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Page 10 THE OAKVILLE-TRAFALGAR J OURNAL should be objective and practical. IT SEEMS TO ME By P. W. Thompson It is hardly to be denied that "the nineties" and other bygone periods possessed certain ad- vantages over the present. Life then was less hurried and hazard- People back in the nineties of the last century were happier and Detter off than are people today, in the opinion of a man who re- cently wrote a letter to the editor of a city newspaper. And there are no doubt many with memor- ies of that romantic decade who will agree with him heartily. It that nostalgic What strange tricks Time plays with the human memory! Days, weeks, in our is the old story, longing for the past! incidents, long periods lives that seem quite ordinary or even postively with the passing Hence that time-worn oft-heard expression "the good old days;" hence the endless mor- alizing about present-day decad- ence, the extolling, of the virtues and customs and conditions of bygone periods, the tendency to worship the past. This, however, is not to say that we should not now and then pause and look back over the road we have travelled with a view to finding out what we have accomplished, and charting our future course. But in doing so we New! Exclusive with Tonil: MIDGET £228 For 'Perfect Neckline. Curls Far Easier - Far Faster! Get Yours Today--In This New SPECIAL VALUE TONI REFILL KIT « Six Toni Midget SPIN Curlers + Regular Toni Home Permanent Refill * Toni Creme Shampoo 33c size $1.88 Value All three ane $7 59 DUNN'S DRUG STORE John R. Dunn, Phm. B- Phone 650 unpleasant while we are experiencing them often take on the colors of the rainbow of the years. myth about school-days being the hap- piest days of one's life, and the ous than it is today. The world was less crowded. There were fewer accidents, and the atom ) | bomb and germ warfare were not menacing civilization. But that was one side of the picture only. Life in some ways was much harder than it is today. People, generally speaking, worked hard- er and longer. There was much stark, horrible poverty and squal- or, much disease. Illiteracy and ignorance were more widespread, social legislation very limited, and economic abuses rampant. And yet champions of the "good old days" who stoutly maintain that the world is getting' worse can certainly find, in the chaotic world of today, much evi- dence to support their contention. There is, without doubt, much that is wrong in our modern world, and people can hardly be blamed for growing skeptical about claims of progress. But the remedy certainly does not lie in a return to the "good old days." However good those days may have actually been, they are gone forever, beyond any possibility of recall. We must go forward, not backward. The whole world has been swept up in a great cur- rent of change, against which it is folly to fight. It is up to hu- manity to face the many prob- lems that this new age has brought. If they are tackled with intelligence, determination and patience this world may some day become a much better and happier place than it has ever been. OBITUARY MRS. A. V. WHITE A former well-known resident of the Oakville district, Mrs. A. V. White, died Saturday at her home in South Sea, Hampshire, England in her 75th year. The late Mrs. White was the mother of Michael Jennings, Front St. and Mrs. Thomas Fairley, Eighth Line South. Mr. Jennings flew to England recently, and was with his mother when she died. The late Mrs. White spent sev- eral years in Oakville during the late 'war as the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Fairley. She took an active part in war work in both the first and second world wars, and was also known for her activities on behalf of needy children. While in Oakville she attended St. Jude's Church. nee If all the people who work for the telephoné company, And all the people who earn a living by making the things the telephone company needs, And all the people who have their savings invested in the telephone company, And all the people who depend on good telephone service 30 run their businesses and manage their homes; If all these people, with their families, lived in one city, This City-With-No-Name would be by far the largest in Canada, and one of the largest in the world. Keoping pace with the growing noads of com: everywhere for more and nities. has bettor tolophorio servi takan lots of work and lots of money. Only a financially healthy telophdne company can carry on this big job. Telophono users, employees, sharoholdors -- everyona has 1 intrest in @ service that means so much to the a welfare of so many people. THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF CANADA Owned and operated by Canadians for Canadians stands for DANGER of which there's a lot. The little dog ses it; His master does not. is for POLICEMAN A good friend, we know He is ready fo help us Wherever we go. DEFINITELY A HIGHLIGHT of Highways Minister George Doucett's four-year-old safety campaign is the recently released educational device, "The ABC's of Traffic Safety," a crayon color- ing book for young children. "More children are killed by traffic accidents than by an single disease of childhood," the minister told the Ontario Legislature last week, when he produced the attract: ively bound book for inspection of the members. Since the sending out of sample copies to the province's 6,823 elementary schools, the demand has already exceeded the first printing, and copies are at present being rationed to schools until more can be printed. The book's profusely illustrated safety alphabet, samples of which are seen above, is aimed at 4, 5, 6 and 7-year-old group. Jin shamrocks, Thursday, March 23, 195) ANIMATED SNOWMEN His face and neatly clippeg goatee encrusted with a clinging layer: of snow that still failed t obscure his characteristically broad smile, Charlie Priestman literally blew into-town last Fri. day at about 4.30 p.m. It took tn veteran Toronto walking enthus. iast, accompanied by some 2) other animated snow men ang gals, about 7 and a half Hours t, complete the Morning Glory Club's 20th St. Patrick's Day stroll from University and Ade. laide Sts. to the town office. But it wasn't just the blizzarg that slowed Mr. Priestman down for the distance. "In the past few years, I've made so many friends from the Humber on out that it keeps me busy greeting them [ all" he chuckled. "Then the snow hit us at Port Credit ang the going got tougher under foot." ary, was met by the mayor ang a crowd of interested towns. people, whom he greeted briefly over the loudspeaker. "I've walk. ed 75,000 miles since I was 60, Tm now 84 and I've a lot of mil. es left in me yet" he declared And his Morning Glory club as. sociates, clad for the most. pait smiles and snow, nodded complete agreement as| they stood around catching a wel earned breather. I Halton's Health Unit Attracts Country - Wide Medical Interest Although the recently com-|ton, there is even a supervised pleted Oakville-Trafalgar Mem- | playroom where mothers can orial hospital has aroused more leave their older youngsters while big town physician enthusiasm [taking the baby for examination. in a small town project than any| he Halton health unit, which other undertaking in recent years | capita grant of $1.20, which pro- the hospital is not the only focal|yeean in 1947, receives a per point of medical interest in this|yizoc about half of the opera- Breakfast 6-11 Steaks - area. i tional cost. The municipality pays No Accident the other half, which amounts to ean This week, as Dr. James M.|epout seventonths of = mill onl] Ve 2ls0 specialize in: Mather prepared his second an- nual report on the accomplish- ments of the Halton County Health Unit, it was disclosed the tax rate. County farm areas get exactly the same service as the towns, and all age groups are HOTEL NEW MURRAY DINING ROOM 1 BLOCK SOUTH of COLBORNE ST. on NAVY ST. NOW OPEN - 6 AM. - 12 P.M. Luncheon 11-2 Chops FISH and CHIPS Every Evening from 8 p.m. to 12 p.m. Dinner 5-8 - Home-Made Pies | covered. that, although there are some two dozen other similar units in Ontario's system, Halton's active organization is being studied as a model by the country at large. That such is the case is not coin- cidence. Rather, it is the result of painstaking organizational work. Genial Jim Mather, with his associates, now serves some 37, 460 residents of half-urban, half- rural Halton. Last year, his pub- lic health nurses paid 5,340 home visits, contacted no less than 1, 295 families. Sanitary inspectors looked over 2,223 business plac- es, tested wells, posted up signs on homes where communicable diseases lurked, checked private sewage disposal layouts, and handled many other similar tasks. A monthly psychiatric clinic or- ganized by Dr. Mather is booked up solidly. A concentrated X-ray survey carried on the preventa- tive fight against-tuberculosis, a fight that has been so successful of late that only five active cas- es were reported. And Dr. Math- ing the year to each rural and nine urban schools in the county, while his district nurses got around considerably oftener. A Big Job These items piece into only the briefest of the sketches of the unit's program. It's a big job, and there is much more fo it than that, requiring a great deal of time, equipment and detail work. For instance, there is the mo- dern mobile dental lab in which Dr. B. J. O'Meara, working out of Burlington, conducts an exper- iment being sponsored by the federal dept. of health and wel- fare. Some 76 percent of the children checked during his first 1,172 examinations needed treat- ment, Dr. O'Meara discovered. His findings were made available to parents, who were thereby able to arrange for corrective treat- ment before young molars suf- fered further decay. Another innovation is the med- ical counselling service for high school students, and the modi- fied examinations on all inter- school athletic teams. This pro- ject is so new that it is too soon to assess its benefits. Formula Advice And then, of course, there are the well baby clinics in each of the five towns in the county. Last year, mothers paid 2,400 visits to have their babies examined, to seek advice as to formulae, or to let the babes get immunization or vaccination care. In Burling- MONARCH] Phone 800 i Come in... see and drive them today! Stirling-Dynes Ltd. Oakville to two hours over his best mark [3 Amiable Charlie, as is custom. |§