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page two stouffville tribune thursday january 12th 1939 if tmiff rill ritum established 1888 a member of the canadian weekly newspaper association issued every thursday at stouffville ontario subscription rates per year in advance in canada 200 in usa 250 a v nolan jp editor and publisher notes and comments combining offices this is the time of year when municipal councils appoint their officers for the year and a recent change or amendment to the municipal act is of particular interest in respect to administration it says heretofore it has been illegal to combine the offices of clerk or treasurer with that of assessor or collector that will no longer be the case as subsection 5 of section 238 of the municipal act which prohibits such combination of offices has been repealed another amendment also provides that a municipal coun cil may now under section 226 of the municipal act ap point a deputy clerk to act in case of absence of the clerk or if that office is vacant bowmanville ratepayers passed a bylaw to grant the town band 1000 but defeated another bylaw calling for the expenditure of 20000 for an addition to the high school of that town probably the amount of money in each case had a good deal to do with the way the vote went in each case but under ordinary circumstances one would have expected an educational expediency would get greater consideration than even the maintenance of a town band as worthy and worthwhile as that may be no doubt edu- sational costs loom so high on the average tax bill that ratepayers iare beginning to rebel against additional in roads for this class of service as in almost every instance where similar bylaws were submitted they met with defeat we all want to see our home town go ahead and make progress but are well all doing what we can to accomplish that result asks the merlin standard people may ask what they can do they may say they cant give big sums of money and establish needed institutions nor can they go out and induce some new industry to move in and provide more jobs there is one thing they can do which will help a great deal and that is to spend their money at home that builds up home town business and when home town business improves it can employ more people and it can supply more complete stocks of goods also it is able to pay more taxes which make it possible for the town to keep adding improvements back up the home stores if you want to see the home town go ahead somehow or other we have always prided ourselves in canada in that we are not like new york chicago and other thickly populated american centres where gangland abounds but when we picked up the daily press monday morning and read of an alleged bookie being shot to death in his kitchen right on fashionable brier hill avenue in toronto we sort of hang our heads in shame the murder ed man was an alleged bookie who had evi dently refused to share the spoils with those who knew of his acts so they just shot him the toronto underworld is growing until it will be as sickening as the big united states centres unless the police clean up on this sort of thing we believe it can de done to serve various terms in who should be aspiring to and sound citizens of the i crime does not pay in ontario county the whitby chronicle out of five cases presented to a county judge at a recent session of county court held in the whitby court house live young men all of whom weie under thirty years of age were sentenced penal institutions of the land four of these young men become fathers of families country were convicted of a type of crime which has be come all too prevalent in the past few years namely breaking into property homes and theft of articles from there another young man the fifth will serve three years in portsmouth penitentiary for attempting to perpetrate a most revolting assault on an elderly widow at night in her home in one of the countrys rural communities the accused was shown in court to have had a previous record as was his duty the county crown attorney presented what was accepted by the jury as a true picture of the facts and the twelve honest ctiizens found little difficulty in returning a verdict of guilty a verdict which won the approbation of the presiding judge we feel that in securing these convictions the crown representative performed a most valuable service to the citizens of this county and to the principle of justice these five men for by no other standard can they be judged represent a type which is infesting this province to a greater degree with each succeeding year we are now at the brink of another new one and who can foretell how many more will stand at the bar of the couits in 1939 to receive sentences for offences against decency and the laws of organized society there are many deeprooted caused lying behind such flagrant cases of disregard for the principles of law and oider which will not be touched on here but we fed that every man has an inherent instinct of what constitutes right and wrong thus making most excuses and explana tions of little weight the great majority of the citizens of this country are lawabiding as such they have the right to feel that they may retire to rest or leave their property after taking all reasonable precautions with the expectation that they will remain inviolate from invasions by scurrulous marauders and cut throats this is especially the case in rural centres where it is physically impossible to provide police protection such as is efforded by the urban municipalities it is our considered opinion that persons convicted of such crimes should receive a sufficiently severe sentence to serve as a powerful deterent to any others who might contemplate similar acts the success of the crown attorney in obtaining these five convictions will go a long way to the above end roosevelt warns the dictators christian science monitor far greater resistance to the totalitarian challenge in the world greater efforts to bring economic recovery at home were the keynotes of president roosevelts message on the state of the nation broadcast last week and delivered to an impressive joint meeting of the new congress addressing the dictatorships the president plainly threaten ed economic sanctions and the force of his rearmament pro gram in resistance to aggress ion but at the same time he set limits saying we rightly decline to inter vene with arms to prevent acts of aggression then he stress ed methods short of war but stronger and more effective than mere words to impress dictatorships this passage strongly reminiscent of the quarantine section of the presidents chicago speech in september 1937 was balanced but forceful and unmistakably a grave warning while the congress heard the president for the most part with respectful applause his espousal of a continued govern ment spending program in the interest of recovery provoked an opposition demonstration one school of thoughtthe presi dent said calls for the elimi nation of enough activities of government to bring the expen ses of government immediately into balance with income of government hearing this the republi cans and other oppositionists burst into cheers and applause the most fervent thus far iri- terlopating the speech then when mr roosevelt criticized this viewpoint the new dealers had their chance to lapplaud but when he said the con gress will have to accept the responsibility of such reduct ion and the congress will have to determine which activities are to be reduced the opposi tion indicated its complete read iness rhetorically at least to shoulder the burden and when the president list ed specific economics such as reductions in pensions and soc ial security the opposition did not appear to be quite so sure- not alone for democracy in the world or at home did the president speak storms from abroad directly challenge three institutions indispensable to americans now as always he said the first is religion it is the source of the other two- democracy and international good faith religion he said by tea ching man his relationship to god gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by respecting his neighbors- then he redefined democ racy democracy the practice of self-government- is a coven ant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows and he broadened it to the world international good faith a sister of democracy springs from the will of civilized nat ions of men to respect the rights and liberties of other nations of men in modern civilization all three religion democracy and international good faith com plement each other by these and other referen ces the president gave confirm ation to accounts last week of his turning to the use of organ ized zeligion as an ally in the world struggle against totalit arianism but there was more than het- oric however soundly based in the message there are many methods short of war he said but stronger and more effect ive than mere words of bring ing home to aggressor govern ments the aggregate sentiments of our own people by this the president meant his nation defense program which will go to congress in a special message this week he meant the plans already draft ed for applying economic sanc tions to germany through the tariff law and other methods he meant it is to be assumed- since he referred to it in the jnexft paragraph modifications of the neutrality law to assist the victims of aggression whe ther in spain or in china youthful mayor tested by time since 1847 gnada life canadas oldest life assurance company life insurance and income plans to meet every need local representative a c burkholder although but 23 years old george trenmouth merchant and hockey player has been elected mayor of powassan by a one vote majority over his competing candidate for the office he is perhaps canadas youngest chief magistrate first time in 20 years no overdraft county council 1939 complete 1939 elections bring several new members the following is a complete list of the members of ontario county council for 1939 town of whitby reeve al bert w jackson deputyreeve rev a mansell irwin whitby township reeve lome r kemp east whitby reeve irwin t ormiston deputyreeve henry hazell port perry reeve w merele letcher scugog reeve frank ger- row reach township reeve john s mcdonald deputyreeve robert swanick brock township reeve a leslie mcmullen deputyreeve john s miller town of uxbridge reeve c p king uxbridge township reeve robert e ashenhurst deputy- reeve edgar johnston thorah township reeve fred h clayton town of beaverton reeve alexander ross pickering township reeve ralph e mowbray de putyreeve william reesor scott township reeve g rae mara township reeve j a mcdonald deputyreeve samuel graham rama township reeve a w grigg cannington village reeve james blanchard a moral in verse there is so much competition so much racing to get ahead of others that men think they must keep their noses to the grindstone and not only do they lose most of the pleasure of living but they waste their lives we recall a bit of a verse written by roe fulkerson the kiwanis philosopher if you keep your nose to the grindstone rough and hold it down there long enough youll soon forget that there are such things as a brook that babbles a bird that sings just three things will your life compose yourself the stone and your darn old nose the moral is obvious take a little time out for something apart from business business will go on after you are gone but you cannot bring back a life that has been worn out by con stant pressure on the business grindstone owen sound sun times london england finds wom en so successful in police work that they are increasing the number of women officers from 100 to 150 they must cover a beat for two years and may eventually become inspectors westview nursing home stouffville obstetrical and convalescent cases taken reasonable terms visiting hours 330 to 430 oclock 700 to 800 oclock marjorie stewart reg n phone 272 for the first time in over 20 years richmond hill village is entirely free of bank debts the last payment on an overdraft of 17000 was made to the bank at the end of the year reeve john greene says that council by keeping close watch on the financial setup and ad hering to a strict payasyougo system has been able to wipe some 10000 off the debenture debt during the last year alone and the taxpayers have not suffered he says their taxes have decreased year by year for the past six years from a 55- mill rate in 1933 to the present rate of 45 mills which is 10 mills higher than the rate in stouffville according to reeve john greene now beginning a seventh term in that position council hoping once again this year to effect a reduction in taxes new jap premier changes in the japanese cabinet have elevated baron kiichiro hiranuma 73 found er of the extremist national party to the premiership to suc ceed prince konoye his ap pointment as cabinet leader means strengthening of the army group stanley theatre phone stouffville 100 thursday friday saturday january 12 13 14 four men and a prayer starring loretta young c a smith richard green special attraction march of time monday tuesday wednesday january 161718 beloved brat starring bonita granville de costello donald crisp comedy and snorts thursday friday saturday january 192021 tropical holiday starring martha rave dorothy lamour bob burns pictorial popeye sport reel up in simcoe county the election for the reeveship of essa township resulted in a tie vote between frank higginson and george banting thus was norman coxworth the town ship clerk and returning officer put in a tight place the law re quires the returning officer who otherwise has no vote to cast the decidng ballot will his face be red nova scotia reports more horses this year what is really needed however is not more horses but faster ones the third official estimate places the argentine wheat acreage at 20859150 or 226- 300 acres more than the second estimate and 1750115 acres above the average of the past ten years lehmans hcestoe phone 4301 stouffville footwear for all the family womens hosiery boots shoes rubbers mitts socks gloves i wonder if jim will call tonight do you daydream in the evenings when somebody like jim is in a distant town and seems ten times as far away as he really is and then the telephone bell rings and theres jim hello jim i was hoping youd call is there ever a time when a cheery voice from far away is not welcome when the telephone bell announces it you feel grateful that there arc still people who think about you and prove it by long distance and jim says only 65 people who use long distance service are always surprised howlittle it really costs ranking with smaller budget items like movies cigarettes laundry and shoe repairs long distance telephone calls dont touch your pockctbook seriously but do always touch your heart long distance costs so little jims call cost only 65c and it travelled more than 200 miles using low night rates applying as will all day sun day and placing anyone calls you can talk a long long uay for just a very little