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THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 29, 1950
Ready For Action
Healthy-minded people are anxious to
do all that can be done in a time of acci
dent or danger. Comparatively few know
what should be done to save life and limb
under such circumstances. We recall one
instance that illustrated what the point we
are trying to make. The large hall was
crowded with a multitude who were enjoy
ing a fine show of moving pictures. Sud
denly there came a blinding flash. At once
many people jumped to their feet, some of
them screaming. There were present all the
elements for panic and tragedy. On the in
stant a man shouted as if he were Gabriel
on resurrection morn, “Sit down”. The
crowd became utterly silent. “What's
wrong? Is there any danger?” The good
man vociferated: “No danger. It was just
a film that got burned,” That was all! The
show went on but there were no funerals.
“What a brave arrest!” the folk praised a
citizen who rushed into a shop a little time
ago and arrested a criminal. “We count
that foolishness,” commented a Mounty.
“We had him. In a little time he would
have come out with his hands up. That
man who rushed in might have been added
to the killer’s already too long list. “Most
of us get along lively when things go along
like a song. When an emergency comes,
few of us have presence of mind and are
likely to make the tragedy all the darker
by our well-meant but ‘misfitting actions.
We cannot but wonder if professional sport
has done a good deal to lessen the effect
iveness of a crowd in the event of an emer
gency. In days when any school section
could be counted on to provide a good
basebailer or football or shinny team, the
crowd seen at a fire or the occasion of a
serious mishap soon swung into effective
action. Those of us who have seen a crowd
of 200 men working with a system that
made every effort tell, at a raising bee
have seen these same crowds organize
themselves into ‘a bucket brigade that soon
controlled a fire and that most effectively
salvaged grain and implements and live
stock. There is little discipline for the
crowd in watching a game of any kind.
There is a great deal of the best sort of
discipline playing scratch games in which
every youth has his part. We are not criti
cal of the provincial police but we are quite
Sure that these fine men should be given
more raining in man-hunting. The old game
of hare and hounds, with modifications,
illustrates what we have in mind. Catching
a thief or a murderer is a police task that
comes on the force suddenly and requires a
fine combination of nimble foot and keen
practiced eye and the ability to take up a
trail with a keenness that makes one think
of second sight. For the policeman there is
a deal of the most downright and the hard
est of v.ork in one of those terrible man
hunts. The government should see to it that
the officers are given every preparation for
a duty so important, so difficult and so
strenuous.
* * * *
Going Strong
This region has left another inid-
summer day behind it. So far the season
has been somewhat unusual in its vagaries.
There was ice aplanty during the winter
though the cars kept on the job. We had
some warm weather late in the winter when
we did not want it and some, cold ■weather
in seeding time when we did not want it.
The spring was quite late; some sav, in
deed, that it was a month late.. By the
twenty-fourth of May seasonal growth had
caught up fairly well. Early June gave us
some fine weather followed by a few hot
days as midsummer approached. Then
came that cold Saturday night that sent
the natives scurrying to cover plants with
an activity that rivalled the stir in Brus
sels the night before Waterloo. While the
hay is short and some anxiety is felt for
the red clover crop, the field outlook is
'■encouraging. If the weather man casts a
kindly eye in this direction we may look
for at least an average harvest.
Social life has been good. There have
been good sports, though there is room for
improvement in this particular. There has
been considerable life in the music line,
while amateur dramatics have given the
natives many a pleasant hour. The first six
months of the year have been busy. The
health of the people has been good. All in
all, the vicinity is facing the last half of
the year with hope and courage.
* % % *
Murder Will Out
Some little time ago a Mounty was
most foully murdered. There appeared to
be no trace of the killer but the Mounties
and their fellow peace officers went to
work on the case. Last week the killer was
reported to be arrested in far off Montana,
Nevertheless the law officers are not relax
ing their vigilence and that killer will be
brought to justice one fine day, let that
day be near or far off. This reminds us of
another .murder that took place in an iso
lated shack on a lonely plain in the Can
adian West. There was no trace of the
murderer but the Mounties kept busy till
they found the slayer and brought him back
to the scene of his hideous deed. and hanged
him on the spot. Let us not forget that
there is no such a thing as a perfect crime.
Crime always advertises and publishes and
photographs itself. Goodness is the nature
of things. Evil always is self-limiting even
though we are tempted, at times, to think
otherwise. There is nothing so stupid as
wrongdoing, whatever may be the appear
ances for a time. It makes no difference
whether a crime be great or small, the
furies are on its track and will pick out
its eyes and eat out the heart of the wrong
doer. It is a wholesome exercise to reflect
on these things from time to time.
* * * *
They Have Achieved It
In these anxious days for the peoples
of the earth it is just as well to take a
look-in on Switzerland. Her citizens have
fine bank accounts and number one credit
abroad. Her people are proverbially healthy
and vigorous. Apparently they are not do
ing things that make the headlines. They
do not boast of navies or fleets of ship
ping. We hear little of their airplanes.
Some stories are abroad telling of their
strivings in politics. We hear of no strikes
among their ■workmen. Yet they have
achieved the greatest thing in the world.
They have learned not only to live but
they actually live. The secret of their hav
ing done so is twofold. First, they are a
genuinely religious folk. They fear God
and keep His commandments without pay
ing much attention to external authority of
any kind. Where they feel conscience arid
honour grip, that is always their border.
In the second place, nationally and socially
they have learned to mind their own busi
ness and to leave other people’s business
alone. They are neither meddlers nor up-
lifters. They know their own borders and
live within them except when trading is to
be done. The soil is scanty but they con
serve it. They have a relatively small sup
ply of coal and minerals but they know
how to use both of them. They envy no
body and so demean themselves that no
body envies them.
* * * *
“Quick Frozen”
No, we are not referring to that trip
we took one Christmas to Northern Ontario
with no protection for our ears but a
bowler hat. Our ears were frozen as hard
as an old paint brush before we had driven
more than a mile or so. .That experience
will not do when we speak of “quick frozen
food". Nor will we be better off when we
recall the night’s freezing of the meat for
the Christmas market as We exposed our
kill to a night in the woodshed. Nor are
we thinking of the conditions to which food
is reduced in some locker services. Rather we
are thinking of the experience of a fellow
mortal who was away up there in Finland
in tile midst of winter at its coldest. This
worthy saw a carcass of freshly killed deer
meat thrown on the ice. Quick as a wink
that deer meat was a frozen mass, as solid
as the head of a parliamentarian who sud
denly comes across a bit of material upon
which he must vote or feel the resounding
smack of the party whip, than which what
is harder? Our friend was a business man
with the real thing in brains. He secured
that carcass, had it brought to where it
could be prepared for the table, only to
find that the meat was the finest ever. That
was not all, He called to his aaid people
who could produce the real thing in very
low temperatures and had food of all kinds
treated therein. To his delight the instant
freezing of the food gave amazing results.
It was the real thing in food preservation.
Shrewd old fellow that he was, he set
about getting the instant freezing done on
a commercial basis and finds a very keen
demand for his product. Mark you, it is in-
-stant freezing that is here spoken of, but
food of that sort is on its way. So let us
get ready for it. Will our fine locker ser
vices rise to the occasion?
«TIMES» Go By
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50 YEARS AGO
Miss Hattie Fitton left Tues
day. for Owen Sound, where she
will take the boat for Vancou
ver, B.C., where she will spend
the summer with her sister, Mrs,
G. H. Tom. ■
Miss Lorraine Hooper, who has
been taking a course in the
Business College, London, re
turned home Friday.
About fifty tickets were sold
for the Model Farm excursion to
Guelph last Friday.
The picnic season at Grand
Bend has thoroughly commenced,
over a thousand people having
visited the Bend last week.
f 25 yEARS AGO
Sunday and Monday were red
letter days for the members of
the Elimville Church, the occa
sion being the fiftieth jubilee,
followed on Wednesday by a
great picnic for members of the
Sunday School.
When the news reached Hen
sail Sunday that Doctor Peck
had died in St. Joseph’s Hospital,
London, a shadow of gloom was
cast over the whole community.
Centralia has every reason to
be proud of their cattle men,
Byron Hicks and William Col
well, who since Christmas have
handled in the neighborhood of
4,000 cattle.
Archie, the eleven-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ether-
ington had a narrow escape from
death Monday afternoon while
driving a team on a ’Cultivator.
The team bolted when frightened
by a motorcycle and became
tangled in a fence. Neither the
boy nor the team were hurt.
15 YEARS AGO
On Friday evening, July 5,
Rev. Noml J. Woods, who
comes to Main Street from Spar
ta will be inducted into his new
charge.
The seventeenth annual re
union of the Hern family and
connections was held Wednesday
afternoon, June 19, at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Foster,
neai’ Granton.
Ratepayers of S.S. No. 4 and
S.S. No. 5 Usborne packed the
Eden school house on Tuesday
evening in the interest of the
Red Cross work. Following a
discussion, Mrs. George Westcott,
S.S. No. 4, and Mrs. Gordon Hey
wood, S.S. No. 5, were appointed
to interview the officers of the
Red ’Cross in Exeter with a view
of organizing a unit.
Mr. Reg. Moffatt has received
a cable from England that his
two nieces, Mary and Janet Mof
fatt, daughters of Col. James
Moffatt now stationed at Hong
Kong, are on their way to Can
ada, accompanied by their, aunt.
This will be the first of the evac
uated children to come to Can
ada from England.
1O YEARS AGO
The sudden death of Mr. Robt.
B. Gambrill, organist and choir
leader of the Palmerston United
Church, apd eldest son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. H. Gambrill of town,
took place in the Palmerston
Hospital on Thursday of last
week.
Mrs. Page of Thamesville, who
With Rev. Mr. Page, will move to
Exeter the latter part of this
month, where Mr. Page will suc
ceed Rev. Stainton as pastor of
James Street United Church, was
recently presented with a lovely
silver flower basket by the ladies
of Croton United Church.
Nothing like taking time by
the forelock. Mr. Justice Martin
and liis brother, Dr. Beattie Mar
tin, of Regina, have already re
served rooms at the 'Central Ho
tel for Old Boys' Week.
The Diamond Jubilee of the
Presbyterian Church in Canada
was celebrated on Sunday, June
9, 1935.
BY GORDON M. GREIG
Hilton Federation of Agriculture
"Any sound program aimed at
increasing the sale of dairy pro
ducts in Canada, and which can
be maintained at a low cost to
each producer, should certainly
receive the utmost support and
co-operation from all dairy farm
ers,” said Charles Heath, secre
tary of the Ontario Cheese Pro
ducers’ Marketing Board. Mr.
Heath was discussing the June
advertising set aside, sponsored
by the Dairy Farmers of Canada.
The set-aside is to raise a fund
with which to finance a sales
promotion and advertising pro
gram aimed at expanding the
markets for dairy products.
"We as cheese producers need
the program this money can
buy,” continued Mr. Heath.
"While our market is set for the
present, no one can say what
will happen in another six
months or a year. If in the
future through the Dairy Farm
ers’ advertising program, con
sumption of cheese can be in-
creased in a small way, it will
be good insurance against a de
pressing milk surplus. We would
be less dependent upon export
markets, and we could expand
our own industry with more
confidence.”* * *
The 1950 Poultry and Live
stock Conference will be held at
the O.A.C. in Guelpli from July
24 to July 27, This Jptogram
promises to be interesting and
informative and the attendance
of as many farmers as possible
would he appreciated. The topics
for discussion are poultry dis
eases, problems in handling and
storing of eggs and dressed
poultry, $ew ideas in developing
both chickens and turkeys. The
effects of feed and feeding prac
tises in the carcass quality of
bacon hogs is a topic of interest
to pork producers. For the dairy
men Dr. W. E. Peterson of Min
nesota will he there on July 27
to give you the latest informa
tion on dairy problems.
SMILES ....
“But, my dear,” bleated the
poor little henpecked husband,
“what have I done now? You’ve
been talking for half an hour
and I 'haven’t said a word.”
"No,” snapped the wife, “you
haven’t said anything, but you’ve
been listening in a most aggra
vating manner, and I’m not go
ing to stand for it!”
Counsel (to woman witness):
"I hope I haven’t bothered yon
with all these questions.”
Witness: "Not at all. I have
a small boy aged 6, at home.”
* * »
Mary: “I just saw Sue going
down the street with her eve
ning dress on het* arm.”
Father: "Gracious! Don’t tell
me that styles have come to
that!”
There’s going to be a new factory
out on River Road. It will make
a big difference to the town—
another payroll, more jobs, more
opportunity, more business for merchants.
When the local bank manager was asked
for facts about the town as a possible
factory site, he got them—fast. After a
while things worked out.
Now the .town has a new industry. The
bank manager has a new customer. Soon he
will be servicing the factory’s payrolls,
extending seasonal credit, making
collections, supplying market information
... doing all the things a local bank
manager is trained to do.
It is a part of his job to help his
community grow.
SPONSORED BY YOUR BANK
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Chambers & Darling
Beaupre’s General Store
Harvey’s Grocery
Scholl’s Meat Market, Hensail, or
Exeter
Fink’s
Ford’s
Chicken
Locker
Meat Market
Food Market
Silvercrest Poultry Farm
Phone 171-r-14 Exeter