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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1945-11-29, Page 2Page 2 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTAR Ip, THVRSPAY MORNING, NOVEMBER1943 ©fje Cxeter Oncs^bbocate Times established 1873; Advocate established 1881 amalgamated November 1934 PUBLISHED EACH THURSDAY MORNING AT EXETER, ONTARIO &a Independent Newspaper devoted to the interests pt the Village of Exeter and Snrrqmndlng District Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers1, 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. SOUTRCOTT * - PUBUSHER THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1945 What Next? For the past five years money has been abundant. Boys who, ten years ago, would have considered themselves rich with a half dollar, for years have been demanding a “ten-spot” for an evening’s entertainment. That same con dition may still be the order in some localities. At the same time we must note that money is on the verge of becoming scarcer as war time prosperity, always a doubtful financial advan tage, recedes into the days before the flood. That gold mine for all exporters, is becoming harder to enter. Manufacturers of certain pro ducts find Britain refusing to purchase at any price products that for half a century, were eagerly sought for. Strikes have brought the wheels of industry to a standstill. For years tens of thousands of Canadian producers who looked to Britain as their sugar daddy are find ing that John Bull’s pockets no longer bulge with sugar plums. Even that most benevolent of cash distributors, the Canadian government, is finding that they can give bonuses only when trade is lively and merchandising generally is brisk. Serious minded statesmen apd business men alike are following a policy of self protec tion when they see that food for starving Eur ope is not only charity but self protection. Many manufacturers are aghast ag they face the dif ficulties of turning to making goods for the usual channels of trade. Moreover, Canada and Britain are not the only countries seeing the necessity1 of getting down to business with a vim and. a frugality hitherto unknown. The money we spent for fighting the battles of lib erty is spent money, much of it being in the coffers of our competitors who would like noth ing better than to have Britain and Canada hewers of wood and drawers of water in their mines and workshops. We must see this. Canada must be aware of this. Ontario must be aware, of this. Exeter must face up to these conditions or high tail it for confusion worse confounded. architectural, and in $ea fishing, in fish catch- ing and in fish marketings In this course there is. no shinaniggan but real work, real study of human nature and of the art of living. We simply must get down to something like this in all the arts of life or sink hopelessly in the scale of human living, We have in mind a case that exactly illustrates the supreme impor tance of what we are writing about, A father, at genuine sacrifice of money and labour sent his hopeful to one of our larger and better col legiate institutes where the hopeful was to fam iliarise himself with carptentry in order that he might in the near future take over the father’s building trade. The young man got his. diploma with honors, or something like that. The father took him into his shop and gave him a good year's trial, only to find that the youngster could not stand up under the test of actual ex perience. He had to be apprenticed all over again only to find that his alleged training only stood in l)i$ way, as far as making the best of things is concerned. What we contend is that the youth of the day, as they get their training in the schools, should spend a considerable portion of their time in a factory or shop working side by side with men earning their bread and under the eye of their teacher who will allow no soldier ing, provided the teacher himself is worth his onions, bgtli teacher and pupil being alike to be reported to the school or college where the pupil is alleged to be getting ready for life. The youngster must be ready to “sweep up and to do the other jobs so essential to a well ordered shop. He should be familiarized with founda tion preparation and all the other apparently routine but essential arts of making, planning, bargain securing, meeting customers and the securing of business. How is all this to be done? There’s a way for reaching this point and the right sort of men have found it though they are saying little about it. When this village and this Dominion win out it will be when all of keep true the balance between thought and action. * * * * Note and Comment The lawn mower lias been replaced by the sleigh. So pass the forms of greatness, each old and tried friend giving place to the new. * w » Some of us are taking up our old task of job hunting, and a wearisome affair it is. ~ * * ♦ Those fine, large rosy apples and those splendid big juicy oranges are not even to be had. by the Ontario Santa Claus. Some export ers have no mercy even on kiddies. * * * * *■ Santa arranged for the first fall of snow just to give his span of deer a practice run for Christmas Eve. * * * * «■ 10 YEARS AGO Reeve Thomas Pryde will again grace the chief magistrate’s, chair at the Municipal Council having been ye-elected to the position by ac clamation. This is his second term. A quiet but pretty wedding took place at the James street United Church parsonage on Wednesday. November' 27th, when Miss Belva Doreen, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clark Rlsher, of Usborne, was united in marriage with Mr. Harold Wilbur Rowe, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Rowe, of Hay. Rev. A. Page officiated, # ’ Miss Marion Pooley, of Wjnchel- sea, who was awarded the silver medal for the best essay written by a secondary school student in this district in a recent Canadian Legion contest has been awarded fourth place in the provincial wide coiitest, The subject was “How Can Canada Contribute to World Peace.” A light delivery truck owned by the Ideal Meat Market and driven by Mr, Gerald Ford collided Thurs day afternoon, two and a -half miles east of Exeter with a passenger Car driven by Edmund Baker, of Stratford. The. accident took place in a blinding snow storm. Fortun ately no one was injured. 15 YEARS AGO The anniversary services of the James Street United Church on Sun day were a'splendid success. A large congregation greeted Rev, C. W. DeMille, of -Central United Church, Stratford, at the morning service and in the evening the large audi torium was practically filled to hear Rev. Dr, Cochrane, secretary of the Home Missions, Toronto. After enjoying a few weeks of most delightful weather this section was visited with a snowfall Monday night and colder weather. 'Several inches of snow covered the ground. Up until Monday there was some one from town at the Oakwood golf course almost every day. Messrs. Geo, Grant and W. C. Davis were in (London Saturday at tending theJ annual banquet and re union of the members of the 63rd Overseas Battery held at the Hotel London. Gerald Godbolt, of Centralia, won the oratorical contest for boys in the semi-finals for the West and South district Huron Presbytery Young People’s Society at the Wes ley-Willis United Church, Clinton, on Monday evening. The winner for the girls was Mrs. Love, of Grand Bend. Mr, Godbolt’s subject was “Choosing a Calling.” Mrs. Love’s subject was “Religious Education.” on II Brats T When Nazi U-boat commanders hoisted black flags of sur render, it was a “go ahead” signal to the three out o'f every eight Canadians who normally depend for their livelihood on export trade. For five years the flow of foreign trade has been largely a gov ernment responsibility. But now, to help create peacetime jobs, Canadian enterprise must do its full share in finding customers abroad. This means doing business all over the world, in strange and distant cities, in a hundred languages and currencies. Canadian banks have a key role in this complicated but essen tial peacetime task. Every day their foreign branches and corres pondents arrange credits, handle documents and perform other intricate operations to bring buyers and sellers together across the obstacles of distance, language and custom. A Disturbing Symptom «■ Word got abroad last week that the local canning factory was letting out a large pro portion of its workers. This action will cause a good deal of disturbance in Exeter and the ter ritory surrounding the village. Everyone will be affected by this serious condition and a great many people will be losers. What makes the local situation all the more serious is that the unavoidable action of the factory is a symptom of a condition in Britain that is decidedly alarming. Britain we are informed, simply has not the money to pay for the factory’s product . and has cancelled the orders placed with the company. What Britain has done with the can ning company, she has been obliged to do in many other factories and producers of goods. The reason for this period of hard times in England is that for a good long year and more Britain spent, her cash to provide ships and men nnd war materials in order that liberty and. -civilization as we know it should not perish •from the earth. As she did so, other people sold 'her weapons and pocketed her cash. When the war was over Britain was poor in everything ibut honor and freedom. Meanwhile the folk who had plenty of cash Scrooged her at every turn. Bravely Britain rallied to the task of getting going again commercially and in trading gener ally, only to find her factories heaps of rubble and her trading vessels at the bottom of the sea. This hour she is refusing to borrow money at usurious rates and is setting herself to do what she can with what cash she has and with credit she still possesses. Will her associate na tions in the commonwealth of nations that com prise the British Empire stand by her as she struggles as no nation ever struggled before to get on her feet, or will they do the highly moral and patriotic thing in either giving her a liberal loan or in making her a liberal gift of a million or two good dollars. Such action on the part of Canada and of the sister nations would be the soundest business. To fail to do so looks like inviting disaster* * * * » / An Old ’Spring Reopened Over there in Glasgow and Edinburgh the Church of Scotland has got a tight sow by the eMr. When students are graduated from their divinity schools, the youngsters have an oppor tunity of getting ready for their life’s work in this way. They hie them for an additional bit of training, in which they are given not only, a sound drill in the fundamentals of religion, but they are giving genuine, severe training in masonry in all its details, manual as well as It is delightful to note the success our mer chants have achieved in getting a real Christ mas atmosphere, so evident, as we enter their places of business. * •» * it- We need a few chinook breezes to have on tap for this good province.'Fuel, be it remem bered, is hard to get. * * « » Gents who are eager to see ladies walking the street in spun glass dresses may Jose their enthusiasm when. they find out that this type of glass is opaque, is the opinion of the Fort Erie Times-Review* What Other Editors Say Youth And The Church (Cobourg Sentinel-Star) . The life of modern youth is fuller, in many respects, than that enjoyed by any preceding generation. The challenges and the opportuni ties confronting this generation have never been surpassed, but one area in the life of modern youth seems comparatively empty—the religious area. In times past, almost every great improve ment in human society has had its beginning in the inspiration of Christian! faith and ideals. We owe our systems of government, education, hospitalization, art and music to great Christ ian statesmen. The prospect for the future is barren if our young people miss the dynamic experience of fellowship with God, and the sense of divine mission in the world. Human so ciety will be poorer if its young ^people miss the warmth, light, love and ministry of the Christ ian faith. Yet young people have lost the Sense of vital religious need, partly because their par ents have lost it. By not attending church, mothers and fathers have set poor examples for their children, and their lives, as Well as those of our children, have suffered as a result. We. feel that the church ought to be more conscious of the challenge of modern youth than is indicated at the present time* Think of the contribution the church could make to youth, it it would, and what young people could do for the Christian church by exerting their enthus iasm, strength and vitality in that direction. Let our parents, our youth and our churches give careful consideration to the challenge which exists here. The matter is much too im portant to be neglected, 25 YEARS AGO A most successful fowl supper was held .at the Thames Road Pres byterian Church Monday evening. The event was made the occasion of a farewell presentation to Dr. Colen Fletcher who is retiring after 40 years of ministry, this being his first and only charge. The presenta tion took the form of a purse of money. Roy Schenk, Hugh Schenk and Clarence Holtzman, of Crediton, have returned from Saskatchewan where they have been working dur ing the past summer. Following are the results of the Junior Farmers Plowing Competi tion as judged in the trict: five acre field, Rowcliffe; 2nd, Alvin Roland Williams; 4th, ton; 5th, Will Jeffrey; Elgin Rowcliffe; 2nd, Alvin Pym; 3rd, Wilson Hawkins. At the Methodist parsonage, Cor bett, on Wednesday, Nov. 24th, Miss Ella Ray Down, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Down, of near Grand Bend, was united in marriage to Mr. Russell Gordon Penhale, son of Mr. Geo. Penhale, of Stephen. Exeter dis- lst, Elgin Pym; 3rd, Earl Shap- f arm: 1st, 50 YEARS AGO Wednesday afternoon a few gathered and had a On sportsmen friendly pigeon shoot. Score was as follows: W. .G Bissett, 6; W. T, Acheson, 5; F. W. Collins, 8; W, Green, 5; Robt. Sanders, 7; A. J. Snell, 6; W; Garrick. 6; ,N* D- Hur“ don, 8. The worst rain storm experienced in this section for some time came on Monday and it developed into a terrific wind storm. Buildings shook, fences were levelled, barns were unroofed. The front part of the Metropolitan Hotel stables and the smoke stack o*f the electric pow er house were blown down. Mr. Geo. Howe has bought Brussels woollen mill. Mr. C. H. Ingram, ILJD.S., who been practising dentistry here several years, left Friday last St. George where he will Open an office. One of the most daring attempts at burglary was tried at the barn of Mr. Henry Walper, of the Bron son Line, on Thursday night last. Mr. Walper noticed two parties go ing into the bard and investigation found they had been preparing to carry off his clover seed. The burg lars made their escaoe. the? has for for out GUN FOR DEER, GET BEAR, CUBS RuSSell Brintnell, of Exeter; Douglas don, returned home trip to Millan Lake with a bear and two cubs, Mr, DObbs Shot the bear and the cubs were shot by Russell Brintnell and Mr. DObbs. Smiles . , « This banking service is of primary importance to business and - to every Canadian worker as Canada turns to the task of re creating trade abroad to provide jobs at home. This Advertisement t Fanning Roadsides Never a day passes without our papers publishing accounts of some new and startling agricultural de velopment. Many of these innova tions, we are told, are the direct result of wartime research. (First it’s a chemical that kills things we don’t like, then its another chemi cal that aids the growth of things we do like. To handle these larger crops, we visualize a wave of me chanization that is building up and may, in a few years, revolutionize many present methods. , Our County has always the vanguard of progress continue to be but we still ode feature that dates the age of our farms as readily as the picture of grandmother in her hoop skirts. I am referring to the fences we have along the roadsides and between fields. The days when ‘good fences made good friends” disappeared with the age of herding cattle, hogs and sheep to market along the road allowances. Now, far from being necessary, these fences are even a hindrance. They present the best operation df powered equipment in the field to say nothing of the land they cut off and leave to produce nothing better than a Crop of weeds. Increases (Acreage been in and ‘will maintain of every crop nearby by sending out new seed to cause more work and less crop for the farmer. Removing the roadside fence would destroy many homes but they wouldn’t matter for they are the homes of insects just waiting for the crops to get to the right stage before they attack it. Improves Appearance The advantages of farming the roadside are not the farmer’s alone. The improvement will be noted and appreciated by neighbors and the many people who ehjoy a trip along a road flanked with well tended crops instead of unsightly weeds. We soon expect a heavy increase in the nun,l'bers of visitors to our County and we should present them with a new and better picture. A picture of our usual good crops of course, but now, good crops that extehd to the roadside and are not bordered by the ugly growth of Weeds that the old fashioned fences caused. Yes, our farms will be ready •for the -postwar mechanization and improvement era we have been promised. Port Albert has been favored by Huron county Council for holding the next International Plowing Match in Huron next year. Consent WHEN IN TORONTO Make Your Homa LOCATED on wido SPADINA AVE. At College Street . . RATES___ Single $1.50-$3.50 Double $2.50-$7.00 Write Jor Folder We Advise Early Reservation A WHOLE DAY’S SIGHT-SEEING WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE A. M. POWELL, Protidenl j There were 1,0'00 anchors re quired to hold in palce the floating harbour called Mulberry that was used in the invasion of Europe, also Highland dedar FENCE POSTS BARGE RUN Sound, Straight and Peeled AT LOWER PRICES A. J. CLATWORTHY William Dobbs, Triobner, Lon- from a hunting Rate: “Bill fold me I was the eighth WOnder Of the World,” Kitty: “And What did you day to him?” Kate: “I told him not to let mo catch him with any Of the seven others,” If a field is temporarily being [of the government must first be used for pasture, a fence is neces- 'secured, sary but an inexpensive electric ( one can be erected quickly and satisfactorily* In most other cases though, you will agree that no fence is required and their removal would add many acres to the Size of the field actually sown to crop. This adds to the profit and value of any farm. The case with which a trhctor and implement can be handled in a field without a fence, is most apparent to the man who ’ has been “rasslin’ ” one at the end Of each tow1 trying to avoid getting tangled in a mass of barbed Wire. Some fences along the road are just high enough to peer, in lordly fashion over the heavy growth of Weeds they gather. These weed beds | steal many dollars from the value Troublesome Night Coughs Are Hard on the System It’s the cough that sticks; the cough that is hard to get rid of: the cough accompanied by a tickling in the throat that causes the nerve and throat wracking trouble that keeps you awake at night. Dr. Wood’s Norway Pine Syrup helps to relieve this COugning condition by soothing the irritated parts, loosening the phlegm and Stimulating the bronchial. We Deliver Phone 12 Granton 1WBWUUb e........- ------------- ~-------- -----organs, and when this is done the troublesome lfritalmg cough may be relieved. Dr. Wood’s Norway Pine Syrup has been on the market for the past 48 years. The Trade Mark “3 Pine Trees”.- „ Price 3Sc a bottle; large family size, about 3 times as much, 60c at all drug Counters. CoLimited, Toronto, Ont