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January session which included the salary grab l feited any remaining vestige of a claim that as istrative body it was seriously trying to legisla ing with the demands of the times and the 11'. general public. As a result we submit that t day an overwhelming majority of public opinim ment with us when we say that County Counci‘ abolished. In this we know we are supported -2 LL,‘ (‘nnnf‘v ihf‘lll ADULIDD 11112 Vvv“ - _. - , York County Council as a result f the record of its January session which included the salary grab clearly for- feited any remaining vestige of a claim that as an admin- istrative body it was seriously trying to legislate in keepâ€" ing with the demands of the times and the mind of the general public. As a result we submit that there is to- day an overwhelming majority of public opinion in agree- ment with us when we say that County Council should be abolished. In this we know we are supported by a great many substantial citizens of the County including many who have sat as members of the County Council. Changes in conditions and administration over a period of years have left the County with very little to do, and we still have a council of forty-nine members to do it. It is almost un- believable that such a condition is allowed to continue. We know of few positions times than the job of relief c a thankless one. In Richmom carrying this purden along wi mL Aunlnvn KDLIDI‘ nun::;~-~----,, We know of few positions more difficult to fill in these times than the job of relief officer. It is a hard job and a thankless one. In Richmond Hill Reeve Greene has been carrying this burden along with the other numerous duties of the Reeveship. Therefore it was no surprise to anyone at all familiar with the demands and difficulties of this office that the Reeve asked at Monday’s council meeting to be relieved of the responsibility. It seems altogether too much to ask any man to act as Reeve and assume the. responsibility for administration of relief. We always have felt that it was too much to ask of a reeve, but as long as Reeve Greene carried on and handled it as efficiently and economically as he has in the past, certainly nobody else was going to kick. However now that he has asked to be relieved of the duty, he should not be asked to con- tinue to bear this great burden. We doubt if the appoint- ment of a paid official would work out economically for the village, but at least other members of council should share in the administration of this important work. We think there should be a relief commission, the same as there is a waterworks commission and a roads commission and a parks commission. It should be a committee of coun- cil and should function as the other committees do in carry- ing on the administration throughout the year. Undoubtâ€" edly there would not be a great rush of aspirants among council members for the position of relief chairman. In some municipalities this difficulty is overcome by having the council members take turns at heading the relief deâ€" partment. It sounds like a fair idea and Richmond Hill ~- 74-m- mmm 'Find this sharing of the burden anv to be relieved of the duty, he should IlUb m tinue to bear this great burden. We doubt ment of a paid official would work out e( the village, but at least other members of share in the administration of this import think there should be a relief commissior there is a waterworks commission and a re and a parks commission. It should be a con oil and should function as the other committ ing on the administration throughout the 3 edly there would not be a great rush of a council members for the position of relief some municipalities this difficulty is over( the council members take turns at headin‘ partment. It sounds like a fair idea and council members might find this sharing the best way out of the present situation. Estabfished 1878 AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY Member Canadian Week Snblcription $1.50 per year â€"â€" To the Covering Cnnadn' PRINTING 00., a Best Suburban District 1y Newspaper Association United States $2.90 MIIUAxUIu- - .. M Surely there is no scene in the life of the village boy that recalls happier hours than those spent in the cosy warmth of the blacksmith shop. There, the beating of the hammers, the flying sparks and the glare of the red hot metal held us with a fascination so strong that errands were forgotten, home work, chores and other mundane things entirely neglected. These hours were well worth the chastisement that followed when home was reached. To see a frightened young colt shod for the first time was a thrilling experience, and there were the evenings when the wandering strong man with his marvellous feats arrived at the Village and challenged all and sundry to compete with him for a wager. As we grew older and were taken to concerts there was no song sung by a basso profundo that had a greater ap- peal than Longfellow’s “Village Blacksmith” whose daugh- ter was the idol of the village choir. In View of the advent of the automobile and the farm tractor, it may seem surprising to learn that there are even now over five thousand blacksmith shops still operâ€" ating in the Dominion, but such is the case, and the vill- age boy has an adventure over hlS less favoured city cou- sin. In the cities of over 30,000 population there are only 300 of these shops, while there are more than 4,000 in the rural areas and over one thousand in the villages and small places. The 1931 census showed that the receipts of the black- smith shops aggregated over seven million dollars. In the main they were one-man concerns. DlltAULunw “a..- . -_ . At the Spring Assize Cour in London, Mr. Justice A. C. Kingstone advocated stricter driving tests in Ontario for motorists. It is a good sign when the judges are be- coming alarmed for the public safety, and are speaking out strongly in the courts when cases come before them. It has been exceedingly difficult to arouse the public to a sense of the terrible danger that exists on the highways of the Province from reckless drivers. His LOrdship point- ed out to the Grand Jurors that there were three classes .. . . mu 1” hamma Fvnm Hm mads. One was the in- .Lv .cwu ~---, 3. sense of the terrible danger that exists on the highways of the Province from reckless drivers. His Ldrdship point- ed out to the Grand Jurors that there were three classes that should be banished from the roads. One was the in- efficient operator, another the selfish one who disregards courtesy and the rights of others, and the third the in- toxicated motorist. “The third class of driver,” he said, “can and will be dealt with severely by the courts. The person who drives while drunk is an absolute menace.” PAGE TWO .Au- ‘1 u.__.__7, The announcement of the abolition of the Amusement Tax by the Provincial Government is being received with pleasure by the various sporting fraternities, church or- ganizations and theatres throughout the province. This form of taxation, especially on the lower prices of admis- sion, has ever been unpopular and has been universally designated as a nuisance tax, and its removal, which be- comes effective the first of June, will be a boom to enter- tainments of various kinds, as well as the theatres. HARRY 'R. ROSE 40 Yonge St., Richmond Hill THURSDAY, APRIL AMUSEMENT TAX EXEMPTION IS WELCOMED Office Hoursâ€"â€"Ever.y‘ RELIEF ADMINISTRATION Hoursâ€"Every Monday and Thursday Afternoon and‘ by' appointment Toronto Offices: 100 Adelaide Street West “THE LIBERAL” STRICTER DRIVING TESTS BLACKSMITH SHOPS ROSE & HERMAN Barristers-A t-Law 8th, 1937. TELEPHONE 9. LOUIS HE] Telephone 133 i HERO’S WIFE ' By Charles McGuirk g o oMWWWW THE BIBLE SAYS, “As a man thinketh so is he," and there is an awful lot of truth in that saying. A preacher gets to looking holy just from thinking and talking abâ€". out things in the Bible. A cop gets tough from swinging a club as he walks alond with the idea. that he is protecting the city from murder- ers and criminals. Keep telling a homely woman that she’s beautiful and pretty soon she gets to acting as though she mm and the first thing you know, darned if she isnlt kind of good looking. UI) to the time Harry ' 5.; LL". of the Western Hemisphere. Their friends called Harry and F10 “the ant and the elephan" behind their backs, and that seemed to a- bout sum it up, even in Flora’s eyes. Flora loved Harry but her love was a mixture of gradually lessening passion, mixed' copiously with the general idea that she was his mother, and he was her timid, shrimp-like SOD. But she got over saved those kids. they brought Harry wet and more than cockâ€"eyed she thought that after Harry At first when home soaking three-quarters kind OI guuu Up to the time Harry Meiss saved those two kids from drowning in the river, you could have sent him scoot- ing into the next town with a good hearty yawn. But after he dived into the swirling waters of the Hud- son on a March night after Johnny Monks and Eddie Gravers so many people told him he was a hero that soon he began to know he was. Harry was a little bit of a guy. He stood about five feet two and he weighed about a hundred. He had a face that retreated frOm a fairly prominent forehead to a chin he had to feel for. He wasn’t much good at anything. He did everything he did just well enough to get it by. Except swimming. Harry could swim like an otter. When he was a kid he found he had an aptitude for the water. Water was the only thing of which he was not afraid. And it never put up any stiff resistence. It was the only thing in life that didn’t, and Harry took advantage of it. In the years of his childhood he became an excellent swimmer. llexnnnb. my and Eddie, about 1‘0 and 11, had been reading Robinson Crusoe and had built a raft. It stayed together for about 15 minutes after they launched it and pushed out in the water. Then it came apart. Both the kids could swim pretty well but the shock of the cold water and the dusk of early evening: made them panicâ€"stricken. Instead of taking it easy and swimming back toward the Hm“ Mean to scream and pier, they vegan W h thresh. You’ll have to give it to Harry. One look at them gave him the. com- plete picture of the situation. They were only about two hundred yards from the shore but they were scared. If either got his arms around' Harry’s neck, it was curtains for all three of them. LA 4.14m]: Harry didn‘t have time to 'Lnlnn‘ of that last. All he had time for was i one swift look at the two of them? threshing and screaming in the riv-| er. He shucked himself out of his coat and dived in. Eddie was the! one farthest out and Harry made‘ for him. Luckily, Eddie had kept his head a little. He did what Harnv told him to do. He put his hand on Harry’s shoulder and kicked with his feet and they got him hack to the shore in little or no time. But Johimy Wasn’t so well off Johnny was beside himself with ter- ror. He was going down for the third time when Harry reached him and he lashed out and- got a grin on Harry-’5 arm and started to pull him down. 31 'Lnem. Harry didn’t have time to think of that last. All he had time for was one swift look at the twa of them threshing and screaming in the riv- er. He shucked himself out of his coat, and dived in. Eddie was the one farthest out and Harry made 7 V 1.1.“!- If Harry could have pulled away, you can (bet that he would) have been glad to do so whether Johnny drown- ed or not. But he couldn’t pull away. Johnny had him in a death grip. So Harry, with all his strength crashed his fist into Johnny’s jaw and Johnny went limip. Harry got him by the hair and towed him in. There were a lot of people on the pier when he and his cargo reached it and they leaned over and jerked both of them to safety. They laid Johnny down and started to beat hell i out of him until the pain pierced Johnny’s unconsciousness and brought him back to life. They wrapped Harry in coats and overcoats beâ€" cause it was a raw and chilly night. Somebody found a bottle of whisky somewhere and they gave several drinks to both victim and hero. The first thing Harry knew he was drunk. In his drunken state he heard peo- wnmvnllino' 2+. what a hero he ._1. er his belie: Decauw .. strutted'. It made him do things. Like that time the big truck-driv- er came into the lunchroom and de- manded a rare steak and got angry because it was too well-done. Flora picked' up a skillet all ready to crown him. But Harry pushed her aside. “I’ll take care of this,” he said. “Listen, Big Boy,’ he growled at the driver, “you. can’t come in here pull- in’ stuff like that before a lady. Now you get to hell outta here!” The truck driver laughed and Harry haul- ed off and popped him on the nese. The blow didn’t hurl; the driver but he was a hard drinker and of- ten when he was on the verge of the delirium tremens he saw little men like Harry. AndI he thought to himself: “My God, if these dizzy things are getting so they can sock me I must be goin’ nuts." And he walked out of the lunchroomx holdi- ing his nose and being scared of his sanity. uuu T.‘ 1.1, first thing- Harry knew he was! drunk. In his drunken state he heard peo- rple marvelling at what a hero he had turned out to be. But he didn’t marvel. He took it as his due. He told himself that he hadl known it 1all the time And he planned just how he would treat Flora, his wife when he got back to the lunchroom. Flora was a pretty fine woman and the best wife he had ever had, Harw having married only once. But she was a little too much inclined to look down on him on account of the difference in their sizers. For and: the best wife he had ever had, Harw having married only once. But she was a little too much inclined to look down on him on account of the difference in their sizers. For if Harry was bordering on the shrimp species, Flora might be said to be of the germ hippo. She had big shoulders and she broadened out from there on the way down. Her midâ€" section bulged out like a relief map LIBERAL, RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO But she got over that at: saved those kids. At fir they brought Harry home wet and more than three cock-eyed she thought he h into the river While drrunk But she got over that after Harry : saved those kids. At first when 1 they brought Harry home soaking 1 wet and more than three-quarters - cock-eyed she thought he had fallen into the river while drunk and she was taking- a deep breath, preparing to give him hell when they burst out with the story of his bravery. At first, she thought they were kidd- ing and she didn’t knew whether to laugh with them or bring a fryingi pan down on somebody‘s skull. But when she understood that they really meant it and that it was true, she looked at Harry as though she had never seen him before. That the little shrimp taking his life in his hands in a gamble to save two oth- ers? Wasn’t he the surprising little devil? It just went to show you you never could tell about people, even when you lived) with them. But as long as he was a hero, he was a hero and she was going to treat him as such. So she shooed out all the admiring neighbors and she tossed him on the bed and peelâ€" ed his garments from him. By this firm: Harry was good and drunk and ed his garments, from 1 time Harry was good an he was demanding mor‘ he was making ~thre which she didn't. believe her right sensés could) a little squirt like Hal 111's Mun "v" he began to believe it and the strong- ' er his belief became the more he strutted'. It made him do things. Like that time the big truck-driv- er came into the lunchroom and de- manded a rare steak and got angry because it was too well-done. Flor'a picked' up a. skillet all ready to crown him. But Harry pushed) her aside. “I’ll take care of this,” he said. “Listen, Big Boy,’ he growled at the driver, “you. can’t come in here pull- in’ stuff like that before a lady. Now ‘70“ get to hell outta here!” The bunny. Well, after that Harry was Jack Dempsey, as far as Flora was con- cerned. He was the bravest guy in the world. And she treated him like that. She fetched and carried for him. She did! whatever he told.- her without a word of protest. She let him win every argument they ever had because she believed he was the voice crying in the wilderness. And Harry strutted himself. He was tough. This had been going on for a year when Izzy Borkis and Mike Bennessy bwo punks of 19 and 20‘, decided! to stick up the lunch room. They were strangers in the neighborhood, so they didn’t know that Harry had a and he would have and pretty penitent ‘uldn’t let him be. As ‘ened his eyes he cou] .uuu v .,V ened his eyes he could see a was a different woman )ending’ over him with tears ation glistening in her big eyes. She had convinced ning the night that Harry, up \of a husband, was the nan in the world. A little would have proven otherâ€" ‘ 4‘“ “0" +0 (in Was to think an that memory stirred in 'eached| out ahd strangled was a woman and‘ she was nd she had enough sense hat if she could realhy be- lusband was a hero it would unmethinz to admire and hard- drrinker and of- was on the verge of remens‘ he saw little I. AndI he thought to God, if these dizzy ting so they can sock 20in’ nuts." And he terrible reputation which Flora beâ€"‘ lieved. They walked into the lunch- room and sat themselves down on stools and orderech a cup of java. Flora was behind the counter and she served up their coffee with a nice big smile. Harry was sitting at one of the tables reading a news- paper because lately, he never did any of the work. Why should a hero l work? u -. .. ‘ And when Izzy and Mike Imlsnea their coffee, they looked at Harry and they looked at Flora and they looked at each other and Mike pulled a gun. “Stick ’em up,” he grated. “This is a robbery.” ,, J Flora was in the little Kitcnen mm ! she was holding a frying-pan she had just polished. She walked out behind the counter, her mouth Open.l Harry took one look and tried to hide in a fold of the paper. “Get the dough Izzy,” Mike said. It made Flora good and mad and she swung the fryingâ€"pan at Mike’s headt. Mike didm’t expect the move-‘ ment because people aren’t supposed to do that in a. hold-up. He ducked ibut the frying-pan hit him on his ‘gun arm and sent the gun flying [out of his hand to light in Harry’s CITIEEEE‘EVICE GARAGE Goodrich Tires and Tubes in the little kitchen apd Come in and Eénéral Repairing and Accessor: Brakes relined Battery Rentals and Charging r rAâ€"‘__..â€".--1râ€"1‘Vl'nrr<-v fly» V and Mike finished Phone 12 and make arrangements for Storage Space now. Headquarters for THURSDAY, APRIL 8th, 1937. lap. Harry grabbed the gun spas- modically. By accident he caught it by the trigger and the pressure shot the gun off. The bullet hit Mike in the neck. It was a blessed sight to Harry. His courage came surging back. “Back here, you rat!" he yelled at Izzy who was halfway through the door. Izzy halted. When the police got there, Mike was on the floor. Izzy was standing with his hands in the air ancl Flora was hugging Harry on the side opâ€" pOSite his gun arm. When the cop took the two away Harry turned to tell Flora What a brave woman she was, but Flora beat him to it. “Honest to God, Harry,” She said “I think you’re the bravest man in the worldv! " Han-y patted her and let it go that. Maybe he thought he was. PLUIBING AND TINSHITEING 11201-3511, Ontario Hot Water Heating and General Repsin A. C. HENDERSON and Accessories Richmond Hill