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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1933-12-14, Page 7THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1038THE EXETER T1MES-ADVOCATE Our Letter Box “TELL THOSE ONTARIO PEOPLE THAT THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR A JIALL-FULL OF SMRLES” “Tell those Ontario people that they are responsible for a hallfull of smiles today,” said, one of the com­ mittee helping to unpack a carload of fruit, vegetables, clothing and all sorts of pseful things in a small ■western town this. fall. That particular carroad was ship­ ped from Exeter, under the super­ vision of Rev. A. E. Elliott and Rev. J. H. Stainton. Louise Ramsay Purchase, writing in the New Outlook, undertakes the telling. “It sure was good of those Ontario people to send the fruit and vege­ tables,’ our two smiling boy callers remarked as they presented their weekly gift of buttermilk at the manse door,” she writes. ‘Dad says our apples are Tolman Sweets.’ These lads have never seen an apple tree, but Dad hailed from Ontario 40 years ago and those Tolman Sweets, I am sure, revived many memories of the dear, dead days be­ yond recall. So you see, dear people of Ontario, for many of us, your love-gifts perform a twofold, nay a threefold, ministry, to body, mind and spirit. One of Scores “The second week of November Was a red-letter one for the people of Almeda in Southern Saskatche­ wan for the bi-weekly frieght brought a 14-ton heated car of fruit and vegetables for distribution. And we are but one of the score of towns so treated. “Many hands made light work for it was unloaded and stored ip the town hall in the short space of one hour and fifteen minutes. If bad1 news travels fast the reverse is equally true, for the good news spread rapidly and applicants were on hand by the dozen. One man in a remote corner was up at 4 o’clock that cold, blustery morning to catch his horses and make an early start. Arriving in town at 9 o’clock, he and his wife learned that they were not on the list as they had made no ap­ plication. Cold and disappointed, the wife broke into tears. ‘Just wait’ the relief commissioner said, 'We will do all we can l’or you,’ and enough was found to feed this large family for some time to come. How They Organized “Now this committee deserves special mention for its system and despatch. Under the leadership of Mayor Gordon, who is also relief commissioner, the minister and the town clerk, the helpers were divid­ ed into two sections, the consulting committee and the car committee. Various district representatives were appointed. Days ahead public no­ tice was given the people to make application. One hundred and eigh- ty-one such came in and finally 204 cases were served. “The evening of the day the car arrived the committee had a long session planning for the distribution The applicants were divided into A’s, B’s &'€’s the A group being the children, the B’s adult family groups and the C's bachelors. “Next day the hall, temporarily transformed into a provision ware­ house was an interesting scene of activity. A limited number of ap­ plicants were admitted at a time and the line-up extended to the road. Just inside the door several men at a. table presented each applicant in' turn with his or her order. These were carried to the volunteers, who had things bagged and parceled so that there was no confusion. Second Car “Our readers might be interested in knowning what the car contained Moreover, this was the second car shipped by these generous Exeter district people, the first a 23-ton car for Flaxcombe, Sask. In our car came 100 bags of potatoes, 45 bush­ els apples, 225 lbs. evaporated, 60' bushels turnips, 60 bags of beans, a ■bag of extra choice ones was distri­ buted for seed. I also noticed one farmer exchanging a sack of his own prairie potatoes for Ontario pota­ toes, for seed, (he said); igi bags of carrots, 47 cabbages, 141 pumpkins, and citrons, 33 cans honey and syr­ up, 115 cans vegetables, 240 lbs. rolled oats, 1'57 quarts fruit (some were two-quart jars) 27 quarts of pickles. Then in smarter quantities flour, salt, breakfast food, tea cof­ fee, books for the Sunday School library and a can of maple syrup, which is being shared with the sick. One was reminded of Joseph’s gift of food to his brethren, with the message in every sack’s mouth, so many of these contained greetings and addresses of the kind donors; among them Rev. A. Stewart, Geo, Hepburn (Crediton), Homer Bus­ well. (’Centralia), Mr. and Mrs. Webb (Dashwood). ‘Why, my father lived at Dashwood for years!’ a lady exclaimed. The good people of the Lutheran Church will be pleased to know that their gifts were shared with a ntimber of Lutherans here. Those names made the donations for interesting; for many of the re­ cipients Ontario was ‘back home.’ ” Fraction! Christianity “Such a novel stage setting we had in our town hall for this rally and truly pageant of practical Christianity! Jars of fruit, jams, jel­ lies and pickles half-filled it, mak­ ing a strong appeal to a fruit-hun­ ger the general request. One said she had only been able to preserve 30 quarts of rhubarb for her family. An­ other had preserved no fruit for five years. They seemed to convey a per­ sonal message, those jars of preserves carrying one intimately to comfort­ able Ontario kitchens, where kindly housewives amid muiitudlnous tasks took time to think of others. “One happy lassie confided, ‘Mo­ ther says we are going to have our bottle of peaches and pickles for Christmas.’ A schoolnoy who had been greatly impressed with the size of Ontario carrots wished he could have one every day alter school. Car­ rot tops were favorites with the grasshoppers and they ate them to the ground. They even burrowed un­ derground for the onions, ‘One new Canadan’s complaint ran thus, ‘Dey eat my wheat, Dey eat my oats. But ven dey eat my garlic, ugh!” This was unforgivable. Like Christmas “I like to think of the little ones watching for Daddy’s homecoming the day of the distribution, of their shining eyes when the bags were opened and their joy of tasting hon­ ey and apples, Why it was almost like Christmas. I am glad our com­ mittee considered widows and little children first. Many a grown dad, grown careless perhaps in the stress of hard times, would experience a renewed faith and a lifting of the heart to the source of it all as he saw his dear ones so cheered. And I am glad my brave and cheery farm-lacy friend's favorite expression, ‘It’s bet­ ter farther xm,’ was fulfilled that day and another, when we sent her a fine large squirrel-lined cape for driving, from Ontario. Tears of gratitude fill­ ed her eyes as she said, "I feel like singing the Doxology. I wish I knew to whom to write my thanks.’ A splendid, almost new overcoat from Mrs. K. J. Macnonald, Saint George, Ont., is waiting for some man who will wear it with pride and satisfaction. Far-Reaclung “One can hardly realize the far- reaching effects of it all. There are many people in Saskatchewan com­ fortably off, but there are also many who are in real need through no fault of their own. Your ministry, dear people of Ontario, brings to our mind the lines of Lowell: “ ‘The Holy Supper is kept indeed In whatso we share with another’s need. Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, 'his hungering neighbor, and Me.’ ” STEPHEN COUNCIL The Council of the Township of Stephen convened in the Town Hall, Crediton, on Monday, December 4th 19'33, at 1 p.m. All members were present. The minutes of the prev­ ious meeting were read and approv­ ed. Moved by Mr. Edward .'Lamport, seconded by Mr. Edmund iShapton: That John McPhee and John Hirt- zel be refunded their dog tax $2.0’0' each. Carried. Moved by Edmund Shapton, sec­ onded by Mr. Edward Lamport; That in case there is an election that we give the 'tax payers of this Town? ship the privilege of voting to re­ turn to the Statute Labour Road iSystOm to replace the present High­ way .System. Carried. Moved by Mr. H. Beaver, second­ ed by Mr. Edward Lamport: That, the following pay sheets and orders having been considered be approved and paid: Gordon Wilson, road 1, $1.00; G. Wilson, stn. st. 6'0'c.; Gordon Wilson, road 1 SB, $1.60; Albert Regier, rd. 9, $1.3'5; Isaiah Tetreau, road 14, $24.20>; Roy Ratz, road 13, $4.0'0; Asa Penhale, road 27, $54.90; Albert Fahner, road 6, $5.10; 'Stephen Tp., tile $74.00; George Eilber salary, $19,20; Peter Eisenbacli, gravel $6; Joseph McKeever, ditto 517 c.; Otto Willert, ditto 55c.; Melvin King, rd. 2, $1.00; Peter Eisenbach, road 26, $20.33; Total $214,410'. 'Orders: Tax Collector, taxes on drains, etc. $518.92; F. W. Morlock, postage $45.0'0'; Hydro Power Com., account $6.79; Edward Sweitzer re­ fund dog tax $2.00; Poifce villages, grants $937.73; iSandford White re­ fund dog tax $2.00'; John McPhee ditto $2.00; Peter Eisenbacli, gravel for tile yard $35.0.0; F. J. Wickwire printing $29.00; Canadian Bank of 'Commerce, commission 73.1'5; Aaron Wein, charity Wood for J, Taylor $3.00; Henry Link, cow tag inspec­ tor $1'5.00; Eli Lawson, Bailiff, Di­ vision Court $3i2.0t0‘; Thos. Treve- thidk, Clerk, Division Court, $|3l2.0O; John Hall, charity, conveyance Mrs. Keiiney to hospital $5.00; John Hirt- z!el, refund dog tax $2.0'0'; James Gardner ditto $2.00. The Council adjourned to meet again at the Town Hall, 'Crediton, On Friday, December 15th, 1933, at 1 p.m, HENRY EILBER, Tdvrnship Cldrk a..................... .— ..... 11 ..... .— , . ■■■'Hi EDITORIAL M—... .........., ■..... ......................................................",'fi............................. -........................ f.....-0 And now for Christmas. ******** Money spent in Christmas Cheer is an investment, ******** Temperance workers must not go to sleep at the switch. ******** And here are our best wishes for the Exeter Council of 1934, ♦ * * * * * * * Don’t forget or neglect the folks who cheered you last year. ******** It was only a Christmas card but it strengthened the golden bond of friendship.******** Watch the display of good things provided by our merchants for the best form of Christmas cheer. ******** We wish the new county officers every prosperity. May their term of office prove long and happy and valuable to all concerned. ******** We extend the heartiest of welcomes to all holiday visitors. Please have the names and addresses of your guests sent to us. The list will prove interesting in coming days. ******** QUITE CRICKET? We hear that some Canadian banks have been taking Ameri­ can dollars on deposit, simply to accomodate our American cousins, rate a result our Canadian 'banks threaten to reduce interest on savings deposits to the vanishing point. It’s the worker and the thrifty who bear the burdens. Is this cricket?** ****** THE WRONG WAY Many an indulgent dad. buys his hopeful a pair of skates when he should provide him with a bucksaw. Doing so would help many a farmer to pay his bills. Scores of people would be better citizens were they to buy wood, good, oldfashioned cordwood, have their families cut it and prepare it for the stoves and furnace and in this way work up profitably some of the hundreds of trees blown down last summer. The more a boy enjoys of the woodshed, the less he’ll need the jail cell and the whipping post when he’s a man. This is plain diet, but like the immortal “Parritch” it’s halesome. ******** SOUNDS GOOD. Some municipalities are asking their High School and Coll­ egiate Institute teachers to check up on the hopefuls under their care with the purpose of findinig out if it is worthwhile keeping a good many of the alleged students in these schools. In a great many cases it is gravely suspected that scores of youngsters in these schools are loafing and otherwise forming bad habits. Meanwhile they are kept in school at an alarming expense. Wideawake muni­ cipalities are asking the teachers to report on what the students are doing. If a sudent is not showing returns for the large sums of money expended on him it is simply too bad and he should be removed and told that he must go on the principal of pump or drown. ******** JUST FINE We know of a municipality where the young people have ar­ ranged for a three months’ course in agriculture. We know a good many of these young people. They rise by 4.3 0, do a half day’s work at choring, then drive in the old open buggy five >or six miles to classes, listen till four o’clock or visit up-to-date farms under careful supervision, drive home again and spend a few hours in choring. The sisters of these youths are attending a parallel course at the same time. Meanwhile father and mother are putting in many hard licks at home in order to allow their youg people to take advantage of the constructive opportunity thus afforded. These young people are getting the best lectures and demon­ strations that the province can give them. All of which means better farming in tile days that are coming. Not only are these young people learning to farm well and to make good homes but they are getting instruction in public speaking, in writing articles for the papers, in good literature and in the golden art of getting on together. A finer crowd of young people one will go a long way to find. For the most part, these people are greatly in earnest. They meet some of the best folk of the province and they are getting acquaint­ ed with the best performances of the best agriculturists and other men this province can provide. The outcome of this gathering must make for the welfare of this province. Knowledge is power. Us­ able ideas used make prosperity inevitable. ******** WHY FEED THEM? Just the other day we came across an illuminating bit of life as it is lived. A busy business man was out on his right of way when he came across a traveller who was just going from one place to another. “Your job?” inquired the toiler. “I’m out of work!” was the careless reply. “But, good land, you can get something to do, surely! Have you tried out some of the farmers?” “Yep!” answered the unconcerned one, “but the bally whooz- lers wont give me anything but my board. They wont even give me my cigarettes and my clothes!” “Young man!” went on the knight of elbow grease and knee action and used grey matter. “That’s about all most of us are getting. I can show you dozens of hard working men who are not getting more than their board and a few clothes. Positively, that is all they have for their work. They’re trying hard to keep things moving till times are better, “Well, if they're not the jabberdunklad fools! I can get all that for nothing.And yet sob sisters and their kin think they’re showing the highest kind of charity by feeding these parasites! Municipalities pride themselves on their relief stations where these good-for-noth­ ings get free heat, free bed and free board at the expense of the workers and the selfdeniers and the thrifty! Charity is one thing. Feeding the criminal class is quite an­ other thing*. Helping an unfortunate brother is a fine deed. Nour­ ishing the lazy at other people’s expense is sheer folly. z ******** IT’S HIGH TIME It’s high time that Ontario electors were taking their politics thoughtfully. This is particularly true of our municipal politics. Let us say, in the first place, that Ontario has been well served by her municipal fathers, that is with particular and sad exceptions Scores and scores of men have given of their best to aid local in­ terests, Yet only occasionally do we hear of men who have, thus served, who have won even the gratitude of the folk whose inter­ ests they have furthered. On the other hand wo know of some men who have been ruined financially by serving on the local boards At the same time the fdct remains that in Scores of cases men have been elcted to the council chamber who have been utterly in­ competent for their job. Their value to the community might be reckoned in terms of the burnt of rye straws. Not only have they been of no public value but they have got their municipalities into heaps of costly trouble, These men may have been honest but they were ignorant of their duties and so became the dupes Of the self seeking and the dishonest. It is high time that this sort of thing came o a sudden pull up. Nomination Day is one of the bulwarks of public safety. Unless it is wisely Used the country heads for tyranny.. Unless nomination day is followed up by an enlightened use of polling day, a munici­ pality jiaves the way for ruin and all manner of knavery. Until our electors wake up and get intelligently busy in such matters we’re going to continue to have our municipal records filled with all manner of scandals of one sort or another. In any ease a muni­ cipality should rainember that its public officials are part and par­ cel of their own life. The councils hire and their officials are a mirror of the cOhstituency they serve. It Cannot be otherwise. Public men are precisely what the electors desire. 25 YEARS AGO December 10, 1908 Joseph, son of Mr and Mrs. Thos. Case, left this week to study oper­ ating with his brother Nelson at Gland eb oye. Rev. A. H. Going has accepted the unanimous invitation to become the pastor of Zion Tabernacle Methodist Church in Hamilton at a salary of $1,400. Rev. Going has been four years at James Street, Exeter. Dr. A. Ramsay returned to Inger­ soll, last Friday having recovered from his recent illness. Mir. John Singular /returned .to Kansas this week after a visit of six weeks at the home of Mr. Wm. Bag- shaw. Mr. Sam’l Sanders, Exeter North, returned from the tvest last week where he has been for several months. 15 YEARS AGO December 12, 1918 Mr. Bert Clark has purchased the dwelling property of Mr. Henry Dayman on the corner of James and Albert Streets. Mr. R. T. Luker, who has been in Chicago for several days returned Tuesday bringing with him a ship­ ment of standard-bred horses. Mr. Charles Northcott, who has’ spent the summer in the west, arriv­ ed home on Monday. His partner Mr. Harry Dilling, is remaining in the West during the winter. Mr. Herb Elliott, of Yorkton, Sask., arrived here on Monday to visit at the home of his brother Ernest Elliott. He has been in the West nearly 25 years. TO NAME WARDEN IN OPEN COUNCIL Huron County Body Decides To Abandon Caucus Plan The time honored system of elect­ ing a warden according to his poli­ tics, Conservative and Liberals al­ ternately each year, a system which has been in vogue in Huron County for 34 years has been discarded by unanimous vote of 'Council. The motion stipulates that henceforth the county’s warden shall be elected in open council and not in caucus. Thirty-four years ago a Liberal and Conservative were tied for the war­ denship. The Conservative stepped aside with the promise that he would be given the job the next year. The promise was carried out and ever since the two parties have al­ ternated' as a means of avoiding fric­ tion on the floor of the chamber. There are 1<5 Conservatives and 14 Liberals in Huron County Coun­ cil, each side sitting at separate tables. Henceforth, it is expected they will intermingle and be alot- ted seats by a seating committee. More Baking Champions Mrs. George White Miss Agnes Campbell Parry Sound Parry Sound “I never tried Five Roses Flour for cake until this contest,” said Miss Agnes Campbell, who won the Parry Sound County Prize for Cake in the Five Roses Baking Contest, “though Fve used Five Roses for 15 years for bread and rolls.” And, judging by reports from a number of other prize­ winners, she’s not the only one who has made the pleasing discovery that Five Roses Flour makes excellent cakes. Mrs. George White, winner of the Parry Sound County Prize for Bread, knew beforehand of the all-purpose value of Five Roses, she says, as she has used it for 15 years for cakes, bread and all forms of home-cooking and con­ siders it “the best on the market”. Mrs. S. W. Croxall, of Uxbridge, Ontario County prize­ winner for bread, had used it in her home for the past 10 years, for bread, biscuits and cake. Other County Winners (Judged from Nov. 15 tb to 25tb) VICTORIA—Cake; Mrs. Jams Stoddart, Woodrille; Bread: Mrs. Orley Brintnell, Woodville. ONTARIO—Cake: Mrs. Art. St. John, Uxbridge. MUSKOKA—Cake: Mrs. Wm. Cockford, Frazerburgh; Bread: Mrs. Will Draper, Gravenhurst. SIMCOE—Cake: Mrs. R. Jermey, Hawkestone, R.R. 2; Bread: MiSS Mary Guthrie, Shanty Bay. DUFFERIN—Cake: Mrs. T. Reid, Waldemar, R.R. 1; Bread: Mrs. W. L. Johnston, Orangeville, R.R. 3. County Champions decided from Nov. 2Sth to Dec. 6th, will be announced latet. Judging ends this week for the Christmas season. It will resume in January in Essex, Kent, Lambton, etc. FIVE ROSES FLOUR Milled by LAKE OF THE WOODS MILLING CO. Limited Offices at TORONTO OTTAWA LONDON HAMILTON BRANTFORD SUDBURY SAULT STE. MARIE, ONT.; and MONTREAL, P.Q. 0 She Was a Nervous Wreck Had Bad Dizzy Spells Mrs. Adelard Brabant, Blizzard Valley, Ont., writes:—“I was a nervous wreck, also had dizzy spells and shortness of breath. I was so nervous I could not stay alone, and would lie awake roost of the night. I was not a bit better after consulting a doctor and taking his medicine. One day. a friend told mo to use Milburn’s H. & N. Pills which I did, and in a Very short time they made a great difference in my health. I cannot speak too highly of them.” Fdf said At All dreg afid gcfier&l stores; put up duly by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont.