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THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 9, 1950
Getting Out Of Them
Many of our wisest citizens are seeing'
the disappearance of those subsidies and
allowances that have for a few years back
been made to special classes of citizens. It
is seen that these special sums were quite
in order when the war was on. It is even
more clearly seen that they are a sore
thumb in peace times. For some time gov
ernments have been doing the bargaining
for some commodities. The result has been
that the country has been deprived of the
matured thought and valuable experience
of men who know the ins and outs of the
enterprises under consideration. Buying and
selling is a delicate and difficult business,
as some folks have found out. Many a dis
appointed dealer has found out when his
money has flown, he can scarcely tell
where. Human nature has many a quip and
turn, the rash .soul discovers when he is
left holding an empty sack. Further, gov
ernments inevitably come under the heavy
thumb of .special interests that have an un
canny skill in leading cabinet ministers and
cabinets into by-ways they little dreamed
of. Further. Subsidies and all their works
granted for emergencies, soon come to be
looked upon as the beneficiary’s right for
all time. Reversing Shakespeare’s fine senti
ment, those special benefits have a way of
injuring him who gives and him who takes,
he giver ties an ever-lengthening chain to
his ankle, while the state is deprived of
the experience and enterprise of her work
ers. Meanwhile, the benefitted citizen is
robbed of the blessed experience of self
help and the glorious privilege of being in
dependent.
Those Welfare Services
Prominent in the platforms of all of
the major parties in Britain as they face
the coming election is welfare work to be
carried on by the government. A leading
feature of this ]>articular work is medical
care and the hospitalization of the people.
This phase of welfare work is a real head
ache. Observers of such activity as it is
practiced on this continent does not give
encouragement for any effort to be made
for its extension. For one thing, free medi
cal care almost invariably leads people to
magnify minor aches and pains that are
three parts imagination. Some people who
have little to do spend their energies in
cultivating the belief that they are sick.
These are the folk who clutter up doctors’
offices, keeping away those who are in
need of medical care. They crowd hospitals
at the slightest appearance of dandruff ami .
spend man}’ hours dibbling medicine into
their systems. Doctors don’t like the sys- |
tern, as it deprives them of the opportunity I
of standing on their own feet and of prov- |
ing the stuff that is in them in the fair |
field of actual practice. All in all. it is bet- 1
ter for folk to find their own way. |
That Hydrogen Bomb j
President Truman has given the go- |
ahead signal for the manufacture of the
most destructive weapon ever devised by
man. Gradually the world will wake up to
the significance of his so doing. The Presi
dent had no choice in the situation. His
country and civilization were threatened
with destruction. United States scientists
had discovered a way to make a weapon
more destructive than that in possession of
her enemies. With this weapon in her pos
session the executive of the United States
government believed that negotiations could
be more successfully carried on with those
who threatened her ruin. Even the discus
sion of such a desperate situation fills one
with horror. Still, the danger exists and
American statesmen are in duty bound to
provide for the safety of American citi
zens, We live in strange times when the
ambition of so many is to destroy some
body or some nation. Tattle wonder that
many of our finest citizens go about with
white faces.<4 * &
The Home Market
No nation can live to itself. It must
have markets outside itself. It is equally
true that a fool’s eyes are in the ends of
the earth and that no nation can afford to
neglect its home market. It is folly to put
all the national energies into the rim while
neglecting the hub. Yet this sort of folly
has characterized a considerable portion of
our business and political way of doing
things. Complaint is constantly heard that
Canadian consumers are not being fur
nished with oar really good bacon, though
they have the blessed privilege of paying
the tap price for what is sold to them. The
same is said of salmon, Almost everywhere
grumblings are heard that the canned sal
mon is not what it once was and what it
should be. Further mutterings are abroad
that the long suffering consumer is asked
to purchase goods that were fresh and
good two or three moons ago. It is argued
that the storage people should not lose.
That may all be. No one likes to think of
suffering fellow-citizens. But why should
not the wants of the Canadian consumer
be heeded as he finds his last drop of
blood ebbing away as he crawls out at the
small end of the horn? Why should the
consumer be asked to gulp and hold liis
nose and forget his tongue as he struggles
with butter that has been held overlong in
storage. We have a splendid market in
Canada for first class goods. Why should
that market not be considered? If the con
sumer is deprived of the best goods, he is
wide enough awake to make and to choose
his own substitutes. To mention this neglect
of the home market is to encourage its
correction'.
Backs To The Wall
Farmers are facing a serious situation.
Their prices have fallen without, as they
believe, a serious decline in the prices of
what they have to buy. The decline in the
price of farm products is considerable,
while the decline in the price of goods the
farmer has to buy js negligible. It is cold
comfort to the farmer to be told that he
must organize his farm operations with the
aim of keeping down his production costs
while he reads every morning of the com
bines working night and day to keep prices
of what he. wishes to purchase on tlie
steady, wartime level. He is told that he
must no longer look for wartime prices.
The farmer is not in need of this informa
tion. His reply to the exhortation to work
harder and more efficiently and so to have
more cash to spend is that he is willing to
take less, provided prices come down all
along the line.
Better Wake Up
Ninety percent of the criminals who
have been caught in Canada are reported
by high authority to be Canadian born.
Jack Canuck and Old Man Ontario and
John Baptiste, together with all the farm
ers and mothers and teachers and school
boards, will do well to put this startling
and terrible fact in their pipes and smoke
it. It is added further by this same grave
authority, that few of those criminals have
anything like a good education. This
second fact demands attention for we have
been spending many millions on education.
A third fact that demands attention is that
when governments attempt anything in the
way of turning the criminal into a good
citizens the first thing is to enlighten his
mind. Further, those dealing with crime
and juvenile delinquency trace a great deal
of the criminal’s ill-living to his home.
Better still the investigators are discover
ing that the real cause of crime is the
criminal himself. The old lines have a
great deal of truth in them:
It’s not all in bringing up
j Let folks say what they will:
I Silver polish a pewter cup
And it stays pewter still.
The primary cause of the criminal’s line
of life is in himself. Further, the criminal
goes wrong in spite of and in face of the
fact that he knows better. Good citizens
are not made in a day. Criminals do not
mess things up in an hour. Little by little
the criminals weaves a web about him as
he entertains and chooses to entertain
wrong desires and wrong thoughts. At last
opportunity comes and the floodgates of
his inward life are opened and he appears
in his conduct what he has been in his
feeling and in his thinking. No one is
likely to remain outwardly correct when
his feelings and his thoughts are wrong.
We gravitate where we cogitate. What is
inward is sure to become outward. The old
king knew human life -when he cried out for
a clean heart and a right spirit. The uni
versity professor was right when he coun
selled an erring but repentant student to
seek for a clean mind. Every man should
see what he was born for. Every parent
should sec what his child is becoming.
Every teacher should know where his pupil
is going.sje $ #
Why must Exeter’s main street con
tinue to be an obstacle course for traffic?
; Everyone realizes the angle-parking condi
tion is hazardous to say the least. Why
: doesn’t one of our community betterment
organizations kill off these “angle” worms?
FASTER!
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50 YEARS AGO
The bills .are out announcing
a Grand Carnival in the Exeter
Rink Thursday, Feb. S, 19 00.
This is the first of the .season
and will be a good one. Prices
15 cents and l’O1 cents. — P.
Bawden, Prop.
We are in receipt of a com
plimentary ticket to attend the
first annual banquet of the
“Huron Old Boys Association,”
of Toronto, which will be held
in Webb's Dining Hall. (6G Yonge
St., on Friday evening, Feb. 16.
The travelling public who have
occasion to drive to and from
London will be pleased to learn
that the toll gate, which was
situated nearest the city, has
been removed and the annoy
ance of at least one of those
abominable clap-traps has been
done away with.
15 YEARS AGO
Early' Sunday morning, the
mercury dropped to twenty de
grees below zero.
It is surprising how many let
ters are coming in to the Re
union Committee^ from the Old
Boys and Old Girl6 of Exeter and
community. Dr. M. G. Graham
replies from distant Formosa
that even the cherry blossoms of
Japan won't hold him. “We will
certainly be in Exeter between
July 27 and 31.”
There was open air skating at
the rink Saturday evening for
the first time this season. The
debris, following the cave-in of
the roof early in the season, has
been removed.
“On The Contrary, Dr. Harris* . . .
(St. Marys Journal Argus)
London M.O.H., Dr. C. A. Har
ris, speaking to the London Ro
tary Club on Monday is reported
to have cast some doubts as to
the value of small town hospit
als, one of .which is now being
erected in St. Marys. Dr. Harris
is quoted as stating, “all over
the country, small towns are
building small. hospitals. We're
not sure this is a good thing,”
then again he said, “every pat
ient is entitled to the best care
available. We feel it is better to
build up central structures.”
With this as . his theme, the
Doctor seemed later to forget
himself sufficiently to state,
“that 2n0 incurables were await
ing admittance to Parkwood Hos
pital, .the incurable hospital in
London and that on any one day
thirty patients could be taketi
from Victoria Hospital (London)
and placed in a home for the
aged if space in such a home
was available.”
It is obvious that Dr. Harris,
if the above report is correct,
rather contradicts liimself in re
gard to the small town hospital.
In the first place hospitals in
the smaller centres are built as
an auxiliary to the hospitals in
larger centres where it is re
cognized better facilities in re
gard to equipment and specialist
staff can be maintained. There
is no attempt to make these
small hospitals anything but an
cillary to the large medical cen
tres, but as Dr. Harris appears
to admit, they can serve a use
ful purpose in easing the strain
on the larger hospitals.
To ayone who has , spent a
week or a month in some of our
larger city hospitals it is very
evident that the .use of these
places foi* the holding of minor
cases of illness or for the con
duct of minor surgical operations
is ,a waste of space and money
in a very valuable institution.
This* is where the small town
hospital fits in. The fact that
there are smaller hospitals jneans
that the need for the erecting of
larger structures in the cities is
wiped out and it also means that
Canada will not be caught in
another world catastrophe with
all her medical eggs in one vul
nerable .basket.
This business of concentration
and resultant vulnerability in
war, cannot be brushed off
lightly in the present world situ
ation. Too many Canadians who
were in England during the
Blitz periods can remember the
big London and other city hos
pitals which were .put out of
commission by a few bomb hits.
It is much better to have a good
many small hospitals widely dis
persed in unimportant locations
than to have a few huge struc
tures in a half dozen major tar
get areas. As a matter of fact
there are many arguments in 1 favor of having .all future large
hospital plants built in a rural
setting far away from the fumes,
and noise and the congestion of
the larger centres of population.
SH1PKA
The W.A. meeting was held
Thursday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. Jacob Katz, With, a fine
attendance. The devotional per
iod was taken by the president,
using the Missionary Monthly.
Roll call was answered by a
verse from the fifth, chapter of
: Matthew. After discussion, it
was decided to have a box social
on Friday evening, February 10.
Mrs. Earl Ratz gave the third
chapter of the study book. Xt
was very interesting. The meet
ing was closed by prayer. A
dainty lunch was served by the
committee.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ratz, Mi*.
Donald Ratz, Mr. Albert Gaiser,
Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Ratz attend
ed the ice carnival in Toronto
on Tuesday.
Mr, and Mrs. Norman McCal
lum of London spent the week
end at the home of Mr, and
Mrs. M. Sweitzer.
Mrs. R. Collett returned to
her home in Oakville on Satur
day after spending a week With
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob
Ratz.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Raynham
and family visited In Parkhhill
i on Sunday.
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Doctor: “Well, nurse, how is
the patient?”
Nurse: *‘X gave him the figs
you ordered, doctor, hut he
keeps asking for dates.”
The Voice
Of Temperance . .• < .
Syl Apps starred for the Maple
Leafs for ten years. He says,
“Drinking has ho place in the
life of an athlete either physic
ally or morally’*. Hap Day is
coach of the Maple Leafs, lie
says, “I haye no use for liquor
or athletes who use it. I hate
seen too many good players fall
by the wayside.” Ted Kennedy
is Captain of the Maple Leafs.
He says, “I’ve seen the drinkers
come and go. They don’t last
Tong in this league.” The voice
of hockey and the voice of tem
perance say the same thing,
Don’t drink, (advt.)
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