‘The songs which celebrate the beaitties of tho
© “old lands" across the seas, England, Scotland, Treland
and many of the European countries as well, are
Tegion, All waken nostalgic memories: in our hearts
and none more so, perhaps, than do the words and
haunting melody of “Killarney.” We Canadians, as ‘a
whole, are inclined to rest content with these back-
ward-looking ballads. Their very universality and in-
destructible beauty make that almost inevitable.

‘Not that there are no songs in praise of our own
‘unsurpassed ‘lakes and fells, Emerald Isles and wind-
ing bays.” In years past songsters, writing in both
French and English, produced such masterpieces as
The Canadian Boat Song’ and ‘Claire de lune.” But
ballad-making it would seem is out-of-date, unless it
is of the Western variety, so popular on the air waves,
So it may be that Canada has come too late to the
mational musical festival and may never achieve the
fame the older countries of Europe reached with their
Songs immortal. But that should not blind us to the
wealth spread so lavishly at our very doors by “Boun-
teous Nature.”

For as the song so loved of Ivishmen throughout
the world very wisely says:

“Bounteous Nature loves all lands,
Beauty wanders everywhere,

Foot prints leaves on many strands,
But her home, is surely there.”

And the home of beauty is just as surely here in
White Rock as it is in the lands so wistfully described
in the ballads of old.

Living in the midst of such a plentitude we are
apt to become surfeited and fail to thrill to the sight
of snow-crowned peak and deep blue seas.

Tt is a good thing, sometimes, to see the familiar
Scenes through the eyes of a stranger.

And who knows? At some future date serious
ballad-making may be revived and a new song in
praise of Semiahmoo Bay may come to rival the old
familiar ballads!

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schoo
‘ation scheme

her sti
initiated, Sih ps he!

public can see them implemented at a not-too-distant
date they may be persuaded that “good government”?

‘These promises are significant and if tho| eveals

in British Columbia is not impossible of achievement, |lawn

Tourist Ad Racket Told

_ Vaneouver Tourist Association recently warned
city businessmen against advertising canvassers

falsely representing themelves as promoters of tourist
publicity,

canes,
lunate man
not got at his spare tire,

‘The author presents each little

The VTA recently has received many calls from
hotels, restaurants, auto court and business houses
stating they have been contacted by persons who claim
to be publishing literature for circulation among
tourists. Some advertising salesmen have claimed
they represent the Tourist Association.

“W)

association, we are aware there are other publications
which have no advertising value whatever and reach
few, if any, tourists,” stated the VTA.

“We are not soliciting advertisements at this
time for any publication nor do we ever solicit by
telephone.”

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SEWER CONNECTING
White Rock’s sewer problem has now been made quite clear,
‘The council has the power to compel connecting, we hehr;
Or so Provincial Health and Welfare department has ruled,
Could we get another run around, and once again be fooled:
We will closely watch what actlon Surrey Council now will
take;
Look’s like It's on the spot, the department's letter ts no fake,
Now the sewers sure were needed, but we will not call them
cranks,
Who have withheld connecting and still use septic tanks;
And those who use some other means, do much, yes, much
more harm,
‘The place for them you will agree, Is away out on a farm.
Health Is of prime importance, so disregarding creed or sect
Will the council now get active and make all sewers connect?
We think of ‘the next clection and all that that denotes,
And drift along complacently for fear they lose some votes.
W. F. MeCLINTOCK

Town Planning

As a writer on town planning, whose name wey,

cannot remember, once said, “Town planning is not
high-hat!” It is, on the other hand, a subject which
the average man can readily understand and discuss
with interest and profit with members of his own
community. Certain technical problems, .it is true,
will call for expert study and advice, but as the same
writer aptly pointed out “One does not have to be a
doctor to appreciate the value of hospitals, nor an
expert chef to enjoy a good meal.”

Good town planning calls for wise and careful
inanagement. But it also calls for imaginative use
j Of the resources which a town or city possesses. Such
town Planning can eliminate waste; it can maintain
and foster physical and spiritual health; it can banish
ugliness; it can stimulate commercial and industrial
| enterprize. It is essentially a matter for community
ex-operation and individual effort. Every householder
and business proprietor who rmaintains tidy and at-
tractive premises is an active participant in’ the
whole scheme of practical town planning,

Town planning is, in short, for everyone, and it
is high time that it was taken out of the rarefied
atmosphere of too professional planning, or planning
for planning’s sake, and brought down to carth so
that it can be appreciated at the level of the man on
the street. Planning Boards and commissioners have
their rightful place but their plans for guiding the|
Suture growth of any town or community should re
ceive the careful scrutiny of hard-headed men of busi-
ness who will foot most of the bills and benefit or
suffer most from the results.

This is a job being done by innummerable com-
mittees in many Boards of Trade and Chambers of
ad and it is certainly worthy of consideration

all community-spirited people, not now active in
the field,

Government

one Federal, one Provincial, safely

ON THE BOOKSHELF

. at the White Rock Library

PORTS: COUNTRY
By Donald Culross Peattie.

Cooper hawlt which attack poul-

Here js an {deal book for hot, try to any extent. On the other
summer days. In {t you can en-!hand the dict of the redtail
Joy all the charms of outdoors | hawk is composed of only a little

over 6 per cent poultry, and no
less than 55 per cent rats and
mice. Peattie writes about vari-
ous sports such as shooting birds,
catching fish, and eveh hunting
foxes. For hunting was intro-
duced to Virginia back in the
evonteenth century by a Robt.
Brooke who brought a pack of

without any effort on your part

ch chapter is complete in It-
self, and you may dip into the
book anywhere you like acvord-
ing to your particular taste. One
chapter 1s on jack rabbits, an
other on trout, another on quail,
and s0 on, Most of the birds,

beasts, and fish ‘which Poattle
writes about, are ones quite|hounds from England, George
common to this country.| Washington himself was
We may have seen some of| great fox-hunter,

them many time t after| This book has its attractions
reading this book I am sure r all who aro interested in
wil] Jook at them with renewed | natural history, hunting and

tion,
HE COUNTRY WIF
Dorothy Van Doren.
There are somo books which
peal to us because they tell
of unusual or strange events,
wh ottier books appeal to
us because they present some~
thing which {x very familiar to
us, and wo find ourss'ves say-
ing “you, I know just what the
author means, and huve X=
experlonced the same. thing

“The Country Wite” belongs to
tho latter: class. Mfrs. Van Doren
cans frult not because she wants
to can it, but her garden has
produced too much, and she]
can't bear to see it all go to
waste. She easually asks friends
to come and stay for a week=
to come and stay some week

interest. Donald Culr
tle, an eminent American nat-
urallst, knows how to a
picture of the habits and per-
sonality of an animal without
ning the reader down with
technicalities. He describes in
what kind of countryside cach
animal is found, and in what
way each {x useful to mun
You may wonder at a natu-
rallat addresaing bin book to
sportsmen, but Peattle feols that
it {9 not the true sportaman, but
the exterminator who is to be
condemned. Some men will Kill
animals wholesale without re=
rd to thelr value to the com=
munity, Wor instance, some far-
mors Kill any und every hawk
the , but the weiter claims
it is only the goshawk and tho!

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is

novel deals with Ignoble people
in depressing surroundings. It
is definitely a nice change to
read about a genuinely happy
family ¢njoying simple pleas-
ures. It is good excaplst liter-
ature for the holidays:

HOPE HODGES

Disab ledveteraae
Danitetrenibels

‘A postcard addressed to the
Editor of the Semiahmoo Sun
has been recelved at the local
newspaper office. It is from an
American disabled nurse and
brings touching request for
pen pals for herself and two
ether veterans. Obviously writ-
ten with great effort the mess-
age is almost illegible but ap=
pears to read as follows:
Edith EB. Helme, American
Legion, Mechanics Ville, Towa,
Disabled WW-1 over-
. Nurse can't walk, likes toy
get leters from Pen Pals. |
Leon Ralston, W-W.2, likes to’
hear from W.W.2 veterans.
Rey. Melcher, ‘Methodist
Church, Lisbon, Towa, US.
likes to hear from ministers.
How a copy or copies of the
local newspaper came into the!
hands of disabled veterans so
far from White Rock Is a story
that might prove interesting.
Perhaps some veterans resident
in White Rock may one day
solve the mystery for this
paper's readers.

COUNTRY EDITOR

@ Claresholm Press; Remoy-
al) of restrictions on foreign
exchange means—that we are
now able to hold olir own fin-
ancially with any other country
in the world including, more
particularly, the richest country
In the world which happens to
be our néighbour to the south.

@ Bridgewater, N.S. Bulletin:
he Royal | tour served
double strengthening purpose—
young people all over Britain
are casting their imagination
In Canada’s direction, and if the
currency and shipping problems
wuld’ be solved there would be

mighty flow of vigorous
British people to Canadian
shores.”

@ A plug for landlords: “The
theory that landlorda are all
great millionaires exploiting the
public 1s blown up by a U.S.
survey which shows that 80 per
cont of jandiords in that
country have Incomos of less
than $5,000 per annum,”

@ Ally well that ends well,
according to tho Fraser Valley
Record of Mission, B.C: "As
the years roll on your home:

the

Process of soaking the rich and
are now merrily engaged in
soaking every person.

@ Advice from the Eastern
Chronicle as New Glasgow,
NS. “We think the CEC is off
the beam! in its insistence in
legislating $0 called ‘Canadian
culture’ Let the CBC improve
ita “programs, and it will not
need to worry about Canadians
preferring American programs.
Culture, like prohibition, is a
state of mind.

@ Windsor, NS. Tribune:
‘Talk with any traffic a
and you will find that the vast
majority of accidents result
from \gnoranco of traffic rules
‘and neglect of common cour-
tesies of the highway.

@ Aurora editorial in New-
market, Ont, Era: It is not
money that fs the evil. The evil
isin the hearts of men, who
having much money, fall in the
obligations which its possession
coniers. “The name of a good
man Jasteth Jong and hath the
fragrance of roses.”

“Oldat40,50,602”

J,
— Man, You're
rer yo So eae
‘Try “pepping up” with Ostrex.
Coreen

town paper tells the story of
your social life, your commune |
ity achtevements, the birth of |
your children, the honors that
come to you, Finally at the ond |
of your long and happy Hfet

the undersigned.

quietly into history, the country

ag usual.” People
regardless of poli-
view the coming

A. PRION APKINKON, Editor and Publisher,

CORDAY M, ATKINSON, Assoclate Editor,
Member

BA, Division of Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assn,

Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assn. and

B.C, Weakly Newspaper: Advertising Bureau.

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