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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1944-08-10, Page 2Fagre 2 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST IQ, 1944 ®fje Exeter ®imes:=£Ribocate Times established. 1873; Advocate established IS SI amalgamated Nowmoer 1924 .PIIRJASRED EACH THURSDAY MORNING AT EXETER, ONTARIO An independent Newspaper devoted to the interests of the Village of Exeter and Surrounding District Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers’ Association; Member of the Ontario-Quebec Division of die CWNA All Advertising Copy Must be in Our Hands Not Later Than Noon on Tuesdays SUBSCRIPTION RATE $2,00 a year, in advance; six months, ?1.00 three months 60c I, M. SOL’THCOTT - - PUBLISHER THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1944 That 48-Hour Week That proposed 48-hour per week has a great deal to commend it. We welcome the thought that employees, henceforth, will give themselves to hard study and to wholesome rec­ reation, From now on fathers will have time that they will spend with their families or in working out civic problems. The one thing that stands in the way of its being from the first a conspicuous success will be the feelings it ex­ cites in the breasts of a number of very good folk. What about the working hours of the far­ mer and his wife and grown family? Then what of the. business employer? When his employees are safe at home, his day’s work is just begin­ ning. He must plan for hours in the quiet of the night in order that goods may move off the shelves and that goods may be purchased that a growingly shy-buying public may patronize him and that a rival business man may not beat him in the sales problem. Then what of judges? What of ministers of state ? What of doctors and even editors and newspaper managers ? The proposed measure is just the thing to be sure, only we are not aware of many men who have built up a business and now own it or purchased farms at scratch and who have improved them ' and who now own them, nor have we an authen­ tic list of statesmen or generals who have won their honored place and who now maintain it on the 48-hour week. Still, these are days of marvels, and you may lay to it, even though that annoying quotation will bob up “Where is the money to come from?” and that other ques­ tion persists on tagging along—“How is the work to be done, day in and day out?” » -x- Just Thirty Years Ago Just thirty years ago Germany and Britain locked arms in the First World War. “It will be over by Christmas,” some said in an easy way. “It will be patched up, some way” we were told. It was patched up, but with the spilling of blood for four terrible midnight horror years. “Engage the German navy and sink it” was what was on the bulletin board of a great city daily, as the orders given the British Navy. We know what followed. Yes, the peace that followed was in­ deed “patched up.” It was not an agreement reached in and after supplication and devotion and change of heart and earnest seeking for new ideals and new obedience. And now the Prime Minister of Canada tells us that the fate of Germany is likely to be decided within the next two weeks. We wait and wonder and hope and pray that he may be right. He has not had the fashion of being over optimistic. Meanwhile every nerve must be strained to help our brave enduring fighting men. Earnestly and devotedly must we seek to attain the best possible end in these critical moments. We are in no mood to place our necks under the German heel. We do not see how we can take the word of a nation that has called the Anglo Saxon people hogs. We do not see how we can come to agreement with a nation whose hero has unabashedly told the world that a lie is to be preferred to the truth and whose conduct has exemplified that creed. This is not the time to admire the tiger’s stripes but to spear the man-eating, killing brute to the very heart. We seek no territory; we look for no increase of trade; we hanker after no prestige; we crave no emblazoned banner. We wish to live in freedom, bowing freely at the altar of our choice and working fraternally with all men who are heirs of Whittier and Shake­ speare and who honor the principles of the Bible and the rights won by Magna Charta, the Bill of Rights and the teachings of The Declaration of Independence and the Atlantic Charter, and the charters of freedom laid down by Lenin and Stalin. May the hope kindled by the Prime Minister's words not prove deceptive. * * -x- * • Two Sides to a Story Just now the fashion is for us to advocate what we can do for the other fellow. At every turn we hear about the necessity of helping the lame dog over the stile. Bpys must be provided With recreation. Children must be state fed. We are asked to look over the line fence, see what our neighbor needs and then leave our own job to aid him. There is a great deal that is fine in all this. It is to be preferred to the principle of finding out what the other fellow would do to us and doing it first. At the same time the other saying that is to be thought of just now is “Heaven helps the man who helps himself,” We must keep this in find in considering the case of the returning fighting men. All that we can do for these men should be done but in doing so We must keep it in mind to encourage initiative in the returned men themselves. We are not thinking in this connection of the wound­ ed and the broken and the permanently disabled in mind and body. AU such must be eared for. They have nobly done their part. It is now our privilege to see that they want neither susten­ ance nor affection nor the profoundest gratitude. But we are thinking of the men who will come home well and strong in mind and body. These men deserve and will receive consideration and will be nourished until they find their way again. Little more can be done, These soldiers have fought well and triumphantly, but' let it be remembered, there are tens of thousands who have suffered real hardship at home in toil and deprivation that the men at the front might ’have an abundance of all that could be produced on the farm and in the workshop. When the hale and hearty come back there will be warmth of welcome, but there also will be a call to join hands in the work of rebuilding a torn and tortured world. The returning men will ask for nothing else than the privilege of pulling their weight and a little more. It must be remembered too, that these men will come back with ideas and ideals that will command our attention and respect. By so regarding the aims and hopes of our returning brothers, our national and indivi­ dual lives will be mightily enriched. * # # # Murdered Murdered! That.is the appalling word used to describe the death of nineteen Canadians. When we heard of this wickedness we were sure there was some passion that caused the Ger­ mans to forget themselves in the heat of battle. There was no such passion. There was no battle being fought, Everything that dark hour was done deliberately, coolly after mature planning. It was cold-blooded murder. These nineteen brave men who so gallantly perished, let it never be forgotten, were defending your mother and mine, standing between your sister and the hor­ rors of German lust. They were standing for honor, for equal rights between man and man and nation and nation. They were holding high the Union Jack, the noblest emblem that ever descended from heaven to earth. Around them were entwined, fold within fold of the Union Jack, the emblems of justice and good will. Yet these fine men are dead. Let the pacifists take notice of this event. We seek no revenge. We encourage no re­ prisals. We simply steel our hearts to see this struggle through and to do our part by prayer, by ceaseless effort, by the fullest sacrifice to see that the foul spirit that issued in the blackest and most wicked murder is driven from the earth where only honor and gallantry and virtue can hold a rightful place. # # & , * Eminently Fitting It is altogether seemly that the first army to invade Germany should be led by a Jew. It would be altogether in harmony with the nature of things, too, if the court trying war criminals should be made up of Jews. No nation has suf­ fered as the Jews have suffered at the hands of tlie Germans. For this reason the Jew under­ stands the German bettei* than does any other nation under the sun. We, in America, simply do not know what the Jew has passed through these last few years. It will be just as well to have the Gentians take medicine from their own bitter bottle. Nothing that the Jew can do to the Russian can surpass, let alone equal, what the German has inflicted upon the Hebrew. -X- ■?£■ # -X- The Best Hope Positively the best thing that can happen to civilization is to let the Russians get into Berlin first. Germany already is planning to pit Britain at the throat of Russia and to have the United States turn in discouragement from her effort to save the best that white men stand for. She hopes by sniveling and wheedling to win over the sobsisters among the allies to her side. She is trying her level best to have the world believe that the Germans and the Nazis stand for different things. The German people, they would have us believe, are urbans, peace- loving, quiet-going people who have been de­ ceived by the Nazis into some playful capers that were intended to be helpful to all mankind. Russia is far too wise to be fooled by any such specious humbug. She intends to treat the Ger­ man as Germans are. Goebels said something about no Russian setting foot on German soil except over the dead body of the last German. Well, he may see many a Russian foot on Ger­ man soil, but there will be plenty' of Germans left. Russia in Berlin would mean the settling of the German menace for many a moon yet to wax and wane. Germany set out with the idea that she was going to rule the world, even should that domination come at the cost of the killing of every man and woman and child who opposed them. The situation is terrible to think of but we must not forget Dunkirk and the mid­ night horror of those awful days. • * * «• * Note and Comment Why? Are the Russians to be in Berlin before the western Allies will be in Paris? Why is this thus? We don’t take kindly to short rations of butter and sugar. Those poor parliamentarians, They have been working five days per week and in the afternoon at that. Surely the govern­ ment will, give them a nice fat subsidy for their strenuous attention to duty. Then their petty little salary of four thousand dollars for six month’s work is surely a miserable pittance. Ask' some farmers wives about the distressed state of those parliamentarians. ■ - 15 YEARS AGO Mrs. Wilbur Martin and daughter Patsy, who have been visiting for over a month with the former’s sister, Mrs, V, 0. French, at Wetas- kiwin, returned home Monday eve­ ning'. While there they visited at Calgary, Jasper Bark and the oil fields pf the Turner Valley. They enjoyed a very pleasant trip. Miss Josie Kerslake, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Kerslalce, of the London Rd. South, underwent an operation for chronic appenditis at her home on Tuesday. The operation was performed 'by Dr. Peever, of London. The little lady is getting along as well as can be expected. Mrs. (Rev.) D. McTavish under­ went an operation at -St. Joseph’s Hospital, London> on Saturday morn­ ing and her many friends pleased to know that she is along splendidly. Rev, Walter Jones, the rector of Trivitt Memorial has been appointed rector of Ridge­ town and Highgate succeeding the Rev. Wm. Wallace who is going to Stratford. Jones will take effect the middle of September. Mr. Ted Wethey, of London, is visiting with his father, Mr. E, J, Wethey. Messrs. Snell, Wm. ington are trip. will be getting popular church, The resignation of Mr. Wm. Northcott, Win, Pethick and Wm. Ether- up north on a fishing 25 electrical phenomenon put commission thousands of wire and made its influence far south as Kansas City. Union said that disturbance the the the YEARS AGO Telegraph and telephone com­ munication throughout the United States and Canada was seriously interrupted and in many cases com­ pletely paralysed shortly after noon Monday by the Aurora Boreal­ is. The out of miles of felt as The Western atmospheric disturbance was heaviest and most extended in records of the company. Andrew Carnegie, millionaire, who died on Monday after three days illness, had given away $350,695,653 up to June 1st. Mr. Ed. Shapton, of the 3rd con­ cession of Stephen, was painfully injured while drawing in grain on Monday of this week. He had taken a load in the barn and while ad­ justing something on the top of the load fell to the floor below and in the fall injured his shoulder and broke his left leg above the ankle. Medical aid was summoned and he is now resting easily, but it will be some time before he will have use of the injured limb. Mr. Arthur Sanders sustained a painful injury to his eye on Satur­ day when a chain that goes around the wagon box flew up and struck the eye. Luckily the sight was not injured. 50 YEARS AGO the lights in firm of Mur- made a busi- twelve different a distance of for the Village has been com- Mr. J. N. Howard is rapidly push­ ing the work in connection with the electric lighting system. In a short time we expect to see full working order. Mr. A. Tait, of t'he ray and Co., foundry, ness trip on his wheel on Monday last. He took orders for plow points, also other castings at Grand Bend, Parkhill and other places en route. It is a good day’s work, considering that he did work at places and covered over 60 miles. The Voter’s List of Exeter for 1894 pleted and according to the Munici­ pal Law has been posted up by the town clerk. The total number of persons on the list is 594. Last year it was 543, so that there has been an increase of 51. There are 446 persons qualified to vote at both municipal and Legislation Assembly elections; 135 at municipal elections only, and 13 manhood franchise voters. _ ■Dandruff TO THIS SWORN FOE If you are bothered by dandruff, rub Minardfa generously into your scalp. It’S greaseless, has no unpleasant odor, ahd dries quickly. It’s the sworn foe of dandruff—*as it is of muscular soreness and pain, joint sprain or stifrneSS, tired feet; for colds and ordinaryExcellent___________ ______ sore throat, top. Get a bottle at your druggist’s today; keep it handy. 128 rei i re ak y 3 LINIMENT between Your MS-44X RESINS & ACETONE FOR EXPLOSIVES AMMONIA FOR EXPLOSIVES II ALKYLATE FOR AVIATION GASOLINE BUTADIENE FOR SYNTHETIC RUBBER TOLUOL FOR T.N.T, ORGANIC CHEMICALS FOR ANAESTHETICS PLASTICS .FOR AIRPLANES NAPHTHAS FOR CAMOUFLAGE PAINTSETHYLENE GLYCOL FOR; EXPLOSIVES AVIATION^ GASOLINE ""*1 civilian /MOTORIST/ VVYHEN war demands have been ▼V filled ... when invasion gasoline, aviation gasoline, Navy fuel oil, petro­ leum for the manufacture of explosives, synthetic rubber, and gasoline for war industry, farming and essential truck­ ing all have been taken from Canada’s oil supply — it doesn’t leave a lot for the civilian! Figure it out for yourself. It takes 5,250,000 gallons of gasoline to fuel 5,000 bombers and fighters for a mission over Germany. It takes enough oil for one fueling of a battleship to heat an average house for 350 years. It takes 18,000 gallons of gasoline to keep one armoured division on the move for one hour. From petroleum and petroleum gases we obtain the gasoline and fuels needed to power planes and ships and tanks as well as the raw material for acetone, ammonia and toluol for ex­ plosives, organic chemicals for an­ aesthetics, naphthas for camouflage paints and plastics and resins for war weapons production. This is why civilian gasoline is short. This is why it’s up to every motorist, to every owner of an oil-heated home, NAVAL FUELS to exercise the strictest economy in gasoline or fuel oil usage. Every gallon we can do without here at home is one gallon more for the fighting men. And they need every gallon they can get. Two full years of gasoline rationing and fuel oil control in "Canada have saved 393,000,000 gallons of gasoline and 175 million gallons of fuel oil —a total saving of 568,000,000 gallons of petroleum products. Yet, despite this saving, gasoline stocks on hand in Canada, as of March 31st, this year, were 55,000,000 gallons less than at the commencement of rationing, April 1, 1942. Oil has a mighty war job to do — yet supplies are short and are constantly dwindling. Oil powers the attack on every front. Oil can mean the difference between* success or failure, light casualty lists and heavy. Oil is vital ammuni­ tion — not to be wasted, not to be needlessly, frivolously spent. A An announcement issued by The Department of Munitions and Supply, Honourable C. D. Howe, Minister Answering Questions about the Gasoline Shortage What are Canada?s total yearly re­ quirements of motor gasoline? . . . Approximately 800,000,000 gal­ lons. Do these requirements have to cover both military and civilian needs? . . . Yes. Why iannot this supply be increased? . . . Because total hemispheric supplies are in­ adequate to meet both the colossal war demand and civilian needs. There is not enough oil, there are not enough tankers, for both. How ■much of Canada?s petroleum needs is supplied from Canadian wells? ... Only 15% Why can’t this home production be increased? ,., Every effort is being made to do so. More new wells are being drilled* or pre­ pared for drilling, than at any time in the history of Western Canada, but we have yet to find a new Turner, Valley. War does not wait for new production. T.he Reader Comments Jjetters to the editor published hereunder represent the views of individual persons. We invite out readers to make use Of this column. A FINE A few in your from one of our esteemed citizens, Mr. F. W. Gladmau; 'telling of the offer of the property of the late Mr and Mrs. Charles Gridley as the be­ ginning of a hospital for Exeter. Mr. reasons for the acceptance offer as the nucleus for Exeter. Following his letter to your paper from weeks ago there appeared valuable columns a letter Gladman’s letter stated many of this hospitalof a anothercame “O Canada” giving reasons why we should ac­ cept this offer. We also read of the splendid gift of Fred Willis, a boy raised and 'brought up in Exeter, of $10,000 for a hospital in Mar­ lette, Mich. We were delighted to read of another generous gift of the late Horace Harwood, another Exe­ ter lad, of $1,000 to each of the four churches located in Exeter. The Trivltt Memorial Church is another fine example of the gener­ osity of a former citizen of this commuhity. Do you remember the “Old Boys and Girls Reunion” held here in 1935? It has been stated by many who had left our town and were 'back for the celebration that ■ It Was the best of its kind. All citizens worked together for as they had would again jock The Scott Seafort’ll, from, a never done before work for a worthy our this and pro- Metuorial Hospital, at had a small beginning gift shell as the Qidloys We Have Lumber have com- hos- have offered Exeter. The Alexandra Hospital in Goderich. also had a small beginning. So with any of the Helps for Humanity that risen to be real assets in their munity. We would not visualize a pital as Victoria or St. Joseph’s in London but a small hospital where those in need of medical care and nursing could be accommodated, and would not need to be taken miles away from home, for minor cases. Nurses and domestic are so scarce that people have them in their own where there is sickness, but hospital would fill Doctors too are few be -saved by having place instead of at Each of our citizens has a right to express his or her opinion on whether they would like a hospital in Exeter and I would suggest our Council would allow eacli zen to express his views by a lot taken at the time of our Municipal election on a question of so great importance. B. W. F. Beavers. helpers cannot homes a small many a want, and time could patients at one many. NOW ON HAND also good Cedar Fence Posts ANY SIZE IRON POSTS AND BARB WIRE Place your order for shingles right away—we can supply them. A. J. CLATWORTHY We Deliver Phone 12 Granton that next About That “When your Son has completed his studies, what will he be?*’ “Oh, about 7i8 years of age, I should think. i«* Do You Suffer From Headache's? 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