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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1944-09-07, Page 2Pag© 2 THE TIMES-ADVOGATE, EXETER ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1944 w Cxeter ^imes=^tibocate Times established 1873; Advocate established 1881 amalgamated, November 1924 PUBLISHED 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 the CWNA All Advertising Copy .Must be in Our Hands Not latter Than Noon on Tuesdays SUBSCRIPTION RATE |2.00 a year, in advance; six months, $1.09 three months 60c J. M. SOU I’ll COTT PUBLISHER THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1944 It Looked Hard What is going on in thousands of farms is exemplified in what we saw only this week. We visited a farm that we had not been on for about forty years. This farm was taken over by a young man and his wife in the early days of this century. By means of hard work and good management they bad succeeded in paying foi their farm and its equipment, for they had start ed from scratch. They raised their family. Little by little the children had worked themselves into being genuine farm and household helpers. Then came the urge on the part of the children to have homes of their own and the young peo ple left the old farm. Said the farmer: “We had two boys and a year round hired man with oc casional extra help. Now there are but the two of us. I am well over seventy and the wife it* coming right after me. Old age with its infir mities are right on us. Look at the farm—it is becoming weedy beyond control. What can we -do about it? Nobody wants a farm. Our soil is fertile beyond the soil of most farms, but it is weedy and that takes away from the selling value of the farm.” So there you are. This farmer and thousands like him are in a tight corner. And the situation is growing more trying every day. * * * * ' Not Greatly Interested Numbers of thoughtful people are not in terested in what those men are doing over there in Washington regarding the shape of things governmental are to take after the war. Sage experience has proven that it is difficult to have nations with differing histories and people of varying temperaments gei very far in getting on together in even a general way. If there is to be a big four the question will not down as to which is to be the biggest of the four. The big four are sure to try to settle this matter in one way or another. In the old shanty work days, it used to be said that one would have no difficulty getting one, provided, always, that he could thrash anyone else in th£“ crowd. It’s sure to be something like that in the body some well-meaning folk are talking of setting up in the interest of international welfare. For in stance, we think he would be a bold man who would tell Joseph Stalin what he and his people should do. We are not sure that Mr. Churchill would take kindly to being informed just what Britain should do under any set of circumstances. If the big four were made up of perfect men, the situation would be more promising. Further, some wise people believe that a dictatorship „suits Russia. China is in much the same situa tion. As far as we know dictatorship is not like ly to be acceptable to Britain or to the United States. So there you are. We recall the words of the old Indian Chief. “We don’t all think alike. If we did, everyone would want ray .squaw.” * * * * Postponed Nearly a month ago we were told that the war would be over three weeks from that date. Judging by what we hear from the radio the war is still going forward. Now we are told that if everybody buckles to, as the Scotch say, the war may be over by Christmas. So there we are again. There is a lot of hard fighting and many a sorrow to be borne before the last of this’ terrible struggle will be seen. * * * * That Readjustment What is to be done with the discharged fighting men? What are the rest of the citizens to do for them ? Would it not be wiser to ask, what will the discharged fighting men do for themselves ? We know how the question is going to be answered by some of the fighting men. They are going to take up their odd jobs according to the requirements of the new day. There is the man who gave up an office job for a women to carry on till he returned, There is. too, the case of the storekeeper who left his wife to run the business during his absence. There is, too, the young farmer who enlisted, leaving his parents to look after the farm. There is the young busi ness man whose father has carried on the work that was expected of the soldier son. There is no difficulty about such cases. Such fortunate young men may well bo trusted to fend for themselves. There is, further, the case of those who are disabled beyond the point of their being able to carry one. These must be trained to the point where they can keep the wolf from the door and. settle down to a home of their own. Their own earnings simply must be supplemented to the point where they may live in comfort. Then there is the class who are utterly disabled. No consideration can be quite liberal enough for these men and no care can be sufficiently ten der to meet their plight. How is the shifting to be done? There*is nothing for it but to keep the men under the colours till their ease is known and well known. There simply must not be any haste in a matter so difficult and so important. We cannot set forth the whole mutter of soldier adjustment at one time. We must proceed slowly and as we understand what we arc doing for each fighting man. Each fighting man must see that his coun try is doing all that it can In his helmlf and for his welfare. In this connection, the man on the street is under’ the most solemn obligation to see that the rulers who have this matter in charge are not partisan and not squinting as they seek the welfare of the men who have borne arms in this titanic struggle. We are. on the verge of assuming’ tremendous respoiisibili- ties, « * * # Readjustment problems are not new to Can ada. In fact, such matters have bulked larger than any other problems with which we have to deal, They are universal. Every young farmer and his wife who have started out on their own can tell you of a good many heartaches. So it is with everyone who lias the spunk or who re alizes the necessity of hoeing his own row, And so it is bound to be with our returning men as they lay aside the rifle for the plow or the plane. What makes their problem vexing is the fact that they left Canada having barely gradu ated from the man’s class and now return full grown men with the hearts of maturity without its experience. They have not had the blessed experience of being wrought'into their new civic life, a process that is quite, gradual for the nor mal way of living, but which with the young man coming home, must in the nature of the case, however considerate the rest of us may be. And right at this point lies the danger and the sorrows that are bound to follow, Life at its rosiest and for the most experienced has a good deal of “blood, sweat and tears.” Our return ing men to civic life are not to be blamed if they do not understand this On the other hand our farmers and mechanics are not accustomed to the old apprentice system, whereby youth gradually learned his occupation by reasonable gradations. This we believe however—the men who faced the long drill of camp life and the horrors of the siege and the battlefield and who became acquainted with the mysteries of the air and of the horrors of bomb explosions have in them the stuff, the stern stuff demanded of them as they serve in the duties of their new citizenship. There are difficult times ahead, but sane common sense will save the day. * * * * They Will Need Both Whip and Rein When the war is over, the Allies will need to be in absolute control of Germany. The reas on for this is that Germany does not honor her word. The same is true of Japan. Were either of these nations honest, reliable, truthful, the war might well end this week. However, facts are as they are. Why then, should we deceive ourselves? We are not contending that fire and slaughter should ruin Germany or any other country. It is a stubborn fact, just the same, that Germany must see that she has wronged the best that is in humanity. She has shown her self to be the poison of all that feeds humanity’s better nature. She is badly tainted with that appalling malady that David Livingstone said was the disease of an African chief, moral idiocy. Germany, with the Bible in her hands and the example of well doing nations to profit by, knew better than to act as she has. Yet in face of her better knowledge, she has knowing ly, intentionally, with wide open eyes, drenched Europe in blood and done all that any nation can do to turn back the clock of civilization for more than a hundred years. No such nation can be trusted. She must be controlled, guided, nursed into better ideals. It will require more than a generation of the best education to have her see the most beggardly elements of right conduct. * * * * The Difference When German soldiers invaded a new coun try, the inhabitants hid away from them. In the path of the. invaders followed murder and burn ing and destruction. Where the Allies now come, the people do their utmost to aid them in every way. They see in the Allies liberators, friends, builders and treat them accordingly. When Germany is invaded and occupied, the Allies will still run true to form. Germany and Italy made their great mistake in not recognizing that the Allies were their only hope. Their second mistake was that when they saw that Hitler and Mussolini had duped them, that they did not give themselves to aiding their true friends and not their deceivers. The cost of their entering upon the new allegiance would have, been terrible, but it would have been light in comparison with *what they since have en dured. It is never too late to get out of bad com pany. * * * * Note and Comment Those showers that came so reluctantly, did considerable good. The farmers are wishing for sufficient for the fall wheat sowing. # * .School is under way once. more. Here’s wishing teachers and pupils real success and happiness as the pursuit of useful learning is resumed, «• # * And* we are glad to see out good friends the local, ministers back from their well-earned and niuch-deservftd holiday., The church and the school ate essential activities of the nation. to be up with the up from and in with Walter Spencer, of 15 YEARS AGO Miss H. Sweet .and Miss. Mi Quinton and Masters Fred an EDerington motored to J Falls and spent a couple q recently. Mr. Ed. Treble was able town Tuesday for the first time since his recent fall.- Mr. Treble is able to get around slowly use of a couple of canes. .Mr. Harry West motored Sarnia for the week-end company Hensall, left for Toronto to attend the Exhibition, Mr. Frank Sheere returned Wed nesday evening after spending sev eral days in Toronto taking ip the Exhibition. Mr, and Mrs. E. Howald, of town, and Miss Muriel, of London, spent the holiday visiting in Detroit. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Stewart, Mrs. K. Fuke and son Stewart, returned last week from a motoi’ trip to Bowmanville, Cobourg and Sturgeon Lake and also attended the Toronto Exhibition, The four children of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Morgan had their tonsils re moved in Victoria Hospital, London, one day last week. 25 YEARS AGO U. S. FOOD EXPERT AT NEWSPAPERMEN'S WARVENTJON an un front thrown cutting The and he was wire fence, several stitches were the wounds. bit of a strike on Mr. John Hockey went to London Tuesday and underwent an opera tion on his nose. The operation was successful. When riding his motorcycle Sun day Cecil Baskerville had pleasant experience, wheel came off against a barb his face so that needed to close There was a at the flax mill for a day or two last ' not the some strikers returned to work. Mr. T. Collingwood has been pointed caretaker of the School. Mr. arrived here Monday evening has assumed of the High Miss Ella ated on at London, last ble. She has since returned and is recovering nicely. week, the cause of which does appear clear. However, management had brought : men from Dashwood after in the ap- Exetei’ Wethey, of Carleton Place, and his duties as principal School. May Bowey was oper- St. Joseph's Hospital, week for throat trou- home 50 YEARS AGO theNearly 900 people attended Trivitt Memorial Church on Sunday last—300 at the morning service and over 500 at the evening serv ice. The occasion was the Harvest Thanksgiving Service. The Exeter Creamery which closed down a few put up for sale by premises yesterday siderable time was Q. Bobier for the sum of $1300. The incandescent lights thoughout the town are now doing excellent service, and we can safely say that we have now one of the best lighted towns in Ontario. The team of elk offered for by Alex. Dow on Saturday was chased by Mr. Wm, Bawden A. E. Tennant for a good sum. A horse belonging to Mr. George Smallacombe received such injuries by falling into a bog hole out near Crediton on Friday last that it died from the effects on Saturday. The Blanshard and Nissouri Cheese Co. made July cheese to $10,083.90 and been distributed milk drawers, etc. weeks ago auction on and after t sold to Mr. was was the con- . A. sale pur- and and during June and the amount of the amount has among patrons, Taxi Driver’s Perfect Record Finally Ends record of driving 260,000 without on accident was Thursday August 31st. by His miles broken Frank Haines, of Hensall, when the taxicab lie was operating collided with a truck - on No, 4 highway north of Hensall. Haines, who was transporting war workers from Hensall to Clin ton, was following a northbound truck driven by Clarence Ried, also of Hensall. Ried is said by police to have made a left-hand turn into a laneway and the cab collided with the side of the truck. The front of the taxi was badly damaged and the passengers were shaken up. Smiles. . . . The sergeant was equipping a recruit with a uniform. The trous ers fitted perfectly, the coat might have been made for him and the cap was just right. “Man alive!” cried the sergeant, “you must he deformed I” you really shouldn't have like that, with all those close around us, even if the dark.” “I didn’t kiss Grade Fields has a new angle on the air raid story. The girl said: “ 'Erbert, kissed me people so It was in you,” said the boy, looking angrily around in the crowd. “I only wish I know who It was—I’d teach him,” “ ’Erbert,” sighed the girl, “you couldn’t teach Tn nothing,” ' QB MEN PROMINENT IN THE weekly newspaper business and in the grain trade turned out in force at Stevenson Field, Winnipeg, to welcome Dr. Joseph S. Davis, director of Food Research, Stanford University, on his arrival from California. Dr. Davis is one of the most prominent authorities on food ( on the continent and was the chief speaker at the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association 25th Annual • Meeting Silver Jubilee and Warvention. dinner held in Winnipeg. Dr. Davis is shown above being greeted by: R. P. MacLean of the Kelowna Courier and Past President of the Association. In the group, from left to right are: A. W. Hanks, Publisher of the St. James Leader and Chairman of the Association's National Convention Committee; Clarence V. Charters, Managing Director of the Association and Pub lisher of the Brampton Conservator; Mr. MacLean J. T. Irving, Secretary of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange; Dr. Davis; G. S. Mathieson,Director of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange, and Alexander Christie, • President of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange. Christmas Gifts for Overseas Forces We Have Lumber ’ 15 SEPT. — 25 OCT.NOW ON HAND “Do not open until Christmas.” That exciting phrase should soon be making its appearance on parcel mail despite the fact that many places in Canada are just recover ing from the hottest spell on record. Postmaster General William P. Mulock advises that it is time .to make plans for Christmas gift par cels to Forces1 mailing SEPTEMBER 15 — OCTOBER 25. Naturally parcels sent to those serving in the more remote theatres of war should be sent' the earliest, suggested “deadline” mailing are:- September 15—The far India, Burma, Ceylon, etc. October 5—The Middle area, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Syria, October 10—Central Mediterran ean Forces. October 25—The United King dom and France. In view of the rapid progress of the war these dates might pos sibly be subject to change. Last Christmas season (Oct., Nov., Dec.) over 12,-000,0.00 lbs. of parcel mail alone were despatched to the Forces Overseas from Can ada. This year an even greater volume is expected. Therefore, early mailing is necessary to enable Postal officials to cope with the handling, and to carry out arrange ments for transportation on trains and ships. Remember that cargo space is still at a premium. Bear in mind this- year that the mail must travel greater our troops are different fronts conditions of plenty of time between mailing Picture the chaos should wait till the last mail—Postal authorities faced with the impossible task of providing sufficient the last ships leaving in time ensure Christmas delivery, result would Christmas Day seas looking getting time. Each packed Containers-, the contents compact that they will not break out of the the parcels should several layers of and securely tied with strong twine. 'On no account should “Shoe Boxes” be used as containers—they easily crush and break. Avoid using fancy coloured Christmas paper as an outside wrapper, or coloured ribbon to tie. For added security parcels be sewn in strong cotton fabric. Any substance likely spread and damage the sent at all, must be enclosed sealed metal containers with lids securely soldered on-—then sur rounded with absorbent material in corrugated cardboard and secure ly wrapped and tied. Fresh fruits, .graixes, pears, etc., members Overseas. period their of the Armed The Christmas this year is Bas'-, East etc. distances- farther fighting under the mobile must be allowed and if —many of afield-—on warfare- delivery, everyone minute to would be space aboard to The mean a cheerless for thousands over forward eagerly to Christinas gifts in parcel in corrugated chock should be carefully proof so shake loose and package. Then be wrapped in wrapping paper, may or similar to leak, mails, if in are OR I or other items likely to spoil not acceptable. DO NOT MAIL GLASS JARS BOTTLES. The mailing of matches, safety matches, lighter fluid or any other inflammable substance is prohibited by law, A complete Customs Declaration should be attached to each parcel. All mail should be fully and clearly addressed in ink, without misleading abbreviations. Place a return address on the cover of each parcel and also a slip among the contents giving the name and ad dress of the sender and the com plete Armed Forces address that appears on the parcel. Prepay ail mail correctly. By refraining from writing to a member of the Armed Forces Overseas that gifts are be ing sent, until actually mailed, much worry can be saved the soldier. Do not disappoint our men by mailing too late for Christmas delivery. RAINS BENEFICIAL TO SUGAR BEETS also good Cedar Fence Posts ANY SIZE IRON POSTS AND BARB WERE Place your order for shingles right away—we can supply them. A. J. CLATWORTHY We Deliver Phone 12 Granton A normal crop of sugar beets from the 15,000 acres now growing in Southwestern Ontario is expected to produce from forty to fifty mil lion pounds of granulated sugar this fall, or nearly sufficient to supply half of Ontario’s household ration of sugar for 1944. Mrs. Wesley Harvey of Hensail Dies The recent splendid ....... Southwestern Ontario are 1 by Agricultural Representatives to Corners have been most beneficial to sugar- beet crops. While the amount of rain which fell was too little and too late to be of appreciable value to some other crops in the district, this was not the case with sugar beets. Once sugar beets get away to a good start, their roots penetrate deeply into the soil, and can stand periods of dry without harm. Naturally during such periods is not as when there are frequent Reports which have been by the Ontario Department culture from various parts of the beet growing territory indicate* that practically all areas received from one half inch to one inch of precipi tation during the reported that the utilize every drop in making further a good crop will be assured if there is one good rainfall in the month of September. '* Reports from Agricultural Rep resentatives in Southwestern Ontar io, however, indicate that some other field crops have been retard ed by the drought and will not re spond as the recent rains came too late to be of great benefit. Mrs. Wesley Harvey, of Hensall, died August $lst. in Scott Memorial rains in-Hospital, Seaforth, at the age of 7 4. reported I Mrs. Harvey was born at Granton Huron County, her name being Mary Cudmore. She was a member of the United church at Hensall. Surviving is a daughter and three sons, Mrs. Harvey Me- Larnon; Gordon, Detroit; Pte. Ed- Dayton, o.; William, Sarnia; sisters, Mrs. Thomas Work- Kippen; Mrs. Horton, Osh- Mrs. E. Daley, Walkerton, Mrs. Seymour Watson, Van- four brothers, Samuel and Seaforth; Edward, Lome, I the crop weather growth as rapid rains. received of Agri- win, four man, awa; and couver; William, Seaforth; Edward, Van couver; Lome, Victoria. There was a private funeral service at the ’ home on Saturday at 2 o'clock with interment in Hensail Union Cem etery. last week. It is sugar beets will of this moisture growth and that Painful, Pus Filled Boils the Cause of Much Misery If you suffer from boils you know how sick and miserable they made you feel. Boils arc an.outward indication of impurities in the system, and just when you think you are rid of one another crops up to take its place and prolong your misery. All tho lancing and poulticing you can. C coming, it ,T?,kelp overcome boils you should purify the blood, that old, reliable blood medicine, Burdock Blood Bitters, taricing and poulticing you can. do may not stop more .. To help overcome boils you should purify the blood, so why not give 1$ » . blo°d medicine, Burdock Blood Bitters, a chance to show what it will do in helping votl get rid of them? Thousands have used it for this purpose for the past 60 years. Why not you? Tho T. Milburn Co., Limited, Torontdi Ont.,«4