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6' Mrs. Jean Milne Watson, new presi- dent of the Ontario Educational Associa- tion â€"- the biggest school organization in Canada â€" with jurisdiction over more than 100,000 teachers, school trustees, in- spectors and professors, says, “Things are made too easy for children today. It doesn’t help their growth. Hard work and sacrifice strengthens character.” She says parents should extend their duties and responsibilities to their children so that teachers could spend more time on the essentials. She affirms that “as a mo- Are today’s parents allowing more and more of their duties as parents to fall on the shoulders of our teaching staff -â€"- thereby making our children ‘soft’ and robbing us of responsibilities that should promote closer family relations? Mrs. Jean Milne Watson, new presi- dent of the Ontario Educational Associa- tion â€" the biggest school organization in Canada â€" with jurisdiction over more than 100,000 teachers, school trustees, in- spectors and professors, says, “Things are made too easy for children today. It can still remember the almost thrilling horror of that first parent-guided excur- sion â€" when each of our children (as they came of age) was sent off on their own two little feet with many parental admon- itions to purchase a loaf of bread â€" on initiation day into the big wide world. We recall the minutes, that seemed like hours, before the now-important-toâ€"him- self youngster toddled home clutching a squeezed-in loaf â€" but with pride and a new-look apparent in his face and bearing after he had made his first store purchase ther my duty is to teach my child how to conduct himself socially â€"- in my home.” . ‘ Referring to her own school days in ScOtland when her parents drilled into their five children, “the main objective is to get a good education,” she pointed out that “where we concentrated on at ithmetic and spelling they take somethin called nature study. Grade 7 and 8 stu dents are taught how to write cheques. In Grade 4 social studies they’re taught how to goto the store.” to goto the store.” Going to the store -â€" surely that’s not being taught in school? For we can't im- agine any child not having learned that lesson before he entered kindergarten. We In 1959, he will send her greeting card or flowers â€" or both. But the R0- mans also had a way of showing the reverence in which they held mother. Each year they held a festival in honor of Hilaria, the Mother-Goddess. In Mexico, more than 1,000 years ago, the Nahuan Indians held flower festivals for Chicomehuatl, the Earth Mother Goddess. The people of Asia Minor also had a mother goddess â€"- Rhea â€" and set aside a day for her. “Early 17th century Enéland devel- oped the practice of “going a mother- ing". This custom saw boys and girls, sun.” us“... Most of us will agree this isn’t completely true, but it does seem to hold for many of the customs we ob- serve. Take Mother’s Day ( Sunday , May 10) for instance. The name applied to the day itself may be relatively new â€"- 45 years in Canada and the U.S. â€" but its meaning goes back into man’s dim past. _ -‘ - - I 1 , 34,, According to facts, man has for centuries shown his esteem for mother in one way or another. One old saying we’ve all heard is that, “there’s nothing new under the THE LIBERAL, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Thursday, BNS people are friendly people -â€" get to/know them at any of these branches. Richmond Hill, R. W. Chandler, Manager; Aurora, J. K. Cousms. Manager; Oak Ridges, W. W, B. Thompson. Manager; Thornhill, W. E. Judges, Manager. Education And Hard Work The BANK of NOVA SCOTIA An Independent Weekly: Established 1878 ’Fâ€"J Subscription Rate $3.50 per year; to United States $4.00; 10: single copy Memher Audit Bureau of Circulations Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association J. E. SMITH, Publisher W. S. COOK, Managing Editor MONA ROBERTSON, Associate Editor “Authorized as second class mail. Post Office Department. Ottawa” Keeping track of your money? Nickels and dimes that slip away unnoticed can wreck a budget in a hurry. The best way to keep track of your expenses is to separate bill- paying money from spending money and sav- ings. And you can do this easily with a Bank of MONEY PROBLEMS? SOLVE THEM wum A Origin Of Mothers' Day More than 500 branches across Canada - London, New York, Chicago, Oh. Cafibboan. Don’t let your money run away from youâ€"open a BN5 Personal Chequing Account (Eb: liberal . . _. for himself. If parents havé turned that duty over to our teachers, we are lost indeed. Mrs .Watson believes in what is tel-m- ed the Scot’s faith, “Education and Hard Work,” when she says, “It’s time a weal- thy country like Canada laid greater em- phasis on education, trimmed some of the fat out of school curriculums and taught its children to work harder.” 'The mother of three children, the old- est at 24 a mining engineer; a 22-yearâ€"old daughter a teacher, and with a 13-year- old daughter in the first year of high school, Mrs. Watson should knew where- of she speaks. We look forward to hearing more from Mrs. Watson on this subject and will be interested in learning just how she will influence educational sources in Ontario at least, where, she maintains, more and more unnecessary subjects are creeping into school curriculums. Because many of the youngsters had to walk great distances to get home, churches often opened their doors to feed them. At home, the young travel- ers would preseat their mothers with gifts of violets and cakes. .up. -n .‘ o In Canada and the U.S., Mother’s Day was instituted as a result of the efforts of a Philadelphia Sunday school teacher, Miss Anna M. Jarvis. She ur- ged that people somehow show their es« teem for their mothers and held a mem- orial service for her own mother in a Methodist Church. working away from home, going home to spend “Mothering Sunday” â€" still celebrated in many parts of England â€"â€" with their families. The practice soon spread into Can- ada. And in 1920. Canadian newspapers reported that the day was being widely observed in many sections of the coun- try. Mother’s Day now is celebrated cOast to coast. It didn’t take long for the idea to catch on. And in 1914, President Wilson made it official in the US. He signed a Congressional resolution designating the second Sunday of each May, “Moth- er’s Day.” Nova Scotia Personal Chequing Account. A Personal Chequing Acaount is just one of the many ways The Bank of Nova Scotia can be of service to you. Why not drop in at your neighbourhood BN5 branch today? LOAN May 7, 1959 luncuunqm A Weekly Comment 011 Christian Life And Action â€" By Calvin 1]. Chamber: â€"- THE CHURCH What is the Church? This may seem to be a very simple ques- tion to answer, especially in a nominally Christian society. Some would instantly say that the Church is that bulding pointing its spire toward heaven where we go on Sundays to worship God. Others would say that the Church ‘is that institution made up of all kinds of people (some good. some bad) who centre their lives as Chrstians in and around a church building. Others would point to the organizations of the Church as its being the most important aspect of Christianity. Still oth- ers would speak of choirs. cathed- rals, stained glass windows, hymns, prayers and all the rest. Without these there would be no church. There might be Christians without these, but certainly no church. If this is true, you might as well tell me that there can be no fruit or flowers in the world un- less we have flower pots and con- servatories: that we can have no light in the world unless we have window panes. All too often we have confused the outward organ- ization and visibility of the Church with the Spirit filled or- ganism God calls His Church. We haVe mistaken organization for life, and activity for the work of the Spirit. _ But this is not the conception of the Churchvdescribed in the New Testament. It speaks of a Church which sometimes makes us wonder if we belong to it. The Church is not an easy thing to describe, because the Bible speaks of it in two ways. On the one hand it is depicted in very exalted and heavenly terms. This is the Church as God intends it to be. Then the Bible speaks of the 'Church as it actually is â€" a community of men and women who have come under the power of Jesus Christ. It is not a perfect community, because it is made up of sinners who are still bat- tling with things in their lives not truly Christian. It is none- theless a Church if it is sincere- ly seeking to be an instrument of Jesus Christ in the world. This is one of the great ideas which Paul had of the Church. He said the Church was the "body of Christ". Now Christ‘s body was the means by which He entered into the stream of human life and history. But that body was taken out and crucified. After the re- surrection and ascension, Christ was able to give Himself to His people in a way that had not bee possible‘ before. Through the gift of the Holy Spirit, Jesus gave His living presence to the Church. He initiated His discip- les to the mystery of the Church, which is, “Christ in you, the hope of glory". It is now possible for us today, to know Christ in a much more intimate way than those who saw Him in the days of His flesh. This is true he ause Ch ist con- tinues to impar His living Spirit to all who commit heart and life to Him. The Christian now re- joices in the fact that Paul so beautifully exptessed in Gala- tians 2:20, “I live, and yet not I, Christ liveth in me, and the life that I now live in the flesh. I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me”. The Church then, is a company of men and women, all over the world and in every age, who owe their allegiance to Christ. They have responded to the gift of His grace made possible through His life, death and resurrection. They know what it is to pray, “Lord, be merciful to me a sinner". They know what it is to say “Lord, I believe, help thou my unbelief". They are seeking to be the channel by which Christ offers Himself afresh to the world today. This then is the Church, a vital living fellowship of people, controlled by Christ, witnessing to Him in the world through the power of His Spirit. ' anywhere in the district 1 i from 12 noon to midnight. ‘ iEnjoy a delicious meal, piping‘ i hot. in your own home. -We cater to Banquets. Weti. ding Parties, business gather- ings or special events of any kind. For table and banquet reservations Telephone AV. 54308 Yangtze Pagoda - Restaurant SELL. BUY. 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He has a slow bu litre purposeful way about him and holds fast to one ofvhijs basic theories “people are honest”. He confessed early that to discuss the future developments here was difficult as the work was necessarily of a confidential nature and sometimes negotiations would go on for twelve months . . . industry only comes here once, if things are not right for them when they approach us, no amount of correcting or adjusting will make it pos- sible for the town to approach the same firm again. So he uses psychology in his interviews. One thing that has happened to us he pointed out, is that Richmond Hill is now eight miles closer to the centre of metropolitan Toronto . . v physically this centre is now about Lawrence Ave. And when a firm is looking towards Richmond Hill as a possible new location they don’t only want to see a piece of land and hear about sewers and water. They want to hear about our service clubs, they want to know about our churches, Sunday schools, our public schools, and our high schools. They look at the cultural side of life in Richmond Hill, they enquire about our recrea- tional facilities . . . parks, ball games, figure-skatng, tennis, curling, etc. And when Mr. Langford is talking to his executives he does not forget to mention that we are an hour closer to the northern vacation country than are the city-dwellers! ‘ He came to us from Whitby, a lakeside town which in five years raised its industrial and commercial as- sessment from 7 per cent to 35 per cent. They were able to entertain heavy industry . . . We are not . . . the Dunlop Company for instance that settled there would use more water per day than our whole town uses! Our own assessment picture in 1957 was like this: 4.28 per cent industrial 13.58 per cent commercial 82.14 per cent residential Mr. Langford felt that the industrial and commer- cial assessment would have risen from the 17.86 per cent of 1957 to at least 20 per cent this year (1959). At first to me this did not look like much of a rise, but of course during that same time residential building ha romped on apace to make a substantal increase on our total assessment, so that the 20 per cent represents a healthy gain and a good start on our attaining the ideal 40 to 60 per cent that we’d all like to see. Our mill rate flare-up does not alarm Mr. Langford as regards his own work. Our potential new-industries are more concerned that administration is financially sound and whether we (or they) would be getting a dollar value for a dollar spent, In the neat office I admired charts that clarified many questions I might have asked. The industrial area and commercial areas stood out by their markings, and even I could tell if a certain lot were occupied by a build- ing and by the green or red lines how far the water ser- vice and sewer went (and by what routes they got there!) Our industrial commissioner must have a. tidy mind and an orderly method of procedure. If I had a tidy mind, too, I could probably start at the north and give you a picture of what we have, or start with the earliest building, or the largest or some- thing, but not being made that way we’ll just get a random look. 3. n. 1" . name .1 I , ,, 2L 3“ -L V Broadly the inciustrial sectioh runs north and south on both sides of the railway, and at the north end west to Yonge Street. 7 ' Pegasus ProduEts from Toronto are in metal signs, and the Neon Sign Company that is now building, does neon advertising displays. He is coming here because No. '7 Highway is going to go right through his present plant. John Griffin and the Lawrence Construction com- pany of Toronto are putting in seven plants just south of this. Four are ready right now and the other three will be completed by the lst of August. Roads, water and sewers will be all ready for them. These three to six thousand square foot buildings will be particularly suit- able for light and medium industry and particularly ad- aptable for a just-settingâ€"up industry. They will be equipped with modern conveniences (industrial style.) Three of the four completed ones are either occu- pied or spoken for . _ . which just shows What value it is in having the area fully serviced. In fact there is just one lot left in the extreme north section. Then Irvingsteel is coming out from Toronto. They have bought about six acres just south of Elgin Mills Sideroad. 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