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Tines-Aclvoeater August 7, 1958
Ed itorialS
Thio newspaper believes. the.
right to express ,art opinion in
pubile contributes to the pro.
grass 0 the. nation and that it
must be exercised freely to pre-
serve and improve democratic
government..
for improve me nt
Endorsement of tilt. Ontario hog marketing plan
marks the third time during the past year that farm-
ers have supported the movement toward producer.
controlled marketing. With the peach, tobacco and
now hog plans upheld, there's not much doubt that
this phase of farm organization has gained a strong
foothold and will, in all probability, encompass most
farm products eventually.
Frankly, we were pleased with the results of
the hog vote, the first real test of the movement
which has involved this area. There will be some
who will say that the 67.56 percentage in favor was
a slit. majority because of the stipulated require-
ment of 66 and two-thirds approval of those who
voted. We see it, however, as endorsatioi, by nearly
seven of every 10 farmers who were interested
enough to exercise their franchise -- and that's a
whopping big majority in anyone's book.
When one considers that the elected govern-
ment of this country often receives less than 50 per.
cent of the total votes cast, the decisive victory
scored by the hog marketing board becomes appar-
ent.
It was not a great surprise that Huron and
Perth did not give the required approval since the
opposition in these two counties was strongest. Huron
voted 59.7 in favor—practically six out of every 10
producers said "yes", still a good majority. Middle-
sex' came close to the mark with 65 percent.
Biddulph, McGillivray and Blanshard town-
ships were strong supporters.
The results locally are, interesting. 'Usborne
was the only township in Huronto reject the plan,
56 percent of the voters being opposed. It was nip
and tuck in Stephen, which gave the plan only a
one -vote margin. Hay approximated the provincial
average—with 67.41 in favor. Tuckersmith, with a
66.44 percent "yes" vote, canoe within a shade of
giving the plan the required percentage.
There were many in this area, we feel, who
did not understand the plan and its operation, and
there were many who had honest doubts about it.
Rumours reached sizeable proportions during the
campaign here and it became difficult to separate
fact from fiction. In cases of doubt, the vote would
naturally swing against the plan.
It appears to us that those sincere, independ-
ent -thinking and successful farmers who have op-
posed this movement and probably view the future
of • it with suspicion will be forced to the realization
that the organization of farmers in an attempt to
protect their collective interests is inevitable and that,
rather than oppose the movement or ignore it, their
views will be better represented by activity within
the organization.
We see safety in the fact that the association
which controls and directs the operation of the
scheme is elected democratically and we suggest that
those who are concerned should make it their busi-
ness to attend and participate in the annual meetings
and elections of the group. It would seem folly, for
example, if Huron, which obviously is conservative
about the new plan, was represented by radicals who
proposed even stronger collectivism, But this can
happen if the producers allowed the election to be-
come a mere formality by a handful in attendance at
annual meetings.
Those who have opposed the plan should not
be ashamed of their stand nor feel they are not
entitled to participate in the association. And those
who have been active in support of the plan should
welcome the views of their opponents in its opera-
tion.
The point, briefly. is this: the plan has been
supported and now is in effect for some time to
ccme. What happened before the election should be
forgotten and all producers nowv should work towards
ensuring that the plan operates in the most efficient
and beneficial manner.
There is no charm so great as the charm of a
Cheerful temperment.
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information.
Profits, not prophets, foretell the future.
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.s vast change has come over
summer living in the Canadian
small town in the past twenty
or thirty years. And I'm not at
all sure that it's been a change
for the better.
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This great thought came to
me tonight We've had a week
of real, old-fashioned, hot sum-
mer weather, and as I sat here
in the quiet, cool kitchen with
nothing but the thundering of
moths against the screen door
to distract me, I got reminiscing
about summer in the '20's, when
I was a skinny, little, freckle -
faced kid.
* * * *
For some strange reason. in
those days kids didn't come run-
ning in to their mothers eight
tunes a day, whining: "What'll
we do, Mom?" Gee, there's no
fun outside. How about taking us
for a swim? Can we have a
nickle for a popsickle?"
Quite the contrary. Mothers in
those days practically had to
call the police to locate their
youngsters so they could drag
then in and feed them three
times, there simply were not
enough hours in the day, and
night always fell far too early.
For a boy. in those days, there
were about 480 fascinating
things to do on a fine summer
day. There were no organized
swimming lessons, no organized
softball leagues, no organized
anything. Everything was beauti-
fully disorganized. You snatched
a bread -and -jam sandwich in the
cool, bright of the morning. and
took off like a scared rabbit,
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Maybe you went up to the fair-
grounds and played hardball
(softball was a girl's game in
those days) all morning. There'd
be about twelve kids on each
side, and every pitch, every
play, was argued violently, with
a lot of pushing in the chest and
fierce repartee like: "Oh Yeah?
Sez Who?"
x * *
Maybe you took a swing around
by the sandpit, crawled, into the
carefully concealed cave and
lay around with the gang, smok-
ing monkey tobacco in toilet
paper, and plotting a horrible
fate for the gang in the nest
street over,
• r * *
Maybe you just sat on top of
a wall, in the sun, chewing licor-
ice and seeing who could spit
the, farthest, Maybe you'd
"seak up" on somebody, crawl-
ing through tomato plants and
corn stalks until you lay there,
knife between your teeth, watch-
ing every move of. .a woman
hanging out her clothes, in happy
ignorance of the fact that only
the guns poking from the loop-
holes .in the house were saving
her from . a scalping at the
hands of the ruthless Navahos.
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Maybe you lay on a wooden
bridge and fished, the hours
peeling off like petals as you
watched the dark water below
and the stir as the tail of a
trout moved, the rest of hint un-
seen behind a log. 1r maybe you
swam in the river until your
lips were blue and your eyes
all bloodshot, then lay baking in
the sun, mindless, following the
'
ponderous
of clouds a great
Maybe you had a "feed." First,
you'd search for empty beer bot-
tles. sell them, and invest the
profits in wieners. `Then you'd
send the best snatcher of the
gang to swipe a bunch of bana-
nas off the outside stand at the
fruit store. Then you'd all go
home and steal (you never asked
for it, you stole it), any food you
could get away with, and maybe
a handful of Dad's pike tobacco.
Then you'd all retire to the cool,
vaulted depths of the old distils
lery cellar and have an • orgy
that would make one of Nero's
feasts look like a Sunday School
picnic.
* *
After supper, a swift gulping
of corn on the cob and cold ap-
ple sauce, new delights beck-
oned. You could climb into the
three -house and kick little girls
in the face when they tried to
climb up. There wase Run -Sheep -
Run and Bedlight in the gather-
ing dusk, There was creeping
up. with suppressed giggles, on
your big sister and her beau, as
they sat in suspicious silence
on the porch. * *.
It, was with the sharpest of
pain and the most bitter of sor-
row that you heard your mo-
ther's whistle or piercing "Y000 -
H000" tolling the knell of part-
ing day. Every mother had a.
different call for her brood, and
we knew our ,own from two
blocks away. And every father
had the same treatment for kids
who failed to respond — a hearty
clip on the chops. We came
home not joyfully, but prompt-
ly.
* *: * *
The automobile and television
have changed all that. Kids are
all over the country now, on
summer evenings. They're dri-
ven somewhere to . play hall,
with a lot of other "organized"
boys, Or they've wheedled their
folks into taking thein to the
drive-in theatre. Or they're, sleep-
ing in strange beds at somebody's
cottage, while their parents sit
around drinking gin collinses.
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Or the poor .little souls are
crouched, with senseless stare,
in front of a TV set, watching a
replay of one of last winter's
programmes, while in the soft,
warm outdoors, the birds and
the trees and the moonmourn
the days when the piping voices
of children at play provided a
counterpoint to the melody of a
velvet summer evenilig.
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News Of Your
LIBRARY
By MRS. J. M. S.
Your librarian,, Mrs. Hilton
Laing, is enrolled in a four-week
short course for librarians at
Wingham Masonic Hallwhich
commenced Tuesday afternoon,
There are 31 other librarians tak-
ing the course. Mrs. Laing will
drive to and from. Wingham each
day.
During the absence of Mrs,
Laing and Mrs. John Schroeder
who is one trip to the West, Miss
Peggy McLaughlin will preside
at the librarian's desk.
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While ire holidays lest week we
visited the Stephen Leacock Me -
fit Match To See ,Pups,
Boys Set Town AbI.qze
'the other day we were speak-
ing of twee in Exeter. One of the
worst fires took place in 1920
when several barns were burned
and some of the business places
threatened. From the Exeter
Times of .June 24, 1920 we take
the fallowing:
• (in Thursday of last week
four frame barns in the business
section of Exeter were destroyed
be fire and seriously threatened
the plain business portion of the
Wen, The fire started in a stable
belonging to W. J. Statham, at
the rear of his store. It rapidly
spread to several other build-
ings that were in the immediate
vicinity, completely guttingthem.
It was only by the strenuous ef-
forts of the firemen, assisted by
bucket brigades that the flames
were kept from spreading.,
"sir. Statham had two young
pups in the stable and it appears
that two young boys were in
looking at the pups. They lit a
match which alighted some straw
and the flames spread quickly,
The boys ran from the building
but failed to give warning. The
building was soon a plass of
flames. The fire spread .to the
stable of Mr.- C. T. Brooks, ex -
prose agent, also to a stable be-
longing to Mr. F. Wood, and
rented by Ben Makins, butcher,
and also to a stable belonging
10 Mr. Ed. Willis, these buildings
being all close together.
"The frame .stable of Mr. J.
G. Jones was badly scorched
and a holt was burned in one
end A warehouse.at the rear of
Southcott Bros.' store caught
fire several times from sparks
but was saved by the bucket
brigade.
",fust previous to the arrival
of the firemen the flames had
gained considerable headway.
Huge volumes of smoke were is-
suing from the buildings and live
sparks were being carried by a
fairly strong wind directly over
the business section of the town,
"dust as the main fire was
got under control someone dis-
covered that the roof of the
warehouse belonging to W. J.
Ueaman w: s smoldering under
some live sparks. A bucket bri-
gade soon put it nut but not be-
fore a couple of holes were
burned in the roof.
• "The roof of Mrs. Pickard's
summer kitchen also caught fire
from a spark. The sparks were
carried •to the south part of the
town. Quite a number of the fire-
fighters and spectators had holes
burned in their clothing from the
sparks. Mr. J. Willis Powell had
just loaded a large Edison phon-
ograph on the back of his auto
and he left it standing in front
of his store while he went to
the scene of the fire. Someone
noticed smoke issuing from the
robe covering and removed it
just in time• to save the phono-
graph and auto.
"The firemen deserve great
credit for the manner in which
they fought the flames. The heat
at times was terrific. Fire Chief
Weekes and Herb Ford had their
faces scorched,
"In addition to other build-
ings, the roofs were burned off
Mr. Statham's icehouse and the
icehouse of Mr. B. Makins. It
was this latter building that stop-
ped the flames from spreading
to the main buildings.
"In Mr. Statham's building
the two pups mentioned, two
pigs and a slumber of chickens
were destroyed. He also lost a
new delivery wagon besides hay
and straw.
"Mr. Brooks' barn was the
best of the four. He lost a set of
sleighs, some harness and tools
hi addition to hay, oats, etc.
"Mr. Makins' barn was filled
with hay, he having, received a
load the day previous, There
was nothing in the barn belong-
ing to Mr. E. Willis. There was
little insurance on any of the
buildings."
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50 YEARS AGO
Mr. L. C. Fleming and family
moved to Clinton last week to
be more centrally located for
his work as secretary of the
Y.M.C.A. for Huron County.
Will Abbott is spending the
summer on his little farm at
Clandeboye where he has a large
colony of bees.
Cook Bros, Hensall, have a
•gang of mill -weights employed
taking all the old machinery •out
of their mill and replacing it
with new and up-to-date appli.
ances of the best make.
The seven daughters and five
sons of the late Thomas Rowe
were all present at the funeral
on Sunday.
Mr. John Shute, Kirkton,
delivered four hogs in Exeter on
Tuesday receiving therefore
$70.75.
A high-handed piece of shop-
lifting was executed at W, J.
Statham's store on Tuesday
when some person picked up and
walked off with a basket of Chas
Birney's best tomatoes which
Mr. Statham had purchased only
a half hour before. .
' 25 YEARS AGO
The first Penhale re -union,
descendants of the late John Pen -
hale, is being held at the farm
of Asa .I, Pei -Male R.R. 1 Exeter
on Monday.
Mr. William Hatter won the
morias home in Orillia. Much of
Leaceck's writing was done in
this rambling, comfortable sum-
mer home on Old Brewery Bay,
Orilli a .
The house was purchased by
the town of Orillia last year after
being unoccupied for many years.
After extensive renovation the
home was dedicated a National
Historic Site last month, July 5.
The walls of the living room, din-
ing room and even Leacock's
bedroom are lined with hooks
which have been catalogued this
past year.
There are five fireplaces in the
home and many of the furnish•
ings remain as they were. The
flower gardens are being re-
stored and. Leacock's old rowboat
which lay at the bottom of the
bay for some time, now lies at
the wasters edge.
Stephen Leacock was one of
Canada's greatest writers, es-
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prize for step dancing at the
Bayfield pavilion last week.
Senator F. W. K, and Mrs.
Tom, Toledo, Ohio, are spend-
ing a week visiting the former's
sisters.
Ian McLeod, agricultural re-
presentative and his bride are
becoming settled in their new
home in Clinton.
The Huronia Male Chorus with
their wives and friends picnicked
at Turnbull's Grove. •
Mr. Jack Paisley of Sault Ste.
Marie, a former manager of the
chainway Store called on friends
in town.
15 YEARS AGO
The former Bank of Montreal
building has bcen purchased by
the. Public Utilities Commission,
Dr, R. Hobbs Taylor, Dash-
wood, was on Wednesday elected
as Progressive Conservative to
represent Huron.
Mr. and Mrs, Dalton Fink -
heeler have returned home
from their honeymoon spent in
Meaford, Owen Sound and Bar-
rie.
AC2 Neil Jones of the RCAF
Radio School, Hamilton, spent
the weekend at his home.
The Avalon Restaurant will be
re -opened under the new man-
agement of Dalton Finkbeiner,
F/O Ralph B. Delbridge was
killed on active service overseas
Tuesday, August 3.
Exeter went over the top in
the "Steely Out the 13.1 Boat"
campaign for ,Tuly -- selling
$1,000 in War Savings Stamps,
10 YEARS AGO
Mr, W. R. Goulding was edju-
cator at the juvenile contest con-
ducted at the Kirkton .garden
party.
District men went on an old-
fashioned bear hunt Monday
afternoon and beat through an
eight -acre bush in Usborne Town-
ship north of Exeter looking for
.a mother bear and four. cubs
seen by 13111 Rowcliffe at the
edge of his farm.
A teacher itt 1887 in Dashwood,
Mr. A, 3. Styles has returned to
Seaforth from Hollywodd, Cali-
fornia, to visit boyhood scenes.
At magistrate's court at Gode-
rich Thursday tribute was paid
to the late. nnagistrate, J. W.
Morley INC. of Exeter.
Exeter council voted to call
for tenders for a new Exeter
district High School.
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