The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1952-05-08, Page 2THE TIME3*APV0CATE, JEXRTRR, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY & 1952
This journal shall always fight
for progress, reform and public
welfare, never lie afraid to at
tach wrong, never belong to any
political party, never be satisfied
with merely printing news.
THURSDAY MORNING; MAY 8, 1952
An Open Letter
To All Mothers
In South Huron
Family Week
Th- week of May 11-17 is being ob
served icrobs Canada ax Christian Family
Week. On Sunday. .May II, there will be
special recognition in most of our churches
and Sunday Schools. The Ontario Council
of Christian Education is .supplying a spe
cial order of worship free in quantities to
•ill Sun I iv Schools, upon request.
()!!• of tin unique features of the
week ;s a ‘Family Night at Home'*! These
are la's when the members of the. family,
both ad and young, have so many appoint
ments > r<ide the home that there isn’t as
much f imily life as there used to be. So
the > :gg*-stion is- made that during this
week ‘V-tv family should observe a Family
Night e Home, when all members of the
family ■>; ><dd spend the evening together
it hmn.*. A jirogramme for such an event
h is he-'n made available through the clergy.
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Loyalty
(A CWNA Editorial)
'One of the most important factors in
the progress and development of any com
munity is loyalty. Without it a community
stagnates.
Canadian communities are biult around
the home, the school and the church. Loy
alty to each of these great institutions is
vital.
Today more and more the home as
the centre of family activity is on the de
cline. Young people are finding their1 re
creation elsewhere; father and mother, too,
are engrossed in social and community ac
tivities at the expense of home life. The
'traditional school “homework” that once
kept the young fry at home in the eve
nings has, in some degree at least, been
replaced by stud}' periods during school
hours when such work is presumably com
pleted. Once the home was responsible for
teaching the boys and girls the elements
of religion, community consciousness, team
work, right attitudes. Now in large mea
sure this responsibility has been handed
over to the church and the schools. Loy
alty to the home is needed today as never
before because the home cannot be re
placed in its effect on the moral, spiritual
and social development of young people by
either of the other institions of our demo
cratic way of life.
Loyalty to the church means loyalty
to all that is good in this modern civiliza
tion of ours. Through its spiritual and so
cial programs the church of whatever de
nomination can influence greatly the life
of the community. Loyalty to the church
•means inore than faithful attendance, giv
ing support financially; it means active
participation in the work the church is do
ing, it involves loyalty to the Christian
principles upon which is founded our demo
cratic way of life.
Loyalty to the school means giving the
teaching staff every encouragement, seeing
to it that they have the tools to do the
great job that is theirs, helping young peo
ple attending school to get the most out of
their opportunity to obtain the fundamen
tals of an education. It involves apprecia
tion of the fact that education is a continu-
in process, going on all through life.
There are other loyalties, too, that
make for a good community. Loyalty to the
businesses of the community is important.
Buying in one’s hometown is one way of
expressing such loyalty in action, for the
more local businesses are partonized, the
better the services they can render. A fine
example of disloyalty is visiting a nearby
city and loading the car with groceries,
clothing and other goods which might as
well have been purchased in one's home
town.
| Thix Sunday you’ll be the toast of our
1 community. You’ll step on stage and into
; the spotlight to take vour bows on your
; special day. Your children will say, in a
i thousand different ways, “Mother, I love
‘ you”, and they’ll thank you for all the
; love, generosity and thoughtfulness you’ve
given them.
, You’ll be proud and happy. And you*
should be . . . because this special occasion
; is something you richly deserve.
But besides the individual honors you
; receive there’ll be another, not expressed
in gifts or flowers or cards or words, but
t silent “community” tribute. It’s nothing
’ more, perhaps, than just the things around
you—the people, and the land and the
buildings—but they’re significant. For you
and your boys and your girls have helped
s hi make this community the. best in the
1 world. Behind all the good things that this
district offers its residents is you. We'd
* Ike to give you credit for it.
I We’d like to say thanks to you for be-
! ing a good Christian and bringing up your
! family in a Christian wav—making them
| helpful, neighborly, friendly, free from
i greed, lust and intolerance.
I We’d like to pay tribute to you foi*
> your efforts to better the community—your
I work in the Institutes and the town and
I village organization,s your interest in your
home and your school and your church,
your faith and support of your community
and its efforts to progress.
We'd like to give you credi fox* your
encouragement and promotion of your hus
band's and son's attempts at improvement
and betterment of the district—helping
them, indirectly, conserve the land, build
the urban centres, making both a better
place to live in.
i Hats off to you, South Huron mothers,
I for buying at home, for helping on the
| farms, for assisting in businesses, for teach
ing in schools, for helping teachers, for
raising funds for our hospital, for keeping
your kids clean and healthy, for keeping
them out of the courts, for giving them
! ambition and encouragement, for growing
• flowers, for cooking well, for making your
5 children take piano lessons, for teaching
i them good habits, for thousands and tliou-
| sands of little things that we appreciate—
that make this community the best in the
world.
A Good Job
Small as the opposition to Canada’s
federal government might be, it is doing a
good job. After the last election when the
I Liberal party received such an overwhelm
ing majority in parliament, it wras feared
that the government would not have suffi
cient critics to keep it on its toes and main
tain the fundamentals of democracy.
Recent developments have shown, how
ever, that the little minority is working
hard to keep the government from getting
complacent or sloppy after its fat victory.
Of special note are the investigations into
widespread thefts of supplies at army
camps and the handling of the foot-and-
mouth disease outbreak in Saskatchewan.
The opposition's persistence in making
these things public and their constant ques
tioning and investigation into government
methods and policies are commendable.
They are doing Canadians a good service.
* * * *
A Good Job Done
Commendable was the work of Reeve
Pooley and Deputy-Reeve McKenzie and
their friends in cleaning up Riverview
Park. The park has certainly all the poten
tialities of being a major beauty spot but
it is only through constant care and atten
tion that it can remain so. Since so many
of Exeter’s citizens wished the park pre
served when it was being considered as a
hospital site, it is a wonder that more are
not concerned with its welfare.
As the
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50 YEARS AGO
In the school report of S.S.
5, Usborne, the following headed
the various classes: May Jones,
Flossie Francis, Willie Elford,
May .Cooper, Nella Heywood,
Lilia Heywood, Annie Wilson,
John Creery.
Tops at Crediton school were:
Edna Pack, Edith Hill, Elsie
Gaiser, Melvine Bea, Laura
Haist, Ida Ewald, Lillian Gaiser,
Hilda Shenk, Edna Eilber, Ezra
Oestreicher, Joseph Finlobeiner.
Heads of classes at Exeter
school were; Anna Martin,
George Jones, Ida Armstrong,
Olive Gould, Ethel Vosper, Willie
Bissett, Lulu Martin, L. Birney,
K. Stewart, George Brown, Ida
Welsh, Lattimer Grieve, Willie
Ford, Lottie W a 1 p e r, Harry
Sweet, Harry Fuke, David Hall.
The Devon hotel has been
closed indefinitely.
The R. Pickard Company has
opened a branch store in Dash
wood.
25 YEARS AGO
Elected to the executive of the
Exeter Lawn Tennis Club were:
M. R. Complin, Rev. W. Jones,
W. A, Elliott, Misses V. Pickard
and G. Harness, D. Evans and
W. A. Patrick, Dr. W. E.
Weekes, R. A. Walter and J. W.
Batson.
Southcott Bros, have pur
chased the general business of
Mr. J. A. Stewart.
Mr. F. M. Boyle has sold his
barber business to Mr. Elmore
Harness of Clinton.
The baseball executive for this
year is: John McLean, M. R.
Complin,’ R. N. ’Creech, Silas
Reed, H. C. Rivers, F. M. Boyle,
L. ,T. Penhale, B. Medd, C.
Andersoii, Dr. Weekes.
A number of prospective grow
ers of tobacco of the Hensall
district met to discuss methods
of growing the crop.
15 YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Guenther
and family of London, formerly
of Exeter, were among those
who were driven from their
hoxnes by a flood in London last
week.
The Watford Guide-Advocate
last week contained a picture of
Exeter’s main street taken since
the telephone poles and wires
were removed and the new light
ing system installed and the
paper states that Watford plans
to copy our improvements.
Mr. ’S. Fitton has disposed of
his optical .business to Mr. C. E.
Zurbrigg.
Mrs. D. Thompson, Exeter,
won the first of weekly prizes
in connection with the Corona-
•tion Contest.
Leona Coward, Grace Brock,
Annie Elford, Mildred .Miller and
Murray Coward headed the
classes at Winchelsea Public
School,
IO YEARS AGO
The Centralia airport has a
new fire truck. It was around
town on Monday in charge of
some of the boys.
Surveying of the 2,200 acre
site, which is situated on Lake
Huron near-Kettle Point, a few
miles south of Grand Bend, com
menced last week. A new Can
adian army Advanced Training
Centre will be built there.
A Japanese labor camp is
proposed for Centralia to supply
-farm labor.
About forty members of the
Middlesex-Huron Regiment pa
raded from Exeter to Thames
Road United Church on Sunday
morning where they attended
worship in a body.
Firecracker Dangerous
Firecrackers are fun—usually.
But when a man is minus a pair
of overalls and has run the risk
of having his son’s light Ford
truck burned, and the gasoline
tank exploding and spreading to
his home, it ceases to be amus
ing-It happened on Saturday at
noon that Charlie Bell was giv
ing up work at Hudie’s Saw Mill,
Clinton, to plough and till the
soil. Some of “the boys’’ at the
mill gave him a send-off by
throwing a firecracker at him as
he drove out of the mill yard.
He looked back, saw nothing
amiss, and drove on without
giving it another thought.
When he arrived home, he
parked the truck near the house
and. went in for dinner. Mrs.
Bell happened to be in the gar
den next door and in a few
minutes, sh’e noticed smoke com
ing, from the back of the truck.
She hurried home to give the
alarm.
Charlie smothered the flames
with an old sack and pulled the
burning overalls out of the truck
while his daughter, Joyce, got a
pail of water.
When the blaze was ex
tinguished all that was left of
the overalls was two muddy
cuffs. The fire was right over
the gasoline tank. What a trail
of disaster could have resulted
from a tiny firecracker thrown
in innocent ifun, if the ignited
clothing had not Ibeen discovered
when it was!
Such an incident should be a
warning to children and adults
alike to exercise the utmost care,
(Clinton News-Record)
SMILES . . . .
-Man, to small son of work
man who has met with an ac
cident: “When will dad be fit
to work again?”
Boy: “Can’t say foi' certain,
but it will be a long Jong time.”
Man: “What makes you think
that?”
Boy: “Cause compensation’s
set in”.
| Whisper Among
.Canadian People
On this page will be found a
montage giving some idea of the
kind of propaganda that is be
ing circulated by the Communist
Barty in Canada. The center
panel is a photograph of a two-
page spread sfrom the (booklet
entitled, “Who Wants War?”,
published by the National Com
mittee, Labor-Progressive Party,
73 Adelaide Street West, Toron
to. The headlines are all taken
from current and back issues of
the Canadian Tribune, the of
ficial weekly publication of the
Communist Party in Canada. No
proof is required that the Labor-
Progressive Party is the Com
munist party. Open admission of
this fget has been made repeat
edly.
Our reason foi' reproducing
some of the lurid and sensation
al literature, which is to be
found in almost every part of
Canada, is to impress upon Can
adians the fact that such propa
ganda actually exists. Many Can
adians feel only the end effects
of such propaganda. They do
not, themselves read the litera
ture which poisons the mind® of
thousands of our Canadian citi
zens. They do,, however, hear
stories which are circulated to
the effect, for example, that the
Government of Canada is danc-
iu to the tune played by the
<fWall Street warmongers.” This
montage shows clearly the
source of the whisperings which
are designed to corrupt the Can
adian people. On this page can
be read the current Communist
line—to do everything possible
to destroy good relationships be
tween Canada and the United
States. The Communists know
that nothing would be more ef
fective in destroying the success
of the defence mechanism of the
free world than to create ill
feeling 'between Canada and the
United States at the economic,
social and political levels.
Word Of Mouth
It is true that relatively few
Canadians actually see the Can
adian Tribune or the flashily
printed, two-color booklets and
pamphlets which. are distributed
by the Communists. However,
the Communists know perfectly
well that ideas spread by word-
of-mouth can become a terrific
ally potent force. They know
that while the average individual
may appear to reject such whis
pers and rumours, human nature
being what it is, there is always
left an uneasy suspicion that
where there is smoke there is
fire.
These are by no means isolat
ed examples: On the front page
of the Canadian Tribune for
April 7, there appears what is
alleged to be, in the % inch
type headline, a “photo of germ
bomb”. The story under the
headline reads, in part, as fol
lows;
Germ Bombs?
“The reproduction of the
photograph on this page is the
first to appear in Canada of a
germ 'bomb dropped in Korea.
The flies released by this bomb
were found to be carrying Dip-
loccus Meningitidis causing
spinal meningitis, and Baccillus
Anthracis, causing deadly an
thrax.
“Eye witness testimony and
personal investigation by the
International Association of De
mocratic Lawyers, and by a
special commission of Chinese
doctors and scientists, has made
public ‘indisputable evidence’
that U.S. planes are dropping
these germ bombs in Korea and
northeastern China.”
Propaganda
It is known that the Com
munists maintain an organiza
tion, called “Deminform”, for
the spreading of false news to
cause confusion in Western
countries. The very thought of
the existence of an organization
of this kind is alien to the West
ern mind. That it is active in
Canada is demonstrated by what
appears in Canadian Communist literature.
Indication all point to the fact
that Communist activity of all
kinds will be intensified in Can
ada during the next few years.
Now, more than ever (before,
Canadians must be aware of the
line of attack which is being fol
lowed and be prepared to sift
fact from fancy, and recognize
the differnce between truth and
Communist propaganda. (By the
Canadian Chamber of Com
merce. )
News From Our
NEIGHBORS
Good Neighbors
Alfred Klein must believe no
men. ever had better neighbors
than himself, ill since last fall
a group of men, with their own
tractors, supplied with their own
gasoline and necessary equip
ment, planted 35 'acres of his
100 acre farm, on part lots 21
and 22, con. 1, Fullatton, in oats
and. mixed grains, on Tuesday.
. (Mitchell Advocate)
Name Your Mail Boxes
Boxholders in many rural mail
delivery routes received notice
that their name must be plainly
printed on both sides of the box.
The notice states that an inspec
tion has been made, and the
order (must be completed within
30 days. Not aloftd will it help
the mail carrier to find the. right
box, but it will be a convenience
to the public in general.
(Zurich Herald)
Car Damaged When Morse
Runs Away
Russel, Coates’ usually placid
horse evidently wishing to prove
she should have a chance in
Parkhill’s next race meet, raft
away Monday afternoon. Russell
‘had left her up at the station
with the usual heavy weight on
the line. The horse raced down
King St. and the wagon hit the
side of Calvin Elson’s ear, rip
ping off a rear hub cap and
damaging the side and fear
fender. The front end of the
wagon was broken before the
horse was brought to a stand
still. (Parkhill Gazette)