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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1952-05-01, Page 2THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 1, 1952 Exeter Bimesr&Ubocate 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. Dost 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 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 7p Each J* Melvin Southcott Publishers - Robert Southcott THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 1, 1952 Be A Hero Driv-» down our main streets at 50 or SO. If you can miss elderly ladies and young' children by a hair’s breadth without slowing’ Lown, do it. Avoid the school zone signs—let the kids fen x for themselves. Blow your horn at elderly penpb* struggling to get across the street during a busy hour. When there’s lots of traffic, double, park on the parallel parking side, get nut of your ear on the traffic side. Don’t slow down gradually. Wait until you get close .so you can make a sudden, screeching stop—your brakes -won’t fail very ofC-m. Sh >w other motorists you’ve got guts - don’t, dim your lights at night. Ke--p your left wheels on the centre line of the highway. If you’re not sure you can pass a car while another approaches, take a chance and find nut. Always stop suddenly and without warning. Never make signals—or, for the fun of it, give the wrong ones every now and then. Show everybody how fast your vehicle will go. If you’re a truck driver with air brakes, roar through these two-bit towns at a great speed—let them know you're from the city. Imitate the fast and reckless driving some Americans like to boast about-—■ they’ve the best accident record in the world. When you’re driving to another place, try to set a new time record. If you think someone, you knew just passed you going in the opposite direction, look around and find out who it was. * * * * See The Beginning “The most important conservation mea- • sure required on the Ausable Watershed is the establishment of several forest areas to be called the Ausable Forest under the Conservation Authority, which will serve to cover the natural water shortage areas of the river valley. Thirteen areas have been designated for the Forest, of which the largest and most important are the Pinery and Hay Swamp.” That statement was made in the Au­ sable Valley Conservation Report of 1949. Next Wednesday, May 7, part of this re­ commendation will be fulfilled by the 'Authority—and the public is invited to see it happen. The “Tree Planting Day” will mark the beginning of reforestation of some 640 acres in the swamp. Over 42,000 trees will be planted. Features of the day will be a tree •planting competition among pupils of Hay public school. A demonstration of tree planting machines will take place. Prom­ inent conservationists will attend to take part in the inaugural ceremony. Twenty-five or fifty years from now this step will be heralded by the genera­ tion of that time as one of great wisdom and foresight. * # * # Protection The start of Hay Forest doesn’t ensure the results expected. Steps should be tak­ en to make sure the seedlings become trees. Fire will always be an immediate haz­ ard. A provision should be made by the Authority to ensure that adequate protec­ tion is available in case of an outbreak. Regulations should also be made to restrict camp fires and cigarette smokers. Humans will also be a hazard. There will always be a great temptation to get a free Christmas tree. Heavy penalties should be provided for persons who would destroy the growth. * * * «• Hazards Of Springtime (Junior Farmer News) In spring “A young man’s fancy light­ ly turns to thoughts of love” or so the writers tell us. However, on the farm the thoughts also turn to the spring work and the need for getting the seed into the ground as quickly as possible, once the job is begun. The rush of spring work always brings with it a large number of farm accidents, some of these are serious and some not so serious. It may be too much to suggest that there is a connection between the two kinds of thoughts which have been mentioned as coming with .spring. However, it is safe to say that when a tractor or other machinery is being operated, it is no time to be day­ dreaming regardless of the subject. One frequently hears the operator of a tractor or other machine say that they do a lot of their thinking while they are in the field. This is commendable from some standpoints. However, driving a tractor, just like driving a car, calls for consider­ able attention and concentration. Some operator.', think they are sufficiently ac­ customed to the work that they can do the right thing automatically. Actually, there are very few who achieve this very desirable, state, and if their minds are on other things, the right reaction to a given circumstance will not take place too rapidly as if they were con­ centrating on the job at hand. This is not to say all farm accidents are the result of the. thoughts of the oper­ ator being elsewhere. Nevertheless, the majority of farm accidents are preventable. They occur because the person or persons involved do things which they know they should not do. One reason why a good many acci­ dents occur in the spring is to be found in the pressure of work. When a worker is trying to do things quickly, there is a ten­ dency to skip over normal safety measures, and this is true on the farm as it is else­ where. Added to this the fact that, to take a tractor as an example, the machine is used very little during the winter. The operator is “out of practice” when he takes the machine to the field, yet he tries to handle it the same way he did when he put it away last fall. In addition the ma­ chine may well be a bit stiff from months of sitting idle. All this adds up to a situa­ tion where caution in operating the ma­ chine, particularly fox* the first few days, is good business. It is true you are in a hurry to get the spring work done, but there is also the old adage “More hurry, less speed”. A farm accident in which either the operator ox* the machine is damaged can greatly de­ lay the work, so from a business stand­ point, care in handling the farm machinery this spring is worthwhile. * * * * Could Go Too Far At the beginning of the century 60% of the population of Canada lived on farms and 40% in the towns and cities. When the final figures are completed for the latest census it will likely be found that those proportions are now reversed. In another 10 years, if the present trend continues, less than a third of Canadians will be liv­ ing on the land. Even if we could produce enough with only a fraction of our population on the land there would be grave -disadvantages, declares The Financial Post. It is not a good thing for any nation to have all its people packed into cities and certainly not safe in these uncertain times. It will pay us to watch, carefully the movement of population from the country. Some of it is natural and inevitable. Some of it may be actually beneficial. But we would be short-sighted if we prentended that it did not matter; that it could go on indefinitely without sapping our national strength. * * * * It appears from insurance statistics that work isn’t as hard on the worker as the 36-hour-week advocates would have us believe. For instance, the life expectancy of the industrial population of the United States, which can’t vary much from what we have reason to expect in Canada, is in­ creasing with every year. The worker has twenty years more of life today than he had a right to expect hi 1912. Quite ob­ viously, whatever else we are doing, we are not working ourselves to death. * * * * The New York World-Telegram re­ marks : “As ail all-over consideration of what we are spending on the European Recovery Program, let’s keep these figures in mind. The Second World War cost us $160,000,000 a day. The European Re­ covery Program has cost us $13,700,000 a day. Neither sum is hay. But there is quite a difference between 160 and 13.7, Grant­ ed that the latter figure is not complete insurance against war; that it is a gamble; that it may lose—it still looks like a good gamble.” TRIP TO MOON MAY COME’ SOONER THAN WE THINK "TIMES” Go By .......... .......................................-. ....-.......... 50 YEARS AGO 15 YEARS AGO Mr, and Mrs. John Smalla- combe and Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Sweet left for Montreal where they will take the Parisian of the Allan Line and sail for the Old Country. Fred Gillespie was hired by council to water the streets and pump water for all purposes at $9.75, Messrs. W. H. Levett, J. A. Stewart, I. R. Carling, Joseph Davis and C. H. Sanders attend­ ed a Masonic gathering at Lon­ don on Tuesday, the lattei* four taking the Scottish Rite Degrees. Among the names appearing in the Sharon school report were Freeman Morlock, Arthur Amy, William Roeszler, Win. Smith, N. Brown, W. Morlock, D. Kestle, M. Elber, D. Dietrich, W. Presz- cator, D. Schwartz, Merner Eilfoer, M. Kestle, L. Schwartz, Gladys Kestle, Sybella Morlock, E. Wein, Ethel Kestle, Aaron Wein. ■> 25 YEARS AGO After a successful business careei* in Exetex* extending ovei* 38 years, Mr. J. A. Stewart has this week disposed of his general dry goods store to Messrs. South­ cott Bros. The new fire truck had its first call on Thursday evening last to the home of Mr. R. E. Pickard of town. The Opera House block which is at present occupied as a fur­ niture store by Mr. R. N. Rowe, has been purchased by Mr. Arthur Jones. Col. W. J. Heaman has re­ ceived word from military head­ quarters that the Huron Regi­ ment will go into training at Carling’s Heights. W. G. Medd, H. E. Huston and W. S. Howey were elected commissioners to the Presbytery by Main Street United Church. »School Basketball #Fix# Exposed At Banquet Considerable damage and dis­ comfort was wrought to many of the householders of Exeter by the continuous rains which swelled rivers and creeks. Thou­ sands in London were forced to evacuate their homes in the flood, Mildred Hicks, Gertrude Cann, Loreen and Hazel Hern, Stewart Fuke, Barbara Dinney, Barbara Atkinson, Mildred El­ liott, Ted Buswell, Marion Glad­ man, Dorothy Traquair, Laurene Beavers and Anne Morgan took part in the High School Literary Meeting. Exeter’s popular and genial photographer, Mr. Joseph Senior, had his studio taxed to capacity on Saturday afternoon when the famous Onezime Masse family of the Blue Water highway had their family group taken. Mr. and Mrs. Masse, with their 21 normal, healthy and active chil­ dren, 10 boys and 11 girls, made a wonderful picture. 1O YEARS AGO Rev. Arthur Page, of James Street United Church, has accept­ ed a call to Owen Sound. Rev. A. B. Irwin, of that town, has accepted a position with James Street. Elected to the executive of the Ladies Bowling Club were: Mrs. E. R. Hopper, Mrs. H. Pollen, Mrs. Ulric Snell, Miss Helen Pen- hale, Mrs. T. O. Southcott, Mrs. A. Ryckman, Mrs. R. Motz, Miss Stella Southcott, Mrs. S. Taylor, Mrs. B. Tuckey, Mrs. (Dr.) Roulston, Mrs. M. W. Telfer. Rev. C. E. Beacom, of Grand Bend, has accepted a call to Mt. Brydges. The oldest native-born resi­ dent of Exeter, Mr. William J. Carling, passed away in his eighty-fourth year. ... Neighboring News ... You Are Worth Only 98 Cents The modern young miss won’t like the statement, but the hu­ man body, commercially, is worth only about 08 cents'. Fortunes have been spent pay­ ing homage to the Form Sub­ lime, yet for all the ballyhoo, this picture contends that the average human torso contains only enough fat to make six cakes of soap, enough iron to make six medium-sized nails, enough sugax* to fill one small bowl and enough calcium which when converted into lixne could supply whitewash for one small chicken coop. On the credit side, the phosphorus content of the body could supply heads foi* a thousand matches. (Huron Expositor) Arrives Hei’e To Take Up New Life Michael Poulos has arrived from Athens, Greece, to spent the summer with his uncle, Chris Cheros, aftei* which he plans to join his brother, George Poulos, in Toronto. Michael has two years of university training and while he can read English, is not conversant with verbal use of oui’ language. It is his ambition to become familiar with it, as he assists Mr. Cheoros in the Grill here. Conditions in Greece are not conductive to young men remain­ ing there if opportunity is af­ forded for life in a new land. While the Communist thi'eat is not as serious as in previous years, living is costly. Foodstuffs ate very high, clothing prices are average. Every young man undergoes compulsory military training for 18 months with ad­ ditional training for many. (Mitchell Advocate) Disastrous Sneeze Oux* feelings go out to Norm. Tobin who won’t be able to take that cast off his head and neck until April 28. His friends are already looking forward to see­ ing the big beard Norm is going to be showing around — that is for a few minutes until he grabs his razor. And all this trouble on account of a sneeze which broke a small bone in his neck. (St. Marys Journal Argus) Dutch Elm Disease Fouxxd In This Area Dutch Elm, a disease which attacks elm trees, has been not­ ed of late in Ontario, and one case of an elm tree on the Centre Road has been reported. This disease causes a ring to form around the tree on the in­ side of the bark and stops all sap from going up the tree to the branches. The disease acts very quickly, The first sign is a few of the branches which usually have very dark green leaves, have very faded, almost yellow leaves. The next year all the leaves are the same way and by the third year, the tree is absolutely dead. If anyone notices an elm tree ill any of these conditions it should be reported at once. Foresters claim the disease is a virus one and spreads very rapidly. If left unchecked an epi­ demic would result which would soon wipe out ail elm trees. (Parkhill Gazette) “I’ll admit she’s a bit snob­ bish,” said the farmer’s wife, “but she's very pretty?* “She’s the village belle, all right,” conceded hoi’ husband, “but she shouldn't have been tolled.” Now it can be told! Another major basketball scandal ex­ posed! Don’t get excited, gentle read­ er. This thing isn’t too serious. But it seems a local basketball six deliberately lost a crucial game for a price—th© price of a hat. The team we’re talking about is the seniox* boys at E.D.H.S. Which lost the W.O.S.S.A. “B” title to Ljstowel in the semi­ finals at Londoxi several weeks ago, You'll remembex’ the senior girls and junioi’ boys brought home the cups, ribbons, crests and what-have-you. The ‘'scandal” was revealed at a banquet held at the high school Friday night to honor the teams. The champions had been glori­ fied and toasted. Then High School Board Member, Edward Chambers, of Stephen, proposed a toast to the senior boys. He said everybody couldn’t win. The senioi* boys had lost but they were true sportsmen in defeat. But Captain Glen Schroeder, in reply, told the inside story. “In the first quartex* of the game,” he recalled, “we were leading Listowel by a good mar­ gin. Suddenly I remembered something and called a time out. I reminded the boys we'd prom­ ised the coach we’d buy him a new hat if we won. I asked them how much money they had. We didn't have enough to buy it so we threw the game!” It was all a joke, of course. Men And Fish Every spring birds fly north and men go smelting around here. The birds don’t seem to have much trouble but the men either flourish or flop. Last year, several smouldering­ smelters introduced us to the art which consisted of getting everything but fish. This year we kept our feet dry but our friends came home, as they put it, “with barrels and brarels”. Others we talked to were curs­ ing the luck. It seems to happen every year. Some get tons and others get cold. Just to add a little enlighten­ ment about these fellows who make sudden changes in the spring, like the birds, read this amusing description by I. C. M a r r i 11, District Forester of Lands and Forests. “I have often wondered ‘Just what makes a smelter’, and the more I wonder, the more con­ fused I become. “When the ice has gone out and the smelts begin to run up the streams, men that are other­ wise solid substantial citizens of good judgement, kind fathers and faithful husbands, will suf­ fer a temptorary .mental hang­ over. They will go splashing around in the snow and xnud all night long to bring home at dawn to a faithful wife a small handful of bedraggled smelts, probably not even enough to covei* the bottom of his basket. Proud, however, to show what he has been doing all through the cold chilly night. “Standard equipment fox* most smelters is a pail* of rubber boots, a dip net of sorts, a lan­ tern or flashlight, a basket and one quart thermos of tea. He starts out with this equipment in good faith and what happens aftei’ that is in the hands of Providence, not forgetting what the neighbors have said to him, ‘Don’t forget to bring us a mess of sxnelts’. “He starts out long aftei* nightfall, drives down the street picking, up two or three other smelters and proceeds along the highway with their net handles sticking out of the car windows ox* dangerously lashed to the top. Far away fields always looking green, the smelters usually take quite a jaunt before turning in some sideroad to the creek where they hope to dip their baskets full. “The car is parked, locked and the smelters tumbling over wire fences in the dark, proceed to the swollen stream, slipping and sliding along its muddy banks full of hope and eager anxiety. Lights are seen flashing up and down the stream as they Approach, indicating other fisher­ men are there ahead of them. They try it too, but the smelts are not running yet. It is too early, so someone suggests a fire to sit around and shiver, perhaps telling a few stories to pass the time away till the run starts—if it does. “The odd character, showing off, usually falls in, adding merriment to the other adven­ turers, laughing at the unfor­ tunate one who is desperately trying to dry out his wet boots and pants over the smoking camp fire in tire cold spring night air. “ 'Here they come boys’, some­ one yells—and the great rush is on again., Everyone piles into the water swishing his long­ handled net, always in the other fellow’s face or banging him over the head. The air is full of lanterns, nets, pails, baskets and the odd smelt can be seen wiggling in the wire mesh through the flashlight’s gleam. One by one they are caught and the baskets may gradually fill up before the run is over. “Where has the long night gone? Morning is approaching as these tired, wet, cold, hungry fishermen start ,for home—some happy with theix* catch, but most of them grumbling with only a handful in their baskets, trying to think up some suitable excuse to offer, “Why do they do it? I do not know, for no matter how wet and cold they may get this spring, by next year they will be up and at ^em again.” « ♦ * ♦ We’ll leave you with news item, reprinted in its • entirety, from The Clinton News-Record last week: “PHONEY" INSPECTORS It has been brought to The News - Record’s attention that some persons have been posing as fire prevention chimney in­ spectors, with no official connec­ tion with the Fire Department. There were dancing and skat­ ing afterwards, and both of these were well attended and enjoyed. SMILES . . . . A little girl had to be shipped from N.Y. to Cleveland all by herself. The Pullman porter got her tucked into hex* lower berth all right, but she woke up and started to cry for her parents. The porter assured her that her father and mother would meet her at the station. “Meanwhile,” he said, “God will be watching ovex* you.” At that point a sleepy old gentleman popped his head out of the upper berth and groaned, “That’s right, little girl. Now for Pete’s sake, go to sleep, won’t you?” Her eyes opened wide and she whispered to the porter, “Was that God?” “Boy!... What A Day!—The Only Orders I Got Were When I Left Home This Morhina!"