3- Freedom Of Press Supported A good deal is said of a transitory nature and consequently is soon forgotten Occasionally something is said that sticks for the reason that it has been in the minds of many people for a long time but they have waited for someone to become vocal about it Such an instance is before us now We refer to the attack recently made by Rev Gordon Smyth Un ited church pastor St Toronto on the increasing tend ency to commercialize funerals and to lavish heavy expenses on flowers for the dead- It requires moral bravery to speak out in terms of denunciation such as those by Rev Smyth in a recent address to his Sunday morning congregation and the reverend gentleman is to be con gratulated on his courage He is reported to have suggest ed that Protestants not criticize Roman Catholics and their pay ing lor mass cards when they see up to in flowers lav ished on a single Protestant fun eral and added that as a matter of fact we can take a out of the Catholic book He said also that there is too much hushhush about death and that the atti tude to it is pathological and unhealthy A Money Racket Rev Smyth had some strong words of denunciation for certain types of advertising by commer ciallyminded funeral directors lie said he had received an ad vertisement from one funeral director which stressed that his had a private compartment for the bereaved family from which the mourners might look out on the congregation without being seen In a caustic comment Rev Smyth said What have they in mind A game of hideandseek or the worship of God which is our refuge and strength There is increasing evidence of the evils of commercialism taking hold of the emotional tensions Inseparable from death To put it in plain terms there is a cer tain type of funeral director who displays a keen resolution to ex tract as much profit out of the necessities of burial as his busi ness acumen can command So much so that burial of the dead is becoming a money racket The bereaved are showered with attention from the time of the death to the funeral says Rev Gordon Smyth but it is afterwards when they are alone that they need comfort and com pany Gaudy Displays Death the last solemn act and it of all things should be free from gaudy displays We speak only for oneself but for years we have felt on the subject that evoked such strong comment from the United church pastor We have never concealed our desires from our relatives that when finis comes Make It A Habit Meet Your Friends At The ODHESS Ml A Store Graduate Pharmacists St Aurora Tel Emergency Call Tel effecting etc gent For JCra Classified Ads WHIT LAWS Avror to us there shall be only simplic ity and no moaning at the bar We have a deep dislike of dis plays on these solemn occasions where we think extreme priv acy few words no flowers and no peeking should be the rule Death is not a carnival it is the end and should be so respected We might add to this since we are writing frankly on a matter common to ail mortals that for many years we have believed in cremation as against burial We would be remembered if possible not for the last scene but for any action or word of usefulness performed or Go On Barkinf Since as Charles Lamb wrote a dog is better than a dead Hon we will continue to do some barking for as long as we may This time we will bark through the medium of The Municipal Council in Ontario booklet a clipping from which a reader of Aurora News Page has been good enough to put in our hands The clipping concerns the work of the press in municipal matters and here are some quotations which we applaud While it holds no official position in muni cipal government the press plays an important and useful part in its operation It Is largely through the columns of the newspaper that the citizens obtain their in formation with respect to what matters are being dealt with by their council and their disposi tion In this the press serves as a connecting link between the council and its people and serves to protect the electors and lax- payers by keeping councils under close scrutiny While the representatives of the press have no special rights they have the same rights of at tendance at council meetings and access to public records as other inhabitants of the municipality Although the representatives of the press may be excluded from committee meetings experience shows in the long run in most matters il is better to have the representatives of the newspap ers get the correct story first hand than to get a garbled ver sion of the proceedings by indir ect means Most newspapers can be re lied upon not to publish infor mation which clearly not in the public interest to have pub lished In fairness to the rep resentatives of the press how ever it should he remembered that their business is to get news and necessarily to print only what the council or a member of council wants to be published There is probably no other agency in a community that can do more to promote or obstruct good municipal government than the local press Clipping From USA Mr Robert Cornish Mass- when he vas here in Aurora at Cornish family reun ion promised to send us some American literature on planning hoard activities and the booklets duly arrived a few days ago With these Mr Cornish also en closed a clipping from maga zine Pathfinder which this question Does your paper criti cize whats bad in your town or does it pussyfoot Going on to ask How Good is Your Paper and la Your local weekly giving you ail the Page Col AURORA AND DISTRICT KENNEL CLUB The Aurora and Kennel Club To Announce that it will be holding it Annual Dor Show Richmond Hill Arena on May 106S The Show in order to keep it hero in Aurora more would required The mem bers decided that the Club wan not yet in a financial to the expenditure necessary to procure required tenting The Richmond Hill Arena will provide the required facilities at a Having usual policy of donating fit of our profits to a worthy charity or organization will be continued This year percent of the percent will go to York County Hospital at Newmarket v- Club taken this opportunity of thanking all who have supported It for two years and hopes it will continue to have your support Wilson Publ Representative AURORA TELEPHONE Aurora THURSDAY THE FIFTH DAY OF FEBRUARY NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYTHREE EDITORIALS PETTY JEALOUSIES It is a pity that petty jealousies intrude so much upon public affairs but there is no denying that such is the case Someone does a good in the public in terest Because of the stand he has taken he receives newspaper publicity and there petty jealousy begins Why is he receiving so much notice ask the jealous- minded and the rot starts Why shouldnt a man or a woman in public life who displays a capacity for useful public service receive more attention than the drones The drones are all too numerous You find them on all public bodies They sit around mouthing the timeworn platitudes follow ing the cue which they think will be to their own best interests When someone lets off a healthy blast they denounce him as a trouble maker Or they use other less obvious methods for his dis posal If they cannot silence him thoy will use what ever means they can to eliminate him They use back door methods They line up against him and vote him down These are the cagey fellows who have gotten themselves into office not for the public interest but only for their own interests For some reason or other they have an axe to grind By what test shall a public man be judged One immediate proof of his sincerity will be his readiness to give credit where credit is due If his neighbor in office does a good job he will speak up for him with words of commendation Further than that he will put his praise into practice by assisting in promoting him so that he will do further useful work Above all lie will not be jealousminded He will prove himself a man not a maggot DANGEROUS LIVING The other week we set down a few thoughts on what we called The Way to Health There was noth ing scientific in what had to say What we wrote we have tried ourselves to practice for many years in case with results Something more would like to say and here it is We have known a few men who have retired after successful lives spent in business Some of them have not lived long after the break Having grown into a rut they could not survive its dismemberment They have found time hanging on their hands not knowing what to do with it Or they have taken up some other pursuit to fill the empty void and worn themselves out in the process The mind keeps the body going A healthy mind and a healthy body nearly always go together If there is a likelihood that a man will retire at a certain age from an avocation he has followed through the major part of a lifetime he should prepare in advance for the change He should have something to turn to to keep his mind employed When he is past sixty he should not be thinking of manual work as a hobby unless he Is a physical phenomenon and they are rare at sixty An example of dangerous living after retirement occurs to in the ease of a valued friend For many years he held an important position as an accountant After retirement ho took it easy for a time Then he built himself a new home with a large garden attached He was warned that the garden would wear him out It did It gave him two seasons only As one grows older it imperative that physical effort should be modified A garden spado can be a pleasure but It can also bo a killer for those who in their years of retirement abuse it WHO READS THEM NOW Authors like last years row of runner beans come and go Some of thorn come on to the stage of public favor in a blaze of such acclamation that It might seem that they would stay popular forever Then there comes a change In fashion of reading and their names disappear from notice For there is a fashion in read just as there are changes in the fashions of the clothes wo wear In the early twenties there was Lawrence and his neurotic explorations of inhibitions of extrovert and introverts Out of the gloomy introspective mirage In which his sensitive mind was employed there did come one fine healthy book It was entitled Twilight in Italy and it pages contain of tho finest prose in the English language But a fnlr question Is Who reads Lawrence today One of the most prolific of all contemporary writ ers is He wrote a great travel book packed with philosophical reflections and it called Path to Rome Ho wrote another great in brief form called The Servile State in which he pre dicted what has already been realised namely the soc ialization and growth of communism in many parts of the world We wonder If many people read today Who rends George today Yet ho was a great wrltter and his Private Papers of Henry is among classics Is there today who Thomas It could be that few people on thin continent have over hoard of him Yet half century ago his numb was as familiar as that of Queen Victoria Who his contemporary John And do many people now rend Charles At present we are reading a very modern work It Is Popes Essay On Man It was published about years Ago Tho reason why it still modern ia human nature not changed a subject which Pope most deeply understood COUNCIL REPORT Acted Like Spoiled Child Says Councillor Of Planning Board Member Who Resigned Highlighting a regular meeting of the town council held on Monday Feb with Mayor Rose presiding and all members present the rejection of Mills for reappointment to the Planning Board With four members voting for him and four against Mayor Rose gave his vote against the motion bringing about its defeat Early business brought a The nominations were on a charge of Clarke and W S Mills for by the town foreman fori three year terms and J A gravelling work arising I dill for one year the latter nom- out of the icy condition of the ination to fill the unfinished streets This cost was question ed by several members of coun cil and on the suggestion of Reeve Cook and Councillor Jones this item in the monthly accounts was held over for con sideration by the Finance com mittee Correspondence included ap pointment of Mr Don Glass by the Board of Trade for a further term as representative on the Recreation Commission Coun Cillers Davidson and Murray will be councils representatives on the commission Waterworks employees re quested an increase in wages in accordance with increases grant ed to other town employees The application was held over for further consideration Delegations president of the Board of Trade waited on conn cil to urge the printing of leal- lets boosting the town of Aurora a proposition that was made at last years council He also urg ed for stricter application of the pedlars bylaw to safeguard local merchants from the un fair incursions of travelling hawkers Councillor Jones thought that on leaflets should bo limited to about 100 but Reeve Cook said ho thought that figure was too low The matter was held over for the Board of Trade to submit a specific estimate of costs The county weed inspector Mr asked council to take steps towards the elimina tion of In Aurora the prevalence of which he said was law He urged a campaign for roadside loantips Ho mentioned the month of July as the period when ragweed was in lift most prolific stages of growth Coronation Little Symphony Mr Hod Smith and Mr John appeared a delegation in support of the Coronation Little Symphony orchestra Act ing spokesman Mr Smith said orchestra now compris ed about players nil of whom had bought their own instru ments Reviewing the activi ties of the orchestra he said they were short of funds for pur chase of music and other uses They hoped council might grant them a sum of from to Mayor Hose expressed his support for orchestra Ho noted that Mr Hugh of Gray- stones had been very helpful mutter of grant left hi the hands of the Finance com mittee Lighting Mr George Baldwin and Mr Charles Copland appeared on term resulting from Mr Mills resignation Councillor Moffat asked whe ther it was not the business of council to make recommenda tions and appointments to the planning board To this ques tion Mayor Rose replied that all appointments to the planning board were made by council Councillor Davidson said he considered that Mr Mills had been guilty of a breech of eti quette towards council and he was strongly opposed to his re appointment He should have apologized like a man wild Mr Davidson instead of which he acted like a spoiled child Councillor Davidson said the resignation should stand Mayor said council had asked MvT Mills to reconsider his resignation and he had re fused to withdraw it Councillor Davidson said he considered it was bad form on the part of the planning board to submit his name again and Councillor Jones said his view was that the resignation still stands No One Dissented After Reeve Cook had present ed a motion seconded by Depu tyReeve Murray that Mr Mills be reappointed along with the other nominations Councillor J Murray fuse to what proved to be a lengthy and withering address in which he reminded council that no dissented from the stand Mayor Rose had taken in tho situation that had arisen last year Now ho said some of you want Mr Mills back Rending from the two letters Mr Mills had sent to council Councillor Murray said that if he knew so much about council procedure the best thing he could do to come onto coun cil The trouble would bo to get the people to elect him said Mr Murray Reminding of the striking committee that they hud kepi him off I ho committee of which he was last years chair man Mr Murray It seem ed to Hurt what Mr Mills did Inst year didnt matter but what he Murray had done did seem to matter in a reference apparently to his criticism of arena boards failure to its job A Tied Vote DeputyReeve Murray said ho wholeheartedly disagreed with everything that Councillor Mur ray had said adding it bad for the town Councillor Moffat at this point called for a vote saying there had been enough talking Councillor King said ho would support the nomination of Mr Mills with both Reeve Cook A number of ladies of the Presbyterian Missionary Society attended the East held in Calvin church Toronto on Thursday last week- Mrs Dan Webster of Lindsay and Mrs Harry Goodman Tor onto were recent guests of Mrs Charles Webster Mr and Mrs Don Stevenson and family of St Thomas have been visiting for the past week with Mr and Mrs Lambert Will- son Following the usual choir practise at the United church on Thursday night Rev Mr installed the following officers for Past President Mrs Roy Miss Leila Boynton Vice Miss Leila Reynolds Sec Miss Vir ginia Bunt Social Miss Mildred Graham Social Comm Mrs flowers and cards Mrs gowns and telephone Mrs lib rarian Miss attend ance Ted McClenny Mr and Mrs Ben Harrison Wednesday by plane for England where they will visit for Trinity Anglican held a sewing meeting at the home of Miss on Tuesday Mr J Buchanan has been elected chairman of the recrea tion commission He succeeds Glass who has held the for 3 years Mr and Mrs Mclntyre attended the January night at the Royal York for the auxiliary of the Womens College Hospital They were the guests of Dr Marjory The Evening Auxiliary of the United church was held on Tues day evening at the home of Mrs Miss Lucille Case spending her leave at her home before re turning to her new post at Ed gar The of the United church held February la the church parlors on Thurs day afternoon Mrs Geo Walk er was in charge of the study book Along Afrkan Trails Mrs was soloist The Evening Auxiliary of the Presbyterian church met on evening at the home of Mrs Ness St North of hydro commission Davis taking a In connection with proponed now With Dr standing outside council chamber presumably waiting to learn o councils decision Mayor asked if iiny member of council would to ask him any questions Councillor King ho would llko to Dr question At this point Dr Moulding in doorway of council asked by Councillor King if ho felt that Mr Mills was vory much want hack by planning board Dr said ho regard ed Mr Mills as the most member of planning board Councillor Davidson then Col m lighting facilities for main street Mr Copland dealt in detail with two types of lighting say ing that ho in the Interests of growth of town Au rora should havo best pos sible lighting system on Ha main street It was resolved that fi nance and streets committees should confer on with hydro commission their conclusions studied by council Committee reports wore from Councillor Murray fire and committee and from Councillor Davidson chair man of tho health and sanitation committee Purchase of and firemens coats featured chairman Murrays report and after discussion report was approved Chairman Davidson for health and sanitation committee recommended that storekeepers should not burn paper and card- board behind their prom ises as this produced a fire risk Ho suggested that got to gather mutual purchase of an incinerator which should not prove costly Concerning application made by J Buchanan for an increase in price of garbage collections It was to grant an additional per an num Heading the problem of un finished Mayor said the nomination for the planning board required J WILLIS sy The Dm Store New Kent to fr Founded J For Friendly Personal l JOHN MORNING DRUG if tiL J- GENERAL CARPENTRY KITCHEN CUPBOARDS WALL AND FLOOR TILE TRIM GENERAL REPAIR AT A REASON RATE mm Phone Newmatket u IT rv ffA J rfriiiJCflV S Dr Jenkins wis of a Dental Practice Aurora Ml v iv Location Dr street Aurora Time Each Saturday Iingtoi afternoon t frir im mm iU In ra AURORA MONDA DOORS OPEN ftfli JMRST MO SATURDAY DOORS Ml FRIDAY AND J m MIGHTIEST SIA ANDJKV AOVENTURi iT CARLSON tm frfejA v i TAB if DONALD AUDI ml VAN A I I I n K I fs