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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1946-03-14, Page 2Page 2 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 14th, 1946 Cxeter ®itnes;^bbocate Times. established 1873: Advocate established 1881 amalgamated November 1924 PUBLISHED EACH THURSDAY MORNINQ AT EXETER, ONTARIO An independent Newspaper devoted to the interests of the Village of Exeter and Surrounding District Member of tine Canadian 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 f. M. SOUTHCOTT * - PUBLISHER THURSDAY, MARCH 14th, 1946 Mind The Step ■’linger as we are to find new markets, the principle of minding* the step should be our guiding* principle unless we are to do a fine Stroke of business only to find ourselves com­ ing out of the small end of the horn. Yet that is the very thing a great many Canadians are doing. Thesb men are more solicitous to get big accounts or to negotiate big deals than they are to serve their fellow Canadians or their brother Britishers. This is a vicious principle that has ruined many a man, many a firm and many a nation. “Son, thee musn’t marry for love, but thee should be careful to go wherp love is,” the old Quaker advised his boy as he was think­ ing of matrimony. We should not do business only because of financial returns, but the man who does business without due reward therefor is on the rocks already, only he is so dull that he does not know his own plight.. The customer who has served one well for a term of years should not be overlooked. Let us not make -fools of ourselves on this point unless we are ready to pay the penalty down to the last copper. Strange as it may seem,, we are slow learners of fundamentals. We could tell of some folk who are generally regarded as astute who within the last few months, have imperilled the savings of a lifetime because they have listened to the wooing voice of the foreign stranger. We hope -that none of our readers are bent on being wail­ ed over as horrible examples of' being* duped. Little boats do well to keep near the shore. Speculation had better be left to those who have the gift of making their money in chunks and who can retain their profits. * » * * Is It Good Policy? •Is it wise for our folk to keep the buying public in Canada as near the bone as they are now keeping them ? Is it in anyone’s interest to have a condition in which a man finds it dif­ ficult to buy a shirt, a suit of clothes or a car­ penter’s square or a jacknife or a decent outfit of garters or’ suspenders. Is it wise to force restaurants and boarding schools to the point of meanness in their feeding their customers ? We are required to furnish money by the bil­ lion dollars. Farmers are called upon to produce as they never produced before. At the same time the people who do tl\e nation’s work are kept at the lowest rations possible. Men cannot work., hard and overtime at that and be kept at the under-fed point or nearly . at that point. Hungei* and social discontent go hand in hand. When the shelves of dealers are almost bare of many classes of rubbers as the wet, slush season is upon us,, is it any comfort for a shop­ per to be told that there is no relief in sight for many a long month ? We are neither hoarders nor misers, but we believe that the worker and his family should not be pinched until faintness overtakes him. England lias something to tell us on this point. , # * * * Franco Franco has been making a bad mess of things over there in Spain. Britain, the United States and France are grievously at odds with him and suggest to him that he should give over his rule in Spain to a tribunal that would insure a free election in the land he now misrules. The Big Three already mentioned suggest that the Spaniards should oust their pernicious ruler. •The Spaniards simply cannot do the ousting asked of them, while France sees the mess that would follow should outsiders undertake to kick him out. Accordingly the general sits back, -■’'takes his fill of contentment and goes on his wav unmolested. -X- * All Those Cards Mr. Churchill has made a speech that has set the printing presses of4 the world aroaring, that has brought the big men of Anglo-Saxon- dom into counsel and that has knitted the brows of the statesmen of the whole earth. Some may not like the speech, but it must be remembered that he is the man who rallied Anglo-Saxondom in their hour of extreme, peril, and at whose word tens of millions of men and women offer­ ed life itself for freedom. Perhaps never in the history of the race did so many listen to what one man had to say. Some say that the speech was a call to arms. That is anything but true. The utterance was a call to all who know the horrors of war to take effective and immediate steps to remove all causes and occasions of war. Peace can be had only when there is a known will to preserve peace. Hations, to understand each other, must know each, other. Hence. Mr. Churchill’s hint that the “iron curtain” between nations should be removed. Folk have a disturb­ ing belief that there is something particularly sweet behind carefully locked cupboards and fear that “Secret path means secret foe.” Since there is, an “iron curtain" between the western nations of Europe and eastern nations, Mr. Churchill advises Anglo-Saxondom to be pre­ pared should that curtain suddenly fall and Anglo-Baxondom find herself confronted by bristling cannon and mighty armies. He recalls the days before the outbreak of the last war. As he does so we will do well to recall how loth we were to believe that the axis powers were bent on our extermination. He is eager to march with Russia provided Russia is willing to have the western powers live out their ideals in an atmosphere of freedom, The whole speech of Britain’s former Prime Minister was a call to march forward to peace, but if peace is not to be our lot to be ready to defend our freedom. * » * ■jf- Egypt Some students in Egypt have been behaving very badly. Twenty years ago the Egyptian government and the British government agreed to leave Egypt to herself, leaving the British 'government in possession of a narrow strip along the Suez Canal that might be occupied by British troops for the protection of the canal. There was a provision in the agreement for re­ vision of the agreement after ten years, should there be occasion for * such a rearrangement, The period for consideration of the agreement expired this year of grace. The students of Egypt for some unknown reason, unless hot­ headedness and .inconsiderateness pass foi* a reason, made no end of disturbance, demand­ ing that the British troops should be withdrawn, lock, stock and barrel at that. Things are show­ ing signs of cooling off and the students may find themselves learning in the hard school of experience. Moral Quality Essential We have conferences of one sort and an­ other in over abundance. We get reports from this and that big concern. The outstanding men in one business and another meet, talk, confer, and agree but what puzzles some of us is that times are not. one penny the better. We are thrilled by the utterances of mighty leaders. Our obvious duty is made the more obvious, but we do not make any advance worthwhile. The reason? There is no underlying moral prin­ ciple that makes itself dominant. The urge of duty has not its place in our everyday life. Slack­ ness has crept in upon uS till'we are almost ham­ strung, when it comes to putting our ideals or our fine principles into action. Let us not for­ get that duty, as it was in John Milton’s day, is “the stern daughter of the voice of God.” » * * - '. Ji- Well, the syrup-makers had a bad week-end of it, and we are sorry. We greatly need an abundance of maple syrup. » * Y- * Democracy In Our Schools (Aylmer Express) A critic of our educational system has pointed out a danger in our. vocational training. It must really train and deepen a student’s ‘capa­ city and not take three or four years to teach what the student could learn (with pay) in in­ dustry in a few months. An interesting side­ light on this is that many firms like Westing­ house and General Electric., as well as the Bell Telephone, provide not only night Classes for further instruction for apibitious workers, but scholarships on foreign technical and trade schools all over the world. Why worry, you say, about further educa­ tion for a boy and girl already earning a good salary? The military authorities have found from actwil experience, that one who is liber­ ally educated, that is, one of many resources, adapts himself to conditions and is in & strong­ er position to stand the gulf that an untrained individual. Chatham, noted for its vocational school, is embarking on a new project. They have plan’s under consideration which calls for. studqnts to erect a house, complete in every detail, as part of their class work. Provincial Johnson stated the school has instructors capable of teaching -the boys how to handle the job. * * * * * “The Great Spy Story” % (St. Marys Journal-Argus) The handling by the Canadian press of, the “Great Ottawa Spy Story,” says “Saturday Night”, has ben such as to suggest that it may be a long time before some of our newspapers --—and doubtless some of their readers also— outgrow the colonial status which this nation is supposed to have abandoned a generation and more ago. An adult nation would realize that when it happens to be in possession of valuable military secrets nothing is more natural or in­ evitable than other nations should attempt by any and all means to acquire those secrets . . . That the state of the world is such that the leading English-speaking nations are not .pre­ pared to communicate their military secrets vol­ untarily to Russia should surprise nobody, es­ pecially if it be true that they are not even com­ municating them to one-another. In ^uch a state of the world it is natural and inevitable that Russia should endeavour to secure them without the consent of their owners-} and it is the busi­ ness of the Canadian authorities to see that Russia does not do so* If Canada is too inex­ perienced a nation to be able to guard sucli sec­ rets, Canada is not fit to be in possession of them. For Canadians to assume that no decent and well-behaved nation will even try to secure them is too simple-minded for the pleople of a country which owns a vast uranium deposit in this year of grace If the Great Ottawa Spy Story shocks us out of that, simple-minded­ ness it will not be an unmixed evil, b.ut the daily newspapers and some of the politfciafis are gd- . fng to take a lot of shocking. IQ YEARS AGO Dr. T. iHarry iSeldon, of Sharlbot Rak©, has disposed of his medical practice and, is joining the staff of the 'Mayo IBrps. Hospital at Hoch’ ester, N.Y.. Mr, Jack Paisley, manager of the Chainway store in Exeter, has re­ceived word that he is being trans­ ferred to the ©nnville branch, His place here • will be taken by 'Mr. Jack Scott, of Toronto, <Mr. and Mrs, Archie Morgan, of Usborne, had a most unpleasant ex­ perience and narrowly escaped seri­ ous injury when the cutter in which they were driving to, town Friday evening last was struck by an apto driven by Harold Broder­ ick. Mrs, Morgan was thrown out onto a hard snowbank and was rendered unconscious, The horse ran away but Mr, Morgan escaped uninjured. Mr. Wm. McKay, who has (been on the staff of the Bank of Mont­ real for several years, 'has been transferred to the Stratford branch. His place is being taken by Mr. R. H- Woodruff. Thirty girls from Rooms V and VI of the Exeter .Public School sur­ prised Miss M. A. Horton on Fri­ day evening on her birthday and presented her with a beautiful sil­ ver cake plate, 15 YEARS AGO At the morning service in James Street Church on Sunday last Rev. D. McTavish announced to the con­ gregation that lie had decided to accept their invitation to return for the sixth year as pastor. ILieut. (Rose Smith, of the Salvar tion Army, has been transferred to Wiarton and is leaving this week. She has been in Exeter for the past nine months. Her place will foe tak­ en by Lieut. Borthwick, A very successful power farming conference -with moving pictures’ was held 'Tuesday at the Ford 'Gar­ age and in the afternoon at Mars Theatre. The four day Canadian Chautati- qua festival wound up in Exeter on Thursday evening of last week and brought to close a rare treat of entertainment that was greatly appreciated in the community. (On Wednesday evening of last week while Master Ernest McTavish was sliding down a bannister at the James Street parsonage he had the misfortune to fall off and frac­ ture a bone in one of his wrists. 25 YEARS AGO Mr. Ed, Davis has taken a posi­ tion as junior with the Canadian Bank of Commerce. ■Mr. Frank Coates, of Usborne, has purchased from Mr. Charles ■Upshali the fifty acre grass farm north of .Wjnphel§ea. Mr. Wnu ’BffiRh/' who has been engaged with >Mr. Fred Ellerington on his farm in 'Usborne moved this week with his family to London to make his future home. Mr. John Zuefle has now com­ pleted his green house at Hensail. ■Mr. and Mrs.” J. A. Stewart re­ turned Tuesday -from a month’s visit with relatives in Detroit. Mr. Thos. Willis last week had a new smokestack erected at his creamery at Centralia. Mr. James (Scott has sold his home and property in Exeter'to Mr. George Coward, of Usborne, HAUGH — MUSSER—A qui,et wed- , ding was solemnized at the Dash­ wood Evangelical parsonage, on Wednesday, March 16, when Laura Mae, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Musser, was united in marriage to Arthur S. Haugh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Haugh, Rev. Yager,' officiat­ ing. 50 YEARS AGO Mr. J. G. Smallacombe has again opened out a tailor sIiod in Carl­ ing’s old stand. Messrs. Peter Bawden and Wm. Howard contemplate the erection of a skating and curling rink during the coming summer. Miss Smith, milliner, returned last week to attend to her duties under the employment of E. J. Spackman & Co.; also -Miss Urqu­ hart, milliner, Who has been visit­ ing at her home in Oshawa, return­ ed last week-end, has taken charge of her,, former position with J. A. Stewart. > Mr. Thomas .Palmer and Mr. Geo. John are opening up a confectionery and restaurant in Hensail. •Percy Luxton who is engaged with Samuel Skinner, of USborne, while splitting wood on Tuesday last accidentally cut a severe gash in his foot. w Mr. B. ’Aubry, horse buyer, of Montreal, was,;,in town ’this week for the purpose of buying horses. Mr. W. H. Trott recently pur­ chased the shop he has been doing business in from Mr. D. Johns. Smiles . . . . “My dear, J never imagined you would marry 'the man you did,” said Gladys, "Neither did I,” re­ plied her friend. "I disliked, his ways, but I adored his means.” This is a story ’ about a super* salesman. He was Selling milking machines and called on a farmer who owned only one cow. Before he left he had sold the man two milking machines and taken in the cow as down payment. A colored artilleryman, back from France, was explaining It to a group of ’admiring Harlemites. “Ah opens the big gun, Ah puts in a big shell. Then Ah closes the gun, pulls the triggah, steps back and says: ’Mistah Hftiah. recount yoT army!” When one more is a crowd! When the family cpmes home, or friends are caught in town without hotel accommodation, you can always make room for one more ... if Dad will sleep on the chesterfield. But sometimes there simply is no room for one more. ' « ' * ' Take the home that is not adequately wired, for instance. That new sandwich grill may be one appliance too many for the circuit to carry. The new kitchen mixer may be out of luck for a convenient wall outlet to operate from. Where to put that froxen-food cabinet may be a bigger problem than finding one you can buy. The wall outlet in the chosen corner may be already “overloaded” because of improper distribution of outlets per circuit. When you build or remodel, be sure that your home is adequately wired. Be sure that it is ready to receive the new electrical appliances,that you will be wanting to add from time to time. Employ a reliable electrical contractor, and see that there are plenty of outlets in every room, and circuits enough to serve them all adequately. Your Hydro supplies power at rates that are .among the lowest in the world.' If you are to have full advantage of its convenience, your home must be adequately wired. If you are improving or building a home, ask yoyr Hydro for the booklet, ’’Adequate Wiring for the Postwar Electric Homes of Canada." ELECTRIC POWER COMMISSION OF ONTARIO Hen sa Cb uncil Meets in Regular Session The regular meeting of the Vil­ lage ^Council was held Tuesday eve­ ning .at 8 p.m. in the Council Chamber with all members being present. Minutes of the previous meeting were read. .Fink and Hyde.*, that the .minutes be adopted as read. Carried. R.. J. Patterson, tax collector, reported and asked that the tax roll be extended uiitil next meeting. Moir and Kerslake: that the tax collector hand in the 1945 tax roll at the next meeting, April 2, 1946. Carried. T. Kyle asked about' the empty 'barrels at the rear of the hall, instructed to return the same to the Imperial Oil, Sarnia. The auditors report was looked over and accepted. Hyde and Fink: that the auditors report foe adopted as presented and sufficient, copies of the same be printed. Carried. J. A. Patterson reported re the Association of Rural Municipalities held in Toronto. Reeve Shaddick reported re the Good Roads Con­ vention: also the Warden’s ban­ quet held at the same time. He also appeared as a delegate from the International Plowing Match and the .Spring Seed’’ and Stock iShow asking for grants for same. Kers­ lake and .Moir: that we grant the Spring iSeed and Stock Show $60.D0 and the International Plowing Match $7'5.00. Carried. Correspond­ ence read as follows: -Bell Telephone Co., re Assessment Association of Rural Municipalities, Meadows Critoph and Co., same considered and filed. Bills and accounts read: Monteith ahd Monteith, auditors $75.7'5; Hydro Commission, hydro hall 18.60; .School Board, current expenses 1,000/00'; T< Kyle, salary 73.80; J. Pfaff, snowplowing side­ walks 5.00; W. R. Davidson. _coal hall 20.00; Mustard .Lumber and Coal, coal hall 16.25;’ Brown’s Hardware, glue hall 1*50; Municipal World, supplies 5.96; 'Provincial Treasurer, insulin re Mitchell 1.74; M. Mbir, expenses Toronto 2'0'. 00; H. Hyde, expenses Toronto 20.001; A. W. Kerslake, expenses Toronto 20.00; E. Fink, expenses Toronto 20.00; J. A. Paterson, expenses Toronto, telephone and typewriter 23,70;. W. Allen, snowplowing sts. 31.00; sF. G. Bonthroii, insurance rinkt25.0o; F. G. Bonthron, postage 5.oo; R. Simpson, labor hall 23.50>; G. A. Gangster, -labor hall 8.75: 50,0 Club, expenses banquet meals 66.25: Mrs. J. Murdoch, orchestra banquet 28.00; .Spring Seed and Stock Show, grant 60.00; interna­ tional Plowing Match, grant 75.00; total $1,034.50; iF'ink attd ICOfS- lake: thht the bills and accounts as read be paid, Carried/ Hyde and Kersluke; that we now adjourn. Carried. — J* A. Paterson, Clerk. of this Clean, Family Newspaper T/\|^The Christian Science Monitor Free from crime and sensational news . . Free from political bias , -. Free from "special interest” control . . Free to tell you the truth about world events. Its own world-wide staff of corre­ spondents bring, you on-the-spot news and its meaning to you and your family, Each issue filled with unique self-help features to clip and keep. * ’ . I I I I I I. Tho Christian Science Publishing Society Ono, Norway Strefct, Boston 15, Mass. Name. Street. City. PB-3 Zone .. .. State. □ Please send sample copies j of The Christian Science I . ti. Monitor. >f ] •*••• I I Please send a one-month J ..... I—J trial subscription. I en- j close $ > | WINCHELSEA Mrs. Ray Fletcher and Norma spent Thursday evening with Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Batten. Mr. and Mrs. Garnet Johns at- tended the Ratcliffe—Johns wed­ ding at Elimville on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Don. Penhale and Sheridan visited on Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Cooper, of Elimville. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Dickey and family, of Elimville, and Miss Joy Whitlock, of 'St. Thomas, visited on Sunday with Mr. and ,Mrs. Freeman Horne. Mr. • E. Willard and Doh. of Mount Pleasant, visited on Satur­ day evening with Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Batten. Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood Brock ahd Ivan spent Friday evening at the home of Mr. John Ridley. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Batten and Gladys, and Mr. Alf, Brooks visited On Friday With Mr. ahd Mrs. Harold Willhrd, of Mount Pleasant. Mr. and Mrs. Garnet Johns spent Sunday with relatives in Exeter. Mr. ahd Mrs. Sherwood Brock visited on Sunday with Mr, and Mrs. Goldwyn Glenn, of Brinsley. 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