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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1945-05-17, Page 2Page 2 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, QNTARIP, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 17, 1945 Cxeter Chn££=Bbbo£ate Tinies established 1873; Advocate established 1881 amalgamated November 1984 PUBLISHED EACH THURSDAY MORNING AT GOITER, ONTARIO An Independent Newspaper devoted to the interests of the Village of Exeter and Surrounding District Jlpmber of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers’ Association; Member of the Ontario-Quebec Division of the OWNA All Advertising Copy Must be in Our Hands Not .Later Than Noon on Tuesdays SUBSCRIPTION RATE 5 2.00 a year, in advance; six months, $1.00 three months 60c I, M. SOUTHCOTT - - PUBLISHER THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1945 Get On With The Job “Inclurance vile” is the German criminal who reduced Coventry to rubble and who with one bomb killed thirty-nine little children in London, and who with another infernal machine ruined a whole street of London houses, killing- two hundred and fifty Londoners by the same missile. At the time of writing- he is living on the finest food, and wheedling the Allies to the top of his bent. Why delay in bringing to im­ mediate tri ah this scoundrel whose multiplying­ villainies cause the devil himself to turn green with envy? Then why is Quisling held back from his due though he proved a traitor to his conn try and is responsible for the effusion of rivers of human blood? And these men are but types. Let us get on with this job of cleaning the earth of those disgracers of humanity and enemies of all that is good, wholesome and de­ vout. « * * * That Riot Halifax is in a bad way because of the riot that swept her streets, killing citizens and work­ ing terrible ruin. We desire to know where lies the g-uilt for such shameful conduct as marred the fair name of our eastern city. The Dominion government is taking a hand at investigating the untoward event. Halifax and Nova Scotia cannot escape their responsibilities in the cir­ cumstances. All Canada is asking, “Is this coun­ try to have cities and towns and villages domin­ ated by the mob under any circumstances? Is the judge to be replaced by the tough and th hoodlum?” Then, what is the root cause of this riot? What led up to the day when mob violence in mischief brandished brick-bat and torch ar will? * * * * Are We To Fall Down? It is unthinkable that Canada should fall down on the job of cleaning up on the Japanese. The war against Japan is our war, and a ter­ rible war it is. Japan seems far away but she is far nearer to inflicting a wreckage upon us than many seem prepared to admit. For many a day the Japs cherished the belief that they could invade Canada by way of Alaska. We recall our anxiety when the Japs held the Aleu­ tian Islands. We recollect the nervous flurry over the Coast line of British Columbia. Japan still is strong and eager to destroy us. Our own coast line is endangered. Are we to say to the world, “We have neither the courage nor the men to defend our own shores, but that we will leave that high duty to others?” Should we do so, what will be our place at the council cham­ bers of the nations ? We look for our govern­ ment to take immediate and strong action in an affair so important. For the nations to put forth their strength in this strategic hour is to short­ en the Japanese war by months or even years. s * * * « No Change of Heart # Germans have been making speeches late­ ly. Some of the German notables have been do­ ing the talking, There has been whining aplenty but in all they have said there has been no word of sorrow foi- the ill the Germans have done. They tell their dupes that Germany lias had a little bad luck. Germany, they say, has not been defeated. All that has taken place is their being obliged under unfortunate circumstances to sign a few documents. These documents, be it known to all who read these words, are, in German eyes, but scraps of paper. These inter­ esting scraps of paper are to be torn up some day when Germany has befooled the world into trusting her once more. We have no hatred for Gel-many. We simply wish her to get her due and to have her pay for the mischief she has wrought. Germany will treat us as softies if we do less than see that she reaps what she has sown. * * * * The Process a Long One However much Germany may change her outer attitude to the other nations of the world, in sentiment, in aims, in feeling, she is the same Germany that threatened the extinction of civ­ ilization as We know it. Let no one be deceived on that point. This hour she would throttle Britain and France and Holland and Denmark with the same venom and heartlessness as prompted her to murder and burn and enslave six years ago. We cannot realize this appalling fact too clearly nor act upon its knowledge too 'strongly, As we give thanks for victory so far achieved, let us all the more determinedly fin­ ish the job we Tiave undertaken, Norway, for instance, must be cleared of every German, Gzeeho-Slovakia and kindred nations must be cleared of the German oppressor. All of south­ ern Burope reiptires rebuilding, Wc are not thinking in this connection altogether or even chiefly of material things, The whole attitude and conduct of Germany and of the nations she has infected with her spiritual virus simply must be changed completely, We may have but driven out the evil spirit to have him return with seven other fiends worse than himself, * * * « Quite The Thing Following out the practice dear to the hearts of some universities, the University of San Francisco asked Mr, Molotoff to accept some title or other. This offer Mr. Molotoff declined on the groiind that he had not earned the title to academic distinction. That Molotoff is one of the outstanding men of the century no one will deny. At the same time he lays no claim to academic distinction and quite proper­ ly refused to accept a title that should be be- stowed upon scholars alone. In this Mr. Molo­ toff acted with dignity and has won the appro­ bation of right thinking men everywhere. We have no doubt in the world of Mr. Molotoff’s interest in all that universities stand for. To say that he does not move easily among the affairs of the scholar does not detract from him one iota. He does not aspire to an A.T.C.M., though he respects those who honestly earn that fine title. He lays no claim to a C.A., though he may do many a useful thing that will give work to those who have justly earned that degree. His quiet refusal of honours that he has not earned will cause considerable stir in academic dove­ cotes.* * # * And There You Are We have been taught a few things during the last six years of toil, sweat, blood and tears. First of all we have learned the uselessness and grave danger that always lurks in attempts at appeasement. Scotching" a snake removes neither fang nor poison from his jaws. Munich taught us that. We knew better. Heligoland should have rubbed in this lesson many a year- ago. Second, we have been taught that there is a fundamental difference between a friend and foe. Holland may well have learned both of these lessons. She dallied with Germany. She fed her starving boys in nineteen eighteen and nineteen nineteen only to have these boys, when they grew to manhood, return in nineteen thirty- nine with rifle and bayonet and poisonous lust. /Ill along she thought she could turn the Ger­ man wolfe into a peaceful lamb. She appeased and she dallied and now reaps the sowing of that disastrous policy. Has she learned? We have no comment to make on Belgium. We know her action in abandoning her place oh the battle field with its consequences as shown at Dun­ kirk. Have we learned anything?. Thirdly, we have seen that the second best will not get us very far when a real test comes. In the first war many a brave man died because his rifle jammed., We did not repeat that mis­ take in this war. We outshot. and outflew and outsailed the best our enemies had to offer. Next, the British Empire has learned the ab­ solute-necessity of being more closely knit than characterizes it at this minute. Ajapeasement will show its well-oiled head and extend its well- gloved hand to prevent this vital union. Let us not be deceived on this point. The best way to prevent trouble is to be prepared for it. It is high time to do seme close cudding on this point. Further, we must get down to praying and digging. “Prayer is the merest mummery apart from sturdy digging,” as the old Scottish gar­ dener said. God has given us thinking minds and forming band that we are required, by every law and reason, to use to the utmost. When we have done so, the Red Sea will open. Nor can we afford any delay in this matter. The present tumult and shouting Jias passed. We have had cur time of rejoicing- There is something far better ahead if we will but work as if every­ thing depended on our own efforts and pray as if all depended upon God. “ Why Did We Do It?” As the Allies broke into shouts of rejoicing- over the end of the war in Europe, homeless men, women and children in Berlin, as they looked on their houses, now heaps of burning rubble, were compelled to ask, “Why did we do it?” For these people brought on the catas­ trophe under which they now suffer.. And the, answer is not far to seek. Those Germans lis­ tened to lying leaders and did not take the trouble to sec that tliey were perishing With a lie in their right hand. For generations they heeded the flatterer who told them that they were a superior people, and refused to think for themselves. They built on vanity and" reaped death. Businessmen in Germany now gaze in bewilderment upon once proud storehouses and warehouses now heaps of stone and ashes and ask with sunken hearts and swollen eyes and burning hearts, “Why were we so foolish?” The answer is plain. Those German businessmen looked on with a combination of contempt and amusement as Hitler befooled the people, de­ claring that they would give Hitler all the rope he asked and when the opportune moment came they would put their thumb on him. But he was too strong for them and pulled them to ruin* Their confidence proved their undoing. German soldiers11 in prison camps or Writhing in pain in miserable hospitals, ask, “Why did we do it?” The reply is that they gave themselves to the spell of a bullying militarism and studied war that they might be killers for killing’s sake. They realize now the truth, “They that appeal to the sword shall perish by the sword/* Ruined Germany asks, “Why did We do it?” The an­ swer is plain. Germany cultivated pride in rate only to find that it is as true now as it was more than two thousand years ago that pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. 1 IQ YEARS AGO The hy-law for putting down 'new ,cement sidewalks through the business .section of Exeter came in for considerable discussion at the council meeting Monday s evening and was finally passed. The Biblical drama, ’‘The Trag­ edy pf Judas Iscariot” written and directed by Rev. J, R. Teters, of Elimvllle, was presented in the Theatre in Exeter on Sunday eve- ing by members of the Elimvllle Brotherhood and two ladles- Allan, eldest son of Mr, and Mrs. Charles W. Ford, of London, had the misfortune for the second time * to be knocked down by an automobile as he was returning from schopl. His shoulder was in­ jured and he received a " nasty bump on the forehead but the in­ juries were not serious. Workmen, have been engaged with teams and grader in fixing the race track at the fair grounds. Messrs H. C. Carey, L. O’Brien and Marshall Dearing were in Seaforth on Monday evening at­ tending a baseball meeting of the Huron Perth Club, Zurich, Mitchell Seaforth and Exeter have entered the league. Thirty Boy Scouts motored to London Tuesday afternoon to take part in the grand rally in honor of the visit of the Chief Scout, Lord Robert Baden-Powell. 15 YEARS AGO During the thunder Storm Tues­ day afternoon a hydro wire leading into Mr. w., Hitter's dairy barn was struck by lightning The switch in the barn was shattered and the bulbs blown out, Mr, Hatter was in the barn at the time and a num­ ber of cattle were brought to their knees by the shock. No serious damage was done. Miss Alice, Hoffman, of Dash­ wood, pupil Of Mr. W. R. Goulding is to be congratulated upon win’-, ning the gold medal as mezzo sop­ rano soloist at the music festival held in Stratford during the past week, An enthusiastic meeting of ten­ nis players was held in the Bank of Commerce Chambers on Thurs­ day evening of last week. The tennis club have taken over the bowling greens. Two big real estate deals have been put through in Exeter this week. The Central Hotel, owned by •Mr. C. Lee, of London, and occupi­ ed by Mr, E. G. Lowry has been purchased by Mr, Homer Bagshaw, The big block known as the Mc­ Donald block and also owned by Mr. Lee has been purchased by Mr. Wm. Frayne, of Usborne. Mr. Lee Hedden left for Inger­ soll on Monday where he has se­ cured a position in a garage. 1 produce much growth. Main Street, from the bridge to the Trivitt Memorial church has been torn up by- the contractor* preparatory to laying the pavement The work is not progressing very rapid’iy, Miss White, who has been in the employ of Jones and May for a number of years, has taken a posi­ tion in the ladies’ wear and dry goods department of T, C. Joynt, in Hensall. FOR PIPE OR ROLLING YOUR OWN 25 YEARS AGO The Canada Flax mill at Sea­ forth took fire -on Wednesday of last week, just before noon and in a few moments the building was doomed as the dry flax and oil in­ side burned rapidly. The fire start­ ed at the shoot and is supposed to have come from a spark from the smoke stack. The engine room was saved. The building, had lately been remodelled and the loss is a heavy one. The mill will be rebuilt at once as the owners have a large acreage in flax in that district. ■Several of the Oddfellows attend­ ed church service with the Bruce- field brethren last Sunday evening. Grain seeding was nearly finish­ ed in this district on Saturday last but the weather was to cold to 50 YEARS AGO Mr. A. Q, Bobier made his first shipment of creamery butter to Montreal on Thursday, Quite a flury of snow fell in this district on Sunday morning. Messrs, Dyer and Howard have secured the contract for the carp­ enter work on Mr. Robt, Hicks new residence. On Tuesday evening last, assis­ tant postmaster, F. W. Collins met with a very painful accident while trying to ride a colt belonging to Mr. A. E, Tennant. The animal made a sudden jump and threw him over her head and then struck him in the face with her front feet, Mr. Wm, H. Levett has purchas­ ed Mr. A, Q. Bobier's fine block and business. Mr. Bobier will now devote his tim© to the creamery. One day recently Mr. Samuel Sanders, of the 3rd con., Stephen, met with a very painful accident which might have cost him his life He was splitting wood in the yard and not noticing the clothes line above him, the axe became caught, and glancing with such force on his forehead as to inflict a very painful wound. Letters of Acknowledgement Letters have been received from boys overseas, who before enlisting lived in S.S, No. 3 Stephen, express­ ing their sincere thanks to the folks of the school section for the rings they had received from them. Letters were received from the fol­ lowing boys: Gnr. Austin Schwalm, Gnr. Albert Gibson, Pte. Howard Preszcator, *Pte. Frayne Parsons, Gnr. Stanley Preszcator, Pte. Mat- tie Finkbeiner. V-DAY means not a thing to this husky young ra’scal, unless it is his Daddy’s coming,home. This little citizen is .happy any day so long as he’s well fed and feeling fine. Yet he — above us all — is the one to shout for joy today. Is it not for him. — and for millions of bright faces of his generation —. that men have been willing to suffer and to lay aside their freedom — bit by bit — so that one day they might have it complete, secure? Even so—the fruits of Victory are not alone for those too young to Enow the privations of war , , > not alone for posterity. Here and now, men and women of our generation — scarred arid wearied by long, grinding years of war — shall know the blessings of a new-born day. This new day is for the common man... for greater social justice, for broader opportunity to enjoy a richer, fuller’life. * >:« N 0 thinking citizen here in Canada* or in any land touched by war* would believe for a moment that our problems are past. The prospect ahead is no easy one ... Yet it cannot daunt the hardy stock of Canada —: the men and women who carved this nation out of a wilderness, who through the years have fought the good fight as each emergency arose — down to the last Victory Loan ... down to the last blood donation. No, the prospect is hard, but a new spirit is abroad. We Canadians, like all our Allies who have fought this fight with us, have been chastened by the ordeal, and we are determined —* by the effort of the individual citizen ... by the effort of the community — to bring a better^, stronger, healthier world out of the raging storm through which we have passed. „ This is a day for cheering not simply for victory over dictatorship, but for the assurance we have of the dawn of a better day. att-i jt his message is published as an expression of faith in the future of Canada by the Bank, of 'Montreal, which has been wording with Canadians in all walks of life since 181% f