fh | 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, February 22nd., 1951 $3000 Reminder To Editorial Staffs The 000 fine imposed by the court on the Ot- tawa Journal for contempt of court, points up the dif- ficulties and dangers of the publishing business as nothing else we can think of would do. Were the con- servative Ottawa Journal a newspaper which based its operations on sensationalism based on no facts in order to increase circulation, as so many U.S.A. pap- ers do, there would not be the same point for all edi- torial staffs in the fine. Such newspaper practices invite fines and discipline at the hands of a wise court. But the Ottawa Journal is a leading Canadian newspaper, most widely quoted by other papers of all papers for the past few years. It conscientiously does a sound reporting and editorial job--Ileaving sen- sationalism out of its columns at all times. During our stay in Ottawa we read it daily, and were struck by the fairness in all matters--even of a political nature-- which it revealed. Undoubtedly the error committed, which resulted in this fine, was an accident; one of the many which can happen to any editor, or member of his staff, despite the utmost care. We extend our sympathetic regrets to the Journal at this time, and cannot help hut feel that the amount of the fine im- Dosed, for a first offense by an otherwise clean-rec- ord paper, is a rather large one to make a point. The rights of Canadian citizens to trials unaffect- ed by any stories published in newspapers, the up- holding of the dignity of the court both in action and sentence---these are vital for the preservation of our freedom in this fair land. The lesson of the Ottawa Journal's mistake will be of value to these purposes; it will remind all editors once again that their res- ponsibilities for what they publish are very real ones; and that they must carry them out with high intent and constant watch, for the possible error which, if permitted to slip by, may damage an individual's rights. The publishing of straight sensationalism, for purposes of increased circulation, will not become a Canadian hazard as it is in the U.S.A. while our courts are so alert to catch and punish news stories which endanger the individual. Culture Is Knowledge In determining the degree of effective civilization which existed in former eras, present day scholars base their conclusions on the culture which they find existed in those days. On this basis, if in years to come some one has to probe the cultural background of the Oakville District to determine how effectively civilized we were, then we should find Oakville high on their list of Canada's civilized spots. With two plays, out of seven possibles, accepted for entry in the Ontario Drama festival contest, the Thesbian side of our cultural life ranks most high. The Arts and Crafts, in addition to its play, has made other great contributions to the cultural life of the community. With the various activities which its members undertake, and which any resident can join by paying a very modest membership fee, there are few lines of endeavor among the arts which are not being followed. Painting, basket weaving, leather work--the list is as long'as your arm. All are pursuits which, when judged by the standards of an archaealogist would make up a picture of a civilization with a high stand- ard of effectiveness and usefulness in the affairs of men. Music has also begun to-come into its own in the district. The Arts and Crafts Musical Appreciation Group has heen going for some time, and membership is growing with each season, we are told. Certainly the opportunity afforded by this section is. one that will be of pleasure to many. We wonder if there may not be more people who would like to participate. If so, we know they will receive a hearty welcome, for such is afforded anyone who expresses a desire to share in any Arts and Crafts undertaking. The Choral Society, now rehéarsing for a spring recital, is a double-edged culture tool. It provides in- dividuals with the chance to take part, and provides fine musical enjoyment for all of the remainder. There is a lack of certain voices for the choir. If you like to sing yowll he greeted With open arms at any Wed- nesday evening rehearsal period. The High School Home and School group have really advanced the cause of music in the district with the concerts that have been held this winter. In addi- tion to providing ranking artists for the entertainment. of the music lovers, these: programs also do some- thing for Canadian artists. Too often, it seems to us, we in Canada tend to feel that unless the musician we hear comes from some other country, that artist can not be top-flight. Possibly this has come about because, for a number of years now, the high salaries paid in the United States, in radio, television and on concert stage, have lured our promising Canadian talent away from Can- ada. 'When one considers the measly rate of remun- eration provided by our state-owned and controlled monster for writers, performers and directors, it is little wonder that such has been the case. In the CBC the government has available a means of developing Canadian talent and keeping it at home. But such is IT SEEMS T0 ME BY P. W. THOMPSON "Let man be' trained for war" wrote Nietsche, the power-wor- shipping ~~ German philosopher, back in the last century. That sentiment was widely deplored by peace-loving people. But today the -condition advocated by the belligerently-minded ~~ German is coming to pass. Since he departed from the scene two wars to end all war have been fought. Yet to- day, all over the world, men are being trained in the highly com- plex arts of modern scientific warfare, There was a time, well within the memory / of many people still living, when it seemed as thuogh men were beginning to outlive : war. That period has gone, perhaps forever. A new age has arrived, in which pre- paration for war has become a primary concern of a large por- tion of the human race. Even now a war is in progress, in which a number of Canadian soldiers - are taking part. And everywhere | there is talk of a third great world war. We are living in what might be des-. cribed as a semi-wartime econ- omy. Billions of dollars are being spent upon | armaments. New guns, tanks, planes are being turned out in ever-increasing numbers. Great military organ- izations are' being built up, and hundreds of thousands of young men are being schooled in the latest techniques of warfare on land, sea and in the air. In spite of a widely held theory to the contrary, it seems hardly probable that such preparations Will promote peace. But even if they succeeded it would be a most uneasy variety of peace. A world bristling with great armies, nav- ies and air forces armed with atomic weapons capable of almost limitless destruction can hardly be considered a peaceful world. But that, unfortunately, seems to be the kind of world people are destined to live in for a long time to come. The prospegt of total disarmament of a universal serap- ping of the machinery of war, now appears as utterly fantastic as at one time it appeared pos- sible. If we are fortunate enough to preserve peace, it will be a peace in which the powers main- tain a sharp watch upon each other from behind their multi- billion-dollar defences, steadily BY BESSIE CAIRNS TRAFALGAR TALES MODERN Miss An advertisement "Maternity Dresses for the Modern Miss' which apeared recently in a Cal- ifornia paper was a laughable slip. There is nothing laughable however when the slip is an actuality, be the miss modern or old-fashioned. Recent evidence in Kitchener has disclosed that a 12 year old' child is pregnant and that is only a small part of the long degrading story. I have no intention in this column to discuss the evils of our society that lead to such conditions but just as long as our civilization is built around the home and family and the pro- tection they afford the illegitimate child, regardless of any laws to the contrary, and the unmarried mother will be stigmatized through life. In tribal communities such as still exist in Africa this is not the case but morals, being largely a matter of geography, we are for- tunately or otherwise so located that for the protection of society the maintenace of certain stan- dards is the responsibility of all citizens. An article "The Lonely Time," in the January 20th. copy of the New Yorker explains in great de- tail and with much sympathy the increasing ithe while. Such conditions as this are bound to influence our way of life profoundly. Modern war pre- parations cost immense gums of money, and there will be less to devote to the arts and pur- suits of peace, the embellish- ment of civilization. Much that is desirable will have to be sac- rificed, as during the last war. Great numbers of people may spend their whole lives in the armament industry or the fight- ing forces. The whole world may be. living ; under a regime of "austerity." A civilization so geared to war m; have been something like what Nietsche had in mind, but it is certainly a long, long way from the ideal of peace-loving people. It may be, of course, that the alternative would be even worse. But is is surely a matter for the deepest regret that we 'must say goodbye to our hopes of a world truly at peace--hopes cherished so strongly by so many of us, Can it be that those who their armaments all The all of whom ary efforts of the men. Our men, they tell people with a condescen- ding smile, can't even boil water. Prancing Palates My mother, for instance, can snatch up a handful of maize, a brace of duck eggs, a pinch of sodium bicarbonate and a few oth- er odds and ends, and turn out a Johnny cake that defies descrip: tion. My wife, on the other hand, measures out all her ingredients with loving care, always guard- ing against the horrible possibil- mouth. Of course, there was the time her cookie dough was so hard '| that she chucked it at me when I laughed at her efforts to chip it with an ice pick. It's still there, somewhere behind the hole in the. wall in the apartment we used to live in. But that's another story --and was just one of those ex- ceptions that prove rules.) Great Experiment Yes, by and large, the gals in my family are veritable queens of the kitchen. I got to ruminating. on this one night last week. And after Tecalling a fey of the snide remarks that have been directed, over the years, at my efforts ov- er the hot plate, I decided it was high time I disproved the theory that I'm a culinary cluck. 1 can't say my choice of cookies for this Great Experiment was gleefully greeted. "Over my dead body," Isobel dnsisted, "will you bake cookies in MY kitchen!" Half and Half I pointed out a little bitterly that the kitchen was half mine. I even produced the last three in- stalment notices on the stove to prove it. "But youll never find the bak- ing powder," she returned, try- ing another tack. womenfolk in my family, are good cooks, al: ways deride the spasmodic culin- ity of getting in an extra snitch of flour or a single grain of sug- ar more than the recipe calls for. Her cakes simply MELT in your PUFFS FROM THE COTTON GIN "0h, yes, I willl" I grated, ing her bodily to one side rolling up my sleeves. T did the baking powder, too. It wag right in front of me in_a cap marked "Flour." I found thd flour, too. It wds in another can, mary. ed "Baking Powder," I foung water quite easily, and drew bucketfull for a starter. Then rooted around until I found the shortening in the vegetable bin, which, of course, is where if should have been. The eggs, how. ever, were very cunningly con. cealed in a box marked "Begs." I never did find the sugar, though. But fortunately I happen. ed to remember some sugar cubes in the pocket of an old suit. 1 picked them up on a train one time. They were still in good con. dition, except that I had to soak the wrappers off. Misleading Data At this point, I hit a snag in the form of the directions in the re. cipe I'd selected, which was word. ed to insure the ultimate in con. fusion. For Instance, it began: "Blend shortening with sugar ." No matter how hard you try, you just can't blend sugar lumps with shortening. Next it sald "Sift together, flour, sugar and a teaspoon of salt." The sugar, the flour and even the salt worked all right. But there is definitely no way to get a teaspoon through a sifter. I KNOW!!! 'However, the cookies didn't turn out too badly. True, they had a very peculiar clanging sound when I dropped them into the jar. But they taste pretty good, if you have the right type of molars. Drop around, and I'll give you a handful. She Has It Back Yes, the womenfolk in my fam- ily are all good cooks. They al- ways have been. And I, for one, hope they always will be. If they start slipping, I may try whipping up another batch. In the mean- time, however, it's HER kitchen. Yours in disillusionment, BILL COTTON problem of the unmarried moth- er. I am saving my copy to give to my own little girl when she is old" enough to understand it, par- ents of teen-age girls, and boys too, would be well advised to get a copy now. The article deals with the Youth Consultation Ser- vice, a private organization run by the Episcopal Church of the Diocese of New York. To quote Mrs. Hoag, superintendent of the Home, "Much of an unmarried mother's efforts have to be spent on protecting herself and her child from the stigma that she finds herself living under, no mat- ter where 'she goes. Of 'course, we've made a lot of progress since the days when an unmarried pre- gnant girl without funds had only two courses; having her baby in the public workhouse, or, if she was lucky enough to be admitted, and promised to stay two or three years, taking refuge in a religious institution with some such name as the Home for the Homeless and Hopeless Women. Even to-day, though, one often hears the ex- pression "social pariahs" used when people got to talking about. unmarried mothers. We are al- Ways running up against this at- titude in our fundraising, Once, at a theatre benefit we held, a worker of ours overheard one scendalzed Bld gentleman say to 1 py t another "d'd you know that this eT amian TatiTels Th una 5) for the fallen women ok Surably o like may ibe right, lien Sppiceonalt Churen?". "Umass after all? ried mothers, yes, but none of them fallen women, they might be your daughter or mine," Mrs. Hoag not the policy of the CBC, and its policy is laid down for it, in the final analysis, by the Federal govern- ment. The hours and hours of mediocre radio time pushed out into the air by the CBC because it will not or cannot pay the rates prevailing 'elsewhere, is certainly going to be added up in ages to come by students of the period as being a culturally arrested point-in the country's development. But the Home and School groups in Canada, which are arranging these concerts, are working in the other direction. The artists are Canadians, many of arrived {alent, many only a very short distance from the top. Their concerts provide encouragement and income for our artists. It is in the interest of all Canadians that they continue to operate so success- fully. A particular feature of the concerts locally has been they were within the reach of nearly everyone, for by intent the charge was held down. Of course, this result is no "Snob" appeal for the concerts; which means lack of support from so-called music lovers who only patronize foreign-artist concerts, or the highly expensive ones. It is to be hoped that again next year there will be the H. & S. series--and that nothing will interfere with this arrangement. When you add it all up, there seems little doubt that the Oakville district will stack up well in any survey conducted from the vantage point of future eras as a cultural centre, as it is making a better than average contribution to a balanced civilization. continued. "Of course, there's little our particular agency can do to change society's attitude. Our job is sim- what is certainly one of the most terrifying and lonely experiences a human being can endure. And in that I believe we have had a fair percetage of success among the ten thousand cases we have dealt with," Mrs. Hoag conclud- d, @ Those readers' who feel that by wide and loving training they haye assured their child of every protection 'might be surprised to read in "The Lonely Heart," the tragic tale of the shielded only child of highly respected parents. Mrs. Hoag from her years of ex- perience is a much better auth- ority on the type of girls who need help. "Some of them come in to see us with their parents. Others just appear alone and un- announced op our doorstep. The other morning, a girl six months pregnant stumbled up the steps. She had just got off a bus from Towa. It had taken her two months of working days and evenings in a restaurant to save the money for her fare. Another girl drove here from Missouri in a yellow Cadillac roadster. Probably our most surprising visitors were a brother and sister, eighteen and sixteen years old, who brought in their mother. Their father had died two years before. and in her loneliness their mother had turn- ed her affection. to an old friend of her husband's. And now she was bregnant, almost out of her mind with grief and shame, and com- pletely unable to deal with the situation. Those two children went to work to earn enough to see their mother through, and la- ter the baby was adopted.' Mrs Hoag's problems are our. prob- lems too, let us give them, if not our time and money, at least our ply to help the girls through sympathy and consideration, The way things are going pecially among the Journal to be . when will you? There doesn't We take great pleasure in w ario. Last Friday Park Weekly News a winning plan, told that Clarks minded --i paper, such is the case th which announces itself as « - have you had the 'flu, and ests. From the "aged" vantage-point. nal wishes thé newcomer all the best. Padding Commert around Oakville--and es staff--the "Thing" seems If you haven't, seem to be any inbetween spot at all. But we hope YOU miss it, Brother! ishing good luck to a newcom- er to the weekly publishing fieli--and to this section of Ont- the first issue of the Clarkson and Lorne hit the people of those pleasing' bang. The smart little $-page tabloid h: Support from local advertisers, and the publishers look to have Of all the communities around here, we are on and Lorne Park are the most community districts with a ad a marvellous ey should support their own being devoted to their inter- of three years, the Jour- of luck. z Thurs SPE! Outsta make stocks. Wo)