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Page 4 THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1950 _Oakville-Trafalgar Journal Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Published Every Thursday Morning in Oakville, Ont, by Oakville-Trafalgar Publishers, Ltd. 7 DUNN STREET NORTH S. Casey Wood, Jr. Vincent H. Barrey Managing Editor Advertising Manager Bill Cotton, Editorial Assistant PHONE 1298 ly JV) SAYIN Trafalgar Tales BY BESSIE CAIRNS EVERYTHING'S O.K. Do you say "Ouch" if you stub your toe--or is your vocabulary somewhat richer? Having small children I try to restrain myself with what I innocently thought was a good simple English word. Just found out "ouch" is pure American. Ouch in standard Eng- The Giving Of Life If you have filled in one of the Blood Donor cards available at any of the local drug stores, then this editorial will be of little interest to you. If you have not, then we mean it for your attention. Blood transfusions save lives . . . and if you will give your blood to the Red Cross this will mean that anyone who needs blood in our hospital will receive it free. There's a very large item contained in the free part of the transfusion, for it is a most expensive part of an illness. Thus, in addition to saving life because blood is needed by a sick person, you are making a donation you can well spare--and if you can't, the mobile clinic is equipped to de- termine this for your safety--which will 'mean a lifting of the load for another person at a time when expenses are usually heavy, That may seem to reduce the giving of your blood to a question of money. But to us the really vital satisfaction that will come to all the local di trict donors, will be the knowledge that by their do- nation they are saving lives--helping others to live. And it should be remembered, that the person saved might turn out to be a donor. We do not believe there will be insufficient numbers sign up for the mobile clinic on July 11th. But we'd like to see an overwhelming response, that Oakville's credit with the Red Cross would supply blood for the Memorial hospital for years to come. If less than 250 people sign up, then the Red Cross can not undertake the service in the hospital. We mention this only in passing--that's not the way the people of the Oakvile District turn out for a worthy cause. That's not the way they gave sup- port to build the hospital. But posibly you haven't signed up yet. Wouldn't you do it right away so plans can be clarified. If you were not a donor during the war, hunt up: some- one that was and yowll find there's nothing to it. Nothing, that is, except life for another, because you spared something you would not notice, something you can replace in no time at all. Up, Up, But Not Away . . . At the recent hearing before the Board of Transport Commissioners the C.N.R. presented con- vinecing briefs that it wa losing money on the com- muter run between here and Toronto. The amount was substantial, and after study of the company's briefs, the representatives of the Commuters Associ- ation agreed that some adjustment was required. But they rightly protested against the sweeping and extremely heavy increases requested by the com- pany. It's hard to think of anything, except the Jour- al's advertising rate and sales price, which hasn't gone up in price recently. The company has not increased rates since 1920--when all costs were much lower. But the desire of the company to now go all the way with an increase so it will be in the clear, seems rather hard to understand. If it has been content to operate at a loss for so long, trying to get things settled in one fell SWoop is pretty drastic action. We favor the point. suggested that there be an in- crease this year, then others to follow each year. This will not completely disorganize any commuter's budget, which may include purchase of a house and so forth, and will enable him to adjust to the in- crease as he goes along. Many people have bought homes here, on a basis where they could handle the monthly payments without much over. Possibly one of the premises on which they acted was the commutation rate. To have this increased so dras- tically would dislocate any budget, This was pointed out to the Commissioners and we are sure it will receive their consideration. We can see no argument, after studying the figures, against some increase being granted. But the com- pany was content to operate at a loss for a great number of years without asking for an increase. We do not feel they should now get everything at once. Parents should immediately take steps to impress on their children that pulling fire alarm boxes is a serious of- fence--wiich can lay the parents open to costs. There is also the consideration that a child who has done such an act and been aprehended, as they usually are because one in the gang snitches, have a record for against them from then on. To one group in town we wish a most pleasant sum- mer and we'd guess the school students will feel they deserve the relief of no school work. With exams over Friday schools out . . . so have fun gang. We are glad council brought out that the of lish is the setting of a precious stone, a jewel, a brooch. Recent: ly I was thanking my lucky stars that 1 learned English as my mother tongue because I much doubted my ability to acquire it. Now I'm still doubting. Though over 200,000,000 people speak English no two agree on how it should be spoken. In Yorkshire they "mash" tea, in Scotland pancakes are fried on a "girdle". As youngsters we were IT SEEMS TO ME By P. W. Thompson Prepare for old age if you have passed the 45-year mark, advised a doctor recently in a speech be- fore a medical association. This advice no doubt is sound enough, but the feelings it arouses in those to whom it applies can hardly be of the most cheerful nature. The reminder that one is on the threshold of old age is not exactly a pleasant one, in spite of all we hear about the compensatory pleasures of the latter part of life. Old age iney- itably brings a certain failing of the individual's physical a modification of his activities. While he may accept this con- dition calmly and with resigna- tion, it is hardly one that he would choose voluntarily. ridiculed because we bought veg- etables from a '"green-grocer." Soon after coming to Canada mother sent my sister for some white cotton; she came home with enough material bed-spreads. It was an expensive lesson but mother quickly learned | ed and sung and written about it from time Mulcaster | many cases, a time fraught with wrote, "The English tongue is of | emotional diffificulties and men- small reach, stretching no further | tal perplexities--and has come to than this island of ours, nay not | feel more or less at home in the three- | world. He to call "cotton" thread. In 1582 Richard there over all" Today quarters of all the world's mail is | k written in English, printing more than world's newspapers and language of three-fifths of the y for two | of life which, for all the roman- it is used in| tations, what he wants and what half the [he doesn't want. The things that is the [upset and developed some sort of a philoso- phy, a sense at last he is learning how to live. And then, he receives the grim The unfortunate part of it all is that old age comes upon a man just as he has got nicely adjust- ed to life. He has got past the fevered period of youth--a time tic nonsense that has been talk- Lloyd E. MacDougall, D.C., D.T. Chiropractor and Drugless Therapist 61 A COLBORNE ST. EAST, OAKVILLE (ABOVE RUSSELL DRUG CO.) TELEPHONE 146 OE NDAY. THURSDAY AND SATURDAY 9.30 A.M. to 8.30 P.M. AT OTHER TIMES -- BY APPOINTMENT powers, || immemorial is, in knows--or should know--his powers and his limi- distressed him as a he can dismiss with a hrug or a tolerant smile. He has youth world's radio stations. No ship's|s captain can trade upon the oceans without some knowledge of it; it is the common tongue of all|t the great ports. It is a living, therefore a changing language and only a pedant tries to confine |r it to a groove. According to H. L.| o Mencken, Oxford English to an American, with the possible ex-|p ception of a Bostonian, sounds | g, ridiculous. He holds not illogi- of values, an atti- ude towards life. He feels that eminder that old age is about to vertake him. As one writer very aptly ex- ressed it, life as it is lived to- ay is like a long preparation 45,000,0¢ cally that there is no reason un- der the sun why a dialect spoken by 140,000,000 yield anything to the dialect of a small minority for a short party. A good third of the average person's life-span is occupied with his period of pre- paration or training. The apex of a lifetime lasts only about twenty years or so. Then comes a stage people should of a nation of 00. When two-thirds of \ NN ~<A = A And it is with this justifiable pride that we point to our prescription service. It is professional perfection itself. And to make it so we are guided always by the highest standards of integrity and ethics that are the hallmark of professional pharmacy. Our perfection is the result of skilled hands and trained minds working exactly in accordance with your doc- tor's orders . . . of modern precision equipment . . . of complete stocks of fresh, standard-strength drugs. And when you need our services, it is this perfection that assures you of utmost health bene- fits from the medicine your doctor prescribes for you. * Oakville Drug Co. Limited Phone 94 Colborne St. E. Len Hope, Mgr. URSDA Sei New of decline leading to the wintry the people who use a certain (Continued on Page 11) season of old age, which may (Continued on Page 11) COTTO Like every man 'who read other newspaper- it, I was given|ar sentimental pause recently as I scanned with customary interest the daily output of friend Wes | fr sely Hicks, the Toronto Telegram columnist. In this particular col-|al umn, Wes undertook to do a bit of self analysis on behalf of all|m: the lads and lassies who patrol the journalistic beat, and he man- aged to put into words a lot of the things that most of us have subconsciously kept hidden in| hi: that hideaway slot of sentiment that even the most case harden- ed reporter secretly cherishes. As he pointed out, it is seldom that a newspaperman will discuss| hi: his feelings about his craft, prin- cipally because he never sits| th down to analyse his feelings to. | in; ward that work. He just knows he likes it, and he can't imagine | fo working at anything else. sel But, sitting watching six of his| sq fellows receive National News. paper Awards for distinguished Journalistic efforts, Wes found it good to see newspapermen take their pats on the back publicly. And sensing the feeling that was | th: in the room as those presenta- that those men and women! in the press found greater sig- nificance in the event than mere-|ed ly the offering thelr ablest workmen. But let Wes tell it from here on in: "I think they began to realize that their profession was Brow: | th ing up and that the National ch Newspaper Awards was marking its coming of was like | em watching a boy thrust his legs into his first pair of long pants. "For a long time now, the Hol- lywood version of the newspaper- man has been extinct. The news- him local police officers at the opening last week of a commercial enterprise was paid for by that' enterprise. citizens who called the mayor and other town offlcials--as well as this office--in this connection, citizens to be watching for any ill use of their tax money. In this case there was none, and a group of men who could un- doubtedly use the extra cash loliday season so close had a well merited opportunity to pick some up in their off hours. The ablib award goes to Walter Bowles, CIBC news- caster, for his nice piece of talking Tuesday morning. Halfway through his broadcast he found he'd left the balance on his desk and there was no one In the con- control room. A tough spot, handled with skill and no perturbation. paperman with the mickey of[and taking the bows it has long ome | cheap liquor In his desk drawer| deserved, you can be excused for law-breaking land the hat on the back of his|belng u bit sentimental, Ang i do hiead is becoming as rare as knee think the National Newspaper britches and buckled shoes. Awards are going to improve the "In his place, there has been | breed." growingup another breed of men| He spoke for all of us, did and women. They are quieter and| Wessely Hicks, and he spoke ou the whole have better educa-| well . . . and I got thoroughly tional n They have | sentimental with him all the old enthusiasm for news- ast ve commend the | paper work and they are building Serlously Fours, soundly and staying with the pro- (for just this once) It 1s a good thing for |rossion, for they ro being paid AS WE STILL SEE IT . Last week in this space we to the Memorial hospital as amount donated donation to one of Oakville services may be widely know PUFFS FROM THE better better for newspaper «reader does it deliberately. Mistakes are and sure as they work, can be excused. casts them to every reader of his paper and they live, for the print cannot be erased. behind no professional screen. If have the rather derisive are dishonest, he is not tolerated, whom he works with and against. papermen are gent, impartial as judges. But I do say ber of them trying harder to in- tations were made, it dawned on | stil of awards to| gal and the its quacks. majority mental how I feel good enough for me. sion N GIN and the re growing. opportunities Newspapers are haying them, and are benefitting om their work. "They will make mistakes. We I do and we all will. But no one ade in the newspapers but men women working under pres: do in newspaper "But a newspaperman makes s mistakes openly. He broad- He can hide s mistakes are honest, he will Sympa- y of his fellows and the back- g of his editors. If his mistakes r though he may square him- 1f with his publisher, he never uares himself with the men "I am not saying that all news- reasonable, intelli- far-minded, honest, and as at there are an increasing num- those traits and attributes to their profession. "The many should not be judg- by the few who stray. The le- profession has its shyst medical profession has Yet the tremendous of the solid men in ose professions are mot besmir- ed by their dishonest fellows. "I am a sentimentalist. Yet" it nbarrasses me to become senti- about my work. I know about it and that's "But when you see the profes you have chosen maturing BILL COTTON stated Loblaws donation $300. This was the During the | Ifles . .. Building Materials and Millwork + « « You Need gi I EITHER DROP IN AT OUR PLANT ON DUNDAS ST. NORTH, OR PHONE 76. donated $500--bringing ny, over the five year to report this increase the company's entire District's most priceless n. WE ARE IN A POSITION TO LOOK AFTER YOUR NEEDS . . . Chas. F. Doty & Son DUNDAS ST. NORTH Phone 76 After Hours: 558-W or 670