HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1951-06-21, Page 2Page 2 THE TIMES-ADYOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 21, 1951
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THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 21, 1951
Canadian Unity
This year Canadians from coast to
coast are being asked to focus their at
tention for the week of June 24 to July
I on the state of the nation’s unity.
The idea of a Week of Canadian Unity
has been conceived and is being sponsored
by the Canadian Weekly Newspaper As
sociation and French Canadian Weekly
Nev- spapers Association.
Canadian-, have never been conscious !
of their own unity, have been too prone [
to think of themselves in terms of pro- ■
vinces in which they are a part or of the j
language which they speak. Believing that
Canada is more unified than Canadians
realize, the two great newspaper associa
tions are sponsoring this week to bring
home to the people of this nation the fact
of Canadian unity.
In any land as far flung as Canada
there are bound to be sectional differences
but the Canadian democratic way of life,
the Canadian conception of freedom of the
individual, Canadian pride in the achieve
ments of .this youthful nation surpass in
finitely any differences that may exist.
Canadians do not know too well their
own story and are better acquainted with
the historical figures of Britain, France
and the United States than they are’ with
the great men of their own past. A quiz,
for instance, on the Fathers of Confedera
tion would keep most Canadians guessing.
If Canadian Unity Week accomplishes
only two things—impresses Canadians with
the astounding degree of unity achieved
during the short 84 years since Confedera
tion and convinces Canadians of the neces
sity of knowing each other better if the
unity of the nation is to be strengthened—
Canada’s weekly newspapers associations
will have attained their objective.
Canadians must work at this task of
strengthening the unity of the nation. It
requires the best thought and effort of
every citizen. It is a year round job.
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Community Fun Day
On Monday. July 2, the Exeter Kins
men Club will stage the first Dominion
Day celebration to be held in this district
for many years. A look at the program
will show that the various events promise
to make the day an entertaining one.
The proceeds that the young service
club hopes to make from the celebration
will go to a community playground project.
We should give our support.
We haven’t celebrated a nation holi
day holiday in this town for a long time.
Outside of the annual fall fair and race
meqt there hadn't been an all-day show
where townspeople and their friends from
the surrounding country can get together
for a day of fun.
If Exeter is the trading centre for the
large community around, then we should
lead the way in providing such- -a holiday, s
It follows that if this Dominion Day
celebration is a success, the Kinsmen will
be able to put on bigger and better shows
in the future-
By attending this holiday show, we
will not only aid the Kinsmen in their ser
vice work, but we will also establish an
annual fun day for the district.
Let’s plan to attend.
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The Great Debate
Huron county council took a long-
needed step last week when they voted to
ask Ottawa to repeal the Canada Temper
ance Act in this county.
For years this subject has been
brought up in houses, on streets and in
courtroonls but never in recent years has
any elected body taken a step to bring the
difficulty out in the open.
The most active, organized body af
fected, the Huron County Temperance Fed
eration, have defended the CTA as a close
Relative to prohibition. In doing this, how
ever, they have had to wink at the many
bootleggers in towns and townships of
Huron county who operate successfully and
in comparative safety under this ancient
federal statute.
"Common knowledge” of bootleggers
cannot convict them. Last year, for in
stance, four minors secured beer on the
Dashwood road an dwere caught by police.
They admitted the sale, they knew the
farmhouse but they “couldn't” name the |
seller so the case was washed out, I
There are many evidences of this prob
lem. The provincial police know of the
bootleggers and what they do. But the
prosecution case must be so tight, so frigid
that the smallest legal point may throw it
out.
Some of the loopholes of CTA have
been recognized by the temperance people.
Last year they asked that Liquor Control
Act and Canada Temperance Act be com
bined to allow more restrictive measures.
We don’t know the legal aspect of such a
combination but it can be imagined that
much complication would result when two
lawx are used to govern the same type
offense.
When he was crown attorney, present
Magistrate Dudley Holmes said: “If the
temperance people want to close up loop
holes in the enforcement of the Canada
Temperance Act in Peel, Perth and Huron
counties, the thing for them to do is to gx>
to Ottawa and seek amendments to the
C.T.A., which would make enforcement
easier.”
Defining the situation as it was then
and is now, he said the Canada Temper
ance Act forbids sale of intoxicating liquor
in the county of Huron but does not forbid
its being brought in for one’s personal and
family use. It does forbid a person carry
ing liquor into the county for his own use.
It must be brought in by some other per
son for him, but once the liquor is in the
county it may be carried anywhere inside
the county and consumed openly; and as
long as a person does not create a disturb
ance, nothing can be. done about it.
There is nothing in the CTA to pre
vent persons carrying liquor to dances and
drinking it openly providing .they do not
create a disturbance.
The CTA further forbids a person
giving a drink to a friend as it would not
be “personal or family use”. Outside of
.that there is nothing to prevent the use of
intoxicants by minors or bv any person.
There can be no prosecutions for drunken
ness unless a disturbance is created. Liquor
may be drunk at the roadside or any place
within .the boundaries of any county.
There are no public places as defined
by the Ontario act (Liquor Control) so
that even if a person is convicted of selling
under the Canada Temperance Act, his
house cannot be declared a “public place”
and the day after his conviction he may
legally have liquor shipped in.
Under the Liquor Control Act, if a
constable had reason to suspect liquor was
contained in a car or other vehicle he had
a right to search without warrant, and also
to demand the production of a person’s
liquor permit. There is no such right under
the Canada Temperance Act. No search
can be made in any place, whether shop
or house or hotel without a search war
rant which can ohlv be obtained on' good
grounds and can only be issued by two
justices of' the peace, instead of one as
under the Liquor Control Act.
Another quirk in the law makes it
possible for anyone to purchase- beer 'for
any resident in the so-called “dry” counties
and sicne there is no covering law outlin
ing “ages, a two-year-old child can author
ize such a purpose.
4 Is the next step a vote? Will the
“drys” and the “wets” fight it out again
in Huron county? What the result of coun
cil’s decision will be is not known ?jjbut it
would look as if another “great debate”
will .soon start in Huron.
In anticipation of such a conflict, The
Times-Advocate will attempt soon to pre
sent authoritative views on both sides of
the question. This issue should be decided
by intelligent consideration of the practical
problem, not by . political,. partisan or
theoretical values.* * *
Note and Comment
In these baseball days, inflation is do
ing the best pitching of all. It’s might hard
for a txvo-dollar bill to make a hit.
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A college professor claims we can’t
hear as well after a big meal as before. It
does take a loud voice to wake one up
from an afternoon snooze.
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Baseball teams in the local league
have to import players to keep in the thick
of the race. Wouldn’t a litle more interest
in kids* baseball today save, sportsmen a
bit of money in a few years?
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Two suggestions for relieving the
Saturday night parking problem in Exeter
are widening the back streets and opening
lots behind stores.
RE-DECORATION DAY
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50 YEARS AGO
Mr. H. McCallum on Monday
took a load of lumber and shing
les to Grand Bend for the erec
tion of a summer cottage.
Mr. John Knight has been ap
pointed local agent for the Allen
Line Steamships.
Exeter civic holiday will -.b,e
set- for July 18 so that all will
be able to take in the Masonic
excursion to Brantford.
Miss M. A. Tapp leaves today
to visit friends in Strathroy and
Kerwood.
Quietly and slyly did Rich.
Murphy, our popular implement
agent leave town the other day
on an interesting mission known
only to himself. We have- since
learned that he has gone and
done it, having deserted the
ranks of bachelorhood and join
ed the army of benedicts.
The township of Stephen will
observe Thursday, June 20 as a
civic holiday. A picnic will be
held at Grand Bend.’
15 YEARS AGO
Rev. Harry L. Jennings who
was recently ordained a priest of
the Anglican Church has been
called to Fort Norman about 1,-
300 miles north of Edmonton.
Rev. Moore Gordon B.A., BID.,
and family are moving to Chats
worth, eight miles south of
Saturday Evening
Here, There
And Elsewhere
By Rev, James Anthony, M.A.
Owen Sound, after serving Caven
Presbyterian Church for two
and one half years,
Miss Marguerite Amy, nurse
in-training at Victoria Hospital,
is spending her vacation at her
home in Crediton.
The trustees of S.S. N. 3 Ste
phen have engaged Mss Hazel
Smillie of Hensail to teach the
school for the coming year tak
ing the place of Miss Gertrude
Francis who has resigned.
Rev. Arthur H. Going, a form
er pastor of James St. Church/
paesed away recently at his
home in Peterboro.
IO YEARS AGO
Middleton Drugs, Hensail, was
awarded the prize of $10 for the
best decorated establishment in
the country in connection with
the variety campaign.
Mr. A. J. Fawcet who has
been on the staff of the Exeter
High-School for the past * four
years has resigned to accept a
similar position in the Orange
ville High SchooL_
The Thames Road United
Church elected its 6 Oth anniver
sary on Sunday.
This week the Rev. J. W.
Down celebrated his diamond
jubilee in the ministry of . what
is now the United Church of
Canada.
... Neighboring News ...
Given Pen Sentence’
Robert Carrick, 42, Clintorr,
was sentenced to two years and
six months in Portsmouth peni
tentiary, Kingston, 'by Magistrate
D. E. Holmes, K.C., in court at
Goderich Thursday last.
Accused had pleaded guilty on
a previous appearance to four
charges of extorting money by
threats from a Clinton man.
Crown Attorney H. Glenn
Hays, K.C., in asking for a peni
tentiary term, said the type of
offence was new in Huron, and/
he hoped that it would not occur
again, adding that society has to
be protected.
Clinton News-Record
Boats Bulge Eyes ,
The eyes of local citizenry
might 'be said to have bulged
out on Monday at the sight of
two handsome racing boats cra
dled in a boat trailer which re
mained parked on Queen Street
on Moilday.
The two craft, which are
known as “hydroplanes”, are
the possessions of''Mr. Art Hatch
of Pike’s Store whose hobby is
racing them. Art was taking
them to a meet in Detroit from
his home in Hamilton and left
them in St. Marys for. the day,
the trailer being attached to his
station wagon.
St. Marys Journal-Argus
Pave Highway
The contract for paving High
way* No. 21 between Bayfield
and Goderich was awarded at
the beginning of this month, ac--
cording to a letter received by
W, A. Coulthurst, secretary of
the Goderich Board of Trade, on
Monday. The letter was in reply
to one sent by the Board Of
Trade asking for definite in
formation as to the program in
connection with this road so that
tourists might be kebt informed.
Numerous requests for informa
tion have already been received
by the Board of Trade.
Goderich Signal-Star
Fractured Leg
Mr, Samuel Hey, the popular
village blacksmith of Blake, met
with a painful accident on Satur
day noon when he attempted to
repair the chimney of the house,
the ladder broke, with the result
that Mr. Hey fractured his left
leg in t wo places, one at the
ankle and the Other about four
inches above. Dr. Addison. of
Clinton had him removed to
Clinton Hospital, where medical
attention was given. Mr. Hey has
returned to his home, where his
many friends wifeh him a speedy
recovery.
Had Birthday Party
Oft Sunday, June 10, a birth
day party was held at the home
of Mrs. Anna L. Siebert celebrat
ing her eighty-fifth year.
, Zurich Herald
What Do
You Think
Can Be Done About
The Farm Labor
Problem ?
W. Coates, Centralia: What
can we do about it? People just
aren’t willing to work the long
hours that farming requires.
You can’t work a forty hour
week on a farm like they do in
cities.
J. L. Quinlivan, R.R. 1, Exe-Z
ter: The type of labour to be
had today isn’t worth hiring. Why
not bring in some Scotch and
English Immigrants who can
understand what you tell them.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Taylor,
Exeter: Something should1 be
done about keeping immigrants
on a farm for a longer period. of
time. Since we have to depend
on them for farm help it seems
hardly fair that the farmer
should teach them English only
to have them leave when he
needs the help most.
Mr. Alvin Pymf Centralia:
There should be a better balance
between the cost of living and
wages so that wages for farm
labour could be brought into line
If the farmer could depend on a
certain marglhe of profit, he
could go ahead and hire labour
at wages to compete with those
offered in the city,
Is It Coming?
That changeover army that in
vaded this district under the
hydro electric auspices of the pro
vince made a decided impression
upon a goodly number of us.
For one thing, they demon
strated the importance of sys
tem in tackling a job. There
was no waste effort in evidence.
Every effort -put forward by
those workers brought results.
Further, these men knew their
task and went about it with
skilled fingers.
All of this was to the good
and shows that our best business
men have learned a good deal
from the school of hard knocks.
One special feature of those
busy men was that they looked
the part. They were clothed for
the occasion Their working
clothes were so neat and well
fitted for their purpose that a
great many citizens spoke of the
apparel as uniforms.
Small boys were not slow to
note how these men were dress
ed. We are not at all surprised
that some parents are beset with
requests for outfits for Johnny
and Gerald that are exactly like
the dress of those w’orkmen.
Nor will any surprise be felt
if some ladies' hearts were set
fluttering, so dearly do the
ladies love a uniform.
In all seriousness, would it
not be a good thing if the male
members of our district took to
caring a good deal more about
their personal appearance as they
go about the day’s work, how
ever rough the necessary work
may be? Theodore Roosevelt,
when governor of New York, put
the street cleaning work on a
better basis by giving the city
workers a becoming uniform.
A farmer’s well kept smock is
as fine a dress any day as an
army officers uniform or a
mounty’s red coat. The Salva
tion army has been wise in it’s
day by insisting that all its offic
ers and workers wear a distinc
tive dress.
There is little apparent call
in this country for occupational
dress though the movement in
that direction may be stronger
than appears on the surface.
Would such a uniformity of
dress prevent many a heartbreak
and fatten many a pocket book
Church Gatherings
Early June is characterized by
major church gatherings. Local
congregations hold their anni
versary services, in this way cul
tivating a healthy community
spirit and illustrating the power
of the church in the vicinity. The
tune, “We' are not divided, all
one body, we” is sung with a
meaningfulness that warms the
heart.
Sociability in Church life is
the order of the bright sunshiny
June days all the country is the
better for it. More especially the
church takes stock of her activi
ties, noting where she has come
short and planning for better
things. The best of preaching is
listened to, the significance of
church sacrements takes oil new
vitality and the call to service is
heard more 'plearly and adorned
wih a new attractiveness.
All the land is the better for
those enlightening and stimulat
ing services, Business life is
purged of its sordidness. The call
“this is my own, my native,
land” takes on a new devotion
and a new joyous church worker
is given a new tang as men
meet, discuss, exchange concep
tions of life and conduct and tell
one another of “Something ac
complished, something done” in
the wide and diversified enter
prises in which they engage. The
year would be poorer were those
church gatherings neglected or
withdrawn.
A Strange Muddle
For some considerable time
there has been a good deal of
publicity given to the disapear-
ance of two diplomats from the
ranks of the Western nations.
Where they had gone and how
they fared few were aware.
W 6F6 tll6S6 men in the ser
vice of the comunistic countries?!
The men were possesed of goyer-
mental secrets of major impor
tance. Were those secrets poured
into the itching ears of the
Kremlin?” folk are asking. If
this were the case how did it
come about that such secrets
were entrusted to men who were
likely to make improper use of
them? If these men were traitors
how did they come to get into
quarters where they should not
have gone? Where had vigilance*
slackened?
In such a case why was so
much information given as to
their mysterious wanderings If
they were on a secret service
mission, why were other nations
told they were abroad? The ene
mies of the western nations are
wide awake. Why give them in
formation that is the special
business of the western nations?
If these men were taking a jaunt
upon no international interest
bent, why all the fuss about
their meanderings?
Considerable dust has been
thrown into the air about an af
fair that may have no signifi-
canse, as far as world matters
are concerned. Time will allow
the dust to settle, and the pat
ient public will become aware of
the facts.
A Splendid Sentiment
Laymen of’- the London Con
ference of the United Church
heard some stirring remarks re
garding their work in the church.
One speaker urged the laymen
to make known what they had.
learned and heard at the confer
ence, to their own individual
congregations. The speaker was
well aware that much of the sen
timent given at the conference
was like summer’ lighting, very
fine but vanishing without ac
complishing a’ single thing.
.Such sentiments, it seemed to
the speaker, were brought out at
church meetings, particularly at
conferences, cudded on till the
delegates got home, then laid,
carefully on the shelf till next
conference. Lay delegates were
urged to take conference resolu
tions very seriously, to lay them
up in their hearts and to prac
tice them in their lives.
Such a way of looking at
church business is eminently cor
rect. The church will limp where
it sho’uld be running and leap
ing till laymen realize that their
church relations are concerns of
supreme importance.
An outsider looking in at the
work of conference could not
but be impressed that the confer
ence this year met in serious
mood. All await with interest
and some anxiety what is to be
done about it all.
Neighbour to neighbour: “My
wife is the most wonderful wo
man in the world, and that’s not
just my opinion—it’s hers.”
LAFF OF THE WEEK
is’~the championship better be decided in
one minute!». dinner is ready right How!'*