The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1934-03-22, Page 2THURSDAY, MARCH 22nd, 1931 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE
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Exeter, Ont.
Dear Editor:
A short time ago< there appeared
in the Times-AdvocateA under the
captions “Exceptions taken to re-
marikis of Chas. Plewman.” The
writer of that splendidly worded
lettex* took a decided stand against
the views expressed by Mr. Plewman
in the Forum that the latter con
ducted amongst the Young People
on a Sunday evening in the JameB
Street United Church. Not having
been at the Forum we are, in this
letter, not going to debate the ques
tion of agreeing and disagreeing
With what was said there. We agree
with the writer in many of his
statements, especially his phrase
“the utter horribleness of war.”
However our purpose in now
writing is to challenge the underly
ing sentiment which was present in
the letter signed by our worthy
correspondent from, Centralia,
think it would
that sentiment
We would have
we waited for
mightier pen than ours to take up
the challenge on behalf of Peace.
•Oh, yes, we know the writer did not
advocate war. He portrayed some of
the evils of war; but in the next
breath he advocates that our young
men be willing to become cannon
fodder in any next war that devel
ops.
Here are two quotations from the
communication:
“I have no quarrel with the ideal
of teaching our young people world
peaJce and its desirability, but in so
that obvious condition of
ought not to be lost sight
W«
be regrettable if
went unchallenged,
written sooner, but
some one with a
is this happy, conviction
In her hour of need our
fermenting grievances between Eur
opean nations about which we (kinovr
little and that little may not be the
whole truth. (Since the last war
when Canadians fought in foreign
lands none of these European na
tions have demonstrated any notice
able consideration or friendliness
tor Canada. They have not even
attempted to encourage trade, but
have rather set up greater barriers
than ever against us. The. sacrifices
that Canada made and will continue
to make for generations to come are
probably already forgotten in Eur
ope. So after all it. seems, rather ri
diculous to anticipate giving our life
blood on foreign battlefields. It
would be much wiser to exeilcise a
little self interest and remain strict
ly outside the Cauldron of Europe.
When Will Rogers saia that wars
would be fewer if they were con
ducted on a strict "Pay as you en-
er" basis he said a great truth. If
the first step of war was the con
scription of all wealth, we would
not be so enthusiastic over the pros
pect. But is it not dishonest to go
into war and expect our children
and grandchildren to pay the bill?
In case of another war all industries
should be conscripted by the Gov
ernment and definite modest wages
set, not only for the soldier, but for
farm, factory and mine laborer and
for workers in every sphere of ac
tivity.
ILet the soldier who sacrifices
everything obtain the best wages
and some of the glaring injustices
of the last war will be
Then if the cause is
just, the
fortunes,
factories,
business,
practise,
the able bodied their health and
sibly their lives.
In conclusion, Mr. Editor,
would say that we are in favor of
wax’ 'only for the actual defense of
our own country and for the actual
defense of our EmpiVe it attacked—
but not in favor of participating on
foreign battlefields for
the munition and
manufacturers and for
the maintenance of tjnar
the Balance of Power,
would promote a Poalce consciousness-
in our young people by not defend
ing war any more than we would
tend lynching or murder.
Advocate for Peace
removed,
sufficiently
would throw in their
manufacturers
business man
professional man his
and
pos-
their
his
Price urging to the
quotations will, we
our claim or assertion
teaching
the world
of.”
“There
however,
country has never called in vain.
Should an emergency confront her
again, her call would be to the citi
zenship of a weight and fineness of
a standard established in 1914, all
Peace at Any
contrary.”
The above
believe justify
that there exists in them an under
lying sentiment on behalf of war.
Rather would we teach our young
people the utter fiendishness of it.
We would have them peruse the
war pictures recently appearing in
some of our papers—pictures which
truly rob war of all its gfamour and
glory, and instead show how beastly
inhuman and senseless and vile the
whole thing is. We would put in
to the hands of every (citizen that
wonderful book of “Cry Havoc” by
Beverley Nichols. Space will not
here permit to dilate on the con
tents of that book. Suffice it to say
that the author shows clearly that
the greed of
facturers is
causes of all
every one to
“Cry Havoc”
the armament manu-
one of the primary
wars. We would urge
read, study and digest
and then we would all
try to stop some of “man’s inhuman
ity to man.” Away with the idea
of holding up before our young men
the ideal (?) tha they should feel
impelled to offer their all upon the
altar of Mars if their country should
decide to fight once again on Eur
opean soil. It is to be hoped our
pulpits will never again become re
cruiting stations. (Just now war
preparation news is dominating the
headlines of our daily newspapers.
Even in Canada we are considering
the possibility of our being dragged
into
tion
idea
who
foreign soil our country may be sa-
rificing her youth and manhood. As
far as we can see we have no real
reason for forming prejudices on
behalf of or against any one nation
or their allies. There have no doubt
been aggravations, challenges, long
a general European conflagra-
without having any 'dear cut
as to which side is right, or
our allies will he, or on what
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the farmer his farm
we
vanized sheet metal, which stands
on angle iron legs, for cooking and
heating our bedroom. The fire-box
is about 2 feet long, feet wide
and 10 inches deep. By putting an
elbow for the pipe on one end, the
top surface is clear for pots and
pans.
We expect to camp in El Monte
while the gardening and building
proceeds, so I have been putting to
gether a number of things for the
camp furniture and equipment. I
have already got two chairs, a table-
top, various tins cups and pots and
other nicknacks made.
We are just about 11 miles from
the icity of Los Angeles. It covers
a vast area, larger than Detroit,
and takes in a number of towns that
were separate from it. It has a
population of 1,238,000. There are
no great manufacturing industries
in it, but it is a great tourist centre
and has almost every kind of school
and college in it.
We had a very enjoyable trip from
North Plette out here. The states of
Nebraska and Wyoming are a part
of the old Great American Desert,
and are included in the Great Plains
of North America, which stretch
from Alberta and Saskatchewan to
Oklahoma and Texas. At one time
these plains were a vast stretch of
sand dunes, but now they are cov
ered with grass and shrubs.
As we travelled westward towards
Cheyenne, Wyoming, the land slop
ed upward from' the valley of the
Platte River into the foothills of
the Rockies To the north and west
of the Platte River, the sand hills
of Nebraska spread out.
As we approached the borders of
Wyoming, the land was more rocky,
and the sandy soil was of a brick red
cast.
We got our real first glimpse of
the Rocky ,'Mountains in the distance
as we came into Cheyenne, where
we stayed over for a day to visit
friends of my wife’s. We were
shown about the city, which is the
capital of the state of Wyoming. It
is a small city spreacr out in West
ern fashion and has a population of
17,361. It is
has no large
(chief features
Fort Warren.
a million dollai’ hospital for disabled
soldiers, which has never been used
since it was built; a silver fox farm
a fine airport; and a zoo' for wild
animals.
■Shortly after leaving Cheyenne
the next day, our train passed thro’
a small blizzard and hailstorm. Af
ter about two hours, we rolled along
through cuts in the rocky hills; and
passed under artifical tunnels built
of concrete and corrugated iron to
protect the trains from snowdrifts.
Aftei* g<
saw spurs
tance, and
ing towns,
fairly well
many of them were just shack clus
ters.
It was late at night when we
passed through Salt i^asse iCity of
the Mormons, so we did not see any
of the scenery in that part Of the
country.
Salt Lake City has a population
of 140,260 and is the largest city in
that part of the West. It has no
large manufacturing plants, but is
a distributing point for mining pro
ducts, salt, beef, sugar and farm
produce. It has sulphur springs.
By the time the sun rose in a yel
low glow over the Eastern horizon
we were on the edge of the desert in
a region called the Arid Platteau.
Early in the morning of the second
day, we passed into Nevada, and be
gan to chnb up the mountains. The
train wound around a horseshoe
curve at Crestline, Nevada, at the
highest point beyond Cheyenne, then
we began to go downward on the
other side, through twists, and turns
and 17 tunnels on the moutainside
known as the Nevada Canyons.
The rugged beauty in that part
of the country is hard to describe.
Another fellow has described it
better than I can do it. He said:
“The surface is, bare rocikl from
which every movable particle has
been shaved off by the wind-blown
sand and by gravel scraping over it
at the time of torrential rains. The
mountains are mostly bare and
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a very short
the railway
at Los Vegas
went
Desert
of the
and
a railroad centre, but,
factories in it. It’s'
are: the State Capitol
a large military post,
or dawn. .Something in the desert
sunrise and sunset malkies colorb
that are never seen in tVe lands of
plentiful rain.”
As we descended into these .roick-
cut gorges, we saw small farms
laid out into narrow fields beside a
muddy stream of water. Cows pas
tured on the sagebrush and weeds
while the mountainsides towered
almost straight up at
distance away from
tracks.
At noon we stopped
Nevada and got off for a few min
utes exercise. This is the gateway
to the Hoover Dam, 30 miles away.
We saw palm trees there for the
first time on this journey.
From there onward, we
through part of the Moijave
and Death Valley, where part
Old Forty-niners were lost
died on their way to the California
goldrush.
(After sundown, we passed over
the mountains whiun separate the
desert from the fertile valley where
Los Angeles is located, and arrived
there at 101 o’clock that night.
We were met by our brother-in-
law and my wife’s mother at the
station.
The following Sunday we were
taken through over ten towns out
side ■ of Los Angeles,
mountains, where a
landsslide damaged
Year’s Day. About
injured and several
Since then I have been over to
Los Angeles and Hollywood and
other places to see them.
Last night I was taken to
dale to see a big Boy Scout
and saw Torn Mix and othei’
and radio stars.
JHoping you 'have quite recovered
from your fall and are well again,
with love we remain,
Yours sincerely,
Verna and Cecil Astleford.
around the
cloudburst and
property New
50 people were
lives yere lost.
the sake of
armament
the sake of
01a bogey—
And we
de-
The following letter was. received
by Mr. Thos. Appleton from his
nephew in California.
100 feet
containing
trees on it
ground is
239 North Orchard Drive,
Burbank, California, 2-17-’34
Dear Uncle,—
I came out here, principally, to
help my brother-in-law jn his build
ing program near El Monte, Calif.,
about 25 miles from where, we are
now located. I have not been able
to get started on my end of the deal
except for three days, which I spent
cutting and trimming trees on the
back end of the building lot
It is a plot of ground
wide and 300 feet deep
10 large English Walnut
about 45 years old. The
a brown sandy loam, in a terrirtory
where truck, farms have been dev
eloped. Besides subtropical fruits,
oranges, lemons, grapefruit and
olives, such stuff as rnubarb, cauli
flower, celery and berries are 'grown
As most of the rain falls during
the winter, and we have dry sum
mers, it is necessary to irrigate the
garden.
When the sun sets, the air is very
chilly and fogs come up from the
sea The dew is heavy so
a lot of moisture. After
gets up, the air is dry and
■My brother-in-law and
manufactured a (camp stove of gal-
there is
the sun
warm.
I have
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;etting into Utah State, we
of mountains in the dis-
stopped at oil and min-
Some of 'them were
built and up-to-date, but
Mrs. Modley Wimer and two chil
dren, of Detroit, are visiting with
the former’s mother, (Mrs. J. Deciki
er, of town.
Mr. and Mrs. C. 0. Smith and two
sons Gordon and Stanley,
Joseph, motored to Baden
chener one day recently.
Mr. T. L. Wurm, of
of Saint
and Kit-
Toronto,
spent the week-end with relatives in
town.
Mr. and Mrs. Mose Erb and Mliss
Alice Erb and Mabel .Schwartzen-
truber motofed to Kitchener' for a
few days recently.
,Mr. and Mrs. John Gerber, of In
diana, have been here visiting ow
ing to the illness of the former’s
mother.
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expects you to be tivo places
andat the same time . . .
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See list of rates in the front of your directory.
25 YEARS AGO
Mr. Wm. Melville has returned to
town and has engaged with (Mr. W.
J. Heaman as tinsmith.
Mr. and Mrs. James' Westcott
leave Saturday for their home in the
West.
Melville Howey, Miss Salina Har
vey, of Exeter and Robert Down, of
Bethesda, left this week for the
West.
IMrs. John Wylie, who has been
visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. J.
Colwill, and other friends returned
this week to her home in Winnipeg.
Mr. and IMrs. John Spackman left
Monday night for Talbotville, to at
tend the funeral of the latter’s sis
ter Mrs. Shoran, who died in Ot
tawa.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Caves, of Eden,
are able to be out again after their
recent illness.
IMr. C. H. Russell B.A., of Calgary
son of Wm. Russell, Hay, who has
been inspector of schools in Calgary
has been appointed to a lectureship
in the Normal School of that city.
Mrs. Edgar Willis' received word
on Friday last of the severe ilnless
of her sister, Mrs. Percy Luxton of
Font Wayne, Ind. Mrs. Willie left
the same day for Fort Wayne.
bare ;
nature breaks them up rapidly v
winter frost and summer h at.
there is no vegetation to hold
soil, wind and water carry
mountain waste away. Fantastic
mains of weatherbeaten mountains
appear as pinnacles, spires, round-
topped haystacks or sharp and jag
ged chains. No other
affords such a wealth
Brown and yellow and
predominate, touched up
and gray. The brilliant reds and
yellows of midday may bo tarned
to violet jn the soft light of sunset
landscape
of color,
tawny red
with black
50 YEARS AGO
March 27, 1884
Mr. G. Monteith, of Usborne, on
Sunday stepped on some ice and fell
on his arm breaking it a little above
the wrist.
While a young son op (MT. J.'ohn
Down, of Usborne, was at play near
a woodpile, which the snow had
melted from under; it fell over on
the boy, causing serious injury.
We are informed that Mr. J. R.
Jaynes Uormeirly employed in the
boot and shoe business of Mr. James
Pickard, hae accepted a position as
travelling salesman for Garrett &
Company, of Hamilton.
Mr. Thos. Halls, of Elimville has
gone to Chicago to resume work as.
a mason.
■On .Saturday
John Snell was
horses up main
infuriated and
when one of them kicked, its leg
over1 the pole of the wagon injur
ing itself somewhat.
Spackman-JSouthcott-In Exeter on
the 26th inst., at the residence of
the bride’s father, by Rev. Mr. Dick
son, Mr. E. II. Spademan to Miss
Emma, third daughter of Mr. Chas.
Southicott, all of Exeter.
Gibbings-Townsend-At the resi
dence of the bride’s father, Tuclkier-
smith, on the 20th inst., by the Rev.
J. Kenner, IMr. Robert Glbhings, of
Alma, to Miss Sarah Townsend.
morning while Mr.
driving a team of
street they became
began galloping
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