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Page 4 Dakville- 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. Managing Editor Bill Cotton, Editorial PHONE 1298 Vincent H. Barrey Advertising Manager Assistant Thursday, March 22nd., 1951 The Promise If We Make It It is customary and charming. at Eastertide-.to voice expressions of good will to all our friends--and: the publishers would like to do so now. ? ! But we feel theibest Wish we could make for everyone-is that the Promise of Haster, the promise: of peate among men and spiritual contentment through faith which is the Haster Promise, may come to us, all this Easter, and to 'all mankind throughout this troubled world . . . and that it may remain with us all time. Christian' churches throughout the world on Eas- ter offer anyone the opportunity to renew, or to com- mence their belief in the redemption of .the,world | through Christ's sacrifice and triumph. For this rea- son the churches should be, filled to overflowing this year, as never before--for this year the world stands in need of the great Promise more than possibly ever. before. So let us all, on Easter Sunday, attend the church of our choice. And while there let us add to our pray- ers one for all mankind, and for peace throughout the world which can not come without the practice by mankind of the teachings of Him who made the promise for everyone. ~ Schools Must Be Adequate The decision of council Monday night to author- ize debentures in the amount of $360,000 to erect a new 12-room school in the north west section of the town is a wise one.. Were it not for the shortages that daily curtail building projects even more than before, council would have heeh wise to place this matter before the voters for their decision. However, there can be little doubt that the 'vote would have been favorable. Nearly all people recognize the need for adequate schooling in a community. The only- question open to debate on the matter would have been the need for a 12-room school . . . . and this has been determined by the school board. There have been several surveys conducted which have assisted the board. The people of Oakville elect- ed these men' to their post. They are all men well qualified to assess such a situation, and the voters would, therefore, have been in the same position as council found itself. They would have had to accept the recommendation of the school board, and vote affirm- .atively, or reject it by turning down the question. The latter act would involve a lack of confidence vote on the school board. There has been no evidence of lack: of ability on .the part of the school board--in fact all signs point in fhe other direction most definitely--so an affirma- tive vote would have been the result had council de- cided to hold a'feferendum. But the delay which this would have caused--six weeks of advertising the vote, pHs the period of election, etc.--would have meant that the school would possibly not have been ready -- for use when wanted. There is also the angle of the cost of an election. But. were times nornsal, and the growth of the town not so swift, council would have been wise to let the people. decide on such a large expenditure. How- ever, taking all factors into consideration we believe that all residents will feel that the move was the right, one to take at this time. frightened Men Do silly Things When 'one's security is threatened, the instinctive reaction is te become afraid. Once frightened, one's actions and 'words are no longer dictated by intelli- gent thought." A frightened person strikes out wildly, without regard to the results which such actions may cause him. The individual who sees success or supremacy taken from his grasp invariably suffers a fear-reaction out of proportion to the actual costs to himself; and his attempts to regain, or retain his former position become increasingly wild as the threat to that position becomes more serious. The same situation applies to national reaction. It is therefore most vital today that as individuals, and as a nation, we should not permit the threat of world domination by the communists to frighten us to a point where we permit ourselves to take any actions which are prompted by fear . . . and which could have a far reaching and detrimental effect to our relationships with other nations. There is always a great deal of loud talk about what should be done, or has been done, when any power moves in on what we have considered, or would like to: consider our preserve. But loud talk. without 'the necessary equipment, or strength to back it up is of little avail against an adversary who has hoth: and we should, as a result. be careful that in the pressures which we exert on our 2overnment to take actions, or to make demands we are not prompted by fear of an adversary who threatens us, but rather by a thoughtful appraisal of our situation. 'When competitive business approaches or passes us, we take actions to improve our actions and ser- vices to an extent where we can in turn make it sit up and take notice. If, instead of doing this, we try to BY BESSIE CAIRNS | BEWARE THE PING! Whatever is behind the game of hide-and-seek being played these days in the Korean hills it's a fairly safe bet to say that Mao's men have no intention of being "IT." In his 27 years as leader of the Chinese Communist Army lives to fight another day . . . '|ually reinforced with the enemy's munitions and supplies. It was this theory that lay behind his heroic "Long March," which began in October 1934 and ended a year later 6000 miles from its' starting point. 'This long march was the trial by fire of the Chinese' Com- munists. Sore of its survivors are to-day leading the army in Korea. Yet the mainstay of the Red Army. is the "ping" or ordinary soldier, tough, hard-working, uncomplain- ing, frugal and mostly loyal. Renee LeClair gives a vivid picture of him in a récent edition of "Every- body's' magazine." "He is usually between five feet four and five feet eight inches tall, between 17 and 30, mostly illiterate. It may be that he has not been a Communist long; at least ,one third of the Nationalist troops have joined the Commun- ist ranks after some indoctrina- tion a la Moscow. The ping does not think, at least not about things that are supposed to be settled for him. He is told that Americans are in Korea as the successors of the Japanese imperialists and he believes it. He is shown that in fact Soviet Russia is China's only friend. He believes that too. "Not cruel by nature, the ping thinks relatively little. of human life, his own being no exception. Although thei Geneva Convention about mistreating prisoners is not in his book of rules, it is only rarely that he commits an atro- city, He leayes that to his allles the North Koreans. But in. fight- ing the ping gives no quarter. His equipment is simple, a rifle, it may be French and made in the 1890's or it may be. the latest carbine or even a Russian or American submachine gun. Home- made hand grenades are prob- ably. his favourite, He can use a captured bazooka but cannot drive a captured jeep. He is a sharp- shooter but no mechanic. His quilted cotton uniform, kha- ki leggings and leather sandles are poor quality, nevertheless they are better than he would: be wear- ing if he were a civilian. It costs Mao's government 200 dollars a year to keep one ping in fighting trim white if costs Washington $10,000 a year to keep a U.S. sol- dier on the go, The ping carries 80 percent of his food and equip- ment with him; the rest goes in an_ occasional truék or on mule- back. In the U.S. troops there are 1000 jeeps and about twice that number of trucks to every divis- ion, there is one: motor vehicle for every 500° Chinese soldiers. What of the tactics of this new. IT SEEMS T0 ME BY P. W. THOMPSON What a truly marvellous de: vice of mature are the organs of human speech! With what ease, what infinitesimal effort they function, and what terrifying re- sults they can produce. Hardly any bodily strength is required to produce sound through the med- ium of the vocal cords. The baby of few weeks old for all its feebleness, can make the most ap- palling racket, as all parents well know. And a child of three or four can talk quite as much as a grown person. : We do-hear, occasionally, of people; being too weak to talk, but that is only when they are at death's door. People are some- times urged not to "waste their breath" in talking. Such advice is futile. No breath is wasted in the exercise of the faculties of speech, unless the speaker hap- pens to 'be running a Face, or something of the sort. The aver age person, talking in an ordin- fary conversationaj voice, can keep it up for hours without be- coming unduly tired. ' The ease with which the speak- ing apparatus can function is doubtless a wonderful advantage. But, as many will agree, it often operates as a disadvantage. There are times, indeed, when one could wish that nature had mot made the art of speech quite so easy. Some people have an unfortunate tendency to exercise it when they have littlesor nothing to com- municate that is important, inter- esting or amusing. But that fact does not 'discourage them mor dampen their conversational ,ar- dor. They are equipped with the mechanism for talking, which re- quires little or no energy to, op- erate, and no doubt they feel they might as well be using it. It may be, top} that they find the sound of their' own voices not unpleas- ing. Were such an experiment pos Red Army? Its commanders, so their propoganda would have us believe, have taken for motto the advice of Sun Chu, a Chinese mil- itary analyst of the fifth century B.C. Sun Chu said: "When the enemy advances, we retreat. When he escapes, we harass. When he retreats, we pursue. When he is tir- ed, we attack." This then is China's new army; two and a half million men, well drilled, ;drugged with propacan.a, ready to die for a. ruthless creed which yesterday ruled but a small portion of their countrymen. With- out. the resources of modern in- dustry behind them, they are fighting a full-scale war against the forces of the West. Whether they will form the vanguard of a new Asian expansionism direct- ed by Moscow remains to. be seen. Oné fact cannot be doubted: they are potentially the most dangerous force continental Asia has sden since Genghis Khan." : for If they stop "pinging" a while beware, chances are. they are slipping a few more bazooks up their sleeves! ignore their successes.by ior, we are acting from fear--and we will accomplish telling them we are super- "You should get yourself," said my wife, very firmly, "something new and a MHttle different. Not too bright or devastating, mind, but something that will lend you that air of distinction that has al- ways been so sadly lacking in your appearance." Vain Effort 20 We were talking of spring tog- gery, and she was making her an- nual vain attempt to persuade me to spruce up a bit for the Easter parade, 4#But men's clothes never change," 1 protested, as I always do. "My gray sharkskin suit is practically new. And anyway, even it 1 could find something unusual why should I become conspic- ously undistinguished by wearing something different from the gen- eral run?" | "Well, you could at least try," she retorted despotidently, giving up the fight. I thought it over, on my way to the office, and, reluctantly decid- ed, that maybe she had something there. The more I thought about it, the more the idea grew on me, By 'the time I sat down at my desk, 'I was happily picturing myself posing for those Calvert ads, along with Adolph Menjou and Bart Marshall. Haberdashery Holmes So 1 dug up the latest copy of MEN'S WEAR IN CANADA, the clothing trade's merchandise Kor- an, and begun thumbing the pag: es in pleasant anticipation. And suddenly--just like: that--the bub- ble burst and the 'dream evapor- ated. I still haven't completely re- covered from the shock, although I have renewed my vows of af- fection for my gray sharkskin sult, You see, the vendors of mascu- line apparel have pledged them- selves to make=men fashion-con- selous this year. In itself, this is a laudable object, and brings no complaint from me. It's their sible, it. might be interesting to make a record of the talk that takes place in an average com- munity in the course of a day, : with a view of ascertaining just how much of it was of any real importance. Not, of course, that all converse need be weighty and significant. It would be a dull world indeed in which no- body spoke except out of sheer necessity. And to chatter: ir responsibly is surely one of the privileges of chilhood and ado- lescence. Then an almost entire absence of talk in daily relation ships Is also to be deprecated. The happy medium between un- due loguacity and stolid silence is an easy but'not too copious flow of conversation that enter- tains and stimulates the listener. There are people whose talk is a joy to listen to, whose every sen- tence is a work of art, whose whole conversation sparkles with origin- ality and wit. Such people. can make the most commonplace things seem interesting and sig: nificant. But gifted conversationalists are all tod-rare. There: are. too many people whose talk is mere empty chatter. They say noth- ing of any interest, rand, as often as not, what they do say is said badly. Conversation is one of the fin- est of 'arts, one that should be cultivated more than it is. It would be "well if young people were trained to talk well; and also taught to employ a certain mod- eration in the exercise of the wonderful gift of speech. PUFFS FROM THE COTTON GIN | means to an end I object { strongly. Head For The Cellar] Just put on a pair of sme glasses and cast an eye op 0 th suave and matty genio, pictured here. Gad, men, fsn't yy just what you've been waiting fory Can't you just;plcture Lion (pie Syd Fearman, presiding at a py, ular Lions Club meeting, his broag shoulders draped In this dap, monstrosity? He'd need his gayy plus a broadsword or two, to ay. oquately protect himself trom py, roaring i associates. The mag says this "novelty spark" is "genuine Ocelot sports jack which earned high praise' fro the fashion press." And those gy the guys who are trying to make us fashion-conscious!! Equine Horror Angther dilly Iididn't have the: intestinal - fortitude to reprodugs here is the "boldest of bold ay. thentic tartan sports jacket," whigy was appdrently designed by 4 manufacturer of horse blankets aziny NOVELTY. SPARK? CALL THE BRIGADE! in an. attempt to dispose of a few bales of excess material. I hope he dies a babbling bankrupt. When I came' upon Chris Wa roth, 'otherwise estimable past president of the Retail Men's Wear assn., garbed in a tartan dinner jacket equipped with the standard black silk lapels, I was hanging on the ropes, §o I was a setup for the knockout. hook that rendered me fashion-unconscious for the balance of 1951. . And the petit point undershgrts were MORE than enough to accomplish that handily. 3 : All's Well "That-- Still a bit dazed, I wandered out onto Colborne St. to_see If my worst fears were founded on fact. And I'm 'tremendously re lieved to report, fellows that you can rest easy. : Surreptitiously scouting the window /afsplays and racks in Jack Frasers and Bil Grammells, 1 gleefully noted no swing from the accepted apparel trends. True, Arch Grant had one tle that reminds ome of a neon sign, and Bill diffideptly shows a pair of socks that. wouldn't help that morning: after. fégling. But fundamentally, * the :{oghl haber dashets have remained their ple: sant, conservative selves. 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