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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1944-08-24, Page 2Page 2 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER ONTARIO, THURSPAY MORNING, AVGUST M 1944 Times established 1873; Advocate established XSSI amalgamated November 1924 PUBLISHED each THURSDAY MORNING AT EXETER, ONTARIO An Independent Newspaper devoted to the interests pf the Village of Exeter and Surrounding District .Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers’ Association; Member pf the Ontario-Quebec Division of the CWNA All Advertising Copy Must be in Our Hands Nbt Later Than Noon on Tuesdays SUBSCRIPTION RATE $2.00 a year, in advance; six months, $1.00 three months 60c I, M. SOUTHCOTT . * PUBLISHER THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1944 And Still? Exeter has experienced the real thing in drought and hot weather. Sometimes a nice shower seemed to be looming up and fine old gentlemen ventured out that they might hear the splash of rain drops on their cranial regions and know the joy of having rivulets of real rain­ water playing capers on their noses and down their spines. Such hopefuls have been doomed to return to their verandahs with drooping spirits and beat inflamed eyes. Showers of the finest quality have fallen within a mile or so of the town but Exeter has been passed by. Some excited people have said that the citizens of the town have been wringing their garments over their gardens to keep the good things there­ in from perishing. Our cub reporter says that statement is an exaggeration. So far we have not been able to bring on a single shower. * * * * As He Said Some considerable time ago Mr. Churchill said that the Allies were going to attack Ger­ many from the south of Europe. Very naturally the Germans did not- believe him and prepared for an invasion from the side of the Straits of Dover. Well, last week Mr. Churchill’s prophecy was fulfilled. The result is that Germany is now attacked from four sides. What appeared to be the best strategy was the strategy Germany prepared for. Was it not the sensible thing, they argued to attack headon from one side and so have the thing over in one big struggle. Since this was the obviously right thing, the Germans scorned Mr. Churchill’s statement. The result remains to be shown. So far the Germans have shown themselves to be no mean strategists, as is proven by the announcement at one time that the Germans have been trapped only to find them alive and very much not trap­ ped a very short time after the announcement of their near captivity. AU through this awful swelter, Mr. Churchill has kept his word as Mussolini and his dupes have discovered. The Italian Empire has been torn to shreds as far as Africa is concerned and as Mr. Churchill said it would. And so it seems to be going right along. We are finding out that simple truth telling is the best diplomacy. Lying is self des­ tructive. Ar •X* •%“ & Getting Busy India is waking from her long economic slumber. She is turning her waking eyes, to­ wards her northern neighbor, Russia, and is profiting by what has been accomplished in that great Empire. She sees her fields prepared to yield harvests that will astonish the world when irrigated by mighty rivers that now roll comparatively unproductively to the sea. She is aware of the minerals of her painfully inade­ quately "wrought mines- She has become aware of the latent skill and mental acutemess of her people and is now seeking the capital of the world to start her'people on a career of pros­ perity that will, at an early date, dazzle the world and compel many a nation to revise its century old ways of thinking. India, too long, a lived for herself, content to allow the busy world outside her to go on its tumultuous way. Japan’s recent attempted conquest of her land as shown her that isolationism is the road to ruin. India is leaving that road and the rest of us will do well to note the significance of her do­ ing so.* «• * * Learn - Moderation When the temperature goes above ninety, the red light is out to slow down, There are the hardy souls who think they can run the life sig­ nals but they are brought up with a jerk some day when they least expect it. Nature gives many a warning signal, then she administers a knock-out blow and that ends it, So take time­ ly warning. The race is not always to the swift. * * # Not Over, Not By Any Means Guessing about the end of the war is a bigger gamble than betting on either a horse race or an election. Wo know that the Germans are well clad and well fed. We are aware that they are determined to fight on till death part them from their purpose of winning. We are becoming painfully aware that some parties in high places are putting public resources to other purposes than tear winning while the only sane course is to win the war before attending to things which are utterly useless until the war is won and well won, As far as we can learn those practical purpose people, the Russians are quite sure that the war will not be over till next spring, at the earliest, Once more we urge our readers not to heed the prognostications of this and that radio utterance. We simply must settle down to business, It looks as if the hard­ est years are those ahead of us, let the war be over or not. When peace comes there will be a deal of hard bargaining before a working agreement is arrived. Many believe that the years following the war will be so difficult that we are likely to forget in their diffieultie the perplexities of the war itself. # * * Why Not? We understand that India is looking to New York for money and machinery to get hex’ on her feet financially. Why has Canada allowed this opportunity to slip through her fingers? We are informed that it was a Canadian who devised the plan fox’ harvesting a millioxx and a half acres of wheat in the northern states of the Union and that it was a Canadian firm that manufactured the machinery that made possible the carrying of the plan to a triumphant con­ clusion. Why should not the Canadians have been on the job as the Hindoos were looking abroad? It may not be too late even now for Canada to put in her claim to get this big order that would keep Canadians busy, A little extending of ourselves in this instance would do wonders for us, We’d like to see our money and men busy oix such an order. * * * * Darkness seemed to have settled on the world that morning when we learned that Japan had plundered Pearl Harbor, Deepening dark­ ness followed as Nipon spread her power over an alarmingly large portion of the Pacific. When we were aware, of the magnitude of the disas­ ter to China and to the Allies by the closing of the Burma Road, we nearly despaired of es­ caping the talons of the Japanese bird of prey. We were almost sure that the safety of China was dangerously imperilled. Disaster followed disaster so fast that we saw little but ruin ahead, for India. Germany seemed to be every­ where triumphant in Europe,. However the United States and Great Britain renewed their confidence in the God of Battles, rolled up their sleeves, got down to work and sacrificed fox* freedom as men sacrificed for freedom before. Results in the favor of the Allies commenced to follow. Till now Paris seems within the grasp of the American soldiers and the Burma Road is likely to be reopened. Should that road, so essential to the getting of supplies to China, remain closed, there is another road open to that Empire. It looks as if China were to be safe from Japanese invasion. There are hopes that Russia will declare war on Japan, her in­ sidious enemy that for many a long year has been boring into the welfare of Russia. This success in the Pacific and in Asia is a splendid example of Allied strategy and cooperation. The sub, for the Allies, is well above the hori­ zon. * * * * Note and Comment Tater diggin’ is getting under way. * * * * The farmers fox* luck. Think of the excep­ tionally fine harvest weather? * * * * How did your guess come out in regard to the Quebec and Alberta elections ? * * * * As we sit down to our well spread tables, think of the plight of the folks in Britain. If citizens could get hold of building mat­ erial, the housing problem would solve itself. vv # vC* Of one thing we. are sure and that is that things political in Quebec are anything but dull. * * * * Let us not complain of inconveniences. Our houses are not being blown to pieces by robot bombs. * # # * Those strikes were not well timed, if pat­ riotic values are to be considered. We needed all we had to drive forward in the battles of Europe. -r* How welcome the shade of those fine maples our fathers took the trouble to plant! He who plants a good tree is a friend of the race. It was one hundred degrees in the shade, in Ottawa., last Friday. We are informed that the. temperautre at times was away above that point on Parliament Hill. * ■» * * Johnny and Mary look with heavy hearts at the fruitless berry bushes.Fallen apples arc offering themselves as temporary balm. We say “temporary’ ’ advisedly. Well done, boys. We congratulate the local fire fighters on keeping that lively little blaze under such good control. All the elements were present for a first class conflagration. However our fire fighters were on hand and the day and the town were both saved, Again we say “Well done’’.* « # # They are talking about the riots on voting day down there in Montreal. These surely are degenerate days, Not so long ago there was the real thing in fights before every polling place* Noses were flattened) teeth were loosen­ ed and a good time, generally, was put in those open voting polls. In Montreal they had to resort to testing one another out with pistols and knives. Tn the days when men were men, a patriot’s fist did. fair duty, If Montreal docs not look out it soon will be as scrappy as Ot­ tawa. If Montreal is wise she’ll send, her scrap* pel’s to France. 15 YEARS AGO A number of EHmvUle horseshoe players played a friendly game on the Exeter courts on Thursday eve­ ning of last week and succeeded in winning front the Exeter players by 18 points. Mr. and Mrs. Ulric Snell and .Mr. and Mrs. Latimer Grieve and family who are spending the summer at Grand Bend, are this week enjoy­ ing a fishing trip around Georglaix Bay. Master Gerald Lawson underwent an operation for the removal of his tonsils at Pr. H. Browning’s Of­ fice on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. W. <L Beer enjoyed a motor trip to Southampton, Inglis Falls and Owen Sound for the week­ end, Mr. E. Treble is confined to his home suffering from injury, the re­ sult of a fall from a laddex* on which he was standing, broke. Mr, Treble was painting Mr. E. M, Dig- nan’s residence. The accident hap­ pened Tuesday atternon, The “Flying Frenchmen", Grand Bend’s softball team, visited Exeter Thursday evening and defeated the local team by the score of 9 to 6. 25 YEARS AGO Mi*. Ambrose Cottle, we uxxder- stand, has disposed of his factory and cider mill to Mr. Sylvanus Cann of town, who shortly takes posses­ sion. While driving his father’s Mc­ Laughlin car on Monday evening Melville Gladxnan experienced an unpleasant accident. He was meet­ ing another car driven by Rev. Foote, just west of the culvert at Mr. H, Smith’s on the Lake Road. The road there is narrow and the wheels of one side went into the ditch and the car overturned. The occupants were not injured, but the top of the car was badly damaged. Melville was running slowly at the time, which accounts for the mini­ mum of damage being done. Clyde Henman took a rink of bowlers to Stratford tournament Wednesday morning and R. G. Sel­ don a rink to the Asylum tourney, London, Mrs. M. E. Gardiner and Mrs. E. Harness left this week to visit in Chatham, Essex, Windsor and De­ troit. Mr. Aquilla Sheere returned this week to Detroit. His brother, Mr. Nelson Sheere accompanied him. 50 YEARS AGO After a two weeks’ visit Miss Rosa Herman returned to her home in St. Marys, accompanied by Miss Annie Sanders of the Advocate of­ fice. The front of the Oddfellows’ block which received a bad scorching dur­ ing the fire some months ago, has been greatly improved by cleaning the brick and retuck-pointing. ■On Monday last a game of base ball was played on the old grounds between the “workers" and the “bummers" of town .resulting in favor of the “workers" by a score of 6 to 3. Mr, Reginald Elliot, son of Mr. B. V. Elliot, has been appointed manager of the Molson’s Bank at Toronto Junction. Some of the farmers in Blanchard and Usborne are fighting the grass­ hoppers with their hens. Large flocks have been taken to the field where the hoppers are the worst and left there. The poultry keep up a constant war on this pest, and dispose of thousands daily. Mr. B. Aubury, the supposed dead man has evinced to the people of this neighborhood that he is still alive by shipping from here on Tuesday last eighteen splendid horses. On Wednesday a pet parrot be­ longing to Miss Annie Mill escaped from its cage and was given up for gone * but was recaptured, much to the pleasure of Miss Mill. WILL PAVE HIGHWAY) BAYFIELD TO GODERICH Announcement was made recent­ ly by Dr. R. Hobbs Taylor, M. L. A., that paving of the 12-mile stvetoh of highway 21 (Blue Water), will be proceeded with, covering from Bayfield to Goderich. The ox’ignal contract for this year covered only six miles south of Goderich but representations were made to the Provincial Department of High­ ways with the result that the extra stretch will be completed. About three miles of the road is already finished. Smiles. . . . A diplomat from Europe, after witnessing Congress in action the first time, observed: “Congress is strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens; and then all disagree.” W Mrs, Hazel: “What dreadful lan­ guage your parrot uses.” Mrs, Knutt: “Yes, my husband bought the bird in town and drove it homo in his car, He had three blow­ outs and engine trouble on the way.” r Thi? buttle gf the dollars is culled INFLATION And the higher prices go., ,the less your 10'/' — for dime is smgll change! @ Byt when a lot of dimes march out of your pocket they soon become dollars that start to fight other dollars, for the new neckties, dresses or furniture left for us to buy, because it starts prices riring! dollar is worth! For instance, during the last war, people hod to pay sugar that you get forW to the <^3^ you pay now. Your dollar buys more goods, is worth more than the dollar of 1914’18. Price ceilings and other anti-inflationary measures have helped keep it’s value high. And remember! Every time you use your money wisely to pay off o debt 5^ or to increase your savings when you refuse to hoard goods or patronize black markets...it makes your dollars worth MORE! today, A voile night dress was compared WM. J I promise to give my support to keeping the cost of living down. I will buy only what I need. I w will observe the ceiling whether buying or sell- ing goods or services. I will pay off old debts, p save for the future, invest in Victory Bonds and w. War Savings Certificates. And I will support taxes which help lower the cost of living. m. Published by THE BREWING INDUSTRY (ONTARIO) to help reveal the dangers that inflation represents for all the people of the Nation. Bean Growers’ Meeting at Hensail On Tuesday evening, August 14, a representative meeting of the Bean Growers of Huron County was held in the Town Hall, Hensall with Mr, Wm, Alexander in the chair. The main purpose of the meeting was to outline and acquaint the various men with the scheme now proposed and to arrange canvassers within the various Townships and school sections, affd the following1 men were named as Township 'Chairmen: Jack Armstrong—Stan­ ley; George Armstrong—Hay; Elgin ■Rowcliff e—Usborne; Russell Brod­ erick—Tuckersmith. Chairmen are to be named for Stephen, Goderich, McKillop and Hullett. The scheme will be mailed to each grower the latter part of this week and on Monday a broadcast will be given over CKNX, Wingham from 8.45 to 9.15 outlining the pro­ posed bean marketing scheme. Next Tuesday the canvassers will start out to canvass eacli man. It is hoped to get as large a vote as possible and the executive wish every man to exercise his franchise in this scheme. During the course of the evening Mr. Alexander outlined the various prices which have been received over the past ten years and the amount of beans which have been exported. Mr. Jack Armstrong outlined the Set-up of the growers committee composed of eleven men. The three appointed for Huron County this year are: Wm. Alexander. John Armstrong, Russell Broderick. This scheme has the approval of both the bean.dealers and the bean growers, and will be organized un­ der the Farm Products Control Act. MASSEY FUND SCHOLARSHIP At a meeting held recently in the Agricultural Office, Clinton, plans were made to have a suitable boy selected for the Massey Fund scholarship. The local Committee is composed of Bruce Matheson, Agri­ cultural Representative, Warden Fred Watson, and Inspector for North Huron, James Kinkead. This year the County iCouncil have donated $5 0.00 to a needy boy who is planning on going to the O.A.C. this Fall. This amount is duplicated .by a like amount from the Massey fund. Fifty dollars will be paid to the boy on entrance and the other $50.00 will be paid on the first of the new year. Any boy who is desirous of going this (Fall should file his application with Bruce Matheson, Clinton. A Junior Matriculation is required for en­ trance to the college. Application or inquiries should be received not later than August 19th. Classified Advertising pays in Results.—Others have benefited by it, why not you? ••• v — MAKE YOUR HOAR HOTEL WAVERLEY SPAOINA AVI. at COLLEGI ST. i *MODERN, M WELL- B CONDUCTED * CONVENIENTLY- LOCATED MOTEL RATES Slntla: 11.00 • $3.60 Oeubii: $2.60 • $7.00 WRITS FOR , FOU3KR j TRY A WANT AD—THEY PAY! *• M« POWKU.FHCSIOKNT > 4 r WHOLE J DATS $IQHT$EEINO WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE] Had Another Bad Hight? Couldn't You Get Any Rest ? To those who toss, night after night, on sleepless beds. To those who sleep in a kind of a way, but whose fest is broken by bad dreams and nightmare. To those whp wake up in the morning as tired as when they went to bed, we offer in Milburn’s Health and Nerve Pills a tonic remedy to help soothe and strengthen the nerves. 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