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This newspaper believes the
right to exprsss an opinion in
public contributes. ,to the pro-
cress -of the nation and that it
,must he exercised freely to pre-
servo and improve democratic
tloettile tent.
P.!0m is ng Future
The Times•Advocate joins the community in
ext6nding congratulations to the local 4H members
wlati won outstanding awardsin the county ;coiupeti-
ti ns-iaat week.
If these impressive honors are any' indication
.of the spirit and determination of the coning genera-
. tion' -on the farm, the future of this area is in good
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Leaders of the 4-H program, parents and
Others who assist in this excellent youth training
organization continue to merit the support and coin.
Inendation.:of all of us.
!tnportant Progress
The fact that this is Canada's fifteenth Nation,.
al •Immunization Week will cause little raising of
-eyebrows among our readers. It's not the kind of a
Week' that one celebrates with festivity.
' ,It's worthy of observance, however,because of
the resiplts which immunization has .achived in the
short period since 1943. Figures released by the Na-
tional Health League of Canada indicate the progress
made towards protection against fatal diseases. -
Number 9f deaths caused by diphtheria, for
ample, have been reduced from 287 to eight while
t„,whooping cough toll has dropped from 416 to
X There has not been a single case of smallpox
(titzted in Canada since 1946.
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Immunization's next target is polio, which took
dives in 1953. As the vaccine for this disease
becomes more plentiful, health authorities predict it
will become as rare as the others which immuniza-
tion is eliminating.
Let us hope cancer will be the next victim. •
The Life Of Trade
(Wingham Advance -Times).
There is an old saying among hardened busi-
ness heads that competition is the life of trade. The
desire to at least run. .equal with and if possible bet-
ter your neighbor, is one which has for many cen-
turies provided the spur on life in general for most
people who live under a system of free enterprise
and expression..
;^7 Though we tend to ask the state to assume
node and more of our responsibilities, the funds' for"
such• services are still provided by a nation .of'pedpie.
who are,. free to snatch :their. wits and.' brawn, one
against the other, in the earning of their daily bread
as 'the cream the government must skim
off,the top. -
In the face of this ever-present spirit.of com-
petition, our present day educational system seems
to bebent on teaching the upcoming generation that
c mpetition is but a myth, or perhapssome socially
u'ndpsirable and outworn evil in our past. School re-
ports no longer indicate how young. William stands
in'1°..elation to the other children in his class. His
marks' are graded in rather nebulous A's and •B's
which don't indicate too much to the anxious parent.
'�-: Students in our schools are quite rjghtly en.-
couraged to develop such talents and capabilities as
they possess without becoming unduly conscious of
their •shortcomings in other lines. However, there is
nothing in human experience to indicate that inen
women are likely to develop a world in which
competition between themselves has ceased •to exist.
The Russian revolution promised such a state and the
thing which has emerged has only served to empha-
size the fact that intense personal competition is "thee'
.. basis' of all human activity.
If our educational system succeeds in produc-
frig a youth who is completely unaware that the com-
petitive
spirit is a reality,what tremendous
a ndous shock
awaits him when he steps into the tasks of adult life.
What a surprise it will be to learn that after he has
spent three years in an attempt to master a trade
for example, some new-found apprentice maybecome
his boas: purely because the lad has more rive and
stacks up as a more useful person to the firm which
pays; the wages.
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21 • This glaring gap in our .educational program
is not the faultof g
school teachers, but is rather a
weakness in a general policy laid down at a govern -
'tent level some years ago.
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One of the nicer things about
growing .older is that we grow
steadily more pure. It's astonish•
ing how we .simultaneously shed
sin and don morality with each
passing year.
About 24 years ago tonight, for
example, I was climbing -over a
garden wall .with my shirt stuf-
fed with . grapes, when a voice
of unearthly loudness and fero-
city shouted: "'Hi! Youee My
heart leaped into my mouth, I
leaped to the ground, the grapes
popped out of my shirt and I
took off like an intercontinental
missile, pursued by outraged
roars and heavy boots,
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Later, in -the sanctuary of my
bed, did I regret niy wickedness,
revile myself for '.shattering 'one
of the ten conrmandnients, and
swear I'd never do it again? Not
much. What I did was regret the
grapes, revile myself for being
half scared to death and swear a
return visit to the orchard as
soon as the beat was .off.
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That's what I mean, To -day,
I'd never consider doing such a
thing. Oh, I might give my golf
ball a very small kick if it was
in a particularly bad lie in the
rough, and nobody was looking.
I might tell my wife that I'd paid
the hydro bill in time to get the
discount when I knew perfectly
well that it was in my hip .poe-
ket, unpaid. But I'd never dream
of doing anything dishonest, like
stealing grapes.
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Other people are the same, The
older •they get, the better they
• get. Not long ago we visited an
'old acquaintance, a woman in her
late thirties. $he had a teenage
daughter who was out to a dance
that night, The girl °was to be
home by one. As the hour neared,
her mother kept breaking off
'her talk about her church acti-
vities and glancing at the clock.
At one-fifteen,shewas fit tobe
tied. The kid showed up about
one -thirty. You should have
heard -the mother, You'd have
thought • the youngster was com-
pletely depraved.
Later, as she servedwa cup of
tea and vehemently. 'wondered
what was going to become of
the undisciplined, irresponsible
-teenagers, I couldn't help cast-
ing my mind back, Twenty years
ago our hostess had been a re-
gular young rip, whose special-
ties Were drinking gin out of the
bottle in the rumble seat of
roadsters, and going for mixed
"midnight swims au naturel.
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Recently T• spent a wOek-end,
with an old ,college friend. He
had distinguished .himself at the
university, . not through' athletic
or academie prowess, but be-
cause of his incredible memory
for the words and obscure tunes
of Riley's Daughter, There Was
An Old Monk of Great Renowh,
and other .such bawdy but death-
less ditties. Saturday night 7
tried to get a song or two out of
him, but he was strangely reti-
cent. In the old days you had to
hold hitt down and stuff a sock
in his mouth to make him stop
singing.
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Next morning, Sunday,. he acted
kind of mysterious. Wanted nee
to go for a walk with him I
thought he was taking me to the
bootlegger's, and was about to
demur; but decided .to humour
hien, and went along, When we
got there it seemed a funny place
to find a, bootlegger, but you
never know, Five minutes Iater
my mouth was still hanging open
as I sat in the back row of the
Sunday School, ani watched my
friends, arms waving, face beam-
ing, leading about a huifdred
small types through the strains
of Jesus Loves Me,
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Last April, I bumped, into an
old Air Force side -kick, in a
coffee shop in Simpson's, in the
city. Hadn't seen him since Brus-
sels, 1945. His right name was
Dick, but we called him the
Count in those days, because he
was reputedly, and enviedly,-
living in sin with a beautiful,
rich Belgian countess. Ile -was a
big handsome, devil -nay -care
chap in those days,
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Prodt. ces. $cholors
0. Mane of our readers will re-
member the late William 1'1.
Johnston, a school teacher in
Huron County. for .many years.
Idr. Johnston wrote numerous
historical articles for publica-
tion. On such artiele on the
history o S,$., ;No. 1, Usborne
(1•lurondalel appeared in the
Exeter Times -Advocate, June
26, 1941, as follows;
"Like many other rural com-
munities throughout Western On-
tario, School Section No. 1 Us
borne has just reason to be proud.
of the general character and
achievements of her . young
people during the past 90 to 100
years.
"Tile early settlement was
made from 1844 to 1855 and al-
most all of these early settlers
took up about 100 acres each,
The predominant nationality in
the north half of the section was
Scotchand included such names
as Ross, Dougall, Strang, Ste.
wart, Buchanan, Lowe, Logie,
Elder, Murray, etc, In • religion
they were presbyterian and at-
tended worship in the Warrens-
ville church on the London Road
where Rev. John Lovie was the
minister for 26 years. A pian
of the highest type of a Chris-
tian minister, he left an indelible
mark on his flock for •godliness
and high 'living.
"In the southern part of the
section the settlers were English
and were known as the Downs,
Keddys, Blatchfords, Okes, Jqe-
kens, McTaggarts, Harveys, Ker -
nicks, etc. They were connected
with the methodist church most-
ly and they erected a church,
known as a meeting house at
Bethesda. Here the Bible Chris-
tian ministers, led their people
in the ways of righteousness with
good success.
'Two families of Irish descent
settled on the London Road,
known by the name of Case and
Hawkins. In the first named
fancily there were ten sons, and
1 belieye two daughters, one of
whom became Mrs. George
Hawkins and the other Mrs, Wil-
liam Jeckell, These people were
Anglicans, noted for their hones-
ty, upright dealing and general
worth of character, worshipping
in the :Anglican church, Exeter.
"These were the days of large
families. As noted above the Case
family consisted of ten sons and
one or two daughters, 10 John
Blatchford's family there were
ten sons and four daughters.
Seven of these were born in Eng+
land. Frank, wee lived in Exe-
ter, was born in 1852 in Bownman-
ville, the year they landed in
Canada. in George •Moir's fain-
ily there were nine boys besides
the daughters.
"During the last fifty years
many changes have 'taken place
in the personnel of the people
in. Section No. 1, There are now
only about seven or eight farms
owned and occupied by .descen-
dants in tie third generation of
the •original families. Thio is
partly owing to the fact that
quite a number of the younger
people entered the learned pro.
fessions. In the Christian minis-
try were Revs, Thomas Blatch-
ford, Peter Strang, Duncan Bu-
chanan and Charles Down. In the
medical 'profession we find Doc-,
tors George Buchanan, William
Logie, George Blatchford, Tho-
mas Case, Margaret Strang°and
Thomas i- islop, besides a host
ofdentists, teachers, nurses,
etc. Five of Frank Blatchford's
brothers taught school and his
sister, Ida, was a nurse,
"We now come to the question
"why did so many `of these young
people seek to better their, con-
ditions, by obtaining an educa-
tion?" Leaving out the people
themselves we believe the pri-
mary reason is to be found in
the teachers who taught in this
school. It is Seldom that such a
large succession of public school
teachers went on to a higher
professional calling, "
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Go By
"Remember when we used to
call. you The Count?",I asked,
in an effort to estalish 'com-
mon ground. He muttered some-
thing like "count me out" and
launched into a monologue on
,the work he was doing with juv-
enile delinquents, through a
church group: He finally ran
out of breath, there was an awk-
ward pause, then: "Guess you
haven't met my wife„' he . said
heartily, turning to a large red. -
face.
ed'face woman 'sitting beside him,
eating a vast sundae. It was not
the Countess, •
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'You can see them everywhere:
people who were once steeped in
sin, and now pass the collection
plate or holler in the back row
of tlfe church choir; who were
once•steeped in gin and whose
inflamed noses now light the
way. for the valiaht armies of
the prohibition cause.
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It's plain `to see that people
improve with age, morally, if
not physically. But I'd still like
to know why. Is it because they
have learned to respect the law
andother people's property? Is
it because they know the day of
judgement is bearing down and
they're trying to cover their
flaming youth with a nice coat
of camouflage grey? Or is it
simply • that they don't have the
stamina to be sinful any more?
5D YEARS AGO
Mr. J, W. Hogarth has been
re-engaged as teacher in Eden
•school, S.S.No. 4 Usborne.
- On Friday ,a meeting of the
High School Department was.
held for the purpeege..of organi-
zing a Basketball Club, kiss An-
na Dow was named -' eCustodian
of the ball." •
e •'A small piece of a broken pane
of glass in S.: Martin & Sons
store window was removed and
four mouthorgans. were stolen. '
A heavy pack of tomatoes and
•plums is .being put through at
the Canning factory.
.A 19 mull tax rate has been
struck by. the council being 8
for generali municipal purposes,
4 to cover debentures, 5 for
school purposes and 1.4 for coun-
ty rate.
A large milk snake measuring
about --five feet.
u v ee in length was
killed by Mr. Thos. Collingwood
ton Andrew St., Friday last.,
• 25 YEARS AGO
Mr. Thos. Hatter the oldest re-
sident in Exetet, celebrated his
95th birthday Tuesday. •
When the directors of the Exe-
ter Fair came to put Crystal
Palace in shape for the Exeter
Fair they discovered a number
of lads had broken into it and had
done- •considerable damage.
A Liberal rally is being held in
News= the rink on Wednesday afternoon
NQrll Your when Rt. Hon. MacKenzie King
LIBRARY
By MRS. J. M. S.
Countless• books have been
written • about the war, but one
of which it can be said that his-
tory would be incomplete with-
out, is'•
The Turn OfeThe* Tide •
a history of the war years based
on the diaries of Field -Marshall
Lord Alanbrooke, chief of the
Imperial General Staff and writ-
ten by Arthur Bryanti who has
for years done the country good
service ' by writing Historical
books.
Lord
gAlanbrooke'the
master
ei
strategist of WorldW r
II noted
down each day in a locked diary
his thoughts . and .feelings as he
extricated his troops from France
in 1040 and later, as •chairman of
the Chiefs of" Staff Committee,
tabk part in the conferences—
MoscoO, Casablanca, Washing-
ton and Quebec—where the great
design of victory was hammered
out. Personalities as well as
problem's were set` down in vivid
glimpses.
The volume ends with the
events of August 1943 •and Will
be followed by. a second.
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All who have been stirred by
the many stories of British War
time escapes from'enemy hands
must •have wondered about the
reverse f
ver e si e d o the e tale Did • Ger-
man .prisoners try to escape as
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will support of the Liberal can-
didate, Mm. H. Golding.
117r. W. G, Medd, M.L.A, . on
Monday joined •a party of 80
members of the Ontario Legis-
lature headed by Hon. • W, H,
Rice on a five day tour of On-
tario.
In 'the Junior Farmers live-
stock judging competition at the
Western fair, Howard Hunter
of Usborne won -.tenth. place.
l5 YEARS- AGO .'
Exeter High School will open
October 5. Many high school
students are • employed on the
farm and in the canning factory.
Four girls in Miss Canada cos-
tuines Misses Marjorie, May,
Marion Elliott, Jean and Sheila
FairFullerton. sold 480.00 worth of
War Savings Stamps, at. Exeter
Mr. Ernest Appleton suffered'
severe burns � l •when i n a receptacle
.of hot tar overturned burning
his right foot and hands.
The ban on electric adver-
• Using signs and compulsory re-
duction in, street' • and window
lighting went into effect Sunday
evening to conserve power for
war industry,
Gordon May who has been on
the' Bank of Commerce staff in
Brussels has enlisted 'with the
R.C.A;P.C. at Listowel.
"10 YrARS AGO
Mr. Robert Sanders of town.
was awarded 15 firsts and tine.
second out of 17 entries in vege-
tablesThursdayat, the Exeter Fair last
Norman Long, Kippen mail cou-
rier, fell while unloading beans
and fractured a bone in his an-
kle.
Exeter Fall Fair on Thursday
surpassedany similar event held
in town, Favored with- excellent
wateath
6,000er .the crowd was estimated
Mr. Jack Mallett, London, pa-
raded in 'an Exeter 'Band uni-
form and played one of the kettle-
drums at the Exeter Fair.
The Exeter Band provided the
music at the Seaforth fair on
Saturday.
Students who have . resumed
their studies at Western
U
niver-
sity aie Don Traauazr, Norman
Hannigan, Peter Fraser, Misses
Helen Snell and Gwelineth Jones.
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Re Changs Of Time
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Town of Exeter. will chalige.back to Eastern. Standard
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