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cards w Three times as many valentines sent by men this year will go to mothers as to sweet hearts, is the prediction made by William E. Coutts, chairman of Coutts Hallmark cards. “It seems that a man might forget to send a card to his girl friend. but he makes sure that he somehow expresses his love and thanks to his mother,” he But this, state of affairs won’t hinâ€" der the gals â€" especially this February 14, said Mr. Coutts. He predicted that thousands of young ladies will take full advantage of the fact that this is Leap Year to let the man of their choice know they’re out to get him._ vuv -v --.- One of the cards they’ll be sending to carry the “message” shows a smug- ]ooking, male fox being told: - “You may think you’re pretty foxy But you’ve met your match, I betcha So I’m going to tell you here and now This year I’m going to getcha!" Mom is still the big favorite when it comes to receiving St. Valentine’s Day v Khbizfiéfitféhows a prim, bespectacled lady perched daintin on a satin-uphol- stered chair. said When we open the card we see why he doesn’t stand a chance. Inside, a sly lady fox is ready for him with a huge steel trap that snaps open and shut with the movement‘of the card.’ It is sometimes useful to remind ourselves that our community is ‘not really made up of stre'ets, houses and business buildings â€" it is made up of people. You and I are the community. In our society, this is especially true in the economic sense. We all depend on one another to some extent economic- ally, and all of«our economic activity, such as the buying and selling of goods and services, has a direct bearing on the welfare of our community and of the people in it. . Each Winter, partly because of the cold weather and partly because of habit, economic activity in this commun- ity slows down and some of our wage earners join the ranks of the unemploy- ed. This fact is well known. However, what is not always recognized is that when wage earners are unem loyed and unable to make their norma economic (fmntribution. the whole community suf- ers. THE LIBERAL, Richmond Hi11,7770ntario, Thursday, Now what can you as an individual do about it? ' As a householder you can arrange to have all types of inside work such as renovation, redecoration, repair, and other maintenance work around your Valenim es Then And Now An Independent Weekly: Established 1878 Subscription Rate $3.50 per year; to United States $4.50; 10c Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association ‘I iwrouldn’t hunt a man. or, do a "Authorized as second class A “TWORK OF OFFICES Amoss CANADA AND M LONDON - NEW YORK n CHICAGO - JAMAPGA wumuemmco-ooummu “PWOWW'WWADIWAM “Tide smiles all aroundâ€"even Rover’s laughing it up! Dad just made the down payment on their first home. How did he do: it? He saved‘for it with his BNS Personal Security Program. Next project they'll save for with PSP is Junior’s college education. Afier that, perhaps, a trip to Europe. Dad knows PSP is the surest way to saw; Why Wait For Spring With PSP, you predetermine you: THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA PSP helps you laugh at the old “can’t save” idea! J. E. SMITH, Editor and Publisher MONA ROBERTSON. Associate Editor 5 second class mail, Post Office-Department, Ottawa‘ m): liberal single thing I shouldn't! I wouldn't chase you Leap Year style,” she insists. But inside, we see her real self as she says “not much I wouldn’t” and with shoes off and spectacles flying, she pur- sues a fleeing male. Confronted with this kind of deter- mination, a fellow might as well give up. And, there’s even a card he can send when he’s doing that. For instance, he might despatch a greeting that states: “Hey Valentine! If you’re lookin I ain’t tookin.” Men weren’t any safer in the “good old days” either, as sending a lushly sentimental card 100 years ago was con- sidered equivalent to a marriage pro- posal. I,,, There was even greater barbarism â€" from the male viewpoint â€" in earâ€" lier Leap Year customs. If you’ll check your history you will find that in about 1288 a law was passed in Scotland that levied a fine of up to 100 pounds against any single man who turned down a lady who proposed to him. So, men také heart! Things may look bleak but they have been much. much worse. A few years later France passed a similar law. Then in the 15th century, similar ordinances were instituted in Florence and Genoa. home,_including dry-cleaning, done dur- ing the Winter months. As a member of a community or- ganization you can urge your group to schedule any construction with which it may be concerned and any other type of work for the Winter months and in- fluence others to do likewise. TheSe are some of the things you can do and I think you will find that it is to your advantage to do them in the Winter. Skilled tradesmen, not so rush- ed in the Winter months, can often do better work. Discounts are often offer- ed by firms to increase Winter business. There are other advantages to increas- ing Winter work, but I am sure that many of them will occur to you if you think about this problem. The main thing is that by giving your full support to the local Winter Employment Cam- paign, you are helping your community. .And, if you are in need of help t9 carry out a home improvement pro- gramme, call your nearest National Em- ployment Office. ' Home Improvements can be finanâ€" ced by Home Improvement Loans avail- able through your bank. savings goal, then reach it with 50 aqua! montth payments. The program com- pleted, you receive your total, plus a cash bonus. And as you save, the full amount of your goal is life-busured. Find out all about P8P the §u_re way to save Get this free booklet at any branch of the ENS February 11, 1960 ; 10c single copy Tiny Waverley was shut against the cold winter night at seven o’- clock in the evening. The stores dark. no lights except those shin- ing in the kitchens or living rooms. No wonder so many peo- ple in the hamlets and villages of Ontario live to be ninety and beyond. the middle of the winter? I don't suppose the Parry Sound district is particular- ly far up to most of you but it is to me. For one reason or another my trips to the north of the province have been few and my knowledge of what it must be like has been gleaned from Canadian poetry, history, and Tom Thomson’s paintings. “Ann” , ,1 LL_ u... ----°.,. So it was a revealing day’s drive up the “4007’ and the Trans-Canada Highway, and along several ice covered short cuts. Short cuts which are often like the sharp tooths of a saw, especially in Medonte between Goldwater and Waverly. Quiet Hamlet Have you travelled along the 40 mile stretch of the Trans-Can- ada highway from just past Mac- Tier to near Waubashene where not a light of a house is cast upon the road, only the shadows of the rocky ledges? There are the four big rivers, the MacDonald, the Moon. the Gibson all frozen with the win- ter cold. and the Muskoka runâ€" ning swiftly. dark and beautiful to the west. How one conjures up fantasies of Indians or trappers canoeing down the river in the dead of winter only to be told the river leads but to Georgian Bay through a great bush and not to a former Indian village, or an early Canadian fort. Have you seen ice covered Lake Joseph over which snowshoe tracks tell the only tale of human habitation. or Silver Lake with its white birch trees gleaming silvery in the sunlight and the moonlight? Our Productive Forests All along the rocky. tree- strewn hills are the big Depart- ment of Lands and Forests signs. “Our forests give you a better life." Think of the millions of dollars that have come out of these forests for Canadians in the years gone by, and we hope the years ahead. Then up the little road to Aid beg. The only farmer who lives a- long the one~car wide road. is master of the realm of pine, ce- dar and birch stretching for 18 miles on either side. He told us that he covered 16 miles a day tending his traplines. A trapper in a lonely and bleak countryside snowshoeing over five feet of snow in a bush with the snow- shoe rabbits and howling wolves for company. Returning home in the evening to his gentle farm, three hay- cocks are white sentinels in the twilight before his stone barn where the cattle are mooing in expectancy. A'picture of rustic Canada far removed from ‘our bustling Metro area. But Is It? Far removed? Only as far re- moved as your neighbor’s TV set. For here in the middle of no- where hydro lines are riding high, and dominating the bush around is the aerial of the farm- ers’ TV set. After the cows are milked this Radisson of 1906 will hear Percy Saltzman tell him what to ex- pect for tomorrow’s weather and Joyce Davidson will introduce him to the latest celebrity from Hollywood, Broadway or Toron- to. One is lost in thought on the little road with white treachery on either hand, and no garage or person within several hours walk, unless by a remarkable chance a car comes through. One feels a sense of complete isolation and yet within one‘s grasp are all the modern conveniences our world holds dear and necessary. How like each person’s life â€" a journey ‘of the soul isolated from all other souls, and yet if we but take the trouble to reach out. how hear at' hand we find others to help us. At the end of the narrow high- way we came to our destination, Ardbeg. Only ‘by rail. plane or foot can you get further into the bush to work, or to vacation in summer, or go hunting in the fall Tiny Ardbeg dominated by the look-out station for the forest rangers. The wooden houses of the north wrapped in a cocoon of snow. From the number of cars stuck deep in snowbanks it look- ed as if the battle against the el- ements had been lost. I wonder- ‘ed if it was a question of waiting for the spring thaw, or for an extra spurt of energy. Why So Undemon'strative? What makes Ontarioans so quiet, so withdrawn? A few days ago an archeologist friend of ours, who spent three months this sum- mer.in Red China at the invita- tion of the government there, was telling us the exuberance. pleas- antness and the gaiety had not been extinguished in the Chinese by their regimented existence to- day. In a northern town such as Par- ry Sound one would expect a cer- tain joie de vivre, an open-hand- ed friendliness. Outwardly it was run. and 6.30 to 9 pm. If you can be a volunteer or wish any further information please call Mrs. Cougblin at AV. 5-5354. Many Canadian mbthers and their children owe their lives to someone who was a Blood Donor. This very nec. essary work of securing Blood Donations is carried on here by the Catholic Women’s League. The next Clinic in Rich- mond Bill will be Tuesday. February 23rd. The location is the Richmond Hill Public Library and the hours 2 to 4 Have you driven up to the northern part of Ontario in Blood Donor Clinic Feb. 23rd â€" Jpealzing [Jerdonally - OUR BEAUTIFUL, FORBIDDING LAND (By Jane Fort Manning) as mushy and dirty as most Can- adian towns get in the winter but inside a restaurant I expecte’d a little more pleasantry and gaiety. It was the quietest meal I ever had. Solitary men in business suits who looked as if the “family lived nearer Toronto”, and busi- ness girls. single or in pairs ate looking straight ahead, sadly. A blare of rock and roll was an in- congruous noise at one brief point. The proprietor of Chinese ex- traction sat as quiet and with- drawn as his clientele, proving that it isn’t just the Scots who are dour! In Canada it even afâ€" fects the convivial Chinese. We’re Freer Out of Doors Most of our Canadian paintings depict the out of doors. and most pictures adorning Canadian walls are landscapes. Is it because it is only in the out-of-doors that we feel unfettered and free. a nat- ural part of this immense land? This land and its weather, that can make our accomplishments and dreams like toys knocked ov- er by a sullen child. It lashes out against us, cowing us at one mom- ent. challenging us the next. Is it any wonder we sink into a shell and just peek out like a turtle to see what‘s going on? Christianity has always been a missionary faith. For this reason, it has been accused of being a reigion with a “superiority com- plex". Its critics claim that it has no right to think or speak of it- self as being th-e only true 're- ligion. This breathes the air of arrogance and self righteousness. Every man has his own religion, and the Church should leave oth- er people alone who do not share the same beliefs, but still have some kind of faith which gives integration to their lives. Calvin H. Chambers ARE MISSIONS NECESSARY? Why is the Church missionary minded? This takes us to the very heart of the Christian Gospel. The Church is missionary because of the Person of Jesus Christ. The people who so often criti- cize the world wide efforts of the Church to win men to Christ, of- ten speak of Him as “the Greatest man who ever lived”. Do they really take what they say about Him seriously? When we come to the New Testament, we not only read about a Man who went about doing good, healing the sick. comforting those in sorrow, prea- ching the gospel of the Kingdom of God, but we also read about His concern for reaching people. Christ said, “I come not to call 'the righteous, but sinners to re- pent". He called men to be His disciples saying, “Come ye after me, and I will make you fishers of men’. He sent out seventy of His disciples “into all the cities and villages round about Judea” He showed by his attitude toward the woman at the well of Sam- aria, the Greeks who visited Him, the Syro-Phoenecian woman who came seeking healing, that He ‘had a deep concern for people ‘outside the Hebrew faith. He re- vealed Himself to be missionary minded when He said ,“Other ‘sheep I have, which are not of , this fold, them also I must bring”. At the conclusion of His earthly ministry, He commissioned His disciples for their divinely ap- pointed task when He said, “Go ,,,L_ §Ie ihia All the world and make disciples of all nations”. If the Church takes Jesus seriou§lyznit is her inescapable responsibility to be missionary in her program. Not to be, is to betray our belief in Him as the supreme revelation of God to man. The Church must humbly con- fess that all too often her mis- sionary methods have been any- thing but desirable. Over the centuries she often displayed an arrogant and unloving attitude towards those outside the Chris- tian Church. On many occasions men were coerced into the Church by force rather than by faith. Thousands were persecuted be- cause they would not yield im- mediately to the claims of Christ. In the 19th century. the modern missionasy movement was assoc- iated much too closely with the British and European imperial- ism. The peoples of the East came to think of Christianity as a Wes- tern religion, seeking to propa- gate western ideals and culture. These blotches upon the history of missions must be readily con- fessed by all who face facts. But nevertheless, this does not relieve the Church of its duty. Paul said to the Corinthians. “We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants”. If the Church goes out into the world, with a high minded attitude that we have all the truth and the heathen are in absolute dismal darkness, she hardly shows the marks of being a servant. But, if she goes out to the world, pointing beyond herself Ato Christ, and assuming the role of the servant. then her missionary work is justified, and will always bear fruit. My and Faith Facts “Dear Mr. Editor” Dear Mr. Editor:- In the February 4th issue of The Liberal, on page 4. Reeve W. J. Haggart was quoted as 533’- ing that he has little regard for petitions and has little faith in them. This kind of cyncal anim- adversion justly deserves sharp rebuke for several reasons. First. even Mr. Haggart ought to admit that any group of peo- ple have the right to make their wishes and opinions known to their elected representatives. There are a number of ways.of doing this. Petitions have long been recognized as one way of expressing concerted public op- inion. Second. Mr. Haggart is report- ed to have said that “half the people who sign petitions don’t know what they're signing." As one who has conveyed and sub- scribed to petitions, I can assure our Reeve (for whom I voted. by the way. in the last civic elec- tion) that not only do people read them, but they read them closely, and some do not sign be- cause they do not agree with the matter under petition. Third. Mr. Haggart’s reported statement that “you can go on any street and get a petition for anything anytime" is. in the light of my experience. an invidious reflection on the intelligence and civic interest of many of the el- ectors of the town of Richmond Hill. How far, in fact. does Mr. Haggart think he would get with .‘uob... _ v“, a petition requesting thatâ€"all pro- perty assessment in Richmond Hill be doubled? Fourth. and finally. as a rate- payer and one who is vitally in- terested in what goes on in our town, I wish to inform Mr. Hag- gart that not only do I believe in the importance and effective- ness of petitions, but that I and a number of my neighbors will be watching quite carefully the kind of reception accorded by him and his fellow councillors to any petition we decide to submit for reasons we, consider import- ant. And. if indeed Mr. Haggart still does not intend to take pe- titions seriously, I would suggest that it would be a point of politi- cal wisdom if he appeared to do so! Yours sincerely, John C. Wilson «5--., __ ., ,The writer stated the opinions were not her own, and signed an anonymous name, so is well cloaked, and safe from any op- posite opinion. I do not agree in the least. I am a mother and have a right to express and support. the true rights of our children. Teenagers do deserve something from adult; and that’s the reason we are par- ents, to give our children what they need when they need it. Just any old time is not good enough; it is a daily responsibil- ity and when you have difficulty, do not attack others first. Look unto what you have done, and what you have not done, there you will find who is supposed to help who. .' 1 .. LHJJ r ' . Teenagers. and adults should face responsibilities. If they are not accepted, how are they to be responsible, and who are we to judge? There is not one perfect among us. We must be perfect to judge even the littlest thing. It is ,L:__. 4....5- an accepted fact, true perfection is seldom reached, so why try? Just do the best you can without exhausting your strength, a smile for a frown, a kind word for a thoughtless word. Patience with others who don’t understand, and hate, this horrible word does not belong in our generation. Our generation lacks moral support, each time we use the word hate. we make others see the type of person we are.‘Why not use the word love instead; love is a gift from “God”, given equally to all. And God is so generous, how can 'we keep our love from those at; ound us who need the Spirit Love. This is what our teenagers feel we owe them -â€" Love, for love covers all understanding. And we do owe them love. It is love that brought us into being, and they have a right to it as human be- ings also. _ 1 If you doubt their understand- ing, do not condemn; talk with them, read their stories and poems, listen openly to their op- inions of world affairs, and if you have the courage ask them their opinion of you._ I am positive their iove will reach you before you can begin. I hope anyone who might have been discouraged by the letter of a few weeks ago will be encourag- ed knowing we do care about our children of all ages. There are parents who do love and under- stand. Love will not fail. The out- side actions of our children come from the inside direction of our parents -â€" Home. ‘ - oâ€"AI, STUART 'PAXTON WIRING LINE won! Electrician Richmond Hill a; District On“ For Information call Eiohmond Bill TU. 4â€"1229 TU. 4-4821 AV. 5-4825 Thornhill AV. 5-1603 AV. 5-1743 ALpine 7-2650 Believes In Importance Of Petitions 89 Bedford Park Avenue. Richmond Hill. Ontario February 5, 1960 CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY Phone TUrner 4-2881 AV 5-2408 Dnlonvllle 239 Winnafred L. Toth Phone TUrner 4-1212 _ A SECRET EDEN TURNED shin-o A RAGING HELL! Please note: Thurs., Fri., last complete show 8.30 pm. Sat. Continuous from 6 pm. Last complete show 9 Saturday Matinee, February 13, 2 pm. Only 4 DAYS M0n.,~ Tues.. Wed., Thurs. - Feb. 15, 16, 17, 18 DOBBS" "CHISKEN-N _ Motion Thurs., Fri., Sat., February 11, 12, 13 fi‘mm-wfiifim-m W~mm m syn .a. . m m m muquumaamm' V “Wu-0mmmm»nmmauvmmflmxmnwmm CLINT Bravo! MUM They'ré"?iomndqus In... 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