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951 SEL ig) Wi HEE SECOND SECTION Page 9 Oakville-Trafalgar Journal Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Published Every Thursday Morning in Oakville, Oakville-Trafalgar Publishers, Ltd. . 7 DUNN STREET NORTH 8. Casey Wood, Jr. Managing Editor Bill Cotton, Editorial PHONE 1298 Ont, by Vincent H. Barrey Advertising Manager Assistant Thursday, August 30, 1951 Prepare Today For Tomorrow The failure of the peace talks in Korea points up the need for citizens to give serious consideration to the appeal that has been made for additional volun: teer firemen. These men will be trained in the civil defense program under Fire Chief Fred Shaw. This is an integrated, Provincial wide plan to provide ex- pert protection and assistance in a possible time of need. = While, there is, as yet. no indication that the UN war in Korea will not be contained in that area, there is, owing to the failure of the Russians to ap- proach the question of world peach with real sincer- ity, a strong possibility that world war III will move more from a cold war as it is at present into more active operations. In that event, Halton county will be a most active spot in the defense program. Lying between two large centres there will, with- out doubt, be a concentration of casualties and evac- uees here . . if war comes. Also, not every missile will find its intended mark, and those which miss by a wide margin may well cause great damage here, or nearby. The volunteer firemen will then have a very real opportunity to serve their fellow men and wonfen, and will be serving in the front ranks of their country's defenders. Able bodied men who have a desire to prepare themselves, and their country against any possibility will be doing this if they accept the call to-arms by offering their services in the volunteer service today. , One of the surest protections against anything hap- pening is to prepare for every eventuality--which is the reasoning behind Canada's defense program--be- fore it can happen. There are always many who come forward when the worst happens, and wish they had been prepared to make a real contribution, but with- out training they can not be effective for a consider- able time. This program permits them to make their preparations now. Anyone who is interested in equip- ping themselves with training so as to be able to as- sume responsibilities in a time of need, should contact Oakville's Fire Chief Fred Shaw, Two Better Than One Reeve Wickson is to be commended for his stand to appoint a committee to investigate the establish- ment of parks in Trafalgar township. His suggestion that the township requires a park at the front near, or on the lake, and another at the back of the town- ship with a possible swimming hole, or swimming pool, is most wise. The two parks will provide a variety for resi- dents, and will ensure that neither will be too crowded. It is to be hoped that the committee will be established as soon as possible, and that it will keep before it the eventual size of the population, rather than the immediate need. The new Ford plant will not be the only indus- try which will locate here. Other companies will fol- low, and there will be a resulting increase in popula- tion which, in the not too distant future should see the present total about in proportion to the popula- tion of Canada at the time of Confederation to what it is now. We would suggest to the committee that the service clubs of Oakville have among their member- ship many members who reside in the south section of the township--and the clubs might well consider it a part of their responsibilities to assist in various ways in equipping the parks when they are estab- lished, with some playground or other equipment, We think the committee should investigate this possibil- ity, as it would have a bearing on the total cost to township taxpayers. A Friendly Welcome A reader dropped in a ticket used in Hamilton to make the visitor welcome. This was in response to our suggestion that instead of giving American tour- ists parking tickets, some form of polite message, which would induce them to return to Oakville, be used. = The Hamilton tag is hung by a string to the door of the car. It is issued by the Tourist and Convention Bureau, the Industrial Publicity Bureau and the Hamilton Automobile club. . On the back of the tag there is a suggestion that the visitor see the Rock Gardens, for which Hamilton is justly famous. There is a map of the town showing how to reach the gardens, ~and suggestions of other interesting spots to be visited. There is one sentence in the message which we believe might make the idea of some such tag for Oakville of interest to the Junior Chamber of Com- merce, or to a merchants' association, if we had one. It says very simply, "Or maybe you just want to shop." Now there's an idea which could lead to a lot of out-of-town business being done here. After all, people are most susceptible to the deft, indirect sug- gestion. This could easily cause someone to shop in Oakville rather than wait until they got to Toronto. The final, leave-them-happy slogan on the Ham- jlton card is "we are all at your service." We like the idea of getting across to Oakville visitors that Oak- ville folk -are all at their service to help them in any- COLOR BLIND OR BROWN, Tt ALL LOD Tom EXPLOTATIoN| FOR CONQUEST BILE SHIRTS, OEY - KALKe ) IT SEEMS TO ME BY P. W. THOMPSON The turmoil and strife that pre- vails throughout the world today should cause surprise to no-one. The upheavals we are now wit- nessing are inevitable. They are symptons of a mighty dissatistac. tion with the established order of things as it has existed for cent- urles. That order, which is now on its way out, embodied many ev- ils, which still linger in great areas of the earth. Ruthless ex- ploitation and abject poverty are still the fate of many mil- lions of human beings. We who live in such a prosperous and advanced country as Canada can have but small conception of the lives of the majority of peo- ple in such lands as China, In- dia and Egypt, to mention a few. In many countries, anything ap- proaching economic justice is un- known. At the top of the social scale are a mere handful of peo- ple living in fabulous luxury, with immense palaces and great retin- ues of servants. For the rest of the people, or most of them, there is no comfort or security, only life-long toil and a hand-to-mouth existence. Few have any chance of bettering their condition by thrift and initiative, as have peo- ple in Canada. For centuries that state of af- fairs went virtually unchallen- ged. That a few people should enjoy vast wealth while millions of others were condemned to sla- very and semi-starvation seems to have been regarded as natur- al as that a few men should be more than six feet tall, and the rest below that height. Today that belief is being at- tacked as mever before, although it still holds sway in many parts of the earth. We are witnessing the growing and spreading of a great spirit of discontent, as the oppressed peoples awaken to a sense of the injustices practised upon "them, and learn to demand a redress. Millions of people in such backward continents as Asia and Africa are rebelling 'against the traditions which keep them in bondage. They are no longer content to live as overworked drudges. We who live in this favored part of the earth should not fail to take account of the poverty and backwardness in which so many of our fellow-creatures live. We should remember that for most of the earth's people, poverty and insufficiency are the rule rather than the exception. Otherwise we will not have a true picture of humanity, nor be able to appreciate the signifi- cance of developments now tak- ing place. That current injustices will ever be completely remedied is perhaps too much to hope for. But until something is done to at least lessen the terrible inequal- ities that now exist, such a thing as permanent peace or security is out of the question. The poverty and wretchedness of the world's backward areas present a threat to world peace. The time is past when any one country can afford to settle down complacently to en- joy its prosperity without any re- gard for the sufferings of its less favored fellow-nations. It is dep- JUST FISHIN' With FRANK R. WALKER Gong Fisun' in PACK Soon This i's Me PUFES FROM THE COTTON GIN If the new arena should happen est pair of dishpan hands you ever to follow out a suggested policy| saw. of bringing name bands to town for one night stands, I sincerely hope and 'pray that the allegedly musical aggregation of Spike Jones happens to be ome of them. I very definitely want to have words with Mr. Jones. And he'll have to swallow those words bone dry, because they certainly won't be saturated with the milk of human kindness. Insidious Propaganda It was Mr. Jones, you may re- call," who went blithely about the country a few seasons back advis- ing people to "Leave Those Dishes In The Sink." The suggestion be- came so popular that Mr. Jomes: kept harping on it, and eventually the thing became a continent-wide slogan. The way Spike "played" it, you just had to listen, and the insidious propaganda of the lyrice was strong emough to lull the most practical mind into a false sense of security. ~ Now, you may wonder how dishes in the sink could possibly effect me in any way, shape or form. Brother, didn't your wife ever go away for a holiday? Things Got Tough Well, mine did. And that's where all the trouble. started. Oh, it was swell for a while, Tll grant you. I slept in the Sat- urday morning after she left, had a leisurely lunch. Took things easy for the whole weekend, in fact. No chores. No requests for money 1 didn't have. No nagging or nattering. In fact, everything was just dandy until I began to run out of dishes. That was when I began PROMISE OF PARADISE Behind the headlines on Iran is an Arabian Nights tale of in- trigue and exploftation of human misery, culminating in the assas- sination of Prime Minister Haj Ali Razmara on March 7th. Yousof Mazandi, United Press correspondent in Teheran, and Edwin Muller, special writer re- cently returned from Iran, dis- close the human factors underly- ing the complex Iranian mixup of oil, politics and religion, in. a jointly written article in the September Reader's Digest. Tribal chieftains in Persia, as long ago as the 1lth century, hired assassins to kill off their rivals. As payment, the assassins were offered mot gold but the promise of Paradise. Young men picked from the poorest classes were doped with hashish. While under the drug's influence they were led into beautiful gardens where fountains splashed, night- ingales sang and comely dam- sels awaited them. After the in- toxication had worn off they were told that they had actually been in Paradise and that it would be theirs for eternity if they would do their master's bidding. Good use of these hashdshin (the word assassin so derives) kept many a tribal chieftain in power. In Iran today, the fanatically nationalistic and British-hating secret society called Fidaiyan- Islam is believed to have indac- trinated" the murderer of Raz- mara by similar methods. This assassin, one Khalil Tahmassebi, driven to desperation by his pov- erty, could have been convinced that if he did the will of Fidalyan- Islam he would be assured of eternal Paradise. Political unrest, religious ex- tremism and hatred of the British are but symptoms of what is ail- ing Iran. The fundamental trou- ble is the hopeless poverty of the people, a human wretchedness and squalor almost unimaginable to the western world. In the slum district of Teheran, known as the Pit, 200,000 people live in tun- nels and caves, crowded to suf- focation The Communists, too, promise a paradise to those who go along with them, and such abject pov- erty as Iran's breeds in its victims a willingness to follow. lorable that such colossal must be spent upon armanents when so many people lack the bare necessities of life. A unlver- sal campaign, backed by the Uni- ted Nations, to eradicate extreme poverty, might do more to pro- mote real peace than all the cost- liest armament could accomplish. sums give consideration way . .. and we think there are sufficient interesting spots for the people to'see. We suggest that the town council might well to undertaking such a tagging method for next year. It would be assisting local mer- chants, putting the town's best visitors, and would cost nothing except the printing, for the meter officer could look after placing the foot forward with tags as he goes up and down the streets. to feel hostile about Mr. Jones. You see, I'd taken his ad- vice seriously. I LEFT the dishes in the sink, and when they began to overflow the sink, I just stac- ked 'em up on the drainboard. It even got to be a bit of a game, managing to condense 'em all in- to the limited- space available without having any forced land- ings on the linoleum. But it sud- denly got so I began to rue the day. Rugged Individualist Most people would run out of food before they ran out of dishes, but I always have to be different. So it came about one night that, can opener in one hand and Heinz beans in the other, I found my- self faced" with the necessity of either eating out of the can or washing some china. "willie," "I told myself sadly, "Yowve been badly misled. It would have taken no more than a minute and a half to wash up af- ter yourself when each meal was finished. Yet look at the situation you tind yourself in now! Too bad that ' Jones wasn't around, you could dunk him in the greasy suds and fix his clock but goom!" But Mr. Jones, of course, wasn't around. So, after conclusively proving to myself that a bean can is very definitely far from tops as a bit of supper tableware, I grit. ted my teeth (for which I must remember to send Doc Haldenby a cheque one of these days) and settled down to acquiring the nic- Plain Murder Ever try to cope with a crop of crummy crockery after a five- day lapse to allow for solidifying? Don't ever do it, brother! It's plain murder. It wasn't the mould on the fragments of blueberry pie I minded so much. And when the sauce from chili con carne dries hard, it chips off fairly easily with a mallet and chisel. But the bacon grease, when it ages sufficiently, is enough to send the most com- petent sanitary engineer complete- ly whacky! It says right on the box that Duz does everything, and the man- ufacturers probably make the sta- tement in good faith. If such is the case, I can rightfully claim the unique distinction of discovering the first thing that Duz just can't do.'It can't remove five day old bacon grease. But Duz doesn't have to feel badly about it. Rinso that, I gave up on that sort of can't, either. Nor can Vel. After thing, and went to work with steel wool. That got some grease on it, on me and on three of the kitch- en's four walls. But it didn't get all the grease off the pans and plates. Never Again! Neither did the sand I brought [in from the back yard. I finally solved the problem by soaking all the greasy items overnight in a pan filled with a mixture of javel 'water and lye. Then I threw the pan away. 'Three hours from the time I started, I was all through. Physic- ally, mentally and dispiritually. And Tl never get mysellf into that kind of a mix-up again. No, indeed. Next time Isobel goes away, I'll eat out. Greasily yours, BILL COTTON Reckless John and autious Dan Set out to get a good sun tan. John just broiled in the sun all day Dan took the slower, safer way. Dept. of National Health and Walfare carried Missing the C. N. E. says It's too tiring, too big, Now to us that' first Our thanks to the Clarkson, Lorne Park Party Line which a nice congratulatory message on this paper winning the Community Service Award. is a habit with a friend of ours, He and too commercialized. He hasn't seen it since the war, and he won' 't ever again, he swears. s the silliest reaction we ever heard. In the place, he's in a business where he should keep abreast of the latest developments, and most firms keep thelr newest feature under wraps until the Ex comes along. In the second place, no one ever sald anyone had to see all the Ex, . . . in fact we defy anyone to 'do so without going, every day that It runs. And there Is nothing tiring about It If you sit down and hear some of the fine bands while your feet recover. But, to our surprise we've found there are quite a few people who haven't seen the Ex for years, but who Insist it isn't worth Visiting. They are wrong! It's nice to be able to be so positive about something . . . but we can be this time. Anyone who misses the opportunity for learning about new things which Is available at the C. N. E. is making a big mistake. . Time for County Council to hot-foot after the ONR to have them do something about the surface of the 8th Lina crossing, There will be suits for broken springs entered against the railway soom, if it doesn't do something about it, And now Is the time, before the weather gets bad. In winter wea- ther, a car is liable to slide off the rocky-mountain-like cros- sing into the ditch. Action should be taken by the CNR fm- mediately. Talking, of railways . . . a vote of thanks to both CNR and CPR for their generosity in providing free transportation to the C.W.N.A. convention for all editors. The C.W.N.A, is the only organization which rates such consideration, and. ail the members present were most appreciative +. . as are we. Thanks, railways!