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Page 4 | Oakville- Trafalgar Journal 4 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 i Managing Editor Advertising Manager thurs -- I from those in vogue in 1471, yj, an irate Scottish parliament ned golf and "other such unprog, able sports" on pain of seve. CAUGHT SHORT AGAIN! PUFFS FROM THE COTTON GIN It took a long time, but the March of Modern Progress we hear so much about has finally gotten around to including St. v a ] Andrews, Scotland, in it's itiner-| penalty. He stresses that the 1, [Mf Bill Cotton, Editorial Assistant ary. It required nae sma' amoont|est innovations should proye . [Ul PHONE 1298 of persuasion (some 479 years| definite boon to Canadian gore, | worth, to be ewact) to nudge the brassie elite of the Royal and A cient Golf Club of St, Andrews i to revising the key rules that gov- ern play on tee, fairway and green. But, hoot mon! They've finally up and done it! And not a moment too soon, either, the way my game has been going. i ( particularly those In the dye, [i class (lie was looking right a; py. | Thursday, September 21st., 1950 a A Growth We Need I We hear much today of "A Way of Life." Demo- at the time), and should me, three to four strokes on an cjg, eenhole round. Gad, men, thy, worth fighting for! Four stro, off would let Arch Grant pre 90 on good days, thereby putin, [8 that crusty codger | cracy is so classed and we Canadians believe in it. We helieve in it so deeply that twice in the past--and again in the future if need be--we seized arms to preserve it for ourselves and others in the world who would live under its obvious advantages. The threat of Communist domination of the world today sends the spirits of Democratic people drop- ping. Dropping because adherents of Democracy hate strife in any way. But. our spirits will not drop so far that if threat becomes action, we will accept domin- ation without a fight to the last breath. In view of, this do we often enough examine that Force behind our belief in Democracy? Do we won- der why it is that Democratic countries are also Christian countries? Do we remember that foes of Democracy try first to destroy the belief in Christ in the countries they overrun by levelling the church- es? When we take time for such consideration; we realize that it is the simple faith in Christ, which is ministered to us by our churches and clergy, that makes Communism impossible in Canada. We re- member that people of strong faith wrested the world from the grasp of ignorance and tyranny in the Dark Ages--that people of faith today are keeping the hounds of horror at bay. Here in Oakville there are three examples of how free people, Christian people, will work to bolster faith in the Almighty--and by so working help strengthen the "Way of Life" they want. The new Calvary Baptist Church; the extension to St. John's United Church, the funds for which were so successfully raised recently; the drive to be laun- ched next Sunday by the congregation of St. Jude's Anglican Church, are the examples we mentioned. In the Anglican drive, another new church is included, as well as renovation of the present structure and a necessary addition to increase the usefulness of the Church. These three, calling for sacrifice and effort on the part of the memberships of the three faiths, are ex- amples to all that today men and women still feel the necessity for bolstering and enlarging the mechanics of Christianity so that worship and praise of the Al- mighty may be available to more people. The word sacrifice comes always to mind when speaking of charity funds, church funds. Actually, this is wrong. When we desire the "Democratic Way of Life" and recognize that it can only exist so long as the "Christian Way of Life" is practiced and be- lieved in by the citizens--then surely anything that we spend, or anything that we do to make more ac- tive and more effective the Christian belief is not a sacrifice, but a more pleasant way of combating the forces that would destroy Democracy than by fight- ing. To many, moneys subscribed to these funds are sacrifices in that something must be done without-- but in most cases it is some luxury done without that makes possible each success. If these drives were not successful, if the Christian places of worship fell in- to ill-repair, or were too small, or scattered too far apart, then we would be increasing dangerously our chances of living under anether "Way of Life." And this would be one which none of us, no matter what our denomination, would care to endure. The growth of the churches of Oakville, strong in membership, strong in leadership, strong in the support of their adherents, is a constant promise that the forces of Communism can never triumph. Our churches are our bulwarks against any threat to "Our Way of Life" being banished from our land. Padding Cormetnerni 'Whenever people have called the Humane Society number during recent months, when there has not been a shelter avail- able, they have become irate over the lack of the service ren- dered by the society. People answering the telephone have started asking the callers if they are members of the society --and the proportion who say "No" is almost overwhelming. The membership fee is low, yet people do not join. But when they want the society they consider it their right to object when the service is not available. Possibly if more of them joined it might be a good idea, at least they'd be entitled to complain. Let's not leave it too late department: It's time for the agitators who were so busy last year stirring up new. names for the town elections to start out again . , . if they think we need a change of councillors. The way we see it is that there should always be an election .... without fail . . . . but the present incumbents have done a pretty fair Job and it may be even harder this year to get an election contest running. So start agitating boys! It's later than you think. Talking of agitating, we'd like to put in a little prod for council to consider--along with our long mentioned and ig- nored drinking fountains--the start of subways for Oakville. 'We mean the same kind as they have in the Gore in Hamilton. Public lavatories are required in a town of this size . and _..welre growing. all the time; remember 6,100... | food, IT SEEMS TO ME By P. W. Thompson Brighter corridors in Toronto's old Don Jail have been recommen- ded by a grand jury. A mol cheerful color scheme, the jury believes, would have a beneficial effect upon the inmates of the in- stitution. An incident like this serves to illustrate the great change in the official approach to crime that has taken place within the last generation or so. It is hard to imagine a jury of half a century ago making a recom- mendation. Prisons today are grim enough places, no doubt, but in the old days they were far worse. The frightful conditions that pre- vailed in the penal institutions of the eighteenth and early nine- teenth centuries are one of the darkest spots in the history of those days. Prisoners of that period were treated in a manner as stupid as it was brutual, and in spite of this crime flourishedy; And not only prisoners, but many others, were forced to spend their lives amid drab, horrible surroundings. Hos- pitals and work-houses were de- pressing in the extreme. And the mills and factories of the early industrial era were like something out of Dante's Inferno, in which men, Women and small children toiled long hours without proper sufficient sleep or fresh air, to languish and die early deaths. 'Whatever may be the faults of the present age--and it has plen- ty--we think that on the whole it is a much brighter, more humane age than that preceded it. A great clean- ing up process is going on, as must be apparent to anyone whose memory extends back more than a fe wyears. Year by year our buildings, our towns and cities become less drab, even if more crowded. Bit by bit we are climb- ing out of the welter of dinginess and ugliness that disfigured the Victorian period. There are some, no doubt, who will decry any move to improve the surroundings of prisoners on the ground that lightening the or- deal of imprisonment would les- sen its value as a deterrent of crime. But this, we think, is open to question. Even prisoners are entitled to "decent surroundings, and the effect is better for tireir morale. The importance of phys- ical environment, that of people outside of jails as well as those on the inside, should not be un- derestimated. Drabness and ugli- ness should haye no place in the modern community, evenif in jails. S a HERE'S HEALTH Freddie Fimble's small son Paul, Aiming to grow straight and tall, i Knows that proper play and games Help develop sturdy frames. Dept. of Nationa) Healih and Weliase BY BESSIE CAIRNS ~ : In the: course of conversation Trafalgar Tales at a tea at Mrs. Fred Nattress' sometime ago one of the ladies present happened to tell how she came to live in Oakville. Her re- marks started the ball rolling, one of the older residents had arrived at the home of her choice by cut- ter, another had brought a lot in- tending to build and in the mean- time had rented a house. That was thirty years ago. She was still liv- ing in the house she had rented; she had liked it so well that when the owner had offered to sell the house she quickly bought; one lady had snapped up a house af- ter seeing only the kitchen, other had settled for a view of the lake, (Sorry if I seem to neglect the bread-winners but believe it or not women are the purchasers.) I had occasion to recall that tea last night. I was doing my darn- dest to read an i of an- Ever since long deceased Wil- liam IV of England became a pa- tron of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, that august body has been universally recognized as the ,ultimate auth- ority on the hoary old rules of this delightfully ~ aggravating swing- and-swear sport, But it wasn't until this spring that these canny. experts of the heather fairways, where a jigger is still a golf club, agreed to shake up their legisla: tion with a view to improving, clarifylng 4nd speeding up the game. New rules covered, I'm told, in- clude: ball out of bounds, lost the unplayable ball, putting procedure, movable and im- movable obstructions (this latter ruling may include Harold Orr, I hope), hazards . . . AND sand- trap play. Ah, yes, sandtrap play! Given a couple of really compre hensive, yet slightly elastic and reasonable rules, I think I could actually manage to keep my bunk- er quota down to four damns and a few fiddledeedees. And that should go for a lot of you lads who show up to such fine vocal advaitage during locker room post mortems, I used to think that I was the only golf addict who became baf- fled while blasting. But after watching Doc Deans plough, har- row and seed the trap fronting Oakville golf club's ninth green last week, I came to the conclus- jon that any business man golfer who tells you that explosion shots come easy is a likely candidate for. the i Liars Club's the Russian ballet dancer Tamara Karsavina and every few seconds my husband would bellow, "Bess get the broom and hold this 2 by 4 in place will you?" or, "Watch out or some plaster will fall on your head," "Where the so and so is my spirit level?" and finally, "Put that book down and tell me how youd finish off this wall" I lay no claims to being a car- penter and everytime I did a sta- tue of Liberty with the broom or searched frantically for a missing tool 1 said to myself, "This isn't my idea of how to spend an eve- ning. Surely I didn't talk myself into this, must have been led in a feeble moment or more likely given a sharp push." Unfortun- ately 1 had to confess I had not only talked myself but my hus- band into the Rockwood deal. I returned to Tamara but my thoughts were no longer with the failures and successes of a Russ- ian ballet dancer. A little over a year ago when George and \1 were driving to Oakville from Guelph we stopped at a service station for a cold drink. For some time George had found the 42 mile commute a bit of a chore and in a nebulous way we had planned move closer to the college. George must have been thinking along those lines day when he said to the clerk, "do you know of any land for sale around here?" "What do you want a farm or a house?" he was ask- ed, "Just a place to live." "Would you want a big house?" "Depends how much they want for it?" came the Scotch reply . . there's an old couple have a big house the other side of Rockwood and I know they intend someday to move into a smaller one." Ten minutes later we were ringing the chimes at the door of the house on the hill. To reach it we had driven up a winding drive flanked with sweeping lawns. My vision at such times is limited, I saw only grass and flowers out side and inside a circular stair case leading off the living-room. I whispered in George's ear, "Let us buy it." Well here we are. I realize now we should have driy- en up by ox-cart, hundred year old Remodelling a home would have been duck soup to a pioneer mother. She would have tossed another long on the fire, blown out the candle, tied on her night cap and gone to bed _ . . mot so yours truly, I. have : already en- riched my vocabularly no end and made the rafters of this former manse ring with anything but "Glory Hallelujah" but until I can tone down my new expressions a little I daren't tackle another col- umn. Next week we go to town on the house and my readers too had better be prepared to dodge plaster. eventually to on that particular . "Well |) ,. top award. Realizing that these present day rules may confuse Canada's put- ter pushers, the House of Sea: gram, itself a Royal and 'Ancient authority on the rules and eti- quette governing the 19th hole, has sponsored Montreal's Assoc: iated Screen News in producing a Kodachrome motion picture deal- ing with the supject. Demonstrat- ing star of the film is carefree Bill Kerr, front ranking Canadian pro, and Hilles Pickens, publisher of Canadian Sports Monthly, Lo- cal chosen by the moviemakers was Montreal's picturesque Bea- consfield course. Also featured are James Buch- anan, Dominion Rules committee representative, and B. Colin Rankin, R. C. G. A.'Tules chair man, Mr. Buchanan points out that rules today are a far cry In a bargy, mood for days at a time, f Release of 'the pleture is hei, handled on a basis that is alsg 5 far cry from Scotland in 1471, any other year, for. that mate Interested groups can secure fy film FREE from the Benograp fil library of Associated Serer; News, 100 Adelaide St. West, 7g, onto (now, how about some pay advertising, fellas?). It will pe worth your while to bone up o these new rules. Who knows, may even discover a clause. thy will chase that Orr off the cours altogether. Hopefully yours, BILL COTTON FRACTIONALLY SPEAKING If a man's wife is his better half, and he marries twice, why happens to him--mathematically | that is? | "OAKVILLE MANUFACTURERS Office and Display Space Available Soon in Montreal IN CANADA'S VERSION OF MERCHANDISE MART If you are interested in presenting your product TO IT'S FULLEST SALES ADVANTAGE Why Not Let Show - Mart Inc. 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