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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1933-09-07, Page 3« < I c 4 * THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1Q33 Wld«jpr£ad Interest and discussion have beep aroused on account of the Arms granted by the College of Arms, London, England, to the University. The foregoing cut illustrates the crest, helmet, mantle, arms or shield and supports, without colours of crimson* royal purple and gold. Prospective students are notified that SATURDAY, SEPT. 23rd, is -Registra­ tion Day for 2nd, 3rd and 4th year students from London; MONDAY, SEPT. 25th, is Registration Day for all freshmen; TUESDAY, SEPT. 26th, is Registration Day for 2nd, 3rd and 4th year students from centres other than London; WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 27th, lectures begin. Late registration is penalized. For further information concerning; courses, scholarships, matriculation re­ quirements, apply to— UNIVERSITY WESTERN ONTARIO LONDON—CANADA 61 15 YEARS AGO Miss Janet Powe and Miss M. E Brown returned this week from a pleasure trip up the lakes to Duluth. Miss Margaret Penrice left Tues­ day to take a commercial course in the Business College in Stratford. Mr. Andrew Campbell of town has purchased the fifty-acre farm in the township of Usborne owned by Mr James Montieth on the Thames Road Miss Leia Buswell and Miss Haze) Hicks, of Centralia, left Wednesday for Calgary to resume their schools Mr. Tho&. Handford, of the State of Minnesota, is visiting his parents Mr. and Mrs. Silas Handford. Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Medd are spend­ ing a week or so in Toronto. Dr Medd is attending the General Board of Social Service and Evangelism. 25 YEARS AGO Miss Mary Ann Tom has rented the premises recently vacated by Misses Sharp and Jackson and will move thereto shortly. Mr. Fred L. Collins, who has been visiting at Mr. E. Treble’s returned to .his home at Columbus, 'Ohio, on Wedneday. Centralia and Exeter teams played a spirited five-innings game of ball here Friday evening with a score tn 4-2 in favor of the home team.. Cen­ tralia: F. Bloomfield, F. Kerr, M Mitchell, C. Duplan, F. Boyle, O. Couhglin, H. Hanlon, R. Bloomfield; Exeter: W. S. Cole, M. Hoskins, R. N. Creech, S. G. Bawden, G. Manns. B. Martin, H. Rendle, W. Knight, B Piper. Mr. Richard Delbridge met with an unfortunate accident on Friday last. He was assisting his son in the township of Usborne in doing some carpenter work at the barn when a joist he was standing on'gave away and he was percipitated to the base­ ment below, about 10 feet from which he received a bad shaking up. Mr. Richard .Snell, having severed his connection with the firm of Snell & Powe left last week for Winnipeg where he has taken a position in a ■large dry-goods store. The Misses Jackson and Sharp who have been conducting a dress­ making establishment here for some­ time have decided to discontinue the business, and left Tuesday for Lc>n- don prior-to leaving for the West. Miss Myrtle Madge left Tuesday to visit friends in Manitowaning. ZURICH Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Rau, of Detroit, were week-end visitors with the former's parents in town. Mr. and Mrs, Schwalm, of Seb- waing, Mich,, spent a few days re­ cently at the home of Miss Anna Hess, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Oliver, of Lon­ don and Mr. and Mrs, O’Neil ana family, of Hamilton, and Mr, and Mrs. Emerson Cornish, of Exeter were visitors recently at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Weber. Mr, and Mrs. ,C. H, Joy, of town attended the Century of Progress Exposition at Chicago. Mrs, Leibold is visiting in Kit­ chener and Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Smith, of De­ troit, spent a week with relatives here. Miss Alice Decker is visiting in London a few days. Dr, A. J. McKinnon and son, Hugh Ward Fritz and W. L. Siebert are on a motor trip to the Cobalt Min­ ing district. Mr. and Mrs. Ev, Haist have taken up living quarters in the house of Mr. Jacob Brown; Dr. and Mrs. H H. Cowen have moved into part of Mr. G; Koehler's house and Mr. and Mrs. L. Schilbe have moved into part of Mr. G. Koehler's house. Mr. Alex Kerrigan and Misses Hazel and Lena Kerrigan, all of Lon­ don, spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. George J. Thiel, of town. Mr. and Mrs. Filbert Denomme, of St. Joseph enjoyed a motor trip vis- isiting with friends in Michigan last week. THE DESTRUCTIVE STARLING Jack Miner, Canada’s best-known bird-lover and naturalist, condemns the starling in no uncertain language and says that unless something is done and done immediately they will be the worst pest Ontario has ever had.' He states that they are driving out some of our best weed-seed ana insect destroying song birds such as the Kentucky cardinal and loveable mourning doves, ^purple martins woodpeckers and so forth. They are the worst weed-seed distributors America ever knew; they carry deathly chicken diseases. They are very destructive to fruit and vege­ tables and they are death to trees where they roost. Last and worst of all they are already lowering the general public opinion and apprecia­ tion of bird life. The only good point about them is that they are edible and have been used quite extensively in that section as food. The situation never experienced before, and one with very serious effects, developed in the peach in­ dustry over the past week-end, re­ sulting in very heavy loss to both shippers and growers. Peaches ap­ parently in splendid condition on shipment developed a serious out­ break of brbwn rot, resulting in 50 to 60 per cent, waste in virtually al> shipments at destination. It is im­ possible at present to get any figures on what the loss may amount to but soihe indication may be gained from the fact that of thirty-twc- carloads arriving in the Montreal market from this district twenty carloads had to be destroyed. In addition to railway shipments scores of trucks carrying the peaches left the district and reports on these are not available as yet. The situa­ tion is not confined to Grimsby dis­ trict, but is peninsula wide. Weather conditions, experts say, caused a very serious outbreak of brown rot through the infestation of the cot­ tony moth, which sticks its beak in­ to the peach and sucks the juice thereby inoculating the peach with brown rot. The fruit develops the rot condition within a few hours af­ ter picking. A prominent shipper is authority for the statement that at least 400 tons of peaches were lost within £he past few days occasioning tremendous loss to both shippers and growers. L The .fruit is now being dusted be­ fore picking in an effort to prevent further outbreak. (The Globe) ZION (Crowded out last week) The service on Sunday was tdken by Rev. Mr. Down, of Exeter, who delivered a very inspiring sermon. Next Sunday at the usual time Mr. Peters will again taike charge of the service following his illnessi. Miss Bernice Lingard. of (St. Marys spent the past week with Mr. and Mrs. Melville Hern. Mrta. Wm. Brock spent the past week with friends in Seaforth. Mr. .Henry Hern has returned to his home after visiting in Arkona. EDITORIAL If only it would rain' O • ♦ • f ♦ ‘'Be sure your sin will find you out.” Bitterness of spirit never sweetens life, • ••• •••• Most people can catch as many if lies with honey as they, can with vinegar. A whole lot of folk are meeting their financial obligations with a cheerful smile.. A friend who spent some little time in the Pittsburg region tells of visiting a factory with a capacity of 5 000 men that is now running with a staff of approximately 400 men. He tells us, further, that at every turn in that factory one is met with police­ men with billies ready for action. So there you are in that instance. What a pity! VERY DANGEROUS We’ve all heard of the prayer, “Give us a guid conceit o’ oor- sells.” Have Canadians been acquiring this conceit in themselves to a degree that has done them a good deal of damage? If we have so blundered, the sooner we face certain facts the better. For instance, we’ve been quite inflated over the wheat question. Tye have been told so often, and we’ve said it so often ourselves, that we’re the wheat granary of the world that we have actually come to believe the statement.“ Britain” we’ve said “is dependent on us for wheat!” Well, France, a country that we have been accustomed to associate with wines and brandy and millinery and ultra stylish dress, has this year 70,000,000 bushels of surplus wheat. At least a score of other nations are in the same situation as regards surplus, what­ ever the surplus quantity may be. Indeed it looks as if Europe Could get on fairly comfortably if she did not buy a bushel of our wheat. And stranger things have happened than such a failure to buy our wheat! The same applies to a good many other lines or our production. Further, we’re not so very high up the ladder in quality of production that we have any cause for self-satisfaction. Cautious Sandy tells us that there’s nothing like a bit of experience to reduce a swelled head. There’s no time when destruction lurks so near as when a nation pillows its head on ignorance—and conceit, The Thing To Do About It When Canadians get over the idea that they are indispensable to the world and get it well into their heads that folk will buy from them only what they want to buy and at a price that pays them tc buy from them and highly resolve that they’ll offer on the marker that very thing, then trade will come their way, provided that ar­ ticle is offered in an enticing form. John Bull wants bacon of a cer. tain type and flavour. He knows just what he wants in this line. Futrher, he knows that he can get that- bacon from willing offerers thereof. If Jack Canuck is on the spot with that bacon John Bull will buy it, provided Jack Canu'ck will trade with him. On the other hand Jack Canuck will buy from John Bull if J-ohn offers the thing that Jack desires. And that’s that. Between these two there must be so.me accommodation and adjustment. If Canada is to sell British, she must buy British, and vica versa. Neither Jack Canuck nor John Bull m self-sufficient. However, they make a great team when each seriously plays the game with all his brains supported by a liberal flow of elbow grease. A DIFFICULTY The big obstacle in the way of financial recovery is the sus­ picion in the mind of the small buyer and the man with a little money that he might Jnvest that the effort to put money into -cir­ culation is a game on the part of the rich man to get his hands on the small man’s little pile of cash. One farmer put it this way, “When I’m feeding peas to my turkeys the old buzzard, the rich man, flies down from the tree and gobbles the greater portion of my grain, meanwhile scaring away my turkeys.” Still another man re­ ferred to the sower we read about in the New Testament. “Behold” the story runs, “a sower went forth to sow . . . and when he sow­ ed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devour­ ed them up.” “The sower,” our friend' commented is in the present situation, the patient toiling man who does his level best to sow enterprise that a harvest of contentment and employment may De the result. The fowls of the air are the gentry who neither toil nor spin but who rest secure behind special privileges meanwhile devouring everything that their toiling fellow men produce.” There is no blinking that these two statements are representa­ tive of a great deal of the thought of this present hour. Wherever one comes upon groups of men who are discussing present day con­ ditions, he hears this talk and feels this spirit. The question is what is to be done about it? The Suggestion Does not all this remind us that we have got on the wrong trap-k in our estimating the values worth giving our precious human strength to procure? Has a farmer attained the end of his exist­ ence when his stalls are filled with fat kine and his bank account overflows? We saw such h farmer the other day, but he was not happy. Indeed he grouched and snarled every minute. His neighbor was as poor as a farmer could be. He was not at all sure about his taxes. Yet he looked up to show us the landscape that was his by the divine right of appreciation and the flowers that were his by the right of his response to their appealing tenderness. We know the joy of the village blacksmith who began the day in joy and finished it in gratitude: “Something accomplished, something done, Had earned a night’s repose.” Then there is the cottar of whom Bunis sang so wondrously. the coitar with his mattocks and his hoes, and his Bible and psalms and his children about his- knee. Then there is the Son of man with­ out where to lay His head and His seamless but healing dress. Then there were the apostles without silver or gold but who could say to the crippled “Rise up and walk!” Then there are memories of wrinkled hands that some of US have felt in the misty past—a past that nevertheless has about it a strange mystic light—hands that brought healing and hope though they never knew the touch, of gold. It looks as if we had reversed the call of the Great Teacher ana Master who asked His brethren to seek first His kingship, in the glad assurance that all they needed would be added to them. We have been far too wise to accept His teaching and now find ourselves with our plans tumbling about our ears. '■ ENTERING HIGH SCHOOL Thousands of young men and young women (they aren't boys and girls after they get out of the grades) will enter high school this - year and if they are the .right kind of young people they will get the right kind of thrill from this ex­ perience. Entering high school is an epochal event in the Jife^of anyone who iS blessed with . the opportunity. Most students never get beyond the grad­ uation period in the high schools After that they either go to work or loaf or do a little <of each. A great many young people who enter high school never graduate and that is a very sad mistake for them to make, and still a graver mis­ take on the part of the parents, pro­ viding the latter deliberately gave their’ consent to a child leaving high school without graduating, when it is not necessary. The first day in high school marks the beginning of an impor­ tant event in the life of the young man or young woman who enjoys the privilege of acquiring this im­ portant education. There will come a time in the his­ tory of this country (and it is ap­ proaching rapidly nowadays) when a young woman without a high school diploma may find things pretty hard in this life. For educa­ tion is the stepping stone to success and independence and without it ah is slavish labour and interminable discouragement. Those who- enter upon high school life today are tc be congratulated. They are marching over a royal road and paving then own life’s highway so that progress may be smooth and sure.—Milver­ ton Sun. PRESENTATION Twenty friends of Mrs. R. L Thompson met at the home of Mrs, John Consitt, Seaforth, to spend a social time before her departure Tot her new home in St. Catherines. Af­ ter bridge lunch was served and Mrs. Thompson was presented with a table lamp. INJURED IN CRASH Two St. Marys ladies, Mrs. C. E Whelihan and Miss Josephine Staff­ ord, suffered from head injuries and shock as a result 'of a motor acci­ dent. Mrs. Whelihan was making a left turn when her car was struck by the Arrow bus which had just left the Windsor Hotel. Their caT was overturned and badly smashed HIGHLY HONORED Miss Susie Simpson, of Mitchell entertained about twenty young couples to a corn and weiner roast in honor of her niece. Miss Doris Simpson, who Is leaving for Toronto to continue her studies. Later they assembled at Miss Simpson’s resi­ dence and presented Dons with a leather purse and compact. CLERGYMAN’S CATCH A 38-pound lake trout is claimed by Rev. A. D. Boa to constitute a record catch by hook and l-ine for this season. Mr. Boa returned from Tobermory last week and placea 'the big fish on exhibition in a store window at Port Stanley. The fish dressed thirty-two pounds and made a meal for sixteen families. Mr. Boa believes that his fish cannot be beat­ en. He was fifteen minutes landing his catch. AUTO ACCIDENT IN STEPHEN TWP. Automobiles driven by Kenneth Lovie, R.R. 3, Parkhill and John Shanks, satme addlress, figured in an accident on the Blue Water Highway on Sunday night. Both cars were travelling in the same direction, with Shanks in front. He signalled to make a turn into his driveway, he states, but apparently Lovie did not see the signal. There was a orash and Lovie’s car took to the ditch and overturned. Both drivers escaped serious injury, but the damage to the cars is extensive Traffic officer Lever investigated. STORE ENTERED iSomeone entered the White Packing Company store and ware­ house ip Mitchell by means of the back door one night last week. Chief Mott in making his rounds heard a disturbance and notified Mr. Schell- enberger, the manager. On investi­ gation a large parcel of meat au ready wrapped and some bottled goods were found ready to be taken away but no trace of the burgularg could be found. Rather doleful news comes out ol the west regarding the food shortage that is facing the cattle industry in Alberta. The- hay crop in Southern Alberta is burned up and Quebec which supplied the cattlemen in 191b with hay when conditions in Alberia were similiar to that of this year at $'50 per ton, now has no hay to export and there is the possibility that 1'50,000 cattle from High River south to the boundary may face star­ vation this winter unless some act of Providence produces feed. There are about 200,00 head of cattle in province. Most ranchers have at least '500 head while some have 30,- 000. The live stock business in the west is a hazardous enterprise. It is hoped, however that rainfalls may come soon which would in a large measure save the situation, NEW VEGETABLES OF' PROMISE (Experimental Farms Note) There has been a great deal of effort made during the past few years on the Dominion Experimental Farms to actually originate and in­ troduce new varieties of vegetables that really have merits surpassing the ones in use for many years. Corn is a comparatively easy crop to work with and it is simply surprising the improvement made by plant breeding methods. For instance Banting, Gold Nugget, Dorinny and Spanish Golds have taken the place of many of the older white varieties due largely to earliness, superior quality and yellow colour. Beans are still an important snap pod crop and it is most interesting to note that the well known Davis Wax bean that was looked upon as one of the best money making var­ ieties has been superseded by an •improved stringless strain. If a very tasty green fleshed muskmelon is desired the Early Knight variety will be found most acceptable. This variety matures very early and grows to a very de­ sirable size for the ice cream trade The flesh is a very attractive green rich in muskiness and with an ex­ ceptionally fine flavour. As an early maturing green fleshed variety it is unsurpassed. The value of early maturing to­ matoes in certain sections is well known to those who have experienc­ ed a desire to grow the crop in their own garden and have the thrill of picking the nice ripe fruit fresh from the plants. This is possible even in the short season sections if such varieties as Abel and Alacrity are grown. Tomatoes fully ripened can be had in from 95 to 109 days from seed sowing, according to the per­ formance of these plants at the Cen­ tral Experimental farm, where these varieties were originated. According to a report received from the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Abel tomato led all other early var­ ieties for earliness and yield in 1932 Where a rhubarb pie is relished or sauce of that plant is looked upon with favour, <Ruby rhubard will be found to give the reddest product and require the least amout of sugar of all varieties available. After all those interested fn vege­ table gardening should consult the Superintendant of the nearest Dom­ inion Experimental Station regard­ ing the problem of varieties suitable for the locality. Men may not look to the immed­ iate economic future with complete assurance, but today they are at least facing it unafraid, —Ogden L Mills. 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