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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1957-02-07, Page 2jprl!1, J.MS, They're Only Toys Now. a combination of unfortunate circum- stances which was ,respqnsible. But the situation could have been avoided if there was some type of welcoming committee in the •. com- munity which could have been advised of their arrival. *We don't suggest that immigrants should be handed a silver spoon when they arrive here. We do think, how- ever, some common courtesy could be extended, Ask the immigrants who have' al- ready established here and are now freely mingling with native Canadians. They'll tell you what a tough time it is to establish a home in a new coun- try with a different language, differ- ent monetary system, customs and climate, It's no fun. The idea of welcoming immi- grants would be more in line with Canada's immigration policy, than our present attitude is. Reports indicate government officials paint Canada and its hospital* in glowing terms to the Europeans._ Either the officials should change their story or the people at home should make it true. We're ob- viously creating bad public relations the way we're operating now. Another' point: let's not try to suppress their culture here. Some Canadian citizens seem to think the newcomers should change completely to our customs and methods as soon as they set foot on our soil, In reality Canadians can learn something from the Europeans\ if they want to—their culture is much older and much more experienced than our own. Crown Attorney H. Glenn Hays .was reported recently to have stressed the great contribution which New Canadians can make to Canada. He said he was repeatedly impressed by the extent of their skills, their desire to adapt themselves to,`the Canadian, way of life and, above all, by their deep abiding faith in democracy and ,. the extent to which, they appreciated' their individual responsibilities as Citi- zens in a democracy. Immigrants will play a decisive part in Canada's expansion over the next 25 years. Let's encourage them to contribute their talents to our de.-. velopment. Right Note tt Exeter ttimeabbocate • TWOS Esiiblished 103 Amalgamated 1924 Advocate Established 1881 Published Each Thursday Morning at Stratford, Otitario AA Independent Newspiper Devoted to the Interests of the Town of Exeter and District Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa MEMBER: Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, ,Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association and Audit Bureau of Circulation‘ AWARDS: 195$—A, V. Nolan Trophy, weal excellence for newspaper* published to °Marie towns between 1,500 and 4,500 population; I, Stephenson Trophy for' boat front peg. omen* Ontario weekly newspepers (else won in MO. eittailis 10st/ratite Oetleration• neflinir safety award, Onterie Safety League award. Paid-in-Advance Circulation as of September 30, 1146--2,734 ItiliStelloTiON RATES On Ativanci)..ianade $3.00 Per Yeer, U.S.A. $4.00 PUbliSbed by '714 Exeter Timet,Advocato Limited "That • 4 VIC DINNIN Savings Investments .and Annuity Certificates INVESTORS SYNDICATE of Canada, Limited INVESTORS MUTUAL of Canada Ltd. Balanced Mutual Fund Shares PHONE 168 ZURICH DR. H. H. COWEN DENTAL SURGEON L.D.S., D.D.S. Main •Street ExOter Closed Wednesday Afternoon PHONE 36 ALVIN WALrER PROVINCIAL LICENCED AUCTIONEER For your sale, large or small, courteous and efficient service at all times. "Service that Satisfies" PHONE S14,2 bASHWOOD ARTHUR FRASER INCOME TAX REPORTS BOOKKEEPING SERVICE ETC. Ann St., Exeter Phone 504 W. G. COCHRANE, B.A. BARRISTER & SOLICITOR NOTARY PUBLIC Hensill Office Friday Afternoon EXETER• PHONE 14 G. A. WEBS, D.C.* "Doctor of Chiropractic 434 MAIN StitEET, EXETER kitty and Laboratory Facilities Open 'Each • Weikel ay ' EXCept WithrieSdaY Tues, A Thurs, EveriinitS Pot ,Appointment Phette 606 'If some welfare organization iu the community is: looking for a service project, we'd like to suggest one, How about the establishment of a Committee to welcome new Canadians? We're a little late we know. Im- migrants have been arriving in the area: during the past .10 years and they haven't received any community re- ception. Nevertheless, a belated effort is better than none at all. The suggestion is prompted by the recent experience of the four Hungarians who arrived here, around New Year's. Placed in a farmhouse used for sugar beet' workers, the two couple's suffered ill-effects from the cold weather and became disillusioned when the jobs they were offered failed to materialize. From the facts we've been able to gather, no one person can be blam- ed for the disheartening experience 'the Hungarians suffered. Rather it was Health Week As the "TIMES" • Go By By Wal t Disney 'MERRY MENAGERIE 0 !`You're lovely, darling your pearls are like teeth!" )4957 , Walt Disney productions World Rights Reserved 4:.4 Distributed by xing Features Syndicate, iiiiii iiii iiiiiiiiiiii MO iiiii NIMMINNOMMONN lllll IMMIN lllllll NIMMINIMMINOMMINNIN lll N RUBBER STAMPS ARE AT1ME SAVING TOOL We-can give quick : en)iceikaupplyint custom made rubber alaraPzu,al badift prices,. Drop in and tell us ultal you, taint . welt have if ready for you with. in a couple of duos. The Timer Advocate ACCURACY_ ‘1 Tirne}Ativisalet February 7, 1 #fir Editorials This tteWSPaPer itolisues the. right to ettpreSs an opinion n .public contributes to the •progress of the nation end that must kw exercised firs.ly to .priservo and boors:vs tiom.ocritic government. efvic* Project' • • • Letts Welcome Newcomers Who Assist In Expansion Dr. M. G, Candau, director-general Of the World Health Organization, urges Canadians to think of the inter- national situation in this message con- cerning National Health Week:,. "People living in countries where good health is considered as the nor- mal state of a man, and where safe water supplies, garbage disposal and general sanitary services are accepted as a natural part of life, usually find it difficult to realize what it is like to be without thein. Yet their own grand- fathers understood this very well, for most of the /amenities and health and medical services which today are taken for granted in a country. like Canada simply did not exist, or existed in a very primitive form, 60 years ago. We often forget that a relatively short space of time separates the countries Which we label "advanced" from those We label "under-developed". "The speed and effectiveness with .which modern medical and health ser- %vices can' attack many of the age-bld 'diseases are very striking; but there is an even more remarkable side to health progress in our post-war world. For one thing, the so-called under- deVeloped countries have fully, realiz- ed both the possibility and the. urgent necessity of improving the health and social situation of their peoples. Equal- ly. significant is the' fact that all the natinns of the world have accepted the truth that unequal' development in health matters, as between one coun- try and another, is a grave danger to all. "This conviction that the health of the world is of deep and immediate.' • concerti to all countries without excep- tion led to 'the establishment in 1948 of the World Health Organization. "During this year's, Health Week, I hope that Canadians will think' about this wider concept of health, and about the real reasons underlying inter- national efforts to raise' health stand- ar& everywhere. These international efforts whether initiated by bodies like the World Health. Organization or by individual countries should not be thought of as acts. of generosity or charity. On the contrary, if the 'coun- tries of the world have joined together in a common endeavour to achieve equality in health progress, it is be- cause they are enlightened enough to perceive where their true self-interest lies. "This is the message that I would like you to ponder during your Health Week in 1957 which, I am sure, will meet with even greater Sticess than in previous years, Its purpose will be Well served -if the occasion is used to emphasize the significance not only of national health problems, important though they certainly are, but also of health-in a world context." It is rather startling when one stops to _consider tile tremen- dous changes .that have taken' Place in the short space of one's lifetime,, particularly noticeable in:..Panada because it is. young. service C().14'hi141;.b.4estSwth'egen‘GLonthtleoupaatissrgj Stanley recalls to memo* the eelebration that tools place when this, the first eleetrte railway in Canada, was inaugurated. had the honor . of representing the Exeter Times, in company with . other newspaper represent- atives and dignatories from Lon- don and the 'hydro department in.' Toronto, on. its. inaugural rtint which according to the London Free Press was in 1915, • The electric line was the dream of Sir Adam Beck, the father of hydro, and the line from Lou- don to Port Stanley was only the beginning of what was to be a network of eleetrie powered' railroads throughout the pray-. Ince. The power plant Was es- tablished at St. Thomas. and equipped with additional power to provide for extensions of roads from St. Thomas to Ayl- pier and down to Port Burwell `hnd also to Tillsonburg. Railroads during the early part of the century were con- sidered -the principal factor in the development of any com- munity.. It is DO doubt that be- cause of being off the main lines of railway traffic that Huron County and the Huron Tract has not developed industrially td.' any great extent and. has ro- mained chiefly an agricultural district, With the slowing up and. passing of railway service and the coining of motor transporta- -Bon Huron county has picked up industrially, with brighter .pros- pects in .the future. At about the same time that plans for the London and Port Stanley railroad were taking shape other plans for an .east and west line from' Stratford to Lake Huron were under con- sideration. One plan called for a line from Stratford, through the Russeldale, Mt. Pleasant area and through Exeter to the lake and down to Sarnia. ' Another proposal was the dream of Mr. Cantin for an electric line through Hensel' to St. Joseph with a harbor at the lake. In promoting this dream a railway :coach was purchased and stationed at .Herisall. The London, Huron and .13ruee railway at the time was con- sidered ono of the teat paying. divisions of the old. Grand Trunk. railway and it was. to tap the rich agricultural lands 'of this section - and provide transporta- tion to tins lake that .the new lines were ,contemplated but for- tunately never came to fruition. Sir Main Beck's. .drea'm start- ed and ended with the London DISPENSED BY .BILL SMILEY It's nice to'see old friends. And 'it's nicer still when they say: "Why, you haven't changed a bit;" You cast your eyes down coyly, and start to make inane remarks about only being as old as you feel, 'when they follow, up with: "I'd know you anywhere, even though you've lost a lot of. hair. How long have' you had those dentures?" * * * We made our semi-annual- sa- fari to the Big Smoke last week- end; and did a whirlwind tour a our friends. We've found that the best way to stay friendly with old' friends is to visit them every five years, admire their children, dogs, and furniture, and make a fast getaway, They think you're the most charming old friends they have. * * * • It's something the same tech- nique to be used with relatives. I, love my brothers, sisters and cou-, sins •,,and am delighted to, see' them once a year or so. But if they arrived by the carload for Sunday dinner once a month, even, I'd move to the west, roast. * * * We have a peculiar assortment of old friends. Some of them are' 15 YEARS AGO During , the next two weeks any service station will accept discarded automobile license plates. They will be collected and forwarded free by members of the Automotive 'Transport As- seciation to the Dominion Foun- dries in Hamilton to be used :or war purposes. There were no services held in Zion church on Sunday be- cause of bad roads. Sunday, February ,22, will he observed throughout the Dom- inion aS "Second Victory Loan Sunday." A union sdrvice of all the churches will be held in James St. church at 7 p.m. AC2 Warren May, R,C,A,F, St, Thomas spent the weekend with his parents, Mr, and Mrs. F. A. May. Ted Buswell; instructor on the linkk —trainer at Sky Harbor spent the weekend With his pa- rents, Mr, and WS. A. B. Bus. well. Rev. John Galloway of Mimi. co, moderator of the Toronto Presbytery has accepted the call to become minister of COO Presbyterian church. 10 YEARS, AGO, Teen Town was inaugurated by the. teen-agers of, Exeter at a meeting in the Exeter Arena Friday evening last. A. W. Morgan Ilea retired as Clerk of 'Osborne Tvvp,: after eleven years of service in that office. • Contributions to the Chinese Relief Fund havenew readied the quota of $2,000 set for' the Exeter district. Dort Traquairt_ Helen Snell, Norman 'Hannigan, owenneth Jones and Peter Fraser', students at Western University were home fet*the weekend. Bert Borland left 'Sunday for Indiana id fake a short course in servicing _ Studebaker eats, Boy Scout and Cid Guide Week is being observed Fehrtt- tiry 16 to 0 comMeneing with aervlet morning in, Jaines Street elfurch. to Port Stanley melts far. as electric trains were concerned but on the other hand the many and .varied uses to winch elect- ric. beat and power .have been put have far exceeded his fond- est dreams, In our recent trip to guropc wp travelled meatly. on motor. busses, the Only exception be- ing in. Italy and there We travel., led en trains that were electric- .:ally driven with engines similar but larger than the _ones used on the London to Port Stanley run. so cultured you wouldn't dare say a bad word like "money" in front of theni., Others are so bawdy and illiterate they think "culture" is some kind of fertilizer you use on your garden, Which it is, some- times. Fertilizer, that is, • * 4, 4, Two old friends who spent the evening yarning with us in the hotel room were,fair samples of . the innate oddness that afflicts most of our old friends, * M * One of them graduated with dis- tinction, ten years ago, in eco- nomies. It should follew that he is now a business tycoon or a civil servant of top level. Do..you know what he is? He's flat broke and is happily. embarked on a course of training that will ensure he remains broke for some years. 0' *>x * The other chap has been racket- 'Mg about the world for years, a Spitfire pilot during ,the war, a dabbler in a dozen jobs since, a confessed smugger.. He probably should be in jail. Do you know what he is? He's-a big business- man, applying all his mental re- sources, at the present time, to figuring out ways and means of diddling...the government of his income tax return. • * These two birds hadn't mei be- fore, and discovered they lived only a block apart in the city, When they left in the small heurs, it was taken for granted•that the one with the money would drive the one who was broke home. So, with the oddity that characterizes our old friends, they got on dif- ferent elevators, and lost each ,other. * The other with the car, who could have bought a taxi out- have the price of a street-car right, went off in his car, and the other one, who didn't even ticket, walked it, a mere matter of fifty or sixty blocks. HOW would you like to have goofbails like that on your list of old friends? * ' a * * Sunday we picked up the-trail' of more friends. Reports on their pr e s e n t. circumstances were enough to curl your wig., When we knew him ten years ago, one particularly degenerate type was paying his ,way through college by playing the horses, and had a weakness for gin and tap water, an odious mixture., He is, now. a devoted husband and .father, and aft outstanding member of .the clergy. • * * *- Another. speeiment from those. days was...a poet, and he had all the traditional earmarks. He was hungry, dirty and dilapidated. His hair hung into his soup when he was eating. Today he is' a sedate university ' professor, wears a homburg, and would grave any -dinner gathering, where he used to disgrace a gathering of any sort. • * * * — • Still another type used to .bctit a mean guitar and sleep in a slov- enly room full of, empty beer bottles, dirty socks, gnawed pieces of cheese and books. Be hasn't changed at all. The only difference you can see is more books, socks and -beer -bottles. , * ( • I'm certainly glad the Old Lady and I aren't peculiar, like our old friends. There's nothing queer about us, Oh, , admit,I feel a. bit sheepish when I can't remem- ber where I parked the car, and have to walk home without it,•but that only happens about once a month. And it might appear a 'little odd to the. neighbours when they see 'her chasing me right around the house, through the snow, trying to hit me on the head with a dustrnop. rut there's definitely nothing peculiar about, us. . . l ll l lll . • Nevi's Of Your LIBRARY: . By MRS. J. M. S. In the current issue of Mac- lean's magazine there is an ar- ticle concerning "The Hungar- ians: What They Mean to Can. ada" in which is written "These newest tit W Canadians wilt change the fabric Of the country," The article goes on to tell the kind of people they are, their traditions and character. Ten thousand of these petiole are al- ready here and by spring' there will be some twenty-five thous. arid. Three quarters of the im- migrating. Hungarians are skill- ed. draftsmen, ineehanica, eled.d friCiana and metal workers-,-ot- cupationcategories in priority demand by expanding Canadian industry, Beehuse seventy per cent of these 25,000 Hungarian refugees are single met) under thirty, their influx will mean the event- ual 6CrIllanaaidioillan dhoattiselaosidt 8,0130y0 the time the Hungarians reaelt the living standard 'of 'the aver- age Canadian family they will have bought among' other things Please tut to Page 3 (Wiarton Echo) ' Oui congratulations go to An- drew Robinson, Bruce for hiS ad- dress in the 4ouse of Commons urging government help" toward decentraliza- tion of industry: (Though. We heartily disappr oof such gobbledY-gook words as "decentralization," when a good Engilsh word like "dispersal" could be used.) The folly of :cramming industry into the Smallest possible radius, in this age of the 'hydrogen bomb, the ulcer, air pollution, and traffic night- mares, must be obvious to everyone. Yet, with a lack of vision that belies. all the fine words about our country's growth and the twentieth century belOrigins to Canada, indust- rialists are .doing just that. They are not exactly aided, and abetted by the government; but.' certainly they are not discouraged, despite the monoton- ous chant from government planners that industry should ``decentralize". With an eye to the fast buck, in- dustrialists ate looking to the' profits of next year and the ,year after, rather than building solidly for the great future they are, so fond of talking about in their speeches to the Cham- ber of Commerce. This country will not be greater; it will be infinitely poorer if we con- tinue to jam more people, more smog and more cars into cities already groaning with expansion problems. Let's have some vigorous govern- ment support of a programme to dis- perse industry throughout the toun- ' try: 50 YEARS AGO The ministers of town and district: W. M. Martin, A. H. Going, 'C. Fletcher, S. L. Toll (Hensall), D, W. Collins and E. A. Fear met in the Library room /foWn Hall and formed a ministerial association with Rev. Martin as president., Mr. Hugh McKay -takes the place of Mr. Ed ,Hooper as book; keeper for Mr. 'W, H. Lev'ett. After special teachers' and artists' course at Toronto Con- servatory, of Music, Miss Amy Johns will resume teaching pia- no, voice, theory and harmony. Mr, Fletcher Sweitzer, Lot 16 Con, 14 Usborne has sold his farm to David :Balfour of }lib- but for $7,000. This is one of the best farms in Usborne. Miss Lillian Amos won first prize for ladies' fancy dress at the- masquerade carnival Fri- day night. 0. McPherson won the men's prize, Messrs. Thos. 'Russell 'and H. Sinith left Tuesday for Toronto to attend the Ontario.; Associa- tion of Fairs' sand Exhibitions. 25 YEARS AGO The funeral of the late Mrs. George Sanders took place from the residence of R, N. Creech on Friday. The inaugural meeting Of the Beard of Education was held in. the Public Library on Wed- nesday. W, I4. Dearing, W. A. Turnbull and Mrs, B. W. F. Beavers composed ' the striking committee appointed by the chairman to fOrtn committees, Mr. Paul Coates has hcen ap- peinted .examinet in Meter for chauffeur and. operator's licen. ses. Mr.' Ted' Taman who has been With the Canadian Bank of Corn. Meted Branch at Forest has been transferred. to Seaforth, An added attraction at the evening service at .lathes St. church en 'Sunday, wan the pre- settee of a bat whose acrobatic stunts 10 flying, diving and cite- ling the auditorium caused both amusement and COnSteinittioN., Sugar AND Spice 7 o )) ))) qtr lll,l o i .. C A N A D A INHUME OR Off/Ct INS//OP OR 3 C. H 0 OL A. C. Cooper tells , of revolution brought by frozen foods "FrOzen foods are revolutionizing daily living," says A. C. Cooper, Manager of the Frozen Foods Warehouse of Dorninion $torea: Limited. "They not only save the housewife's time and cut down waste in preparing meals; they also make available all:year many tempting fruits and choice meats — and a far.wider variety Of . vegetables and seafood." . As a family man, Mr. Cooper has also benefited by the prograi madein anotheefleld . . . life insurance. Today, providing continuing income for your family is only one of the functions of life insurance. The increased flexibility of lite insurance plans enables you to provide funds for ernergenciek, your children's education, safeguarding your home, protecting your business . , and a retirement income for yourself. . Your life underwriter is better trained than ever to help you shape . these flexible insurance plans to meet your family's needs. In these and other ways, the life insurance companies keep in the , vanguard of progress. 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