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2 THE LIBERAL, Richmond Hill, Thursday, Nov. 29, 1951 SAM COOK, Editor One of the pressing problems facing the citizens of any village situated next to a large city is whether to buy at home or in the city. This question is one that needs careful consideration by each citizen, for if a village is to keep its identity and remain a separate municipality then everyone must honestly attempt to make their pur- chases from local stores. And no one is making a sacrifice or taking a, loss when one considers that these purchases can be made right in the local community at currently popular prices. The village offers an up to date shopping sec- tion with stores that carry a wide selec-. “tion of merchandise. The x-ray method continues to be the only certain way of finding tuberculosis in its early stages and when it is m0st easily curable. Medical authorities now claim that in 999 chances out of 1,000 a person entering sanitorium with TB. in its early stages, will be able to return to normal life. It is true that remarkable ‘progress has already been made in fighting this dfiead disease. Ontario’s death rate is the lowest of any compagable population group Two factors, first the extensive ad- vertising campaigns that are put on by the larger Toronto stores, and secondly the fact that a certain number of residents of smaller places are employed in the City combine to create a temptation to buy in Thus perhaps it was with the excel- ent address given by Mr. Donald Gordon, prsident of the CNR, recently in the City of Toronto. Mr. Gordon’s purpose was to show that the railways of this country are not quite the cripples some people would suppose; that on the contrary they are moving more traffic than ever before, with less equipment than 20 years ago, and that, specifically, they are not to be held to blame for this year’s chronic difficulties in moving Western grain into export pos- itions. v Since last Christmas, funds raised through the sale of these Seals have en- a‘bled the National Sanitarium Association to give 217,000 free chest x-rays, the means of finding 415 unknown cases of tuberculosis. All of these people, includ- ing a. number of children, required immed- iate care in sanitorium. Finding these abnormalities early has proven a real blessing to all concerned for medical treatment was begun before the chest conditions became more serious. When a. prominent man makes a speech on an essentially serious subject, it frequently happens that the part which lingers longest in the memories of his aud- ience is not the one he was most anxious to emphasize but some little imaginative touch along the way. This was the kind of information which Mr. Gordon rightly stressed. But what his audience may have found most interesting about his speech was the bit in which he dipped into tansportation history and recalled what railway travel used to be like. Today, Mr. Gordon observed, pas- sengers expect to be actually more com- fortable in a railway coach than in their own homes, for there are few dwellings as yet which can enjoy a temperature in‘ In Richmond Hill and district, this 'Association conducted a free community x- ray survey in 1949 and again this year. Not a single case of active tuberculosis was discovered in Richmond Hill this year, although five people were found to have chest abnormalities of one kind and anoth- er. The 1949 survey found one case of active tuberculosis and 21 people with chest abnormalities. These colorful little Seals, this year featuring a jolly-faced Santa, mean pro- tection from tuberculosis to every home re- ceiving them. ' The preparation and printing of vot- ers’ lists in the recent election left much to be desired. There were altogether too many mistakes, and too many conscien- tious voters on reaching the polls found their names omitted in error. In many cases they still were able to vote, but this does not alter the fact that if the people’s money is spent to prepare a voters’ list, the work should be done in an efficient manner. In too many cases in the riding depu- ty-returning officers ,were uninformed as to their duties and the rovisi-ons of the election act. In SOme po ing divisions the election day officers were not ready to ac- The experience of many people in the recent provincial election emphasized the fact that there is much room for improve- ment in the working of our election mach- inery; The taking of the votes of the electors is important business. People are admon- ished on all sides to exercise their fran- chise. This is all to the good, but on the side of the government in office is the res- ponsibility for setting up efficient election machinery._ A Good citizens of 0ntario_who do their duty and go to the polls should not be sub- jected to the treatment received by many electors of North York in the recent elec- ‘tion. y'An Independent Weekly â€" Established 1878 Subscription Rate $2.50 per year; to the United States $3.00 5c Single Com Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association I. E. SMITH, M.P., Publisher Need More Efficiency At Polling Booth Rail Travel Was Pretty Luxurious Then . B. Christmas Seals Need Your Support ’ Tithe liberal Where Should I Buy? â€"- -â€"-----7 .-_._ ” AfiIE'fi'NA SMITH, Associate Editor Telephone, Richmond Hill 9 Yet figures mean little when compared to the emotional upheaval in any family group when one of its members has been found to need sanitorium care. What was railway travel like a cen- tury ago? Mr. Gordon produced a trav- eller's description: In cold weather a small stove is placed near the centre of the carriage the smokepipe of which passes out through the roof; and a good lamp is placed at each end for illuminating during the night. The vehicle is per- fectly lighted and warmed. The seats are cushioned; and their backs, con. sisting of a simple padded board, about six inches broad, are so sup- ported that the passenger may at his pleasure turn them either way, so as to turn his face or his back to the en- gine. For the convenience of ladies who travel unaccompanied by gentle- men, or who otherwise desire to be apart, a small room, apropriately furnished, is sometimes attached to the end of the carriage, admission to which is forbidden to gentlemen. They got pretty high class accommo- dation in those days. And apart from novelist Charles Dickens who. as Mr. Gor- don points out, complained of the jostling and din on his first North American train journey, they apprecated it, too. Toronto. Ho ver this Big City atmos- phere should e met by the realization that the small-town residents can actually save money by doing their shop- ping at home. Yes save â€" in many cases by reduced prices, and most certainly by reduced overhead. When buying in Toronâ€" to, the final cost of the article, the cost of transportation, any meals bought, plus other incidentals such as parking tickets, car troubles, etc., must be taken into con- sideration. On arriving home if the article purchased is not satisfactory then it must; be exchangedor money refunded. It is the duty of every elector to vote, but When the citizen does his duty by go- ing to the poll he should be met by an ef- ficient vote-taking organization. He is en- titled to be provided with a voting place c-onvenientlY'located in his sub-division. He is entitled to be met by election officers well informed in election proceedings and well schooled in their duties. One of the more recently discovvred cases was that of a young truck driver in his early 30’s. He went along with his pals at noon one day to have a. chest check- up, then promptly forgot all about it. No one was more surprised than he when his doctor called him in one day to say he must enter sanitorium at once. And this story does not end there. The young man’s contacts were immediately xâ€" rayed with most unhappy results. He had been making his home with his brother and his brother’s, y-qung family. X-rays un- covered tuberculosis in the wife and also moderately advanced in their three-year- old daughter. A 10-year-old son escaped it. It will never be known where it came from, or who was the first to have it. Let us develop a true community spirit by buying from our local merchants in our respective communities, and they in turn will help the consumer by passing on any savings in price. Remember Shopping in the home town can be done always with a minimum of fuss and worry. the seventies while outside the thermom- eter ELay be touching 100 degrees of heat. We appreciate the time element in th‘e matter of conducting an election, and we make full allowance for human error and exceptional circumstances. However af- ter making full allowance in this regard we must point out that in the recent election there was a lamentable lack of efficiency in the voteâ€"taking machinery. The polling booth is at the very found- ation of our democracy. Carelessness and inefficiency must not be allowed to threat. en its effective place in our national life. in the world. Yet last year tuberculosis took the lives of 3,582 Canadians, and doc- tors estimate there are 40,000 unknown cases spreading infection to others. Doctors claim there is reasonable hope that with the best of care in saniborium, and probably with the help of some of the new drugs, like streptomycin and P.A.S., this little family circle will be re-united be- fore too long. So when you buy T. B. Christmas Seals you buy protection for yourself and your family â€" protection against those who may spread tuberculosis without themselves knowing that they have it. Polling places in many sub-divisions were altogether unsatisfactory and fell far short of meeting the requirements. In many cases the secrecy of the ballot was open to question due to improper arrange- ment of the voting place. In some places voters had to line up outside While await- ing their turn to vote, so inadequate was the accommodation. cept votes until long past the official open- ing hour. At the beginning of the Thir- teenth Century, Wallace was a courageous rebel and leader of his people against what he firmly be- lieved was English oppression. He was almost a giant in body with a giant’s strength. He knew how to inspire the men of day with courage and determination and to gain their loyalty. The reigning English king was Edward the First and Wallace was his deadliest foe. Even his enem- ies acknowledged his sincerity and daring and as he gained victory over his better fed and trained enemies, there see'med to be a ma- 1- mmmmmuwuuumlmmmnmmnumnmmnmxwum TODAY’S QUOTATION 2 Our quotation today is by Dwight L. Moody: “If I take care of my character,= \ummmlm “H a . -- - ._ . .. d-MMNWMMMRMHWMWW“W g How he came to his end is still something of a mystery but at the age of thirty-three he seems to have been betrayed to the English who had money to bribe men and so in Westminster Hall on August 23, 1305, the fearless leader of his people was tried and condemn. ed to death. He was taken to London Tower and then past jeer- ing crowds to the elms at Smith- field where he was hanged. After- wards his head was put on a pole as a, writer of that day said: “He was in sight of both land and wat- er travellers.” ‘ And now, after nearly six ‘hun- dred and fifty years, on the same spot where he was tried and sen- tenced, the English have unveiled a. tablet to his memory and ex- pressed respect and admiration. The old enmities hnve completely “SCOTS WHA HAE‘ Not long ago the English did a characteristic thing; they unveiled in Westminster Hall a fine monu- ment to the memory of the Scottish patriot, Sir William Wallace Out- standing statesmen and other nat- ional leaders gathered in the hall where Wallace was tried and sen- tenced to death, and all did him reverence. The second point of interest is Gen. Romulo’s conviction that the United States of Americavand the American way of life are the sup- eriors of the world today. And this is rather odd because, in some of the book’s best passages, where the fine journalist leaves the second~ rate novelits behind, the author de- picts the American way of life in, shall we say, some of its less at- tractive aspects. One might al- most: say that struggling to unite the whole world behind America, he presents to the world precious few reasons for desiring to be united under the American banner. But it is possible that Gen. Rom- ulo aimed the book at a particular audience, the audience of the com- mon American, politically illiterate by nature rather than reasoned con- viction, somewhat isolatiOnist, and whose main object in life is to own a. home rather better than one own- ed by his immediate compeers -â€" in brief to keep up with and pref- erably a little ahead of, the Jones- es. By Carlos P. Romulo The chief interest of this novel is its author, Gen. Carlos Romulo, Phillipines’ Secretary of Foreign Affairs, and chief of the Phillippine mission to the United Nations. The man is of great importance, the no- vel,‘apart from the man, of very little. The interest, therefore, centres on his description of the United Nations, and on the~author’s de- claration of faith in that body, a faith that is implicit in every word of the book, and is explicitly stated by his hero. Ringing answers are given to the usual sneers at the U.N. It is to be expected that a Filip- ino gentleman whose education was polished at Columbia University and who has received a Princeton‘- ian honor, should look upon Amer- ica with something of hero-worship and perhaps be unable to see that his own description of the country would appear decidedly damning to a. European. The [hero is the son of a, Wall Street money-bags who has begun to feel doubts as to the importanc. of hiswfather’s way of life, after returning from the Second World War and a wide amount of travel after the war through the ruined lands of the world. He finds him- self inveigled into the United Na- tions at Lake Success and the rest of the story of his struggles with himself as a worker for the U. N. and his love life. gic about the man. “The United” is, in fact, a very poor novel indeed, obviously con- trived by a man who is no creative writer, though he is, as he has proved himself to be in the past, a journalist of considerable distinc- tion. Such a. book may be expected to have considerable popular appeal, it is readable .nd is based on the life that everyone knows of through the reading of any current Ameri- can novel. The‘ man, in fact, is a typical well-bred young American, with plenty of money and the social! background that only Princeton or Harvard can produce. Yet trifling though the book may "Literally Speaking” . . . About BOOkS “THE UNITED" be, and singularly unimportant as a piece of literature, the sincerity of the author, his sure faith that the United Nations is the one way in which mankind can be saved, re- deems it from utter commonplace- ness. ’ ‘ ’ ‘ If there had been 9. Who’s Who printed in Palestine twenty cen- turies ago, what a list‘of suppos- edly distinguished persons would have been mentioned about whom absolutely nothing is known today; political leaders, ecclesiastics, and scores of the socially prominent would have found a place but Jesus â€" would he have been noticed? ~ we know he would not. Time has altered the view of Jesus held by most of his day. In case ya. too, have forgotten, the 13th century was that remark- able hundred years which was pack. ed with such historic events as the signing of Magna. Carta, the first steps in parliamentary government, the building of many of the great churches and abbeys, the awaken- ing of English folk music, the first important development of the Roy- al Navy and so on and so on. died out â€" if only Wallace could come back and read what is on that monument and if he could have heard the glowing tributes to his memory. That was a very penetrating thing Jesus said: “Many that are first shall \be last and the last, first.” That has been called the reversal of human judgment and time has a way of completely al- ternating judgments. In a letter to the Christians at Corinth the Apostle Paul refers to the public triumphs accorded great conquerors in the streets of Rome. His readers would appreciate that illustration. Perhaps some had witnessed such pageants of pomp and splendour. Paul, with a. thor- oughly Christian sense of values, wrote “He makes life a constant pageant of triumph.” At first reading these words seem preposterous. He limped along the roads a prisoner whereas these nat- ional idols rode in chariots. While they received extravagant praise he was regarded with ill-concealed scorn. Often he had been stoned and on more than one occasion left for dead. He had been lashed by the Jews and severely beaten by the Romans; three times he had been ship-“Tecked; adrift at sea for a whole day and night; he had suffered intense hunger and thirst. Even a partial list of his hardships makef one wonder how one man could endure so much. Yet he re- fers to it all as a pageant of tri- umph. What happened to Jesus and Paul and William Wallace is dra- matic and thought provoking. Af- ter all a man is just what God sees him to be; Whatever the judgment of men may be. ‘THE MAGNIFICENT CENTURY' By Thomas B. Costain Mr. Costain has selected an apt title for the second book in his The Pageant of England series. The 13th century somehow was not im- pressed on this reviewer by his tea- chers as out of the ordinary. After reading of its magnificence at the hands of this master story-teller one is tempted to go digging into the wealth of references Mr. Cos- tain gives in his bibliography. He makes the century live in all its robustness of mind and spirit but he also makes the reader want to know this golden age even more in- timately. 0f even more interest now is the delineation of the character of the people of England during that period as a people. Mr. Costain makes it fairly easy to un- derstand what has come afterwards â€" how the parliamentary system could achieve such perfection as to become the greatest single gift of England to free nations, how Eng- land, could in time develop into a great imperial pow'er with a gen- ius for government, how the Re. formation cr""‘ lie/“‘0 effective three hundred years later. Mr. woman“ W“. l- .nstory, of course, but it is offered with such color and drama that it is hard to put it aside. It’s too long a. book for one sitting but the temptation is to keep at it and once you reach the end you’re likely to want to begin on the next when it appears. Although Mr. Costain has gone into considerable detail to cover ev- ery aspect of development during the 13th century, his book is large- ly concerned with personalities and it is with personalities that Mr. Costain is happiest. He tells of ad- vances in medicine and hospital science but he tells more about the great people who made the advan- ces and set the pattern for future progress. He tells something or. the thinking of the time but he tells more of the great Franciscan thin- ker, Duns Scotus, who was the closest rival to the contemporary Thomas Aquinas. He tells of chiv. alry but he makes chivalry live in such noble knights as William the Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, popu~ larly known as the Good Knight. He tells of the first steps in Eng- lish democracy but he displays Si- mon de Montfort in all his great- ness. Although Henry III was not one of England’s great kings his long reign from 1216 to 1272 covered most of that century and he was a party to nearly all the event- which made it great. One stormy night my girl friend and I were coming home from a Hallowe’en party which was given to all school children. En route to the party we had to go through a treacherous field. In our mood we fancied wierd objects growing from trees or grotesque figures reaching out to us. Yet in spite we eventu- ally reached the location of our party. It was a haunted house. Wheth~ er this was real or imaginary is of no consequence. My friend Barb being the bolder suggested that we enter immediately though I held back. I would have much preferr- ed to wait until the rest of the children arrived. Barb scoffed at my timidity. She was always so sure of herself and her courage did not let her down now. She reach- ed for my hand and dragged me along as we pressed through a squeaking door into da'rkness. “You silly girl,” she whispered, “there are no ghosts. It isn’t scientific.” In the darkness we brushed ag- ainst dusty cobwebs and crept stealthin over the squeaking floors. Suddenly a draft of wind brought a cool hush into the lurking dark- ness. Somewhere a. door slammed. Barb and I froze in our tracks as a white, veiled figure flitted up and down the wall. It paused seem- ingly in mid-air and then drifted from us as mysteriously as it came. We went no further. We did not stop to investigate. We simply turned and fled. After what seem- ed breathless hours of flight we paused to gain back our senses. By this time Barb lhad regained her self-composure. “Now,” I asked, “do you believe in ghosts?" Barb looked at me a. moment, shrugged her shoulders and retorted, “Cer- tainly not, it isn’t scientific." At the regular meeting of the Richmond Hill Branch No. 375 Canadian Legion on November 13, Comrade George C. Kerry, Veteran of World War I was sworn in as a new member and was warmly re- ceived. World War I Veteran Comrade Dickenson of Edgar Ave., Riohvale, is again a patient in Sunnybtook Hospital. Best wishes for a spee- dy recovery. Information of any sick veteran and family who} may be in distress would be greatly ap- preciated and will avoid delay in attention by notifying the chair- man of the “Poppy Trust Fund” Comrade Grant Titshall, May Ave. or the secretary at 259 Oak Ave, Richvale. Great progress has been made in the construction of the new Legion Memorial Hall, Carr'n’lle Road, west of Yonge Street. Credit is due to the faithful and loyal members who have put forward so much effort and time. The next regular meeting of the Branch, No. 37-5, will be of the greatest importance and interest to its members and to the future of the Branch when nomination ot officers will :be on the order sheet. It will be held in the new Legion Hall. More particulars will be made available ‘hltrough the Com- ing Events Column of The Liberal. Don’t forget the bake sale in the new Legion Hall, Carrville Rozd on December 8, at 2 p.m., under the auspices of the Ladies' Auxila iary 37-5 in aid of the buil‘lmg fund. TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS Take notice'that all persons hav- ing claims against the Estate of WILLIAM S. SCOTT, late of the Township of Vaughan, in the Coun- ty of York, farmer, who died on or about the 18th day of June, 1951, are required to send details of the same together with due proof thereof to - the undersigned Executor on or before the 6th day of December, 1951. After that date, the Executor will proceed to distribute the assets among the parties entitled thereto having re- gard only to such claims of which he shall then have notice. Dated at Richmond Hill this 6th day of November, 1951. J. Roy Herrington Executor to the Will of William S. Scott, deceased. Yonge St., Richmond Hill The third instalment of the current year’s taxes is due on Pay promptly and avoid the penalty which must be added after DICHVALE PUBLIC SCHOOL Village Treasurer Richmond Hill, Nov. 8, 1951. THE LEGIONNAIRES Branch 375 Canadian Legion, B.E.S.L Richmond Hill November 15 â€" Louvaine Wood, Grade 8 NOTICE December 5 TAXES GHOST STORY R. LYNE'I'I‘ “When Your Smiling” Please Note: ‘When You’re Smiling’ will be shown only at 8.30 pm. both Thursday and Friday nights r17. Richmond Telephone Richmond Hill 500 Friday & Saturday â€"â€"- Nov. 30 & Dec. 1 ALAN lADD’s blasting gun splits the West ‘ wide open... Thursday & Friday â€" December 6 & 7 EY‘VE 601' R50 SEND, 1H Ne ON HIS H640.” I l FEDS a,“ a: m Mon., Tues., Wed. â€" Dec. 3, 4, 5 Colwa Plus Technicolor