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fat 2 the stouffviuf t8ib0hf tfcuncjiy my i 1963 editorial the night the la motorcycle clubs have been making the headlines in the daily papers for the past several weeks but few if any local residents have had direct contact with the member on wednesday evening of last week t band of these renegade cyclists rode into stouffville on their high- powered scooters they at once be came the centre of attraction if there was anything attractive about this organization it certainly could not include the majority of personnel that we observed no knights in shining armour these chap the hero worship that might should repa during the past two weeks the tribune has been beseigcd by tele phone calls from many residents on the don mills road near gormley complaining about the wholesale slaughter of trees along this high way it is of course part of a major reconstruction program by the tor onto and york roads commission that will eventually lead to a much improved artery in this area this explanation is of very little comfort to the people in the district who couldnt care less about weekend ncers rode into town have been instilled in many a teen ager through prior reports must surely have been dashed to the pave ment they presented a sharp con trast to their gleaming chrome- plated bikes beautiful machines with high handlebars and speed to match although the reported influx of this group caused both police and local citizenry some concern it was for many young people here a bless ing in disguise they were able to see at first hand the components of such an organization we doubt very much if there is any mass stampede to enroll ir the damage traffic between toronto and lake simcoe but who do care about the stately maples many of which were plantad close to 100 years ago we think this program of pro gress is a pain that could be eased slightly if the county or province would inform the public that a full- scale treeplanting project would be started immediately after the road is completed and then do it too many of our new pavements are virtually treeless and there is little or no sign that growth of this kind is contemplated its a ma last week a young stouffville man lost out in a bid to wipe his slate clean of a conviction and sentence he received three months ago the reopening of the case aroused considerable interest among many persons in this community for not only is the youth wellknown in the district but he had previously entered a plea of guilty to the charge laid in april of this year too often we feel that police lawyers and even magistrates tend to underestimate the tensions that accompany the court appearance of a firstoffender on several occasions we have heard magistrate hollinrake suggest that a plea of not guilty be entered when it was apparent that the accused was completely confused in this way all the facts are brought out into the open and the party is what is a what is a farmer this is a question that assessors valuators realtors and even farmers themselves have been asking for many years what he actually is and what hes said to be are two different things if he wants government aid hes freeloader if he doesnt hes a troublemaker if he takes time off to go fishing hes a loafer if he doesnt hes stuck in a rut if he helps his neighbour with out pay hes foolish if he doesnt hes cheap if his fences and buildings are freshly painted hes wasting money on show if they arent hes losing money if his wife works in the field hes too miserable to hire extra help if she doesnt shes too good to do a little outside work if he goes to federation meet ings and conventions hes a gada bout if he doesnt hes uncoopera tive if he hires additional help dur ing peak harvesting seasons hes throwing money away if he doesnt hes a slave driver ns right not prejudged on the basis of his own admission a plea of guilty merely lo get it over with can prove costly to this writer the outcome of the appeal is second in importance of prime importance is the know ledge that this young man realized the need of a recordfree name and was willing to spend some hard- earned cash in an effort to attain that end it would indicate that in his own mind at least he was con cerned over the sentence that had been passed and no doubt regretted the plea he had submitted it is a fine thing that our courts are such that a conviction is not necessarily a permanently closed book but one that can be reopened if the person involved has the desire lo do so farmer if he makes decisions in a hurry hes eratic if he doesnt hes a slow- thinker if he does every job as it comes along he lacks foresight if he plana ahead hes a dreamer if he listens to his wifes advice hes henpecked if he doesnt he lacks gumption if he sells anything on a high market its just plain luck if he sells on a low market its poor man agement if he follows the ag reps ad vice hes a book farmer if he doesnt hes a backwoods hick if he runs for office in a farm organization hes trying to run everything by himself if he doesnt hes waiting for someone else to do all the work if he asks advice about his crop he doesnt know his own business if he doesnt he thinks he knows everything if he enters his hogs in the fair lies a showoff if he doesnt its because his stock is too poor to show in public if he dies without leaving a will hes inconsiderate if he leaves a will hes unfair lo deserving heirs taking a bigger the federal government is plan ning to take a bigger hand in the field of education something which good many believe it should have done long ago the plan is to spend ten million dollars a year on scholar ships in the field of higher education this will be welcome news for the universities but will provide little relish for those who must find the millions to finance the capital build ing programs if we are to provide accommodation for those who are seeking a university education the provinces will undoubtedly hand in education welcome the new program as they are already hardpressed to keep up with school costs in the year just ended the federal government spent only sixty million dollars on univer sities this is a big problem and one which the government and previous governments both liberal and con servative have approached in only a piecemeal fashion scholarships are fine but they only provide a pittance to what is needed to provide the fa cilities which should be made avail able within the next ten years hr- tnuffutllc rtinntc established list member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and the ontario weekly newspapers association aatfeortltd u tordcjt ma pcoc ocpt otuwa member of the audit bureau of circulations issued every thursday at stouffville ont in canada 350 elsewhere 5150 c h nolan publisher jas thomas editor jas mckkan advertising c 6 1u week i never saw anyone so determined to have a swimming pool in all my life tribune enters seventyfifth year continuous publication both circulation and staff doubled in last decade wswsbaixmkvjsfiaottfai sugar and spice bstwwbi by bill smiley the stouffville tribune has entered its seventyfifth year of publication during this long period there have been four publishers commencing with harry hodge in 18s8 he was succeeded after one year by william malloy father of how ard malloy who was employed in the business for sixty years in 1921 the newspaper was taken over by william marr and after one year a v nolan purchased the tribune and it has remained in the family until the present time stouffville had four other weekly newspapers in the late isoos beginning in 1st with james widcmans alert this first paper sought to promote the cause of temperance but lasted only one year in 1s82 a w pemberton printed a weekly known as the stouff ville advance it continued for about fifteen years and the stouffville sentinel and stouff ville free press both started in 1891 passed out of existence in 1900 only the tribune has continued from a lowly beginning of four pages weekly and a circu lation of about eight hundred the tribune has grown to 12 rulation of nearly four thou sand likewise the number of personnel employed by the pub lication has increased from oar to a fuhtime staff of twelve as well as parttime help in both the editorial and pro duction departments in the early days of produc tion pictures were unheard of while today the tribune pub lishes more than six hundred news photos a year likewise classified advertising which was carried in a couple of col umns of space each week now runs to more than 12000 inches a year other operations have advanced similarly as new and better equipment rame into use and the population of the area expanded about ten years ago central plant printing began to come into the field for speed and economy this was the method whereby a dozen or more newspapers would use one cen tral plant for their actual press- work thereby gaining the facil ities of expensive rotary press equipment this method of printing is used today by every weekly newspaper in this area except one stretching from and east as far as cobourg all the weekly papers in this larg area employ this method of operation at the same time the trib une expanded its commercial printing facilities greatly and presently has installed four automatic commercial printing presses thirty percent of th output from the tribune plant is in commercial business about six months ago a bold step was taken in divorc ing the business offices from the production plant at the same time gaining needed space for a growing stationery business management is quite pleased with the result this was the third move the plant had made since 1950 in order to gain more accomodation in charge of the newspaper is editor and photographer jas thomas with outside assistant a g thompson in charge of advertising is jas mckean three ladies complete the busi ness office complement mrs glenys kmmerson miss marg ery mertens and mrs audrey smith beit jackson is in charge of the production department and has with him a staff of six stan schmidt and ben borge- sen linotype operators with mrs joan marshman parttims assistant wilbert gower and bill crasser commercial press men and bill ronaud and boh lloyd compositors the owncr- lo 18 pages with a weekly cir- newmarket south to the lake i publisher is c ii nolii were yon gentle reader a youngster 20 years ago or 30 or even more if you were you must occasionally look with bewilderment envy and sometimes horror as i do at the difference between summer holidays for kids then and now just how it has happened i dont know but in those two or three decades kids have lost the ability to amuse themselves even the little ones come in whining mom whatll i do theres nothing to do mom can i have a dime mom its cheap at half the price give them a dime as for the big kids their boredom is colossal crushing if makes you feel like ordering up the moiseyev dancers or at last putting in a desparate call for paul anka sometimes i think that perhaps those of us who grew up during the depression era had a far better childhood all things considered than the gilded youth of the current decade how simple it was for our mothers comparatively jn summer we were out at the crack of dawn or soon after and they saw us only twice again during the day for a brief and bestial gulping of food in those days only the rich played golf and tennis only the rich had summer cottages and boats and rich kids were scarce water skis had not been invented the transistor radio was blessedly far in the future there was no money for summer camps for the children or motor trips to the cast and west there were no drivein theatres ice cream cones were a nickel and seldom only fathers drove cars what in the world then did we do with ourselves you remember at least you old boys remember im a little hazy about what the girls did when they were 13 or under they did everything we did well practically they were squaws when we played cowboys and indians they were beautiful spanish princessess when we played pirates they were stool pigeons and gun molls and corpses when we played cops and robbers they were extra outfielders and waterboys when we played ball in short they knew their place and enjoyed every minute of it tn the soft throbbing dusk of a lale summer evening we played kun sheep run jt was quite an experience i can tell you in dash away through the warm night hurl yourself into hiding behind a log and find already scrunched tip there some hard puffing girl for whom you entertained a secret and overpowering passion nothing happened but between the excitement of the chase and the proximity of this sweaty kid who was just as apt to kiss you as not it was fairly terrifying then and during all our stripling years we swam hour upon hour upon hour during the hot of the day until our lips were blue and our hands began to wivel up then it was time to drag home for supper and eat about eight pounds of new potatoes and fried bologna and fresh homemade bread and applesauce and all the other good things women have stopped making when we were kids my mother used to prepare a picnic almost every day in summer when dad got home from work we would all pile in the car and head for a nearby lake stream river any kind of water there were lots of enchanting places none of them frowning no trespas sing within five or six mies when we arrived wed pile out and run in all directions to wade swim explore cut our feet and fall out of trees dad would build a fire and put the old teapall on to boil then he would sit on a log and gaze with placid disdain at nature while my mother prepared the food went for a walk waded in the water with her skirt pulled up and explained to my dad what a hard day shed had my father didnt have to play ball with us or show us how to cast or talk to us about our problems or have inter esting chats with us about the flora and the fauna and the rocks and the history of the place we were at he just sat there and relaxed hell he was our father he didnt want to be our buddy and we didnt want him to be as we boys grew older we played baseball practice morning and afternoon and evening and a game twice a week there was the delight of driving to another town and feeling gallant as horatio at the bridge as you braved the catcalls of the local fans there was the epitome of disaster fanning on a third strike with three on base home team one down last of the ninth with your girl watching and rarely there was the fierce joy of hitting a sharp single and stealing second with your girl watching there was the added poignancy of know ing that she didnt know she was your girl we didnt have the modern teenagers dream lying on a beach with a doll a transistor radio a hotdog joint within a hundred yards money in our pocket and a convertible parked nearby but by golly we werent bored sunday school lesson golden text hast thou not known hast thou not heard that the everlasting god the tord the creator of the ends of the earth falnteth not neither is wear there is no searching of his understanding isa 4028 approach to the lesson no thinking person can be in different to a book that claims to reveal the secrets underlying the creation of our planet se crets that concern plant and animal life that relate to the heavens above that contain the sun moon and stars and a- bove all that reveal the unique characteristics of man why is he here what is his destiny by what means has sin entered and marred so much of this beautiful creation what is the purpose of god in it all for these questions the only auth oritative and therefore satis fying answers are found in genesis the book of begin nings no one should be untouched by its vital message that god created the earth and its in habitants in order to fulfill his own purposes sin entered thru the disobedience of our first pa rents and has been reproduced in the entire human race god planned a mighty redemptive act he chose a special family through which his earthly pur poses would be fulfilled in ge nesis we have a brief account of the creation it is followed by a selective history of the divine revelation from the beginning of the human family in adam and eve to the growth of the selected branch of that family from abram to the time of their going into egypt there to he made ready for formation into a godgoverned nation excluding the actual creation acts genesis covers a timespan of more than 2000 years a longer period than from christ s birth to this day so we shall not be surprised at the omis sion of details dearly sought by the curious but rather we shall feel astonished at the splendor of so wonderful a rev elation having been given in such simple words and in so brief a compass here as else where in scripture a reverent and submissive approach in in dependence on the illumination of the spirit will ensure the blessing that will elude purely critical minds not that we ig nore or decry the intellect or ask our teachers and class members to leave their minds outside the classroom but we should all recognizing the lim itations of the most brilliant intellects come humbly to the scripture asking to be taught of gods spirit heart of the lesson our lesson teaches us specif ically that the lord made hea ven and earth the sea and all that in ihcm is exod 2011 that he is the first cause and therefore we must look to him alone to understand the way and the purpose of creation subsequent lessons will show man to be central in gods plan ning we find therefore sub lime assurance in these mighty acts of our creatorgod who still sustains this earth during our existence here the sup reme purpose of our lives is to know his will and glorify him in doing it mmfjj the wat anne ross it is many years since i read aesops fables thosa marvellous satirical commentaries on human nature but one 1 remember goes someting like this once upon a time in a land of plenty the hot summer sun shone relentlessly on the dry and arid earth there was no lain and the poor raven sat disconsolate beneath him left beside the deep well by the maidservant of the household was a tall earthen pitcher and in the very bottom of the pitcher was some precious water but how to assuage his thirst he had tried dipping his beak into the neck of the jug but no matter how he tried he was unable to reach far enough to drink so frustrated and stubborn in defeat ha ssa hid mourned for here was clear water in a splendid eontahw ready for his use but it was denied him presently along came an enterprising ejfoar xluh r pebfcle in his mouth which he neatly dropped into the water ju away flew the industrious fellow to return wilh another pebble then again and yet again until there were many pebbles in the pitcher and lo the water rose lo the ton ft of the pitcher and both birds drank their fill and jeter more birds came and they drank and were happy hid content and they built their nests and raised their ytrang in the nearby trees do we have a parallel tha water is in our jug although one of our two reservoirs is empty and unused we have tha pebbles to bring the water within reach the recommendation of qualified engineers who proposed the installation of two pumps to provide adequate pressure to the cast end of town or else properly directed and planned the slope of the land could fill our jug what we need is a clever enterprising crow to solve our dilemma surely were not all ravens in stouffville defeated shortsighted ready to give up and accept water rationing let us not grumble among ourselves nor complain to those who cannot act let us instead demand straightforward intelligent action from our public utilities commission or let us find an ingenious crow recognition 02 the obvious during 1962 employment in canadas textile mills increased by 4000 lo a total of 77000 the record high of employment for ihe industry was 102000 in 1951 tim wees several decades ago the united states made a serious tactical and political error she supported the loosing end of a balttle the battle the fight for supremacy of several hundred million people between the nationalists and the commu nists of china and the error the fact that the united states took the side that lost this course of action on the part of the united states though strategically wrong was and j think most will argue morally right even though it was morally right the united states- took a decisive stand and we as canadians who let ourselves in such matters be a satellite of our great neigh bour have taken the stand with her now having taken this stand we have taken the atti tude of the stubborn and self- conscious in that we refuse to back down or face facts we refuse to recognize the peoples republic of china with a population of 760000000 people why if we are going to find a solution lo this problem if it ir a problem then we must find out the reason we act the way we do people since mesopotamia beginning of civilization have been looking for the excuse to say that they are right and others are wrong in other words to strengthen their own pride and fight when we re fuse to recognize communist china as such then are we not doing it because we are afraid that their recognition will necessitate their admission to the united nations where they talk where we can listen and the world can perhaps discover that the large red ogre is not such a war oppressor after all we have heard from milita ristic sources only that the red chinese wish to conquer the world and yet from huma nistic aources eg mission- rieo touiislo that they art doing a great deal to raise their own standard of living and feed tlie mouths of their in fants if we are going to solve our problems with the peoples republic of china then we must recognize that fact that they are there we arc ignoring by this re fusal of recognition to use dip lomacy for peace which might discard the apparent necessity of war for peace protect cash w smithcorona cash 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