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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1950-03-23, Page 2Rage 2 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 23, 1950 Wbe Exeter Times Established 1873 Amalgamated November 192-1 Advocate Established 1881 Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario An Independent Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of th© Village of Exeter and District Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association jfi Member Of the Ontario-Quebec Division of the CWNA Member of tlie Audit Bureau of Circulation C Paid-in-Advance Circulation As Of September 30, 1948 -— 2,276 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Canada, in advance, $2.50 a year United States, in advance, $3.0Q Single Copies 6 Cents Each * PublishersJ, Melvin Southcott THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 23, 1950 A Marked Improvement Listeners-in on the music furnished by the public schools of the province have been surprised and delighted at the change made in the singing of the pupils during1 the past few years, Of course, we used to sing in the good old days but the chief merit of our singing was the volume of sound we produced, The pupils of those' fax* off days were not trained. Some sang a song* and the youngsters went through the motions of singing and that' was all there was to it. Very gradually the thought of “music in the public schools” gathered momentum. An indispensable requisite of a teacher was a positive answer to the ques tion “can you sing?”. Then came the days when a regular music teacher was em ployed. At this stage the main qualification for the music teacher was knowledge of her craft. This has been followed by the engagement of a music teacher who is also master of the art of teaching. The result has been encouraging, as the performances of Education Week have shown. One in teresting* feature is the success that is fol lowing efforts in the way of guiding the changing voices of boys of the "awkward” a8e‘ ................... Britain’s Financial Crisis Britain is up against another financial crisis. This, at least, is what is being com monly said by Britain’s best informed men. This, too, is what is being said by informed men in Washington. This news comes as a surprise as we had been lead to believe that Britain was producing with unusual success. Britain has been producing surpris ingly well but she does not seem to be <> producing the things that command the' attention of buyers with dollars in their pockets. And dollars are the very thing that Britain needs if she is to keep pro gressing in the financial race. Let it not be forgotten that Britain has borrowed largely from dollar countries. Along: with this fact goes another fact that seems to have been overlooked, the fact that borrowed money i.*» required to be paid back. Still another consideration must be given attention. Brit ain borrowed, allegedly, to get onto a sound business basis. Only to a limited ex tent has she spent her money in the interest of sound business. She has gone in for un wise expenditure, particularly in the way of social welfare. And in addition, she has been spending her money for anything from toothpicks to wigs, so to speak, as our grandfathers used , to say. The result has been that the one time sturdy Britishers have come to be a people who crowd every place where they may receive donations of one kind or another, without considering the justice of their claims. Folk sit in of- " fices looking for a handout when they should be keeping their* gardens clean. These people take a day off whenever they jolly well like and snap their fingers under* the noses of their employers. It takes neither a prophet nor a prophet’s son to ■See the outcome of this sort of thing. Fur ther, Britain borrowed enormously from India and India is now* looking for repay ment of the sums advanced. No one blames her for this. But the action of India in her just seeking the return of the money she loaned, does not reduce the pressure on Britain’s* money supply. All in all, Brit ain has some tall hustling to do, especially since the ugly fact looms up that Britain's government, call it by whatever name one may choose, is socialized and socialism and all its works is renounced by Uncle Sam. And this is one reason why the United states is sniffing nastily about loaning Britain any more dollars under the Marshal Flau or any other plan. a & # a Is Canada About To Retrench? Two or three speeches made by lead ing parliamentarians lead the public to be lieve that the lid of the federal money chest is closing down. Mr. Gardiner, the Minister of Agriculture, had something to say in his own special way, that farmers had belter think twice before they look for large sums to support their farming enter prises. Then Mr. Abbot said something along this line the other day in Hamilton. Still later another parliamentarian, near to the cabinet uttered something of the same language. It is a little difficult to say where the lightning is to strike or whether the financial storm will but thunder and pass by, We have known farmers to build them selves off their farms. We have known businesses to expand till they burst like the over-inflated frog. What Canaada needs is a careful consideration of her policy of ex- "IN§URAHGE 'FQR P E A C 1$ of the Army '.«S>« TIMES* Go By Robert Southcott iUDJT \ murtad y YIRCUIJWWS pansion. What is needed, too, is uKcareful and detailed consideration of what other nations will invest in promoting* inter-» national welfare. Everyone is a friend of the party who gives gifts. But neither governments nor individuals become strong by mere gift giving. What is. needed is growing* trade on equal terms. We must look for as good as we get. Further, there is pressing* need for increasing Canadian resources. Fisheries must be improved. For ests must give the world markets better timber, g*ood as oui* timber now is. Oux* Canadian soil must be rebuilt. Not only must the soil be stimulated but it must have its present constituents added, to the point where they are made practically new. Mechanisms of * one sort and another are all very well, but these mechanisms require raw material if they are to give the entic ing articles. * ❖❖ Those Surpluses They have a surplus of potatoes and eggs in the United States. We have a sur plus of apples in Canada as well as of other products. Manufacturers are telling of having* reached the peak in some of their products. At the same time, a good deal is heard of shortages of food in other parts of the world. Farmers complain that the cost of then* machinery while housewives of food has not ishers find that price of much of where American Should, they reduce the price of their goods any further, the standard of living* will fall with consequent discontent. The situation is a puzzling one. Folk can eat and wear only up to a certain point. Only a limited amount of machinery can be used and so on all through. Further, the price of trans portation of goods must be considered? The problem of distribution is a difficult one. This thing of getting goods to the people who can pay for them has not been ade quately dealt with. * The Innocent Suffer Coal barons have advanced the price of coal to a figure looking something like a dollar bill. The miners have had their wages increased to a handsome figure. So far so good. There is another party to the merry-go-round, namely the party who pays fox* the coal. Coal barons and coal miners have done the equivalent of taking some handsome shovelfuls* of coal out of every ton purchased without as much as saying by your leave ox* saving your favor. Meanwhile, the coal burner either shivers <»r takes to some other means of battling with Jack Frost. The men at the top are in high feather about the coal business. Meanwhile, they are singing a nice little song to the effect that the-worst is yet to come. However, there is a time when the consumer turns. Unless we are misinformed there is something on the. way in the pro ducts of the forest that will come to human relief. Chemistry 1ms not exhausted its re sources in the way of transforming waste materials into good heat and power pro ducts. The “interests” are aware of this and are busy protecting themselves against interference with their coffers $ * * Those Provincial Hospitals Why should not our provincial hospi tals be supported wholly by provincial funds? These institutions are mainly for the benefit of the public. Why should the public, generally, be responsible for their maintenance? The day is right here when mental health is regarded as a greater public asset than bodily health. Indeed, may physical ills are now traced to mental states. Some physical ills are regarded as a menace to the public and are so treated regardless of the preference of the individ ual. When for any cause an individual is regarded ns a menace to the public, either actually or potentially, he. is taken rare of in the interest of the public. Further, cases are of common occurrence where patients are physically ill who, no matter what the cost, are taken care of at the public ex pense. Why should not the mentally ill be given the same financial advantages*? The treatment of mental cases, in many in stances, is enormously expensive. In such cases the average citizen simply cannot pay the bills. Since the mental hospitals are run in the public interest, it is but just, to say the very least, that all their expenses should be borne by the public they serve. is too high have found that the cost fallen appreciably. Brit- thev cannot reduce the their goods to the place demand is noticeable. ©—*------——---------——* 50 YEARS AGO . V. Ratz M.'P. and Henry JEilber M.P.'P., of 'Ottawa and Toronto respectively, spent Sunday at home with their families. ■—• C'rediton. N. M. Confine spent part of last week in the County town getting the town of St. .Joseph registered.—St. Joseph Ne'ws. Messrs J. G. Stanbury and W. J. Heaman gave a sleighing party on Tuesday evening. The party was driven to Hensail and, on returning, was very pleasant ly entertained at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. .J. A. Stewart. While Fred Gillespie was on his way to the depot yesterday moving with the dray and driv ing at a lively rate to catch the train, one of the whiffletrees became loose and the team ran away. Fred hung on and finally succeeded in getting them .stop ped. No damage was done save a bad cut on one of the horses' legs. The new pqiler for the power house arrived Tuesday and will be set in place at once. The engineer will be here shortly and it is expected that the electric lights will be in running order by April 1. 25 YEARS AGO A pleasant evening was spent at the home of Mr. and Mrs. *M. R. Complin Monday, the occa sion being Mr. Complin’s birth day. Mr. Complin was presented with a gold-headed cane. Mrs. S. Bradt of Exeter North has been seriously ill with blood poison. Before milking a cow, she ran her hand over Bossie's back, picking up a sliver which developed rapidly into blood poison, spreading up her arm. She is somewhat improved. The roads are heavy with mud. Benson Turkey has .taken a position as dry goods clerk with Jones 6r May, taking the place NERVE CENTRE of Reg, Knight, who has taken up farming. Hogs, selects, were quoted at $13.4'5. 15 YEARS AGO Now is the time to prepare for the planting of lots of flow ers for the Re-union in July. Hon. J. G. Gardiner, Premier ofxSaskatchewan, .was in town on Tuesday accompanied by his mother, Mrs, Elizabeth Gardiner, of Usborne, and both of them are looking forward to the cele bration in July. Premier Gar diner says there are o^r 150 Huron Old Boys in Regina alone, the majority of them from around Exeter. Mr. Leo Hennessey is in To ronto this week atending a four day school at the’ Royal York Hotel, sponsored by the Ontario Hydro Electric Commission. The boys of the vicinity sere naded Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Johns last Friday evening with a chivari. IO YEARS AGO The London, Huron, Bruce train was derailed by ;tlie hard snow that blocked the tracks in a storm near Blyth on Tuesday morning. Owing to the severe storm the auction sale of the effects of the late William Oke edvertibed for Wednesday has been postponed; the Thames Road oyster supper has been postponed to Tuesday, April 2; the Exeter Bowlers Dance has been postponed to April 3, and the national govern ment meeting at which Hon. Leopold Macauley was to speak has been cancelled. Schools close this Thursday evening for the Easter* vacation. Mr, and Mrs. Josiah Kestle, of town, will on Easter Monday celebrate their golden wedding anniversary. Want Minimum Price For Beans Established At $3.60 A Bushel I Reduction of beau acreage this year by Hi per .cent, and estab lishment of a minimum price oE $3.60 per bushel for beans were urged at the annual meeting at Zurich of Huron "County Bean Growers Association. D, M. Campbell of Blenheim, reelected president of the as sociation, urged a floor price of $3.60 a, bushel and that produc ers reduce acreage by ten per cent this year* He~said the market just now is “very poor” because of the loss of the British market through devaluation of the pound sterling, but he expected to all present stocks sold by end of July. The Association passed a see the re- “You know, dear, this con stant practice Is going to help me go st long way in the hog calling contest?* solution urging a floor ptice oE $3.60' per bushel, three dollars of .which would go to the pro ducer, and the remainder to the Ontario Bean Marketing Board. Officers Re-elected Along with Mr, Campbell, all other officers of the associations were re-elected for another year, David. Ducharme was chairman of the meeting, held in the town hall, which was packed to cap acity. Gordon Bennett, of Clinton, Huron township agricultural rep resentative) urged farmers to stand together, Thus, they could command prices, Robert McPherson, ham, was re-elected treasurer o£ the association, and -the following board members were also returned: Alonzo Mc Cann, Dashwood; George Arm strong, Ilensall; It. Taylor, Var na; E. Hendrick, Dashwood; W. Haugh, Dashwood; Augustine Roche, Zurich; Roy Campbell, Hay township; Otto Wiliert, of Dashwood. Charles Bannister, Alisa Craig, member of the seed committee of the Ontario Bean Marketing Board, and Hoy Jewell, director of farm services, along with the new officers, spoke briefly. lie said, better of Chat secretary- A school teacher tells about a little boy whose coat was so difficult to fasten that she went to his assistance. As she tugged at the hook, she asked: “Bid yq/xr mother hook this coat tor you!” “No?* was the astounding {reply, “she bought it?* Communications are vital to every phase of Army operations. A single message could be the deciding factor of victory or defeat. The men responsible for this key operation are trained in the use of the most advanced equipment and methods — wireless, telegraphy, electronics, telephone. The opportunities to learn and advance in the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals are boundless. 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