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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1943-05-06, Page 21? . •ft Page 2 *n? Tinies established 1873; Advocate established 1881 amalgamated November 1924 PUBLISHED EACH THURSDAY MORNING 4T EXETER, ONTARIO An Independent Newspaper devoted to the of the Village of Exeter and Surrounding Member of the Canadian Newspapers’ Association; Weekly Member of the Ontario-Quebec Division of the CWNA THE OCTIB TIMES-ADVOCATE, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY W interests District All Advertising Copy Must be in Our Hands Not Later Than Noon on Tuesdays SUBSCRIPTION $2,00 a year. In advance; three months jf. m. southcott RATE six months, $1.60 60c PUBLISHER THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1943 Trapped Again We greatly fear that some of our big broth­ ers are trapped by the snare Germany has laid for them in raising the question of post-war su­ premacy. These busy writers are stirring up their readers to believe that the minute the last gun starts firing that Great Britain and the Un­ ited States will be into a dire life and death struggle for commercial air supremacy. Ger­ many is clever, we admit, but we did not think that'our big brokers would step so hilariously into this air supremacy trap. The simple fact is that Uncle Sam and John Bull arc a good deal taken up with winning the war. Those fine gentlemen do not like the way some writers have of diverting attention from the winning of the war. Nothing can play more effectually into the Axis hands than having the Allied nations believe that behind all the war effort is a Satanic effort on the part of the United States to beat out Great Britain on the sea and in the air when it comes to commerce. These nations are too wise to be misled by such idle talk. Both nations see that what benefits one nation aids both nations. It is not a matter of supremacy so much as an af­ fair of service. Further, there is little to be gained in the effort to provide for what may he four years from now. Business men know this. Conditions simply will not stay put. They are essentially fluid. A great many "well-meant pre­ cautions taken after" the last war went by the board. Witness in illustration, the Maginot Line. Witness, too, our preparations for trench war­ fare. Tools are pretty sure to come into the hands that can use them. So why worry about, the bridge we may never see? $ & Mr. Conant’s Retirement Shocked and grieved, indeed, were men of all political leanings to learn of the physical col­ lapse of Mr. Conant. Every child in Od Man Ontario’s large family recalls with gratitude the fine service her distinguished son- has rendered her, and will follow with interest his struggle back to normal health and will look with hope­ fulness to the day when he shall again bless her public life with his fine abilities. Few appreciate .the weariness and the loneliness of the men who do the public business of the provinces and of the Dominion. The burden carried by our public, men is nothing short of crushing, as we are re­ minded from time to time by the bending to the breaking of the strongest shoulders carrying pub­ lic responsibilities. Our good wishes go out to Mr. Conant along "with our gratitude for what he has done for Ontario. a r* .$•*** i The New Leader Ontario welcomes the new Liberal leader. 'She has become accustomed to welcoming a new Liberal leader during the past few years. Her practice in this way of doing things makes her present welcome all the better. Mr. Nixon comes to his responsible position in the posses­ sion of a good deal of public experience. In­ deed, he has sat in the seat of the mighty on a number of occasions and sat there with dignity. He has shown himself to be fair-minded and he bears a name above reproach and has proven a diligent administrator. But a new day has come for him with his new position. He is now to be tested by the acid of responsibility. He must start things. He must be capable of saying the last word. He must give coloui* to he whole ad­ ministration. In all this he will be tried out in ways that nevex* have tried him before. He must live in the fierce light of lonely leadership. What will be the result? He is not on the sideline. He is playing the game. He must give the signals. He must be the head and the soul of his party. He must win back the prestige of which the pro* vince has been shorn. This he must do under the jealous watchfulness of one of the most as­ tute politicians and party tacticians the Dominion knows anything about. These are testing times for public men and we wish the new Liberal lea­ der health of body and soundness of mind in the •exacting position to which his party has called him. SS 4J4 ■ \ ’ Roosevelt Will Wifi We are not going to discuss the merits of. the latest coal strike in the United States. We are thinking of the refusal of Lewis to have bis men return to work on the request of the Presi­ dent of the United States* Mr, Roosevelt bolds his position by virtue of the votes of the Ameri­ can people. Men in the United States should see that he is maintained in that position. His authority must not be flouted. He cannot be left holdingthe bag-at the pleasure of any of his sub­ jects. When the American eagle thunders, less- er American fowl must take heed or be annihil­ ated. Lewis has told the president that he will be a loyal American subject when he is jolly well . ready and where he jolly well pleases. He says, in effect, that he will obey American laws when it suite him and what laws gratify his soul. What cares he for the president A The seat of the exe­ cutive is not the White House but the place where Lewis desires to have it. A nice kettle of fish, indeed. Roosevelt has taken up the gauge of battle and in his Sunday night address to the striking miners^ clearly laid down 'his ultimatum that coal mining* will not be stopped in the United States. We ere up against an inevitable struggle, thanks to Germany’s cunning, and we may be sure that the Americans who made their own con­ stitution will sustain it rather than become the scorn of the world, * Not An Auspicious Opening Farmer Fray cherishes the opinion that the seeding season might easily be a good deal more favourable for his seed operations. He 1ms had it dinned into his ears that he must produce a bumper crop. But here it is getting well on into the sowing time and what he has got done is a pool' affair in comparison with what he would like to have through his hand. Moreover, the seeding season is passing, He recalls that last fall left the soil saturated above the level of min­ ing moisture. He recalls regretfully that he did not get all his plowing done last fall. The soil, too, is decidedly cold and the warming sunshine so far has been withheld. He is decidedly short of help in manpower, while needed machinery simply is not to be had. So there he is and there is the whole countryside, dependent upon the ca­ pricious weather. Farmer Gray is not discour­ aged. Like the English showman, he believes that losses on the roundabouts may be pulled up on the swings. He notes that the fall wheat is doing well, that the last year’s seeding of timothy and clover is coining on just right and that the pastures are calling* loudly to the cattle and sheep to come out to renew theii' youth. He hopes that the season is young and recalls that the season with abundance of moisture, while inconvenient at times, usually means a full grain bin and .lots of the right sort of fodder for cattle and sheep and hogs. Those Schools Some very nice people, bent on curing their own boredom have been looking at matters edu­ cational. These people who find it difficult to keep theii’ typewriters rattling have turned their inky quislings on the freshmen of our universi­ ties, with the result that our youth have again been proven to be a bad mess as far aS knowledge, goes. These gentle creatures are not aware that no exercise delights a student quite as much as leg-pulling, we hear a solemn quizzer asking a. Canadian student, “How did Sir Oliver Mowat come to be known by that name?” What student could resist answering, “The name was given him bv his way of mastering a meadow with a scythe.’’ And so on and on and on again. Those dear souls should remember the fate that overtook pussy when she gave herself to the ways of cur­ iosity. Modern youth does not take kindly to being- guinea pigged, the New York, Times should recognize. We know a few Canadian youths and find them a pretty good sort, even if they wink. the other eye as they reply to questions that no­ body has any business asking them. Meanwhile we allow the qulzzers to go on their way and al­ low the modern youngster to answer them as he sees fit. NO STEAK,. .just a seagull. NO COFFEE.. .just putrid water. NO HEAT.. .just a freezing wind to chill the bones! 1 "1life Men forced down at sea know what hardship is. They know the tortures of thirst, of hunger and of utter helplessness. Our own airmen have tasted that hardship in the bleak Atlantic; British flyers have come through the ordeal in the North Sea. Eddie Rickenbacker and his six companions fought the “mad Pacific’’ for twenty-one days in Good­ year life rafts. Yes, all these men know hardship. We in Canada live in security and comfort... our fighting men live in danger and discomfort. We ... all of us... . can provide the money to “BACK THE ATTACK!’’ That’s little enough, when we know that every dollar invested now brings added security to our loved ones and to our homeland! /note VICTORY BONDS inbuiltrubber' prod ' Irrel for-army veh plane,; molaedru tort anti; life raft, and combat fan; ueb, ihtlui lelei, ijrej; bber parti 1 , selfr.ealln ling ipecibbbulletireiiittng wneelr and ■ btqkc)'./w';:afr< Far'Ihe-Navy^begivAbeeX ggaidltne tankildrrplgner . lelljeqliri g :gaioline hole. Bren guh ftUpt; shell ,;pro|pttori;?. pile o’ ga,tei,/;«aih < fielmeit/ Those Tale-Bearers “A tale-bearer separateth chief friends.” The German propogandist does the same evil work. Witness the strife the Germans have created be­ tween Russia and Poland. Fancy Poland’s turn­ ing her arms against Russia and,, consequently, against Britain and the United States. Could there be anything more fantastic? Yet that is the way Germany works. Germany succeeded in having Britain and the United States go unarmed till the Hun thundered at their gates She is do­ ing her level best to divide Britain ancl the United States and to have the Allies consent to a peace that would strip them of all they have done for liberty. German money lies at the door of every considerable newspaper and is whispering at the desk of nearly every clergyman and university president, and nudging the elbow of the leaders of every labour joarty. “We’ll divide and con­ quer,” they are saying. “We’ll have our oppon­ ents;? lay down their arms,” t^hese propogandisls are saying secretly, “and then we’ll murder and conquer.”# * * * A Negotiated Peace? This shindy that Poland is making is a bad mess. It has all the earmarks of what Mr. Churchill feared when he talked of the fatality of a negotiated peace with the Axis powers. All the world knows what a fatal state of affairs is involved in making peace before Germany is ut­ terly beaten and Japan is driven into the jungle where she belongs. There is a long story of Po­ land’s distrust of Russia. And that story makes nasty reading, But what Poland should see is that her one safety lies in thoroughgoing alleg­ iance with Britain anti the United States. True, she has lost a great deal in past years. For her to succeed in breaking up the fighting powers of the Allies, is for her to lose all. Surely she sees Grmany is not to be trusted. Surely she sees that the United States and Britain will stand by her in the event of an Allied victory. It must be added that Poland’s action, too, is of the consequences of out fighting this way with the ballot dominat­ ing the issue, as some friends of Canada feaE It is feared, too, that the war is filling the coffers of some parties while brave men die on the battle­ field or seimp and save that our,fighting men may be provided for. ' The democracies have some eye-rubbing to do these fateful days. Mr. which week. Thames to Exe- several was against it. Mt. Walter Statton, of Grand Bend, has started to build a new service station and has secured two gas pumps from- the British-Ameri­ can Oil Co., through Mr. H. T. Rowe, of Exeter, and will be able to give the best of service in a very short time. x 15 YEARS AGO Gib Dow lost a valuable horse had been sick for the past Mr. Rod Ellis also had the misfortune of having his horse drop dead in the harness on the Road. Mrs. Shelton has returned ter after an absence of months visiting .relatives in Good­ land, Kansas. The Exeter .sub-division of the Canadian National Railway, com­ prising the line between Hyde Park and Wingham will be handled by Stratford instead of London in the future. Trains will be despatch­ ed as heretofore from London. The past week has been fine for seeding and many of the farmers have finished. Gardening and house­ cleaning are the order of the day in town. A meeting was held in the town hall, Hensall, on IFTiday evening .last of those being assessed for the improvement of the Black Creek Drain. The feeling of the meeting HON, HARRY G NIXON Former provincial secretary in tario, who was elected to the dership of the Ontario Liberal party at a convention of the Liberal As­ sociation in Toronto on Friday of last week. On- lea- w- Morton, of Ailsa Craig, this week, securing therefor 4 cents per pound, the total weight being within a frac­ tion -of 11,000 pounds. Ed Willis, who has been engaged at Mr. A. Hastings learning the art of barbering, left on Monday for Detroit. William Ballantyne, license com­ missioner, of Seaforth, paid the town a visit on Tuesday and furnished the several hotelkeepers in and around Exeter with their license cer­ tificates for 1893 and 1894. Mr. Will Ford of the firm of Ford Bros., butchers, while cut­ ting a slice of meat for- a customer’ on Friday last, was badly cut. The knife slipped and the point enter­ ed the palm of his left hand, mak­ ing a very painful sore at the time, R. N.' Rowe has moved into the recently vacated by Thom- TEEN-AGE GIRL DIES Myrtle McKinley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Elgin kicKinley, of the Goshen line, near Zurich, died sud­ denly in her 17th year. She had been stricken with flue which de­ veloped into a heart condition. Miss McKinley was a student at Clinton High School. She is 'survived by her parents and one sister, Jean, and three brothers, Anson, Robert and Berne. Public funeral service was held from the home of her parents Friday at 2 p.m. and conducted by Rev. Reba Hern, of Varna United Church. Burial was in Bayfield cemetery. , residence as Prior. ballantyne diesMRS. M* The death'of Mrs. Mabel G. Bal­ lantyne, of lot 8, north boundary of Blansliard, in her 69th’ year, oc­ curred at Mason Villa Private Hos- 25 YEARS AGO Selves - Hunkin — At Glengarry Place, Exeter, on May 1st, John •Selves, of Usborne, to Miss Ethel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hunkin, of Exeter. One man in Exeter on Saturday evening at a given ‘hour counted eighty automobiles parked on the business section of Main Street. They are more common than horses and rigs ever were. Mr. R. N. Rowe’s black team caused some excitement on Hain Street on Thursday afternoon by turning sharply around, upsetting the wagon and making an attempt to get away. Pte. Hubert Jones was home from Toronto 'Camp for the week-end. . Mr. William Dickson showed us Pital, London, Thursday, April 29. a curiosity on Friday and probably. ^he had been ailing for about a year not -another one is in existence in ; an^ had been quite sick since Christ- Exeter today. It was a complimen­ tary invitation to the opening of the London, Huron & Bruce Railway in London on January 11, 1871. The invitation was signed by Benjamin Orohyn, Mayor. Mr. Dickson was then living in Clinton. In accordance with a motion pass­ ed at the Synod of Huron, London, all clergymen will be entitled to a ’month's holidays each year, with no dimiliuation ,0f salary, and all supplies to be borne by the congre­ gation. SO YEARS The gentlemen of were at the meeting last Thursday for the purpose of securing the aid of the farmers in building a cheese factory and sepa­ rator, were not very successful, but it Is thought that the money neces­ sary for it yet will be raised, Mr. S. M. Sanders delivered his herd of 20 Stockers to Mr* George AGO Exeter Who at Farquhar J mas. She was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mi's. Hugh Thomson, of Nissouri, and widow of tlie late John Balantyne, who died 24 years ago. Surviving are her sons, Glen, of Blanshard; Mowatt,of London; Murray and Grant, at home; a sis­ ter, Mrs. (Dr.) E. G. Vernon, of Clarkson; and four grandchildren. l Monthly Rates TORONT6j> Hotel Waver ley Spadsna Ave, At College St. RATES SINGLE . 31.50 to $34)0 DOUBLE Special Weekly A Modern QUIET . . . WILL CONDUCTED CONVENIENTLY LOCATED HOTEL . . . • Cloee to Parliament Buildings, University of Toronto,. Maple Leaf Gardens, Fashionable Shopping District, Wholesale Houses. Theatres, Churches of Every Denomination. A. M, Powell, President Mother Not to Blame for the Children’s Colds Despite all the mother can do the kiddies will run out of doors not properly wrapped up; haye on too much clothing; get overheated and cool off too sud­ denly; get their feet wot; kick off the bed clothes, and do a dozen things the mother cannot help. Half the battle in treating children’s colds is to give them something they will like; something they will take without any fuss, and this the mother will find in Dr. Wood’s Norway Pine Syrup, a remedy used by Canadian mothers, for the past 48 years. Price 35c a bottle; the large family size, about 3 times as much, 60c, at all drug counters. _ The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont.,