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PUNCHES PUNCH fc Called Each Other Names Old Days In one of the most trenchant articles he has written to our knowledge in Macleans Magazine Sir Beverley Baxter takes to task the editor of Punch for two lam pooning cartoons published in that weekly the subjects of which were Sir Winston Churchill and Air Anthony Eden Sir Beverley has made it clear that he is not criticizing the polit ical aspects of Die cartoons His attack is concerned with the use of the cartoons as depicting Churchill as senile and spent and Eden at the Geneva confer- as an appeasing Chamber- lain Not that Sir Beverley was op posed to Chamberlain and Mun ich for he writes As many of you know I was and am a sup porter of Chamberlain and Mu nich Incidentally those who heard Sir Winston Churchills voice over the air on his recent visit to Ottawa would hardly suspect thai he was either senile or weak The voice of the most disting uished of living men was strong and vibrant as ever As for Mr Eden what appears to have aroused the ire of Sir Severely more than anything else is the cartoonists emphasis on his physical appearance follow ing a long illness and happily his recovery from it It was a deplorable emphasis unworthy of the best traditions of a great art and a code of decent human behavior As Sir Beverley says When a statesman is fighting his countrys cause in a foreign cap ital you do not ridicule his face and proclaim that his legs like his mind are weak and wobbly and concludes Eden is a man of honor and a man of courage ranch The weekly publication Punch subtitled the London Charivari one of Englands oldest Journ als It was founded in the year by Henry and Mark Lemon In Us pages have ap peared contributions from some of the most distinguished writers and artists Included among them were such names as those of Thackeray Thomas Hood the author of Song of the Shirt a hitter attack in verse on the em ployment of garment workers at starvation wages John Sir John Tennlel George Maurier Phil May and Sir Bern ard Partridge Punch has had an uneven hist ory In the quality of its literary and artistic contributions and for years It lapsed into a mere milk and water publication with no claim to its fighting title A change of editorship has apparently pumped new life into it and in the above instance at least has given offence to a great writer who has always supported freedom of the press and fought against interference with it Services Of Punch English literature at its best has at all times contained two outstanding qualities namely humor and satire The pages of Punch at their best contained both humor and satire Neither quality is easy to explain hut when you see them in print you easily recognize them Was a service of Punch to satirize the pompous and the rid iculous posing as important Pol iticians and people In high places AURORA BOOK MUSIC SHOPPE Stationery Greeting Cards etc Agent For Era Classified Ads THE MISSES WOOD St Make It A Habit Meet Your Friends At The D HESS Store Two Graduate Pharmacists St Aurora PA Emerges Calls Telephone Era and Express classifieds bring J WILLIS The Drug Store News agent Tobacconist etc Business Founded Ton Aurora Telephone PA constituted its special People in high places that is whose often selfimposed task was to put the world in order There will be occasions when the satirical writer perhaps be cause of the best of motives will overreach his intentions But if his motive is always clearly in- spired to ridicule pompous poses and to sift the grain from the chaff in public life the occasion al lapse will be forgiven him At least he is trying to keep what has been well described as a sense of proportion concerning the things that matter Sir Beverley Baxters tribute to the new editorial management of Punch is contained in what he told the editor that he wanted to take out a years subscription because of what you are doing with the old weekly As he says any editor in the world would be pleased and encouraged by- such a message And it was my intention to encourage him The Cartoon The cartoon like the picture can often tell a story better than it can ie told in words There is an old Chinese maxim which says that one picture is worth a thousand words One of the greatest of all car toonists was an employee for many years of the Canadianborn Lord His name is David Low He often took for his subject of fun and satire Lord himself who if re ports can be believed enjoyed Lows thrusts as much as read ers themselves With a few deft strokes of his pan Low coulcl pierce the pomp ous surface of many pretentious hides and thus with the genius which he possessed fulfil the biblical injunction that those who exalted themselves would be humbled It is the mission of the inform ed cartoonist to achieve with his picture the more labored task of the writer with words Modern Gentility Although modern war is more fierce than ever before there is a greater gentility today in ex changes between public men than was the case in the days of the giants such as Disraeli and Gladstone not to mention Lord Randolph Churchill father of Sir Winston The article by Sir Beverley Baxter reminded us of some political broadsides we have pre served for some years On one of these there Is a cartoon on the front cover of Lord Randolph Churchill who was secretary of slate under the premiership of the great Loixl Salisbury Lord Randolph Churchill had been speaking In the English provinces and making repeated attacks on Gladstone who had the unparalleled distinction of forming his fourth ministry in his year The following are samples of what Lord Randolph had to say of Mr Gladstone In the year After describing Mr Gladstone as an unkenneled fox the noble lord went on to describe his polit ical opponent as a poltroon and a traitor in the garb of a Minis- lor of the Crown Such- invectives sound strong enough but Lord Randolph con tinued to denounce Mr Gladstone as a purblind and sanctimon ious Pharisee and that evil and moonstruck Minister A great churchman theolo gian and scriptural writer Mr Gladstone said Randolph attends Divine service as a per sonal and political advertise ment The Other Side The cartoon of Lord Churchill shows him shaped to a form re sembling an angry dwarf twirl ing with his diminutive lingers a long curling moustache while his little beady black eyes protrude below arched eyebrows that sug gest the face of Below the cartoon arc the fol lowing lines Who shames Lord Randolph break our cobweb thro He spins the slight selfpleasing web anew Destroy his or sophistry in vain The creatures at his dirty work again Such were the great days of English political oratory and the use of the cartoon neither of which spared anybodys feelings Adjective and personal insult are not so common In this genera tion K A ANNOUNCEMENT For The Best Deal In ALUMINUM DOORS and WINDOWS call Jack PA FREE ESTIMATES Day or Evenings OB BOX Aurora News Page J SINCLAIR Editor OFFICE HALL AURORA TELEPHONE PA PAGE FIVE THURSDAY THE FIFTH DAY OF AUGUST NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYFOUR EDITORIALS SOME UNFINISHED BUSINESS Some things are interesting to remember Two or three ago we recall a new member of council since departed and gone his way at the first meeting of the the He parried many plans for progress in his head and that of We recall that the veteran Councillor Vic Jones said wryly that find plenty to doF Councillor suggested that during that year a list of unfinished business might be carried through from meeting to meeting so that nothing would be overlooked Unfinished Business is the problem We could make a sizeable list of it gating from January Hydro poles on the west side of Main St came before council at its first meeting of when the chairman of the finance committee was asked to contact the hydro superintendent The poles are still standing a council meeting in January Mrs Zimmermans business representative appeared before council to ask what progress had been made towards getting an amend ment to the Official Plan He was told an amendment would be submitted as soon as possible As everybody knows by now Mrs Zimmermans subdivision still stands idle thus far There have been several meetings concerned with the disposal plant since the subject was mentioned by the mayor at the February meeting of council Noth ing appears to have eventuated beyond the purchase of some perfume to minimize the summer odors Sewers and paving on Centre St were to be undertaken this year Nothing so far has happened The above are a few items of Unfinished Business and we have dived no deeper into council minutes than the foregoing A further list could be provided LETTING THE PEOPLE KNOW The DeputyReeve of Aurora is a busy man in muni cipal affairs Last week we published a statement he made to the town council on the board week we have the pleasure of publishing an address he gave to the Aurora on his experiences in county council Unfortunately the people of Aurora have not been told much on county council matters by former warden and reeve for several years Mr A A Cook It is good news that the deputyreeve a very different attitude is taken Mr Murray is to be congratulated on his policy of enlightenment for the people WEATHER J Priestley the distinguished English essayist novelist and playwright once said in a broadcast that England had weather and Canada had climate A wellknown Canadian once said that Canadas climate had two seasons The one was for sunburn and the other was for frostbite Weather probably has more to do with ones tude to life and the world than is generally suspected A live brisk day reacts favorably on most people send ing up their spirits and producing a sense of optimism towards the world in general A humid moist day de presses the spirits and begets a tendency to unjustified nagging and faultfinding If weather could speak it could boast that it is the most discussed of all subjects To some men you might say that Mozart was the greatest of all composers or varying the subject that Shaw was a greater writer of plays than Shakespeare All you would get in reply would be a look if resembling a cow chewing the cud But just mention the weather and he will spring to attention and tell yoitvaH about his rheumatics and aching joints Without weather to discuss this would be a very dumb world It is the universal standby THE IMMIGRANT He sat at a table in the restaurant sipping his cup of coffee We tried to make conversation with him but he did not speak our language nor we his He had managed to order his cup of coffee with some difficulty Afterwards he was alone with his thoughts Around him were people in gay mow as they drank from cups or enjoyed the contents of tall glasses He was alone in a new country He was young blonde and goodlooking Something had brought him here away from the land where he was born He had a story if one could have learned it But where there is no medium of understandable speech there can be no communication He would have an uphill fight But he had the future before him It may be that in the years to come he will look back with pride on the resolution that brought him to Canada But as he sat alone with his cup of coffee his thoughts appeared to be far away Perhaps he was thinking of his MotherLand and wondering why he had come so far To look on a face filled with such loneliness is not a happy experience the more so when one can do noth ing to help ADDRESS TO Aurora DeputyReeve Talks On New County Council Setup Invited as guest speaker to the Aurora Rotary club Mr J Murray DeputyReeve of Aurora chose his experiences on county council as the subject of his address Aurora News Page is pleased to publish the following excerpts from it Editor HOW GOES THE GARDEN Half The Ground Now Bare But Other Things In View Our recent little article on amateur gardening seems to have pleased a few readers So in answer to one questioner on How Goes The Garden we are catching up where we left off a few weeks ago After expressing his pleasure at being invited to speak to the and the privilege of taking as his address the subject of York county council in view of this being his first year as a county councillor Mr Murray stressed the fact that it was not possible to get a complete under- standIngpicounty council work inside a year or even two years He made reference to having become a county councillor in a difficult controversial and histor ical year and that as a result of having received an acclamation he had the distinction of being the first member appointed to the county council of the new county of York The New Situation DeputyReeve Murray referred to the now county council setup which meant that instead of there being representatives for municipalities representa tion had been reduced to mem bers consisting of reeves and deputyreeves representing municipalities Mr Murray pointed out that while the new county council had the burden of maintaining per cent of the roads of the original county they had less than per cent of its original assessment He then proceeded to Illustrate the financial difficulties with which the new county setup was faced by a chart of figures All of these expenses to a wealthy county said the deputy- reeve were just a few more taxes but to the county of today they are a very real problem and am very much afraid that for a year or so they will con tinue until the people are educat ed to live in what Is a rather moneyshy county Financial Help Urging that no one should feel too upset by the present picture that Is the picture as it may seem on the surface Mr Murray won on to say that the province had helped he undue burden by means of Hill SO However he pointed out thai you cannot apply for relief from an undue burden until you have actually paid out monies on that undue burden We in Aurora are like all the other municipal ities- in the county Wo dirt not assess enoujm for the county ra We In Aurora wall he St short and will therefore have to borrow that amount and cause a deficit against next years taxes Once we our county rate and do it borrow against next years taxes we will then oti undue burden the province The then by moans of will pay us through the county for our un due burden and this relief will pay the deficit we made against next years taxes Scrap County Council Mr Murray continued So when anyone says the severance of the county has caused a very great undue burden they are wrong because as of yet the county hasnt applied against undue burden If and when we apply to the then do not give us the required amount then and then only has the severance of the county been an undue burden to the remain ing county of York The county as it exists today is back to its original status of years ago as being a rural and urban county We are again a county of municipalities with similar problems and all have the same outlook We must now try to get uniformity in assessing planning policing health roads and all of the gov ernmental policies and practices that go to unite municipalities into one solid united county There are those who would say scrap county council here and now I am certainly not at this time going to get into that argument All I know is we have a county council be it good or be it bad and you and I at the moment cant change it So lets pull together and make the best of it Valuable Experience Of his experiences on the Aur ora town council and county council Mr Murray said To be a member of any municipal council for a year or two is an experience and training that any business man can ill afford to miss at one time or another To be a member of county council is just going along on the same thought To talk to people with the re sponsibilities of other municipal ities and find that we in Aurora are not the only town in Ontario that has high taxes planning board trouble assessment diffi culties arena problems park dis putes and all of the other discus sions that go to make up the running and managing of a mun icipality is valuable experience Going To Grow The deputyreeve after making reference to the changes that had brought on the removal of the county seal from Toronto to Newmarket spoke of the new county setup and his appoint ment to two committees the re afforestation and roads committees hi conjunction with the department of lands and for ests Hie main area said Mr Murray is the Vivian forest to the change in the financial picture the deputy reeve said it must have been wonderful have been on a committee in past years when to for or for your municipality was a mere drop the bucket He regretted he was a year loo late in being ap pointed to county council when he have gotten something for our town Giving a further chart of sta tistics of the county in relation to populations and assessments Mr Murray said the county of York is going to glow and grow fast and it might not be too many years before the county of York would have the fourth largest governmental body in the domin ion of Canada Introduced by John Willis Mr Murray received a vote of thanks for his in- It may be recalled that we were writing towards the end of the month of June and now we are into August August reminds us of an ancient English verse on the weather which runs as follows Cast neer a clout Till May is out And even June May be too soon Char in July You get a cold In your eye Change in August if you must But always remember To change back in September Although this is a satirical com mentary on English weather it has in some respects been most applicable to conditions in Aur ora thus far What August and September have in store for us has yet to be proven But the violent gale in July gave our staked tomatoes a terrible beating But they have recovered and most of them are well on the way to the tops of their poles Bloom and fruit are well intermixed Another Inventory Things have changed consider ably since our last inventory Our three rows of broad beans came to a fine maturity and pro vided a few succulent meals for household Our reward for our labor was to hoar it said thai they tasted good honest amateur gardeners ego swells with pride at the Sound of such words But we had forgotten the peas which preceded the broad beans We sowed Little Marvel Amer ican Wonder and Pro gress Truth compels us to ack nowledge that the yield was wonderful and of course we heard words of praise Two rows of Dutch Sets on ions have now been harvested and are in the drying good rows of mere are two Dutch Sets still to be in The leeks whose condition we lamented are now showing steady growth but the parsnips are too small for hope The cry weather has held them back although ihavjs given them attention with the watering can The weather has indeed been so dry that the robins have been pulling up the turf in their search for worms which they cannot find If this statement is doubted proof could be supplied by our good neighbor Mr George whose excellent lawn was mutilated in parts by hungry robins in search for worms Rob ins which dare to attack a bank ers lawn must indeed be hard pressed Not Too Bad Half our vegetable garden now lies bare But the other half is not too bad Our Irish Cobbler potatoes ming up good The Brussels with the aid of dust to check butterflies are shaping well The Hubbard Squash is good and the Scarlet Runners are in bloom Some folks grow Scarlet for decorative purposes only We grow them for the beans they produce Hie Scarlet Runner bean is an excellent vegetable Swiss Chard has not been so good with us this year The same goes for carrots which have been adversely affected the long dry spell But In spite of this that and the other the amateur garden er can have a good time of it with his hoe and his pipe always providing ho can accept his dis appointments philosophically may well be that our next review of this subject will describe the last festival of the season the garden bonfire What would any garden be without Its bonfire Davis said he had always been against the new park but had been influenced to vote for it in the first place by some elo quence he had heard Now he said he was against the park for several reasons among them the high taxes al ready in force the fact that a new disposal plant expense was coming up in the neighborhood be assumed which could quite cost the taxpayer ap proximately 7000 or 8000 He also estimates that from a very good residential subdivision the property concerned taxes of as much as 8000 to annu ally would be lost This land says the deputy- reeve has been nothing but ag ricultural land for many many of 200000 and in any case he years and not very good land at didnt want that sort of park that so now why should it said he agreed with what Councillor Corbett had said to province for relief and they I and valuable address WHAT THEY ARE SAYING What Is Behind The Pressure That Town Purchase Park On Friday of last week the deputyreeve of Aurora let loose a broadside on the small but obstinate group of new park supporters who are still trying to rally sup port for their plans In this instance Mr J Murray delivered his blow through the mail boxes Before we come to that let us mention a letter and an edi torial that appeared in last weeks Aurora Banner Appar ently these especially the edi torial sparked Mr Murray into immediate action The letter was unsigned and bore the pen- name of Cousins Drive wonder who wrote it We wonder who wrote It be cause there are four words in it which wo have seen before In Banner unsigned letters After praising the Banner for its high merits Cousins Drive says that it gives a clear picture of events without distortion or malice If anybody believe the latter statement we suggest that he contact Councillor Bill Davidson Without distortion or mal ice What a story Tin Editorial The Banner editorial is head lined Indignation Over Park Heal Grows One might sup pose that the whole town Is burning with furious temper because the proposal to buy the ten acres of farmland at was turned down on a majority vote of five to four In the boiling broth of words the editorial gives Councillor Clarence Davis a sizzling because he backed down from his former Yes vote to a No vote But in the heat of its indignation the Banner made a false against Mr Davis It charged that he gave no explanation for his change of opinion The charge is absolutely un true In explaining his change of opinion when the vote was taken at council Councillor against the new park and cer tainly Mr Corbett said plenty The editor of the Banner was present to report that meeting and must have heard these things said unless he is deaf or fell asleep during the debate and we dont believe either is true Why therefore did he publish an editorial falsely alleging that Councillor Davis gave no ex planation for his change of opinion The Weak Link Councillor Clarence Davis is an amiable goodnatured fel low who it seems to would like to please everybody In public life that simply cant be done A public man who makes no enemies never makes any thing Because of his amiability Clarence has been described as the weak link on council Possibly the Banner surmizes that if it gives Councillor Davis a hard enough rating hell swing round again and vote Yes if through some expert dicker ing another vote on the new park proposal is foisted on coun cil If that is the calculation we think it will be proved wrong We dont think for a moment that Councillor Davis would rat on himself and that is just what he would be doing if he swung around and voted Yes against his own No of a few weeks ago Murrays Broadside On Friday last DeputyReeve J Murray circularized the taxpayers of Aurora through the mail on a leaflet which car ried eight points of argument against any revival of the pro ject of buying the 10000 park They are the same arguments which Mr Murray used at coun cil when he along with Coun cillors Davidson and Moffat voted the park out Before enumerating his eight condemnatory points Mr Mur ray says years council in the best interests of the taxpay ers of Aurora saw fit to turn down the expense of a new park at the south end of town east of the high school For the re mainder of this year at least that should have been the end of it Nevertheless there is small group of people still try ing to force this property onto the taxpayers whether they want it or not From there on the leaflet riddles the arguments for the buying of a new athletic field They say we need another ath letic field but when all the facts arc known we have about as much use for another athletic field as we have for another thumb Mr Murray indicates that if the town assumed ownership of the land half of the cost of open ing up the extension of Dun ning Avenue also have to be worth 10000 just keep it for park land Finally says Mr Murray It all sums up that it would bo a mighty costly piece of land for the taxpayers to own EVEN AS A GIFT The question is What lies be hind this drive on the part of the Banner and a small group of people for the town to buy this park There appears to be something that has not come the open Parade of Dogs For the last two weeks our corner on Spruce and Maple has been the scene of a parade of an army of dogs Black spotted yellow and brown dogs career ing over the lawns and gardens Arent their owners aware that there is a bylaw enforcing all dogs to be tied up in summer time Or dont their owners care two hoots on whose gardens and lawns their pets circum navigate AURORA News Mr and Mrs Doug have returned from a vacation Mr and Mrs Eric Harris and family are vacationing on Geor gian Bay Mrs F J Armstrong accom panied by her three sons is on a visit to her parents Mr and Mrs Leslie Wilson Spruce St Mr and Mrs Edward Yule of Alexandria Indiana and Miss Bremnan have been visiting with Miss Lemon Dr Orr Mulligan has re turned from a months vacation at his summer home in Nova Scotia Mrs Mulligan is staying on for a longer period Mr and Mrs Doug Wilson and family have returned from a va cation in Western Canada Mr Don Watson was the solo ist at the Aurora United church on Sunday last Mrs Lambert will be the soloist on Sunday morning August and on Sunday August the solo ist will be Mrs Murray Young the former Lorraine York County Hospital Needs Your Donation For Friendly Personal Service Shop At JOHN MORNINGS DRUG STORE St FA I a lckil