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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1951-03-15, Page 2Page 2 THE TTMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 15, 1951 Exeter Tinies=£11) borate Times Established 1873 Amalgamated November 1924 Advocate Established 1881 KEEP IT FLYING! Published Each Thursday Mor.ning 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 die Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario-Quebec Division of the CWNA Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation Paid-in-Advance Circulation as of March 31, 1950 — 2,329 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Canada, in advance, $2.50 a year United States, in advance, $3.0Q Single Copies 6 Cents Each J. Melvin Southcott - Publishers Robert Southcott THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 15, 1951 Have Brought It On Ourselves We are complaining a good deal about the high cost of living. The high prices are here, There is no doubt about that. Have we taken time to see that we have brought this high cost upon ourselves to a greater extent than we care to admit. There is the item of fuel. We burned up our forests and did not take precautions #to insure a home produced substitute there­ for. Some farmers took this precaution and planted trees along roads and fences, The. government of Ontario in the. 1870s was wise on this point and gave farmers en­ couragement sufficient to have the road­ sides planted with maple and other trees. There are farms in this province which in these times produce, all the wood they require from trees thus planted, wood-lots that were preserved and cared for. Trees thus planted have proven a large source of income to their owners. Not only do they provide fuel but they yielded a fine crop of sap for maple syrup and maple sugar. Some farmers are selling wood that is a valuable addition to the fuel bins. In ad­ dition these woods supply logs that are made into lumber and that helps out great­ ly in the erection and the repair of farm buildings. Anyone who has occasion to buy lum­ ber these merry days knows how great is the saving thus affected. It is complained that help cannot be had for cutting the wood and the timber. In the days gone by the farmer and his boys attended to this duty. ,We are quite sure that there are many cases in which this work can still be done by the farmer and his boys. On Saturdays the town and village youth may well turn their attention to this duty. The town and village youth can do tins work if they will but put their minds to it. The day in the woods or the holi­ days spent in the woods will prove the best sort of body builder. Only those 'who have experienced the delight of a period in the woods can realize the benefit of body, mind, and morals. The price of woollen goods has quite run away from us* The writer is quite well aware that the Canadian wool does not make up into the fine garments that can be had from wool from sheep raised under other than Canadian conditions. At the same time there are grades of Canadian wool that make up into creature comforts that, are wonderfully fine, comfortable and en­ during. Of course as long as we are good natured enough to allow fashion to lure dollars out of our pockets we may look for a steady rise in the price of wool. The old folk used to sing “A whistling wife and a good fat sheep are the very best property a farmer can keep”. This couplet is worth humming and conning. There is the further item of flour. Men and women still living recall the days when they took their own wheat to the mill and had it ground, the miller getting his pay from the wheat. In return the farmer received flour and bran and shorts. The farmer thus supplied articles for food for himself and his stock at first cost, a very considerable item when it is reckoned up. Trees were sold for timber and ship­ building. If wood lots had been given half a chance they still would be a small gold mine for the farmer. We let the apple trade slip from our fingers, though not a few farmers took in a thousand dollars annually from this source. The loss of this trade is one of our national tragedies. When we cease to heed the call of fashion and real­ ize the folly of greed and get over the fear of soiling our hands at good solid work, we’ll not complain so much about the high cost of living. * * * * Departed We recall some of the good old maple syrup days when all parties to the good work were perfectly honest and when no humbug was even thought of. Enterprise was the watchword and efficiency was the second name of all producers. In those days maple syrup was early on the market, be­ fore the sap from the standing trees had run upon a gray, dull unfriendly world, But right there, so that all could see it, was the scrawled advertisement, "Fresh Maple Syrup", The price a# became the occasion was well advanced so that people with lots and lots of cash could make a purchase while those lower in the spondulecks could sit by in silent envy. Pancakes were in order. Biscuits were produced in abundance. The landlady was congratulated on providing the* syrup that seemed so good "at this season of the year”. Some inquisitive folk asked the dealer regarding the source of the wonderful syrup only to be met with a crvptical smile and a still more mystifying remark about "secret of the business”, Some folk on knowledge bent investigated till they came to believe that the syrup was the product of some maple chips and bark and some cheap sugar and some water from the town tap. Sweet odours had been detected emanating from the boiling room of some candy manufacturer. Suspicions were the order of the time. Then came action on the part of the government and the days of the lovely early season syrup were over. The money till of the thrifty dealer lost some of its cheerful jingle. * * * * At It Again? Some persistent folk who refuse to give up hoping that world difficulties may be settled at conferences among leaders who have the same affinity as water is said to have for oil are wondering if the pres­ ent conference soon to be held among the big powers of the world is to end in an­ other muddle. It was fondly hoped that peace would come from the meeting of the big powers but the debate is starting all over again. Instead of looking earnestly for a way to end the war, one party ap­ pears to be looking for every obstacle poss­ ible to hinder the progress towards peace. If this merry soul finds no difficulties in the proposals submitted, he manufactures some hindrance and laughs up his sleeve at the well m^ant efforts of the other mem­ bers of the conference and does his level best to thwart their conciliatory methods and proposals. Russia is calling for an international showdown She may get it. She may not like that showdown when she sees what is before her. At any rate, the opening days of getting ready for the conference of the big powers were anything but cheering. * *” * * You Had Better j Wise Sir Oliver Mowat used to say ’ that the best lawyer is the lawyer who wins the most cases. Just the other day the head of one of Canada’s biggest busi­ ness firms told the boys and girls of the Dominion that the helper in business that was acceptable to the firm was the youth who could sell goods and have the cus­ tomers come back for more goods. Quite lately the employer of help in an insurance company said to an applicant for a job, "I don’t care a last year’s bird’s nest for this handful of recommends. Sit down at that desk. Do what Miss Brown tells you and I’ll let you know in a week if we can get on.” All of this adds up to a youth’s being able to adapt himself efficiently and pleas­ antly to the job assigned him. Modern youth will need to learn this simple fact. We’ll not be' one whit surprised if some of our business men will need to get this fact well into their heads. Unless all signs fail a good many wide-awake business people are looking this way and intend to sell goods and do business in one line or an­ other. And we may. as well welcome the fact and get doing something about it. Exeter may as well roll up her sleeves, put on her best smile and do some real moving, Just recently Britain, that right sturdy old country, lias shown the whole world that she is by no means as slow as some people would make her out to be. Her record in inventing and building and navi- ' gating jet planes is an out and out world beater. There is no bluff or bluster in that statement. Jet planes are away ahead of all other planes. This is but another way of saying that the initiative British have made all father planes obsolete. That is to say, uncounted ways of doing things by air are soon to be numbered with the last year's birdnests. These great machines are on the way taken by the old dreadnaughts and war canoes and Great Easterns, and the long barrelled rifle of Waterloo. , Our business men and all our other workers may as well take a long look at their host equipment and their best methods and prepare to bid them a long and lasting farewell. We may as well see that however good our equipment or our methods are they are being superceded this minute. This is a grim fact that wise men face up to. Fate is saying to everyone attempting to do business, "Better get going”. Anyone who doubts this had better take a day off and look in on the once flourishing places that are now down at the heels and sadly musing over the good old days that now return no more. « TIMES” Go By I,-----------------------------—..-.—..........-..— 50 YEARS AGO Mrs. Ann Snell, Gidley Street entertained the bell ringers of the Trivitt Memorial Church to a good old fashioned Devonshire dinner on Friday of last week. Mr. Louis Day has commenc­ ed a dairy in town and has a delivery wagon on the road. This makes three milk vendors in town. Miss Mary Ann Tom who was attending the Dressmakers’ Con­ vention in Toronto returned home on Friday. Dr. L. T. Gill who was attend­ ing the funeral of his mother Mrs. Frank Gill, left for his home in Gibsonburg, Tuesday morning. 25 YEARS AGO Hon J. G. Gardiner, of Us- borne, Minister of Highways, was on Thursday last chosen as Premier of Saskatchewan. This is the second premier that this community has furnished for Saskatchewan. Mr. J. G. Dow who has been shipping horses to Montreal has shipped -ovei* 800 horses, aver aging $125 to $150 each. The property of the late John Mitchell on the corner of Main and Wellington streets was sold by public auction on Saturday to Mr. Thos. Laing for $1,625. Miss Ella Link left on Monday for Seaforth to take her position as milliner at the McTavisli store. IO YEARS AGO Main St. United Church adopt­ ed their new order of service Sunday. Church service as usual was held at 11 a.m. and was fol­ lowed by the Sunday School ser­ vice. Dr. W. E. Weekes, of town, has been called to Active Service ) with the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps reporting for duty at London on March 17. Rev. Ernest Grigg is at pre­ sent doing missionary deputation work in the State of Michigan. The new concrete two span bridge in Exeter will be complet­ ed late in April. ... Neighboring News ... McKillop Lineman Fractures Ann Mr. Jack Kellar, lineman of McKillop Municipal Telephone System, broke his right forearm on Thursday afternoon last when he slipped on ice while pruning trees at the mountain, and fell on some stones. His saw had fallen out of the tree into Thos. Scott’s field and the acci­ dent occurred while Mr. Kellar was getting it. (Seaforth News) Consider Addition Clinton District Collegiate In­ stitute would like to erect a large addition to the present 2- storey and basement brick struc­ ture on Princess St. East, to cost approximately $285,000. The board is of the opinion that the present school plant has been outgrown and some action must be taken soon, particularly with regard to- future require­ ments. (Clinton News-Record) Mitchell’s Flood Control 'Councillor Cook at Monday’s council meeting gave a report on the plans and estimates of the proposed Thames Valley Au­ thority work in Mitchell which is now practically assured. Among things contemplated will be removal of half of the island above the dam and raising the park level some two” feet higher. The old sluice gates are to be-re­ moved and replaced with modern electrically-controlled gates. A retaining wall is to be built on the west side of the river along the Hesky Flax Company property. The river is to be dredged to the junction of Whirl Creek and will have a sixty foot bot­ tom. The same work will be done on a portion of Whirl Creek and the course changed. Instead of the creek running into the Thames in the same way it does now, the course of the former will be so changed to run in a more southern direction to make a new junction with the Thames near the C.N.R. railway bridge. Plans for a new Main St. bridge are being prepared. .(Mitchell Advocate) Former Zurich Resident Mrs, B. Dagg, wife of Ernest M. Dagg at present manager of the Bank of Montreal, Teeswater and former manager of the Zu-i rich Branch, died on March 2nd in Wellesley Hospital, Toronto. The family came to Teeswater five years ago from Lucan, pre­ viously at Zurich for some years also been at Aylmer, London and Chesley. Mrs. Dagg was a mem­ ber of the United Church and of Coronation Rebekah Lodge. (Zurich Herald) Raises Federation Levy Gordon Richardson, president of the Township Federation of Agriculture, waited on council and requested that the levy for federation purposes be increased from one-fifth mill to two-fifths, mill. Council agreed to levy the increased rate. (Huron Expositor) New Team Stirs One-HorseTown Palmerston is no longer a "one horse” town—it’s a “two horse” town from now on. Refuse collector Gordon Metz­ ger, has for some time been a familiar sight around the town with his one horse collecting re­ fuse and visitors jokingly referr­ ed to Palmerston as a one horse town. The town council recently pur­ chased a team of horses “and a large wagon for Mr. Metzger, so from now on the joke is ovei’ Palmerston has graduated. ♦ The new matched grey team has caused quite a bit of excite­ ment in town amongst the retir­ ed farmers who direct the town affairs from the two main corn­ ers, (depending which side the sun is on). Mr. Metzger has been offered much free advice on how to break-in the team to the flurry of town living, with all its horn blowing and train whist­ les. As is usually thg case, the horses make their breaks un­ announced, surprising the driver and bystanders and sometimes causing delays in going back over the route to pick up boxes that have fallen off from the rough ride. Give them another couple of weeks, the old timers say, an,d they Will be town-adjusted like We are, «—London Free Press ♦Two Store managers were dis­ cussing their personel, "How long was So-and-So with you?” asked one. "He was never with us. He was against us from the start,” was tile reply. Contract Barley We arc now contracting Barley for the Canada Malt­ ing Co. on the same basis as last year. We supply the seed and deduct bushel for bushel in the fall. Malting Burley yyas one of the best paying crops last year. In rebuilding our new elevator, which will be completed before harvest, we are planning to have four cleaners and unloading ramps which will make for quick unloading and avoid long delays. 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