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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1959-10-22, Page 6Nags..4 The. Ti .gym. es AdvocatI4 •October 221 1959 Edit rials Thi$ newspaper believes the right to express an opinion le public contributes to' the _pro, press of the nation end that it must be exercised4 freely to pre. serve and improve democratic government. Not so greedy We like the trend toward collecting funds fon UNICEF, the United Nations' fund ,for needy child-, ren, on Hallowe'en, Stop .a minute to think and yon should have p. hideous twinge of conscience at the thought of gorging our children with unpalpable goodies while Mullions of similar tykes plead for crumbs. Our first reaction,. as yours may be, was that this was some killjoy's effort to spoil the kids'fun on their special night for it, Far from it, really. It's doing the kids a favor, They must learn, as We have not, that the prosperous nations cannot avoid their responsibility toward the underprivileged. We must temper our fun ,.and high living with concern for our needy brothers, Those adults who have the opportunity should encourage the children in this campaign. Less candy nd more contributions should be' the theme. New words Even Noah Webster might be bugged* today if he ran across a traxle ... And what could he possibly say to a hoopster? Americans seem to manufacture words like these for every gadget or social trend they produce. For the benefit of the man or woman who doesn't read dictionaries, the World Book Encyclopedia has compiled a list of the words and phrases that enter- ed our language in 1958. "Traxle," for example, is an automobile, de- sign i11 which the transmission is in the rear instead of against the engine. "Hoopster" is a person, usually a child or his weight -worried mother, who uses a hula hoop. Economists have brought clarity and imagin- ation to the mysterious workings of supply and de- mand with the phrase "bottoming out," which means reaching the lowest point in a recession. . • The hotel has graduated from motel to "boat-, el" -:—that's a motel built over the water, where people can moor their boats during the night. If you have a 'heavy foot on the gas pedal, you obviously suffer from "roadarnania." And if you wheel your groceries out to the car and forget to return the cart to the store, you're guilty of 'cart - napping," Science has introduced the word "mega - corpse", meaning a million dead persons, such as could result from nuclear warfare. An example of making a silk purse out of sow's ear is "informational site." That's the area at the side of the road where a billboard extols "Mother Mahoney's Pickled Preserves" or welcomes you to town with "Warning: Speed Controlled by Radar." The height of simplicity is "pinch effect." That's the contraction that results frem the mag- netic interaction set up by a parallel flow of cur- rents_ in plasma (highly ionized gas). *Bug—v.t., to annoy or confuse; coined by the a `Beat Generation." Individuality? We're amused at several editors' reactions to suggestions that uniforms be considered for school children. They described the idea as "a lot of fool- ishness, another brainstormput forward by a few people who seen to have little else to do but agitate continual changes". Their contention is that students have already lost • too much individuality and they should not be herded further by being uniformly dressed. After a11, what this country requires is rugged individuals. Yes sir, Canada needs young' people who` know how to compete in the matter of dress. Think what this kind of rugged personality will do for our ailing textile industry. To hell with competition in academic, athletic or talent fields, what°we need is youth who can dress themselves distinctly! Young man to draft board: "Brit you can't turn lie down—I've proposed to three girls, told My boss what I think of .him and sold my car!" * * * * Wife to husband: "If we continue to save at our present rate . at retirement we will owe two million dollars." ' Woman driver to friend: "Will you look how *lose that maniac • is driving ahead of me!" 35be (ex¢ter timokabbotate 1s w' Timet• Established 1873 Advocate Established 1881 Anialganfated 1924 ID 0'6 Published Each Thursday Morning at 3rtratford, Ont. ,Authorised as Second Class MAI, Post Office Dept, °hews s AWARDS E. kite Trophy, best spot news ptehlrs (Canada), 1959; Frank Bowe .Beattie Shield, best front Mtge (Canada), 1957; A. V. Nolan Trophy, general excellence for t,ewspatpert published In Ontario • towns between 1,500 and 4,500 pop'ulation, 1958,.19571.19561 J. George Johnston trophy, typographicalartcellstiee '(Ontario), 1951; E. T. Stephenson • Trophy, best front page (Ontario), 1956, 1955; Insurance Federation national safety award, 1954 SUBSCtPT1aN RATES: 'Canada $4.00 Per Year;ar, USA $5.00 Paicl•in Advance Circulation, Sept 30. 1958 -- 34211 teR` r tiro H \\ I059, eing Features Syndicate, hnc., World riglAs rp,erod, "We don't need , .. my wife wouldn't , , . I .. . Much?" ..... . mx .«A,.�.�'.f.,rarx...,�,.., �,.Ra,w.'.'tc.'`m..w...•v<rM.rti..:N.... .r...,.a.,�:4:w+.+..•ra.r&, .:i�mrcw"S�•h:zNaH�.':`.�r 10«22 how Sugar AND Spice Dispensed By BILL SMILEY •What a difference a few weeks can. make in this country! It is no Wander that Canadians carry on .a deep, lingering, tongue-tied Love affair with their native land, And they do, Believe me, they do, though you'd never know it by casual observation. They may sally to Florida, and Mexico and Europe, but most of them would be sad beyond endurance if they were banished forever from. Can. ada, * * * About six weeks ago, we drove out to visit friends at their cot tage° It was the lush, bosomy end of summer, and the eve - fling air was tropical. We slowed to cross the bridge, and the ever-present, ever -intens; anglers peered with fury at the black little river, and the birds chort- led, * « Along the beach, goldengirls walked, and. brown urchins swam, and fat ladies slumped in deck chairs, and cars poked around and dogs ran, and people waved and water lapped and motors reared, . * * * When we arrived, our friends, about a dozen of them, sat and lay under a vast, sighing pine tree, drinking chilled sauterene and eating dill pickles and stuff, Children, from toddlers to junior delinquents, prowled and begged bites and squabbled and' de- manded one last swim, and laughed and cried and wet their diapers a n d bothered their mums. * * * Out over the lake the sun, al- most gone, had a last mad fling with colour, slashing it across the sky with the ferocity of a Vali. 'Gogh. And the water, dark- ening its blue, looked up long- ingly, and the sun disdainfully flung across it a few scarlet and gold streamers. * * * And we lounged and sipped and munched, in shorts and bare feet, in jeans and swim suits, shirtless and wordless, too lazy and content to get up and go in, even when the sun took a deep breath and went down like a bomb, away out at the end of the water. was lonely and bleak and beauti- ful. * * * Like good Canadians, we ac- cepted the splendour of the eve- ning with decent restraint. No- body sang a sonnet to the set- ting sun Nobody was impelled to dance a dirge to dying sum- mer. It was admitted, upon the urging of one or two of the more flamboyant members of the group, that it sure was a swell night, before we gathered our kids and went :home. * * * Just the other night we went back to the same beach for din- ner with some friends at their cottage. The air was fairly curd- ling and the heater felt good, When we reached the little bridge, there were no�fishe the but at we stopped to look late gold sun on the black river. And high, away up, went over a wavery V of geese, a lovely sight. ▪ * * Along the beach, there was to sign of life in any direction, Just steely water around green- clumped islands;, silver sand black-and4blue sky, Cottages, all boarded up and blank -faced. It jottings By £M.$. List highway latmers in Usborne in 18.79 I have written about some of the early history .pf Exeter taken from the Huron County Atlas published. in 1578. The atlas not only contains a history of the various municipalities in Huron but also. a map of each. I was interested in the snap of Usborne which gives the names of the eWners of prat- tically all the farms It may be interesting to some to know the names of the farmers who lived on what was then known as ,he London Road, now No. 4 High- way. Beginning at the southend of the township which is three and three quarter miles south of Exeter lived Mrs. J, Hooper, 75 acres; John ESSerY, 125 acres; James Handford, 100 acres; Mrs, Huxtable, 50 acres; J. Hux- table, 50 acres; G. Webber, 50 acres; Jas. Walker, • 75 acres; Richard, Atkinson, 100 acres; Thomas May, 200 acres; estate of Wm,' Johns, 100 acres; G. Werr, 100 acres; T. Crawley, 50 acres; Wm. Balk'will, 50 acres; and closer to Exeter were D, Richards, T. Hutchinson and John Westcobt. The frist farm north of Exeter was owned by Wan. Bawden. The next hundred acres belonged. to the estate of J. Brownlee, . Next was the 100 acres of George and Thomas Darton; A. Waiper owned 200 acres. Then came Wm. Jeckell, P. McTaggart, J. McTaggart, George Hawkins, es- tate of A. Case, Thomas Case, Joseph Case, T. M. Case, John Ross, A. Fairbairn, H. Dougall, M. Rogers or Rogerville, where there was a post office and where the first Presbyterian church * .* * When we carne to the cottage, away down the shore, and saw the cars and the yellow lights shining, it was a good feeling. And. inside, there was a great, glowing fire, a warm welcome, familiar faces,.and the good rich smells of rye and turkey and perfume. * « * And again, like decent Canad- ians, nobody made any crude remarks about what a beautiful evening it was, how lucky we were to live in such a country, or anything erratic like that. We just stuffed ourselves with food and drink, not necessarily in that order, and went home. * « « Maybe we all had too much Bliss Carman, William Wilfred Campbell and Archibald Lamp - man, as school children. Maybe we're just undemonstrative. But surely there is no nation on the face of the earth that loves its country so muoh, and sings a- bout it so little. * * * That's why I'm going to sing out once in a while, however cracked +the voice or corny the tune or bored the audience. May- be I can incite enough people to form at least a quartet. • q{1t,4 11111! ,1411{t111,13t 3, 1111,, 1tt14(ttt1titltlll{!111411, News Of Your LIBRARY - By MRS, JMS We have mentioned before in this column. Hugh MacLennan's latest book "The Watch That Ends the Night, It sold 15,000 co- pies in Canada and enough in the United States to keep it on the New York best- seller list for three or four months. It has now been sold for movie right for $60,000. The first paperback edi- tion will appear in 1961. The Watch That Ends the Night Montreal is the setting for this novel dealing with two very dif- ferent men and their love for the invalid, Catherine, The charac- ters are vivid and very much alive although the climate of de- pression days pervades the back- ground of the book. A Painter's Country Another book which we have mentioned before is well worth a second reading it is "A Painters Country the autobio- graphy of A. Y. Jackson, Repro- duced in full in the book are 12 of his paintings. He catnped and painted on the Georgian Bay is- lands off and on for -50 years in sun and wind, rain and snow. Reading this book reveals his love for the far away and little known and also the energy with wh'iell•he has eXplored this vast wilderness country. Always 'he brought back sketches; some *ere dUinped in the furnace and some were built into paintings that found their resting place in public art galleries. lie also touches in this book ori the early years of non-accept- ance of the Group of Seven and the new stimuli they gave to Ca- nadian painting. Honors have been showered bn Dr, A, Y, Jackson, The nice was established. Next calve James Elder and W#'n. ,Eider. There were 13 post offices serving the residents of Qs - home,. viz: Exeter, Centralia, Hay, Bogerville, Lumley, Luh an, :Fargtdhar, Whalen, Ehmville, RuSseldaie, Kirkton, Wootitlare and Winchelsea. Ushorne, then as today, is bounded by seven townships. Tuekersmith at the north; Bert, Eullarton .and Blan,.sliard in the County, of Perth; Rid• dulph in the County of Middle. sex and Stephen and Hay tovVn. ships in Huron. Wililant May, who cant from Devonshire, Eng„ in 18$2, was the first to erect a log house in Usborne and the farm has been in the May family ever since, William May Was suc- ceeded by Thomas May who was sueceeded by his son Joseph, and at the present time the farm is owned by Hedley May. Qn the west side of the Lon. don Road in Stephen Township beginning at the south, first sideroad south of Centralia were F. Hicks, T. Iiu.xtable, Richard Hicks, John Stevens, R. McCoy, S. McCoy, Thomas EsserY, W, Greenway, Jas. Hodgins, J, ilea. man, George Webber, Louis Hot - man, Richard Bisset, James Snell, Thomas and William Row- Cliffe, Mrs. Sanlwell, William Rollins, J. Lewis, Richard Man. ning, E. Lamport, Richard Stan - lake, Thomas Sweet, There were 13 post offices serving the residents of Stephen, viz: Exeter, Centralia, Crediton, Offa, Sarepta, Dashwood, Grand Bend, Brewster, Harpley, Cor. beth, Greenway, Shipka, Z{hiva. t;..,.:s'x..v,...:kaVIC'n v:`...3 .'^ :l.. .i'.Y.OMIN...:.v..°y`''f..'r. .7:VA .,... a.,:r:ZUM.(raill4i641 As the "TIMES" Go By ':iiiy:.wS'n�s�v�..���.sS:Ss'➢in,iyY.".x'aMtrv.�''.ESIJ'H��n.'iMT.•°m F~"'�x�'...(Mw3ar•.. oEa..+..rv.w:oRwtiA:.WClikw.s:.Y! 50 YEARS AGO Express companies have again taken up the question of rates to be charged on millinery. Head- gear is larger this year than last and all' effort is being made to have charges regulated on a basis of size. The members of bhe Young Ladies' Sewing Circle will meet on Wednesday evening at the home of Miss Louise Carling, The High School basketball team went to Luean Monday to play the return match with the girls of that village. The game resulted in favor of Luean 7-3. Misses Winona Howard and Victoria Miners who are attend- ing Normal at London were home for Thanksgiving. Among the holiday visitors in town for Thanksgiving were Miss Flossie Taylor, London; Frank Dennis, Toronto; Al Moore, Lon- don; Miss Mabel Walters, Lon- don; Case Howard, St. Thomas; Jim Bissett, London; Harry Hus- ton, Clinton. 25 YEARS AGO Messrs. D. A, Gordon of town and H. R, Richardson of Wood- stock have purchased the busi- ness formerly known as the Exeter Lumber Co. and have re- opened the planing mill. The Stitch and Chatter Club of Dashwood held their eighth annual reorganisation atthe home of Mrs. Garnet Wildfong. The second car of produce for Western relief is being loaded at the Exeter station this week. Ira Shier of Kirkton went to Ingersoll last Tuesday and brought home a truck load of apples. This is the .first time in thing is that he is alive and well to enjoy it, A Painter's Country is a: book to read over and over again, Teach Yourself Books Several volumes of Teach Yourself books have been added to your library, Some, of these are "Teach Yourself Pitman's Shorthand"; Teach Yourself Bio- logy" and "Teach Yourself Phi- losophy." Mrs. Adelaide Hoodless, who founded the women's Institute, at Stoney Creek, Ontario, in 1897, also introduced the teach- ing of domestic science in Can- adian schoolt and was one of the National Council of Women, * * * The Canadian Breadcasti_ng Corporation employs about 7.000000 People. years that the Kirkton people had to have apples shippedin. Mr. Sydney West of The imes- Advocate staff has secured a position with the Fergus News - Record, Mr. William Sims who has, spent the sunnier in the Cen- tral Pacific mining area in North Western Ontario returned home last week. • 15 YEARS AGO Rev, J. W. Down, 86 -year-old veteran of the United Church ministry baptized his great granddaughter, Diane Elizabeth McLauchlan in St, Paul's church, Bancroft, The Red Gross hot goose .sup- per at Grand Bend attracted a record crowd of over 1,000 and realized gross receipts of $775. The interior of the local branch of the Bank of Montreal is gaily decorated with flags and red and white streamers featuring the VII Victory Lean. Graham and Humphreys Arth, ur, Earl Carroll, Fred Huxtable, Irwin Ford, Jack Carr and Toni Coates were at Wheatley on a three-day pheasant shoot. Mrs. Carl Maier of Dashwood has received word from her hus- band, Driver Carl. Maier, stat- ing he had been transferred to Belgium. Mr. Clarence Fairbairn who recently purchased the building formerly occupied by the Public Utilities Commission and far many years occupied by the late Peter F'rayne as a harneos shop is having the building remodel- led, 10 YEARS AGO Mrs. Frank Wlhilsinith has re- turned hone after a visit in England and Scotland. One year from the time that the first bull -dozers were brought in to break °ground for the new South: Huron District High School fire was started in the boilers to test out the new heating sys. ie Grand Bend bra'nch of the Canadian Legion No. 498 re- ceived its official charter on Thursday evening, The first units of the housing project underway' at Centralia airport have become available for married personnel. In pro- cess of erection are 185 homes. Dr. Norma Hopkinson, the fornier Norma Cook of I•lensall, and a graduate of Exeter High school has been awarded one of the Life Insurance Medical Re- search Fellowships for 1949.50. Mr. and Mrs, K. J. 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