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14 ttu moftoatown htkald wednesday twain aprfl u ims pace i legion notes roumd the fcoous bljf viray night in brampton le sion hall on friday night we under stand quite a number will be attend ing should be quite a large even ing many favourably comments about the return to the legion notes last week of an old reliable source of- copy the one who surveyed the rec reational scene at s am that lad has always made good copy rtceep it up boy as long as ypur friends keep telling us these stories well keep printing them f incidentally the writer had quite a practical joke played on him recently some ume ago we subscribed to a new maga- tlne sports illustrated and when a few back issues had cotfected we put them in the legion for anyone to read a character snipped out one of ths subscription blanks filled in four names of friends and sent it in to the company in due course we get an invoice fort35 3o for four gift subscriptions we wrote the circu lation department and they are try ing to pin it down ttiey have cut off the four sulwcriptiuhs naturally with a letter of ciplanation to esch what a character dreamed that one up the moral is dont leave any magazine around where any one can read them there seems to be a character in every crowd the magazine refuse to think its funny and are having it investigated on the grounds of forgery taking the attitude that it was the same as a blank cheque personally we think we can guess who the joker wai and would think it awfully humorous to watch him talk his way out of that one darts are going to be the order of the day in the near future and with the number of teams com peting it should be a real tournament arrangements for the annual hockey banquet are well under way and it is hoped to make this a big event the globe and mail carried an inter- citing article on the legion in an issue last week and the article is reprinted in this issue of the herald canadian legion broadens policy by ralph hyman in the toronto glob a mail without fanfare and with little public notice the canadian legion has broken down the walls of its selfimposed isolation to become a national body dedicated to commun al good works as well as to further ing the welfare of veterans this significant change in legion policy is not yet concluded but it is safe to say that fully 70 per cent of the 2000 iegion branches across can ada are dedicated to the proposition that as citizens as well as veterans they have a community resporuibili ty which must be met the canadian legion today no ion ger exists as an out am out pressure group intent on a smrlc worthwhile but admittedly narrow field of activi ty it no longer lives within itself feeding on real and fanned griev ances and moving along the old groove of pressure tactics no single factor is responsible for the changed thinking of an organi zation which represents some 250000 men and women hut one factor might be said to be the chief contri bo tor to the new maturity of the legion and that is the successful campaign waged over the years to obtain just treatment for veterans virtually all the major objectives of the legion with respect to govern ment legislation have been achiev erf and today lgiun officials freely admit that in its treatment of veter ans canada lakes second place to- none having attained its major object ives the legion found that it had created a vacuum and that this emp tiness had to be filled or the legions forward momentum would grind to a halt the sense of injustice that had served as a spur to the ixgion in its campaign to arouse govern ment and the nation to the needs of the veterans disappeared with the fulfillment of its pledges to its own membership and so the legion leadership struck out on a new course in 1048 it began the longterm project of getting the legion branches to break down the walls of their ivory towers and come out in to the world it urg ed participation in community pro grams of all sorts in boys work in sports promotion in scholarships for the children of veterans and in a doz en other channels what has been the result major r trick biggs the secretary of the on tario command has the answer ho says this broadening of our interest has brought with it an increase in membership afore and more profes sional men lawyers doctors en gineers are joining legion- bran ches they are attracted by the kind of work we axe doing those branch es which continue to live within them- selves are losing membership they hive lost the spark there was a time not so long ago when many people regarded legion- tulresua bunch of old sweats gun- ung beer in canteens and swapping lim about their military exploit old moldjeiwdo veera to consume plenty of ber but this social phase of legion life if only ft fenull part of the story vtjyr than one third of the leg- ijjfcbnurjhetfhoid beet heeniw and racxetazybiggjv becomes more than a iltttla indignant when someone hints 1 ber duhuhat it the major occu- f om wreab that and play- this tued to be civilian it wu never azd it u even leas so today the legion coember of today is alive to his communal iosponslblliu to the need of helping others secre tary biggs asserts he is rooted in the soil ofhls community the ney policy of legion participa tion in all worthwhile activities on a community basis dbesnot mean that the movements leadership has turn- cd its- back on ottawa it still pres ent an annual brief to the federal cabinet and at the moment it is keep ing an eye on a measure to boost pen sions forburntout veterans which is now in committee stage the changed emphasis in policy is paying off for the legion in more than increased membership it is yielding substantial dividends jn public goodwill when a legion branch sponsors sports progrsms for children public speaking contests for public and high school children finances scholarships operates a sejnmer camp for underprivileged youngsters and cooperates wjth the local service clubs the public soon becomes aware of what is happening no longer is r legion member re garded as an individual interested solely in his own welfare and with the world owes me a living complex the identification of the legion with good works has proved beneficial in every respect the legion operates sis service bureaus in pntarlo tnese are at toronto hamilton london wind sor ottawa and north bay each is fully staffed with trained officers who are rseponsible for covering a given area and consulting local bran ches on various problems last year the ontario command spent 71000 in this- work and 80 par cjml of the veterans assisted were not legion members the legion does not dif ferentiate there are roughly 1300000 war veterans in canada but only 250000 of thcmjwki membership in the legion ontario with sm charters comprising 71875 members has 24 per cent ofvthe eligible veterans- in the provincial command this is the highest paidup membership in the 30- year history of the organization there are 325 ladies auxiliaries in the command sudbury with 1300 members has about 70 per ccpt pf- eligible tor onto has 12000 legionnaires but this rtfprevcbls only q per cent of the to tal in this area tbtbaekbont of the canadian i eg ion is the branch wilh a membership of 73 or less in leg ion activity as elsewbure there op pears to be no virtue in sise alone in this era of the cold war the can adian legion is growing in member ship and growing in its understan ding of the scop of the peactime pro grain it ha set fur itself harou brain enrol in gclening coarse harold a brain norval is among the 10 young canadians who have enrolled in the threeyear residential course of the niagara parks school of gardening in an announcement of m t gray general manager of the niagara parks commission along with classmates he will stu dy agriculture horticulture and flori culture both in classroom sessions and outdoors on the schools exten sive grounds located four miles north of niagara falls on the scenic niagara parkway the school unique o iu kind ir north america has an enrolment of eight in each of the second and third years of the course bringing the- to tal to 20 students owned and oper ated by the niagara parks com mis sion the school was founded in 1037 lornabelle was bred by victor j lawrence oakvule she made ner first three records la the lawrence herd and then was told to merle il greene elsie michigan contrasting with lornabelle great lifetime record is that of the canad ian champion tor lifetime milk pro duction susie korndyke payne lisa with 230170 lbs milk and 7357 lbs fat made in nine jactations this rec ord was compleiedptr 1044 in the herd of eaton hall farm sting ont lornabeuva beat yearly record was 200081b milk and 1044 lbs fat made as a nineyearold oa three time4uy milking the gardeners are out us full force these days preparing land and planting early crops the even ing air is heavy with smoke too as people rake the winters debris from lawns canada bred houtein huge lifetime total one of ihe 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