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STUART PAXTON WIRING LINE WORK Electrician l_ 7m LIBERAL, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Thursday,‘January 1, 1959 g r Trustee Stewart Rumble said, “apathy such as this can be blamed on ‘iack of interest â€" or the belief that the card is doing its work well, therefore iced not be visited.” 7,_ Unfortunately, such is the case tward most board. meetings, whether fiey’ fife Serving the high school or pub: school population. Just to point out ignorance is not always bliss”, one ltember of this year’s high school board aid that a ratepayer he met recently At, the closing meeting of this year’s- York Central District High School Board, the 1958 chairman, Harry W. R. Sayers, said he regretted the fact that not One ratepayer had attended a session .of: the board during the past year; . . ' Today is the beginning of a New .Year. And, as is customary with all things new and still untried, we greet this day with mingled feelings: partly _with joy, partly 'with seriousness. MAR-is a big responsibility for every one of us â€"-â€" to greet this New Year and to do with it what we will during the next 365 days. Much has already been written and said about the old year, 1958, and it is now time to think of 1959 â€" and the people who will be living in it and shap- ing it for future posterity. Are we going to be disinterested bystanders â€"- or are we going to help put the New Year across, one hundred per cent: ‘ Conversion To 60 Cycle SAME DAY SERVICE as under the _ ifnpression that thé ciiichmond Hill Public School Board ran ;he High Schoal Board! Viola: Draper Agencies RELIANCE ' SERVICE STATION Open 7 mm. - 13 Munich!» DAILY Phone TUrner 4-2881 oak Rldzu 0mm m.- mm In. 8-9659 1959 Resolution Sugg'esied IELEVISION Radio â€" Washer Repair Santa Subscription Rate $3.50 per year; to United States $4.00; 10c single copy Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association J. E. SMITH, Publisher . W. S. COOK, Managing Editor Telephone TUrner 471105 ' “Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department. Ottawa”. Sihce this is the time of the year And this brings us to the reason New Year's Greetings An Independent Weeky: Established 1878 Gib: liberal iYangtze Pagoda 5 Restaurant anywhere in the district from 12 noon to midnight. Enjoy a delicious mea_l, piping hot, in your own home. We cater to Banquets. Wed. ding Parties, business rather- ings or special events of any kind. For table and banquet reservations Telephone AV. 5-4303 TAKE OUT ORDERS, FREE DELIVERY We are open 9n Christmas and New Year’s Day. ’Phone your res- ervation now for Christmas Dinner Exclusive Comfortable Dining Rooms, Seating 300 People North of Richmond Hill on Highway No. 11 Delicious Canadian Food Also Suved CANADA’S FINEST CHINESE CUISINE Resolutions are made -â€" we are suggest- ing that the ratepayer who is concerned about his taxes (which unfortunately, but necessarily, are rising because of added school costs) make it his or her public duty to attend at least one or two meetings of the District High School Board in 1959 â€"â€" to find out just why this rise in school taxes is neces- sary. If the visitor does not come away from these meetings with a better knowledge of school affairs â€" and a gneat sympathy for thebusiness and“ professional men who give so many hours of their time during the year to run the district high schools’ affairs- â€" we’ll be surprised indeed. January 5, 1959,, is the date set for the board’s inaugural meeting in the Library of the Thornhill High School. The time is 8 pm. this editorial was written -â€" simply for the purpose of extending -best wishes to those who play such quiet, effective roles in our lives, the lives of our child- ren, and in our communities â€"â€" our school teachers. Henry Adams said, “A teacher af- fects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops”. We not only wish these dedicated men and women in our midst a success- ful year in 1959 - but we will go one step further and ask that communities in general resolve to give our teachers their conscientious and interested sup- port throughout the New Year . . .. . our children; as well as we too, wil benefit from this resolve. Birthday greetings are in order for Pamela Morrison of Spruce- wood Ave., who was 12 on Sun- day, December 20. Birthday wishes are extended to Gloria Gain, 26 Henderson Ave., who was seven years old on Monday, December 29. The Doncaster Community La- dies Club again remembered the elderly residents .and less for- tunate families with Christmas baskets and toys. The 2nd Thornhill Scout band will resume practice on January 7 and the first troop meeting will _be on Thursday, January 8. Mrs. D. Donnell and’daughter of 3 Henderson Ave., are home from the hospital. Mr. and Mrs. J; Barbour, 24 Henderson Ave., and daughters spent two days with relatives in Hamilton. They, left on Thursday, December 25, and returned on Saturday, December 27. Mrs. Huderfia and son of Cl'arke Ave., are home from the hospital. Mr. and Mrs. K. Steele. of Lin- dsay and family are visiting with the Perrault family, on Clarke Ave. The Steeles, who are form- er residents of Doncasten, arriv- ed on Sunday, December 28 and returned on Monday, December 29. A man never gets So rich that he can afford to lose a friend. DONCASTER Correspondent ' David Barbour Henderson Ave. Phone AV. 5-5205 A Weekly Comment 011 Christian Life And Action â€" By Calvin H. Chambers -â€" 1900 years ago there was a man who eagerly longed for a better world. His country was politicalâ€" ly enslaved. The peopleof his country were taxed to the hilt and knew severe economic suffer- ing. Religion had reached an all time low. Nicodemus believed in the com- ing of the Kingdom of God. He looked for a mighty deliverer who would free his nation and set things right. His observation of Jesus led him to believe that He might possibly be the Prom- ised One. He therefore decided to talk to Jesus about the King- dom. He came to our Lord one night to discuss this situation and to see if Christ. could do any- thing about it. He looked for a new world in the midst of tyran- ny. oppression, selfishness: He is not unlike millions of people in the world today. In evâ€" ery area of life there are those who want peace, and earnestly hope that war with all its des- truction can be averted. Sane and sensible people everywhere are hoping that this coming year, some of our great social and ec- onomic problems can be solved. We are Jooking for social refor- mation in our culture. But the answer to our’s and Nicodemus’ search for a ‘bright new world”. is not just a matter of social reformation. Something muchmore radical is necessary. We need spiritual regeneration. The world we hope for, the peace we pray for, the life we really want to live, cannot be ours with- out a change of heart. There can be no new year. until we have a new life from God. So the words of Jesus, "ye must be born anew” still have the relevance today. No matter who we are, or what we have done, the basic need of all of us, is for inner renewal by the power of God. If high moral character could bring about a change in our society it would have done so long ago. Nicodemus was a man of high spiritual life and outlook. Yet our Lord pointed out to him the need for an inner transfor- mation of heart if he was to share in the life of the Kingdom. There are people in the world today who advocate, in a rather facile way, that all we need to do is practice the Sermon on the Mount and the Golden Rule and the worlds ills will be irradicated. Of course this is true, but it doesn’t go far enough. It falls to reckon with the fact that man is morally and spiritually unable to reach the standard set for us- ing Christ’s teaching, apart from power from God. It is ridiculous to ask 25 cycle voltage to do something which only 60 cycle can perform. It is just as ridicu- lous to ask a person who is un- regenerated by the power of God, to live for the glory of God. How then can we find this pow- er? According to Jesus there must be spiritual conception. The only way to new life and a new society is for man to be born from above. Spiritual life comes from God who is Spirit. Like he- gets like. To be born of the flesh is to be of the flesh. No matter how much the ego of man may be refined, cultured or civilized, if untouched by the Spirit of God, it remains essentially the same. There must be a new beginning. The Spirit of God must come in- to our lives, and there work His transforming miracle, making us new creatures in Christ. Our self-centeredness . must be de- throned. by Him whose right it is to reign Lord of Life. This new beginning is necess- ary if we are to be new people contributing to a new; world. Without this, we build upon quicksand. Christ says, "Behold I make all things new. Can He start with you? Big Day For York Farmers One of the first agricultural meetings to be held in the New Year will be the annual meeting of the York County Soil and Crop Improvement Association which meets in the Town Hall at New- market on Wednesday, January 7th, commencing at 10.30 am. The guest speakers this year are Dr. B. C. Mathews of the Soils Dept. of the O. A. C., Guelph, speaking on “Soil Management” and Dr. W. E. Tossell of the Field Husbandry Dept., also of the O. A.C. discussing “New Develop- ments in Hay and Pasture Man- agement.” Both of these men have proven very popular speakers at former meetings and always wel- come questions from the aud- ience. ‘ The quizz panel in the morning session should as usualZ stir up some animated discussion centring around the subject “Time is Money.” Door prizes for those present on time include some for “first timers" and loads of first timers. Then at noon, everyone is served a tasty lunch in lightening time, at the expense of the Association. This is one of the largest or- ganizations in the county With a paid-up membership of close to four hundred farmers. It is unique in at least two respects â€"â€" first, the fact that in the past seven years there has been an av- erage attendance of 373 at the annual meeting and secondly that it starts right on time. runs on schedule and adjourns by 4 pm. Facts and Faith ' by Cicely Thomson Now that the scattered tissue papers and gay rib- bons have disappeared for another eleven months . . . now that they joyous carols of the season are sung . . ‘ now that the gay ornaments on the tree have their hours almost numbered before they too go into the dark for nearly another year . . . now in fact, that Christmas is behind us, it is time to look at the New Year and the resolutions that are part of the beginning of another year. ‘ , Every paper and magazine carries stories on'New Year’s resolutions. Approached from every angle. Writ- ten in every veln. Covering every field of human en- deavor from “‘I will remember to Show my wife some little attention every day” to “I will lose twenty pounds”. ‘New Year’s resolutions are wonderful. We are in-' spired by our own hlgh purposes and our nelghbours even hlgher confessed resolutions. -.. .q ‘1 ‘ n -.-" -.-o_.v_ -V-.,, But we live in a northern land. It is rather bleak at times. We are missing to a certain extent in our home and community life an oil that makes the wheels go more smoothly. We are a people with very little laugh- ter. Or song. er. ur sung. - Both seem to be associated with “light living” (in this country). And with liquor. A group of adults singing at a party “can only mean one thing”. If some- one laughs out loud in the street cold eyes turn to look at the offender. And of course if anyone sings out loud on a wonderful spring day for the sheer joy of living . It is so contradictory. Because everyone wants to go to movies and plays and musicals in which singing abounds and at which they can laugh to their heart’s content. Also to go to games in which they no longer participate but at which they can shout and cheer. They go home feeling good. For these things release them- from their problems and the minor troubles that spend 365 days a year besetting us poor civilized creatures. ' What happened to our laughter? Men laughed and sang in the good old days â€"â€" of David who with praises from his heart that pouring from his lips helped him through his own troubles and have inspired hundreds of generations after him -â€"- or Will Shakespeare who would have no truck with those who only smiled. The Elizabethans laughed a lot, they sang too, rollicking songs, love songs, religious songs. â€"'~~o 7; Did Oliver Cromwell knock the laughter out of England so that it never even came to English Canada? Will our new Canadians who come from countries where laughter is a part of the way of life change Can- ada’s expression from the thin-lipped smile of ‘the self- righteous to the open laugh of “one who loves his fellow Children laugh. The fat baby in play waves his legs with theirl‘ rosy dimpled knees as he laughs his de- light . . . the'toddler as the castle of blocks, piled high with much efiort and concentration, is flung to the floor, laughs with glee . . . the children in the play- yard at school laugh and shout and run in their play. And‘the young parents, as their new baby grasps a finger in its tiny hand, express their joy in laughter as together they look fondly on this new creature. men”? “0 We see laughter as an expression of love. And love is what makes the world go round. And where did We lose it? It isn’t because we try too hard at this busi- ness of living; trying hard does not stifle laughter (look at the first pictures of Hilary and Tensing on the sum- mit of Everest, faces alight with joy, laughter in their eyes and on/their lips). It must be the love of life and the joy of living we have lost in our materialistic pursuit of happiness. Happiness is something we are being taught to look for, as the result of material possessions, as a gift on a platter from other people _ . . we have forgotten that it is something inside us, that when we reach after it it vanishes. We cannot store it up, we cannot put it off until another day. We must express joy and feel happiness; and the laughter of love and the laughter of delight, and the shout of laughter for a feat accomplish- ed are expressions of happiness. ' 7 NWhaf’s more it’s caftizhing.’ A yawn and a laugh are both infectious. That’s why I’m Only making one resolution this year. 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