The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1959-04-23, Page 4Pep 4 The Tinier Advocate. April 23, 1959
Editorials
This nuwepaper believes His
rlaht to express en opinion in
public contributes to the pro..
press of the nation and that it
must be exercised freely to pre'..
eerve and improve democratic,
government..
Sow the best
"Sow the best" should be the spring slogan
of every fanner.
Several years ago, seed drill surveys in Huron
revealed that about one in every five farmers was
sowing seed found to be of "rejected" grade. They
sowed many weeds.
The Ontario Department of Agriculture puts
it this way: "The value of good soil, high fertility,
good and costly cultivation, and good weather is re,
duced when anything but the best seed is sown."
"Good seed, however, is much more than a
grade from a seed laboratory. In commercial seeds,
this guarantees the germination and purity within
the standards required by the ,grade. But before
seed can be considered the best, it must also be
the right variety to do the job you intend. This year
there is no scarcity of the right varieties."
The department suggests it's stili not too late
for farmers to snake this resolution: "During 1959.
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I will not sow any seed with purity and germina-
tion below the requirements of Number 1 seed,"
Opportunities
The Tunes -Advocate and other newspapers
.seem to be receiving an increasing number of
"business opportunity" advertisements.
Some of these suggest that, for a down pay-
ment of $600 or so, you can make $14,000 in your
spare time. Obviously, these are "get rich quick"
schemes in which the only people who get' rich are
those who offer the opportunity.
We have filed a number of them in the waste-
paper basket because they are not legitimate. Others;
however, are valid but it's difficult for us to know
which constitutes a genuine offer.
We suggest to those who might be interested
in any of these schemes that they check, before send-
ing any money, with their bank or other sources of
information regarding the firmmaking the offer.
We do try to protect our readers as much as
possible against false advertising but we cannot be
responsible for all of these offers which appear in
our column.
Reconsideration
It's been suggested from a number of quarters •
that the editorial, "A cola town?" which appeared in
last: week's edition, was unfair. After reconsideration,
we're inclined to agree.
You'll recall we were critical of the increasing
use of soft drink signs as identification for businesses
in the town as well as for general advertising
purposes.
As several bottlers have pointed out since the
editorial appeared, the soft drink industry is not, by
any means, the only one to use this medium. Tobacco,
Ice cream and other lines are also advertised ex-
tensively in this manner.
And, of course, it was unreasonable for us to
single out several specific drinks rather than deal
with the industry as a whole.
We were pleased to learn from the bottlers that
this industry is making a concerted attempt to clean
up what it admits has been an unsightly development.
.The industry now tries to erect only one sign where
it once posted many, and the quality of the signs has
improved considerably.
It's a credit to the industry that it has taken the
initiative itself to improve conditions.
For a measly dirne
A fellow 1 know has good reason to hate,
The year that's just ended, the year '58.
The thought of it brings only gloom to recall
For he's now out of work with his back to the wall.
The goods that he made he'd been making for years
By the sweat of his brow and his toil and his 'tears;
Yet now when he offers these products for sale
Be finds that the lures of "cheap bargains" prevail
And his fellow Canadians—that's us, you and me—
Are buying from countries far over the sea
Where the wages are less 'than a third of our own
And the standard of living's pared down to the bone.
This fellow I know is my customer too,
Or rather was, 'til his business fell through,
Which caused me to ask—Are we men or just mice
To stab our own folks for a dime off the price.
The fate of my friend could be yours, could be !nine,
So lets "Buy Canadian" throughout. '59.
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trouble with your prescription."
I started thinking about busts
while I was watching Brigitte
Bardot, the little French sex -pot,
in a film the other night. That
may seem like a silly thing to
say. It's like saying you started
thinking about music while you
were watching an orchestra play.
But it was merely a coincidence,
* * *
And just to get things perfect-
ly clear, I don't mean busts of
famous sten, done in plaster, I
mean busts on ladies,
* *
The horrifying part of it was
that 1 started thinking about
busts in a' clear, cold, analytical
way. As I say, I was tvatching
Miss Bardot snaking her way
through a movie, in which
l'amour was treated in the
boisterous Gallic m a n n e r so
startling to us tittering Anglo-
Saxons,
* * *
It was my first view of the
young lady. I understand she
is the second citizen of France,
after General De Gaulle, Cer-
tainly her pictures appear in
the paper more often than his.
And .I'm here to tell you she is
definitely better looking than the
General, though somewhat short-
er.
* * *
I'm not blaming Mlle. Bardot
for my lapse. She was all she
was crackedup to be. She wig-
gled her behind. and jiggled her
befront, to the best of her
ability, and she has a lot of
ability along.. these lines.
• * *
No, the fault was mine, not
hers. After watching her for a
few minutes with some interest,
I became first embarrassed,
then mildly disapproving, then
just plain sleepy. About halfway
through this process, I had sense
enough to .say to myself: "Boy,
either you're ready to be put
out to pasture, or you need a
damn good spring tonic".
* * *
It's pretty disturbing to a chap
who has leered his way through
the burlesque houses of Detroit's
Woodward Avenue in the heigh-
day of Scurvy Miller, eaten pea-
nuts in the pit at the Casino in
Toronto, and ducked out for a
drink .between rounds of pure
art at London's Windmill The-
atre, to realize that he is blush-
ing slightly at the sight of a
young lady who is not only not
there in person,• but has all her
clothes on.
Il is chilling to think that per-
haps the young sap has -been
boiled down to an old fudge,
When. youknow that you're sup-
posed to be sitting holt upright,
wide eyed and electrified, it
hurts to know that you are
slumped in your seat, mouth
pursed, head shaking and tongue
almost tut -tutting, in disapproval.
* * +,
It is downright disconcerting
to find that you are craving for
a smoke in the middle of a big
pash scene. It is disgusting to
have to give in to it and go to
the hack of the theatre to light
up, just when the young tempt-
ress on the screen is launching
into a discreet striptease.
And i t is dismal ismal to learn' that
c
you have nodded off, and your
wife is driving you in the ribs,
just at the point where the cele-
brated Miss B. is making a
monkey of the censors.
* *
11 was about this point, rudely
Sugar
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Dispensed By BILL SMILEY
awakened and rather crabby,
that 1 started thinking about
busts, Don's ask me why. What's
with this bust craze, anyway?
Mamalians of mammoth propor-
tions create headlines every time
they take a deep breath. High
school kids practically break
their backs trying to stick their
chests out an extra inch,
* * *
So who's impressed? Other
girls, maybe. Not men. Men
have been marrying women for
thousands of years, and busts
have nothing to do with it. In
fact, back in, the twenties, when
I was a kid, busts were frowned
on, and still they married then.
Let tenderness, humour and
sympathy show in your face,- let
goodness and pity and love shine
in your eyes, and you'll get
your man faster than if you had
the biggest bust this side of
Bali.
* * *
Busts cause n 11 1 n g hut
trouble, I remember a girl 1
knew in college. Her name was
Betsy. She had a vast bosom.
I always called her Busty to
myself. One night I was dancing
with her. We were talking and
I inadvertently c a lied her
"Busty" instead of "Betsy"
Know what happened? .You got
it, Mac. She bust me. Right on
the nose.
* * *
And maybe that's why I've
been a little psychological about
busts ever. since. ,
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News Of Your
• LIBRARY .
By MRS, J. M. S.
Librarian Mrs. Hilton Laing
reports a very busy week: last
week for Library Week. Adults
and children alike visited the
library.
F'ublic School pupils were each
given a bookweek bookmark
which they took to the library
and had Mrs, Laing sign it and
then it was returned to the teach-
er at school. Results have not
beefs tabulated but one or two
teachers report the returns are
almost 90 per cent.
In Toronto 800 attended the
Meet the Authors dinner and as
one writer commented "I had
never seen so many authors in
my life." Several items on the
program featured Stephen Lea-
cock and the Leacock House.
By the way, a new copy of Lea -
cock's "Sunshine Sketches of a
little Town" is` in your library—
you will enjoy reading it again.
During the summer plan to visit
Leacock House on Georgian Bay
—you will always be glad you
The Nine Lives of Michael Todd
A new book at your library is
the story of one of the world's
most fabulous showmen, Mike
Todd, as told in ':The Nine Lives
of Michael Todd" by his friend
Art Cohn who diedin the same
plane crash that killed Mike
Todd. At the time of his death
Mr. Cohn had just completed
Todd's . biography.
This book isn't just the story
of a than who started with noth-
ing and made millions, only to
lose them and make more or
just the story of a Master show-
Jottings by 1MS
,Accident's brouh# griel
during olden Boys too
We hear and read a lot about
accidents and accident preven-
tion. Most of the serious acei-
dents today are on the high-
ways -or in the ay. There has
always been acicidents and, 1
guess there always will.
Here is a list of accidents that
happened fifty years ago, in the•
year 1909, taken from one issue
of the Exeter Advocate:
"Mrs. John Essery, of Usbor•ne,
is, recovering nicely from a frac•
lure of her right elbow, the re-
sult of being thrown from a load,
owing to the stumbling of a
Horse. Rain was threatening and
.order to assist in harvesting
the last load Mrs, Essery drove
the team, but one of the horses
stumbling on the gangway, a
rope caught Mrs. Essery throw-
ing her off the load, over a
fence and onto a stone fractur-
ing the elbow. The wonder is
that the hurt was not m.ore seri-
ous," .
"A young son of A'lr. D. Cot-
tle, Farquhar, is recovering from
a broken collar bone, sustained
while playing with other chit-
dren, He fell off another little
fellow's back,"
"A son of Mr. John Perkins,
of Ushorne. last week fell off a
barn and broke both bones of
one forearm, He is now doing
nicely,"
"On Sunday of last week Drs.
Browning and Macdermici per-
formed an operation behind the
ear of a young daughter of Mr.
Ezra Foist, of Crediton. The
young lady had been ill of scar-
let fever .and inflamation settled
in behind the ear, making an
operation :necessary, She is now
doing nicely."
"Hand Cut Off. -- Mr. James
White, who last fall moved to
Exeter from the Northwest, and
has since resided in the house
'itpu' 44,7
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he purchased from Mr. James
N. lioward, linin stmt, on Mon-
day just before noon, lost one
hand and a third of the Iorearm.
He that day commenced to
assist in threshing and was work-
ing on Mr. William Stewart's
farm, formerly owned by Mr,
G. G. l-laekney, near Farquhar,
and being used to threshing
machines using the blower but
not the straw cutter, he under-
took to remove some obstruction
fron' the blower while the Dia -
chine was 1n motion, with the
result that the hanel was taken
off. lie lost a great deal of blood
before Drs. firowning and Camp-
bell were on the scene, but is
nowpectedod.ing as well as ean be ex-
"
"KneeCap Cul.--i•lenry Schenk,
a young man of Crediton, son of
illr. Paul Schenk, unfortunately
sustained a severe injury to his
knee on Monday. He was driving
some horses and ran against a
binder knife, which was lying
against a shock of grain, with
the result that the knee cap was
cut off, Dr. Browning was sum-
moned and he, considering it
very serious, sent for Dr. Wish-
ed, London, and together they
attended the injury Tuesday.
An item for accident preven-
tion appeared in the same issue;
Mr. Daniel ]•lartlieb is exhibit-
ing a small ingenious device of
his own. invention that promises
to be wellreceived by drivers.
It is a •small contrivance to be
attached to each end of the whif-
fletrees of the buggy; for the
purpose of preventing the tug
from coming off. The device is
certainly a great imnroven ent
on anything of the kind we have
heretofore seen and we think
Dan has hit upon a good thine,
which will doubtless bring him
golden gain."
As the
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50 YEARS AGO
Mr. Saxon Fitton, Exeter, won
the trophy and •championkhip of
Western Ontario at the fourth
annual shoot of the Exeter Gun
Club.
Mr, S. Brown, Crediton,
shipped large quantities of Dutch
setts and clover seed the past
week to different parts of Onta-
rio.
Miss Bella Hawkins returned
to the Chatham Business College
after spending the hbliday with • time.
Exeter and Margaret Hicks, Cen-
tralia.
Don Gladman who has com-
pleted his year in theology in
Emmanuel College, Toronto, has
accepted a position as junior
pastor on the newly formed Bay -
ham - Springfield circuit near
Alymer.
• 15 YEARS AGO
The James Street Young Peo-
ple have presented their play
"Closed lips" • for the thirteenth
her parents.
Thomas Batman, Charles Min-
•ers, Al Moore, Flossie Taylor
and Ethel Sweet of London spent
Good Friday in town.
The bachelors of Exeter gave
an assembly in McDonell's Hall
Tuesday evening.
Mr. Earl. Spackman of the Mol -
son's Bank staff, Alvinston,
spent Easter with his parents.
The Kirkton Agricultural So-
ciety has decided to take advan-
tage of the government's offer
for field grain competition for
next fall.
25 YEARS AGO
Real estate is still on the move
at Grand Bend. Mr. 'Stewart
Webb bought what is known as
the Vincent farm of 100 acres
this week getting posession at
once.
A number from Khiva attended
the auction sale of Mr. Fred
Sharpe of Corbett Tuesday af-
ternoon.
• Mr. Peter Mcisaac, Dashwood
has had the interior of his under-
taking parlor redecorated.
Reeve Janies Ballantyne of
Usborne Township, who, Last
year, was warden of the Coun-
ty, was the choice of an open
convention of Progressives, Li.,
berals and Independent Conser-
vatives at Hensel! on Monday.
Among the nurses who 'will
graduate from Victoria Hospital
in May are Doreen Westcott,
man but it goes behind the
scenes to tell the intimate, un-
ique story of an incredible man
whomfew people ever really
knew. •
Todd frustrated every would-
be biographer, He never looked
had n yesterdays, hack. He h , o .yes .ys, no
reminiscences or regrets, At 18
he was 'president of $2,000,000 a
year construction company, A
year later he had a credit bal•
ance of $820,000. At 20 he was
broke, unable to pay his rent,
Please turn to Page 5
The Exeter Bowling Club now
have a new power roller for rol-
ling the greens.
Gerald England, son of Sgt
and Mrs. Lloyd England, Credi-
ton, received his wings as a na-
vigator at No. 9 Air Observers' .
School, St. John's Quebec.
The Exeter Utilities Commis-
sion last week moved into their
new quarters, the building for-
merly owned by the Bank of
Montreal.
J. W. Holt, Grand Bend was
presented with a Badge of Ser-
vice given to members of the
Red Cross throughout Ontario for
outstanding Red Cross Work. It
was presented by Miss L. M.
J eckell.
The residence of the late Ri-
chard Coates on Huron St. has
been purchased by W. Harvey
Pollen,
Gnr. David Kestle of Halifax
is spending two weeks leave
with Mrs. Kestle and family,
10 YEARS AGO •
Mr. R. G. Seldon joined his son
Dr, Harry Seldon of. the Mayo
Foundation, Rochester, on a trip
to Vancouver.
Doris Penhale of town, Marie
Cronyn, Clandehoye and Shirley
Regier of Dashwood were gra-
duates from St. Joseph's Hospi•
tal School of Nursing,
Mrs. L. C. White, Talbotville,
president ,of the London Confer-
ence 'Branch of WMS addressed
the Afternoon Auxiliaries of
James and Main street churches
on Thursday.
Miss Margaret Dougall was in
Toronto attending the music sec-
tion of the Ontario Educational
Association as the delegate of
the supervisors of music from
Huron, county,
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'rhe Exeter District bl i g h
School Glee Club has made sev-
eral reeordings this winter which
have been heard over CKNX.
Mr, Fred Dobbs left Saturday
for the West Where he hopes to
purchase a number of cattle.
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In accordance with a ] esolUttorl. ado tted by:
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Exeter Towns . Council, 1,he!'eby.,prrbclaine that-..
DAYLIGHT • }SANT
Will Become Effective
Midnight. Saturday April 25
and will Continue in Force until
Midnight Sat. Septerinber 26.
and I call upon all citizens to observe this
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