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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1948-02-12, Page 2It THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER. ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY J2th, 1948 Exeter tEimeg-Sttoocate Advocate Established 1881Times Established 1873 Amalgamated November 11)21 Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario An Independent Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the Village of Exeter and District Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario-Quebec Division of the OWN A Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation Paid-in-Advance Circulation as of September 30th, 1947 - 2,214 SUBSCRIPTION BATES Canada, in advance, $2.50 a year United States, in advance, $3.00 Single Copies 6 Cents Each » PublishersJ. Melvin Southcott Robert Southcott THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12th, 1948 Those Unaccountables The cold spell of the last weeks of January and the early days of February remind us that affairs in the best regula­ ted businesses do not always' run along like a song. Tens of thousands of men were laid off work because the thermo­ meter took an unexpected drop and stayed at the low temperatures. No one foresaw’ this state of the weather but is came nevertheless and men stood helplessly by. We have become so enterprising these last few years that we imagine that progress is inevitable. Perhaps this uhusuallv long cold spell will teach us a few’ things. It is the unexpected that usually happens. Hu­ mans have their caprices that show them­ selves in undreamed of ways. Fickleness is as much a characteristic of human nature as steadfastness. When Burns wrote a let­ ter to his young friend he said, (‘It may turn out a song. It may turn out a ser­ mon”. So there you are. An invention has made some rich while the same invention has made other men poor. None Too Soon That committee appointed for conser­ ving the natural resources of western On­ tario has come into existence ju->t 'a little too late. For one thing, the fuel resources of the province have been exhausted to a shameful degree. Where one tree has been left, ten thousand should have been con­ served. Forrests have been cut down with no effective means for their replacement. Every hundred acre farm in the province should have at least ten acres in a w'oodlot well cared for. By w'ell cared for we mean that the lot should be fenced against cat­ tle, that matured tress should be removed and for every tree removed at least eight should be planted to take its place. We can. name a farm -where this is the prac­ tice. We mean, too, that the borders of such lots should be looked after and plan­ ted. We know of an instance where the grass had been creeping in on the wood­ lot. This farmer plowed up the grass in the early autumn. The next spring, he wisely summer fallowed this land and in the following spring planted a fine variety of trees, keeping in close touch with the forestry department of the government. That was thirty years ago. The farmer has the satisfaction of handing on a fine w’ood- lot to his son. Huron county is in need of care in this particular. The county has a good deal of land that would be better* under forest than being left' to erosion. Tree planting is profitable. Some trees are especially adapted to helping out in local necessities and have a way of growing into usefulness in a score of years or even less. Tree planting in no way interferes with good general farming. A wise government sees to it that its trees are preserved. Had our fathers been foreseeing in this matter w’e should have had no fuel crisis at the present moment. I ❖ Wasting Time While the country suffers from an unreasonably high cost of living, the par­ liamentarians over there in Ottawa talk and talk and talk. Weeks pass and precious’ lit­ tle is done. Committees are suggested and assigned high sounding responsibilities but that is nearly all that comes of it. We beg the reader’s pardon. Something is done. The high prices continue their course in the stathosphe.ro. The people least able to pay are squeezed a little harder, and the misery runs right along. Nothing is done to deflate the currency. To do so might kick up something of a shindy, to be sure.* * These Excellent Things Again has the Right Honourable Ar­ thur Mexglien put a continent under obli­ gation to him.< He did that once before when he reminded us of the greatest Eng­ lishman, William Shakespeare. This time, in his address before the Alumni of To­ ronto University he has led us to the sources of what is permanent and abiding in our humanity. In crispy sentences pack­ ed to the limit with tile best the English language supplies, he, reminded us that as is the mind so is the man, that as is the sentiment so is the life, as we ponder we make character, and as we have character we make our destiny. In times when we hurry every moment and find ourselves unsatisfied when our hurry has exhausted us. Mr. Meighcii told us of the springs where our great and fine had drunk and become mighty men on the farm, in the market and in professional life. We do not invite our readers to become proficient in Latin and Greek or to fathom the myster- ies of Geometry and Algebra. However, we do urge them to keep a correspondence fixed with the classic writers of our own language. We may not read Homer but we have a substitute in Scott. Dickens enables us to see life and to see it whole. Burns takes us into the deep tilings of the human heart. The Bible with its great and noble simplicities fits us so to live that we need not fear to die. The clarion speeches of Mr. Churchill open our eyes to the possi­ bilities of our people. It may take a bit of severe discipline for us to give our days and niglits to these mighty leaders but to do so is to heed the call to worship tile Lord our God with all our mind, as well as with all our heart. Era Makers the Wright brothers succeeded a flying seconds, When having machine stay in the air a neat little notice was press. We said in our invention was an inter- or in for a few given them'' in the airy way that the esting toy for rich men to play with, that it was the overflow’ of one-sided geni­ us. Yet that toy has destroyed cities and wrecked empires. It has made discoveries that hitherto baffled our boldest travellers. It has brought the hitherto inaccessible pars of the earth to our hearths. It has revolutionized land and sea warfare. Tt has opened up possibilities to trade and com­ merce. It has brought the best of medical science to sick beds, hitherto human science. Yes. just as that we • had conquered the discovered that the human quite equal to tile control of wonderful. At the same time. too. gasoline supplies upon which the airplane is so de­ pendent, seems to be failing us at the time of the year in which the airplane is most needed. Who ■will discover the remedy ? What have our schools of practical science to say about this ? isolated from we were, sure air we have factor is not a machine so A Strange Plea Russia is doing her best to impress the nations adjoining her that she is the friend of liberty. We do not doubt Russia’s sin­ cerity in this matter. However, her idea of freedom is that all the rest of the nations should accept her way of thinking and do­ ing. Russia’ regards herself as free and argues that if other nations should become as she is and prove, obedient to her, that those nations would be as free as she is. Russia poses as the friend of independence among other nation. We see her purpose in advocating this policy. She wishes each of her satellites to remain independent in order that she may pick them off one by one as she desires. Freedom and indepen­ dence among other nations simply mean that she has these nations at her mercy. Note and Comment Spring’s cornin’. I saw dad doin’ some fixin’! Running an election amid the winter must be loads and loads of snows of fun. are overNow that those conferences let us do some farming. It’s just as -well that the price of colds has not advanced. But how come? X: # # Our fuel folk are wearing a smile that some of us do not like to see. * sjt sje & Whatever you do, get out and You can’t make a mistake. ❖ >!■’ Will that committee appointed to with the high prices take retroactive su re ? * * vote. deal me a-. * * -x- It is strange, isn’t it, that the man of peace for India should be followed by one of the direst blood baths that country ever * of the direst blood baths that country has known. # & * That pricking in your thumbs is there because of some uneasiness in blood, It’s just the feeling one has these times for a seed catalogue, Mr. King has taken a leaf from the book of that great lawyer, Edward Blake. When Mr, Blake was approached by his followers asking him to tell them what a certain statute meant Mr. Blake said "Read it to me”. "That” said Mr. Blake "is what it means.” Inquisitive people are asking Mr. King what he meant by his resignation speech, "That is what it means” Mr. King replies as be points to his utterance. not the SAINTSBURY There will be no service St. Patrick’s church until the first Sunday in March. The ser­ vice will be held at S o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Mc­ Donald and Mr. and Mrs. Davis. Miss M. Davis and Mr. E. Greenlee were enetertained dinner at the home of Mr. Mrs. J. Dickins on Tuesday eve­ ning. Mr. and Mrs. M. Abbott spent Thursday evening at #he home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Dickins. Mi’s. H. Davis spent a days this week visiting with and Mrs. E, Atkinson. Mr. and Mrs. F. Dobbs, and Mrs M. McDonald, Mr. Mrs. E. Atkinson and Mr. Mrs. H. Davis were entertained to dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Carroll on Thursday evening. Miss Shirley Atkinson spent the week-end at the home Miss Joyce McDonald. Joyce ebrated her 7 th birthday Sunday. Congratulations. Miss Anna Atkinson spent week-end in Toronto attending the ice carnival. Mr. and Mrs. F. Dobbs, and Mrs. H. Carroll, Mr. Mrs. H. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. M. McDonald dinner at the home Mrs. Janies Turner evening. Mr. and Mrs. H. Centralia, H. were entertained to of Mr. and on Saturday Godbolt, entertained Mr, Mrs. H. Davis and family to dinner on Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. F. Dobbs and boys spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. Davis. We are very sorry to report that Mr. and Mrs. F. Dobbs and boys are moving into their new home in Exeter this week EL ( SB' As 50 YEARS AGO Geo. O'Neil attended the car­ nival at Seaforth on Friday night last. He won first prize in the three-mile race and was sec­ ond in the one-mile race. A horse belonging to Mr. John Allison, Thames Road, lively run last the the ter, going suddenly Braund’s ter North incline used for raisins, lowering rigs to and from the paint shop. On reaching the top it dashed headlong over onto a shed at the reai* but as there was considerable snow on the building the horse luckily caped without a continued its run until finally captured. Mr. Chas. Wilson, of Hensall, has leased the Mansion from Mr. Robt. has purchased O'Neil’s entire ings. Mr. John Treble, Exeter North met with a painful accident on Tuesday last. He was engaged in cutting wood when the axe slipped and came in contact with his foot cutting a severe gash and severing a tendon. The Exeter Hockey team drove to Clinton on Thursday last and played a game with team of that place and were feated. which animal animal with at made a on Tuesday morning almost resulted in losing its life. After broke from the cut- the shafts attached and a breakneck speed, it turned in at Mr. D. blacksmith shop. Exe- ., and ran up a steep used for raising and rigs to es- scratch and House Leathorn and Mr. Ralph hotel furnisli- the even- to and to between 14 and 1C below. Chas. Adison, of the Road, lost a valuable on Friday of last week. II. been was half / Trtis is Its your own fault!! 1 told you a month ago to have Exeter Motor Sales grease the car! the de- 25 YEARS AGO Interest in the Horticultural Society was evidenced Ibst Wed­ nesday crowd of the Town Bennett, Thomas Dr. Bennett illustrated dress by many beautifully col­ ored views showing the results the St. Thomas Horticultural Society .have achieved in making “The Flower City’ the attrac­ tive place During Thursday Anderson have his left leg broken. During a rush he tripped and fell and went up against the boards at the side with .such force as to fracture a bone in his leg. The Jubilee Singers, a colored troupe consisting of three ladies and four men, gave a musical entertainment in James St. Methodist church on Monday evening. There was a large at­ tendance and the numbers were well received. The pupils of the Exeter school had a holiday on Monday when some of the pipes at the back of the boiler in the heating system were eaten out by the rust and had to be replaced. Mr. W. J. Henman is jn Tor­ onto attending a Hardware Dealers’ Convention. Southcott Bros, are having the interior of their store re­ decorated and gre making some alterations. Mr. W. J. Beer whs in Toron­ to on Monday attending a gath­ ering of Goodyear Tire dealers. They riad° a bdn of Inspection through the factory. evening by the large citizens that packed Ilall to hear Dr. F. IS. President of the ,St. Horticultural Society, his ad- <> that it is. hockey practice on evening last Mr. Ed. had the misfortune to Kext time replace with and they are going to be missed very much in this community. Mr. and Mrs. C- Atkinson and family, Mr. and Mrs. H. Atkin­ son were entertained to dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. McDonald on Sunday evening. I 15 YEARS AGO A garage on the farm of Mi Earl Mitchell, 2nd concession of Usborne, together .with a Ford coach, a cutter and a fine as­ sortment of tools were destroy­ ed by fire recently. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell had been to Exeter in the afternoon and in ing were startled to find the garage on fire. It is thought that the fire started from short circuit in the car. Last Wednesday night Main Street Sunday School put on one of the finest entertain­ ments that has been listened to. The major part of the program was given to the popular reader Mr. Francis Abbott, a member of the school. He gave the dram­ atic recital "Jean Valjean.” Other numbers on the program were: violin solo by Mrs. Stan- lake; solo by Mr. James Fran­ cis: • piano duet by Rev. A. E. Elliott and Mr. Gordon Koch; numbers by the quartette, Rev. A. E. Elliott, Gerald Skinner, Marvin Howey and Jas. Francis. A real north-west blizzard struck this section of the coun­ try and was accompanied by the coldest spell in a number of years. On Thursday the mercury dropped degrees Mr. Thames horse Mr. Allison had been to the mill with a load of chop .and was on his way home when one of the animals dropped dead. Death was attributed to heart trouble. Mr. B. W. F. Beavers and Harold Skinner were in Toronto on Wednesday attending a Norge Convention. IO YEARS AGO Many took a trip “Across Canada’’ on Tuesday evening when the Exeter W.I. sponsored a travelling tea. Guests arrived at Halifax with Mrs. Jas. Bowey as hostess where they heartily enjoyed the first course. Travel­ ling farther across the Domin­ ion they stopped at ■Ottawa where the main course was ser­ ved .at the home of Mrs. Lennis O’Brien, On reaching the west coast at Vancouver the guests received dessert and final course at the home of Mrs. Gordon Hunter. The homes were pat­ riotically decorated. Messrs. Harold and Walter Davis, cott and Robert Niagara Falls oil saw what was left national Cook, Wm. J. M. South- motored ,to Sunday and of the Inter­ bridge which recently fell into the gorge. Flood conditions prevailed round Exeter when warm ther melted the snow and helped to swell the rivers creeks over the week-end. ■Mr. W. 0. Goodwin, of sail, has purchased from South- cott Bros, the stock and fixtures of the Southcott Bros, dry goods store there which he has managing since the store opened about a year and a ago. Mr. iS. J. Sweitzer, who whittled as a hobby for ) years, has many on. display in J. Hardware store represent some and patient work Mr, Sweitzer. i lias many of his articles A. Traquair’s window. They very intricate on the part of Motor Sales , Dodge & DeSoto Sales & Service Phone 200 Toin Coates Fred Dobbs ...........IWW. NJL.I. i . ■■.■■...iiiiiiii.....................iiji,,———------- -— ----------- _ "" ' —-===: =—----„ — — ■ — ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- " .....r ■ - ■ T 1 « « « When Bill and his crew go into the woods now, they get timber out twice as fast as they used to. That new tractor Bill bought really handles those logs! Back in town, the saw-mill is running full blast, taking all Bill’s crew can deliver . . . And Lliis extra activity, this extra income spreading around through the community is largely due to the fact that Bill went to see his bank manager and arranged a loan to buy the tractor . . . In lumbering towns and rural hamlets, in big seaports and tiny fishing villages, bank credit — money at work — helps to increase business activity in whole communities. Your bank manager’s job is to help men and women grasp opportunities and to put the bank’s facilities to work for you and your neighbours.’ , 2 9()() bra,lCh Cduada s3*“ |JC daily [ife and. v Welcome Belief From Goughs and Golds To get quick, welcome relief from coughs and colds—try Dr. Wood’s Norway Pino Syrup. This safe and popular remedy is recommended for the relief of coughs, colds, croupy coughs, soro throats and bronchial troubles. It embodies the medicinal virtues of the pine and cherry barks. The immediate use of Dr. Wood’s Norway Pine Syrup may check a cold in its early stages. Dry, obstinate coughs quickly yield to its prompt and soothing action. You’ll find this pleasant-tasting, quick-acting remedy on sale at drug counters everywhere. Specify Dr. Wood’s Norway Pine Syrup. Tho I1. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Orit.