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Page 4 Thursday, April 26, 1951 Dakville- Trafalgar Journal Published Every Thursday Morning in Oakville, Ont, by Oakville-Trafalgar Publishers, Ltd. 7 DUNN STREET NORTH Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association SE Te ld " S, Casey Wood, Jr Vincent H. Barrey Managing Editor Advertising Manager Bill Cotton, Editorial Assistant PHONE 1298 Thursd April 26th., 1951 Up To The Attorney-General Monday ni attendance of ratepaye; ever seen. Obvious on hand for the meeting of interest to these people was the question of what council was going to do about the Chief of Police's request for a public investiga- tion Dy the Attorney-General's department. These citizens were principally treated to a lengthy verbose diatribe by the reeve, that resembled an election speech more than it resembled anything else--except the nasty name calling indulged in by children who don't know any better. This paper, two years ago, expressed itself as feeling that the electorate would be wise were it not to elect Reeve Litchfield at that time. By a scant ma- jority he was elected reeve, which position he gained for this year on an acclamation. A newspaper, when it expresses an editorial opin- lon, expects that anyone who does not like that opin- ion, will have something to say about it, and always provides ample coverage for those remfarks. Two years ago Mr. Litchfield wound himself up to a terrific state and hurled violent vituperation on the paper's head - evidently considering that he was presenting sound arguments for his election to the office he sought. Well, each man is free to run his election cam- paign the way he sees fit--at election time. But when the reeve undertakes to run an election campaign speech in council meeting, during the mid- dle of his term of office, and uses ratepayers as he used them Monday night, we feel this is a different matter. To speak with innuendo, and outright nasti- ness to public-spirited citizens as the reeve did, and which is reported elsewhere in this paper, is not only unbecoming to the position of reeve in Oakville, but is unbecoming to any man in public life. To cast aspersions 'on everyone else's remarks, or position on a matter, as a means of justi ying one's own position is certainly one way of doing things. Reeve Litchfield accused deputy-reeve Lauder and councillor Gibson of having used the matter of the chief's request for a hearing to "advance their own _interests and hurt me." He stated they had attempt- ed to twist facts, and had used corrupt methods. The depuity-reeve and the councillor, wisely we feel, when they spoke, disregarded these wild charges and dealt with the matter on the basis of their understanding of the calling of council meetings, and their desire to" have the chief's status clarified. If Reeve Litchfield was merely interested in clarifying that he could not have called the meeting the previous Monday, he need only have stated why and left the competent public to reach its own conclusions on the matter. Mayor Black, who attended from his bed in hos- pital to which he returned following the*meeting, did not stop the reeve from "Answering such misstate- ments in public at a council meeting," and we think he was wise . . . although with his excellent sense of the correct procedure he must obviously have wish- ed to do so. In this case he probably felt that the reeve should be able, on his own, to recognize what he should and should not say in council meeting. When the mayor spoke, explaining to deputy-reeve Lauder that the photostatic copy of the procedure rules for Oakville council was not applicable, and that no one knew where they came from, he handled the matter on a basis of factual information imparted for the benefit of council as a whole. Deputy-reeve Lauder and Councillor Gibson, fighting to have the matter of the chief's status clar- ified as soon as possible, dis arded the accusation of there being anything "Corrupt" about their at- tempts, for such charges need no answer. This paper agrees with all the ratepayers who stated, as these members of council did, that if the chief is unsatis- factory then he should be relieved of his duties, and that if he is found to he competent then he should have his name cleared of the allegations previously made against him. Once more a hung vote, 4 to 4, turned down the chief's request that the council ask for the public hearing. The mayor did not cast a vote to break the tie, but declared the motion lost . . . which is his priv- ilege if he does not wish to express his opinion. How- ever, as the main point was whether the town should 'bear the expense, and he stated he felt it should not, this in effect sided him with the four councillors who ted against the town spending the money. ) The people of this town elected the members of council. Members of that council caused the need for the inyestigation. This would seem to us to mlake the people of Oakville responsible for the investigation. 'When one is responsible for something that costs money, one usually has to pay. Now the matter is up to the Attorney-General's department to make a de- cision as to whether the chief shall have the investi- gation. If the Attorney-General agrees, then the ex- pense comes out of the Consolidated Revenue fund of the province. In effect, all Province of Ontario taxpayers will be sharing the expense of Oakville's investigation. It is to be hoped that the Attorney- General will share the view of nifany. local taxpayers, and this newspaper, that the investigation is vitally required, and worth the cost. It is a difficult assessment to make: what is fair- play, or an adequate police chief worth? Wed say elther is worth a great deal--to the townsfolk con- cerned. i ht Oakville council had the largest THE SHADOW REMAINS = a ---- PUFFS FROM THE COTTON GIN I was vastly relieved, one day |time. The machine -- my yu last week, to note in the Globe [ine, anyway -- demands Your and Mail hat chainlmoker | full attention and utmost cy Bruce West is having a lot of centration. trouble re-tooling his laryn to You've Had It! cope with roll-your-own cigarets.| Once you've found the tip, Up to that time, I was beginning |if you ever do, your troupe fo think I was alone in my suf-|ipally begin. To start ig fering. along with the machine, yo Repulsive Effluvium (Smell)! [Deed twice as much tobacco 4 According to Bruce, the flay- [You figure on using (to alg our and aroma of the average |fOr' slips, mistakes and py, home fashioned gasper leads one |thumbs on each hand), a raz blade, a flock of oversized pa, ers, a lot of patience, and an jy defatigible will to win. Then, once you begin, you fig that consistency is one of if most elusive qualities. You caps. fully place the same amount of fobacco in the roller slot eng tinte, yet find it shoots out apy, thing from a white covered hj. vana stogie to /a well bleacheg toothpick. You use the same tobacco in every filling, yot fh, result varies in flavour from a admixture of honey and req to suspect that stray bits of old rubber boot. lint and fallen hair have somehow become inter- mingltd with the tobacco during the painstaking process of man- ufacture. Tl go along whole- heartedly with him therq, dif- fering only in that my own par- ticular twistings of the noxious. leaf - seem to taste something like aged and particularly dank seaweed and smell more than a little like decayed cabbage. Fie On Douglas! =F T0 ME has languished on a shelf under two hat boxes and a long dis- carded girdle for many, many I blame Douglas Abbott for Dep- the whole thing, of course. Sl na a doing acquired one of those elongated, 1 bend a mite \ BY BESSIE CAIRNS make-five-at-a-time cigaret mach. aa to the dishwater. Yo, ines during the late lamented a 2 same pressure on the | period of wartime faxes, bit. it | Oller and one cigaret resemble. a cylindrical chip from the rock of Gibraltar, while the next one is almost as loose as Amber's BY P. W. THOMPSON It is by the use of his brain, his power of reasoning, that man has been able to . conquer all living species on this earth and to make himself master of his material environment. has accomplished many wonderful things by his intelligence. But much more still remains to be accomplished. As everyone is aware, the state of the world today leaves very much to be desired. Con- fusion, misery and fear stalk the earth, and the air is full of dire predictions for the future. Yet let us not despair too much, Let us not forget that the human race has come a long, long way in the last few thousand years, even in the last few generations. There is much evil in human nature, it is true, much obstinacy and stupidity. But there are also great potentialities for good. It is not inconceivable that the mass of the people could be trained, within the course of a few generations, to intelligence to a far greater de- gree than in the past. They could be taught to co-operate in- destructive, to- act in an unself- efit. If enough people sideration for their fellows, would be a very different world. War would become a thing of |Y the past. would - crime. There would be No poverty, much less sickness, many fewer accidents. Excesses such as drunkeness would be reduced to a very low level. Most of the squalor and con- gestion that today mar so many of the larger centres of popul- of, confusion there would be , in place of ugliness, beau- All this, perhaps, an impractical but there seems no good reason vhy it should be forever impos- ble of realization. Even were such a desirable goal 'achieved, the world would still be far from sounds like perfect, life would still have its trials and difficulties and sor- rows. But compared to the dis- traught world of today it would seem a veritable paradise. There are, of course, great ob- statles to be overcome before such a transformation could be achieved. And it may be that these obstacles will never 'be sur- mounted, that the world, instead of getting better, may grow progressively worse. But if it it will be man's own fault. probably was That's publishing. dry employ their | tabloid newspapers period which ish manner for their mutual ben- [there are accounts of social gath- erings, could he | cooking column and book revieys. taught to govern their everyday |The atmosphere of the times, in conduct by intelligence and con-|a newsy way, plus the facts are this | there and, are So, to a great extent, |as Studying. compared history tomes used by my son, impress ed the easy 1493. The returns from the Indies." There's ation would disappear. , In place |a you, possibly and the sub-head is "An amazing ty. Voyage The stort gives the entire Colum- utopian dream, | bus TALES BY S. CASEY WOOD JR. so! Tm pinch - hitting again. Doesn't seem right to all her loyal readers, but, Ill delve into some deep subject such as she usually tackles, with an equally sage aproach. Archie ed with this me up some aware 1 know per- little or nothing about history. sonally English examination lot even because 1 An house in put Jtogether facts of olden times, fair whole never paper of English doings, heard of before. like newspapers. have each paper covers, the latest in fashions, so Archie tells me, absorbed = by the students without them rtalizing it actually Thess textbooks, deadly dull newspaper. with the me as "getting educat- way." take the issue of AD heading is "Columbus Let's one: column cut--bpicture to --of the Admiral Successfully Completed." reporter style, what he thought story, in which includes and what he found the proceed- year when he discovered The "second front-page story is headed "The Pope Div- ides The Barth" and carries an account of how Spain and Portu- gal will chart the mew world. The lead is as follows: Swift on the receipt of the mews of Col umbus's successful voyage to the Indies comes a report from Rome that Pope Alexander VI has div- ided the non-European 2 I'm sure that if I'd read Columbus that way, and the ope's quick action, I'd have been interestd . . . and I'd have remembered more about it. ing America. about does, AD 1535 really carries scare For he has within himself the | headlines: "Sir Thomas Mare means to effect a remedy for | Executed, (BxiLord Chancellor many of the ills from which he Tom on Sea or ne suffers at present. By using his| CATO sa Dh laid intelligence in* the right direc: | Germany", with a story report: tion, by concentrating upon the ing the lack of safety o the q ner. a roads Jn that country. was Say a - this year that a copy of the Bible 3 was ordered "Chained to a pil- achieve this «remedy. And inj," 51 pagtened in the choir of view of what he has accomplish [every parish church," by his ed in the past, it is quite think majesty the King. The poe a s also commande at a En a be made in "the vul- goal at some period mot so very). "io; ouen which is explained remote from the present. aa one would CHAS. NAYLOR GENERAL CONTRACTING Repairs - Alterations AD 1605 goes overboard about the Gunpowder Plot, khich left England with Guy Fawkes Day.| The Londan fire received excell ent picture and news coverage, including eye-witness accounts months. have stayed there if been for Abbott, Bessie is in Montreal, and the |a shrewd economist and a. mic big city has snarled up her muse, guy, for from try and diets. to have that nice coat of mould dust. Auld has shown me a EE same night as the something I never thought I'd see. [budget that announced a price a tira Ton nT fags, and |AS 2 Tesult, hie is able to offer he ran into a new way of teach-|it looks as though Il have to ing history, and as it's associat-|&et used to it all over again. The examples also, he [tion is: HOW? make up two or three dozen tidy But now 1 could write a pretty [homemade cigars ~ ever on a|ning. I practice, again. reading | To begin with, you have to find enterprising | the time. England [in fact. the usually |lead you with that rid into [surance that all you have to do --complete |is sit down and listen to the Lux even to classified offering poin-|radio theatre ard with extra sharp points for know it, youll have scads of cig. knights of old, or carriages with|arets on And it would definitely | VIDE: it hadn't, who may be Lucky Strike In Love Only person I've come across who endorses this make-your. own method is the editor of this newspaper, who has an attractive home replica of the Imperial Tobacco producfion line, name of Jean. It seems that the eq. itor, with characteristic lassi. tude, has encouraged his| spouse to become adept at fingering and allotting the fine cut tobacco, e in line citations nicotine ad- but assuredly isn't any appreciative the nation's Mr. Abbott just wasn't content machine gather a I came remarkable fascimiles of real cigarets. that only serve to furth- : ; : discourage me. My wite burning (no pun intend es. | °F / business he picked 8 p! ented) quer: | rites of ver fdlh casionally! Practice Makes Imperfect 2 What A Choice! Actually, it is very simple to By and large, I've come to the conclusion that the outlook is rather bleak. I can't reasonably expect a stickler like Mr. Abbott to relent. I can't afford to wait around for Mr. Drew to convince the populace that his boys are more progressive than conserv- ative. And I can't afford to pay the prevailing prices, unless Uncle Herman diverts some of his back alimony money my way. So I guess T'll just have to start chewing Irish twist. © Yaueve: that is. In something else In theory, it's o a lot of time, Don't let anyone mis- ulous as- and, before you hand. You just cant' stead of fighting each other, to|hand-tooled leather and flowered | operate one of these modern, Apologetically (ptfooie!) restrain emotions and impulses | Palms, for their ladies: oversize machines and follow ours, whose consequences are evil and| In addition to the news of the|the plot of a play at the same BILL COTTON It's hard thing to assess, but darned if we can see any ex- cuse for the Military running the whole: world--or at least the whole FREE world effort, Douglas McArthur may be right, but there are many men better qualified to see a world- wide picture of affairs around than he. Only in Russia, or other army dominated countries, should the opinion of Gen- erals be taken as being worth anything, except on how to fight the war they've been told to fight. Generals are professional men, like doctors. Bver ask a doctor to set up books for you? Well, a General knows how to fight an army ... . or else he isn't a general any longer. Maybe he "Just fades away", as General McArthur suggested might be a good idea. It's here! It's here! Or is it? Spring we mean. Let's hope so. The annual meeting of the hospital this week should be crowded. Bveryone helped build the hospital . . . it has been in operation a year now, and the account of what it has done, --and will do in the future, is a subject we'd expect to interest most folk, There's a varied program planned, too. Looks like a good evening to take in. > Heard of a man the other day who took some of these new "air-wick" pills, which are supposed to take away. : the evidence that you've been eating onions, who had his smell taken away so completely, his dog doesn't know him any longer. If that isn't the doggonedest thing! A startled mother last week was informed by her first grade student son, who'd evidently been listening earnestly to the morning reading of the mewsclippings taken to school by students, "Mother, do you know -- Charlie McCarthy's been fired." Truly, that would have been a tragedy! the issue AD 1774 is the story|man's dream of heaven, for off merican Colonies Revolt" | there are exclusive atories all subheaded, "Britain must go, |over the place, says Samuel Adams" The King San of France's death shares about or a Sig eiual, space, which maybe an|[ph Bie same form, ; indication. of the English reac- Shioy Jsaruiig) some. for I certainly hated it the way I had to learn it from text books written by history sayants, and forgot far more immediately fol lowing the exam than I should have. For anyone interested in securing a set of these papers, the publishing house Is George Allen and Unwin Ltd, tion to the loss of the U.S.A, AD 1805, carrying an account of Nelson's death, also imparts new information about his fam. ous message to the fleet. Nelson phrased it "Nelson confides that every man will do his duty", and it was first spoken not sig: nalled. Two officers gave him a9 Museum Stroet, Tondon W.C. hand grammatically, =ito zat fthe|| af nannttien oot eR east message worded and sent in itso' he for staglel saples, but better known, and very famous, |i; 5. hills re deren form. The series of papers carries [°F each, 16 issues are mow avail able, and others in preparation. PHONE 294 = [7 in AD 1666. Startling readers of right up to the first World War, and every Issue Is a newspaper |Quite an idea, ATER TTR rm |