Page 4 Dakville- Trafalgar Journal Published Every Thursday Morning in Oakville, Ont. by Oakville-Trafalgar Publishers, Ltd. 7 DUNN STREET NORTH S. Casey Wood, Jr. Managing Editor Bill Cotton, PHONE 1298 Vincent H. Barrey Advertising Manager Editorial Assistant Member Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association du : i SHINGTON WwIte 61S GREAT! OATCHET: Thursday, March 8th., 1951 Rates In Line Many of last Thursday's hockey fans protested violently inst having to pay play-off rates to get into the arena. It was apparently their feeling that all seats should continue to be the same price, a price lower than the established rate among the arenas in the same playing group. Obviously our arena would not be doing our team a service, were it to have a different play-off e than the other arenas in the same loop. George- town fans who attended a game here in support of their team, would raise cain when they were forced to pay a higher rate in their own arena. This would be remembered when the series for the following year was being arranged, and Oakville might be left out. Previously, Oakville hockey fans did not have an arena of the size and effectiveness of the present structure, and were accustomed to seeing the play- offs for the same rate. But now the situation is dif- ferent. Oakville is equipped as the other towns. Oak- ville must therefore conform to the accepted stand- ards. There is also the question of revenue for the hockey club, and the arena, to consider. In past years our hockey club has often been kept alive because mentibers of the executive dug into their pockets to pay off deficits. This had the effect of lowering the standard of play, because no executive wants to have to dig too deep, and thus money for practice periods --without which no team can hope to shine very brightly--was held to a minimum. But with an arena available where games can be scheduled with surety, the club should be financially successful. The team will have time for practice and be, as a result, a team that should enter the play-offs with regularity. It is the money taken in for tickets to see the team play which provide the funds so vitally needed. Thursday night's game was not a very happy ex- perience for Oakville supporters, which probably add- ed fuel to the flames of the reserved seat set-up. However, this situation will not obtain in the future we are confident, and Oakville supporters should realize this. But there was one serious flaw in the arena operation on the night in question. One supporter, accompanied by his family, laid out four dollars for reserved seats. In a few minutes, people who had paid fifty-cents for their seats sneaked across and sat down in front of him. If the arena intends to operate on Thursday night's basis, then policing methods mist be established to protect the equities of the various price ranges. This is necessary in fairness to those who pay for reserved seats, and to the team which shares in the gate. 'We do not believe that the arena, play-offs or no play-offs, should raise the rate for children, however. Their character development and sportsmanship will be improved by attendance at as many games as possible. Yet fifty-cents is a lot to ask them, or their parents, to lay out for a game, If the other arenas raise the rates for children, we do not believe it would mitigate against either our teams, or our arena, were our board to strike a new note and hold the children's admission to the same rate the season through. Serious consideration should be given to this aspect of the mat- ter. Hockey supporters, for their part, should recog- nize that, in paying the same admission to play-off games in Oakville as they will do in Georgetown or Burlington, they are not being ill done by. Arguments as to whether a crammed arena at fifty-cents a person is not better than a less full arena at the other price will be answered by the revenue fig- ures. We would expect that the arena managements in the group in which Oakville will play, will reach an agreement among themselves on this matter. It will be one which will work to the benefit of the teams, populace and arena revenues. We're All Concerned During the past week Canada has been celebrat- ing "Education Week In Canada." There is probably not a parent in the district who did not avail them- selves of the privilege of visiting the school, or schools where their children attended. There they would see the work being done, and have the chance to discuss with the teachers any individual problems concerning their children. For them, education week was of par- amount interest. t But this week should be of interest to everyone -- for everyone, whether they have children attending school or not, aids in paying the tax bills for such education. If we pay money for something we should naturally be interested in that matter. But we should be especially so in education. This is because a better educated nation as a whole means that we individ- ually are better off, and that if all people living in our country have a fuller and more useful life, our lives will be pleasanter. The wider education can be spread among our youth, the more young people who can manage to carry their education to the higher grades, the better the overall performance of individual and collective tasks in later life will become. An intelligent, literate populace forces a better governmental standard . . . IT SEEMS T0 ME BY P. W. THOMPSON It has been observed more than once that the great majority of people use only a small portion of their mental powers. In other words they neglect their greatest asset, for it is the brain that has raised man to his supremacy among. the creatures of the earth. If we gave our limbs no exercise they would become enfeebled, and eventually all be but useless. Too many of us are inclined to let something of this sort happen to our brains. Through mental lazi- ness we shut ourselves out from a whole great universe of inter- est, we limit and impoverish our lives. There are, of course, great differences between the mental powers of different individuals. Few indeed can hope to rival the achievements of such men- tal giants as, let us say, Ein- stein or Bertrand Russell. On the other hand, most people of quite ordinary minds are cap- able of a much more active and rewarding intellectual life than they normally lead. Altogether too many people re- gard education merely as some- thing to be imparted, in a rudi- mentary form, in schools and col- leges, something with which ad- ults need have no further concern. They spend their spare time in pursuits and diversions that do little if anything to develop their intellect or broaden their under- standing of the world in which they live. And conditions today are such as to encourage this mental laziness. Entertainment, through mechanical agencies such as the radio, the motion picture, and now television, encroaches to a great extent upon one's leisure. Not of course that a certain amount of entertainment is mot desirable, But much of the popu- lar!|stuff dished out today is on a low level culturally, to say the least. And the same thing may be said for a great proportion of the current output of reading matter, which is consumed so avidly. Now and then, meet or hear quite ordinary however, we of a person in BY BESSIE CAIRNS TRAFALGAR TALES THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN 1 once heard a war-time padre say, 'there were really only two subjects the men in the trenches thought and talked about . . . wo- men and God." Since Freud, sex has been so much surrounded with enlightment that there is a tendency among the more modest to taboo it entirely. Whatever one's attitude, it must be conced- ed that sex is the motivating pow- er that determines what man will make of his body, just as man's conception of God determines the path of his soul. In this tinder-box called earth thit we now inhabit there are about 570,000,000 professed Chris tians or about 33 percent of the total population. It is scarcely «coficeivable that within this gen- eration or the next,the other 67 percent will be converted to Christianity. Yet even such his torlans as Toynbee concede that this generation may well decide whether there will be a next. Is there then a common ground through God whereby man may solve his destiny and assure a fu- ture for his children? I believe there is. Most of us believe that we have a right to life, liberty and the pur- suit of happiness, so long as we permit others to live, be fre€ and pursue happiness. However, most every great religious system seems to cherish the idea that the Sup- reme Power has revealed to that system alone, exactly how men should live and pursue happiness. Consequently, the orthodox follow- er of one religion considers that the members of all other religions are more or less in the grip of some evil influence. Everybody is a heretic to somebody else; but the pleasing feature about it all is a man's professed religion is mo true criterion of his character. Most all. religions agree that there is one Supreme Power. Yet even among Christians, rumors, often unfounded, persist that each sect is intent on anmihila- ting the other sects; but the hope of civilization is that the common Who has broken away from the all too common routine and put his brain to work. - Here and there are men and women who, in their limited leisure, manage quite creditable achievements in music, art, poetry, literature and other realms. Just now there seems to be newly awak- ened interest in painting. Grow- ing 'numbers of people, many of them in middle or more ad- sense and of the ma- jority of people will overcome such' feeling; so that through rea: son, confidence and peace, Christ's ideal . . . The Brotherhood of Man, shorn of all fanaticisms . . . ity. Ts it too much to hope for or to work to achieve? broad knowledge of at Jeast one of a number of subjects such as history, philosophy, astronomy, vanced years, are finding new interests and broadening their horizons by means of a newly acquired skill with the brush. This is a most encouraging sign, and many have far-reach- ing results. There seems fio good reason why. almost anyone blessed with the normal allotment of brains can- not, provided he will make the exertion, become moderately pro- ficient in at least one form of art, even though leading a normally psychology. Books dealing with these subjects are not too expen- sive or hard to obtain. By devot- ing a few hours weekly to one study a person could acquire, in the course of a few years, a sur- prising amount of knowledge. All that is mecessary is a bit of ef- fort and discipline, and a certain sacrifice of easy, trivial occupa- tions. The results would be well worth while. Such efforts would make, in the long run, for bnight- er, happier individuals and a more Fred Bodsworth, writing in Maclean's Magazine, there will be cheerful news in this summer's cens! for Canada's manhunting, unmarried women. The count of batchelors, Fred contends, will show a gain of 46, 000 in the past ten years. According to Land of Opportunity Brother Bodsworth goes on to point out that few other countries offer the single girl such happy hunting opportunities. In 1941, he discovered, Canada had a surplus of 415,088 fmmarried males over unmarried females, and the new census is expected to reveal a sur- plus of 461,800. Under the circum- stances, certainly no girl should be without & man--of some kind. However, 1 could never quite figure out why we run into all this fuss, periodically, about the poor, urmarried femme. Do the gals start it themselves? If so, don't they know when they're well off? Or do_they work on the theory that, while a lot of brainy women earn their living, the sensible ones let men do it for them? Pure Foolishness If this latter suggestion be the case, the lassies are anly deluding themselves. They are overlooking the fact that, when considering money, it is the husband's job to make it first, but it is the wifes task to make it last. But shucks, what mere man could possibly find rhyme, rea- son or explanation for the preda- tory instincts of the female of the species. Tt has always been a baf- fling, frustrating business, this trying to understand the feminine viewpoint on marriage, and mo- dern living hasn't done much to PUFFS FROM THE COTTON GIN simplify the task. In Granny's a gal married a guy for life, it she did happen to discoye, er on that he didn't h, Nowadays, she still Ps for better or for worse--pyt necessarily for good. day, eve ng) if Odds Are Better Frankly, 1 don't intend to | tion, or seek explanation of g marital motives of the domipy sex. 1 find myself in enough upg) ments as it is. TIL merely yg them happy hunting during thy rapidly approaching Leap yey during which the new censug gg] ures will probably prove a stant source of inspiration gy encouragement. I won't offer them any ag] on procedure, either. T shoulq g velop traitorous instinets at | age? 1 merely pass along one joy] word of warning. Gals, don't y, misled when you find a man yy, looks you straight in the eye, || doesn't mean that he's sincere uy trustworthy. It merely indie that it's high time you did son thing about your figure! Aly, remember, | while some girls able to count on their fingers, iy, a smart girl who counts on jy egs. Easy Does It! But enough! As I said befor I don't intend to get into any y) guments with women. Not un I get home late for dinner (| night, at any rate. But I gues | CAN safely say that T hope M Bodsworth's statistics will p| heartening to all you unmarri| Sues and Sallys. Carefully Yours Bill Cotton music itself. ~zddirng Conmierersd Our music columnist Irven Fell last week pointed out that in the music festivals there was a danger that the stress in musical educa- tion among young people might come to be on the winning of prizes, rather.than the appreciation of as now conducted We feel that the modern trend in competition, complain bitterly about the price in all things, is toward a dangerous threat to overall ingprovement, or widened base of knowledge. Com- petition serves a useful purpose, but should not be allowed too much prominence. In music, the drive for competitive success, might easily grow so intense that the rank and file of pupils in our schools could get very little from their musical work--other than a feeling of inadequacy because they were not competent enough to be a member of the competing choir or quartet. However, from observation of the matter, we think that all music teachers attempt, in the time at their disposal, to instill into all the members of a school a love for the music which is being sung. They also use the festival competitions as rewards for suit- able application, and not just as spots where children born with a good ear and voice can appear. This can continue only so long as the competitive results are not made the sole judge of success by parents. There are other programs undertaken by the Department of Education which are aimed at broad- ening the base-of the musical understanding and ap- preciation among the younger people. An example is the co-operation afforded Home and School groups, - such as the one at the high school, in the presenta- tion of recitals by leading artists. The series this winter was an excellent one, with a good response from the students. If carried on each year, with possibly more concerts as support is gain- ed for the program, there is little doubt that a greater love and understanding of music would be a char- acteristic of the youth of the town. The Home and School Association of the high school should be encouraged in every way possible to underteke a similar program next year. The various festivals meet a requirement of a musical education, but the concert series of the Home and School conm- plete the picture. ed it didn't balance out at ff cents and he wouldn't have Ii) it if he had. A violent sneeze, or complaint of a headache, -will get you more space around you, in _a shorter period | of time, today than ever before. You might say, if you had enough nerve, that people flu away! A suggestion to make everyont worry like mad: For Russia a Stalin in the headlines tod read Germany and Hitler as o 1938 and 1933--and for Jugosi via, try Poland for size. When you hear that six Cf policemen cand] It's the thing to do now 'to of foodstuffs, such as milk, but ter and eggs and so on. Yet, if we were to translate the prices re- busy life. And there is really no- thing to prevent the average man or'woman from acquiring a fairly | power is going to waste. enlightened society. As it is, a tremendous amount of good brain and removes a breeding ground for communist think- ing. The countries that become "adherents of com- munism easily are those countries where people are ignorant and, in the bulk, unable to read or write. Communist preachers make little headway among people who have been educated to a point where they can think and read for themselves, where they have become accustomed to making decisions on a trained reasoned assessment of the arguments presented. Truly the education of Canadians is of interest to all who want Canada to remain the free country she is today. ceived by the farmer for his ef- forts into an hourly rate of pay, We can't help wondering how many farmers would be getting much over fifty-cents an hour? It. is nice to be able to say. "Oh, the farmer is in business for him- self. He's lucky" and so gloss over the hourly rate angle. Well, possibly it's nice not to have a boss over you--except the wea- ther, the vagaries of stock that suddenly decided not to lay enough eggs, .or glve enough milk--and so be able to do all the worrying for yourself. But there's also a lot to be said for a high hourly rate without the worry. Some- how, the farmer doesn't seem de- serving of all the blame. When he buys a tractor or other item for his farm, the worker that produc- Toads and received ; for it, you can't help but Detter about that summons J got, can you? Maybe, that ¥ Anyway there will be 'fev © will argue about haying the df for slower travel on our high® continued. The death toll To as the speed rises--Af the 70 can keep the latter down We => read of less deaths by the I side, and maimed humans i Tiospitals. The only Blitz that anyon] likes is Oakville's own. TH the Red Cross drive last day night. It's nice to re that Oakville leads al ni ada with this technique--=4 is, leads in amount as we! in method.