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-Dr. Shirley Cooper, associate See- retary of the American Association of School Administrators says that pro- longing the total period of instruction has become “almost a necessity. Child- ren of today have more to learn than ever before in cultural subjects as well as the sciences,” she has stated. One of the most important trends in American education is about to be initiated south of our border. American children living in the United States, who now attend school for about 1,000 hours a. year, are headed for longer stints in the classroom. Washington has disclosâ€" ed that districts throughout the coun- try are taking steps to (1) Lengthen the school day, (2) the school year, or (3) lengthen both. The solution, as far as the United States Department of Education is con: corned, is “more time in the classrooms for a better education”. At present the school day averages about five and a. half hours in the classroom. Dr. Lloyd E. Blanch, Assistant Un- ited States Commissioner of Education says, “There are three ways to stretch the hours of learning”. Dr. Blauch's suggestion of (1) a regular eight-hour day, from nine to five with all homework done at school has not stirred widespread enthusiasm. However high schools in three states of the union have added one classroom pera iod this term. In a central school system near Ithaca, N.Y., at Lansing, a “volune tary” period has been instituted for children who want to Work on special projects in science or business educa- LvuA u mug...” Christmas is a time for thinking of others and of gift-giving. For Christians there is a special significance in the exâ€" change of gifts. For virtually all Canaâ€" dians Christmas is the occasion for re- membering family and friends with gifts. Frequently one hears complaints that Christmas has become only a com- mercial enterprise from which the real spirit of giving has disappeared. How- ever true this may be,’ Christmas 1959 Christmas gift-giving and the Un- ited Nations World Refugees Year, June 1959-June 1960 is an all-out World Humanitarian venture of special help for the World’s forgotten people, the REFUGEES. ‘ _ __ _ . , ;-"thréflChristmas' of World Refugee Year â€" offers an opportunity to give THE LIBERAL, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Thursday, Decembetj717, 1959 Subscription Rate $3.50 per year “Authorized as second of Longer School Hours Necessary Today An Independent Weekly: Established 1878 ’\â€"â€"/ n 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, Editor and Publisher MONA ROBERTSON. Associate Editor 5 second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa." an): liberal °I “Inasmuch” tion. (2) Another alternative is for child- ren to attend classes six days a week, as Russian students do. But most teach- ers, parents â€"- and children â€" take a dim View of this idea in the States. However Rock Island, Illinois, has begun to offer special Saturday classes, on a voluntary basis, for talented young- sters. The lengthening of the school year which now averages 180 days. Ed- ucators and parents alike believe this is a long-overdue reform. The nine- month school term was instituted in the nineteenth century when children were needed on the farms during the summer months. As a major reform step Wash. ington has added one week to its term this year and others are taking similar steps. In your Christmas giving this year you can transform a refugee into a friend. York Branch of United Nations, Committee for World Refugee Year solicits your co-operation and help. Cheques may be made and contributions sent to “World Refugee Fund”, Bank of Montreal, Richmond Hill. to those in need. This year a special attempt is be- ing made to bring substantial help to refugees the world over and in particu- lar to refugees still remaining in post- war camps in Eurppe. The United Nations urgently needs your help to close these camps and to give refugees their rightful opportun- ity to find the renewed faith, hope and usefulness they yearn for. 7 And the fourth alternative is to provide summer classes for chiidren who need or want additional teaching. The fourth. alternative is by far the most popular and summer school programs were offered this year in nearly all cities south of the border, and in hundreds of small communities. Edu- cators believe that by utilizing the sum° mer months to enrich the educational diet of bright and average students and by offering courses for lagging students the educational level will rise within a few years. Isn’t it time Canadian departments of education investigated the possibility of using at least part of the summer months â€"- to bolster and improve our sons and daughters, academically? Christianity has often been ac- cused by its enemies of advocat- ing weakness instead of strength. Especially when we consider the words, “blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth." But whth kind of strength has he got? There are certain types of strength which are evil and contrary to the will of God. Military aggression, strong arm tactics. economic pressures, are, types of human strength which disregard the rights of the individwal, and trample upon him as a person. * But this criticism is ill foundâ€" ed, because it does not under- stand what the Bible means by meekness. The meek are not the door mats to be walked upon. Actually, they are the strong people of earth. Moses is des- cribed in Scripture as “the meekest man that ever lived." Certainly he was not a weak man, when we consider how he ruled and governed Israel dur- ing their escape from Egypt and their 40 years owaandering in the wilderness of Sinai. Jesus also speaks of himself as “meek and lowly of heart". Was Jesus weak? The Gospel illustrates His great strength on so many occas- ions. Not only did. He fearlessly empty the temple of its money changers, but He delivered man who had come under the power of Satan, and set them free. Thus we see from Moses, the greatest figure in the Old Testa- ment, and Jesus ,the central fi- gure in the new Testament, that meekness is not weakness. He who is meek is truly strong. The strength which under lies the meek and lowly spirit is not selfish. but selfless. It is strong on behalf of the welfare of others. It is a strength which can be aroused to action when it sees God’s plan for humanity be- ing undermined by sinful men. If we learn anyhing from Christ. it is this, that meekness is “full of abounding vitality, energetic pursuit of purpose. hatred of hypocrisy. shame and inhumanity.” Wherever these exist the Christian must feel the "anger of the Lord” come unto him. We cannot be passive and indifferent to anything which destroys the Creator’s divine intent for His creation. When we. look art history, we see that Christian men and wo- men who have sought after meekness, have been strong in spirit for the welfare of man. Think of Abraham Lincoln, who once said. “I know there is a God and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming and I know His hand is in it. If He has a place and a work for me. and I believe has, I‘ am ready. I am 11 71 but truth. is everything.” 9 was a man full of math for w“ t he knew was wrong, and t“ 5 full of strength as he tried, is best to do what he believed was right. .. *5. There are many others who revealed this meek spirit on be- half of others. Florence Night- ingale fought patiently a lonely battle in opening up the field of nursing service for women. William Wilberforce fought with tenacity those who still supported the evil or! slavery. Elizabeth Fry was known for her “Courtly gentleness,” yet she worked persistently ‘to help those who Were being destroyed in the dreadful prisons of the 19th century. Meekness cannot be identified with non-resistance. It is rather a virtue Which grows in us as we look out upon the warld though the eyes of Jesus. We know that the earth is the Lord’s, and the true Christian is ready to fight in the spirit of meekness, for the welfare of man, under God his Cream: and Redeemer. For complete service and parts -â€"new machinery and industrial equipment. Goodyear Tire Service. Give us a call for demonstu- tion and full particulars. 3 miles south of Bolton on Km. 50 R. R. 3 Bolton Phone Bolton 150 All persons having claims ag- ainst the Estate of Aubrey Mun- ro Sutherland Nicol, who died on the 29th day of October 1959, are required to file proof of their claims with the undersigned Adâ€" minstrator with the will annexed, on or before the 11th day of January 1960. After that date the Administrator with the will an- nexed will proceed to distribute the Estate having regard only to the claims of which it shall then have had notice. The Sterling Trusts Corporation. 372 Bay Street, Toronto. Ontario, Administrators with the will an- nexed by J. N. Mulholland, Q.C., 80 Richmond Street, West, Tor- onto, Ontario its Solicitor herein. TO .CREDI’I‘ORS AND OTHERS IN THE ESTATE of Aubrey Munro Sutherland Nicol, late of Elgin Mills, in the Township of Vaughan, Woodworker. Dated at Toronto, this 7th day of December, 1959. "Meekness Not Weakness" WILLIAMS Service & Supply MASSEY-FERGUSON SALES & SERVICE NOTICE Faith Facts and This week all the boys and girls in schools across Canada are getting ready for the Christ- mas programs to be held next week before school dismisses on Tuesday the 22nd for the Christ- mas holidays. But for so many it’s the con- cert in the little rural school that comes nostalgically to mind during the days just before Christmas. And many children in Vaughan and Markham town- ships will be participating in just such concerts this Christ- mas. . Remember And the parents. fat and lean, tall and short, blond. brunette, and grey, all enveloped in a mass of coats and sweaters and winter caps and hats. The prob- lem of finding a place for all the clothing. The lively babies, the boisterous little children. And everyone smiling and hap- py in anticipation of the even- ing rahead. _ The teacher agitatedly tried to produce order out of chaos. to get those on the program sit- ting in their proper pl-aces, while at the same time she must smile and greet each arriving parent. It Begins At 'last nearly everyone seems to have arrived. People an; set- tling down. anxious to get start- ed. Jo you remember the Christ- mas concerts at school? Little toothless - in - front, blonde curls behind. Linda in her fancy “Sund-ay best" recites, forgetting only once, "Welcome to our program, Enjoy every minute. My little speech, Is just to begin it.” Then the recitations, the mar- ching drills with the tinsel Remember the night of the concert, the heat that came steaming out as the door was opened onto the cold, starry night? The pot bellied stove within, wihh the red and orange flames leaping up the chimney and the pile of wood with chips littering the floor around the stove? 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And the feeling steals over the entire group within the little school- house, it is really Christmas!-â€" we are at Bethlehem offering our gifts of ourselves to the Baby‘ Jesus. After the program there is the tree, resplendent though by now rather tipsy. The Chairman of the Board, such an important personage at this time, comes forward to congratulate the tea- cher and the pupils. Then Santa Claus gallops in and with the help of the teacher distributes the presents. Everyone has “got” someone else’s name. The tear cher hopes no one has been forgotten. The noise begins to mount by the time the last candy and orange have been passed out, the babies are yelling, the little children are yelling, and the parents are getting a rather wild look. Mittens and boots are located. The coats piled on, the children are piled in, and the ride home in the frosty night with the snow no‘w softly falling begins. The children are asleep, or bemused with an after the party langour. 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