HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1952-10-09, Page 2P»«e 2 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 9, 19S2
This journal shall always fight;
for progress, reform and public
welfare, never be afraid to at
tack wrong, never belong to any
political party, never be satisfied
with merely printing news.
FAVORITE STAMPING GROUND
THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 9, 1952
Fire Prevention Week
Canada’s Loss By Fire
Is Over $80,000,000
Why Are We Afraid To Grow?
(MacLean’s Magazine)
We’re not sure of the precise tone in
which Sir Wilfrid Laurier uttered his fam
ous phrase: “The twentieth century belongs
to Canada.” We like to think there was no
smugness in his voice; rather that it was
touched with the wonder and gratitude with
'which a good man contemplates the good
ness of providence.*
It is in a vastly different tone that
many of Sir Wilfrid’s countrymen repeat
his words today. Often they sound like a
small, well-fed and frightened terrier growl
ing over a bone that is too big to eat or
hide and too juicy to share with the hun
gry Airedale down the street.
The true measure of our national ima
gination—the measure of our belief in Can
ada’s capacity to play a better and more
fruitful part in a better and more fruitful
world—will be, for many years to come,
the measure of our willingness to grow and
to accept the risks of growth along with
its,rewards. In no field are we so ready
for growth as in population. In none are
the rewards so apparent, in none the risks
so meagre. Yet we are still burdened by
the dismal hope that we can somehow cash
in on the rewards while avoiding almost
every element of risk.
After gradually overcoming its early
postwar caution Ottawa recently put the
brakes on immigration again. The new and
temporary regulations virtually slammed
the door on all new settlers except those
from the United Kingdom, France and the
United States. The new policy will reduce
the immigrant intake for this year by fifty
thousand.
There has been no lack of justifica
tion for the policy. It is precisely thp kind
of justification that might be expected
from a timid and race-conscious book
keeper: the current restrictions will arrest
the disruption of our traditional ethnic
structure, reduce the dangers of temporary
unemployment and help to hold the line
on housing. These are all excellent argu
ments to a bookkeeper. To a nation ser
iously interested in inheriting a century
and halfway through the century with few
er than fifteen million inhabitants they’re
just plain silly.
In fairness to the officials who frame
our government policies their attitude only
reflects the attitude of large numbers of
ctheir constituents. The Trades and Labor
Congress recently passed a resolution
which, although vague about the details,
strongly suggested this important union
group would favor not more but fewer im
migrants. The desire of the Canadian work
er to protect his job is natural and under
standable. But surely in the long run the
best way to do that is to create more and
better jobs, which means creating larger
and better markets. Canada’s marketing
position will always remain ominously vul
nerable until we can create a much strong
er domestic market.
We’ll never do that by standing guard
over a bone we can’t quite get our jaws
around.
* * * *
To often, municipal councils feel they
must hush-hush “ticklish” problems. This is
not their duty nor their right. As public
trustees, councils should act in the best in
terest of their municipalities, take the pub
lic into their confidence and be prepared
to face the opinion of their electors. To
withhold public information is a breach of
democratic principle.
* * * *
This October’ the seventh annual issue
of Canada Savings Bonds will go on sale.
These bonds afford Canadians the oppor
tunity to invest in their country’s now glitj
tering future. They also offer good secur
ity and reasonable returns.
Each , purchaser of Canada Savings
Bonds becomes a shareholder in this coun
try’s enterprise. He or she also invests in
a personal future. It’s a great combina
tion !
All through the ages man has been
prone to* take an apathetic view of danger
ous conditions which are apparent to or
dinary reasoning, and eventually catas
trophe occurs.
Year after year newspapers, fire mar
shals, insurance associations and other fire
prevention authorities publicize their ef
forts with a view to awakening the public
to the ever present danger of fire. Despite
all these efforts the fire bill for Canada
reaches a figure that is one Canadians can
not be proud of.
In 1951 there were reported in Can
ada, 66,159 fires causing the death of 494
persons and property loss estimated at over
$■80,000,000.
It is the old story of “it can’t happen
to me” and until such time as a fire occurs
and affects a particular individual, fire
wastage is regarded as “just one of those
things”.
On an average, every 10 or 15 minutes
a fire pccurs in some home, institution or
manufacturing premises causing untold diso
lution, loss of lives, homes, factories and
jobs.
The tragedy of these fires is that most
of them are caused through carelessness.
If more care were exercised and thought
given to eliminate or minimize potential
fire hazards the yearly toll of destruction
could be easily reduced.
The property, Forest and Federal Gov
ernment, losses of over $80,000,000 in 1951
effects the economy of the country. In
other words, we wasted this sum in build
ings and goods. “Fire Prevention Week” is
designed to focus public attention upon a
great and ever present social and economic
problem, but it does not mean that efforts
to reduce fires should be confined to this
one week, as the perils of fire are present
365 days of the year.
It is said that half the business firms
burned out by a total fire loss never re
sume business. What does this mean ? Loss
of jobs, loss of tax revenue to the muni
cipality, and so the locality is that 11111011
poorer.
The ^objective of all business must be
the eradication of fire hazards by constant
attention to all the principles of fire pro
tection and prevention measures.
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Thanks
The T-A, like every other newspaper,
receives publicity releases from every part
of the country—but never anything as en
joyable as the release that came from the
Dairy Farmers of Canada this week.
Inside a colorful box came a sample
of “Canadian Cheese—The World’s Fin
est”. And it tasted like the best in the
world, too. Matter of fact, we have to buy
some—the sample didn’t go all the way
around.
The occasion is National Cheese Festi
val, sponsored by the 400,000 Dairy Farm
ers of Canada. To celebrate the event, the
Dairy Farmers produced this poetry:
For bounce and spring in every step.
Eat Nature’s food that’s full of pep.
Breakfast, luncheon, dinner, snack,
Cheese contains just what you lack.
Rich and wholesome, sure to please,
Fine Canadian Cheddar Cheese,
Good anytime, but best of all
During October Cheese Festiv-all!
(Ed.’s Note To Publicity Seekers: You
see what a little generosity will do ? For a
sample of cheese, we give the’ Dairy Farm
ers a spread. Now vou car manufacturers
. . .)* * * *
Congratulations are extended to A. Y.
McLean, M.P., for Huron-Perth who was
recently appointed a Canadian delegate to
the United Nations. Unfortunately, and
perhaps because of the large Liberal major
ity in the House, constituents have received
few reports of the work of their member.
This recent appointment, however, indi
cates he has been active in the government
and his ability has been recognized. The
riding offers best wishes for success in his
new field. „
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Your Minister Speaks
"The Old Word, In A
New Way, For Today"
By .REV. J. H. ANDERSON
Kirkton United Church
TIMES"
50 YEARS AGO
While Pearl Wurtz and Rozie
Eilber, of Zurich, were playing
with a straw cutter in Mr. C.
Fritz’s barn Thursday evening,
Pearl got her right hand caught
in the gearing and it was badly
torn.
Arhur, the seven-year-old son
of Mr. William White, Fairfield,
fell out of a hay mow while
playing Monday and fractured
his skull.
Mr. Aquilla Sheere left Friday
night to accept a position on one
of the daily papers of St. Thomas.
Top winners in the horse class
at Kirkton Fair were: James
Doupe, Charles Hackney, Wil
liam Hanson, J. B. I-Iazlewood,
Berry H. Heal, Thomas Skinner.
Owners of prize winning cattle
wore: Jno. Urquhart, J. W. Al
lison and Rich Payner.
Mr. J. Statton, Grand Bend,
has purchased a new steam
thresher.
25 YEARS AGO
What is believed to be a de
liberate attemp.t to wreck Mr.
■Chester Gorvett’s threshing ma
chine in Usborne as discovered
recently while threshing was in
progress on the farm of Horne
Bros.
Six pages of The Times Advo
cate are printed at home this
week.
Mr. John Hockey has pur
chased the barber business from
Mr. M. HodgSrt.
Sometime late Wednesday
night or early Thursday morn
ing, the stores of Jones and
May and Southcott Bros, were
broken into and tills rifled of
small change.
The Exeter Chamber of Com
merce, together with the Wo
man’s Institute held a vei;y suc
cessful banquet Wednesday eve
ning.
the
Go By
15 YEARS AGO
Mr. Bruce Rivers has resigned
his, position with Southcott Bros,
and intends opening a business
in the building north of Levitt's
Theatre.
Fire which broke out late
Saturday night,-totally destroyed
the bank barn of Frank King,
concession c,- Stephen. Loss is
estimated at over $4,000.
Stephen Township, North Mc
Gillivray and the Centralia dis
tricts have been organized to
ship a carload of fruit and vege
tables to Bindloss, Alta., which
is in the worst of the western
drought area.
The congregation of Dash
wood Evangelical Church will
celebrate the fiftieth anniversary
of the Church next Sunday.
A group of young farm wo
men from"the Grand Bend com
munity formed a branch of the
United Farm Women’s Club at
a meeting at the home of Mrs.
Hugh Love recently. President is
Mrs. Lloyd Taylor.
IO YEARS AGO
Some 183 pupils enrolled at
Exeter High School this year.
The first flying fatality at the
Centralia Airport occurred on
Thursday morning when LAC J.
Birky, Valparaiso, Indiana, died
from injuries received in a crash
Wednesday evening.
Howard Love, Eldon Walker
and Robert Southcott left Wed
nesday morning for Galt to com
mence a course in airframe
mechanics with the Galt Aircraft
School.
Mrs. C. L. Wilson, Miss Norma
and Mrs. Robert Dinney attend
ed the wings parade at Brant
ford when Sgt. Pilot W. H. Wil
son received his wings.
Mr. Jack Walper, who recently
disposed of his barber business
at Grand Bend, has purchased
the business of the late Andrew
Flynn at Thedford.
To us who live in the North
ern Hemisphere the North Star
is the steady and constant guid
ing light, from which, as we are
travelling, we take our direc
tions. Though our way be ob
scured by cloud and darkness
its light is there, and sooner or
later it displays itself to view,
never having wavered from its
position, but remaining stead
fast and sure through all the
changes of time and place.
The Bible is like that to a
believing Christian. It is the
eternal truth. It is his constant
■guide in all times of confusion
and uncertainty, when one seems
to have lost his way amid the
byways of life. Other voices are
uttered in a vain attempt to say
something apropos of the times,
to solve the problems, and to
lead man out of the morass of
beliefs and circumstances in
which he finds himself, but they
are all an expression of varying
opinions quite as fallible as his
own. All of them lack the abso
lute assurance of the verities of
the Word of God. Nothing in
contemporary life or thought has
outdated those truths. We have
loved the Bible in the form
which we have inherited, and
we have trusted it deeply. Some
have felt that is is their true
companion of the way. They
would be definitely lost without
it. All of us would, in fact, be
hopelessly lost without the sav
ing knowledge of the way of
life therein revealed.
Scripture Obscured.
Yet, although the truth has
all along been there, in the ver
sion of ^Scripture which has come
down to us, it has not always
been plain. It has, in fact, been
obscured by various means. One
of these is the accumulated in
accuracies of centuries of trans
lation and re-translation, revi6
sion after revision, of the Scrip
tures, not based upon the origi
nal Hebrew and Greek languages,
but upon an early Latin version
known still as the Vulgate
Edition. Each of these, heaped
upon its fore-runners, errors of
grammar and language, which,
far from clarifying the meaning
of the text, rendered it less com
prehensible.
Moreover, the best evidences
for the accuracy of the Scrip
tures have been discovered in
the last century, and especially
in the past quarter of a century.
Manuscripts and fragments of
the original texts, along with
other evidences of the language
and customs of the Hebrews and
Greeks of Old and New Testa
ment times, have been’ very re
cently unearthed in Palestine
and Egypt, which shed an al
together new and fresh light on
conditions and circumstances,
and increase the total under
standing and knowledge which is
necessary for the proper* trans
lation and transcription of Holy
Writ. We dare not discount the
value of these to the devout
scholars of our times as they
bring their enlightened research
to bear upon the problems in
volved in a revision of the Bible.
We must rather trust their wis
dom as they endeavoui* to give
us the .Word of God in a lan
guage common to us, and which
we can truly understand, just as
they have learned that the origi
nal Greek text was not classical
in its nature, but the vernacular
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News From Our
NEIGHBORS
»•won the girls’ senior title with
wooden hand grip, all the rest
of it - being closely woven raw
hide, tapering from about 1%
inches at the butt to a point
with a 12-inch lash on the end.
(Seaforth News)
speech which was used on the
streets and in market-places of
New Testament times. What a
difference even that small reve
lation makes to our knowledge
of Scripture!
We must admit that we do not
like to be behind the times in
any other area of life, either in.
thought, speech or action. Why
should we tolerate the idea of
being old-fashioned in religion?
I do not now refer to out-dated
truth, for I have already af
firmed belief that the truths of
the Scriptures are eternal. But
the mode of expressing those
truths is undoubtedly archaic.
Meaningful Version
The words and idioms of the
seventeenth century King James
Version of the Bible are in many
instances unintelligible to us.
The more unintelligible they
will certainly be to our children.
We wouldn’t send them on the
errand and business of life poor
ly directed in any other instance.
If they are to find their way we
must assure them proper guid
ance — an accurate compass —
that they may discover the true
goal of life. They must be able
to read and understand their
compass, also. Having an instru
ment of the truth they must be
able to use it properly. If the
words of the King James Version
—•the language of the seven
teenth century—convey no real
meaning to them, we must ac
cept the results of devout and
scholarly research, and the pa
tient endeavour of learned lan
guage-experts to provide a ver
sion of the Scriptures which is
meaningful.
When the scholars of King
James’ reign tried to explain the
reason for making a new edition
of the Bible, they said: “Truly,
(Good Christian Reader), we
never thought from the begin
ning, that we should need to
make a new translation, nor yet
to make, of a bad one, a good
one . . . but to make a .good
one better.” It is in no sense tof
condemnation of their wonderful
work in pur now-familiar Bible,
that we suggest its inaccuracies.
Such were bound to occur. But
after 341 years it is positively
imperative to seek and to de
mand the best. From a religious
point of view, nothing but the
best will do, either for us or for
our children.
Here, then, is vindication for
the long years of patient, pains
taking, scholarly research by de
voted men, servants of God, and
benefactors of the human race,
entrusted by an International
Council of Protestant Christian
Churches with the tremendous
responsibility of producing the
Revised Standard Version of the
Bible. For 22 years they labour
ed to fulfil their onerous com
mission. Well and faithfully
have they completed their task,
first in the New Testament, pub
lished in 19 46; and finally, in
the Old Testament, and the en
tire Bible, in 19 51, and the pub
lication of it, by Thomas Nelson
and Sons, on Tuesday, Septem-'
ber 30, 1952.
To all who love God' and
Christ, and the Word of Holy
Writ, I commend this version of
the Bible. It may well be called
"Our latest, yet our oldest,
Bible.” The latest manuscripts
discovered are probably the old
est and nearest to the original
text of the Greek and Hebrew
Scriptures. If th*ere is- anything
new and .glorious in this cen
tury,'this is it! Let us use it for
our moral and spiritual instruc
tion and benefit, and for our
eternal Salvation.
Cxeter <ime5=^idjocate
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Fined $100
Granville Cleland, 29, truck
driver for a Toronto produce
packing firm, was charged with
drunk driving, failing to remain
at the scene of an accident and
wilful damage after an uproar
of exploding hydro connectors,
flashing and sparking primary
lines and a general town black
out early Wednesday morning
last week, appeared before Magi
strate’ Holmes in local court on
Wednesday morning. Cleland wan
convicted of driving with ability
impaired and fined $100 and
costs.
(Bluron Expositor)
Fullarton Election
Fred W. Ratz and Frank
Harris both ..qualified for elec
tion as councillor for Fullarton
township to fill the vacancy
caused by the de'ath of Edward
D. Hocking.
Mr. Katz has had to years’
previous experience on Fullarton
township council. Mr. Harris has
no previous experience although
he has been a candidate on
other occasions.
(Mitchell Advocate)
Wins Fifth Championship
Miss,J Joanhe Castle, a fifth-
year student at Clinton District
Collegiate institute has won a
track and field championship for
each year she has attended the
school.
Joanne, oldest daughter of
Mr, and Mrs. Sam Castle, town,
a perfect score of 25 points. She
has twice won a Huron Second
ary Schools Association champ
ionship. (Clinton News-Record)
Hay Ride
The Parkhill Girl Glides had
an old-fashioned hay ride the
modern way — the hay wagon
was hauled by a tractor loaned
by Mr. Roy Fraser, and driven
by his son, “Dougie.” The ride
was organized by Mrs. Harry
Peterson, leader, and Miss Mar
ion Park, assistant.
Some Potatoes!
While harvesting potatoes re
cently, Mr, Alvin Lewis found
some large ones, large enough
that 10 potatoes weighed 15
pounds or one peck. That these
weren’t all the big ones is
proven by the fact that Mr.
Lewis harvested 25 bags and
three pecks from 150 pounds of
seed planted. (Parkhill Gazette)
Rawhide Whip
Mr, William Murray, of Sea
forth, in his nintieth year,
brought to the News office this
weejc, where it is on display, an
old time rawhidd whip which
dates back to the time of the
oxen. In those days When more
speed was wanted the driver did
not tramp down with his foot
on an accelerator, but cracked a
whip with an expert hand over*
the backs of the slow-moving
oxen, This 10-foot whip has a
LAFF OF THE WEEK
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