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Page 4 THE OAKVILLE-TRAFALGAR JOURNAL Thursday, May 11, 1950 The Oakville- Trafalgar Journal Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Associati Published Every Thursday Morning in Oakville, Ont., by Oakville-Trafalgar Publishers, Ltd. 7 Dunn Street North . 5. Casey Wood, Jr, Vincent H. Barrey Managing Editor Advertising Manager Bill Cotton, Editorial Assistant Phone 1298 1 EEE TT Trafalgar Tales BY BESSIE CAIRNS I'm particularly a talkative individual often babbling like a brook, and possibly as boring as a gimlet, but I also love to lis- ten. I remember the minister of our nearby church being very annoyed at me for going el where simply, as he put it, "to N N ve my ear tickled." The ear- Those Men Are Here Again The annual, national campaign of the Jaycees to have their communities Paint-up, Light-up, Plant- up, Clean-up and generally beautify the districts, is one of the best activities that the Junior Chambers Commerce undertake. The Oakville-Trafalgar Jaycees are an aggressive gang, and we like the way they go about things--they take off their own coats and work hard at their projects. And we like their project, because if all residents will undertake to do their share then it will help to maintain Oakville as one of the finest places in Canada in which to live, We wish best luck to the campaign, and pledge ourselves to continue to keep the Journal brightly lighted. Good Membership To Have Hospital chairman Tom Chisholm has been very nice in a letter we received, and which we reprint below. While, human as anyone, we freely admit we enjoy having nice things safd about our editorials, it is not for that reason that we print the letter as we are doing, But we did neglect to urge on all residents the renewal, this year and each year, of their mem- bership in the hospital association. These member- ships will help financially, and finances of any hos- pital are a problem to the board. The chairman is fully justified in feeling that an active, paid-up mem- bership behind the hoard is a necessary thing. Let us all give that support right away--Ilet us all become Ten for the coming year of the hospital assoc- lation. May 6, 1950 The Oakville-Trafalgar Journal: Gentlemen-- The editorial in your May 4th issue is excellent. It covers the financial condition with perception and the subject of baseless rumors with restraint. As all will visualize with a little thought, the first year of operation will be trying en- ough for all concerned without the discouragement of malic- fous rumors. You deserve great credit for squashing several which were current, There is one other very important point which you may wish to mention at a later date, and .that is membership in the association. A great many gave as they were able to build the hospital. We now hope the many will continue in the Association, thus assuring that this most modern hospital will function as it should. A large and active membership in the Association will provide funds, and, possibly more im- portant, demonstrate a determination to make the operation as successful as the building. Those concerned with operation, the Women's Aux- iliary and the Board with its many committees, are all work- ing hard to assure successfil operation of our hospital. Nothing would spur their efforts more than a sense of being assisted by a large and active membership. Thank you for your editorial of last week, and hop- ing you will be able to enlarge upon the importance of the Association. i Yours very truly, T. C. Chisholm YoulPays Your Money and Takes Your Choice While the money that council intends to extract from individual taxpayers is up the amount of the increase in the mill rate, everyone should remember that there are going to be a lot of things which will not be done this year, that they would like to have done. So, if that is borne in mind, the increased rate does not seem so great, for many additional advan- tages are being paid for out of this increase--items . Such as the new high school and hospital, And it would be difficult for anyone to begrudge the money for such assets to the community. Last year the township mill rate did a spectac- ular jump, and we nearly died at the figure. Then we worked it out on our own tax bill and felt a little bet- ter. The trouble with mill seems to be that it isn't used as a means of daily barter, so few people act- ually realize what the increase means. Work it out on your own assessment, remembering a mill is 1/10th of a cent, and . . . well, maybe it will seem less of a shock to you too. We get a small amount of amusement out of the somewhat contradictory thinking most of us Indulge in. We know everything has risen In price. We know our town has to buy those things--be they supplies or man hours or what have you--but we become an- noyed when our taxes go up, as if some very unfair trick had been pulled on us. And an awful lot of us --mostly by doing without the things which we, per- would firmly state that it could be avoided somehow sonally, don't want in the town. But we'll just as ten- aciously stick to the absolutely imperative needed for the things we do want--such as the drinking fountains the Journal's been advocating for two years. Maybe we'll get them, and maybe the tax rate will jump again. Faddirng Cori esil Well, well, well . . . seems as If everyone in Oakville with a loose buck or so is putting the buck down a well out west. May the wealth of Alberta pour over them all. But the old story about a well, and the guy who stands at the top, is still going to find a lot of those bucks supporting it. So, well, wall, well! "Fat people are two-faced less often than people of other builds," recent Associated Press roport states. This would indicate that one would be wise to make one's friends always among fat people. But the diffi- culty is tha€ they will only be LESS, two-faced. They will still be somewhat two-faced In other words. So, maybe it would be more fun to have one's friends very--or even completely--two-faced instead of less two-faced. It would save wondering when they were indulging, wouldn't it. tickling was often most reward- ing and even to-day I mull over in 'my mind thought provoking statements or words of comfort that years ago fell on receptive ears. One Sunday I heard the Rev- ererfd F. J. Moore at St. Jame's Cathedral and, in stressing the love God had for all His children, he quoted from Kipling's poem Mother O'Mine; "If I were hang- ed on the highest hill, mother o'mine, O Mother o'mine, I know whose love would follow me still, Mother O'mine, O mother of mine . . . " as he continued, "I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o'mine, O Mother o' Mine," everyone in the congregation seemed to feel in their hearts the truth of his words. "Sufely then," he went on, "if a mother will stand by her erring children so will the Maker and Creator of all man- kind" Once again we seemed assured of an Eternal Truth. Last week the Red Dean of Canterbury appealed to mothers by means of a picture of a mo- ther and baby and the words "I want my child to live"--Don't we all? If you have read the story of Phillip Amery in Re- becca West's "The Meaning of Treason" youll have reason to sympathize with a mother who also wanted her child to live. Miss West's description of Mrs. Amery standing in the rain out- side the Old Bailey waiting for the sign that her son had been hanged is surely that of the most tragic of mothers, Though her love would follow him sfill, her son had betrayed his coun- try, and for so doing paid full penalty. If we mothers of today permit misguided tools of the Kremlin to overrule the work of our trained diplomats in the United Nations, we too will be betray- ing our country . . . and don't let us fool ourselves our child- ren will pay the penalty in full. IT SEEMS TO ME By P. W. Thompson "Knowledge comes but wis- dom lingers,' wrote the poet Tennyson. How very i matter that only a short time ago would have been though im- possible. Yet all this new know- ledge has not enabled us to live Happy, serene lives such as wise make life worth while. 'We do wonderful things with electric- ity and gasoline and steel and concrete, we know all manner of exciting facts about atoms and people have lived in certain per- | electronics, about psychoanaly- iods of history. We have become |sis and relativity. What the 50 absorbed in the means of liv-|world badly needs today is a ing that we have little if any [course of teaching time for the things that really that will make for sane intelligent living. are his words to the world of today! Knowledge is growing at a dizzy rate. Technical know- ledge, medical knowledge, know- ledge of the earth beneath our feet, of the immensities of outer space. We know far more than our ancestors of a century ago ever dreamed of knowing. to the tireless probings of scientific investigators we have a picture of what the earth was like scores and even hun- dreds of millions of -years ago, and the bones of strange mon- sters that roamed the jun- gles and swamps of bygone epochs stand in our museums for us to study. Powerful telescopes render infinitely remote stars and planets plainly visible to the human eye, and our concepts of the universe have been immeas- urably broadened. We know more about oursel- ves, about the human body, workings of the mind, and of human behavior. And this Breat sum of knowledge is being con- tantly added to through the efforts of innumerable experts who pursue their tireless inves- tigations and experiments in every branch of science. And it is no longer the property of an exclusive few. Thanks -to the spread of elementary education the masses of the people now may share this great and ever- growing store of knowledge. Knowledge is a very good thing, but it is not the same as wisdom. Although we know so much more than formerly, we can hardly be said to have grown correspondingly wiser. Folly, stupidity, superstition and error continue to plague mankind. Innumerable people still persist in foolish behavior. to their own harm and that of others. They lack judgment, moderation, or- dinary "common sense," and the results may be seen in all man- ner of 'neuroses,' in broken homes, shattered lives. We have wrested from nature a thousand precious secrets, we have gained a mastery over if he pinned his faith not on a godless ideology, but in the Mak- Better perhaps for the Red Dean er and Creator of all mankind. I batted out a column dealing with animals that made head- liners, I wasn't. prepared for the reader reaction, That is to say, I hadn't expected to be button- holed on the street by people by relating a humorous anecdote that was definitely a fugitive from Gay Gags magazine or the Bob Hope show. Gradually it dawned on me that everybody thought Id found these animal incidents in my handy little pocket joke book, that it was straight Gold- en bantam and not so tender at that. After I'd spent hours and hours culling legitimate news stories about our four legged friends! Well, fifteen minutes, anyhow. Only two readers came up with yarns they true. Another, who mailed an anonymous bit of doggerel, ob- viously is an anti-prohibitionist who doesn't care what lengths he goes to in endeavouring to insisted were skeptics that its just about time you began believing what you see in the papers, I hereby give your this trio of contributions. Only plausible use for so doing is this ;*!)*:|(xx spring cold, which has my head plugged up so tightly that even the sha- idea years, and nothing know of win- es or beers. The goat and sheep at 20 die, & never taste of Scotch or Rye. The cow drinks water by the ton, and at 18 years is survive for three score years and ten. And some of us, though PUFFS FROM THE COTTON GIN A couple of weeks ago, when mighty few, we're 92!" keep tippling til Then there is the one that Mickey Powless' maintains is ab- solutely true. Some years ago, a hotel custom of naming a room in the in Louisville adopted the Mother's Day-May 14th The smiles that win, the eyes that glow, They tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below A heart whose love is innocent. From "She Walks In Beauty" Byron Give Her Chocolates. . . ROWNTREES BLACK MAGIC SMILES N' CHUCKLES NEILSON'S - HUNTS (All Gift Wrapped) CLOSS DRUG CO. (L. E. CLOSS, Phm.B.) Oakville - PHONE 248 - Oakville DELIVERIES DEVON ICE CREAM JUST ARRIVED! BREEZES ANOTHER SHIPMENT FENDER WHISKERS For cooling and ventilat- ing your car. In white, amber, blue, green, red. .59 © .75 3 SEALED Fender Wiskers warn mo- GOLDEN COMET torists when nearing curb and other unseen objects 1 Gal. - 98c by sounding resonant warn- ning to avoid damage. 1 Qt. - 27c ? MACHINE Burke's Auto Supply ano "Sior Ph. 1129M OAKVILLE 13 Dunn St. N. who invariably started by say-|hostelry for the winner of each ing: "Why didn't you tell the|Kentucky Derby. There was one about the . . 7?" and ended |the Zev room, the Gallant Fox room, the Whirlaway room, and so forth. But after the 1846 Der- by, the management decided to abandon the practice. The win- ner that year was Assault. And lastly, there is the un- usual experience Jack Ashley claims he had. In most instan- ces, we'd have no hestitation in vouching for Mr. Ashley. But with his stories, it's something else again, so I repeat the tale liberally flecked with grains of salt. It seems that one of the Ash- ley neighbours is terrifically proud of his dog. He has pain- stakingly trained the animal, and is meticulous about the mutt's menu and exercise rou- tine. Having noticed that the dog went froliking excitdely all prove that man is still superior over the house whenever the to the animals, in the news or [telephone rang, the chap in any other way. So, while chid-|question decided to make sure ingly admonishing all you other his pet got regular exercise while he was away on a week- end trip. That's right. He decid- ed to phone often. Our Mr. Ash- ley just couldn't pass up a chal- lenge of this sort. Gaining entry to the house, he sat down by the phone with his evening paper to await a call. After a while the dow of an inspirational instrument jangled. The = dog couldn't get in. cavorted. The bell rang again. First, let's take Mr. Anony- (The dog went excitedly hay- mous, who pens: wire. Then Mr. Ashley quietly "The horse and mule live 30|)ifted the receiver, panted madly into the mouthpiece for thirty seconds, and wordlessly cradled the phone. On his return, a mys- tified neighbour told him about it. "How on earth could that dog mostly done. Without the ald of |r tne receiver, and then re. rum or gin, the frog at 16 cashes |. =5, Q5RE0 FEE BER IE in. The cat in milk and water| JOE A EE Souls, and then, in 13 SNOT), ou incredulity, "In all my ars, it croaks. The modest,( CEC AIR IRL an sober, bone dry hen lays eggs |e yo EL TON for noggs, then dies at 10. Aloo il (TO animals are strictly div, they |p So or SE FEE sinless live and swiftly die. But| tT CERT ginful, sinful, rum-soaked men Apologetically Yours, BILL COTTON Everyone Invited To the opening of The New Oakville-Trafalgar High School on Tuesday, May 23rd, 1.30 p.m. CADET INSPECTION GYMNASTIC DISPLAY BY BOYS & GIRLS 3 3.00 p.m. Mayor J. R. Black and Reeve W. H. Biggar will perform Opening Ceremony and cutting of ribbon, opening the school for Public Inspection. GYMNASTIC DISPLAY BY STUDENTS 8.00 p.m. Evening Ceremony in Auditorium DR. CORBIN A. BROWN GUEST SPEAKER HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR SCHOOL AGAIN OPEN TO PUBLIC Come and see your new school Meet the staff and see the school in operation 1) I ----_ a-- ----------w-- h for yc JOURN ollywo lbum." the n KERR