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2 THE LIBERAL, Richmond Hill. Thursday, August 4, 1549 “THE LIBERAL” An Independent Weekly -â€" Established 1873 , Subscription Rate, $2.00 per year; To the United States $2.50 Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association .I. E. SMITH, Ill.l’., Publisher *â€"_.â€"_____â€"â€" “Stuffed Shirts” Not Needed While, in some respects, a recent incident in Meaford falls into the “storm in a teacup" category yet a somewhat important principle is involved. Mayor F. Stanley Knight, it will be Tecalled, felt that he alone should extend an official welcome to Viscount Alexander! the Governor General, on his recent official visit to that 00m- munity. ' . I The local branch of the Canadian Legion felt differently. It wished â€" following well-established precedent â€"â€" to provide a guard of honour. In the ensuing mix-up Mayor Knight resigned, the result being that the acting mayor welcomed His Excellency and thelLegion’s guard of honour was present. ' That is as it should be. Nobody has a better right to ex- press the loyalty of a community to the Crown than the men who fought-to preserve that Crown, all that it stands for, and the community. Especially is that the case when the representative of the Crown is one who has been a comrade-in-arms of the men who wish to pay him homage on behalf of their home town. We spoke of precedents. It will be remembered that on the pre-war tour of the Dominion by Their Majesties, the King and Queen, from the smallesuhamlet to the greatest city war veterans formed an honouredand honourable part of the great tide of welcome and loyalty which swept around the royal couple from coast to coast. . ,We do not know ex-Mayor Knight. Doubtless he is a per- sor. who could adequately and with dignity extend the welcome of his municipality to all visitors, whatever their estate might be. In his official position he should, without question, be the leader in such a welcome. But the Mayor Knights of this coun- try should never be forgetful of the fact that on such occasions and, indeed, in all the affairs of a democracy that they are just one part of a great picture â€" that their election to temporary power does not set them on a pedestal where they, and they alonv, represent all thatois good and fine and acceptable. We are fortunate as a nation in having, on the whole, few men who feel that in their own persons alone can the qualifica- tions for extending official welcomes be found. It is to be hoped that that state of affairs continues. There is little room for “stuffed shirts" in Canada. '« Our Telephone Service The forecast that dial telephones will be installed in Rich- mond Hill and vicinity, as reported elsewhere in this issue, will come as welcome news to those who are not already acquainted with the plans of the Bell Telephone Company in that connection. In an age when one has become used to instantaneous and automatic telephone service we agree that it is maddening to wait an' inordinate length of time for an operator’s response â€" to suffer from frequent cut-offs -â€" to experience delay, because of busy lines, in reaching a point only a few miles away. But at the same time we have a certain amount of sympathy for the position of the Bell Telephone Company. War-born shortages have been common enough in all lines. Tractors, cars, refrigerators â€" to name only a few things â€" have been hard to get after the long years when the whole national economy was devoted to winning the war. But post-war demands, heavy as they have been, have in very few cases equalled those made for ‘ telephone service. The Bell Telephone Compfmy, like most industries, is anxious to get all the business it can. Unless it can provide the service it cannot get the returns. It is in exactly the san‘le position as the smallest merchant â€" it must have the goods to sell if it ex- pects to make a profit. Butrâ€" and most merchants have found this out in the last few years â€" goods have been hard to get. So it has been with the telephone company. An unprece- dented demand the ever-growing popularity of and necessity for Alexander Graham Bell’s invention â€" have created a situa- tion with which even the most efficient organization, and the Bell Telephone Company certainly falls into that category, finds it hard to cope with. ‘ Richmond Hill itself provides a striking example of what the company is faced with. The fact that, in less than two years, calls have increased from eighteen hundred a day to nearly five thousand a day gives some idea of the growth of the business. And there is little sign of slackening. It is hard to counsel patience when one is irritated by the lack of service. But it is perhaps the better part of wisdom to examine all angles of the question. That is what this paper he. tried to do. It is convinced that an honest and efficient effort to provide the Hill and the district with better telephone service is being made as\ rapidly as possible, based on the installation of modern equipment. It has been advised that before such a very long time further and more categorical announcements will be made. In other words, the Liberal believes that the fastest ,pos- sible progress towards providing this area with an up-to-date and _ efficient telephone service is being made. But we add .â€" and we know that we voice the opinion of the majority of our readers â€"â€" let it be soon. ls Romance Dead in. Stoufl' ville? A . Can it be that tradition and sentiment are dying in our res- pected neighbouring municipality? Are the flames of yesteryear turning to dust and ashes? , Are the immortal words of Charles Kingsley â€"- “Young bled must. have its day, lass " nothing but black marks made 'by printer’s ink on a piece of paper? Perish the thought! Andyet there must be something in the idea. for press re, ports from that town say that no longer will Stouffvillians look with favour on the practice of wedding cars racing through the main streets dragging tin cans behind them, said cans scatter- ing as they travel. Says the Stouffville Tribune: “Today it could be a warning to the groom of what he may expect to be fed from, but to the village of Stouffville it can mean a general nuisance." The Triâ€" bune goes on to say that a citizen has suggested that a remedy for the tin can nuisance would be to buy a goat or two, and that the village constable has been asked to warn touring parties that thcy may be expected to return and clean up. 4‘ ‘ a So romance â€" or at least one of its venerable demonstra- tions â€" perishes in Stouffville. Here's Niagara Falls issuing special certificates to visiting honeymooners â€" Stouffville threatening them with a cleanâ€"up job. Come on. Stoufi’ville â€" have a heart! The innocent victims of your ire are going to spend the rest of their married lives cleaning up tin cans. literally and metaphorically. Give them a break for once â€" while there‘s some fun in having tin cans tied to them. Just think what an opportunity you are giving to some poor husband to wise-crack in the years to come. when sweetie lays down the law about those empties which she has been trying to get him to dispose of for a couple of weeks: â€" “Huh, had to clean Lip tin cans after you the day we were mar- ried. Been doing nothing else ever since." Aiid just look at the commercial opportunities you are miss- ing. Sure, follow that citizen's suggestion. Buy a-goat. Think of the wonderful possibilities for adertising Stouffville. Just imagine what a smart copy-writer could do for you. “Come to Stouffville for your honeymoon. We provide the goat." On second thoughts perhaps you'd better not. There’s al- ways the odd chance that when the bloom has faded from the rose the blushing bride of today might make pointed remarks about acquiring a couple of goats :it the same time. Anyway. lcl ihc poor snckcrs huvc thcir fun for a few min- l Good-W’iiiers In Winnipeg Photo by Jack Dobson Three natives of Richmond Hill and the Mayor of Toronto are pictured during a chat in Winnipeg‘s Assinoboine Park. Left to right: Reeve Percy C. Hill, Mrs. Hill. Mayor Hiram Mc- Callum of Toronto, Ben Sharpless, native of Richmond Hill who is now an official of the CPR. The four were on the last lap 31' their tour to Calgary and other western points on the Toronto Goodwill Train. utes. And when We come to visit youwe’ll look enviously at the growing piles of tin cans on your streets and realize that romance has not perished from the earth, at least as far as Stouffvdle is concerned. The Polio M enace Rumours current in Richmond Hill about ten days ago to the effect that there were several cases of infantile paralysis have proved to be unfounded, to the best of this paper’s know- led e. gHowever, the dangerous season for this dread disease has not yet passed and, in the opinion of experts, is likely to continue for some three or four weeks more. While medical science has not, unfortunately, yet been able to definitely isolate the germ which causes polio or to find a specâ€" ific remedy for it, there are several simple precautions which should be observed by parents. They are: . 1. All children under five should she given only boiled water to drink. 2. An extra precaution is to bring all milk, even if pas- teurized, to a boil and then keep it cool for young children. 3. Children’s hands should invariably be washed before eat- ing. 4. Young children should have an afternoon rest. 5. Plenty of soap and hot water should be used for washing dishes. 6. Children with upset stomach and diarrohea should be taken to the family doctor immediately. 7. Any child with a stiff neck should be taken to the doctor at once. 8. Children should, as far as possible, be kept away frOm :rowds. . , While there. would not appear to be any undue cause for alarm, or fear of a severe outbreak of the disease, it’s just as well to “play safe.” ' Time Well Spent To President Albert Hill and to all officers and members of the Lions Club, Richmond Hill, congratulations are due on the successful outcome of the Civic Holiday Horse Show and Carni- val. While figures are not yet available it seems that a large amount will become available for the splendid community activ- ities in which the Lions play such a prominent part. Apart from the financial angle we believe that there is one point worthy of comment, and that is the sacrifice made by memâ€" bers of the Lions Club in connection with staging such events. While other citizens can look forward to a day off the Lions can only anticipate a day of hard'work and much responsibility. For many Civic Holiday is a day to be spent with the family, either at home or abroad. For the families of Lions Club members it is a day when they have to be reconciled to staying home in a good cause. ' ' Ard it is a good cause. We believe that on consideration thug.» wlio sacrifice much in order that the lots of others less for- tunate may be improved may gainameasure of recompense from the thought that “Even as ye hae done it unto the least of these My children ye have done it unto Me.” " Picture Of The Week ' (Continued from Page One) in the bulilding {trade frequently Many of Richmond Hill’s houses and public buildings have either been built or worked on by him. For fourteen years he has been the village’s building inspector. ‘ Many and varied have been his other occupations. Back in the days before mechanization he drove a hose wagon team for the Toronto Fire Department. He has worked for the Bedford Park Floral Company. He has farmed in Saskatchewan and North Dakota. For years he drove a milk waggon in Richmond Hill, sometimes leaving council meetings at 11.30 at night and icing on the road with his waggon four hours later. He often recalls the days when, eighteen years old, he worked on a farm for $14.00 a month. That farm was situated on a spot now densely built up â€" Toronto’s swank Lawrence Park distriCt. . Wes has been in jail too. But as it happened to be as a guard in the Jail Farm at Langstaff for five years his criminal record hasn’t been too much of a handicap. He’s very proud of the fact that he has been a member of the Agricultural Society for over twenty years and he is, in this year when the Society celebrated its hundredth anniversary, its president. And when it comes to horses he’s equally proud of ic’calling the day when he rode an “outlaw” in Saskatchewan, \Vllililllg a bet by riding the supposedly unrideable horse. In only two terms in the past nineteen years has he been absent from the council table of Richmond Hill. During the seventeen years he has been councillor he claims that he has never missed a meeting. It‘s just thirty years this year since he and his wife, the former Elsie Pearson of Toronto. came to the Hill. There were .vooden'sidewalks in those days. he recalls. For those thirtv years he has been actively associated with the church and par- ticularly with its choir. A devoted member of the United Church choir today, he has also been scCi‘etai‘y-treasurer of the Sunday School for the last five years. His daughter Jean. now a proud mother herself. taught school in the Hill for seven years. Actually it would take a lot more space than is available in a newspaper column to cover the many activities which he has engaged in as a citizen of Richmond Hill. a public servant and a business man. It seems to have been a fairly full life. Now. while he runs Vitafeed Concentrates plant for the Charles E. Frosst people. a job he has held for the past nine years, he is dong a lot of thinking about the future of the Hill â€" the com- munity he is proud to call “home” and to whose steady progress he has contributed so much. i The photograph of Councillor Middleton, like all others in this series. was taken by Edmund Soiimc. “The Studio,” 1720 Avenue Road. News Of Our nghbours Unemployment in that town increased materially l.itcly, says ilic Ui'illia “News-Letter." At dutc 35-1 names of those for work were listcd with the ()i'illia Employment Bureau »â€" 210 men and 144 women. About 40 of the num- ber are veterans. The total 50 more than the figure for the last day of June and over five times the num- ber on the list a year ago. Layoffs in three Oi‘illia industries contribuch to the increase. Iligh point of un- employment for the year was in March when (308 people were regisâ€" tered. has a recent zivuiliiblc is m s * >9: Orillia‘s Town Council and busin- men are showing keen interest in the projected extension of the new highway from Toronto to Barrie now under construction to the latter town, and which is eventually ex- pected to be extended as a four-lane highway to North Bay. As the ex- tension would pass to the west of the town they are taking steps to protect Orillia’s business interests by the provision of connecting links. =I=>.‘=** Orillia has been holding 3 “Made- In-Orillia” week. Many thousands of people have taken an interest in the displays which occupied 29 shop windows loaned by local merchants. =4: 2: Whitchurch Township Council has engaged L. J. Harper as assistant clerk in the township offices at Van- dorf, to help out Clerk and Treasurer John Crawford. * s e. Growth of Scarboro Township in the last two years has made it im- possible for the present plant to car- ry the load much longer, so consid- eration is being given to a large ex- tension to the waterworks or the building of an additional plant. The cost of the new project is expected to be well over a million. >1: >1: 95 Scarboro Township Council has been requested to make a debenture issue of $500,000. by the Public Ut- ilities. $200,000. of the money is required for the Hydro changeover to sixty cycle. For a number of years profits of utilities have financed ex- pansion but growth has been so rap- id and demand for new services so great that borrowing becomes nec- essary. 9S5 all s: **** Tenders have been called for a From Ta. Hilltop .»\ COLI‘MN 0F VIEWS .-\.\'D OBSERVATIONS (By F. J. l’ickingi In :i icccnt story homch “Tour of Incidcntully. iiicic's no truth in Cocktail liars Shows (‘iistonici‘s Lose the rumour that mmnlic-rs of tho 0n Dcccptive Glasses" two Globe stuff inkc Ilic specimen Ificxâ€"U-lxic and Mail reporters dcsci‘ibcd :1 sur- inner spring which ll:l\ bccn on vx~ vey made of fifteen A note tllill,flillilt homc io sleep on :11 nights. fifteen »â€" cocktail lounges in To- None of us have bccn cut down lo i'onto. that size yct though _\Ull ncvcr Main purpose of the tour was to can tell. ascertain whether or not customers werc getting what they paid for in The“, seems m be :1 rev-[ml 01- the way of drinks. that is, us to quantity. ' But the a man and a woman, go on to say “In nine lounges I'CDOI'IOI'S. the line marking one ounce on thc shot glass was an eighth of an ounce under. In eight lounges the shot glass would not hold the amount of liquor advertised without spilling over.” Now, according to my calculation, nine and eight make seventeen. Looks to me as if the figuring must have been done after the last call. Anyway, even if they did get gypped for an eighth of an ounce tr so here and there, it must have been QUITE an evening of “pub- crawling." Gosh, how newspapei men and women suffer in the inter- csts of their profession. 3} -‘l= ='= >1= Even at the risk of boring some- body I’m going to keep hammering away at the “Safety on the High~' way" idea. Seems to me, anyway, that it‘s better to be bored than dead and if anything that can be said helps to save a life it's all to the good. Frankly, I think that there‘s our point that is overlooked consistent- ly. Parents could do a lot to help correct it, for it happens that, in many cases, it's the-younger gener- ation which is guilty of a very danâ€" gerous practice. Hitch-hiking ON THE TRAV- ELLED PORTION OF A HIGH- WAY happens, although a lot of people do not seem to know it, to be illegal. Apart from its illegality it is extremely hazardous. Once on a time the knights of the thumL would do their soliciting from the roadside. Now it isn't uncommon tc see them at least six feet out on the roadway. Soon they’ll be right out in the centre of the road. It’s only a few days since a bad crash was narrowly averted at oui northern village limits, due to Elgir. new pumic 3010001 for .NeVVmal‘kEt~ Mills youngsters who were thumb- It will be named after Prince Charles. Land has been purchased in Stouffville by the Hydro Electric Power Commission for the erection of a new sub-station to serve the town when 60 cycle power comes in- to being next year. >2: 1‘ 4‘» $ >l< Mrs. Leat, 64-year-old resident of Markham, was first prize winner at the National Hobby Exhibition held recently in Toronto. She receives a silver trophy. 'Her entry was com- posed of six samples of her wood carving. >E= >i< 9.: as For interfering with the local con- stable in the execution of his duties at Bolton man, Allan Lockhart, was sentenced to fifteen days in jail. Mrs. Robert Lockhart and her daughter, Miss Evelyn Lockh-art, were fined $25 and costs or ten days for the same offence. Lockhart was also fined $10 or ten days for fighting in Bol- ton. 14 s: s: s: * Largest “muskie” to be hauled out of Lake Simcoe for many years was captured by an eleven-year old Roehes Point boy, Jimmy Cole, re- cently from -a little home-made boat. It took an hourâ€"long battle to land the 32 pound fish. ’1: i5 * The new artificial ice arena at Stouffville is to have an aluminum roof. This metal will reduce the sun’s rays and is said to be 20% more effective than canvas used as awnings. The job of closing in the building is well under way. .5 s: s: Parents in Woodbi'idge and district have been advised not to let their children swim in the Humber river. The warning was given by Dr. Charles McLean of Woodbridge, who says that although the river has not been condemned he suspects it to be liibhly polluted. Over five thousand attended the an- nual carnival and street dance staged by the Aurora Lions Club. It was a lucky day for Frank Clubine of that town. Not only was it his birthday. but earlier in the day he found a five- leaf clover and finished up by win- ning an outboard motor boat at the carnival. Sponsored by the Aurora Board of Trade, a clinic for a free chest exam- ination will held in that town during the last three days of Sep- tember. be A clean-up of the Memorial Hall giounds has been completed by mem- bers of the Woodbridge Horticultural Society. Dead brush, leaves. ch.. which have been accumulating for years weic removed. ing their way home. Practically ev- ery motorist has had the experienct of having to swing out into traffic to avoid hitting one or more of the youngsters who apparently have no regard for their owu safety, or f01 the safety of others. As I said before, a little home Ol school education might serve a use- ful purpose. The Provincial Police on the highways. whose duty it to enforce the safety law, seem to do nothing about it. s: :2 s: is It’s interesting to note that our northern neighbour, the town of Orillia, has recently completed “Made In Orillia” week during which, with outâ€"and-out eo-operation from merchants who loaned their windows fo the purpose, many Orillians learned with surprise of the great variety of products turned out by their people and industries. It gives some point to a comment I made some time ago when I suggested that we in the village of Richmond Hill and I include myself haven’t any too broad a picture of what is taking place within our own bordeis, and the number of indus- trial -':'and cultural activities in which our citizens'take part. Incidentally, this might be a good time to remind readers of the exâ€" hibits of local arts and crafts which are now appearing in the Liberal’s office window each week, together with photographs of local “celebri- ties.” It’s rather gratifying to not- ice the number of people who stop 2. ilic agitation for the staging of stu- tutory holidays, with the exception of Good Friday and Christmas Day. on the Monday of the wcck in which the usual dale falls. and a pi'obzibib ity that some official action may be itikcii. It appcurs to bc a sound, common- scnsc idea, and one which might wcll be endorsed" by municipal councils. Admitted that those cngugcd in Agriculture with their scvcii-diiy, all hours, week won‘t benefit, especially during growing and harvesting sca- <ons when one day, holiday or not. just another day when csscntiiil .vork has to be done anyway. But ’0 the thousands of indoor workers .vho look forward to their allâ€"too-l‘ow lays in the open it would be a god- send. ' , This business, when a public holiâ€" lay happens to fall on a Tucsday, 'or instance, of going back to work ii :i Monday morning only to brcuk off for another day on Monday cv- ening, is plain silly and disruptivc. There will be those who will claim that a matter of sentiment in- volved â€" that it would bc ugin lhc spirit of things to celebrate (‘zinndn's birthday on June 20th instead of July 1st. Maybe! But I'd like to take a bet that sthc average work- fccling at that period that if tliankl'ulncss for a day off rather is Jr’s is than one of gratitude to thc Falli- srs of Confederation for thcir long- sighted action in welding dividcd provinces into a united nation. Grati- tude and the revcring of things acâ€" :omplished are not governed by dates )ut by deeper. stronger impulses W 1nd we might as well be practical about it. .;: >1: 1 Just think how much it would mean to our people in the banks. An industrial plant can close up to give its workers the long wcck-cnd but the banks, governed by the Bank Act, have to be on the job willy- nilly, even if it's only for half a .lay. In a business where members of the staff are often a long way from their own homes the change would really mean something to em- ployees. (Had to get that plug in. Hope my bank manager sees it. Never can tell when an overdraft might come in handy.) s: :5 That source of all information, the Dominion lureau of Statistics, cently disclosed some figures which should be of interest to our cigar- ette smokers, who, incidentally, pro- vide a hefty chunk of income for the Dominion through taxation. - Back in 1926 average monthly con- sumption of cigarettes in Canada was 269 million. By 1925) the month- ly average had increased to 423 mill- ion. Even during the “hungry thir- ties” consumption only dropped about 150} to a monthly average 0f 360 million. ' For the first three months of this year average monthly consumption has been at the rate of 1,282 million. The First Great War undoubtedly had much to do with increasing the use of cigarettes. Former pipe and cigar smokers found it unhandy to carry them'in uniform and the eas- ily carried and rapidly utilized "fag" gained many converts. It also saw sntoking among the female portion of the population emerge from a furtive and generally frowned upon habit into a widely acceptch dcvcl- opinent. In any event, cigarettes are now rcâ€" and look over exhibits and pictures. “‘big business." f- Where. World CqPiml Will. Fit? ., ,. Excavations in the six-block site where the permanent headquarters of the United Nations are to be built in New York City are nearly complete. Meanwhile UN. the construction of signed a contract for $23,809,573 for the 39-story office building which will house its staff. The building is to be completed in the autumn of 1950. I