaoc dtpl otlava member of the audit bureau of circulations issued every thursday at stouffville onl in canada 350 elsewhere 150 c it noun mfcw ms thomas editor ms mckean aaeroyn bigjohn heres one on the comeback frail and mow a word from our spomsof gufp and fteyre both longplay i sugapv spice by bill smiley i am observing a birthday this week youll notice i didnt say celebrating no at my age you dont celebrate them you merely observe them with a dim view or a wistful look in an effort to piove that theres plenty of life in the old boy yet i am taking on a pair of huge mortgages the day before my birthday they say theres nothing like a fat mort gage to make a fellow hustle if thats true i qualified years ago for membership in the hustlers i knew the hair was getting thinner anil the teeth scarcer but i havent much of a pot yet and figured i was in pretty good shape for my age a couple of experiences on the recent holi day week end destroyed this illusion and left me convinced that im a pretty good age for my shape first of all the two old side kicks dropped in for a visit with their families the three of us joined the rcaf on the same day and weve kept in touch since in those days we rould make the old welkin ring right merrily all night you should have seen us saturday night trying to maintain the old tradi tions it was moie like a wingding at the home for the aged than a reunion of warriois one of the boys was in great pain he had pulled a muscle in his back while trying to tie his shoelaces without putting his foot on a chair the other divided his nxiely equally between his ulcer and his high blood pres sure and i fell sound asleep right in the middle of telling our wives what hellers we were in the old days the second incident to empha size my increasing senility was a challenge from my daughter shes practising for a field day at school and wanted some com petition despite the fact that i nearly burst a bloodvessel over it she beat mehandily in both the broad jump and and the hop- step this hurt but after all shes in training and 30 years younger what really destroyed me was the old battlcaxe tried it and beat both my marks with out even breathing hard i dont really mind getting older but i certainly resent the fact that theyre making all the stairs steeper and the garbage cans heavier these days when i look back to my bii th- day however and lealize what has happened since june 2 1920 i cant help thinking that ive been fortunate enough to live in one of the most exciting eras man has ever expei ienced just think the war to end wars was over geoigev was on the throne of england and the sun never set on the british empire in those 40 odd years weve had a far bigger war georges granddaughter is the queen and the empire has al most vanished when i was boi n t hei e wei e no iet engines television com mercials rocket missiles or nu clear weapons in other words things weie pretty quiet in come tax was only a cloud on the horizon no one had climbed mount everest or mil a four- minute mile tubeiculosis was a dread disease and lung cancer had not been invented yet in those four decades and a bit canadas population has doubled the telephone has re placed the back fence ax a gossipmonger the automobile has gone through the stages of a curiosity a luxury and idol a necessity and a monthly mill stone around our necks theie weicnt any commun istsjust boisjieviks socialists wei e reds whisky was stronger and a heck of a lot cheaper women were dressed much as they are today and were just as neurotic oil heat ing deodoiants and tranquilizers weie unknown nobody was trying to get to the moon fifty dollais a week was big money by golly that was a long time ago wasnt it watch out for the fellow who always pushes himself into the limelight he may turn out to be a lemon mrs george h lidster 30 a reporter for the dulton adzanrfi for over 40 years is the recipient of the ontario hydro award for excellence in rural news repo iing in 1961 presentation of the plaque was made by r j smart lower right hydros public relations officer in the western- region at the annual convention of the ontario weekly newspapers association at london on saturday may 19 shown also with mrs lidstcr are h c campbell left publisher and editor of the dutlon adtaner and wcrdcn leavens right secretarymanager of the owna still on the go mrs lidstcr who resides near tyrconncll was at one time a school teacher she has three sons one daughter 21 grandchildren and 23 greatgrandchildren this is the i second time she has received an ontario hydro award ontario hydro photo for parents only by nancy cleaver exam time thoughts exam time again why does it spoil every june a young scholar asked his parents his father tried to be reassur ing you have planned your studying and are carrying out your schedule when it comes to your exams oull have to remember the motto a sporting page used to carry a man can but do his best exam time is hard on parents as well as scholars and this is particularly true for parents of highstrung oungsters in the upper grades many a child just does not do his best under the strain of writing an examina tion the larger the population the bigger the school the more com plex the educatfonal structure the more difficult it is for a boy or girl to be confident and re laxed as he faces this final hurdle of the years woik many boys find the literature and composition examinations something to diead no matter how hard they have worked these are papers wheie inevi tably the markers likes and dis likes color the grading theie can be no debate about the cor- icct answer to a question of algebra but how can a fair judgment be made of an essay if a topic is chosen by the stu dent which appeals to him which has no intciest for the cxamjner many gills have a pai ticularly trying snuggle with higher mathematics in a recent siuvey of hundreds of pupils an equal number of boys and girls will ing final examinations on mathe matics on the grade 12 level three times as many gills failed as boys who sets these papers have women teachers an equal say with men teacheis in this area of study at top levels parents are told that they only confuse their children if they try to coach them in their work teaching methods have changed and the content in sub jects especially in science is now much moie complex than two decades ago but parents are concerned with the terribly high failure rate in the upper grades at col legiate and first years of uni versity a student who does not pass is not just part of a set of statistics he or she may be their own son or daughter on whom a lot of money has been spent to keep them in school adolescents are urged to get all the education they can but the hurdles are so high that many pupils who work hard who have medium ability end up with a failure mother will want to send a son or daughter off to an exam ination in as confident a frame of mind as poslble avoid all unnecessary conflict or argu ment a boy or girl will appreci ate some extra different touch to breakfast because appetite under nervous strain are fickle but a pupil cannot do his best through a long examination on an empty stomach teachers usually give pupils instructions on how to write an examination but no one method suits everyone it is only sen sible for the student to keep calm as possible and read and follow all directions carefully for most it is a good idea to read the whole examination paper thiough maik the easiest parts and those which count for most marks and plan to do these fit st what docs this question really ask a student should puzzle before dashing into an answer jotting down a few notes while planning the answer is a help keeping an eye on the clock is no easy matter during an exam but a scholar must strike a balance between not wasting time and not being in too much of a lush a shoit period to read over what has been written and catch misspelling or mistakes or omissions is essential last but not least consider the poor marker and write legibly how a student write is important as well as what he wntcs on the farm front a a wall agricultural representative york county laige numbers of corn grow- eis in york county are switch ing over this year to complete weed control with chemical sprays the herbicide being used is atrazine atrarine on demonstrations last year gave good results high yielding crops of corn were harvested last fall that had no cultivation there is a rumour going aiound this year about the danger of residue from atrazine the fear is that in the year following its use there will be enough residue left in the soil that forage legumes cant be grown from experi mental work there is no truth in this rumour atrazine may be used at up to 4 lbs per acre without any danger to a succeed ing forage crop actually oats are more susceptible to residues than legumes one point on atrazine this year however is worth knowing with very dry soil conditions there is a real danger that it will not kill weeds well as a soil application this year it will likely do a muhl better job if it is put on as an rally postemergence treatment- the best advice is to spray when both the corn and weeds are showing nicely and the rate used should be 3 to 4 lbs per acre there is real cause for con cern over crop prospects this year a jot of rain isneeded to bring hay and pasture field along as well as low moisture frost in early may froze back alfalfa and clover and recovery is very slow nothing can bi done to improve moisture but it is possible to manage crops to get the most possible feed valuo out of them for instance thl is a year when rotational graz ing or strip grazing will really pay it has been proven over and over again that splitting a pasture field in three or four sec tions and moving cattle from on strip to another increases sub stantially the total amount of pasture the field will produce another idea to consider this year with a short hay crop pre dicted is to put a field or two of green oats in the silo the oats will supply just as much if not more feed value as silage and it can be fed in august and sep tember when the pasture situa tion may really be critical editors mail claremont out may 26 1962 editor stouffville tribune stouffville ont dear sir in referenee to the present discussion between the medical profession and the saskatch ewan government why are the doctois com plaining being university grad uates they aie intellectuals and should be thoroughly familiar with the principle every spe cial favour asked of the gov- crnmont whether if be by bank ers businessmen labor farm ers or professional groups imperils the liberty of all they asked and obtained the special favour of setting up a governing body the college of physicians and surgeons by which ihoy could regulate re strict or expand those permit ted to practice now the same body that gave them this spe cial favour are going to make a demand for a return favour to the doctors you are only the beginning of state control the other groups that have ask ed for special favours are going to feci the loss of liberty in the same manner as time pro- grosses do not forget a licenc or permit automatically makes all men honest proficient and law abiding all we need is a license to cover every phase of human endeavour and we will have a country whose citizens are all of the highest character well did euripides say those whom the gods would destroy they first make mad lost liberty john hayward fae hew school bus regulations starting june 1 motorists in ontario will fake their cue from the flashing lights when follow ing or appioaching school buses amendments to the highway traffic act taking effect that day place the onus on the driver of the shool vehicle to actuate his signal lights when discharg ing or picking up school chil- dicn buses or vehicles used sti icily for the transport of school chil dren on loads which permit a speed in excess of 35 mph must after june 1 be marked on the rear end with the words do not pass when signals flashing the changes introduced at the recent session of the legislature by h l rownfrec minister of transport clarified this law and will help reduce the toll of acci dents particularly rearend mis haps involving school vehicles a recent survey indicated that school vehicles are involved in 20 times as many rearend colli sions as ordinary rural buses when a school bus slops on a road permitting speeds in excess of 35 mph and begins flashing its lights motorists following must slop and must not pass until the lights have been extin guished by the operator additionally when drivers in oncoming traffic approach a school vehicle whose signals are flashing they must reduce to a reasonable and proper speed at least 100 feet past the bus this regulation does not apply to roads cparatcd by a median or boulevard it is exceedingly easy to thumb a ride on the road to ruin