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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1947-02-13, Page 2Page 2 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSPAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 13 th, 1947 ®fje Exeter ®meg=^bbo£ate Times established 1873; Advocate established 1881 amalgamated November 1924 PUBMSHED EACH THURSDAY MORNING AT EXETER, ONTARIO An Independent Newspaper devoted to the interests of the Village of Exeter and Surrounding District Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers’ Association; Member of the Ontario-Quebec Division of the CWNA All Advertising Copy Must be in Our Hands Not Eater Than Noon on Tuesdays SUBSCRIPTION RATE $2.00 a year, in advance; six months, 51.00 three months 60c J. M. SOUTH COTT - - PUBLISHER THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13th, 1947 AH Together! Some broadcasters are telling' us that Brit­ ain is bankrupt. We are not eager to accept this bit of bad news. We are quite ready to believe that Britain is having her very serious troubles but we are loathe to think that the bailiff is at her door. We know well that Britain is passing through troublous times. Much of her shipping is at the bottom of the sea. Her cities and manu­ facturing equipment have been levelled by Ger­ man bombs. The labour agitator has opened the veins of her workers. Storms of unheard of viol­ ence have destroyed many of her homes. Her people have been weakened by years of auster­ ity coming near the point of actual want. Her associate nations have sought to drive unduly hard bargains with her merchants. All this and a great deal more is but a part of the gruelling hardships through which she is struggling with a brave heart but with a heart that is but human and -which therefore has a well defined limita­ tion of endurance. We belong to the fools and blind should we not admit the gravity of the situation of the motherland. Further, another feature of the situation that makes the outlook for Britain all the grav­ er is the manner in which she is alleged to be spending some of the money advanced to her by the United States. We heard with something like dismay that she is expending a large por­ tion of the money on movie films and tobacco! If this be the case, a great deal of that greatly needed money will be spent on other luxuries. Again we hear from folk visiting the old land mi business that certain moneyed people over there, are living as if no Britisher were in want. What can be done about it? First of all, there must be a recognition of the Unseen in the life and fortunes of the individual and the nation. The attempt to go without a religion is of all the follies the most egregious. Clergy has some waking up to do on this point. Wesley and John Knox were mighty forces in getting England and Scotland on their feet when the earthquakes and the storm of weakhandedness and dullness of brain threatened the very exist­ ence of the commonwealth. What clergy will take up the torch the present hour calls for? When Britain fears God and keeps His Com­ mandments she will find that the Most High will direct her paths. Till she takes that funda­ mental step she will take her lonely journey to the abode of Ninevah and Tyre. That Storm The storms have gone the hard way with our English cousins as the storm swooped down on them. Many of them have suffered severe loss while nearly every one of them has been put to real discomfort. A little common sense would have avoided a great deal of both loss and discomfort. For instance, we have been told that the English house water pipes rare installed outside their buildings. Little wonder that Jack Frost held high carnival. Out in Saskatchewan we have heard of the sad ravages made by the Storm. Those who have first hand knowledge of what winter can do when he takes things in earnest, know we have no idea of what our western fellow citizens have suffered during the last few weeks. In our own central Ontario ■we have had to stand still to see what the storm can do. We have waved our hands and said that the horse and buggy age is past only to find that without patient, plodding Dobbin we are bound to suffer. w * * * We Have To Keep Stepping This Arctic weather invasion has set some very fine folk to thinking. Not a few parties have been in misery because the baker has not. been calling on them at least once a day. Still other worthy folk are in torment because the butcher has not been on their door step daily. Others complain because the dry goods man has not been on hand with aprons and socks. Onlookers tell us that we have been going too fast and remind us of the brave days in Rome when every citizen had a parcel of ground that was to be the source of food and clothing for himself and his family with a neat overplus to keep the state going. Folk who thumb their his­ tories for this time when "none were for the party but all were for the state,** tell the world that we must recover this simpler way of carry­ ing on. And there may be something in what they say. We have done a good deal too much in the -way of cultivating tastes that easily be­ come our tormentors. We believe that every man should be able to dig and chop and plow and build. But the new simplicity must be that of the twentieth century and of the present day. We put on muscle as the result of plain food and sufficient clothing, We do our work when we have the mind and, the muscle therefore. But willingness and muscle will take us but a little ■way without adequate equipment for our job. Only we must not have the whistle so powerful that we must shut down the work to have enough steam to blow it. The equipment is a means, not an end. A high standard of living is but a step on the way to getting worthwhile things done. We are only too liable these days to ig­ nore the fundamentals. » * That Police Change It is alleged that the rural village police system of the Province is undergoing a change in administration and a shake-up generally. We hope that this is all to the good. The aim of the change is alleged to be in the interest of ef­ ficiency. Some thingy must be kept in mind in this regard. For one thing the police officer must be equal to getting his man and when he gets his man to take care of him. The London policeman is a model in this respect. Every criminal in London knows that the policeman is a firstclass boxer in good practice. Next, the policeman is required to know his locality. When inquired of, the policeman is required lo direct the travelling public satisfactorily. In the next place, the police officer requires the respect and the full confidence of the public he serves. If trouble should emerge the police­ man must be sure that he will be supported by all good citizens. The criminal class are re­ quired to be fully aware that the policeman’s order is the command of society. In a very real way the policeman’s life is a lonely one. He simply cannot afford to tell all that he knows. To do so, is for him to be at the criminal’s mercy. He is in a semi-judicial position and must proceed only when he has evidence to sup­ port him. He may have his suspicions but he is not required to reveal these suspicions. At the same time he should be able to discern the ap­ pearances of evil. He will never forget that he is a law-enforcement officer. * * * * They Don’t Know How Britain was not satisfied till she broke with the political system that had brought her to her place of worthy pre-eminence among the na­ tions of the world. She is now supping full the consequences of her experiment of placing the affairs of her kingdom into the care of men who had not experience in international con­ cerns. Palestine and Burma are the direct re­ sults of her mad experimentation. The coal strike and the failure of the electrical situation are proof positive that her government is utterly incompetent to manage home affairs. Five mil­ lion Englishmen are out of employment. We know the consequences of such enforced idle­ ness. The labour government means well but it is incompetent to the very last degree. The in­ tentions of the rulers are the very best, but the present government does not know how to carry on. Canadians and Yankees alike had better put their brains in steep and do some brisk eye­ rubbing. 46 * It Happened Here As a result of the storm Exeter was isolated Monday morning. We were busy talking about unfortunate Saskatchewan because of its severe storms. We have a great deal of pity for Eng­ land with her villages, towns and cities where no fuel or food or electricity was to be had. We complacently said such a visitation never would come our way but it came last Monday morn­ ing. « * * IS IT TO BE A GENERAL ELECTION? The Parliamentary session was opened on Thursday last with expectation of a fighting session, and proceedings quickly showed that the battle was on. In the opening debate Mr. Bracken, Progressive Conservative leader, threw down the gage with a challenge to a vote of the people, and Prime Minister King promptly re­ plied with a warning that if the House lacked confidence in his Government an election could not come too quickly to please him. Mr. Bracken denounced the "piece-meal” negotiations with the Provinces in the matter of taxation powers and called for another Dom­ inion-Provincial conference. He twitted the Government on the results of the recent by­ elections and claimed they were an indication of what the country was thinking. The Govern­ ment control policy also was assailed, and the Opposition leader asked for the removal of all controls except those on rents and exports. The Prime Minister, obviously nettled by Mr. Bracken’s attack, replied with vigor. He claimed that the Government’s control measures had warded off the evils which were seen after the first World War and that the Government would continue only such controls as seemed necessary for the public welfare. Dealing at length with the Dominion-Provincial taxation proceedings, he claimed that the attitudes of Premier Drew of Ontario and Premier Duplessis of Quebec showed that anothe rgeneral confer­ ence would be useless. He quoted the figures of the four inter-session bv-elections to show that the Liberal candidates had polled 34,159 votes to 22,379 cast for Conservative candidates. Mr. Bracken moved for a straight vote of no confidence in the Government, C.C.F. Leader Coldwell moved a similar motion but with the addition of condemnation of the failure of the Government to adopt C.C.F. policies. These motions will not go to a vote until the end of the debate, which may continue for several weeks. On the issue will be decided whether there will be an early appeal to the country in a general election or a continuance in power of the present Government,—Goderich Signal-Star, The Reader Comments Letter* to fhe editor published hereunder repre*ent the views of individual persons. We invite our readers to make use of this column. 'February 6, 1947 The Editor, Times-Advocate, Exeter, Ont. Dear Sir: It is to be regretted that your reporting of the general meeting of the Exeter Chamber of Com­ merce, held on Friday, January 31st shows such a distinct bias. The purpose for which the meeting was called was to present 10 reso­ lutions to the members for their consideration, For this reason dis­ cussion pertinent to these resolu­ tions was all that was in order. The remarks of the Reeve to which you refer had nothing to do with the question before the meeting at the moment and were entirely out of order, and should have no place in the record of this meeting. This cannot help but give a distorted impression to your readers of what tool; place at the meeting. This is not in the best interest of commun­ ity service and community spirit which The Chamber ,pf Commerce is trying to nurture. Yours truly, ■R. H. Doyle. It, is certain that all people do not think alike. The only item in last week's paper on which we were complimented was the one in reference to the Chamber of Com merce meeting. We were told on several occasions that we had handled it .well. We had given it considerable. thought. We feel we would be remiss in our duty to the .public were we to report a public meeting and ignore the remarks of the reeve of the town because those remarks according to Dr. Doyle were out of order. Reeve Tuckey was asked to express his opinion and because it did not co­ incide with some of the discussion is no reason that it should be ig­ nored in the report. We regret, that Dr. Doyle does not see eye to eye with us but we feel that he does not fully realize a newspap­ er’s function to report what takes place at a public meeting.—Editor CREDITON Mi’, and Mrs. Herb Falmier are spending a few weeks in Detroit. Misses Elaine Fahnier and Paul­ ine Faist spent the week-end in Toronto and attended the Ice Fol­ lies. Miss Louieda Finkheiner has her arm in a cast, the result of a fall near her home two weeks ago when she fractured a bone in her wrist. Miss Cricli spent the week-end with friends in London. Mrs. John Wade visited in Lon­ don a few days this week. Several week-end visitors in town had their visits extended due to the snow blocked roads. Those from London included Misses Marion Brown and Laura Woodall, Messrs. E. K. Fahrner. Roy Finkheiner and Frederick Morlock and Mr. Herbert Musgrave of Aylmer, Sarah Ann Siddall Mrs. Sarah Ann -Siddall, wife of Le Roy 'Siddall, died 'Frieday in her 53rd year, Born at Hensall ’Grange, Hensail, she attended school at S.S. 14, Hay, and Exeter High School. She was a graduate of London Nor­ mal School and taught for 15 years. For the past two and a half years she taught at No, 3 and iNo. 10 schools in London Township. iShe was a daughter of the late John and Sarah Butt Petty of Hensall. Sur­ viving are her .husiband; two sons, Janies Howard and David Petty Siddall; one daughter, Florence Blanche; two sisters, 'Norali and Florence Petty, and one brother, James, Hensall. The 'body rested at her late residence, Lobo town line, where the funeral service was held Monday at 2.30 p.111. with inter­ ment in Carlisle .cemetery. For best results from your telephone: 1. Keep colls brief. 2. Space your calls. 3. Avoid "listening in." THIS YEAR ALONE we are spending $3,500,000 so that more farms will have telephones with fewer people on each line. • • • For the best telephone service, remember the master rule, "Do unto others as you would like them to do to you—and do it first!” IO YEARS AGO i A wagon in which Mr. Wesley Webber, of south of Exeter, was riding was completely demolished in an accdieAir«which also involved a motor car and a truck about two miles south of town Thursday of last week. A passenger in the car was badly cut and Mr. Webber had a foot injured. * Jones and May .are remodelling the dry goods side of their store. Saturday evening was very cold. Early Monday morning rain visited Western Ontario leaving the roads covered with a sheet of ice. Mr. Stanley Walter, who has been with the Bank of iMontreal at Mit­ chell. has been transferred to' the St. Marys Branch. ern States, is having Mr. Rich. Davis’ old blacksmith shop repaired and will open out ibusiness. The teachers and officials of the Janies (Street 'Church attended the Sabbath School Convention at Elim- ville on Wednesday and a very .prof­ itable and pleasant day was enjoyed by the numerous delegates. The steam dredge, which has been stored in the old foundry building during the winter, was shipped to Buffalo Thursday. The Exeter hockey team drove to Clinton on Thursday last and 'play­ ed a game with the team of that place, resulting in a victory for Clinton by six goals to two. Lamont and Middleholtz, but­ chers of the village of Zurich, have > dissolved partnership and in the future A. Middleholtz will conduct the business. Messrs. Joseph Haist and Richard Baker have .gone into partnership as butchers at Centralia. 15 YEARS AGO Miss Ruth Balkwill, stenographer at the Hogarth .Hatchery, had the-; misfortune to run a steel paper file through the right hand Monday eve­ ning. Mr. John Miller, an employee at the Hogarth Baby Chick Hatchery, while working in the rear of the hatchery where .a partition had re­ cently 'been built, he stumbled over an obstruction and in falling his hand came in contact with a spike sticking up which went through the hand between the— bones of the thumb and first finger. Mr. Ted Taman, who has been with the Canadian Bank of Com­ merce Branch at Forest, has been transferred to Seaforth. Several members of the Masonic Order were in Goderich on Friday night of last week attending an "At Home” of the Maitland Lodge at which Rt. Wor. Deputy Grand Master F. A. Copus, of Stratford, was the guest speaker. 25 YEARS AGO Mr. Freeborn Johnston, of the ship “Carnegie” gave an address descriptive of the Islands of the Pacific at a meeting of the 'Main ’Street League on Tuesday evening. On Friday evening at the Arena the Exeter-Zurich hockey team tuck­ ed away the second round in the O.H.A. intermediate series when they defeated the fast Ingersoll sextette 11 goals to 8. The Exeter- Zurich hockey team went t0 Inger­ soll Monday evening to splay the return game and won 5 to. 3. Mr. Rd. Hilt of Stephen, has re­ cently lost two head of cattle from ■poisoning. Mr. Hill is not able to account for it as he lias not had any poison about the place. The Exeter and South Huron ‘Ministerial Association met in the Trivitt Memorial schoolroom on Monday with a fine attendance. Rev. A. A. Trumpet presented a poper on "The Second Coming of Oitr Lord." The dean of the ministry in South Huron, Rev, Dr. Colin Flet­ cher, was present. 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