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Whatever we may think of this man Hitler, he cert ainly knows how to win elections. Have you noticed that fewer and fewer robins, wrens, woodpeckers etc. come back to us each spring but that more and more starlings dai'lien the skies each fall‘.‘ How are we to cope with the pest of starlings? Last year the Women’s Institute gave a prize to encourage the destroy- ing of these birds. The suggestion has been made that there should be a bounty for nests of starling eggs. -.........,.,L. This is the time of year when a great deal of damage is done to the township roads. Heavy traffic on gravel roads when the frost is coming out can do inestimable damage. Sane use of roads now will pay rich dividends to the taxpayers. Richmond Hill’s annual Spring Fair is less than: two months away. This is an event worthy of the support of the citizens of this district and we trust as in past years the officers and directors wiH have the whole-heart- ed support of the people in their efforts to make the fair bigger and better. Last year a Social Credit government was swept into power in Alberta and in the federal elections a large num- ber of Social Credit candidates were elected from that province. During the campaign Mr. Aberhart stated that there was not the slightest doubtvas to the feasibility of the Social Credit plan for Alberta and the people took him at his word and gave him a tremendous majority. Now what? Last week Mr. Aberhart passed a bill in the legislature to’ appoint a Royal Commission to investigate as to the feasibility of a plan of Social Credit in Alberta. Last of all there is the comment made by an Orillia resident about to take a girl out for a ride in the days when motor cars were less common than they now are: “Me for a horse and buggy. No car for me. You can trust a horse a bit.” Still another point is brought up by the Winston- Salem Journal which says: “One thing about the horse. Nobody had to get behind him and push om extremely cold mornings.” Then the Kitchener Record comments thus: “The driver used to wrap the lines around the Whip and go to sleep fora few minutes. Now a driver wraps his car around a telephone pole and goes to sleep permanently.”. No real evidence of an advance there. For instanoe, we have the Niagara Falls Review re- marking: “One thing in favor of the old-fashioned runâ€" away horse was that a fellow had‘ a few minutes to think of his.past record before the crash came.” That cert- ainly seems to offer one sound argument in favor of the earlier methods. ADVANTAGES OF THE HORSE Some doubt is thrown upon the alleged advantages of scientific progress by recent comments in the press concerning the horse and the motor car and there would appear to be some basis to the arguments advanced. The unfairness of the situation so clearly pointed out by Mr. Baker is one that has been troubling municipal officials for some time and the Baker Bill should be Wel- comed by those charged with administering municipal busi- ness and by those, who bear the tax burden. Speaking in support of his bill Mr. Baker said “There are hundreds of acres of our best land now exempt from taxes. Our farmers and citizens generally are struggling to make ends meet and they are called upon to pay their own taxes and the taxes on the ground used by the sons of the wealthy who are able to attend these private schools.” In introducing the '11 Mr. Baker pointed out that there is a growing tende cy for these private schools to acquire larger acreages which as soon as purchased be- come tax free. This at once means a decrease in reVenue for the municipality which in turn means an increased tax burden for the farmers and others who make up that municipality. A survey of the situation reveals that there are appreciable quantities of land in many municipalities know paying no taxes. The measure introduced by Mr. Baker places a limit of 20 acres upon the amount of land on which private schools may claim exemption. _ BAKER BIL_L REDUCES TAX EXEMPTION 0N PRIVATE SCHOOLS Private schools occupying over 20 acres of land will be called upon in the future to pay substantially increased taxes according to a bill introduced in the Ontario Legisâ€" lature by Morgan Baker, North York’s representative in the Ontario Assembly. ing in the profits. In other words you lose 14 out of 15 times. A little thought on the subject should convince anyone that the firms Who make and operate the ma- chines do not make them except to make money for them- selves. In all parts of the country there is a growing demand for a clean-up of the whole slot machine busi- ness and the sooner it is done the better for everybody. This town is better off to be rid of the slot machines and so is any other town or community. One wonders if people who are given to playing slot machines have men a remote idea how heavily the odds are against them. A well known magazine writer figured out there are only sixty-three times out of one thousand that the machine returns more than is put in. The other 937 times you lose your money. If you played $50.00 at 5 cents a time you would receive an average of $12.15, while you would lose $37.65, which goes to the various persons shar- There has been general approval of the action of the municipal council in urging the authorities to rid the town of slot machines, and the prompt removal of the machines has been the subject of much favorable comment. Slot machines found their way to Canada from across the line and developed into a big business paying handsome pm» fits to owners. The local operators got a percentage of the winnings but a great bulk of the money paid into the machi es found its way into the pockets of those who contr led the business. Established 1878 AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT RICHMOND HILL THE LIBERAL PRINTING CO., LTD. J. Eachern Smith, Manager Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association. Subscription $1.50 per year â€" To the United States $2.00 Covering Canada’s Best Suburban District Advertising Rates on Application. TELEPHONE 9 Perhaps progress is an illusion after all. PAGE TWO THURSDAY, APRIL 2nd, 1936 THE LIBERAL SLOT MACHINES The Grand Trunk Railway Com- pany of Canada came on the scene by incorporation in 1852, the orig-- inal aim of this company being to form a railway connection between the ports of Quebec, Montreal and the Great Lakes. Lines were con- structed from these important points in Quebec westward through the province of Ontario to Sarnia at the international border, with branches, built and acquired, afterward radiat- ing in all directions. By 1873 the Grand Trunk had absorbed all the railway lines included in the earlier period of railway building centering around Montreal and points; to the south and east, including the first railway and adjacent lines. The rand Trunk Railway was, in turn, absorbed on January 30, 1923, by the Canadian National Railways, which thereby inherited these pioneer This pioneer railway of 1836 soon provided the impetus for further rail construction in several directions. Af- ter a few years of operation, it was decided to lengthen the line and rails were extended in 1851 north to St. Lambert (directly across the river from Montreal) in one direction, and south to Rouses Point on Lake Cham- plain in the other. In 1847 a line known as the St. Lawrence and At- lantic was built from Longueuil, on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River nearly opposite Montreal, east- ward to St. Hyacinthe and by 1851 it reached Richmond, then on to Sher- brooke, Que, in 1852, and by the following ‘year it was extended to Island Pond, Vermont. Here it con» nected with the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad built between Isâ€" land Pond and Portland, Maine, com- pleted in 1853, this line connecting with the Boston and Maine Railroad. By 1847 the Montreal and Lachine line also was completed and the ex- tension from Caughnawaga, opposite Lachine, to Mooers Junction, 'N.Y. was opened in 1852, known as the Lake St. Louis and Province Line Railroad. This line, by using a rail- road ferry across the St. Lawrence River, made a connection between Montreal and the United States rail- roads to the south. This enlarged line, later known as the Montreal and New York Railroad, was ab- sorbed by the pioneer Champlain and St. Lawrence, or rather by the Monâ€" treal and Champlain, as it was later known. ‘ Freight and passenger service south of St. Johns were then operat- ed by boat dm'm the Richelieu River to points‘ on Lake Champlain, and thence down the Hudson River to New York. It is interesting to note in regard to transportation that even in those early days a great deal of it was international in- character, there being- much traffic, both pass- enger and freight, from Montreal by ferry across the St. Lawrence River to Iaprairie, then by overland tran- sit to St. Johns, and thence by water to points across the international border. Three ferries were operated across the St. Lawrence River in that early period; between Montreal: and St. Lambert; between Montreal and Longueuil; between Lachine and Gaughnawaga. In Winter all trans- port was by sleigh over the ice. On July 21 of this year there will be celebrated a centennial event of great significance, the opening of Canada’s first steam railway. Com- prising fourteen and a half miles of line south of the St. Lawrence River, almost opposite Montreal, the Cham- plain and St. Lawrence railroad was built from Laprairie to St. Johns, Que, to supersede the stage route between these two points. It was1 the first link in the chain of rail-' ways that developed into the Canad- ian National System. Centenial Celebration of Canada’s First Railway John Drury, who teaches in the school at Belfoun- tain, is somewhat of an institution in that pretty Caleâ€" don village. He is teaching for his 33rd year in the sec- tion and the trustees who engaged him this year were among the pupils when John started teaching the three R’s in the school. Mr. Drury has seen many changes in the educational system, but the fact that he has never had a pupil fail at the entrance examinations is proof that he has kept pace with the march of progress. Hanover is said to be suffering from a peculiar epi- demic and one that puts measles, mumps, and smallpox into the shade. It is nothing less than an outbreak of skunks, and the period of quarantine varies from one week to six months. In one instance, one of these pests found its way into a dwelling house, and now none of its occupants is on speaking terms with the others, or in- deed, with any person in the town, except by telephone. This is the time of year when many householders could give the odd day’s work to some unemployed man. There are many jobs to be done around the average home at this season and there are many men whose face will brighten up at the possibility of a day’s work. THE LIBERAL, RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO The figures 1836-1936 are simply dates but what a wealth of signifi- cance they contain historically in the development of Canada in its many aspects, but especially in the advance of transportation facilities, without which that development would have been impossible. A review of this period, with its dramatic moves on the chess-board of railway building, reveals the fact that one hundred years have matched by since the in- augural run of the Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad on July 21, 1836, from Laprairie to St. Johns, Que. For this occasion and later use, From the acorn grows the oak, a. mighty tree which spreads its branâ€" ches in all directions. From the puny efforts of Canada’s first venture in railroad building has grown a mighty transportation system, spreading its lines across the Dominion to all im- portant centres and beyond to vasrt colonization areas. When the first railway was laid down in: Canada in 1836 the vision of neither statesmen nor railway builders had envisaged the linking of the Inc oceans. lines. It is worthy of note that part of the original line of the Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad, the pro- genitor of the Canadian National System, still exists as a right-of- way, forming a tiny part of the 24,000 miles of line now used by the Canadian National Railways. D Canadian Horticulture & Home Magazine 1 yr. D National Home Monthly .. .. ..1 yr. D Current Thought..1 yr. D Pictorial Review. . .1 yr. D Canadian Magazine 1yr. and you willieceive the whaie 4 publica- tions to: one year from the date we receive the coupon. 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