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The Ado Wednesday November No glum chums here After three performances In Ac ton two at the high school and one at the Fall Fair members of the Tramp- champs a spectacular trampoline act rate people in Acton and district as the happiest people we ve performed for We play at night clubs fall fairs and exhibitions all across the province one member of the troupe told the Free Press and we have never seen happier people than you have here in Acton Dawn patrol Bill Smiley As the two great wars of this century move gradually out of memory and into the pages of history books our annual Remembrance Day recurs with alarming rapidity for the veteran There was nothing great about either of those wars except for their size Yet the old sweats call their war the Great War and the middleaged sweats hove to settle for the title World War The name of the day has been changed from Armistice Daj to Remembrance Day A good change But I m glad haven t changed the date November 11th is an ideal tune to remember It usually cold wet and gloomy Even the skies seem to weep at the foil of man It difficult to conceive of hearing those hallowed cliches comrades In Flanders fields the poppies grow 1 the going down of the sun and the morning we shall remember them lest forget on i hot in Jul But 1 not be sardonic when I refer to hallowed cliches They are clches but the are also hallowed and the a great deal to the men and man women who gather a to remember that the cream of Canadian men in two generations was skimmed off a brutal fate on farawav fields It hard to believe in these of the burning of draft cards of draft dodging that in those two great wars Canadians went not only willingly but In most cases eagerly to fight in a war miles away against an unknown enemy for reasons At least with hindsight the reasons were hazy But at the tune they were crystal clear Kaiser was out to destroy the British Empire Good enough Hitler was out to stomp across the civilized world in jackboots Clear Let stop the sods We didn t fight to subdue anyone as the Russians Germans Japs Italians have done We out to conquer new terr tones We were out to prevent someone from subduing us or conquering our territory In both wars there was a minority who joined up for less than hero reasons to away from a nagging wife to avoid the law to escape a boring job But in the first great war Canadians literally flocked to the colors recruiting offices In that war they showed a dash and clan and fortitude once in action that made them respected throughout Europe and especially amon the enemy And in the second despite the disillusion of the depression despite the cynicism of the Thirties perhaps the most anti war generation of this century they did it again And once they proved themselves beyond a doubt as doughty on land sea and in the Personal I didn t exactly flock to the from the editors desk Did you know that the average working woman Is years of age and nearly a third of the distaff side who venture outside the home to work are over the age of These are facts from a small brochure distributed by the Ontario Department of Labour entitled Who are Ontario a Working Women The brochure reveals that there were women in Ontario labor force In compared with In That meant that one out of ever three workers in Ontario is a woman Thirtyeight percent of all Canadian working women live in On tan Largest age group working outside the home is They constitute per cent of the total population of that age Next are the yearolds who have 47 per cent working Sixtythree per cent of Ontario s working women are percent single ten per cent are widowed separated or divorced Clerical work attracts the greatest majority of working percent Services and recreation makt up percent professional and technical percent and craftsmen and production workers 12 percent Three per cent are in a managerial braket while 3 percent are farmers or farm workers percent sales Did you know the more educated a woman is the more likely she is to be In the labor force Fortysix per cent of all women with some university education or university degree or a complete high school education are working Thirtythree per cent of women with some high school education work while percent of all women with an elemental education or less are working Interesting thing about all these statistics Is that It bears out the contention of gentlemen who wore black derbies or handlebar mustaches and read under gas lights that If women were educated the d start challenging men In all facets of living Obviously they were right In their assump tions The lesson for men in all this is of course that women liberation movement began when Eve started questioning Adam Fool that he answered and woman started using some of man knowledge to start her own struggle to escape from the dominance of men Needless to say the struggle continues If the men don wake up we will be home doing the cooking and having the children while the women wear the bowler hats and try to cultivate handlebar mustaches Kidding of course Perhaps It was a coincidence but did you notice the years ago column last week where Milton town council instructed the constables of to enforce the by law relating to the peace of the town Shades of 1971 There was a general complaint of the increasing lawlessness among the young men of the town particularly at the CNR station at night and a general decision derived at to back up the chief constable in any steps he might lake to suppress the dis graceful state of affairs It Was stated that even married men take part The lawlessness was not confined to the young men of the town- certain smart Alecks from the country came into town to work off their freshness Measures taken to curb this en hi Jinks In Milton will perhaps differ in some respects than what proposed to do in 1896 Milton Mayor Brian Best would like to publish the names of the parents of all boys who took part in the en follies so everyone can see who t raising kids He also wants a curfew imposed on under 16 years of age found loitering In a public place between and am without parental supervision Under this act offenders are taken home or to a place of safety and parents are charged fines of to The disgusted Mayor would also like to hire two more policemen and equip police with polaroid cameras to assist In identl tying unruly elements of the community Bade in it was the chief constable intention to inaugurate a vigorous campaign against all kinds of lawlessness in Milton Seventyfive years have gone under the badge but it looks like we are still having the same kind of troubles Obviously warmed by the enthusiastic reception they received from high school students during and after their performance here the were partial but they were also serious about their statements It isn I first time we have heard this stated by performers who come to Acton but it is the first time we hive heard it said with such sincerity here obviously is a happy ingredient amongst the people of this town and district when they are being entertained We obviously t so sophisticated that a talented performance won t draw warm applause despite continuous exposure to some of the best and the worst acts in the world on the TV screen It is a characteristic that performers can sense and appreciate as well as being one which we would hope the people here can hold onto along with an allied sense of humor which mikes living here pleasant and often humorous A fine representative colors Both my broil had jumped in early rhut didn bother me I was a product of the Thirties a university student and 1 1 untied at them as they went through endless months of dull training le the war in Europe was a complete But a time came The Germans broke Civiliznt on is knew it was in danger of tramped into tin mud by the jackboots That was when thousands of us stopped it the phoney war an took the oath Ishakem ho desperate we were to killed It was triumit experience to be sashed out of where your chances of kilted were fairly and wind up washing dishes it inarm n pool sift is sausage We knew we were doing in some instinctu We to come to ps it why 1 feel a certain pity for the of socalled free world in these are forced against an unkno for something they don believe n mud I an atmosphere of corruption and downright To all veterans don remember the blood mud and sweat and and fear Just remember all the times and the ends You 11 never have them again Curfews This writer can remember when one was enforced in Acton during and after the war years Everyone over the age of was required to carry a registration card So If the village constable Acton was a village then stopped you after and you weren able to produce a registration card you were in trouble He marched home and demanded to know why parents let you roam after 9 clock The first offense was usually a warning But the second and subsequent catches were regarded as pretty serious and parents could pay fines Although the more daring adolescents continued to roam nocturnal pursuits likely to be anything that would attract unnecessary attention The system worked pretty well It also instilled a tot of respect in most of us for the police One glance was enough to send most of us scurrying for cover Some of the more daring took two glances of course Nine clock was announced by the tolling of the old bell in the town hall steeple since moved down and mounted on a cairn beside the fire hall Of course one of the common excuses when you were caught after curfew was that I didn hear the bell It t cut much Ice but it was perhaps the really only legitimate excuse most of us had We really t hear the bell when we were engrossed in some game or other kinds of Well the curfew has gone now abandoned as a relic of the past It seems odd to hear that they are thinking ducing it in a neighboring community One of the reasons I feel so grateful I was poor when I was first married is that I could so easily have mucked it up said Muggerldge In a BBC broad cost Infidelities sexual jealousies all these things that occur to everybody I wasn tuia position to walk out because I was poor and had four children And how delighted I am now after years of marriage The companionship of my wife is without any question the most precious thing I ve found in this world Wc are all prone to criticize politicians whether on the local provincial or national scale so when we are offered the opportunity to pass on a good word about the men or women who help govern this country we intend to do so no matter how suspect it may look There is nothing suspect about the efforts of Halton M Rud Whiting for his constituents and we feel he should be commended for the interest he has shown in the county grass roots Just last week Mr Whiting was appointed to the very important post of vicechairman of the Public Accounts Committee after serving on it only two years A non partisan body headed by Wellington P Hales of the Progressive Conservatives it was this committee which unearthed facts about the excessive spending on the aircraft Bonaventure refit rhe member committee probes into all expenditures where the Auditor General finds money spent unproductively or to interests which in his view may not be in the tax payers interests It is a of the mm that Whiting should be appointed to this post replacing P Tom Lefevre of Pontiac Quebec But constituents in this part of his are not really surprised because Mr Whiting his demonstrated a readiness to represent Halton in the interests of his constituents and now his powers take on broader scope and his talents used to better Whiting s efforts a local woman Mrs Alex Mann has been appointed as claims of the Unemployment Insurance Commission in Aclon Mr Whiting wis alerted to the fact that unemployed people Acton often had to travel miles to Show confidence Waterloo to for unemployment ins lrince benefits He succeeded in ameliorating the condition by the of Mrs Mann Applications can now be filled out in Acton Reading where Keates Organ has been nit hard by the per cent U S surcharge he contacted the Acton firm advising them they could be eligible for grants of up to twothirds of the amount the Is costing are only two recent examples where his interest all parts of the ntlrm We know of many other causes he has battled for in the bureaucratic jungle at Ottawa and there are many people who can testify to his personal intercession when they got into dif ficulties We believe in recognizing merit when we see it and when our interests are being well looked after it gives us issurance that parliamcntry democracy has hope despite all the detractors According to The Financial Post another decline in mortgage rates appears to be a good prospect for home buyers in early Mortgage rates have already come down about a quarter of point since the Bank of Canada and the chartered banks cut their loan rates Mortgage specialists expect only a marginal decline for the rest of the year Larger amounts of money should be iviilable for mortgage lending early in 1972 and rates could come down appreciably the Financial Post says noting at the same time that in upturn in the economy could generate more demand for business and other lo ins could divert some of the funds into mortgages The expected upturn in the economy have been delayed by pessimistic statements of certain political leaders because the consumer seems to be in a confident mood For instance major appliance siles reached a record level in the third quirter of the year and to dite are running per cent ahead of the level of Outlook for the balance of the year said one prominent manufacturer is extremely encouraging Corporate profits indications show will be per cent ahead of showing Although subject to the uncertainties of future S economic policies and their bearing on the Canadian economy the outlook appears to be a continuous earnings revival While some politicians see only the gloomy side of the economy there is a strong indication tint Canada may hive a record year in some segments of theeconomy And once agun it may be the Canadim consumer who the drive back lo a stible and strong economy that cuts huge gaps m unemployment It was consumer confidence that took the economy back during the recession of the early GO and it looks like they will repeat the performance THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Bus and Ed tor Office 20 years ago 50 years ago years ago Taken from the the Free Press of Thursday Novembers A full auditorium greeted the Acton High School commencement exercises on both Thursday and Friday nights in the Town Hall last week The program included numbers by the Glee Club The addresses of welcome were given by Donald McVey and Yvonne Gymnastic exercises were shown by the boys under Mr Heron Miss Harris conducted the girls in their athletic display The play was a typical school play The Bobby Sox Brigade under the direction of Miss with Parker doing the makeup and Ena Jennings as prompter Those taking part were Audrey Wilkinson Betty Williamson Marilyn Isabel Ritchie Frances Fletcher BlllConans Ken Mann Members of the Never Late Never Ab sent Club receiving their awards from Mrs and Miss Clara were Maureen Carol Mary Vera Barbara Turner Ida Archibald and John Ware Proficiency awards were presented by A J Buchanan and Mr G A Dills to Janice Baker Nancy Lambert Isabel Ritchie Barbara Turner Marjorie Donald Dawkins Three new scholarships were given the Amos Mason scholarship to Fred Turner the Mayor Tyler scholarship to Yvonne Brunelle and the Stanley Wilkinson scholarship to Jo Ann Veldhuis Fred Euringer delivered the valedictory address He attained the highest standing in Upper School Yvonne was the best all round girl At the conclusion dancing was enjoyed to recorded music by Mr Harry Arblc Taken from the Issue of the Free Thursday November 17 The third anniversary of the signing of the Armistice was fittingly observed Friday The wearing of the memorial poppy was general Promptly at clock all work in town ceased Every wheel stopped Upon the stroke of eleven Mrs John Kennedy president of the Women s War Veterans Auxiliary approached the soldiers monument on the lawn of the Soldiers Home and deposited at its base a beautiful wreath Other wreaths were placed by Mrs L B Shorey regent of the Duke of Devonshire chapter of the I and Miss Laura Scott president of the Junior I O Just at 11 in the Free Press office Private David Conbrough an Imperial soldier of the 1st division stepped in to have his passport endorsed by Police Magistrate editor Moore He remarked Three years ago I spent this day at La near Lens Private Ernest Brown of the Free Press staff who was in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces stepped up and said Shake hands comrade I was at Valenciennes They had never met before but had been with brigades which were closely allied to each other on Armistice coincidence both Interesting and pathetic Mr Harold Wdes has retired from Acton Creamery and Thos Nell is now the sole owner Mr Wdes will give his whole attention to his restaurant and candy business A letter to council from the Provincial Secretary requested their views on the question of extension of franchise to wives and daughters of property owners The council unanimously endorsed the proposal Taken from the the Free Thursday November Until a few months ago we hod ten passenger trains running through Acton dady five each way With the winter timetable we have but three trains west and four east The discontinuance of the train has caused much inconvenience felt mainly by the high school students attending Georgetown from Rock wood Acton ana Ijmehouse who must now leave home at 40 a and have no means of returning until m It is hoped this serious Inconvenience will soon be removed Plucky Lawrence missed the 40 train Monday and walked all the to Georgetown Some students will attend in the future Owing to the evening mail arriving later the post office is now open until 7 or 7 The theelghto clocktrain silliness will be discontinued In the evenings now there being no eight clock train- Mr Nelson is organizing a lodge of the I O in Rockwood A large crowd attended Monday In one year 372 men have been expelled from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers for intoxication The hoys of Eden Mills purpose having a bush hunt shooting match some of the days all games to count so many points and the losers to pay for the nipper time is anticipated Ernest Hall a former Halton boy writes of the mining excitement Revelstoke C the endless indications of resources possibly unparalleled I know of no country that of fen more promise than our farfamed Kootenay We are badly in need of the Nest Hit But a newcomer must haw capital his pocket