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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1950-03-09, Page 2THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, 1950 Cxeter lEnn£s=^bbocate Times Established 1873 Amalgamated November 1921 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 CWNA Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation /MEM3Stl\ JUDIT \ gUREAV y JRCULATI0W8 PaidJn-Advance Circulation As Of September 30, 1948 — 2,276 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Canada, in advance, $2.50 a year United States, in advance, $3,00 Single Copies 6 Cents Each PublishersJ. Melvin Southcott THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, 1950 Are We Equal To Freedom? All manner of devices are resorted to these days to have' our citizens forever free. Everywhere we turn we hear about the importance of giving youth a chance and of every citizen’s from want. Everyone shoul||^^^^^^S^^^ well clad, well fed, providKy^i^*^?jg^<J'-$ age, and given every slate’s expense, of., course ever, that this sort of out well. The more the people, the more the do for them. 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Francia looknnBBB&BBB and summoned the militJPHHWHHIIIIH called out: “Take this scoundrel to yon gallows and walk him under it six times, and tell him that the next time he does such work as this he’ll swing on the gal­ lows!” The result? That leather worker so improved in his work that ’ nowhere were belts their equal: The easy, second best way always leads to a gallows of some sort. A cbnsiderable amount of iron is needed in our way of getting on. We may be grow­ ing softer than we realize. We’ll do well to study the British elections with this in mind. The result was cliao'd with co Sir Harry’s Best Poorer are we, everyone of us. because of the passing of Sir Harry Lauder. It will’ never do to think of Sir Harry merely as a rollicking Scotchman bent on fun and lilt and cheery nonsense. Those who knew him as he was found him a hard working pat­ riot whose one aim was to lift the spirits of his countryman above the fear and gloom waiting to depress every heart. It was his purpose, and he accomplished that purpose, to enable the soldiers of the great wars, to see the object for which they fought. His "Wee Hoose Amang the Hea­ ther” went straight to every soldier’s soul and made him a better man. His "Roamin’ in the Gioantin’ by the Bonny Banks of Clyde” combined the glow of work well done and the warmth . and love of every normal worker. Best of all, when things were very dark for Britain that Christmas when His Majesty was uniting the empire by bonds of hope it was Sir Harry Lauder who gave the empire the slogan that stirred every patriot’s soul as he cried from the banks of the Clyde: "Send us the material and we’ll do the job. Mind, I’m telling ye.” Bombs had done their terrible work but they had no terrors for Scotchmen and Sir Harry knew it. "We’ll do the job” is the word that rings out the inmost aspiration of every Scottish Britisher. "Let him on wf me!” cried Bruce to his soldiers on the morning of Bannockburn. "We’ll do tlie job.” those men of the Clyde cried out of full hearts as bombs fell and sons and bro­ thers fell on a hundred seas and battle­ fields. Sir Harry’s cry that Christmas mor­ ning "We’ll do the job. Mind, Fm telling ye” will ring through patriotic hearts while blood runs in the veins of free men. « sjs That Kitchen Garden Dairymen and doctors alike are aware of the value of securing milk from healthy, well fed cows. These is something about milk procured under such conditions that makes it valuable beyond milk produced by cows that are underfed. The same is true of vegetables produced frorn^ soil that is riel) that Folk in all the constituents that make up imdefinable thing known as fertility, who have not thrived on vegetables by preventing you TIMES’* Go By visitors at new prop- Hotel, has per­ garage. Several residents of Exeter re­ ported an earth 'tremor. Pictures were moved on some walls and others were startled by the ratt­ ling of dishes. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Andrews have returned to the West after visiting Mrs. Andrew’s father, The curfew bell was rung Mon­ day at nine pan. for t he first time since passing the by-law. Robert Southcott from gardens with depleted soil have gained steadily in health when vegetables were procured from the soil in good condi­ tion, More and more parents are coming to see the importance of this fact. Yet the kitchen garden is neglected as far as main- ■■■MHKncreasing its fertility is con- HHHHHH results are inevitable. Children a while, only to become be- HMHHhe very time a surplus of vital- Any soil that is persistently H^HHHHiout being steadily fertilized in- HHHHHBes its quality. Run down' soil MH^HHHHuilt up quickly, no matter how HHHHHB;er is added. The soil becomes HHHHHi du ally by injudicious cropping, of rebuilding the soil is even and town people should of fertlizing their vegetable. HHHBBHH very best attention. The prob- MHHHHHloing is most interesting. Only wrought at this job realize |^^^^H^^Hting it is. If attention were the improvement in the the citizens would gradually MHHBBRB‘oas' Potatoes and onions and beets and spinach and all the HHHHHH of the garden may be improved care to a degree that will a c^ass food quite by them- And Future Prices a day business was accus- “As does the farmer so does ^^^^^^^Hately it is seen that the farmer He whole economy of the nation. HHHHHHpw s^°8an ‘‘As the national is the farmer”. Farmers will HnBBHHscnse when they consider this ’s’ there is abundance. HBBBBB.^ aJJ that goes to make up the HI^HHHBie commonwealth there will be plenty of money for the farmer. If business is dull and slow the farmer is bound to suffer with the butcher and baker and candlestick maker. The writer was return­ ing from market with "a farmer who was quite boastful of what he had sold. "You see those city people all depend on .the farmer!” he said. "To whom did you sell?” the writer inquired. "Why to those business men in the city. The farmers did not want my stuff.” Farmers prosper with other peo­ ple. A railroad was being built through Southern Ontario. Farmers, generally, re­ sented having the railroad run through their farms. The reeve of one of the town­ ships persuaded the farmers of his constit­ uency to approach the railroad with the offer of co-operation, an offer which was accepted. Almost over night the prices of everything the farmers had to sell ad­ vanced. Every farmer in that township benefited. Hence the value of roads to the farmer. Roads open up markets to his farms and his barns and liis fields. The farmer does not prosper by isolation but by being in intimate contact with the busi­ ness life of his day. Factories and mines and soldiers and sailors and manufacturers approach the farmer for food but with money in their hands. Hence the farmer’s need for adjusting his affairs. In 1918 the income of tile faarmers of Canada is estim­ ated to be four times the average farm in­ come of the years between 1935 and 1939, though tlie same figures show that the farmer’s cost did not keep pace with the increased income. If the fears are justified that the prosperity of 1949 is not to char­ acterize the coming years, tlie farmer will share proportionally in the business depres­ sion, He is in swimming with the rest of tlie country, and cannot hope to do less than to share the feared approaching losses just as he shared in the prosperity of the years we have just passed through. « 50 YEARS AGO The recent storm blocked the roads so badly that the teacher could not get to .school Monday morning. The storm and cold of Sunday is the principal topic of conversation.—-Sodom News. The patriotic carnival .in aid of the Red Cross fund given in the skating rink on Friday evening last was a huge success. At eight o’clock about twenty volunteers headed by the band and captain­ ed by Mr. Geo. Harness .marched up through Main Street to the ring, the band playing some live­ ly airs. The judges were Messrs. F. E. Karn, manager of the Mol- sons Bank, Hensail; -N. D. :Har- don and C. H. .Sanders, editor of The Advocate. Robert Donnelly, Glencoe, lias bought his brother Patrick’s in­ terest in the Donnelly .homestead in the township of Biddulipli, the scene of >a terrible tragedy of February 4, 1880, and is . now sole owner. 25 YEARS AGO ■Councillor James Ballantyne, of Usborne, met with a serious accident. He was endeavoring to start a steam engine, but owing to the cold had some difficulty. In some manner he became en­ tangled in the machinery and both bones of the right arm were fractured. His wrist was badly lacerated, exposing the tendons and he lost part of the index finger. , The Advocate Printing Com­ pany, which has been doing bus­ iness foi* 38 years was closed with the month of February, having been taken over by The Times-Advooate. What might have been a ser­ ious fire was averted by prompt discovery Saturday evening in Main St. Methodist Church. A quantity of wood placed near the furnace took fire and was notic­ ed by two young girls who noti­ fied the pastor, Rev. M. Clysdale who arrived in time to extinguish the flames before much damage was done. Thomas Nelson had a narrow escape from asphyxiation at his 15 YEARS AGO” ■Miss Dorothy Ryckman, nurse- in-trainiug at Victoria Hosftital, London, and Miss Gladys Ryck­ man, of Westervelt School, Lon­ don, were week-end their home here. Mr. J. J. Cox, the rietor of the Central secured from the council, mission to erect a large neon electric sign in front of the hotel. It will be one of the first of its kind in Exeter. Messrs. W. J. Beer and Gerald Skinner were in London the fore part of the week attending a Kelvinator convention. Mr. Skin­ ner took a short course in Kel- vinator service work-. Messrs. Janies Bowey and ,Chas, Salter were in Windsor over the week-end, and on Monday Mr. Bowey brought home a new Fold V-8. . IO YEARS AGO Miss Mary Gardiner, book­ keeper for Snell Bros, and Co., ■has won fpr herself an enviable position, having for the second time in succession been awarded first prize in an .accounting con­ test conducted each year by General Motors. Announcement came to J. C. Shearer at the ’Agricultural of­ fice at Clinton from the Ontario ■Minister of Agriculture, Hon. P. M. Dewan, that the rural school fairs for 1940 will be suspended. There were eight school fairs in Huron County last year, Following choir practice on Thursday night of last week, the members of James St. choir held a surprise Leap Year Birthday Party for Mr, Frank Taylor. & Is fear of failure from realizing some ambition or launching some new project? That was Howard T.’s trouble. As a mechanic in a garage, he had hopes that someday he would own his own auto repair business. He had the necessary experience and promises of financial backing, But certain obstacles that he would have to overcome always dis­ couraged him. So 'to this day he has never put his plan into action. The world is full of Howards — people who never give themselves a fair chance at success because obstacles, which could be over­ come by determined effort, held them back. This is not to say that obstacles should be ignored; it’s only com- mon sense to take them into account, But too often we overrate them, Frequently, too, we exaggerate the probable consequences of failure. Yet Cyrus Field failed three times before he succeeded in span­ ning the Atlantic with the first cable! So next time you shrink from tackling some project, step up your ‘’will to win”! • * Fear can also serve useful purposes — as, for example, when it prompts us to prepare for old age and emergencies by taking out life in­ surance. This common-sense step has been taken by more than 4p2 million Canadians. 170 Whojiasra stake IN THE TELEPHONE BUSINESS When you think about it, everybody has a stake, one way or another, in the tele­ phone business. 28,000 Bell employees and their families... 62,000 Bell shareholders and their families... Thousands of suppliers of materials for tele­ phone construction and expansion... 1,250,000 telephone customers in Ontario and Quebec, in homes, offices, hospitals, shops. Keeping pace with growing needs for more and better telephone service takes lots of 'work and lots of money. Only a financially healthy company can carry on this big job. Telephone users, employees, shareholders, — everyone has a vital interest in a service that means so much to the welfare of so many people. THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF CANADA Owned and operated by Canadian* for Canadians H. J. CORNISH & CO CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS 294 DUNDAS ST.LONDON, ONT. Park Yourself Somewhere And Read This Wouldn’t it be pleasant to have two full driving lanes down Exeter’s main street? Wouldn’t it be a relief to he able to drive down one of these Janes without the south end of a sedan suddenly sticking out in your sight? Wouldn’t it be econo­ mical to park without scraping fenders? It can be arranged, of course, with parallel parking . . , There is, however, an alternative that would make parallel parking not quite so necessary: Simply manufacture a car with bumpers that run along the sides from front fender to back fender . , . and a rear-view mirror that will look through the parked ear next to you so that you can sec ap­ proaching traffic . . - Our main street has more bumps and grinds than burlesque! One Man Alone What ean one man alone ac­ complish against the world? Lost in this tiny planet ^whirling in the dark immensity of .space, stifled by the growing complex­ ities of a civilization still close to savage? y, battered by struggle for existence, what one man -do to keep alive spark of human generosity kindness that will warm heart and set his path? By joining others a man the good he wishes to perform. By co-operating with others a man can help to stem the cur­ rents of misfortune and ill luck the can the and his ;ttide his hand with can see realized that overwhelm many. Red Gross is a channel for the kindest impulses of each one of us. It is this great co-operative effort, this response from one heart in concert with millions that makes the Red Cross a liv­ ing symbol of mercy. Each year Red Cross extends the opportunity to every one of us to do something to help others, and, in the last analysis, to help ourselves. Through its medium we express Canada’s gen­ erosity to otliev peoples of the world in dire need; we help out n e i g li b our when misfortune strikes; we lay the foundations for the better health and well- being of our own citizens and thd coining generations. That’s why we say, ,as the annual Red Cross appeal opens this March, ’‘Give generously! Give ifrom the heart!” The Voice Of Temperance * •» « Mr, D. P» O’Hearn writing in Saturday Night claims that ’'con­ ditions have improved” since the Ontario Government opened a variety of liquor outlets five years ago. Everyone will wish that Mr. O’Hearn had told us about these improved conditions. Because of an enormously in­ creased consumption of alcoholic beverages our conclusion had been that conditions were wor­ sening not Improving in Ontario. Out conclusion still is that with more drinking there Is bound to bo more trouble. (advt.) Malting Barley We are again contracting acreage for The Canada Malting Company SEED SUPPLIED — CONTACT US Geo. T. Mickle & Sons Phone 103 Hensall* Ont, Nights 133 on Guwanfeerf ISSUED for any amount.... lor a term of five years,»,, guaranteed both as to principal and interest, Interest cheques mailed to reach holders on due date, or, at holder’s option, may be allowed to accumulate at compound interest. 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