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\ SECOND SECTION Oakville- Trafalgar Journal Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Published Every Thursday Morning In Oakville, Ont. by Oakville-Trafalgar Publishers, Ltd. 7 DUNN STREET NORTH i Vincent H. Barrey Advertising Manager Assistant s. Casey Wood, Jr. Managing Editor Bill Cotton, Editorial PHONE 1298 Thursday, September 20th, 1951 oin Today The decision of the Memorial hospital board not to conduct a campaign for funds this fall is a most wise one. There is a certain amount of money still required to free the hospital of debt, but the board's cision was reached in view of the difficulty of det- ~rmining what hospital facilities may be required after Ford starts on its negy plant. The hoard would undoubtedly not receive en- thusiastic support in a campaign at this time if the ceneral public felt there was any likelihood of another major campaign belngiyequired again in the near future. Without the Fofd Motor Company being able to give definite information as to its requirements, the eventual size of the hospital required could not be : determined with certainty at this time. Employing a qualified firm to make a survev. and bring in recommendations for the future expan- sion, also is a wise move, for the members of the hoard are not experienced in such matters. This is work for experts. The money spent will undoubtedly result in eventual savings which will exceed any ex- penditure. * The present bed facilities at the hospital are of- ten taxed to the limit, with some patients not in the emergency class having to wait to get in. But this is the situation of all hospitals today, partly owing to the pre-paid hospital expense plans. To attempt to cure this shortage by a building program now, which would be inadequate again in a year or so, would indeed be most unwise. But, although there is to be no organized cam- "paign, YOUR hospital does need money. A member- ship in the hospital association would be a fine way for you to help with this need. New residents partic- ularly, who have not been able to give anything to- ward the hospital, can avail themselves of this mem- bership to help pay their share of the cost for the present wonderful hospital. Why not everyone sub- seribe for a membership in the hospital association today, and thus help cut down on the money that is still owing. : A Strong Neucleus The Oakville Property Owners' Association has a charter membership now of 100, and this is en- couraging proof that ratepayers are becoming aware that membership in such an organization can pay them dividends. The first meeting of the association, scheduled for Sept. 19th, at the High school, has an interesting panel of speakers. It is for members only, although an open meeting later is also promised. The new association will fill a real need in an xpanding Oakville. It can assist council in matters which affect ratepayers, by securing a representative opinion. It can assist ratepayers by taking their pro- blems to council on a basis where individual beefs which are not justified have been eliminated in ad- vance, so that all representations made will be given serious consideration. Council undoubtedly will welcome the new or- ganization as" being of value to it. All ratepayers should also welcome it--and join it as soon as pos- sible. Those who do not support this organization with their $2.00° family membership, and their at- tendance at meetings, will not be taking advantage of a very valuable privilege. New members may join on the night of the meeting, so don't stay away un- der any circumstances. Just turn up with your $2.00. Padding Cormreri If there's anyone who doesn't like a circus, then he's no friend of ours--fon we consider this the final in en- tertainment. The Kiwanis club have earned our personal thanks with their circus that comes to town next week. If this means that we're just a kid at heart, that's most reassuring, with life about to begin for us on ur next birthday. We've never had a very high opinion of the rulings of the Income Tax department--iwhich is nothing exclusive to us, of course, But the way the department seems to make up its mind without any bearing what so ever to actual life some- times floors us. The latest decision, which makes payment of interest and repayment of loans to blood relatives not allow- able as deductions from a business return, is out of this world. The ruling quotes the following strange idea of the Income Tax 'act. "Persons connected by blood relationship, are not deemed to "deal with each other at arm's length." Such a cockeyed idea certainly has nothing to do with what we all call "Real life," We know more blood relations who insist in dealing at arm's length with each other. It's almost possible to say there are probably more in this class living in Canada than in the class the Income Tax savants would seem to think. Oh, well, people who make laws often do so from ivory tow- ers--which is holding the whole nation at arm's length. There must be a great number of Toronto residents. who are irked that the Royal tour will not include their streets, now Toronto is resurfacing all streets which will be used so there'll be no bumps on them. Too bad every road in Ontario can't be travelled by. the Royal couple . . . be a good way to get the provin- clal government to spend some money needed on high- ~way repairs. LIES, FALSE CHARGE: STALLING | IT SEEMS T0 ME . BY P. W. THOMPSON The question of whether or not we should eat horses seems to have started a small controversy in at least one Toronto news- paper, and probably discussion of this delicate topic Is raging in other places. Ome correspondent, a lover of horses, waxed morally indignant over the proposal to have horseimeat sold in butcher shops. The horse, he contended, was man's best friend, and to eat its flesh was hardly better than a form of cannibalism. No doubt there are a great many horse-lovers, as well as others who have had little to do with the equine species, who will share this view-point. Yet there seems no very good reason, if we eat animals, that we should except the horse. In this mechanized age horses are not so much' in demand on ac- count of their working capac- ities as formerly. For another thing, other varieties of meat have become scarce and, in the case of beef, almost fantastic- ally expensive. What is also an important con- sideration, equine flesh makes quite good eating. It has been an important article of diet in a number of other countries. Properly prepared, there is no reason why horse-flesh could mot rank among the most esteemed foods. Aversion to it is based on nothing but sentiment or pre- judice. But discussion about horse- meat leads not unnaturally to a consideration 'of the practice of meat eating in general. Veg- etarians, of whom the late Mr. Bernard Shaw was a particular ly shining example, argue that people would be better off with- out meat. Perhaps they are right. A number of them have conscientiously eschewed the eating of flesh with apparently no harmful results to them- selves, either physical or other- wise. Perhaps it would be more truly civilized (to abandon the practice long |. - of meat-eating and subsist en- tirely on vegetable foods. But hai strides vegetarianism may make, we think it highly improbable that it will ever be- come universal.' Meat tastes too good to be banished from the average person's diet. And from time immemorial it has been one of man's staple foods, so that its consumption has become sur- rounded by a sort of tradition. It is so much esteemed that to ab- stain from it has been made a form of religious discipline. And even if meat were eliminated trom the daily diet, what about banquets, what about such tra- ditional feasts as Christmas and Thanksgiving? Without a turkey, goose or chicken, Christmas just wouldn't be Christmas. When vegetarians argue that the eating of meat involves cruelty they have a point. Mo- dern methods of slaughtering food animals are probably some- what more efficient and less painful than those of an earlier day. Yet we cannot belleve that the sensation of being knocked on the head with a sledge-h Pm blushing and considering my age and some of the books I have read. lately, that's no mean accomplishment. In case you would care to blush too, or are just in- terested in improving your mind the following were all highly recommended not only by the publishers but by nice people, friends and relatives of mime; Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye," John O'Hara's "Butterfield 38," and Joyce Carey's "A Fearful Joy." However mot what I have read but what I haven't written is the cause of the blush. When I mailéd Trafalgar Tales last week I didn't expect they'd make the next issue and figured I had at least a week's grace before getting my batting average up. to par, . . . the team play at the Journal is a bit too fast for a Rockwoodite. Whether crime pays or not It is therefore refreshing to read an account of the catching of a criminal also making front page news, Sgt. of detectives Tong has earned credit lately for just such doings. He has added great- ly to the prestige of the police . when dear knows they need- ed it . . . and though nothing has been said about it in the papers he has proven that an immigrant without money or friends, ¢hrough hard work and determination can become a valued and trusted Canadian citizen. About twenty years mund Tong rang our door bell one evening and asked "Does Mr. Sedgwick live here?" I invited him in to the living room where he told his tale to dad. He had arrived in Canada from Leeds, England about two' months pre- viously and he was a pretty dis- gruntled boy. Tn Leeds he had been a top soccer player and lo- «cal hero . . . he proudly showed the pictures of his team. A big strapping lad he had hoped to prove his athletic ability as a member of the Toronto Police force. There were no - openings. He was engaged to a girl in Eng- land whom he had hoped to bring to Canada in the near future. He had no money, told dad that when make a go of it in tried his hand at farming . . . worked like a slave, lost pounds and collected $5.00 for a month's hard labour. A friend of his in Leeds was a nephew of dad's and at will Halton's suggestion he came to our place as a last re- sort before chucking everything and cabling for passage money home. ago Ed- no job. He he failed to Yorkshire people are about as clannish as the Scotch and dad said to him, "Are you still in- terested in the Toronto police because If so Sgt. Bentley Is a Yorkshire man and a friend of mine?" . . . . Within five minutes dad had Len Bentley on the phone and arranged an appoint- ment with young Tong for the next morning. A happy ending to the tale of an immigrant . . . happy that is for those who aren't behind bars or should be! mer or having one's throat cut, as happens to innumerable cat- tle and hogs is not an ex- actly a pleasant one, however quickly and adroitly the oper- ation is carried out, When one envisions the enor- mous number of hapless creatures that are sacrificied daily in order that we humans may gratify our carnivorous appetite one almost feels a twinge of conscience. Cattle, hogs, calyes, sheep, poultry in an endless stream go to violent deaths so that we may enjoy 'our roasts and steaks and chops, our ham and 'bacon. And every fall thousands of men arm- ed with rifles go into the bush to shoot down deer, one of the most harmless and appealing of creat- ures. If the human conscience can countenance the destruction that is currently carried out, it should find little difficulty in reconciling itself to the killing of horses. And with other meats so expensive, the practical considerations may soon out- Having patiently listened for years to people who insist that the younger generation is wild, untrammelled and going to Hades in a handcart, I was mildly amazed to note Bernice Fitz-Gib- bon's view of present day youth as recounted in the October Reader's Digest. Yesterday's Tea Leaves Miss Fitz-Gibbon, far from de- ploring the characteristics other people SAY are the ruination of our youngsters, claims that youth should be wild and untrammelled. But youth, she says, just isn't that way. Today's kids, she wist- fully muses are as mild as yes- terday's tea leaves--are, in fact, fuddy-duddies!! In her article, "Wanted--More Bounce To The Ounce" she comes out point blank with the assertion that, In her experience as advertising director of Gimbel Brothers big New York depart ment store, she has found that it's getting harder to uncover fresh young talent because in- tellectual rigor mortis is afflict ing the teen age crowd. No Originality? of us oldsters she maintains, "would have been consigned to the scrap heap long ere this if it were not for a lack of youthful spontaneity in the young. And I'm not speaking only of advertising in this pitch for originality. Every industry, mag- azine and store needs WILD ideas--there are plenty of people around to tame them!" Wondering why so many young people = who ought to attack everything with zest so often think in hackneyed terms, Miss Fitz-Gibbon expresses the belief that it is because they look at an idea or object through a tangle of preconceived motions and never really see it as it is. Now, Miss FitzGibbon may have something' there. Any gal that can keep Gimbels neck-and- neck with Macys, and pack the public nine deep around that store's counters, must know more than somewhat, as Runyan put it. "Many But it would seem from here that the wild ideas she seeks--and which have proven so successful in her promotion work--would become very blunt sales weapons indeed if accepted generally. PUFFS FROM THE COTTON GIN Humans, being generally conser- vative by nature, react to these wild ideas only on occasion. Always Belittling Might it not be that the jaded idea hunters, by now firmly con- vinced that there is nothing new: left under the sun, are all £00 ready to pooh pooh young ideas that are probably just as sound today as were the young ideas of a century ago? Certainly there is no dearfh of young ideas around the compos= room section of this news- paper. Some of them are mighty wild, too, Miss Fitz-Gibbon. Some of them are very good, some are pretty dull, others only passable. But there are definit- ely ideas a-plenty, and I suspect the same state of affairs hold true in every shop and plant in town. Don't Have 'Em Here Frankly, 1 can't see the lads and lassies hereabouts as being the listless, insipid crew, men- tally, that Miss Fitz-Gibbon pic- tures today's, youth to be. I'm more inclined to think that Miss Fitz-Gibbon's powers Of percep- tion have become jaded through having to wrestle with the de- tail of too many monster bargain sales, price slashings and the various screwball antics that have featured the Gimbel-Macy feud. I dowt say I could send her, off hand, a trio of rootin-tootin- scootin fireballs who would inun- date her 'with a flood of bright and breezy, can't-miss selling schemes. But I COULD send her several young, misters and misses whose thinking is as sound, pro- gressive and imaginative as the thinking of any 20-year-old ever was, Is, or ever will be. Vote of. Confidence T'm sure, Miss Fitz-Gibbon, that if youll just relax and keep look- ing, yowll find an ample supply of new material that will fit in well--even in that whacky mer- chandise mill you toil for so competently. Why not swing over to a vote of confidence in to- day's New York youth and try and understand them--even as they are doubtless endeavouring to understand Gimbels" unorth- odox ways? Chidingly - Yours, BILL COTTON Toronto, he || Monument" b A marble symbolic to the living ... . » 90 COLBORNE ST. W. The Memorial Ideal enduring granite or in design and reverent in purpose, resting in surroundings of peace and beauty, a tribute of respect and honor to the dead, a constant source of inspiration Oakville Monument Works Cemetery Lettering--Monuments Cleaned : OAKVILLE HAPPY AND HEALTHY GILBREA DAIRY MILK, DUNDAS AT CHURCH weigh the sentimental. taste--is the best thing in the world for building strong bones and bodies in growing children. It's the kind of milk they will enjoy drinking not only for the goodness in it--but for its own good taste-- GILBREA DAIRY L. G. SNYDER with a fresh taste--a rich TRY IT TO-DAY! PHONE 51