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Page 4 THE OAKVILLE-TRAFALGAR JOURNAL Thursday, May 18, 1950: The Oakville- Trafalgar Journal dian Weekly Newspapers A: Published Every Thursday Morning in Oakville, Ont., by Oakville-Trafalgar Publishers, Ltd. 7 Dunn Street North 8. Casey Wood, Jr, Vincent H. Barrey Managing Editor | Advertising Manager Bill Cotton, Editorial Assistant : Phone 1298 BRONTE (Contiued from Page 2) Mrs. Dan Wilson and Mrs. W. tion of their nephew, Ralph | Douglas Wilton at Patterson attended the sgradua- LW By P. W. Thompson IT SEEMS TO ME University on Monday after- noon. Ralph's parents are Rev. and Mrs. Leslie Wilton, who are now with the foreign ns in India. Mrs. Wilton was the former Alma Osborne of Bronte. During the coming summer Ralph will have a Church for the summer in Northern Ontario. The Spirit Of Winnipeg Faced by an ever-mounting flood danger, the people of Winnipeg have taken on the spirit of residents of a besieged city, and they have done it nobly. The generous responses to appeals for blankets, for pumps, for boats, for food, for in- numerable other things have shown that spirit. And most of all, it has been shown by the volunteers who work on the dykes, by neighbors who do without sleep to man a pump or work in some other way to relieve an exhausted and less for- tunate resident. It is not just a case of friend working for friend. Every- one has turned out to be everyones else's friend in this em- ergency. Flood-swept communities have been knit closely to- gether by the common danger, and the bonds that have been forged in this flood crisis certainly should make for a lasting "good neighbour policy" that is real and not a diplomatist's phrase. The above words from an editorial in the Win- nipeg Tribune have a special meaning for everyone. The terrible sufferings of one of our country's great- est cities affects us all--and can be a factor in form- ing a lasting "Good neighbor" feeling between the east and west. The fellowship of mankind is a phrase too often used without meaning. But when our fel- low men, fellow Canadians, are in such dire straits, then the word "neighbor" takes on a new meaning, a brighter meaning. In town in all stores there are milk bottles into which we may drop our contributions toward the fund to help the people of Winnipeg. We.are sure these bottles will be filled many times over, and that the Oakville district's gift will be the equal of any made anywhere in Canada. But possibly more than money is needed. Certainly our prayers will have been with those who have seen their life's saving's in the form of a house washed away. And the prayers, individually and congregationally, will continue for those who are in peril and need. But to this, we can add gifts of a, material nature such as clothing, which would be of use. Details appear in our news columns of how you can help. Please read them and then act. The spirit of Winnipeg can become the spirit of Canada if all localities will play their part, as we are sure Oakville will. May Is Safety Month One of the causes of motoring accidents is me- chanical failure while travelling at high speed. With this fact in mind it seen ary to urge on all motorists that they constantly keep their vehicles in tip-top repair. Yet daily accounts of ac idents indi- cate that someone failed to take this care. There is a growing tendency toward an annual medical check-up, and this is mosf wise; but a much more often check-up, in advance .of detection of mechan- ical trouble for your motor car would be equally wise. Where Age Met Youth Growth of any kind in the Oakville district pleases this paper . . . just so long as it Is growth of a healthy plant. And we feel that the growth added to Appleby College on Friday is one of the very best examples of a healthy plant putting out another shoot. The new Memorial Classroom Building is an excellent school unit, revealing that care has been devoted to its building and that no possible advan- tage which could be made avallable has been neglect- ed. But one of the most enheartening facts about the new building was revealed by the chairman of the Board of Governors. He said that it was the Old Boys of the School who were chiefly responsible for J the funds being available for the building. To us, the fact that the former students of the school still felt strongly enough about their former & oclations to "get behind it financially and add to its possibilities, means only one thing. Appleby College is the right kind of independent school, and is turning out the right kind of graduate. Such being the case, it is a credit to the district in which it is located, and we should all be proud of it. Too often we take such things for granted. Now is the opportunity to be proud of the fact that in this district young men are being turned out who are going out into the world, making a success of their lives, but still feeling a tie pulling them back here in spirit to build a modern new classroom to the mem- ory of their friends who have died in order that our way of life--the Appleby way of life as well as all the other ways of life--could continue. DON'T ARGUE When It's So Easy To Beautify Those Old Floors | 1 our aquipment end refinish dull, worn floors with oon, pr eaty-to-vee Rental Equipment ond seve Hr ar aang. those dull, worn surfaces info floors Toet ore beautiful ond lusireue. Famous Clarke sond- deen: oral oti \ . pap af i 1 filler" and, Brus tons. | PHONE TODAY oR An COMMUNITY HARDWARE Colborne St. E. Telephone 1288 LIGHTEN WINNIPEG'S LOAD Buster MacDonald, son of Mr. and Mrs. K. MacDonald has re- turned home from Lexington, Kentucky. FIGHT THE FLOOD HERE The local branch of the Red Cross is putting on a special drive for quilts to be sent to the flood victims in Manitoba. Mrs. Annie Bumby president, says several quilts being finished to- day will be donated. LIGHTEN WINNIPEG'S LOAD The regular monthly meeting of the Bronte Horticultural So- ciety was held last Thursday evening in the Parish Hall. The speaker was Mr. Allan Gray of the Parliament Bldgs, Queen's Park, Toronto, who was intro- duced by the President, Mr. R. Tipping and thanked by Mrs. P. McKim. He gave an excellent address on the growing of chry- santhemums, he explained the value of soil material and illus- trated with slides, his experienc- es, as well as beautiful flowers, and gardens, It was one of the most entertaining as well as in- structive talks that the members have enjoyed. Mr: Gray also judged the flower show. Special competition winners were, Mrs. P. McKim, Mrs. Dean Wilkes and Mrs, D. Wilson. Other win- | | ners were Dorthea McDonald, | Mrs, A. Rams Mr. S. Collier. | | Door e won by Mr | J. Hadden, Mi N. Wilson and Mr. | E BOTTLE: | The Bronte Community Club | are preparing for a brilliant dis- | | play of fireworks to be held for | | the children of the village on | | Wednesday, May 24. The res dents through their generous fio are making the ied possible. | LIGHTEN WINNIPEG'S LOAD The local pupils of the Joan Whiting school of dancing are | having their recital on May 31, | and June 1, in the Legion Hall, Oakville, FIGHT THE FLOOD HERE | Mr. Judson Hopkins and Miss Jean Lany both of Toronto also spent the week-end in Bronte. | tend to oppress the i Recently published results of a survey made in Birmingham, England, showed that an appal- lingly large percentage of the young people in that city were leading barren, unhappy demor- alizing lives. A few days later the press carried a story stating that no less than ten juveniles had been killed in gang wars in New York in the course of a year. These .two incidents merely strengthen a proposition that is beifg continually demonstrated --that life in big cities is not as natural, healthy or conductive to happiness as that in smaller communities. And yet huge cen- tres of population the world over are growing ever and ever huger, spreading their conges- tion over great areas of the sur- rounding countryside. This tremendous urban grow- th has become one of the out- standing phenomena of this age. Innumerable articles and books are written about it. Boards and committees are formed to study and to control it. Reports, pamphlets, maps and charts dealing with every phase of the problem are produced in endless succession. And yet the problem remains basically un- solved, and grows constantly more urgent and perplexing, While "arge cities no doubt possess certain advantages, and living conditions in the country and the small towns and villages are not always ideal, the balance does seem to be in favor of the latter. Life in the small place, if | it lacks the glamor and stimulus of the metropolis, is free from | the problems and drawbacks which afflict the latter. The en vironment is .less crowded ried, complicated. It does not | Mrs. Noel Eaton was given the | UAAUAY TEI Trafalgar Tales J 'BY BESSIE CAIRNS | Two years ago I was present at the Lions' Club banguet when award as Oakville's Citizen of | the Year and I know of mo-one| who more richly deserved the honour. It bothered me there-| fore, when I read the report of the annual meeting of the Hu- 3 mane Society, because I gatner- ||| Women's Dresses. ed from it that Mrs. Eaton was d of the opinion, that in the mat- ter of the proposed site for the Cleane new shelter, the citizens of the and district were letting her down by creating opposition. Because of Flexformed. the respect I Rave for Mrs. Eaton and knowing also the number of people in Oakville and district who firmly believe the adage "love me, love my dog," I feel some explanation is due. What follows concerns how- ever not only animal lovers but everyone resident in south-east Trafalgar, everyone interested in property owners organizations and who perhaps, wonder how they come into being, also all the local merchants because it is with them we deal and shall con- tinue to do so as long as we live in this area. Living as I do in| South-East Trafalgar 1 am quite| ' often asked why I chose to come | > here . . . I didn't, my husband | had a horse and we bought the| For Pick-up & Deliver: first barn we saw that had a J 2 ox-stall; 15 acres and a cottage | came with the deal. I have never Phone 1557 regretted coming out here since | L | that hot July day when I car-| 0 k ried all my goods and chattels| a Vi e out of the box stall (to make fl (Continued on Page 16) ks a> Whistle Keep your sheers & rayons sparkling fresh and lovely. The Flexform dress- shaping ma- chine Keeps your dress to its original m eas-| urements - mo shrinking or stretching: ily worse as the worlds popu- le a n e Irs lation grows greater. No prac- tical solution seems to be in ght. i as does that of the great human | ant-heap, where he is a tiny unit among hundre of thousands, or perhaps millions of his kind. And when the effects of envir- onment upon children and young people are considered, the small community is almost universally recognized to be the better place to live. What it all seems to sum up to is this--that vast numbers of humans are living amid condit- ions that they either conscious- ly or unconsciously dislike, con- ditions which do not afford them an opportunity to life as as it should be lived. And this unhappy situation grows stead- No matter how. intrepid and conscientious a reporter may be, there must always come the day and sometimes that day rears its physog with frustrating reg- ularity--that he misses out on a good story in spite of his busy bustling about. I recall one in- stance where a Moronto scribe even went so far as to climb onto the roof of a cottage that was bobbing along with the cur- vent during an Etobicoke river flood, hoping to glean some honest-to-good; color com- mentary, only to have the up- rooted structure run aground on a tiny submerged island. By the CUTHBERT | CONSCIENTIOUS time he had been rescued, sev- | eral hours later, newshawks | from competing sheets had al- | | ready filed less vivid but editor- satisfying stories. This sort of thing ls discon- certing. But even worse are the instances where a libel suit fol- lows a session of painstaking checking of all the facts that surround a sure fire yarn. An {nslance came to attention this week in the May edition of the PRINTED WORD, Once upon a time and obviously before the days of rent control, a young reporter was assigned to inves e rumours of a riot in a city tion known as Irishtown. He found a riot was indeed in pro- gress, and that the cause was a | vigorous old lady whom we | shall fletitiously call Mrs. O'Reilly. This old biddy, he learned, was resisting, with the assistance of friends neighbours and just plain, fun-and-fight- | loving Irishmen, the efforts of a PUFFS FROM THE COTTON GIN bailiff, a landlord and some policemen to eviet her for non- payment of rent. The young re- porter turned in a swell story, blending humor and pathos, praising her stalwart fight, and incidentally mentioning that she had been in receipt of city relief for several months. Before handing in his story, he checked the city directory and verified the fact that Mrs, O'Reilly 'ved at 61 Whosit Street, the address he gave in his account of the Donnybrook A few short days later a libel action was institued against the newspaper on behalf of Mrs. OR., of 61 Whosit Street. It seems that the proper Mrs. O'Reilly lived at 59 Whisit St. The Mrs. O'Reilly of 61 held her- self libelled, not by account of the battle against the landlord, which she thought to be in the best traditions of her race, but| because she was falsely repre- sented as being in receipt of public charity. That was some- thing, begorrah, her family had never sunk to.| She collected, but one wonders if she would have been success- ful in a suit on the same grounds | today, when acceptance of hand-| 5 of one kind or another from | governments has become sO common as to be hardly a mat- ter for remark. So-0-0-, jolly readers, the| moral of our story would seem | to be: don't be too harsh with a poor journalist. For the most part, he is a hard working indi- vidual just like you, trying his| darndest to do justice to facts| at hand. When those facts slip| out of his grasp momentarily there is usually an unpredictable | X factor behind it all He defin- {tely isn't trying to embarrass, discommode, or He is just the v fort to please tv editor andy X public, and at the there must dash of human makeup brothers and sisters gi break. Yours in a feeble effort avoid future possible © sure, BILL COTTON Yet He Leads A Normal Life Diabetes, in its early stages, may: masquerade under symptoms which the layman associates with minor and common upsets. When such symptoms continue, the advice of a physician should be sought immediat- ely. If diabetes is present, it is far better to have it known because under the doctor's care, a diabetic can live a happy, useful life--and often enjoy a long- er than average life expectancy. We are prepared to assist the diabetic in carrying out the doctor-pres- cribed routine by maintaining fresh supplies of insu- lin, needles, syringes, test sets, and other accessories. * Oakville Drug Co. Limited Phone 94 Colborne St. E. Len Hope, Mgr. CATCH CAR TROUBLES Before They Catch Up With You! At Oakville Motors, well-trained inspectors and com- petent mechanics have the know-how that means safe, efficient car operation for you. 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