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Anything which encourages good farming, is a help to our war effort, and Plowing Matches certainly aim at improving farm methods and farm work. Every agency promoting better cultivation of the land is adding to the productive power of our country. The King and Vaughan Plowmen’s Association merit the support of the whole com- munity in their work of encouraging better farming in this district. In war as well as in peace it is well to encourage the plowing of a straight furrow, and we are glad that the King and Vaughan Plowmen’s Association decided to “carry on” this year with the annual Match. It will be held on the farm of Mr. Alfred Bagg at Edgeley, Thurs- day, October 22nd. Under the new sal ry grab, the five men who will administer the affairs 0 the Tornto and York Roads Com- mission will receive $7,500 plus an allowance for mileage travelled. This is more money than is paid all the Reeves, Deputy-Reeves and Councillors who administer the local municipal business of Vaughan, Markham, King, Whit- church, Richmond Hill, Aurora, Newmarket and East Gwil- limbury. Able men could have been secured to sit on the Board without any remuneration. Certainly almost anyone would have been satisfied with the remuneration received by County Councillors. The $1500 annual salary melon came from the garden of York County Council King-makers. Perhaps the idea is that the Roads Commission is to be kind of a “Senate”, a cushy spot for ex-county councillors. Anyway it is a salary grab, which should be opposed by every member of County Council. In peace time it would be bad enough, but in war it is sabotage. When our young men daily risk their lives for $1.20 per day, is a poor time for York County Councillors to engineer a Salary Grab. THAT TORONTO AND YORK ROADS COMMISSION SALARY GRAB In wartime we are apt to be so engrossed in war work that we overlook important items on the home front. One such item which should not be overlooked by York County taxpayers is the salary grab engineered by York County Council for members of the Toronto and York Roads Com- mission. In the past York County’s two representatives on the Commission were paid by the County at $7.00 per day plus mileage for attending meetings and the other three members of the Commission served without any re- muneration. We agree that some provision for remunera- tion should be made for all the members, but to fix such salaries at $1500 per annum plus mileage puts the whole deal into the category of a salary grab. Another rumor was to the effect that the farmer would not be allowed to kill his own pork, beef or lamb. This too is entirely a figment of someone’s imagination. A farmer can kill anything on his farm, excepting his wife, the kids or hired man. Though he may frequently feel like the latter, this is called murder, and is not quite the thing to do. One good way to stop a rumor is recommended by Reader’s Digest: “That’s a hot one, where’d you hear that?” Then pull out a paper and pencil and ask the teller to repeat it, so that you can copy it word for word. Fre- quently, when asked to repeat it, the person spreading the rumor, realizes how silly it sounds, and never repeats that story again. Another rumor that worried livestock dealers was to the effect that twenty-five percent would be deducted by the Government from all livestock cheques. A bank manâ€" ager was credited with making this statement. This rumor received wide circulation, reached a neighbouring town, Where a second banker phoned the one credited with mak- ing the statement, and proceeded to give him what is com. monly known as “the devil”. Banker number one was quite innocent, and had not even heard the rumor. One recent rumor was that the Government was go- ing to deduct ten percent off all cream cheques. This had some cream producers really worried. The source of this rumor is this. When the recent War Savings Campaign was on, one county circularized all cream producers, in- forming them that unless otherwise instructed, creamâ€" eries would deduct ten percent of each cheque to buy a bond. Another county suggested that this be done volun- tarily by the cream producers. Hence the rumor, entirely false of course. Sometimes these rumors act as a boomerang. The Wise-guys started the rumor about the issuing of the AA gas ration books. Said the rumor “might as well use up all your A ration book, it’s going to be called in anyway.” With apparent disregard for the national emergency we face due to scarcity of gasoline, and the hourly danger faced by seamen who risk their lives to bring the tankers to our shores many went ahead on the tip of the rumor- mongers. The smart trick inspired by the selfish desire to have a good time anyway, and to heck with the co_un- try’s gas problem, backfired and when the official news comes out the dictumAs “no A coupons, no AA coupons”. To any who used gas coupons in this spirit inrecent weeks and find themselves without gas coupons for the coming months we extend no sympathy. Established 1878 $dvertising Rates on Application. “I heard today from so-and-so, who knows so-andâ€"so who works in such-and-such an office" is the common inâ€" troductory remark. This gives the wild rumor a tinge of the inside-information stuff and the wild story is started on its way. It may be anything from a supposed military secret or a new rationing order to a report that some high official has been interned. In any case it’s a 1000 to one bet that it’s a fabrication without one ounce of truth. J “Don’t repeat Rumors, Report them,’ was the timely advice given by Mr. Edgar Wall in his recent address to the Richmond Hill Lions’ ,Club which we hope all read in last week’s issue of “The Liberal”. We cannot too strong- ly stress the importance of this advice. In wartime when there is a certain degree of censorship on news and in- formation there is sure to be plenty of rumors. The rumor monger has a wonderful opportunity to get in some “fifth column” work. AN INDEPENDENT YVEEKLY PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT RICHMOND HILL THE LIBERAL PRINTING 00., LTD. KING AND VAUGHAN PLOWING MATCH CARRIES ON PAGE TWO THURSDAY, OCTOBER lst, 1942. “THE LIBERAL” J. Eachern Smith, Manager SPIKE THE RUMORS TELEPHONE 9 Reverting, however, to the causes the Canadian people have to congra- tulate themselves on the efficiency of the government they have at Ott- awa, one can not overlook how suc- cessful has 'been its effort to con- tinue without interruption the ser- vices of ordinary peace time institu- tions. There has been no neglect of agriculture. Rather has there been if anything a more aggressive pro- In view of such considerations, the call of the Rt. Hon. Arthur Meigh-en for a national convention of the Con- servative party is unusually inter- esting. It seems safe to assume that the ca'.l means scrapping of the ma- terial and point of view on which opposition to the ugcvernment has been based. This material and view~‘ point have outlived any possible useâ€" fulness( and they certainly have failed to be appreciably useful, in any sense, to the Conservative party. But what will take their place? To dlemand coalition without being ridi- culous, it would be necessary to show that a comlbination for executive conâ€" trol would be more effective in winn- ing the war than has been and is the government of Mackenzie King. No doubt Tory brows will wrinkle and Tory heads will suffer many a headache in the search for reasons to support such a position, and may- haps that is well in as much as their acrobatics will afford) pulblic amuse- ment, and a little amusement even in war time is necessary to the main- tenance of morale. Two items of pollt'cal news just published must give the people of the Dominion much» cause for con- gratulation. The first is that the Conservative party is planning- for a national convention, and‘ the other is that with a re-registration of ev- ery res’dent of Canada. we are on ,the threshold of employing every man and 'woman either in the armed or auxiliary forces or in war pro- duction or work connected therewith. Self congratulation is often dang- erous, but I would submit that on recalling the predictions made in conâ€" necticn with certain by-elections some months ago, there is ample justification for the people of Can‘ ada to “pat themselves cn the back.” We Were told at the time of the by-electfons that the Liberal govern- ment was shirking its war o‘bliga- tions, that a coalition should be at once arranged anzl‘ that the Rt. Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie King didl not appear to realize the country was in the throes of a world war. Folks with better memories than myself will readily recall other weird and fantastic things coming gliny- at that time from the lips of the men seeking office. Since then the government of Mr. King has put into effect far reaching rationing regulations and has taken a firmer grip on labor and the uses to which capital may be put than was ever expected would! be necessary. Naturally none of us- like these regulations or the many others. the government has imposed- to govern our conduct and expenditures. «but we recognize them as a war time n-e- cessity and we are prepared to ac- cept them as representative of our contribution to victory. They are far reaching measures calculated' to muster the might of Canada for “allâ€"out', total war, and with the new manpower controls that are to folâ€" low the reâ€"registration forecast for November or December next, they, will constitute a guarantee of suc- cessful war prosecution about as per- fect as it is humanly possible to at- tain. If, however, we ham nstened‘ to the guile of the political enemies of the Mackenzie King government in the by-elections could we now have any assurance of so efficient a war- winning program? No less an au- thority than the Rt. Hon. Arthur Meighen, leader of the Conservative party, told us in the South York by- election that the beginning and the end of everything was conscription for overseas service. We know now what disunion would have resulted from such an enactment had‘ it issued forth4w1th from Parliament, because we know that even when the voice of the Dominion was heard on the subject, through the Mackenzie King government plebiscite, even then vig- orous opposition to conscription de- veloped in certain quarters. What, indeed, would have followed the ar- bitrary course proposed by Mr. Meighen? Almost certainly there would lave been such disunion that the efficient rallying of man power and woman power since accomplish- ed would have been out of the ques- tion. Government Wartime Policies Are Designed Io Aygrt__Mongtary Inflation THE LIBERAL. RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO By RUSSELL FOX; Richmond Hill motion of agricultural interests. There has been no neglect of trade and commerce, in so far as trade and commerce may be possible in war time, and most assuredly there has been nothing short of masterful prevention of monetary inflation. Cross Bomb Victims’ Fund; Great credit is due the girls as they prac- tically prepared the bazaar them- selves. This is Wilma’s second‘ bazaar. A few weeks ago she and. Margaret And. perhaps one of the most out- standing achievements in this respect is the excellent service the post offâ€" ice continues to give in spite of the grave shortage of manpower, the upheaval incidental to the safe de- livery overseas of mail many times greater in volume than that for- warded in peace time owing to the presence overseas of large Canadian armed forces, the necessity of war time censorship etc. We, residents of North York, have reason to be particularly interested in this magni- ficent handling of His Majesty’s mails because our member, the Hon. W. P. Mulock, is Postmaster Gen- eral. Even now he is overseas him- self with a View to studying ways and means of increasing Canadian postal efficiency. One might say Wilma Adair, aged‘ nine and Mary Ernshaw, aged eight, of Newton- brook, held a bazaar recently at which they raised $15.00 for the Red that if the people of Canada have reason to congratulate themselves on the government they have, the peo- ple of North York have, in addition, reason to congratulate themselves on the man they sent to Ottawa to help the Rt. Hon. Mr. King discharge the duties of the difficult office of war time premier. We are sorry to hear of illness of Rev. F. N. Bowes of Willowdale. We wish for him a speedy recovery. The Toronto Centre Presbytery Y.P.U. Suburban Area will hold its annual Fall Rally next Monday, Oc- tober 5th at 8 pm. in Thornhill United Church. All the local Y.P. Unions are requested to attend. Rally Day services were held last Sunday morning when the Sunday School joined in the worship service in the United Church. The scrip- ture yassages were read- «by Elsie Wells, Margaret McMillan, Wilma Adair and Richard Walterhouse. The story was very beautifully told‘ by Phyllis Duggan. The pastor spoke on the theme “Looking- Unto Jesus.” An illustrated address entitled “The Road! of the Loving Heart” featured the evening service, which was well attended. The Mission Band held- its opening meeting last Saturday afternoon with the president Jean Lippett presiding. Margaret McMillan and Georgina Plain conducted the devotional ser- vice. Colored slides were shown on “China”. The Bible story was told by Mrs. Halbert. Five new mem- bers were added to the roll. Harold Duggan spent the weekâ€" end at his home and' returned Sun- day evening to Petawawa Military Camp. Harold G. Schmidt was also home on Sunday. Ronald Johnstone has enlisted in the R.C.A.F. Communion service will be held' next Sunday, October 4th at 11 a.m. in Newtonbrook United Church. This service will be celebrated by all Christian churches throughout the world on that day. We hope that every member will join in this fel- lowship. Rev. H. J. MacKay of Vic- toria Square will preach at the ev- ening service next Sunday and: Rev Halbert will preach at Carrville an- niversary. The 10an anniversary of Newton- brook United Church will be observ- ed: on Sunday, October 18th. Pro- fessor A. S. Orton of Emmanuel The Woman‘s Assocmton will hold’ its montth business meeting Thursâ€" day. Th-e members will meet at 10 College will preach at the morning service and Rev. R. G. C‘arruthers of St. C‘uthbert’s United‘ Church, To- ronto, Will conduct the evening ser- vice. ' am. in the church school room for a quilting meeting and a Pot Luck luncheon at 12 o‘clock. Mrs. Lamb of Moore Park Avenue received word last Saturday morning that her son Owen Lamb who was reported) missing after the Dieppe raid is a prisoner of war. Services of Thanksgiving will be held on Sunday, October 11th at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Newtonbrook The North York branch of the Red Cross will hold its first fall meet- ing at 230 Friday, October 2nd in St. John’s Parish Hall. A good- atâ€" tendance is requested to discuSS the business and policy for the coming season. McMillan raised $15.50. Congratuâ€" lations. Mrs. Percy Ridd‘ell entertained at a Trousseau Tea for her daughter Miss Thelma, last Monday evening, prior to her marriage next Saturday in Newtonbrook United Church. 21:01 fl Cleaning and Pressing “ 0 II 6=o==o=o 91:01 FARMERS : Phone 49J Phone 86 The Largest General Store Stock Between Toronto ' and Barrie Groceries, Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, Hardware Government Egg Grading Station KING CITY PHONE KING 1908 We still have a limited storage space for cars for winter months beginning October 1st. See us now and make arrangements. Also your car may need a tune-up for those cold days coming. 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