ARE SAYING v Awora Merchant Tells How Hes Left Holding The Bag A Main street merchant relates a disturbing story of what appears like shady work on the part of an adver tising canvasser who called on him and a number of other Aurora storekeepers and obtained subscriptions for which they did not receive the agreed service I his own That is an objective which all normal and healthy- minded young look forward to It is the natural plan of life and one that can yield unmeas ured joy and satisfaction If the chosen partner is the right one There is no happier man than he who is happily married Im getting nowhere he told us Its the same routine day by day One meets the same people day by day and it gets boring If I were in something creative I should feel happier Running a magazine must be an exciting life be some thing to look forward to each day and at the end of it there would be the satisfaction of hav ing created something that did not exist or Long ago we came to the con clusion that to give advice can be a very dangerous thing So we avoid it wherever possible But since we are old enough to be the father of the young man in question we did break our rule to tell him not to change his in a hurry That way may lie disaster We have seen it happen over and over again We have seen young men throw up a secure job in a belief that their talents could carry them to their objectives We have seen the pitiful results of job- hunting humiliation and heart ache One of the greatest authors of all time Thomas said that anyone advised a young man to take up a literary career was guilty of nothing less than a crime Great numbers of lesser Writers have endorsed sombre warning There are probably not a auth ors in the whole of Canada to day who are living a reasonably decent life the royalties de rived from their books Itch For A Change A Gardiner was editor of the London Daily News over a period of many years He was regarded as one of the greatest editors He was the author of many books One of these books we reviewed when we were young We sent our little re view to the late Mr Gardiner and added a note that he must find great pleasure in writing He was kind enough to send us a letter of thanks for what we had written and in it he said Often I have to write against the clock and that is hard But writing what pleases me is harder work still Good creative writing Is never easy Inspiration rttf be rul ed out Inspiration is nothing less than hard work And at the end of it come only an edi tors rejection slip Creative him very well By and large work we would say is for leisure he has not experienced any of its time the time left over from the hard knocks To a considerable remunerative work of the day extent ho is his own master his Ho any young man employer having the utmost wHli confidence in him His hours of a secure job to labor ore not long He is em- attractive because ployed in a bus creative features look which has stood the test of time before you leap Be sure that Thus he enjoys not only a you have what it takes to meet good salary but reasonable fu- the bill Bo surd that in a little ture security Still unmarried time you wont be jobhunting he looks forward to the day humiliation and heartache when he will make a home of the price of your discontent Sometime before the of the new telephone books the canvasser solicited payments for an advertisement which was to be circulated simultaneously with the mailing out of the new telephone books He brought with him a letter from a well- known source and on the strength of this Hie merchant handed over the required sum of money Other merchants in town did likewise Following up the letter the merchant made enquiries from the source of its origin ana re ceived assurances that the mat ter okay Nothing more has been heard of the canvasser or the money handed over him dejpite every effort made by the merchant to locate his where abouts Confirms Our informant tells us that when nothing came of the money he had paid out he wrote several letters and sent out a telegram to track down the canvasser but without success He communicated with the post mastergeneral and received confirmation that the had been picked up by the canvasser v-K- publicity has been giv en by the Aurora board of trade and other sources to investigate before you invest Our says that he did just that Here therefore appears to be a case where the board of trade might prosecute some vigilant research having regard the fact that its name was Wed by the canvasser who has left our informant and other merchants In town holding the bag Such a thing should not hap pen in our town said the mer chant who added that he was now considering the fullest pos sible legal action in the matter Let the chips fall where they may he said Ill see this thing through even if it costs me a hundred bucks Knowing him as well as do we know he isnt fooling Tired Of Ills Job The other day a young man of our acquaintance said he was tired of his job and would like to try his hand at something else Although he was not quite certain what the something was he thought he could do well in creative work- He has done a considerable amount of writing and we surmised that the creative work he had lit mind was a literary career The job he has at present is a professional one in which ho has been engaged for some years He is earning a good salary We would say that life has treated I OUTSTANDING MOVIES Movies Of Unusual Interest Presented At Royal Theatre Somo movies are movies arid Nothing of the best of them tftne there comes town a movie that besides providing enter value iftfo for immediate fl- Utwati- Aurora News J G SINCLAIR Editor OFFICE HALL AURORA TELEPHONE PAGE NINE THURSDAY THE TWENTYFIRST DAY OF JANUARY NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFFYFOUR THE IMMORTA WilIB On Jan i The first of is the of the royal tour of islands belter known friendly only visited by Her Majesty iiUcvn and the burgh wily lost approximalely hour rji V5iK product ion under of tie same Is Crowned music by Sir Malcoiin 11 will he recalled that the queen of the Fiji and Tonga is Queen whose personality made her one of the popular and best- loved figures during the Corona tion celebrations Passing through the London street during heavy rainfalls Queen Salute to travel either in automo bile or avail of the i ah that the people of and vlsitora to the Cor- should hot bo denied a of those come to Saloto brayed the conditions and appeared and bolster accorded presentations to which Jeall Moon la produced fyf the throe BroiulWoy i hafl ianoedi fc slates in movie has re- these haying been family month ly the JJiYv Post Dally Mirror and Time Magazine all praise The Moon Is A typical commendatory re view The Moon Is Blue surely figure in mo vie goers favorite list as the bright est most originally comedy of the year It is hard to imagine a more irre sistible plecoV The running time of the movie minutes and is strictly adult admission being open only to years of Star ling in an outstanding east are William David and Maggie Dates of presentation will he found in the theatre in adjacent column of this wcek TWOYEAR COUNCIL TERMS The suggestion made by Mr Ross Linton for stag gered municipal elections is well worth while discuss ing What it would mean in practice is this Air mem bers of council would not be seeking election in the same year if say twoyear terms were the practice It could be that half the members of council would retire while election for the other half would take place The merit of the proposal is contained in the fact of continuity of representation Whatever happened at any one election there would remain some experienced members on council We remember a few years back when a completely new council was elected at ville and the only experienced man left was the reeve who received an acclamation He told us that a lot of his time in the first part of the year was taken tip in teaching council procedure to freshmen v- Probably that was a rare instance of what could happen But the fact that it did happen is an argument in favor of the suggestion put forward by Mr Linton In the Old Country municipal government has been con ducted on a staggered basis of representation for as long as we can remember There members of council are elected for threeyear terms argument against the proposal is that poor sister might get elected for a couple of years and the municipality would lie stuck a until the twoyear term was up But that is a chance that has to be taken in any democracy It does not rule out the merit of the suggestion Councillor Bill Davidson has the concise aptitude of hitting a situation with a phrase When appli cation was before council for a sign extending oyer a sidewalk he tersely comniented Wc want to look like Chinatown He was not against store sighs which are a legitimate means of merchandizing hat he was against were signs that are an offence to the eye and a destroyer of a towns natural appearance ii Much pastoral beauty has been destroyed by indis criminate building in spite of the existence of planning hoards Many fine town streets a ye been ruined artistically by layouts of store signs Davidsons pica was that this shouldnt pen in Aurora NO RECENT REPORTS Mention of planning boards reminds us that we dont recall a report of the Aurora being presented to council during Itis permiss ible to believe that a board which claims for itself useful hess should at least present a report 16 the from which it derives its authority namely thc council we have gai nod press a over the past few years that unless the planning board has something to ask from council its appearance at the bar of its creators is conspicuous J by its draws near and then maybe it will come along for some more money There are ghimblers grumblers The first class of grumblers are useful bunch They take arj intelligent interest in the is of their- and do a chore of grumbling if things arent way they want ihemtogp They never hi hi voting- at elections If they vote for the wrong candidate at least they usually hale hearty arid likeable people We- have nothing on them If they club wed like to join it The other class of grumblers grumble at the weather at their food at their tailor a shoemaker They grumble at their minister tit Couldnt theml yes preach fterifton speak of the good old present days are the best of not strike a note They would at fast are suiiy at and snappy at bed- time If they formed a hate it- When we you and hail more time to pa re than we have now we used to bo fond poetiy of llerrick the pastoral poet 1- llo was the author among other Works of Noble Numbers and many Besides ttyities he was an a compelling preacher i- His chief message was that this is we should make the of it Not today now he Gather Some people arc ftlanning their joys for time years ahead Not so with Perhaps the reverend gentleman was a of the of Omar Khayyam we are warn ed Why fret about them If Today be sweet Get the best out of today and leave the morrow to COUNCIL REPORT A general meeting of the town council whs held on Monday night January 18 when several delegations were heard and numerous problems considered The suggestion of an Old Home Week was given a somewhat lukewarm reception and referred to a committee for a report In five years time there will be celebrations all over the civilized world to honor the memory of a Scotsman that tiihe will have on the anniversaries January Bums clubs throughout the world will be festivating his natal On behalf the board trade Mr Don Glass and Mr Larry Rubin supported the idea of an Old Home Week Mr Glass said he thought it was a very fine idea and Mr Rubin said it would present an excell ent opportunity for bringing all town organizations together for the purpose of making a great success of the proposal When the suggestion came up again under new business Coun cillor Jones supported it Coun cillor Davidson said he thought it might go oyer better if it were restricted to three days instead of a whole week DeputyReeve J Murray said that for himself he was in of the idea but he had heard various opinions expressed along the street Questions that were being asked could be as Why an Old Home Week this year will it cost and Is there time to or itVi What Will It Cost I Councillor Moffat asked what the would cost and If the taxpayer was going to get any benefit out of it Bettor give it some thought said Mrs Mof fat and if it looks like being too costly then just forget it The mayor said he would take a wild guess and estimate that the cost to the town would run to possibly He suggest ed that the sports mid publicity committee get the views of other organizations Councillor said he wouldnt support it if the town did not get back what it put into it Reeve Cook said if it couldnt be arranged for this year they could start building up for it for another year Oh a motion by Councillor Moffat seconded by Councillor Stoddart it was decided to get the feeling of other organizations In town sports and publicity committee to- report back to council Planning Board When the question of appoint ments to planning board came up a lengthy and some- time heated discussion arose The three-year- term for which the chairman of the board having expired it was moved by Councillor Davis and seconded by Councillor he be reappointed Has anyone asked Dr Bould if ho wants to be reappoint ed queried DeputyReeve Mur ray Following some discussion Dr nomination was ap proved with Mur ray and Councillor Moffat op posing- Cook then proposed and Councillor Stoddart seconded a motion that Mr Mills be appointed a vacancy on the board reeve sold Mr Mills was an engineer and would be useful on the board for And Against Councillor Jones recalling that Mr Mills resigned from board before his term office had expired and had sent letters to council to which string had been taken said that unless Mr Mills asked to be reappointed he would hot vote for DeputyReeve Murray Un less I see a letter from Mr Mills I will not vote for him Mr Murray then threw down on the council tabic copies of two letters Mr Mills had written to council to which strong objec- had been expressed Councillor Davidson Council should not ask him to come back after the letters he sent here Councillor said he supported Mr Mills and would like to see him back Maybe he doesnt want to come back Mr Corbett added At the mayors request the town clerk contacted Mr Mills by telephone and theti report ed that he wanted tp think the matter over for a of weeks Nominate somebody else remarked some members of but when telephone ef forts to find another nominee had failed the name of Mr Mills was again brought up The mayor said he was going to put the motion that Mr Mills be appointed The outcome of the voting was that four members of council were for Mr Mills and four against that case Ill think it over during the next two weeks said the mayor Im afraid you cant do that Mr Mayor observed Deputy- Reeve Murray You asked council to vote and we did so Now we must ask you to vote according to procedure that case said the mayor after a reflective pause I will go along with Reeve Cook and vote for Mr Mills I shall let bygones be bygones The mo for the appointment of Mr Mills was then declared carried Close Down At Following up his previous re quest that the procedure bylaw should be amended to permit council to close its business at pm instead of midnight Councillor Davidson moved and Councillor Jones seconded a mo tion that council adjourn its meetings at pm The motion was carried Other Business Among other business trans acted a bylaw authorizing de bentures for the amount of for additions to the Aurora district high school received a second reading A full review of the above council proceedings will appear in Council Sidelights in our next issue Editor To say that Robert Burns was a remarkable man is a mere pla titude Many remarkable men have lived through the centuries and their names remain known They are lucky if they have secured one permanent paragraph in the encyclopedias Against such meagre memories looms up the colossal tributes to Burns These tributes amount a greater number of books bro chures and etc can be dtnerj names save those of the gentle Man and the bellig erent Year by year new books are published in the of of Robert Burns although in fact most what could be written about him was published within a years of his death in July Facts And The popular idea persists that Burns was a plowman poet This fanciful picture has led to another delusionV namely that Burns was uneducated almost illiterate man As a matter of fact he spent relatively few years of his life behind the plow Far from lacking education Burns was widely read and was conversant with both Latin and French Another common delusion is that Burns lived a life of ex treme poverty The fact is that for a number of years preceding his death he held an important position in- the civil service earning an income far lit excess of tiie stipends the clergy and salaries of scholastic class- For years prior to his as an excise ficer he ffiet rWmbc years he en joyed the friendships of mem bers of the Scottish aristocracy- until excesses re- suited In ostracism The that but for stich excesses the misfit never have celebrated For it was out f ttiem that much of his most compelling verse em Throughout the works of Burns remorse is often indeed major motive of his writ- ihi Steaming None of these facts will need be on memorable night of January when at the festive board steaming haggis will be piped in Then he will be remembered for his songs and the peculiar magic that has become attached to his name Tho years the centuries pass by but the magic of the name of Robert Burns survives All over the world men will rise toy drink to The Immortal Mem ory of a man who was born in a little cottage on wayside of the village of AHoway Ayr shire on January 25 3e Mayor Pays Council Tribute At its eil on- the casting vote of the- mayor to adopt a fixed an for i ii case of a being absent meet in glyhig casting vote Mayor Rose said he had fullest confidence in council The to adopt a fixed of payment per annum was mode in finance report of which Coun cillor is the chairman will moan that the stipend of per annum will include all council and special meetings com j it tee dispensing with the former method of mciit per Councillor pointed but that fixed rate of payment will vary only few dollars what members of cptihcU have already been receiving however created differ uses of opinion hi the end brought about o lied The his vote in favor of rccom- Amendment Councillor Jones who original ly suggested a fixed stipend maintained his former stand that in case of absence on the part of any member from a council or committee meeting a fco of and should bo deducted ac cordingly Ho said he did hot Social News The United church Womens Association held its monthly meeting in the church parlors on Thursday afternoon The new officers for 1D54 were in stalled at this meeting Lottie gave a reading Womens Association of the Anglican church met in the rectory on Tuesday afternoon Mr and Mrs Ben Kester Zephyr were guests last week of Mis Dunn The Horticultural Society held its annual meeting in the United church parlors on Wednesday evening Colored slides on Beautifying Your Home were shown The Evening branch of the Womens Association of the United church enjoyed an illus trated address by Mrs on her recent trip to Mexico Mrs was soloist Mrs Thorns is spending the winter months with her sister Mrs Con- naught The Gleaners class and Dorcas society of the Baptist church met at the home of Mrs last week and presented Gloria and Maurice Dodd with gifts prior to their departure to The club of St Andrews church enjoyed a film of inter esting pictures on Europe at a monthly meeting on Monday evening The Ladies Aid of the Presby terian church met in the church hall on Thursday Mr Marshall showed two films The story of silver plate and Do- signs for The WHO class quilted a number of quills on the church parlors on Tuesday afternoon and evening- The Dorcas society of the Bap tist church held its January meeting on Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs John Officers for United church for arc as follows Mrs J Bastedo president succeeding Mrs Fred Caulfteld Mrs Had Smith secretory Miss Mary Walton treasurer Mrs Willis pianist Sirs Roy phone number PA social editor of Aurora News tagc will bo glad to receive personals and news Items J WILLIS The Store agent Tobacconist etc Business Founded St Telephone PA sale continues to off all seasonable merch andise Morrisons Newmarket and Aurora i ROYAL mm DOORS OPEN SAT FREE PARKING FRIDAY SATURDAY TECHNICOLOR ESTHER WILUAMSi ALSO COLOR i wish to see- the fixed stipend bo- injg taken advantage of Iletnov- ah- amendment which would have the effect of tho penalties and this was seconded by Councillor mayor said that much time was given- by chairmen of com- tniUees and members of council outside of council Valid meetings on strict council j work anil this should bo taken into I have every in my council said the moyor and cannot therefore support via Cook said it would bo absurd impose penalties for and was against P and Councillor Davidson supported penalties for Aj Councillor said ho was opposed to penalties He did not think that any member bo absent without a good reason On a vole being taken do- and Da- vis Davidson and Jones voted favor of the Mayor Hose then repeated his former in council and gave his casting vote in favor of a mu tton annual payment of per annum for members of council the amendment being defeated- to FIJI By tho producers of Queen Is j Make jit A Habit Your Friends At The HESS A Drug Store Two Graduate Pharmacists PA Emergency Calls Telephone pa MONDAY i WED THURi ADULT ii AURORA BOOK -t- Stationery Greeting Cards tic Agent For Era Classified Ads THE MISSES St pwib i- WE 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