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20 years age Tikea from the t the Aug Asked Green Fire Brick Co Ltd which employa would rebuild in Acton George manager the plant here said At thti date no decision has been made The plant was rated by flames last Friday night In Acton a most costly tiro in years Mr stated the estimate of damage was ample Married on Saturday August ltl in an evening church ceremony In Toronto and Mrs Allan Irving Armstrong will live In Acton following a motor trip to the Southern States Armstrong has Just recently begun to practice medicine here and has his office at tho corner of Mill and Sta Merchants and others along the route of the parade when the Swift Current Band comes to Acton are urged to get out the flags and decorations and give the westerners real welcome on their eastern tour on Tuesday evening next More than BO per cent of all car horn blowing is unnecessary a traffic survey The Acton High School fall term will open on Tuesday morning September 2nd at and all pupils planning to attend are urged to register on the opening das A large new sign overhanging the street has been hung from the Hank of Nova Scotia The Beardmore and Co recreation draw for a leather bag has been postponed until September 13th 50 years ago Taken from the issue of the Free Press August IT 1922 The musical tattoo by massed bands was a splendid success last Saturdaj Bands from Acton Milton and Georgetown were here in full force The Ruth Nelson Mission Band picnicked at Rocks and scenery were fully admired by all The group was In the charge of Misses Speight and Brown assisted by Mrs C C Speight and Miss Brown The In the auditorium of the town hall is now completed This work was undertaken by the Duke of Devonshire chapter of the I D and executed bj contractor Knox Church annual garden on Tuesday evening was favoured with Ideal weather for a function of this sorL The Ladies Aid under whose auspices this affair is held were fortunate in selecting a galaxy of fine entertainers Acton Male Quartet provided numbers that were thoroughly enjoyed by all Acton Citizens Band ably acquitted themscU in the v generous program that rendered throughout the evening The following ore the results of the Middle School Examinations held in Acton last Those who tried twelve papers Earl Cooper Jean Kennedy 12 Rose McEvoy ManeMawatl2 Martha Orr Mary Gibbons 11 Jordan ljiuson 9 James Ross J Lindsay Jack Robertson 3 tried ten papers Laird Laird Mac Donald Those who tried eight papers Viola Rumley Kennedy Ida Beswlck Vera Hurst Margurite Ryder 3 Jean Barber Those who tried six papers Ray 75 years ago Taken from issue of the Free Press Thursday August 19 Though John Doj his intimated at one time or another that he would accept the office of sheriff if it wen tendered him he admits now that it his some unpleasant duties attached which he did not know when he was willing to take the job One of these was the seizure and sale of a bird store W E icuithrope a Marchment home boy who has for nearly nine years been employed by Mr OC Law son one of the districts well known farmers has received a notification from London England asking him to present himself at Temple Bar September 1 The letter says that on day Sculthropc would be years of age and the to I sterling Lome School opined on During the vacation it has been remodelled and repainted and now appears like a new school in its appearance Acton baseball team went to Milton lust Saturday and again defeated the Milton nine This result Acton three out of four games played with the county town team this season The game Acton was firstclass in respect and demonstrated their superiority and also gives the reason to feci that no team in the country is able to defeat them The score was with batters Stcbcr and Ryder and Brush Mahoncy and Elliott Umpire Mr Hall or Toronto Struck out by Stcbcr THE ACTON FREE PRESS PHONE Bus Editorial Of tree 1ST Hair raising episodes Coming or going by I OUR READERS WRITE tret Press Sir lint was quite an article carried by the Press last week The one about face lifting the mown shopping area Well nil the paint flower boxes and ikeor iron to solve the pr blem of Acton district consumers spindini out of town Not as long i tannery town and the Canada Pukers lo permitted to expel the their tanning process over the Remember when one of the chief topics of discussion was the long hair on some young men asks the St Marys Journal Argus Remember when school principals sent students home until they consented to have their long locks trimmed It seems almost a decade ago comments the Journal Argus but there ore still people who moke a big thing out of long hair and if the opportunity crises don hesitate to hassle a fellow with hair of different length than their own These Archie Bunkers still cling to the and customs of the past and feel theirs is the only right thinking The St Maryi editor says he can remember one young man returning from church getting told off In a very uncomplimentary and way for wearing his hair long by an elderly man sitting in car It suggested he had no right to have long hair However the Journal feel the hair hassle could almost be over and the public Is ripe for another move by the younger generation that will get their elders Into a big flap Come to notice top students In Metro Toronto who achieved over per cent in the grade standings were both boys Both also had shoulder length hair and were outstanding athletes that if you will the St Marys editor challenge his readers A a ionK time fence sitter on the subject of long hair we couldn agree more with the St Marys editor with some reservations We have always felt it did not matter how long the hair was as long as It was neat That remark leaves us wide open for some roundhouses from the barbers those who figure it Is Indecent to let yourlocksgrowovcryourears butltis doubtful that the length of one s hair has anything to do with the kind of person you are But If we must split hairs it may have a lot to do with the kind of person you like to be Growth exacts penalties Onkvillc Journal Record took a look at nearby Georgetown and did not like what it saw Highway just outside downtown Georgetown is storting to look like a slice of swaggering post war Metro with its big flashy plazas and space designed for cars not people the Journal Record comments Just down the road though further east on Highway you hit which to a visitor anyway still has that friendly together feeling to it Its downtown is a small scale with big old shade trees and narrow streets that people on foot can feel good on seems able to remain a community while neighboring Georgetown care lessly throws away that warmth just to put on some Metro Cool the Journal Record charges Georgetown has become like it or not another piece of the ever- spreading torontoglob the paper goes on We talked to quite a few people lately who think Georgetown is fast becoming an innocuous commuter suburb no longer a real community at all Hard words The doily has taken only a superficial look at our neighboring town just now recovering Its equilibrium after growth unparalleled In Its history and in the history of most small towns Growth has Its payments to exact one of the most costly being increasing But this is to be expected in a community which has sprung from an approximate 2 in to Its presentday 17 The tight knit highly personalized relationships which can exist between a relatively small population often with many blood tics is not possible when numbers grow and school factory office relationships are severed New residents no longer work in the community but rather commute to jobs in Toronto and its suburbs creating an estrangement that can only be turned back Into the community by social intercourse It is true the east end of Georgetown has changed from the quiet dairy farm land which once sprawled over the landscape into slick plazas and big parking lots bounded by sleek new industries on the north At the same lime wc know many communities who would welcome this type of develop ment in one part of their town And that Is only one part of Georgetown There Is also the Georgetown of quiet residential streets where the core of the old town exists where relationships still goon and prosper despite changes We are not so critical of the commercial development as we would be of vast rows of subdivisfon homes with no parks small corner stores and places where neighbors can meet and develop a sense of community To our mind this is the greater sin Georgetown or any town faced with sudden dramatic growth needs a moratorium on growth every few years so they can develop the sense of community which goes unnoticed hi the excitement and frustrations of development But our neighbor to the east is a long way yet from being the panah described by the Journal Record Bill Smiley Although old timers will continue to shop in Acton newcomers won the stink that floats Into every nook ind that every store in Acton It is much more pleasant to shop in either or Brampton in fresh If 1 don 1 1 it why not move 1 love to but as soon at buver Jets a whiff of that rotten odor its ood bye and don I him 1 suddenly discovered that my wife isn such a lazy bum after all and that most women t appreciated by their husbands week I wrote an Idyllic column how peaceful and beautiful it was at a out in the country overlooking the bay quiet restful all that guff It guff at the tunc but it is now It neither peaceful or quiet around here it still beautiful we re still here On the eve of our departure my silly old woman stepped out of the car twisted her silly old ankle and broke the silly old thing Wl t know it until next day I it was probably a bad sprain But on morrow it was the shape and colour of a fully matured beet so off to the hospital for quite an experience It was one of those dripping hot days and also a Saturday Normally a smalltown hospital is a pretty quiet place But on a in mid summer in tourist the emergency ward is a bit of a in id house were lucky The girl at the desk had to school with my wife and had our down I could open my mouth and came In and helped in many w Inert is doctor and one medical on the job In poured the patients in I I t help admiring the way the In tin appalling heat hope Doc another old friend his that morning because he have any lunch Here an Inl 1 bo bun curried In a worried father 11h has cut his leg Tourists Hire vount kid who has burned his Here a young fellow with his hand all mangled Here comes a ver pregnant lady see the doc in the office a cup of coffee he to snatch held one hand phone ui the other I know it a bad one because he lost his joking jovial personal manner and looks grave orderlies and the medical student tear down the hall in the direction of the ambulance garage Running flat out Sure enough it is a bad one Plane crash just a few miles out of town The doc can t leave He has to read rajs bandage wounds and deliver a baby But he phones for help at the accident scene and goes right back to work He disturbed because he a flying buff himself But he t show it He goes right on toiling with ailing humans Joking calling them their first names doing six things at once he told me there were two killed father and son in the crash He finally got a look at wife rays told her it was broken and swiftly and skillfully made and slapped on a walk cast rhe nurses though running in all directions found time to put her a wheelchair get us out to the car and loaned us a walker a thing you push ahead of you hopping on one foot What a difference from the impersonality and even inert so often found in a big city hospital There too there are dedicated people doing their best but there s a mass of paperwork a coldness a lack of intimacy that is rather Well I ve digressed but the hospital scene impressed me deeply It the way a hospital should be friendly concerned aid with a minimum of red tape Anyway the old girl is lying on the chesterfield with ber leg propped up and feeling furious and frustrated She the type ho does ev erything in the bouse at a boot miles an hour and the speed at which I do them about onetenth of that is driving her insane Every time she remembers that she going to be hobbling for sue weeks cant go swimming or golf can I get at her washing she gets angrier try to cheer her up b saving she s luck she in a full leg cast in traction for sue months It seem to help To her immobility is anathema Meantime I m relearning a tot of the things I used to do when the kids were little but have sloughed off ever so casually over the years Cooking Last night for dinner small new potatoes boded in their skins butured young carrots and beans sirloin steak and salad Tonight sausage broccoli spears and whatever else turns up Housework I vemademybed after only three days vacuumed the rug and done about 6000 dishes Just finished washing out a brassiere and some socks I II cope However it will be a Joyful day when the lady of the house can get off her backside and get back to doing all those things that lake her so short and me so long Housewives of the world I salute you 111 never again ask What in the world do you do all day when I m at work Never I know Here a young fellow with his What a me Know When we let government take over we lose our rights Observer l i From The Dryden Observer One of the common remarks today is Let the government look after it Or to phrase it in a slightly different way The government should take charge of these matters Indeed it has become almost a general trend for individuals and com munities to slough off responsibilities on to the shoulders of those in the provincial legislatures or the federal parliament They in turn hand over the matters to executive secretaries to commissions civil servants and other elected personnel over whose decisions the people have but little control The process is not peculiar to people under any one particular type of government Across this country from west to cast one can examine the procedures under each of Canada s four leading political parties Sochi Credit Conscrvitive Liberal A comparison of the records of federal policies shows little m the methods of dealing with controls responsibilities handed to them Those who would turn matters over to a higher power are failing to see that in so doing they are decreasing their own freedoms The one who carries the responsibiliuis will want to exercise the controls Over the past several years there has been an increase centralization much of it done in the name of Government officials tell the people that it is more efficient to have expert trained personnel look after matters than to leave them in the hands of inexperienced persons or those with limited education and training It miy be more efficient but is it for the people as a whole Much lus been written and said lately about the failure of people to participate In about their lack of interest in what is on and about their lack of over It national or provincial si of affairs One is reminded in this regard of the who could not understand his lack of interest in things around the home What the father was foiling to see was that the boy never had an opportunity to make decisions If vacation plans were being dis cussed father decided where and when the family would go If a new toy or piece of equipment was given the boy father took charge of assembling it and quite frequently controlled its use If the boy desired new clothes or a base ball glove or even permission to gotoa show with his friends father always had the final word The boy to his parents amazement finally began to show little interest and even refused to participate in what was going on around the home after all we have done for him Municipal councils have seen their powers whittled away School boards and principals have their decision making done for them by higher powers The average man is having his plans made for him by some remote bureaucrat The result may be greater efficiency it is not maintaining men democratic rights to make his own decisions and to profit from his own mistakes When one considers the enormous sums that are today required to finance all the welfare and social service programs the inspectors the ad ministrative staffs commissions and officers the cost for training and supervising and checking and all the other expenses that come to be associated with governmentcontrolled projects he can hardly accept the claim that centralization of authority is any cheaper But aside from the questions of efficiency cost and controls the really vital is that the individuals who are so ready to let the government do it are inevitably throwing away their own rights to participate in the running of their province and country Democracy a word we love to use unless it indicates some sort of for us implies after ill the rights of an individual to snare in decisions and responsibilities Rights are won not given Once they are lost they axe rarely regained Which Is why we should not lightly pass them on Id higher controls