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iuest Editorial- (By Paul E. Angle,Bedford Park Floral ' 00., Richmond Hill) In a television broadcast from Mos- cow during his visit to Russia last Spring, Prime Minister MacMillan told the Russian people that his people beâ€" lieve that man does not live by bread alone. This is a truth that men forget at their peril. It was enunciated by Jesus of Naz- areth almost two thousand years ago when he was tempted to use his power for selfish ends and personal gain. It as proven by the yearnings of men to- ay. Richmond Hill, Markham Town- ship. Vaughan. King and Whitchurch are municipalities in the midst or at the threshold of extra-ordinary growth and development. There are persistent reports that the giant Metro has expan- sion demands which may gobble up Thorn‘hill, Richmond Hill and much of neighbouring municipalities. Are we to become part of the giant Metro? Should there be some kind of Metropol- itan administration to replace the exist- ing County Council? These are only two of the momentous questions which will face councils elected in the coming elections. We are not satisfied with a full stomach or even with perfect physical health. We long for the finer. more subâ€" tle and mysterious things of the uni- verse. We want to bask in the sunshine, to feast on the gorgeous beauties of the rainbow and the sunset and the many coloured patchwork of flowers on the hillside or in the garden. Don’t for a single minute pay any attention to the silly argument that it doesn’t make any difference who is elect- Municipal elections are important because the representatives elected to fill the various offices will in large mea- sure determin‘e the future of the com- munity. Decisions made next year will have far-reaching effect, and it is quite possible this year’s municipal elections in this area may be the most important of a lifetime. We even crave communion with 'the creator of all this grandeur. We want to feed our souls as well as our bodies. One of the important helps to this higher plane of living is the beautiful ministry of flowers. Municipal business is of import- ance to everyone. It is of interest and concern because elected representatives will levy and spend public money. They will set the tax rate which everyone shares in paying. Increased taxes are reflected in rental rates so tenants have a vital interest and are entitled to the municipal franchise along with proper- ty owners. - . .. .‘H_”L__‘L There is however a widespread beâ€" lief that flowers are amomr the luxuries which prudent people with modest in- comes should deny themselves, and we often forego the use of flowers, even for such suitable occasions as sickness and death, on the plea of diverting the money required to purchase them, to what is termed. more useful nulfposes; but I wonder if the people for whom the money is to be spent are not often just as hungry for, and just as much in THE LIBERAL, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Thursday, November 19, 1959 MOVING PACKING STORAGE ’ & DAILY SERVICE 7 c A R G [TORONTO AND AREA Subscription Rate $3.50 per 'I'he Minisiry Of Flowers “Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department. Ottan‘ Nomination Meetings An Independent Weekly: Established 1878 7% I Rate $3.50 per year; to United States $4.50; 10c single copy Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association I J. E. SMITH. Publisher W. S. COOK. Managing Editor MONA ROBERTSON, Associate Editor (libs liberal LOCAL AND LONG DISTANCE MOVING AV. 5-5101 need of, beauty as of bread. There is a beautiful eastern prov- erb which says: ‘ If you have but two loaves of bread, sell one and buy roses to feed your soul.” It is certain that one whose mind is at ease and aglow with the satisfaction of appreciated beauty and soul refreshment, will obtain much added nourishment from what bread he has, because of the mental reaction on digestion. Yes. we are more than animals, and no matter what our financial status we need the ministry of flowers. Their ju- dicious and consistent use will enrich and enlarge our lives by satisfying that inborn desire for beauty. Let us grow them for ourselves if we can, but if we cannot grow them we can always obtain themlfrom our florist friends. We need never be denrived of their ministry. Surer these and many more rea- sons we might mention should be suffi- ‘cient to warrant the active interest of every citizen. MAKE A RESOLUTION NOW to attend the nomination meeting' in your municinality, AND VOTE ON Since the founding of our earliest communities the ‘annual “town meeting” has been an important event. The mod- ern version of the “town meeting" is the annual nomination meeting which will be held this coming: week. Every year, but especially this year every citizen should attend this annual meet- ing of community shareholders. ELECTION DAY. ed. It does make a difference, and the right kind of leadership and the right kind of administration can mean a great deal not only to present day taxpayers, but to the future of the whole district. The municipal councils elected for next year can have a very important bearing on the life and living of every- one for the next twelve months. Mun- icipal Councils have a lot of authority. They will have responsibility for streets, sidewalks, public utilities, parks, play- grounds. police and many other ser- vices. They will have the power to de- termine the amount of municipal taxes you will pay next year. ’ k Not in any way second in import- ance is the school board. School trus- tees elected for the coming term will determine the kind of education our children will receive and how much we will be required to pay for it. There is a mighty army of highly trained men and women toiling con- stantly to provide this essential help to better living. In winter the wind may howl out of the north driving huge banks of snow about our doors and chilling our bodies and snirits; in spring and autumn rain may fall in cloudbursts, making earth sodden and sky grey; in summer the sun may beat mercilessly noon the earth. scorching everything in its path; but through it all- during all seasons. and at all times, the daily flow of flow- ers continues to emerge from the mod- ern greenhouses throughout our land. Some of these areenhouses are located in Richmond Hill. and have for the vast forty years produced the roses that have become the proved symbol of this community. Sanitary Contractor Drains Cleaned & Repaired C. STUNDEN' RICHMOND mu. m. Hui Septic Tanks Pumped PAUL DELMER Accotling to a Toronto news- paper a Boston University philos- ophy professor levelled criticism at Toronto public school princi- pals for having pupils repeat the Lord‘s Prayer. He claimed, “Christian bias is allowed to creep into the public school§._" Ontario has had such a “bias,” or inclination, since the Common School Act in 1816. Christianity is the basis of our school system. But those in authority have al- ways refused to allow the propaâ€" gation of Christianity in the schools from the viewpoint of any denomination or sect. The founder of the elementary school system of the province, Rev. Egerton Ryerson felt strong- ly that the obligation for distinc- tive religious instruction was a matter for the parents and the clergy andA not the schoolmaster. In 1887 Hon. G. W. Ross. Min- ister of Education, stated that the Department of Education was willing to aid in the promotion of religious instruction provided the state paid no part of the cost. He wrote, “Whatever sanction may be required to stamp our schools as Christian in the broadest sense of t term, that the De- partment f Education has al~ ways been willing to give, but nothing more." Legal Sanction The first legal recognition of the principle of religious instruc- tion in the schools of the pro- vince is found in the School Act of 1843. And it re- mains the same in 1959. It reads. “No pupil in a public school shall be required to read or study in any religious book. or to join in any exercise of devotion or re- ligion, objected to by his parents or guardian. Subject to the regul~ ations, pupils shall be allowed to receive such religious instruction as the parents or guardian de- sire." Opening the school day with prayer and reading of a few ver- ses of the New Testament was first recommended in 1816. Public Demand 7 Due. it is said, to public de- mand in 1887 daily repeating the Lord’s Prayer and the systema- tic reading of the Bible was made obligatory, the latter to be with- out comment or explanation. (To- day one-half hour per week can be devoted to religious instruc- tion by a clergyman or the tea- cher.) . wunu Dr. J. M. McCutcheon says the Department of Education, “has al- ways recognized that the princi- pals of Christian morality which have their basis in the Ten Com- mandments and in the Sermon on the Mount form an essential ele- ment in the educational equip- ment of the pupil." School inspectors are required to remind boards of trustees of the regulations regarding relig- ion and moral instruction in the schools. It has not always been smooth sailing in regard to religious in- struction. But public sentiment in the past has been in favor of imparting some religious know- It happened very suddenly. We had just rounded the corner and there in the beam of the headlights was the low arch of an overhead bridge. So quickly were we upon it that there wasn’t time to do anything but point the nose of the car at the centre of the arch and hope hard that the house trailer would still be behind us when the car’s long bonnet emerged~ into the open again. From the moment we crossed into Algeria, we were con- stantly on guard. We were in rebel country and everyone who reads a newspaper knows what danger that involved. Between Oujda and Tlemcen we were continually being halted by army patrols demanding to see our papers and always indicating their surprise at coming across a British family roaming freely in this theatre of civil war where a thousand people were dying violent deaths every week (as they still are). Terrorist activity was worst along the Moroccan frontier, the Tunisian frontier and in the Aures mountains around Constantine. People told us in Tlemcen (the first city we reached after leaving the Moroccan frontier at Oujda behind us) that hardly a night passes there without a bomb or two being thrown into Perhaps I vvas too intent on Hstening for‘the tearing crash which would tell us housetrailer and bridge had quarrelled, to give my attention to what might be on the other side of the bridge. It was only when my wife screamed “Look out", that I looked out, and then my foot stabbed at the brake pedal and the tires screeched on the road and vve found ourselves looking into the black unfriendly muzzles of an arsenal of rifles and machine guns. The wheels locked and the car skidded to a stop. and the engine already overheated after a long climb through the Al- gerian mountains, died with a whimper. We got out of the car and with hands raised walked towards the barbed-wire. speaking in English and trying to explain who we were to French and Arab soldiers who understood not a word. â€" Q/oea/zing [Jerdonally â€" “CONCERNING REEIGION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS” (By 'Jane Fort Manning) VENTURES IN TUNISIA. This week I will recount another adventure we experienced in North Africa. But our appearance must have reassured them, for two or three moved cautiously forward, guns still levelled, and listened to what we had to say. Now trying a halting French â€" “Anglals, touriste, journalist, voiture barbonne, Maroc, Tunisie, Libla, we explained that we were touring writers, that we had been de- layed by engine trouble and were en route from Morocco to Libya. We managed somehow to convince them that we were harmless and the barbed wire was drawn aside enough to let our outfit through. This was just one of several exciting events on a long trip from Casablanca, Morocco to Benghazi in Libya â€"- a trip of some three thousand miles. We had left Casablanca on July lst and crossed the frontier into Algeria on July 13th, after an interesting journey, part of the way in convoy with the King of Morocco who was visiting one of his country estates. We had earlier spent ten,days rest- ing at Rabat, capital of Morocco and one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Journey Into Danger RECENTLY I RECOUNTED SOME OF MY AD- (Continued on Page 17) ledge along with the secular. Ethical Educationalists Recently ethical educationalists have been quite vocal. Apparently they feel religious instruction in the schools is having a sinister effect on our public school child- ren. That by repeating the Lord’s Prayer, and reading the Bible for a few minutes each day, and hav- ing one-half hour per week de- voted to religious knowledge, their minds will not have the religious vacuum they should have. They feel young people should make their own decisions regarding their own religious faith following a factual study of the faiths of the world in high school. Dr. T. Bramied was quo- ted as saying “indoctrination in the (public) schools emphasizes the differences rather than the similarities between faiths." While I do not think any Christian person would want their child to do otherwise than respect and try to understand the viewpoint of the youngster brought up in the Mohamme- dan, Hindu, Shinto, etc. faiths and certainly every Christian should recognize the great debt owed to Judaism, and also ac- knowledge that the atheist and the agnostic are free to reach ther own conclusions - still the majority of public school sup- porters are Christian. We like to consider Canada a Christian countryn What have the ethical educa- tionalists prepared for us? What Bible have they written? What are their ideals? Will they crys- tallze their concepts for us so we can try to understand them? Perhaps they can enlarge our vision. We want our children to have these concepts before them. Day by day we send them away from nine to four o’clock to be taught, to be indoctrined. We want the Christian bias. but if you do not want it, we also want you free to reject it. As Christians we try, poor though the attempt may be, to follow the Ten Commandments, and the Sermon on the Mount. We believe in God and feel we should show charity to our fel- low melL Until they can they should not seek to deprive our children of the crystallization of our con- cepts as represented by Christ- mas and Easter. While elves and bunnies may obscure their mean- ing, even an elementary child should not be deprived the priv- ilege of hearing the original story in the Bible. As Charles Malik of Lebanon, President of the General Assem- bly of the United Nations, put it. “Are the forces rampant in the world today, including that most sinister of all forces, ordin- ary secularism or, simply faith- l.essness - so frightening that mt man with public responsibilities must on that account cancel his faith and stand. in shame and in fear, mesmerized, mute, and speechless?" M At the top of my list, I must of course put Mr. Babcock, who in- spired my interest in sports and through his coaching and encour- agement, brought me far along the road. Then I would like to Dear Mr. Editor You have performed a public service, in your recent editorials on the subject. in drawing atten- tion to the weaknesses of the two year term for municipal councils. As a former weekly newspapei‘ publisher I have written numer- ous editorials on the same sub- ject. I must admit that they leaned strongly towards the two year term. Since then, however, experience has led me to change my opinions radically; The late Mr. Charles Lundy, who published the Aurora Banner for many years, summed the situation up very aptly when he said to me. a few years ago - “Look, if it's a good man or-a good council we can put hir or it back easily enough. If it‘s bad we don‘t have to suffer from it for two years.” Experience has prov- ed him to be abundantly right. In recent years there hag been a considerable amount of criti- cism over the fact that interest i. local municipal elections has been declining. It Is interesting to note that this has been partic- ularly evident where the two year term has been in effect. Th claim that no business would change its management every year has little validity. If that management was bad it certainly would. In any event shareholders expect an annual report from management - a right which mun- icipal voters haVe every reason to expect. on the subect of the two year term, justify me in suggesting that, with all its defects, the one year term has a very great deal to recommend it. Dear Mr. Editor: In saying this there is no im- plied criticism of the present or any other council or member thereof.‘ Contrary to what some people may think, Richmond Hill has been exceptionally fortunate throughout the years in the char- acter of its local government. One only has to see, as a newspaper- man does, the other side of the picture to realize how well the municipality has been served, by and large, by its elected leaders. Annual elec- tions play no small part in keep- ing them on their toes. As one who has only recently returned to Richmond Hill per- haps it would be becoming for me to keep quiet on the subject. However, I feel that my long as- sociation with the town - my very deep affection for itâ€"and cer- tainly my experience as a news- paper man which has caused a complete reversal_ of_ my opinions I would like to correct some statements that have appeared in the Toronto papers regarding land values in Markham Town- ship. I was quoted as saying that the land values have increased in certain areas by reason of the proposed CNR by-pass. I did not at any time say that land values have increased because of the CNR by-pass. There is little merit in the claim that doing away with an- nual elections saves money for the taxpayers. The few coppers per capita that these elections cost can easily - oh so easily - be outweighed by rashness on the part of a council which, com- placently aware that it does not have to answer to the electors and taxpayers for a couple of years, can inject into the conduct of municipal affairs. Dear Mr. Editor; What I did say and still say is that land prices have NOT de- creased because of the CNR by- pass. I was also quoted as saying that property assessment was only 10 per cent of sale value. What I did say was that LAND assess- ment was only 10 per cent of sale value. I too am a ratepayer I'm not in desperate need of water nor has my well run dry. Though I would not stand in the way of a scheme to bring water to this subdivision at a reasonable price, I do not intend to pay an exor- bitant price for water. May I suggest to some of the ratepayers that they take a good look at their wells and have them deep- ened by a regular well digger. Many of these so called wells are simply shallow holes in the ground, dug by amateurs. Then again those that have water in their well can not get at same, because of shallow well pumps they are using. Let's not put the whole subdivision in debt over their heads, just to satisfy a few people, who never did really have a well. Some ratepayers in this subdivision have quite a lot of money in their wells and septic tanks and are unhappy about paying any price at all for water. In fact a great many peo- ple in the Cooper Subdivision can ill afford to be taken in by some wild cat water scheme they could be steered into. CONCORD WATER SITUATION In a recent issue there appear- ed an article headed, “Concord owners ask for water." Five rate- payers and their Chairman ap- peared before the Vaughan Town- ship Council to urge some thing be done. Dear Mr. Editor The news this week that I had been awarded the Myrtle Cook Trophy. climaxed for me my most successful year in Track and Field. It has made me realize that I would like to express publicly a long overdue thanks to those many persons in Richmond Hill who have materially assisted or through words of encouragement, have helped me to achieve this honour. Thanks to Richmond Hill “Dear Mr. Editor” Markham Land Values Votes “No” On Two Year Tenn J. A. Fleming Assessment Commissioner, Markham Township Regular Subscriber F. J. Picking thank the Recreation Commission and service clubs which have as- sisted Richmond Hill Track and Field Club. Especially I feel I owe thanks to the Richmond Hill Rotary Club who sponsored my trip last year to the British Em- pire Trials in Saskatoon. Al- though I was not successful in making the team, the experience and recognition I received was invaluable and I feel in a large measure responsible for my be- ing selected for the Pan American Team this year. I would also like to thank Mr. Ron Crane of “The Liberal" and radio station CJRH for their many kind tributes. Such encourâ€" agement does much to inspire an athlete. Then of course I must remember the friends who have shown an interest in my endeav- ours. This year I competed under the banner of East York Track Club due to the lack of facilities in Richmond Hill. But as a member of the Pan American team I com- peted for Richmond Hill and for Canada. I hope the people of this town will continue to help and inspire their track and field athletes and that in the not too distant future Richmond Hill will have a track of its own. Yours in appreciation. Marian Munroe Telephone TUrner 4-1212 ‘ \l '“ "’ FREE PARKING REAR 0F THEATRE fir. Richmond Saturday Matinee, November 21 Only George Montgomery in Thurs., Fri., Sat. - November 19, 20, 21 Mon., Tues., Wed., - November 23, 24, 25 Show Times 7 and 9 pan. Continuous from 6 pm. 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