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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1942-10-15, Page 2Page 2 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 15th, 1942 Tim.es> established 1873; Advocate established 1881 amalgamated November 1924 PUBLISHED EACH THURSDAY MORNING AT EXETER, ONTARIO Au Independent Newspaper devoted to the interests Village of Exeter and Surrounding District field? Are men of decidedly mediocre ability paid enormous salaries for services that in the public interest are but as chips in the porridge ? Are men allegedly in the public service running hither and thither at large public expense ever­ lastingly conferring t again, then conferring some more, but very little done?........ coming1 decidedly and conferring again and ; getting The Canadian public is be- dissatisfied on this i)oint Mexnber of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers* of the Association; Member Ontario-Quebec Division of the CWNA Must be in Our Hands Not Noon on Tuesdays SUBSCRIPTION $2,00 a year, in advance; three months All Advertising Copy Jhater Than RATE six months, $1.00 60c J. M. SOUTHCOTT PUBLISHER THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1942 Dip It Up WE HAVE every sympathy for those thought­ ful people who are getting the race ready for post-war conditions. We have no wish to see a repetition of what followed world war number one. That is why we venture a suggestion or two. First, the post-war world will be made up of men and women very like the men and woxnen fri the world to-day. There will be the strong and the weak, the wise and the foolish, those capable of adapting means to ends and endowed with the diligence to put what they are capable of doing into practice. And there will be those who simply will not think or act for themselves and who will not deny a present pleasure or convenience to accomplish a future end. There will be those who can act for themselves and are capable of enduring anything in order that their ends may be accomplished.. Some say that organization and co-operation will make it impossible for the strong man to take advan­ tage of anybody. But the strong man soon will be the master of the organization and he surely will have the power to have the co-operators- work in his behalf. This is a fact to be faced. The second fact is that only the. radical change wrought by Christianity’s Head will save the day. - Let no one deceive himself. Good nature and idealism will not, because they cannot, take the place of a changed human nature. “The heart of man is deceitful above all things and desper­ ately wicked.” For this change in human nature the Christian Church stands. Why, then, does she not proclaim this fact with all her power of utterance and of testimony? Why does she not give her strength to work that cannot but be of secondary importance to her work , as witness and messenger ? Many a time the church has been like the ark of which we read in the Book of Genesis. She may again prove herself to be the saviour of the world by being true to the mission for which she has been called into exis­ tence. Tixe woxdd waits in agony foi’ her to do so. ❖ ❖ ❖ As Liberty Looms in Sight Ever since Frederick the Great taught Prus­ sians the way to bloody conquest and Japan emerged'from her century-long isolation they have had but one dream-—world domination. War after’ war has followed as these morally colorless people have sought their will at any cost till these olast three years they have thrown down the guage of battle to all the world out­ side. And what a struggle it has been and how terrible is the battle now joined! But hopes are dawning that the beast is being driven back to his dragon-pit. Stalingrad has held as if" by a miracle. Little by little Nipon is feeling the weight of the freeman’s hand. Oppressed peoples in Europe are demonstrating that the human spirit is too strong for any oppressor’s heel. But let no one be deceived. The battle may be only begun. The seas are still dark with wrath. Fa­ mine and pestilence have not yet glutted them­ selves. Liberty has had her victories but her triumph is not here. Every home is to feel the weight of this unparalleled misery. The race of freemen must learn a new meaning to patience, to suffering, to labour. Earnestly as we hope that the dawn may come up like thunder, and sometimes we think it may, that ending of the struggle is not to be greatly hoped for. There is the Churchill way of toil and sweat and blood and tears and that way we are prepared to take, though We are in the assurance that those rays of hope and light we see are no will-o’-the-wisp., but glints from Him who sits high above the floods to encourage the brave to strive on until the star of peace returns to know no setting. Those “Necessary” Things Every day the taxpayers of Canada are call­ ed upon for increasing sacrifice in behalf of the war. To tins call they have made the liberal response. Sons and daughters have left all that is dear to the heart of youth to give the best years of their lives in the cause of freedom. Sav­ ings that have been laid up by the sweat and toil of three score years for the day when toil would be no longer pd^sible, have been brought forwards to see that no fighting man or woman is left unfed or unarmed. All this is as it should be, The peril has been great. The foe has been fiendish. All that a free people can do to ac­ complish his overthrow must be done. But what folk who have thus done their ut­ most are asking is, “Has all that has been offer­ ed been put to a wise use? Are folk kept in of­ fice who do nothing to forward the battle? Are there crowds upon crowds of men and women in offices who would be better engaged in house­ hold duties, in the mine, in the forest, In the "Fm making fighting equipment. We’ve got to turn this stuff out fefet . .• * and plenty of it ... if we're going to beat that fellow Hitler. It takes a lot of electricity to keep a plant like ours going night and day, and we're going to need still more. We're having trouble now in getting all the power we need. They tell me that Canadian homes are using power that should be flowing into our war plants . . , that there isn’t enough for our homes to get all they want and for our factories to get dll they must have. We've got to use less electricity in our homes from now on ... if we are going to keep turning out war equipment in the quantities needed." as though it were the 'ter,, Dorothy, the new rectory is the bricklayers are erecting the wallsengaged school house. proposed railway line be- London and Bayfield has PDWEf Best be critical of what Your Very Like our readers, we may use the government has made of the money we have put into their hands. It is good for the government to know that Jack Canuck is making good use of the back of that old envelope and of that -stubby pencil. Still, there is but one thing to do and that is to get right behind that new loan. It is our loan, made in behalfyof the major job we have on hand this minute, winning the war, The money simply must be had, We can’t get on without it. That is all there is to it, so let us make ou,r hay. This is the thing to be done. Unless the war is won not a bond or mortgage or note or bank account or deed of farm or house . ox* lot is worth a frozen autumn leaf, not a Can­ adian girl’s honor will be worth a last year’s bird’s nest and no youth’s life worth a bayonet thrust. We simply must dig in and dig deep and get this loan across, ❖ * ❖ Note and Comment Do Canadian communities are to send daggers to the Commandos for use on the Germans.— Short and to the point. As yet the Saturday night crowds on Exe­ ter’s Main Street don’t indicate a crippling shortage of gasoline. (‘Thank goodness!’ local merchants jnurmur.) Our town took on a truly military aspect over the week-end. The First Hussars were manoeuvring and trucks and jeeps were rolling back and forth. All we needed was a tank to complete the picture. Without any wish to minimize the difficul­ ties oux' farmer-friends are facing, we mention a recent conversation with one of these tillers of the soil. Speaking' of the laboi’ shortage, he said, that he thought he would get along all right, even though he was forced to use pindh- liitting methods. “We can get by with a lot less help,” he said, “if it means winning the Avar. As far as I can see that is all that matters. My single-handed job on a busy farm is tough—but brother, it would be a lot tougher if I was being shot at while I was following a plough!” —To say the least his vieAvpoint is a refreshing change. What Other Editors S Hitler Plans for “Immortality (Niagara Falls Review) Accompanied by caustic comment, photo­ stats of blueprints of Hitler’s secret “plan of immortality’’ are circulating in Europe^ relates “London People”. He has designed a mauso­ leum inside a 700-foot high column topped By a Nazi eagle with a 250-foot wingspread. Munich Central Station and its surround­ ings are to be cleared to make the Site—a 900- acre squar'd—and Hitler is “to be preserved in state.forever” on a high pedestal surrounded by flowers, flags, non-stop torches ana xxe blems. Caption under the blueprints “Will England agree?” # * More and More (Huron Expositor) - A newspaperman the other day “Speaking of this rapidly changing world, buzzing insistently for our office boy the day, we suddenly realized he couldn’t come be­ cause he was flying in an army plane out there somewhere.” More and more we are going to realize this is a changed world from what it even was last year. It is not only the office boy that has gone. His older brothers and sisters have gone with, him. More and morep*ve are going to find that the work we thought we graduated from years ago, and had forgotten how to do, has got to be learn­ ed again, because we can’t pass it on for some­ one else, to do, when there is no one left to pass: it on to. A year ago we were pretty much our own bosses. We could buy what we liked and sell, what we liked for whatever we liked to sell it for ——provided we had the money to buy and things to sell. gut the world has changed this year. We can’t buy all the gas we want if we had all money in the world* We can’t buy all the tires we wantj either, and we can’t buy new cars at all. Neither can we buy all the tea or coffee or sugar we want, not the fencing,* and-nails; nor the stoves. W6 can’t be too choosey about the kinds of clothes.and shoes and other things we used to fuss about. And as for help, just ask the housewife, the man in the office and store, or if you want a posi­ tive answer—ask the fanner. All in the space of little more than a year. Next year there xs every possibility that we will be looking back upon this and thinking what a life of comfort and ease we then enjoyed. Why not appreciate and enjoy life as it is today, because by tomorrow the world will have changed very much indeed. torches and Nazi em- > ends: ❖ said: while other the the The use of electricity for commercial purposes has already been restricted. Further restrictions ore planned. But We need more power than can be saved from these sources, The voluntary co-operation of the public in the conservation of power is- absolutely necessary. Unless you cut your power ’ consumption by al least twenty per cent—you are not saving enough. DEPARTMENT OF MUNITIONS AND SUPPLY HONOURABLE C. P. HOWE, Minister Will PLANTS MOST HAVE POWER 50 YEARS AGO The cold weather ..continues. Snow prevailed in the Midland counties of England on Monday and the mountains look mid-winter; The roof on completed and busily of the The tween been considered unfavorable by Pre­ sident Van Horne on the grounds that the connection witly the south end of Lake Huron in the vicinity of Sarnia would be more useful to the C.P.R. Mrs. John Gould has manufactur­ ed and disposed of 6/000 .apple bar­ rels this season and cannot manu­ facture fast enough .to meet demand. W. L. Whyte Chairman of the .General Sales Com­ mittee for Huron County in the Victory Loan drive. ‘ CREDITON EAST Mn Harold Glauville, Jr., of No. 4 HighAvay, spent Sunday with his brothers here. Mr. and , Mrs. 0 Win. Heatherley, of London, spent Saturday, and Sun­ day with Mr. and Mrs. W. Motz. Mr. Joe Flynn, of Zurich, spent Sunday with his daughter,, Mrs. J. Jasney. Miss Marcia McDonald, of Exeter, speht the week-end with her grand­ parents, Mr. and Mr^. Sam Bayn- liam. Mr. Everett Sims and Miss A. Cutting, of Exeter, ^pent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Sam Sims and Mr. and Mrs. Eli Sims. ’ Mrs, Job Sims, who has been suffering with an attack of shingles,- is improving. 25 YEARS AGO Workmen are finishing up shop and residence of Mr. A. Wal­ ter, being built by Mr. J. G. Jones. Mr. Herb Ford is having liis house on Huron Street made larger by adding a second storey to it. Pte. Earl Parsons*, who has been on leave from the front for several weeks, after two years’ service, has received his discharge. Pensions for Canadian sjoldiers have been increased all around by 25 pqg cent. an(l in some cases 40 .ger cent, dating back to April, last. The residence of Mr. W. H. Mar­ tyn was sold on Saturday to Mr. Dayman, of Kippbn, for $1,225. Hunkin - McLaren — At the home of the bride’s parents, Glenquaich Farm, on October 24, Alfred J. Hunkin, of Usborne, to Miss Mar­ garet, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. L. McLaren, of Cromarty. Wellington Hern had *$45 taken from his pocket while being medi- t cally examined at the armories London. the ill QMWh ■ «3 15 YEARS AGO Three peonies, the gift of Prince of Wales, to commemorate Confederation year, were received , in Exeter and planted in Central : Park. • The fine bank barn owned by Dr. Moir, of Hensall, and situated a few miles north of Cown on the London Road, w?is totally destroyed, by fire oil Saturday hundred cars scene. The Taylor Kirkton was sold by public auc­ tion on Saturday to Dr. Jose for $1,800. . ■ v Mr, Sylvester Taylor has placed in stock a beautiful grandfather’s clock with full Westminster chimes. Mr. Fred Hess, of Hensall, is nicely settled in his new home on the London Road. His son and fam­ ily from the West have arrived here and will occupy ipart of the new home and will be'“associated with his father in the jewelry business. Mrs. B, W. E. Beavers has return­ ed from- a three-weeks’, vacation in Ottawa, Aylmer, Que., and other ‘ eastern cities. Merkley * Etherington — In Exe­ ter on October 19, Hattie M», only daughter of Mr, and Mrs. George Etheriiigton to Thomas Bercy Mark- ley, of London, by Rev. D, McTav- . lsh. night, were Hotel the About two sooh On the property at ZION Jdi-s. A. Gunning, of Exeter, spent the” week-end visiting friends in the community. Mr, and Mrs. James Earl, Mr. and Mrs. Everard Miller and Freddie and Mrs. A. Gunning visited on Sun­ day with Mr. and Mrs. Jim Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Hector Taylor and son, Second Lieutenant Grant Tay­ lor, spent Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hern. Anniversary services will be held in Zion church next Sunday morn­ ing at 11 a.m. The guest speakei’ for the day will be Rev. N. J. Woods, of Exeter. The Paul brothers Will sing. Mr. and Mrs. E. Hern spent Sun­ day with Mi's. H. Baker, of London. Mrs. HoAvard Kerslake and daugh- sipent several days last Aveek Avith Mr. and Mrs. James Earl. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Baker attend­ ed the Bakei' - Barnett Saturday. Mrs. L.. Kyle visited day with Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hunter and family, Mr. Jack Hunter, Mrs. Mrs. with ^linards o8trils forehead.^0 BOothe». U Pe.nefcrinnammatipn?9 checks 1 ...Uns. musd® GODERICH POPULATIONwedding on on Wednes- Ross Hern. Mr. and Fred Hodgins and June and P. Hunter /visited on Monday Mr. and Mrs. Wellington Brock. Zion W.M.S. The October meeting of tile W.M.S. was .held at the home of Mrs. James Earl on Thursday. The meeting was opened by singing hymn 577. General thanksgiving was' read, Jhe minutes of the last meeting were read and adopted and the roll call was answered. The business was t'hen discussed, Mrs. Warren Brock gave a reading, fol­ lowed by prayei' and Mrs. James Earl and Mrs. Warren Brock gave reports of the Perth . Presbytery held at Listowel; Mrs. Melville Hern gave a reading; Marjorie Earl favored with an instrumental; the Scripture was read by Hazel Hern; Anna Brock gave a reading, “Be a Good Boy, Good-Bye”; hymn 578 was sung; Erlina Jacques read a Thanksgiving legend;- the study book, "The CJhurch in the City Street”, was given by Mrs. Angus Earl; Hymn 394 was sung and the collection was received. Mrs. ren Brock closed the meeting prayer. . „ SETS NEW HIGH RECORD The population of Goderich, Which has been showing a small gain each year for some years, is now 4,922, a gain of 56 over last year,, according to figures issued, by As-, sessor Neil Mackay. Enlistments and removal of families to war pro­ duction centres is estimated to have taken 400 people out of town, but the influx .of others, particularly of airmen’s offset this course, do have taken | I ly outside the daries, since the war started, most of whom work at airports. The 1942 population figure is a new high for the pa-st 40 years. The assessment of the tpwn shows very little change, $2,592,276. families, has more than loss. The figures, of not include many who u-p residence immediate- corporation boun- War- with A MODERN . . . QUIET . . . WSLI. CONDUCTED A . CONVENIENTLY LOCATED HOTEL . . . Close .to Parliament Building.-,, University of Toronto, Maple LeafGarden#, Fashionable Shopping District, Wholesale . jnonses, Theatres, Churches of Every Denomination. M. Powell, President Monthly Rate# TORONTO Hotel Waverley SnUDiNA Ave. at College St. RATES SINGLE DOUBLE . to $6.00 Special Weclcly A Coincidence A passenger on an American looking under his bunk one morn­ ing, fognd one black shoe and one tan, and summoned the porter. The porter scratched his head iii« bewilderment. “Well, if dat don’t beat all!” he sat'd. “Dat’s the second time dis mawning dat mistake’s happened.” train V V Painful^ Pus Filled Boils the Cause of Mush Misery If you suffer from boils you know how sick and miserable they made you feel. t , Boils hre hb outward indication of impurities in the system, and just when yout think you are rid of one another crops up to take its place and prolong, your misery. All the lahemg and poulticing you can do may hot stop mote coming, t . .. u. . . *’.»** To help overcome boils you should purify the blood, SO Why not give that old, reliable blood medicine. Burdock Blood Bitters, a chance to show what it will do in helping you get rid of them? Thousands havo used it for this purpose for the past 60 years, Why not you? Tho T. Milbiirh C6., timltc<I, Toronto. Ont. . „ ,