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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1943-08-05, Page 2Page 2 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST Sth, 1943 " ———————...........................................■ ■ ---■ — - .... !<;ay?Spi w Cxeter Times established 1873; Advocate established 1881 J amalgamated November 1924 ■I PUBLISHED $ACH THURSDAY MORNLN’G 7 AT EXETER, ONTARIO /An Independent Newspaper devoted to the interests of the Village ef Exeter and Surrounding District All Advertising Later Newspapers' of 1 Member of the Canadian Weekly Association; Member the Ontario-Quebec Division of the CWNA Copy Must be in Our Hands Not Than Noon on Tuesdays SUBSCRIPTION RATE $2,00 a year, in advance; six months, $1.00 three months 00c but small quantities of butter. The farmer finds it difficult to buy new farm machinery or re­ pairs for his old outfit. The auto that has come U be looked upon as an essential of farm equip­ ment is jacked up for the duration. Boon far­ mers will be making their own butter and pro­ viding their own meat and doing their own canning of food by methods in Vogue sixty years ago. This sort of thing is likely to do us a whole lot of good. We may learn that we are not a people of privilege so much as people called upon to serve. We become rich in the good things of life not so much by what we possess as by what we muster and by what we can do without. Those fine people who lived sixty years ago were not so very slow, after all. Their methods of doing things were defec­ tive but they had the right pig many deal days j, m, southcott PUBLISHER THURSDAY, AUGUST 5th, 1943 Must Get At The Root Some folk with a flair for Jumping to conclusions have told us that fascism ill perish with its great exponent, Mussolini. Such fine people will find their hopes are dupes. Fas­ cism is but a symptom of the sickness of society. It is an evidence that people have not found hap­ piness. They are not satisfied and their unrest has got to the point where it causes suffering. Many of them have not enough to keej? soul and body together, Some do not know what is satis­ fying, They insist on bu.ving beer xvlien they should be buying bread and butter and for their waste they suffer the biting tooth of hunger. So. they are profoundly ignorant and cast about in the dark. Still others do not know why they are in the world nor understand the purpose for which they are born. Hence, they are ready to heed the cry of anyone who promises them bet­ ter things. Mussolini knew how to utter that cry and how to have Italians believe that the way he pointed was the way to welfare. Folk see, now, how utterly this rascal mislead them. Now while the eyes of the average citizen are open is the hour for those who know a little something of what is of real value to be out on the right of way healing the hurt of humanity. The pre­ sent darkness and storm are distressing human­ ity because there has been a lack of light from within the human consciousness and because the ways of industry and enlightenment have not been appraised at their real value. by the ymr in an important instance. We hear a great about dried fruits and vegetables these , Our grandfathers knew about this, as the’ ould fashioned paring bee reminds us. If one takes a peep into the recipe books and the house­ keeping guids of those times, he is surprised at the modern moderness of a great many of the practices recommended there. Households aim­ ed to be self-sufficient. There was nothing else for it. Methods have changed, but the principle was there, only awaiting the aid of modern science and discovery to make its application ancl application.take a wider sphere * of action 4 w 4 Sorry shed our Mackenzie King’s great salt tears name was not Yes, indeed., we when Mr. coupled with that of President Roosevelt and Premier Churchill when those leaders told Italy what she had better be doing in regard to or peace. Washington and London papers please copy this intimation. war will 15 YEARS AGO i The road to London will soon be open to traffic, The laying of the concrete pavement from Birr to: Elginfield was completed Wednes-, day of last week and the road will be open in about another week's time. Mr. W. A, Patrick, of Beaforth. who recently underwent an opera-; tion for appendicitis, and was re- j euperating nicely, had another set- j back when he was taken ill with pleuriey. He is again able to be ( around and it is hoped he will soon: regain his accustomed health. ‘ Miss Isabelle Turnbull has return- i eci home after spending a pleasant' week in Detroit. Mrs. Roland Squire is confined to the Exeter hospital with a ser­ ious attack of blood time ago while Mrs. Squire was of boiling syrup poisoning, preserving carrying a and in go- ! The New Farm Problem We rub our eyes from time to time as we read about prospective food shortages in Can­ ada, We wonder and wonder Store for our u^ual -supplies that such goods simply are not is wrong, we ask. Of course tags of man power, but that For fifty years and more labour has shunned the farm for the definite hours and duties and the bright lights of the city. This year the earlv spring and summer months were difficult, but that is not unusual. This year we are aware, there has been something wrong with the seed, as a great deal of it simply did not germinate. Other seed did not mature satisfactorily after it had got to growing. We cannot but ask if a new era has dawned for farming. Must we seek for new methods ? Must we turn to science with a new expectation as we look for the un­ folding of sources in exhausted to untried oi” use or some grasses have qided us. Is there something else that will feed men and animals and re­ build the soil that we so far have ignored? In any case there are stirring and interesting days ahead for farming. Long Delayed But Highly Important We note with unqualified satisfaction that England has undertaken a great work that hitherto has been neglected because of its ap­ parent impossibility. Master minds have been engaged therewith, but up till the last few days no organized effort has been put forward. Stephen Langton did not tackle this problem. Oliver Cromwell did not turn liis Ironsides up­ on it, Roger Bacon had nothing to do with it. Shakespeare found it beyond his ken. Tenny­ son did not sing about it. Dickens and Scott would have none of it. Gladstone never tackled it. Lincoln the mighty emancipator said nothing of it. But now the problem is to be dealt with. The women of England have come forward and we may look for smiles and joy. These fine ladies have taken up the topic “How to Make Canadian Husbands Happy.” We congratulate these noble daughters of real liberty. Hitherto Canadian wives have sought happiness for their husbands by sewing buttons on garments that would, have sagged without this attention and by keeping their partners well fed and above all else busy. They have added to their joys sub­ tracted from their difficulties, divided* their toils and worries and multiplied their expenses but now the women of England have gone, to the. very heart of the problem and are studying directly and at first hand “How to Make Cana* dian Husbands Happy.” The mere men of this dominion await with interest the outcome of a pursuit so noble. as we go to the onlv to be told to be had. What there is a shor- is nothing’ new. the hitherto unknown forces and re- the soil and in the air? Have we the soil? Is there something hither- and unthought of that we must do discover? The clovers, alfalfa, and 4 4 4 4 Going Elemental Every day we visit the store we find that merchant telling that such and such an ar* tide simply is not to be had. We can secure but Hntited quanities of staple articles. Sugar and meat are scant in supply. The farmer’s wife finds that the creamery will let her have There’s Another Side ” From time to time we hear of the large sums of money made by the large interests. For instance, we know of a cheese and butter factory that has made a lot of money and which is now doing well financially. Just the other day we heard two factory patrons dis­ cussing the situation using anything but compli­ mentary terms of the share holders of the fac­ tory. The story of the factory runs something like this. Over sixty years ago an enterprising farmer of the district got interested in the cheese and butter factory industry, an enter­ prise that was then very much in its swaddling clothes. This man tramped the region in which lie lived to interest his fellow farmers in the starting of a factory. Only two or three res­ ponded to his call. The factory was started, three or four being obliged to put all their cash into it. The factory was not an immediate success. Time passed and prosperity came the way of the adventurers. New equipment was needed. Again the community- was canvassed and again there was poor response. Again the original investors put all they had into the new requirements. This time a gratifying suc­ cess attended the improvement. Good business methods and the best of skill has made factory a real moneymaker, according to monetary standards of such enterprises. many folk look with jealous eyes upon the hard won success of those pioneers. The same may be said of scores of enterprises in this land that have brought untold benefits to the com­ monwealth. Only those who have done sweating at the job know anything of the difficulty- of building a business from the foundation up­ wards. Even fewer ever figure out wliat would happen if those enterprises were to suddenly and permanently close their doors.. There would be serious trouble were the cheese and butter factories refuse to carry on. This good province will do well to ask itself if it can afford to close up its large enterprises or what is worse still and even morfe disastrous to put these enter­ prises under inexperienced and unskilled manage ment. A very good question to ask the critics of successful business runs omething like this: What have you done to make this country prosperous? It takes more than hot air to keep the wheels of industry humming. this the Yet There Are Others Too much praise cannot be given our folk who are doing all they can in munition making and in fighting to preserve the good things of civilization. What they are accomplishing is beyond all praise and above our poor powers to estimate. But what is to be said of the toilers who make the work of the fighting forces pos­ sible? Here is one man of our ecquaintance, eighty four years of age who has a large gar­ den from which he feeds his son’s family engag­ ed in munition making. Here, again is another veteran daily in his vegetable the finest food. Here., young ten p.m. men and poultry and prepare that men may be free to discharge military semi-military duties. And these of the mulitude of producers who are required not only to produce food but who are looked to to buy victory bonds, Why should not these folk who mend the nets that the harvests of the seas and of the land may be reaped not be given consideration as the laws of the land are made and the rights of men are considered in view of the day the war is won? of eiglity-five who spends four hours garden from which comes again, is a farmer and his g sons who rise at five thirty and toil till as they manage their large farm. Wo- seventy years of age attend their gardens meals all in order or are but a few Note and Comment As we think of next winter let us not for­ get that a bad seeding time combined with much infertile seed and scarcity is a enmbina* tion that does not make for a satisfactory pan­ try and cellar filling, Good intentions need to be helped out by a favourite season and ample labour. i ittawa I Time Isn’t Far Off! ) I Written specially for the weekly newspapers of Canada The Times-Advocate is „ newspaper. It is published for you. Therefore don’t hesitate to write us, criticize us or help us in every way possible to make it better with every issue. A WEEKLY EDITOR LOOKS AT . i j Some1 fruit I kettle • ing down a step had the misfortune j to trip and fall, her right arm go­ ing 1 scalded. Blood poisonint set in and Mrs. Squire is not in very good shape at present. . . . . -----.—,Mr. Harry Cole, of Usborne, who1^® semi-urban and dA* is employed by the Hogarth. Baby t whose feet are directly and indirectly Chuck Hatchery, while trimming a (rooted in the soil of Canada, vine at the home of Mr. Thomas Kestle on Monday evening had the misfortune to fall from a ladder with the result that his wrist was sprained and he was up. By JIM GREENBLAT This introduction, from the na­ tion’s capitol, a new series of weekly letters, designed exclusively for com- into the syrup and being badly niunity papers of Canada and that ,g has since 1 vast audience of readers which never [ gets out to a night club. For the ! rancher, farmer, fruit grower, miner; s semi-urban and rural people j Your own editor among others has 1 been annoyed to high heaven with the flood of material which comes from Ottawa much of which he can­ not use. Like you he’s been a busy person running that old paper you think so much of, whether you agree With him on politics or not. He knows you would be interested in a quick catch-up on governmental do- _ j ings and what’s around Ottawa after ium on Tuesda/ind" won" the Rohl S’". '“"Vj".,C?f 1“ “J. inson Challenge Cup and first prize.' Dick is hitting a furious pace on I trophy \ hunting, Congratiflations j • once more. | Several thousand of the soldiers in Canada who were originally at' } work on the land© have been given leave of absence and fur six weeks to assist in farm work—unless re­ called by telegram or letter before the expiration of the six Many of the local boys are at home on the farms. Milton Kydd and Harper passed the medical board for over-i , ,seas last week but Gordon Davis i Yant?° kU°r what R was ordered to report again for fe®l f]ee fcO hrop a 1-ine to this further examination, and William ®olumu- Maybe‘ it can be interpreted E. Gardiner was declared unfit. ' 01 ,y0U’ Possibly there are thou- | Workmen are engaged in putting <sand® others who want to know down a cement walk from John to I ?bout the same thing’ Bllt ifc would Huron St. on the west side of-Wil-!be b®tter i£ non®. of us get too per- jliam Street. This has been a much ®°nal or t®0 P®htical. We’ll leave 'needed walk for many years andPba£ sor£ o£ thing to the politicians, when completed will serve a good' purpose, and be a great convenience ■ particularly to residents living on j that street. 25 YEARS R. G, Seldon took a lers to a tourney at badly shaken AGO rink of bow- London Asy-j That we do please a great majority of cur big list of subscribers is indicated by the large number who renew their subscription from year to year and also by the many new subscribers that have been added during the past few months, After September the first all subscribers will be treated on the same basis. No longer can we be lenient in our methods. Growing costs and stiffer regulations im­ posed by the newsprint controller have forced weekly newspapers all over to go on 'a strictly paid in advance basis. All sub­ scribers will be notified in advance when their subscriptions are coming due in order that they will root overlook the expiry date and thus miss any copies of the paper, * | He also knows you do not relish long xvinded reading after a hard day’s work. And this weekly feature for i your editor’s sake and especially1 yours I hope will fill the bill. | The Wartime Information • Board 1 has been made aware that readers of1 weekly papers are entitled to some-,tlle essential facts and developing a thing in their own language from otT [ continiiity of understanding of^ what I tawa, and so, accepting this assign- weeks I nient would-be interesting to get nh-n/rit- «y°ur collective reaction through y your editor. If you have any particular problem which has its anchor in Ottawa, and The Times- Advocate River I you might be interested in out here I will fol-low. Undoubtedly yon want ■| facts, and an authentic, unbiased and interpretive slant at Ottawa, dished out as if your own worried-looking editor was here doing it. NEW FACTORY IN GODERICH No time is being lost in getting Goderich’s new industry, a branch of the I-Ioleproof Hosiery Co. of Canada, into operation. Mr. Leo Walzak has come from the Com­ pany’s London plant to take charge GOT BACK $30 FROM GROUNDHOG’S STOMACH a Waiter Brown, Hep worth truck­ er, who is widely known as a soft- ball pitcher, lost his wallet last Friday, which contained the sum of $80.00, He had been out buying logs on the farm of Tom Smith in Keppel Twp., east of Hepworth, and upon discovering hie loss he immediately retraced his move­ ments but was unable to locate the missing billfold of greenbacks. Informing Provincial Constable J. E. Johnson, Of Wiarton, who con­ tacted P.O. John Brown of Owen Sound, as the incident took place under his territory, the three set out Saturday morning to continue the search. Happening onto a rock pile one of the threesome spied the wallet and upon closer investigation pick­ ed up fifty dollars from among the rocks. Then a groundhog’s den was sighted and — “You don’t suppose that Mr. Rodent would have done this shameful deed, making off with $30.00 for a new mattress home?” declared the police Well, it was an idea, no how ridiculous it seemed. So the three, with renewed vig­ or, went out to get the groundhog. Finally the animal was chased out of his home and killed. Provincial Constable Brown performing an autopsy with the result that a mu­ tilated chewed mass of paper re­ sembling th color of government issue folding money was extracted. The bank manager of Hepworth was contacted and it was his be­ lief that the money could be re­ placed. ! nF H,a fantm-lr nn ITIeia. ctroc.! 'Mr. Joseph R. Bentert, the Com- pan’s superintendent at London, is here this week helping to get the Machines are will is in to be to be trained in the art of machine adjusting and hosiery knitting, —Goderich Signal. This column to justify itself should 1 the factoi2 011 Bast street>and I be a national mirror .for the home town. I don’t suppose you are much interested in the fact that Ottawa looks really beautiful this time oi'ipJant operation. year. So is your own place out eastp)e^^ installed and knitting and west. But you might like, occas- 1 - ionally to hear of strange people, j former begin next week. The Company • knitters living Goderich the first opportunity join the staff and an effort.will en if you have'to stand in line 10° eat. made to secYre local young men YEARS AGO was Exeter s 'Civic Holi-. strange piaces; strange ideas, .all of was pretty generally ob- which, makes Ottawa so intriging ev- a des- j ( Some visited ’ , , 7,a great many ! I lreve could be little sidelights, took in the Masonic excursion to ; ®e.^ins Bie Soviet fliers recently; ■ garnja 1 the fellows who flew from Moscow, I This has been probably the quick- ’ Ottawa just like that. I watched * est harvest for many years. No itliem 111 hotel lobby, in black FALLS INTO OLD WELL .sooner was the hay off the ground, ,aee lenf=th boots, loose fitting tu- lin fact, before it was off, the wheat'llics’ rahish forage caps; smart earn- I in may fields were ready for the;est looking fellows who looked as if --------...............o ........ . binder and the drought was such I they had. a mission in life. Unboubt-fing berries on the vacant lot bet- i that other fields, comparatively ; their s js killing Germans. They f ween the residues of R. J. Sproat .'green a few days before, maturedwatching the smartly dressed and G< D. Ferguson, on Goderich jin a day or two. while the barley! ^hGs in and out of uniforms; men of street west, Edna Fraiser, young i kept pace and the binder could Pur arm®d forces, civilians and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grant scarcely get the wheat down before seemed to be measuring the Stan-(Fraiser, met with a very unpleasant .it had to go into the fields of that I darti® of democracy as against Com-‘ experience and one that might have grain. Now the thresher is at work i lnunism, I got a kick out of watch- resulted seriously. in some localities. J ing them eye the well filled cigar; Qn property there is an old 1 A mud turtle weighing over 27 I ntend, the jammed hotel cafe. ; and forgotten well that had been , pounds was captured in the Sauble i Well, that’s part of Ottawa. A'grown over and covered with brush. River by Mr. Eli Snell on Saturday | little of this, a little of that about'When the girl stepped on it, the last. It was a monster. I government activities, legislation,’’earth and rotted timbers gave way. I .............................. - - ■ ■ - -' parliament, none of it too wearying and she dropped down a distance of ri •! ;—informative. .several feet. 0H1116S • • • . i ______________________________' phrey Mitchell in the House of Com- mons justify the government’s man- Seeing her former suitor at a'power policy. When he said that party, a girl decided to snub hint J 5,100,000 men and women out of a “So sorry,” she murmured when: total population of S,720,000 aged 14 the hostess introduced him, “1 ‘___________7 ._ __ didn’t get your name.” forces or at work, this on the face "I know you didn't,” said the till-iff speaks mighty well for Canada abashed certainly 50 Tuesday ' day and it served, the town presenting erted appearance. Grand Bend while ! for his officer, matter WHILE AFTER BERRIES On Tuesday morning while pick- -but informative. Just recently I heard Hon. Hum- ■ Fortunately the earth from the cave in pilled up on the cross tim­ bers in the well and prevented Miss Fraisfw from dropping to the bot­ tom into several feet of water. Her cries were heard by Mrs. Ferguson, who secured the help of Mr. William Montgomery and his son, who were delivering coal at the 'Ferguson home at the time, and the girl was removed from her perilous position without suffering any injuries, except a few scratches. Seaforth Expositor. “but I years and over were in the armed of at a in it former suitor, “but you j war. The Opposition calls it tried hard enough.” |-“muddle”. Well, after listening * * ’•*' J on the debates for weeks on end, did, the Smith wedding go’becomes increasingly clear that Can­ adians have got to think and inter-, until the parson asked the pret for themselves a little, too. We’ll ‘ she’d obey her husband.” > try to unravel things if possible, happened then?” “How off?” “Fine, bride if “What “She replied: ‘Do you think I'm crazy?’ and the groom who was ; sor4 of daze, replied, ‘I do,’ ” S|l * « “I met our minister on my to Sunday School, mother,” Willie, “and he asked me If I < played marbles on Sunday.” what did you say?” asked mother,' dig with both hands into- a Health “I simply me, Satan, him.” in — ial-; ways keeping in perspective the na- ■ R was early in the morning when tional picture and that millions of1 J'ohn Sot home from a game after others have problems and ideas, too, ! th® lodge meeting. Shoes off, he Letters in from editors all over I wa« coming cautiously up the stairs, Canada relative to this new service” when a board creaked, “is that reveal that people hi Canada are 5?ou’ John?” his wife called from pondering these days and want toj^he bedroom. “It had better bel”way said i. . ------1 ------ —— ............ . ever take the Works of the "clock apart; Was reP*Y. ‘And r themselves. Ope editor suggests we' —mw— said? 'Get thee behind'.Insurance measure now pending and walked off and left'which he claims would be foisted on j us by a medical monopoly, and which * * * in it present form would cost the a clumsy parcel under, people plenty, man went into a tailor’s* A Manitoba editor wants, “In sim- I pie language enlightment on matters Carrying his arm, a shop. “I’ve brought back those irons-’ portairtihg to farmers and the farm­ ers yon made three he explained curtly, reseating; you know, “indeed?** replied equally curtly. “Perhaps brought my last bill to be receipted, too, You know, I've stood a lot.” ing coinmuiiities” and also “of Whatmonths ago/* “They need benefit Will the post war reconstruct* I sit a lot.” the tailor,f you’ve Ion schemes be to the farmer.” That seems to be our “simple task” in this Weekly news letter. You must not exact mlraoleg of report­ ing, Time, experience in digging out How Does Your Label Read? Monthly Ratoa TORONTO Hotel Waverley 3fa»ou Avb. 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