HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1951-02-15, Page 2Page 2 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 15, 1951
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Published Each Thursday Mor.ning at Exeter, Ontario
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THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 15, 1951
Too Many Accidents
Disaster terrible in its loss of property
and loss of life has just occurred in New
Jersey. Of course an investigation is to be
made into the affair and, of course, the in
vestigation will not restore a single life lost
through the giving way of that railroad
trestle. The investigation into the state of
the trestle has coxnc too late.
Then there is the sabotage of the Mag
nificent. There is t0 be an investigation
again, but there came near being a disaster
horrible to think about. Every day we read
of loss of life and treasure through acci
dents of one sort and another. We simply
shrug our shoulders and the whole thing
passes. The Magnificent affair is scarcely
a nine-day wonder. When a catastrophe oc
curs we simply do a little blinking and say
"It is one of those things’' and in a -week
the public forgets all about it.
Knowledge has been growing from
more to more but less of caution fills our
breasts. Familiarity has bred contempt and
contempt issues in death.
Have we been in too much hurry about
getting jobs off our hands and too little
eager to get the job well done? It looks
tike it. Have we been at too little pains to
know what we are trying to do? We recall
a shop where the welder was believed to
be a master in his craft. A truck was lugged
to the shop with a broken axle. The driver
was eager to be on Iris way and the welder
was eager to tackle what looked to be an
interesting job. No pains were spared to
get the job well done. The truck was re
loaded and on its way in due time only to
break down again before it had gone more
than a few rods. Careful inquiry revealed
that the axle simply could not be welded.
The welder knew his work but he did not
know the quality of that special sort of
stell. Hence an accident. Is the same true
of a great deal of our mechanisms?
In the case of the Magnificent there
was a slip-up in watchfulness on the part
of someone. That sand and those filings
had no business in that engine oil. What
about the examination of the oil supplied ?
What about the guarding of the oil supply
as it was in position to supply the engine ?
Who missed his duty? The public does not
like this sort of thing. If steel is defective,
it has not business in those placets where
fortune and life depend upon its quality.
Mistakes are inevitable, we say in our off
hand fashion. That may all be but it is a
dead sure thing that those who make the
mistakes should suffer the consequence
thereof.
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Those Subsidies
A subsidy is something like a cheque
from dad to help son over a tough place,
tf son is to succeed ultimately he will see
that the cheque is paid back very promptly.
JDad will be foolish to bolster a son who
cannot run his own show. Experience has
demonstrated this over and over and over
again. In the end, every tub must rest on
its own bottom.
There are conditions when it looks ne
cessary, too, for the government to sub
sidise a private enterprise, but men who
know affairs assure us that the giving of
subsidies must not be allowed to become a
permanent feature of national business wel
fare. Governments put themselves into an
absurd .position when they spoonfeed any
enterprise. A business that does not pay its
own way will fail ultimately if it requires
continuous “bonusing, either by special leg
islation or by money grants. If son is not
forging ahead or at least holding liis own
in his business dad is counting trouble for
himself as for his son by pouring in cash
into a business that’s proving itself a losing
concern. The story is repeating itself of
folk who take the fever for a certain busi
ness, the details of which they have not
learned, who find themselves losing their
time and their original investment. Such
cases are pitiable in the ’extreme, as they
usually are the experiences of well meaning
people who aim to better their condition
by some honest enterprise.
In the business world ignorance rarely
is bliss, In the business world, things rarely
are what they seem. When a business is
not paying its way, the operator should be
like the soldier who respects two words,
"Halt” and "right-about-face I”. Some men
very late in life learn they cannot run a
business and should lie working for some
one who can A child sitting on a giant’s
shoulder Should sec farther than the giant.
Only too often the child will look any
where but in the right direction. Generally
he wakes up with a bad bump.
Not Abandoned
All thought of having a hospital that
will meet some of the hospitalizing of
South Huron has not been abandoned. The
period for taking something like a second
wind for that project lias arrived and is
being made a very good use of. Considera
tion is being given to two matters,
First, what will such a hospital be ex
pected to do ? As we look around us, we
see patients being taken past the doors of
the smaller hopitals on the plea that only
the larger hospitals have the facilities of
one sort and another for meeting some
patients’ requirements. This action on the
part of patients and doctors is causing some
of us to do serious thinking.
Still others in favour of a hospital are
in favour of a small unit erected for a de
finite but limited purpose where the best
of care can be given of the patients whose
necessities come within the range of the
hospital facilities. Such a hospital requires
a deal of hard thinking. Such a hospital re
quires a great deal of care in the building.
It needs to be up-to-date and it needs to
be built in such a way and in such a place
that it may be added to as the needs of
the community increase. This in itself is a
difficult job.
, In the next place the locality of tbe
hospital must be well chosen. This require
ment is more difficult to meet than appears.
Still, it can be met. The town council and
the hospital association can work this mat
ter out together. To do so will take a good
deal of time to allow the best thought of
the whole constituency to be brought out.
Township councils will be consulted, not
only to secure the best thought for the
location of the hospital but for the nature
and size and equipment of the hospital. The
whole problem is one for which the solution
can be found only through considerable and
altogether frank discussion.
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A Bright Spot
Rumour has it that the soldiers in
Korea, both the Chinese and the United
Nations soldiers will not go north of the
thirty-eighth parallel while the Chinese and
their friends will not go south of that par
allel. We have not heard of any conferences
being held about this arrangement. No
notice has been given of flights by air. No
notables have uttered profound sayings.
The soldiers are simply saying that they
will respect the arrangement made after
the Second World War was over.
The time is not so far in the past when
a certain lieir to a throne talked glibly of
his nation’s having a holy war. In days
gone by soldiers are said to have longed
for the battle field. However that may be,
soldiers of the present day know only too
well that there is no romance ^about war.
It simply is a terribly gruelling affair. More
and more the soldiers are fearing that war
settles nothing. They fear that the sword
must keep what the sword wins and this is
an endless, heart-breaking procedure.
Western nations fight only to preserve
the freedom of their own citizens and the
freedom of weaker nations. Let us hope
that those brave fighting men will be able
to accomplish what the statesmen and the.
diplomats have honestly attempted, but
have failed to accomplish.
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A Good Soldier
Pte. Everett Pollen’s fine exploit in
saving a comrade’s life under circumstances
of extreme peril from a storm of enemy bul
lets is an exploit that will never die. The
story will be told wherever men do the
brave unselfis’h thing for others. Exeter is
proud to call this soldier one of her citi
zens. The American government has award
ed this outstanding hero the silver star, one
of the highest awards the government can
give in recognition of hazardous duty un
usually well done. This paper and this
community unite in congratulating the re
latives of this splendid soldier. Like many
another soldier who has done well for the
cause of humanity, this young man has not
been heard from since early In November.
May he soon be found and return in safety
to his friends and fellow citizens who earn
estly wish for an opportunity to express
their heart-felt feeling for his exploit
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About the best place for cars when
the roads arc blocked and slippery is the
garage.
'OPERATION BEACHHEAD’
As the---------
« TIMES* Go By
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50 YEARS AGO
Henry Eilber M.P.P., of Credi-
ton, left for Toronto on Tuesday
to attend the session of the On
tario . Legislature.
Herr Mark Mendelson, phreno
logist, is in the village (Credi-
ton) and is prepared to examine
any person’s head. His head
quarters is at Hill’s hotel.
Mr. J. A. Stewart who recent
ly purchased the general stock
of Messrs. H. Bishop and Son
and continued the business in
the same premises has moved
the goods to his own store.
15 YEARS AGO
The roof of the cattle shed at
the Exeter Agricultural Society
grounds partly collapsed last
week with the weight of snow
on it. An agitation is on foot to
erect a public building on the
fair grounds to serve as skating
rink, a gymnasium for the Exe
ter school, and a building for in
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door exhibits at the fair.
Misses Glayds Stone and Ha
zel Elliot representing James
St. Y.P.U. were in Stratford last
week attending the session of
the Huron-Perth Young People’s
Leadership Training.
All day Tuesday a snowplow
battled with the snow between
Exeter and Centralia.
IO YEARS AGO
The Silver Maple Club, Mary
Fletcher, Marion Caven, Pat Hay,
Mitzi Moffatt, Janet Kestle, Jane
Smith, .Marie Melville and Gwen-
neth Jones held a party at the
home of Barbara Harness on
Saturday afternoon.
Mr. Barry Wenger, linotype
operator for the Times Advocate
and his mother will move from
Mitchell to Exeter in the near
future.
Two carloads of citizens from
Exeter attended the funeral of
the late Rev. A. E. Elliott, of
Thamesville, on Monday.
Neighboring News
Hockey Teams Busy
At Public School
The boys, with the help of
Mr. Eastman have made a rink.
Teams for both girls and boys
have been organized. The girls
play Tuesday and Thursday, the
boys play on Monday, Wednes
day and Friday. Three ten-minute
periods with five-minute inter
vals. Skating afterwards and in
between periods.
(Seaforth News)
Raise Teachers $100
Twelve teachers on the staff
of Clinton District Collegiate In
stitute staff were granted an in
crease in salary of $400 each
per annum, at the February
meeting of the Board in the
school Tuesday evening.
The increases are retroactive
to January 1, 19 51. Minimum
salary is now $2,400, and maxi
mum for specialists is $4,800
per year. (Clinton News-Record)
Shotgun Blast Injures Boy
While working with an ol'd
shotgun at tjie home of Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Loundsbury on the
Guy “Harris farm near Medina,
about nine o’clock Tuesday
morning, fourteen-year-old John
Prevost was wounded in the leg
when the gun discharged. He
was rushed to St. Marys Memor
ial Hospital where Dr. J. G. Jose
examined the boy’s leg and ad
ministered treatment before he
was transferred to St. Joseph’s
Hospital, London. The boy, to
gether with Mrs. Loundsbury’s
nephew, Chas. Blatchford had
hitch-hiked up from theii- homes
in Wallaceburg the previous
afternoon, intending to spen-d a
short visit. The boy’s condition
is reported to be fair.
(St. Marys Journal-Argus)
Mitchell Girl Wilis Stock
Part ownership of British
American Oil Co. last week pass
ed into the hands of a 16-year-
old school girl.
Although her participation in
the company—one share—won’t
permit her to swing much
weight at annual meetings, it
does make Dorothy Kreis, Mit
chell, Ont., the youngest B.A.
shareholder on record.
But there were other unusual
features about Dorothy’s entrance
into the financial world.
Unlike most market traders,
she was able to follow her pur
chase from written buy-order to
Sales confirmation and had the
thrill of seeing her transaction
recorded on the Toronto Stock
Exchange ticker tape. Then,
stock clutched tightly in her hand
she was Whisked uptown by taxi
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to the head . office of - B.A. Oil
Co. where she was greeted by
President W. K. Whiteford as
the youngest and newest (just
16 minutes old) shareholder in
the company.
Dorothy was one of a party of
Mitchell Students who toured
Toronto last week, She won the
stock in a draw at the stock ex
change.
(Mitchell Advocate)
The Vo ice
Of Temperance
A letter carried this observa
tion, “The Canada Temperance
Act is a farce in Grand Bend.”
Is the Canada Temperance Act
any more of a farce in Grand
Bend than the Liquor Control
Act is in Windsor? Would the
Liquor Control Act be of any
less of a farce than the Canada
Temperance Act? It would open
up the flow of a larger volume
of liquor. Then there would be
more drinking and more drunke-
ness. The latter state of that
community would be worse than
it is at present—Let no one be
deceived. (advt.)
SMILES . . . .
Con-
many
make
“Will ^you still love me when
my hair* has turned grey?”
“Well, darling, I have stuck
to you through’ brown, black,
gold, red and platinum, haven’t
I.”
* * * *
“Did you interview the
gressman?”
“Yes”
“What did he say?”
“Nothing.”
“I know that—but how
columns of it!”
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Groom: "How did you
this cake, dear?”
Bride: “Here’s the recipe,. I
clipped it out of a magazine.”
Groom: "Are you sure you
read the right side? On the
other side if tells how* to make
a rock garden.”
$ Hr $ $
A woman got on a bus and
took the only empty seat, next
to a harmless-looking reveller.
Sooti she opened a map of Man
churia and began to study it.
The reveller gazed at the map
for a while and finally address
ed the woman in an interesting
tone: "Sure you’re on the right
bus?” he asked,
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