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the tribune stouffville ont thursday may 24 1951 the stouffville tribune established 1888 member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and ontario quebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations authorized as second class mall post office department ottawa issued every thursday at stouffville ontario in canada 200 in usa 250 a v nolan son publishers notes and comments can we ease the tax burden now that the stouffville tax rate has started the up ward spiral along with those in all other surrounding muni cipalities taxpayers may be giving more thought to figure out ways and means of paying without taking it out of their own pockets some source which has not been tapped locally pages could be written concerning the chances to ease this tax burden which stouffville is passing up by not setting up some committee to make industrial contacts its a known fact that forest hill village is the heaviest taxed municipality in the dominion and one of the chief reasons is because it is strictly residential with absolutely no indus try to carry a big share of the tax burden the proportion of taxes carried in stouffville by industry is very minute and this fact will become more apparent as the taxes in crease and we continue on our course of residential ex pansion only heres a unique suggestion which comes out of lindsay and which would be most apropos in stouffville so far as increasing revenue from a nontapped source it concerns the heavy transport and other truck traffic which use stouffvilles main street the suggestion as appearing in the lindsay press is that a toll be established to levy on these heavy vehicles for the right to travel the towns main artery it is advanced on the grounds that the subsidy which the town now receives on its street upkeep does not compensate for the wear and tear caused by heavy vehicular traffic the license fees for which are swallowed up by the provincial treasury the fact that heavy truck traffic has increased here so terrifically in recent years unquestionably accounts for the rapid deterioration in our main st pavement there is little question but that the additional strain placed on the road has taken its toll and where is the money to come from to replace this pavement up in lindsay they say its either a toll or a larger provincial subsidy the burden of upkeep on a main street such as we have in stouffville is too great if we are to be called on to share as large a portion of the cost of replace ment as was paid in 1930 when the road was laid the railway problems canadian railways are asking for another increase in ight and passenger rates to cover the cost of the 40hour eek that they have been ordered to put into effect of course the public will object and some of the pro- aincial governments will spend large sums of money to prevent the increase no doubt some of them will demand government subsidies to the railways as being more popular than higher rates the people of canada are the owners of the largest railway system in the country every one of us is a share holder and as such we ought to accept the responsibilities that go with ownership of essential industries in the modern world railway service is necessary to canadian prosperity such service costs money the railways cant provide satisfactory service unless they are allowed the revenues necessary for the purpose these revenues should come from the charges and the charges should be sufficient to cover the entire cost if we cant agree to this if we expect the railways to give us service at less than cost we should not own a railway for we lack the qualities necessary to respon sible ownership government subsidies can be no substitute for sufficient rates for they would reduce the management to mere sup pliants of the government and encourage the employees in the belief that their wages need not depend on the value of- their services because the government treasury could always be called on to meet the payroll such an arrangment would reduce the railways to a low level of efficiency to benefit consumer and farmer the ontario milk control board is actively considering a proposal to restrict milk deliveries as a means of rolling back the homedelivered price of milk from 20i to 20 cents a quart on the basis of experience in major us cities this seems like a sound move there saving up to two cents a quart have been made possible by reductions in labor and other delivery costs as a result of fewer deliveries from the standpoint of consumers the reduction in the number of deliveries may result in some inconveniences nevertheless it seems to be the only alternative to still higher retail prices milk board officials who visited the united states to get firsthand information on restricted deliveries are also said to be impressed with another phase of milk marketing there in many areas for example american farmers are paid a uniform price for all milk they produce instead of the graduated price scale in effect here a farmer producing milk for the toronto markets is paid 420 per 100 pounds for milk sold by the dairies for fluid consumption for milk used in the manufacture of ice cream and cottage cheese he receives a secondary price of 285 farmers have long argued and with some justice that they should receive a uniform price regardless of the use that is made of their milk certainly their cost of produc tion does not recognize the different uses that are made of it it costs just as much to produce 100 pounds of milk for fluid consumption as it does to produce 100 pounds of milk to be used in the manufacture of ice cream this problem has been resolved in many milk markets in the united states by establishing a uniform price to farmers this plan too is worthy of consideration by milk control board authorities as a means of encouraging higher production and higher milk production is fast becoming one of our pressing needs toronto star st lawrence town may be soon under water but citizens carry on as usual if the st lawrence seaway development goes through the town of iroquois will be under 10 ft of water but not to be deterred by this the citizens of the town are still building homes making repairs as thou gh there is no possibility of the project ever becoming a reality but they are prepared with blueprints and plans to build a model community a hove the flood waters if the project materializes the lock seen above at present 14 feet deep would be 27 feet in depth and capable of handling ocean ships editors mail claremont ontario may hth 1951 the stouffville tribune dear sirs in reply your to your editor ial of april 26 1951 referring to socialistic schemes being dangled before the famers i am enclosing a clipping which sort of supplies a suitable reply to your article the farmer is a businessman he is in fact the ownermanager of a factory that produces food stuffs in the role of production manager he usually does a superb job but as procurement manager responsible for buying the raw materials he needs for his produc tion he is not quite so successful and as sales manager of his busi ness doing the job of getting his product to market at a fair price he not infrequently comes close to being a failure the farmer engages in some rather quaint business practices he is for instance perhaps the only manufacturer who purchases his raw materials at retail and then sells the finished product to the consumer at wholesale he is also about the only businessmanproducer left in this country whose market operations are controlled by something they call the law of supply and demand something which in reality turns out to be nothing more or less than the law of spec ulation which is a nicer way of describing gambling price levels of other products ranging all the way from soap flakes and cigarettes to automo biles are no longer established by competitive practice or by the relationship of supply to demand they are fixed by the manufacturer on the basis of the cost of produc tion plus the profit demanded by the stockholders the price of labor the industrial workers rate of wages is no longer a matter of competition or of supply and demand the laborer through his union fixes his price and usually gets it until the farmer decides that he too is going to make use of mod ern business practice he is going to continue to be squeezed between the rising cost of the goods and services he needs and the uncertain fluctuating prices of fiat he gets for his goods the time is coming when farm products too must be priced on a costofproduction basis yours truly m ward a farmer speaks children and that compensates fo all the disadvantages for the long hours for seven days work in a week for everything victor bon- hamcarter a farmer on bbc ive heard people say that farm ing is such a tie youre never fin ished and you can never get away theres some truth in that but so is office work a tie and in nine cases out of ten its not your own you can buy a tribune each week office our farm is our own it be- mil claremont goodwood markham longs to me and my wife and our brougham and unionville uk demands canada faithaltar poster walk down university rd in aberdeen scotland and you will be confronted by a large canadian poster depicting a tiny country church it bids come to church every life needs an altar and faith for testing times the posters were presented to britain when a british billposting company could not get permission to buy them in canada from many parts of britain requests for copies are reaching church officials in aberdeen authorities believe the posters will help boost the recent backtochurch movement axi after all why not from the london standard prisoners at eastchurch kent open prison asked for bless this house as the closing song in a program presented by a local choir or cleaning a chimney from the hanover post the only job you can success- fullv start at the top is digging a hole he should accept gen macarthur has been offered 5000000 for his memoirs accord ing to his aide he should accept at once for no one knows how long the world is going to be interested ottawa citizen casualties and casual strolls too often are too closely related days of yore from the files of the stouflville tribune 27 years ago on june 11th a party of can adian weekly newspaper men including the editor of the tri bune will sail from montreal on a tour through belgium france the netherlands and the british empire our oldest citizens tell us that they cannot recall a spring quite so backward as the present the hydro electric power com mission is stocking bond lake on yonge street with 500000 pickerel fry which are arriving on a cnr train from london miss frances ratcliff and miss elya h olden were in ottawa a few days ago attending the bypu convention this week mr fred johnston oi altoha sent l hogs weighing 250 lbs with d holden by truck to the ym davies co toronto which graded 11 selects this is the first truck load of 14 hogs to go into the plant to grade 100 select since the grading system was started glasgow misses eva and ida latcham and messrs arthur and edgar latcham of toronto spent the weekend at john s latchams 1 0 years ago rev gibson brown has been advised from overseas that his parental home in belfast suffered considerable damage during the recent raids on the north of ire land on saturday afternoon at 4 oclock the marriage of miss jean collard and mr alex macleod was quietly solemnized at the home of the brides parents mr and mrs george collard despite the fact that it was necessary to start the big furnace at stouffville school two weeks earlier this last fall than the aver age season it is now estimated thai less than 50 tons of coal was bun ed at the big knowledge works up to the present time when the furnace is being let out mongolia mr and mrs r pilkey and boys of claremont had tea with mr and mrs delbert booth last wednesday peaches mrs henry miller entertained relatives from lindsay on sunday among those from stouffville finding employment lakeview house are misses helen row- botham mary paisley rose clark- son kay turner dorothy gooding i years ago mr bolton slack ba journeyed to queens university- kingston during the weekend to be present at the spring convocation and to be presented with his master of arts degree for his research work in canadian history the foreign policy of v l mackenzie king high school a departmental official is credited with making the statement only monday that stoufi- ville wouldnt have a chance to take in claremont or any part of pickering to form a stouffville school area and that they hoped to snuff out the opposition in stouff ville to closing out this school the idea is to hem stouffville in so small an area that it will ultimately be snuffed out mr cecil andrus garage proprie tor has sold his interest in stouff ville motors to mr j w perkins of unionville dickson hill w a jones and sons are delivering tomato plants to the farmers who have taken contracts for growing tomatoes for the campbell soup company victoria square sympathy of the community is extended to our reeve mr charles hooper in the death of his father mr henry hooper the old hom town by stanley sentences too light a magistrate in north york im posed a sentence of 15 days in jail on a motorist found guilty of dri ving while drunk a similar charge brought a sentence of 10 days in jail and the impounding of the car and the suspension of his li cence for three months by another magistrate many will think that the sentences imposed for driving while drunk are entirely too len ient they are not sufficiently sev ere to serve as a warning to like drivers galmpton devon eng vil lagers will bake a gooseberry pie weighing more than 100 pounds on midsummer clay to celebrate the festival of britain for parents only by nancy cleaver discipline or punishment timid little ann from going near mothers hot iron but tommy is more difficult to handle the for bidden iron fascinates him when mother is out of the kitchen for a minute to answer the phone although he knows he is doing wrong he quickly touches the hot iron his enraged cries tell his fathers and mothers look at their mother that the law of conse- childrens actions in the light of i quenceshas worked on tommy to discipline rather than merely that teach him that disobedience can be of punishment by nancy cleaver ill punish him or shell get punished for what she has done how much more often parents use the word punish instead of dis cipline surely it is important that punishment if effective pre vents an undesirable action from being repeated discipline should do more than this it also encour painful when a child is old enough to assert his will what he wants and what mother wants at times is bound to conflict children can ages initiate the two terms are behave like little angels and the not interchangeable punishment very same youngsters can also is the red stop sign discipline amaze their fond parents by their ither red or the green contrariness and naughtiness training a child calls for endless stores of patience understanding and consistent fair treatment hvdkopoxic farms give troops onions allied fighting troops now are going to have something theyve long wanted in korea fresh vege tables about 0500 pounds of radishes and onions grown under american supervision on hydro- ponic growing plants in water farms near tokyo were flown in last week may flash ei go signal as different occasions arise discipline is on three levels the parent disciplines the little child by one method or another when the child begins to mix with play mates away from home in addi tion to the parental discipline his companions shape his actions by gang approval or disapproval older brothers and sisters influ ence the child too the childs teacher at school also moulds the childs standards of behaviour but the goal of the adult is self- discipline parents must always keep this in mind the childs future rests on this so does the success of any democratic state good fathers and mothers want their children to grow to be respon sible citizens what is discipline is it not the methods used to get a child to do or not to do certain things discip line begins very earlv baby specia list a weary mother with two or three small children is often tempt ed to rely on father to discipline a defiant child just wait till your dad gets home from work she threatens this is a poor plan to follow a deferred punishment is not nearly so effective as an immediate one on a child then too a busy fathers brief interval with his child at the end of the day should not be cloud ed by rehashing of wrongdoings both father and child need a peace ful happy evening hour our grandparents and to some extent our parents were not great ly troubled by the problems of dis cipline children were to be seen and not heard if they dared dis obey corporal punishment speedily descended on them there was one simple rule a naughty child was well spanked and even an older ire pointing out to new parents that although an infam wy or girl received a switching needs a routine this may vary a for an s1 of resistance against an adults wish little good management consists of a wise mixture of firmness and flexibility a sensible days routine which is usually followed does away with much unnecessary con flict over a child obeying com mands there is a happy way of doing most things children like to know what to expect and what is expected of them in dressing eating sleeping etc every child is different so is every parent a method of discip line which has been extremely successful with the oldest in the family may not be so satisfactory with a second or third child a firm no no may prevent modern parents find life with their offspring much more com plex unquestioning obedience is not a complete end in itself un fortunately the whole subject of discipline is apt to descend to a to spank or not to spank battle there is no one rule which fits every case but a fine understanding relationship between parent and child is of utmost importance whatever the means used to train a boy or girl different methods of discipline will be discussed next week copyright