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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1950-05-04, Page 2Page 2 THE TIMES-ADVOCATE, EXETER, ONTARIO, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 4, 1950 Cxeter <imes;^Wocate Times Established 1873 Amalgamated November 102-1 Advocate Established 1881 Published Each Thursday Morning at Exeter, Ontario j An Independent Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the Village of Exeter and District Authorized os Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario-Quebec Division of the CAVNA / hureau 5 Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation (S^culatiqms Paid-In-Advance Circulation As Of September 30, 1948 —. 2,276 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Canada, in advance, $2.50 a year United States, in advance, $3.00 . Single Copies 6 Cents Each PublishersJ. Melvin Southcott THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 4, 1950 You Just Can’t Please Them Some time ago, John Bull urged Jack goods, John wanted goods : care to pay and Nothing loath to a hint that would bring home good Canuck to buy his dollars. Jack replied “Send us the we want at the price we you’ll get our dollars. take Canadian dollars, John and his thrifty boys manufactured automobiles that served well a definite class in Canada and at a price that coaxed the nimble dollars out of Jack’s trousers. But what happened? The cry was raised “John is making a dumping ground for his autos.” At once a complaint was made to Ottawa that the Canadian manufacturer was losing some of his gains. “But,” the government replied, “there was a demand for British goods at a drawing price. Why should the government shut off the market the people of Canada asked it to encourage?” In the world of business a great deal depends upon whose ox is gored. iWe still use that fine old grace before meat “Bless me and my wife. My son John Us four and no more. Amenand his wife, and amen.”. # & New Transcontinental * That It has been determined upon that there is to be a hard-surfaced road stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific. ^Recently representatives from all the provinces mak ing up the Dominion method of carrying out could be agreed upon, vinces did not see their on with the undertaking. .are not in a position to discuss the proposi tion. There is one thing all are agreed upon: namely, that the cost, will be enorm ous. These people urge that the C.N.R. should be made a paying proposition before the proposed road should be undertaken. Others object that they do not see how the proposed road can be made to pay its way. It is not at all likely that the * road ever will be such a great freight handler and it is in the handling of freight that those large roads make their money. It is urged, moreover, that the road is not at all likely to be a paying passengei’ carrying proposi tion. Yet it would be “a nice thing to have”. At the same time it will* cost of treasure to build it and a whole cash to maintain it. Canada has gone the limit in portation. We have what Alexander called '‘‘magnificent water stretches. We have the C.P.R., about the finest railroad in the world. We have the C.N.R., a railroad that is but waiting to be well managed to make it an energizing rival to the C.P.R. Com pared with the population of the country, Canada is well served by transportation facilities. It is urged that the proposed highway would serve as a fine advertise ment of Canada by increasing tourist travel. But would not that be an expensive method of advertising? However the people of Canada when they think usually think right. The present moment is the time to think. There is no use to jump into an undertaking only to spend the rest of one’s lift regretting that lie did so. # & # # What Do You Make Of It? One of Shakespeare’s plays was ad vertised to be broadcast over an extensive system, A whole lot of us were settling down for a real treat. We liad had our nap and had secured all the accessories for an hour’s thorough enjoyment, When just as we were in the best of shape to listen to one of the finest of entertainments, the radio told us that it was to be a ease of hope deferred. The play was not to be broadcast. A hockey game was to occupy the hour. So we subsided and crept wearily to bed. The reason for changing the program ” is obvious: More Canadians are interested in hockey than they are in Shakespeare, our greatest Englishman. Those radio peo ple know what their listeners want and give it to them. They know their listeners’ preferences and make up their programs accordingly. The radio in this instance has given Canadians an opportunity of seeing themselves as wide-awake students of hu man nature see them. The rest is up to us. » * * Those Weather Conditions Most people do not undertake to keep a close record of the weather conditions. Had we done so we should have been in a position to make comparisons of this spring with other springs, In a general way we arc safe in saying that seeding opera tions are a month behind the average seed ing time. This year the delay is caused by met to see if a such a proposition Four of the pro way clear to going Most Canadians a deal lot of trans- -• f Applications Received Through Your Local Agent or Solicitor HEAD OFFICE: TORONTO Ontario Branches at London, Brantford and Windsor 3% INTEREST I An Attractive Short-Term Legal Investment Principal and Interest Fully Guaranteed F. R. Hughes, Manager, 284 Dundas St., London day TIMES* Go By PLUMBINGEAVESTROUGHING ALUMINUM and GALVANIZED ROOFING fellow-citizens in the Red River in New Brunswick? Labour Party Sustained •Redecorate your roofs and • buildings by painting this spring' Robert Southcott unusually wet conditions of the soil. A lively fall of snow during1 the last week of, the month has kept the farmers off the land for another ten days,. Bad as things have been -with us, they have been ,a great deal worse in the Red River Valley regions where record-breaking floods have held dominion. Folk in this region are anxious about harvest. What must be the state of mind of our district and The That was an occasion the other when that strategic vote was taken in the British parliament. The slogan of both sides of the House was a noble one. “This is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party” was held up in let ters that even the dullest could compre hend. And the good men came, some on staves, some swathed in liniment and fine linen, some dull of eye and some trembling palsy. But they were there and the party whips were triumphant. Had there ever been such an assembly of the great and the near great of all shades of parliamentar ians? Then came the vote and the stalwarts were- free for their holidays. We can hear many of those good men and true asking “What was it all about?” Ninety per cent of the voters returned to leading their own quiet lives and to personal freedom. Still, it is dinned into every voter’s ear. “Keep near. You may be needed to vote at any time.” Well, is it a good thing that some of the empire law makers are good for something. They can vote as they are told. # * $ * Those Doukobors Danger lies with the extremist. This is a principle, that holds true in all lines of human activity. In this country we insist that every man shall have the. liberty of worshipping God at the altar of his choice. At the same time we insist that no man shall so practice his belief that he’ll make a nuisance of himself. And destructive nui sances some of the Doukobors are making of themselves by burning people’s houses and behaving themselves obnoxiously various ways. The people of the Kootenay districts and the provincial governments and the federal government are rightfully taking steps to see that these people be have themselves in a seemly manner. The government can do no less. When the. mob spirit once is roused no one can forecast the result. It is reported, too, that some of those eccentric people are. desirous of leav ing Canada. That is their privilege and no one in Canada will act sanely by trying to restrain them. But has Canada in her schools and churches and her social workers ever ap proached her full duty in having these strangers Canadianized ? It does not look like it. The Doukobors have a zeal but it does not coincide 'with Canadian common sense. Those people fled from persecution. To them the government whence they came was oppressive, cruel. Evidently the Douk obors have cherished the opinion that all governments are the enemies of freedom, In the land whence they came they had found the church anything but their friend and avoided her accordingly. They natural ly would entertain much the same concep tion of the church when they came to Canada. Hence their shrinking from the government of this land and from the pale of Canadian churches. Apparently have failed to correct the peculiar views of those people. The result is fanaticism on the part of the Doukobors. It is too late in the day for the older people among those strange people, but the youth and the children in their midst must be dealt with. Modern education will do wonders with those young people and those children, The nurse and the social worker “have a rare opportunity among them. For many a day the workers will need tlie protection of the strong and readily available hand of the law to enable them to proceed in safety, but goodwill will prevail, as surely as light conquers darkness. Canada-has a duty with those people. That duty cannot but be difficult but it is a duty eminently worth doing, in we I is. $ # The figures on the sign posts of Exeter giving the population of the town fail to do the municipality justice. A motorist passing through Exeter stated that he was surprised to find that Clinton was so much larger than Exeter. He was judging the towns by their own figures^ prominently displayed. Exeterites arc proud of the pro gress being made and want all who are in terested to know about it GUARANTEED TRUST CERTIFICATES CROWN TRUST COMPANY « 50 YEARS AGO The Gendron 'Company of To ronto are going to start a large furniture factory here at St. Jo seph, in the near future. 'Coates—Gould — 'On Wednes day, April ,25, by Rev. C. W. Brown at the residence of the bride’s mother, Mr. Chas. Coates, Pontiac, Mich., to Miss Ida M. Gould of Exeter. Maple syrup is marketing at ?1 per gallon. Miss E. Gould who has been on a three months’ visit to-Belle ville, the guest of her brother, returned home Tuesday. Last week the employees of Messrs. Dyer and Howard’s plan ing factory presented a petition to the 'proprietors asking that they grant them .the privilege of quitting work every Saturday at five o’clock. Their request very generously considered granted. Huron Presbyterial will be held at Main Street United Church, Exeter, on Tuesday, April 30. Students from Western Uni- vesity, London, were home for Easter. Among them were Misses Margaret and Jeanette Tamen, Helen Penhale and Kathleen W i s e m a a n d Messrs. Hugh •Creech, . Harry Jennings, .Earl 'Christie, G. Cochrane, Rowe Din- ney and A. R. Bell. The Council, the Board of Education, the clergy and the teachers of Exeter are planning a mammoth celebration for the morning o'f May 6, the fifth anniversary of the ascension to the throne. C a v e n 'Presbyterian held re-opening services on Sun day. The main auditorium has been closed for several weeks while alterations were being af fected and the walls and ceiling redecorated. Give us a call and we will send an experienced man with well-equipped truck to do your wiring or that repair job. was and twenty- King’s Church 25 YEARS AGO Mr. and Mrs. H. Bowers moved into the apartments of E. C. Harvey. ’ At ,a public meeting in t'he town hall it was decided to ask the council to submit a by-law for the erection of a two-room addition to school. ■Mr. and entertained pupils of S.S. No. day afternoon. A bush had been arranged but owing to unpleasant weather, games were played at the house. have the Exeter public Leo Ferguson teachers 1 Usborne Fri- picnic to the and 15 YEARS AGO The annual meeting of the IO YEARS AGO A large number of Sunday School pupils, teachers and for mer pupils met at the Thames Road 'Church last Friday to do honor to the past superintendent, Mr. WillRan Moodie. Mr. Moodie was presented with a beautiful mantel clock. Five hundred ladies attended the meeting of Huron Presby terial at Northside United Church in Seaforth on Tuesday last. Mr. and Mrs. Amos Darling and family of Ailsh Craig have moved to Exeter. On Saturday morning last while delivering for Jones & iMay, Mr. A. J. Payne had the misfortune to sustain a com- 'pond fracture of .the right leg when kicked by a horse. Plan New Clinics Arthritic and rheumatic suf ferers in Ontario will benefit from the successful appeal of the Canadian Arthritis and Rheu matism Society which opened across the nation May 1, accord ing to Dr. Frank S. Brien, pro fessor of medicine at Western University, and president of the Ontario division. Outpatient clinics for arthritic Victims are planned for nine On tario areas, with mobile clinics to bring treatment into homes for two sections. Aimed at tripling existing fa cilities for treatment within the first year as well as increasing intensive research into the use of new drugs, and providing fellowships for specialized train ing for young Canadian doctors, the appeal’s success will affect some 600,000 Canadians suffer ing from these baffling second only to mental as human crippiers. “Medical science has discoverd the cause of but it does know how to prevent much of the crippling it causes, and the Society seeks to make available as widely as possible the fruits of this knowledge,” Dr. Brien said. In Ontario, the ^society plans to establish out-patient clinics for arthritis sufferers in co operation with Victoria Hospital at London, the Hamilton Gene- SMILES .... diseases, illnesses not yet arthritis The new vicar had preached his first sermon, and a critical member of the church, an ex ceedingly fat man, waylaid him after the service. “Not a bad beginning, sir,” he said, patronizingly; “a bit too scientific and modern, perhaps, quite fair. Remember parson, you must feed the sheep,” The vicar surveyed 'his bulky critic. and replied: “My dear man it’s exercise you need, not food,” Wright Electric — CONTRACTORS — R.R. 1, St. Marys Phone Kirkton 27-3 every seeding of ALFALFA and CLOVER J Don’t take chances. Wort With’ na- W ture. Always inoculate Clover and \ Alfalfa seed with LEGUME-AID, the high potency inoculant. Costs only few cents an acre. Gets big results in better crops and increased soil fertility. Guarantee date on every package. Drop in and ask for par ticulars. Remember the name ral, in the General, St. Michaels, and Western hospitals, in Toron to, at Kingston General, the Ot tawa 'Civic and General hospit als, with a ninth tentatively- scheduled for Windsor. Similar plans have been made for eleven other centres in Canada. Short clinic courses will be made available to district doctors to provide them with both prac tical dnd research experience in these diseases. Many of the patients suffering deforming arthritis are home makers whose domestic responsi bilities generally make is im possible for them to take pre-i scribed rest. Patients of this type will benefit greatly by the So ciety’s 'plans to sponsor mobile clinics and so send skilled physiotherapists into homes of outlaying districts. Two such mobile units are iplammd for On tario, one at Kingston, the other at Ottawa. Contributions toward fighting this menace to the nation’s health may be sent to Ontario Headquarter’s, 34 Yonge St., To ronto, or direct to the national offices of the Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism .Society in Ot tawa, LEGUmE-BID: Also Available For FIELD & CANNER BEANS FIELD & CANNER PEAS SOY BEANS Canadian Distributors MacNaughton Seeds Ltd. EXETER ------ ONTARIO The purchase of fertilizer is sometimes a headache. Because the need for it usually comes at a time when there are a lot of expenses and little income, __ Avoid that headache this year. See your B of yf manager about a Ioan. Repayment | terms are easy—suited to a farmer’s require- meats. Drop id at your nearest BofM ;< * The Voice Of Temperance < . * * Inspector Vernon Page is boss of the Toronto Police Traffic drunkDivision, In regard drivers Inspector ’‘Drunk drivers are menace every year.” tics bear out the judgement. In 1945 __ 4 S3 drinking drivers were in volved in accidents. In 1949 the number had increased to 826. In Sweden they have coped successfully with this menace by giving the police power to make blood alcohol tests on all drivers. If the alcohol percentage js above the equivalent of one medium drink of whisky sent to jail, The erauce Federation drastic action. to Page .says: a .greater The statis- Inspector’s in /Toronto the driver is Huron Temp asks for this (Adv’t.) ...................................................... branch today, or as sodn as convenient. Bank of Montreal Exeter Branch: C» E: SHAW, Manager Crediton Branch: C. W. Parkinson, Manager Open Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Dashwood (Sub-Agency): Open Monday, Wednesday and Friday Hensail Branch: JOHN IRVIN, Manager WORKING WITH CANADIANS IN EVERY WALK OP LIFE SINCE 1817 AD 104