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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1957-02-28, Page 2Pa pe 2 The Timee-Advocate, February 21, 1957 .Editorials This newspaper believes, the richt to Impress an .opinion -ptiblie Contributes, to- the prioress of the notion and thatit must iseexercised, freely to preserve end. improve dertitteritis..90YernMon4. - face The 'Reality We Need _Self -Help Progr am To Imp rove District Economy - Toni Pryde's. recent appeals in the legislature for that school for retarded children may make people in this area sorry for themselves, Mr. Pryde has pointed out to the legislature and the government the declining fortunes of Huron and its neighboring' agricultural counties. It's well that, the government is aware of this situation. We think Tom has a right to a.p- peal for that school on those grounds Awards The 'Times -Advocate extends con- gratulations to its hard-working LAMA correspondent,. Miss Lina AbbOtt, for ii wnnng honorable mention in the cor- respondents' competition sponsored by Ontario Hydro in connection with the Ontario Weekly Newspapers Associa- tion annual contests. Miss Abbott cer- tainly. deserves the honor. Our congratulations go, too, to our neighboring newspaper, The Clin- ton •News -Record, which won second place in the competition for best front page among all Ontario newspapers. The Times -Advocate • dropped from first to third in this competition and, • silthough. we're disappointed, we're happy to see that one of the papers which Moved in ahead of us was from • this district. We enjoy the friendly relationthips which exist among the newspapers in this area and we're pleased to see them henered. The T -A is -proud of its own awards, of course, particularly the trophy :for typrographical excellence which reflects ' credit on our plant staff, who deserve it. Again we want to point out that the awards are only possible with the co-operation of many people. We've named them before so you know who • they are. espite the two trophies .and.four diplomas which came our way this year, .we' can assure our readers that we'll not get a swelled head over them. Newspaper contests are peculiar things —in recent years The Times -Advocate has fared well in the provincial corn - petitions but many of the Ontario papers which it defeats there score Well above us in the national contests. The reason, Of course, is the varying viewpoints of different judges. So we've a long way to go yet be - fere we can climb' into an ivory tower. • Nevertheless it's encouraging to win recognition of any sort. Sport The hockey season's over—at least for Exeter's senior team, the Mohawks. • It seems strange that we're not • embroiled in the fascinating rivalry of playoffs, as we have been for several years. The corrimunity will miss the tensiaand excitement of the play - down. • Despite the hot-ancl,cold perform- ' /ince of this year's Tribe, it accounted fOr itself well in its first year in Senior • "B" company. Officials of the club are to be- commended for bringing the • team through an awkward, frustrating year of this "professional" branch of hockey. With all the headaches provide& by the pla,y-for-pay amateur athletes, it doesn't appear there's much relief from the situation if the community • wants hockey. •The dry for several years from a certain faction .has been homebrew clubs, But homebrew clubs just haven't • proven sUccessful. Besides, few of the local youths who might be on such, a club appear interested. it has been, and will be anther year, a.ebstly proposition to finance Senior "B" hockey in Exeter, but if we're going to maintain the spirit that Athletic , Competition gives a'. town, there's not much alternative, 4 —we need a shot in the arm around here. But let's not feel serry for our- selves to the extent that we sit back and complain that we're not fairly treated, It's not the government's fault that mechanization in agriculture has increased tha size of farms, lowering the population; We're the victims of progress, if that' S what you call it. Our best bet is .to face the reali- ties •and try to do something about them ourselves, If farm population is going to continue to decline, and every- body's prediction seems to say so, then we must concentrate a little more on urban development. It's industry we need. • Confusing. Jottings By J,M.S. Eating A Problem In South One pr t:tie, big problems in Viorida is vhen, Where and what to eat. There are plenty 'Oat - 1110 planes .and the feed, general- ly .is of the quality to satisfy the most ardent gourmet. The nuestion, arises out -of the - fact, that With littleto do and not limb ,exercise, how. much to eat and what is required to .News Of Your LIBRARY By :Mika. .m, I, The magazine "Ideals" pilb- lished every 60 days has been added to the magazine reading • table of your libyary. • It is a collection of clean, wholesome, old-fashioned thoughts. —beautiful poetry—selected ar- ticles of lasting interest and 'in- spiration. There are pages of full color reproductions of the world's finest art that are beaut- iful enqugh to frame. It con- tains no advertising. The current issue Is one on friendship dealing with neigh- borliness, brotherhood and true friendship in prose and poetry. The Easter copy will be pub- lished March 15 depicting the Easter spirit and the magnifi. cence of spring. Read this magazine at Your Library table, It is always a pleasure to us to know that methods are be- ing used to promote the reading of better. books by today's child- ren and young readers. On Monday of this week over CFPL.TV a London Kiwanian and a librarian from the London Library were interviewed as a committee' appointed to make a list of good books for children's reading. It is difficult to judge •a book by -its' title or its cover. There is still on the part of some people an aversion to paper covers on books. They think a paper cover is an indication of a cheap novel but some of our best books • are published in cheaper covers so that anyone can afford there. These book lists are to . be placed in the schools in London. It is hoped that they will he finally in all schools throughout the province and available to. — Please Turn to Page 3 MERRY MENAGERIE If a livestock feeder lives within reasonable trucking distance: of a western grain farm he can and does buy feed wheat for as low as 60 cents • a bushel, points out The Financial Post, He simply takes his truck to the grain farm and makes a • deal. The grain grower is glad to sell at bargain prices for cash because he does not know how many years he will have to wait before the Wheat Board will tate his crop off his hands and the law will , not let him sell through any grain dealer or export himself, But if the feeder lives in British Columbia or in one of the eastern pro- vinces, he must buy through the #.Wheat Board and pay more than twice what the nearby feeder pays. So even 'with Ottawa paying the railway freight bills his grain cost may be far bigher. Once upon a tine it was as simple, to get a price.on a bulhel of grain as) it was on CPR' common. or Internation- al Nickel. But with boot -legging, freight subSidies, fixed prices and state mar- keting, it take$ alot of .figuring today. a • • • Ca. lendars • A vxurora Banner) Before so very long the first robin will make its appearance. And, around about the same time, the first of the crowd of gentry intent on making an "easy buck" will hit the road, looking for suckers. This year will be an exception if, included among the group, there are not individuals posing as ex -service men, offering so - called "veterans' calendars." The racket is one of the most vicious of the "easy money" projects because it relies on public sympathy. Few are the people who like to say no to men who, presumably, are not in a position to make a living through • ordinary means because of their ser- vice. Generally speaking, there is little need for such sympathy. Searching in- vestigations 1n the past have proved that few of those offering the tawdry calendars are entitled to consideration because of their service. Many are not —and this has. been disclosed beyond doubt—men who have seen any ser- vice at all. The -so-called "veterans' calendars" :are produced en masse by firms which sell them to racketeers, who in turn trade on public gullibility and sympathy,- Generally speaking, the calendars • themselves are of poor quality, costing only a minute propor- tion of the quarters and half dollars which sympathetic Canadians pay to those who peddle them. The "veterans' -calendar" racket is an` "oldie" which has taken many thousands of dollars from well-meaning citizens. Nobody need have the slight- est compunction about turning down the men who come whining to doors in an attempt to sell them. The Calladiaiii Legion, which this year has produced its own calendar, has On many occasions warned the public, about them. It is a warning which shOtitl be heeded. •ebe peter -Ximesabbocate Tithes Established WS Amalgamated 1024 Advocate Established 1111 ' Published Each Murat* Morning at „Stratford, Ontario A. Independent Newspaper Deveted to flu interest' of the 'town of Rueter and District •• . Authorised es .Sistond Close Mill• POO Office DsPerttrI401• °NW* MEMBER -4 Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association, anterio • Weekly Newspaper AttittlitiOrl and AUilif Bureau of Circulation* AWAINDSt 1954.46 Vir Nolan 1'r.piy gin,ra excellence fee lievriPaPers published In &We OWN between 1,500 end 4,500 j�t1t1Or 1, T. 5118111rilerl Trolefrf .for best trent psis among Ontario weekly neWitiePers (alio won in 1954). 1953—AU• Conde Insurance Federation nation/al safety award Ontario SOON 141We award, PalkidiAdvance.,Cirealatieti as of Seistenbet 30, 1056.4/34 *AtIES ((n Adverici).tanacts WO Per Year; USA. $4.00 Published by The 'Exeter littiosAdvddift Littlifed •Mions•so,..evrerr keep :the body in good physical eondition. It is a preblem that faces, a person every daY. This is the, height of the tour- ist seas= and $t. Pete is said to have more elderly people than any of tbe other tourist centers. .CFtainly. more aeon).- modation is provided here for entertainment a n.t.1 relaxation .than in any other city. The green benches must number in the thousands. and thousands of people take advantage of VIM. • For pleasure „there is enter. tainment of all. kinds at very little expense. There. are con- certs in the park, program every night at the pier, all free. ,And then there are the hotels, restaurants, ,cafeterias, motels, efficiency apartments and room- ing houses, with rates .from .$1.00 a day down to meet alinost ever' pocket -book. In a country such as Canada or the United- States with an over abundance of food The temptation. • is to overindulge when visiting Any of the better eating places or the cafeterias whore there, is such an array of tempting delicacies. Wealth is everywhere. in evi- dence and this prosperity. and over -abundance' creates a prob- lem, of how to live well and wisely le .enjoy a healthy old age. -ioW to enjoy the years of re« tirement seems to have been solved by many who, spend their winters here. There is enough activity to provide plenty of physical .exercise and an :ade- %tate outlet for a person's en - orgies. Survival after ,6,1 or 70 years seems to be a matter of .con-. tentment,jl.1 enough to keep body and mind sufficiently en- gaged and employed' after a life of Areas and :strain, toil and hard' work. So often bat it been said that when a manretires be shortens his life, .There .are those down 1 -ire who find .plenty of interest just to sit on the benches M the sun and watch the vowcIs go by., while others keep young by par- ticipating iri the many sports and activities, There are men Here playing baseball and others. enjeY144 lawn bowling now over .ninety years of age, many be, tween the ..ages, of 80 and 90. I met a man this week Di years of age carrying three books to read. I met another who at $7 is suite alert and active. How- ever he told me "It's too .01d." 0 llll 0111111,1111 l llll fleill11101;;;;;;Irrememmensillit;;;110111141111111t1111,11,11;;;114iltiliilliimillimilimiallimialilt; Sugar AND Spice DISPENSED BY BILL. SMILEY When the M.P.P. for Bruce asked a question in the House recently, people got indignant all over the place. All he wanted to know was why deer could be shot out of season on the proper- ty of some exclusive hurls •clubs in the province. * What a smudge y indigna- tion arose! The premier was in- dignant at the suggestion that there was one law for the . rich, one' for the poor, in his domain. Anyone who broke the game, laws would be prosecuted, he declared roundly, including John Foster Dulles, owner of one of the sanctuaries named. Nobody By Walt Disney ON-TP.40Y "It's DUCK hunters I Worry-aboutr • •••••.... I llll lllll otietitiliti llll ll lll iiiii lllll 11111,11 lllll lllll ililii$01111111111111 ll lll ll lllll II As the "TIMES" G9 By - 50 YEARS AGO Mr, C. B, Snell feelelated this, week over the fact that Exeter Council actually praised instead of censored, him for the electric service, lately. During this and next week the millinery openings are held in Toronto. The milliners. froin Exeter who are attending are: Miss Jennie Tayor „,who after- wards goes to Shakespeare; Miss Merle Gould who goes" to Milverton; Miss Tillie Yager who goes to Dutton; Miss Tilly White, Miss Eva Balkwill, Miss Morlock and Miss Edith Sanders who return to Exeter. Mr. W. "IL Leavitt, is having his residence fitted throughout with a steam heating apparatus, John Mitchell, Crediton, has bought the brick in the • old sehddlhouse from Joseph Heist and will use them to erect a foundation under his barn this summer, IS YEARS AGO The first airplane to arrive at the new Centralia Airpirt came in�n Monday. Rev, John Gateway was in- ducted as the new minister at Caven Presbyterian church en Friday everiiiig. George Tanton, Senior Sixer of the Cub Pack Was presented with a knife prior to MS depart- ure for Strathroy, E. L. Gibson,- of atter North secured .a fox during a rabbit drive last Week. Mr. Henry Delbridge of town was the Whiner of the OS War Savings Certificate in the Times - Advocate subscription contett. An addition ,has been made to the Exeter switchboard of the Bell Telephone. Company in Ali. tieipation of hitt-eased dentarid expected from the new Central la airport, kr, and Mrs. Cyril 'fantod, George and Jill left Thursday for their -new home et Strath. roy. • 25 YEARS AGO A surprise party was held on Monday, February 29 for' Mr. Frank Taylor who on that day celebrated his 12th birthday, He celebrates this event once every four years. • Rev. S. W. Meal's of Hope Baptist Church, London, conduct- ed services Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights last week in the Opera House. Mr. and Mt. W. 3. Harney who have spent the winter in Exeter have moved back to their \farni near Kippen and have started to rebuild their barn which was destroyed ,by fire last fall, The premium for each Mein. tier of Exeter Horticultural So- ciety in 1932 will be one dozen named gladioli. A few farmers have tapped their trees, Mr. Sam Jory tap- ped en Friday and reports a fair run. 10 YEARS AGO The Jones MacNaughtbn Seed. Co. have Moved into their new building and commenced opera- tions this vveek. The Red Cross campaign eoin.- niences across Canada on Mon - ' day. The minimum amount tb be raised in Exeter lied Cross distriet it $3,000. Exeter novv boasts. the only turnip WaXiii plant with an initoreatie drying machine which has reduced to only nine tniti- utes the stage froin washing Machine to the bag. A - scrvien sehool on Ditael tractors for the dealers was held in HuXtable'S Shop on AWAY an Tueaday, Mr, Elite b, tell has put. - chased from Mr. Andrew aston the fine bride residence on James St., possession April 1. The allticatidn Of Thiron Coun- ty for the Md to Chink fund WAS $12,900 which has been over- subscribed. Exeter diStriettais ed could say fairer than that, now, .could they? * * * Spokesmen for Mr. Dulles, who just happens to be U.S. Se- cretary of State, were almost in tears with indignation, Mr, Dul- les; they declared, was the soul of gentleness, had never shot a deer out of season, in -his life: In fact, they implied, if any crazy deer came around Mr, Dulles, trying to get shot, he would beat it off with- a club. * * * • Owners of another of the pri- vatepreserves,Canadian subsi- diaries of a mighty LJ.S. motor firm, were equally indignant and equally righteous. Why,. that is- land, wasn't for hunting at all, their public relations 'department retorted with throbbing sinceri- ty, It was just a sort of school, where the brighter production men could do their homework with no, other interruption except that of those darned deer which palraecepractically a plague on the • * * There is little doubt that the Minister of Lands and Forests was. also indignant, though re- port that smoke was seen awn - ding from his ears have appa- rently littlt basis in fact, Nobody War really breaking the law, you -- see, because; uh, well, they were shooting out of season, but, uh, every body sort of knew about it, uh., well, • they stocked the place with their own deer, andoit was, uh, kind of tra- ditional, and, uh, maybe some of the deer came from the main-. land, but we just • never, uh, looked into, it, and, uh, I'm sure nobody •was trying to break the laW, and, special rights —old charters—no harm done. And so ori. * * * There was thunderous indig- nation, in large, messy gobs, o in opposition newspapers. There was phoney indignation from Yankee -haters, who 'were law.de delighted at the idea that' Mr. Dulles might have broken the, • * * * There was niggling indigna- tion, directed at the Member, among those who believe that a dollar makes more sense than a a deer, in or out of season, "Why doesn't he mind' his own busi- ness? Look at all the taxes those big 'shots are paying. If they want to shoot a deer on their own property, what's the diffe- rence." Quite. And if I want to strangle my grandmother, what's the difference, as long as I bury her in my own cellar. * * * Of cause, there was the honest indignation of the Member him- self. There is no indignation more honest than that of a mem- ber of the Opposition, as he standsthere, fighting for the Little Ilan, head wreathed in halo, one hand on his heart, the other clutching a harpoon. • * But of all the shades of indig- nation, none was quite as purple as that expressed by some of the miore expert among district poachers. "Howda ya like them millienaires?" they roared at the dinner table as their children munched on fresh venison, "Just because they got Money. Take the food out of a man's mouth. Oughta be a law. * T quite agree. There oughta be law. In fact, there oughta be two laws,one for, the rich, the other for the rest of us. There's far toe much equality in this couritry. First thing you know,. a eat will be able to look at a king. * * It's nothing short of shocking that a weathy man of culture, who wants 16 pamper his con- noisseur's palate with 5 venison filet mignon, Should be subject to the same law as the rude Nadel., who feeds his kids On. deer ineat, when they'd rather have pork, just because it's haft - diet and Cheaper. * • It's high time something was done about it. The goner we get two distinct sets of laws, one for the rich and One for the poor, the happier our rich will be, And we want our rich to be happier. I'm getting tick and tired of tveryhody saying "what's the use of being rieboir you're not happy.". reffli•gialquotwiewteliqi14ThriuMORtianilumwaii iiiiiiiiltififfilittIlifillitinifirnik•WM•11; ,C.--sarntsh, Modhall, & Co.. , , , .. 291 DUNDAS St. OW 24651 1.0 N, .ONT...: ' ' 'N.D0:1:. , . .,.. -.. CERTIFIED PUBLIC' ACCOUNTANTS z E I ..1...1.. J—Cornish .1" .1c, Cornish P. Mit; eil t - IC W. Si. „; W. E. 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