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How does the modern man compare with these pioneers? Up at eight, at Work by nine, coffee break at ten, lunch at noon. coffee break at three. time Our men have mm-h praise for pioneer women â€"â€" so I would like to give voice to my praises of pioneer men. They were real heroes â€" up at sunrise and chores all done before breakfast. Logging, cut- ting wood and clearing land was the winter routine with the help of a four-horse team, which had to be fed. watered, bedded and cared for. In other seasons it was plowing. seeding, haying and harvesting. Let‘s hope we women won't have to shovel any more snow this spring. Dear Mr. Edimr One of the most refreshing aspects of the contest was the way some 2,500 delegates from across Canada made their own decision free from all the pressure and advice so freely given by the daily press and the TV. The performance of the mass media was disgraceful and can only be judged as a massive propaganda effort designed to brainwash the delâ€" egates in favor of Mr. Trudeau. Their news coverage was always slanted in favor of the Justice Minister while they never missed an opportunity to discredit the other candidates and make them look like poor substitutes of their dashing hero. The mass media highly inaccurate. membered that on This was the first message of Easter, this was the good news, this was the hymn of praise Christians have been singing for centuries. With the violence and tragedy that has shown itself through the years and as so brutally enacted a few days ago, you may continue to wonder, did Christ die in vain, is His risen pres- ence real? Although we have been rather complacent about the probâ€" lems of race and color, we too have been shocked by such cruelty and numbed in the very literal sense. Of the many thoughts that come to my mind, one stood out very loud and clear, “they compelled one, Simon of Cyrene to carry His Cross for Him”. This‘is but one of the count- less cruelties going on within and around the world in which we live and may very well soon be forgotten, unless we who claim that “Our Re- deemer lives” and sing, “The strife is o’er, the battle done. now is the Victor’s triumph won”, do someâ€" thing about living this Risen Life in Christ. Live it Compassionater -- Jesus, on that first Easter, did not hang around the empty tomb â€"â€" it was cold, bare, bereft of the body which, hastily, had been laid away. When someone questioned, where He was, they were told that He had gone on before them into Galilee. “There ye shall find me". The Risan Christ The Liberal Party has a new leader and Pierre Trudeau will be- come Canada's 15th Prime Minister within the next two weeks. After four long ballots in the steambath of Ottawa’s new Civic Centre last Sat- urday. Mr. Trudeau emerged the victor with a scant majority of only 54 votes. A prominent leader of a non- Christian faith and a Christian were comparing the relevancy of each other's faith. The non-Christian said, “At least we have something you Christians do not have, we know where our prophet is buried, we can visit his grave, but you Christians have nothing but an empty tomb." The Christian replied. “It is just this that, makes the difference, we do not have a dead Christ but a living one”. ’ 11L 1W EESRGE @mm ‘3“ AAAuuyvAng-nu .. _-.__‘, . * vULA" Subscription Rate $4.50 per year; to United States $6.00; 10c single copy Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Published by Richmond Hill Liberal Publishing Co. Ltd. W. S. COOK, Publisher “Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa” MODERN MEN! THE LIBERAL, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Thursday, April 11, 1968 A New Era Begins An Independent Weekly: Established 1878 polls were also It must be re- the first ballot “Living The Risen Life” arm liberal Doctors recommend that mod- ern women shovel snow in win- ter and cut grass in the summer, because modern man is so soft, it might kill him to do such strenuous work. yet he always off for another cigarette every 10 or 15 minutes. off home by 4.30 or 5 pm â€" that's their schedule. It‘s the same with factory workers. where if a screw comes loose in a machine, work stops until another man fixes it. Everybody works as little as possible and expects as much pay as possible. I can‘t say I blame them for that. If the prices keep climbing as they have been doing. we will all be spending all our time working â€"â€" and no play. Live it Courageously â€" While the disciples huddled in fear in the Upper Room, Jesus was not afraid of being arrested again, even though the world might crucify Him afresh. Jesus had only hidden Himself and stepped out of the temple, because His hour had not yet come. Living the new life in Christ, means getting involved and this is what we don't want to do. Is this not why a priest and a Levite went by on the other side of.the road, while one called the Good Samaritan stopped at the risk of being attacked, being late and the possibility of it costing him some- thing. To lift our voices with one accord, to work in harmony with all those who strive to serve, co-oper- ating with the Church and other groups, participating in those things which “promote justice, relieve mis- ery and reconcile the estranged”. is to live the risen life courageously, and riSk our lives for a purpose. when the delegates voted for their first choice 1,614 of them favored candidates other than Mr. Trudeau. Only 752 delegates gave Mr. Trudeau their first ballot. There was no smashing victory for the former Justice Minister. Mr. Trudeau has dispelled any thoughts that he might call an elec- tion as early as June. At his first press conference Sunday he indicated an election won’t come until the fall or sometime in 1969. In the mean- time he will be meeting with outgoing Prime Minister Pearson and senior officials to receive briefings on the administrative process. ~ After a late start Robert Winters showed surprising strength and the feeling persists he could have done even better if he had joined the fray earlier. One of the surprises of the convention was the poor showing of Paul Hellyer. Mr. Hellyer had a superb organization but lacked suf- ficient strength among the delegates. John Turner was an able young man who suffered from the very start from the candidature of Mr. Trudeau. was need. The story of Easter was that “He lives to bless me with His love He lives to plead for me above, He lives my hungry soul to feed, He lives to help in time of need." The church has been accused of keeping Christ in the temples, in the buildings, and even though we believe He is present wherever two or three are gathered in His Name, He treads the city streets again. reminding us that. “inasmuch as ye do it unto any of the least of these my brethren, ye do it unto me". If the people of God are cold, heartless, it is because we have been hanging around a lifeless empty tomb and not living the Risen Life with a compassion for people. It is not a case of, if God were love He would provide and take care of the needy, but a matter of having sent someone, but they forgot. was out among people. where there was need. The story of Easter was that “He lives to bless me with His love He lives to plead for me above, He lives my hungry soul to feed, He lives to help in time of need." By REV. J. S. DAUPHINEE St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Richmond Hill KESWICK: Vandals broke into two schools at Sutton and Kes- wick March 30 and caused con- siderable damage in both. Tape recorders and intercoms were stolen from Keswick Public School. Offices of the princ- ipal and vice-principal were broken into and files scattered over the floor. The high school at Sutton was ransacked and a small amount of money taken. March 16, Jersey Public School, our man will take the car to go one block for a jug of milk. They are just too lazy to walk that one short block. but they expect us to carry our week's grocery supply, because we are stronger. Ha! TIRED HOUSEWIFE JANE. He expressed his satisfaction with the Can- adian Teachers’ Accordion Association. “Our main objective,” he said, “is to have the accordion recognized and integrated into the Royal Conservatory of Music. We have a syllabus now that is on par with the piano and we would like to see the day when a graduated accordion student will receive the equivalent of an ARCT.” Thursday, April 18, the York. Choraliers will present their annual concert in the auditorium of Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Thornhill. Mr. Edmunds joined the bureau in 1955 and since that time he has become a vital part of many musical associations throughout Canada from coast to coast. He believes that he can serve the best interests of the Bureau by helping these musical associations as much as possible. Richard Edmunds has devoted his life to cul- tural interests for more than 30 years. He has a fine record as a choir singer, and as a director of choirs. He took charge of the Richmond Hill Choral Society. 1940 to 1941, and he has directed the popular York Choraliers from 1958 to the present time. There was a lot of good feeling and camaraderie on the second floor. Some of the credit for this can go to Richmond Hill’s honored citizen Richard Edmunds. So I spent three days watching the annual competitions of the Canadian Accordion Teachers‘ Association at the King Edward Hotel, the weekend of March 22 to 24. Four hundred competitors, ages 8 to 18 years came to pit their accordion artistry against each other. The contestants came from many of the musical centres of Ontario with a sprinkling from the West. Dick Edmunds, the association’s secretary-treas- urer was just about everywhere on that bustling second floor of the King Edward. I heard his boom- ing voice shouting directions to the arriving teachers and their students. There were quite a few parents there also. Several weeks ago I was glancing idly through the Canadian Accordion Journal. All of a sudden, my attention became riveted to the page. Right in front of my very eyes was an article written by Richard Edmunds, the director of the Canadian Bureau for the Advancement of Music. I made a phone call to Richard Edmunds. The trail became very hot indeed. So along‘with his duties with the bureau and as manager of the music department of the CNE, Following the Musical Trail With Richard Edmunds Many people ask me, “Where do you find your stories about people?” I tell them, “From just about everywhere.” (‘ATA PRESIDENT JERRY (‘INGOLANI (LEFT) AND SECRETARY DICK EDMUNDS Rambling Around (Continued on Page 14) Easter I 96 8 by Elizabeth Kelson The word coâ€"founder implies a partnership in aims and re- lsponsibilities which did not ‘exist between the two men. Moreover Berczy did not arrive upon the scene until a year after the site of York had been christened and surveyed. Sim- coe, a top ranking government and military official had plenty of initiative and ideas of his own and was not disposed to share authority. He had an executive council to do his bidding and the re-organized Rangers to clear land and build when necessary. After Berczy failed to fulfill his contract to open Yonge St. from York to Lake Simcoe, Simcoe set the Rangers to work1 and they cut remaining two thirds of the road from Thorn- hlil northwards. Though Simcoe did not need a co-founder he did need set- tlers to people the new town- ships and is credited with now belongs to the York Pion- eer and Historical Society and stands in the grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition. Philip's last work during his contract was the building of the old fort. One of the helpers was Matthias Sanders, a Berczy set- tler, who was a ship’s carpen- ter. He was killed at the battle of York in 1812 and is commem- orated by a headstone in Thorn- hill Village cemetery (Matthias’ wife also received a crown grant in her maiden name, and this land is now part of the Toronto Ladies Club, Thornhill.) When his contract expired Philip Eck- hardt built a saw and grist mill on the Rouge River at Union: ville where he and his wife 'Catherine Helmke and their 17‘ children lived in a large 103 .‘house. Needless to say they? ’have many descendents in the district. ~ But to return to Berczy This clever and unpredictable bringing 30.000 in to Upper man was born Johann Albrecht Canada during his short regiine,iUlrich Moll in Saxony. in 1748.‘ Among them were a number of for reasons of his own change‘d‘ L'nited Empire Loyalists who'his name to William Berczy at‘ had first settled in the Mari- the age of 36. He studied at the. times but pulled up stakes, and Academy of Art in Vienna andj made the long journey to Upper;for a time earned his living asl Canada when he was appointedia miniature painter. Then his; Lieut. Governor. Simcoe alSO‘pleasing personality, and flu-I needed laborers and artisans‘ency in several languages help-I of all kinds t0 PrOVide neces-ied him to get more remunera-l sary services. lave work as an agent for a He brought in groups suchlBritish company owning vastl as Berczy’s. and individuals 11k€1acreages in the United States: Nicholas Miller and Philip‘ Abig deal had fallen through’ Eckhardt. Miller built the‘and the company believed that King's Mill on the Humber and if a model community was es- became the first settler on the Markham side of Yonge Street in the Thornhill areal. Eck- hardt. also a millwright and carpenter. “as of German an- cestry but was born in Penn- sylvania, in 1759. He held a 10 tablished in America land could‘ be sold more quickly and pro- fitably to other emigrants. In Hamburg Bert-7,)- signed up 64 families as colonists and optim- istically thought that they (Contnued on Page 14! i But even if Mr. Andre had not mentioned that Berczy re- fused the honor of being ap- pointed magistrate because he was too‘busy looking after his settlement at German Mills, his book would not have convinced me that Berczy deserved to be linked with Lieut. Governor John Graves Simcoe in the founding of York. Mr. Andre, a graduate his-,3 torian of art from the Univer-i sity of Vienna probably becamei interested in Berczy becausei of his talent as an artist, and! the book is profusely illustrat- ed with reproductions of Ber- czy’s paintings and portraits. The author also did a great deal of research on other as- pects of the life of this colorful and controversial figure and the information so gathered is valuable because it confirms with dates and specific details facts known in a general way. O‘WW § Window 00 Me Post 3 William Berczy is remember- ed in this district as the foun- der of the long vanished hamlet of German Mills the first settle- ment in Markham Township. Now, 155 years after his death. we are suddenly asked to be- lieve that he was also co-foun- der of little York. A book pro- moting this idea is in the Thornhill Library and I am grateful to the librarian. Mrs. Elizabeth Sumner for bringing it to my attention. Titled on the dust jacketfi "William Berczy Co-founder of Toronto", it was written by! John Andre, town planner for; the Borough of York. and was published by the borough as a Centennial project. William Berczy, Founder of German Mills By Doris M. Fitzgerald A big deal had fallen through and the company believed that if a model community was esâ€" tablished in America land could be sold more quickly and pro- fitably to other emigrants. In Hamburg Berczy signed up 64 families as colonists and optim- istically thought that they (Contnued on Page 14) ‘ His work in York had includ- ed the building of houses for Simcoe and other high officials from England, also all the buildings in connection with the capital, and the wharf, and three log houses where Queen Street nnw crosses the Don, These houses were for the pur- pose of receiving freight com- ing across the Lake. and also for receiving immigrants. One now belongs to the York Pion- eer and Historical Society and stands in the grounds of the These were situated on Lot 4, Concession 3‘ 0n the north wing of the Don River. about three miles east of Thornhill. and in- cluded a saw mill, grist mill and woollen mill. There were also a smithy, brewery, distillery, cooperage. tannery and .store. Philip Eckhardt‘s father-in-law was the tanner and looked after the store for the British Gov- ernment. A. J. H. Eckhardt noted that when Berczy ah- sconded Philip was left in full charge of hamlet. These newcomers together with storekeepers, innkeepers, blacksmiths, stage coach driv- ers, lake captains etc, all had a part in the development of the little town. One that rated special mention was six foot six Eckhardt, who according to the reminiscences of his grandson,‘ the late A. J. H. Eckhai‘dt.worked on the surveys of Mark-‘ ham, Scarboro and Vaughan Townships, was in charge of the laborers who cut Yonge St_ as far as What Is now Thornhill, and built the mills for the Ger-1 man settlement. 1 year contract with the British Government, 1792 - 1802. and was paid 200 pounds a year plus a 60 pound bonus, a substan- tial sum at that time. From a sophisticated and hu- mane standpoint. there can he no valid argument against de- toxication centres. Financial critics would also have trouble knocking them down. For the fact is that each year hundreds of repeaters. without money to pay their fines, spend thous- ands of days in jail at the tax- payers” expense. Detoxication centres offer them a chance to be cured of their sickness (jails generally make them sicker) and to return to society with some semblance of dignity. In the long run even a thous- and fewer drunks on the doc- kets a year would save taxpay- ers thousands of dollars. De- toxication centres could eventâ€" ually cut the number of arrests. Moreover they could help re- pair thousands of torn lives and prevent scores of suicides. The Toronto experiment will be watched carefully. If it works. many more centres will be spotted throughout the provâ€" ince. As a matter of fact. the plan is to build a few more re- gardless. The proposed drying-out cen- tre will be situated in Toronto and will have a capacity for 36 persons, not enough for a me- tropolis which arrests at least 25,000 intoxicated people per year. This means that thous- ands of so-called drunks will continue to have to spend time in the cells. There can be no worse way of treating sick peo- ple. (Hamilton Spectator) Ontario's plan to establish a pilot medical centre for the care of "common drunks" is a civilâ€" ized step forward out of the age of Charles Dickens. While it has taken the government an unduly long time to get around to admitting that drunks are sick people and not criminals, it must. nevertheless be congratu- lated. .4 re Sick “Drunks” Easter I968 “Without Ron we’d be lost. He is always on the job, and his lighting adds to the play tremendously". said Bud Renshaw, who has directed many past pro- ductions. Nine year old Dane Lugsden will be making his acting debut this Easter, but for his father Don it will be a third appearance. Elline Munroe, Joan (Continued on Page 14) “For He had Great Possessions” is directed by Lucille Urquhart, and the period costumes are being created by Anna Derry, who is working wonders on a very low budget. All the players agree that the “unsung hero” of the group is Ron Joyce, who does the lighting. The beautifully designed church with its tri- angular roofs, is acoustically perfect, not only for the choir and organ, but for the actors as well, so even if there is a large congregation. everyone will be able to get the full impact of this spiritually significant experience. This Easter the play will be “For He had Great Possessions”, by Dorothy Clarke Wilson, who has written many dramas with a religious theme. The setting is a garden, so the sanctuary of St. Matthew’s should be a very lovely sight for this special'event. The music around the play will include parts of Handel’s “The Messiah”, and will be sung by the St. Matthew’s Choir led by Eileen Robbins. Peggy Renshaw is the organist. However, they were so successful, and they enjoyed it so much that they eventually expanded their activities to include one major three act play each season. “Design for Murder” was presented last May in the auditorium of Our Lady Queen of the World, and was their most successful show to date. Church) The Easter play at St. Matthew’s United Church. Crosby Avenue. Richmond Hill, has become a tradition, and every Easter Sunday evening at 8 o'clock, the congregation anticipates the unusual experience of seeing a religious play combined with a short service, take place in the sanctuary. The play is presented by the St. Matthew’s Players who started in 1963 with the sole purpose of producing one religious play a year. In file Sp oflighfl Since 1889 M. N. FOYLE, MANAGER 12] YONGE ST. N. RICHMOND HILL value mortgage loans Talk it over today with Victoria and Grey. Sunday gambling now is here The racing horse. the betting too Who cares that Sunday once was dear To nations who have thought they knew Themselves to be so civilized Since they were once erangelized. Oh no! What better day to take Than that which comes so easily Who cares that we should glibly make This day our day of revelry A Cross of Wood, an Open Tomb. Mean nothing in these days of gloom. We’ll have our fling. we‘ll go our way: We‘ll join the crowds and gamble too We’ll swing along this Hol(y)iday Who cares one whit just what we do? Betting. gambling, gain and loss They did it there beneath the Cross. They flung the dice and gambled while His blood was dripping on the tree To save the ones whose passions vile Nailed hands and feet on Calvary. We’ll cast our lots, we‘ll take our gain Who cares if He should rise again! Who cares that Easter breaks the sod, And gives the world a sabbath day Who cares that Christ is Lord and God The truth, the life, the only way? 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