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Page 4 Dakville- Trafalgar Journal Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Published Every Thursday Morning in Oakville, Ont. by OQakville-Trafalgar Publishers, Ltd. 7 DUNN STREET NORTH S. Casey Wood, Jr. Managing Editor Bill Cotton, Editorial PHONE 1298 Vincent H. Barrey Advertising Manager Assistant MAKES FINE APPLESAUCE! Thursday, May 3rd., 1951 \ ' Let's Be Boosters !! The Junior Ball club opens its season on Wed- nesday evening, May 9th, under the flood lights. Res- idents will remember that this team will mostly be compr ed of graduates fronr the Ontario Champion- ship Juvenile team of last year--so many good games are in store for fans. The club has come up with an idea to assist with the expenses involved in travelling and financing its activities. Booster tickets, $3 each or two for $5 can be purchased, which will entitle the holder to attend all the home games of the series--including home play-off games. If that isn't one of the best buys we've ever heard of, then we don't know a bargain when we see it. But more than a bargain, its a way to support a rappy bunch of lads who play fast ball, and who want to make sure they'll be able to go the route. It's an expensive proposition for a sponsor to pick up all tabs incident to a club's operation. While the same sponsor, Snow Construction, is coming through with all the equipment needed, it is easy to understand that full sponsorship of a team which undoubtedly will be in on the finals once more is more than any firm could undertake. So baseball fans, why not become a Booster right away--and get your tickets for what will be a fine series. Nothing like getting a discount for ad- vance payntent. This is your chance, and we wish the team every success in ticket selling--and its games. Through The Smoke and Flame I Gotta Go . . . Where ? It's a fine thing to tell someone to stay cool when they are standing amid flames in their home--yet the advice contained in a letter to the editor this week is most sound. To give the incorrect, directions to your fire department, when your home is on fire sounds silly. Yet if we do not prepare ourselves in advance for the critical fire moment when we may be stand- ing with the phone in our hands--we may do as the residents described in the letter did, and find the fire truck heading in the other direction. How often have you heard people living in the township telling someone how to find their home? Well, it usually sounds like a Cook's tour, and cer- tainly we've found it hard to understand some of the directions we've been given. And these were given to us when there wasn't a fire, and our informant was as cool as could be. We can easily imagine what their feverish directions would have been if they'd had flames all around them . . . and we know we wouldn't have been able to find their homes. ' So in addition to having the phone number fo or your brigade prominently displayed beside your4ele- phone, why not write out a short, ace; of where your homesis 10¢a#a8#f5" oo beside it. Then no matter how exgi¥ey you 'may be, youll be sure of having the fir@=foy 'know where they are wanted. = If yoy think for a moment, yowll probably find, == 38. Wed, that an accurate description of the location of our home took many more words than was neces- sary. Boil it down to a few well chosen words now, and vou won't come boiling out with a vague mis- leading description under the duress of a heated moment. ate description Plasma Patriots A-Plenty . The Canadian people have often demonstrated their willingness to assume responsibility during war time. The Red Cross Blood Donor Units during the last war were never short of willing citizens to give blood. But we feel that the amazing response afford- ed the appeal of the Oalville Blood Clinic for donors to assist in building up a blood plasma supply for the "Romean war--is a fine tribute to the way Canadians today, when the country is not at war, but is merely participatflg in an United Nations effort, are facing responsibilivy-. h An unexphetedly 1 Tas 4 umber of donors wexe Their sith -- NHN ads on hand at the' c IR, SV "fin dition to maintaining th free. Red Cross blood trans- fusion service af the Ln] hospital; will material- ly increase the store being collected across the nation for the Korean campaign. 2 Let us all be proud that Oakville district residents s need, and are willing to assume res- are aware of thi Bennett Cerf seems to have taken up Whe Noah Webster left off, but somehow I can't help but feel that Noah wouldn't approve as highly of Bennett as I do. Mr. Webster, as everybody knows, was the gentleman who did. so much to make the dic tionary the useful implement to everyday living that it is. 0 the other hand, Mr. Cerf, as more and more readers of Dpop- ular periodicals are beginning fo know, is an ace newspaper col- umnist and raconteur who de- lights In catalouging the humour of his time in bright and enter taining form. Where is the connection be- tween these men of different eras and interests? Well, recent: ly Mr. Cerf has taken to mod- ernising _ dictiorjary 'definitionsi with startling and amusing re- sults. As he puts it: "With o everything else changing, some -- Sorgre-- people feel that definitions -of ed words should be changed oc casionally, too, if only to keep IT SEEMS 0 ME BY P. W. THOMPSON Everything, including progress, has its price. One of the ways in which we are paying for the great improvements of recent years is the despoiling of the countryside. That, perhaps, is too strong term. But if the country is not being actually despoiled, it is cer- tainly losing a measure of the quiet charm, the disinctive qual- ity, that it possessed back in the early years of the century. In those days, fast becoming remote, a clear-cut line of de- marcation divided the city from the country, the rural from the urban. Factories were confin- ed to cities and towns, as was the little motor traffic that ex- isted . Such a thing as a paved road in the country, or in a small town or village, was un- known. The countryside con- sisted of farms, fields and wood- lands, and the people who lived there were engaged in farming or in occupations that catered to the farm population. The country offered, at that period, a peace and serenity un- marred by the hum of motor traf- fic or the clatter of power mach- inery. Each farm was a little community in itself, remote from the distractions of city life. The farmhouse, frequently constructed on a generous scale, had about it a look of sturdy, rugged simplici- ty. The farm fields were enclos- ed, not by wire, but by fences of weather-beaten rails, split by hand from the trees of the forest. These fences, especially those of the "snake" variety, were pleas- ant to look at. Ploughing, of course, Wwastddne with the afd of horses, andudt was by Nopees and Jon ihusger fhat people 38 "fhe quite dirt roads), / But the motor car and other inventions have brought about great changes in that rural scene. Year by year the coun- tryside becomes. more urbaniz- ed with the invasion of city in- fluences. No longer is it in- habited exclusively by rural folk. The country-dweller of to- day is not infrequently engag- ed in some urban occupation many miles from his home. The secluded, woodland road where the horse was wont to jog with leisurely gait has giv- en place to the paved highway or the "improved" gravel road, with its flow of motorized traf fic.. Weatherbeaten farm-houses are being supplanted by sub: urban bungalows, equipped with the latest apliances In dis- tricts not far removed from large cities, great industrial plants and houseing develop- ments are springing up on acres recently given over to grain and pasturage. And the quiet cross-roads village with Its gen- eral store and blacksmith shop has been transformed by gas- oline pumps, tourist homes, and advertisl 5 This SRTRT TER: is not without «its on the farm uous 1 or fifty years ago. ter, that quality such poems as Gray Goldsmith's "Deserted Village" ye 'course, > "benefits. Lite norotny M. n is doubiless less ard- i an s' and"more interesting, in some respects, than it was forty But the im-|ilar canvass in Port Credit. Cam- provements have had their price. | paign headquarters will be Tots The countryside has lost much, if ; Roa oh anion Tara] Sere oone while Mes 7 Wario immortalized in ray's "Elegy" or in the spirit of things" For instance, Bennfit rather likes Bob Hope's definition of a banker, who, according to old BY BESSIE CAIRNS droop snoot, is a man who loans RAI LGAR you an umbrella when the sun is shining and makes you re- ing. Other people he covers, in- NEWS FROM TOKYO clude economists like mal Doug: las Abbot, who he describes as a man who knows tomorrow why the things he said yesterday didn't happen today. And steno- graphers, whom he maintains are I received a letter from Tokyo last week from Anna Wright . . . Remember she sent a special despatch to the Journal when the U.N. first took action in|girs wy : 2 eat] Tule lima the Seen mal ot ou h © Teun I A MacArthur Wismissal in one for husbands. And toastmasters, brief paragraph, but in so do-|who are "men who eat meals ing seems to voice the Tokyo re-|they don't like so they can get action. "And now MacATthur|up and tell stories they can't got fired! Though I never loved |remember to people who have him 1 think he could have been|aiready heard them; As well handled a bit more graciously|as perfectionists, whom Mr. Cerf PUFFS FROM THE COTTON GIN finite them them. Bennegt's everything device situation pains and usually &lve to everyone else aroun definitiony cover from a girdle ( to keep an unfortunay from spreading) secret (something you tell op person at a time). He fools g fish Is a creature whose vacatioy usually coincides with those o most fishermen, while a rap is a small animal that grows fu that other animals get cen for when it is made into a ladys coat. For my money, he makes a jo better reading than does. Webster, even though 1 have tg admit Noah was considerably more thorough and far reaching in his research. or example, here are items fresh out of Webster to a i=l two Punc-tu-al-ity--the quality of being prompy, particularly iy keeping an appointment or gagement; preciseness in cop. duct or ceremony. . .apol-o-gy--something spoken, written or offered in defence of explanation; a formal acknowl. edgment, as of error or inciyil ity; an explanation or expression of regret, offered by way of amends. How refreshingly different jg Mr, Cerf's approach to these two long established English words Punctuality, says Bennety, i something which, if you have i, there is nobody ever around fo appreciate it. And an apology, he defines succinctly, is merely politeness too late. 3 Yes, I think we could do with a few more Bennett Cerfs to simplify this increasingly con fusing world for us. It would make far easier living -- par ticularly if they could find a numerous definition for bank ruptey! Yours for Simplicity . mot just a straight kick in|sums up as people who take in- and with a semblance of finesse . BILL COTTON the teeth, which has tended to make a heroic martyr of him. The Japs don't like the change; the business people don't think cupation think the change was it will make apy difference to their present problems; the oc- overdue and that lots of dead weight an grafters are going to themselves moving fast; find = and 1 guess the Communists feel i they fired him themselves! Ive quit thinking or wondering, just want to be let alone to live my own life in peace. Why look for peace in the Orient? A description of Anna's home perhaps supplies the ans- wer to that too. "In February I finally moved out of the hotel the most amazing munists in the "Good. Old Tj; into the cutest house you've ever seen. Sliding paper doors; sliding paper windows (which I'm graduaHy placing on that the Bible athi-tub, tiny, definitely my size. I just love it and am so comfortable I can't think how I existed in the hotel so long. I have a cute real Jap style gar- den with a stream and camellias and a wonderful cookmaid who does everything. a collector's item . . quiet manner. As a secretary with an oil firm in Toronto Anna would like- ly have to stretch the budget to share a basement apartment. Oh! yes there is a further com- pensation of a free trip around the world Tirstclass every three years. Trust 1 have explained the lure of the Orient . . . but used up and thus constantly which we dig up so we can bury it again, mand for itself. We think that Canadians of the East, po: bly because they won't admit even to themselves that som thing worth while can come out of the west, are making rible mistake in not realizing that in Canada's, western ofl development lies Canada's future. Pdd irng Comer esni With a grader coming onto the property any day to do some levelling, we hope not to be in the spot Herbert Thomas of Toronto was in last November. his grader nudging a buried box of 200 sticks of dyna- He found When New Yorkers threw enough newsprint on the head of General MacArthur to provide many a starved newspaper with additional pages, it wasn't too sad a condition, although annoying none the less. But when the people of Chicago threw $20,000 of orchids on his dome, then we felt we'd finally met manifestation Lite"--and we'd think it makes excellent material for the Com- 5A Before it's all over, maybe of the "American Way of the "American public is 'or drop~dead. f any book. It's a fine thing to realize still outsells all other books, and that mankind is buying it daily. But we like the fact that A this first impression will be so large, for a special rea son. Today, a new issue of the Bible should not become .-as it could easily be were a lim- ited first issue to be capitalized on by the publishers. It's rather amazing to talk to people and find that they are taking the oil fields of the west, the new pipe line, and all that this means to Canada's economy and future, in such a 0il is "liquid gold"--but unlike the real gold, it is a gold that is assists to create additional de there are also the Chinese Reds. MAYOR BLACK PROCLAIMS CONCERT WEEK HERE SPRING SPECIALS PLAIDS GABARDINE Mayor J. R. Black has proclaim- ed the week of May 14-19 as Com- munity Concert Week, in con- junction with the campaign for memberships being staged by the Oakville Community Concert as- soclation. President Mark Auden announced Monday that the fol- lowing team captains will head up the drive: Mb. Clare Willis, Miss Margaret James, Mrs. B. FIBRE (Plain and Plastic Coated) i pa es, Jr, Mr . " 11.9 WASH MOPS 1.98 Smith, Miss Alice EI Bruce Young will supervise a sim- will act as campaign secretary. COMPL] = 5 ii All Trimmed with Red or Blug TE CHAMOIS 2.29 3.89 SPECIAL SALE -- BASEBALL BATS ponsibility for their share. GIVE GENEROUSLY NRRL Its pace is no longer that of the jogging horse and buggy, but the|or gas station. And the pictures: speeding car or truck. The lowing | que old snake fences have all but of cattle, the singing of the birds, | vanished from many sections. and the hum of insects at night|Much of the country's tranquil must compete with the hum of the |charm has departed, and the tractor or the blaring of thel world is the poorer for it. Reg. $3. V ;| radio in the nearest farmhouse ER $1.98 BURKE'S AUTO SUPPLY ws: 13 Dunn St. N. OAKVILLE Phone 11% D PAI ( Fr Open iSunc Ns ¢ 2 65 So 3 i y 2 8 0 oo «