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Page 2 THE OAKVILLE RECORD-STAR Thursday, July 17th, 1947 C O U N C ILLO R S' F E E S R A IS E D T H R E E D O L L A R S Burlington -- Fees o f m em bers o f the Nelson Tow nship Council w ere increased from $5 to $8 p er day, plus m ilage, a t the Ju ly m eeting o f the council. The LEARN TO FLY PIPER CUB Oakville Record-Star Member Canadian W eekly Newspaper Association Authorized as second class mail, Post O ffice Department, Ottawa. The Oakville R ecord - Star is published every Thursday at 24 C olborne Street, O akville, Ontario, by The Oakville R ecord Lim ited. T he subscription price is $2.00 p er year in advance. A dditional postage on subscriptions mailed to foreig n addresses. SALES and SERVICE For information, call . . . 323 Evenings It Seems To Me b y P. W . Thom pson George Atkins - Manager T eleph on es: Office 16; G. Atkins' residence 901 A s W e See It Several m em bers o f the CBC are Com unists, according to a charge made in the H ouse o f Commons las£ week -by N orm an Jacques, a W estern Social Credit m em ber o f the House, w ho claim s to have p roofs o f his statement. He men tioned, ,am ong others, the names o f tw o w ell-know n radio com m ent ators, E lm ore Philpott and M at thew H alton. W hether o r not Mr. Jaques has actual p r o o f th at the men he accuses are allied with the Com m unist p a rty rem ains to be seen. But in the past there has been an altogeth er too common tendency fo r people to attach the Com munist label to speakers o f whose sentiments, th ey did not ap prove. T o be a Com munist a man must belong to an organization having the spread o f Communism as its objective. M erely to criticize the institutions of, capitalism o r to praise som e particular featu re o f Communism does not make a man a Communist. There are m any people w ho attack the abuses o f the ex istin g econom ic system who are v ery fa r from w anting Com m unism introduced into Canada, but th ey w ould like to see such evils as p overty and exploitation abolished. A p ologists fo r things as th ey are fin d it v ery convenient to brand such people as Commun ists. It seem s to invalidate their criticism s. A n d am ong those on the other side o f the fen ce there is a corresponding readiness to hurl the charge o f Fascism a t those who are n ot in fu ll agreem ent with their w a y o f thinking. It is so much easier to call a man names A m on g the m ore sign ifican t so 47tf cial developm ents o f recent years is the extension o f the practice o f taking a vacation in the summer. than to refute his argum ents. N ot lon g ago vacations w ere the O f course it m ay be that the alm ost exclusive privilege o f the Social Credit m em ber from the w ell-to-do people and the " w hitew est can prove his charges against the CBC mem bers. H e should collar" class o f w orkers. Now adays fa c to r y em ployees are g ettin g their either do so forth w ith or retract w eek o r tw o weeks holidays with them. pay -- som ething unheard o f a few years ago. Some m erchants shut M ORE P L A N E S up shop fo r a week or m ore while TO G U A R D F O R E STS It w ould be interesting to know th ey g o aw ay on holidays, which h ow much good Canadian timber is also w ithout precedent. W e even has been destroyed in fo r e st fires read the other day o f a holiday due to sheer carelessness, within resort fo r farm ers, w ho in the past the last fift y years or so. The total have been virtu ally strangers to would be staggerin g. H ardly a sum m er vacations. A vacation is year passes w ithout thousands o f com in g to be regarded as an ab n ecessity fo r everyone, acres o f bush in this province g o solute in g up in sm oke as the result o f w hich in a sense it is. some cam per fa ilin g to put out his fire, or som eone carelessly tos sing aw ay a cigarette butt onto the dry flo o r o f the forest. It is im possible to prevent this sort o f thing, unfortunately. N o m atter w hat appeals < f o r caution are broadcast, there are som e persons who w ill alw ays ignore them, and here and there the bush fires w ill spring up to burn down m ore o f this country's increasin gly valu able trees. But thanks t othe development o f the airplane, it is now becom ing easier to check the fires origin ating from such stupidity and care lessness. A ccord in g to a recent news item, the Ontario Provincial A ir Service proposes to purchase 25 or m ore bush a ircra ft o f the latest type to add to its present fle e t o f 30 planes. This enlarged fo rce should greatly facilitate the w ork o f the Service in com batting bush fires in this province. The new machines w ill be able to land on small lakes and take o f f from them with ease, thereby m aking it possible to rush firefig h ters to otherw ise inaccessible spots and check fires b efore th ey g et out o f control. The airplane has added trem endously to the effectiveness o f the fir e fig h te r 's w ork. W ere it not fo r this aid o f science, the flam es w ould take a much higher toll o f Canada's forests^, F irefi m ethods in the future m ay reacn such a high level o f efficien cy that this coun try' s annual tim ber loss m ay becom e alm ost negligible. This is one direction in which ou r society m ay be said to be im proving. A life devoted exclusively to w ork w ithout time fo r proper relaxation or a b rie f change o f environm ent is not a v ery satis fa c to r y sort o f life. F or a long time it was the on ly existence possible f o r large numbers o f peo ple. But now science is beginning to lift some o f the burden o f toil from m en's shoulders. The w ork day is being cu t down. W orkers g e t a day, or at least a h alf-day o f f a w eek, besides Sunday, and a week or tw o in summer. The benefits are obvious. Tim e o f one's ow n in which to do as one pleases is a very precious thing. And the modern w orld abounds w ith oppor tunities o f em ploying that tim e to advantage. M odern methods o f transportation make it possible fo r one to travel a lon g w a y in a day or so. P eople livin g in Canda get a chance to see som ething o f their country, or their province a t least, o r to make the aquaintance o f the g rea t and interesting coun try to KEN M ARLATT the south. This experience tends to PO LICE F O IL T R Y broaden their outlook, even i f a TO ROB F A C T O R Y little. B urlington -- A n attem pt to rob It may be that the vacation p rac the o ffic e o f the G lover Basket tice is only in its infancy. Some fa c to r y at Freem an w as frustrated day the w ork o f society m ay be by a resident o f the neighborhood come organized so e fficie n tly that who called the police. One o f the annual vacations m ay last tw o or office rs fired at the intruders, three months. Travel m ay become wounding one o f them in the ankle. so cheap and easy that vacationists The man w as taken to a H am ilton w ill be able to visit any part o f hospital but refused to supply the the world they wish. The cities o f police w ith in form ation about the Europe, the mountain fastnesses o f attem pted robbery. Asia, the rem ote isles o f the South P acific -- all m ay becom e as read ily accessible to the average Ont interesting. B y intelligent co-oper ario citizen as our own northland ation people m ay in tim e be able is^ today. L ife under such condi to attain such a large measure o f tions would be im m easurably m ore freedom to explore their world. t t t t L O R N E SCOTS B A N D W IN S F IR S T P R IZ E M ilton -- The L o m e Scots R e g im ental Band, conducted b y Band m aster A . P errott, w on fir s t prize in the band com petitions at W a ter loo M usic F estival. This is the second successive tim e since the end o f the w ar that the band has captured top honors. & S fU " N On Georgian Bay GO B y BUS FARES ARE LOW R ou n d Trip Tax In cluded x k T 0 R m m " E Parry Sound Penetang Wasaga Beach Meaford -- $10.05 -- 6.65 --6.15 -- 7.90 (S u bject to change) Tickets and information at Halton Inn OAKVILLE -- PHONE 600 i £ s t E c o n o m y M IN IST E R IN D U C TE D A T A C T O N CR U RC H A cton -- Rev. Louis P ickering was inducted as m inister o f A cton Un ited church recently. The cerem ony was conducted b y Rev. G. W . P or ter o f M ilton, chairm an o f the H alton P resbytery. 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