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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1953-07-23, Page 2Page 2 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNINC, JULY 23, 1?53 This jpurpal 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. THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 23, 1953 Think It's A Dull Election? Do Something To Liven It Up!Maclean's Magazine Jottings By J.M.S. Newspaper Life Is Hectic One Unwarranted Bringing up the contentious LCA-CTA controversy again, the Goderich Signal-Star infers that Grand Bend jumped from the frying-pan into the fire when it voted itself into Lambton County and the Liquor Con trol Act. This conclusion was based upon the story in this newspaper which said that over #0 persons were convicted on liquor charges in two weeks. The Signal-Star remarks are unwar ranted. The Goderich editor should remem ber that in Huron County and under the Canada Temperance Act these convictions are not possible. When part of Grand Bend was in Hu ron, the gay rowdies could swashbuckle the public streets with the flasks on their hips. Now, under LCA, the police can prevent this nonsense. Happy Experience We’ve just experienced one of those in cidents which restores a person’s faith in human nature. Over the weekend, we lost our wallet con taining some valuable papers and, in our budget at least, a considerable sum of money, at Grand Bend. A frantic search failed to reveal it. We resigned ourselves to mental and monetary torture. You can probably guess what happened, but we’ll tell you anyway. A Mrs. McLean, a sister of Newt Hay- ter, Parkhill, saw the wallet on the high way when her family was driving to a pic nic at Bayfield. Mr. McLean stopped the car and picked up the wallet. At the picnic Mrs. McLean talked to some people who knew us and when she came home, called us on the telephone. We rejoiced increduously and stumbled and stammered our thanks. By the way, Mrs. McLean has lost two wallets and neither one was returned. Thanks again, Mrs. McLean. Everybody agrees it’s a dull election. In fact, all of us’are complaining about it. Few people, apparently the faithful stalwarts, attend the big poltical rallies. (They’re too dull and sedate anyway.) No body’s talking about the issues, the cam paigners, the candidates or the platforms, The only hot political arguments being staged are those of the principals of the parties. No one else seems to care. Well, if you’re complaining about the dull battle, why not liven it up? Get hepped up about your party’s pro gram and tackle Charlie across the street (you know he likes the other party) and get into a big argument with him. Get mad and yell if you like (it may attract the neighs bors). If your annual family picnic hasn't been held yet, you have an excellent opportunity to have some real election fun. Start Grand pa and Uncle Jim and Cousin Willie talking about their colors and it won’t be a minute before Aunt Het and Brother Tom and Great-Uncle Jack will get red in the face. You’ll have more fun than a picnic! When the other party has a rally, dis guise yourself as Dangerous Dan and heckle the bigwig on the platform. Nothing could be finer for fun. If you’ve got a say with the local pow ers of your party, for fun’s sake tell them to get a band or a bunch of kazoo-players to make some music at the rallies. Surely we can have a bit of merriment at the meeting. Even church gatherings have a little music and a sing-song, you know. Tell the party organizers you want to hear some good political jokes and see a few pretty girls on the platform, too. A little spice never hurt anybody. And when the sourpuss of your gang sneers at the suggestion of politics, give'him the old razzberry. He’s one of the many guys who are spoiling all the fun and mak ing the election dull. If you listen to these fellows long enough, you’ll begin to think politics is as bad as death and taxes. ' Let’s blow our horn (and our "tops”, z if we have to) ; let's talk it up, let’s liven it up—let’s have some fun. It isn’t the election that’s dull—it’s the electorate. As the "TIMES" Go By tiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiltiii i limn il iiiiii mill 11 mi in lima 11 YOU Could Be Killed That Crazy Fool! You’ve seen him pass you on the road . . 1 weaving in and out of traffic , . . whipping through stop streets . . . whizzing through your town or racing through school zones * . . driving without lights, brakes or brains. “That crazy fool,” you say, “anybody that drives like that ought to have his license taken away.” Of course, you’re right. And he’s wrong. ALL wrong. But remem ber, if ypu take one little chance for every thousand times you drive, you, too, are “that crazy fool”. And, friends, the hospitals are full of ’em! ^imihiiiiiiiiiiiinmiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiliiiiiitiiilihliiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilniiliiiiiiiiiliiiUiiiiiiiimiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiii^ Wije Exeter ®ime£h$fobocate lime* Established 1873 1 Amalgamated 1924 Advocate Established 1881 Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario Aft 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 NetvspapeS Association Member of the Ontario-Quebec Division of the OWNA Member Of the Audit Bureau of Circulation Paid-in-Advance Circulation as of March, 1953 2,494 SUBSCRIPTION RATES • *=» United States, in advance, $4.00 a'year Single Copies 70 Each * Publishers <MIM||A lUDIT RuREXtl “ ... uwcuufa Canada, la advance, $3.00 a year X Mfelvih Southcott Robert Sou thcott 50 YEARS AGO At a meeting of the school board the resignation of Miss May Gill was regretfully accepted and motion, made to tender a suitable testimonial to her, The application of Mr. Fleming, of Goderich, was accepted at a salary of $750 for the first year. At the first special meeting of the Women's Institute, Miss Ida Hunter, honor graduate of the Domestic Science School, Hamil ton, gave a demonstration on the selection and preparation of food, - Mr. and Mrs. Searls, mission aries to China, and their little daughter, have arrived in town to visit Mr. Searl’s sister, Mrs. Fred Keys, Exeter North. The trying experiences caused by the Boxer trouble have affected Mrs. Searl’s health and they were forced to leave China. Mr. Wesley Vale, a graduate in the art of printing from the Times office, who has held po sitions in Montreal and Toronto, has now become foreman of the job department of the St. Cathe rine’s Journal at a very good salary. 25 YEARS AGO The High School by-law for the erection of a new school, was defeated by a majority of 134 votes. The by-law called for the issue of $20,000 debentures. Russell Caldwell, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Caldwell, Exeter North, suffered head and face wounds when he was thrown from a harnessed horse he was riding. His foot caught in the harness and the horse's hind feet struck him in the head several times. ‘ Major Thomas G. Lamphier, one of the outstanding figures in army aviation in the United States and who was connected with. Mt. Clemens field, has re signed his position to become vice - president of the newly- formed Transcontinental Air Transport of which Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is chairman of the board. Major Lamphier is a Bid- dulph old boy and was speaker at a recent reunion at St. Patrick’s Church. Eighty tons of canned goods from the Exeter canning factory have been taken to the boats at Goderich by Bagshaw’s trucks. Seventy-five hundred cases are yet to be delivered. False Alarm 'Sound and fury’ in the wee hours of Monday morning signi fied loss of sleep for Seaforth ies, annoyance for inembers of the fire brigade and an east end citizen, and the possibility of charges against two Seaforth people. Following a phone call from a booth near a downtown gar age about 3 a.m. Monday, fire men were directed to the East Goderich Street farm Of Harold Jaskson. With no fire there, Mr. Jackson, by this time thought the fire might be at property of his in Egmondville. Back through town the fire truck raced, fol lowed .by a trail of curious motorists. No fire iij Egmond-1 ville! (Huron Expositor) No Chance The post office .caretaker was taking no chances on tar being tracked into the building the latter part of the week for he had laid papers about to escape tell-tale marks from freshly coated roads in town, over which many post office patrons had crossed. (Mitchell Advocate) New Company The millihg plant of the for mer Excellence flour mills lo cated in Seaforth has been pur chased from the creditors by the Topnotch Feeds Limited, whose head office is at Stratford, The mill will be placed in operation in the hear future mill ing flour, and the feed mill will go into production at a later date. The industry Will provide employment for a number of local residents’. The Topnotch Feeds Limited is 15 YEARS AGO In a contest sponsored by the merchants to select "Miss Exe ter” to represent the town at the London Old Boy’s pageant, Miss Jean Sheer e was the winner. Miss Hazel Snell was runner-up in a close contest. Ray Creech has been trans ferred from the Exeter to the Forest branch of the Canadian Gunners. Rev. A. Page and William Frayne are leaving soon for a trip to England. Mr. Page will visit his mother in Yorkshire, and Mr. Frayne will visit in Ire land. Both will take in the Glasgow Exhibition. Ten Exeter boys are attending Boy's Camp near Gederich. Ro bert Soutlicott and Murray Moore are acting as camp leaders. C. V. Pickard, representing the Board of Education, and H. O. Southcott representing the coun cil, waited on the Ontario Muni cipal Board in Toronto to ask tor an early acceptance of the by-law permitting the municipal ity to raise $15,000 by debent ure for the erection of a manual training and home economics building. IO YEARS AGO A deputation from Huron County Council comprising Thos. Wilson, c h a i.r man of Huron County Agricultural Committee, Harry Sturdy, vice-president of Huron County F. of A. and W. L. Whyte of Huron County War committee conferred with Hon. P. M. Dewan, Ontario Minister of Agriculture, requesting that he refuse to accept the resignation of James C. Shearer as agricul tural representative, which Mr. Shearer tendered to the govern ment. A resolution of loyalty and appreciation of Mr. Shearer's ability was presented to Mr. De wan. Hon. Duncan McArthur, On tario Minister of Education, died suddenly from a heart attack at his summer home, north of Grand Bend. • Donald. Kirk, 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kirk, was seriously injured when he step ped out from behind a load of hay into the path of a car driven by Norman Hockey. He was re moved to hospital in London. Dr. R. Hobbs Taylor, Dashwood physician, was selected standard bearer of the progressive Con servatives at a convention in Hensail. News From Our NEIGHBORS iMa'mHiimiMiiiHiHHitimiimihHihHiuntiTihHttitiiiithHirhitHmH’iijiitmi utHmiiiOutliiiiuttummtiHHHlittiituiituiiuiiuitHiiciitKitiihiKHiitituiii a strong firm with a fine record, and has branches at Dundas, Kingston and Milverton. Local and district farmers will .be in terested to know the company will be operating in Seaforth. The mill here was fitted out about 10 years ago to make flour for export. A few years later a complete feed mill was built. (Seaforth News) Donates $1000 Congregation of Gospel Hall at Grand Bend which numbers 60 has contributed $1,000 to the London Tornado Fund. The money was obtained on a free-will contribution^ and was given to the London fund in order that all districts which suffered from the tornado and from heavy winds during the latter part of May would Share •equally. (Parkhill Gazette) Flying1 Saucers? The Flying Saucers (products of this earth or another planet) are with tis again! Mr. and Mrs, Gordon Cuninghame, of Clinton, were enjoying a quiet picnic lunch on Heard’s sideroad, south of the village on July 3, when Mrs. Cuninghame saw a very bright light in the sky Which she at first took to be the sun’s rays reflected from the tip of the wing of an airopla.no, But then she noticed that it was disc- llke in shape and she could neither see nor heat ah airo- plane, although its altitude did not seem high. Site drew her husband’s atten tion to it but it vanished quickly and he rather ridiculed the idea that she had seen a flying saucer. But in 10 minutes he I have been making daily trips to and from Graph Bend during the past week over the new black top road now in pro cess Qf building. Modern road building,, thanks to asphalt, a by product from the oil refineries at Sarnia, and the extensive mechanical equipment that -has been built to. handle big under takings, is a marvel of ingenuity. Traffic, as usual, is in order With little or no delay as the work progresses. But it is not of modern road building that I am thinking but of the days of yesteryear when Mr, Harry Hoffman used to drive the mail and passenger bus from Exeter to Grand Bend and Mrs. Hoffman was our Dashwood cor respondent for as long as I can remember. Every Wednesday morning, week in and week out, we re ceived without fail, Mrs, Hoff man’s budget of news. In the early days when travel was by train and Mr. Hoffman conveyed the passengers by bus to and from Dashwood it was fairly easy for Mrs. Hoffman to obtain in formation of visitors coming and going. With the coming of motor traffic the securing of informa tion has become, more difficult and besides travelling and visit ing is not the event that at one time it used to be. Life-Blood Of The Weekly The weekly budgets from the neighboring municipalities are the life-blood of the weekly newspaper. They are taken more or less for granted both by our selves and by our readers. We re ceive them as a matter of course and do not always appreciate the time and effort that is expended each week not only in gathering the information but ill sitting down and writing it out and then seeing that it is mailed. All this is done without any remunera tion to speak of. People at times laugh and joke about the trivial items that appear in the weekly news papers, npt to say anything of the mistakes. Today I was read ing Jack Parks’ sports column in the London Free Press where he states that next Wednesday at the St. Marys lawn bowling tournament they are giving away green watches for prizes. Of course lie meant Gruen. I hope to attend the tournament and will be quite pleased to bring home one of those green watches. Some time ago I was listening to a lady from Vancouver tell ing about the things she looked for most in the paper from home and she said that one of the first things that interested her was the kind, of weather they were having. Names of persons no matter how trivial the event brings back happy memories. One of the problems that is perennial and which we never seem able to get away from, is the last minute rush of news and advertising, The Times-Advocate is print ed four pages at a time ■— four pages Tuesday afternoon, four Wednesday morning and four starting at 7:30 Thursday morn ing. As much of the available news and advertising as possible is packed into the first two runs and the problem remains, "will there be enough or too much news and advertising for the last and most important part of the paper. Last Wednesday Don re marked that he didn’t knew what he was going to do to get enough news for the front page. Many a time I have said the same thing, so if you see a picture or a story that seems out of place, just figure that we were a little Short of news for that page. But the real worry comes when we are overcrowded and that happens more often than being short of news. With only a limited amount of space and an unlimited amount of copy and advertising the perplexing prob lem is what to print and what to leave out and then we have to think of our correspondents. After they have gone to all the trouble of furnishing us with their budget what incentive is there for them to gather the news if it is not printed in the paper? So it is not all sunshine. The same is true of gathering news. I can let you into a little secret how that I have been pro moted to jack of all jobs. When I first started gathering news and someone mentioned an item, if I already had it I would tell them so. "Well, there’s no use telling you any news, you al ready know it” was the frequent remark and the party lost in terest. J soon learned to let the person think they were the first and only one to tell me and the psychological effect was entirely different, • Most news gathered that way is only a lead and has to be verified. Concentration both in writing and reading proofs is essential but not always possible. The mind has a tendency to go wool gathering and when writing or reading, slips appear that often become most embarassing. Four National Writers Tell How They’ll Vote Four notable Canadian writers publicly went on record recently in support of the parties they in tend to vote for in the federal election..A special election forum in the current issue of Maclean’s Magazine presents novelist Hugh MacLennan in favor of the Libe rals; freelancer Scott Young who plans to vote Conservative; Lis ter Sinclair, playwright and critic, who supports the CCF; and Social Crediter Bob Bow man, manager of radio station CFBC in Saint John, N.B. Al though none of the four is of- pointed one out to her. It seem ed to be about 600 feet to the southwest of the one Mrs. Cun- inghame had spotted. They both watched it for a minute before it, too, vanished into thin air. Mrs. Cuninghame describes the mys terious object as being about the size of a teaplate, ball-like, with, perhaps, a flat top, and exceedingly bright silver in color. (Clinton News-Record) New Fire Truck The people of Granton village and Usborne Township are to have the best of fire protection with the recent purchase of a modern pumper truck. Purchased at a cost of $11,00'0 the modern fire fighter is being paid for partly by municipal grant and partly by private subscription. Four thousand dollars was raised by canvassing the farmers in the Granton area. A Fire Equipment Committee consists of three village trustees and three township residents. The are Bill Legge, Bill Munro and Gordon Dann (village) and Harold Westman, Leverne Mor ley and Jack Byran (rural). Farmers who have subscribed to the cost of the truck are promised free use of it while those who do not take part in this cooperative effort will be charge a flat fee in case of fire. The truck at present has a 350 gallon tank and over 400 feet of hose is housed on Main Street, Granton, next to the Munro Hardware. A number of drivers are being trained for handling the truck. (St. Marys Journal-Argus) What, No Eskimos Here! A Chicago couple visiting the Huron County Museum this week were disappointedly surprised to learn that Goderich was so civil ized and hot "away up in Can ada” as they had expected to find. They had felt that Eskimos, Indians and big bush country would not be very far away from Goderich. Obviously, the summer visitors from the "Windy City” were not aware that Goderich was found ed in 1827, even before Chicago was founded, They inquired about which road to take to get to "the big bush country” and when they were told the Northern Ontario bush country was about RO 00 miles north they stated they thought it was near Goderich. Next, they wanted to see the Indians in their war paint but were told Indians lived on re servations and dressed just the same as anybody else today mak ing it difficult to distinguish them except for their facial fea tures and darker complexions. With these two "hopes” .ex ploded, they next asked if the Eskimos were nearby and were told that even after reaching tlie end of the railway line in far Northern Canada they would have -to travel beyond that to find settlements of Eskimos, Yes, Goderich will have to im port Eskimos, Indians in full war dress and "big bush country” to cater to some of our visitors, (Goderich Signal-Stat) ficially connected with any political party, each has made a frank appraisal of the current Canadian situation and mapped out his own ballot for August 10. "I’m going to vote for the CCF because I prefer sensible combination to senseless colli sion,” Lister Sinclair asserts. "The Liberals are half-socialist, half-hearted; the Conservatives are eighty-l’ive percent Liberal, and fifteen percent commission; and the only real reactionary conservatives left are the Social Credit who remaih, as ever, post Douglas and pre-Darwin,” he charges. "I believe in human pro gress, but I don’t think we can get it by glorifying selfishness as a public policy. In politics you go faster and further by co operation than by competition.” Scott Young doubts CCF abil ity to organize a strong and moderate government on a na tional scale. “The Conservatives are, the only opposition party with the power and tradition to capitalize fully on the undoubted anti-Liberal sentiment there is in the country now,” he declares. He claims the Liberals, too long in office, have become careless with our money and with their own manners and morals. "If ..the Liberals .lose this election it will be at least partly because of proved carelessness (from which some voters will suspect occa sional dishonesty) in such in ternal affairs as letting our con tracts and spending our funds,” Young says. - The Liberals have been in power too long, Hugh MacLennan admits and they’re still the only group with enough support to govern the country: "The Con servative party has made no real progress in the task of re organizing itself on truly federal lines.” MacLennan argues that George Drew is merely the titular head of an uneasy coalition of splinter groups demoralized by Mackenzie King’s tactics and their own ineptitude. Bob Bowman bases his support of the Social Credit platform on their promise of monetary re form. According to Bowman, "The> monetary policy of the Liberals and Conservatives for modern business and industry has not changed from the policy of banking and finance practices of stagecoach days. Many of us are working one day in three to pay taxes, the interest on govern ment debt,” Bowman rejects socialism on the grounds of its failure in Britain, Australia and New Zealand. "Social Credit is the answer to inflation and defla tion,” he concludes, "Monetary reform methods are needed to day if w6 are to preserve the free-enterprise system from the enslavement of government con trol and red tape.” Parkhill Sees Mock Air Raid (Parkhill Gazette) Juliet Jiggs’ Papa! Cherries Are Ripe. If you were passing The Gaz ette office and heard someone calling that from the roof over a phone or if you had a telephone call interrupted with jargon, something like that last week end, you ' were hearing what would happen in these parts if an air raid occurred. London district’ aeroplane spot ting centres are being organized and the station at Parkhill was located on the Gazette Building roof. By calling the proper code names to the local telephone of fice an immediate line was given to the central office in London, where members of the organiza tion charted the courses of planes and in the case of war could direct operations against invaders. Stations at Grand Bend, Green way, Lieury, Arkona, Kerrwood, Alvins ton and other places, will have the same facilities and thus an accurate check can be^kept on all planes. This defence measure is very necessary as radar is not effective against low-flying planes. Mr. Lorne Mathers, Parkhill, is District Supervisor of the Ground Observers Corps and Mr. J. C. Dawson is the local director. These two men were responsible for the organizing of the local group which .carried out the round the clock watch last Fri day, Saturday and Sunday. Sixteen men signed up for this task but the two directors wish to make it very clear that many more are needed if„ the work is to be effective. ~ 1 A very noteworthy phase of this scheme was the excellent service rendered by both the local and London offices of the Bell Telephone. By their effic iency it was just a matter of seconds from the time a plane was spotted until’it was recorded on the chart in the London Defence Office. Perhaps the one thing that, marred this initial aeroplane spotting scheme was the small number of planes that took part and which did not give observers a chance to familiarize them selves with various types of planes. A hill-billy found -a mirror which a tourist had lost. "Well, if it ain’t my ol' dad,” he said, as he looked in the mirror. "I never knowed he had his pitcher tuk.” He took the mirror home and stole in the attic to hide it. But his actions did not escape his suspicious Wife. That night while lie slept she slipped up to the at-* tic and found the mirror. “Hum- pum,” she said, looking Into it, "so that the old hag he's been chasing,” “thought I’d better warrl you about tho top drawer..» sticks a little t » oh.” <