HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1950-10-26, Page 2THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 26, 1950
WJe'Cxeter Wime^Wocate
Tiwea Established 1873 Amalgamated November 1924 Advocate Established 1881
Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario
An Independent Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the Village of Exeter and District
Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa
Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association
Member of the Ontario-Quebec Division of the OWN A
Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation
Paid-in-Advance Circulation as of March 31, 1950 —
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Canada, in advance, $2.50 a year United States, in
Single Copies fl Cents Each
J. Melvin Southcott * Publishers Robert Southcott
THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 26, 1950
It Comes High
Sir Stafford Cripps and Ernest Bevan
are reported to be retiring- from public life
through lack of physical capacity of some
sort. All civilization regrets that their re
tirement should even be discussed for any
reason. Yet no one is surprisel that the
physical life currents in these men should
be running low. Every hour of the day
every drop of their blood and every cell
in their nerves and brains have been
drained to a degree that only a rare few
can understand. The wonder is not that
they should be believed to be failing but
that they have stood the strain so long.
While we do not agree with all that these
public servants have done, we pay tribute
to their devotion to public service as they
saw it. We ask sometimes why the respons
ibilities of such great offices as they • oc
cupy should not be divided. The answer is
that no one can discharge their duties but
themselves. For others in their party to
assume a portion of their duties would
simply spoil things. We are sorry that
things are as they are in this respect but
that is the way of it. “After me the del
uge,” Sir John Macdonald used to say. We
known how true were his words. Public
men must stagger along till tile whistle
blows. Then will come new conditions and
new occasions and new duties. With these
will come new men wearing their own
boots and doing their own work. High
g-rade public service comes high.
It Can Be Done
Some time ago The Exeter Times-
Advocate urged that rural communities
should organize themselves for fire fight
ing. The Township of Southwold in Elgin
County have done this very thing as the
following episode, demonstrates. In the fine
district of Iona the local students had set
a fire for cleaning up the school yard.
Sparks were driven to the rear and the
attic of the school building that threatened
the destruction of the school. An alarm was
sent in and the firefighters made a run
with their high pressure engine. The result
was the saving of the $8,000 school. That
townships, and villages within those town
ships, may be organized for fire fighting is
proven by the fact that such organization
has 1h >en accomplished.
* * » *
After Korea What?
An Irishman did not mend his roof for
two re.'i'.ons. First, when it was raining,
meiuling was out of the question. See»md,
when the weather was dry he needed no
Hivudrd roof. Korea made to behave, the
nations are likely to say that they do not
need to be prepared for war. We do not
recommend such a policy. Russia, like the
jinny, is always with us and she always’ is
the foe of freedom and the enemy of peace.
The United Nations have shown her that
they can and will fight when Russia or any
other nation gets into the aggressor class.
We may as well be prepared to step fast
and < ffeetively. Being prepared to do so
will be an effective hint tn our present
world enemy. Russia has raised an iron
curtain to conceal, as she fondly hopes, her
evi: dt signs on the freedom of the world.
Behind this curtain, too. she has built tip
vast, heavily armed armies to back up her
intentions. She has done all that she ran
by way of suggestion to keep the rest of
fhr rare in a nervous whirl. Yet she talks
of peace? At last President Truman has
cmue out buntlv on the whole situation and
has told Russia with unmistakeaWe plain
ness that the situation must be cleared.
A Clever Thief
fret this ... A drunken sailor just a
few days ago broke into Buckingham pal
ace and a stole a despatch box. We say
again, get this. The palace is supplied with
forty policemen. Yet the thief, and at least
half drunk at that, slipped through their
fingers and got away with despatches. Not
■only has the palace a guard of forty police
men but every door and window and other
means of access to the palace has a burglar
.alarm system in close connection with the
world reknowned Scotland Yard. So there
you are* A drunken sailor showed himself
to be keener wilted than that mechanism
designed for the protection of royalty and
a great portion of the business of the
commonwealth of nations. If a drunken
sailor snapped his fingers under the noses
of the trained vigilance of Britain, what
mischief can be wrought by a sober sailor
or, worse still, by a trained thief from the
winderworld? We’ll not be surprised to
learn that the British government in sheer
despair sent for a few Mo unties to do the
work that those police around the palace
failed to do.
* * * *
It Must Be Stopped And It Can Be Stopped
Those death-dealing and destructive
motor accidents on the highways must be
stopped. We do not need more drastic laws
for such prevention. We do need the en
forcement of the laws now on the statute
book. When a serious accident occurs and
the offending car driver has been drinking
and a charge of drunken driving is laid,
the public is likely to be treated to a drawn
out ‘discussion of when a man is drunk.
The plain fact is that a driver has no busi
ness drinking liqueur at all. Experienced
people know the incompetence of anyone
who has been drinking at all to drive a car.
Policemen know when a man is drunk and
the constable’s word in such cases should
be taken without question, all clever law
yer’s reasons to the contrary notwithstand
ing. The same holds true of careless driv
ing. The constable knows dangerous driving
when he sees it and his word should be
taken accordingly. The same holds true of
driving at an excessive speed. The con
stable’s word should prevail when a speed
er is brought to court. The feeling that the
car of an offender should be impounded
for one year at least is growing in favour.
There is, too, a growing belief that con
stables should be changed about for traffic
regulation purposes.
We Miss Them
Reference is here made to those fine
little fires by the side of the sidewalk that
we have been accustomed to in the late
autumn. Heaps of leaves were in evidence
to the delight of every small boy and his
sister. The smoke curling up from the fire
took all manner of artistic and ghostly
forms that stirred the poetic in every citi
zen. Johnny could not resist the lure of the
blaze but toddled up with his small fist full
of fuel. Mary was not to be outdone and
got as near to the fire as possible, despite
all warnings to keep fai* away from the
blaze. Officers dully clad in His Majesty's
uniform warned all householders of the
grave offence of having the King’s High
way obscured by a smoke screen. Still the
flames rolled on. giving the fire department
a merry run for it when the fires got out
of hand. All those great days are a thing
of the past. The leaves are carefully gath
ered nowadays and dug into the garden.
The process of gathering and carrying the
leaves has no romance whatever. Johnny
scorns it and Mary passes it by with nose
well turned up. Grave agriculturists tell us
' that there is Very little fertility in the
| leaves but as they come to us free of taxes
| and controls we may as well go through
3 the forms of economy and austerity that
| will make Sir Stafford Cripps turn green
1 with envy.
I »’• # # 8JS
i “Obey Orders”
j Two of Canada's largest locomotives
| were standing on the track a few miles
west of London. One had drawn in on the
proper track and was waiting for instruc
tions. The other had arrived, full steam.
The first engineer waited for a crash as
the second engineer was on the wrong
track. Fortunately the second engineer was
able to stop his train in time but only
within a few feet of wreck and death.
“How did it come about?” he asked with
| a jumping heart. The first engineer re-
1 plied: “You didn’t obey orders. Go into
the station and you’ll be ordered out of
the cab!” And so it was. The engineer has
made but one mistake but that blunder en
dangered the lives of more than one hund-
| red passengers. So much for taking chances.
Potato Crop Suffers
Many potatoes this season are charac
terized by a hollow centre. Anyone knows
that such potatoes are not tubers of a first
class quality. The housewife is obliged to
do some severe trimming to get anything
like her money’s worth from such a potato.
What puzzles a good many growers is that
this hollowness is to be found in tubers
grown from government tested and govern
ment certified seed as well as from tubers
grown from ordinary field seed. Where
does the fault lie? Potato growers pay a
high price, relatively, for the certified seed
and do not take kindly to receiving any
thing less than a good article for their
1 money.
THE OLD HOME TOWN
with
and o n
last
she
ed up on the binder and thought
he would take a ride, but Dave
thought he looked to good to let
run so he soon had him captured.
lie said,
e make
held
Sat-
“Oh, he’s
By STANLEY’ '
50 YEARS AGO
A young Men’s Liberal Club
has been started in our village
(Crediton) with a fair member
ship. „
N. M. Contine is in Montreal
purchasing goods and is shortly
going to open up a large depart
ment store at St. Joseph.
Miss Mabel Follick and Miss
Edna McCallum spent Sunday in
Mitchell • having wheeled there
and back.
Miss Eva Carling left
week for Hamilton where
will attend normal college.
Miss Nettie Penhale left again
on Sunday for Medicine Hat.
where she intends remaining for
some time.
15 YEARS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. ‘Mark Wilde of
Grand Bend left on Monday
morning for Florida where they
expect to spend about six months.
Miss K. Wiseman spent the
week-end with Mrs. Wiseman of
Thames Road. Kathleen is tak
ing a secretarial course at West-
ervelts, London.
Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Penhale
will attend Convocation exercises
at Western University on Friday
evening when their daughter,
Miss Helen will graduate
her B. A. degree. ,
The Boy Scouts of Exeter
a Successful Apple Day on
urday. The proceeds of which
/25 YEARS AGO
'A mouse caused some con-, -sternation at James street church ( amounted to $30.65.
on Sunday. In the morning it
played around the feet of the
choir members and in the evening
it frolicked around the pews. It
finally met its doom beneath the
foot of one ot' the men.
' One of the oldest residents of
Exeter and one who for many
years was .prominently identified
with the business interests and
had the welfare of the commun
ity at heart passed away on
Thursday last in the person of
Mr. Thomas Fitton, aged . SS
years.
A large crowd in James Street
Church heard Dr. Alfredi Hollins,
Englands famous Blind composer
on Wednesday evening.
take
near
1500
1O YEARS AGO
Rev. Borden Cunningham of
Glencoe has been appointed rec
tor of the church of the Ascen
sion at Windsor and will
over his new duties in the
future.
The feeding of over
people was a gigantic test of the
women of the Crediton Evang
elical church at their fowl supper
Thursday evening of last week.
Never since the early pioneer
hewed out the trees from the
forest and planted potatoes be
tween the stumps with no other
tool than an axe has the scarcity
Jack rabbits are becoming so! of potatoes been so great as it
tame around Khiva, that last • is this season following the con-
week when Mr. Dave Lippert was'tinued wet weather. Potatoes are
cutting his buckwheat, one jump-’being shipped in in carload lots.
B-
... Neighboring News
I S It
Mother: ‘ Well, Bobby,
what do you think
your new teacher?”
Bobby:
bad in himself, but
can’t rely on what
says.”
Mother: 11 H o w is
that ?”
Bobby: “First he said
‘Two and two in a k e
four, and then
‘Three
four’.”
service men to put yourrely on ouryou can
top shape for the long winter haul. Don’t
delay — see us today.
But,
car in
South End Service
RUSS & CHUCK SNELL
Exeter Phone 328
Motors — Poultry Time Clocks
Thermostats — Furnace Controls
Waterheaters
Fixtures, etc.
GARFIELD THOMSON
EXETERPHONE 323-M
n
N&W. H Graham and Mr.MeKay
found the hunting good and bag
ged seven of the birds before
they took off to continue their
journey. Another large flock of
geese almost covered the water
at Lakeside while other flocks
t were reported to have landed on
; other ponds in this district. i
The first opportunity for the
I people of St. Marys and district
(Seaforth News) as well as any other visitors to
i inspect the new hospital was
Seven Teams Gast Friday and Saturday.
Organized badminton in this | Tiie Official Opening.on
Sport Shorts
This week the ice plant in the
new Seaforth Memorial Com
munity Centre was turned on.
The Clinton II. C. A. F. intermed
iate hockey team has been prac
tising on the artificial ice early
in the week. It is expected that
the R. C. A. F. team will use the ‘
community centre for its home!
ice.
I
, . _ _ ........Sat-district likely will be operated ‘ urt]ay Oct. 28th is an invitation
this fall tmd winter under direc-in?falr fol. tlie various heads of
tion of Western Ontario Badndn- ergaui2ations, municipal and
ton association in two divisions gom.ninent officials and others.
—”B” and “C”, ‘ -
A week-end meeting of representatives nf the various clubs in j Flan
“B” division held at the Recrea-1
tion Outre. RCAF Station, Clin- East proved very successful. | with
appears that the “B” league < school
have seven teams—Stratford,
, Kincardine, Goderich,
Clinton
ton,
It
will
Exeter. ______ _. .
Seaforth, Clinton RCAF and
Clinton-two more than last year.
Listowel dropped out but its
place is being taken by the ad
dition of Kincardine, Goderich
and Clinton IlCAF.
(Clinton News-Record)
(St. Marys Journal-Argus)
$1.10,000 Public school
movement now started in
Williams will be watched
keen interest by all rural
areas in the province.
East Williams plans to take a
vote of all eligible ratepayers on
whether they ate in favor or not
of issuing debentures for 110,000
for the building of one central
public school.
(Parkhill Gazette)
Hit Young Dear
While Mr. and Mrs. J. W, Holt
of Grand Bend were motoring
home from Goderich last Friday
evening, a fawn leaped out of
the ditch just south of Bayfield,
landing on the front of the car.
Some damage was done to the
par and the deer had to be des-
I troyed, as the police were sum
moned. One never can tell when
something can leap out while
motoring at any time.
(Zurich Herald)
Geese Over Town
Some Remained
For several hours early Satur
day morning, flocks of wild geese
were heard and observed pass-
ling over the town on their south
sward journey of migration. One
J large flock estimated to contain
I some three to four hundred birds
apparently became lost or tired
and landed on Homer McKay’s
■ farm south of St, Marys. Here
Bercy Foster, Marry Hughes,
‘Of
Four vital steps to security
(with something important in common)
i. A steady job is the
foundation of security. And
job-security can be in
creased by showing initia
tive — the quality which,
surveys prove, makes
workers most valuable.
Life insurance dollars, in
vested in industries and
public works, create many
new jobs each year.
The Voice
Of Temperance
. Vv
2. Owning your own
home builds security two
ways. It allows you to make
a sound investment through
regular savings, and it
brings freedom from hous
ing worries. Hundreds of
thousands of Canadians
now own their own homes,
built with the help of life
insurance dollar-
as death and
funny.” Second
that drinking,
to the joy of
Channing Brewster was not
an alcoholic, but one day he quit
drinking, Why? Here’s what he
says, First, the hangover, which
Is not the private property of
alcoholics and whose “visitation
was as certain
taxes, and just as
“I had to admit
as a contribution
life was for me >a bust.” Third
“it cost a lot of money.” Fourth,
he found that “alcohol gave me
a lift and then let go and I was
tireder and duller than before.”
He sums it up “Yes I was a mod
erate drinker. I did not crave
drink. Yet liquor was my master.
I didn’t like the idea of not be
ing my own master, » (advt.)
4. life insurance protects
you and your family as you
* build security in all these
other ways. It helps to
provide income for your
retirement. And it guaran
tees yojur dependants an
income in the event of your
death. Thtis by owning life
insurance you take your
most vital step to security 1
3, Cash rusouirces, such
as savings accounts and
Canada Savings Bonds,
promote security by pro
viding funds for emergen
cies. And it is important to
save regularly. Life insur
ance helps you save sys
tematically -- for family
protection, retirement and
other future needs.
Here's to your future I In all these ways, life in
surance helps you and yours to find greater security.
Today 5 million Canadian life insurance policyholders
are helping themselves and each other to face the
future with increasing confidence I
The LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES in Canada
and their Representatives
WORKING FOR NATIONAL PROGRESS , . , BUILDING PERSONAL SECURITY
.: ........ ..... .......... . .................f................. ClSSD