HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1932-06-16, Page 3THE EXETER 1JIMES-ADVOCATE
Let’s make hay while the sun shines!
What a June we are enjoying.
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We’ll need it!
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A hoe Jiandle well used keeps the wolf from the deor step.
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The kidnappers pud murders of the Lindbergh baby had
twined the evil of pre-eminence of finding a place among criminals
for whom no defence can be made. It is devoutly hoped that these
below-the-human-devel monsters been discovered.
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When one reads of all the terrible things likely to happen
civilization, he may comfort himself with the thought that the
great majority of them are not likely to take place. A few crows
rejoicing over a bit of carrion make more noise than ten dairy
herds.
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The men and women who are doing their bit in the way of
humanising all classes—(workmen and professional men and traders
and scholars, are the folk who are keeping away from the common
wealth the waste and the murder of revolution. The leaders of the
hour are the men who are helping us to work together, to win to
gether and to get on together, o
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WHAT TO OO
College graduates are asking for jobs. Fortunately they need
not ask in vain. Western Ontario s infested with weeds, Why don't
those graduates enlist in the army required for weed extermination?
By so doing the graduate will earn his board and keep, much to the
relief of poor old toiling dad, he will help the farmer, he will pre
serve his self-respect, secure a desirable coat of tan and get ready
for the day when he can take up successfully the duties of his
chosen profession.
The world is threatened with complete stagnation of trade.
What serious effort is being put forward to avert such a calamity.
Parliaments, Provincial and Federal have prorogued without hav
ing met the situation. Gatherings of great church bodies have ad
journed without giving comfort or light. Fraternal societies have
convened and dissolved without lifting the heart-breaking burden.
And this in the face of the steady fall in the1'prices of primary com
modities! And the end in this regard is not in sight. The dangei’
of a further break down in world trade is feared to be not only ilke-
ly but near at hand. Selfishness in individuals and firms and gov
ernments has proven to be the sowing of the wind. Our whirlwind
of growing distress is likely to prove the harvest.
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MOURNED -
South Huron mourns the untimely death of Thomas McMillan,
M.P. Mr. McMillan was a splendid farmer. (Situated as he was in
a locality where good farming is the order of the times, Mr. Mc
Millan became conspicuous for his success in his vocation. His
watchword was war on weeds. He was a master in the arts of
cattle feeding and of grain production. New ideas were as wel
come to him as are the flowers in May. His farm desk was his'
council chamber whence issued the plans that made his farm a
success and that gave him his place of leadership in his community,
his county and in the Dominion. Now that the clamor of party strife
is hushed by the wings of the great leveller, all men who knew him
pause to pay their tribute to his ability, to his unflagging industry,
to his integrity, to his worth as a farmer, as a neighbor and his
solid worth in downright manhood. Many moons will wax and wane
before South Huron looks upon his superior.
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. GREATLY NEEDED
As the Provincial and Federal Parliaments and the General
Assembly and the various Church Conferences come to a close,
thoughtful men are impressed with the rarity of original thought.
Few men who spoke were anything like inspired or inspiring. A
discouraging dead level of harmless 'mediocrity has characterized
the finding and the utterance of church and state alike. Discour
aged souls have sought to find warmth and light by the embers of
burnt-out theory and practice. And this in a, year when civilization
is facing a crisis like that marking the fall of the Roman Empire or
the close of the Middle Ages. In such a time church and state have
been devoted but barren of the word that points the duty and the
hope of the hour. The more’s the pity!
Noi’ is it one whit better when business is considered. The
rich hoard against the day of opportunity, to their everlasting
shame be this said. Labor has contented itself with,the piteous cry:
“Give us work!” Adventurous souls in social life talk of raising
the red flag of revolution. But where is the word the hour needs?
Where are the Newtons and Darwins of churches and parliaments
and business and social life, the men who speak words shining by
their own light? Eagerly does the race look for the men who will
think with the,sustained intensity that discovers the thing than can
be done and that ought to be done. For human energies to be held
back much longer because of the want of the word that results in
expression in rational action is to invite disaster. Dispers
ing parliaments and churches and gatherings. of business men, tell
the story of great opportunities unimproved.
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FOR THOUGHTFUL READERS
Every so often we hear folk who are puzzled by our own in
dustrial problems saying, “We’d like to know the truth about the
Russian experiment implying that bad as things may be in Russia
that they cannot be worse than they are here. Well here is an ex
tract rom the London Times that is worth careful reading:
Orjonikidze, Commissar of Heavy Industry in the Soviet Union,
has sent an official message to the coalminers of the Donetz Basin
beginning with the words:—“Comrades, you are working abomin
ably. Such work can no longer be tolerated. We cannot allow
you to reduce our blast furnaces to famine rations of fuel.” Since
this outburst the slow decline in output has continued, and it has
been officially stated that the chief reason is a breakdown of dis
cipline among the miners, due to a partial failure of the food sup
plies.
The scarcity of food is unusally acute in all the other industrial
centres; it has in parallel, during the Soviet regime since the famine
years of 1920-21. Until the beginning of 1932 there was but little
irregularity in the daily rations of bread issued to the privileged
industrial masses on their cards, but since then interruptions of
the supply have become frequent and appear to be disquieting the
masses much more than, irregularities in their supplies of ineat and
butter. They had become accustomed to long absences of these
luxuries, but had always counted on receiving their daily rations
of bread or flour.
There are but few industries which are not experiencing a de
cline in production at present, and in nearly all caes the same reas
ons—a breakdown of discipline and irregularity of supplies—are
given by the respective commissariats at Moscow.
The question which everybody is asking is: Will the grain
fields of Russia yeld enough food in the autumn to feed the people
during the coming winter? There is no satisfactory answer. The
spring sowing is behind the program, and nearly all the grain areas
are still short of seed. Besides being late, the peasants are doing
their work, on the whole, very negligently, and often with seed
of doubtful quality. It has now become known that a part of the
harvest last year was not gathered in at all.
There is now a general scarcity of food oh the countryside,
not only In the famine areas but also in the fertile districts of the
Ukraine, .where the harvest was above the average last year. In
the Volga Basin, Kazakstan, the Ural Territory, and other regions
which suffered from drought, conditions of famine prevail and al
though a part of the grain sent to relieve the distress has, reached
Its destination, it is sufficient, and the mortality caused by disease
and epidemics due to malnutrition appears, to be high, but no tfust-
worthy figures have been allowed to pass the Official censorship.
Spotted typhus, or “famine fever"' has been raging in thd Middle
Volga territory for some months, and cases have recently been re
ported also from the adjacent regions.
15 YEARS AGO
Mr. A* WaltPr has moved his boot
and shoe repairing business to the
store north of Mr, Peter Frayne’s
Mr. J, q. Jones is having hi& pres
ent place of business rebuilt
Mr, A. Hastings, insurance and
real estate agent, on Friday sold the
property pf the late Rich. Parish
south of town, to Mr. John Wood.
Mr, w. J, Russell has received
papers confirming his appointment
to the position of postmaster at Exe
ter,
Mr, Chris Zuefle and family left
on Friday for Flint, Mich., Where
they propose to reside in future.
The drama “Dot the Miner’s
Daughter” was given in the Opera
House on Friday evening last by the
adult Bible Class of Elimville under
the auspices of the Soldier’s Aid So
ciety. At the close a handsome lamp
was auctioned by Mr. Robinson, the
gift of the late Mrs, William Tapp,
for about $‘20., it going to a son of
Mr. William Andrew,
Mrs. Hillhouse and two children,
of Saskatoon, Sask,, arrived here
last week to visit her mother, Mrs. S.
Quance.
Customs officer, A- J. Blowes, of
Mitchell, received a letter on Fri
day from his sister in London Eng
land, in which he was informed that
his mother passed away recently.
During his more than forty years
of residence in Mitchell Mr. Blowes
had kept up regular correspondence
with his mother and sisters in Lon
don. Mr. Blowe’s mother was in. her
ninetieth year.
RITCHIE—KNIGHT
A quiet but pretty wedding took
place in the First Presbyterian
Church Manse, of Seaforth, when
Florence, only daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John Knight, of Seaforth, was
united in marriage to James Fletch
er Ritchie, son of Mrs. Ritchie and
the late Robert Ritchie, of-Seaforth.
The ceremony was performed by
Rev. I. B. Kane in the absence of
Rev. W. P. Lane, their pastor. 'The
bride, who looked particularly
charming, was attended by Miss Vio
let Piper, while the groom was at
tended by Russell Piper. The young
couple will reside in Seaforth.
Thursday, june m m
50 YEARS AGO
The hand serenaded Dr» Hyndman
pji Monday evening last. They yiaU-
ed Mr. Robert Pickard op Friday ev
ening,
Mr. John McDonnell narrowly es
caped a serious accident on Monday
last, He was going down Main St,
and when oposife the building re
cently occupied by Mr, John Fisher,
a board gave way percipitating him
into a cellar way. Fortunately no
damage was done keypad a few
bruises,
Th® following are the name of the
ministers for Hketer district appoint
ed at the recent meeting of the
Bible Christian Conference: Exeter,
G. Webber; Mitchell, W, G. Pascoe;
Fullarton, J. Veale; Usborne, W.
Quance, W. Combe; Creditop, T.
Braad; Bethesda and Hensail, F. M-
Whitlock; Clinton, J. J. Rice, T,
Blafchford, B.A.; Colborne, T. J. Sa
bine.
25 YEARS AGO
Mr. P. Bawden on Friday complet
ed the brick smoke-stack for Messrs.
Snell and Zuefle’s power .house. It
is 85 feet high being ten feet.higher
than the stack at either the grist
mill or canning factory.
Mrs. Samuel Smith is suffering
considerably this week from a
sprained ankle received by slipping
on an uneven piece of sidewalk.
F. Company returned on Saturday
from Camp at London. The follow
ing are the names of the best shots
in the company: Sergt.-Major , Hec
tor 65 out of 7'5; Captain Rance 59,
A. Cameron 52, J. Kydd 50, L. Pen-
hale and E. Davis 49, C. Prouty, C.
Rowe and Roy Horn 46.
Mr. Gus. Handford, of Renfrew,
who attended the C. O. F. Grand
Lodge at St. Thomas last week- spent
Thursday last with his parents here.
Mrs. F. W. Collins, who has been
visiting her brother-in-law Rev. J.
H. Collins, of Cainsville, for the past
year returned to her home on Mon
day.
Mr. Abraham Bagshaw returned
Saturday from the West. Mrs. Bag
shaw and family have also returned
from their visit to London.
Mts. Harry Haist and Mrs. Harry
Prouse, of Marlette, Mich., are visit
ing a few days’ with their mother
Mrs. Wm. Dearing.
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So Bad Would Have To Sit Down
Mrs. C. Landry, Moncton, N.B., writes:—“I can
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bowels.
“Last Summer I had such awful pains in my
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“When my children were small I always kept &
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whenever any of them had bowel complaints. ’ ’
New Commander tire meets
present economic conditions
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1932 PRICES’.
30 x 3J4 Signal . . • • s4'20
(29 x 4.40) . .
(29 x 4.50)
(30 x 4.50)
(28 x 4.75)
(29 x 5.00)
CAVALIER
$6.70
7.60
7.65
9.00
9.50
COMMANDED
$5.80
6.15
6.25
7.70
8.25
Huron Garage, Exeter C. J. Stewart, Prop.
GARAGE 155w — PHONE — HOUSE 155j