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“War never is inevitable.” declared Lord Baldwin re- cently in his maiden speech in the House of Lords. “If there were a 95 per cent chance of war at some future date I would hang on to the five per cent until I died.” If that attitude be as characteristic of British statesmen in the future as it was of Mr. Chamberlain during the recent crisis we mav reasonably look forward to a long era of peace. unless the dictators mistakenly make up their minds to take advantage of the reluctance of the Anglo- Saxon peoples to ‘plunge into the horrors of war. Traffic has reached the point where travelling at night With a horse-drawn vehicle is risky business at any time. The sneed of motor vehicles and confusion caused by ap- preaching headlights often result in close shaves. Those who fail to equip their vehicles with proper lights are courting disaster not only for themselves but for others as y'all. The law regarding lights should and must be strictly enforced if the toll of accidents is to be reduced.â€" Winchester Press. _A throng of 60,000 people at the International Plowâ€" ing Match in Simcoe County heard Lord Tweedsmuir say that what he liked best was a day in the country among country people. One can imagine that if His Excellency could free himself from the multitudinous responsibilities which have crowded his active life he would be found on the landâ€"in plowing time holding a plow. He tried his hand at it at Minesing. With a pair of robust, wellâ€"groom- ed Clydesdales in front of him, turning the fertile earth for the sowing and harvest to come, even her-e can be found romance, philosophy and service. To many it is just a hard, plodding life, with meagre returns. To Lord Tweedsmuir, the King’s deputy, scholar, historian. novelist, barrister, soldier, parliamentarian, there are wonderful compensations. The glory of nature, the quiet and freedom of the country, and no doubt joy in Ohâ€" serving the operation ofv nature’s laws. Far too many drivers of horse-drawn vehicles risk the chance of a serious accident by failing to observe the law respecting the showing of lights after nightfall. In this regard it is interesting to note that some individuals apparently take a delight in disobeying this section of the traffic act.‘ They have no regard for public safety and it is regrettable that more of them are not summoned into the presence of the magistrate and fined for their carelessness. The people of Canada are deeply indebted to His Exâ€" cellencv for his sincere interest in everything affecting their lives. “I like to think,” he remarked, “that coming from England and threats of war, to Canada and peace and a plowing match is a good omen. I think we are going to be free and allowed to get along with our own proper business.” “To Canada and peace and a plowing match” puts a great deal in a few words. When tens of thousands of people assemble under such auspices it is a fortunate nation. It is in the country among country people where Lord Tweedsmuir. writer. barrister. soldier, parliamentar- ian. finds life most attractive, and he is competent to judgeâ€"Globe & Mail. Failure to obey these rules is inviting trouble and cyclists will do well to observe them. Pedestrians also should exercise care when using the highways, always walk facing the on-coming traffic and carry a light or a reflector at night. Without one of these to indicate their presence on the road in the dark, pedes- trians place themselves in a hazardous position, for motor- ists find it hard to see them at any distance, especially if facing the glare of an approaching car. A little more than two weeks ago His Excellency was in England, noting the fortitude with which the people faced threats of war. There was anxiety everywhere, but it was tempered with calm resolution. “I never expected then,” he remarked, “to be attending a plowing match in Ontario in such a short space of time,” witnessing the colorful aarb of a beautiful countryside with men, women and youths participating in a rural contest. Here were peace and quiet and mankind’s basic occupatien. Inspector Edward Dunn of Toronto‘s traffic squad has issued a notice to bicyclists that the road code applies to them as well as to motorists and warns them to look out for trouble if they break the rules: Among the rules cyclists are warned to observe are “to keep to the right of the road and ride close to the curb; to obey all traffic rules and use hand signals when stopping and turning; never to ride double, or hold on to a moving vehicle. Wheel- ers must also carry a light and either a light or reflector in the rear, and must always keep both hands on the hanâ€" dle-bars.” ---â€"*â€"~o The melancholis that has been attributed to October is but reflection and pensiveness. October days invite sober thought and speculation on the beautiful nature and the sheer joy of living. October is the rugged manhood of the year in all its glorious strength; it is symbolic of tasks begun and completed; it is a synonym for achieve- ment. * “What is so rare as a day in June” unless it be an afternoon in October when the departing sun lends a tint and a mystic charm to all the purple and gold, yellow and brown and green of the trees, the hills and the fields? There is a freshness and a life-giving vigor about the air of October unknown to her sister months. October is a month of out-of-doors when nature exerts her utmost magnetism and all humanity strains at the leash of con- fining civilization: The poets have ever sung the praises of stormy March, “With ugly looks and threats;” and fickle April, “when ever tear is answered by a blossom;” and merry May, “when those who love must wed;” and chill December, “bleak and dread;” but do not all ordinary humans agree that colorful October were a better object for their art and eulogies. AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT RIGHMOND HILL J. Eachern Smith, Manager Advertising Rates on Application. TELEPHONE dvertising Rates on Application. TELEPHONE 9 THE LIBERAL PRINTING 00., LTD. Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Subscription $1.50 per year â€" To the United States $2.00 Covering Canada’s Best Suburban District PAGE TWO LORD TWEEDSMUIR’S CHOICE OCTOBER, THE GOOD MONTH THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27th, 1938. LIGHTS ON VEHICLES ADVICE TO CYCLISTS “THE Established 1878 LIBERAL” “0h, Sally," he rattled: on over the rwire, “I‘ve spoken to George Wey- .mouth about you. He is directing the dance for ‘Moon Over New YOrk.’ That’s! the working name of the show for which that 12 o’clock rehearsal ‘has been called‘. I told- him about your softâ€"shoe specialty and‘ also a- bout your acrobatic work. He prom- ised faithfully that he would look them both over. 0f c0urse, you’ll- have no difficulty in landing in the chorus. I just thought I’d! call you to encourage you. You’re such an amibitious darling and1 you’ve never gotten the breaks.” The telephone rang and it was Ne-d‘ Rovert, the dancing: teacher with whom she had‘ been studying four years. Rovert had. plenty of theatrical connections and he liked her work, which was good), and he liked her because she was sympa- thetic with him when he met with disappointment. His liking for her had no personal dangers in it be- cause Ned wasâ€"shall we say?â€" anemic. ’ You or I would have been more than satisfied with what she saw. But she wasn‘t. She was looking for the signs of five years’ wear and tear and she was finding them â€"or thought she was, which was just as bad‘. Her eyes, she decided, were beginning to fade. Her legs were not as good as they were when they brought her with springy step from Erie, Pa. Her mouth was be- ginning to sag a little, not so much from age as from the bitterness which comes from many disappoint- ments. Her hair needed a rinse. All in all she wasn’t as fresh as she had been. She was losing her youth and the charm which went with it. Perhaps, she thought, she didn’t have “It,” that sex appeal the girls were always talking ahowt. She went over to the mirror to see if she could discover any signs of it. It was really a very nice figure, she ad- mitted, and a prettly face. But she couldn’t find‘ any sex appeal in it, possibly because she didn’t know what it was. She really didn’t. This study revealed, however, that her legs were as good as they were when they brought her in from Erie. Pa. And her mouth did not sag andl her hair really didn’t need a rinse. And all that made her feel a good‘ deal better. _ A glance at the cloak told her that she would have to hurry if she was to stop at the drug store and pick up a new lipstick in time to get to the rehearsal hall. So she slipped- on a dress and a perky little Slipping on the garter and roll- ing the left stocking neatly so that it made a little ridge above it, she stood up to reveal her five feet fOur inches of curving loveliness. She walked over to the mirror and sat down in front of it and gave her- self a long once-pver. You had to have both to climb out of the chorus line and up in the world. She had obeyed the first part of it. She had‘ gotten herself a spe- cialty, two in fact. She was a mar- velllous1 soft-shoe dancer and? she wasn’t ‘bad' in acrobatics. But she hadn’t bothered about get- ting a man. Thinking back, she real- ized that the only man she knew very well in New York was Ned Rovert, and no one, not even her- self, regarded Ned as too masculine. She had' to admit she had never to fight men off her. She had had the chance encounters and insults that eveny pretty girl met with along Broadlway, casual invitations to apartments to look at etching-s, flirt- ations. pursuit by men, mostly mid‘- dJe-ag‘ed, who followed her along the street. But she had not given much thought to men. Sometimes, like now. she realized that she hadn’t! played her Cal‘dfl right. She had not clbeyed» one of a chorus girl’s rules to “Get a spe- cialty and get a man.” The hour was 11 o’clock in the morning. She had been up three hours and had finished her stretchâ€" ing andI lim'bering-up exercises in the tiny living room. And now, after her shower, she was dressing to an- svwer a chorus call for noon at the Grinnel Theatre on West 44th Street. Sally felt a lot better when she hung up. Her toes didn’t twinkle new, but they didi when she was working. Her figure was little and trim. Her face was round, her eyes Iblue, her mouth a. rosebud, even without makeup. She was twentyâ€"three and she had been five years in the chorus- of eighteen shows that had brightened the Street ’of Lights for periods of from three weeks to a year in that time. § By Charles McGuirk ; .qM00090”WOvav v n! «9966066000me Sally Balsam sat on her cot in the hat, checked the things in her hand apartment she shared with two other bag and hurried out the door. chorus girls on East 48th St., and: She went straight to the cosmetic drew a 7 pair of stockings onto as E counter and' bought her lipstick. She pretty a pair of legs as had been :was so intent upon getting the right seen on Broadway in many, manry shade and keeping within her budget moons, lthat she paid no attention to the THE LIBERAL, RICHMOND HILL. ONTARIO Wmmwmc O Qwߢ THE LIBERAL SHORT STORY FABLE OF THE CHORUS GIRL I She went straight to the cosmetic {counter and' bought; her lipstick. She :was so intent upon getting the right shade and keeping within her budget ‘that she paid no attention to the isal‘esi person who was serving her. IBut when he wrapped the lipstick and powder and handed her her check, she had a look at him. He iwas' the first man she had really lseen since she had left home. So that’s'the way it haprpened‘! She had never believed' it when she read about love at first sight in books. She had always believed that a girl was a fool to fall in love with a man she did not know and“ had never seen before. But here she had gone and done it. She knew she had because, though she had never been in love before, she knew it when she felt it. ' Nothing but love could make a girl feel as,“ glad as' she felt at that moment. There were ahout 200 girls standi- ing in the back of the stage, the piano player sat at his tiny piano. The dance director had them march around the stage in squads of twelve while the piano player plunked his piano. The director would walk down the lines and tell the girls who would not do to step out. He gave the ninety who survived the weeding out process some simp-lle steps to do and: these caused more casualties. It was an old routine to Sally. ' She flashed a dazzling smile at him for that and though she didn’t know it, it was loaded down with sex appeal. As the rehearsals went on, the knowledge grew that here was -a hit show. Three weeks after re- hearsals began, Weymouth called her out of the line again and had her do her dances. But that was all. And she didn’t care. These d‘arys she wasn’t concerned with show business. Jim had asked her to marry him and she had consented and they were waiting- out their three days before they could be married. “You don’t need any special soap,” he smiled. “Most of the women who buy it would give everything they had to own what you own.” “What is that?" she demanded. “I don’t know,” he confess-ed. “Youth, cl‘ass, maybe looks.” The next day, Wey’mouth called her out of the line of girls in romp- ers and bathing suits and trunks and blouses and told her Ned‘ Rowert had spoken "to him anout her. When she nodded albs‘ently, he asked her to db her soft-shoe and then her acrofbatic dance for him. She did both and ‘she did fihem well because she was a good craftsman. But that was the only reason because she didn’t care a thing about them any more. When she had finished WeymOuth regardedi hler thoughtfully. But he only nodded. “I’ll believe that because I want to.” she said. She nodded absently when the di- rector told her to report next day for practice. She had difficulty fe- ‘memibening that he' was George Wey~ mouth, the man who might give her the chance for which she had wait- ed‘ five years. “Eighty-five cents a cake,” he in- formed her. He wasn’t much to look at. He was a Little azbove medium height. His hair was black, his eyesl brown and his skin kind of pale. He was slight of build. But there was no- thing girlish about him. There was an intense look in his eyes and a firmness to his mOuth. She liked the way he smiled at her so much that she sought for-an excuse to linger another minute. “How much is the Ultra-Pure That night they went to Leow’s and then they had' a bite to eat up on 50th Street. He walked' her home at her request andl in the vestibule of her apartment building, he took her in his arms and- kissed her as casually as if he were helping her across: the street. She left him and came in to the apartment blind and dizzy and flooded with a feeling so wonderful that ilf you had told‘ her she had' gone to heaven witlhout dy- ing, she would have believed you. They were married at City Hall and spent their wedding night in a Soap ? ” she asked She went directly back to the drug store from the theatre and her heart jumpedl when she saw the boy who had waited- on her still at the counâ€" ter. She went up to it and pretend- ed to be absorbed in the counter display. But he knew she wasn’t. He asked her if she would go out with him that night. He told her his name was Jim Bixley and? that there was a good‘ bill at Leow’s, a- cross the street. She told him she would. “Oh, it’s too much!” she protest- [Hour Limit for Parking “Miss‘ Balsam, I’ve decided to use your soft-shoe dance. Your Salary will be $75 a week.” “I'm sorry, Ned,” saIiLy told him, “but I don’t care what he thinks. I spent five years working and slav- ing for this chance and then, when it comes along, I have something better. N-ed, I’m Mrs. Jim Bixle'y now, and my husband is only a cosâ€" memic clerk. He probably will never be anything- else, but I’d rather have him than any ermine coat and a $2,0i0-0-a-week spot on Broadway. So, the devil with George Weymouth, and you, and Broadway, too." Weston Town Council passed a one hour Main street parking by-law di- rected at store owners who park their Iad'en trucks in from: of their shops “from morning till night.” Deputy Reeve Walter Murray told council that fruit store owners were guilty 0d? displaying their goods on their rigs‘ and trucks and leaving them parked in front of their stores all day. Because of a town :by-l‘aw fruit store owners are not pennlitted to display goods more than 18 inches on the sidewalk. The one-hour limit will be in ef- fect; on the north side of Main street, between Fawcett’s garage and Duf- feri'n street and on the south side, between Lifttle avenue and Belleview Crescent. Reeve Gordon Harris suggested the town provide a parking lot for shoppers and farmers coming in from disiant points. hotel just east of Broadway in the Fox-ties. The next day Sally appearâ€" ed at rehearsals and‘ WeymOuth saisz « “Thank you, Mr. Weymouth,” Sally said, “but I’m afraid you’ll have to get"somebody .else. I’m leaving to- day.” Ned Revert was fit to be tied’ He called her up that night. “Of all the ungrateful witches!” he screamed. “What do you s'up- po‘s-e Georg-e We'ymouth will think of me now, sending him a girl who refuses a chance that most girls on Broadway would] give one ear for?” Westcn Passes By-law Directed at Store Owners Who Park Trucks Total number of miles travelled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Number of prisoners passing through cells (Toronto) Trips to Jails or Institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Summonses served . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Finger Print Sets Sent to Ottawa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prosecution (cases completed) Adelaide Street Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Newmarket Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Number of Courts Policed Adelaide Street Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Newmarket Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Domestic Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Amount of Fines, etc., paid during August re County cases Adelaide Street Court Newmarket Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . t Number of persons arrested . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Search Warrants Executed Gaming House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Liquor . _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stolen Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '. . . . Q . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Property Recovered . . . . . . (Total Value $2381.00) 2 stolen automobiles, valued at . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 stolen automobile, valued at . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cigarettes, cigars, tobacco, etc., valued at . . . . . . . . . . One set of drums and traps, valued at . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . One Auto radio, valued at . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Skis, poles, harness, valued at . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Four chickens, valued at . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . One rowboat, valued at . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . One bicycle, valued: at . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Quantity of wheat, valued at . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Property Seized Slot machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wine (part bottles) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gin (quarts) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Whisky (quarts) . . . . . . . . . . . . . l . . . . ' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Whisky (part bottles) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beer (pints) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beer (quarts) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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