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J AP WHAT THEY ARE SAYING To Victims Of Holland Marsh In an editorial of a few weeks ago we gave a brief history of the movement which has a branch in Aurora We pointed out that the movement originated jn St Louis Missouri in the year at a time when the United States was isolationist and opposed to enter ing World War I in support of Britain and her allies We were presenting information on an Americanborn movement which has gained considerable in Canada and of whose origins many people know noth ing In the course of our re view we referred to two tenet of the creed which we questioned suggesting that they were motivated by the pacifist mood that prevailed in America it the time the movement originated in that country of the beliefs we question ed was that the brotherhood of transcends the sovereignty of nations in a world which has invented the atom and the hy drogen bombs We maintained that the brotherhood of man had been ranted through the ages but in times of crisis men rightly stood for the defence or their native land We recalled that America her self ultimately abandoned the pacifist creed of the St Louis and came forth in support of Britain and her allies We suggested that the creed could be revised in accordance with realities In last weeks Aurora Banner the editor attacked our editorial with an untruth The out-of- town paper he told his read ers is unable at any time to find anything good in Aurora We are constantly finding some thing good in Aurora to tell our readers and did so before the present editor of the Banner came to town The Banner editorial made reference to a donation of blood for a needy patient that had been made by a member or members of the to prove the brotherhood of man Such a donation is admirable but in justice to dozens of Aurora citi zens who are not they too have given donations of their blood In one case wellknown to us a citizen gave so much of his blood to the fund that his phys ique was weakened and when a serious ailment overtook him he was unable to withstand it ow ing to his sacrifices It is a poor case that has to be argued by the use of a falsehood such as we have quoted above but whenever the Banner editor attacks what he calls the out- oftown paper he appears to suf fer from a incapacity to think straight or write what is true It was not the Jaycees them selves in regard to whom we offered critical suggestions in our editorial but two tenets of their Americanborn creed Ap parently we have convinced even the editor of the Banner himself lor towards the end of his story he says Maybe the words of the Jaycees creed could he im proved Thats just what we had been saying our historical review Hard On Brotherhood For a man who has tried for several months to find a job in Aurora without success a n have to go outoftown to find one with a national firm it is a hard task to convince him of brotherhood In the eases of many excellent folks working short time with barely enough to keep body and soul together it is hard to con vince them of brotherhood Or in the cases of skilled craftsmen who have been demoted or have been eased out of their lifes employment altogether it is hard to convince them of bro therhood Or employees who work for employers who pay low wages it is hard to convince them of brotherhood Even some people who read the Au rora Banner havent too much faith in brotherhood Perhaps that is enough for brotherhood at this time Real Brotherhood Real brotherhood always as serts itself in times of calamity such as that experienced in con sequence of the unprecedented storm that wrecked homes and was the cause of much loss of life on Friday night last Good Samaritans will be found every where not least in Aurora The Aurora town council met in a special emergency session on Saturday afternoon last and voted the sum of to back up the benevolent efforts of local organizations to bring succor to the bereaved and helpless vic tims of the storm which laid waste the fine labors of the people of Holland Marsh From what we hear the cloth ing drive was carried out at short notice on Sunday follow ing the Saturday meeting of the town council was a great suc cess We understand that local service clubs and will make a collective ef fort for funds to alleviate to some extent the pitiful plight of so many victims of the deluge The people of Aurora have never been hesitant in giving of their best In such situations as may be remembered of the Mani toba Flood Fund the European Relief Fund and all other ap peals for help in circumstances of urgent need That is real brotherhood typical of Canadian generosity and goodwill every where in this realm A Tree Falls Around tenthirty on Friday night when the storm at its worst we heard through the roaring wind the sound of men at work near our window Look ing out we saw figures cutting down the limbs of a tree whose broken branches entangled with the hydro wires These proved to be hydro superintend- ant Charles Copland and mem bers of his staff busy In the drenching downpour For as many years as Mrs Willis can remember the Moun tain Ash tree has flourished on her lawn at the front of her home on Spruce St In the au tumn and winter months it was a Mecca for the gathering of robins and starlings who glut- toned on the red berries that glowed on its branches They will feast no more on it for its story ended by the hurri cane that uprooted it It was a beautiful tree and several citizens have told us that it was the only Mountain Ash that they can remember in Aurora From our window we shall miss the sight of the red berries and the feasting birds that its produce attracted A Tree Grow in Brooklyn which did not know A tree fell on Spruce St Aurora which we did know and we mourn Its fall Aurora Social News Dr Young left Aurora on Friday for Montreal en route by air to Amsterdam and the Hague He will later proceed to Wales and expects to be home by Christmas Mr and Mrs Jack and friends were in the Hunts- ville district over Thanksgiving for the opening of the partridge season Mrs Foy was solo 1st at the meeting of the Make It A Meet Your Friends At The O D HESS Drug Store Two Graduate St Telephone PA Aurora United church which was held on Thursday of last week Miss Lillian was in town last week and visited a number of friends Mr and Mrs Joe A Smith Ave welcomed their son Leading Air Craftsman Ron ald Smith home from North England last week after two years service in the He is on leave of ab sence Rev and Mrs Day have been guests of Mr and Mrs Harris during their stay in Au rora Mr Day preached the Har vest Thanksgiving service in Trinity church Many years ago Mr Day was a choir boy in the choir of a parish in England where Mrs Harris father was the organist Later Mr Day filled the posi tion and later still Mrs Harris was organist there final Week of SALE Further drastic reductions on all stock and childrens shoes 198 up Store AURORA ONT ft Saturday Oct Orthopedic work will be resumed at 108 Temperance Street Aurora News Page COUNCIL REPORT J G SINCLAIR Editor HALL AURORA OFFICE PA 74573 I PAGE THIRTEEN THURSDAY THE TWENTYFIRST DAY OF OCTOBER NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYFOUR EDITORIALS THE FARCE CONTINUES The planning board farce continues with Mr Gord on Timbers as its latest victim Mr Timbers owns land on the east side of the railway tracks part of which he wishes to put to use as a subdivision He came to coun cil early in the present year with plans which were cord ially received In July those plans were approved by council which made a recommendation to the planning board accordingly Time has passed by but Mr Timbers has not been able to proceed because of the necessity of breaking through redtape restrictions A solicitor for the syndi cate said they had been batted around like a ball Apparently council exceeded its authority in approving the plans that should have been done by the planning board After that the proposal has to he approved by the department of planning and development All this fuss and commotion concerns a small area of land in a small town called Aurora It all arises from the fact that the council of a few years ago approved a piece of rigid legislation which clearly they did not understand It has proved to be a costly farce A SHRINE The town council of deserves praise for its reported intention to acquire the former home of Stephen as a permanent memorial of that great writer Much misunderstood in his own day because of his use of satire as a keenedged instrument for the pricking of pompous and pretentious hides is now fully recognized as Canadas leading humorist In honoring Stephen Orillians honor them- selves As so often happen beneath the surface of satire there beats a kind heart and in humor the comedy of life is revealed TOO YOUNG AT 80 It appears that you cannot qualify for mention on Neighborly News conducted by Mr Don on Sunday mornings unless you have readied the age of then the list is lengthy The other Sunday morning Mr reported a list of over can- who had reached the age of and over Formerly the magic age for birthday congratula tions on Neighborly News was Now another ten years has been added to the score We have no statistics and are wondering if per capita Canada can claim the largest number of octogenarians nonagenari ans and centenarians in the world The climate of Canada is said to be often hard to take Hut the tropic climes cannot match Canadas record for longevity AND WHAT IS THE SECRET And what is the secret of long life From what we have read and heard about it there is no secret ex planation to length of years It is principally a matter of common sense and moderation Good heredity will help sound parentage and freedom from early disabili ties being major factors of long life Hut since no one can choose his or her parents the problem is not one of heredity only if indeed it is the chief factor Many people born of shortlived parents themselves live to great ages The explanation in the majority of those who achieve great age is and moderation all things There is one thing more as a nonagenarian told us forward lie said the best is yet to be In other words cultivate the cheerful outlook HE KEPT HIS WORD A retired businessman whom we bad not seen for some time looked in on us In the course of the con versation we said to him If you were asked to say what you consider is the essential to success in business what would your reply be After a pause he said There is no single essential for business success but several Then he went on At home as a youngster I wan taught never to make a promise until it seemed certain it could be kept was always told to greet people with a smile Latter in life when 1 succeeded to a business of my own I applied both teachings to it and these paid off The sourest customer will eventually fall for a smile and everybody values a promise that is kept I never made a promise to customer that I was uncertain of being able to cany out Nothing irks a customer more than to cadi ait a store to lie told that something or other hasnt come and to be to call again By taking care of promises gained a repu tation for being relied on and got a lot of custom that way Then theres everything in greeting customer with smile It isnt necessary to slap customers on the back or poke them in the ribs as a friendly gesture Too much familiarity may be resented and drive people away Hut a smile can work wonders It can all summed up in phrase good service You can sum up success in business as the result of good service AURORAS HURRICANE NIGHT Firemen Water Hydro Town Staffs Did Very fine Job From amid the terrifying elemental disturbances Which swept over the North York area and beyond on night last Aurora emerged with great good fortune Damage there was but in contrast with that suffered by neighboring municipalities it was not severe No lives were lost 000 On Rink Revision Court Of Citizens Among other matters considered at the general meeting of the town council on Monday night October it was decided to proceed with the restoration of the rink at an estimated cost of A Canadian firm not named introduced by Mr John Bowser sub mitted the estimate This reporter spent a good part of Saturday on an errand of Investigation and enquiry and everywhere the same comment was repeated that Aurora was very fortunate Oldtimers that it was the worst storm of wind and rain experienced with in living memory It had been raining for most of the day with occasional ease ments that might indicate that it was coming to an end But towards the later afternoon and evening lhe rain increased in volume and the velocity of the intensified until between the hour of nine to ten the wind anJ rain drove with hurricane power Damages Some alarming statements circulated by evening newspapers which exaggerated the plight of Having regard to all the circumstances the domestic water situation was nothing to grumble about There was shortage for several hours during the afternoon and early evening but this was a minor difficulty considering the flood ing of the water equipment It Was marvellous that there was any drinking water at all in view of the terrible beating tak en by the services The officials of the fire and water departments and all con cerned with a return to normal cy are deserving of the thanks and appreciation of the citizens Herculean efforts were made to get the normal supply operating quickly as possible and this was achieved by evening of Sat Hydro and town staffs put in long and hard hours of work A terrific beating was inflicted on the new floor of the arena where excessive flooding occur red Whether the new expen sive floor can be reclaimed and activities restored at an early date is still problematical but newspaper understands that efforts of restoration were de cided on at a special meeting of the town council hold on Satur day afternoon last and was commenced immediately It is reported that the Queen City storage company suffered heavy damage to goods stored in its basement one report estimat ing the damages at a quarter of a million dollars A house on street suf fer the loss of a portion of the rear of the structure and there was very considerable flooding of basements throughout town A few elderly people some of whom were invalids had to be removed from their homes in consequence of flooding The waterworks were flooded to a depth of seven feet and when he responded to a call the chairman DeputyReeve J Murray found Joe McGhee and Alex Higgins breaking windows to make their escape Helpful And Foolish The Aurora firemen as usual gave their services without stint staying at their posts until early morning Fireman Chet Os borne informed Aurora News Page that hundreds of calls were received during the evening Some of them were foolish as for example case of one citizen who fee flooding of a cellar and asked what the firemen were going to do about the creek which was overflowing Never have I been more pressed both by the helpfulness and the foolishness of people Mr Osborne said were doing their best to help the situ ation while others were getting in the way out of sheer curi osity The latter made it hard to get on with essential work Mr Osborne himself had one bad moment just before going off duty at one oclock in the morning when he slipped and fell into the swelling creek Mr Joe Smith reported thai his son Leading Air Craftsman Ronald K Smith who safety crossed the Atlantic by plane a few days ago on leave after two years of service in England nearly met disaster on north Yonge St when driving home on the night of Storm The car plunged into deep water and the occupants of car were rescued from thole peril when a door of car was open by a spectator who saw theft plight Hurricane Night Friday night October 15 will go down in the history of Aurora as its most awesome ex perience of wind and rain Gra titude will accompany mem ory that amid such devastation and loss of life suffered else where Aurora escaped such perils with comparative immun ity GOODBYE UNTIL The Stakes Are Stored The Toad Has Gone To Sleep Its to the until another year Thats what we look forward to at any rate Anticipa tion forward points the view as Burns wrote ill his Cottars Sat unlay Night its better to look forward than to look hack The past is over and done with The future we hope is before us I It hasnt been a very good year for the gardener Too little sun and too much rain As we write this it is raining as it has been doing for days on end Unless we get some real Canadian sun soon our climate wilt get as bad reputation for moisture as good old Britain There have been very few ev enings that we can look back on that we have sat out on the garden seat until bats came out One of the joys of the ama teur gardener is to sit out and survey the scene of his labors They can have their other joys who want them But give us a lovely summers evening a seat at the of the garden tobacco and pipe and we ask no more Ones Own Company There are people who cannot enjoy their own company They must be racing around hither and yon Some are putting the World aright or so they think But the funny thing is that the world remains much the same in spite of their clamor Hut if the worldredeemers got a salvo for their ego who arc we to in- erf ere For ourselves we can enjoy a lot of our own company We are seldom alone when wo are in our own company For there are such things as observation imagination and memory You must often have watched a robin on the lawn on a summers evening topping the earth in search of a worm He Is as an xious for a titbit as a business magnate Is for dividends Then the humming bird moves swiftly and silently on to the bush and among its rare perfumed blooms gets sat isfaction for its hunger little wren ascends from Its nest to a branch of a tree and makes as much noise as a belligerent councillor The praying mantis sits motionless on a vine await ing the coming of its favorite insect One can get a lot of fun just sitting alone on a garden seat smoking a pipe and maybe just thinking of people Sometimes we have heard voices in the si evening of men dissolving themselves into a committee of the whole yet never stirring from their seats Memory give lot of pleasure an fun if you just sit alone What Of The Garden And what of the garden which Is now almost empty resemb ling morass as a result of continuous rain which wo used to be told was an unfailing session of the Old Country W wire lucky in getting it cleaned up before the of flood There remain some sprouts two rows of leeks and one row of parsnips We were rather despondent of all these in the early days spring But they have come along wonderfully well especial ly the Brussels which were de veloped from seed sown by our selves Which teaches us another lesson namely that what we fear most seldom happens Other than these vegetables the garden is now bare This year we had to carry In a lot of Steps had already been taken to brace up the floor following the flooding and the new work of restoration was estimated to take approximately from six to seven weeks was pointed out A bylaw to cover a debenture issue for the required amount was directed to be prepared im mediately Flood Relief At Bradford A representative from the junior chamber of commerce re ported on an expenditure of authorized by council at a spe cial meeting Indicating that that sum had been exceeded on pur chases of sundries for needy families at Bradford The sun dries consisted of large quanti ties of laundry soap combs Kleenex tootbrushes tooth paste towels face cloths etc It was pointed out that there was no emergency for food green tomatoes owing to the ab sence of sun But we have no complaints on that score since we harvested as many ripe ones as the household needed Some of our friends have mourned the loss of tomatoes through worms But the Tomato Dust which we have used saved the crop from that enemy Pulling Up Stakes We always feel that the end of the gardening days has come with the pulling up of the run ner beans and tomato stakes With great expectation one set up the stakes Times passes and the day comes when they have to be pulled up and stored for another year If one is of a reflective turn of mind It is inevitable that the pulling up and storing of the Stakes causes a sense of wonder ment as to what will happen in the months that lie ahead be fore spring comes round again But here one must a little philosophy and hope for the best Experience has shown that the things one fears most seldom happen It is the unex pected that happens and over that one has no control It is a good thing that it is so If it were possible for us to look into a crystal bull to see what is go to happen in the future we would refuse the offer Theyll He Hack While we were busy cleaning up the garden for its winter sleep we had the misfortune to dislodge and injure a large toad that had withdrawn from its world of activity No it had had a happy and prosperous summer among bugs and ork through had decided that time had to settle down until spring revived it Tho fact that we had uprooted and Iniured the toad bothered us for many If wo had known how to remedy its in juries we would gladly have ap plied healing arts Later we saw an even larger toad crawl ing somewhat numbly into it place of hibernation They have all gone now the wren the humming bird the songsparrow and the toads Hut theyll ho back in the spring all of them The amateur gardener also will be back ami we hope that wo wilt be among them Through Hope We Live Come to think of it our lives are lived on hope iu the future Without hope ours would he an arid world Hope is the com mon denominator Again quill ing Burns the best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft That is often the cose with the amateur gardener But once the smell of the soil good mother earth has seized his soul he keeps on planning for a better year Farewell amateur gardeners for this year There is nomina tion night to look forward to There was a need for clothing but that need had been met and the balance was being sent to Three ton trucks of clothing had been received from Aurora and a member of council stated that some of it was being sent from Bradford to Toronto as Bradford had more than it need ed Timbers Subdivision The outcome of further discus sion on the Umbers subdivision was an indefinite deferment til a report on a suggested pumping station could be ob tained from the engineer It was stated that Mr Timbers might as well forget it unless a pumping system could be in stalled Mr Norman Todd solicitor for the syndicate said it had been a case of passing the buck from the planning board to the council charging that they been misled by the planning I boards consultant Raise Wafer Kate After the reading of a report on water costs the chairman the department DeputyReeve Murray said it would appear definitely necessary to raise the water rates Reeve Cook argued against any increase in the water rates saying that one raise had al ready been made and that should take care of everything The mayor recommended that a com mittee report be brought to the next meeting of council and this was agreed to Court Of Revision The mayor stated that ap peals against the reassessments were pending and that the set ting up of a court of revision was required After some dis cussion on whether the court should be appointed from mem bers of council or from a panel of outsiders the latter course was agreed on A list of names was then sug gested from a reference to the telephone book and the clerk was instructed to endeavor to complete a panel of five mem bers therefrom to compose a court of revision Relief Committee On the suggestion of the mayor it was agreed to form a flood relief committee and a meeting of all interested persons to form the same was called for Sunday afternoon Oct at pm at the offices detailed report and com ment on council 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