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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1961-06-08, Page 4Piga 4 The TtlrneAdvota!'ea June L, 17 1 ri Rihhon growth •This uewa aper beljey,e$e the Halo .ta ftxprea3 an orinlao In ;lwbfl eentributes tp the ineegresa of that nation end thet it must int arena cised freely and wrthevt Preiudiee to preserve. and Improve .demo • - crane •t vernment, • Each ;year. the ribbon of growth along No. highway extends a little further beyond the town's boundaries. To the south, it is getting to be a serious situation since the growth has extend— ed beyond the length of several blocks apparently without any provision for streets running east of .the highway. This ribbon growth can be costly to the .townships involved. as well as to the town of Ex- eter which in many eases is .expected to provide 'services, Exeter has little, if any, control over this development. Only the townships have the author- ity to take appropriate action. While it seems like a minor problem at the moment—and it is, we agree --the time to pre- vent it from becoming a major one, is right .now. .A• -council 10 years hence will have a tremendous job trying to straighten it out; it's fairly simple now. It's to their credit that 'Usborne, Stephen and Hay officials have been joining in discussions on this problem and other planning problems which are developing in a small way. We urge thein to continue their considerations to the stage where action can be taken, Check the entrances When you're travelling, as we were this weekend, it's interesting to take an objective lock at other Ontaric towns and to compare them to your own, The general condition of the entrances and main streets quite. clearly indicates not only the individual citizen's but also the officialmuni- cipal attitude toward the community's appearance. It's surprising how much difference there is be- tween towns when you look for it, We're happy to report that, generally, Ex- eter and area communities compare quite favor- ably with the best in other parts of the province. We needn't be complacent. however, because in a few instances we're behind, Unfortunately, there always seems to be three or four eyesores which spoil one's impres- sion as he enters a community. It may be a large car wrecking lot beside the main highway, a poten- tially pretty river beside which weeds and brambles grow wildly, a deteriorating ball park with un- painted bandstand and bleachers falling apart, vacant and rundown buildings on the outskirts. One reason for this, we presume, is because municipal authorities tend to judge the appearance of their towns from the general condition of the built-up sections in the heart of the community. This partial view overlooks the impression given the traveller when he enters the community—a lasting one which is hard .to dissipate. Efforts to present an attractive and well -kept business section are considerably lost when the initial impression is a disappointing one. Municipal authorities in all communities should inspect their entrances objectively from time to time and try to remove those eyesores which detract from the overall appearance. r and Spice ° What this country needs more than anything, in these trying times, is more conservatives. Now, don't go all chalky and trembly like that. I don't mean Diefenbaker Conservatives, I Mean good, old-fashioned con- ' servatives. For the past couple of de- cades, "conservative" has been practically a dirty word. People were as afraid of being con- sidered conservative as they are today of being considered 'conformist. Lying awake and lonelyin the small hours last night, I realized suddenly, with a flash like a camera bulb, that at heart I am a conserva- tive. It was such a shock that I sat bolt upright in bed. This Woke my wife, who lurched to her elbow, turned on her bedside lamp and moan. ed, "Whessat?" This, in turn, disturbed my daughter, in the next room. She yelped in her sleep, rolled over abruptly, And crushed the cat who sleeps beside her. He squalled and dug his claws into her. She hollered, All this awoke Hugh, who staggered out of bed and Went to the bathroom. * The sound of running water was too much for the rest of us, and there was a steady procession to the place, which wound up with me having to go down and let the cat out. Who's Macdonald? Tuesday, June -6, was the seventieth anni- versary of the death of the greatest Canadian,. As seems to be the nature .of we people who live in the. land he created, it was all but ignored. Sir John A. Macdonald is truly the architect and the builder of this nation. ---the veritable Cann ail;lan "hero,'.. Yet how vm ignore bis m.eroryf No small part of the blame for this rests with the eloquent arch -royalists in this country ---- the people who, insist that Canada cannot have a national flag, that we cannot enshrine And revere our own heritage but must sublimate it to that Of Great Britain's throne. We must have .a national holiday to remember Queen'Victoria but we 'can- not recognize Sir John A. in any fashion, Canadians can be thankful that Sir John A. Was :more nation -minded than his descendents, Re- spectful and proud as he was of the British con- nection, be stood firm on the "Manifest Destiny" of Canada. But for him, Canada might well have been divided into a number of separate nations or become states of the republic to the south. The birth and early development of Canada is the story of Macdonald. He was its first prime minister in 1867 and but for five years he remain- ed, prime minister until his death in 1891, Jt was his, political rival, Sir Wilfred Laurier, who paid one of the greatest tributes to him when he •died: "It may be said without any exaggeration whatsoever that the life of Sir John A. Macdonald, frons the day he entered parliament, is the history of .Canada. He was connected and associated with all of the events, all of the facts and all of the de- velopments which brought Canada from the posi- tion that Canada then. occupied . , . the position of two small provinces having :nothing in common but the cor1C1111.o.n allegiance and united by a bond of paper but nothing else , .. to the present state- of tateof development which Canada has reached."' When. will Canada. reach. the state of de- v'elopment in which she can proudly proclaim her nationhood and recognize those who crafted. it? Spending spree? It's a better -than -even chance that there will be a very large increase in consumer spending within the next few years, writes J. K. Edmonds in The Financial Post, It won't be just the addition of more cus- tomers with the same old shopping list. The shop- ping list will be longer and more varied. Andit won't be the result of higher price tags on the goods consumers buy, It will mean actual goods and services sold. What's definitely in store is a consumer- dominated market. An important part of the re- tailer's job will be feeding back to the factory and farm information about rapidly changing consumer tastes and preferences. The other major part of the job will be making it easy for the customer to buy—opening hours, cutting bottlenecks, offering goods innew locations and through new outlets, reducing financing costs. 's en? ,:?'ir IM.:''110.1 'i ?r'lF.in trsx4t , He wouldn't come back in and twenty minutes later, standing there shivering and calling him and worrying a little be- cause we're not sure it's a bo!' cat and he might get pregnan if he was out all night, I cor signed the whole conservative issue to the appropriate place But this morning on sober second thoughts, I realised that I had truly seen the light, that I was a died -in -the -wool conservative. I experienced. a vast wave of relief, as though 1 had just emerged from the confessional. or had just been awakened from one of those dragging, nagging, not -quite - terrifying bad dreams. * * * You've no idea what a re- lease it was, to shuck off that false -face of liberalism I've been wearing all these years, uncomfortably, 1 felt better and better as the shabby, bor- rowed layers of tolerance, res• son and desire for chenge peeled off one by one, and left me an honest, naked, in. tolerant, illogical, prejudiced, small•c cohservative, "Oh boy'." T chortled. "No more having to get sore at anti-Semites. No more having to he nice to Irishmen or Armenians or Negroes, unless 1 like them. 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It's wonderfu- 'refreshing to ee able to loo' life through our own shar 11 ejudices aril motions for s,, . hange, after ears of gazine it murkil' hr o 'u g h thr tetuunb printeeR hick leases Ice 'ed by small -1 ,lberalism. No longer, for example, mu: 1 put up the slightest architer ture. Now1 cansaywhat I e e think: that new churches loot like either tents or silos; tha' 'lou can't tell a new sibs' from a naw factory; that the new split-level homes, with pic- ture window above and garage yawning below, resemble ane- -- Please turn to page 5 y Ibe1, R1Mrlh*an* eia+trikkte• ixc, tt'adQ tib amaco&..,e-^,,, ant do you good to forget busters for a couple of hours!" c., (1 Kier 'oda rteNta t'"v6aF a'i'm the dope who 3MrOd116 d them ;tat years' "Come quick, Harry! Take a look at this gorgeous. stewardess!" The news of 1906 Last week T related that I hadreceived a number of Old newspapers from S. Grant Sanders, of Montclair, N.J, that belonged to his late father, S, M. Sanders, Some of our readers will re- member when London had two daily newspapers, one of them the London Advertiser, a Lib- eral organ, while the London Free 1"ress leaned to the Con- servatives. Eventually the Ad- vertiser was takenover by the Free Press, now independent of politics. Among the papers I received from Mr. Sanders was a copy of the Advertiser dated Novem- ber 30, 1906, containing 12 pages and sold for two cents, The Free Press was a morning paper and the Advertiser an evening paper, The principal contents of the paper was the budget as pre- sented to the House of Com- mons by Hon. W. S. Fielding. Minister of Finance, who had held the position for 11 years, the longest of any other mem- ber. The opening paragraph stated that "Hon. W. S. Fielding brought down his budget to- day and was enabled to again present to the Commons and to the people of Canada the story of another year of buoy- ant revenues, of abounding surplus, and of unexampled prosperity," He predicted a surplus for nine months of some $13,000,000 after meeting capital expend- itures anda net reduction in the national debt of $1,500,000. During the ten years the Lib- erals had been inpower there had been a total net surplus of $77,198,884. • The Advertiser at that time was in its 43rd year. It con- tained only one picture, that of Mr. Fielding. One item from Claandeboye states that Doctor Sutton had been severely injured when his horse ran away and he was thrown from Ms buggy, Another item states that the congregation of St. Petriek';. chtrreli, Sa ntsbury, had show `hair appreciation of the taitl-• 'ul serviees of the rector, Rev. ieorge W. Raeey, by present- 'nghim with an address ss and a raltua'ble gift, expressing the lope that he and Mss- Race! wouldfor many years in the par*. I was interested in a stony irottt. St. Pet int, , Russia.. A jevveller had receiveda visit from an old and decrepit of- JOTTINGS f- JOTTiNGS BY JM5 ficer in the uniform of a gen- eral who had come to buy a birthday present for his wife. The jeweller displayed some very valuable gifts and the general chose a costly article that would meet his purpose. Trembling the old soldier sought in his breast ;for his pocket -hook. He had left it at home andboth seller and pur- dhaser were disappointed. The soldier asked for writing ma- terials to pen a note to his wife, but his Ivritin g was in- telligible. "Will your excellency permit me to write the instruction to your dictation?" asked . the jeweller. On the business paper of the firm the jeweller wrote the stumbling words of the veteran: "Dear Anna: I have need of money. Please take five thousand rubles from my safe and return by bearer,— Lovingly yours, Ivan.. The note was dispatched bs a hearer who returned with the five thousand, rubles and thr tiara was bought and paid for When the jeweller returned to his home he was asked by his wife what he wanted the 5,000 rubles for. He was shown the letter in the jeweller's own handwriting on the firm sea- tio per For the tli first time the jeweller realized that the name of "Anna" and "Ivan" were those of his wife and himself. The jeweller had paid for the officer's gift. Your library By MRS. MS The Huron County Library books were changed on Friday morning and in the new selec- tion is a copy of "Portraits of Greatness" which your library felt they could not purchase- on its budget for books. Portraits of Greatness Ninety-six of Yousuf Karsh's -lost memorable photographic eortraits of leading world fig - res are unforgettably record- ed itt the pages of this book 'Portraits of Greatness". Karsh has portrayed more 'elebrated men and women hap any other photographer of our time. With remarkable frequency it has been the Kalish portrait that has be- come the definite record of the famous personality, the one — Please turn to page 5 As the 'Times" go by HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE T -A FILES 50 YEARS AGO Taking the census began Thursday, ,Tune 1. On Wednesday, Mr. George Crawley, Lucan, bought the livery business of W. G. Bissett of town. Owing to the hot weather on Sunday the evening service of Trivitt Memorial Church was held on the lawn, Miss Eva Carling of St, puke's Hospital, New York, is 'isiti.ng with her parents, Mr. Ind Mrs, T. B. Carling, Mr. Gordon Hooper, recently of Chatham Business College, has secured a position as book- keeper in the mail order de- partment of the T. Eaton Co„ Toronto. Mr, J. Beverldy is moving his furniture stock from the Opera House block to the Old Pickard Block on Main Street, 30 YEARS AGO Decoration Day services will he held at the Exeter cetnet.ery on. Sunday afternoon; June 2]. Thames Road Chureh is Wen - ling its golden jubilee; llev, William Gardiner, Thedford, will be in charge of the mor- Bing service and Rev, William 'ionticth, the evening service The census enumerators :acted their duties on Monday, tine 1. At the air meet of the Lon. 'on Flying Club held Saturday •nd Sunday, .W.' L. Kress Of he Canadian Bank of Coni ie.ree was a contestant in 'a not landing competition and tme second, Dr, G. F. Ttoul.ston has add, d an Xray machine to bit 'ntal equipnient. Mr. Kenneth Stanbury has 'Assad his firtt year at law thee!, Toronto. sefeee the introduction rsf .tarps in Canada in .13.51 pestag'e was is by the per Boit. Who, Deceived Mali, nit by the tender, end rates were haled oil diatanco, 15 YEARS AGO Invitations are out for the Old Boys Reunion to be held at SS 1 Usborne (Hurondale) on Monday, July 1. The reunion will .mark the fiftieth annivers- ary of the erection of the pre- sent school building. Mr. John Schroeder, of Hu- bert, Sask,, has arrived in Ex- eter and has taken a position vtdth Hunter-Duvar & So.hs, His family will. follow later, Mr. John Pollard, who re- cently sold his store in: Ceht- ralie, has purchased the resi— dence of Mr. W. 5, Cole in Exeter. The residence of the late Wil- liam, Fisher, corner of James and Albert Sts., has been pun- chased by Mr, C. N. Farrow, of Beamsvilie. Mr, Gordon Lampert, after conducting the Lamport: Coffee Shoppe for some :months, has sLoldondoton, Mr, George loather', of Dr. Janoes 'Papp, graduate of Exeter High School, has been appointed assistant research rtirector of Polymer Corp'n, Sarnia, 10 YEARS AGO Out of schoot and free Of final exams are 20 students frOni SHDI S who are exeniial:- cd under farm labour regula• lions. Some, 200 Western Ontario Orangemen attended divine ser- viee rn Grand Bend United Clitireh Sunday morning, Mr, and Mrs. C. E. Shaw were in London Ssturday a11- tenditig the graduation of their daughter, ,loanne, who receiv- ed hon i3aeheter. of Science de gree )n Nursing. At 6 p,m. Settirday, ,Thule_ 2. the -doors Of the old Lucnn Pest Office were e!osert forever. Tenders have been tailed feu' South Huron liospilea although the site hag not been seletted at ytet. At the ettetien Age t C Th offsets of the lee litlr,s JOlit Parsons ru'ps acid Santee sold torr $8, $4 Aad .$16, .PO.N.. 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