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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1949-11-24, Page 2Page 2 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 24, 1949 " Cxeter IUmes=Allocate Times Established 1873 Amalgamated November 1921 Advocate Established 1881 Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario Au Independent Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the Village of Exeter and District Authorized as Second Class Matt, Post Office Department, Ottawa Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario-Qnebec Division of the CWNA Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation Paid-In-Advance Circulation As Of September 30, 1948 -«— 2,276 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Canada, in advance, $3.50 a year United States, in advance, $3.00 Single Copies 6 Cents Each J. Melvin Southcott - Publishers Robert Southcott THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 24, 1949 Too Many Accidents Accidents are taking place with ap­ palling frequency. Sometimes readers be­ lieve that such unfortunate occurrences make up the greater portion of human ac­ tivity. Of course this estimate of events is erroneous. Accidents are reported because they are news, whereas the orderly doings are so numerous and so common that no one thinks it worth while to report them or to comment on them. Airplanes to no end begin and complete their journeys without injury to property or to persons. Thousands of boats leave their ports and finish their voyages without mishap. Mil­ lions of cars go about their business with­ out a single event to make their work of interest to the general public. Further, the number of persons on errands more or less dangerous has increased within the last two or three decades. Still the number of accidents must be decreased. As enterprises increase caution must be augmented. Good / management must be brought to an edge. A recent test of speed illustrated what we have in mind in this connection. At the point at which records were to be broken, the steel in one of the shafts would not bear up under the new strain. As railroad bridges have increased in efficiency, there has been a tendency’ to increase the load which those bridges were required to carry. The load was increased till an accident oc­ curred and an added strength was sought •for the bridges. There is an old saying that if you want anything done you must ask a busy man to do it. After a while the busy man breaks under the burden. When the cause of accidents and breakdowns is sought out, it has been found that care­ lessness and greed have a good deal to do with the unhappy occurrence. *U- -d* o-**’’ *r» •»» • We’d Like To Know Fault is found with newspapers because they do not always tell the same story about the condition of Britain. One issue gives the information that Britain is on the verge of - bankruptcy. A succeeding issue gives glowing figures of her large percent­ age of workers busy in remunerative em­ ployment. One day we hear that she an- not sell her goods. Shortly after we get a story of the satisfactory condition of her markets. Now we hear of the mess the country is in because of the mitionalizing of her major industries. Shortly after the report is abroad that nationalization of in­ dustry is a poor experiment. One day we hear that the labour government has sic­ kened the people. Again we are told that should an election come on at an early date, the labour government would step into power. Now there is nothing that newspaper men would like to know better than the state of Britain, The stories are diverse because there are a great many people and interests to deal with, Some in­ dustries are prosperous while other indus­ tries are finding the goin^ hard. This diversity is the history of industry at all times. Some men are prosperous while others never would succeed no matter what the government and no matter what the world conditions. Britons are not noted for their talking. That may be said of the solid men of the country, at least. There always are some people whose sleep is taken away unless they are vocal. It must be remembered, too, that England always has been reported as being next door to collapse, Just as these rumours fill the air Britain does something fine at which all the world wonders. Britain has a way of surprising herself and the world. She has her grasshopper population, it is true but she also has her hard, clear thinkers and her army of achieving workers in every department of her rich life. Tn this fact lies our hope. We are not trusting to luck. We believe that good luck generally fol­ lows hard thinking and ■well applied elbow grease. Does Not Heal Europe's open sore docs not heal. This is not a reference to Russia though condi­ tions there are very bad. Germany is the really diseased portion of Europe. France, rightly fears a rehabilitated Germany. Three times within the century Germany has nearly bled France white. Well may France ask why Germany should be so re­ habilitated that she should again be in a position to destroy French fortunes and to slaughter France’s sons. France verily be* lieves that what Germany has thrice done she would, were she able, do again, Ger­ many in the judgement of Frenchmen, still has the urge to oppress at any cost. In­ deed, till Germany learns what it is to be a neighbour, she is an impossibility among the nations. This is no plea for the western nations to despoil Germany. It is a plea for doing all that is at all possible to have the French realize that the western nations and the United .States and Canada are their best friends. The aim of the rest of the nations is to have Germany understand that we wish to trade with them and to work with them. What is not wanted is for Germany to be in a position to re-enact the horrors of the two great wars. Germany must be brought to see that she was not only mistaken in her war policy but moral­ ly wrong in her cruel aggressiveness. Till Germany realizes these two things and proves by a long journey in the wilderness that she has a genuine change of heart, treaties will be but scraps of paper and all efforts to rebuild her commercially but aids to her war preparations. Should Ger­ man)’ have this abiding change of heart and policy the problem of Communism would be solved and Russia no longer b. menace. But the day is far off and we may as well settle down to realizing the heart breaking fact. We can ‘but labour and wait for the better day. ❖ n* & That Invisable Contract Ownership is. one of the great driving forces of our human existence. The family that has the deed to the property they have under their care are far more likely to improve that property than if they were tenants. And yet when we come to think of it, all of us are tenants. We say that we have the need of a property and for* that reason claim that we are free to do as we like therewith. This right is being seriously disputed. For instance, one land­ owner in the United States stripped his land of its forest growth and left the wind and sun and weather to destroy its fertil­ ity. The government interfered and ordered the landowner to reseed the denuded land with a reforestation act or for agricultural purposes. This request was refused and the landowner was taken to court. The case was argued in all the courts of the. republic till it reached the. Supreme Court, Throughout the trials it was upheld consistently that the owner was under obligation to preserve the soil by adequate measures to protect its fertility. We cannot see too clearly that the deed we hold to property is something in the nature of a permit to use the land pro­ perly. }*n reality the government owns all our possessions, as we find out something to our cost and inconvenience. The deed to land is practically a contract between the alleged owner and the government for the proper use of the land. Further, an individ­ ual is a person because Tie is one of the race. He inherits some tilings in virtue of his being a human being. He carries on be cause of his being a part of the race now living and because he is a successor of those who already have lived. Further, he is related to those who are not yet born. The race is a unit* Hence the obligation of each person to deal justly by the coming race in matters of natural resources as well as the rights and privileges. He has no right to misuse the natural resources he has inherited and he is under contract to hand on unimpaired the resources now under his care. Indeed, the day may not be far off ■when the owner who is not making a proper use of his natural resources may be asked to give up his alleged possession. He will find that he has no claim on such re­ sources except in’ so far as he makes a pro­ per use of them. This grim fact may well disturb the submarginal soil workers. Things are moving that way. *<5 -Sjt The year is surely coming to an end. Poll tux notices have been received » » ♦ ❖ * “Fa, what is a serene state of mind?” “My son, a serene state of mind is what your ma has when the dinner’s half cooked arid the hydro goes off.” # Friends react occasionally like the ver­ satile chameleon. Their colour, too, often depends upon environment and sensitivity. Blue, a primary colour, can be quite ’easily changed. sjs # A man who assumes to be an intellec­ tual thought to pose one of the local clergymen with the remark “Of course, there is no such thing us a material hell!” Quick as a flash came the reply, “If you don’t mend your ways you arc likely to fall into a worse condition?* a———■■■■ .......... i As the--------- «TIMES» Go By 1I— .1.1—11. —— —rg 50 YEARS AGO (The Exeter Advocate 1899) Mr. George Mawson, teacher in S.S. No. 15, has been re-en­ gaged for the year 1900. Mrs. J. A. Stewart, realizing the inadequate capacity of light­ ing his large and well-appointed store with the acetylene gas machine put in by him some time ago, last week replaced it> by a much larger and more sat­ isfactory plant. The machine w h i c h was manufactured by Messrs. Melville and Morrison, of this place, is of exceptionally large size and is capable of car­ rying about 10'0 lights. Mr. Stew­ art has now one of the best lit stores in Western Ontario. Mr. R. N. Rowe and brother John of Stephen spent last week visiting friends in Brown City and Applegate, -Michigan. Mr. W. T„ Acheson has let the contract to Messrs. Mellville and Morrison for one of their famous acetlyene gas machines to light the Central Hotel, they shot ten, which makes 18 in two days, A hockey association was formed in Exeter on Monday evening at the Dome Rink. It. was decided to enter a team in the O.H.A. Intermediates. The colors will be orange and green. Mr. Freeman Morlock has in­ stalled a radio set with a loud speaker. Needless to -say Free­ man’s store is quite a community centre. (Crediton News) Huron County Council is in’ session this week. Reeve^ W- D. Sanders, of Exeter; Reeve Win- Coates, of Usborne; and Reeve A. Neeb, of Stephen, are in at­ tendance. 25 YEARS AGO (The Exeter Times 1924) Messrs Win. Elsie, of Grand Bend, and Melton Deitz, of Zur­ ich, have the distinction of being champions in this district for wild geese shooting. On Monday they shot eight and on Tuesday 15 YEARS AGO (The Times-Advocate 1934) Twenty-five Boy Scouts visited •the London exchange of the Bell Telephone Co. on Saturday last. They were taken behind the scenes to see the generators and the huge batteries that supply power, the thousands of wires and many other things. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Baker, of Centralia, celebrated the fortieth anniversary of their wedding on Wednesday of last week. A number of members of the Women’s Institute have been working one afternoon each week for some time sewing and mak­ ing articles for underprivileged children for Christmas. Great Hope Held For World In United Nations Bodies The following account of an address given by Er. Walter Johns, son of Mr, and Mrs. Chas. Johns, of Exeter, was taken from the Edmonton Journal.* * * ♦ United Nations has produced a. great deal in the field of world organization despite the general feeling that it has failed to ac­ complish definitely its prime ob­ ject, to achieve world unity and establish a permanent world peace. Those beliefs were expressed to a meeting of the Edmonton Ki wauls Club by Dr, W. Johns, assistant to the president of the University of Alberta, at the reg­ ular weekly luncheon of the or­ ganization held at the Macdonald Monday. Dr. Johns, vice-president of the United Nations’ Society, was speaking on the fourth anniver­ sary of birth of United Nations. The speaker referred to ac­ counts carried by newspapers of happenings in United Nations as­ sembly. He quoted headlines which indicated that there was little but dissension in the or­ ganization. He said that speeches by mem­ bers representing western nations indicated a cautious optimism about future results while those of Russia and her satellite na­ tions hesitated to seek of assist in compromise. On the other hand, said the speaker, specialised agencies of the United Nations and their work have more than made up for the expenditures' of the entire organization. Dr. Johns listed the specialized organizations. He stressed the work being done by the inter­ national Labor Organization which lie listed as unique in Its being the only agency which was a part of the original League of Nations. It has done a wonderful job since United Nations originated as a part of our welfare, said I the speaker, it has conducted thousands of special studies, hun­ dreds of conferences the world over and has achieved much in the promotion of safe- and fair labor relations. Next Dr. Johns spoke of the Food and Agriculture Organiza­ tion. During this phase, the speaker referred to specific points In which the branch had aided in general welfare through­ out the world. “Trained veterinary technic­ ians have been sent to the var­ ious countries to better the breeds of livestock, seed, has been improved and much has been done in the curbing of insect pests,” he said. The speaker also referred to the work being done by the Unit­ ed Nations Scientific and Educa­ tional branch in spreading gen­ eral knowledge, informing other countries of general and scientif­ ic advances. Speaking of the World Health Organization, Dr. Johns told how co-operation of countries under the scheme had wiped out an epidemic of cholera in Egypt in Six Weeks by quarantine and im­ mediate service with vaccine. Without the service, he Said, cholera ordinarily would have wiped out a large .portion of the population of that and other nearby countries. Another branch referred to was the International Refugee Organization. At July 31 of this year 6,500 persons had been re­ patriated and 570,000 others had been moved as displaced persons to other countries, he said. Can­ ada stands third in the last cate­ gory, he said. In ending his address, Dr. Johns said that four years had passed since the United Nations became a reality, “It has had its failures and disappointments and to read of its procedure, one might think that world harmony is not close, he Said. He added that although per­ manent peace has hot -been the result, at least so far, the work of the specialized agencies has been of inestimable value toward the peace so generally sought. GUARANTEED TRUST CERTIFICATES 3% INTEREST Am Attractive Short-Term Legal Investment Principal and Interest Fully Guaranteed CROWN TRUST COMPANY F. R. Hughes, Manager, 284 Dundas St., London HEAD OFFICE: TORONTO Ontario Branches at London, Brantford and Windsor Applications Received Through , Your Local Agent Or Solicitor YOU CAN GET. ROE FEEDS FROM: J. A. 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