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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1945-07-19, Page 2Page g TUB TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 19, 1945 w Cxeter Wine£=^bbocate Times established 1873; Advocate established 1881 amalgamated November 1924 PUBLISHED EAUH THURSDAY MORNING AT EXETER, ONTARIO An Independent Newspaper devoted to the interests " of the Village of Exeter and Surrounding District Member of the Canadmn Weekly Newspapers* Association; Member of the Ontario-Quebec Division of the 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. SOUTHCOTT - - PUBLISHER THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1945 Well pone, Grand Bend Some people who do know the power o£ water have been having accidents, or near trag edies in our western metropolis. Hence the nec essity for securing inhalators and such mechan isms for reviving folk in extremities from ac cidents. Our fellow citizens, in the situation, have acted in exemplary fashion. They simply purchased their equipment for life saving on their own account. All of this is quite extra ordinary. In such, cases we are coming to look for some person or organization “to get up a bingo or a dance or a tea party or a hobble gobble of some sort?’ If this is not done there is a public .meeting called, discussion by the bigwigs and a committee appointed and delega tion arranged to “call on” the local council, the provincial and the federal governments. Mean while the grim reaper goes about his harvest ing and the people stand by headwagging and lip pursing. Not so with Grand Bend people. They saw a necessity and met it. That is all there is to it. We suggest that the doers in this Grand Bend affair be given an E.C. medal. We have heard a great deal, lately, about distin guished conduct—why should we not have a medal for extraordinary conduct? Little won der that Grand Bend is one of our most popu lar summer resorts. * it * It Can Be Done Hamilton people surely have a fine admix ture of Irish in their population, as was evi denced the other day when a raid, was made on a farmer’s potato field. Even the mountain of which the ambitious city is so justly proud, was not of sufficient height to restrain the en thusiasm of those fine people as they armed themselves with baby carriages, ears, trucks, ancient buggies and fire shovels and garden rakes and very efficient fingers to dig up the spuds for which they possess such ardent af fection. Yes sir, those brave iconoclasts smash ed all of Emily Post’s suggestions and stayed not on the order of their going but went at once to that resort of the gods, the potato field. The story of this heroic performance will never die while the mountain overshadows that ever expanding city. Like the fine people they are, those Hamil tonians builded better than they knew. For years we have worried over the labor situation. "How,” we fondl v asked, "can citv people be induced to aid the farmers in their extremity?” We were gravely told that city people simply cannot do farm work. They had neither the experience nor the physical prowess that farm work demands.” Here is the answer. Simply tell the city dweller of a potato field and there will be a sound of going that baffles all de scription. Apple orchards and peach bowers and cherry plantations do not stir the good people of Hamilton, but a potato patch is just the thing. We urge our other city neighbours to study the tastes of their citizens and to plant accordingly. Just now the green peas are being harvested. Why not advertise this and similar facts, according to sure information and we’ll have solved the farmer’s problems. Said this potato field owner, "I did not have to do any digging or such work. T simply took in the money.” Oh, brothers of the soil, consider this situation and all you will need to do it to take in the money. We puss this suggeston on to the governments of the land. # * « x- Why? Canadians are puzzled regarding the feed ing of the Germans. We are told that if the Germans are not well, fed that they'll be riot ous. The only thing for the Allies to do is to appease the men. who brought on the war and who arc doing all they can to bring on another war. Apart from that very serious considera-' lion, we do well to recall that the Germans in vaded the smaller countries of Europe, robbed those countries of food and of the tools by which food might be secured. The Germans did this horrible thing without rhyme, reason <>r conscience to warrant their wicked deed. While no Canadian wishes to see anyone go hungry every healthy-minded, fair-minded citi zen firmly and justifiably believes that the ravaged countries of Eourope, the victims of German rapacity, should be fed up to the point of efficiency before, the Germans are fed. Of course, there must be a shortage of food in Europe, .Plain common sense holds that the Germans should endure the loss rather than the victims of saranic Ssavagery. Every man among us is willing to suffer for the relief of the innocent, but we have scant interest in the .self-imposed distress of those who went to the 1 limit and far beyond the limit of the senseless cruelty and brigandage of folk who acted aS did the Germans in the day of their power. We cherish the opinion that the soldier rather than the politician should handle this affair of get ting food to Germans who can secure food, we believe, if they are compelled to up and dust therefor, We come of pioneer stock and we know right well what we are talking about. # ■# dfe What Is To Be Done Theodore Roosevelt used to talk a great deal about .rugged individualism. Many wise folk responded to this iron call and did nil that in them lay to fill out the task that they could perform. In the mouth of Theodore Roosevelt rugged individualism did not mean organized selfishness. It did not mean that he would have the man with the most cunning brain and the hardest elbows have things all Jus own way. He was too wise to teach or to encourage any thing like that. He was thoroughly in accord with the sentiment of Kipling; "This is the law of the jungle— The law runs forward and back. The strength of the pack is the wolf And the strength of the wolf is the pack,” Lately we have heard a great deal about democracy. Now democracy is a poor, skim milk affair unless each party in the democracy is making the best contribution there to that his oportunites and his talents will permit him to make. What we fear is that the tendency lately is to get away from the good work of encouraging each individual to do what many reasonably be expected of him. We are regu lating and rationing till the individual is soon going to throw up his hands saying that all is of no use. The individual has come to the place where he expects to be pushed about. Some thing like a fatalism is in the air. * * * # Just Keep Them Away Exeter may as well prepare to keep away from those truck loads of peas that are coming to the local factory. For one thing those peas do not belong to the boys. Tn the next place the boy who grabs a handful of vines runs the greatest risk of wrath or of serious injury. It is well to remember that a boy is .killed but once. In spite of its quiet appearance, the fac tory yard has dangers connected with it of which some parents and practically all boys are totally unaware.‘So parents fond and dear keep your youngsters off the streets unless you are with them. Don’t forget that the magis trate and the patrol wagons are within a tele phone call.* * * ■x- Need Of Understanding Those Aidershot incidents are being cleared up. In fact the whole situation was, largely one of misunderstanding. The disturbers for the most part were young men with a keep yearn ing to get home. They had done their stern duty. When that duty was done those men wish ed to be back in Canada and about their usual work. They knew how hard had been the situa tion in many a store and workshop and on many a farm, because of their absence while fighting the battles of freedom. They had no wish to be absent from their native land now that their duty was done. For some unhappy reason these men believed that there was unnecessary delay in the way of getting home. Verbal appeals brought no ■ response, they felt, and for that reason they had recourse to rioting. Soldiers tell us that no one knows the torment that soon enters the souls of men when they are left to endure a long period of what they regard as a period of uncalled for idleness. The soldier is very likely to believe that the higher ups neither know nor care for the misery through whjch the soldier is passing. The rank and file hear of all sorts of entertainment pro vided for the higher ups while they only stand and wait. We hope that all parties are the wiser for the Aldershot experience. Let us not forget that the guns may begin to shoot once more and Mr. Atkins will again hear the call, "Please to step in front, sir.” ® Not All Quiet Trouble insists on breaking in. Turkey and in the region around the Balkans. Russia is reported as busy insisting on something like complete control of the Dardanelles. All of which means that Russia is seeking to get her self into a dominating position regarding the Suez canal, which means that the Russian bear is licking' his chops for the fat of India. Won der has been expressed that Russia has not sid ed with China against Japan, Does this mean that she is hungering for bigger and better game in the riches aryct possibilities of India? At any rate, it is high time for the Anglo-Saxon races to put on their thinking caps if trouble is to be strangled it its cradle. It is a time for realism, rather than for the "Hush,” Hush of appeasement! We may as well own that the roots of the present good-will among the Anglo- Saxon people do not go deep enough. In. Amer ica we have such an overflowing abundance of nearly everything that makes for comfort, that we have been contented to work our own. back yard while the other fellow has been steadily preparing to outwit us. We have been busy but we have not been wise, as many a battle field has shown us. We have been so industrially bargaining that we have refused to note the stealthy movement of the thief whose one in tention is to rob its of our treasure. For instance, what would follow were we to wake up some fine, morning to find that Germany and Itussm had .joined hands for the conquest of the wofld? Stranger things have taken place. IP YEARS AGO The Orangemen from this com munity attended the 12th of July celebration in. Wingham. Messrs. M. W. Pfaff, E. M. Dig- nan. Win. Frayns and W« Middle ton attended, the Masonic Grand Lodge in Hamilton last week. During the severe electrical storm which passed over this district Sun day afternoon and evening the farm home of Milton Woodburn, five miles north of Parkhill, was 'burned, to the ground. The home was struck by lightning during the absence of the family. Miss Norma Finkbeiner, daugh ter of Mr, Win. H. Finkbeiner, south of CTediton, had a large bone in her right arm fractured and also received hip injuries when she fell off a load of hay onto the barn floor on Saturday. 15 YEARS AGO On Friday of last week the Exe ter team defeated the fast Hensaii outfit by the score of 7 to 1. A record crowd was on hand to see the game. The line-ups are: w Hensall-—B. Horton, If.; Brint- nell, ss,; Rennie, 3b; Gascho, lb; Scruton, ef; L. Horton, c; Nicol, 2b; Kerslake, p; Joynt rf; Pass- more, If. Exeter—Medd, cf; Berry, ss; Creech, If; Dundas, p; Fahner, 3b; Fletcher, lb; M. Tieman, 2b; E. Tieman, rf; -Ficht, c. It is estimated that there were thousands of people at Bayfield on Saturday for the Orange walk. Twenty-eight lodges -took part in th© procession. The weather was ideal for the celebration. Messrs. Bonthron and Drysdale, of Hensall, have purchased from E. Rannie the block of stores now oc cupied by them on King street. 25 YEARS AGO The Orangemen of this district celebrated July 12 at Goderich this year and a record crowd was in attendance. Miss Dorothy Kuntz left for Guelph last week, where she. will take an agricultural course. Lloyd Beavers, Earl Russell, Bruce M'ed'd, Lyle Statham and Stuart Staribury are attending the Y.M.C.A. summer camp at Fisher’s Glenn. James Morley has taken a posi tion with Jones & May to learn the mercantile business. The automobile of Constable Fellow, of Qoderich, while stand ing in Mr. W. A. Balkwill’s barn on Thursday?|fe^rnooii last, caught fire from whir is supposed to have been a short circuit. Smoke issuing from the building was noticed and the fire extinguished before much damage' was done. Messrs. Wilfred Shapton and Ernest Pym left Monday to attend the Epworth League summer school at St. Thomas, representing James Street ‘League. 50 YEARS AGO For sixteen years Seaforth has done nothing in the way of cele brating the Battle of the Boyne, but Friday She laid claim to hav ing one of the grandest and largest celebrations ever held in Huron. An exceedingly large crowd of Orangemen and their friends turn ed out. At one o’clock the proces sion formed and marched through Main Street to Coleman’s Grove were the judging of bands and speaking was held. Mr. T. D. Boch, of the" Bell Tele phone Co., has completed the open ing of an office at Centralia. Mr. W, H. Reynolds, of Hensall, has been appointed overseer of the carpenter work of the new Methodist Church. . Mr. John 'Matheson, who has been conducting a general store here for some years, is moving his stock to Otterville, where he has purchased another stock. While Mr. Geo. Hodgins and several others were engaged in re moving the earth for the new pave ment on Monday last, he -met with an accident which might have cost him his life. He was working in front of Mr, Walter Westcott at the time and When Walter raised his pick. If struck Mr, Hodgin’s head with a terrible blow rendering him unconscious and inflicting a very severe wound. Smiles . . . . An elderly gentleman heard about some capsules Which, it was Abated, would renew youth. He purchased a box of the capsules and took one. The effect whs all right, and .he took another. By bedtime they had made him feel so good he thought he Would do the thing up right and take the entire contents of the hex, So he did, and went to bed. The next morning his Wife had difficulty arousing him, Wife (storming)—"Get upl It’s It’s tithe you were cut of bed.” Elderly Gentleman (squinting one eye open and saying defiantly) —•“All right! All right! I’ll got up, But I won't go to school?* Waging Wai’ Qu Weeds Last week we mentioned a few ways to battle weeds by cultivation. There are newer and very effective means which make use of chemi* cals, Some of these are only being used experimentally but others have made reputations as real weed killers. Chemical Control Perennial weeds 'can be eradicat ed by spraying with chlorate chem icals. These chemicals, however, are dangerous to handle as they are easily ignited. Sometimes fields that have been sprayed with chlor ate compounds have been ignited by the friction of the farmer’s shoes as he was walking over the field to inspect the effect of • the chemical. Some manufacturers * mix calcium chloride with the chlorate compounds to lessen the fire haz ard. Calcium chloride is the sub stance put on country roads to lay the dust. This mixture of chemicals is sold under the trade name “Atlacide”. Sometimes to get ef fective results from chemical weed killers, so much has to be applied that no field crop can be grown on that area for a period of three years. Kerosene A pure water-white grade of kerosene will kill dandelions -in lawns. It will not affect Kentucky Blunegrass, but it will kill clovers. Cheaper grades of Kerosene will injure all grasses. Hormone Spray At Cornell University they have developed a Hormone spray that is proving to be a marvelous weed killer, especially for field bind weed, Hormones are necessary Chemicals within the plant to pro duce proper growth- Research scientists at Cornell University have made an artificial one, This hormone spray compound is called “2-4-D” which is an abbreviation of a long, many-syllabled chemical name. When this hormone is spray ed on certain weeds, it causes ab normal root growth. When it was applied to field bindweed, the roots of this plant literally grew them selves to death. Two weeks after spraying the plants showed symp toms of rotting. Within three weeks the plant had turned black and died. Field crops can be grown on the sprayed area soon after the weeds have been eradicated. Some further experimentation has still to be done on this spray to as certain fully the effects -on the soil, grasses, etc. Canada’s Dominion Department •of Agriculture has made extensive tests to determine what fruits and vegetables have strong enough tastes, smells or colors to with stand the process of dehydration. Highland Cedar large run Sound, straight and Reeled AT LOWBR PRICKS also Lumber and Shingles A. J. CUTWORTHY We Deliver Phone 12 Granton REMOVE SUBSIDY ON LUMBER Effective July 14, the 10 per cent subsidy on retail sales of softwood lumber, to certain classes of pur chasers will be discontinued, ac cording to an announcement by the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. The subsidy applied to retail sales of softwood lumber when it was sold to farmers, fishermen, growers of fruit and vegetables, trappers and individual civilian users who bought lumber for use in their businesses or for maintenance arid repairs. It was not allowed when the lumber was used for erecting or improving dwellings or being sold to contractors or industrial users. Holders of declaration for eligibil ity certificates for consumer sub sidy on lumber which have been issued for purchases exceeding $200 are advised that these certili- cates will expire on and after July 15. To Those Convalescing After Severe Illness After many severe illnesses or serious operations the patient is very often left in an extremely weak, nervous, run-down condition. e To all those convalescents who need some kind of a tonic to stimulate and build up the weakened system, we would recommend Milbum’s Health and Nerve Pills to assist them back to health—happiness again. .These pills help supply elements necessary to assist the convalescent in bringing back bodily strength and vigour. Price 50c a box, 65 pills, at all drug counters. Look for our registered trade mark a “Red Heart” on the paokage. The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. PtoiMjhmg Deep for fiihw Growth J. F* ROLFE, Manager W- w ah mean5 V'O8K just one Ot t0 caIiy „Wdt*e aI as„ossiW®- 4 is scon as v tOrW t Uicb lead to projects .(lToiW-tange"-ws.eivi:ri tor AVar service. • QO important is the protection of Long Distance telephone communications that not even war was permitted entirely to hold tip work on our great triangular underground cable route between Toron to, Ottawa and Montreal. Indeed, war made it more important than ever that we guard strategic telephone channels from interruption by storm and other hazards* * As the ’supply of men and materials in creases, more and more open wire will be replaced by underground cable be tween London and Windsor—between Montreal and Quebec City—north from Montreal to the Laurentians—wherever increased traffic and operating condi tions justify it. In addition, new areas will be brought into the Long Distance network. Here is still another major job to be done as part of our post-war construc tion program. «