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THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 13, 1951
Thanks Exeter
The gift of a symbolic gavel from the
citjr of Exeter in England to this town
marks a continuation of the warm-hearted
and traditional feelings between the two
municipalities. Citizens of Exeter, Ontario,
will prize the gift as evidence of the sin
cere interest the English city has always
shown in her younger namesake.
It is certainly with pride that we can
associate ourselves with the beautiful old
Devon centre. Its history begins in the
times of the Roman empire. After the Nor
man conquest it became a centre of resist
ance to William the Conqueror and, in the
Elizabethan age, sea dogs like Drake, Fro-
bisher and Hawkins gathered at Mol’s cof
fee house in Cathedral Close, a building
which still stands.
Our town is a tribute made by our
Devon ancestors to their home. It is heart- |
ening to realize that through the years we
have been able to maintain the original as
sociations between the two places.
Much of Exeter. England, is with us
now. Buildings and churches, traditions
and cultures, names and practices bear the
marks of their English ancestry. We shall
always be grateful and proud of our heri
tage.
It is a pleasure and an honour to know
that the great and historic English city
should show to its small but thriving child
such interest and enthusiasm as symbolized
by the gavel. We have had many evidences
of the mutual feelings in the past but this
will make a tangible tie between the old
and the new.
Thanks, city of Exeter, for your latest
contribution to our town. We shall continue
to respect you and your people in the high
est regard.* * * *
The School Problem
It is unfortunate that the ill feeling
that has developed between the high school
board and one of our local sports organ
izations should break out in the ugly head
evidenced by an advertisement which ap
peared in this newspaper last week. This
sort of action will not alleviate the situa
tion by any means.
This is the second year that the differ
ences between the two organizations have
been aired. They have never been able to
reach any satisfactory agreement. The dis
pute revolves around the amount of money
which should be charged for the use of the
gymnasium by the Maroons, an interme
diate basketball team. In our opinion ^both
sides have been at fault in the negotiations.
The Maroons feel the school is a pub
lic building and should be available at a
nominal fee. Their case is heightened by
the fact that they are strictly an amateur
organization, barely able to support them
selves through their gate receipts since
basketball has not the popular appeal in
this district that other sports have. Never
theless, the team argues, they provide re
creation for youth and represent the dist
rict in Ontario competition.
The board, on the other hand, is nat
urally proud of their new building and re
luctant to let other than pupils use the
School. In case they grant use of the
building, they feel the organization should
pay for all the costs caused by its use,
Last year the board set a straight fee
fee of $25 per night for the use of the
school. There were two exceptions, one the
Junior Farmers’ organization and the other
Maroons. A grant from the Department of
Agriculture supposedly included rental fee
for the Junior Farmers. The Maroons, be
cause they did not need chairs, were grant
ed use of the gym for $12 each night.
This year the Maroons applied for a
lower fee but differences came to a head
and the board, according to .its secretary,
has refused to continue the special reduc
tion in charges.
The Maroons, we feel, have been hasty
in condemning the board and should have
had more patience in dealing with it and
trying to undertand its position,
The board is not particularly to be
congratulated on being overly-sensitive
about letting organizations make use of
their building, The school has always been
the centre of community activity and it
should be as much as possible.
The fact there is resentment over the
location of the school in the town makes
these discussions delicate ones. There are
too many suspicions and under-the-surface
herd feelings involved in all the considera
tions. However, it must be said that the
board is gradually overcoming these differ
ences. But it will take some time yet be
fore a happy medium is found. A spirit of
give and take will have to be developed by
all sides.
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Delete And Add
There seems to be some substantiation
for the charges made last week that there
is an undercurrent of ill-feeling between
sections in Stephen tow’nship. The split
seems to have, resulted from several things
which have happened in the past.
Whatever the case may be and wher
ever the fault may lie, the township will
not benefit from the squabble. Grudges and
attempts at revenge always cause *more
harm than good.
Perhaps the best thing the new coun
cil can do is to unite the township into the
strong municipality it should be. To achieve
this end, past grievances must be forgotten
and a spirit of cooperation and progress
developed
* * * *
Things To Change
(The following article appeared as a
guest editorial in the Christmas edition of
Junior Farmer News. It is written by Rev.
W. A. Young, chaplain of'O.A.C., a native
of Huron county, and a former pastor in
Hensail.)
The other day this thought struck me
—Supposing it were possible for a man
from a neighbouring planet to visit earth;
that he had heard of the way the celebra
tion of Christmas began, and what the birth
of Christ on earth signified. What would
he expect to find on earth if he visited it
2,000 years later? What would he think of
what he did actually find ?
I believe he would be utterly bewil
dered. He would probably feel that a cher
ished dream had been lost, just as most of
us felt when we first learned that Santa
Claus was just our father. To carry the
supposition one step farther, let us imagine
that he came on Christmas Dav itself. From
what he had been given to understand he
might reasonably expect to find everyone
one earth celebrating a spirit of goodwill
and cooperation—a deep joy that per
meates all of life.
What does he actually find? A brief
respite from the fierce struggle of modern
living, a sort of armistice in the competitive
war, and many people singing the carols
of Joy and Peace with wistfulness, trying
to put meaning into the words they sing.
Our imaginary visitor might well think
that he had lost his way and arrived on
the wrong earth.
I have often wondered myself just
what has gone wrong. Haven’t you? To be
sure, there is fun, and everyone feels kind
ly disposed towards his neighbour, but we
know from our newspapers that it is only
a brief interlude, when we close our eyes
for a day or so, to facts that are unpleas
ant to face.
Unless I have misunderstood my New
Testament, the spirit of Christmas Day was
meant to be the normal thing throughout
the whole year. In a world controlled by
God, fighting between countries, squabbling
in families, neglect of the needy, -were sup
posed to have been eliminated. But God is
not in control. Somewhere along the line
we have failed in that Divine Plan revealed
2,000 years ago, that was to bring lasting
goodwill to the world.
And we have failed because we have
substituted a Bp service to Christianity for
a genuine loyalty to Jesus Christ and his
way.
One more supposition. Suppose our
imaginary visitor were to visit us, in our
homes and in our work. Would he find in
our dealing with the people around us, in
tthe atmosphere of our homes, the spirit
of that first Christmas? Fie might even say
to US) that the answer is not in some mira
culous transformation of human nature on
a world-wide scale. He might say to us
that we, as individuals, have the answer
that the wotld is so anxiously looking for.
It has to begin with ourselves. So
here’s wishing you the fun and friendship
born of that first Christmas.
* <(• * *
It is said that one of the first object
ives of the now British government will be
to cut down on government expenditures
and that will be watched with considerable
interest, for there is a general belief that
could be done here as well as elsewhere,
EDUCATED’APE
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As the
’’TIMES” Go By
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50 YEARS AGO
Messrs; Carling Bros, sent a
number of fancy chickens this
week to the Ontario Provincial
Winter Fair now being held at
Guelph.
Mr. Percy Cann is learning
barbering with Mr. Edgar West
cott.
Mr. W. Hawkshaw proprietor
of the Commercial House, fell
through an open trap door to
the basement of the house. He
was bruised and shaken but no
bones broken.
N. Cantine of St. Joseph has
received a remarkable consign
ment consisting of four cars
loaded with interior woodwork of
the Balmoral hotel, Montreal,
consisting of doors sashes, wain
scotting etc. These are to be
used in the St. Joseph Hotel.
Seven thousand horses have
left Ontario ' for South Africa
this year.
25 YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Willert and
Bruce Tuckey left Monday in a
Ford car to motor to Florida for
the winter.
Mr, and Mrs. W. J. Ryckman
who recently disposed of their
property at Archydale, Sask.,
arrived in town on Saturday and
expect to make their future
home in this community..
Miss Muriel Howald is ill at
her home with pneumonia.
15 YEARS AGO
The work in the Oddfellow’s
block, which has been enlarged
and remodelled, has been complet
ed and Mr. E. R. Hopper who
has leased the ground floor for
Saturday Evening
Here, There
And Elsewhere
By Rev. James Anthony, M.A.
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his furniture and undertaking
business is moving in this week.
Mr. Ed Lindenfield has pur
chased from Southcott Bros, the
building that is now being vacat
ed by E. R. Hopper.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Broderick of
I-Iay, who purchased the resi
dence of Mrs. S. Hardy, have re-
tire,d from their farm and mov
ed to town.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Zwicker
have returned home after a wed
ding trip to Detroit and Chicago.
Mr. Fred Harburn of Crom
arty won the singles horse
shoe pitching championshiii at
the Royal Winter Fair. He has
held the Dominion championship
for some years.
1O YEARS AGO
This year oil companies will
be co-operating with the Red
Cross in the salvaging of motor
license plates. Leave your old
plates at your local gas station
or with your license dealer.
Metal ends of electric light
bulbs are 'good salvage. Keep
the metal and drop it in a re
ceptacle at George Hawkins
Hardware store. It is worth
money to the Red Cross Society.
Mr. and 'Mrs. Max Turnbull
and Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Webb
of Grand Bend celebrated their
wedding anniversaries together
on December 2 with a fowl din
ner at the home of the former.
The sale of war savings
stamps is away to a good start
in both the public and the high
schools in Exeter.
With the payment of the last
of the school debentures, Hen
sail entered the select company
of those municipalities which are
free of debt.
... Neighboring News ...
Chosen Fpr Jamboree
A St. Marys Boy Scout has
been accorded a real distinction
according to word received by
Scoutmaster Lawrence May of
the United Church troop. Bruce
Furtney, second son of Mr. and
Mrs. Alvin Furtney, has been
named as a member of the Boy
Scout contingent to represent
Canada at the First Caribbean
Jamboree which will be held in
March, 195 2, at St. Andrew,
Jamaica, B»W.I.
About thirty Boy Scouts from
Ontario have been chosen to go
to the Jamboree but Bruce is
the only one from this section of
the province with the exception
of several Scouts from Sarnia.
Bruce was recently made a
King Scout and in all his Scout
activities has shown fine ability
and leadership.
(St. Marys Journal-Argus)
Change In Ownership
Effective December 1, Mr. Le
roy O’Brien has purchased the
Zurich Branch of Silverwoods
Dairies Limited, for 33 years
managed by William O’Brien
(1918-1945) and by Leroy (1945-
1951). The local branch has
provided a convenient, profitable
market for your cream, eggs and
poultry. As owner and manager,
Leroy will continue the same
satisfactory service to the com
munity, and respectfully solicits
your patronage henceforth. The
business will be conducted as
“O’Brien’s Produce — Leroy
O’Brien, Proprietor”.
(Zurich Herald)
Two Women Councillors
As expected the great deal of
interest shown at the nomina
tions was reflected in a heavy
turnout of voters. Over five hun
dred turned out to support their
candidates. As a result Parkhill
Will have two women councillors
this year. We believe that this
is the first time that a woman
has had a voice in the council.
(Parkhill Gazette)
I
Call For Tenders
Tenders are being called this
week for the building of a new
public school for Seaforth. Plans
and specifications, which have
been in the drawing stage for
the past several months, are
now complete.
Plans provide for eight class
rooms, kindergarten, a multi
purpose room and services which
include offices, teacher rooms,
rest rooms, etc.
(Huron Expositor)
New Clinton Industry
Clinton is to have a new in
dustry in the manufacture of
sweaters. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob
Van Tuinen have leased part of
the building owned by Sherlock-
Manning and expect to have their
plant in operation by January 1,
1952.
Mr, and Mrs. Van Tuinen are
originally from Holland where
they learned their trade, but set
tled in Dublin, Ireland, for the
past two years. Like several
other people from across the
ocean, they could see great poss
ibilities in coming to Canada.
Upon enquiring, they learned
from the Toronto Chamber of
Commerce that there was room
for such an industry as theirs
in Clinton.
(Citizen’s News)
Delegate To 4H Congress
Robert P. Allan of Briicefleld
was one df the 25 delegates
from Ontario who attended the
thirtieth national 4H Club Con
gress in Chicago, Ill., last Week,
“Bob”, who represented Huron
County, was selected for his out
standing activities in Junior
Farmers’ work and achievement.
(Clinton News-Record)
History shows that the press
has bbeh unformally on the side
of the common people.
Not A Minute
Too Soon
Not one minute too soon, is
the Department of Education in
giving the three R’s their de
served .place in our school cur
riculum. Too long we have been
trying to decipher the most ele
mentary documents. For our
life we have been unable to de
cipher the strange markings on
our bills. We have again and
again lost temper in trying to
find out whether a certain con
tortion is a two or a six or a
hen’s track. We have noted that
a certain scrawly affair was
meant for a word but whether
that word was “turnip’’ or “gin
ger” or “gunpowder” we really
could not say, We talked with
the head accountant of an in
surance company who told us
that he was obliged to review
every account that had been
made .put by his assistants.
“These people can neither
write legibly nor spell correctly
or add accurately,” was the com
ment.
Said a bank manager in one
of our cities when listening to
the complaint of a customer,
“We are worn thin by this sort
of thing. But we are more help
less than you think. If we say
the needed word our help leaves
us to make mistakes elsewhere.”
One is shocked by the blunder
ing attempts made by some of
our advanced grades in the
schools when asked to read a
paragraph from a newspaper.
The school is the place to attain
proficiency in the use of the
three R’s.
If mastery in these elemen
tary processes is not learned in
the school, the case has all the
earmarks of a lifetime of de
fects, not only in reading, writ
ing and arithmetic but in every
department in life where some
thing approaching accuracy is
required. Accurate reading opens
the door to'the gathered know
ledge of the ages. Well done
writing is a splendid form of
manual- training while arithme
tic is excellent mutual training.
In all three R’s teaching must
be well done, and such teaching
is an art of the highest sort.
When the teaching is not well
done the pupil -soon becomes dis
couraged and confused. When
well done the pupil has some
thing like a voyage of discovery
in a wonder world.
To give a pupil a true ground
ing in those three elementary
processes is to teach him morals
and to put him in the way of
genuine manhood.
Getting Started
It looks as if the St. Lawrence
waterway is to become a real
ity. We recall the story of the
lark and her youiig ones. The
lark listened indifferently to the
stories of her young ones who
told her that the farmer was de
pending upon his neighbours
and his uncles and cousins but
who prepared to move as soon
as the farmer made up his mind
to do the harvesting himself.
The Canadian beaver did his
level best to secure the services
of the American eagle, but with
out results for many a day. At
last Old Man Ontario called on
his sons, rolled up his sleeves
and got at the job himself. Then
things began to happen. The
beaver fell into line and one of
Uncle Sam’s big sons commenced
to smile and to jingle the change
ip. his jeans.
Of course a good deal of wat
er will run the•» rapids before
the stone and cement are being
put in place but the preparation
is being made and a slow trying
job it is going to prove but a
start has been made and Old
Man Ontario is in dead earnest.
Like every other large enter
prise the game will not be played
on the principle of “heads I
win, tails you lose.”
There will be some enterprises
that will suffer because of the
new enterprise. All that govern
ments can do is to see to it that
the gains, on the whole, exceed
the losses. A new era is on the
horizon and the utmost alertness
and the soundest judgement will
be required to make the new era
a prosperous one.
As we have said elsewhere the
whole of Canada will feel the in
fluence of the new day, Will we
prove equal to its opportunities?
Will we allow the speculative
and the greedy to place a strang
ling hand on the throat of an
enterprise that should prove
helpful to every citizen?
^Our members of parliament,
both provincial and federal have
a grave situation on hand that
will require the best that is
in them to make the new day a
prosperous and happy one. The
private citizen, too, must not al
low George to carry the whole
load of a cause so great.
' Governments and large corp-
orporations are vitally interested
in the waterway. So, also, is ev
ery private citizen. The private
citizens and'’the small business
men must be alive and studying
what' is going on and every
council should be considering
how the new conditions the
waterway brings with it will af
fect local conditions.
The Milk Situation
Milk from healthy cows han
dled in a cleanly manner by
healthy attendants is one of the
best of human foods. When all
the factors entering into getting
the milk from the producer to
the consumer are what they
ought to be the milk situation
does not present many problems.
As things are the whole situation
abounds with difficulties.
One of these problems and the
greatest of the problems is la
bour. As far as the milk pro
duction is concerned farmers
will tell you that milk produc
tion is a slave’s job. The hours
are long, the work is hard in
many respects. It is an everyday
job the year through. While no
one part of the work is specially
hard the interminable iteration
of the job is almost heartbreak
ing. The job is everlastingly on
the producer’s mind. Punctuality
is an essential at every stage of
the game. One sympathizes with
the farmer who said the cows
are a necessary evil. No one need
be surprised if fairy help is keen
to get a job that pays better
and that offers an occasional
spell when the cows are not de
manding attention of one sort
or another.
A second problem is the mat
ter of feed. As a rule farmers
must have a considerable num
ber of cows to carry on profit
ably. Good cows are gross feed
ers. We must not forget that
few farmers are exclusively
dairy farmers. Poultry and hogs
must be fed as well as the cows.
Other farm conditions require
the products of the fields. In
this way the feed for the cows
must be had from a limited por
tion of the farm. Fields, be it
recognized, are limited in their
productive capacity. A few farm
ers are inclined to shy away
from buying feed for their cows,
as they know how difficult it is
to keep out of the red when
such feed is purchased. Exper
ienced farmers tell us that when
one is obliged to buy feed in
anything like large quantities
the time has come either to dras
tically reduce, the herd or to go
out of the business. They see
nothing to be gained by failing
to make a dollar, meanwhile los
ing their time and effort.
Still another element entering
into the producer’s cost is the
expensive equipment the dairy
business demands. Labour has
been hard to get. Hence the re
sort to expensive dairy equip
ment. The silo with all its out
fit for filling costs a very large
penny. Harvesting the clovers
and the alfalfa is costly even
when all conditions are favour
able. When the season is wet
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