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Exeter
rimes Established 1873 Amalgamated 1924 Advocate Established 1881
Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario
An Independent Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the Town of 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 CWNA
Member of the Audit Bureau of circulation
Paid-in-Advance Circulation as of March 31, 1951 — 2,396
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Canada, in advance, $2.50 a year -»■* United States, in advance, $3.00
Single Copies 6$ Each
J. Melvin Southcott r Publishers «• Robert Southeoti
THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11, 1951
Tribute
The resignation of W. H. Robertson
as editor and publisher of the Goderich
Signal-Star brings to an end the active life
of a man who for almost half a century
was devoted to newspaper work in the
Huron County capital.
Mr, Robertson retires as a grand old
man of Canadian weekly new.spaperdom,
respected and admired for his faithful and
untiring service to his town.
The Signal-Star is one of the oldest
papers in Canada. It is over 103 years
since the Huron Signal was established by
Thomas McQueen and Mr. Robertson has
been associated with the paper for almost
half of those years. 'This is -truly an honor
able and distinguished record.
His successor, George L, Ellis, who
has been eo-publisher for the past five
years, pays a just tribute to Mr. Robert
son. “The retiring editor has been an in
tegral part of the community which he
lows so well and has served so faithfully
as editin’ for half a century. A native son
of Goderich, he takes a keen interest in
everything that has to do with the welfare
of the town and district. Over the years
he has brought to his writings a shrewd
perception of the fundamental values of
affairs- as they were related to the well
being of the community at large. A news
paperman of the grand old tradition, he
has been tireless, staunch and fearless in
cither defending or attacking those things
which he felt should be defended or at
tacked.”
The Times-Advocate extends to Mr.
Robertson sincere congratulations on his
success in life and wishes him health and
happiness in bis retirement.
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No Alarm
No one should be alarmed at the de
crease in Exeter’s population over the past
year. Assessor Eric Carscadden’s figures
show the total number of residents dropped
from 2,609 to 2,559, although assessment
figures showed a gain of $60,000.
* The drop in population is not at all
surprising when one considers the number
of new houses which have been built at
RCAF Station Centralia and the. ’ families
which have moved from quarters in town
to the new accommodation at the airport.
For several years now. almost every
inch of space in town has been used to
house personnel at the station. The major
part of the accommodation is good but in
some cases airmen have been forced to live
in almost unreasonable quarters simply be
cause there was no other place they could
go.
Now the government has provided ex
cellent housing for personnel right beside
the station and there is no longer a des-
* perate need for anything under a roof.
This- has been responsible for the pop
ulation drop in Exeter. There is a possibil
ity that there will be a further decrease
as more new houses are completed at the
airport but it is very unlikely that the total
•figure will go below 2,500.
Exeter is. and will continue to be, a
thriving town. Its financial picture is com
paratively bright, its business well-managed
and its buildings in exceptionally good re
pair. There is no reason to believe that it
will not continue to be so.
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- Construction
We haw mentioned above the reason
for the decrease in population in the town
over the past year. We mentioned, too,
that perhaps it will decrease slightly more
as new houses are occupied at RCAF Sta
tion Centralia. While, as was stated, there
is no reason for alarm, there is room for
some constructive thinking.
Each year more new houses are being
built in the town. This year so far over
$200,000 has been spent in building. Each
new house, of course, makes available more
accommodation but with less demand for
space by RCAF personnel it would look as
if, for the present, we have reached the
saturation point.
This could mean that there would he
housing available for industry. This, along
with the many advantages now offered to
industry by the town, would make Exeter
Mn attractive site for development.
Our problem at present is that we are
doing very little in the line of a selling
job, Ottr Chamber of Commerce is not act
ive and, unfortunately, not likely to be.
Town council is not particularly interested
in catering to prospective industry except
when they are asked for information.
We think Exeter should be trying to
sell itself to industry. The sooner we real
ize that we have to show industry what we
have to offer and that we're interested, the
sooner we’ll get results.
Industry just doesn’t, happen to a
town.
WHAT OTHERS SAY
As the
Saturday Evening
Here, There
And Elsewhere
By Rev* James Anthony, M.A.
of
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the
Mortgaging Our Future
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i Despite the fact that press and poli-
■ tieos ar$ rushing to climb on the St. Law
rence Seaway bandwagon, no one has as
■ yet made public a financial forecast
expected costs and revenues.
i Indeed the federal authorities do
appear to have decided whether or not
proposed extensive new system of canals is
’ to be subject to tolls or is to be a free gift
to domestic and foreign shipping com
panies. __ i'
This newspaper would feel a lot hap
pier about the entire undertaking if it v?ere
’ to be the responsibility of a crown corpora-
*. tion under a policy which would require
! that all indebtedness incurred be liquidated
, within a reasonable number of years,- ■
| There is little question as to the de-
*< .sirability, indeed, the need of the St. Law-
; rence hydro-electric project, but Canada’s
■ past policy on canals gives little assurance
: • that the seaway transportation system is
being* started on a sound economic basis.
Let us not build a seaway just because
it is a challenge which the United States
refused to accept.
Let us have all the dojlar facts and
then decide.
Millions of dollar.-, more in govern
mental expenditures at this time will fur
ther inflate our dollar bills and
their buying power. We will all pay
»vaway row.
If we must spend half a billion
good mortgage
dividends.
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The Nation’s Business
Call For Class War
(Financial Post)
Sounding the keynote of the campaign to
put the CCF in power at the next Ontario
election, Pat Conroy, Canadian Congress of
Labor secretary-treasurer, declared that
labor today faced a class war forced upon
the workers by the employing classes.
Such was the gist of a recent news re
port which went on to quote Conroy:
“The class ruling this country won’t
allow the working people to forget there’s
a class war because they want to dominate
. . . Those who make class war reward
their friends. It’s time we paid attention to
ourselves . . .
“I would hate to think that anyone
here would not oppose the people who are
cutting the throat of this nation . . . Let’s
take the silliness and romance out of this
class war. Are we going to run this country
or let the highbinders continue to do so?”
To fill out tjie record Mr. Conroy had
slashing condemnation for the press, "with
a few exceptions”.
We report Mr. Conroy’s pronounce
ment at length to make sure that our na
tional audience will see what was said in
the obscure Toronto meeting where the
speech was made.
Those who unfurl the banner of the
class war are engaging in pretty nasty
business. Have Mr. Conroy and the CCF
which he supports fully considered its im
plications or its drawing power?
With his own roots in Britain, as are
the roots of the CCF, perhaps Mr. Conroy
does not realize that class consciousness
hasn’t, for the vast majority, ever entered
Canadian heads. Nearly all Canadians go to
the same schools, speak the same accent,
eat the same food, drive the same cars and
sit with anybody in theatres and churches.
Will it be easy to convince workers,
their wives and their families that they be
long to some class which makes them some
how different from their neighbours?
And does he expect to make an impact
on Canadian farmers? How does he classify
them ? ,
And how ^oes he classify the great
mass of white collar workers whose econ
omic position is so similar to that of Mr.
Convoy’s ’‘workers”? Will that group flock
to the banner of class war?
No, we don't think much of the class
war line.
“TIMES" Go By
50 YEARS AGO
Their Royal Highnesses the
Duke and D.uphess of Cornwall
and York arrive at Toronto
about 2 p.m. on October 10 and
leave about 9 a.in. October 12 to
visit cities in Western Ontario.
Among those taking id* the
Duke of York reception at Tor
onto were the following: Mr.
and*Mrs. Jos. Cobbledick, T. B.
Carling, Mrs. J. A. Stewart, -Mr.
T, IT, McCallum and daughter,
Edna, Miss M. White and Mr, R.
Pickard.
Miss Ida Cottle while using an
apple pearer at the evaporator
cut a severe gash in one of her
thumbs.
The Red Coats, N. 6 Company
of the 3 3rd Regiment who have
been forming and drilling here
for some weeks to take part in
the reception of the Duke of
York at Toronto, left Tuesday
morning. They were thirty-five
in number, arrayed in new suits
for the occasion. Their officers
were Capt. Ranee, Lieuts Boyd
and Heaman and Sargeant Major
Westcott,
Mr. X. D. Hurdon is spending
a few days at Port Frank in
quest of wild duck.
15 YEARS AGO
Oscar, an alligator, brought
from Florida last winter by
Sandy Elliott, died recently.’ His
body has been preserved and is
on exhibition at^the High School.
At the lltli annual Huron
County Amateur Athletic Asso
ciation field and track meet
staged at the Exeter fair grounds
on Friday afternoon Exeter High
School made a great showing and
carried off the coveted prize, the
McMillan Cup, awarded to the
school with the largest total
number of points.
Mr. Andrew Hicks of Cen
tralia left for the West, on Sat
urday last. He intends to bring
a carload of horses home, with
him.
Miss Erma Goodhand of Green
way has begun her work as
teacher’ of music in the Parkhill
and Lieury schools and also lias
a class in piano and: theory in
Exeter.
25 YEARS AGO
Rapid progress is being made
on the new residence of Mr. M.
R. Ramsford being built on Wel
lington St. The building is to be
a large one-storey stucco finish.
The S. Sanders Manufacturing
Qo. ’have re-opened their factory
in. Hensail in the Petty Block
and are manufacturing their
well-known brand of boys’' cloth
ing.
Mr. R. Complin who has been
holidaying for several weeks,. re
sumed his duties as manager of
the Bank of Commerce on Fri
day.
Two carloads of young people
from town motored to St. Thom
as to spend the day with Mr. and
Mrs. Thos. Coates.
IO YEARS AGO
Mr. and ptlrs. E. C. Appleton
on Thursday October 9, cele
brate’ their 25th wedding anni
versary.
The autumn Conference of the
Deanery of Huron convenes at
Trivitt Memorial -Church, Exeter,
on Friday, October 10.
! Mr. Wesley Simmons is hav
ing an apartment made of the
second storey of his building on
Main Street.
Messrs. Hugh Berry and Wil
liam Coates were at Wyoming
Friday of last week to act as
judge at the”Wyoming Fair but
it was called off on account of
rain.
The Silver Maple Leaf Club,
an organization of public school
girls, held a frolic in Dr, Flet
cher’s garage Monday after four
and during the "evening, The pro
ceeds were donated to the Red
Cross.
... Neighboring News ...
On Tiie Wane
Fortunately, poliomyelitis is on
the wane in Huron County. The
dread killer and crippier disease’
had a fair fling in September,
but its incidence has dropped off
considerably in the past week or
two.
“Early September saw a,
marked increase in the number'
of polio cases within the coun
ty,” Dr. R. M. Aldis, Medical Of
ficer of Health, told Huron
County Health Unit at its month
ly meeting in Clinton Thursday
afternoon last with Reeve Frank
S. Sills. Seaforth, chairman, pre
siding.
“Eight new cases were report
ed, six of them paralytic,” Dr.
Aldis said. “All were hospital
ized, and except for one death
of a 20-year-old male, the re
mainder have shown good pro
gress.
Dr. Aldis stated that the
majority of the severe type in
which have occurred symptoms
of illness, have continued to
work or have engaged in stren
uous activity, in some, there was
a recent history of chilling ahd
exposure to extremes of -cold
while overheated from exercise,
“There has been a marked
decline in the disease thls^past
week,” he declared.
(Clinton News-Rccor)
Sold Property
Mr. Fred Thiel disposed Of his
fine • red brick business and
dwelling attached block and
tract of land adjoining it. Mr.
Charles Thiel being the purchas
er. We wish Charles a, lot of
success with it we know ho Will
use to the best advantage. <■>
(Zurich Herald)
Those Western
Snowstorms
All Canadians sympathize with
their western fellow 'Citizens be
cause of the heavy fall of snow
that has made the harvesting of
their crops an impossibility.
Should the crops be harvested
it is not likely that tlie grain will
be of the high quality the wes
tern provinces usually place on
the market.
The westerners are of a hardy
sort, we are aware, but such an
experience as came their way
cannot but be discouraging even
in the case of the bravest of
them.
Only the most careful handl
ing will condition those storm
visited crops for satisfactory
feeding purposes. When crops
are so conditioned some provi
sion should be made for their
cheap transportation to the por
tions of the Dominion and off
the world where such feed is re
quired. The provision for such
crops should be made at an early
date, asAarmers are making pro
vision for their winter feeding.
As many of the western fann
ers as can do so, are making
provision for the feeding of extra
farm stock. The government,
provincial and municipal, has"a
big job in making the loss to
the farmers as light as possible.
In this region we have been
singularly fortunate this season
in not being visited by killing
frosts. Indeed, weather condi
tions in this region are uniform
ly satisfactory. Farmers, taking
one year with another, count on
having at least a fair crop. Pric
es for farm products- are good
and are likely to remain satis
factory for some time to come.
All of which is a reminder to
all concerned that farm lands in
the eastern provinces should re
ceive more attention. We are
speaking, or course, of the
farms that have been abandon
ed ahd of the farms whose op
eration has been bel.ow par.
Young men who resolved forty
years ago to - undergo hardships
and privations on all fours with
those endured by western pion
eers are glad that they have re
mained in the eastern provin
ces.
Pandering To
Human Carelessness
Experience keeps a dear school
but her lessons are well taught.
It seems that a large class of our
citizens will learn in no other
way. This age old maxim is
brought to mind by the news
that large sums of the people’s
money are to be spent in remov
ing level railway crossings. In
view of this we are told that the
higher ups are desirous of sav
ing human life.
The safety of His Majesty's
subjects is the fifst duty of His
Majesty’s government,’ we are
gravely informed. Along with
this grave statement goes the
fact that a very great portion of
the accidents occuring at level
crossings might have been avoid
ed had the, engine drivers and
those who got in the way of the
trains used the most elementary
caution.
The Admonition “Stop, Look,
Listen” simply was not heeded
by those who suffered from the
railroad crossing accident. The
hazardous practice of taking a
chance very often results in dis
aster. Experienced statesmen and
lawyers expert in their craft tell
the public that no mechanic can
make a lock that some other me
chanic cannot pick. They add
j that no lawyer can frame a
statute that some other lawyer
cannot break through.
It may be added that no gov
ernment can make a statute for
the protection of the public that
they cannot and will not violate.
It is a sad commentary on so
ciety, but it looks as if a cer
tain portion of them are bent on
their own destruction. Weari
some and discouraging as the
process is bound to prove, there
is no alternative but to encour
age all and sundry to inculcate
the old principal that eternal
watchfulness is the price of
safety,
The large sum proposed to be
spent in remedying the roads
would bring better results if ap
plied in the schools and in the
homes. The law of self control
still holds. When invoked it
means safety, pubic and private.
Those Rallies
These Fall Rallies of the Sun
day School children and their
leaders are all to the good. No
one who saw the shining faces
of the youngsters the other Sun
day morning as they received
their diplomas or other awards
for attendance or achievement,
could fail toxsee the good work
the Sunday Schools are getting
done.A good start is being made
in the way of religious edu
cation and an equally good
start is being made i n
training for citizenship. States
man and'"magistrates and judges
are glad to own that the founda
tion of good government is laid
in the dome and school, particu
larly in the Sunday School, the
handmaid of the home and the
nursery of the Christian Church,
Home and Sunday School join
hands in starting the youth of
the land on. the right way of
living, Obervers believe that the
life of the Sunday School might
be enriched at least threefold
were the interest taken in the
church school that the school
calls for. The chpreh school is
by no means a sideline. It is an
essential in a way of life. Its
work simply must be done if in
dividuals are to become what
they ought to be in that sound
moral charade r which they
should and may attain.
Further, the state would be
marked by that integrity and
strength that is rightfully her
possession must see to it that
the Sunday School is well nour
ished. The Sunday School does
not take upon herself the work
of the day school nor of any
other body whatsoever.
She simply strives to remind
the children of the common
wealth that they belong to God
and that they may ever find in
him a friend who aids them in
their every effort in useful fune
and in every effort that they
make for useful living. Happy is
the community that supports the
Sunday School up to the limit of
its ability.
Not Up To It
Britain’s muddle of public af
fairs is largely due to British
voters not being alert and in
formed when they went to the
ballot box. Had they been alert
and informed they never would
have given Mr, Churchill and
Mr. Eden the boot. Apparently
they did not know what Mr.
Churchill and Mr, Eden did for
the commonwealth in those dark
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Confusion
School New s—One of our
pairs of twins are so identical
that they had even the teachers
baffled. One day after recess one
of the teachers thought she had
her twin but it turned out to
be the wrong- one. —Just one
more headache for the teachers.
(Seaforth News)
Strike!
Parkhill bowlers did exceed
ingly well at Exeter recently.
With a large entry of 44 pairs
which caused a double draw to
be made, Stan Vernon and Janies
Orr got first prize (Bulova wrist
watches) with three win§ and a
plus of 25. Another Parkhill
entry, Hugh Larkin and Edgar
Robinson, was third With three
wins aiid a plus of 18. Mat Tel-
fer, -Who attended an inter
national bowling tournament at
Buffalo, was able to place sec
ond in a large entry of bowlers
from both sides of the border.;
The local bowlers are talcing ad
vantage of these warm, nights to
get in a few more games on tlig
local greens,
(Parkhill Gazette)
Large Spuds
It doesn’t take mahy potatoes
to make a bushel when they are
the kind grown by Ken Stewart,
Brucefield,
Of the Katadin variety, two
samples clioseh at random from
a quarter-acre field, measured
13^X17 inches ahd 13x16 inches
in circumference, and weighed
2% pounds and 2- pounds, re
spectively. The field was planted
the last week in May.
(Huron "Expositor)
LAFF OF THE WEEK