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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1943-08-19, Page 2Times established 1873; Advocate established 1881 amalgamated November ISM PUBLISHED EACH THURSDAY MORNING AT EXETER, ONTARIO Au Independent Newspaper devoted to the pf the Village pf Exeter and Surrounding Member of the Canadian Newspapers’ Association; interests District Weekly Member of tlie Ontat’iorQuebec Division of the CAVNA All Advertising Copy Must be in Our Rands Not Later Than Noon on Tuesdays SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 a year, in advance; three months RATE six months, ?1.QO 60c J. M. SOUTHCOTT PUBLISHER THURSDAY, AUGUST 19th, 1943 The Call of This Minute Charity begins at home. Indeed^ it begins light under gins at home, one’s — fool’s eyes are in eyes of the average the same trouble, if mental regimentation we must wake up as as places of business ches. The world is on the march. The man or the locality that is found with united shoe strings these great days is suffering from a deadly form of dry rot. A very fine name for this condition is old foggvisin. Take the fuel situation for example. We are doing a fright­ ful lot of guessing on that question these fine August days. We hope that the dreamers who cherish fond hope of lots and lots of fuel next February are not idle mooners. But what do we practically know about it ? AVe d like to hear from our dealers on a matter so vital. What assurance do they give us that the only way to keep warm is to nurse our wrath ? Will hotness under our collars meet the situation as the North wind blows and the temperature is ten below ? We’d like a statement. If the deal­ ers are helpless, what will our town council do about it? Meanwhile Smith and Brown and Dub­ sun will do well to show some knee action and to cultivate a lively working brand of elbow grease. We have become so accustomed lately to “muddling through, somehow” and to sing­ ing the soothing lullaby “We never had a shor­ tage here” that we may soon be trotting to the doctors with frozen ears or begging him “to do something” for our pneumonia. « * * * ; Russia and the Quebec Conference Folk who wonder why Russia is not offi­ cially represented at the Quebec conference will do well to recall the special problem that Stalin has before him. His one desire is to make Russia a genuinely going concern, Russia has no ambitions for foreign conquest. She has in­ valuable resources within her own borders. There is not a thing essential to national growth, as far as raw material is concerned that she does not possess* There is no occasion why she should seek more of these materials. Rivers and forests and mines and soil and fisheries and furs are hers without apparent limit. What Russia desires is to get her people busy uti­ lizing her resources. She wishes to inspire and build her people, first of all. She wishes them to be quickened and guided mentally. She calls for mechanics and farmers and chemists and engineers, builders and doctors and nurses and teachers. She wishes to be a nation before she thinks of being a world power. That is her primary object. The war she is now waging is ’her effort to be free to work out her own des­ tiny. That war over, she desires to return to constructing* her own nation. The question we ask is, does she think that the present con­ ference between Mr. Churchill and Mr. Roose­ velt deals largely*.with the activities in the Pacific? Is Japan the next objective of the allies ? Must they get ready in time for this struggle with Japan in its final stages? Russia sees that she must face Japan some day. Japan has been too aggressive for many a long day for Russia not to see that the greedy eyes of Japan are bent on Russian resources. However, does not see that with Pacific prob- ’ 'r one’s own hat, Reconstruction be- ;____ Yes, and it, too, begins under own hat. The Good Book tells us that a the ends of the earth. The citizen may suffer from we are to avoid govern- of one sort or another, families, as communities, and as school and chur- judging from events, Russia this is the hour for grappling lems* # $ Why Not? Ontario farmers are asking why the surp­ lus grain of the North West is not made avail­ able for Ontario feeding. This season it is es­ pecially required. There is a keen demand for dairy and poultry and hog products* Why should not the resources of the West be made available in assisting to meet this demand? Farmers are laying their plans for the coming winter and are anxious to know what is avail- if: winter and are anxious to know what is able in the way ©f feed. * * * * Swallowing the Hook Germany with her usual flair for is trying to have the world believe that either on the verge of a new arrangement of he£ leaders that will insure victory or that she is on the verge of collapse. Her one wish is to get her opponents io relax the utmost vigilance of which they are capable. Germany befooled one once. That was her dirty work. Should she blind us again the fault will be ours. We have said all along that we are not fighting Hitler but the German people. No matter who leads the Huns, it is the Huns and not any one men or Any clique that must be fought to their * lying she is BY JIM GREENBLAT House of Commons the up an interesting face, close to ai double for the late Lord Kitchener.' ft by $ V?> is de- be a * House why the funds as * the Canadian lie knew nothing about He was introduced to the Prime Minister Written fpeeially for the weekly newspapers of Canada THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 1943 knees, Germany cherishes the belief that she is invincible* That folly must be thrashed out of her. It is not foy her to decide when she has had enough. That is for the allies to decide. It is not enough for her to make pie crust promts* es. The allies must say on what terms the allies are to cease making war A Sensible Move Word is out that Colonel Drew is reducing the size of Ms cabinet* This is all to the good. This young country is top heavy with official­ dom, We are perilously near to being over governed, If democracy is to succeed the ave­ rage man must be given u good deal of indivi­ dual freedom to initiate and to carry on bis affairs. Annoying regulation and regimentation of»our ways and means of carrying on soon reaches its limit. We get tired and annoyed when we hear that Mr, Incompetent has been appointed Minister of Peanuts, though the said gentleman may not know a peanut from an ostrich,* *** More German Propaganda This talk of Russia's being peeved because she is not at the Quebec Conference is but a bit of German cunning to disturb the relations between the U.S. and Britain and Russia. So far the Germans have been outwitted. For while Stalin is not at the conference he might as well be. His influence is there and his judg­ ment is elusion. ■© effective in every major move or con- Note and Comment your big pumpkin dolled up for theGot show ? / Dads are replacing the golf stick with the hoe handle. February is * * Now if your were w’ould you do about it? .:jL. . Anthony Eden is learing the trick of public helper number one. * * » Colonel Drew has heard it said that ner ship is a pool* ship to sail in. And now for a bold push and a rolled up sleeve and the harvesting will be done. coming. Colonel Drew, * * what being part- W •Js’ Farmers tell us that nature sometimes tak­ es a hand at solving the labour problem. 'K< T** TV We noticed madam feeling the corn ears wore an interested expres-the other day. She sion.■X** * * We hope that the incoming government will have a strong educational and agricultural policy. When inclined to grumble about the chips in the porridge recall the fact that you don’t go to bed hungry. Those and those to console When * * # baked apples and that apple sass apple pies! Well, we have something us. you are laying plans ment, just what do you with Italy? advise for the govern- the allies to do * ** * dig’em as soon as they ripen* This muggy weather plays high jinks in the way of rot. Watch those taters.Better * * * con- / you look The church boards and the school board are “taking the fuel problem into serious sideration.” There’s a reason. * is & * Mr. Churchill, now you see him, now don’t. If you want to find him you must for him where he is most needed. * * We’re winning in the war these days., but the fighting ahead gives every promise of being terrible. So let us fortify our hearts. * * * * We wonder* if Mr, Churchill dropped in on Mr. Roosevelt to have a nice little talk be­ fore the confei-eiice mixed things up? * * * * That Eighth Army, under the wonderful leadership of General Montgomery, is winning a place on history along with Cromwell’s Icon­ sides. * We have sprayed our potatoes till we are threatened with potato sprayer’s paralysis. But we’re getting results. The spuds are the finest ever.* * * » A WEEKIY EDITOR LOOKS AT Ottawa In the other day attended, on behalf of the Weeklies, a press conference; for General Henri Giraud. A mem- j orable experience for me, The< General spoke for SO- minutes, without notes. Tall, wearing- a plain khaki field uniform, he looked every inch the famous soldier, who in two wars hag escaped from German pris­ ons. Hig chiselled, granite jaw sets He talks in slow, measured tones, without gesticulation; at times arms folded. He has piercing eyes which seem to take everything in without moving, While speaking, his face, stern, is in complete repose. Only twice did he appear animated; once when talking about the road from “Tunis to Berlin”; and again later in the question period when asked what effect recognition would have for the National Liberation Commit­ tee. His face lit up and he smiled broadly, saying if that was a political question, politics, press conference King,* Questioned in discount on against U.S. dollars, finance minister Ilsley stated that stability is inuch more important at the present time. Any change in final exchange rates, he declared, would cause a vast amount of dislocation; some would benefit, others wouldn’t. There i would be no national gain by re-! ducing the spread now. For instance j if the west exported a lot of grain to the U.S. they would suffer by reason of the changing rates set. It wag pointed. but that to wash out the exchange rate while competing with countries whose currency preciated below ours would disadvantage to us. * As the Sicilian invasion broke, Parliament sitting in irritat­ ing, way sion Mix formally pledged Canada would not fail our fighting men. J. H. Black- more said he wanted no repitition of the deal given soldiers after the last war. * * news hot sticky weather, fenced its through a penetrating discus- on foreign affairs. Mr. King, Graydon and Mr. Coldwell had /Jpx? x WAR WEAPON CUMMER or winter, when nature cuts loose with *** blitzkrieg of wind, torrential rains, lightning, ice, sleet or snow most people hurry for cover . . . and stay there. But not Hydro maintenance crews. For them a storm is the zero hour... and task forces go forth to battle. • Last winter's sleet storm in Eastern Ontario is but one example of their work. Hours of freezing rain followed by a blizzard sheathed the district in ice and snow. Streets and roads were blocked by a fantastic tangle of poles, trees and wire. Hundreds of Hydro poles were down. Country roads blocked with snow. • Within a few hours over 200 Hydro men were on the job. Supplies were rushed to strategic points. Men and trucks went to work . . . line breaks were repaired, broken poles replaced, wire restrung. Point by point the battling “storm troopers" restored the.flow of Hydro to war production plants, factories, farms and homes . . . pushed relentlessly ahead, day and night, until the job was done. • The work of Hydro maintenance crews is one of unrelent­ ing vigilance. Power must go through regardless of con­ ditions. Across Ontario, Hydro men are on the alert twenty-four hours a day . . . ready, at all times, to combat any storm . . «ready to meet any emergency , . . ready to stay on the job until power is again flowing . .. doing their part in helping Ontario's war-geared industries speed the supply of Victory munitions to the battle-fronts of the world. THE HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER^tbMMISSION/OF ONTARIO, | seeds as alfalfa, red clover, alsike j from 1943 Canadian crop badly l-needed. Farmers asked to harvest, I save as much as possible, sell at ceil- J ing through usual channels . . . form- 1 erly only bought in Britain, U.S.A., for the first time we now have de­ livered, Mdde-In-Canada, 50 special operating tables for use on naval vessels, a million dental burs for ■ uruuug teem. .... ioi<xi value uf like they have in Washington. R. B. contracts and commitments on Hanson frostily called the govern- Canadian and United Kingdom ac- ment s foreign policy negative. Here.COtints by Munitions & Supply near- is a little back-bench comment: Lis- ed nine billion dollar mark end c>£ * * *I1 Howard Green, Vancouver, C.C.F.,!.......... ............__ proposed a foreign affairs committee' drilling teeth"/"". 7total value'of like they have in Washington. R. B.1 contracts Want Normal Fep, Vim, Vigor? Try Ostrex Tonic Tablets. Contains tonics, stlmu- lantB, Iron, vitamin Bi, oeScIum, phosphorus;aids to normal pep, vim. vigor, vitality after 30, 40, or 50. Introductory size only 35c. If not delighted with results of first package, maker refunds low price. At all druggists. Start taking Ostrex Tablets today. Smiles . . . Office Boy (nervously): sir, I think you’re wanted ’phone.” Employer; “You think! the good of thinking?” “Well, sir,” the voice at the other end said, “Hello, is that you, you old idiot?” T! “Please, on the What’s ACCUSED OfE STEALING $360. FROM TUOKERShnTH FARMER A 16-year-old Toronto youth, George Joseph Lamoureaux, a farm hand, is alleged to have stolen $3 60. in cash from his employer, Clarence Smiley, R. R. 2, Hensail, and to have spent every cent of it before being taken Into custody. The youth is in county jail at Goderich' awaiting trial. Police say the money was stolen from the' dresser drawer of the Smiley home during the absence of members of the household. They claim the youth then s^t out for London, buying himself new clothes and staying at hotels under assum­ ed names. Later he went to Toron­ to, and there he is said to have given his sister $40 as a wedding gift. Dark haired, the youth is alleged to have bleached his hair with per­ oxide self, when him. Lamoureaux has already guilty in juvenile court, but has been committed as an adult. He is on parole from a correction school, he having been released to help out on the farm. * * * Johnnie was visiting his uncle’s farm. Among the, animals was a young colt. The boy gazed at him long and earnestly, “What do you think of him?” the uncle inquired. “Why—he's all right, I guess,” answered Johnnie, “but where’s his rockers?” tened to with respect, Mrs. Cora T.! june. Don’t Casselman thought our foreign pol- js pulling its icy should be three-fold: Firstly, onej to which the majority subscribe, secondly, being free and autonomous, I There was it should be in close alliance with; Other morning the Commonwealth and the U. S. A. I Hlin board crew shoot scene for a Thirdly, in it we should be wrapped! documentary film. Wave after wave up with the security and peace of!°t soldiers, airmen, C.W.A.C’s., the world community. E. G. Han-{Wrens, air-girls marching down the sell, in demanding from the F.M. a massive, broad steps of the House full pronouncement on foreign policy,1 Commons toward the cameras; took the stand that the British Em-,khaki, blue, white; six abreast, arms pire needs Canada; Canada needs!swinging, proud of themselves and the Empire, but above all the world the historic background, Canada’s definitely needs the British Empire, thrilling youth in uniform. Yon Clarence Gillis, thought the time in- might see your own boy or girl in­ opportune to talk foreign policy; ! that film, some place, some day. that should come when we Win the j $ * * war, the world picture Is clearer. | whcn the House ,8 ,p eMnffi)ttee * * * ' [ discussing departmental estimates, a members like Mr. A. (table is brought in on the* Floor have been particularly i immediately ih front of the Minister ~ bxt. Here sit deputies who quickly furnish him information on questions which are popped with astonishing regularity from the benches. Atmos­ phere is quite informal, but very electric. How they pick items to pieces, bit by bit. It to me like a Minister has to cross between a shadow boxer and professor of universal knowledge. * # * kid yourself, Canada load. » * * a lump in my throat, watched national "1 A NODUtN . .. OMIT . W«H. CONDUCTKD . . , conviniintly locaito worn.«.■ C3o«® to Parliament BuilJinga, Un>ver«*ty of Toronto, Manio Leaf Garden*, Fashionable Shopping Dbtnct, Wholesale Theatres, Ch urc lie* at Every Denomination, A. M. PowxU, President MotaiMy RaM TORONTO 3> Wov«rl«y Ava. At Couumm Sr. RATES 8XNGM - S1A0 te SMS DWMJB - «3LM te and otherwise He had only Toronto police Social WmMtdisguised him- a few caught dollars up withW. Neill, ] anxious for the government to say1 a bat. what will be done with Japanese nationals after the war. There are, roughly, 9,000, a third still subjects of Japan; another third naturalized; remainder King said the policy must depend upon the times and the situation'1 prevailing, to be, maybe, related and co-ordinated with the same problem facing the United States. . * * * Government was sharply queried on the European refugee question. Canada Will co-operate id recom­ mendations of the Bermuda confer­ ence, the P.M. told the House; said little could be done now, shipping being such a vital factor, "» . , best way to save these helpless people is to win the war quickly”. Ottr total immigration from April, 1933 to. March, X942 was 39,00(L mostly re-| ftigees and thousands others “tem­ porarily admitted". Home front quickies: Owing to another third naturalized; born in Canada. Mr. f often those looks be a pleaded Want Ads—-The little fellows with the pulling power. Congratulations, fellow citizens^ on the way your business premises. As little paint now and then, best business men.” * * remind one a behind our pants. you are perking up the poet has it “A Is practiced by the «• laves of great men Rationing gives only makes us wear Larger patches on ife *: I**ew towns in Western Ontario take more pride in their lawns that is shown by Exeter. Dad, though tired, after a hard day, takes & turn at the lawn mower and the trimming shears. It all Tib US chance us Scheme tor creation of an Inter national Exchange union tabled in House, Canadian exports-added new elements to scheme by British, Amer­ ican experts, Ne use trying to be technical about it, its few laymen Understand, However, the proposal aims to "promote conditions lit which member countries are tree to carry out sound economic policies for the welfare of their own people and in which . , » will not be forced to pursue policies which impoverish themselves or the world.” Monetary I _ unit proposed is 137 X/7 grains of Short supply of allied nations, siicli fine gold. Troublesome Night Coughs Are Hard on the System Ife the cough that sticks;_the cough that is hard to,get tid oil the tough accompanied by & tickling in the throat that causes the nerve and throat wracking trouble that keeps you awake at night. Dr. Wood’s Norway Pine Syrup helps to relieve this coughing condition by soothing the irritated partsf lOotening the phlegm and stimulating, the bronchial organs, and when this is done the troublesome irritating cough may be relieved. . j Dt. Wood’s Norway Pine Syrup has been on the market for the past 48 years. The Trade Mark “3 Pine Trees”. Price 35c a bottle; large family sire, about 8 times as much, 80c at all drug counter^. ThoT. Milbura Co., 'limited, Toronto, Ont.