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Page 4 + The Oakville- Trafalgar Journal Member Canadi Weekly N p Published Every Thursday Morning in Oakville, Ont., by Oakyille-Trafalgar Publishers, Ltd. 86-A Colborne St. E. (Next to Post Office) S. Casey Wood, Jr. Vincent H. Barrey Managing Editor Advertising Manager Bill Cotton, Hditorial Assistant x Phone 1298 P s Association Growing With Oakville On or about the 15th of this month the Journal will move to new quarters. Our new plant w ill be lo- cated in the two storey building on Dunn Street North, which for quite a few years was a well-known landmark to a number of residents. In our new home we will have available the additional space which we require for the expansion of our business, and some- thing which the staff has long felt a need for--room in which to work. A business either stands still, goes ahead or goes behind. The Journal certainly isn't going to stand still--and the last resort wouldn't enter our heads. So, with the confidence that our many customers have given us . .. we are going ahead. We are sure that our new quarters will be as gratifying to our cust- omers who visit us in the office as they will be to us. We would be ungrateful if, in leaving the prem- ises of Arthur Heaven, we did not express to him our very deep appreciation for his co-operation in letting us occupy our present premises for the length of time we have used them. When the infant Journal found it necessary to move from the temporary quarters Carl Wright had so kindly provided for us, Arthur Heaven . was not at all anxious to rent the hacl portion of his building, as he really needed the space for his own operations. But he was most sympathetic to our need for a more central location--our sole reason for leaving the Wright Machine Shop on Cro: Avenue and most willing to help a new organization get under way. So he let us have the space, and has al- ways been a most helpful landlord. With our new location we are to have a new landlord. Tommy Blakelock, back when we were looking for a location adjacent to the mainstreet, wanted to move us into one of the new stores in his block of buildings on -Colborne Street. But presses running at night made that impossible--so we had to wait two years before we could finally become Tom- my's tenants. We still expect to run our presses the odd night, but as we will be tenants of tlie whole building--and will only rent the top floor to someone who won't mind the noise--we think everything will be just fine. To sum it up in the words of our ever-expressive Foreman, "Will we make thoses presses hum when we have room to pile the finished work." In other words, we look forward to inc sing our volume of business and being able, therefore, to look after those "rush" printing jobs our customers ask us for from time to time. We like to think that «1950, the Journal, and Oakville are all going to be the best that there has been in this district for all time. Is that too much to hope for?--we don't think so . .. and welll do all we can to male it, come true. - kor Tals BY BESSIE CAIRNS GENTLEMEN! THE FUTURE! I have made a dozen false starts in this column already but when the subject is royalty I feel Tam competing with that superb ex- ponenent of the King's English, His Majesty's most humble ser- vant, the Right-Honourable Wins- ton Churchill and fully realizing niy position as an also ran I yet consider myself fortunate to be one of the same race. It has been said and wisely that whereas a politician thinks only in terms of the next election a statesman thinks of the future, Churchill does even better, he has a historian's reverence for the past. Speaking at the close of that long parliament that swore allegiance to three sovereigns and which by declaring war on Ger- many directed the destiny of civ- ilization he said, "I am very glad that the closing session of this long ten year parliament should show all the respect for the tra- ditional and ceremonial occasions, ignorant, unthinking peo- ple, who have not meditated, upon matters or studied the true move- ment of events and forces in the human breast, might easily re- gard as meaningless performan- which ces." Such mance" takes place each Christ- home of one of my a "meaningless perfor- mas in the neighbours. They have relatives scattered throughout the world and each year, following the king's speech they toast his ma- jesty, with the knowledge that relatives dear, though distant, have listened to the same mes- sage and are paying a like tri- bute, thus traditions are born and Empire ties strengthened. In a world bf vast changes it is good that some immutable things sur- vive. A good thing too that we still have a king to toast and that however bankrupt. the British na- tion may be throughout the world people still pay tribute to British and COTTON GIN | As I stroll along Colborne St. long time. Before long I had de- pause to watch workmen |vised a window that, right to this - readying a spot between Dunn and Dundas for a new Loblaw § groceteria, I' feel somewhat the way I imagine a Queen's grad does when he sees the corner- stone being) laid for a new build- ing at his old alma mater. § I won my varsity apron as a AN clerk for this chain at a very early age, and I always feel a twinge of nostalgia when I pass one of its stores. I'll never for- get the first customer I ever waited on. I was 13 then--ap- py parently an unlucky age--and worked Friday after school and Saturdays. A woman asked for a bottle of catsup, way up on a shelf, out of my reach. I grabbed the gadget with which boxes of cereal are lifted from top shelves and manfully seized a bottle of catsup. It held on long enough to get it just above the woman's head, then lost its grip. The bottle was extremely poor- ly made, or the customer's head was excessively hard. Anyway, the bottle broke on contact, and the lady was instantly transform- ed into a convincing fascimile of [ a mammoth shrimp cocktail. Od- lh} dly enough, I wasn't fired. But I i; did draw punishment from: the manager. From then on, it was my chore to dress the windows 'Saturday nights after closing, which at that time was 11 p.m. I was readily adaptable, how- ever. I didn't take long to become the world's fastest and worst window dresser. At first, course, Tustrove for scenic effects, stacking great heaps of cans into v of ~windox and 4 But that type a pyramids, and bedecking, w-= the lot- with gay crepe streair; day, hasn't been excelled for sheer unattractiveness and minumum amount of labor involved, It consisted simply of, a couple of dozen brooms and mops centrally stacked, held up by rows of Kel- logg corn flakes. Occasionally, just to show that I wasn't in a rut, I'd scatter bars of P. & G soap about. When I was in senior high school and was madly in love with a second' former, I used to cry among my brooms, mops, and laundry soap because my deadly rival was courting my girl at Sat- urday night dances. He finally won her for his own, and I saw them a few years ago for the first time since they had been married. One look at her, and niy heart sang hosannas that Lob- laws had given me the job that disrupted my courtship. She had a face reminiscent of a cross be- tween an isosceles triangle and a stale crumpet, and my rival look- ed as downtrodden as an Italian peasant's grape wine mash. It would be very nice if I could make this a really moving Hor- atio Alger yarn, with me moving up to Head Clerk and Manager, and finally changing my name to Cork and running the whole she- bang. But alas, 'such is not the case. The truth is, T was fired. I wWolfed down so much of the store's goods for free that the day came that my apron would no longer fit me. So they decided I'd just of (have to go. But I still get the feeling, as I say, that my old school tie should be a Loblaw one. Black bow, of course. Reminiscently Yours, ==. FilL COTTON : ideals. Strangely enough by reason of another tradition from 1913 until 1936 one of the most populous counties of England never toast- ed "The King." During a visit to Lancashire the late King George and Queen Mary were received IT SEEMS TO ME a speed of nearly two thousand miles an hour in a trial flight in California. But we have little hes- titation in predicting that before many years have passed such a speed will be reached if not ex- ceeded. For vast resources of science are' being devoted to the task of increasing the rate at which humans may travel through space. We are now in the middle of a century whose watchword is faster and ever faster. To really appreciate the mir- acle of modern speed we should consider the fact that up until the early part of the last century, when the steam locomotive was invented, people could travel no faster than a horse could walk, or trot, or gallop, and a journey of fifty miles often took a day. Travel by air was something that the imaginative had dreamed of for centuries. In the early nine- teen hundreds the first airplane managed to fly a few yards. Im- provements followed swiftly, and about a dozen years later, when the first great war came along, planes were used extensively by both sides. But even they were frail and clumsy and slow com- pared with those which rained death and destruction from the air in the second great war some twenty years later. At the beginning of the present century no plane had yet flown. Thursday, January 6, 1950 a search and education in the field A of nutrition. Poliomyelitis is an- Complete other problem which must be solved, while even the common I toleat ill has humanity baffled. me By |B , Tonio Gi science and health nyes : = | yorkers generally . have still Service It was, it seems, an exaggera-|much to do, and that is why such tion, that report of an American events as National Health Week, BONDS 'Air force rocket plane attaining [sponsored by the Health League STOCKS. of Canada, are necessary. Health Week helps make Canadians aware of the facts, helps give them a clear view of the nation's current health picture and points out what they can do to help im- prove that picture. Canada's sixth annual National Health Week is scheduled for Jan- uary 29th to February 4th. on all Exchanges MACRAE AND COMPANY Investment Dealers PHONE: EL 3374 80 King St. W.--Toronto Carsten Glahn Optometrist - 163 Colborne Street -- TELEPHONE 1375 -- OFFICE HOURS Optician Oakville Evenings Mon. and Thurs. 7 to 8 Or By Appointment W. S. DAVIS & SON REAL ESTATE - INSURANCE MORTGAGES * 5 W. E. DAVIS 71 Colborne St., Oakville Phone 41 Evenings and Holidays Phone 612-R R. C. A. CUMBERLAND Today planes carry pi across the ocean in considerably less than twenty-four hours, And now comes the latest miracle of the jet plane, to inaugurate a new revolution in speed. It does not seem unlikely that by the end of the present century Canadians will be able to leave their homes in the morning, board a jet pas- senger transport, fly to London, Paris, Rome, or some other Eur- opean city, spend several hours in sight-seeing and be back home the same night. But this craving for speed has its price. Train, car and plane ac- cidents have taken a grim toll in millions of human lives. It could be argued, indeed, that, in the long run, speed has added little if anything to human happiness. Regarded purely as a human achievement, however, this phen- omenon of speed is a most im- pressive one. How thrilling is the vision of a great silver-winged monster flashing through space everywhere with great enthus- iasm. On Ris return to London, the king sent a letter of thanks to Lord Derby and after com- menting appreciatively on the chief things seen on their tour, he expressed the hope that the peo- ple would regard him as the Duke of Lancaster, feeling that such a title would strengthen the bond between the people of Lancashire and their sovereign. From that time until his death he was toast- ed throughout the county as the Duke of Lancaster. Yet be the toast St. George and Merre Eng- land, Lancaster and the Red, Red Rose, or simply the King, may the people of that storied island feel as they pay tribute to his majesty that dark though the fu- ture may seem they will somehow manage to "muddle through." high above the earth, bearing its human cargo far across plain, mountain and sea to distant cit- ies, all within the space of a few hours? Often we wish that a cer- tain great figure of history might. be here to view the sight--Leon- ardo da Vinci, the great artist- engineer of the Italian renais- sance, who, four centuries ago, drew désigns for strange-looking flying-machines and dreamed of the day when earth-bound man would conquer the air. Figures Show Canada's Death Rate Dropping In the last 25 years, Canadian death rates have fallen in a re- markable way. Discoveries in the field of scientific medicine have had a profound effect on our civ- ilization, and naturally have re- Quality Venetian Blinds Custom Made Guaranteed Two Years REPAIR and LAUNDRY SERVICE & Mfg. Co. Venetian Blind Laundry sulted in higher standards of health. Some diseases which were known as scourges--no more than 25 years ago--are now eith- er completely under coptrol or partially checked. For instance case and death rates in Canada for tuberculosis, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria and the whooping cough have fallen spec- tacularly in that period of time. Infant and maternal deaths are on the downgrade, and smallpox has just about disappeared. A spectacular instance of change for the better is seen in diphther- ia statistics--9,093 cases and 1, 280 deaths in Canada in 1924 against' 898 cases and 85 deaths in 1948, Despite all this many problems continue to baffle medical science and the general public alike. For instance, the attack on cancer and arthritis has only begun; the venereal-disease problem is still a significant one; more attention needs to be paid to the health of industrial workers by both man- agement and the workers them- selves. WILLIAM C. MILLIGAN, R.O. ~ OPTOMETRIST « » OPTICIAN 69A COLBORNE ST. 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