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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1959-09-03, Page 4PIa 4 he fiches -Advocate, Septetnlaer 3, 1959 Edi toriais This, newspaper bettered the right to. express en ,opinion In public. contributes to the pro. gross of the nation and Chet it must be rexerciaed freely to pre. serve and improve democratic cover. nment.. School uniforms An experiment which starts in Goderich schools next week may well be watched with in- terest here. School uniforms will be worn in Goderich public and separate schools as well as in the lower grades of the collegiate institute. Apparently, wearing of the uniforms is option- al in Goderich. In the elementary schools, it is esti- mated about 75 percent of the students will conform. Response in the high school was unfavorable but at least 25 girls have indicated they will introduce uni- forms in the hope that acceptance will spread. Promotion of conformity in dress was done by a group of parents. There are advantages in the wearing of school uniforms, one of the foremost of which is economy. They eliminate social distinction in dress and place emphasis on neatness and care of clothes, rather than on variety and quality. They may also promote school spirit, provide that sense of conformity which children desire and help to place emphasis of school life on its academic, rather than social side. Uniforms do, however, smack •of regimentation and may tend to discourage that individuality which is important to initiative and progress. No doubt parents and children, particularly the girls. can cite numerous other drawbacks. Nevertheless, the idea is worth considering. Congrcitulations Winning of the Harmsworth Trophy by Lon- don's Miss Supertest III becomes a tremendous source of pride for all of Western Ontario. The Thompsons' feat in defeating the U.S. for the first time in 39 years brings international fame to Canada, focused on London and district, Neighbor- ing centres are happy. to share in the limelight. This community extends a full measure of congratulations to the owners and to driver Bob Hay- ward, of Embro, for a great victory. It proves again that Canadian resourcefulness, if given the challenge, can match the best. A way of !ife The fundamentals of a happy life should be rooted primarily in the requirements for healthy family Iiving, and it is likely true to say that the farm way of life provides the greatest opportunities of any in the world for this sort of living. The work of the farmer and the play of his children are carried out in direct connection with the home and the e fainil and nature, h 1 re The union of farm Y husband and wife, of parents and children, has been noted for its closeness and its permanence. Whereas wives of city workers often have only a dim notion of what- their husbands do at the office or the fac- tory; and -know still less about their daily problems and set -backs, the farm husband and wife work shoulder to shoulder, each understanding the per- plexities, of the other. Perhaps the most important function . of the farm wife and mother is summed up in this way in the report of the' Manitoba Royal Commission: "It is she who often serves as a catalytic agent in de- veloping the co-operation of all family members to do a particular job or to work towards a goal which is to benefit the whole family." As for children, the rewards of farm living are great. They have all those contacts with air and earth. and water which make for wisdom arid under- standing and judgement. These are indestructible virtues which enrich all their subsequent lives. "They will, I think," says (Louis) Bromfield, "understand. what is decent and tolerant in life, and comprehend both the evils of selfish exploitation and the evils of a regimented world in which human dignity and the soaring quality of the human spirit are cramped and stifled." The country which maintains the soundest Ideals and ambitions in the way of family building will be the country peopled with the strongest and most capable citizens. These things cannot be learned from books, but through living. Much of what is learned on the farm—a vast fund of wisdom and skill -4s transmitted from father to son, from mother to daughter on the thin air of oral tradition or of living example. That is the essence and the sub - Stance of the farm way of life, —From The Royal Bank of Canada, monthly letter, August, 1959, bc Cuter 1Cime5libbueate Times Established 1873 Advocate gatebliahed 1881 Amalgamated 1724 0100% Published Each Thursday Morning a1• Strafford, Or+l, Authorised %e Second glass Mail, Past lrlifiee Dep'f, Ottawa VI/ARDS -.-� .fl, E. Mee Tre,phy, Beet s" .t newt plet•tiee (Canada), 1950; Freak Howe Beattie Shield, best front page (Canada), 1957; A. V, INet04 frapfiy, ettieral extetlense for riewspapete pubfiehed in Ontario lemons between 1,500 end 4,500 population, 1958, 1957, 1956; J. 6eerge Johnston Trephy, typographical excelletite (thital',e), 1957; E. T. 5lephemeri trephy, best front pefte (Ontario), 1756 1955; Al1eiCenada Inguwance Federation naileitel aetefy ay.ard, 1953, lUB6CRfrTidN ROCS: Canada X4,00 Per Yeer 'USA 53,00 ` eid.iri=Acivetice Cli'c.flaiioii, Saps 30, 1053 y 3,228 e 8-28 Gct✓L 1 297:, %.re Fox;uran SI n.1,.n:e. Ior., 11 ,r::i r.¢ntn xaaned. "You can't stay here—what would people say?" Sugar- AND Spice Dispensed By BILL SMILEY During my holidays I swore I wouldn't write a column about them when I got home, and bore everybody. And here 1 am, back at the kitchen table and the type- writer, the clock shoeing well writepart ht, and nothing to about. gBut I'll be adamant. I won't write a word about my holidays. F M 0 I WON'T write a word about then. I won't write a , . what's that? You want to hear the whole story? Thank you, mother. You may go to bed now. Maybe I'll just write one word, if my assistants will lock the doors quickly, so nobody can get away, and give everyone a benzedrine pill..1 wouldn't want anyone to miss a word: It's so exciting. k M Well, as threatened, we took this cottage at the beach, see? No, no, I didn't say we could see the beach. We could see a grocery store, three roads and some cottages. In fact, the firstday we were home from the cottage, I was sitting in. the nice cool kitchen of our house, having a nice cool beverage, when I chanced to look out the window, drank in the nice cool view of our bay, and realized itwas the first tine I'd seen water for a week, The Reader Comments Enjoyable trip To the editor: To those who were responsible for the neatly wrapped. Times - Advocate, we say "Thank You." The clean legible printing on the address stamp must have been a joy to those responsible for sorting countless pieces of mail. The paper reached us in Winni- peg in A-1 condition. The port of Churchill on Hud- son Bay was the climax of a long hoped-for visit — and the reality thoroughly enjoyed. Am- ericans apparently are more aware of the future possibilities in Canada's north than Canadians are. Of the 290 folk taking the Hudson Bay tour -49 were Ca- nadian. We are asked frequently -Why would you ever want to go up there? Why—it's "Canada". Lloyd and Edna Taylor Kentucky pigeon To the editor, 1 thought you might be hn- terested in an incident which occurred land Wednesday, Aug. 26, at Grand Bend. Mr. A. 0. Murdoch, owner of the yacht "Lazy Jane 1II", De - trait. Mich,. brought. in a pigeon ' to Grand Bend and turned it over to Harbour Master Dayman. It appears the pigeon landed an Murdoch's yacht when ho was Out about 13 miles, on his way here. Mr. Dayman took the pigeon home and we examined the rings on its legs, There were tWo rings, one of which read "Ky-59723-Aug. '59, and the other —Please turn to page 5 without having to get in the car and drive to it. f M* Not that we didn't like the cottage. We did. It was a dandy and very well equipped. Too well, in fact. When I was a kid, and we were at the cottage, nay mother kept five of us busy, hauling pails of water from the lake, going to the farm for eggs and milk, getting ice from the icehouse, and collecting fire wood iii the bush. But at this cottage, every- thing was electric, automatic, refrigerated and indoors. There were no chores for the kids, and they hung around the cot- tage like coons around a gar. bage can, pestering for some- body to go swimming with thein, or play that fascinating game know as Fish. First three days of my holi- days it rained relentlessly, 24 hours a day„ The first day, de• !ermined to enjoy myself, I ig- nored the rain. just sat around and drank beer and read. But I found that these recreations, taken together for any length of time, make the eyes blood- shot. * R M So, at the end of ten hours of teeming rain, I decided to get out of the slump by sitting in front of the fireplace. This how- ever, tended to become desolate after a few hours, as a fireplace. normally a cheery spot, and I had forgotten to bring some wood in before the rains came. The fourth day dawned fine and clear, though, and I was all set to start some healthy out- door recreation, like, sitting in a deckchair with a book and a beverage. So my wife says we have to go to town and wash, we haven't a clean shirt left among the bunch of us. I spent most of the day in nay own kitch- en in town, putting stuff through the wringer. M Ri • But after that we settled right in to enjoy cottage life. Oh, we did slip into town Wednesday night to see a • movie we didn't want to miss. And we had to come to town Thursday to. turn in the . empties and pick up the grail. And Friday we were in town for a few hours getting " supplies -and shopping in the 5 and 10. just like the real tourists, And el course Saturday was sort of interrupted because we had to drive to town to see if they'd heard .anything of my partner, who had been missing in an open beat in Georgian Bay for two days. Rather a nuisance, that. * * * Aside from this, however, we really 'pitched in and became beachcombers. The kids were de- lighted with cottage life. of course, because for once they had Die at their. mercy. I'll bet Iplayed 74 games of cards with them, and went swimming with them, one dragging on each arm, at least twice a day. The Old Girl was happy. She'd brought her ironing board with her, to catch up on her ironing. Every day she'd 'pall out some pile of clothes she'd dampened to iron last -February, look at; it, put•ii: away and come swinrinhng. And I Was happy because, for once, everybody else was. 4. t Even Playboy, the pup, wag • Jottings By Raised $i,7OO its day to start church at GB A couple of articles an the early history .of the Presbyterian church and the open air ser- vices previous to the building of the United church have .appeared. in this colutnn. 1 happened to drop in on J. W. Holt, one of the old timers who is well known to many of the callipers at this popular resort. He referred to the Articles that have appeared in the Holiday and stated that bot enough credit had been given to the late Henry Huston. lilr. Huston was one of Grand Bend's .first, school teachers. He afterwards moved to Exeter but spent his summers at the Bend, owning one of the early cottages to be erected on the Exeter side. It was Mr. Huston who first started a Sunday School in Gibbs park, which later developed into Sunday outdoor services. It was Mr. Huston and Mr. 1-Iolt, after the union of the Presbyterian and Methodist churches, who made a canvas among the. campers to purchase the land for the erection of what is now the United Church. The first pian they approach- ed, according to Mr. Holt, offer- ed them five dollars. "Mr. we want to build a church" said Mr. Huston, They finally receiv- ed a 550.00 donation and before the end of the day $1,700 had been subscribed, $$200 more than was required to pay for the land, For years after the church was built, August was considered campers' month, when special speakers were secured to take the services while the resident minister was on. vacation. Many talented singers from among the campers assisted with the ser - 50 YEARS AGO Misses Lulu Martin and Ida Rowe left Monday for St. Marys to attend the Collegiate. Mr. .1. G. Stanbury has, in his garden, the finest specimens of gladioli in Canada. He took several collections to Toronto fair for exhibition and out of five entries won four prizes. Miss Irene Handford lefl. Mon- day evening for Whitby where she will attend Ladies' College, Mr. D. :Russell last week pun chased from Mr. A. E. .Pym the blacksmith shop, on Main Street, taking possession this week. The frost of a few nights ago (issue of. September 2) played havoc with the ripening vege- tables especially cucumbers and tomatoes, Miss Susan McDonnell, Mrs. George Hawkins, Miss Hazel Browning and Miss Dottie Dick- son left for Toronto to attend the fair. 25 YEARS AGO Grafton Cochrane has returned home after spending the sum- mer months employed on one of the boats plying through the Thousand Islands. Mr. Henry Green of Exeter North brought into the office on vice of song. Mr. Holt was ,one ofi` the pil- lars of the new chureh and for five years he Was secretary of the Sunday School and never missed a Sunday. Mr. !Holt for years conducted a general store Where Reeve Dalton now operates his real estate business. lit conjunction with his business, lir. Holt also conducted a real estate business and was in charge of renting many -of the cottages throughout the park. In this way he became one of Grand Bend's best known residents and over .a long period of time made many friends from all parts of Canada and the United States. Mr. dolt, now in his eightieth year, was born in Stephen Town- ship- and at the age of seven moved with his parents to the Mallard Line, Later he moved to Grand Bend with his wife. the former Maud Statton, who died in May, 1958. Mr. Holt took an active inter- est in the affairs of the village, Ile served for six years as a village trustee. Ile assisted the late George Eccleston, who purchased the park north of the main street from William Leavitt, to build the first dance kali at the beach. Several of the old cottages were torn down and the material used to build the dance hall, which from the start became a favorite spot for campers and was „the forerunner of the present Lake-. view Casino. It was on the grounds adjacent to the dance hall that baseball and • sports were held almost every evening and was the main attraction for the campers, As the „TIMES" Go By happy because he learned to swim properly. When we had first taken him to the water. early in the summer, we ex-' tinted hien to plunge in and dart about like an otter, because he was a spaniel. He didn't. He'd put one fool: in, then run about the beach looking for some- body's towel to piddle in. M k X Finally, lie was thrown in, and he swam clumsily to shore, us- ing, of all things, the dog -pad- dle, and holding his face out of the wader like a model trying' to save her make-up, After a few days at the cottage, how- ever, he was swimming like a loon, and acting like one, * 4' 4 We were 'all sick at the cot- tage, of course. Hugh, who is never .ill, was down and out for two days, The Old Lady had what she 'claimed Was an ad- vance case o2 polio. I had dysen- tery all the time we were there. Kim. waited until the day we got home, then ran a high fever for four days. * ' 1 But '1 guess we had a wonder- ful holiday, on the whole. And that's where I spent Most of it, trying to cope with my annual attack of dire rear, Tuesday a black groundhog hide, he having captured the ground. hog in J -lay swamp. A black groundhog is a rarity. Dr, :Joseph Routledge, veteri. nary surgede of Zurich died sud- denly oti Saturday. A committee has been appoint. ed to reorganize a band hit Exe- ter. II is 15 years since Exeter has had a hand. The Grand. Bend School Fait will be held on Monday, Septem- ber 10. Mr. and Mrs. W, J. Beer, Mrs. R. Quance, Mrs. Skinner and daughter, Miss May, are holiday- ing at "Royal Oaks", Grand Bend. 15 YEARS AGO Mr. Joseph Senior, photogra. pher, who hase been in business longer than any other person in Exeter is giving up his studio at the end of the month. Sgl:. Leonard Harvey who grad- uated as a Wireless',Air Gunner and received his wings at Fingal on Friday has been posted to St. Johns, Quebec. Owing to the 48-hour week for employees now in effect Hensall stores will close Tuesday eve- nings and Wednesday afternoons and will close Saturday evenings at 11 o'clock sharp. Mr. R. E. Pooley, \'.'inchelsea, has been appointed an issuer of licenses for the Game and Fish. eries Dept. Ray Pryde who is overseas with. the RCAF has been pro- moted to Flying Officer. Exeter Lions Club, at their int• tial meeting' for the :fall season set an objective of 52,000 for the fund for the Bombed Children of Britain, 10 YEARS AGO Registratioh at Exeter .District High School reached an all-time high of 306. Forever Dashwood, girl, Edith Spicer, was chosen Miss Western Ontario for 1949 at a beauty contest held in Windsor last Thursday night, Mr. Jack Drysdale wok a15,800 Prefabricated cottage at the Canadian National Exhibition. Canon. A. A. Trurper, rector of Trivitt. Memorial church from 1016 to 1925 preached anniver• sary service in that chureh on Sunday. 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