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% iv Page 4 Oakville- 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, Jn Vincent H. Barrey Managing Editor Advertising Manager Bill Cotton, Editorial Assistant PHONE 1298 Thursday, January 18th., 1951 This Applies To You! With the death of the cat who could not contain its curiosity, as handed down to us all in the old say- ing, in mind the appeal of Fire Chief Fred Shaw to residents to contain their curosity concerning fires should receive co-operation from residents. There probably were few residents who called the firehall immediately they heard the siren to ask where the fire was, who realized that their calls might endanger another person's life or home--or might hamper the effectiveness of our excellent vol- unteer brigade. We would urge everyone to take seriously the appeal voiced by the Chief. We have seen the local Bell phone switch boards when there was no such sudden rush of calls, but just the normal flow of phone traffic. Trying to imagine what the boards would be like with 500 additional calls, suddenly coming in at the same time, was not too difficult. The operators on duty when we were there were going full speed to handle the traffic--500 additional calls, the average number of curious residents who, following the siren by lifting their receiver, would make the one-armed paper hanger with the itch seem immovable in comparison with what would be demand of the operators. If you are present when some one wants to make one of these calls--stop them from doing so. You will be making a contribution toward the safety of others, and possibly toward your own safety at some future time. Don't let curosity be the death of anyone. Don't phone the firehall. Watchmen, What Of The Night? We feel that the town is taking a most wise step in setting up the Civilian Defense Committees at this time. The government has just announced a school, to be located in Hull, Quebec, where courses will be given to representatives from various sections of the province. This shows that there is need for such ad- vance preparation, which is a sad thought, but which must be faced realistically. Preparedness, often, can mean prevention. Let us hope that Oakville's Civilian Defence committees will never be called upon to fun- ction. But should the need arise, preparedness will be far superior to a frantic rush to bring into being such organizations. While, in the announcement of the various com- mittees, there was no reference to one to handle pub- licity, we suppose this will be included in the functions of one or the other of those created. We can assure the committee charged with this responsibility that the Journal, and all members of the staff, will give the most complete co-operation possible when we can be of assistance. We are confident the residents will feel the same way. First Impressions Of Town Mayor Black has had in hand plans for a suitable entrance to the town from the East and the West for several years. His feeling is that Oakville's boundar- jes should be suitably marked. In this he is one hun- dred percent right. The sketches which have been submitted are attractive, yet do not involve a great deal of cost. It is to be hoped that this year council will implement the plans; possibly breaking the un- dertaking into steps, and completing one each year. But we would like to urge the mayor to add the north entrance to the town to the beautification plan. A large number of motorists enter town from the Queen Elizabeth highway. Dundas Street, from the highway to the railway bridge is not an attractive thoroughfare, and council should certainly take im- mediate steps to clean up much of the unsightliness. The factories and business located along the road have all done considerable work to make their pro- perties more attractive. The town could do more to make this "first impression" of Oakville as attract- ive, with an entrance similar to the East and West plans. Labels Would Help We would suggest that Township council invest in a few signs reading "Bump." Anyone who has driven down Balsam Drive recently will appreciate that such signs, erected either side of the hump in the road toward the bottom of the street, might mean a saved spring or shock-absorber. On a really icy road condition, the signs might be the means of saving a serious accident. Before the winter, and spring thaw, are over, there'll be many more Spots where such signs will be required. If they are not in stock, they should be or- dered. If they are in stock, they should be out on the roadsides now. If something like this is not done, our guess is quite a few irate drivers will be "bumping" the council. BY BESSIE CAIRNS _ TRAFALGAR TALES CROWNING GLORY? If Deborah Kerr had been boil ed in a pot while on-location for the filming of "King Solomon's Mines" I for one would have had more faith in native justice. The longest safari the average woman ever makes is from one highly recommended hair-dresser to an- other of even better repute. Miss Kerr scorned all womanhood by BY P. W. THOMPSON With more than two weeks of the new year gone this seems a bit late fo be writing about' such things as new year's resolutions. Such people as still adhere to the quaint habit of making vows at the beginning of each year have no doubt already done so. And, human nature being what it is, jam up if nothing is done about though you'd just been through a session with Whipper Billy Wat- son. by "the time you had it ready for slumber. By that time, too, youd likely be too tired to sleep. PUFFS FROM THE COTTON GIN | pleasure of walking off and leay- /hile 1 don't mind, once in a 0 biti ing the bed behind in the morn. when long while, = helping out i i household chores pile up on the jing. Besides; who wants fo camp little woman, _ there is one do-jout in January in this country? mestic task which positively in-| BY this time, some readers may be wondering why so much fuss over what would seem to be a simple, five minute chore. The gals will understand, of course, But to you guys who may not ap- preciate to it's full exten man's disinclination for bed making, I merely point out: consider what happened at Ottawals Chateau Laurier hotel during the rallway strike. Within four days of the members of parliament finding out they had to make their own beds, they stopped the strike! Helpful Hints Yes, it's a very rear problem, and as I said before, I have yet to stumble on a fully satisfactory solution. But I can pass along a me. That is the daily rit of making the beds. Science Is Sad For years, oft and on, I've con Jhcted a varied research program in an effort to discover some ans by which the tedious nec- essity of shaking up and smooth- ing out the Simmons could be eliminated. I felt that the bene fits of such a discovery would not be merely selfish ones, but would be welcomed by chatelain- es, nurses and chambermaids the world over. So far, however, I've drawn a total blank where a com: plete and foolproof solution is concerned. Muddler Murphy Actually, it's amazing that 10 |couple of helpful hints. A largs, eifective laborsaving device |piivy coverlet to go on top of has been invented for making everything else on the bed will serve admirably to smooth out all but the more' prominent wrinkles caused by mot having straighten- ed out the underlying bedclothes properly, or at all. You can reach in under this coverlet, after climb- ing out of bed, give the under «covers a tug or two, and go away and completely disregard the whole thing. But it isn't considered good practice, if anything like an old sweater or an extra wide sheet is left hanging down the side of the bed, to cut them off even with the bottom of the coverlet. And never make the mistake of trying to pull them clear to toss under the bed, as in so doing you may drag 'out other things like last week's Racing Form, a for- gotten pair of bedsocks, or a box of soda wafers. Things could get beds, The Irish, who excel at not letting their possessions, if any, possess them, and who have a very wholesome dislike for bo- ther, made a heroic. try at solving the problem when Murphy came out with His bed that, theoretical ly, does not have to be made. Just tilt it up, Murphy's advertising agency burbled, - and slam the door on it. But the quilts, blank- ets, sheets and pillows tend to them before tossing Murphy's brainchild at the wall. And when you let it down again that eve: ning, chances were you felt as In some Pacific Islands, some some have probably either for- gotten their good resolves or else chopping off her own luxuriant red-gold tresses, washing the re- mainder of her crowning glory and emerging to the loving and admiring surprise of the white hunter, and the brutual annoy- ance of myself, with a beautifully coiffed (pardon the word, I like it) head of short curls. At that point I could have wrung her pretty little neck. I recalled my own trips to hairdressers far and near and the many amazing and few satisfactory wesults. What she suffered from African wild life and heat was mild tor- ture to what the average woman goes through to hear from the man in her life, "Your hair looks nice to-day dear. Have it done?" If lipstick is a red badge of courage, a becoming hairdo is surely to even the plainest wo- man a crown of beauty. In my at- tempts to achieve that crown I've had my troubles. I remember one in particular, it started in a little beauty parlour in Quezal- tenango, high in the mountains of Guatemala. The proprietor had bought a book on hair dressing and set up shop. The only other equipment she had be- sides the book, which was in Spanish, was a comb and oil. There was no water in the place. While the two of us pored over the illustrations in the book, she poured oil over my head. The results were as you can imagine. I went back to my hotel, doused my head in cold water and for once was grateful that I Was a stranger in a strange land. If a passing hunter had 'seen me then he might have bagged me as a queer species of water-rat. | have my troubles in Rockwood too. The hairdresser here lives in a flat and since she seemed fac- ed with . a water 'shortage We agreed that I'd wash my hair and she'd do it. I mow arrive there looking like a golliwog and leave looking like a peeled onion. The arrangement causes no endearing terms on my return but it suits me. Some customers, who for all 1 know, also suffer from a water shortage, fare worse. Once when | was there the hairdresser's little girl had gone into the bathroom and locked the door. No threats or cajoling would bring her out so shampoos were off. Last time the child's gold fish had had an overdose of either child or Christmas and were re- viving in the hand basin . . . once again shampoos were out. Perhaps at that Deborah Kerr did have an advantage. 1 can recall neither Solmon's Mines" . . : and nary a Solmon's Mines" . . . and narry a fish. ST. JOHN'S EVENING AUX. INSTALLS NEW OFFICERS The Evening Auxiliary of St. John's United church held its an- nual meeting in Lusk hall with president Mrs. Norman McLeod in the chair. Reports of the var- fous officers pointed to a most successful year financially, the allocation having been passed. New officers were installed by Rev. Harry Pawson who, in a brief address, dealt with the dif- ferent phases of mission work. Summing up, Mr. Pawson stated: "Until we can get Christianity are systematically ignoring them. But there is no good reason why the making of resolutions should be confined to the first of the year, although that time would | beds would strengthen. It DID ino dark maroon, heavy drapes oe pecially. propitious, ||dipose fof ithe problem mornings, | on your windows and 16 watt Although it has become, in however. ~ |bubs in your electric fixtures these latter years, more of a sub- Out In The Open help considerably. The dimou ject for humor and ridicule than for serious contemplation, the practice of making new year's resolutions" has much to be said for it. It is a good thing for a man to pause and take stock of himself now and then, to note his failings, and to determine to try and remedy them. Any sort of effort in this direction is better than none at all. Chan- ces are that it will at least tend to check one's bad habits and prevent | them from getting worse. One resolution that most people could make to advantage would be to practice tolerance. While this can be carried so far as to become a weakness, there is lit- tle danger of this happening in most cases. It is lack of tolerance that has been ome of the chief curses of humanity from time im- memorial, and has brought the world to its present unhappy state. Most of us are far too ready to find fault with our fel- low men. Towards those of different na- tionalities, races or social phil- osophies we adopt, too often, an attitude of suspicion and hos- tility. If we tried to find points in common instead of points of difference; if all of us were to make an honest effort to un- derstand each other's viewpoint, and to make due allowance for each other's difficulties, what conflict and suffering the hu man race might be spared. Another quality we would do well to try and cultivate, year by year, is patience. So many people become upset if things do not al- ways go just as they want them to. There are times, of course, when patience is uséless. But there are many situations which will yield only to patient waiting. Above all, we should make up our minds not to expect too much of others, or of life in general. We should make plenty of allowance for human frailty, to which all of us are prone. We should never forget worthwhile achieve: ments take a great deal of time and effort. And, if we find our- selves unduly dissatisfied with life. let us think for a moment of all those who have far better cause to complain than we have, and are meeting their their dif- ficulties more bravely. x It will hurt | no-one to make such resolutions as these, at any time of the year. READILY ADOPTABLE ! In an antique shop in Maine a customer spotted a pair of early American portraits and question- ed the proprietor about them. "Them's ancestors," he said. /'Whose ancestors?" pursued the visitor. "Anyone's a mind to have em," explained the enterprising Yankee. into the minds of the people in the business of statecraft, peace will not come to us and missions of the natives thought they had the answer--for ing. This plan didn't prove very satisfactory, so bad that way that you might have to turn back the covers and a while. They would sell their beds each morn- lL As a final thought,- if guests should happen to leave their ov- ercoats on your bed while visit though, as when night fell again, the market for One method I found very pleas- ant for a time was to 0 on camp- ing t rips. But after a while, the energy used up hacking off and spreading evergreen boughs De- gan to cancel out most of the may cause them to get the wrong overcoat when leaving, but at least they won't notice the bed. Bedraggledly Yours, BILL COTTON Pd ding Coreerresii GIN SHORTENS THE ODDS--Yes, following Bill Cotton's column regarding the fewness of banbers. for the multitude of long haired Oakville men last week, we are pleased to see that this week there are 'three more barbers in town to clip us. Jack Lee's added another, and a new one is opening in the basement of the Halton Inn, which will be familiar to all Jour- nal readers- Announcement of the Choral Society underway again with rehearsals is really good news. They need addit- ional voices, especially male, so if you ant to have r good time, and can sing at all, why not give it a try for a rehearsal or two? The members tell us they en- joy their work; the townsfolk certainly enjoy their concerts. Good luck for another successful year! The English language as she should be spoken and spelt and written--such is the Concise Oxford Dictionary. There are other dictionaries. and we're open to a bet that unless the English custodians of the Oxford Concise number amend their thinking, there'll be another one . . . but for the best as com- piled by the Fowler brothers, the Concise Oxford is tops with us. But we can't buy one in Canada. Seems only 1000 per an- num are being printed for Canada, and McGill University-- evidently Montrealers are worse spellers than even us--grabs 600. Then of U. of T. knocks 200 off the quota, and the Te- maining--we'll do the arithmetic for you--200 are distributed to the trade across Canada. 200 dictionaries for this wide land of ours is a liberal allowance . . . if we are to accept the var ious other efforts, mostly from the U.S, which represent themselves as being "as good as" Now everyone knows Eng- land Is suffering from a paper famine, and the English print: ing house is undoubtedly doing a fine job in even being able to print the 1000 copies. In the face of adversity, the English always do a good job, But/ representatives of the Canadian Publishing trade called upon this sage custodian of the plates from which the volumes are printed and made a suggestion "Let us have the plates in Canada, where paper is not as ser fous a problem, We will render unto you $1, one whole Cava dian buck, remember, for each copy wé sell . . . and we'll guar antee you 100.000 copies per year. How about it?" The answer from a businessman in a dollarstarved country was, "The Concise Oxford Dictionary belongs to England and must be printed there." It's funny, but we'd always thought the EDE- lish language as she should be spoken belonged to the world "and that dollars were what Canada was always being asked to make available to the coffers of England. Oh, well, BUSS well just have to wait a year . . . or else bang Noah Webster on the head every time we want to find out about English, Vi2 an American filter unless Helen Caine of the Golden Hour, Who told us of this contretemps. can snag one of the 200 for us -- which, if she succeeds, will make her, for our money, & to snagger. Welre in the process of moving to a new house, and we've discovered once again--for this will be our 4th move in eleven years--that the human race and pack: rats are identical. The useless things one saves to use later! But we did run across the most amazing number of wire coat hangers. And there's a shortage of these, and the Girl Guides are collecting them to raise funds for their treasury. So, even if you aren't moving--and if you aren't you're lucky!--how about taking a stock of Your packerat collection of coat hangers and handing will suffer a blow that will take years to overcome. them over to the Guides? Telephone 2164 if you have any to be picked up. g Go