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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1952-05-15, Page 2Pag© 2 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 15, 1952 This journal shall always fight fox* progress, re Corin and public welfare, never be afraid to at* tack wrong, never belong to any political party, never be satisfied with merely printing news. BETWEEN THE HAMMER AND THE ANVIL THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 15, 1952 By The Moon In his annual piece about lunar influ ence, The Ottawa Journal’s “Countryman" get’* nowhere, as witness the following: “Belief in the power in the moon goes b-iek to prehistoric eras. Doubtless ancient man watched the waxing anil waning of Earth’s companion, and experienced both fear and wonder concerning the phenom enon. He has created superstitions that have burgeoned through the centuries. Ear ly colonial settlers regulated many farm ta-Jcs: haying, butchering, and weaning calves, colts, pigs and babies by phases of the moon. ‘ In an 1857 issue of a farm maga zine a writer was vehement in his scorn of moon believers. ‘To talk of the changes of the moon affecting the weather and con trolling vegetation,5 he said, ‘is unworthy .‘■he intelligence of the age, and .should be exploded.5 “We are certain the moon does exert an influence on certain aspects of human experience. Most of us can recall that a full moon, a spring night, and a pleasant environment have powers that aid Cupid, and some of us still believe a horse and buggy is better than a horseless contrap tion for that purpose. We are old-fashioned and teen-age daughters do not hesitate to so inform their fathers. “No superstition regarding the moon is more interesting than the one to the ef fect that crops which grow in the ground should be planted in the waning phase, and that crops which mature above the soil surface should be planted in the wax ing phase, as near the full of the moon as possible. The Countryman has experhnent- ed with this axiom many times, and must report that over the years he has discov ered nothing so far to substantiate the superstition. However, there are still power ful and mysterious forces to be discovered in our Universe. No man can safely or in telligently be dogmatic.” (By J. C. JACKSON, Zone Forester, Ontario Department of Lands and Forests, Owen Sound) The costs of maintaining roads, keep ing up the schools in the rural community and contributing to the high schools, have been mounting steadily. Each acre on a farm must produce more to bear its fair share of the tax burden. If the acre is rocky and can produce only a crop of trees can we afford to clear cut it and destroy that production without making the burden on the rest of the farm, just that much heavier ? If the crop of trees from stony, steep, or wet land has been unwisely removefl and it is now waste land can we afford to lose it? Sometimes where there are plenty of seed trees, fencing an area is sufficient; where there are no seed trees, seedlings may be obtained from the Ontario Govern ment for planting. The main cost is the labour of planting and fencing. These items are small compared to your loss from carrying idle acres. Snow fence and posts cost approxim ately $1,200 per mile. Erection and dis mantling cost $150 to $200 per mile every year. Maximum life of snow fence would not exceed 15 years. Properly located belts of evergreen trees planted at the same time would eliminate the need for much snow fence in less than 15 years. Can we afford to neglect this obvious saving? A farmer cannot afford to butcher his brood sows, or his best cows, and stay in the pork or beef business. Count the cost of butchering the growing stock in your woodlot and you will decide that you can’t afford it! We broke the law the other day, but it didn’t bother us. You probably broke it yourself recent ly and you didn't think about it twice. As a matter of fact, all of us have busted the law wide open in a couple of spots'. We’ve taken the law into our own hands. Well, what else are you going to do? Everybody enjoys it. Nobody seems to care. Are you going to change the law to allow raffles or are you going to let the law forbid them and forget about the law? After all, the raffle ticket you bought probably helped somebody or something. Are you going to stick to the law and stop organizations from raising money to do things that should be done? No,.you’re not. At least you haven’t. Yet you’re not going to make it legal and widespread, are you ? Do you like taking a chance? Do you like playing bingo for high stakes? Do you like breaking the law ? Do you like having a little fun donating to a worthwhile oau.se? Sure,you do. But you ’re a law- breaker. Do vou take a drink at the boot- legger’s? No? Maybe your friend does? Somebody does. They keep on operating even though they get fined occasionally. How about some of those frolics you lost money at? You had fun gambling, didn’t you ? Maybe this summer, your kids will go rollerskating or merry-go-rounding on Sun day at an amusement park. The operator has been fined a couple of times but the public still want him to keep on operating so he does. Y ou can probably think of lots of things yourself law. that go openly against the The law s ays “No!but a lot of us say “Yes!” so we just forget about the law. You can’t blame, the policeman. After all, he’s only a public servant. What are we going to do about of these things? Do we make beneficial gam bling and wholesome (to some people) Sunday amusement and bootlegging legal? Or will we wink at it for a ■while until somebody goes too far, then we’ve got the statutes on the books to stop it? The easiest wav, it seems, is just for get about it. * # * -s This Christian Canada (The Ottawa Evening Journal) The Dominion Bureau of Statistics re ports that members and adherents of Can ada's 10 largest religious denominations make up 96 per cent of the country’s popu lation. Four per cent takes care of the members of tiny religious groups, of those who profess no religion at all. Put in another way, about 95 per cent of the people of Canada are members of Christian denominations or profess some degree of adherence to the Christian faith. Canada is predominantly a Christian coun try, and this is a factor in our social and political life that never can be ignored. It is quite true that^with a large num ber of these Canadians their adherence to Christianity is a fragile thread. Neverthe less, there is that link—perhaps surviving from childhood associations—and they are the better for it. Active church members, the men and women who concern themselves with con gregational and denominational affairs, arc the hard centre of Christianity. But when the people have to stand up and be counted for a census we see clearly that the as sumed indifference to religion of large numbers of them is not truly representative of their feelings. Exeter ®ime5=^bb0cate 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 Paid-ih-Advanee 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 1. Melvin Southcott • Publishers - Robert Southcott .llltlllllllllllllllllllllHIIIIHIIKIIIlUIXtlllltKlHKIIllllllllKlIIKIIIllllllK As the "TIMES" Go By 50 YEARS AGO Mr. M. J. White, editor of the Exeter Times, died at his home here on Saturday. Messrs. Handford and Elliot shipped a carload of exceedingly fine horses to Winnipeg Monday. The Exeter baseball team was defeated in a game by the Clin ton team 33-14. We suggest that the Exeter girls start a “Rescue the Perish ing Club’’ the object of which should be to rescue young men who are becoming bachelors by marrying ,thein off. Messrs. Bissett and Bissett, of Exeter, have supplied Mr. Solo mon Jaques; of Zion, with a windmill and force pump. Mr. Walter Clark, Crediton, is busy getting his ice cream par lors ready for the coming sea son. 25 YEARS AGO Best students in the Hensail School as reported this week, were Olive Walker, Margaret McLaren, Dorothy Hefferman, Minnie Sangster, Harold Sher- ritt, Loretta Bell and William Glenn. The three-storeys, brick build ing of S. Martin and Son on Main St. has been partly torn down, the wreckers doing fast work. The ground floor is to be divided into two stores and the ceiling is being lowered three feet. The property formerly known as the old “'Plymouth Methodist 'Church’’ and which for a num ber of years was used as a dwelling house has been pur chased by Messrs. Sidney Mills and Reginald Doupe of Wood ham who intend wrecking the building and using the lumber for colony houses on their re spective poultry ranches. Exeter baseball team with drew from the South Huron baseball league to enter the northern league. Public meetings of the town discussed organization of the Iband and the possibility of a Dominion Day celebration. 15 YEARS AGO The coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth will long be remembered by all who took part in the coronation ser vices on Wednesday. An impress ive service was held at the school in the morning followed by a religious service in Trivitt Memorial Church, Among those who took part were W. E. Middleton, president of the Can adian Legion and Mr. William May, chairman of the Exeter Board of Education, who had the honor of planting two acorns that were sent from Windsor Forest in England for this oc casion. Winners of the second draw for prizes in connection with the Exeter Coronation Contest, made Tuesday evening by Reeve W. D. Sanders, were: Milton Luther, Usborne; Joshua Johns, J. R. Hind, Mrs. W. J. Walker, Mrs. George Flynn, Mrs. Roy Webber, Mrs. W. Makins, Mrs. R. Taylor, Sr., Kippen; Mrs. George Ander son; M. E. Habkirlc, Hensall; R. ' Bolton, Isaiah Tetreau, Dash wood, Mrs. Joan Oke, Usborne. IO YEARS AGO' The Athletic Committee elect ed was: President, C. V. Pickard; vice-president, F. May; secretary treasurer, Boh Dinney; commit tee members, B. W. Tuckey, Ulric Snell, James Bowey, Alf Wuerth, Dr. Steiner, Bob Diir- ney, W. G. Medd, and Frank Creech. Exeter merchants have agreed to take Wednesday half-holidays. Arrangements are being made for the erection of a building on the farm of Mr. Fred Ellerington at Eden to establish a Japanese labor camp. Mr. Sandy Elliot, of Exeter, was elected Deputy-District Gov ernor of District Al, zone 2, of the Lions. Mr. Ted Davies, who has been district representative for the Supertest Company, has been transferred to London. Illil tl I Hill III tltll mill mull Illi 1,1111111111'11 UIIKttl IIII Uiltlllllllllltll 11 Illi IIII III News From Our NEIGHBORS Outlines Dry7 Legislation Effective In Huron County By A. T. Cooper . the Dominion). The citizens of Huron County have reason to thank the early settlers for the splendid start they made in helping the county on its road to progress. They can point with pride to the position the county holds to day in relation to agriculture, education, social service and the splendid work being done by our church organizations. The freedom from crime and juvenile delinquency is outstand ing and the courts have frequent ly complimented t.hn county on the place it holds in suppressing law violation of all kinds. ,For the information of our newer citizens, including minist ers and leaders in moral re form, may I give the following information. For more than 50 years the county has had an active Temperance organization whose chief concern was to re duce the evils of the liquor traf fic, and they have always been ready and willing to adopt the most restrictive legislation avail able. The chief advantage of the CTA when in operation it that no “outlets” for the sale of liquor, such as beverage rooms, lounges, cocktail bars and the dozen or more various kinds, may be licensed by the Govern ment. The desire to adopt more re strictive laws, when available, was shown by the county on the two occasions that the Ontario Temperance Act was voted on (in 1919 and 1924) when the dry majority was over 10,000. Of the 34,051 majority given throughout the province in 14)24, to retain the OTA, 11,945 of this was secured in Huron. The success of any law de pends on the support given by the citizens and officials (both Provincial and local) and the county organization looks es pecially to the church people to see that this support is given to the CTA and thus keep Huron in the “dry” column. ■A- Act On New School Action towards our new high school was at a standstill for some weeks until all negotiations and legal proceedings concerning the site were completed. These were sent to the Department of Education in Toronto for ap proval, so that the next step 'Could be taken. There was a considerable de lay here and Mr. M. W. Telfer, the secretary, phoned to Toronto on Monday concerning the delay. Representatives of the- Depart ment visited Parkhill to view the site and to inspect the local High School. If schools are fit to use the Department is- hold ing back the approval for new schools as debenture issues are at a dangerously high peak. in some communities. After looking at our ancient building, they assured the Board this would be one of the first places permitted To build a now school. (Parkhill Gazette) Burning Tree Harry R u t h i g while seed cleaning at a late hour Thursday night last thought he was seeing things ... a big maple tree near the end of Church Street bridge burning like mad. He rubbed his eyes thinking maybe his late hours on the seed-cleaning rush wei*e bothering him, but no, there it was right enough, not only a burning bush but a burn ing tree, He called the passing police cruiser and with the aid .'Of Constable Ken McKay finally doused the fire with a few buc kets of water. Someone had ap- parentl tossed a fag-end into a hollow portion of the big maple and the dry punk inside had ignited. (St. Marys Journal-Argus) Had Near Fire The local fire engine and members of the fire department were at Crediton on Saturday afternoon taking part in fighting fire there, where a barn, lumber shed and a straw stack all went up in flames. And while they were away, luckily Len Wagner took a look in the local fire hall and out of it belched smoke, an electric 100 watt lamp was too close to some woodwork, which took fire and was just going nicely when Len discovered it and gave alarm and it was soon put out with the bucket method. (Zurich Herald) Dre-Arranged Quiz Mr. Cardiff alleged that ques- tions-and-answers had been pre arranged, between at least one committeeman and Government witness; indicated that Liberal members of the committee had Local Option As an ilustration of this, the Township of I-Iullett in our county was one of the first mu nicipalities in the Province to adopt “Local Option,” when in troduced by the Ontario Legisla ture. That was in 19 05 and the measure was carried on a ma jority vote, the 60 per cent clause not yet having been add ed. The success of Hullett encour aged the other municipalities of the county and by 1913 almost all of the municipalities (now 24) had either passed Local Op tion or at least tried to pass it. Eleven other townships later carried Local Option as well as the Town of Clinton and Village of Hensall. Canada Temperance Act By this time (1913) there were still three townships, two villages and three towns in the wet column owing to the 60 per ent handicap. Keeping in mind, however, the desire to cancel all ^licences in the county and also The advantages of having the dry territory enlarged, The Canada Temperance Act was again in troduced. This is a county Local Option law which can be carried on a fair and equal franchise, a ma- joriey vote, and is a legitimate and necessary step in the process of restraining an injurious, social evil. It also meets more fully the need of our day than” does Muni cipal Local Option, and because it is just as enforceable as any other law that forbids sale, if only the integrity and the effic iency of the enforcing powers are assured. It was voted on in our county in January 1914 and car ried with a majority of 2,608. During the last 3 8 years in which this law has been in force, its success has been outstanding. It may be said today, that Huron is one of the largest “dry” areas in Ontario (if not held a meeting earlier in the day with Agriculture Minister Gard iner before entering the inquiry chamber. In reply to a direct question by Mr. Cardiff as to whether or not he had met Liberal members of the committee before the hearings, Mr. Gardiner said he would answer this way: That if Conservative members wanted to see him tonight he was prepared to do it. Charge “Rigging” Charge that proceedings of the House of Commons foot-and- mouth inquiry had been rigged by Liberal committeemen, was made by Elston Cardiff, Progres sive Conservative MP for Huron North, at Ottawa Tuesday. (Clinton News Record) Farm Prices Weakening (By Roy Jewell in The Lon don Free Press.) The farm price structure is gradually slipping into a mess . . . And we doubt that enough non-farm folks are sufficiently alarmed to take note . . . I£'s bad when one commodity be comes unprofitable . . . but when a whole series of commodities get into the act it’s much worse . . . and the act is more- than full right now . . . Pork, cheese, eggs, beef, to name a few are not presently conductive to a prosperous agriculture. . . We hear of cheese milk quotations as low as $2.10 per cwt. . . . And in spite of the fact we have a $26 floor price on grade A hogs, there are no producers netting $26 when they market their pigs ... In Oxford County . . . the home of the cheese in dustry, only three factories are presently operating , . , and one of these, once employing three or four men, is now being oper ated by the cheesemaker alone. . , . The manufactured milk mar ket is presently more attractive . . . ana the cheese factory source of supply is drying up. . But is it healthy that the cheese factory is permitted to fall by the way side? . . . What will happen when the manufactured milk market gets control of most of the milk? . . . Does anyone think the pro ducers organization will carry much weight with respect to set ting the price then? Eggs . . . well, of course, we have the word of some produc ers, at the time the recent vote was taken on an egg marketing scheme, that the poultry indus try was still profitable. . . . We don’t keep hens so we can't make a personal observation . . . but we know a few folks who are not happy with the current price. . . . It’s true that the beef price is still quite satisfactory for the man who raises his own young stuff and markets them. . . . But even he will have less money to spend. . . . And far mers are good senders when they get paid for their goods. . . And lest someone gets the idea this is a “beefing” session . . . let us point out this set of combined circumstances cannot help but cut down on farm spending . . . farm purchases of the goods and services of in dustry . . . and the demand for labor. ... So maybe there are some non-farm folks who shbuld soon get a little more excited about the trends that seem to be developing in the . farm price structure. It may be undermining your job. 1 i t "Yeah—Well Just How Far was It Rolled?" *