HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1948-04-01, Page 2THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL. 1st, 1948
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~~ THURSDAY, APRIL 1st, 1948
Build Better Than Before
Exeter remembers her northern neigh
bour, Wingham, with sympathy in her flood
disaster. Her misfortune is just one of those
things that grip the heart. We have some
idea of the labour involved in building
what the flood has pulled down. We can
not know the disappointment our neigh
bours felt as they saw the toil of years
swept away by the merciless floods. Those
ruined roads and undermined walls and
tottering* bridges presented a sorry spec
tacle to the enterprising citizens of the
northern capital. It is good to know that
our fellow citizens are facing up to the
disaster. The men who built once can and
will biuld again, and build better than was
built before. In their courageous efforts
they have the unqualified good will of this
section of the country.
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Forward Again
Recent conditions have been causing
tliu village father to reach for their head
ache pills. Cellars are again flooded,
though, by comparison Exeter is one of
the favoured villages of the province. Any
one who will come forward with a system
of drainage that will meet our situation
will bee regarded as a public benefactor.
For the most part our streets have suffer
ed little from the early spring conditions.
At the same time we need to be on the
job to take care of one of those* sudden
cloud bursts .sure to come unexpectedly
and with a violence that cannot be con
trolled when the storm is raging. A storm
lias a way of destroying in five minutes
what has taken a community a whole life
time to build up. When the weather is
fine is the opportunity to prepare for the
inevitable tempest.
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Why Some Prices Have Advanced
We used to hear a great deal about
the boundless natural resources of Canada.
We are hearing less of that sort of thing
these days. And we are going to hear still
less of that sort of talk as the 'world grows
older. Roads were once made of corduroy.
These roads were rough but they served
the purpose for which they were built. In
these days the timber used for corduroy is
required for other purposes when it can
be had at all. Later, the better class of
was made of planks. Such roads simply
cannot be had. The plank is needed for
house and such construction works. Just
now there is a shortage of maple syrup.
The syrup is not only scarce but high pric
ed. One reason for the increased cost is
the scarcity of fuel for boiling. The odds
and ends of wood formerly used for this
boiling have been used up. Trees are be
coming scarcer every season. Coal for fuel
in the .sugar camp is difficult to secure and
is costly when it may be had. In the days
of our fathers, farms were fenced by rails
or poles secured on the farm. This sort of
thing is passing. Farmers are met by new
■expenses and increasing expenses at every
turn. We were wasteful of our raw mater
ials and now everybody is paying the price
of such waste.
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The Loss is There
Folk who have had the misfortune to
have the recent flood run through their
houses tell of six inches of dirt left on the
floor after ‘the waters receded. In many
cases this dirt is the fine crop-producing
earth from farmers’ fields. All of which
gives a thoughtful person some very slight
idea of the enormous loss to farm property
wrought by the rampaging rivers and
streams in the present spring. Farmers in.
many cases do not realize the damage
wrought them this season. If a thief had
cleaned out their henroosts or made away
with a two year old steer or with a hog
ready for the market, there would have
been a lively cry of "Stop thief!” When
it comes to soil loss the farmers are con
tent to put up with things as they are and
refuse take effective action to prevent si
milar or greater losses that may overtake
them at anytime the clouds misbehave
themselves. We learn very slowly. However
experience rubs in what we otherwise
would allow to go unheeded.
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Those Criminally Insane
A neat tragedy occurred, the other day
when two criminally insane persons attack
ed their protectors with knives. This is an
incident that cannot bo passed over lightly.
The criminally insane make up a peculiar
ly dangerous 'class of society, as anyone
knows who has given that class of citizens
special study. These persons have lost
their power of understanding cause and ef
fect or of adapting means to ends. They
differ from other people largely in their
point of view. Indeed, in many cases they
have an almost uncanny acuteness of in
tellect. They are, in many cases, alert aA
hove their ’ fellows. Further, they often
have a secretiveness and a power of con
cealment that often outwits their guar
dians, With them, the unexpected deed
flashes out with a suddenness and an ef
fectiveness that their guardians seen un
able to prevent or to guide. Their care,
therefore, is a task for the experienced. No
one should be in charge of these unfor
tunates who does not know his job and
who has not the ability to exercise constant
vigilence in the discharge of duty. We
have a great deal to learn before we can
handle this class of citizen constructively.
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Training For Leaders
'I'he capers of the Dominion parlia
ment in which one part seems in ascendan
cy for a moment only to have that ascen-
i daney overthrown the next, reminds us of
the importance of having men prepared
for their public duties from their youth
upwards. From the days a youngster en
ters school lie should have a sense of in
dividual responsibility for the good of the
whole school. The days have been when
the youngsters looked upon school as the
one place where it was everyone for him
self with the teacher being public enemy
number one. Self-government was not even
thought of. The youngster’s point of view
even now is not given the consideration
its importance deserves. We do not believe
that the. baby should beat the nurse but
we cannot get away from, the thought that
the pupil’s thought for his welfare is to be
considered. We have heard a good deal a-
bout developing the child’s mind but we
overlook the fact that the child’s mind al
ready is developed.—but as a child’s mind.
He understands as a child and as a child
thinking and understanding, he is worthy
of consideration on the part of the au
thorities. His thinking and understanding
are for their stage as real and genuine
thinking and understanding as can be
found anywhere. We make a sorry mess of
things when we undertake to do a young
ster’s thinking for him. One hnperative
duty of the older generation is to discover
what a youngster is thinking. Of course
the child is not a magistrate, yet young
sters have a way of forming an opinion
among their contemporaries and of making
that opinion a determining force among those
of their own age. What wc believe is that
teachers should be encouraged to have
their charges made self-governing through
their own selected leaders. Teachers and
trustees have theii- rights and their duties.
So have the pupils and the pupils should
be encouraged to let others know what
they are thinking of in the sphere in which
the youngster’s life is carried on. When
this principle is acted on throughout all
the grades and through Sunday School
and university, when the youngsters be
come adults they cannot but be prepared
to a very considerable extent for the res
ponsibilities of citizenship.
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Changed His Mind
Some time ago Uncle Sam was all out
for dividing Palestine into two parts, giv
ing one to the grabs’ and one to the Jews.
Lately, he has changed his mind. He is no
longer for a division of that country. He
wants the United Nations to take, over a
trusteeship of that unhappy country and
to leave the land to the Jews and Arabs
to do the dividing. We wonder what .would
happen if the country were left to itself.
We are pretty sure that Uncle Sam has a
business eye on oil in Persia and sees that
Palestine has a great deal to do with get
ting that oil. Russia is of the same opin
ion and has been waiting to sec the rest
of the, world locked in conflict over the
situation. As soon as the other nations get
to quarreling, Russia hopes to secure the,
oil. She may be badly mistaken.
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Will there, be a depression? The
president of the. United States fears that
such a period is knocking at our doors.
Does he know anything about it? is in
position to be about the, best informed
man on the continent. Further his high
place, requires him to bo, careful but utter
ly fearless in his utterance upon public
questions.
”MIP TERMS”
•Long in the Minneapolis Tribune
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50 YEARS AGO
Rev. Ernest Grigg, who spent
several years in missionary
work in India, and who has
been in -> Canada the last three
years, left for Burmah on Wed
nesday to again enter upon
missionary labor.
A baseball meeting was held
in the Town Hall, Exeter, on
Monday for the purpose of or
ganizing a club for the coming
season. Grounds have been se
cured. The following officers
were- elected; Hon. pres., T. B.
Carling; .pres.. J. D- Bolton:
vice-pres., T. J. Lockhart: man
ager and chairman of committee
A. Q. Bobier: captain, Geo.
Anderson; sec.-treas., Ed. Eac-
rett; committee, Geo. Ander
son; Ed. Crocker: Bert Gidley,
Geo. Eacrett and W. Zinger.
About twelve o’clock on
Thursday of last week a very
serious and exciting runaway
accident took place on Main
street. Mr. Samuel Brock, of
TJsborne, drove into the yard
at the grist mill and stepped
off the wagon onto the plat
form to load some bags when
from some unknown cause the
team became frightened and
dashed away running down
Main Street pt a terrific speed.
They continued in a straight
course till they reached Huron
street when they turned west
and in so doing one of the
horses ran into a tie post near
the Mansion House which
brought, both to an abrupt stop.
The horse striking the post
was so badly injured that it
was afterwards shot.
Mr. It. N. Rowe has made
material improvement in his
furniture warerooms by a new
plate glass front.
25 YEARS AGO
Mr. John McKenzie has pur
chased the M'dlveen grocery
business in the Cantelon Bros,
stand in Clinton.
Messrs. Pollen and Foote
have taken over the garage on
James Street and with their
new facilities are well equipped
to .give first class service.
Mr. Wilfred Mack while split
ting wood, had the ^nisfortune
to cut his left hand when the
axe he was using slipped. He
severed the cord in the little
finger.
Miss I. Lovie has resigned
her position with W. J. Statham
and has taken a position at
Grand Bend.
Mr. Art Jones has sold liis
fifty acre farm at Chiselhurst
and is moving to Hensall to
work at the tinsmithing.
Mr. Thos. Wren, of Chisel
hurst, lias opened ,up a harness
shop in Hensall.
15 YEARS AGO
P^rkhill Agent Honpred
At the regular meeting of the
Parkhill Lions Club W. J. Mas
ters was presented with a wool
blanket. Mr. Masters recently
transferred to the C.N.R. agen
cy at Ailsa Craig. He was a
charter member of the Lions
Club and had served the C.N.R.
since 133X.
Fire beiived caused by an oB
burning brooder stove partially
destroyed the interior of a barn
belonging to Lennis O’Brien,
Zurich, Thursday of last week.
Loss, including 550 three week
old chicks and a hound, will be
over i$l,000.
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lections and Mrs. Stainton and
Miss Pearl Wood sang solos. At
the close of the entertainment
the players were entertained to
luncheon at Middleton’s parlors
Mr. Thomas Willis, of Centra
lia, who recently resigned his
position with the Shamrock
creamery, has purchased the
Lucan creamery. Mr. Garfield
Thompson has accepted a posi
tion with the Centralia cream
ery.
Mrs. W. Stone was the win
ner of the Bluenose Rug con
test conducted by Southcott
Bros, and for her prize she re
ceived a beautiful china tea set.
Mr. C. W. Kestle, who has
been with the Supertest Com
pany at Seaforth is moving to
Exeter and will have charge of
the distributing station here.
1O YEARS AGO
The Elocution and Musical
Festival held in Main St. Unit
ed church under the auspices
of the Women’s Institute proved
a very interesting and success
ful event. The boys and girls
who took part in the elocution,
story telling and musical num
bers are to .be commended for
their effort. First prize winners
were; Junior Elocution, Marie
Melville; Senior Elocution, Bru-
nnelle Watson; Story telling.
Gwennetli Jones; Junior solo,
Marguerite Hogarth; Senior
solo, Keith Gordon; duet, Marie
Melville and Shirley Appleton:
piano, Betty Elliot.
Twelve members of the Exe
ter Lions Club motored to
Stratliroy Tuesday evening to
attend the district meeting of
Zone 2. A banquet was served
in the Town Hall.
Archie McCurdy barely es
caped with his life from the
home of his son, Alvin McCurdy
of the 12th concession in Us-
borne Twp., near Kirkton, on
Saturday night when the one
and a half storey frame house
took fire shortly before ten
o’clock. Mr. McCurdy Sr., was
at home alone and had retired
early. He was awakened by
dense clouds of smoke and the
crackling of wood burning. A
bucket brigade was soon form
ed to save the barn. The fire
burned the dwelling to the
ground. Cause of the fire was
not determined.
Messrs. T- Pryde and C. V.
Pickard were in Parkhill Wed-
'nesday evening of last week at
tending a banquet that was’
tendered to the Parkhill hockey
players. Parkhill is considering
the erection of a new skating
rink and have been impressed
with the Exeter Arena. Mr.
Pryde and Mr. Pickard were
called on for short addresses
outlining the manner in which
Exeter had gone about to se
cure the building.
Mr. A. E. Paddon, of Toron
to, Field-Secretary of the Ont
ario Boy Scouts’ Association,
paid a visit to the First Exeter
Troup on Tuesday.
A delightful musicale and tea
was .given in the church par
lors of James Street Church on
Wednesday afternoon last by
Group 4 of the W.A. with Mrs.
J. A. Tnaquair as convenor who
was assisted by Mrs. W. R.
Goulding, the president. The
guests were invited to the tea
loom by Mrs. M. 0. Fletcher
The coKributing artists repre
sented in addition to the local
churches were Hensall, Centra
lia and Thames Road.
The three-act comedy drama
“Jimmy Be Careful” was put
on in the Exeter Opera House
by the Clinton players under
the auspices of the Hurondale
Women’s Institute. The play
was especially wholesome and
those present enjoyed a real
treat. Miss Kathleen Strang
played several instrumental se-
SMILES . . .
Wife: "That brazen Miss
Vamp boasts she’s been kissed
by every married man in town
except one.”
Husband (absently): "I won
der who he is?”
He worried about the weath
er, he worried about his health,
he worried about his business,
he worried about his wealth.
She worried about the child
ren, she worried about her
do tlios sli o woi*i*lod stli oii t til o
neighbors, she worried about
her woes.
Thoy worried about their tax
es, they worried about their
pets, they worried about their
future, they worried about their
debts.
They worried, still they wor
ried; they worried, ln>t alas!
They worried about a lot of
things .that did not come to
pass.
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