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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1949-04-14, Page 2IPage 2 the TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MOANING, APRIL* 14, 1949 Cxeter ^imesj-^bbocate Tinies Established 1873 Amalgamated November 102-1 Advocate Established 1881 Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario An Independent Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the Village of Exeter and District Authorised as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario-Quebec Division of the CWNA Member of the Audit Bureau pf Circulation Paid-In-Advance Circulation As Of September 30, 1948 —< 2,276 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Canada, in advance, $2.50 a year United States, in advance, S3.00 Single Copies 6 Cents Each J. Melvin Southcott •* Publishers Robert Southcott THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 14, 1949 ........—---------------------............ ...................------------------------—......................................— '", ......— Great Days Future generations will look back to the days through which we have passed with gratitude. Union with Newfoundland, after many years of waiting, has been con­ summated. Canada has now as many pro­ vinces as the great law-giver presented commandments to ancient Israel, This fact has a significance all its own. Canada has a spiritual destiny she must fulfil if she is to go forward in the march of the nations. Our hopes are high that she will do so. Then there has been the signing of the At­ lantic treaty so well known as the .Peace Paet. Be it known that the formers of this pact covet not one foot of any nation’s territory. In the. words of the Great Eman­ cipator this pact is made and this treaty is signed “with malice towards none ltand with charity for all”. The hand of the West is extended in friendship and good will to the East as well as to the West in the fervent prayer that all nations soon will join hands in the high resolve that peace with justice shall be the lot of every nation upon which the sun shines and the rain falls. Earnestly... do we hope and fervently do we pray that the time has come when we’ll “hang the trumpet in the hall and study war no more”. Reorganized The Exeter Baseball Club has been re­ organized. This is good news. Baseball is a fine game when it is well played. A baseball club is a good thing for the village when it is well managed. It is in the in­ terest of every person old enough to belong to the club to join it when the club is well run. We look for all those things in this year’s club. We look for the club to be a winner. If the club does not make a credit­ able record o f achievement, we want to. know why it comes short. A good season’s achievement will not come because of the smiles of Lady Luck but because our players put the right sort of stuff into their practice and their playing on the field. We have a good arena where our youth may be practiced for field work, and that brings us to the point where we urge the appointment of a coach who will see tn it that the players step right up to what is required of them. We are not looking for professional playing but we are looking for creditable amateur performance. If the players are not supervised they cannot hope to win anything. If they take the right sort of direction the end of the season v ill see them real sports, brown and lean and fit for all that life requires of youth <4 their age and opportunities. s": ^4 Those Fires News of fires comes with nerve racking monotony. After every such fire there is considerable “too hading” and “something ought to be done”. Then folks go on in precisely the old way. Would it not be well for the council to look into the situa­ tion before fires form the fashion of com­ ing this way? Just now. we are delighted by the sight of new houses erected on every side of us. Would not the council be wist in seeing to it that fire heating and cooking arrangements are of the safe var­ iety? A few hints from the informed to the householders and the outfit installers would be very much in order.- * * * * That Charities Bill We have been having some lively dis­ cussions about wills that make bequests in behalf of charities. It is alleged that some wills, apparently calculated to help out charities are in reality a device to perpe­ tuate a business. It is said that some will makers have an idea that succession duties and such other devices for pruning down the motley some fortunate persons possess, make their wills in the alleged line of help­ ing charities. These men cherish the belief that moneys or properties left to charity cannot be mauled by the heavy hand of the government. Accordingly they make their will bequeathing the profits from business to charity. The administrators of the will are called administrators. Sometimes tjiey are called executors of the will. These handlers of the estate are alleged in some particular and sad cases to be disciples of Mr. Wotdlywiseman who proceed to carry on the business and to give the profits of the business to sweet charity. However, events take the turn of their being very small profits from the business. By ways known only to the instructed and the duly initiated they see to it that the profits are penuriously meagre* the business being so run us to pay enormously large salaries and such things. These big payments are set down as costs. Meanwhile the business goes merrily on while charity must look to the less wordly wise. The bill is credited with seeing to it that the business left by the will maker shall be disposed of within a term of say, five years and the proceeds of the sale devoted to charity. Of course, we are on thin ice when we attempt to meddle with wills. We are on still thinner ice when we make charity cover wills that puzzle some people to interpret, so far as their interpretation goes. An Ugly Situation Not long ago we were talking about Canada as the breadbasket of the world. We had very large amounts of wheat that we could not make use of in Canada. At the same time. Britain was eager to pur­ chase Canadian wheat. She had the ships and the money for transporting the wheat and for paying for it. It looked as if pro­ ducer and consumer were on the best of terms. Britain had the money and she need­ ed our wheat. During these happy days for Britain and for us the United States had very little if any surplus of wheat. Uncle Sam saw his opportunity and commenced producing wheat till the time came he had a wheat surplus. Then came the world wars and Britain’s cash was gone, the sort of cash the United States cared to honour. Then came the offer of the United States to loan Britain money, but with a sort of condition that if she loaned the money Bri­ tain should buy United States wheat. This was set forth in so many words, but Uncle Sam’s farmers had votes and were not at all likely to be pleased if Britain bought Canadian wheat with United States money while United States elevator and granaries were glutted with wheat the American farmers were eager to market. Some years ago Canada had made a bargain with Bri­ tain that Britain should buy a very con­ siderable amount of Canadian wheat. Now Britain has a way of honouring her bar­ gains. If Canada insists that Britain take the bargained for quota of Canadian wheat when it is not good business for Britain to do so, the wheat will be taken. But Britain has a good memory. If Canada proves in­ sistent on compelling her to take the wheat then when the purchase is made Britain will thereafter, in all probability, look else­ where, not only for wheat but for many other articles she has been accustomed to buy from Canadians. So there you are. It is as true now as it was two thousand years ago that tile borrower is servant of the lender. In this case the borrower is Britain and the lender is the United States, and Canada is the loser. He is a wise man who will tell what is to be done about it all. Yet in spite of increasing surpluses of wheat, the price of bread has risen. We look for an answer from the manipulators who have got us into our muddle. * $ « ❖ An Emergency Right Here All over old Ontario anxiety is being expressed about the falling of water levels. Supplies of water that were adequate a few years ago, under pressure of additional use of water and because the water levels are daily lowering are the occasion for every­ one to take timely steps to have plenty of water for emergencies as well as for the general way of carrying on. The time has come when this is no local matter. Munici­ palities should get together and work out a scheme that will meet the need of all parties* The bit by bit, hand to mouth method followed so far, simply will not do. Everywhere we hear of wells which public utilities committees regarded as adequate, failing when they are most needed. It is urged that the way here proposed is ex­ pensive. The present system is expensive, decidedly expensive. Worse still, it is in­ adequate, The proposed system will not be more expensive and has the value of being adequate. We may as well be up and do­ ing. When the government has talked itself out over trivialities, it might well take up this matter, not in a partisan way but as a really provincial affair.« * ■* * Note and Comment And now for the merry music of ham­ mer and saw! >;< # * Parliamentarians do not make them­ selves impressive By their much speaking. “THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CURTAIN Barrow, in The Jacksonville Times-union. TIMES" Go By lilf PROTECTION SO YEARS AGO (The Exeter Advocate 1889) Mr. Frank Ruse, music teach­ er, who has been a highly re­ spected resident of Exeter for several years, has decided to move to Toronto shortly- and will dispose of his horse, rigs and househld effects on Wednes­ day next. , The Junior Lacrosse Club have organized a team this year under the name of ‘‘The Nationals” and will commence practice shortly. W. H. Moncur spent Wednes­ day in Toronto on business. Will - Smith, London Road South, ,has started to learn clerking' Mr. J. P. Clark. Fred Hawkshaw left on Fri­ day last for London, where he will spend a term in the Forest City Business College. t Harry Browning, who has been spending his Easter vacat­ ion under tile parental roof, returned to Markham on .Monday to resume liis studies. In order to meet the demands of their ever increasing' trade, the enterprising firm of Messrs. Ross & Taylor have found it necessary • to further equip their planing mill with more modern machinery. Last week they add­ ed a new^saud-papering machine. Smith, son of Mr. S. with 25 YEARS AGO (The Exeter Times 1924) Clarence Simmons has taken position with Harvey and Har- Mr. Andrew Boa, of Hensail is to be congratulated on winning the Webster prize in Old Test­ ament history of the Wesbyan Theological College., Mr. Sampson Yellend was pre­ sented with a club-bag in re­ cognition of his honor and in­ tegrity in his twenty-five years of service with the Courtice and Jeffrey Perry. Ontario. Mr. Ronald Witwer, lieve. has caught the first pike of the season, it being two feet long -Creditem News. Mr. Wililam Gardiner, who. is in the furniture and undertaking business with his father, Mr. M. E. Gardijier, has .been successful in securing his Undertaker’s license, which he received last week. Mr. Earl Guenther lias pur­ chased a new Ford truck—Dash­ wood News. a vey. firm of at Port we be- Wednesday April 2'0 is the night to remember. We are go­ ing to hold an Investure. All Cubs that have not been invest­ ed he sure and know the Law and Promise, also the Grand Howl and salute. Following is a description of the investure that you will know what to The Ceremony Of Of A Tenderpad The recruit (or brought into the Invcsture SO do. 15 YEARS AGO (The Times-Advocate 1934) A three-act comedy drama “Civil Service” was presented to a large audience in the Exeter Opera House on Thursday eve­ ning last. The cast of characters was as follows: Old R.F.D. Clar­ ence Down; the Inspector, Syl­ vester Taylor; the Postmaster, William Davis; the young money order clerk, Steve Audaine; Silas Reid; the mailing clerk, Simpson Peavy, Garnet Hicks; the country boy, Goldie Wex, J. M. South­ cott; ,the postmaster’s daughter, Octavia, Miss Lulu Lindenfield; a lady of importance, Mrs. T. R. Jeffs, Miss Mabel Hay; a hired girl, Birdie Bivins, Mrs. ,‘H. C. Carey; a collector, Miss Gold­ stein, Miss Isobel Turnbull; the plucky little stamp clerk, Kate Kenyon, Miss Pearl Wood. Miss H. Monteith and Mrs. N. Hunkin were . selected as dele­ gates to the Presbyterial at Clinton. (Thames Road News) IO YEARS AGO (The Times-Advocate 1939) Members of the Exeter Lions Club held their regular supper meeting Monday evening at the Township hall in Crediton,cater­ ed ‘to by .members of the Credit­ on Women’s Institute, who pro­ vided a sumptuous supper. Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Penhale left Monday on .an extended trip through the Western Prov­ inces, going as far as Victoria B. C. A banquet was tendered the Exeter hockey players at the Bossenberry Hotel Friday eve­ ning pf last week at which there was a large representation of the businessmen of Exeter. Mr. Elmer Bell, president of Seaforth Amateur Athletic As­ sociation was present and gave an outline of the set up of the Seaforth organization, which he stated proved very successful in their town. Mrs. J. C. Gardiner, mother of Hon. James Gardiner, is to be presented to the King and Queen on May 18, at the State dinner at Government House, Ottawa. Miss Ruby Wood, been on the staff of adian Canners Ltd. in to be congratulated transferred to Ridgetown, where she will be .in charge of the office there. the who lias the Can- Exeter, is on being After getting them off to a fast start with Roe Vita Food Chick Starter, switch at the seventh Week to Roe Vita-Grow Growing Mash. Made fresh daily, these profit-making feeds are produced in Western Ontario especially for Western Ontario chicks and pullets. Both of these Roe Feeds have what it takes to build big frames, sound flesh, healthy internal organs . . . this means bigger profits for you later. One season will prove that it pays to use Roe Feeds. See your Roe Feed dealer. Spring Grasses, proteins and vitamins are harvested at their nutrition peak, dehydrated in minutes, then added to all Roe Vita- mixed Feeds ... a “green gold" diet bonus for poultry, livestock. ■ RF9-3 ROE FARMS MILLING CO., ATWOOD, ONT. YOU CAN GET ROE FEEDS FROM: J. A. Traquair, * Exeter H. G. Webber, Woodham C. Tindall, Mooresville H. Kellerman, Dashwood Milton Dietz, Zurich new chum) is _________ . Parade Circle. His cap is laid at the feet of the Cubmaster, who stands op­ posite him. Cubmaster: “Do you know the Law and Promise of the Wolf Cub Pack, the Grand Howl the Salute? Recruit: “Yes, sir, I do.” Cubmaster: “What 1 s Law?” Recruit: The Cub gives in to the Old Wolf. The Cub does not give in to himself.” Cubmaster: “Are you ready to make the solemn Promise of the Wolf Cubs?” Recruit: “Yes, sir, I am. promise to do my best, to do my duty to God and the King, to keep the law of the Wolf Cub Pack, ahd to do a good turn to soihebody every day. (While the Promise is being made the whole pack stands at the Salute). Cubmaster: *T trust you to do your b e s t to keep this promise. You are now a Wolf Cub and one of the G r e a t Brotherhood of Scouts.” (Gives and the I him his badges, puts oh his cap for him, and shakes hands with his left hand. The Cub changes the badge from his right hand into his left hand and salutes the Cubmaster with his right hand. Then he turns about and salutes the pack. He pauses for a moment while the pack salute in return. He then joins his six. The ceremony ends with the Grand Howl in which the tender­ pad is now able to enter. There it is Cubs, not hard is it? Well don’t worry about a mistake or two, we wont. But try your best. We want every cub to have a uniform by that night and we want you to w e a r it. Keep it clean and tidy because all Cubs are proud of that uniform and remember when you are in uni- you are “on Duty”. You are like a soldier or a sailor or an airman wearing the King’s show i Wolf your may even __ . _ . into danger. That trouble doesn’t matter. uniform. You too can people that, as one of the Cubs, you can stick to duty and do ,it though it be a trouble to you, and though it may bring you Two little boys were all set for their mother to bring them a baby sister from the hospital. When Grandma told them they had a baby brother they express­ ed great disappointment and disgust. On the verge of tears one little fellow said: ’’We’ll send you next time, Grandma.” H. J. CORNISH & CO CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS 294 DUNDAS ST. LONDON, ONT.