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VoIe “No” On Two Year 'I'erm Den. Mr. Editor:- I was surprised to read that Richmond Hill Town Council is asking awvoter on a two year term. Council this year increased our taxes, increased our water rates and now apparently want to in- crease their term of office. Those in favor of a two year term apparently assume that ev- eryone elected to council is a whopping success. Unfortunately this isn't always true. and the taxpayer so far has had the right to weed them out every year. Councils spend a lot of taxpayer's money and shouldn't object to standing before the ratepayers once a year and giving an account of it. A councillor who thinks this is too much trouble, shouldn't be on council. l‘ear Mr. Editor:- In your paper of last week. October 29th on the front page you have an account of John Mit- chell of Maple and his wife Ar- lene who are "very happy" anout John winning $28,000 in the Irish Swepstakes. John, it seems is an assessor with Vaughan Township. His work depends on government and law. But in buying an Irish Sweepstake ticket. John is break- ing the 1ng qt this country. He and Arlene are “very hap- py" in winning. Are the people of Vaughan just as happy in hav- ing an assessor who is apparently breaking the law in this regard? Perhaps the Mitchells have lost more than they realize: Richmond‘Hill electors at the coming elections will be asked to vote “yes” or “no” on the question of a two year term for municipal council members. This is an important decision and we hope it will have the careful and serious con- sideration of every ratepayer. The two year term may be acceptable or even attractive to a municipal councillor, but it has very little to recommend it to the taxpayer. - . c 1- _“__r “a Some years ago the Ontario Leg- islature passed enabling legislation providing that municipalities may if they so decide, elect municipal councils for a two year term. Some municipal- ities adopted the two year term and many others have stuck with the trad- itional annual elections. Richmond Hill has been in the latter category and we have observed no demand from the people for any change. Certainly coun- cil hasn’t been deluged with petitions or troubled by delegations of taxpayers asking for the twoyear term. In municipalities where the two year term has been tried, we have fail- ed to notice any quickening interest in municipal affairs or any increase in ef- ficiency in township or town adminis- tration. We have noted an increasing in- difference to the wishes of the taxpay- ers by councils elected for the longer term. That is something we don’t want in Richmond Hill. One argument for the two year term is that it saves the expense of an annual election. In any case we think this is a very weak argument, but in Richmond Hill it has no meaning at all. No matter what decision is made regarding the el- ection of a municipal council, annual el- ections must be held for school trustees. There still would have to be an annual nomination meeting and a full organi- zation of polling places, deputy-return- oificers and poll clerks. ‘The only saving in expense if the two year term is adopted would be the paper ballots on which the taxpayer annually, up to now, has had the privi- lege of marking his X. We humbly sug- gest this is the last place to start an THE LIBERAL, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Thursday, {1: No more aching backs and freezing hands, shovel]- ing snow. 5L} Let our men and machines keep your driveway clean the whole winter through i: We are accepting a limited number of contracts for driveway snow removal. {1: Make sure you are one of the lucky ones. at, Driveways 100’ long and under, $35.00 per year. over 100 ft. slightly more. TU. 4-1955 “Dear Mr. Editor” FAVORS ANNUAL ELECTION Sweepstake Winnings Victoria Square. 0nt., November 3. 1959. An Independent Weekly: Established 1878 ‘ â€"-â€"J Subscription Rate $3.50 per year; to United States $4.50; 10c single copy Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association J. E. SMITH, Publisher W. S. COOK. Managing Editor MONA ROBERTSON, Associate Editor SNOW FOR THE NEXT FIVE MONTHS Driveway Snow Removal By COWELL PAVING C0. “Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department. Ottawa' Yours truly A. F. Binnington CALL US NOW! CIVIS 013132 1111an N FOR YOUR RESERVATION Dear Mr. Editor:- As a resident of Richmond Hill for almost five (5) years and livâ€" ing on the East side of Town, I wish to make a few comments on some things which, to me at any rate, are important to this area. I have just been informed by the Separate School Board that all children attending the Catn- olic School in Beverley Acres who live North of the Markham Road are denied the use of the school bus. As I live on Centre Street East and have two boys attending second grade at this school it means that they will have to walk over a mile each morning and evening along Cen- tre Street East to Bayview Aven- ue. and up Bayview Avenue to the school. Anyone who is familiar with this area will understand my apprehension about sending twa seven-year old boys along this route. Bayview Avenue is not safe for adults to walk along, much less school childrenY and considering the fact that there is no sidewalk and only ditches on' both sides of the road, I charge the Richmond Hill Council with dereliction of duty in not pro- viding a sidewalk along the bus- iest thoroughfare, outside of SHIELDS Richmond Heights Plaza 38 Levendale Rd. TU. 4-5341 mm Mme mm Objects To Separate ' School Ruling economy drive. The taxpayer’s X is symbolic of the very fundamentals of democracy. The right to use it annually should not be given up without the most careful con- sideration. In private business shareholders have annual meetings and call on man- agement for an annual accounting. The existing system of annual municipal elections gives taxpayers the same priv- ilege and it has worked well for so many 0 It is pointed out in support of the two year term that federal and provin- cial governments are elected for five year terms. This to us is a convincing argument to retain the right of annual elections. After years of close obser- vation of government at different levels, it is our considered opinion that the best public administration exists at the municipal level. The obvious reason is that municipal governments are close to the people, and in this, [annual elec- tions play an important part. Good government deteriorates in proportion to the distance it is removed from the people. years. It is not practical to suggest that we elect our federal and provincial governments every year, but if it were possible we would have better govern- ment. It is practical, possible and inex- pensive to elect municipal councils every year and we should not throw away the privilege. Good councils and good councillors have nothing to fear from the annual election. If they do a good job they can be re-elected. One year may be too short a term for a good councillor, but it is altogeth- er too long for a poor councillor. The so-called trouble and expense of an annual election is a pretty small prem- ium to pay for good municipal govern- ment. In future years Richmond Hill taxpayers will have many occasions to congratulate themselves if they vote a decisive “No” to the proposal for a two year term. November 5, 1959 Yonge Street, in the whole vil- lage. ‘ The bulk of the traffic now using Bayview Avenue turns into Centre Street East in the morning and the flow is reversed at night. As Centre Street East is paved, it is now a speedway and no longer a residential street. I have yet to see any check being put on these speedsters by the Police Department. In view of the above comments I earnestly request that the auth- orities do something about this situation now and not wait until a number of school children have been slaughtered before action is taken. Sanitary Contractor C. STUNDEN RICHMOND mu. m. 4-1245 Drains Cleaned & Repaired remain, WINTERIZE N O W ! FOR CHECK-UP â€" ANTIFREEZE _ TUNE-UP COME TO HILL CITY MOTORS WE HAVE THE EQUIPMENT, SKILLED MECHAN- ICS FOR PROMPT DEPENDABLE REPAIRS TO ALL MAKES 0F CARS Hill City Motors Septic Tanks Pumped PUBLIC ELECTRIC TYPING DUPLICATING DICTATION BY PHONE Katharine Williams â€" 'I'U. 4-2208 â€" RENAULT SALES, SERVICE, AND PARTS Industrial Road, Richmond Hill TU. 4-3331 ,mcuucnqfl: Respectfully yours, James J. Kelly. 397 Centre St. East, Richmond Hill. STENOGRAPHER (By Rev. Calvin Chambers) THE POWER OF EVIL The recent celebration of Hal- lowe'en serves to remind us of a very important fact we are too prone to forget. Evil is present in the world, but its defeat is assur- ed. We may not believe in witches and hob goblins today. And we do not need to. But we must take seriously the fact of evil. When we do we shall begin to under- stand the victorious message of the Christian religion. Our faith triumphantly announces, that the power of evil has been broken by the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Enemy is de- feated. Immediately we may ask. "If evil has been defeated. why is it still so prevalent in the world. How can we talk about evil being overcome when we are confront- ed on every side by its manifesta- tions in our personal. social and inter-national life? It seems un- realistic to believe that evil is a conquered foe, especially when we look out upon the world, and into our own lives." This is where we need to hear the message of the Faith. The cross is the symbol of the victory of Jesus Christ. This is at the heart of our faith. Paul tells us in one of his letters. that Jesus spoil- ed the enemies of God on the cross, just as a great military hero spoils his foes. The cross was not defeat. It was victory. It meant that a death blow had been dealt to the antagonistic forces of the Kingdom of Evil._ But the victory of Christ was not a static, but dynamic thing. It set in motion the on going triumph of God's kingdom. Those who are joined to Christin faith, are challenged to move'out into the world like a conquering army, to claim Christ's victory over every idea, institution, na- tion. Everything must be brought under the’ sovereign rule of Jesus Christ. We all remember how import- ant D. Day was in the winning of the war. How excited we all were when we learned that our troops had landed on the Con- tinent. We knew that victory was assured. Yet, V. J. Day was yet to come. In between those two days, there were a number of skir- mishes in which our troops mop- ped up the enemy. Victory was assured, and yet fighting still went on. Similarly, the cross of Jesus ‘was God’s D. Day. On Calvary. a major offensive was set in motion. The power of God’s love in Christ was let loose into the world, to deliver men from the power of sin. But our V. J. Day is yet to come. Christians look forward to the final conquest of evil in the second coming of Christ] This faith, however, does not mean that we are to ‘lay down the shovel and the hoe." We are not to develop a laissez faire attitude toward the world. Christ calls His people to be actively engaged in a war on every front against the forces of evil. Between the Lord's first coming and His second, many battles have been fought, and many must still be fought. But if the Church takes seriously the ‘victory of Christ; if she realizes constantly what Christ has accom- plished already by His Spirit in the world, we will be constantly cheered by the fact that nothing can ultimately defeat the purposes of God in the world. The kingdom is crucial, and the final decision will be God‘s. If we are Christians, we know that we still have many areas )f life to win for Him. We must pre- pare for His coming. If a re- lease was made from Buckingham palace, announcing that the Queen would visit Canada someâ€" time ' l the near future, we would begin to make preparations for her arrival. We would do our best to get our country ready for her visit. The same truth applies to the final victory of Christ. New Testament faith rests in the con- fidence that one day, “the king- doms of (this world shall become the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ.” In this faith, we face the future undaunted. We have a task of preparation to accomplish. But our victory is assured. Christ has conquered. Faith Facts and PAUL DELMER I HAVE HEARD FROM SO MANY READERS of this column that they enjoy very much my travel nar- ratives and personal experiences abroad, that I feel I ought to set down in print, more of them. Some readers have said that they have visited some of the places I have mentioned, during their war service. I have been told that one reader brings out a map and explains the countryside to his wife filling out my descriptions from his own memory. Thus, it is evident that a travel narrative still has a great attraction for many people. Of course a gen- eration of two ago, a travel narrative through darkest this or unknown that, was considered exciting and profitable reading. Since then, modern economic ad- venturing, radio, television and air-travel at speeds faster than sound, not to mention the start already made in exploring the universe about us with its prom- ise of space travel in the forseeable future, have cre- ated the illusion that the world is now known, mapped, sanitary and safe. The struggles of early explorers were due, we feel, to a naive ig‘norance we have now grown out of, and their stories were dull affairs making much of little. 0n the whole we regard them and their non-mechanized fumblings rather patronizingly. The fact is of course, that the ignorance is ours. Against the vast areas of mountain, jungle, swamp, and desert on the earth, our total achievements in control are paltry and precarious. Darkest Africa is still far from day-lit and the jungle of the Amazon is merely scratched with the marks of men. It was with a thrill therefore that my family and I walked down the gangway to step again onto the soil of Africa. It is one thing to cross from sophisticated Britain to Ultra-Sophisti- cated France. This was AFRICA and in Africa anything could happen. Inevitably we should meet more than one unusual ex- perience and adventure. We had landed at Bizerte in Tunisia and passed through customs quickly enough. We motored across flat desert country along cactus lined roads and caught our first glimpses of the om- nipresent donkey and the patient came] as well as of the colour- ful people of this restless, heat-soaked land. Occasionally our mouths watered as we passed a vineyard with trees heavy with delicious looking grapes, until at one halt, a kindly farmer in- vited us to take our fill. No one required a second invitation and the children Were charmed. We decided to camp at Carthage, on a site where Ancient Carthage had stood and where today many ruins of old empires are still to be seen. Tunisia is known as The Country of the Date Palms. It is a beautiful land but it became in the months following our ar- rival (but not because of our arrival”, a land of terror and sudden death. During that first month in Tunisia, which co-incided with the last month of peace, law and order, we trekked through most of the country. Roads were generally of the dirt track type but good, maintained in good order for military purposes. We could tow the house trailer in a cloud of dust at sixty miles an hour without danger. Highlight of our visit to Tunisia on this occasion was a din- ner at the palace of the Resident General of France in Tunis, and a visit to the fabulous Bey of Tunis who was soon to assume, though only for a little while, the mantle of Constitutional Mon- arch The dinner at the palace of General de la Tour was also attended by the Prime Minister and other prominent person- alities. We still preserve the menu as a souvenir and for the connoisseurs, here it is: â€" Vin Nature Blanc de Blanc' Saint Emilieu Heidsieck Monopole Brut It was a princely banquet and it was also to be a historical occasion â€" the last dinner of its kind given by a Governor of France in Tunisia, and it was a wonderfully romantic occasion. Tunisian musicians and dancing girls performed for the pleasure of the guests and the meal was served on the open balconies under the starry sky. Although'it was hot enough to make dress-wear uncomfortable, a cool breeze offered some compen- sation. No one knew it at the time, but the occasion was marking another milestone in French history, and Tunisia stood on the threshold of independence. We chatted trivialities informally with everybody present and received during the evening a var- iety of invitations. One was to meet the General again, privately, and later we spent a pleasant hour with him and photographed and filmed him playing with our youngest son, Andrew, at that time the baby of the family. The General's children came out on the lawn and joined in the fun. Later still we were fortunate in being able to visit the Bey of Tunis. In general the country had prospered under the French and the native dynasty had been strengthened, but for all that, it was quickly overthrown once national independence was achieved. The country has an interesting history. The son of a Cretan renegade was proclaimed Sovereign in 1705 under the title of Bey. It was the direct descendant of that Cretan renegade turned prince who received us at Carthage. After the Franco~German war, railways and other conces- sions were placed in British hands. In 1878, Lord Salisbury agreed to allow France a “free hand’ in Tunisia in a bargain over Cyprus. During World War Two, Tunisia was turned over to the De Gaulle Government. After the war, the Tunisian Nationalist Party, Destour, intensified its activities, finally com- pelling France to grant self-government. Today, the bandits of those days, who were known as “iellaga”, are policemen, and the country under wise old President Bouquiba is trying to achieve the stability and security which could make it outstand- ing among the Moslem nations. The Dar-el-Bey (Palace of the Bey) where we were received contains numerous rooms beautifully decorated in the Moorish style of the 18th century; the judgment hall has a domed roof adorned with the delicate arabesque plaster work known as “Nuksh hadida". The Bey had two wives and fifty concubines. But he was most famous for his collection of clocks. He kept two thousand of them in the palace, mostly in pairs. What has happened to them now that he has been deposed and compulsorin removed to a small villa on the outskirts of Tunis, is something I often wonder about. ONE YEAR'S SUBSCRIPTION 1 To jfie ofiéera/ - ONLY Travel Narratives Consomme de Volaille en Tasse Langouste Pampadour Banduet d’Argenteuil Sauce Remoulade Grenadin de Veau de France Perigourdine Pommes Foudantes Salade Laurette Coupe Regence Corbeille d'Excellence 'unisia, which co-incided with n; Richmond Telephone TUrner 4-1212 co-stamng Directed mDOUGLAS SlRK Produced by Ross HUNTER Sammy by ELEANORE caurrmanduuu sum 'SRNORA OEE°OAN O’HERlIHY-SUSAN KOHNER ROBERT ALOAwimlOANl-TA MOORE MAHALIA lABKSflN Show Times 7 and 9 pm. Continuous from 6 pm. Saturdays and Holidays lANA TURNER JUHN GAVIN HELD OVER 3 DAYS Thurs., Fri., Sat., November 5, .6, 7 Special Extra Matinee Friday, November 13, 4 pm. 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