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the acton free press acton ontario thursday june lbth 1953 hell like it sunday is father s day to those of us who write so regularly it seems that most every sun day or every week has something that requires a special date of course it was rvlother s day which came first and of course it ust seemed a natural that somebody would think that fathers shouldn t lag behind and we have father s day it is very easy to write nice sentimental things about mothers and flowers and memories but somehow dads ust don t fit into that category so we have folks suggesting ties and socks and shirts and making dad more practical than he al ready is being a father we woudn t for the world say anything derogatory about father s day the same position makes it almost impossible for a father to suggest that children wear a bright red rose to do him honor or that you shower him with gifts to show he s not a bad guy so we just say sunday is father s day what ever way you find to express your regard for him we know will be appreciated even if he has a gruff way of expressing appreciation enumerator ore bury this week ompulng the voter lists to be used in the general election be mre yoyr ome i on the lut the choice is yours the date that has been most often mentioned in the past few weeks has now been officially designated as the day which canadians will go to the polls to choose their government monday august oth the summer months of 1953 are going to have some heat after all even if the warming up is a little belated from now until august 10th the electors will have the candidates and parties putting forth their various planks platforms or issues upon which the voters are asked to base their decisions there may be a great deal of confusion and elect ors may find it hard to make their decisions from the many things which may be proposed it is the right of every canadian over 21 years of age to vote for the candidate of his or her choice it s a decision that is solely the responsibility of the in dividual no matter what date election day comes on you owe it to yourself and your country to go out and exercise your franchise by our free elections of our governments we enjoy privileges which those in many other countries would like 1o have your ballot is secret and something which you should guard carefully make sure you use it on august 1 0th holidays are important but pleasure alone should not keep anyone from making sure that their vote registers their opinion when cana da votes on august 1 0th along the concessions on the weekend we made a little ai nt over some of the concession lines the highways are getting a little crowded these days for weekend pleasure driving but the concession lines are not dusty and driving must be leisurely to keep on the narrow and often twisting roadways most towns have streets named these days in nassagaweya township neat sign posts have been erected at all the crossroads these signs designate the concession lines and the sideroad numbers they are a great help in finding farm homes and an aid to all travellers nassagaweya has set an example that might well be used by all townships where it is not in use a trip along the concession 1 nes br ngs many other items to the forefront most every home seems to have hydro end telephone ava lable it s a bit surprising also to see the number of tele vision aerials that dot the countrys de some times one marvels too at the bu id ngs wh ch are carrying this latest communication system and whether buildings should not have had cons dera tion f rst before any new attachments had been added all the modern lat on has not been conf ned to the h ghways along w th the conven ences and advancement that has come to the back con cessions there is qlso that quiet leisure and rest fulness that has been dr ven from our paved roads connect ng towns and c t es meeting a problem council is to be commended on taking leader ship in an effort to find some solution to the housing shortage that exists in acton but it should also be borne in mind that those who are in need of housing accommodation must assume a responsibility and a willingness to cooperate when any plan is brought forward housing today is high in cost because labor and materials which make the house are at an all time peak land costs are higher too than is often warranted there are rnany plans of governments to help solve the housing problem it can be solved readily if those who want the homes get together the necessary down payments to start their proects councils and governments can provide leadership and help with plans but no wishful thinking on behalf of those who want homes will complete the transaction acton needs more homes they will be built and serv ced if everyone will cooperate there is no such thing as an idle rumor rommcntt the kitchener- waterloo record adding they re all busy the rule of life a recent biography reveals its subject lord actonbs one of the greatest minds of modern times a large part of the world today is worried about losing its liberty it is interesting lo recall acton s idea of liberty and ts value to humanity we quote if happiness is the end of society then liberty is superfluous liberty is not the power of do ng what we like but the right of being able to do what we ought acton said that every age had witnessed man s struggle for freedom but man would never find it within social or political frameworks alone athenian liberty failed for instance because t belonged to an age which possessed no fixed standard of right and wrong and modern de mocracies would also fa i f they ins sted that the will of man not the will of god was the rule of life true pol tical freedom acton insisted de pended on quite another pr nciple the principle that all political authont es must be tested and re formed according to a code which was not made by man rthjing bfwen ffw hint race is on in halton election for federal representative ah yes there s going to be an election they say of course everyone knows the date is aug ust 10 when canada will choose the type of government it thinks best for another four years since confederation just 86 years ago there have been 21 general elections elections seem to have chang ed recently compared with the stones i ve heard ot the ones in former years then everyone was interested and the main issues could be discussed intelligently and sometimes quite hecticly in the baclc rooms of barber shops on the street corner and any place two people might gather a few people now seem par ucularly interested and energet ically back a particular candid ate but the majority seem to go with the wind and sometimes the breeze is fairly sirong the time was they say whin every voter in town could be placed on one side of the fence or the other with very few ncut rils but elections can still be very interesting affairs as this coming federal vote promises to be halton s three candidates that nre known now will be sybil bennett progressive conscrv altvc mu my mcphail libera and stanley allen ccf the procedure in the county is to have nominations nt a meeting in milton which will be july 27 according to my figuring at this meeting candidates will be nom inated having previously been chosen to represent a party or an independent can run if he meets certain financial obllgat ions enumeration of the names be gins next week and in canada it is expected 8500 000 names will have to be gathered and posted on official sheets in halton a rough estimate is placed at 25 000 eligible voters the lists of voters are printed and when all have had ample time to see them they arc opened to revision from the 21st lo the 10th day preced ing the ckctlon a person wh i has been left off the list may apply to the revising officer in person or in writing through a relative employer or agent to have the matter straightened out the election coming up is an important one the only way men can preserve their rights is by exercising them democracy means government by the people but if the people won t take the trouble to govern themselves there will alwivs be someone bold enough to step in and do the job tor them vst no th e ast west s outh what was tacking in moisture in early spring was mad up by the may rains the suamps are ull of water and crops oitino splendid indication of good growth which kind a recent editorial in the saturday evening post points to the facjt there is still a good deal of confusion about the word capitalism it points out that the issue wh ch is being fought out n the world today is not capitalism versus no cap talism but free cap talism versus state capital ism under free enterprise the editorial states individuals are tempted by a hope of profit to save and invest their surplus in railroads a r planes freezer plantsall the thousand and one th ngs required by an expanding economy in a communist state capital is sweat out of the people by taxation conf scat on forced sav ing even forced labor the cost of soviet indus tnahzation was the well being and freedom of millions of russ ans the capitalist world got its capital from the accumulated savings of millions of free men and women the writer goes on to point out that perhaps free capital sm isn t fa r in the sense that it does not reward ncompetent lazy or even unlucky people as lavishly as t rewards the strong ef f c ent and the fortunate but then the question is aked is the alleged unfairness of free capital ism worse than the tyranny of state cap tal sm the ed tor al concludes by stat ng that t sn t enough ust to del eve in free cap tal sm it s also necessary to res st a ppl ng laxat on i ureaucrat c absolut on and nflat on the demons which can k ii free cap tal sm desp te all the be i ef n the word and kill freedom too according to nru spaprr reports jor sahn uo b opposed to capttalum ihot he trft only vtttooo in me 6anlt and royalties of j 000 a month to htt ton houses of steel steel rames will be imported from england for houses lo be erect ed in a new subdivision in the south of trafalgar tht new style steel frames are more expensive than tht usual wood frames but they can be erected in six hours tht builder is planning 336 sttel fiame houses tht firm is rumoured to have paid 200 000 for 98 acres real es tatt circles says tht oakvillc record star say the owntrs paid w000 for property less than two years ago eternal trianile although wt ve been warned about the misery of the eternal tri ingle very often in moving pic tures and novels georgetown is getting itself involved in i triangle and is apparently very hnppy about the whole thing ail the telephone numbers in the town are headed for a change to triangle 7 plus four other digits installation of tht new dial phones in homes offices and stores will be gin next week and the tlcv dm exchange will likely go into opera lion in september unlike toronto where a similar sstem is in operation georgetown residents will be able to phone other town residents simply by dialling the last four digits emergency fire while hilton fire brigades were it their mutal aid demonstration on tutsdiy f last week i fire broke out in georgetown the emergency went accord ng to schedule though with the town brigade milts away j in the county town j the trafile ir engine had been assigned to cover georgetown in just the eent of a fire but the siren soundtd btfort tht truck arrived the no 2 panel truck answered the alarm and stood by until the tra falgar engine arrived although interlocking fire pro tection plans were n good working order the fire was just a minor one and the trafalgar brigade was actual i v needed tour gardens gardens are beautiful throughout halton but in burlington green the only paper ever published in acton founded in 1873 mnd published eery thursday at 56 hill sl e actoo onl member ot the audit bureau of circula tions the c w n a and the ontarioquebec division of the c w nj advertising rates on request subscriptions pay able in advance s3 50 in canada 350 in the united states six months si 50 single copies jc authorized as second class mail post office department ottawa c a duis editor and publisher business and editorial office telephone 174 the good old days may have seemed better back in 1903 from the issoe of the free press thnroaay jane 11 ibm the new train service has some wdiat demoralized the malls we now have three trains before 10 30 in the forenoon and nothing further from that point until 6 10 p m acton has now five trains east and west daily a new train at 8 50 am reaches toronto at 10 o clock and the new fast train leaves toronto at 7 40 am reach ing acton at 8 50 and crossing the train going east here our citizens may now leave for toronto after breakfast and spend the day in the city returning on the 8 10 p m train after a long continued illness thomas c moore departed this life last thursday afternoon he was one of acton s early settlers hav ing been a resident almost con tin ually for almost half a century he was a builder and erected a considerable number of dwellings and other buildings in acton and barns and farm residences in thi vicinity destruction of life and property from floods in illinois and missouri is terrible many hundreds of lives have been lost along the nver a negro last evening working with hundreds of others along the dykes quit work and demanded his pay at once when he was refused he commenced pulling away some of tferjh ftft crth to make hole in the dyke seven bulletspassed through him before he could do further damage back in 1933 from the issue of the free prese off thursday jane 15 ims the temperature dropped t degrees within thirty six hour sunday a high was 02 and on mon day night the mercury slipped down to 45 a quiet wedding look place in rock wood at the residence of the brides mother last saturday when miss edna vera elder daughter ot mrs rose l dyer became the bride of mr william roy john slon of acton younger son of mr and mrs r lu johnston on tuesday morning the farm home of h hoi cov itch was com plctcly destroyed by fire this home is in erin township two or three miles west of acton it is thought sparks from the chimney ignited the roof a pretty wedding toe k place on saturday at limeho tse united church parsonage when plda e1u ibeth daughter ot mr ind mr d ii tarzwcll of georgetown was married to william alfred son of the late william and mrs babcock of acton born sawyer at st albans rectory acton on thursday june is 1933 lo rev and mrs p a sawyer a daughter died leslie at guelph general hos pital on tuesday june 13 1933 tyd ia am l ite daughter of the late george and amanda leslie in her 64th year thumbed members nf the horticul tural society art looking forward to their garden tour on saturday s mu half dozen of tht larger est at is in the arei are to be included in the tour of local flower gardens many girdens arc open during the weck too for casual visits it is a pity that more art ne able to see some of the gorge ou blooms in the district poppies an taking the spotlight this week and not because next sunday is pops day either on a drive sunday we noticed a magnificent bed with ns and deep red poppiii at rock wood sad i- ate what ignominy burlington s old fire truck which had its last run in a blaze of decorated glory on coronation day has been term ed obsolete and turned over to the works department for use in sewer work the truck was pur chased by the town in 1924 nnd b iwed out under a load of clowns and red white and blue decoration in the coronation parade in bur lington plants at milton ontario steel product will ere i two plants on the 70 acres owned by the company north of milton as soon as engineering studies are complete one plant is for th production of leaf chassis springs and the other for nickel and chrome plating of vano is automotive parts widely known in nelson town ship george bell marked his 93rd birthday on june 8 he seldom misses a party in nelson hall milton council has given two read inns to a bj law to issue debentures totalling 20 000 for construction and repair of sidewalks contest winners we see that mrs gordon tasker of r r 1 milton won 50 in a can ada packers happy holidays contest we were also interested to rcjd that the grand winner mrs vera strood of rr 1 callander drove her farm tractor four miles lo pick up her cheque for 500 mrs strood is planning clothes for her family and payments on the farm professional directory and travellers guide medical at trie united church of canada acton ontario a friendly church i rev e a cnrrey ba bd minister aenue miss o m lampard atcm organist and choir leader slnda june 21st 19vj 10 00 am sundav sch mil f r er child faith in god tito a m tlonrffijr worship sub ject the b ble and fathers 00 pm evening worship sub jeet the one note music an thouphf or the week a wise son heareth his father nstruction but scorner heareth lot rebuke solomon dr w g c kenney physician mnd s office in symon block 43a mill st k acton office phone 78 residence 115 chore si e phone 1h dr d a garrett physician and surgeon corner of willow and river sls entrance river street acton ontario phone z38 vetestlnaet b d young b v sc c l young dvm veterinary surgeon office brookville ontario phone milton 16sr21 r g oakes bv sc veterinarian fice and residence 24 knox av acton phone 130 chiropractor d j armstrong doctor of cbiropracue 15 frederick st n acton phone 550 dental dr a j buchanan dental sorteon office leishman block mill st office hours 9 a m to 6 pjn x ray telephone 148 dr h leib dental gorgeon office corner mill and frederick streets office hours 8 am to 6 p m telephone 19 acton legal c f leatherland banister solicitor notary pismi office hours 1000 am 12 00 a 1 00 pjn500 pjn saturdays by appointment only office 22 phone res 131 acton lever hoskin chartered aceenntanta successors to jenkins and hardy 1305 metropolitan bids 44 victoria st toronto em 4 9131 gerald a candler chartered aecoontant monday to friday 7 9 pjn saturday from sam albert j crandell chartered accountant miscellaneous the victor b rumley funeral howe moral hoaao healed aasbntana phone 30 night or day serving the community for 46 years olive m lampard atcm rmt organist and choir leader united church teacher of piano studio united church thursdays studio 14 park ave guelph telephone 290 baptist church acton dwtght l patterson pastor 19 wilbur sl phone 62j fndav june 19 8 30 b pl sunday june msi 1953 10 00 am sunda school 1100 am morning worship 30 pm evening sevv c may not forsake the awembl fl of ourselves for wonhp presbyterian church in canada knox chukch acton re robert ii armstrong mj1 bd minister sunday june 21st 1qs3 i 9 45 am church school j 1 1 00 am morning worship 00 pm evening service a warm welcome awaits yoj st albarts church anxlicn rev ralph e price ba b d rector third sunday after trinity june 21st 1953 10 00 am church school 1115 am beginners class 11 15 am choral communion 330 pm rally service in acton park sponsored bv the hajion deanery lavmen association speaker rev canon john frank rector of holv trinit church toronto acton cit c ens band and massed choir 00 pm evensong withdrawn ii is hoped all anglicans will at tend the rally snce gome and worship real estate and insurance wright real estate and insurance f l wright b wright 20 wilbur st 69 macdonnell si aclon ont guelph onl phone 95 phone 49i5w alnators realtors insurers member appraisal institute of canada members guelph and district real estate board members guelph and district tnnranrp auemr assonarron w r bracken real estate tnsmraaee phone 28 acton list yxmr farms business or bouse with us we invite vou to use our facilities in securing a purchase for vour property lloyd e aauffe rr no 6 guelph phone hespeler 01 travellers guide gray coach lines r f bean general tnanranee 260 mill st acton phone 585 office hours 0 am 3 pm 6 38 am 858am 1133 ajn 2 oh p m 50hpm s33 p m ssl pn b958 pm westboond 10 r am 1212 pm 2 57 pjn 27 pm r pm 9 12 pjn 11 32 pm 112am sun to kit chener onlv a dailj excrpt sunday and bou- canadian national railways t standard ttsoe dally 5 40 am daily except sun days 9 55 a m 7 10 pm sunday only 816 pm daily except sam- day flyer at georfetown 902 ib daily flyer at georfetown ltjt pm weatlsd daily except sunday and hots- day uq am sunday and monday only 1x08 am daily except sun day 848 am 650 pm flafitop 7 44 pm daily except saturday and sunday s48 pjn saturday on ly 1j6 pjn sunday only 903 ajn narstopi sunday only flyer at ou ttflp