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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1951-04-12, Page 2Page 8 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 12, 1951 Bfje Cxeter Times Established 1873 AnuUgaiuated November 102-4 Advocate Established 1881 Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario Afl. Independent Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the Village of Exeter and District Authorized as Second Class Mall, 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 of Circulation Paid-in-Advance Circulation as of March 31, 1950 — 2,329 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Canada, in advance, $2|.5O a year United States, in advance, 83.00 Stogie Copies 0 Cent* Each J» Melvin Southcott ► Publishers Robert Southcott THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 12, 1951 Fitting In Newcomers from Holland and Den­ mark and Iceland, for the most part, are fitting into Canadian ways. Indeed, many of these new citizens are setting the pace for many of the Canadian born. Icelanders, in Manitoba especially, have proven them­ selves good farmers and mechanics, but are doing so well in schools and colleges that the University of Manitoba has established a chair for the study of, and the encourage­ ment of Icelandic literature. The Icelanders are distinctly making good. Throughout Ontario the Hollanders are proving that they not only know how to work the soil but how to care fox* and how to market soil products. In their case the usual thing foi* the Hollander is to win ex­ perience by working as a hired man. Next he rents a few acres, makes good and then purchases a larger farm and makes good in a larger way. His economic rule is “Me no have money, me no buy. Me get on, me do more and get on more”. The Dane has a way of taking over the feeding of hogs and cattle for his boss and proving that he can do better than his boss in animal husbandry. He has, too, an almost uncanny skill in'cattle and hog deal­ ing. These people have good heads and sound bodies and make a mighty good use of both. They see an opportunity, get at it and make it pay. A Memorable Occasion The visit of the President of France to the Canadian capital was an occasion not to be forgotten by either Frenchmen or Canadians. His welcome by the Senate and the House of Commons was gracious, cor­ dial, enthusiastic. The conduct and utter­ ances of the President left nothing to be desired while the introduction of the Presi­ dent ‘to his audience was dignified and in every way worthy of the day. Nearly four and a quarter centuries have passed since Frenchmen first sailed the noble St, Lawrence. Since then history has been made. Anglo-Saxon and Celt went their separate ways fox* many a day. Each* made his contribution to the welfare not only of Canada and the North American continent but to the world. These two mighty races are united now in^the cause of freedom. Hand to hand they press forward not only for the good of Canada but of the whole world. Little by little old slogans and wax' cries have been laid aside, till today Frenchman and Saxon are one and indivxsable in the mighty enter­ prise of securing liberty for every son of Adam. He is an enemy of the race who would keep these peoples apart, Why Not Here? .Adult education courses in district high •schools are becoming increasingly popular as shown by the success of the Medway project this winter. These schools are not only offering creative family recreation, but fostering better community living by bringing the people of the district together. The school for Huron County has been held at Wingham for the past two years. Under new regulations, the school must not be I.eld in the same place more than two years in succession. No decision has been made as to where the school will be held next year. With the cooperation of the school board and some agitation in the. district, there is every possibility that the courses could he held in the local school, where the parents might take advantage of the wonderful facilities they have provided for their children. * «• «• * Those Two Horses Experienced race course men have been known to say that it is difficult fox* even the most experienced to ride two horses. Indeed, some of those sportsmen have been known to say that such,riding. Cannot be done. Yet General MacArthur has been expect­ ed to violate this principle. He was given the job of getting the affairs of Japan into good running order. Anyone familiar* with a job of that sort realizes that the general had considerable of a task In getting the Japanese to fit into the scheme of things. In the very midst of his big job as regulator ■of Japanese affairs, the general was asked to take on the running of the Korean war. Nov/, evexv the most experienced gen­ eral of our time would have had his hands a little too full if he ran against such trouble. We are not at all surprised that under such circumstances the general made a number of mistakes. It is folly for those of us who are liv­ ing a few odd thousand miles from the scene of action to say what the general should have done or what he should have refrained from doing. Still less need we be surprised at his making some diplomatic blunders. All of which is leading some of our best men to believe that a fundamental change should be made in those eastern af­ fairs? The general should, it would seem, be relieved of one or other of his posts. It might serve a good purpose to give this able general and fine administrator a long holiday. He has been a long time under the load of his onerous duties. Why should he not be refreshed? Even a giant needs a time for recuperation. We know the folly of attempting to swap horses while crossing the river but circumstances know* no mercy. * * * * Doing Good Work Ontario people have a healthy localism that exemplifies itself whenever local causes require assistance, As we advance in exper­ ience we find the truth of Rudyard Kip­ ling’s saying “The strength of the pack is the wolf and the strength of the wolf is the pack". The Federal Government is not an in­ stitution apart from the local municipality. Still less does the provincial parliament | stand apart from the local town, city and ■ township. i Exeter and environs have reason to re­ member this state of affairs. During the last year or so the provincial government has contributed the following sums to Exe­ ter. Other instances might be mentioned I but the following will suggest that the pro­ vincial government is not neglectful of the | interests of this growing municipality: School grants to the Exeter District High School'were $77,738. The subsidy paid by the Department of Municipal Affairs to the Town of Exe­ tei' was $1,395,03, This subsidy was to be. used as the Council thought best. During the last three years the total amount contributed, by the provincial gov­ ernment foi* the Exeter -Athletic Field was $4,500. This year the grant from the province to the South Huron Hospital will be $32,- 000.* a » What About Argentina? 1 Argentina is causing a good deal of puzzlement. For a time hopes were enter­ tained that she was to be a model govern­ ment, as fax’ as- freedom is concerned. She was soon to throw off or was actually throwing off. or had. already thrown off I many of the restrictions that make life difficult -and, unduly restrained in other parts of the world that we are accustomed to look upon as civilized. Events are prov­ ing all this belief in a great- political fut- , ure to be poorly founded. Instead of proving herself the home of a newel’ and greater freedom than the world had so far known, Argentina is turn­ ing out to be a dictatorship that is facing backwards. Hex’ first retrograde step has been an attempt at suppressing the frec- ; dom of the press. All dictators realize that an unmuzzled press is their worst enemy and suppress the free expression of public opinion • accordingly. There is a .rumour' that the Argentine does not fill lier contracts. There is a story to the effect that Argentina was to supply Britain with many essential food stuffs. In this matter Argentina simply did not meas­ ure up to her promises. At least that is the word that is going the rounds. Further, when the leaders of the American continent, both North America and ’South America, met to make arrange­ ments for a mutual military defence of the continents, Argentina informed the other nations that her defence forces were for herself alone. The Argentine was isolation­ ist from turret to foundation stone. And ' that was that. Again, Argentina set the wdrld awon- dering by announcing that she had tested the atom in such a way that its energy.was to be used, for industrial purposes. If this were the case the rest of the world would find it difficult to compete with the Argen­ tine in industrial pursuits. Time seems to be proving that the Argentine has made no such discovery. Nature has not, played favourite with the Argentine industrially any more than she has played favourites with her economically, socially or political­ ly. Well may the world look askance at Argentina’s statement. OUT AGAIN! As the—— “TIMES” Go By 50 YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO Letters To The Editor Drain Overloaded, Not Plugged, Writer Rebukes Local Council The spring millinery openings held Friday and Saturday at the different millinery departments must have been a perfect dream of delight to the hundreds' of fair ones who thronged the show rooms. Exeter leads all her sist­ er towns in millinery. Miss Edna McCallum returned home Tuesday from London to spend the Easter vacation. Mr John Stanlake held the an­ nual “County” -wood bee on Fri­ day last. The size of the wood pile is an indication of how the stalwarts worked. In the evening all engaged in a dance which was kept up until almost day­ break next morning. Walter Hern, of Zion, has tak­ en a position as clerk at Mr. John Grigg's. 25 YEARS AGO Miss Ross of the Exeter High School staff is spending the Easter holidays ffe Toronto. Miss Hale is visiting at her home in Gananoque and Miss Banes at Newbury. Mr. K. Stanbury of Western University spent the Easter holi­ days under the parental roof. Miss Greta Harness and Miss Verda Rowcliffe spent the East­ er holidays in Windsor, Mr. Bruce Medd of the O.A.C. Guelph spent Eastei* at his home here. The ratepayers of Exeter have voiced their approval of the elec­ tion of a municipal building to be used as a skating rink and recreational centre. In a keenly contested ’ vote on Tuesday, the majority was 8 6 in favour of such a project. Dr. Harry Seldon has accept­ ed a position on the staff of the Mayo Bros, Hospital in Rochester, Minn. Mrs. T. Hern Sr. and Miss Minnie of Zion moved to their new home in Exeter on Wednes­ day of last week. To the Editor: Seeing an article in the council minutes informing Miss Greb the drain at my place was plugged and that they agreed to investi­ gate possibilities of getting a court order to have me remove the obstruction, I wish to inform the public that the drain is not plugged and the councillors that are responsible for those un­ truths against me had better get the fapts before making those statements and especially putting them in print. J want those ac­ cusations rectified at once. Now I will give you the truth of the situation. I have a 10” tile drain which is supposed to take the water from one 8” tile drain on Wellington Street, one drain 6” through the Abbott property, one drain 6” on Vic­ toria Street, one drain 7” from Mr. .Fred Wells’ corner, one drain from the Co-Op, one drain from the station and one 6” tile drain from the front end of the canning factory. To top it all off they gave Canada Packers per­ mission to put a drain in it also (where they wash their turnips). All in all, about 25 to 30 inches of drain has to go in to my 10” tiles. That is the reason why you people have water in -youi’ cellars. The council were just passing the buck to accuse me of some­ thing that is untrue. Some time ago we had to build a wall to keep the surplus water from washing a hole under the fence to keep any cattle from getting out on the railway track. One of the council men went up there one night and busted it up with a sledge and threw the cement chunks around my field so the railroad gave me permission to close in the opening to keep my cattle from getting out on the tracks and also to keep the tin cans and other rubbish from getting in my drain. This was done and o.k.’d by the railway two years ago, yet nothing has been done since. The 10” drain is clear and is running water. The reeve of 1950 promised me, by putting the large drain on William Street, that those drains which were overcrowding my drain would be changed and put into the big drain. However, the people of Exetei' did not see fit to elect him again so they will have to put up with the water in their cellars until the new council wake up and start rectifying the drainage in our section, I was ridiculed 'by some of the old council for closing the open space between the two drains but the water smelled as though it came from a sewer and I was not going to have my cattle drink that polluted water, and I also do not want it running ovex- the top of my land where my cattle are pasturing. I hope this thing is cleared up and the public knows the truth of the matter. Yours truly, Preston Dearing. To The Editor: Still Lights Pipe Have noticed in the Associat­ ed Press of recent date civil ser-. vants have had a substantial boost in salaries. The fact was brought home very forcibly this morning when posting a regis­ tered letter, I was politely in­ formed that rates had been doubled and on counting my change from a twenty-five cent coin discovered a perfectly good Canadian penny which will still buy a book of matches to light my pipe and like it. Respectfully, 100'% Canuck (Name available on request.) The Pats Are Good But Not That Good (Maclean’s Magazine) 1O YEARS AGO The reeves, members of the councils and clerks of Stephen and Usborne townships were guests of the Exeter Lions Club at their supper meeting at the Central Hotel ’Monday evening. The feature of the evening- was an address by a young officer from the Netherlands, Lieut, du Bois now stationed at Juliana Barracks in Stratford. Mr. J. L, Vidt is making splendid progress in the work of enlarging the Exeter Re- f r i ge r a t o r e d Locker Service Building. Miss Jean Sheere has accept­ ed a position in the office of Dr. Dunlop and will commence her new duties next week. What Else? The B a y fi e 1 d correspondent tells about a bear . . . “Pete Mc­ Gee saw an animal a week ago Monday which lie thinks was a bear ... lie describes it as being about twice the size--of a collie dog\ coal black, with a bobbed tail... It looked like a bear and walked like a bear and when it snarled at his dog, it showed fangs like a bear (so if it weren’t a bear what was it?) ... (Clinton; News-Record) Buy Resuscitator The Seaforth Fire Brigade made initial plans at their meet­ ing Tuesday night to raise funds for the purchase of a resuscita­ tor. The brigade intends to con-, duct a draw, offering eithex’ a steer ox’ heifer as- first prize. At present it is the intention of the brigade to make the re­ suscitator available to .everyone without charge, but at the same time keei) it under contx’ol of the brigade. It Will be stationed in the Town Hall. (Huron Expositor) Up Eight Mill Cljnton’s tax rate for 1951 is 55 mills on the dollar as com­ pared with 47 mills in 1950—an increase of eight mills ovex’ last year-—it was decided at the April meting of Town Council last night. (Clinton News-Record) Crows Sucking Eggs Residents along, the bank -of the Thames south of Victoria Bridge report that crows are suckling the eggs of Wild ducks which are nesting in the .grassy slopes along that stream. Sever­ al ducks have been caught in muskrat traps and at least otic crow has fallen a victim to these rodent snappers as well, Stealing 'trees The theft of coniferous trees from the triangulai* piece of ground at the junction of the Centre Gravel and Townlihe roads, north of St. Marys has caused comment in Berth County Council sessions. Thefts occur at Christinas time afld now it is proposed to hire neighbours to watch this community forest at Yuletide in future. (St. Marys Journal-Argus) Fire From Stove Pipes • Fire smoldering between ceil­ ing and floor at the home of Mr. Joseph Grumniett on Tuesday morning was fortunately dis­ covered in time to prevent' ser­ ious damage, Seaforth fire bri­ gade responded to a call shortly before 9.30 and soon had the fire under control. Cause of the fire was overheated stove pipes which had given trouble an hour earlier and been quelled by mem­ bers of the family, but a smold­ ering fire apparently continued between kitchen ceiling and bathroom floor. Damage amount­ ing to about $300 was confined to floors of three rooms and the kitchen ceiling. (Seaforth News) Canadians get a lot of com­ placent 4un out of the "sensa­ tional” United States press. We like to think that Americans are inveterate braggarts, that they never give anybody else any credit, that they are prone to gross exaggeration. Maybe, maybe. But let's take a look at some Canadian cover­ age of the Korean War since the Princess Patricias got into action. One day not long ago a Tor­ onto paper carried a double sweepline in bold capitals: CHINESE REDS FLEE BAYONETS OF PATS In the third paragraph of., the story you found out that the Patricias were “alongside U.S., Australian and South Korean forces attached to the U.S. First Calvary Division” and that "to­ day’s action was part of a vast Allied attack on a 70-mile front”. Apparently the Pats were not personally, or alone, in pursuit i of the entire Chinese army. But you had to get down to the eighth paragraph before you found out exactly how many Chinese Reds Fleet Bayonets of Pats”. It turned out the number was two, Not 200, not 20. Two. All the rest had retreated before the Canadians arrived, but these two "hadn’t got the order to bug out”, according to one. Canadian soldier. The next day the same paper carried another front-page head­ line: PATS PURSUE CHINESE AS ALLIES SURGE AHEAD Paragraph foui' of the story explained, however, that “the Commonwealth soldiers (Can­ adians and British) scoured the hill all day without finding a single live enemy”. Not that we want to pick on any particular paper—it’s quite typical in this respect of Can­ adian newspapers. One day in the same week one of its con­ temporaries headlined the wai' story thus; CANADIAN PATS IN 5-MILE ADVANCE; WINDSOR MAN HOLDS REDS AS PRISONERS According to the story the ad­ vance was made with no opposi­ tion across the whole front—"in some cases,” said the New York Times for the same day, “ no contact’ again was reported.” The Canadian paper’s own story said the Canadians met no en­ emy in their advance. As for the Red prisoners, they were de­ scribed in paragraph five; "Today’s assault (sic) yielded two Chinese prisoners, both wounded and left behind . . . (They) were placed in custody of Ptes. Cyril Hoffman of North Vancouver and Tom Powell of Windsor, Ont.” Far be it from us to belittle the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, a unit with a fighting record second to none. We are • sure the Second Batta­ lion in Korea -will, as opportuni­ ties arise, do credit to its regi­ ment’s honourable name. But we hate to think how the Pats them­ selves would feel if' these home­ town newspapers were airmailed to Korea and circulated among the Americans and the British at the front. LAFF OF THE WEEK SMILES . . . . The teacher asked Johnny to tell him what a hypocrite was. Replied Johnny: . "It’s a boy what comes to school with a smile On his face.” * « * * "Good morning,” said the switchboard operator. “This is Perkins, Parkins/ Peckham and Botts.” “Mr. Perkins, please.” “Who is calling, please?” “Mr., Pincham, of Pincham, Pettain, popum and PoggA “Just a moment, please. I'll give you Perkins’ office.” "Hello,- Mr,’ Perkins office.” "Let me speak to Mr. Perkins, please.” "Mr. Perkins? I’ll see if he is in. Who’s calling, please?” “Mr. Pincham of Pincham, Pettam, Popum and Pogg.” "Just a moment, Mr, Pincham, Here’s Mr, Perkins, Mr. Pincham on the line, please’.” “Just one moment, please, I have Mr. Pincham right here, okay with Perkins, ’ Parkins, Peckham and Potts, Mr. Pinc­ ham. Go ahead,” "’Do Joe. How about lunch?” "Okay,. Charlie?’