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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1951-04-05, Page 2Page 2 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL S, 1951 Cxeter ICiiaea JLSTB Amalgamated November 1034 Advocate Established 1881 Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario An Independent Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the Village ot Exeter and district Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario-Quebec Division of the CIVNA 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, $3.00 Single Copies 0 Cents Each J. Melvin Southcott ■. Publishers Robert Southcott THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 5, 1951 The Secret Not Quite Out It may be bold to say it, but it looks as if the scientists have not got at the source of energy through the physical sciences. The dissolution of the atom is not the last word in this regard. Indeed, it may be questioned if the. atom has been “ex­ ploded”. Lord Kelvin told us more than half a century ago that energy did not re­ quire a physical medium for its transmis­ sion. At any rate Nature still holds a great deal back from those who would know more of her secrets. It may be that we have been on the wrong track in this whole af­ fair. We will do well to turn once more with a good deal ..of humility to the study of Christ and His manifestations of power. There is a great deal about Him that we do not quite understand. The easy way in which the learned have set aside His mighty acts as unworthy of serious study simply will not do. He re­ leased energies that, while they appeared to be natural in Him were altogether con­ fined to Him. His singular words, “Greater things than these shall ye do” have not been given the attention they deserve. Ul­ timately His whole life and teaching fit into a reasonable, rational universe. It is our business to discover how they do so. The Golden Rule is bound to prove not only good morals but the very basis of sound learning and science. * * # * Approved This district is justly proud of the Huronia singers. The community is proud because of the effort put forward by music lovers to have such a fine chorus formed. Satisfaction is felt at the achievement of the band of singers. The rendering of the selections chosen by the singers brings real pleasure to all wlio listen. In days like these when the radio brings to every home the finest music produced by the best sing­ ers in the world, there is a tendency to let local talent go undeveloped and unheard. The doing so is a grave mistake. True, ap­ preciation of music is the lot of those who themselves practice the art. We learn to appreciate by appreciating, and appreciation is at a low ebb unless «there is effort put forward to reproduce wliat has been heard. All teachers are aware of this fact. Further, the public values the effort put forward by the Huronia singers to improve upon the good work done by music lovers of other days. There are scores of people who recall the old-fashioned singing school. In not a few instances these local schools were sometimes held in the old- fashioned, poorly furnished and poorly heated town hall or school building. Even under these difficult conditions excellent results were achieved. Homes were bright­ ened by the songs and choruses learned. Church singing was decidedly improved, while many a youth was started on the up; ward trail because of the influences of the learning and the singing of sweet and wholesome songs. The Huronians as befits them, have taken up the best of those early efforts at cultivated singing and are im­ proving upon them. The public is scarcely aware of the good work those singers are accomplishing for the whole community. * * * * An Opportunity Various farmer’s organizations are af­ forded an opportunity of promoting the potato industry by taking advantage of the legislation of the Provincial government. An effort is being made to have certified potato areas formed throughout the pro­ vince. All are aware of the good resulting from the work of excellence on the live­ stock industry. Buyers, through this trading provision, know where to seek stock of a certain quality and standard. Good finan­ cial results are to follow. Egg grading has made a new thing of the egg business. The same results are sure to follow the grading of potatoes. Farmers are too experienced to believe that the transformation of the potato in­ dustry can be brought about suddenly. There are those who have gone into the egg business and into the stock grading business heedlessly, only to find, that the results looked for did not follow, Exper­ ienced poultry men know the ravages wrought by "chicken fever”1. We know of farmers who went into the purebred stock business without knowing what they were doting, who spent money for purebreds and who, in a IW* years, found their premises filled with scrub cattle in spite of pedigree. The sam&, principles apply to the pot­ ato industry. The potato producer must know a good potato when he sees it. He must know a good deal about the soil re­ quired for producing high grade tubers. Along with the knowledge of the produc­ tion of good potatoes there must go busi­ ness ability in promoting sales and the steadiness of character that will enable the i producer to see the enterprise through by j being able to take the bitter with the sweet. ‘ * * * * j Investigating It Governments are undertaking the study of the effect of large use of liquour upon the individual and society, with the purpose of finding out ways and means of prevent­ ing the ravages of such liqueurs. The sub­ ject is a difficult one but however diffi­ cult it must be faced. We need not here go over the ground with which all of us are familiar. Cases may be cited where men have indulged in the beverage use of liq­ ueur for a lifetime without any outstanding ill effect upon their own lives or upon society. All of us are only too well aware of the sinking of heart that follows when we hear of a friend who has walked the useful path, “he drinks”. We know only too well of the fate that has overtaken some of our finest when people commenced saying of him “what a pity he cannot keep his feet under him”. All that ground need not be here gone over. Open eyed exper­ ience has demonstrated all this. What the government has in mind is the discovery of the causes of the grip that liquour secures upon people, Further, the government is sure to seek ways and means of providing the revenue the liquours now pour into the public treasury. The problem is about the most difficult any body of men ever faced. When it comes to the problem of get­ ting the victim of alcohol restored the sit­ uation becomes serious beyond all descrip­ tion. The victim is unaware of his danger. He believes that he can live a sober life any time he choose, unaware that the liq­ uour has destroyed his moral sense and has ■weakened his will as he goes along. He seems to be. convinced that he can lift him­ self by pulling on his own bootstraps. How to rouse him to the knowledge that he is in a very real sense a diseased person is one of the most difficult that confronts lovers of the race. Even when the victim is aware that he is caught in the swirling rapids and is nearing the cataract he finds it almost impossible to rally his moral forces and his will-power. He is not normal. Temptation leaps upon him and he is only too likely to fall into his old habits. The government will confer a greater benefit upon them than it knoftvs if it should find a satisfactory way of dealing with a con­ dition that has wrought ill to the race from the earliest days of history. * * * * Why? Mr. Ford, Chancellor of the University of Western Ontario, tells of sitting in the corridor of a southern hotel in a state where they have strict laws against the sale t of liquor over the bar and against gambling in its' various forms. As Mr. Ford looked on he saw a bar where patrons crowded each other to secure spirituous drinks, and in other places in the hotel where slot machines and other gambling devices were going full blast. There was open flouting of the laws of the state on the part of those, drinkers and gamblers. The thing re­ ferred to by Mr, Ford was not done in a corner but in the plainest of sight of 'law­ makers and law enforcers. Why? What next ? First there is no occasion for panic over the condition this incident reveals, There are a certain number of people who seem bound to take the primrose road that leads to destruction. They are bent on ex­ cessive liquour drinking or on gambling, Despite warnings and the experience of the race they insist on walking over hot lava, But these people do not represent the folk of the United States nor of civilization, The folk who rule and who do the World’s busi­ ness neither drink to excess nor clo they gamble. They abide by their day’s work and are clean and honest in body and mind. Further, when the riotous living be­ come nuisances they put them in jail, if the rioters live long enough to be put in jail. Times change, In pre-fliver days a telephone pole would last at least fifteen years. PUNCTURED BALLOON As the--------- “TIMES* Go By .... .I... n. . . . . . . —-g! 50 YEARS AGO The Maccabees here (Dash­ wood) are still on the forward move. At their last meeting they put in four new candidates, Mr. Tlios. Handford who left here on the 12inst with a load of horses for Winnipeg re­ turned home on Tuesday, mak­ ing the trip in seven days, in­ cluding the sale of the horses. Messrs Charlton and Keddy have leased the 'building on Main Street near the Town hall from Richard Atkinson and in­ tend starting the manufacture of pumps there. Mr. Thus. Russell of “River­ side Farm’’, Usborne has been appointed on the cattle commit­ tee .by the directors of the Wes­ tern Fair, London, for the fall exhibition. 25 YEARS AGO Rev. D. McTavish who for three years has been pastor of the Crediton-United Church has accepted the invitation of James St. Church to become their past­ or. COATES — HARVEY — At the Janies St. United Church par­ sonage on March 30tli, Thomas Clifford Coates son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Coates, of Usborne, to Miss Elva Eliza­ beth, daughter of Mr. Chas. Harvey, of Exeter. The following officers were elected at the ’bowlers’ meeting on Thursday evening: President, T. Pryde, secretary, G. E. Ander­ son, treasurer, E. ’“••J. Christie, •grounds committee, W. C. Riv­ ers, W. E. Sanders, C. B, Snell and Rev. A. A. Trumper. 15 YEARS AGO Mr. W. E. Middleton was elected councillor of the village of Exeter by acclamation Tues­ day at noon to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. H. T. Rowe owing to illness. The Exeter Girls Soft Ball Club was reorganized Monday at the Exeter school at 4 p.m. Officers elected were President, Miss Alma Brown; vice-presi­ dent Miss Olive Stevenson; sec­ retary and manager, W. G. Medd; captain, Mrs. Lloyd Lin­ denfield, Toll Bros wyi give their travelogue, “Hitch-Hiking Round the World’’ in James St. Church on April 21. Mr. Jack Pryde has returned home after spending the winter at Beebe, Quebec. 10 YEARS AGO Mr. W. H. Pollen has disposed of his residence on South main St. to Chas Kerslake, of Usborne. They will get possession the mid­ dle of next month. Pte Dalton Finkbeiner of No. 12 training centre, Chatham, spent Sunday at his home in Crediton. Work has commenced on the pinery road, Grand Bend, pre­ paring for a tai'via surface. Easter April 13. The friends of Miss Gladys Ryckman, bride-to-be surprised her on Tuesday evening at her home to a miscellaneous shower. ... Neighboring News ... Not A Happy Easter For Truck Driver A young driver of a huge B. A. oil truck got into difficulty on the Huron Road Hill on Satur­ day during the storm that kept him here the greater .part of the afternoon. It seems that he could not make the grade up the centre of the road and in an ef­ fort to keep from going back he edged into the curb, only to have the rear end of the truck get mired deeply in the soft shoulder of the road in front of the Coloquhoun place. Finally a wrecker was able to dislodge it and the driver went on his way with a good afternoon’s work still to be done before lie could take time off to celebrate East­ er,, (Mitchell Advocate) Double-Dip Cones Thirty-five boys heralded the begining of spring by being ■treated to double-dip ice-cream cones in the Grill next to the Journal-Argus. They were the St, Marys Boy Choristers and their leader, Mr, Lloyd Brad­ shaw was just telling them by way of ice cream that they had finished a good practice session. NOw Channel Water of the Thames River were allowed to flow through the new diversion channel cut in the north bank of the river east) of Fanshawe village this week for the first time, Bulldozers used to clear away a coffer dam which had protected the workings) Another coffer dam across the remaining stretch of river will protect the concrete Works of the dam foundation during construc­ tion. (St. Marys Journal-Argus) Fiddfers Contest Draws Good Crowd Winners at the fiddlers coh- test on Tuesday night under L. 0. L. auspices, at the community centre, were: Class 1 (under 25 years of age) William Clark, Bengali; James Scott, Bly th; Gerald Smith, Kippeh. Class 2 ((25 to 5(h years of age) Nelson Howe, Cromarty; Cecil Maxwell, I-Iensall; Lome Allen, Kirkton. Class 3 (over 50 years) Wil­ liam Hyde, Hensail; Fred Har- burn, Cromarty^ William George Martin, Stratford. The first and second winners in this class were both 87 years of age. (Seaforth News) New Fire Truck The Purchasing Committee of Brucefield Volunteer Fire De­ partment reported they have purchased a truck and it was de­ cided at the meeting to have this truckle fitted with fire fight­ ing equipment at Woodstock. The townships off Tucker­ smith and Stanley each donated $600. in support of the project. (Clinton News Record) New Flag Atop Town Hall A new flag has been placed atop the flag pole of the Town Hall. It has been some years since the last flag has flown from the building. The work of securing one and haying it hung was under the direction of Councillor A. W. Sillery. (Huron Expositor) Letter To The Editor Lucan, Ontario, April 2, 1951. The Editor, The Exeter Times-Advocate, Exeter, Ontario, Dear Sir: I have been instructed by the Executive of the Huron-Forth Baseball Association to thank you and your staff for the ex­ cellent publicity given us, during the year 1950, Yours truly, W, J. H. O’Rourke, Secretary, Hurdn-Ferth Baseball Association, Editorial Immortal Lire By the late W. G« Medd (This editorial was presented by Mr. Medd at a social evening of the Kunijoinus C lass held, on Monday} March 26, in Main Street Church. It was the eve of his death.) Three years ago our Easter i theme was "Immortality” and we gave reasons for our belief in a future life in answer to Question of Job,—“If a man die, shall he live again?” In our an­swer we used the testimony of science, of religion and experien­ ce, Now, another Question that many people ask is, “If a man lives again, where does he life? ’ Many people will answer it as soon as it is asked. They will sav that if he has been good or if he is a Christian and his sins are forgiven, he will go to heaven. And then you may ask where is heaven? There are a lot of specula­ tions, some of them very absurb about heaven, To mention one, perhaps not as absurb as others, we refer to a recent book by K. C, Sabiers, M. A. in which there is a picture of an empty space in the northern sky, no stars. And in this space it is thought that God, The Supreme Being dwells and true believers go there after death to live with him. The writer does not say this is real but might be actual­ ly true.We need not be concerned about a third, or seventh heaven or about where heaven is, but we are sure there is a spirit world that we call lieaven and as spirits when we leave our bodies we shall continue living in that world. Heaven is a place for God’s children, Specially pre­ pared by Jesus who said “I go to prepare a place for you, that where I am you may be also. And in heaven we shall know loved ones and friends for we shall know as we are known. And we shall be like Jesus for we shall see Him as He is. We must not forget that heaven is also a state or condi­ tion. It is a kingdom where Christ rules. He said the King­ dom of heaven is within you. Jesus came to establish the kingdom of heaven on the earth and it is here. It is a kingdom that has one great and beauti­ ful law—Love God and Love One Another. Heaven is not all over there but is here as well. And the angel of death just opens the door to the other larger and more beautiful dwelling places for the children of God. And we are His children. W. G. M. Ottawa Writer Say Press Gallery Full Of Capital's -Teacher’s Pets ("Time” Magazine) Tweedy Austin Cross, garru­ lous columnist for the Ottawa “Citizen,” loves to bang away with an open-bore shotgun at everything from bad manners of local truck drivers to race dis­ crimination in the U.S. deep South. This week, in "New Liberty magazine, he let fly at an overstaffed Ottawa institu­ tion that badly needed punctur­ ing: the Parliamentary Press Gal­ lery. The capital's newsmen, he snorted, have been intimidated by the Liberal government; they have obsequiously traded their reporters’ git & gumption for news tips from patronizing ministers, said Cross: " They are spoiled darlings, prima donnas .., the capital’s teacher’s pets . . . government stooges. Your pin-up reporter these days . , . sits around playing gin rummy till the government messenger arrives with the daily handout.” That kind of "apple-polishing is as unnecessary as it is debi­ litating, said Cross. "[Look] what the American press today is doing to President Truman . , . The vigorous, virile journalism of the United States gets all the news, not just what comes in government handouts.” Many a Canadian agreed.. For the country’s coddled newsmen, free railroad tickets have long been a routine subsidy. The gal­ lery’s gin rummy players seldom have to break away to listen to debate, since the government supplies a transcript only 20 minutes after the speech. In 1945, Mackenzie King made things worse by appointing a veteran reporter to the Senate as a reward for faithful service. More than one oldtimer today seems to be bucking hard for same honorarium ($6,000 for life) from Louis St. Laurant. The gallery has become one of the most powerful autocratcies in Ottawa. Its officers issue passes to visiting newsmen, of­ ten advise government officials on when and how to release government news, decide who shall be "invited” to hold press conferences in the gallery pre­ mises. The gallery has unchallenged authority to pick & choose its members, and therefore, to de­ termine who shall use the cap­ ital’s tax-supported news facili­ ties. An old guard of daily news­ paper and wire-service men has converted the organization al­ most into a private club. ExJ ample: it has excluded radio re- porter s. CBC’s commentator Maude Ferguson covers Com­ mons from the crowded public galleries, where note-taking is forbidden. What A Good Teacher Can Do (Dundalk Herald) We like to give credit where it is due and are glad to quote wliat Wes Magwood, secretary of Grey County Farm Forums, has to say about the rural teacher. Wes would have made a wonder­ ful newspaper editor. Here is what he says, and he need not apologize for saying it; “We may be wrong, but we have always contended that there was nothing that could compare with the grounding in loyalty and good citizenship with the training rural children got in a rural school; that is the centre of a good wholesome wide awake rural community, and oft- times the teacher backed by a good trustee board was the heart of it all. *As to the training a rural teacher should have, the best will never be too good, but a high education and training will never replace the ability of the teacher to be able to mingle with the people of the section, and be an inspiration that will lead them to better ways of life.”