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THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1944
They Are Thorough-going
*
The Russians are not only giving the Ger
mans the time of their lives but they are also
busy on the home fields. They are pushing their
schools to the limit. The best teachers they can
procure are busy in their schools. Hand and
mind are being carefully trained to be in readi
ness for anything that hand or mind may en
counter. Better still, with a splendid insight,
that cannot be too highly praised, these Russian
world beaters in the fields of war and material
progress, are giving the closest and most minute
attention in their schools to manners and cour
tesies and general deportment. “Manners make
the man,” a sage has told us. We cannot af
ford to overlook the place of such qualities. The
finer the mind, the better the deportment. In
deed, good manners bring the other qualities of
the mind to an edge in a manner and to a de
gree that can be done by no other means. “He’s
always a gentleman,” tells the story of intellec
tual qualities of a high order. “He’s a boor,”
tells the story of the character who never gets
done or exemplifies the most practical things in
life. The art of “getting on with” others is the
most difficult of the arts and one of the most
important.Those Russians are wide awake.
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Sir John’s Birthday
there in Cataraqui cemetery, neai
there is a very plain grave with a
Over
Knigston,
plain tombstone, bearing the word Macdonald.
About this tomb there is nothing to distinguish
it from ten thousand others in that same ceme
tery. Yet that tomb is the resting place of a
man who will never be forgotten while the in-
dusrious and sagacious beaver plies his craft
and plain men strive for the betterment of Can
ada. To this day there are hundreds in this fine
country for which he gave his strength and his
life, whose eyes shine and whose pulses leap at
the bare mention of his name. John A. had
tremendous power of grappling men to his
heart. He had an uncanny skill in knowing the
folk in his constituency who needed the cheer
that only his magnetic personality and aptness
of speech could impart. He never forgot or ig
nored the lonely or the bereaved. He never
scorned anyone of his colour or because of his
obscurity. The wisest sought his counsel whether
they lived in London or on a back concession
in an obscure township. The keenest lawyers
of his day owned his skill. The humblest ap
proached him and found him an understanding
■friend. He was master of telling phrases. His,
'“’A British subject I was born; a British subject
I will die;” never will be forgotten. He loved
power, but when that power was in his grasp,
he used it for the good of the Empire, believing
that the good of the world was bound up with
the welfare of the British Empire. His un
swerving and clear sighted patriotism was his
pillar of cloud by day, his pillar of fire by night.
He made many a mistake. He was no plaster
saint. Yet Canada this hour gladly owns that
this man so full of faults as small men counx
faults, did for Canada what no other man has
Mon, not excepting Champlain. Since be joined
the heroes in Valhalla, Canada has not looked
upon his like.
* ***
The Pipes At Arkona
We knew all along that the pipes -would put
in a victorious appearance at Arkona. Britain’s
soldiers had fought bravely, heroically, hand to
hand, blade to blade, bayonet to bayonet. Slow
ly the enemy was being dug out of his rat hole
hiding places, killing many a brave man as
he shot from his funk hole. Still our men were
winning, foot by foot, inch by inch, with no oth
er idea but proving victors. As the fight was
at its fiercest^ came the pipers. Walls were
crumbling. Houses were being bowled over like
nine pins. The air vibrated under the crash of
shells. The terrible music of cannon rocked the
air, the earth, the sky. Still those pipes played
on. Now it was the inimitable lament, “The
Flowers of tile Forest;” for were not those
“brave pipers” mindful of comrades who fought
long and well. And now came “The Campclls
are coming,” and the fighting men saw Havelock
leading his men to relief of Luckuow. And now
the tunes that Wellington lovedj and Waterloo
with its unparalleled heroism, were there In Ar
koma; and the brown heaths and shaggy woods
of Scotland and the hills and valleys green of
Canada were there iii the thoughts and hearts
of those heroic fighting meh* Another laurel
has been added to their glorious history. May
their fame never die.
E. J.
15 YEAF^S AGO
Miss Mamie Pridham, of Russel-
dale, has been engaged as teacher
on the Public School staff, taking
the place of Miss N. Medd, who re
signed..
The municipal council elect sub
scribed to the oath of office as fol
lows; Reeve, C. B. Snell; councillors,
H. Bierling, H. C. Rivers,
Christie and H* M. Francis. t
Mr. A. 0. Elliot, the new Ford
agent, is moving to Exeter and has
rented the residence of Mr. Esli
Heywood on Andrew street.
Mr. Frank Sweet, of Sarnia, has
been visiting with his father, Mr. J.
Sweet, since the latter’s accident
when be was knocked down by an
auto fracturing several ribs.
Mr. E. M. Dignan returned home
from a London hospital where he
underwent an operation for antriuni
trouble.
4. / I
Nobody Knows and Nobody Clares
Word comes thut Count Ciano has been
killed by the Nazis, his one time friends, but
of whom he was at once tool and dupe, This
miserable creature posed as the friend of “the
people.” Next lje proved their exploiter as folk
of his kidney have a way of doing. Soon the
Nazis hud no use. fox* Ciano and plotted his over
throw and now they have killed him. He was
first hailed, then applauded and then execrated
by the people, and then delivered by them to
the firing squad, Abraham Lincoln is credited
with saying. “You may fool all of the peole some
of the time, and some of the people all of the
time, but you cannot fool all the people all of
the time.’’ Right here we observe that there is
no monster* so terrible as an aroused populace,
onev it discovers it has been fooled, Just now
Canada needs leaders who deal with first prin
ciples and men who can devise measures that
have in them the elements of permanev, Wis
dom does not always lie with old ways. Even
less does wisdom characterize new ways, Ciano’s
fate demonstrates once again that selfishness is
self destructive and that he who makes the necks
of his fellows a ladder to climb to power, is
due for a terrible downfall,
# * *
Speak Out, Laymen!
It is the duty of Christian laymen to speak
out regarding their confidence in Christ and the
religion He gave to the world. It is their duty
so to do for with out Christ and his religion
they would still be living in caves and worship
ping stalks and stones, If some church members
are afraid that Christ and His religion are not
equal to seeing them through, the real, genuine
Christian businessmen may as well neglect those
timourous souls and sturdily speak of the One
upon whom all worthwhile things depend. We
were talking along this line to the real thing in
a business man in London. Said he, “We aim
to have none but Christians on our staff. More
than that they must be the sort who openly make
a profession of Christ.’’ We honestly believe that
the majority of our business men are deep in
their hearts, Christian men who carry on their
affairs according to Christian principles. They
exemplifiy, for the most part, those, principles.
What is required on their part
ashamed advocacy of Christ and
Why should anyone be ashamed
Why should not men openly say
in heart and soul for Christ and
Why be apologetic in a matter so serious and
times so perilous ? Churchill and President
Roosevelt are not ashamed to make their mighty
offices the sounding boards of their abiding
Christian faith. Why should lesser men be
timorous in their profession? Accompanying
with Much Afraid and Little Faith will get us
nowhere. John Doe and Harry’ Roe have a
duty in this matter that they long have neglect
ed and must overtake. When business men find
a place where there is no religion but in which
homes are sacred and women respected and chil
dren nurtured and decent laws are respected,
they can afford to keep a still tongue on the
one matter without which men wander into the
pitchy darkness in which no light shines. The
laymen of this fine land have a deal of waking
up to do on this matter of supreme importance.
F. Beavers; Step lieu, Reeve
Sanders, Deputy-Reeve Alex
Usborne, Arthur Mitchell;
Hensail, G. C.
25 YEARS AGO
The following were members of
the Huron County Council; Exeter,
B. W.
W. D.
Neeb;
Hay, John Laporte
Petty.
Roland Motz, of Crediton, who has
been in the Navy the past three
years, returned from Halifax last
week.
Misses Cora and Stella Sanders
left last week to attend Business Col
lege in Stratford.
Mr. W. D. Sanders was in Toron
to last week attending a meeting of
the Executive of the Farmers Club.
Mr. Geo. Hawkins, of the London
Road north, exercised his franchise,
in Usborne township election on his
99th birthday.
B. W. F. Beavers, Reeve and
Councillors L. Day, William Penhale,
Chas. B.
subscribed
took their
Snell, and Jesse Elston
to the oath of office and
seats on the council.
More Than Usual
The 1943 crops have now been safely harvested and are available to help
meet the needs of a world at war. In 1944 the world demand for food
products will be enormous.
is open, un-
His religion,
of so doing?
that they go
His religion ?
# sj * *
The Tender Hand of Russia?
Is the intention of the allies to allow
many to come under the gentle, persuasive
of Russia? Germany has treated Russia
contempt, till but a few weeks ago. She spoke
of running over Russia as a steam roller rolls
over a pumpkin. Russia was to be but stubble
to her sword. Lately Germany is learning a few
things about Russia. For one thing, she has
learned that the Russian does not like to have
his dog kicked about. It seems never to have
entered the German head that Russia may be
her master one of these fine .days. We cannot
but wonder if it would not be a very good thing
to give Germany into Russian hands. The rest
of us seem not to jiave learned what an intract
able body Germany is. For that reason we allow
her to blubber or to bluff her way out of any
treaty we make with her. Russia may prove of
sterner stuff. Already we are hearing a good
deal about the politeness and courtesy of this
fine Germany, whose sons bombed Westminster
Abbey and razed Coventry to the ground and
who sunk our sailors on the high seas. We are
not aware that this fine talk emanates from Rus
sia. All that we know on this question is that
Germany already is planning to beat us into the
dust when this war is all settled and We are go
ing about our lawful affairs. We suspect that
if Russia becomes Germany’s schoolmaster that
certain lessons will be well taught and well
learned. Russia may do
ed and only half did.
* *
Note and
Ger-
hand
with
better what we attempt
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Comment
Wc just don’t know how boarding houses
at all
well!
and Ladies’ colleges are able to carry on
now thut prunes are off the market. Oh^
*
Madam says she doesn’t know how
* * *
many
things’ are off the market till she turns the pages
of her recipe Book and sees the number of nice
things she simply cannot make. The “things”
fox' these goodies are not on the market. She
doesn’t like Hitler,*# -X-
A Terrible Business Blunder
Religious instructor at the public school,
“And now tell me what bad mistake did Esau
make?”
Bright pupil, “He sold his birthmark for a
mess of porridge.”
50 YEARS AGO
The following were the newly-el
ected members of the Usborne Coun
cil: Reeve Thos. McKay, Council
lors, James Hall, Walter Keddy,
Jonathan Shier, Robert Gardiner Jr.
G. W. Holman was appointed clerk
at a salary of $100.00; Thos. Coates,
treasurer, at a salary of $70.00;
W. Miners, assessor at a salary of
$50.00, and A. Duncan, collector,
salary of $50.00. The Exeter Advo
cate was awarded the tender for
printing for $37.50.
'On Saturday last an accident took
place on the farm of Wm. Sanders,
4tli Con. of Stephen. A number of
men were cutting straw with Mr.
Geo. Penhale’s engine. It became
choked and after being freed the
engine began to run at a rapid rate,
wrecking the cutting box, pieces of
which flew in all
hands were within
caped injury.
Following were
Exeter lodge No. 67 I.O.O.F. N.G.
R. S. Richardson; J.P.G. H. Buck
ingham; J. D. Atkinson, S. A. Pople-
stone, A. E. Fuke, H. Lambrook,
R. W. Taylor, iA. Hastings, J. Cob
bledick, R. H. Sweet, T. Prior, Wm.
Atkinson, J. Evans, F. Knight.
The first meeting of the Exeter
council was held: Reeve Wm. Baw-
d.en; deputy-reeve, W. G. Bissett;
Councillors,
B’obier and
The safe
was blown
there was no money in it.
If you need to borrow more than usual to produce
more food than usual, whether in the form of field
crops, livestock or dairy products, do not. hesitate
to talk to the manager of our nearest branch?
Founded in 1817
Exeter Branch: W. J. FLOYD, Manager
the officers
directions,
ten feet and
Tins week
ratio of one quarter pound
per coupon. Only a portion
19 43 catch is available for
use, the WPTB deciding
(from Jan. 17 on)
canned salmon is rationed and will
shelves,
A WEEKLY EDrrOK
L®®KS AT
Written specially
for the weekly newtpapers of Canada
T. B. Carling, A. Q.
J. W. Taylor.
at the Exeter station
open by burglars
ONTARIO GOVERNMENT
SURVEYORS IN GODERICH
AREA MAPPING OUT WORK
but
a
itcall
having
the end
behind
A group of Ontario government
surveyors is«at present in Goderich
and will be located there for from
four to six weeks surveying sections
of highways which are said to be
slated for improvement under the
post-war rehabilitation program of
the provincial government.
This program, it iS said, included
widening, draining, preparation and
paving itself, building of bridges and
culverts.
Large projects are heliOved to
be included. They include a viaduct
over the Maitland river just north
of Goderich, cutting off the Winding
road and two steep hills in
lage of Saltford, on highway
This alone would be a half
project.
A similar Situation exists
same highway at Port Albert and
Bayfield, but plans have long since
been prepared for them. The bridges
at Bayfield and Saltford are narrow
and old and will have to be replaced
in any event.
the Pensions’ department reports. In
the same period 62,9 60 veterans of
the first Great War got the same
service. These were not at all per
manent jobs, of course, bui includ
ed occasional and seasonable jobs.
Another interesting angle about the
same subject is that unemployment
assistance to pensioned vets, of the
First Great War hit an all-time low
in November, 119 getting $2,880, as
compared with say, August 1939,
when 5,63 6 received $122,954.
* * *
The 19 41 census figures now re
veal some significant trends,. In
that year Canada had 174,767,599
acres of occupied farm land an in
crease of over eleven million acres
from 1931. Improved farm land un
der crop was over 56 million acres,
a reduction of two million; past
urage increased a little, summer
fallow up about a third to 23,649,-
Nearly four million acres was
reduction in woodland
to 19 41 while marsh or
was down over a
the vil-
No, 21.
million
on the
Smiles . . . .
jack—»“Too bad about Dick. He
swallowed a teaspoon.
Jill—--"Is he in
pital?”
Jack—“Yes, he
* *
Colored Sergeant:
moves, you shoot/’
suh, an’
ftioVCs.”
I J'
bed nt the
can't stif?’
hbs-
852.
the
1931
land million
from
waste
acres.
*
* « *
about more washing ma-
coming on the market for
H. Connor & Son Ltd. here
manufacture last week on
allowing 15 per cent of
peacetime production for
By Jim Greenblat
By Jim Greenblat
Around Ottawa: They
poor snow season here,
had only 19^ inches to
of December; 28 inches
last’ year’s period. . . . that’s no
fooling
chltt.es
the J.
started
a schedule
normal
January, February and March . .
Governor-General ’s levee
Year’s Day brought out
thousand persons, the
outnumbering civilians
one. . . Oddity—a small
card came for the dog of
minister to Canada from the pet
cat of a U, S. official in Washing
ton, doggone. . . .
* * *
It’s been moving time for the
Ottawa headquarters staff of the
Consumer Branch, with the entire
staff moving into the Freiman
building and the director, Byrne
Hope Sanders, into an office in the
new temporary buildihg erected for
the Wartime Prices and Trade Board
just across from the 'Chateau Laur
ier hotel on Sussex street. * It’s two
years since the Branch came into
existence.
Canadian
officers,
thousands
war agdittst higher prices. Housing
registries operated under this
Branch’s supervision fotthd homes
for over 60,600 Canadians, and
close to a thousand women Sit on
Local Ration Boards.
* * *
Some 6,207 members of the arm-
on New
about a
uniforms
nine to
Christmas
the Polish
During that time 13,000
women enlisted as active
while other hundreds of
have waged relentless
* ' L .
“If anything! ed forces discharged from service
Sentry; ’‘Yas- were placed in employment by Sei-
if anything shoots, 11 active Service in November, the
total since lApril 1942! being 78,936,
war
mead
Given
1944?
Europe and
Thatover in
feeding
adequate ocean ton
need not. go short of
Dominion Bureau of
objective set
it, the figur-
to Canadians.
The
would
quick,
nage Europe
bread. The
Statistics says we would have 1,000,-
000,000 bushels, half of it in Can
ada, available for shipment. The
agricultural conference in Ottawa in
December recommended no wheat
acreage increase coarse grains, oil
■bearing seeds, peas, beans and corn
as more urgent; also suggested a
high proportion of land in Western
Canada be summer fallowed which
would be an asset if circumstances
warranted increase in wheat acre
age in 1945. Canada’s peak wheat
acreage was in 1940 with 28,726,000
acres, but in 1943 it dropped to
17,448,000 acres, the
for this year.
* « *
Astronomic, we call
es of cost of this war
World War 1, including two years
of demobilization cost us $1,670
million. 'Compare that with the fig
ures, up to the end of the fiscal
year, estimated for the present war
at $10,824 million. Total tax reve
nue for the 1914-18 fracas, includ
ing the demobilization years, was
$1,121 million. For this war $7,300
million. In 1916 our' population was
around 8,140,000, today, or rather
1941, it was put at 11,506.000.
* # *
DO you know that the new ex
plosive, to you and me only known
as RDX, (Research Department Ex
plosive) was developed by five Can
adian scientists, arid that it may in
crease greatly the striking power of
the United Rations?
be available on grocery
packed in one-quarter, one-half and
one pound tins, with valid meat
coupons, already issued, to be used
on the
salmon
of the
civilian
rationing to be the only equitable
way of distribution. Other canned
fish such as^pilchard, tuna, herrings
and sardines are not rationed.* * *
About two thousand of the
100,000 odd men discharged from
our armed forces since the begin
ning of the war have* enrolled for
government sponsored university
and vocational training courses. Of
850 who campleted trailing, 780
found employment in industries for
which they were trained. Men with
honorable discharges have a choice
of sixty courses.
* *
Estimates of exports of Canadian
foodstuffs for 19 43 to all countries
show why this country is doing such
a tremendous share in the total war
effort of the United Nations. Here
are a few of the figures available,
with 193 8 figures in brackets for
comparison: eggs, over 40 million
dozen (1,842,538): cheese, about
120,000,000 lbs. (81,000,000); bacon
about 600,000.000 pounds (170,837,-
400); dairy cattle and Calves 35,-
196 head (7,063).
* * *
Odds and ends of interest: Good
news for ladies, a Price Board
ruling allows a
■ply of hairpins
so for framers
barbed wire. ,
been removed
Quebec and Ontario so that more
Canadian Chedder cheese will be
available for the home market .
In the six air observer schools oper
ated by the Canadian Pacific on a
non-profit basis for the British Com
monwealth Air Training Plan, air
craft has flown more than 41 mil
lions miles............From January 1
to October 1, 1943, 417,865 blood
donations were contributed to the
Red Cross blood donor clinics across
'Canada; the record week was in
October with 16,297 . . , . It is
estimated 400,000 meh, and at
least 100,600 women, have left
farms since 19 39, but to help over
come the farm labor shortage some
thousands of older people who had
retired camd back to help, . •. » * .
ladies, a Price
little increased sup-
and bobby pins; al-
more production of
. restrictions have
from factories in
Mrs, Greene: “Oft, isn’t it aw^
tul? Why thby xylil kill that poor
boy underneath.” Daughter: “Don’t
be silly, mother! He doesn’t tiiitid
it; lie’s unconscious by tills time.”
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