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WHAT THEY ARE SAYING Oxbridge Voters Say No Good Show For Dot Owners Powerful Movie At The Citizens Association We Vote No which is working for the cause of keeping liquor and beer outlets out of Aurora has good reasons for feeling well pleased with the news from where a No vote has been declared This is in line with the recent No vote at si rl This is a democratic country where each citizen has a right to his and her opinion and where the rule of the majority pre vails- Thus we are to our own opinion which we made very clear at the outset of the campaign by the Liquor and Beer and since the Citizens Association We Vote No came into being on April we have felt that a constant repetition of our views was un necessary Loud Noises Under Cover There has been one exception to an otherwise clean campaign and that from a source where decent procedure should normal ly be expected The Aurora Banner has tried to stir up the dirt by printing suggestions that our opposition to the outlets de rives from a wish to benefit Newmarket at the expense of Aurora While we are sure that we are enough known to the citi zens of Aurora to find it unnec essary to defend ourselves against such an odious untruth the fact that such dirt can be imported on to the editorial page of what is called the hometown paper reveals the depths to which certain mental types can descend The citizens of Aurora have been reading our writings for nearly three years and they have seeii what our attitude has been on many local questions They are hardly likely to place much value on the loud noises of a newcomer who does not himself take a positive stand Meanwhile the Liquor and Boer committee has engaged a portion of the town hall for a period of three weeks for the purpose of their campaign for the outlets District Kennel Club We have received from Mr A Sucre honorary secretary of the Aurora District Kennel Club Inc some interesting data in connection with the club and the allbreed International Dog Show which is to be held at the Aurora Armories on Saturday May The club was founded in by a few enthusiastic dog own ers and breeders in the district its objects being to promote a general interest in purebred dogs and if possible in some small way to assist financially in furthering any worthy local project That is what Mr tells us and the success enjoyed by the club last year bears tes timony to the information given us For example out of the pro ceeds of last years show the club was able to send a cheque for nearly 100 to the Aurora Lions club Fifty percent of whatever profits are realized this year will he handed over to the York Rangers stationed at Au rora to be used for the Other Hanks muss fund The Kennel club is a nonpro fit undertaking and no member of it can derive any financial benefit from its activities as di rected by the clubs charter Entries are excellent this year Mr informs us amount B WHITELAW Stationery Wallpapers Select Range Of Greeting Cards etc Agent For Classified Ads WIIITKLAWS St Aurora Make It A Habit Meet Your Friends At The D HESS Drug Store Two Graduate Pharmacists Aurora Tel Emergency Calls Tel 38 Aurora News Page J SINAIR Editor office doan hall aurora TELEPHONE THE LITTLE RED DOOR Impressive it PAGE ELEVEN THURSDAY THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF MAY NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY- TWO For Friendly Personal Service Shop At JOHN MORNINGS DRUGSTORE St Aurora Telephone J WILLIS Druggist Drue Store News agent Tobacconist etc I Business Founded Aurora to 300 to and will range in type from the Chihuahua to the Great Dane Included in the entries are an Irish Wolfhound and a Bloodhound and a great variety of sporting dogs toys terriers etc etc The judges this year will be columns the show will start at both from the United States As indicated in our Coming Events columns the show will start at 10 am and continue throughout the day Saturday May until pm We hope the weather will be good and the show enjoy another great success Come Fill The Cup We have not been writing about the Royal theatre for some time In fact for than a week we have been writing very little about anything in conse quence of being tied up at home with a severe chill and its after math We are somewhat slowly pulling together again and making contacts with a world which we have been grudgingly separated from It is good to see familiar faces again During the past few weeks the reputation of the Royal the atre has maintained the stand ard Mr Clifford Griffiths has given it for fine showings and on Wednesday May a re markable movie is being pre sented under the title Come Fill the Cup James will play the star role in a motionpicture which has been acclaimed as one of the alltime high achieve ments in screen history It is described as greatest triumph and costarring with him is Phyllis From what we have heard of this movie to be shown on Wed nesday May we can recom mend our adult readers to see a powerfully- realistic portrayal of moral decline and eventual re generation It should be noted that this is a movie strictly for adults only Parks Board The question of that portion of park immediately north of the Lawn Bowling clubs premises was in at the last meeting of the Recreation commission when a request from the Parks Board that the commission would un dertake the job came before it The commission rejected the request claiming fhe matter was one for the town council The point was made however that the number of children using the park was not sufficient to jus tify the expense and we agree that that is so Wo consider it will be a great pity and a waste of money if the Parks board bulldozes what essentially a green belt We heard an even more fan tastic story to the effect that the board proposed to bulldoze and level the strip of land south of the bowling greens for the purpose of laying out a parking space A year or two ago there was a large number of fine shrubs growing there but the council of that time let the weeds grow so tall that when municipal employees were sent to clean it tip they couldnt see the shrubs for the overgrowth and cut down the whole works When the deed was done the council promptly blamed the workmen for the massacre of the shrubs instead of taking the blame for their own neglect There ore few children using the area and when the months of July and August come along the place is deserted All the Parks Board need to do is to keep the grass cut at the north and south points of the bowling greens and to seed and tidy up the fine space south of the tennis courts The practice lias been to let the weeds in all their manifold variety grow to flow ering point and then cut them down and leave them where they fell Ui This of McMahon park south of the tennis courts makes an ideal parking spot for visiting bowlers and if some seeding were done the grass kept short and the place kept tidy no more is needed Lawn Bowling Begins Some members of the Aurora lawn bowling club were in ac tion as early as the last two weeks in April a record we are told Frank Bray of Oshawa has been appointed caretaker and the greens are looking good Salute from Keswick We knew we had some read ers at Keswick and one of them Mr It Marshull representa tive for the Fuller Brush com pany came in and handed us a years subscription the other day He said he liked the frank op inions in the and Express and Aurora News Page His valued subscription gave con crete proof of the kind things he said DOING IT FOR NOTHING A One argument we have heard is that men who serve on public bodies and do so without payment should not be subject to criticism doing it for nothing they protest so why should we expect to be criticized It is a plausible argument that wont stand up to exam- Take a town council representative for example Nobody would say that a member of council who re ceives a night for his services is being overpaid with sessions lasting for four hours and longer in the Old Country by the way members of councils never received one penny of payment There service on a council was purely voluntary and a man was proud to serve his community often with plenty of press criticism thrown in for good measure A man who decides to offer his services to his community say as a member of a town council is ask ing the electors for a vote of confidence in his ability to serve them A number of motives may inspire his action One of them may be selfglory or the satis faction of the ego In these instances criticism will always be resented for the reason that it robs the recipi ent of some of his selfassurance his conceit in his self- importance That is a salutary process Another man wants to get onto council in order to benefit his community ie better roads and side walks better assessments and lower taxes improved building regulations and their impartial enforcement and above all the promotion of in everincreasing public interest in all matters that come before council He hi the better type of public representative who wel comes rather than resents criticism No man in public life can ever claim that he gets nothing out of it In the end however he will only get out of it what he puts into it If it amounts to no more than a little selfglory it could be that that is all he ever wanted in the first place TWOBIT MINDS As might be expected the Aurora Banner defends the grant to the planning board Those who op pose it have a twobit mi proclaims the home town organ of wisdom On the vote of council that would include Councillors Davis Jones and Murray and outside of council ourselves and others Mr Jones is a member of the planning board and did not think the grant necessary and voted against it At the inaugural meeting of council on January Councillor Tucker expressed surprise that town employ ees could make purchases without vouchers lie called for a system that would authorize purchases being only by vouchers But Councillor Tucker pressed for an grant to the planning board without even a hint on what the money was to be used At least the town employee knew what he was going to buy even though he hadnt a voucher The planning board was authorized to spend without saying what they wore going to buy Where is Councillor Tuckers consistency Before the election we heard a prominent candidate say that if he were elected he would never agree to the planning board having more than to cover postage and stationery He was elected and was silent when the was passed Where is the consistency At least he didnt defend the lie just stayed mum The planning board has already spent over It asked for a further unscheduled and got it The Aurora Banner wouldnt hand over without knowing why But taxpayers who ask questions have twobit minds Thats what the Banner says But who believes the Banner PRINCIPLE VS EXPEDIENCY The freedom of the press to report events and state opinions is basic to the democratic way of life When that freedom is tampered with the rights of the people are challenged and their privileges endangered A free press is the peoples most powerful safeguard and when its functions are curtailed freedom itself is on the decline It is a first principle of a free press to be critical in the public interest This fundamental essential was defended by one of Canadas foremost statesmen and greatest thinkers John Mr stated it in these words When criticism ends he said freedom dies There arc all kinds of newspapers in Canada as there are in the few free countries of the world and some of them are dangers to the very freedom they enjoy They are dangerous because they are inept Some are merely advertising sheets and offer- no useful service as mediums of opinion to their com munities They are weekly testimonials to the mental impotence of their owners Others there are that thrive on an unscrupulous ex ploitation of the main chance Professing a lofty corn for the unsuspecting community which through no choice of its own supports they are concerned only with what they can lake out of it Such papers are directed by mugwumps rind though the species is fortunately limited it can Inflict great oil communitys morale during such time as it enjoys its parasitic activities The only kind of free newspaper that matters is the one that will deal honestly by its readers giving them the facts fully and frankly even at the risk of losing a few dollars in the process Actually such a risk is small for lite majority of readers will stand by and support a newspaper which they know is motivated by principle not by expediency SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS Told At Hazelburn Farm On Friday in brilliant sunshine at the lovely home of Mrs Amelius farm Yonge St south a large number of guests attended a Trend Tea when the principal speaker was Mrs of Toronto president of the Toronto branch of the Canadian Cancer society and head of the womens services for Ontario i Mrs who was intro duced by Mrs Crysdale president of the Aurora unit spoke for about half an hour In her brilliant and impressive address Mrs traced the history of the movement in Can ada for the discovery of cancer of those wonderful women who had opened their homes for this work Their immediate objec tive was to get everyone inter ested in the subject of cancer its symptoms since no one at any age could feel immune Remarkable results were achieved at Peel County Music Festival by pupils of Harris and choirs under his So outstanding were the renditions of the Aurora United church junior and senior choirs that adjudicators describ ed them as glorious perform ances in the winning of their respective classes Once again the Harris choirs and pupils have brought many prized honors to Aurora Out- standing was the winning of a vocal scholarship by Jean Barnes As the following list shows there were a large number of winners in the gold silver and bronze medalist classes A per formance of great merit was that of Case in a Stocks contralto under Carter under 17 Patrick Green boys under Allen girls under Margaret and Nancy Stocks girls duet under age York Festival Case gold medalist in class for girls under with mark of 90 She was awarded a scholarship Marilyn Allen received silver medal in the same class with a marks of Nancy Stocks gold medal girls under Jean Barnes gold medal girls under Silver medalists Margaret girls under 15 Elmer under Bronze medalists girls under Mari lyn girls under Donna girls under 10 cases and the treatment of what its possible dangers she described as this most Mrs Frankel emphasized the disease need- for noting any changes The speaker pointed out that body such there are now organizations or sores None in Canada specifically concerned these changes said the cancer research and its indicates the presence treatment nine of such centres cancer but such changes being located in Ontario ought never to be disregarded Compelling Facts For those who could not afford It was only three years ago medical examinations or for said Mrs that Trend other reasons might want a Teas were initiated At that strictly private interview Mrs time ho more than women were taking an active part in the movement but today in To- made reference to the Little Red Door situated at Yonge Street There rohto alone that number had would be welcomed by risen to the figure of two graduate nurses and exam- Paying tribute to Mrs Jarvis carried out fee Mrs said she was one 1 Continued Page Col Among the competing choirs in a girls class under the Aurora junior church choir when she received the gold rcccivcd highest choral marks of in the entire val competitions medal with a mark of Gold medalists Margaret girls under Marilyn Allen girls under Case girls under Jean Barnes girls under Dawna Case and Marilyn Allen gold medalists girls duet under age Silver medalists Hugh tenor under Carter contralto under Elmer under Elmer girls under Jean Barnes girls under Bronze medalists Mary Many tributes were expressed in regard to the outstanding per formances of Mr Harris choirs and pupils One of the most eloquent of these tributes was contained in a comment by one of the adjudicators who said that listening to the Aurora choirs and vocalists provided one of those rare occasions when one just sat back and enjoyed himself The music festival was held in Brampton ARENA AFFAIRS Misleading And Lack Of Full Report Does Disservice To A garbled account of what happened at the last meeting of the Recreation commission in Inst weeks issue of the Aurora Banner omitted the material facts which Councillor Jim Murray brought to the attention of members in his efforts to clarify essential matters obscured by what ho fittingly described as a smoke- it screen Independable as the Banner has become for accurate report ing its account of what happen ed at the above meeting could not fail to induce readers to that Mr Murray was de fending himself whereas the actual truth is that he was giv ing members associated with re ports that had previously ap peared in the Banner an oppor tunity to disassociate themselves from them This did when the actual j town paper If only we had facts were made clear to them been snuffed out of existence tion Not An Ally Carried away on a wave of ir responsible verbosity the Ban ner took another unsubstantiable plunge when it charged that Mr Murray was allying himself with a reporter for on outoftown paper Mr Murray is not our ally nor are we his Of course the whole trouble with the Banner is obsession with reporter for an Mr Murray But no reader could have derived this impres sion from what they read in hist weeks Banner Misleading Headline The first blunder made by the Banner was in its headline which read Murray At tempts To Soil Idea Recreation when the present Banner man agement took over what a hap py situation that would have been But riot for the citizens who would have had to take what they got and like it Provi dence ordered otherwise So here we are keeping tub on another misleading Banner Director Not Attacked This headline correcting a Ban ner report which through its omission to give a full account headline emphasizes the sugges tion that the Recreation director bad been attacked whatever that might mean The truth is that references made to the Recreation director were concerned with the time taken up by his work for the commission and his major work at the rink Councillor ray was hot atone in his comments made at council on the time so spent by the Arena manager as the report of the council meet ing would prove But the mayor and council agreed that there had been no criticism of the Arena manager in a personal way and to suggest otherwise is to cast an aspersion on a unanimous agreement But in there is no need at all further to discuss the Arena manager and Recreation director whose projection into the discussion was a method of shifting criticism of the Arena board away from the limelight was not Mr Pcrrymcnt with whom Mr Murray was directly concerned but Mr Underbill and old members of the Arena board who brought upon them selves the charge of being in active in rink affairs Let it be understood once and for all that Mr Murray at no time has ever personally criti cized the Arena manager but when the Banner used words Attacked in its head line of last week it did a grave disservice both to the town and the people directly concerned To broadcast the charge that someone has been Attacked suggests a possible serious what happened at the Accre tion commission meeting on Thursday night May distorted and misrepresented what really happened is obvious that a reporter for an outoftown paper who gives readers all the fads is performing a there useful func tion than a reporter for a home town paper who conceals them by silence HARRIS CHOIRS RECITAL IJltyii Harris is arrang ing a choral recital to liMUt place at the Aurora United church auditorium on day night May further details to be next weeks issue of Aurora News Pag vX Fresh from their many re cent festival triumphs Auro ra citizens will have port unity of special selections by the Aurora choirs ami pu pils of Mr Harris Al THEATRt AURORA CLIFFORD GRIFFITHS MANAGER play SATURDAY MATINEE AT and Tuesday May 1920 THATMX JUDY GARLAND m m low sCo GOOD OLD The sweetest story ever set to SONGS In TECHNICOLOR I moil nun ROBERT I LEONARD PASTERNAK A Mlt MHWICWIH MAYER PICTURE and Thursday RHi That shop Put Arms Me Meet He Tonight in Care May A man with a Aim tor I Come Fill lithe oiicciCBvr mum f BIN Adult Entertainment COMING SOON Stars In Crown In The Sun AM Sailor Beware J