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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1946-04-11, Page 2* i> Page 2 Exeter Flrnes established 1873; Advocate established 1381 amalgamated November 1$2$ PUBLISHED EACH THURSDAY MORNING AT EXETER, ONTARIO Newspaper devoted to the of Exeter and Surrounding interests District I. * THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 11th, 1946 4.n, independent of the Village All Advertising Later Memher of the Canadian Newspapers’ Association; Weekly Member of the Ontario-Quebee Division of the 'CWNA Copy Must be in Our Hands Than Noon on SUBSCRIPTION $2.01) a year, in advance; . three montbs M. SOUTHCOTT Not. i Tuesdays RATE six months, ILQO 60c , PUBLISHER THURSDAY, APRIL 11th, 1946 The Temperance Situation We all wish there was no temperance situa­ tion to deal with. We wish all oux- readers were free from the menace of the use of alcoholic beverages. But the menace is here and is likely to remain with us. - The question is, “What is to be done about it?” To this question law mak­ ers have striven in vain to find a satisfactory answer. Total prohibition of the sale o.f__liquor has not proven to be a panacea for the ills of the beverage use of alcoholic liquors. The regu­ lation of the traffic is beset by the gravest dif­ ficulties. About all that we can do it to insist upon the rigid enforcement of such laws as we have for the control of the trade that inter­ feres grievously with all that makes for the wel­ fare of the individual of the family and of the state in all its aspects. At-the* same'time it is the serious obligation of every man, woman and child among us, to to live and so to conduct himself that his whole influence, both public and private, both in family life and public enter­ tainment in its various forms shall make for wholesome customs and crystal clear upright thought, speech and conduct. » « # # Standing on One’s Own, Feet Young people and middle-aged people are finding it increasingly difficult to face up to difficult circumstances. Of late there^has been a tendency to furnish special aid to many young people in getting an education or in starting business or professional life or in meeting the duties and facing the financial obligations of raising a family. Further, there has been a ten­ dency to assure every citizen that he will be protected by the government in the day of mis­ fortune. The result has been that very many of our younger people have failed to resolutely set themselves to “paddling their own canoe,”no matter how wild the wind or how treacherous the current. There never was more need for our younger people to stiffen up the back-bone and to face their obligations with manly hearts. If our country is to weather the financial storm that threatens our every horjzon we must resur­ rect and practice’with redoubled effort the ster­ ling quality of independence. “Self knowledge, self reverence and self control” still mark the youngei* person who is making towards late middle life or old age where honor and self respect warm the heart. * « * « in existence, notably the Federation of Agricul­ ture’s Hog Marketing Scheme, the regrouped turnip producers’ club, and in our locality, the Agricultural Society’s Baby Beef Club. Each has its own place to fill and great things can be accomplished bv concerted and cooperative effort. It is regrettable that Carrick Township has so few forum groups, however, because, from these discussion meetings new ideas are born which have, in. most sections, resulted in improved business conditions for farmers. The town dweller may question our enthus­ iasm for the rural population, but after the ex­ perience of the last depression and with the pos­ sibility of another slump not too far distant, any intelligent observer ean see the necessity of main­ taining a prosperous farming community in the Dominion of Canada. With the farmer lies the welfare of each one of us, whether we.live in the villages or the cities. * * * * Kaiser’s ‘New Approach’ (Chilliwack Progress) Everybody is offering a solution to the con­ tinent-new deal of some kind between employers and employees, Those who work for others must have a wide labor problem. All but the irrecon­ cilable capitalists of the old school realize that there must be an equitable share of the rewards of their labor. Now it is Henry J, Kaiser, the American in­ dustrialist who astonished the world by his speed in building ships, who lias devised an ap­ parently acceptable scheme for enlisting the sup­ port of his workers. At any rate his proposals have resulted in the United Automobile Workers union signing on the, dotted line, a rather un- ' usual performance these days, when the U.A.W. has been attempting to dictate terms. Air. Kaiser has stopped building ships and is now making motor cars, And here is his in­ centive payment plan which has won favor with the union: For every shiny Kaiser-Frazer car that em­ ployees see rolling off the assembly lines a five- dollax* bonus goes to the company “kitty” to be divided up at the end of the year among employj- ces. Whether it is the high-paid mechanic op­ erating a g’iant punch, or the young grease monkey learning his trade, every car that goes out means something personal,’so much in his own purse at the end of the year. Absenteeism is one of the big headaches . of mass, production. Well, that year-end bonus, though it is not expected to exceed $150 in .1946, will be distributed on a basis of steady work. As a minimum, an employee must work 90 per cent of the hours he is scheduled, share in it. * to Note and Comment » We have grave fears that the severe frost -of Saturday night and Sunday morning did se­ vere damage to both meadow and fruit tree. «• » *■ ♦ The UNO is having some heavy sledding but it is making some satisfactory, progress nevertheless. * * * * We are hoping^that building materials and working men’s tools soon will be readily-avail­ able. We hear of a gx-eat many who are ready to go straight forward in building tools and materials may be had. * * •» * We hear complaints that tanks tribution of oil and gasoline among are very difficult to seoui-e. This •disability in the periods of the year when the farmers must have oil and gasoline wherewith tn carry on their farm operations. What makes the si^iation all the gravei* is the decided in­ crease of farm machinery requiring both gaso­ line and oil. as soon as the dis- farmers for the is a Serious What Other Editors Say Effective Organization (Mildmay Gazette) We pause to utter a word of commendation for the Farm Forums. In most sections of the province these organizations have stood the test of considerable time and are still operating for the benefit of all who interest themselves in rural education and activity, In our own com­ munity the Queen’s Bush Forum-has been meet­ ing regularly for six years, each week providing fresh stimulation for progressive thought and discussion as well as an opportunity for a period of social enjoyment which is particularly desir­ able among rural people* Contrary to general belief, it is the rural organizations in this district which are the lively ones. The town and village societies and clubs could learn a great‘deal from the farm forums or the Carrick Agricultural Society when it comes to getting things dona and keeping faces pointed toward the future. Several new farmers’ Organizations are now “A Thoroughly Evil Liquor Bill”' (A Toronto Daily Star Editorial) z With the Drew-Blackwell liquor* bill., the gov­ ernment drop’s all pretence at controlling the sale of liquoi- and gets out to increase it. The Liquor Authority Control Act is repealed and a Liquor License Act takes its place. The Liquor Authority Control Board becomes a Liquor Li­ cense Board. “License” is the government pol­ icy—and in the widest sense of that word. When beverage rooms were instituted jn Ontario, they were commended to the people as a means of decreasing the consumption of hard liquor. The drinking of hard liquor was the admitted evil Which’they would, it was said, mitigate. But the government now proceeds to reinstitute and exalt the evil of earlier days by setting out to sell hard liquor by the glass for the first time since 1917. And beer and wine are to be sold by the glass in restaurants—-an entirely new “outlet?’ An evil which Ontario long since abolished was the bar. But under the Drew-Blackwell legislation the bay is to be back in what—to use a modern phrase—might be called “streamlined form.” There will he, it is true, no counter at which a man can drink until he can no longer stand up. It is even promised that the bottles will be kept discreetly out of sight—as if that made any difference. But there is to be a bar \in the old sense of a room in which a man ean secure any kind of hard or not-so-liard liquor that he desires. A man? That was the old idea in7 the days when respectable women did not enter saloons. But in the liquor lounges of the Drew Government women are to be made wel­ come with the men. There will be soft couches as well as chairs and tables. Streamlined bars! •» * -x- In centres where restaurant licenses are granted, restaurant proprietors will either have to get one or else compete with Restaurants, which do. Restaurant* patrons will have drink­ ing thrust at them; the example .will be there* for young and old. This will occur not only in the five large cities which have been singled out . for immediate action, but-—without taking a vote-—in other centres as well, wherever hotel licenses reclassify their premises aS restaur­ ants. It is a deplorable step for Ontario to take; in its potentialities for evil second only to the provision d hard liquor in streamlined bars*. .And what is the pretext for this embark­ ation upon an outright -program of liquor sale promotion in Ontario? The pretext is that the liquor control system so far in vogue has been n failure—-has not been control at all— and that there is therefore a great body of public opinion against it. In other words, the Govern­ ment is capitalizing upon its own failure to con­ trol the business and upon the consequent dis­ repute* into which the present laws have fallen, It is capitalizing upon this to throw the busi­ ness wide open in the guise of a “reform,” a reform which sets back the clock to temperance and returns Ontario to sale of liguor by the glass after nearly three decades, And if the Government would not control liquor under the laws now being repealed., what will it do under the policy of expanded sale and increased habit for which its bill provides ? IO YEARS AGO Mr. Walter Harness, who has. beep, in London fpy several weeks, has purchased a barber business in that city. The ratepayers of Exeter have voiced their approval of the erec­tion of a municipal building to be used as & ^Rating rink and recrea­ tional centre. A quiet wedding took place at the United Church parsonage in Mount Brydges on Thursday, April 2nd, when Miss Margaret H. Johns youngest daughter of Mrs. Johns and the late Wellington Johns, was united in marriage to Mr. Percy A. McFalls, son of Mrs. McFalls and the late Alex McFalls. tbe ceremony being performed by Rev. Southcott. This section was swept by a driv­ ing snowstorm Tuesday afternoon and .evening making motor traffic extremely hazardous. Mr. Ed. Coward, of Farquhar, had a rather bad accident on Fri­ day, While helping Mr. Nelson, Hun­ kin with a load of hay, he had the misfortune breaking a leg in two places. Rt. Wor, Bro. J. R. Forster, of Stratford, D.D.G.M.. of Masonic District South Huron, paid his of­ ficial visit to Lebanon Forest Lodge A.F. and A.M., on Monday evening. Following the business of the eve­ ning the brethren adjourned to Caven Presbyterian Church where a splendid banquet wag tendered by the ladies. to slip and fall off 15 YEARS AGO A meeting of the Parks Commit­ tee of the Exetex’ Horticultural So­ ciety was held Saturday morning in Harvey Bros, office with Mr. W. H, the president, in the Johnston was re-elected Mr. S. M, Sanders, vice- and Mr. Geo. Mawson, Johnston, chair. Mr. president; president Secretary. The annual commencement exer­ cises of the Exeter High School were held in the school on, Thurs­ day afternoon of last week. Rep­ resentatives of the Board of Edu­ cation and a nuxxxber of parents were present. Easter Suiiday was appropriately observed with special services in all foui’ churches' in Exeter. The weather was cool but fine and large congregations were present at all services. Messrs. Boss and Brazier, who have .the contract for paving the London Road south of- Exeter, are i moving theix* machinery to Mr. Rus­ sell Skinner’s gravel pit on the Mary’s road. 25 YEARS AGO Messrs. Foote - and Pilon are larging the Grey-Dort Garage removing a couple of partitions at the rear. ' v Miss Fern Short' lids position at-the Canning bookkeeper. Messrs. Carlin Bros., who recently sold their residence to Mr. T. Drummond, moved to Seaforth where they have purchased a garage. Mr. McNash, of Walkerton, is the assistant buttermaker in the cream-* ery at Centralia and commenced his duties Monday. The choir of Carmel Presbyterian Church, Hensail, consisting of 35 members, motored down to Exeter on. Monday evening and rendered the contata, “The LivingjChrist/l at Caven Church undei’ the auspices of the Logie 'Circle. A short concert of songs and readings preceded the cantata and the evening's, entertain­ ment proved to be a high standai’d of excellence. Rev. Chidley, the new pastor of . Thames Road Presbyterian Church, ‘ was inducted on Thursday last. st. t I i,/ f...., me- sox en- by 1 appointed tq of Shorthorns at a field day Clinton Jufxe Federation oi to invite the show With Gerald repre- Sunday at the Penetecostal Tabernacle Mr. Mangus, of the United States, who had' returned to "the home of his sister, Mrs. .Sweitzer, to die, testified that, in answer to prayer he had. been completely healed of cancer. Dr’. Smith, of London, gave him a clean bill of health. Mr. Mangus is not a member .of Pente­ costal as Sunday was his first visit. • Pastor FT. T. Kendrick R, E. accepted a Factory as' of Hensail, * 50 YEARS AGO Mr. C. F. Wagner, of Zurich, has sold his village property to C. Hart- leib who intends building a hard­ ware store on it. Percy Cann left Thursday to ac­ cept a • position at the Walpef Housex Berlin. (Nicholas McAvoy left Thursday for Petrolia where he has secured employment. The entertainment held in the Methodist Church at Credifon Mon­ day evening was a grand success. There was a crowded house. The music, was furnished by Zwicker Bros, and Miss Beaver. Rev. Yel­ land'" acted as chairman; Eilber Bros., of 'Crediton, are busily engaged rebuilding the pump shop. The Vulcan foundry on Main St., Lucan, owned and operated ‘-by Halloran Bros., was completely gutted by fire atH6.$0 Sunday after­ noon. The origin is a mystery. Exeter can now boast of a most inventive genius in the person of Israel Smith who has just com­ pleted a most useful drill for the repairing of bicycles^ It is all hand­ made and is a clever piece of chanical skill. Then there's the happy moron, The one my pappy knows, Who keeps breadcrumbs in his To feed his pigeon toes. Shorthorn Breeders Will Hold Regional Show at Exeter Arrangements to have an exhibit of Shorthorn cattle from four West­ ern Ontario counties at the provin­ cial plowing match at Port Albert in Octobex* were put in train at d meeting ’in Dublin of the executive of the Perth-Huron Shorthorn Club-. .The exhibit, said, George Waldie, chairman of the meeting, serves as an alternative to getting the 1.9 46, championship Shorthorn show for ..Huron County. “At the provincial Shorthorn meeting,” said Mi'. .Waldie, “we realize that it wouldn’t be a very popular .move' to ask for a champ­ ionship show up. here at -the ex­ treme end of the province this yeax* so we asked for a grant for an exhibit of Shorthorn cattle,” A .grant, said Prof. G. E. Day/ of Guelph, secretary of the Ontario •Shorthorn Association, is to be paid to two clubs, the Perth-Huron and the Middlesex-Lqmbton, at the rate of $1101.00 for each h.ead exhibited Arrangements for selecting and transpoi'ting the show stock to the plowing match and for their c'are and exhibition while there, are to be made by the two Shorthorn clubs. At the suggestion of ■ Harold White, of Toronto, secretary of the Canadian Shorthorn Association the Perth-Huron club executive decided to have the selection of cattle for the exhibit made at the 1946 re­ gional show at Exeter in September. The decision to hold this year’s regional Shorthorn show in connec­ tion with Exetex* fall fair was made at the meeting here; a rider was attached to the resolution, to pro­ vide that prize money is to be made available for the show on the same scale as for the 1944 regional sh-ow at Exeter. Prize money offered on that occasion totalled approximate- ■ ly $600. » Lincoln White, of St. Marys, put up a case to the executive fdr a classification of- steers by weight instead of by age- at the regional show, The executive accepted the idea, and decided to divide steers for competition purposes into two classes, one for animals weighing 60.01 to 800 pounds, and one for animals weighing 8011 to 1,0'0 Q pouiids. The executive decided Kenneth Deacon to judge for a second year. Nelson , acting agricultural sentative for Huron, as the conven­ er, a coxhmittee was get together a class for judging purposes to be conducted at 19 th by .the Huron : Agriculture. TO A HlltlOH .CAHADIAHS The trees will soon be taking oh their new rai­ ment and spring will be whispering to farmers everywhere "How about a new cultivator ?—how about other farm machinery? — how about this and that?” Now is the time to. get ready for spring. Ready money for the go-ahead farmer is available at the Bank of Montreal. If a loan will help, see your nearest Bank of Montreal manager. He knows the farmer’s problems and is ready to work with you, and to put money to work for you, to make your farm a better farm. Ask for the folder "Quix for a Go-Ahead Farmer.” Bank, of JVIontreal TRY A CLASSIFIED!IT PAYS! JEhigagemcnt Announced Mr; and j^Irs, Harold Hodgins, of Lticatt, announce the engage­ ment of their eldest daughter, Elizabeth Jane (Betty), to Opl.. Donald M Ankers, of the li.U.A*F„ only son of Mr, and Mrs, H. D. Ankers, of Lucan,- the wedding to take place quietly in iLttcan the early part of May* , * A Help to These Who Are Past Middle Age When men iind 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 ana there, evidences Of a breakdown begin to appear. Now is the time those wishina to help maintain their health and Vigour should take d Course of Milburn’sHealth and Nerve Pills. They help tone up and invigorate the. patient by their tonic action'oh the system* ’ Price 50c a box, 65 pills, at all drug counters. Look for OUf trade Mark a “Red Heart” oh the package. The T. Milburn Co., Liiiiitod, T'bfbxxtb. Ont.