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Want Ads Tell lnieresiing Story Canada’s 1958 dollar loss in fires amounted to over one hundred and fif- teen million dollars ($115,000,000.00). This represents only the cost in property and at that, excludes Forest Fire losses. The cost in lives is equally high with some five hundred and twen- ty nine (529) persons, two hundred and seventeen (217) of them children, hav- ing died in fires during 1958. Although it may be deeply buried in the past, a little tug at the memory will rekindle the sense of horror and anger you felt the last time you saw, heard or read about a fire which took lives, particularly lives of children. Do you not remember the tragic holocaust at Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago last year, when al- most one hundred children perished? Many of them were found still sitting at their little desks. 7 year??? , Fire Prevention Week was ob- served this year from October 4th to 10th inclusive. The Board Insurance Companies through the co-operation of Canadian Newspapers, Radio and Tele- vision Stations, Banks, Railways, Fire Departments, Commerce and Industry spread the gospel of Fire Prevention throughout the country. -- 1,! ,L IIIICIL IAV vvvvvvvvvv It could have been your school and your children lLast year it happened in Chicago . . . where will it happen this VAILVMDA-vm- v..- i , These messages {vere directed at you, the potential victim of fire. Listen! This year . National Newspaper Week will be observed October 15th to let, and we urge our readers to give thought to the importance and useful- ness of the weekly newspaper. Your home paper is a vital part of commun- ity life, serving readers as well as ad- vertisers. It is dedicated to recording and giving support to all worth-while undertakings. No observance of Newspaper Week would be complete without recognition of one newspaper section that serves millions of readers all over the world, but too often is overlooked in our trib- utes. It's the “Want Ad” section and it serves millions of readers in a very special way. “The Liberal" has one of the largest and best-read classified sec- tions of any weekly newspaper in Cana- da, and we’re very proud of its growth and very pleased with the splendid re- sults obtained every week for our ad- vertisers. - IV The Want Ads serve all the people of the district, finding them places to live and places to work, furnishing ec- onomical etransportation through the columns which offer second-hand motor- cycles, bicycles and used cars for sale. Is Not Complete Without An Asphalt Driveway BY THE LIBERAL, Richmond Hill, AURORA SAND 8. GRAVEL Anlndependent Weekly: Egtablished 1878 \â€"â€"â€"-â€" Subscription Rate $3.50 per year; to United States $4.50; 10c single 1 Member 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. Ottam‘ SPECIAL PRICES FOR HOME OWNERS. PIT-RUN GRAVEL, SAND FILL, BRICK AND CONCRETE SAND, ALSO STONE FOR DRIVEWAYS '1‘]? TELEPHONE Your Local Paving Specialist NOW! TU. 4-1070 COWELL PAVING CO. PA. 1 - 9091 Tithe 1111an " Ontario, Thursday, October 15, 1959 Learn! and Remember! Most fires (over 75 per cent) are preventable. In other. words, they are caused by carelessness! People, as a rule, are seldom careless about big or important things; it is the “little" things that they are inclined to gloss over quickly or forget and it is these “little” things that cause so many fires. For example: Running a lamp cord under a carpet where unseen, it can be- come worn and frayed to the point of shortcircuiting . . . Replacing a blown 15 ampere fuse with one of a higher rating and thus inviting disaster from overheated wiring . . . Not bothering to have the furnace checked before starting it up for the winter because‘ it “looks” alright . . . Buying and using electrical and other appliances that do not bear the Underwriters’ Laboratories Label . . . permitting rubbish to accu- mulate in attics or basements . . .. ululuvo u- uuunyu v- ...-...-. These “little” things; mentioned above, cause more than their share of fires, fires that must all be basically charged to carelessness! m, ,J L- v11“: 6"“ vv v“- v. -Vfi, How much longer can we afford to be careless with lives and property? Canada’s per capita fire loss record is among the worst in the world and won’t improve until you, as a citizen, practice the basic rules of Fire Prevention on a year-round basis. LISTEN! LEARN! and REMEM- BER! ' STOP FIRES - SAVE LIVES. There are a multitude of human interest stories in the Want Ad pages, too. An advertisement seeks the return of a lost dog â€" “children’s pet”. It re- quires little imagination to build up a whole story; complete from the desola- tion of the home deprived of a. family companion to a hoped-for happy ending of its return. Tragedy lies behind another, a hus- band who has come to the parting of the ways with his wife, and advertises he will no longer be responsible for her debts. peopie‘tlriving Here and there across this expansive continent, ready to take companions. Small but fascinating speculation can be wound about requests for part- time work. Perhaps they’re from eager, ambitious juniors, or older folks piecing out annuities or pensions. vuv wu....-~._-~ .. Readers expect newspapers to present stories under headlines and in the or- dered English of journalism. That’s not the only way they are published, though. In a different form, they appear throughout the Want Ad columns. Here are opportunifcie§ to travel, Luca: AIIJ u.\.....-.., ,- 7 NORTH- YORK â€" The North it unto me." York Library Board is to name __._.__ . 1. .1 di . its new ibrary bui ng m honour MARKH AM _ A registered Hol- of Mrs. Gladys Allison at a ded- , ication service on Monday, Octoâ€" stem COW brought $730 at an auc- tion sale on the property of Rus- b 19th. M .All' ‘ - er rs 15011 was mstru .sell Grove, concession 8, Mark- mental in the establishing of the , . first library in the township in ham 'Ifownsh'lp. The herd, WhICh 1950, comprised fifty per cent young cattle, averaged $320. lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll\llllllll\mllllllllllllllllllllllllflll\l\\\\lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll\ll\l\\\\\l|\llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll2 a: I! “W 'nmummmmmmmmmnmlnmmmmmnmmmnmmmmmmmmummummmw TOP COATS NOW 5 2 9.9 5 Name Brand SPORT SHIRTS '/2 P R I C E BayvieW Plaza single copy BUY NOW AND SAVE ON YOUR CHRISTMAS BUYING USE OUR LAYAWAY PLAN SWEATER '/2 P I! [C E ,IRCULATIQfl: FOR MEN & BOYS The House of Good Value 1’6 ' Plaza Richmond Hill Telephone: AV. 5-4791 WHILE THEY LAST oaone/ 5/10/06 Reg. $39.95 THE ROOTS OF THE THANKSGIVING FESTIVAL The popular belief is that Thanksgiving was instituted by the Pilgrim Fathers the year after they landed on the shores of the new world. But the giving of thanks in any organized. collec- tive way. goes back into the Old Testament to the Jewish FeasL‘of Tabernacles. This feast was cele- brated to give thanks to God for two special events. First, for the preservation of life during the forty years of wandering in the wilderness, and second. for the giving of the Law of God at Mount Sinai. When the Jews [in- ally settled in the land of Pales- tine, this festival Was very soon associated with the ingathering of the corn and wine. During the celebration of the Feast of Tabernacles, the Jews made temporary huts or booths which they erected in the she '1. This helped to remind them of their nomadic days when they wandered about the desert in search of their Promised Land. It was the family festival. in which every member took part in the act of remembrance. Thanksgiving celebrations, if they are to be vital to us today, must center in spiritual realities“ and not merely in eating roast‘ turkey and pumpkin pie. The bas- is of our national and family life should be rooted in thanksgiving. When we think of the bounty of this land we have been fortunate enough to live in, we should lift our hearts to God in thanksgiv- ing and praise. We have been stured the dreadful ravages of war. Our scientific advances en- able us to enjoy one of the high- est standards of living in the world. Turn your eyes out about the rest of humanity and you see gross poverty, disease, over crowding, and many other de- plorable conditions; Truly “our lines are fallen in pleasant pl-ac- es.’ But thanksgiving brings re- sponsibility. Is it enough for Christian people to giveIthanks to God for all of their temporal blessings without doing something about the physical needs of oth- ers. It is the apostle James who challenges us “If a fellow man or woman has no clothes to wear and nothing to eat, and one of you say “Good Luck to you, I hope you’ll keep warm and find en- ough to eat," and yet give them nothing to meet their physical needs. what on earth is the good- of that” (J. B. Philips Transla- tion). Our thanksgiving services are cts of hypocrisy if they 0 not ead us into action on'beh If of our brethren throughout the world ‘ ho stand in dire need of physi5al help. We need to sup- port the work of Care, the Uni- ted Nations Relief Organization, the Red Cross, or any other agen- cy which is seeking to relieve the misery of mankind. 2d -=- oLlOl’lel MEN‘S & BOY‘S SHOPS (By The early Church not only preached the gospel, but it gave help to the poor and needy, the widow, the orphans, who were unable to help themselves. In our welfare state where the govern- ment assumes the overwhelming responsibility toward people in need, it is so easy for us to forget that this is not the situation in many other lands. Are we respon- sible for doing anything about it? If the greatest thing in the world is "love,” then we cannot escape from our responsibility. “Belov- ed," writes John, “Let us not love in word but in deed and in truth.” Let us give reality to this Thanksgiving Season by sharing our plenty with those who have so little. "In as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done Rev. Calvin Chambers) Facts and Faith PAUL DELMER WE CAN SAY GOOD-BYE TO THE OLD AFRICA, for a. new colossus is rising on the Dark Continent, where 200,000,000 people are seeking self-government. They possess a fabulous land, rich in soil. in minerals, in water power. The eyes of the West are turning toward Africa, for the stirring of nationalism may foreshadow a continent of federated states. There is a surge of POWER in this vast continent where millions are searching for inde- pendence and a higher standard of living. Ghana, the British Dominion on the West African coast, might be the inspiration for an all-African feder- ation. Guinea severed its ties with France and joined Ghana in a loosely federated association. The United Nations has recognized Ghana and Guinea as members of the body of nations. Nigeria is scheduled to become an independent state in October 1960. and French Togoland and the Cameroons will also be free states next year. Already, all the Arab lands of Africa lying north of the Sahara are sovereign with the exception of Algeria. I was in Ghana (then the Gold Coast and British Togoland) just prior to independence. I talked with Kwame Nkrumah who is now almost a dictator. I saw him in a prison cell in James Fort Prison, Accra. I wrote then that the shortsighted actions of the authorities were making a martyr of Nkrumah and that his rise to power was being made inevitable. I was in Tunisia just prior to independence and toured the country with the last Resident General of France in Tunisia, Gen- eral de la Tour. My children played with the General’s children on the spacious lawn of his palatial residence near Carthage, 15 miles from the capital of Tunis, while the General talked hope- fully of granting some sort of autonomy which would leave con- trol of defence and external affairs in French hands. The General, like so many other modern leaders, had not kept pace with the modern trend â€"- the deSire each nation has to rule itself. I was in Morocco when the French finally abdicated their powers and restored the Sultan to the throne from which they had earlier removed him. Again they tried to hang onto some of the strings of control â€" defence and external affairs. Within months of the grant of internal autonomy, France was compelled to hand over these last vestiges of its powers also. A well-known news analyst, John Hughes, writing from Cape Town. says, “The political momentum in Africa has passed from the white man into the hands of the continent’s black Africans". A more accurate description would substitute “colored" for “black" â€" to include the Arabs in the North. In Algeria between 1000 and 3000 human beings are being killed every week. This slaughter will continue until France agrees unequivocally to grant the same independence already given to Morocco and Tunisia. De Gaulle has offered the people of Algeria a “free choice" but this has been hemmed in with the now traditional conditions. Nonetheless the Algerian rebel leaders have said they are prepared to discuss the plan with the President. But France has refused to recognize the rebel gov- ernment in exile and such talks appear remote. The only hope for permanent peace in North Africa and the only hope for the French to retain the friendship and commerce they enjoy with the Arab countries, is the grant of full self-gov- ‘ernment. The French settlers in Algeria â€" now in their second and third generation, must accept Algerian nationality or return to France. They must work with the Arabs for ALGERIA. Full self-government for Algeria, sooner or later, is absolutely inev- itable. France will gain or lose much according to how long she takes to realize this truth. Time is no longer on her side. The rising tide of self-rule in Asia and Africa should warn the Western world that new forces, the black, the brown, and the yellow peoples â€"- must be reckoned with in all future plan- ning. The terms on which we will live with these millions are be- ing shaped by the attitudes and actions of today, by our willing- ness to help them economically, by the way we live our demo- cratic principles, and by our attitudes toward the non-white races. Africa's millions in particular are watching the attitudes of those who profess to love freedom, eqtiality, and ‘justice. What they see will help them decide their destiny and the future of an awakening continent. This may he consoling news for many â€" although the num- ber of deaths and injuries from motor vehicle accidents has been increasing, the death rate per 10,000 motor vehicles registered has decreased about 50 per cent in the past 25 years. :n: 1: up” READERS WILL REMEMBER that I forecast a Labour vic- tory in the British General Election. Well, as you all know, the Conservatives won a majority of exactly 100 seats. But as I ex- plained when I made my forecast, ‘if the Conservatives should be returned to office. no doubt it will be on a minority vote as it has been since 1945. That in fact is the present position. The Conservative majority in Parliament is out of all proportion to their actual strength in the country. The final figures for those interested in mathematics were 13,750,934 FOR the Conser- vatives, and 14,111,773 for NON-Conservative candidates. Thus less than half the electorate who went to the polls, voted Con- servative. The Conservatives won 365 seats (one for each day of the year!) and the Labourites captured 258 while Liberals ob- tained six and one independent was elected. Going deeper into the matter each Conservative MP repre- sents only 37,673 electors; each Labour MP represents 47,349 elec- tors, each Liberal MP represents the (in comparison) enormous number of 273,460 electors, while the one independent member represents 61,225 electors and another 193,621 who voted for various other parties won no representation at all. A total of 27,862,708 voters went to the poll. This number represents 78.7 per cent of the total electors. Finally, a fair al- location of seats in relation to voting strength would have given the Conservatives 308 seats, Labour 278 seats, Liberals 38 seats and others six seats. Because of the serious need for a revision of boundaries of parliamentary division a result out of pr0portion was achieved. If voting was properly reflected in Parliament then the balance of power would have been held by the Liberal Party. On the local front this week, the Yonge Street Business Men's Association is to meet shortly and is expected to discuss new plans for the promotion of the Yonge Street Shopping Cen tre which is now rapidly expanding with many new stores open- ing and old stores being remodelled. DECLARES FOR ALGERIAN INDEPENDENCE HALL’S SERVICE STATION LTD. TU. 4 - 4361 Town 8: Country Marketers of Markham Road are planning DOMESTIC FUEL OILS AND BURNER SERVICE to run a contest to elect a “MRS. Town & Country". They would also enter their own beauty queen in the contest for the title of Miss Richmond Hill. Fred Wise would like to hear from any housewives who would be interested in entering the contest'i‘he prize will probably be a home freezer. n; Richmond Telephone TUrner 4-1212 The second beauty contest in the district will be that for “Miss Richmond Heights. 1959" which will be held on Friday. October 30th. Watch “The Liberal” advertisement columns for full details shortly. Judges will be Councillor James Haggart. Mr. Roy Chandler (Manager Bank of Nova Scotia) and Mr. Fred Wise. Fred thinks this chore will give him experience when it comes to organizing his own contest later. Bayview Plaza mer- chants are also planning to step into the arena shortly with a promotion of their own. And meanwhile, too. the Richmond Hill Junior Chamber of Commerce are studying the effect on the town of so much shopping being done elsewhere, and will very soon be publishing their findings in collaboration with local merchants from all parts of the town. Watch “The Liberal" for the full details of these interesting events. I would also, finally like to suggest to merchants and others that before actually set- ting dates for promotions, they consult with the local paper. We are in a position to know what is coming and can help to avoid the clash which sometimes occurs between separate promotions in difierent parts of the town, when they lose force by being launched on the same date. “The Liberal" will always be glad to help and advise. A'Gia - An Show Times 7 and 9 p.m. Continuous from 6 pm. Saturdays and Holidays CO-flAIIING Please note Wed., Thurs” last complete show 8.30 pm. [PRLOS RIK " TH6MPsoN BATTAGLIA de F1333? Wednesday, Thursday, October 21, 22 Friday, Saturday, October 16, 17 FREE PARKING REAR 0F THEATRE Monday, Tuesday, October 19, 20 LUANA PAWEN-MARGARETUNDSAY-VlRGINlAGREY with W mum BAX!!! 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