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It was very gratifying to see the chairman's annual report to ’lhe York Central Districtvmgh School Board,‘ appear so com- Plstely in “3e Liberal? __ ‘ Undoubtedly publiShing this re- port will be of interest to many ratepayers to whom this board is not familiar. That our area covers some 150 square miles, i.e., all of Vaughan Township, part of Mark- ham Township, the Village of Woodbridge and the ' Town' of Richmond Hill, is some indication of- the responsibilities that be- long to this 13-member board. All members are appointe , thrEe each from Vaughan, arkhem and Richmond Fill, and one each from Woodbridge, York County, the Public School Board having the largest pupil registration, and one from the Separate Schoo Board on the same basis. ~ Towards 'the end of the report, a‘ phrase appears,’ “At present, the trend set in the Metro area dbes not affect the salaries through most, if not all of the province." The word “not” crept in there, because the intent of this sentence was to indicate that the salaries in the Metro area most certainly do hgve an effeet. Dear Mr. Editbri Once again, thankk for publish- !ng this report, and for your cov- erage of our meetings throughout the year. It is' through “The Lib- era " that our ratepayers are kept up-to-date on the activities of this Board. ‘ With season’s greetings, Sincerely, _ HARRY W. R. SAYERS. Chairman (1958) York Central District High School Board. May I through the courtesy of your paper thank the local bus drIVer who gave my daughter and her chum ten cents each, to phone their fathers to come and pick them up at the Bayview Plaza. They had gone there, with their dogs (heaven knows why) to' do their Christmas 5110 pin and apparently became con use about the return trip by bus; I was not home at the time but when .I arrived I was told she had been gone 2% hours. I was pretty worried then I heard her voice on the phone, and I knew Dear Mr. Editor: | 342- ' THE LIBERAL, Richmbnd Hill, Ontario, Thursday, January 3, 1959 Penmanship --_,A Forgoilen Ari? Delegates to the Handwriting Foundation in Chicago were told re- cently that good handwriting â€" or" cal- ligraphy â€" has fallen into disuse. We remember our days in imblic and‘high SChOOI when penma'nshif was a “Subject”, not to be dealt with l ghtly but almost an extension of the art'les~ son, so artistically did we execute thoae swirls, and miniature cone-like tornaâ€" does and the zigâ€"zag â€"- there was an exercise which taxed finger and arm muscles as we strpve to keep the zigs in line with the 21133. And, what is anybody doihg about it? Nothing. , .Very few people bother to write let- tet‘a by hand anymore, eVen‘Mother and the children struggle with "the typewriL ter, rather than “take pen ih hand” as in the good old' days. ‘ ‘ That’s not too much to ask, is it? Just for today, the day On which you read that short seven-word sentence. That’s all you need to do -â€" just read it and keep the resolution that day. away, unless ‘ your 1960 model has But what can one expect? We are now in the automatic age, when every- , I HEREBY RESOLVE TO DRIVE CAREFULLY TODAY . . . . . To get the best out of the resolu- tion, copy it on a card 0r paint it on your garage wall in letters large enough for you to read at least twelve feet How; is your calligi-aphy? Loose and poorly formed, or artistic and beau- tiful?â€" “Dear Mr; Editor” “of Tomorrow â€" Just 'I'odoy 4v2613 . i 177 Lennox Avenue Tribute to Bus Driven Chairman Expreuel Appreciation / MOVING , PACKING An Independent Weeky: Established 1878 '\â€"-â€"-/ Subscription Rate $3.50 per year; to United States $4.00;_10c single copy Member Audit Bureau of Circulations ' Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association J. E. SMITH, Publisher W. S. COOK. Managing Editox; Telephone TUrner 4-1105 63 starlight Crescent, _Richmond Hill, Ont. For Prompt Coutwis Service Call 'Authorized as seéond Class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa“ Ebé lihbtal What‘s all this fuss about Civil Defence? Surely people in the munictpalities don’t want to add to the already burdened taxpay- ers something ,that should be solely the responsibility of the federal government. If in their wisdom they think it necessary they should pay for it, Dear Mr. Editor: If some people had their way Richmond Hill ratepayers would have been paying taxes for civil defence for the last fifteen years for nothing. ‘ Some members of councjl gut a stop lo that. While I’m about it, I’d like to pay a tribute to\ the bus drivers who drive to Toronto from Rich- mond Hill. How they keep their patience is beyond me. No mat- ter how rough the trip they ai- ways have a cheery smile and a pleasant word. May they all have an extra special Happy New Year. she was alright. I’d like the bus driver to know his kindness was appgegiated. t I think we need a little more faith, or rather a lot more. We need more faith in the Great Creator who made the world. Surely He Won’t allow man to de- stroy His handiwork. If people are getting afraid they are foolish because What is to be will be. If we’re not l. :re we will be thereâ€"- wherever “there” is. I don’t want to take up more space in your paper but I sure could. Good‘ griefâ€". I am sure many suburban dwel- lers were interested in the article in a recent Chatelaine by Dr. MacLeod, charging that some types of suburban living are hav- ing a damaging effect ufion the mental health of Canadians. Dear Mr. Editor: Dr. MacLeod cited 'as one of the major faults of the ‘suburbs the blurring between the roles of the sexes that has resulted from men being away from ten to twelve hours every day. The suburbs, he felt. were matriarch~ ies"“where women cannot be fem- inine because expediency de- mands that they control the finan- ces and fix the drains, and where night-returning men cannot be LOCAL AND LONG DISTANCE MOVING DAILY SERVICE TORONTO AND AREA 01! Civil Defence â€" Suburbia -- Sincerely. Dorothy Lee 421 S. Fernleigh Circle Richmond Hill. Ont. STORAGE WES MIDDLETON Recently, following a death in the family, a letter was received by a rela- tive â€"â€" it was written ‘by hand. I think that of all the messages the bereaved family, received, that letter touched their hearts the most.- For you see, with'the handwritten message, game a personal Contact with the past and the present. It bespoke thoughfulness and it was a living message, not aneuto- matic gesture. Naturally with. the telephone so close at hand, one should make the most of its convenience, but shouldn’t we get back to that personal touch â€" and try to make the mest of-the greatest inven< tion to promote handvériting in this cen- tury, the ballpoint pen !‘ ' Don’t Worry about your driving to- morrow â€" just today, because tomorrow (mahana) never comes but you’ve got today righton your hands. x ' grown a foot or 50 longer. Be.» sure the letterirfg- is placed just where you will- see it as you start. the car each day. “ thing, including" the dish-washing,‘~- is done automatically â€" so why not com- municate with automatic ease too.‘There are greeting cards for every occasion, “Sorry I haven’t written’.’, “Whydon’t I see‘ you anymore’, “Get Well Soon”, “Happy Birthday” and even cards of sympathy have taken over the field of communication to those in sorrow. And if from that moment on, you drive with good care, there may be one figurelower on the debit side of Cah- ada’s vital statistics. VI was interested in a letter in your recent issue suggesting all municipal elections be held on the same day. I think it is an excel- lent suggestion, and one which should have the consideration of the Ontario Legislature Commit- tee studying the problem of small municipal votes. - At present municipal elections in the County are like a crazy quilt pattern, extending from ear- ly December to January and on different days 70f theAweek. Truly the récord of the last vote was no credit to democracy. Personally I vote in every elec- tion and never have missed since I was 21. ' masculine because their tradition- al function of ruler and protector hadibeen usurped." - There may be many _causes of the conditions the writer de- plored, and it may be our educa- tional system, it may be our gen- eral way of life but it certainly is not suburban living. I have‘lived in the suburbs now for nearly three years and we have never been so happy. The thousands of happy homes are the best argu- ment for suburban living, 7 Dear Mr. Editor Make a fixed date for all mun- icipal elections and it will be a move in the right direction. It will create more widespread in- terest and my bet is there will be a better turn-out. anywhere in the district from 12 noon to midnight.‘ Enjoy a delicious meal, piping hot, in your own home. We cater to Banquets. wed. ding Parties, business Esther- inzs or special events of any kind. For table and banguet reservations Telephone VAV. » 5-4308 ( bum-0-9.0.0.»- Yangtze Pagoda Restaurant \ I‘ North of Z Richmond Hill on giggly/3y ' 0. ' fl Delicious " Canadian ‘3 Food Also Served TAKE OUT ORDERS, FREE DELIVERY Favors Fixed Date Municipal Vote LANGSTAFF READER We are open on Christmas and New Year’s Day. ’Phone your res- ervation now for Christmas Dinner Exclusive Comfortable Dining Rooms, Seating 300 People GANADA’S FINEST CHINESE CUISINE SUBURBANITE. A Weekly Comment 011 Christian Life And Action â€". By Calvin H. Chanibers â€" ‘Perhaps one of the sublime statements to be found in the Bible is Genesis 1:1, “In, the Be- ginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Here we are con- fronted by the reality which un- derlies everything. As we enter a New Year, it is important for us to come to grips with the God who created all things and who sustains us at this very mo- ment. This majestic statement sets before us three paramount truths which we do well to con- sider. ' book to ,prove the existe ce. of God. Inl’fact It isn't eve _inter- ested in such academic questions. It assumes the existence of God without any doubt or question. The writers of the Bible knew tl‘nt even after you have present- ed all the scientific and philoso- phic reasons for believing in God, you still have not defineq God. Our minds stage": before the mystery of God. Wilbur Smith in his book, “Therefore Stand," Writes. “If God exists, He must exist from all eternity. Whatever number of millions upon millions of years we‘ can imagine before the cneatlon of the world, God was infinitely before they: gill.” “The best proof of God’s ex- istence,” writes William Sullivan, “is.what follows when men deny Him." This is so true. Faith in God is not a matter of argument, because God canndt be proved or disproved by argument. It is only when men deny God in prac- tice. as well as in theory, that life becomes a nightmare of in- sanity. Refusal to come to grips with the Living God means that men inevitably embark upon a cours‘é of life which leads to ut- ter destruction. “It is the fool,” the psalmist reminds us, “who says in his heart there is no God.” > How God created all things, is not a question that we can fully understand. Modern science un- animously confesses that it can tell .us nothing about the origin of the world in which we live, or of the interesting thing we call life. T. H. Huxley, the famous scientist acknowledged “It ap- pears to me that the scientific invertigator is wholly incompe- tent to say anything about the or- igin of the world." Ernest Heack- 1y admits the same thing when he writes, “The process of creation is completely beyond human com- prehension and can therefore never become a subject of scien- tific inquiry." But Genesis 1:1 still has some- thing more to say to us. ‘This declaration challenges us to be- lieve that God is Lord of all. He made the heavens and the earth. All the vast and glorious galaxies of our universe, with it’s sun, planets, satellites, comets, all sweeping on in their appointed courses, are upheld by the pow- erful will of God. The earth with its beauty and wonder, mankind with its abilities, talents, life in all its complexity, is upheld. by God. This God who set all things in motion is still active. He has not left the universe to tick away like a self r perpetuating 'alarm clock. God is Lord, and therefore He is still in control of His unie verse. The tragedy of human sin is that it tries to usurp this pow- er of God. The good world which God made has been man handled. But God has let loose in" Jesus Christ a new power of love which is able to, restore man to original fellowship with Himself. When His power is let loose into 'life, we find the highest fulfilment in sur- rendering our lives to Him andâ€" asking Him to give us grace to fit into the plan and purpOse which- He has for us. « But the human heart longs for something more than just the knowledge that there is a God. We want to know God. Hene is where the Bible’s message con- cerning God is so important It tells us that the God of creation, is the God of love. We know this is true, because “in the be- ginning God created.” Love is es- sentially creative. A person Who paints a lovely picture or com- poses a beautiful piece of music loves to create. This is one of the. reasons why we believe that God is love. Belief in creation, is fundamen- tally an act of faith. The writer of the book of Hebrews says. “By faith we understand that the worlds were formed by the word of God." God is love and His great love led Him to create all things. Love is the‘most crea- tive and therefore the most p’ow- erful thing in the world. It is mysterious. It goes beyond hu- man analysis. And as we stand before the mystery of the created order, it is Christian faith which accepts the fact that God is love, because Love is creative. OFFICE MACHINES L. H. SIMS DEALER â€" TU. 4‘1745 -â€"'- 88 Baker Ave., Richmond Hill SALES - SERVICE - RENTALS Special Student Rates Typewriters . Addinx Machines All popular makes 0!; hand See Portable modefs at ‘Wight’s Pharmacy 28 Yonge St. S. or . Call TU.‘ 4-1745 day or night 'Xoutjilrocal typewriter specialiqt’ God is. The Bible is not a text ‘ and Faith Facts There was a lovely fire going under a large barge- shaped Vessel. that reminded me of coastal clam-bake equipment, but it was only heating'sand to get the frost , out of it. Skeletal steel supports looking like an only- just-begun elevator shaft will be the centre support for the pre-cast slabs and roof. (We are going to have a two 'storey, building with a few steps up from the entry or a few down, as in tfie new part of the muni‘eipal‘ball.) So at the end of the year when the bells have“car- olled forth, and the whistles haVe blown; the sirens shrieked and the streamers and noisemake'rs whoopeed in the new year, we can‘pause,.-turn and look back at our town and what it has gained (or lost) in the 'past twelve month period. In a' short while numerous statistics and facts and figures will be officially issued,‘ but now, at this moment we can see in brick or stone or cement some of the assets the townerhas acquired in this now-goneAyear. . by Cicely Thomson I Always, when we ‘cbme to the end of. something, we pause, turn and look back' for‘a moment before mov- ing ahead into anotheriphase'. , y ' " Although begun in March it wasn’t until .the hot suns of late spring turned our eyes Skyward that we first noticed- the new water tower. While ourr gardens parched in the Unseasonally dry June, like an orange rocket-missile, the giant structure first appeared to give us. promise of eriough-water-to-go-round for. the next years. Built by the Bridge and Tank Company of Ham- ilton, of welded steel, the tank rises 130. feet into the air, and will hold half a million 'gallbns. Letters “RICHMOND HILL’,’ to face northeast and sOuthWest will be six feet high. 7 _ t. A little further scuth on' Pugsley we see .that'wev have at least doubled the size of our sewage disposal plant. Now all that it needs is some attractive frills in the form of good landscaping to make it a thing of beau- ty to go along with it being a joy forever. The subdivis- ions of East and West Elmwood and Harding Boulevard spent most of the autumn finding‘mut that the comfort of modern disposal cannot be had‘without a certain “am- ount of anguish in: the creative process that made them “full mernbers” of the town that has (sewers. _ “ W111 MC BAA LUUU 111511. on Pugsley Avenue the works department now has a practical ‘cem‘ent block buildingineat unpretentious office in the north end, garage space in the south end. In the yard piles of salt and sand for the roads inside the chainlink ‘faence. (At present you drive around the end of the fence, bypassing the gate . . , for. seme reason reminding me. of the gates the Chinese used to erect where guardian china dogs kept the“ evil spirits ‘from entering . . . only you went through the Chinese gate -. . .rthey had no fence): _ > We alsofhave modernized at least'one street, remov- ed the dirt shoulder and high crown so that the portion of Centre street (whose residents also suffered during the process) from Yonge eastward toward the tracks is like a real 'city street ! . . paved right to the side- walk, and new sidewalkmn both sides too! ‘(The weather didn’t co-operate long enough to let the final coat go on, but look at the nice rounded cornerewhere it meets Church Street) .‘ 7 . _ r In schools, we have accomplished a very consider- able addition to the high School, complete with a. very much needed second gymnasium, tw‘o Grade IX science laboratOries, another shop and ten standard classrooms. We‘have'also seen the completion of the Crosb’y school, which, although the children were admitted shortly be- fore Christmas, will not have its official opening until early in February. This fifth public school has 12 class- rooms and a gymnasium auditorium. (On paper and soon to be started are additions for the Walter Scott and Beverley Acres schools)._ We have made a beginning in our park land devel- opment, with a very thorough and hard-working com- mittee this past year. While the Mill Pond area is’ still in the investigation stage (in spite of the i‘now or never” attitude expressed by the conservation representatives a the initial public meeting) we have acquired an ad- ditional area to the northof’the arena park, for Vrecre- ational purposes, with the land immediately to the west of the bowling green allocated for a tennis club, which, thanks to the generosity of the lawn bowling club, will be able to share the'club house privileges. _ Braver poking poured cement walls four or more feet out of the ground into the'frosty air is the new lib- rary building, just to the west of the municipal hall. Piles of orange colored I-beams, stacks of window frames, blanketed piles of;the yellow brick which is to form most of the outside wall were also coverletted by patchy snow the day I prowled around and talked to Sid Ashby the superintendent for W. J. Lee. Also on the lot that day was Les Sargent who lives in Richmond Hill and has been in charge of the renovation of Casa Loma (in Toronto). He will be in charge of the stone and brick work. But the other interesting thing about the library is not therbuilding at all, but the new chief librarian who will be coming here the end of February or the be- ginning of March. Originally from Kitchener, Frederâ€" ick Israel is at present working in the government lib- rary in Ottawa, having taken his library course at the University of Toronto where he came in contact with- Miss Katherine Ball. He is planning to bring his family here to live. . . .~ We may turn and look back as we pause on the brink of the yefir, but the clock moves at an inexorable, unslowing paceymaking no man-made concessions to the beginning andiendjng of Aany period. ‘ f All best wishes to our town fathers for their en- deavors in 1959; may they keep their eyes lifted to a horizon of ten or twenty years ahead in any of the major undertakings that come before them. In this past definable year these are some of the things that the town has completed that will be its permanent assets and possessions, Others, such as the addition to the arena, are moving from the discussion stage into the drawing stage, while even newer plans such as the swimming pool are only in the initial talk- ing-over stage. IN BEVERLEY ACRES Radios « Midmer’s School of ~ _ American TAP DANCING Classes" for all ages; Any evening suitable. For information phone TU. 4-5496 or contact 247 Browndale Crescent JOHN'S T.V. Om? 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