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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1952-10-02, Page 2THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2, 1952 This journal shall always fight for progress, reform anil public welfare, never be afraid to at-* t$ck wrong, never belong to any political party, nevei* be satisfied, with merely printing news. THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2, 1952 Newspaper Week Canadian Newspapers Serve Public Well This is National Newspaper Week in the United States. Canada doesn’t officially reeog-niise it as such, nevertheless the idea, like most U.S, ideas, spreads to this coun­ try. In any case, it’s an opportunity for newspapers to discuss themselves with their readers. All newspapers exist tv perforin a service to their community and their read­ ers. This they do in many ways—commun­ ication. information, entertainment, guid- riiis is what traffic-safety conscious citizens 'will like, to hear. lx’s a warning from Lambton County Judge E. A. Shaun- essy that traffic offenders, will receive, heavier fines and in some cases jail terms. Describing the rising t<»li of accidents as ‘ intolerable”, Judge Shaunosy told the Sarnia Police Commission: '“The time for leniency is past. Only by getting tough and staying tough can we cut down on the number of accidents.” “When incomes were much lower,” he said, “a small fine acted as a deterrent. But today, a small fine means nothing to mo.-A people; even a large fine means no­ thing. They pay it and go merrily along their reckless way. I suggest that we should have jail terms for such people. *"I have nothing to do with traffic cases in the first instance, but, in the event of an appeal from a magistrate, once, the prosecution has probed the guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, or in the case of an ap­ peal against sentence, I give warning that the penalty imposed will fit the offence, including where fit, a term in jail.” Judge Shaunessy is to be commended for his realistic approach to this province­ wide problem of increasing traffic acci­ dents. It is hoped that magistrates and other judges follow his lead. 4»* Are we or are we not to be organized for civil defence is a mute question. There have been stirrings for more than a year about this topic but not much action has been taken. Only a few towns or centres in Western Ontario have any semblance of a civil de- fecen organization. These have acted on the advice of federal and provincial author­ ities to form a central body which will act in case of emergency. But other than urging municipalities to do something, the federal and provincial governments haven’t done much themselves. Obviously, if it is important that civil defence be organized throughout the coun­ try, the lead should come from the higher- ups. Because these authorities aern’t taking action, should we assume that civil defence is not necessary? Or are the provincial and federal governments wrangling over re­ sponsibility ? Or do they feel they have completed their job and the rest lies in the hands of the municipalities? From the standpoint of the casual ob­ server, civil defence organization is not re­ quired at the present time. If this is true, Jet's call the whole thing off. If the powers have inside information that would indicate we should be prepared, then let’s get at it and do an effective job. In any case, Jet’s get the subject out of the windy clouds. This half-hearted ef­ fort is nauseating.* * * * We hope you’ll take an interest in S.H.D.H.S. “Hi-Lights” which start this week in the T-A. The column has been re­ organized to give readers more extensive and diversified news of the district high school. In the past, one student has had the arduous task of reporting all the hap­ penings. This year the entire paper staff, elected by the student body to produce the annual "Ink Spot”, will contribute. We think you’ll enjoy the column. ance, commendation, criticism, support, pro­ motion of trade, progress and well-being to mention a few. The degree of the success of this service varies with every newspaper. Canadians., generally, receive good newspapers. The majority of them are con­ servative journals who take their respons­ ibility seriously and do their job effective­ ly. Rarely are they outspoken, irresponsible or profane. They are all champions of democracy, of Canada, of their own area. Canadian newspapers arc not perfect by any means. Some observers criticize them for being too local in character, un­ observant of the whole national or inter­ national picture as the case may be. Others say Canadian, newspapers are not editorial­ ly strong. They do not take as much lead in community affairs as they could or should. Another criticism is that Canadian newspapers devote too much space to in­ consequent happenings, not enough to poli­ tics, government, and community better­ ment. In all these, criticism, it must be re­ membered that newspapers are governed to a great extent by the tastes of their read­ ers. Every newspaper must make a profit to operate and to do so, it must cater to the reader in order to sell itself. Whatever the state of Canadian jour­ nalism at the present time, the reader can be. assured of one thing. The newspaper profession is continually trying to improve and progress. They are helping Canada be­ come one of the great nations of theworld. , Improving Perhaps you’ll pardon us if we discuss The Times-Advocate here. The T-A staff takes pride in the fact that our paper has been judged among the top twelve in its class in the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association for the past two years. It is an indication to us that we are progressing. We hope we can continue to improve our newspaper. We are consistently striv­ ing to give our community better service. You have probably noticed changes in the past—there are many more planned for the future. Above all, we want to publish a paper of which our community may be proud—a paper in which they will find enjoyment, entertainment, assistance and fair play. If we cannot achieve this, it will not be through the fault of not trying. Tribute In connection with ‘‘Newspaper Week” The Times-Advocate proudly salutes its team of news correspondents in our district. Our correspondents do an excellent job of faithfully reporting the news of their communities to Times - Advocate readers. We pay tribute to them for the important roll they play in the success of our paper and our community. Our reporters are: Biddulpli (Second Line) ..... Mrs. H. Elson Blanshard ......... Mrs. Gladwyn Hooper Brinsley .................................. Mrs. L. Craven Centralia ............................. Mrs. F, Bowden Clandeboye ......................... Mrs. C. J. Paton Crediton ...........,................. Mrs. J. Woodall Crediton East ................ Mrs. William Motz Cromarty ......................... Mrs. K. McKellar Dashwood .............. Mrs. Harry Hoffman Edgewood ............................ Mrs. Rov Moore Elimville ...................... Mrs. Ross Skinner Grand Bend ..................... Mrs. Irene Meyers Greenway ............ Mrs. Carmen Woodburn Harpley .............................. Miss M. Hodgins Hensall ..... Mrs. Maude Hedden Hensall ..................... Mrs. Archie McGregor Kippen ........................... Mrs. A. Gackstetter Kirkton ........................ Mrs. I. N. Marshall Lucan ............................. . Miss Lina Abbott Saintsbury .............................. Mrs. H. Davis Shipka ................. Mrs. Harry Shephard Thames Road .............. Mrs. William Rhode Whalen .................Mrs. F. Squire Winchelsea ............. Mrs. Freeman Horne Woodham .................. Miss Bessie McCurdy Zion .................................. Miss Frances Hern Know any news ? Give them a call! TICKET FOR SPEEDING 50 YEARS AGO The farmers of the Crediton district have started a sugar­ beet contest. So far Mr. Gotfried Wein has the lead at 1S1 pounds. James Petty, of Hensall, who left for England some time ago intends to remain until Christ­ mas. •Mr, John Mallett, who went out West on the harvest excur­ sion, returned home Saturday morning. Mr. Jarred Brown, of the Lake Road, Hay, lost a wallet containing over $100 in Molson’s Bank bills when he was plough­ ing over 18 years ago. Last week, in the same field, he came upon a bundle of old bills. After a careful scrutiny under magnifying glasses, the bank decided to allow Mr. Brown $70 in lieu of the remains of the once good bills. 25 YEARS AGO' Taxes for the year in the town were reduced from 4 3 to 40 mills. Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Delbridge returned Saturday evening after a six week’s trip to the Pacific coast, California and Mexico. . The chopping mill at Shipka, owned by Mr. Milton Ratz, was burned to the ground Thursday afternoon. Everything in the building was destroyed including 100 bushels of seed owned by Mr. William Sweitzer and worth $4 per bushel. Caven Sunday School celebrat­ ed its golden jubilee anniversary Sunday. The Dashwood Band will fur­ nish the music at Thedford and Ilderton fairs this week. Your Minister Speaks A Red-Letter Week By J. B. FOX Cannel Presbyterian Church, Hensall <Ije Exeter ®tme9=^htoocate Times Established 18TJ5 Amalgamated 192-1 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 CWNA Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation Paid-in-Advance Circulation as of March, 1952 —* 2,554 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Canada, in advance, 83.00 a year — United States, in advance, $4.00 a year Single Copies TV Eaoh J. Melvin Southcott * Publishers * Robert Southcott 15 YEARS AGO Mr. and Mrs. Henry Strang and family, of Usborne, are this week moving to Exeter into the residence of the late Thomas Jones. James Ballantyne, Liberal; Dr. Robert Hobbs Taylor, Liberal- Conservative, and Dr. Alexander Mair, Independent Temperance were nominated for the forth­ coming provincial election at a meeting held in Hensall Town Hall, Wednesday afternoon. A cheque for $1,50 0 has been presented to the Huron College by Mr. John R. Ogden, of the north boundary, Biddulph, for the establishment of a new bur- sery. A petition was presented at the regular council meeting from the barbers requesting that a by­ law be passed whereby the shops would close Monday, Wednesday and Friday of each week at 6 p.m. and Saturday at 11:30 p.m. 1O YEARS AGO Brunelle Watson, grade 9 and Britain Sanders, grade 13, won the Lions Club scholarships for highest aggregate marks in the 19 42 June examinations. This week, the Exeter Dis­ trict War Time Committee had a tobacco company ship 20,000 cigarettes to the pool in London, Eng., for our boys of the fight­ ing forces in Europe, Asia and Africa. The Hensall continuation school opened Tuesday of this week with Mr. Morley Sanders as principle for a second term and Miss Audrey Dinnin as as­ sistant in place of Miss Ruty Mcllvenna, who resigned recent­ ly. This week, from September 28 to October 5, has been called Religious Education Week, and has been so called because it is associated with an event unique in the annals of publishing in 15 years—namely the publica­ tion of the revised standard version of the Holy Bible. The theme of the week is “The word of life in living language.” The publication o-f- this new translation, which was made official Tuesday, brings to a climax a project begun in 1937, partially completed in 1946 with the appearance of the New Testament, and now concluded with the revision of the Old Testament. It has been a monu­ mental effort, involving the labors of 91 scholars, and in its first printing of one million copies, using more than 1,000 tons of paper, 2,000 gallons of ink, 10 tons of type metal, 18,750,000 yards of thread, 20,- 000 square inches of gold leaf. Stacked in a pile, these million volumes would reach 24 miles into the air. The revised New Testament has already had a circulation of over two million and appears well on the way to general use. The publication of the entire Bible at this time, marks signifi­ cantly enough the five-hundreth anniversary of the first printing of the Scriptures by Gutenberg. This new translation follows in the noble succession of Moses, Paul, Jerome, Wycliffe and King James, who endeavored to make the Word of God known in a common tongue. This translation is the second revision of the King James Version, the first having been made in 1870. The present revision was authorized by the International Council of Religious Education on behalf ol the 40 denominations whose educational boards were associat­ ed with it. The publication of the new standard version of the Bible was authorized by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. The need for a new revision has been the result of the not­ able progress in Biblical re­ search in the last 75 years. This new .revision embodies greater textual accuracy due to the dis­ covery of more ancient manu­ scripts and sources; it brings new meaning to words and idioms through the discovery of many remarkable documents and contemporary religious texts ; and it has also rendered into more meaningful and intelligible’ English, many of the archaic and misleading words and phrases of an earlier version. Every change that was made, has been made only under the strict scrutiny and with the majority approval of the whole committee of scholars, so that News From Our NEIGHBORS Purchase Lots Mr. Leo Meidinger, of town, has purchased a fine building lot from Mrs. William Witmer, where, we understand, he in­ tends erecting a home in due time. And we understand Mr. Joseph Gelinas has purchased a lot almost opposite to the one mentioned, from Mr. Edwin Gas­ cho. Things keep moving along, as we thought there was little activity in Zurich this summer, but the fall season is doing not so badly. (Zurich Herald) Fire Alarm Stilled When a truck backed into a pole in the south part of town early Wednesday morning, a high tension wire fell across a fire-alarm wire, burning out the entire nine fire alarm boxes in Seaforth, Fire calls should be made to the telephone office un­ til further notice, Councillor* J. C. Crich, chairman of the fire and water committee, stated on Wednesday. A Toronto poultry dealer was arrested by local police when found amusing himself about 3:30 a.m. by bumping a pole with his truck, causing the wires to sway and making impromptu fireworks. (Seaforth News) Conservationists Pay Homage To Dr. G. H. Jose With bowed heads, 70 leading conservationists stood in silence Monday night in memory of one of the pioneers of the movement in Ontario. Dr. G, H. Jose, of Kirktori, Who died suddenly last month, was a man whose judgment was sought, and heeded In conserva­ tion matters throughout the pro­ vince, said A. H. Richardsoh, chief conservation officer, On­ tario Department of Planning ad Development. Dr. Jose was a member of Upper Thames Valley Conserva­ tion Authority and of Ausauble Valley Conservation Authority. Chairman of U.T.V.A.’s finance committee, he had definite views and never hesitated to express them, Mr. Richardson said. (St. Marys Journal-Argus) Better Than Peeking Traffic Control signal system at the intersection of Highways 4 and 8 was put in operation yesterday afternoon . . . Al­ ready several have gone through on a red light, not aware that the lights were turned on . . . Although still a little confusing to some. . . they are a great improvement to the old, wait, peek, hope, and try system of getting across the intersection. Respected Citizen, James Rivers Passes In the passing of James Rivers last Friday, Seaforth lost one Of its oldest and best respected citizens. He was a genial host and loved to reminisce on days gone by. He was noted for his fine garden, where he and Mrs. Rivers raised bountiful garden produce, which was generously shared. Born in Hardfield, England, he was in his nintietli year. He was married in Usborhe Town­ ship to Eliza Ashton, who sur­ vives him, together with one daughter, Mrs. William Drover, town, and two sons, Thorpe Rivers, town, and Dr. Everett Rivers, Sunland, Calif. Otte son, Ellwyn, was killed in World War L He was connected with beef rings throughout the dis­ trict for more than 50 years. As long as he was able to come to church he was a faithful attend­ ant, being a member of First Presbyterian Church. Mr. Rivers came to Canada in 1880 and fanned near Cromarty before coming to Seaforth in 1913. Had Mr. Rivers lived he and Mrs. Rivers would have celebrated the sixty-seventh an­ niversary of their wedding next January. The funeral took place Mon­ day afternoon from the Box Funeral Home with Rev. D. Glenn Campbell officiating. The pallbearers were Dr. John Dro­ ver, Kenneth Williams, Elmer Rivers, John Rivers, Harper Rivers and B. Rivers. The flower­ bearer#.; were Thomas Aldington, Dr, F. S. Harburn, Ivan Queren- gesser, John Kehn, M. McKellar and Albert Smale. (Huron Expositor) the final result is the product of the most intensive and pains­ taking efforts of the best Bibli­ cal scholarship of our age. The many testimonials that have already been forthcoming indicate that this new version is superior to any of its predeces­ sors and we can safely predict for it a popularity that will out­ strip that of the King James version. The purpose throughout has been to use all the new re­ sources of Biblical research to improve upon existng translat­ ions, and it can be said that this objective has been reached. The translators were inspired, by an even greater hope, name­ ly that the word of God by be­ ing rendered into more modern language -might have a greater appeal to the ordinary man. For surely there is an urgent need for the Bible to regain the popu­ larity and prestige it enjoyed in former generations. While there is generally a formal recognition o’’f its worth, there is a colossal ignorance of its contents. This ignorance may be. illustrated by the remark of a young lad concerning Mark’s gospel, that it was a book writ­ ten by some Russian writer. Our very way of life today, the grow­ ing wave of secularism and materialism points to our ignor­ ance of and indifference to the teachings and precepts of the Bible. Protestantism may be said to be the product of the open Bible, and it encourages the in­ dividual study of the Bible. It considers the knowledge of God’s word as the inalienable right of every human being. For the Bible contains the record of God’s revelation of himself necessary for human salvation, and also the precepts and prin­ ciples necessary for individual and world happiness. Now that the Bible has found a more perfect expression in the English language, there is now an equalled opportunity facing the English speaking world to rediscover the significance of the Bible. And what better place to begin this than in the home? If along with all the other aspects of our modern culture parents are concerned to surround their children with spiritual realities, the future of the Bible and of true religion is secure. The re­ storation of the family altar, the renewal of family and individual devotional life, the daily practise of religion will restore the Bible to the place it has lost. “What have they seen in thy house?” was the question asked of Hezekiah by the prophet. If no more is seen in our homes than comic papers, cheap maga­ zines, theatre ticket stubs, cards and wine glasses, our homes re­ flect a superficial life untouched by any spiritual purpose. If, amongst all the things that are seen, there is the Bible accupy- ing a central and revered place, then you may be sure that home has a tremendous asset, a spirit­ ual direction and goal. “Train up a child in the way he should go and lie will not depart therefrom.” With this new and appealing version now at hand, all Christian parents have at their disposal the most effective weapon for building homes in righteousness and goodne’ss. If this new version finds wide acceptance in all our homes, then the hopes of the translators will be fulfilled and their diligent labors rewarded. There is a magic moment in every summer day. It comes at nightfall'—that moment when the the mosquitoes have* not yet gone to work, Drive it off the pier, eh? * < . Well, that beats the last two offers I had.