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Round about this time of year holi- day pleasure is marred by accidents, many of which need not have happened. Care and courtesy on the highways and a knowâ€" ledge of the fundamenal rules of water safety can save lives. Advertising is sort of like a man jour- neying through life. Just like f’ne man, advertising accomplishes little without persistence. A citizen without loyalty to his home- town is not an asset tho the community. Business goes where it is invited and stays where it is well treated. To keep in business, you must con- tinually INVITE new business. To invite new business, you must first create ‘good will’ -â€" a friendly and favorable interest in you and your firm or your products . . . usually, all three, for after all â€"‘â€" a business is but the length- ened shadow of ONE man. Next, you People forget easily. Firms change hands. People move away. New busin- esses are established. Marketing meth- ods and conditions are constantly chang- mg. There is no sadder blow to the pride of any human being than to be forgotten. The years we have been away from the old home town are but a day in our memory. When we return, we expect to meet familiar smiles and receive the same familiar greetings . This is why â€" to be successful â€"- every business firm must keep in c0n- stant touch with old customers and must constantly strive to gain new ones. I bid you have faith in Canada. I tell you Democracy is not on trial. It is not outmoded, worn out, finished. It is still the newest thing on earth; too new even to be fully understood. All else is a throw- back to medievalism, cynicism, desponden- cy and despair. I tell you Canada is not on trial. It is rather we who are on trial. It is our faith, our courage that is being put to the test and will be put to the test in the years to I am not infallible. I have your weakâ€" nesses, for I am of you and by you, but I also have your steadfast strength. Some- times I have slumbered, and then wrongs were done. But I have always awakened. I 'am the Conscience of Canada â€"â€" your conscience â€"â€" and I will be heard. I have never â€" as in certain coun- tries â€" been used to blackout the truth. No hidden power has used me to stifle the kindlier instincts of a whole people, rouse barbaric passions and set feet tramping the long red road. No secret voices made me keep silent‘rwhilera trusting nation died. I am the voice of your town and your 'country, the bringer of tidings, the com- panion of your fireside hours. I am your friend away from home. I am the pro- phet of tomOrrow, your link with the world beyond your doorstep. I am today’s link with' history. But most of all, I am the conscience of Canada. And I must be heard. ' While the increasing use of machin- ery may be the cause of the rise in the accident rate, farm animals are still a ma- jor hazard to the rural worker. In one report they are at the top of the list with horses causing the most mishaps. Cows and bulls come next. A- third of the farm casualties are among children due to the fact they are allowed to ride or be close to operating machinery, says C-I-L Agricultural News. One cannot blame farm machinery for being the major cause of the mount- ing rural accident frequency rate. Axes From statistics garnered from the National Safety Council, farmers lead a rather dangerous life. For everyone kill- ed accidentally many more are seriously injured. In'contrast to such occupations as mining, construction and transporta- tion, farm injuries are mounting. SAM COOK. Edfior That started us thinking. We had always rather taken for granted the friendliness of our hometown and it had never occurred to us that it might be something visitors would be surprised about. We realize now that it is an un- ique feature of our way of life and a sig- nificant characteristic of our smaller Cant adian communities. City folks with little knowledge of - 'A friend of ours from the city drop- bed in to see us the other day. On the way to the newspaper ofiice he walked through the town’s business section. \ He was greatly impressed. “Practically everyone on the streets said ‘good morning’ to me,” he told us. “I like that. People in the city are so busy rushing about their own affairs that they can’t be bothered even to smile, let alone give a stranger a friendly jhello’ l” THE EIBER’AI}, R'Icfimond Hill, Thurs., 'Auliust 23, 1951 BUT WE NEVER DO. Subscription Rate $2.50 per year; to the United States $3.00 Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association J. E. SMITH, M.P., Publisher ’o M Independent Weekly â€" Established 1878. Your Weekly Newspaper Lest We Be Forgotten Hometown Friendliness 115112 liberal Safety On The~ Farm Telephone, Richmond Hill 9 Can you honestly say each nightfall, “Today I have done at least some little thing to make my hometown a better place in which to live.” There is far too much profanity in or- dinary business conversation, says The Financial Post. It’s a waste of words, boring and offensive. There are plenty of words in the English language to cope with any occasion. Constant profanity is merely indication that we are not as fam- iliar as we should be with our mother tongue. T Today . . . selling is more keen than ever before. With business on the “upturn,” there will be a steady and hard drive for business by all your com- petitors as well as those who are compet» ing for your customer’s dollar. To hold your present customers . . to win your new market . . . it will pay you to plan now to advertise persistently and consistently in your home town weekly newspaper. Convictions are habits of thought ac‘ quired from some one else who has not been too lazy to think. One of the surest ways to build good will and create c0nfidence and in turn, SALES â€" is through the advertising columns of your weekly newspaper. It is the least expensive form of mission- ary advertismg . . . of pavmg the way for increased sales . . . of holding the interest of your old customers (who are always some other firm’s prospects) . of expanding your business and reaching the people you want to reach. must create confidence in the minds of your customers and prospects. I look insignificant enough in your mail box, yet I am your link of understand- ing with a changing world. I am a pass- ing ephemeral thing born and dying every week. Yet I am one of the foundations of Democracy. I am the conscience of Cana- da. I am beholden to no one. I tell you the truth. And you trust me. I don’t think so. For I am Canada’s conscience and I have faith in Canada’s destiny. I know that as long as I am free to speak, Canada will listen. I must not be silenced, for when you silence me you sil- ence your own heart. I must not be en. slaved, for when you enslave me you are alone, cut off from reality, abandoned by truth, at the bottom of a black pit of hor- ror and fantasy. Gag me and your child- ren will never know the Canada you have known. Keep me free and you will be free and God will ‘frnake us mightier yet.” come. Perhaps, caught in the mesh of social and economic change, we shall give ear to the honeyed voices of the dema- gogues. Perhaps, softened by ease, cor- rupted by paternalism, we shall forget truth,» tolerance, kindliness, initiative. Maybe we shall forget that while the bur- den of responsibility always rests heavy on the shoulders of those willing to bear it, that very willingness makes those should- ers stronger. Perhaps we shall decide that Democracy is not for us, that we are not ready for it. While industry has developed safety campaigns, the farmer is usually on his own and suffers most when he is laid up from an accident. It is up to the indi- vidual farm; therefore, to Organize its own safety program and conscientiously follow it. It’s ‘wgood thing, too, thls business of friendliness and coâ€"operation and lookâ€" ing out for the other fellow. Good for our neighbors and good for us. There is no doubt that when one an- alyses the cause of farm accidents, care- lessness will be found to be the chief rea- son behind them. Manufacturers of mo- dern farm machines are careful to place safety guards on them. These are remov- ed when repairs are being made and of- ten are not placed back. Safety instruc- tions and pesticide containers are disre- garded and since many pesticides are poisonous, death or painful illness could occur from carelessly handling them. day-to-day living in towns and Villages sometimes comment on the interest small town people take in each other’s affairs. To the uninitiated this might appear to be simply “nosiness.” But anyone ac- quainted with the facts can tell them that it is something else altogether. In small communities where the tem- po of life is a bit more leisurely than in the cities we can afford to take time to get to know our neighbors, to talk with them about their activities And ours, to watch for a chance to lend a hand to the fellow who needs help or to put in a word of encouragement when it will do some good. That’s why we say “good morn- ing” to strangers as a matter of course. and pitchforks take a sizable annual toll and they have been pseq for qenturies. KLVERNA SMITH, Associate Editor The LIBERAL WANT ADS When You Try You’ll Get An EYE-OPENER Craven fear has its origin chief- ly in a crude idea of God and a wrong conception of religion. There have always been those who thought of God as a far-off deity â€"- too remote to be interested in [human affairs. All Christian teaching is opposed to that view. Others have regarded God. Dr. W. B. Silbie says, as “an exacting busybody who can only be satis- fied _by the most minute and de- tailed observant of the rules he has laid down." That conception is just as far removed from New Testament teaching as the other. We shall never find peace and joy IN THE DARK . . LIKE WINKING AT A GIRL The Scriptures teach: “There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear.” The strange thing is, however, that deep piety i; so often accompanied by a ner- vous, timid disposition, the very opposite of what one might ex- pect to find. A close student of religious life in the Middle Ages tells of devout persons who would go to confession seven or eight times in a day and still not he sat. isfied â€"â€" still fearful and unhappy. We read of such people and sum- mon all the tolerance we can; but we cannot ,think that this is a. healthy condition, either of body or of soul. Religious faith ought to do something more than that for those who possess it. In spite of our progressive thinking and living there appears to be as much fear today as there was a century ago. Medical men are at their wit’s end to know what to do with the increasing number of nervous patients. In one generation suicides on this continent have doubled. Once men feared death; today many are afraid to face life. Multitudes of thoughtful and worthy people, even in Christian lands, are actuated by fear. All their thinking, their whole philos- ophy of life, is dictated by appre- hension and misgiving. They en- deavour to safeguard themselves against poverty, sickness, Aunto- ward accidents, and every conceiv- able calamity, and their safe- guards are not unlike the taboos of the half-savage Indian. Students of the international situation as it is today attribute the acute tension between nations to fear. There is no dOubt that fear plays a large part in our lives. Man’s earliest fears were of the elements; storms, lightning, thun- der, rain, and wind. Even today the Eskimos account for the sev- erity of weather and the scarcity of food to oifended deity. The United Nations postage stamps shown above will appear during the fall of 1951 and will be used in all mail sent from U.N. Head- qdarters. Under a recent agreement between UN. and the United States, U.N. will issue its own DOStage Stamps and Will establish a United Nations Post Office to replace the US. Post Ofiiee now in operation at Headquarters. Ordinary stamps will be issued in 11 denominations. The airmail series will be issued in 4 denominations. UN. 16. Issue 'Own' Postage Stamp: The Business Man who does not advertise when you Fail to knows what he is doing . you are doing and how well you are doing it ou are missing GETTING RID OF FEAR BUT To T ATCH’E‘R ‘wgfm'c‘s jg Our quotation today is by Mon- taigne: Ninety-nine per cent of our fears are groundless; ugly shad- ows that darken .ife and spoil our happiness and usefulness. “That which I fear most is fear itself.” The Bible is full of fine pass- ages showing the futility and folly of fear; but it is not enough to multiply these texts, nor to add exhortations to courage. We must present such a view of God, His infinite wisdom combined with boundless compassion, that the crude, unworthy views men hold will be replaced by the conception Jesus taught. Then men will no longer live in a demon-ridden world but will rejoice to know that the very name and nature of God is love. There will be reverence and humility, but' not fear. They will remember that there can be strength which God supplies. That blessed assurance will dispel fear. Later the Israelites entered Canaan under courageous leader- ship, but no one saw giants. They were creatures of imagination, the scarecrows created by fear. A fearful imagination can play strange tricks with people. When we are looking for a thing we are apt to see it when it isn’t there. That was a wise saying of Mon- taigne: “The thing in this world which I am most afraid of is fear itself, that passion alone, can. ex- ceed all other accidents of life.” in the Old Testament account of the Israelites’ first venture into Canaan. The first spies sent out to look over' the land saw it through the eyes of fear. Re- member, it was a, good land â€"â€" a land of hills and valleys, of fertile soil, of springing fountains, and a land flowing with milk and ham ey, where there was no scarceness and none need want. All this the spies admitted, but other things impressed them more than its fer- tility. They had seen fearsome men. They said: “All the people that we saw in it are men of great stature. And there we saw giants; and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.” in our religion â€" we shall never be delivered from fear â€" until our conception of God is a worthy one. A man’s idea of God is reg- ulative of all his religious think- ing and we cannot be good Chris- tians ourselves unless our ideas of God are worthy. There is a good illustration of how fear can give distorted views opportunities evely day NO ONE ELSE DOES let eyeryone know what aVillage Council Regular Session Copies of the four municipal crests and of the school crest may be secured from the Sec- retary of the Board_ 7 Mrs. J. R." McAllister, Richmond Hill Post Office by submitting a self-addressed, stamped en- velope. The award to the designer of the selected crest will be made on the night of the off- icial opening. Entrants are asked not to write or print their names (or other identifying marks) on the front of their entries. Sim- plicity and clarity of design will be taken into considera- tion at the time of judging. School colours are green and white. ‘ pm. of September 14, 1951. Entries from a distance, post- marked September 14, will be admitted. \ ‘ . .Richmond Hill Distrlct High School Board is offering a $15 prize for a new crest, to incorporate symbollically all or part of the crests or seals of the four Municipalities composing the area, plus the present High School crest. The competition is open to all the present students of Richmond Hill District High School and to all ‘former stu- dents of R.H.H.S., who are not professional artists or engag- ed‘professionally in work has- ed on artistry and design. The contest is to close on September 14th and all en- tries must be submitted by that date. Completed designs may be left at the secretary’s office in the new wing until 4 New (rest For Richmond Hill District High School The final item of business for the evening was the calling of ten. ders to be in the hands of the clerk no later than September 4 for pain- ting the Municipal Hall. Members of the council heard reports that on occasion trucks have been obtsructing the side- walks while unloading. It was the concensus of opinion that this con- stituted a serious traffic hazard what with children returning to school shortly. After some dis- cussion council decided to have the solicitor draw up a by-law prohib- iting the obtsructing of sidewalks by trucks. In order to assist south bound motorists obey the traffic lights at the corner of Centre and Yonge Streets council decided to erect a white reflector roughly 3 feet square behind the lights. It was brought out that in numerous in- stances motorists new to the' dis- trict have inadvartently gone through the lights due, they claim- ed, to the large electric sign in the neighborhood. Last Monday evening’s meeting of the Richmond Hill Council was rathér quiet with a small volume of business to be transacted. Reeve William Neal was in the chair [with deputy reeve W. J. Taylor and councillor Wes. Middleton in at- tendance. Clerk Russell Lynett read a. let- ter' from the Orange Home re- questing permission of the council to hold a Tag Day in the village on September‘22. Permissmn for holding the Tag Day was granted. Constable Robbins reported to council that over the period of the past month there had been 65 traf- fic violations in the village includ- ing 31 apprehensions for speeding last Saturday. Council after some discussion de- cided to publish a notice in the press to the effect that anyone riding their bicycles on the side- walk will be liable to a penalty. It was suggested that youngsters who must use Yonge’ Street could walk with their bikes on the sidewalk. Deputy reeve Taylor brought up the matter of children riding bi- cycles on the sidewalks of the vill- age and said that in doing so they were endangering the safety of those people walking on the side- walk. Mr. Taylor felt that the by- law covering this matter of bicyc- les on sidewalks should either be enforced or repealed. Police Con- stable Robbins when questioned on the subject stated that he felt that actually where a busy thoroughfare like Yonge Street ws involved it would be safer to allow the child- ren to ride on the sidewalks. Although it’s small Too close a fit, You set your jaw And try for it. You wriggle forth, You wriggle back, Again you shift, Again attack. At last, fatigued, You win the bbut, And then the car Behind moves out. ‘ 1 -â€" William w. Pratt. 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