HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1951-12-20, Page 6Page 6 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 20, 195J
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THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 20, 1951
Not Christian
A resolution passed at a recent meet
ing of the Huron Presbytery of the United
Church strikes us as being- unfair. Although
we are hesitant to criticize activities of
the church, we cannot let the resolution
pass without comment.
We object to the (a) part of the re
solution which stated that the movement to
revoke the CTA comes from “those in
terests, that would seek for financial gain,
to fasten the drink habit upon our youth,
the young manhood and even the young
womanhood of our- country”.
To the best of our knowledge, the first
public action in the movement to repeal the
CTA was taken by county council, a group
of elected representatives in Huron. We
are not of the opinion that these men are
looking for financial gain by their action,
nor that they seek to develop a generation
of alcoholics. We believe these men meant
well in their actions. If they did not, they
certainly were not worthy of their people’s
confidence.
The slanderous contempt shown in the
United Church resolution, whether or not
aimed directly at the county council, is
certainly not justifiable (nor substantiated)
and, indeed, far from Christianly.
We object, too, the the (b) part of
the resolution which states: “Many well
meaning people are being misled by the
subtle propaganda, initiated by those who
would profit by the weakness of their
fellowmen. The wealthy influence of the
traffic gives it such an influence with the
daily press of our country that much of
the news is garbled so as to give false im
pressions of conditions in dry areas and
many editorial comments are unfair and
often only half truths are told which can
be more misleading than an untruth.”
This attack on the press is surprising
and we certainly hope that the Presbytery
has solid ground on which to intimate that
the press is being bribed by the liquor in
terests. We are in considerable doubt that
this is true but we are willing to accept
facts if they are available.
Otherwise we choose to believe the
freedom of the press is not a drunken fan
tasy. For ourselves, we have never seen a
representative of the liquor industry in our
office. We have not been offered pages of
advertising nor barrels of liquor for the
support of their cause. If we were, you
readers would be among the ,first to hear
about it.
“For the most part,” this section con
tinues, “the daily press of this country is
deservedly losing its influence with thought
ful and right-minded people.” On what
basis this statement is made, we do not
know. In contradiction, we say: for the
most part the daily press of this country is
receiving greater confidence from thought
ful and right-minded people than ever be
fore in the industry’s history. The press is
doing more to develop, improve and pro
mote this country today than any other •
single trade or organization,
In conclusion, we would ask the Pres
bytery to substantiate or explain the rea
sons for the charges it has made. It is only
fair that we, the public, should be accur
ately informed of such malicious intents
and betrayals of faith, if they are so.
One thing more. We were always
taught that name-calffrig and flagrant con
demnation was not Christian. If the Pres
bytery wishes to campaign for the main
tenance of the Canada Temperance Act,
we think that a fair appraisal of its merits
and advantages as opposed to those of the
Liquor Control Act would be more effect
ive and certainly more in line with the
policies of a Christian church.
* * * *
It’s Not Too Late
(Issued By The Huron County
Tuberculosis Association)
Dear Friend:
It has been our experience that , . .
Some people never forget anything.
Other people seem to forget every
thing.
# Most people forget a few things now
and then.
But they’re glad to be reminded when
it’s something they meant to do.
So may we remind you that it’s not
to late to buy Christmas Seals we sent you
in November: Christmas Seal dollars fight
T.B. all through the year.
Two weeks* mail brought the Christ
mas Seal sale fund up io $1,457,00. This
is a good start toward our objective but,
of course, we will all be glad when the
! objective is in sight and we know that
j there is enough io cover all the projects
j which we have planned for the coming
j year.
j We need and would appreciate your
help again this year,I * ■ * » *
j "I Am A Die-Hard ’
| (This the story of an Old Age
; Pensioner as told to the editor
; of the Rural Scene)i
i “My friends ,sav that I am an old die^-
i bird about anti-social welfare handouts
I that make parasites of prosperous people.
I I am a die-hard and I have good reason to
be one.
“I started work at seventeen, working
at anything and everything I could get to
do. Hours of work then ranged from 60 to
81 a week. The only work that I ever did
that did not do me good physically and
mentally was done in dustfilled air. This
condition no longer exists in modern mills.
“Savings were made in those days by
doing without things that cost money. True
enjoyment came from participation in so
cial activities that developed the talents of
those who took part in them.
“When I found the work I liked best
I was happy to spend day and night fitting
myself for it. With small savings and some
borrowed money I started in business at 22
and carried on with many ups and downs
until illness compelled me to retire.
“During a happy life of strenuous work
and serious misfortune, I was obliged to
live on a much lower standard than people
of comparable earnings and achievement,
in order that I might provide for my old
age and do my duty in helping social cas
ualties who were unable to carry on.
“Now that I am old and unable to
work, the dollars that I saved in coppers,
nickels and dimes are wortli about one-half
of what I earned and what I need to live
in modest comfort, although they are. still
sufficient for subsistence.
“The refusal of earning Canadians to
work enough hours to earn the livings they
want is progressively lowering the value of
my hard-earned provision for old age. The
payment of family allowances and old-age
pensions to prosperous people is robbing
me of my savings by increasing inflation.
“I want the government to spend
money wisely in fostering the physical and
mental health of every child to make it as
fit as possible for constructive work and
good citizenship. I want every social cas
ualty cared for to the point of comfort.
“I intend to spend my old-age pension
in aiding some vouiig people to learn that
they can achieve true happiness only by
making the most of their opportunities to
contribute to the personal growth of others
and that vote-getting political policies that
make parasites of the prosperous are a
menace to the future well-being of every
individual Canadian, and thus a threat to
the future of Canada as a nation contribut
ing to human happiness and peace.
“Yes, I am an old die-hard, who will
spend his old-age firm in the faith that
true democratic well-being, personal, na
tional and international, exists only to the
extent that democratic governments pre
serve the rights of individuals discharging
their duties to themselves, their families
and the unfortunate.”
—Die-Hard Pensioner
* * * *
Edison On Work
(Fort William Times-Journal)
' We have just come across something
Thomas A. Edison said a short while before
his death which perhaps makes more in
teresting reading than it did at the time
he spoke. Here it is:
“I am wondering what would happen
to me bv now if fifty years ago some fluent
talker had converted me to the theory that
it was not fair to my follow workets to
put my best efforts in my work.
“I am glad that the eight-hour day had
not been invented when I was a young
man. If my life had been made up of eight-
hour davs, I do not believe I could have
accomplished a great deal. This country
would not amount to ns much as it does
if the young men of fifty years ago had
been afraid that they might earn more
than they wefe paid for.”
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“TIMES" Go By
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50 YEARS AGO
Next Sunday evening at James
Street Church, M r. Charles
Down, a candidate for the minis
try will preach.
Application for a charter to
build a railway * from Wood-
stock to Goderich, via St. Marys
Exeter and Zurich is to be made
at the next session of parlia
ment, by a company composed of
Woodstock and St. Marys capi
talists. There is no doubt the
charter will be granted.
Mr. Paul Coates moved into
his fine new house near Eden
this week.
Mr. H. E. Huston waited upon
Stephen Council asking them if
they had considered the. advisa
bility of encouraging farmers
and others to set out plots of
trees in the township, as he’rea
soned at the present rate of de
struction, we would be without
wood in twenty years.
25 YEARS AGO
Chamber Bros, of town have
purchased from Mr. William,
Ward the building on the cor
nel' of Main and North Streets
used by Mr. Ward as an imple
ment shop. Chamber Bros, in
tend fixing it into a modern gar
age.
Mr. and Mrs. Herb Ford and
son Irwin are spending the
Christmas holidays with rela
tives in Buffalo.
Delve-Abbott — On Monday,
December 20 at James Street
United Church, Miss Lydia Mae,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. F.
Abbott to Mr. Robert Arto Delve
only son of Mrs. Eliza Delve, by
Rev. Duncan McTavisli.
The annual meeting of the
Exeter District Branch of the
Ontario Plowmen’s Association
met in the town ball for the
election of officers which result
ed as follows: president E. J.
Shapton; first vice-president, A.
Morgan; -second vice-president,
P. Passmore; secretary, R, B.
Williams; treasurer, E. Herd-
man.
15 YEARS AGO
Schools were closed on Mon
day in honor of the birthday of
the new king, King George VI.
Mr. Charles Johns of Usborne
has purchased the Follick pro
perty, south of Caven Church. Mr.
and Mrs. Johns intend moving
to Exeter in tlienear future.
Mr. Robt. Mousseau, who has
been employed as a mechanic at
the Coates garage left recently
for St. Catharines where he has
secured a position.
Rapid progress is being made
in the erection of the new com
munity building.
Reeve Thos. Pryde was ap
pointed chairman *of the commit
tee to look aftex* the new com
munity building, J. M. South
cott is vice-chairman and W. G.
Medd secretary-treasurler.
IO YEARS AGO
Mr. J. R. Moffatt, manager
of the Canadian Bank of Com
merce has received word that he
is being transferred to a Tor
onto branch.
Mr. John Luxton of Usborne
has rented the residence of the
late Mrs. Quance and will move
to Exeter in the near future.
Reeve Tuckey entertained the
members of the council, Mr.
Senior and the Clerk to an oys
ter supper following the council
meeting, Monday evening.
Seventeen members of the
RCAF arrived in Exeter on Wed
nesday of last week to take over
guard duty at the Centralia»air
port. The men are having their
meals at the Central Hotel.
... Neighboring News ...
Parklull and Thedford
Coinbine In Hockey ,
A second meeting was held at
Thedford .to discuss hockey plans
for the coming season. As plans
for the Lambton-Middlesex Lea
gue were not suitable under the
circumstances this year, Parkhill
and Thedford withdrew from the
league and have now amalgam
ated. and placed a team in the
Cyclone League, Thedford and
Parkhill will split the home
games between the two arenas
and the team will be under Thed
ford management. ■
(Parkhill Gazette)
Congratulations
Celebrating their Golden Wed
ding Anniversary at their home
on Christmas Day of this year,
are Mr. and Mrs. John Farquhar,
Albert Street, Clinton. The fam
ily are having a party on De
cember 23, and Mr. apd Mrs.
Farquhar, after 50 years mar
ried, will receive their friends at
their home on Christmas Day.
(Clinton News-Record)
Rugby Banquet
Members of Seaforth District
High School i'ugby team and the
male teachers of the school were
the guests of the Seaforth Lions
Club at Its regular meeting Monday night. The club on this oc
casion was recognizing the win
ning of the WOSSA championship
by the team. Co-chairman of the
evening were LOU Bailey and J.
R, Mason. (Huron Expositor)
Receive Phone Cali
Mr. and Mrs. John Pullman re
ceived a telephone call this week
from their son Ronald, from Cal
gary on his way home from
Korea. He is expected home in a
few days,
(Seaforth News)
Windsor Displays
Haven’t you noticed the fine
show windows in our "St. Marys
stores? Thirty-one of the stores
and maybe more are getting
ready for Rotary Show Window
Contest which is to be judged on
Monday night, December 17.
(St. Marys Journal-Argus)
Hockey News
The Zurich Intermediates open
ed their hockey season on Tues
day night in Seaforth, with a vic
tory over the Seaforth Juniors.
The final score- was 8-6 for Zu
rich, and the locals made a very
impressive showing on the fans
that attended. All in all, it looks
like another successful hockey
season for Zurich.(Zurich Herald)
o
Huron Hereford <3roup
Plan Annual Sale
The Huron Hereford Associa
tion madO plans for their annual
spring sale at their meeting last
week.
The executive is also planning
to give cash awards to each boy
and gii'l who exhibits a Here
ford heifer calf at the junior
calf club achievement day.
“Wonder why Mrs. Jones
brings her knitting to every
“It gives her something io
think about While she talks,”
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
Johnny, who had been taken
to the country W the first time,
s-aw a snider spinning a web be
tween two tail trees,
“Father,” he caVed. “come
and see this bug putting UJ) an
aerial,”
Saturday Evening
Here, There
And Elsewhere
By Rev. James Anthony, M.A.
That Strike
Ten thousand men at the time
of writing are out. of work in
Windsor. Three times that many
persons are commencing to won
der when the last ounce of la
bour and the last ounce of meat
will vanish from the pork barrel.
We pause to ask why is this
thus? How does it come that the
Ford company makes such a
stir in the working people’s
world?
We recall the day when the
writers of funny articles had
many a joke at the expense of
Mr. Ford whose picture appear
ed quite frequently showing the
good man in a somewhat mean
little conveyance manoeuvering
his precarious way through busy
streets. We were quite sure that
he was a harmless sort of imbe
cile. He had a very few men do
ing odd jobs working for him
who no doubt asked themselves
quite frequently if their pay was
a certainty.
These good men and true were
none too certain that the odd
contraption in which Mr. Ford
was so keenly interested would
give him back the good solid
cash he was putting- into it. If
Mr. Ford did not like the man
who applied for a job in those
far off days he did not hire him.
If the man did a paying job hiS
wages were raised. Or if he did
not fill the bill as a workman or
was a nuisance among the other
workers he got his walking tic
ket and that was an end on it.
Of late years Mr. Ford’s bus
iness has expanded somewhat.
His company still makes con
traptions that people want and
for which they are willing to
pay. Men still come to the Ford
works and are keen to get
jobs for a definite amount ot
money. Nobody ‘ compels these
men to seek for work with
Ford. These men may work on
the dock or in the field or sell
goods of plane and measure lum
ber, all of this at their own
choice. If they do not like the
wages offered they may go else
where. They are free men in a
free country.
When Mr. Ford began his
work in the interesting past
days, if one of his men did not
like this job he simply quit
when his time was up. Nowadays
it seems if, when a man is tired
of his job or discontented with
his wages, he is expected to
breed discontent in othei' men
and to take other men with him
as he leaves his bench. Some of
the men hii’ed act as if it were
part of the job they were paid
to work at to push the men who
are contented about.
In those early days when Mr.
Ford found that if a man he
had hired to work for him was
unsatifactory he gave him his
wages and let him seek employ
ment elsewhere. Further, the
more conrtaptions Mr. Ford
made in those simpler days the
higher Wages he was able to pay.
The greater the volume of pro
duction, the more the workmen
found, in their .jeans. These
workers saw how important It
was to have a prosperous boss.
We wonder if those men who
are asking for more and more
wages are asking how they can
make their present boss more and more prosperous. Unless the
boss has the cash that comes
from increasing production he
simply cannot pay higher wages.
In this connection we relate
an incident. It was pay Saturday
morning. The boss had a neat
pile of bills before him and a
neat list of names. “You see,” he
explained to me, ”1 have all
those bills to pay or my supplies
will be shut off. The money mar
ket is closing down on us and
we cannot get credit as in the
old days. This list is my pay list
of workers. It amount to four
hundred dollars, e These bills
must bp paid and * those wages
must be given out before I have
a cent for myself. Will you just
step over to the drug store and
get me a few %eadache pills.”
We cannot but wonder if strik
ers see this side of labour trou
bles? Bosses do not find some
nice old rotund Santa Claus
scoop shovelling money into
their money till. Union leaders
have some tall thinking to do.
All of us should realize that
money must be wrought for not
only with strain of nerv.e and
tug of muscle but it must be
planned for by those who know
how to plan, therefore, muscle
and nerve make money when
wisely guided by a thinking
brain. Let it be freely admitted
that not every man can become
a skillful worker. Most people
require continual and close gui-
dence if their manual efforts are
to be successful.
The management of a concern
is not a matter of mere happen
ing. And be it freely admitted,
not everyone can become a real
planner and business thinker, no
matter what his advatages. White
collar and overalls are both es
sential to production.
The brain may,devise but un
less the trained "hand takes up
the task no useful results follow.
These things are so obvious that
one almost apologises for re
peating them but repeated they
must be till all of us acquire
common sense.
Missing The Boat
Egypt is running true to form.
She is following our immemorial
custom of missing the boat. One
of her earlier national blunders
was her effort to have the He
brew people make bricks with
out straw. Instead of welcoming
and encouraging the Hebrews
she tried to starve them and then
tried to exterminate them by
killing their 'babies. She blunder
ed again by not adopting the ec
onomics pf Joseph as part and
parcel of her business life, both
individual and national. Her
greatest blunder was yi allowing
Joseph and Mary to leave her
borders with their wonderous
child.
She was altogether wrong in
not taking to herself the educa
tional principles of Greece, that
country that lay so near to her.
she has gone on the principle of
bringing great achievements to
the light of day and then for
getting to apply them. She did
wonderful things in chem
istry, yet only the few learned
ones know anything of what she
did in this field of science. She
developed a fine system of
mathematics yet she did not ap
ply her knowledge in worthwhile
practical purposes. She excelled
in diplomacy yet she has not
built up her own national politi
cal greatness nor has she been a
peacemaker among the nations.
Under the shield of Great Bri
tain she had the opportunity of
turning her sandy wastes' into
fertile fields yet her sons and
daughters are today in poverty
and given but slight recognition
on the markets of t)ie world for
the simple reason that she de
serves no such recognition. She
has had all the advantages of
the Suez Canal but has not pro
fited thereby. ,
—Please turn to page 11
LAFF OF THE WEEK
Arid you may say, I owe my entire success tri my
wife who nagged me into it”