Places Wed Like To Revisit But Distance Is A Handicap As we explained in last weeks issue during the next few weeks of holidays and the temporary suspen sion of town organizations we are from time to time replacing the usuaL columns What They Are Saying by other feature articles This week we ask the topical question What Is A Holiday Editor Aurora News Page Aurora Social News I I DOAN HALL AURORA TELEPHONE Recently we were when we were going on holiday We explained that we did not know and later we pondered the ques tion As a matter of fact we have not had a holiday in the or dinary use of the term for sev eral years What would we do with a holiday anyway What essentially is a holiday Change of location change of routine But we are not consci ous of routine Sitting at a type writer does not jar on us After a few hours at the typewriter we often feel tired But to feel tir- ed is a healthy condition We sleep better when we are tired And there is nothing more enjoy able than sound sleep Hither And Yon We know people who think of a holiday as a period spent on long motor trips We shudder at such a prospect We are not too fond of motoring except for a bit of meandering around the countryside So a long motor trip would tire us to death That would not be a holiday It would be a tribulation calling for a period of rest and recuperation Of course we could go to one of the lakes and sit around and do nothing But to be occupied in doing nothing would be a ter rible bore Some fishing some one may suggest We think we would soon tire of this amiable way of wasting time In any case would want a typewriter so that we could record our im pressions But to take a type writer with us would be a hdliday We Would Like Something we would like would be lo return to the scenes of our very early boyhood and look them over again But lo do would have to cross the Atlantic and go into the county of Durham in England There would go to a small but very old village bearing the pictur esque name of Hawthorne It la situated almost midway between happy boyhood memories were restored to us by talking with a man who knew the place well We have met Mr Grant only once but if he should read these lines he will learn that got a most unusual pleasure from his knowledge of our boyhood habitat where our people mi grated from near the city of where we were born A Real Holiday To revisit the scenes of boy hood days would be a real holi day for us Other places we vould like to revisit To walk once again along Princess St Edinburgh or travel by boat and view again Loch Lomond just as the sun is setting such experi ences would be a real holiday Or to visit again the eastern counties of England especially Norfolk and Suffolk and sit in the cool of a summers day in any of the old Anglican churches that have remained as they are not for years but for centuries Beautiful old churches where the are always unlocked and ineie is no sound on week days except the melodic striking of ancient clocks These are nos talgic Memories and nostalgia is a sentimental disease that is bet ter avoided Seeing Canada Perhaps we should suspend Aurora yews Page for a month and go out from our corner house and go and see Canada But one could not see all the glories of Canada in a single month Such an expedition would need about a years travel So we must rely on radio and advertising descriptions and tales from fortunate travellers to augment our knowledge of this domain of lakes forests cities towns and villages the rolling prairies and sparkling streams of this fair land But lo suspend Aurora News Page for a month only while it would undoubtedly please a few PAGE NINE THURSDAY THE THIRTIETH DAY OF JULY NINETEEN HUNDRED AND another very old village I people would be equivalent for the name of By one of those rare coinci dences that happen about once in a lifetime we met a man in Canada who was well acquainted with our boyhood habitation We met him in the Era and Express office and his name is John Grant the manager of the theatre at Newmarket It was a real holiday thrill for us to dis cover one man in this wide world and at such distance who knew the old house that stands alone near the highway from to Hawthorne and the name of which was Eagle Hall socalled because of two stone figures of eagles that stood permanently perched on the east and west gables of the timeworn grey residence It was a thrill for us since I us to the severing of a main artery Why should we prove so selfish as lo abandon our work for a month and leave our many loyal supporters and friends lo groping in the dark to find the news that matters We could not be found guilty of such foul desertion Besides there are the toma toes on stakes in the garden to he cared for the onion patch to be tended the scarlet runners lo be looked over the elongating arms of the Hubbard squash to be trained to keep within bounds the produce to be liar- vested and enjoyed Wo have found the answer to our ques tion Take a holiday in the gar den Of course we may still change our mind and for a few days REFERS TO RECORD Candidate Jack Smith Says Canada Envy Of The World In a minutes informal address made without to the Aurora Liberal Womens Association Mr Jack Smith Libera member for the North York federal riding for the past eight yearn and candidate for reelec tion on August referred his listeners to the record of the government In which he said he felt great pride Social welfare in Canada was the best in the world he said under a Liberal government Speaking of the North York riding Mr Smith it hud his toric links of which the constitu ents and the people of Canada took pride for It had Imd its members prime minister and two of Can ada For Mich reason and also because of the confidence the electors had placed in himself in returning him us their member on two elections Mr Smith said he felt a Just pride In being their member of parliament In the election Mr Smiths maj ority was and In 1040 this majority was increased to Stating that ho had attended many meetings and talked with large numbers of people during present campaign Mr Smith said he received constant assur ances of support for reelection on August If ho had a fear ho said it was that Liberal voters would take too much for granted The ballot box novo the final an swer he said and urged his sup porter to work hard for a great Liberal victory and get the vot ers to go to the polls In international affairs Mr Smith said tried men of experi ence were urgently needed at this hour and the government had such men In Prime Minister St Laurent and the Hon Lester Pearson Ho did not believe the Canadian people would exchange untried men for experienced men such as who hud made Canada one of the most envied nations of the world In closing Mr Smith said he had received strong support from the people of Aurora in and looked forward to a renewal of their confidence W EDITORIAL TIMID SOULS it Further to what we wrote last week concerning what we understood as Mr F Swindles objections to the naming of individuals in press reports of public discussions Surely it is apparent that in fairness to themselves those who take part in debates should be named Otherwise things that are said and lumped together in a mass anonymous report could be attribut ed to the wrong persons When a speaker says some thing and he is so reported the public are in a position to assess the value of what he has said Speeches cannot possibly be reported verbatim Newspapers have not the space for it AH that can be done is to condense the more important statements and leave out what to be less important A good reporter of experience can easily separate the wheat from the chaff A good reporter is often a speakers best friend inasmuch as he will often save the reputa tion of someone suffering from some irritation by sup pressing irrelevant or even libellous remarks To suggest what the press should or should not publish is a form of potential censorship Censorship is an evil and where it has flourished democracy has been liquidated We are quite certain that Mr Swindle had no such thought in his mind He was concerned with timid souls who he suggested were afraid to open their mouths because of the presence of the press If someone is too timid to speak because a newspaper re porter is present his opinions cannot count for much Hed much better stay put i WHO IS RESPONSIBLE On the face of it it would appear that the Parks Hoard is the responsible tody for the custody and up keep of the parks The very name of Parks Board suggests such a responsibility The Board was allo cated in and a similar sum for Obvi ously the bulk of this money would be used on caretaking purposes especially in view of the fact that the town and not the Parks Board pays the cost of hired help in summertime The recreation director and his assistant have to supervise and promote sports in the playgrounds While they could keep these facilities tidied up it is hardly reasonable to expect them to mow grass and do major repairs Either the Sports and Publicity committee of council or the Parks Hoard is in these circumstances a redundance Representatives of the several boards are to meet with council to iron these matters out and out of this meeting there should emerge necessary clear directives BLOODCURDLING HEADLINES The first purpose of every newspaper is to give news Some of this news must in the nature of things be horrible ami scarifying in character Unfortunately the more horrible the news the bigger the sales For a great number of people reports of crime inspire a pe culiar fascination the most docile and inoffen sive human beings will eagerly soak up minute details of murders and abnormal happenings It is the business of a newspaper to report such dreadful occurrences Unfortunately there are some editors who eagerly seize upon the most gruesome fea tures of a crime and give to their story the utmost bloodcurdling headlines Pedalled on the streets the headlines sell the papers We saw a headline the other evening and it almost made us sick It was one of the ugliest headlines wo have ever seen on a news paper with a groat circulation The headline was more than enough and we passed the story by It could he argued that the headline told the truth But the truth could have been told without browbeat inn the finer sensibilities of the reader Metaphorically speaking the bond lino was a deep streak of blond across the top of the page suggesting a ghastly episode Apparently it was assumed that thin would draw the crowds It was still more apparent that the editor thought ho understood his readers and did not give their Intelligence or finer feelings a very high rating CREDIT BALANCE PLEASE In another editorial in this issue we commented on bloodcurdling headlines At secondhand wo have It alleged against ourselves that wo look for what in sen sational in the interests of circulation To say that we do nothing of the kind will have no effect on those who wish to belie otherwise What we try and do la to report correctly what we hear at That wo consider is the duty of any who wishes sincerely to Inform the public Last week wo reported a pretty hectic meeting of Urn Commission It was hectic but it was also constructive Wo shared the opinion by Commissions vicechairman Mr Lea that the criticisms made would prove beneficial to fu ture work Tho point wo wish to make horn that anybody reading tho report of what took place would easily rec ognize that if wo had so desired we could made strong headlines out of It instead of the tamo ones we chose Strong words were spokon but wo them by for headlines that could not offend tho susceptibili ties of the mildest of parish curates Put that to our credit balance please COUNCIL SIDELIGHTS uest For Full Dress Report Upheld The last meeting of council was dull Sometimes it turned into a sort of whispering party with members talking between themselves We can only publish what we hear and teteatete conversations should be reserved for tea parties However it was a hot night and mem bers were panting for air rather than for There were moments of course when things took a turn for the better We shall touch Miss Marion Morris has been Vktorta BC visiting relatives in Kitchener Mrs Clarence and Miss Bailie visited for a few days last week with Mrs Doolittles mother Mrs Cook Ontario Mrs Roy and daugh ter Marie are on holi days in Cleveland Ohio Miss Joan Copland is holiday ing this week with her aunt and uncle in Windsor A number of prominent speak ers addressed the Womens Lib eral association at the Gray- stones on Monday afternoon Congratulations are extended to Mr George Lyon Centre Street who celebrated his birth day at the home of his daughter Mrs Joe on Saturday Mrs Clarence Davis and Mr and Mrs Walter spending their holidays at Lake Mr Albert will be the guest speaker at the United church on Sunday morning and his wife will be soloist Mr and Mrs Rod Smith at tended the New York last week during an inter of their vacation hi the United States The is a cultural activity embracing music lectures and preaching and has been in existence for the past years Air and Mrs have been on their annual cruise to Fort William Miss Margaret was the soloist at the morning vice at the United church on Sun were guests for a few days day with Mrs Willis at the last week of Mrs Wm organ on these presently For the moment we have to note a de cline in council manners We have the oldfashioned notion that when a member of council addresses the chair he or she should stand up This ride was observed during and for a time during But the rule has fallen from grace and most ly members sit and talk We dont think this is good form All remarks arc address ed to the chair and the chair should be respected This de cline In good manners can we believe he traced hack to the evening when present mayor blow his top and let loose his damned trash explosive If the mayor himself does not ob serve good manners he has no right to expect others to exer cise them Oat In The Open Councillor J Murray talked for some time on engineering work Hie mayor interrupted further comment by suggesting that the matter should be thrash ed out in the personal presence of the engineer We thought this was a fair suggestion and we very readily agreed to the request that we publish nothing on the matter until the engineer was present to answer any questions Beyond slating that the subject had been mentioned by Mr Murray we withheld our notes mayor asked council If the meeting would take place in committee or In ordinary coun cil Reeve Cook took the view that It should he a commit Ice meeting but his wish was not supported Councillor Moffat is In he congratulated on the stand she took that the meeting should have a full dress report This view was sustained and all matters with which Councillor J Murray was concerned will come up at the ordinary meet ing of council which will take place on Tuesday night August There have been too many closed meetings Whore public money is concerned debates on expenditures and the nature of the work Involved should he held In the open Only by observ ing this democratic principle can public confidence assured Planning Board Vacancy Cook reported that the vacancy on the planning board resulting from the resignation of Mr John was still not filled Mr Ray Jennings and Mr Charles navies the latter n former member of council and the planning board both to serve reeve said that Hie chairman of planning board Dr had suggest ed that the board was badly in need of an experienced man to the vacancy Thus the reeve once more introduced the names of Mr Mills and Mr Clarke but a strange silence fell on meeting at that point and these names were not mentioned again Then the reeve said the vac ancy would have to be filled and at once several names were mentioned namely Cameron Frank and Jack Hudson It was decided to phone these poss ibles and the situation was solved when Mr Cameron agreed to serve Other Vacancies Councillor Moffat was still in a quandary as she reported that the two vacancies on the new In dustrial Council had not been filled What are we going to do asked Mrs Moffat who stated that neither the board of trade nor the planning board had so far named their represent atives The councillor was anxious to know who would be the chairman and the reeve said that the Industrial Council would name Its chairman when the membership panel was com plete intriguing part of this sit uation Is that it was Mr Session of the board of trade who brought the Industrial Council proposition before the town council many ago In what seemed a great hurry Yet the hoard of trade has not yet named representative lias some thing gone wrong Have some plans misfired Mrs Moffat re ported that she had been unable to contact Mr It looks quite mid that the board which fathered the Industrial Coun cil notion should have fallen down In the naming of a rep resentative So far four members have been named namely Councillor Moffat for the town council Mr I ces for industry Mr Harry Jones for labor and Mr for the junior cham ber of commerce Besides the board of trade the planning hoard yet to name its nom inee Incidentally Mi Seston neither popped in nor popped out last council meeting nor did he send a letter Correction We owe correction if not an apology to Councillor Clarence Davis In our comments on the plant and the Collis Leal her company we referred to I he deputyreeve as the chairman the streets committee was last year but not this year lor has carried the load of chairmanship In We re gret the error mentioned tyne at Miami Beach Mrs Steels and daugh ters Islington are visiting With Mrs Steels mother Mrs Chas Webster Miss Helen Dickson left last week by plane to visit her brother Mr John Dickson and her sister Mrs McCarrol in The Youth for Christ Sunday evening services held in the town park are con tinuing to draw good attendanc es Future films include Lord of All and Decision On August Bill Parlane Toronto chalk artist will draw an illustrated sermon AURORA LEGION FIELD DAYS AUGUST and TowiM SPECIAL ARCHERY COMPETITION Local archers hereii Five ends at yard Elimination and final Saturday August 8 Get your entry Chuck Goodman Mar St Aurora phone Youre not as poor a think u k i k Nj J PM SATURDAY MCitMi FRIDAY AND SATURDAY JULY 31 MEETING Done Good Job For Years No Good Reasons For Change A Aurora Womens Association was hold at llto on Monday afternoon July and ably by the veteran Liberal speak er and president of tho association Mrs Charles who extended a cordial to visitors Other notable visitors were Mrs Airu Mrs Greenwood and Miss Laura him mooting Mr Mrs briefly reviewed political history of the North York riding She was followed by Miss NmiRhton who Raid the Liberal party of Why f wo know sho for something we dont know She Raid that their member Jack Smith a Rood Job for them during the pant right years She expreRaeil hope that Lib eral workers would work bard to pet out votor Mm Greenwood aW that North York was famous for tho representative It to parliament nod In of Ills print she felt elect owed It to Mr to re turn him with a Mr Cordon Ontario Liberal ansae- said that Smith them excellent and tic deserved renewed jtunport Mr Tack Smith whose In briefly reported In other eol- In Mm Webster and the Aurora Liberal for inviting i I A r A imii a Smith also extended to Mr and Mrs Melntyro for at the disposal of the The meeting with the sinning of the National Anthem and with Canada Mrs Roy was at piano County Hospital Heeds Your Donation DANCING SATUR Cedar W- Lake MumoI a MONDAY AND TUESDAY 4 COLORE At K WEDNESDAY T v s i