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Page 4 THE OAKVILLE-TRAFALGAR JOURNAL The Oakville- Trafalgar Journal Published Every Thursday Morning in Oakville, Ont, by Oakville - Trafalgar Publishers, Ltd. Colborne St. B. (Next Post Office) Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association S. Casey Wood, Jr. Vincent H. Barrey Managing Editor Advertising Manager Phone 1208 AT LAST The Memorial hospital is going to be built. When completed it will be a bigger and better addition to the community now that it would have been had the original plans been acted up. The hospital will have 50 beds instead of 28. The cost per bed has been lowered from $10,000 to approximately $6,000. The total cost of the finer hospital will be $390,000; includ- ing the furnishings. This sum of money looks very large, and some may wonder how it is possible to malke such a positive statement about building. The reason we feel so posi- tive is that we believe the people of this district will say "Yes" on the ballot which they will be asked to cast in the near future. This ballot is required before the town council, which passed a resolution endors- ing the board's proposal, can undertake a debenture debt of $100,000, the sum required from the towns- people in addition to government grants, money al- ready raised, and money to be raised. Another $50,- 000 is required under debenture from the township, which the township taxpayers must also authorize. There can not be anyone who does not recognize the immediate need for a hospital of this size for this area. To build anything for the betterment of the community requires money. Who better to ask to provide this money than all the people who will bene- fit from the hospital? Spread over the proposed 30 years, the increase in individual taxes will be small ... and will apply to everyone. The private individual and industry alike will pay its share . . . and we shall have the hospital at last, THE LIE DIRECT 'The advocates of socialism make much of their responsibility to look after all workers in the state. By inference and straight statement, they point out that private industry does not have the same concern with the fate of its employees. There is much to be said for the effectiveness of a statement, repeated often enough, as a means of hiding the part played by our opponents. Eventually, people begin to believe you . . . regardless of the truth of your promises. We have strong convictions against state owner- ship--and would draw to the attention of everyone the case of the J. R. Kéndall Leather Company, which disproves the claims of socialism. The private owner- ship of this company does not have to re-establish the destroyed business . with conditions like they are at present in the world, there is little inducement for anyone to start any business. But Mr. Kendall has stated he is going to start over again . . . and in the reason he gave is the essential fact to refute the statements of C.C.F. and other state ownership groups. He stated that many of his employees had heen with him for years, and that he felt a responsibility to them. For this reason, if there was no other, he would build another factory and so provide them with continuing employment. Thus private industry gives the lie direct to the smearing charges so often leveled at it. WHEN THE SAP RUNS SLOWLY In our last issue we published a letter from an "Old Resident" in which he deplored the advances being made in Oakville. There was a note of nos- talgia in his letter, as he wished for the days when Oakville was a quiet, town with little or no industry. 'While we might sympathize with this individual's out- look, and be amused by his désire to maintain "The Old Order," we feel it reveals the dangers which would come about if affairs of the town, province or state, were left in the hands of "The Old Guard" with- out the adrenaline addition of the voice of the present generation also being heard. 2 To us the growth of Oakville is a healthy sign. So long as communities such as ours continue to ex- band their industrial potential --being careful, of course, to keep industry and residential sections as much as possible in separateness--this country will be moving forward to its destined place, which is not a home for tired people who want to sit and watch the people of the world weed their old world gardens. YI \U/ | Tratalger Tales | By Bessie Cairns MAD DOGS Present indications seem to point to oleo-margarine coming north to the border and beef go- ing south. "| too, many states require all dogs to be vaccinated against rabies. | ... Are we behind the times in this respect? No one who has read the life of Louis Pasteur discounts the value of rabies vaccine. Many of my readers perhaps recall the story of the six Russian peasants bitten by a pack of mad wolves who were sent, at the expense of the Czar, to the Pasteur institute in Paris. They were all horribly mauled about the face and '|hands and even from the first chances of their survival were nil. Had Pasteur been less of a humanitarian he would have re- fused to treat them. Failure in the "carly stages of his experi- ments might have destroyed the results of years of research and ruined his whole career. Pasteur however, patiently innoculated the Moujiks each day and anx- iously awaited results. Though no one in the hospital could un- derstand a word of their ravings, heard over the whole building. According to Axel Munthe, who was with Pasteur at the time, I can sce now the white face of Pasteur as he passed in silence from bed to bed looking at the doomed men with infinite com- passion in his ey Pasteur was fearless. "Anxious to secure a sample of saliva straight from the jaws of a rabid dog, I once saw him with a glass tube draw a few drops of the deadly venom from the mouth of a bulldog held by two assistants, their hands protected by leather gloves." . . "Most of these laboratory dogs were Lomeless strays picked up by the police in the streets of Paris, but many of them looked as if they had seen better days. Here they suffered and died in obscurity. Unknown soldiers in the battle of the human mind against disease and death." Are there no mad dogs in Can- ada? If there are, why are we not protected against them? Some time ago, by special permission, the R.CM.P. took rabies vaccine to the Northwest Territories to combat an outbreak among the wild animals in that ferritory. Due to extreme caution on the part of the authorities, the rest of Canada has been signally free of the disease. Rabies is one thing we are quite willing to keep south of the border. In one state alone there were several hundred cases last year. Rabies vaccine is a live virus and there is always the danger that a vaccinated dog may become a carrier. Rabies is not in the air. The saliva of a rabid animal (and we are all animals) must enter the blood stream eith- ed through a bite or a break in the skin. Any dog in Canada found to have bitten a person is quarantined for two weeks and checked for rabies. The two weeks' time limit is an extra pre- caution, the disease can be diagy nosed within 24 hours. In fight- ing discase one never relaxes, but there iis not been a rabies out- break in Canada for several years though it is still a must that the "ROAD BLOCK" IN THE PANTRY i SOE vietim of any case must immediately be given the Pasteur treatment. WORDS OF WISDOM oppoSing laws seem to in contest, The one, a law of blood and death, opening out each day new modes of de- stiuction, forces nations to be alwa: ; ready for battle. The oth- me no er, a low cf peace, work and health sc only aim is to de- liver ran from the calamities which Lciet hin. The one seeks. violent conquests, the other the relief of mankind. The one places a single life above all victories, the other sacrifices hundreds of South of the border, |S Letters To The Editor The Editor, Oakville-Trafalgar Journal. Dear Sir: The annoyance which Old Resident expressed last week concerning your very sound '"Ad- vertise Oakville" editorial is readily matched by the full mea- ure of disgust and exasperation T felt when I read the ridiculous entiments contained in his letter. If all thinking townsfolk shared those sentiments, Old Resident would soon find himself surfeited with the peace and quiet he claims to seek--the peace and quiet which inevitably surrounds idle factories, bankrupt firms, and boarded-up shops. But it would be the silence of hopelessness, broken only by the doleful door- pounding of a busy bailiff and the fretful rumbling of Old Resident's own empty stomach. It is indeed fortunate that here in Oakville we have the type of municipal administration which places the accent upon progres- sive thinking, that we have an alert chamber of commerce and a number of active service or- ganizations dedicated to the care- ful fostering of planned growth and prosperity within the town. It is doubly fortunate that imbe- cilic old fogeys like Old Resident are few and far between. It is obvious that his viewpoint is as narrow as the beautiful, one- track lanes of yesteryear, whose passing he deplores; as warped 3s a century-old privy door; and as far-reaching as the dim beam from the tallow candles he prob- ably still uses to illuminate the quiet beauty of his tintypes and horsehair furniture. If Old Resident wishes to find peace and quiet, away from the bustle and the smoke, let him hie himself to the nearest cemetery; the perfect environment for his type of mentality. For my part, Ill go along with Oakvilleites | like yourself, who see the import- ance of the right kind of adver- tising, constructive planning and progressive thinking, and who are willing to lend their efforts to helping our town attain the stature she so richly merits. Yours for Advertising Oakville, New Resident. Oakville-Trafalgar Journal, Oakville, Ont. Dear Sir: As a summer resi- dent of your township, IT was in- terested to see a letter in last week's Journal signed "Old Resi- dent," who wishes to see the sSo- called progress in' Oakville stop- ped. T suggest fo "Old Resident" that if he would move to the 6th Line, particularly a little below the golf links, he will find that progress has stopped as far as the road is concerned. I would also suggest that the council tender for repairs to same before get- ting too deeply involved in new township hell, ete. Rev. H. C. Secker. To the Editor: We all knew it was there-- but Old Resident, in the letter you published last week brought it out in the open. Now we can all say, "Come out from behind those whiskers, we lnow who you are" We moved here four years ago, and let me tell you we didn't find it very pleasant at i The house we bought-- at one h--- of a pride--was right in among a lot of these old scuts. We nearly went mad for a while, because they treated us as if we had leprosy. Of course, after a while, it didn't matter because we got to know some real folks, and we wouldn't live anywhere else now. But until we got into this happy state, it was a rotten ex- perience I can tell you. Now we tieat these oldsters as if they had the leprosy. They probably don't notice it, but it's fun. You keep right on plugging Oakville the way you have been--this town his need of a paper like The Journal. Hit them some more and we'll give the lepers some- thing to really think about, A.M. L. Mealth Head Warns Against Milk Dangers The Health League of Canada, through its general director, Dr. Gordon Bates, has issued an ap- peal to summer vacationists and travellers to carefully investigate the source of supply of the milk they use this summer. "Although they know, or ought to know, that unpasteurized milk is a germ carrier and a fine cul- ture medium for virulent disease bacteria, numerous vacationists and travellers this summer most likely will neglect to make sure their supplies are safe," Dr. Bates said. "They will not take the trouble to check whether the milk they obtain from farms, lunch rooms, restaurants or hotels, and other sources is safe--safe be- cause it has been pasteurized. "Most of these persons are resi- dents of urban centres where pas- teurized milk is delivered to their homes evry day. For 49 or 50 weeks each year they are pro- tected--knowingly or unknow- ingly--against milk-borne disease. Then for their short vacation per- iod they throw all precaution to the winds and order milk, not knowing, and evidently not car- ing, Whether it is pasteurized." Dr. Bates said he wishes to emphasize that just one drink of contaminated raw milk could cause a person to become ill. He said raw milk could cause a per- son to become ill, He said raw milk can contain germs which cause such crippling or death- dealing diseases as typhoid fever, undulant fever, bovine tubercu- losis, septic sore throat and dys- entery. Thursday, Afgust 19, 154 Diploma Laurence Steinhardt, - Formerly United States An bassador to Moscow, Ankarg and Prague, Who will succes Ray Atherton as U.S. represen. tative at Ottawa. -- DEERHAVEN KENNELS (Reg'd) (B. K. Snider) A HOME for your Dog while you are away WASHING - WORMING| GROOMING - DEFLEAING CONDITIONING UPPER MIDDLE ROAD Oakville. - Tele. 457. -.. An old expression many conditions Len Hope, Mgr. "Safety / First" in recommending our pre- scription services to you. You can rely on us to carefully fill your prescriptions by graduate pharmacists and with only the best ingredients. REFRESH YOURSELF -- VISIT OUR MODERN SODA BAR! Oakville Drug Co. Limited OAKVILLE = that holds well' under that's why we say Phone 94 his prize. Notice Mr. J. Birch, Bronte, who held First Prize Winning Ticket No. 10322 in our recent Carnival Draw, has not called for THIS WILL BE HELD ONLY UNTIL. OCTOBER 25TH, 1948 Canadian Legion Branch 114 OAKVILLE, ONTARIO lives to a single individual. The law of which we are the instru- ments strives even through the carnage to cure the wounds due to the law of war. Treatment by. our antiseptic methods may pre- serve the lives of thousands of soldiers. Which of these two laws will prevail, God only knows. ... But of this we may be sure, that science, in obeying the law. of humanity, will always labour to enlarge the frontiers of life." The above quote is from a speech given by Louis Pasteur in 1888 at the opening of the Pas- teur institute in Paris. Phone 248 SCALES - Symbol of Accurate Judgment Your physician, your dentist, your pharmacist have, through long years of professional training, developed accurate judgment in analyzing and solving your health problems. 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