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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1931-03-26, Page 2THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATETHURSDAY, MARCH M 1930 'Lcok....the Williams bought a Pontiac" YOU will note that people whose knowledge of value and whose taste you respect, are becoming Pontiac owners in rapidly increasing numbers. They desire the stylish beauty of the 1931 Pontiac Six and are pleased with its spacious, Fisher Bodies. Likewise they recognite that, at its low prices, the Pontiac is a real value ... . a General Motors value. The 1931 Pontiac is a fine car, finished in taste and beauty throughout. It is a luxurious car with many extra mechanical refinements and items of equipment that add so much to comfort, performance and pride of ownership. For instance, 5 wire wheels are stand' ard equipment on all regular models at no extra cost. You will also find four Lovejoy shock absorbers. NEW LOW PRICES 2 Door Sedan 4 Door Sedan Sport Sedan Sport Coupe * Coupe • f Convertible Cabriolet »' 970* ' $875 ' 970 * 1015* <• 925* * 875 MOTORS AH prices at factory, Oshawa. Government Taxes, JBumpers and Spare Tire Extra. *Six wire wheels, fender wells and trun^ rac\ included as standard equipment on sport models at slight extra cost. PONTIAC ... a fine car, a modern car, a General Motors value ULRIC SNELL Exeter, Ontario RURDOCK Blood i Bh^terT J For the past 51 years MANUFACTURED ONLY BY THE T. MILBURN CO., Limited Toronto, Ont. Try the 1931 Pontiac Six.., we will be glad to provide a car for you to drive at your convenience; The GMAC time payment plan makes purchase convenient... and the General Motors Owner Service Policy pledges your continued satisfaction. Her Husband Had Boils on Arms and' Legs Mrs. Russell Laird, 454 Bagot St., Kingston, Ont., writes:—"About a year ago my husband was terribly bothered with boils on his arms and legs, and couldn’t get any thing to clear them up for any length of time. He went to doctors, and the medicine they gave him would make them dis­ appear, but they would come back in no time. One day I was reading the newspaper and saw where Burdock Blood Bitters was advertised for this trouble, so decided to try it, and he hadn’t taken much more than one bottle when his skin was all cleared up. We think B. B. B. is a wonderful medicine.” COMMUNICATION The following reply to a letter which appeared in the Times-^d- vocate by "Citizen” was written by Mr. Geo. Holman, County Clerk and appeared in a recent issue of the Goderich Signal. This week, we print another letter from "Citizen” in reply to Mr. Holman’s second letter. Since tlfe above was written we notice that the contract for the five miles of pavement in question, south of Exeter, has been let by the Department of Highways to Boss & Brazier, London. MIL HOLMAN IN REPLY Mr, Holman’s attention having been drawn to a letter which appear­ ed in the Times-Advovate written by "Citizen” the following reply ap-‘ peared in the Goderich Signal. " ‘A Citizen' of Exeter, I see, is criticizing my proposal to assist the unemployed of Huron County by spending the $45,000 which that five miles of the London road south of Exeter will cost the county (as our twenty per cent,) on improvements in county roads throughout this year, "After pointing out the lions in the way of the carrying out of my proposal. ‘A Citizen’ makes use of this telltale remark: “ ‘On the other hand, practically all of the roads designated by Mr'. Holman lead to the Blue Water Highway, and the Blue Water High­ way leads to Goderich.’ "It just shows the difference in our viewpoint, that’s all. I was thinking of the need of the unem­ ployed of the county: ‘Citizen’ was thinking of the comforts, of the people of Exeter. I was thinking of giving some work to the man who is seeking employment, and incident­ ally some bread and butter to his little kiddies;, while ‘Citizen’ was thinking of the comfort he would be sacrificing and the valuable time lie would lose in having to drive for that five miles at twenty-five or thirty-Hve miles an hour, instead of forty-five and fifty, on his way to, London. He was thinking, too, of a little business going to Goderich over the Blue Water Highway, instead of to Exeter or to London; while I was thinking that the roads I mentioned actually ran from the Blue Wafer Highway to Exeter and the London Road, and furnished means of access to la market in Hensail and Exeter as they did fifty years ago. I had forgotten that all tlie roads I men­ tioned ran from east to west and not also from west to east as they when I was a boy. “What I really wished to' point put was thiat these roads needed much improvement in ditching and,, widening/and that’ this work would afford- some relief in the presehi situation—at any rate, we would be spending our money at home ill our- own county, instead of giving.it’ to some rich contractor to take out of the county to feed and clothe people in-Toronto or some- other, big centre. You know, I can’t imagine I made a mistake, to- be- thinking about our own poor and needy instead of those hundreds of miles away,’ but yoii know we are all influenced by things of which we have personal know­ ledge and which we .see every day, rather than by things of which we know nothing. “Then I plead guilty to a little matter o.f which I often feel proud; and this is that to Mr. John Laporte of St. Joseph and myself, more than to anyone else, the-Blue Water High­ way as a Provincial county highway owes its existence. I need not go into this, but it is a fact, nevertheless that'that road was put on as a Pro­ vincial county road through the di­ rect efforts of our two humble selves and to this Mr. Laporte can bear witness. Consequently it cannot be wondered at that I have that road al­ ways in mind when I speak of county road improvements. There is an­ other and a weightier reason,, and that is that these back townships on the lake shore have paid into everything of county road and rail­ way improvement their full share per Assessment, and have never heard the sound of a whistle nor re­ ceived one dollar of benefits in tra­ vel facilities or road construction out of the hundreds of thousands of dol­ lars spent in that old London road and the Huron and Bruce Rail­ way, for instance. During the grant­ ing. of all these benefits to the east­ ern and southern parts of the county1 only, Ashfield paid taxes at the same rate per dollar as Stephen and Us- borne paid, and that on an equalized assessment as follows: Ashfield .................... $388,800 Stephen ..........................376,000 Usborne .................... 368,600 —showing that Ashfield paid more taxes than either of the other town-- ships mentioned while they received the whole- benefit of gravel road and railway along the front of each town­ ship and Aslifield and the other back townships got absolutely nothing. "This ibring-s me to another'little gem in ‘Citizen's’ letter, as follows: “ ‘This southern end of the coun­ ty has waited patiently long enough and its interests should not be fur­ ther sacrificed.’ "Now who, in the face of the above statement, which is- true, has been doing the sacrificing? "I think ‘Citizen’ must be a new­ comer in Exeter, or rather one far removed from the conditions obtain­ ing sixty or seventy-five years ago in that very locality, for I cannot imagine ’sons of the old-timers, as I am one, complaining of sacrifices in travel. My dear man, you are getting things handed to you on a silver platter, and don’t know the meaning of sacrificing your comfort; but these people just fifteen miles west of you are still suffering the discomforts which you had in the construction of the London, Huron & Bruce Railway, and they paid their share- of the same per assess­ ment as you did. “As to the suggestion that my proposal should include a statement of the rate of wages, the method of operation, etc., I shall just say this: ’Adjutant Fred Martin of the Salva­ tion Army, London, who used to be a frequent' visitor in my office, first proposed the Ambassador Bridge at Windsor; but he did not make the cables for it, nor the pay sheet. The man wlho got the credit for originat­ ing the Atlantic Cable Gid not lay it: -nor did the man who drew the plans igr^the Grand Bend bridge dig the Tpundations or put .in the abutments. I simply threw the hint that as there ,was an emergency, the county should act to meet, and that, as the emergency existed particularly among these who-earned their bread by the sweat of their brow, anything the county could do should be done with the object of furnishing the needed relief, not of furnishing com­ fort for travellers, nor of relieving any community of the terribly dis­ tressing circumstances of having to dirty their limousines in going over five miles of gravel road for a year or so<; nor is my plan intended to provide an easy method of going from our own towns and villages to cities thirty or forty miles away to spend our money instead, of with our own merchants. “We are told that there are seven million unemployed in the United States, or about one in sixteen of the population. It that be true, it would not be stretching it to say that there are a least one in fifty in Huron, or 900 to 1,000 breadwin­ ners out of jobs. These men could and ought to be provided with at least six months’ work on pur roads under such conditions as to board, wages and transportation ms our county and township authorities could arrange. "Last year we spent about $185,- 000 on our, roads, on either the county oi' Provincial highways, to say nothing of the thousands spent in the townships, towns and villages. What .is wrong in proposing that the county and township engineers and other authorities get together and designate roads to be improved, lay tihei plans, fix the wages, etc,, and I miss my guess if we could not recruit a small army of unemployed from nearly all walks of life who are willing and waiting to handle a spade, shovel or wheelbarrow to make an honest wage to help tide over the disabilities that follow the want of work; and it is: more than prolbaible not only that the Provin­ cial Government would pay the us­ ual percentage grant, put that the Dominion Government also would lend their aid in an honest effort’ to supply work instead of doles. "As the cost of employing men instead of machines, that is begging the question. We are talking of giving men work to earn an honest day’s pay and thus preserving the manhood of our people instead of establishing soup kitchens and hand-, out doles. This is not only possible but probable, for I am told a con­ tractor in a'city not a hundred miles from Exeter put his trucks’, steam shovel trucks and tractors in ia shed and employed an army of men with those very small implements. That man is human .and realizes his re­ sponsibility as his brother’s keeper. It is our money we, are spending, and our flesh and blood we are help-; i'ng, and to talk of the cost is puer­ ile and not worth considering where there is great need. Let us meet it as a rich county ought to and will.” CITIZEN’S REPLY County Clerk Holman has written another long article to the press op­ posing the completion of the paving south of Exeter. His article is very lengthy but contains some entertain­ ment. Modestly, he divides with John Laporte the credit for having the Blue- Water Highway designated as a Provincial County Road. In 1929 a resolution was passed by the County Council asking for it and two delegations from the County waited on the Minister and Deputy Minister regarding the matter. No- doubt the designation was warranted ’ and for Mr. Holman t.o appropriate the cred­ it to his “humble” self at this date, is, to say the least, amusing. Mr. Holman further classes him­ self with the originators- of the- Am­ bassador Bridge, the Atlantic Cable and other great works on account’ of his proposals that extensive road work be done on-the county roads. As a matter of fact the idea origin­ ated with the 1930 Road Commis­ sion who, jn their December report set forth that considerable work should be done to relieve unemploy­ ment, as, the time- when labor was plentiful and costs low, was. the proper time- to carry out public im­ provements. Mr. Holman also states that "to talk of the cost of the- work is not worthy of consideration.’.’ It would appear that any one having no re­ gard for costs is not a proper person to be giving advice. The idea of doing extensive work on roads during .the coming year is no doubt good, but the completion of this short section south of Exeter is urgently needed to finish the job of paving from Clinton to London. A big share of the .benefits from the expenditures made on the fifty miles already built cannot- be secured until this is done. This work will provide a great deal of employment but Mr. Holman does not worry about the "kiddies” of the workmen who will be left out of a job if the work is not undertaken. The proposal to stop one job in order that another may­ be done is not an unemployment re­ lief scheme as there is just as much reason for undertaking the comple­ tion of this road on account of un­ employment as to do anything else. It would also bh- foolish to postpone construction until labor is scarce and costs higher. It would seem that Mr. Holman is paid to attend to the duties of his office and not to stir up opposition to the completion of jobs: in any part of the County by long windy letters to the press. A Citizen THE LATE MRS. BUTCHER A prominent resident of St. Marys passed away recently in the person of Mi'S. Frank E. Butcher. For the past three years Mrs. Butcher had been in ill health being confined to her bed most of the time but she passel away very unexpected Born in the township of Blanshard she was' married in 188'3 iand. moved to St. Marys where she has since resided. She was active in church work and devoted a .great deal of her time to the Red Cross Society and at' the close of the war was honored with life membership in the society. The surviving family are her husband, two sons and one daughter. 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