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“I want to give more; I want of my own free will to give enough, that I can truthfully say, ‘This is my town,’ so that I can take pride in its prosperity, in the honour which comes to its citizens and all that makes it greater and better. I can do this only by becoming a part of the town, by giving it generously of myself. 'In this way only can I, even in a small part, pay the great debt I owe to my town.”â€"Picton Times. an effort to secure inore safety for motorists and pedes- trians using Yonge Street. This is indeed a worthy aim and the committee should have the whole-hearted support of public spirited citizens everywhere. Richmond Hill, Vaughan and Markham as municipali- ties are vitally interested in any improvement program as owners of the North Yonge Radial Railway. The uncer- tainty as to the future of the car line has been the cause of the delay in Yonge Street improvements. There is a large body of public opinion in favor of the continuing of the present car service and there are many in the district who think the time opportune to scrap the line and get a bus service direct to the heart of down-town Toronto. In any move made for the improvement of Yonge Street the radial line is an important feature which cannot be overlooked. The line wa_s purchased by the municipali- ties after a vote 0f the people and we submit that any- negotiations on the matter must be after the people have expressed their wish in a general vote taken in the radial area. To clear the air and make way for a greater Yonge Street we suggest that a vote be taken at the earliest possible time on the question of continuing the radial line. A vote of the people will put an end to rumors and inde- cision and clear the way for Yonge Street improvement. Ontario is now well served by a Department of Mun- icipal Affairs which is rendering real service to the people of Ontario in giving assistance in municipal government. This Department should make a thorough investigation of municipal government in this province with a view to reducing taxation. County Councils may have served a useful purpose in the past when means of communication Was slow, but it is a relic of the horse and buggy days which should be done away with. The most urgent need to-day is the widening of Yonge Street from Steele’s Corners to Richmond Hill. The bottle- neck created by the narrow stretch of pavement in this area constitutes a menace to traffic and creates a danger hazard for both motorists and pedestrians. Yonge Street from Steele’s Corners to Richmond Hill should be widened this coming summer. This important artery of traffic should not’longer be neglected by the Ontario Department of Highways. ABOLISH COUNTY COUNCILS AND REDUCE THE COST OF GOVERNMENT Canadians pay annually over $700,000,000 in taxation which for a population of about eleven million constitutes a gigantic tax burden on the taxpayers of this young coun- try. One outstanding cause of our high taxation is the high cost of government. In fact Canada toâ€"day is prob- ;abe the most over-governed country in the world and when taxpayers are finished paying those on the public pay-roll they have little left for themselves. ‘One of the first steps towards reducing taxation in this country is to reduce the cost of government. One way to reduce the cost of government is to reduce the num- ber of governing bodies. .. .. 1 Aurora Board of Trade has appointed a Yonge Street Traffic Improvement Committee and the aim of this spe- ‘cial committee will be to obtain the co-operation of com- munities along Yonge Street from Sutton to Toronto in That all of us owe a generous debt to our home town is summarized in the following words taken from the Smiths Falls Record-News, and also suggests the spirit of giving something in return as a responsibility of every citizen. "v- a York County Council meets this week and for the next fortnight or longer we will be paying fifty men $7.00 per day and mileage to carry on one branch of our government which we believe has long outlived its usefulness and which should be abolished. In addition to the sessional indemni- ties of fifty men there is the tremendous expense of the upkeep of a county administration. What does the County Council do? The County maintains a road system which is handled by the Toronto and York Roads Commission. Toronto is now trying to get out from under this arrangement and it is doubtful if the present set-up will continue indefinitely. The County maintains the Home for the Aged, collects a share of the cost of secondary education and hospital- ization costs for indigent patients, makes grants to vari- ous Agricultural Societies, Libraries and other organiza- tions, and has certain responsibilities in the administra- tion of justice and the upkeep of the County Police force. ,1 J,_\L_'-_ unv: uwv-vv v“... -_.. The above constitutes practically all the essential duties of the County Council. There are few if any of these serâ€" vices which could not be better administered by the pro- vincial government and the local municipal councils, thus eliminating the expensive administration costs of the coun- ty form of government. “If all my citizenship accounts were balanced at this date, I would be the better. Haven’t I all these years lived Within the limits of the town and shared all its benefits? Haven’t I had the benefit of its schools and churches? Haven’t I had the use of its library, park and public places? Haven’t I had the protection of its fire, police and health departments? Haven’t its people during all this time, been gathering for me from the four corners .of the earth, food for my table, clothing for my body and material for my home? Hasn’t this town furnished the patronage for my business? Hasn’t it furnished the best friends of my life, Whose ideals have been my inspiration, Whose kind words have carried me over the greatest difficulties ?” Many people do realize the benefits of living in a prosperous community by taking an active part in those things which help to make it so. If more would follow the thought outlined below, the better town it would be for all. Advertising Rates cn Application. TELEPHONE '9 THE LIBERAL PRINTING C0., LTD. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT RICHMOND HILL Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Subscription $1.50 per year -â€"â€" To the United States $2.00 00vering Canada’s Best Suburban District PAGE TWO EHURSDAY, JANUARY 20th, 1938. VOTE ON RADIAL QUESTION INDEBTED TO HOME TOWN Established 1878 AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY J. Eachem Smith, Manager “THE LIBERAL” Please help us to bring hOpe and happiness to those unfortunate felâ€" low-citizens by sending your old books the Headquarters of our As- sociatio 20 Dundas Square, Toron- to, or direct to Maj. H. G. L. Strange, Grain Exchange, Winnipeg, Mani- toba. “Let us who have so much help those who have nothing.” MORE NOVELS itegrity."â€" (Conducted by Anson Bailey Cutts) Province" The Dark Weaver: By Laura Good-7 man Salverson (Toronto : Ryerson E‘Mham Press). Price $2.00. ;Bridge he The Rains Came: By Louis Brom-‘fUI novel, field (Toronto: Musson Book Co.). the best 5 Price $2.75. :by sprig‘ Enchantkr’s Nightshade: By Ann c°nversafi Bridge (Toronto: McClelland andiViCtorian Stewart). Price $2,5o_ [1905) is A Southern Harvest : Edited byito aft 85 {Robert Penn Warren (Toronto zlfamily of Thomas Allen). Price $2.50 gm the bac This week, Mr. Silcox has asked‘scape, 31 me to conduct this column. In do-‘lS Sharply ing so, I shall quote from the Book 1 1'5 5? Chal Review Digest of the A. c. B. Read- I Itahan g1 ing Guide, the official quarterly of-Vill' Alta the Association: of Canadian Book-:family CC men. The four books treated here:5ingle {all are outstanding among much excell- l “'5, W31“ ent fiction this season. l dfédth bi? Reading Circles and Book Fairs First, however, I should like to assure the many readers who have written to us regarding the organi- Zation and conduct of Reading Cir- cles that the A.C.B. Book Informa- tion Bureau is prepared to assist them in every way possible. It is our hope that many such Reading Circles will be undertaken in collab- oration with the association during 1938, and that many Book Fairs may be'orga-ndzed. During 1937 such book fairs were held in Whitby, St. Cathâ€" arines, Pickering, Guelph, Barrie, Goderich, Toronto and Montreal. These proved very popular, and we are ready to assist Peterborough and other cities right across Canada that are planning such treats for book lovers during the months ahead. Drought-Sufferers Need Your Old Books The Association of Canadian Book- men also wished to call attention to the drive it is fostering for books to stock the hundreds of small lending libraries we are establishing through- out the drought areas of the Prairie Provinces. Novels Recommended by the A.C-B. The Dark Weaver: “Mrs. Salverson of Calgary, who has just published What, in my opinion, is the best Can- adian novel of 1937, is building an English reputation while still under the curse at home of an original best-seller. In “The Dark Weaver” she has written by far her best book. It is a full-bodied, many-sided story of European immigrants, who became Manitoba pioneers in‘the late 19th century, and their children who were of the right age to partioipate in the Great War, one brief incident of which is used for climax. Pour dis- tinct sets of people. differing in race as well as social status and outlook, are‘picked up llf’ Eurore and the causes of their transfer explained. causes of their transfer explained. “Thrown together in the wilderâ€" ness north of Winnipeg, with many others, these eight are followed in their new homes, where they make new friends and pick up new asso- ciates. Their loves, marriages and economic fortunes are graphically re- lated to form a clear story pattern of dramatic intensity. As a communâ€" ity novel of the Canadian West, it is the best yet publishea, but Mrs. Sal- verson is too much the innate story- teller to lose her individual charac- ters in a mass picture. Each devel- ops clearer identity page by‘ page. “ ‘The Dark Weaver’ is not a serâ€" mon. It is a‘ play, a demonstration, a coherent piece of Canadian life. It is first and last a story, and a good one.”â€"â€"Wi11iam Arthur Deacon, “Globe and Mail”. The Rains Came: “The rains came to the Indian city of Ranchiipur; but that was not all. In addition to the torrential downpour of the moonsoon there were an earthquake, a flood and a fire which combined to destroy a large part of the city, and to wipe out some nine thousand of its native population, as well as a scattering of its military and mrsswnary Euro- peans. These were followed by the devastating outbreaks of epidemics of typhoid and cholera. Against this background of events, Louis Brom- field undertakes to make a study of two problems. The first, which is touched upon lightly, is the effect of the official attitude of the British conquerors uporr their subjugated races. The second is the pessibility of a New Indiaâ€"an India in which the ignorance, fatalism, intolerance and the stultifying- complexity of her caste system have been so modified and moulded by education that she is able to select from Western civil~ ization the (scientific llmowledge which she needs without losing her own national and psychOIOgical in- THE LIBERAL, RICHMOND HILL. ONTARIO BOOKS THAT MATTER Enchanter‘s Nightshade : “Miss :Bridge has written» a truly delight- I'ful novel, suave and sophisticated in the best sense of the word, enlivened :by sprightly incident and lifelike conversation. Her pretty young post- |Victorian heroine (the period in [1905) is transplanted from England E to act as governess in a titled Italian : family of vast ramifications. Always ! in the background is the Italian land- 1scape, a lovely setting against which ‘is sharply projected the realism that Iis so characteristic an aspect of the Italian graciousness of living. The lVill’ Alta clanâ€"an: aggregation of 'family connections rather than a isingle familyâ€"is in summer quart- iers, waiting to celebrate the hun- dredth birthday of its beloved Vecâ€" chia Marchesaâ€"and its days pass in lpicnicking and visiting, in: judicious -studies for the young, and injudi- icious flirtations for the not so young. IPassion breaks into the happy tale of leisure hours, and leaves suffer- ing where ignorance and innocence were before. But Miss Bridge, with ‘the clear-sightedness and hard real- lism of her Italian matriarch, lays [bare the fleetingness of even grief tand brings to an end a story that lmakes no concession to sentimental- ity on a note of valiance which ma- turity must accept as the actual ex- .ample of life. “‘Enchanter's Nightshade’ is not only excellent entertainment but ex- tremely skillful art. It has every- thing that a light n-ovel should have, vivacity and sensibility, and with it a harder grain of common sense that gives it seriousnessâ€"Amy Loveman, “Saturday Review". A Southern Harvest: “Robert Penn Warren has made an exceedingly good job of this collection» of short stories by Southern writers. In the first place, ‘A Southern Harvest’ is generous in size, containing some twenty-two longish examples from the work of as many writers, together‘ with an introduction by Mr. Warren and biag'raphica] notes upon the wri- ters represented. All the work is of recent copyright, so that almost any reader may be sure of finding in it something worth while that he has missed. These .stories are meant to be descriptive of Southern life or obâ€" viously rooted in Southern tradition, a mixed and stimulating- bag of tales. For quality and variety, almost any other section of the country would find it hard to match”.-â€"“The New York Times”. tegrity."â€"Hunter Lewis, "Vancouver They could at least keep clean,” says the go-getter. Yes, but peo- ple who must choose between bread and soap are always greedy enough to buy bread. Read Kerr Bros. specials in this issue. QMNMMGQMOOO <1- oQWO WONNQNOOO'99MOOWM WOW 09¢? SOCIAL PRINTING HOME OF HIGH QUALITY PRINTING-SINCE 1878 We are equipped to produce the finest and best in printing for all social occasions. If you are planning a wedding, a reception or any social function let us show you samples of printed or engraved invitations. We have something new and distinctive at sonable prices. TELEPHONE 9 THE LIBERAL Richmond Hill QUOTATIONS ON BONDS, INDUSTRIALS AND MINING STOCKS. Investment Securities LOW RETURN FARES LEAVE RICHMOND HILL Dominion Bank Building, Toronto J. R. 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