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Page 4 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. Managing Editor Bill Cotton, Editorial PHONE. 1298 Vincent H. Barrey Advertising Manager Assistant Thursday, September 28th., 1950 Yell! Yell! The Oakville Braves is a football team. It is Oak- ville's football team--and it consists of a group of ap- proximately 30 young men who, because they like the game, are carrying a load to make football in Oaliville possible. st year three players were de- veloped on the team with sufficient promise that they were signed hy Argonauts for this year--thus leaving the Braves with a weakened team. But the team is carrying on this year in the same way that it has since Johnny Black got it organized two years ago. And that is by paying the bulk of the expense out of members' pockets. As anyone knows, you have to be young to take the punishment of a football game . . . and most young men, because they are starting out in the world, not sailing comfortably in the easy water of achievement are not usually en- dowed with much financial plunder. The members: of the Braves squad are no exception. 3 The Recreation Commission is doing all it can by keeping the team equipped with the requisite equip- ment. The baseball association allows the team the use of the park without charge. Medical care is donat- ed by our local doctors. But the team pays for travel- ling and food and all other expenses out of their own less the revenue derived from gate receipts. are not large for a variety of reasons, one of is that owing to the park layout there are no for spectators. But those who do attend the are helping to make the team a success. not hard to remember other sports in Oak- ville which had modest beginnings, and which grew until today they are followed by most of the towns- folk. The Braves are carrying the football sport them- selves, by playing and paying the shot. We feel that not enough people realize that they can see a pretty fair brand of football played at Wal- lace Park on the Saturdays when the Braves play home games. If you like football, it's there for you to see. And your admission fee will help a group of youngsters who can use it--and who are doing a great deal to round out this town's athletic program. If you don't like foothall--or if you like it only when you go to Toronto or Hamilton to see one of the big league games--then a donation toward developing hometown football wouldn't he amiss--and would certainly be ap- preciated. The men who are making the Braves into a foot- hall team deserve the Support of all the town, just the way our often winning ball teams do. We thought it might be wise to remind you that there's football to see and support in Oakville. There Ought To Be A Law Yell! Le which stands games / sports Writer in a city daily recently began his "Fishermen and tourists agree that legisla- A columr tion is long overdue which will direct boat liveries and resorts to keep their boats clean 2 seaworthy under penalty jof a fine." Oh, no! At least not yet! This is not a socialist state in which the govern- ment runs or regulates everything. Nor do we want it to be. \ If there are to be laws telling people to keep their boats clean, there will be laws telling taxi-cah operators to sweep out the back of their cabs, telling home owners that they must cut their lawns once a week and plant certain types of flowers. Certainly marine or road taxis should be kept clean but the obvious answer to the operator of a dingy carriage is not to hire it. i This is a free country and one of the privileges = of this freedom is to do a job badly if you so wish. A minimum of legislation and a maximum of ed- ucation should be the objective of any democracy. And generally speaking, you cannot legislate people into doing something which they do not want to do in the first place. Just as soon as our legislators learn that elemen- tary lesson of human nature, just so soon will our governments offer truer representation of the views of the majority of the electors. 5 You cannot go to Heaven on a law. A The businessman who is proud of the goods and services he offers is proud to have his signature appear regularly in his advertisments. Because consistent adyertising of quality goods and services is profitable to both buyer and seller, the advertising businessman is also proud to have hisesignature appear regularly on his cheques. Advertising is an investment which' brings credit as well as custom. The bedtime story is firmly established in every home, but we've been told that recently in the homes of the hourly worker all these stories start out with, "Once upon a time and a half ... " Probably makes the story more acceptable to all concerned, and certainly the bedtime story is overtime work in most cases. In an average package of spaghetti there are 93 yards of beloved Italian dish--One can't help but be tickled to think of the fun the man who did this measuring, so the spaghetti in- dustry could supply newspapers with such gripping facts for their filler line, must have had. Winding the stuff around a spoon for transportation to our mouth is plenty enough trouble 'without having to measure it. This man has a job that's se- cure for life--because no one else we want to take it away from him. Gl BE Re i i UI Swan Tales 'BY BESSIE CAIRNS THE LITTLE RED SCHOOL "How will my children like their new teacher?" 1 believe that question to be 'of prime concern | to parents when they move to a new district. Small children have few close contacts with adults and their attitude to their parents and teachers determines so larg- ely their present happiness and future emotional development. I speak as one parent but trust what I have to say will be of in- terest to many. My children lov- ed their school and teachers in Oakville and I fully believe if Miss Lightbourn had taken boar- lers they would still be in attend- ance there. I looked therefore with mixed feelings oh my few visits to Rockwood at the big old school at the far end of the village from our future home. How would I like to be a little gaffer of 5 or 7 walking into its doors for the first time? 1 knew the answer but guarded it carefully © from my IT SEEMS TO ME By P. W. Thompson A hearty vote of thanks from the youth of this country is due Dr. Sidney Smith, president - of the University of Toronto. Ad- dressing his students recently, Dr. Smith dealt a blow to that an- cient but no means discarded theory, so affectionately cherish- ed and frequently expounded by the middle-aged or elderly, that the young people of today are in- ferior. This viewpoint, the presi dent believed, was the result of the 'aging process undergone by those who held it, which tended to dim the memory of their own imperfections ~~ when they were young. 'What an old story it is, this shaking of venerable heads over the fancied shortcomings of con- temporary youth. There is a story concerning an ancient clay tab- let, some seven thousand years old, unearthed in Mesopotamia or some such early cradle of civiliz- youngsters. Queer how one's problems are solved . . . a cow did the trick for me. I have a soft spot in my heart for one of Mr. B. B. Jollife's cows; when I called to tell them the havoc meandering Elsie had done in our corn-patch Mrs. Jolliffe came to the car and,said, "I hake been wanting to speak to you Mrs. Cairns concerning the child- ren's schooling", She went on to| explain that the Rockwood school didn't admit children under 6. "We were faced with the same problem as you when we moved from Tor- onto," she said, "Naomi had gone to St. Mildred's for two years but was too young for the school here. However 'we found a little country school about two miles away and started her there. The teacher, Miss Bayne, is particu: larly good with the little ones and Naomi just loves school." I left the Joliffe's with instruc- tions how to contact the rural school board (incidentally we en- joyed their corn all fall) and on our way back to Oakville made a point of passing the country school. 1 had passed hundreds of similar little red school houses when driving through Ontario and had always thought as I did so, "1 wonder what it would be like to spend one's day teaching in one of those." I must admit I thought of the teacher with compassion rather than envy. Now I have only admiration for the hundreds, of men and women who, far more than the teachers of the big city schools or the modern consolidated rural schools help shape the fu- ture Canadian citizens. Their in- fluence is greater because their pupils have fewer distractions. The rural teacher, not having to overcome the influences of the big city or the divided authority that of necessity arises in larger school areas exercises a much greater personal influence on her charges. Not only movies and comic books get pushed into the background but so does mother as my young son said last week after a slight argument at home, "I ¢ink I'll go and live with Miss Pa . I "sink" perhaps held come back to me, but it's re- assuring to feel that from 9 to 4 the children are under such cap- able and kindly guidance. I am wondering if the little red school houses don't deserve a greater place in the history of Canada than some of the huge structures of brick and stone that lay claim to being "the largest or most im- mortant in_ the British Empire." In character 'shaping they may have played as influential a part as the cricket fields of Eton. 'couLD BE? Taxes just can't be cut until people are big enough to do econ- omically for themselves what governments are . doing waste- fully for them. ation. The hieroglyphics on the tablet, when deciphered by an ex- pert, were found to express the long-dead writer's | lament over the passing of "good old (Continued on Page 5) Letter To The Editor September 26, 1950 The Editor, The Oakyille-Trafalgar Journal, Oakville, Ontario Dear Sir: As Chairman of the Publicity Committee for the campaign to raise funds for St. Jude's Church, I would like to express the warm thanks of the Com- mittee for the wholehearted and enthusiastic support which you gave our campaign. We feel that your assistance materially 'assisted us in raising the large sum which has been pledged to date. . And, if those members . of fhe congregation whom our canyassers have been unable to contact, contribute with the same self sacrifice as those who have already been called upon, the $60,000.00" objective of this campaign is assured. We feel that our, Community is fortunate to have a newspaper. like the Oakville-Trafalgar Jour- nal, for it is always ready to back any project which is for the good of the Community. Thanking you for the splendid co-operation which you gave to the people of St. Jude's, Sincerely, W. H. Bdwards HERE'S HEALTH Bath, with Baby, makes a hit, Leaves him fresh and keen, Teaches him the benefit "Of a skin that's clean. Dept. of Notional Heal end Wollase times" | PUFFS FROM THE COTTON GIN Dear Boss: = It's been a long time since I've had to take a day off, and I think even you will agree that this par- ticular alibi is a good one. As I outline it to you, though, I'd like you to bear in.mind that I'm lying on my stomach as 1 write. Ever try writing on your stomach? I mean, writing when on your stomach? No, that doesn't sound .. well, anyway I'm in intense pain, and I can only lie the one way, and it's very difficult. to scrawl these few lines, So just bear with me, willya, boss? It all started through my in- nocently taking the word of a couple of Lions. Now, I know you are a Lion yourself, and that Lions, by and large, are notably men of deepest integrity. Bub these two crullers are something Come on out and play donkey baseball with us tonight" they urged me. "It's a heck of a lot of fun, and you'll get a lot of laughs." "But I'm not a Lion," I pro- tested. "Oh, that's Q.K," they assured me. "It just happens some of the boys are busy with other import: ant- club projects tonight, and you'd do yourself a "favour, too, because youll get a big kick out "But isn't it kind of rough?" I asked diffidently. "Seems to me I've heard those donkeys cut up quite a bit. Didn't Doc Deans break a leg or an arm or some- thing one time playing donkey ball? And somebos told me Chuck Reynolds cracked three or four ribs." "Why, heck, that's Just plain nonsense," scoffed these two mo- dern Munchausens. "Those don- keys are specially trained by ex- perts. They make it look as if if they're tossing you around, but you mever actually get hurt. Act- ually, Doc broke that limb wrest ling with a stubborn molar in his office the same day as the game. And you know that Reynolds, he alwdys was a shit cracked. So I gave in and decided to go, along with the gag. And boss, that was the most foolish decision I ever made, next to coming out here to work for you, you old slave dri--but _ that's something else again. Anyway, I no sooner got a glimpse of those donkeys than I realized I'd booked myself as a sacrifice on the altar of en- tertainment. Somebody else's en- tertainment, that is. Those two guys that talked me into it were right in one wa; though. The mules," cuss them, really are trained. They train 'em to heave, buck, toss, thump, belt, jar, squash, belabor, maul and bump you within an very life. And which is mainly hy I ha write lying on my stomach But aside from those two point those palookas were guilty of grossest misrepresentation ever come across. There lot of laughs in if, sure. But fq were all for you people up in ty stands. Me, [Ill never again! My side is too sore, my too sore, my--well, I'm sor over, and even a chuckle ; Tittle [guys with pitchforks work lon every inch of my omy. And are {lose mules high to climb up on, and in ano way too. Why, T've red seli into the bathtub twice sing the game finished, and my yi, still won't come close enough me to massage my throbbing bac 1 thought I augy Was a smart offering to be pitcher, becay the pitcher doesn't ride a don when his side's in the field I was just mislead pitcher 'gets to hit up n top of the batting order, meant I had to.bat twice all the 'other guys but Herb Rollinson only once. When you saw me after they tagged me for or «trying to be funny busy just collapsing, the unfunniest want to have. All I can say to those who used to be friends of is: you can take pour [was t and it feeling Lion of as Sl other one, as I am. As I hope your jit too short in the cuffs and tol long in the legs. It probably wil be, if you have your outfit t it, you dog. And all I can say to: you, I'm sorry for my absen 1 am grievously maimed, I get back within yowll be doggone lucky. Ti get along without me, won't y yourself for a change you not miss me 50 muck; hub dry way, as soon as I manage able to sit down again, ri hob down to the office and finish uj on elacenes hare! To the wi time, III just keep a stiff uppef lip. Why wouldn't I, anyy Everything else is stiff, too Creakily yours, BILL COTTON WHO IS WINNING 7 The following editorial, which is both authoritatively informatif and thought provoking, appeared in a recent Free Press: issue of the Midland} "IN THE LAST 25 YEARS, consumption of alcoholic beverag Ontario has become a major social problem. Consumer expenditure for alcoholic beverages last year exceet) the total expenditures of the Ontario government. From 1939 to 1949 the populatio) In the same decade valué of sales 278 percent. Detailed Ontario Liquor Control Board n of the province increased 17. of alcoholic beverages increas statistics, are as foll for the year ending March 31 in each case: 1939 $19,359,964 41057,969 26,200,052 ay / Spirits. 'Wine Per_ capita None of the foregoing represent the Board's report combines 'wholesa: Gallonage consumption in the pa: 1939 1/559,019 1,716,894 24,737,101 Spirits Wine Beer 1949 $ 74,116,204 10,272,820 103,422,050 $42.35 true: consumer expenditures le and retail sales. st 10 years was as follows 1949 3,244;816 2,268,394 69,586,168 The people of Ontario are consuming over twice as much spirit they were a much beer. a decade ago, one-third more wine, and almost three times? The gallonage of absolute alcohol consumed was approximat [roltows, tating fate nceount variations in strength and alcoholic conte' in Spirits in Wine in Beer 257,635 1,236,855 This represents an increase of absolute alcohol in 1939 was .576 gal gallons, 1949 1,297,926 340,259 3,479,308 136%. Per.capita consumptio® | llons. In 1949 it had risen fo 11 It is not only in alcoholic consumption that the statistics sho¥ upward trend. Here are figures showing the evidence of the soci! blem. Breaches of liquor acts Convictions, possessing figuor) in illegal place 1939 5,634 5,144 Imprisonment, crimes against public moral and decency order and peace Imprisonment, being drink & aisrseny Convictions, drunkenness 824 . 7.666 Are we gaining on the problem or is the problem gaining on 4! *1348 statistics.