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’Times established 1873; Advocate established 1881
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PUBLISHED EACH THURSDAY MORNING
AT EXETER, ONTARIO
An Independent Newspaper devoted to the
of the Village of Exeter and Surrounding
Member of the Canadian
Newspapers’ Association;
of the Ontario-Quebec Division of
the CWNA
THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTAR IO, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 13th, 1945
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13th, 1945
Prodding The Farmer
Folk in hig'h places have a way of prodding
the farmer. If the sharp stick is not stirring the
preacher’s cassock or the teacher s gown it is
sure to be tickling the farmer’s jeans. Just no-w
it is the turn of the jeans. This mighty one is
telling us from the tombs that an alarmingly
large proportion of the farmers .are making
but a precarious subsistence and for that reason
the farmers should get on with' their jobs or
get out. There may be an odd farmer who
makes ends meet with difficulty, On the other
hand, we have a whole lot of go-ahead farmers
who make things fairly hum. We have attended
the dispersal sales of a few of those humdingers.
We have walked and pitched hay and plowed
With those fellows who struggle hard in getting
debts paid and in keeping the old farm in some-
think like repair. We have seen these men, over
a term of years educate sons and daughters who
have improved upon the old farm ox' who have
taken high places among the rulers of the land
aS professional men and aS merchants and as
soldiers. Further, if the barely subsistence far-
mer is to be moved, where under the sun is he
to be, moved to ? Where can he better serve his
native land than just where he is, and what
better work can he do than building roads, im
proving churches and making better schools?,
Then why not turn the search light on the town
and city fellows who quite fail to keep the
business chariot rolling right along. The fact
is that some of us are born for the high places
and some fitted for the stubborn work of doing
the hard day’s work with but little pelf to show
for it. Few of us are Churchills or Roosevelts
or Wannamakers or Eatons or Simpsons. We
live, do our work, or toil in obscurity. Still, we
are features in supporting the structure of hu
manity.
No one useless is or low,
Each one in his place is best;
Though one may make but little show,
He strengthens and supports the rest.
Longfellow did not say this exactly but he
might easily have given the world a poorer
sentiment. We country people in our hidden
gray do mind being prodded—up to a certain
point, that is.* * * *
Magnificent
Never was the United States saner than
when she loaned that magnificent sum to Great
Britain. It was the soundest business for her to
do so. Canada is likely to helio out on a similar
scale as far as the loan is concerned. She had
better do so or play the lame Huck in the busi
ness world. But that is not all that is required.
Britain is required to reduce her drink bill. She
Can get on well without the cup putting an
enemy into her mouth to steal awajr her brains,
as her greatest son has said. Canada can do like
wise as far as luxuries are concerned. She has
been nearer financial rocks than she has im
agined, in spite of her apparents flushness of
-money. A carpenter is not rich because he has
;.a lot of tools in his outfit. Those tools are but '
.a means to an end. Money, be it noted, is but a
medium of exchange. Only when exchange and
trade are lively is there prosperity in any coun
try. Luxuries never made a country strong.
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And Now!
At the time of writing it looks as if the
Ioan of four billion odd dollars to the British
Empire Were a matter of history. That being
the case, certain duties evolve, First of all, the
governments, both federal and provincial, sim
ply must stop scoopshelling the people’s cash
about. We believe that tens of thousands of
dollars are a little worse than wasted through
the employment of men and women who are
not anything like earning the money handed out
by the government sugar daddies. What is call-*
ed for is a stern, common sense lessening of
public expenditure in every department. Sub
sidies and bonuses require lessening at every
corner. A business that cannot run on its own
does not deserve to be kept running at the ex
pense of the wages of hired girls and people
over eighty years of age. Every dad should be
able to buy the baby’s milk, Clerks in stores
and school teachers should not .be asked to pay
for the farmer’s pig feed. More than that, the
government had beitet think twice before it
pays the bills of men who can work and for
whom work is waiting yet who refuse to work.
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What Now?
That mach talked of Ioan from the United
States to Great Britain has taken the first
hurdle. It remains for the loan to negotiate the
hurdle Of the British Parliament and the United
States ’senate, We are hopeful that all will go
well, though no one cun tell what the Senate
may do. Things for the loan look better in Brit*
ain.. though there is nothing more uncertain than
public opinion. Some clear-headed men still in
sist that it would have been better for the Brit
ish commonwealth of nations to have got under
Britain’s financial burden and to have got the
mure going again under her own power. These
people are not at all sure of an effort that has
in it very little but economic expediency, How
ever, we expect that the loan will be. made out,
Should it be made, what then? First pf all, let
us see that one swallow does not make a sum
mer, and realize that having money to start
afresh, does not insure economic recovery. Un
less the loan is carefully handled it is likely to
mark Britain’s economic decline, As sure as
tomorrow’s sunrise, the grafter is laying his
plans to turn that loan away from the purpose
for which it was intended. This is to be looked
for, Unless John Bull wears a boot with a stout
sole, a large portion of that money will find its
way to the pouches of the interests while the
public will be left lamenting. Drvond, the poli
tician, is planning to have that loan glitter
around the ballot box while the welfare of John
Citizen goes the way of the bow-wows. This,
too, is to be looked for and guarded against.
Never did Britain and Canada require, as they
require them now, enlightened business men,
and politicians with sound sense and the gift
of taking occasion by the hand. Again, it is one
thing to have that loan, but that lpan is not an
elixir of any sort of life either individual or
national. Those dollars are but tools. Unless
John Citizen and his sons and his cousins get
those tools to building farms and cloth and ma
chinery and securing food and fuel and houses,
those golden dollars are of no more use to him
than so much gravel. If that loan is not to be
come a milestone there’ll need to be some lively
brushing up of gray matter on the part of every
one of us.
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No Rest
Just as we finished our day’s work and were
getting comfortably settled in our lazy boy
chair, madam swooped down upon us with an
article in one of the scientific magazines in
forming the world that man’s way to welfare is
the way of constant activity. Pictures were
shown of soldiers recovering from the wounds
of battle, bandaged and casted up, who were
exercising their unsound muscles to the limit
of safety. Other patients were doing such jobs
as they could undertake. Still others who could
not work were set to blinking or to wiggling
their ears or wagging their jaws or protruding
their tongues or something to that effect. What
one did not see in all those pictures was bored
countenances. The more occupation the patient
indulged in, the more quickly he recovered. We
did not like the vim with which madam read
that article. We suspect that the excellent lady
had a purpose in reading to us on that occosion.j
Since that fatal houi* we cannot enjoy a snooze
on the "sofy” behind the kitchen stove or take
a cosy seat by the cracker barrel in the corner
grocery nor sit easily by the stove in the har
ness shop as we have been wont to do. No, if
we are disposed to become reflective and drift
into drowsiness, that article by the expert on
health matters is sure to obtrude his article on
our attention and we realize that we cannot be
carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease.
We are going to cancel our subscription to that
paper that has precluded our enjoying those
lovely hours of innocence and ease that once
were the great solaces of our life.
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Russia, The Arbitrator?
It looks as if the strike in Windsor is draw
ing to a close. Good Ontario men and true, as
well as federal men equally good and true, took
a hand in the adjustment of affairs between
employers and employees but the strife went
wearily on, Then came the word that Russia
is well on the way to building cars ,and such
vehicles by the ten thousand. Should Russian
do so and take it into her head to sell her pro
duct at low prices, a thing she is perfectly justi
fied in doing, there would be little left for the
Windsor folk on either side of the dispute to
argue about. The car making in Windsor would
have just vanished. It looks, from this point of
view as if employers and the employed saw a
red light and got down to fact facing and to
common sense.
Canadians may as well take notice of what
has gone on in Windsor. The sooner >. the real
citizens of this country cease being hoodwinked
the better it will be for them. We must face up
to the markets of the world or get off the map.
As we have said elsewhere, it will take every
copper we have and all the gray matter we can
muster, to keep up with or a little in the lead
of a world competition that is a good deal keen
er than we suspect.
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Note and Comment
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Boiling and bubbling most healthfully
the local municipal pot. We are not partisan
this matter. We are thinking of the good
the village and of nothing else when we say
want candidates for our next council who have
a policy that means the prosperity of the muni
cipality. Bor that reason we believe it Important
that the men seeking municipal responsibility
should declare their plans, for the coming year
in time for the electors to look them over, to
weigh those plans and the men who propose to
carry out the plans laid before the public. Be
it known, a plan is no better than the man who
proposes the plan. Unless Exeter looks keenly
to the council to be elected she will sink back.
If she selects the right men we .may look for
healthy progress. So let aspirants’ for office let
us know what they have in mind.
IO YEARS AGO
Huroh County Council termiaat-
ed u three and one-half day session
Friday with the presentation of an
inscribed gold headed cane to
Warden William Sweitzer, reeve of
Stephen Township, The presenta
tion was made by Reeve George
Elliott, of Clinton, and an address
was read by Deputy-Reeve R. "
Turner, of Goderich.
The three-act comedy
‘•The End of the Dane” put
(Leavitt’s Theatre Tuesday evening
drew a large house. The play was
under the auspices of the Exeter
Bowling Club and the Tennis Club.
Those taking part were Silas Reed,
Bill Davis, Gordon Lamport, J, M.
Sopthcott, Ray Pryde, Miss Pearl
Wood, Miss Amelia Acheson, Miss
Alma Brown, Mrs. H. C. Carey,
Mjss Olive Stephenson, Miss Helen
Dignan.
iSliortly before noon on Wednes
day a truck belonging to Middle
ton’s Bakery and a Ford Touring
car collided on a bridge east of
Crediton. The gravel and ice on the
bridge is believed to have been
cause. Fortunately the drivers
caped unhurt.
Rev, anfl Mrs. Homer Brown
daughter who have been home on
furlough from West China the past
year are leaving this week on
return trip to the Orient.
Usborn<? Feder<atiori
Elect New Officer?
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15 YEARS AGO
crowd at
in the Opera
theThere was a slim
boxing bout put on
House on Saturday evening. Eleven
boys from London Y.M.C.A. were
present ana put on five bouts and
in addition there were two local
bouts. There were three knock-outs
during the evening.
Mr. Harold Skinner who is learn
ing the tinsmithing and plumbing
with Mr. B. W, <F. Beavers, has x'e-
ceived word that he is to
prenticeship classes this
the Windsor-Walkerville
school.
Mr. Harry Hoffman, ____
wood, is attending Telephone'Plant
School in Toronto this week.
One evening last week as Mr.
Hubert Cooper, driver of Mr. G.
Armstrong’s hog truck, was return
ing from Stratford, accompanied by
Mr. Harry Delbridge, a horse be
longing to Mr. Richard Elston sud
denly crossed the road in front of
the truck and was struck. The ani
mal’s leg was broken and the truck
went' over a ditch and into a
being considerably damaged.
The Usborne Unit of the Federa-
ion *6f Agriculture held their an
nual meeting and election of offi
cers on Wednesday, December 5th,
The first part of the meeting took
the form of a banquet in the Elim-
villp United Church basement where
dinner was served, to 131 members
and their wives, immediately after
dinnei’i the members assembled up
stairs and were welcomed by James
Simpson, the president. The election
of officers was conducted by Wel
lington Brock as follows; President,
James Simpson; vice-pros., Harold Hunter; Directors, S.S. No. i, Joe
Ferguson; No. 2, Harold Rowe; No,
3, Ross Marshall; No. 4*, Earl Whit
ing; No. 5, Tom Yellow; No. 6,
Delmer Skinner; No, 7, Harry
Cole; No. 10, Ed, Alexander; Union
of School Sections, James iMiller.
The main speaker of the evening
was Russell Bolton, president of the
Huron Federation. He said, "It is
not ‘How important is agriculture
to Canada but agriculture is' Can
ada’.” The time has come when at
tending farmers’ meetings is just
as important as doing the chores.
We need every farmer for a mem
ber. He also spoke on the Warble
Fly campaign. Bert Lobb, vice-presi
dent of Huron Federation, spoke of
plans for the International Plough
ing Match to be held next fall at
Port Albert Airport in Huron and
also on the Hog Producers’ scheme.
Many hog producers took this last
chance to register and vote on the
scheme. Entertainment consisted of
musical numbers by the Mills fam
ily, readings by ^Anna Brock and
solos by Mrs. Jack Hodgert.
A New Line of Coutts* Famous Cards
It’s not too early to choose your Christmas Cards.
In fact we would urge you to do so as soon as possible.
At The Times-Advocate you will find beautiful
etchings, quaint old English subjects and scenes, re
productions from original paintings, religious cards,
greetings from the writings of Edgar Guest and other
attractive assortments including an excellent variety of
odd cards.
We will neatly personalize your cards at a small
extra charge.
attend ap-
winter in
Technical
of Dash
field
25 YEARS AGO
Messrs, Cunningham and Pryde,
granite dealers of Exeter, have
completed the erection of the Sol
dier’s monument in Hensall. The
whole structure from the base to
the top is 15 feet and weighs 7,000
pounds.
Mr. Geo. 'Godbolt, of Sunshine,
last week moyed to the,farm he re
cently purchased from’ Mr. T*r
Jones on the London Road
known as the Jerry Heaman
erty.
Messrs. John Bolton, John Glenn
and Stewart McQueen, of near Hen
sall, attended the Fat Stock Show
at Guelph last week.
Otto Ewald, of Crediton,
bought the old store next
post-office and is having it
elled and will use it as a
shop.
Mr. Albert E th erington,
borne, attended Guelph Fail' and
got fifth prize in a large class of
steers under one year.
A quiet wedding took place at
the Main Street Methodist parson
age on Wednesday evening of last
week when Mr. David Benjamin
Dignan, of Hay Township, was
united in marriage to Miss Annie
H. Beck, of London, by Rev. W. G.
H. McAlister.
Port Albert Airport
For 1946 Plow Match
A telegram signed by L. E. Car
diff, M.P., has been received at the
Huron County Agriculture office
in Clinton stating that the Victory
Plowing Match for 1946 can be
held at the grounds at the Port Al
bert airport. It was thought that
this would be an excellent location
for this event, in the largest of any
kind that has been in the bounds
of the county for some time, as
there would be accommodation on
the grounds. Hotel accommodation
is none too plentiful in the county
and extra accommodation is needed.
In all probability meals will be
served in the mess halls as well.
A Help to Those Who
Are Past Middle Age
When men and women get past middle age their
energy and activity, in many instances,. begin to de
cline, and their general vitality is on the wane.
Little ailments and sicknesses seem harder to
shake off than formerly, and, here and there, evidences
of a breakdown begin to appear.
Now is the time those wishing to help maintain their health and vigour
should take a course of Milburn’s Health and Nerve Pills.
They help tone up and invigorate the patient by their tonic action on
the system.
Price 50c a box, 65 pills, at all drug counters.
Look for our trade mark a "Red Heart” on the package.
The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto. Ont.
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50 YEARS AGO
At the official opening of the
House of Refuge, Clinton, on Fri
day, Warden MacPherson occupied
the chair. Addresses were delivered
by several clergymen and others.
The building is home-like and com
plete in every detail. The House of
Refuge and furnishings will cost
in the neighborhood of $20,000.
The skating rink on the agricul
tural grounds has been leased by
William and Edward Dignan who
are now flooding it.
What might have resulted in. a
fatal calamity occurred between
Dashwood and Zurich on Sunday
and., Mrs.
were returning
from the Catholic Church
night last. It seems Mr.
Shea, of Stanley,
home
when their horse took fright and
ran away throwing the two occu
pants out of the rig and giving
them a bad shaking up. The horse
in its niad dash collided with a
horse and rig driven by Mrs.
Hohlbein and her mother,
Thon, who were hurled to the
side and the horse passed
them breaking Mrs. Thon’s
and Mrs. Holbein’s collar bone and
one rib and giving them a severe
shaking up.
Mr. McEwen has* started a salt
well in Hensall and expects to have
it running for several months.
Smiles . . .
Chas.
Mrs.
road-
over
nose
"He’s the linage of me,” the proud
father said of his new son. "Well,”
said the friend consolingly, "as long
as he's healthy . .
Just before a recent North Afri
can battle was begun the command
ing officer shouted: "The Germans
ate coming, men, but We’re out
numbered fouv to one, so do your
stuff!” Old Joe, a Kentucky moun
taineer, began to blaze away, but
lii about five minutes he stopped
and loaned his rifle up agaiftst a
rock. Officer. "What’s the mat
ter?” Old Joe: "Well, I got my
four.”
SO NOW WE’LL HAVE
“Well, Bob has finally decided! When he's
finished school he -wants to go to work in a
bank. And I'm glad—for a lot of reasons..."
A BANKER IN TOE FAMILY!”
He’ll get a thorough training, and can even receive university instruction
in banking and economics while he is working. Banking isn’t learned
in a day, but he’ll get lots of help—and every opportunity to move up as
he proves himself. The road to the top is wide open, and offers!:
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