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Fadd ing Page 6. THE OAKVILLE-TRAFALGAR JOURNAL Thursday, February 16, 1950 | The Oakville- Trafalgar Journal Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Published Every Thursday Morning in Oakville, Ont., by Oakville-Trafalgar Publishers, Ltd. 7 Dunn Street North S. Casey Wood, Jr. Vincent H. Barrey Managing Bditor Advertising Manager Bill Cotton, Editorial Assistant Phone 1298 IT SEEMS TO ME By P. W. Thompson Bigger, bigger and ever bigger. Bigger cities and towns; bigger buildings, bigger ships, bigger planes; bigger industries and stores; bigger schools and col- leges; bigger social organizations, bigger governments. Everything seems to be growing like the pro- Achievement : At long last our hospital is open. On Tuesday night the official ceremony took place, and the mem- bers of the hospital association were able to pass through the hospital building. On the week-end the public will see their hospital. Following the tour there can not have been anyone who did not feel sat- isfied that their money had been spent to construct the finest medical unit of this size in Canada. The over-all impression is one of the compact utilitarian purpose. The sparkling effect of cleanliness that is created in the mind of the visitor; the feeling that there is nothing lacking in the building for the assistance of the sick, the impression of a place for everything and everything in its place, is very strong. Visitors must have felt that they were seeing a highly organized, keenly tempered tool that was equipped to the hilt to perform a life-giving service that can not be equaled anywhere else outside of the larger centres on either side of us. - All visitors must also have felt enormous pride that they had been given the opportunity of playing their part in its construction . . . and to all of those hundreds who, with effort and money, made this building possible, the Journal says, "Well done." James Dunwoody, chairman, and the other mem- bers of the Board have carried through a large under- taking. At times, when some lost heart, the chairman insisted it could be done. The Board's work has not heen easy, but it persevered until success crowned its efforts. Guest Editorial BY KEN W. MacTAGGART Director of Local Red Cross Publicity It is usually in moments of crisis, during disas- ters such as the 'Noronic fire a few months ago, that "we realize there is an organization available to cope with the needs that arise. At such times, the Red Cross acts for us. It provides, through its constantly maintained stores and trained volunteers, the services that we would like to be able, as individuals, to offer. The very preparedness of this organization for such events reveals phases of it that we fail to notice most of the time. The work of the Red Cross is even greater in the day-in-day-out services it provides than those problems that attract attention to it on special occasions. Much of this work passes unnoticed; it is not the less important for that reason. The vigorous and active Branch of the organiza- tion in Oakville illustrates our point. It is just one of 280 in Ontario, of many hundreds more in Canada. During the past year, its activities have been many. Last summer 118 children of this . community won awards for swimming and knowledge of water safety as a result of its work. More than 50 families, stricken by sudden illness, were able to borrow sickroom facil- ities during their emergencies--wheelchairs. to clin 'cal thermometers--held in readiness by the Branch's loan cupboard. Several families and individuals were 'aided with food, coal and other necessities. Bewilder- ed refugees found counsel and aid while they sought establishment in new homes. These things, local and personal, were just a part of the vast work such as aiding veterans and 'their families, maintaining and operating outpost hos- pitals and so on, that the Red Cross does. 'They were things that helped this community. They justify this community helping the Red Cross. When the Red Cross asks your aid, remember them. The Humane Society shelter is vitally needed. The way in which it is to be built is an opportunity for all of us to play our part, Plans are not elaborate, but the lay-out will be everything that it should be. Before the final set-up was decided a great number of other centres were visited . . . and this building will enbody the best features of all of them. It's impossible, we'd guess to find an individual who does not like pets . . . so the appeal for the funds necessary should have a special support. Remember the Red Cross when your canvasser calls, and that the canvass is a one night stand for the volunteers who are doing the work. Have the amount "of yg donation ready and help the canvassers. Labor can price itself out of a market, and thus out of a job. The gains which have been made by labor--the increased rates, increased safety and higher living standards are all things which any sensible person should rejoice in--but these have come because management has been able to sell the pro- ducts manufactured at a price where a market was maintain- od. Tf labor raises its share of the cost--the largest part of the cost for any item to a point where the public cannot afford to pay the retail price which must be maintained . . . then labor has priced itself out of a market, and out of a job There must be an even balance, and a time for, adjustment between wage demands. All honor and glory to the W.A. of the Memorial hos- pital for the excellent way in which they handled the opening ceremonies. There were a lot of people to Ieep happy about the tour and the W.A. did a splend- id job . . . as did the high school lads who assisted them. We hear a lot of talk about community projects and com- unity, improvements only being undertaken at a time when 5b is economical to do so. Faulty thinking for sure. The only time it is economical to build a 'new: sewage plant, etc. is when there is a depression on and labor will work for food money, and materials are cheap because no one wants them. Only titing wrong is--then towns folk don't have any money eith- er, taxes are in arrears, and you can't finance it. Canada has been built to the nation she is today by mortgaging the future of the country There doesn't appear to be.any valid reason why that future should look elss attractive to us than it did to our forefathers. As a matter:of fact, we think it looks brighter. Corres i verbial weed, This is hardly to be wondered at, because the world's population is multiplying swift- ly. And there is every prospect that the present trend towards bigness will continue for some time. Now growth in the individual is normal and healthy. Bach living organism grows until it at- tains a certain size, when it eith- er ceases to Erow Or grows very slowly. But there appears to be no natural law governing the growth of human groups, com- munities and institutions. And so The Mayor Reports By James R. Black I feel that all citizens of Oak- ville will wish to extend their hearty congratulations and best wishes to the Board of Governor FILTHY LUCRE . UPS AND DOWNS According to columnist Earl| You may be Wilson, people wealth, it is usually when other peo- [difference whatsoever ple's. ana skin. --both past and present--of the Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital in the realization of the opening of our new memorial hospital, They have indeed provided us with a fitting and outstanding memorial to those who sacrificed their all in past conflicts for the cause of freedom and for our well-being. May we see to it that this Memorial of which we are so proud today receives our utmost support and thoughtful co-oper- ation in the future. To those who have labored so unselfishly to bring this dream to a successful conclusion I say for the citizens of Oakville-- Thank you, and well done. their growth is often ive, and ied by di ial ization. When any group ages and serious problems. Life in a small community is fairly simple. There is little if any crowding or congestion. The inhabitants live closer to nature than those of a big city, their re- lationships with each other are on a direct man-to-man basis. The large modern city is beset by all kinds of problems. Its living con- ditions are highly complex. In its vastness the individual is sub- merged. He moves among great crowds of strangers in an atmos- phere very different from the friendly informality of the small town or village. The huge business organiza- tion that numbers its workers by the hundred or perhaps the thousand can hardly provide the same congenial working condit- ions as the small firm where all the employees are on intimate terms with each other and are known personally by the man- agement. So it is with the large exceeds a certain size it loses something infinitely precious, the friendly, intimate touch, "Bigger and better" is a phrase we often here. It may be true in a few cases, but it is based on a misconception. A thing is not necessarily better because it is bigger. To associafe quality with size. as is so often done to- day, is a mistake. Very often size entails the Sacrifice of quality. In the years ahead we are going to witness much growth, much "bigness." Everything consider- ed, it is perhaps inevitable. But let us not delude ourselves that it is desirable. NOT CUSTOM The South American that requires @ man to stand at a distance when addressing his mother-in-law, opines a contem- porary, was probably dictated by custom school or college, the large soc- caution. Besides telling: me not to put bananas in my refrigerator and to brew my beverages from only the tender green leaves of the tea plant or from shade-grown coffee, and in addition to explain- ing how I can bring out the na- tural highlights in my hair and how I can enjoy shaving, my ra- dio is constantly urging me to slip .around for a dental check up four times a year. Now, there is no room in my refrigerator, what with the Pel- lers and all, even if I did like bananas. Coffee keeps me awake, my hair is getting to a texture where I feel the less its high- lighted the better, and I'll never enjoy shaving even if science ad- vances to a point where they can successfully skim my chin foliage by using controlled invisible rays, However, these commercial blurbs I do manage to take in my stride, no matter how irksome they become on occasion. But the dentrifice declaimers are completely ruining any pos- sible hope of my enjoying several good comedians and two or three top songsters, and its beginning to become a phobia with me. Td even stop beefing about Can- ada's annual radio licence fee each spring, if they'd only quit harping about dentist appoint- ments. As an extremely rugged indi- vidulaist, I very early in life joined the don't-cross-your-bridge until-you-come-to-it school of thought, which contended that you shouldnt worry until the pain in your moaning molar was so great that you had to pace the floor all night. Then, if things didn't take a turn for the better in a few days, you should give your dentist a call, hoping that he Would be too busy to see you. That was fine for a while, but World War IT put a crimp in things, as might well have been expected. My irregular dentist was called to the armed forces, and spent several years, I un- derstand, constructing pontoon bridges across sundry rivers. The one I'd surrendered my bic- uspids to: before that turned up as a riveter at John Inglis--and I paced the floor for six months without the pain' taking a turn for the better. Finally, as an em- i|ergency measure, a sympathetic inarian friend iche me in between a canary manicure and an appointment to shoot dis- licking my mesh. PUFFS FROM THE COTTON GIN temper shots into a dejected Dob- erman. That did it. I soon found out what they mean when they talk about a dog's life. Not that my friend isn't a good hearted chap. He is, But he attacked that ting- ling tooth just as thought it was an elephants tusk instead of a dental coward's incisor, and be- fore I knew it I was yelping first tenor in the darndest canine chorus you ever heard. The oth- er dogs were still yowling when I passed out, and when I came to, I found my pal had absent- mindedly tucked me away into one of his pet hospital cages. The dampness found on inves- tigation, was not a soothing oral spray that had missed my throb- bing mouth. It was just a sym- patheitc airdale in the next cage ear through the I haven't been near a dentist since. I'm just plain scared to death, -and I don't mind admitting it. I dart down sidestreets to a fine, very up- despise | standing citizen--but it makes no to a ban- Toronto Tarpaulin & Awning Co. 702 Lake Shore Rd. = New Toronto Is now ready to accept your order, or request for an estimate for Awnings, with delivery date and payment on any date you may select. 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