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Creation of substances that will make chickens as big as pigs. ‘ A two-hour work day. There will be no visiting. People will stay at home and call on their friends by television. Dream pills. By taking a certain pill a man will be able to select the kind of dream he wants. Pneumatic tubes will carry complete meals to homes. The streets will be sprayed daily with lilac water. Replacing cotton by an incombustible fabric made from scrap bottle-glass. Taxicabs will have wings. Mail chutes will bring letters direct to your home. There will be no stenographers. George Bernard Shaw says that in three thousand years, children will be able to talk as soon as they are born. LIUB Lnem over. Forecasting federal action is not easy, but the present prospect is that the cabinet will decide that it cannot grant increased subsidies to the prairie provinces unless all previnces agree to a new examination of the financial basis of Confederation. Failing thatâ€"and the prospect for agreement is not brightâ€"the prov. inces will be allowed to solve their own financial problems. This will probably involve paying off oneâ€"half, or some part at least, of their curâ€" rent interest bill in new bonds. The bond.hold’ers won’t like it; but the prairie premiers are in a tough spot. A run down system, some chronic infection, overwork, eyestrain, maladjustment in occupation, or unsatisfactory home conditions. these and many other causes may bring about a state of anxiety. fear and worry. The thingr to do is this: First find out by proper and thorough exam- ination, if any physical organic condition is the cause. If so, every effort should be made to put that right. But if the cause is not to be found in the bedin functions, then an endeavour should be made to reason out the situ- ation. Many persons will testify that worry which hung over them like great oppressive clouds has vanished into thin air by being looked at and laughed at. Make up your mind that you were born to be happy, that you have a right to enjoy life, that you will take your share of the bitter with the sweet. If adiustments are required in work, environment or home life. carry them out. Prac- tically no price is too high to pay to rid oneself of worry. Worry can be cured. Don’t worry. Some of the miracles promised for the future are: Transmitting of electricity by radio. Men who are fully matured at ten years of age. The average person will live to be 100. Artificial teeth as good as natural ones, roofs that never leak, knives that will not dull and rugs that won’t show wear. The big ocean liners will have disappeared from the ocean. Some one has said that the Creator must have in- tended mankind to worry as practically everybody‘ does so; but such a statement requires to be explained. Worry causes unhappiness. Worry cauSes insomnia. Worry causes indigestion. Worry causes mental upsets. Worry may cause complete breakdown; and the Creator must not be held responsible. It has been said that worry is a sin. Be that as it may, worry is one of the greatest scourges known to man- kind. It does not claim as many lives as cancer, but it attacks many more people. It is the great unseen plague. Unlike the infectious diseases, we cannot ascribe it as due to any specific germ, but it is a disease and it can be cured. Never was there so great an opportunity for interna- tional statesmanship as there is today. For the past two or three years the nations of Europe have been spending well nigh countless millions in building up huge land arma- ments and creating sky fleets. Beginning January lst we are to see the leading naval nations plunge into great naval building programs. Even Uncle Sam is joining in the mad race. There can only be one end to such warlike prepar- ations, and that is WAR. unless somewhere some man will arise Who can get the ear of the world and lead humanity from idiocy to sanity. We believe President Roosevelt could do a great service by going on a peace mission to Europe, which gladlv acclaimed President Wilson’s high ideals at the end of the great war. but failed to implement them in the washed out version which remained after Cle- menceau and Lloyd George whittled them down. Perhaps the nations would be more willing to listen to RooSevelt than they were to Wilson. At any rate it is worth trying. We characterize as barbarous the action of our an- cestors of one hundred years ago in hanging some men for stealing sheep as freely as they hanged others for committing murder. But after all did these ancestors show more utter disregard for the sanctity of human life than we do today when an auto thief is given a heavier penalty than is imposed on men whose reckless disregard of the safety of others results in the smashing of human bodies by cars going 35 miles an hour on streets crowded with traffic? Conviction in this case was, however, based wholly on the charge of theft. But more than three score people Were killed in car “accidents” in Toronto last year and most of these fatalities were due to criminal negligence on the part of car drivers. Still. so far as memory serves. in but one case was anything more than a merely nominal prison term imposed on a killer. LIFE MORE THAN PROSPERITY On conviction of having stolen a car a Toronto youth was last week sentenced to a year in prison. In view of the fact that, simply because they are driving stolen ve- hicles, car thieves, in addition to their crime of stealing, constitute a special menace to legitimate traffic on the highways! the penalty was none too severe. ing an advance of only 3 per cent against 19 per cent in- crease in the output of forest industries. Aside from fish- ing, all our great natural industries show a substantial ad- vance â€"â€" nearly 151/; per cent in mining, 10.6 per cent in agriculture and 19 in forest industries. ' Taken as a whole the facts given clearly show that (Egggda is once more on the upgrade industrially. A REAL IMPROVEMENT The Financial Post places the total income from all forms of industry in this country for the past year at al- most 101/2 per cent above that of 1935. Better than the total increase shown is the fact that all lines of industry report_ an improvement over the previous year. . There his, however, been conéiderable Gariation in the yate of izgcrease by industries, fishing, for example, show- Advertising Rates on Application. Estabfished 1878 AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT RICHMOND HILL THE LIBERAL PRINTING CO., LTD. Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Subscription $1.50 per year â€"â€" To the United States $2.00 Covering Canada’s Best Suburban District J. Eachern Smith, Manager PAGE TWO ROOSEVELT’S GREAT OPPORTUNITY THURSDAY, JANUARY 14th, 1937. DON’T WORRY THE FUTURE TELEPHONE 9. Forecasting federal action is not easy, but the present prospect is that the cabinet will‘ decide that it cannot grant increased subsidies to the prairie provinces unless all p‘TOVinces agree to a new examination of the financial basis of Confederation. Failing thatâ€"and the prospect for agreement is not brightâ€"the prov. inces will be allowed to solve their own financial problems. This will probably involve paying off oneâ€"half, or some part at least, of their cur- rent interest bill in new bonds. The Will this mean default in Manitoba. and! Saskatchewan? The report here is that neither of them plan an arbi- trary cut in interest rates. What they do ask is, that for a year or two the bond-holders accept one.half.the interest in new bonds. This would not smack of repudiation in any way, and might provide sufficient relief to tide them over. There is STD]? division of opinion at Ottawa about the wiszlom of going to the aid“ of the prairie provinces further. It is stated on good author- ity that about 260 millions have been distributed on the prairie from the federal treasury in recent years. Ev- en this year, about 20 million doll- ars, quite apart frcm subsidies, loans and grants for relief, works, roads, etc. are being- spent as a Dominion responsibility because of the drought. (Alberta Broke Awayl) Alberta was ailcwedv to separate itself from! the federal credit struc- ture and default on its bonds. That was a deliberate decision, on the part of Ottawa, that the Dominion‘s cre- dit could not be joined indefinitely and regardlessly to provincial credit. The Alberta default left Dominion credit soundâ€"possibly helped it. Now it is being- said that Manitoba and Saskatchewan must run their own show, also. If Manitoba and Saskatchewan are to be helped, Alberta will have to be given exactly the same treatment. Alberta. has also suffered gravely from the depression and from drought. Scme of the authorities: here will deplore handing over addri- tional hundreds of thousands of doll- are annually to Premier A‘berhart, for fear of the use he mav make of it. But there is no escape from that. To help two provinces and not thn third would he a tactical error, aside from its injustice. There is another way of helping the prairie provinces, but it will cost much more. That is, assumption of 100 per cent cost of the old age pensions. That also, has been pro- posed and discussed. But until‘ there is! a constitutional amendment; so that the Dominion has unquestionable right to administer an old age; pen- sion‘ scheme as a federal measure, such a step is highly improbable. That leaves one big item of ex- penditure to work on, namely. the interest burden on their funded debt. There is a growing determination. judging from what Ottawa hears, to defer, if not reduce, that burdten, failing some help from the Domin- ion Government. When the provincial leaders were here in December, Premier John Bracken of Manitoba, asked a ‘Dun- can commission’ to study the pre- sent disalbilities of the prairies, and it was suggested in this connection that the prairie provinces were en- titled to higher subsidies, pending at least a royal commission report. This request has been considered by the Dominion Government. As a temp. orary means of helping- out the prairie provinces, it has some attrac- tive aspects. Not that the Domin- ion has' any spare cash lyingr around, but, all things considered, it might be cheaper to lend still another hand, rather than let Manitoba and Saskatâ€" chewzm default. (Some Precendent For It) Also, there is some precedent for increased subsidies. for the prairies. The Maritimes secured that help as a result of the Duncan report. Brit- ish‘ Columbia was given an increase in subsidy during the depression as a temporarymeasure, and it is still being paid. assembles as a new crisis develops in Dominionâ€"Provincial relationships. Manitoba and Saskatchewan, still bearing the brunt of the depression, accentuated by the appalling drought last summer, are almost in de- srpair. Drastic measures. are threat. ened. Ottawta is once more being approached for help. The prairie provinces cannot bal- ance their budgets. They cannot borâ€" row through the ordinary channels. Their taxation has reached the limit of What the public can, or will, stand. Naturally, they are seeking some re. lief. They have explored the chanâ€" nels of economy and selfâ€"denial, and! think they have cut essential ser- vie-es to the bone, or beyond. Ottawa Spotlight awa, THE LIBERAL, RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO Wilfrid Eggleston nuary 12.â€"â€"Parliament a new crisis develops is 200 miles away and comes in by aeroplane. This is becoming a very active centre at present as God’s Lake Gold Mine is in this district and employs a large number of men. A move is now on to build a United Church in the near future. Miss Margaret Shaw moved a very hearty vote of thanks to the speaker of the evening and was seconded by Har‘ old Duggan, to which all responded. The meeting next Monday evening will be in charge of the Citizenship Convener, Jack Dug-gan. He has se- cured‘ Mr. Chap-man as special speak- er. His address will be “Is Democ- racy :1 Failure?” which will include a discussion on the ’isms of today. A hearty welcome to all. The Girls’ Misaion Circle meets 211 the Parsonage this (Thursday) ev‘ ening at 8 o’clock for their Janualf, A missionary programme was a special feature of the Y.P.U. meet- ing- last Monday evening. Mr. Hiltz, a student of Victoria College, was the guest speaker. He gave an ill- ustrated address on his work in God’s Lake district, Northern Manitoba, where he spent four months as a school teacher and missionary to the Cree Indians. These still live in a very primitive way in tepees in the summer and shacks in the winter. The Indians make their living by wood cutting and fishing. The popu- (ation has been greatly reduced in this district owing to the dread dis‘ ease tuberculosis which often deve- lops after a severe attack of influ: enza and colds. The nearest doctor meetmg‘. The United Church Sundav School held its annual msefing‘ last Thurs- A g100m was cast over this com- munity last Thursday when the word was received' that Mrs. James Dean had suddenly passed away at her home in Thornhill on Thursday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Dean were residents of this community for many years living on the farm now owned by Lieut. Governor Herbert A. Bruce. Mrs. Dean had been a member of Newtonbrook United Church for many years and was an active work- er in the Woman’s Association fill- ing the office of president at one time. The funeral service was held at her home last Sunday at 2.30 and was conducted by Rev. A. H. Hal- bert and Rev. E. E. Pugsley. Inâ€" terment took place in Thomhill ce- metery. The Woman’s Association met last Thursday afternoon with an attend» ance of twenty-two members and two visitors. Mrs. W. T. W'ells presidâ€" ed. The devotional worship service was conducted‘ by Mrs. Wm. Pharaoh and- Miss Edna Street. Plans were made for the annual congregational banquet on Thursday, January 28th. Delegates were appointed to attend the annual meeting of the Woman’s Associations Conference of Toronto Centre Presbytery on Tuesday, Janâ€" uary 19th which will be held in West- minster Central Church, Toronto, commencing at 10.30 a.m. Arrange- ments were made to hold a Social in the S. S. hall on Friday evening, January 22nd and' a program cOm- mittee was appointed. Mrs. Halbert closed the meeting with prayer. NEWTONBROOK This policy has been continued for over 60 years in the firm belief that everydne who understands the facts would want this great work to continue . . . would agree that no Ontario child should be denied a chance for health or escape from deformity if mere money makes the difference. The Hospital receives no support from the Toronto Federation for Community Service because patients are accepted from all parts of the Province. We must therefore appeal to a humane and generous public to take care of an annual deficit . . . this year It is $68,000.00. Needy children from all over the Prov- ince are treated regardless of race, creed or financial circumstance. 0 Please mail a donation to the Appeal Secretary, 67 College Street, Toronto. The thanks of little children will be your reward. 75m mam: far Sfik Bhidren Over 95% of our beds are in Public Wards. Rev. A. H. Halbert expressed his appreciation to all the officers and teachers for their hearty co-operaâ€" tion. Mr. A. W. Galbraith who has been actively engaged in Sunday School work for 22 years and who has been Supt. of New-tombrook Unit- ed Sunday School for some years, asked to rbe relieved of this office, that he felt he needed a rest It was with regret that his resignation was accepted. The following 'officers were appointed for 1937: Supt., Mr. Leslie Grdsdale; Ass’t Supt., Mr. W. T. Wells; Secretary, Miss Margaret Shaw; Ass’t Secretaries, Hicks Smith and- Irwin Brown; Treasurer, Miss Irene Smith; Home Dept. Supt., Misas Edna Street; Cradle Roll Supt., Mrs. L. Grisdale; Ass’t Cradle Roll Supt., Mrs. A. H. Halvbert; Missionary Supt., Mrs. F. Foreman; Temperance Supt., Mr. L. Grisdale; Flowers and Fruit Convener, Miss Mary Douglas; Lan- tern Operator, Mac Douglas; Pianist, Miss Cora Good; Ass’t Pianist, Miss Ruth Douglas. day evening with eighteen teachers and officers present. Very gratify- ing- reports were received from the various departments. Miss Edna Street reported 24 members in the Home Department. She has two as- sistants who help in the visitation and distribution of Lesson helps, lit- erature, etc. Mrs. Leslie Grisdale reported 59 members on the Cradle Roll. She made 123 visits at the homes. Temperance was talzen up regularly in the Sunday School and a donation of over $12.00 shad been sent in to the Temperance..Federa- tion. The first Sunday in every nionth is Missionary Sunday. Many interesting and instructive programs had been given durin g the year. The Sunday School had raised $56.00 for Missions. The treasurer reported $413.00 raised for all purposes. There is an enrolment: of 260. A meeting was held last Thursday evening at 7 o’clock in the Sunday School room of the United Church to organize a Canadian Girls in CHEES SERVICE GARAGE Your Car Deserves a Warm Garage for Winter Goodrich Tires ané Tubes Come in and make arrangements for Storage Space now. General Repairing and Accessories Brakes relined Battery Rentals and Charging Phone 12 Headquarters for THURSDAY, JANUARY 14th, 1937 Training GrOup. The following offâ€" icers were elected: Leader, Miss Mary Douglas; President, Mabel Brett; Vice-Presidefit, Ruth Douglas; Secretary, Gladys Riddell; Assistant Secretary, Alice Wiltshire; Treasur- er, Irene Riddell. ray reviewed the fourth chapter of the Study Book and made it most interesting to all. Rev. E. E. Pugsâ€" leyr of Thornhill was the guest speak. er and spoke on the “Worll Peace Congress" which was held" in Bruss- ells in September to which he was sent as a delegate. His address was very much appreciated and very much worth while. A duet was sung by Mrs. Harold Moore and Rev. A. H. Halbert. The departmental sec- retaries were appointed as delegates to' attend the W.M.S. annual confer- ence in Bloor St. United Church on January 26th. It was announced that the Day of Prayer would he held Feb. 12th in St. George’s Anglican Church. Willowdale. The Supply Sec., Mrs. A. Brown, asked the memâ€" bers to start now and make prepar- ations for the Missionary bale and handed out material to work on. Mrs. Murray presented a very fine appeal as secretary of the Christian Stewâ€" ardship Department and asked for hearty co-operation among the meme bers in the prayer life of the Auxil- iary. Mrs. A. W. Stephenson kindly invited the AuxiliaryI to her home on February 16th for the regular meeting. At the close of the meetâ€" ing refreshments were served' by the hostess. A meeting of the Finance Commit- tee. also an Executive meeting were held previously when plans were made for the year’s work and, a program arranged. The W.M.S. held its January meet- ing at the Parsonage last Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. A. H. Halbert presidring. There was a large at- tendance and a good: stafl; made for the New Year. The devotional wor- ship service was conducted by Mrs. A. W. Stephenson. Mrs. James Mur- Every morninl in the year (amou- turgeons come to our opernting rooms to donate their services. More thin 8.100 opentions are performed annu- nny. But there are many extral h:- volvbd and the maintenance of "I19 necessary Icrvlce Is very costly. Richmond Hill Since 1928 the service rendered by the: Imus-overcrowded Out-Patient Depart- ment has more than doubled. Last year 84.414 individual treatments were liven. Thls sen-ire yields a small revenueâ€"â€" but not. nearh‘ enough.