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tonffirille dteilraitt vol co no 6 authorized as second class mail post office department ottawa the tribune st0cffv1lle ont june 3 vms second suction the stouffville tribune established 1sss member of the canadian weekly newspaper association and ontario quebec newspapers association member of the audit bureau of circulations paidinadvance circulation as of september 30 2575 issued every thursday at stouffville ontario tn canada s200 in usa s25c a- v nolan son publishers notes and comments threeway stove a good commentary on the shortages that have start ed to plague this country in recent years is the threeway stove now being manufactured in michigan the manufact urer first started making oil furnaces but there was an oil shortage then he shifted to gas furnaces but ran into a gas shortage so now he is making threeway stoves that can burn gas oil or coal shortages are something new in our countrys economy but american ingenuity is some thing we will never be short of boston post the upset lantern there has been loss of farm buildings through the over turning of a lantern and the igniting of the spilled kerosene it is claimed that if the oil container part of the lantern is packed with absorbent cotton that the cotton will soak up the kerosene so that it will not spill if the lantern is over turned when filling the lantern as much kerosene is used as the cotton will absorb- it is claimed that the wick will draw the kerosene from the cotton just as it does in the ordinary pocket lighter farmers advocate government cost too high now slowly canadians are beginning to realize that the cost of governments in this country is enormously high that since the war governments have undertaken vast new annual commitments the taxpayer is being further flim- flammed by the now popular stunt of one jurisdiction taking over a tax field as soon as it is dropped by another jurisdiction about 29 cents of every dollar earned in canada is now taken away in taxes says the winnipeg free press this country is spending far more than it can afford on government it is supporting a system of administration which with insatiable appetite absorbs through one month or another far too large a part of the ordinary mans income it is increasing and not reducing the bureaucracy which sprawls across the country managing everything producing nothing and living on the labor of the public with present tax rates every mans chance to get ahead to provide for the future comfort and security of himself and his dependents is not far from being elimin ated the average mans ability to save is very largely destroyed governments never have any difficulty thinking up apparently fine schemes on which to spend our money but in our private affairs there are many fine things which most of us just cant afford the limit to a familys spending capacity is clearly defined the limit to what a government can spend is that amount which it can dazzle us into paying through taxes sure the taxpayer complains but theyre just a bunch of sheep anyway we can make em take it that was the recent comment of one mpp and probably doubtless reflects a view that is pretty general in political circles canadians are paying far more than they should to tax gatherers lets have some promises that government expenditures will be reduced until that is done lets have fewer promises about spending more the teenagc problem st thomas journal it is reported from detroit that 50000 teenage boys and girls loiter and congregate in the streets of the city at night not knowing what to do with themselves they are compared to the homeless child packs of central europe and many of them form into gangs gangs of boys gangs of girls and gangs of boys and girls and they pillage and rob loot and smash partly to get money and partly for sheer devilry said one of the boys we dont get enough money so we have to rob from time to time what are we going to do for money the police and social workers are at their wits end to know what to do with these loiterers they cannot all be clapped in jail yet their criminal careers should be stopped and their activities directed into prosocial channels there never was a time when there were so many organizations for looking after young people the parents or more accurately the grandparents of the young people of today had very few movements to which they could belong when they were of a teen age boys had the boys brigade and the church and ymca girls had only the church and ywca there was little else they had no recreational centres no movies or organized games dances were few and far between largely the young people stayed at home and enjoyed reading music and just home life but delinquents were relatively few there was no juvenile problem today there are far more organizations for the enter tainment and training of young people than ever before young people also are better educated but multitudes never think of reading a worthwhile book only lurid sensational and sexy magazines they have movies and perhaps that is not all to the good and may be to some extent to blame for the present situation and they have a radio in every home but they prefer to go out some where and dance to radio or juke boxes anywhere except home which seems to them a dull hole a vast number of boys and girls today seem incapable of or are not interested in making their own entertain ment they want money and a constant flow of it to have a good time which may include drinking must the blame be placed on the shoulders of the parents primarily it must be feared that is where the blame lies yet it must be said that in too many young people there is this urge for a good time and it must be got by any means just as one bad apple in a barrel will rot the others one or two bad boys or girls in a neighborhood will contaminate the others good children begin to rebel against their parents and call them old fogeys because they forbid them staying out till the early hours of the morning and parents have not the firmness or the will to bring them up in the uav thev should go our capital correspondent with only several weeks remain ing before this session will be adjourned and a long list of un finished business still on the legis lature agenda members of parlia ment are going to work overtime h order to complete as much of their tasks as possible so that parliament may close prior to about june 30 sitting on wednes day nights and obviously showing a burst of activity in the next several weeks including full- dress debates on certain items which will provide more news from this nations capital than previously judging from hints heard backstage here ever since the canadian govern ment announced the removal of the sales tax on certain food stuffs people have been complaining that price reductions in stores across this country have not been forth coming as anticipated however it must be pointed out that informa tion in this capital shows that immediate price cuts could not be made on the food items involved by the lifting of the tax in the budget since the sales tax has been paid oi the stocks now in the stores and in the hands of food distributors with the added comment that stocks are plentiful not only in the stores but in the warehouses at the present time this means that price reductions on such foodstuffs are not possible immediately if the sales tax has been paid and the effects of the removal of the tax are going to be felt when stocks upon which taxes have not been paid are offered to the consumers the canadian government is pro posing to introduce various improvements and extensions in the mail services of rural areas it is learned here though it is known that rural areas may not feel the benefits of the allup mail service to the same degree as the more populated centres this being in reference to the carrying of mails by air under certain circumstances starting july 1 it is known in the capital that the post office depart ment is studying ways and means of inaugurating some changes which will bring marked extension of mail services to the rural popu- desperate fight against floods in bc a timely hint although it may not be a very popular subject to bring up at the present time particularly in view of the fact that we are just beginning to experience warm weather and coal shovels are being put aside for the first time since early last fall the oshawa timesgazette suggests that it would be timely for householders to give serious consideration to the filling of their bins as soon as possible in conversation with one of the leadng local fuel dealers the oshawa editor says we were informed that the fuel situation next fall will probably be as bad if not worse than it was a year ago this means that if consumers leave their bins empty until then they may find themselves in a most unenviable position it is also learned that quite a little antracite as well as domestic grades of fuel are coming through at present dealers are anxious to dispose of it as quickly as possible as they have not the storage facilities to handle any great quantity their position will be made more happy if the sup plies coming in are snapped up rapidly this will enable them to order more and at the same time fill a large number of cellar bins for individuals another factor in the current situation is that the miners agreement with the operators expires in june this may mean a cessation in operations at the mines even a short stoppage will make the fuel situation more grave add ed to this is the possibility that when new agreements are signed the miners may get an increase which will be passed on to the consumer in the form of a price increase while many demands are being made upon the house hold budget and money is being laid aside at this season in preparation for summer vacation we believe it would be onlv wise to give serious consideration to filling your coal bin the constantly growing science service for agricultural under takings of the canadian govern ment has been arousing much interest along parliament hill where it is said that progress is be ing made to raise the salaries of such scientific workers not merely to improve such science services to the nation but to retain necessary personnel in fact the whole thing has been raised in the house of commons gossip in political circles along parliament hill indicates an all- out effort on the part of the govern ment forces to capture the byelec tions being held in may and june with several cabinet ministers giv ing much of their time and thought towards the campaigns the over- all majority of the government in parliament now is 126 as against 116 progressiveconservatives ccfi social credit bloc populairs and independents these being 67 29 14 2 and a respectively in other words the government is anxious to add a seat or more to its present holdings and considers its majority rather slim judging from the all- out effort in the byelections in interesting experiment the experimental station at prince george bc has been conducting experiments to show the important role bees play in the production of clover seed every botany student knows that when bees suck the nectar from flowers they carry pollen from one flower to the stigma of another and thus aid the process of crosspollination which is necessary for seed production the wind also helps in this stage of reproduction but let us get back to the tests at the bc experimental station plots of alsike clover were measured out and cages built for them in one cage honey bees only were admitted in another no bees at all could neter in a third wild bees only had admittance and fourth was open to all insects where no bees visited the clover the crop was har vested and threshed the seen produced was equivalent to eight pounds per acre the wild lees alone increased the yield to 74 5 pounds in the cage where the honey bees had the clover to themselves 230 pounds of seed resulted and where all the bees wild and hived had free access to the blossoms the crop of seed rose to 370 pounds clover growers and beekeepers are realizing more and more how it is to their mutual advantage to work together many beekeepers now use the migratory system they take the bees to areas where clover is in abundance to the apiarist it means a huge harvest of money as for the t his pollinated seed crop is greatly increased most of british columbia is fighting what is described as a losing battle against the worst floods that the province has experienced in more than 50 years homes swept from their foundations by floods at kim- berley bc were blocking the waters of the maple river and spreading the damage hero men are preparing to dynamite a home toppled into the stream damage there al ready totals 1000000 a bulldozer banks the rivers course at kimberley in effort to keep the flood in the natural course when the stream changed its course and roared through the centre of the city hundreds were made homeless men are working round the clock in attempt to curb the floods the flood area extends 500 miles north from prince rupert and as far east as the albert border travel is report ed to be hazardous addition it is known here that some cabinet changes may be in the making shortly and it is under stood that these are being held up until the byelections will be decided with rumors persisting continued from page five in our time by howl hunt 1 but ioitjy has tried to buy a cor