HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1951-09-13, Page 2THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1951
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THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1951
Read About It
One of the best government publica
tions we’ve seen in a long time is a colour
ful booklet called “Farm Life in Ontario”,
published by the publicity branch of the
provincial Department of Agriculture.
The booklet is primarily designed to
give a broad picture of the agricultural in
dustry in this province and to show those
who are interested the many opportunities
and advantages of our farm life. We sus
pect it will be used to entice people in the
United Kingdom and European countries to
settle and live in our growing province.
Nevertheless, it is a grand book for
those who wish to know of the broad scope
of Ontario’s major industry. It should be
useful in schools and in our own homes.
As The Simcoe Reformer says “No
Ontario farmer should be adverse to read
ing this booklet from cover to cover, for
there is a lot about farming, especialling in
other parts of Ontario, which many of us
do not know.”
History, georgraphv, climate, crops,
livestock, farm activities and organizations,
machines—all are dealt with in a general
and interesting way. You’ll be surprised at
the scope of achievements made by farm
life in Ontario.
Sometimes we show a tendency to min
imize the. greatness of our agriculture in
dustry. We take our local farms for grant
ed, never considering how they help to
make up one of the healthiest food-produc
ing areas of the world. When you see and
admire impressive factories in cities and
towns of the province, just remember these
words written by popular minister Thomas
L. Kennedy in the forword to the book:
“Agriculture is the most important single
industry in Ontario, despite the fact that
this is also the most highly industrialized
province in the Dominion of Canada.”
Mr, Kennedy also says something
which, for those who know him, typifies
the humorous and down-to-earth philosophy
which has made him one of the most un
pretentious yet most popular public man
in our history.
“In Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
said: ‘And he gave it his opinion that who
ever could make two ears of corn or blades
of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground
where only one grew before, would deserve
better of mankind and do more essential
service to his country than the whole race
of politicians put together.’ Our Ontario
farmers are doing just this.”
* * * *
Fall Follies
(Wingham Advance-Times)
Nature raises the curtain on its most
spectacular show officially on September
21—-The Fall Follies—featuring blue skies,
scarlet leaves and cool breezes. City dwell
ers get to see all the best movies and plays
but they can’t buy a ticket to The Fall
Follies. The country resident gets a free
ticket to the show.
The first act opens with a dazzling
display of reds, scarlets, browns, and
oranges all interwoven to enchant the eye.
No sooner has one got adjusted to this ar
ray of beauty than along comes a breeze
to make this chorus of colours dance before
yours eyes.
When the curtain rises on the second
act it is a sadder scene. Down drift dead
leaves to the ground leaving slightly barer
arms raised to the heavens until only the
nude outline is left stark yet beautiful
against the sombre skies.
* -x- * *
Less Please
We're sick and tired of seeing maga
zine articles written by Canadians and pub
lished in Canadian magazines asking in
many ways this general question—what’s
the matter with Canadians ?
Some of the titles read “Are Can
adians Too Serious-Minded?”, “Are Can
adians Really Americans?”, “We Need A
Distinctive Canadian Culture”, “Why Do
Our College Graduates Go To The U.S.A.?”
and so on.
If we get much more of this stuff,
we’re going to develop a national inferior
ity complex of the first order.
There's nothing seriously the matter
with Canadians. Sure, we have our short
comings but what nation hasn’t? On a gen
eral, over-all basis, we’re probably the best
bunch of people in the world. And the sig
nificant point is, we’re improving all the
time.
If our authors and magazine editors
would devote their time and space to pro
moting improvements, we’d enjoy it a lot
more than being told we’re all wrong.
* * * *
More Please
There were close to 300 people who
attended the excellent band concert held at
the community park' Sunday night, This
should give Bandmaster Ted Walper and
his musicians encouragement in their ef
forts to carry on. We hope we can hear
another performance soon.
Perhaps this surprisingly good attend
ance will also encourage those who think
that a regular Sunday night musical pro
gram would be popular.
The suggestion is that during the win
ter months a variety of concerts could be
presented in a public hall such as the high
school auditorium. Besides the band, pro
grams could be presented by the Huronia
Male Chorus, and talented local pianists
and musicians. These concerts could be
highlighted from time to time by the pre
sentation of outstanding performers from
London. Stratford and other nearby cities
and towns.
A silver collection could be taken to
provide for expenses of the ball and the
outside musicians.
It would certainly be a profitable way
to spent Sunday evening after church and
well worth the effort of any who might be
interested in sponsoring it.
* * * *
Well Done
Jim Fairbairn’s intermediate baseball
team finished its season last Thursday
night when it was ousted by Listowel in
the second game of the OBA playdowns.
This game, as have many others through
out the season, provided a thrilling treat
for the local fans.
Jim is to be congratulated for his ef
forts to rebuild the team and to give Ex
eter a winning club of which they can be
proud. He deserved much more support
from townspeople than he received during
the summer.
We understand Jim is preparing to
assemble an even better ball club next
year and we sincerely hope and believe that
he’ll get better attendance at the games.
Meanwhile, two other Exeter teams
continue to put down opposition in the
playoffs. They are the Exeter ladies’ soft-
ball team, the Greys, and Derry Boyle’s
midgets. Both these teams are well up in
contention and either one may provide a
championship for the town. Let’s give them
every encouragement.
It isn’t too early, either, to start think
ing about organizing for hockey for the
winter. We’d like to see the younger lads
get lots of play this year and a strong club
formed for the intermediates. We hope the
sports moguls will start now and give the
town as good hockey this -winter as we’ve
had ball this summer.
* * * *
Let’s Revive Civic Pride
(Financial Post)
Canada’s towns need a beauty treat
ment.
As places to live in and visit, many
are fast losing their attractiveness. Seedy,
rundown, unkempt are the adjectives for
to® many.
In town after town, thoughtlessness or
ineptitude has led to the wanton destruc
tion of trees, pollution of rivers and lakes,
and poor streetcleaning. Traffic clogs resi
dential streets, shack developments litter
the outskirts, and industrv seemingly can
build anywhere it pleases.
It’s not just that neglect and decay
are evident on every hand, but many places
despite fantastic growth in population put
forth no effort to provide compensations in
other ways. I-Iow many have added a
square inch of park or recreation area?
Often the very thing that attracts in
dustry in the first place is the desirability
of a town as a, place in which to live as
well as to work. If it loses this quality, it
becomes merely another factory dormitory.
Action to ^preserve and extend the
amenities of many of our towns and. cities
is urgent. The Community Planning Asso
ciation of Canada produces some of the
best information in the. world on this sub
ject, Here is an important job for local
governments and local groups of citizens.
As the
“TIMES" Go By
50 YEARS AGO
Mr. George Samwell is having
a new plate glass front placed in
front of his store occupied by
Mr. E. J. Spademan. The change
will cartainly be an improvement
to this fine block.
Miss Mary Ann Tapp who has
been visiting her uncle in Strath-
roy returned home last week.
Owing to the increased demand
for the Exeter Roller Mill brand
of flour the proprietors, Messrs.
Gobbledick and Son are com
pelled to run their mill night and
and day.
Miss May Armstrong has tak
en a position to learn the art ot
millinery at Mr. J. A. Stewarts’
Mr. and Mrs. George Keller
man,Mr.and Mrs. Jacob Keller
man and Messrs. Jones Hortleib
and Fred Gossman, of Dashwood,
are attending the Pan-American f 11 1 Q xxr p p lz
Mr. Fred Hill, of Buffalo, ar
rived home on Saturday to spend
a few days with his parents.
25 YEARS AGO
Five hundred fans witnessed a
4-0 victory for Exeter in the
first South Huron Baseball Lea
gue finals against Zurich on
Labour Day. The lineups were:
Exeter—Medd cf, Hinds 2b,
Beavers lb, Lawson p, Tieman
3b, Anderson ss.Dignan If, Tay
lor c, Yule rf.
Zurich—Gascho p, Bedard If,
O'Brien cf, Hoffman ss, Wurm
2b, Brown lb, Yungblut rf, Wag
ner lb, Bedard c.
A large crowd attended the
nomination at Hensail on Tues
day. At the close of the nomina
tion, returning officer William
J. Carling, announced that two
names were proposed. Andrew
Hicks, of Centralia, for the Con
servatives and Thos. McMillan, of
Hullett, for the Liberals.
Mr. John Young has sold the
new commercial Hotel in Hensall
to Mr. John Ellingson, of Mit
chell.
I ...1111IJ .......;1"‘ rTr;-lr-11 *
i Saturday Evening
I Here, There
And Elsewhere
By Rev. James Anthony, M.A*
15 YEARS AGO
Mr. Preston Dearing of Ste
phen was awarded reserve cham
pionship for best Dorset Horned
ewe any age at the Canadian Na
tional Exhibition, Toronto. Mr.
Dearing who has carried oft
many prizes in Western Ontario
is exhibiting this yeai' for the
first time at the Toronto Exhibi-
ton.
On Frday evening of last week
the employees and section men
of the CNR and their wives from
Centralia, Clandeboye, Lucan and
Hensall gathered as a surprise at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robt.
Sanders and presented both of
them with an occasional chair.
The occasion was the retirement
of Mr. Sanders after 23 years in
the service of the railway.
Mr. Roy Blatchford was taken
to Victoria Hospital, London in
R. N. Rowe’s ambulance, Tues
day morning suffering from a
fractured left arm and leg.
IO YEARS AGO
Mr. C. V. Pickard was ap
pointed village clerk to succeed
Mr. Joseph Senior who resigned
Mr.'Albert Gaiser, of Shipka,
lost four valuable horses when
they overate some wheat seed
and poisoning set in.
Mr. Dave Gordon has resigned
his position as manager of the
Huron Lumber Co. and has ac
cepted a position in the civil ser
vice. Mr. A. J. Sweitzer, local con
tractor has been appointed the
new manager.
An election for a councillor to
replace D. W. MacKinnon, who
recently enlisted with the RCAF,
was held in Hensall on Monday.
The two candidates were Mr.
Alvin Kerslake. produce mer
chant and Mr. Fred Daters, Lab
ourer. Kerslake received 1*05
votes and Daters 25.
Doris Webber, “Jean Hagerman
and Hazel Johns were attending
the Clinton School of Commerce.
... Neighboring News ...
Mind The Step
Western statesmen and their
friends have met with the states
men of Europe to sign a treaty
giying Japan her standing among
the other nations of the world.
Mr. Gromyko was the spokes
man for Russia. Each of the na
tions had a spokesman of their
own.
From the very start Mr.
Gromyko made it abundantly
clear that Russia believed that
the western nations were trying
to be in favour with Japan in or
der that they might have an
ally in Japan should another ma
jor war break out. It would ap
pear that Mr. Gromyko was at
tempting to make trouble among
the westerners by exciting grave
suspicions that would work
against westerners and so pre
vent some nations from signing
the treaty and that would work
mischief in the future as while
he was voted down, his speech
was not without its effect, even
if the effect did not appear im
mediately,
Should suspicion be success
fully got into the western
minds Russia will have scored
more heavily than apears at this
moment. The power of the west
erners is in their mutual confi
dence in which there is no root
of ill feeling.
Gromyko has used the con
duct of the Japanese in the re
cent world war with deadly ef
fect. What Japan did in that war
is a matter of recent history that
makes painful reading. The char
acter of the Japenese is well
known to every businessman.
Such is the background of the
present treaty. As all have known
the treaty is not by any means
perfect. That is too much to
look for.
Many careful leaders believe
that the treaty gives the Japanese
over-generous treatment. It is
better to tbe generous han op
pressive. Oppression inevitably
breeds trouble while generous
treatment is sure to find a de
sirable response in nations no
matter what their colour or their
history.
Ourselves To Blame
Louis St. Laurent is advertised
to broadcast regarding the high
cost of living. Other higher ups
have been at the same job. In
deed, when almost anybody is
not laying on about the church
or the school or about what the
“home ought to do”, he loads up
his flint lock and blazes away
about the high cost of living, and
ends up his oration by saying
that the government “ought to
do something about it”. When
asked what the government
should be doing in this interest
ing affair he is liable to shake
his head mournfully and mutter,
“I don’t know.”
Here is a suggestion that has
worked and will work with any
one who has a backbone. It is
this, Don’t allow anyone to do
for you what you can do for
yourself. Along with this*goes,
Don’t do for the other felloe
what he can do for himself.
Think this over, gentle read
er. The major part of oui* pre
sent financial mess has been
brought about by the non-obser
vance of these two principles.
The danger is that some one will
attempt to reorganize society
with these two principles in
mind and our latter state will be
worse than the first.
The uplifters will raise holy
hands in misery at the thought
of Tom, Dick and Harry being
attentive to their own business
and leaving other people’s alone.
Folk-lore tells of the man be
low Derry who made a comfort
able living by minding his own
business.
We heard a Cabinet Minister
spend fifteen minutes telling
the people of Canada to do this
very thing, only he did not put
the business before the electors
half as clearly as did this age-
old and ever true maxim.
Keeping one’s door-step clean
is a prosaic way of doing but it
leads to peace of mind and to
good neighbourliness, “You pay
me and I’ll pay you.”
Di|ly-dallins
More harm is wrought by dilly
dallying than this world dreams
of. Internationally Korea repre
sents the evil wrought by hesi
tancy when prompt, firm action,
would have strangled the whole
business before it got out of its
cradle. The same applies to the
Iranian situation and to the Egyp
tian mess. Governments dilly
dallied till the situations got out
of hand.
We have the same evil prin
ciple at work among the milk
distributors. The traffic laws
suffer from the same evil. In
this town by-laws are on the
books and there they rest in un
holy quiet. All manner of trou
ble is abroad simply because
those responsible are regardless.
Here is an instance, “Where is
your son?” a voice inquired not
so long ago.” I don’t know. Who
is asking?”
“I know, we have him in de
tension, The chief of police
caught youi' hoy stealing melons.
Be along at number x in fifteen
minutes or he’ll be locked up for
the night. Bring a neighbour who
will go bail for him. This doesn’t
mean maybe.”
For once the fond parent was
prompt. After the boy was re
leased the Chief said, “Do some
tall looking after that youngster
or we’ll take care of him for
some little time.” Again the
father was ’’punctual and a boy
was saved to useful manhood.
Dilly-dallying is the enemy of
every thing good. We may be
slow to admit it, but dilly-dally
ing ruins credit, loses battles,
wrecks morals and opens the
door to misery, failure and want.
Back To School
There is a charm about holi
days. There is a greater charm
about seeing the children re
turn to school. There are the
beginners, the children in the
kindergarten, where the section
is fortunate in having such a
room. The little folks there are
taking one of their early steps
toward what we call indepen
dence. We wonder and wonder as
they take that step.
For the rest of the children
there is all the novelty of taking
a new grade. What will the
children make of it we fondly
ask. Experienced teachers say
that a child graduated from a
well managed kindergarten room
has many advantages over the
less fortunate’ child.
This sort of thing runs all
the way through. Every grade
has its responsibility and a ser
ious responsibility at that. Should
a child be allowed to pass from
a grade without having received
the benefit that grade is expect
ed to afford, he is handicapped
to that extend for life. No mat
ter what he does in the future to
correct his loss, the loss abides,
very much as a tree never fully
recovers from missing a year’s
growth.
—Continued on page 3Tragic Harvest
Seaforth fire brigade answer
ed two rural calls within 24
hours over the week-end. Called
to the farm of Sam McPherson,
13th concession of McKillop, 14
miles northeast of Seaforth, Sat
urday at noon, the firemen found
the blaze beyond control after a
fast twenty minute run,
A barn on the farm of Alex
Riley, northeast of Constance,
was saved when firemen confin
ed the fire to a large straw
stack early Sunday afternoon.
The large McPherson barn was
cempletely destroyed, together
with a quantity of grain and im
plements which it contained.
(Huron Expositor)
Royal Greetings
A letter was received by Miss
Brenda Mollard, young daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Mollard
of McGillivray. Brenda’s birth
day fall's on the same day as
Princess Margaret’s birthday and
she sent a birthday greeting to
the Royal Princess. Brenda was
celebrating her ninth birthday.
(Parkhill Gazette)
Out of the Past
The passageway between St,
Thomas’ Church and the parish
hall was torn down last week
in preparation for alterations,
An old doorway and step were
uncovered which at one time was
between the old vestery and the
chancel of the church, and in
this space, Mr. George Clarke,
church organist has found seve
ral old anniversary programs and
also an admission ticket to an,
organ recital in St. Thomas*
Church on Friday evening, April
26, 1895.
This ticket is of significance
in the history of the church be
cause 1895 was the year the pipe
organ was installed and it is
probable this recital was given
to mark the occasion.
(.Seaforth News)
Free Ride
We see that a number of Tor
onto Exhibition visitors who were
returning to St. Marys by CNR
train in the small hours of Sun
day morning got quite a surprise
when the train failed to make a
stop at the local station where
it was scheduled to do so at
3.30 a.m.
The conductor’s frantic pulling
on the signal cord didn’t help
matters either as the train whiz
zed by the station and on past
the freight sheds and the Max
well plant.
The extra ride finally ended
for the local passengers when
the train was backed up into St,
Marys again after the conductor
had somehow enlightened the
engineer.
(St. Marys Journal-Argus)
Two friends met on Main
street, “Hello,*’ said the first,
“you look nice and tanned. Just
back from Florida?”
“Yes,’* answered the second,
“and did we have a great timet
For $40 s, day we stayed at the
Roney Plasma.”
“You mean Roney plaza. Plas
ma Is blood.”
“Well,” countered the first,
“is $40 a day barley water?**