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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1942-11-19, Page 2THE EXETER TXME5-APVQCATE, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 19th, 1942 Times established 1873; Advocate established 1SS1 amalgamated November 1924 PUBLISHED EACH THURSDAY MORNING ‘ AT EXETER, ONTARIO 4 An Independent Newspaper devoted to the interests of the ViUage of Exeter and Surrounding District Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers* of the Association; Member Ontaiio-Quebcc Division of the CWNA the race set free to live as children of the morn­ ing. We may well trust our leaders* Farm Implement Week This is the. week for farmers to look over their implements for worn or missing parts, These defective parts are to be reported to someone in order that the parts may be manu­ factured and put in place before the hurry of next year. The warning should be heeded and inquiry made as to where the farmer is to report. Meanwhile we suggest that he report to the agent handling the machine or implement that will need the new part. The request for new parts should be made without delay. All Advertising Copy Later Than 3Inst be in Our Hands Not Noon on Tuesdays SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 a year, in advance; three mouths RATE six months, $1.66 60c L 31, SOUTHCOTT PUBLISHER THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 19. 1942 For War Purposes Only • Canadians are to be commended for the very general approval they have given to the mea­ sures controlling war prices. The evil way prices rose during the last war with their disastrous consequences to individual and nation alike, warranted the government’s doing all it could to prevent inflation during the present struggle. At the same time, Canadians must see that the regulating of prices and labor and other condi­ tions by the government shall be regarded as war measures only* They must be very clear in their thinking and decided in their action in this mat­ ter. The race has had governmental and social control in the past centuries with ensuing extinc­ tion of individual effort and the entire loss of freedom. History in this sort of thing repeats itself. Canadians must not give over the privi­ lege of doing their own thinking even when such thinking issues in their making their own mistakes. What’s Ahead? One hears a good many guesses regarding what’s ahead internationally. And guesses they are rather than well-based judgments. What is to become of Italy, we ask ? Is she go­ ing to collapse under the burden of poverty and scourging she is receiving at the hands of her chosen, but merciless masters? Is the spirit of her people to rise superior to her oppression? Who can say? What of Russia? Is the aroused giant going to use her giant strength as a giant or as an apostle of liberty ? Is she going to ex­ pand the enlightenment that has made her the anjghty world fotfee she has proven herself? What of China? Is her diligence and power of making mighty things out of a combination of small efforts to turn to a domination of the race commercially and mechanically ? What of the United States? Has she been purged of her iso­ lationism and will she now take her proper place by understanding the struggles of the race and putting her might into those affairs that make for the greatness of the spirit rather than in those things that may be weighed and plumbed by the world’s coarse thumb and finger? Will she take up the white man’s burden? Will France once more become the home of chivalry and progress? These are fateful hours. * « * # Greetings to the Fighting Men Exeter remembers you. We miss you from our streets. We miss you greatly on our occa­ sions of fun and frolic. Of a Sunday morning a deep silence pervades our churches as the min­ ister commends you to the keeping of Him with­ out whose notice not even a sparrow falls. We’ll miss you terribly at Christmas. No one in this .good town talks about a Merry Christmas. We miss you fab too much to utter these words. But we’re very proud of you. You and we know why you are where you are. Every pulse beats with a stronger throb for all that you and we love best. We welcome the news of your high morale and of your achievements and of your keen desire to be on the field or sea or in the air where men strike brave blows for home and native land. All who know you hold their heads high when they think of you. We’re looking for you to soon be home with us, developed in body and mind, clear of eye and pure in heart. Some of us think we hear the ringing of the bells of vic­ tory, though we are waiting in patience and. dili­ gence till the enemy has been routed and boys and girls all over the world shall grow tip with hearts as strong and hands as willing and skilful as yours this Christmastide. Hands across the sea to you every one. % • Follow Your Leader We used to play this game of “follow your leader” when we were younger than we are now. Lately we have given over that game that tended to develop hardihood^ and have given ourselves to saying some sharp things about what our war leaders should be doing. Well, results in Africa have shown that our leaders have not been idle, even if they have been decidedly close-mouthed* The melti at the top have been giving-their days and nights to getting on with the war and a good job they have done. If anyone entertains doubts on this subject we recommend them to consult Hitler and Mussolini, We are not urging all and singular io withhold judgment upon their chosen leaders but we do urge the leaders to keep right on doing at least as well as they have done* All that even the best men can do is to be firm in the right as God gives them to see the right, We and our leaders like to have a big task ahead of us. We’ll not lay down the sword till the last tyrant has been soundly beaten and captured, Water Unusually High Not for many a day have we seen so much water in the fields as meets the eye these early November’ days. There it stands, not in pools or ponds alone., bub in something like miniature lakes. Fortunately for the farmers of-this gen­ eration, their forebears were thrifty and had the fields well drained. Those underdrains will pay for themselves this fall. A Problem We know of a young man who had a fairly good job that brought him in a steady and suf­ ficient income. The young fellow did not pass the doctors for any arm of the military service, but he was a competent workman. He got wind of a war time job at a decided advance in wages. What was he to do ? He decided in favor of the wartime job. We wonder, in view of the ex­ periences following the last war, if this young man acted wisely. We have our doubts. When the war is over a moving world may have dis­ pensed with his former job. * » & » Pretty Well Finished Farmers in this district are congratulating themselves on getting their fall work so well advanced. And well they may, though there are sugar beets still to be harvested. Farm labour has been scarce and a good deal of the weather has been decidedly uncertain. Yet there the fields are plowed and the feed is in the barn Little wonder that open-eyed statesmen make f*or the cattle and the youngsters are at school.. * the farmer’s, welfare their first national con­ sideration. These soil tillers, when left alone, always find a way through and they deserve to do so. •J* «X* 4J, ‘W ’ *» We See Now „ East week as the German soldiers hurried across France and the French navy’s action con­ stituted what looked to be a major problem we saw the consequence of France’s collapse at the opening; oi the war. Had France and Belgium but stood to their guns there would have been a line of Allied soldiers across Europe that would have held the Nazis in cheek. We see, too-, the urgency on the part of Stalin that the Allies should have come' in from the west. Meanwhile Britain and the United States were carrying out the best plan- of action that circumstances allow­ ed. How effective that plan was events are de­ monstrating.❖ # « Most Commendable We have always had a liking for this good, town. We like a great many things about it that we do not intend to mention here. But one thing . took place last Wednesday morning that has endeared this place beyond all telling. At eleven o’clock that morning Exeter stood still. Trucks ceased to move. The stores took on a deep and meaningful hush. Street traffic ceased to move. Conversation stopped. It was remembrance hour and Exeter was not unmindful, There Was no sounding of bugles., no tolling of the bells* Exeter thought of her brave men, living and dead, and turned her mind, to God in whose hand our breath is. Well, done, good town ! Op . ■ .5$! . . Fateful Hours As mortals see things, the times through which we are passing are the most potentious since Dunkirk. For the most part we speak in terms of fateful years arid months and days. These times are measured, in hours. It is no longer1 what a day may bring forth that weighs in the scales of destiny, but what an hour may bring forth. We can but wait and work and hope that our efforts and the efforts of those who work with us may have a happy issue* Thrones may rise and perish, kingdoms wax and wane. King­ doms are being tossed about as feathers in the storm. Still, there is no panic on the part of the Allies. Rather there .is an increased determina­ tion to keep right on till the better day dawns. Right must triumph. $ « «« $ Note and Comment Got the antifreeze in the good old car? sfs Xs # % Canada will have nothing to regret if she puts more energy into providing reinforcements into the line for the support of our fighting men. Men fight better when they realize that they are supported up to the limit. x* * We don't like to hear that there is u surplus of labor out there in Winnipeg, when there is a clamor for more labor in other parts of the Do­ minion. Surely something can be done about this situation. ifc Distinction is an evanescent thing* One day Rommel was the idol of the Axis powers and the terror of the Allies. The next day he was as­ sociated with a dirty floor, in the act of being; mopped up» The heroes of Dieppe will never be in that sorry predicament. Ford Mass Production in India I*.. * 15 YEARS AGO Billy, 6-year-old son^of Mr. John Wai per, was accidentally shot liutuigh the tdioulder by a bullet from a *22 rifle in the hands of Mervyn aged 13. The bullet fortun­ ately missed the lad’s heart by about two inches. air. Edmond Anderson, while on a rabbit limit, caught a California jack alive. Messrs. Victor Jeffery and, Amiel Willard have returned home from the West. While on his way to London on Saturday morning Mr. Benson Tuck- ey ran into a wagon that was stop­ ped on the side of the road and on which Mr, Cliff Brintnell was rid­ ing, Miss Mary Cann spent the week­ end in London with Miss Lily Payne and attended the Salvation Army Young People’s Exhibition at the Army Citadel. A heavy fall of snow visited this section the latter part of the week, going away again on Monday. Miss Muriel Hogarth has returned home after visiting for two months with relatives at Edmonton, Alta., and Birsay, Sask. Mr. Gordon Appleton has taken a position with Mr. John Stanbury, butcher, ■WORKING AT PEAK CAPACITY for many W moons past, Ford of Canada subsidiary plants in India have been turning out army trucks and other war machines for British forces’. Pictured above is one of the assembly plants where native Workers assemble military vehicles with all the precision and efficiency for which Ford plants are famous the world over. Ford of Canada supplies parts for assembly to its subsidiary companies, not only in India, but in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa as well. Like the main Canadian * plant all these overseas factories are fully engaged in producing equipment for the armed forces of the United Nations on all fighting fronts. Newspapers Are So uStingy” (Midland Free Press) , Newspaper publishers are funny knew your duty you wouldn't take people! Perhaps you have noticed ’ that, Some of them actually expect to be paid for putting a few lines in the paper boosting that church supper that is coming off next week at forty cents a head, or that bingo which is being operated to buy .mit­ tens for the polar bears. Why, it is oniy a few lines! Talk about “s tingles.” They do not even look pleased when you offer to split things a printing shop that does not lish a newspaper. “We'll just make it 50-50,” one lady to a newspaper publisher we know, “We’ll give you the news and give the printing of the hand­ bills and tickets to Mr. Jones.” She looked a bit dumbfounded when the editor suggested that the division should be made the other way* “Why Mr. Jones does., not print any news.” “Of course not, but we need cash just as much and probably a lot more than he dofes, for we have three times as many employees to pay,” was the editor’-s reply. “We also have to live.” “But don’t you sell newspapers?” "Oh, yes, butv did you ever real­ ize that all the money we get from selling newspapers would not keep us going more than six weeks? It is advertising and job printing that makes it possible for your town to have a newspaper.” * • Your town could not have a paper at all but for the advertising and it is the outside advertisers, who pay a large part of the shot. Many smaller towns have lost their sepa­ rate papers because the merchants i with, pub- said such an attitude*’ “Goodness knows it is rather plea­ sant to' find a government man who is willing to watch the public’s mon­ ey. But newspapers are also in the delicate position of having to make ends meet, and the special demands placed upon them in these war years are accompanied by diminishing business. “We explained that whafwas be­ ing offered wasn't news, that it was a request for a donation of what we ■had to sell commercially, our news­ paper space.” . “Our visitor became incredibly indignant. So we asked a few questions: “Do you—er—happen to get paid for your work?” “He didn’t bother to answer. So we had to form our owii conclusions. “We know that you arrived here yesterday morning by train. And it’s our hunch that the railway col­ lected for your trip, your berth and meals. The railway has a good deal more revenue to depend, on than we have. Wasn't it its duty, as you Pggt it, to provide you with :what you needed for nothing? *~JI what about your taxi from the tion?” “There was still no answer. “ ‘What’s more,’ we went ‘you stayed at a hotel here night. It’s oiir guess that you hid not think it worth while to back I +.^„ • the man who is trying ho serve that1 community. Canada’s town newspapers are. not having an easy time theSe days. j Their biggest outside users of ( space have all been forced out of; business by war-time regulations. How long is it since you have seen advertisements of automobiles, tires, gasoline, radios, refrigerators, fur­ naces, washing machines, and many I other like products which ■ formerly were publicized in large space? They have all disappeared for the dura­ tion so far as newspaper advertis­ ing is concerned, and town mer­ chants have not - filled the gap. Be­ fore the war is over, If it lasts many more years, many Canadian may be without papers. The Which Trophy weekly an ers” towns B.C., Mason, round Herald, of Penticton this year won the as Canada’s best all paper, recently published editorial on “Stingy Newspaj)- from which we quote! Just the other day a rather overpowering person entered the Herald office. He hardly bother­ ed to introduce himself. We gath­ ered that he was an official of one of the government’s increasingly nu­ merous organizations, as he made announcements that were to appear in our paper, relative to-his tour of the district, the function of his vis­ it, and s.o on. There was something about this visitor’s off-hand glibness and self-satisfied demands that irk­ ed us, “It seems to us/ your editor ven­ tured, ‘that these announcements come under the head of advertis­ ing.’ “We knew the reply that ing. .___ was com- ‘This is news/ he decreed. 'And important news, and if you And sta- One Moment Please... •» » Mrs, John Tayior has handed us the following article sent to her •by her father from Laporte, Ind., taken from the Laporte Herald-Ar­ gus. visiti$g return- He re- to the farm to Mr. Frank at Cre- week moved. I 25 YEARS AGO Mr. Richard Hunter, who has been in the West for some time •his son near Salvador, Sask., ed home last Wednesday, ports the "weather fine up time he left, Mr. Jerry Heaman’s diton has been rented Taylor. •Mr. Milo Snell- this onto the farm he recently purchased from Sweet Bros. Word was received on Thursday by Mr, John Norry, stating that his son, Private Norman Norry, had' been wounded'" in the leg while fighting in France, A memorial service was conduct­ ed by Rev. A, A. Trumper in Trivitt Church on Sunday evening for the late Pte. Sidney West. The Wartime Election Act pro-, vides that in-rural districts .the 1916 list shall be taken with aliens drop­ped and women adefed. No men’s names may be added. By a vote of 200 to 17, the people of Parkhill carried a by-law auth­ orizing the spending of $12,0'0'0 for the installation of hydro-electrie power. t 50 YEARS AGO The Ford property was, disposed of on Saturday to Mf. Abraham Dearing -of Stephen Township for $l;500. A meeting of the contributors to­ wards the erection of the proposed grist mill was held in the'town hall. Owing to difficulty in choosing a site a new list was drawn up. The site is how definitely fixed by the pro­ perty of Henry Hooper on the west side of Main Street. So many of the American silver dollars have been sent into Canada that they, are being refused at all the banks, those in the’ Eastern part of Canada discounting them at 20 per cent. We notice by a despatch that the C.P.R. Company has sunk a salt well at Windsor. They have drilled through 40 feet of solid salt and the well has been pronounced by competent authorities to be one of the best in the country. Officer John Barr, who hails from over McConnelsville, Ohio, way, pro-, vides us with a clipping from the McConnelsville Herald of recent date in which a most unpsual old pro­ phecy is contained. The prophecy apparently had been published soon after World War I and then had been preserved in the scrap book of an Ohio resident. Re­ cently the daughter, -of the resident, in looking through the scrap, book, came upon the article and *it was republished. Here it is: “Mrs. W. G. Eaton obtained the following from her cousin, Mrs. Wil­ lis Newman, who resides in Char­ lotte, it being sent to her from, her son, who is in U.S. service some­ where in France.- It is an interest­ ing prophecy found among the ruins of an old wall in the monas­ tery at Viismar by Sergeant Meath, of Middletown, who, in looking over; the ruins found the parchment writ­ ten over 200 years ago. It is as fol­ lows: “ ‘Europe will some day meet with a fearful punishment. Seven na­ tions will turn themselves against a bird with two -heads. The bird will defend itself with wings and a Mon­ arch who mounts his horse from the wrong side shall be surrounded With foes from all sides. It will be a long struggle between east and west and many lives will be lost. War chariots shall roll forward without horses, and dragons will fly through the air and spread fire and sulphur and destroy towns and cities. Man­ kind will not listen to forewarnings of God and. He shall turn away from them. The war will last four years and three months. Starvation and disease will follow, bread will be controlled and distributed . amongst the poor, men will be lurking at the bottom of the „,sea for their prey. The war will start when the corn is ripening in the fields and will reach .its maximum when the cherry trees are blooming for the third time. Peace will be obtained about Christ­ mas.’ ” Well, there you are! The present war started in September of 1939, “when the corn was ripening in the fields.” Can we look for peace at Christmas time of 1943? on, last __ __ .H did not. feel surprised when you were asked to pay your bill. You’re smoking a nice cigar. You don’t approach your tobacconist with the idea that it’s his duty to let you have his commercial stock — on which he depends for his existence— “By this time our visitoi’ had slammed the door of the office. I “It Wasn’t the first time that had had this distressing sort of an argument. It's an old one every newspaper office. “Every newspaper has a special responsibility and privilege, alto­ gether apart • from its commercial existence, and we are steadily re­ minded, as we should bo, that it is oUr obligation to climb well above any money-grabbing position, par­ ticularly in critical times. News­ papers abide by this reminder. By and large, they comprise an indus­ try that is more willing to. part with its chief sto'ck in” trade, on a voluntary basis of free donation, than any other in the entire nation. “On the other hand they must pay their bills. “The swift readiness of most newspapers to donate their -commer­ cial product-—their space—to a multitude of causes, has long since GRANTON—Public and Continua- blinded the public to the fact that, tion schools are opening at 10 a.m. an actual donation was being made J and closing at 5 pan, so children in Faced**with a swift decline of those.the rural district will not have to resources of revenue from the more obvious commercial sources that us­ ually kept the press functioning, newspapers must now do something to keep alive. People still want and need newspapers, and they don’t want them to be puppets, subsidized and maintained by the government in power.” All of which is said/for the pur­ pose of explaining the oddness of newspaper folks when they ask to be paid for their work just as other people do and are. we in THEDFORD--Relatives here have received word that three local boys, prisoners of war in Germany, are in good health and uninjured. They are Malcolm (Mac) Moloy, Edward Welten and Howard (Pete) Hit- borne, all of the Essex Scottish. KENNY-DALRYMPLE * The marriage of*Dora Dalrymple, •daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dalrymple, of Kippen, to Mr. Frank Kenny, of Stratford, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kenny, Kinkora, was solemnized in the Immaculate Conception church at 12 o’clock; noon, on Saturday* Rev. W. T. Cor­ coran officiated. The bride, given in marriage by her father, wore an afternoon dress of royal blue crepe with hat and accessories to match and' carried a bouquet of car­ nations and maidenhair fern. The couple were attended by Mr. and Mrs. John Reidy, the latter wearing a black crepe dress with ‘blaclr ac­ cessories, A reception and wedding dinner were held at Mrs. M. Hamil­ ton’s tea room, in Stratford. Later Mr. and Mrs. Kenny left oh a trip to Windsor and Detroit, the bride travelling in. a gray wool dress and gray coat trimmed with wolf. Tliey will reside in Stratford. leave home ’before daylight. We know a man who is very re­ ligious and also very businesslike, Starts .his prayers in this manner, “This is Jones speaking. "gome peupUt instead of trying to drawn their sorrows, take them out and give them swimming les* sons!” Painful, Pu$ Filled Boils the Cause of Mush Misery If you stiffer from boils you know how sick and miserable they made you feel. ' Boils are an.+Outward indication of impurities in the system, and just when you think you are rid of one another crops up to take its place and prolong your misery. All the lancing and poulticing you can do may not stop more coming. ■ . To help overcome boils you should purify the blood, so why hot give that old, reliable blood medicine, Burdock Blood Bitters, a chance to snow what it will do in helping you get rid of them? Thousands have used it for this purpose for the pest 60 years. Why not you? Tho T. Milbuta Ge., Limited, Toronto, Ont.