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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1942-08-27, Page 7THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 27th, 1M2 r T 15 YEARS AGO Dr. W. E. and Mrs, Weekes and „ Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Francis are vis-. iting for a few days in Owen Sound. ( A new storage barn is being erect- j ed at the Exeter Flax Mill to replace the one destroyed by fire some time ago. Marjorie, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs, F. A. May, had the misfor­ tune to fracture hex’ left arm at, Grand Bend, on Thursday. Mr, Albert Spencer has purchas-; ed the planing mill at Hensail and is having it put in shape for operation^ Mr. W. A, Patrick, of the Bank of Commerce staff, is holidaying at Port Dover, Woodstock and illia. Miss Margaret Wetbey left cently for a trip to Europe, sailed from Quebec, going to Par­ is, Fiance,-and later will* go to British Isles., Mr. and Mrs, James Joss, of troit, visited for a week with sister, Mrs, Roland Brintnell, Moose Jaw, Sask,, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Brintnell, Mr, W. H. Harness is this week moving into the residence recently purchased from Mrs. Beverley, Main street, and Mrs. A. Rumford Is moving into, the residence vacat­ ed «by Mr. Harness. The opening of the new baseball diamond on the agricultural grounds will be celebrated with a tourna­ ment Day. Or- rer She the De­ li er of and street dance on Labour 25 YEARS AGO Matthew Routley has soldMr, ___ . his fifty-acre faijm to Mr, John Fletcher, of Usborne, and has since purchased Mr. Walter .Kerslake’s 100-acre farm on the -opposite side of the road. Mr. Gormer, of the Bank of Com­ merce staff, JExeter, is in charge of the Crediton branch in the absence of Mr. McDonald.” A farmer is Usborne delivered two young pigs last week which, to­ gether weighed 670 pounds. The buyer paid him $114.00. Apparent­ ly there is no limit to the price the consumer will have to pay. After -two months’ visit with her son, Roland, and family, in Winni­ peg, Mrs. Jas. Brintnell. returned home last week. Listed are some of the market prices for the week of August 30, 1917; Wheat, $2.1'0; family-flour, $6,30; creamery butter, "44c; eggs, 40 to 42c. It is forbidden to sell or eat can­ ned peas, corn, tomatoes or other canned vegetables until after Octo­ ber 13, by a new regulation of the ■Food Controller. By thus doing, waste of fresh vegetables will eliminated be 50 YEARS AGO HERE IT IS! S Motorists by the thousand are asking “What am I going to do about my tires?’1 There’s only one answer...GOODYEAR TIRE LIFE EXTENSION PLAN! This low-jost, systematic, skil­ ful service keeps yoyr tires on your wheels. -Don’t let your car be laid up for lack of tires, gg| started on extended life for your tires * . . now! Exeter, Phone 100 IPassmore’s W. - C. Passmore Phone 31 Hensall, Ont. caaw lr ’The war outlook continues very grays. *. ;* And how gorgeous are those * * out ♦ , the .* * > $ - Some people are finding < * * * The harder the fighting; sort enlist,., * Rumor has it that picking season. ♦ * a good * Vimy Ridge and now of noble sires,” « > * # early autumn Howers! * * * why beans cost so much per can, * *♦ more readily men of the right ♦ many beans got quite hot during the * * * Dieppe, ** * Still * .the #5 word is “Worthy sons *. * Yep, we got the harvest in, all right, all right, with some very good time to spare. * * * * Johnny is wishing that he were difficult world for boys, * * * * * ♦* * in * the * * High School, This is a ** The hot weather came in time to put the finishing touches on the corn and tomato crop and harvesting^ * * * * * * • An interesting combination’—a small hoy decked out with a clean suit, a tar barrel and’a busy mama. * * * * * * * It is quite true that Dieppe has taught us a good many things, -It is quite as true that we have a long way to go, * * «.* * * ■* * * We have not had time to investigate the rumor that the Exeter cavalry -has joined forces with the Russian cavalry. We have our suspicions. *>. ******** , Some folk in places of trust are talking too much, News is a good thing, but it comes -high when secured by the needless exposure of brave men to danger. * * * * * > * * » It is unfortunate that the number of car accidents is increasing, to remember that certain car parts cannot be re­ insist that it is difficult to replace parts of aIt is just as well placed. Doctors broken neck. * iI THE BATTLE TEST Proud, indeed, were- Canadians when the iu.oke vleared ffom the strife at Dieppe to find that their sons and brothers stood the battle test. These men proved themselves soldiers every inch. For the most part their officers knew just what to do and the men were prepared to -carry out orders to the last half inch and to tlw last minute. All honor to the homes whence came the sons who thus demeaned themselves. All praise to the officers who added their quota to the training that enabled these young men to do what was required of them in a trial supremely exacting, All honor to the youths with the stuff in them that developed into the highly discip­ lined soldier. Soldiers are not made in a day, Heroes are not the outcome of any happy chance. ****** jh # DIFFICULT TIMES Merchants and dealers are haying a far more difficult time keeping the mare going than the average citizen dreams. Over night the dealer may hear of some new price regulation that quite upsets all calculations and that threatens him with serious loss as well as no end of inconvenience. This is bad enough but when la­ bour troubles are added thereto, to say nothing of difficult credits, the situation becomes burdensome to a degree that inclines many a sturdy dealer to give up the whole’thing. People working for wages or for salaries do not understand because they cannot appreciate how difficult such a situation proves. Plans are made with a certain expense account in view. All at once the expenses are increased and all calculations are upset, with confusion1 as the result. Salaried people and wage earners should be encouraged to see this, Dealers have no unlimited reserve to .call upon to meet ever increasing de­ mands for wages, for instance. A reserve a business man must have or he can dp no month's ahead purchasing, nor can he hold goods against the day of demand. For instance, seeds are bought in the fall for cash, to be held till the farmer may need them in the ‘fol­ lowing spring. Goods must be purchased and manufactured against the day when the puychasei' will need them. This, too, requires re­ serve cash. These are but a few of the commonplaces of business activity, but to keep- things going reserve cash is needed. Credit, if must never be forgotten, must be sustained by collateral. The few thousand dollars that business men might, in emergency, be able to provide are not to be eaten up or ruin will be just around the corner. Money is the medium of exchange and when the med­ ium vanishes business stagnates. When labour insists upon eat­ ing up the business man’s capital, he is simply slitting his own purse. This hour there is a great need for stabilizing the prices of labour, very much as the prices of commodities have been sta­ bilized, Till that is done, the element of uncertainty, especially tor the average dealer is bound to increase till small business reaches the place where it cannot carry on. The situation is nearer the unworkable point than most folk dream- of. _______ t f FLIES CAUSE INFANTILE PARALYSIS Investigations by medical scientists inciicate that fly-infected foods are one of- the principal -causes pf Infantile Paralysis (Poliomyelitis), Every fly allowed to live ia potential menace to human health. KILL THEM ALL WITH lOc m PACKAGE op 3 PADS At All Grocery, Drug, Hardware & Genera! Stores UNIVERSITY STUDENTS NEWS OE YOUR ARMY By Capt. Bruce M. Pearce Mr. James Jewell, while working • in Messrs. Gollnitz & Hughie’s shop, Mitchell, struck an anvil with a ■heavy sledge. The sledge Hew back and struck him in tlie face, causing a deep gash, which required- sever­ al stitches. A law forbidding the use or pos­ session of tobacco, cigars, or cigar­ ettes by boys under eighteen years' of age went into effect on July 1st. The government has decided to . contribute to the erection of the Canadian building for the Canadian exhibits at the Chicago. Exposition. The building will be one hundred by forty feet and erected on a. plot as­ signed to Canada apposite that of - Great Britain. Half the cost, is to be bo’rne by the Dominion Government and the -other half by the different Provincial governments. A by-law for enabling the Seaforth council to raise by way of loan the sum of $14,000 for the purpose of erecting a market building and fire hall and purchasing a site was vot- , ,ed on Thursday and carried majority of 13. by a Attended Funeral. Among- those who attended FLIGHT SERGEANT STORK LEAVES. 5 'NEW KITTENS 1 There wasn’t' exactly an ail’ raid alarm, but a strange craft which circled over No. 5 Service Flying Training School near Brantford caused a lot of consternation among some of the airmen. The craft was finally identified as old Flight Sergeant Stork, and behind him he left five .very new kittens, right on a flying suit in i the locker of L.A.C. R. E. Wolin. , Current issue of “The Sky-Line,”- publication Of the air school, tells how L.A.C. Wolin opened his locker door, to discover Mammy Cat and the five kittens. How the-cat got. into the locker, or even where it came from, no one knows. 'The airmen rose to the occasion, found milk,, and prepared a bed in an empty locker for the new fam­ ily. One of the five died, but the others are still under the care of the Hying godfathers. . I “TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF’’ ******** A GREAT HARVEST We have.. lots of straw, lots of hay and lots jot grain, our farmers who generally give a i _ “ ", their prosperity. , * . So report decidedly conservative estimate of * ♦ * FIGURE her cash only for necessary purposes since would there have been any necessity for the We fear that when the economic history of will tell the story of wasted money, It is high time .for Canadians in high ways. . . * * * * * * * * * IT OUT Among those who attended the funeral of the late Mrs. George Brenner -at Midland, Mich., Mr. and Mi'S. A. Kalbfleisch,.. Of De­ troit; Mr. and Mrs. Herb‘Craig, Of Windsor; Mrs. Louis Schilbe, Mr. and Mrs. Milfred Schilbe and son Hubert, Mrs. H. Krueger, Mrs. Ivan Yungblut, Mr of Zurich; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Vol­ land, Mr of Goderich, were John Albrecht, all and Mrs. Bruce Volland, ‘Zurich Herald. . Backache-Kidneys Cry for Help Most people fail to recognize the eoriousness of a bad back. t The stitches, twitches, and twmg^ »re bad enough and cause great suf­ fering, but back of the backache and the cause of it all is the dis­ ordered kidneys crying out a warn­ ing through the back. A, pain ih the back* is the kidneys’ cry for help. Go to their assistance. Get ■'a bok of Doan’S Kidney Pills. A remedy for backache and sick kidneys, „ . "Doan’s” ®ro phi up in an oblong grey box with our trade murk a VMaple I^af’* on. the Relnse substitutes, (Set4 * Dhan ’a, ’ * Th* T. Miiburn LtcL, Toronto; Ont An industrial health sound slide j film, “Take Care of Yourself”, is I reviewed in the current issue of1 Health Magazine published by the Health League- of Canada. ‘ Unlike slide films of the straw­ berry-festival, magic-lantern era—7 Which consisted for the most part of post cards showing scenes of Grant’s Tomb or the Great Wall of China—this film has -definite hu­ man interest. It contains sound advice on health given; by a genial doctor and a -pleasant nurse in con­ versation with Jim, hero of the play, who punches in for work one morning after a night „of -over-in­ dulgence'in food, drink, cigarettes —and lack of sleep. ■ Jim protests that" a fellow has to get some fun out of life. “Right,” answers the doctor, who proceeds fo explain that aples a fellow to better—'and get life. "Take Care Of a Series of slide films dealing with industrial health, education, will be shown- iii Canada under the -aus-, pices of the Industrial - Division of the Health League of Canada. Jim is a typical factory worker ground whom the story of “Take Care of Yourself” has been sketch­ ed. He is very woozy one morning. Goes to the doctor’s and asks for something “to keep me on the job.” He gets a tablet from the nurse—* and some incidental advice from the doctor. Jim becomes interested, asks questions and the doctor answers them under the headings of: Rest ercise; tude. The tween tor holds interest from the begin­ ning and neatly gets a lot of infor­ mation across without resorting to a lengthy dissertation on health. Plant and personnel officials may secure further details from the Sec* rotary. Industrial Division, Health League of Canada, ill Avenue Bond, Toronto, Ontario. I good health en- work better, play more fun out of Yourself,’’ one of Food; Recreation and EX- Cleanliness; Mental Atti- give and take e’f dialogue be- Ji'hr, the nurse and the doc­ Sailor; Is this hair tonic good? Druggist: I don’t know. I spilled some on my comb weak and now it’s a brush. any But last Had Canada spent the war began in 1939, approaching war loan? the present war is written it wasted time and wasted effort, places to sharply amend -their * * * ' SWAT THE CORN BORER The corn borer is abroad. , We can do nothing about it as far as this year’s crop is concerned. What we can do is to bury or burn every cob and stalk and leaf immediately thft- cpijn is harvested. Farmers who put the crop into the silo serve the country well, only no cob or stalk should be left ungarnered and ' glected stalk may infect a farm. Thoroughness Half measures are of ho use, *.*♦*-.**** NOT IDLING Britain is not taking it -easy after Dieppe, tion to ;do one outstanding exploit and then to preening herself on her success: She is hitting continuously and, to him, most disconcertingly. ,, — ness, she is keeping after her treacherous foe and intends to de­ molish him.when she is good and ready to do so. Accomplishment and speed is her motto. She is seeking results, not -displays of wasted valour. She wants victories and not. fireworks. And she needs those very things. Dieppe was far more than victory in the field. It was a bracer to many a weUry watcher and waiter for some concrete evidence that our armies were to be allowed to fight and that they could trim, their enemies if given a fair chance. ******** , THAT MANPOWER SITUATION ’ Why is it that better use is not made of available manpower? Have the interests stepped in to thwart the government? Why is it that tobacco fields swarm with preferred labor while farmers and dairy men are back on their heels for help? Dairy work is es­ sential to the national preservation. That cannot be truthfully said of the tobacco industry. Dairy products are essentials. To­ bacco, when the,best that can be said of it is uttered, is a luxury and is in no sense a food. Liquor trucks are still abroad. Yet liquor, to say the best of it that can be said, is a luxury. Why are not these interests combed bare before the nation asks mothers to be separat­ ed from their' children, in order that mothers may work in war services? Why -are banks pared to the quick of their help while ■cigar makers and beer bottlers and makers are allowed tree course? Will the government please explain? Then, why are grossly in­ competent workmen kept on at their jobs, much to the deception and injury of those whom they are alleged to serve? ******** KEEPING ’ON KEEPING ON 'We have been told that perseverance is taking hold, hanging on and not letting go. Russia has. exemplified this very thing, Her struggle is unequalled in all known history. Day and night for months on end, amid carnage and snow and biting cold and hail and ice she ljas defended her homes and proven the bulwark of -the liberties of the world. And Australia? Here, again, we cannot estimate what has been done by our Allies. They have a little more than held their own. They have thwarted a considerable portion of our enemies’ plans.* They 'have become aggressors, at least in part. They have delayed Japan's attack on China and have in a consider­ able degree left Britain and Russia a free hand in Europe. But China bears thb palm.1 Hers is the well-earned laurel. No grudge goes with the praise offered hei’. Things -have been distinctly dis­ appointing in Africa. In that field, someone has blundered, and that blunder has ebst the Allies nd end of distress and mental dis- “ turbance, and effusion of blood. The defeat in Africa nearly cost the Allies the war-. It is earnestly hoped that things will make a better showing now that a new Command has taken charge. . * * * *> * * ♦ * ‘ STOP AND THINK There are many reasons for Canadians to stop and think. Especially is it time tor Exeter and environs to stop and think, One reason for this wholesome exercise' is that the war is not going well for the Allies. The second reason for thinking in a new way is that Canada is iii a debauch of spending. Money is being thrown about for salaries and such items in a shameful way. The third' reason for thought is that necessities are leaving our merchants’ shelves pain­ fully empty. Nails are not to be had in the old time way. Milk- 'pails have gone from some dealers’ shelves altogether. Abd so on down the whole line. The lesson is clear for all. Municipalities, including Exeter, are in all good interests, called upon to spend money only for purposes that are in the keenest sense necessary. This is not a bit of mere newspaper talk. It is a suggestion that demands heeding and heed* ing forthwith, • * Then there is a war loan in the offing that will call for every dollar every man has to spare, luxuries .rarely does anyone any Nothing but journeying through have grown soft. Nothing but will toughen us. unsilaged. One ne- is the only method. It is not her inten- w-aste precious days her enemy hard and Without foolhardi- Let us note that money spent for good. AVe have lived luxuriously, the wilderness will cure us. We hard work and stern self-control Canada’s army is taking to the skies. Six officers and 20 non-commis­ sioned officers comprising the first men from' the Canadian Army to , be accepted for service in the 1st < Canadian Parachute Battalion are now in training at Fort Benning, Georgia. They will return to Canada upon completion of their courses for ser­ vice as instructors in the new Can­ adian Army parachute training centre to be opened at Camp Shilo, Manitoba. Given a send-off from Lands- downe Park, Ottawa/ where the in­ itial instructional cadre was select­ ed, commander-elect, 31-year-old Major ...Hilton David Proctor, of Ot­ tawa, the unit was inspected by De­ fence Minister Ralston and two sen­ ior officers from National Defence i Headquarters, Major-General J. C. 1 Murchie, vice-chief of the general I staff, and Brig. E. G. Weeks, de- ! puty chief of the general staff. ! All fully qualified soldiers, vol­ unteers for the 1st Canadian Para­ chute Battalion, must be of high ■physical standards. They must be| alert, active, well-muscled, with first-class eyesight and endurance. .Senior officers must be under 35, and captains and lieutenants not over 32, and N.G.O.’s and men from 18 to 32. Canada will have1 the best para­ chutists in the world, in the opin­ ion of Canadian Army leaders. In addition to the unit in training as instructors in the United States, TO RECEIVE ASSISTANCE The- University of Western On­ tario has been notified that the need for trained personnel in Can­ ada’s war effort is so great that the Dominion Department of La> bor is willing’ to provide financial aid in the form of loans to full- time students pf University grade (other than first year students) re­ gistered in a course leading to a degree. Students in Medicine who1’ sign a written witnessed agreement that they will enlist in the armed forces when they enter the second last year of their course; students- in science (physics, chemistry, mathematics) and engineering who • sign a written witnessed agree­ ment that on graduation they will make their services available to the national war effort where need­ ed in the capacity for which ^hey have been trained, will be grant­ ed loans not exceeding $300 each a year. The candidates for these loans are to be selected by a com­ mittee in the University on the bas­ is 1 of need, fined tance versify course, be charged on recipient has from the University. work shall be required in return" for any aid under this scheme oth­ er than diligent application to the course of studies for which the stu­ dent is enrolled. The loan shall be used for those purposes which shall be most beneficial to the, student such as the payment of tuition and. other fees, for board and lodging and the purchase of In times of war effort is expected of every woman. The ing and the best qualifications are demanded not only by the State, but by all phases of industry and com­ merce. This is why a college or uni­ versity training is so vital and so urgent. academic merit plus financial Such selection shall be con- to those could not who without assis- continue their Uni­ No interest is to any loan until the left all of re- there are Canadian soldiers from the Canadian Army Overseas, who Will serve as instructors at Camp Shilo. The best features of all ex­ isting methods of training paratroops are to be incorporated into the Canadian system, A jumping tower will be erected at Camp Shilo and volunteers will be given complete instruction in phases of this modern form fighting. “There has been a very large sponse to the call for ’volunteers for the parachute battalion,»” states Brig. Weeks. “We are care­ ful in our selection not to enroll a man with specialized technical train­ ing.1 We want young, strong fight­ ing soldiers with initiative and mili­ tary experience. They must be un­ der 185 pounds in weight and have strong feet and ankles.v Training will be progressive. First the men will be trained in jumping off walls, 10 and then 15 feet high. Then there Will be the tower-jump­ ing, from the 250-foot structure. They will first make a controlled jump from the tower in which they will be guided to the ground by wires. Then comes the “free” jump, and the men Will commence real parachute jumping from planes. Service with the paratroops is absolutely voluntary. If a man even suggests that he doesn’t feel like jumping, he will be removed from the parachute battalion and transferred back to his own unit. A distinctive, uniform and special paratroop badges will be worn. REDUCE FOOD COSTS AND DIPROVE HEALTH Cook potatoes in their jackets; don’t discard the outer leaves of lettuce and cabbage; save all the water in which vegetables are cook­ ed to put in soup or add to gravy; don’t cut or shred fruits or vege- I tables for salad until the last pos­ sible moment before serving; in­ sist on bread made from vitamin B (Canada Approved) flour, these little things add up to ter health through increased min intake without adding to costs, and good health is vital for victory. Potatoes can be a dependable source of vitamin C, but too frequent­ ly 50 pel’ cent of the valuable qual­ ity is lost in to Nutrition of Pensions Much of the be saved by cooking potatoes in their skins. This should be done not’on­ ly by baking potatoes, but in boiling as well. They can be cooked in their jackets and peeled just before serving, or with ,the new potatoes many people like to eat the tender skins. Thu dark green outer leaves of lettuce and cabbage are coarser in texture than4 the inner leaves but they are 10 to 30 times richer ill vitamin- A, so shred them up and put them- in the soup salad. Leaf is rich erin head lettuce. Bread made from White Flour (Canada Approved), contains several times more vita­ min B, and more iron than ordinary white Hour. Mental depression, lack of morale, fatigue and irrita­ bility are said to be attributable in large measure to deficiency in Vita­ min B. All bet- vita- food the cooking, according Services, Department and National Health, vitamin C content can lettuce, vitamin pot or mixed by the way, content than Vitamin B Looked at your label lately 1 or graduated. No form of text books. ■' the maximum every man and highest train­ TR'OOI^TRAIN SERVICE FAST AND EFFICIENT When special troop trains move- over the lines of the Canadian Na­ tional Railways the men usually re­ ceive meals at their seats. Food is prepared in a commissary kitchen car and when ready is carried by men from each car to their com­ rades. This service operates so ef- . ficiently that in twenty min(utes - i all the food necessary for as many ! as 600 military travellers will have BIRDS PLUCKED BY MACHINE | ;3een taken from the service tables In grandmother's day it was a I to the consumers.. These kitchens domestic chore’ to help pluck fea-! have specially designed equipment, thers from the turkey or chicken destined for the festive board. Now that is attended to by the time the the retailer and an ex­ Provincial Agricultural has devised a machine all feathers from fifty hour. Describing this E. McIntyre, agricultur- including steam cookers which can •prepare 6‘00 potatoes at one time. birds reach pert of the Department that plucks birds every ’machine, J. al agent of the Canadian National Railways, states it consists of a hardwood revolving drum, 12 inches in diameter, surmounted by 200 six-inch “fingers” of rubber hose, rotated by a one horse pow­ er motor at a speed of from 300 to 400 ter the ly feathers have mar- Ras- Monthljr Ratesrevolutions per minute. Af- a semi-scalded bird is placed in “piucker”, friction of the rapid­ revolving “fingers” removes quickly and thoroughly. “Why, Mandy, didn’t you a honeymoon when you were ried?” “Yesstim, I slio did. tus done help me' wid de washin’ de furst two weeks.” o6ht6> Hotel WaverSey ffiSttDCWA A VIC. AT COIXKOW St. RATES SJNQ.U3 - io SXOO DOOB1L® - XZJ5O to $6.00 Weekly A MGDIRNl . . . QUIET , . . WILL CONDUCTED * ■* CONVENIENTLY LOCATED HOTEL . « . f Close to Porlinment Buildings, University of Toronto,. Ma pie Lsaf Garden*/. 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