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Oakillo- Trafalgar Journal Member Canadi Weekly Newspap Published Every Thursday Morning in Oakville, Ont, by Oakville-Trafalgar Publishers, Ltd. 7 DUNN STREET NORTH S. Casey Wood, Jr. Vincent H. Barrey Managing Editor Advertising Manager Bill Cotton, Editorial Assistant PHONE 1298 That Long Awaited Holiday The two week holiday district residents look for- ward to each summer can be just as fine as expected --or it could be a time to look back on with horror. Daily the toll of traffic accidents on our high- ways rises. Motor cars laden with families holiday bound become involved in accidents which leave dead and crippled hodie; in their wake. In nearly every case such accidents result from someone's careless- ness. When mechanical failure contributes to an acci- dent, it reflects the carelessness of a car's owner . for lack of mechan: perfection transportation is easily prevented regular attention. in a means of by sensible and But the accidents born of driving carelessness, or outright stupidity and wilful endangering of lives because of too high speeds or trying to mix alcohol and gasoline--these can only be avoided if everyone makes it their business to recognize that, behind the wheel of their car, they are a potential killer. [I NUNN Trafalgar Tales 'BY BESSIE CAIRNS PEACE IN KOREA Not knowing William Steven- son of the Toronto Daily Star I have no idea how he intended to spend the summer, Ill take a bet his plans didn't include a trip to Korea. Stevenson is giy- ing a firsthand account of a country at war. I was fortunate to visit Korea in times of peace. Hope Stevenson gets as far as I did. I traversed the country from the extreme south to its northern limits. The people of a country deter mine its future, the Koreans may also determine ours. My first impression of them was that they were more beasts of burden than human beings. Prac- tically every back was bent to bear a load that would have de- fied a circus strong man, but in those days the Japanese were in possession and man-power was cheaper than gasoline. Don't get the idea that the Koreans had taken kindly to the Japanese conquest. . After the Japanese de- feat of Russia in 1905 by trade negotations and the threat of military aggression, Japan ob- tained complete suzeranty over Korea. . Korean nationalists how- ever harassed their overlords and as late as 1923 one such re- IT SEEMS TO ME By P. W. Thompson This is travel time, and mill- fons of people are on the move. Some, blessed with ample re- sources, are voyaging by air and ocean to remote and exciting parts of the earth. But many more must be content with much briefer journeys. Never has tra- vel been so general or so popular as it is these days. People, whe- ther they travel or not, know far more about their, world than did their ancestors, thanks to the influence of newspapers, books, magazines, moving pictures, and other agencies. Today there are few parts of the habitable globe not easily accesible to those with the time and the means to reach them. What an endlessly varied and fascinating, place is this world in tinents, mountains, jungles; ture; castles, palaces, 75 Progressive Years J WELL DONE, MR. DILLS! versary of the founding of the paper. white pages. copy, history. The publishers and staff of the Journal offer hearty congraty. lations to The Acton Free Press on the occasion of the 75th Ann. Editor G. A. Dills last week gave his readers an alll out effort to celebrate the three-quarter-way milestone. Number 1 of the 76tn year consisted of the usual weekly Free Press, but it reached our desk resposing in a 16:page special supplement printed on expensive paper and carrying red banner lines on its front and back The editorial staff had combed the files for history of Acton which the paper pointed out with truth was "Entwined" with the T history and growth of the paper, which was founded by Joseph Hacking two years after the Village of Acton came into| being, Many illustrations from the files, and plenty of contemporary scenes including shots of all members of the staff--gave the supplement a bright and interesting appearance. The well written and assembled which was often amusing, provided entertainment along with which we live, with its great con- There was Ao ave g in the supplement which made it 2 vast oceans, its myriad i 3 this histori aper business, and means -this historic doc. [§ i5Tanas)) its Takentt rivers ixtreams, | noteworthy fin) the newspaper, bus ales Sr MEATS LEASH oo ing hills, plains, forests, |umment of the town's founding and prog expensive gift ee its teeming cities with | for the paper to place in the hands of its many subscribers. We are Oal their mighty works of architec-| confident the copies will be carefully retained for future reference Sut its temples, cathedrals, (in every home in the Acton district. We congratulate editor Dills rib] its picturesque |, 4 his staff on the supplement as well as on the anniversary. bes ruins of ancient civilizations, and rec its grea tdiversity of human typ- jun es and ies! shi) R To explore to the full such an Entrusted with the use of a deadly poison, we would all take extreme care to insure our own and everybody else's safety. Because poison is not an everyday item in our hands, we would observe this care. But the equally deadly potential in a motor car that is not driven with a constant personal supervis- ion of driving habits, may not occur to us because we use our cars every day. "Familiarity breeds con- tempt" is a hackneyed phrase, but it contains the reason for many of the accidents on our highways. Driving a motor car is a privilege--not a right because we have the money to buy a car. If all driv- ers thought of their license, of their right to operate a car, in this way, the traffic accident totals would hard their there ly w: ried gressors, This South Korea massacred. They learned the hard way to bend their backs to ag-|one, even in the: they must taliatory measure in a day caus-| enchanting world is an experien- ed 9000 Koreans in Japan to be|ce much to be desired. But it is learn the a privilege not granted to every- se days of high- ly efficient travel facilities. Rel- way to straighten them to|atively few people can penetrate deliverers. many © bri railway lines had been complete ashed out. extra loads rivers; the tem slowed but there dges and some | bazaars of the across swollen | within very the mountain fastnesses of Tibet, is the rainy season in [sail among the tropic isles of the and when I was| South Seas, saunter through the Orient or view the majesty of the Acropolis or Flat ferries car- [the Egyptian pyramids.. But even much narrower po of life was/|bounds, travel offers much that was no panic, |is interesting and Jarvis & Ruyri J. F. CARTER, ASSOCIATE REAL ESTATE -- INSURANCE -- MORTGAGES 118 COLBORNE ST. EAST Phone 490 -- Holidays 296-W OPEN EVENINGS I stand at a much lower figure. It is human nature to protect any privilege accorded us, and that we 'would lose if we abused it. he driver who travels at excessive speed, who drinks and drives, who drives within the speed limit but without due care--all are abusing a privilege, and if cau; lool i ght will suffer. But what they seem to over- the fact that the way of their being caught may bring death for themselves and their loved ones; and others who have no reason to die . . . except they were in the way of a killer who didn't stop to think of himself as being over. a killer until it was all So, when your family leaves on holiday, we urge the driv fully or of the car to watch his own driving care- to remember constantly that, along the road, he may meet one' of these Killers, and be pre- pared to act swiftly for the preservation of that holi- day spirit ir Fascinating Pastime stead of the memory of horror. Here is a fascinating game that is not sweeping the country. It is amusing; requires no physical or mental effort; may be played anywhere, alone or in a owd; costs nothing; no equipment needed. Noth- ing is at stake in this game except your life. It is a new game, as so few have played it that it is not worn out at all. All that is needed to win in this game is to do whatever occurs to you as being the best thing. You will know what occurs to you as being the best, so you are the referee, and you chalk your score up ac- cordingly, one point for doing your point off for not. best, and one Later on, years later, maybe, you may find that your hunch of what was the right thing to do turns out to have been wrong; but do not count this against yourself. Life will count it against you and dock you for it, if, because of your parents, or your associates, or yourself, or because of plain hard luck you could not know at any moment what was the best course to take. But in this game, which has been played so little it is new, the score goes by whether or not you act on your most exalted impulse. If you do not, you dock yourself and life will probably take off some more points besides. But if you do the best you can manage, you mark up a point for yourself in this en- grossing game. And you well may find as the years go on that life, too, builds you good things. Pzdd ing Comitriesni Your membership in the Oakville Baseball Association will be asked for by the youngsters who are "selling" residents on Joining. The fee is $1. but can be as high as Individual wants it to be. Anyone who has seen the small fry leagues in operation will be aware of the val- ue of the association's work with our future citizens, and won't need any "Selling". So when you are 'Hit- up! for a membership, dig as deep as you can--but certainly $1s worth. up quite a tally of Receiving an honorary degree from an American univer- sity, Prime Minister St. Laurent took the occasion to make some remarks aliout the public treatment of public men. Af- ter saying that one of the most important of democratic free- doms is the freedom to oppose the policies of the administra- tion, Mr. St. Laurent went on to say: "But it is quite another thing to attack the good faith, the honesty of purpose and the loyalty to their country of public men, when there Is no sub- stantial evidence to support such attacl Carnival and Garden party of St. Andrew's church this Saturday is the first venture of this nature for many years undertaken by the men and women of the. congregation. We wish them good luck for their first time out. It is not only with the A bomb sclence sometimes get out of step with human desires. Take the case of the little girl who recently received a set of doll dishes for her birthday. They were made of pottery, not plastics. Showing them to an admiring friend the youngster was heard to boast: "And be- sides, they're breakable!" no relief. Flooded fields were pa- tiently drained, clay huts re- built, rice re-planted, backs bow- ed further by increased burdens. On arrival in Seoul I found no peace; the quiet unhurried calm of normal Korean life was mar- red by taxis that honked their horns incessantly twenty-four hours a day. 1 cmplained about this to 'an American friend and he supplied the answer: "Bess, for centuries these people have moved at the rate of an ox-cart and when the first cars came here natives were being killed right and left. They had no way of gauging how soon that black devil would reach them. Inciden- tally the taxi-drivers are mighty proud of their prowess with these new-fangled . contraptions so forgive them if they blow their horns." One evening 1 watched the sunset over Seoul from the top of its ancient wall. The curved (Continued on Page 5) There are many places within a day's journey or less which we might visit with profit. Even if we have been there before, we may have only obtained the most superficial glimpses' of those places. Let us return there in the spirit of explorers, determin- ed to see as much as we can and we will be surprised at the nov- elty and freshness that greet us. We will a hundred things that had previously escaped our attention--new vistas of rural charm, quaint streets, stately old houses. Often we will be struck by the sharp contrast to our own surroundings presented by some place only a few miles away. It may be that one of these modest little expeditions will afford us almost as great a thrill as we might expect to gain from a trip abroad. So if we cannot afford a world cruise or European tour, Jet us not overlook the world outside our doors. It may prove a wonderland of interest. Once upon a time, long, long, ago, yon could walk into a store selling greeting cards and walk out again a few short minutes later with a card of your: choice. Nowadays, though, if you are extremely fortunate, you can select your card in just about the time it took Hervey Allen to write Anthony Adverse. Think I'm exaggerating? Not a bit of it! Why, the total number of different greeting cards avail able at the moment must be slightly higher than the national debt--and only slightly less than the total wordage Don Davis booms through each summer while talking about the Oakville Oaks. Back in the dim past, when I was a kid, there were only five kinds of greeting cards: Birth- day, Anniversary, Mother's Day, Christmas and New Year, But nowadays! In addition to the above, we have cards for Thanksgiving, St. Patrick's Day, Raster, Happy Recuperation From Surgery, Thanks A Lot For Your Present, Why In The Dick- ens Haven't You Written, So Pleased To Hear Your Parole Went Through, and Just A Gay Thought For A Gay Day . . . just to note a few. And you can select a birthday card for any age from one to 11 while there are SPECIAL effu fons for mum, pop, sister (large or small sizes), brother (big or little), aunt, step-uncle, postie, paper boy, sweetheart, fiance's mother and on ad infinitum, One prominent greeting card company, always right up on its go-getting toes, has just complet- ed a pippin. It's a birthday card that apologizes for being late, and is printed especially for My Uncle's Cousin Who Is With The U.S. Marines in Korea. Mother's Day cards now in- clude, in addition to one for your legally recorded biological mom- ma, others for My Wife's Mother, My Husband's Mother, My Insur- ance Salesman's Mother, Whist- ler's Mother, Mother Of The Year, and Mother of the Mother PUFFS FROM THE COTTON GIN of my Mother. And, of course, 'tis the same thing for Father's Day . . . to say nothing of To Mother On Father's Day and vice: versa. And a Christmas card no long- er restricts itself to merely ex- pressing Yule good wishes. Per- ish forbid! Now they're labelle My Siste My Brother in-Law's Keeper, My Grand Un- cle Whom I've Never Seen, and My Basket Weaving Instructor. Among the last but definitely pot slotted with the least are particular event cards, like: (a) Happy Moving to Gananoque (b) Sorry To Hear Your Mother-in- Law Drowned In The Laundry Tub (c) On The Occasion Of The Third Anniversary Of Break- ing Your Wife's Leg. But don't for a minute get the idea that the boys and gals who dream up these gayly whimsical greetings are anyways near run- ning out of ideas. They still have plenty of scope. You may expect to see, almost any day now: Tho It Isn't Your Birthday, I'm Run- ning Away With Your Wife. Or: Just A September Valentine For Poor, Lonely Bachelor Uncle Phineas. Or even: This IS A Dog's Day-- Happy Birthday, Rover! Ah, well, it's probably all for the best. The fine art of browsing has been developed 'to a high degree. And you don't have to dash into a movie to get out of the rain any more . .. you can spend many an entertaining hour just skimming through the lat- est greeting card release: But in spite of all this excel lent coverage of almost every event and contingency, the card designers have missed at least one good bet. 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