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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1934-02-22, Page 2THVRSDAT. FEBRUARY 32, 1931 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE H SALADA' TEA 707 Fresh from the Gardens Outstanding Quality Our Letter Box Exceptions taken to Remarks of Chas. Plevvman Centralia, Ont., Feb. 13th, 1934 The Editor, Times-Advocate, Exeter, Ont. Dear Sir: — It is something of a tradition in the old land that when one feels the need for release from a pent up feeing there was nothing quite so effective as to write “The Times.” It was even better than getting a soap-box a/nd going to Hyde Park. I have a feeling that the “Times-Ad­ vocate” might prove equally as ef­ fective, hence this letter. It was my privilege to attend an open forum in Exeter Sunday even­ in at which there were a host of young people. The forum climaxed a day of addresses on the very time­ ly and urgent subject of Peace with particular reference to our young men. The speaker was one engaged in boys work, and one was impressed wih his absolute earnestness. )t is with hesitancy, therefore, that I venture to differ with the views which he expounded. Nevertheless, there are usually two sides to every question and with your permission I would like as briefly as possible to give expression to> a few thoughts that accurred to me at the time and have since suggested themselves. On the General question of Peace and the necessity of keeping this ideal before our young people I heartily agree with him. Not only in the National sense should this ideal be inculcated in the hearts of our young people, but more so in the domestic life as well as the com­ munity life in which spheres the base upon which a peace conscious­ ness must be built if in adult life the National urge to that ideal is to be realized It is surely obvious that a home life of bickering and strife upon the part of the parents and children supplemented by the same conditions as between neigh­ bors makes a rather shifty founda­ tion upon which to build any kind of a citizenship. In my humble op­ inion, therefore, to talk or teach National Peace without a strenuous effort toward erecting the base upon which it is to be built is placing the cart well before the horse. More­ over, I am firmly convinced that we can well leave the Ideal of a Nation­ al Peace consciousness to take care of itself when we have rid our fam­ ily and commmunity life of those conditions which make for hatred, strife and lasting enmity. How ab­ surd to talk National Peace to chil­ dren brought up in an atmosphere of mestic strife. Equally as absurd to talk National Peace to a community of Young Men where neighbors hand is raised against neighbor. Happily such a condition cannot be said to prevail to any great extent locally. I drew from the speakers answers to querries that this urging of Peace upon the Young Men particularly had special reference to their con­ duct in the event of another out­ break of War and the statement was made that if five per cent, of the eligible young men were to refuse to bear arms, then another conflict could not be made possible This I Shingles! No. 1 B. C. XXXXX EDGE GRAIN The best grade made at a low price No. 1 Dry Hemlock barn siding 10 in. wide, any length Matched 2 in* barn flooring at $30.00 per M A. I. CLATWORTHY Phone No. 12, GRANTON a sufficient justification for Britaine repudiation of her plighted word. What an insult to the intelligence and patriotism of our young people. I wondered what would have been the speakers attitude, in the event of a mad man, bent on destruction, entering his home, wrecking it and outraging hie family, and his neigh­ bor standing by, because of the fear of either hurting or perchance kil­ ling the intruder, refusing to lend a hand, contenting himself with ob­ serving to Mr. Speaker, never mind old chap society will be outraged at such an act and will condemn the criminal severely. Would Mr. Speaker have thought hie neighbor’s attitude of Peace at Any Price a very worthy one? An unprejudiced mind must admit that Great Britain has waged a re­ lentless fight and practically alone for the preservation of the world’s peace. She has been the main force and guiding hand in every confer­ ence which had as its aim the pro­ motion of understanding amongst the nations. She has led the world in disarmament hoping thereby to entice other nations to follow her example. At the conclusion of the last war and before the ink was dry on the treaty of Peace, Earl Balfour, on behalf of his nation proposed an all around cancellation of war debts .and before waiting for other nations to accept, she adopts her own recom mendation, collecting only from her debtors sufficient to pay her cred­ itors and thus .she sacrificed twice as much as she hoped to collect. This Natioib which affords a refuge for The Persecuted of all Nations, guaranteeing to them liberty to live life according to their own con­ science. This nation which guaran­ tees to all members of her family that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is their birthright and that this birthright will be safe­ guarded, cost what it may. It seems to me then little less than a trag­ edy to teach our young people that their only responsibility as citizens of such a nation is to maintain their Peace at Any Price. That, though this great heritage is ours a mem­ bers of the British Commonwealth of Nations has been bought and is being maintained at so great a price, our youth of today have no responsibility other than Peace at Any Price. There is this 'happy conviction however. In her hour of need, our country has never called in vain. Should an emergency confront her again, her call will be still to the citizenship of a weight and fineness of a standard established in 1914, all Peace at Any Price urging to the contrary. A last observation. It was disap­ pointing to say the least, to listen and have our young people listen to the cynical castigation of our public men, with particular referen­ ce to those two statesmen Sir John A. McDonald and Sir Wilfred Laur­ ier to whom this country owes a' debt of gratitude it cannot pay. One does not hold a brief for -wrong | doing in public life-, but after all is said and done our government is made up of citizens who are a very fair cress section of the citizens as a whole, neither better or worse. The fact that some public servant should betray his trust ought not to label all public men as crooks and to so do certainly does not tend to create a wholesome respect on the part of our young people for con­ stituted authority as wo know it in tliifl land of freedom. Surely it is this sort of thing that makes for communism and strife. This Can­ ada of ours ha® not arrived at its present happy state amongst the Nations of the world without in its long history there having gone into its building the beet of the lives of those of her sons who guided her destiny during those years. Let not drew applied to Canadians, perhaps he had in mind the Youth of the world. Perhaps the speaker in his addresses earlier in the day advised hie youthful hearers that there were always exceptions to such a general statement. I did not detect it in the forum. I did get the impression, however, that the speaker was a PADJF’IST first, last and ailways, that there could be no condition or circumstance that could justify any young man engaging in a conflict for his country. I couldn’t help wondering what element in the make-up of our young people this appeal was expected to reach? •Canadians, with a standing army of less than, I .think, 3,000 soldiers and a navy of three torpedo boats (minus the Admiral, who was pen­ sioned recently) can scarcely be ac­ cused of militarism, nor the teach­ ing the idea of Avar to its citizens. Militarism is as foreign to the Can­ adian citizen as is Communism. Neither can it be said that one who lia* experienced anything whatever of the last .conflict wishes to under­ go or have anyone else undergo a similar experience, and no one more than those who know something of the utter liorriblenese of -war shud­ der at the thoughts of its repetition. With its memory still quite vivid before one, I do not hesitate to ex­ press the belief that horrible and all as war is, it is as nothing com­ pared t<j the moral collapse that would befall a country whose citi­ zens were so devoid of Patriotism as to permit them practise this “Peace at any price” despite its consequen- es. Yes, indeed, the last conflict was terrible, but had its issue been de­ cided against us, the speaker of the evenings privilege of addressing a group of young men, urging them that Peace at any Price, was the ideal to which they were to dedicate* their lives, would most certainly not have been his. Because thousands of Canadians contributed their all in the defense of those principles of living, because they held that liberty of conscience, liberty of thought, liberty and freedom to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences which had been their birthright as citizens of a British Nation, because of these and all that goes to make the living of life a noble and holy experience, These' held that life was not too great a sacrifice to make in order also that Religious Liberty and all that has made our country the Haven of Refuge that it is amidst a War Torn World, might not perish from the earth. I have no quarrel with tlie ideal of teaching our young people world peace and its desir­ ability but in so teaching, the obvious condition of the world ought not to be lost sight of. Because of the fact that most of the speaker’s hearers, if not all of them had little or no knowledge of the conditions that immediately led up to the outbreak of the last con­ flict, it was distressing to listen to the speaker suggest to them that Great Britain in league with those arrayed against the Central Powers made it virtually impossible for Germany to withdraw before actual hostilities broke 'Out, when it is known and substantiated by history that the only condition of the British Ultimatum was. that Ger-’ many undertake to respect the treaty to which ^Germany wae a signatory, guaranteeing the Neut­ rality of Belgium. To assume that Great Britain would have joined the conflict on some other pretence is simply to beg the question His­ tory aleo records, which records are substantiated by IMr. James Gerrard, American Ambasador to Germany at the outbreak of war, that a supreme effort was made by our Ambassador to persuade Germany to reepect Bel­ gium’s neutrality ,and it was then the famous phrase “Scrap of Paper’’ was coined. It was equally distres­ sing to listen to the speaker suggest that in spite of what Germany was going to do or had done, Great Brit­ ain ought to have permitted her to pass through Belgium, occupy the channel ports and leave the world’s condemnation of such an outrage as | the cynics of today rob those public men of revered memory of tli§ great ' equity which history has placed to their everlasting credit. By all means teach our young people the evils that attend corruption in high places, but along side this also teach that despite this, there lias been es­ tablished a system of government the best known so far Cor the gov­ ernment of man by man. In* this system was established the freedom of the subject to live life as free as the air he breathes, a freedom to worship God according to his own dictates without let 'or hindrance and as a consequence we perhaps have one of the most Christian Na­ tions on the face of the Globe. If our nation is to continue its onward march toward the goal of its high destiny and it will continue so to march our young people whom tomorrow will be at the helm, must realize today that Canadian citizen­ ship is a great Heritage, that its cost of maintenance in unselfish ser­ vice and devotion and even sacri­ fice is high—but the rewards, well who can calculate them? G. O Thompson THAMES ROAD (Too late for last week) The relief that came on Sunday from the severe cold was indeed welcome. Mrs. J. W. Hackney is visiting with her daughter, |Mrs. Wm. Har­ per, of Mitchell. Mr. and Mrs. Heywood entertain­ ed their neighbors and friends on Friday last. The Institute of Hurondale held their annual get together, on Wed­ nesday last. Their program was much enjoyed by all. Mrs. P. Stone is staying with her mother, iM's. Hy. Anderson, of Ex­ eter.,, We are sorry to learn Mrs. Anderson is not at all well, having suffered a relapse. What might have had more ser­ ious results, but for Mrs. Taylors quick action, the house might have suffered from fire, having smould­ ered for several hours. Mrs. Tay­ lor persisted in her efforts to find the trouble and found at the back of the fireplace a beam in the wall smouldering. Hurredily calling her neighbors, the difficulty was soon overcome we are glad to say. Mrs. Allen spent a day or two this week with her mother, Mrs. Fletcher of Exeter, who ie not as well as usual. KIRKTON (Too' late for last week) Mrs. iS. Switzer has returned home after spending a couple of weeks with her daughter, Mrs. .Sgarizlia, of St. Marys. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Godbolt were Sunday visitors at the home of Mrs. David Rogers. IMr. Maitland Mammond spent Sunday with Mr. Gerald Cluff., Mr. and Mrs. Ira Marshall visited with the latter’s mother, Mrs. Wm. Lankin, of Granton on ’Sunday. Mr. Wm. Bebby has returned home after spending two months with his mother and father in Eng­ land. Miss Reta Mollard spent Sunday at her home at Thornaale. CREDITON PRESENTATION AT THE EVANGELICAL S. S. (Too late for last week) The following young people were presented with certificates for hav­ ing completed; the temperance course put on by the W.C.T.U. of South Huron: From the juniors, Ada Gaieer and Ruth England; from the intermediates, Dorothy Amy, Reta and Gertrude Ratz, Grace Hot­ ter, Aldona Wuerth and Shirley Young. Of this mentioned group Dorothy Amy received first prize for having the highest per cent, in the concluding test for South Huron. It was an impressive moment when these young people were called to the platform for the presentation. The superintendent, Art Amy and pastor Rev. M. Sippell felicitated in behalf of these faithful pupils and the cause of Prohibition. i(’E HARVEST BEST IN YEARS Ice cutting at the Goderich har­ bour is in full swing. This week 2,000 tons will be harvested. It is years since the ice was so thick and of such excellent quality due to the severe frosts and heavy snowfall® prevalent this winter. Recently the Board of Health sent a sample of the ice to London for analysis, and it was declared “A 1.” A couple who first met at a bridge party last year are to marry.1*But then, there are risks in every game. RESIDENT OF LUCAN SUCCUMBS | Miss Florence Lee, who two weeks ; ago suffered a stroke, passed away on February 14th in the home where she was born 71 years ago. iShe was one of Lucan’s most esteemed residents and for over 50 years, with her sister, carried on a millinery business in that town. Miss Lee was the first child baptized in the Meth­ odist Church at Lucan. Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. J. W. Blatch- ford, Toronto, who has been with her during her illness, and Mrs. T. W. Cunningham, Iron Mountains, Mich. The funeral service was held from the United Church on Friday afternoon with interment in Birr cemetery, THE HOME TOWN PAPER Editor St. Marys Journal-Argus Dear Editor: It is not necessary to comment on how we appreciate the old reliable Our sentiments are probably better expressed in the following verse: Newspaper! We have never felt the pleasure that it brings? It always tells us of so many strange and wondrous things, It makes us weep at tales of woe, it fills our hearts wih mirth: It tells us of the price of stock and what produce is worth. And when, and where and why, and how Strange things occur on earth. Has man’s loud clarion called to arms? has lightning struck a tree? Has Johnston broke his leg? Or has there been a storm at sea? Has the sea-serpent shown his head? A comet’s tail been seen? Or has some heiress with her groom gone off to Gretna Green? All this and many marvels more you from this sheet may glean. Yours, S. J. ELLIOTT. Exeter, January 12, 1934. 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