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TONSULT “THE llBERAL" FOR NoIion Honors Mothers May I3 Undoubtedly television is pro- viding added interest to national elâ€" ections by giving more people an op- portunity to see and hear political leaders. Some think it can be ever- done. and the Sudbury Star says that if John Q. Public had his way he would limit all political broadcasting Folks of all political persuasion who during coming- weeks may have reason to complain of an overdose of political fare on their television will be tempted to agree with the Sud- bury Star in the suggestion to limit political broadcasts. by the Municipal Board and the Metro Planning Board will determine what course the area will take in the years that lie ahead. Now is the time for the taxpayers to take a real interest in what their council and planning It was unfortunate that only 12 citizens were able to attend the re- cent annual meeting of the Highland Park Ratepayers’ Association. The meeting, which was held in the Hen- derson Ave. Public School, was an important one from the standpoint of the future development plans for the south-west corner of Markham Township. Those who did attend had an opportunity to meet and discuss many of the problems and future plans with three of their elected rep- resentatives. Reeve W. R. Dean, Deputy-Reeve Lawson Mumberson. and Councillor A. Sumner were all present. The southern part of the township is now going through many changes, and decisions to be made not only by the _council_ gndA planning board but By 1914, less than ten years af- ter her mother’s death, Anna Jarvis had persuaded the Congress of the United States to pass a joint resolu- tion which “authorized and request- ed” President Woodrow Wilson to sign a proclamation establishing the second Sunday of May as Mother’s Accordingly, in May 1907, she arranged the first memorial service for mothers. It was held at Saint Andrew’s. The following year, Miss Jarvis persuaded Philadelphia offi- cials to proclaim the first city-wide Mother’s Day. At her urging, West Virginia made Mother’s Day a state- wide observance in 1912 and Penn- sylvania did the same the following year. After her mother’s death, Miss Jarvis resolved to carry on the tradi- tion and to dedicate her life to the establishment of the second Sunday of May each year as a day set aside for honoring mothers everywhere. Miss Anna M. Jarvis, founder of Mother’s Day, grew up in Grafton, West Virginia, where her mother taught Sunday school at Saint An- drew’s Methodist Church. It was Mrs. Jarvis’ custom once a year to hold a special ceremony in honor of the mothers of her students. The almost universal celebration of Mother’s Day, observed this year on May 13, is a fitting tribute to the inspirational life of a little known Sunday school teacher who died in 1905. Richmond Hill Town Council is on the right track in its decision to review the question of the amount of lot fees to be charged on apartâ€" ment developments. The matter of apartment lot fees was highlighted by the request of builder Ben Freedman for a refund on the fees he has al- ready paid on his Colborne Ave. property. Mr. Freedman originally intended to construct three houses and accordingly paid the municipality $1,950 in lots fees. After digging three basements he changed his mind and decided instead to build a 35 suite apartment building. He then secured permission from the planning board to change his property back from three separate lots to one lot on which to build his apartment. At present Richmond Hill charges lot fees of $500 on single lots and $800 on semi-detached lots. In addition a builder must take a five percent land dedication for park purposes or in An Independent Weekly: Established 1878 9c” L h.“ 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. Editor and Publisher W. S. COOK. Managing Editor QUALITY JOB pmmma ; PHONE TU; 4.1105 AV. 5-3316! THE LIBERAL, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Thiuljsday. My 10. 1962 More Ruiepayer Interest "Authorized as second class mail. Post Office Department, Ottawa" Political Broadcasts 0131): liberal Apartment lot Fees The suggested limit may be pretty extreme in the other direction but political parties should take heed and make sure not to risk unpopular- ity by too much exposure of their leaders, and too much interference with popular programs. A devoted follower of Wagon Train may not take kindly to continuous interrup- tions by people who want to discuss the vital issue of the nation. Sounds strange. but it might be true. to one “election night" about three days before voting date. by the feelings of their constituents. The public meeting sponsored by the Highland Park Association is a major way in which property owners in a particular area can make their wishes known. The planning and develop- ment decisions to be made by council and planning board will have a far- reaching effect on the future social and economic life of the community. Therefore, it’s only common sense that the present population should let it be known what kind of a com- munity they want in the future. During the Middle Ages, she re- ports, a custom was begun in Eng- land on the middle Sunday of Lent that became known as Mothering Sunday. This was a day on which children, away from home learning“ a trade, returned to the “mother” church, where they had been chris- tened, for special services, after which it became the custom to present their mothers with a plum pudding. board are suggesting and what pat- tern they feel future development should take. Planning and develop- ment decisions are far-reaching and, in most cases, final, so obviously a great deal of care and study should be undertaken before any course of action is decided upon. The existing property owners in any community should take a deep and abiding in- terest in the future development plans of their home area. The peo- ple’s elected representatives will be guided in their thinking and actions “The early Greeks worshipped Cybele, mother of the gods, with special rites in woods and fields. The practice was brought to Rome about 250 RC. with the festival of Hilaria, held in honor of the same Cybele. The advent of Christianity brought dig- nity to ceremonies honoring mother- hood with veneration paid to the Vir- gin Mother a Queen of Heaven and to our earthl mothers as well,” said Mrs. MacPherson, curator of a his- torical collection of greeting cards. Miss Jarvis, who never married, continued her crusade for more than 40 years. When she died in 1948 in Philadelphia at the age of 84, Mo- ther’s Day had grown from the first memorial service at Saint Andrew’s to an international tradition. Besides Canada and the U.S.. the custom is now observed in Latin America and countries in Europe and the Pacific. Although our modern conception of Mother’s Day is of relatively re- cent origin, similar observances may be found in many past cultures. Obviously a new category is re- quired covering apartment develop- ment. It stands to reason an apart- ment development should certainly pay more in lot fees than a person building a single family dwelling. The schedule of lot fees should be graduated to cover single units, semis and apartments. If Reeve Floyd Per- kins’ forecast of increased apartment construction in the Bayview Avenue South area this year is correct then it is imperative that council prepare a new schedule of lot fees as quickly as possible. The next question is on what basis should apartment lot fees be calculated. The suggestion has been made that it should be calculated on the number of suites any proposed building will contain. Regardless of what the final decision may be a schedule of apartment lot fees is certainly needed. Day. lieu of this make a $150 donation per lot. This habit of being incurious is a general af- fliction and nearly all of us suffer from it. If a thing can be done anytime, that’s the thing that never gets done. If people in Thornhill, Richmond Hill, and other points in the district knew that Pioneer Vill- age was going to be blown to bits by a bomb tomor- row, many would rush off to see it this afternoon. But we are conscious that we have a whole lifetime to see it, so we never do. Pioneer,Village is close. Perhaps it is too close. We think we can go there anytime. This attitude keeps us from exploring our own village, knowing our own streets, our county, our own province, and our own country. We’re in it. We may eventually get to Florida, London, England, or Japan but chances are we’ll never really see Can- ada. Because we live in it. We’re always going to explore it some time, but we have all the time in the world . . . or so we think! WHY ARE WE SO INCURIOUS? Why is it that visitors to Toronto or other places usually take note of the points of interest about a place while the people who live there never seem to find the time. It is so, more or less with most of us. Look at how close many of us live to the City of Tor- onto. You will be astonished at the number of things that you have not seen . . . because they are so near. Have you been to see historic old Fort York or the Toronto Museum? How about the Toronto Art Gall- ery, Casa Loma and others? I haven’t been to all of them either though it is only a short ride by bus or subway and I think about all the other places in Tor- onto I’d like to see, but I am always going, but I never seem to get there. As the second Sunday in May approaches, it is only natural that we should turn our thoughts to our mothers, and especially all those wonderful mothers ‘ who are grandmothers to our children. It is of them i I am thinking as Mother’s Day draws near. Some of l those mothers may be just tender memories for their " children but for those who are still living, may they reap the harvest of love that they so richly deserve. Every mother has her difference, I suppose, but to me, Mother was a very special kind of person. I guess you would call her old-fashioned by present day standards. Her hands were willing servants for others, though her feet often dragged because of a disabling arthritis. She never complained. Even in these later years, she keeps going, slowly and pain- fully, in the service of her family. When I look at her now, I see that she is little and as sweet as can be. Her face has acquired that aged and gentle look that only time being well used can bring. I never saw my mother lose her temper. She must have at times, but I didn’t see it. She wasn’t one to foist her troub- les on other people. There are things that I forget about my mother, things like whether she was a spic and span housekeeper seven days a week, though I’m sure she made the best use of her time whatever it was. She is still a good cook, but I do not remember the goodness of the food as much as her smile. The things that stay with me the most are things she did to make me feel like a person. She let me know that she loved me. She always listened to me . . . and encouraged me when I needed it. She showed her pride in my accomplishments whenever they merit- ed it, and when they didn’t she didn’t blame or scold. Somehow I know I didn’t always deserve her patience and her gentleness..but well that was her way with us all. One special thing I remember was that she used to sing snatches of songs when she Was doing dishes, baking bread or sewing. She sang the same songs to some of her grandchildren while they sat upon her knee in the old-fashioned rocker. Now they sing them with her. She loved to tell stories about when she was a girl in Norway and because she was Mrs. Axelson finds writing a real challenge and she plans to go into other fields and perhaos try her hand at writing radio scripts or plays. She has al- ready produced a book on adult fiction and she has received favorable comment from an American nub- lisher with the recommendation to rewrite it. Mary Lee Axelson is a member of the Toronto Branch of the Canadian Women’s Press Club. and finds assoc- iation with other writers stimulating to her work. “Writing has been a great thing for me.” she declared, “it has given me a keener anpreciation of life . . . and made me more analytical'and discerning. I be- lieve it has made me more interesting to mV children as an individual and in general it has made my life rich and full. Because my husband is an editor, he understands my need to write, and the writing and sellimr of my hooks has reallv given us somethinsr to talk about.” Mary Lee mentioned that writinrr was also Good discinline for in order to be as prolific as she is, she writes 600 words a day, come rain or come shine. I horae manv of you had the pleasm-e of seeing Mrs. Axelson being interviewed by the CBC on Open House, on Friday afternoon, May the fourth. “It was lucky for me that I followed my hus- band’s advice,” said Mrs. Axelson, “becaus ' the child- ren are my best critics. I test all my/storie on them. I find that they are quicker to sense a mistake than even an adult.” Mary Lee Axelson explained that her stories have been more or less involved with animals, and she is kept informed by her publishing company, DANNY BOOKS of CANADA, a firm that has its home office in Sweden, iust what is the current need on the market. Her books are translated into five Ian. 'guages. Spanish, German, French, English and Swed~ ish. The number of books published so far is 19 and the lencth of the book depends on the aqe group. Two of her books are currently being used for supplemen- tary reading in Quebec schools. They are “Sentry Skunk,” and “Chubby Beaver’s Secret Door.” This last one sold over 150.000 cooies. MARY LEE AXELSON WRITES STORIES FOR CHILDREN Mary Lee Axelson, 15 Highland Park Blvd. took up writing simply because she didn’t want to be bog- ged down while she was raising her family. So thanks to an understanding husband who is also editor of a McLean-Hunter trade publication on Canadian Shipping and Marine Engineering, she began to write when her last child grew out of baby- hood. She experimented with children’s stories be- cause her husband gave her the soundest of all pos- sible advice to a would-be writer. “Write about some- thing you know.” The results were very successful and she is now an established writer of children’s stories. a sea-captain’s daughter, she'instilled in me a love for ships and the sea and a beautiful land of fiords and mountains. She was an artist in her soul. And so this Mother’s Day, I think of you so much, dear grandmother of my children and also of all the other grandmothers who have their own spec- ial place in the hearts of their children. By Elisabeth Kelson THE GRANDMOTHERS OF OUR CHILDREN am Dill/lg WPOl/U’l What created this situation anyway? From my dealings with the association it is quite clear that any boy of eligible sage, living in the confines of \Richmond Hill, is eligible to play hockey in our town. A fee ‘of $5.00 upon registration. plus ;a twenty-five cent admittance \fee per game is necessary and fair in order to operate the R.H.H.A. Boys with desire and ‘character are not restricted thr- ough lack of funds. After regis- tration they are allocated to dif- ferent teams and, to the best ability of the coaches and ex- ecutives, are kept within reason- able balance in order to insure1 interesting and competitive hoc- key. But in the meantime some- thing happens. After the season starts. boys. with hockey ability are stolen from these house lea- gue teams and put on an all-star team â€" in this age group â€"- )EC’OI’ICI jAOMdAlé . Quite a story Ron. but from you it is anything but typical. Maybe the fact that the team ‘played the third game â€"- in ‘one day â€" never occurred to you in the light of its serious effect on the mental and physical con- dition of these boys â€" eleven years of age and under. Why, in the name of all that is good common sense. were these boys entered in this third game? Was this a sound deâ€" cision? Are we trying to find out how many games that boys, still in their formative and baby years, can stand? Are we trying to exploit our youth? Are we trying to create pros? Are we trying to build up the prestige of a coach, a town, an association â€" just what are we trying to do? Under these con- ditions we are creating a slave market in hockey or attempting to create physical ruin with our young, healthy and ambitious boys. Fifty-seven games and "X" number of practises â€" what have the educators to say a- bout this? Boy-s â€"â€" eleven years‘ of age and under. Last Thursday this club play- ed two games in the Brampton Hockey Tournament and were required to play a game in the King Clancy Series at George Bell Arena. The article Sports Writer Ron Craine wrote in “The Liberal" stated that Coach Earl Methe had to help exhaus- ted and injured players from the ice. Then at eight minutes to go the coach withdrew the‘ team from the ice and benched them. For this action you have expressed terms of fair play and commendation to the coach for his heroic action â€" in view that he was in danger of suspen- sio§;_should he be suspended? al. The Sing Alongs had quite a season. They played a total of 59 games and won forty of ‘these; some record. Of course there was no mention of the number of exhibition games played during the season that would surely bring it up to close ‘to seventy games this re- cord would almost compare with the pros. And these boys are only eleven years of age and‘ under. l Another monorail system has been proposed by Toronto Aldermen. This one would run from downtown to the ONE. grounds. Last time it was a monorail to Malton. These fellows certainly have single-track minds, don’t they? Last week's “Liberal” says a. lecturer who ap- peared locally to speak on vegetarianism “includes among his friends such world figures as George Ber- nard Shaw and Mahatma. Ghandi, both of whom be- lieve in strict vegetarian living” . . . What does he do with his vegetables? Eat themâ€"or smoke them? Congratulations to Ron Craine for his fine and most informa- tl»ve_a>rtic}¢ in last week’s Liber- ARE WE EXPLOITING OUR YOUNG HOCKEY PLAYERS? Dear Mr. Editor A delegate to the recent O.E.A. convention says there are now 445 programs either completed or plan- ned for the new teaching machines â€" including one on grief and mourning for adults . . . Just looking at the machines should be enough. Etobicoke school trustees have approved a course in Russian to be taught in their collegiate next Sep- tember. There’s nothing like being prepared for the worst, but how are they going to translate Etobicoke into Russian? . Forty children were picketing a small park in Swansea because the village wouldn’t allow them to play in it. The Toronto papers described the park as a “parkette” and it naturally follows that the pint- sized picketers would be pickettes. A tiny tooth-sized radio transmitter has been developed by a US. electronics firm . . . Giving our kids the powerful argument that even electronics en- gineers read the Steve Canyon comics. One of the top advisers in the Department of Ag- riculture has resigned his post to do research for Prime Minister Diefenbaker during his election cam- l paign . . . And advise him how high to spread it? i 01’ Casey Stengel, manager of the sub-cellar New York Mets, has been fined $500 for posing for a beer advertisement showing him holding a bat while a pretty girl stands behind with a glove and ball . . . The whole team, eh? Mr. Diefenbaker has pointed to Canada’s northern development as a monument to his administration . . . Maybe, on second thought, he might like to reconsider how we may interpret the word "monument". Pipes specially made for women smokers are now being marketed in England. They are said to be designed to match any shade of lipstick .. . Which is just another way of saying that the stems will be all one colour â€" white. Toronto is making formal application for the 1967 World’s Fair now that Russia has cancelled its plan to hold it there. The city should first check with the Russians. They may have something else in mind for 1967. Like, no world! by Georg. Maya: 0 Yesterday’s news is not necessarily dead. “Dear Mr. Editor ” any During the period of six and a half weeks. Eire, England, France. Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Finland and the U.S.- S.R. were visited. In all countri- es they enjoyed grea-t hospit- ality and were afforded every opportunity to see the work going on and to have discussions with the top officials. These films were a record of a trip to Europe in April and May of 1961, when he accom- panied Hon. J. W. Spooner. Minister of Lands and Forests and Mr. A. B. Wheatley chief of the parks branch. The pur- pose of the trip was to study the Natural Resources, particu- larly as regards to management policies and techniques, of Euro- pean countries which have a longer experience than we have, or which have special situations of interest to us, also to make‘ an assessment of market com- petition. Many promising hockey car- eers have been terminated be- cause a boy was burned out at 18 years because he was pushed and overworked. Yes. the young hockey wan‘lers should be as- sured of a better than even break â€"â€" but not this way. Should it be brick bats or bou- quets? Why do we travel? To »see the colourful life of foreign lands, places of historic import- ance, cities of romance, the world's treasures of art? When Mr. George Bayly, assistant de- puty minister of Lands and For- ests travels abroad, he goes to see the trees. This specialized slant made most interesting his films which he presented at the April meet- ing of the Naturalists. He also included many items of interest to naturalists and to tourists at large. You may ask why? The an- swer is clear, the practise is wrong because why should a select group of boys get prefer- red treatment when they are all supposed to be treated on equal basis. Maybe if the parents would read the recent articles in the Star Weekly they would understand just what we are leading our boys up to. I have played hockey, and still have :an avid interest in all phases ‘of sport, and would not, under any condition. allow my son to‘ be exploited for the team’s sake, or burn himself out in four years of junior “A” hockey for only a promise or mother's pre- stige. “‘The Sing Alongs”. The only persons that can stop this pro- motion are the parents â€" the coach has no say. When he is told one of his boys is going to move up to the “All-Stars" the boys feel good about this, as does the coach. There is a sense of accomplishment on the part of both. but it is dead wrong -â€"‘ wrong for the boy and wrong for the coach. The part}, disembavrking in Thanks, Frank Murphy. 328 North Taylor Mills Dr Nature Notes By Richmond Hill Naturalists The agricultural and indust- rial exhibition was on in Mos- cow and afforded an opportunity of seeing the latest equipment developed for foyestory pquoses: Mr. Bayly’s pictures showed that throughout the trip there were many machines and met- hods similar to our own. Com- parisons can be valuable and we would like to hear more of the results of this fact-finding tour. Finland has a well advanced programme of natural regener- ation and planting. Camplng is very popular there. Ten days were spent in the U.S.S.R. whlch is important by reason of its enormous conifer- ous forests. About 50% of the country is forest. With an lntqur- ist interpreter, they had interviews with the dir- ector of the Central Research Institute and a very full pro- gramme was planned. It includ- ed visits to research stations, forestry schools and of course to the forests themselves over a vast area. Mr. Bayly thought that Swed- en was most advanced in method with a splendid Research Inâ€" stitute and close control 0v! all forest management, planting, cutting and marketing. Theâ€"salmon fisheries are very important to Swedish egonomg In Germany there are many new forests and considerable land is being taken out of a-gri- culture to be used for forestry. There is a flourishing pulp and paper industry. The Black For- est and others near the large cities are much used for rec- reation. The-party passed rather quick- ly through France. visiting for- ests at Lyons and through the Jura Mountain area to Switzerâ€" land. En route they noticed many small sawmllls. Here agriculture and grape-growing are practised on' steep slopes and as the soil washes down it is carried up again, on small farms by hhe farm labourers. on larger farms by horse and cart or tractor. In Switzerland and Germany they found the forestry oper- ations most intensive with good training facilities for students. A large nursery was seen at Ware'ham and an interesting planting machine In action. Us- ing a tractor fitted with loney transplanting boards it is pos- ‘sible for ten workmen to plant 100,000 trees per day. The Im- perial Forestry Institute at Ox~ ford is essentially a forestry school. giving a forestry degree and postgraduate diploma. In England they visited the research stations engaged in entymology and pathology, then on to the New Forest. Here the emphasis appears to be on the preservation of natural con- ditions, wild life conservation and controlled graziney. There were three species of deer; Red Roe and Sika. Shannon spent two days visiting Irish forests from’ Galway on the west coast to chklow on the east coast. The lands depart- ment is plan-ting an average of 35 million trees per year, most- ly Sitka Spruce and Lodgepole Pine. Little has been done to develop the parks for recrea- tion as we do here but the fish- lng is good and reasonably large areas are available to the public. Will this assistance be grant- ed to senior citizens of Rich- mond Hill only? I am sure no ratepayer would object to this, but should they be asked to underwrite transportation costs of residents of neighbouring communities, many of whom are members of the Richmond Hill Senior Citizens Club. At what age does one become a senior citizen? It it seventy, when old age assistance from governments begins, or is it at sixty. the age limit of the local group? There are other questions of minor importance, but I hope the above will cause the trans- portation committee of the local council to give some thought to clarifying who may qualify as a senior citizen for transporta- tion assistance. The decision of the Council of, the Town of Richmond Hill to provide free transportation forl ‘buses during non-rush hours is ‘a commendable one. 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