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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1953-09-17, Page 2
THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1953 This journal shall always fight for progress, reform and public ■welfare, never be afraid tq at tack wrong* never belong io any political party, never be satisfied with merely printing news* Jottings By THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1953 Fun For AH Let's Attend Creaking Timbers (Sudbury Daily Star) Turn that grain spout in here, Ed. There's still four inches left to the ceiling. And this type of direction from a farm er to a threshing neighbor can spell disaster, because too many farmers harvesting bum per crops look to the ceilings of their gran aries but forget the floors. The thought is prompted by the news report of a granary floor that collapsed ■with a load of 3,000 bushels of grain, and three children inside the building narrowly es caped death or serious injury. If the grain was wheat, the floor was called upon to support a weight of 90 tons, and even if the grain was entirely oats, the lightest of the grains, the weight would be in the neighborhood of 51 tons. Many barns were built 30 or 40 years ago when little thought was given to the stress and strain of heavy grain crops con centrated in one small area of the building. Now that the harvest season is with us, our grain farmers should perhaps look to their floors rather than the ceilings to make sure that the harvest doesn’t wind up with the livestock stabled below. Exeter Fair Let’s all go to Exeter Fair next week! We’ll go to see the best livestock, the handsome horses, the good grain, the fine seed, the tops in vegetables and fruits. We’ll go to see the ladies’ delicious cooking, their tempting preserves, their beautiful handiwork, and practical needle work. Let’s go to see the hobby work, the art, the carvings and woodcraft. Let’s go to see the children's exhibits, their school work, and their farm work. Let’s go to see the commercial exhibits, the new appliances, the modern implements, the new cars and trucks. Let’s go to see the parade, ride the midway attractions, watch the horse races, the soap box derby. Let’s go to see the vaudeville show and laugh at the comedians. Let’s eat hot dogs and drink pop and have lots of fun. We’ll see you at the fair. THE OLD HOME TOWN By STANLEY nnHntiniiiiHtiiHiHiHiiiinHuiiiiiuuHiiiiiuiiiiiiiiMiiiaiHiiiu A Briton's Views Of Canada A Nickel Back (St. Thomas Time.s-Journal) There is no doubt a great deal of psy chology in salesmanship, as there is in many ether things, but we sometimes feel it is carried to ridiculous lengths. We are accustomed to seeing merchan dise advertised at such sums as $19.50, $23.- 75-, $31.95 and so on, but perusing prices of television sets the other dajr we came upon such figures as $299.95, $399.95 and $499.95. Presumably the executives who figure out these prices figure that the first figure has pschological selling value. The figure $4, for instance, may be presumed to create an impression in the mind of a prospective customer that the television set was only four hundred and something instead of $500. Our psychology must work the wrong way because if we gave a clerk a cheque or cash for $400 or $500 and he handed us a nickel back we would feel strongly tempted to throw it in his face. And he must feel somewhat ashamed to hand it out. Good Sports Let’s commend Exeter Legion Mohawks for their successful season in baseball this year. The Mohawks played well during the regular schedule, finishing one point out of first place in the Huron-Perth league. The local intermediates won two league playoff series, against Seaforth and Mitchell, to cop the Huron-Perth “C” title. Mohawks were eliminated in the first round of OBA play downs by Durham, but not before giving the winners a tussle. This is the first year the intermediate ball team was sponsored by the local branch of the Canadian Legion and it is partly to their credit that the season was a success. We hope they will .continue to sponsor and improve the town’s entry in district com petition. To Manager Jim Fairbairn, Coach Ger ry Smith and all the players on the Mo hawks team, we extend congratulations. * * * « While we are paying tributes in the sports line, we’d like to commend also the two Dashwood teams, the Tigers and the Pee Wees, -who are well advanced in OBA playoffs. We wish them success in their hunt for titles. * * * * * In the sports field, too, Exeter lawn bowlers have brought home honors from afield. Three trophies, including the WOBA “B” cup, decorate The Times-Aclvocate win dow, evidence of the success of the bowlers. YOU Could Be Killed DANGER! School children ahead — GO slowly . . , STOP accidents! This is the time of year when every motorist must redouble his efforts to drive safely and make the streets safe for our school children! Let’s all pledge ourselves to make this the SAFEST school year our community has ever known. This means we must give the greatest possible cooperation to those officials who are on duty to protect human life. It means paying close attention to laws and signals . . . driving at a safe speed always . . . and giving your fellow motorist the proper arm signals* When you see the sign “School Zone”, always proceed with extreme cadtion. We all know that youngsters have a way of dashing heedlessly into a street. It is up to you, the driver, to be one guard — to make our streets safe for our school children! Let’s outlaw traffic tragedies from our community! Let’s each ac cept the responsibility for making our streets the SAFEST in the country, not only for school children — but for all pedestrians and motorists! DRIVE WITH CAUTION! Times Established 1873 Amalgamated 1904 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 Mall, Post Office Department, Ottawa Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Member1 of the Ontario-Quebec Division of the CfWNA Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation Paid-in-Advance Circulation as of March, 1953 2,494 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Canada, in advance, $3.00 a year —~ tint ted States, in advance, $4.00 a year Single Copies 7^ Each f. Melvin Southcott * Publisher* * Robert Southcott brick cottage with two and a half acres of land inside the town limits. This land I worked for all I was worth, working nearly every evening until II or 1$ o’clock with the aid of a lantern. After three years I had saved about $2500. That'S how I gain ed a competency in Canada. You see, men, it's not what you earn, it's what you save that counts, You must have the will to win. While my friends were having a good time playing base ball, etc. saving. I my good did. Now any such what wou indeed surprised to see the love ly homes and the wide acres brought by the pioneers from a rough forest and wild country to a high state of cultivation. Arrival At Doirhester At last I arrived at my des tination, about half past six one Friday evening and was met at the station by my brother’s boss, Mr, John N< • • < who immediate ly spotted me and after introduc ing himself, he took me to his home not far away. He gave me a royal reception and fed me on the best. We had a round table talk oh the possibilities of my getting a job at butchering. Fail ing this he offered me a position to manage a 400-acre farm. Just imagine me trying to manage a farm of such dimensions when all I knew about it was by ob servation. Had I acquiesced lie would have taken the ri^k. My host, John, as everybody called him, was a wealthy live stock buyer and land owner. He was cattle- buyer for the Inger soll Packing Company, which is situated about 1'0 miles east of Dorchester, Ont, Dealing in cattle is a great . game if you don’t weaken, Water At Eight Cents A Pound This is how it works. My ‘bro ther had instructions to feed all the grub that about 50 head of cattle could take into them, mix lots of salt with the food, but give them no water;-get up at four a,m., turn the cattle into a yard to get them all together. Then when everything is ready the boss gets into his buggy with my brother and a good dog runs behind. Opening the yard gate out go the cattle for their 10- mile run. They keep going until within half a mile of the packing house where there is a large pond. The thirsty beasts run into it and drink about 1500 pounds of water between them. They are then driven straight onto the company’s scales and weighed. Fifteen hundred pounds of water at eight cents a pound is what John called good business. Trad ing was a passion with him. That’s how some millionaires are made in Canada. John started . a poor man but died, young and rich, a member of the Ontario Legislature. You know, gentle men, that the faculty to under stand human nature is the busi nessman’s greatest asset. My ' roads crude, centre with such great number of frame houses also drew my attention. The tele graph and telephone lines and poles were irregularly placed about the town and'really spoiled what otherwise would have been very''pretty with their wide boule vards, lovely homes and lawns. A Butcher At $15 A Week A life without bumps is mighty lonesome. My first job was at In gersoll in a butcher shop at $15‘ a week where I worked for about three years. I landed in this country with about $600. After getting my wife and. family out and buying furniture I had about $250 left. With this small sum, gentlemen, I bought a small This week I had an interesting conversation with Mr, A. J, Rogers of Windsor who has been summering at Grand Rend* Mr. Rogers is a lay reader of the Anglican Church and in 1920 ad dressed a gathering on his first and later impressions of Canada, a copy of which he retained and' gave to me to read. I thought it was worth passing on and have reproduced it in part as follows: “Leaving Liverpool on April 11, 1911, in the good ship Zea land, I arrived in Boston Bay on the 22nd of the same month. After taking on a pilot we nosed our way through a long channel dotted with numerous islands, some of which I noticed were fortified. After an uneventful voyage we were safely moored at the quay in Boston harbour. Bos ton we remembered was the place where the tea was thrown over board which eventually led to a revolution and ultimate cecession from the British Empire of the New England States, How very Strange one feels, everything dif ferent. What struck me most was the great, ugly-looking cumber some locomotive engines with their great and dirty piston-rods exposed. In England you would never know that there were any such things because they are al- ways covered, the engine being painted and lined just the same as you have your automobiles. The open railway stations with out platforms; no bridges or underground passages to prevent passengers trespassing on the company’s tracks; no pretty hed ges on either side of the lines, The steps used to get into your railway coaches seemed so very i funny, but we soon accustomed ourselves to the necessities of ^ur new environment.w We took refreshments at a hotel, which consisted of three boiled eggs European plan and three boiled eggs American plan, bread and butter and tea, that sustained us until our train pull ed. out for Buffalo, which place we arrived safely after the long est railway journey I have ever cation along with architect War-, had. We were held up for some ren of Hamilton and after some reason or other on the suspen- revisions will be submitted to De-1 sion bridge where I got my first partment of Education* Toronto, [ glimpse of those wonderful quix- for approval. Mr. K. J. Lampman has an nounced a new schedule of ra’tes for hydro which will effect a saving of about $1,000 a year to consumers. Miss Jeanette Taman has ac cepted a of U. of "TIMES" Go By III 50 YEARS AGO The Harvey Bros, grist mill is again operating day and night aflei- being closed for a few weeks to install new machinery and put up a new smoke stack. They enjoy the reputation of having; the best flour that can be had. Last year they shipped car loads of flour to Montreal and other eastern points to the old country. Mr. Frank Sheere the employ of W. merchant tailor, as an apprentice. During the evenings of the past week Messrs. Handford and El liott, Mr. John Farmer, who have very fine saddle horses, and Mr. Durkin with Dr. Anderson’s sad dle pony were to be seen galloping up and down our streets enjoy ing the exhilarating exercise of horseback riding. We think they would be a good .drawing card at the fair. —*” Mr. and Mrs. E. J, Spackman and Miss Stella are leaving for Baltimore, where Mr. Spackman will ’ attend Sovereign Grand Lodge of only four as has W. well as entered Tamafi, Sovereign the I.O.O.F. as one of delegates from Canada. YEARS AGO to on Us- 25 An attempt was made wreck a threshing machine the farm of Hugh Berry in borne. A number of cultivator feet were found wrapped in bags and embedded in the sheaves. Fortunately the cutting box was not in operation or serious dam age would have resulted. Prev ious attempts had been made to wreck the threshing machine of Horne Bros,, Zion, who have since offered a $100i0 reward for the arrest of the guilty party. Mr. George Lawson,' who for several years had had charge of the Bell Telephone office under Mr. James Lawson, has been ap pointed manager. Mr.' Thomas McMillan, M.P., of Seaforth, was in town looking over the site for a new post office which he feels is needed in Exeter. Miss Elsie 'Louise Knight and Edward E. Davies were married at Trivitt Memorial Church by the Rev. Walter Jones. Miss Leta Ruth Guenther was married to Dr. R. Hobbs Taylor of Dashwood at St. Paul’s Cathe dral, London, by the Rev. G. O. Lightbourn. 15 YEARS AGO Mr, F. L. Grieve has disposed of his drug store and residence at Grand Bend and with his fam ily will leave for Santa Monica, Calif., where they will make their home. Rev, Arthur Page returned to his pulpit in James St, Church after an absence of seven weeks during which he visited his mother in England and took in the Glasgow Exhibition. Tenders for the new school building have been received and considered by the Board of Edu- position in the office W.O. Medical School. YEARS AGOIO | Fit. Sgt. John Gallant, student ' pilot from RCAF Station, Cen tralia, was instantly killed, in the collision of two planes over the farm of Lawrence Hill, Stephen Township. The pilot of the sec ond plane was able to fly it back to Centralia. Rev. Robert A. G. Passmore, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Pass- more, Hensail, was ordained into th© Huron Presbytery at ordina tion ceremonies in First St. An drew’s Church, London.' The Rev. Duncan McTavish preached the sermon. Two Centralia men, Murphy E. Dixon and his brother-in-law, John L. Hotson, were awarded British Empire medals for risk ing their lives to rescue LAC John plane their burns which 1942. Four sons of Mr. William _ _ Township are now serving with the RCAF. A slight frost visited the area early Sunday morning, 'a remind er that fall and frosts are just around the corner. otic Falls. ' Niagara I had read and re read about for a long time, until I had a vision of what they would be like—their volume, the noise, the mists, the rush of mighty waters, truly a panorama of beautiful scenery and power. It holds you spellbound and leaves a lasting and vivid impression in your mind of the natural ele ments that God has seen fit to bless this great Canada. Here is a passage which aptly describes the scenic grandeur of that mighty cataract, Niagara yes: “Niagara is majesty in the form of liquid motion, where as the outlet of vast inland seas a mighty river leaps into wild de lirium into a gorge 200 feet be low', and boils and seeths tumult uous until its heart is set at rest and its fever is cooled by the em brace of Lake Ontario.” Passing into Canada, the land of my adoption, I began to rea lize as we sped along, the im mensity of the country. I was impressions of the country were that they were very being all heaped up in the with sand and stone and slanting sides. The ~ I was working and was told that it was luck getting on as I I don’t believe there is thing as luck. You get go after the word luck is spelled with four letters —‘'work”. If yoar job isn’t more than wheeling a wheelbarrow, wheel it so the boss will think there is a motor under it. Nearly all the poverty is caused by wreckless spending and waste. In this North American continent there is no room for. sleeping partners. It’s essentially a young man’s country with untold wealth if you will only work and save. We should feel proud when we think of the hardships that the pioneers had in blazing a trail through this enormous country, for the .stout brave hearts that had confidence and such courage. You know that first of all comes the individuals, the groups, then the masses, then nations are raised. I believe that Canada, our heritage, is destined to become the principal factor in our com ponent Empire, leading the whole world in modern civilization. She is great because of the blood of her people. She is foremost in her aims for peace, Great Resources Canada is great because of the character and the high average of her individual units. Ontario is the premier province of Can ada I had been reading about for months prior to my coming. I found that she was all and more than I had ever dreamed of — wonderful country, with great re sources, forest, mines, agricul ture, lakes and rivers teeming with fish, railways, ships and water-power. I had indeed struck a land rich beyond the dreams of avarice, a land of opportunity. Canada, emerging from youth in to manhood, the parental stage having passed, takes her place with the great nations of the world—.debating world policies, deliberating on the most inonen- tous question that has ever come before mankind, disarmament, the forerunner of universal peace. She is also going after world trade. She is stretching out limbs like the tentacles of octopus encircling te globe, was mighty in. war, in peace industry' and yet hardly her an She and __ ____„ the fringe of her' enormous possibili ties have been touched. She is going to be used to cement to gether the bonds of everlasting friendship and peace between the great Anglo-Saxon race. If the Israelites were the chosen people in ancient times we have much, reason to believe we chosen people of God in this twentieth century. We have a new patriotism, richer, nobler and more exalted than the old. are the Birky from his blazing which had. crashed near home. The .pilot died of suffered in the. accident occurred September 30, and Mrs. Schroeder of Stephen News From Our NEIGHBORS are map Eric District Horses Doing Well , Parkhill district horses still putting this area on the in Ontario and in the U.S.A. McIlroy, John R. Reid and Dune Campbell are competing success fully. At Dresden, on Labor Day, Orn Loomis’ Dolores Gratton won both heats in the 2:24 class in the good time Of 2:13. Orn's other entry. Silver Lady, was first and second in the Novice Class, also posting a 2:13 mark. Omar Cunningham’s ’Miss Cor poral Grattan took both heats of , the Free-For-All. (Parkhill Gazette) Fire Destroys Barn Shortly after six o’clock Fri day morning, of last week, E. J. Trewartha, of Holmesville, .looked outside to see his barn in flames. Seconds before he had heard an exceptionally loud crack of thun der, and had suspected that something nearby had been struck. A neighbor, Mrs. phoned the Clinton ment for assistance, and also the rural HEPC in Clinton, workers went out cut off the power serivce, further damage wouldn’t be done by a hydro short circuit. How ever, the fire department did not receive the word of a fire an hour later. The firemen responded, but by the time they arrived at the scene there Bill Nornian, Fire Depatt- Immediately, office of the The Hydro at once and so until th eh Was Soil Use And Conservation Tour Impresses Junior Farmer Group little they could do. In fact, as Mr. Trewartha said, there was nothing the fire de partment could have done at the start of the fire either, since the lightning had apparently struck in the upper part of the barn and there about 66 tons of hay 40 tons of straw and 750 bushels of wheat were burned. (Clinton News-Record) Goats Win Prizes . David and Hugh Johnston, Who have those fine white goats on the R,R. 2 Mitchell farm of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Staf ford Johnston, to which reference was made in last week’s issue, came home from the Canadian National Exhibition with two of the three championships awarded in the dairy goat show—for their Saanen breed in which they are specializing and for Grade Doe. The 11 animals shown each merited prizes totalling up to three first and three seconds, two thirds, two fourths and one fifth. Which should please the most exacting exhibitors. (Mitchell Advocate) School Bells Ring Out. The old school bell has its nice tone again by calling alt be ginners, as well as former Stu dents to their daily studies at school,. Our young students at tending high school at Exetef for the first time were nicely dressed with their smiles Of the person alities stepping a little higher along the educational lines. We Fresh from a tour of various Ontario farms and the Ontario Agricultural College, which em braced not only the research work being carried out at the College but practical demonstra tions of what the individual far mer is doing in land use and soil conservation, Junior Farmer rep resentatives from every county of the province returned to their homes over the weekend full of enthusiasm and fresh conception of Ontario Agriculture, To them the Ontario Agricul tural College took on a new aspect. There, for the first time for many of them, they saw wliat the College was doing in a prac tical way to assist the farmer in the further development of On tario’s agricultural resources. Any thought that might have existed in the minds of some of them that the College was somewhat “removed” from the daily prac tical work on the farm was dis pelled. No longer was there the slightest impression that the in stitution was purely academic. They found that the problems of wish them' all the very best of Success as it will seem a little harder at times, but if all is well, keep up your courage and do your best with good spirits and you will get along as years go by, then all will be the happier for it, with the best of citizen ship. (Zurich Herald) Hitchhiking Pigeon When a stock truck arrived in Seaforth from Malton on Wed nesday a bluish grey pigeon hop ped out of the tack when it was opened. The driver said he had never seen the bird before and. wondered If it had climbed aboard at Listowel where he stop ped for lunch. It remained close to the truck while cattle were being loaded at Genmar Farms, No one here seemed to want the visiting pigeon not did they Want to wring his neck, someone put it on the driver's seat. “No, sir,” the driver said, and tossed the pigeon into the back of the truck, “if he wants a ride back, he rides With tile stock.” And that is What the feathered hitchhiker did. (Seaforth News) the agriculturalist were met on the level of the the average On tario farm.- Toured Farms Organized by the Agricultural Representatives Branch Of the Ontario Department of Agricul ture in co-operation* with the various departments of the Col lege, the tour was designed to acquaint the Junior Farmer dele gates with the place of soils, crops and livestock as the basis of improved land use. During their three - day visit, during which time they were quartered at the college, the Junior Far mers heard informal lectures on related subjects by specialists of the College; visited several farms each of which was outstanding for some particular agricultural activity, and, above all, asked many questions. It was the number of intelli gent questions that pleased T. R. Hilliard, Associate Director of the' Agricultural Representatives Branch who organized and led the tour, and the Professors of the . College. Never, said College officials, had such interest and enthusiasm been evinced, From the beginning of the tour until its conclusion, officials and lecturers of the College were bombarded with questions both in the field and in the lecture room. The Junior Farmers were there to learn and they made the most of the all too brief time at their disposal. Enthusiastic “They were one of the most enthusiastic groups we have had on the campus. It Was refreshing to us and I am sure that We were able to contribute Something,” said Professor N. R. Richards, It was Professor Richards of the Soils Department of the Col lege that arranged and super vised the tour of the farms in the district to show the place of soil fertiJity,6r0si0n control, and drainage improvement in the soils program, During the course of the day spent viewing the work being conducted at the College the delegates visited the Arkell farm of the College where they saW the results being obtained under the government’s bull testing program. Here tests are being carried out on the progeny of beef her sires with the view of determining the worth of the sire as a herd leader. They were told that the policy would result in the improvement of beef herds just as the R.O.P. program had raised the standard of dairy herds in the province. They also visited the College's new piggery which, they were told, would make possible the improvement of breeding stock throughout the province. Study Plots Under the guidance of Prof. Richards the delegates had an opportunity of studying various test plots on the College farms. The fact that the soil was a re newable asset under a proper fertility program being stressed. Practical work being conducted by individual 'farmers was shown the delegates when they visited the farms of Harry Small field, Guelph, the Ward Sliantz farm, Elmira, the Mervin Shantz farm, Alma, the Alfred Leather barrow farm, Elora, the Heber Down farm at Brooklin, the Earl Parrott farm, Ashburn, and the Eugene Lemon farm at Stoiiff- ville. At all farms the Junior Far mers say the latest developments in grass farming, erosion control, trash tillage, contour plowing and strip-cropping. During an evening session the delegates took part in a panel discussion With Prof. M, W. tuples, Animal Husbandry De partment of the College, Dr, D. N, Huntley, Field Husbandry De partment, Gordon. Elyets, Agricul tural Engineering Department, and Prof. Richards of the Soils Department, at which demonstra tions of the day were discussed. One of the highlights of the visit was the address of Dr. W. E. Tossell, Chairman of the Hay Research Committee, cussed the work and findings of that group. Success of 'the tour will likely result in the event being held each year. who dis-