HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1958-03-06, Page 2Page The Times -Advise teA March 6, 1960
Editorials
This newspaper believes the
right to express an opinion in
public contributesto the pro*
grass of the nation and that it
must be exercised freely to pre -
eery, and improve democratic
government.
Cheap Supports
• A. number of prominent finallcia: and indust
•Xi'al periodicals appear to be viewing with alarm the
Diefenbaker .government's proposal to extend and
`increase the farm support program in Canada.
Their attitude, for our money, is too much of
a "holier than thou" one in regard to agriculture. As
the spokesmen for big business, they tend to look
.down their noses at the farther and ask, Why should
we subsidize you?"
As one newspaper serving a farm district, The
Times -Advocate bitterly resents this attitude. There
.15 no justification for it, particularly from industry,
which has received many anore favors from the gov-
ernment than has agriculture.
The cost to Canadian taxpayers of farm price
supports from 1946 to 1957 has been $94 million
dollars, including the $70 million spent in the emer-
gency of the foot and mouth outbreak in 1952.
To one section of industry alone, the gold
mining interests;" the government paid over $100
million in assistance in a similar period. And there
-: are three million farmers in Canada, compared to
8,000 gold ruiners.
Canadian taxpayers pay very lithe to support
the important farm economy in comparisca to those
in the United States or Britain. During the 12 months
ending June 30, 1957, for example, the U.S. paid p p d ou t
$1.3 billion to farmers. Thus in one year, the U.S.
price support program cost 14 times More than the
- Canadian program cost in 11 years; or 260 times
more than the cost in the corresponding year in
Canada. In Great Britain, subsidies to agriculture now
'" • amount to around $675 million per year.
Instead of being so critical of agricultural sup-
ports, big business should be thankful that Canadian
farmers haven't demanded more. It might also re-
member that Canada's three million farmers provide
a big portion of its market but they cent purchase
industry's products if farm account books, don't show
a profit.
No Predictions
While none of the experts seems to be making
predictions—a pastime which has proven disastrous
in the past --there is every indication at the moment
that the Progressive Conservatives under John Diefen-
baker will get a solid vote of confidence from the
Canadian public on March 31.
Huron's MP, Elston Cardiff, wha called the
'last election correctly, has predicted the government
will win 150 seats this time. He may be low at that,
Being fair-minded people, Canadians generally
will be prepared to give the PC's a clear mandate to
carry out the policies they have initiated in their few
short months in office. They will appreciate, too, the
new vigor, the fresh ideas and ambitious approach
the new government has brought to its task, A change
always results in at least some benefits:
There is no denying that the Liberal party has
selected a good chieftain and that it has an excellent
platform to present. It presents, however, such a
major departure from the former Liberal attittride
that, no matter how well justified, it will be difficult
for the electorate to swallow inside of one year,
Mr. Diefenbaker is well out in front at the
moment. But anything can flapped in a horse race.
A Good .Attempt
If council is more than usually interested in
industrial promotion, then it should adopt a full-
scale program with an earnest and organized ap
preach to the matter.
Council has discussed the formation of a civic
committee which would include members- putside 'the
council as well as those representatives who have
already been appointed. The committee should be
allotted as large a budget as the regulations allow
(which isn't great). From there the committee should
divide its work into two important phases of develop-
ment.
It should keep in constant touch with district
and provincial organizations dealing with the place-
ment of industry in order to be on the ground floor
when sites are being sought. This phase also includes
contacting existing industries who use the farms pro-
ducts grown in this area in hope they may extend
their operations in a new plant here.'
The second phase concerns the development
Of industry here, through the encouragement of exist-
ing plants and the establishment of new businesses
by local people.
If we're going after .industry, let's do a job
of it. The returns may be disappointing but at least
we will have the satisfaction of knowing a good try
was made.
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My wife has been picking at
me lately because I read s
many war books. she claims tha
every time she goes into the
bathroom, there's a new, vicious
looking, bayonet -wielding marine
or soldier lunging .at her iron
the cover of a pocket book on
the back of the toto.
I've been kind of sheepish
about it, but I do enjoy a good
war novel, so I've taken to slip-
ping them under the bath -tub
when not in use. But the kids,
who like nothing better than to
see me get a rocket from their
mother, are starting to squeal on
the. Kim came down stairs yes-
terday, bearing a new battle
book with a particularly grisly
cover, and with a look of de-
lighted anticipation, succinctly
tattled: "Another war book,
Mum."
1 I remember how disgusted I
o was with this business when I
t cane home from overseas. Some-
one would ask: ,'How was it
- over there, anyway?" I'd settle
back, preparen to tell hint, for
t hours, when he'd add: "But I
guess you don't want to talk
about it," leaving me there with
my mouth banging open. I was
dying to talk about it.
>* * *
"Wily in the world" my wife
wants to know, "do men find war
so fascinating? You're always
spoiling parties by getting off in
a corner and talking about the
silly war. Don't you realize it's
been over 12 years, and you're
no longer dashing young heroes
I think it's ridiculous." And so
on.
* At
As you can imagine, I have
some pretty tart retorts on the
tip of my tongue, But 1 wisely
refrain froth' uttering thein, an-
nounce that I have to go down
the and fix the furnace, and, in
the safety of the cellar, give
vent to the things I'm too gentle-
manly, to say to a lady, unless
she's got both arms tied behind
her.
• Al * *
Such as: "I like reading about
war because it's just the opposite
of marriage. War is made up of
long periods of comparative
peace, interspersed by short
shells of violent fighting. Mar-
riaee is . , . " Or: I'd rather be
addicted to war novels than the
sloe women read—sexy histori-
cal novels, murder mysteries
goony love stories and the pure
unadulterated garbage of the
movie magazine." Remember,
I'm still down cellar.
* 1N * *
Maybe it's true that men talk
too much about the war, when
they get together. But few Wien
are able to cook, make their
own clothes, or have babies, sub-
jects that engross any gaggle
of women. Nor are men much
interested in talking about men,
the only other subject on which
women can go on interminably,
• * M . *
I think 'one reason men look
back with a certain warped ten-
derness on the war, and like to
talk and read about it, is that it
was the most peaceful 'period of
their lives, It was .a hiatus be-
tween the misery and.turhulence
n:t adolescence. and the grim, re-
lentless struggle that constitutes
their mature• years, when they
are trying to raissea family and
snake ends meet without going
mad, mad I tell you, mad.
* * * *
There's an old, and eninn»Ietety
nonsensical tradition, that men
who've conte back bole, the
wars don't want to talk about
It. ` When someone asks then
what it was like. they're sup-
posed to go all thin-liuperl and
grim, and Change the subject,
* M lit :it
Alen have been talking about
war ever since Og the caveman
and his cronies sat around the
fire and discussed with grunts
of relish the late unpleasantness
with the tribe across the swamp.
And women have disapproved
since Mrs. Og sat back in the
corner of the cave wishing lied
stop inviting that riffraff aronnd
to drink homebrew and tell lies
about what they did in the war.
* *
Men have been Writing and
reading about war since they
learned to write and read. From
Homer to Hemingway writers
have looked with horror and fas-
cination on the ever -intriguing
business of the human race wad-
ing in blood. Shakespeare ac-
cepted war as part of life. And
if I recall, there was a good bit
of smiting of Hittites,. Philistines
and others in the Bible.
tic * * tk
So if I'm to have a book' in
the bathroom, far better it be a
tale of blood and nobility, of
grandeur and courage, with a
grim -faced grenade -thrower on
the cover, than a lurid volume
that promises UNBRIDLED
PASSION and features on its
front a semi -draped tamale en-
gaged in pulling a dripping knife
out of her grandmother or some-
body,
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News Of Your
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By MRS. J. M. 5,
Did you know that the Exeter
Library has been serving the
reading public for 80 years? It
would be interesting and, no
doubt, astonishing if we . could
measure the influence of that
service on the citizens of Exeter
over that period of time.
In March 1878 a meeting was
called in Cavell Presbyterian
church for the purpose of or-
ganizing a non-sectarian literary
society in Exeter. A society was
formed called the Exeter Liter-
ary Institute, its object being
to advance the cause of liter-
ature anal to serve as a step-
ping stone to the formation of
a Mechanics' Institute, Presi-
dent was Dr. Hyndman; vice-
preeidents, ReV. Hartley and W.
J, While; secretary', M, M, Rose -
burgh.
Shortly afterward, the Machan•
les' Institute library was start-
ed in the building now occupied
by Walpers Men's Wear, A read-
ing room was open two nights
a week. A grant of $30 each
year was made by the village
council
In 1887 the town hall was
built and on December 8, 1887
the village council which had
previously met in the Market
Ouse •held its first meeting in
LIBRAR
:Hogs, Hens, .frfolidays
Highlighf Huron County
The f o 1lowing information
about the County of Huron ap-
peared in the London Free Press
and is reprinted below for the
benefit of our readers that have
not seen it in the London paper.
Fifty miles of sand -strewn
shoreline and 780.000 acres of rol-
ling farmland snake Huron a
banner county for hogs, hens,
and happy holidays.
Latest available farm figures
list Huron as Ontario's second
largest -county for pig and Poul-
try production, both topping the
million -della"' hark as fern" in-
dustries,
Its Lake Huron shoreline, ex-
tending from Grand Bend north-
ward to within 15 Willes of Kin-
cardine, is one of Western Onta-
rio's top vacation areas and a
summertime ;mecca for thou
sands.
'
Goderich, the county seat, is
one of Western Ontario's busi-
est lake ports and site of the
biggest rock salt mining de-
velopment in North America,
Thus,. s rf, sand, salt and soil
are the Meat elements of pros-
perity in this county which finds
its wealth in natural assets,
Predominantly rural (70 per
cent of the county's 47,000 resi-
dents live on farms), Huron is
an important producer of many
other crops.
The combined total value of
alb field crops grown in Huron
in 1956 exceeded $14,300,000, sec-
ond highest in the province. It
was the biggest county for bar-
ley (591,000 bushels); ton pro-
ducer of all field roots (884,500
bushels); second for dry beans
(298,360 bushels) and third for
flax (30,800 bushels).
In addition Huron's 5.400
farms counted more cattle than
any other county in Ontario
(165.000 head with a farm vplue
of 817,840,000).
Thus cattle, together with
hogs (107,000 valued at $2,929,-
000) and poultry (1,640.000 valued
at.$1,820,000) represented an in-
vestment in livestock of ;more
than $222,500,00.
Salt, first discovered in Can-
ada at Goderich in 1863 by an
oil driller, is another major in-
dustry. Presently underway is.
an $8,000,000 mining develop-
ment aimed at exploiting vast
underground deposits In the her-
bor area.
An estimated 900,000,000 tons
of almost pure salt, largest
known deposit in the enntinent,
is said to be in this area.
Grain, too, is a commodity
whieli passes through Goderich
by, the millions of bushels year-
ly, maintaining it as a key port
on the inland lakes.
Though efurnn economic roots
are, planted firmly in the soil,
the county annually turns out
more than $18,000,000 • in manu-
factured goods, from nationally-
known fountain pens to shoot
gloves, doors and pianos,
Outside Goderich (which has
5.884 residents), • Huron's nonu-
lation is fairly evenly distrib-
uted among four other towns,
three villages and 16 townshins.
They are the town of Clinton
(2,900), Exeter (2.588), Seafortlt
(2,089) and Wni,ihein (2:745),
the vine aes of Blyth (741). Brus-
sels (803) and Hensall (842); the
fn "nshios of Ashfield (1,688),
Colborne (1.196), Goa erieli (1.639)
Grey (1.99),• Hay (2.497). How-
elc (2,759), Hullett (1,889), Mc -
( 1.621), Morris (1.670),
Stanley (2.010), Stephen (2.351),
Tuckersie th (1.957). Turnberry
(1,416), Usborne (1,539), Wawa -
nosh East.(14104), and Wawanosh
West (1,183). v
These are the municipalities
that make un Huron, a rich
earicuiturel county in which the
energies of man have produced
wealth from the legacies of na-
ture,
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50 YEARS AGO
A meeting of ratepayers of
Exeter was called on Tuesday
evening to hear a proposition
from Connor Bros. CO 'build and
equip with machinery a $10,000
business in return for a grant of
$500 toward the purchasing of a
site. The •Council were asked to
submit a by-law to the people,
The milliners are this week
commencing their duties, Miss
Miriam Elston has gone to Park-
hill; Miss Lily Huston to Petro-
ne, Miss Edith Sanders to Kin-
cardine; Miss May Armstrong
to Crediton;
Miss White is with ,'Tones &
Clarke Miss Northcott c('ith Snell
Sr Rowe; Miss Livingstone with
J. A. Stewart and Miss Rickbeil
with Miss Morlock.
Mr, Thomas Russell, Exeter,
is named' on the Western Fair,
London, committee.
25 YEARS AGO
The tax rate for Exeter for
1933 was placed at 30 mills a
reduction of ten mills on the dol-
lar over 1932.
Southcott Bros, are offering a
tea set :for the best hooked mat
of this year or last on a Blue -
the new town hall, Early the
following year the' council grant-
ed the library the privilege of
occupying the two lower- rooms
of the town hall.
The council room as it is now
known was used for the books
and the southroom was used
as a reading room, .A wicket
between the two served for the
exchange of books.
The town hall housed the li-
brary until the present building
was opened in 11115. The building
of this was made possible by a
gift of 53,000 from the Andrew
Carnegie Corporation. The land
was purchased frons. the Bowden
faintly for $1,100, • .
On this lot there stood a small
veterinary office .and at the rear
was the dome of AI, Bawden,
These buildings were torn davit
to flake room for the new li.
braxy.
The people of Exeter have been
and still are fortunate to have
hacl a library to serve' thorn for
the past 80 years.
nose pattern purchased from
the store.
Kenneth C. Stanbury B.A. of
Law School, Toronto, was home
for the weekend.
Mrs. A. J. Blowes, Mrs. Joan
Pearce and Mrs. Arthur Blowes
of Mitchte11 attended the Blowes-
Walters nuptials on Friday.
A debate "Resolved that worn --
en's plain was entirely .in the
home" was held at Y.F1,S. of
James St. United church. Thurs-
day evening. The affirmative
was taken by Rowe Dinney and
Chas. Cox while Bernice Del -
bridge and Hazel Elliot upheld
the negative. The negative side.
won.
15 YEARS AGC
The Canadian Canners Limited
with head office at Hamilton
have torn down the main struc-
ture of the Exeter factory and
are preparing to erect a new
building.
Travelling by car via EXeter
and Elgineld in order to reach
St. Marye from his home in
Kirkton •Monday evening, Dr. H.
Jose, reeve elf Blanshard made
a round trip of 122 miles instead
of 20 by snow blocked roads.
Miss Vera Pollen has accepted
a position with the Tinges Advo-
cate,
Miss Agnes McPhail will speak
in the interests of the Federation
of Agriculture in- Crediton Town
Hall Wednesday afternoon.
Lieut. Grant laylor is home on
two week's furlough from Peta-
wawa,
i0 YEARS AGO
Mr. Thomas Pryde the newly
elected member of the Progres-
sive Conservative party took his
seat with the opening of Parlia-
ment in Toronto on Wednesday,
Marlene and Darlene Frayne
leap ;year twins had their first
birthday Sunday,•
Mr. Warren Sander's has taken
over the C,N,R. express .busi•
ness from Mr, Glen McKnght,
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Webber cele-
brated their 25th wedding atuii-
versary on Saturday Feb, 28.
The late Ii;, J. ,Eacrett, Lon-
don,, willed $1,000 to the Exeter
District Hospital,
Mr. and Mrs. 'William Baker
Of Lown celebrated their diamond
wedding anniversary on Sunday,
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to look over the insurance you
terry? Each type of policy is
designed, for a particular pur-
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periodic review of your life in-
surance is necessary if your pro -
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needs, Take time out with me
to go over your insurance pro-
gram today, It's a service given
without obligation,
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Te beneficiaries: $135,000,000;
To hying poiicyawners: $236,000,000
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N. L. MARTIN
OPTOMETRIST
Main Street, Exeter
Open Every Weekday
Except Wednesday
For Appointment Phone 255
W. G, COCH4RANE, BA.
BARRISTER & SOLICITOR
NOTARY PUBLIC •
Honsttilt Office Open Wednesdey<
Afternoons 2 to 5 p.m,
EXETER PHONE 14
ALVIN WALPER
PROVINCIAL
LICENSED AUCTIONEER
For your sale, large or sniali,
courteous and efficient service
at all times.
"Service 'thet Satisfies"
PHONE 114 DASHWOOD
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INCOME TAX REPORTS
BOOKKEEPING SERVICE
ETC.
Ann St., Exeter Phone 504
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Phone 273 Exeter
• Closed Wednesday Afternoons
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