The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1961-05-11, Page 4Pap 4 That Times,Agilrosate, Ma 11: 1961..
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rials
This newover I+elieya the rieht to ex> refs eh opittiee in pubttc
contributes to the ,nregre_s., ef the tietion and the It must hat erten
cised freely lend without preludike to preserve and inlprey demo-
cratic governlhlenta
Neecl pratectio.n
With Exeter contemplating sewerage (and.
'Nee.re, happy about that), the town would be wise
to be wary of some of the .costly mistakes exper-
eleed by other municipalities,
Listowel is ,still liming its problems. The
:original contractor went broke and left the streets
t that town in a mess for a couside:ra,ble period.
N.ow, the town's having trouble with improper
lateral al installations and faulty lagoon drainage.
property owners found some laterals had
not been dug deep enough and workmen had to
be sent in to dig then down further.
Farmers near the lagoon complained of
excessive water lying on the fields. The engineer's -
and contractors believed the condition would tor,
reef itself when the frost left the ground. At
worst, they hinted, a tile might have broken.
Investigation proved otherwise, according to
The Listowel Banner. "There were no broken tile.
In fact at one ,junction there was no tile. Not only
that but the ditch, apparently dug in two sections,
(lever joined. Both sections came to deact ends.
There was no place for the water to go."
The municipality hopes it has some protec-
tion against the additional costs incurred by these
mistakes. Exeter officials would be wise to ensure
that it has adequate protection before contracts
are signed,
CeIe.brciflon
In Less than two months, Canadians will
ceeebr-ate (?) the anniversary of Confederation Day
on July 1. We use the (',i purposely because the
celebrations in this area .have been conspicuous
by their absence in recent years.
It's not practical, we realize, for each muni-
cipality to put on a big show, although each should.
attempt to provide appropriate decorations to mark
the occasion. There could welt be, however. special
programs presented in specified areas, with the
proper organization.
For example, we've suggested that a county
'council steering committee might encourage one
official celebration in Huron each year, changing
the site from municipality to municipality. pahty. This
would be one form of official recognition in the
area.
Perhaps someone else has a better scheme.
Lees hear about R.
Unusual year
The Hensall Observer points out that the
current year is interestingly unique: •
"This is one of the rare years in history in
which you can read the date-1961—upside down.
The last time it happened was in 1881 and the
time _before that perhaps 1691.
"If you think this isn't a rare occurence we
might point out that none of those reacting these
lines vt*ill see it happen again. The reason—it won't
be until. the 61st century, the year 6009 to be exact,
that such an opportunity recurs."
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Sugar and Spice
This Sunday is Mother's
Day, and, sentimental old
thing that I am. I get all
choked up when 1 think of all
the mothers in the world, Es-
pecially the unwed mothers,
for whom we should all have
a special thought on this happy
occasion,
Just thing of all the wonder•
tun mothers, celebrated in song
and story.
The first one. of course, was
Eve, We don't know too much
about her as a mother. Except
that she got us kicked out of
the Garden of Eden, and we've
had to work for a living ever
since.
And she slid make rather a
botch of bringing up those boys
of hers, Cain and Abel. One
of them clobbered his brother.
and ever since, people have
been going around, bleating in
a most tiresome manner, "Am
I my brother's keeper?"
The there was that Greek
mother. Clytemnestra, She
was rather a lively old skirt,
who married her own son, af-
ter he grew up and killed his
dad.
He was so annoyed when he
found out that :his wife was
not only old enough to be his
mother. but WAS his mother,
that he is reported to have
plucked out both his eyes and
handed them lo her,
It was from 'his modest be.
ginning that the delightful cus-
tom developed of giving me.
ther a little token of your es•
teem on Mother's Day.
in Roman times, there were
some dear little old mothers,
too. Their only fault was an
inclination to spoil their kids.
That's what happened to Nero.
When he was little, he was al.
ways playing with matches, In-
stead of smacking him, his mo-
ther thought it was sort of
cute. Well, youknow what kids
are. Next thing she knew, he
was emporer, and, t. ried to
burn the whole city of. Rome.
History is full of these de-
voted mothers, who played
such a splendid part in mould-
ing the little minds of people
like Henry VIII, Jack the Rip-
per, and Adolph Hitler.
* * *
In many cases, the role that
a good mother has played has
not been given its proper due.
For example, we hear a lot
about Johann Sebastian. Bach,
the composer, But what do we
know of his wife? That Bach
had something like twenty-two
children,
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Get out of the way
Most drivers are aware of their obligat.idns
to get mut .of. the path of an ambulance, ,police
tsar, o,r fire trod: when its siren .indicates it is
attending an enmergency.
Not all do, however, Sunday night we were
watching an .ambulance corning south through
town which was having considerable difficulty get-
ling around a car ahead whose driver totally i:TM
pored the wails of the siren.
The ambulance operator finally ,overtook the
offender when a short break came in the line .of'
northbound traffic. The passing room wasn't great
and neither the southbound nor the northbound
vehicles attempted to slow down. The ambulance's
manoeuvre was completed without harm but the
driver must have experienced sone anxiety on tap
-of his frustration.
Such disregard for .emergency vehicles, be
sides being stupid and inconsiderate, is illegal.. Sub-
section one of section `78, the highway traffic act,
states:
'The driver of a vehicle, upon the approach
or public utility enter enc upoe v a
of an ambulance, fire or police de
g y vehicle, upon which a
bell or siren is sounding, shall immediately bring
such vehicle to a standstill as near as- :practicable
to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway and
parallel therewith and clear of any intersection,"
While we're quoting law, it might be well to
cite the second part of the same section which re-
fers to the following of fire trucks:
"No driver of a vehicle shall follow a fire
department vehicle when responding to an alarm
at a distance of less than 500 feet," Spectators,
then, should remain .at least a town bloc)-,. behind
Gray fire truck when it's answering a call,
It would appear that this subsection is more
eften. violated than not, It Wright be well for police
to take some action in this case since a number
of warnings and complaints have had little effect,
A few fines should help to prevent the practice.
Air your peeve
The T -A endorses these comments from the
Lucknow Sentinel:
The task of calling attention to matters that
might be rectified if given a bit of publicity is
not the sole responsibility of the newspaper in a
community.
Improvements and changes for the good of
the community as a whole should properly be
shared by all citizens of the town and the district.
A newspaper's first responsibility is to inform. Any
newspaper ivorthy of the name is always ready
and willing to serve its community in any good
cause, but it has the right to expect that readers
who wish to express their views on controversial
.matters availthemselves of the press by taking
the trouble to write a letter.
There .are those who would :like to see, and
seemingly expect, a publisher to go bat for them,
to air what may be nothing more than a personal
peeve or prejudice.
Newspapers are not policemen. Betterment
of the community is everybody's business, not the
newspaper's alone. It is merely the medium through.
which. constructive criticism can be expressed. •
F x:•r< ta. ! ONA1 '# k a�Y i eigski.SOMMO ?.. ;
dispensed by Bill Smiley
Modern mothers who have
child or two entered in the
local music festival think they
have a lot to put uo with. Ima-
gine what Mrs, Bach went
through, with all those little
devils hammering all day en
the clavichord chord.
in the .fieldof literature,
there are some tender mother -
figures. also. Some of them
were stepmothers, like. Snow
White's old lady: and Cirid.e-
retie's. These are people who
willgo a step further than.
your own mother, in trying to
get rid of you.
*.-
But
But we have real mothers,
too. There's Mother Hubbard,
who wore those long black
dresses, later inflicted. by the
missionaries on the girls in the
South Seas, so her d.og, fed up
withthat no -bones -in -the cup -
hoard routine, would not take
a bite out of her leg. And how
about that old mother who lived
in the shoe, and had so many
children because she didn't
know what to do?
Many mothers have been
made immortal in song,
There's that jolly old trout, in
the lilting .English folk song,
who hat been urged for gene-
rations to• get her "Knees up,
Mother Brown," And there's
Mother Machree, whose dole-
ful charms are howled mourn-
fully by the Irish onevery pre-
text.
And, of course, there's that
grand old song, dedicated to
your mother and mine: "M
is for the mess you made of
us kids, 0 is for the old , , .";.
and se on.
* •* *
But enough of this flattery.
deep down. down around the
stomach, she is truly appre-
ciated by her children, They
love her dearly, as long as she
doesn't interfere with what Ae, th
they want to do.,
And to prove their devotion.
and show how much. she meant
to them in their formative
years, they'll go to great pains
to see that she gets into as
fine a nursing home as she
can afford, when she gets old.
I couldgo on and on about
mothers, because 1 think they
are a good thing. When you're
ver y small, they are excellent
at kissing away the pain when
you fall and bump yourself..
During :,chool years, they are
handy :for getting you up in.
the morning, in, easy stages,
and for borrowing money„4.1-
ter you're married, they make
first-rate, cheap baby-sitters.
No, the world wouldn't be the
same without mothers. And I
thought that a few words like
this, right from the heart,
would remind you mothers
what an important, nay, vital
role yeu have played in the
lives of great men. Mackenzie
King, for exempla, is said to
have loved his methir even
more than his deo. So a very
happy Mother's Day to every
ene of yeu,
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only sixteen, Shall I` dilute
Ninem iI.e walk to PQ
For the past two weeks we
hstaopve, smile soe of the
names of the early .merchants
of Exeter from an article writ-
ten by the late W, H. John-
l:n summing up the article
iiir, Johnston refers to two
post offices that were in opera-
tion in this district before one
was established an Exeter.
`rhews;concluding article is as
follo
"One small but interesting
scrap of history of the early
days is worth recording, As
previously noted, Exeter grew
slowly at the first and it.. was
not until Isaac Carling in 1847
sand Richard Pickard in 1852
came that it made notch.
growth, But a post office was
not established in Exeter. is it
any wonder. that George Mc
Leod should complain that
"One great grievance subsists
in the two petty post offices
of this tract of London road,
viz; Though a person do de -
iv a letter
l etthe courier,,
toco tier
say here, he, the postman,
delivers the same in the next
post office, where it must re-
main truntiip."l he comes on his
next
One of these post offices
was Hay, located at least two
miles north of Exeter (not to
be confused with the present
:Flay post office), It was opened
October 6, 1842, with Joseph
Hardy as the first postmaster.
It was the only post office for
a large district, so large in-
deed, that others, besides ilir.
McLeod had reason to com-
plain as the following incident
will prove. A. certain Mrs.
Fisher who lived near Elim-
ville in Osborne Township,
seven miles away from Exeter,
walked into the village one
summer, day, carrying ten. doz-
en eggs for which the mer-
chant allowed her five cents
a dozen. The amount received
was so small that she ex-
claimed:
"I'll not sell any more eggs
at that price," "What will you
do with them?" asked the mer-
chant. "We'll eat them", was
her reply,
But .her• troubles were not
over for she had to walk two
miles farther north to Hay
post office for the mail. Thence
home, a long nine miles more,
thus :making what would he
called today an almost. incred-
ible tramp of 18 miles.
PS—During those early days
there was no such thing as a
postage stamp or envelope.
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'rhe letters were written on a
sheet or sheets of paper and.
then folded, addressedand
sealed with sealing wax, The
amount of the postage was
stamped on the letter and the
postage had to he paid by the
recipient of the letter and not
the sender.
A number of ,such letters are
now in the Huron County mu-
seum at Goderich, presented
to the museum by Mrs. Helen
Holland, of town.
Postage stamps were first
adopted. in England in 1840 and
later in 1847 were adopted by
the United States,
Your library
By MRS. JMS
The World's Religions
This book "The World's Re-
ligions" gives a simple, con-
cise account of the great reli-
gions by which men. e
ahave
lived and live today.
It was written by Charles
S. Braden, professor of the
history and literature of reli-
gions at Northwestern Univer-
sity and a lifelong student of
religion.
The book, is simple: average
men' and women can under-
stand its `nontechnical langu,-
age.'lt is impartial and objec-
tive for the author presents an
unbiased view of each religion,
it is brief: no other book gives
so much information about re-
ligions in so few pages.
The book aims to present the
most important features of the
great faiths and offers sugges-
tions for further study in each
religion,
It :deals with the religion of
Egypt and: Babylonia; . of
Greece .and Rome; Hinduism;
Buddhism; religions of China.
and Japan: Judaism, Christia-
nity and Islam.
In reading this book one
grasps the meaning of reli-
gion and the reason for reli-
gious movements.
Blue -Water Boundary
"B1.ue-Water Boundary" is
the complex story of the Great
Lakes and the St, tan'rence
River —, the boundary between
Canada and the United States,
The account of the role it has
played in 'the development of
the North .American continent
is presented in. detail.
This is a great story that
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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE T -A FILES
'10 YEARS AGO
Cadets at the District High
School held their sixth anima'
inspection in the gymtoritim
:Tuesday.
Dr. Clive McAllister, son-in-
law of Mrs. D, A, Anderson,
tor of James St, UC, died in a
plane crash. He was .returning
to his home in. Fort Wayne,
Ind. from a business trip to
Montreal.
Some 500 people attended
"Kross Road Kapers," the
western stage show presented
by Dashwood Alen's Club in
the high, school Friday And
Saturday nights.
Exeter's oldest resident,
Thomas Appleton, died in hts
97th year at the home of his
son, Ernest,
Grand Bendowners voted
271countoy, 91 to leave fluron anal
become citizens of Lambton
t
f`he Exeter Ladies Lawn
Bowling Club donated 8200 to
the South Huron .Hospital Fund,
15 YEARS AGO
Am.oirg the graduates of the
School of Nursing of. St, Jo-
seph's Hospital, London, are
Marion 1:iliett and Dorothy
Green.
Lieut, N, S, Mildred Elliott
of 'Toronto is speddrtig hes' ftnt-
lough with her parents, n
And Mrs. Mlu'ray Fllioft,
drys. ).,noise Craig of Belle- p
, vill.e returned to ryeter oil Fel- c
day and will make her home b
With her mother,, Ml's. J', i1
` Carling,
liun'cen, Assistant t.o b
the Ontario .Deputy Minister of o
' Agi'icullute, h a s announced a
r
that 1456 German prisoners
• war will he employed as farm A.
lehot•ers In the province this
yea 1', r
Dr. erobbs 'raylol' AMA, lies p
been insti'uniental' in securing
appropriation of 31480,000 for ,l,
roads and budgoe in efueole A
new, bridge is 16 be built at .0
Bayfield.
The work bf e reavatuig 76
the•, new PenteeostAl Ta.ber-
naeie, has been completed.
30 YEARS AGO
The enumerators for the
forthcoming census for Exe
ler will be W. J. Carling and
Bert Harness,
At River's Quality Meat Mar-
ket this week with every pur-
chase of $1 or over a poundof
sausage or a pound of bologna
‘villi he .given free.
Messrs. Joe and Casey Hud-
son, Hensel), have their ga-
age finished and are open for
business.
Mr. L, Grieve is erecting his
miniature, golf course at Grand
Bend and expects to have it
open for business soon.
hiss t. DI, Jeckell is a dele-
gate to the Dominion. Council
of the 'Presbyterian 1VMS in
Winnipeg,
What about a celebration for
Exeter to mark the opening of
the new highway? The stretch
of pavement between Claude-
boye and Clinton, a distance of
28 miles is said -to be the lon-
gest stretch in Ontario in
which there is no turn,
50 YEARS AGO
'l'he new hotel in Hensel] op-
posite the railway station is
'most completed and, t h e
Commercial Hotel is also being
fished forward and ie going
o be first class,
Mr, A, E. Foltick had a for,
lel opening of his ice cream
allot. on Saturday evening,
'I'lre :Bethesda Methodist
hurch will be offered for sale
y public auction on :Tuesday,
Tay 16,
In con,jutletion With the cele -
ration of , the golden inbilee
t Cavell F'resbyt.erian Church.
handsome new pipe organ
ell be installed, the gift Of
lies Fanny Bowden,
'Phis week the :Exeter 'fines
omen Out with a twelve page
ADM',
The Ilth annual WMS edn-
entitin.
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EXETER
Not bread alone .. e
For those its trouble, The Salvation Army keeps art
open door. In its hostels, havens, homes and .hospitals,
workers who understand the human heart know that -
bread alone is not enough,
While the body is cared for, the spirit; is healed and
uplifted by the message of hope. Men, worsen and,
children are "made whole", and shown the way tb'
lovthg service of God and than.
In this work of mercy you can share, Your contra•
bution will bring the glow of happiness to your heart.
The understanding heart;
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THURS., MAY 18
Starting at 6:00 p,m.
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