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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 Thursday, November 23rd., 1950 Interested In Freedom The switch to evening nominations for the town- ship brought a bumper attendance at the meeting Monday night. However, by a show of hands, it was revealed that only fifty percent of the 300 or more people present would have been unable to attend nominations held in the afternoon. This would seem to indicate that there is a growing interest in the municipal affairs of the township--a growth pos- sibly in proportion to the growing population. othing could be of greater satisfaction to this newspaper than a full hall on the occassion of nom- jnations--and our cup ran over when so many resi- dents, from all sections of the township, came for- ward and offered their names as contenders for the various openings available. The freedom train will only continue to run so Jong as we each, as individuals, contribute our ef- forts, and interest, in the fuel which keeps the fire going--and that fuel is the franchise we all hold. There will be an election in the township this year for council posts and school trusteeships. An election is a fine thing, because those elected know they have the backing of the township, where ac- clamations do not, positively, say the same thing. Al- so, when an election is on, people discuss the various candidates, and what they would like to have done. Thus knowledge of the affairs of the community be- comes spread among the voters, and a resulting im- provement in the management of those affairs will be required of the men or women who are elected to fill the various posts. We'd like to see a great deal of discussion among Trafalgar residents in the days that lie ahead of Dec. 4th. . . . and on that day we'd like to see a record ballot cast, if possible by every- one who has a vote, We particularily welcome the appearance of the Jadies on the nomination rolls. It is a fine thing to have the distaff side appearing in the political field in Trafalgar. They add immeasurably to the dignity which should surround municipal affairs by taking an active part . . . and it is our guess that the more part they play in public life the more dignified and effect- ive that side of our national life will become. The only sour note we heard in the nomination meeting was the stress laid by various sections of the : township on "What do we get out of the taxes we © pay?" There was obviously a desire to try and prove : by either the south or the north or the east or the west residents, that they were paying more in a class of taxation than they got . . . which brought counter © charges they were paying less in another classifica- tion, and getting more. The saw-off point would be impossible to determine as no faction would consider a road improvement more important than a school, or vice versa. It is natural, we suppose, to look first at what we individually get out of things--but when applied to the government picture it becomes too difficult to determine whether there is equality. The whole of Trafalgar should be the concern of all. It would be ill for Canada if the people of each section were to try and elect a government composed entirely of members from their section, so they'd get more than any other. If Trafalgar is to remain a unit, then the north residents and the south are going to have to look at the over-all problem. In doing so they will elect the men who will do the best for everyone-- which is the way councils, reeves and deputy-reeves should be selected. For the past few years there has been a most vociferous group at the north end of the township who have consistently tried to do under anything that was proposed for the good of the whole town- ship, but which would be located at the south end of it. The hospital is a good example of this. This same group, labelling themselves "The Forgotten people of Trafalgar" always cry their poor share in the tax plunder of the township. In doing so they label them- selves for anyone who will listen. But this approach does not further their cause--unless it is their desire to break away from the south, with a separate set-up of their own. If such is the case, they they should get the plan clear, present it to the remainder of the township . . . and they might be surprised how quick- ly their plan would meet with adoption. If any group in the township has done anything to try and section- alize the township, it is northerners, with a constant- ly grasping approach to anything that is proposed of an overall benefit. In a world torn with strife between nations, it is a sad commentary on the desire for the general good of the northern residents to hear them constan- tly squealing about the lack of consideration they have received from council. In a*desire to be unbiased members of 1950 council have leaned over backwards to see that equality has been the order of the day. ton bee Mr. Ma |prize 'given tecently | lington County Histori It makes interesting reading. ert opel > ed a fo ed Johi the abo equi whi the cat new the ris to Rachel white woman to settle in Welling- | Jine appearing at the head of an federal member for Halton but pany with his two brothers, Rob- Ireland to settle in Upper Canada. Little York «(now then the hub ment and the township of Eramosa was in the course of survey and oath of allegiance the three bro- thers drew 100 acres each in the where they Cleaver, was the most essential, and walk- unbroken forest to the place that was to be their future home. On had left a wigwam. This served In 1821 John Ramsey married Rachel Cleaver, daughter of his former employer. After the wed. | DUTY, of course. Generally speak- ding ceremony a horse already heavily loaded with husband for their ! home. Mrs. Ramsey had the dis-| ll Popular music quieting knowledge was not another ; ; within twenty miles. From apples | It finds its reflection, too, in con served at the wedding breakfast, | ersation. Anything to save time, Mrs. Ramsey saved a few seeds seeds came the first apple trees| © Sonn In tho. County of Welling, | lier ages seem to have been rel- ton. On February their first amusing incident happened with Rockwood now stands. AY Trafalgar Tales BY BESSIE CAIRNS PIONEER TALES Cleaver was the first IT SEEMS TO ME By P. W. Thompson "It's Hurry that Kills" was the County. I judge her to have| advertisement of the Ontario De- n a relative of the present| partment of Highways in last week's issue of this newspaper. Hughes Oleaver or Mrs. Hazel | The grim reminder was addressed thews! wouldino doubt know:| to motorists and pedestrians, jn an Che Story of Rabhel's life was the | effort to reduce the accident toll that woh a |'Bug ig ign warning that could with by 'the Wel-| agvantdie be heeded by everyone, 1 Society. | poth on the highways and else wlere. As a people we hurry too much. It may be that the historians of the future will label the present period in history the Age of Furry. Life today, for many people, is one continuous process of hurrying. They are hurried out of bed in the morning by the alarm clock's brusque summons. They hurry through breakfast, an eye on the clock. They hurry to their place of employment through streets crowded with other hurrying hu- mans. Their routing of Work is In "1819 John Ramsey in com- and Henry, left the north of Toronto) was of the new settle: n for settlers. After taking the new township Journeying on foot from Little | full of hurry. They hurry to lunch, York by way following the surveyor's blaze on | the day they hurry home. Often what is now the Guelph Road they | they hurry out again for an eve. of Dundas Street, |to appointments. At the end of ed at their destination. After |ning's diversion, hurrying home mining their lots they return-|to catch a few hour's sleep be- to Dundas St, Nelson town,| fore starting another hurried day. worked for John| This is hardly an accurate pic- a number of people, take their time about things, and have the good sense to do so. But altogether too many people are victims, unwilling or otherwise, of the hurry habit. The main rea- son being that we are all more or less bound by a schedule, gear- ed to the whirring machitery of © civilization, so to speak. The fac- n Ramsey's lot the surveyors tory whistle and the time clock are our imperious masters. Trains, plafies and buses will not wait, neither will mails, nor newspaper deadlines. : There are various degrees of the spring of 1820 the three ew articles, of which the axe over twenty miles through the brothers as a dwelling for ut four years. ing, people who live in the big cities lead the most hurried lives. ipment and set off with her In smaller places the pace is not wilderness quite so fast. Hurry is reflected and dancing, that there which is like the jerking of so many machine-driven automata. she mounted white woman is the watchword. This disease of hurry is appar- ch she planted. ently a modern phenomenon. Ear- From those Lath. 1gps, atively free from it. It may be Child. was born. Ag Some generations yet before it subsides. But we like to think the birth of the baby. The family | day Will come, eventually, when Heating the fechie. ors of the life will be free from its present comer. took fright and fled to BUY and rush; when everyone aehelor shanty of John Har | Will enjoy ample leisure, with time tat. on the site where |to pause every now and then to admire a tree, a sunset, a running brook--time to cultivate the art Two other children were born of conservation, to sit and ponder the Ramsey's before her hus-|life's eternal mystery, to savor to Robin Hood, I've toyed with thelles a pingpong bat, his saugy, notion that e around, to taking up that romantic sport called archery. Robin's sup- | effortless rb markmanship er absorbing Af William Tell's unique method of | to that yellow circle that's pai dividing a rosy apple, convinced right in the middle of the tag, me that this must be a thrilling pastime with which to while away [like Ted told me, I put my arr, eisure hours first bowstring, aided and abet-|a prodiguous effort, I got it by ted by recreation Kenned, the adjective "thrilling" to "gruel | high in the stage curtains. twel, ing" . . . and even greater Robin 'and William. fore that the arch in archery act-! marked out on the hardwood ually turns your back, or that it was your| though, and I can now say fi neck that gets bowed. I didn't] Billy Tells youngster would know that all you need is the [have a thing to worry about it strength of Goliath or Harold Orr| was shooting at the apple, to pull a bowstring back past your | that I'd hit the apple, of cours) quivering nostrils and send an ar-| But 1 wouldn't row whistling at the target. Nor|either--unless he Was standing iy did 1 have even an inkling as to| hind me! how that heavy bowstring numbs agonized fingertips, or how blis-| ever, 1 WAS hitting the targ ters the size of dimes mushroom | fairly regularly. But my finger up as your squeeze the arrow. now! re making oak staves for|ture of everyone. No doubt there potash barrels which were rafted | are quite down the lake to Montreal. ( A |even in this restless age, who are definite link with the White Oaks | fortunate enough to be able to of Oakville.) In brothers provided themselves with PUFFS FROM THE COTTON GIN Ever since, when a wee gaffer, Ted does ft. His hamlike ig) thrilled to the daring exploits of grips the bow the Way mine hy one day I'd get|sized fingers and smithy's 'plus that oth-| drawing tale! dealing with | three out of five arrows right i} With me, It was different, J, in place, extended my bow, ly Last Tuesday night, 1 drew my | pulled some more. Finally, yjj director' Ted | and' released the arrow wig And now I've changed! sang happily ofi its way to a sp I've developed an feet above the butt. repect for both | Picking myself up off the fig, 1 tried again, This time 1 pj You see, 1 hadn't realized be: | the basketball foul line Ted if up in the small of| got the hang of it after awid = hit young Bi When the Glahns arrived, hoy throbbing digits] were numbly glad to pause for But I know [pit and watch Cary and Lisa tr luck. And I have to admit It all came about when I at-|was secretly tended Ted's first archery class.| [isa hit the stage curtain a cof Carsten Glahn, his attractive wife| ple of times, too. She caught of Lisa, and I were Ted's first pupils | very quickly, though, and it wy although Cary had done a bit not long before she sent a sha of outdoor shooting before. I ar-| winging straight to the yellow di rived at Victoria hall first, shuck-| ¢ ed my jacket sleeves, and settled down to tal | yelling. ing in structional wisdom. and rolled up my the Kennedy words of in-| «put it wasn't," v out disappointedly, "In the vel It looks mighty simple the Way [centre of the bullseye." ! A bull is appr 3 inche in diameter, and she takes tin HERE'S HEALTH to fiddle with fractions! Bitiy my lip, I fervently hoped her ne arrow would hit the big curtai] It did. We all agreed that archery | quite a fascinating sport, thoug three middle fingers, a gus and four rather profane infin tives--but definitely i However, 1 expect that coms with practice. Say about tweni two years of practice. So I'm god to stick with it, even though m life expectancy figures don't gin me quite that long to perfect mf marksmanship. : her I can Her grandchildren to visit them horse. Cleaver visited my house too. 39. How his brave pioneer com-|ious things rade carried on with three small | wonderful world. children to care for is a story in band's sudden death at the age of | the full all the beautiful and cur- in this varied and 1f yowd like to try this old Ii dian racket, Ted will be glad welcome you, come 7 o'clock of § Tuesday night. It's all part 4 'When youngsters' actions come to grief Your comment should be itself. Mrs. Ramsey lived to be 69. remembered | rates' a ghost. John and Rachel's figure coming | cat are welcome to sit before the riding on a white | fire-place any night. They should have some tales to tell. Perhaps I should warn them about strange noises, lest the sound of the ofl furnace sends John to bolt the doors against Indians and the cat as a familiar like to think that Rachel imagine her tieing up her calm and brief. the recreation program, and hf i keen to put it over in a big wi Hah gpl finge for the And even if you don't stay vil 2 Lo! S' errors it, your visit will be good for ol bring long- hearty laugh--if I'm shoot lasting terrors. that night! Blindly Yours, Dept. of National Health and Wellare BILL COTO horse, then coming in to sit by the fire and discuss the early days of her marriage and the problems of her growing family with the original owner of our home. We live in the house John Harris built after he had given up his in search of safer quarters. SEASONAL WARNING read: one which wife and family. A house this old |and two mean hound dogs." Most effective sign he has ever posted, says a district farmer, No Hunting! Violators will be prosecuted to the bachelor shanty and acquired a|full extent of a 16-gauge shotgun is A Good Stop The resolution forwarded by Linbrook Home and School association to the parent H. & S. executive should receive the support of the entire H & S set-up across the province. Today more and more children are being brought to large, consolidated schools such as our high school by bus. The advantages of the central, well-equipped school will be obvious to every- one--just as obvious as the fact that children, even of high school age, are never overly careful about traffic. When these buses stop to pick up or set down their young passengers there is always the hazard of the child who dashes without looking into the path of traffic. The suggested method is to require traffic in either direction to come to a stop until the bus is ready to proceed. Obviously no motorist wishes to kill or main a youngster. The time lost through stop- ping would be only a minor annoyance, and it is un- likely that the same driver would be affected more than once or twice a year. These buses make stopsion the Queen 'Blizabeth Way, as well as on less travelled speedways,:and all such roads should be covered by the law. There will be little adverse effect on Ontario tourist trade-- one of our most important sources of revenue--as schools are closed during the months when such traf- fic is heaviest. We trust that the central executive of H & S will speed the resolution on its way to the gov- ernment authorities, and that when it reaches this level it will be expedited into effect. The High School Home and School could do a Tot to assist if its membership joined with the younger group and endorsed the resolution. PARLIMENTARY LANGUAGE One of the arts to be cultivated by. the successful parliamentarian is that of the polite insult. It is not allowed by the rules of the House of Commons, for example, to call a member a liar. But there is no harm in audibly regretting that his remarks display a not- able disregard for accuracy. Such thrusts are usually enjoyed by both sides of the house and the Speaker, as guardian of manners, interferes only when the language exceeds his standards of propriety. Standards vary, however, and in the opinion of Hon. W. Ross Macdonald, the present Speaker, it is no longer parliamentary to call a member of the house a politician. The following dialogue took place on March 13, after J. A. Charlton, M.P. for Brant-Went- worth, had referred to Rt. Hon. J. G. Gardiner, Min- ister of Agriculture, as "one of the smartest politic- ians, with a capital "P," that Canada has ever seen." Mr. Speaker: Order. I do not know whether I correctly heard the hon. member a few moments ago, but did T understand him to say that the Minister of Agriculture, who I notice is not in his seat, was a smart politician with a capital "P"? Mr. Charlton: Yes, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speakér: 1 do not think the hon. member should use that expression, especi i S J > 5 ially when min- ister is not in his seat. > i fe Mr. Charlton: Hon. members opposite applauded, and I thought that. was paying the minister a com- pliment. : Mr. Speaker: I do not think the expression is permitted. I do not. belive it is parliamentary to refer i Th member as a smart politician with a cap- Mr. Charlton: Then 1 will delete the capital «p." Mr. Speaker: I think the 'hon. ge i . gentleman should withdraw the expression, and I ask Him to do so. Mr. Charlton: Very well, Mr. Speaker. Many who are not under M d ; r. Speaker's eye will continue to refer to Mr. Gardiner as a smart Politician: --THE! PRINTED WORD