| 1957 Reid SECOND SECTION Oakville- Trafalgar Journal | Member canadian Weekly Newspapers Association * published Every Thursday Morning In Oakville, Ont. by Oakville-Trafalgar Publishers, Ltd. 7 DUNN STREET NORTH Vincent H. Barrey Advertising Manager Page 9 PUFFS FROM THE COTTONGIN | = These pneumatic hammers are 2 mighty useful thing. Buf when used at 7 am. by the Swhnses | to the Journal's editor protesting boys, they're just plain murder. = {1 vehemently against the manner These constructionists are dili- | in which swift progress and ex-| gent fo an extreme. Diligent to il pansion were "spoiling this beau-|a fault, in fact. With the result 2 il tiful, quiet old town of ours." |that you wake up fo a quick im- | Several months ago, a COTES pondent who signed himself "Old Resident" penned several letters s. Casey Wood, Jr. Managing Editor Bill Cotton, Editorial Assistant The accompanying rush, bustle pression that someone is rivet- PHONE 1298 and noise stirred up his bile, the | ting a tin roof onto a boiler fac- | venerable one lamented, as he | tory that is situated next door I to a motorcycledrome. And when your infant offspring blends his dl startled hollers with the general | din, your hair, nerve ends and dander stand right up on end. hotly castigated those who would bring in mew industries, services and modern innovations. But Not Any More! Being neither an old resident Thursday, September 13th, 1951 ¥ or an oldtimer (it's lack of sleep You Fiend, Lackie! Good Institution that makes me look that way), I| For a while, I was at a loss to was somewhat scornful of these| understand, why councills sew: antiquated views at the time. 1 was prone tofscoff off Old Resi- dént as a complete fuddyduddy. But not any more. Not, at any rate, since town council decided 'a bigger, better and sturdier sewer main was erage committee permitted these fugitives from Bedlam fo shatter the new day's silence at such an | unearthly hour. However, Isobel h id point out that there might be SOME people in this world who The third annual Fall Fair of the Optimist Club should draw the usual large crowds, and have the customary success is swelling the coffers of the club. The profits derived, as is the case with all ef- forts of service clubs, go entirely for community ser- and even vice . . . so the money spent by those who visit the fair comes back to the people in town who need it. But we feel that in addition to the money the club raises, and the good it does with that money, there is another feature of this activity which should be ap- preciated by everyone. The tradition of fall fairs in Ontario is a fine one, with annual fairs held in many centres which have province, We are told. This organization fell upon poor times when some of the chief workers in its af- fairs died, and shortly afterwards the fair was dis- continued. Now the Optimist club is working very hard to revive and continue fall fairs in Oalzville. The average resident, who does not work in a service club activity, probably is not aware of the immense amount of work there is involved in "Putting on" a fall fair, or the carnivals which are so enjoyable each year. Tt is most easy to attend any of these functions and criticize them for not being exactly what the visitor wanted. But such criticism is not warranted, for two reasons. First of all, each club has as its workers men who have their own business, activities to look after first. Their. spare time can be devoted to their service club work, but even if every member were willing to de- / 3 ment-breaking chatter guns livi I ther revive vote all his time there still would not be enough work- -- mh Sgt = oy ny worked nearer. Blue Thursday, EL ee the pili ers available to do a complete and perfect job. And, 19, Wwe, feel [nor ent zo wl 9I-| August 30, they were a scant | as anyone would expect, not all members are willing or able to male such a sacrifice. The second reason why criticism is not warranted is that the Fall Fair, or any of the carnivals, must be operated so that, when everything is balanced off, a reasonable per- centage of the total grossed money will remain for IT SEEMS BY P. W. THOMPSON A favorite object of the pro- fessional humorist's ridicule, every summer, is the vacationist who goes "roughing it" in the bush. He is depicted as staggering un- der the weight of a cumbersome canoe. and other unaccustomed burdens, being attacked by hordes of monstrous flies "and mosquit- oes, having hostile encounters with such unpleasant woodland denizens as hornets, rattlesnakes and skunks, getting poison ivy and sunburn, and arriving back home completely exhausted and with a case of sciatica into the bargain. no inclination to join in it. These nature enthusiasts, in our op- inion, are not so foolish as they are sometimes represented. Even though they may voluntar- ily let themselves in for a cer- tain amount of discomfort and BY BESSIE CAIRNS TRAFALGAR TALES Judging from this week's Jour- nal if I dowt hurry back into print I am going to find myself crowded off the editorial page, especially it Frank Walker takes his readers fishing through the ice, smaring tarpon or harpoon- ing whales. I may even find my- self relegated to the proposed garbage disposal site. Speaking of garbage, I am re- minded of when I moved from Toronto to Trafalgar in 1941 . . . left myself open there . . . but then as now ome of the head- aches of rural living was what lie Lawrence who later became my most welcome caller. My visitors then were mostly city friends curious to see-how I was faring as a chicken farmer. They nearly always, stayed for a meal and through well-meaning, but needed on Dundas St, Swansea Construction boys came. to town to undertake the bash- ing, smashing and crashing op- eration. Since them, although Old Resident won't know it unless he reads this, he has another sup- porter who would be 'glad to play. in his Peace and Quiet league. Jekyyls & Hydes fireside, are probably veritable models of decorum who could be listed among the most self-effac- ing souls in the universe. But when they get on a job, brother, it's something else again! Then they are little less than demons in human form, casting aside all consideration for anything but the job at hand. The sewer instalation began at the disposal plant, headed brisk- ly along Randall St. toward Dunn and our domicile. As we saw the activity three blocks away, We shrugged and commented: "Be a bit dusty for a while." Useful But Brutal Then the lads with the pave- block away. And we haven't had a relaxed moment since. DO get up at seven, before. I therefore forgave the committee grudgingly and awaited the dawn of Labor Day and a happily anticipated sleep-in-that turned into a pneumatic night- mare. So I can't forgive them for allowing that raucous rat-a-tat- tat to disturb the relaxation of the summer's last holiday. Fie on you, Lachlan! The least you exhipitors pointing toward them from the time they Now, I'm well aware of the fact|could have dome, to make am- plant their seeds or begin training their animals. Oak- that the Swansea Construction |mends, was to stop them from ville used to have a fair the equal of any held in the boys, when at home around the| turning the water off right at breakfast time the following day and make them time the shut-off to the housewife's convenience. Privies & Peace Yes, Old Resident, I think you really had something. Seems as though we townsfolk just don't haye any rights when the march of progress steam-rollers over us. The householders along Dun- das St., who will shortly own the droopingest eyelids, in town, will soon be joining their now sunken- eyed neighbours on Randall in wondering whether it's worth it. Personally, Old Resident, I'm right with you in feeling that if racket rousers like the Swansea boys are a necessary adjunct to Sleepily Yours, BILL COTTON = * 2 A . hardship, they obtain compen- | misdirected kindness insisted on DS = ') REAM profit--vill Sn to = ay sations not enjoyed by those |helping with the dishes. Fadi ira jects such as the hospital and 5, 2, who refuse to forsake smooth oe and crippled children, the relief of the destitute, ete. highways, normal meals and te ey left, 2 would be or x oe 3 the comfort of a spring bed. ed with a sorry looking mess of 5 = ; : This requirement of profit governs what the clubs pring olive stones, paper serviettes, a oe Ll oe ee ne 2 banquet Sen IT can give their patrons, but as the support of the un- ore is something infinitely |tin cans, cigarette buts, peach b hisjiteachingshandinisfpaiutings, that muciifos dortakiings erow; 50 the clubs can increase thefenjoy- | soothing fo) the senses ahout a stones. sto. that were urs am( [fun ound been esiunsied and exliel He seemed lL ai lo: sojourn in the wilds. The stlll-| easily disposed of as a body. Left take pride in this admission. Dr. Lismer should be dragged In th of the Optimist Club, it is a ver ness of the woods, and the oc-|to myself I always sorted gar- aside and cautioned. If he can not break himself of liking - n the case of the Optimis sae Y | caslonal sounds that greet the|bage according to a definite pat- such goings-on, he should at least not proclaim his enjoyment | young organization in Oakville, and it started wi no ears, provide a pleasant con-|tern but I never managed to ex- in public. Young men starting i funds for development of the Fall Fair. It has ex- panded the fair each year and will be able to continue this expansion only if residents support the fair by attending in ever increasing numbers. So, see your Fall Fair for sure this year, and by doing so yowll be helping the Optimist Club work with boys . . . and youll be helping to put Oakville hack on the Fall Fair map. Both causes deserve the support, of everyone in the district. Lay Blame Where Blame Belongs The new request for a raise in rates by the Bell Telephone Company will not find many people rushing to its support--except, of course, the many people who have invested their, savings in the company's stock and who will, quite rightly, want to see their dividends dontinued. The dividend rate, incidentally, on telephone stock is not a particularily high one, sO the desire to see it maintained can not be classed as rapacious on the part of investors. But some of the arguments that are raised by city councils as reasons why the company should not. "have an increase are most amusing. Toronto council, for instance wants the company taken away from the shareholders who own it, and public ownership to take over. The inference is that once this is done there will be no need for an increase in rates as there trast to civilization's ugly nols- es. One can observe and enjoy na- ture unmarred by the appur- ftenandes . [of civilidatiort. In such surroundings the phenom- ena of sunrise and sunset, moonlight, a shower or a thun- derstorm can be fully appreci- ated. The keen aroma of pines, the play of sunlight upon a woodland stream, the vision of tall white birches on a rocky promontory--these and many other natural charms are the rewards of those who brave the ruggedness of the wilds. People who spend their vaca- tions, or a part of them, in get- ting back to nature would seem to be responding to a very sound - | instinct, a primitive urge that draws them out of the confining, artificial atmosphere of the city into the fastnesses of the woods, into remote and rugged places as yet unspoiled by the march of progress. In yielding to this urge they are satisfying a fundamen- tal need which others possess without recognizing it as such. The modern community with its many comforts and conven- lences provides an environment. plain my filing system to my city friends. It was really quite simple. Paper 'went into a contain- er to be later burned; corn cobs, lettuce, tomato ends, bread crusts were fed to the chickens; meat scraps went to the dogs and cats; carrots to the pony; tin cans were. carefully washed and dried and tied up in a sack. What event- ually happened to the sack did not interest me, Ken Hammond who delivered my chicken feed kindly took it off in his truck. Even then my head-aches were not entirely solved. One windy day I foolishly decided to burn paper. The result was a costly fire that entirely destroyed a brooder house and but for the timely arrival of the Trafalgar Fire Brigade would have meant the loss of the barn and bunga- low -and farewell not only to my garbage problems but rural ly- ing. In those days it wasn't a matter of building costs being so high but building of any kind was out of the question. No wonder I was relieved when a neighbour told me of Lawrences' pick up and disposal service. Years later as a member of the which its advocates insist is a good thing, we think. With everything taxed to was considered to be the Johnny Black could have he could have permitted Johnny's make-up, and he spot the government has over looked, hiker's means of securing a ride. . pose the government would call it a thumb tax. on their business careers today, where the stress is on looking stolidly forward to a pension, must be protected from the contaminations of genius. Neither exhaustion nor exaltation has any place in a planned economy, the ultimate for all people to work toward today. If everyone could get the same satisfac- tion out of exhausting themselves probably be a lot more exaltation around in everyday life. Be with hard work, there'd Another service club project which should prove to be most popular is the Kiwanis club circus which comes: to town during the last week of September. the hilt, there is one remaining and that's the hitch- . If it was added, we sup- Johnny Black's in business, and this is a triumph not only for him, but for all men and women who may suf- fer a like stroke of fate which, not so many years ago, end of everything for them. quit when he was injured; his spirit to fail and have spent the remainder of his life an invalid without use- fulness to himself or the world. But that wasn't in has travelled a hard and dif- ficult road until today he Is a businessman in Oakville, a businessman capable of running his own show as suc- cessfully as any other man. His subscription agency business for magazines should be a success, for Johnny i ivi re will also, one South-East Trafalgar Propert will work hard at it, and we'd will be. no dividends to pay. There will ! 5 = SL ee s : 1g perty we'd expect with mere than would judge, be a greatly increased efficiency of op: Re manently | for a primitive Owners' Association 1 was pre- average. effectiveness. Certainly all residents will do eration under public managership. ut ares are) Ds: wien sent at a meeting high-lighted what they can to assist him in proving that a parap- fathers probably have in mind is something similar to the Ontario Hydro. There's nothing poor about Hydro operations, and the customers get it at cost--but figured into that cost is the interest rate paid on Hydro bonds, which is how that company finances its expansion program. So there'll be no saving achieved there. As to the ef- ficiency of operation, which means economy, of the two organizations, that would be a difficult question to decide. But it has become an accepted belief that government operation of anything is always more ex- pensive and less efficient than other form. So it would seem that public ownership of the Bell Telephone Company, would not eliminiate ~ payment of certain monies to individuals who loan it the necessary cap- ital for expansion, nor would this form of manage- ment be, per se, more efficient and more economical. The answer would seem very simple. No increase in pay should be given by the company to its employ- What Toronto's cit; its atmosphere palls, and one longs to escape from Its or- derliness to fhe wilderness, for however brief a time. Usually the fugitive is glad to return to the routine of civilized living after a few® days' contact with nature. But he goes back regenerated by his experience. Even if it has brought him mos-~ quito' bites, sunburn and sore muscles, the venture has been by a discussion on garbage and what to do about it and as I re- call we were all relieved when Councillor, Cumberland legic can be an independent businessman. the land-fill system. His ideas seemed good then and from the safe retreat of Rockwood they still do though I do appreciate the feelings of the residents of the 9th. Line; They're welcome to propose my five point solution provided I am not held respon- sible for fire insurance premiums worth-while. or invited to do dishes. can be no expansion of service rendered. Hammering the telephone'company seems to be the right approach, An ounce of prevention like new! 'Why take chances on costly repairs later on when an economical fall tune-up now will make your car run is worth a pound of cure! t] -- ees, so rates for telephones may remain the same. In but we are inclined to think the hammering should be EDDIE S GARAGE ; other words, let everything else go up like mad, but administered somewhere else. How about on the gov- Ai telephone rates under no circumstances must be per- ernment who should hold prices of everything down, WHITE ROSE SERVICE STATION | Y mitted to do so. Not sensible, but probably most pop- and wages too, so that no increase would be necessary 1 i ular. And certainly a sure way to insure that there anywhere? 69 Colborne St. W. Phone 1106