HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1950-08-24, Page 2THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 24, 1950
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gf Tn pin Established 1873 Amalgamated November 192-1 Advocate Established 1881
Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario
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THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 24, 1950
Pulling Ourselves Together
Oui* greatest danger this hour is our
habit of looking over often and too long
at the dangers qf Communism and at the
forces that divide us. At home we hear
every day, of strikes and of rumours of
strikes. Every newsjmper has something to
say of what mischief Communism is work
ing in almost every field of life. If we give
ou.r main attention to these and other sub
versive forces, we’ll be playing our en
emies’ game to the limit. More than at any
other period of our history we are called
upon to look steadily at the forces that are
working steadily for the stability of demo
cracy and for the welfare of the individual.
We’ll be heartened if we take a long steady
look at what Britain has accomplished dur
ing the last dive years. No country in his
tory has done quite as much as she has
<lone to get a great people on their feet.
Nineteen forty-five found her with an emp
ty pocketbook and a yawning dinner pail.
Tittle by little, but during every hour of
the day and of the night, she has set her
factory wheels singing a merry song. Her
ships are again sweeping the seven seas.
She has put India and Packistan and Cey
lon and Burma to doing their own house
keeping. Even better, she has reconciled
forces in these countries who at one time
deemed her their enemies and made them
friends. Instead of being weakened by giv
ing these lands the government of their
choice she has become stronger. Those
mighty nations are now doing for her what
they never dreamed of doing before. The
United States has left behind her childish
days and is bearing splendidly the white
man’s burden. The last vestige of suspicion
has vanished that once divided those na
tions. They are now one and indivisible to
a degree that, fifty years ago, was believed
impossible. He is regarded as an enemy of
the race ■who put them asunder. Korea il
lustrates in a slight degree what Anglo-
Saxons are prepared to do for the welfare
of every son of Adam. Never did Anglo-
Saxons and Celts stand more closely to
gether and never were they better prepared
to defend their rights, Communism and her
foul brood are now seen to be the evil
forces that they are. To know such an
•enemy is to be prepared to withstand him.
Of course we are re-arming with plane and
rifle, and airplane. Our young men cannot
be held back from the march of freedom.
All this tells us that our people are re
arming themselves as never before. “Thrice
is he armed who hath his quarrel just.”
* * * *
The Year Of Jubilee?
A C hicago firm has placed a nullinn
dollars with a British firm for a substance
that will clean and polish floors hut which
Will leaxe the floor in such a condition that
the pedestrian simply will not slip thereon.
The British firm backs up its order with a
guarantee that it will give anyone v. ho
slips on their product one hundred pounds.
Hurrah! We hope that our merchants will
dig np this firm and let us have some of
this lift'- and limb-saving article. We urge
w village fathers to secure a goodly quan
tity of this substance for our icy streets.
Just now we are eagerly looking forward
to the milleniaMike days when we mere
j. t-n will be able to walk with peaceful
lainds and bumpless bodies as we go from
one room to another or go up stairs, and
dear knowswhere else.
An Influential Gathering
Delegates of sixty-two nations and re
presenting the work among Protestant
youth and childhood of these countries arc
assembled in Toronto. The object of the
assembly is to determine how best the
youth of the world may be brought to
know that God the Father is the best
Friend the race ever has known or can
knotv. Every other activity of this notable
gathering is second to this supreme aim.
No one can really estimate the good results
bound to follow upon such a gathering.
Better understanding of life, in all its
phases will surely follow. For instance, the
Orientals will take back with them a truer
conception of what the west is doing for
every nation. One speaker, Mr. Malick,
from the ancient land of Lebanon, had
some stern warnings to give the West re
garding the deadly menace of Communism.
He spoke as if the West were not awake
to the peril of this new religion, as some
people mistakenly call it. This distinguished
ambassador to the United States will be
shown some newspaper files that every
week at least inform their readers that the
whole world is walking over the hot ashes
of Communism. He will be shown the re
cords of what missionaries of every de
nomination have done to keep the world
forever free. He will be told of the scholars
and scientists and statesmen who have}
given all they had of mental power and
patriotic zeal to aid the world in maintain
ing or originating liberty. He will be shown
the recruiting stations where Canadian and
United States youth are leaving the best
jobs to join the colours in order that the
outrage of freedom in Korea may be stran
gled in its cradle. He and scores of for
eigners from other* lands will be given un
mistakable proof that the East is neither
effete nor stupid but alert as to what is
going on in the inmost councils of Com
munism and in the nations that feed this
festering international* blood. If these dele
gates are wise they will look around them
during their stay in Canada and learn what
civilization stands for and is doing in her
behalf. It is just as well, however, to heed
the warnings of this ambassador. We may
not know all that is to be known about
Communism. This Easterner may have
learned features of the deadly menace that
have not appeared to us. We see what it
has done to every land and to every people
where. it has gained the upper hand, and
should take eve^y precaution accordingly.
* % * *•
Those Prices
So the powers have taken a slice off
our bread loaf without saying as much as
“by your leave”. The consumer may wail
a complaint only to meet the regretful re
sponse “your baker can’t help it”. There is
to be a decided increase in the price of
shoes and again the wail and the response
“We can’t help it”. The working man says,
“I must have more pay”. He argues that
he cannot carry on unless his wages or his
fees are increased. All over the land peo
ple arc saying “there are more dollar bills
floating about and we’re the boys to nail
them”. The whole thing is coming to be a
drunken dance of inflated credits. All sorts
of things are being built and all sorts of
equipment are being purchased, but in a
distressing number of eases on credit. What
looks to be coming is an overplus of pro
duction, ju^t as Canada is faced with an
overplus of grain. Farmers are not likely
to give away their grain though some of
us recall the days when potatoes were sold
for fifteen cents a bag. that is. they were
not sold at all. Oats were sold for fifteen
cents per bushel, if marketed. Dressed pork
sold for twenty, that is it was sold for that
price if exceptionally good, for ten cents
per pound when it was of high quality.
These prices prevailed because there was a
glut of the market. Arc moderns working
tov. arils some such glut with modern dress
ing to he sure? The nimble willed boys
who make our lav.-, and who handle the
presses where money is printed may find
that, do what they will, there is a limit to
human demands. The lively breezes stirring
the n arkvts may suddenly turn to a whirl
wind. Meanwhile a few ten thousands of
people are being pinched to near the bleed
ing point. Let us own the corn. A great
many people are finding it difficult to get
enough to eat. Their clothes are wearing
threadbare, while their coal bin is suffer
ing from something like a shaking palsy,
* * # #
Better Get At The Job
Every day brings word of young Can
adians rallying to the colours with an eye
on Korea. What we need along with brisk
recruiting is getting the recruits into shape
for the battle. The enemies* of democracy
are pouring in men and equipment into the
fateful struggle by the hundred thousands
while hundreds of other thousands of the
enemy stand ready to join the bloody fray.
Meanwhile our brave American cousins
grimed by battle smoke and lacerated with
the driving sand are asking “Why do not
more men come to our assistance?”. It may
he replied that the brass bats are doing all
they can under the circumstances. That
may be but what they are doing is not
enough by a long shot. The thingumabobs
of war are very nice but they do not win
battles. We want victories over there in
Korea and we want them soon. We hear of
the dropping of no encl of tons of bombs.
That may all be, but they are not dropping
in sufficient numbers in the right places.
We hear that a town is blown sky high but
the Northern armies still hold the field we
wish our armies to occupy. The working
man has the privilege of paying taxes.
What he wants in return for his cash is the
news that the invading Koreans are high-
: tailing to the land where they belong.
THE GATHERING STORM!
«TIMES» Go By
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50 YEARS AGO
Mr. F. W. Tom of Ottawa is
spending a few days with his
parents here, Mr. and Mrs. Jas.
Tom. He purposes leaving short
ly for "Toledo, Ohio for a few
days.
Frank Ross has entered J. G.
Stanbury's law office as clerk.
The mason work of .the first
storey of the Presbyterian manse
at Grand Bend will be finished
to-day.
Large numbers of guests are
entertained daily at the Queen’s
at St. Joseph and are .all unanirn-
ious in saying that the able and
genial manager Mr. Hutchinson
is the right man in the right
place.
Mr. R. N. Creech left Monday
evening for London where he will
commence a term at the Normal
pioneers of this settlement mak
ing their home in the virgin for
est 1 miles west of Greenway.
School. , / >
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J *25 YEARS AGO
Lovers of flowers had the
privilige of witnessing a profus
ion of bloom at the annual flow
er show of the Exeter Horticult
ural Society in the skating rink
on Friday and Staurday .last. In
spite of the fact that it has been
an off season for flowers there
was a magnificent showing in
many of the cases.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Jeckell
and two sons, Charles and Wil
liam of Youngstown, Ohio mot
ored over and are visiting the
former’s brother and sister, Mr.
James and Miss L. M. Jeckell.
Mr. Roden Rogers of Detroit,
and Mr. Frank Jeckell, of Toro
nto, nephews, are also' visiting
with Mr. and Miss Jeckell.
Last Tuesday evening and af
ternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Edmund
McPherson of Greenway celeb
rated their fiftieth wedding an
niversary. They were among the
15 YEARS AGO
In a single day, August 9,
1,682 cars, estimated to be car
rying more than 6,000 persons,
travelled to the Dafoe hospital
to visit the Dionne quintuplets.
Messrs. Harold and Lloyd Bell,
Laverne Skinner, Gilbert Johns
and Jack Delbridge left by motor
for the West last Thursday mor-
; ning to spend a few weeks at
harvest.
Mr. R. H. Sayers has returned
to his duties as manager of the
Canadian Bank of Commerce
after holidaying with Mrs. Say
ers at Strathroy.
Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Holmburg
and two daughters, Ethel and
Jean, of Sault Ste. Marie, who
have been visiting with Mrs.
Holmburg’s father, Mr. L. Day,
are leaving Friday for Guelph
and Toronto to see the Exhibi
tion before returning home.
1O YEARS AGO
All persons 16 years and over
I are required to register during
National Registration Week.' Two acres of land, sown to
| Dutch set onions by Messrs Cec-
■ il Jones and Chas. Monteith
| were ploughed under this week
the seed and labor being a com
plete loss owing to heavy rains.
This week the Times-Advocate
starts a series of bed-time stories
for boys and girls entitled “John
ny Pink Toe”. They were written
by D. A. Anderson of town, when
a resident of .Winnipeg.
For three days and nights Ger
many has kept up an intensified
air attack upon the British Isles
using as many as 500 planes at
I one time.
... Neighboring News ...
I
I ter, Mrs. Ken McPherson, town,
’! is a mighty proud grandmother
days. for her 19-year-old D !L-.’ granddaughter, Margaret Brad-
Family Arrives family tf Lim Lee of For- 'Linds
The
A granuuaugiiter, Margaret. urua-hntiv m. rc Ad SSc St K ten ford’ ™ crowned Miss Canada
vSl- Sni/’Vim Tpp visited his’at the Brant Inn’ Burlington, on
fnmilv in ChinaL Besides” his ; Thursday night. Four other girls,
wife, the family includes two ;(iasseQ as iinausts »y cne jua„es,
sons and a <__. -
17; Lee Seochech, 16; and Saue
Foung, 12. .
of the Huron Cove Restaurant at
Forest. 1
Parkhlll
known us
scholar, i Parkhill Gazette).
Doni expect too many miracles
in this Push-button Age /
cEvery year science is creat
ing more ’miracles’ to make
living easier in countless
ways. And what we see today
is only the beginning of an
amazing new era of comfort
and convenience.
“But it seems to me that
some people are expecting too
many miracles. ’For instance,
they believe that, by some
kind of magic, old-age benefits
will provide all the money
they’re ever going to need
when they retire.
“I believe in security for
everyone, but I want mine
planned to suit my own in
dividual needs. That’s why I
have my own life insurance.
It’ll take all the insurance I’ve
got now, and maybe more, to
help provide the kind of retire
ment income I want and when
I want it!
“My life insurance isjlex-
ible, too. I had my choice of
dozens of different kinds of
policies. And my life under
writer helped me ’arrange a
balanced programme that
gives my family 'protection
noiv, while it builds a better
income for my old age.
“Come what may, I’m still
relying on my own life in
surance, Like millions of
other Canadians, I’ve found
it the sure road to security!”
The LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES in Canada
( and their Representatives
WORKING FOR NATIONAL PROGRESS . . . BUILDING PERSONAL SECURITY
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- Tim Tee visited liis‘at tlie Brant Inu’ Burlington, on in C i lia Besides 1’Thursday night. Four other girls,
in China, uesiaes xus r,1nQC!Pfl ,,Q bv the indnes,
Ww I ’ eliminated, Eludingdaughter, Lukoi Wan. students of Toronto’s Royal
seocnecn, id; anu ouue * ... ,, „ , „ ,,t Im the nmurletor Conservatory o f M u s i c ■, a n d*• Linl is H16 Propuetoi n Ernesto Vinci, as
i well ““ Ottawa ballerina now
Studying with the Ottawa Ballet
a>Company and slated for further, SvIha? study with the Sadler Wells bal-
Heavy Loot •
Hard working burglars who
smashed a window on the north
side of the C.N.R. Depot office
and entered the building some
time during Sunday night or
Monday morning, carried off a
900-pound safe containing $59
in cash and some railway tickets
and other papers. Up until the
present, although local Provin
cial Police under Cpl. Frank
Taylor, assisted by E. Thomas,
C.N.R. detective, of Stratford,
have searched all likely spots,
no trace of the heavy safe has
been found. (St. Marys Jourhal-
Argusi,
More Break-Ins
Local and provincial police are
investigating three break-ins in
Clinton and another in Blyth,
which occurred during Friday
night last. The entries are be
lieved to be related.
The local places of business
affected were. McAlpine & Daw,
implement dealers, Victoria St.;
A. G. Grigg & Son, coal and
cement, King St.’, and Gliddon
Cleaners, cleaning and pressing,
{King ist, (Clinton News-Record).
Miss Canada
Mrs. Bradford of London, a
guest at the home of her daugh-
three students of Toronto’s Royal
pupils of Dr, Ernesto Vinci, as
let in England.
Miss Bradford thus won a
$1,000 scholarship, numerous
prizes and the honour of repre
senting Canada in the Miss
America pageant in September.
(Mitchell Advocate).
Arena Being Readied '
Although it’s only mid-August,
activity at Goderich’s Memorial
Arena this week gives one the
impression that opening night is
only about a week away. A crew
of men are replacing the vast
network of artificial ice pipes.
Bell Telephone men have been
installing telephone wires and
also wires for broadcasting from
the, arena, and a special Can
adian Press news wire is to be
installed later. In the evenings,
gangs of men, representing var
ious organizations, are (painting.
All in all, it’s been a hive of
activity.
All the work is in preparation
for the big official opening night
which Will be about the second
week in October. Plans are al
ready being made for a gala
opening, the full details of which
Will be announced at a later
date. (Goderich Signal-Star),
If the housing .shortage pers
ists people will have to sleep in
the churches on weekdays also,
says one clergyman, sadly.
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