Oakville-Trafalgar Journal, 12 Oct 1950, p. 10

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Thursday, October 12, 193 ALL IN THE SOLDIER'S TRAINING hursda; Page 10 OAKVILLE-TRAFALGAR JOURNAL PEACE FORMULA HAS ROOTS HERE AT HOME Letter To The Editor Dear Sir: A stimulating, thought provok:| methods of relating the world to Universal Declaration of Human| | would like to ask why the elves, instead of relating| Rights. It was developed DY SDe-| dogs are allowed to run at Jarge ae 2 5s wm ! oi 3 in rey fot of kh at night, upsetting garbage, cans ; nn ideal situation, people| relations and has been adopted) nq scattering the contents all peace was contained in the ad-|g ilies and neighbourhood or-| hy the General Assembly of the| ovo. the Fall Keep the town dress presented by Mré iAdele| ganizations revolve around ideas) League of Nations. It is om-| clean? How can you? Is there a Tilley at the regular meeting of| and values closely related to the| mended as a guide for individuals) yoy pylaw in the town? It so, it ing feminine assessment. of the possibilities for eventual world the Angela Bruce Chapter I. 0. Rnivassel Unfortunately, at pre by 8 er giste od ps > to shoutd vec: nd tie D. E. Mrs. Tilley's address, which sdat there Is ubt fone In the case and as a guide for the whole world| jor¢ of annoyance stopped. What ng of neighbourhood organizations,| by the leaders of nations. et a oo roun] follows, was compiled under the| poyeris tivity ; "| The. ust step. i just is e Pp feverish activity to reach the| The next step is one of adjust:| yo "up Tso that people who let| Oe or be | ment and tr Ce heading power gear of ge community, ne i aE ; on il oe these mongrels run at large would where it can Influence govern-|thod. Bvery Org: in there moni mal 1 ment for its own preservation and | stitution, whether it be local, com-| S ? i 5 s of this nuisance. You, Your Neighbour, munit; national or international, oh this nuisance. Let's keep advantage id the town clean by cleaning up And Your World am ares oes 2 One who has had this exper, As you and I read our morning paper these da it gives us lity and opportunity to train| i oot in ally. oils which the warmth of a new|we must establish principles| toward the same y does not dispel. Is our eivil-| which will give the invidual and| individuals will again have the ization really breaking apart? service organizations their proper opportunity and the responsibility NEED NEW PATTER What is the truth of a multitude| place in the local neighbourhood) for the growth of neighbourhood of conflicting reports? ls atomic|and the world. living, and to be the major infle-| With the country-wide £0 hour destruction inevitable? Is there| How can this be done? Three|ence on government. When we week in prospect, wonder who is any use in living and in battling steps are necessary. The first is|have organized our thinking, in-| going to write the lyrics for that ery community needs organ-| must adjust ils program along fons which will encourage an|t stricted outlook on the world unr picture. If democracy is to survive| individuals to direct their lives goal. Thus AS COOPER ; --Oontral Press Onnadiy First lessons in the army are the kind that produce, in thos forces which seem to surround|to find out where we are, the sec- Gividusl initiative and responsi-| beloved old song: "I've been acustomed to hard work, callouses and stiff muscles. This grou us? Is there any hope that we|ond is to decide where we want | bility, will be restored, and the| wun on the Railroad, all the Canadian Army Special Force, training at Camp Petawaua, may ever find .a real peace, and| to go, and the third is to set up a confusion from which we are all} 2 | practice river crossing by means of ropes as parf of their early hi: be "able to face a new day with| method by which we can get there. suffering will turn into directed|Live-lons Day .. .. ing program. i activity toward a definite goal-- = E pos nd world government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Many people. who have studied URGENT MILITARY MESS AG the Universal Declaration of Hu-| man Rights are now alert to local ! a problems and the importance of a A - DE mooratic way of lite in| HOF MEM who can send ' Sr . : Fat confidence and security? Where are we? Few neighb- I such questions are bothering| ourhoods function as an ideal un- you, let us examine some sugges-|it. Many communities function tions made by Hugo Walter, to| without shape, plan or general help give us a clearer understand- objective. The inhabitants' rattle ing of the things you and 1 can| around like pebbles in a can, being and must do. to bring some order| attracted first by one service or: out of chaos. Mr. Walter is Tor-| ganization and then by another onto's community counsellor and|but without purpose or plan. he works in close co-operation| Government itself is often opera- with the Toronto office of United| ted by pressure of some or other Nations, services, and is not generally the He begins by breaking the| product of the will of the people, world up © into neighbourhoods| because people as such are not or- just like those each of us live in. ganized. In other words, many of He wants to show us a target to-| our human relationships are set ward which we can shoot. He| Up very much like jack straws hopes to point out a destination in| crossing and crisscrossing one our human and political wander-| another without general rhyme or ings. We may arrive at a destina-| Purpose That is where We are. tion in a number of ways, but we The second is to know where must have some destination, some| We are going. We must decide goal, or all our activities willjupon 2 basic philosophy, set of simply lead us nowhere. His con- values, or ideals, which is our goal ous therefore, although|and which we can use as a guide. ON TUNIT AND | (Reon T JIB HE C accord with the Declaration. The United Nations Organization hopes that more and more people will become familiar with the contents of this Declaration. They suggest that we accept and act according to these provisions. If each of us as an individual takes an interest in the United Nations we can become part of an informed public opinion which will have the result of improving the func: tioning of the U.N.O. It is still far from perfect, as any organiza: tion made up of human beings must always be. But the more in- telligent aid informed the inter cl idealistic, seem extremely prac-| This must be just as good for the est of each one of us becomes, {ical because they force us to de-| Wholesome growth of a single per-| the more hope there Will be for fine our choice of -destination|son as it is for the wholesome the world. and point out at least one way| growth of the world. Two or three| May I suggest tnat ome of the) by which you and I can arrive| years ago this would have been|best ways to keep abreast of the almost an impossibility, but since] activities of the U.N.O. is to lis- October of 1948 there exists just ten to the excellent broadcast there. When we know where we are and where we want to go, it is much easier to move surely el to hetn hors: to such a basic philosophy, set of| "United Nations To-day" every No he sane which can be| night from Monday to Friday on In each neighbourhood we find| our central ax' 1t is called the|CJBC at 11 15 ye ourselves and people very much| -- | values and id 5 like us in' many ways, and some| not so much alike. We make up| a very small but typical neighbor-| hood group, like about two billion | other people in the world. We are important because the situations which we and the other two bil- lion like us face, would not exist without us. There would be no| problems and therefore we 'would not hay = to think about solutions| if there were no people. What are Ww Ue but inseparable parts of a very active machine. We provide the| power which regulates its speed. We cannot stop it because there seems to be a power beyond us| which moves onward in spite of what we do or do not do. It is only as we--little gremlins--work with it that it goes faster or slow- er. Civilizations go forward or are annihilated according fo the way people fit themselves into a uni- versal picture of which we know only a small part. We are both the product and the cause of our eiv- lization. In so far as each of our lives revolves around a central ided related to the universal pi 2 The Royal Canadian Signals is the nerve dian Army-- then report today for training centre of the Canadian Army Active Force. with the Royal Canadian Signals. Dont Zhe Ze of a shutin who knows you It maintains the communications systems delay. Canada needs you now! aven't forgotten... : a ; " : 2 S without which the army could not function The rush of fire-trucks answering a frantic v T li all or fight in defence of Canada. To keep pace o enlist you must -- Tho dally ordering of food for the family with the expansion of the Canadian Army 1. Be a Canadian citizen or British subjed: meal... 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