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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1952-03-06, Page 2Pa<e 2 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 6, 1952 Exeter ®ime5=^bocate Times 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 OWN A Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation ^Bureau y Paid-in-Advance Circulation as of September 30, 1951 -— 2,493 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Canada, in advance, §3,00 a year — United States, in advance, §4.00 a year Single Copies 7£ Each J, Melvin Spythcott - Publishers -Robert Southcott THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 6, 1952 There is one form of a community con­ tribution you can make that isn’t financial. At least, money isn’t the major considera­ tion. We’re talking about the boys and girls of this county who haven’t a home. They need one. These children are wards of your Children’s Aid Society. For various rea­ sons, they cannot be adopted. But they desperately need a good fos­ ter bom** where they can live, appreciate, and share our greatest bulwark—family life. This is one of the major problems of tlie Children’s Aid Society of Huron Coun­ ty- -to place these children in well-chosen foster homes for a temporary period. The Society wants to give- them what, through no fault of their own, they’ve lost —the love, happiness, security., opportun­ ities and responsibilities of the home. The Society cannot do this with a building and with social workers alone. An artificial home cannot be a normal one. The Society appeals to homeowners and householders of the county. Could you take a child into your home and give it the love and care he or she needs ? The suggestion may startle you at first. It is, perhaps, an unusual request. But it is also one that is worthy of con­ sideration. It’s an opportunity for good, citizenship. The Society cooperates with foster parents in many ways. Foster parents re­ ceive $18 a month for each child and the Society assumes full responsibility for all medical and dental care as well as cloth­ ing. It also assists parents to meet various problems as they arise. Think it over. Could you give a child a chance ? If you think you can, contact the Society. They’ll be happy to see you.o- w Support YOUR Hospital Campaign! * * * * Confession Is Good (Canadian Statesman, Bowmanyille) | Something entirely new in The arena | of party politics was given the limelight J of publicity last week when Norman L. i Mathews, president of the Ontario Liberal ■ Association, in an address in Toronto, list- i vd seven reasons for the defeat of the Lib- j erals in the last provincial election. It is, i of course, a common practice for a defeat- i cd party to hold postmortems behind closed s doors with blinds drawn, but to come right ; out in the open and hail from a public i platform the reasons for defeat is an en- j tirelv new venture to our knowledge. ! In creating,.such a precedent in politi- ■ cal behaviour the outstanding feature was I a frank admission and a real compliment, j to the victorious leader, for the first rea- : m»h lifted was ‘'the personal popularity ; of Premier Frost and the voters’ belief that > hr had given good government”. (This ' view, said the president, was most fre- « quentlv advanced by Progressive Conserva- ! lives.) J The other reasons were: The type of publicity given the Lib- ! eral campaign by the Toronto Daily Star. I The Liberal leader. f The allegedly extravagant promises made by the Liberal leader. ; The ellegedly excessive taxation and failure of control prices by the federal ’ government. i The allegedly excessive taxation and ’ party policy as distinct from Liberal leader Thomson’s policy. The Ontario Liberal Association, as distinct from the leader. Regardless of political leanings, the seven above reasons fairly well cover the ground for public consumption and ap­ proval. ! X- * # -K- t ! Support YOUR Hospital Campaign! X- X- X- X- ■— - ' —-— ■—■ —ai As the-------- “TIMES" Go By H"’".... «..... .....—---—----—... rg 50 YEARS AGO ” 15 YEARS AGO The following students were best in their class at S.S. 3 Ste­ phen — Laura Jory, Clinton Sweet, Alonza Ford, Tommy San­ ders', Harry Parsons, Victor Sweet, George Hicks and Pres­ ton Dearing. Best spellers were Homer Bagshaw, S. Hicks, Har­ ry Triebner and Victor Sweet. Fred Sanders was the teacher. In S.S. 1, Stephen, the follow­ ing topped their respective classes—Clinton Hogarth, War- len Mitchell and Hector Mitchell, equal, Herman Mitchell, Leslie McNaughton, Verne Shearedown, Fred Conway, -Malvan Callfas and Lillian Robinson. Teachers were J. A. McNaughton and L Smith. Messrs. S. Popplestone, late clerk for Mr. E. J. Spackman, and Mr. Peter Gardner, late teacher at Winchelsea, have pleased the store premises in the post office block and will sell general goods. After considerable co n tr o- versy, Exeter council granted a licence to Mr. Nelson Statton for a billiard and pool room. The first hockey game in the new arena was played on Mon­ day evening when Dashwood and Exeter played to a one-one tie. On the Exeter team were: Goal, Ford; defence, Creech and N. Wells; centre, McDonald; wings, Willard and Cornish; subs, Hockey, Laing, Dinney, Buswell, Norton, Ryckman. Dashwood: Goal, Goetz; de­ fence, Tieman and Restemeyer; centre, ,K. Wein; wings, W. Wein and Klumpp, subs, Keller­ man, Hopcroft, Guenther, Ness and Eveland. Miss Flossie Hunter, local leader of the Exeter Women’s Institute gave a demonstration in the town hall, Hensall, last week. Miss Margaret Hobkirk was appointed a member of the Hen­ sall Library Board. HMK |tulogy Rev. James Anthony, M.A., who wrote The Times-Advocate column “Here, There and Else­ where” and for many years the editorials of this newspaper, died last week. He was an ar­ dent newspaperman as well as an excellent minister. Although he chose the work of the church, he might well have attained equal, if not great­ er, success in the journalistic field had he decided to devote his considerable energies to it. Mr. Anthony at one time edit­ ed The Owen Sound Sun-Times, and, among his other writings, he contributed to The St. Thom­ as Times-Journal and The Lon­ don Free Press in addition to this newspaper. He must best be described as a public servant. His mind con­ tinually strived to improve his community. He sought to better his people, whether they were in front of his pulpit or his typewriter, whether they heard his thoughts or read them, And he did so not without a consider­ able amount of conscience. His sincerity prompted his in- sistance on weighing all authen­ tic information on a subject be­ fore he attempted a solution. He was quick to watch for loop- liol'es in the argument. His in­ sight into problems and situa­ tions was deep and his writings contained much more than they might have appeared to to the casual reader. He revered truth and hated falsehood. He judged rumour and half-truths and misinforma­ tion some of the most poignant evils of civilization. Of rumours, he said: “Once set going they do not rest till they have poi­ soned a neighborhood or a na­ tion.” He rejoiced in the achieve­ ments of his country, which he affectionately nailed “Jack Can­ uck” and in that term he saw a robust, confident, eager, ad­ venturous and promising youth­ fulness of which he was tre­ mendously proud to be a part. He most admired the pioneer­ ing spirit which built the coun­ try and in each step of socialis­ tic tenor in which he saw the possibilities of a developing loss of rugged individualism he was eager to caution against it. If Jack Canuck was the enter­ prising youth in Mr. Anthony’s opinion, certainly John Bull was the illustrious father. He was proud of the English contribu­ tion to civilization and he was acutely distressed at the nation’s postwar difficulties. He feared England's socialism and was re­ lieved when his “John Bull”— Winston Churchill—returned to power. Rev. Anthony was a Conserva­ tive in politics but he was not partial enough to be unaware of the achievements of other par­ ties. Ho gave unstintingly of credit where it was due and, wliiile he was adverse to out­ spoken criticism, he criticized, constructively, without hesita­ tion. Rev. Anthony’s desired for in­ formation earned him an M.A. degree at Queen’s University but he made life his greater school. He was able to speak on econ­ omics, politics, religion, history, industry and farm life with equal adeptness. His subjects ranged from cluttered sidewalks to a muddled United Nations Organization. What he didn’t know he sought of, He had a memory that was most active and he was able to quote freely of great philo­ sophers and statesmen. His knowledge of history was not so useful to him for information as it was for application to current problems and developments. His sense of humor never fad­ ed and he enjoyed the simple* in life. He was distressed with the world he has left. Of it, he said in one of his last articles: “Politically, economically and militarily we seem to be hope­ lessly muddled. What we don’t know about conditions, general­ ly, would fill several libraries.” But he was not discouraged: “In the physical world, there are no disinfectants like fresh air and sunshine. In social con­ ditions, nothing wears like the truth.” He spoke from experience. Must Avoid Ottawa’s Mistake A Good Thing To Know (Listowel Banner) What Is CAS? It’s our responsibility to look after the children in our county who have no homes. These are the youngsters who, through no fault of their own, are deprived of a normal family life. Some of them are ba­ bies, others are any age up to and includ­ ing 16 years. The Children’s Aid Society of Huron is your organization through which you discharge your responsibility for these children. By paying your taxes you have a share in providing a normal childhood and home for at least 192 children in the coun­ ty each year. Last year the Society supervised 178 children in their own homes so they would not have to become wards. There were 32 unmarried mothers "who looked to the Society for protection and proper care for their babies. There were 26 children placed for adoption. CAS plays a most important part in our community. * * * «• Support YOUR Hospital Campaign- x * * * Red Cross The Canadian Red Cross will open its annual campaign for funds on March 10, and will continue the drive throughout March. The Society requires $5,222,000 to carry on its work. Ontario has the respons­ ibility of raising $2,192,000. Canadian Red Cross is a national vol­ untary organization, with international af­ filiations, operating under Dominion char­ ter, dedicated “in time of peace to carry on and assist in work for the improvement of health, the prevention of disease and mitigation of suffering throughout the world”. One of the Society’s chief obligations in addition to that imposed on it in times of war, by the Geneva convention, is to assist in the alleviation of human suffering in times of disaster, wherever it may oc­ cur, In fire, flood, famine, pestilence, tor­ nado and earthquake. Red Cross Societies of the world have played their part. Mote than ninety per cent of Red Cross work is done by volunteers. # # # # Support YOUR Hospital Campaign! Nobody pays for advertising but the non-advertising, according to the definition of advertising written some years ago by Professor John H. Casey of the University of Oklahoma, and appearing recently in the “American Press”. The. article goes on io say, “Professor ('asey wrote: ‘What is advertising ? One form of salesmanship. “’Purpose? To sell. “‘Who pays for it? “ ‘John and Mary Public says they do. indirectly. “ ‘Solomon Isaac Business Man says he knows too well that he pays for adver­ tising. “ ‘But I say the customer does not pay an advertising bill if the advertising is ef­ fective, efficiently done, run in the right medium at the right time, and is, in every other respect, right. “ ‘For when the greater demand for goods is created by advertising more goods can be manufactured in larger quantities, and shelves restocked at less per unit of production per item of merchandise, in consequence of that created demand, either at less cost or with more quality at the same cost—which amounts to the same thing. “ ‘There you have the theory of mass production and quantity buying packed to­ gether in a pecan shell. “ ‘Yes, the merchant is sure he pays the advertising cost. But I say he does not, for the larger volume of business the re­ tailer can do, the less his percentage of overhead, of which advertising is but one of many items. No more light, no more heat, no more several other overhead items required for $110,000 turnover than “ ‘Well, if the customer doesn’t pay and the merchant doesn’t pay for advertis­ ing—then, who does pay ? " ‘Why, bless your soul 1 The truth of the matter is that effective advertising is self-supporting, self-liquidating. Nobody pays for good advertising, unless, if we must find someone to pay for it, I guess it comes pretty near being the non-advertis­ ing merchant who pays—and pays and pays—whose overhead goes up as his sales volume goes down—he and the non-ad- reading customer who buys blind, fails to read the ads and in consequence gets stuck with inferior non-advertising goods, at higher prices than he needs to pay/ ” x- * * # Support YOUR Hospital Campaign! are for $100,000. 25 YEARS AGO This section was visited with one of the worst snow storms of the season on Saturday. The first robins to be report­ ed in town this season were seen on Friday by Mr. L. Day. They arrived a month to the day earlier than a year ago. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Middle­ ton arrived in town Monday from Brantford and have taken over the bakery business recent­ ly pucliased from 'Mr. W. Lock­ wood. Winners of the Hensail Seed Show were, John Robertson, Sam Dougall, John E. McEwan, O. Geiger and son, E. F. Klopp, J. A. Manson and son, C. Truem- ner, John Fisher, W. Allexander, Matt Clark. 1O YEARS AGO Winners of the Times-Advo- cate draw prizes were Henry Del- bridge and Wesley Johns. Mr. Delbridge has won the prize four years in a row. Congratulations to Mrs. Mair, of Thames Road, who won the grand prize of ? 1,0 00 in an Oxy­ dol contest. The first airplanes to arrive at RCAF Station Centralia came in on Monday. Rev. John Galloway was in­ ducted as minister of Caven Presbyterian Church. Winners at the Hensall Seed Show were W. R. Dougall, II. Desjar dine, Lome Chapman, Earl Kinsman, W. Consitt, Alex Buchanan, and Peter Kilpatrick. ... Neighboring News ... Returns From Florida Mr. and Mrs. T. Steinbach, Zu­ rich, and Mr. and Mrs. F. Hac­ kett, Alvinston returned from their trip to Florida after touring several weeks in and around that district where the lovely palm trees are inviting for one to remain longer. Along with all the beautiful sights that go with it. After all, it’s nice to return home cherishing the fond mem­ ories of the time spent in other countries. We are thankful that all of our tourists so far have returned home safely. (Zurich Herald) Building Plans Approved According to Trustee H. E. Dickinson, chairman of the plans and building committee for the proposed new St. Marys District Collegiate institute, the Depart­ ment of Education has approved the sketch plans of the new building and has authorized the Board to go ahead with detail plans. This approval is felt to be quite an advance in the progress towards a new District Colle­ giate building, and it is expected that the debenture issue, appro­ val for which has been held^ up for some time by the Municipal Board, will be received very shortly. t. (St. Marys Journal-Argus) Amateur Show Success , Another very pleasing Bert Yorke Amateur Show Was staged at the Community Centre on Thursday and Friday evehing of last week. Many new hets and some of the old familiar ones were on the program and a very enjoyable two-hoiir program was the result. Fom the opetting chorus by a group of High School girls to the finale by the Centenary group, everyone gave a pleasing performance which included a recitation, vocal solos, duets and quartettes, tap dancing, skits, instrumental music and Hea- man’s orchestra. (Mitchell Advocate) New Highway While bouncing more or less merrily along the highway from Clinton to Goderich the other day, it was brought forcibly to memory that according to early files of the News-Record, just 40 years ago, decision was made by The Ontario Department of High­ ways concerning surfacing High­ way 4, with permanent pave­ ment. Our forefathers perhaps were correct in assuming that the pavement they planned to lay would last forever ... But now, 40 years later, should we con­ tinue to assume that this high­ way is permanent? . . . Huge gobs of this .permanent pave­ ment have disappeared entirely, and workmen are fighting a los­ ing battle, when in the middle of winter’ they go out with a truck, a quantity of hot black mending material, and some shovels, to fill the holes left in this permanent pavement. Commuters between Bruce- field, Clinton and Goderich are becoming increasingly aware of these missing pieces of perman­ ent pavement . . . One of. them recently was heard to state that lie was no longer afraid of dy­ ing because he would surely go to heaven , . . His reason: Driv­ ing on that highway would shake hell out of anybody. Fortunately, we understand the Department of Highways plans to resurface both High­ ways 4 and 8 from Clinton to Goderich, Kippen, and Seaforth in the Spring . . . Many motor­ ists would comment that “it can’t come too soon.” (Clinton News-Record) The Frost Government made a minimum of promises tq the electors of Ontario in last Nov­ ember’s general elections for this Province. The people’s en- dorsation of the Progressive Con­ servative Administration’s record under Premier Leslie M. Frost was the most sweeping in Pro­ vincial election history. As a re­ sult, the Legislature has opened with every prospect of a quiet, business-like session that should see the Government’s program— as announced in the Throne Speech on Thursday afternoon— implemented in full within the next few weeks. As prepared by the Cabinet and read by the new Lieutenant- Governor the Hon. Louis Brei- thaupt, the legislative lirogram set down in the Speech follows predictions that the House would have before it, for action and consideration, measures for the stimulation of home building in rural communities and on farms means-test assistance by pension for totally-disabled persons be­ tween 18 and 65 years of age, simplification of rent control re­ gulations, and Ontario participa­ tion in the St. Lawrence River power development to mention a few of the major items outlined at the opening of the newly-elect­ ed Legislature. The numerical preponderance of Government supporters in the Ontario Legislature—about 7 to 1 over opposition groups'—■ will prove all to the good provided there does not develop the unfor­ tunate tendency that ljas de­ veloped alarmingly at Ottawa, where the Federal Government, top-heavy with a 4 to 1 ratio of Liberal Members of the House of Commons, is virtually ignor­ ing all Opposition and, indeed, paying very little attention to Parliament as a whole. This drift has disappointed thousands of Canadians, to whom partisan politics is a poor substitute for tihe statesmanship expected to be shown by Prime Minister St. Laurent and his colleagues, in the wake of tlie historic support rolled up at the polls in the last Dominion balloting when Party lines were largely ignored. The same factor was a major reason for the unexampled support ac­ corded Premier Frost in the On­ tario campaign last Autumn. It is to be sincerely hoped that the too-weak Liberal Opposition for­ ces at Queen’s Park will not tempt the Frost Administration to abuse the powers embodied in its overwhelming majority in the Legislature. There will, let us trust, he nothing in the nature of rail­ roading” Government measures through the Legislature allowed to creep into the session now under way in Toronto. Full dis­ cussion is the right of the Oppo­ sition minority just as surely as it is the right of the governing —Please turn to page 5 LAFF OF THE WEEK "Quit smoking recently—iii fact it's been just 38 minutes .exactly!"