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_ _.V --V‘ v vvu. Very little needs to be said concerning the nurnoses of the Red Cross Society. Its record during“ the Great War and in the years before and after. when it was called on to do relief work when disasters struck in many parts of the globe. sneak for itself. The Red Crosx Society was formed in 1863 at Geneva. Switzerland. for the Durnose of furnishing volunteer aid to the sick and wounded 01' armies in time of war. and in time of peace to carry on and assist in the work of Canada is at war. side by side with other parts of the British Empire and the Republic of France to defend for ourselves and our children the liberty and freedom handed down to us by our forefathers. Someone truly has said "Freedom is not a gift. but a prize and one that has been won only by those races of men worthy to win it. and will be held only by those races of men worthy to hold it.” This is our task. To this end every citizen of Canada must do a part. and this week an essential duty presents itself in the nation-Wide appeal of the Red CI‘OSS. DOLLAR-A-YEAR-MEN The Mayor of Ottawa has come forward with a truly patriotic suggestion. It is that municipal men through- out Canada serve for the duration of the war without the customary remuneration and become what is pepularly known as “dollar-a-year-men". Our York County Coun- cil members this, week will be discussing every subject under the sun in an effort to make it appear they are doing something and we commend this suggestion to them for their consideration. Instead of discussing at great length countless matters over which they have no juris~ diction or control we would like to hear the opinion of County Council on the Ottawa' Mayor’s suggestion. Those who serve our country in our fighting forces have to ac- cept a nominal remuneration, and $1.20 in the army looks small beside 87.00 a day in County Council. It would be worth trying just to see how long County Council sessions would last under the new plan. MIGHT BETTER ABOLISH COUNTY COUNCIL If Mr. Cross is serious in his desire to do something worthwhile in his office of Minister of Municipal Affairs he has plenty of scope and opportunity without robbing the ratepayers of the annual privilege of passing judg- ment on the stewardship of their elected representatives. The present municipal set-up in Ontario is loaded down by ‘an expensive barnacle‘called County Council. It is a part of the municipal system which while necessary in the days of the horse and buggy. when means of communi- cation was necessarily slow, served a useful purpose but which in our modern day is as useless as a third crutch to a crippled man. It is a toll gate in our municipal sys- tem which should have been abolished years ago. We sug- gest that Mr. Cross busy himself with dividing between the province and the municipalities the few remaining duties of the County Council and in this way save more money for the people than by abolishing municipal elec- tions for an indefinite period and no one will suffer. All of which reminds us that our own York County Council of enough members to make a provincial legislature are now in annual session in 'Toronto. They met Tuesday and apparently are determined to get at least twoweeks pay, as they have set the date of the annual Warden’s banquet for the end of next week. ‘ We are pleased to note that many municipalities will hold such a vote this year despite the remarks of Mr. Cross that such a move would have no bearing on the ac- tion of the government. We hope every municipality in Ontario will submit the question to the people at the Jan- uary elections. If the people by their votes decide to adopt the plan we have no objection, although we believe the present system is more satisfactory, but we do object to a department of government in Queen‘s Park by a stroke of the pen taking away from the municipal rate- payers of Ontario their right to do their own business. A vote in every‘municipality in Ontario next January not only would clear the air in the present situation, but also would serve warning on provincial legislators that there is a limit to what the peonle will stand for in the way of meddling in municipal affairs. If the Department of Municipal Affairs really thinks the proposal would be beneficial it was quite in order to suggest it, but to make it compulsory without consulting those concerned savors too much of the dictatorial atti- tude which we regret to say has been creeping into that department of government in recent years. Like the camel getting his head into the tent. the province has slowly but steadily been getting deeper and deeper in municipal administration, saying what shall be done and how it may be done, and the time has come to say stop. Enabling legislation by which the ratepayers of any municipality by a vote might adopt a two year term for municipal coun- cils would have been a democratic method of putting for- ward the long term suggestion. The proposal by the government savors more of a desire to be spectacular than a desire to be useful. Sug- gested as a war measure we cannot conceive that this lat- est move will make any appreciable contribution to the defeat of Hitler. Contrary to many of the statements made, municipal elections are not a serious disturbing in- fluence in our mtional business life and on the other hand this annual appeal direct to the ratepayers inspires con- fidence in public service. The people who pay taxes be- lieve they should have the right to determine who is going to spend their money. This has been their right and privi- lege every January and they do not take kindly to the suggestion that this privilege should be taken from them. TIME TO SAY STOP The proposal of the Ontario government to do away with municipal elections for the duration of the war and permanently substitute for our annual elections a twoâ€" year term for municipal councils has pro_ven very unpop- ular throughout the province and the suggestion has been vigorously opposed by a large number of prominent mun- icipal men and by the press generally. Statements to the contrary by Hon. Eric Cross, Minister of Municipal Af- fairs are not backed up by facts. J. Eachern Smith, Manager Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Subscription $1.50 per year - To the United States $2.00 Covering Canada’s Best Suburban District Advertising Rates on Application. TELEPHONE 9 PAGE TWO A-N INDEPENDENT WEEKLY PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT RIGHMOND HILL THE LIBERAL PRINTING C0., LTD. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16th, 1939. RED CROSS ASKS OUR HELP “THE LIBERAL” Estabfished 1878 Instead of the “kindly and‘ sym- pathetic” treatment advocated by Dr. Simpson, too: often we hear of teachers resorting to outline epithets and sarcastic sentences to the passâ€" ing delight of the class but to. the lasting damage of that particular pupil’s educational career and poss- i‘bly to his or her whole life. We trust the advice of the Minister of Education may be heeded and» serve as a warning to any of out local teachersâ€"and all teachersâ€"who may have erred in this direction and in The Minister of Education also- emphasized that repeated sarcastic utterances of teachers develops an inferiority complex in pupils as well as a hatred for school. No need to remark that this is sound advice to teachers. It is a timely warning to some teachers, whose nerves are not as steady or tempers as even as they once were. Not a few pupils’ hearts have been :broken andl many little tears shed because of the too hasty and sarcastic remarks of teachers who have been provoked by the child‘s carelessness, indifference or incapacity. SARCASM IS A WEAKNESS Are Smiths Falls teachers sasâ€" castic? We well remember in Oull‘ school days that the most despised teacher was the one who was gift- ed with sarcasm. In our opinion, a teacher shows weakness when she or he has to resort to sarcasm, in disciplining students or pupils. Dr. Simpson, Minister of Education, is apparently of the same opinion. In addressing a service clulb in a town near Toronto recently, Dr. Simpson made this statement: “It seems to me the most tragic thing in the world when a teacher becomes sar- castic and takes a chance of hurt- ing the feelings of some tender child." The new decree indicates the tur- moil within the German economy. For eleven months the sadistic pro- gram against the Jews has been conducted with reduced energy. Not long ago the government even ap- pealed to German Jewish doctors who had escaped‘ to return to their country and relieve the shortage of medical staff. We might expect a nation at war, faced with the problem of financing war-time expenditures, to pass some sort of capital levy as Great Britain has done. But a well-ordered nation in which the determination to fight is universal ochtains financial help from all the people. It does not heap the burden, as Germany has done, upon those of one religion, making them at once the excuse and‘ the chief sufferers for the military conflictâ€"New York Post. Now the ante has been raised and the speed of the legalized theft quickened. The German Jews have one month to produce an additional hundred' million. If they fail? There are half-hints of further levies, of increased penalties against the wealthier Jews. There has been ‘no official state- ment about how much of the 20 per cent levy has been collected. Ac- cording to the best estimates it was approximately $300,000,000 only three-quarters of the amount ex- pected. A year ago the Jews were fined‘ 20 per cent of all their possessions, supposedly as punishment for the murder of Ernst von Rath, a secre- tary of the German Embassy in Paris, by the seventeen year 016‘ P01- ish Jew Herschel Gry‘nszpan. The last of the instalment payments on that fine was due August 15. SHOW WEAKNESS Hitler has ordered a new prop- erty levy against the German Jews. By November 15 the Jews who re- main in the Fatherlami must pro- duce $100,000,000 in cash, an amount estimated as 5 per cent of their total property. The work of the Canadian Red Cross Society in the Great War, as an auxiliary of the “Canadian Army Medi- cal Corps, included the building and equipment of all or part of numerous hospital premises in England; the carry- ing on of recreation depots and canteens in France; the purchase and operation of ambulances in France and Eng- land; operation of hospitals in France, and the distribu- tion of clothing to refugees, widows and orphans in France. ‘ Wherever the large Red Crt Society, is seen, it is recognized relief of suffering is in progress. THE LIBERAL, RICHMOND HILL. ONTARIO improving health, to prevent disease and relief suffering. That the Society has fulfilled its high calling, can be well borne out by anyone living today and especially by those who were actively engaged in'the Great War. It is estimated that the Canadian Red Cross Society received $35,000,000 in cash and goods from the Canadian people in the last war. Of this amount $9,073,485 was in actual cash donations up to December 31, 1919, and the balance was made up of 341,325 cases of goods, of which 147,270 were supplied to hospital units in England. Views 01 Others on Timely Topics large Red Cross, the emblem of the is recognized that some work for the According to the report of the special research committee of the Canadian Teachers’ Federation, the lot of these who teach the young is not a happy one in all cases. Claim is made that 32 per cent of Canadian teachers earn less than $50 a month and about 52 per cent get less than $66.67 per month. More than 10,000 teachers are paid- less than the mean legal minimum for female juveniles in industry. Phone HYIand 2081 Open Evenings Res. Phone 9788 and Mrs Pine St. west from Wallace St, Mrs. G. D. McLean and Mrs. C. W. Barrett. JONES COAL Co WEATHER PROPHETS This is the time of year the wea- ther prophets get in their fine Work. ’They are already at it. Andl they predict a hard‘ winter, basing their pessimistic expectations on cnOp con- ditions, the early migration of birds, heavy crops of hawthorne apples. The squirrels are busy, storing up food for winter a little earlier, and so on. These chaps know about as much about the severity of the com- ing winter or otherwise as elme squirrels, muskrats and other furâ€" bearing animals, andl they don’t know a thing.~Stirlin‘g NewseArgus. In connection with the Red Gross National War Appeal, Woodfbridge Red Cross have named canvassers to cover the village in the week com- mencing November 13th. They trust the house-to-house appeal will meet with a generous response, and stress that every cent gathered will be for- warded direct to Dominion Red Cross headquarters. Canvassers named are: 8th Ave. north, Wrs. W. R. Scott. 8thiAve. south, Miss Bertha Whit- more and Miss Gertrude Frankum. N0. 7 Highway, Mrs. Leo Wat- son. Clarence. St.. Miss G. Hallman and folugfilf. Th-omp§on. ._ . h - Williams and‘AJames Streets, Mrs A. Howl. Pine St:, east from hotel. to vill- age limits, Mrs. H. N. Smith. Ellefiby Sq.. Abel Ave. and Lands- down Ave., Mrs. Uppington. Lehigh Valley Johnston & G-ranston HANUFACTURERS & IMPORTERS OF CANADIAN 8: FOREIGN Granite Monuments Pine St, from Wallace St. to hotel, Miss Mary Wallace. WOODDRIDGE NATIONAL ‘ WAR APPEAL CANVASSERS FOR, GOSSIPS The movie, “The Women” was in one of our neighbouring theatres last week. It was one of those “gossip” pictures, andl anyone in the habit of Ibesmirching reputations should never have missed it. From first to last, it was a scream, and many pointers might have been pick- ed up by the Chatter-andâ€"Stitch Club of almost any town. It was about the mast true to lilfe picture we have seen fior some time, and] more fun than an Old Maid’s Convention. If you haven't seen it and get another chance, take it in. You can get suf- ficient pointers in two hours to rum a whole community for life. Just plain “gossip”, but how true to life! â€"«Durham Chronicle. addition may be a hint to Boards of Education to check into this matter a little more carefully in the future. â€"â€"Smiths Falls Record-News. Wallace St.. Mrs. N. G. Wallace 1849 Yonge St. (east side) Between Merb-n & Balliol Sts. ANTHRACITE “The Coal That Satisfies” Telephone 188 L. Willis M. S. of St. Paul’s Vaughan» was held at St. Paul’s Church with the president Mrs. J. A. McNeil presid- ing. The meeting Opened with hymn No. 692 and prayer. Psalms 9'5 and 100 were read. Hymn No. 563 Was sung and. prayer by Annie Kerr. The word Thanksgiving was used for the Roll Call after which Mrs. Mc- Neil expressed the pleasure on be- half of the W.M.S. that the Young People’s Guild of St. Andrew’s and St. Paul’s were the W.M.S. guests of the evening- and' Mr. Bruce Mc- Donald, .pTesident of the Guild‘ took the chair and replied in a few well chosen words. A duet by Miss Aud- rev McNaughton and Bruce McDon- ald was very much enioyed. Miss Sara McNeil gave a splendid report on her trip last summer to Glenm-ohr ‘C-amp as a delegate of the St. Paul’s 'WJMS. Miss Edith Jackson had a eontest on auestion‘s of the Bible after which the meeting closedI with hymn No. 684 and the Mizpah beneâ€" diction. An enjoyable and social hour was spent with lunch served [by memlbers of the W.M.S. Winners at the weekly Thistle- town Athletic Club euchre party held’ on Thursday of last week in the community hall, were as follows: Ladées, lst. Mrs. Allen Lockhart; 2nd, Mrs. F. Middleton; 3rd, Mrs. Bowman. Gents. 15¢. A. Taylor; 2nd. Frank Foster; 3rd, Arthur Gil- bank. ' Eggs, from 30 to 76 cents dmzen, according to size andI home or for- eign production. Condensed milk, 11 to 17 cents. Fresh her-rings, 12 cents pound. Kippers, 20 cents. Potatoes, 2 to 21/2 cents ,pound, slightly less than $1.20 to $1.50 per (bushel. Dates, 9 cents. Fige, 13 to 19 cents. lems and prunes, 17 cents. Apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, for preserved fruit salads, 20 cents. Apricots, 30 cents. Muscatel raisins, 48 cents. Butcher's meat, margarine, cooking fats and tea must not be solcl for more than their prices at the end of August. ten Prices of the necessities of life are a fruitful topic of conversation in Canadian homes. In Britain gr0< ‘cers are permitted to chagge the prices named! below: Butter, 38 cents pound. Margarine (\butter substitute), 12 cents. Imported lard, 12 cents. Sugar, eight and a half cents to DALZIEL-CAMPBELL Knox Church, St. Catharines, was the scene of a pretty wedding of local interest last Saturday after- noon, Nov. 4th, when Frances Ada Camplbell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William MacKay Campbell, of St. Catherines, became the bride of Don- ald Alexander Dalziel, only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Dalziel, of Maple. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. H. M. Coulter and wedding music was played by Allan Mac- Lean. Given in marriage by her father, the bride was attended by her sister, Miss Margaret Campbell. Little .Marilyn Elizabeth Campbell was flower girl. The groomsman was Frank Sidwell and the ushers Charles Agnew and: Murdlo Campbell. The mothers of the bride- and‘ groom received guests at a reception in. the Y.WJC.A. Later, the happy couple left for a wedding trip to Ottawa and Quebec. Thev will live in St. Catharines. White heather sent from friends in Scotland: was tucked in the bride’s rose bouquet. Th3 Septgmhe; meeting of the W. Striking new body styling, new all-silent"transmission, exclusive, improved steering-column gear shift as standard equipment and unexcelled “ride”, are among the many outstanding features of the Chevrolet 85 and the Special DeLuxe Series announced by General Motors Products of Canada for 1940. Upper right shows that attractive new steering wheel. A Special DeLuxe sedan is illustrated (centre) and the lower Left shows the finger-tip control steering-column gear shift. The famous Chevrolet valve-in-head engine (lower right) has been improved for smoother, quieter operation and longer life. ' WEDDING "THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16th, 1939‘ INSURANCE LIFE. FIRE. ACCIDENT. SICKNESS PLATE GLASS, AUTOMOBILE BURGLARY. GUARANTEE BONDS SPECIAL RATES T0 FARMERS Dated at Unionville, August 24th, 1939. Copies of said list may be had at my office. The adjourned sale, if one is ne- cessary, will be held on Thursday, 2151; day of December, 1939, at the same hour and the same .place. The sale will be held on the above date at the hour of 10 o’clock in the forenoon in the Township Hall, Unionville. - By virtue of a warrant issued by the Reeve of the Township of Mark ham dated the 17th day of August 1939 and to me directed, command- ing me to proceed with the cOllec- tion of arrears of taxes, together with the fees and expenses, ‘I hereby give notice that the list of lands liable to be sold has been prepared, and is being published in the On- tario Gazette under the date of September 2nd, 1939, and that, un- less the said arrears of taxes and costs are sooner paid, I shall, on the 7th day of December 1939 proceed to sell the said lands to discharge the said arrears of taxes and the charges thereon. TREASURER'S SALE OF LANDS IN ARREARS OF TAXES SHEPPARD & GILL LUMBER GO. ON ALL CARS TARIFF & NONTARIFF CO’S A. G. Savage we meNpT SELL A FOOT THAT 5 POOR-~ BUY LUMBER HERE AND YOU Iâ€"JNSURE « MASSEY-HARRIS AGENT Farm Implements, Machinery and Repairs Telephone Richmond Hill 39 Beatty Farm Equipment TOWNSHIP OF MARKHAM Charles Graham RICHMOND HILL Old Post Office Richmond Hill CHARLES HOOVER, Township Treasurer.