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By Andrew Murdison Heart Throbs Humor OS PLAYING TflE GAME and THE GAME GUYS PRAYER Whatever our calling may be Of course in any field reminded lat wc from the chaff the good ex It own actions to make this is world a better necessitate Playing the game may baseball has started knocks and troubles and make the other players do cause Mans inhumanity to Help me to be a regular fel man makes countless thousands low with the other players Finally O God if fate comes We all know the story of Im to me with both perial Germany down to the hands and Im laid on the shelf time of Hitler We also know the story of Imperial Russia thing help me to take that as down to the present rulers of the Soviet and how they play Help me not to whimper or ed the game with Finland Lat squeal that the game was a via Estonia Lithuania and frameup or that I had a raw Hungary deal How do we measure up as And when in falling dusk I individuals on playing the get the final bell I ask for no only like to know that You feel the ranks of new Canadians From the Files of 25 and 5Q Years Ago February It Mr C H Curtis of Mr D A here to attend the poll- son of Toronto spent meeting on the or day parents Mr and Mrs of Toronto visiting her daughter Mrs Mr J Queens ville their way to the her i New New York Miller Toronto was calling they have had Herbert his daughter Mrs Mrs Conning of Mrs right visiting in Mew Mrs Miller Ave Tt week with her nieces the Misses Syke Mr J A Ellis of Toronto was the guests of the editor on Wednesday night was visiting in town Mrs of Gravenhurst is spending a few days with her daughter Mrs Howard Page Col Col WOULD GO TO JAIL JAYS MOM WHYTt SK seek shelter sad she has ignored regarding totem for the fe Mffieal faculties and birth She aba sU rather than refuse to care for any of the children testimony Gods win to be to jail thin out gam she Is with one of the 80 children In her home referee or an umpire Advantages are sometimes the stranger a friendly greeting taken in the heat of the con- to a neighbor loyalty to an cm- test not always intentional but and a realization that there is the question of an off if e play the game as it should side alow punch or an be played there is no better gal hold Many a bean ball referee or umpire than our- Serving Newmarket and the rural district of North York Toe Newmarket Era 1852 The Express Herald 1895 Thursday at Charles St Newmarket Newmarket and Limited fMibacripHoa for in for one year In advance Single It Member of Class A Weeklies of Canada Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and be j Authorised Second Class Mall Ottawa John E Struthcre Managing Editor Caroline Ion Associate Editor George Heikett Sport Editor Racine Production E W Stefaniuk Advertising THE EDITORIAL PACE Pages from the Editors Notebook THE GAME GUTS usually Help me to be a good sport battle dont ask for any easy place As it is in sports so it is in ln the line up Play me any tin life and actions of a nation where you may need me or an individual In the realm if the drives seem of the worlds great powers j thank you put and present the treatment Help me smaller nations remember that you wont let pended a great deal on the anything that particular monarch or head of and handle In power at the Help me to understand that There are many thankful r to the moment that so- And O God help me always called great nations did not play the game according to the rules of fair play Even within or think help the family of English speaking clean peoples we have instances of Help me to study the Book so tyranny as witness the war of that Ill know the rules and to Independence with the study and think a lot about the can Colonies the Civil War and Greatest player who ever lived the white mans treatment of and other great players who THURSDAY THE THIRTEENTH DAY OK NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYEIGHT HOSPITALS SERVICE A story in this weeks issue gives an idea of die service performed by local doctors and staff members at the York County hospital The report is not one of an isolated incident where there were sis doctors a staff of nurses and technicians ready and waiting for the ambulance to bring in the injured persons involved in a bad accident That kind of teamwork happens ofteh During the summer months when the accident rate is high particularly among weekend travellers there are similar scenes at the hospital Newspapers often quote witnesses who claim that it was a half hour before the ambulance arrived or that no one could find a doctor It has been pointed out by this newspaper before that local accident calls should be directed to the hospital There complete in formation on doctors on call is available and the hos pital authorities make arrangements for medical service For a hospital that does not have resident physicians at all times York County has one of the most efficient emergency organizations the public could possibly ex pect To give full cooperation and a good service local doctors go far beyond the point which the public should expect of private practitioners We also are coming around to the fact that the hos pital has a large deficit and that financial assistance is being sought from the county council There is no doubt that the hospital is a county hospital It is not located in the town of Newmarket for the express purpose of providing a service for Newmarket residents The fig ures show that patient costs for Newmarket are no more than per cent And among the reasons for the deficit is the loss of money caused high number of indi gent patients A large number of indigents have been immigrants who have not yet obtained financial security in this country It would seem that responsibilities foe some of their costs should be carried by the federal gov ernment Needless to say the money must be provided to operate the York County hospital It is as necessary as roads water systems OUR SIDE OF THE STORY by WBHARVEY THE MENACE OF One of the greatest threats to democracy in the world today is the antiliberal defeatism typified by the noted theologian Niebuhr This man is con tinually attacking and generally misrepresenting liberal- ism arguing that our efforts to achieve a better world are doomed to defeat even making positively false statements about what we have actually done As an example consider this statement No one since the Assyrians has been so merciless to a vanquished foe as we That statement is not only false it is the direct opposite of the truth No victors have been so kind to defeated foes as have the liberal democracies The US and Britain from the time of the surrender of Germany and Japan until those countries got on their feet paid out billions of dollars to them to prevent chaos and starvation False and absurd criticisms such as the foregoing are importantas revealing hatred of liberal ism but they do little harm The harm that is doing consists in his defeatism his continuous attacks on the various attempts that are being made to achieve a better world all the the United Nations to the American attempts to save the Near East from Niebuhrs defeatism and his opposition to liberalism spring from a mistaken idea of human nature and a novel and decidedly unflattering idea of God He thinks human nature is essentially sinful and that the only source of charity is in a broken spirit and a contrite heart But then he thinks that sin is a tendency of human beings to overstep certain limits that God has set to human achievements According to we have no way of finding out what those limits are we may be overstepping them and therefore sinning even when we are being our best He actually says There is a contradiction between divine and human purposes even on the highest level of human aspirations Thus Niebuhrs way of making out that we are all sinners in effect to assert that God is so unjust that He commands us to do our best and then punishes us whenever we unwittingly overstep some secret limit in short a trapsetting God Because of great influence liberal demo crats will welcome a little book by Charles Franks The Case of Modern Han which pretty effective ly disposes of Niebuhr in one telling chapter shows that is mistaken in thinking that liberal ism accepts Rousseaus romantic nonsense about the natural goodness of man idea of the in- definite perfectibility of man is a favorite target for scorn but Frankel shows that Condoreet meant nothing more than that man is indefinitely im provable a proposition that history has abundantly vindicated Liberalism appeals to the generous impulses which exist in all normal human beings The success of the liberal appeal in reducing suffering and evil proves that generous impulses exist says that charity can only proceed from a broken spirit and a contrite heart This project of securing improvement by breaking hearts is ridiculous enough in itself but compound its folly by trying to break the hearts of peo ple collectively They do this by pointing to the sins and errors that we are guilty of as a nation Nie buhrs followers think that his continual blackening of our society will make us feel guilty give us broken spirits- It does nothing of the kind There are congre gations that have been fed this diet for years and with what results The creation of the biggest and smug gest concentrations of imaginable and the spreading of the idea as expressed by one prom inent clergyman that our society is as bad as corn- That attitude is the precise opposite of the attitude required at the present hour What we need to realize is that we as individuals are not so much better than the Russians but that we have a set of political institu tions and principles immeasurably superior to theirs Niebuhrs whole argument that liberalism has ah overoptimistic view of human nature and his repeated reference to liberal dogmas shows that he does not know what liberalism is Liberalism is not a set of dogmas It is an attitude of mind and one of its chief features is hostility to dogma of any kind Liberalism believes in liberty both as a good in itself and as a means to the achievement of other goods Liberalism also believes- 8s points out that suffering is bad and that we have a duty to try to reduce that Buf fering But liberalism is not tied to the ideas of any individual Right there is one of its chief superiorities over rival ideologies whether secular or religious It can advance We should never forget that Europe grovelled in a philosophy of hopelessness not very different from for ten dark and stagnant centuries The ad vances we have made in the past two or three centuries have occurred only where and because men have had the courage to reject hopelessness and adopt liberalism The ie the tenant not the matter of the people the it their guarantee infringement on their right their agent in international and national tissues it it not ike function of the the direct ion of activities which rest on individual choice they are being blamed by rease pay people for the high school Rich- and resulting high taxes members Its a thankless job give themselves school board And we it increase The never heard one suggestion in- the poor old trustees be where elected representative will hardly be able to that air of complete and to boast of serving their ON RETARDED CHILDREN Ontarios minister of education Dr J Dunlop states Some years ago I had the privilege of spon soring in the Legislature a piece of new legislation which provided for financial assistance to Associations for Re tarded Children Following that legislation the gov ernment of Ontario has provided funds which have enabled these associations to set up schools in locali ties in the province While the grants made by the government through the department of education are sufficient to cover the major portion of current operat ing expenses not including transportation and while capital grants made by the government have assisted greatly in the building program it is essential that voluntary organizations cooperate in making this enter prise the success that we all hope it will be The care of retarded children is a cause which appeals to the hearts of all good citizens and I am con fident that the public will continue to support gener ously the appeals by local associations for financial sup port particularly in the matter of transportation and capital expenditures Though there was doubt for some years regarding the possibility of training or educating retarded children the marked progress in the field of training these children has been most encouraging and merits continued support A leading medical authority of this whole continent Dr Leonard J states Most of U3 are now aware that mental retardation constitutes one of the major medical and social dilemmas of our times Because you are regularly confronted with questions concerning the nature of this problem and what to do about it I am sure I dont hsWe to make an appeal for your interest Actually the parents of the mentally retarded children have probably seen it They have been more and more vocal in their demands that a part of our operating bud gets and future plans be concerned with their children Along with these demands have been the more recent ones of those professional workers who have recognized the potentialities in this field township the and the council men each per meeting township there reeve per year and councillors each per Now it is our opinion members of these councils work But this is a good think about the many communities without payment Lets pay tribute to the people who serve on boards Perhaps they are the represen tatives who have the real portrays role of a weekly story about The Editor I work on Sunday Feb 14 pro The program will on CBLT how and why newspaper gets the local park to new industry The finds the v Mil thick of it and not tor of a weekly on focal i i he t His reader ijpes big headaches in the past few Then the school trustees are with the difficulties of i Canadian communities by weekly newspapers It the close bond of weekly newspaper and the freely pi weekly The Editor is a 30mi at the the Per forward The television by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches only a description of i that many people feel solve to some extent the sent difficulties besetting Contract farming as si by Time at least when it tec from the packer to by the grower and the packer doing work gets the benefi an agreement bet and buyer to t product under certain it portion of any ve its price determ- and demand producer and buyer to take product under certain tions and is very country The main dif fract exists the ultimate practiced in this into will system American icational farmers Contract farming when gives the farmer the advantai the responsibility of knot ng what he has to deliver is lep ahead provided it the controls of the tools of production to another interest- to turn this upside down which ends up in contrail he means of production examine this question should that would is do- 1 up 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