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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1945-08-30, Page 2Rage 2:THE TIMES’ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THORSPAY MORNING, AUGUST 30, 1945 w Cxeter Wune^iJbotate Tlmea established 1873; Advocate established 1881 amalgamated November 192d PUR14SHJSD EACH THURSDAY MORNINP AT EXETER, ONTARIO A_n Independent Newspaper devoted to the interests of the Village of Exeter and Surrounding District Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers* Association; Member of th© OntariO’Quebep 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, $1.00 three months 60c J. M. SOUTHCOTT - - PUBLISHER THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 194S The Next Requirement Our government is spending a lot of money and a Jot of thought in getting our returned fighting men fitted for civilian life. This is as it should be. After examination the young man is set at the job he seems best fitted for. This, too, is seemly. But what next? The young fel­ low who is, say, sent to college or to some sort of ti'aining school, in which various crafts are taught, should be strictly looked after and re­ quired to earn his board and keep and his train­ ing or should be marked L.M.F. and set to some really good job of brush piling or stone­ breaking.-As we see the world, this part of the world particularly, only men who are doers, genuine doers, are going to last very long. Not only are the men to be looked after, but the schools require supervision. If the teachers and professors therein do not see to it that their charges make real progress or show the reason why, these teachers should be promptly re­ placed and their inferiority noted. We are get­ ting out of the mushy region of a misty idealism into a time when grim realities are upon us. If we do not get down to genuine realism, our op­ position will. Indeed it has been down to hard pan for some time. While figuring about what is to be on the morrow keep a steady eye on Palestine, Syria and eastern end of the Medi­ terranean Sea and Persia. A few stormy pat­ rols are winging about in those regions. -x * * * The New Epoch It looks as if an era is closing and a new era is on our doorstep. For the last six years or so human activities have becn.desidedly hec­ tic. We have been going on the hand-to-mouth principle for a great part. When a customer has asked some merchants for goods the merchant has simply shaken his head. “The goods simply are not to be had,” the customer has been told. That sort of , thing is passing. Just the other day, for instance, a customer asked for a cer­ tain article, “Haven’t it! We are sure that we can have it- for you in less than two weeks." The same customer went to another place of business hard by. “Surely I” came the reply and one merchant lost a sale and the ready and waiting merchant won a new customer. Our readers see the point. This instance is but typi­ cal Of what is going on generally in all business activities. The dealer must be alert, more alert than he has been, in some cases for the last five years. Salesmanship and service are going to be in increasing demand. We Are Willing Citizens have been receiving a letter urg­ ing them to use less meat, if that is possible at all. Every healthy-minded Canadian favours this request. We simply will not rest content with doing less than our utmost to relieve the necessities of our hungry humans in Europe. Our tables in Canada have been well spread throughout the whole period of the war. The call, too, for clothing for the shivering folk* in Europe simply must not be neglected. In every way we can contrive we are under obligation to support and to encourage the people who have suffered so terribly because of the irre- perrable loss caused by war. Hunry, shivering folk are liable to prove dangerous, while it is as true now as it was two thousand years ago, that it is more blessed to give than to receive. We have the most vital reason to be thankful that wc are the happy donors and not the re­ cipients. « # * Up Against It Owing to the sudden, cancelling of the lend- lea-se policy by the United States, Britain is up against grave ' financial stringency, Mr. Atlee and the courageous Churchill speak of the fin­ ancial condition as grave and serious. We are hoping that the United States, ere this is read, will have done something to relieve a situation that may easily prove perilous, In any case it is the solemn duty of all the nations making up the Empire to rally to her support. This can be done and we believe soon will be done. The method of giving this aid will be decided by the Statesmen of the various nations com­ prising the Empire, Every Britisher will aid in the carrying out of the project, There is nothing else for it, if the situation is to be Saved. There are undertakings in peace times ^uite as great as the struggles of war. Mean­ while, there simply must be a cessation of ex­ travagant spending. Stern necessity must gov­ ern the Empire for many a day to come. We believe in vision as much as anyone, “Where there is no vision, the people perish,” the wise and great man observed long ago, At the same time there is a wide difference between vision and visionariness. Unless, a nation bases its undertaking's on what experience has taught, trouble is inevitable. It must be remembered that wealth may bp estimated in terms of what can be got on without, There is no use in doing business that persists in being in the red. The useful is a full brother of the beautiful. That Timely Note Not so long ago it was the fashion on the part of some men to wave a half-smoked cigar and to announce with a great show of authority, that the day for prayer and trust in Almighty God was out of„ date, Recently we are getting away from that foolish way of talking, for a foolish way it evidently is, Soldiers tell of in­ stances in which they, have no doubt but that deliverance came to them from God and from no other One. What we note is the new torn- of certainty in these men’s voices as they speak of the conduct of the dread Supreme. The aw­ ful One is as real to these* men who have seen His works as Montgomery or McArthur, They have seen His works and speak from a con­ viction that some of the rest of us will do well to study and to heed. # » * * A Splendid Move As our young men are in the being discharged from the army, through a decidedly interesting This experience is in evidence in some quarters, it not in all. camps. The young man's record is carefully looked into, His reactions under a wide variety of circumstances are collected and studied. These reactions are taken as indexes of the stuff the young fellow is made of. Fux- ther these reactions are considered with a" view t© finding out the niche into which. the soldier will best fit in civilian life. All manner of pains are taken to have the records and the general make up of the young fellow placed under the best consideration of men experienced with a wide variety of civilian life. In this way it is ’ hoped to have the soldier soon to be in the ranks of the unemployed blest with knowledge of himself, and the nation aware of where it may find a young man qualified for different jobs. We confess a liking foi’ this work on the part of the nation. We have a hunch" that the day is not far off when every high school grad­ uate and every university graduate will face the world with knowledge of his capacities and of his fitness for national service. This is but common sense adapting itself to the call of everday life. process of they pass experience. *> «• * Learning Montgomery with Germany and McArthur with Japan proved good schoolmasters. Ger­ many and Japan alike tried wheedling with their conquerors. Germany and Japan alike tried to have the conquerors believe that un­ conditional surrender did not mean purely and simply unconditional surrender, that and noth­ ing other. Both Germany and Japan found themselves under a stern schoolmaster. We cannot but wonder if all the world has taken the, lesson so severely learned to heart. We fear that some 'excellent people do not believe that language means what the language says. For instance, a board is to meet at seven thirty. Some of the world are present on the tick, of the clock. Yet half an hour later some members straggle in and are affronted if the business of the board has progressed according to sched­ ule, and so we have come to say from, bitter, annoying experience that punctuality is the thief of time. Japan’s fingers needed to be sharply rapped on this point and they were rapped. Say what we like, twelve inches make a foot and one hundred cents make a dollar and value received must be looked for when value is given. If when a thief is caught he is sent to prison things are moving well in that regard. We are learning a few things. Still an­ other thing to be learned is that no man makes a restriction that another man cannot break through, just as no man, so far, has made a lock that another’ cannot pick. We’ll do well to place increasing emphasis on moral values. 'Without these fundamentals confusion will be­ come worse confounded. «• ■ -x- -x- -» The British Way Mr. Bevin’s speech has shown that Britons are Englishmen first and politicians afterwards, a Jong' time afterwards. * * * » Note and Comment The war has cost .Britain some wealth. It has not cost her her soul. ■* « * «■ Better harvest cleanly this year. The food for man and beast is greatly needed and next harvest is a considerable distance in the future. * x- x- Getting unlimbercd mentally mid physically after holidays? The world has moved a consid­ erable distance since the merrymakers took to the tall timbers. * ' * •» * , If those Balkan states do not rest of the world may resort to the Duke of Wellington suggested of Ireland. “T 1 antic,” scribed. behave, the the method _ for the ills Twenty-four hours under the At- was the remedy the Iron Duke pre- •» if- While the thrifty homemaker was putting her brains; in steep to have a little something useful in the pantry some luxury folk were busy patronizing the black market. Serious- minded people know the war is over and won­ dered why they were not getting more sugar. The oat is out of the bag and a mangy eat it proves to be. We need a wholesome respect for law and order. * IQ YEARS AGP After travelling between sev'en and eight thousand miles in an open Model T touring car over a period of three months during which time they crossed the West­ ern prairies and the Rocky Mbun- tains, Miss Annie Simmons, of town, in company with three othm young ladies, have returned home having enjoyed a trip that will long be remembered. The Main Street Male Quartette comprising Jas. Francis, Harold and Gerald. Skinner and Frank Wildfong were at Bayfield Sunday taking part in the anniversary services, Mrs. Page, Mrs. J. H, Jones and Mrs, J, M. Southcott were in St. Thomas last week attending a gathering of the W.M.S, leaders of th© London conference who con­ vened * at Alma College. Mr. H, J. Creech, M.A., an honor graduate in chemisfry of Western University, London, has been award­ ed a Research Fellowship at the University of Toronto He will be engaged in cancer research work at the Banting Institute. 15 YEARS AGO The Cafe on Main Street owned ■by Lee Lim and his father, (Lee Quin, has been sold to Wong See and Wong Kee, of London, who have already taken possession. Lee ■Dim and his father are leaving for tlieir former home in China. Mr. W. E. Quinn, who represent­ ed the Exeter H.S. at the Empire Games held at Hamilton last week, made a creditable showing in the senior one mile race. Mr. Quinn came fourth. He is taking part in the twelve-mile marathon "at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto on Saturday. Mr. W. R. Goulding, who attend­ ed the summer course in music at Western University, (London, was successful in securing his' second year certificate. Aljoe Sanders resigned his Mr. John Stanbury, his place has Lewis Kirk. Mr. position with ■butcher, and taken by Mr. than• USfcb I ' UStXtSttMHXVntCS • •: ■ THE WARTIME PRICE S ANQ the the de- Tu- World sugar stocks are dangerously low ... use less —use with discretion THfcR.6 ARC7h6 R6ASQHS LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW? been cattle years 25 YEARS AGO By far the best load of leaving this station for many was shipped by Mr. Wes. Snell on Tuesday to Toronto to the Gunn Packing Co., who will show them dressed at the Toronto Exhibition. Two rinks ‘ of Exeter bowlers tended the Stratford tourney , Wednesday of last week, 1 Robinson, Rivers and N, J. Dore, skip; W. J. Hearn an, J. A. Stewart, R. N. Creech and W. W. Taman, skip. Taman’s rink was awarded second. prize. W, C. Thompson, assistant sta­ tion agent at Lucan, was hurt very badly at noon on Friday when he jumped off the rear?end of a mov­ ing frieght car. He sustained three broken ribs and his spine was in­ jured severely besides ing badly scratched, Mrs. Win1. Winer, painfully injured by a falling pitchfork striking on the head aud shoulder. . ‘C. W. J. Russell, W. ax­ on W. C. ll is face be­ was last her Stephen, Saturday SO YEARS AGO Mr. Henry Walder, ?of Woodstock, has leased the Metropolitan Hotel and is about to take possession. Our road commissioner, Mr. Jas. Oreech, deserves great the manner in which he ing our main street. A number of boys in their dog trotters in the dog-race i The balls necessary to “Bowling on 1 received by They purpose grounds and shortly. A new post-office tablislied about two St. Marys, called •Rann.och with Mr. H. Jamieson as postmastei. While all was silent and sound asleep, burglars broke into, Mr. J. Kellermann’s store at Dashwood, and burst- open the safe. He re­ ceived nothing for his trouble, however, as there was no money in the safe. credit foi­ ls improv- town havt» training for on Labor Day. and other material start t)ie game of ‘ D zx .flvOAiTj 33 ]i <□ ci haan D. the start the Green’ Mr. N. J using will lias been Hurd-on. cricket practice has been es­ miles out of Smiles . . . . '“Well,” said the insurance agent to the newly-wed Angus, “now that you’re married I’m sure you’ll want to insure your ilfb.” “Awa, wi’ ye,” said Angus, “She’s no that dangerous.” The foreman believed in getting the workers to co-operate with him. In an effort to Inspire them to an even greater output, he called them together for a 'consultation. “When­ ever I enter the workshbp,” he said pleasantly, ”1 want to see every man cheerfully performing his task with as much speed as possible. Now, I am going to place this box by the door, and 1 want you to place in it any ideas you may have as to how we can bring this about.” A few days later he opened the b»x, to find one solitary piece of paper. On it was written: “Take the rub­ ber heeig off your shoos.” Canada’s Rank Among World Powers Achieved Under Mackenzie King “•Canada is emerging from .shadow so long cast over it by superior power and industrial velopment of the United ^States, day, Canada rhtes as an adult nation and thinks and acts like one. Mackenzie King ha's devoted his life to bringing this to pass.” So declares Stanley High, writing of the Prime Minister and his “middle- of-the-road Liberal leadership”, in The Reader’s Digest for September. Of King’s 18. years in office, in. five periods since 19 21, Mr. High says, “No statesman since Bismarck has served so many years as the head of any government.” Canada’s industrial growth un­ der King’s leadership is traced in the Digest article. Now the world’s largest producer of nickle, asbes­ tos, platinum, radium and. news­ print, '%he Dominion has drawn 4 billion capital states, largest boundary in the world. The war has been a supreme test of Mackenzie King, the author “King Canadian own free a deelara- a dissent- While conscription in dollars of United States into it enterprises, Mr. High Canadian-U.S’. trade “is the across any international holds, recalling that in 19 3 9 waited a week for th© people ‘to act of their will’. Then he asked for tion and got it without ing vote.” World War I brought Canada close to civil conflict, in this war King won 52 of Quebec’s 65’ parliamen­ tary seats, despite his government's sponsorship of a conscription bill.’ “One of the world’s important political figures, lie is also one of the least known,” Mr. High ob­ serves. Notably inaccessible, sel­ dom holding a press conference, a, non-smoking, non-drinking, churcn- going bachelor, Prime Minister King in none the less “much less austere than the impression he gives the public.” The author tells of his reception at Kingsmere, the Prime Minister’s country house, where King “insisted, at tea, on doing the serving, and talked only a little less continually and no less interestingly than his friend IF'ranklin Roosevelt did.” Urged by his father to study law, King’s “Calvinistic sense of mission” and his “deep-seated hatred of all forms and degrees of despotism” led him to choose economics and labor relations in­ stead. The .Dominion’s Fair Wage Resolution resulted from one u;‘ ■King’s articles on industrial abuses OPEN DUCK SEASON SET FOB SEPT. 25-DEC. 15 farm- Open season for ducks and geese in Southern and Western Ontario this year has been set at the ■period froin September 25 to De­ cember 15 inclusive by the minis­ ter of mines and resources, These 'dates do hot apply to eiders or to Brant geese. In Northeim Ontario the period is from September 15 to December 5. Season all over the province for other birds is as follows: eider ducks—September 15 to Novembei 15; woodcock, October 1 to Octo­ ber 31; Wilson’s snipe—September 15 to November 15 (Northern On­ tario), October 1 to Novembei’ 30 (the rest of the province). 4 Bag limits have been set as fol­ lows: Ducks (exclusive of mer­ gansers) 15 in any day, of which not more than one may he a^wooa 'duck; geese, in any day; linules, 25 in the aggregate In any -day; Wilson’s snipe, 8 in any day, No more than 150 ducks, exclu­ sive of mergansers, 50 geese, other than Brant, 100 woodcock and 50 Wilson’s snipe may be taken in one season. other than Brant, 5 rails, coots and gal- in Toronto, written at the age of 23. At 26 he organized the Cana­ dian government’s Labor Depart­ ment and served as its first .Deputy Minister. King’s loyalty to the British Commonwealth is based on his con­ viction that it is “a fraternity of autonomous1 communities, in no way subservient one to the other, * the author says. More than any other influence, King’s stiff-necked practice of that doctrine has estab­ lished Canada’s present independ­ ent status among the nations.” In 1922 “his self-confident show m independence” kept Canada from joining Australia and New Zealand in supporting powerful forces in Britain, who were demanding war with Turkey. “To this day the Turks credit King with saving them from a conflict with Britain." Again in 1944 King asserted his policy of autonomy by puncturing a “trial balloon” from London “to test the reaction to setting up a Highland Cedar FENCE POST LARGE RUN Sound, Straight and Peeled AT LOWER PRICES also Lumber and Shingles ( SNELL BROS. & CO Phone 100 Let us assist you with your applications A. J. CLATWORTHY We Deliver Phone 12 ' Granton < Pribe 50c a box, 65 pills, at all drug counters. Look for our trade mark a ‘‘Red Heart0 on the package, thtt T. 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